Chapter 84

Since Supergirl, Green Lantern, Blue Beetle, Powergirl and Wonder Girl were all preoccupied with the Danvers family dinner at Eliza and Jeremiah's house tonight, that left Martian Manhunter as the only Justice Leaguer left to lead the remainder of the Superfriends in protecting National City. Which was why he was leading Miss Martian and Dreamer in an operation to rescue people from a structurally unstable and ready to snap at any second bridge while Brainy ran comms.

"I know I said I wanted more field experience, but I thought that you'd start me off on something smaller." Dreamer said.

"In this business, it's go big or go home." Martian Manhunter said as Dreamer used her dream energy to pull some civilians to safety.

"The bridge isn't going to hold much longer and we don't have enough time to get everyone else off." Miss Martian said.

"Maybe I can help." A new voice said and Miss Martian sighed in relief when she turned and saw Superboy, wearing his own suit, which unlike Powergirl's was completely different from her mentor's aside from the red cape, Superboy's suit resembled his greatly, with a blue top with the red and yellow S on his chest, with black on the shoulders and black gloves, a black belt, red pants and black boots.

"What, no cape?" Miss Martian couldn't help but taunt her teammate and secret crush.

"Don't need one. Too tacky for me. But anyways, it looks like I got here just in time." Superboy said as he began using his own super speed to get people off the bridge even faster.

"Surprised you're the only one who came here? Where's your big bro?" Miss Martian asked, referring to Superman.

"Earthquake in the Andes. We had the situation under control, so he sent me. Especially since Jon's coming into his powers and Superman's busy training him at the Fortress." Superboy said and Miss Martian nodded as they continued the evacuation.

"Think you fix up the bridge?" Martian Manhunter asked Superboy.

"No, it's too far gone." Superboy said.

"xiF eht egdirb." a new voice said and suddenly Zatanna floated down on a mystic sigil and wearing her tuxedo gear as suddenly, the pieces of the bridge stopped falling and actually began putting itself back together.

"He might not be able to put the bridge back together, but I can." Zatanna said with a smirk as the bridge sealed itself up looking good as new.

"We really need to get you and your sister into the field here." Martian Manhunter said, since magic really did come in handy.

"Well, my big sis is busy at the same dinner that the rest of this team is at right now, but I was getting bored just binging Netflix all day and I wanted to get in on the action." Zatanna said.

"You keep this up, I'll put you up for a vote on the Watchtower myself." Martian Manhunter said with a grin, which Zatanna returned.

"What about us?" Miss Martian asked her uncle.

"No. Zatanna is a legal adult while you two are still teenagers. And Dreamer is not experienced enough." Martian Manhunter said.

"Well, I'd love to stick around, but ma and pa say that if I'm gonna live on the farm, I have to do all the chores that Superman left behind when he moved to Metropolis, so I'd better get going." Superboy said.

"So your big bro pawned his chores off on you?" Miss Martian asked with a chuckle.

"Actually, he comes out to help sometimes, but a farm boy has to earn his keep." Superboy said.

"Want some help?" Miss Martian asked before she could stop herself.

"Really?" Superboy asked, since the only reason he tolerated the chores is because his parents let him use his powers to get through his chores quickly, since just like they had with Clark, the chores were a good way to help him learn to control his powers.

"Why not? Besides, maybe it'll encourage my uncle to develop a life outside of work and prying into mind." Miss Martian said as she looked at her uncle, who seemed to be trying to avoid looking like he was listening to her.

"Then let's go." Superboy said as he flew off with Miss Martian right behind him.

"I should go make sure they're being supervised." Martian Manhunter said, only to be stopped by Zatanna grabbing his arm as she pulled him to the ground.

"No. I think that Superboy's parents can handle that. We are going out for drinks." Zatanna said.

"Are you even old enough to drink?" Martian Manunter asked.

"As far as the bars in this city are concerned, I am, especially since I'm coming up on my 21st birthday." Zatanna said.

"I don't know." Martian Manhunter said, right before he heard someone else say his name. Not out loud, since even if someone did know his martian name, he was used to crowds calling for him and wanting his autograph, but unlike Supergirl and the others, he wasn't a big fan of the whole publicity thing.

No, it was the fact that he heard the voice over the psychic plane. Someone was attempting to reach out to him telepathically.

"Excuse me." J'onn said as he stepped away before Zatanna could protest, he stepped away to try to hone in on the psychic signal.

He could tell that it was nearby. And the signature was specifically martian. Which meant that another martian was on Earth. Another white martian.

Which made it even more important that he found whoever it was so that he could stop them before they became a threat.

J'onn, you're getting closer. The female voice spoke over the the martian psychic channel and that allowed him to zero in on the owner of the voice and he was surprised at who it was, since he recognized the owner as an NCPD Detective Jennifer Hart. He'd seen her at multiple crime scenes. Which now that he thought about it, seemed to be more than coincidental.

"Who are you really?" J'onn asked the detective suspiciously.

"Follow me to find out." Jennifer said out loud before she vanished, but still allowed J'onn to track her to an abandoned rooftop.

"Who are you?" J'onn asked again, only to be stunned when Jennifer's form was covered in red light as she shapeshifted into a form similar to M'gann's martian form, as a white martian, which looked weird since her human form was a black woman.

"You're a white martian?" J'onn said, getting in a battle position.

"Yes, my name is Jin Hrac." Jin said, causing J'onn to hesitate, since he recognized that name.

"You're the white martian who helped M'gann escape Mars." J'onn said and Jin nodded.

"Yes. I never agreed with my family and my race's view of exterminating the green martians and I tried to stop it." Jin said.

"What do you mean your family?" J'onn asked.

"I was the crown princess of the White Martians, until I publicly stood against their regime. I could've waited until my father died to take the throne and end the persecution as queen, but I knew that if I did, by the time I took the throne, there'd be no green martians left." Jin said.

"So you risked and gave up everything to save my niece." J'onn said.

"I tried to save more, start what my own version of what humans call the underground railroad to get green martians offworld, but not enough White Martians felt sympathetic enough to my cause to help, they all turned out to be traitors who sold me out when I was attempting to get M'gann and others out, we were ambushed. M'gann was the only one I could save as we made it to the space cruiser, which was damaged in our escape, which is why we were separated during our landing on earth. I came here because there were rumors that you'd escaped here. I was hoping to find you and return your niece to you." Jin said.

"And for that you have gratitude and my respect. Thank you. But while I trust M'gann's words, I'd still like to see that for myself. Do you mind?" J'onn asked.

"By all means." Jin said, allowing access to her mind so that he could see the truth of her words.

"Believe me now?" Jin asked when he was done.

"Yes I do. And you have my eternal gratitude for saving my niece." J'onn said.

"Perhaps you can pay that debt by going out for a drink today." Jin said and J'onn chuckled.

"Let's go. I think I know a good place." J'onn said, intending to take her to the alien bar.

"Let's go." Jin said as they flew off together.

Jin Hrac/Jennifer Hart is played by Halle Berry.

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