The calm before the storm

Chapter 2

Detroit
15:00

They used the Zeta-tube and to the surprise of the group, they arrived in a white building.

"Kiddo, where are we ?" asked Lisa

"In Star L.A.B.S. The team and the League work with them when we need help about scientist stuff or when we are injuried, they are here to heal us. But don't worry, it doesn't happen very often." he reassured

"Bart ! Finally, you're here." said Ed
"Guys, this is Eduardo Dorado Jr. He is one of the volunteer and his father is the chief of Star L.A.B.S."

"Nice to meet you all."
"Same here." said Halo
"Ed, this is Tara and Violet, they were abducted." said Bart, pointing the two young girls

"Okay but.... Why three members of the Rogues are with you ?"
"Curiosity." replied the criminals at the same time
"And we are in good terms so don't need to panic." added the speedster
"If you say so... I suppose you wanted to make them visit the center." assumed Ed and Bart nodded "Okay then follow me."

During the rest of the day, they visit the place: the cafeteria, the experiment room for new technology, a gymnasm, a garden... and they stop to walk when a question was asked or when they need a explication

"I don't understand the utility of a garden or a gymnasm in a Lab." said Tara
"I presume is for metahumans." declare Owen
"You get it." answered Bart

"How did you guess it Boomer ?" asked Trickster
"An intuition..."
"Why the metahumans ?" asked Violet
"How can I explain that ?" said for himself Ed
"Sometimes the therapy group doesn't work so we ask if there's a place where they are more peaceful and calm who could permit them to talk about what they been through." explained Bart

"So it's suppose to make things more easier ?" asked Tara to be sure
"Indeed unfortunately we have case where the traumatize is harder to surpass." occured a man "Oh I'm sorry I didn't present myself, I am Eduardo Dorado senior, I am the one who has the idea to construct the younth center and I am the director of Star L.A.B.S. at Detroit."
"Then how do you help those with this ?" asked Lisa

"That's why I'm here." answered Bart "I come from the future and I saw what happen to our world if the Reach would have succeed to become the master of the Earth. What they've done to metahumans... it's beyond everything you could imagine." Bart's body has tense at the mention of the future and Violet noticed he has clench his fists and teeths. The speedster regain his composure and sighed "Sorry, I'm not suppose to talk about future stuff or we're all gonna to feel the mode."
"Feel the mode ?" asked Violet
"It's one of Bart's expression, he got that from the future and it's mean that the things will turn bad, very bad." explained Ed

"Would you like to do an example of therapy with us before to find yourself with others metahumans ?" asked Ed's father
"Yes, it would be really a good thing." accepted Tara
"Let's take a room then. Do you want to come too ?" asked Bart to the Rogues
"Why not, it could be... Interesting." answered Lisa

"So are you comfortable ?" inquired Ed and everyone nodded "Very well, now we can start... If one of you want to start and the first step is to present who are we."
"Me, I would like to do it." offered Violet
"Sure, you can start when you feel ready."

"Hello, I'm Violet Harper I live at Star City with two good friends. I got my powers when I was resurrected."
"Wait a minute, resurrected ? You mean you were dead !?" exclaimed Ed and he looked to Bart

"Apparently... Violet, how you died and resurrected ?" asked Bart, very concerned
"It is not me who died but Gabrielle, I still don't know how she died but when I woke up, people were trying to bury me alive, they were shocked and Artemis arrived and help me."
"Um... Who's Gabrielle ?" asked Axel
"The girl who belonged to this body."
"I don't get it, kiddo..." commented Owen
"In reality, I'm a mother box who fused with this body." revealed Halo and everyone looked at her
"Mother box... Like the technology on New Genesis ?" asked Ed
"Yes, I don't remember how it happen but you have to know that Mother box are alive, we feel things too."