Chapter 60
Later on that night, the party was in full effect, since they had holiday music playing and the barn was packed with superpowered teens and Superman and Wonder Woman, along with their respective significant others, were chaperoning, with Clark using his super sense of smell to keep any liquor from finding it's way into the hands of anyone underaged, since while the adults were allowed it, they would not allow any superpowered kids to get their hands on it. Even kids like Karen and Connor, who wouldn't be affected by human alcohol.
Something that Clark knew Karen would take advantage of while she was in college. But for now, as her team's leader, she had to set an example.
"It's nice to see them all get to act like normal kids. Even Kaldur's fitting in nicely, especially since he's already accepted Karen's offer to join the Young Justice team." Clark said to Diana and his parents, since while Lara was playing with Krypto, Jonathan was hanging out with Tim and Connor and Lois was scolding Jordan.
"I agree. I'm glad that Kaldur's going to interact with more humans and that they're all going to learn how to be part of a team." Diana said, right as a few more people entered the barn.
"Kate, what are you doing here?" Clark asked, referring to Batwoman, who'd entered with a young black girl, along with another young woman who looked around Nightwing's age, but she looked more like Jen's sister.
"Bruce thought that with all the superpowered teens here, you could use a little extra back up and Jefferson wanted Anissa here to not so subtly spy on her sister and Jax." Kate said.
"And more importantly, make a case to get myself into the Justice League, since dad told me that the League's planning an induction ceremony for its new members this week at the end of the year." Anissa said.
"Yeah, you're gonna need to make peace with Nightwing first, since he's got an open invitation to join the League and Bruce filled us in on your history with him. Especially since Vixen already forgave him for whatever happened. What was that by the way, since none of the Bats are being particularly informative about that." Clark asked.
"And whatever happened was before my time and Bruce and Dick won't discuss it with me." Kate said.
"It's complicated and not something I want to talk about. Especially with this girl here. Who is she?" Anissa asked.
"That is an excellent question." Diana said, looking at Kate.
"Right, sorry. Clark Kent, Diana Prince, meet Ryan Wilder, my new foster daughter and more importantly, my new protege, codenamed Batgirl, since Bruce told me that I shouldn't do this job alone and I decided to take a page from his book." Kate said.
"Hi." Ryan said shyly as Diana gestured over to her sister and Karen to join them.
"What's going on?" Karen asked.
"Karen, meet your new teammate, Batgirl, aka Ryan Wilder. She's Batwoman's new protege." Diana said and Karen smiled as she held out her hand to Ryan.
"Welcome to the team." Karen said as Ryan shook it, neither of them noticing the dirty look Donna seemed to be shooting Ryan.
"Thank you." Ryan said as she shook Karen's hand.
"Come on, why don't we go introduce you to the rest of the team." Donna said as she led Ryan away with Karen following them as Diana chuckled.
"I understand that the other members of the team are planning on using this party to finally get those two together instead of dragging out their denial." Diana said.
"I heard that too. But anyways, what's the story of your protege Kate?" Clark asked.
"She's had a hard life. I rescued her from a child trafficking chain in Hub City that was recruiting kids for the Wonderland Gang. Ryan's been in and out of the system her whole life. She was just left on a fire station's doorstep when she was an infant. When I saved her, she had no one to turn to and a lot of anger pent up. I thought I could help her learn to channel it like Bruce did with Dick and then Tim and I." Kate said.
"And knowing you, you did a deeper dive on her. What is it?" Diana asked.
"I ran a test on her DNA and while her father is unknown, I did get a ping on her mother, which complicates things a bit." Kate said.
"Why, who's her bio mom?" Diana asked.
"Jada Jet. CEO of Jetturian Industries and one of the runners up in tech after Argo Enterprises, Wayne Enterprises and Queen Consolidated. I swear, it's only a matter of time until the Justice League owns every major corporation on the planet, since Argo already bought LexCorp and Star Labs and if what I hear is true, they're in talks about acquiring Kord Industries too, not to mention their partnership with Mercury Labs and based on the rumors I hear, Queen Consolidated is going to be acquiring Merlyn Global Group soon and a merger between QC and Wayne Enterprises is inevitable considering what's going on between Bruce's daughter and Oliver's sister." Kate said.
"Okay, I clearly need to talk to Kara about why you seem to be more informed on this stuff than I am." Clark said, since he knew that Kate had just given him and Lois plenty of information for new stories.
"I talk to my cousin a lot more than you talk to yours, not to mention not only are Kara and I friends, but we do have a bit of a past that I'm not going into with so many kids around and I don't think you want to hear about it anyways." Kate said.
"You're right about that." Clark said, right as Karen and Donna were pushed onto the makeshift stage where a karaoke machine was waiting for them, since Karen had a feeling that she'd be using one of the non super powers she'd gotten from Kara tonight and she knew that Donna was no slouch either, since they were on their high school's show choir team together.
Teenage Ryan Wilder is played by Chandler Kinney.
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