I'm back...
[Mount Justice, Happy Harbor]
(Superboy POV)
I was in my room looking at the Blockbuster serum I stole from the scientist. I'll need to find a way for it to give me all the benefits without turning into a hideous monster and losing my sanity. I'll need to study science and thanks to my half-Kryptonian mind I can learn things way faster than the average Joe. Also, there's the patches that Luthor gave to Connor in canon, if I can find a way to make it permanent and not angry.
"Recognize: Robin; B-01, Kid-Flash; B-03" My enhanced hearing picks up the computer, announcing my teammates' names. I speed into the main room to see them walking up to Kaldur and M'gann with big grins on their face.
"Did you ask him?" Robin asks Kaldur, with Kid Flash follows up with another question. "What did he say?" Kaldur answers them calmly. Like always. "He will be here soon." Kid Flash playfully punches Robin on the shoulder. "Then what are we waiting for?" before running off, Robin follows close behind, and finally Kaldur. Me and M'gann walk behind them at a slower pace so I start making conversation.
"So, how are you liking Earth so far?" I decided to start with a simple question. "It's amazing; it's so different from Mars. On Mars, we have some channels where we can watch, but here I can watch many things, and the scenery is green, whereas on Mars, you'll just see red. Although there are still things I hope to see like, going to the movies, the park, and an amusement park just to name a few.
"Well, since I'm also new to life in general, maybe you and I can see them together?" She blushes at the suggestion. Having her trust me can help in the long run when I start my own team. If I chip away at her beliefs, then she can be a powerful ally when it comes to neutralizeing enemies quickly.
We arrive at the garage, where we leave through the exit hoping to intercept Red Tornado. We look up to see him descending near us. "Red Tornado!" The Kid Flash calls out to our emotionless caretaker with a wave. "Greetings." Red Tornados he offers. "Is there a reason you intercept me outside the cave?" He asks us in his monotone voice. It's kinda weird.
" We are hoping you have a mission for us." Kaldur says, though if we're following canon we'll soon have to face knock-off tornado. Honestly, he was so unimportant in the show that I forgot his name. "Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility." Red Tornado says, Robin looks annoyed. "But it's been over a week and nothing-" Robin tries, but is cut off.
"You'll be tested soon enough." the android states firmly. "For the time being, simply enjoy each other's company. "This Team is not a social club." Kaldur objects to this strongly.
"No," Red Tornado agrees. "but I am told social interaction is an important team-building exercise. Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarizing yourselves with the cave." Tornado says, walking past us and into the cave.
"Keep busy." Kid Flash says, and I almost sigh in annoyance, but I can understand the frustration they have the skills and training and can't do anything but sit. Although I'm using this time to hone my powers and gain better control over them and so far I can control my strength better than before and my landings are lighter than when I first came, I still need to train them.
"Does he really think we're falling for this?" Robin questions angrily, this makes M'gann speak up. "Oh, I'll find out." M'gann says excitedly, then turns towards Red Tornado and her excited expression deflats. "Recognize, Red Tornado; 1-6."
M'gann sighs. "I'm sorry, I forgot he's a machine, inorganic. I... can't read his mind." I pat her on the back in hopes to cheer her up. "It's fine." Kid Mouth also speaks up. "Yeah nice try, though." Kid Flash offers. "So, uh, you know what I'm thinkin' right now?" he looks up at her with a flirtatious smile which causes a Flash of annoyance to go through me.
"We all know what you're thinkin' now." Robin grumbles and elbows the speedster's turned back. "Ugh, disgusting." I say, flicking his head which probably felt like a slap to the head. "Ow!" he complains.
"And now we tour the clubhouse." Kaldur says sourly. "Well, Superboy and I live here. We can play tour guides." Miss Martian offers, looking at me with a bright smile. "I'd rather you give us the tour M'gann, you know the place more than me. "A private tour sounds so much better." Kid Flash says, looking at M'gann again. I sigh and flick him again. "Ow! Dude, again?!" He looks at me while holding his head.
"She never said private." Robin was embarrassed by his best friend's words. "Team building. We'll all go." Kaldur says, breaking up the argument before it can even start. "So, this would be our front door..." M'gann officially begins the tour.
(A while later...)
"And this would be the back." M'gann continues as they come out on the other side of the mountain. "The cave is actually the entire mountain." M'gann says, and Kid Flash goes on to add what he knows about the history of the mountain."It was hollowed out and reinforced by Superman and Green Lantern in the early days of the League."
"So why'd they move?" M'gann asks, I think it's just for Batman to save money back then. "The cave's secret location was... compromised." Kaldur explains. "If the Bad Guys know of the cave, then we must be on constant alert." She raises her hand in a thinking pose.
"The Bad Guys know we know they know about the place." Robin assures, grabbing her hand and turning her towards him, then putting his other hand on top of hers. What's up with him now? "So, they'd never think to look here."
"Uh." Kid Flash interrupts and removes Robin's hand from M'gann. "What he means is that we're hiding in plain sight." It still looks like she's confused. "What they mean is that the villains won't think to look for us here because it's compromised." I explain to her and it looks like she understands now.
"Oh, ok. Wait, my cookies!" She quickly flies away, and we follow her to the kitchen. What she doesn't know is that I took them out a while ago and I only did it was that I was in the mood for something sweet. "What, who took them out?" She looks confused, seeing them there fresh and ready to be eaten. "I smelt them, so I took them out before they could burn." I explain while taking a cookie and eating it. "Mmm, these are good. You should cook more often if you're this good." She blushes at the praise.
"You're a lifesaver M'gann, I'm starving." Kid Flash starts eating them with one in each hand. "It was sweet of you to make them." Kaldur tells her, making her duck her head, embarrassed. "Thanks, Aqualad." Miss Martian says. "We're off duty. Call me Kaldur'ahm." he insists. "Actually, my friends call me Kaldur." He says with a friendly smile.
"I'm Wally." Kid Flash speaks up, leaning on the island. "See? I already trust you with my secret ID, unlike Mr. Dark Glasses over here." Robin frowns and glares at Wally as he puts his hands on his hips, annoyed by the speedster's slightly accusatory tone. "Batman's forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name." Honestly, I agree with Batman.
"Mine's no secret." Miss Martian admits brightly. "It's M'gann M'orzz. But you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name, I'm on Earth now." she seems excited about that fact. 'Don't worry Superboy we'll find you a name too.' This gives me a Jump scare, hearing her voice in my head. "Are you in my head M'gann?" This was weird I've never had anyone in my head before.
'Yeah, What's wrong?' She says, expanding her telepathic range to include Kaldur, Wally, and Robin. Almost instantly all three react negatively to it. Robin physically grips his head with both hands, Kaldur turns away from M'gann closing his eyes and grimacing before finally putting his hand to his head, while Wally also brings his hand to his head massaging it, while I try to remain calm.
'Everyone on Mars talks telepathically.' M'gann stop." Kaldur commands anger clear in his voice. M'gann closes the link and looks confused and hurt, but listens to Kaldur continue. "Things are different on Earth. Here, your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."
"I-I didn't mean to." She apologized, looking like a kicked puppy. "It's fine, just give us a heads up next time." I wave it off, although this gave me an eye-opener to the dangers of telepaths, I need to find a way to protect myself from the Charles Xavier's of this universe. "Hello, Megan!" She says it brightly even though she hit her forehead with her hand. "I know what we can do."
Coming down the elevator we stop at the hangar as the doors open. Leading us towards a red oval shape object in the hangar. "It's my Martian BioShip." M'gann explains while I stare at it in awe, amazed by this advanced technology. "Cute." Wally says. "Not aerodynamic, but cute."
"It's at rest, silly." M'gann smiles brightly, reaching her hand out. "I'll wake it." As she does the oblong turns into a shape recognizable as a ship. She even spins 180° with just a motion of her hand. A small staircase comes off the back, showing off some of the insides. She walks towards it but soon realizes the boys aren't following. "Well, are you coming?" We start walking inside in awe of the interior morphing into chairs.
As we sit down the chairs buckle us in by themselves. Robin leans forward as the chair moves, eliciting a "whoa" from the stunned Boy Wonder. The chair reaches out and buckles him in holding the thirteen-year-old in place. Wally sits down and now knowing what happens, doesn't panic. "Cool." he tells M'gann, trying and failing to appear cool and serious.
"Red Tornado," M'gann says, sitting in the captain's chair, "Please open the bay doors." As the bay doors open two control towers form by M'gann's hands. Once open the BioShip flies out at impressive speeds, only to slow just above the surface of the water and begin a near 90° upward flight, before barrel rolling to face towards the mainland once more.
"Incredible!" Robin tells M'gann, more likely impressed with the responsiveness and her piloting skills than anything. "You got that right." For me, this was incredible because I could dream of this in my past life.
"She sure is..." Wally agrees, but is entirely focused on M'gann, once she turns towards him he realizes what he said. "I﹘ I mean the ship, which like all ships, is a she." A bad excuse but an excuse nonetheless. Robin is the first to point out Wally's crappy attempt at covering up what he said. "Fast with his feet, not so much with his mouth." Kaldur and I chuckle at that.
"Dude!" Wally yells, mostly embarrassed, but clearly still at least a little annoyed with the smaller raven. "Hey, how 'bout showing us a little bit of Martian Shapeshifting?" Robin asks, changing the topic. M'gann nods, before stepping up and gaining our attention as her clothes begin to change. Making her look like a feminine version of Robin, costume included. Catching Wally's smirk she turns into a feminine version of Kid Flash.
"Is it wrong that I think I'm hot?" Wally questions. "Right now. Yes." This makes him shoot an annoyed glare, but I just smirk at him. Robin applauds M'gann. "Impressive," She turns back into herself. "but you know you're not exactly going to fool anyone with those." M'gann smiles softly as she sits down. "Mimicking boys is a lot harder." "And your clothes?" the Atlantean questions.
"They're organic like the ship. They respond to my mental commands." M'gann explains, pulling on her jacket slightly. "Can you do that ghosting through-walls thing ManHunter does?" Wally asks.
"Density shifting?" M'gann questions. "No, it's a very advanced technique..." Robin leans forward. "Flash can vibrate his molecules right through a wall." Then chuckles before gesturing to Wally. "When he tries it, bloody nose." This embarrassed Wally making him snap at Robin. "Dude!"
"Here's something I can do." M'gann says brightly, then the entire ship disappears from sight. "Camouflage Mode." We look out the window to see the ship'sbody's disappeared "Red Tornado to Miss Martian. An emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbor Power Plant. I suggest you investigate covertly. I'm sending coordinates." All of us are on high alert as the ship pings.
"Received. Adjusting course." M'gann says, adjusting our course towards the danger Robin scoffs. "Tornado's keeping us busy again." M'gann replies optimistically. "Well, a simple fire led you to Superboy. We should find out what caused the alert." She takes the BioShip down and mere feet above the surface of the parking lot.
I look at the window and my eyes widen seeing a tornado coming our way."Tornado coming our way!" I yell out, M'gann attempts to alter our course to not get swept up but is unsuccessful and the BioShip glitches out of Camouflage Mode as we get fully entangled in the tornado.
Trapped inside the tornado we hold on as the wind whips around us around. M'gann manages to open her eyes and reorientate herself, as she does her brow drops in concentration and her hands firmly press on the control towers, illuminating them as she gets them out of the tornado and to the parking lot. We get out of the ship and I look around surveying the damage
[Power Plant]
We arrive to see all the workers evacuating and screaming in fear. "Robin, are tornadoes common in New England?" Aqualad questions, hearing no response he turns to where the Boy Wonder just was but finds the space between him and Miss Martian now empty. "Robin?" We hear his cackle, but he's not near us. I use my hearing to pinpoint his location in case he needs help.
"H-He was just here." Miss Martian mutters, confused on how fast he disappeared. We turn our attention back to the Power Plant where the windows are being blown out.
Inside the Power Plant is a red and black exo-suit, with blue tubing running from his shoulders, up and to his lower back, and a brown scarf covering his mouth. Tornado coming from each hand. The funnels hit Robin directly and almost slammed him into the support pillar if not for me catching him. "Thank's Sb." I nod. "Who's the fire hydrant?"
Robin looks at me. "Didn't catch his name, but he plays kinda rough." he warns me, I look at the rubble around me and start throwing it at him, hoping to find an opening. The tornado villain destroys them, air pulses still coming from his wrists.
"My apologies." he says, revealing his robotic voice. "You may address me as Mr. Twister." He goes to shoot at us but I use my super-speed and punch him hard, sending him flying into one of the walls.
As I go in for another punch, he launches me into the far end of the room, hitting the wall. Thanks to my powers, I wasn't hurt that much, but it did piss me off. Kid Flash speeds through a front handspring before aiming with both his feet at Mr. Twister's chest. He doesn't quite make it as Mr. Twister raises his hands to create vortexes that stop him in his tracks. Then launches Kid Flash out the bay doors, where he skids across the parking lot.
Unamused, Twister turns back in time to create twisters under a flying Miss Martian and a charging Aqualad, knocking both of them back and eliciting a yell. Aqualad hits a corner of one of the support beams, while Miss Martian narrowly misses and crashes into the raised grated walkway another ten feet behind the Boy Wonder.
Seeing him distracted, I go in with a jump and punch him into the ground repeatedly, but then he grabs my arm and starts punching. Aqualad uses his water bearers and throws him into one of the walls. Angry, Twister turns back just in time to create twisters under a flying Miss Martian and a charging Aqualad, knocking them back and eliciting a yell of pain. Aqualad hits a corner of one of the support beams, while Miss Martian narrowly misses and crashes into the raised grated walkway another ten feet behind the Boy Wonder.
"I was prepared to be challenged by a superhero." Twister goads, as Robin pulls a disk out from under his jacket. "I was not, however, expecting children."
"We're not children!" Robin yells, launching a small bomb and then the disk.
Twister counteracts the bomb with dual vortices, causing it to explode at a harmless distance, thinking the Boy Wonder faked one of his moves he lets the vortices drop, allowing the disk to land in the center of his chest plate. Which the villain casually flicks away with one finger. "Objectively, you are." only then does it explode. "Have you no adult supervision? I find your pres-."
I don't give him the chance to finish his sentence and punch him repeatedly, with his armor gaining multiple dent's sending him into a wall. Miss Martian tries to use her telekinesis but is thrown by a vortex into an exposed electrical line knocking her out.
Robin, Aqualad, I run at him. The Atlantean's hands are charged with electricity, while Robin has explosives. Twister stands as his hands begin creating miniature twisters then pick up Aqualad and Robin before slamming them into each other. While I get thrown outside. "Shit!!" I land on the ground, not hurt thankfully.
Using my hearing, I pinpoint where he's at before super-speeding there just in time to see Kid Flash getting saved by Miss Martian.
Kid Flash straightens out of his balled up position, eyes opening. "Ohh." he sighs in relief. "Thanks."
"I would have thought you had all learned your limitations by now." Does this guy love hearing his voice, It's starting to piss me off.
"What do you want?!" Aqualad yells angrily at the villain, who rises into the air. "Isn't it obvious? I'm waiting for a real Hero." Twister tells us, angering my teammates, while I could care less. "Read his mind, find his weakness." Aqualad commands Miss Martian.
"I thought I wasn't supposed to do that." Miss Martian objects, now slightly hesitant and equally confused. "It's okay with the bad guys." Robin tells her.
Determination sets in as Miss Martian sets out to do just that. "I'm getting nothing." Then she breaks her concentration, knocking her head lightly. "Hello, Megan. Mr. Twister is Red Tornado in disguise." That's what they think, but I know he's T.O. Morrow's ugly assistant. "He's inorganic, an android." Aqualad turns to M'gann. "And how many androids do you know that generate tornadoes?" Now both Robin and Kid Flash turn towards her as well.
Should I tell them that it isn't Red? No, this could give me an opportunity to get her on my side and make her trust me more. "Red Tornado sent us here." Aqualad points out with a frown.
"After saying we'd be 'tested soon enough'. " Robin agrees and continues. "This is his test, something to keep us busy."
"Speedy called it." Kid Flash says, then hangs his head sadly. "We're a joke." I could honestly give two shits what the reject clone says; his opinion means nothing to me. Aqualad makes a noise of frustration before slamming his fist into his hand and turning back towards the villain.
"This game," Wally vocalizes as he and Robin step up to join Aqualad, "is so over." the three stand together before Twister. "We know who you are and what you want." Robin accuses angrily. "So let us end this." Aqualad finishes.
"Consider it ended." Twister says darkly, raising his hands over his head, and the two funnels begin creating dark clouds and a massive full-sized twister. As this happens, Robin's resolve gives slightly.
"An impressive show," Aqualad calls out, before exchanging glances with Kid and Robin, "but we will not indulge you." all three face back toward Mr Twister. "We will not engage." At this point, I'm starting to get tired of their little show.
Lightning cracks into the eye of the storm, Mr. Twister. Kid Flash turns towards the other two now nervous. "Uh, can Red Tornado... do that?"
"You think I'm Tornado?" the lightning gains intensity. "Ironic." Twister says darkly before the lightning strikes I super-speed and push them out of the way. This causes Twister to look at me and send lightning in my direction and one of them manages to hit me sending me back near my teammates. "Augh!!"
I see Miss Martian look at me and then at Twister's web of lightning before I see her use powers I see Twister back off. "Fine, then." Miss Martian remains crouched as we stay hidden.
"I won't deny that you children have power," Kid Flash gains consciousness his goggles now pushed to his forehead by the force of Twister's previous strike, and tries to groan in pain, but Miss Martian covers his mouth. "But playing hide-and-seek with you will not help me achieve my objective." We stare right at him, but he still can't see us. "So stay concealed. If you confront me again, I will show no mercy." To emphasize his point he clenches his fist to create lightning sparks to intimidate after he finally leaves. Heading straight for Happy Harbor.
"Ugh, we almost had him!" I shout angrily. "Why did we have to think he was Tornado. We should've just beat him up." I looked at them. "She didn't do it on purpose." Aqualad says calmly.
"It- it was a rookie mistake." Robin agrees. "We shouldn't have listened."
"You are pretty inexperienced." That seems to catch Miss Martian's attention. She turns to the other ginger, his head drops slightly. "Hit the showers. We'll take it from here."
Miss Martian's face falls as she watches Kid Flash use his super-speeds and run off in the direction of Twister. Robin uses the dust cloud to disappear from sight. "I was just trying to be part of the Team." she says sadly, her bangs falling in front of her eyes.
Aqualad stops a few steps in front of her. "To be honest, I'm not sure we have a team." He too then leaves. I look at M'gann and go and comfort her.
"Hey," I get her attention. "Just so you know I don't blame you I'm also new to this, and If you need to talk just now I'm here for you no matter what." With that said I take to catch up with the rest of my friends.
[Happy Harbor]
The town of Happy Harbor is under siege, two mini tornados blow through the small town, triggering car alarms and panic. One rips across the harbor, picking up boats and dropping them in the town square before that same twister runs through a building. Taking it down with ease.
Twister stands in the center, controlling the destruction. "This will get the required attention."
"You've got ours!" Kid Flash shouts, gaining Twister's attention. "Full and undivided!" The speedster rips down the road, hitting Twister hard enough to knock him back a bit. "Immaterial and insufficient!" Twister proclaims. "You are a distraction I can no longer tolerate."
Before he can act I drop down and hit Twister hard enough to knock him back three or four times the distance Kid Flash did. As he comes to a stop, I charge and hit him repeatedly. "Ugh!!" He tries to hit me, but I grab a hold of his arm and throw him at a nearby by building.
'Listen to me.' I hear Miss Martian's voice in my head, making me lose focus, which causes me to get blasted away by Twister. 'All of you.' I dodge one of the tornados aimed at me, taking cover behind a building.
"I know, and I know I messed up," She admits. "but now I know what we need to do. Please trust me." I smile as she starts telling us the plan, knowing it was good enough to trick this little shit.
(Third-Person POV)
Two citizens are still running around the town. A police officer is directing everyone. "Get Back! Everyone clear the area!" Unaware of the twister headed right for him.
Red Tornado comes to the center of Happy Harbor standing just out of Twister's range. The villain stops as he sees Tornado. "Hit the showers, boys." He says, landing. "I was hoping you could handle this. Clearly, you cannot."
"But we've got a plan now." Robin objects with a frown. "The subject is not up for debate." Tornado tells them. All of them say nothing as they walk away.
"I was beginning to believe you'd never show up." Twister tells Tornado. "I'm here now." Tornado says, his right hand reaching out beyond his cape to create a twister he sends right at Twister. Who counteracts it, but as Tornado attempts to attack him with his back turned, Twister sends another at the Leaguer.
Tornado disperses the attack before any damage can be done. "We are evenly matched, Twister." Tornado says, using both hands to create a tornado behind him to throw at Twister.
"No, Tornado, we are not." Twister emphasizes his point with a punch that blocks the rubble with a wall made of air before shooting lightning at the Leaguer. Tornado dodges and takes flight, guiding the lightning to one of the crashed boats, which explodes into him knocking him to the ground as he sparks.
Twister lands beside him. "Remain still, android." all his fingertips become computer connectors which fall around the back of Red Tornado's head and neck. "The reprogramming won't take long."
Tornado grabs the wires, turning his head towards Twister before turning into M'gann's head. "Longer than you might think." her voice hers once more. "No." Twister gaps, then M'gann launches him back with her telekinesis, ripping out the wires from his hand. Into an oncoming twister, which catches the villain and sends him over her head. As it comes to a stop, Kid Flash was the one creating it, by spinning.
Superboy jumps and slams him into the ground, and rips off his arms off. Then he kicks him into the nearby Harbor, as he sinks, he turns to find Aqualad waiting for him, impaling the two points in the metal he's using into his already damaged chest area. Then his tattoos begin to glow and electricity passes into Twister.
The explosion brings him back to the surface. Miss Martian uses her telepathy to bring him up and throw him onto the ground as Robin throws exploding disks, which causes Twister to go on his knees.
The chest panel opens, revealing a man, about forty years old, with medium-length brown hair in a green and white suit. He falls out of the exo-suit and to the ground. "Foul. I﹘ I call foul." he stutters in fright.
Miss Martian steps up, an angry look in her eyes, before telekinetically reaching over to pull up a massive slab of the ground. Realizing what she's doing, Aqualad attempts to stop her, but at that point, it was already over the man. The rock hits, crushing him before their eyes. Superboy only looked on coldly, nobody noticing his uncaring attitude to somebody supposedly dyeing.
Kid Flash and Robin stand stunned before Robin gets angry and steps up to the girl. "Don't know how things are done on Mars, but on Earth, we don't execute our captives!"
M'gann seems undeterred. "You said you trust me." She lifts the boulder to reveal that he was an android, now crushed to pieces. "That's why I couldn't read his mind."
Wally steps up and grabs one of the eyeballs. "Cool. Souvenir." flicking in so he can catch it in his fist, only for Superboy to catch it and crush it in his hand. "Hey, why'd you do that!" He looks at Superboy angrily. "You were going to bring a robot's eye into our base, why'd you think I do it." This causes Kid Flash to gain a sheepish look.
"We should have had more faith in you." Kaldur tells her. "Yeah, you rocked this mission." Kid Flash agrees. When no one says anything he has to ask. "Get it? Rocked." Everybody just looks at him unamused. Robin mutters "Ignore him." Then continues in a brighter tone. "We're all just happy to have you on the Team."
M'gann chuckles. "Thanks. Me, too."
[Elsewhere]
The live feed from the eye is transmitting to a lab. A man in a blue work suit stands before the screen and a scientist in a white lab coat steps up to him. "Now, Brom, aren't you relieved I didn't let you wear the armor?"
'Brom' turns revealing he is the one the android inside the exo-suit was based on. "Extremely, Professor," he admits shakily, "but you're not upset?"
"I am," this 'Professor' says with a scowl, he's a taller man than Brom, slightly tanned with black hair and a small mustache, "but I'm convinced that the real Tornado was somewhere in the vicinity. Besides, you know science advances in fits and starts." Brom is still very tense. "Even failure can be instructive, and I'd say we learned quite a lot today."
[Mount Justice]
Inside Mount Justice, the Team is conversing with Red Tornado about the incident. "It was clearly created to sabotage or destroy you." Kaldur tells the Robot. "Agreed." Red Tornado says, looking over the pieces of the android.
"Is that why you wouldn't help us?" M'gann questions. "No. This was your battle." Tornado says simply. "I do not believe it is my role to solve your problems for you. Nor should you solve mine for me."
"But if you're in danger..." M'gann says, only for Tornado to cut her off. "Consider this matter closed." Red Tornado states then walks off.
"Batman, Aquaman, Flash, they'd all have jumped right in to fix things." Wally comments as they all stand to watch him go further into the mountain. "Guess if we're going to have a babysitter, a heartless machine is exactly what we need." Robin says.
"Dude! Harsh." Wally hisses but doesn't object to it in any other way. "And inaccurate." both boys stop dead. "I have a heart, carbon-steel alloy. I also have excellent hearing." Robin forces out a nervous chuckle. "Right. I'll strive to be... more accurate."
Kaldur grabs Robin's shoulder and brings the Boy Wonder's attention to him. "And more respectful."
"Speedy was so wrong." Wally says happily. "This Team thing..." Kaldur finishes. "Might just work out."
(Superboy POV)
Today was a day I didn't know I needed. It showed how I'm still weak compared to Superman, who could've finished the fight fast and without destruction. If I'm going to be a hero then I'll need to find ways to get stronger and better.
Entering my room, I start working on fixing the blockbuster virus. A couple of hours later, I made a bit of progress, but I can't use the equipment here. Doing so would make people ask questions and with Robin here, he would tell Batman.
I'm going to need my own base of operations and equipment, and the place I can get it from would-be Star Labs. I'll think about the finer details tomorrow, right now, I'm tired and the bed is calling my name.