"Cute." Was Wally's immediate response as the team was presented with the red ovoid form of M'Gann's Bioship. "Not aerodynamic," he quickly added, prompting me to smirk, "but cute."
"It's at rest, silly." M'Gann giggled, "I'll wake it." And with a wave of her hand the vessel transformed, its surface flowing outwards and changing shape as though it were clay being moulded by gargantuan hands. Even having already seen this, it still blew me away how unique and advanced Martian technology was, to be able to create such a ship. With another wave of her hand, the ship rotated on the spot 180 degrees so that it was facing away from us, showing no sign of how it was propelled. The back of the ship opened up, with the door melding into a ramp to enter with. While the other four all walked up into the ship, with the three earthlings all sharing looks of wonder and amazement, I chose to instead walk beneath it and then float upwards through the floor into the hull. M'Gann raised an eyebrow at the unnecessarily dramatic entrance that really accomplished nothing, and I just shrugged.
"No imagination." I repeated my line from before, walking over to the front of the ship and taking a seat, grinning as a seatbelt grew out of it to secure me. Once everyone else was seated, M'Gann took her place in the pilot's seat.
"Red Tornado, please open the bay doors." She requested. As the crimson android complied with the instructions, the ship took off out of the cave, shooting out over the pristine sea and up into sky gracefully.
"Incredible." Robin said, grinning mischievously as he gazed at Happy Harbour in the distance.
"She sure is." Wally sighed dreamily in agreement, quickly sitting up when M'Gann turned to look at him curiously, "I-I mean the ship. Which, like all ships, is a she." He blurted out quickly, and I swivelled my chair around to smirk at him. Frostfright's face was just so delightfully smug, I had to make the most of it while transformed.
"I agree Wally, she is quite incredible." I nodded, staring pointedly at the speedster, who looked down at the ground awkwardly. Robin and I shared a smug look with each other, before he turned to M'Gann.
"So, how about showing us a little Martian shapeshifting?" He requested politely, and M'Gann stood up. She stared at Robin intently, before her skin and clothing rippled and changed before our eyes. Her hair shortened and turned black, her skin turned Caucasian and her attire shifted to mirror what Robin wore when in costume. If it weren't for her distinctly female figure, she'd be a perfect copy of the Boy Wonder. She whirled around, letting the cape flutter a bit, and looked at Wally. Within seconds she had changed her appearance again, now looking like a gender-bent version of Kid Flash.
"Is it wrong that I think I'm hot?" The speedster inquired.
"They do say that high school is a time for discovery." I remarked idly with a raised brow, prompting him to blush fiercely while glaring at me, while Robin cackled gleefully.
"Is there a reason you used female appearances?" Kaldur asked curiously, smiling faintly.
"Mimicking boys is much harder." M'Gann admitted, shifting back to her regular appearance and sitting back down.
"And your clothes?" He continued.
"They're organic, like the ship." She explained, "They respond to my mental commands."
"I don't suppose they're stocking those at the local Walmart, are they?" I asked hopefully. While it wasn't really much of a problem, it'd be nice to not go shirtless every time I tried using Aviator. I had modesty, damn it!
"I could ask Uncle J'onn about it, but I'm not sure they'd really work for you. They're designed to be controlled telepathically, and only one of your forms can use telepathy." She replied. And I leaned back to think about it. Two of my forms could actually use telepathy, but that didn't make it any more useful since one of them didn't need clothes at all anyway.
"Uh, why do your clothes disappear anyway?" Robin queried, and I shrugged.
"I have no clue. The watch doesn't exactly have an instruction manual."
"And you don't remember how you found it?" Wally frowned.
"CADMUS wiped those memories if they existed, which I doubt they ever did." We fell into a silence, while I pondered my origins. The Justice League had investigated CADMUS thoroughly, including any files about me. Those files hadn't detailed anything beyond the fact that I arrived through a completely undetected and still unidentified means of travel, with no clue as to what the piece of technology on my wrist was or what I was doing there. Almost immediately I was subdued by the G-Gnomes and taken in for study. And, well, I knew what happened afterwards.
"Red Tornado to Miss Martian." The synthetic voice of the android cut in suddenly over the radio, "An emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbour Power Plant. I suggest you investigate, covertly. I'm sending coordinates."
"Received. Adjusting course." M'Gann replied.
Robin scoffed, "Tornado's keeping us busy again." He grumbled unhappily.
"Oh yes, because we had so much that we were going to be doing instead." I replied sarcastically.
"Well, a simple fire led you to Ark," M'Gann interrupted before an argument could break out, "we should find out what caused the alert."
As the ship approached the power plant, we were all blindsided when it began to shake violently. A quick glance outside showed that the cause was a GODDAMN TORNADO that the ship had been caught in. M'Gann's brow furrowed and she grunted with exertion as the Bioship struggled to free itself from the vortex of wind. After a few seconds she managed to extract us all from the tornado, landing the ship over near the plant's parking lot. The hull opened up and we all dropped out, landing on the asphalt to be immediately greeted by dozens of terrorised screams and the sound of the tornado wreaking vicious havoc.
"Robin, are tornadoes common to New England?" Kaldur called out over the noise. When he didn't get an answer, he looked around to see that the Boy Wonder had vanished, with his mischievous cackle echoing behind him, "Robin?"
"He was just here." M'Gann remarked confusedly, looking around. Several windows at the power plant were then shattered from inside by what appeared to be bursts of wind, and I pointed in their direction.
"Something tells me he's there now." I said, and the four of us took off towards the power plant. Wally… still wasn't running at anything above average speed, for some reason. When we stepped inside, we saw Robin slammed into a wall by a burst of wind which originated from a menacing metallic figure. Their body was primarily red and black, with thick blue tubes connecting from their shoulders to their arms. Whether they were an android or just a suit remained to be seen, though they also seemed to me… vaguely familiar, it was hard to place it.
"Who's the Red Tornado wannabe?" I asked as I descended down next to Robin.
"Didn't catch his name, but he plays kinda rough." He replied, and I flew forwards to engage him. Once I was within range, I could freeze him and end this whole battle before anyone got hurt.
"My apologies. You may address me as Mister Twister." Twister spoke menacingly, his voice carrying a deep bass to it as a pair of twisters shot out of his hands. The wind slammed into me, especially my wings, and though I tried to fight against it I found myself being sent hurtling away into a wall. With a groan I began getting to my feet, while the other four all took their turns trying to subdue the enemy. Our efforts were all futile, as Wally, Kaldur and M'Gann were all tossed around lazily by Twister's whirlwinds, while none of Robin's gadgets accomplished anything.
"I was prepared to be challenged by a superhero." Twister spoke distastefully, "I was not, however, expecting children." While he seemed preoccupied with Robin, I phased into the ground and flew underneath it, avoiding his detection until I appeared behind him and released a powerful gust of freezing-breath.
Ice shot up the back of Twister's body, and he whirled around to face me, but I launched myself upwards and released another burst of freeze-breath. While his movements were hampered by the ice, Kaldur, who was on his feet now, charged at the mechanical menace and slammed a fist into his back, knocking him off balance and creating an opening for me to freeze him even more.
Unfortunately, it seemed that Robin also had his own plan of attack as he hurled several explosive discs at Twister which were knocked off course by my freeze-breath. One of them exploded near Kaldur, stunning the Atlantean while one of them shattered the ice around Twister's body, freeing him enough that a powerful jet of wind was able to shoot out from his hand and shatter the remaining ice, before catching me in its pull and slamming me forcefully into the ground outside the plant. M'Gann and Robin tried to evade, but his aerokinetic abilities sent them flying.
"Nor was I expecting a circus freak." Twisted added coldly, lifting up into the air and floating out in the direction I had been sent. He was intercepted by a multi-coloured streak running around him, which stopped to reveal a determined-looking Wally, who had donned the goggles he had around his forehead in the Kid Flash costume.
"What have you done to my team?" He demanded seriously, only for Twister to send him flying with a tornado. Seeing the speedster be sent flying the side of the plant, I flew upwards to grab him and deposit him safely on the ground.
"Thanks, dude." He muttered uneasily, but gratefully, before suddenly snapping his fingers. "Of course! You blow cold air, right?" He asked hopefully, and I raised a brow at where this line of questioning may be taking us.
"Yeah…?"
"Okay, when Twister-guy uses his powers, use your cold-air to destabilise his control over them. Wind is hot air and cold air pushing against each other, and you can ruin the balance between them." He informed me, and my eyes widened. Using ice to disrupt the tornadoes… I knew what wind was, but that kind of thing never even occurred to me! Guess G-Gnome telepathic indoctrination fell flat against cheap government education after all. I nodded and took off up into the sky, towards Twister.
"Again? I thought you would have learned your lesson by now." The arrogant villain taunted smugly, creating another twister to attack me with. This time, I matched the violent wind with as much freeze-breath as I could muster and was rewarded with Twister's twister falling apart uselessly. My eyes narrowed and I pushed, intensifying the freeze-breath so as to introduce him to another ice age. Ice quickly began to creep up the machine's body, but my plan was halted suddenly as the Omnitrix began to flash red on my chest.
"Oh you've gotta be sh-" I halted the freezing breath to complain, but was cut off by a chunk of ice being slammed into my head by a burst of wind from Twister.233