A/N: Hi! This is my first Young Justice fic and my second time writing a fic soooooo please be nice. Actually, don't be nice. I need honest criticism...But nice would be prefered. No flames? Did I use that term correctly? Whatever, I'm babbling. Anyways, that last episode completely threw me off guard. Just...why? We trusted you Green Beetle! We trusted you! And poor Jaime...He has gone through too much bullshit. Did anyone else notice how close Jaime and Bart got? Like, maybe we actually do have a chance at seeing them gay for eachother. Pffffft, of course we don't. If Cartoon Network showed 'gay' couples, some closed-minded parents or kids some where would throw a shit-fit. I've been talking too long. Sorry!

Jaime was trying to pay attention, he really was, but it was proving to be difficult. Nightwing continued to give an extremely long speech about the new knowledge of the Reach, which Jaime knew he should be listening to but he couldn't, and somehow didn't notice that Blue Beetle was slowly crumbling where he stood. The whole Team listened eagerly to Nightwing as he went on and on about the aliens, but Jaime was unable to. His heartbeat was too loud to ignore and the blood pumping in his ears didn't help. Everything was blurry, he could only make out blobs of what he assumed were his teammates, and the world spun so viguriously that Jaime was surprised he was still standing. He was sweating terribly and with every shaky breath he could almost taste the musky salt. He trembled violently, but then he realized, he couldn't move.

His arms were crossed across his chest and he had a blank expression painted across his features, but he was frozen like that. He couldn't move. He couldn't lift his arms, couldn't move his legs, couldn't move. Hell, he wasn't even blinking on his own. This scared him even more. He didn't understand why, or how, or when but it was happening. And it didn't look like it was stopping.

He wanted to reach out and make somebody just look at him but he wasn't in control of his body. He wanted to scream because everything was starting to hurt now and he was scared. Terrified. But he chose to stand in the back that day so no one would notice until it was too late. He was yelling internally, as if doing so would catch somebody's attention, but the only one who would hear him was Miss Martian and she was uncomfortable using psychic links after they got Aqualad back. Jaime felt his chest constrict as air was slowly drained from him. His eyes would have widened if he could actually move them.

Jaime Reyes...

His heart sunk.

Kahjii Dah..?

The Reach...has put us...Don't trust the Green...Why have you betrayed us?

Wha-what?

I-I tried to stop it...Too powerful...too weak...

I don't understand-

MODE

A sudden pain shot up his spine and he felt as if it was being ripped out of his back, but his body didn't react. His body didn't even flinch. He felt thousands of thick, sharp needles tear out every vertebre in his back bone and the shock waves echoed in his head, but he didn't move. Miss Martian shrieked, catching everybody off guard, and fell to her knees, clutching her head and wailing as her eyes glowed green, but Jaime. Couldn't. Move. The pain was more intense now, travelling from his spine to his organs and slicing them apart. They felt like they were collapsing in on themselves, but were filled with acid that leaked everywhere on his insides and burnt the tissue. Nobody noticed though.

Most of his teammates surrounded the Martian on the floor, who was screaming at the top of her lungs in agony, but some stood idly off to the side, unsure of what to do. M'gann collapsed onto the floor, Beast Boy barely catching her head before it hit the ground. She started to convulse violently and thrashed about, but gathered enough air to yell:

"Save him!"

Bumblebee searched the Martian's face frantically, as if her expression would clarify what she had just said. "Save who, M'gann? Save who?!"

Jaime couldn't breathe. His lungs felt like someone was just stomping on them and his throat felt painfully swollen. He could barely hear himself begin to hyperventilate, but the Martian's cries roared over his barely there voice. He had no oxygen to fuel him and the twisted pits of his organ system were pushed together so tight that it was easy to think that it was the end. He was suffocating and it would kill him. He thought that finally, finally, the sweet embrace of death would wash away his pain, but he had never had the best of luck. He had heard it first, the sound of his armor morphing to squeeze tighter and the sickening crunch of broken bones, before he felt it, and it was only then that he was able to force out the smallest of noises.

A whimper.

Connor froze. He was crouched beside his ex-lover and trying to calm her with smooth words and soft brushes to her face, but even over her booming sobs he could hear it. It was only then that he could hear the accelerated heartbeat, much faster than the others, it was then that he could hear the sound of rupturing organs, and it was then that he could hear the cracks of a skeletal structure. Slowly, so slowly, he turned his head towards the sound. There he stood, his arms crossed infront of his chest and a blank expression plastered on his face. But it didn't take super-seeing to notice that the blue and black armor was just too tight, and that there was too much blood pouring out of the creaves in his suit. Superboy stared, shocked, for a moment, just before he saw Jaime's knees buck and his limp body go tumbling towards the ground.

"JAIME!"

A/N: How was it? Be a dear and leave a review, please! I don't think I'll continue this story unless I get some feedback, just so I know that it's okay enough to go on, so yeah. I feel like I rushed it a bit...Sorry. And totally shameless Blue Beetle torture right there, lol. The BLUEPULSE will happen in the next chapter, and it'll be pretty heavy. I hope y'all enjoyed this. Now go click that review button!

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