Once the team was sure Batman and huntress were gone, they turned their attention to me.
The girl I thought was Martian Manhunter's protégé rushed towards me and gave me a big, quick hug, and I was taken aback at first surprised, but then gladly hugged her back, then she let go and looked me in the eyes.
"I'm so happy your joining the team! We really needed more girls, it gets a little boring with all of the boys around." She said.
"Happy to" I responded.
"What should I call all of you, I mean we'll be here for a while, so I should learn your names and such." I started. Then I added "I have to warn you though, I'm horrible with names."
"Well I'm Miss Martian, but you can call me by my name M'gann, or my earth name Megan." She paused then went on. "That is super boy, or Conner, and this is Artemis, and..." She said, pointing to the boy with the superman T-shirt, and then to the archer girl. She was going to go on, but Aqualad interrupted her
"I'm Aqualad, or Kaldur'ahm but you can call me Kaldur." Aqualad said. I already knew who he was, and he knew who I was but I didn't say anything.
"I'm Kid Flash, but you can call me Wally." I knew him as well, and he knew me, but again, I didn't say anything.
"Do you have a name that you go by?" M'gann asked.
"Sorry, just Tempest, for now, I have to discuss with Huntress if it is alright with her, you learning my secret identity could lead to others figuring out her identity, ect."
"That's ok, Robin never told us his identity, so it's not like we don't expect it." Wally replied.
"Welcome to the team Tempest, we're all looking forward to fighting alongside you." Kaldur Said.
"Now there's seven of us, this next week going to be so fun!" M'gann said.
I hesitated, then counted them, and including me there were six of us.
I looked at them confused.
"Whose the seventh?" I asked.
Without me, or anyone else seeing someone had dropped down from where they were hiding and crept up behind me and said.
"Me." And as they said it they put their hand on my shoulder.
It was barely on my shoulder for a second before I grabbed their arm, and in one swift motion flipped them over and pushed them in the air, a few yards away front of me. I kinda knew they weren't a threat, but at the time whoever this was scared me really, really bad, and I kind of just reacted on instinct. Oops.
I looked down after catching my breath, I was still kinda jumpy, creepy person lurking in the shadows, and then I saw him, on the floor about 6 feet away. I think it was Nightwing, though I wasn't sure, I'd never actually met him in this costume, just his Robin one. I figured out he was the seventh member and before anyone could even react about me flipping him over, I rushed over and half bent over to help him up.
"Sorry, you startled me." I said reaching out my hand to help him up.
He looked kind of surprised, but took my hand.
"Thanks" he said as he got up with my help.
The team looked a little confused as to what just happened, and a few of them looked just as scared of Nightwing's entry as I had been.
"What were you thinking." Artemis directed at Nightwing.
"What could you have possibly hoped to accomplish with that?" She added with an attitude.
"I wanted to see her reaction, seeing what her reflexes would do, what her instincts were." He replied.
"And I wanted to scare miss newbie over here." He added almost whispering.
Everyone erupted into conversation, mainly saying things like 'so there was no relevant reason for you to do that' and 'you could have scared her away!' and 'everything you just said is a load of crap, you weren't testing her you just wanted to scare us'. He laughed really quietly at the chaos he caused, and I almost started laughing too, but I was kinda mad, so I wouldn't give him the satisfaction. When everyone quieted down, we all just kind of looked at him like 'WTF dude' until I got bored of looking at him, and broke the silence.
"I'm thinking now would be a good time for everyone to get their things if they need them for our 'vacation' before another conversation starts, not to be bossy or anything, but we're all just kind of staring at him, and not doing anything productive." I said.
"Sure that sounds good" Artemis said.
"Yeah" "sure" "cool" I heard from no the rest of them, all agreeing. Aqualad, Artemis, Wally, Nightwing, and I made our way to the Zeta tubes, while Conner and M'gann went to their rooms, they said they lived here full time.
I was the third one to leave, plugging in the coordinates of Huntress's Zeta tube. Our Zeta tube was in Huntress's second base. I beamed through and took my motorcycle to Huntresses main base, under our house.
Once I parked and went up the secret entrance, Helena was waiting for me.
"Well that was... Unexpected." Helena said.
"Completely." I replied and we smiled at each other. I knew Helena wasn't really extatic about me joining the team. I didn't really see the harm, but I really didn't know anything about any of them. We had been walking to the stairs, and when we had gotten there's he stopped. She looked like she wanted to come with me, but stopped. I wasn't sure why.
"Can you come up and help me pack?" I asked, I knew she wanted to, and I wanted her company for the last hour or so before I left for mount Justice.
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After packing everything I might have possibly needed, time passers, technology, equipment, workout clothes, regular clothes, accessories, a few bikinis and a sportswear one piece, hangout clothes, hairbrush, curling iron, the makeup I usually wore, toiletries, shoes, a few of my super suits(I had quite a few of my normal Tempest outfit, and my little utility belt, weapon holders, and such in case they got damaged), things to make Mount Justice feel more like my home away from home, sheets, my comforter, and pillows, a few sports things(that didn't have my name on them, just in case someone snooped around my room), etc., Basically everything I may possible need in the next one-two weeks. We went downstairs so I could say goodbye to Clinton. Hey, I'd rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it. I was surprised at how much I fit in two suitcases. Instead of being Huntress and Tempest, we should just retire become Helena and Laurie, the super amazing suitcase packers. The driver, Frankie, carried one suitcase, Clinton carried the other, and I carried my backpack which held the personal things that didn't fit in the suitcases, like my phone, iPad, and things like that. I gave Clinton one more hug before getting into the car with Helena and driving off to Helena's second base. Frankie, The driver stopped the car in front of an old abandoned building, which Helena actually owned, but didn't want to look suspicious around these parts, so she just left it like this above ground. Underground was where the Helena's second base was, with extra super suits and equipment, training areas and equipment, and the Zeta tubes.
We stopped in front of the Zeta tubes, and I gave Frankie and Helena another hug while plugging in the mount Justice coordinates and announcing myself, and I beamed to Mount Justice.
Once I beamed to Mount Justice, I gathered up my suitcases as I walked towards the meeting area. M'gann said she'd meet me here to show me where my room was, and then give me a tour of Mount Justice. She came walking out of what I assumed was the kitchen, and walked over to me.
"Hey, so I just got all of the room assignments from batman, everyone has pretty much had the same rooms since we got the place, but he wanted to make sure there were no arguments. Everything's pretty much the same, except he added you to the list." She told me.
"That's Cool" I replied.
"Yeah, and your room is right next to mine and Artemis's!" She said happily.
I smiled, and gestured for her to lead me to it.
We walked to what looked like the living quarters. There were eight doors, four on each side of the hallway. The doors were really far apart, leading me to believe that the rooms were pretty big. Meagan pointed to her door, then Artemis's, then mine. There was one other door, but I didn't really mind who it was. Super boy probably hearing us opened his door right when we were about to go into mine.
"Hey Conner, you want to come and tour the place with me and Tempest?" M'gann asked.
"Nah, I'm good here." He replied kind of eying me skeptically.
"Ok" she said as we walked through my door
The walls of my room were a light, pailish yellow, and most of the furnature was white.I left my suitcases in my room, and followed M'gann out of the living area. We walked to what I assumed was the 'front door' and then we stopped.
"Ok, so this is the front door, that is the hanger, that's sphere and my bios ship..." She showed me around the whole place, except for this top floor she said was Red Tornados place. She showed me the medical room, the workout room, the showers and locker rooms, the training room, the lounge, the living room, the kitchen, the souvenir room, and every other room, from the front entrance, to the back entrance, and everything in between. When we were done we went back to the mission area, and I pretty much knew where everything was if I needed it. In the mission area M'gann started
"Ok, so like Batman said earlier that he would give us missions, this is where we get missions from him, and sometimes other League members, but mostly batman. After we get our missions then we would sometimes if the mission calls for it split up into squads directed by Aqualad. He is technically the team leader, but most of the time we forget he is, because he treats all of us as equals, not in ranks." She said.
"That's cool." I said genuinely.
This was the last place to be toured before we were done, so we walked back to the living quarters.
"Well now you know your way around, I'll leave you to get settled in and stuff." She said
"The rest of the team should be here in a few." She added before leaving me outside my door.
I walked inside and took out my suitcase. Before coming Helena had insisted on me bringing two chairs I had at home here, I might have had a few too many I'm my room, and she wanted me to get rid of them and I am much too stubborn for my own good, so she had told me to come get them from next to the zeta tubes after my tour, which M'gann hadn't allowed me to, and had levitated the three chairs into my room with ease. Hoo, that was a long thought. Well ok then. So there were three chairs in this room, other than the furniture already in here.
I went inside and unpacked my things, deciding where everything should go. I finished unpacking everything, and put the empty suitcases in a corner of the small walk in closet. This closet wasn't as big as my other one, but it was better than no closet. I was actually surprised at how nice the rooms here were. I guess the Justice League had a big budget. I wasn't complaining though, I was very happy with it, and it wasn't like I was going from my room at Bertinelli manor, to a room the size of my bathroom, it wasn't the big change I was expecting. Yet another reason the place felt more like home. The rest of Mount Justice was really roomy too, nice and spread out, there was a lot of room. It was nice, I liked it. When I finished unpacking, I wondered what all of my friends elsewhere were doing, then I heard a loud crash coming from a ways outside of my room.