Billy Batson sat in the watchtower with the team, watching as they shared new years kisses, "gross guy's!" he exclaimed, pretending to throw up.

M'gan giggled a little, looking back at him, "oh come on Billy, what's so gross about it?"

'You're kissing, with tongue and everything!"

"We are not!" Connor grumbled.

"You weren't, but Wally and Artemis sure were!"

The two in question quickly blushed and tried to defend themselves,

And Kaldur and Rocket barely even know each other!"

"It's just a new years kiss Billy." Rocket said.

"Yes, it is a tradition that even happens in Atlantis." Kaldur said, "we kiss to show affection, whether as friends or as a couple."

"Bleh couples." Billy cringed.

Oh come on, like you don't like anyone!" Wally exclaimed.

"Nope, I don't, Billy Batson is a lone wolf, stone cold, unattached!" he said, puffing out his chest, "nothing's going to tie me down, especially some girl!"

"Then we're gonna have to curse you now." M'gan started.

"She is right." Kaldur said, winking at Rocket who laughed.

"Your curse is to fall in love! And never get out of it!" Wally said dramatically.

Billy laughed, "Right, I'll take that seriously when Wally gets into magic!"

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Queen Perdita sighed as she listened to her advisors argue about what they're next step would be now that she was healed, she was all for staying in America for a little while longer, maybe even meet a few more superheroes like kid flash, but her advisors were adamant about taking her back home, "Mr. Cherbov, I request that you keep an open mind." Perdita said, "staying in America for a few more days will not be the end of the world, and it will give me a wide variety of culture, especially here in Fawcett city, it is so much more diverse then Seattle was.'

"But it is dangerous your majesty, you don't know how many people out there would want you dead."

"We are only trying to protect you your majesty.

Perdita rolled her eyes, "I understand that Gorgovitch, but I am adamant."

They looked at each other then at their queen, "we'll talk more in the morning." Cherbov said, "For now, you need your rest."

The two advisors left the room, leaving Perdita alone with her bodyguard, a muscular man whose name was Mouse.

"Mouse, what am I going to do?" Perdita asked, "I do not want to be cooped up in here anymore, and I don't want to go back to vlatava yet."

"It is a conundrum." Mouse said in his deep voice, "Maybe we can…give them the slip."

She looked up at him with a smile, "and how do you suppose we do that?"

"******

Mouse walked out of Queen perdita's room, going down to the main lobby, where Cherbov and Gorgovitch were talking.

"Mouse! What are you doing down here! You are supposed to be with the queen!"

"Relax, American police are with her now, they will keep her safe while I go find some food." He said, walking past them and out into the street, he looked around and then opened his jacket, letting Perdita poke her head out, she was now dressed in jeans and a pull over sweater, "I think we got away unnoticed my queen." He said with a smirk.

"Thank you mouse, but don't call me queen while we're out here." She said, "I don't want to be mobbed in public.

"Of course…hmm…we must come up with alias."

"I like the name Amy." Perdita said, "it is a nice name, no?"

"It is a beautiful name, but what of your last name?" Mouse asked.

"I'll come up with that one later, for now, lets go find a…uh…fast food is it called?"

Billy walked into a McDonalds with a smile on his face, his uncle was out of the house for the night because of new years, and so Billy took that as a sign to get some late night McDonalds. He walked up to the counter and scanned the menu, "three mcdoubles and a large coke please." He said, holding out a ten-dollar bill.

The guy took it boredly, putting it in the register, "your change is 4.59$" he mumbled, giving him his change.

"Thanks, happy new year." He said with a grin, walking over to the table, the cashier brightened a little, glad to have a customer that wasn't at his throat for stupid things.

Billy looked out the window at a few people celebrating across the street, drinking and singing loudly, "man they look like they're having fun." He said as he pulled out his Gameboy.

"Um…excuse me…" a soft, accented voice said making Billy freeze, he turned his head and looked at a young girl around his age, her blonde hair pushed back behind her ears and her green eyes looking at him with a curious gaze.

"Uh…y-y-yes?" he stuttered.

"What is that?"

He looked at her, "it's a Gameboy…"

"What does it do?" she asked, looking at it.

"You can play video games on it." He looked at her.

'Oh…I'm sorry," she said sheepishly, "It's just, I've never seen one before…"

"Really? Where are you from?"

Vlatava," she said.

"Oh wow, so this is probably the first time you've seen a Gameboy or a McDonalds."

She turned a little red; "it isn't my first time seeing a McDonalds…just my first time being in one."

"So, why did you come to America?"

My…caretaker had business in America." She said, "He brought me and my brother."

"Amy." A deep voice said, making Billy look over at another Vlatavan walking over, he was almost as big and muscular as superman, and had a shiny bald head, "who are you talking to?"

"I'm talking to…I'm sorry I did not catch your name."

"Billy, Billy Batson." He said, "and you're Amy…?"

"I am Amy…Barns." She said hesitantly.

"What's with the hesitance?" Billy asked.

"Our last name is hard to pronounce in English." Mouse said.

"Oh, cool."

"I have to get money from ATM, stay in here Amy."

"Ok brother." She said.

Mouse smiled and walked outside.

"So how long have you been in America?" Billy asked.

"Only a few weeks." She said, "I was sick when we first got here."

"Well you're looking good now." Billy said with a smile, "I-I means…you look well…not…well…uh…"

Perdita giggled, "You are a funny boy."

"Yeah I've been told that a lot." He said with a sheepish grin.

WWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Mouse was pulling the money out of the ATM when his phone rang, "hello?" Mouse asked

"Mouse!" Cherbov lamented on the other side of the phone, "Terrible news! Queen Perdita has disappeared.

Mouse mentally cursed, "no! Are you sure?"

"Yes! I walked into her room and she is gone! I sent some men out to look for her, come back as soon as you can."

"Yes sir, I will begin making my way back." He hung up and quickly ran to the McDonalds, where Perdita was trying to play Pokémon on Billy's Gameboy.

"There, now all you have to do is choose which attack to use." Billy said.

"Amy." Mouse said, "it is time to go, Cherbov wants us back."

"But can't I stay a little while longer brother?" Perdita pleaded

"I am sorry, but we cannot."

She looked down and gave Billy his Gameboy back, "thank you for letting me play." She said.

Billy smiled at her, "go ahead and keep it." He said, pushing the Gameboy back to her, "I have another at home."

She smiled, "oh thank you so much Billy!" she said hugging him.

Billy smiled, returning the hug, "I'll see you later right?"

"Of course!" she said, letting go and walking over to Mouse, the two departed with Billy waving after them.

What did Cherbov say?" Perdita asked warily.

"He just said he went into your room and you were gone, he does not suspect that we went on a small excursion."

"Maybe you can tell him that you found me talking to Billy, and that I had snuck out." She suggested.

"That could get you in trouble my queen." He said, "you may be royalty, but you're still under Cherbov's protection, he may be furious."

"Not as furious as finding out you helped me get out of the hospital."

He nodded, "then I guess that will be our cover." He looked at her with a smile, "did you like you're time with that Billy boy?"

"Yes! He was so nice! I wish I could have talked to him all night!"

Mouse chuckled, "sounds like someone has a crush."

She looked at him, "he is just a friend." She said dismissively.

"Right, right, whatever you say my queen." He said as they walked into the hospital.

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"And she had an accent that sounded so cool!" Billy exclaimed, talking to Wally at the Cave, "she was soo cool!"

"Yes you've said that a few times man." He said with a grin, "what was he name?"

"Amy barns! I hope I get to see her soon!"

"Who's Billy talking about?" Kaldur asked, walking in with Connor and M'gan.

"Some girl named Amy." Wally said, an amused smile spread across his face.

"Oh really?" M'gan asked interestedly, "What does she look like?"

"Oh she has green eyes, like I'm talking about forest green, not fake green, and she has blonde hair, I swear it looks like gold!"

They all looked at each other with amused smiles.

"What?"

"It sounds like someone has a crush." M'gan said with an amused chuckle.

"Dude's whipped, am I right?" Wally asked, leaning against Billy.

"Seriously guys, what are you talking about?" Billy asked.

"Oh nothing," M'gan said with a chuckle, "so are you going to see her again?"

"Maybe…I'm not sure…she didn't exactly give me her phone number…" he pulled out his spare Gameboy, turning it on.

"Hey…isn't your Gameboy usually green? That ones purple."

"Oh yeah…I gave it to Amy…she had never seen one so I thought…what the heck right?"

They looked at each other, "you gave your prized Gameboy…something you wouldn't even let me touch…to a girl you just met…" Wally said.

"Yeah? So what?"

They looked at each other again, close to laughing, "what's so funny!" Billy exclaimed.

"Nothing, we're just…remembering a joke." M'gan said.

"Yeah, a joke." Superboy said with a smirk.

Billy shook his head, "you guy's are weird." And with that he walked away, towards the zeta tubes.

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Perdita sat in her room listening to Gorgovitch and Cherbov berate her for sneaking out, Mouse stood at the door, shooting her an apologetic look.

"What was going through your mind Perdita," Gorgovitch asked her angrily, "What made you think you could runaway?"

"I wasn't running away!" Perdita exclaimed, "I just snuck out to see what the city was like!"

'You could've been hurt." Cherbov said calmly, unlike Gorgovitch, he was a lot calmer and understanding, but only just, "someone could've kidnapped you."

"But no on e did." She said, "I'm fine, I even made a friend!"

"Be that as it may, it was still dangerous."

"I'm starting to wonder if we should just leave now." Gorgovitch growled.

"No, I do not want to leave yet." She said, crossing her arms defiantly.

"If I may." Mouse said, stepping forward, and with a nod from Cherbov, he began, "the young queen isn't a young adult like her mother and father where when they took the throne, she is still young, yet to have a childhood, you cannot expect her to pretend to be ten years older then she really is, she needs to be able to have a childhood."

"Maybe we can schedule something when we get back." Gorgovitch said dismissively.

"I think it would be better here." Mouse said, "in Vlatava, the people know her, they wouldn't treat her as another child trying to have fun, they'll treat her as a royal, who should be pampered, here, not everyone knows her by face, from what she told me in our walk back, she made a friend, and they carried a nice conversation, I think it would benefit her much more to stay here, maybe continue the friendship with the boy and make more friends."

Cherbov nodded, "and I'm guessing you don't want a large guard detail for her when she does this."

"Of course not, that'll give her away," Mouse said, leaning against the wall, "I should be sufficient protection."

"Now wait just a minute," Gorgovitch shouted, "the only reason she got out in the first place was because you decided to leave her alone to get food!"

"I had no idea that the guard you left would've been ineffective to keep a little girl from sneaking out."

Cherbov and Perdita laughed as Gorgovitch shook in anger, "Now see here you-"

"Enough Gorgovitch." Cherbov said, putting a hand on his shoulder, "I agree with Mouse, him alone with Perdita is better then a large contingent of guards."

Gorgovitch glared at Cherbov, and then huffed, "fine, but I doubt you'll find that boy again!" and with that he turned on his heels and walked away.

"All that man ever does is complain," Perdita huffed, picking up Billy's Gameboy

"We cannot blame him, he is on edge since what happened with count vertigo, but he is right, we cannot let you go out until we know how to contact this…Billy person."

Perdita started turning the Gameboy over in her hands, 'how can I contact him…" she mumbled, looking down at the Gameboy as she turned it in her hands, her eyes widened and she smiled, "I found a way!"