Alex pulled the grey hoodie on and pulled her hair into a high ponytail. She wore a white tank top which had Robin's printed on it, grey sweatpants, a grey hoodie and a pair of black Converse. She had to stay at the Cave to start her training with Wonder Woman and so the Justice League could hide her from Cadmus. Alex had no idea why a lab wanted her powers. Her powers weren't of scientific origin.

Foolish mortals, they think they can harness my power.

Alex rolled her eyes. She had to deal with Kali's voice in her head and it wasn't fun. The others kept giving her odd looks when Alex snapped at Kali out loud. She pulled on her shoes and left her room. Alex had training with Wonder Woman today and she really wasn't looking forward to it.

You are scared of her? Pathetic.

Shut up Kali.

Alex made her way down the halls and into the room where the Zeta beams were. Aqualad, Superboy and Miss Martian were looking at a screen which had a map on it and a little icon of Red Tornado. The trio turned when they heard footsteps. "Morning Alex!" The Martian exclaimed.

"Good morning Alexandria." Aqualad added.

"Morning. You c-can call me Alex, if y-you want." Alex said in a quiet voice, silently berating herself because of how nervous she sounded. Stupid, stupid!

Why are you speaking like that?

Alex had a nervous stammer when she was around new people. It was something that she hated. Aqualad smiled slightly and replied "Good morning Alex."

"Recognised Robin. B01. Kid Flash. B03."

What in Hera's name was that?!

It's a computer Kali calm down.

Kid Flash and Robin ran forward and KF exclaimed "Did you ask him?"

"What did he say?"

"He's arriving now." Aqualad replied. Alex raised her eyebrows. Who was arriving? She opened her mouth to speak but Kid Flash cut her off.

"Then what are waiting for?" He ran ahead and the others started to run after him. Alex was about to run as well when she saw that M'gann had started to fly. Alex decided to try as well. Her feet started to slowly lift up from the ground and she flew forward.

M'gann smiled when she saw her. "You can fly too. Cool!" Alex smiled back at her and the pair flew forward and towards the exit. It came down and Alex's question was answered. Red Tornado landed in front of the group.

"Red Tornado!" Kid Flash called.

What a strange creature.

"Greetings. Is there a reason you intercept me outside the Cave?" The android asked.

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

"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility." Red Tornado replied.

"It's been over a week and nothing-" Robin was cut off by Red.

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

"This team is not a social club." Aqualad sounded annoyed.

"No, but I am told that team building is an important social exercise." Red replied. "Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarising yourself with the Cave." With that, Red Tornado walked past them.

"Keep busy." Kid Flash grumbled.

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

"Oh, I'll find out." M'gann said before turning and narrowing her eyes at Red Tornado. "Recognised Red Tornado. 16." There was a moment of silence before M'gann said "I'm sorry, I forgot he's a machine. Inorganic. I cannot read his mind."

"Nice try though. So, uh, you know what I'm thinking right now?" Kid Flash asked. Alex raised her eyebrows. From what little interaction she had with the speedster, she could tell he was a flirt.

The red-haired one is odd.

"We all know what you're thinking now!" Robin said, elbowing his friend as Alex let out a quiet chuckle. Robin shot a small smile at her.

"And now we tour the clubhouse." Aqualad grumbled.

"Well, Superboy, Alex and I live here. We can play tour guides." M'gann said.

"Don't look at me." Superboy told the pair as Robin and KF had turned to look at him.

"We won't a private tour sounds much more fun!" KF replied and he slung his arms over Alex and M'gann's shoulders. Alex frowned at him.

"She never said private!" Robin exclaimed.

"Team building. We all go." Aqualad said. M'gann nodded and led the group inside. Alex followed, her hands shoved into her pockets.

"This would be our front door." M'gann said. She led the group through the Cave. "And this would be the back." She added as they went out of the Cave. Alex's draw dropped when she saw the view of the sea.

"The view is incredible." She said quietly.

"Sure is." Alex looked over her shoulder to see Kid Flash looking at M'gann with a dreamy look in his eyes. She raised her eyebrows and shook her head.

"The Cave is actually the entire mountain." M'gann said as they walked back inside.

"It was actually hollowed out by Superman and Green Lantern in the early days of the League." Kid Flash told the group.

"Then why abandon it for the Hall of Justice?" Superboy asked.

"The Cave's secret location was…..compromised." Aqualad told them. Alex's eyes widened in surprise. That meant that Super villains could turn up at the Cave at any time!

"So they traded it in for a tourist trap?" Superboy asked. "Yeah, that makes sense." Alex looked over at the boy. He seemed mad at everything ever since Cadmus.

That boy seems cheerful.

You can say that again.

"If villains know about the Cave we must be on constant alert!" M'gann said. Robin grabbed her hand.

"The bad guys know we know that they know," Stop saying know, "about the place so they'll never think to look here." Robin told her.

"What he means is we're hiding in plain sight." Wally told her.

"Ah. That's much clearer." M'gann replied. Alex frowned when she smelled something burning. Apparently Superboy did as he said "I smell smoke."

M'gann gasped. "My cookies!" She flew back and the group ran after her. They might it to the kitchen when M'gann pulled what looked like lumps of coal out of the oven. Alex assumed these were the cookies. She grimaced. They didn't look appealing.

"I was trying out Granny Jones' recipe from episode seventeen of…..uh, never mind!" M'gann trailed off.

"I-I'm sure they would have tasted great." Alex said quietly, giving the girl a small smile. M'gann smiled widely back at her.

"Yeah, he doesn't seem to mind!" Robin said. Alex turned to Kid Flash eating the burnt cookies.

KF looked up. "I have a serious metabolism." He explained.

"I'll make more?" M'gann said, well it sounded like more of a question.

"It was sweet of you to make any." Aqualad told her.

"Exactly." Alex added.

"Thanks Aqualad and Alex." M'gann replied.

"We're off duty. Call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually, my friends call me Kaldur." Kaldur told the pair.

"I'm Wally. See I already trust you both with my secret I.D unlike Mr Dark glasses over there." Wally pointed at Robin. "Batman's forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name."

"Mines no secret! It's M'gann M'orzz but you can call me Megan! It's an earth name and I'm on earth now." M'gann said.

"Mine's Alex but you already knew that." Alex looked down at her feet as Superboy got up from where he stood and walked out of the room.

"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!" Alex jumped in surprise as Superboy roared at M'gann.

"What's wrong? I don't understand, everyone on Mars communicates telepathically." M'gann said. Alex gasped as pain shot through her head.

GET OUT OF MY VESSLE'S HEAD THIS INSTANT, YOU INSOLENT LITTLE BRAT!

"Alex!" M'gann exclaimed. Alex opened her eyes to see the others staring at her. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't know that hurt you so much."

"There was no need to be so rude about it though." Wally grumbled.

"I-I-It wasn't me!" Alex said. Thanks a lot Kali now they're going to hate me!

"Then who was it?" Kaldur asked.

"Batman didn't explain about my powers, did he?" She asked. Judging by the looks on their faces, she assumed not.

"I'm the vessel of an ancient Greek warrior, with powers, called Kali. She was cursed by a sorceress called C-Circe to be trapped in the body of her ancestors. W-whenever they die, Kali gets passed onto to the eldest daughter. Now I'm the v-vessel. That's how I have my powers. CADMUS was trying t-to see if they could drain Kali out of me but I escaped before they could."

"But Kali is in my head. If I let her, she can take control of my body. That's why you heard the v-voice in my head. It's Kali." Alex explained. Foolish mortal, why are you revealing our secrets?!

Shut it Kali, you already got me into enough trouble today.

"So that's why you were talking to yourself?" M'gann asked.

"Yeah. I-I'm not insane or anything I swear." Alex said before letting out a nervous laugh. Wally and Robin chuckled while Kaldur gave her a small smile.

"That explains a lot." Wally said.

"But I have to say, M'gann, things are different here on earth. Here, your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy." Kaldur said.

"Besides, CADMUS' creepy little psychic geonomes left a bad taste on his brain." Wally added.

"And I don't think Kali likes it when you're in my head." Alex mumbled. Kali was currently swearing at the Martian, in Greek.

"I-I didn't mean to-" M'gann was cut off by Superboy.

"Just. Stay. Out." He growled before walking off and sitting down on the couch in the other room. There was a moment of awkward silence as Alexandria looked down at her shoes.

"I forgot to say, nice shirt Alex." Robin said. Alex raised her eyebrows before looking down at her shirt. She smiled when she saw it was covered in Robin's.

"Thanks." She replied.

"Hello Megan! I know what we can do!" M'gann was about to fly off when she nearly slammed into Wonder Woman. "S-sorry Wonder Woman!" M'gann exclaimed, stepping backwards.

"It's fine. Alexandria, are you ready for your training?" Diana asked.

Training? We do not need training!

Ignoring Kali, Alex nodded and followed Wonder Woman as she stepped out of the room. Alex ran after her but not before waving at the others. They waved back and Alex followed Diana down the halls.

"I want to begin combat training today. We will eventually get to aerial combat." Diana told her. Alex nodded and gulped. Training against Wonder Woman was not going to be fun. They stepped into the other room and walked to the centre.

Diana pulled up a screen and pressed a few buttons. A ring appeared around them and Diana stepped into the centre. "Conjure your fire." She commanded. Alex nodded as the tingling returned to her hands and the fire covered her fists.

"Good. Now hit me." Diana commanded. Alex hesitated for a moment. What if she hurt Diana? Alex didn't want that.

Do it! Or are you a spineless fool?

Alex scowled before letting her fist fly. Diana caught her wrist easily. "You hesitated. In battle you cannot hesitate."

"S-sorry." Alex mumbled.

"Don't apologise. Try again." Diana said before giving her a kind smile.

….

Alex landed on her back and let out a loud groan. She had thrown her hoodie off a while ago but, even after, the sweat was dripping down her. She sat up as Diana came back carrying two bottles of water. She sat down opposite her and handed Alex the water. "I thought you might need this."

"Thank you." Alex said before unscrewing the lid and drinking down nearly the entire bottle. "Is training….always going….to be like this?" Alex asked while trying to get her breath back.

The Amazon smiled and replied "You will get used to it. How are you adjusting to living in the Cave? Are you getting along well with the others?"

Alex looked down and mumbled "They think I'm weird."

"Why is that?" Diana asked.

"They c-caught me arguing with K-Kali out loud and M'gann said something telepathically earlier w-which caused her to go into my head. Kali s-screamed at her and everyone heard. I explained why b-but they all probably think I'm w-weird." Alex explained quickly as Kali started to swear at M'gann again. She looked up when Diana placed a hand on her shoulder.

"They probably don't think that. Robin, Aqualad and Kid Flash have been heroes for a while now; they have probably seen many strange things. Miss Martian is a Martian and Superboy is a clone that was made with the DNA of a Kryptonian. Alexandria, your powers are probably not the strangest thing they have ever seen. You are probably over-thinking this." Diana said encouragingly.

"You think so?" Alex asked.

"I do." She stood up and held out her hand so Alex could get up. "We have done good work today. I will be returning tomorrow for more training so make sure you get a lot of rest."

"Thank you D-Diana." Alex said. The Amazon smiled and said goodbye before making her way over to the Zeta tubes. The girl left the room and, was about to get a shower, when she heard M'gann's voice. She followed the sound and saw Red Tornado talking to a screen.

"Still, it is an odd coincidence that this 'Twister' shares my abilities and my immunity to telepathy." Tornado said.

"W-what's going on?" Alex asked.

"An android by the name of 'Mr Twister' is attacking Happy Harbour." Tornado explained.

"And I think I have a plan. Want to come Alex?" M'gann asked.

"Sure!" She replied.

…

"Listen to me, all of you."

"What did we tell you?" Superboy snapped. Alex frowned. That boy needed an attitude adjustment, as her father would say.

"I know! I know I missed up but now I'm very clear on what we need to do. Please, trust me." M'gann said as she morphed into Red Tornado. Alex griped the ship's controls tightly as Kali started to mumble in annoyance. She had to land the Bioship while M'gann pretended to be Red Tornado.

M'gann turned and said "You're doing good." It was probably meant to sound encouraging but it sounded strange coming out of the android's mouth. M'gann opened a hole in the bottom of the Bioship and flew out.

Alex watched Tornado and Twister fight from the Bioship. As soon as all of the civilians cleared away, she landed the Bioship a short distance away from the fight and flew out.

Wally sent Twister back with a tornado of his own and it landed beside her. Alex started to slam her fists into the android and Superboy joined her. Superboy's fists slammed through the android and Alex's fire melted parts of it. With one last punch, Superboy sent Twister into the water.

Alex flew to M'gann's side as Twister was sent out of the water by Kaldur. M'gann levitated the android and pulled off its arms before Robin threw some of his explosives.

The android landed in a heap and the two girls flew down to join the others. The android's chest opened to reveal a man in a white and green suit. He fell out and landed with a grunt. "Foul, I-I call foul!"

M'gann levitated a boulder and brought it over. "M'gann no!" Kaldur shouted as she threw the boulder down on the man.

"Don't know how things are done on Mars, but on Earth we don't execute our captives!" Robin snapped at M'gann.

"You said you'd trust me." M'gann replied. She pulled the boulder off the man to reveal a destroyed android. "That's why I couldn't read his mind."

Wally crouched down and picked up an eyeball. "Cool! Souvenir!"

"We should have had more faith in you." Kaldur said before placing his hand on M'gann's shoulder.

"Yeah! You rocked this mission! Get it? Rocked?" Wally said.

"Ignore him. We're just turbed to have you on the team." Robin said.

"Thanks. Me too." M'gann said.

"You too Alex. That was cool what you did back there." Robin added.

"Yeah babe! You were on fire! Get it? Anyone?" Wally said. Alex snorted and rolled her eyes. She looked over at Kaldur placed his hand on her shoulder.

"You did well." He said.

"T-thanks." Alex replied

…

"It was clearly created to sabotage or destroy you." Kaldur explained. The group now stood in the Cave and the remains of the android were spread out on the table.

"Agreed." Tornado replied.

"Is that why you didn't help us?" M'gann asked.

"No, this was your battle. I do not believe it is my role to solve your problems for you. Nor should you solve mine for me." Tornado explained.

"But if you're in danger?" M'gann asked.

"Consider this matter closed." Tornado brought the conversation to a halt and walked away.

"Batman, Aquaman and Flash, they would have jumped right in to fix things." Wally said.

"Guess if we're going to have a babysitter, a heartless machine is what we need." Robin replied.

"Dude! Harsh!" Wally said to his friend.

"And inaccurate. I have a heart: carbon-steel alloy. I also have excellent hearing." Tornado told him.

"Aha right. Sorry, I'll strive to be more accurate." Robin said.

"And more respectful." Kaldur added.

"Speedy was so wrong." Wally said.

"This team thing,"

"Might just work out." Robin finished for Kaldur as they started to walk out of the room. Alex bit her lip; she had no idea what she should do.

Robin turned back to her. "You coming Alex?" He asked. She nodded and jogged up ahead to join them. Robin and Wally ran ahead while Alex and Kaldur walked together.

"Do you like it here?" Kaldur asked.

Alex considered it for a moment before saying "Yeah, I think I do."

….

I'm so, so sorry this took so long! Ugh I bet you guys hate me.

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