M'gann tried. Gosh, she tried. After four hours, it seemed, her telepathy had only began to solve a few of many problems with the bioship. The energy, exoskeletal systems, and many more smaller components required in opening just a stupid door, were all malfunctioning, and as her mind raced near her mental limit the martian wasn't quite sure is she could ever be able to-
"Megan? Hey, are you ok?" She stopped, dropped her arms and looked down at her feet: still on the ground. She tended to levitate when she got stressed. M'gann turned to see a concerned looking Superboy.
Her cheeks turned a bright pink and she forced a smile. "Yeah, uh, yeah. I'm fine. Almost done, actually!"
Nope.
"Ok, cool. It's just, you've been doing that for a long time and it's getting dark."
"Oh yeah, sorry, I'll hurry."
She just now noticed the sun was setting. On the horizon of the seemingly endless piles of sand and rock, the orange-y glow lit up the desert and it was almost…well, romantic.
Each teen's features caught the light differently. Artemis' long yellow hair became even more bright and golden even though it was dusted with a layer of dirt. Her green outfit and mask were also slightly grimy and one of her pant legs were ripped up to the knee pad. The archer had removed her mask, and it was on the ground, next to the bow she gripped on to.
Wally was propped up against her, asleep and snoring. Legs and arms extended, his bright suit was also illuminated by the sun, along with his messy and flaming red hair. Wally, or someone, had unmasked his face as well, showing a burn from when he had been unconscious in the sun.
Next to him was Robin. Still masked and awake, he sat with his legs crossed and his hands supporting his head; deep in thought. He seemed to be glaring at a rock in front of him- searching for its weaknesses and planning his next offensive strike. However, he had no current awareness of his surroundings. The 13 year old was in a world of his own: using the knowledge he had to figure out a solution to their predicament as he waited for M'gann to complete her task.
Kaldur, too, was in a world of his own. Laying on his back, she could hear him address someone his foreign language. The emotion he put into his unconscious and mumbled rants differed greatly from when he spoke to his team mates with so much composure in English. As aqua lad's amphibious body could not muster the energy to move, his face embodied his emotions; eyebrows knit together, and eyelids changing between a forced and relaxed shut.
An indention of the boulder shielded superboy from the sun's rays as he kept one leg extended and rested his arm on the other leg that was retracted close to his body. He was slouched over and playing with rocks in the sand. The black t-shirt was grimy and wrinkled, and-
"M'gann?" He was staring at her. She blushed again.
"Sorry, going back to work now."
Megan continued to work. Hours passed, and darkness filled the sky along with an array of twinkling stars. The chill of the desert overcame the heat, and before long she joined the others- collapsed on the ground, asleep.
Author's Note- Please feel free to do a review if you'd like me to write on a certain character/pairing more! I plan to start designating some chapters to certain pairs (I was wanting to do a birdflash (Robin/Kid Flash)...) but these chapters wouldn't be essential to the story so you could skip over them if you didn't agree with a pairing. Let me know what you think :)