HELLO THERE, Yes this is a new thing and I did draw the cover all on my own. I am trying to rush through this so I can post this first chapter properly, so sorry if anything inconsistent. This idea is based on one of OrangeWolf4 who did a wonderful job (GO READ IT), I just wanted to see what I could do with the idea as I love this kind of stuff. Please tell me if anything is wrong or weird. I did not have a beta go over this cause I was just too excited! I hope you enjoy and leave a review on what you think! I haven't seen YJ or DP in a while, so tell me if anything is wrong. (i think the empt thing is wrong tbh)
There are lots of things that the team does together. Fun days, saving lives, having plans that in the end don't really work and they have to improvise but disobeying orders and going against what the league says is at the top of their list for the things they do the most together. Robin calls it 'team bonding and learning how to work with each other under stressful situations' but no one really believes that. It stresses Kaldur'ahm out all the same but when Kid Flash gets antsy there is no stopping or denying him what he wants. It goes downhill the moment he has nothing to do.
They hadn't had a mission all month, everything was quiet from the league. Red Tornado was the only one who gave them ideas for things to do. Helping M'gann cook, build something, exercise, solve a cold case, do homework; all of which were completely normal things to let a set of restless teenagers do. When a week of radio silence, even from Red Tornado went by like a slug doing a marathon, everyone was antsy.
Robin was spiraled all over the couch pressing random buttons on his wristwatch computer, searching through league files to see what could be keeping them all so secretive and busy, but nothing stood out to him at the moment.
Kid Flash was practicing his speed speak at the request of his mentor. So he listened to podcasts at the highest speed he could get them. He was scowling as he kept rewinding what he was hearing to get it right.
Artemis wasn't there yet, saying she had something better to do and would be back later.
Superboy was watching static, absentmindedly petting Wolf on the head. Sphere was relaxing elsewhere, probably recharging from the roughhousing everyone was doing yesterday.
M'gann was baking as always. Trying out a lemon marang pie for Superboy to try if it turned out, humming to the tune of "Hello Megan" while she worked.
Kaldur was reading, as always. Nothing special.
Robin stopped clicking and went back a few files, reading it over. "Thermos" was all it said like the League didn't have enough information on the case to give it a specific name.
"What the…?" He muttered as he read it, sitting up from his spot taking up most of the space on the couch. Adjusting his sunglasses.
"What's up?" Kid Flash asked, wanting to do anything else then listen to the same chipmunk sounds.
"Guys, I think this is some kind of undeveloped mission the league has. It doesn't have a lot other than a location and a few notes." Robin said, getting everyone's attention. Everyone stopped what they were doing quickly, excited that there might be something for them to do, finally.
"Okay, what's it say?"
"One sec…" He muttered, more tapping and clicking as Robin gathered as much information as he could as fast as he could.
"Looks like some kind of abandoned area in Illinois. A ghost town set for demolition later this year."
"Why would the league have a mission file on something like that?" Kaldur'ahm asked, getting interested in what his teammates were looking at.
"Let's see, Amity Park…." Robin trailed off as his expression changed from curiosity to a mix of worry and shock. His friends could see it easily.
"Spit it out already." Kid Flash encouraged his friend.
"It looks like something weird is going on. They think a meteor hit it and gave it some kind of radiation glow a few months ago." Robin explained showing them a picture of the destroyed city with what looked like a faint glow.
"What do you think it could be, aliens?" He asked, he glanced over at M'gann and away quickly. "No offense." He muttered.
"Oh, none taken." She responded with a small smile.
"Well? What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Kid Flash said, already hyped for a mission.
"Waiting for what?" Artemis asked, from behind the couch. She had just arrived, the team's excitement leaving the zeta beam unnoticed by everyone.
"Rob found us a mission!" Kid answered
"What is it?" She asked nonchalantly.
"It doesn't matter what it is. We will wait for league orders before we do anything." Kaldur'ahm stated.
Kaldur shook his head, sighing, seriously wondering how they had managed to convince him to do this. You'd think after all the times he's been scolded by Batman that he would have learned his lesson.
Instead of sitting back at the mountain waiting for a mission, they took it upon themselves to find their own mission. Robin reasoned that they wouldn't even notice that they had left. M'gann reassuring them that her Uncle wouldn't be able to notice their absence from such a distance. All of them in uniform and theorizing what could be causing the glow over the ghost town.
They were maybe five miles out when M'gann said she started feeling something weird.
"Weird like, hungry or weird like martian weird?" Kid Flash asked.
"Like something is close weird. It might be coming from the town, we are pretty close." She said, looking out the ship slightly worried and doubting their reasoning to go out on this 'mission.'
"Could it be some kind of metahuman?" Artemis asked, things like these rare, but have happened before based on stories she's heard from Green Arrow.
"Possibly. Once we get closer, maybe I can get some readings before we go in." Robin said, setting up his wrist computer to do just that, but when he pressed 'launch' the readings were already high on the charts.
"Wow." He muttered. He'd never seen any kind of radioactive reading be this strong from such a large distance and not even five seconds later did his computer starts fritzing like some kind of EMF had been set up but with a really far distance. The ship began to shake.
"Something is pulling me down!" M'gann shouted as the ship started to crash and she lost control of it. Everyone was screaming, Wolf was doing his best to not fall over. M'gann scowled and grabbed ahold of the steering bars and began pulling, using all of her mental power to try and get them to land as safely as possible.
They crashed into the dirt and skidded forward to a stop. Everyone was out of breath from screaming and the general rocking of the ship, like it was lost at sea during a hurricane.
"Is everyone okay?!" Kaldur'ahm asked, getting up from his seat to help his friends out, who had the wind knocked out of them by the very same belts.
"Alive, at least..." Artemis said, getting herself out of the seat and standing up before putting her hands on her knees and catching her breath.
"What was that?" Kid Flash asked as they all gathered around.
"I have no idea. It's was like something just took control over the ship and kicked me out of the mind link?" She did her best to explain but it was unlike anything she'd ever experienced.
"Well, we better find out what it was. I have a bad feeling." Superboy said, walking towards the door. It opened and everyone followed him and Wolf.
The city was dark and gloomy, buildings falling apart at the pipes. Everything was covered in thick layers of dust, caked-on by time. This place didn't seem to have seen rain in a very long time. The faint green glow left Robin's tech completely useless, everyone else testing theirs as well. Kid Flash's goggles didn't work and their coms weren't much help either, all of them just static. Everyone cracked a glowstick to help them
"Looks like we are on our own till the ship is back in commission. M'gann, can you hide the ship?" Aqualad asked.
Miss. Martian nodded, closing her eyes quickly.
"Okay, it's behind a building and in lockdown mode." She gave a small smile. Kaldue nodded.
"Alright, we need a plan," Aqualad said looking around. "We have no idea what we are looking for, and with Robin's wrist watch not working we have no idea where we are going. Superboy, do you hear anything?"
Superboy closed his eyes for a minute. Listening, blocking out their own heartbeats. He heard something faint.
"I hear something but I have no idea what it is." He said looking around trying to find out where it was coming from.
"What does it sound like?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know, it sounds like a kind of buzz?" He did his best to describe it but knew he was failing miserably.
"Why don't we just follow it and see where it takes us? We can look around from there." Aqualad explained, everyone gave a nod. "M'gann link us up if you can. Everyone, stay close."
They began walking, Wolf smelling everything to try and find a discernable scent, but nothing came up.
"Good thing we left Sphere at the mountain," Wally said, looking through his goggles as they graphics glitched in and out.
"Yeah. Hardly anything is working." Robin responded.
"Guys, I think Wolf got something!" Artemis said, quickly following after Wolf, who had begun to pick up the pace.
"Follow him!" Aqualad said. Everyone did as commanded. Robin grappled up to taller buildings, going off on his own, taking watch from the above, being careful to avoid anything that could collapse. Miss. Martain went higher to see if she could get a better view through all the dust and trying to sense something.
'Guys, I think I sense some kind of life force.' Miss. Martian said through the mind-link.
'KF, Artemis, go with Miss. M. Robin, Superboy and I will stay with Wolf.' Aqualad said. Everyone agreed and they parted ways. The dust covering the teams up from each other as they separated.
They searched for what felt like forever with the dust everywhere. They were half expecting something to show up and attack them from the unknown, but no sort of jump scare happened, they didn't bother going inside the houses, creeped out enough by just the outside look of the houses.
'Guys, I think Wolf found something.' Superboy said, through the mind link.
'So did we.' Robin responded.
For Aqualad's set of team members, it was what looked like a brick house, dust-covered and faded sign hanging from the front. Aqualad nodded at Superboy and drew his water-bearers, swords forming and giving little light from their Atlantean glow. Artemis drawing an arrow and readying her bow. Superboy pushed open the door, Artemis and Aqualad scouted the area, confirming it was safe to enter so far. Wolf rushed in at the signal. Nose to the ground as he sniffed everything he could. The three humans looked around.
The house was a disaster. Papers and glass were strewn everywhere, furniture ripped up like some kind of rabid animal had been through.
Artemis tried to find something that would tell her about who lived here. Aqualad picked up some papers and began reading them.
"These look like formulas, for what I have no idea. Robin would have better luck at this than me." He admitted.
"Hey, I think I found a photo," Artemis said, picking up a frame. The glass was broken, originated from one of the faces. It looked like a family. The crack came out of the son's face from the looks of it. She removed the photo to search for a name. It was smeared to the point it was unreadable.
Wolf started growling, starling everyone.
"What is it, boy?" Superboy asked, watching the oversized haunches of Wolf rise and him snarl at what looked like a staircase.
"Everyone went silent. Artemis drew an arrow, Aqualad readied his water bearers. Scary movie night not giving them any survival advice for this situation. Superboy walked forward with no fear of what could be there.
Artemis followed after Aqualad, gulping as they moved down the creaky stairs, half expecting something to move or jump at them, half expecting something the blow-up. Superboy grabbed his glow-stick when they got to the bottom of the stairs.
"It's getting louder," Superboy muttered, following the sound without a second thought. "It's this. This is what is making that noise." He said, standing in front of what looked like a welded shut door. At least ten feet tall and nine feet wide.
"What is it? Some kind of vault?" Artemis asked, standing next to her teammates.
"Perhaps. We should check in with Robin and the others." Aqualad said before they did anything else. Artemis nodded and moved to check the many counters around the large room.
'Robin, Miss. Martian, Kid Flash. Can you hear me?' Aqualad asked.
'Yeah, did you find something?' Kid Flash asked.
'Yeah, some kind of lab underneath a house.' Aqualad answered.
'Any idea who it belongs to?' Robin asked.
'No, not yet. We'll keep looking, but what did you guys find?'
For Robin's set of team members, they followed Miss. Martian till they made it to some kind of school. It was completely trashed. Like something went straight through it and crashed behind it.
They ran around and followed the damage to what they guessed was causing the glitches and the glow. It was in fact, a huge crater with what looked like a chunk of space dust inside of it, glowing a luminescent green.
The three stood on the edge of the massive crater, wondering what they should do. Whatever it was, was glowing and brightly.
"I think whatever it is, is encased in something." Miss. Martain said.
"Should we grab it or call the league? What if we get radiation poisoning or something?" Kid Flash asked.
"Lift it with your powers M'gann." Robin asked, going with KF on the fact they probably shouldn't directly touch it.
"What are we going to do with it? We don't have anything to contain it in." Miss. Martain said, hesitating on using her powers to lift the things that may have caused their crash.
"We can make a shield around it till we get a protective evidence box from the cave," Robin said, getting impatient. He felt that something was off but didn't want to leave a possible alien item out in the open like this.
"Alright, but I think this is what caused me to crash the ship," M'gann said, putting her hands in front of her and getting ready for any kind of mental resistance, but when she compelled it to move her eyes widened and she let out a gasp, causing her to drop the thing, the few inches she had managed to pick it up.
"What's wrong!?" Kid Flash asked, moving to M'gann's side to support her. She looked pale.
"I felt something, something...something alive, with emotions. Whatever it wants to be free!" She said, getting her footing again and using all the power she had to lift the item again and bring it out of the crater. She held it above their heads and made a force field around it. More emotions started flooding from it, whatever it was.
"Whatever it is, must be sentient," Robin said. He opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted by the mind link.
'We have an issue! Get back to the ship with whatever you found if you can!' Kaldur said. He sounded out of breath and worried. He was running.
'Hurry!' Artemis sent.
'What's going on?!' Robin asked, all of them already making their way through the ruined city to get back to the ship.
'Big, scary, green, monster thing!' Was the only description they got from Artemis.
"Let's go, they need our help!" Robin said, hurrying up his pace, wishing he had his bike instead of going on foot, hurtling over debris and jumping over abandoned cars. Kid Flash didn't bother to keep pace with them, hurrying to help Artemis.
They met each other eventually to see Superboy hurtling a car at whatever was following them through the dust. The three could see some kind of outline, glowing green and huge.
"To the ship!" Aqualad commanded. They were almost there.
Kid Flash picked up Artemis who was starting to fall behind.
"Hey!" She complained.
"No time, gotta run." Kid Flash said, not even bothering to bicker with her right then. Artemis gave and instead short an electricity arrow backward, aiming for the towering figure that was stomping after them, snarling and barking at them.
The arrow lit up the area slightly and she got a pretty good look at what was chasing them. It was a huge, green dog, bounding towards them. Artemis almost let out a scream if it wasn't for Kid Flash sending himself flying into the ship and dropping her as the ship was sent backward by the beast that was chasing them.
"M'gann, fly us out of here!"
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AND THERE WE GO. I hope you enjoyed. I'm going to finish up and go to BED, damn, it's almost 20 till one and I have school :\
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