++++++ I'm going to give you guys some advanced noticed here, my grandmother is dying and may have been given a few weeks left to live. They're doing more tests but the outcome is not good. So if you suddenly see me just vanish for a while-this will be the reason why.

I'll be putting these notes on all my fics as I update.

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Eight

The first time that Scarlet stepped out zeta-beam she threw up everything in her stomach. Helping her to her feet, Barry laughed. "I was like this the first time I travelled. I think the only one that didn't throw up was the Big Three and Tessa."

Scarlet raised her eyebrow. She considered herself pretty well versed in most of the heroes in the League but she'd never heard the name Tessa before. "Who's Tessa?" she asked.

"You'll see later," Starla replied. It was obvious that the psychologist was less than happy with the arrangement at hand but given the fact she had no choice, Starla was letting her go. "Connor?" she called out, sensing that their group wasn't alone in the hanger.

A boy around the age of seventeen came from the shadows, he was wearing just a red shirt, cargo pants and a black shirt. "Starla."

"Scarlet Lords, this is Connor Kent," Starla introduced them, "he'll be sponsoring you."

"Bring a bag?" Connor demanded.

Scarlet turned a little so he could see the backpack she was wearing. "Yeah. Just like Starla said."

"It's just in case," Starla assured her, "sometimes after missions the team ends up staying her instead of heading home."

"I'll take it from here," Connor told Starla.

"But-" Starla started to object. Barry put his hand on her shoulder and steered her away.

Connor looked Scarlet up and down. She'd put on weight since he'd last seen her, she looked healthy now instead of skin and bones like she was last time. She still screamed defensiveness, mistrusting of everything in the room. "So you're in Mount Justice, just outside Happy Harbour in Rhode Island," he told her. "This is the hanger, you can use any one of the two zeta-tubes to get you where you need to go. As long as there is another zeta on the other end. There's another two in the mission room as well."

Scarlet nodded and looked around the huge metal room they'd just come in.

"From here we go to the locker room," Connor continued, "we usually suit up in there or clean up after missions. You've got a locker but it's blank until you pick a name."

He took her to the locker room and to a locker that had B28 on it. Beside her locker was B29 and B30 Lightwave and Pyro respectively. "Oh-when did Dani and Leon come through?" she asked.

"Yesterday," Connor answered. "Put your bag in the locker. Shower room is through there," he pointed, "training room is in here." The two of them walked through the door into the already occupied training room. Two figures were lying on a mat kissing ridiculously slowly. "Aren't you two supposed to be training not making out?" Connor frowned.

The two stopped and got up. "Connor," the boy frowned. He looked Scarlet up and down. "You're looking healthier than last time. Richard Greyson," he smiled, introducing himself. "This is my girlfriend Suki Queen."

Suki smiled. "Nice to meet you."

"Scarlet," she replied. "I know you-you're Oliver Queen's cousin aren't you?"

Suki nodded. "Yup. Pretty amazed at what you and your friends did the other day, and with no training. I had to train for two years before I was even allowed out."

"Huh?" Scarlet frowned.

"We met your friends yesterday," Suki told her, "Lightwave kept calling you Psi. I like it, you should use it as your team designation."

"Enough chit chat, got take her on the rest of the tour," Connor frowned.

"We'll be in the library later," Suki smiled. "Come catch up with us later. We've got a ridiculously large amount of homework. Oliver's condition on me joining the team was that I keep up with my studies."

Connor all but practically dragged Scarlet away. He showed her the kitchen and the lounge, there were a few other kids in there joking and having a good time. Scarlet met Cassie Sandsmark, Barbara Gordon, Vigil Hawkins and Kaldur'ahm in the lounge. There was nobody in the library but as they made their way to the mission room another figure was walking along the corridor, head immersed in a book.

The girl looked up as Connor and Scarlet came up the corridor. "Connor," she spoke, "is this one of the new three?"

"Scarlet Lords this is Megan Morse," Connor introduced her.

"She's green," Scarlet deadpanned. "Like green, green. Like super green."

"Yes I hadn't noticed," Connor scowled.

"Are you well, Connor?" Megan asked him.

"Great," he muttered. "See you." Connor grabbed Scarlet's arm and pulled her long the corridor.

"So when did you two break up?" Scarlet asked him.

"None of your business," he snapped. The two came into the mission room where an older guy wearing red suit with a yellow T on the front stood working away on something. "Relax," he muttered. "This is Red Tornado. He's a robot. We got most of your specs in the system but he needs to get the rest of them so the zeta-tubes accept your designation."

"So when do I get to start?" Scarlet asked.

"That depends," Red Tornado answered. "Please take a seat."

Scarlet sat down as asked. She looked around the room trying to figure out what did what. It looked like something out of a science fiction novel. But then gain…she was living a science fiction novel.

"I'm done," Red Tornado announced suddenly. "Are you finished with the tour?"

"Just about," Connor answered. "Little Queen wants to get together to talk about their nails or some shit."

"Spend some time, get to know the others before you go back to Central."

"He's harmless," Connor assured her again as they walked out. "He's like our den mother. Looks after us."

"Why?" Scarlet asked.

"We guess that he wants to be more human," Connor shrugged. "You know-I thought you'd be madder at me."

"Again, why?" she frowned.

"I usually wear a shirt with a big red S on it," he replied.

"Oh you son of a bitch!" Scarlet hissed. She threw him against the wall and walked off. "I'll find my way around on my own thanks."

-XXX-

When Suki Queen entered the library a few hours later, she found Scarlet sitting at one of the tables reading a book. "So have you given any thought to your name?" she asked, sitting down with her algebra textbook.

Scarlet shrugged. "I kinda like Psi. It's young."

She laughed. "Oliver would say it's lazy like teenagers are."

"What about you?" Scarlet asked.

"Me?" she frowned. "I'm the Black Wolf-"

"So that makes Oliver Queen the Green Arrow?" Scarlet sighed. "Well that explains a lot of things. His coming back to Star City and all of a sudden pointy objects start flying around-the girl he was on the island with? River Harper-she's gotta be Shade right?"

Suki laughed. "She's a worse teacher than Oliver. So tough. How on earth did you get the time to read the paper?"

Scarlet shrugged. "Some guy was throwing a TV out-it was still good so we stole it and hooked it up. One of the kids, Eddie, he's good with machines. So he got the power to run it. We watched it until it died."

"I could never imagine living the life you've lived," Suki frowned, "I feel terrible. When my mum died Oliver and is wife took me in. I was eleven. Suddenly I went from living in a one bedroom apartment in Hell's Kitchen to a mansion with more rooms than I could count. Must be like that with you living with Starla and Barry. She's a bit of a control freak hey?"

Scarlet rolled her eyes. "You have no idea. Don't get me wrong I'm grateful for them taking me in but how she expects everything to become right after living on the streets for six years."

"She means well," Suki shrugged. "She and Aunt River don't get along very well, Aunt River likes chaos theory. Oliver says her parents were super over protective as a kid. Sara doesn't get along with her very well either."

"Huh?" Scarlet frowned.

"Sara Harper," Suki replied. "She's dating Oliver's son, Robert. Sara is River's daughter. Sara's like her mum but she was raised in this life. Starla thinks it stunted her growth by being raised in such an environment. All of us."

"But Bart is a meta-human child," Scarlet objected.

Suki shrugged. "Don't tell me-it doesn't make sense. She's a good hero-bit warped in the head though. Good mum from what I understand."

The two laughed.

"So next bit of business," Suki grinned, "the suit. We all have one and you're gonna need one…Psi."