It wasn't a surprise that a superhero team was informed of the situation of Kara being spied on my an unknown person of interest. Batman had informed the Outsiders through his former sidekick, Nightwing who leads the Outsiders respectively.

On Kara flying to visit the Kents on their farm, taking Y/N with her since he hadn't seen the Kents for a while, they were apprehended by Superboy aka Conner Kent, who at this time wasn't in the Titans anymore due to some complications with the team.

It was... Hostile between the Kryptonian and the cloned Kryptonian/Human Hybrid, thinking Supergirl was here to convince him to come back.

Due to this when the two fought, Kara lost her grip on Y/N and he pretty much fell to his death, later being revived by Glace which the death alone, annoyed him the slightest.

The fight was resolved when Kara broke Conner's and she fixed it, only for the Titans to randomly appear and attack them Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark) with the assistance of Raven went for Supergirl, while Beast Boy and Cyborg went for Superboy, even the Guardian was falsely attacked due to this as well, which the fight didn't end too well as he tried to resolve it all, until Robin (Tim Drake), Kid Flash (Wally West) and Outsiders member and girlfriend of Nightwing, Starfire aka Koriand'r, arrived to put a stop to the unnecessary fighting with Kori looking for Supergirl along with it.

Starfire invited Kara to join the Outsiders and work with them for a little while, due to the situation of the matter of her being spied upon by someone unknown, and they found who was behind it all...

Lex Luthor...

Thought to be dead, but clearly in hiding, he had been orchestrating it all behind the scenes, having someone spy on her... Just for his schemes alone, as paranoid as he is about a new Super in town.

Y/N was inclined he'd come too, since Kara also told him of it all as well, Starfire was intrigued nonetheless from the last time he had worked with the Outsiders on a Taken Incursion issue that required his help.

It had only been a few days since Kara had been with the Outsiders however, and currently? She's back at the HQ, doing something, despite the complaints she's vented to him about... Changing rooms every night due to the fact one of them is hooking up with another member.

At this moment however... Nightwing was out on patrol, on the lead of the perpetrator who's been doing all the spy work on Supergirl for "Mr. Luthor", alongside Y/N and his Ghost assisting the former Boy Wonder on the trail.

Meanwhile, Starfire is in the middle of monitoring the broadcasts between Lex and the now identified Noah Kuttler aka Calculator, a known criminal, still in hiding somewhere.

But with monitoring the broadcasts, Starfire managed to track a location down, allowing Nightwing to go fourth and question Noah.

With some help by his side, assistance of the Guardian.

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"So... What do we do? Bust in, guns blazing or sneak in?" Y/N asked the former Boy Wonder, as he chuckled at his question.

"Knowing this is Noah Kuttler? He'll have cameras set up all over the place which..." Nightwing ducks his head down upon spotting a camera almost spotting him. "Which I'm one-hundred percent, correct about. No way to pass through without getting detected, Noah really has outdone himself this time.

"Coming from the acrobatic Flying Grayson? Thought you were good at this undetectable stuff?" Y/N teased a question at him, only getting a stare back from Dick Grayson.

"Well... I do have gadgets but, he'll know immediately once a camera has went blind and he'll panic" Nightwing responded bluntly. "Hmm".

"I do know one way" Y/N spoke up.

"How?" Nightwing looked back at him, wondering what his suggestion would be.

"Void smoke bomb, keeps you invisible when I coat us both in it, for at least fifteen seconds max" the Guardian brought out his smoke bomb, a circular object that radiated with Void Light within.

"Neat, I could really use one of those" Dick agreed with the suggestion, obliged at most. 

"If you sacrifice your life and pray to have a Ghost come to revive you for the first time, become a Guardian, along with losing your memories? You might become a Hunter like me" he joked with Nightwing rolling his eyes under the mask.

"Yeah, yeah. Just coat us with your Void thing".

The Guardian slammed the Void smoke bomb on the ground surrounding them before they disappeared out of sight, a successful attempt.

Now the hard part...

"Great, I can see you by the Void trail, only to my eyes, not to those with the Light. Take point and we'll have our target" Y/N explained, insisting Dick take point since this was his mission, not Y/N's.

"Follow me then" Nightwing went out, praying that the camera wouldn't detect him, no effort required to sneak past the camera due to the Void smoke coating him. "You weren't wrong, this Void of yours really does come in handy!".

"Eight seconds" Y/N counted.

"Right..." Nightwing took himself serious and continued on, looking through the window to see Noah at the monitors before finding a way inside of Noah Kuttler's hideout. Through access of a vent "Through this vent".

"Great, sneaking through vents now? Great fun that is" Y/N spoke with sarcasm, not particularly a thing he'd do but nonetheless, it was the best route inside without possibly triggering any alarms.

"This is rather a different type of thing we're used to, Guardian" Glace spoke from within his pocket dimension backpack. "*garble* Best we get used to it"

No response came from the Guardian, wanting to be silent as their target could hear them within the vents that led to the room.

A simple sip from a coffee mug was heard from within the room, outside the vents. Noah kept his eyes on the monitors, awaiting a response from Luthor, unbeknownst from the intruders within the vent that led to him.

"I assure you, Mr. Kuttler, this plan of mine will work as intended, to swerve Supergirl to join my side in defeating that Boy Scout I've come to know and hate, his downfall will be my new beginning to ruling Metropolis once again".

"Well... At least the Kryptonite will make sure of it, I assume" Noah replied with a cunning stare into one of his monitors.

'Kryptonite?' Y/N thought into his head. 'Of course he has his hands on that stuff' 

"That will do for now, Noah. You've done me a great service, we shall speak next time" Lex replied, assuming he was signing off, not to Y/N or Nightwing's knowledge.

"Indeed we shall, Mr X" Noah called him by his secret alias, his cold yearned stare drifted off of the monitors for a moment as Lex tuned out of the comms between him and Noah. "Swear I heard something" Noah muttered to himself before shrugging.

Just as he got off of his seat, the ventilation bars broke down, along with a thud of a person, moving at rapid paste untoward where Noah was standing, grabbed by his shirt and tie before being slammed onto the monitors on top of his desk.

"Didn't expect me, did you?" Y/N put on a grumbly voice, enough to make the eyes bulge out of Noah upon the Guardian's unexpected arrival.

"You?! How did - -?!" before he could reply fully, Kuttler was thrown onto the ground, right beside where Nightwing dropped down from the vents.

"Hey there, Mr. Kuttler, fancy seeing you again" Dick put on a happier voice, almost proud to see him again since it had been a while.

"Nightwing?! You're working for that thing now?!" Noah pointed toward the Guardian, who looked visibly hurt under the shadow of his hood.

"Ouch, I do have feelings too" Y/N gruffly replied before Nightwing picked up the man by the collar of his shirt, forcing him to sit on the chair.

"How did you both find me?! Or even managed to get past security??!" Noah asked in shock, wondering how it was possible before he looked at the Guardian.

"Thanks to my friend here, he coated us with a special smoke bomb that made us invisible for a short amount of time, which is undetectable to cameras and heat signatures" Nightwing responded to his question. "But no more questions from you, we're here for questions"

"Or what?! You'll cut off my hand? Beat me up like Batman does?" Noah smirked, knowing it's something Nightwing doesn't necessarily do.

A smirk then appeared on the former Boy Wonder's face. "I won't..." he then looked toward the Guardian, who seemed to have his gun pulled out, the glowing red Ace on the gun showing. "But my friend here, will" he let go of the man as the Guardian loaded a new loaded cylinder into the cartridge.

Noah was inclined to even speak, but he couldn't... He's seen what this Human-like powerful being is capable of, even Lex Luthor is unsure how to deal with this powerhouse of a person, knowing he could wipe the floor with the likes of a Kryptonian and from what he had heard?

This is the man who seemingly killed Darkseid, who Lex was in contact with prior to the events of Kara's arrival to Earth.

"I don't usually enjoy doing this, but if we don't get the information we want? You better hope for a miracle that I won't go too far with how far I'd go to get the information out of you" his hand glowed with Solar Light, forming a burning knife of scorching heat, one that can permanently give a sunburn...

Or worse...

"Wh-What is it that you want from me?" Noah spoke through his teeth, gulping down some fear in his throat as the Guardian walked closer, gun in hand, scorching knife in the other.

But he had the feeling the Guardian wouldn't do what is required to get the information they wanted, Nightwing wouldn't go that far...

Right??

"Luthor's location. We want his location, now" Nightwing interrogated, he being the good cop and the Guardian being the bad cop. "We know you and Lex have been... Communicating with each other about Supergirl, don't think we've known for a few days now?" Nightwing crossed his arms, leaning against the wall.

"Our communications were on a secure line!".

"We had an edge" Grayson smirked as Y/N's Ghost appeared beside the Guardian himself.

"Of course... I almost forgot about your... Ghost" Noah spat, glaring down the Guardian.

"Give us the location of Luthor's whereabouts, that's all we're asking for" Nightwing repeated his question, still playing good cop.

"And why should I?" Noah responded with a smirk. "I owe you two nothing".

"Oh really?" Nightwing raised an eyebrow. "Guardian... He's all yours".

Noah's eyes cut straight toward Y/N who glared the man down, the blackness that hid his face under the hood made him an almost an nightmarish figure in the dark from Noah's perspective, as fear began to drip down on him.

"I'm going to count to five... And if I don't hear you spit out any information, satisfying for my needs? I'm going to place this knife onto your chest".

"You're gonna go to that extreme?" Nightwing asked him, only getting a glare back from him, he raised his hands up in surrender next.

"You won't do that... W-Won't you? I thought you were one of the good guys? The ones that don't do this type of stuff?" Y/N could sense fear in the man's voice, and it somehow made him... Smile as he holstered his gun, not needing it after all.

"*Dark chuckle* Oh you don't know me at all, Noah Kuttler, I can demonstrate how I handle business here" he pulled in the scorching knife closer to his shirt. "And if I'm being honest? I have went to extreme lengths to complete an objective, can't say this is the first time" he edged the knife closer as Noah began to feel the heat of the knife through his shirt, not to stab him but to press the blunt edge onto his chest. "You have been spying on someone I call a close friend, probably the first close friend I've made here and hearing she's been spied on by the likes of you and Luthor? Oh that makes my blood boil, I may not be Batman but if you don't tell me about Luthor's location, I'll be very... Angry. You don't want to see me, angry..." Y/N growled slightly, 

His face began to heat up, sweat beginning to build up as his eyes darted from the knife to the Guardian who only kept his glare onto Noah.

"One... Two..." he began to count, time running short for Noah as his eyes indulged on the blade. "Four - -!"

"Monument Valley!!" Noah sputtered out, closing his eyes in fear as he felt the knife inches away from his chest. 

"What?" Nightwing walked up toward Noah, held in place by Y/N still.

"He said Monument Valley" Glace repeated for Nightwing before looking back at her Guardian. "Uh Y/N, we have the information. You can let go of him now".

"There's something else I want to know" he still kept the knife inches from Noah's chest.

"A-Anything you want, just please don't use that knife on me!!" Noah begged within the mercy of the unpredictable Guardian, music to his ears alone.

"The attacks on the Hoover Dam, the Eiffel Tower and Air Force One? Were they orchestrated by Luthor?!" Y/N raised his voice, growling at most as Nightwing looked genuinely surprised, thinking the Guardian was putting on a Batman impression.

"Y-Yes! It was orchestrated by Mr. Luthor to lure Supergirl out, he wanted to test how she handled certain situations!" Noah quickly sputtered out.

"Thank you" Y/N said before his knife disappeared and a punch was sent across the man's face, knocking out Noah cold as Nightwing looked somewhat impressed.

"For someone who hasn't done interrogation work? You did a great job" he patted the Guardians back who in turn looked at him.

"We have what we need, let's get this criminal to the authorities and make our way back with the information" Y/N brushed off the compliment, picking up the man and putting him over his shoulders with ease. "Glace, shut down the security".

"Already on it" Glace responded.

"It sounds as if this was very personal to you" Nightwing commented on Y/N's close contact with Supergirl. "You two seem very close with each other".

"Trust me, Wing... We are, she calls me her 'best friend', something I haven't had in a while... Since Cayde's death" Y/N responded briefly. "I'd do anything for her, she's special".

"Sounds... Romantic" Dick smirked, causing the Guardian to groan slightly.

"We're not... Involved like that, we're just best friends... Nothing more" Y/N grimly replied, already tired of Nightwing's teases. "I can see why Bruce can't tolerate you much anymore".

"Hey! It ain't because of that!" Nightwing frowned. "I split from him because I had grown, it happens to us when we grow older, not because of who I am".

"Whatever you say, Wing... Whatever you say..."

* *

Outsiders Headquarters, USA

"I leave you idiots alone for a few hours to head on a mission with Y/N and his Ghost - - And we come back to see you all play 'Let's Kill Supergirl'?" Nightwing caught one of his batons he had thrown toward a hidden Roy Harper aka Arsenal who had hid on top of the metal planks with a sniper he had fired at Supergirl, but missed due to Nightwing interfering last minute, the bullet containing liquid green Kryptonite to subdue Kara.

Seemingly a sparring session had went off, trash talk was thrown, Grace Choi was encased in ice from Kara's arctic breath and Thunder aka Anissa Pierce was within a hole made out of a perfect circle, caused by Kara's heat vision.

"There was nothing good on TV" Grace issued an excuse, now freed from the ice she was stuck within.

"Dude, that hurt" Roy complained, holding his head as he held his sniper in his other hand.

"Dude, it was supposed to" Nightwing bluntly replied with an unamused look.

"Alright Kara, let's uh... Get you out of those Kryptonite infused shackles, dunno how you managed to break through them though" Y/N approached the smiling Girl of Steel.

"Uh-Huh" she replied, her smile and eyes still focused on Y/N.

"You didn't get hurt, right?" Thunder asked Supergirl from behind, climbing out of the hole Kara lasered around her.

"Nuh-Uh" she only replied, still her gaze focused on her best friend.

"Crap, uh... Wing? You got something I can get these shackles off of her for?" Y/N asked the former Boy Wonder as he tossed a lockpick, in the shape of his own insignia.

Kara happily watched as the Guardian profusely began working on the shackles to unbind upper wrists from, seemingly knowing how to lockpick.

"How'd you know how to lockpick?" Nightwing asked as the group now recovered, approached.

"Learned it during the Red War when I had to hide from Red Legion forces after I lost my Light" Y/N briefly explained.

"Red War?" Thunder asked.

"Long story" he then replied as he got off the last shackle off of Kara's wrist as she held onto his hand, still staring at him with a smile. "This a staring contest, Kara?" he then questioned her, smirking a little.

"Only if you want it to be" she bit her tongue within her mouth.

"Haha, you're on".

"Ugh, is it Valentines Day yet? Because you two need a room" Grace responded to Y/N and Kara's conversation, instantly catching onto Kara's flirtatious comment.

The instant it was said, Kara's cheeks immediately turned pink, a little shade of red appeared soon after before looking away in embarrassment.

"Aha! I won!" a celebratory tone came from the Guardian.

"No fair! Grace..." Kara stopped herself as she looked away in shyness again, looking upon Grace next. "And we're just best friends, nothing more".

"Uh-Huh. Best friends don't flirt with each other".

"Enough dilly dallying" Nightwing got everyone's attention as someone else joined in next, in the form of Starfire.

"I'm not interrupting, am I?" Kori asked as she floated on down.

"Nope, just came back from our little talk with Noah Kuttler. Lex is in Monument Valley, so to speak".

"Good, because I caught the second half of the broadcast signal, thanks to Y/N's Ghost's assistance on the matter earlier. Same location. Utah, Monument Valley" Starfire responded.

"That's where Lex is hiding, he's expecting trouble soon" Y/N commented next.

"Then I know where I'm going" Kara suddenly spoke, placing her hands on her hips to strike a power pose. "And this is something I have to do alone".

"Wrong" Nightwing interrupted. "This is Luthor we're talking about, someone who is as dangerous as he sounds, went toe to toe with your cousin numerous and almost killed him a few times at best, this isn't your problem to fix. And it never works out" Nightwing's tone turned serious with Kara, hoping to get through to her at least about this. "The Outsiders can't let that happen, and I can't let that happen".

Kara smiled upon Nightwing's words, it was no wonder why he was favorited by so many people, why he's team leader of the Outsiders. He has a big heart.

"I also agree" Y/N commented next. "Remember when I told you about rushing into a fight without a second thought? That it could get you hurt? Worse case scenario? It could get you killed. You must always have an edge, not everything can be solved alone, Kara" Y/N placed his hands on her shoulders. "I've been there, I thought I could take on threats alone... But I couldn't. When Guardians work together, a Fireteam is unstoppable" he finished speaking as Kara's smile turned big before a small chuckle escaped her.

"You are so sweet, you know that?" she drew herself closer and planted an unexpected kiss on his cheek, surprising him as he blushed pink. "Eh... That was a platonic kiss on the cheek, not a romantic kiss, don't get any funny ideas!" Kara immediately spurred out.

"Uh-Huh" Grace replied, arms crossed, not taking the information as the truth.

"Never mind that right now, we've got bigger problems" Nightwing broke up the gaffs.

"Wait, hang on" Y/N spoke out as his Ghost appeared. "What is it?".

"I'm patching you through to the Watchtower communications, it's Barry and he seems urgent" Glace replied, doing her magic before a voice came through.

"Of course it is" he rolled his eyes before Glace put him through. "What's the issue?"

"Hey, Y/N. It's Flash... Uh... That Shard thingy, it's done something unexpected within the lab when we had scientists run some tests on it, uh... You mind coming up here to uh... Diagnose this... Situation??" Barry sounded as if something went wrong, like a student screwing up at a science lab in high school after putting in the wrong requirements.

"I'll be there" he lastly spoke before tuning out, turning to the Outsiders. "I can't go ahead with this uh... Mission of going after Luthor with you lot".

"Why?" Thunder asked curiously.

"He's needed on the Watchtower, Shard of Light related" Kara answered.

"Being nosey again, aren't you?" Y/N tutted.

"Can't help it" she shrugged.

"Anyways... Keep me informed of the situation, and please... Please be careful, I won't be with you on this one. You've proven that you can handle yourself, now you're with a team. Listen to Nightwing's orders and don't disobey them" he said before leaning in. "[Whispering] unless it's necessary not to" he smiled before pulling away and winking at her, getting her to smile. "The rest of you, good luck. And Eyes Up" a simple wave was given out before he transmatted out.

"I don't know why but... Every time he does that? It's sooooo satisfying" Thunder gushed.

"Tell me about it..." Kara replied with a smile.

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To be continued...

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