AN: So sorry this is late! But I've been doing a lot of things lately (such as running back and forth to the hospital with my dad) AND I also got a job! I'm so excited! This'll be my first job ever and I can't wait to start work! Though I'm pretty sure I'll be changing my tune after a while… But yeah, I need money so I can pay my tuition (stupid college!) and art supplies for my classes (stupid art major and your expensive supplies!). Swear though! Go into Micheal's without a coupon or when they're having a sale, EVERYTHING'S expensive! But nevermind me. ONWARDS! To the story! Thanks to all those who faved/followed/reviewed (59 Reviews, 34 Followers, and 24 Faves! You guys too amazing!)
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Summary: Faith Evans, a 16-year-old girl, was just trying to make sure that she and her little sister got by in the world. "She was prepared to die when she took that bullet. So can someone explain to her why a dead guy's ring just decided to hitch a ride on her finger?!"
Genre: Humor/Adventure/a little Angst/a little Drama(cause you always need just a bit of Angst/Drama in every story)/Romance(?)
Song(s) used: none
Word Count: 5,166
"Communicating through something (ie: communicators, phones, rings, etc…)"
"Thinking"
Dreams/Flashbacks
"Talking"
Quotes/Lyrics
Chapter 9: Apparently, We're not ready…
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. –Mark Twain
After being welcomed into the Hall of Justice by Martian Manhunter, they were led through various rooms from the gym to the dining hall.
"You will also have unlimited access to the library." Said Martian finished the tour, stopping just a little ways away from a giant computer screen as he turned to look at the young heroes.
Hal turned around as well. "Make yourselves at home."
As Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad took the seats, Speedy stood while Fae wondered over to the shelves of books to lean against as she looked at everyone in the room, her focus mainly on Speedy. She started counting in her head to see how long it would take for him to snap.
"Gotta pass the time someway…"
Glancing over his shoulder, Batman addressed them as well.
"Quick debrief to discuss the coincidence of four ice villains attacking on the same day. We shouldn't be long."
All of the mentors went towards the zeta-tube that had a scanner type thing above it. A computerized female voice sounded out when they got close enough to scan.
"Recognized: Batman, 0-2; Aquaman, 0-6; Flash, 0-4; Green Arrow, 0-8; Green Lantern, 0-5; Martian Manhunter, 0-7; Red Tornado, 1-6."
"That's it?"
"15 seconds. He actually lasted longer than I expected really…"
Fae shifted against the shelf for a more comfortable position as she watched Speedy rant against the mentors and reveal information to the other protégés that the heroes obviously didn't want revealed if Batman's glare directed towards Green Arrow was anything to go by.
She even saw Hal glance her way looking a little guilty since he too had kept her "in the dark" about their actual HQ. She inwardly snorted at the idea since she was the one keeping them in the dark about a lot of things, and she preferred it that way.
"And even if I didn't know anything, I've been to freakin' OA! The Watchtower has nothing on the GLs' HQ."
She knew Hal would still come over and apologize for lying anyway before he left (he was just like that), and she would tell him exactly what she'd just been thinking.
Fae was brought out of her thoughts when she heard Speedy angrily yell at Aquaman and saw Aqualad tense out of the corner of her eye.
The female Green Lantern had no doubt that if Speedy proved a threat to Aquaman, it wouldn't matter if he was a friend. Aqualad would defend his King, even if said King had lied to him. He was just that loyal.
Speedy had just thrown down his yellow, Robinhood-looking hat, turning his back on the heroes as he walked towards the door, heading out of the building.
"I guess they were right about you three. You're not ready."
He glanced over at Fae then.
"And you. You're just a beginner, so it's not like you know anything."
Fae looked at him in shock that was quickly turning into anger as he walked on. She had to use all of her willpower to not go over to him and beat some sense into him.
She hadn't even realized that she was tense and inching towards his direction until Aqualad put a calming hand on her shoulder.
To be quite honest, she hadn't even notice she had gotten close to the others, but she had otherwise calmed down and relaxed her tense posture.
Aqualad left his hand there for a moment more before removing it from her shoulder completely.
There was a bout of uncomfortable silence as everyone stared, or in Fae's case, glared at where Speedy had just made his dramatic exit.
"Well this isn't awkward at all. Anytime now Superman!"
As if summoned by her thoughts, an alarmed blared and Superman appeared on the gigantic screen, and everyone trained their eyes on the red and blue superhero.
"There's been an explosion at project Cadmus. It's on fire."
Batman walked towards the computer and began to type in something.
"I've had my suspicions about Cadmus. This may present the perfect opportunity to in-"
"Zatara to Justice League."
Fae had to force herself not to smirk. After all, how many times did the Batman get interrupted and the person interrupting gets away with it?
"The sorcerer Wotan is using the amulet of Attan to blot out the sun. Requesting full League response."
Batman seemed to think about the new information for a minute before turning back to Superman.
"Superman?"
"It's a small fire. Local authorities have it under control."
"Then Cadmus can wait." Fae shook her head inwardly at that statement. It definitely couldn't wait, but she supposed the sun being blotted out was more important.
"All leaguers rendezvous at Zatara's coordinates. Batman out."
He disconnected from the other two leaguers and turned towards the sidekicks walking towards him as he stood by his fellow comrades, taking note that Hal's protégé stood a little behind the rest of the sidekicks.
"Stay put."
Robin stepped forward, not liking where this was headed.
"What? Why?"
"You're not trained."
This time Kid Flash stepped forward, getting irritated with the whole situation. First Speedy, now this?
"Since when?"
But Batman answered just as calmly as he had with Robin.
"I meant you're not trained to work as part of this team."
Aquaman backed him up.
"There will be other missions, when you're ready."
Batman stepped forward menacingly as he gave them all a hard stare.
"But for now, stay put."
He used the bat-glare to put more emphasis on the last two words before turning back towards the zeta-tube that they were going through before Speedy had a fit, the other mentors following his lead.
Hal, however, motioned his head towards the side, indicating that he wanted to talk to her or, most likely, apologize.
She nodded and headed his direction.
"Look Fae, I'm sorry about not telling you about the HQ thing," "Called it…" "But it was agreed that we wouldn't until-"
Fae stopped him by raising her hand before he could continue. Honestly, if she let him, he could probably go on all day. She inwardly snorted in amusement.
"Come on Hal," they were far enough away from the others that she could use his real name. "I've been to Oa. I'm sure that this "Watchtower" doesn't have anything on that."
Hal smiled a little, happy that she wasn't mad. He'd gotten her mad once before, back on Oa, and she had socked him right in the jaw in her anger. Let's just say he didn't want to explain why he had a huge purple and blue bruise on his face for the next week. Girl had one helluva right-hook.
"So you gonna be alright?"
"Yeah. Go. The world's tanners need you."
He chuckled at her little joke and headed after the others, disappearing a moment later. Since he had stopped to talk to her, he was the last one to leave.
Unfortunately, this led to another awkward silence after they were gone. It didn't last long as Kid Flash saw this as the perfect opportunity to vent his frustration about their "inconsiderate" mentors.
"When we're ready?! How are we ever supposed to be ready when they treat us like- like sidekicks?!"
It was Aqualad's turn.
"My mentor, my king. I thought he trusted me."
The word "trust" obviously set Kid Flash off as he stiffened when it was used.
"Trust?! They don't even trust us with the basics! They've got a secret HQ. In space!"
"What else aren't they telling us?"
Robin spoke then, a bit melancholy and angry with his own mentor/father-figure.
"I have a better question. Why didn't we leave with Speedy?"
Kid Flash and Aqualad's eyes widened, as they fully processed the question, before they all bowed their heads, clearly wanting to agree, but not sure if they were willing to betray their own mentors even though they were lied to.
Fae just sighed, feeling bad for the boys. It's not that their mentors thought little of their skills or readiness. It was just that they were protective of them. She'd only been under Hal's supervision for a year and he was as protective of her as she was of Emily (hell, the first week of patrolling on Earth was him making her stand back and watch so she wouldn't get hurt, until John and Kyle stepped in). She couldn't imagine how it would be for them, who were either raised by their mentors (Robin and Speedy) or were with them for years (Kid Flash and Aqualad).
After waiting a few more moments, Fae began to wonder when Aqualad would ask about Cadmus. He should've asked almost immediately after Robin's question, and yet, he remained silent.
Deciding to give them a helpful nudge in the right direction, Fae spoke up.
"What exactly is project Cadmus?"
All three of them started a bit at her voice, clearly having forgotten about her in their little depressed moment.
Robin suddenly smiled when he caught on to what she was implying.
"Don't know, but I can find out."
He raced to the computer, Fae and the others following at a more sedate pace, and began typing codes, it was the only thing Fae could think of that he was typing, into the computer.
The computerized voice came back again.
"Access denied."
By the grin on his face, Robin evidently saw this as a challenge.
"Wanna bet?"
He started typing at an even faster rate than before, getting to the information that was previously denied.
"Freakin' hackers… I don't know whether to be amazed or upset that he wasn't around to just change my grades so I wouldn't have to study so much."
Kid Flash couldn't keep the amazement off his face or out of his voice.
"Whoa! How are you doing that?"
"Same system as the Batcave."
The pride was evident in his voice as he continued to hack.
"Access granted."
"Alright. Project Cadmus. Genetics lab here in D.C. That's all there is, but if Batman's suspicious, maybe we should investigate."
Aqualad was the one to speak up this time around.
"Solve their case before they do. It would be poetic justice."
"Hey. They're all about justice."
The Atlantean, however, looked a bit uncertain, and Fae couldn't blame him. Going along with this would mean he was sort of disobeying his King, which he probably wasn't used to.
She made a mental note to teach him the joy of sneaking out at night.
Gotta love being a teenager.
"But they said to stay put."
Robin wasn't having it though. You could practically feel the excitement coming from him, and it made Fae wonder if he binged on candy before coming here and was on a sugar rush. He was 13 after all. You never know with him.
"For the blotting out the sun mission, not this!"
It must've been infectious because Kid Flash started getting excited as well.
"Wait. Are you going to Cadmus? Because if you're going, I'm going."
Both turned on the dark-skinned male with "resistance-is-futile" smiles on.
Aqualad sighed, knowing he really couldn't do anything against it but trying one last time anyway.
"Just like that? We're a team on a mission?"
The Boy Wonder answered easily.
"We didn't come for a play date."
The Atlantean thought about it for a moment more before a determined smirk spread across his features.
After he was convinced, the boys turned to the only female of their little rag-tag group.
Fae started as soon as she noticed the stares. To be quite frank, she had gotten caught up in watching them, as if what she was seeing was only tv, granted that it was 3D and very realistic, but tv nonetheless. So the sudden attention startled her a bit, and brought her mind back to the fictional-turned-real world.
Kid Flash was the first to try and "convince" her as he sped her way and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, giving her that same look that he had when he'd first introduced himself.
"So how about it, Babe? If things get too dangerous, I promise I'll save you. Just call me your "Knight-in-Shining-Armor"."
Fae didn't know whether to respond or bust out laughing at his attempts at flirting with her (she'd went toe-to-toe with KILOWAG. She wouldn't need saving). But since laughing would be mean, she decided to just say she would be coming anyway, even without the extra…"incentive".
But before she could even get a word out, he was being dragged away by Robin, much like before, only this time, it was by his ear.
"Ow, Dude! OOOWWW!"
Aqualad took up where Kid Flash left off, being much more respectful of course.
"It was your idea, and we would be honored if you fought alongside us."
"Yeah! Totally whelmed."
She looked at Robin in disbelief and amusement.
"Still gonna use it?"
He grinned back at her.
"Of course! Who says I can't make up a meaning for a word?"
Fae just shook her head with an amused smile on her face. She would never figure out Robin no matter how many comics she read or tv shows she watched.
Turning back to the Atlantean, smile still in place, she gave her assent.
"Did you think I was staying here? Of course I'm going. Somebody's got to watch over you after all."
Aqualad returned the smile, taking the teasing in stride, while Kid Flash whooped and high-fived Robin, apparently forgetting that he was the one who pulled his ear in lieu of celebrating Fae joining them.
As they headed towards the exit, Fae addressed said bird.
"We're probably gonna have to have a funeral in the near future."
"For who?"
"The English language."
He just cackled.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. – Albert Einstein
Arriving at the location, they were just in time to hear the scientists calling for help and the firefighters trying to keep them calm.
Kid Flash, not waiting for any type of plan of action, ran up the wall, catching both scientists as they almost fell out the window and placing them on the roof.
Unfortunately, he didn't have enough momentum to get himself on the roof and ended up falling, but he was quick to catch himself on the ledge of the window.
Fae mentally facepalmed. KF had good intentions, but he needed to think things through sometimes.
"It's, what's his name, Flash boy!"
This time, Fae couldn't help but laugh a little as he complained at the lack of respect for his superhero name.
"Poor KF."
"So smooth."
Robin was amused as well at his friend's misfortune and was sure to rub it in his face later.
Always on task, Aqualad just shook his head with a small frown at Kid Flash's antics.
"Does he always run ahead? We need a plan. We-Robin?"
He turned his head in the Boy Wonder's direction, only to find the spot vacant.
Fae lightly coughed into her fist, hoping to hide her smile at his dumbfounded expression, and pointed in the direction of the cackling little bird once she had his attention. He just let out a sigh.
Deciding to take pity on him, Fae placed a hand on his shoulder as he'd done to her and offered a compromise.
"I get the scientists; you take out the fire?"
He smiled, grateful that someone was willing to make a plan, and they both leapt into action.
Flying up to the scientists, hearing a faint "I need to borrow that" from Aqualad down below, and created a platform for them to stand on.
"Get on."
The scientists didn't hesitate as soon as they saw she was a Green Lantern and clambered onto the construct.
When they were safely on, Fae lowered them to the ground and dismissed the platform as soon as they gotten off.
Looking over to Aqualad and seeing that he was done putting out the fire, the crew thanking him for the help, she flew over to him and picked him up from behind, startling him a bit before he relaxed once he realized who had him.
Going through the window Robin and Kid Flash entered, she gently set him down.
"Sorry about that. Time is of the essence and all that."
He gave her a small smile with a nod, not upset with her at all. His so called friends on the other hand…
"We appreciate the help."
"You two handled it. Besides, we're here to investigate. Poetic justice, remember?"
Aqualad, not wanting to waste his breath on trying to get his point across to them, joined their search through the office.
Fae decided to go out into the hall when she saw Aqualad starting to rifle through files as well, knowing that they really wouldn't find much.
She thought it odd that certain things weren't happening to progress the story, like Aqualad speaking up or walking into the hall, but she brushed it off, thinking that things would iron themselves out eventually.
Walking out, she turned her head just in time to see Dubbilex in the elevator.
She could now understand why Aqualad looked so shocked when he saw him. He'd looked strange on tv but seeing him up close, even for a moment, made her pause.
On tv, it only looked like he had blue skin, but it was actually multiple, tiny scales converged together. The horns on his head looked deadly, like someone had sharpened them specifically to gut people with. But that wasn't what stopped her.
What gave her pause were his crimson eyes.
They reminded her of blood.
Bright red seeped through the fabric and spread, as if trying to reach for her.
"Wake up, Mommy!"
A beep brought her out of her terrified thoughts, and she noticed that the elevator had already closed.
"There was something-"
Fae didn't get to finish as the junior speedster appeared next to her, most likely having heard the beep.
"Elevators should be locked down."
Robin exited the room next, walking towards the elevator as he fiddled with his holo-computer.
"This is wrong."
He went on, but Fae wasn't paying attention, or rather, she couldn't. She hadn't been expecting such a horrid memory to creep up on her. She used to have it all the time back in her own world, but since coming her, she'd only had that dream a few times in the beginning of her training, and that was over a year ago. It was no wonder she had frozen; clearly she'd gotten too used to the peace.
Fae was, once again, broken out of her thoughts by a hand resting on his shoulder.
Turning her head, she found Aqualad staring at her worriedly.
"Are you alright? You froze all of a sudden…"
Only after he'd said that did she notice how tense she'd gotten. Forcing herself to relax, she shot him a small smile, hoping to convince him that there was nothing to worry about. She'd deal with it on her own later.
"I'm fine. Nothing to concern yourself with."
He looked like he wanted to argue over that but was called over by Robin, who needed him to pry open the doors.
Glancing at Fae once more, he removed his hand and went to do as Robin requested, while the girl in question made a mentally thanked the Boy Wonder for his awesome timing as she walked over to the group just as Aqualad finished with his task.
"And that's why they need an express elevator."
Before Robin could use his grapple-gun, Fae floated forwards, into the elevator shaft, and created a platform for them all to stand on (who says they couldn't get to their destination a little faster?).
Robin's eyes were wide before he gave her a sheepish grin and removed his hand from his utility belt.
After everyone was on, Fae began to steadily move the platform down just like a regular elevator.
Kid Flash looked up at her (she was floating a good foot or two above her construct) and sent her a dreamy smile.
"Babe, you are amazing."
"Gotta agree with Kid Mouth. Having you on the team makes things way easier."
Robin grinned up at her, completely ignoring his friend's shout of "DUDE".
Fae grinned back.
"I try."
But it seems like fate wasn't on their side as they heard a noise that made them all freeze, and not just any noise. It was the actual elevator.
Well, that wasn't supposed to happen…
Robin recovered first.
"GL! This'll have to be our stop!"
He took out his holo-computer and started hacking the system to open the door, which she just now noticed was sub-level 26.
The irony…
While Fae and Aqualad knew why they had to stop, Kid Flash was having a hard time understanding.
"Why can't GL just ram it back?"
Fae really wanted to facepalm. She loved KF's character dearly, but sometimes, he was just slow.
Again with the irony…
"I would Kid, but you're all still on here and could get gravely injured. Not to mention a huge explosion from destroying the elevator wouldn't help our cause of sneaking in."
Kid Flash flushed in embarrassment, obviously not having considered either of those things.
Robin would've loved to point that out and laugh about it, but he was too busy trying to save their lives at the moment.
"Almost…There! Go!"
Aqualad quickly pried the doors open and everyone rushed out, Fae dismissing the platform just as the elevator passed.
Everyone took a minute to calm down as they stared at where they'd just been, the Atlantean being the first to break the silence.
"That was close."
The Boy Wonder just brushed it off, considering he'd had many close calls before, and returned his focus to their mission.
"Welcome to project Cadmus."
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast. –Alfred A. Montapert
As they looked around at the dark hallways, Kid Flash decided to run ahead and check things out, hoping to solve this mystery quickly. Not to mention impress the female Green Lantern with his speed. That would definitely be a bonus.
Fae and the others watched him speed off, Aqualad shouting a "WAIT" that fell on deaf ears. Fae flew after him not a second later, ignoring their calls for her as well.
She had a feeling that she would need to get to him as fast as possible. Things weren't really going as they should have with Aqualad not taking the initiative and the unexplained elevator (there definitely wasn't one when Robin used his grapple-gun). So she wanted to make sure that KF would be okay.
And luckily for him, she had, or they would be down one teammate.
When Fae made it to the marching monsters, Kid Flash had frozen in place where he'd fell, staring up at the huge foot that was about to crush him, like a deer caught in the headlights.
Thinking quickly, Fae constructed a manacle around him and pulled the speedster towards her just as the clawed foot came down.
The others ran up to stand beside them as they all watched the creatures pass.
"Nothing odd going on here."
Fae mentally applauded Aqualad's use of sarcasm in this situation. There was just nothing else you could say about gigantic, grey monsters marching like they were in a parade.
They were so caught up in watching them that she almost didn't notice when one of the little ones turned back to look at them. Its eyes glowing that same shade of red as Dubbilex's.
Fae averted her gaze, not bothering to mention it since she knew it wouldn't do any good.
After the shock had worn off, they were ready to go again. Kid Flash picking himself off the floor where Fae had put him, shooting her a sheepish grin as a light blush stained what she could see of his cheeks.
"Uh…thanks for…back there. The save! I mean…"
She smiled.
"No problem."
His eyes widened and he turned away as his blush got darker while Aqualad reprimanded him for running off in such a dangerous, unknown place.
Robin pulled up his holo-computer, most likely trying to find a route that would lead them to information.
"Come on guys. This way."
They ran for a little while (in Fae's case, flew) until they came across a room full of what looked like small-scaled versions of the creatures they saw in transparent sacs.
Of course Fae could've told them what they were, and they could be on their merry way back to the Hall of Justice, mystery of Cadmus solved, but that wasn't the purpose. Robin needed to get inspired to go looking for Superboy, and what better way than to let him come across an encrypted file that he can't access?
Challenge anyone?
"Ok. I'm officially whelmed."
The bird shot a triumphant smirk towards her, to which she rolled her eyes, even if he couldn't see it.
Kid Flash spoke as he walked around, looking at the hibernating creatures, as he talked about how Cadmus must've been using them to generate power to keep themselves off the grid. Aqualad and Robin agreeing with their own input.
As they looked around and bounced theories off each other, Fae spotted the terminal that Robin was supposed to be hacking right about now (she was kind of getting tired of having to point them in the right direction at every little turn. What was up with this universe?), so she decided to break into the conversation.
"Hey, Robin. Do you think you could find out anything from this?" She pointed down to the terminal she was standing beside.
"Of course I can. No sweat." He grinned as he began bypassing the security, but it was quickly wiped off by what he read.
"Whoa! Look at the stats on these things! Super strength, telepathy, razor claws. These are living weapons!"
Aqualad pieced it together.
"They're engineering an army, but for who?"
"Wait. There's something else. Project Kr."
"Bingo!"
The Boy Wonder typed in some more codes but was quickly becoming frustrated.
"Ugh! The file's triple-encrypted. I can't-"
"Don't move!"
"Well dang…I totally forgot about this guy."
They turned to face a man with a golden helmet and shield with blue and black gear on.
"Guardian…"
Said man paused once he realized who the intruders were.
"Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash?" He looked a bit confused when he saw her, mumbling a faint "there's a new Green Lantern?" under his breath.
"At least he got your name right."
Robin was having a bit too much fun at KF's expense today…
Aqualad tried diffusing the situation before anything got out of hand.
"I know you. Guardian, a hero."
Said man puffed out his chest a bit, the pride easily detectable in his voice.
"I do my best."
"Then what are you doing here?"
"I'm chief of security. You're trespassing, but we can call the Justice League. Figure this out."
But the speedster had to ruin the Atlantean's efforts as he started to accuse the hero of having a hand in creating weapons.
The older man suddenly became confused as to what he could be talking about, to which the genomorph responded by brainwashing him.
Fae didn't think she'd ever wanted to hit Kid Flash more.
After that, all hell broke loose as Guardian ordered the creatures to attack them, taking on Aqualad himself.
Robin threw down a smoke screen and took off in the direction of the elevator nearby, hoping to get it started, as the rest of them fought back the genomorphs.
Using her ring, Fae created a whip and sent groups of the creatures flying back left and right with each swing (she didn't want to truly harm them since she knew they didn't have a choice in what they did. They were innocent. The people controlling them? Not so much). Seeing one head for Aqualad's unguarded back, she sent a blast of energy into it, knocking it off course.
Noticing that Robin had gotten the elevator working and KF already in it, she knew they didn't have much time to get on.
Fae once again grabbed the dark-skinned boy and flew towards the elevator at top-speed, making it just before the doors closed. Inside, everyone took a moment to catch their breaths as they stood, or kneeled in Aqualad's case.
Said Atlantean looked up at the Green Lantern and smiled in gratitude.
"Thank you."
She returned the smile with a "no problem" as she focused on getting her adrenalin rush under control in the moment of peace they had.
But it seems like fate just really wanted to be a bitch today as Aqualad finally noticed that the elevator numbers were increasing instead of the opposite.
"We're headed down?"
And of course his comment caught Kid Flash's attention as he promptly started to freak out.
"Dude?! Out is up!"
And like the true Bat that he was, Robin disregarded the comment.
"Project Kr is down on sub-level 52."
Fae had to clamp down on the urge to correct him and say "you mean Superboy", instead, she focused on preparing herself for their impromptu battle with said boy. She may have wanted to free him, but she'd be damned if she went through all that training with Kilowag and get her ass handed to her by a 16-week-old clone. Kryptonian powers or not!
The elevator came to a stop with a ding, Robin running out with Fae floating after him. She heard Aqualad sigh, asking the Boy Wonder which way they should go.
"Yeah. Bizarre-looking hallway number one? Or bizarre-looking hallway number two?"
Their choice was made for them when Dubbilex appeared and commanded them to halt, which just made them run/fly away.
Kid Flash and Fae made it to the Project Kr –"Superboy's"- room, the latter holding the door open with a pillar-like construct.
After making sure that Robin and Aqualad made it through safely, she dismissed it just as the genomorph came up to the door.
Robin fiddled with his holo-computer a bit before declaring that he disabled the door and that they were safe, to which both the speedster and Atlantean disagreed.
Fae let out a weary sigh before deciding to get them to focus on the problem at hand.
"Guys. GUYS!" They turned in her direction, a bit surprised that she'd yelled.
Rolling her eyes at their expressions, she pointed towards the tube in the middle of the room.
"You may want to look at this…"
In the tube was a muscular boy dressed in a white, one-piece suit with the famous red "S" symbol on his chest.
"Superboy…"
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. –Confucious
Chapter 9 End
AN: When Speedy got Fae mad, I really wanted to type "beat the hell out of" instead of "beat some sense into" but I thought that'd be too harsh. Was I wrong?
Regarding the poll:
After the next two chapters, it WILL be closing so place your votes people! And for the anonymous reviewers that also want to vote, I ask of you to only choose ONE pairing, not "(pairing) or (pairing)" just "(pairing)". Here's the list of pairings you can vote for:
FaexHal
FaexAqualad
FaexSuperboy
FaexKid Flash
FaexRobin
(And two new ones have been added due to someone voting other)
FaexRoy(Speedy)
FaexTeen!Kyle (this is possible since I haven't exactly said Kyle's age yet)
So vote! After this is closed, I will announce the winning couple and put up the next poll for the side pairings.
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