Central Park
Earth-12041
June 3 13:45 EDT

"Speaking of Hydra," a voice calls from in front of them. "We need you two come with us."

Kaldur sets down the comic book, sees two individuals standing in front of him and Superboy.

One has dark skin and is dressed in yellow.

The other is fairskinned and wears a green tunic-like costume with a dragon on his chest.

Conner glares at them and growls, "We aren't going--"

"Sup-- Conner... Please," Kaldur interrupts, doing his best to keep the quick to anger Kryptonian from creating a scene.

...Again.

"Your willingness," the dark-skinned one says as he pounds his fists together, "is not required."

"Please," the Atlantian implores. "We do not wish to cause you any harm."

"If that is so," the pale-skin one considers, "then perhaps you should come peacefully, or there will be consequences."

Superboy stands and glares angrily at the two strange individuals. He ignores the conversation between Aqualad and the guy with the dragon tattoo, and continues to glare at the dark skinned guy with the rad shades. He feels that this is a trap, and lashes out.

Superboy punches Powerman and sends him flying into a tree.

In response, Iron Fist's hands glow as he throw a punch at Superboy, only to have it stopped by the twin swords created by Aqualad's water-barers.

The Atlantian pushes back, causing Iron Fist to withdraw his attack.

Aqualad pursues him further into the park.
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Powerman pushes himself out of the small crater, only to come face to face with an angry half-Kryptonian, whom picks up the hurting hero and hurls him into a tree.

"Oh! It's on, now!" Powerman shouts, as he charges at Superboy with his fist.

The punch catches Superboy off gaurd, and he skids back a couple of feet. He growls and catches the second and third ones, and pushes back. The force exerted causes the ground underneath Powerman to give, and his feet dig into the soil as he is pushed back by the angry brute.

Sweet Christmas! This guy is stronger than Hulk!! Powerman exclaims mentally.

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Iron Fist tries hard to land a punch.

But Aqualad keeps blocking them with his swords.

"We do not wish to harm you," Aqualad grunts, holding off Iron Fist's attack.

"Funny," Iron Fist smiles. "I was about to say the same thing."

The skilled martial artist sweeps the Atlantian's legs, causing Aqualad lead to fall and spill the reservoir on his back. Aqualad's swords fail to form from the lack of water.

Aqualad backflips to avoid his attacker's "iron fists". Which bury themselves into the pavement.

Danny growls as he searches for his fleeing opponent. Luke lands next to him in a cloud of dust.

"Ouch," Powerman groans. "Man... That guy can throw a punch. I think he might have bruised my ribs."

"My opponent was a tough one as well," Iron Fist adds. "For he's highly agile and trained in some sort of mystical arts. He had swords made of water."

"Now that's just crazy," Luke replies.

There is a loud boom as Superboy lands behind the pair and next to Aqualad. The two teen Marvels turn around and face their opponents.

"This is your last chance," Aqualad declares frustratedly. "Surrender now or face your doom."

Luke looks on nervously, but quickly steels his composure, as Iron Fist makes their intentions clear with just one word.

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"No."

Aqualad sighs.

"I wish that we could have avoided this," he says reluctantly.

The Atlantian reaches behind himself and draws out his water-bearers. His turns and faces the pond behind him and Superboy, and hollers as he uses all of his strength and mystical ability to create a large serpent out of the water from the pond.

The serpent towers over the small group, as Aqualad turns to faces his opponents. A terrifying look of determination and anger covers his face.

"Sweet Christmas!" Luke exclaims at the sight of the large water serpent, which is over three stories tall!

Superboy takes a step forward.

"Last chance," the Krytonian growls.

Both Fist and Luke take a step back in fear.

Aqualad is about to drown--more like crush--them with the serpent, when a new figure lands in the middle of the group.

When the dust clears, the figure stands revealing that they are clad in an armored suit, a face-plate hiding their face.

"In the name of the Supernatural Weapons and Ordinance Retrieval Division of the Department of Homeland Security, I order you all to stand down, immediately," the figure commands in a strong, female voice. "Or you will be charged under the penalty of Federal Law."

Kaldur slowly retreats the serpent as his face changes from that of determination to that of shock; for, he knows the voice of this armor clad stranger.

"Karen....?" he asks weakly and confused.

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A/n:

Hello boys!!! (and girls) I'mmmmmm ba-aaaccckkkk!!!!!

I know I said a week, but...ya know...life happens. I got a new job, I was sick, and I went on another family trip. I was also busy RP-ing with a couple users as my new OC, Karma (A.K.A. Karen Graves)--whose alternate just made a cameo appearance at the end of this chapter.

[As a side note, for anyone interested in learning more about her, check out her chapter, Karma in my book "Snippets and Skits".]

I've also started rewriting some of my other books, so you can check those out if you'd like.

Anyway, the main reason I've finished this part is because School is starting back up next week, and I probably won't be on here as much. But, that doesn't mean that I won't be working on this or any of my other books. It will just take awhile to update, that's all.

Well...that's all I have to say. If you liked it, then please vote and comment. And if you didn't like it, comment anyway. I need the criticism is the story is going to get better.

And as always, stay tune for the next part. Which will either be Nova facing off against three girls or Kaldur arguing with his girlfriend's alternate.

Bah - bye!!