[August 9th 2010]

[Happy Harbour, Rhode Island]

Ninja-Kitty rested in my arms surprisingly peacefully as we sat under the moonlight awaiting the arrival of law enforcement, and someone from the Justice League, to collect our prisoners. One of which included Evil Spiderman for some reason, evidently DCverse had to go turning Marvels better, nicer, geek superheroes and turn him into a useless evil villain version. Go figure. That and some burly white guy with one of the stupider weapons for a (supposedly) deadly international assassin; dude had even taken his stupid weapon as his name by calling himself Hook. Captain Hook would have been more intimidating in my opinion, and I'd let the dopey git know that. The others looked at me.

"Well it is! Silenced Guns? Rocket Launchers? Snow Laser thingie like Cap'n Cold uses? Fuck No! Let's go with a giant-ass metal hook of all things instead! Truly...that is the weapon of the ultimate stealthy ninja assassin!"

"Meaow!"

I nodded at the sound of agreement from the cat in my arms "See even Kitty agrees with me! It's a stupid weapon for the job at hand!"

"Gwargh!" or something to that effect came from the bound form of said idiot 'super-villain' through the gag in his mouth as he trashed about uselessly. The rather big bruise on his face where M'gann had walloped him there with his own weapon using her telekinesis; further proof it was a rather stupid weapon. Perhaps I should sympathise more? Maybe he turned up late to his first League of Shadows meeting and they just handed whatever was left and fobbed it off as an awesome, Assassin Name-worthy, weapon.

'Anything Miss Martian?' I mentally projected to the others. It was something of a nuisance really; my mental defences were ironclad so I was 'disconnected' from the little psionic network my alien teammate was running. So I'd had to utilise one of my precious spells to forge my own telepathic link to them...but there was distance between us due to that. One that we all had to focus on, at least when we wanted to 'send' messages, or images, to each other over anyway. Still better these defences than them finding out all my earth shattering secrets; ones that could endanger lots of things and people, like SHIELD for instance.

'He doesn't know very much. Just that those that these were their orders and someone called Sensei was handling the coordination' came back after a few moments as I went "It is, don't pretend otherwise" to bound guy and Evil Spiderman looked at me. Either glaring or looking for a way to escape possibly; I'm sure Miss Martian probably knew as she hovered invisible over all of us. Truly Martians were ideal for this sort of position in any modern day adventuring party! (Also because psioncists were bullshit too of course). Artemis wasn't very happy for whatever reason. But then again she didn't seem to like me very much anyway, so, well...I really shouldn't really have expected any different really. Kid Flash seemed amused that I aggrieved Pink Arrow as she turned and glared at me once again.

"Would you stop telling the murderous international assassins how to do their jobs!"

"I'm only telling Captain Hook over there that he's useless at it, Evil Spiderman at least did a decent enough job from what you all said, and Ninja-Kitty here was pretty awesome till things went wrong for her. So much so I had to Kittyify her to keep her under control. That right Ninja-Kitty?" I asked the cat in hands. Most people would think me insane talking to the cat in my arms, but they'd be wrong! I think...

"Meaow!" at least Ninja Kitty's horrified terror of me had declined to just miserable, bemused, confusion in the time since we'd crushed her allies and awaited the return of my own teammates and the rest of the support. Though I'd admit we really should have informed the local law enforcement of the events and brought in their SWAT team for instance. All three of our foes were baseline humans and, as such, susceptible to things like bullets to the head and other such methods allowed to law enforcement.

"He's got a point though Pinkie..." Kid Flash interjected thoughtfully, at least for him anyway, leaning against the wall for a moment "...like, really, a Hook? I expected better from the League of Shadows ya know?"

"MY NAME IS ARTEMIS NOT PINK ARROW!"

Kid Flash shook his head and replied 'sagely and wagging a finger at the now rather angry new member of our team "No, no, it's definitely Pink Arrow. We had a team vote and everything on it!"

I tuned them out for a few moments, rubbing Ninja-Kitty's head and ears who watched them as the argument started up again. As best I could tell Kid Flash was particular unhappy about Artemis 'replacing' his friend Red Arrow, formerly Speedy, and was rather obvious in his dislike. Robin and Aqualad seemed equally annoyed, but at least were a little more professional about the whole thing and treated her with caution rather than the outright distrust of the speedster.

Personally I wasn't overly sure as yet; SHIELD's basic info on Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, indicated nothing of any such niece, and I couldn't for the life of me remember a Teen Titan called Artemis. But then after all these years that info wasn't exactly trustworthy as this dimension was...off...somehow in weird little ways I'd already found. So she could easily just be the offspring of one his romances from an earlier time in his life, the odds were high after all considering the rather rapid way she'd been added to the roster despite being unknown to any of the others.

"Much as I dislike interrupting your lovers tiff but it seems the rest of our teammates have arrived" I stated tapping my staff off the ground for emphasis to bringing the argument to an end. Miss Martian had mentally projected said info, but from the feel of it the two were mental shouting at each other as much as in the snippy words occasionally exchanged via words. Or at least I had to assume so from the rather odd conversational gaps the two were having. I really needed to do something about the tension between the two. They'd either end up screwing after a row, and/or murdering each other otherwise...and likely get one and/or all the rest of us killed along with them on a mission due to it.

'And there's grumpy faced Zatara as well...Joy. My night is now complete' I mental sighed as I stood back up and carefully adjusted my captive to hold her in one hand. She still had the odd fascination with Artemis I noticed. Maybe because she was only (human) girl amongst our little band right now? Something else to look into on these three who'd attacked us I figured as Miss Martian psioinically carried the bound captives towards the centre of the car park as the Bio-ship came into land, trailed along behind by grumpy mage who was magically carrying Batman and Green Arrow.

"Dude...you really did turn the assassin into a cat! Wow, I thought you were just messing with us but...whelmed, just whelmed here" were the first words out of Robin as he descended the ramp of the Bio-ship and glanced at me and the others. Superboy and Aqualad were just behind him, curiosity and confusion first face while the other seemed to be frowning slightly along with surprise perhaps. Kid Flash was not being helpful sadly.

"Well he is our token supervillain teammate after all! What else could we expect?"

I sighed. For fucks sake!

"I am not a supervillain" I muttered back tiredly, though I wasn't sure anyone other than Ninja-Kitty was paying attention. Would this mockery never end? Even the bloody assassin-turned-cat seemed to mock me!

Aqualad was there at least to distract from the issue "Whatever can be said of the methods, we have captured four members of the League of Shadows this night, neutralised the Fog, protected the good Doctor, and come through unharmed..."

"What I'd call a win in my book indeed. Good job guys, we'll take the prisoners from here and let you have well desperate rest after all you've gone through tonight..." Green Arrow said cheerfully, strolling over with the other three Justice League members in tow. Sadly no Martian Manhunter for interrogating Ninja-Kitty once I dropped the Baleful Polymorph; evidently my magic messed with M'gann's mind-rapey abilities. Good to know even if inconvenient tonight for grabbing info off the murderous ninja assassin. He smiled at his new protégé "...good job Artemis you..."

"It's actually Pink Arrow!" a voice mimicking a girl's voice offered from behind us, followed by an angry female voice, and then a laughing Green Arrow. Though I got distracted by the approaching form of Giovanni Zatara, with Batman walking more sedately a metre or two behind him, with the magician giving me a steady half-glare, half-look-of-horror maybe as he glanced at Ninja-Kitty in my arms. With a nod from Batman I wandered a short distance away from the others on the Team with the two. Welp...Zatara wasn't happy it seemed as he practically hissed at me.

"What have you done?"

I shrugged "I non-lethally subdued...uhhhhh...Ninja-Kitty here..." I looked down apologetically at her. Probably useless in showing it as I still fully masked and armoured "...sorry never got your name..." back to the unhappy looking magician "...but yeah took prisoners with a minimum of violence. I'll just turn her back now that I can hand her..."

Another hissy interrupt "Of all the irresponsible uses of magic and...No, I should expect such from that Man's apprentice..." he took a deep breath "...you do not attempt to play with another's life in such a dangerous manner as this!"

I frowned inside the mask as he motioned at Ninja-Kitty, honestly what was the problem? After all I was just about to say I was going to turn her back to human just this minute...

"I don't see the problem, she was really good at what she does, being a hot murderous masked ninja, so I captured her in a manner that negated her skills and danger to the rest of the team. What did you want me to do? Shoot her limbs out and heal them when you arrived?" Ninja-Kitty clearly did not like the sounds of that from the hissing noise she was making. Clearly the delay in making her human again was beginning to grate on her. I could understand that feeling perfectly

A black gloved handed reached out from the darkness and placed it upon the clearly irritate magician's shoulder, and that gravelly voice emerged from the black cowl "If what you say is true then it is perfectly reasonable response for one your age to the situation. What I believe is the problem is some concerns over potential control issues, or negative impacts, for the subject due to your abilities"

Well that was just insulting really as I suppressed a glare "My control over my polymorphic spells is perfectly fine thank you very much. I do it to myself all the time after all. There is neither danger involved, nor negative consequences once, I undo the casting...which I was just about to do if that's okay?"

"In a moment" Zatara frowned at me, brought out his wand, and did his backward speak gobble-gook while waving said wand around. I could feel the magic fill the air around, and got a bit annoyed that I hadn't listened to the words because Zatara's shtick was saying the words of the spell, English mind you, backwards. It felt like an Abjuration spell to my senses, and I stayed quiet if on guard, throughout the whole thing as Batman just stood there being...well...Batman basically, after taking the hand off Zatara's shoulder. I frowned inside the mask and tried to study the magic flowing around us. Was he really trying to purify the car-park?

'Go ahead if you please"

'Yeah this idea of sending me off for little 'training sessions' with the League and their resident magician is working out perfectly ain't it?' I groused to myself as both of them stepped back and allowed me to place Ninja-Kitty on the ground before me. With firm directions of course because...she'd like be cranky about the whole being a cat thing.

"Do not attempt to escape and/or attack any of us when I change you back. Understood?"

"Meaow" and a nod that looked weird on the suddenly energetic if still miserable sounding Ninja-Kitty. With that firm warning I undid the magic of the Baleful Polymorph and cat became masked murder ninja-girl on all-fours with katana in hand. Something she promptly dropped in her efforts to hug herself, almost jumping up to stand on her too feet and emitting wheezing breaths from behind her mask. Batman's growly gravelly voice emitted out at we all went on guard at her sudden burst of athleticism.

"Do not attempt to fight. Remove the mask, then place your hands behind your head"

"I...I surrender...Right, oh thank God I can speak again...hhhhoooo..." she stated bringing her hands up and away from her sides in a seemingly non-threatening manner. Still, considering her career and skills, I stayed on guard and firm grip on my staff as she brought them back in towards her mask "...look doing as instructed, no need for hostility"

Revealing a surprisingly attractive young south east asian woman as she dropped the mask to the ground and brought her hands back up behind her head as Batman stepped in from behind her and manoeuvred them into cuffs behind her back. Evidently checking for, and removing weapons as he did while myself and Zatara looked on out of sight of my teammates with our magic at the ready. At least he wasn't glaring outright at me anymore, instead alternating between frowning and looking thoughtful...okay and glaring a little, but not near as hostilely as before. No apology for doubting my abilities though!

Pretty asian Ninja-Kitty had evidently found her voice now as she looked at me, then at the two League members with exhausted but wary eyes "Why have you put this, this...whatever the fuck monster he is...on a team with my little sister!"

What?

Wait...WHAT?

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