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Kid Lantern	By : JessieMundaiFan Category: DC Verse Cartoons > Young Justice Views: 2074 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: This is a fan-made story I do not own Young Justice. If I did own Young Justice do you think I would be writing stories about?
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(General POV)
It was a typical slow day at North Central High. All the students went into their classes with only exiting it in mind. It is a rare moment when something new and exciting happens in this school.
"So what did your dad say about that blue bastard Tobi," Wally asked in dark anticipation, "is he going to start a man hunt? Whatever he does I want in!"
Both Darren and Wally were at Darren's locker as he got everything ready for his next class (Wally already got his things).
"Nope," Darren had to smile at Wally's crestfallen look, "but he is going to be more attentive around me, starting today."
"What do you mean," Wally blinked at him.
Darren smiled and closed his locker shut.
"He's taking me on his next mission for the League," Darren answered looking excited.
"Really," Wally asked, "why would he take you?"
Darren gave his friend a somewhat hurt look.
"I just mean that he's usually partnering up with John," Wally quickly corrected himself, "I know that you Green Lantern types usually don't switch partners to often."
Wally squirmed under Darren's scrutiny until he broke into a comfortable smile.
"Yeah," Darren nodded in agreement, "we always tend to stick with one partner."
The pointed look Darren gave Wally made the speedster feel antsy. He felt the need to run and stand still at the same time.
"Maybe I should," Wally said to himself.
"Huh," Darren said curiously, "did you say something Wally?"
"What no," Wally quickly denied shaking his head furiously, "I was just talking out loud."
Darren looked a little suspicious but let it drop as he turned and finished getting his books.
Wally was silently beating himself up for not say anything. Now wasn't the time to be wimping out on an opportunity.
"So, who else is going with you and your dad," Wally asked changing the subject.
The mission the two Lanterns got would be a League mission unless it involved other members of the Justice League. Otherwise the mission would be just a solo Green Lantern mission.
Darren blushed and closed his locker.
"What," Wally asked.
"Superman," Darren sighed his blush increasing.
Wally raised an eyebrow at his friend and moved to inspect his face to see what was wrong with him.
"What's with you," Wally questioned.
"Nothing," Darren replied shyly stepping away from his friend slightly, "it's just that it's Superman."
Wally instantly felt a wave of jealously run through him at the way Darren said the /Man of Steel's name. It made him feel like he had competition.
"What's so special about him," Wally huffed.
"Well," Darren shifted around awkwardly, "it's just that he's one of the most powerful men in the word. It's going to be a little intimidating being around such a great man."
Wally wasn't liking the way Darren praised the other superhero. Sure Superman deserved it, he's done some great things not just for the world but for the universe as well, but Wally didn't like Darren talking up anyone but him.
It just didn't feel right.
"Well," Wally strained to get out the right words, "I hope you and Superman have fun."
"Hm," that seemed to break Darren out of the blush he was desperately trying to fight off.
"What do you mean Wally," Darren asked.
"I just, um, well," Wally ran a hand through his hair in frustration.
"I wish you would come with me," Darren replied softly.
"Huh," Wally looked over at his friend.
"Being around you always calms my nerves," Darren smiled at his friend contentedly.
Wally found himself returning the smile, letting himself go of his petty jealousy. He had nothing to worry about. He's still Darren's number one hero.
Gulping to himself, Wally decided now was the time to ask his friend the question that has been on his mind since yesterday morning.
"Say Darren," Wally was fighting to keep a blush off of his face.
"Yeah," Darren responded.
"Well," Wally rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "I just have something I have to ask you."
"What is it Wally," Darren asked gently.
"Uh," Wally was steadily trying to find the right words to say.
"Well, even though we haven't been friends for that long, but I feel like it's been forever. You're honestly the only person I can be myself with and I cherish what we have."
"Oh Wally," Darren said softly clasping his own hands together tightly.
"And even though I'm happy with what we have now, I feel like we could be something more," Wally said confidently, "I want us to become something more. I don't know what you're going to say to this but, well, if you're interested…"
*Beep Beep Beep*
The noise caused Wally to freeze midsentence.
Darren sighed and pulled out his phone.
"It's my alarm," Darren pointed out, "I have to get to Mount Justice immediately so I don't keep my dad and Superman waiting."
"Oh."
Crestfallen was the only way to describe Wally right now. He felt all the nerve leaving him at that one interruption. It made him feel as if the world was trying to interrupt him to deliver a message, a message that details rejection, sadness, and loneliness.
He probably doesn't like me like that anyway, Wally said to himself dejectedly.
"Good luck," Wally putting on a fake smile, "and try to have fun."
Hearing the bell ring, Wally tried to run off to his next class fighting off the frustrated sigh he was keeping in.
"Wally?"
As the speedster turned to face his friend he stunned into silence as to what he was greeted with.
With a hand on his friends shoulder, Darren had reached over and kissed Wally on the cheek.
"I'm very interested," Darren said as he pulled away.
With a grin Darren's squeezed his friends shoulder and took off to the school's exit.
Silence was all that came of this. Wally must have stood in the hallway gaping like an idiot for at least ten minutes before he collected himself.
Needless to say Wally had a psychotic like grin on his face the rest of the day.
Darren was in a similar state of happiness only he was playing it off in a normal way.
"I can't believe I did that," Darren thought aloud a smile forming onto his face, "I've never done something so bold in my life."
Just then, a hand reached out and grabbed Darren by the back of his jacket.
Darren internally winced assuming the person behind him was a teacher.
"I saw that," A familiar deep voice said from behind him.
Looking behind him, Darren saw that it was that Theo guy from his neighborhood, but what was he doing here?
"You go to school here," Darren questioned.
Darren had been here for a while and had not once seen him around. This school is pretty medium sized so he assumed he would have met him a one point or another.
"When I feel like it," Theo replied smartly his blue eyes piercing into Darren's.
"Okay," Darren smiled weakly, "could you please let me go. I have somewhere to be."
With a simple throw, Theo pushed Darren into the lockers next to them. Putting both of his hand by Darren's head, Theo leaned down so they were face to face.
"I thought I told you to stay away from West," Theo said lowly.
"Yeah, well, I don't take orders from you," Darren replied summoning up his courage, "now please move."
"I don't like being disobeyed Darren," Theo pretty much ignoring Darren's words, "it makes me angry."
Darren gasped as Theo pulled out a knife and casually held it at his neck. As a safety precaution, Darren had his ring ready and waiting at his defense.
"You keep going against my will and things will start to get ugly for you," Theo threatened his low tone not changing in the slightest.
Backing up slightly, Theo let Darren go giving the smaller boy room to breathe.
"Remember what I said Darren," Theo told him walking off, "I don't like being disobeyed, especially when it's something like you."
"Something," Darren repeated in confusion. He looked over to question Theo more but he was gone. It was almost as if he disappeared.
"So weird," Darren shook his head trying to shake off the eerie feeling he got. Looking at his watch he saw that was running late.
He practically sped out the door hoping his father wouldn't be to mad at him.
…
"Conner," Darren called out as he flew down onto the bases garage where he saw the Kryptonian clone working on his motorcycle.
Conner looked at his teammate and gave him a small smile in greeting.
"What are you doing here," Darren asked, "don't you go to school?"
"Unfortunately," Conner rolled his eyes, "but everyone at my school has the day off because of some bathroom leak or something."
"What are you dressed up for," Conner commented seeing Darren in his superhero suit.
"Me," Darren pointed at himself, "oh, I'm getting ready to go on a mission with my father and Superman."
"Superman," Conner's eyes widen in shock before they became downcast.
As soon as those words left his mouth Darren's wanted to slap himself for being so tactless. The team established to him early on that Superman was a forbidden subject around Conner. They didn't say why exactly, they felt it wasn't there business to tell it to him, but said to respect Conner's wishes.
Oh how the young Green Lantern wish he listened.
"I'm sorry," Darren was quick to apologize, "I didn't mean to…"
"It's fine," Conner sighed shook his head, "it just pisses me off because I never see him much. He's pretty much my father."
Darren nodded in sympathy. He could relate to wanting so see your father. Darren has wanted to meet his ever since he was born and he's glad he did.
Just then, Hal flew down next to his son.
"Hey dad," Darren smiled up at his father.
"Hey son," Hal clasped a hand on Darren's shoulder comfortably.
"I hope you're not missing a test or anything important at school," Hal voiced in concern, "I don't want you to fall behind in class."
"It's fine," Darren reassured him, "Wednesday's are pretty dry days at North Central High. I'm positive I'm not missing anything."
"Good," Hal smiled and ruffled his son's hair affectionately. Darren smiled in response.
Conner, seeing enough of the display of father-son bonding, promptly went back to fixing his motorcycle hoping not to make a scene.
Unfortunately, Darren noticed the Kryptonian clones display and looked at him sadly. He wished he could do something to help him.
"Are you ready to go," Hal asked his son, "we got to get going before Superman takes off without us."
"Um, actually I was wondering," Darren trailed off feeling his nerves kicking in.
"Go on," Hal raised his eyebrows at his son expectantly.
"Could Conner come with us on the mission," Darren looked to said clone whose eyes were wide in shock.
"Who," Hal asked looking lost.
"Superboy," Darren clarified.
"Oh," Hal nodded before a worried look appeared on his face.
"I don't know if that would be a good idea," Hal shook his head, "Superman still hasn't, uh, adjusted to being a father yet."
"Conner just wants to spend a little time with him," Darren claimed caringly, "he never comes over here."
Hal sighed and looked from Conner, who had now walked close to them, to his son and back to Conner again.
"Fine," Hal held up his hands in defeat, "he can come."
Both boys' eyes seemed to widen in excitement.
"But," Hal added, "let's try to keep all the drama to a minimum and focus on the mission alright boys."
Both of them nodded with that fair compromise.
"Alright then let's head out," Hal ordered.
…
The trip to the ship where the three of them were going to meet Superman was short and quick. He was parked so close it's a wonder why he didn't just park it in the Young Justice base.
"You're late," Superman scolded tightly.
"You know me Supes I love to make an entrance," Hal grinned at the annoyed look he got from the nickname Flash had given him.
Looking down, Superman spotted Darren gazing at him shyly.
Giving him a comfortable smile, Superman walked over and held out his hand.
"Hey you must be Darren," Superman smiled at him kindly, "I've been hearing a lot of good things about you it's great that we can meet."
"L-Likewise," Darren stuttered nervous to be talking to the Man of Steel. Shaking his hand to his to shake, Darren was unsurprised to get such a firm grip in response.
Sensing eyes on him, Superman looked over Hal's shoulder to see the last person he expected to see.
"Superboy," Superman's eyes widen in shock.
Conner grunted in response.
Superman gave his colleague a stern look.
"You said the more Green Lanterns the better, so what's the harm in having one more Superman to help," Hal shrugged with a smile.
"But I don't even have a space suit for him," Superman protested.
"We're going to stop a meteor shower that supposed to come to earth," Darren said as he saw the confused look on Conner's face.
"Can't they change size," Hal raised an eyebrow at him.
Superman sighed tiredly. Walking over to his colleague he put a firm hand on his shoulder.
"Green Lantern can I talk to you," Superman gave Conner brief look, "alone."
Hal looked at the Man of Steel for a brief second before nodding in agreement.
Darren had a worried look on his face but he gained comfort in the reassuring smile his father gave him as the elder superheroes flew up in the sky to have their private conversation.
The young Green Lantern hesitantly looked over to his friend to find him fighting off a saddened look. They both knew exactly what their fathers were going to talk about and it was steadily breaking his heart, though the Kryptonian clone would never say out loud.
Silently, Darren flew over and put a hand on his friends shoulder giving him the only comfort he knew the clone wanted at the moment.
Darren got a small smile in return.
Just then, both Superman and Hal flew down next to them. Hal had a smug looked of satisfaction on his face while Superman looked semi-guilty about something.
"Well," Conner asked urging one of them to say something.
"We have to hurry, the meteor shower is about to start."
That was all Superman said before he flew into the ship they had.
Hal grinned at the two boys and urged them into the spacecraft.
"What did you say dad," Darren asked eagerly.
"Just gave out resident Kryptonian a little dose of reality," Hal sighed looking satisfied with himself.
…
The meteor shower did not take the four of them long to fight off. All it took was a couple of attacks and the threat was averted.
Although, with how light of a mission this was, it isn't surprising that it took them little effort to nip the problem in the bud. That was one of the reasons why Darren and Conner, who are not officially apart of the Justice League, were allowed to participate in this mission, it just simply isn't that severe compared to the several other issues other League members are dealing with that are far more important.
Darren wiped his brow and allowed himself to sigh in relief as the last of the meteors was destroyed. He looked over to his right to see his father and Superman floating over to the spacecraft.
"Ahh!"
Darren turned around in alarm to see Conner struggling with the jetpack on the back of his suit.
Conner, being the only one of the three of them that couldn't fly, had to use a jetpack in order to get around in space.
Unfortunately, he wasn't able to use it well.
Darren watched this looking half worried and half amused at his friend. Conner was constantly flipping his himself up and down, left and right, just trying to maintain control of the boosters on his back.
Steadily, the Kryptonian clone kept pushing himself pushing himself further and further away from the group.
"You're enjoying this aren't you," Conner growled looking at his as he continued to float upside down.
Darren shrugged trying to hold back a chuckle.
"Would you just get over here and help me," Conner yelled in frustration still trying to pushing himself forward without much luck.
Darren waved and moved to help Conner out, but was stopped suddenly as a left over meteor from the shower came flying past him and colliding with Conner dragging him through space.
"Conner," Darren cried out in concern.
"What's wrong," Hal asked flying over to his son in concern.
"That meteor got Conner," Darren pointed at the piece of space debris urgently.
"Shit," Hal grinded out, "that's thing going too fast for the two of us, Superman can you…"
"I'm on it," Superman declared immediately rushing for the meteor.
Conner held onto the meteor for dear life. He tried to smash it in between his hands but found that speed they were going and his lack of control over the situation was hindering him from doing so.
Looking over to his left, Conner saw Superman flying over to him.
"Don't worry I've got you," Superman reassured him.
Conner gave him a look of disbelief.
Swiftly, Superman flew over to the meteor, separated Conner from it, and finally punched space debris into oblivion.
"Are you alright," Superman looked over at his clone.
"Y-You save me," Conner stated in shock.
"Of course I did, why wouldn't I," Superman furrowed his brow in confusion.
"But you hate me," Conner exclaimed.
"Hate you," Superman's eyes widen in horrified shock, "I don't hate you Superboy. And I certainly don't want you dead."
"Feels like it sometimes," Conner mumbled lowly looking away at the Earth.
Superman felt guilt run through him at those words. Had he really been that cold to his clone that he comes off as hating him? He didn't realize that his difference would take such a toll on him.
Hal flew over to them and helped Conner situate himself.
"Come on, let's get you back to the ship," Hal said helping Conner fly.
This left Darren, who had just arrived behind his father, and Superman all alone together. Both floated silently in space, immersed in their own thoughts.
"He doesn't know how to fly you know," Darren finally said to Superman.
The Man of Steel looked over at him in question.
"Maybe you can teach him," Darren offered gently.
Superman sighed lowly his eyes revealing his uncertainty.
"I can't," Superman denied profusely moving to fly back to the ship.
"Listen to me," Darren demanded angrily.
Freezing in his tracks, Superman turned and looked at the younger superhero with raised eyebrows.
Darren, realizing what he just did, blushed and calm down at bit.
"He needs guidance," Darren claimed, "Conner might not look it but he is a very vulnerable guy. Every time you're brought up in a conversation he looks like he's going to break down from depression.
Superman looked at him stubbornly.
"Would really hurt to give him chance," Darren reasoned, "to give him a place to belong? No one is saying that you have to be his father, but please just try to be kinder to him. All he wants is to be loved."
For a moment Superman stared into the young Green Lanterns eyes. Both looked determined and strong.
Finally, Superman broke and held up his hands in defeat.
"Alright," Superman voiced sounding worn out, "I'll give him a shot. I just don't know how Superboy…"
"Conner," Darren corrected.
"What," Superman asked.
"Superboy is his superhero name, but he goes by Conner," Darren explained.
"Alright, I'll give Conner," Superman corrected himself, "a chance. Hopefully he responds well to it."
"You'll never know unless you try," Darren reasoned.
Superman chuckled and put a hand on Darren's shoulder.
"I guess," Superman nodded smirking slightly, "you know, you're a lot like your old man. You have his exact same fiery attitude."
Darren blushed in embarrassment.
They made it back to the space craft to find Hal beginning to pilot them back to Earth while Conner sitting at the back of ship.
"You all ready to go," Hal asked not taking his eyes off his controls.
"Yeah," Superman nodded taking off his helmet. Unconsciously, he gave Conner, who has helmetless as well, a look of hesitation.
Seeing Darren giving him an encouraging nodded, Superman slowly walked over to his clone.
As his father took off toward Earth, Darren opted to sit next to him.
"What's happening," Hal asked turning around briefly and seeing Superman going to talk to Conner.
"Shh," Darren said hushing him.
"You know flying," Superman started as he approached him.
Conner looked up at him.
"Isn't really that hard," Superman claimed looking up at the ceiling, "it's easy to learn if you have a good teacher."
Conner was now completely lost.
"I've always been known to be a good flyer," Superman told him, "and I learned right around your age as well."
"Will you…teach me," Conner asked hesitantly.
"Sure, I mean, if you wanted me to," Superman replied quickly sounding nervous, "I can understand if you don't. I mean it's not as if…"
"That would be great," Conner said ignoring the rest of what he said.
"Good," Superman nodded, "um, I'll give you my number and we can set up a time for us to meet."
"Okay," Conner nodded giving him the biggest smile anyone had ever seen him have, "I'd like that a lot."
Despite his hesitation at the situation, Superman couldn't help but smile in return.
Back at the cockpit, Hal and Darren were each giving each other a warm smile.
"Looks like we were able to get through to Superman's thick steel head after all," Hal grinned.
"Looks like it," Darren nodded.
Just then, communicator on the spacecraft went off.
"We're getting a message from Oa," Hal announced, "it looks like they have some news on the Ring of Silence."
Darren could feel his heart rate increasing. While this news was good, it didn't help Darren's nerves much.
"Hope you don't mind skipping another day of school son," Hal sighed giving his son an apologetic look, "because the sooner we get this information the better."
Darren waved off his father's worry not feeling too concerned about school at the moment.
There were more important things to worry about right now.
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