She could behave like her targets and could mimic their appearances to take their places. Undercover missions were easy for Miss Martian.
But not this one. According to Aqualad, they had to actually get inside and gain their trust—the 'their' being Ugly and Whisper, the heads of Intergang.
Superboy had had dealt with Apokoliptian tech before, his experience would greatly assist them—
Except he was not in their squad.
Well, he surely was not helping either, when he jumped in with the rest of Beta squad and confronted Intergang.
"The Sphere detects Apokoliptian tech here, turns out it's you guys again," Superboy hopped off from his Superbike with the others, sighing.
"Oh I'm sorry, did I surprise ya?" Ugly asked, the metallic rods on his armour formed a canon and shot out something. Superboy started dodging energy discs.
Superboy leapt backwards while Aqualad slashed a disc above where Superboy's head had been two seconds ago.
"So that means you're never handing them back," Superboy said.
"Guess you're right Mr Detective," Ugly answered sarcastically.
"'Hilarious'," Superboy quoted. He ran towards him. "Well party's over," he raised hand in the shape of a fist.
"Wut's the hurry? I'm not done yet," Ugly signalled two of his henchmen to come forward. They stopped what they had been doing (drilling through the rock) and obeyed. They punched the metallic equipment in their hands to the ground and a path of quicksand emerged in Superboy's direction.
"How could I miss out the fun?" Whisper at the side said. From each side of her waist she pulled out a whip in each of her hands and ran to the approaching Beast Boy. Beast Boy simply morphed into a green heron and snatched the whips away from her hands.
On the other side, Aqualad tried to leap sideways but a few inches his foot was still caught in the 'mud'. His whole body was dragged waist-deep into the muddy trap at an instant. Superboy leapt away too, except he landed on Ugly's face.
"Now I know why you're called 'Ugly'," Superboy remarked.
Ugly still had his armour with him. He shot yet more discs at Superboy so that he jumped away to dodge again.
Two henchmen armed with Apokoliptian weapons, Superboy stared at the two armoured men as he got to his feet.
Another two henchmen were trying to trap the green rhino with quicksand—the gang had came prepared this time.
We're definitely outnumbered.
"Miss Martian, a bit of your telekinesis would really help, you know!" Superboy deliberately called to the air above.
M'gann, do your thing! he signalled to his Teammate.
"The Martian girl is here!" the unarmed Whisper warned.
M'gann turned and nodded to Pixie. Studying her carefully for the first time, M'gann had never noticed Pixie's emerald eyes; her pink eyemask really made the hue stood out, along with the pink gemstone dangling against her long, white neck. Her clear, turqoise eyes looked translucent as ever.
Her new Teammate nodded back. M'gann shook the thought away and camouflaged herself. They then both leapt down the hole leading to the underground, into the midst of the fight.
M'gann immediately sent the henchmen's heads crashing against each other's, leaving them unconscious. She mentally pulled out Aqualad and the green rhino out of the quicksand. The rhino charged at the two henchmen before it.
"Give up Ugly. We're winning. Now put your tail between your legs and flee," Superboy sneered at the Ugly in his grasp. "Who am I kidding. I'm just gonna punch you."
Miss Martian spoke firmly to the Kryptonian's head, Negative, Superboy. We're interrogating hi—
A beam hit Superboy from behind. Ugly gasped freely for breath.
It was no accident. A second one, a third one, and both Beast Boy and Aqualad were down.
Miss Martian turned her head in mid-air to see the source of the surprise attack; she saw Pixie standing beneath the underground hole.
Her heels clicked gently against the hard rock as she took a few steps forward to meet the two. Her turquoise gaze landed on Ugly's.
"Hey, ain't never seen ya before," Ugly rubbed his neck.
"Hmm, thought this is the part where you thank me." Pixie offered a hand to Ugly nonetheless. "For saving your fat ass?" Pixie was a natural in acting—who would have had guessed she could have a 360° change in her personality?
Ugly took the hand and got up. "Well here goes meh shirt," he patted off the dust from his slightly-torn black turtleneck. "You see girly, teenagers are annoyin'."
"The name's Pixie," the female narrowed her eyes a bit.
"Wuteva ya say missy. Now yer helpin' me dig the hole or not?" the boss questioned.
"You just accidentally bump into a random stranger and expects her to help you without questions? Aren't you supposed to tell her why?" Pixie put her hands on her hips.
"Ya helped me once, so get on with it!" he snorted.
Pixie went on. "Not even when I've told you you're missing something?" she smirked, holding something in her hand. Ugly could barely see the faint outline of a long-haired girl held by the collar in her strong grip, eyes wide in shock.
"Thanks I guess, Pixie gal," Ugly finally admitted.
A disc hovered above that 'something' and emitted electricity. A single one would suffice. Miss Martian de-camouflaged and was caught under the disc.
"Don't think about it. I'm just being all kind and stuff," Pixie replied over Miss Martian's call of agony.
"We'll discuss this business in private then," he continued. "Seein' as we're obviously busted, we gotta go before the League comes."
He took out a boomtube device and pressed on one of the buttons. Something that resembled a blackhole appeared in the empty space next to him.
"And I don't want them eavesdroppin'," Ugly turned his head to the young protégés on the ground. "Teenagers are annoyin'," he repeated before walking into the blackhole.
"Welcome to the crew…" Whisper raised a skeptical brow as she walked pass.
Pixie glanced coldly at Miss Martian before stepping into the tunnel.
"Why…" Miss Martian managed to grit out the word.
They were gone.
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Just heard a piece of news (true story) that someone drugged a 5-year-old boy and dug out his eyeballs. The eyeballs were found days later. Right now I am vomiting in a bucket on my lap while I type. It is 3 in the morning, and does not plan to sleep anytime soon, because I do not wish to wake up to find my eyeball missing. Thought I'd share it here since it sounds EXACTLY what a supervillain would do.
Also, if you're wondering, Pixie isn't my persona or something. I do not have brown hair. I do not have green eyes. I do not have a bun. I do not have that personality. I am not Caucasian. I do not have superpowers.
Lastly, I have to apologise for having to postpone the parody series as promised. I'm planning to release it after I've covered most if not all of this volume's storylines.
Thank you for your continued support, and hope the little boy will be fine,
Tarqass
