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Hey everyone, sorry I haven't updated in a while. I have been busy with some personal matters. I am posting this chapter because I don't want you all to think I stopped with this story, but this story won't be getting updated as often as before and I'm sorry for that,
I have not stopped working on my stories
I have also been having some trouble with writing cause the main source of me watching Young Justice took it down a while ago, so I have to either find another source to get all the info I need, or divert from the cannon story and try to do something else, (to those who actually know about it) I might try something like a Young Justice version of The Blackest Night but a bit different. So yeah, one of the two.
While I was writing the chapter I had to change it 3 times till it finally started to work, I think, once I got into a rhythm it seemed to work, I had to make it short because of my lack of information.
Anyway, I hope that you all will continue to read my story, thank you all.
Enjoy the chapter.
Chapter 7
It was the middle of the night, the sky was full of stars, the creatures of the night were going about their usual business, and the inhabitants were a peacefully asleep. But there was something different this time, something was racing towards the planet and was now visible in the sky, it would go unnoticed unless you actually tried to see it. It appeared to be a comet, only instead of a bright white, it was a black. Tendrils of darkness trailed behind it as it headed for the surface of the planet, or more specifically, Mount Justice.
As the comet drew closer, smaller comets seemed to break off and speed towards the base, once there they simply pass through the walls, several of them gather in the main control room before shooting off down the hallways.
After a few minutes one of the orbs flies past the door to the medical wing but then stops and flies back to look inside, it spots Mark and flies over to him. The other orbs gather together before is spreads over Mark, seemingly covering him from head to toe.
Marks Mindscape
Inside the mind of Mark, is what appeared to be a city in ruins, skyscrapers with missing sections covered the area, scattered black fires burned all over, and large cracks in the ground with black energy poring out from them covered the ground. If anyone with psychic powers saw this, they would be horrified and assume he was either insane or broken beyond help.
Mark was laying on top of the tallest building, the top being a large crater, as the dark orb descended towards him, his eyes shot open and he jumped to his feet. His ring lit up for a moment before his eyes widened once he saw the orb. "It's you." He said in shock.
A feminine laugh came from the orb, "It has been a while but I am not here for a visit. It's time for you to wake up." The orb shot into him and the world around them faded.
Real world
The energy around Mark flows into his ring as he bolt up right and was gasping, "Ring at 100% power." Said the ring.
Mark rubbed his head and then gasped, "Oh my god!" He said in shock, "I need to eat something!" He says as he jumps out of the bed and runs towards the kitchen in search of food. He makes his way over to the fridge and rips off the door, he then grabs what ever food is closest to him before eating it. He was halfway through eating a raw stake when he stopped, he turned his head to the left and saw Miss Martian looking at him slightly shocked. Mark then swallowed the rest of the stake whole. "Hey Megan. What's up?" He said in an innocent tone.
"Your okay!" She shouts with joy before flying over to him. "The rest of the team and I were so worried about you."
Mark looks confused, "Why? What happened?" He asked as he moved towards Megan, who then explained what happened since he passed out. As she explained Mark started to eat of a bowl of popcorn that seemed to appear out of nowhere. As she finished, Mark had a curious expression, "Okay, so that's what happened after I passed out, I mostly want to remember the dream I had while I was out."
Megan looked a bit sad, "If you weren't immune to my telepathy then I could have helped with that." She then gained a thoughtful expression, "Oh I know! I heard once that sometimes you can remember something by eating a certain food." Marks eyes widened and seemed to literally sparkle with excitement.
"I have never been more willing to do something since I found out what an all you can eat buffet was." He said happily as they both went towards the fridge, Mark had seemingly eaten almost everything, so they both got into their civilian outfits and enter the zeta tube.
Once they exit the zeta tube the pair arrive in Star City, the two then start to search for a somewhere to help Mark Remember his dream, unfortunately none of the nearby places were any help. After about an hour the two were starting to head back but stopped when they came across a Bar. Mark not knowing what it was decided to investigate while Megan kept walking. He entered the bar but was met with 3 very drunk looking bikers (No offence to any biker who reads this, I just so happen to see a biker on tv as I wrote this). "What's wrong kid? You lost or something?" Mark looked at them for a moment before grinning and closing the door behind him.
From the outside of the bar all that could be heard were screams, glass breaking, the sound or ripping flesh, and stuff breaking. Once the noise stops, Mark walks out of the building with a bottle in his hand while he licked the last of the blood off his face.
Mark pov
Nothing beats a quick snack, I hold up the bottle and examine it, I'm not sure what alcohol is, but it sound flammable. I stick it in my pocket dimension for later, might come in handy, I quickly run and catch up to Megan who hadn't even noticed I was gone yet. We went back to the zeta tubes and head back, but once I exit, I notice something was different about the cave. The first thing I noticed was that Superboy and Aqualad were fighting several large creatures seemingly made of black fire, I didn't make those.
They resembled large earth tigers, only difference being that they were three times the normal size, seemingly made of black fire, and had large stones protruding from all over them like armor. I watch as Megan joined the fray, she flung some of them back but they immediately got back up and charged back at the team, I move towards the kitchen to see what we had left for food. I open manage to find some more popcorn and I start to make it, I look back at the others, they seemed to be doing alright, aside from Superboy who was having a bit of trouble.
Once the popcorn is finished I sit at the counter and reach for a hand full to eat, but just as I'm about to grab some, one of those creatures knocks the bowl over and it falls to the floor. I look down at it, thankfully not to much had fallen out, but before I could reach it another one of the creatures stepped on the bowl crushing the popcorn. I could feel something inside me snap.
No pov
Mark slammed his hands on the counter gaining everyone's attention, a shadow was over his face making it impossible to see his expression, the beasts snarled before leaping at the new target. Mark looked up at them with a death glare and let out a loud roar before large clawed hands made of black light appeared around his hands. He jumped over the counter and grabbed the two of the closest creatures by their necks and then smashed them into the ground, his claws sliced through the beast like warm butter. Not a moment later he appeared in front of another one, it had no time to react as Mark ripped it in half, a large stone shard sailed past Marks head. Mark turned to face the creature who had launched it at him.
The creature, now realizing its mistake, took a few steps back before several large spears impaled the beast, Mark was a blur to his team mates as he killed one beast after the other without mercy. Aqualad however noticed that the creatures he defeated seemingly turned into shadows and started to come together. His eyes widened in realization and was about to call out to Mark but it was too late as he had just killed the last one.
All the shadows converged into a single form, while it still resembled the tigers it was MUCH larger. Mark looked up at the tiger but only snarled at it, he let out roar before his constructs faded, his eyes burned with his own black fire but it had a red tint to it. Marks dragon once again materialized behind him before it lunged at its masters enemy, the tiger jump forwards and bit down on the dragons top right arm. The force knocked them through the wall and into the water outside, the dragon wrapped it's tail around the tiger and pulled it off of itself, the wound on its arm healed before it delivered a powerful punch sending the tiger soaring across the top of the water. The tiger landed on its feet, the water seemingly became solid so it could stand on top of it, it roared before it lunged at Marks dragon once again.
While this was happening Mark was helping his team mates, they were barley conscious, once Mark put them in a safe place he flew out of the base and flew above it till he was in front of the black comet. He looked around and saw more of the tigers all over the area and they were moving towards the more populated areas, he scowled before shouting in a voice that could strike fear in the hearts of any species in existence, "DIE!" After he said that, a wave of black energy shot in every direction, plants shriveled and turned to ash, the water turned black as dead fish rose to the surface, stone started to crumble to dust, the air that it touched turned smoky and polluted, any living creature caught in the blast froze before they feel to the ground lifeless. The tigers were no exception, they had no time to react as the life was drained from them.
Mark turned to the comet and spoke in a dead serious tone, "Give me one good reason not to destroy you right now." He said glaring as his dragon slithered up the mountain and moved behind its master.
"Now," Said the comet with a female voice, "Is that any way to talk to me? I did just save you, if I hadn't we both know what would have happened." Mark growled before the comet continued, "Just be thankful I received the signal and not her. You may not realize it but she does care about you."
"Look thanks for the help but just leave. I already have to fix this mess, I would prefer not to have to revive you." Without another word the comet flew into the sky before it disappeared from sight, Mark raised his ring and streams of black energy floated from the surrounding area into it. After a few moment everything was back to the way it was before Mark had killed it, he floated into the mountain as the dragon disappeared ad the wall started to rebuild itself. He moved his team mates back to their respected rooms, once he entered his room Rose was looking at him concerned. Rose cold immediately tell something was wrong but didn't want to make him angrier so she let it be for now, and went to sleep.
Mark went to his bed before sighing, "Maybe I was a bit harsh on her." He fell onto his back and looked at the ceiling, "Oh well, nothing I can do now." He closed his eyes and went to sleep.
/LINE\\
Next morning
"So." Said Aya with an annoyed look on her face, "Once you woke up, you just decided to eat almost all the food in the kitchen?." She asked Mark who was currently petting Rose.
"Yup." He replied in a calm tone.
"And you then proceeded to go to a random city and walk around for a few hours?"
"Yes."
"And finally, you return to base and seemingly singlehandedly managed to defeat a enemy made of shadows, but you won't explain how you did it."
"Exactly." He said with a smile. Aya looked at him before sighing.
"I don't think I'll ever be able to understand you."
Mark pov
I gave a smile before walking away, I then started to look for something to entertain me for a while till the next mission. I kinda hope I get to fight someone, and they better be strong.
