The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

There's something I don't understand.

Sitting cross-legged by the window, Red Robin Tim awkwardly adjusted the tightness of his bow tie while questioning Lee Jung, who was holding her phone diagonally in front of him.

"We're going to a superhero party, shouldn't we all be wearing our own special superhero costumes?"

Upon hearing this, Li Zhen put down her phone and glanced at Rachel, who was wearing a dark dress and maintained a near-adult figure, beside her.

Strictly speaking, the idea came from Rachel, and Lee Jung did want to see how Rachel would accept new things, so he used some of his instructor privileges to dress all the young Titans except Donna Troy in a rather formal suit.

So he began to refute Tim's questions.

"That's enough. In order for you to participate in this party in a decent manner, your instructor not only used his personal savings and spent an entire day to expedite the purchase of expensive dresses for you, but also specially chartered a cross-city bus."

Li Zhen turned around and pointed at Tim.

"You should feel more gratitude than doubt."

Tim immediately rolled his eyes.

"Instructor, does your 'little stash' refer to the enormous sum Batman transferred to your account before he disappeared? Or is it the small amount you've actually saved up through hard work since arriving on Earth?"

"Hey! Hey! The source of the funds isn't important, okay? What I hope you can see is that I've really made some changes and I care about everyone." Li Zhen turned around and picked up his phone again. Recently, Rachel had been very keen on getting him to register on various social media platforms and to use the photos of them in matching outfits that were taken yesterday as their couple profile pictures.

Having not used her phone properly for so many years, Li Zhen clicked each button with exceptional focus.

Tim closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"I can only warn you in advance that if you arrive and find that everyone else besides us is wearing their own superhero costumes, then Donna might be the only one in the entire Teen Titans who won't feel awkward."

Of course, Li Zhen had no prejudice. Rachel had also called Donna while shopping yesterday to ask her about her favorite colors and styles.

Donna frankly stated that she was not used to the clothing habits of ordinary Earthlings, so she found a white Paradise Island short skirt that she had brought herself from her dormitory.

Thanks to the unique culture of Paradise Island, this retro-style white dress has no sleeves and an extremely short hem, with all design elements geared towards facilitating quick switching between battle scenes.

Therefore, Donna Troy's outfit today can be considered both a unique formal dress and a special style of superhero costume.

The intercity bus soon fell silent again.

The teenagers, who had been away from normal life for a long time, were incredibly excited about the party that night. Throughout the journey, only Tim briefly mentioned his doubts about clothing choices.

Half an hour later, the bus stopped at the outer entrance of the New York Justice Hall.

Tim pulled back the car curtain that had been used to block out the last rays of the setting sun, and peeked inside. "Great, it looks like nobody else is dressed in civilian clothes except for us."

"That's enough, Tim. They're just chatting outside in the lobby. The party doesn't start for another ten minutes or so. How do you know what everyone inside is wearing?"

Li Zhen, leading Rachel, got out of the car first. Then, amidst the slightly strange looks and greetings from a group of superheroes, both familiar and unfamiliar, she led the expensively and overly ornately dressed teenage Titans straight into the Hall of Justice.

It was clear that everyone had relaxed a lot since Batman returned. Lee Jung also learned that the storage room that had been specially cleaned up today was originally intended to provide a social and relaxing place for the Justice League's growing organization.

Before the trust crisis occurred, Li Zhen had just experienced the time when the Justice Hall's business was transferred to the Watchtower, so he was unaware that the Justice Hall had originally planned for this—

A humane place.

It can be seen that the Teen Titans arrived relatively late; it seems that most of the superheroes had arrived earlier, except for the three Flashes from Central City.

The worst part is that Tim was right about everything.

Apart from the members of the Teen Titans, almost all the other superheroes were wearing uniforms, and everyone was looking at them with even stranger eyes than outsiders.

Rachel was visibly disappointed.

In contrast, Tim's expression was already starting to smug.

He couldn't wait to step forward and thoroughly ridicule Li Zhen's predictions about social etiquette, and to reclaim his authority as leader in any similar situations that might arise in the future. "I've experienced it for myself; it seems today was indeed inappropriate."

After muttering something, Rachel's black magic flashed, and she transformed her dress into her familiar shawl robe.

Li Zhen took responsibility for her misjudgment and turned to apologize to the other young Titans.

"I admit I messed up this time. Of course, if anyone wants to keep wearing this outfit, that's fine too. I don't think we need to care about what other people think."

Even so, Li Zhen magically transformed her neatly dressed black suit into a pure white combat uniform in a flash.

Hai Mei carefully took off her coat while comforting Li Zhen.

"It's alright, instructor. What I mean is, who would be so strict with an alien? At least you've actually done some serious research on Earth's party culture, haven't you?"

The scarab on her back activated instantly, and Jaime, switching back to her blue scarab armor, carefully draped the dress coat she had just taken off over her arm.

"I think I can keep this outfit for my college graduation party, or for the opening ceremony of my private clinic in the future."

Tim, who had already stepped forward to poke Lee Jung and mock her, finally sensed that something was wrong.

He glared angrily at the three men who had seamlessly switched into uniforms that matched the theme of today's party, and hurriedly tried to rally the other "fools" into a united front.

What he saw next was even more despairing. Tula lightly touched the Atlantis symbol necklace on her chest, and her light blue dress quickly transformed into a tight-fitting suit with a sharkskin-like texture amidst the blue-glowing ripples.

"Don't look at me like that, Captain. Nanosuit technology is already somewhat outdated in Atlantis."

Mal and Mia unbuttoned their collars, revealing the lightweight, powered body armor they had been wearing for months and never took off.

Donna, who was already wearing the Paradise Island-themed white dress from Punishing: Gray Raven, had already walked to the table a few meters away and started choosing a drink.

Tim reached out a hand to Billy, who was wearing a shiny tuxedo, for help.

"Hey! Billy, my good buddy, please don't say that word!"

"Well, captain, there's no way around it, the party always has to fit the theme... Shazam!"

Tim's desperate gaze finally fell on Lilith, who always wore a bright green nightgown-like dress.

The golden-haired girl with the prophecy smiled sweetly at him.

"Captain, I'm not in charge of external combat, so I've never had a uniform, or you can think of this as my uniform."

Now, after looking down and confirming that he was the only one wearing the flashy and sparkly dress, which was also so expensive that he couldn't bear to damage it, Tim realized he had truly become "Red" Robin. He looked at Lee Jung with a pained expression.

"Unbelievable! The first Earth culture our alien instructor learned was how to organize others to bully me!" "What?! This is absolutely a malicious and slanderous accusation!"

Li Zhen vehemently rejected the idea.

"Today's party is hosted by Superman and Batman, remember? And you, as Robin, didn't know that a superhero-themed party hosted by Batman should include an extra superhero costume?"

The other young Titans beside him nodded in agreement.

"Yes, we've prepared extra."

"Captain, you're so careless."

"How can you blame the instructor?"