loveontherocks:

It was a pretty normal Sunday in Chicago, home of the New Guardians.  Fortunately, for the novice super-heroes and possibly future guardians of humanity and the emotional spectrum, it had been a fairly quiet period for them, giving them time to live their lives, do a little heroing here and there, and otherwise do what they could.

A lazy Sunday, the perfect time for a baseball game on the television.   Cubs vs. the Star City Rockets.  Current score, Cubs 2, Rockets 1.  Bottom of the fifth, two men on, two strikes, a long single and...

"SAFE?!  How is that  safe?!  That ball was there way ahead of him!"