The Retired

"I have thoroughly search the globe fron space and found no evidence of this 'Odin' figure, I even search out the whole solar system just to be sure and I still found nothing." Superman said.

It was clear to the Bat-clad Hero that it befuddled the powerful alien greatly as from what he'd known the man's eyesight is much more powerful than the most advance telescope ever made.

It also baffle him that a being can hide from the powerful man as it also means that his spy satellite won't be able to search out the being called 'Odin'.

Batman turned to Green Lantern and he saw the man shook his head.

"The only thing I found in the system, were mentions of an Old god that reside the Earth back when it was still covered in ice." Green Lantern said.

"Woah! You mean Odin is real! Is Thor also real!? What about Loki!? Hela!? And- and..." Ask Flash, which irradiated GL.

"Zip it Flash!" Hawkgirl intervene before GL could snap. "Why is Wonder Woman not here anyway? If anyone is knowledgeable in all this mythology stick, its her." She added.

"She's emotionally compromised to a person suspected of the being we are currently looking for" Batman said in his usual monotone voice.

Hawkgirl frowned at that and ask "suspect? I thought we already dismiss him as a potential suspect, your magician friend told us that every mystics on Earth can cast the spell albiet with difficulty so this Odin fella and Mr. Maximus both having an Old Norse team was just a coincidence"

"The fact that he is able to cast the spell multiple times around the world give credence to him being a powerful magician" Batman argued. "And multiple saga's of Old norse describe Bifrost as Dark magic meaning it could be an esoteric spell with only a Mage on par with Merlin is able to cast." He added further explaining why he won't dismiss Alexander Maximus as a suspect.

"But wouldn't it be better to inform her of such things so she may be able to help us gather more information?" Martian Manhunter ask.

Flash saw how the others look and knew that he had to explain this to his Alien friend. "humans are emotional creature J'onn and we often times let our emotion led us especially if that particular emotion is love which to us is one of the most important emotion so what you were suggesting earlier is akin to a betrayal to the highest order."

Martian Manhunter widened his eyes completely understanding that they misunderstood his comment and quickly apologize before explaining "I'm sorry, we as Martian also value love to a great degree and I didn't mean to offend all of you but what I mean earlier is that she is to be let known so she can ask the man himself so we may be able to confirm, if Mr. Mr. Maximus is this Odin being or not."

"Oh! We're sorry as well we shouldn't have jump into conclusions" Flash said with wryly smile as he scratch the back of his head although he did thought J'onn to be naive but he immediately remembered that J'onn still wasn't use to Earth's type of subtlety.

The others made a collective note to themselves to introduce their Alien friend to Earthly custom so further misunderstanding are avoided.

Superman offered a break to let the awkward atmosphere pass.

After a short break the group once again gathered in the meeting room and discuss the second part of the meeting.

Batman push a button on his board and a projection displayed files about a UN funded agency, the SWORD initiative.

"This is the SWORD initiative or Sentient World Observation and Response Department is a UN body dedicated to policing and protecting the world from Extraterrestrial beings, overall SWORD hold enough power to underscore any government under UN body when it comes to ET matters" Batman explained.

"Cool! So like men in black!?" Flash ask with great enthusiasm before being glared at by Batman as the Bat-clad hero replied "if passed then they will have the authority to arrest any extraterrestrial beings without any due process."

Superman frowned and said "it say so under the term that they are to assist the Justice League in ET matters, so I think it's a great idea but the registration part makes me uneasy I can't easily reveal my real Identity as it would endanger people close to me."

Batman nodded and replied with a grimace "Yes, this body has too much power and I don't particularly like it"

"But wouldn't it be possible for us to request an exemption for you and J'onn here? I mean we are also an official UN recognized body right?" Flash ask.

"We may, but like what Batman said this agency holds a lot of power" Superman said. "Can you do something about this Bruce?"

Batman glared at superman for his unprofessional behavior before displaying a few more doc.u.ments. "It is possible but only if I'm able to get into the advisory board, which is manned by influential persons alongside UN Security Council and UN Human Rights Council." he replied almost please at involvement of HRC on the Initiative but not enough to alleviate his paranoia due to a particular person in the AC.

The other also felt relieve that HRC has a voice in the initiative but most raised an eyebrow when they saw Alex James Maximus as one of the advisors of the initiative and they each look at Batman for clarification.

Batman seeing the curious looks from his teammates sighed and explained "Unfortunately, SENTRI's the one, tasked for creating their Space Station alongside other space agency and his Security Personnel performance during during the invasion impressed them so much that they let him joined the initiative as a security adviser."

The group knew that the Bat-clad hero was irritated so they try and change the topic to other things.

"So how about our contingency plans? Are they already done?" Superman said using Batman's love for contingency plan to successfully change the subject.

Batman greatful for the change of topic, (although he didn't show it) change the display to another completely sidelining his thoughts on their previous topics.

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A group six people were talking over their lunch when they were interrupted by the arrival of a tall one-eyed man wearing the same black bodysuit as them.

"Alright team, we got a new recruit with us today" said a one-eyed man. "Come on rookie, introduce yourself" he added.

When Rookie entered he was confuse at the interested looks he was garnering before it immediately change into disappointment as he was introduce.

Rookie frowned and ask "okay suddenly I'm offended, why are you all so disappointed?"

"Well, you're Asian and No we don't mean it that way, it's just that your not fitting in with the groups theme" said a blonde woman.

"And that's a problem because?" Rookie questioned with a raised eyebrow. "I mean I don't see enough colors to represent each race" he ask.

"We- I mean okay let us introduce Ourselves first so you would be able to understand" the only other man in the group replied. "Boss, you wanna explain this?" He ask as he turned to the one-eyed man.

The one-eyed man sighed and pointed to himself before stating "Alexander Quezon"

He pointed at the man with glasses "Nathan Giles"

Again to the three dark haired woman "Elizabeth Walsh, Dawn Chase, Anya Romanov"

Then finally to the blonde one "Faith Kennedy and yeah they're completely switch so deal with it"

Rookie's eyed widened finally getting it before laughing out loud "I don't know if this is a practical joke or not but my name is Andrew Young so I guess I'm your new member though is this a Xander-centric team?"

Everyone in the room especially Alexander g.r.o.a.n.e.d.

"A practical joke on the higher up and that joke's overused" replied James with mirth.

"Was it?" He asked with humor.

Xander sighed and interrupted the playful bantering "Well enough games, Andrew here was added to our group today as a heavy weapon specialist because our next mission will require it." He then send files on their neural net before adding "As you can see we will be engaging a Nest of Vampires with a confirmed tier 3 demons in Africa, our job is to eliminate them all since this f.u.c.kers killed four students of our school and the big boss is pissed usually he would deal with it himself but he's got to tango with snakes on UN today so instead it was brought to us."

"Wohooo! Can we bring the flame throwers!?" Elizabeth aka Buffy excitedly ask. The rest of the girls in the group squealed while Giles just sighing before muttered something along the lines of "murder crazed girls".

Xander sympathize with Giles while Andrew only gave chuckle. "Yes and we're also permitted to bring plasma rifles as well" Xander said, which only made the girls squeal much more. "Alright then let's meet at Warframe command room in 30 minutes." He said before leaving the group to find sharpen his favorite axe.