Chapter 2

(Oliver)

Oliver chuckles quietly and shake his head at the satellite image on the screen. And you didn't think Lex could be anymore ridicules, but he sure showed you.

"YO Green bean! Wanna play?" Bart asks, chucking the ball to AC.

"Yeah!" AC joins in. "You've been working since you got here bro. Come on. We can toss the ball around a little bit." He finishes while throwing the ball back to Bart.

"You know you want too!" Bart taunts.

"Actually I was about to tell you guys that you should stop before you crack a monitor or…..get a black eye." Oliver finishes as Bart hits AC in the head.

"DUDE! Not cool!" AC yells at Bart.

"It's not my fault you weren't paying attention, guppy." Bart responds with a smirk.

"Shut it dwarf." AC says as he chucks the ball back, putting some of his super strength in it nearly knocking over Bart.

"Hey guys." Victor greets as he walks into the watchtower.

"Sup tin man!" Bart greets back. "You up for some ball?" At Victors confused look Bart holds up the ball as an explanation. Victor looks at Oliver and he shakes his head about to tell Victor that it's not a good idea when Bart starts talking again not letting him get a word out.

"Come on! Or are you afraid you can't catch a ball anymore?" Bart starts on Victor.

"Oh you are on little man!" Victor says walking over to Bart and AC.

"Well lets see you catch this!" Bart challenges giving AC knowing smirk before handing the ball to AC.

"Soo not a good idea" Oliver mutters going back to work. Bringing up a new page on the monitor he goes to start doing research on what he found out so far, when….

'CRASH!'

He turns around quickly to see what happened when his eyes fall on Victor laying on a bunch of equipment trying to untangle himself from the wires. His eyes widen when the lights turn off and everything shuts down. But no more then 10 seconds later everything slowly turns on again, all of the monitors are red and flashing. Then suddenly he hears the watchtower announce 'RED ALLERT. SECURITY INCIDENT. RED ALLERT. SECURITY INCIDENT.' Over and over again.

"BART, GO GET DR. HAMELTON NOW!" Oliver yells to him over the noise.

'INITATING LOCKDOWN PROTOCOL.'

"HURRY!" He shouts. With that Bart speeds off. Coming back 5 seconds later with Emil in tow looking disheveled and completely out of place in his sweat pants and tee shirt. His eyes practically pop out of his head as he takes in his surroundings.

Right as he opens his mouth to ask what's going on, all of the doors and windows seal off. And the monitors turn to static. Oliver prays he doesn't pass out when he notices he's kind of pail. Walking over to him, Oliver quickly explains what happened. And he gives the boys an I-can't-believe-you-did-that look, before joining Victor's attempts to fix watchtower.

Oliver lets out a breath a minute later when the windows and doors are visible again. Turning around he glares at the other two that are standing near by looking ashamed.

"You guys are in so much trouble." Oliver tells them. And seeing them about to let out a bunch of excuses he points to the couches "Just, go sit down. While I come up with your punishments." he says in his best scary voice. Their eyes widen and they turn and go to the couch to sit down.

"I can't believe that worked" Oliver says under his breath as he walks over to Emil and Victor. Suddenly he remember Chloe's threat, and quickly get out his cell and texts her. He starts feeling embarrassed at the fact that Chloe asked him to keep an eye on her watchtower and a few hours later he texts her saying it was practically destroyed. He gets pulled out of his thoughts by a dial-up sound coming from his pocket. He smiles a little and pull out his cell again but knowing who it's from his smile fades and he pales a little, hesitantly opening it.

What? Seriously? I'm gone not even 2 hrs and the 'kids' manage 2 destroy my tower? I guess I'll just trust Emil n Vic can handle it… thanks for letting me kno. Not that I gave u much of a choice. Give their ears a pull 4 me would ya? N maybe we could also take their allowance away for a week or so… :p -Chloe

Oliver smiles at the message, "Tower says no allowance for a week."

"Awwww man!" Bart whines.