A Siren's Forte [Young Justice]

Leverage

The Watchtower

November 16, 21:21 EST

"Recognized: Banshee, B-two-three."

The guy let out an exasperated groan as he walked out of the Tube. "Sorry I'm late, coming back from the meet took a bit longer than expected," he apologized to the group in the room.

"It is fine," Aquaman assured.

It looked like nearly everyone was there and waiting for the briefing. A couple of weeks prior, Halo, Geo-Force, Forager, and the new girl, Terra, finally joined the team. The reason Banshee was there was to add an extra member with experience with so many new teammates on one mission. But besides that, it looked as if they were just waiting for one more person.

Banshee nudged the blonde woman in his path as he walked by. "Glad to see you back," he said with a grin.

Besides their new members, Tigress was back in. It wasn't long after Siren had left two years prior that she did too, deciding it was too much to handle after she lost her boyfriend as a consequence of the life, so seeing the woman back without her best friend was a little strange and admittedly sad. 

If she ever felt the same, she didn't let it show. "Glad to be back, Ban," Tigress said with a similar smile.

"Recognized: Beast Boy, B-two-zero."

Tigress smirked as the kid finally arrived. He, too, had rejoined the team, after learning about Gretchen Goode's little secret single-handedly.

"Oh, hey, you're a little late, Garf-"

Beast Boy cut her off her teasing, not even paying attention as he stormed past her. "Fifty-two takes. Fifty-two!"

Damn. "O-kay," Tigress said slowly. "We will talk about it later..."

She rejoined Aquaman's side, addressing the team as the briefing began. "Okay, everybody, Miss Martian was needed at the Meta-Human Youth Center, so she assigned me to lead Gamma Squad."

"This will be a covert mission. Recon only," the Justice League's co-leader reminded.

Beast Boy, obviously still pissed about whatever happened during shooting that day, scoffed as he leaned to stage-whisper to Forager.

"They always say 'recon only,'" he muttered. "It never turns out that way."

And obviously, Aquaman wasn't too happy about that little jab involving several past missions. "The mission had better 'turn out that way' since the League is not allowed in Russia without prior consent."

"Russia?" Geo-Force inquired.

A global map and video feed pulled up behind the two adults simultaneously. "We're being sent to investigate Russia's Ploshchad Fifty-Two base," Tigress explained. "We have intel of a possible government-sponsored meta-program there."

"No doubt the Russian equivalent of Bedlam," the prince said tightly.

Aquaman looked at him. "I understand Markovia suffered under the former Soviet Union, but do not prejudge. Yes, this may be Russia's equivalent to Bedlam, or it may be their equivalent to Taos."

Banshee crossed his arms. "So we go in, find out, get out, done, yeah?"

"Yeah," Tigress confirmed. "So switch to polar stealth, we leave in five."

Guess it's going to be a quiet night then.

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