Ficool

Chapter 4 - Chapter IV

Mount Justice, Happy Harbor, 11:16 AM.

July 18th, 2010.

 

Perseus stood relaxed at the edge of the arena, his limbs brimming with magical energy while staring down Superboy at the other end. Aqualad and M'gann were watching on the sidelines

 

"So…" Perseus started with a smirk, "You ready for round 2?"

 

Superboy grunted, "You bet."

 

Neither of them moved, patiently waiting for the other to make the first move then, losing his patience, Superboy launched himself at Perseus performing the same attack he used in their last spar. Instead of dodging this time however, Perseus swung his hand as if he was holding something and a silver electric whip appeared out of thin air wrapping around Superboy's arm stunning him for a moment before he grabbed onto the whip and yanking Perseus towards him clothes-lining him.

 

As this was happening, the cave announced the new arrivals with an echo, Recognized: Robin, B-01; Kid Flash, B-03. They ran straight toward Aqualad with excitement etched on their faces.

 

"Did you ask him?" Robin asked, ignoring Perseus combo-ing Superboy with fire enhanced fists

 

"What did he say?" Kid Flash asked, watching Superboy grab Perseus by the leg and slamming him onto the ground relentlessly.

 

Turning away from fight Aqualad says, "He's arriving now."

 

"Then what are we waiting for?" Kid Flash asks, running to meet up with Red Tornado with Robin and Aqualad following close behind.

 

M'gann turned back to the fight and shouted, "Good luck Superboy!" As Perseus kicks a stream of fire at Superboy's eyes, followed up by igniting fire beneath his feet to propel himself at Superboy and entering another combo nearly making Superboy fall out of the arena.

 

M'gann cringed before making her way over to the others.

 

Sometime later…

 

Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Robin made it back with M'gann leading them. Once they entered the room they met a smiling, albeit burnt, Superboy and a frowning Perseus holding his ice-covered hand to the side of his face.

 

Robin and Kid Flash immediately burst into fits of laughter looking at Perseus, "I- I guess Supey won!" Kid Flash barely managed out.

 

Perseus grumbled, "He got lucky."

 

"Not my fault you left yourself open to that punch." Superboy grinned earning the 'bird' from Perseus.

 

"Well, since the both of you are done do you want to join us on our tour of the cave?" M'gann asks.

 

Perseus looked at Superboy and shrugged, "What's the harm."

 

M'gann's face brightened, "Alright!" She gestures to the room, "This is the training room." She walked away with everyone following behind. "And this would be the back entrance; the cave is actually the entire mountain."

 

They made their way to another room with a small lake of water, "It was hollowed out and reinforced by Superman and Green Lantern in the early days of the League." Kid Flash commented.

 

"Then why abandon it for the Hall of Justice?" Superboy asked.

 

And Aqualad delivered the answer, "The cave's secret location was compromised."

 

"So, they traded it for a tourist trap?" Superboy quirked a brow, "Yeah. That makes sense."

 

"If villains know of the cave, we must be on constant alert." M'gann said.

 

"Not really," Perseus said thinking about it, "Why would they think we would go back to a compromised area? It's like we're-"

 

Robin pitched in, "Hiding in plain sight? Exactly."

 

Superboy sniffs a bit, "I smell smoke."

 

M'gann gasps, "My cookies!" Before flying as quickly as possible to the kitchen. Once everyone caught up to her, they saw her placing a pan full of charcoal on the table. "I was trying out grammy Jones recipe from episode 17 of—" She pauses, "Uh, nevermind."

 

Robin smiles, "I bet they'd tasted great." He turns to Kid Flash smirking now, "He doesn't seem to mind."

 

Kid Flash is stuffing his face with the burnt cookies, "Uh, I have a serious metabolism."

 

Perseus picks one up curiously, "Are they that good?" He tosses one in his mouth then he starts coughing violently and spitting up the charcoal. "W-water." He begs as Aqualad hands him a glass of it.

 

M'gann looks embarrassed, "Maybe I should make some more?" She turns to Perseus, "I promise not to burn it this time." He gives her a thumbs up whilst chugging the water.

 

"It was sweet of you to make any." Aqualad says.

 

M'gann smiles, "Thanks, Aqualad."

 

"We're off duty. Call me Kaldur'ahm." He says, "Actually, my friends call me Kaldur."

 

"I'm Wally. See I already trust you with my secret I.D.," Wally smiles, leaning over the table and pointing at Robin. "Unlike Mr. Dark Glasses over here, Batman's forbidden Boy Wonder from telling anyone his real name."

 

"Mine's no secret! You can call me M'gann M'orzz." She says with a bright smile. "But you can call me Megan. It's an Earth name, and I'm on Earth now."

 

Perseus, now trying to use magic on the burnt cookie to not avail, speaks up, "If calling me Perseus too much of a mouthful you could just call me Perse."

 

Superboy gets up and leave but he pauses and turns to M'gann angrily, "Get out of my head!"

 

Everyone turns to M'gann and suddenly her voice is heard in Perseus' mind, "What's wrong? I don't understand. Everyone on Mars communicate telepathically."

 

"M'gann, stop!" Kaldur says firmly. "Things are different on Earth. Here, your powers are an extreme invasion of privacy."

 

"Besides, Cadmus' creepy little psychic genomes left a bad taste in his brain." Wally informed.

 

"I-I didn't mean to—" M'gann tries to apologize.

 

Superboy growls, "Just stay out." And walks off.

 

"People talking in your mind is bad?" Perseus thinks of Mind Perse and shrugs.

 

M'gann looked down before her eyes flashed with an idea, "Hello Megan! I know what we can do." And without further explanation she flies off.

 

Robin shrugs and everyone follows her, but she returns to the kitchen and asks Superboy to come. Soon they find themselves in a hanger that has red and blue egg looking thing in the middle of it, "It's my Martian Bioship."

 

"Cute," Wally commented, "Not aerodynamic—but cute."

 

"It's at rest silly." M'gann smiles, "I'll wake it." And suddenly the egg transforms into—well a ship. She opens the hatch of the ship and walks forward, "Well, are you coming?"

 

Perseus shrugs, "Alright." And everyone follows soon after. One they entered six seats, an orb in the middle, and a control panel? Forms from the floors of the ship. "That's so cool… but so weird."

 

"Strap in for launch." M'gann says sitting in front of the orb. Everybody takes their seats and seatbelts form from the back of the chairs strapping everyone in. "Red Tornado, please open the bay doors."

 

The doors open and they immediately take flight over Happy Harbor.

 

Robin looks out the window and comments, "Incredible."

 

Wally sighs, "She sure is—I-I mean the ship, which, like all ships, is a she."

 

"Fast with his feet, no so much with his mouth."

 

"Dude!"

 

At the front of the ship Kaldur sat next to Superboy, "I may not have psychic powers, but I can guess what you're thinking." He leaned in to whisper. "You overreacted and you don't know how to apologize. Just say sorry." Superboy looked away.

 

Back to Robin, Wally and M'gann.

 

"He'll come around." Robin whispers.

 

M'gann glances at Superboy, "He doesn't seem to like me much."

 

"You guys remember he has super-hearing right?" Wally whispers loudly.

 

Perseus looks out the window, "Hey, M'gann."

 

"Yes, Perse?"

 

"Could you let me out? I want to practice my flying."

 

"Alright!" M'gann smiles as Perseus falls through the floor. They don't see him for a minute and they all start to get worried, until a blur flies upwards passing the ship.

 

"I almost got the flying part down!" Perseus yells hoping that they can hear him, "It's just the landing part."

 

Inside the ship Wally looks at Perseus confusingly before turning to Robin, "He knows we can't hear him right."

 

"He said that he got the flying part down, it's just the landing part that gets him." Superboy says before looking at the S shield on his just and began to think.

 

"Oh." Wally smiles as a thought cross his mind, "I bet you 5$ he crashes!" He says turning to Robin.

 

Robin smirks, "You're on!"

 

Suddenly from Perseus' point of view the ship disappears, "Wait, where did they go?" He flies around for a bit until he finds a tornado attacking a power plant, "What the heck is happening?!" He speeds up as he sees Wally flying out of the building, his body skipping across the ground.

 

He lands near Wally, almost tripping but not crashing, "Wally, what happened?!" He got a groan as an answer. He looks to the warehouse and sees the others being thrown around by a red and blue metal man with tubes going along its body.

 

"Okay that's enough…" Perseus flies toward the metal man and blasts a torrent of fire at it before punching the back of its head. "Mind telling me who you are and why you're attacking my friends."

 

The metal man sighs, "More children… address me as Mr. Twister. Do you all really not have adult supervision." He says before sending a blast of air at Perseus.

 

Without even a flinch Perseus summons a giant wall of ice to defend him then with just a touch he turns the wall into dozens of icicles and sends them flying to Mr. Twister.

 

"Is that all?" Mr. Twister blasts the ice away but once he prepared to attack Perseus again, he was gone. "Where did he—"

 

"Behind you." Mr. Twister turns around to see Perseus' eyes glowing brightly and holding an electric whip but different… whisps of silver flame were flowing along the electric currents. Perseus smiles, "This'll hurt." Then he began his attack, hitting Mr. Twister again and again, not giving him any time to do anything.

 

Then the sound of someone roaring distracts Perseus, he turns around to see Superboy already in the air and slamming down on Mr. Twister.

 

"Dude!" Perseus exclaims, "I had it handled!"

 

Superboy smirks, "Yeah well—" Mr. Twister blasts Superboy and Perseus away and flies off.

 

Soon Wally comes in being hurled by a tornado and suddenly he just stops, floating in the air, "I got you Wally." M'gann says as everyone follows behind.

 

Mr. Twister looks down on them, "I would have thought you had all learned your limitations by now."

 

"I don't know, I seem to remember kicking your butt before Supey here interrupted," Perseus says jabbing his thumb at Superboy much to his irritation.

 

Kaldur steps forward, "What do you want?!"

 

Mr. Twister flies higher, "Isn't it obvious? I'm waiting for a real hero."

 

Kaldur turns to M'gann, "Read his mind, find a weakness."

 

"I thought I wasn't supposed to do that."

 

"It's okay with the bad guys!" Robin shouts.

 

While M'gann closes her eyes to read his mind Perseus flies up to Mr. Twister face to face. "Perse, wait!" Kaldur shouts.

 

"I hope you realize what you pulled back there was a fluke an nothing else," Mr. Twister says as Perseus glares at him and suddenly his nose begins to bleed, "And that will not happen again."

 

Dark clouds began to swirl around the two of them and Perseus barely manages to hear M'gann say, "I thought he was Red Tornado!"

 

"You think I'm Tornado? Ironic." And he commands the clouds to shoot lightning at the group but—nothing happens.

 

"What? You thought you were the one that summoned the clouds." Perseus questions before laughing, "Nah this is all me." He gestures toward Mr. Twister offhandedly and the storm began its attack launching lightning at Mr. Twister from all directions first destroying his arm, then leg, then the side of his torso.

 

"Stop! We don't kill!!" Robin shouts, Perseus glances at him and sighs dissipating the storm and flying back down to the group leaving Mr. Twister fall.

 

"I wasn't going to kill him," Mr. Twister crashes behind him, "Just rough him up a bit."

 

Wally cringes at Mr. Twister's broken body, "Can't believe you summoned a storm on him."

 

Perseus wipes the blood from his nose, "Well I'm clearly not ready to just summon it willy nilly." He places a hand on his chin and mutters to himself, "Maybe I need to be proficient in my basic magic before attempting something big?"

 

Suddenly Mr. Twister's suit open and an elderly man falls out, "Foul I—I call foul!" Perseus picks him up by the collar and looks at M'gann.

 

"Why did you think he was Red Tornado?"

 

"I couldn't read his mind." M'gann says, ashamed that she thought the old man was Red Tornado.

 

Perseus thinks for a bit, "Try again."

 

"Yeah, maybe this time we could get an idea of what his plan is." Robin speaks up smiling but Perseus says nothing.

 

Trying again M'gann frowns, "I can't…"

 

Perseus nods and slams his fist through the man's chest shocking everyone.

 

"What are you doing?!" Robin shouts.

 

"What?" Perseus says confused; he rips his hand out revealing it to be covered in oil and mechanical wiring. "The guy's inorganic. That's why she couldn't read his mind."

 

Wally sighs and pats Perseus on the shoulder, "Don't scare us like that man."

 

"We should bring this back to Red Tornado." Kaldur states, "Despite it not being Red Tornado it's clear that it has something to do with him."

 

"Right." Robin says, "Maybe he has some answers."

 

Prince Family Apartment, New York, 7:25 PM.

 

Perseus enters his home through the window, he left explaining the whole Mr. Twister ordeal to the ones who could better explain it, as he makes his way to the kitchen he sees Diana patiently waiting for him.

 

"Hey mom, what's up." Perseus opens the fridge to see if there's anything to eat, "I fought my first villain today."

 

Diana smiles at him, "We've been summoned to Themyscira."

 

Perseus paused, "Huh?"

 

"I don't know how but my mother has found out about your existence and she wishes to meet you… and test you." Diana gets up from her seat and hugs Perseus, "We'll head out sometime tomorrow so be sure to wake up early."

 

"Wait, test me?" Perseus questioned, "Is this going to be my second trial?"

 

Diana smiles, "Exactly so be prepared for a fight." She leaves to her room.

 

"… Wonder what's having a grandma like?" Then Perseus heads off to his own room and falls to a deep slumber.

More Chapters