Title: Seraphina
Chapter: 4/7
Author: MrGrayson24
Rating: T
Author's Note: Sorry I missed yesterday, Pokemon Go has overtaken my life.
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"M'gann?!" Conner screamed. "M'GANN?!"
Dick and Jason appeared from the forest as Kaldur and Artemis scrambled out of their sleeping bags. "What's going on?" Dick asked.
"M'gann is gone!" Conner snapped.
"How long has she been missing?"
"I don't know!" Conner gritted his teeth. "When I woke up, she wasn't there. Where the hell were you?!"
"Couldn't sleep." Dick turned red. "Went to train."
Conner looked up to the sun as it came over the mountain. "All night?!"
Wally appeared from near the stream. "What's all the commotion about?"
"Wally-" Dick started.
Wally turned to Conner. "-What's the problem?"
"M'gann is missing cause your boyfriend decided to go frolicking in the woods!"
"How is this my fault?!"
"You're the leader!" Conner pressed a finger to Dick's chest. "If something happens to her, it's on you!"
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"Why is she like that?" The guard asked as he paced around an unmoving Megan.
"Seraphina has dulled her mind." Psimon smiled. "Now, she's a vessel for the angel's will."
"But why the Martian? I would have used the Kryptonian, they're hot headed but they get the job done."
"The Kryptonian is brute force. We need a creature with a little more… finesse. Get ready to move." Psimon glanced to the mountain. "It's time to breach the summit."
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"It was Savage." Artemis stated. "It had to be."
The group stood in a circle, their bags packed, but
"You're probably right, which is all the more reason to keep moving." Dick urged. "If he has Megan, he must need her for some reason."
"Unless they've already killed her." Conner snapped.
"Then we'd all be dead too!"
Wally cleared his throat. "But what could Savage need Megan for?"
There was a collective silence.
"He wants to use her to release Seraphina." Kaldur said, gravely.
"Then nothing has changed." Dick looked up. "We head to the mountain and hope we're there in time."
"That's your plan?!" Conner yelled. "If it was Wally- or Jason- you'd have the Justice League here in a minute!"
"Hey!" Artemis stepped between them. "We need to stick together right now, okay? Megan is our first priority, we'll deal with the rest later."
"Fine." Conner strapped his bag over his shoulder. "But if something happens to M'gann, I'm out."
They started toward the mountain and Dick forced himself to stand next to Wally.
"Hey… I know things don't look great for me, but-"
He's lying. He doesn't care about you.
"Save it." Wally cut him off. "I really don't want to hear your excuses right now, okay?"
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The road that lead to the mountain became perilous as they climbed. It was so thin, they were forced to walk single file and it alternated between flat and nearly vertical. Conner had stalked off ahead, with Artemis beside him with words of comfort. Kaldur volunteered to be the rear and erase their tracks as they went and Jason was more than willing to help, which left Wally and Dick in the group's center
"You can't ignore me forever, Wally." Dick said gently when the others were out of sight.
The path they were on ran along the stream, now a two hundred foot drop beside them.
"I already told you." Wally grumbled as he pushed plants from his path. "I don't want to talk."
"If I could just explain what happened-"
"-I saw the two of you kiss last night." Wally avoided Dick's eyes. "I woke up and you weren't there. And when I tried to find you…" He looked out over the cliff.
Dick's heart dropped. "I don't know what to say."
"Then don't say anything." Wally turned and started to walk again. "If you want to go be with him, go. I don't care anymore."
Dick grabbed his arm and turned him around. "I'm sorry! I'm… I'm really really sor-"
"Dick, don't-"
"-No, just let me get this out, I-"
"No." Wally's voice dropped to a whisper. "Don't move." He motioned behind them. "There's someone here."
"What're you-"
Wally pushed Dick out of the way as a man jumped from the trees and tackled Wally to the ground. His head landed within feet of the cliff's edge.
"Conner! Kaldur!" Dick yelled as he jumped on the man from behind and pulled him off Wally. The man turned and struck Dick in the face as the rest of the team appeared and with them, a dozen more guards erupted from their hiding places.
There was a struggle. Multiple men went after Conner and cornered him against the cliff while Artemis was knocked unconscious trying to string her bow.
"What did you do to M'gann?!" Conner said through clenched teeth.
The guard gave the signal and a group charged forward. Conner looked between them and the water below and jumped.
"No!" Dick screamed. "Kaldur!"
"I'll get him." Kaldur pushed through the ambush and dove off the cliff.
"Well, this got a lot easier without your super powered friends here to help." One of the guards laughed.
Wally stood. "You forgot about me!" A second guard hit him in the back of the head with the butt of his gun, and Wally blacked out.
"Should I grab this one, boss?" He asked as Psimon emerged into the clearing.
"Just the humans." He counted Artemis and Dick. "Where is the other bat brat?"
Everyone looked around. "He must of taken off in the commotion." One of them said, sheepishly.
Dick heaved a sigh of relief. At least Jason had gotten away.
"So be it, these ones will have to do." Psimon motioned to Artemis and one of the guards threw her over his shoulder. "And kill the speedster."
Dick looked between the guards and Wally's unconscious body. "I'm really, really sorry about this, Wally." He wedged his foot under Wally's stomach. "Please don't die." And he kicked him off the cliff and down into the water.
The guard hit Dick and he blacked out.
"It's alright." Psimon laughed. "He just did our job for us. Let's move out. We don't want to keep Seraphina waiting."
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