"Mom! Mom! Mom!"
"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!"
"Mama! Mama! Mama!"
Artemis groaned, rolling over to face her three children. Jaiyden, Iris, and Melissa were the perfect combinations of her and Wally.
Jai looked 97% like his Dad. Same chin, cheeks, forehead, face full of freckles, and appetite. Only thing he got from her was his hair, nose, and olive skin tone, although his was lighter in comparison to her, his Aunt, and Nana.
While Jai took mostly after Wally, Melissa and Irey took after their Mom. Besides being alarmingly pale for two toddlers who spent 75% of their time outside, they looked almost completely identical to her when she was a rambunctious two year old.
Except for their hair. Their bright red hair, although much deeper and darker, was clearly a trait they got from Wally's side of the family, considering that every member of the family she had met- save for Rudy, Barry, and Dawn- had some shade of red hair.
"What do you three want?" She yawned, wanting to snuggle deeper into her pillow.
"Can we go play with Gia & Mary?" The twins asked in unison.
"I wanna go hang out with Lisa, Lian, and Mark." Jai added.
"I'll call their Mom's and see if they wanna have some of the Team members watch you while we go out." Artemis told them, sitting up and stretched her arms out.
"Mom?" Jai asked.
"Yes người yêu?" She cooed.
"I'm hungry."
Of course he was.
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Two hours later, and every child, save for a newborn Savannah, Dawn and Don, were at the Watch Tower to play together while their Mom's had a girls day out & their Dad's went to go watch a hockey game in Canada.
"Bye Mom!" was the most Raquel got from her oldest son before he ran off to play with Abbie. Which was more then she got from Joseph. All he did was wave goodbye before he went to play with Johnny.
"They're only three, yet the act like their teenagers." Raquel pouted.
"I am sure it is just a stage they are going through." "Yeah. King Orin and Queen Mera's son did the same to them at that age." Kaldur and La'Gaan told her.
"Ok. Kal, you have fun. La'Gaan, good luck. Especially with Joseph." Raquel told them.
Those babysitting the kids were Tim, La'Gaan, Cassie, Dinah, and Jaime. Every other hero was either busy, or had decided that they did not want to babysit twelve children- nine of which had superpowers- all under the age of eight.
"Bye!"
"Behave!"
And with that, all the Parent's were gone & it was just the babysitters.
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'I'm bored.' Jai groaned through the mind link Lisa had set up.
The two of them, Mark, and Lian were in the air vents where they always were whenever all four of them were in the Watch Tower together.
How they had discovered it two years ago or why they enjoyed it so much was something no one understood.
'It'd be more fun if we could go play in the gardens.' Lian sighed.
'Come on, let's go explore the vents.' Lisa ordered, getting up from her spot between Lian and Jai, before walking further down the vents.
'Lisa! Wait for us!' Mark cried, as they ran after her.
With her older brother and two best friends following behind her, Lisa led them down the vents and further into the Watch Tower.
About thirty feet down from where they were originally sitting, they came to a screen that was in the floor of the vent. Curious, Lisa looked down, and saw something that interested her.
'Ooh! What's that?' She asked, more to herself then her friends, before she removed the screen and jumped down.
'What the-? Lisa!' Mark groaned, following the oldest of his little sisters, before Lian and Jai followed after him.
'What did you find?' Jai asked her.
'Look!' Lisa said, pointing.
About five yards in front of them, sealed in a pod similar to the one Conner was in at Cadmus, was a woman.
She had pale blonde, almost white hair in a braid rested over her shoulder and ended past her breasts, and equally pale skin. She was dressed in black, full body suit and black combat boots.
'Who is she?' Jai asked.
'Dunno. But I think we should leave before we wake her up.'
'I know who she is!' Lian cried.
'You do?!' Her friends chorused.
'Yeah! Well, sorta. I saw her, Daddy, Uncle Ollie, and Aunt Dinah fighting on tv about two or three years ago. They won, she lost, and I'm guessing she's been kept here in the Watch Tower ever since. I don't know what her name is though.'
'You remember seeing your Dad fight a villain when you were four?' Mark asked.
'She reminded me of Elsa with her hair. That's why I recognized her.' Lian told him.
While they were talking, no one paid any attention to Lisa, who had, on complete accident, opened up the pod.
'Oh crap. Our parents are going to kill us.' Jai gulped, as Lisa ran back to her friends.
Now awake, the figure stepped out of the pod, her silver eyes staring straight at the children.
"Ngubani wavula pod?" She asked them, in a language none of them understood.
"Huh?" Jai asked.
"Ngubani wavula pod?" She repeated.
"I think she's asking who freed her." Lian said.
The figure nodded, and the three older children all pointed to Lisa.
'Gee, thanks for outing me you guys!' She snapped.
The figure walked towards Lisa, before squaring down to look her in the eyes. A slender hand reached out to trace the scar the young girl had gotten on her cheek when her and Jai had ran off to Metropolis over a year ago.
"Ngiyabonga." She told her.
Before anything else could be said, a scream from one of the other children, could be heard.
Alarmed, the figure jumped up, and grabbed the two swords that where hanging on the wall near her pod.
"Hlala lapha!" She ordered them, before running out the door.
'What'd she say?' Mark asked.
'Don't know. Don't care.' Lisa said, flying back into the vents, before she lifted Jai and Lian back into the vents with her powers before running down them towards where the rest of the kids were.
Groaning loudly and rolling his eyes, Mark jumped back into the vents and ran after his sister and friends.
In the main common area of the Watch Tower, was a woman, much younger then the villain that the children had freed, but around older Abbie's age.
She had two whips, with pieces of sharp glass in the ends. She had short, dark brown hair, and tan skin. She had on black cargo pants, black boots, and a black three quarter sleeved shirt.
Lisa and the others could see their babysitters were all out cold. Most of the children were out of harms way.
"Wenzani lapha!?" The villain Lisa freed roared at the introduder, swords aimed at her.
"Akuve ngiyajabula ukukubona futhi. Sethemba ngibulale wena lapho Deathstroke wehluleka." She cackled, trying to hit the Villain with her whips.
She dodged the whips with ease, before slamming her fist into the introduder.
'Is it bad that I want the one we freed to win?' Lisa asked.
'Don't you mean the one YOU freed?!' Mark scoffed.
'Irregardless, I agree with Lisa. She could've killed us, yet she didn't. And she's fighting the one who broke into the Tower.' Lian agreed.
'We need to call our parents.' Jai urged.
'How!? My mental range isn't large enough and we have no way of calling for help!' Lisa cried.
'How did she even get in here anyway?' Mark asked.
'She probably messed with the alarms or something.' Lian suggested.
"Aaaahh!" They heard Abbie scream. They looked and saw that the intruder had wrapped her whip around the toddlers leg and had dragged her towards her, before grabbing her and holding her by her ankle.
"Beka phansi kwakhe! Manje!" The Villain ordered, angry that the intruder wanted to hurt Abbie.
'Abbie!' Mark and Lisa screamed over link, Jaiyden and Lian grabbing hold of them.
'No! Don't!' Jai cried.
'You won't be able to do anything!' Lian reminded them.
The children watched as a now awake La'Gaan ran towards the intruder in an attempt to rescue his ex and her husband's young daughter. They then watched in horror as she took her second whip, smacked La'Gaan in the face and sent him flying into a wall with a sickening crack.
The intruder cackled, before she was sent flying into the wall opposite of where La'Gaan was laying by Abbie's powers.
The three year old dropped onto her feet, her red eyes glowing green. When the intruder tried to run towards Abbie to attack her, Abbie slammed her into another wall. Every time she got up, Abbie would slam her into a part of the Watch Tower.
Wall. Ceiling. Floor. It didn't matter to the young telepath.
Tired of being attacked by a toddler, the introduder opened up a Boom Tube and escaped the Watch Tower.
Once the danger was averted, Abbie turned to face the other woman.
"Xhumana umama wakho noYihlo. Tshela udadewenu ukuze uthole lonke abangane bakho." She told the three year old.
Abbie nodded, seeming to understand her.
'Abbie?' Lisa questioned, adding Abbie to the mental link.
'She told me to tell you guys to find the others while I call Mommy and Daddy.'
'Okay. Come on you guys.' Lisa ordered, as they continued down the vents.
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It took the entire Team and League exactly ten minutes to show up at the Watch Tower.
By that time, Lisa, Mark, Jai, and Lian had all found the other youngsters and were feeding them all chocolate chip cookies and milk.
Abbie was the only one waiting for the parents.
"Abbie!" M'gann gasped, her and Conner rushing to their youngest, scooping her up into her arms.
"Sweetie? What happened?" M'gann gasped.
"Where are the others?" Conner asked.
"They're in the cafeteria." Abbie said, which caused Conner and the rest of the parents to haul ass towards the cafeteria and their children.
Those without children present in the Watch Tower went to check on the unconscious babysitters. When Aquaman went to check on La'Gaan, he sighed, looking down at the ground.
"Aquaman…? Superman questioned.
When the Atlantean ignored him, the worst was confirmed.
In an attempt to save his ex girlfriend and her husband's youngest child, La'Gaan was killed when the introduder slammed him into a wall, breaking the Atlantean's neck, killing him instantly.
But seeing that the little girl he tried to rescue was nestled safely in her Mother's arm, Orin would at least be able to tell his second protégé's parents that their only child did not die in vain.
"Abigail, you need to tell us what happened." Batman told her, walking up to her & M'gann.
"Don't call me Abigail." She growled. "Some lady broke into the Watch Tower through a Boom Tube and attacked us."
"Who stopped her?" M'gann asked.
"I sent her into a wall a bunch of times with my powers until she went away. But there was another lady who tried to stop her too." Abbie told them.
"Another lady?"
"You!"
Batman and M'gann turned and saw Oliver pointing an arrow at the Villian Lisa had freed.
Green Arrow fired at her, and everyone was surprised when older Lian smacked the arrows away from the Villain with her bow.
"Lian? What the hell?" Oliver cried.
"You two better have a good reason for that." Batman growled.
"Recognized Superboy C02. Recognized Miss Martian C08. Recognized Flash C03."
The unknown woman froze, her swords dropping to the ground as her eyes widened.
"Usaphila...?" She gasped, before running towards the Zeta Tubes.
Before the Green Arrow could run after her, Lian stopped him.
"Let her go." She told her adoptive Grandpa.
Abbie's eyes went wide as a thought popped into her head.
"Mommy. Put me down." She ordered, struggling to be put back down on the ground. Not wanting her daughter to accidentally hurt her unborn baby sister, M'gann put her three year old down, who's red eyes instantly turned green again.
Within seconds, the League could hear Lian, Mark, Jai, and Lisa groaning in protest, as Abbie dragged them with her mental powers.
"Abbie!" Lian shrieked.
"We told you not to do this!" Mark and Lisa snapped.
All Jaiyden did was roll his green eyes and groan. He was used to Irey and Mel dragging him by his ankles and down the hall to their parents room at five am on the weekends.
This was experience was nothing to him.
Abbie shrugged her shoulders as she dragged her older siblings and their best friends down the hall towards the Zeta Tubes, Batman, older Lian, and their parents following her.
They were surprised to see that the older heroes were happily reuniting themselves with the Villain, whom Artemis was beginning to believe was not a villain at all.
"So, who freed her?" Older Jai asked, his arm draped over her shoulder, a smile on both of their faces.
With her powers, a three year old Abbie shoved a five year old Lisa forward.
"Lisa Marie!" Conner scolded, crossing his arms.
The five year old gulped, as the woman she freed walked towards her.
"Hi." She cooed, now speaking in English.
"Hi." Lisa gulped.
"Oh man. Please tell me she's not gonna hurt Lisa. Touch my sister or I'll-!"
"Good lord, was I that paranoid at that age?" Older Mark scoffed.
"At that age? Dude! You're still paranoid!" Jaiyden retorted, as Abbie rolled her eyes & Lian smirked.
"Who are you?" Lisa asked, as the woman stood back up, who was quickly hugged again by an older Jai.
With a smile on her face, the woman began to shape shift, as her hair turned black, her eyes turned blue, and a small scar formed across her cheek.
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Who opened the pod?
Thank you.
Stay here!
What are you doing here?!
It is so nice to see you. Hopefully I will succeed in killing you where Deathstroke failed.
Put her down! Now!
Contact your Mother and your Father. Tell your sister to find the rest of your friends.
He's alive…?
