Welcome back! I've never updated a story so fast before! Hope you guys enjoy it! Still working on my other stories, so they'll be out soon too.
Please enjoy, we're getting to the team now~
Also, I'm making this up as I go, hence the formerly unmentioned involvement of Klarion.
New Orleans, January 4
22:01
"Why are you doing this again?"
"Because. Klare asked us to help and we agreed."
"We're kinda just messing with everything for our little lord of cha- hold up, this is it! See? Sidekicks on that car up there!"
"God you two. Try not to die alright sis?" the black car stopped at the edge of the junk yard and the doors opened, two girls slipping out and stepping away. The blond poked her head into the car briefly, smiling cheerfully at the dark haired boy inside.
"Chill out Bennie, no one even knows how to kill us these days. It'll be fine!" Wren stated, confidence rolling off of her in waves.
"Aliens Wroena. Aliens! We have no idea how their technology might affect people like us." He insisted, twisting in his seat and giving his sister an annoyed, older brother look. Before Wren could reply Isabelle stepped further away from them, saying she had to go now or mess up the set up they'd worked out with their witchling before opening an old shed and stepping in, disappearing with a flash of dark red.
"Yeah, I know. I'll be the first to test it out okay? Just go back to J and we'll call you when we get out," Wren gave her brother her most assuring smile before slamming the door and running off before he could say anything, pulling out a thin black tube Klarion had called a 'rebreather', a toy courtesy of Lex Luthor, even if he didn't know it had been given to her as a gift.
She didn't actually need it, but it helped with appearances. Not to mention the fact that oxygen was still necessary for her body to move quickly and water in the lungs was just plain uncomfortable.
Walking over to where her sharply dressed lord had said to dive to find the entrance to the base Wren shed her hoodie, shivering and shoving it into a water proof bag she had gotten in Thai land. A tank top and pant, both hydrophobic (courtesy of magic) tucked tight into (also charmed) boots.
Taking a breath she bit down on the mouth piece of the small cylinder before leaping into the water, almost shrieking at the subzero temperature.
She hated the cold.
With a breath through the technology she dove down, kicking off of the pier and looking about until she saw the seaweed being pulled in and out by the opening, or at least she assumed, unless one of Iz's cousins had taken a nap at the bottom the sea.
Sighing quietly and wondering why Klarion had bothered to actually give her this many details (were these kids really so important for him to mess with?) she swam in, pausing at the moving entrance. She floated there, crossing her arms over her chest and glaring at the opening. It almost looked the valve of a human heart.
She waited, the water pushing and pulling at her until she had hit a corner and was floating upside down, back pack hanging limply from her shoulders.
When are they going to figure it out? She thought, looking around boredly. Lord it was freezing.
She turned in the water, righting herself and glaring at the entrance again. It was too small for her to squeeze through, a fact she was sure hadn't been in the intel. Then again, Klare had given more than she had even known he would ever be willing to give. Most of it had probably been Teekl or whoever it was the witch boy was working with now. He seemed to switch off play things every year or so, but this time he'd been playing with a whole box for half a decade.
A hand touched her shoulder and Wren swung around, lashing out as the owner of the hand and swimming backwards, almost getting sucked into the opening before it blew her forwards, almost knocking the young woman into the red and black clad boy who had startled her.
"Who are you?" one of his companions asked gruffly, glaring at the immortal through strait, crimson eyes framed in various shades of green.
Wren gave an annoyed look to the Atlantean, pointing to her rebreather and making talking motions with her hands before making a distinct 'X' in the water and offering the boys, one Robin(what is he the fourth?), one Atlantean, and some kid in black and blue the most irritated look she could manage without use of her lips.
"Can't talk with a rebreather," he confirmed, Wren nodding. The blue clad male swam forward, attention turning to the robin along with that of both inhuman beings.
"what do we do hermano, put the mission on hold and figure this out or…?" before the Blue one could even finish Wren was shaking her head and going back to charades, pointing to herself and pointing to the inside of the opening frantically, gesturing grandly before pulling off her silver bracelet (bought specially for this) and shoving it in their faces, watching the green male swim closer and lean in to read it aloud.
"Sister. You're sisters in there? How'd you even find this place?" he looked at her in surprise, mirrored by both of the other boys. And she nodded once and shrugged to the last question, pulling the chained band back onto her wrist and crossing her arms stubbornly before jerking her chin to the lair and arching a brow in silent question.
"Can we really let her come along? I mean, wouldn't it be against parameters or something?" Blue asked, frowning clearly even through whatever mask he was wearing.
Robin was frowning as well, watching the blonde carefully before turning to the fish boy and pointing to the entrance, much to the surprise of the other two.
"You sure chum? Might be too dangerous for her," he commented, faulting when he found himself on the receiving end of a glare that spoke volumes. "right…" he mumbled, swimming past her wearily.
Wren turned to watch, curious as to what the Atlantean would do. She was not disappointed when she saw him puff up to almost four times his former size and pry the valve open, allowing her and the other two heroes to swim through before he did, shrinking back down to size.
Huh. Haven't seen Atlantean magic since…ever.
Wren looked forwards again, swimming in more dolphin esque manner than the boys did and reaching the surface seconds before the landwellers did. She reached up, pulling out the rebreather and taking a lung full of fresh oxygen gratefully while the boys looked around them.
"Well shit," she commented, looking around at the big, glowing, little green men run structure.
"Sure you want to stick around?" the Atlantean asked, already swimming after the Robin toward the edge.
"Yeah, it'll be a party," she joked, smiling and taking the offered hand of the boy in blue, "I'm Wren by the way, Wren Brookes."
"I'm Blue Beetle, that's Robin and Lagoon Boy," he told her, pulling her out of the water and turning with his team to look at the aliens while Wren, still shivering, pulled out her hoodie and tugged it on, rubbing her arms.
Generic, but acceptable.
"Nice meet you. Any idea where the humans are being held?" she asked, crouching between Blue Beetle and Lagoon Boy.
"Not yet. Try and keep quiet alright? We're covert ops, not the leagues power houses," Robin told her, frowning at the amount of aliens swarming the place and leading the team to crouch behind a slap of cement.
"I think I can do that."
"Gamma to cave," he said, pressing what she assumed to a communications device in his ear, "we hit the mother load, huge base. Alien tech, multiple zeta, uh, platforms, and more Kroloteans than I can count."
Wren frown, straining to hear the response from Blue, LB, and Robins communication whatevers. Confirmations she assumed, and she caught orders not to engage, but that was all.
"that may be a problema hesse," Blue stated, peaking over the wall and drawing the other teenagers attention to the very large picture of the four of them on a big screen the size of a house.
"Shit," Wren mumbled, pulling the collar of her hoodie further up and turning around to see an insect looking thing with a camera stuck in its eye. One of the aliens, the Kroloteans, started snarling out orders and in seconds the boys and Wren were looking back at the platform, watching more life forms than she even knew what to do with scramble down and start rushing towards them.
"Soft gig huh," Blue muttered, glaring at the Atlantean boy bitterly.
"Form up!" robin ordered, pulling a stick out of who knows where and leaping atop the piece of cement that had hidden them, "blue you have our six! Wren, you can fight?" he cast a glance at the blonde who nodded immediately, hopping up beside him and falling into position beside Lagoon boy and in front of Blue beetle. "Good."
"Stay liquid minnows," Lagoon boy advised, earning a snort from the girl before they were thrust into combat.
Robin ran forward, leaping into the air and beating down a good dozen aliens before LG landed hard on the ground, puffed up and throwing the little shits left and right, roaring in an almost feral manner. He ripped up a chunk of the floor, swinging it around and knocking away the small aliens while a seemingly endless amount of them started dropping out of the beams of the ceiling, gurgling and growling strangely as they closed in on the heroes and their accomplice.
Wren kept further behind them, kicking away any that got within range, none of them actually being able to touch her without having their skin burnt. They were quick to learn, keeping their distance and surrounding her while still harassing the young girl, dodging out of the way whenever she tried to lunge closer.
Blue came in and shot off a few blasts, sonic she was fairly sure, and the Kroloteans started shouting, pointing at the young man and rushing to get out the way at the orders of their ring leader, dozens taking their place on the teleportation plateforms and vanishing in a flash of golden light.
"geeze Blue how loud do you have that music?" she asked, smiling at him greatfully dodging an alien that had jumped at her, spinging around to kick it in the back and send it crashing into two others that had been running away.
"they really don't like you!" LB exclaimed, grabbing a Krolotean and throwing it off of him, "I'm a little jealous!"
"he said what?!" blue shouted, looking skyward and seeming confused.
"I said I'm jealous!" laggon boy repeated, punching an alien Wren had tossed in his general direction, "don't rub it in!"
"not you!" blue shouted, "that guy over there!" he pointed at one of the aliens, the leader in the red sash.
"you can understand them?" Wren exclaimed, diving out of the way of one of the less intelligent aliens and rolling to her a feet a yard away from LB.
"how?" Robin snapped, still beating back the seemingly endless swarm of green pests.
"i-I don't know exactly! But I can. He's telling all the Kroloteans to Zeta off world, he's setting the base for self destruct in, five minutes!"
"then we're getting out," Robin stated, backing towards the water line with the other three falling into place beside him, "anything else I need to know?"
"what about my sister," Wren pointed out, looking panicked. Robin stared at her, as if he had forgotten why she had shown up in the first place.
"He said something about sacrificing the play things bellow?" Blue mumbled, looking at the alien leader oddly.
"play things…?" robin asked, confused for only a second before his eyes grew wide behind the domino mask and realization hit him.
"IZ!" Wren exaimed, looking around frantically, "where's bellow?!"
"three minutes thirty hesse, then boom! Blue pointed out, motioning with his hands as worry spread to Robin.
"and nightwing said no unnessisary risks to the squad…but this is nessisary," He stated, starting to look around urgently, "bellow! We have to get bellow!"
My god they're insane Wren thought, staring at Robin, stunned further when LB pointed to tubes that led down in compliance and vocal agreement with the dark haired boy.
"then lets go!" Wren shouted, taking off at a dead sprint across the room, scorching (And possibly killing) several aliens along the way.
"Beetle on point, go!" Robin ordered, and Blue over took her in a second, both opther heroes falling into step behind her as she ran, leaping down the tubes and tumbling into the space bellow once Blue had plowed through the aliens.
On Robins order the beetle grabbed one of the escaping aliens, detaining him when a shout was heard.
Robin took the lead, running towards a large steal cage with Wren directly on his heels.
"it's Robin!" one man exclaimed, relief evident in his voice and excited calls started sounding, people asking to be released until they caught sight of Blue and LB and everyone bgan freaking ut, shouting about more aliens.
Blues objections went ignored and the screams only increased when Lagoon Boy puffed up, growling and ripping the cage in half, leaving the humans in stunned silence.
"Wren!" the first to respond was her sister, the older girl rushing out and her charge.
"Iz! You're okay!" Wren exclaimed, hugging the older girl in a fierce display of sisterly affection.
"of course I am," she replied, stepping back while the other captees exited the cage, apalogizing to Lagoon Boy for their earlier reaction. He waved it off though, saying he was used to it.
"You actually dragged your butt all the way to New Orleans to find me?" Isabelle asked, playing her role perfectly.
"duh. Now uh, we kinda need to go?" she raised her voice, looking at the heroes pointedly. Robin nodded and turned to Blue along side Wren.
"Ask him the fastest way out."
"dude, I don't speak- wait you can? Then what are you waiting for!" once again Blue seemed surprise, and his teammates even more so.
"Blues an..odd little fish, isn't he?" Lagoon boy asked, watching his teammate start gurgling and growling at the alien before turning to them and shouting in the language, switching quickly back to English and pointing them in the right direction.
They all took off, running as fast as they could to get out before the base exploded.
By some miracle they made it out just as the base exploded, surfacing in time to watch the flames leap into the sky.
"where's l'gann?" Robin asked, looking around quickly just as the Atlantean exploded from the water.
" yee-aah!" he shouted, punching his arms in the air, "Gamma squad rules!"
"we're alive?" Wren asked, feeling her face carefully and checking to make sure she was all in one piece.
"si hermana, we made it out!" Blue cheered, smiling widely.
Wren grinned, looking at Isabelle. Or at least trying to.
"hey, where's Iz?" she asked, spinning around in the water nervously. The other's looked as well, heroes searching the water. Lagoon Boy even dove down momentarily to check before the leaguers started decending from the sky, Wren fallowing briefly after shoving the rebreather back in her mouth.
She surfaced with Lagoon Boy, ripping the cylander out of her mouth and looking around frantically, the league floating above her head, though she [paid them little mind.
"IZ!" she shouted, "ISABELLE!"
There was a moment of silence, and she could already feel the pity and the guilt of the laugue and the squad she had met up with. But the moment ended when a second explosion sounded from the still burning debrise and a huge, reptilian figure emerged, golden eyes glowing brighter than the flames thatr surrounded the proud blue lizard, rocks crunching under her feet as the formerly human appearing woman exited the decimated junk yark.
The league imidiately fell into combat positions in case they were needed but Wren was already moving, swimming rapidly towards the dragon with a relieved shout of "IZ!"
Leathery wings stretchec and the form shook, powerful muscled rippling benieth a scale covered hide.
Wren turned to Blue, grinning widely as she past him.
"Told you it would be a party."
