2 The Truth and Training

"I really need to be a little nicer." I say while laying down on my bed after I woke up. My schedule today involves breakfast, and training the kids after they are done with school.

Walking to the kitchen I see Megan making cookies and Connor standing to the side watching. "Morning" I say grabbing eggs from the fridge. "Good morning" replies Megan. "You're still here?" asks Superboy.

"Sadly for both of us I am here for the foreseeable future." I crack the eggs into the pan and turn on the stove. Silence follows the whole time I'm eating my breakfast.

It's now the afternoon and time for the teams training with Black Canary. As I'm dragging my feet to the training room I think to myself what exactly can I teach these kids? My martial arts is subpar and I mainly get by with my powers and intelligence. As I was thinking I passed by the Grotto a memorial for fallen league members. Then it clicks, sacrifice and endurance are my only real redeeming quality as a hero. Sure I'm smart but I'm no Batman or Luther.

I finally enter the training room and I'm met with a fight between Wally and Dick. Dick has the upper hand with his superior close quarter combat skills and reactions. A well placed punch to the gut sends Wally to the floor.

"What good is your speed if you can't even react to simple martial arts? Punching and kicking randomly is not a valid fighting style." I say walking into the room. "And Robin you took too many chances with your strikes opening yourself up to a counter, I advise being less rash, you have a head comparable to Batman use it. Aqualad should be using electricity more often and needs to increase his water pressure and quantity for the highest efficiency, I recommend asking your queen for help on your hydrokinetic abilities. Superboy with your strength your speed is second only to the flash yet you take most attacks laying down why is that? You need to start training your reaction and speed I would recommend training with Kid Flash. Miss Martian your telepathy is stronger than possibly Manhunter, I would recommend you start learning to get into people's heads who reject you and mess with their senses or even memories, ask your uncle. Artemis, sigh, use what your father taught you it is as valuable as your archery." I say shocking the team while Canary glares at me.

"Stop babying them they want to be heroes so tell them the truth they're weak. A single villain most leaguers can take one on one requires the whole team if not three of them to best them." I say seriously. "Not to mention the fact that they've failed every mission assignment and ended up fighting without authorization, and almost every time they fight they almost die. Is that a trade off we want to make to just send a villain to prison temporarily? Their missions are covert op usually that means get the info, inform the league and fight only if permission is granted. They've gone against these rules even the founding seven members of the league follow. That's how they've failed."

The room is in silence nobody knows how exactly to react. "You went too far Lazarus, they're just kids" says Black Canary. "Kids are sidekicks, they no longer want to be in that position that's why they're here. With that goal we need to stop treating them like kids or they'll never reach it."

"Now wait a sec-" states Wally.

"No opinions? great! Now onto training, the ones being sent home to their mentors because they never bothered truly learning are Miss Martian, and Aqualad. Meanwhile Robin will continue sparring with Canary while also solving new and cold cases from around the world, not just Gotham. Kid Flash will be paired up with Superboy, learning martial arts with Canary and later spar against each other. Superboy will also race Kid Flash who will wear weights. Artemis will be with me. No objections or I'll suspend you from the team and tell your mentors you were too confident to even bother trying to grow in strength. If your improvement isn't satisfactory when we meet in a week you will be suspended for the next mission."

"Have fun Canary, give them a nice beating for me will yah? Follow me Artemis and suit up."

Half an hour later I'm sitting in the lounge drinking tea until Artemis shows up and sits across from me with a scowl.

"I'm sorry for bringing up your father in front of the team." I sigh "But you're working with me for the next week so get over it. I can't help you get over your upbringing, but you are the one with the least hero work completed, that I can fix. I recently got a lead on the location of Gotham's favorite eco terrorist who recently escaped from prison. You will be leading the investigation and I'll be there for support. Locate her quickly, we set out tomorrow morning to return her to Arkham. After that we will do regular patrols for two days, then it's league work for the next three days, something your companions wish they could have. You're dismissed if there are no questions."

"One question, why are you helping me? You could've easily pawned me off to Canary or Arrow." she says with a slight tilt of her head.

"You've sacrificed a lot for this life, I respect that. Every hero makes sacrifices, the sidekicks haven't yet, you're the only true hero among their ranks. Enough of the sappy stuff get to investigating."

Question:

Should this be a harem? If so it'd only be two with one villain one hero, maybe four max. Please vote! (Whoever wins in chapter one will become the main love interest so don't forget to vote there!)

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