Part One:

"Stupid League! Stupid jerks! Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!" Jason muttered. Far from being let into the inner sanctums of the League they had instead been brought to the tourist trap front of the League. And the kids weren't happy with the deceit. However, the League had had to head out on an emergency mission, leaving their children fuming and frustrated.

"The real base's in space," Mia told her friends.

"Great, that's useful info. How do we get up there?" Jason bit back.

"Hey!" Donna reprimanded, "Don't bite her head off just 'cause you're mad!"

"Yeah!" Helena joined the fight.

"People! People!" Nerissa jumped in, "Let's calm down okay? We're all mad and we've all been lied to. We're all in the same boat so we shouldn't fight."

Suddenly there was a pinging sound, "Attack alert." Tim said as the information came up as a holograph from his gauntlet, "San Fran. Alien attacking, major damage. They need the League."

"Well the League ain't here!" Jason growled, "We can do this!"

"Can we really?" Nerissa asked unsurely.

"Yes we can!" Lian declared, "We've been trained by the best! We come from the best! We can do this!"

"The League told us to stay here," Chris voiced softly, "they'll be awfully made if we leave."

"But we can't let San Fran get demolished," Don argued.

"Yeah, it might take hours for them to get back!" Dawn added.

"We have to do this." Tim spoke firmly, "But we need a ride out there."

"Dad's Bat-Jet is waiting outside," Helena jumped in, "It can carry all of us easily."

"Then let's go!" Tim ordered and they took off.

Thirty Minutes Later

"Comin' in on the city." Helena warned as they came into the City's view, "Everyone non-flier strap down, now!" she opened the door to let Jason, Chris, Laura, and Lian jump into flight. She herself set the Jet to auto-land and unbelted. She leapt out the door, her cape turning to a stiff glider. As soon as the plane landed Don and Dawn were following with Donna, Robin, Mia, and Nerissa right behind them.

The marauding alien looked to be about their age actually, and was totally hot. (Red hair, emerald eyes, skimpy outfit). She was also totally enraged and speaking a language they didn't. She was also wearing manacles and still doing enough damage to put Jason to shame.

"Please! Miss! We want to help you!" Robin tried but she merely tossed a minivan in his direction. Don zipped through to pull him out of the way, calling, "Lian! Doesn't your ring do—?"

"She's too mad and scared!" Lian replied, "I can't get through! Oh no." she put up a shield as a car was flung towards her.

Mia and Nerissa had found perches, and were trying all they could but the alien kept shrugging their arrows off. Mia put down her bow, taking a deep breath and screamed, "Laura, Chris, Jason! Now!" the force of her Canary Cry knocked the alien down and stunned her long enough to let the the Lane-Kents subdue her. They wrestled her to the ground, holding her on her knees with her hands in theirs as they stood to her sides and behind her. Then Laura pulled her head back to make her have eye contact with Robin as he knelt before her.

"We want to help you." Tim spoke slowly, hoping that the girl could at least read lips in English, "Who are you? Where are you from? Why are y—" the girl had lunged forward to kiss him. It lasted several seconds and she pulled back to say, in English, "Leave me alone. I do not wish to hurt you but if you continue to get in my way I will!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Helena stepped in angrily, "No one hurts my bro except me! You—"

"Hel," Tim cut her off, before saying to the alien, "Please, we want to help you. Lemme see those."

Jason and Chris picked up her cuffed hands.

"Hmmm," Robin looked at the cuffs, "I don't have anything…Do you three think you can break through those?"

"Maybe," Laura bit her lip, "Boys, hold them taut?"

Jason and Chris spread the alien's arms as far apart as needed to pull the chain between the cuffs tight. With one simple hand chop Laura broke through the chain, before saying, "I can't get the cuffs though."

"Let us try." The Tornado Twins stepped up, put their hands on each side of one of her hands each, and began vibrating. Jason and Chris held her still enough that the metal soon became functionally intangible and so they slipped the metal from her hands easily.

She raised her hands, exclaiming, "I am free!"

"Yeah," Robin nodded, "now who are you?"

"I am Koriand'r, Princess of Tamaran…Slave of the Gordanians…"

"How can you be a slave if you're a princess?" Donna asked.

"My people have been at war with the Gordanians since time itself began. My sister, upon assuming our throne made a peace treaty with them and as a part of it I became their slave. As soon as we had left my planet they destroyed it. I thus made my escape as we passed by…Earth is it?"

"Yes, we're on Earth. Give us a minute will you?"

"I cannot give or take time." She was being honest.

"It's…It's an Earth saying."

"Oh, very well. Take all the minutes you require."

"Good, Jason. Hold her tight."

"Right."

"Everyone else, huddle up."

They moved a bit away from Jason and Koriand'r.

"What are we going to do?" Robin asked.

"She could be lying to us," Helena brought up.

"No," Lian shook her head, "she's telling the truth."

"If she's telling the truth and there's a treaty we can't step in," Laura said sadly.

"If she's telling the truth and there's a treaty and they then fired on her planet they rendered the treaty null and void." Donna spoke wisely, "and if that is truth then they are holding her unlawfully and we are obligated to aid her to freedom."

"That's a lot of ifs," Chris said, "and if we make a wrong move we could create an inter-galactic incident and bring a war down on our homes and families. Besides, if her planet's destroyed where would she live in freedom?"

"Mount Justice," Nerissa said quickly, "nobody lives there but it has living quarters, we'd just need to do some spring cleaning."

"Easy." Don and Dawn agreed.

"Or the Amazons will give her Sanctuary on Paradise Island. C'mon we have to help her!" Mia said.

"Okay, we'll take a vote," Robin said firmly, "Everyone in favor of helping Princess Koriand'r say Aye."

"Aye." Everyone said, even Helena and Chris although the last said it hesitantly.

Robin nodded, standing up to call, "Hey Jason! Aye or nay?"

"Aye!"

Robin nodded, joining back in with the huddle, "Okay, it's unanimous. We help her. Break!"

Robin walked back over to Koriand'r, saying, "Jason, let her go. Princess Koriand'r we're going help you. We have a place you can live and we'll talk to the Lanterns to see what's going on about Tamaran." As he was talking a shadow had fallen over the entire city.

"Um, Tim," Chris tapped him on the shoulder, "you might wanna look up…"

"Why, wha—Holy someone bring me my brown pants!" For above the city loomed a giant spaceship, easily large enough to cover the city in its' entirety.

"The Gordanians have found me!" Koriand'r gasped; trembling.

"That's the Gordanians?"

"We're boned." Chris declared.

"Not necessarily." A soft voice spoke.