Chapter 1

~14 Years Later~

"HOLLY ALANNA KENT! You get your butt down here and help your brother clean up this mess, or so help me god I will ground you for a week!" Lois Lane yelled, walking in the door with arms full of groceries and almost slipping on the plethora of toys that hardly looked as though they belonged to a thirteen year old lying on the oak floor. A bow and arrow, pieces of computer hard-drive, a laptop, and some blunted throwing knives were only some of the things that littered the space in front of Lois. . "AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT YOU PLAYING WITH THIS STUFF!

Holly bounded down the steps a few moments later, looking at her mom with a pleading look.

"Mom! Make Jonny do it, he can do it in like a second!" Lois glared at her, "Holly, don't make me call your Father! You know how much he hates it when I interrupt him at work for stuff like this…"

Holly paled. She loved her father, but he could have a temper when he wanted to, especially when the boys interrupted him at work. So, resignedly she set about picking up her things, the arrows had been a gift from his surrogate Uncle Oliver, otherwise known as Green Arrow, the masked hero that worked side by side with his father protecting the citizens of the world and of Metropolis from all sorts of crime and evil, and the computer drives a gift from his fathers best friend, Chloe Sullivan. While the laptop had been a gift from Tess Mercer,the current Watchtower for the League and CEO of LuthorQueen the largest company in the world. His other aunts and uncles, the other members of the league, Dinah, Bart, AC, Victor, Emil and Courtney were all a large part of her life, yet for some reason Tess seemed to take the most interest in her. For as long as she could remember Tess had been buying her expensive presents and showering her with surrogate aunt love. Maybe it was because Tess felt the same weird connection to Holly as she did, but she'd never really thought much of it. Tess and the League were her mom and dad's closest friends; of course Holly was like a daughter to them.

Holly walked up the stairs, considering this, she knew she was adopted, but it was hard for her to remember that sometimes. She couldn't imagine growing up without having the League around all of the time. It was as if she would never belong anywhere else.

Holly sighed as she nudged open the door to her room with her full arms and was quickly startled as an arm grabbed her from behind. Dropping her armful, her battle reflexes immediately kicking she turned, squirming out of her captors grip and roundhouse kicked him before realizing whom her attacker was.

"Jesus Hol, seriously? Its just me!" he exclaimed clutching his stomach.

"Then you, Flynn Thomas Queen, should know better than to surprise the granddaughter of General Sam Lane. Especially when she hasn't seen you in two months! As far as I'm concerned, you had that one coming. " Holly snorted, leaving him to get up himself as she sat back on her bed. Flynn was rather short for his age, he kept saying he would get his growth spurt soon, but secretly Holly hoped he wouldn't, at this point she was only two inches shorter then him and she loved having that over him. She looked at him, he had really started to come into his body in the past year or so since he turned fourteen, he now wore his hair short and spiky like his dads. He had a muscular body; he had even as a young child, most of the league's children were relied upon to stay in tiptop shape, ready to take up their parent's mantles at any time if something were to happen. But despite all that now he was just more… Holly couldn't exactly put her finger on it. Yet, she was glad to see that the one thing that hadn't changed about him was the bright twinkle in his emerald green eyes when he spoke, reminiscent of his mother, her aunt Chloe.

"You know, you can always use the front door too, believe it or not. My mom actually likes you."

"Yeah, there's that, but then I also risk the Jonny craze, besides, the window is so much better! You should see the new grappling arrow that Dad is letting me practice with it's the sweetest thing ever!" Holly rolled her eyes; fourteen year old Flynn was in training to take up his fathers mantle, (well in this case, bow) and company one day. Thus, Green Arrow junior here was the most eager student she had ever seen, and that was saying a lot considering the fact that her little brother, Jonathan (Jonny) Kent, too was in training by their father to become the worlds next Superman, and for a 10 year old, he was a damn dedicated student. Sure she loved her best friend and her little brother more than anything, but sometimes their egos did get the best of them, a fact that Lois, Chloe and Tess joked came direct down the genetic line from their fathers.

"You do realize that any second Jonny is going..." she was interrupted by a whoosh as her little brother super sped into the room. "To hear that you are here." She finished lamely.

"FLYNN!" Jonny yelled excitedly. Holly had to laugh a little; it was a little ridiculous how much her brother idolized Flynn and as much as her best friend complained, she knew he secretly loved it. According to Aunt Chloe he got that from his Dad too. "FLYNNIE! What arrow is Uncle Ollie letting you use now? " Jonny exclaimed practically bouncing.

Flynn was saved from further inquisition by his phone beeping in his pocket.

"Ah, crap guys, sorry but my Dad needs some help with something," he looked at Holly. " Holls, ill see you later at that stupid state dinner?" Holly stared at him for a moment then smacked her forehead.

"Ah, Crap Flynn I almost forgot, thanks for reminding me, we have to be in disguise too don't we? " she asked

"Yeah, lots of important people there, and you know how my dad is about hiding our identities, him and all of his "they are your most valuable asset crap" I miss the days when I could just be myself at these things."

Holly rolled her eyes again; Flynn could be such a drama queen. It had only been a few years since they had started to have to disguise themselves at these dinners. But, it made sense, considering the amount of times that someone had attempted to assassinate Tess, or Chloe and Oliver and even more so recently for some reason that the league was hard at work figuring out. In the meantime they weren't going to take any chances with Flynn or Holly. Uncle Ollie had decided that after his own disastrous coming out party all those years ago, that he would never let anyone he loved make the same mistake he had. So when Flynn and his little brother Tristan were born he promised himself himself that he would make sure they were disguised when it was necessary for their safety and the safety of the family.

She looked up at him. "Yup, Lilly will see you there." She said, slipping in the name of her doppelganger, a pretty blonde with an expensive taste in clothes.

"Sorry, bud, I guess ill have to show you some other time!"

He smiled back, threw his green hoodie over his head, and whipped out a crossbow that he'd been hiding on his back somewhere and shot an arrow down onto the next building over. Ziplining, down the line he reached the roof on the other side and disappeared from view.

"WOAH!, HOLLY DIDYA SEE THAT? DIDYA SEE THAT? THAT WAS SO SUPERCOOL!" Jonny exclaimed next to me. She laughed, and lovingly reminded her brother that he had "supercool" powers of his own, powers that she would secretly kill for. Then gently pushed him out the door and picked up her laptop from where it had fallen on the floor, seeing no visible damage from the impact she flipped it open. Hacking past the several firewalls that blocked the JLA email from the rest of the world. She noticed she had an message from her older brother, Conner who was in graduate school at Metropolis University. Smiling, and hoping that it was encoded. She was not disappointed, yet the code was an easily solvable algorithm. She sighed and began to type a message back, in her own more complicated algorithm.

From:

To:

Re: This one should be more of a challenge

Conner-

How stupid do you think that I am? I got that one in like five minutes dork.

Mom and Dad are fine, big state dinner tonight; Uncle Ollie is receiving some global achievement award. Ill be in disguise of course. :/

Seems like someone's been kind of quiet lately, I haven't heard much about any Superboy saves these days.

Anyway, I miss you too. But we'll be seeing you for thanksgiving in a few weeks right?

Love you bunches big brotha!

Holly

Holly had barely finished typing when she heard a commotion downstairs. Her mothers excitement, as her man returned home for the day. She didn't go downstairs, but kept clicking at her computer, hacking into the watchtower mainframe to video chat with Tess. There was no answer, she figured Tess must have been working on something else and away from the computer. She sighed and was about to close her computer and begin getting ready for the dinner when there was a soft knock on the open door.

"Hey princess, how was your day?" her father asked from the open doorway. Clark Kent looked disheveled and windswept from a long days work, his glasses were off now that he was home but he was rubbing the place on his nose where they irritated him. His big tan trench coat was wrinkled, and most of the gel was gone from his hair so that it hug shaggily around his face, definitely more Superman looking than Clark Kent, noticing this she ran over and gave her father a hug, then laughed.

"Long day Daddy?" she said smiling.

"You have no idea princess!" he sighed, " and still more to go, I trust you remember the…"

"State dinner? Yeah, Flynn stopped by earlier." She interrupted, she saw her Father's body relax a little more.

"Good, that means Oliver is here, I need to speak with him before tonight, you heard from your brother at all? He's not planning on coming is he?" Clark asked

Holly shook her head, "Yeah, he just emailed me a little bit ago, tried to catch me off guard with a weird algorithm, don't worry, he didn't."

Clark smiled. "That's my girl." Then his brow furrowed, " I'm afraid we might need his help tonight. Something doesn't feel right, ill stop by to see him on my way Olivers. Could you let Tess know that we need all the backup we can get tonight?" he asked her, as he kissed her on the cheek and walked to the door.

"Sure Dad." I replied, happy to help. "I'll see you there." As Lilly I always left separately from my parents, as it would defeat the purpose of my disguise if we all walked in looking like a big happy family. "Is Jonny coming too?" She asked.

Clark pondered this for a moment. "Yeah, he'll come with your mother and I. Just in case something happens."

Holly nodded. Her father smiled at her, Then supersped down the stairs.