Okay Chapter 2! Getting pretty excited here! I took extra long to go over this too! I hope there are less and less mistakes with each chapter I post. Anyway for anyone dying to see the Avengers group they're not showing up till about the 4th or 5th chapter. Mostly because I want to build this up and also I need time to research the Avengers a little bit.
Also I want you to know that this is before invasion started (obviously). And that the couples are what the were at the end of Auld Aquintances. Except maybe Kaldur and Rocket, I might have them just be really good friends. Also we will not see Zatanna or Rocket until the team gets home, maybe. That has yet to be decided.
Anyway I hope you enjoy !
Disclaimer: No I do not own the Avengers or Young Justice. But hey, I can dream!
Everything flashed a bright red, and then it was dark. More accurately it was night time. So it didn't really surprise Conner when he discovered this; as he found himself staring at millions of tiny lights. No what surprised him was the fact that there was bright red blob sorely sticking out against the night sky. A red blob he was fairly certain was once the bio-ship. What surprised him even more than that was the fact that He could feel the wind rushing past him, making his hair and clothing whip wildly around him, as his body fell through the air. But that was nothing compared to the surprise he felt as he discovered, what he assumed to be a concussion felt like. Tonight was just turning out to be full of surprises.
His head pounded as he tried remember what exactly was happening. "The team... we were on a mission ...ugh , Why am I falling? ...Something important happened .. I lost something important...ROBIN!"
Panicked, Conner forced himself to turn around so that he was facing the rapidly approaching ground. He frantically began searching for the little bird. About a hundred meters down he he spotted him, just barley able to make out the shape of the Boy Wonders small body without his enhanced vision.
Upon closer evaluation Conner discovered the whites of Robin's mask was wide; almost as if he were frightened. "Is that even possible?" The teen of steel wondered. But he didn't dare waste any more time thinking that idea over as he tucked his body in tight and tried to propel himself to go faster to catch up with Robins falling form. Eventually Conner caught up to him and pulled the little bird protectively to his chest, however by the time Conner had caught up to him there was hardly anything he could do to slow down their momentum. So tucking the bird in as close as he could Conner turned himself over so he was once again staring at the the starry night sky.
The pretty sight was soon interrupted though, as Conner and Robin slammed into the unforgiving ground; and despite Conner's effort to keep Robin from injury, he heard a painful whimper as Robin's shoulder popped out of its socket, but that was quickly silenced as Robin's head slammed into Conner's chest effectively knocking him out. As the two finally came to a stop Conner unexpectedly found himself following Robin into the land of unconsciousness. He felt drained of all energy, and the pounding in his head was slowly lulling him to sleep.
Right before his world faded to black he saw the blob that was the bio-ship land roughly in the mass of water he found himself nearby. However before he could grow conerned for his fellow team mates, he was out like a light; not fully registering what had just happened.
In a flash of red it was over. The remaining four members in the bio-ship opened their eyes to find themselves miraculously alive. A little worse for wear but still...Alive.
Swallowing back the bile that had risen in her throat, Artemis very shakily asked. "What the hell just happened?" KF nodded wanting to know the same thing, but immediately stopped as it caused pain to flare up in his head. Groaning, he said. "Yeah I'm with Artey. What the hell just happened, and how are we still alive?" Both looked to Kaldur.
Wincing their leader pulled himself together."I am not sure, but for now I believe we should be grateful we are not dead, and land to evaluate our injuries... Miss Matian can you find a safe place to land the bio-ship?" Kaldur asked. However he was not answered in the usual bubbly voice of the martian girl, instead he heard a very pain filled sob. Concerned Kaldur quickly turned to M'gann to see a very battered looking green form, slowly morphing into her white martian form; as M'gann couldn't keep up her shape shifting abilities anymore.
"M'gann!" Kaldur cried rushing to her side. "Artemis, Wally I need to to take M'gann and tend to her as I steer the bio-ship." He ordered. Wally began to remove her when she shook him off.
"No!" M'gann communicated. " Its not me .. Its her, she's hurt soo badly ... I..I don't know if she's going to make it." M'gann's eyes clouded over with tears as she communicated with her ship and felt its pain. Again M'gann communicated, only this time without the mind link. "She needs to ...t-to cool down and organic materials to heal ... I need to land her now other wise ...I don't thi-" M'gann broke off as it all became too much and she started crying uncontrollably. KF zipped over and put a comforting arm around her, before he pulled her in close for a hug."Shhh Shh, it will be okay M'gann, we'll figure this out." He whispered softly in her hair. She gave a heart wrenching sob that caused tears to form in their eyes as they listened to her.
Then bio-ship suddenly gave a shutter and started to drop. A surprised gasp came from M'gann before she quickly pushed KF away and took a firm hold of the controls. "Come on girl, you can do this. Come on!" M'gann's voice seemed to strain as she concentrated on stopping the ship from cash landing. The others hurried to their seats and quickly fastened themselves in. Then very suddenly the bio-ship leveled out and roughly, but thankfully not fatally, landed in some unknown mass of water.
Wally groaned, and Artemis lost the battle with her stomach, throwing up all over the floor, which to her disgust the bio-ship absorbed as repairing materials. "Ugh .." She moaned. "That is so gross." Wally nodded in agreement. "Yeah now every time I get on, I'll get on knowing your puke is swimming around in here." Artemis gave him a dirty look at that, but other wise stayed quiet seeing as how she really didn't want to start an argument right now. Instead she unbuckled herself to go check on her remaining team mates.
Kaldur and M'gann, she discovered, were fine. Kal was helping M'gann to a chair so she could rest easier; well easier then she if she had stayed collapsed on the floor. Then she noticed... they were missing two people. Trying not to panick Artemis asked.
"Where is Robin and Conner?" Worry though, was evident in her voice.
She studied each of her team mates faces as they too realized that the two ebonys were not there. Worry was slowly starting to color their faces, especially Wallys. Artemis noticing this very cautiously asked.
"Wally, do you know where are they?"
If it were possible Wally got even paler than usual. It took a moment for Wally to find his mouth and then several more for him to get it to work, all the while making him look like a fish with his mouth opening and closing in an 'O' shape over and over again. Finally he managed to sputter out."T-they f-f-fell-l . Robin...h-he fell r-right as we g-g-got sucked in-n-n-n... I-I think Conner jumped out a-after h-him."
Artemis heard M'gann take a sharp intake of breath as she listened to Wally, turning to her she noticed the martian girls eyes filling with worry. Slowly the team turned to Kaldur seeking his plan of action. Kaldur despite his worry, calmly stepped forward and started giving orders.
"I Know we must find our friends, but first we must tend to our injuries, we are of no use to Superboy and Robin if we are injured ourselves. It is also best to repair the ship so that we have a way to transport our friends if necessary."
"I'm fine." Wally said, speeding around for extra effect. Kaldur nodded his head in a sign of approval. "Same here." Artemis added, again Kaldur nodded. "It is not you two I am overally worried about, though I am relieved you are well." Kaldur said, casting a not so subtle side glance to M'gann. She gave him a stern stare, so unlike her usual soft and friendly gaze, before standing. "I'm weak, But I'll manage."
At that Artemis gave a small smirk, knowing the reference as the other two remained oblivious. "Very well, M'gann is it safe to leave the bio-ship here?" Kaldur asked. Wanting to be sure they would be able to leave if necessary. "Yes, the water will actually help her heal." M'gann replied. "Good, now can we go find Superboy and Robin?" Wally asked this time, starting to get impatient. M'gann nodded as here eyes stated to glow green focusing on finding the minds of their two missing team mates. After a moment the glowing stopped. "They're close, but their minds are weak, I believe they are unconscious, Robin more so then Superboy."
"Okay then, lets go get them." Artimis said strapping her bow to her back. Something told her she was going to need it.
The first thing Robin was aware of was the pain. He surpressed a groan as the pain made its self better known and his head erupted in what felt like flames. His shoulder felt extremely uncomfortable but it wasn't as bad as the pain he felt in his head. The next thing Robin was aware of was the softness of the ground beneath him. It almost felt frail, so he quickly deduced it was sand.
Yeah it was defiantly sand, he could feel it everywhere. Seriously he should not know what sand felt like there. And lastly, before he opened his eyes, he could hear the soft roar of waves rolling up to meet the earth clashing with the worried voices of his team mates.
"I-is he going to be okay?" Said the voice of worried Conner. Then, as usual, came M'gann's soothing and reassuring voice. " Yes, Conner he will be fine, In fact I think he's waking up now."
Robin not seeing the point of feigning unconsciousness anymore moaned out a smart alack. "No. I am awake, M'gann." Robin opened his eyes to be meeted with the site of five very relieved looking faces.
"ROB!" KF exclaimed, tackling the Boy Wonder in a hug. This though was not the best course of action since it caused pain to flare up in Robin's once numb shoulder. "Oww! Get off KF!" Robin said, roughly shoving the speedster off. He let out groan as he he discovered that his left shoulder was majorly dislocated ... Great.
He heard Kaldur asking him if he was alright which he answered with a brief nod, even though he knew it would not convince his leader. He also heard Artemis calling Wally 'kid Idiot' for the upteenth time, as she smacked him on the back of his head. Something he was going to do once his arm was back in place.
"Artemis" He ground out, his teeth clenched in an effort to try and keep the pain out of his voice, but epically failing which only made Robin even more frustrated. He'd had worse injuries and not cried, not so much as winced. But this he was acting like a little baby. If asked later about this he would blame it on the head injury.
" Yeah? Robin." She asked gently, scooting closer to him. He took a deep breath before answering.
"Dislocated shoulder, pop it in...Please." He saw her nod before positioning herself to get a good grip to pop it in. "This is going to hurt." she warned. He nodded this wasn't the first time he'd had a dislocated shoulder.
"I Know." He said breathlessly. "J-Just give me a minute to get ready." He added as she placed her right arm around his body and her left hand behind his shoulder. He steadied his breathing, then took a deep breath, bracing himself for the pain before giving her the okay.
She did it quickly so she would not have to prolong Robin's pain. He gave a muffled scream, his lips not parting but the sound being heard non the less. It caused everyone to flinch. After a moment Robin's panting was brought under control and the intensity of the moment dwindled down a bit. Then Wally had to say something truly stupid.
"Hey! How come Artey got to do it?" Everyone just stared at him for a good long moment before...
"Seriously? You want to cause your best friend pain?" Artemis said, not believing how petty Wally was being. He pouted. "No! I just thought he trusted me!"
Artemis opened her mouth to retort but Robin's groan shut her up "No fighting." He said in a deathly calm voice, the voice he reserved only for Gotham's worse.
"And Wally, you idiot, I do trust you. But Artemis is the only other human on this team, she knows best how to treat injuries, second only to me." Robin paused for a moment, inturrupted by Artemis' snort which seemed to say. "Yeah right, I've been doing this forever. I'm the best." Robin, Who all of a sudden seemed to have picked up telepathic powers sent her a glare that said.. "Keep telling yourself that." Almost as if he did know what she was thinking. It sent chills down her back. But Artemis didn't back down and matched him with her own glare.
After several moments Robin, still glaring and growing a new found respect for Artemis, asked. "How long was I out by the way?"
"About three hours." Conner Answered, while Artemis, unable to keep up the intensity of Robin's glare broke off, muttering something that sounded like: "Damn bats and their glares." Frustrated Artemis turned her attention to her other teammates, choosing to turn her glare on them then try and win against Robin. However Conner's face stuck out the most .
He was a little pale from the minor concussion he had, (which should tell you something as to how far he fell) but that's not what particularly stuck out. It was the look of over all guilt he had plastered to his face that stuck out. Artemis softened her features and was about to say something; until Robin beat her to it. "Conner." He began softly, almost as if he was talking to a scared child. "It wasn't your fault."
Conner, who did look very young and vulnerable, responded with. "But you got hurt." Robin decided right then and there that he would also chalk Conner being emotional to head injury, it would save his pride later.
"Yes, Robin got hurt but it was in no way your fault, If any thing Superboy, you saved his life." Kaldur said, trying to calm the young Kryptonian. He looked to M'gann for further assistance. She nodded and gently started suggesting telepathically that Conner calm down. "Kaldur is right Conner, If you hadn't have jumped out after him, Robin would most likely be dead."
Conner nodded relief washing over him as the guilt drained away. But Wally winced at the harshness of M'gann's words. And looked over to Robin who seemed to be lost in thought. Though wether that was due to the concussion, or Robin's tramatizing past remained a mystery to Wally.
"Rob?" Wally said cautiously, snapping the Boy Wonder out of his dazed state "I'm fine." Was his answer. "Just a little tired."
Kaldur frowned at this."I know you must be tired my friend, but due to your head injury I ask that you stay awake for a few hours."
Robin gave Kaldur a reassuring smile before responding "I know Kaldur, if you remember this isn't my first rodeo, I'll stay awake."
With that one sentence Robin reminded them that this was indeed NOT his first rodeo. That he was in fact the teams senior member and had been doing this far longer than they had. Nodding Kaldur turned to the rest of the team.
"We must contact the league and tell them our location so that we can get the proper medical attention needed." He said sternly. "Good luck with that one, I've been trying to contact them since we crashed. Communications are down." Artemis growled.
"And I've run up and down this beach and a little into town, the signs say were near Manhattan, but it looks different than when I took my run pass here yesterday." Wally added. Conner frowned before asking "How so?"
But it wasnt Wally who answered, It was Robin. "He means, street names were different, buildings were in places they normally wouldn't be, buildings were in a different style, that sort of thing." The team turned to Wally who nodded to confirm that Robin was correct.
"Then What does that mean?" M'gann asked sounding a little worried. This time the team turned to Kaldur, who turned to Robin, who shrugged, and then winced because he'd forgotten about his shoulder which then painfully chose to remind him. "I have an idea of what it could mean but your not going to like it." he said as he started to sit up with Wally's help. "Dude in our profession we don't like a lot of things. Just spill it, bro." Wally said with an eye roll.
Robin was about to begin when a floodlight landed on the group of teens causing all thoughts to be pushed aside as they readied themselves for an attack. Then from an unknown location a voice boomed out of some speaker.
"THIS IS SHIELD! LAY DOWN YOUR WEAPONS OR WE WILL OPEN FIRE, THIS IS YOUR ONLY WARNING!"
The team looked once at each other, excitement gleaming in their eyes. M'gann quickly established a mind link.
"The bioship is operational awaiting your orders Aqualad." M'gann said.
Kaldur shot Robin a knowing look , who gave him a knowing smirk,
" I'll be fine, besides if you remember, we didn't come for a play date." Robin said. Kaldur smirked.
"M'gann prepare the bio-ship for take off, the rest of us give them a piece of our mind, and be sure to clear a path for the bio-ship" Kaldur ordered . As soon as the words were out of his mouth Robin cackled before jumping into action.
Okay this was my second posting I hope you enjoyed it. I know its a lot of talking right now but the next chapter involves shield getting its 'Ace' handed to them.
I feel I might have rushed the bio-ships recovery but I really didn't want to make up the details of a ship healing its self. Also I think Martians bounce back Quick. Also every time I type in 'bioship' the site says I'm doing it wrong so if someone could give me the right way to do it I would greatly appreciate it.
Two more things before I go and let you (hopefully) do the review thing.
1.) I think in my mind Shield Would have been a little bit more stealthier, but considering that I have the team on a secluded beach near Manhattan maybe not. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this.
2.) I'm thinking about having a traumatizing Robin Moment please tell me 'yay' or 'nah'.
Oh! and sorry if this was a little long, I don't really have a set number I just sort of write and let what happens, happen
PLEASE REVIEW SO I CAN GET BETTER!