Chapter 6

In Star City, close to midnight, Danny Brickwell, better known as Brick, checked the merchandise in several crates with a big smile on his face. The gentlemen in front of him were also smiling and for good reason. The take here was going to be one of the biggest in the history of the city and they were about to make a fortune.

"Boys, this is it. The big time. We get this into the city, and all of us are made men. None of us are going to go hungry again."

Most of the men cheered but one of them had a look of discontent plastered over his face that ruined the mood. Brick raised an eyebrow and motioned for this particular gentleman to talk.

"What about the Green Arrow? Surely he's not going to be a problem?"

Brick's rumbling laughter caught them all off guard. One might be under the impression that he was extremely amused by some reason.

"Don't worry about him. Heard he lost his nerve these days, and besides, too busy running around with the big dogs in the League, to worry about things close to home. Trust me when I say we'll be fine.

No one certainly argued with Brick at this point.

"Now let's move this truck out."

The members of Brick's gang positioned himself to assist with the unloading of the merchandise only for one of them to get nailed in the back of the ankle with an arrow. Another arrow came down from the heavens and exploded, wrapping two of them close together in a net. An explosion rocked the ground and caused two more goons to be tied up in a net and that caused Brick to crack his knuckles.

"Alright, come out and show yourself."

The archer he was going to fight was not in green, but rather than red. Speedy landed from her perch in front of Brick. The two men next to him dropped thanks to some rapid-fire arrow shots, not that Brick was too concerned. He snapped his fingers and more gang members came out of the shadows.

"If anyone showed up, I thought it would be the Green Arrow. Sending JV to deal with the job. Almost insulting...wreck her, boys."

Speedy did not say anything when the gang members moved in. Pipes, chains, and a rare gunshot fired into the distance. Speedy dove up over the top of their heads and took the gang members down with a series of acrobatic attacks.

She jumped into the scene and went face to face with Brick. An arrow glanced off of him and staggered Brick back a few feet. Brick responded with a snarl and charged towards Speedy.

She ducked and evaded the beefy fists of the criminals.

"Do you realize how much it costs for a custom made suit for a guy like me?"

Obviously, Speedy did not care. She made the asshole made and could not be happier.

Brick broke open the crate and pulled out one of the modified weapons. Bullets rained down, all of which Speedy dodged. She fired three arrows. One knocked the weapon out of his hand, one blew up the ground underneath him, and the third, it caused a net to be cut and a stack of crates to come down to squash Brick underneath it. Speedy flipped herself up into the air and drove her full weight down onto the back of Brick's head, stunning him something fierce.

"Well, that's that," Speedy murmured underneath her breath. "Who needs the Justice League."

Speedy prepared to slip into the shadows and let Star City's finest take these boys in.

Something caught Speedy's attention and she spun around, bow loaded.

"Hold it, Speedy. It's just us."

She stopped and standing in the shadows were Robin, Wondergirl, Kid Flash, and Superboy, if she was not mistaken. She kept her bow raised and ready to fire.

"So, you're Superwoman's cousin?" she asked in amusement when looking over Superboy. "And I don't mean the one that is currently hidden away on a farm in Smallville."

That caused an eyebrow to raise on the point of Superboy.

"Brother, actually," he said casually.

At least legally anyway.

"So, what are you all doing here?" Speedy asked. "Because, it couldn't have been to back me up, because I did just fine on my own. And besides, the ship sailed on that back at the Hall of Justice."

Everyone exchanged uncomfortable looks at that particular encounter being brought back up.

"Look, things are different now," Kid Flash said. "We have this team, and we're going to go on actual missions, and maybe one day we're going to get to join the Justice League. So, if you want to join the League so badly, that could be your ticket. I mean, you can do some good."

Speedy almost smiled at Kid Flash's naivety that this was not just the same old shit with a different coat of paint.

"I've done plenty of good over the last week while you're waiting for your masters to throw you a bone," Speedy said. "I'm flattered you want me in your little Junior Justice League. But, right now, I'm doing the solo hero thing, doing a good job of it, and feeling really good."

"Speedy…." Robin started.

"You of all people should know better, and Kid Flash and Aquagirl too," Speedy said. "Okay, the Wonder Princess might be a little raw, and Green-Eyes here, he's new as well, but he'll learn pretty quickly about the League's elitism complex."

She gave Superboy a long, a very long look. Those green eyes were easy to get lost in and Thea almost thought it was worth it to join the Junior Justice League to get to know him. However, she decided not worth it. Thea slipped into the shadows.

"So, that's a no?" Kid Flash asked.

Speedy did not return to answer. Her actions spoke as well as words.

"Figured as much," Robin said with a sigh. "It's worth a shot. Guess, all we can do is give her some space and hope she doesn't get in too far over her head."

Despite being new and not knowing Speedy as well as the rest did, Harry had a feeling this was a distinct possibility.

"Maybe they'll actually have a mission for us when we come back," Kid Flash hopefully said. "Because, Speedy's point of this being a thing to appease us, it's becoming more obvious, isn't it?"

"Yes," Harry agreed.

Harry honestly hoped this would not be another cage for him. Because that would be a problem.

Claire Kent parked herself in front of her desk at the Daily Planet to get to work Notes, folders, papers, everything had been stewed about the desk. It took a little bit to get back into the groove, after being dead. And now to have this dropped on her lap, well it was, sure something. Claire tapped on her desk and suddenly her phone rang. Claire answered it.

"Cadmus," the person on the other end of the phone commented in a modulated voice without any preamble.

"Right," Claire said. "What did you find out about it?"

"It was hard to find to about it, given how they nuked the main servers. But, I've got my ways, and there's always a back door and a back up. I'm sending you the information right now. This raises more questions than it does answers."

Claire snatched it off of her fax machine before anyone else could see it. Three names were on the paper as donors for Project Superboy. Her's, which was not surprising. L. Luthor was on there as well, which made her frown. It appeared that Lex did not learn his lesson after the last foray into cloning.

"So, me, Lex, and...Subject X?" Claire asked, frowning very deeply. "Who, or what is Subject X?"

"I don't have the slightest idea," Claire's contact remarked on the other end of the phone. "But, I'll keep digging."

"Thanks," Claire said.

"I owed you one," the voice said.

"Here comes Perry, I better go."

"KENT!"

Claire was just hanging up on the phone when the Publisher of the Daily Planet, Perry White, came around the corner.

"Yes, Mr. White," Claire said.

"You said you wanted to get back into the thick of things after your illness," Perry said. "Lane and the new kid are off investigating a tornado in Rhode Island, so I need someone to check something out."

Claire's eyebrow raised ever so slightly.

"That's near…." she murmured and she realized that Perry was staring at her. "It's near a lot of people."

"Tornados normally are, in fact, don't you live in Kansas?"

That caused Claire to respond with a nod, although she thought that a tornado where Batman had arranged for the team and….Superboy, to be dropped as very curious.

"If it's more than a freak accident, the Justice League will take care of it," Perry responded. "Focus on your assignment. LexCorp is developing a new Subterranean vehicle. I want you to get the skinny on it and what Luthor's intentions really are."

Claire was not particularly fond in seeing Lex, after recent revelations. Still, did she really have that much of a choice?

Back in the cave, Whitney, Helena, and Donna chilled on the couch. Their eyes fixed on one particular location. Harry was busy doing pullups on the other end of the cave and one could see the very obvious annoyance crossing his face when he did so. Of course, he could only be so annoyed.

M'Gann also stepped into the room and her mouth had been open. The shirtless boy had distracted her for a second.

"You know something, I'm getting a bit bored," Helena said.

Whitney's eyebrow shot almost half up and she looked practically scandalized by Helena's statement.

"Really, how can you be bored with this?"

"No, not because of that but because of….because we haven't had any missions," Helena said. "It's been a week since we've been here."

Mareena returned, stopping flush at what she was doing. She stopped and stared at Harry. She admired his body for a second before shaking her head and getting back down to business.

Harry dropped down off of the bar and walked across the cave, acting as if he had not noticed the stares of his fellow teammates. He took a long drink of water to disguise the smile on his face, while slowly toweling off, and then moving over to get a shirt and put it out.

The very audible sound of displeasure coming from at least three of the occupants of the cave made Harry smile. The little things amused me because otherwise he would be bored.

And a bored Harry was not a happy Harry.

After downing the water, Harry turned to Mareena.

"Any luck?" Harry asked.

"No, nothing yet," Mareena said.

"Got to be kidding me!" Harry snapped.

Mareena really wished she was, but so far, nothing.

He was about ready to head to the gym and throw a few fists at the punching bag. However, the door opened and Red Tornado stepped in, having returned from a meeting with the League. Harry stood up and confronted the android.

"What's the big deal?" Harry asked. "Are we just here because the League wants us to stay out of trouble or are we actually going to do something productive?"

Harry was not sure how much longer he was going to stick around. Harry did not enjoy the company, he would have been gone a long time ago. He was getting stir crazy and the League giving him the go around did not help things.

"Missions will come," Red Tornado said in his usual monotone. "But it's the Batman's job to give the missions. In the meantime, you should mingle and enjoy what humans call the down time."

"There's always too much of a good thing," Harry murmured.

"Hey, I'm sure they're just waiting for the right mission that will knock off socks off," M'Gann said. "So, why don't we...get to know each other? We...should really share our names, well I mean our real names….hi, I'm M'Gann M'orzz, although I'm using the name Megan Morse, that sounds like an Earth girl name, doesn't it?"

"Yeah," Kid Flash said. "Whitney West….fastest teenage girl on the planet."

"Donna Troy, sister of Wonder Woman," she said.

"Mareena, the daughter of King Arthur and Queen Mera of Atlantis," she commented.

"Helena...Wayne," Robin said.

Her father had told her not to be broadcasting her real name, but to be honest, Helena was kind of annoyed with her father at the moment, so she had very selective listening. Megan's eyes widened.

"So, you're….wow, you're...that means…."

"Yes," Harry said.

"And Superboy, don't you have a real name?" Whitney asked.

Harry just smiled. He wondered when they were going get to that.

'Don't worry Superboy, you'll have a real name soon,' Megan projected to him, mistaking the reason for his hesitation.

"I already do," Harry said. "And you should really ask for permission the next time you talk in someone's mind."

Megan's mouth hung open. She looked kind of flustered, especially at the stern look Harry gave her. She did not want to upset or displease him in any way, especially when she was trying to fit in.

And she committed...Megan believed the people on Earth called it a Faux Pas, just barely a week after meeting her new friends.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I kind of blew that one, oh Hello Megan, that might be considered rude to talk in other people's minds like that," Megan said. "It's just...I don't really know that much about Earth and all of that's customs and….does that smell like smoke to you?"

Suddenly, the reason for said smoke hit Megan and she rushed into the kitchen as fast as her legs could carry her. She moved into the kitchen and thankfully there was not a fire, although it was smoking way too badly.

An excited squeal of "cookies" came from Whitney. Mareena just shook her head and Helena rolled her eyes. Donna looked very amused.

"But, they're burned," Megan meekly said.

That did not even deter Whitney fixating on the cookies.

"Please, Whitney's the only person that I know who actually enjoys fruitcake," Helena said with a very light roll of her eyes.

Whitney snatched the plate of burned cookies and she scarfed them down.

"Oh, these are the best burned cookies ever," Whitney said.

"Um, thanks," Megan said. "But, I shouldn't have been so distracted, I mean, that you never get so distracted...it's just that everything is so new, and there are so many things to think about now that I…."

Mareena put up a hand and Megan stopped cold.

"Slow down," Mareena said. "You shouldn't dive in all at once. There will be plenty of time. It's all new. Just don't do too much at once."

"Right," Megan said. "But, I guess that I'm excited...that...well, I'm glad to be here, and apart of these team."

"We could tell," Helena said. "But, this doesn't solve the boredom problem."

Megan just frowned. She would have liked to help them with that. Something to make things more interesting. So she could bond with her teammates.

"Oh, Hello Megan!" she yelped almost slapping her forehead. "I almost forgot, there's something that we can do."

After Whitney polished off the last burned cookie, she smiled.

"Sorry, I didn't offer you any," Whitney said to the other members of the team.

The other girls looked at the ruined cookies and just smiled.

"Somehow, we'll manage," Donna responded dryly.

"Is there anything that you won't eat?" Helena asked her.

Whitney thought about it. She was sure there was something, but her metabolism was so impressive that what she could eat is very little.

"Well, lead the way, "Mareena told Megan.

Megan just smiled, giddy as a school girl.

X-X-X

"This is my Bioship," Megan said. "She's tuned to my thoughts and feelings, and I'm sure that I can teach you to fly her, and she'll let you, if you ask her real nicely."

Harry, Whitney, Helena, Donna, and Mareena moved in to get a closer look in the ship, impressed on in. Megan took them into the ship which looked pretty state of the art, and very alive.

Very impressive when they got a good look at the high tech technology.

A blip caught their attention.

"Does it normally do that?" Harry asked.

"Huh, that's strange," Megan said. "It's picking up something...some high energy spike...it's coming from the North of here."

Helena leaned in to take a closer look.

"That would be near the Happy Harbor Power Planet," Helena said. "And there was a tornado sighted out there just yesterday."

"Are you sure it wasn't Red?" Whitney asked.

"No, this tornado ripped through several buildings and there were several high end pieces of equipment stolen," Helena said. "This is something else...this is something else."

"There has been a disturbance at the Happy Harbor Power Plant," Red Tornado's voice cut in through their communication links. "Kindly investigate, but do not engage."

"On it," Harry said dryly. "So, are you ready to go?"

"On an actual mission?" Whitney asked. "Yeah, we're halfway there."

"Megan?" Mareena asked.

"Should be there in a second," Megan said. "Everyone better buckle up, safety first and all that."

From the shadows, Lois Lane frowned They always gave her the newbies to try and break in. Likely, she figured that Perry figured that if the newbies could hang with her, they can pretty much handle anything. A tornado in Rhode Island, it could mean big news, especially when several advanced pieces of cybernetic equipment had just randomly gone missing, by coincidence.

Yeah, coincidence, just by coincidence, Lois's foot. She stepped into the field near the Happy Harbor Power Plant. Along with its state of the art reactor. She realized that a reactor like this, if it blew, countless people would be affected. But, if the tornado had touched down over here, then surely.

And it's back, a tornado returning one day later. Lois looked over her shoulder towards the photographer who was behind her. Her mouth was slightly agap when taking a closer look at the carnage.

"Hey, Cover Girl, look alive, and get a good shot at this one."

The tornado touched down on the field and the redhead photograph stepped in. A very attractive young woman of seventeen years old, dressed in a black button up blouse, a black jean jacket, and blue jeans positioned herself to get the best shot. Mary Jane Watson, the newest member of the Daily Planet staff surveyed the damage.

Talk about getting thrown in the deep end the first day on the job.

"That's not just a tornado," Mary Jane said. "Look."

Lois was looking and she was seeing. Some kind of vessel flew from the south. It looked like a ship of some sort.

"Wait, is that an alien craft fighting a tornado?" Mary Jane asked.

"Sure looks like it, doesn't it, Cover Girl?" Lois asked. "Let's get a little closer."

"Isn't that dangerous?"

Lois just smiled. She really was new. Lois did not wait to give a response, rather slipping through the gate which had blown open.

Understanding that she better follow her boss's lead, Mary Jane slipped through the opened gate to get a better look.

The bioship landed about as firmly onto the ground as possible. It popped up, and Miss Martian, Superboy, Wondergirl, Aquagirl, Robin, and Kid Flash all tumbled out to get a closer look.The tornado shifted into a large, hulking android of a man, with dark armor which tinted on the ground.

"I expected this would get Red Tornado's attention or at least a member of the Justice League," he commented. "I'm almost insulted. It's like they're not taking me seriously."

"And just who are you?" Kid Flash asked.

"Call me Mister Twister."

The arms blasted out and the members of the team avoided two miniature cyclones. The dirt and the pieces of debris on the ground made it harder to engage this new enemy.

"And here I thought we weren't supposed to engage," Miss Martian said.

"No plan survives contact with the enemy," Superboy told them.

"Mister Twister?" Kid Flash asked.

"Yes, and he's after Red Tornado," Aquagirl said as she summoned the water from a nearby stream.

It was not nearly enough to send Mister Twister staggering back to the ground. She took in a deep breath and made the best out of it.

"His powers are very similar to Red's," Robin commented.

"Maybe it's him, in some kind of bulked up armor?" Donna asked. "You know some kind of test."

"If it is, I'll be having words with him later," Harry said grimly.

Harry doubted it, but it would be unwise to discount any possibility until proven differently. And nothing proved Donna's theory wrong. And nothing proved it right.

"That doesn't make any sense, what about the stolen equipment?" Robin asked.

Before they could have this conversation go any further, Mister Twister knocked them all down. He created a miniature tornado, eyes glowing threateningly.

"You children should go home ot the League," Mister Twister said. "The lack of parental supervision is almost alarming."

The anger blazed through Harry's eyes. How dare this monster call them children? He was being mocked and he was not happy about that.

Donna flipped over onto the ground and withdrew her sword. At the same time, Kid Flash tried to run around and counteract the twisters. All it caused was WonderGirl to flip over onto the ground and land onto her face.

Harry jumped in and knocked Kid Flash out of the way before he drove both of his fists against Mister Twister's head. He reared back his hand and two bolts of energy fired at him. Without knowing the exact composition of the armor, transfiguring it would be hard, and it would be hard to begin with. All he needed to do is find a weak spot.

Mister Twister knocked Superboy onto his back with a thunderous attack. Aquagirl once again flew in with a huge block of water. Mister Twister blasted it away with his tornado.

"The League doesn't come here, Red Tornado doesn't come here," Mister Twister commented. "Maybe they'll take me a bit more seriously, once I have hostages."

Mister Tornado blasted off of the ground. Harry recognized Lois, being in the thick of things, along with a redhead photographer close to his own age. Mister Twister prepared to grab them and shoot off.

Harry, in a frantic attempt to get to them, teleported and landed right in front of Mister Twister to knock him back. Harry threw his punches at him, with reckless abandon.

"You aren't going to hurt anyone!" Harry yelled with a thunderous attack.

"You have some nerve, boy."

Mister Twister sent Superboy hurling backwards. A large tree ripped off of the ground and came close to impaling through Harry's chest.

He blocked it at the same time Megan put up a telekinetic shield over him. Harry reinforced the shield and sent it back, knocking Twister back with a crushing fury.

"Why can't you just read his mind?" Harry asked.

"I thought I wasn't supposed to do that without permission," Megan said.

"Trust me, there are exceptions when someone is trying to kill you!" Harry yelled. "Honestly, Megan!"

He did not mean to snap at Megan, but the team was not doing very well, as in they were getting trampled. Their timing was all over the place.

Perhaps the League had been right not to throw them out on the deep end if their timing in working together was so shit. They would have to work on that, providing they got out of it.

Lois and Mary Jane scampered away to a safe distance. Just in time to see a cyclone being created by the aptly named Mister Twister. In the debris, the teens disappeared.

"I used the bioship to cloak us and to shield us," Megan said. "We should be safe."

"Until he blows up the power plant," Kid Flash said. "That's what he's going to do? Can your ship protect against a nuclear explosion?"

Good question and Megan honestly had no idea.

The members of the team broke into several deep breaths. They thought things could have gone much better to be honest. Harry in particular, frowned in annoyance.

"I don't think he wants to….I don't think he wants to blow it up," Robin said. "Because, he wants Red out here."

"You don't think blowing up a power plant would get Red Tornado's attention?" Kid Flash asked.

"Not if it blows him up," Robin said.

Megan looked wistfully into the distance.

"I tried to read his mind, before I cloaked us," Megan said. "But, I guess it messed it up….maybe if I would have thought to try sooner...but Superboy said…."

"There are things appropriate in the battlefield that are not appropriate amongst friends," Mareena said. "You're still new to this. You'll get there...don't worry."

"Thanks," Megan said.

"Yeah, we're all figuring this out," Harry agreed. "All of us."

Donna stared out into the damage left behind by Mister Twister. She was sick of being pinned down and on the defensive.

"We have to do something," Donna said.

"What we need is a plan," Robin murmured.

Sudden realization dawned upon Harry, he could have kicked himself for not coming up with the very obvious strategy before.

"Well, if he wants Red Tornado, I say we give him Red Tornado."

Mister Twister hated the fact that he could not get his hands on Red Tornado, no matter how hard he tried.

"You wanted my attention?"

Red Tornado dropped down and Mister Twister turned his attention towards the object of his obsession.

"And here I thought I was going to have to blow up the plant to get your attention," Mister Twister said.

"Yes, my young friends told me you wanted to have words with me," Red Tornado said. "And here I am."

"But, not for too much longer," Mister Twister said.

Red Tornado dodged the first two attacks before Mister Twister nailed him right in the chest and send Red Tornado down to the ground.

"I'm disappointed," Mister Twister said. "But, don't worry, this will be over soon."

"It sure will."

Red Tornado shifted into Miss Martian which caused Mister Twister to step back, up until the point where Superboy dove down and nailed him with a blast to send him down to the ground. The bolt of energy caused the circuits inside of the armor to fry.

"You won't get away with….argh!"

Superboy ripped him apart piece by piece until he reached the weedy little man inside. The man screamed in agony when Harry yanked him out. The man trembled and shook and could feel the chill.

Harry hurled him onto the ground.

M'gann frowned and then hoisted up a rock with her mind before smashing it down onto the prone form of the man.

The rest of the time, beside Donna and Harry, locked in surprise at what M'gann did.

"You...you killed him!" Kid Flash yelled.

"No, he was never alive," Harry said. "M'gann?"

The Martian teenager lifted the rock up and revealed the sparking form of the android underneath. An android within an android, that caused the Team to back off.

"So, I couldn't read his mind because there was no mind to read," Megan said. "Even when someone has mental shields, you can feel it, because it's like you're ramming your head into a wall."

"I've done that before," Whitney said. "When I was learning how to vibrate through the walls."

"So, someone had to build him," Robin said. "But, who?"

"That is a question that the League will determine in due time."

The various members of the team turned around and noticed that Red Tornado dropped down onto the ground to face them.

"You have formed adequately under pressure," Red Tornado commented. "Although you still have much to learn."

Well, Harry was not going to necessarily disagree with with Red on that assessment. He moved over towards Lois and the photographer. Said photographer put down her camera, having snapped a few pictures and she got a good one of the fight.

"So, you doing alright?" Harry asked.

"Fluffy kittens compared to some of the shit I've been through," Lois said. "And this is the Daily Prophet's newest photographer, Mary Jane Watson."

"Hey," Mary Jane said, briefly getting lost in his eyes.

"Pleasure to meet you," Harry said. "So, how about lunch tomorrow?"

"I'll be there," Lois said. "I want to hear about your first mission...you know from your perspective."

"Well, I'm not sure I have much more to add," Harry said.

"I'll be there, barring an Armageddon level event," Lois said. "Which, is something that I should not tempt Murphy about, but you know."

"Yes, I know," Harry responded to her. "Nice meeting you, Mary Jane."

"Yeah, nice meeting you as well," Mary Jane said, finally tearing herself away from the shock. "Didn't know that Superwoman had a brother, but I guess...guess you learn something new every day."

Superboy left to join the rest of his name. Lois nudged Mary Jane to get her out of la-la land.

"So, Cover Girl, did you get any photos that weren't of Superboy's abs or ass?"

"A few," Mary Jane said with a small grin.

"Well, you have promise," Lois said. "You didn't run home crying on your first day being out with me. So good on you for that."

Mary Jane took that as the compliment Lois obviously intended it to be.

The images of the Mister Twister armor and the man within being crushed appeared on the screen. A man, who looked like the mirror image of the man inside of the armor watched, his hangs ringing nervously as he did.

"Aren't you glad you didn't wear the android armor, my friend?"

Bromm Stikk, the man, nodded in response.

"But, at least we have what we're looking for," Stikk said.

"Indeed."

T.O. Morrow smiled, his greatest work would be reclaimed once again. It was only a matter of time before Morrow had what he wanted. Those teenage sidekicks were an interesting diversion, but he was after the big fish.

M'Gann finished a fresh batch of cookies, getting them just right the next time. Focus was important.

"You don't mind if I have one. Those smell good."

Miss Martian turned towards Superboy and flashed him a smile.

"Sure, cookies are made to be eaten," Megan said. "And….you better get one before Whitney snatches them all again. If she woofed down burned cookies like that, I'd imagine that she's...she would really inhale these."

Harry took the chocolate chip cookie into his mouth and ate it. Megan decided to help herself to one herself for a few seconds.

"You know, I've never told you my name," Harry said.

"Look, I'm really sorry about the entire mind reading thing," Megan said.

"It's fine," Harry said. "You didn't know, and now you do. And I think that if it's an emergency, I don't necessary mind. But only during a life or death situation."

"Right, I can respect that," Megan said as she ate a second cookie, enjoying the flavor. "So…"

"My name is Har-El, my Kryptonian name," he said. "But human name is Hadrian Kent, but my friends call me Harry."

"And we are friends, right?" Megan asked.

"Of course."

She beamed at him a long second. Megan almost could have slapped herself. She extended her hand to Harry.

"Unce J'onn said it was an Earth custom to shake hands with people that you met," M'Gann said. "And I didn't...I didn't do it...must think I'm rude."

"No, trust me, rude is the last thing people would think of you," Harry said.

Harry grabbed Megan hand for a handshake, but pulled her into a hug. Harry felt like she could use one, given how stressful today had been.

In fact, M'gann could not help and feel warm and happy. He pulled away from her.

"So, how were the cookies?" M'gann asked.

"They were pretty sweet," Harry said. "Much like the girl who made them."

Megan gave a smile in spite of herself, and the doors opened, with Donna, Mareena, Helena, and Whitney joining them.

"So, about the android?" Donna asked.

Yes, Harry wondered when that was going to be brought up.

"There's something going on," Harry said. "And Red knows...and he's not going to tell us anything."

"What do you think it is?" Whitney asked as she helped herself to a half a dozen cookies.

"I don't know," Harry said.

"But, we're going to find out?" Mareena asked. "I mean, we should...because we got involved with that thing.

They all nodded in agreement, taking a cookie. Donna snatched the final cookie out of Whitney's hand and smiled in triumph. Whitney did her best pout, and Donna just grinned.

Despite this light moment, Harry was thinking that there was something going on. Red Tornado was put here for a good reason and Harry was now not entirely sure that it was here to babysit the Team for the League.

Curious and curiouser. Harry really hoped that Red Tornado was not withholding information that endangered his friends.