Chapter 6

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(Outsider POV)

Batman saw Megan begin to collapse. He vaulted over the table and caught her before she hit the ground. He laid her down carefully while calling another leaguer, J'hon,

"Get here quick. Something is wrong with Megan."

Batman ended the call and turned towards Frostbite who was hunched down looking like he was typing on something.

"What happened?" Batman demanded.

Frostbite looked up and exclaimed, "I told you it would be dangerous. Her astrolform was most likely intercepted by the plant. It too is psychic and does theoretically have that ability."

"You should have told us that before Megan jumped in."

"Well, it isn't my fault that the young are so impatient."

Batman narrowed his eyes at the screen as Frostbite continued.

"Well, either way, we can't do anything for her right now. Let's just hope she is strong enough to satisfy the plants hunger without losing herself."

There was a beeping on Frostbites end of the call.

"Sorry. I have just received word that a meeting has been called about the activities in Amity park."

Batman was half-surprised to hear that name. Before Frostbite could end the call, Batman asserted himself. "What do you know about Amity park?"

Frostbite tensed. He then replied in an icy tone, losing all pretenses of friendliness.

"What business is it to you?"

"I am part of the Justice league, a global peacekeeping organization that is currently stepping in to help resolve the problems in Amity Park." Batman carefully replied.

Frostbite relaxed, a slight smile coming to his lips. "I myself may not be able to tell you anything. But I can do this, now that I know Amity has been exposed to the world. If you can find the Lord of Order named Nabu tell him that one of the observants has requested his presence for discussion on how to handle Amity Park."

"Recognized-A06 Martian Manhunter"

Batman was immediately assaulted by worry that was not his own as J'hon connected their minds.

'Batman, what is wrong?!'

He turned back towards the PDA to relay the message to Frostbite, only to be met with a blank screen. Frostbite had disconnected. Batman set his mind back to the problem at hand.

'This plant feeds on the psychic energy of its host. But it wasn't getting enough so it was trying to devour the host.' Batman relayed while gesturing to the now limp vines.

'Miss Martian thought she might be able to save The Host if she gave the vine some of her mental power. Before I could stop her, she tried, then she just collapsed.'

After crossing the room, J'hon knelt down and took Megan from Batman's hold.

'Let me see what I can do.'

J'ohn placed his hands on Megan's head and entered her mind. Upon entering, J'hon was assaulted by a flurry of Vines. Much like the ones he saw growing from that girl on the table. He then heard a shout projected the mindscape.

'Let go,You stupid Vines!' It was Megan.

J'hon looked around frantically until he spotted her. She was almost entirely encased in these odd Vines. J'hon blasted the vines trying to ensnare him as he was making his way to Megan.

'Megan calm down. Try to think clearly.'

'Uncle J'hon I can't. Everything I try just makes them tug harder.'

J'hon reached out to her, trying to pry The Vines away from his niece. But when he made contact, he felt himself being drained of energy as the vines continued to creep up his arms. He tried pulling away but it held him too tightly. J'hon looked over to his niece and saw panic in her eyes.

'NOOOO!' Megan screamed in desperation sending shockwaves of mental energy out. But even still The Vines held fast.

A few seconds later and the vines had completely encased Megan and were just about to encase J'hon. He continued to struggle but didn't think he could do much more. Suddenly, the Vines loosened and seemed to retreat. First, from his torso and then slowly unraveling from the rest of his body. He looked over to where Megan was, the same thing was happening to her. She didn't look too good but she was awake.

J'hon smiled down at his niece 'let's go!' he said in a reassuring tone.

J'hon had collapsed right beside his niece after he entered her mind. They had been lying there for about a minute when Megan sat up with a jerk. Followed by Martian Manhunter slowly getting up.

"Thank you, Uncle J'hon," Megan said as she picked herself up off the floor.

"Think nothing of it, but I must now go back to monitor duty in the watchtower." J'hon replied in his normal near monotone voice.

Batman stands up, "J'hon, I've got a message for Dr. Fate from someone named Frostbite. some group known as the observants wishes to talk to him about Amity Park. You know how bad Dr. Fate is with comms. See if you can get it to him by the end of the day."

"Understood" J'hon replied, as he was leaving toward the Zeta tubes. Once J'hon had left, the girl on the table groaned as she sat up. She groggily looked around at her surroundings. Her eyes seemed to glide over Batman, but they locked on Megan. Her violet eyes grew wide as she stared. In one quick motion, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a lipstick container, uncapped it and pointed it at Megan like it was a weapon.

"Who are you? Where am I? what have you done with Danny?"

Batman coughed into his hand. The girl on the table whipped her head around and pointed the lipstick toward Batman. When she recognized Batman, her eyes were even wider and she dropped her lipstick container. It hit the ground with a loud

"thunk"! That's when she noticed the weight from the back of her neck. She reached behind her head and felt the vines that were now protruding from the back of her neck. She looked at her surroundings noticing the lines falling over the table and onto the floor. Batman approached her and pulled out one of his batarangs. Sam's head immediately snapped towards Batman, her eyes fixed on the batarang that was now in his hand.

"What are you going to do with that?" Sam inquired.

"I'm just going to cut the vines that are growing from your neck." Batman said in a soft but neutral tone.

"No. I'll do it myself." she stated defiantly. She then reached into her combat boots and pulled out a glowing green blade.

Batman tensed as she pulled up the knife. Sam calmy grabbed the vines, pulled them tight and cut them off.

The vines immediately shriveled up and the bits that were still attached to her seemed to melt back into her skin. Sam rubbed the spot where the vines retreated with one hand while the other began to put the knife back into her boot. Batman stopped her saying,

" I'm sorry but I can't allow you to have that here." while gesturing towards the strange glowing knife she was about to sheath in her boot.

Sam then looked back at Megan and then at Batman and finally to her surroundings. Her face turned up getting slight disgust and anger. Batman cautiously reached for his utility belt. But after a second tension the frustrated Sam exclaimed.

"you don't think I can handle little knife well fine take it." she then threw the knife at the wall where it bounced off and slid across the floor. She began looking around once again. Then her face suddenly grew extremely concerned.

"Where is Danny? What happened to him?" Sam said in a somewhat panicked voice.

Thinking quickly, and assuming "Danny" was the person who was currently in their med bay, Batman responded.

"We don't quite know. but he seems stable."

Megan then chimed in, "Who's Danny?"

"He's my best friend." Sam responded not really looking at Miss Martian

Then it clicked in Miss Martian's mind. Danny is the boy who was attacked and was now in the med bay. Things grew quiet for a second. Batman then said,

"Alright, Miss-" As he said that, Sam's face darkened slightly as she glared at Batman. But Batman continued unperturbed.

"-Could you please tell us why someone would want to attack your friend?"

Sam looked down, gathering her thoughts. Then she looked Batman straight in the eye and said,

"No, I don't know of anybody who would want to attack him." in a tone of finality.

Batman narrowed his eyes slightly at her. While her voice sounded firm, there was something in her body language that told Batman she was lying. She kept her eye locked with his, almost daring him to call her out. Miss Martian shifted nervously before she broke the staring match.

"So, uh…. I'm Miss Martian. What's your name?" she extended her hand in a friendly gesture. Sam broke off her stare down with Batman to look at Miss Martian and her outstretched hand.

Sam took Miss Martian's hand, "I'm Sam. Is there any way you could take me to Danny?"

Megan, always eager to please, immediately responded

"Sure, but before that you are going to need some warmer clothes."

Sam looked down at herself, shrugged and asked,

"Are we in some sort of Arctic base or something?"

"No, but one of the big problems with his condition is that he…. Kind of froze the entire Med-bay."

Sam looked at Megan a little shocked then tried to get up off of the examination table only to have her legs crumpled beneath her.

"Slow down. what's the rush?" Megan said as she caught her using her telekinesis.

Sam looked back up at Megan with her hand once more outstretched in a friendly gesture.

"I just want to make sure he's safe." Sam said with a, once more, worried face.

"Alright then let me help you and we'll go see him together" Megan said in a calm reassuring voice.

Megan and Sam begin walking to the room with extra gear. Batman, who had silently watched this interaction, started after them, narrowing his eyes slightly as they walked around the corner.

Something wasn't right. This girl, Sam, was hiding something, something big. Then there was that lipstick and the glowing knife she had in her boot. More mysteries to be solved. Batman walked over to the forgotten lipstick and picked it up. Examining it, he noticed a small almost imperceptible button at the base of the lipstick. He took out a small evidence bag and dropped the device in, sealing the bag. Then he went over and picked up the knife still abandoned on the floor and put it in its own container. This week just kept on getting stranger by the second. Batman sighed. Looks like he had another case to crack. And it all seemed to lead back to Amity Park.

Batman put away the evidence bags and headed towards the lab that was in the cave. In order to sort out some of his questions. Before he reached the main lab Batman ran into Kid Flash who is sprinting out of said lab.

"Batman! We'vegottogetoutofhere!" Kid Flash grabbed Batman's hand and quickly darted around the corner before a large BOOOM shook the cave.

AN: sorry about the late posting school is getting tougher and I'm finding less time to actually write. On the Brightside next week is fall break for me so I should be able to get a good amount of writing done. Thank you all for your support. I would once again like to reiterateI LOVE ALL COMMENTS and would really appreciate any you could give.