WOAH! First chapter! So, I don't own Young Justice, I own Astrid, Sunset22 owns Lydia, Cherryblosssom24 owns Bella, rainbow22 owns Anna, retart3 owns Grace and vanillaautumm98 owns Quanta, kinda a long disclaimer. Also, I own most of the plot but with some help with my awkward friends mentioned previously... This is the sequel to Sorry! Wrong Dimension! And you must have read that for this to make sense... :)
~ Stronger
LYDIA'S POV
Lydia groaned as she woke up on the hard concrete floor.
"Well well well, what do we have here?" The question was followed by psychotic laughter, chilling Lydia to the bone. She looked up at the person who had spoken, seeing green hair, a pale face, blood red lips, and a crowbar. Joker. Without thought, Lydia borrowed Flash's powers, and sped out the dirty warehouse before anyone could comprehend what was going on. She hadn't noticed Nightwing watching from the rafters.
ASTRID'S POV
Astrid woke to darkness. Slowly, her eyes adjusted to the lack of light, letting her see the rock walls surrounding her on all sides. She had no room to spread her wings, so she settled for the next best thing; crawl until she could.
BELLA'S POV
Bella sat up, scanning the surrounding desert. All she could see was sand, and she knew she would die soon in this oven, as the sun beat down. Bella licked her dry lips, picked a direction, and started walking.
ANNA'S POV
Anna looked around her at the bustling city streets. China was a large place, and she had no clue what dimension she was in. She glanced down at her ring, seeing it had stopped with nine minutes to spare. Right, now all she needed was a plan of action.
GRACE'S POV
Grace glanced around at the rainforest, listening to each and every bird call, trying to determine where she was. She decided she was somewhere in the Amazon rainforest. She climbed to the top of a tree, and looked at her surroundings. All she could see for miles was the canopy of trees.
QUANTA'S POV
Quanta knew this place, her parents took her here every year. Boston. After trying her powers, she decided she was on Earth 16, and she also decided it was high time for Boston to have a hero.
LYDIA' S POV
Lydia slowed to a stop beneath a tree in Gotham park. She looked around. It was cloudy night, but no batsignal shining for once. She took a deep breath, and sat down. She could go to Wayne Manor, she was sure Alfred would let her in, call Dick. But she could also just go to the zeta beam and head home. The last thing she recalled was talking to Bella, with nine minutes to spare, with all their stuff already on its way to Earth 16. Then a strange tingling sensation in the pit of her stomach, spreading out and enveloping her body. And finally, blackness.
"Lydia?" A voice asked from the shadows. A voice she recognised.
"Nightwing?" She squinted into the gloom. Nightwing stepped out.
"Thank God you're alright," he pulled her in for a hug.
"What happened?" She stepped away, keeping her hands on his shoulders.
"Your dimension exploded, with you in it," Nightwing looked concerned, even through the mask.
"What about the other girls?" Lydia bit her lip.
"That's just it, we don't know. We thought you were dead," he shook his head.
"Well how about we head back to the cave and finish Christmas? I'm sure the girls will come back, like I have," Lydia reasoned.
"Lydia, it's the 3rd of January. You've been missing for nine days."
"It's possible a combination of the ring and your meta gene brought you back, but we have no way to see if the others are alive. For all we know, they could have appeared in a volcano or something," Nightwing shook his head, continuing his drive to the nearest zeta beam. He was riding his motorbike through Gotham, Lydia clinging tightly to his waist. She didn't fancy being a splat on the road.
"I could try their powers, you know I can't borrow someone's powers if they're dead," Lydia reasoned.
"But you can't borrow Astrid's powers, because of her mark," Nightwing sighed, pulling up outside the abandoned phone booth.
"Didn't you put trackers in the rings? I thought you would, being you..." Lydia smirked as she walked over to the phone booth and opening the door.
"I did! But they may have been fried, and they only narrow it down to a ten mile radius," Lydia transported to the cave, Nightwing close behind.
"We can try," Lydia said flatly, right before she was a assaulted by a multitude of hugs.
"You're alright!" Cassie grinned.
"What happened?" Batgirl asked.
"We thought you were dead!" Karen exclaimed.
"I'm fine, I got back here somehow. We just need to track the other girls and see if they're all right," Lydia said, sending Nightwing a look, telling him to start tracking. He quickly walked over to the questions.
Lydia walked into the centre of the room, and floated up in a water bubble like she had when she first arrived.
"Bella's OK," she sighed, landing again.
"And Anna," she turned visible again.
"Quanta's good too," she let the pen fall, but let it shift density so it fell through the table.
"Grace is fine," she finished, and turned back to Nightwing. Little red dots were blinking all over a map of the globe, never settling in one place for long.
"It can't track them, can it?" Batgirl asked, coming to stand up beside Lydia. Finally, one red dot labelled ´Lydia´ stopped in Happy Harbor, blinking incessantly as other red dots slowed down, but never fully stopped.
"Well we know my ring works," Lydia sighed.
"Let's go to bed, it may have found them by the morning," Nightwing decided. They regretfully made their way to bed, all having a lot to think about.
GRACE' S POV
Grace slowly made her way through the dense trees, making slow progress. She had found a Swiss army knife wedged into the bark if a tree, and she had taken it by shifting its density, and she was using it to cut the undergrowth when it got too thick. She glanced around, still seeing no signs of humanity. She sighed, and got back to hacking at the plants.
QUANTA'S POV
Quanta looked at her handiwork. A homemade green domino mask, a green dress and black leggings, as close as she could get to her Kinesis outfit with out seeming suspicious. She glanced up and out of the alley she had been sitting in for the majority of the day, and saw the sun setting. Kineses was about to make a reappearance, but this time, in Boston.
ANNA'S POV
The Chinese airport was full of people. An invisible Anna watched the departure screen, waiting for it to change to English. When it did, she noted a flight was leaving in an hour, for Metropolis.
ASTRID' S POV
It was all the same, darkness and rock. The cave was cold, and you could hear the drip drip drip of water echoing from somewhere down a dark tunnel. Astrid still had no clue what time it day it was, and still didn't have enough room to spread her wings and teleport away.
BELLA' S POV
The sand sunk slightly under every step she took, as slowly steam rose from her body and into the air. Being 95% water instead of the usual 80%, she was much more susceptible to heat, evaporation and dehydration. The sun was still high in the sky, and Bella sighed, but carried on walking.
