Hey guys back with another chapter hope you like it. Sorry for my bad English.
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Conner suggested we all go for a ride on the super cycle something I'd thought would be harmless and fun but it turned out to be terrifying. "Shit, shit, shiiiiit!" I scream as we drive straight down and then pull up at the last second. Something we've done about four times now and it's starting to get more annoying than scary but still very scary. "Come on Conner that's enough." Megan says calmly from the back seat as I cling on for dear life to the passenger side front seat cursing who ever designed this dam thing without seat belts. "Ok, ok I was just having a little fun with the rookie." he says with a smirk. "Not fun." I say bitterly then look down at my watch and have a mini panic attack. "Shit it's 3:20 if I don't get home in ten minutes I'm toast!" Conner and Megan look at me and then back at each other then Conner speaks "Where do you live?" he says calmly. "Chicago!" I say panicked. "Don't worry will get you home on time" he says again very calmly. "Can this thing get us to Chicago in ten minutes?" I ask "You bet your ass it can." he says cockily and then hits the gas, in less than five minutes where in Chicago and Conner looks back at me with a cocky grin. "This is your stop." he says as we hover a couple blocks from my place in an ally where no one can see us. "I know I'm just waiting for the rest of my organs to catch up." I say in a shaky voice. He chuckles then pats me on the back. I quickly get out and say goodbye but before I leave Megan calls out to me and says "Jay come by the mountain tomorrow after school, you'll meet the rest of the team and will get started on your training." I nod and she adds "You remember where the Zeta tube is right?" I nod again and start home. On my way there I start to go over my plan in my head. I know the school probably called so Stacy is going to want to talk about it that I can handle it's just skipping school nothing mayor, but I have to figure out how to get upstairs and change before she sees me. Just incase I can't I start to think of a fake story I can give her as to why my clothes are burnt. The only two things I've been able to come up with are either I was attacked by a pack charmanders from pokemon or that I tripped and fell into an oven. Neither of them where my best lies. As I walked into the house all I could do was hope to god that she wasn't standing in front of the door. Thankfully she wasn't so I closed the door as quietly as I could and tipped toed up the stairs slowly cracking open the door to my room and quietly shutting it behind me. Once I was in I proceeded to change as fast as humanly possible but as I put on my pants I accidently knocked over the lamp on my night stand. As it fell down my heart stopped and I wanted to dive for it but I was frozen. It hit the ground hard shattering in to a million peaces with a loud noise. "Shit" I cursed and in less then ten seconds I could hear some one coming up the stairs. I quickly took of my burnt shirt and grabbed the one I had laid on my bed putting it on just as the door opened. She stared at me for a couple seconds then said "Oh Jay I didn't hear you come in". All I could do was shrug and then she continued "The school called you and me are going to have a talk later young man" she says in a scolding manner. I nod and she turns to leave but right before she does she says "Do you smell smoke?" she turns to look at me and I shake my head trying to look not guilty. "Most be my imagination." she says simply then turns and leaves. I sigh in relief and fall back on to my bed god what a day.
I awake the next day excited like a kid on Christmas. Only seven hours of school and then I can go to the mountain. I quickly get dressed and walk out. As I'm about to go out the front door Stacy clears her throat loudly. I turn and look at her and she says "Now make sure you make it to school today young man, remember our talk." I nod quickly and I'm out the door practically running to the bus stop. Only seven more hours I tell my self as I get on the bus.
After seven mind numbingly boring hours of school. The bell finally rings and I'm almost out the door when the science teacher Mr. Brook stops me by putting his hand on my shoulder. I turn around to see what he wants quickly, and then go. "Not so fast mister Johnson." he says in an oddly amused tone which worries me. "You skipped school yesterday, the standard punishment for that is two hours detention. My eyes widen, and anger boils up inside me "What!?" I yell. He only smiles and nods quietly. "Well you shouldn't do the crime if you can't handle the time." he says happily. I'm about two seconds from punching this ass hole right in the mouth, but I restrain my self reasoning that that would only get me more detention or worse so instead I just quietly go back to my chair cursing under my breath. "What was that?" Mr. Brook asks when I'm almost back at my chair. "Nothing" I say begrudgingly and sit down.
"Fucking old fuck," I curse for probably the millionth time in the last two hours "you shouldn't do the crime if you can't handle the time" I say in a mocking voice. "What's got your panties in a bunch?" the guy in front of me says turning around to look at me. It's Matt Daniels the school bully. Of course I'd see him in detention. "Nothing Matt turn back around." I say in an annoyed "don't fuck with me" voice. "I only ask cuz you've been sitting there mumbling curse words for two hours." he says with a smirk. "What did you do to get in here any way you're usually a goodie two shoes." he says with the smirk still on his face. "Nothing, now shut up and turn back around." I say anger clear as day in my voice. "You'd better watch it Johnson or I'll teach you some manners." he says trying to sound threatening but I don't back of I already kicked his ass in eight grade for mentioning my mother, and I'm sure ass hell I can do it again. "No you'd better watch it Matt or I'll give you a little Mauy Thai demonstration, and I'll use your face as a punching bag." I say cracking my knuckles loudly. He seems shocked for a moment but quickly regains his cocky attitude. "Pleas, you think I'm afraid of some Asian kung-fu fighting nonsense, I'll teach you some good old American boxing". I'm about to reply when the teacher speaks up "Matthew, Jay, is there a problem back there?" we both stare at each other for a little while longer then he turns and faces the front again. Shortly after the bell rings and I get up and start to walk but Matt sticks his foot out to try and trip me, a move that I see coming from a mile away and turn my foot into indestructible mode. I rear my foot back and kick through his leg just hard enough not to break it but to give him a nasty bruise to remember me by. He pulls his leg back and grabs his it clenching his teeth to contain a yelp and shutting his eyes to keep back the tears. I continue walking with a satisfied grin.
It's about a fifteen minute walk from school to where the zeta tube is. Thankfully I had told Stacy that I was going to meet some friends after school (not exactly a lie) so I could head straight to the zeta tube and not waist any more time. Once I got to the alley where the zeta tube was suppose to be I ran inside the old telephone booth and said my code. A big blur of light later and I'm at the mountain. As soon as I walk in I see three unfamiliar faces walking towards me one a young black guy probably my age the second a red head again about my age and third a fish? Well a fishlike thing that walked on two legs and whose age was impossible for me to tell. They all walked up to me with smiles and the read head spoke first. "Hey you must be the new guy I'm Bart this is Vergil and that's La'gaan. Nice to meet you, what's your power? Where you from? What's your hero name? How old are you?" he said all this very fast and while running circles around me looking at me from every angle. "Whoa there Bart one thing at a time" I say. "Ignore him he gets exited around new people." La'gaan says. "Hi I'm La'gaan boy and this is Vergil nice to meat you" he says as he extends is hand. I shake it politely and then Vergil's. "My name is Jay nice to meat you too". "So Jay what's your power?" Vergil says curiously. "Oh just this" I say then turn indestructible. "Whoa cool" they all say nearly in unison. Then Bart runs over to me and starts pocking me in the forehead super fast, until I grab his wrist and say "Stop it" then turn back to normal. "Sorry just curious" he says genuinely. "So what's your hero name" Vergil says. "Haven't thought one" I reply. "Well I'm sure you'll think of one soon" he says reassuringly. I smile and nod and we all walk over to the living room where the rest of the team is waiting. "Finally we've been waiting for ever" a young latino guy says as I walk in to the living room. "Sorry I got detention for cutting yesterday" I say apologetically. "No need to be sorry I'm sure you got here as fast as you could." Megan says with a small smile. Then a black guy with fish guiles and some kind of water back pack stands up and walks over to me with an extended hand. "Greetings my name is Khaldu'ham, I am the leader of the team. It is a pleasure to meet you." I take his hand and reply "I'm Jay nice to meet you too". We both nod then he continues "Well you've already met part of the team let me introduce you to the ones you haven't met" then he points to all the people in the room while naming them "that's Jaime/Blue Beetle, Dick/Nightwing, Barb/Batgirl, Garfield/Beast Boy, Malcolm/Guardian, Tim/Robin, and Karen/Bumblebee" he says out of breath.
"Pleasure to meat you all" I say with a small wave of my hand. Then I look back at Kaldur "So what's next?" I ask excitedly. "Well we thought we'd do some training, you in?" I quickly nod and we all head out of the living room and into the training room. Once there Kaldur turns to us and speaks "Well let's start with some sparing. Who's first?" Cassie quickly goes to the front of the group and speaks "Me and the rookie, he owes me one". At this remark most of the group stares at me in disbelief. "You beat Cass!" Bart says loudly. Casey scowls at him but before she can reply I do "It was a lucky shot" I say simply. "Yeah and don't you forget it, now lets go" she says angrily. We both step to the center of the circle and assume fighting stances about a foot away from each other. Kaldur looks at us both and asks "Are you ready". I turn indestructible and then we both nod Cassie a little more eager than me. "Go!" he says and in a split second her first punch is already heading towards me. I block it with my forearms and she brings her knee up to try and hit me in the stomach but I move back too fast. Then I throw a jab that is easily blocked by Cassie who returns it with a hook that I duck under. I come up with an uppercut that just barely misses her shin and she responds with a front kick aimed at my chest. I move to the side dodging the front kick then a move in close and deliver a couple fast combinations of punches all blocked by her. She then tries to get me with a side kick to the face but I duck under it and sweep her other foot out from under her. She falls back and lands on her but. Bart who is standing on the side line slaps his hand over his mouth to try and contain the laughter. Cassie shoots a glare at him and all amusement is gone from him. I walk over and extend my hand but she slaps it away and gets up. "Again" she says struggling to contain her anger. We both go back to our starting places and again Kaldur says "Go!" but this time I make the first move. I run at her with a barrage of punches and she blocks them all just like I want her two. While she's busy blocking the punches I bring up my right leg and get her with a kick in the ribs. She stumbles but doesn't fall, and she quickly goes at me again. She takes another swing at my head but I anticipated it and ducked. Then I come up with another uppercut which hits its target this time getting her right in the jaw making her fly up about a foot and a half then come crashing down on her back. Before I can even extend my hand this time she's already up and in battle position and I quickly get into mine. Kaldur doesn't even have time to say go before we charge at each other. We exchange blows for about two minutes this being the longest uninterrupted clash yet. But after dodging for so long I'm starting to get tiered. I make a mental note to add more cardio into my exercise regiment and then start to look for an opening again. I find one by charging at her when she lets her guard down momentarily and I kick her in the chest with enough force to send her flying across the room. I just stand there looking at her for a moment horrified at what I just did. Who did I let my self get so out of control? But before I can run over and ask if she's alright she's up and charging at me with a lot of speed. I barely have time to react but what I decide to do is something I saw in a movie once. I wait until she's close to me then I jump as high as I can her fist just missing me by an inch. While in the air I turn and flip and start to fall behind her. On my way down I kick her in the back with both feet making sure to restrain myself a lot more this time. And she goes flying about a two and a half feet landing on her forearms and stomach. "Woo!" Bart yells while clapping. I walk over to Cassie and extend my hand once again and she finally accepts it letting me help her up. Kaldur walks over to me and pats me on the back and says "Well my friend it seems that you are just full of lucky shots" I smile at him and Cassie more begrudgingly smiles at me. After that every one else on the team spared for a while and then we did some team training exercises that mostly consisted of us figuring out how to combine our moves. Me and Conner made this move where he throws me which turned out to be pretty cool and I also got a chance to see some of the others powers. Once we were all tiered of training we headed back to the living room to relax for a while. "So Jay still haven't thought of a name?" Megan says from across the room. "Well I was thinking Black Diamond what do you guys think?" I say addressing every one. "Well it fits" says Bart from the couch. "Yeah I like it says Cassie who's sitting next to me. Everyone else just nods and agrees. "Black Diamond it is then" I say with a smile. "Well Black Diamond let me officially welcome you to the team" Kaldur says. "Thanks glad to be a part" I reply with a genuine smile. Then I look down at my watch and face palm. "Oh shit it's 9:30 I'm so screwed" I quickly get up and say goodbye to every one then run to the zeta tubes. Once in Chicago I run home and open the door to find a pissed of looking Stacy. "You say you're going out with some friends after school then you disappear for seven hours!" she yells at me. "Well for two of them I was in detention" I say in my defense. "That's no excuse mister where the hell where you for the other five". "Well I was with some friends at the mall and I lost track of time" I say nonchalantly. "That's bullshit I went to the mall and you weren't there" I don't have a response to that so I just keep staring while she continues "Look I may not be your mother"- "You're not" I cut her of and then she continues "and that's fine I don't want to be either but if you go and get yourself killed doing something stupid I'd never be able to forgive my self so next time you're gonna do something like this fucking call!". Before she even finishes I'm already half way up the stairs. "Hey I'm not done talking!" she screams after me. "Well I am" I yell and slam the door to my room. How the fuck those she think she is yelling at me for a stupid mistake. Well whatever only a month and a half left and I'm done that's y final thought as I drift to sleep that night.