YJI

After the invasion

2016

Chapter 4: Distraction

June


Watchtower

13:27 Ct

'So we've now clarified that what Klarion is missing, is in fact ancient scripts,' Karen looked at the computer screen.

'Somebody stole from a villain. Who'd have thought,' Beast boy went over to M'gaan.

'Guess it had to happen sometime. I mean he isn't the only Lord of Chaos out there,' Zatana came into the room; 'Doctor Fate and I analyzed the texts. These are really old but not of much value. He recognized them as pages from an old book, at least all we can get from the holographic simulations Robin gave us. But these pages don't have any spells, incantations… or anything useful on them,'

'Thank you Zatana, for your assistance in the matter,' Kaldur said, 'What exactly was on the pages?'

'It's just a story, about the war between Chaos and order.' She explained.

'Why would anyone want tha-' a loud explosion went off before Impulse could finish speaking.

They looked towards the corridor where there was a hole in the wall. Low and behold, were standing several scientists, covered in black and one very surprised Blue. Cassie was standing next to him, her eyes closed and her hair and clothes, filthy.

Blue spoke up, 'So that's what happens when you combine ammonium dichromate with a foreign alien element.'

'I told you not to use that one,' Cassie looked at him pointedly.

'Yeah, and I'm sure the techniques you wanted to use would have worked much better,' Blue rolled his eyes.

'The baking soda and vinegar would've left the lab intact at least.' She mumbled.

Blue sighed, 'I think it would be better to just start using my room for these things,'

'Well if you still want a house you're going to have to do it in a steel enforced containment facility.' She retorted.

'At least it didn't maim anybody,' Blue grabbed the bottle and put it away.

'Huh, why again did I bother to come in here?' the blonde asked.

'You said you wanted to see what I do in my free time,' he replied.

'So blowing up laboratories is what you do in your free time,' she wiped some of the soot off her face.

'… Never mind,' he walked out of the room.

Black Canary walked in then. She looked towards the wall, 'What happened?'

'Slight accident,' said Blue walking by.

'Should I ask?' she looked towards the rest of the Team.

'Probably not,' Conner replied.

Blue went towards the Zeta tubes, 'I'm going home. I've had enough problems today and I'm not gonna start another one.'

He made his armor appear and then exited the Watchtower.


(Jaime's POV)

I flew over the streets of El Paso, keeping to the cloud banks.

I'm probably going to have to pay off the hole in the wall on the Watchtower. I'm sure it's happened before, although I'm probably youngest to do it.

The scarab basically tells me everything I need to know regarding mathematic equations but I do enjoy chemistry and am studying it this year as one of my choice subjects. That and biology.

I wonder what I did last night. Usually I restrain myself, and hopefully that happened this time. It didn't seem like I caused any damage, basically the world is exactly how it was, minus one stolen item.

I stopped flying. One stolen item.

'That's it!' I shouted.

What is it Jaime Reyes? The scarab asked.

'I know who took the scrolls!' I turned around and started flying back to the Zeta beams.

Luckily it wasn't me.


(Normal POV)

'Gods! Why is this so hard?' Cassie screamed as she stared down at her math homework. What in the world were people thinking when they created algebra. It's not like it did anything good for the world.

'I told you already!' Robin exasperated. He felt like he was talking to a brick wall, 'X=4 and Y=7. It's not that hard when you get a grip around it.'

'Yeah, says mister private school student,' she snapped.

Robin rolled his eyes Why me?

Is anybody able to help with the cooking? Miss Martians voice sounded out in everybody's head.

Wondergirl looked thoughtful. She put on a mocking tone, 'Oh damn, I guess I'll have to leave this incredibly interesting work and do something so boring I might die.' She jumped up from the couch and started flying.

Robin sighed. At least he could say that he had tried. He got up from the couch and followed her.

He had barely taken two steps before red and yellow slammed into him.

'Hey Robin, my man. You haven't seen Beast boy around anywhere? He took something from my room and has been hiding from me all day, it's getting rather annoying.' The speedster said at break neck speed.

'Check in the kitchen. Cassie went there just now to get out of doing homework, I'm sure Beast boy should be there,' he replied.

'Cool, thanks,' Impulse ran off.

Robin continued walking and bumped into Artemis a few minutes down the hall. She was just coming out of the library, holding a small object.

'Hey Tigress,' he greeted. Artemis nodded at him.

He continued, 'What have you got there?'

She looked down at the object, 'It's pictures… of Wally and me. I'm going to burn them later.'

'Why?' asked Robin.

'The memories are just too painful.' She continued down the passage.

Robin felt sympathy for her. If Cassie had died he wouldn't know what to do. He'd probably have just vanished like Nightwing. That's what the bats were best at. But Artemis had remained strong and continued helping other people, hiding her own problems behind the mask.

He went to the main room, where Batgirl was shouting at someone, and Aqualad was trying to calm her down.

'Do you know why those things were activated? To keep foreign and potentially dangerous aliens away from the Earth!' she shouted at the computer screen.

Blue's voice replied back, 'Although aliens can fly here, and the shields don't stop a boom tube.'

Batgirl sighed, 'Where are you now?'

'Um… quadrant B17, also known as Rutewz,' he replied.

Batgirl face palmed, 'And what were you trying to accomplish?'

'I can't say.' The line disconnected.

Batgirl cursed. She spoke into the speaker, 'M'gaan, I need you and a team to head to Quadrant B17, to get Blue,'

Why is he there? Asked the Martian.

'I have no idea,' Batgirl replied, 'But you need to go get him. He disobeyed orders and needs to understand the severity of his actions,' Batgirls tone was menacing.

Kaldur tried to talk but couldn't as an alarm sounded.

He brought up a separate computer screen. A video log appeared where an alien was attacking star labs.

Adam Strange's voice appeared, 'Under attack at Star labs. What happened to the shield?'

Another alarm sounded. And another. And another.

All over the globe were alien attacks.

Batgirl shouted into the speaker, 'All personnel report to mission briefing room. NOW!'


(Jaime's POV)

Well I didn't particularly enjoy shutting off the shields but it was necessary. I knew that ever since other aliens around the Galaxy found out that the reach had been on Earth, they would try to Zeta here, but hadn't been able to. It would also scatter the rest of the League and Team around the world trying to apprehend the aliens, and send M'gaan and the Bioship to an asteroid field.

Jaime Reyes was it wise lying to the team about your location? The scarab asked.

'Unfortunately, ese, it'll probably get me in a hell of a lot of trouble, but I can't risk them finding me.' I replied.

And yet it is okay to be walking around the city of Rhimbor in a holographic disguise?

'Well it's not like they trust humans. The hologram is just until I can find her,'

And who is her?

'A very old friend.'


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