Humanity part 1

In a lab completely isolated from those around them, a scientist speaks to two familiar robots; Red Torpedo and Red Inferno. A scientist's voice speaks up from the center of the lab.

"When the prodigal son returned, his father saw him," a dirty blonde with green eyes shines a light into Red Torpedo's eye as someone else continues to speak. "and had compassion and ran and embraced him." the man speaking is a raven, greying, in a lab coat. "For this, his son was lost, and is found." he leverages something smoothly mechanical that his green eyes go maniac.

"You are the prodigal son, Tornado and I rejoice at your return" a cylinder releases pressure as he stops leaning over his worktable, setting his tool aside. "and thank you for making our little family reunion possible." Something small, black replaces his tool he points it at the table with his right hand, and it makes a light buzzing noise as he turns it on. "Now, you must have many questions." he answers himself. "No?" he covers his mouth, not in compassion but dramatism. "Oh! How could I forget? Your voice box is offline. But your eyes and ears still function perfectly," behind Tornado's black lens his camera moves to follow the movement of the approaching man. "as does the prodigious mind I built for you all those years ago."

Finally, he crouches down to be level with Tornado's face, leaning on the table that Tornado is sitting on. "And really, what else matters?"

Or rather the one Tornado's body is splayed out on. His head is tied to two wires that keep it on the "pillow" of the table only two wires continue down to his neck. His chest plate is open to reveal his golden core, steel ribcage, and spine. His pelvis and legs are still together but are fully separated from his core. Both shoulder sockets have a few wires splaying from them while one of his arms hangs from a claw.

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Mount Justice; October 10th, 16:58 EDT

"Pineapple juice?" Captain Marvel offers a glass with a paper umbrella to a relaxing Wally. His right arm now casted, as he sits in a reclining chair and all his technology right at his elbow.

"Ahh! Just what the doctor ordered." the speedster says appreciatively after a long drink.

"How's the arm doing, Wally?" the Captain asks curiously.

"Well, nothing wrong that nachos can't cure." he isn't subtle in his motives, leaning back on his chair as the sounds of his teammates practicing can be heard from the center of the room.

"Nachos?" the captain takes a moment to process what Wally is not quite asking for before taking off. "Oh! I'll go get you some."

As he flies by Robin is hit and lands on his back before rolling with the force of the Throw that gains his opponent 5ptsas he groans.

Artemis smirks as she jogs towards the Bird, though not making it clear if she's still fighting or going to help him get up.

Behind her, Kaldur and M'gann are in far closer combat. She throws a low punch towards Kaldur's side that he blocks with his forearm for 2pts, stepping forward to throw another at his face that he uses an open hand to knock his wrist out of the way for 2pts more. He spins to try and get a front kick in, though M'gann blocks with a knife-hand to his ankle for 2pts back.

"Good work everyone." Black Canary speaks up, calm even though two of the teens are still fighting over her. "In fact, it's been a very productive week."

Kaldur and M'gann have made it to the center of the training ring and they stop when they see Artemis standing calmly, looking at Wally.

"Yeah, for everyone except Kid Malingerer." the archer taunts.

Wally finishes his drink of juice, glaring at the blonde. "Hey, arm broken in combat against the InJustice League here." he waves off the cast to prove his point.

Yn:just rest up Wally but don't be to lazy you still need to train your speed to be faster than the flash

Black Canary chuckles. "I've really enjoyed being your, uh," she tries to find the word to describe it. "den mother this week."

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(Finally meeting Zatanna)

Recognize:Zatara; 1-1

Everyone in the room turns to the man in the suit and top hat with a cane- that he's not using- standing in the Zeta Tube as he moves outside it and then uses a HoloScreen without a word to them.

Access Granted.Zatanna Zatara; A-0-3,

Authorization:Zatara; 1-1.

The Zeta Tube lights up again and Zatara steps up. "Zatanna, this is the Team. Team, my daughter, Zatanna." she looks very much like her father with the dark black hair that falls over her shoulder and is parted on the left side, and skin tone. The only difference being her baby blue eyes, and that she's wearing a school uniform.

M'gann flies over to the clearly nervous girl, landing easily. "Hi I'm-"

(I'm going let Robin rizz up Zatanna for now but I know they don't date in season 2 so that's when Yn will make his move)

"Robin!" the Boy Wonder cuts her off with a bout of vibrancy and a wave, then clears his throat as he steps up. "I mean, I'm Robin. Ah, she's Megan, uh and that's Wally, Artemis, Kaldur,Jedi and Conner." even Conner is giving her a smile.

Welcome to the Cave." Kaldur offers.

"Uh, thanks." Zatanna says quietly, looking over at her dad.

"So, uh, you- you are you joining the Team?" Robin stutters.

"Eh, now let's not get ahead of ourselves." Zatara speaks up his voice shakes a little as steps closer to his daughter again.

This is strictly a visit." he turns to Canary. "Though I am sorry we missed the Training. It's something from which Zatanna could benefit."

M'gann looks curiously at the Team. "Do the rest of you guys get the impression we're still on probation with Zatara?" she asks telepathically.

Robin faces her instantly and Zatanna does as well, making it hard to tell if M'gann accidentally included her in the Link.

"Not just Zatara. I mean, why is Marvel still hangin' around?" Conner asks his annoyance coming through in waves.

Wally pipes up in the Captain's defense. "Because we like having him around."

Artemis turns on the ginger. "You like having him around 'cause he waits on you hand and foot."

"And your point is?" Wally drags.

"It almost makes one nostalgic for Red Tornado's tenure as our supervisor." Kaldur says.

Robin lets a sarcastic half chuckle through the link. "Yeah, at least he trusted us."

"If you ignore the fact we shouldn't have trusted him." Conner snarls, seeming to forget that while he can't be heard his very obvious hand gestures can be seen, something which annoys Zatanna. "He was traitor. That machine nearly got all of us killed!"

Yn mind:Conner red tornado a Android you think he wants this someone made him act like this all we need to know where the he and the other reds are besides the one who made red tornado was t.o morrow he's probably old as heck it's someone else pulling the string

Are you guys having a psychic conversation?" Zatanna asks, catching the entire room's attention. "'Cause I can't decide if that's cool or, uh, really rude."

Conner can either feel the adult's expectant looks or something else tips him off since he raises an eyebrow but doesn't even look at the two of them before speaking. "Alright, fine. We were talking about Tornado. It's been weeks since his attack and the League hasn't told us anything.

"The League is searching for Tornado as well as the other Androids that invaded the Cave and their creator, T.O. Morrow." Canary says strongly. "Batman's made tracking them down our highest priority."

"But you've found none of the above." Robin objects.

"Not yet, but Tornado is Justice League. The Team is not to pursue this."

"Why don't you all take Zatanna on a, uh..." he trails off not seeing her. "a t-tour of the Cave?"

Everyone is now on high alert and turn towards Wolf as he snuffles in his sleep. The reason Zatanna leaning into his side and petting him and fang

Wolf gets up from almost completely asleep as Captain Marvel speaks up. "Huh, you're giving a tour? Cool!" in his hands is Wally's nachos.

Conner steps up to the hero, who is petting a staring Wolf. "Actually, I was hoping you'd take Wolf outside. He needs the exercise. Uh, we'll join you in a few."

Yn:yeah fang needs the exercise to

"Sure, sure. I- I can do that. Come on, Wolf and fang Marvel says brightly, taking off towards the back door of the Cave.

"Wh- wha- wha- My nachos?" Wally whines. Conner grabs the front of his shirt and drags the speedster along.

The Team and Zatanna walk into the living/kitchen area of the Mountain, not a word being shared between them.

The younger girl jogs up to Robin's side surprising him "When did you... How did you...?" Robin tries but Zatanna speaks up before he can form a full sentence.

"We're not really taking a tour, are we?"

The Team stops and Conner turns towards her. "No. We're hunting down that robot."

"Yes, we are." Kaldur agrees.

"Oo, wow. Out loud and everything." Zatanna muses.

"What about New Girl?" Artemis asks the Boy Wonder even though they're speaking aloud and Zatanna can hear.

"I'm sure she won't tell." Robin defends quickly.

Zatanna turns to Robin, coy. "I can't tell. Not if you kidnap me."

Artemis smirks appreciatively. "Oh, she's going to fit in great."

Yn:okay everyone gear up we got androids to find and I think I know the guy can give us the information we need to find them

The camouflaged BioShip flies over the heavily wooded area outside Mount Justice where Captain Marvel stands holding a tree log and Wolf is eating the nachos.

With a smile, the Hero throws the log far. "Fetch." he tells Wolf, who is still eating. "C'mon! Fetch." he tries. "Please?"

Fang just roars at him for his stupidity

The BioShip continues to get away from the Mountain when suddenly a beep goes through the Ship and Dinah's voice comes through the comm set. "M'gann, the BioShip wasn't authorized for departure."

"We're kidnapping Zatanna!" M'gann says brightly then realizes. "To, uh, show her Happy Harbor. Be back soon!"

"Uh, Roger that. Have fun." Canary says as she watches their trajectory on a HoloScreen.

"I did not authorize permission to-" Zatara starts.

"They're good kids, Giovanni." Dinah assures as she turns off the HoloScreen with the BioShip's location on it, turning back towards the Cave. "Trustworthy kids. Don't worry."

Zatara watches her with an unconvinced look and Dinah looks concerned that she could very well be wrong.

In the Cave Morrow is still working on Tornado while the dirty blonde walks in front of the other two androids. Using a small pen laser to turn Red Inferno and Red Torpedo back online. Their eyes glowing red.

"Look," Morrow caught the scientist's attention with that broad of a word. He looks over his shoulder to see that Tornado is almost completely back together on the table. "Tornado, your brother and sister are back online."

Morrow continues with the last few wires running around Tornado's body. "We'll have you up and running too. Maybe even turn your voice box back on as soon as I'm done copying and downloading your memory files." he grabs his computer chair, spinning it around and sitting in it by Tornado's side. "In the meantime, I'll tell you a story."

Coils spark and light up the lab as the color washes out of the scene leaving it dreary, bleak, and old where the shadows of a man are on the more expansive equipment in the room. But there is also another figure on a table like Tornado's in front of him.

"Once upon a time, a brilliant scientist decided to build his own superhero to infiltrate and destroy the Justice Society of America. His first creation was..." a man stands on the rocky shores with waves splashing up at him, the moon at his back. "Red Torpedo, Hero of the ocean deep a machine programmed to think he was a man." Torpedo's robotic form flashes with the image of a pale ginger in a red suit and mask-wearing form. "Unfortunately, that programming was crude." Torpedo's human form sits on the same cliffed shore, watching the sea splash up at him. "Torpedo never quite fit in. Your eldest brother was a failure."

The scene returns to the lab, a new silhouette on the table before Morrow's. "But the scientist believed in his plan and began again." before the tall spireing tower and below the monorail tracks, among the walkers of the 1939 New York World's Fair, surrounded by towering statues. "Your sister debuted as Firebrand," a woman with hair falling down her back, mask in place despite her otherwise street-ready clothes as she tossed a fireball between her open palms. "a much loved and admired heroine.' she creates a small arc with her fire as people looked on. Including one man with a three-point lightning bolt traveling up his shirt with a round helmet sporting only small wings on the sides.

Someone screams, and as people run away, a man wearing a full-body costume and a mask with a laser gun aimed at the heroine, hitting her in the side.

"If only she hadn't been so darn heroic. Yet our intrepid scientist would not quit and this time," a flash cuts off the scene this time splitting to a press conference where camera flashes continue to go off showing the members of the JSA

Sandman, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, Flash, and Hourman welcoming Red Tornado into their ranks. "the android would know he was an android."

The official picture is captured. "The new approach worked. Red Tornado," another picture was captured. "the robot hero was inducted into the Justice Society. The scientist believed he had triumphed."

As the last picture of just Tornado's face is taken T. O. Morrow's voice goes sour. "But Tornado's original heroic programming and Pinocchio-like desire to become more human-caused him to betray his creator, his father." he snarls at the still silent hero. Morrow steps up beside the dirty blonde by Torpedo and Inferno. "Still the scientist refuses to give up."

Belle Reve; October 10th, 18:35 CDT

"Warden Strange owed us a favor for stopping last month's prison break." Miss M informs. "He's given us five minutes with you."

"Spill Ivo." Superboy snarls. "How do we find T. O. Morrow and his Reds?"

"Now, why in the world would I know how to find Morrow?" Ivo questions lazily as he leans back in his chair.

"Because, and a truly dumb idea," KF is clearly at least a little salty about the Team idea that he's an idiot. "you're Morrow's biggest competitor in the evil android game."

Zatanna watches from the back of the group since she is the only one still in civilian clothes.

Yn:Who better to keep track of what he's up to and where.

Ivo doesn't turn down the idea. "Ah. I see your point. So, let me rephrase." he leans forward and looks Miss M in the eyes. "Why in the world would I tell you how to find Morrow?"

"He knows." Aqualad decides, then turns to Miss M. "Do what you must."

When her eyes snap open they're glowing green. "Oh, please. As if I've never faced a telepath before." he chuckles.

Yn:Zatanna

Zatanna is suddenly at his side chanting. "Trulb tuo S'worrom eurt noitacol!"

"Morrow's in a secret underground base beneath Yellowstone National Park 100 meters South of Old Faithful." he says rapidly.

The entire Team is completely stunned, looking at Ivo. Though Robin does need to pop onto his toes to actually see the scientist thanks to his taller member standing in front of him.

"Wait. What-what just happened?" Ivo stutters.

Yn:now we know we're the doctor is and reds are

Strange watches the whole exchange over the monitors, his eyebrows knitting together as Ivo rats the other man out.

Yn looks and the camera in the room and use the force to crush the camera

Megan:why you Crush the camera

Yn:because of what you told me when you and Conner were sent here for a mission I get the felling that Hugo strange is more than meets the eye

Conner:like helping the injustice league

Yn:don't know without evidence we can't know if he was in it but for now let's get to yellow stone and save red tornado

The team leaves the room and get in the bio ship to head to yellow stone

Morrow punches out numbers on his keypad. "Download complete." then he engages the crane above him, lowering down a table near the ceiling of his lab.

The form on it is covered with a white cloth.

Morrow removes the crane as he steps up to the table. "Time for the upload." then he yanks the sheet off.

Now Red Tornado stands beside Torpedo and Inferno.

"But first, introductions." Morrow says, now looking over the fourth android. "Red Tornado, Red Torpedo, Red Inferno. I like that name so much better than Firebrand. Meet your baby brother..." this android is a darker red than even Torpedo, but with red hot lines running across the outside of his body and a glowing hot Triangle with a circle on the inside of it on his chest. His face has narrower red eye slots and a red line that makes it look like he has a mouth turned into a perpetual frown, and his same icon on the center of his forehead. "Red Volcano."

Morrow plugs in a cable to the table from the console behind him. "This Red won't bother infiltrating the heroes. He'll simply destroy them," he turns to his console and starts typing out commands. "with the help of your memories. Finally, the scientist has built an android that transcends the need to be human." the remote beside him beeps and he picks up, turning back to Volcano.

"No more Pinocchios." he hits the button in the remote and the red of his eyes begins to glow with a low buzz entering the room.

He sits up, then moves to standing and walks towards Morrow. Towering over the man. Then grabbing his hand with the remote with enough strength to break the technology. He holds the man off the ground by the wrist. "Hello, father." then grabs his other wrist.

Morrow winces at the harsh hold. "Son, you're hurting me."

"Yes, but pain is so human," Volcano pulls on Morrow's wrists. "and per your programming, I've transcended any concern for humans." Yanking his arms off, causing the sockets to spark as the droid falls to the ground, face still showing pain, but no longer moving. "No more Pinocchios."

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