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Chapter 15: Kon-Fell...

11th October, 11:00AM- Mount Justice

Kyle's POV

"On behalf of Atlantis and its citizens, we cannot thank your brave souls enough. My people rejoice at the rescue of their beloved Queen, and as do I. Seeing you here, I have hope for the future of the Justice League. Young Justice has nothing more to prove, in my opinion. If the future is in your capable hands, it is a bright one indeed. Farewell."

Aquaman finishes his appreciation speech with a respectful bow, and promptly marches off into the zeta tube. With that, the gracious presence that he brought washes away, being replaced by the brooding figure of the Dark Knight.

"Thorough job. Not many in the league could have adapted to a situation of overwhelming odds." he comments, betraying the low and emotionless tone of his voice.

"There's that word again: overwhelming. Can't anyone just be whelmed." Robin mutters, catching an oddly amused glance from Batman.

"B03, Kid Flash."

The zeta tube announces as the speedster himself appears, clad in his usual banana yellow suit. With a funny looking stroll- elbows stuck out and mimicking a 1960's man from a commercial- he approaches the gathering with a smile. Until he notices that Batman is also stood at the front. Then, he quickly (without super-speed) changes into an even more amusing serious walk. Both chest pumped out and head held high, I swear that he is joking. If not, we need to have a conversation about seriousness.

"Join them, Kid Flash." Batman says.

Obeying without hesitation and apparently grateful for the invite, Wally ducks in between me and Superboy. "What've I missed?" was the question that I was generally expecting, and it eventually came. Due to the fact that Batman isn't speaking, he obviously knows that KF was going to ask it, as well.

"Oh, you know- saving an Atlantean Queen, and etc. You?" I respond.

"Tests! Can you believe that!?" he says in a hushed voice. "I'm a hero and they have me doing english at Central City high. Way to put people's lives in danger."

"That's why I skip school." I wink and before Wally could reply, Batman starts his debrief again.

"As you may have figured out, this rescue attempt may have been a trap." he says. "Not only for heroes, but you specifically. This has not escaped the league's notice. Until further notice and ample investigation, you are confined to Mount Justice under the guard of Black Canary, Hawkgirl, and Shazam. I will notify your families." he adds on, shocking me deeply.

"I'm stuck here, and with them." I blurt out, earning me quizzical stares from the rest of Young Justice.

"That's what we are supposed to say about you." Artemis sighs.

"Come o-"

"No. Believe it or not, this is for your own safety." Batman interrupts my heartfelt appeal.

Giving one last glance at Robin, he swoops away with his cape theatrically flicking behind him. The darkness that he exudes lifts, and for a second I wonder if Batman is a natural depressant.

"It's not that bad, guys." Wally says.

The entire group- including me- faces Wally and in unison, we all give him the truth of the situation.

"It is!"

The disappointment of Wally's face spells out the dampening effect we just had on the cheery guy. "Fine. Let's all pretend that we don't like each other." he eventually huffs. "Conner and Megan." he awkwardly coughs, but it was clear enough that we could all hear it.

Superboy's face turns a slight red, yet judging by the lack of screaming, yelling or otherwise, it seems that the clone is mildly embarrassed. Oddly enough, I never imagined that it was a feature of his emotion span. Up until now, he has only gave off one vibe: anger. Now, we get a glimpse of the real Conner Kent- stumbling and shy.

"I've been meaning to tell you guys something." Artemis says, interfering and saving Superboy from harassment. The way her voice trembled means that whatever she has to say isn't good. Nevertheless, I'm still curious at to what the archer has to inform us about. "When we was on that mission a while ago, to get the Helmet of Fate back. I heard something that is still bugging me, and I never told you. I'd thought that it wasn't relevant, but it makes sense now." she continues, hooking us into a state of absolute curiosity. "I heard something about the light."

The reveal clenches my gut in realisation. Considering that I have heard that word before, albeit from an old man, I am thoroughly taken aback by the discovery. Why didn't I tell them. If I did, this would have come into perspective sooner.

"I also heard something about that." I divulge, so the group turns on me.

"You have?" Artemis hopefully asks.

"You have?" Miss Martian repeats, though I have no idea why.

"Yeah... it was from that geezer- Ra's al Ghul. He started going into some mumbo-jumbo about how 'all will see the light', or something like that." I answer, recalling the encounter vividly. "At first, I thought nothing of it. After all, the guy was a complete wacko."

"This is an interesting coincidence." Kaldur thoughtfully says.

"Or not a coincidence at all." Robin inputs. "Ever since that mission, we have been in the firing line. We have run into the heavy hitters- Black Adam, Sinestro and others. What if Batman is right? Maybe something is coming after us."

"Not something." was Kaldur's response. "Someone."

"Well... who is it?" Conner asks the vital question, however fails to notice that we hardly have the answer right now. "If they want to come after us, let them come. YJ will take down anyone."

"We appreciate the confidence, Conner. But... perhaps this is beyond us. The person behind this must be intelligent, managing to fool the league into sending us on these missions." Robin rejects the suggestion, biting his lip in deep reflection.

"One things for sure: they underestimated us." I say.

"They never expected us to be powerful in our rights." Aqualad agrees.

"Okay, can somebody come up with a plan? We are on mountain arrest with three adults watching us." Kid Flash says. "That's not including all of the questions we need answering. Someone has to know something."

"Well... we know that one person is connected to the light. Ra's al Ghul himself." I speak up.

"Let's get him." Conner cracks his neck muscles.

"First off, we get out of Mount Justice." Robin suggests, gesturing to the league members that have strolled in, via several tips of the head and flickers of his eyes. "Got any ideas? It has to be good- these aren't pushovers."

"Ask them nicely?" Miss M apprehensively suggests.

"Uh... no." Artemis shuts her down as softly as possible. "Maybe... one of us distracts them, and the rest sneak out." she raises her eyebrows directly at me. Following suit, the others turn to me, using peer pressure to the max. "Kyle."

"Hell n-, how can y-, Rob, please." I plead to the boy wonder. "Don't let them force me."

"Take one for the team." he smirks.

Wally West's POV

"What do you guys think he's gonna do? " I ask the remainder of Young Justice, talking about Kyle. He left around five minutes ago, saying that he has an idea that will blow us away. This had better be within the boundaries of an acceptable distraction, as we don't want things to go wild. Still, faith in my friends is a quality I admire about myself. Apart from my handsome face, of course.

"I have absolutely no clue," Artemis replies. "and that's what scares me."

Opposite us lie the three guardians, staring us down ruthlessly. By that, I mean Black Canary and Hawkgirl, as Shazam is stuffing his face with practically everything that is inside our refrigerator. Cake, Chicken, you name it.

Out of nowhere, Kyle pops up in... sweat pants and a tank top?

"Such a good day to stretch, don't ya think?" he theatrically intakes air. The shocked expressions of the den mothers are so funny that I had to clench my teeth, to not laugh. Whereas I find this hysterical, YJ are also in a state of complete horror. "Agghhhh." he extends upwards and cracks his back, winking at us in the process.

"Oh god." someone in our group whispers.

Then, he bends over... in front of Black Canary and Hawkgirl. "Feel the burn." he laughs and goes down further, therefore pushing his rear up. The sight is truly something to behold for the ages; comparable to the day that I became Kid Flash.

Frightened and in deep mental trouble, the leaguers have turned into living rocks. Their eyes appear to be permanentely glued to the view of Kyle Rayner doing squats, stretches, and making strange grunting noises at the same time.

"Guys, that's our cue." I whisper and the others silently nod, still fixated.

"Get me out of here." Conner groans and spins around, tripping over on his own legs and catapulting to the ground. The sound was a tremendous slap and I am sure that they must have heard that. Although, they don't turn around, fully entranced by the unorthodox distraction.

"Get up, and let's disappear." Robin orders out of the corner of his mouth.

"Gladly." Artemis pitches in.

"I must admit, it is not a sight to marvel at." Kaldur remarks.

"I think he's doing pretty good. It must be relaxing." Megan smiles, and skips away.

Taking our well deserved leave, we all bound away in the direction of the bio-ship. Sometime in between, I wonder how Kyle will get away from the adults. Surely, he can find a way. He is Kyle, after all.

Kyle's POV

The things I do for this team. Since when is overt distraction apart of the hero job description? And why couldn't the other completely embarrass themselves for eternity. I'm never going to escape this, I muse, continuing to entice and astound the older superheroes. Next, I do lunges, making sure to emphasise the moans and the exhales of pleasure. These guys are getting their dreams come true.

Yet, the fact remains.

For somebody that tried to be deadly serious about everything-if only for a short while- I have miserably failed in those attempts. Even with the yellow and red rings, I can't stop myself from having too much fun. That's the beauty of my personality, or so I think. Whether in the worst or best situation, I let my humour do it's work, and improve everyone's moral. However, people (like Batman, Wonder Woman, and etc) view it as a bad thing. As though I'm putting everybody off their games.

Anyhow, I need to figure out how I'm going to rendezvous with the gang. Either through subtle movements or fleeing for my life, I can't stay whilst my friends are off on a mission to take down some mysterious organisation/thing. "Okkkaaayyy." I sigh, letting out all doubts and embarrassment from my mind. "It's show time." This is probably going to fail, but at least I made an attempt to escape. Slowly halting and turning around, I plaster a silly grin on my face. Time for plan A.

"Time to get a shower, and have some quality beauty sleep." I announce and march straight for the showers, but then swerve to the left and redirect to the hanger. Smooth exit, I cheerily gloat and escape with my dignity partially back.

Now in the biological ship itself, the silence is full of tension on my part. No thanks to the routine, they are no doubt scared to open their mouth. Or even think, for that matter. Can't say I blame them.

"Sooooo... are we... going somewhere?"

My question was met by more silence, and uncomfortable shifts from Wally and Robin. If I look to the right, I can see the expression on Superboy's face. Remarkably, he seems to be almost normal- little bit of annoyed, and the rest angry. I actually expected him to be the most affected by the display, but then he has always been detached.

"We are going to Nanderparbat." Robin gingerly divulges, avoiding my gaze. "to find Ra's and question him."

"Are we going to just walk in, or do we have some kind of amazing, hero worthy plan, that even Michael Bay couldn't have come up with? Because if we are, I have dibs on being at the back, so I can run away." I ask.

"Yes. We have a plan." the boy wonder says.

"Care to divulge, Rob?"

"Just tell him, it can't be worse than the thing he just did. Besides, what's the worse that could go wrong?" Artemis motivates Robin, returning my glance with a confusingly weird stare, almost as if she is analysing me.

"Okay." Robin puffs. "Ra's has something called the Lazarus Pit. It's what keeps him alive and heals him if he sustains serious injuries. So, if we find a way to disable it, we can blackmail him into telling us about the light."

"And... that's a dumb plan." I say.

"I don't think it's a bad plan." Miss Martian speaks up from the pilot's seat.

"What you are talking about is threatening a manipulative ninja into giving us information." I raise an eyebrow. "Not the best of ideas. He could turn it around on us, by not caring about the pit."

"So?" Conner sneers. "If he refuses to tell us, then I guess I will have to beat it out of him."

"Great logic, Conner- Beat up a guy that has obviously been alive for a long time, and experienced at least twice of much pain as that." I shoot back.

"What do you suggest, Kyle?" Kaldur asks.

"We..." I pause as I try to come up with some genius plan that would be the most fantastic one possible. "I got nothing." I eventually sigh.

"We stick to Robin's plan, and coerce Ra's into gifting us the information." Aqualad closes out the conversation. "We will discuss how we will do this as we get closer to his base. Until then, only a small amount of talking, please." he nods towards me, Artemis, and Wally.

"Sure thing."

"Okay."

"Whatever."

Once we all sheepishly accept the offer, we are (not) legally bound to shut up. In my opinion, I don't see what's so bad about talking and socialising. In terms of teamwork and friendship, speaking is the next step to full-on fairytail companionship. With all happiness, and stuff.

Talking is like logic. Some people have tons of it in them, and the rest don't. Harsh fact of life.

"Are you guys ready?" I ask.

"For what?" Conner snaps.

"Well... if we really are serious about going after this 'light'- or whatever it is-then we need to make sure we have the resolve to see it through. Kinda... finish what we started. Otherwise, it's a fool's errand, and we don't stand a chance." was my wise response. Yeah, I am wise.

"It would apply, if we knew what to finish." Aqualad says. "But yes, we must all make that decision... ready, or not."

"I'm ready." Supes announces. "Whatever they throw at us, I know we can win. Nothing has beaten us so far, and we should keep it that way. We are a team. We are..." he pauses, and looks to all of our faces. "family."

"OMG!" I gasp.

"Me too!" Wally says.

"Shut up, before I take it back." he menacingly growl, glaring. "I mean it! I'll end you!"

"Of course you do, man. That's like the millionth time you've threatened me in the past week alone." I shrug, infuriating him further. Apart from the usual banter, Conner can be a tad overzealous at times, and really inhibits his social skills. By next week, he will stumbling over asking Megan out or not. "A little help, Megan?"

"Uh... do you know my name isn't Megan, right?" she asks.

"It isn't?" Wally raises one of his ginger eyebrows. "Can you tell us, sugarpuff?" he carries on, much to the fury of Conner. Over the past month, Conner has slowly stamped some kind of mark on Miss Martian. It's actually disturbing how protective he gets of her. So, Wally is on the verge of a major beat down.

"My name is M'gann."

Curiously, the way she pronounced it is very interesting. Instead of 'may-gan', it sounds more like 'me-gan'. Odd name choice, that's for certain.

"Me-Me-me-gan. Me-gan. M'gann?" Wally wholeheartedly tries to pronounce it correctly. "Did I get that right?"

"Yes!" Miss M claps in glee.

"Weird name... M'gann." Conner remarks, but not in a malicious tone, and more of a general statement.

"Says the guy named 'Kon-EL'" I defend her. "Or should I say... Kon-Fell." I patiently wait for any snickers or even the softest of snorts. But no... nothing. "Come on, guys?"

"No, man. Just no." Wally facepalms.

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