"That can't be right." Zatanna clenched the paper in her hands. "Our powers were given to us by magic, how can it be taken away by science?"

"They have samples from the ocean the magic was hidden." Kaldur wiped his forehead "They've turned the 'magic' into a negative chemical that can take away your powers."

"These past few months haven't been the best have they?"" Artemis crumbled the result paper and crossed her arms with a heavy sigh.

"Is there any way to reverse this?" Megan asked laying down.

"Well-"

The downstairs doorbell rang.

"Oh great more trouble." Artemis grabbed the bridge of her nose. "Kal, you answer it. We don't want anymore trouble."

"Right." With that, Kaldur slowly walked down the stairs to answer the door. He looked at the sink in the kitchen and used his hands to bend the water in case there really was danger. His sticky scaled palm held on to the door handle as the door bell continued to ring. He swallowed before looking into the peep whole. Before he could really process as to who it was, he heard screaming on the other side.

"Kaldur!" It was Wally "OPEN THE DOOR DAMNIT! WHERE ARE ARTEMIS, ZEE AND MEGS YOU ASSHOLE!

Kaldur groaned and rolled his eyes as he let the bending water from the sink down and opened the door. Wally. Dick and Connor came in.

"Dude where the hell were you?" Dick asked anxious.

"And why are you here?" Wally asked kind of pissed off "Where's Artemis?"

"Calm down my friends. The girls are up stairs and-" Before he could finish the guys were already headed up stairs. He sighed "Love is blinding"

(Upstairs)

"Who do you think was at the door? Megan asked.

"I think I have a pretty good idea." Raquel scratched the back of her hair.

Zatanna sat up "Wait….what did you do?"

"I don't know what your talking about."

"Raaaaaaq, what did you-"

"ARTEMIS!"

"What the?" The girls all looked at the door, in a few seconds the three guys came bursting through it.

"Dick?" Zatanna asked confused.

"Thank GOD your alright." Dick jumped right on top of her and gave her a hug.

"You alright?" Connor walked over to Megan taking her hands.

"Yes, I'm fine." Megan answered blushing.

"Artemis!" Wally jumped her in a hug. "Oh my God, your not hurt are you?" Wally began to look over her.

"Yeah I'm fine." Geez, it looks like he's about to have a heart attack. "What happened at the school."

"The chemical that your class was studying had a bad side affect on human contact."

"Really? I heard it spilled everywhere and caused the accident." Dick said.

"That probably happened too.

"Actually, Kaldur came up the stairs and into the girls room, taking a seat in Zatanna bed side. "I did a little research on the substance. Apparently, it had a bad reaction when inhaled. Some people minor migrains, sickness and vomit and other…"Kaldur looked at the girls " reactions."

"That explains why they made the other students in different classes leave immediately." Connor explained.

"Raquel called and told us that she and Kaldur got you three out." Wally looked at them "Thanks for getting them out safely."

'No prob, were always there to help a friend." Raquel smiled.

"So schools out for the next four days to repair and sanitize the room and the whole school."

"But I'm still confused. Why would the stuff all of a sudden act up at the time during the day?" Dick asked.

"That's right." Connor leaned back "The accident took place during the last hour of school, and people that have already been I that class show no disturbance in their body's."

"So why would it do what it did?" Everyone was silent trying to think of a solution. After a few moments, Wally broke the silence.

"Alright we'll figure it out later, what matter is that you girls are safe and you need to rest."

"Thanks for checking up on us guys." Megan said letting them all stand up. Connor kissed her cheek. Dick gave Zatanna a kiss and Wally hugged Artemis one more time before leaving.

"We'll see you guys tomorrow." Wally opened the door for them to leave, Connor and Dick walked right out before he left too and closed the door. The split second the door closed Megan spoke up.

"It was us, wasn't it? Megan asked in a serious tone.

Kaldur looked away from them as he clenched his fist.

"We started the fire and injured those people." Zatanna hugged her self-rubbing her hands up and down her arms.

"You guys have no reason to feel sorry. Don't forget your still trying to get control of your powers." Raquel tried to cheer them up.

"And that the Kobra Venom is a negative substance." Kaldur rubbed the covered leg of Zatanna's.

'So what's the plan?" Artemis asked.

Kaldur stood and sighed heavily "Number one, stay away from anything Lex Corps. I'm gonna do a little more research on this Kobra venom. Intill, then lie low."

"Right."

(Days Later)

"Ah crap Megan, why'd you have to bring him?" Artemis whined as she, her, Connor and Zatanna were walking home, taking a little detour around the beach.

"Because he's nice and sweet…most of the time," Megan hugged Connors arm.

"Yeah Artemis, I'm nice." Connor grinned.

"Yeah keep it up Supey, or I'll personally remove you from this sweet innocent creature." Artemis grinned back at him before taking Megan's other hand.

"Whatever."

After a few minutes of walking along the beach, something had caught their eyes across the peer. There was a big truck and cars surround the shore on the other side of them .

"What's going on around there?" Zatanna asked as the wind blew in her hair.

"I don't know." Artemis said in a stern voice.

"Um guys? Doesn't that truck belong to Lex Corps?"

They gasp at the symbol on the truck. It did indeed belong to the company.

"What are they doing in these parts."

From what they could see, A few men opened up the back of the truck. Inside it was giant metal tube coming from it. They all banned together and began pulling it out and into the ocean. They girls didn't know why, but they felt a sudden shade of fear and worry the minutes the tube implanted itself into the ocean floor. Once it was firmly placed in, someone went back into the truck and started typing in something into the keypad on the walls of it. Once the worker entered in the code, the tube began moving. The end in the ocean was pumping in sand and ocean water into the truck.

"I think their taking samples or something." Connor began walking forward.

"Con, I don't' think you should get-" Connor ignored Zatnna and made his way to the peer.

(At the Peer)

"I want you to collect as many samples as you can." Luthor ordered a worker as he sipped his glass of wine.

"Yes sir." The worker ran off.

"Up to trouble as usual?" A voice asked form behind him.

"Superboy." Luthor turned around and grinned. "Interested in the family business?"

"What the hell do you think your doing?" Connor crossed his arms.

"Just taking more samples for my new chemical." Luthor took another sip of his wine.

"Oh yeah, you mean the stuff that nearly set my school on fire and put my girlfriend and classmates in danger. You do know this is a public place right? You do know that this is illegal?"

"Connor, Connor, Connor have you forgotten what I'm capable of?"

"Yes, risking peoples life's while you live the sweet life."

"Once your my age, you'll understand why." Luthor drank down the rest of his wine before giving it to a passing worker. "I'll try to keep in touch you." He was about to head to his car before stopping "Connor your friends, Artemis Crock, Zatanna Zatarra and Megan Morse…you must share a strong bond with them."

"Yeah, so." I don't remember telling him their names.

"I'd just liked to say that there very very lucky to have you as a friend." With that he walked away to get into his limo.

What in the world was that about?

Connor was about to walk back to the girls but then he recognize that they were not there when he returned.

What the hell?

(With The Girls)

The underwater ocean was peaceful for sweet moment but then three missile like waves came zooming through the ocean. The girls were practically jets in the ocean.

We have to figure out what their looking for. Megan said in the telepathic link.

We also have to be careful. Zatanna added We can't risk them seeing us, especially in these conditions.

Once they all reached a view of the peer, they began to swim in their usual mermaid style. All three began to slowly blend themselves in with the water, their long hair was mixing in with eachother as they huddled together under the peer.

"We have to figure out a way to get to the pipe without them being able to find us." Artemis said in a serious tone. "I can't camouflage or turn invisible, so I'll keep watch. Zatanna, create a spell so they won't be able to scan us in the water. Megan, you check out the tube, understand?"

Zatanna and Megan nodded.

"Let's go." The three dived down in to the water while their tails splashed and flipped behind them.

Zatanna made her way close the surface without being seen. From where she was, she was able to find the main system the scanned the ocean and took control of the pipe. She extended her hand.

"Maj Eht Smwtsye!"

The computer and machines on the peer began acting funny by shocking anyone near it and eventually turning completely off.

"What's going on?"

"Blast!"

"Everyone get down!"

Zatanna smirked All set on my end.

Artemis looked in Megan's direction under the water.

Everything's clear Megan, go for it."

Megan caught the message and began to dive to were the end of the tube was at. She could see that it implanted it's self really deep into the ocean floor. She extended her hand and used her telekinesis to commend the sand to move out of the way. The sand was moving in circle as it slowly began seperatign it's self from the tube. Megan swam closer to the tube to figure out exactly what it was sucking up from the ocean.

Anything Megs?

No I don't see-Wait! I see something! Megan used her bare hands to scoop up the sand under the tube. She ran her thumbs through it to find tiny shining things coming from the sand.

What is it?

It's some type of rock- a crystal of sorts. Megan picked up a tiny shard from her palm. It's very tiny, I'm guessing it broke off of some type of rock. But think I've seen it before…..

Artemis looked up at the peer, she could see cars and trucks coming from down the street. Megan grab a hand full so we can leave they've got back up.

Right.

Megan grabbed a hand full of the sand before jetting off away from the peer. Once the close was clear Zatanna and Artemis followed.

(At Their Apartment)

"I was right, I have seen this before." Megn said playing wiith tiny shard on her bed laying on her stomach. "Zatanna may I see your neckless."

"Sure." Zatnna untied it before tossing it to her bed.

Megan inspected the stone in her neckless before bringing it to the once form the sea.

"There the same."

"What?" Artemis and Zatanna got off their own beds and walked over to Megan.

"See? Slightly bigger but the same." Megan held them up.

"I thought that was some plastic cheap stone Dick gave you." Artemis got closer to take another look.

"No, he said he found a rock and smashed it."

"Think he can tell us where?"

"Yeah suuuuure he would." Zatanna leaned down on her elbow "'Hi honey, I was wondering if you tell me where you got this because Connors oh so powerful 'father' is very close to discovering were mermaids. Oh, did I mention were mermaids?!"

"Yeah we might wanna give it the slow approach." Artemis stood and and stretched her arms. "Okay! Obviously we need to get to the bottom of this. But right now, let's all go back to normal human girl mode and get our school stuff done. We'll call Kaldur tomorrow and talk about this."

"Agreed."

Artemis went down stairs to grab a few snacks while Zatanna began playing with her laptop. Megan sighed as she leaned back into her pillow and thought to herself.

I just hope that we figure this all out before he does.

(Cadmus)

"Were sorry. Mr. Luthor sir. We suffered a …..disturbance. While out on the peer. We just might need a few"

Luthor began writing down something on his pad "Who was in charge of the crew?"

"Um….." The man thought hard "Lawrence Crusher Crock sir."

"Alright." Luthor stroked his bald head in frustration. "Take a break for now and I'll right you a check And if you have the time tell him I want to see him."

"Yes sir. Thank you sir." The man left.

Damage doesn't just happen out of the blue. Luthor stood from his desk and looked down at the millions of people from his giant window.

Maybe I should investigate a little further into this game.

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