Chapter 6 - Welcome to Happy Harbor Part 3


Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice or The Mortal Instruments

"Bold"- Mental link

"Italics"- Flashback

"Underlined"- Comm

"Normal"- Normal


Happy Harbor

July 18, 11:40 PDT

Clary's POV

We drop from through a hole made in the floor of the bioship. I stare intently through my sunglasses lens at the building being torn apart by a twister and the employees running from the scene screaming. "Robin, Sparrow, are tornados common in New England?" Aqualad asks. I turn to look at Sparrow next to me, only to find air. "Robin?" Aqualad demands. I glance over at where he was looking. Looks like boy wonder disappeared too. A thin laugh rings, along with a deeper one. I close my eyes in exhaustion. Those two were going to drive me up a wall. Sparrow was always a million times worse when Robin was around.

"He was just here!" Miss Martian (A.N. I will be calling the heroes by their hero name while in battle and their civilian names while they're not. Except for Robin and Sparrow. Till their secret ID's are told they'll be Robin and Sparrow unless it's just them back in Gotham. Sorry if it gets a little confusing when they suddenly change) looks at us in surprise. Suddenly, all the windows in on the top of the build shatter in a line.

"Get used to the disappearing, it's a thing of theirs, " I tell Miss Martian pointedly, "And no, tornados are not common in New England." I bounce slightly on the balls of my feet then break into a sprint towards the closest entrance. As I make it through the floor, the rest of the team behind me, I see Robin and Sparrow crash into one of the pillars. Superboy lands in a crouch next to Robin and I stop next to Sparrow

"Who's your new friend?" Superboy asks. I hold a hand out to Sparrow and pull him up with ease. Part of my mine reminds me that a year ago I would have freaked in this situation.

"Didn't catch his name, but he plays kinda rough," Robin retorts back. Superboy jumps forward towards the man, I think, in front of us.

I glance at Sparrow. "You're worse when your brother's around," I mutter.

Sparrow smirks back at me. "Hey! His enthusiasm is intoxicating." I roll my eyes behind my glasses.

"My apologies." I turn back to the villain as he starts announcing to us. "You may address me as Mr. Twister." Twister focuses his hands towards the ground, creating two small tornadoes at Superboy, who gets picked up and spun around for a few seconds. The tornado then throws him back, into a pillar where he falls to the ground. I look back at the rest of the group, Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Kid Flash. Kid pulls on his goggles and Robin stands up. I look over at the rest of them from the corner of my eye. Aqualad gives a little nod at Miss Martian, who nods back at him. All at once Kid, Aqualad, and Miss M launch forward together, around the two Bat boys and I.

As they go I turn to Robin. "You ok?"

He doesn't look at me. "I'm fine." I turn back to Mr. Twister in time to see Kid try to push Twister back my landing both feet in his chest. Mr. Twister, however, takes a burst of air and throws KF out the back entrance, at super speed. He skids for a few hundred yards before friction stops him. Both Miss M and Aqualad run, or in Miss M's case, fly, at Mr. Twister.

"It's not going to work," I mumble. Just as I say that both of them are thrown back by small tornados of air. Aqualad slams into a pillar, cracking it, and Miss Martian hits the railing hard.

"Got any ideas then?" Robin growls.

I hesitate. It might work, Sparrow and I had discussed the idea once. "Ya, throw your explosive batarangs at him when I tell you to." They both glance at each other then look back at me. I square my feet. "Just do it," I hiss back. Sparrow shrugs and starts to pull them out from under his jacket.

"I was prepared to be challenged by a superhero, " Twister says, "I was not, however, expecting children."

"NOW!" I yell.

Robin clenches his teeth. "We're not children!" Sparrow yells as they throw several explosive batarangs toward. I watch the batarangs fly forward. As they get close enough I open my mouth to let our a canary cry. I stop as Mr. Twister uses a gust of wind to catch the first explosives. The second one's land on his chest, but he simply flicks them away.

Mr. Twister looks back at us. "Objectively, you are. Have you no adult supervision?"

I snap out of my shock and plant my feet again. "Says the guy tearing through a town for attention. What are you? Two?" I retort back, then let out canary cry at him. After a few seconds, I stop. As I look back at him he takes a gust of wind and somehow twists my canary cry back at us. "Shit!" I place a hand on the two bat boys shoulders and push them to the side as the canary cry doubles back. The cry hits me straight in the chest and sends me flying into the metal railing behind me. The back of my head smacks against the metal before I hit the ground. I blink stars out of my eyes and watch the fight continue with the two boys.

"I find your presence here quite disturbing." Twister continues as if my attempted hit at him never happened. Aqualad comes over to me and holds down at hand. I grasp it and let him haul me to my feet. We join Superboy, Miss Martian, Sparrow and Robin in our small front.

"Well, we hate to see you disturbed. Let's see if you're more turbed when we kick your can." Robin yells back at him. Miss Martian throws her hand up and pulls them back, causes the shaft, of sorts, above him to break, spraying mist down around him. Superboy jumps into the air, ready to land a punch.

But the mist covering wasn't good enough. Mr. Twister glances up and sees Superboy. Twister throws both hands up and uses wind to stop Superboy mid-air before throwing him into the ceiling. Superboy bounces off it and slams into a flying Miss Martian. Aqualad, with electric running around his hands, along with Robin and Sparrow dart around them towards Twister. Said villain, creates two winds blast, using the ground to magnify them, and throws them at the boys. The tornados catch them and spin them around for a minute before Twister throws them at each other. "Indeed, that was quite turbing. " Twister finishes, with a hint of

I glance down at the exposed rune on my arm. "Screw it" I mumble. I whip out my stele and start to draw a rune of my arm. One of my own creations before the curse. I finish it, tucking the stele into my jacket. I hold it out towards Mr. Twister, silently praying to the angels. The rune starts to glow and a steady burning sensation starts in my hand and slowly continues up my arm. After a second I let out a scream. The rune was burning my hand and arm. I wipe out my dagger and make several fine cuts across my hand, destroying the rune. The dagger was laced with a specific types of acid that destroyed runes. I pull my jacket sleeve up and take a look at the damage. I tuck the dagger back into my jacket and look back at Mr. Twister.

"If that was supposed to do something to me, you are sorely mistaken." Twister glances around the room at my passed out teammates and me with burns up my hand and arm. "That you for the fight. It was...entertaining." Twister starts to levitate. As he does I stand and plant my feet again. Twister almost smirks at that. "Shall we try this again?" He holds his hand at me, creating a mini tornado that throws me back into a pillar and slams me into the ground. "Very entertaining." I roll over and watch him levitate himself out before darkness creeps over my vision.


I smell a sharp odor that stings up my nose. I peel back my eyelids and let out a groan. I had landed on my burned arm. "Hey!" You ok? What happened?"

I use my non-burned had to push myself up into a sitting position. "Twister and his stupid tornados."

"Tell me about it." Sparrow rubs the back of his head and straightens into a stand. "Ready to go catch up with the rest of the team?" He holds a hand out to me.

I give him a little grin and reach up to grab his hand. "Oh ya- what?" Sparrow was looking at my hand with raised eyebrows. I look at my hand and curse. It was my burned hand. I pull it down to my chest and pull the sleeve down, wincing as I did so.

"What happened?" he growls.

I take his still outreached hand with my non-burned hand and stood up. "Nothing important," I tell him, then start running towards the exit. After a second I hear Sparrow following me. Once I make it to the entrance I stop. Twister was flying away from us as the bioship was camouflaging itself. Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Miss Martian were standing on the ground next to Superboy who was standing, clearly angrier, in a shallow torn out dirt section of dirt. I took a second to notice that his jacket was missing.

Superboy punches a section of dirt in front of him a few times and turned towards Miss Martian. "And that's supposed to make it right?" He walks out of the pit and stalks towards Miss Martian. "You tricked us into thinking Twister was Red Tornado."

Aqualad gets between them. "She didn't do it on purpose." I start walking from the exit towards the group.

"It-It was a rookie mistake." Robin jumps in. "We shouldn't have listened."

I stop next to Aqualad. "Can I ask why you believed he was Tornado?"

Megan looks at me sheepishly. "I couldn't read his mind, and he controlled air, and Tornado told us that we'd be tested so I just thought.." She dwindles off and looks down again.

"You are pretty inexperienced," Wally adds, "Hit the showers. We'll take it from here."

Superboy starts walking forwards and throws Miss Martian a hate-filled look. "Stay out of our way!" He picks up his pace before taking a leap forward and jumping. Kid Flash starts running after him, towards Happy Harbor.

Sparrow glances down at me, then to my arm. I grit my teeth. "Go with them, Aqualad and I will follow." He hesitates then nods. He and Robin continue after the Kryptonian and Speedster.

"I was just trying to be part of the team." Miss Martian looks down at the ground.

Aqualad and I share a look. "To be honest, I'm not sure we really are a team," Aqualad says to her, bitterness evident in his voice.

"Speedy was right. This team is nothing but a joke." I say as Aqualad continues after the rest of the boys. I turn to Miss Martian. "Don't worry too much. None of the boys will ever admit it but they all screwed up when they were new. So did I, and way worse than you. Just head back and take a breather." I give her one last look before starting to run after the rest of the team. I bite back a groan as the pain in my arm increased. It was times like this when I really wish I could still use runes.

As we hit the city the sounds of chaos hit me. Screaming civilians, car alarms, emergency sirens and breaking buildings. Robin, Aqualad, Sparrow and I all jump over a car in time to see Mr. Twister throw a boat at Superboy. He then aims a small tornado at us that we all dodge. Using a section of wind he picks up Aqualad and I and throws us towards a house. In the air, I feel Aqualad's hands pull me to the front of him as we crash back first into the house. Aqualad taking the brunt of the force. I move a few pieces of rubble off of us as explosions sound to the side of us. Aqualad and I stand and look up in time to see Superboy falling towards us with a boat behind him. Aqualad reaches over and grabs my burned arm as he jumps out of the rubble in time to avoid being crushed my a kryptonian and a boat. I bite my lip as I do an in air flip to land in a crouch next to Aqualad who runs forward and grabs the engine, which had landed next to us, and hurls it towards Twister. I raise my hands up in anger. "You have got to be kidding me! Seriously, a boat! What air controlling maniac throws BOATS at people?" I turn as Aqualad gets thrown back towards the house by Twister, again.

"Listen to me," I reach up and clutch my head as Miss Martian voice fills it.

"What did we tell you?" Superboy yells up at the sky.

"I know, and I know I messed up, but now I'm very clear on what we need to do. Please trust me." I take my hands from my head as Miss Martian starts to fill us in on her plan. Well, we didn't have much to lose.

The six of us start walking towards Twister in a line before Miss Martian, disgusted as Red Tornado, descends in front of us. "Hit the showers, boys. I was hoping you could handle this. Clearly, you cannot."

"But we've got a plan now," Robin argues back.

"The subject is not up for debate." 'Red Tornado' tells us. We all dissipate and head towards our hiding spots to wait for Megan's signal.

"I was beginning to believe you'd never show up," Twister says.

"I'm here now." 'Red Tornado responds and hold a hand back to form a tornado. Kid runs to where 'Tornado's' hand is and starts to spin to form a tornado. 'Red' aims it at Mr. Twister who simple dodges it and creates his own to battle it. Twister aims his tornado back at 'Red', who in response dissipates it with the raise of a hand. "We are evenly matches, Twister." 'Red yells back at him and 'creates a tornado behind him that throws stones at Twister.

"No, Tornado, we are not." Twister punches a hole in the ground and air shoots up from the ground in front of him, catching all the stones. Twister then shoots an energy beam at 'Tornado' who dodges it for a few seconds before it hits one of the boats, creating an explosion, allowing for Twister to hit 'Tornado'. 'Red' falls to the ground hard and doesn't move as Twister lands next to him. "Remain still, android." Twister holds up his hand as his fingers split and computer connecting lines reach down and connect to 'Red Tornado's' head. "The reprogramming won't take long."

'Red' reaches up and grabs the wires as the head shapeshifts back into Miss Martian's face. "Longer than you might think."

"No!" Twister yells as Miss Martian forces him back into a Kid Flash made Tornado. Which throws him back towards me. I twist around the piece of rubble I'd been hiding behind and let out a canary cry at Twister. Several pieces of metal are forced off his outer casing, revealing some of the wiring underneath. He gets thrown back towards Superboy who grabs his arm lands several strong punches to Twister gut till Superboy finally penetrates the casing and punches through all the metal. Electricity dances around Twister's frame from the hole made in him just before Superboy lands a solid punch to the face. Twister flies back into the water where I know Aqualad waits. After a second a large splash rises out of the water, with Twister inside, throwing him onto the ground. Miss Martian raises her hands and levitates Twister into the air before her. She throws her arms to the side, causing Twister's arms to break and pull apart. Robin and Sparrow run forward and send exploding batarangs at Twister. They hit him hard and create a large explosion, sending Twister down to the ground.

I start towards Twister's fallen form, which was struggling to its knees, electricity sparking out of its arm cavities. We all meet in front of him just as his chest opens and a man in a skin tight green and white suit falls face first out. "Foul," He calls up at us, "I-I call foul." Miss Martian moves towards him, then raises an arm to her left and lifts a large rock from a crater. I register her arm swing up, an angry look on her face before I release what she was doing.

Aqualad jumps forward. "M'gann, no!" But before he can reach her she swings her arm down and crushes Twister under the boulder.

"Well…." I look over a Sparrow's shocked face. "That was unexpected."

Sparrow jolts and looks over at me. "You think!"

Robin stalks towards Miss Martian after he and Kid Flash overcome their shock. "Don't know how things are done on Mars, but on earth, we don't execute our captives!" Robin yells at her.

A cross between a smile and a smirk graces Miss Martian's lips. "You said you trust me." She raises a hand at the and lifts it from the ground, revealing an android underneath it.

I raise an eyebrow at it. "Ok… did not expect that either."

Kid starts towards the wreckage, with the rest of the group following. "That's why I couldn't read his mind."

Kid Flash bends down at picks up one of the eyes from the ground. "Cool. Souvenir." He flips it in the air like a coin and catches it again.

I cross my arms over my chest. "Are you going to collect those after every mission?"

Kid turns back towards me. "Maybe? You can't make me stop."

Aqualad places a hand on Miss Martian's shoulder. "We should have had more faith in you."

"Yeah. You rocked this mission," Kid laughs, "Get it? Rocked."

"Ignored him. We're all just turned you're on the team," Robin interrupts. I glance down at the android and freeze. The eye still in his head was glowing.

"Thanks. Me, too." She blushes as she says that.

I walk towards the android and forcefully drive my foot into its head. Everyone looks over at me. I move my foot off and scan the broken head. "The eye was still transmitting. Whoever was really controlling it was watching us."

Everyone exchanged worried looks. "Well," Sparrow adds in, "I'm all for this heart to heart but we have an android to move and a teammate who need medical treatment before she gets third-degree burns."

I roll my eyes. "It takes a lot longer than a hour for an untreated second-degree burn to turn to a third-degree burn."

He raises an eyebrow at me. "You still need fluids."

I sign. "Yes Dr. Sparrow," I answer sarcastically.

"Ok. First, when did you get burned? Second, is anyone else creeped out by her sudden changes in moods?" Kid looks at everyone else. "Seriously? It's weird."


I finished wrapping the bandage around my hand before slipping the glove over it. Carefully, I pull the IV in me arm out and tap another bandage over the cut. The team hand demanded that I get fluids in me and my burns treated while they explained the mission. I had turned down help, saying that they needed to be there for the explanation. Really, I didn't want to have to explain the collection of scars and old runes. I'd throw on concealer before regular night patrols, and during regular days at school or home. I was thankful however for that the burns looked a lot worse than they really were. Just some fluids from an IV, cold water to run on the burns first, and then some cream before I loosely wrapped them. These weren't that bad, burns from demons were worse. Lastly were the antibiotics that I'd need at the Arrow cave. I'd grab that on my way home. I pull my jacket over the bandages and walk out of the medical room towards the rest of the team.

I walk into the main room as Red Tornado turns to leave. "Consider this matter closed."

"Batman, Aquaman, and Flash, they'd have jumped right in to fix things," Wally notes.

"Guess if we're gonna have a babysitter, a heartless machine is exactly what we need," Robin adds.

"Dude! Harsh!" Wally hisses at him.

"And inaccurate. I have a heart, carbon-steel alloy. I also have excellent hearing." Tornado turns to look back at Robin.

Robin lets out a nervous laugh. "Right. Sorry. I'll strive to be more accurate."

"And more respectful." Kaldur walks over to Robin.

Sparrow turns around and notices me. "Well, if it isn't our injured teammate. How are the burns?"

"Fine. Will be in a few days. I know how to treat burns." I start walking towards everyone else as I talk.

"Not your first time treating burns?" Kaldur guesses.

I give a dry laugh. "Hardly. Injuries come with the job." I turn towards Robin as I reach the group. "Oh, Robin?" He looks at me. "You just got burned?" It's silent for a moment before Wally bursts out laughing. After a second Robin joins in too. I give them both a smile as they stop and we start walking forward. "Speedy was so wrong." Wally starts

"This team thing…" Robin continues

"Might just work out." Kaldur finishes.

"Not might," Sparrow interjects. "It will."

I crack a grin. "I'll be sure to tell the sour archer that. Maybe he'll rethink his position. We do need an archer."

Wally laughs next to me. "Best of luck with that. Speedy's head is pretty thick."

I roll my eyes. "Isn't your?"

Sparrow sniggers on the other side of me. "Who's burned now?" Robin asks.


So, here is the new chapter, which is about 700-800 words longer than usual, if you can tell. In the AN in the middle of the story it mentioned that the identities of Robin and Sparrow will be keep for a while. Their identities will come up sooner, to Clary, than it does to the rest of the team. Not till I finish and publish the chapters for the episode Downtime. Hints, however, will probably come up.

I've decided to mix it up and add someone from the Mortal Instrument series to interact with Clary. You can vote on who she will interact with till I've posted the chapters for Issues #5 and #6 along with the chapters with the chapters for Drop-Zone. Voting starts now and will go till I finish all of those chapters.

Criticism and Comments Welcomed!