The first mission that we actually were meant to go on was shaping up to be a boring one so far.
I mean don't get me wrong is was shaping up to be a good one now that we were actually approaching the island but superboy megan and I had all had to have a few dozen tests and rules laid out for us before we even managed to get into the mission briefing.
I mean first there were the normal tests that she'd been getting every few days when one of the leaguers turned up to offer them training, nearly always black canary but sometimes red tornado and on one memorably occasion Martian man hunter had turned up and tried to show them how to make there minds harder to read.
His efforts had mostly been pointless except for to megan who actual seemed to improve under his watch. What had happened was he had asked us three, it was only ever the three of us wally Robin and aquaboy barely ever swung by the cave, to try and gaurs are minds against a basic psychic probe and then he gave us a value based on the time it took for him to break through our minds.
Superboy did the worst by far with a time of 0.08 seconds at the start which got him all growly about how it wasn't his job to fight psychics and how even if he did Martian man hunter wasn't a average psychic anyway. The man hunter explained that due to his lack of experience and real life memories that he was extremely fagile to such a attack and that if he worked at it such a low number could rapidly improve
I managed to hold him of by comparison for a full 3.21 seconds which was apparently pretty good but still seemed ne'er useless to me, I mean 3 seconds to take out a enemy before I'm under there control is way to short. He said to me that was at the high end for any human individual and that my mind had what appeared to be links of memory that went no where so it was hard to find my real mind. The decision that he came to was that I'd had a few versions of superboys memory implants layered over each other by genomorphs as they tried to teach me stuff and then wiped out my memories to create new ones. I didn't remember ever meeting a genomorphs really and certainly never had one teach me like they had superboy but the Martian said that I wouldn't if they had wiped out my memories.
Of course megan managed to hold on way longer than either of us for a full 1 minute 26 seconds she and uncle john as she insisted we all call him stared out against each other. It was pretty creepy as she just sat there staring at his face not blinking whilst 'john' stared right back at her neither one blinking or even seeming to breathe. Still she won by a mile John seemed actually pretty happy with her.
Anyway the lesson basically taught us that if you felt someone trying to get in you head then either focus entirely on one thing or try to split you mind so the don't know where to look for the core, was how John put it.
That helped superboy the most getting him up to 0.32 seconds by charging straight at the man hunter as soon as the mental assault began, this was apparently a valid tactic according to John as it caused the mid reader to loose focus so superboy got praised for that.
I tried to think of as many things as I could and even tried to get voice to help out in my head getting my time up by about a half second for the end of the session which got me a grudging nod and a promise to help me in the future with my mind.
Megan passed with fly colours apparently managing a whole extra five seconds over before but only getting a a sharp look from the man hunter before he said goodby and leaving the cave, she later shared with me that he had been mentally telling her off for not focusing enough. I told her that compared to me or pretty much any earthling on the planet she must be in the to
Ten strongest mental beings on the planet which seemed to cheer her up and got her to reveal that even on Mars she was considered strong minded and also got me a free batch of cookies.
Then there had been the time Canary had given us a actual test where we had to go over examples of missions and react appropriately, I did pretty well on that except apparently helping out the locals move furniture during a secret mission is something to avoid. I couldn't help it, there had been only a old lady and her young grandson moving a massive couch in the video they showed us of the compound.
Anyway the list of exercises we had needed to complete before getting the mission had been long and boring and I was happy now that it was over and we actually going to a proper mission.
So after batman himself had turned up on the big screen to explain that we were to meet up with the other me members of the team to receive are first mission we had all been extactic, well maybe not Superboy but everyone apart from him had been only a few steps from jumping into the air with joy, I actually did once the view monitor came of and Batman's face disappeared from the wall of the cave.
After that it was only a relatively short trip to where superboy and I kept are gear, really only are black superman shirts which we seemed to wear for no reason I mean superman hadn't even met us since Cadmus and I was starting to think was actively avoiding us as when ever I asked anyone on the justice league when he'd turn up they promised to talk to him but he still hadn't talked to me.
Anyway back to the gear, we only really had a line of black trousers, boots, shirts and these little phones Robin insisted on calling communicators and we were onto Megan's bio ship.
As I stared out of the window onto the passing landscape below, or where there would be land if we weren't over water I wondered just how fast this ship was going, it must be pretty quick as I was pretty sure we were traveling at least a few hundred miles but had only been on the plane 40 minutes and were about 10 minutes out from where we'd be dropping off.
"Megan, link us Up" said Robin from behind me in the cockpit, breaking me out of my thoughts of how mundane the days up till now had seemed.
"Alright" said megan except she didn't say it, it had that slightly lack of depth that somehow made me realise she was speaking directly to my mind, a little annoying that I hadn't even felt her try to get into my head even the man hunters training, 3 and a half seconds is nothing.
'Everybody here' asked megan
'Yep' went Robin
'Yes' said aqualad.
'Sure am beautiful' went wally
'Here' snorted superboy somehow getting condescension into a though ' lets get on with it'
'I'm here' I thought, 'me too' whispered Voice in my head which got me a strange look from Robin
'Yeah we know' he said looking at me with his eye quirked somehow through his mask.
'Alright, aqualad your drop zone is here just off the islands coast, while the rest of us will land here' he thought pointing to a map of the islands jungle 'and we'll meet up here' now his finger hovered just outside of the main facility on the island and the only place with the room for planes to land.
'Ready to drop' thought aqualad as he stood from his seat to stand in the centre of the cockpit for a second before saying out loud " so do I have to ask it to drop me or does mega..." Was the last we heard from him as hole opened up under his feet and he disappeared from view.
"Um, don't ask my ship to drop you unless you mean it" said megan as she stared at where aqualad had been before looking at the rest of us who had slightly shocked looks on our faces, well accept for Robin.
As the next drop zone for the rest of us came up I steeled myself for the mission.
It was going to be awesome.
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