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*Watchtower: July 17, 23:16*

"Are you sure about this?" Black Canary asked. "We aren't sure how she might react."

"We can't be sure about anything" said Batman.

The Dark Knight had spent a lot of time going over the files Robin was able to recover from Cadmus concerning X-23. While there wasn't much to go on in identifying the members of the Facility, he suspected the girl had help in escaping her creators. Given she was traveling alone, he could only assume her savior didn't make it. The file also left him concerned about possible long term psychological trauma, a concern he felt was best shared with Black Canary given her background in psychology.

"I agree that she's at risk" said Black Canary. "And I must admit I'm surprised you didn't just have her locked up."

Batman ignored the comment as they both knew that in the past Laura wasn't truly responsible for her actions. It was the only reason he had offered her a place on the Team rather than send her to prison. But from this point forward should they find that she had taken life, Batman wouldn't hesitate to take her down.

"She clearly went to Cadmus for revenge" said Batman.

"I'll keep an eye on her" Black Canary promised.

*Mount Justice: July 18, 11:00*

Laura sat in her rather Spartan room, with only a standard bed, lamp, closet, and desk. While others would find the room lacking, for her it was already far more than she was used to. Sitting at her desk she was staring at a blue folder marked with a large 'X', debating on opening the file. But before she could come to a decision, a sudden knocking on her door followed by Miss Martian's voice calling from the other side, alerting her to the rest of the Team's members arrival.

Deciding to put the file out of her mind for the moment, Laura left to join them in the command room. Upon arrival she found them all dressed in their civilian clothes, gathered in front of a holographic monitor, including Superboy. Admittedly she had expected the clone's decision to change from his solar suit to a black Superman T-shirt and jeans to be a temporary one, given its usefulness.

That he clearly had no intention to return to his Cadmus issued uniform made her feel somewhat self-conscious, given that all Laura had done was change her top to a short black leather jacket over a green T-shirt. She was starting to wonder if her time controlled by the Facility was still influencing her behavior.

Deciding to let the issue go for the moment, she turned her focus to her teammates, who were heading for the front entrance to the Cave. Curious, Laura glanced at the still active screen as she passed to follow them, finding that they had been tracking Red Tornado's position.

The Team made it outside just in time to see the hero arrive.

"Greetings" said Red Tornado. "Is there a reason you intercept me outside the Cave?"

"We hoped you had a mission for us" Aqualad explained.

"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility."

"But it's been over a week and nothing" Robin complained.

"You will be tested soon enough" said Red Tornado. "For the time being, simply enjoy each other's company."

"This team is not a social club" Aqualad argued.

"No, but I am told that social interaction is an important team building exercise. Perhaps you can keep busy, familiarizing yourself with the cave."

Red Tornado then walked passed them and entered the Cave.

"Keep busy" Kid Flash grumbled.

"Does he think we're falling for this" Robin cried.

"Oh, I'll find out!" Miss Martian exclaimed, reaching out to Red Tornado with her mind. "I'm sorry, I forgot. He's a machine, inorganic. I can't read his mind."

"Nice try though" said Kid Flash, walking up to Miss Martian. "So can you tell what I'm thinking?"

Rolling her eyes at Kid Flash's attempt to flirt with Miss Martian, Laura decided to walk back inside the Cave, thinking it was better than watching that painful display.

"Guess, X's up for a tour" said Robin.

"We'll go together" said Aqualad. "Teambuilding."

Laura couldn't explain how but she found herself joining the rest of the Team in touring the Cave. While she had already familiarized herself with the base's layout, she did learn a bit about Mount Justice's history. The tour came to an abrupt end when she and Superboy smelt smoke coming from the kitchen.

"Oh no, my cookies!" Miss Martian cried, telekinetically removing the burnt tray of cookies from the oven. "I was trying out Granny Jones' recipe from episode 17 of…never mind."

"I bet they would've tasted great" said Robin. "He doesn't seem to mind" he added, as Kid Flash munched on the burnt cookies.

"I have a serious metabolism" he explained.

"I'll make more?" Miss Martian said uncertainly.

"It was sweet of you to make any" said Aqualad, making the Martian a little more comfortable.

"Thank you, Aqualad."

"We're off duty, call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually, my friends call me Kaldur."

"I'm Wally" said Kid Flash. "See? I already trust you with my secret I.D. unlike Mr. dark glasses over here. Batman's forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name."

"Mine's no secret" said Miss Martian. "It's M'Gann M'orzz. But you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name, and I'm on Earth now.

Having already given her civilian name when she first arrived at the Cave, Laura silently committed the identities of her teammates. It probably helped that by this point, they realized she didn't talk much.

Superboy also chose to remain silent, though it was mostly due to the fact he had nothing to add to the conversation.

The Kryptonian clone began to walk away when suddenly Megan's voice echoed through his mind. "Don't worry Superboy, we'll find you an Earth name."

"Get out of my head!" Superboy snapped.

"What's wrong? I don't understand." The others winched as Megan's voice echoed loudly inside their minds. "Everyone on Mars communicates telepathically."

"M'gann, stop" Kaldur said sternly. "Things are different on Earth. Here, your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."

"Besides, Cadmus' creepy little psychic genomes left a bad taste in his brain" said Wally, explaining Superboy's anger.

"I-I didn't mean to" M'gann stammered apologetically.

"Just stay out" Superboy left the kitchen, taking a seat on the couch in the adjacent living room.

M'gann hung her head low, feeling like she's ruined her chance to fit in.

"Hello, Megan" she exclaimed, hitting her forehead, her mood bouncing back. "I know what we can do."

M'gann flew out of the kitchen with the others, including a reluctant Superboy following after her.

Miss Martian directed the Team down to the hanger room.

"This is my Martian Bioship" M'gann said cheerfully, pointing to a large red oval shaped mass with purple streaks.

"Cute" Wally commented. "Not aerodynamic, but cute."

"It's at rest, silly" the Martian girl laughed. "I'll wake it." with a wave of her hand the mass transformed into a space ship. "Come on."

Upon entry, seats and controls formed from the ship's biomass. Honestly, Laura was impressed, she had never seen anything like the bioship before. She wasn't the only one as Kid Flash and Robin voiced their approval.

M'gann had Red Tornado open the bay doors and had the bioship take to the skies.

"Incredible" Robin complimented.

"She sure is" Wally sighed, before fumbling to recover once M'gann looked at him. "I-I mean, the ship, which, like all ships, is a she."

"Fast with his feet, not so much with his mouth" Robin smirked.

"I may not have psychic powers, but I can guess what you're thinking" Kaldur whispered to Superboy, noticing something was bothering him. "You overreacted, and you don't know how to apologize. Just say sorry."

Superboy glanced back at M'gann for a moment, before returning to quietly watching the sky.

"He'll come around" Robin assured Miss Martian.

"He doesn't seem to like me much" M'gann said sadly.

"You guys remember he has super hearing right?" said Wally.

Wanting to push past another potentially awkward moment, Robin asked M'gann for a demonstration of her Martian abilities. Complying with his request, M'gann stood up and transformed into a female version of Robin, then one of Kid Flash.

"Mimicking boys is hard" she explained.

"Clothes?" Laura asked, surprising M'gann, as over the last week she had learned Laura didn't speak much.

"They're organic, like the ship" M'gann explained. "They respond to my mental commands."

"As long as they're the only ones" said Superboy, bringing M'gann's mood down again.

"Can you do that ghosting through walls thing that Manhunter does?" Wally asked, providing a distraction.

"Density shifting? No it's a very advanced technique."

"Flash can vibrate his molecules through a wall" Robin chuckled, pointing at Wally. "When he tries, bloody nose."

"Dude!"

"Here's something I can do" said M'gann, mentally commanding the ship to turn invisible. "Camouflage mode."

"Useful" Laura commented. It wasn't much but even this little bit of praise brought a smile to the Martian's face.

"Red Tornado to Miss Martian" the mechanical hero's voice sounded over the ship's communications. "An emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbor Power Plant. I suggest you investigate covertly. I'm sending coordinates."

"Received" M'gann confirmed. "Adjusting course."

"Tornado's keeping us busy again" Robin scoffed.

"Well, a simple fire led you to Superboy and brought Laura. We should find out what caused the alert."

"I think I know the cause" said Superboy, pointing out to the side of the ship.

A tornado came tearing through the parking lot, drawing in the bioship. M'gann just barely managed to keep the ship airborne, as she directed it out of the twister and onto a safer section of the parking lot.

"Robin, are tornados common to New England?" Kaldur asked, as they exited the bioship.

But the Boy Wonder had already vanished, with his mischievous laugh echoing through the air.

"He was just here" M'gann gasped.

"He went inside the plant, the moment we disembarked" said Laura.

The windows of the power plant shattered outward, acting as confirmation for the others that Robin was already causing trouble. They arrived just in time to see the Boy Wonder thrown into a steel pillar by a gust of wind.

"Who's your new friend?" asked Superboy.

"Didn't catch his name" said Robin. "But he plays kinda rough!"

Their enemy was clad in red and black armor, with large blue tubes looping from their back to their forearms, and a piece of cloth over their mouth acting like a short scarf.

"My apologies" he spoke in deep male voice. "You may address me as Mr. Twister."

Superboy charged Twister, who countered with a powerful tornado sending him flying into the back wall. Wally, Kaldur, and M'gann then entered the battle. Using his speed, Wally came at Twister with a flying double kick to the chest, only to bounce harmlessly off the armored figure, and was quickly sent flying out into the parking lot.

M'gann and Kaldur fared no better as Twister's tornados also tossed them about. Robin noticed that in the chaos, Laura had vanished leaving him the current target of Twister's focus.

"I was prepared to be challenged by a superhero" Twister taunted. "I did not, however expecting children."

"We're not children!" Robin yelled, throwing hidden projectiles at Twister. The first a flash bang that while it did no damage provided the distraction for the follow up, batarang to imbed itself in Twister's chest.

"Objectively, you are" the armored figure countered, flicking the batarang away just before it exploded. "Now I seem to remember seeing six of you. Argh!"

Twister's count proved accurate as suddenly four blades burst out through his chest. Looking over his shoulder, he saw Laura had stabbed her claws into his back, and severing the tubes.

"How?" Twister demanded, his armor shouldn't have been so easily compromised.

"Adamantium" said Laura.

Twister tried to blow Laura away but the damage done to his wind generator was too extensive, leaving him to the girl's mercy, as she proceeded to pry open his armor, and pulled out a scrawny brown haired man.

"Foul. I-I call foul" the man complained.

"M'gann can you read his mind?" Laura asked Miss Martian.

"No." that was all Laura needed to know as before any of them could react, her claws cleanly sliced the man's head from his shoulders.

Aware that heroes of the Justice League and by extension her teammates would object to lethal force, Laura picked up the man's head and displayed the circuitry within, Twister was simply an android.

"Mission Complete" she said, before starting the trek back to the bioship.

"How did you know it was a robot?" Robin asked, being the only one on the Team to know the truth about Laura.

"He smelled like Red Tornado, like a machinery" Laura explained. "M'gann was confirmation" turning to the Martian she added "Thank you."

As she turned to leave, Laura noted the smile on M'gann's face obviously pleased that she hadn't held the Team back. Her ears also picked up on Superboy's quiet apology for his earlier overreaction to the Martian's social faux pas.

As they made the trip back to the Cave, Laura found herself agreeing with the Batman's decision not to rush the Team's deployment. While they did win against Twister it was largely in part because she had remained in the mission parameters to act covertly. Wally, Kaldur, Superboy, M'gann, and even to some extent Robin, all tended to rush in. They were going to need some work.

*Watchtower: July 18, 20:00*

"Assessment?" Batman asked Black Canary, once they finished watching the footage of the Team's encounter with Mr. Twister.

"the Team's or Laura's" said Black Canary, unfazed by the Dark Knight's glare. "Well, Laura was instrumental in the defeat of this Mr. Twister." Batman silently agreed with Canary. "But she was quick to go for what could've been a lethal blow."

Again Batman agreed, while Laura's training made the odds slim at best, if she had been off by even the smallest margin, when her claws pierced Mr. Twister, she would've killed him had he been a living being.

"Though we can't ignore that she checked with M'gann to confirm her suspicions about Twister being an android, before she took it too far" said Black Canary. "Overall I'd say she's making an effort to break old habits. Though from what we can assume to be Laura's original purpose at Cadmus, I doubt your ultimatum didn't play some role."

"Keep me posted" said Batman, finishing his meeting with Canary.

The Dark Knight returned to reviewing the Team's performance. While he agreed with Black Canary's assessment of Laura, even the possibility that the only reason she even checked before beheading Mr. Twister, was simply because she didn't want to risk having he and the Justice League going after her. Which begged the question just for long would the threat hold, and how would she react the next time she's confronted with someone with ties to the Facility.

*Mount Justice: July 18, 20:00*

Laura once again sat at her desk staring at the file. This time however, she'd come to a decision. Opening the folder, she found numerus papers all containing information on a short muscular, gruff looking man, with wild hair.

There wasn't much concerning his current whereabouts but there were several names attached, the most prevalent of all: Weapon X.