Fire and Lightning (Book One) [Young Justice fanfic]

Chapter Thirty-Seven- Team

December 30, 2010. 09:16

Mount Justice

~~Emma~~

"Come on you three!" I yelled to down the hall to where Connor stood guard outside M'gann's room.

"What is taking them so long in there?" I asked him.

Connor shrugged, "Willow said she felt that there was something special about today, a gut feeling, I guess, so she convinced M'gann that she needed the mind-reading thing now. She must not have thought that it would take so long."

I knocked loudly on the door behind him. "M'gann! I'm sorry, but you'll have to do this later! We have to go now! We have to meet this new team member before the broadcast starts!"

A moment later, the door unlocked, and we backed up to let Willow and M'gann out.

"Did it work?" I asked noticing that Willow was supporting an uneasy M'gann.

"Somewhat," M'gann breathed out, exhilarated.

"What do you mean?" Connor asked as M'gann latched onto his arm for support.

"I found out when her birthday is," She said, smiling almost proudly.

"Really? When?" I asked, somewhat forgetting that Willow was right there next to me.

"Tomorrow." Willow answered, with a quick smile. It vanished as she watched Connor smile proudly at his girlfriend. 

"Come on you guys!" Wally yelled from down the hall, "The League will kill us if we're late!"

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We waited back in the library of the Hall of Justice, watching the broadcast. I tuned out Superman's welcome speech and Cat Grant's endless drivel in favor of getting to know our newest teammate, Rocket, aka Raquel Ervin.

"So you're from Dakota City?" I asked.

She grinned, but sighed. "Yeah, I was the one who convinced Icon to become a hero in the first place," she waved her hand at the huge TV screen that everyone else was staring at, "I wish I could be out there with him, not hidden away in here!"

"Welcome to our world," Kaldur sighed. 

I laughed. "We're covert. It's best if the news doesn't find out about us. It might lead to a few international incidents." I explained.

"Ooo, so we're covert?" She asked for clarification.

"Yup," Willow nodded, coming to my assist.

"Nice," She glanced around the room at us. "Now that I think about it, I haven't seen many of you before."

"Yeah, Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad are the only ones with any real news coverage. Miss Martian, Zatanna, and Superboy stay at the cave, our headquarters, when we don't have missions, and Artemis and Wildfire are both starting their own public hero profiles in Star city with Green Arrow and Black Canary respectively." I listed.

"What about you?" She looked me up and down curiously. "You said your name was 'Dragonfire'. I've never really heard of you before either."

I looked over at Wally and Rick, feeling slightly sheepish. The name was cool, and it matched Willow, who got her new name the same time as me, but it did sound a little pretentious.

"Well, I used to be Finch, part of Gotham's terrific trio, but thanks to the Joker..." I sighed and took off my jacket, stretching out my huge wings. "I've got these now. Wally came up with the name, and I got nothing better."