"Aren't you going to help him?" Cherry asked Drell as Thor paced back and forth a lot, pulling on his hair, and biting his nails.
"Hey... Cut it out... Stop being nervous..." Drell stated stoically before looking back with a shrug. "Happy?"
Cherry face-palmed from that.
"Thor, calm down." Lionel said.
"I can't help it!" Thor cried out as he fell to the floor. "I bet you everything they forgot about me."
"Don't say that, big guy," Cherry said. "I'm sure they're looking for someone to look after you like Batman looks after me and Lionel and Superman looked after-... Oh... Sorry, Atticus." she then said softly.
"Nah, it's okay," Atticus replied. "But maybe Cherry's right."
"Yeah, they're probably looking for someone to look after you." Patch smiled.
"Hmph..." Thor pouted and crossed his arms as he leaned up against the wall. "Uncle Drell, can't you join the Justice League and look after me?" he then asked with a puppy dog pout.
"Oh... Gee... Uh... I'd love to, Squirt, but I don't think I'm qualified for that," Drell shrugged with a sheepish smile. "I'm sure you'll find somebody though so you can get an adventure started."
"How? It's not like the answer's going to come to us right through the door." Thor said.
Everyone stared at the door for a few moments. Lionel magicked up a random stopwatch.
"...Okay, I really thought someone was gonna burst through that-" Thor said before the door exploded as someone came in as a bunch of smoke came out which made them cough from the smoke until a new figure appeared.
"A little late, but looks like the answer has arrived." Lionel coughed.
"Who is that?" Atticus wondered before he tried to fan the smoke away.
"I have come, as both a newer member of The Justice League and as a mentor for young Thornton Moltenscar." The voice said.
"Sweet!" Thor beamed. "Good things to happen to good people!"
"That voice... It can't be..." Drell replied before he saw a figure in a blue and gold outfit that included an amulet, cloak, and a helmet. "Kent Nelson?!"
"The name is Dr. Fate." The figure remarked.
"Yep, that's him." Drell said.
"Have we met?" Dr. Fate asked the warlock.
"Hello? I helped you work with your sorcerer magic," Drell smirked, gesturing to himself. "I'm the coolest guy you know."
"You forgot humble." Lionel rolled his eyes.
"Grr." Drell growled, showing Lionel his fist in a threatening way.
"Ah, yes... I guess it has been a while..." Dr. Fate said to Drell.
"Yep, it has." Drell said.
"Where is this nephew I've heard about?" Dr. Fate asked.
"This little guy right here." Drell gestured at Thor, though he was the tallest of all of his friends, he was still a head lower than his uncle.
"Hello!" Thor smiled and waved.
"I should have recognized that Moltenscar charm." Dr. Fate smirked.
"So, I get to be in the League?" Thor asked excitedly.
"Of course," Dr. Fate replied. "I'll help look after you."
"Freakin' sweet!" Thor cheered as he jumped for joy, laughing and cheering for himself.
The others looked happy for Thor, especially Lionel who patted him on the back.
"And I'll be sure to not interrupt your time with Lionel." Dr. Fate said.
Thor looked a bit bashful. Lionel blushed slightly from Thor's bashful look.
"What is going on?" Atticus asked Cherry.
"I dunno, but that's great news!" Cherry shrugged innocently about Thor and Lionel's relationship with each other.
"Seriously? You don't know about their little interaction?" Drell asked Atticus.
"It's private." Thor bit his lip at his uncle.
"I just thought they were very good friends," Atticus shrugged. "Like you and that tiny friend of yours, Skippy."
"Let's just say it's surprising; I always thought Cherry would end up with one of them." Drell shrugged back.
"...What if we both did?" Thor glanced at his uncle.
Drell glanced back suspiciously.
"Heh... Just a what if?" Thor grinned nervously as sweat beaded down his face. "I mean, there's no way we would both do that, right?"
"Hmm..." Drell rolled his eyes a bit.
"On another note... I wonder what Lois is up to?" Atticus asked himself. "As well as Ms. Diana... And Grandma and Grandpa Kent..." he then sighed slightly. "I really miss Grandma and Grandpa Kent."
"Well, they're most likely back in Kansas," Drell said. "Did I say that right?"
"Yeah, that's right." Atticus replied.
"Right, in Kansas," Drell chuckled to himself. "Like Dorothy and Toto."
"Anyway..." Dr. Fate prompted Drell.
"Uh, yeah, sorry," Drell said, crossing his arms. "I just hope I can trust you to keep a good eye on my favorite nephew."
"Yeah, right," Thor chuckled. "I'm your only nephew."
"All the more reason to protect you." Drell smirked.
"This is so cool!" Thor beamed. "I'm gonna be in the Justice League with my friends!"
"Wahoo!" Atticus smiled.
"Yeah!" Thor smiled back.
"Yeah!" Atticus beamed.
The two laughed as they hugged each other happily.
"Settle down, girls." Drell teased with a smirk.
"Oh, ha, ha, Uncle." Thor smirked back.
"Speaking of family... I wonder if I should go see Ms. Lane, Ms. Diana, and Grandma and Grandpa Kent sometime soon?" Atticus wondered to himself. "Just to make sure everything's alright." His watch soon then began to go off.
"Looks like you have another commitment," Lionel replied. "And I guess you gotta answer it."
"Yeah, football try-outs; remember that one of the football team members moved to Riverdale?" Atticus asked.
"Ah, right," Lionel replied. "I guess I forgot about that since I don't follow sports."
"I 'member." Thor said to Atticus.
"So who moved to Riverdale?" Cherry asked.
"Marmaduke Mason," Atticus replied. "You might remember him a little? He went by Moose."
"Oh, yeah," Cherry rolled her eyes. "He was kind of a dummy."
"Total dumbo!" Thor narrowed his eyes.
Lionel chuckled a bit from that.
"Anyway, after he moved I told the coach about Conner and he's got a football try-out, so I gotta go." Atticus said as he went to the football field where the try-outs would be.
"Hey! Wait for me! I wanna come too!" Thor called out.
"Don't you wanna meet the Justice League?" Atticus asked him. "I won't be gone long."
Thor soon gave a bit of a puppy dog pout.
"Aw... Don't look at me like that..." Atticus told his friend.
"Besides, aren't on the football team too?" Thor asked.
"Oh, right." Atticus smiled sheepishly.
Thor gave him a bit of a grumpy look. Atticus grinned bashfully.
Thor then whacked the back of his head with a smirk without getting hurt. "I'm coming with you, Superboy."
"It's Black Adam for the time being." Atticus said.
Thor blew a bit of a raspberry in response to that.
"Grow up." Atticus rolled his eyes as they rushed off together.
"You first!" Thor smirked.
They both soon hurried off to the football field.
"Boys." Cherry playfully rolled her eyes.
"Hey! I resent that!" Lionel pouted.
"Oh, brother." Cherry scoffed from that.
"Aw, you know I like ya," Lionel then grinned. "I'm your #1 fan~"
"Yeah. Yeah." Cherry smirked.
Meanwhile at the football field...
Coach Jordan looked over his clipboard as Atticus and Thor rushed over. "Boys, good to see you." he then said.
Thor panted a bit from his running.
"Hey, Coach." Atticus greeted softly, due to his running.
"Well, we're about to start the try-outs." Coach Jordan told them as he saw Conner suited up for his football try-out.
"Oh, good, you made it," Atticus smiled at Conner. "You look great too."
"Thanks," Conner replied. "I'm ready when you are, Coach."
"All right, go line up with the other boys there and we'll see what you're made of." Coach Jordan told Conner before pointing to where some other players were, getting ready themselves on the football field.
"You got it, Coach." Conner said.
Coach Jordan had the boys get arranged.
"Could we watch?" Thor asked.
"Hmm... All right... Take your seats." Coach Jordan replied.
"Great." Thor smiled.
"This should be good." Atticus said as he sat with Thor in the stands.
Coach Jordan soon blew his whistle. "All right, everybody, welcome to football try-outs," he then told Conner and the other boys who had come to try-outs. "As you know, there isn't a lot of room on the team for all of you, so you'll have to try your very best today, especially with the sudden moving away from our very own Moose Mason. Also, I hope you all didn't get too chummy with each other," he then said, a bit playfully. "Because you're gonna have to split up into two teams to go up against each other for a future game against another school."
Conner and the other boys wondered who they be with in either team in the try-outs.
"Let's see..." Coach Jordan said as he looked at the boys and decided to split them up. "You four go to the right. You four go to the left."
Conner soon ran off with his team while the other boys went their way.
"Now, I want you all to try out a little practice game against each other." Coach Jordan told the boys.
Both practice teams looked ready to do just that.
Coach Jordan then placed the football in the middle of the field. "All right, show me what you know." he then told them before blowing the whistle.
Both teams of boys rushed over to get the ball, though Conner seemed to make it first as he sped by, catching the ball and soon decided to kick it high and far.
"Whoa! Too much." Atticus whispered to himself nervously.
Conner seemed to hear that and could understand that would make it easy for anyone to realize that he had powers.
"Boy, are you even human?" Coach Jordan asked Conner.
"Must've had a head rush." Conner said nervously.
"Hmm... Guess so." Coach Jordan said.
Conner looked sheepish.
"Let's do that again, a bit more from the top." Coach Jenkins told the other boys as he blew his whistle.
The boys soon scattered around with a practice game, kicking and catching the ball with a few tackles here and there and where Conner's try-out seemed to remind the coach about how Atticus tried out the first time. Atticus and Thor cheered from the sidelines for Conner.
"Hmm... Not bad so far..." Coach Jordan said as he took note of Conner's performance so far.
Conner had a good feeling he would make it on the team and so did Atticus and Thor. Coach Jordan had the boys go through other drills before he would make his final decision.
Eventually, it was time for a quick water break.
"Man... He works you guys hard out here..." Conner panted. "I'm having... A lot of fun... Though."
"That's great." Thor said.
"Tone it down a little with your powers," Atticus whispered to Conner. "'Normal people' around here get weird around stuff like that."
"Sorry about that." Conner smiled sheepishly.
"It's alright," Atticus said. "You're halfway there."
"Break's over!" Coach Jordan called. "Back on the field!"
"Gosh," Thor chuckled. "I thought my dad was killer with warm-ups. I have to wake up an hour before school to do warm-ups before breakfast every morning."
"That's what I do every morning too," Atticus said. "Of course without Uncle Sombra needing to wake me up."
"If I don't wake up on time, my dad splashes a bucket of ice, cold water on me." Thor said bashfully.
"Does that happen often?" Atticus smirked.
"Hey, it's hard to be up all night for Charm School and go to regular school in the day!" Thor whined.
"Yikes! So it does..." Atticus said as Thor nodded.
Conner soon went back with the other boys to continue the try-out which seemed to last for a long while for him.
Eventually, it was over, so Conner went to hear some feedback.
"I'll let ya know." Coach Jordan told Conner, dismissing him from the try-out.
Conner soon left, hoping for the best.
"He says that to everybody," Atticus said. "You got lucky he didn't say 'Better luck next time'."
"Yeah, that's usually a clear 'nope'." Thor nodded in agreement.
"Whew." Conner sighed.
Atticus and Thor soon walked off with Conner away from the football field once the try-outs were over.
"You totally crushed it at the try-outs with a little mishap." Atticus said.
"You think I did good?" Conner asked hopefully.
"You did good," Thor nodded. "Very good indeed."
"Great." Conner smiled.
"Let's get you back home." Atticus suggested.
"Oh, that's okay," Conner replied sheepishly. "I'll call my dad to pick me up."
"No, really," Thor smiled. "We don't mind."
"It's okay," Conner said sharply as he walked off ahead of them. "I have to go home."
Atticus and Thor felt concerned as Thor bit his fingertips nervously.
"Well, that was weird," Atticus shrugged. "I guess Conner just has very strict parents."
"Too bad we can't just follow him without him knowing." Thor said.
"Thor! You're a genius!" Atticus smiled.
"...I don't hear that very often." Thor replied bashfully.
"Hmm... It's a little dishonest... But it can't hurt..." Atticus then said about following around Conner.
"Yeah." Thor nodded.
"You think you could do a little spy work?" Atticus asked.
"Hmm... I guess I could... But I need some pancakes if we're gonna do that." Thor crossed his arms with a smirk.
"Alright, but be sure to be quiet." Atticus said.
"Gotcha," Thor winked with a smirk. "Quiet is my middle name."
"Isn't it Fraser?" Atticus replied.
"...Not a word." Thor narrowed his eyes.
They soon followed Conner to where he lived by flying behind him. Atticus reminded Thor to keep quiet as they followed Conner home as he looked around to make sure he wasn't being followed and they luckily got out of his sight before they could see him and he then continued onward. It took a bit of a while for them to see where Conner actually lived until a black limo pulled up to him and he got inside of it.
"Looks like our search is over," Thor shrugged as he began to walk the other way. He soon saw Atticus spying inside the limo with X-ray vision. "Uh... Anyone in the limo with him?" he then asked.
"No, he seems to be alone, except for the driver," Atticus replied. "I guess that kid's parents are private people."
"Great, so let's go to the International House of Waffles and call it a night," Thor grinned bashfully. He soon saw Atticus's look of determination which also had his detective mode on. "Atticus... You're... Not gonna let this go, are you...?" he asked uneasily.
"How can I let this go when I'm so close?" Atticus replied. "I gotta find out what this kid is up to."
"Yep, so I was right; your detective mode turned on." Thor said.
"Come on!" Atticus told him.
"Oy... You make my Uncle Drell look like a quiet, patient little mouse right now." Thor muttered as they walked off together to follow the limo.
Conner rested his head on the window as the driver took him back home.
"You're not out of fuel, are you?" The driver asked, showing to be a dark green-haired young man.
"Maybe a little bit, I had a bit of exercise today." Conner replied.
"I'll be sure to get you some with Uncle Chuck before the boss has to see you with what he has planned." The driver then said.
"Great." Conner said.
"Did you and Mo get any homework?" The young man asked.
"Not a lot," Conner rolled his eyes a bit. "I guess I'll get on that if she hasn't done hers yet."
"Maybe she has and maybe she hasn't." The young man said.
"Hmm..." Conner paused.
"Huh... Wonder why they would be talking about Mo?" Atticus remarked as he listened in.
Thor gasped out of horror. "They're gonna kidnap Mo." he then said, a bit seriously and scaredly.
"What? No way." Atticus shook his head.
"Well, I dunno," Thor shrugged. "I'm not sure if we should keep doing this."
"I promise it'll be okay." Atticus told him.
"Hmm..." Thor paused thoughtfully. "I just feel funny that they know Mo... But then again, I guess this explains why Mo and Conner were a bit to themselves at school."
"Yeah, guess it does explain it." Atticus said.
"It's getting a bit too dark, Atticus," Thor bit his lip. "I gotta get back home soon."
"I guess we could call it a day." Atticus replied.
"Thank you." Thor told him.
"Thanks for sticking by me at least." Atticus said to Thor.
"I try so hard to keep my friends happy." Thor grinned from that.
Atticus smiled. As the days went by, they couldn't find out more about who Conner's parents were and where new Supermen began to show up. One day, Atticus decided to check to see how Lois was doing.