Location: Mount Justice

Date: Aug 19th

Time: 19:35

Emmy was finally done with her three-page report on A Raisin in the Sun. She had just finished her fourth day of school, and she was not enjoying life. Sage and Hunter were making new friends, playing on jungle gyms, and sitting around eating snacks all day, and she was supposed to know the difference between metaphor and symbolism and other literary terms she barely knew. She turned in the Calculus packet on Tuesday. Chemistry had thankfully been pretty straightforward, so that was turned in Wednesday. Physics had just been reading about measurements, she hadn't had to do any actual homework. There was no make-up for Gym, obviously. American History, on the other hand, was her Achilles' heel. She winced at the thought of Mr. Taylor. She should not have antagonized him like that the first day. Emmy had only been thinking about getting expelled at the time, but that didn't work, and now she was still in his class. He hated her like non-polar lipid tails hated water. His class had reading assignments for her to catch up on from the first week, but he made her take a placement test to see where she was at the beginning of the year. He had started calling her Twelve because that was the percentage she got on the test. Emmy rubbed her eyes. If she failed a stupid history class, she was leaving Earth with her kids and never coming back. She sat back and looked at the paper. It had good grammar and vocabulary, but she had no idea if anything she had written was legitimate. Oh well. Not my problem anymore.

Emmy cracked her spine and starting walking to the sparring room. A weight fell off her shoulders when she realized that she was done with all her catch-up work and was now on track with the syllabi. She was still grumpy though. She had been avoiding people as much as possible and left campus during lunch to just drive around. The outdoor lunches were supposed to stop soon, and she wanted as much time out of the building as she could get. From what she could tell, lunch was where most of the socialization happened, so she had been pretty successful at avoiding people so far. Emmy bumped into Trent a few more times though. He had warned her earlier today that everyone had switched from calling her 'Hot New Girl' to 'Hot Antisocial Girl'. Emmy snorted slightly at the acronym, and he used her good mood to ask for her number. She'd given it to him but hadn't checked her phone to see if he'd texted yet or not. She had been busy with homework.

She walked in to see Kaldur and Superboy fighting in the circular boundary. Artemis and Megan were chatting as they watched. The sparring boys were in their typical outfits. Megan was in her pink skirt and cardigan over a white tank top combo, and Artemis was wearing a brown jacket over a white tank top with dark jeans and boots. Wally had a long sleeve shirt underneath an open navy button down t-shirt with jeans. Emmy rolled her eyes at his outfit. She still wasn't a fan of the shirt combo. Emmy was in a dark green velvet cropped t-shirt with light blue jeans, a black belt, and black combat boots. She wasn't a huge velvet person, but Hunter had picked it out for her during their mall trip because the tag said it was 'Hunter Green'.

"Did you finish your homework, Emmy?" Megan asked brightly.

Emmy sighed and sat down on the ground to the amusement of the girls in front of her. "Yes. It was horrible. I might never recover."

"You are so melodramatic," Artemis rolled her eyes with a small smile on her face.

The archer got her ass kicked by Canary a few days ago, and her welcome to the team had solidified from that bonding experience. They teased her mercilessly, but then Superboy lasted six seconds, and she had joined in on the laughter toward him. Artemis relaxed a bit and seemed to feel like more of a team member after that. The team who gets their ass handed to them together, sticks together, after all.

"I am the right amount of dramatic, thank you," Emmy looked up at the other blonde. "So, whatcha two talking about?"

Artemis seemed to remember what she was saying because she turned to Megan. "Kaldur's, uh, nice, don't you think?" Artemis lowered her voice to make sure Superboy couldn't hear. "Handsome. Commanding. You should totally ask him out."

Emmy smirked and got to her feet. So, that was Artemis's plan? Get Megan hooked up with a non-Supey teammate so the archer could go for the clone unimpeded.

"He's like a big brother to me," Megan replied lightly. "But you know who would make the cutest couple? You and Robin," Megan smirked at Artemis, and Emmy started laughing.

"Yeah, Artemis," Emmy nudged the blonde. "Maybe the six inches he's lacking in height are added elsewhere."

Artemis scoffed and pushed Emmy away with slightly red cheeks. "Robin is like a little brother to me," she sent Megan a pointed look. "At least we can agree that Wally has it bad for Emmy."

Emmy huffed. "How? He's been nothing but piss-y since I started going to 'his' school. One of his friends is mad at him and somehow that's my fault."

"I don't know, Emmy," Megan teased as they all turned to look at the speedster loudly eating his burrito. "You're so full of passion and wit and he's so full…of…"

"It," Artemis stated with a look. The trio laughed.

"I don't know, Megan," Emmy mocked her friend. "I'm nowhere near as passionate as an eating Wally. He doesn't even look at Robin the way he's looking at that burrito."

The girls snickers were interrupted by Superboy knocking Aqualad to the ground.

"Canary taught me that," Supey smiled while brushing his hands together.

"Speaking of handsome," Emmy muttered, enjoying the annoyed and slightly panicked looks the two girls sent her at the prospect of all three of them having a secret crush on Superboy.

"What about Trent?" Megan asked quickly.

"Yeah, who's Trent?" Artemis blurted.

Emmy breathed a laugh out of her nose. "I'm not into Superboy, calm down. And Trent is just a random guy from school."

"But he asked for your phone number," Megan turned to Artemis. "Every Earth movie and tv-show I have seen indicates that that is a sign of romantic interest."

"Is he hot?" Artemis asked. Emmy shrugged.

"I mean," she crossed her arms. "Yeah, sort of. Taller than I'd like though."

"Hey, height doesn't matter once you get horizontal," Artemis smirked. Emmy chuckled and then both blondes started laughing when they saw Megan's confused face.

"I'm a little busy for a boy toy at the moment," Emmy shrugged. "Even one with dark red hair and brown eyes."

"Wait. Are you into redheads?" Artemis smiled evilly.

"No!" Emmy snapped a little too defensively. It was the Martian's and archer's turn to laugh.

Wally zipped up to the group. "I heard handsome redhead and came running."

Emmy snorted when he winked at Megan. "Kid Fanfaronade strikes again."

"I don't want to hear it, Green Crashed-My-School-And-Is-Ruining-My-Life." Emmy frowned.

"Your scrawny friend being mad at you has nothing to do with me!"

Wally ignored the fact that she was technically right and glared at her instead. Red Tornado appeared and stole the team's attention.

Wally zipped to the android. "Do you have a mission for us?"

"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility." Tornado replied.

"Yeah. Well, the Batman is with the Robin, doing the Dynamic Duo thing in Gotham," Wally mocked the android. "But you're heading somewhere, right? Hot date? Or a missióne?" Man, that French accent attempt is terrible.

"If we canbe of help," Kaldur offered, trying to cancel out Wally's rudeness.

Tornado perused the team before pulling up a man's image on the holoscreen. "This is Kent Nelson, a friend. He is 106 years old."

"Guy doesn't look a day over ninety," Wally quipped toward Artemis. Megan stepped to his left and quickly captured his attention.

"And he has been missing for twenty-three days," Red Tornado ignored Wally and continued, "Kent was a charter member of the Justice Society, which was the precursor to yours mentors' Justice League." Kent Nelson's image morphed until he was wearing a golden helmet, belt, boots, gauntlets, and cape over blue clothing.

"Of course." Kaldur looked off to the side as though he should have made the connection earlier, "Nelson was Earth's Sorcerer Supreme. He was Doctor Fate."

"Doctor What Now?" Emmy had never heard of him.

"Pfft." Wally snorted. "More like Doctor Fake. Artemis tell Emmy that the guy just knows a little advanced science and Dumbledore's it up to scare the bad guys and impress the babes."

Emmy sent him a look. "The silent treatment is not the punishment you think it is."

"I am not getting in the middle of this lover's quarrel," Artemis threw her arms up a little and smirked haughtily when her two teammates gave her the side-eye.

"Kent may just be on one of his… walkabouts, but he is caretaker of the Helmet of Fate." Tornado clarified."The source of the Doctor's mystic might…it is unwise to leave such power unguarded."

"He's like the great sorcerer priests and priestesses of Mars! I would be honored to help find him." M'gann spoke up happily. The team gave each other mildly surprised looks. Megs didn't typically talk about life on Mars. She hadn't taken up Emmy's offer to talk about Mars or the war, so the younger girl hadn't pushed the issue and stuck to just shopping and cooking with her friend.

Wally instantly threw his hand into the air, "Me too!" His countenance turned sheepish when he realized that the whole team was looking at him."So honored, I can barely stand it." Artemis and Emmy rolled their eyes behind the speedster. "Magic rocks," he threw his hand up in a gesture.

"I would assume you're trying to do the rock and roll symbol, but you're actually saying, 'I love you' in sign language," Emmy crossed her arms. Wally looked at his hand and then scowled at her.

"Take this, it is the key to the Tower of Fate," Red Tornado handed Kaldur an old brass key.

"Why does he just casually have the key?" Emmy whispered to a shrugging Artemis.

"What are the chances we both so admire the mystic arts?" Wally asked M'gann with an attempted smolder. The Martian smiled slightly while Emmy scoffed.

They moved to the bioship and were flying toward the Tower of Fate when the archer started questioning the speedster.

"So, Wally, when did you realize your honest affinity for sorcery?" Artemis's tone was mocking. "Because I thought I heard you say something along the lines of 'tell Emmy he's a fraud'."

"Well. I-I don't like to brag," Wally stumbled over his words slightly while he looked toward Megan. "but uhm, before I became Kid Flash, I seriously considered becoming a wizard myself." He smiled lazily at the Martian and leaned back into the chair with his hands behind his head.

"Now that'd be a good book," Emmy smirked at the archer still rolling her eyes. "Wally West and the Half-Brain Prince."

Wally sneered at her. "You haven't even read Harry Potter."

"I'm more of a Tolkien girl," Emmy shrugged. "Gotta love 300 page-long descriptions of a stroll."

"We've reached Tornado's coordinates, but-" Megan hesitated and brought the ship down the street.

Location: Salem

Date: Aug 19th

Time: 20:22

The hovering bioship was still camouflaged. There was an abandoned-looking theater and a single red brick building on the street. "Nothing's here," Supey shrugged.

"Take us down," Aqualad ordered. There was an orange cat with blood red markings lurking outside the ship. Emmy frowned and watched it run into the theater. Hopefully, it wouldn't come back. She was super allergic to cats.

Megan landed the ship, and Kaldur sent Wally to do a lap around the town. A blur and breeze returned to the group in the field by the ship. Wally tugged his goggles off.

"Nothing. This isn't simple camouflage."

"What do you think? Adaptive micro-opto-electronics combined with phase shifting?" Artemis suggested.

"Absolutely!" Wally started before Megan entered his field of vision and he faltered.

"Shouldn't you think it's magic, Wally?" Emmy taunted before turning to her secret half-sister and agreeing with her theory.

"Absolutely not, I mean. Clearly," his voice cracked unconvincingly as he looked at Megan, "mystic powers are at work here."

Artemis glared at the redhead while Superboy and Aqualad traded skeptical glances. Emmy wasn't quite sure where she stood on the magic manner. She considered herself a scientist. She liked learning how the world worked on an atomic and chemical level. But she also had a ring whose functionality and capabilities were way beyond her understanding. In fact, no one in the Corps was even 100% sure how or why their rings work. Was it just incredibly advanced science? Or was it magic? And at what point does science become magic? Aqualad looked to the key in his hand.

"A test of faith," he mused, looking at the word 'Insert' on the key handle.

He walked forward. "Stand behind me," he commanded his team.

They crowded behind him and he took a couple steps forward. Emmy prepared to activate the ring on her finger. The Atlantean raised the key and moved it into the air. It disappeared, and a click sounded when Kaldur started turning it. A final clink and a giant stone tower came into view. Emmy raised an eyebrow in surprise. Artemis and Wally looked discombobulated by the appearance, but the other three were acting like towers appeared out of nowhere all the time. Kaldur opened the wooden door housing the key and they followed him inside. The door slammed behind them and vanished.

"Uh, where'd the door go?" Superboy asked as the team looked at the blank walls. A projection of Kent Nelson in his golden outfit appeared in the center of the room. Emmy took a step away from it.

"Greetings," the projection spoke. "You have entered with a key, but the Tower does not recognize you. State your purpose and intent."

Artemis and Emmy glanced at each other. Wally looked at Megan before walking forward with an overdramatic grin. "We are true believers, here to find Doctor Fate."

The projections face looked almost sad for a moment then vanished. The floor creaked loudly, and Wally's smile dropped. The team looked down a second before the circle of ground beneath them disappeared. Emmy yelped as her stomach flew up, and she saw the magma at the bottom of the tube. She powered up and floated. Superboy was falling the fastest, he reached for the wall, clawing at it to bring himself to a stop. Megan grabbed Wally and levitated them both. Artemis shot a rope into the side of the rock with her crossbow and swung to grab Kaldur and they landed against the wall. Superboy needed help first. Emmy dove after him. Superboy's fingers were clawing through the rock as he fell, but it wasn't stopping his descent fast enough. Emmy grabbed his left bicep and yanked him up, but he was already screaming from the lava melting his shoes.

"Those were my favorite boots," he grumbled. "This Kent better be worth it."

"Sorry about your shoes," Emmy smiled down at him and made a small disc beneath his feet so he could stand. She flew down to the magma. It was so hot that she felt the burn on her exposed skin. She threw a thick barrier over the lava. The heat was still coming through, but the lava was blocked. Superboy jumped down next to her. Emmy landed on her structure and looked up.

Megan and Wally were losing altitude, bobbing up and down. "Having trouble…maintaining altitude," Megan wiped sweat from her forehead. "Ugh, I'm so hot."

"You sure are," Wally smirked.

"Wally!" Emmy snarled. "Shut up! It's safe to land-"

"Hey, inches above sizzling death! I'm entitled to speak my mind!" He yelled back.

Kaldur also wiped sweat off his brow. "My physiology and M'gann's are susceptible to heat, we must climb out quickly."

"You're not about to sizzling die, Dumbass!" She gestured to the structure she and Supey were standing on. "The lava's blocked, so I can just fly us all out of here and we'll regroup back on solid ground." Her structure was cracking. Shit. That's not normal. Damn magic lava. She redoubled her efforts and repaired the boundary wherever it cracked.

Megan breathed heavily. "Hello, Megan! We never truly..." she gasped again, "answered the question. Red Tornado sent us!" the Martian trailed off and Emmy sent a disc beneath her and Wally's feet. "To see if Mr. Nelson and the helmet were safe!"

A panel covered the lava. Emmy dropped her structure and landed on the ground, deactivating her ring. Superboy took a few steps on the panel. Megan fell to her knees exhausted while Wally landed on his ass with a yelp. Artemis and Kaldur calmly belayed to the ground.

"This platform." Kaldur placed both his hands on it. "It should be red hot, but it is cool to the touch."

"Don't worry Megalicious, I gotcha." Wally smiled, helping the green girl to her feet.

"Seriously!?" Emmy snapped and pushed Wally away from Martian and into a wall, finger in the center of his chest. "You really need to flirt with Megan to the point of almost getting us dissolved?"

"That's tough talk coming from the girl who said she wanted to watch Supey go down on me because I was tied up when we first met."

"I did not say that!" Emmy stuttered at the vivid mental picture before she pressed his chest harder. "You're the one willing to risk all our lives to impress Megan."

"It was heavily implied!" Wally glared at the blonde in front of him. "And when did this become my fault?"

"When you lied to that whatever-it-was and called yourself a true believer," Artemis interjected roughly. Emmy crossed her arms in agreement with the half-Vietnamese blonde behind her. The rest of the team turned to the flustered redhead.

"Wally?" M'gann was stunned and melancholy. "You don't believe?"

Wally kept his glower on Emmy for a second before sighing in exasperation and screaming, "Fine. Fine! I lied about believing in magic. But magic's the real lie. It's a major load!"

"Wally, I studied for a year at the Conservatory of Sorcery in Atlantis." Kaldur mentioned with his hand still on the floor. "The Mystic Mages created the skin icons that power my Water-bearers."

"Dude, you ever hear of Bioelectricity?" Wally asked, annoyed. "Hey, in primitive cultures, firewas once considered magic too. Today, it's all a bunch of tricks."

"You're making our point for us, Kid Foist. Magic is a form of energy transformation in the world, and science describes the mechanisms in the universe, so magic is really just science that we don't understand yet!" Emmy put her hands on her hips.

"Yeah, you're pretty closed minded for a guy who can break the sound barrier in his sneakers." Artemis added.

"That's science." Wally insisted, "I recreated the Flash's experiment, and here I am!" he said with a sardonic hand gesture. "Everything can be explained by science."

"How do you know magic isn't just a facet of science?" The lantern and speedster scowled at each other.

"Let us test your theory, Wally," Kaldur smirked before he started lifting a door in the ground.

"Wait, the backdraft from the lava will roast us alive!" Wally took a step toward Kaldur, but the door opened, and snow fluttered into the room on a gust of frigid air.

Emmy laughed. "Oh, no. I'm roasting." The redhead was unimpressed with her sarcasm.

She dropped through the gateway after Kaldur. The gate somehow spun in midair and the team landed on their feet in a snowy tundra. Wally watched the portal disappear in a golden flash of light.

"Well?" Artemis asked, certain that he would admit something else was going on now.

"Every hear of string theory?" Wally quipped, moving his hands into a square. "We're in a pocket dimension."

"Oh, what?" Emmy scoffed, hugging her arms around herself. She should have worn a jacket. "You think we're currently proving string theory? I'm not saying this is 100% magic but get your head out of your ass and consider the possibility!"

"No, it's definitely magic," Artemis frowned at the two arguing teens. She had been skeptical at first, but now she was fully on board with the magic angle.

A gold cane was floating above the snow, Emmy started walking toward it. "What's that?" M'gann inquired.

"Ooo, maybe it's Kent's magic wand," Wally sneered, zipping toward the cane grabbing it at the same second Emmy did.

"I got it," they glared at each other, speaking simultaneously. "Huh?" they both pulled back, trying to get the cane out of their hands. "I can't let go!" Their slightly panicked eyes met each other before the cane shot into the sky and took them with it in a flash of golden light.

They rematerialized and Emmy looked at her surroundings immediately. They were on a platform in an old theater. A witchy teen was watching some guy torture Kent. Wally was next to her and they both got to their knees.

"Abra Kadabra," Wally growled.

"Get away from Nelson, you bunny grabbing assholes," Emmy commanded, eyes flashing green as she prepared to activate her ring.

Kent relaxed and smiled. "Well, would you look at that."

The cane in their hands glowed at the same time Nelson started glowing. Kadabra and the witch teen panicked when Nelson flew toward the two teens. He grabbed the cane. Emmy and Wally could immediately let go.

"In here," Kent said, making an elevator appear in the wall. Emmy was about to power up, but Wally grabbed her and yanked her into the elevator as the witch one yelled about wanting the helmet. He launched lightning but the doors shut before it could hit.

Emmy's back was against Wally's chest and his arms were wrapped around her waist from when he pulled her into the elevator. He was incredibly warm, and she was suddenly very aware of the fact that she hadn't been hugged by a non-Hunter guy since January. She ignored the tug in her stomach and whirled around backing out of his arms slightly. "What the hell, Wally? I was going to kick their asses."

Wally frowned. "Do you really think you could have powered up before the lightning hit you? You should be saying thank you!"

The scowled at each other until they noticed the elevator music playing and the older man surveying at them. "I'm Kent Nelson, by the way."

"No duh," Wally snapped. Emmy slapped the back of his head lightly. "Behave."

"I'm Emerald," she smiled at the man and offered her hand. "Nice to meet you. Kid Fractious over here is Wally."

Kent shook her hand with a smile. "Well, your friend may have done you a favor there, Emerald. We are up against an opponent with tremendous mystic power."

"Abra Kadabra?" Wally scoffed and rolled his eyes. "Flash proved that he uses futuristic technology to simulate magic," he looked at Kent. "Guy's all show, no biz."

"Right you are," Kent agreed.

Wally whirled on Emmy with a proud and cocky smile.

"I never said I thought magic was real! I said you needed to be open to the possibility. Any scientist worth their salt should know that bias destroys innovation and observation," She defended herself.

Wally frowned. "I am not biased."

"Oh, puh-lease," Emmy could not have been more exasperated. She turned to Kent, silently asking him for help here.

"Abra is a charlatan," Kent continued, "but Klarion, the Witch Boy with the cat, he's an actual Lord of Chaos. The ultimate enemy of a Lord of Order like Doctor Fate."

"Right." Wally drawled, skeptical but hesitant. "You're a Lord of Order."

"Oh, no. Not me," Kent said with a chuckle. "I'm just an old coot Fate used to put on. Until my wife Inza convinced me there was more to life." He smiled down at her picture in his watch. "Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza." He shook his head, snapping the watch closed and focusing on the current situation. "Anywho, Klarion's after the helmet. If he gets his sticky little mitts on it, he'll turn the planet into his own personal playground of pandemonium."

"Look, no offense, Nelson," Emmy faced the man with hands on her hips. "But I'm not completely sold on the magic thing. Klarion has 'tremendous power'? So do I." she held up her hand and pointed at the ring. "The only way he could beat me is if he made my airway close up with his cat, so what's the best way to take him down quickly?"

Kent smiled at her mischievously. "You have a magic power ring, hmm? I've only known you two minutes, but you seem like an excellent choice for one."

Emmy blinked and glanced at her ring in awe. "Wait. Is it actually magic?"

"No," Wally insisted.

"Did I ask you?"

Kent chuckled, interrupting the teens. The elevator dinged, and they exited the door. A massive golden belltower was on the platform in front of them. Emmy followed Kent up the stairs with Wally close behind her. Emmy shivered when a cold blast of air hit her again.

"You should have worn a jacket, Miss Chills," Wally chastised her. She rolled her eyes.

"But then what would you have to stare at when you think I'm not looking?"

Wally sputtered slightly. "I-Don't flatter yourself," his cheeks turning pink even as he tried to deny it.

"Hey, that Klarion guy looks an awful lot like Jinx," Emmy bit back. "Why don't you go kiss him too, and I'll take him down while he's distracted."

"What, jealous?" Wally smirked from behind her. "That explains all the green you wear."

Kent chuckled again. "I didn't realize you two were dating. Inza used to give me grief about my past flames sometimes. I don't know why, none of them could ever even hold a candle to her."

The two teens looked away from each other at the implication and focused on the stairs. They turned a corner and saw the rest of their team falling out of the ceiling and onto a floor. Megan floated down gracefully.

"You guys okay?" Emmy called. Artemis sent a weak thumbs up.

"Friends of yours?" Kent asked.

Electricity hit the floor; a blue lightning bolt barely missed them. Klarion and Abra Kadabra were on a perpendicular platform.

"Friends of yours?" Wally quipped sarcastically before yanking the older man away from Klarion's next shot. Their team dodged as well, and Emmy powered up. She pushed Wally and Kent behind a bell.

"Don't die, and don't let him die," Emmy ordered Wally before flying toward the Witch Boy.

"I like her," Kent smirked, hitting the bell with his cane.

The bell sound distracted the two 'magicians' long enough for Emmy to knock them over with a giant green mallet. Klarion groaned as he hit the wall. He quickly bounced to his feet, the orange cat from earlier jumped into his arms, and they flew into the air. Wally and Kent were walking into the bell, Witch Boy following after them. Emmy frowned and sent ice picks at the retreating figure. The cat blocked most of them, but one pierced the back of Klarion's shoulder. He shrieked before he disappeared into the bell. Emmy smirked and used an extra bit of willpower to make sure that the ice pick stayed in his shoulder until he yanked it out.

A cage appeared around Emmy out of thin air. She gasped and punched at it, yelping when it electrocuted her. Kaldur and Superboy were also trapped in electrical cages. Miss Martian was fighting the lightning with her telekinesis while Artemis shot at Kadabra. M'gann called out to Wally through the group link.

"Wally, we're in trouble! Tell Kent we need Doctor Fate," she declared.

Kadabra deflected Artemis's last shot and trapped her in one of his electrical cages. Something broke Megan's mind link. Emmy glowered at the fake magician. She might not be able to get out of this cage, but her structures could. She sent vines through the bars and wrapped around the unsuspecting fraud. She smashed him into the floor a few times before yanking him against her cage bars. He groaned from electrocution.

"Let. Us." Emmy muttered. He was starting to pull away, she grit her teeth and put her feet against the bars, increasing her energy to counteract some of the pain from electricity. "Go!"

The fake magician pressed a button on his wand, and Emmy's cage turned into a solid cube. She gasped and dropped her structures. Shit. She made large fists around her hands and started swinging. If she hit hard enough for long enough, it would break. Everything was breakable. The wall started to crack, and she doubled her efforts. She burst out of her trap just in time to see Doctor Fate wave his hand at Kadabra. The guy's wand disappeared with his clothes, leaving him in only his underwear, all his cages vanishing. The villain gasped in shock, and Supey stood up.

"Show's over," he snarled before knocking Kadabra out with one punch.

"Your one liners are really improving," Emmy smiled at the clone. He returned it with a smirk.

"All our training together helps with that. I think you work out your mouth more than your body."

Emmy snorted and rolled her eyes. "Calm down, Pod Brain."

A flash of gold entered the room and Wally floated to the floor, taking off the helmet.

Location: Mount Justice

Date: Aug 20th

Time: 15:50

Emmy was back in the cave. It had been a long day at school thanks to the lack of sleep she got last night. At least it was a Friday. She used to approach the weekend with a sense of dread, never knowing how much money she would earn or how injured she would be after her matches. Now that she was in school, she understood the appeal of the weekend and why the phrase TGIF was so popular. Wally had been oddly quiet and downcast at school today. He had been ignoring her at school since Monday, but today she noticed him acting very un-Wally like. It wasn't normal for him to go through classes without so much as a knee bounce. She would have asked him if he was alright, but he was still mad at her for no reason, and she didn't see the point in starting an argument.

Emmy was heading to the kids' rooms to see if they wanted to Zeta somewhere for a hike and Friday afternoon picnic. Bats and Robin were still doing their thing in Gotham, so their debrief for the Nelson mission would be tomorrow morning at zero eight hundred hours. Emmy sighed at the thought of the man. He was their first official casualty on a mission. She frowned slightly. Was Wally with Kent when he died? Or did he already have the helmet on at that point?

She passed Wally's souvenir room and saw the boy in question standing inside. They hadn't been alone or had a real conversation in almost a week. She stopped and leaned against the doorway. He was standing in front of his display shelf, proudly looking down at the addition of the Helmet of Fate.

"You're putting a Lord of Order on a shelf next to an android eyeball and a cat mask?" Emmy quirked an eyebrow, enjoying Wally's surprised expression when he turned to the girl intruding upon his moment. "Damn. Even I have to admit that's a power move."

Wally rolled his eyes, but his lips were tugging upward. "I am all about power, Baby." Emmy's eyebrows raised at his choice of words. Wally realized what he called her and stumbled on with a new sentence to distract her. "Besides, this isn't actually a Lord of Order. The energy from the thing rewrote my brain's beta-waves. I was bio-scripted into becoming Doctor Fate for a few minutes," he shrugged at her. "No big. And no magic."

Emmy smirked at him. "Right. And where does the helmet get its energy? A giant glowing helmet on a planet far, far away?"

He frowned at her mocking tone. "That's just your ring, Green Lard-ass. Both are instances of extremely advanced science that require more studying and experimentation."

"If you don't think it's magic, why keep it at all? Why not toss it?" Emmy asked, unimpressed with his explanations.

He smirked at the helmet. "Souvenir."

Emmy sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose. "If you don't learn to be more open minded you are going to be a shitty, shitty scientist, West. It's ignorant to rule out possibilities just because they scare you."

"I am not ignorant, and I am not scared," Wally narrowed his eyes. "It's ignorant to assume anything could be possible without sufficient proof!"

"You are so full of it," Emmy pushed off the wall and walked to find her siblings. It wasn't her problem if Wally was in denial.

"Find your own little spitfire. One who won't let you get away with nothin'," Kent's voice echoed inside Wally's head without warning. The redhead frowned at the memory of the words and bit his lip. There was one particular girl he knew who never let him get away with- he saw green skin out of the corner of his eye and cut himself off.

"Hellooo, Megan. Guess who bought us two tickets to a magic show," he smiled before following her down the hall.