VERY IMPORTANT A/N: The setting for this is before "Misplaced" during Season 1, and since I'm trying to make this story as canon as possible, Zatanna still has not joined the Team. The only reason why she participated in the mission before was because Zatara was off world. Basically, Zatanna was supposed to watch Reinette with Wally, but she snuck onboard the bioship, and no one noticed until they were at the warehouse. Her dad has not returned, so she is staying at the Cave for a little bit. I hope this helps.

Disclaimer: YJ? Nope. I don't own anything.

|5:32AM EDT
Mount Justice

I looked at the hot chocolate swirling in the mug in front of me. Sitting in the kitchen at who knows what time was not what I planned to be doing, but that dream, that nightmare, was still sketched vividly in my brain.

I quickly suppressed the urge to vomit and tiredly rubbed my eyes. Was that dream supposed to mean something? Was the demon right?

Sorrow embraced my heart at the thought that I was a murderer. I don't want to be a monster. Maybe.. Maybe losing my memories was a good thing. I'm a clean slate. I can start over.

A drop of salty water slid out of my eye and trailed down my cheek before I quickly wiped it away.

"Rainy? Are you alright?" a sleepy voice came from the doorway.

I smiled weakly at the sight of Zatanna.

"Yeah. I'm fine," my words sounded hollow and fake even to my own ears.

"Hey," Zatanna sat onto the counter opposite mine, "I'm all ears."

I was silent for a moment, debating on whether I wanted to tell her. In seconds, my decision was made.

"I had a nightmare," I murmured. "And I know, it's just a nightmare, but it felt.."

"So real?" the magician smiled. "Tell me about it."

So I told her. I told her about the demon, the monster. I told her about my fears and my worries. I even told her about the blood and the massive amounts of people I allowed to die.

When I was done, Zatanna was silent for a moment. I was a little worried that I had said too much, but she soon smiled.

"Reinette, the Team and I don't know who you were before we met you. You may have been a villain or a hero, but that doesn't matter. What you did before, that doesn't define who you are now," Zatanna said. "What you choose to do with your life now, that's what matters. Yes, you may have done some pretty bad stuff before, but the question is, are you going to be the Reinette who let those people die, or are you going to be the Reinette who risked her life to save a couple of people she just met?"

Her words pierced my soul, and I let a couple more tears fall.

"I.. I want to be good," I replied.

"Good," Zatanna grinned.

|5:53PM EDT
Mount Justice

"Reinette," Batman started, "from what Aqualad has told me, your powers and abilities exceed what the League thought you were capable of. We want to know the limits of your magic, but to do that, the League needs to see you in a real battle. After much discussion, the League and I have decided that you will join the Team."

My eyes widened before I said, "Thank you." This was it. This was my chance to a new life.

The Dark Knight nodded before continuing.

"M'gann, I want you to go out and buy some groceries and collect some crates at this location," Batman handed M'gann a list. "I have been informed that our kitchen is once again out of stock for the third time this week."

He didn't say who told him, but a sheepish look from the resident speedster said it all.

"And Zatanna," the Dark Knight looked at the girl, "I will be coming back to the Cave later with your father. He wants to talk to you about your mission with the Team."

Batman paused before making his way to the Zeta-Tubes.

"Oh you are so lucky you don't have an overprotective dad," Zatanna said as soon as the Dark Knight was out of earshot. "My dad won't let me join the Team, and he's probably going to kill me once he comes back to Earth because I went on that mission last night."

"At least you have a dad," I pointed out hiding my sadness behind a smile.

"Sorry," Zatanna grimaced. Before anything else was said, Artemis came up to us.

"Hey Rainy, Zee. M'gann asked if you would like to come grocery shopping with her," Artemis said.

Zatanna shook her head and replied, "No thanks. If my dad comes to the Cave and finds out I'm not here.. Well, let's just say I'm not going to risk it. What about you, Artemis?"

"Shopping is not really my thing," Artemis said. "And you, Rainy?"

I thought it over for a second before saying, "Yeah. I think I'll go with her. I know all these facts about the world, but I've never actually experienced them."

Superboy stopped as he was walking past us and said, "I understand. When I was a clone of Cadmus, they fed me a boatload of information like how the Sun is a ball of fire, but I had never seen it in person until Robin, Aqualad, and KF rescued me."

I nodded. That's exactly how I felt. Opening my mouth to reply, I was interrupted by M'gann as she yelled out, "So is anyone coming with?"

"I'm coming!" I nodded at the others before walking over to M'gann and the bioship. Superboy, M'gann, and I boarded the red aircraft, and we were soon flying over the clouds. I looked out one of the windows, and I saw a beautiful blue sea and a bustling city below.

"Whoah," I breathed out.

"That's what I first thought when I first saw Earth," Miss M giggled.

The two of us chatted about her life on Mars and how she came to Earth, and before we knew it, the bioship had landed on a clearing on the outskirts of the city, or Happy Harbor. M'gann camouflaged the red aircraft and changed her skin tone, and we were off to see the city.

"So Connor, do you think you can get the crates while Rainy and I buy the groceries?" M'gann asked the Kryptonian.

"Sure," Superboy grunted as M'gann handed him the address where the crates were located. He headed to the left while M'gann lead me to the right.

Cars zoomed past, and M'gann laughed at how awestruck I was. The city felt so foreign to me but exciting all the same.

"And this is the supermarket where we buy all the food for the Cave," M'gann and I walked into a store and a blast of artificial cold air hit my face. The smell of vegetables and fruits bombarded my nostrils, and I looked around to see aisles and aisles of food.

M'gann had a cart and were wheeling it through the store, and we grabbed anything that looked even slightly delicious. Our cart was especially filled to the brim with energy bars, and we even got snicker doodles as a treat for Wally.

Although, I did notice we were getting weird looks from people as they stared at all the food we were going to buy. After an hour, we had finally gotten enough food, but we had to wait another twenty minutes as the cashier was scanning and bagging the groceries.

"Are you buying for a charity or somethin'," the lady asked incredulously.

"Uh.. We have a large family," M'gann smiled widely. I mentally smirked. More like Wally has a large stomach.

The cashier shrugged, and soon we were carrying the groceries back to the bioship. Because we had gotten a lot, M'gann was barely levitating the bags we were carrying, so it seemed that she was just carrying them. In reality, she wasn't. I did the same because the grocery bags were heavy! Although, I used a spell since magic was more comfortable than telekineses.

We met up with Superboy at the bioship who had finished collecting the crates. When we got back to the Cave, I noticed that someone with an aura of magic was here. I was assuming he was Zatanna's father, Zatara, because they looked so much like the other except he had green eyes and Zatanna had blue. Zatara was wearing a formal suit consisting of a white shirt with a red bow tie, a yellow vest, and a black blazer. He even had a top hat.

"Did you get everything?" asked Batman when he noticed us.

"Yes plus the groceries," M'gann chirped.

I stopped listening and started lifting the crates via magic, but I paused when Zatara came up to me.

"When Batman said you had magic, I didn't know you had this much of it," he told me. "You're extremely powerful, but be careful. Great power comes with great responsibility."*

I nodded respectfully, and he started helping me with the crates when all of a sudden I felt a great pain pounding through my skull. It was as if something was splitting me in two. The pain reminded me of the time when Miss M went inside my head. But as soon as it came, it disappeared.

"Zatanna!" I heard Zatara say. Gasping for air, I concentrated on not fainting, but I wanted to know what happened.

"Batman," I looked at him, "what's going on?"

The slits in his cowl narrowed as he replied, "The Team has vanished."

|12:01AM EDT
Mount Justice

It had been four whole hours since the Team disappeared, and during that time, Batman, Zatara, Red Tornado, and I learned that all kids around the world were missing.

Except for me.

Batman had suggested that maybe my time as a statue still counted for how old I am. If that was true, I must've been centuries if not millenniums old.

"Recognized: Captain Marvel 15," the computer announced causing all of us to turn around.

"Hey guys I'm here to-" the hero paused before his face lit up. "You're back! Is everything normal? Where's the Team?"

Zatara angrily replied, "Haven't you heard? Children from all around the world-"

"Zatara wait," Batman interrupted him. "Where have you been?" he asked Captain Marvel.

Soon, we realized that there were two dimensions: one for adults, one for children. With Captain Marvel's help, or Billy Batson, we were able to get in touch with the Team in the other dimension. We quickly formed a plan to reunite the separate dimensions. The available League members and the Team would simultaneously coordinate an attack at Roanoke Island. Hopefully, the two dimensions would naturally come together.

At Roanoke Island, I hid in the bushes, indirectly helping the Justice League members by conjuring up shields to deflect the sorcerers' spells. All was going well until a spell by Wotan caught me off guard. He had accidentally sent a lightning bolt towards my bush, and I was knocked up into the air. I was about to hit the ground when I managed to levitate myself.

"You must be older than you look, little girl," Wotan sneered.

"And you look way older than what you actually are," I replied while shooting fire from my hands. Wotan quickly set up a force field to block my attack, and his eyes narrowed.

We quickly engaged in battle, me on the offensive and him on the defensive. The trouble was I had to defend the other heroes while trying to attack. It was overwhelming, and I had accidentally let Blackbriar Thorn trap Batman to a tree.

Before I could help him, Wotan sent a barrage of fire bolts towards me. My head was getting distracted, and it took all my concentration to deflect the bolts.

"You know," Wotan laughed, "you remind me of a girl I once knew."

"Yeah?" I gritted my teeth as I sent golden energy bolts at him. "Who?"

"Doesn't matter," he hissed. "She's dead." If it weren't for the fact that he was a villain, I would've offered my condolences, but right now, I was too busy fighting him. Plus, I had a wicked headache going on, and it wasn't exactly helping me focus.

"Rainy!" Captain Marvel yelled. "Watch out!"

I whirled around to see a blue energy reflecting from the gem onto me. As it hit me, pain flashed through my chest. I closed my eyes, and when I opened them, I gasped.

"What are you doing here, Rainy?" Zatanna asked shocked.

"I don't exactly know," I said.

"Well," a raspy voice stated from below, "what I'd like to know is why you, a child, were in the other dimension." Without even waiting for me to respond, he manipulated the blue energy that sent me here into Robin and Artemis, knocking them out. Then, he sent the energy into me.

Without thinking, I held up my hands, and a wall of golden energy blocked his blue one.

"Look Teekl!" the boy laughed. "The Justice League is actually stepping up its game. They're actually hiring powerful sorcerers who aren't trapped in a helmet."

Anger rushed through me, and I sent the wall of golden energy into his red force field. His bubble around the pentagram seemed to waver, but he threw me a nasty glare at me and his force field remained.

A flash of lightning redirected my focus, and I saw a little boy who I quickly recognized to be Billy Batson, also known as Captain Marvel.

'Don't yell Billy. I've connected you to a telepathic mind link.' I heard Miss M say as Billy started to yell something.

I quickly returned my attention to the magic-wielding boy. It was a good thing I did because at that moment, he threw fireball after fireball at me. I dodged all of them except one which I caught and threw back at him. Sadly, it harmlessly bounced off of the force field.

Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, and I were trying to break the red bubble when Zatanna thought, 'That's all I needed to know.'

"No!" cried Aqualad and KF, and my eyes were drawn to her putting on a golden helmet. From the boys' cries, I could tell it was bad. Before my very eyes, Zatanna disappeared into a golden light, and she shot up into the air.

"Klarion! This ends now!" her voice was intertwined with another, more powerful being.

'Who's that?' I thought.

' . He's a Lord of Order, a sworn enemy to any Lord of Chaos. That boy over there, Klarion, just so happens to be one.' Wally informed me.

'But once you don the helmet, Dr. Fate may never take it off.' Aqualad grimaced.

The Fate guy and Klarion started battling, and I could feel the magic overflowing in the atmosphere. To help Zatanna, or Dr. Fate - well, whoever it was - I sent a large wave of energy which smashed into Klarion's force field.

"Don't interfere, girlie," hissed the boy.

"Never," I stated. As soon as that word left my mouth, I was thrown back into a tree. I glared at Klarion only to find that his face was filled with as much surprise as I was feeling. I tried to stand up when a dark purple smoke slithered around me and solidified into burning hot chains.

I let out a whimper as the chains burned into my skin.

"Let her go, you monster!" M'gann yelled at Klarion.

"I didn't do that," Klarion shrugged. "But whatever did, thank you." He smirked before he shot a dozen orbs of energy at Dr. Fate. With that, the battle continued.

I struggled to free myself, but I only burned more flesh in the process. Cursing, I tried using magic on the chains. All that did was cause the chains to burn hotter.

Tears formed in my eyes, and my vision became blurred. Where the chains touched my skin, I could feel it digging deeper and deeper until I swore it had touched my bones.

A struggling sound in front of me made me look up. There was Superboy struggling with an enormous were cat monster. It seemed to belong to Klarion what with its red orbs for eyes, but as soon as the cat and I made eye contact, I felt a strange sensation in my mind. A string was pulling at my memories, but there was a block, stopping me from remembering. My mouth, though, had nothing blocking it.

"Emembare ewhan awe deplaya ian termasas atsecla? Aid veane edefa oyau shiaf ewhan hea dadi otan,"** I spoke rapidly, and my words blurred together, but the cat seemed to understand.

It's red eyes glowed, and relief flooded my heart when the chains vanished. As I hit the dirt, darkness welcomed me in her arms as a mother embraces a child.

*Spiderman reference ;)

**I made this up, so kudos to you if you can decipher it :D

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