A Brand New Light
Chapter 1: A Brand New Dad
"Thank you all for coming." Batman addressed the team, plus all the mentors. Superman was also there, as was Green Lantern, although the latter had no idea why he was there. "There has been something that has come to my attention regarding Superboy."
Superboy stood emotionless, although he squirmed on the inside as attention shifted to him for a few moments.
"While Superman and Lex Luthor were the main genetic donors to Superboy's existence, there was a third, meant to fortify and stabilize the radical Kryptonian DNA." Hal got a sinking feeling in his stomach and Superboy frowned deeply, great one more person to manipulate, or despise him. "This person is Green Lantern Hal Jordan." The Flash whipped around to look at his best friend. The man didn't have a responsible bone in his body, always the party guy. Hal took a good look at Superboy as he turned apprehensive eyes to him. He looked scared of Hal, an expression he didn't like seeing on the boy. With a nod of his head, he had decided what he was going to do.
"Very well then, guess I'm moving to Central City then." Everyone but the dynamic duo looked at him strangely.
"Why Central?" Wally asked.
"Cause I'm going to screw up at this, so I'm going to need someone who is good with kids that can help me in a…Flash." Hal snickered at the last word and Barry looked at him in awe.
"You can accept parenthood just like that?" Superman asked him.
"Can't hurt to try." Hal glared, he then turned masked eyes to Superboy. "That is, if he'll let me." Superboy turned his eyes to the side and nodded.
"Then it's settled." Batman walked away with Robin in tow.
"Hey, Flash you think you could e-mail me some house listings by the end of the day? I have to go see Carol, that is going to be a pain."
"Broke up with her again?" Barry raised an eyebrow under his mask, not that anyone could see it, but Hal knew he did.
"More like brought down the Ferris Aircraft roof with the screaming and yelling and name calling." Hal rubbed the back of his neck.
"I'll have the listings for you later." Hal smiled, and waved before turning back to Superboy.
"I'll be back by night fall to make some dinner for you and Miss Martian." Hal turned back to the transporter and zeta'd to Coast City. Powering down he headed for Ferris Aircraft. Walking inside he found Carol.
"Jordan, there you are." She hissed.
"Yeah, hey Carol, I need to talk to you about my schedule."
"What about it?"
"I need to have it 9am to 6pm Monday through Friday, And only if you extremely need me on Saturday and Sunday."
"Why in the hell would you need a schedule like that?"
"I just need it, it's none of your business what goes on in my personal life. I am addressing you as the top employee to the manager."
"Fine whatever, but it is now Sunday so get lost, I'll be e-mailing you the new schedule." Hal thanked her and drove to his apartment to gather his clothes and talk to the manager about breaking his lease. He didn't have any thing like furniture to haul so all he had was his clothes and a few personal possessions. It was the one good thing about being an interstellar cop. Squaring that away he looked at his watch, and he noticed he had just enough time to go to the grocery store and get back to the mountain. He picked up the ingredients before heading to the mountain. Zetaing in he placed his suitcase by the end of the island and unloaded the groceries. Activating his ring he used light constructs to gather everything he needed. He smiled as Miss Martian came into the kitchen.
"Hello, Green Lantern, what is for dinner?"
"We're having Mexican tonight. Everything from burritos, to tacos and rice. I used to work at a Burrito Nation in the kitchen, so I know my way around a Mexican dish or two. And please call me Hal." He grinned and winked at Miss Martian. He quickly turned around and got to work. Soon the Mountain was filled with the delicious smells of Mexican. Robin skirted into the room along with Kid Flash.
"OMG OMG OMG Hal is making Mexican. SWEET!" Barry came in after Wally and zipped to the table.
"This is amazing, please tell me you made enough to feed all of us?" Hal chuckled as he fried up some home made tortillas.
"Of course I did, I knew if you two had caught wind of me making Mexican I would be accosted by a bird and two black holes." Robin grinned and held out a note for Hal.
Send him with a Burrito and a side of rice. The note said with a small doodle of a bat in the bottom corner. Hal laughed and nodded as the oven went off and he pulled out the burrito wraps and got the rice off the burner. He made up Batman and Robin's plate and sent the bird on his way before dishing up Barry's and Wally's followed by Miss Martian's and Superboy's plate. Hal grinned as Wally's and Barry's eyes lit up at the huge amount of food on the plate.
"Superboy, come to dinner." He called to the raven haired teen that was watching the static on the TV. Superboy got up and came to the dinner table where he started to eat the food that had been placed in front of him. He blinked in surprise at the good taste and ate more. Once he finished Hal swept his plate up with a light construct and started to clean up. "Why don't you get clean up get ready for bed." Hal smiled and took a list from Barry, and looked it over. He peered over the paper at Superboy. "Hey, what's up? Why aren't you getting ready for bed?" Superboy looked at him.
"You were serious?" Hal placed his hands on his hips.
"Deathly, serious. March my new son." Superboy glared at him for a bit before going to do what Hal asked. "Hmmmm, can't keep calling him kid or Superboy, gotta think of a name." Hal pondered it over it as he looked up the addresses on his laptop. They looked good, they would have to check them out personally. He pulled up a list of boy names. He scrolled through them and the name stood out among the rest. As Superboy walked in he waved the clone over.
"What?" Hal looked at him.
"What do you think about the name Conner? After all you are going to need a name. We can't keep calling you Superboy, you'll need one for the neighbors and when we sign you up for school once we are moved into the house."
"Conner is fine, what about my last name?" Hal scratched the back of his head.
"How about Kent? After all you don't want Luthor's last name, or mine."
"Why don't you want me to have your last name?" Hal looked away and he look like he was ashamed of himself.
"Just trust me on this."
"Okay, Conner Kent then."
"Let's get you into bed." Conner rolled his eyes and got up and went to his room with Hal following behind. Opening the door to his room Hal frowned at the Spartan room. When they moved he was going to fill this kid's room with everything he could want. Conner got into bed and Hal pulled the blankets up and kissed his forehead. "Good night Conner." Hal got up and left the room so he could do more research on the houses.
Author's Note: I'm having some writer's block. So don't worry if you've had a request don't worry, I am working on all the stories. Just be patient okay.