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Cassie was brought into Mount Justice by Wonder Woman, since the Justice League decided to make a get together for the younger heroes. Surprisingly, from what she heard, Batman wasn’t against the idea, but was rather overjoyed, even if he said he doesn’t have time.
She was quietly standing in the corner and trying to make sense of the situation, when the zeta tubes announced, “B01 - Nightwing, B03 - Flamebird, G01 - Cardinal, G02 - Crow, G03 - Robin, G04 - Superboy.”
Across the room, she could see Superman’s eyes widen in panic before he flew off. Next thing she knew, two blurs, one colored in red, gold and orange, one in black and blue, came to a stop next to the Flash and Green Lantern and the two speedsters started talking to the two older heroes.
Huh, she wasn’t aware of the fact that Nightwing was a speedster. It was rather known that he had wings but could choose to hide them.
“Cool, right?” asked a voice from next to her and she jumped, not realizing someone was standing next to her.
The person talking was likely Crow, from what she heard. He, just like Nightwing and Cardinal, had wings which he could hide and he currently didn’t have them, just a black-silver suit and dark domino mask. He was also grinning, like he knew he scared her.
She could also hear another person chuckling, but she couldn’t see anyone, at least until Crow blurred and disappeared.
Then another person landed next to her, holding Crow and Robin (probably, his suit seemed similar to the records of Nightwing’s previous outfit - except for cape) like two unruly kittens.
“Come on, Row, Imp, you promised you wouldn’t get us grounded. I don’t care if B’s grounding doesn’t work and we can still sneak out,” he scolded them.
“B ain’t the boss of us,” scoffed Cardinal, who appeared next to the boy for a minute before disappearing again with a few bird sounds (apparently all of them were speedsters now and weren't that terrifying).
“Yeah, he isn’t my dad!” added Crow.
“Yep, he can’t tell me what to do, he isn’t Nightwing, Flamebird or Crow!” nodded Robin/Imp?.
“That’s true, but what if Alfred takes away cookies?”
“Hewouldn’t,wedidn’tbreaktherules,” sounded the two’s voices.
“That’s probably true,” nodded the boy in a leather jacket and sunglasses.
“Sorry about them, it isn’t their turn with the braincell,” he flashed her a smile.
“I thought Gotham and Blüdhaven heroes, except for Flamebird and Robin, didn't have speed abilities?”
“That’s so last year,” waved his hand Robin, vibrating out of the boy’s hold and disappearing for a few seconds before he appeared again with a speedster-friendly energy bars and throwing one of them at Crow and sternly saying, “Eat. Or I will take N or F or CA here.”
“I don’t need to eat, that’s a social construct,” grumbled Crow, catching the bar in the air, apparently comfortable with hanging in the leather jacket’s hand.
“C, buddy, you really do need to eat. Speedster metabolism, remember? We will tell everyone if you don’t,” scolded the boy.
Robin eagerly nodded, throwing another bar at Crow’s head. Crow did catch it, but only after it pinged off his head.
“Okay, but I require coffee later,” sighed Crow before looking at Cassie, “Welp, we didn’t, but Klarion decided this was going to be chaos a few days ago. It isn’t permanent, I think. He did say something about us as kittens and puppies, didn’t he?”
With the last words, he turned a questioning stare at Robin and then twisted to look at the boy, probably the newest Superboy.
“Hedid,it’sgonnabecrash,probably.Kittensandpuppiesaregreat,” replied Robin, blurring where he was standing.
The boy just nodded, after which Crow took to eating the bar.
“You’re Wonder Girl, right? Cassie Sandsmark?” asked Robin.
“Yes. Are you three stalkers?” Cassie stumbled out before she caught herself. Apparently, this wasn’t a day with a brain cell for her either.
“Legally, I cannot tell you,” Crow said.
“Yep,whathesaid,” eagerly nodded Robin.
“I wasn’t stalking anyone yet,” Superboy said.
The two others turned at him with raised eyebrows.
“Apart from Luthor. And villains. It’s Crows fault.”
“You say that like we wouldn't follow him anywhere,” muttered Robin, before disappearing and holding out a Robin themed mug for Crow.
After which he handed another mug to the super and Cassie herself.
“Hot chocolate?” he offered.
“Uhm… Thank you?” reacted Cassie, taking a sip from the cup.
Then Crow suddenly gasped.
“WecangomakeOliverQueen’slifealivinghell,letsgoandmoveallhisfurnitureforafewcentimeters,” he exclaimed, his hands vibrating so much the mug passed through them, but the super caught it and placed it on a nearby table.
“WecangoseetheRoguesofCC,it’sgonnabefun,theyhaven’tmetyouyetlikethis,” added Robin, also vibrating in place, almost disappearing into the floor.
Then the two speedster took off in a flash, the super grumbled a few curses and took off after he grabbed the closest person, who happened to be Cassie. It seemed like he forgot about the speedster abilities Crow was granted for an uncertain amount of time.
Which was how she ended up going with the group on terrorizing the villains and in one case having lunch with them. And also how she ended up with a way too long hyphenated last name and a new team. Did she really need such a long name?