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I am obsessing over my plan for this story. I tend to do that. Hyper focus on one story. I did the same thing with Emancipation.
Mount Justice
July 18, 11:16 EDT
Recognize Robin B01
Recognize Kid Flash B03
Kid Flash and Robin came running into the main part of the mountain where the rest of the team was standing before the holographic computer, staring at a map.
"Did you ask him?" Robin inquired eagerly.
"What did he say?" Kid Flash added, bouncing on his toes.
"He's arriving now." Aqualad smiled at their enthusiasm.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Kid Flash ran towards one of the mountain exits, the rest of the team in tow. A giant door collapsed inward to create a ramp, allowing the six teens to run up it. They stood at the edge of the ramp, watching as Red Tornado flew in from above. Kid Flash waved. "Red Tornado!"
"Greetings. Is there a reason you intercept me outside the cave?" Red Tornado's voice was robotic and monotone as he stared at the six teens.
"We hoped you had a mission for us." Aqualad explained.
"Mission assignments are the Batman's responsibility."
"But its been over a week." Robin complained.
"You'll be tested soon enough. For the time being, simply enjoy each other's company." Red Tornado raised a hand to calm Robin.
"This team is not a social club." Aqualad glared at the android. The rest of the teens nodded.
"No. But I am told social interaction is an important team building exercise." Red Tornado began to walk past them. "Perhaps you can keep busy by familiarizing yourselves with the cave."
"Keep busy." Kid Flash punched Robin's shoulder.
"Does he think we're falling for this?"
"Ooh I'll find out." Miss Martian turned to look at the Justice Leaguer as he walked into the mountain, trying to get a mental read on him. "I-I'm sorry, I forgot, he's a machine. Inorganic. I cannot read his mind."
"Nice try though. So, you know what I'm thinking of right now?" Kid Flash leaned in to Miss Martian.
"We all know what you're thinking now." Quicksilver rolled his eyes at his teammate.
"And now we tour the clubhouse." Aqualad declared.
"Well, half of us live here. We can play tour guides." Miss Martian offered.
"Don't look at me." Quicksilver and Superboy said at the same time.
"That's all you, Miss Martian." Quicksilver added.
"So, this would be our front door." Miss Martian began, the group following behind. They toured the entire place, Kid Flash mentioning that the mountain was hollowed out and reinforced by Green Lantern and Superman during the League's early days.
"Why would they trade it in for a tourist trap?" Superboy asked.
"The cave's location was compromised."
"So if villains know of our location we must be on constant alert." Miss Martian mumbled.
"The bad guys know we know they know about the place so they'd never think to look here." Robin reassured her, putting his hand on hers.
"Uh, what he means to say is we're hiding in plain sight." Kid Flash put his hand on Robin's both of them pulling away.
"Ah, that's much clearer."
Superboy sniffed the air. "I smell smoke."
Miss Martian gasped. "My cookies." She took off flying, the rest of the group chasing after her. She pulled out the cookies using her telekinesis, placing them on the counter. "I was trying out Grammy Joan's recipe from episode seventeen of....haha, never mind."
"I bet they'd have tasted great." Robin reassured her. They heard crunching and looked over to see Kid Flash and Quicksilver munching on the cookies. "They don't seem to mind."
"I have a serious metabolism." They responded at the same, turning to look at each other suspiciously.
"I'll...make more?" Miss Martian offered.
"It was sweet of you to make any."
"Thanks Aqualad."
"We're off duty, call me Kaldur'ahm. Actually, my friends call me Kaldur." He smiled at her.
"Uh, I'm Wally. See, I already trust you with my secret I.D." Wally gestured to Robin. "Unlike Mr. Dark Glasses over here. Batman has forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name."
Robin glared at him.
"Mines no secret. Its M'gann M'orzz." She turned to look at Quicksilver. "What is your name?"
Quicksilver paused, hesitating slightly before speaking. "...Pietro. Pietro Maximoff."
Superboy started to walk away.
Don't worry Superboy. We'll find you an Earth name too.
Superboy glared at M'gann. "Get out of my head!"
What's wrong? I-I don't understand. Everyone on Mars communicates telepathically.
Kaldur, Wally, and Robin all grabbed their heads, wincing at the feeling of having a telepath in their head.
"M'gann, stop." Kaldur commanded. "Things are different on Earth. Here your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."
"I-I didn't me-"
"Just. Stay. Out." Superboy glared, walking out of the room. It was quiet for a moment before M'gann announced she knew what to do. She started to fly out of the room, everyone following. She back tracked to ask Superboy to come. "Don't talk to me."
Eventually the group made it down to the hangar, M'gann announcing her Martian bioship. Everyone stared at the strange shaped object, unsure. "Cute, not aerodynamic, but cute."
"Its at rest, silly. I'll wake it." M'gann held her hand out and the ship transformed from a ball into a more ship like shape. Everyone stared in awe as she spun it around and opened the hatch, walking towards it. "Well? Are you coming?"
Inside the ship five chairs appeared around the perimeter and one in the middle with a control panel in front of it. M'gann told them to strap in for launch and asked Red Tornado to open the bay doors.
They flew out over the water, flying high into the sky. Kaldur was talking to Superboy about perhaps apologizing to M'gann while Robin and Wally were letting M'gann know that Superboy will come around.
"Hey, how about showing us some Martian shapeshifting?" Robin asked after a minute.
M'gann stood up and transformed herself into a female Robin, everyone expressing amazement. A minute later she transformed into a female Pietro and then into Wally.
"Is it wrong that I think I'm hot?" Wally asked, a dreamy look on his face.
"You do realize you said that out loud, right?" Pietro stared at Wally in puzzlement. Wally just nodded.
They spent a few minutes asking M'gann about her skills before she put the ship in camouflage mode. An alert came in from Red Tornado about a fire at Happy Harbor power plant. He sent over coordinates. Robin complained that they were being kept busy and M'gann stated that a fire led them to Pietro and Superboy, so what was the harm in investigating.
"I think I know what triggered the alert." Superboy pointed at a twister headed their way.
They got swept up in the tornado despite M'gann's best piloting efforts, being thrown out moments later. M'gann lowered the ship and they jumped out. Kaldur asked Robin if tornadoes were common to New England but Robin had vanished.
They all ran inside to see Robin get thrown against a wall. Superboy leapt at the perpetrator, a red android with a scarf around his neck. He announced himself as Mister Twister before throwing two twisters at Superboy, the teen getting bashed into a wall.
Wally sped at the android only to get tossed aside, the same thing happening to Kaldur and M'gann. Robin looked to Pietro "What was it you do again?"
"Seriously? My name is Quicksilver and you are asking what I do?"
"The sass doesn't give me much to work with!" Robin yelled, throwing explosives at Mister Twister while the android monologued about being challenged by children.
"I find your presence disturbing."
"Well let's see if you're more turbed after we kick your can!"
M'gann used her telekinesis to drop a machine from the ceiling onto the android, Superboy using the distraction to jump at him. Twister threw them all away as they kept running directly at him, leaving them in a pile of bodies. Twister went to fly out of the building only for Pietro to speed around him, knocking him back by the force he created. Twister was stunned for only a moment before he tossed Quicksilver to the side as well, exiting the building and leaving the team to come to their senses and run after him.
"M'gann, read his mind."
"But I thought-"
"Its okay with the bad guys!"
"Hello, Megan! Mister Twister is Red Tornado in disguise." M'gann explained how both were red androids who could generate tornadoes. Robin added that it was Red Tornado who sent them there after saying they would be tested soon enough.
They approached the android and yelled at him to end it. He began to generate a massive storm. "An impressive show, but we will not indulge. We will not engage."
"Uh, can Tornado do that?" Pietro asked as lightning flashed.
"You think I'm Tornado? Ironic." A bolt of lightning sent everyone but Superboy flying backwards. He leapt up only to be sent back by another bolt of lightning, crashing to the ground and passing out. Mister Twister flew closer, lightning crackling. He went to send a bolt but stopped when M'gann moved the bioship in front of the team, concealing them.
Superboy yelled at her once Mister Twister left, saying she tricked them.
"It was a rookie mistake." Robin shrugged. "At least she did something, unlike this one." He pointed at Pietro.
"What are you talking about? I helped about as much as everyone else here and we still got out butts handed to us." Pietro snarled.
"What are you even doing here, huh? Are you actually here to help or are you here to be a smart mouth?"
Pietro stepped forward, about to growl something else until Wally stepped between them. "Hey, how bout you and Miss M hit the showers, we'll take it from here, yeah?"
The duo watched as Kaldur, Superboy, Robin, and Wally ran off, leaving them in the dust. They boarded the bioship, calling Red Tornado while the majority of their team fought Mister Twister.
"The team really needs your help." M'gann told Tornado, Pietro grumbling in the corner.
"If I intervened, it would not be to help. Still, it is odd that another android shares my elemental abilities and my immunity to telepathy."
"Hello, Megan!" She turned to Pietro, telling him of her plan.
She flew in, disguised as Red Tornado, telling the other four to head back. They argued for moment but ultimately conceded. She fought with Twister for a moment before falling. Twister approached, USB cords extending from his fingers to attach into her head. "Stay still. The reprogramming won't take long."
"Longer than you might think." She ripped the cords out, sending Twister flying towards Wally and Pietro, who were the spinning twisters she used to fake Tornadoes powers. They flung him to Superboy, who punched him around a bit before sending him into the water, where Kaldur hit him with an electrified anchor back onto dry land.
M'gann lifted him into the air, ripping his arm off. Robin sent explosives at him, sending him careening back to the ground. The team approached the kneeling android as the chest opened and a man fell out. "Foul. I-I call foul."
M'gann floated a boulder over the man's head and dropped it, crushing him underneath.
"I don't know what you do on Mars, but on Earth we don't kill our prisoners." Robin growled at Miss Martian.
"I thought you trusted me." M'gann lifted the boulder off the man, revealing a crushed android beneath. "That was why I couldn't read his mind."
Wally sped up and picked up the eyeball that had popped out of place, declaring it a souvenir.
Mount Justice
After the briefing with Red Tornado, Kaldur, Wally, and Robin left to head to their homes, leaving M'gann, Superboy, and Pietro to mill about the mountain. Superboy looked to M'gann, giving her a soft, one word apology for his behavior. She smiled in return.
Pietro left the two of them in the main corridor, heading towards his room. He stepped inside, locking the door behind him. Taking a few steps into the room, the lights turned on and Pietro grinned, turning to see a brunette girl sitting on the desk in his room, a small smile of her own on her face. She leapt off the desk and ran to Pietro, the two of them embracing tightly.
I've missed you, Wanda. How are things on the other side?
Wanda sighed.
I don't have much time with you, brat najdrahší. I am already pushing the limits by being here. Who knows how long I can go undetected by the Martian? It is taking a considerable amount of my power to conceal our link and my presence from her.
Pietro nodded, pulling his sister closer.
I worry about you, sestra.
You worry about me? I am fine. I worry about you. You have the more dangerous task. Who knows what will happen if you are found out?
Let's make sure that doesn't happen then.
I've got to go.
You just got here.
I know, but my window to slip out is closing. Remember, Pietro, this is only for a little while longer. Then we will be united once more.
The twins embraced again before Wanda stepped out of her brother's arms, slipping out of the room and making her way out of the mountain undetected.
Pietro sank onto his bed, his hands entangled in his hair as he whispered to himself. "What have you gotten us into, sestra?"
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