Chapter2:The First Glimpse

Gohan in washroom cleaning his clothes when he heard a large explosion he heard some one saying they hijacked the school.

Why did they attack this school Gohan thought.

And the voice continues don't try to escape we planted motion tracking bombs said the now named trickster.

He quickly came out, Right, at every one of the exits he said. That's where I should start, I'll just take out anyone I see on the way to minimalize the damage they can do. I wonder if this is how heroes think?' Gohan internally chuckled to himself at the thought of even considering himself to be like a hero.

It wasn't long until Gohan came across the first set of explosives, with his knowledge of chemistry, engineering and a ki blast to just the right place, he easily disarmed the shiny metallic bomb and moved onto the next exit.

'So the bombs aren't linked together? What, are they trying to lure in a team or someone with crazy speed? Either way I need to hurry.' And with that Gohan began infusing his legs with ki and running extremely fast down the hallway, impressively so in fact.

Whilst Gohan ran from bomb to bomb he realised that there was no resistance to him at all, no henchman, partners or even devoted fan boys. This was plain strange to Gohan, but he'd only seen this kind of thing in the tattered comic books that were left in the play room by one of the older kids who outgrew the place so he just let it be.

The young Saiyan was coming to the last exit now, hopefully meaning the last bomb although something in him felt uneasy. 'This makes no sense, what is their purpose? They told us where the bombs are, there's no money here or anything valuable. What could they be after?'

The worry and confusion of the situation only made him run more rapidly, he was close to the final explosive that he knew of. He had to hurry though.

'This is far too simple, from what I've heard of this Trickster, there's always a twist or a trick as it were.'

Gohan's brow furrowed as he sped down the hallway, lockers being forced open due to the force the speed he was running at produced, he had to make it. He wouldn't fail this time.

Meanwhile in the Gymnasium; the pupils, the teachers, everyone apart from the Trickster, his unnamed associate and twenty-five armed henchman were sitting down, cross legged with their hands on their heads.

Many girls and boys were in tears, some teachers as well were balling their eyes out at the impending doom they thought they were destined for and they had plenty of reason to be concerned, every exit was covered by three or four gunman with fully automatic rifles. Of course they knew of the heroes but it was rare for them to be in New York, so that means that they would be reliant on the police for this matter, a thought that put no one's mind to rest. Since the Justice League was formed the confidence in the police force had decreased dramatically, for no matter how valiant a police officer is, they aren't up to the same tasks or calibre as the supers, that's just the way it was unfortunately.

Gohan's classmates were all gathered together in a huddle-like formation and whispering near silently to one another, petrified of being heard.

"Guy's where's Gohan?" A medium-sized girl with ocean blue eyes and beautifully long blonde hair asked with a worrisome expression on her face.

"Oh shit. I don't know Kara do you think he got caught on the way back from the principal's office?" She gulped before asking, "Or worse?" her dark brown eyes glazed over with worry and she was near tears. Being near tears the kindness that would come to be expected by everyone at Radleigh high from Julie, 'class A's angel' as she was dubbed by many.

Kara was now extremely annoyed, someone she deemed a close friend was now crying because of the actions of a stupid genius and a group of stupid villains.

She was pissed, but no one knew what she was capable of and her cousin sure as hell wouldn't like her to reveal such information to an entire school.

In an effort to calm her rage Kara begin to clench her fists into balls, attracting the unwanted attention of a few henchman who proceded to walk over to the young blonde with lust and depraved thoughts rushing through their moronic minds.

Three of them approached the Kryptonian, two carrying assault rifles and one proudly displaying a bowie knife and a sadistic smile that only a henchman of the worst mindset could ever possibly hope to display.

The previously mentioned knife-holding brute approached Kara hastily and grabbed her by the arm, not to give away her secret in front of her friends she allowed him to pull her away until he threw her on the floor a few metres away from her friends. Of course she had to act hurt and weak in front of her friends but if she felt so inclined then this thug wouldn't be breathing, although her cousin would probably disagree with that course of action.

Her friends shrieked and cried in horror for their fellow classmate, Julie especially was screaming very loudly until she was interrupted by one of the other two assailants shoving a gun in her face to keep her quiet.

The fiend who had hold of Kara began groping her ferociously, causing tears to flow from all of her friends and a great anger to arise inside of the young Kryptonian. Causing the henchman to snigger and grin a taunting grin that could even piss off her goody two shoes cousin.

Suddenly the doors flung open and the armed gunman began falling one by one after being struck by a flash of red and yellow, too fast for most to see. However the green arrows that incapacitated the remainder of the henchman in the gymnasium were much easier to see, but still inhuman in pace.

"Sorry we're late, Greeny's car can'g go as fast as me I'm afraid." The blur of red and yellow said after coming to an abrupt halt whilst holding all the machine guns that the henchman had been using and laughing in a childish manner, pretty much teasing the opposition.

"Sorry about Flash, he's got a bit of a quick mouth but his hearts in the right place I guess." Said Green Arrow as he casually walked through the now open doorway with and with an arrow coiled back and ready to fire at the Trickster, just waiting for an opening.

The only assailants left to be dealt with were; the deranged madman holding a knife to the throat to of the youngest undercover Superhero in the room, the Trickster and a seemingly kinder man who had been giving out tea to the victims. That confused everyone in the room but now that Green Arrow was here the gig was up.

"Barton stop!" screamed Green Arrow whilst altering the direction of his trusty bow to now face the very evil that required his presence and knowledge on the matter.

"Barton? Oh crap! No one drink the tea!" screamed Flash, now realising that this was one of the Green Arrow's famous villains, 'The Doll Maker.'

A maniacal laugh began to emanate from the direction of both the Trickster and the Doll Maker.

On second glance the Flash and the Green Arrow realised that half of the girls in the room were completely unresponsive to the situation, it was too late.

"Now you didn't think it would be that easy did you? Now half of the girls in this room have been turned into dolls, through the use of a polymer that only Barton and I have the antidote too. You can't move them else the polymer speeds up and encases their entire body into plastic. Of course if you don't move them you've got about thirty minutes to save them, however you can't forget the bombs that are going to detonate in the next five minutes and even though your friend or whoever they are has been destroying a few, they have no idea about the amount of bombs in the basement. So how are you going to do it heroes? That's the real trick." Trickster bellowed the last line confidently, whilst the two heroes began to sweat on the matter.

Elsewhere Gohan continued running frantically in his valiant effort to destroy all the bombs, but something was playing on his mind…

Gohan was in the murky and dull Janitor's closet sending a miniature ki blast to the last of the bombs he knew the whereabouts of, it was a success but there was a small explosion, it echoed throughout the halls then reaching the gymnasium. Gohan grimaced as this was supposed to be stealthily done.

Meanwhile in the Gymnasium, after hearing the explosion of the final bomb that wasn't in the basement, the Trickster and the Doll Maker both gave each other a look of annoyance, just long enough for Flash to rush over to them and begin running cyclically around them at incredible speeds, soon a hurricane of red and yellow sparks was created. This vortex began to quickly cut the deadly duo's oxygen off, then Flash came to a sudden stop as he shouted, "G.A., now!"

Green Arrow readied his bow and waited for the perfect moment and simultaneously released two arrows at the villains, a rope dispensing from both and easily tying both up, much to the relief of everyone else in the room. The only thing left now was to get the antidote off them and dispose of the remaining bombs, easy right?

While the attention was on the fight, Kara quickly swung her elbow backward and hit the assailant right in the gut, visually causing a great amount of discomfort and pain, no Kryptonian pulls a punch, or a stomach elbow as it were. Needless to say she had knocked him out and none of her classmates were any the wiser of her powers or lineage. She sat back down and crossed her arms waiting for this nonsense to end, she couldn't do any more whilst under the eyes of her schoolmates.

"Give us the antidote Jesse. Or you Barton I don't care either way. Just do it." Said Green Arrow now pointing a lethal arrow at Jesse James aka the Trickster.

"Fine, I guess I should do something to give back." Said Trickster in a defeated manner. "ID: Trickster, activate emergency protocol." Then a defeated manner turned into a cunning grin and annoying laugh.

Green Arrow's and the Flash's eyes widened in horror as a robotic voice came from the man's pocket replying "Confirmed: T minus 10 seconds until detonation."

Flash quickly ordered "I'll go to the bombs you take care of these two and get the antidote." He then ran as fast as he could to get to the basement, when he got to the door he saw that the door handle had been melted to a state where it can't be turned.

One Minute ago:

Gohan was racking his brain of the places where there could be more bombs that he hadn't checked, he came up with two options. The roof: the least likely as the blast radius wouldn't be as threatening as his second option, the basement. It was like a lightbulb came on in his mind and he ran as fast as he could to get to the location he thought more bombs may be situated at.

He knew he didn't have much time when he got there, it hadn't taken him long as he'd flown through the hall and past all the open lockers from where he had run earlier, he knew he couldn't be interrupted by goons or students so once he was inside he used his ki in his right hand to melt the doorknob. When he turned to see the bomb he was horrified, there was hundreds of small bombs connected by steel framing making one huge bomb. But they would still have to be disarmed one at a time and even at top speed Gohan couldn't do that, there were so many that he couldn't have even begun to start disarming them. He was having a mental breakdown going through the options he had, 'I can probably disarm around half but if they're dirty bombs the radius and penetrative power are increased dramatically, I'm gonna have to let it go off.' Thought Gohan sadly, he'd failed again, 'NO! just because I have to let it go off doesn't mean anyone has to be hurt, I can do something. I won't disgrace my father anymore!'

Gohan then began hovering above the ground and activated his Super Saiyan state, he needed to protect them all, he may of only have seconds left or he may have had all the time in the world, he had no idea but he needed to do something quickly in his mind.

It was then he began punching through the concrete floor of the basement, relentlessly, untiringly and with the determination of a real hero.

He was getting further and further away from the surface and soon realized he was probably one hundred metres beneath the basement now and then he figured out he'd gotten side tracked, so he quickly flew back up to the surface.

Present

Flash began frantically trying to get into the basement but the door wouldn't budge, so he vibrated his entire being until his molecules were able to phase through the door. All that he saw was a guy no older than 17 picking up what seemed to be a huge bomb and flying it down through a massive hole in the floor, 'Kid's got guts.' Flash thought with a smile as he realised the kid's in danger.

"Kid it's gonna blow get outta there now!" Shouted Flash down the hole, Gohan heard this and then with all his might threw the massive bomb as far as he could into the crater then raised his index and middle finger to the bridge of his nose.

The next thing the Flash saw was the light starting to emit from the explosion and the boy teleporting to just above the whole, he hadn't noticed but he was glowing golden and had the strangest colour bluey-green eyes.

Then the fire from the explosion soon started coming up the crater at an alarming rate, "Crap it wasn't deep enough, what should I do?!" The boy shouted at Flash, this was the first time he had spoken so Flash was a bit shocked at how demanding his tone was but he understood it in the circumstance.

"Get out of here kid, I'll think of something you've done enough." Flash said with a smile, something that sparked a painful memory in Gohan about his dad.

"No, you go I'll deal with this." Gohan practically screamed as he started flying down the hole again but this time he knew what he had to do, he stopped about halfway and raised both his hands in opposite directions, unleashing unrelenting ki blasts either way, soon two tunnels began to form until they were about fifty metres each.

Flash was finding it amazing and difficult to be around a kid with this much raw power, reminded him of Supes if not GL.

"What're you still doing here? Get out of here quickly, you need to save the students. It's your job isn't it?" Gohan shouted at the Flash a little darkly as he instant transmissioned to the top again.

"I need to divert any excess blast when it gets here, it's nearly at the top as it is." The Flash said whilst starting to spin his arms quickly, preparing to fan away whatever comes out.

"It won't get to the top." Gohan said in a determined way that shocked the Flash. Gohan then put both his hands to his right side and with open palms he shouted "KAME-HAAAAAME-HAAAAAAAA."

The energy that had been gathering at his side was then shot down in a beam that dwarfed the blast of hundreds of bombs, it forced the blast down and into the tunnels, 'gotta keep it up or it'll just come back up' Gohan said as he began to sweat, the level of concentration on his face impressed the Flash a lot. However the thing that impressed him the most was the fact that the vortex he was attempting to create with his arms was being overwhelmed by some kid's power and he couldn't even maintain it, soon he was being pushed back. He was very impressed.

Gohan then upped the power minutely to push it further down, the brunt of the explosion was at the bottom of the crater now, Gohan had to be careful and concentrate extremely hard. Not enough power meant the explosion would follow his Kamehameha back after him, too much power and he could destroy the planet by Kamehameha-ing the Earth's core.

Then it was over and a sweating Gohan slumped to his knees on the concrete, breathing extremely heavily. The Flash went over to congratulate him but the young Saiyan quickly fell to his knees again, that level of concentration obviously took a lot out of him, before blacking out he could only briefly glare at the Flash and say "I died in this fire, okay? I…Did… nothing… urgh." Was all he could manage before passing out from exhaustion. The Flash noted that the Golden energy around his body had dissipated and his golden, spiky hair had turned into a really bold black, he looked entirely different. He looked a lot more like a kid now.

He used to be able to last much longer at ki consumption and fighting but with his home having basically limitless food thanks to his mother and father and him now living in an orphanage with set meals which would make Goku cry with sadness, he just didn't have as much in him anymore. He had gone Super Saiyan twice in one day, he'd only ever gone Super Saiyan once in a day but maybe the emergency and adrenaline sparked him to achieve greater than the norm. Although he had basically been training every day for seven years he just didn't have the Saiyan stamina of his dad or Vegeta or even Trunks, an issue that hadn't proved to be a problem until today.

The Flash was confused about him wanting to be known as dead but he figured he had earned whatever he wanted, although he would give Gohan some time to think about it first.

Flash then put his hand up to the communications device in the left ear of his suit, "G.A. it's all over down here. You won't believe what happened." He said chuckling down the microphone.

"We can talk later, you get up here so we can deal with Barton and James, we need to save these girls and we've only got about twenty five minutes to do so." Green Arrow replied in the same fashion with his comms device, then returned to pointing his arrow at the pair of captured criminals.

"Sure thing they're priority, I guess." Flash said whilst lying Gohan on his back so he was more comfortable before running back up to the door and phasing through it. Soon he was on the other side of the door and it was a matter of seconds until he was back in the hall with his friend and colleague, Green Arrow.

"Who wants to tell us about the antidote first, they get ten years less than the other in Belle Rev? I mean unless you like Waller enough to spend some more time with the cruellest reinstated Warden there is?" Flash teased.

Barton broke instantly, "Fine, you need an alkaline based chemical to counteract the pH of the acidic pH of the polymer in the digestive system something like battery acid should work, they should be fine within ten minutes. Now we're even right? I get ten less years?" He said in a panic, whatever his experience with Amanda Waller, it obviously wasn't good.

"You idiot why'd you tell them, we're sup- ugh never mind." Flash and Green Arrow smirked at each other for a job well done and then without much notice at all, Flash took off to find the materials needed and within a few minutes he had already amassed enough diluted battery acid for every infected girl there, within fifteen minutes they had successfully revived every girl infected with the polymer. Now The NYPD had shown up and removed the villains into custody and were now comforting the affected girls with blankets and hot drinks.

"That was a quick and easy win for the Justice League, now what did you want to tell me Flash?" Said Green Arrow with a satisfied smirk on his face.

"Oh right, I have to tell you what happened to the bomb in the basement. Or maybe it's easier to show you? Come on, we can leave the Blues to look after the girls while I show ya?" Flash said excitedly and with a nod from the Green Arrow they began walking out of the gymnasium and towards the basement down the hall.

Upon arrival Green Arrow swiftly fired an arrow at the door and waited for the near silent detonation of the big oak door. Once the smoke cleared and the door had been removed, the heroes walked in rather nonchalantly towards the centre of the room where the crater was, Green Arrow was confused. Flash wasn't one to boast about how he got a job done, he just boated that he had got a job done.

All Green Arrow could see was a rather large hole with a lot of scorch marks all throughout it, admittedly not consistent with the Flash's usual methods but not really noteworthy.

"This makes no sense, he was knocked out?" Flash thought to himself, internally cursing himself for not bringing the kid back to the hall with him. As he looked around the cramped, dark basement and the thing that confused the Flash the most is that where he had previously left the teenage boy, who had saved his and everybody in the entire school, who was matter of fact unconscious when he had left, was left vacant and empty. In fact he wasn't anywhere to be seen at all.

Flash then recalled some of the last words the boy had said to him 'I died in this fire, okay?' "Oh crap, he's gone. For good." Flash said with a look of worry that confused G.A.

"Who's gone Barry? What're you talking about? What happened?" Green Arrow said with an Eyebrow raised, finally resting his bow back over his neck and shoulders, he thought he wouldn't need it anymore after all.

"The Kid who saved everyone, he's gone Oliver." Barry sounded almost sad. "We need to talk to Kara." Flash said with a solemn nod as they began walking out of the basement and readied to go back to the Watchtower.

Elsewhere in New York:

In S.T.A.R Labs, twenty three out of twenty four of the finest guards protecting the latest in Earths technology were lying on the floor all were beaten, some were bloodied, some were killed. Standing over them all was the one responsible, Deathstroke. He was holding the last guard, who was dressed head to toe in black armour, by the throat at least seven feet in the air, needless to say he told him what he wanted to know. Thinking it would save his life it was a decision made for him by the circumstances, however when Deathstroke nodded and then proceeded to shove his katana right through him, he was shocked to say the least.

"Got the equipment?" Deathstroke coldly said to one of the three henchman who came out of the shadows and when he received a quick nod he flicked the body off his sword and said, "move out, the Light will be pleased." A dark grin formed behind his orange and black mask.

Wayne Foundation's Boys' Home;

Later that night:

Gohan was tired, very tired. Two Super Saiyan transformations and many Instant Transmissions on a low amount of food meant he was near exhaustion. But he needed to do this, he needed to leave now. It was only a matter of time until he would be found by the League or the Bad Guys' friends who he stopped or someone from School. He was quickly pacing around his room, gathering up everything he thought he would need, packing all of it into a backpack. He looked into a mirror and noticed he was still sweaty, his clothes were charred and he just looked generally filthy.

'Better have a shower I suppose, ugh.' Thought Gohan, he still didn't like showering just like he used to hate it back on his world. A habit he picked up from his father, along with his abilities it was one of the few things they had left in common.

Gohan was showering away just for five minutes when he heard a knocking, it was definitely a woman as the knock was calm and slender, Gohan quickly put a towel around his waist and answered the door, opening it very slightly so only half his body was visible.

It was one of the women in charge of itinerary and activities, but as long as Gohan had known her, he'd only spoken to her on his birthdays and on Christmas day.

Miss June Baverstock, a twenty-one year old part-time student at NYU, when she wasn't working at the Boys' Home. An attractive brunette with hair reaching just past her shoulders and hazel eyes that matched perfectly. Just like Miss Jeffery she was a woman who knew just how attractive she was and used it to her advantage in the never ending onslaught of boys in the home who would do whatever she asked them, a very useful tool for a part-time student who is tired all the time. Though of the few whom she had no effect on, Gohan seemed the most resistant.

"Umh Hi Miss Baverstock is everything okay?" Said Gohan nonchalantly with a tone of confusion.

"Well after everything that happened at your school today I just wanted to check in on you um…" She looked at a clipboard before continuing, "Gohan. You do go to Radley High School right?"

Gohan was a little disappointed but not shocked that she barely knew he existed however it wouldn't take only this for someone to talk to him.

"Yup fine. Anything else?" Gohan said rudely, trying to get to the point.

Miss Baverstock seemed extremely insulted by Gohan's tone but decided to let it slide based on the knowledge she had of his day.

She cleared her throat attempting to side step the awkward conversation they were about to have, "Your friend Kara from school called, lovely girl by the way, anyway she wanted to know if you were okay so I thought that I would nicely pass on the message. Would you like me to call her back?" When Miss Baverstock finished speaking she realized Gohan had a puzzled look on his face, which only confused her as well.

'Why would Kara call? I barely know her. Hey, how the hell did she know where I live. My personal information is protected just like everyone else's, so it must've been someone with above average intelligence and decent hacking skills. Was it Kara? If it wasn't who could it have been? More importantly why bother? This is bad, very bad. I can feel it in my bones.' Gohan began to lightly sweat as he thought to himself, only snapping out of his stupor when it dawned on him how long he'd been inside his own head.

He cleared his throat out of embarrassment with a light pink hue over his cheeks and scratched his head before answering, "Um sorry haha no don't worry about it Miss Baverstock I'll see her at school tomorrow, thanks for telling me." He said the last few words with a smile on his face that made her blush, after all this was the first time she can ever think of having seen him smile. Now that she looked he was an extremely attractive seventeen year old, very muscular, very cute, very naked. Wait, what? She just realized he was in nothing but a towel and he was dripping wet, she instantly dropped her head so she was only looking at the floor, a side benefit being that Gohan couldn't see the blush she had matching his. Not that he would of caught on if he had.

"Okay well dinner is in half an hour, so arrive promptly and go to bed straight after. Your school may have had a scare today but it is open tomorrow however." Miss Baverstock gave Gohan a quick smile before she turned to leave and attend to the other children who went to his school.

"Thanks Miss, you didn't have to bring this message personally just to see if I was okay. It was kind of you though," He said chuckling which only turned the hue of her cheeks rose red instead of light pink.

"June." She replied bluntly.

"Okay, thank you June." Gohan said, understanding she wanted to be on first name terms, probably to make any follow up conversations they were to have about the incident at the school a lot easier and less formal.

Gohan closed the door and got back in the shower, he got it now. People would care about him a lot more if he gave them the time of day instead of acting like they didn't exist, or rather acting like he didn't exist. For better or worse this had been his home for seven years and he didn't want to give it up so quickly, another day at least. That'll give him the time he needs to get his affairs in order before he moves on.

'Where am I going anyway?' Gohan's eyes widened at the thought, the simplest of questions left him dumbfounded. His academic career, his future, his mother's dream for him, all that is here. If he drops out of school he loses the scholarship to M.I.T and after that he loses everything. There'd be no future for a high school dropout, especially one who had barely any information as it was. Gohan had to lie when he was first found and told them he ran away, which incidentally was partly true, and that he had no idea where or who he was, both kind of true in a manner of speaking.

'So I have no future now because I saved people? How is that fair, they turned me into my Father.' Then Gohan remembered what he asked Shenron for in the first place, he asked to serve penance.

Gohan felt stupid now, the last seven years wasn't the punishment for his crime. It was this moment. Shenron sent him somewhere to build up years and years of work only for it to be meaningless in the end, an irony he imagined to be in homage to his late father.

"Nice Shenron, good one." Gohan said sadly as a tear formed in his right eye. He had no future anymore, what was the point?

Gohan normally dealt greatly with his internal issues but this wasn't any normal issue, he'd just grasped that the gun shot isn't what kills you, it's the blood loss. The seven years of depressing mediocrity acting as the gun shot and the theft of his future was the inevitable blood loss that had now killed him off. He didn't even know what to do, he slumped to the floor, now drip dried and wearing boxers and a blue t-shirt.

"I need sleep, I'm losing it. Surely I can do something, surely." Gohan slowly paced to his bed and got under the covers, quickly trying to think of any way to save his own future, all the while hating the irony of him having wished for this.

Watchtower One Hour Before:

Flash and Batman were standing above Supergirl and they were all looking at the Justice League monitor whilst Supergirl scrolled down the Radley High School class year book entries, looking for something as per the Flash's odd request.

"Come on Kara he had Golden Hair and Bluey-Green eyes, he was big," he paused as he was out of breath and then continued, "I mean do you even need more? How many kids can there be like that?" He then proceeded to pace quickly in circles around Batman and Supergirl.

"Jeez calm down Barry I'm going through this as fast as I can but I'm telling you I don't know a guy at my school matching that description. I mean I'll look but is there anything else you could tell me? What was he wearing?" Supergirl queried, she really was trying but she knew guys with blonde hair but none with golden hair, that was quite irregular and would stand out badly.

Flash scratched his temple in thought and tried to recall what the kid was wearing, before it was charred that is, then it hit him. "Black and white flannel shirt, if that helps?"

"Flash that is very vague she needs more than that I would imagine." Batman said, he was stood with his arms folded about two metres behind where Kara was sitting.

Supergirl didn't say anything she had just put the pieces of the puzzle together, she now knew who the boy who fought Metallo was, she knew who saved the school and she knew she really didn't like him. The only thing she felt was pure anger for having let him fool her and everyone in the school the entire time. She was seething with rage.

Supergirl pulled up Gohan's picture on the monitor and asked Barry, "is this him?"

Flash was confused at first because he had clearly stated that he had golden hair and bluey-green eyes and the picture being displayed was that of a black haired and dark brown eyed kid. "Wait oh yeah, when he passed out his hair turned from Gold to Black. That's him alright. But why do you look so mad at him, were you close?"

"Not at all, I just hate his arrogance." After Batman and Flash both raised an eyebrow under their respective masks Kara explained, "earlier today me and Kal fought Metallo in down town New York, since I go to school there Kal called me first so I had to miss Biology but whatever. When Corben got Superman in a bind with his Kryptonite, Golden Boy pops up and begins beating the crap out of Metallo, even put his fist through his chest. He wouldn't have stopped unless Superman stepped in, his iris' and pupils disappeared when he became enraged and the only thing that stopped him was a strong punch from Kal. Not for long though he just got up and teleported away."

"Alright, but what does that have to do with him being arrogant? Sounds like he did alright for a days' work." Flash laughed until he received a glare from Kara and then she began to speak.

"Before the fighting began I asked if he was affiliated with the league. His reply was 'no I haven't got time for that crap and he didn't like those who plays with peoples life.' I wasn't happy with that, obviously." Kara said, still having trouble calming down.

"Right, anyway. We know what his name is, I can find where he lives, we know some of his abilities and what we need to know is who is he?" Batman said professionally, "Kara I'll get you a contact number and you need to call him as soon as possible."

"Why me? I hate the guy." She replied now crossing her arms in distaste.

"He said to Flash that he should tell people he died, that means he's gonna have to leave wherever he's staying because that's the first place anyone would look. Also he seems to be a powerhouse if he just shook off one of Superman's punches, we can't have him on the loose when he seems to be unstable." Batman explained quickly and calmly.

Supergirl sighed but then put her hands up, "Fine I'll do it, but remember I'm not gonna enjoy this."

The next morning:

Gohan 'woke' up at his regular time of five o'clock, he was still trying to work out what had transpired the day before. Still unhappy about the choices that lay ahead of him. Not that he could do much about that. He tried to think of a solution, he did. He barely slept at all and he whatever miniscule amount of sleep he had was only because he blacked out from overtiredness.

He needed to train, something that always provided peace and clarity of mind.

"Few laps around Central Park to begin and then I'll get into some heavy stuff." Gohan said with his signature smile that he'd always make whenever he trained with his father, one of excitement.

Gohan put on some shorts and a t-shirt as fast as he could and then his trainers before he silently closed his door and sneaked past the Night Watchmen on duty and out the front door.

Gohan was a fifteen minute jog to Central Park, and every single second of those fifteen minutes something bothered him, it felt like he was being watched by someone or something perhaps.

The teen stopped to buy a drink of water from a newspaper vender who was open on this awfully cold morning, he liked the guys guts so he tipped him five dollars as a thank you.

The young Saiyan had just arrived at the entrance to the park when he decided to check out his theory, so he paced round a tree so if someone was tailing him they wouldn't notice him and then as fast as possible he instant transmissioned to hundreds of metres above Central Park, looking at the birds-eye view below him.

All he could see was a few dog walkers and a coffee cart opening up, nothing out of the ordinary, really.

Gohan closed his eyes and drowned out all the background noise, he was trying to hear something specific and he found it.

He slowly floated down to behind a tree and leaned in extremely close to the girls ear before whispering, "your heart beat is pretty erratic, SuperGirl or kara should I call."

Supergirl turned to see that Gohan was extremely close to her back, she instantly got extremely nervous and blushed heavily. "What are you doing Gohan?!" She shrieked.

Gohan jumped back dodging her attempted punch and in a surprised way.

Supergirl was annoyed for some reason, "you didn't know it was me yesterday? How rude but how did you know."

Seriously do you think all are fools you just put glasses and ties your hair and cousin may comb his hair differently and may put glasses like you said Gohan not revealing that he can sense ki .

She was shocked that he knew their identity she didn't expect that he knews kal's identity thought kara and asked how did you know?

So I am right about your cousins disguise said Gohan with a smirk.

Oh crap she thought.

"So where are you from?" She asked gritting her teeth to form a forced smile.

"The usual alternate reality thing, you?" Gohan said sitting against a tree with his arms behind his head.

"Krypton, obviously? Why did you come here?"

"Exile."

Supergirl had a look of worry on her face and readied for a fight.

"Calm down Kryptonian, self-imposed exile. I chose to leave."

Supergirl heard sincerity in Gohan's words and chose to calm down and hear him out.

"Why? Why would you choose to leave your own world? Don't you miss your family or friends?"

"I mean yeah like crazy, but they're just simply better off without me. Plus this world isn't so bad, I mean you wage war like its nothing for petty reason and to satisfy your ego, you rely on a team of gifted individuals to police your entire world and pollution it's awful." Gohan listed with his eyes closed.

"So why did you leave if your world was so perfect and ours is so bad?"

"There are some mistakes even being the strongest can't fix." Gohan said quickly before standing up. "Anyway enough of that, why don't you ask what you really want to ask?"

She took a deep breath and steadied herself. "Fine. Are you an enemy or are you a friend to the justice league? What're your plans?" She glared and leant in closer as she asked.

"I'm no villain. You won't see me partnering up with the Joker any time soon. I want to live a peace full life. But I'm not gonna join such an irresponsible league. They disgust me." Gohan said with an even more potent glare and moved in so he was mere centimetres away from Kara, making her face more red than her crimson cape. "Now let me get back to my run, if we have to talk about it anymore we can do it at school. I've decided I'm not running away from the League. I'm staying."

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