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Gotham City, August 27, 06:17 EDT
Inside a warehouse in Gotham city, The Team was struggling against the notorious super villain known as Clayface. Superboy, Miss Martian, Robin, Kid Flash were all unconscious and covered in bits of clay with tears in their costumes. Aqualad was thrown at the wall harshly, while the monster Clayface laughed, he formed an anvil on his hand and prepared to crush Aqualad but his missing teammate came in the nick of time.
The skylight above Clayface was shattered and a large yell split the night.
"ROAD ROLLER!"
The monster was squashed beneath the roller, Uzu pinned the roller on top of Clayface from the top. "U-uzu?" Aqualad groaned out to his friend, "Hold that thought!" Uzu yelled. He began to rapidly punch the roller in succession before finishing with right hook that destroyed the ground underneath the roller, and KO'd the monstrous Clayface.
Uzu quickly hopped from the roller and to Aqualad, "Are you okay?" Uzu asked as he held Aqualad, "Y-you, you have impeccable timing..." Aqualad panted, Uzu chuckled a bit. "Well come on, let's get you guys out of here." Uzu like his friend was covered in bits of clay, along with a numerous amount of scuff marks littered his body.
Mount Justice. August 27, 07:58 EDT
After getting back to the HQ Batman requested to speak to Aqualad, Uzu was going to stay alongside his friend but that was shot down when Batman made it clear that he just wanted to speak to Kaldur alone. Uzu flashed away, leaving Aqualad and Batman alone.
"I am sorry you had to intervene, I know The Team preformed poorly -"The Team preformed adequately. The problem was you, you're their co-leader, if it wasn't for Captain Uzu, you'd most likely wouldn't be standing right here. You and Uzu both call the shots while The Team is in the field, but today your head wasn't in the game and it nearly cost you all dearly." Batman finished sternly.
"No! You are...correct." Aqualad finished in a low tone, he looked into Batman's eyes and continued, "As of lately, I feel as if I don't belong up here on the surface world. For so many years it filled my every thought, but now that I am here, my dreams are of Atlantis."
"Atlantis...or someone you left behind?" Batman questioned, Kaldur looked very surprised at the question, "You could split your time between the surface world and Atlantis but not your mind. Either your here one hundred percent or you need to walk away. Make your decision, Kaldur, and make it soon." Batman walked away leaving Kaldur with a very important decision to make.
Aqualad walked towards the exit of the base, but as he walked down the hall he encountered Uzu standing near the wall. "You were ease dropping." Kaldur said, Uzu looked to the taller teen and tilted his head in a deep sigh.
"Nah, I wanted to, but I decided not to." Uzu answered in neutral tone. Kaldur kept pace past Uzu but stopped when he felt Uzu grab he his shoulder, "Before you go, I need to give you this." Aqualad looked to see Uzu handing him a, bracelet?
"A bracelet? I'm afraid that I do not understand." Aqualad took the object to examine it, "It's not a bracelet, more or less anyway, it's something I made so if anyone on the team gets into trouble and they need backup I could flash to the bracelet and help out. I haven't given the others their's yet because I wanted to test it first." Uzu finished with his arms crossed.
"We already have trackers Uzu, but I guess it doesn't hurt to have secondary precautions." Aqualad said, "Yep, if you need anything just squeeze the orange part on top and I'll be there in flash! Hehehe, I've always wanted to say that." Uzu chuckled in a very goofy manner before teleporting away.
Metropolis - August 27, 8:00 EDT
Naruto now dressed in civilian clothes, a orange t-shirt and black pants, he was hanging out his mentor, who also was in civilian attire. The two had decided to go to the park and play catch. Considering that they haven't hung out in several months due to Clark being busy and what not. "You should really consider going." Clark said and was answered by Uzu's groan.
"That sounds so...boring! I rather fight crime and sleep in. It's much more fun that way." Naruto put his hands behind his head while walking, "It could do you some good, you know, meet some new people, make new friends."
"Bah! I meet plenty of people on a daily basis." Naruto waved off, but Clark was rather quick to answer back. "People who aren't trying to kill you."
"I stand by what I said, besides I have friends, I have you, Conner, The Team, Officer Holmes -"Officer Holmes?"Yeah, she's the nice police lady, Mr. T, and Monkey-Prime, they count too." He named off the people he considered friends, the biju don't count, they're his kids. His closest friends, i.e the ones who knew of his identity, barring Mr. T and MP, were Clark and Holmes.
"Well I'm glad you're making friends but an education could do you well, that and you might meet a nice lady along the way." Clark suggested, Naruto's arms fell to his side as he looked confused, he tilted his head and asked, "But I already met a nice lady, Holmes remember? She's really nice to me, we even went out to a carnival together one time." Naruto recalled the very satisfying day at the carnival. He had never been to one before, granted he was like fourth-teen at the time but it was still fun. The implications of what Clark was suggesting flew right over his head.
"Don't you think she's a little too old for you?" Clark asked. "She's only four years older than me." Naruto answered back, "I'm never going to convince you to go school am I?" Clark sighed, "Nope!" Naruto answered back merrily.
Just as they reached the park Superman received a call from the Watchtower about trouble happening in Tokyo. "Alright I'll be there, listen Naruto -"Go, it's alright, we'll just hang out another time right?" Naruto said, hiding the disappointment in his voice. He really was looking forward to hanging out with his mentor.
"Yeah...next time, I'll be sure of it Naruto." Clark assured Naruto as he located a near by Zeta tube. Naruto sighed, guess its back to the lair now huh? Just as he was about to flash from sight he saw a orange swirl light up on his palm. At first he didn't know why this was happening but it came back to him.
"Kaldur..." He whispered, he closed his hand and flashed away unnoticed by anyone around.
Start Proof reading here: He reappeared deep underwater, now in his costume, "Captain Uzu!" Kaldur greeted, "I told you, in a flash, hehehe." He giggled like an idiot,
"We're under attack!" Kaldur yelled.
"By what?" Uzu's question was answered by several men in black and red suits armed with blasters, they fired at the three, Kaldur summoned his water-bearers, and formed them into two swords. He charged with Tula in tow, they quickly dispatched the squad of men. "I see..." Uzu muttered before swimming off after his friend. They arrived to a building where a woman and man were fending off an invading unit. Tula generated a volt of electricity and KO'd the unit, which also gained the attention of the man and woman.
Uzu grabbed two of the invaders and smashed their heads together, "This attack of precision was planned, the initial explosions lured our patrols into ambush." Kaldur explained while fending off several men. Tula swam by him and underneath a stone pillar, she lured her pursers in and brought the pillar down atop them.
"That doesn't sound good. Do you know who was behind it?" Uzu asked before throwing an unconscious man into a large group, said group was soon knocked out after an explosion from the thrown man was set off.
"Must be a super-villain if anything." Uzu wondered casually, he didn't bother to turn around to counter a man with a blaster. Said man was greeted with a punch to the face. He turned around and saw Tula swimming towards Garth, she and Uzu noticed an enemy about to shoot the teen in the back. "Shit!" Uzu cursed before flashing to close the distance, he was able do so and broke the weapon in two and clothesline the attacker in a single quick motion. The attacker was sent barreling into the wall and slumped down to the ground.
"Fighting underwater sure is fun." Uzu swam to the gathering group, as he did more enemies came upon them, the woman grunted before her arms as did other parts of her body lit up, and a giant purple octopus formed and began to fend off the onslaught. Many of the attackers were grabbed and flung back by the towering octopus.
"Ah, that is way cool! I never seen anything like that!" Uzu yipped, "Now is not the time for that!" Kaldur said, "Surface coms are down! We cannot reach King Orin. Summon more troops to the palace." Prince Orm ordered.
"The palace was not the only target, I witnessed explosions in sectors, one, two, three, and five." Garth said, "Nothing in sector four? Explosions all over the city except the science center, which is in sector four. Where the giant sea star is secured." Kaldur concluded.
"They must want that sea star then if that's the case. I'll go ahead and -"No, this is my fight Uzu." Kaldur interrupted as he swam passed Uzu, he stopped when he heard Uzu's chuckle.
"Kaldur you know that's not gonna stop me." Uzu floated near him, "Then we'll go together." Kaldur said, "As will I." Garth called out. "No, your place with Tula." Aqualad said sternly, Tula was surprised at his tone and sudden attitude. What spurred that on?
"And I'll stay by the queen, with The King gone, I have to defend her, and the heir. My brother would kill me if I let her get hurt." Prince Orm stated, while taking a position of defense near her.
"I need no protection!" Mera said as she kept the giant octopus up, swatting away anybody who dared get near. "No Mera, I'll stay alongside you." Orm said, he looked quite set on not leaving her side. Kaldur began to swim towards the science center alongside Uzu. Several soldiers broke off and pursued the teens, Uzu began to spin rapidly in the water and created a vortex that sucked in their pursuers. The vortex spat them out and away from their location with extreme prejudice. Uzu put his hands on his hips and eye smiled while floating backwards alongside Kaldur.
"Haha! I've wanted to do that for awhile now!" Uzu laughed, "We're here," Kaldur said as they arrived to a large building, Kaldur typed in something then the circular door opened. "Come on Uzu." Kaldur whispered, "Hey your that guy from earlier." Uzu said, Kaldur turned around quickly and saw that Garth was here.
"You're suppose be with Tula." Kaldur said lowly, Garth floated closer to the two. "The Queen sent me after you, she was worried." Garth explained, "Oi you guys coming or what?" Uzu said while swimming into the door, the two locked eyes briefly before following.
They swam through the halls silently, Kaldur swam next to Uzu to gain his attention, "Uzu...how are fairing right now?" Kaldur asked, he never gave thought to as how Uzu would be able to survive underwater for so long.
"I'm doing alright, I've never held my breath for this long, must be my new record." Uzu answered, Kaldur's eyes widened, he was holding his breath? Now that he thought about it...he never did see any air bubbles come from Uzu...even when he talked...
"I hate to interrupt this talk, but do you have a plan Kaldur?" Garth asked while looking around. He turned back and saw that Kaldur was gone. "Kaldur?"
Mere seconds later a patrolling unit spotted the two in the hall and was about to fire at the both of them, until Kaldur appeared from behind them and knocked them out his water-bearer. "I too have my studies." He said before rejoining them, he received a low clap but energetic clap from Uzu. "We'll take these suits and sneak in, Uzu you...what are you doing?" Kaldur asked as he saw Uzu taking off his gloves.
"Don't mind me, but keep telling me about your plan." Uzu waved off, as he looked at his nails.
Just what was he planning?
Black Manta looked on at the process of his men removing his 'prize'. As he was watching, he saw two of his men swimming up to large ice block, that was being tethered up.
He quickly swam up behind them. "Impressive is it not? Aqualad?" He said, quickly the one on the right began to shoot at him, he reeled back and swam against the wall, he shot them both back with his eye lasers. They were both blown back into the opposite wall by a direct it hit from his lasers. One took off their helmet to reveal them self as Kaldur. He began to block each shot Manta fired with his water-bearers.
He would've kept firing if not for a sharp pain in his legs, he looked down and saw that water turned red around his legs.
He had been injured...
Ignoring the pain he swam back around the wall, looking out for his attacker. Soon he saw several orange spinning circles coming towards him. He shot each down with ease or so he thought. Two of his beams were dispersed and he was struck in the shoulder, he grunted at sharp pain. Where was the shots coming from? He had to react to another shot fired from near the consoles. "Gotcha." He uttered before firing his lasers at the area.
The explosion destroyed the console and sent shrapnel flying, but another pain was felt, this time in his hands. "Gah!" He grunted as he saw that his hand was split partially. The blood flowed from it and painted the area around his hands red, he clenched his injured hand into a fist and looked to Kaldur.
"Gah, such a waste, you Aqualad! You spent your days serving Aquaman! Like that fool over there! You have no ambitions beyond that?!" He yelled angrily before firing his lasers at Garth, who was still reeling from being hit into a wall. Kaldur formed a whip and was able to move Garth from harm's way. Black Manta immediately fired down as he saw more of those spinning shots come at him.
He hit the open hole in the floor and the explosion shot out a translucent humanoid figure. "There you are." Black Manta said as he fired again. The figure fired as well to disperse the attacks in quick succession.
"So you cloaked yourself and fired from the shadows? Clever..." He fired again. 'I can't believe he found me.' Uzu hissed while shooting out with the villain.
Meanwhile Kaldur and Garth engaged Manta's men, Garth was nearly hit while they descended behind a pillar for cover. Kaldur looked Garth in the eyes and grabbed him by the shoulders.
"Garth. Get your head in the game." Kaldur said sternly, he than swam from the cover and formed a shield to cover his movements. Garth gritted his teeth and held his hands around his stomach.
"I summon the power of the Tempest!" He formed a large blue ball of energy and launched it at Manta's men, it transformed into a large swirling tunnel and blew away his men.
During this, Black Manta evaded the shots from Uzu, said teen uncloaked himself during the fight. He held his bare hands out and his nails were shot out, the shots dispersed the energy beams as they clashed.
"It looks like you can only nullify my shots with each nail, but in the process that nail is destroyed. So you have to fire out multiple shots and when the beam is nullified and the follow up shots hit me." Black Manta concluded, "Oh man, you really hit the nail on the head there." Uzu said, unaware of the bad pun he made.
"Well lets see how you handle this!" He yelled while a tiny missile launcher reared up on his shoulder. The launcher fired multiple rockets at the hero, Uzu clapped his hands together with only his index fingers pointing outward, and fired. The shot closed in rotating at amazing speeds, the rockets were thrown off and collided into each other and blew up. Uzu was hit in the chest by a beam of energy through the explosion. He skidded back on his rear and into the wall.
Black Manta looked towards the skylight and saw the hook coming down, "Don't worry about them, get the job done!" He ordered. The man nodded and went to the ice block to attach the cable. He did so and the block was lifted up. Kaldur went to engage Manta during the process, he blocked the lasers Manta fired with his shield he formed.
"Garth! The cable!" Kaldur yelled while fighting against the force of Manta's attacks.
Garth from behind cover looked to the rising ice block and fired an electrical volt at the cable that severed it. The block fell down and smashed the metal stand it was on. Black Manta went to the slightly broken block but stopped when he saw his arm suddenly sliced up from the top of his hand to the shoulder.
"Graggh!" He roared at the sudden pain, "But when-!?" He suddenly saw the water spinning madly from where his missiles had been destroyed. "But how!?" He yelled.
'Damnit that nail he shot...it was destroyed but it spun enough to where the water around it did so too after the explosion. I must have gotten too close and the sharpened currents sliced me!' He thought, the attack cut deeply as he felt his bone was pierced slightly. He was grabbed and pulled back by Kaldur's whip he formed from his water-bearers. He broke free and with his injuries he yelled angrily.
"If I can't have it, NO ONE CAN!" He launched a missile at the frozen block, Uzu threw his hand to the ground, and Garth swam quickly to Kaldur and shielded them both from the explosion. Once the smoke cleared, Black Manta was gone. They only saw his ship flee away from Atlantis in the distance.
FFP!
"You guys okay?" Uzu asked, helping them both up. "Yes, we'll live." Garth answered. "Good!" Uzu chirped merrily as the destroyed ground raised up to reveal one of his kids. The timid Isobu, who was now roughly equal to the size of school bus, he lifted up to show the damaged ice block still intact. "Uzu when did you-"Before Mr. Sore Loser was able to blow it up. I summoned Isobu to protect it. His shell could withstand a nuclear explosion with maybe a scuff mark or two." Uzu patted the large turtle like creature.
"Say hi to Kaldur Isobu~" The large being looked to Kaldur and Garth, in a very scary fashion that sent chills down their spins. "I can't!" He quickly turned away from them, Kaldur and Garth nearly face faulted at the action.
POOF!
Isobu transformed into a puppy sized version of himself and landed in Uzu's arms. Uzu sweatdropped at Isobu's action and gave a embarrassed chuckle.
"Hehehe...I guess he's still not good around people yet...hehehe." Uzu stated all the while Isobu avoided their eyes.
Posedionis - September 3, 21:08 UTC 2
"Our city was heavily damaged and many Atlanteans were injured. But it could've been far worse, I'm grateful to you all." Aquaman held his wife closely, Kaldur, Garth, Orm, Tula and Uzu stood before him. "Thanks to the Kaldur, Garth, and the surface dweller they were able to save the Starfish." Orm gestured to the three mentioned, Uzu was holding Isobu in his arms still. Little guy still wasn't looking at anyone still. Though that didn't stop Tula from attempting to coo the small tailed-beast, she wasn't the first today either, as several female guards did the same earlier.
"The dome and the science center were compromised, we cannot safely secure or study it here in Atlantis." Orm looked to Kaldur, "Perhaps the surface world could do better." Orm suggested.
"I'll sure they will be eager to try. Kaldur?" He asked his student, "Call me Aqualad, my king." Aqualad saluted, this caused Aquaman to smile at the teen.
Later Uzu had left Aqualad to say his goodbyes to his friends, he had gotten a call from Conner informing him on a new mission. But first he had to put Isobu to bed. He wondered what the new mission would be...? Hopefully it'll be a fun one!
Bialya- September 4, 12:12 PM EST
Megan was feeling elated, you know...after being attack by a strange boy with Superman symbol on his chest. She didn't exactly know how she got on earth, or why she was wearing this costume, but she felt excited nonetheless! But she needed to know why she was on earth and more importantly why was she in a empty desert. She flew down near some brittle branches buried in the sand, and began to meditate. She soon recalled memories of a group teens around her age - errr somewhat around her age, Wally flirting with her, Artemis smacking him upside the head, Uzu being...Uzu and... It all came back to her! She had friends! She was on a team! And...oh boy she needed to find the others quick!
KA-THOOM!
She was blown back by a huge boom near her spot, she twirled around quickly to the source of the loud noise. "Superboy?!" She called out thinking it might be him, it was how he made his appearance last night...
The dust cleared and she saw that it was not her Superboy, but her other teammate. Her very weird teammate...
"Ora!"
"Ora?" She mumbled at the sight of her teammate, who apparently took off his top, exposing his naked upper body. At least this go around he was wearing bottoms unlike the beach incident. She blushed at the memory, but on to his current clothes. Unlike his usual uniform, he didn't wear his leather suit, at least not the part that covered his torso. He still had on his gloves and pants with his boots. And lets not forget about his helmet, his orange bowl like helmet.
"Ora!" He chanted as he moved towards her, the sand was kicked high into the air, Megan was barely able to dodge the fierce strike into the ground. The blow demolished the ground, and caused mini-quake that threw her off balance.
'Wha-what power!' She yelled internally as she looked at the very large hole he left. 'If I didn't dodge that-' She didn't get to finish as she was rushed again by Uzu. She used her telekinesis to force him back down.
"Ora!" He hopped back up and blitzed the floating girl this time twice as fast as before. She yelped as she was tackled out of the air, they tumbled to a halt with them stopping with Uzu on top. He looked down on her and raised a fist.
"Ora!" She had to think fast! Or else she'll be surely die! 'Captain Uzu stop!' He halted momentarily, did it work? She was unsure as the last time she tried to use her mind powers on him it was unsuccessful. He still hadn't tried to strike her, maybe it was working!
"Ora!" Or maybe not! She quickly blasted Uzu back into a sand dune and took flight. 'I can't fight him one on one he's too strong, I need to find the others, then we can face him.' She thought in desperation as she began to call for her other teammates - no response...
'Maybe they're out of my range, I'll just have to get closer.' She thought as she flew across the sandy plains.
Meanwhile Artemis and KF were evading oncoming tanks, the two stopped after KF felt it was a safe enough distance, that and he was hungry. "Must have been out here for more than twenty-four hours, must be why my cartridge is empty." He pointed out. Soon a half naked Superboy pounced on them, he smacked KF into a rock formation and began to charge Artemis. She used her explosive bows to slow down the charging clone but he kept firm and ahead anyway.
He roared loudly as a tank shell landed right at his feet. His loud roar alerted Megan and Uzu who heard it as well. Uzu flashed in the direction of the yell. He reappeared in the air above the oncoming tanks and smashed down on them. This permanently disabled the war machines but not before a shell was launched accidentally at Superboy once more. This angered the clone, who thought that Uzu had struck him, and he charged.
Captain Uzu looked to see the charging clone, he yelled and ran towards the clone. They clashed and completely destroyed the ground beneath them. KF quickly grabbed Artemis and got out of the battlefield. As they made their way over and down a sand dune KF tripped and fell, tossing them both down to the bottom of the large dune. They were quickly attacked by two drones that fired upon them, Artemis was about to launch her arrow before getting a telepathic message from Megan.
This messed up her aim, "Did you hear a girl in your head?" She asked incredulously, "Girls are always on my mind, they're just usually not the ones doing the talking." KF answered as the drones swooped around for another gun run. But were destroyed by Megan as she arrived to them. She landed before them and KF was the first to speak.
"Well...J'onn the costume looks familiar, but the new bod doesn't exactly scream 'Manhunter'." KF joked, "You know my uncle J'onn?! Hel-lo, Megan, of course you do. You're Kid Flash. Wally. And you're Artemis." Megan tried to explain to situation, but to avail as they simply did not remember her. They each heard a loud bang in the distance.
"Uh-oh." Megan dreaded what was going on, "We have to hurry, I'll fill you in as we go." She ordered.
Shrapnel, and smoke filled the area as the two boys went at it. "Ora!" Uzu punched Superboy in the face which sent him skidding backwards. The clone shook it off and charged him once more, they clashed as Superboy began throwing hit after hit at Uzu. The orange hero didn't look too fazed through it all. Superboy fist were caught and he received a hard headbutt. He staggered back and was very unprepared for what happened next.
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAAA!" He received fury of punches that sent him flying. Superboy landed in rock formation which in his landing completely obliterated it. Scattering rock and dust every which way. Uzu chanted loudly for a short bit than flashed away unexpectedly.
"Well...I didn't see that coming..." A robbed man muttered, as the rebels loaded Superboy's unconscious body into a truck. "Sir what about the other one?" A grunt asked.
"Leave him to destroy, He'll tire out eventually and we'll scoop him up when he does." The soldier nodded at the decision.
Just wait huh?
Night-fell on the desert as The Boy Wonder along with his teammates who had just reunited with hog tied the soldiers. "So we're a team?" Robin asked.
"Yes, the four us along with Superboy, Captain Uzu and Aqualad." Megan explained, "Then this must be his and Captain Uzu's." Robin held out a ripped shirt, and leather long sleeve shirt with orange armor padding.
"Yes! Did you run in to them?" Megan examined the two pieces of clothing, "We ran into feral boy, not this Captain Uzu guy. I think we would have remembered a guy with a orange helmet." KF concluded. "Hmph! Some teammate, attacking us."
"He didn't know who we are, I don't know who we are!"
"ORA!" They froze at the call, it wasn't exactly right on them but it was too close for comfort. "Did you guys hear that?" Robin whispered. "Yeah what was that?" KF wondered in a normal tone of voice. "And why are you whispering?"
"Because I don 't know if what made that noise is friend or foe!" Robin hissed lowly, "It's Captain Uzu, I know because he was saying the same thing while he was attacking me."
"He attacked you too! Why are our teammates attacking us!?" KF hissed, THOOM! A loud boom followed by a large sand, the falling sand cleared enough for the teens to see Cpatain Uzu...in his boxers.
"Oh god where is your pants!" Artemis screamed, Captain Uzu was now clad in back and orange spotted boxers, with his orange helmet and surprisingly his gloves.
"Ora!" He yelled before flashing behind the teens, if it weren't for KF they quick reflexes in moving the team out the way the would've been rocked by a hard left. "Ora!"
"What the hell is wrong with this guy?!" Artemis yelled before launching an arrow at the back of Uzu. The arrow was caught in between Uzu's finger tips. The arrow soon exploded in his face, Robin launched a several smoke pellets to cover the area. Uzu's eye's glowed white as his O.M. penetrated the smoke with ease.
He zipped through the smoke and grasped Robin by the neck and prepared a right hook. He didn't catch Robin's smirk before his body has frozen stiff. "Nice job Megan." Robin rubbed his throat after it was released.
"Why, just why is our teammates attacking us?" KF asked angrily, "He doesn't know who we're, heck I don't know who we are!" Artemis walked up the frozen in place Uzu before turning away.
"And where's his pants?!"
"He probably ditched them somewhere in the desert, he does get very hot during the day." Robin answered while inspecting Uzu, "Are you sure you can hold him? I don't want to get attacked again by a almost naked teenager in the middle of a desert." He asked Miss M who nodded, "I can hold him, especially right now." She hovered over with her hands out stretched, to the others she was getting a little too close to a unpredictable Uzu.
But in reality-Zzz...He was sleeping soundly, "Running around all day must have tired him out, he'll be much easier to restrain at this point."
"Now that's outta the way, I remember Batman ordering radio silence, we must work for him." Robin concluded, "And how do you know we don't work for my mentor?" KF asked while tapping on his lighting-bolt symbol that turned his suit black to yellow, and red constantly as he did it. Robin and Artemis mimicked this, before Artemis yelled.
"We look ridiculous!" She looked to her side and saw KF mindlessly tapping away at his symbol, "Quit touching yourself!" Innuendo, Miss M silently pondered a away to save Superboy, until she reached a way, hopefully a sure one. She teleported KF, Uzu, Artemis, and Robin into her mind.
"I've brought you into my mind to share with you what I've remembered so far, and together, if you open up you're minds we can piece together a whole picture of what happened." She suggested, "You want you pry through our private thoughts?" Artemis didn't seem to happy of the idea of that, "I don't wish to intrude but-"You need to hack our minds to figure out what happened to us got it." Robin agreed.
"My minds all yours, try not to let it's brilliance overwhelm you."
"Or underwhelm you." Robin snickered, Artemis still looked unsure of the idea until KF held her hand, "Only the last six months, and only what you need." Artemis said sternly. Megan nodded and entered their minds, she began to piece to together the events of the last six months. Everything came back to them like a flood, Batman briefing them, their arrival here, Aqualad informing Megan to safe...!
"AQUALAD!" They collectively gasped, "What happened to him?"
"I don't know that's the last thing I-we remember." Miss M answered, KF and Artemis rapidly let go of each others hand in slight embarrassment. "Uh.. Maybe we can poke around in Uzu's head to see where we went. Maybe Aqualad told Uzu where he was going." KF suggested.
"I don't know...I don't want go inside someone head without their permission..." She rubbed her arm and looked away, what was she suppose to do? "Uh guys? That plan is gonna be a no go." Robin garnered their attention. They saw him kneeling down in the sand near two footprints...and a pair of underwear...oh boy.
"If I we're to take a shot in the dark, I would say Uzu woke up, and disappeared somewhere." Robin concluded, "W-what is that?" Artemis shakily pointed to the black boxers in the sand.
"Boxers, apparently we have a now naked teenager running around the desert at night." Robin said calmly, "Uzu can wait, we need to find Aqualad." KF and Miss M nodded, before Robin checked his 3-D HUD for his missing teammate, all the while Artemis was blushing and shaking with her arrow ready. "Is something wrong Arty?" KF asked.
"N-nothing." She muttered, "Found him, and he's not to far from us neither." Robin gestured to the direction of Aqualad.
They arrived to find their teammate unconscious, Miss M kneeled down and held him up on her lap, he began to mutter something in his native tongue.
"I can't restore his memories in this state."
"He needs an immediate re-hydration, call the bio-ship." Robin ordered, "It's out of range, but you can get him there fast." She looked to KF who shook his head, "He's too heavy, and I'm too low on fuel. I couldn't even carry her." He nudged Artemis, she seemed very jumpy at the moment, wonder why?
"C-can't you just levitate him back or something?" She asked and received a head shake from Miss M. "I can't I have to go look for Superboy." She got up and turned to the three.
"Six months ago he didn't exist, he's running on animal impulse, I'm the only one that can help him."
"Supey is indestructible, just ask those tanks, Aqualad needs your help right now." KF reasoned, Miss M received a wail of pain from Superboy via her telepathic powers.
"I can't! I have to go help him!" She flew off in worry of her crush, leaving Robin to fruitlessly convince her otherwise. Once she was out of sight, the teens turned around to see none other than Uzu staring them down...completely nude.
"Horse!" Artemis yelled, "When did he sneak up on us?" KF muttered as he locked eyes with Uzu's helmet, as did Robin. "W-why are you guys so calm right now?! Don't you see he's naked!?" She hissed with her arrow pointed at Uzu.
"We're not looking down." Robin answered.
"Ora!" Uzu yelled before charging the three, he was too fast for the three teens as he closed in on them. But a back bird rose in between them and encased Uzu.
...
"What?" KF asked no one in particular. The black energy faded away and revealed Uzu panting, "Whe-where am I?" He gasped, Robin noticed something alarming, there was a girl in kneeling next to Uzu. He went for his Bird-a-Rang but a cold glare from the girl stopped him cold.
"Don't." She uttered briskly, it also stopped KF, and Artemis from trying anything as well. "I merely healed him from the affects of the toxins within his body." She began.
"Toxin? Uzu was poisoned?" Robin asked, "No, sometime during his trek in the desert he consumed something that caused delusions, it's why he attacked you." She finished in a dry tone. When Uzu finally came around she helped him up to his feet, Robin pulled something from his behind his back.
"Here, I think this belongs to you." He handed Uzu's boxers, "Huh?" He blinked before looking down, "Huh...would you look at that." He mumbled, "Hurry up and put your underwear on!" Artemis yelled.
"So you mean to tell me that you drunk water from a cactus and started seeing weird hallucinations?" Robin rubbed his temples in a sigh as Uzu nodded. "Yep, I thought I was fighting some weird blonde guy who kept yelling MUDA a lot." Uzu tacked on.
"Muda?" KF whispered to Artemis, "It's Japanese for useless Baywatch." Artemis polished her arrow, seemingly more calm than before. "Oh I see...hey wait!"
"Who's the chick?" Robin whispered to Uzu, Uzu looked back to see Raven staring off into the distance, her cloak drifting in the light breeze. "That's Raven, she want's me to train her." He answered The Boy Wonder.
"Train? She want's you to train her?" He scoffed at the thought of Uzu training someone, just the thought of another Uzu brought a chill down his spine. "It's true though, anyway, what's up with Aqualad?"
"He's from Atlantis remember? He doesn't do to well in these types of environments. We were going to head back to the ship to hydrate him, but Megan flew off after Superboy."
"Conner? What happened to Conner?" Uzu asked while he walked over to Aqualad. "Apparently, Superboy lost his six-months memories, and now he's running on animal instincts." Robin finished.
"Well it's a good thing I didn't lose my memories!" He eye smiled through his helmet, "That's great and all but we need to get Aqua-what are you doing?" Robin asked the Orange Hero. Uzu had gotten a hold of water-hose...which was weird considering he had on nothing but his boxers, helmet, and gloves, shouldn't he be freezing right now?
Uzu aimed the hose at Aqualad, keep in mind this hose is connected to anything right now, and dosed the Altlantian teen in clear crisp water...somehow. Several seconds went by before the Altantain jolted himself up and started to gasp. "Wha-what, when, where-!"
"Looks who up, how you doing Aqualad?" Uzu greeted, "Who, who are people?" Aqualad scrambled around, "It's us, oh right you lost your memory so won't recognize us." Uzu snapped his fingers when a idea came to mind. He helped Aqualad to his feet and studied the teen carefully.
"What are you doin-"SMASH! Aqualad was headbutted by Uzu dead center on his forehead, he fell down and grasped his forehead. "Uzu was that for!?" Aqualad muttered through gritted teeth.
"Aqualad you remember us now!" Uzu cheered, "Yes, but was a headbutt necessary?" Aqualad was once again helped up by Uzu, he rubbed his aching head, he was gonna feel that for a while.
"Yeah, I would've let Megan restore your memories, but she ran off about ten minutes ago."
"Ugh, where's your clothes?" Aqualad asked, Uzu shrugged at his question, 'Good news everyone, I have Superboy, and he's okay!' Megan said merrily through the link.
'Thank goodness for that, are you okay as well?' Aqualad asked his teammate, 'Aqualad, you're up, and you have your memories back...how did you get your memories back?'
'Our friend Captain Uzu helped me out.' Aqualad answered while rubbing the spot of impact on his head, strangely enough it didn't hurt anymore, at all as a matter of fact. Weird...
But then again everything gets weird when Captain Uzu is involved.
A/N: That's the chapter, I was gonna split it up into two chapters but fuck it, you guys waited a month for this so here was two chapters rolled up into one.
