1. Again I do not own Any of the Characters or Young Justice
2. Some may not like what I did with Beast Boy but I had to find a way to relate it to this story, I've never really liked M'gann, she was just to…I can't find the right word to describe her.
Robin's POV
Everyone was sitting at the main conference table and I when I say everyone I mean everyone, with their mentors standing behind them, even Roy was there both of them. It had been a rough week after the defeat of the light and the reach and the loss of Wally we were all still in a state of shock. The only 3 who were not with us were Superboy, Beast Boy and Miss Martian. Everybody turns when Martin Manhunter walks in with Superman. I can tell Batman is giving Superman a glare that wasn't good, all I know is it had something to do with Nightwing, he had assured us that he was ok, but wouldn't elaborate.
"Good afternoon everyone, I imagine you all are wondering why you have been summoned here with your mentors. First let me say, that none of you are in trouble, but there is some damage that must be repaired to each and everyone of you with the exception of Aqualad who has already been repaired 2 days ago."
Everybody on the team looks at one and other, but the mentors are standing there very stern and not looking happy. Although some of the team didn't have mentors, there were those that stood by them just them same, so every member of the Young Justice had an adult with them for what was to come.
"Excuse me J'onn, what do you mean damage and repaired?" I asked.
"Each and everyone of you have had your memories altered without your knowledge over the past 5 years, luckily I was able to catch it in time to insert a sort of alarm system/backup telepathically into each one of you before it got to be irreversible."
We all just sat there dumbfounded.
"Wait a minute you said 5 years, but 5 years ago, it was only Nightwing who was Robin then, Superboy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Artemis, and Miss Martian. How could the rest of us be affected?"
"Well every time a new member of your team came on, that individual would invade their memories and alter them to their desire to ensure everything went their way."
"Ok so who was this person."
"Not yet, I cannot reveal that until your minds are protected." And with that each mentor reached up and placed a small disc on all of our temples and it vanished.
"Don't worry its not a control device, it's a telepathic blocking device designed to prevent beings from reading your thoughts and altering them."
"Will they be able to come off."
"Yes, once the threat is dealt with."
I then thought of Conner, Beast Boy and Miss Martian. "What about the team on its way to Mars."
"They have already been taken care of yesterday for other reasons, which you will all find out soon enough."
I still couldn't comprehend that we had a telepathic threat to deal with so close after the invasion fiasco, but being trained by the Bat and Nightwing I kept myself in control. I could tell the others were more nervous.
"Do you all see the hand device in front of you, it is a device created by my people to restore memories that were lost to my people but over the past year they have worked to adapt it to fix the memory problems with your team. I ask that each team member please place their left hand on the device in front of them."
As each team member did that a cover slipped over the hand to hold it in place and each mentor place their hands on the shoulders of each team member.
"Do not be afraid, it is only for your safety as some of these memories that will be restored to you will be quite vivid and raw, some will only have a small jolt but others these memories will be new because you need to see the truth."
Everyone nodded but we were all a bit jittery, including myself. J'onn reached out is hand to the control device and placed his hand on it to activate it. Everyone stiffened with the device activation and my eyes shut, watching the memories flow through me, first were mine that had been altered since I joined the team a year ago, after that were the others from previous years so we would understand. It took about 5 minutes and then it was over and our hands were released. I opened my eyes.
I was still trying to decipher what I had seen, but I had to break the silence.
"Well I'm feeling whelmed…heavy on the over!"
Kaldur stood up, "Does anyone here besides the mentors have an idea of who could have done this?"
I knew Kaldur new who it was, so my mind went into overdrive, Batman said I was the best detective of the Bat Clan and it was running through my head. I think Superman could hear my brain working.
"Robin, do you have something to say?"
I looked up and around the table, everyone was looking at me, I'd only been with them a year but they all respected me and my abilities.
"I can only think of one person, you mentioned that this has been going on since the team was formed and only one person besides Martin Manhunter was around back then during the formation of the team and that is Miss Martian."
Standing behind Robin, Batman just smiled.
"You are correct Robin, and I bare the some of the blame for bringing her to the team, I didn't realize she would go to these lengths to have things her way."
"Wait a minute!" Zatanna said, "Why did you put her in charge of the mission to Mars."
"She's not in charge, I'm not sure when you talked to her, but Superboy is in charge he has seniority as one of the founding members of this team and I told her that specifically last night when I took her out to talk about this mission."
Aqualad couldn't help but smirk at that knowledge, Miss Martin wouldn't be happy about that.
"Ok everyone, you all have a lot of memories to process, a good night sleep will help with that, no one is to leave the Watch Tower without their mentors specific permission, those of you without a mentor will obtain permission from Superman or Black Canary. Is that understood." Batman intoned in a very serious manner.
Everyone nodded.
"Ok everyone rooms have been setup for you all, girls on the 3rd floor and boys on the 4th floor. The mess hall is open as well so you can get something to eat."
Everyone broke and stood around in small groups talking with each other trying to peace together the memories they saw and were restored if altered, the ones with the least damage were Blue Beetle and Bumblebee. After about half an hour everyone broke for the mess hall to get some food and then to bed for a good nights sleep if we could get one.
*****ON MARS 72 HOURS PRIOR TO THE ABOVE*****
The peace treaty had been signed, the war was over and a new government established between White and Green Martians, peace finally after a 1,000 years of conflict, some still didn't like it but were coming to terms with it, White Martians couldn't control Green Martians anymore with the new blocking technology that was developed and Green's didn't treat the White's like second class citizens anymore. They had just convened the new governing council and the first order of business was the mission team coming from earth, the elders of Mars new what was coming and new what was to be done they didn't like it but the all had agreed including the White Martian elders that what had happened was a violation of their most highest and sacred laws, the violation of someone's memories to serve oneself only and not the betterment of all is a serious crime that must be dealt with quickly but with care as well.
"High elder, we have received word from J'onn J'onzz that team will arrive in 3 days, it will be a 6 hour travel time for them in the Bioship on the day they depart the Watch Tower."
"Very well please ensure all is prepared for their arrival."
"Who is on their way High elder?" It was time to inform the council of what had happened on earth over the last five years.
"Council members, High Elders and members of the rulling clan, it is an honor to have been elected as your Senior High Elder but as my first duty to Mars and peace with our neighbors of Earth I have the sad duty to inform you that a serious crime has been committed by one of our own on the Justice Leagues youngest members over the last 5 years. All members of High Elders council have been briefed on what has happened but now that the team from earth is on their way please direct your attention to the center holographic system and watch."
A recording of J'onn J'onzz appeared before them and began to explain what has happened on earth over the last 5 years and. Some of the White Martians on the council didn't believe it until the proof was shown to them from their own leaders. They couldn't believe it, after all this time and struggle one of their own would deceive and do such a thing as to violate their highest order.
"High Elder, a council member said, how are the two human members protecting themselves from her on the ship."
"They have been equipped with modified telepathic blocking devices along with the rest of their team and the entire Justice League."
"So what is the plan when they arrive."
"M'gann will be separated from the two humans, it will be explained it is part of the mission, they will be brought here so we can reveal the truth to the younger one called Beast Boy. The one called Superboy who was most affected has been fixed by J'onn J'onzz already."
Just then out of now where, a streak of white, like a falling star appears out of no where and lands in the middle of the council chamber. It glows white for some time until it fades, there are black scortch marks on the floor and at the center of the marks is a small human being naked, and unconscious, he's alive as they can sense his mind.
"What is this!" a White Martian speaks up. They all stood and looked at the naked young human male curled up in a ball.
"We have no idea, summon the medical team immediately!"
The medical team arrives with a floating bed and a cover for the boy, they take him to the medical ward to begin treatment. They are familiar with human physiology thanks to J'onn J'onzz. The council finishes their business for the day and the two senior Elders one white and one green go to the Medical bay to check on the strange human.
As they enter they can see the medical team working, one comes up and says he is fine but is not waking up they are not sure what to do. The Green elder walks up to the young boy and places a hand on his forehead he can sense the boy and brings him out of his sleep letting him know he is among friends. The green elder removes his hands as the young boy wakes up.
"Hello young man, do you know who you are?"
He just shakes his head and tries to speak but nothing comes out. Both Elders think they have an idea as to what is wrong.
"Young man, currently you are on a planet called Mars in the Sol solar system, but you are a human and belong on Earth, do you understand." He shakes his head yes.
"Good he seems to have some comprehension of the sciences."
"Young man, I am a telepath, if you will allow it I will enter your mind and try to repair any damage that has been done and try to figure out why you are here and what happened to you, I will not hurt you and will only enter with your permission."
The young boy stairs at the tall green man with wide green eyes and shakes his head slowly yes.
"Very well this will not hurt, you will only feel a slight pressure, please lay down and relax."
The elder enters the young human's mind and begins the long task of repair.
******ON THE BIOSHIP BETWEEN EARTH AND MARS*****
M'gann was piloting the ship as she usually does and Superboy and Beast Boy were sitting in the two seats up front chatting away. M'gann still wanted to be back with Superboy that's why she ended it with La'gaan, but with the blocking device on she couldn't reach his mind, nor could she reach Beast Boys and this was unnerving her.
M'gann was tempted to ask Superboy to remove the device but she didn't want to arouse suspicion, she was told that there were some rebels on mars who had devised a new technology to broadcast telepathic messages over long distances and that scared her. She kept extending her mind trying to find a way around the devices that were blocking her from both boys minds but to no avail, she didn't want to push because she didn't know what type of security these devices had on them.
*****BACK AT THE WATCH TOWER*****
All the guys had gathered in Robin's room to discuss what had happened, Kaldur'Ahn, Blue Beetle, Guardian, Impulse, La'gaan, Arsenal, Red Arrow and of course Robin. All the girls had gathered in Zatanna's room to discuss what was going on and the discussions were pretty much the same.
"I can't believe my M'gann would do something like this." La'gaan said.
"She was part of this team from near the beginning, it hurts me more than most of you but think about Superboy, and how will Beast Boy take the news when he is restored."
Everyone sat there in silence at Kaldur'Ahn's words realizing the weight of them. Everyone was thinking the same thing, how is Superboy handling being on this mission with her knowing what she had done to him. Kaldur'Ahn seemed to sense this.
"Superboy has grown a lot since we freed him 5 years ago and is able to control his emotions, and he was briefed by J'onn and Superman before their departure this morning. He'll be ok. It's Beast Boy I'm worried about."
Robin finally brought up the elephant in the room. "What about Nightwing, we all saw those public memories from him and Superboy and know they are supposed to be together, I have no problem with it but Nightwing wasn't there today."
Everyone agreed that they were okay with it, but Kaldur'Ahn told them that Nightwings memories would be restored only when Superboy returned in a week, and that he has been located but is being left alone to morn Wally. Robin didn't like it but understood that Conner probably wanted to be there with Nightwing when his memories were restored.
*****BACK ON MARS*****
The 3 team members exit the Bioship and M'gann is surprised to see White and Green Martians standing side by side.
"What's going on here?" she said.
"We have peace finally young Ms. M'orzz, we have formed a unifed governing body of equal measure on both sides. But that is a discussion for another time, you have a mission to complete correct?"
"Yes, when do we begin." Superboy said.
M'gann was about to say something but realized that she was told by her uncle because Superboy was a founding member of the team he is in charge.
"Now, time is of the essence. M'gann you will accompany your mother to the specified location while Superboy and Beast Boy remain her to go over other details, you can better meld with the local population than they can and attain our goals quicker, they will join you when they can."
She was about to protest, but Superboy gave her a look to not stir up trouble as this peace is new and fragile, we should play it by their rules/terms.
"Understood, I will be waiting for contact." M'gann left with her mother to begin her part of the mission.
The Senior Elder turned to Superboy and addressed him directly. "Please follow me into the council chambers, we know you are protected, but on Mars her abilities are enhanced 10 fold and we do not know how long the modified devices will hold up as they are a prototype."
Superboy and Beast Boy nodded and followed them into the council chambers and the doors shut behind them.
"The reason for discussing this in hear is that this building is completely protected from any kind of telepathic assault from outside this facility, and those in here have sworn to uphold our highest law to not invade anyone's mind without permission, and your devices will remain intact."
Beast Boy looks from the Martian's to Superboy and asks, "What's going on Conner?"
Superboy knelt down to be at eye level with Gar.
"Gar our mission here is not what it seems to be, I want you to first know that what you are about to go through I am sorry, but it is necessary for you to learn the truth about M'gann."
"What do you mean, the truth?"
"Gar, M'gann has been altering our memories, she has been doing this to any team member since her arrival 5 years ago to have things her way, and according to J'onn J'onzz it is a violation of their highest law."
Gar just stared in disbelief at him.
"Gar this Elder who is a friend of J'onn J'onzz whom I know you trust he has been given your true memories, which are not many since you've only been with us a little while but some of those memories you are not going to like what they truly reveal but you need to know."
Gar was now crying trying to comprehend what was going on he didn't want to loose his blood sister M'gann, but he also couldn't believe she would alter someones own memories for her own needs.
"Superboy what about your memories?"
"Mine were fixed before we left by J'onn J'onzz Gar, and the rest of the teams were fixed after we left. We are wearing the blocking devices to protect us from M'gann no other reason, there is no other mission on Mars, this trip was to lure M'gann here to face punishment for her crimes."
"You lied to me!, how could you, why wasn't my memories fixed before we left!" Gar was pounding his fists into Superboy's chest and crying.
"Gar you have to understand, you are connected to M'gann by blood and we don't know how this memory restoration is going to affect you, we need to bring you here to ensure you safety as the elders here are the experts in this, J'onn J'onzz with all his knowledge did not want to take the chance on loosing you. We all love you Gar and you are a part of this family, we only want what's best for you. Now will them to repair you memories."
"Will you be with me?"
"Yes, I won't let you out of my sight."
Gar snuggled into Superboy's chest, Superboy looked up to the Elder. "You can begin."
"Gar please know that I will not look at the memories but will only be restoring them that were taken from you from this device, do you understand?"
"Yeah, let's get this over with." and with that the memories began to flow into Gar like a water fall, they weren't a lot but they were powerful because they dealt with the death of his mother. Everyone thought that Queen Bee from Bialya killed his mother but in reality it was M'gann who did it because she wanted Gar as her brother and for her own, that is also why she offered up herself when he was injured and needed a blood transfusion. She knew that her blood would change him.
These memories were so powerful to Gar that he cried out and in pain and fell silent, and then it was over. Superboy looked down at Gar worried, but was informed that he was asleep, the trauma had caused him to pass out, and he would probably be out for a few hours, until his mind could make sense of it.
"He has a strong mind Superboy he will recover but will look to you for strength, he looks to you as a big brother, if that is the right word."
"Yeah that's it, I've never had a brother younger or older, but if I did it would be Gar. I'm very protective of him."
"Why don't we let him rest, there is another matter we need to discuss that has some bearing on this mission, I can guarantee Gar will be safe with my personal assistant and guards, no harm will come to him.
Superboy laid Gar down on the bed in the small room and placed a small kiss on his forehead and left him to rest.
"What is this other matter you mention Elder?"
"Three days ago something happened at our first council meeting, you may have noticed the black scorch marks in the center of the council room when you entered."
Superboy nodded.
"Well to our surprise that white light that appeared contained a human male, he did not know who he was and was unable to speak, but luckily his memories were still there just as you would say scattered. Through long hours I was able to repair his memory. He finally woke up this morning wanting to go home, I told him that a ship would be arriving soon for a separate mission but that you would gladly take him home."
Superboy had a confused look on his face, how could a human end up on Mars without a ship or using the Zeta-tubes. The elder seemed to see his confusion.
"Please follow me all will be revealed as he seems to know things about you."
They walked along the corridor to a another room labeled private in martian. The Elder stood aside and motioned for him to enter. Before Conner could react he was bowled over by a red headed speedster.
"CONNER!" Conner just stared up at the boy on-top of him not believing his eyes.
"You're….you're…you're supposed to be dead, Barry and Bart saw you disappear!"
"Yeah that's what I thought to as I disappeared but come to find out I didn't die, I was sucked into a dimensional vortex that bounced me around until somehow I ended up here on Mars with no memory of what happened, thanks to the Elders they were able to repair my memory."
"It's really you, I can't believe it, your alive, OMG! Wally everyone is going to be so happy! Does anybody else know besides me?"
"No they didn't want to send any transmissions incase M'gann detected them and found out. Come to find out she was the reason I disappeared, she used her telepathic and telekinetic abilities to slow me down just enough so the vortex would take me, she new it would affect Dick."
"It did, Wally he left the team, and they can't find him, he's the only one left that with memories that aren't real, so he doesn't know that he and I are engaged."
"What! We need to get home to help him."
"We will, I am waiting for Gar to recover from his repair before we leave."
"What?, why was Gar not repaired back home?"
"Remember he had a blood transfusion from M'gann we didn't know how it would react to the repairs and we wanted to make sure he was taken care of, plus his memories next to mine and Dicks were the most powerful, M'gann was responsible for his mothers death not Queen Bee."
The two friends spent the next couple of hours, mainly Conner catching Wally up on what has happened since his disappearance, he told him about his memorial service and Kaldur'Ahn was back in charge of the team and we no operated out of the Watch Tower. He told him that Artemis had retired that name and taken on the name of Tigress, and that Artemis was your partner and was only for you.
"Superboy, you friend is awake and asking for you."
"Come on Wally, Gar is going to be so happy to see that your alive. He took your death really hard next to Nightwing, Aqualad, Myself and Artemis."
The walked back to Gar's room and Conner stepped into the door way and Gar looked up at him with sad eyes.
"Conner is it all really true?, My memories that were restored are the really real?"
"I'm afraid so kid, that's why we wanted you hear with the experts, who can help if any damage was detected, but thankfully none was correct elder."
"You are correct Superboy."
Gar looked up to Superboy, his eyes steeled. "I don't want to be like this anymore, I don't want her abilities I don't want to be blood related to her anymore not after what she's done."
Conner wasn't sure what to do. He walked over to Gar and just hugged him letting him know everything would be alright.
"Superboy, the Elder said, we may be able to help, we know that Gar has no hard feelings against us in general but only against M'gann, our technology here is more advanced that earth when it comes to blood transfusion, we can easily remove the martian DNA from Gar but we will need a replacement."
Gar looked at Superboy with hopeful eyes.
"What kind of replacement."
"Your DNA would suffice Superboy."
Superboy just stared at him dumbfounded. "Me, you mean I'd technically become his father."
"No more like a brother in the truest sense. We would replace the martian DNA with Kryptonian DNA, as you are half Kryptonian correct. We would also be able to correct the errors in your DNA so you would age just as Superman does, and would have all the same powers as would Gar."
"Oh come on now, are we really gonna have 3 Super Kryptonians running around earth now, first there was Superman, then we added Superboy, now we're going to add Superkid! That's just not fair."
Gar was looking up staring at the person standing in the doorway dumbfounded, he looked to Conner and back to Wally and back to Conner.
"Yes Gar, its really Wally, he's alive, I'll explain later but suffice it to say it was M'gann who caused him to disappear at the vortex."
Gar launched himself into wally with a huge hug and was crying tears of joy.
"Ok, ok, kid I'm ok, but are you sure you want to have kryptonian DNA instead of speedster DNA?"
"Sorry Wally the Elder said, it has to be an alien DNA to overwrite the martian DNA human DNA is not as complex at this stage of your evolution, although you do have speedster capabilities you are still 100 percent human."
Wally just gave a hmmph!
Gar walked back over to Conner…"Conner I really want this, you are the only other person that has looked after me and I feel that is family, you've never hurt me in any way."
Conner could never say no to that face. "Ok, how long will this take, not sure how superman will take it but he can adjust and help you and I both."
"Only about an hour, your ship that the League sent will be ready for you then."
"Ok, lets do this, you ready to shed the Beast Boy name and become Superkid."
Gar just shook his head with a smile on his face. Conner new he would need counseling once he got back to earth in regards to the memories of his mothers death but that can be handled later, this was something that could be done now to shed is connection to M'gann, he could tell he really didn't want to be linked to her anymore after what was revealed to him.
2 hours later the 3 boys boarded the League ship after saying their farewells to the elders and headed for earth leaving M'gann to her fate.
