A/N: Me here this chapter i had some of it written before i submitted the prologue back in January so from here on i'll be writing chapters from scratch. anyway in this one i thought of a way for making the Mister Twister fight hard for the team. my own concern is if i got the science of it wrong. so bare with me there, anyway i don't like the copy the scripted dialogue and add some lines here or there approach, so i'm trying the changing a lot of it and keep some of the original dialogue option. you'll either like it or criticize me to hell for changing it, which is ok IF YOU CAN JUSTIFY IT IN A REVIEW. no flames for flaming sake. anyway I've read you're review Caellach Tiger Eye and i agree with you on the reality of sexuality. so unless it's stated if their bisexual or homosexual i will assume the character is heterosexual... unless i have to deduce it with a character like Marie Logan who i never realized until later on was either Bisexual or Homosexual considering she was affect by Queen Bee's powers. i'll try to keep some of Wally's original personality as best i can so if you've got a suggestion then feel free to leave it in a review or PM me if you want.
Chapter two: the life of a superhero
13:56 PDTscience lab unit A17 H.I.V.E academy Jump cityJuly 12th 2010
"Yo Eve how's it looking on your end?" the voice of Evelyn's lab and project partner Natasha Irons asked looking over from the large section of machinery she had been tinkering with. The Red head looked over; hair tied back and black goggles on.
"Readings seem normal… checks and safeties are in the green… once Vic's done on his end we can fire this baby up and see if we've made any progress with improving the magnetic field strength." She said excitedly looking at the tall African American girl; who closed the panel and made her way over to the control booth.
"Hay Victor is the electromagnets set up yet!" Natasha Yelled into her mike scaring the hell out of the person on the other end.
"Jesus, girl what the hell is wrong with you I nearly drop the cable into the… never mind it's done give me a minute to head over there." The voice crackled on the radio, unaware of the girl's wide smile. Soon they saw the familiar figure of Victor Stone, their other lab partner in their experiment to create a proto-type small scale thermonuclear fusion reactor using magnetic fields in order to facilitate the containment of the plasma… they hoped.
"Ok light her up let's see how much stress the field can hold against." Victor said looking them over to the large tokamak confinement device. 'Let's see what happens shall we.' Evelyn thought to herself as she activated the proto-type miniature fusion reactor; it began to hum quietly growing louder and louder.
"Temperature increasing… magnetic field is holding… ionization is underway… it's looking good guys." Natasha informed them cheerfully, 'I can't believe the progress we making on this thing.' She thought incredulously as the machine nearly reached optimum conditions for their work.
"Hold up we've got fluctuations in the wall cooling systems… it's failing the casing's heating up we got to shut it down before it melts the inner wall to slag and explodes." Vector said before Evelyn activated the control panel bringing down the safety feature's to shut down the plasma generator.
"I need to hit the manual override." Victor told them before running out of the control booth and over to an access panel, he wrenched it open and began working on the cooling system within.
"Temperature's rising in the sections he's working on… crap it's going to blow out right into his face." Evelyn exclaimed before running out of room and heading towards Victor.
"Almost there… move you piece of shit lever… got it!" he shouted before a blast of heat and metal shot out of the compartment into where he had been a second again; right after Evelyn had tackled him out of the way.
"Next time Victor, try not to cut it so close." Evelyn joked to him as he helped her up, patting the small flames out on his lab coat and the ends of her hair.
"Thanks for tackle Eve, it could have ended more nastily for me if you didn't." he told her coolly as they headed over to Natasha's running figure.
"You guys ok, I saw a small blow out in the wiring where you were?" she asked voice full of concern for her two best friends.
"We're fine, let's get maintenance down here to go over the systems so we can find the source of it all." victor told her patting Evelyn on the back as he did.
"Until then let's get something to eat, I'm starving." Evelyn said causing Natasha eyebrows to rise. She had never met a girl; scratch that anything, which ate more than Evelyn West. "You remembered to save the data with my encryption right?"
"Of course I did, I don't trust that weasel Mikron O'jeneus; I wouldn't put it past him to steal our work data." Natasha said sharply folding her arms and frowning before looking up at them. "You guys don't think that this might-"
"No way Natasha, the guy may be an arrogant asshole but he wouldn't risk all our lives over something petty like this." Victor told the girl as they got out of their lab gear and headed out of the lab as several maintenance technicians came in and headed over to check on their project.
"He's right Natasha he wouldn't risk going to jail for doing something like this." Evelyn told her as they then informed the safety officer of what had happened. He wrote down their statement before letting them head off once the residential nurse had giving they the once over.
"It's good to see that you three are ok; thanks to you Victor a possible tragedy has been avoided." The three students turned to face the voice and were met with the sight of Mr Sebastian Blood, one of the board of directors and overall one of the most popular members of staff amongst the student body. He came over dressed in his causal black suit, a look of concern on his face as he headed over to them.
"We're fine Mr Blood there was a problem, we stopped and now we're going to find out what caused it and fix it, simple as that." Victor told him formal and to the point; Jason smiled and placed his hand on victor's shoulder.
"Victor how many times have I told you to call me Sebastian, Mr Blood is my father." He told them warmly, this was why people liked Blood he was friendly and treated the students as equals. "I think the staff can handle this situation now, why don't the three of you guys go and get something to eat, i'm sure it won't be long before news of this travels around the H.I.V.E."
They headed off to the canteen, passing by numerous other H.I.V.E students as they did. Eventually they reached the large café-like facility and took their usual seats in one of the numerous booths that were situated around the place.
"So how far do you think the repairs and mechanical analysis will set us back by?" Victor asked his two project partners, watching Evelyn move a massive pile of food on to her plate.
"A few weeks maybe a month at most; we'll need to employ better shutdown controls though." She replied taking a massive bite out of her scrambled eggs; Natasha just starred at her shocked. "What I didn't burn my eyebrows off again did i?"
"No it's just… how can you eat some much and not get fat, let alone show no sign of it?" She asked bluntly looking at her. Evelyn couldn't help but feel her face go slightly red. 'Never had an issue like this when I was Wally; beside its only three helpings of scrambled egg.'
"I just don't put weight on ok; I don't want to talk about my eating habits Natasha." She replied looking down at her food as she did.
"Sorry about that; I didn't mean to come off offensive or anything, it's just something that always stuck in my mind." She added hurriedly before hearing Victor coughing loudly. "Oh great not him right- Hay Garfield, Christine how's it going guys."
Two people emerged with blonde hair and near identical faces. They were the twins Garfield and Christine Blaze, children of famed nuclear physicist Jessica Blaze and, though only Evelyn knew from the batman himself, the late criminal known as Garfield Lynns a.k.a the firefly.
"Well hello there beautiful, if isn't my favorite red haired genius." Garfield said seating down next to Evelyn and placed his arm over her shoulder. "Man how I do like a girl with an appetite; maybe later you and I can go get something to eat alone… I know this good Italia- HAY!"
'God was I really like that back when I was Wally?" Evelyn thought to herself smirking.
"Lay off her before I decided to become an only child moron." Christine said slapping the back of her brothers head as she sat down next to him; she turned to face Victor and smiled warmly. "We heard about you malfunction in the reactor; lucky victory was here to save the day."
Victor groaned when she brought up his old football nickname. Evelyn extracted herself from Garfield's arm and quickly finished up her food, hearing another friendly voice coming closer.
"Yo Eve is this idiot bothering you?" the auburn haired Alyssa Harrower asked sitting down on Evelyn's other side, a plate of food roughly half of Evelyn's in size, but it still contained a large amount of food on it. "What's up guys; we still discussing Evelyn's physics defying Stomach." She laughed punching Evelyn on the shoulder, who blushed slightly again, before digging into her own food.
"This is coming from the girl who eats like a pig in a trove." Garfield retorted glaring at Alyssa, who looked back up again. "What did you say about me flame brain?"
'Find you're self your own little spitfire, one who won't let you get away with anything.'She thought looking at the two arguing and seeing the familiarities.
'Words to live by my old friend.' She thought to herself smiling as she watched the two at it.
"You know what guys how about we have a game of basketball to finish the day off." Victor spoke up breaking the soon to be fight, the rest perked up at this.
"Hold on I'll ask Francine." Garfield said before grabbing an apple and throwing at a Blonde haired girl sitting by herself and reading a book. The fruit hit the table jolting her out of her book as she turned scowling to see who threw it at her. Garfield then proceeded to crudely mime throwing a basketball into hoop causing her scowl to turn into a look of confusion as she stared at him.
"Idiot!" Alyssa exclaim before signing at her, at this the girl smiled and nodded gathering her stuff and heading over to them. "Maybe learning some sign language will work better for you when communicating with a deaf girl you moron."
"Hay only sis gets to call me moron, piggy." He snapped back at her as they literally butted heads together.
"Let's go already guys I've plans back in central city." Evelyn called back to them, as they group moved on, she turned to Francine who smiled and waved at her.
"How's the bats project coming along?" she signed to her, who replied simple.
"Better than last time, I'm one step closer to achieving my goals.' She informed her grinning widely as she did.
"Well I see you three have recovered from you lab screw up." a familiar but unwelcome voice sounded in front of their group.
'Please gods don't let us have to deal with this insufferable midget right now.' Evelyn thought to herself grimly before looking down at the tech gizmo: Mikron O'jeneus the midget genius, and since ever student at this place was one that said something.
"You know if let me onto your project then I could help improve your safety features." He said smugly, Evelyn could see out the corner of her eye Natasha's fist curling up ready knock the smug little bastard out.
"Never. Gonna. Happen. Shrimp." Natasha told him slowly scowling at the bald boy.
"Besides you've already got a project on anti-gravity technology so work on that you little freak." Christine cut in glaring at him.
"One of this days Christine you're going to regret the way you treated me.' He said before storming off down the corridor. 'And it will be sooner than you think."
"What an annoying brat." Both Garfield and Alyssa said at the same time; Causing the others too laugh.
"I guess opposites can agree from time to time." Victor said laughing as they headed over to the changing rooms for sports facilities. They split up by gender and headed off to get changed into sports clothes.
"So Eve you and Victor seem to get on well together." Alyssa said out loud as she slipped on her sports bra glancing over at the red head who was currently tying up her laces.
"Well yeah we've been good friend these past three years; him and Natasha were the first people I made friends with when I arrived at the H.I.V.E." She told them not noticing the look that went between Christine and Alyssa. "Better hurry up you lot, I've got a train to catch right after our game."
With that she left leaving behind the two girls, Natasha and Francine having been the first to change; the two looked at each other, before Alyssa spoke up.
"So she's completely clueless about how Victor feels about her." Alyssa told Christine as she slipped on her boots; the other girl nodded simply.
"My brother may be a moron but at least he's got the confidence to go up to a girl and ask her out in a way she can't ignore." Christine spoke up, tying her hair into a ponytail. "Maybe we can get Garfield to give him some advice."
"Really you're brother who's hounded Evelyn like a dog in heat the moment she arrived at the H.I.V.E." she replied sceptically, eyebrows rose as she watched the other girl lock her locker up and turn to face her.
"Say what you will about him, but Garfield's loyalty to his friends is unshakable." Christine replied slipping two black and yellow capsules out of a prescription container and swallowing them whole.
"You never did tell us what you take those pills for?" Alyssa paused to ask her friend who stopped to look at her gauging whether to respond to that or not.
"It's something me I got from my dad and I'd rather not talk about it." Christine said as they both walked out onto the court where the rest of them were already into their game.
"So Evelyn there's this café in the city centre that I think you might like; they do the best ribs in the states." Victor said as Evelyn managed to grab the ball off Natasha, push past both Alyssa and Francine and was coming up to victor. She just smirked before bouncing the ball over victors left shoulder, as he prepared to leap to catch it Evelyn had jumped first, pushing on his arm to reach the ball first. Once she got it past Victor she managed an easy slam dunk.
"Ribs would make my victory sweeter." She said as she prepared to score another three times in a row. "But I'll have to pass this time I've got some outside work up coming up."
"How the hell is she beating us?" Natasha muttered under her breath, slightly ticked off that Victor was asking Evelyn out when she had a crush on him since they were young kids. What made it worse was that Evelyn was somehow oblivious to Victor's attempts to ask her out. 'How can anyone be that dense and yet that smart at the same time.'
By the time they had ended, Evelyn and Victor had tied with the most goals scored at eleven apiece. They had some hilarious moments like when Alyssa tried for a slam dunk and ended up falling on top of Garfield; which caused the two to start bickering allowing Francine, a not very athletic girl, to score two points easily.
"Next time don't try to cushion your ass with my face piggy." He snapped at her, this caused her to reply simply.
"Then don't put your face where my ass is falling then jerk." She said with smirk, as they all headed off to get changed and head off to their respective homes.
Elsewhere on campus…
"I can't belief those barf-faced imbecilic fools wouldn't let me onto their project." Mikron mumble to himself as he tried once more to creak Evelyn's encryption; only that its language base wasn't like any he had found, it seemed completely alien to him. He had sabotaged their experiment for nothing as he doubted he could every break this code and get the data on their attempts to downsize the fusion reactor… he felt cold sweet on his back. His… backer would kill unless he could supply her with plasma based weaponry… 'Crap I don't want to piss off that hat wearing clown freak.' He was startled by the sound of his communicator going off.
"Hello Gizmo have you got my Plasma weaponry yet?" the female voice of his boss sounded, causing him to jump in fear.
"Eh… no boss I can't break Evelyn's encryption to get the data for downsizing the power cores." He said laughed weakly, there was a pause before...
"…Very well leave it to me then… once I have the information you'll make my weapons within a fortnight." She replied simply before cutting off. 'Jesus what have I gotten myself into.' He thought as he headed off to continuing working on his private project.
11:10 CDT West residence Central City July 13th 2010
Evelyn was wrapped up tight in her bed snoring quietly; her room was immaculately tidy, having super speed helped in that area. She had been up late last night running down a lead on the infamous 'cat burglar' she had made a mental note to ask robin if it might be this 'catwoman' from Gotham.
"Evelyn you've got visitors… you better not still be in bed!" her mum yelled up from down stairs, startling Evelyn who blinked a few times as she yawned and replied.
"Coming." She got out of bed and walked barefooted to the door. 'Who would want me at this time?' she thought as she opened the door, her eyes opened wide as she saw non-other than Super-girl and Amelia Starr standing on her door step.
"What are you guys doing here?" Evelyn asked them confusion evident on her face. "For that matter how do you know where I live?"
"I have my ways; anyway I planned on taking Amelia her clothes shopping since she hasn't got anything of her own and she said 'only if you'd come with us'… so you up for it?" she asked giving her a pair of puppy dog eyes.
"Ugh sure why not; you guys can wait in the living room till I'm ready." She told them leading them into her house, before heading back up to her room.
"So this is a speedster's room, I expected there to be a fridge in the corner or something." Super-girl said moving over to site on her bed.
"I thought I said to wait down stairs?" Evelyn questioned her; before sighing and heading into her on suite, soon enough she was enjoying the stimulating feeling of hot water on her tired body.
"Please and miss the chance to go snooping through you stuff," she said through the closed door. "As your new teammate i reserve the right to investigate and gain a better understanding of my comrades in arms."
"Spent all morning thinking of that excuse to go through my stuff didn't you?" Evelyn called out to her.
"Pretty much." she replied honestly.
"So then do I get to know you're real name or should I just keep calling you super-girl?" She asked, stepping out of the shower and in to her room, towel wrapped securely as he headed over to grab a set of clothes to wear.
"Guess it's fair, I'm Kara Zor-El… or Kara Kent." She said before seeing something lying on her desk. "Is that your diary?"
She leaped across the room and grabbed it; meanwhile Evelyn had changed into her fresh clothes and began the long process of drying her hair… unless you're a speedster that is.
"What gives I can't understand a word of this." Kara moaned turning to face her, a confused look on her face.
"Did you really think I'd pour my deepest, darkest secrets into a book and not write it in a code even the bats wouldn't be able to break?" Evelyn told her an amused expression on her freckled face at seeing super-girl pout before getting to her feet.
"So you ready to go now?" she asked.
"Breakfast first then we'll talk." Evelyn said with smile heading down stairs.
12:45 CDT Central city mallJuly 13th 2010
"Soooo where do you guys want to go shopping first Westwards or how about the red star?" said an excited Kara Kent beaming as she wrapped her arms around Evelyn and Amelia, both gave her looks saying they didn't want to be here, Amelia it was understandable since she was really socially awkward and with good reason. It had been super-girls or 'Kara Kent' if you go by her 'human name', idea to take Amelia on a girls day out and get her some clothes of her own as well as to have an experience of a normal life, since she would only agreed if Evelyn would come it lead to them currently being in central city's mall dressed in their civvies being dragged around by the excited sixteen year old Kryptonian girl.
"Whichever one you prefer will do me fine." Evelyn said bored as she yawned, causing Kara to pout playfully; she dragged them on to red star where they were greeted by the vast array of clothing options catering to a girls every need, she watched as Kara began running between the racks grabbing the ones she liked as she chattered away to Amelia who looked sheepishly, which was understandable considering she had never done this before, at the things batman was going to pay for. She was also giving nervous glances at Evelyn who smiled back at her reassuringly which seemed to do the trick. 'I have better things to do with my time then going shopping for clothes, like calculating how the different team comp will affect the future missions… if they stay the same as the ones from old life which they will most likely won't… well the team is larger and has got a lot more raw power now we've got three supers, I wonder if we'll get any other new members apart from the old guard?' her thoughts were interrupted by Kara poking her forehead hard causing her to jump and glare at her as she rubbed the spot.
"Earth to Eve, you zoned out for a moment. Any way we think this would good on you." She said, handing over a rather revealing red top, complete with black mini-skirt, it reminded her of the things that Artemis use to wear in the years they hung up their capes so to speak.
"I'm not comfortable showing off that much skin maybe something else." She simply replied before turning her gaze over a rack of leather jackets. Kara wouldn't let her go that easily and pulled her back.
"Come on just try it on and show us eve; according to your mom you never seem to look or act… girly, if you'd just wear it I'm sure you'd like it… we'll even get some food next if you do it." She added, with the air of someone confident in their haggling skills, no doubt from hearing from her cousin about how much the speedsters eat. Evelyn eventually caved in under her relentless pushing and agreed to try it on and show them. She found herself staring at her appearance in the mirror the new outfit fitting her perfectly and she had to admit it suited her well. She turned and walked out; the two girls were trying on leather jackets while they were waiting on her.
"Well?" she asked them folding her arms; they both just stared at her before Kara spoke up.
"You suit it perfectly; definitely worth getting it… now I've gotten a few more things you might like once you try them on." She trailed off as she gestured to a very large bundle of clothes in Amelia's hands, Evelyn groaned as she face palmed. 'Let's get it over with.'
"Hey how about wearing these under your work suit?" Kara asked her grinning like the joker, as she held up a set of black Lacey nightwear lingerie. Evelyn immediately had a flask black to Wally's eighteenth birthday, when Artemis had worn them as a surprise for him. 'Well don't you like them Baywatch… or would you prefer for me to take them off?'
She felt her face turn crimson red, before she turned away and spluttering out a 'no' as Kara began laughing loudly at her reaction; even Amelia had a long giggling fit at her expense.
Three hours later…
"Well this has been fun, next time we should take Miss Martian out; she'd have adjusted to earth fully by then." A happy Kara told the other two, a chocolate Smoothie in hand, they had proceeded to purchase the clothes Kara had chosen in the store so now Amelia had enough clothes to last her a lifetime in Evelyn's opinion. She suddenly felt herself being pushed forward, turning she saw a rather tall guy with jet black hair and reddish eyes, wearing a long black greatcoat trying to get past her.
"Sorry about that." He said giving her a small smile before heading over to sit next an attractive seventeen year old blonde girl who looked familiar. 'Probably just thinking of Artemis I mean they've got the same hair style.' She thought as the girl turned to face before giving her a familiar smile and giving her a sly wink. Evelyn felt her heart beat increase at the gesture, 'she even acts like Artemis at that age too.' She thought turning back to food, but she wasn't really hungry now, her thoughts were back with Artemis even though she knew it wasn't good for her, yet she couldn't help but to look back on the times they had spent together, she wasn't sure how she was going to handle seeing her again with Artemis meeting her for the first time as a complete stranger; she had been tempted to try to find out what Artemis was up too, but she decided against it as it would only bring her heart break. There was silence at the table for about ten minutes before Kara spoke up again, completely shocking Evelyn with her words.
"So Eve how long have you known that you like girls." She said casually as though it was an everyday topic, causing Evelyn to nearly choke on her hamburger. She felt herself turn bright red as she began coughing rather violently at the completely out of the blue question.
"What 'cough' would ever 'cough' give you that 'cough' impression?" she said weakly, taking a long drink of her coke, before turning to see Kara's face bearing a large grin, the one you get when you've struck gold, with her eyes alight with the look of cat playing with a mouse.
"Well let's see firstly ever since we've gotten here you've never once gazed or even looked at any of hot boys that's past us by… or even responded to any of the attempts they've made to get your attention. Secondly you kept looking at that blonde bombshell over there, when she winked at you, you turned bright red and your heart rate increased just the same way as one of my civilian life friend's does when a cute guy talks to her. And finally ever since that happened you've been staring down at your food but barely touched any of it something which isn't like a speedster according to my cousin, its elementary dear Holmes." She finished, smiling as Evelyn turned a brighter shade of red than before, and her two companions began to giggle at this before Kara patted her on the back. "Don't worry we won't tell anyone about it if you don't want us too."
"I would greatly appreciate it and it Watson not Holmes." Evelyn said staring down at her food but not touching it. They went on like this for a few minutes before-
"Hold on a minute back at Cadmus you were behind me in the air vent, you didn't-" Kara began, but Evelyn cut her off standing up.
"I need to use the restroom, if I'm not back it's because I've drowned myself in the toilet." She said, walking off hurriedly leaving behind the smiling Kryptonian.
'Well that was embarrassing situation to be in, she's like robin...oh god please don't let him know the truth!' She thought worried about what would happen if her parent's found out, her dad would probably be supportive but her mother was the issue as she had continuously stated that she wanted grandchildren and Evelyn was still undecided on the possibility of childbirth; as she headed over to the restrooms which were on the side of the mall to give her time to think. Only she never reached them when she saw a jewellery store window explode as pink energy rippled through it. She was blown back by the force of the explosion and saw a teenage girl roughly fifteen with bright pink hair and eyes and… grey skin… she was wearing a black and purple gothic Lolita and had black boots on, her hair was long and set into two horn like strands on her head.
'Well that's something new.' She thought as she moved behind a pillar and changed into her Kid Flash gear; the utility belt was kept in her handbag 'Artemis was right about this being necessary for girls.' she thought as she sped towards the strange girl.
"I'd put that stuff back if I were you, shouldn't you be at a mosh pit or something." Kid Flash said, as she appeared in front of the girl, causing her to jump back the grin on her face widening.
"It's about time you got here Kid Flash I thought I might need to start breaking some people to get your attention." The girl said in an evilly innocent voice, which sent a chill down Evelyn's spine.
"You have me at a disadvantage pinkie, you know me but I don't have a name for you… unless you want me to name you but I'll warn you now I'm not very good at it." Kid flash said watching the civilians flee out the corner of eye. 'Just keep her talking till everyone's clear.' She thought to herself as the pinkette began laughing quite madly.
"My bad I guess, I got so caught in all the fun I forgot to introduce myself, well I am jinx the sorceress whose hexes spell bad luck for her foes, and woes for their lives." The villainess known as 'jinx' stated proudly and arrogantly before her hands darted forward releasing large series of pink bolts, for her part kid flash managed to dodge most of them unfortunately she couldn't get near the spell caster, as she twirled around and around sending a cascade of pink hexes streaming into the ground around her causing It to be torn apart preventing the speedster from getting any nearer and continuously blasting her back.
"Is this the best the fastest girl alive can do, no wonder you're considered the weakest of the sidekicks... and least popular I might add." The jinkster said mockingly, as she danced around Kid flash's attempts to hit her. "I wonder why it is that you cover up most of your face, let me guess braces, bad acne, harelip or maybe you just have low self-esteem from being bullied because your ginger." She finished with a rather spine chilling laugh as she fired a hexbolt right in to Kid Flash's chest sending her flying into a wall, a cry of pain leaving her lips.
fifteen year old Wally west would have lost his shit at that last comment, fifteen year old Evelyn West wasn't fazed in the slightest, pride wasn't all that important to her and she wasn't going let this pink haired Emo dictate the fight just because she played the 'ginger card', serious how old is she, five?
'Damn it how do I breach her defenses… I'm going to have to go all in.' and with that thought she began circling the jinkster rapidly, causing her to twirl trying to keep her in sight, the moment she tripped on her feet, kid sped in giving her a powerful blow to the face causing jinx to be thrown back… only to receive another blow to her back as KF sped behind her and landed a spinning kick into her back launching her forward skimming along the ground like a stone on water, before landing ten feet away in a heap.
"Not bad for a girl with low self-esteem and a harelip." She taunted the Jinxster, who growled whether in anger or pain she wasn't quite sure.
'Well she wasn't that tough, all talk and no bite.' She thought as she sped towards the jinxster, she saw her look up and glared at her, before sending a pink bolt towards… a garbage can. It worked as it spilled all over the floor in front of Kid Flash.
"WOE!" kid flash screamed as she slide on something in the pile at high speed, sending her careering forward somehow she wasn't able to get any control, her feet soon left the ground as she went flying past Jinx through the mall until she had almost reached the-
'Please not the food court!' she begged, but god clearly wasn't listening and she went flying into the salad bar. She crawled of the wreckage, her hair covered in food.
"Well that wasn't fun at all." She said, as she sped back to where she left jinx… but the villainess had used the chance to slip away along with her loot. "Great, how could this get any worse?" she said stilling down on the fountain edge, there was a ripping sound.
'No please no!' she thought placing a hand on her rear, instead of the friction suit she felt something much softer to the touch. 'Why me, these things aren't easy to fix!' she thought bitterly turning to face her two kryptonain companions who had come to investigate the source of the destruction.
"What happened, you said you needed to use the restroom." Amelia asked looking at the destruction surrounding them, brushing a lock of brown hair from her eyes as she stared at the rubble.
"I ran into a rather destructive jinxster." she told them changing back to her civvies. "Come on let's get out of here.
23:16 PDT Dock Eleven Star City July 17th 2010
The moon was up high as the docks were alive with activity. The criminal organisation ran by the crime lord Daniel Brickwell had recently intercepted a shipment of high-end direct-energy weapons meant for the US army. With this he would be able to crush his only remaining competitor for Star city Mr Sinister. No one had ever seen him… well no one that lived at any rate.
"Let's see those sinister boy's stand up to us now boss." One of his old faithful members said with a cruel leer on his face. Suddenly an arrow hit the ground next to two of his men, releasing thick black smoke which forced them to drop the crate as they began coughing heavily falling unconscious moments later. The crate smashed open upon hitting the ground causing one of the guns to go skidding across the ground to rest at the feet of Brick himself; in one fluid motion he kicked the gun into his hand and leveled it at the origin of the arrow.
"You again!" he roared in angry when he saw speedy his nemesis's sidekick. "You know I'm beginning to get insulted that Green Arrow isn't messin' up my operations himself."
He began firing, heat washing over his skin in waves as the crimson beams left the focusing chamber towards the red archer who through feats of acrobatic skill, managed to dodge the lethal beams. During one such leap he notched and loosed a fat tipped arrow towards the crime lord. It exploded upon contact with gangster shredding most of his suit and leaving what was left in ragged tatters.
"Do you have any idea how much I pay for a suit in my size!" he bellowed in rage; before turning to face his men, who had used the time to break out some of the bigger guns. "Scorch the earth boys."
The gangster spread out leveling the bulky weapons which hummed as they came to life hungry for destruction. That was till a yellow streak snatched them from their grasp and a series of bolas flew through the air wrapping up the men before releasing knock out gas from their bulbous ends.
"Shame on you brick stealing from poor old Uncle Sam have you no sense of decency." Kid Flash appeared right in front of him waving her hand like an adult scolding a child. The criminal screamed in rage as he tried to hit her… like that was ever going to happen.
"You'd think they remember that my perception of the world is super-fast as well." She continued as he seemed to move in slow motion to her; of course this only worked when she was fully focused on his ever action, so as long as nothing distracted her mind she was fine for one v ones. She ducked suddenly as Aqualad leaped forward from behind her taking the metahuman by surprise, he was smashed into a metal container which now had a large 'brick' shaped dent in it.
"The cave is perfect" Aqualad informed speedy as he leaped up to join him upon a stack of containers, watching him net a couple of fleeing croaks with… well net arrows.
"For covert missions you know spy stuff." Robin added holo-com open as he terrorized a couple more gangbangers with a remote controlled birdarang which released white smoke causing them stumble around; before Kid Flash took care of them with several well placed shock punches.
"Wait till you meet the three supers… and Miss Martian too." Kid cut in as she raced past them and then down to relieve one guy of his belt to tie another's legs together before Sparta kicking him head first into first guy as he bent down to pull up his pants." She then returned up to them in time to fist pump robin, as they turned to face him. He looked at them firing an arrow without aiming… or checking to see where it was heading, there was a Wilhelm scream as the sound of electricity could be heard on wind. The heroes suddenly scattered as large chunk of rock was hurled at them, by the now topless villain.
"hehehe tell Green Arrow not to send little boys and girls to do a real man's job." He said mockingly at the ineffectiveness of speedy's explosive tipped arrows; he held his arms out in the typical dark soul's come at me bro pose. Speedy smirked as let loose one last arrow which hit him square in the chest. Instead of exploding it expanded into a cloud of dense foam encasing the shocked criminal within it.
"High-density polyurethane foam, very creative of you." Kid Flash complimented the clone as he called in the SCPD to clean up the mess; before turning to leave Aqualad placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Are you in my friend?" he asked looking at him with a small encouraging smile; he shrugged him off without looking back.
"Pass," he said as walked on. "I'm done waiting for Green Arrow and League to give me the respect I deserve; I'll get it on my own, and that means no babysitters and no kiddie's clubhouse… your junior justice league is a joke. Something to keep you in your place and out of their way… You disappoint me Kid out of all of them I thought you'd have understood that like I did."
"You made your choice, I've made mine." she replied walking over to him, holding out her hand. "Good luck speedy." He looked at it before smiling and shaking it before disappearing into the night.
10:36 EDT Mount Justice July 18th 2010
Recognised B0-3: Kid Flash
The computer voice sounded as Evelyn walked out of the zeta beam platform, over to the gathered group of superheroes: Robin, Supers boy and girl, Amelia, Miss Martian and Aqualad. They all turned at her approach smiling as they did.
"So did you find your girl?" Kara inquired as Evelyn walked up to them; she felt her fist tightening as she shook her head. In the aftermath of the battle she had to deal with looking for the sorceress and, to her unending dismay she find that she had managed to give her the slip, and despite her tearing over half of central city's underworld she had appeared and disappeared without a trace.
"So what are you guys doing?" she asked trying to move her mind away from the embarrassment she had suffered that day. It was Miss Martian who answered.
"Waiting on Red tornado, we're going to ask him if we've got a mission yet?" she said turning towards the large ramp expectantly as if the red machine might suddenly appear and give her what she wanted.
"I wouldn't put much money on it, I mean we've been a team for ten days, in that time we've done no team building exercises or training... hell do we even have a team leader… besides it's batman who assigns missions and unless there is a criminal operation going on we should be ready on standby." She replied looking over the collection of teen heroes, who gained looks of confusion and thoughtfulness as they digested her words.
"We're all heroes, we've trained hard with our mentors, and we got through Cadmus without a problem, we're ready to handle anything right now." Replied robin looking at her; his arms folded.
"By getting through, you mean we got lucky, lucky we had three powerhouses to take down blockbuster, lucky the league got my message and came to help Amelia, and lucky Dubbilex was on our side the whole time and didn't feel like making us brain dead. If you judge our future mission off that then you're in for a world of disappointment." She told him seriously, trying to get across the more serious aspects of the team; she was determined to improve the team's performance this time, especially with unknown factors like villains such as this jinx girl, running around. If the universe gives you three kryptonians then it's going to throw some heavy stuff at you to compensate for it.
"Besides, we've trained with our individual mentors but not to work with each other, we need to do some grouped team sparring matches and training sessions before I'd send us on a mission let alone the bat… why don't we start by picking a team leader and a deputy leader we could do that right now at least then we'd be more like a team." She said looking them over, robin opened his mouth most likely to nominate himself; it was super-girl who spoke up first cutting him off.
"I vote for Kid Flash." She said causing robin to look at her, clearly annoyed that she didn't go for him or even herself.
"Why her and not me, I mean I was personal trained by batman, the leader of the justice league." He said, standing up straight, she just smirked before looking down at her hand listing off her reasons.
"One I'm not taking commands from someone three years younger than me, two she's girl, three I know for a fact she didn't let things like pride stop her from doing the right thing she's calm and collective and she's a genius too. oh and final she was the one really lead us in Cadmus, besides she brought up all that team training talk she's practically already the leader." She finished, drawing nods of approval from the group. For her part Evelyn had been ready to go for either Aqualad or Super-girl them being the oldest and both being mature in her eyes.
"I agree." sounded the voice of Aqualad looking at her. "You are like batman, you analysis and calculate the variables like a leader should; you are the natural choice."
"I think you'd be the best choice judging by what I've seen so far… I mean you're the one who… freed me from Cadmus." Said Amelia, who was actually dressed in her hero uniform, a white solar suit, with a section revealing her top of her cleavage and short mini-skirt which revealed her long slender legs just like super-girl; though they differed on the cape with hers being blue and was also much smaller, she had a blue PG on her blue outlined shield. 'What's it with female kryptonians showing so much skin?" she thought to herself.
"Whatever, you seem to have this stuff thought out." Super-boy said in his typical super-boyish manner.
"I'm ok with it; I mean you've been at this a lot longer than me." Said Miss Martian looking around the gathered teens; Robin slouched in defeat, mumbling something.
"I don't think the team being majority girls has anything to do with it, boy blunder." Kara said smirking, as robin glared at her. 'They always forget the super-hearing.' Evelyn thought to herself a smiling creeping no her face.
'Well I never imagined me leading the team… I guess I could give it a go.' She thought before looking at them all.
"Ok then I will accept… Aqualad how would you feel about being my second, that way robin won't have any reason to believe we're being sexist." She said, to which Aqualad said he was fine with it if everyone else was, to which they agreed, with a certain boy wonder grumbling again.
'Sorry Robin but you are too impulsive at this age and that isn't what you need from a leader.' She thought as they filled out the front to wait on Red tornado's arrival. So enough they saw the familiar sight of a red tornado approaching them. As Evelyn watched her vision changed and she a flash of an image appear before her eyes a blue vortex with a snow white background before it was gone again, she shook her head.
'Not again, I thought I was over the flashbacks.' She thought remembering the times she was brought back to Wally West's final moments before the vortex's energy ripped him from existence… or so he thought.
"Is there a reason that you have assembled outside the cave to meet me?" the monotone voice of Red Tornado sounded bringing Evelyn out of her trail of thoughts. Only super boy had noticed the change in her, but said nothing frown slightly.
"We were wondering if there was a mission for us yet." Asked Miss Martian brightly, as Evelyn waited for the robot to say no.
"Mission assignments are the Batman's concern; in the mean time you should familiarize yourselves with the cave and with each other." He said before walking and into the cave.
"Roy was right there just trying to keep us out of the way." Aqualad muttered to Robin once Red Tornado was out of earshot.
"Told you guys, besides we can use this time for a little team training if you guys don't mind?" Evelyn said as they headed back in, gaining the others attention.
"Miss Martian has informed me that the league has set up an area for us to kept spare uniforms and equipment." He said as they walked in after the rest of the team.
"I'll lead the way, me and super-boy have been checking out where everything is in here anyway… oh I almost forgot the cookies!" she said with a start flying off with them trailing behind.
'Typical Megan.' Evelyn thought as they entered the kitchen they saw the blackened cookies and heard Megan mumble to herself. Evelyn headed over and began to eat the blackened cookies.
"I have a super accelerated metabolism due to my speedster abilities; I don't like to see food wasted in front of me." She answered their questioning looks.
"I'll make more." Miss Martian said, before Aqualad turned to look at her.
"It was sweet of you to make any." He said causing her to smile brightly.
"Thanks Aqualad." She said.
"Also when we are off duty feel free to call me Kaldur'ahm… actually my friends call me Kaldur." He added smiling back at her. She returned to leading them to changing section she mentioned.
"I'm Kara Zor-El, though in public just call me Kara Kent." Kara said looking over them as they walked.
"West, Evelyn West." Evelyn spoke up, as reached a large chamber with lockers numbered and named for each of them. They headed over to their individual lockers with changing cubicles beside them for privacy.
"Well I'm Amelia Starr… but you guys already knew that… oh and you can call me Power-girl; Kara said it suited me." Amelia said nervously rubbing the back of her neck as she sat down and waited for them all to change.
"Sorry bats would loss his nut if I told anyone mine." robin said shrugging.
"Its fine I already know who you are bird wonder." Evelyn said, smiling.
"Yeah well you're the exception." He said, before turning away.
"Well you guys probably don't know but you call me Kon-El… or just Conner Kent, Miss Martian came up with Conner and Kara said I had every right to use Kent." He said as he took out a weird red and black suit, basically a jumpsuit version of his usual t-shirts. 'Guess Super-girl gave him a kryptonain name after all.'
"Jumpsuit, Kevlar fibre, no tights no capes, just as I promised." Kara said, to him as she patted him affectionally on the back, he stared at it before smiling weakly.
"It totally suits you." Miss Martian said looking dreamy eyed at the clone; the others stared at her as she quickly added blushing. "In that you can totally work in that uniform."
"Thanks Kara... and Miss Martian I guess." He said quietly watching the martian girl blush deeply while the blonde kryptonain waved it off.
"Don't mention it, I was feeling lonely with it being just me and my cousin but now there's four of us." Super-girl said happily wrapping her arms around Super-boy and Power-girl.
"Well my name is M'gann M'orzz, or you can just call me Megan… it's an earth name… I'm on earth now." She said happily. The rest of them got changed and after ten minutes the team was kited out.
"Hey Megan, you can telepathically link our minds together right?" Evelyn asked tying her red hair into long ponytail, the Martian looked confused.
"Yes i suppose why?" she responded.
"Well it would give us the team a secure form of communication while on mission." She replied as she checked on her belt to ensure all pieces of equipment were secured.
"Ok I guess we could try it… I mean my uncle told me reading other people's thoughts on earth without their permission was something bad so I've been refraining from doing that." She said, looking round, her gaze lingered on super-boy.
'Wish Wally's world's Martian manhunter had that sort of foresight.' Evelyn thought to herself as she imagined how differently that situation would have went if Miss Martian hadn't read super-boy's mind… I guess it would have played out kinda like this.
"It is unless it's the bad guys." Robin answered, as he stepped out of his changing room.
"Ok now that we're all dressed to impress where should we do the training?" asked super-girl, crossing her arms and looking expectantly at Kid Flash, who was after the leader.
"Miss Martian batman did say we would be trained by Black Canary?" she began, continuing once she received a nod from white Martian girl. "Well then we can use that area for some training then."
"Ok then follow me then." She said cheerfully leading the group of superheroes down into a larger cavern with a large white ring in the centre of it.
"Ok then I guess we should start with some sparring matches; who would like to go first against me-"Kid Flash started before the intercom sounded interrupting her plans.
"Attention team, an alarm has been sounded at the Happy Harbour nuclear power plant; I suggest you head out and investigate it immediately." The monotone voice of Red tornado sounded over the cave's intercom.
"Finally we've got some action!" Super-girl yelled with excitement fist pumped the air, as the others looked excited, everyone but Kid Flash who turned pale as she felt the blood drain from her face.
"What's up Evelyn it's like you said we should be ready on standby for this sort of thing?" Power-girl asked looking at her curiously.
"It's nothing, we better get going ASAP." She said quickly her gaze moving over the team as she did.
"Well we can take my bioship." Miss Martian said, and flew off with everyone on her heels. Soon they came before the large egg like vessel.
"Nice…egg-thingy…Megan… but I don't think we can all fit into that thing?" Super-girl said looking at the Martian girl, who smiled and placed her hand against her head.
"Hello Megan it's still in sleep mode." She said before the egg shifted into the familiar shape of the Martian bio-ship. They were soon strapped in, and the mission had begun.
"So according to Red Tornado there was a distress call from happy harbour nuclear power plant rough six minutes ago." Miss Martian informed them as the ship entered camouflage mode.
"Did we just turn invisible?" Power-girl asked amazed looking outside, before turning to look at the rest of them.
"Yep the bioship can turn invisible as well as respond to my mental commands." Miss Martian stated proudly.
'So the team's just formed and we're already facing an unknown variable… because I'm sure I would have remembered if happy harbour hosted a nuclear power plant. SHIT I remember this fight now; we wrecked the power plant completely last time, if we do that again to this one…' Kid Flash thought before she reassured herself that everything so be fine as long as they took any threat seriously, dying had a way of relieving one's recklessness and an understanding of the Chernobyl incident also helps sobering you up too when faced with a possible nuclear meltdown.
"So boss what's our plan of action then?" Robin asked, looking up from his game of Tetris, expectantly; Kid Flash thought it over before addressing the entire team.
"All right then when we arrive robin will recon with super-boy and super-girl as back up find the threat and engage it and led it away from the power plant; miss Martian, Aqualad, power-girl and myself will evacuate the power plant and make sure it shuts down properly in case any damage is done to the core.' She began looking at group in turn. 'We'll be mind-linked so if one group finds something important or are in need of help then they will alert the rest understood?"
The team voiced their agreement as the ship approached the power plant; It was then the bioship shook violently as a screen appeared showing them a twister heading towards them.
"Well I can honestly say that i wasn't expecting that." Power-girl said mouth open staring at the approaching vortex, Kid flash ignored the flashbacks it incurred for her and focused on the mission at hand as best she could.
"Well it looks like the found the source of the Alarm." Super-girl said out loud as Megan swerved to dodge it. They were forced to hold on tightly as they dived to down to the right in order to get around the vortex of air.
"Are tornado's common in New England?" Aqualad inquired gripping his seat tightly.
"Surprisingly no; their not." Robin informed him, saving his game for later, before flashing him a mischievous grin; clearly excited at being the first one to meet the bad guys.
"Let's do this." Kid Flash communicated to them via the mind link as Miss Martian opened a hole in the side of the Bioship; they jumped out robin already disappearing with his signature cackle echoing through the air.
"Aqualad take the eastern side of the plant with Miss Martian, I'll take Power-girl and handle the western block. Good luck and watch each other's backs out there." She informed her team breaking off with power-girl who was flying through the air after her, crowds of panicked workers were hastily evacuating the plant as warning klaxons sounded for all to hear.
'Please tell those are just to tell people to evacuate and not for potential devastation.' Kid Flash thought as the pair of them entered the building following the map on her holo-com towards the central control room.
"Found our mystery guest, he's a robot like Red Tornado and clearly isn't feeling the aster today… Ha this guy calls himself mister twister how lame does that sound." Robin informed them as the sound of distant battle could be heard from where they were.
"Robin the aim is to lead him away not to lay waste to the power plant." Aqualad's agitated voice sounded on the Mind Link. Kid had forgotten how weird it was to hear about things going on elsewhere like the person was standing right next to you.
"Well I'm sorry he doesn't want to comply I thinks he's a bit business trying to Kill us!" Robin retorted angrily.
"Then find a way to get it done, we can't help anyone when the wall next to us explodes." Miss Martian chimed in.
"Well I'm sorry, I'll tell just him how you feel and see if changes his behaviour then-"robin began before he was cut off.
"ENOUGH I CAN'T THINK WHEN YOU'RE BICKERING IN MY HEAD… IT MAKES ME MISS THE GENOMORPHS!" Super-boy's rage filled voice erupted on the link causing both power-girl and kid flash to visible cringe gripping their heads in their hands.
"Hey guys I don't think this is what Kid Flash had in mind when she had us link our minds together." The mature voice of super-girl echoed in their heads now, as they resumed their mad dash to the control room as the sound of that bloody klaxon seemed to get louder and louder.
"Your right about that keep it clear for battle commands and see if you can express with hand gestures or the like then do it, anything else of note tell us; remember we're not dealing with a mindless brute like blockbuster, this guys a robot which probably means he's smart so keep him guessing, because he'll think around your raw strength if you let him. We'll work on our mind manners when we get back to the cave." Kid told them as she entered a large computer filled room with a dozen men and woman talking frantically at a computer screen.
"Please tell me you did not just say mind manners." Robin began an annoying tone in his voice before.
"Shut the hell up bird boy we're trying to make sure a nuclear reactor doesn't go critical here, we can't do that if you continue to distract us with pointless chatter!" power-girl snarled angrily visible clenching her fists a venomous look on her face.
"Shutting up now" Robin said taking the hint, kid flash placed a hand on her shoulder reassuringly.
"headache?" she asked simply, power-girl nodded; they left it at that as they headed over the gathered engineers.
"What's the situation with the reactor?" Kid asked with authority; the nuclear technicians turned to face them grim looks on their faces.
"Bad that metal bastard's damaged the power plant, why don't you go handle him." A middle aged woman with short yellow hair told them.
"Rest of our team are luring him away from plant as we speak, we came to help make sure the reactor got shutdown." Kid told them looking past them at the numerous error boxes on the screen.
"Ha tell that to what's left of the east wing… besides do you even know anything about nuclear physics?" another guy asked his voice like sand paper.
"Just the basics" She replied non-chalantly, causing the woman to glance at power-girl who was fidgeting with her hands.
"And her?" she asked simply, Kid Flash smiled; pointing as she spoke.
"You never know when you need a radiation proof girl who can lift an oil tanker with one arm." She told them; smile growing wider at the looks they gave her.
"Didn't know superman had another cousin?" one guy muttered, while girl gestured to the screen. "We need to access the manual override, which right now since there's no longer an east wing; happens to be in the reactor chamber, plus some of the machinery's stuck so she'll need to move it into place."
"How long till the reactor's temperature levels eclipses your suits protection limit?" Kid asked them urgently, they glanced amongst each other.
"Ten minutes tops." They said in unison. "Better work fast then power-girl let's go." Kid informed her as they speed off to the reactor access portal.
"This is Aqualad we've finished evacuating the Eastern block, heading over to assist Robin and the others with 'mister twister'." Aqualad voice sounded in their heads.
"Let's work fast ok?" she spoke to her companion as she suited up into the bulky rad suit. She hoped the features of the reactor weren't too different from the modal she had looked at in her youth when she was bored; they entered the large steel room.
"Those rods up there, they need to be in the reactor core, I'll work on releasing the neutron absorbing solutions in the coolant tanks into the core as well." She didn't wait for a response as she headed over to the control panel and began working away at it, feeling sweat collect on her nose as she felt the temperature steadily increase as she watched the Geiger counter shift as they worked.
Minutes crawled by as she worked feverously before…
"Come on come on… almost there; GOT IT!" Kid Yelled in triumph as the neutron absorbent coolant was released into the core. The sudden beeping of her watch informed her she had less than a minute to vacate the reactor core or her suit would melt and she'd take a radiation bath. Careful not to damage the suit she left power-girl to finish pushing the rods in and headed for the portal.
"Another two seconds and I'd be glowing green." She muttered wiping a sweaty brow as the engineers came rushing over to her, just as power-girl left the portal and headed over to join her.
"Then we'd have two red haired green girls." Power-girl informed her smiling at their success.
"We got it at sub-critical levels, thanks kid flash and you too power-girl." They said patting them on back as they helped her out of the rad suit. Power-girl grinned at the comment.
"Hurry up you two! We're throwing everything we've got at this guy and he's pounding us into the ground." Super-girl said frantically.
"It's not working are you sure there's a person controlling it?" Miss Martian asked over the link no doubt having just tried to read Mister Twister's mind suddenly Miss Martian screamed and the link was cut.
"Let's move now!" Kid said seriously as they rushed to help their comrades take on mister twister. 'This makes no sense that guy shouldn't be able to handle two kryptonians… unless they think it's a guy inside or red tornado and are holding back.' She realised eyes opening wide as she did.
They ran out of a hole in the wall before they soon came across the rest of their team in various states of tattered uniforms and bruised bodies; the red and black robot was in sight of them visible unscathed and clearly unimpressed with his opposition.
"Power-girl follow my lead." She said racing towards the homicidal robot, she ran behind the robot sticking half a dozen small devices on his exterior before speeding away as they detonated blasting the robot back right into the path of Power-girls charge; she struck the robot like a torpedo smashing him into a nearby wall.
"It's about time you got here, power-girl tone it down there's someone inside that thing." Super-girl informed them, as Aqualad helped a groaning Miss Martian back to her feet. Kid Flash and power-girl rushed over to their teammates to see what was going on.
"Theirs five of you; how come he's barely got a scratch on him and you guys look like shit." Power-girl questioned them bluntly a look of disbelief on her face; this got her a number of scowls from the rest of the heroes.
"It's hard to fight someone when their throw a tornado at you and can electrocute you as well." Robin replied folding him arms winching at the action, Kid Flash took stock of the situation, the plant was successfully shutdown and evacuated meaning they could go full force on this guy.
"Super-girl are you really sure someone's in that thing because if there is then Miss Martian should be able to read their mind." Kid flash told her teammates. "Link re-established, and to answer your question Kid Flash yes I did and it didn't work on him." Miss Martian's voice sounded in their heads.
"Super-girl check again deeper this time." Kid flash instructed her; she gasped after a few moments.
"He's an android in a mech suit, totally didn't see that coming." She informed the rest of them.
"Matrix anyone?" Robin thought with a grin, as the super flexed their muscle and locked gazes with Mister Twister.
"Well then since you're not human we don't need to hold back anymore tin can." Super-girl informed him grinning like a wolf, her eyes glowing red as she loosed her heat vision as two crimson infra-red heat beams towards the stationary figure.
"I guess I should stop holding back too." He replied as his surface seemed to shine and reflect more easily all of a sudden, whats more a strange gel now seemed to coat his metal surface as well.
"What is he…. GET DOWN!" Kid Flash roared into the teams heads as she pinned robin to the ground as the beams struck his surface and was somehow reflected back only it was scattered in various directions. One passed over their heads burning the ends of Kid Flash's hair, another just missed Miss Martian as she was knocked aside by Aqualad. Another one struck Connor in the chest burning through his jumpsuit.
"Heat beam refracting gel… now that's really creative, plus he's completely negated your ability to use heat vision Super-girl." Kid Flash informed them as Super-boy and Power-girl both roared in rage and charged at the metal man.
"How predictable" He stated raising his hands as varies slits opened on his armour; Kid's eyes went wide in understanding of what he was going to do.
"Super-boy, Power-girl don't go near him!" Kid Flash tried to warn them but two late. A red haze seemed to be radiated by the Android as he caught both kryptonians by the throats; they clawed at him trying to remove his grip but couldn't break it, their super strength had seemingly abandoned them.
"Robin explosive birdarang now!" Kid Flash ordered racing towards the robot, as the projectile hit; it explode causing his grip to loosen allowing kid flash to grab them both and drag them away from him.
"What did he do to us?" Power-girl asked in a hushed voice, Kid placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Red solar ray emitters… he's kitted out for anti-kryptonain warfare; like I said brains over brawn." She told them out loud. "We need to fall back and regroup, come up with a plan that will take this guy down." She said in her head to the others who visible nodded.
"Clever girl you figured it out, not that it helps you much." He said walking casually towards them strong gusts of wind surrounding him as he walked.
They retreated back to town the robot causally following them, clearly in no rush to defeat them.
"So what's our game plan chief?" Robin asked looking at Kid Flash, whose eyes were closed, clearly in deep thought.
"Supers are out until the red solar rays are clear of cells so roughly I'd say five or more minutes based on the dosage they got… no ranged attacks from super-girl with the refraction gel… he can only produce one tornado per hand anymore requires his whole body to move." Kid told them the facts in short bursts her mind calculating what do based on their strengths, she and Aqualad could… if miss Martian was to… but they needed the supers to break through his armour… "Robin got anything that burn through his armoured shell?"
"Just shaped thermite gel charges, but their blast radius is tiny." He replied confused by her request; she took this in, suddenly an idea hit her and she turned to face Miss Martian and super-girl.
"Miss Martian can you transfer Super-girls memories of her x-ray vision of his suit to my mind." She asked, both girls looked shock glancing at each other.
"Yes but you said I could only do it to the-"Miss Martian said looking worried, she stopped when super-girl put a hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"It's only the images; I trust our leader's decisions." She said turning to face Kid flash with a look which said 'you better be right about this'.
"Ok then picture the images in mind." Miss Martian said placing a hand on Super-girl's head; who closed her eyes, she then placed her hand on Kid Flash's head, and she closed her eyes in preparation. Suddenly a series of images flashed before her eyes; she analysed them intensely before opening her eyes and activating her Holo-com she turned to face her team.
"Here's the plan." She began to speak to the group of superheroes…
Mister Twister walked through the deserted street glancing left and right.
"Come out children let us end this game." He called out, his sensory scanning the surrounding area; he wanted to be done with them so he could get on with his primary objective: reclaiming Red Tornado. Suddenly a beam of red light hit his back only to scattered when the gel refracted it in every direction causing a nearby car to explode.
"There you are… I thought we already established that you're little trick doesn't work on me anymore." He informed her mockingly as he headed over to her. He rounded the corner only to get hit by several birdarangs in the back, the explosion sent him flat on his face, and the sound of cackling could be heard in the air. Growling he launched a tornado at the spot before gliding over to it.
"Where are you!" he roared landing in the middle of a park, water pouring from a nearby fountain. "Very well if you won't face then I'll just have to remove happy harbour from the map."
Suddenly he couldn't move any of his limbs, looking up her saw the green Martian girl staring at him her arms out stretched.
"You do realised I can still make a tornado even when I'm locked in place." He retorted to her, sending gusts of wind to form two large twisters from each arm. He was surprised to see a jet of water fly from the fountain and form a whirl pool around his right twister turning in the opposite direction from his.
"You're not the only one who can command the elements." Aqualad said his water bearers held out in front of him.
"I have two or have you forgetting that." Mister twister said mockingly moving the second one towards them. A yellow streak came out of nowhere and began running in the opposite direction to his second twister.
"Clever, let me guess speedster girl came up with the plan; it matters not, we are in a stalemate, half your team is incapable of fighting me and the other half cannot move from their positions." He sneered at them; a suddenly cackling sound reached his sensors once more as a small shape landed on his back and began sticking things to various points on his metal body.
"Clearly you forget about me, time to turb you up." Robin said detonating the thermite gel, Twister was blasted around before falling to his knees. His suit had several breaches in it destroying his red solar emitters. Looking up he saw the three kryptonians standing in front of him grinning sadistically.
"Well look guys it's seems someone broke Mister Twisters light bulbs." Super-girl said with mock sadness; cracking her knuckles audibly.
"A shame for him" Power-girl said floating off the ground; her power's restored.
"But good news for the three of us" Super-boy finished with his eyes narrowing; they matched menacingly over to the downed and defenceless robot; who turned to face Kid Flash.
"Clever girl" he said simply before the supers began wailing on him, he tried to fight back but he didn't have a chance against three of them now that they stopped pulling their punches. Eventually they torn him apart, causing the android inside to come out.
"Foul I call foul." He blurted out before Power-girl crushed his head between her fists like a nutcracker.
"What His voice was getting on my nerves." She responded to their question looks; she turned to smile at them. "Well we defeated a rampaging robot, stopped a nuclear meltdown and saved a town from twisters; I think I'm beginning to like this superhero stuff."
"Good for you, now I have to explain to bats how we failed to stop an android piloting a robot from crippling a nuclear power station and wreaking half of happy harbour town." she said with groan, the rest of them gave her sympathetic looks, then robin grinned, as he watched her pick up the scarf. "Least we got a souvenir out of it."
"I'm rather glad that I'm not the leader right now." He said as the supers collected the remains of the Mister Twister and brought it to the bioship for transport back to the cave.
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"So you see it would seem that it was programmed to either destroy or reprogram you." Evelyn finished explaining the report to Red Tornado as she finished the last keystroke. Red tornado looked at them emotionlessly… so basically normal day for him.
"You performance while in need of improvement was acceptable, you successful removed the dual threats of the reactor and 'twister', were able to evacuate the non-essential civilians form harm's way and were able to overcome your opponents weapons which were specifically designed to neutralize half of your team, I shall mention such in my supervisory report to the batman." He informed them turning to leave.
"You were watching us the whole time weren't you?" Robin shouted after him, to which he stopped and turned to face them once more.
"Indeed I was prepared to intervene if you failed to SCRAM the core before it reached danger levels. But overall I had no intention of intervening in your own affairs with Mister Twister; just as I will handle it from here on alone." he said before walking off again.
"Any other leaguer would have intervened from the start; I guess us getting the cold heartless machine as den mother was a good thing after all." Super-girl said under her breath to the rest of them.
"You're statement while factual is inaccurate; I do indeed have a heart: carbon-steel alloy." He said from the passage entrance way before glancing back at them, "And excellent hearing too."
"Sorry I'll be more accurate in future." She said rubbing the back of her head as she did.
"And more respectful" Aqualad added before turning to face the rest of the team. "Speedy was wrong about us."
"It's like I said to him." Kid Said folding her arms as she did. "You've made your choice, and I've made mine." she finished gesturing to the group of them.
"So who wants to be with me when I submit my after action report to batman!" she added hopefully, the team glanced at each other before smirking and heading off in various directions at top speed. "GUYS COME ON THAT'S NOT FAIR…GUYS!"
A/N: So do you like the changes i made to make this different from the rest of the fanfics out there. in my head red solar rays impair cellular biochemical pathways by acting as competitive inhibitors so until the cells remove those inhibitors the super is rendered powerless. i hope you like my take on the H.I.V.E and Evelyn's friends at it. if you guys got any suggestions about what you might like to see in the story send me a PM or leave it in a review, i'll consider and if i can't put it in then i'll give a reason for it in the opening authors note. moving on to this chapter you get to see Evelyn's school life (the H.I.V.E works sorta like University with more flexible learning times and you only coming in for projects like the group ones Evelyn was a part of during the holidays).
I hope i got the science behind it right, i am after all a scientist myself... hence why wally's my fav hero out of them all.
Please leave a review if you like it or if you've got CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, haters and flamers are not welcome. till next time.
Sincerely Greywolf41 Esquire