Chapter 5: The Night Before
Dark Eagle sat at the desk in her room in the Watchtower. Her mind was going from memory to memory. Her life hadn't been normal since she was 10 and became Robin the Girl Wonder. There was a knock on the door.
"C'min!" she called.
M'gann walked through the door... literally walked through the door... she density-shifted through. The Martian sat on the bed and looked at Dark Eagle.
"Before you came through the time-vortex I sensed human, Kryptonian, Atlantean and Martian minds. Who were they?" M'gann asked.
"The Kryptonian minds were the second Superman AKA Conner, Superwoman, formerly Supergirl, and Super-Ace, formally the second Superboy, a future Superman," said Dark Eagle, she looked at M'gann "The Martian minds were you, Martian Manhunter and Man Martian, formally Boy Martian, the Team's telepath,"
"What about the human minds?" M'gann asked.
"Me, Speed Arrow, Kid Flash, Archeress, Robin, the second Zatara, The Flash, Nightwing, the second Batman, formally Batboy, Batgirl, Tigress, Redbeak, Rocket, the second Aquaman, formally Aqualad, Aqualas, Wonder Woman, formally Wonder Girl, and Hawkboy," listed Dark Eagle "Hawkboy woulda come but his parents grounded him for some reason and the time-vortex didn't have enough power,"
"And that's the Team and League?" said M'gann "That's a lot of super-heroes,"
"And we have 3 super-hero trainees. 2 are White Martians called B'enn and J'ill, codenamed Infinite Martian and Mini Martian," said the Black Mistress.
"And the 3rd?" M'gann asked.
"An 8-year-old called Dante, codename Jet-Stream, he uses Rocket's old alien-tech belt. Rocket gets a new one in a few years," said Dark Eagle.
"I see. I just wanted to know," said M'gann "What's Man Martian's real name? Unless that will change the future,"
"Man Martian's real name is M'att Th'hoo," Dark Eagle entwined her fingers and rested her forehead on them "He's half human and has the strongest telekinetic mind in the Milky-Way and some other galaxies, he can use cellularkinesis. Man Martian also has telepathy, density-shifting, shape-shifting and camouflage mode,"
"I can't wait to meet him. When is that, exactly?" M'gann asked.
Dark Eagle smiled.
"He's born in around 3 years," the Black Mistress said "You meet him in 8,"
"Okay," said M'gann "Dark Eagle... you're hiding something,"
"Of course I am, so are Speed Arrow, Archeress, Robin and Kid Flash," said Dark Eagle.
M'gann smiled, nodded and density-shifted out of the room. Dark Eagle pulled her shades off and rubbed her eyes. Someone put their hands on her shoulders and kissed her cheek.
"Hey, honey," said Speed Arrow.
Dark Eagle -Mary- turned around to look at her husband. Speed Arrow -Will- wrapped his arms around Mary's waist and pulled her out of her chair. Mary wrapped her arms around Will's neck. They smiled at each other, tilted their heads and kissed.
"If the League remember all this happening then Dad knew I was going back in time and not Gee," said Mary "He lied,"
"That's not unusual, M.G," said Will.
Mary laughed and kissed her husband. They squeezed each other.
"Is it weird that we've only ever dated one person in our lives?" Mary said.
"Mary Sindella Grayson-West... since when have our lives been normal?" said Will.
"It was nice of your great-uncle to offer a place for Jared, at his house. And it was nice of your mother to offer a place at home for Izzy and Lauren," said Mary, flicking some of her raven-black hair out of her face.
"Yeah," said Will "I love you, I hope you know that,"
"I do, Will. I love you to," said Mary and she kissed her husband.
It was silent at the Allen family kitchen table. The Garriks were having dinner with them when Barry and Bart unexpectedly showed up with another time-travelling speedster.
"So um... Kid Flash um... is there anything shorter we can call you?" Iris asked.
"Just K.F," said K.F.
"Okay... K.F... tell us. How did you become Kid Flash?" Iris asked.
"I was on a school trip to the Wayne Tech facility in Central City. I was dared to go in an off limits room. I went in but that was when the experiment in the room started up," said K.F.
"The Flash Experiment," said Jay.
"Yeah. Speed Arrow works for Wayne Tech. He was trying to figure out how the Flash Experiment worked. I almost died and a month later I woke-up with super-speed. That was the day Speed Arrow came and told me and my mom what was going on. He didn't tell us but I figured out he was Speed Arrow," said K.F, playing with the lettuce on his plate.
"When was this?" Jay asked.
"3 months ago,"
There was silence. K.F was gloomy for some reason.
"How did Speed Arrow get his super-speed?" Barry asked.
K.F and Bart looked at each other.
"Fluke," said K.F "A guy born with a meta-jean, exposed to enough stress and he got super-speed,"
"Oh," said Barry "He kinda looks like Wally. Only he has some blonde showing through his red hair,"
"It's a 'every 1 in 100' thing. His dad was a redhead and his mom was a blonde. Chances of having both is rare," said K.F.
"Is that what happened with Archeress?" Barry asked, sipping some water "She mainly has blonde hair but her tips and roots are red,"
"Yeah," said K.F, he swallowed a French fry "Archeress is Speed Arrow's little sister,"
Everyone was quiet after that.
Paula Crock rocked Baby Benjy to sleep. She had been staying with Artemis since Wally 'died'. Artemis walked in, followed by a blonde/redhead and a ruby-redhead. Artemis picked up 3-year-old Henry and started explaining what was going on. Paula happily welcomed the 2 time-travellers.
"Na na na na na na!" Henry sang.
"Mom! You didn't let him watch Horrid Henry, did you?" Artemis said.
"I was changing Benjy's diper and Henry changed the channel. He had watched 10 minutes of it when I realized what he was watching," apologized Paula.
Robin snickered.
"There's an awkwardness here that I can't tell you about," the Girl Wonder said, laughing "Ain't there, Archeress?"
Archeress blushed. She was seeing her 2 oldest brothers back when they were 3-years-old and 6-months-old. Benjy curled up, his head in between his legs, and he seemed to fall asleep. Henry poked his baby brother's head.
"Henry!" Artemis scolded, sitting her oldest on the sofa.
"Archeress..." said Paula "you look familiar... you look a bit like Artemis,"
"Well, my mom was blonde and Vietnamese so I guess that's why," said the archer.
"You have the same blonde/redhead hair anomaly as Speed Arrow," said Artemis, sipping some tea Paula had made.
"Speed Arrow's my older brother," said Archeress, sipping her own cup of tea.
Artemis and Paula looked at them.
"Well I'm bored," said Robin and she took something out of her sleeve.
It was a folded piece of metal. She unfolded it and it looked like a tablet. It had the iPad insignia on it. You couldn't even see the line between the 2 pieces.
"What's that?" Artemis asked.
"The iPad 32, why?" Robin asked "I'm playing Angry Birds: Young Justice,"
"Angry Birds: Young Justice?" said Artemis.
"We are the Young Justice Team," said Robin "And you know what Angry Birds are like with their fads,"
Archeress looked over Robin's shoulder.
"No way! How are you on level 77? I'm stuck on level 64," asked the archer.
"What you have to do is save the Dark Eagle Angry Bird and use its special move of throwing bird-a-rangs to get the pigs hidden in the cavern ceiling," said Robin.
"Oh! Duh! How did I not think of that?" said Archeress, flapping her forehead.
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