…Happy Harbor high school
Conner was walking around in the hallways, skipping class and then he hears footsteps, he quickly goes over to a door and hides inside the room waiting for the person to pass. Mike was there playing the piano. Conner recognized it Villa Lobos, Cadmus download of all thing in the world including musical instruments. Conner listened. All he could see was his back, he didn't know Mike could play the piano, he finishes and he sighs.
"That was beautiful." Conner says to him.
He turns and looks at him. "What are you doing here?"
"Hiding." Conner says to him, he puts his index finger on his mouth. "Shhh." He says as he walks over to his.
"Your skipping class?" he asks him confused.
"Oh you saying that as if it's a bad thing." he says to him jokily, Mike looks at him. "I didn't know you could play."
"Well I can, I just haven't played in a while." Mike says as he looks back at the sheet music.
"Think you can teach me?"
"Conner it takes years to learn how to play."
"How hard can it be if you can play?"
"Hey!"
"I'm kidding!" Conner says quickly and sits down next to him he moves over a little not wanting to touch him. "Ready to be blown away?" he asks him, Mike looks at him, he closes his eyes and plays fur elise by Beethoven, his fingers moving without him actually telling them to do anything. It was just a muscle memory an automatic responds. Mike looks at him shocked he was good, great, he was a genius. He stops mid song and looks at him. "Well?" he asks him.
"Mind blown." Mike says to him, Conner smiles at him. "I mean, you're really good at playing the piano."
"You're better." Conner says to him.
"I'm not better, your better, you're perfect. How long have you been playing?"
"I haven't." Conner says honestly that was the first time he had ever played the piano, he looks at him confused. "played for a while." He adds. "I played a lot when I was a kid then I stopped." He says to him, a complete and totally lie.
"Right." he says a little confused. "So you and Kim."
"Me and Kim, what about me and Kim?"
"Are you guys a couple?"
"Not really we're just having fun."
"Good, having fun is good."
"I think she might want to talk our relationship status later."
"Well girls are like that."
"Seen any good movies lately?" Conner asks changing the subject.
"No, but I did kiss this really hot guy the other day."
"Oh yeah? Who?"
"His name is Conner."
"Oh, that is so weird, my name is Conner, do you have a thing for guys whose name is Conner?"
Mike leans in for a kiss on the lips, Conner puckers up then pulls away.
Mike looks at him. "I preferred the one on the beach." He tells him.
"Mike-"
"I miss you Conner."
"I miss you too."
"Then dump Kim and-"
Conner stands up. "You want a relationship, I don't."
"What about Kim?"
"I didn't say she's my girlfriend." Conner says a little upset.
Mike stands up looking at him. "Are you still upset about Wendy? Because you should really get over that already."
"Wow, that's, real smooth seriously you should be a therapist or a counsel or something."
"You know what I mean."
"No, I don't. Please go on belittle my first love."
"What about me? Do I mean nothing to you?"
"Of course you do, how could you even ask me that?"
"Because you're treating me like trash."
"I am not treating you like trash, you're one of my best friends."
"Well I don't want to be your friend, I want to be your boyfriend."
"Damn it Mike, why are you doing this?"
"Oh you think I enjoy it?" Mike asks him angry. "All I thought about this entire week was you and that stupid dare kiss at the beach, you think I like acting as if I was a school girl with a crush?"
"Well can't you just, I don't know…turn them off?"
"Don't be an asshole Conner."
"I can't be in a relationship with you." Conner says impatient.
"Why not?!"
"Because I keep to many things form you."
"Like what?"
"Like…where I live."
"Oh, well just invite me over."
"My parents."
"I can meet them."
"You can't."
"Why not? You've meet mine, plus you've even stayed over, they love you."
"You can't meet my parents."
"Why not?!"
"Because you can't! And I don't want to talk about this anymore!"
"God! You know what? I don't even know why I like you. You're like a poster boy for emotionally unavailable."
"Now wait a minute-"
"Maybe Wendy was right to dump you."
"OK!" Conner yells at him. "Go fuck yourself Mike."
Conner walks off, Mike watched as he walked off and the door closed. As soon as it did Conner teleported out.
"Conner wait!" Mike yells out after him and opens the door to see nobody, he looks left, then right. "Huh."
…Mount Justice
Dream /flashback
"You know you can't beat me." Kon says to him smirking. "Everyone says that I'm stronger than you, faster than you." Kon punches him hard on his jaw. "More powerful than you!" he yells at him as he falls down on the ground.
"One thing you should have learned by now Kon-El." Kal says as he pulls himself together then super speeds in front of him punching him back drawing blood. "Don't believe everything you hear!"
"Superman?" Batman says as he walks slowly behind him.
"Give me a minute." Kal says to him as he walks over to Kon on the ground bleeding and kicks him down then kicks his head.
"Superman stop!" Batman yells at him. "This is crazy."
"That's the point!" Kal yells out smiling. "If life doesn't make you crazy, then why bother living it?" he asks him, then looks back down at Kon who was getting back up on his feet. "Atta boy, you know, I know what people think. Hell I've had the same thoughts, I've felt you hit and I've chased you across space. Batman has shared this theory with me, the biggest difference is in our upbringing."
Kon smirks at him. "Oh great a lecture."
"A 16 year old brat by that time in my life, my powers were just coming to me. I lived here on earth all that time as humans do. Without the speed, the strength, the invulnerability, and the older I got, the more powerful I got, the more careful I had to be." Kal says to him. "Because, if I ever let go, ever truly forgot the things my parents taught me, I would have killed someone. You don't know your limits, Kon. So you don't know how to hold them in check. But just so we're very clear, I could catch you, and I could stop you any time I wanted to."
"Oh please!" Kon yells out. "Any time I wanted to? HA! You're too weak. I can't keep myself in check? Look at yourself foaming at the mouth, less than an hour on red kryptonite and look at what you've done!" he says looking around at the broken building, destroyed roads, scared people. "You hold me back, I'll be a better Superman than you'll ever be. I'm smarter, stronger, I can take out bad guys you're too afraid to go after."
"That's crap."
"You're too busy feeling sorry for yourself. Whining about how different you are, what big responsibly you have. Boo-hoo." Kon fake crying as he smirks.
Kal uses heat vision Kon puts up a blue shield up to protect himself with, Kal charges at him then starts punching him again. Kon punches back, Kal grabs his arm and twists it with a sick crack Kon then punches him into a building.
"You're not going to be standing in my way anymore." Kon says to him walking over to him, saddling him then punching him again and again and again.
Kal grabs his next punch and throws it back at himself, Kon groans, Kal kicks him away, he gets up then punches him up to the sky hard then super speeds up to catch up with him then kicks him down to the road making a huge crater. Kal lands in front of Kon looking down at him.
"Tell me again how weak I am, how I hold you back!" Kal yells at him ready to deliver the final punch.
"Superman NO!" Batman yells out looking down at them from the crater.
Kal stops as he looks at Kon as he puts his hands up looked so helpless, Kal sweat was red as it drips down from his forehead, cheeks, nose and pants slightly, he pulls back his fist. Then Kon head-butts him violently breaking his nose Kal yells out then sweeps his feet under Kal losing his balance he falls down.
Kon looks down at him. "Like I said weak."
/end
Conner wakes up with a scream accidently releasing heat vision he closes his eyes and covers them with both hands. He was panting crazy, sweating, it felt so real. Wolf looks at him obviously concerned.
He slowly uncovers his eyes and blinks, he looks at Wolf. "I'm ok, just a bad dream." Conner says to him.
Conner gets up and walks over to his closet putting on his jeans, boots, and S shirt then walks out of his room, Wolf walks over to him. "Stay." He says to him and Conner teleports out. Wolf whines and jumps on the bed then lays down on the floor.
…Metropolis
Superman and Superboy are in the night sky flying around, the stars not visible as the city lights hide them.
"Kon how many times do I have to tell you, you can't just come around whenever you want, you have to tell me and-" Superman lectures then pauses to see him, Kon was on his back as if sunbathing in the beach. "Are you even paying attention?" he asks him.
"Yes, I always pay-" he says as he turns to him then at the park down below. "Puppy!" he yells out and flies up to it he lands softly and gets down on his knees the Great Dane jump up and down happy Kon pets it. "So cute."
The woman owner who had been jogging was a little scared of Superboy, he had come out of the sky, and she wasn't really used to that. Kon sits down on the grass as he pets as the Great Dane lays down Kon rubs his belly. Superman flew down next to him.
"I'm sorry, he's usually well behaved." Superman says to the woman as if Kon was a dog.
Kon looks up at him, then down at the puppy. "Don't listen to him, he's just a big grouch."
"It's alright…Superman?"
"Yes, this is my brother."
"Wow, your bigger in person." The woman says to him.
"I get that a lot." Superman says to her.
"You're really good with him, he usually doesn't like strangers." The woman says to Superboy.
"He's awesome."
"We have to get going Kon-El." Superman says to him then looks around as other joggers with their pets and partners start to notice them. "Now, Kon." He says to him.
"Yeah, yeah, alright." Kon says as he pets the Great Dane, he licks him. "Bye puppy." He says to it and Superman flies off, Kon follows, the puppy whimpers sad.
"So what brings you here anyways?" Superman asks Superboy ask they fly in the sky.
"Had a bad dream."
"You sleep?"
"Yeah, I haven't really recovered since the thing with Zatanna." Kon says honestly.
"I didn't know."
"You never asked." Kon sighs.
"Kon, I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I'm fine or ya know will be." Kon says to him, Superman stops in front of him, Superboy almost bumps into him. "Dude, don't put the brakes on my like that." He complains, Superman looks at him. "What's up?"
"What kind of dreams?" he asks him curious.
"The kind that don't let me go back to sleep."
"Bad dreams?"
"Yeah."
"Can you be more specific?"
"I do bad things."
"I can ask J'onn look into it."
"It's ok, it probably means I shouldn't eat before going to bed."
"I'll talk to J'onn." Superman says to him stubbornly. "You go back home, you have a swim meet tomorrow right?"
"Yeah, but I'll win, I always win." Kon says to him.
"I'll be there to cheer you on." Superman says, Superboy smiles at him then teleports out.
Happy Harbor High school…pool
"Fourth win in a row!" Conner yells out as they go in the locker room. "We should go celebrate." He says to the team as they all start to get dressed.
"Sorry dude, my parents are here." Sam says to him as he puts on his shirt.
"Yeah mine too, they're going to take me to McCormicks." Riki says with a smile as he puts on his jeans.
"That's awesome!" Sam says to him. "My parents are taking me to Pizza house." He says putting on his jeans.
"Oh that's so cool, that's all pizza right?" Riki asks him as he puts his shirt.
"Yup, and pastas, wings, plus desserts. It's awesome, I've been begging my parents to take me there." Sam says as he sits on a bench and puts on his shoes.
"Well McCormicks has the biggest steak and baked potato like you can even imagine." Riki says to him as he also sits putting on his shoes.
Conner sits down on the bench with a frown as Riki and Sam compare their restaurants. Mike sits down with Conner.
"So um…I've been calling you and leaving messages." Mike says to him.
"Oh yeah, I got them I was just avoiding you." Conner says with a smile telling him the truth.
"Conner, I'm sorry."
"You are?"
"Yes, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry.
"Ok."
"OK?"
"Ok."
"Really?" Mike asks him a little shocked. "Well you're easy to please."
"You're my friend, it's easy to forgive the people you care about."
Mike smiles at him. "So, I didn't see your parents." he says to him.
"No, they were busy."
"Well, you can come with me and my parents. We're going to China House best Chinese food in town."
"Nah. I'll be fine."
"Ok." Mike says to him as he puts his hand on his back, Conner looks at him puts up a fake smile, Mike scoffs. "Call me if you get bored."
"Yeah alright."
…Mount Justice
Zatanna and Dick were in the kitchen she was wearing her purple pajamas shorts and a spaghetti shirt as she sneaks in ice cream after night. Roy walks in.
"What are you doing?" Roy asks.
"OH MY GOD!" Zatanna yells out scared as she looks at him. Roy looks at her confused Dick looks at her also confused, he had heard Roy coming. "You scared me! Oh my god my heart is beating so fast."
"Are you done?" he asks her.
"What's up?" Dick asks him.
"Pass me the ice cream." Roy says as he goes over to a drawer and gets a spoon.
"How are things?" Zatanna asks him as she brings over the ice cream.
"Good." Roy says to her as he starts eating. "And you? Spend the night Dick?"
"It's not what you think, we fell asleep that's all." he says as she eats.
"You guys are boring, at least Conner-"
"Hey Conner." Zatanna says as Conner walks in with a blank sheet of paper his hands where colored red and black he walks past them to the fridge.
"What are you doing up?" Dick not noticing his hands and continues eating.
"Bad dreams again, sweetie?" Zatanna asks him as she also eats.
"I can't tell what it is yet." Conner says as he grabs the ketchup and goes to sit down on the counter.
"What's up with you?" Roy asks him as he finally noticing his hands.
Conner doesn't say anything as he puts the paper down and puts ketchup on the paper.
"I think he's sleep walking." Zatanna says as she looks at him.
"Conner why are you in the kitchen?" Roy asks him.
"I'm drawing a picture." Conner says to him as he draws with his fingers.
They chuckle quietly looking at each other, Zatanna looks over at what he was drawing he was just making a mess. "Should we wake him up?" she asks them.
"Are you kidding? He'll hit us or something." Roy says to her.
"Let's just get him back to bed." Dick says grinning.
"I'm not finished yet." Conner says to him as he continues drawing. "I ran out of wavelength 640 to 650 manometers frequency 480 to 405 terahertz extra blip number ff 00000."
They look at each other confused.
Roy thinks. "I think he ran out of the color red." He says to them.
"Oh." They say.
Zatanna grabs a napkin and goes over to Conner cleaning up his hands. "Come on Conner." Zatanna says as he looks at her tired as if he was still sleeping, and takes off dirty blue shirt. "Let's get you to bed."
The boys both go over to him and walk off to Conner's room guiding him. "But I'm not done." He mumbles.
"It's ok, you can finish-" Zatanna starts as she opens the door to his room.
They walk into Conner's room it was covered in black and red papers all over the room, Wolf was on the bed, not knowing anything was wrong, the rest of the room was a little creepy. Conner walks over to his bed and sits down.
"I need to put them in order." Conner says to them.
"You can do that in the morning." Roy says to him he goes over to him and puts him down laying down and the blanket over him. "Go to sleep."
"Ok, good night." Conner closes his eyes and goes to sleep.
"whoa." Dick mumbles as he looks at the pictures pulling one off the wall with red and black all over it was still wet.
"We should call Superman." Roy says as he looks around the room.
…
Conner wakes up stretching walking over to them as they eat breakfast. "Morning." He says to them. They look at him.
"Morning." Megan says to him then looks away.
"Good morning." Zatanna says to him with a smile then looks away.
"Hey dude." Roy says to him then looks down at his food.
"Morning." Dick says to him drinks his milk.
They were all look away from him.
"What?" Conner asks them confused.
They look back at him. "Nothing." They say to him then they look back at their food eating.
"Did I do something wrong?" Conner asks them.
"No." they say to him.
"Ok, why are you guys acting all weird?"
"We're not." Roy says to him.
"We're good." Megan says to him.
"You good?" Zatanna asks him.
"I'm fine, a little weired out by you guys right now." Conner says as he goes over to the orange juice pouring himself a glass drinking.
"Any dreams?" Zatanna asks.
"A couple."
"What where they about?" Megan asks him.
"About death, destruction, and despair. The basic D's of my life." Conner says to them, they look at him worried. "I'm kidding…sorta of."
"Well if you do have a bad dream again, you can always tell me about it." Megan says to him.
Conner looks at her. "Really?"
"Yes."
"Ok." He says her. "Well I gotta go meet Mike, he needs help with his Calculus homework." He says as he finishes his orange juice. "Later." He says as he teleports out.
"I can't believe we didn't tell him." Megan says when he leaves.
"We should have told him." Roy says feeling a little wrong lying to Conner.
"Superman said not too." Dick says to them.
"Yeah we always do what they tell us to do." Zatanna says sarcastically.
…Mike's house
"Find the average value of the function f over the interval [0,4] f(x)= 5e^(-x) basically find the intergral of the function... and plug in the highest interval into that function... and use that same function to plug in the smaller integral and subtract from them. (a-b)." Mike mumbles to himself over the question as they sit in the living room. Conner was sitting down in the floor by the coffee table tapping his finger on the book in front of him. "Sooooo, the answer isssss…"
"Ok, it's not helping if I give you the answers." Conner says to him.
"No, but if you do we can go out and catch a movie." He says and continues to smile at him.
"But you wouldn't be able to pass the test."
"Yeah I'm more of a here and now."
"No you're not."
"Ok, I'm not, this is just really boring."
Conner grabs the pencil from him and writes down the answers. "Answer is (5/4)(1 - e^(-4))."
"Awesome." Mike says smiling looking at the answer. "How do you do that?"
"Answer the question?"
"Yeah."
"I like to read."
"How are things going in here?" Mrs. Shepard says as she walks in with a tray filled with cookies and two glasses of milk.
"Fine mom, you don't have to keep coming in, we're not watching tv we're studying." Mike says to his mother.
"I'm just making sure." Mrs. Shepard says to him as she puts down the tray on the coffee table as she looks at Conner, Conner grabs a cookie and starts eating. "Well…umm study hard." She says and leaves hesitantly.
"They've been acting weird."
"Weirder then most parents?"
"Yeah, I think its cause I'm leave, you know college and all that."
"Wouldn't know, when I go to college it'll be in China or something."
"So far away from them as possible."
"Pretty much."
"Alright, let's finish so we can go catch a movie."
…Mount Justice
"A D?" Zatanna says as she looks at a paper, with red marks all over, underlines, circles. "I can't believe it, a D."
"What's a D?" Dick says as he walks in, and gives Zatanna a kiss on the lips. "Hi honey."
"Hi darling." Zatanna says back. "Conner got a D in his History essay."
"Oh, ouch, what was the topic?" Dick asks Conner, as he lays down on the floor with Wolf.
"Columbus, Heroic explore or Scumbag from Spain." Conner says to him brushing Wolf's hair getting rid of the knots.
"You must really want to go to summer school." Dick says to him.
"It's completely moronic, the man was a slave trader." Conner says standing up. "Do they want the truth or do they just want me to spit back a textbook."
"Conner, if it wasn't for him we wouldn't be where we are now."
"High school is just learning lies and telling lies." Conner says to him. "Come on Wolf, let's go play." They leave.
"What's his problem?"
"I think this whole lying about being a superhero is getting to him, plus he and Kim broke up." Zatanna says to him.
"People don't realize, what hard work it is to keep a secret identity."
"Well, you are the king of that aren't you?"
"Yes I am."
"Does that make me your queen?" Zatanna says as she pulls herself close to Dick.
"There is a spot open."
"A spot open?"
"Yeah." Dick says as he grabs her hand pulls her to the couch.
"You're really bad at this."
"I'm trying."
"Ok, let's make out then."
"Whatever you say my Queen."
"Oh I like that."
…Happy Harbor High school
"Any more ideas?" Wendy asks the student council as she looks around the long rectangular table with her and Conner at the top.
"How about a Fire and Ice Ball, we can divide the room one side fire and the other side ice or with could mix it up." Karen suggests.
"Ok, that ok, anybody else."
"Winter Wonderland." Marvin says with a smile.
They all groan.
"Marvin, we said no winter wonderland, it's way over used." Wendy says to him annoyed.
"Just listen, ice sculptures, dry ice, huge snowflakes cut out and hanging over the whole ceiling, white and silver decorations. OH and polar bears, we can have someone dressed up as a polar bear." Marvin says to her. "Can I be the polar bear!?" he says exited.
"Anybody else?"
"We've been at this for 40 minutes." Conner groans.
"We don't see you coming up with anything." Wendy tells him.
"Fine, how about a Winter masquerade, everybody can dressed in white and silver."
"Oh I like that better, forget mine." Karen says.
"All in favor?" Wendy asks, everybody but Marvin raise their hands. "Majority rule, Winter Masquerade theme it is."
"Anything else?" Conner asks.
"I would like to explore the option of having a professional photographer take the photos. Every year we use that cheesy picture place, and every year people wind up with those VH1 'Before They Were Stars' pictures, and I for one would like to stop the humiliation now." Karen says to him.
"How are we going to get a professional photographer?" Mike asks her.
"My mom knows Linda Hawkins." Marvin says with a smile.
"Okay, sign her up." Wendy says to him. "All right, I think that's all we have time for today."
Marvin then walks over to Wendy. "I'll give you an estimate when I talk to her."
"Cool, thanks."
"What's up with you?" Mike asks Conner.
"What do you mean?" Conner asks him as they walk out of the room going to swim practice.
"You've been acting snippy lately."
"Yes, well, I'm very worried about this dance, with the photographer and the theme."
"Conner." Mike scoffs.
Conner sighs. "Kim and I broke up."
"Oh…" Mike says and smiles a little. "I'm so sorry."
"Do that again without the smile."
"Sorry." He says again suppressing the smile. "Wanna go do something after school?"
"Dinner and sex?" Conner says sarcastically.
Mike chuckles. "No, more like video games and sex."
"I'm seeing a pattern here."
"Sex is the best remedy for a broken heart."
"How about video games and pizza?"
"Deal."
…Gym
"Oh god, I hate working out." Sam says as he stretches his arms, he was wearing black basketball shorts, and a yellow muscle shirt, tennis shoes.
"Tell me about it, the whole reason I love swimming is because you hardly sweat." Riki says to him, as he puts his arms behind his back, and keeps his back straight. He was wearing gray t-shirt and shorts and nike shoes.
"I like it." Conner says, crossing his arms smiling, he was wearing shorts, tennis shoes and a black t-shirt that says Your workout is my warm up with yellow letter.
"Hey Conner."
"Oh hey Kim." Conner says back.
Kim smiles at him. "Hi, guys."
"Hi Kim." Mike says to her with a smile.
"I like your t-shirt." Sam says to her.
Kim looks down at her pink muscle shirt, part of her sports-bra showing, the black letters Strong women only intimidate weak men. "Thanks, Sam." She says back to him.
"Circuit one!" Coach Kipling yells out at them, they look at him and spread out, going to different sections of the gym, at the different type of workout equipment. "One-minute intervals. Begin!" he yells out and blows his whistle.
As the students, girls and boys bench press, olympian rings, medicine ball, jumping rope, leg press, pushups on the floor, sit ups.
"Breathe!" Coach Kipling yells. "Don't forget to breath! Section two. Time! Switch! Let's go."
Sam pause for a second looking up at the rings in midair. "Grab the rings, dude!" Conner yells at him as he jumps on the rope, Sam rolls his eyes and jumps up grabbing them then pulling himself up.
"Push yourself!" Coach Kipling yells out. "Let's go! Time. Rotation. Let's go! Come on! Pick it up, people. Come on!"
They keep going, keep switching, going harder, trying to go faster. Coach Kipling keeps yelling at them to go harder and faster, until the Coach Kipling blows the whistle, they stop falling down on the floor panting, sweating, sore.
"Don't compact your muscles now, we're just getting warmed up."
"That was a warm up?" Mike asks on his knees.
They groan.
Conner jumps up. "Woohoo!" he yells out pumping his fists. "Let's go again!"
"I hate you." Mike mumbles.
"You better get used to it." Coach Kipling says to him, they all look at him. "Because we are going to go on overdrive, we will be meeting every day for after school to do this. And during the weekend we will have practice."
"What?!"
"Uh-oh."
"Oh Saturday at 6 am, you will wake up eat a small breakfast, put on your workout clothes and meet at the beach from there we will be running back school."
"That's like 10 miles." Kim says to him.
"Yes it is, we will be doing drills and mock races until 10."
"Am?"
"PM."
Every one groans.
Conner looked concerned usually after school on Friday, Saturday and Sunday were reserved for missions from Batman or training sessions with Canary. It could be a problem.
...Mike's house
"Just put it in your mouth already." Conner says to Mike.
"No, I don't like it." Mike says to him annoyed.
"Don't be such a baby."
"Conner-"
"It tastes really good."
"Fine, just for you."
Mr. Shepard opens the door overhearing them. "What is going on-?!...here."
Mike was sitting down on his bed, Conner next to him. Mike was holding a banana and a red Gatorade on the other hand, while Conner had a water bottle.
"Hi, Mr. Shepard." Conner waves.
"Knock much dad?"
"Sorry, I thought…never mind." Mr. Shepard says nervously. "What happen?"
"Coach Kipling is trying to kill us and I can't feel my legs." Mike says to him. "OH and on Saturday is there any way possible you can drop me off at the beach, we have practice at 6."
"At 6 pm?!"
"You can come pick me up at 5:30." Mike says to Conner.
"Ok, do you have any of that hot and cold cream?" Conner asks. "It's good for sore muscles."
"No, we ran out a couple of weeks ago, I was too lazy to get some."
"Ok well, I will go buy you some." Conner says, putting the cap on the water bottle and putting it down.
"And more Gatorade." Mike says to him and Conner walks off.
"Got it." Conner says to him.
"And a protein bar."
"Ok."
"And ice cream."
"Ice cream?" Conner asks
"For the banana." Mike tells him.
"Fine, I'll be back in 15." Conner says walking past Mr. Shepard.
"Wait!" Mike yells out, Conner turns back to look at him. "Dad give him money."
Conner puts up his hand, Mr. Shepard pulls out his wallet. "I have a 50."
"Cool, I can pump gas." Conner says as takes it walking off.
"Wait a minute!" Mr. Shepard yells out as Conner runs down the stairs and out the door. "Get me the receipt!" he yells out, the door shuts. Mike chuckles. "It's not funny Mike."
"Sorry dad."
"It's 50 dollars."
"I know."
"I thought you two had swim practice together."
"We do."
"Sooo, he's on steroids?"
"No, he's just…Conner." Mike says to him as he takes a bite out of the banana, then looks at him. "Did you want something?"
"No, I was just…"
"Dad? You ok?"
"Fine, I was just checking on you. We haven't talked in a while."
"Ok, do you want to talk now cause when Conner comes back we're gonna play Resident evil and order pizza and then probably fall asleep."
"Ok, how's life?" Mr. Shepard says as he walks over and sits on the bed in the middle of the room.
"Good."
"Any girls you like?"
"Not at the moment, I'm trying to focus on getting a swimming scholarship so you and mom don't have to pay so much and the way things are going, we might actually have a chance at the finals."
"Oh kid you don't have to worry about that."
"I know, I just don't want you guys going broke putting me through College."
"We put aside money for your college a long time ago, Mike-"
"Look, I love swimming and if it pays for college who I'm I going to argue with."
"Are you gay?" he blurts out.
"…what?"
"I heard you and Conner talking-"
"Conner? No, he's my friend, that's all."
"So you two aren't-?"
"No."
"Really because I overheard you and him fighting the other day, and by other day I mean after the dance."
"Oh…" Mike says, then remembers the fight he and Conner had after the 20s dance. "OH!" he yells out. "Oh crap." He mumbles.
"Yes."
"That was a while ago."
"Yes."
"So what was the question?"
"Are you gay? Bisexual, or is this just a phase?"
"Umm, well, I haven't really thought about it much."
"You haven't?"
"The thing is...how much do you want to know?"
"Just summarize it for me."
"I want a relationship-"
"Oh god." Mr. Shepard says horrified looking away.
"Want me to stop?"
"No, keep going."
"I want a relationship but Conner doesn't."
"Really?" Mr. Shepard says looking at him with a smile.
"Dad-"
"So you're not gay."
"Well I'm not looking around the locker room if that what you mean."
"Good!" Mr. Shepard yells out, Mike looks at him. "No, not good, I mean it's good that you're not gay, not that I'd be bad. I'm complete open about the idea. I like gays, but I still think they should suffer like everyone else and be allowed to marry and divorce like the rest of us." He rambles at bits.
"Ok."
"I'm glad you told me."
"I'm glad I told you."
"Ok!" Mr. Shepard gets up from the bed. "I'm going to buy us some Chinese."
"I'm back, took longer than expected, the line was long." Conner says walking in with a plastic bag.
"Conner."
"Mr. Shepard."
"I'm buying Chinese."
"Oh, sweet and sour for me." Conner says as he goes to the bed, with Mike putting down the plastic bag with small ice cream, Gatorade, protein bar and cream.
"Kao Pao chicken.
"OH fried biscuits!"
"YES!"
"And I'll though in some vegetables." Mr. Shepard says to him.
"Carrots." Conner says happy.
"Eww."
"Shut up, I like carrots."
"I like carrots too, I was just making fun of you."
"You're so mean."
…Mount Justice
/dream
Kon looked down from the building past the neon lights, seeing Bruce and Dick. Bruce with an arrow in his shoulder and Dick with a panic face.
Kon smiles. "Bullseye."
/end
Conner wakes up with a gasp as if he had been underwater and takes a breath. He was sick of it, all of the nightmares. He couldn't sleep, he could barely close his eyes without seeing something horrible. Conner gets up in his boxers and walks out of the room then goes over to Zatanna's room opening the door carefully.
He walks in seeing Zatanna asleep, and Dick was on the other side spooning her, a blanket over them, he goes over to her. "Zatanna?" he whispers as he shakes her a little.
"mmm, what?" she mumbles.
"I had a bad dream."
"are you ok?" she mumbles again, not opening her eyes.
"Can I sleep here with you?"
"sure."
Conner picks up the blanket and puts his back to her, Wolf stealthy gets up on the bed and goes to sleep at the foot of the bed.
Somewhere in the middle of the night, Dick had turn on his back, so he turned to face Zatanna and puts his arm around her and kisses the back of her neck, realizing that he was kissing Zatanna because one she has a lot of hair and two because she was muscular. Dick pulls away and finally opens his eyes to see Conner sleeping, he sits up looking down at Conner, he takes a quick look around. He was in Zatanna's room, he quietly gets up and goes to the door he opens the door and turns to look at Conner.
"Huh." Dick says then, walks off to the kitchen.
"Hi honey, breakfast?" Zatanna says as she flips a pancake.
"Um, morning, mind telling me why Conner was sleeping in your bed?"
"He had a nightmare last night."
"So you let him sleep with up."
"It's my bed."
"Zatanna-"
"I'm not fighting you about this."
"Zatanna, he tried to kill you." Dick says to her annoyed and angry.
"I don't care." Zatanna snaps at him, she turns off the stove. "Make your own damn breakfast." She walks off angry.
…Metropolis
"So what's the big story today, farm boy?" Lois Lane asks as she walks in his office wearing a purple tight skirt, purple coat and a white button up shirt underneath. "Some middle school holding a bake sale?" she asks teasing. "maybe a ribbon-cutting at an old folks home? Wait, I know! Cat stuck in a tree!"
"Well, actually, Lois, it is a human-interest story." Clark Kent says to her, wearing his glasses, white button up shirt and slakes, sitting on his desk. He picks up a photo of two middle aged men. "And I do think it's pretty interesting."
"You would, Clark Kent."
"Here, Jimmy just dropped these off. I'm writing about two brothers, but they didn't know they were brothers." Clark says giving her the picture of them for her to see. "They didn't even know each other existed. They were given up for adoption as babies, but to different families. Now, all these years later, they've found each other."
"Fluff." Lois says to him leaning on his desk in front of him.
"They're inseparable now. They're family." Clark says to her.
"Fluff." She says leaning closer to him.
"I think it's kinda of sweet."
"Fluff!" she yells at him.
"I'm with her." Conner says, they both turn to look at him sitting down in a chair, they hadn't heard him come in. "Even hearing you say it makes me barf."
"Little Smallville." Lois says with a smile.
"What are you doing here?" Clark says to him.
"I got bored."
"Shouldn't you be in scho-Oh god, please tell me you didn't set it on fire again."
"You set the school on fire?"
"No, it was chemistry, and it wasn't my fault. Sara Eisen is an idiot who should not be around a Bunsen burner. Plus it's 6, schools out."
"Oh." Clark says to him.
Lois looks at Conner. "Nice shirt." She says pointing to his black shirt with red letters 333 only half evil.
"I get that a lot."
"What do you want Conner?"
"I got bored."
"Don't you have friends?"
"Coach has us all in this new training regiment, everyone's either tired, sore or what's to kill themselves."
"Why aren't you tired, sore, or what to kill yourself?"
"Why are you here?" Conner asks her rudely. "Is she your girlfriend?" he asks Clark. "You can do better." He tells him.
"I'm gonna punch you." Lois says to him angry.
Conner looks at her. "I'm waiting."
"Are you sure you two are related?"
"Half-brother." Clark says to her.
"Our dad was a whore." Conner says with a smirk.
"What about your mother?"
"Never meet her."
"So what, you just found him?"
"I was looking to get emancipated and Clark adopted me."
"I did not, I would never adopt you, hell will freeze over before I adopt you."
"That's so mean daddy." Lois says teasing him.
"Lois!" Clark yells at her.
"I like that daddy." Conner says with a smirk.
"Conner." Clark groans.
"Ooooo daddy's getting angry." Conner says.
"Is daddy gonna spank us?" Lois teases.
"Oh my god!"
They laugh at him.
"Hey we got the vain in the forehead." Conner says laughing. "High five!" he says putting up his hand, she claps his hand.
"Ok, I'm liking you a little more."
"Just don't get on my bad side."
"You're the only one I know who can get Clark to lose his composure, it's kinda of entertaining."
"You should see me with his parents."
"You've meet them once, and they actually liked you."
"Your dad said I was a smart ass."
"You heard that?"
"I have excellent hearing."
"Hold on." Lois says a little confused. "Where do you live?" she asks Conner.
"Guys!" Jimmy runs in. "Giant asteroid is about to hit Arizona!" he runs back out.
Lois runs off after him, Conner looks at Clark.
"Are we gonna-?"
"Yup."
…Arizona
Both Superman and Superboy stop the asteroid in midair.
"PUSH Superboy!" Superman yells at his tries to stop the 3 stories house asteroid from hitting Arizona
"I AM!"
Superboy's eyes turn red, he puts his hand back and punches it into teeny tiny little rocks and by the time it entered anywhere near Arizona they were nothing. His eyes go back to normal.
"How did you do that?" Superman asks looking down at Arizona.
"I punched it."
"You punched it."
"I punched it."
"You punched it?"
Kon turns to look at him with a big smile on his face. "I punched it."
"Good job."
"It means so much coming from you." Kon says a little bit sarcastically.
Superman roughly ruffles his hair. "Brat." He tells him, Kon chuckles.
…Hall of Justice
"No, no way. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Superman repeats himself.
"So no?" Catherine Cobert asks him.
"I can't ok, me and Kon in live televisions, it's a disaster waiting to happen."
"Just tell him to play nice." Catherine Cobert says to him. Batman, Wonder woman and Superman look at her. "I'm sure if you tell him how important it is, he'll do it."
"You haven't meet Kon-El have you." Wonder Woman asks her.
"The public wants to know who he is, Gordon Godfrey is making up rumors about an alien invasion from Krypton."
"Miss Cobert-"
"You gave me this job to be the League's public affairs officer, trust me this is the right move."
They look at her, she was right.
"Oh my god, Kon in live television." Superman says hand on his forehead.
"I'll make sure to tape it."
"You're a big help Batman."
…Mount justice
"Are you nuts?" Kon asks him shocked.
"Kon-"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no." Kon says to him.
"Kon-"
"No, aucun, nyet, jo, ne, nulla, nie, không, nein!"
"How many languages do you know?" Superman asks him shocked.
"About a trillion, do you want me to continue?"
"No." Superman says to him. "This wasn't my idea, Miss. Cobert thinks-"
"Who?"
"The League's public affairs officer."
"You have one of those? What I'm I talking about of course you have one of those."
"I'll do whatever you want for a week."
"I don't want anything from you."
"A month."
"Kal-"
"What do you want? I'll give it to you."
"I don't want anything."
"You have to want something, everyone what's something?"
"Ok, I want to not have to do this."
"I'm playing nice here Kon."
"Oh what are you going to do huh?"
"I'll…I'll…I'll…damn it!"
"What's going on?" Wally asks walking in from the kitchen.
"Kon's being impossible."
"Isn't that the way, he always is?" Zatanna asks shrugging.
"He's been out in public to much this last couple of weeks, people want to know who he is, so Miss. Cobert put up an interview live with Cat Grant but he won't do it."
"I'm totally taping that." Robin says.
"No, you won't because I'm not doing it." Kon says stubbornly.
"You have too, there's nothing entertaining anymore on tv." Wally says to him.
"Yeah you can only watch pregnant teenagers so many times before you start yelling at the tv buy birth control." Artemis says to him.
"Have you tried blackmailing him?" Roy asks him.
"Roy!"
"I have nothing on him."
"I do."
"You've got nothing!" Kon yells at him.
"Oh I seem to remember a little boy who didn't know better and wore tights."
"Only Robin has that picture." Kon says to him. "Robin would never betray me like that." He says looking at Robin. "Robin?" he looks at him. "Dick!"
"He begged me and he paid me 40 bucks."
"That's right my friend, I've got you in tights!" he shows him a picture of him in in red, blue tight costume.
"NO!"
"I got mad skills, Robin ain't the only one with a computer." Roy says to him with a smile.
"You guys are mean."
Metropolis…Daily Planet
"He's not coming." Superman says with a sigh sitting on a red two seat couch.
"He'll be here." Miss. Cobert says to him.
"You really don't know him."
"Hey." Superboy says walking in with a giant pretzel.
"You're late."
"Yeah I know, I hope I'm not pregnant." Superboy says sarcastically.
"Ok you weren't exaggerating." Miss. Cobert says to Superman, she snaps her fingers people come up to him and start putting wires on him for the microphone. Superboy takes a bite out of his pretzel and a man takes it way, and they leave.
"They took my pretzel." Superboy says sadly.
"Superboy." Cat Grant says in a blue dress. "It's very nice to finally meet you."
"They took my pretzel."
"Oh for gods sakes, I'll buy you a new one, I'll even make you one if you want." Superman says annoyed.
"Ok." Cat Grant says to him a little confused then walks over to a one seat red couch. "Umm, ok, we will get to know each other better, sit."
"Come on Kon, sit down."
"Please, sit. Sit." Miss Cobert says to Superboy pulling him to the couch that Superman was already sitting down on.
"There's a lot of pressure to do it right now." Superboy says and sits down.
"We're live in 5-4-3"
"Whoa they actually do that." Superboy whispers to Superman.
"Please, please Kon, be good."
Go, he man mouths.
"Hi, I'm Cat Grant and I'm here in the Daily Planet with none other than both Superman and Superboy." She says to the camera smiling. "Say Hi to the Camera boys."
"Hi." Superman says politely.
"Hi." Superboy says putting his head down a little for the microphone to hear on the collar. "I'm I gonna have to start talking like this-OW!" he yells out. "You pinch me!"
"What are you talking about?"
"You totally pinch my thigh."
"Superboy please."
"This is going great." Superboy mumbles, rubbing the side of his left thigh.
"Ok, um well, you were a little bit late Superboy did something happen?" Cat Grant asks.
"Yeah, I'm really sorry about that, some bad guys found a tape of me assassinating a dictator and now the tapes are out for sale. Also I was captured by ninjas." Superboy says sarcastically. "It was all very stressful."
"He's being sarcastic." Superman says quickly with a nervous smile. "He does that."
"Yeah, it comes and goes. You'll learn to notice the signs. The waves get really still, the animals start to act funny." Superboy says.
"You know his name is actually Kon-El." Superman says.
"I was raised by amazons." Kon blurts out. "Wait what game are we playing?"
"It's not, I was changing the subject."
"OH, ok."
"You were raised by amazons Superboy?" Cat Grant asks getting a word in.
"Yes, you can call me Kon-El well just Kon will be fine. Kon-El is reserved for when Superman gets mad at me for something I did."
"Which is more often than you'd think."
"Kon it is."
"And yes, when my powers started getting a little out of control, Superman was busy with you know saving people so Wonder woman suggested I spend time in Paradise Island so I did and I got my powers under control." Kon says to her.
"What kinda of things did they teach you?"
"They taught me hand-to-hand combat, archery, swordsmanship, how to make sculptures, paintings, craft, fishing, and how to shower in a waterfall." He says to her, she continues to look at him. "The End." He says with a smile.
"What kind of powers do you have?"
"Superman's ones. Super strength, super speed, heat visio- Oh I can do this." Superboy says puts his lips together making a fish face then stops. "Kal can't do that."
"Really?" Cat Grant says giggling.
"For over an hour, I tried to teach him, nothing."
"How old are you?"
"16."
"Wow, you're really young."
"Can't you tell?" Superman asks her.
"You two are so incredibly selfless it's amazing."
"Thank you." Kon says, Kal turns to look at her. "Not that we are amazing, we're aren't, I can named dozens of things we screw up. Like um Superman has no social life-"
"Stop talking." Kal says to him.
"And it's just been these last couple of week, people what to know everything about you, Kon. This kinda of attention it's amazing."
"Yeah, people are just you know curious."
"Have you gotten used to it?"
Kon chuckles. "Totally." He says sarcastically, Cat giggles. "No, it's a little bizarre but mostly it just centers around Metropolis and when I leave it's like nobody knows who I am. I have to make sure that I still have the S on my chest otherwise it's like who the hell are you? It's extremely offensive."
Cat giggles again. "Well you guys are different really different."
"Giant generation gap." Superman nods. "He goes with the flow."
"And he's by the rules."
"If we were twins it'd make a great book."
"Movie, Kal, Movie."
"You like books."
"Oh I love books, I worship them but other people don't, it's just good business, Kal."
"We tend to not agree on a lot of things."
"Like what?" Cat asks him.
"Education." Superboy says to him.
"Guns." Superman says to him.
"Drugs."
"Profanity."
"Abortion."
"Stop it!" Superman yells at him.
"You name it, we disagree."
"You guys talk about that?"
"Well it's like everywhere so it's hard not to."
"For or against?" Cat Grant asks curiously.
"I'm for it, woman power baby." Kon says putting up his fist.
"Can we talk about something else?" Superman asks wanting to change the subject.
"And you know why?" Superboy asks ignoring Superman who rolls his eyes. Cat shakes her head smiling interested. "Because he is a lily-livered, bleeding-heart, fascist."
"And you are a Liberal, egg head, communist."
"Oh-Bhhhh." Superboy blows a big raspberry.
"See what I have to deal with."
"Hey! You get my support the same way I get yours. When I agree with what you're saying or when I don't care about what you're saying."
"OK!" Cat Grant yells out as if she was a mother. "How about we change the subject?"
"You know it doesn't even matter, people do crappy things all the time, trying to kill each other, over and over and over and over."
"You are so cynical."
"Realist, you optimist."
"How about we take questions we have questions right?" Cat asks looking at the people behind the cameras. "We do?! Great!" she yells out, a man with a headset gives her papers. "Thank you. Ok, here we go. This is from Alex in Indianapolis, have you ever been there?"
"Yeah, I saw the giant dinosaurs in the children's museum it was awesome I'd totally want to have a T-rex as a pet." Kon says to her.
"You're not getting a T-rex." Superman says.
"Can I have a cat?"
"Well talk about it later."
"How about a fish, can I get an aquarium?"
"No."
"Snake?"
"No."
"Did you ask us a question?" Kon asks Cat Grant.
"Do you ever envy any other super hero?" Cat asks him reading the paper.
"Who are you asking, me or Kon?"
"Both."
"If I was envy of anyone I'd be envied of…" Superman thinks for a second.
"Black Canary." Kon says with a smile.
"Flash." Superman turns to Kon. "Black Canary?"
"Flash?"
"What, he has his own museum."
"And Black Canary kicks bad guys butt in high heels."
"Ok, moving on." Superman says.
"Ok, umm. Do you ever have nightmares, what do you dream about?"
"Oh this is so weird!" Kon yells. "I had a nightmare the other day that I killed Batman! I freaked me out, I woke up sweating. Oh also I have a recurrent nightmare that all of the animals in the world go extinct and everyone's a vegetarian and then people start turning into carrots and apples then they start eating each other."
"You have very weird dreams." Cat Grant says to him.
"You killed Batman?" Superman asks him.
Kon scoffs. "Like you never have that dream."
"No, I don't, he's my friend."
"Sure, sure." Kon says to him then winks at him.
"I don't."
"OK." Kon says to him then winks at him again.
"Next question." Superman sighs.
"Are you a virgin?'
"No, next question." Superman says quickly.
Kon chuckles.
"Martha in New York City she asks, did astronauts really land on the moon?"
"Yes they did, the flag is there and everything." Superman says with a smile.
"I took a picture of that when I realized I could go up in space without dying, hold on." Kon says pulls out his phone from his side leg pocket combat jeans and uses his index finger to flip his phone. "There it is." He says putting up his phone. "Can you zoom in the screen." He says as the camera zoom's in at Kon and the flag on the moon. "It's a batphone so I get great reception. Top notch seriously."
"Next question?" Superman asks Cat Grant with a smile.
"Boxers or briefs?"
"I mix it up a bit, Robin actually got me Batman boxers they're yellow and have little black bats on them, so I got him Superman boxers with little hearts on them." Kon says to him smiling, he turns to look at the camera. "Robin however does not wear underwear under him uniform, he goes completely commando."
"Kon-El." Superman snaps at him.
"He started it."
"That questions is a little bit inappropriate so I'm going to have to pass." Superman says politely.
Kon looks at the camera shaking his head and mouths. He doesn't wear any. Superman turns to look at him, Kon smiles at him innocently.
"Greg from Ohio asks Do you ever think about going to the darkside?"
"Yes." Superboy says, Superman looks at him. "Did I answer too quickly?" he asks him.
"What is wrong with you?"
"I'm a teenager Kal, it is my destiny to go over to the darkside then come back to the good side. It's part of growing up."
"Kon-"
"Are you telling me you never rebelled as a kid? Ever?"
"No."
"How about you Miss. Grant?" Kon asks her.
"Me?"
"Yeah, ever smoked pot behind your high school?"
"No."
"Drank Beer?"
"No."
"You're making me look bad in live television." Kon says to pointing to the camera.
"Yeah, that'd be next to impossible to do." Superman says to him.
"Next question."
"Chris from Massachusetts asks, Ever wish you could ditch the cape?"
"Sometimes, but it's a Kryptonian heritage."
"Kinda like a cowboy hat down south."
"Kon."
"Plus it's indestructible."
"The hats?" Miss. Grant asks.
"No the cape." Superman says to him.
"Keep up." Kon says to her.
"Kevin from California is asking me to yell out I love you Superboy!"
"Thank you." Kon says to the camera, Superman chuckles. "You're a very secure man."
"He's probably seen your socks."
"I like my socks." Kon says to Superman, then looks at Cat Grant. "They're crazy socks, they make up from having to wear jeans, combat boots and a black S shirt for the rest of my life."
"You can always wear tights." Superman says smiling.
"Don't speak of it!" Kon yells at him covering his ears.
"You don't like tights?" Cat asks him.
"No it's like oil and water it just doesn't mix well."
"He'd be the oil, very stubborn chemical substance." Superman says nodding.
"Hey I can be water, I'm very go with the flow type of kid plus I like fish. Dolphins are adorable, whales are great, and sharks are the scariest animals in the entire animal kingdom."
"Next question."
"This is for the both of you this is from Lisa from Texas."
"I love Texas, and I absolutely love that it used to be its own country." Kon says happy.
"It takes the stubbornness to a whole new level." Superman says.
"Why not? Henry the VIII started a new church when the old one wouldn't allow divorce."
"He also cut off his wife's head. Is he still your role model?"
"No, it's bad to cut off your wife's head." Kon says to him teasing a little. "Then they can't talk to you and what's the point of having a person for the rest of your life if you can't talk to them occasionally not while a football game is on of course."
"Oh of course."
"What was the question?" Kon asks her confused.
"Umm it was, I didn't say it." Cat says enjoying herself while they babble a little. "Ok, Lisa from Texas asks Who is Justice League material?"
"That's a good question, Kal how do you pick and choose who's Justice League material?" Kon says to him leaning on the couch's arm with his elbow.
"Heroes who aren't above the age of 18 for starters." Superman says to him, Kon sticks his tongue out at him. "Or stick there tongue out at least twice a day."
"You might as well put out the pasture."
"It's a thought."
"Kal!"
"We discuss origin, gender, size, experience, age, temperament, background but it all comes down to who we trust to have our backs during fight."
"And certainly not an alien from outer space, a princess from a society of immortal warriors, a class clown, a guy with serious daddy issues, a fish, a crazy man in a suit, a normal human, or a shape shifter who can read your thoughts without you even realizing it." Kon says making every founding member looking like a bad idea.
"The point is, sometimes the answer isn't obvious at all. So really who is truly worthy of being a Leaguer-?"
"A selfless alien from another universe." Kon says pointing to Superman, Superman smiles at him. "An unbreakable urban warrior."
"Wonder woman." Superman says.
"The fastest man alive."
"Flash."
"A fearless space cop."
"Green Lantern."
"A King."
"Aquaman."
"A cunning military mind from another culture."
"Martian Manhunter."
"The best marksman on the planet."
"Green Arrow."
"And a swashbuckling cape crusader who can't say not to a friend."
Superman chuckles. "Batman's gonna kill you for that." He says with a smile.
"He can try." Kon says to him with a shrug.
"I'm sure he has a backup plan."
"And a backup plan for the backup plan."
"And a backup plan for the backup plan for the backup plan."
"Oh dear where trapped in a cycle of backup plans."
"Did you just say oh dear?"
"Can't pull it off?"
"Nope, sorry kid."
"Next questions."
"Paul from Louisiana asks do you ever x-ray random women?"
"No." superman and Kon both say at the same time.
"I think that's the first time you've ever agreed on anything." Cat says to them.
"Don't worry, it's for total different reasons." Kon says to her.
"It's completely wrong!" Superman yells out.
"I however have seen Amazons naked and showered with them, have made sculptures of them naked and made oil paintings of them also naked. So for me even if the woman is drop dead gorgeous if she didn't know that Joe Biden was our vice-president or that Vladimir Putin was the President of Russia, I wouldn't give her a second look."
"So intellect is more important to you."
"Personality wise too. My friends have a running gag it's not really funny from me but whenever I have a crush on someone I tell them that they're good in science or math or love reading books. They ask me what do they look like I never know what to say. Pretty hair?"
"It's an attractive quality for some men." Cat tells him.
"You think?"
"Next time, just tell them they have pretty eyes."
"I can do that."
"Ok we got, Greg from Philadelphia he asks what's your favorite type of chocolate." Cat asks giggling a little.
"AH! I love chocolate! Do you love chocolate!?" Kon yells out exited.
"Yes! Are you kidding?!" Cat yells at happy.
"It's like the puppies, you can't not like them." Superman says with a smile.
"What kind of chocolate do you like?" Cat asks him.
"White Hersey chocolate with the little black looking kisses umm what's it called…OH Cookies 'n' crème. I love it! I can eat a whole giant box of it." Kon says.
"I believe that." Superman says nodding.
"What's your favorite?" Cat asks Superman.
"I like really really really really dark chocolate so when you bite into its bitter and gritty."
"And yours." Kon asks her.
"I like ceased caramels."
"That's good."
"Hey Kal, if your woman was a chocolate bar-"
"Are you Barbara Walters?"
Cat Grant and Kon start laughing.
"If you were a tree and a chocolate bar-" Kon says then quickly changes the subject. "So that must be bad though if your woman is a bitter chocolate bar."
"No, because you warm them in a pan until they're melted."
"ooooo." Kon and Cat tease him.
"I have no idea what I just said." Superman says honestly.
"You don't have too." Kon says to him.
"It sounded really sexy." Cat says to him.
"Would you like to go to my place and warm you till you're melted?"
"Now hold on, is that creepy or cool I'm not sure?" Kon says to Superman. "I mean have you tried it, will you try it-?"
"No, it's a little creepy." Superman says to him.
"But your Superman so you can probably get away with it." Cat says to him.
"But he has heat vision, what if he actually does try to melt someone in a pan you know what I mean?"
"Well I'd go to jail Kon!" Superman yells at him.
"Exactly." Kon agrees with him. "But you have to kinda wonder what would happen you know? Cause all people do-" he starts chuckling. "What people do is-this is awful but what people do is chop them up, they don't try to melt them in a pan." He says chuckling, Superman covers his face.
"Aren't serial killers funny?" Cat says with a smile.
"Well they're not, but you see them all the time on tv that CSI, Law and Order those other cop shows I can't name them all but you never see one trying to melt the person they killed."
"I wouldn't chop someone up." Superman says.
"Well I wouldn't either, but it can be something new to try you know. Melt someone in a pan." Kon says simply with a smile, Superman tries to suppress a laugh, while Cat tries to suppress a smile. "I'm sorry, I'm not encouraging anyone to try that at home."
"No we would never do that." Superman says. "We super heroes do not encourage anyone to melt people." He says looking straight at the camera.
"Oh boy." Cat says no longer smiling laughing or anything looking down at her papers in front of her.
"Oh geez." Superman says shaking his head.
"How did we get from do you like chocolate to this?" Kon asks. "Cause now I'm like-"
"Hey, hey, do you like puppies? Do you like little friendly things?" Superman says quickly interrupting Kon.
Kon looks at him nodding intensely. "Oh yes, yeah I do."
"I'm changing the subject."
"Well duh, yes I love puppies and also kittens."
"Me too, I think puppies and kittens are natures children."
"They warm my heart and make me smile inside." Kon says a little robotic and a little disgusted with himself.
Superman starts smiling. "You know what I like when you take a picture of a cat and at the bottom it says I wuv you."
"Yeah!" Kon says laughing. "Love that, it's cute."
"And it's spelled wuv, w-u-v." Superman says with a smile.
They turn to look at Cat, who was covering her face with her papers laughing.
"We should probably let the host talk." Kon says looking at Cat, who was shaking her head.
"I don't think she wants too." Superman says chuckling.
"Why is that scary man waving at us?" Kon asks pointing to a man that was waving at them behind the cameras.
"It means times up." Cat Grant says calming down.
"Thank god." Superman says with a sigh.
"I have an enhanced Kobra-Venom wolf, I named him Wolf he eats deer put prefers elks."
"Oh my god!" Cat yells out laughing thinking he was joking.
"Ok, bye." Superman says waves.
"I wasn't kidding, I do, I really do!" Superboy says to her.
"Let's do this again sometime." Cat says to them.
"Sure, so social security can take me away from this very bad environment."
"Services, Kon. Social Security is for older people."
"They take old people away?!" Kon yells out shocked, Cat starts to giggle. "Where do they take them too?"
"Can we be done? Please." Superman says to her.
"But where do they take the old people too? They don't hurt them do they?" Kon asks concerned.
"It's money Kon, they don't do anything to the old people. It's money for them, medication and things they need."
"Oh! I get it now, it thought they took them to group homes or something."
"They're called retirement homes."
"Aww, it's a home full of old people that's so nice."
Superman turns to Cat and smiles at her, Kon looks at her smiling.
"You two are…weird." Cat Grant says looking at them with a smile.
"Yeah." Superman says looking at her.
"Maybe that can be your new requirement weirdoes welcome."
"Maybe we can change the name instead of it being The Justice League it can be The Weirdoes League." Superman says going along with him.
"They can have t-shirt, spandex-"
"And baseball caps-"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, Oh can we have a cups, with giant WL logo on them." Kon says. "That scary man is waving at us again."
"Yeah, we're really out of time, so just wave good bye." Cat says to them waving.
"I prefer to hug, can I hug the camera?" Kon asks.
"No." Superman snaps at him as he waves at the camera.
"You are so hot and cold towards me."
"Are we done? It's getting a little weird waving."
"We've cut." Cat says to him getting up.
"Ok, I gotta go." Kon says getting off the couch, taking out his microphones.
"Where are you going?" Superman asks him getting the microphone off as well.
"I don't know, maybe I'll take Wolf to Africa." Kon says putting the wires in the couch.
"Well good luck with that." Superman says putting down.
"Thanks."
"Does he really eat deer and elk?"
"He chases them down and everything."
"Oh."
"It's a little gruesome."
"I'll bet."
"Can we take a quick picture?" Cat Grant asks as she walks up to them.
"Sure."
"We are very photogenic." Kon says as he runs his hand through his hair.
"Me too." Cat says to him with a smile getting in between Superman and him.
"Such a coincidence." Superman says with a smile.
A man comes up to them with a camera. "Cheese."
They all smile and flash.
"Ok, well, thank you both so much for doing this, it was very entertaining." Cat says to them.
"Um, there are like no windows here." Kon says looking around the room.
"Yeah, it's a studio, the sun messes up with lighting." Cat says to him.
"Well, I'm getting a little claustrophobic here, so I gatta go, before I start panicking and yelling Attica."
"Exist that way." Cat says pointing to a door, Kon walks off.
"I have to go too, a silent alarm just went off at a bank." Superman says to her. "It was fun."
"Yes it was."
Superman follows Kon out of the building and sighs as they are finally outside.
"Hey Kon, thanks for being calm about it all."
"Calm?" Kon asks him raising an eyebrow. "You blackmailed me, I'm gonna pay you back for that, and you won't see it coming." He says flying off.
"Oh damn it." Superman mumbles as he flies off. "It was Red Arrow's idea!" he yells out.
"I know, I was a late for a good reason."
…Mount Justice
Kon arrives at him home, and goes straight to the kitchen/living room.
"Hey Z."
"Hey K."
"What are you doing?"
"Sknird dna nrocpop." Zatanna says Drinks and popcorn as she waves her hand over the coffee table and they sit down on the couch. "We are going to watch your interview."
"Ok." Kon says as he takes off his combat boots putting them down on the floor.
Zatanna grabs the remote control and turns on the Tv and presses play on the guide he grabs a bowl of popcorn, puts his feet up on the coffee table sitting down and she sits close on him eating a popcorn on his lap, he puts his right around her.
"Who! Put! My Arrows! In the washing machine?! They're completely screwed up!" Roy yells out across the cave.
"Life is good." Kon says smiling.
Zatanna giggles. "You are bad."
"Nobody blackmails me and gets away with it."
"Good to know." Zatanna says then giggles again. "Did he actually pinch you?" she asks looking at the tv.
"Yeah he did, I have a bruise on my leg to prove it."
"So mean." She says eating popcorn.
"Agreed."
"Does this make you famous?"
"I don't know."
"Think you can introduce me to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie?"
"I can swing that."
"It is so cool, knowing someone who's famous, I'm totally asking for more favors."
Kon chuckles, and Zatanna laughs at the Tv.
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