Hey guys! Sorry it took a while for me to get the new story up but I was at camp then on vacation and I've just been all around busy. But i have finally posted the first chapter so yay! Also, on my other story, Comet Power, I accidentally put it in the young justice comics category and not the young justice cartoon category, sorry, I didn't know there was a difference until my friend pointed it out to me. This is the sequel to Comet Power so if you haven't read it yet, you should because it's awesome. As I have said before, this story uses the same oc's as dustydarkangel's My Young Justice (used with permission) so you should read that first.

Disclaimer: I do not own young justice (but if I ever do, you'll be the first to know)

Jay was at a benefit dinner with her parents. She was wearing a shimmery long black evening gown that her parents had picked out for her, she hated dresses. She had been shaking the hands of random fancy business people all night. Usually her best friend, Dick Grayson, was at these fancy parties too, also forced, and that made them more tolerable, but he wasn't here tonight, making the party incredibly boring. Jay followed her parents as they went and stood by one of the windows. At the moment there was nobody saying hello or wanting to shake hands with the best business people in Gotham or their "adorable little kid". She was thirteen, not eight! She was glad for the momentary peace. It's amazing just how short momentary can be, for at that moment of peace, a comet came crashing down nearby and the window they were standing next to blew inward from the shockwave. The entire building shook and Jay was thrown out of the shattered window. She twisted around and caught the sill with one hand before she fell. Inside, everyone was screaming and running around frantically. Her parents hadn't seen her fly out the window at first, but now they were turned around, looking at her. Jay called out to them, "Quick! Help pull me up! I'm losing my grip!"

Her parents just stood there, looking at her with an eerie calmness. Jay's fingers were starting to slip and she began to grow more panicked, "Don't just stand there! Help me!"

Again she was met with cold, emotionless stares. She couldn't understand it. She went to all of their stupid events, never complaining to them about it, she had never once let them down or failed them yet they wouldn't help her now, when she needed them the most. Now she was holding on with just her fingertips. She looked at her parents with tears and desperation in her eyes, "Mommy, Daddy, please." she whimpered.

Then her parents, showing no sympathy or even emotion at all, turned around and began to walk away. They had turned their backs on her with no one else to help her, no one at all. Her best school friend, Dick, hadn't even bothered to show up and her other two best friends, Anna Marie and April, who she had known since she was a kid, who had promised to always be there for her, weren't even in the same city. A feeling of hopelessness and abandonment washed over her as her last bit of grip failed and she fell. She wasn't too sad to scream though, "AAAIIEEEEE!" She flew through the air, the solid concrete rushing up at her. All she could think was, "There's no one left. I'm all alone."

Jay awoke sweaty and shivering. She had been having this dream so often lately. Her door flew open and the entire team plus her two best friends came rushing in. Normally she would have scrambled for her sunglasses but her eyes had recently been altered to a black and blue color combination and her friends had seen them after a villain had unmasked her and put her in a hospital for nearly a month. "Sparrow! Are you okay?" asked April, clearly worried.

"We heard you screaming and came to make sure everything was alright." added M'gann.

Jay hadn't realized that she had been screaming out loud this time, the dreams were getting distinctively worse and more realistic. "I'm fine. Bad dream, that's all." she apologized.

Her teammates looked relieved and left, except for Anna and April. They still looked worried. "I'm fine guys, really." she reassured them again. They still seemed a bit suspicious but they left anyway. They knew her too well. After they left, Jay looked at her alarm clock, which read 5:38 a.m., and sighed. It was too late to go back to bed now, not that she really wanted to or even thought she could for that matter. She walked into her bathroom to wash her face, maybe that would make her feel better. She looked at her eyes in the mirror. They had changed color on that fateful night when Ninja Master had captured them, her dreams had started shortly after, Jay figured it was just because of the trauma and would wear off soon enough, nothing to worry about, not really. The dreams weren't always the same but one thing was consistent, she was always hurt by the ones she loved most and it usually ended in death for her. She never would've thought it was related to the recent kidnapping at all except for trauma were it not for the fact that the dreams had started directly after the incident and her eyes changing color. They were starting to get more serious, at first they were simple, small things, recollection of her parents throwing her out, images of her friends betraying her, of Robin hating her, and even Dick making fun of her. But then the dreams had progressively grown worse and more violent, more realistic. The most frequent was one about her parents letting her die as her friends just watched, never helping her, never coming to her aid. She almost feared going to sleep at night since the dreams were practically guaranteed. But there was another thing that was worrying her, a slight feeling she kept having. A feeling of a sort of darkness invading her mind. It invaded her dreams, whispering things, Maybe she would ask M'gann if there was anything she could do later, but for now, she could handle it by herself, they were just dreams and she didn't want to look like a baby in front of her friends. They already considered her that way since she was the shortest and one of the two youngest on the team.

Later that morning in the common room while Jay was still training, the entire team was talking about Sparrow's recent, odd behavior. "She has been so withdrawn and distant recently." remarks Kaldur.

"Yeah, ever since that incident with Ninja Master that sent her to the hospital for a month." adds Robin.

"I hope she is okay." M'gann said worriedly.

"Guys," interrupted Anna, "she'll be perfectly fine. The only reason she doesn't want to tell us if anything's wrong is because she's afraid you'll treat her like a little kid. The same way you did when she was in the hospital."

"We did not!" protested M'gann protested.

"You gave her a teddy bear in case she "got lonely"." April pointed out.

At that moment, Jay walks into the room, "Hey guys, what'cha talkin' about?"

"Not you that's for sure!" Wally says quickly.

Jay raises an eyebrow then shrugs and walks into the kitchen to get something to eat.

"Go talk to her." urges Wally to Anna and April.

"No way, you go!" April whispers back.

"She's your best friend!" he argues back.

"Oh, fine!" she and Anna walk over to Jay, "Hey Sparrow, we just wanted to ask you-" Anna starts but then she gets cut off as a message from Batman tells them to meet him in the training room for a mission assignment. "Sorry Anna, you'll have to tell me later." Jay says before heading to the training room.

"Oh, yeah, later." April says dejectedly, unable to remember a time when Jay had ever not wanted to talk to them, well, unless Anna just wouldn't shut up, and even then she never just ignored them and walked away.

It was a simple mission, there was word of a group of common criminals doing illegal drug deals. They were supposed to quietly shut it down, easy enough. The team had split up and they were all waiting and watching from different vantage points at the docks in a section of abandoned warehouses. Miss M had linked them all telepathically, which was, for some reason, making Jay's head hurt. She figured it was probably just a headache and dismissed it without telling anyone, she did NOT want to look like a kid. After nearly an hour of waiting, the criminals finally showed up. There were two groups of about five each. All of them were wearing hooded cloaks which was a little odd but not enough to raise any real suspicion. None of them noticed another figure hiding out in the shadows or that all of the crooks except one looked the exact same under their cloaks. The team watched in silence for a while, completely unnoticed, or so they thought. Then one of the villains separated from the group and headed into a back alley about four warehouses away. "I'll take care of him." Sparrow thought to the others, "Ow, that hurts." she added, momentarily forgetting that they could all hear her thoughts.

"Are you alright Sparrow?" asked Miss Martian.

"I'm fine." she says quickly, "It's just a headache."

They all look at her with concern, they were treating her like a kid again. She quickly heads off after the villain before they can say (or more accurately think) anything else. As soon as she caught up to him she saw that he was just standing there. She leapt from the rooftop where she'd been hiding, this was just too easy. She landed facing the hooded figure's back. Suddenly he turned around and removed his cloak, she instantly recognized him. "Multi-man." she gasped, no wonder it had been so easy, it was trap!

"That's right and I'm not alone!" he answered with a sickly happy smile.

She whirled around as Mastermind stepped from the shadows behind her. She tried to telepathically warn the others but was met with a sharp pain in her mind. "Uhn." she stumbled from the psychic blow.

"Uh uh uh." said mastermind evilly, "We can't have you warning your friends now can we? Then all of our effort would go to waste." he kept psychically attacking the young hero.

Sparrow was on her hands and knees now, the pain was so great. "W-what...what do you...w-want." she managed to say weakly.

"At this moment, nothing. Watching your pain is more than enough." he replied, "This was simply a test, to see if my hold on your mind was intact. I believe it is safe to say that it is due to your obvious discomfort." he grinned wickedly as he attacked her yet again, harder this time.

Sparrow gritted her teeth against the intense pain, "W-why...why are y-you...telling me...th-this..." she was barely conscious.

"Because you won't remember any of it." he stated calmly, "And then you will surrender your free will to me as I make you destroy your precious friends."

"N-never..." finally the pain was too much and she couldn't take it any more. She screamed in agony before collapsing onto the ground in a heap, passed out.

"We shall see my little nemesis, we shall see." and then, to Multi-man, "Our work here is done. Go fetch Muscleman, we are leaving." Multi-man saluted playfully before running off.

(a few minutes earlier)

The others were unable to stop Sparrow as she ran off to take care of the stray bad guy. "I'll go make sure she's okay." offers Artemis as she sees the others' worried expressions. As soon as she has left the others continue to track the villains, thinking that they are following them to their secret hideout, but then the largest figure stops and the others follow suit. "We know you are here little heroes." he says in a deep voice.

"Wait! I know that voice!" April says out loud, realization starting to dawn on her.

"I should hope so little water pixie!" roars Muscleman as he removes his cloak along with the other figures, all exact copies of Multi-man.

Despite the situation, Kid Flash can't help laughing, "Water Pixie?" he asks Shimmer while stifling another laugh.

"Shut up." She says back, she hated that nickname.

Then both teams begin to attack each other. They are still fighting when another multi-man comes bounding in, a giddy smile on his face, "C'mon boys, let's clean up!" He yells before turning around and walking off.

"You will not get away so easily." says Aqualad as he charges the villain, water-bearers in hand. Before he can land a hit on the retreating criminal, Multi-man splits into two forms of himself, making the attack miss. Then the Multi-men suddenly turn around, both hitting him in the face simultaneously and knocking him out. "One down." he says, the smile never leaving his face as he absorbs his other form back into his own.

The rest of the team was engaged in battle with the other enemies, though they were being quickly overpowered. Kid Flash charged at Muscleman, running circles around him and trying to distract or confuse him. But Muscleman simply stuck out his foot making KF trip over it. Then he picked him up and threw him towards April, who was hovering nearby and trying to freeze him. The collision sent them both flying backwards into a stack of crates and sending them crashing on top of their already unconscious forms. Miss Martian was hovering at a safe distance from Muscleman's fists. She was trying to take control of his mind and knock him out. Suddenly, Multi-man flew up in front of her, "Whatcha doin'?" he split in two, "Ooooh, tryin' to take out the big guns." he split again, "havin' any luck?" he kept splitting, each Multi-man saying something different, all at the same time.

There were too many thoughts in her head, overloading her senses. Finally, it was to much and she passed out. "Two for me!" he said happily.

Superboy saw this and charged at Multi-man but as he was right behind him and about to hit him, Multi-man quickly turned around holding a glowing green rock. Superboy felt his strength starting to drain, it was kryptonite! "I don't think so, Supey!" said Multi-man, "Mastermind thought you might show up, so we came prepared!" he laughed before multiplying into at least ten versions of himself, who started hitting, kicking, and beating up Superboy. Then one of them stepped forward, "Nighty-night!" he said before kicking Superboy in the head, knocking him unconscious. "Yippee! That's three for me!"

Robin was vaguely aware that only he and sunstroke were left as he dodged blows from the deadly Muscleman, "Sunstroke, we need a plan." he whispered to her.

"Got anything in mind?" she grunted as she blocked a fist with a forcefield.

"Actually I do, but you're not going to like it."

"I don't really think it matters at this point whether I like the plan or not!" she yelled.

"Fine, distraction." he said quickly before darting off.

"Wait. Wha-uhn!" she never had time to finish her sentence because Multi-man had snuck up behind her and, with a swift kick to the head, she was out like a light.

Robin sighed, so much for that plan. He used his grappling hook to get onto a very tall warehouse roof where he perched, contemplating what to do next. He had a lot less time than he thought though. He looked down to see Muscleman literally flying toward him, "Wait, he can fly too!? Am I the only one here who can't fly?!" Before he could move, Muscleman's fist collided with Robin's chin, his head snapped backwards and he slid off the roof, hitting the ground with a sickening thud.

"You clean up well, my friend." joked Multi-man with a snicker.

Artemis had just seen this unknown villain take down one of her teammates without even having to touch her. She wasn't about to take any chances with this guy, she notched an arrow (non-lethal) into her bow and let it fly. The arrow was perfectly on target, though it never reached him, instead it stopped inches away and clattered to the ground uselessly. "Ah, the little archer. I had been wondering when you would show yourself." He said calmly as he turned to face her.

She leapt from the roof and just as calmly answered back, "Wasn't going to, until you messed with my friend." she gestured at Sparrow.

"Ah, yes. Poor bird."

"What did you do to her!" Artemis snaps.

"The little bird seemed tired, so I told her to rest for a while. In fact, you look as if you could use some rest as well."

Before Artemis could register what was happening, she began to grow tired. Her mind became foggy with exhaustion and her eyelids drooped, she yawned and, within a few seconds she was lying on the ground, snoring softly. Mastermind knelt down beside the older teen, touching her forehead, he closed his eyes and began to alter her memories of the events that had just taken place. Then he erased all of Sparrow's memories of the whole adventure, "Soon, my little bird, we will be fighting on the same side." He slowly stood up, "Then I will finally be rid of the team of sidekicks and your pesky partners." And with a swoop of his cape, he and his partners in crime flew off into the night.

Thanks for reading and I hope you like the first chapter! The next chapter will be up very soon! Please review because reviews are a totally awesome incentive and a big thanks to my other reviewers, dustydarkangel, The Violet Assasin, and anonymous guest!