A/N: Fixed one of the few unfinished paragraphs that actually contains some relevant information. I just missed that one. Sorry!

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C07: Define 'Fair'

Being the only person who managed to get the Red Stone, Raven attended the meeting of her particular client who made the request to steal this stone for some unknown reasons. Raven met the said client in a building somewhere underground where nobody could even notice. She was still wearing her hoodie, and this client was very particular on the meeting location.

"Quite an odd place to meet." Raven said. "This isn't suspicious."

"That's not as suspicious as the next time might be."

Raven noticed that the client was not there. Instead, he was replaced by a man on his forties with a small moustache and a dark hair. She sharpened her eyes on this man's presence, wondering if he had any sorts of doubts on this particular subject.

"You're not my client." Raven said.

"But I know your number. I did ask you to come in here."

"I only deal with the one who looked out for the Red Stone."

"He's not here at this moment. You can trust me."

"I doubt it." Raven said. "What's my codename?"

"Raven."

Raven nodded. "Fair enough."

"Sit down."

Raven did exactly that right in front of this man.

"Where are the rest?"

"What rest?"

"The rest of your crew?"

"They slipped and got captured by the authorities the moment I left."

"Unfortunate. I'll be checking the stone, now."

"Of course."

Raven took her bag out and get the stone out of it. The stone was half the size of a human's head, fit enough for her to carry on the bag. The man grabbed the stone out and examined it himself. Throughout the examination, his expression was nothing but satisfaction mixed in with a few nods and astonishment.

"Fascinating. To think that you're able to get this stone right in here."

"If I may ask, why do you need this stone for?"

"That is unfortunately none of your business."

"Okay, but I assume that it's important."

"It is very important, but it's none of your concern."

"Alright, I won't ask." Raven said. "But what I will ask is the money."

"Ah yes of course. The money."

The man put the stone on the table and stood up. He then picked something on his back and pointed it at Raven. She knew that particular thing was a gun, but she wasn't actually sure what type of gun that was. The gun made an energy weapon sorts of charge. The gun was colored green, and it could probably obliterate her in seconds.

"You can walk out with the money, or you can walk out with your life."

"This isn't the deal." Raven said. "I need the money now."

"I'm going to ask once again and your answer would be final. It's your money or your life."

Raven bit her lips and sighed. After the two shared quite the sharp glances together, she made her conclusion.

"I want the money."

"So be it."

The man pulled the trigger and the weapon was shot. However, the weapon, like the pistol that one of the mercs shot at Raven, completely backfired and exploded. The explosion was enough to harm the man. Raven was able to use her magic shield to protect herself away from the blast. The last thing she wanted was that plasma energy hitting any parts of her body. Honestly, she expected the man to have quite the burn, but he didn't for some reason.

"Oops." Raven said. "I think your weapon just backfired. Like I said, I need my money."

"The old way, then."

The man grabbed the table between them and threw it all the way to the right with only one hand, in a force so incredible that even Raven doubted that she could replicate with magic. The table slammed the wall like an angry bull. The wall didn't break, but the table did. Raven was startled by the display of power. She rose from her seat and backed away before more things could pop up. It was clear that she was not dealing with an ordinary person, and it was clear that she would not win this game at all.

"You're not playing fair." Raven asked. "Well, suit yourself. I'm not even playing."

The man charged himself towards her, but Raven easily dodged it out. His reflexes were not as great as his strength however. So instead of giving the man the time of day, Raven went on to grab the stone and opened up a portal that lead outside. She entered the portal and she got out into the outside world. Whatever this man needed for his stone was definitely not going to be worth it, and this red stone is probably going to be used for some bad deals.

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The Bat cave had quite the technological improvement. There was a large computer on the center and Damian even opted for his own Robin car, which was actually a heavily modified McLaren F1 complete with other random gadgetries that only billionaires could afford, and that is someone like Damian Wayne, the teenage CEO of Wayne Enterprises and a little brat who causes trouble every once in a while, at least that's what he remembered from him.

"So what's this entire meeting for?" Julia asked.

"This meeting is for something interesting." Tim said. "I know that I'm alive and I know that it's surprising, but that's not why I'm here. I'm here to talk about another big problem, and trust me this problem is a lot bigger than you guys think."

"Sure, a bigger problem."

Julia walked in Tim into the cave and noticed the red-headed alien girl wandering around looking for pictures. Instead of following her advice and walk like normal human beings, she decided to wander out by flying slightly above the ground. Tim's face was absolutely priceless.

"Urgh, I told you not to fly on the manor!" Julia said.

"I'm sorry." Kory said. "I was just looking around, but I couldn't see what's on the top so I float for a bit."

"Did she just..." Tim said.

"Yeah, she floats." Julia said.

"What... how?"

"She's an alien."

"What?"

"She's an alien."

Tim glanced back at Kory. After a bit of an observation, he pushed Julia down away from her and out of her sight into a wall that conveniently covered them up out of her. After that, Tim whispered down to her.

"Julia, you need to stay away from her."

"What? Why?" Julia asked. "She's with me for like the past few days."

"Aliens are exactly the problem that I'm having right now."

"What aliens?" Julia asked. "There's a good reason why you shouldn't be ambiguous when you said a 'bigger problem'."

"Okay, fair enough." Tim backed away. "There's an alien race called Kryptonians."

"That's good because she's not one." Julia said. "Wait, what alien race?"

"Kryptonians?"

Julia and Tim were both startled by the presence of Kory. If Tim was startled and got his mouth wide open by the mere presence of a floating human being, Kory was startled by the name alone, and both her and Julia were surprised by that name.

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"They're an alien race hell bent on invading other planets and conquering it for their own good." Kory said. "What they require to invade this planet are resources and the Citadelians provided them with more than enough to invade the planet. And they're never going to stop."

"They came into your planet without anything?" Tim asked. "No weapons, no spaceships or anything like that?"

"They came with intelligence and extraordinary powers." Kory said. "Powers that you cannot imagine. What they lack in resources they complement it with strength. One of my scientists said that their planet must have a stronger gravitational pull, which enables them to become... incredibly powerful. We were struggling to beat them. We can harm them, but even then it is still difficult."

"Do your race naturally have the ability to fly?" Tim asked.

"In another universe, maybe." Kory said. "We can't fly. We were walking just like all of you, but I was subjected to experiments by the Psions, one of the Kryptonians' allies who also hated our race besides the Citadelians. We can handle the Citadelians well, but they lack tactics and intelligence, which is what the Kryptonians offered."

"How smart are they?" Tim asked.

"Dangerously smart." Kory said. "They took over my capital city in just three weeks. By comparison, our last war with the Citadelians couldn't even make it through the border. Their tactics were extraordinary, and we were not prepared to face with enemies in that degree."

"Jesus." Tim said. "Do you know any of their tactics?"

"I know everything about them." Kory said. "I studied their past and their patterns to observe what they might do in the future. It is a nice way for me to have intelligence on what they might do."

"You're going to need to use it, because they're here, Kory." Tim said. "And they're incredibly powerful."

"How powerful are they?" Julia asked.

"One of them was captured by ARGUS I think it was a few days ago." Tim said. "The Kryptonian escaped captive and wrecked the entire lab station by his bare hands. It's almost like this lab is being hit by an earthquake, but it's just one angry alien escaping out of the place. That's not even the worst part."

"What's the worst part?" Julia asked.

"The alien is... currently banging my girlfriend."

Julia raised her eyebrows and nodded her head in surprise. "My god, really?"

"Do you know his name?" Kory asked.

"His name is Kon-El."

Kory started giggling.

"What's so funny?"

"Your female friend is attracted to Kon-El. I honestly cannot blame her." Kory said. "He is very gorgeous indeed."

"He had invaded your planet and take your peoples out." Tim said. "There's nothing gorgeous about that."

"Correct, but you cannot deny his attractiveness." Kory said.

"So you're saying that you liked him?" Julia asked.

"I used to, until he decimated my father's unit to death." Kory said. "Which in that case, I'm going to incinerate him with my own hands and feed his corpse to the most morbid animals that you have on this planet. I hope that you do have some."

Julia glanced at her in the most puzzling of ways, to consider that an innocent woman like her would do that. Tim was not remotely surprised. He had faced worse threats before.

"That's... nice." Julia said.

"Believe me, I've done a lot worse." Kory said.

Damian Wayne entered the cave as everybody had their meetings together. Unlike last time, he wasn't wearing anything formal. It was just a simple grey hoodie mixed in with his running trousers. He had quite the run around the forests observing what was left of the meteor fall. Briston had quite the fresh air and it was his usual daily routine every Saturday.

"That was refreshing." Damian said. "Oh great. You've met."

"I have to admit, your girlfriend is just as weird as you are." Tim said, causing Julia to giggle and Kory to sharpened her eyes.

"He's not my boyfriend." Kory said.

"What she said." Damian said.

"Yeah, you keep telling that to yourself, both of you." Julia said. "You both some serious kill-hungry issues. And you alien girl better start learning from the son of the demon. He started killing peoples by the age of eight."

"I think we shouldn't be dwindling in the past." Damian said. "Let's talk about alien invasion instead. A much more interesting topic to discuss."

"And one hell of a way to dodge the question." Julia remarked.

"Oh, and by the way Tim," Damian said. "Your girlfriend's here."

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"So... Conner Kent is an alien?" Stephanie said before giggling briefly and pausing to consider some of the possibilities. "That's... bizarre, but... maybe plausible."

"Maybe plausible?" Tim asked.

"I know how an amnesiac war veteran acts, and he acts just like one." Stephanie said. "And I know when peoples lie. I've been Spoiler/Batgirl for like five years now. He's an amnesiac war veteran who needs help. I don't think he's not going to do anything wrong about it."

"And... you just help this guy like he's a bleached whale or something?" Tim asked. "Come on, Steph. I know you're smarter than that."

"The thing about being smart is that it's almost the same as being safe." Stephanie said. "And if you know me, you know that I'm not really the type of person who play safe."

"Oh, so that's why you two were together?" Julia said. "She liked to drop herself on fire and you like to extinguish it. Opposites attract. What a predictable chemistry."

"What's so odd about Conner?" Damian asked.

"I know it's going to sound weird and I have no doubts that Tim's going to punch him in the face by the time I said it, but when we slept together, he... tastes different."

"Okay, let's not go into details." Tim said.

"Told you he's going to get angry." Stephanie said. "So are we supposed to stop this guy or something? If so, how? I mean you're going to talk about stopping a superhuman and we're not exactly... super."

"We have technologies of 2022." Damian said. "Let's use it for our own advantage."

"So you're going to ask STAR Labs for that?" Stephanie said.

"Well yeah if they're willing to." Damian said. "Which is why I'm going to assign in more than just STAR Labs."

"What about the aerospace project?" Julia said.

"So you're saying that intergalactic faster-than-light travels are more important than alien invasions?" Damian said. "We're going to need to contact STAR Labs."

"Um... Damian," Kory said. "Can I ask you about something in private?"

"Uh... yeah, sure."

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Kory brought him out of a bat cave to speak in a few words that Damian wouldn't know at this very moment, but it is important for the sake of her own race.

"Is there something wrong, Kory?" Damian asked.

"Julia told me about your aerospace project." Kory said. "If you want, I think I can contribute into it."

"What kind of things that you can contribute to it?"

"I heard that you have problems on developing the FTL engines." Kory said. "You should banish the extremely outdated hydrogen/oxygen thrusters. It consumes too much fuel and is incredibly Our planet have used warp drives to travel into one part of the galaxy into the other. While your spaceship were still using oxygen/hydrogen thrusters, we have developed a more reliable source of energy."

"I... I don't know about that." Damian said. "Wow, you're quite knowledgeable in this."

"I've been trapped inside a spaceship for three months." Kory said. "Thankfully prior to this, I've been learning about spaceships."

"So you think you can contribute to the project?"

"I can provide some knowledge." Kory said. "But I think you know exactly why I wanted it."

"You want to return." Damian said. "Don't worry, Kory. We'll get you back to your home planet. It's just that if this alien problem is serious, we're going to have to delay it first."

"Alright." Kory said. "I understand. If these Kryptonians are going to attack your world, I'm going to do my best to help you, even if I have to go to war once again."

"Right." Damian smiled. "Thanks, Kory."

"I'll do my best." Kory said. "I suggest that you should to."