<hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/cf/6b/72/cf6b72b7188eb88ca94ea875a019b38e.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><strong>Name:</strong> Shazam<br/><strong>Location:</strong> Metropolis <br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong> 10/19 5:01pm<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong> Superman, Starfire,  Robot<br/><strong>Content:</strong> Realizing again why he hates the government</span><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"> Movement caught his eye just after he got done talking to Superman. He <em>watched</em> Atom hurtle through the air at speeds only attainable to people like himself, Clark and Flash, only to stop instantly right in front of them, sticking his nose into League business because it interested him. He sighed inwardly and the Gods laughed at his ire. "Why do you even consider answering him? Strike him down, you know you have the power to do so."<br/><br/> "Kill him? For asking a question? Zonuz you truly are a brute." Billy shook the voices away for a moment while he figured out a way to run damage control for his apparent slip-up. Just how did he even hear him anyway? Clark could barely hear him and he'd been right there. That warranted checking out later. He was sure Uncle Sam had files on them as long as they could, so why wouldn't he be curious as well? He accepted the glare without shirking. <br/><br/>Atom had been damn near the skyline, fully immersed in that fluid when he spoke. It didn't even make sense for him to be paying attention to them to hear a whisper Superman himself needed to focus for. But Superman could be mad and they could talk later; they needed to smooth this out now. Being a reporter, Clark had a way to spin words into a story, and a completely believable one came out on the spot. "Batman and Wayne are two of the only defenses Gotham has against the madness that just gathers in that city. So something like <em>this</em>," he stopped to wave at the scale of destruction done by the Merc's wearing Bruce's logo. <br/><br/>"It could cause serious harm to what they're doing there. Put a dead stop to all the good they've done. Superman's right; I just wanted to make sure we had all our ducks in a row with whatever Batman found out; just so a misunderstanding like what seems to be going on now <em>didn't</em> happen." He added his bit on just as smoothly, and without a hint of hesitation. Growing up how he did, he realized that lying helped a lot. And after doing it almost all his life, he could tell a fib as easy as breathing or saying his A,B,C's. Besides, he'd wager all his powers that Atom and Force weren't going to tell them even half of what they knew, and even less about what they found out on this "Joint" venture between them and the League. <br/><br/></span><br/>