"Recognized: Robin B-01, Kid Flash B-03, Wonder-Bat B-00," The automated voice says, announcing our arrival into the cave. We Zeta in to see Superboy, Aqualad, , and Kid Lantern all standing around a blue holo-screen
"Did you ask him?" Robin asks.
"What did he say?" KF asked immediately after Robin.
"He's arriving now," Aqualad says with a smile.
"Then what are we waiting for?" KF states excitedly as we run to the hangar door.
The door opens to reveal Red Tornado descending from the sky.
"Red Tornado!" KF waves as we meet him at the doors.
"Greetings," His robotic voice answers. "Is there a reason you intercept me outside of the cave?"
"We hoped you had a mission for us,"Aqualad says.
"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility," Red Tornado reasons.
"But it's been over a week and we-"
"Will be tested soon enough," Red Tornado interrupts Robin, putting his hand up as if to silence him. "For the time being, simply enjoy each others company."
"This team isn't a social club," Kid Lantern says, crossing his arms over his chest.
"No," Red Tornado begins. "But I am told social interaction is an important team building exercise. Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarizing yourselves with the cave."
"Keep busy," KF says while punching Robin's shoulder.
"Does he think we're falling for this?" Robin wonders.
"Oh! I'll find out!," says enthusiastically, placing her gaze on Red Tornado's back.
"Recognized: Red Tornado 1-6,"
"I-I'm sorry I forgot, he's a machine. Inorganic, I cannot read his mind," says in a down cast voice.
"Nice try though," KF comforts. "So, um… you know what I'm thinking right now?"
"We all know what you're thinking right now," Robin retorts.
"And now we tour the clubhouse," Aqualad says with slight venom in his voice.
"Well, Superboy and I live here, we can play tour guides," Miss.M says.
"Tour guides?" I ask.
"It's like when you want to see a really sweet place, and someone shows you around, and you can ask them questions about the stuff inside the place," Kid Lantern provides.
"Oh. Thank you," I say absorbing the new information.
"No prob," He replies, resting both of his hands behind his head.
"Don't look at me," Superboy says.
"We won't," KF replies. "A private tour sounds way more fun."
"She never said private!" Robin says.
"Team building," Aqualad says. "We'll all go."
Robin punches KF before following into the cave.
"So, this would be our front door," M'gann begins.
We soon arrive at another door at the top of the mountain overlooking the city, and the...the… big blue water.
"And this would be the back," she finishes. "The cave is actually the entire mountain."
"It was hollowed out and re-enforced by Superman and Green Lantern in the early days of the League," KF informs.
"Then why abandon it for the Hall of Justice?" Superboy asks.
"The cave's secret location was… compromised," Aqualad answers.
"So they traded it in for a tourist trap?" Superboy asks, "Yeah, that makes sense."
"If villains know of the cave, we must be on constant alert!" exclaims.
"The bad guys know we know they know about the place, so they'd never think to look here," Robin reassures.
"Huh?" I ask.
"Uh, he means, we're hiding in plain sight," KF clarifies.
"Ooohhhh… Am I the only one who smells something burning?" I ask.
"My cookies!" gasps as she flies into the kitchen.
"Cookies?" I wonder out loud as Kid Lantern and I fly in pursuit while the others catch up on foot.
We fly into the kitchen to see levitating a tray of burnt...cookies?
"I was trying out Grammy Jones's recipe from episode seventeen of..*eckem*...nevermind…" She says.
"I bet they tasted great," Robin says. "He doesn't seem to mind."
We all look over to KF who has just finished two of them off, some still stuck in his mouth.
"I have a serious metabolism," He defends.
"I'll make more?" She says as more of a question.
"Yes!" Kid Lantern says, joining Kid Flash in eating these...cookies.
"It was sweet of you to make any," Aqualad says.
"Thanks, Aqualad," says.
"We're off duty, call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually, my friends call me Kaldur," He says.
"I'm Wally," KF says. "See I already trust you with my secret I.D. Unlike mister dark glasses over here, Batman has forbidden Boy-Wonder from telling anyone his real name."
"Boy-Wonder?" I ask.
"Don't ask," Robin pouts.
"Well, I have taken on the name of Adeline," I say. "But if you wish, you can address me as Addie."
"I'm Nash Jordan," Kid Lantern says. "I assume you already knew that, though."
"I didn't," I say. " But then again, I don't know a lot of things."
"Then leave that up to me!" He says, draping an arm around my shoulders. "I'll teach you about foods, and shapes, and colors, and-"
"Uh, let's not leave educating her up to the guy who ate the burnt cookies," Robin says, flicking Nash's arm off of my shoulder.
"Mine's no secret. It's M'gann M'orzz," M'gann says. "But you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name, and I'm on Earth now."
Superboy gets up from leaning on the counter to leave, when we all hear a voice in our heads.
"Don't worry Superboy," It says. "We'll find you an Earth name too."
I cringe, knowing that SB won't take well to someone in his head.
"Get out of my head!" He yells at her.
"What's wrong? I don't understand," M'gann says in our heads as everyone cringes. "Everyone on Mars communicates telepathically."
"M'gann, stop," Kaldur orders. "Things are different on Earth. Here, your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."
"Besides," Wally begins. "Cadmus's creepy little psychic gnomes left a bad taste in his brain."
"I-I didn't mean to-" M'gann begins to apologize.
"Just stay out!" Superboy growls at M'gann as he storms out of the room.
"Hello Megan!" She says after a moment. "I know what we can do."
M'gann leads us into a large room where a small red...euhh...thing is stationed in the center.
"It's my martian Bioship," M'gann says.
"Bioship?" I ask to no one in particular.
"Yeah, Martians use 'em when they travel. I've seen a few when Dad takes me to Oa," Nash says.
I give him a confused look. "Oa?"
"I don't think she knows what Oa is, Nash," Robin says.
"It's basically Green Lantern planet," He clarifies.
"Cute," Wally states. "Not aerodynamic, but cute."
"It's at rest, silly. I'll wake it," She laughs, as she reaches out.
The Bioship then transforms from its small, oval-like shape, into a… different...shape? Then, it turns itself around, and it forms a large hatch.
"Well, are you coming?" M'gann asks, stepping towards the Bioship.
As we enter the small aircraft, it forms seats, and a- err..-dashboard? I believe it's called.
"Strap in for launch," She says as we enter the inside of the Bioship.
"Whoa." Robin exclaims as the ship produced it's own straps.
"Cool." Wally says when the same thing happens to them.
"This is sweet!" Nash says. "I've always seen the Bioships on Oa, but I've never actually been in one!"
"I've never been in a flying aircraft…" I say, carefully sitting down.
"Red Tornado, please open the bay doors," M'gann asks.
Not moments later, the large doors in front of us opened to reveal blue skies.
The take-off was fast.
Too fast for my liking.
As soon as we took off, I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.
"What if we crash? Can I get everyone out in time? Are we going to drown?"
I clutch on to the bottom of my seat for dear life as we swerve around to look at the town.
"You okay over there W.B?" I hear Robin ask.
I nod my head quickly.
"Incredible!" Robin exclaims after a loop-de-loop, looking out the window.
"She sure is." Wally says, gazing at M'gann, who then looks over to him questioningly. "I-I mean the ship, which, like all ships, is a she." He recovers.
"Fast with his feet, not so much with his mouth," Robin laughs.
"Dude!" Wally exclaims.
"I may not have psychic powers, But I can guess what you're thinking," I hear Aqu- Kaldur say to Superboy. "You overreacted, and you don't know how to apologize. Just say sorry."
"He'll come around," I say to M'gann.
"He doesn't seem to like me much," M'gann says, sadly.
"He doesn't really like anybody. He just tolerates us," I say.
"You guys remember he has super hearing, right?"
We pause and look at Superboy for a moment.
"Hey, how 'bout showing us a little martian shape-shifting?" Robin says to change the mood.
M'gann stands up and lifts her arms as black and red moves up her body, making her look like an overgrown, female Robin. Then, she spins around,yellow and red stretches up her body, making her look like Kid Flash.
"Is it wrong that I think I'm hot?" Wally says, looking at M'gann looking like him.
"Impressive, But you know you're not exactly gonna fool anyone with those," Robin says, pointing at her chest.
"Mimicking boys is a lot harder" She admits.
"And your clothes?" Kaldur asks.
"They're organic, like the ship! They respond to my mental commands." M'gann clarifies.
"As long as they're the only ones," Superboy sulks.
I roll my eyes.
"Can you do that ghosting through walls thing that manhunter does?
"Density shifting? No. I-it's a very advanced technique," She says down-heartedly.
"Flash can vibrate his molecules right through a wall. When he tries it,"Robin says pointing to KF, "bloody nose," Robin points to his nose, laughing.
"Dude!" Wally exclaims, while we laugh.
"Here's something I can do," We wait for a moment before the bioship turns see-through. "Camouflage mode."
"Red Tornado to Miss Martian, An emergency alert has been triggered At the Happy Harbor power plant. I suggest you investigate covertly. I'm sending coordinates,"
"Received. Adjusting course," M'gann affirms.
"Tornado's keeping us busy again," Robin tusks.
"Well, a simple fire led you to Superboy, and Wonder-Bat," Kid Lantern point out. "Who knows what we'll find here?"
"We should find out what caused the alert," M'gann agrees.
"I think I know the cause," Superboy says, looking out the window.
We all glance outside to see a twister curving it's way around a -parking lot? I believe.
"REALLY? A Tornado? When we're flying in a martian spaceship? Could this situation get any worse?!" I scream in terror in my head.
Then, we are shot into the tornado.
We all yell and holler, as the tornado throws us around. The grip I had on my seat tightened as M'gann re-directed the Bioship in the opposite direction, leading us out of the twister's hold.
We slow, then land in the parking lot.
As the Bio-ship opens the hatch, and releases us from the buckles, I run out the door and collapse on the ground.
"Oh land! I swear I won't leave you in a Bioship again!" I coo.
I feel a hand on my shoulder, then I see Nash collapse on the ground next to me, looking a bit green, and not because of the Green-Lantern thing.
"I couldn't agree more…"
"Robin, are tornadoes common to New England? Robin?" Kaldur asks, realizing that Robin has left us.
"He was just here!" M'gann exclaims.
Just in this moment, I decided to disappear along with him, inside the factory that is under attack.
"Robin?" I ask as I see a large Red Robot with a scarf blow Robin back into a large pillar.
"Robin!" I yell.
I turn to the Robot.
"You're going to pay for that one!" I yell as I fly up and charge at it.
Before my fist makes contact with it, the Robot grabs my arm, spins me around, then releases me, making me fly out of control, into a window.
"ADDIE!" Nash yells, as I fall to the ground.
"Green Lantern, LIGHT!" He chanted, throwing his hand with the Green-Lantern ring on it in the air.
I was caught in some sort of green castle thing with a lot of air buoyancy.
"Thanks," I groan.
"Who's your new friend?" Superboy growls.
"Didn't catch his name, but he plays kinda rough," Robin says as Superboy stand up to attack the Red-bot.
"My may address me as , Mr. Twister" It says in a strikingly familiar voice, tossing Superboy into a wall with it's powers.
KF, pulls his goggles out from his pocket, and places them over his eyes, as Kaldur, M'gann, Robin, and himself charge the Robot.
Mr. Twister takes Kid by the leg, and tosses him outside.
"I was prepared to be challenged by a superhero. I was not, however, expecting children." Twister says after blowing M'gann and Kaldur back.
"We're not children!" Robin defends, throwing his exploding Bird-arangs at Twister.
"Objectively, you are. Have you no adult supervision? I find your presence here quite disturbing," Mr. Twister says, flicking a Bird-arang off of his metallic chest.
"Well, we hate to see you disturbed. Let's see if you're more turbed once we kick your can," Robin taunts, while M'gann uses her telepathy to drop a metal- thing- on , which released some sort of air decompressor.
Superboy tried to use this as cover, as he jumped up and over his head to try and land a punch. But, as now predicted, blew him back before the punch can land, and SB was blown right into M'gann.
Kaldur dodged M'gann and S.B falling into the ground.
He ran around them, and met up with Robin, as Kaldur light up his hands with his electricity.
Twister spun them inside a mini-tornado, and made Robin and Kaldur smack into each other.
"Are you guys not seeing that we can't keep attacking him like this? He'll only blow us back with his power over the wind. So what overpowers the wind?Hmmm… something fast can zoom through it… and something solid can withstand it…"
"Uh… You got something crankin' in that pretty little head of yours, B.W? Cause I could use a plan!" Nash shouts from in front of me.
"Pretty little head? What in the world…" I shake my head.
"I do, but I don't know if it'll work…" I shout back.
"I'm about ready to try anything!" He assures.
"We either need to get Kid back on his feet, or we need a large wall, capable of withstanding Twister's wind. But all of the walls around here will crumble in seconds!"
Nash smirks, "Leave the wall to me."
He looks forward at Twister, then his ring starts glowing with power. The light grows bigger, forming into a very large, green,translucent wall.
"Indeed. That was quite turbing. Thank you," Twister taunts.
Nash and I follow Twister outside, Nash making the wall smaller so we could get through the door, the enlarging it again once we reached the out doors.
"So what was the plan again?" Nash asks.
"Get him to blow his wind at you, then I get Wally to speed through and cut the power off to Twister," I say.
"Kay," He responds. "Wait! He's gonna be shooting at me?" I hear him yell as I run to find KF.
Then, as it turns out, I don't need to.
He runs out in front of Twister, and hurtles around him three times.
"What have you done to my team?"Wally demands.
"Embarrassed them, largely." Twister says, tossing Wally back against the factory.
"Kid!" I yell, flying over to him.
"Uhh, Bat #2? If you're going to go through with this plan, You need to do it now! I can't hold this up much longer!" Nash yells as M'gann catches Wally with her telepathy.
"I got you, Wally," M'gann says.
"Looks like I'll have to replace KF for this one…" I think.
"Lantern! Get his attention!" I command.
"Uhhh.. I- hmm… HEY BUCKET HEAD! BET YOU RUST ON THE BEACH!"
"That's the best he can do?!" I reprimand in my head.
I fly around and behind Mr. Twister as he starts throwing Mini-Twisters at Nash, only to be stopped by the giant, green wall. I could see that every blast was pushing Nash back a little, and the wall starts to shrink a little after every hit. I dig my feet into the ground and wait as my power gains in my flight, (something Wonder Woman taught me a few days ago) and with a large "BAM!" I took off at top speed towards the Robot.
I am a second away from punching his brains out, when he turns at inhuman speed, takes hold of my arms, and throws me into Kid Lantern, who lets his wall down, and tries to catch me, but we end up against the wall of the factory.
"I would have thought you had all learned your limitations by now," Mr. Twister taunts.
"What do you want?!" Kaldur yells.
"Isn't it obvious?" The Robot questions. "I'm waiting for a real hero!"
"Read his mind. Find a weakness," Kaldur commands.
"I thought I wasn't supposed to do that?" M'gann says.
"It's okay with the bad guys!" Robin assures.
"Nothing. I'm getting nothing!" She exclaims after a moment. "Hello, Megan! is Red Tornado in disguise! He's inorganic- An android. And how many androids do you know that can generate tornados?"
"Red Tornado sent us here!" Kaldur realizes.
"After saying we'd be tested soon enough! This is his test, something to keep us busy," Robin exclaims, folding his arms over his chest.
"Speedy called it. We're a joke," KF says.
"Speedy?" I wonder. "Are they really sure that this is Red Tornado? Would the android really risk all of these human lives for the sake of a test? I'm not sure that he would…"
"This game, so over," Kid Flash says, as the group moves closer to the, now airborne, .
"We know who you are and what you want!" Robin yells at him.
"So let's end this!" Kaldur says.
"Consider it ended," Twister responds albit maliciously as he puts his hands in the air and makes the sky darken with clouds.
"An impressive show, but we will not indulge you! We will not engage!" Kaldur yells, pointing to Mr. Twister.
To make the sky worse, Twister creates lightning, and makes the wind blow harder around us.
"Uh, can Red Tornado do that?" Kid Flash asks, pointing his thumb up to the sky.
"You think I'm Tornado? Ironic." The android notes.
He fires at us, blowing us all back to the ground.
Superboy stands, rips his tattered jacket off of his shoulders, and he attacks Twister straight on.
Twister just lifts his hands and blows S.B back with lightning.
I lift my head up to see Twister descending upon us.
Nash begins to start up a new creation from his ring, when I hear something fly in front of us, casting a shadow on us.
"Aah! Fine, then. I won't deny you children have power, but playing hide-and-seek with you Would not help me achieve my objectives, So stay concealed. If you confront me again, I will show no mercy," Twister threatens as he takes his leave.
"What happened?" Wally asks.
"I'd like to know that too," Nash says, looking at M'gann and I.
"I placed the bioship between us," M'gann states.
"And that's supposed to make it right? You tricked us into thinking Twister was Red Tornado!" SB accuses, punching a rock to bits.
"She didn't do it on purpose," I defend, placing my hands on my hips.
"I-it was a rookie mistake. We shouldn't have listened," Robin attempts to interfere.
"You are pretty inexperienced. Hit the showers. We'll take it from here," Wally tries, in attempt to not make M'gann cry.
"Stay out of our way," S.B growls, launching himself in the direction that Twister left.
KF runs off in the same direction, Robin following on foot, and Nash flying just in front of him.
"I was just trying to be part of the team," M'gann says quietly.
"To be honest, I'm not sure we really have a team," Kaldur says down-heartedly, leaving us to catch up with the others.
"M'gann," I say placing my hand on her shoulder. "Don't let what they said get to you. Superboy especially. His first 'mission' he thought that he could fly, only to almost fall down an empty elevator shaft only to have Kaldur catch him."
"I let everyone down…" She says.
"Not me," I say with a small smile. "Come on. Get up! How about we go show the boys how the ladies take care of business?"
She gives me a weak smile as she climbs up into the Bioship.
"Are you coming?" She asks, noticing that I don't enter the ship.
"Oh, I am! Just not in that. No offence, but I'd rather fly myself," I say.
She closes the hatch and we both take off towards the cave.
Minutes after we take off, the Bioship skids to a halt, and turns around.
"Addy! I have an idea! Tornado says that he can't help us, but that doesn't mean that we can't help!" I hear M'gann in my head.
I falter a bit when flying, mostly because of her voice surprising me in my head, and partly because of the harsh turn around that we just did.
"Okay," I respond. "Tell me the plan."
As M'gann relays her plan to me, I don't spot any faults other than speaking to the guys in their heads.
Superboy is definitely not going to like that part.
But, looks like he'll just have to deal with it.
As we land, we see many buildings destroyed, Kid Lantern was getting hit by a … boat? Kaldur was thrown across next to Superboy, and KF was with Robin, taking cover behind a building.
"Listen to me," M'gann says. "All of you,"
"What did we tell you?" I hear SB yell, a bit peeved.
"I know! And I know I messed up! But now I'm very clear on what we need to do. Please, trust me." M'gann says.
"Get back! Everyone clear the area!" A policeman yells.
I spot two small children trying to make their way out of the small town, but their way kept on getting blocked by debris.
I fly over to them as quickly as I can, grab them up into my arms, and carry them away from the damage being caused by Twister.
I set them down about half a mile away, where I see a group of people.
"Go to them, and stay back! Don't come back! You hear me?" I ask them as i point to the group of adults, just beyond the bushes.
"Who are you?" The little boy asks, holding onto the girl's hand.
"I'm the Wonder-Bat," I say, flying back to the action.
"Hit the showers, boys. I was hoping you could handle this. Clearly you cannot," 'Tornado' says, as I land back on the ground.
"But we've got a plan now," Nash tries to argue.
"The subject is not up for debate," 'Tornado' declines.
"I was beginning to believe you'd never show up," Twister says.
"I'm here now," 'Tornado' says to Twister, throwing 'his' hand out to create a dusty tornado to throw at Twister. Twister just responds with a twister of the same magnitude.
"We are evenly matched, Twister." 'Tornado' responds as the tornado and twister dissipate.
"No, Tornado, we are not," Twister disagrees, throwing lightning bolts at 'Tornado', supposedly short-circuiting 'him'.
"Remain still, android, the reprogramming won't take long," Twister says, letting little wires attach themselves onto 'Tornado's' fallen body.
"Longer than you might think," M'gann smirks, twisting her real face all the way around to face Twister.
Twister is blown back by M'gann's telepathy, only to be attacked by Superboy, and to be thrown into the water where Kaldur lies.
We see thrown up and out from the water to be held up by M'gann, and blown up by Robin.
As the Robot makes a crater in the ground, Nash creates a green plate with his ring, and he uses it to hold the robot down.
"No. Foul. I-I call foul," A man says, popping out from the Robot's chest.
Nash releases the plate off of the robot, and M'gann levitates a large boulder over to the man.
"M'gann, no!" Kaldur yells, trying to stop her as she crushes the man underneath the rock.
"Don't know how things are done on Mars, but on Earth, we don't execute our captives!" Robin exclaims.
"You said you trust me," She smirks, lifting the boulder off of the man, only to reveal that he was a robot too.
"That's why she couldn't read his mind," I say, punching Superboy in the chest.
"Cool," KF says picking up a robotic eye. "Souvenir."
"We should have had more faith in you," Kaldur says, placing a comforting hand on M'gann's shoulder.
"Yeah, you rocked this mission. Get it? Rocked?," KF says while KL high-fives him.
"Ignore them. We're all just turbed you're on the team," Robin says.
"Heh. Thanks. Me too." M'gann smiles.
"And, Superboy probably owes you an apology," I say, pushing him forwards.
"Tuch," He tusks, folding his arms over his chest and pouting.
"Let's take this back to the cave and have R-T analyze it," Lantern says.
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"It was clearly created to sabotage or destroy you," Kaldur says to Tornado once we let him examine the man android body.
"Agreed," Tornado replies.
"Is that why you wouldn't help us?" M'gann asks.
"No. This was your battle. I do not believe it is my role to solve your problems for you, nor should you solve mine for me," Tornado reasons.
"But if you're in danger -" M'gann begins.
"Consider this matter closed," Tornado interrupts.
"Batman, Aquaman, and Flash, they'd have jumped right in to fix things," Wally says.
"Guess if we're gonna have a baby sitter, a heartless machine is exactly what we need," Robin points out.
"Dude! Harsh." Wally exclaims.
"And inaccurate. I have a heart, Carbon-steel alloy. I also have excellent hearing," Red Tornado adds, walking out of the room.
I was trying so hard not to laugh. I really was.
Nash wasn't trying at all. He could not have possibly been any louder.
"Heh. Right. Sorry. I'll strive to be more accurate," Robin says, dumbfoundedly.
"And more respectful," Kaldur adds.
"Speedy was so wrong!" Wally says, walking away with Robin and Kaldur.
"This team thing," Robin begins.
"Might just work out," Kaldur finishes.
"Soooo… Adeline," Nash says scooting closer to me. "What do you have planned after this?"
"I must return home with Wonder Woman. She is my guardian, and my mentor. She says that we will continue with my training on her home island," I say.
"She owns an Island?" Nash asks.
"No, of course not. It's the island where she was born. She called it Paradise Island," I say.
"Sweet!" Nash says, doing a strange thing with his fist. He brought it up in the air, then back down to the table.
"Maybe I should highjack a ride and join ya?"
"I do not think that would be a smart decision. From what Wonder Woman has told me, the other women there do not take kindly to men on their island," I say, standing up and moving to the Zeta-Tubes.
"Know when you'll be back?" He asks as I ready myself to leave.
"Not really," I say. "But I shouldn't be too long. I'll still be alerted for missions, so hopefully I'll be able to part-take in those."
"Well, whatever the case may be, I guess I'll see you soon?" He asks.
"Yes, you will," I smile, and enter the zeta tube.
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ALOHA! Yay! Chapter three! Keep on reviewing and I'll keep on Writing!And for those of you in the comment section who aren't calling this B.S, thank you for your support! I promise I have a plan for Bat-Man and Super-Man, and that there's a good reason for Bat's being the way he is. I love ya'll like I love pizza!
Gargoyle77 out!
