Justice League Go!

Chapter 1: Not A Bad Guy

"Is that everything?" Wonder Woman asked, peering over Batman's shoulder to gaze at the computer monitor.

"No," Batman didn't look up but instead continued typing. "In addition to keeping a backup copy of their files on computer Cadmus also kept two paper copies of everything plus the day before Captain Marvel took them down Cadmus downloaded all of their information to a portable hard drive which has since disappeared."

"Wow," Wonder Woman blinked in astonishment. "You'd have thought that Cadmus would have been a little less…careless in their record-keeping."

"Apparently it never occurred to them that they would be taken down by their own creation," John Stewart, or rather, the Green Lantern, commented as he walked into the room. Clutching tightly to his dark hand was the much smaller, whiter one of Billy Batson.

"Billy!" Hawkgirl exclaimed in delight as she flew down from her perch near the ceiling to land in front of the boy. "It's so good to see you again!" she wrapped both her arms and wings around him tightly.

"But you just saw me this morning at breakfast!" Billy protested, even as he returned her hug.

"So?" Hawkgirl retorted. "I'm always happy to see you, Billy!"

J'onn Jonzz smiled indulgently at the two from his monitor then frowned when he realized that certain people in the room weren't paying attention. "What troubles you, my friend?" he inquired.

Batman's scowl deepened as he glared at the monitors. "It looks like at least one member of Cadmus considered the possibility of Captain Marvel betraying them and did a thorough job of covering up his tracks. There is no record of Lex Luthor mentioned anywhere, whether in the planning process, gathering of materials or even on the warehouse!"

"What do you mean, there's no record of him?" Superman demanded as he flew into the room, landing behind Batman. "I thought that's how we found Cadmus in the first place."

"It was," Batman sighed, "but now there's absolutely no trace of him or LexCorp. According to the property records the warehouse is now owned by one…C.C. Batson?" both eyebrows went up as his head swiveled around and he stared at Billy, along with everyone else.

"What?" Billy shrugged as he let go of Hawkgirl and climbed into a nearby chair. "He was my adopted father, at least until I was three and he killed himself and my adopted mother, Marilyn."

"That's horrible," Diana gasped, one hand flying to cover her mouth while the other tightened around her golden lasso.

"I'm back!" Flash said cheerfully as he was beamed back to the Watchtower. "I didn't really find much of anything else at Cadmus except for a stuffed tight and some really weird book about a guy named Shazam…"

He was cut off by Billy who jumped up excitedly yelling, "Mr. Tawky Tawny!" as he ran over to Flash and grabbed the stuffed tiger from the speedster's hand and hugged it to his slender chest. "I'm so happy to see you again! I wanted to take you with me when we escaped but it was kind of a spur of the moment thing," he explained to the tiger. "I didn't even know we were going to leave until I read Mr. Luthor's mind and he said that it was time for us to go…"

"Lex Luthor helped you escape?!" now Superman was the one in shock.

"Of course," the look on Billy's face clearly said that he thought the older man was an idiot. "Why wouldn't he help me escape?"

While Superman sputtered, desperately trying to come up with a response John spoke up and said, "Because he's a bad guy?"

Billy's blue eyes narrowed as he hissed, "He's not a bad guy!" His eyes began to glow white even as several objects (and people) in the room began to float in the air.

"Telekinesis," J'onn murmured. "Interesting."

"Mr. Luthor was always nice to me!" Billy continued yelling.

"No one's saying that he wasn't nice to you, Billy," Hawkgirl said soothingly as she attempted to fly over to the upset boy. "All John's trying to say is that Lex Luthor has done a lot of bad things to a lot of different people including some of us, especially Superman. He's also the one that experimented on Flash and altered his body chemistry so that he now has to eat constantly or else he'll run himself to death."

"I thought Grodd did that," Flash called down from his position near the high ceiling.

"He and Luthor were working together. Next time, try and keep up," Wonder Woman informed him.

"Well at least he actually wanted me around which is more than I can say for any of you!" Billy yelled angrily, an eerie white hand stretching out from his chest to grab the book which Flash was still holding.

"What are you talking about?" Superman demanded as he too attempted to fly closer.

"None of you want anything to do with me! I remind Superman and Martian Manhunter too much of their lost loved ones, Flash and Green Lantern aren't sure that they're ready for kids yet, Hawkgirl's going through some kind of Thanagarian parental season or something like that, Wonder Woman thinks having kids is a stereotype and Batman!" Billy turned around to glare at the Dark Knight who froze mid-step as he was about to throw a batarang. "All you want to do is figure out the best way to take me down in case it becomes necessary. You just want to add me to your DOOM files!"

"DOOM files?" J'onn questioned with a raised eyebrow.

"The DOOM files contain information on each of you such as your name and the best way to take you down," Billy explained with a growl.

"What?!" Hawkgirl shrieked in outrage.

"This is completely unacceptable," Wonder Woman added.

"It was necessary," Batman tried to defend himself.

Suddenly they were all caught up in a giant white cage with glowing bars. "How dare you ignore me?!" Billy screamed in fury, his entire body literally pulsating with energy as he floated up to face them. "I am…" he went limp and fell to the floor, John using his ring to catch him even as their cage disappeared.

"Bring him to the infirmary," J'onn ordered.

"You," Superman glowered at Batman as he grabbed hold of the Dark Knight's cape. "Have an awful lot of explaining to do."

A/N: Sorry this chapter took so long but my laptop literally keeps restarting every 30 seconds so it's impossible to type so I have to use my mother's. Cliffhanger, I know. Teen Titans should be in the next chapter. If you've never seen the cartoon 'Teen Titans Go' don't worry; I'll explain everything to you so it should make sense. Please read and review and let me know what you think!

A/N/N: Oh and the DOOM files are a reference to the movie 'Justice League: Doom' where Vandal Savage gets his hands on a set of files that Batman made so he would know how to take down the Justice League in case they were ever compromised.