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Mount Justice
September 22, 07:30 EDT
Mia was in her pajamas watching some TV show while drinking hot chocolate, nursing a cold. "This just had to happen to me. First I'm assaulted and get sent to the hospital with multiple injuries, second I 'break up' with a guy before we even dated, then he steals my first kiss and after all of that, I get sick with the cold. Lucky me" "Achoo!"
Mia sniffles and pulls up the covers tighter around her. She looks around for the remote but couldn't find it so she just leaves the channel on. What she doesn't know is that her powers are being manipulated by her cold, meaning that every time she sneezes something disappears. Feeling a wave of dizziness coming, Mia decides to lay down and take a nap on the couch.
18:25 EDT
Mia groggily wakes up. Rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, she looks over at the clock and saw that it was practically 6:30 at night. "I can't believe I missed breakfast and lunch" she whines and pouts.
She decides to get up and look for M'gann and Conner, knowing fully well that they're dating now. "One ship has sailed. Now I just need to wait for my other ships to board so they can sail." Mia wanders around the Cave until she finally found the couple kissing in the hangar. "This should be good" before Mia could scare them by yelling, Sphere interrupts them.
She huffs in annoyance and trudges over to the couple. M'gann finally notices Mia.
"Mia where've you been?"
"I've been in the Cave the whole day."
"But we looked everywhere."
"Did you now?" she eyes them skeptically "So you checked the sofa right? Cause that's where I-I….Achoo!"
"Bless you" Conner said.
"Thank you. I've been the entire time, sleeping. Why didn't you wake me up for lunch?" Mia pouts using her puppy dog eyes.
"I'm so sorry Mia. I got distracted" M'gann blushes.
"Yeah you did, by sucking face with him" Mia points at Conner.
He narrows his eyes and Mia does the same. Before anyone could say or do anything else, Wally walks in.
"I know you two are dating. I won't say a word."
Wally sees that everyone was around Conner's bike but he was worried about Mia. Barry told him what had happened to Mia a few days ago and he's been doing his best to make her smile. She had smiled a few times but it wasn't genuine and to make matters worse, she catches a cold. He hugs her and takes a minute to get a good look at her.
Mia's wearing a yellow shirt, red fuzzy pajama pants, purple fuzzy slippers and a quilt covering her upper body. Her hair is a mess, nose's red and runny and her eyes are puffy.
"And how's my little Mama Mia?"
She glared daggers at him and goes into a coughing fit. After the fit, she opens her mouth to speak but instead sneezes and teleports to who knows where. Wally looked back and forth from Mia's spot to the couple a few times.
"What just happened?" "Did you guys see that too?"
They nodded.
"Well let's hope she gets back safely. Now, you two sure spend a lot of time working on his bike. Obviously you need the Wall Man's expert help."
The couple pats Sphere after he made some beeping noise.
"So you have told no one else of this mole?" Red Tornado asks.
"I cannot be sure one exists. And if it does, if the Team is being betrayed from within I must investigate without….tipping my hand. But perhaps I should tell Batman" Kaldur wonders.
"Generally the Batman expects the Team to handle its own problems, but the decision is yours. I will return after monitor duty on the Watchtower" Tornado heads to the zeta tubes.
"I thought you were exempt from monitor duty since becoming our den mother."
"Recognized: Red Tornado, 1-6."
"I agreed to cover for Green Arrow. He has an interpersonal event with Black Canary. A hot date. Please make sure that Mia gets some rest and vitamins when she returns."
Tornado leaves for Watchtower while Kaldur stood in his spot pondering what he should do next.
Mia opens her eyes and sniffles. "Great now it's effecting my powers. Where am I anyway?" She finally takes a look around and felt her eyes pop out. Mia stood on the roof of The Daily Planet where a certain man with the initials CK works.
"Oh boy." The door leading to the roof jiggled and someone stepped out. Mia turns to see a women in business clothes looking around until her eyes locked with Mia's.
"Who are you? How did you get up here?"
The woman walks towards her as Mia steps into the shadows.
"Perfect. I'm on top of a building, sick with a cold and I don't have my suit on. Plus I think that's Lois Lane" "You wouldn't believe me I told you Ms. Lane" she sounded stuffed.
"How do you know my name?" Lois asks.
"Who doesn't know you? Now I know you're friends with Superman, so can you tell him that I-I…Achoo!" Mia teleports again.
Lois stares at the spot where Mia was just at and blinks a few times. "I think that's the new sidekick Clark told me about, Blink. I wonder what she wants me to tell him."
In Gotham, Artemis heads to an old out of order phone booth when Robin appears out of nowhere.
"Artemis?"
"Robin? I, uh…"
"How random that you're in Gotham City instead of Star City where your Uncle Green Arrow lives" "Let's see what she has to say. Heh heh"
"I'm, uh, here to see my cousin. She was in the state spelling bee here in Gotham City."
"C-O-O-L. Did she W-I-N?"
"N-O."
"D-R-A-G" "I'm having way too much fun with this."
"Yeah. Let's just go to the cave."
"Ladies first" Robin bows.
"Your town. You go" she counters.
He shrugs and enters the phone booth. "Recognized: Robin, B01." Next it was Artemis' turn "Recognized: Artemis, B08" but when she arrives at the cave, it was not something she was expecting.
She arrives to see smoke everywhere and heard Robin yell "Get down." A ball of fire was shot at her and she flips out of the way, dodging it in the process. Robin shows up in front of her and throws bird-arangs at the intruders. Artemis fires her arrows while Robin continues to throw his bird-arangs. Another ball of fire was shot at them and they dodged it just in time.
"Who are we fighting?"
"Don't know, but we're sitting ducks by these tubes. Head for the exit" and they did but the hallway was flooded with water. "Or not." "Where's everyone else?"
They tried to outrun the water but they got caught in it. As the water rushes down the hallway, the current smashes them into a wall and they fell to the ground when the water receded. The duo quickly got up and made a run for it as fire was being shot at them from behind when they made it to the gym.
"Robin to Team. Come in. Aqualad!"
"M'gann, can you hear me? Are you there?"
The door bursts open and a tornado of fire chased after them. They made it to the showers and quickly turned on the shower heads.
"Robin to Batcave. Override RG4. Cave calling Justice League. H-O-J slash Watchtower. B-0-1. Priority ray" no response "Com is down. Locked. At least the water's helping."
Oh how wrong he was. Water bursts from the pipes and floods the showers.
"Or not." "This is bad, really bad."
Robin and Artemis were stuck in a sticky situation: drown or get burned by a fire tornado. So Robin places a bomb on the other side of the room and waits. After getting out of the showers, the two of them headed for the kitchen.
"We need to get lost."
"The air vent!"
"Good. Go!"
Artemis went to the air vent while Robin was downloading something from the Cave's computer system.
"What are you-"
"Downloading cave blueprints. Could come in…" the sound of metal hitting the floor caught his attention "Go! Go!"
Both climbed into the air vents and crawled to get away from the intruders. "Go left" and as they turned left, the tunnel they were just in was filled with fire.
"Too close. Take the first right" Robin looks at the blueprints "There should be a vent grate right in front of you."
Artemis takes the grate off and slides down the chute with Robin right behind her. They made it to boiler room and Robin checks the blueprints again.
"This way" and they head down the stairs then jumped over the catwalk when things started to get hot. As they hid behind some equipment, Robin saw the meter go into the red zone on a machine. "That's not good" "This is just great."
As they ran under the catwalk, the intruder shot multiple fires at them but they managed to dodge every shot. Robin looks at the blueprints one more time "I know that other access tunnel is here somewhere."
"You mean this one?"
Artemis opened the grate and jumps in then Robin jumps in after placing a bomb. As they started crawling, Robin stops.
"Hold on" he opens an electric panel to gain access to the Cave's systems "Locking out the cave's motions and heat sensors to prevent the enemy from tracking us."
"And I ask again. Who is the enemy?"
"Let's find out. Downloading cave security footage. There" and they watched the footage.
'Torque wrench' Wally asks.
M'gann levitates it to him.
'Thank you, Green Cheeks.'
'I have been meaning to ask. Any problems juggling schoolwork with your responsibilities here?' Kaldur tries to act natural.
'No' Conner simply states.
'Juggling's just one of my many talents. Socket wrench' Wally says.
'Daily cheerleading practice has presented a challenge. Oh, but my first loyalty is always to the team. This team, not the bumblebees' M'gann comments.
Suddenly Mia pops out of nowhere and Kaldur asks the same question.
'Oh I'm doing good. I'm being homeschooled by T, so all good there' Mia spoke with a stuffy nose 'Achoo!' and she's gone again.
'Artemis starts school today. Do you think she will have trouble maintaining her loyalties?' Kaldur wonders.
'Nah, she'll manage alright. I mean, how much more hostile and annoying-' Wally got cut off by an explosion.
"What happened?"
"Explosion took out the camera. I'll find another angle."
Robin finds the other angles and the cameras were taken out by water and fire.
"That's it. All four are dead" Robin solemnly states.
Artemis looks at him worriedly and he just realized what he said.
"The cameras. I meant the cameras. I'm sure the others are okay. Just give me a sec to find the fastest route to the hangar" "At least Mia's not here"
"Yeah, they're fine. They've all got superpowers. They can handle anything. Where did Mia go to?"
Mia opens her eyes and felt very light, almost like a feather. Her sense finally kicked in as she realized that she's free falling. "Oh come on!" she yells. As she falls to her death, Mia felt another sneeze coming up and couldn't help but let it out. "Achoo!"
Next thing she knew, she was on a wood floor and it was late at night. Lifting her head, Mia saw that she landed on someone's porch on a farm. "Maybe they'll be nice and help me." She slowly got up and gently knocks on the door. A few minutes later, a woman in her early 50s shows up at the door wearing a flower dress and holding a towel in her hands.
"Is there something I can help you with dear?"
"Yes actually you can. This might be a weird question but do you know where I am?"
"Smallville, Kansas. If you don't mind me asking but how did you get here?"
Mia didn't know what to say. "I don't know if I should tell her or not. Although, I get the feeling that she won't freak out if I tell her. Here goes nothing" "I teleported here. You see, I have a cold and-"
"Oh dear, let's get you inside and you can enjoy a nice bowl of chicken noodle soup."
The woman practically drags Mia inside the farmhouse. Mia tried to get away but she's too weak to do anything. The woman sets Mia at the kitchen table and got a bowl of chicken noodle ready. Once she placed the soup in front of Mia, she took a seat next to her.
"Go ahead and eat up dear. It's good for you."
"Oh no, I couldn't possibly-"
"I insist" she smiles at Mia.
"Ok. Thanks Mrs.-"
"Kent but please call me Martha."
"Kent? Now why does that sound super familiar? Curse this cold" Mia eats the entire bowl of soup and Martha smiles. Suddenly they heard a pair of boots walking in the kitchen.
"Martha I didn't know we had a guest. Why didn't you tell me?" her husband asks.
"I'm sorry sir, it was my fault. I kind of dropped in unexpectedly" Mia nervously laughs.
"It's alright dear" Martha pats Mia's hand "Johnathan this is-"
"I'm Mia. It's a pleasure to meet you Mr. Kent. I would shake your hand but I don't want to get you sick."
"That's ok Mia. What brings you to Smallville?" Johnathan asks.
"To tell you the truth, I just appeared on your front porch."
"So you flew here then?" he asked so casually.
Mia just stared at him, stunned "Say what?"
"You do have powers, don't you?"
"Yes sir."
"What kind?"
"Teleportation."
"That's an interesting superpower."
"How are you feeling Mia?" Martha asks.
"Better actually Martha, thank you." Suddenly Mia sneezes and disappears from the Kent farm.
Artemis and Robin got out of the vents and landed on the second floor of the library then raced down the staircase.
"There's a secret passage behind one of these bookcases."
"Seriously? Cliché much?"
"You should see the Batcave."
They walked down the aisle trying to find which bookcase had the secret passage. Suddenly the door opens and they hid behind a bookcase. The sound of metal clanking filled their ears and was getting closer and closer when a familiar voice spoke.
"Artemis, Robin."
"It's Red Tornado" Artemis happily says.
She came out of hiding to greet Tornado but it wasn't him. Before the robot got her, Robin knocks her out of the way.
"Yes, on the red, no on the tornado" Robin states.
They made it to the exit but a female red robot stood in their way. She shot fire at them and they dodged it. As the duo jumped on top of the bookcases, Artemis asks "Who? What are they?"
The sprinklers went off and the whole library became soaked. While Artemis fires her arrows at the bots, Robin finds the right book and pulls it to reveal the passage. Once they passed through the door, it closes behind them. Running down the hallway, Artemis asks "Did you know Tornado had siblings?"
"No."
They stopped in a four way when Mia appears in front of them sick as a dog. Before the duo even registered that Mia was in front of them, Artemis grabs Robin's arm.
"So what now? Red Tornado is one of the power houses of the League. How are we supposed to take down two of him?"
"They do seem pretty user unfriendly."
"Who does?" Mia asks.
The pair finally saw Mia in front of them wiping her nose with a tissue.
"Mia?!" they exclaimed.
"Ow! Not so loud guys" Mia whines.
"Are you ok?" Artemis asks.
"Beside the fact that I'm sick, peachy."
"So you don't know what happened then" Robin concludes.
"What?"
"The cave's under attack by Tornado's siblings" Artemis quickly explains.
"Since when did T have siblings?"
"Don't know. They don't seem too happy about us" Robin jokes.
"Don't joke. They-" Artemis was cut off by a robotic voice.
"Attention, Robin. Attention, Artemis. You have exactly 10 minutes to surrender or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished."
"That was definitely not T's voice" Mia comments.
"What are we going to do?" Artemis asks.
"I have an idea" Robin states.
"Good cause I'm helping."
Mia took a step and nearly fell but Robin caught her.
"No you're not. You're too sick."
"Am not."
"Are too."
"Fine. If I can't help you here then I'll go get Tornado" Mia states confidently.
"How?! The tubes are down and you're too sick to even move. Even if you could teleport, the Tower's in space miles from Earth's atmosphere. You could die" Robin warns.
"Well let's hope that I make it there in one piece then. I'll bring back Tornado, I promise."
Mia closes her eyes and concentrates then disappears. "Please come back alive Mia" Robin silently prays.
She cautiously opens her eyes and a sigh of relief escapes from her as she looks around the space she's in. Looking around, Mia saw how big and spacious the area by the zeta tube is.
"Hello?" her voice echoes.
She took a few steps then looks down to see a drop of blood on the floor. "That's weird." Mia puts her finger to her nose and saw blood. "Well that's not good." Suddenly she goes into a coughing fit and covers her mouth. After the fit was over, Mia looks at her hand and felt her eyes widen at the sight of blood.
"Mia, what are you doing here?"
She looks up to see Red Tornado walking towards her. Mia smiles brightly at the sight of him.
"Hey T."
"How did you get here?"
"I teleported."
"How is that possible? You are sick."
"I got here by sheer force of willpower. We need help, the cave's under attack."
"I shall go and help. It is for the best that you stay here."
"Oh no, I am not missing out on th-" she falls on her butt "Ok I'm out. You go ahead, I'll catch up."
Tornado nods and heads to the zeta tubes. "Recognized: Red Tornado, 1-6."
Mia decides to lay down for a bit. Suddenly a new voice spoke and made her jump.
"What are you doing here?"
Mia lifts her head to see Superman walking towards her. She inwardly groans and lays her head back on the ground.
"What do you want?" she whines.
"Apparently some answers. I'll ask again. What are you doing here?"
"Getting help from Tornado. The cave's under attack" Mia spoke so casually.
"Then we should get down there quickly."
"Why should you care?"
"Because you're just kids."
She sat up and glared at him "Oh and suddenly you care about us now."
Superman frowns "I've always cared about you."
"Even Conner?"
He looks away. She lets out a dry laugh.
"For god's sake, will you suck it up already?! Conner is your son whether you like it or not, biological or otherwise. He is a boy who needs his dad, not some guy who hates and resents him. Oh and fyi, your parents would be so disappointed in you by the way you treat Conner."
"How did you-" Superman angrily asks.
"I'm not stupid. When we gave Conner his last name, his initials are now CK which lead me to remember another person with the same initials and I connected the dots. Plus I accidentally popped by your family's farm tonight and your parents are very nice, your mom makes really good chicken noodle soup. Anyway, you have to stop treating Conner like he's a burden. He didn't ask to be a clone, so back off!" Mia got up and got right in his face "Stop being so high and mighty and start acting like a father Clark!"
Clark was stunned by the way Mia was talking to him. "Bruce wasn't kidding about her. She's very protective of them. Maybe I should at least try to connect with Conner."
"Hey Superman" he looks at her "I swear I won't tell anyone. You have my word."
"I trust you."
"Oh and Superman."
"Yeah?"
"I think I'm going to-"
Mia starts swaying and begins to fall but Clark caught her in his arms. He does a quick scan using his x-ray vision and frowns at the internal damage she has. "There's too much internal bleeding. If she teleported from the cave to here then she'll have to be on relieve for who knows how long." He walks over to the zeta tubes and heads to the Cave with Mia in his arms.
When Clark arrives at the Cave with Mia, he heads to the hangar to help out the Team. He places Mia down and went to wake up Artemis.
"Artemis. Artemis can you hear me?"
She woke up and Clark helps her up "She's alright."
Artemis sees some members of the League helping out the Team and saw Mia sitting up still sick as a dog.
"What happened here?" Clark asks.
"What happened? The Reds happened. Tornado and his...Wait, where are they?"
"Gone. All three of them. Gone" Robin answers.
"Can someone tell me what happened? I was a bit preoccupied trying not to cough my lungs out" Mia retorts trying to lighten the mood.
"Tornado sucked all of the air in the hangar and left with his evil siblings. That's what happened!" Artemis exclaims.
A hard look was set on Mia's face. She looks to the others for confirmation and by their looks, it was the truth.
"No, not T" "I refuse to believe that T did this on purpose. He must have had a reason, he's a good man."
"That's just it Mia. He's not a man, he's a machine" Robin reasons.
"You're wrong Robin, Tornado is a man. None of you spend time with him as much as I do. He homeschools me and I help him become more human by being who I am and teach him human values. Tornado is just as human as any one of us."
"Mia-" Flash starts.
"NO!" she quickly got up "I will not hear another word about how T is a traitor and a villain. If any one of you utters the words 'Red Tornado is a traitor' or anything along those words, I will not hesitate to take your ass down no matter who you are."
Mia stares down at everyone, daring them to say something about Red Tornado. When no one defied her, Mia walks out of the hangar and straight to the Med Bay.
"Where do you think you're going?" Batman calmly asks.
Mia stops but doesn't look back "The Med Bay."
"Why?" Wally asks this time.
"Cause I think I have internal bleeding due to teleporting great distances, basically from here to the Watchtower nearly killed me. At least I think that's what I have since I've been coughing up blood very recently. Now if you don't mind, I would like to be in bed before I cough up a lung."
She starts walking and continues to make her way to the Med Bay with Canary hot on her trail. After assessing the damage her body took to get to the Watchtower, Canary estimates that Mia is not to go on missions for at least 2 weeks. When Canary left, Mia knew that her family will do something incredibly stupid real soon. "I'm going to trust my gut and go with them to make sure that they won't act like the idiots they are sometimes. Sorry Canary but I won't be staying in this bed for 2 weeks."
