Cerberus: Let's see how you all like this little story.


Darkness pressed down on her like a heavy blanket. It's cold silence was deafening. Her hands reached out only to stop against something hard and chilling. Her fingers curled as she reached out to feel anything. All she could feel was the air surrounding her tiny dark prison.

Her mind latched onto it and pulled it towards herself. She felt the wind begin to push away. With a cry, she pulled back at it but could still feel it being pushed away by her prison. She could feel how close it was to her containment and warm tears began to stream down her cheeks as her silence was broken by sobs.

"Help!" she screamed as she pounded her fists on the walls of her prison, still pulling on the wind so tantalizingly close to the outer wall. "Somebody! Anybody! Let me out! Please!"

She felt the floor under her begin to vibrate as her stomach lurched, telling her that her prison was moving. Her pounding became harder and faster as her tears came just as rapidly and her sobs turned to heart-wrenching hiccups.

"Wait! Somebody help!" Her prison came to a stop a she could feel more air around her, moisture, and a charge to the air. Her mind latched onto all it could, pulling what she knew to be dark clouds around her prison and pulling the charge until a lightning bolt crashed near her prison, just missing it as she pulled more wind towards the prison, only for it to slip past her as the prison moved again.

She screamed until her voice was hoarse and her pounding didn't cease even when she felt something warm begin to drip down her arms.

Her mind ripped at anything it could hold but all attempts to free herself were in vain.

Suddenly her prison lurched, sending her forward into the front. A coppery taste filled her mouth as a smile appeared on her face: She couldn't feel the floor vibrating. Someone was there!

She began hitting the wall with renewed gusto, releasing screams of joy when she felt the prison tremble from the abuse of outside.

The sides groaned before a hole the size of her head appeared on either side, letting in tiny streams of light. With another great hit, the front wall fell forward, as did the girl it held.

Her flaming red hair fell to her hips and flared behind her as she followed the red-and-black sheet of metal, knocking the wind clean out of her as she landed on her stomach on it. Her river-blue eyes squinted at the sudden exposure to the intense sunlight that reflected off her white-and-bloodstained tunic that fell to her knees and showed a great deal of cleavage with twin straps on her shoulders that were barely as thick as her little fingers. Her pale hands were bleeding from their abuse and her full red lips had a small split on the bottom left side that let a small layer of the crimson liquid it held cover the rest of them.

Slowly, the girl pushed herself up on trembling arms to look upon who her liberators were.

The first boy had dark olive skin and was wearing a pair of dark pants that were soaking wet and sticking to his skin. His arms had black eel tattoos covering them and his hands and feet were webbed. His face had a kind look but also seemed hard, as if he'd seen too much wickedness in the world before he should've. His pale eyes were wide with surprise. His hair was short-cropped and blond.

The second boy was Caucasian with tousled black hair and wearing dark sunglasses over his eyes. He was dressed in a dark windbreaker over a green hoodie, jeans and tennis shoes. Over his shoulder and opposite side was a yellow belt with multiple compartments.

The third boy was also Caucasian with red hair sticking up as if the wind had pushed it up. His eyes were green but covered with red goggles. He was dressed in a brown t-shirt left open to show a canary-yellow sweater underneath, a pair of jeans and a pair of tennis shoes that looked nearly ready to fall apart.

The fourth member was the only female and had green skin. Her auburn hair fell to her shoulders with a red headband hardly holding back a few bangs to leave on her forehead and into her brown eyes. Her nose and cheeks were freckled. She was dressed in a white t-shirt, a red jacket, a matching skirt, white stockings and black flats.

The fifth and final person was male and Caucasian. He had black hair that was mussed up a little but not as much as the other black-haired boy. His eyes were a striking blue, as if whoever had made him had snatched a piece of the sky and made his eyes by hand. He was dressed in a somewhat tattered black t-shirt with a red S over his chest, the tiny tears showing the powerful muscles underneath that looked nearly powerful enough to snap the little red-haired girl clean in half, a pair of jeans and combat boots.

The bleeding girl pushed herself onto her knees as she searched for something to say as tears slip through her long black lashes. The green-skinned girl turned away from the girl before her and to a few large boulders a good distance away. She stretched a hand towards them and one levitates instantly.

The red-haired girl's eyes widened as she pulled in a harsh gasp, sending her backwards onto her behind. The green-skinned girl turned back to the other female and the rock flew towards the already bleeding one.

"M'GANN! NO!" yelled the dark-skinned boy as he surged towards the girl he referenced. The red-haired girl screamed as she threw her hands up to defend herself. The boulder came to a stop just inches away from the girl. The tear-filled river-colored eyes opened slowly as her breathing began to steady somewhat. She made the motion with her hands as if she were pushing something and the boulder followed suit, flying over the top of the group assembled before her and crashing into the ground twice as far away as it had originally been.

"Don't know how things are done on Mars," growled the smaller black-haired boy as he took off his windbreaker and draped it over the red-headed girl's shoulders as she began to cry. "But on Earth, we don't try to execute innocent victims!" M'gann stared at the girl as if she'd just hit her in between the eyes.

"But I couldn't read her mind…She's an android…Inorganic!" she insisted. The boy picked up one of the red-haired girl's bleeding hands and held it up as more of the liquid began to re-trace a few bright red streaks already painted on her arms.

"Can an android do this?" he growled as he released the hand and began to stroke the sobbing girl's head. "I'm sorry. We didn't hurt you when we were fighting that thing did we?" The girl looked behind her and saw a large red-and-black thing about twice her height with blue eyes and a tattered, filthy scarf around his neck and large black pieces of machinery strapped onto his back.

The girl shook her head as she started wiping her eyes and cheeks of the moisture collecting there.

"How did you get in there?" he asked as he put an arm around her shoulders and held her head against his chest in a comforting manner. The girl shook her head again.

"I don't know," she hiccupped. The boy nodded as he continued to stroke her hair, trying to calm her down.

"It's okay. It's okay. Just calm down, you're fine now. None of us are going to hurt you. You're safe now." He continued whispering calming words to her as her sobs relaxed and quieted. Slowly she became calm and the boy let go of her and gestured for his friends to come closer. Aside from M'gann, they all obeyed. "We should introduce ourselves. I'm Robin."

The girl nodded at Robin then towards the dark-skinned boy.

"That's Kaldur," Robin said. The girl nodded again before repeating the action towards the red-haired boy.

"Wally," he introduced himself with a smile. The girl nodded again before turning to the final boy.

"And that's Superboy," Robin said. "And you've already met M'gann." The green-skinned girl frowned and crossed her arms over her chest. The girl nodded again as she looked around at the team and pulled the windbreaker around her shoulders a little more. "Now then, we just need to get you all figured out. We'll take you back to the cave and from there-"

Cave: Small, dark. The girl let out another shriek as she lurched to her feet, backing up until she was back-to-chest with Superboy, who wrapped his powerful arms around her front, pinning her arms against her chest. She started growling, kicking and struggling, all more furious, vain attempts to free herself.

"Superboy, take it easy!" Robin yelled as the referenced teen lifted the girl's feet off the ground so she was kicking nothing but air and her bare feet weren't in any danger of getting hurt.

"Trying," he grunts as one arm unwrapped from her front to stop her legs from moving but that didn't stop her from thrashing her head. The girl released a roar of frustration into the air and in an instant, a ring of fire appeared on the grass around them, the ocean not too far off began to churn, the earth under their feet began to shake and crack and the winds picked up around them, snatching at anything it could: hair, clothes, even the worn, threadbare laces of Wally's shoes.

After only a few moments the girl slumped in Superboy's arms, gasping for breath and flicking her head back to try and get her hair out of her face. The water returned to normal and the earth stopped shaking. The wind still blows but not as harshly and the fire vanished completely.

"Okay. Now that you're calm, I don't know what you're thinking this cave has but it's nothing like what you've been through. It's large, roomy and well-lit. There's nothing to be scared of. But just so we don't have anything like this happening again, Superboy, can you carry her back to the Cave?" Robin asked. Superboy nodded before maneuvering the girl in his arms into a bridal style before leaping into the air.

The girl curled into the dark fabric and clenched the windbreaker closer to herself. She felt her stomach begin to crawl up towards her throat as the two began to descend from the air.

Slowly, her eyes began to drift shut and she snuggled closer into the boy's warm embrace as the gentle rocking of their ascending and descending sent her into sleep.


Cerberus: How was that? Huh? Huh? Now that was pretty good if you ask me. Leave a review, recommend a friend, favorite or don't. Not my choice.