*****I Do Not Own Ultimate Spider-Man or Young Justice*****

Snow Day

"Zee, wake up." A voice spoke softly. I groaned and turned to face the other side of the bed, eyes closed.

"Yo, Zatanna, get up." Another voice chimed in. I pulled the covers over my face.

"Rise and shine, Zee." A third voice added as I felt the covers move from over my face. I muttered a spell and a second blanket appeared. I sighed happy I could go back to sleep.

"Zatanna, it's time to greet the day." A fourth voice stated as the new blanket disappeared. I felt a rough hand push me. Before I could register what was happening, I fell to the floor with a thud. I stood up and was greeted with the sight of Nova, Power Man, White Tiger and Iron Fist.

"Guess I pushed a little too hard." Power Man said sheepishly.

"You think?" I replied with a glare. "Isn't it a bit early for a wakeup call? School isn't for another hour."

"No school. It's officially a snow day." Nova answered with a grin.

"That still doesn't explain what you all are doing in my bedroom."

"You're not the only one that doesn't know it's a snow day." White Tiger said with a smirk. Soon the others wore mischievous smirks.

"Please fill free to be as chalant as you like."

"What's chala-"

"We're pulling a prank on Peter and would really like it if you joined us." Iron Fist answered, cutting off the helmet wearing hero. I smirked. I told Danny what chalant meant a while back. It confused him at first but now he occasionally uses the word.

"Why didn't you just say that?" I turned to the group. "Naelc em pu dna egnahc em otni ym emutsoc." In an instant I was dressed in my Magician Girl outfit and ready for the day. "Now what's this plan you have?"

"Up and at 'em sleepy head. Ultimate Skrull robot thingies attacking! Can't hold 'em off! Game over, man!" Nova cried out through the communicator to Peter. We could hear the fumbling from outside his window.

"Ekam a hcnub fo sllabwons" I chanted making a bit of snow float into the air and form multiple snowballs. Everyone picked up a handful, ready for the next part of our prank.

"I'm coming!" Spidey shouted as he opened the window. We sent the snowballs right at him, causing him to trip and fall out of the building.

"Wons llaf otno nam-erdips." Snow from the roof fell onto the red clad hero. We all laughed as Nova got the whole thing on video.

"Tell me you got that Nova." Power Man stated.

"Totally got it, Power Man." Nova answered.

"Copy me? It'll be an early Christmas present." White Tiger called out.

"Call me Santa Claus. Ho-ho-ho."

"Mature. The Maturist." Spider-man grumbled as he started to get back up. "Shouldn't you be at school. Or dead?"

"No school, Spidey. Snow day." Power Man answered.

"Snow day? Did you get up early just to torture me?"

"That was a fringe benefit." White Tiger stated as she walked toward our leader. "We're actually here to pick you up."

"Pick me up for what, White Tiger?"

"Agent Coulson's orders."

"Since school's canceled I've scheduled some 'extra credit.'" Agent Coulson spoke from the girl's communication device. "Report to S.H.I.E.L.D station I.C.E for winter survival training. Snow camping, avalanche preparedness, blizzard trekking, ice water scuba diving. Your transport is waiting." The transmission ended and the screen went black. 'Great more cold. There's a reason I'm better at fire magic than water and ice.'

"So we get the day off 'cause of snow…the we gotta work out…in more snow?"

"It's a mandatory team building exercise."

"Mandatory, White Tiger?" Nova questioned. I raised an eyebrow at him. "I've got a better idea."

"This should be good." I commented making everyone else nod.

"Leave this to me."

We landed the jet on a nice a sandy beach. Nova actually came through for us. I thought he would have messed something up, so I had a few spells ready but, nothing's gone wrong…yet.

"Awesome!" Sam cheered.

"Yeah now that's what I'm talking about." Luke added.

"Woo! Not bad." Peter praised. The boys were already in their swim trunks and walking onto the beach with some beach stuff. Sam wore blue, Luke wore red, Peter wore purple and Danny wore green.

"I have found harmony." Danny stated. Ava and I walked out behind them in bikinis with matching flowers and our towels wrapped around us like skirts. I wore light blue while she wore pink.

"We're gonna get in trouble. That's all I'm saying." I rolled my eyes. She put on her sunglasses. "But at least we'll be warm."

"Now you're talking." I wrapped an arm around the girl and we went to join the boys.

"Paradise!" Luke called out as we admired the beach.

"How'd you guys ever find this place?" I asked curiously.

"This one's all Sam. He said he found it in the S.H.I.E.L.D database." Peter answered.

"Filed under 'classy'." We all turned to the boy. "If Coulson squawks, I'll just tell him I accidentally entered the wrong coordinates."

"Do the math. Snow day plus tropical island is greater than or equal to the wrath of Coulson."

"Math looks sound to me." I said looking over his shoulder. "Besides you're the genius." Sam ran into the water.

"Come on in guys." He beckoned us. We all ran into the cool refreshing water. Peter got distracted for a second, so Sam and I shared a look before starting a splash fight with the webslinger.

"Ah there is no beauty like that of unspoiled nature." Danny marveled a while later once we were out of the water. I took in a breath of fresh sea air. 'He's right. I can feel the flow of nature running through it, untampered.' "Why would a place like this be in S.H.I.E.L.D's database?"

"I bet it's Fury's super-spy secret hideaway. What do you suppose he does here?" Sam spoke while starting to build a sandcastle. Peter shuttered.

"Let's not ask questions we don't want answers to. Just enjoy." He stated.

Sam managed to build a sand version of his helmet. Danny thought it could use a little more to and began drawing swirls around it. I looked at the patch of sand before me. 'This should do.'

"Hey, Zee if you want help making a cute little castle just ask the master here." Sam called out. I rolled my eyes.

"I've been working on my earth spells so I figured now would be the time to try one out." I said. I took a deep breath. "Sdnas fo eht htrae deeh ym dnammoc. Morf dna dneb ot eht epahs ni ym dnim." I closed my eyes and focused on the image in my mind. "Mrof nda dneb. Mrof dna dneb" I heard a sound and opened my eyes to see a small sand replica of Time Square. 'I did it!'

"Whoa." They both muttered as they came to look at my master piece.

"There's even a tiny Jameson on the jumbotron." Sam added. I smiled. Danny looked at me concerned.

"Are you feeling okay, Zatanna? You used a lot of magic." He questioned.

"I'm fine. I've actually done a spell like this before with Doctor Strange. Besides…Tropelet ym cigam rab morf eht pihs ot ym dnah." A small candy bar like object appeared in my hand.

"Are those the magical replenishers Doctor Strange gave you?" I nodded before taking a bite. The taste isn't so good but, I do feel more replenished.

"They taste like sugarless protein bars but, I can manage."

"Go long!" Peter shouted. A football flew over my masterpiece and along with it Luke. He dove and slide through half of my sandcastle and into Sam and Danny's. The three of us glared at him softly.

"My bad." He muttered. Sam poured sand on his head to show his annoyance.

"Time out!" the blue-eyed boy called out.

"What's wrong?" Ava asked. As we all gathered around closer.

"Well…"

"Ah, probably just guilt-trippin' over ditchin' on Coulson." Sam concluded before throwing a volleyball at the webslinger. "How 'bout a butt whuppin' to get you over it?"

"You're on." Peter picked up the ball.

Peter created a net out of his webbing. We divided into teams of three with Sam making it a rule that there had to be one girl on each side much to mine and Ava's disapproval at being singled out for being girls. Ava, Peter and Luke stood on one side while Danny, Sam and I were facing opposite them.

"Okay, rules of the game. No one uses their powers." The girl called out. We all nodded before Sam served the ball over. Peter bumped it up. "Mine!" Ava called out as she ran toward it then jumped off the tree and hit it against Sam's head.

"Ah! What happened to no powers?" he protested.

"I said no powers. Not no skills." Danny and I exchanged a look and smirked. 'She's gonna wish she hadn't made that exception.'

"A thing can only be that which it is." Danny spoke before kicking it straight at Luke who hit it back over. Sam bumped the ball high into the air. I ran toward Danny and jumped as he cupped his hands and helped me get higher. I kicked the ball toward Peter who shanked it into the forest.

"Great it rolled into the jungle." The girl stated.

"Hold onto your helmet, Sam. The next spike has your name on it." Peter taunted as he walked to retrieve our ball. A few moments later we heard a scream before the web warrior reappeared. He ran straight into Sam before falling over.

"Dude, what are you so freaked out about? Where's the ball?" Sam questioned.

"Back there with..." He pointed toward the forest in fear. We turned toward the forest and saw a little boy with brown hair in cargo shorts and a green striped shirt. 'That's what he's so scared of?'

"I'm Sandy. Can I play too?" The boy greeted.

"I didn't see him in there."

"Kid, what are you doing on a deserted island?" Ava asked as she walked toward him.

"It's not deserted. We live here." He answered as he handed her the ball.

"You and your family. Where are they?"

"Oh, they're around. Everywhere."

"I get a weird vibe from this kid." Luke whispered as I nodded. 'There's something not right about this kid. Like he's hiding something.' "What's your spidey sense say?"

"It's not happy." He deadpanned. Suddenly as if Sandy couldn't get any creepier, he started laughing for no reason.

"Let's play hide n' seek. Ha-ha! You're it!" He suggested before running into the forest.

"I think we're gonna pass." We tried to walk away but the sand was wrapped around our legs, immobilizing us. "What's up with this sand? I'm stuck!"

"This paradise is getting creepier by the second." Luke stated.

"Esaeler su morf eht dnas!" I chanted as the sand fell back down harmlessly.

"Oh yawn…all this fun has me beat! I need a nap. At home. Now." Sam spoke before Ava hit him upside the head.

"We can't leave a helpless little boy alone in the jungle." Ava protested.

"As creepy as he is, we can't just abandon him here." I added.

"Zatanna, that kid looks like half of every set of freaky twins from every scary movie I ever saw in my life. Why do we have to be the heroes?" Sam turned to the rest of the team who were giving him disapproving looks. "I'll get my helmet."

"Hey kid!" Spider-man called out once we changed into our costumes.

"Creepy little boy?" Nova tried.

"Come and find me slow pokes." Sandy's voice called out as he began to laugh again.

"This doesn't make sense. It's like he's everywhere at once and nowhere at all." White Tiger observed.

"No, I'm over here." We all quickly turned to find the source of the voice.

"Lost?" a new voice asked. A man with tan pants and a green striped shirt. Ava and I turned to find Nova and Iron Fist hiding behind Power Man as Spidey hung from a tree.

"Ignore them, they got way too much sun." the heroine stated.

"Are you related to Sandy?" I asked, noting the family resemblance.

"Call me Flint. Any friend of Sandy's is a friend of mine." Flint answered as we walked toward him. "Thanks for playing with him. We get lonely just the two of us."

"Ever thought of moving where there's people?" Nova commented. Flint walked toward the helmet wearing hero and tapped on his helmet.

"Is that what they're wearing on the mainland these days? Huh. Cool." I stifled a laugh. "We're a little out of touch out here."

"A little?" Spidey muttered. I couldn't shake the thought that something still didn't seem right. "Well now that we know you're here, that means Sandy's okay. So, we're just gonna get going."

"No, you can't do that. Sandy always loved playing games. Loved it."

"You just said 'loved' as in past tense." I said raising an eyebrow.

"I'll give you a hint. He's probably up in the old ruins."

"Dude, we flew in. There aren't any—" as if to prove him wrong, we turned and noticed an ancient looking set of ruins.

"Guys, where are we?" Power Man asked, creeped out. A rumbling occurred, and Flint was gone.

"Catch me if you can!" Sandy laughed in the distance.

"Officially weirded out." Nova stated as I nodded. I reached out to see if I could sense anything mystical but, I couldn't sense anything other than Iron Fist, White Tiger's charm and myself.

"Clearly, this jungle's a veil of mystery." Iron Fist added.

"One that isn't giving off any mystic vibes." I informed.

"There goes my haunted island theory." The helmet wearing hero remarked.

"All in favor of a tactical retreat?" White Tiger suggested.

"Me!" the rest of us called out raising our hands. We quickly ran toward the beach to get back to our jet.

"Let's get out of here!" Nova called out just as we were near our destination. Sandy appeared out of nowhere and he didn't look very happy.

"I thought you were my friends. You were supposed to play with me." He shouted at us.

"Hold on now. We're still friends, we're just trying to figure out what's going on here." Spider-man tried.

"Liar!" The island started to rumble worse than before, making the trees behind us collapse.

"Are you doing this?" Sandy turned into sand and fell to the beach around us. 'What is going on here?'

"Guys, did you just see what he did?" White Tiger asked.

"He is but a grain of sand in an ocean of trouble." Iron Fist added. Sand started gathering near our ride home. "Look!" A giant hand made of sand snatched it away and started heading toward the ruins. It placed it at the very top of the temple.

"Want your ship? Come and get it!" Sandy laughed in the distance. The hand returned and tried to snatch us. We quickly dodged the sand construct.

"Spread out!" Spidey ordered.

"Did the file say anything about this place, except classy?" Power Man questioned.

"Um, yeah, it said fied." Nova answered.

"As in classi-fied?" the web slinger clarified.

"It also said we're near Bermuda. Bermuda's nice."

"So, you're saying we're in the Bermuda Triangle?" White Tiger asked.

"You got something against triangles?"

"Nothing except when they surround the epicenter of strange mystical occurrences." I remarked. The ground started shaking as the sand started trying to grab us again. Soon we were in the middle of a sand storm. We were surrounded. "Etaec a reirrab!" A barrier covered us and stopped the sand from reaching us.

"You should have played nice!" Sandy shouted.

"But now, you'll pay." Flint added. I lowered the barrier as the sand stopped.

"Oh well this is just great. Now that Flint guy is in on it too?" The heroine stated. The sand started moving as if a person was going from one place to the next.

"I'll take option both." Spider-man remarked. The ground swirled around us. Nova and I flew up higher to try to avoid being captured.

"Nova, Magician Girl, a little help here!" Power Man shouted as the sand tried to consume our team.

"Etativel Nam-redips, Nori Tsif, Etihw Regit dna Rewop Nam!" I chanted, lifting the group into the air. I felt the spell weakening, thankfully the sand had just died down. 'He just had to bring us to the Bermuda Triangle'

"Nice save." A sand fist appeared again, nearly hitting Power Man. Sandy decided to change his attack plan and started creating spikes made from sand.

"Okay, we get the point." Spidey quipped. The sand hand appeared and summoned blocks of sand, sending them toward us. Power Man punched through one while Iron Fist karate chopped his. The Web Warrior jumped to dodge another then used his webs to send it back, destroying the hand. "Right back at you! Let's call a time out before someone gets hurt. Namely us."

"You're no fun!" Flint and Sandy cried out together just as four giant sand walls surrounded us. To make things worse, they decided to add spikes.

"Uh-oh I'm thinking out of the box." Nova stated before he flew over. A hand went after him and grabbed his leg, bringing him back down.

"Rock in a hard place, been there." Power Man commented before trying to stop the sand from crushing us. Unfortunately, it started to absorb his arms. "Or not."

"Dnas nruter ot eht dnuorg!" I chant repeatedly, trying to free us. I notice some spots obey but for the most part its staying intact. 'How is this possible?' Before I knew it we were completely trapped.

I coughed as I opened my eyes. Sandy and Flint transported us to the entrance to the ruins. I stood up and saw Spider-Man and Power Man next to me. Further away were Iron Fist, White Tiger and Nova. I felt gross. There was sand everywhere on me.

"We need out of this sandbox now." Spidey stated.

"Someone's getting hurt today. I just washed my hair." White Tiger threatened.

"Teg siht dnas ffo fo su esaelp!" I chanted. I felt relief as the sand fell back to the ground, earning nods from the rest of the team.

"Where have you taken us?" Iron Fist questioned.

"We have a new game." Flint and Sandy said simultaneously. 'This can't be good.' A sand wall appeared and split us in half. By the sound of things, I think they created a maze.

"And if we refuse to play?" Spider-man asked. Sand whirled in the air. It formed a half sand beefier version of Flint and he didn't look very happy.

"Then you forfeit. Everything." He stated. His fist hit the ground and turned to sand as we dodged the blow.

"Sdnas fo eht htrae deeh ym dnammoc. Llaf ot eht dnuorg dna nruter ot ruoy lamron etats. Esaeler su morf siht emag!" I spoke. I could feel the earth magic inside me and flowing outwards. The walls started to fall slightly. Flint noticed this and got angrier. His anger solidified the walls once more. I felt a pair of strong arms grab me as I released the spell. I felt slightly weaker but not by much since the spell didn't work.

"Nice try, Magician Girl." Spider-man praised as I nodded. Power Man was the one that grabbed me as they ran from the creature.

"Even if my spell didn't work, I know why. The sand is physically a part of him. Mixed with the normal sand is small bits of Flint and Sandy. My earth magic won't do anything against their merged being."

"Tell me you know how to get us out of this." Power Man stated as he placed me on the ground.

"I got nothing." The web warrior answered as I nodded. Flint caught up with us and did not seem very happy. We quickly moved behind a wall to hide.

"Is he gone?"

"I seriously doubt it."

"Laecnoc su htiw ruomalg!" I chanted just in time as his hand reached over the wall we were hiding behind.

"How bout a sandblast?" Nova cried out as he shot Flint with his nova blast. He turned his attention and followed the flying hero.

"We've just got to play his game and get to the ship." Spider-man stated.

"Sounds easy enough." I spoke.

"Check it out." Power Man called to us. We both turned to see what our teammate found. He was looking at some very details hieroglyphics.

"Hieroglyphs? Is that Flint?" Spidey asked.

"Looks like he broke out of prison. There was an atomic explosion."

"There's always an atomic explosion."

"Looks like it mutated him." I chimed in.

"Sweet Christmas!" Power Man exclaimed as he lifted up his glasses. "Tell me that's not Nick Fury." I looked a little closer to see an image that looked like our one-eyed director of SHIELD from another time.

"Super-fly eye patch and all." The web warrior quipped.

"Is that Coulson with a ponytail?" I asked noting the figure behind Fury.

"Copy me." Power Man stated as Spidey took a picture with his phone.

"Totally copied. To everyone." he responded. "According to this, it look like Fury just dumped Flint and left. That can't be the whole story."

"So what is this place? Some sort of prison?" Power Man asked.

"Yeah, for one inmate 'til we crashed the party."

"We need off this island yesterday."

"I've been trying summon enough energy to teleport us out of here but, no dice. The Bermuda Triangle is messing with my magic. " I informed them.

"Then the ship's our only option." We ran off to get to the ship and hopefully find the others.

"Almost there." I heard White Tiger say. We ran toward the stairs to find White Tiger, Iron Fist and Nova.

"What took you so long? Stopped to see the sandcastle? Sand Bar? Sand Pants?" Spider-man joked until he saw Nova with a lot of sand in his pants.

"Not a word." Nova stated as he shook the sand out.

"Uh, yeah. We saw some old drawings on the walls."

"We saw them too." the girl informed. "Obviously someone wanted us to catch Flint's little true crime story. The ground started to shake, making the sand pick up. Out of the ground came Sandy.

"We tried to make you understand." the boy stated before he transformed into Flint.

"I just wanted someone to play with but you wouldn't play nice!" he added. He transformed into a sand monster.

"Look who's talking!" Power Man retorted.

"Yeah, but who is talking?" Spidey asked. "Nova, fire a blast into the ground."

"Why?" Nova questioned.

"If what I'm thinking is right, you'll be happy you did." Nova flew higher into the air. Just as the monster's sand arm went after him, he fired his nova blast at the ground. The monster screamed as it retracted into the ground.

"Oh, yeah. That felt good." The sand monster reappeared.

"We've been so lonely! Why did you have to ruin it?" He demanded.

"What about the boy?" White Tiger asked.

"Just an imaginary playmate. Flinty McSandman made him up." Spidey explained.

"Don't call me Sandman!" he unleashed a wave of sand at us. We ran up the stairs hoping to make it to the ship. Underneath Spidey, a large pillar of sand appeared.

"Keep going!" the sand kept taking him higher and higher.

"Raelc su a htap esaelp!" I chanted making the sand in front of us stop but we still had to avoid the attacks from behind us.

"You can't leave me." Sandman shouted. He started to approach the stairs. "I won't let you!" Everything around us started to become loose land. The ship was being covered by it.

"I hate losing my toys at the beach." Spidey commented as Nova carried him. The web warrior grabbed the ship with his webbings. "A little help here."

"And to think I wiggle my toes in this." Power Man stated as he tried to help free the ship.

"Even an ant can move a mountain." Iron Fist called out as he hit the sand.

"Evomer eht dnas morf eht pihs!" I chanted. Sand started falling off the ship. I focused hoping we could make it before the Triangle affected me again.

"Hold him off. I'l get it started." White Tiger ordered as she hurried toward an opening. I focused my power as the heroine dodged Sandman's attacks and made it into the ship. The engine started up. "The engines won't fire." She opened the door, allowing us to get inside and help.

"Sand's clogging the intakes." Nova shouted before flying to the other side of the ship. 'Maybe I could try the spell Doctor Strange is teaching me about but, I need more power.'

"Danny!" I called out. He quickly came over. "I need to borrow some of your Chi energy. I think I have a way we can escape." I held out my hand to him. Nodding, the blonde took my hand.

"Etaerc a dniwlrihw ot hsup eht pihs otni eht ria!" I spoke. I focused and right below us, a gust of wind started picking up. As it gained strength, the ship lifted off the ground. The wind died down and Nova took over. I released Iron Fist's hand.

"No way. I thought the engines were fried." White Tiger stated.

"They are." Nova answered as he continued to propel the ship away from the island.

"Thanks." I told Iron Fist.

"It was no trouble." he answered. I thought about my energy replenishers and only one appeared. I broke it in half.

"Here. Even though I took the brunt of it you'll need it." I handed him half of the bar. I giggled slightly at his reaction to the taste.

"They taste earthy."

"Doctor Strange says that's how you know they're good." Suddenly, Ava was able to get the engine to work, relieving Nova.

"So what are we gonna tell Fury?" White Tiger asked as we approached New York.

"Nothing. We left Sandman where SHIELD stuck him. No harm. No foul. Fury won't even notice." Nova answered. I sat down meditating to recover from the affects of the Bermuda Triangle.

"SHIELD aircraft, you are being redirected to an alternate landing site. Do you read?" a voice spoke over the radio. 'A new landing site?'

"He noticed." Iron Fist stated. There were planes surrounding us on all sides.

"Don't even think about landing." Fury ordered as he came across the video communicator.

"Look, Nick, sorry. We got spring fever. We had no idea about that island." Spider-man answered.

"Yeah, that sandman dude's messed up." Power Man added.

"No kidding." Fury stated before a picture of Flint appeared on the monitor. "Flint Marko is too dangerous to keep in a normal prison. So parking him in the middle of a huge body of water, was our only option. He draws his power from contact with the ground. If he ever set food on the mainland, it'd be catastrophic."

"That's just Manhattan. Think what he could really do in New Jersey?"

"Really? Jersey?" Spidey asked eyebrow raised. We all looked at the strong guy, not seeing where he was going with this.

"Okay maybe not Jersey. But you get the point."

"Jersey is safe, sir. We left Sandman where we found him."

"And how do you know that?" Fury questioned. "Follow the escort directly to the Helicarrier for a full scrub-down." 'I'm not liking the sound of that'

"Full scrub-down? Sounds promising." 'Only Spidey could find a good twist on something that sounds awful.' "Cause one thing I hate about the beach, is that sand gets everywhere." Fury's eye widened as the sand came pour out of the web warrior's boot.

"How much sand?"

"That's not sand, is it?" The sand started to form a face and laugh evilly.

"Definitely, not sand." I added. The sand landed on the controls, making them useless. We all screamed as the ship started to fall.

"Tiger, steer us out of here!"

"The controls are frozen." she informed. "What do we do now?" Spider-man jumped out of the ship and onto the top of it.

"Fury said we can't touch land. Steer us toward the river." as the ship flew over the city with Spidey making sure we didn't land in the city we hit a J. Jonah Jameson billboard.

"There. The Hudson's frozen." Nova called out.

"Brace for landing." the ride got a little bumpy as the ship slide across the frozen lake. "Thank you for flying Air Spidey. Hope you enjoyed your flight." just as we landed, Sandman got bigger and roared. He looked down at us, then to the SHIELD Hellicarrier that approached us.

"Fury!" Sandman exclaimed.

"Come on! We got to stop him before he gets to the city. Hey, Sandman...uh Flint. Let's talk about it. We had some fun times playing with your inner child, right?" Spider-man attached his webs to Sandman, trying to hold him back.

"Dloh Namdnas kcab!" I chanted and raised my arms out. I could feel him fighting back. I groaned as I tried to help hold Sandman.

"How 'bout you hop back into my boot? Come on, it's still warm." He moved his arm just enough to send a sand blast at me, breaking my concentration to dodge. This gave him the opportunity to break free from Spider-man's hold as well.

White Tiger charged at him and used her claws on Sandman. This only made him roar in anger. He used that anger to knocked the girl aside. "Iron Fist, he cannot get back to dry land."

"Divide and conquer." Iron Fist stated as he charged up his Chi. He punched the ice below us creating a crack that broke the ice slightly. Sandman fell in slightly but that didn't stop him.

"What's it take to stop this dude?" Power Man commented.

"How do you stop someone who's made of sand?" White Tiger continued.

"Its a combination of Flint's essence and sand. My earth magic won't be able to stop him." I added.

"Anyone got a ginormous pail and shovel?" Nova quipped.

"Wait, made of sand. Sand's made of silica. Nova, Magician Girl, light him up. All heat, no force." Spider-man ordered. We nodded.

"Etaerc a elcirc fo erif dnuora Namdnas!" I chanted as Nova flew in. Flames surrounded the sand beast much to his confusion. Nova created a steady beam of energy.

"Take it up to 2,000 degrees."

"It's not working." Nova called out.

"Nova, create some distance but keep firing." I called out. Nova flew up higher. "Erif, deeh ym dnammoc. Taeh pu. Taeh pu. Taeh pu!" The flames grew in size and changed in color.

"Almost there!" Sandman stated. He was nearing the edge of the circle separating him from the mainland. 'Come on. Just a little more.'

"Taeh up!"

"No!" His whole body was turned to glass. I released the spell and started breathing heavily. I looked at my hand to notice an orange glow disappear from it. 'Weird'

"Hot enough for you?" I asked as I turned to the others.

"Intense!" Power Man exclaimed. "How'd you know that would work?"

"When silica's super-heated, it makes glass. Sometimes it pays to be a science geek."

"How's that containment unit working, Agent Coulson?" Fury asked. SHIELD scientists were able to create a way to hold the villain.

"Readings are holding steady. Flint's body reverted to sand within a few hours, but the constant vibrations will keep him from solidifying." Coulson answered

"Good. And how are my beach campers?" As soon as we got to the Hellicarrier, they made us change into new clothes and get in an area where we wouldn't cause contamination. 'All of Flint was captured. There's noting left to scrub-down!'

"Fury, this guy may have been a criminal back in the day but being left on that island really cracked his coconut. You're not gonna stick him in the corner again, are you?" Peter asked.

"Because blowing off your responsibilities can have dangerous consequences?"

"Exactly. See now you're feelin' me! You have to take responsibility for the things you do-"

"Ahem, snow day." Coulson reminded him.

"Oh, snow day, right. Ponytail."

"What was that?"

"Nothing."

"Truth is, the Sandman was a problem I'd swept under the carpet for too long. Despite your unauthorized snow day, some good may actually come of this." Fury stated.

"Then in that case, you're welcome. Count this as a win."

"For him, yes. Tell me after the scrub." Fury and Coulson started to walk away. 'Oh no' A hard stream of water started spraying us. We all screamed in shock. 'Too cold. Way too cold'

"Come on, it's not that bad." Peter tried.

Hey guys! I'm back! Sorry for the delay. I've had a lot of stuff going on in my life that has kept me from writing and stolen my inspiration. Luckily, I found it again and am ready to continue from where I left off. I really hope you enjoyed this chapter. I also finished writing the next chapter so I'll be posting that in about a week. Just so I can build more content while also giving you more to read. Just a little bit of house keeping before we get into the rest of this whole author's note thing. The results of the poll and various input have been tallied. This is going to be a Zatanna x Iron Fist story. Thank you to everyone for your help and I hope I can make it what you are hoping for. I will say that there will be a chapter with how it all goes down. Later on I will do something that the Zatanna x Spidey shippers might enjoy seeing.

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