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Mount Justice

September 23, 06: 34 EDT

"Thanks, but no thanks." Kid muttered as Green Arrow placed a bowl of pretzels in front of him.

The Justice League was currently repairing the damages that Red Tornado's android siblings had done to the Cave. Martian Manhunter, and Green Lantern had just gotten the power back on in the building.

We were all pretty bummed out about the fact that Tornado had actually betrayed us, and even though I wasn't there when the attack happened, I still felt the tension the rest of the Team possessed.

I looked at Ollie through my mask, "We want answers, GA. Not consolation food."

"We need to know about Red Tornado and his siblings!" Robin slammed his fist against the steel table.

"Exactly!" Kid exclaimed. Ollie moved in to take the pretzels away, but Kid clutched them. "Keep the bowl…"

I rolled my eyes as Wally started swallowing the food whole. Artemis slapped the back of his head, which made him choke for a while.

I was about to grab Wally a glass of water when, all of a sudden, Superboy moved with increasing speed toward Aqualad, and fisted his shirt. "You knew?"

I narrowed my eyes at the scene unfolding in front of us all, and got myself ready to stop time at any given moment that the interrogation went too far.

"That android and his maniac family almost killed M'Gann!" Superboy tightened his grip on Kaldur.

"Conner!" M'Gann flew over to the clone. Yes, we'd found him a real name. He had to enrol in a school, and we didn't exactly want him to go by his superhero name. "What are you doing?"

"Kaldur knew we had a traitor among us and said nothing!"

Instantly, I was out of my place in the table and walking cautiously toward the three non-humans in the Team. "El…que?" I stuttered, my Spanish coming out.

"You knew?" Robin's eyes rested on me for more than necessary before glaring at Kaldur.

"And you didn't tell us?" Kid hissed.

"I saw to protect the Team from—" Aqualad tried defend himself.

"Protect us from what?" Artemis placed her hands on her hips. "Knowledge that might save our lives?"

"You almost died!" Superboy repeated, looking at M'Gann who stood in silence.

"Enough." Batman commanded from behind us. "With Red Tornado missing, the Team will now be seen by rotating supervisors. Captain Marvel has volunteered to take the first shift."

I raised an eyebrow at the excited older man. "I'm really looking forward to hanging with you guys!"

We all looked between each other, some shaking their heads and others with their faces grim.

Conner threatened Kaldur, "After I dismantle Red Tornado, you and I are gonna—"

"Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League." Batman stepped up. "That makes him a League responsibility. You will leave him to us."

I looked at Robin, and jokingly imitated Bruce's talking. Batman knew that we wouldn't stay put for long, but he insisted on telling us to stay in the Cave. Did he learn nothing from our mission to Cadmus?

Dick hid a faint cackle behind his gloved hands, but it didn't go unnoticed by Batman. He glared at the both of us, and I instantly felt like I was being scolded by one of the villains.

"I have another assignment for this team. " Batman called up a news article on the Cave's holographic computer. They were all news about a gorilla running loose around the United States.

"Gotham Mayor attacked by Guerilla Gorilla?" Kid rolled his eyes.

'Was this the only thing he could find to distract us?' Conner quirked an eyebrow, using the telepathy link we had whenever we were together.

'Lighten up, Conner! Remember how Cadmus seemed like just a random lab in Washington?' I asked the tense boy.

'Guerilla Gorilla, Diana! Even the name oozes lameness all over the place!' Wally shook his head at me.

"Batman, please!" Robin stepped up, ignoring the conversation going on in his head. "Tell me you're not sending us in this jokable wild ape chase!"

"I never joke about the mission." Batman glared at his protégé.

'Ooh, burn!' I smirked.

'Really, D? Did you have to say that?' Dick looked at his toes; he seemed like a little boy whom his parents were upset at.

"I've checked the sources, I've studied the patterns. Mary Hills' encounter was only the latest in a series of incidents." Batman turned to Kaldur, "Aqualad, you and your team will depart for India and check this out."

Aqualad nodded, and we all started filing out of the mission room. Kid huffed, "Your team?"

I didn't think that Kaldur would just keep a secret from us, his best friends, without a reason. He has always entrusted us with all the knowledge he's ever encountered about a mission, and every secret he's held.

I refused to believe that Kaldur would not tell us about a mole on the Team and be mad at him. Not until he told us his reason to keep this from us.

"Let me guess," Robin spoke up as we walked to the bioship, "You're not angry at Kaldur?"

I shook my head; "We still don't know why he wouldn't tell us about a mole. We should wait until we have the full story before we begin to judge him."

"You're as rational as ever!" Wally turned back to look at me.

"Was that supposed to be a compliment or an insult?" I crossed my arms, "Because, that was a really bad insult."

Captain Marvel flew in, and was about to make his way into the Martian ship before Robin had to ask, "You're coming with?"

"Sure! We'll have a blast!" That was the man's answer before he walked in behind Conner.

"Translation?" Robin turned to us. "He blames us for Red Fiasco. He doesn't trust us."

Aqualad walked in our conversation, and Kid turned to the older teenager. "It's a big club."

Robin and Kid walked away, but I stayed behind with Kaldur. "Don't listen to them, at least, not yet. They don't exactly have a firm reason to be mad at you."

Aqualad nodded, giving me a small unsure smile, and we walked in with the rest of the Team.

We all sat down on our righteous places in the bioship, looking out of the windows to the Cave. It was battered, and it was broken, but it was going to be all right.

Miss Martian woke up the organic ship, and we all went flying off to where our mission was in.

This was definitely going to be an awkward, tense, and long bioship ride.

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Northern India

September 23, 21: 36 IST

Robin, Artemis, and I jumped out of the bioship. We had been assigned the first perimeter watch, just to make sure that there wasn't anyone here that would tail us.

I took out my whip, and ran to the right. I surveyed the silent scene before me, and if I hadn't been on a job, then I would have stood by and enjoyed the nature all around me. Unfortunately, I had to return to where the Team stood, awaiting our return.

"All clear!"

Aqualad nodded, and pressed the stealth mode button in his suit. "Switch to stealth, and we'll review mission parameters."

Instantly, M'Gann and I switched our uniforms to their darker version, but Wally begrudgingly did it after a few moments, "Parameters? We don't need no stinking parameters!"

"It's a reckon, we know what to do." Robin joined in with the rebelling. M'Gann and I exchanged looks, 'This isn't good.'

'No kidding.'

"Kid! Robin!" Aqualad tried to reason with them.

"The four of us," Robin gestured to me, "Started this team because the Justice League was keeping secrets from us!"

"Or did you forget that like you forgot to tell us about the mole?" Kid placed his goggles on top of his eyes, and sped away with Robin.

We were silent for a few moments, doubt and slight shock floating in the air.

Conner came up to M'Gann and grabbed her arm "Common, I'll keep you safe!"

M'Gann seemed to rant telepathically, and it reminded me of my rants in Spanish. She seemed to be mad, extremely mad, and in that moment, I agreed with whatever she was saying.

"I'm…just trying to protect you." Conner seemed confused about her getting upset at his actions.

"Like Aqualad protected us?" Artemis defended our friend.

"We don't need a keeper!" I exclaimed, and the three of us stomped away from the last two members of the Team.

We were the only girls on the Team, making us the ones that the four boys protected the most. It angered me, really. They knew we could take care of ourselves by ourselves.

"Thank you for backing me up." M'Gann grinned as we walked around the Indian jungle, not really having a set place to go to.

"It's no big." I shrugged.

"You would have done the same for us." Artemis kept a straight face as she said this, but I could tell that there was this joy in her eyes.

In such a short time, we already trusted each other enough to say we were best friends. We could count on each other to have our backs, and we knew that any of us would give our lives for the other.

We reached a small waterfall, and there were a few trees that had fallen down littered across the soil floor. Artemis jumped over one of the trunks, while M'Gann levitated my body off the ground with a giggle.

"Oh, yeah," Artemis rolled her eyes jokingly, "I'm totally feeling the love here."

I smiled, "Don't worry, Artemis. You'll get levitated at least once in your life. M'Gann loves you, too."

We kept walking right by the river; the sound of the waterfall cascading down soothed our nerves. I had been feeling as if someone was watching us, from a distance, but close enough to unnerve me.

Suddenly, a giant crocodile jumped out of the water. It was about to snap M'Gann in half, but she held its mouth open. I was about to strike with my whip, and Artemis with her arrow, but two other crocodiles surged out and bit at the backs of our costumes.

The crocodiles submerged us both back into the water, and started rolling over and over. It dizzied me so much that I was left heavily disoriented. I tried focusing all my energy into slowing down time.

The crocodile kept rolling over, but now it took it's time. My dizziness went away soon enough, and so did my nausea. I turned around, placing my feet on the crocodile's nose, and pushed my body off. A part of my costume had been ripped off, exposing my upper back.

I returned back to normal. I could make out M'Gann's body swimming toward Artemis, and disengaging her from the crocodile. M'Gann quickly swam over to me, but when she saw that I was fine on my own, she stopped.

M'Gann blasted both crocodiles out of the water, and made an invisible force field. The force field made a circle of dry land in the middle of the river, letting both Artemis and I gasp for a rush of air.

"Okay! Nearly drowning two nights in a row is way less fun than it sounds!" Artemis coughed up some water.

"Tell me about it!" I gasped. "Once, I almost drowned four times in one night!"

"Talk about tough luck!"

I rolled my eyes, "No kidding."

M'Gann made a narrow pass through the river, letting Artemis and I move out of the water to actual dry land. "I'm going to establish a telepathic link with Aqualad." M'Gann announced from her floating space above us.

The Martian and Atlantian talked for a while before M'Gann turned to us, "You two should go dry out."

Artemis sighed, "I need to go back and get my quiver."

"Is it still in the river?" M'Gann asked, coming down to stand in front of us.

The archer nodded, and M'Gann went to go fetch it. Artemis and I looked at each other in silence, agreeing that we should go sit down somewhere. We found a bent tree trunk, and sat down on it.

"The collars around their necks were controlling the crocodiles." I spoke up as M'Gann came back with Artemis' quiver. There were no arrows inside it.

"Yeah, I wonder who could have—" Kaldur's voice cut off Artemis.

'Miss Martian, I need a telepathic link up with the entire team! Now!'

'Link established.'

'Should he really still be giving us orders?' Artemis complained, 'And should you two really be following them?'

'Listen, please!' Aqualad pleaded.

'Oh, good! Aqualad's voice in my head! I so missed that!' Kid sassed back.

'Hey, Kaldur!' I could picture Robin's teasing smile, 'KF and I were attacked by giant vultures! Of course, since we're moles you probably think we attacked ourselves...'

'If he did, he wouldn't tell you.' Artemis clicked her quiver back on.

'Superboy, are you online or just pouting?' M'Gann placed her hands on her hips.

'Probably just pouting about the fact that you're not as helpless as he thought you were.' I rolled my eyes.

I knew I wasn't helping the fact that we were all in a mission and fighting, but what Conner said earlier really had angered me.

All my life, my father had underestimated me. Everyone, except my mother, had underestimated me. I didn't like that my friends actually thought we were helpless. Of course, the underestimation could also be considered a good thing. It meant that no one would expect me to be as dangerous as I actually was, but that didn't mean that it couldn't easily anger me.

'I'm not pouting, Timeless! I'm busy. Call back later.' As soon as he said that, there was only silence from his end.

'What gets me is how nonchalant he is about not telling us!' Kid exclaimed.

'He should be chalant!' Artemis eyes narrowed.

'Way chalant!' Robin huffed. 'Extremely chalant!'

'Guys, you should really get off Kaldur's case!' I tried rationalising with them.

'No, Diana! How should we be a team if he doesn't trust us with his secrets?' Artemis scowled at me.

'Like Conner doesn't trust us to take care of ourselves!' M'Gann crossed her arms.

'All right,' I admitted, 'with that, I agree.'

'Did he really think Rob, Diana, or I could have been the mole?' Wally questioned.

'We've known each other for years!' Robin exclaimed.

'That's why he must have a good reason to keep this from us!' I shouted.

'Trust is a two-way street!' Artemis stood up, pointing at me.

'And you know that you'd hate it if we kept secrets from them!' M'Gann threw her arms up in the air.

'Not that we do that, ever.' Artemis shrugged.

'Enough!' Aqualad commanded, 'Captain Marvel has been captured, and we must act as a team so save him.'

A shiver passed by me, the air was getting cooler, and my exposed back didn't like that fact. Who would have enough strength to capture Captain Marvel?

'Under your leadership? I don't think so—'

'This is not up for debate!' The girls and I looked at each other; surprised that Kaldur had used such a forceful tone of voice on us. 'You all chose me to lead. When the mission is over if you wish to select a new leader, I will happily step down.'

I could imagine Dick's face at that offer. I knew that now, that he finally realised how truly time consuming and stressing being a leader could be, he wouldn't really want to be the one.

'But until that time, I am in command here.'

The sky had become the dark colour of obsidian, and the stars littered the horizon as if that was the last time they were going to be there. We had all regrouped, finally agreeing on a game plan.

Robin, Kid, and I (after I almost chopped their heads off for being so insensitive) were to keep the closest watch of the cemented building in the middle of the jungle. Yeah, no one was going to think anything odd was going on!

M'Gann stood in camouflage on a tree trunk behind us, while Aqualad and Artemis crouched a few meter away from us.

'I'll fly over.' M'Gann spoke up.

'Negatory.' Kid and I declared in unison. 'There's a force field standing around the whole compound.'

'Highlands are insulated, but one good shock could cause a momentary gap.' Robin checked his arm computer.

'It would be big enough for at least an arrow to enter the compound. We're in luck!' I grinned, hinting at Artemis to do something about it.

'I see a target…' I could see Artemis notching an arrow on her bow.

'Then be ready to hit it,' Aqualad commanded, 'Be ready, all of you!'

Kid, Robin, and I looked at each other. Wally and Dick seemed a bit weary to be receiving orders from Kaldur, but they knew there wasn't a second option. I could also sense Dick's hesitation about having Kaldur step off from his position as leader.

Robin wasn't ready, not yet.

Aqualad jumped out from the shadows, and shot an electricity charge into the force field.

'Now!'

When Wally gave the signal, Artemis shot her arrow and it met the target. Instantly, the force field was gone, and we all hurried over to where Aqualad stood.

Robin stopped, and looked up, so I followed his actions. There was a monkey on top of the building. It started to screech; I think that was their alarm system.

A bunch of chimpanzees jumped out of the compound's rooftop, and we all took our fighting stances. I felt like punching real live animals could be illegal, but I had to do it anyway.

I kicked a chimpanzee, and punched another one. When I had a small break between all the fighting, I looked around all the chaos. Two chimpanzees that seemed to not want to let go of him were attacking Robin.

I took out my whip, and grabbed hold of one of the monkeys' collars. It ran away from us, screeching annoyingly.

"Timeless!"

Robin shot two birdarangs in my direction, and I could have been sure that it was going to hit me until they flashed behind me. The birdarangs had hit three chimpanzees' collars. They had been about to attack me.

I turned to the skilled boy, "Thanks, Wonder Boy!"

I ripped the collars off most of them and they scurried off into the deep jungle. That had been harder than it sounded like.

Then, the real challenge came out of the building. Guerrilla Gorilla held a gun on his shoulders. Kid and Miss Martian quickly took care of the fact that the gorilla wanted to kill us.

The seven of us walked into the building, and we soon saw the mastermind behind the controlling collars.

And when I say mastermind, I mean, an actual mind.

"It's the brain!" Kid exclaimed.

Artemis rolled her eyes, "I can see it's a brain?"

"Not a brain, the brain!" Kid explained.

"Did it ever matter?" I whispered to the person next to me.

"Not really, no." Robin grinned, shrugging.

"In the flesh," The brain answered in his thick French accent, "Mallard."

Guerilla Gorilla pressed a button, and instantly, a force field surrounded us all. We all fell down on the floor in an instant.

'Miss Martian, Superboy, now!' Aqualad shouted.

M'Gann's eyes started glowing hot white, and she recovered the switch from Guerrilla Gorilla's hands. She pressed the button telepathically, and the force field fell down.

We all stood up, and as soon as we did that, the wall fell down to reveal Superboy with a white wolf on his side. We all started attacking the gorilla from all sides.

The wolf pounced, Kid sped up and punched, Robin used his grappling hook to swing and kick, Superboy gave one of his powerful punches, Miss Martian levitated him and slammed him on the ground, Artemis shot one of her explosive arrows, and I lashed my whip at the gorilla.

We all worked as a team. Artemis, Robin, and I shot our explosives at the gorilla. Aqualad had run off somewhere in the compound.

M'Gann, Artemis, Wally, Conner, Dick, and I surrounded Guerrilla Gorilla, our weapons ready. Aqualad came out from a corner, Captain Marvel with him. I was so relieved that the man was all right. I wouldn't want a League member to die in our mission. That wouldn't be a good file record for us.

The wolf that had come with Conner was fighting on our side, as he stood right next to Superboy.

The gorilla growled, and I smirked, "What is it, chump? Can't escape a group of kids?"

"No, Mallard. These will not be our battalions." The Brain's mechanical body expanded itself into what seemed to be a high-tech weapon, "Bonsoir, mes amis."

"Get down!" Kid shouted at us all.

I could see everyone crouching low on the ground, but I stayed standing. I really doubted that the Brain would hurt us this time; he just needed an escape route.

Robin's eyes widened at me, but he didn't say anything. His hands grabbed onto the top of my head, and pushed me down to the floor. He wrapped one of his arms around my head, and the other went to hold onto his birdarang.

I felt both indignant and kind of blissful. I could take care of myself, and Dick knew it better than anyone, so why cover me protectively? I have no idea. At the same time, my girl instincts said that the boy that I had some sort of attraction to holding me in an attempt to make sure that I was safe was sweet.

I was still indignant, though. Extremely indignant.

The lights went off, surrounding us in extreme darkness. I tried blinking; the abyss around me making me nervous. A shiver passed through me, making me feel self-conscious about the the fact that my back was bare.

Suddenly, ultra violet lights flickered on.

We all pulled down our weapons, and Dick's arms went to rest on his side. "You should have gotten down like Kaldur told you to." He scowled.

I frowned back at him; "I have a problem at following rules, if you haven't noticed. Besides, the Brain didn't even attempt to hurt us!"

We were both speaking in hushed tones, but surely, Artemis could hear the arguing since she was next to us.

"Wait," Kid looked confused, "That big weapon thing was a…light switch?"

I quirked an eyebrow at him, "You're surprised, why?"

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We all made our way back to the bioship, and shockingly, it took us forty minutes. I wouldn't have thought that we'd traveled the forest that far in.

Aqualad and I were taking off the control machines from the rest of the animals, and he insisted that I did the honours on taking the last chimpanzee's collar.

"That's the last of the collars?" Captain Marvel asked the tiger at his side.

The tiger roared, and Captain Marvel grinned, "And I can count on you to keep the other animals out of trouble."

The tiger let out a roar again, and started purring as Captain Marvel scratched his ear. "Good! I'll be back for a visit, I promise!" I've never seen someone pet a tiger before.

I moved in to give the orange and black animal a soft rub on top of his head. His fur was incredibly soft, I could see why someone would want to hunt it.

The tiger jumped away, and both Captain Marvel and I waved at him. I must admit, the tiger had really grown on me.

"Look, I need to know," Robin stopped Aqualad from coming into the bioship. "Why did you keep the mole intel a secret?"

The Team turned to pay intent attention to whatever Kaldur had to say about the situation. "The source of the tip was Sportsmaster."

I looked worriedly at Artemis as she exclaimed, "What? You can't trust him!"

I walked down from the ramp and placed a hand on her shoulder to try and calm her shouting down. Kaldur sighed, "I do not. It seems possible, even likely, that he was attempting to divide our team with false information."

"And given how this mission went he nearly succeeded." Robin muttered, his eyes softening in realisation.

"But you had to consider that it could be true…" I nodded my head.

"Yes, as leader I did." Kaldur admitted. "In which case I did not wish to alert the traitor."

Robin sighed, "I hate to say it, but…makes sense."

I grinned, and bumped my shoulder with his, "Told you so, Wonder Boy."

"I hate to say this, too, but you were right." Robin gave me an affectionate smile. "Just like always."

"Let's cut the romance out for a while, okay?" Wally frowned at us.

"I am still prepared to step down as leader." Kaldur reminded us, but we all just looked at each other and shook our heads.

"All in favour of keeping Aqualad as leader?" Kid asked us, and we all raised our hands up in the air. I looked at Robin, and he had a reassuring smile on as he gave a nod to Aqualad. A silent agreement passed through them.

"Guess it's unanimous!" Captain Marvel outstretched his arm. Kaldur and him shook hands. "See you tomorrow!"

"Uh, you're not coming?" I placed a hand on my hip, raising an eyebrow.

"No, gotta fly!" That was his answer before he jumped from the floor and flew off into the night sky.

We all interchanged looks of confusion, but left that behind us, and boarded the bioship. The wolf that had fought alongside us was following us into the Martian ship.

"So, what are you gonna call him?" M'Gann asked.

"What's wrong with Wolf?" Conner smiled sheepishly.

"Generic…but acceptable." Wally concluded.

"Oh, just go with it, Wally." I chuckled. "It is Conner's first pet!"