Young Justice: The next Generation

Things are changing

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After pulling on her gym shirt Melanie stepped out of the changing room to meet her friend April

She enjoyed hanging out with April she could pretend she was a normal teenager since she didn't know about her after school 'activities'

"You ready to go, I think they started stretching?" April asked raising an eyebrow

Melanie nodded "Yeah let's go" she said

They stepped out of the locker room and made their way to the middle of the gym floor where students were beginning to form a circle and stretching

"Is that Grayson?" April whispered to her as they got closer

Melanie looked in the direction of the person she was referring to and saw Nathan bent down stretching his legs "Yeah, I guess we have class with him" she said seeing her friend

"He changed over the summer" April smiled

Melanie shrugged "Yeah well he got contacts. I guess that does make a difference"

April shook her head "Well more than that, I mean he's not a hottie or anything but he's definitely not the dorky looking kid he was before summer. He's almost on a cute level, almost"

Melanie eyed her Nathan cute? That didn't seem like something that should be spoken in the same sentence

She didn't get to respond because Nathan had spotted them "Hey Mel, April there's space over here!" he waved a hand and motioned to the space next to him. They went over to stand next to him and began their stretching

After school, the 3 met up in the front of the school building "How was your first day Mark?" Nathan asked him

"Not too bad I was bummed when I realized we didn't have any classes together though" he sighed

Nathan nodded "Me too, but at least all 3 of us have lunch together"

Mark nodded "Oh definitely, and dude you should see the girl I got assigned as my lab partner. She's a transfer student from Gotham North and a total babe" he said

Nathan nodded "There's some pretty nice-looking girls in my classes to" he grinned

Melanie rolled her eyed "Ugh boys, come on let's go we have a cave to be at remember?" she said walking ahead of them

The two boys looked at each other and shrugged then followed Melanie.

The three walked down the road about a mile before turning and making their way down what had become a familiar abandoned alleyway to them. After hiding their backpacks Melanie turned to them

"Alright are we ready to go?" she asked placing a hand on the door to the old phone booth

"Hold up a minute" Nathan said digging into his pocket and pulling out a pair of sunglasses

"Oh yes can't let anyone know who Robbie is, big bad Bat family might spank the baby bird" Mark teased

Nathan nodded "Your darn right they will" he nodded sliding the sunglasses on "Alright let's go" he grinned

They arrived in the cave to find Beena and Superboy already there. "Good you 3 are here, now we just have to wait for Martian Jr." Superboy said standing up from the couch

They waited around and about an hour later the youngest member arrived

"Alright everyone, to the training room" John said clapping his hands together and leading the way

"When they walked in Robin surveyed the room "Where's Nightwing?" he asked not seeing his father

"Justice League stuff, but don't worry he gave me specific instructions on today's training" Superboy said clapping his hands together and walking toward a vault and opening it.

He pulled out 3 collar shaped items.

"What are those?" Bullseye asked eyeing the items

"These collars will make members with powers unable to use them. As Nightwing told me we never know when we will be put in a situation where we may not be able to use our abilities so it's a good idea to train without using them." He said passing out the collars to the members with powers including himself.

He demonstrated how to put them on. Beena, Bullet and Martian Jr. followed his instructions.

"Nightwing took the charge of assigning us to pairs with members who don't have powers to help with training. Since it's an odd number and I lived my first 13 years without powers I will be working with Beena. Nightwing wants Bullseye to work with Martian Jr and Robin you're with Bullet" he said gesturing to the kids

Mark patted Leo on the shoulder and lead him over to the treadmill figuring since he could fly running would be a good task for him to work on

John lead Beena to the sparing mats since she could shrink when under attack and easily get away he thought she should learn how to get out of an attack the normal way.

Nathan sighed and turned toward Melanie "Wanna work on weights?" he asked raising an eyebrow

She shrugged "Sure"

Another 15 minutes later Melanie was kicking her legs against the bench as she attempted to push up the bar

"Come on Bullet, it's not even that much weight" he encouraged

She shook her head "Says the one not lifting" she grumbled

Robin rolled his eyes "Come on out" he waved

She got off the bench and watched Robin lie back on it. He lifted the weights with ease "Told you it wasn't bad, I've seen you punch out bad guys before and you knock them out cold. Why aren't you using that strength?" he asked getting off the bench and standing in front of her

She sighed "Because when I'm running I am going so fast that the force of my speed causes a strong impact" she explained

Robin nodded "Fine let's do this one" he waved her over to another station and jumped up grabbing the bar of a salmon ladder

Bullet stood on the ground and shook her head "I can't do that"

He nodded "Of course you can, it's just a chin up" he said doing a chin up "then a thrust" he said thrusting upwards and moving the bar upward and going up higher

Melanie shook her head again. Nathan let out a cackle and jumped down "Come on I believe in you" before she could react he picked her up and placed her at level to the bar, she reluctantly grabbed on

"Okay now do a chin up, I know you can do that I saw you do one in gym today" he encouraged releasing her

Melanie did a chin up then hung

"Okay now thrust up, girl I know you can!" he grinned

Bullet took a deep breath and did as Robin had just done. She surprised herself and could move the bar up.

"I did it!" she smiled widely accidently letting go of the bar in the process

Swiftly Robin jumped in and caught her before she could hit the ground

"Don't get too excited" he grinned still holding her in his arms

She smiled at him, now that she was looking at him closely April was right he had changed a lot over the summer in a way she couldn't explain

Nathan set her down "I told you that you could do it. Come on let's go see what Bullseye and Martian Jr. are doing maybe we can train with them" he waved walking toward her brother and their younger friend.