Chapter 1: New Mission

Nightwing POV

Batman appeared on a holographic screen as I researched some things about project Kr for Conner. "Nightwing, Coast City is enduring some sudden radioactive energy. It's just becoming noticeable and we don't know how long it's been producing. For all we know, it could have something to do with The Light. It's very dangerous so be careful. You head out tomorrow." Batman informed and I nodded. "Where is the rest of the Team?" He asked as I continued doing my research.

"Out-"

"And you didn't go with them?"

"No, I decided to stay here, get some things done." I answered. "Alright. Batman out." His screen flattened and disappeared. After a while, the Computer announced the entrance of the Team. "Recognized: Tigress-B07... Superboy-B04... Beast Boy-B19... Miss Martian-B05... Aqualad-B02... Kid Flash-B03... Impulse-B23... Lagoon Boy-B18... Batgirl-B16... Robin-B20... Wonder Girl-B21... Blue Beetle-B22... Bumblebee-B17... Zatanna-B08... Rocket-B09... Gaurdian-B24."

"Hey, we've got another mission-"

"Please don't tell me it's the Reach again." Rocket sighed.

"No, I think they're gone for good, but it might be the Light again. There has been some radioactivity in Coast City. We're headed there tomorrow to find out who's behind it." I explained and they nodded their heads motioning they understood. "Did you find out anything else about Cadmus?" Conner asked, walking up to me. "Nothing you don't already know. Sorry, bud." I say, patting his shoulder then starting to walk to my room. "Get some sleep! We don't know what we're up against tomorrow!" I called before walking into my room and heading to bed.

...Next Day...

The 16 of us made our way to the Bio-Ship. Miss Martian controlled her like usual while everyone sat, buckled in their seats. "Going into Camouflage Mode." Miss Martian announced, starting to fly over Coast City. I got some more information for the mission; it was making people very ill, and was senseless, so no one would know if it was around. I threw everyone a pair of special glasses that would help them see radioactivity signatures around them. "These are goggles that'll help you notice the radioactivity. The darker the color gets, the stronger the signatures are, which means you're getting close to the main source, the person behind this. Alright, Aqualad, Lagoon Boy, you two are going to search in the water near the beach." They nodded and Miss Martian opened the exit of the ship where Lagoon Boy and Aqualad dropped into the water underneathe. We started to fly over our next stopping point, the forest. "Okay, Tigress, Gaurdian, Wonder Girl, Zatanna, Beast Boy, you'll check the forest." Their seat belts unbuckled and they left the ship and into the trees." Next, we headed towards the city, where the rest of us would search. "Kid, Impulse, you're going to race around and see what you can find, but stick together. Bumblebee, Blue Beetle, you'll search from up top, and try to stay as close to Kid and Impulse as much as possible. The rest of you, you're with me. We'll be checking around the buildings."

Miss Martian hid the Bio-Ship like usual and the rest of us were off into the city. She had already telepathically linked the Team and everyone went into stealth mode and we started with the top of the buildings. The streets weren't busy like Bludhaven, Gotham, or Metropolis though. There weren't any radioactivity signatures near, so we went deeper into the city. "We've got some light radioactivity near Central Coast City." Bumblebee messaged from I'm guessing Central Coast City. "Do not go in it." I messaged back, going for everyone. "There's radioactivity in the forest too-" Zatanna started. "The plant's are shriveled and dead." Beast Boy added, along with Wonder Girl, "But it's not dark, it's still light radioactivity." "Nightwing, look. There's radioactivity here." Superboy pointed out, putting his hand on my shoulder then pointing with his finger. "There's radioactivity in uptown Coast City. But still light." I announce to everyone. "So if it's spred throughout Coast City," Robin began, Batgirl finishing his question, "Then where is the main power source?" "I think we've found the answer to that." Lagoon Boy replied.

Aqualad POV

Lagoon Boy and I were swimming near the coast when there became radioactivity. Nightwing ordered us not to touch it, so we didn't swim into it. We swam infront of it since it spread slowly in water. The color in the goggles became darker the farther we looked past the radioactivity, which came from inside a cave. "The radioactivity must be coming from underground because the source is in a cave underneathe the city." I explained, awaiting farther orders. "We need to see what it does." Gaurdian messaged. "Leave it to me. If anything bad happens, I can reverse it with my majic." Zatanna exclaimed and Nightwing allowed her to. "Nothing happens when you touch it," She said after a pause. "Zatanna!" Tigress yelled worriedly, and everyone figured she decided to breathe it. "I'm okay, I'm back, I was able to do the reverse spell. Whatever you do, don't breathe it. It'll give you a burning sensation in your throat and you'll feel like you're choking." Zatanna suddenly explained neutrally, lifting a weight off everyone's shoulders. "Aqualad, Lagoon Boy, you're not going to be able to swim into it then." Nightwing stated and Lagoon Boy became a little disappointed. "We may not be able to go through the obvious way, the cave, but maybe we could go through the sewers. Without water up to our gills, we should not have to breathe through it." I suggest. "Good idea, now, everyone, make your way to the beach, Aqualad, Lagoon Boy, go to the sewers and follow the radioactivity there. We should end up in the same place." Nightwing ordered and Lagoon Boy and I got out of the water.

We passed eachother in the process, briefly making sure everything was planned correctly, then we were off. "You just had to say the sewers." Lagoon Boy complained aloud so the rest of the Team wouldn't hear. "Yes. It was either this or no participation in this mission at all, unless you wanted to die trying to go through the radiation in the water." He didn't reply after getting the message to just suck it up and deal with it. "We're getting closer!" Lagoon Boy messaged excitedly. "So are we. We're almost to the cave." Nightwing messaged back. "So what happens when we figure out who's behind this?" Robin asked. "What we usually do, fight." Nightwing answered in a slightly amused and playful tone. After a while of walking in the sewer, the color became very dark, but a wall stopped us. "Neptune's beard, we're at a dead end!" Lagoon Boy claimed angrily. "No, I think we are here." I say, walking up to the wall. "We're swimming through the tunnel into the cave now." Nightwing informed. I felt around the wall. "It's behind this wall. Lagoon Boy, help me push it out." He stepped next to me and we pushed the stone wall out until it made a screeching noise, telling us we were getting somewhere.

We kept pushing the stone wall until it popped out, creating a loud bang when it flipped onto its back. The rest of the Team's heads popped up from the water. We were all in the cave now, just as planned, without getting anyone hurt. After changing back to stealth mode to get them dry again, Lagoon Boy and I walked to them. There was air in the cave along with a platform with a large secured metal door, leaking dark radiation. "It must be behind this wall." I state, quite the obvious. "How do we get it open?" Blue Beetle asked. "I can open it." Superboy insisted, but Nightwing declined. "We don't want to force it open and break it. An alarm can go off, and we don't know what's behind this wall." He walked over to the wall and plugged his hacking cord into the passcode system of the door. He began his hacking process. "Alright, almost done, so get ready. We're about to find out what and more importantly who's behind this door." Nightwing said, everyone getting into fighting position and getting ready to battle. The process was finished and Nightwing backed away to infront of the metal door. It slowly began to ascend. When it was fully opened, everyone sent the same glares of confusion. No one was in the large room...or lab. We cautiously entered the lab and began to look around.

Almost everything was contained in metal containers, and there were plenty of warning signs everywhere. There were containers of chemicals and DNA of unusual creatures, not even adapted to Earth. "What is this place?" Miss Martian asked, looking around. "Some type of laboratory." Kid Flash answered. Batgirl started, "They're probably mixing these chemicals with DNA to-" Rocket finished her sentence, "Make who ever is producing all that radiactivity around the city." "Guys, look!" Impulse said, and we ran over to him. It was another metal door, but it was way smaller than the first door. "What do you think is in it?" Tigress asked as everyone stood in suspense. "Well, we're about to find out." Nightwing said, pushing through the crowd to start hacking the passcode system again. When the process was over, the door began to rise, but this time, we did have to fight. The room was surprisingly large, full of about 50, drone, robot things. Their eyes lit up green and they all activated. The Team immediately began to destroy them as they emerged from the room.

I figured who ever was behind this knew we were here about now, since we destroyed the drones. Nightwing told us to wait outside the pitch black room while he went in first. We watched from outside cautiously and curiously. He searched for a light switch, his hands examining the walls. When he managed to find the button to turn on the lights, we all were surprised. "You can come now." Nightwing messaged, walking up to a body in some type of containment cell. "Who is she?" Robin asked. "I don't know." Nightwing answered. Her head hung low and she had a white outfit and her hood covered half of her face. Lasers contained her and she seemed to be unconsious. "She's alive. I can hear her heart beat." Superboy exclaimed. "We've gotta get her out of that. Maybe she'll wake up then." Kid Flash said. "Can't you hack something or something?" Superboy asked. "I would if I had something to plug my cord into!" Nightwing slightly snapped. "Hold on, we don't know who she is or what she's capable of." Tigress started with Bumblebee agreeing, "Yeah. Hell, for all we know she could be behind all of this." "How could she be behind all of this if she is all tied up like this?" Beast Boy argued. "Could be a set up." Wonder Girl suggested, turning it into a girls vs. boys arguement. "Look!" Nightwing yelled, silencing them, "We are getting her out of here, and if she's behind this, we've got what we came here for." I walked up to the containment, arms lit up with blue. I swung my blue sword and when it hit the lasers, sparks errupted, along with every other time I tried.

Superboy grabbed the metal part of the container and started to try to tear it apart, which began to until doors opened to more drones. "Wonder Girl, help Superboy. Everyone else, take down these drones!" We all followed his orders and we began to slay the machines.

Superboy POV

Wonder Girl helped me start to pull the thing apart until there was a loud, deep voice from inside the room where the rest of the Team was.

"Why are you here?" It asked, voice deep, loud, and bold.

"To stop whatever you're doing. It's killing people!" Zatanna yelled back.

"And you expect to destroy me?" He had a large, bold laugh that disgusted me. "Don't you know who I am, ?" He spitted.

"Who are you?" Nightwing spitted back.

"You may call me...Venocide." He said, and Kid and Guardian were sent flying back into the first room, passing me and Wonder Girl and hitting their backs against the wall hard. I got up to run in to fight beside the rest of the Team until Wonder Girl stopped me. "Stay! Nightwing said get her free. We can't fight right now." She messaged me. I sighed with a roll of my eyes and began to rip the metal cell apart again. It was slow and extremely difficult to break, even for two people that have super strength, but we were getting somewhere as the Team fought Venocide and his drones. I could tell we were getting defeated while the containment became weak and we were so close to breaking it. "We need to help the team, Wonder Girl." I say, looking over to her. "We're almost there, just a little more time." She messaged back.

"You care more about getting her out than our Team?"

"No! I just, I..." She sighed with a roll of her eyes. "Fine." She let her hands go in a jerk and we ran in the room.

Venocide was tall, buff, and he had green eyes with slits in the middle. He had some type of printing across his chest in a faded green color, contrasting against his pitch black color. His hands were surrounded by some type of green fog. Nightwing charged towards him, dodging his balls of fog, which I guess was his radiation. Nightwing electrocuted him and he fell onto one knee, only to look up with a smile. He grabbed Nightwing by the ankle and slammed him on the ground. I charged at him, finding out he has super strength too. He put his hand out and shot radiation towards the Team. A large wave blew us backwards and he laughed. He shot some type of liquid at us and as I dodged one, it touched the ground, sinking into it. " Don't let it touch you! It's acid!" I message, letting everyone know.

He grabbed Impulse as he sped around him, flinging him into the wall. Blue Beetle threw his staple, locking Venocide to the wall. He immediately broke out of it as Blue Beetle began to use his sonic waves. Venocide jumped, like I do, and punched him down. Wonder Girl grabbed his ankle with her golden rope and as she yanked him down, Bumblebee and Rocket shot at him. He hit the floor hard, but got up to Robin and Batgirl punching and kicking away. Venocide got a grip on Batgirl's throat after flinging Robin across the room with a smack. I ran over to him before his arms lit up, and punched him across the room, letting Batgirl out of his grip and into Aqualad's hands. He and Nightwing hand-to-hand fought him. Miss Martian steadily got up from laying limp and began to fly. She raised her hand to him and tried to use her telekinesis. "Ha! That doesn't work on me, little girl!" He yelled, swiping his hand, making her fall from the sky.

What is he? How many powers does he have? What are his weaknesses? I thought. We never fought him before so these are things we needed to find out. But we wouldn't be able to do it with more than half the Team already down.

"Move out of the way." A sudden voice said out loud. Before any of the Team could look, we knew she wasn't one of our teammates since she spoke aloud. It was the girl who was trapped. She flew above ground, her white cloak waving as if it was caught in a steady wind. Her hood still covered half of her face. She wore a white sleeveless leotard with white boots stopping near mid-thigh. Her silver cloak hung around her shoulders like a cape and there was a white swirling insignia in a silver circle in the middle of her leotard. Light bounced off of her silver belt. A silver line was planted vertically on her boots, going onto her stockings then connecting at the bottom of her belt. Half of her arms were covered by fingerless white gloves.

She flicked her hand out as we stepped away from Venocide. There was an extremely large blow of air that flung him into the wall. She floated over to him, keeping her hand out, keeping him pinned to the wall. "Who let you out?!" He asked, eyes getting thinner as she came closer to him. She clenched her first while rotating her hand. Venocide was silenced as a large wave of thick air came from her, making everyone go flying except Venocide since he was already pinned to the wall. She backed away from him, letting him fall onto his stomach unconscious. Her feet touched the floor and she turned to face us, becoming shorter. "Thanks for helping." Nightwing thanked, walking over to her, along with the rest of the team. "Even though we didn't need your help because we had it under control." I said, crossing my arms. She took her hood off. She had long dark brown hair, a caramel skin tone, and light brown eyes. She was quiet for the most part, then Impulse started hitting on her. "And you are?" He flirted and she answered in a slightly amused tone, "Too old for you." Tigress glimpsed at Kid Flash. He shrugged his shoulders. "What. It obviously runs in the family."

"How did you do that?" Guardian asked. "I'm an air elemental." She answered, receiving even more questions. "Can we just send Venocide to Belle Rev and go home?" I suggest irritatedly. Nightwing agreed. She looked over to me, "Thank you for freeing me," She thanked Wonder Girl too. She walked out with us. "What's your name?" Zatanna asked excitedly. "White Mistress."

"You know, we don't have an air elemental on the team, if you want to join." Nightwing offered and a scoff slipped my lips. "What do you do?" She asked. "Save the world, yeah...I do that." Impulse suddenly said, squeezing through the crowd around her. A smile tugged at her lips, finding it slightly amusing. We came to the previous large metal door leading back outside, Miss Martian carrying the unconscious Venocide with her telekinesis that now worked since he was unconscious. "She can come in handy if we ever run into him again." Bumblebee smirked. "Yeah, I'll give you a tour of Mount Justice, babe." Impulse again began to flirt, which made me want to gag and laugh at the same time.

Before we went back to the Bio-Ship, she claimed, "I've got one more thing to do." She flew off the feeling and into the sky. Her arms spread out, letting air rampage Coast City. She rotated, keeping her arms out, clearing radiation from the city all together. Then got in the Bio-Ship to drop Venocide off at Belle Rev then go home. But I was still "off" about her...