I looked side to side, studying the stars and planets. We had gest entered earth's solar system. I didn't know much about it, really the only things that I did know about it was stories Matt told me in between missions. And that wasn't much, it was so far away from the planet I grew up on we hadn't even known of it's existence.
Hal had been going off about my new team mate for, oh I don't know, three solar systems maybe. I knew I should have been paying attention to what he was saying, but frankly I was guest to excited to do that. I mean, earth. New planets. Hopefully not homicidal purple aliens. I was stallure.
"So I think that was everyone." He looked me in the eyes. "You're going to love them, their sarcastic and and kick-butt just like you." I smiled.
"So, I've heard that there's this place on earth. It's called highschool, and I also hear that it is awful, do I have to go to it." Hal stopped and threw his head back laughing. I stopped with him mainly because I had no idea where I was going.
"Oh my god, that was priceless. Give me a second." He placed his hands on his knees bent over still laughing. I on the other hand was really confused.
"What, it was a serious question." I placed my hands on my hips and shock my head.
He finally stopped laughing long enough for me get an answer. "Most likely, but we might want you to get justed to earth first." I nodded understanding what he meant.
The rest of the flight which was really only about 10 Dobash, wait minutes, about 10 minutes, was quiet. The solar system was surprisingly small. I continued to looked around, trying my best to learn the new sector I was living in.
I stopped, I looked at Earth. It was frankly boring from up here. Nothing really special about it, but then again, that's only what I could see. I noticed Hal looking back at me with a kind of soft knowing smile. "Astra, I introduce you to earth, home of the Justice League, and your new home too." I smiled and continued flying.
I felt nice I hadn't typically lived on a planet in years. Always either living on a satellite, command ship, or only for a few months being on a planet. Today was going to be a good day. We finally made it to the top of the atmosphere of the planet. I touched to visible line where space turned into air, even if it was incredibly they air. That was by far my favorite part about being a lantern. I had grown up in space, but always on a ship. Never out in the openness like now.
I was about to continue to fly down to the planet's surface, but a pull on my wrist stopped me. I turn to Hal how was restraining me in away. "You do realise the planets down there." I gestured towards the huge mass floating in space. It was obvious, did he need his eyes checked or something?
"I know, but I have some business up here that I need to finish before we can go down there." I paused and gave him an annoyed look. "It will only take a few minutes." I smiled and I reluctantly followed him, he had started to fly along earth's curve. Until I saw were we must have been heading. It looked like a satellite and a meteorite had a baby. I very beautiful, and tech savvy baby.
I Looked at him and gestured towards the satellite. "Business?"
"Business." I smiled, this looked like fun business. We sped towards the structure. Once we finally go there, Hal typed into a keypad of sorts and typed in a code, than a door leading to what I think is a oxygen chamber open. We both entered, me a little more hentay, once inside the door leading into the cold unforgiving vacuum of space closed, and a nice door leading into a hallway opened.
We stepped through. "Welcome to the watchtower, secret base of the JL." I smiled once again.
"Not very secret, if you guest let someone you only met weeks ago in it." I gave a sceptical glance, just making a little fun.
He laughed once again, why was this dude so happy? "Yeah, guess you're right, but you're a good kid. And even though it has only been like, what 6 weeks, your a lantern now, I kind of have to trust you." I smiled at his words. "Now, let's get to business.
Apparently his 'business' was logging back in to show that he was back on world. And trust me, ten minutes wasted, is ten minutes wasted. Yeah, we needed to talk about this whole entire, 'making me get excited for litterial nothingness'. Because frankly, he did it a lot.
"I see you finally got a teenager you have to deal with too now. Good luck." I turned to meet the person behind the voice. A red clad man, with some kind of yellow zig-zag shape on his chest stood acting very smug.
"Yeah, Berry this is Astra, Astra Berry AKA the Flash." I smiled, he did to, he also brought his hand to my level to shake it. I did so, I guess that that is a universal thing.
"So, are you joining the team?" I looked at Hal, was the name of the team I was joining seriously called 'the team'. 'Oh, who's attacking us. The team.' I mean, how threatening can that be.
"Yes, she is, and don't give me that look their official name is the Young Justice League."
I smirked. "Like that's so much better." I hear laughter come out of the newcomers month, I smiled at it.
"Kid, you got a point. The people who found it thought that it would be cool." I laughed at that.
"Well, I think they might not have been thinking very straight." The two adults shared a private look.
"Yeah, that might have been a little hard for the first members." I didn't quite know what they meant, so I just smiled and nodded. Surviving on a new planet 101, always smile and nod if you are completely confused.
About another 20 minutes passed, between Hal running into people and just random stuff. By the time we finally got to where ever we were going, I was bored out of my mind. Frankly, all of the earth's tech was centuries behind the rest of the universes tech so I couldn't even geek out over that stuff.
We finally stopped walking, and for the first time it wasn't because he wanted to talk to someone. The object in with I think warranted are stop was a circular device, about 6 ft by 9 ft. Is the kind of looked like someone cut a screw and put the outside of it on the inside of a dome. There was a computer beside it and Hal started to type on it. I looked over his shoulder in an attempt to see what he was doing. Sadly, I was much shorter than his was and even on my tippy toes I failed to see over his shoulders. He noticed that and looked down on me. I smirk passed over his face.
"Shut up you giant." He smiled a good-natured smile and chuckled a little bit.
"Why do you like being short, I thought your people could change their height." I cringed a little bit. Yes Alteans possessed diplomatic shapeshifting. So we could change little things like height and shin tone to fit in with locals of planets. I just didn't like to, I prefer to be small. I liked being 3 ounces of whoop ass.
"It's a tactical decision." I mean typically it smiled, I mean come on, there was no way that this man smiled this much.
"So this is a zeta tube, it can teleport people from point A to Point B. That's how we are able to have an orbiting HQ and not have to send ships up everytime we need to come here. I was just registering you for the system." Made sense.
"So it is kind of like a short-range Teladove?" I question, and a mask of confusion passed over his face. "Nevermind."
He nodded. "Ok, I placed the cooridents in the other Zeta tube. so all you have to do is step threw. I promise it's completely safe." To prove a point he stepped through and I did the same. Because, the more I thought about it, I was a little happy about the new life I had been handed. Even if I missed my old one.
