New story, guys. I've just been cranking out ideas and this is the finished product of one of them. Don't really know how long this will be. Just work with me on this and give constructive criticism.
"What do we do?" Megan said, pushing out her lower lip and holding onto Superboy. Typical. Superboy was just…himself, quiet and stone-faced; he showed no emotion at all during that time.
"I'm gonna die down here, aren't I?" Kid Flash said, starting to vibrate uneasily.
'Don't say that! Kid Idiot!" Artemis says, looking at him with some type of hatred. After staring at him for a while, her expressions changes to a type of somber sadness and she mutters out to anyone who can hear.
"I don't know." She says, starting to rub her arms to keep arm, even though it almost burning in there.
"Kaldur, what do we do?" Robin says quietly. Everyone looks at him with wide eyes, but he's not focusing on them. He's focusing on me, the leader. The same leader that failed them…again. The words that come out of his mouth; that is not what gets everyone on edge. If you could only imagine how raw and broken he sounds to everyone else. He almost abandons the Robin that we know. He's gripping his forearm tightly, and you can see the blood dripping from it. The result of his many tries to get out of this place. He looks at me with such fear…I didn't even think it was possible for him.
"There is nothing to worry about. We will all get out of here. Just let me concentrate. Artemis, tend to Robin's wounds before they get worse." I say, trying to divert attention from me.
"Superboy, how far below are we?" I asked, looking up. Superboy looked in the same direction, and looked almost unfocused.
"Probably 40-50 feet, maybe more. I can't be sure." He says, holding onto M'gann, as if to comfort her. She responds to this by holding him tighter. Then she put her head into his shoulder.
"M'gann this is no time to cry." I say, so she doesn't do this in the future, and I continue. "We need you to be ready if enemy are approaching." I say calmly, not trying to scare anyone. Inside, I just wanted to explode. We couldn't risk Superboy just jumping out because he might hit something on the way and rocks will fall. M'gann is always taken off guard and might not block it in time.
"Anyone have a grappling hook?" I asked, looking at Artemis and robin, the most likely to have it. The nodded at me, taking them out from their holders.
"Wait!" Superboy pretty much yells, and then freaks M'gann out. Something I really wanted to avoid.
"What!" She screeches, searching his face for some clue. "What happened?" Superboy takes her hands in his, moving her away. She bit her lip and stayed quiet, wanting an answer. He let go of her and tapped his head. She immediately put everyone on.
"Superboy, what's wrong?" She says, and everyone winces at her tone. She tries to recover herself, and does so badly.
"I smell gasoline and lots of people approaching." Superboy thought,not making any eye contact.
"Holy…They're going to blow us up." He says, astonished, as if he didn't know that day would come.
"Yeah… That's what they are going to try to do. Just a lighter and we are done." He says, and everyone starts to panic.
"This is all your fault, Kid Idiot!" Artemis thinks fiercely, hitting him in the head. He turns to look at her.
"Why are you hitting me? And what do you mean it's all my fault?"
"Well, if you didn't rush into action to hurt the bad guys, we wouldn't need to save you."
"Is it my fault that I'm faster than the rest of you?" Kid Flash stated.
"Well, we're in this hole because of you." Artemis said, pointing at him.
"No. That's not true. OK, maybe I rushed in, but you guys should have been able to handle yourselves. If I was on my own, maybe it would be my fault, but each of us got here on our own accord, including you. So Shut up." He thinks, looking straight at her. They kept glaring at each other while Kaldur formulated a plan.
"Alright, this is what we do. Me and M'gann will go out first, and when we are up she will levitate everyone else on by one. Understood. Trying to get out on our own is not an option anymore. Can you do it, M'gann?" They all nodded to his plan ands he continued.
"Start levitating us both, M'gann." He thought, and then they both started to go up. The whole process of it all took about 5 minutes. When they were up, all they saw was different tanks of gasoline splattered all around the room. The gas was all over the room covering almost every part of the floor.
"M'gann, how many people are approaching?" Kaldur asked quickly.
"More then 100. They're all about 4 minutes away from here. They're coming." That's only enough time for one person.
"Start with Robin, then, Superboy. Afterwards, get Artemis and Wally. Kaldur thought, since the link was still on.
"Why do I come last?" Kid Flash whined.
"Because we're expecting more than usual, and you are partly injured. He thought back, then continued.
"Alright M'gann start now, we're wasting time.
Kaldur started readying himself for a fight. Since he'd be fighting with Robin by his side he wasn't worried at all. What worried him was the gasoline tanks scattered around. Two minutes had passed and you could almost hear the henchmansurrounding the factory.
"Alright, Robin's out! I'll get started on Superboy, but he might take longer." M'gann said, looking over her shoulder.
"How many of them?" Robin asked, taking out his staff.
"More than 100." Kaldur replied.
"Sounds like fun. How long until Superboy?" Robin asked.
"Appoximatly 5 minutes. He's a lot more heavy than I expected." M'gann said. The sounds were getting louder, and the steps they were making were getting stronger.
"They're still alive! Let's get them!" The henchman had said. Out of the people that were there, no one had guns. They only had knives, swords and other instruments of torture. I'd rather see guns than this..Jeez. Robin thought. Kaldur positioned himself in front of M'gann.
"I trust that you will keep them back, Robin." He said, briefly glancing at him from the corner of his eye. Robn scoffed, then smirked at the words.
"Can you expect anything less?" Robin said, running to fight the enemy. They hadn't posed much of a problem. It was fairly easy and a good plan on Kaldur's part. Anyone who got past Robin would be taken care of by Kaldur. If you took one down, two more would come through the door. And it takes atleast three tries to keep them down. Robin and Kaldur were excellent fighters, kicking and punching at the right times. Then, there was a very loud growl and many of the opposition went down.
Conner... they both thought and laughed to themselves, well Robing smirked and laughed a little insanely, stopping the enemy for a second. That also gave him an opening to take out 20 of them. Some of them weren't fighting at all, just grabbing all the unconscious and clearing space for the rest of them, which actually frightened Robin. Why would they get them now and not later, since we were only fighting to get out...unless they weren't getting out.
They wanted them to stay in.
"Kaldur, we need to get out. Now!" Robin yelled. It was louder than need, which made Kaldur more alert.
"Alright! Miss M, focus!" he yelled, wehich made her bring up Artemis in the next minute.
"Let's do this!" she yelled, taking down way too many people with one arrow. She kept going until she realized the same thing that Robin saw. This is one of Dad's tactics... We're in deep shit.
"Kid Flash is out! Let's get the information we took and get out of here!" She yelled, starting to call the bio-ship within range. Everyone started to run through the henchman, getting to the one door that was open on the western side. Once they were inside, Robin locked the door. Artemis pulled out the flashdrive and handed it to Robin.
"Superboy, Kid Flash, and Robin take the left and left-center. Me, M'gann, and Artemis take the right and right-center. Agreed?" He asked, and they all nodded ready to charge. They opened the door but the scenery had all but completely changed. Everyone had left the warehouse.
Everyone except for one human being. A person with a mask, holding a match...surrounded by leaking gasoline tanks. Kaldur tried his best to stay calm and turned away from him.
"I will handle this. get to the ship and I will be there shortly." he said. All of their eyes widened at the statement. AT that moment, Kaldur became the best liar out of the whole team because he knew he wouldn't be there.
"But... Aqua-"
"This is an order from your leader. And anyways," He said, starting to smirk enough for Robin to see. "You'll probably get in the way" as he ended his sentence, he jumped over the steps. Robin smiled to himself. i knew I was rubbing off on him... he thought.
"Alright guys, he can handle Sports-master long enough to get 's go." They left quickly, running to the ship that was roughly a 1/2 mile away. All that was left to deal with was Aqualad, Sportsmater and a match that would be the death of one of them.
"You know I'm not going to fight you, right?" He said, taking out the lighter. He started to click it multiple times until it came on. Then, he held the lighter under the match and held them both his hands.
"I know that for a fact, yes." Kaldur replied, coolly. They stayed in the same place, not moving an inch.
"You're giving up a lot for them, too bad they may never recover your body." he says, throwing the lighter and match so high that it twirls...1...2...3 twirls and then Sports-master leaves quickly through the exit behind him. Kaldur already knows he will not be able to get out by the time the gasoline blows. Kaldur concentrates fully and makes a protective barrier layered with lightning and water. Then it happened, and all of the tanks of gasoline went of simultaneously. And the whole warehouse imploded. The barrier was weakening and the fire was so intense. There was nothing Kaldur could do at that point. The barrier he had made started to falter, letting him feel the full force of the building on top of him. The fire was consuming the building and taking his life.
At least...he thought, At least I'm dying to protect my family, an honorable death, indeed... he thought as the smoke and flames took him away.
This is why I didn't put the character on it yet. Everyone expects it to be Robin or something. I love Robin with all my heart but sometimes you got to do characters someone seems to remember. Shoutout to the ones who love Kaldur.