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A very different type of bird call goes through Happy Harbour and the tenseness in the darkened Mountain does not disturb them.
The second Green Lantern uses his ring to create a crane to lift a large part to the second story, where another hero is waiting to help guide it in. Once it locks into place the lights begin to turn back on.
Sphere rolls down the stairs, coming to a pause beside Martian Manhunter and Captain Atom, who are working on a HoloComputer and a complex, respectively. As Sphere stops the Manhunter smiles and pats it before turning back to his work.
"Synchronising Security Protocols with Watchtower Mainframe." the mountain's AI calls out.
Green Arrow places a bowl of pretzels on the table. Wally has both his shoulders on the table and is resting his chin on his crossed wrists. Artemis sits on the same side of the table as him, leaning her right elbow on the table as her head rests in her hand. Conner stands opposite GA defensive in his body posture, but the worry is clear on his face. M'gann sits across from Artemis, looking expectantly at the Hero clearly mirroring the Boy Wonder who sits beside her.
"Thanks, but no thanks." Wally says harshly. Green Arrow backs off instantly.
"Yeah, what we want are answers," Robin points out, looking to Wally as his only other means of support since Kaldur is not sitting with them. The redhead sits up straighter, following Boy Wonder's trail of thought before they both turn towards the blonde hero.
"About Red Tornado and his siblings." Robin said, nothing shows on Green Arrow's face, he doesn't even flinch.
"Exactly." Wally snarks though it loses some of its heat as he sees GA reach for the bowl and start to walk away with it. He doesn't even manage to fully turn around before Wally's hands are around the bowl, taking it back.
"Leave the bowl." he murmurs quietly, taking a handful of pretzels into his hand and eating them, can't help himself.
Conner keeps his back mostly to the Team, Green Arrow, and Black Canary. He changes his attention to Kaldur, Michael and Batman, who stand on the far side of the room. Their conversation is only noticeable by the fact that Batman's mouth is moving.
Conner, however, can hear all of it now that he's paying attention.
"You reported that during your mission to protect Taipei, Sportsmaster revealed information on the team's involvement in Biayla. Such knowledge leads there to believe a possible inside source on the team's actions." Batman said, looking at Michael who shrugged.
"The team is being betrayed from within, I find it hard to believe until today" Kaldur said, finding out a possible mole on the team from Batman earlier, he chose not to mention it to his team yet without tipping off the potential mole.
"Maybe" Michael agrees somewhat about a possible mole.
"Beside the attack on the cave, Red Tornado could either be a traitor willing or was pre-programmed to-" Conner heard enough.
"You both knew?" Conner shouts from across the room, all there turn to the source of the sound. Kaldur barely has time to recognize who spoke before Conner launches himself at Michael.
In an instant, Michael spins around and catches Conner's arm and uses his own weight against him, spinning around and tossing him straight into the cavern wall. The loud noise draws everyone's attention.
"Conner, what are you doing?" M'gann flies over, confused.
"Michael and Kaldur knew we had a traitor among us and said nothing!" the Kryptonian teen snarls.
"You both knew?" Robin questions, betrayal clear in his voice.
"And didn't tell us?" Kid speaks so closely behind Robin that it's hard to tell if they're just that in sync or it was actually meant to be two separate questions.
"It wasn't relevant at the time" Michael holds his eyes, not in the mode to deal with this bullshit.
"We only sought to protect the Team from-" Kaldur only looks to Conner as he speaks.
"Sought to protect us from what?" Artemis finally speaks up and she's just as mad at Robin and Wally. "Knowledge that might've saved our lives? That pretty relevant to me"
"You almost died." Conner turns to a mostly silent M'gann. She doesn't say anything but looks shaken nonetheless.
"Enough." Batman gets the instantaneous respect he demands. Everyone turns towards him and narrowing his eyes is all it takes for Conner to stop him acting aggrieves, well less than normal.
"With Red Tornado… missing the Team will now be overseen by rotation supervisors. Captain Marvel has volunteered to take the first shift." Batman said a mountain of a man, in a red and gold super suit, with a white cape over his left shoulder, face completely unobstructed to show off his blue eyes and slicked-back black hair, stands taller than the Dark Knight as he stands beside him.
"I'm really looking forward to hanging out with you guys." he says simply, a small smile coming over his features.
Wally, Robin, Artemis, and M'gann share a look behind a still tense Conner and Kaldur, Michael only raises an eyebrow as this guy.
"After I dismantle Red Tornado, we are gonna-" The clone turns to the two, speaking in a low snarl.
Batman started walking the second Conner looked away, clearly knowing what the teens were thinking as he unabashedly cut him off.
"Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League. That makes him a League responsibility. You will leave him to us." no one says anything so he turns and calls up a HoloScreen of a newspaper article.
"I have another assignment for this Team." Batman pulls out a newspaper article.
NEWS OF THE PLANET Gorilla Trades Bananas for Bullets is the main headline.
"Gotham Mayor attacked by Guerilla Gorilla?" Wally reads the scepticism is clear in his voice.
"Was this the only thing he could find to distract us?" Conner asks telepathically.
"Batman, please!" Robin begs. "Tell me you're not sending us on this joke of a wild ape chase."
"I never joke about the mission." The Dark Knight gives his protége no room to try to argue. Michael looks at the picture, wild animals' attacking people is one thing, but a Gorilla seeking humans.
"I've checked the sources," he continues. "I've studied the patterns. Mayor Hills' encounter is only the latest in a series of incidents." he turns to the eldest.
"Aqualad, you and your Team will depart for India and check this out." Aqualad nods and the Team is already walking towards the BioShip's hanger.
Wally stops in front of the Atlantean, making a small noise of disagreement. "Your Team." he taunts.
"Wait, you're sending us to a mission right now?" Michael asked the Bat, getting everyone's attention.
"They are not ready for this" Michael said, surprising them all, as Batman just looks at Michael.
Michael sees the signs and knows this mission isn't worth it, while Batman might do this to unite everyone and get over betrayal but it is not really the best time. The team is tired, mentally exhausted, and now suffers two betrayals from friends.
Without leadership or corporation someone will die.
"What do you mean we're not ready? We've done this before a million times" Wally said, running up to Michael.
"Yeah, it's not like you're the leader," Robin said, getting on too.
"It doesn't matter, right now none of you are in the right state of mind to do any mission" Michael continues, knowing that sending soldiers with Negative Traits will only lead to people going out on their own, which are most likely to get ambushed or even killed.
"Like we should trust you, you nearly got M'gann killed" Conner said, angry at Michael for telling him what he can't do.
"You really shouldn't be going anywhere Conner, the others might have forgotten but I haven't, you're less than a year old and can't really understand your emotions right now, trust me on that at least" Michael tries to calm Conner down.
"Don't think you can calm me" Conner gets pissed as Michael.
"Like your one to talk about trust" Artemis said, not like to be kept in the dark by anyone.
"I don't know how comfortable I am teaming up with someone that doesn't trust us and thinks we're useless." Kid Flash looking at Michael, pissing Michael off.
"I see," Michael says, standing up straight.
"In that case I will put in my resignation to the team." Michael declared, not wanting to deal with this bullshit.
"Michael," Aqualad tries to stop him but Michael shakes his head.
"Good luck Aqua, hope this doesn't have such a negative effect on you" Michael pats Aqualads shoulders, knowing this mission will be difficult for him as team leader.
"Let him go. He almost got us all killed." Conner glares at Michael, who glares back.
"You are far too young to understand anything clone" Michael said, before walking away heading towards the Zeta Tubes but turned to Batman.
"Don't forget, there are not soldiers or adults, their dumbass teenagers" Michael warns Batman as Batman gave him a bat glare but Michael ignored it. Heading to the tubes disappears in a flash.
Megan wants to say something, but doesn't know what to say. Artemis is too angry at the situation and silently agrees with the other as Kid Flash and Robin headed to the Bioship, everyone following.
Aqualad watches the entire Team walk away with a determined look in his eyes.
Conner, Artemis, and M'gann head into the BioShip, Sphere coming up quickly behind Conner, who is the last one in line. Conner turns towards Sphere, holding out his hand.
"Uh-uh." Conner shakes his head,
"Go." he points back inside the Mountain.
Sphere whirs and beeps before heading back, coming under a flying Captain Marvel.
"You're coming with?" Robin asks sceptical as he and Wally head towards the ship.
"Sure!" the Hero says brightly. "We'll have a blast."
"Translation: he blames us for the Red Fiasco." he mutters, turning to Wally. Aqualad walks by. "He doesn't trust us."
Wally realises Robin is looking past him and turns to face Aqualad. "It's a big club." he remarks darkly. Both of them head into the BioShip without so much as a word from Kaldur.
The Team Leader looks offended for barely half a second before determination sets in again, remembering Michael words as he gets in
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Australia, road to the Avenger.
Michael was pissed off, driving the motorcycle straight to the Avenger to start his search on SP-5
"This is the Commander, I need any satellites and relay system activities into finding SP-5" Michael ordered, as he drives through the desert to where the Avenger is.
"Commander, what has happen to SP-5" LookOut asked though the radio,
"She was kidnapped by Red Tornado and two androids of similar design, I want a search history on Red Tornado, who created him and where" Michael orders, finding more information on Red Tornado would be the key to finding him.
As Michael drives through the desert storm he comes across an almost completed Avenger, the engineers are nearly finished as the three of the propulsion systems are completed and ready for flight with just the last one needing to finish.
Michael would smile at it near completion if he was already in a hurry. Michael drives his motorcycle though the ramp is open as he drives into bay doors. Michael got off his motorcycle as he made his way to the Bridge.
Michael walks though the bridge to see everyone searching and hacking the data to find SP-5.
"What do you have?" Commander Thrawn asked, looking to see who had the information.
"Red Tornado was originally created by Thomas O. Morrow was once a genius scientist who worked for Starlab originally. However due to mental issues he was laid off, somehow due to a few run-ins with the original Justice Society of America. It isn't known however it was theories that Morrow somehow is connected to Red Torpedo and Firebrand" A officer Kate Bishop said, sending a report to the Commander's screens as Michael looks at the picture of Thomas O. Morrow, two human Red Torpedo and Firebrand.
"Red Torpedo" Michael looks at the picture before pulling up the recent photos with robot Red Torpedo and Red Inferno.
Putting the picture side by side everyone can see the similarity between the two.
"Tell me about Red Torpedo and FireBrand" the Commander asked, seeing the history might help.
"Red Torpedo "Jim Lockhart" was a Hydrokinesis meta human, he was a semi member of the Justice Society of America but due to his bad attitude he could not work alongside others enough to get a full membership, he spend the rest of his life as a doctor till his old age then he moved to Windward Home" The report said on Torpedo or Jim lockhart, the Commander reads though the reports.
"The first android was a prototype, despite its powers its human interactions were the biggest issues, and it seemed that 'Jim Lockhart' wasn't even aware he was an android" Michael deduces, seeing a picture of Torpedo eating food, despite being a robot.
"What a terrible design for a robot, no weapons, his designer didn't understand how to kill meatbags" JULIAN voice came in, seeing the Commander and seeing how another human designed a killer robot badly.
"Danette Reilly, or Firebrand was a popular heroine in the Justice Society of America, she was a Volcano seismologist, she calms during her travels she encountered a time-travelling felon Per Degaton? The encounter left her with the ability to control and create fire with her hands. She blocked a shot by the Dragon King meant for Flash, killing her. Her body was buried in Queens's memorial cemetery." A video of Firebrand taking a hit from someone named Dragon king.
"Again with the android thinking it's human, how can it not even be aware it doesn't need to eat or sleep" JULIAN said in annoyance, not seeing how an AI couldn't see the obvious.
"Unlike her predecessor Red Torpedo, she was given a more sophisticated AI and thus would have no problem interacting with the rest of the Society. Morrow disguised her as the heroine Firebrand, the second to bear that name, using another hero's name to carry a heroic legacy. However, as the heroic programming was too advanced, seeing how she sacrificed herself to save the flash, Morrow's programming got better" Michael said before the final picture of Red Tornado.
"The robot became a member of the Justice Society of America. He saved a few members from a monster attack or something, and became a full time member. He was shut-down for a while until becoming a member of the Justice League in 2008" Pictures and photos came with Red Tornado on both Justice teams.
"Unlike the other two Red Tornado knows he was a robot from the beginning and became a full member but didn't complete his objective, why?" Michael wonders seeing Tornado fulfil Morrow's purpose.
"Perhaps this Morrow can't program a proper infiltrator android, seeing this Firebrand did the same perhaps Tornado did as well" JUILAN said, Morrow being a terrible programmer to do the same thing before.
"Is Morrow still alive at this point Commander, he was born in the 1940s, it's currently 2010, humans don't live that long" JUILAN brings up a good point, Morrow could be dead at this point but that doesn't mean someone can take over.
"Doesn't mean his research didn't continue, either he had a child or an apprentice to take over for him" Michael thought how someone is continuing Morrow works, but why would they care about the Justice league.
"Unless he made an android to take over after him, a robot could design a much better machine than a human can" JUILAN said, happy that an AI is doing better than a human.
"It would explain the design being too similar, the android of Marrow would be programmed with all his research and memories." Michael thinks about the designs on be any different from the original,
"With Morrow's incompetent programming, this android must think its Marrow himself instead of a copy" JULIAN seeing a pattern with Morrow's programing.
"It doesn't matter, find anything about Marrow, family, friends, anything at all, we need to find SP-5 ASAP" the Commander orders, leaving everyone to do their work with JUILIAN following him.
"Wouldn't be the first time this happened dear Commander" JULIAN said, following the Commander who stayed silent.
"I mean the amount of information in the SP-5 database is enough to put us all at risk, I would say how irresponsible for you Commander but I know you better than that" JULIAN said to a silent Commander.
"You obvious put the Cole Protocol in all databases own by XCOM, so even if SP-5 is captured she would wipe all her data before they could open her screen" JULIAN said, to the still silent Commander.
"However the technology on her would give our enemy an advantage and an idea of our involvement, it could spell our doom if they came at us full force" JULIAN said off headedly, the Cole Protocol was based on a solider that rather die than get captured, not before he erased any data that Advent and the Chosen could get.
In his honour the Cole Protocol was invented to prevent any energy from getting the information. However the tech on SP-5 cans still raises a red flag.
"If only you"
"JULIAN, your attempt at gaining more access to the system will again be denied, while your critics is well stabilised and taken to consideration, this will not change your original programing, we are not in our world anymore and giving you more access in an already unpredictable circumstance will not help our situation" Commander Thrawn said coldly, as JULIAN stopped,
"Once we find SP-5, we will destroy Morrow and any information he may get, but if we are exposed, then in may be time to reinstate XCOM, thank you JULIAN, I thank Lily Shen every day when she saved your AI core" Commander Thrawn said, leaving a dumb founded JUIAN.
"Wait minute, I? What the fuck just happened?" JULIAN was beyond confused as he watched the Commander go into the Ships Cells.
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Rose Wilson signs as she lay back on her chair, she was writing a report on ethics and morals. Another thing she has to do if she wants a release, besides fighting and training she can't really do much. But at least they got her something to do, even if it is annoying.
Mathematics, writing and other courses are given to her and taught to her; at first she didn't listen and either nodded off or slept. But that got boring and she decided to work to pass the time. It wasn't all bad, she got to learn and do something. Which is better than juvenile.
She stops her thinking when hearing the sound of the door opening behind her, she turns to see her favourite commander.
"Why hello Commander, come to personally interrogate me" Rose said seductively but doesn't faze Michael, she can't help but try to crack that face.
"You once said you worked as a mercenary, correct?" Michael got straight to the point, Rose raised her eyebrow.
"Yeah, why the sudden interest?" Rose asked as Michael took a seat on the bed.
"Do you think you can get work if asked?" Michael asked her, which got her attention.
"Well I know a few guys in the business but I'm not that high up in the food chain you know" Rose explained, while she was good and trained by some of the best but she wasn't an adult, not yet and there are others better than her, something which she hates to admit.
"A few contacts are a start, these jobs you do aren't by any means illegal or political mind you" Michael asked as Rose thinks for a second.
"Well a few jobs I did involve stealing high tech or precious resources from banks or factories" Rose shrugs and Michael shakes his head.
"Jobs that involve heroes," Michael clarified as Rose looked at him.
"They pay a lot of money, you know, more than whatever you're getting now" Rose said, mercenaries get huge payout when they complete a job, which has huge risk and jail-time but with great risk comes great rewards.
"Perhaps but greed will only ruin us, we'll only pick clients from third war countries or military contracts" Michael thinks as Rose looks at him.
"You want me to call my guys, I'm sure I can get some work for you" Rose smiles, seeing if this is a chance for her to escape but Michael shakes his head.
"No I'll have the others do it, you need to complete your learning course and prove you can be trustworthy" Michael explained as Rose frowned, Michael stands up and leaves, before turning to look at her.
"If you prove you can be trustworthy, then not only will I let you go but I'll even hire you into my team, training, armour and weapons of high quality, you would soon surpass Deathstroke" Michael explained as Rose eye-widen. A personal goal of hers, yet he knew.
Michael left Rose to her thoughts, as she looks at her paper then at the guns the robots guarding have, she takes a seat and starts writing with a determined look.
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Michael heads out of the Avenger for some coffee, while he would normally have coffee at the Avenger, right now he is not in the mood to deal with anything right now.
Michael sits down on the table as the server gives him a coffee with some biscuits on the side; they give the biscuits for free which is something Michael likes as he sits down to take a sip. He taps the sweet taste of caffeine as he lets out a relaxing sign.
How long has he been here? First he was the Commander of an Alien fighting force, and then captured, then Commander of a rebellion, then Commander of the Earth United worldwide army. Now he in another would with not just Aliens, but magic, gods and everything else
"You really need to calm down mate" A familiar voice said as Michael looked up to see Sara Moore.
"Sara" Michael was surprised to see her with an apron.
"You haven't been calling me lately" Sara said, sitting down on the other side of Michael as she looked at her.
"Wait, you work here?" Michael asked her, surprised as she was working a job.
"Well I need something to do and working has its benefits" Sara said, as she grabbed herself a drink from the table across, too Michael raised a brow.
"This one's mine, I'm on break" Sara said, taking a sip.
"Is that even healthy for you" Michael asked, while he sees M'gann eat human food but coffee has elements not good for Xeno diet, he knows as Coffee was nearly banned when ADVENT took over.
"It did give me a buzz and a lot of energy when I first drink it" Sara smiled as I thought of her with green skin flying around talking nonstop, the thought made him smile.
"There's the smile I've been missing, but I am seeing more of an issue lately." Sara looks concerned as Michael frowns again.
"Still trying to read my mind" Michael said, still feeling Sara's poor attempt at mind reading.
"Sorry, habit I'm trying to break" Sara said as Michael shook his head.
"But I do sense your emotions" Sara said as Michael signs,
"What you're sensing is probably true" Michael said as Sara looked at him.
"You want to talk about it?'' Sara asked him as Michael shrugged, seeing little harm. For the next 10 or so minutes they were talking about the team and its current situation, all through telepathy mind you, this stuff is classified for a reason.
"Wow you saved them but they don't trust you for withholding information" Sara said telepathy, as Michael shrugs.
"Personally I didn't believe there was a mole at the time, those missions Sportmaster's mention failed when we broke our concealment, it only proves there is a large organisation that rivals the Justice league" Michael said telepathy, unless Sportmaster said more personal information between the team it isn't much.
"But is there a spy bro?" Sara asked, as Michael shrugged.
"Maybe, Superboy is a clone from Cadmus, so he could be a spy without knowing, and Artemis has some bad blood in her, Red Arrow is still pissed off about the team thing or something, the other three originals I don't know, not much not Miss Martian though" Michael gives his opinion on the possible mole, believe it be either Superboy, Artemis or Red Arrow.
"While I was on Mars, I did hear rumours of a white Martian sneaking off the J'onn J'onzz ship a few years ago, I think one of their siblings started that" Sara said trying to remember who started the rumour.
"So M'gann a white Martian?" Michael thought as Sara shrugs.
"I haven't seen any other Martian here besides J'onn J'onzz, it could be, I don't know man" Sara asks as Michael wonders.
"Wait, is Martian Manhunter aware you're here?" Michael asks if Martian Manhunter was aware that Martian was here, as Sara looks around.
"He isn't aware, and that's the point man, my family are aware so don't worry" Sara said, as Michael looks at her,
"If M'gann only secret is being white then she can't be the mole" Michael thinks, this was more a human affair so M'gann doesn't seem suspicious beside being shallow.
"You never know, the fact she is pretending to be green here will not be good if some of my people back home know" Sara gets an uneasy look as Michael looks at her.
"It would be uneasy for you," Michael said as Sara nods,
"So what will you do?" Sara asked, Michael just shrugged.
"We first need to get my friend back from a lunatic, increase investment in other businesses, but I think it is time to bring back XCOM's original purpose." Michael said to Sara, smiling.
"You mean kill aliens?" Sara asked, as Michael shook his head.
"No, I believe it's time to start a paramilitary," Michael said, as he took a sip of the coffee while Sara smiled.
"To new opportunity" Sara toasted her coffee as Michael smiles, hitting their coffee together as they take a sip.
"Are you interested in joining?" Michael asked her, Sara was surprised.
"I thought you're against aliens or something" Sara said,
"I was at first, however when aliens invaded my home we found out they were just slaves with no freewill, so they were stuck on earth, at first some wanted to genocide them all but some saw potential, they convince me to try out an idea with a police force call chimera squad, and it works, somehow. I think I should start here, so Sara, do you want to be the first Martian to join?" Michael offered her, as she thought about this.
"Will I have to kill?" Sara asked but Michael shakes his head.
"If you don't want to, there's a few roles we can give you, and you can learn more about telepathy maybe even Psionic" Michael said, willing to teach her as she thinks,
"I'm not really sure, I like it here, it's close by and I love the smell of coffee" Sara wonders as Michael tries to sweeten the deal.
"You can still work here, hell I'll buy this place and you can run it" Michael offers, seeing if he should invest into a few places, Sara thinks on this for a second before nodding.
"Welcome to XCOM" Michael welcomes as she clicks the coffee cups.
"Are we calling it XCOM? What does it stand for?" Sara asked, wondering about the name.
"XCOM is an acronym, meaning Extraterrestrial Combat Unit" Michael explained as Sara looked unsure.
"But we are not fighting aliens are we?" Sara asked, Michael shrugs.
"Maybe not today but it will happen, although maybe I should change the name" Michael thought about it.
XCOM was from his earth to fight against alien threats, but this wasn't his earth, it was a paramilitary, what should its new name be?
"If you are looking for a new blood man, I know someone that could fit this little group" Sara thought, as she looked at someone entering the café, Michael turned to see as well.
A well-built man can in jeans, a white button top with a blue hoodie jumper.
"Afternoon, Can I get a large decaf please?" The Man asked, as the café worker nodded, setting his order as he took a seat down on one of the tables.
"Why him?" Michael asked, not seeing much from him, as Sara looked at him.
"He's a computer whiz, and very good at it, help me with my Facebook and other social media, but that's not the only skill he has, he is stronger than you think," Sara explains as Michael looks at him.
"I'll introduce you, he can be really helpful, trust me" Sara said, as Michael nods see Sara finished her coffee as she makes her way to the desk, picking up the man order Sara greets the man happily as the man gave her a little hug, Michael see her talking and pointing at him, the man looks surprised, pointing at himself before Sara gave an encouraging nod, taking his coffee the man made his way to Michael.
"Hey there, I'm Nanaue, Sara said you might have a cool and exciting job that is available?" Nanaue said with a big smile, shaking Michael's hand.
"That depends on you really, I'm Michael Thrawn, and Sara tells me you're a computer whiz?" Michael asked, looking at Nanaue closer as he took a seat.
"Not to toot my own horn, but I am very good at computers, once hacked into a few websites for fun, and I am very friendly with others" Nanaue said, giving Michael an idea.
"That's good, any problems with looking for work?" Michael wanted to know as Nanuare looked unsure.
"Well I'm pretty good with myself, but let's say I have a few issues, nothing big mind you, but I was in America looking for work, and they wouldn't give me a chance or anything, I thought that was unfair so I left looking less where. I did a few jobs here and there but the people I work with were very racist and I get a little violent when someone pushes my buttons' ' Nanuaue explains as Michael nods, getting an understanding as he looks at Nanuaue's necklaces.
"But before that, I'm taking an online course to control and centre myself. I'm doing much better now, but I'm sensitive to certain things. I'll let you know when it is, I hope you understand?" Nanuare shakes his hands, knowing that angry management is a problem and he is trying to fix it, and hopes Michael understands.
"No that alright, we all have issues to deal with, and I like your necklace" Michael sees the necklace with a golden metal.
"Ooo thank you, I got it from a friend who works in metal works, this was a birthday present actually" Nanuare said, holding the metal necklace as Michael nodded.
"Your friend must be a great magic user to give you a charm like that" Michael said to Nanuare shock.
"Okkk, How did you do? Was it Sara!?" Nanuare gets angry turning to Sara but Michael cuts him off.
"I sense energy around the necklace, while I'm new to magic I can tell a certain type of energy it is, and your gills on the neck are showing" Michael points out, Nanuare sees his top was open, letting Michael see his gills.
"I should have got that other top," Nanuare said.
"You're an atlantean" Michael said, seeing the grill and working for Aqualad helps.
"People still think Atlantis is fake you know" Nanuare said, despite Aquaman saying he is from Atlantis not many humans are aware of it.
"Seeing is believing, and it's hard to see an underwater city," Michael said as Nanuare nodded.
"What's this charm?" Michael asked him about the necklace.
"Basically hides my true appearance, people freak out to see who I really am," Nanuare said showing the necklace.
"That's a shame, I can still hire you with your tech stills alone but this is new" Michael said as Nanuare looks unsure.
"You sure, people tend to freak out after seeing me, I wouldn't want to make a scene if I can't help it" Nanuare said, not wanting to cause any trouble.
"I see more than my fair share of people Nanuare, whatever you look like will not affect my choice, only your actions will" Michael said, not seeing appearance as an issue.
"Well that is very nice of you, wish I could see that was true but" Nanuare looks around see there in a public place as Sara does her work servicing the customers.
"You are not the only one with things beyond human understanding, if you want to show your true form, then go ahead. No one will notice" Michael said seeing Nanuare will not join unless he sees Michael has no issue with him, Nanuare doesn't look convinced.
"Maybe you but everyone else isn't so open minded" Nanuare looks around, seeing that using his true form will scare everyone and he would go to jail for looking scary, which he doesn't want to go.
"My ability prevents others from seeing us, only Sara can see us now" Michael said, standing up to go to another table, see the customer has ordered 8 cookies, Michael takes two of them and waves it at the guy's face.
The guy in question doesn't notice someone has to token his sweets as he focuses on the TV, even if that someone is waving it at his face.
"Oh wow, that's cool" Nanuare finds it interesting as he takes the cookie Michael offers as Michael sits back down.
"Well if you're sure, but if it gets out of hand I'm blaming you" Nanuare said, pulling his necklace off his head.
As his body transformed in front of Michael, right in front of him was a very tall, very large humanoid shark wearing the same clothes as before but fit his size.
"So atlanteans don't all look human?" Michael asked the shark man, not reacting at all to Nanuare's true form.
"Ummmm, yeah it a bit of a racist thing about atlanteans that looks like this compared to the more human looking atlantean, it actually very bad down there I'm not gonna lie and why aren't you shock" Nanuare asked, surprised Michael was not reacting to his appearance at all.
"Let's just say I had my fair share deal with Atlanteans, so you're interested?" Michael asked as Nanaure shrugs.
"Well if what you say is true, then I'm having no reason to refuse, is Sare joining as well?" Nanuare asked as Micahel and Sara nodded, hearing her name, as Nanaure gave a shark smiles.
"Then I'm in, can I get a cool nickname, I heard all atlantean get cool nicknames coming up here, my brother named himself king shark, can I can a cool shark related name?" Nanaure smiles in excitement as Michael smiles happy to recruit two new members for his paramilitary.