Now

Clark was happy to see Animal Man had considered his offer. He made a mental note to talk with him later, making sure he didn't force Animal Man to join. He walked over to greet him.

"So You took me up on my offer?"

"It was to good to pass up." He said with a smile. Clark reached out to shake his hand, and Animal Man responded. He peeled off, and went to talk with everyone else.

Bruce came up, and his expression under the cowl was one of interest and approval.

"Animal Man?" He asked.

"You'd be surprised. I saw him walk on walls, use the sonic blast like a mantis shrimp, heal like a worm and stink like a skunk. He can fly, he can breath underwater. He's got what it takes."

Bruces look at the skunk part turned his expression dower. "Seriously?" Clark just grinned.

"It took out some bank robbers." Bruce just shook his head and walked off. Clark looked over to the airlock, and there was Hal, with a man, or at least Clark assumed it was a man, because his head was on fire.

Hal let himself in, and began to talk to Flash and J'onn. The Man with the burning head, stood by. Clark walked over to meet him.

"So I tell him 'buddy I got the most dangerous weapon in the universe right here, and I'm not talking about the power ring." Hal joked. He turned and his face elated.

"Superman! I'd like you to meet a young man, Jon met. Firestorm." And the man with a burning head stepped up. He had on, a mix of yellow and red material, what looked like armor. Clark imagined that Firestorm was radioactive, much like Captain Atom. On his chest, He had one large orange piece, with white lines connecting it to a few smaller ones. Clark reached to shake his hand, and Firestorm meet him.

"Nice to meet you."

"You too Superman. It's an honor."

"The honor's all mine. So, If you don't mind me asking, what made Green Lantern ask you to join us up here?" He asked him.

"Well, the other day, I don't know if you heard it, there was an Alien attack in MIdway City. Green Lantern was there, and he was getting beat kinda bad. I came in to help, and was able to distract them enough to let Green Lantern stop them.

"Now don't go shoving off the good job you did Kid. Jon just left, but if he heard you try and avoid the spotlight of what you did, he'd chew you out."

"But how did you know?" Firestorm asked. He worked with Stewart, not Jordan.

"Jon and I work together. Our rings communicate, So I know what he does when his ring is on."

"What happened?" Clark asked.

Yesterday

Midway City

Firestorm

"This is bad" Ronnie thought.

"Yeah tell me something I don't know." Jason retorted. He spoke out loud. Right now, in their merged form, Jason Rush was in control of the Firestorm matrix. They had talked about it, and Ronnie Raymond didn't mind being the brains behind them. What a good friend he had. When and if they got out of this, he was going to thank him.

Right now they were below Midway City. The two of them had been trying to uproot these aliens for a week now, across the world. Ad best Ronnie could guess, this was the last hive. A win here would cripple whatever the plans were. These rat-men, whatever they were, needed to go.

To be more specific, Jason was face to face with a titanic monster rat. It was enormous, able to hold him in one hand. It pulled back and threw him clean across the room they were in. The plan was to destroy this generator. They weren't sure what it was being used for, but if it was here, being defended so thoroughly, it had to be important.

Getting up, Jason looked. How to solve this problem? Ronnie?

"Ok Focus. See those beams above his head?" He asked Jason.

"Yeah?"

"Focus on them. Make them into something heavy, like Iron, or light, like Helium."

"Why?"

"The structure of this hive. You break those beams, this guy will be stuck under a mountain of scrap."

"You know Ronnie, sometimes I really love you.

"Yeah save it for later when you can tell me to my face." Jason got up, he focused. Feelling down, down, down to the atoms. He put his hand up, and from himself, summoned a beam of energy. Ronnie explained that this was way too complex, even for him. But what it came down to, the beam could either add or take away atomic particles; electrons, neutrons and protons. It was crazy, but it worked. Jason in this case was taking Ronnies idea, but in a different direction. He changed the iron to chlorine, and added new atoms, sodium ones. From the ceiling, salt fell on the rat, and then a proverbial ton of metal and assorted garbage fell atop the rat monster.

"Come on kid, let's finish this!" Turning it was Green Lantern. They had been separated before, but he must have gotten lose. He stepped up to the generator, Jason sunning to meet him.

"Can we fire like… a normal energy blast?" Jason asked.

"Uhh. Guess there's no better time to find out." Ronnie guessed.

"Now!" Lantern said. From his ring, he fired a blast of green energy. Jason thought for a second, and forced the blast out of his hands once more. This time he was thinking of just normal fire.

"It's working Jason!"

"Yeah. I guess being made of fore is good for something after all."

"I'll do more research on this later. But good job. NIce idea with that salt before too."

"That? Ahh it's nothing. You told me what goes into it in science today, so I wanted to show you I was paying attention."

BOOM! The generator exploded. Lantern began to fly out, and Jason followed. WHen they reached the surface, Jason bent over to catch his breath. A hand patted him on the back. Looking up, Lantern had a smile on his face.

"Good job kid."

"T-Thanks."

"Hey, listen. We're looking for people like you."

"We? Jason asked.

"You don't think he means?" Ronnie added.

"The Justice League. We're looking for members."

"Dude, no WAY!" Ronnie exclaimed inside their head.

"Hold on a second. Let's talk to him." Jason replied. "You mean that?" He turned and asked Lantern.

"Absolutely. I saw what you did to that big guy down there. Turning the support beams into salt? Thats pretty cool. What else can you do?"

"Good question. Ronnie what can we do?" Jason thought to his friend.

"Uhh… Do we be honest or lie?"

"To the Green Lantern?! We gotta tell the truth." He said.

"Good point." Ronnie said.

"Who are you talking to?" Lantern said, the look on his face like he was crazy.

"Uhh… Nobody." Lantern just grinned and chuckled. "To be honest, I'm not really sure what I can do. For the most part I think it relates to manipulating atomic structure."

"So like the salt thing, you turned Iron into a mix of carbon and sodium, and glued them together. Thats pretty powerful."

"I'm mean it's nothing crazy. You hang out with guys who can fly and move faster than the blink of an eye."

"Yeah, but they can't do what you do. Here." He used his ring and assembled a button. "Press this. I have to be off planet tomorrow. The other guy will come down, and you can go meet the Justice League. Think about it. Good job today kid. See you around." And he flew off.

"What do we do man?" Ronnie asked. "Should we join them?"

"I'm not sure, but I do know I am starving."

"Same here. Let's go home and get something to eat."

"It's like you read my mind."

"Pretty easy when we share one."

Around an hour later, Jason and Ronnie were defused, and they were sitting in the pizzeria around the block from their school.

"So." Ronnie began.

"So what." Jason said with a full mouth of pepperoni pizza.

"What do you think?"

"Joining the Justice League? I think we should."

"Why?" Ronnie asked. This was typical of him. Bt to be fair, it was a good trait. Ronnie had not much a home life, as far as Jason knew. He was excellent in school, and was a nice guy too. Last semester, when Jason was struggling, Ronnie helped him increase his grades. ANd in the process they had become friends. Theur contrasting personalities made for a good conversation, and when they were Firestorm, it made for a guy who looked at all of his options before advancing on one of them.

"You heard what Lantern said, we can do some real good. We owe it to ourselves to do that." Jason answered his friend.

"Thats a good point, I'll grant you. But just to look at this from a different angle, what if we're not ready? We've been firestorm for what, six months? Do you think that's a decision we should be making so quickly?" Ronnie retorted. It was a good point too.

"Ronnie, If we had the chance to save someone, is that something we should pass up?"

"No. You're right."

"You think so?" Jason asked.

"Yeah. Look I think we should join too. But the only reason I bring up my point is because it might be a problem."

"When were working together, there's no problem we can't solve." Jason replied. Ronnie grinned at this and the two bumped fists.

"Sounds good. I'll meet you behind the football field, just shoot me a text for when. Want me to hold onto the button?" Ronnie asked.

"Yeah, you have it?"

"Yeah. I gotta go man, I'll see you tomorrow."

"Alright man. Take care." Ronnie left. Jason finished his dinner, and paid. He walked home and tried to do his work, but he was exhausted. Between practice, school and being Firestorm, it was hard to find time to sleep. But there was no school tomorrow, and the football team was on a bye. So he could do his homework later. Jason got dressed for bed and quickly fell asleep. But before he did, he smiled to himself.

"We're gonna be on the Justice League." and then he drifted off to sleep.

-AN-
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