Jason saw Megan stiffen from where she was making breakfast (which was burnt), and looked at him meaningfully. He saw this as the sign that his dad was here and intended to resolve this as he normally would. Retreat and ignore. Surprisingly effective when he had to deal with Alice.
"I have to go." He stated bluntly with his acquired stoic voice.
It seemed though that every one of the other side-kid heroes, not sidekicks he reminded himself, were used to Conner's blunt and reserved talks. When he was out of sight, he sent out to Megan his cell number and told her to text him if he had to come back and after he got her okay, he super speeded faster than any cameras could catch and made his way to the exit.
Not a moment later did Superman come into the room and looked around. "Where is Superboy?"
"Uh, he just left." Megan said trying to keep her voice steady as she smiled. "He might have been heading to his room; you might be able to catch him."
Superman nodded before leaving and Megan let out a barely audible sigh of relief.
"Hey, Megan, you have any idea what's up with Supe-uh, I mean Conner?" Wally asked as he amended his slip up.
"What do you mean?" Megan asked putting on a confused face. Jason had asked her not to tell anyone, and aside from Batman having most definitely figured it out on his own, she was not going to tell anyone. She only hoped her friends wouldn't be too mad at her for keeping this a secret from them.
"Conner's been acting a little…weird lately." Wally replied. "Each time he asked me to help him with something, like finding his room or anyplace else here, he always say thank you. Not that I'm saying this is a bad thing, it's kinda strange."
"Hmm, now that you mention it, Conner's stopped making snide remarks about how he refers to himself as a weapon, he doesn't question any of Canary's lessons, and he gets really angry when we call him Superboy, even by mistake." Robin added.
"Perhaps Conner is merely trying to 'discover himself' as it were. It must be quite frustrating for him to only be referred to by one name." Kaldur said calmly.
Megan felt immensely relieved at that comment, though Artemis' next words made her inwardly cringe. "None of you think it's strange how he suddenly has freeze breath? While admittedly cool, is it possible that he now has it, even when he showed no signs of having any other powers?"
"Maybe he's just growing into it?" Megan questioned, though she knew for a fact that if Jason had it, then Conner was going to get it. She was still a little iffy on Jason's age, but she assumed that he was around Conner's physically age. "I mean, it's possible, right?"
"This is impossible." Conner muttered as he tried to focus on his running, to make his body move in hyper speed, but nothing.
"Conner, where here to let you meet the 'Bots, more training after." Kara reprimanded kindly.
"Yes…mother." Conner replied hesitantly, but the smile it got out of Kara said that it was okay to call her that.
Even in the short time he'd been around his family, he'd seen the protective looks Kara had given both Alice and him when Alice had teleported them 'home.' And while it had been nice of Lois, his 'pseudo step-mother' as Alice called her, to give him something to eat; he certainly had not enjoyed seeing it come back up on the ground.
Conner had not been aware he could throw up, but apparently Alice stated the side-effect of her teleportation ability was the first time nausea that was experienced. She had said she had thrown up herself when she teleported for the first time, and so had both Kara and Jason. Though he had felt some sort of vindication when she had said even their father had succumb to it.
Alice stated that the man had told her never to teleport him anywhere ever again.
He would always admit that it felt nice when Kara had stood by him and not only waited patiently for him feel better, as Alice also said that you feel better after the first hurl as your body (anyone's in this case who is not used to being so suddenly moved) reacts by 'emptying' itself, but Kara had even empathized with him that the first teleportation was certainly not fun at all.
At the moment though, he had just watched Blurr zoom out of sight to alert the 'Boss 'Bot' that there was a new 'Kent' here. He had felt jealous that he couldn't do that while everyone in his family could.
Though he believed it was because his body was still growing itself and that was the reason he had not developed any of the other abilities his family had.
Kara explained that for them (him, Alice, and Jason) that heat vision was only triggered when they were very angry, but that it was a 'wait and see' for X-ray vision though. Ice breath and flight were more sporadic and she had even congratulated him when he told her that he could already jump high distances.
"You're already halfway there." She had said giving him a genuinely warm smile.
Even while he was still a little unsure about what to use to trigger his anger, as he had been happy lately to be accepted by his family, that he didn't want to shatter it with reality of the situation.
Still, he had to get his problems out in the open, and that meant dealing with his issues with his father. Alice had called Jason the lucky one out of the three of them since he had two loving parents, a mother and step-father, to look after him.
That wasn't to say Jason didn't have his own problems, not by a long shot, Alice had said, but that he was lucky because he got to know what a real family was like.
And when she had first told him this, he hadn't understood the envy on her face when she said it. But now that he thought it over himself, he realized that she was right.
They all had supporting Kryptonian adult in Kara, but only Jason had a supporting mother and a father.
'Lucky indeed.'
