"Know where who is?" Wally asked as M'gann broke out of her trance and floated down, her feet landing softly on the floor of the bioship.
"Did you locate the mind you sensed earlier?" Kaldur inquired as well.
M'gann nodded. Shuddering a little, she wrapped her arms around herself again. Conner noticed her distress and put his arms around hers as well, comforting her. She smiled at him as thanks, but her expression quickly changed to a pained one.
"I sensed a male. He's trapped. Underground I think. And he's in alot of pain. All I could figure out was that his mind and body have been under a lot of stress for a very long time." Megan paused and looked at her teammates who listening attentively, focusing on her every word.
"He's fallen asleep, so I can't sense him for now but I do know where he is." She reached out an arm and sent a telepathic message to the bio ship. In a matter of seconds, a map of the area below them along with a pulsating dot appeared on screen. "Right here. Though I am not sure exactly where he is, I do know he is in that building."
"Or what used to be a building." Wally commented. "Looks like rock for brains earlier caused it to collapse. Along with most of the other buildings in this area."
True enough, the team took in the view of the area below them and saw only destruction. Thankfully, the citizens were evacuated in time, as the area was now mostly rubble and concrete. The team recalled that Batman did inform them that the villain had started his rampage from the outskirts of the city.
"But obviously this guy M'gann is talking about is still alright. Or at least still alive." The team's archer suggested.
Aqualad nodded. "Team, prepare to land. Robin, notify Batman of our location and our plan. We do not know how stable the building is, so take extreme caution when around the site. We will split into pairs. Robin and Kid Flash. Superboy and Miss Martian. And I and Artermis."
The rest of the team nodded at their leader and prepared themselves as the bioship landed.
After parking the bioship in a secure location, about a block away from the building, the team silently walked down the ramp of the bioship before it went into stealth mode, disappearing from sight. They nodded at each other before splitting up, each team using their own ways of approaching and entering the building from different sides as they could cover more ground that way.
Though most of the building was destroyed by the earthquake, the main structure was still intact, so a few stories were still safe to explore without fear of it collapsing. Robin and Kid Flash searched the upper levels, Artemis and Aqualad took the lobby and the storage rooms, and Miss Martian and Superboy looked through the lower levels and basement.
'Once one of us has found the victim, inform the others and we will regroup.' Aqualad ordered through the mind link. The rest of the team gave their okays and continued their search.
After about half an hour of searching, the team was getting more and more suspicious that the building couldn't have been just any old work building. Often they would find broken jars and test tubes. It's glowing green contents spilled in pools around it gave off a haunting feeling.
'This place looks like it could have been some sort of research lab.' Commented Robin over the mind link. 'The floors KF and I are searching through are filled with files and research material.'
The boy wonder stopped his survey and picked up a random folder lying on the ground. 'Ghost specimen No.415. Composition, slime and ectoplasm. Power level, 2.5.'
'Ghosts? Ectoplasm? Is this some research centre specializing in ghosts? Is there even such a thing?' Artemis thought.
'It would seem so.' Aqualad answered. 'I've heard from my king that they were earth scientists who discovered a portal to a 'ghost realm' a few years ago. It seems now that more and more people are taking interest in it.'
'You're talking about the Fentons, right? Those ghost experts?' Wally asked their team leader.
'Wait a second. You'll believe in the existence of ghosts, but can't accept that magic exists when you've seen it performed in front of your own face?' Artemis jokingly asked.
'Excuseee me! There's scientific proof and research and actual facts on ghosts! Until you can somehow find real proof of it, I ain't believing it. It's all just science deep down anyway.'
Artemis playfully rolled her eyes. 'Keep telling that to yourself geek.'
'Anyways, I better inform Batman.' Robin said, already beginning to type furiously on his wrist com 'I don't think these guys are part of any government agency that's listed. So what they're doing has got to be illegal. I mean, just listen to this- Experiment #5 extraction of ghostly arm. Experiment #9 dissection of ectoplasmic eye.'
Kid flash shuddered. 'That's freaking sick. And I don't mean in a good way.'
'Superboy, Miss Martian, what is your status and have you located anything out of the ordinary?' Aqualad asked over the link, as he hadn't heard the two over quite some time.
Eventually, it was Superboy who replied. 'M'gann and I are okay. I think she's just having a hard time having to split her powers. Keeping the mind link up, and searching for the person. I've tried using my infrared vision too, but for some reason I can't detect anything. We're about 5 floors down from the lobby now and-'
Superboy suddenly stopped, and immediately the team grew alert. Could something have happened to the two? Suddenly, the whole team felt a huge wave of emotion hit them at the same time. A mixture of shock, then sorrow followed by anger. Then as quick as it came, the emotions disappeared leaving the team, except Conner and M'gann, extremely confused.
'Woah! Did everyone else feel that?!'' Wally shouted through the link
'I'm sorry..' Somehow even through the mind link, M'gann's voice sounded small. 'I was just.. overwhelmed. I was concentrating too much on finding the person that I couldn't stop my emotions. Since we are all connected through the mind link, my emotions got transferred to you all.'
'That's okay M'gann, but what happened that suddenly made you feel that way?' The teams archer asked gently.
M'gann was silent. She wasn't sure how to, if she could, describe the scene before her. Conner was standing next to her and even without the mind link, he felt the same way she was. She saw her struggle and chose to voice out.
'Guys.. I think it's best if you got here and see for yourselves.'
Whatever it was, the rest of the team was rushing to them as fast as they could. If Conner and M'gann were this affected by whatever they found, it had to be important. With Wally carrying Robin on his back, the two best friends arrived at the floor Conner had mentioned around the same time Kaldur and Artemis did.
The 4 heroes turned a few corners and were greeted by a relatively long, white, hallway though the walls were cracked and the floor was littered with concrete and dirt. Down the hallway through some open double doors, they could see the backs of their two missing teammates, standing motionless.
"Miss Martian, Superboy, did you find the civilian?" Kaldur asked aloud as there was no need for the mind link when they were so close.
M'gann turned around and shivered, looking at her teammates with a pained expression. "Yes. We did."
At this point the rest of the team had just walked past the doors and into the room the alien and clone were standing in. Scattered around the room were dented tables and broken machines, debris and concrete yet again, all sorts of files and computers, but the most disturbing thing they witnessed had to be the array of surgical and measuring tools littered on the floor.
Then, they saw it.
Following their teammate's gazes, Wally, Artemis, Robin and Kaldur witnessed a sight they certainly did not expect to see. Up against a wall, surrounded by bits of the fallen ceiling and walls, was a giant glass tube. And in said tube, they found a white-haired, unconscious, teenage boy.
Apart from his pure white hair, the most noticeable thing about the boy though had to be the upper torso of his body which was bare and riddled with scars.
How did the boy got those scars? The team didn't know.
What they did know though... was that he needed help.
Hey all! So I got pretty good feedback with this story so I've decided to give it a go! Warning though, I literally have NO STORY OUTLINE whatsoever. This is pretty much all what my brain thinks up while I'm at work. (Please don't let my boss know xD)
Anyways, I've changed the rating to T just in case I get too graphic (don't think I ever will) or it I curse (which I do)!
Some Story INFO:
I can't remember which guest asked me, but unfortunately, Jason will not be in this story. This story pretty much happens.. lets say a month after New Years. So the Robin mentioned in the stories is Dick Grayson. Probably should have clarified, sorry about that. Also, as I mentioned in the first chapter, I don't like writing characters I don't know very well. I mean, I know Jason Todd from the movies and comics and stuff. But I Don't know how YJ Jason would act, so I've decided against adding him in the story.
About ages.. I had to think long and hard about how I was going to make this work. I'll just give a list of the team's and Danny's age below:
Robin: 14, Wally: 16, Artemis:16, Kaldur, M'gann and Conner: 17. (2011) I'm taking it as if a year has passed by since the start of the show till New Years. As for Danny, this is going to need a bit of explaining.
Danny got his powers when he was 14, in this story that would be in the year (2003). He got captured when he was 17. (2006) So now in 2011 he would technically be 22 years old but ghost's don't age (thats my theory) so Danny still looks the same.
Anyway, if you guys have any further questions, pm me or just write it in a review! Hehehe (trying to be all sneaky sneak). Goodbye for now! And remember guys, Stay Asterous!