You must awaken...NOW!
I shocked my eyes open. At first I didn't know where I was, and then I realized there was a wall of glass.
I was in a container. Again.
I tried to move, but something pushed against my wrists. I was strapped down. I turned my head, I could still do that. I tried moving my wings, but a pain told me that they were tied down too.
Sister, the voice was in my head again.
You! I shouted at the alien-thing, wherever he was.
Yes, it is I, he answered. Your friends are in danger. Time is running short. You do not have much longer.
W...what can I do? I can't even move.
Suddenly, the restraints were off of my body. I saw the alien thing with large glowing horns lift a hand and the glass lifted.
You're...helping me again..why? I asked.
You must find the others. Find Superboy and escape. Good luck, sister. He was walking away.
Wait! I called out, but he was already gone. I was alone again. I didn't know what to do.
I felt...lost.
The door was opening. I trusted my instincts and hid behind the container.
"What?!" A voice yelled. It hurt my ears, but I dared not make a sound.
"Where's the hybrid?" The voice asked. I heard footsteps, and they were getting closer.
I started to sweat. I ran over the options in my head. One, I could stay and hide here and probably get shoved back into a container again, with no psychic alien-thing to help me out. Or two, I could rush out at the person, catch them off-guard, and escape to find the others and Superboy.
I went with option two.
Dashing out of my hiding place with a level of strength I didn't know I had, I clotheslined whoever it was with a wing and disappeared through the door.
This is good, I thought as I saw I was still in the weird fleshy hallway. I looked both ways, wondering which way would lead me to my friends.
Turn left, sister, the alien spoke in my head. I obeyed. Right now, I didn't have much choice. I heard the person I had knocked down running through the hallway, and I picked up speed using my wings to jump and gain more ground.
They still couldn't really fly yet, still being small, weak, and stiff, but I made do with what I had.
Someone was coming. I heard their footsteps, but it wasn't the same person from before. They had gone somewhere else. No, it was someone new.
I slowed my pace. The new person was getting closer, and closer. Before I knew it, Superboy was there, a few feet from me. I halted, unsure of what to do.
He saw me. Well, too late to do anything else now, I thought. At first I thought he would attack me again, but he just...stopped.
"...Superboy?" I asked tentatively. I didn't want to trigger him into "attack-mode" again. He looked at me not with anger, but something different. Determination.
"Come on." He growled, shaking the small alien-thing off his shoulder. I nodded, glad that he wasn't attacking.
We ran together through the hallway, to a round metal door, the same one that we had opened to find him. With his super strength, he proved the door right off its hinges, creating sparks of electricity
I saw a scientist in there. I recognized him. A yellow armor-clad person was also there, along with the psychic alien-thing.
I narrowed my eyes at the scientist. I didn't like him. I shot forward with a burst of speed augmented by my wings and threw him back against a wall with strength I was surprised to know I had.
Superboy had pushed the armored person and the alien-thing to the ground, and it didn't look like they were getting up very soon.
"Am I glad to see a friendly face," Kid Flash commented, looking in my direction. "But are you here to free us, or fry us?" He asked at Superboy. Fry you? How can Superboy do that?
He squinted for a second, then replied "I don't seem to have heat-vision, so I guess helping is my only option." Heat-vision? I want heat-vision!
At that moment, Robin's restraints broke loose and he dropped to the floor, rubbing his wrists.
"Lucky Batman isn't here. He'd have my head for taking so long." Batman? Who was Batman? He sounded cool, and also a little scary.
"Seriously? That's what you're worried about? The whole League'll have our heads after tonight!" Kid Flash shouted from his container.
That made me think of freeing the others. I hopped up to Kid Flash's level and broke the glass with a few hits from my hands. While Aqualad's container opened, I broke the restraints around Kid Flash's hands.
Helping him downward, the scientist started to get up. "You'll never get out of here. I'll have you all back in pods before morning!" Pods…? Oh right, containers.
I kept running, following Aqualad's lead down the hall. I saw some big alien-things heading our way, but instead of stopping and turning away, I kept running faster. The promise of freedom overtook my other instincts.
I leaped forward using my wings, and barreled into one, sending the creature to the ground and knocking over another one behind it.
I turned behind me to see other, smaller alien-things emerging from the wall.
"Behind you!" I called out. A pain exploded in my side as I was knocked into a hallway side. I clutched my head, groaning. I looked to see the larger creature be punched in the face by Superboy, who continued to fight the other large alien-things as well.
Gathering my strength, I stood and dashed through the alien-things and to the other three.
"Superboy, the goal is escape, to to bury ourselves here!" Aqualad called to the boy, who was currently taking on about three other creatures at one time.
"YOU WANT ESCAPE?!" He shouted angrily. Oh no, I thought as he grabbed one creature by the arm and tossed it into two others, knocking them all down.
I turned around to see Aqualad forcing open the doors that held the moving room, but there was no room, just an empty pit.
I stretched my wings, looking up into the dark and wondering if I can actually make it up that far. Only one way to find out, I thought as I took a leap of faith and flapped my wings as hard as I could.
It wasn't enough, I soon realized. I felt a falling sensation, and pushed from one side to grab onto the other to keep from falling further. My feet hooked into a ledge and I let go, about two ledges up from Robin and Kid Flash.
I looked up to see Superboy also falling. My eyes widened until a small hook was thrown into the wall and Aqualad caught onto it.
"Superman can fly...why can't I fly?" Superboy asked to no one in particular.
"Don't know, but it looks like you can still jump tall buildings in a single bound. Still cool." Kid Flash commented.
"Don't feel bad, Superboy. I can't exactly fly, either." I said, ruffling my wings a bit. They were still too weak to take off from the ground or keep me in the air for more than a few seconds.
"Looks like this'll be our exit," Robin said, looking up at the moving room coming down at us.
Superboy broke through a pair of doors and I jumped through, instinctively rolling on the ground when I landed. Don't know where or when I picked that up, but...good to know, I thought, looking back as the moving room dropped past us.
I heard a screeching noise and turned to see a bunch of alien-things blocking our pathway out. But I was strangely not afraid. I stood by Superboy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Robin, and I wasn't afraid.
But fighting wasn't the plan. Escaping was. I followed the others down a now normal-looking hallway. Superboy shouted for us to turn left, and we all obliged. I wondered briefly how he could have known which way to go, and then I remembered about the psychic alien-thing. He was most likely guiding us.
Superboy led us down another hallway until we met a dead-end. Well, I guess the alien-thing wasn't really helping us after all, I thought with disdain.
"Are you trying to get us re-podded?" Kid Flash asked.
"No, I…I don't understand…" Superboy looked downcast, and my first instinct was to console him.
"Don't apologize, this is perfect!" Robin exclaimed, a smile on his face.
"Wait, perfect? Perfect for what?" Was I the only one confused, or was this just an off-day for me? I sighed in defeat, hopping up and crawling into the vents, following the rest of them.
"Great, at this rate, we'll never get out." Kid Flash said.
"Wait, listen," Superboy said. I obeyed. Screeching...oh no…
"Move!" I commanded the rest, cringing at my own mistake as the word echoed through the small metal vents.
We crawled faster, finally seeing some light in another hallway.
"Robin, what did you do?" I asked, wondering why there were no alien-things surrounding us yet. I noticed he still had his glowing circle-thing up on his arm, so I figured he must've been behind it.
"I hacked the motion sensors," he replied, a sly grin on his face.
"Sweet," Kid Flash said.
"Still plenty of space between us and them."
"But I've finally got room to move." Kid Flashed turned to a doorway, putting on his goggles. He dashed out the door faster than any of us could, running up a staircase.
I looked up at a yellow-ish blur speeding up, and I jumped and grabbed onto a rail. Using my wings as an extra boost, I climbed up the hole in the middle, landing on about every other railing.
We continued upwards, the feeling of freedom just on the other side of the walls made me more energized than ever. I hadn't ever seen the outside, I barely even remember any pictures. I'd forgotten what outside even is. But I wanted to know.
With vigor, we climbed up through the stairway, stopping at the top. I climbed over the rail and through a doorway as red light shined from above.
"No…" I breathed as I saw the heavy-looking door blocking our way.
"We're cut off from the street," Aqualad said.
"Thanks, my head hadn't noticed." Kid Flash rubbed his head on the floor. I balled my fists. It wasn't fair! All I wanted to do was go outside, and they stopped me right before I could. The scientist, the armored person, they all denied me that freedom. It made me angry.
I joined Aqualad and Superboy in trying to pry the door open, using my pent-up anger out on it, but it still held tight, which just made me angrier.
I heard a large alien-thing approaching from behind. I narrowed my eyes. Good, I need a fight, I thought.
But Robin kicked a door open, prompting everyone to follow. I didn't want to, but fighting one alien-thing wouldn't get the door open or make another one appear. So, I followed too.
Right into a trap. Screeching alien-things, large alien-things, smaller ones, and the armored person were all there. I stood my ground, preparing for a fight, but then the smaller ones' horns began glowing and soon enough, I was knocked out again.
Great, more black…
A/N: Whaaaat?! Two chapters on one night? Is she crazy?
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