P.O.V ROBIN
The man full of hate and anger rips up much of the ground in front of him and throws it towards Speedy, Aqualad covers him by turning his whips into a very sharp sword that cuts the stone in two pieces.
Speedy fires a smoke arrow to distract him, giving us time to gather.
“The cave is perfect it has everything the team will need, Robin already checked the system, and Kid Flash explored the whole cave there's room for everyone,” said Kaldur.
“The system is perfect for covert missions, plus Batman left us some equipment needed for the missions, almost like spy gear.”
“Expect to see Superboy and Miss Martian, but watch out I saw her first, so don't get confused bro,” said Kid Flash.
While we were talking, the dealer came out of the smoke layer with another big chunk of dirt just ripped out of the ground and threw it towards us.
Aqualad reacts in time and reconverts his weapons into two sledgehammers and smashes him to pieces with no problem.
Speedy fires a few explosive arrows straight at the dealer's chest, but they don't do anything to him this man is very resilient and it's obvious he's very strong.
“Green Arrow shouldn't send boys to do men's work.” says the leader of the dealers.
Speedy reloads his bow with a different arrow than the ones he had seen before, the dealer does nothing but stand still and spread his arms from side to side, almost provocatively with a smile on his face.
“Go ahead, shoot boy, or you don't have the guts to kill me."- the defiant tone of the dealer, made me believe that for a moment he had provoked speedy.
He quickly shoots, for a moment I think it was an arrow capable of killing him, but it was not so something much smaller flies out of the arrow and sticks in the chest of the dealer, from it comes out a kind of liquid that gradually freezes as it expands throughout the body of the dealer.
“High-density polystyrene arrow, great, you should put it in your kit Robin it's very useful.” - says Wally
“Speedy, you in?"- asks kaldur.
Speedy turned his back to him and after a moment of silence decided to speak.
“ I'll pass, I'm sick of that arrow and the league telling me what to do, I don't need a babysitter let alone a club to hang out with other kids, your juvenile justice league is a joke, an invention solely designed to keep you busy and in your place, and I don't want to be part of that.”
Silence floods the place after those cold words. Seconds later Speedy disappears and we take care of the arms dealer along with his remaining gang that arrived as reinforcements.
Mount Justice 18 July, 11:16
P.O.V SUPERBOY
“Recognized Robin b01... Flash b03 child”.
The voice reporting people entering the secret base through the z-Tubes or any of the entrances is very useful, at least it keeps us on our toes for any intruders not registered in the database.
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Now we are all gathered at the base, it looks like someone important is coming, I'm usually not aware of what's going on outside unless it's group meetings like right now, though not Megan, Krypto, and I, we didn't know if he was coming.
“What if you ask him kaldur?” - Wally asks intensely.
“Yes, I already communicated..."- kaldur answers exhausted.
“And what did he say, what are we all supposed to do here?” - Robin asks.
“According to his report, he said he's arriving right now."- answers Kaldur.
“So what are we waiting for, the last one to arrive is a rotten egg” - said Wally with a smile on his face.
“Wally is still a kid"- says Robin with a bit of superiority.
“I think it's funny, so don't hang back, guys.” - Megan says as she flies further and further away.
“No fair Martian girl, you can fly!"- shouts Robin as he takes off running along with them.
The main entrance of the mountain opens and a red tornado arrives moments later at the base, it's incredible to see that a robot can generate a tornado in such a controlled way, plus he can fly with them, incredibly, I also read a little about him in the archives, Red Tornado was created and sometime later he joined the league, although he had to remain deactivated for safety and that later if he entered as one of the members of the league, he seems emotionally distant. I once heard Robin call him a “heartless machine” which is obvious with his all-metal armor, or well... whatever material that is.
“Red Tornado!”
“Greetings kid Flash, also to you, girl and dog, tell me, is there any reason why you intercepted me outside the cave?”.
“We were all hoping you had a mission for us, it's been a week now"- says Robin excitedly.
“Robin The mission assignment is Batman's responsibility, You will be put to the test very soon, for the time being, enjoy each other's company.”
“This team is not a social club, we are here to accomplish missions."- kaldur steps forward and speaks firmly.
“You are right Aqualad it is not, but I have been told that social interaction is important for team building, perhaps you should keep yourselves busy familiarizing yourselves with the cave and its new members”.
Red Tornado proceeds to enter without another word, as he enters the base the acknowledgment voice soon sounds.
“Acknowledged Red Tornado 16”
Moments later he proceeds to fly straight to a hatch on the top side of the mountain, which gives direct passage to his “room”, I wonder what he opens in there?
“Keeping busy, does he think we don't know what he's doing, if only I could hack into his database, but Batman won't let me.”
“I'll find out.”
Megan takes a few steps in front of us and extends her hand in the direction of red tornado, if he can read minds, like he told us, I think he should be aware that he's a robot and shouldn't have a conscience.
“I'm sorry there's nothing it's an inorganic machine I can't read its mind,” says Megan a little discouraged.
“But it was a nice try, you're great... if you can read anyone's mind then do you know what I'm thinking right now?"- Wally insists flirting with her.
“We all know what you're thinking Wally, leave her alone.” - says Robin as he walks to the center of the mountain along with the others.
“well I guess we'll visit the clubhouse for now, what do Wally and Robin say?” - Kaldur exclaims as he looks at all of us as a group.
“We already explored the whole cave on the first day.... “ - says Wally a bit bored.
“So it's just us, Kaldur” - says Robin.
“well, superboy and I live here we can act as guides"- expresses Megan incredibly cheerful.
“I'm not good as a guide, so don't look at me.”
Although I don't want to sound hateful, it's very true, I had a hard time relating to people earlier in my life, I just wanted to run from situations where I could get some attention from people, I ran from that because I never liked to get attention because I knew that if they knew me I would only cause pity.
“then I will be your guide, Megan welcomes you to our base in Mount Justice"- says Megan again with a smile drawn on her face as she flies.
This girl is without a doubt very cheerful, she is always willing to do something for the team, and even though she has been here for a short time, she has related more than me with them.
“you don't come, Wally, you heard that Megan will be our guide, if you don't come Robin will take advantage” - kaldur provokes Wally to accompany us, and it seems that by his expression he is succeeding.
“Shut up Kaldur, but .... well now that I think about it that day I missed some areas to explore, besides a private
Explore, plus a private excursion sounds like fun.”
“What, he never said private, we're a team, we'll all go together.” - says Kaldur.
“just have fun kaldur, you don't have to be so serious,” says Robin.
“Well then I'll start with the tour, So... this would be our gateway, the cave is the whole mountain"- says Megan as she flies around.
“Batman said Superman and Green Lantern deepened and strengthened it in the early days of the League."- says Robin as we all look at how big everything is in general.
Just imagining two men doing all this work is amazing, definitely otherworldly, but I wonder...
“So why did they abandon it for another base?”.
“Well Superboy the thing is that the location of the cave was in danger, So they made the Hall of Justice a distraction."- Robin answers me.
“Wow, so the villains know about the cave, we should be on alert!” - Megan exclaims with a look of surprise and distress.
“Don't worry princess they know we know, so they won't think to look in here.” -says Wally with a somber yet humorous tone.
“What Wally means is that we're hiding in plain sight."- replies Robin.
“That's much clearer, thank you, Robin."- completes Wally sarcastically.
It smells like burning, something is burning, and it doesn't seem to be an attack, the cave would have already warned about it, but apparently, no one else has noticed....
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