Disclaimer: Taralei, Tam, Petro and Weisha are of my own creation, however the Legion of Superheroes and anything related to it are not.

Chapter Three - Weisha and Lyle

Weisha ducked a punch aimed at her head, and swung around to avoid a kick to the side. Blocking another kick, she briefly wondered where her teammates had gone. Weisha was a (relatively new) member of the Legion of Superheroes, a team of super-powered teenagers that kept the universe safe from monsters and criminals of all kinds. Today, that involved stopping four not-so-dangerous men from blowing the New Metropolis mall to smithereens.

The Legion had received a tip that four criminals they had been after for ages had come out of hiding and were planning something at the mall. She and two other Legionnaires had been sent to not only capture the four men but also to find out what they had planned to do to the mall and stop it. Weisha had spent most of the day undercover, asking around to see if anyone had seen anything suspicious, then around lunchtime the men had revealed themselves by firing lasers in the middle of the food court. It had been a very stupid move and extremely out of character for these so-called criminal masterminds, as was sticking around when the Legion evacuated the mall.

Unfortunately for Weisha, although these men were not the geniuses they had expected, they were all much bigger than her and trained fighters. She was tiny, only around 4ft. tall and very petite; hand-to-hand fights were not her forte.

She ducked another punch to her head only to receive a solid kick to the side. Her opponent laughed cruelly as she winced and clutched her side. Pulling herself together, Weisha dodged another kick and threw one of her own. She growled as the man brushed it off as though it were nothing, and then flipped herself backwards and up into the air. Using her opponent's momentary confusion, she flew over his head and headed towards the big open area that was the mall's food court, hoping to find either her teammates or something she could use to fight back.

Instead she found another of the criminals leaning over a large glass square built into the ground that allowed people to see the level below. The glass had been shattered and the man was aiming a laser through the hole at two teenage boys. One of the boys was of a short (not quite as short as her though), almost scrawny build and had green skin, blonde hair, and a familiar-looking pattern on his forehead. The other was tall and more athletic, with tanned skin and green hair and was waving his arms around as he talked, like an over-excited child.

The smaller of the boys stopped and upon noticing the gunman, dropped to the ground behind a fallen table. His friend however continued on towards the exit, still chattering away, completely clueless. He wasn't the only clueless one though; the criminal didn't notice as Weisha landed right behind him, instead he let out a totally fail evil laugh (fail in Weisha's opinion anyway) and fired at the boy.

"Tam!"

Rolling her eyes, Weisha reached out a hand and willed a force field to appear around the stupid-looking, green-haired boy just as the laser fired. The shot bounced off the pink bubble, burning a hole through a hot dog cart instead of the boy's head. Finally, the criminal noticed her.

"Don't you idiots ever learn?" Weisha grumbled as her shield reflected every shot the man fired, "My force fields are indestructible."

"Oh, really?" The man smirked, not-so-subtly glancing at something behind her.

Hearing footsteps, Weisha extended her force field so it surrounded her entirely, and rolled her eyes as a heavy kick collided with it.

"Yeah, really." She turned her head to find the kicker was the man she'd flown away from earlier; "Oh, you again."

Querl jumped to his feet and dashed over to Tam, who seemed to have broken out of his stupor.

"Are you alright Tam?" Querl asked as he helped his 'friend' to his feet.

"Me! Who cares about me! We have to go save her!" Tam exclaimed, pointing up at the pink-haired girl that had saved him.

Querl took a quick survey of his surroundings. The open area he and Tam were in was a disaster; tables and chairs were scattered everywhere, as were burn marks from the lasers and glass from the ceiling. A couple of baseballs and the cricket bat he'd picked up earlier were lying on the ground nearby. The two men he and Tam had defeated were tied to a pillar by some large tree roots. The girl was still on the floor above them and appeared to be fighting (read: standing inside a force field and throwing insults) two grown men on her own. She was facing the hole with one man in front of her and the other behind; the stairs appeared to be to her left.

He turned to Tam; "Wait here."

"But-"

"Wait here and have your plants ready, I am going to go help the girl."

Querl opened his mouth to speak when Tam complained again and then shut it when Tam mentioned something about pink-haired angels; he didn't want to know. He picked up the cricket bat and a baseball and ran towards the nearby stairs.

Weisha was extremely irritated. She had two complete morons pounding on her force field, which was not only giving her a headache but was also preventing her from doing anything, which meant she had to wait for the teammate she'd contacted to arrive and help her. Weisha hated relying on other people almost as much as she hated people smacking at her force fields, but in this case she didn't really have a choice. She just hoped Lyle would hurry up.

Bored, she began throwing an alphabet of insults at her two attackers. She'd just reached the letter 'n' (nincompoop) when she noticed a person sneaking out from the stairs to hide behind a pillar to her left, and a chair fall over on its own to her right.

'Well Lyle's finally here.' She thought, 'But who's that on the-"

Her thoughts were interrupted by the man closest to the hole asking her what her insult for 'o' was. He never got his answer because at that moment a baseball went flying through the air and rolled to a stop next to him.

"Hah! You misse-" Attacker No.1's taunting was interrupted by a cricket bat flying through the air and bouncing off of Weisha's force field at just the right angle to knock him down the hole.

Attacker No.2 followed seconds later, thrown by an invisible force. Weisha (finally) dropped her force field just as the small blonde boy came out from behind his pillar. The two of them peered down the hole to see the green-haired boy tying the men up with massive tree roots he'd pulled out of seemingly nowhere.

"Who're your new friends?"

Both Weisha and the blonde-haired boy jumped slightly, and then Weisha turned around to glare at thin air.

"Do that one more time and I will punch you into next week, Lyle." She growled threateningly as her friend materialized in front of her, carrying her toolbox.

"That doesn't sound so bad actually; I'd get out of laundry duty."

"You're a jerk." She snapped, snatching her toolbox out of his hands.

"But you love me anyway." Lyle grinned, reaching up to fix the black headband that held his wavy brown hair out of his eyes, "But seriously, who are your new friends."

"They're not my friends, they're two idiots that didn't leave with everyone else and instead thought it would be fun to almost get themselves killed. I saved them and ended up stuck because of it." Weisha replied, glaring at the blonde boy the whole time.

"But this one saved you end the end," Lyle pointed at the blonde kid, "So you're even."

"I don't care." Weisha huffed and flew down to check on the criminals, leaving Lyle shaking his head at his friend's rudeness.

Tam sighed happily as he climbed into bed; he'd just had the best day ever. He'd spent the first half of the day hanging out with his new friend Querl, and the rest of it beating up bad guys and meeting two real life superheroes, one of them the lovely Weisha. It would have been three but for some reason Querl dragged him out of the mall so fast that Tam lost a shoe, the second he heard the name Shrinking Violet. Tam figured he had something against small people. Or purple. He'd have to ask him in the morning, after all, Querl had agreed ("Fine! I'll do whatever you want, just leave me alone!") to spend the whole day with Tam and Frenzy.

It was at that point that Tam realized he'd completely forgot about his little pet plant and had probably left it at the mall.

"Frenzy!"

When I said the next chapter would be up 'soon', I totally meant 'in two months'. Sorry about the wait, hope you enjoy.

~Saani