PS: I haven't included any 'Hello Megan!' dialogues yet since I want to differentiate my version of M'gann slightly from the young justice version. Also, she doesn't say it in the comics. Just a little heads up. Enjoy reading!
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Chapter Ten - New Ally
For over the third time, Black Canary had to repeat the clear instructions as she clipped on her parachute across her hips.
The titan's newest member had a slight problem of being too excited to take in all the instructions clearly. The team had been aboard the stealth craft Batman had sent them for the mission for over twelve hours already since their mission briefing and still, they were trying to get used to the fact that the ever calm and silent Martian Manhunter had a niece, M'gann M'orzz , who happened to be the complete opposite of her uncle.
M'gann was a green skinned teenaged martian girl of average height. Her flaming red hair was a major eye-catcher and she wore a black headband across her head , accentuating her naive persona. Her eyes and her bright brown irises positively beamed each time she spoke . She had a small amount of freckles that littered over her cheeks and across some part of her nose , giving her a slightly childish appearance.
She was wearing a figure hugging jet black suit that looked slightly like a scuba diver's wet suit, combined with a long flowing purplish hooded cape that dangled around her knee area .
M'gann hadn't spent a single moment silent since her abrupt introduction and she had spent the hours aboard the aircraft talking to her new teammates excitedly about her own bioship, her ability to shapeshift her appearance , which she demonstrated by morphing into Raven, Kara and , much to Kara's slight amusement, a female version of Damian. The boy wonder, however, did not take to this so well and ended up rebuffing her, claiming her imitation of him repugnant .
But that didn't seem to dampen the girl's spirit as she pranced about , telling Kara about how her uncle finally allowed her permission to stay on Earth upon him knowing that the titans had a major part to play in stopping the invasion.
Honestly, Kara wanted to be friendly with the incredibly enthusiastic martian girl but after hours of non-stop chattering, Kara didn't want anything to do with her new teammate. She just wanted to get out there and beat up some guys to test out her newfound flight powers.
"Got it?", Dinah yelled over the howling winds as the aircraft slowed down and opened the hatch doors.
"Yeah.I think. " ,M'gann yelled back, an exhilarated look on her face.
"Ready titans?", Dinah yelled once more to check.
"Could we just get on with the mission already? ", Kara yelled, slightly annoyed and at the same time feeling amped to get back in the action and test out her newfound flight powers.
M'gann, on the other hand, a different way of handling the question.
"Ready.", she replied before slapping her hands together, rubbing them furiously as she furrowed her brows and clenched her teeth, a determined look on her face.
" I was born ready! ", the martian teenager added excitedly and made to jump out of the plane, only to have Dinah's hand on her waist, holding her back.
"Whoa. Clam down, Feisty pants. I get that you're excited but just like the rest of your team, You've gotta wait for me to get down in the waters and give you the 'all clear' signal.", the blonde justice leaguer remarked .
"Sorry...I guess I'm just a little bit ..jumpy..", M'gann apologized with a sweet smile as she clasped her hands out in front of her and swayed on the spot like a shy girl.
"Wish me luck.", Dinah muttered to herself before dropping out of the edge of the stealthcraft, her arms and legs stuck up together to her sides so that she formed one streamlined body as she plummeted down into the icy,black waters below, breaking into the water surface as in near silence as the titans watched, not leaving the craft till her signal.
Kara squinted her eyes , zooming her vision in just in time to catch Dinah attach some sort of a cylindrical metallic device to the ship's hull before resurfacing out of the water, flashing a red laser onto the bottom hull of the ship, just above water level three times to signal the titans.
"Zzat. Heat and motion sensors are patched. Data is on continuous loop. Move in.", Dinah's voice crackled out of each of their radio receivers.
"That's the all clear. ", Damian muttered coarsely . Kara nodded and flew out of the aircraft, her red cape fluttering behind her as she flew in the new navy blue Kryptonian uniform that Clark had given her was honestly very excited to test it out.
Kara's role was to locate all the snipers and take them all out silently without detection to clear the starboard deck for the remaining others.
Kara blinked and her vision zoomed in and she was now seeing in purple , bright yellow and green. Infrared vision.
Instantly, she spotted every single armed guard aboard the ship. Looking around from her point among the clouds in the sky, Kara located the seven snipers who were perched in various vantage points along the humongous cargo barge.
Without another word, Kara flew in . She had orders not use her superspeed at any given moment during the mission, for it may set of the speed trap alarm the perpetrators may have set to alert them of Superman or the flash's arrival. Kara travelling at super speeds would have the same effect and would compromise the mission.
Kara flew in behind her first sniper, hovering momentarily underneath his platform before he turned his head away. Immediately, Kara flew up , moved in behind him in the darkness and slammed her palm to his mouth while she slipped her other arm around his neck, strangling him by applying just enough pressure to cut off his air supply. Not a moment later, the man in her arms stopped struggling and slumped to the floor.
She did the same with the remaining snipers, taking them all out as silently as she could until she had her arms slung around the last sniper's neck, strangling the air out of him until he lost consciousness.
"Snipers are down. ", Kara muttered into her comms receiver.
"Good. Titans, move into position. But do not engage yet.", Dinah's voice crackled out of Kara's comms unit .
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Damian sprinted out of the aircraft, grabbing onto what appeared to be some sort of metallic rod that was longer that his body length. The remaining two titans on board the craft watched as the boy wonder plummeted down a few feet before tapping some button on his staff and the next second, some sort of glider apparutus expanded out of what used to be his metallic staff and he glided down onto the main deck.
Landing silently on what appeared to be the helepad of the barge, Damian silently crept up behind a passing by armed guard, jumped on him and slipped his palm on his mouth, choking him silently. Seconds later, the guard was down on the ground and Damian had his rod out in his free arm, with his hood drawn over his head as he bolted through the main deck of the ship.
The deck of the ship was mainly composed of whitish metal flooring , hence the dark colored 'stealth uniforms' that black canary had suggested would have been of no use .
Running around the bend, Damian came face to face with one guard, who had his jaw open in shock at the sudden appearance of Robin on the barge. But before he could react, Damian hurled his Bo staff straight at the man , striking him bluntly on the face, knocking him out in a instant. Another guard, who was positioned just at the bend, whipped around at the sound of disturbance and before he could scream a warning, Robin had made contact with the man's chin with his knee, knocking him out backwards.
Damian picked up his staff from next to the man's motionless body and sprinted forward in the cover of darkness, his back bent forward as he moved quietly.
Damian, being the athletic fifteen year old that he was, began to use his momentum, jumping onto walls to propel himself upward . He stuck his rod in between the walls of a narrow corridor before swinging forward like one of those trapeze acts at a circus, propelling himself up and onto the second level.
Landing on the new floor, he found himself in the midst of a party of guards, seven of them,with four of them stood to Damian's left while three stood to his right.
"Якого біса?", one of the guards muttered in Ukranian slang before Damian hurled his rod towards his right and simultaneously sprang himself to his left.
Damian's Bo staff bounced around , striking men one by one, ricocheting off the metallic walls while the boy wonder himself was engaged with the four other men, dancing around, landing blows on their faces , ducking out form their punches before sliding underneath the leg of one of the men and kicking him out from underneath his feet. Damian's rod bounced back to his hand and he whacked the man clawing at his feet bluntly with the rod, knocking him out. The last man, who had his wrist broken by one of the boys wonder's spinning kicks, was crawling and hoisting himself up towards the alarm switch.
His palm was mere inches away from the switch before a hand dagger, razor edged, spun rapidly through the air, impaling the man's palm with deadly precision, sticking it to the metal wall behind him. Damian then rushed forth whacked the man unconscious with his staff as he began to yell in pain.
Damian then sprinted down the upper decks, before using his momentum to send himself forward over the safety bars of the upper deck down to the lower deck.
Upon landing, he found himself straight in the midst of a battalion of guards. Before they knew what was happening, Robin dropped two smoke pellets and instantly, his surrounding area was clouded in greenish smoke .
"Відкритий вогонь!Відкритий вогонь!", the men shouted in panic and gunfire rained down within the plume of smoke. Nothing happened.
As the men watched, two rope shurikens shot out from the smoke, entangling themselves around the ankles of two of the men, tripping them over. Damian sprang out of the smoke soon after, whacking them unconscious with his Bo staff before disappearing back into the smoke as the remaining men fumbled around , unable to see as the smoke expanded.
As one of the men watched, a shadow shot out from the green smoke, taking his partner out with a kick to the face before disappearing .
"Якого біса ти!?", the man yelped in fear.
"Незначне ідіот.", a boyish voice spoke behind him and before the frightened man could turn around, he was knocked out brutishly.
As the smoke cleared, Damian Wayne stood with a dozen unconscious bodies around him, unmoving.
Just then , he felt the barrel of a rifle at his head and the sound of someone arming it.
"Знімають маску! T-Take of yur Massk!", the last guard yelled in a thick Ukranian accent, his voice clearly implying his shock and fear at seeing a boy take out twelve of his comrades with ease.
"Even if I did, you wouldn't know who I am.", Damian hissed from underneath his hood, not turning around.
Just then, a black forcefield struck the man on the back of his head and a moment later, the men crumpled to the floor, unconscious.
As Damian glanced up, he saw Raven and M'gann fly down to his side.
"Thanks.", he replied with a smile to Raven. He rarely smiled. And his sudden pleasant demeanor didn't go unnoticed by M'gann.
"Yeah... You really looked like you needed our help.", Raven replied with a smile as Damian snorted.
"Area secure. ", Damian remarked into his comms unit, raising his hand to his ear.
"Copy. Black canary moving in to dispatch A. Remain in the dark and proceed to target locations. Do not engage unless absolutely necessary.", Dinah's voice crackled out of all their comms units.
/
"And that goes double for you, Supergirl. Do not go charging in. That would compromise the mission.", Dinah spoke again with a warning edge to her voice as she sprinted forward, wrapped her legs around a passing by guard, rendering him unconscious under her strangle hold as the man's face turned blue due to lack of oxygen as his face was trapped in between Dinah's thighs.
"Yeah. Yeah. Got the gist already. Moving in to dispatch Alpha. ", Kara's voice crackled out of the comms signal and from the tone, it was evident that the hot-headed sixteen year old was not pleased at being singled out as the brash one.
/
The main unit of the barge had eleven armed guards, positioned in strategic locations while one sole hostage sat there, tied up to a metallic chair, most of his power drained from his capacitor with just enough being supplied to keep him alive for questioning. He had definitely seen better days and his lips were cracked due to lack of water and dehydration. Sweat tricked down his skin and his robotic eye had a flickering red in it, barely active.
Cyborg.
/
Dinah slid under her man's feet before kicking him out from under, grabbing his head and bashing it against the wall, knocking him out instantly. Then, she jumped up,hauled herself over the railing and shot a glue bomb , sticking it straight at one of the cargo holds.
"Black Canary to team. Distraction package has been set. I'm in position.", Dinah whispered into her comms unit before sprinting out of the corridor.
/
In the main control hold of the large cargo barge, two figures stood in silence, a man in his late forties and a female who looked far younger. Her silvery white hair cascaded out from underneath her orange and black mask that was tailored to look like that of her father's.
"I want the bioweapon ready to be moved . We should expect trouble soon. " Rose ordered and the captain nodded as he reached to his transmitter to relay the orders to his subordinates.
/
Damian slunk through the shadows, whizzing past patrolling armed guards attacks were childsplay to him. He had done it a thousand times under the training of his grandfather and a couple more with his father. This was no big issue for the boy wonder. Except, his teammates were the liability right now. Especially Zor-El and her hot headed behavior and the new girl, who simply couldn't stay silent for a second.
All of a sudden, he screeched to halt. He was trapped. He could see the silhouette of two approaching guards around the corner along with the one had had just weaved past. He looked up to see the ceiling of the floor directly above him was made of wired metal alloyed nets. He took out his grappling gun, shot it upwards and managed to evade detection just in time as the guards came around the corner. He was hanging upside down , using his birdarangs as makeshift claws to cling onto the wire mesh as he watched the guards walk by.
Once they were out of earshot, Damian dropped down from the ceiling.
"Robin to Black Canary. I've dismantled the comms jammer. They shouldn't be able to track our radiowaves any longer. Also, sublevel four is reasonably patrolled with armed guards. ", Damian whispered into his comms receiver that was plugged into his ear.
"Zzzat. Good. Do not engage the guards yet. We need to locate the three hostages and the biological weapon first before we give away our presence. ", Dinah's voice crackled out of his receiver.
"You don't need to worry about me. I could have done this on my own.", Damian shrugged her off and leapt up, clambering over a cargo stock and jumping over the heads of two guards walking by, unnoticed.
He reached the base of what was a tall, large, circular structure that rose upwards into the black skies above. Glancing around, Damian made sure that he was still undetected before shooting his grapple gun above him and hoisting himself skywards. Upon reaching the terrace of the structure, he clambered onto it, ducked and crept towards the lone sniper on the structure, who had his back turned to him.
As silent as he could, robin sprang up onto the guy, slammed his palm onto his mouth , wrapped his free arm around the guy's neck, choking him and didn't let go of his strangle hold even as the guy writhed around, struggling to breathe.
Slowly, Damian felt the guy's attempts to shove the boy wonder off of him fade in strength and not a moment later, Damian let go and the guy slumped down, unconscious.
Damian inched along the wall and switched on his X-ray vision. Instantly, he caught sight of an adult male body right underneath the metal obstruction between them. He'd recognize that precoscious body language anywhere. Grayson.
"I'm in position. Located target A. He's guarded by four armed thugs. Adult, six-five, six-two, five-nine and five-ten in height each. All of them similarly equipped , containing tazers, loaded artillery. Engaging enemies.", Damian asked hotly into his comms receiver.
/
" Everyone in position?", Dinah whispered into her comms unit. Everyone complied except for one.
"Zzat. Wait! Everyone! I'm not ready yet! I had to take a detour.",M'gann's voice crackled out and she sounded like she was slightly panic stricken.
"Well. Get in position. Fast. We haven't got all night.", Kara's voice hissed out of the comms signal.
"Team. Focus on the mission .", Dinah whispered into her comms .
/
"Okay. Okay. Supergirl,There's a bit of a problem with the Kid Flash Containment unit. I might need your-", M'gann whispered into her comms systems and she silently flew round the corner before stopping mid sentence.
She caught sight of Kara hovering inches above the ground, hidden behind a set of gas exhausts, peering forwards from her hiding place and unawares to the girl of steel, an armed henchmen was closing in on her with his dagger drawn out.
Instantly ,forgetting the fact that Kara was invulnerable to most physical attacks, M'gann shot into action, thrusting her hand out in front of her , catching a hold of the man under her force grip as the man yelled in shock at being suddenly lifted off his feet by an invisible force.
"SUPERGIRL, BEHIND YOU!", the green skinned martian yelled out aloud telepathically as she flung the man in her grip overboard. Instantly, Kara yelled in pain as M'gann's sudden telepathic yelling rang inside her head, causing her head to hurt. But the damage was done. The man had yelled when he was thrown overboard and Kara's sudden yelling had alerted the guards of their presence.
The mission was compromised.
Not a second later, the alarms through the barge began to ring and the remaining guards sprinted out, guns ready, to find many of their comrades motionless on the ground. Panic stricken, many of them began to spread out.
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"They're here...Get the Bioweapon and get it to the containment sector. Lock yourself in till extraction.", Rose ordered with a hiss as she ushered Cisco out.
" Vatt about the intruders?", the captain yelped.
"Leave that to me. ", Rose replied before exiting the cabin .
/
Dinah punched a guard in the groin, flipping him over and kicking him off the edge of the barge and into the waters below before she moved in to where Batman estimated the biological weapon to be kept.
Upon reaching the holding area, she found the sector vacant and the glass casing that held the weapon ransacked.
Disheartened, Dinah turned around, leaving her back unguarded as she spoke to her comms to alert the titans.
"Black canary to team. The perpetrators have the bioweapon. Casing is vacant. Retreat. I repeat. Re-", she dropped off mid sentence before a crimson blur passed straight by her. The next second when the blur cleared, Dinah lay on the ground, unconscious.
Kid Flash had knocked her out.
/
"WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU, GRAYSON!?", Damian yelled as he whipped his Bo staff around to block one of Dick Grayson's charging attacks. The former robin was not responding to any of Damian's insults, merely charging on mindlessly with a blank expression on his face. Damian couldn't use his full range of attacks either, for Batman had restricted him from using his sword, giving him the useless staff instead so that he learnt non lethal damage infliction.
Using what he had, Damian struck out, flipping off the walls to gain height over Dick but the former robin caught Damian mid jump by the ankle and swung him around, sending him crashing into the walls in front him.
"Lumbering idiot.", Damian grunted as he clutched his arm in pain.
The son of batman then burst forward in a range of motion, blocking all of Dick's kicks and punches before drawing out his dagger and slicing the twenty three year old across the forearm. Damian bolted forward head on and propped his Bo staff on the ground firmly using it like a pole vault to propel himself forward as he shot his legs out, landing a solid kick across Dick's left jaw, sending the Nightwing crashing into door behind him, knocking it off it's hinges due to the force.
Panting slightly, Damian Wayne spun his staff and slammed it on Dick's head, shoving him to the floor .
"That'll teach you to mess with -", Damian was saying before he felt a sharp pain on the back of his head mid sentence and the next thing he knew, he blacked out, dropping to his knees , unconscious.
Kara was flying close by the barge, blanketed out of view in the grey clouds . Their mission had been a disaster. And that was putting it nicely.
By the looks of it, all her teammates had been captured and Kara couldn't even use her radio comms to contact Batman or any of the others. If the people who had captured Kara's teammates were to hack in on the network, she would involuntarily be tipping them off to her presence if she used her comms unit.
And who the hell was that girl who shouted inside her head?It certainly wasn't hers.
Kara felt bad and frustrated at not being able to do anything. The entire mission was off course and all her teammates were now captured. It was all her fault.
Just then, she felt a body zooming in towards her and before she knew what was happening, she was tackled in a tight hug and flaming red hair sprawled onto Kara's face due to the winds at the altitude.
"Oh! I thought they had taken everybody! Thank god! At least you're here too!", M'gann sighed in relief as she let go of Kara , who was still slightly taken aback at the sudden appearance of the martian girl.
As Kara nodded and brushed her bangs out of her eyes, she recognized the female voice that had yelled inside her head.
"YOU!", Kara yelled furiously and grabbed M'gann by the collar of her purple cape, taking the green skinned martian girl by surprise.
"Me?", M'gann muttered back apprehensively.
"It was your voice inside me head. You got inside me! What the hell was that!?", Kara yelled, her anger obtruding her .
As Kara watched, M'gann didn't speak, she was simply gazing at Kara with a tentative expression as the girl of steel still held onto M'gann's collar.
Then, it happened again.
"I don't understand why you're mad. Everyone on mars used to communicate telepathically. This is how I communicate with my uncle.", M'gann's voice echoed inside Kara's head, forcing her to let go of M'gann's collar and clutch at her own blonde hair in uneasiness.
"ARGGH! GET OUT OF MY HEAD!", Kara yelled out in anger as they hovered aerially .
The feeling of having aliens probing inside her head was still fresh in her mind from the Brainiac invasion. She was in no mood to do it again.
"I..I'm sorry. I don't know what's wrong.", M'gann spoke this time as the two girls hovered stationary amidst the clouds.
"M'gann. Stop. Don't...talk ...inside my head. It's creepy as hell and you're invading my private space. ", Kara hissed.
"Oh..I'm... Sorry. ", M'gaan replied quietly, looking crestfallen.
"Yeah. Being sorry simply doesn't make it right. It's your fault that our teammates are caught. Now we've gotta try and get em back somehow. You can either help me, or just get back home to the tower.
"I..was just trying to be part of the team..", M'gann mumbled, looking away but Kara , using her super hearing heard her silent reply.
"Yeah. You haven't been doing a good job at it so far.", she hissed and led the way forward. M'gann paused, wondering if she should even go any further . After a prolonged pause, she followed suit, silently following the girl of steel .
Kara didn't speak further and simply flew forward, trying to come up with a plan , with her green skinned teammate flying close by, rubbing her forearm and not making eye contact, looking slightly abashed.
Damian felt a sharp pain on the back of his head as he began to regain consciousness. He could hear voices nearby. But his mind was too fuzzy to make anything of it. He groaned as he came to and he tried to rub his head, only to find that he couldn't even budge his arms.
"What the hell...", he murmured as he shook himself awake.
As his vision cleared out, he found himself sitting cross legged on the floor,his arms cuffed together behind him, around the foot of a heavy metal table from the looks of it. He clenched his teeth and struggled as he tried to pull at his restraint.
"That's not going to work.", a cold female voice spoke out.
Damian stopped struggling on finding out that he wasn't alone. Looking up into the light ahead of him in the circular room, he found a female figure's silhouette staring down at him from a few feet away, outlined by bright white couldn't make out the face, for she seemed to be wearing a mask, with her hair flowing out from underneath it.
"Who the hell are you?",Damian called out unceremoniously.
"I should be the one asking you that.", the female voice responded as she came into the clear.
Damian's eyes widened in recognition as he recognized the woman's raspy voice. It was the same person , wearing the mask similar to the one Slade wore. In one hand, she held her own sword, the one Damian had taken during their previous fight. And in the other, she held his emerald robin mask. If Damian were his father, he'd be shocked at having his identity exposed. On the contrary , not many people knew Damian's own face nor did they know that Bruce Wayne had a son, so he should be safe.
"You've taken quite a pain to retain my blade for so long. Now... I know that you're the Bat's brat wonder. But you intrigue me, Robin. I've seen the way you fought Nightwing. Those moves were level four hand to hand combat training of the League of Shadows.", the woman remarked with a hiss to her voice.
Suddenly, she spun her blade vertically three-sixty degrees before catching it by the hilt and thrusting it forward, it's razor tip dangerously close to Damian's throat.
"So I will ask again, Robin. What do you want with me and Who are you...Really?", the woman remarked with an edge to her tone.
Damian didn't speak. He didn't even move a muscle as he stared straight into the one visible grey iris.
Then, the fifteen year old spat straight at her mask, forcing her to growl to express her displeasure.
"Wrong answer.", the woman hissed and raised her blade to strike Damian across the face when the door behind her slid open.
A man's figure walked in out of the light outside, into the fairly darker interrogation room.
"There's still no sign of anybody else. There was no Justice league. It was just these kids. ", Dick replied in a monotone voice which was uncharacteristic of his usual self. It was clear now that the hostages were in some sort of mind control and they were a trap laid to lure in the Justice league.
"I'm not a child!", Damian spat at the face he recognized a the two of them simply ignored him.
"Keep a look out. We can't be too sure. If Robin's here, Batman shouldn't be too far behind. ", the woman in the mask replied before the two of them completely ignored Damian and walked out . But before she closed the door, one of her henchmen approached her and she whispered something in his ear.
Damian watched as the man nodded and then moved into the room, sliding the door shut behind him.
"I despise you.", Damian simply remarked as the man walked forward, with some sort of syringe in his hand.
Damian could do nothing as the man forced his neck down and inserted the syringe to the back of his neck.
"What did you do to me!?", Damian yelled as he writhed on the floor, trying to break free of his containment. But soon enough, his vision began to slur and he felt like he was losing his ability to control his muscles. Then, all of a sudden, his mind went blank and he stopped struggling.
"Well?", Kara asked hotly as M'gann returned from her scouting of the ship.
Apparently, One of M'gann's abilities was the ability to camouflage, meaning, she could turn herself completely invisible .
Upon learning about this ability of hers, Kara had sent the green martian girl into the ship to silently stake out and find each of their teammates. Kara's plan was then to risk using her superspeed to zoom in and get them all out before anyone knew what hit them.
"Well.", M'gann muttered as she decamouflaged herself.
"They're all there..but...", M'gann muttered, making Kara irritable. She just wanted to get this over with and go back.
"But what? Spit it out!", the hot headed blonde remarked hotly.
"Well, they're behaving strangely. They're...not hostages. From what I could tell, they all were working with the perpetrators. None of them seemed to be in distress. I even saw Damian giving orders on staying alert for the justice league to some of the henchmen in there. ", M'gann muttered apprehensively.
"So you're telling me they've all decided to go rogue now for some reason? ", Kara spat incredulously, a little confused.
"Not all of them..I saw Raven. She was sitting in her containment unit in some meditation pose with some forcefield around her, keeping the men unable to get to her. She doesn't seem to be displaying any odd behavior yet.", M'gann replied .
Kara's brows furrowed for a moment as she tried to wrap her head around what was happening. Then, it hit her like a wrecking ball and she came to an epiphany.
"Son of a...I think they've got some sort of mind control device. They're all being controlled! They gotta be! Our rescue mission just got a whole lot harder. ", Kara cursed under her breath.
"I could try to contact Uncle J'onn and get the league here to help us!", M'gann piped up enthusiastically.
"No. Even with Superman or the flash's speed it would set off the speed alarm on that ship and then we don't know what those guys would do to the others. That's the one reason I've not been able to use my speed to get em outta there. I'd set off the alarm myself. ", Kara remarked as the two girls flew silently through the clouds, tracking the ship without it's notice.
"Okay. Well. I'm not very good at it yet but...Martians can extrapolate chemical fibers . Maybe I could do that.", M'gann suggested with a shrug.
"Chemical fib- okay I'm lost here..", Kara scoffed as they flew forward.
"It means that if we could..possibly get one of our friends , I could possibly enter their mind to see how they're being mind controlled in the first place and then we could try and get them back to normal again. ", M'gann explained.
"Well... at least we got something to go on..", Kara replied with a sigh as the two of them flew forward, lowering their height.
/
Kara and M'gann hid from watchful eyes by flying just under the barge's exterior mast, below deck level. Kara , using her X-Ray vision, had been tracking Damian as he walked by, patrolling the area.
The two girls chose to get him first since Black Canary was posted in some heavily guarded part of the ship. Getting her would be suicide.
Kara nodded to M'gann and thegreen martian focused her telepathic energy on Damian and within a mere second, Kara watched as the teenager crumpled to the ground in an unmoving heap. Kara flew up and grabbed up his body before she turned and nodded to M'gann and both girls silently flew through the barge towards the engine room.
Upon entering the room, they found two armed guards, who were staring at the three newcomers with dumbfounded expressions and before they could alert the others, the girl of steel flew forward and grabbed their heads, smashing them together, dropping them unconscious to the floor.
Having done so, Kara propped Damian's motionless body against a nearby wall and turned to M'gann.
"Do your thing. ", Kara whispered as she turned away . M'gann drew back her hood and reached up , placing her fingertips on either side of Damian's forehead and instantly, the green martian's eyes lit up a bright incandescent green as she entered his mind.
Kara proceeded to move towards the exit hatch to use her X-ray vision , keeping a lookout. Her one big fear was the speedster on board . Kara may be as fast as Clark was, but juxtaposed to a speedster, her speed was nothing in comparison.
M'gann let out a tired sigh as her eyes stopped glowing.
"Did you find the problem?", Kara asked impatiently.
"Yeah. I had to enter his mind and go through his memories.. Let's just say there are some things I'd rather not have seen"
"But...I think I know what the problem is. He was injected with some sort of chemical that made his neuro system lose control over his body. ",M'gann remarked.
"Well...At least now I know Damian was only being more of a dick than usual because he was forced to..." Kara grumbled . "So..d'you think you can get him back to normal?"
"If I were my uncle, this'd be easy...but..I can try..", M'gann said a little unsurely.
Kara groaned and rubbed the back of her head.
"Well..at least it's better than nothing. I'll keep a look out.", the blonde teenager replied before walking to the hangar doors , switching to X-ray vision as M'gann set to work, her eyes glowing emerald as she let her palm hover just inches above Damian's chest, concentrating on the molecules of the chemical compound to try and force it out of his bloodstream.
M'gann's brows furrowed and a bead of sweat trickled down her forehead as she focused in on the molecules of the toxin . If she lost her concentration on even one part of it, the whole procedure would have to be rebooted. And it was exhausting. J'onn made this look easy. She hoped she'd be upto his level one day but it didn't look like it'd be anytime soon. Heck, she had even caused the mission's failure and she had done so badly on her first day . She dreaded to think how much worse she could do in the future. Maybe after all this was over, she should just return to the watchtower and work on improving her skills.
Focus M'gann, she chided to herself and continued on.
As Kara kept a lookout, she suddenly heard Damian coughing violently behind her and she whipped around to see M'gann drawing out a stream of blackish liquid from the fifteen year old's mouth. Kara hurried over, tore open a part of the metal flooring and used her heat vision to meld the metal into the jagged test tube.
M'gann carefully inserted the liquid, into the metallic test tube and Kara welded the top of the tube shut before putting it inside her suit.
"That was exhausting..", M'gann wheezed as she brushed her bangs off her face in sweat.
Damian, whose coughing was now reducing, slowly picked himself off the ground, looking slightly weak and pale.
He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand and glanced over at the two girls with him in the sweltering engine room.
"I suppose I should thank you.", Damian simply replied .
"Though I am aware that it was both of who are responsible for getting the rest of us caught in the first place.", he continued with a hiss to his voice.
"Hey! She yelled ...telepathically inside my head! She started it!", Kara defended herself, throwing her arms up.
"That wouldn't have happened if you had talked to me on our way here, letting me know about your invulnerability to knives!", M'gann chimed in and for the first time, she seemed angry.
Kara pointed to the 'S' shield on her chest.
"Ha! I thought this made it clear what my powers were!", the girl of steel retorted.
"Both of you ! Stop acting like whining babies.", Damian cut in, rubbing his temple as if he was fed up with his company.
"You both worked out your differences and made it this far . Stay like that for a bit longer and we should be good.".
"Wow. I never thought I'd agree with shortstack over anything.", Kara mumbled, her eyebrows raised .
"Next time I want a half-breed alien calling me names, I'll let you know, Zor-El.", Damian retorted .
"Anyway. So what did that toxin do to you? How was it mind controlling you?", M'gann inquired,diverting the subject.
"I don't know...It was some really powerful chemical compound. I could see what I was doing, but I had no control over my body and I just did what I was told. We need to get everybody else out fast.", Damian replied as he took out another green robin mask and placed it on his face.
"How many of those you got in there?", Kara asked incredulously.
"I'm always prepared.", Damian replied.
/
"I'm actually surprised that she hasn't noticed I'm no longer patrolling around.", Damian whispered as the three of them sat crouched in a corridor, staking out the deck .
"Who's she ?", Kara inquired, a little confused.
"No one of concern to you, Zor-El" he retorted . " Here's what we need to do."
He turned to M'gann.
"I've noticed you can turn invisible. Fly around and find out where the others are and report back here. You have two minutes. Then we can come up with a viable solution to his debacle. "
"Already done it.", Kara replied proudly as the two girls filled the boy wonder in on the whereabouts of the other titans.
"Okay.", Damian replied, his brows furrowed as he came with a plan.
"I need my utility belt and I think I know where it's being held. ", he simply stated before glancing over to M'gann.
"You can camouflage yourself. So I need you to get into Raven's containment unit and break her out. We're gonna need her because she's the only one of us who can catch Kid flash. ", Damian replied as M'gann cocked an eyebrow.
"Hey! I'm fast enough!", Kara defended herself but Damian ignored her.
"You're the most invulnerable to their attacks out of the three of us. You need to head out and draw out all their attacks so that the two of us can carry out our tasks . Do I make myself clear?", Damian ordered Kara, who stood up , crossing her arms across her chest with an incredulous expression.
"What makes you think you can give me orders?", Kara demanded.
"The situation. ", Damian simply replied before slipping away.
/
A blankfaced Dick Grayson, unable to control his own body, patrolled through the main deck as the salty sea winds blew the hair off his face. A battalion of armed troopers marched by.
The inky black sky and the crashing waves below lay ahead of the ship as it sailed northward. The sea spray was well endowed, casting a cool breeze over the deck.
Then, out of nowhere,the speed trap on the barge was broken and the alarm rang aloud, echoing through the area. As everyone looked around for the source, a speeding blur of blue and red sped past them and seconds later, the figure of a blonde girl wearing a modified version of the superman costume was hovering stationary at the ship's bow, with her arm's crossed across her chest, her cape fluttering behind her, mimicking the motions of her hair.
Immediately, the armed henchmen aimed and opened fire, raining down bullets on the blonde teenager, who was less than perturbed, simply grinning down at them as the bullets bounced off her chest.
Dick stepped up to the flank and shot an electrocuting tazer at her.
The electricity crackled along Kara's torso for a few seconds before she plucked it off with a smirk.
"You guys really don't grasp the concept of the shield on my chest do you?", the blonde teenager huffed before slamming her fist into her palm, cracking her knuckles.
"Now. My turn.".
In a flash, the blonde kryptonian teenager sped forwards, landing punches on the many armed men clamored around her; landing a blow on one man before speeding , a blur of blue and red, to her next target, landing solid punches on repeated this motion again and again as the men try to get a hand on her unsuccessfully.
Kara saw fourteen of the armed men bolting in her direction, raining down gunfire. She stepped forth and extended her arms straight out in front of her and clapped , sending the men tumbling back due to the force .
/
Damian crept up around a corridor bend and peeped over. Seeing five armed guards posted outside the area he knew where his equipment was being kept, he withdrew back. He had to improvise.
As the men stood stoic outside the metallic door that guarded the equipment and the biological weapon, a loud clanging noise echoed from around the corridor corner. When nothing else happened, two of the men nodded and slowly crept forth, guns armed and ready .
As soon as they vanished from view, rounding the curve, the noises of the men exclaiming in Ukranian dialect rung out through the metallic walled corridor and the men released gunfire before one of the men screamed in terror.
Then. No sound came.
"Ти в порядку!? WHOEVER YEU ARE, STAY RIGHT THER! OR VE VILL SHOOT!", one of the remaining men guarding the hall yelled out in a heavily accented attempt at speaking English.
No answer came.
Then, a smoke grenade rolled out from around the corner and engulfed the corridor in green opaque smoke. Then men, terrified , began randomly shooting into the mist surrounding them.
Then, as the two men watched, two arms shot out of the green smoke from behind them, wrapping themselves around the neck of their comrade before vanishing back into the mist with him. The sound of his head being smashed into the cold floor echoed through the air as they called out for him.
Then, out of the smoke, two bullets were shot, grazing the skin of the men around their calf-muscle, forcing them onto the floor in pain.
As they groaned and clutched at their leg , they saw the figure of Robin emerge out of the green smoke before swinging his foot around and landing solid kicks across their jaws, rendering them unconscious instantly.
"Insufferable. I expected more of a fight.", Damian muttered coarsely before stalking off over them to the room.
/
"Dammit. ", Rose muttered as she watched Kara beat up the officers without even breaking a sweat.
They had begun shooting low grade missiles at her to slow her down but that only resulted in the blonde girl with the red cape flying a few feet above deck level and shooting out a constant stream of crimson light at the artillery, blowing them up in flames.
"(Maam. One of the rogues have entered the containment unit. He is in the same lockdown facility as the biological weapon.)", one of the guards informed Rose ,speaking to her in Ukranian.
Rose cursed and backpedaled towards the containment room, away from the obvious distraction the supergirl was putting up. How could she have been so foolish to not see it before? The Kryptonian's sudden attack on her men had no real purpose.
"Get the speedster to handle the situation at deck level. ", Rose ordered to one of the men as she bolted up the stairs.
Simultaneously, on the deck, as Kara tried to land another blow, something red and incredibly fast shot past her , knocking her down . As Kara panted and looked around for the attacker, she spotted the red blur again and before she could step aside even at her fastest speed, the blur came in close and landed a punch on her cheek, sending her tumbling back to the floor as she recuperated.
/
Damian was buckling his utility belt onto his waist as the groaning Cisco Ramon lay on the floor, legs strapped by two ropes from Damian's equipment.
As he turned around, he saw what appeared to be some silvery metallic cube hovering in a safety catch along the security panel of the room. It was merely the size of Damian's fist, if one were to juxtapose them. Then his eyes widened as he realized what the thing would be.
The Biological weapon. Whatever it was.
As he slowly edged forward, a metallic claw shot out of the glass paneling behind him and dug straight into his shoulderblade, forcing him to yell out in agonizing pain. The next thing he knew, the cord attached to the metal claw reeled in and he was being pulled backwards off his feet.
Damian flew straight through the glass and out of the room.
He caught a glimpse of an orangish armored uniform that he recognized before he was swung over the safety railing of the corridor, dangling painfully by the metal claw and rope inserted into his struggled as he caught a hold of the coil in his shoulder and pulled himself up slightly to try and reduce the pain of the metal tearing into his flesh.
Through his pain, Damian looked up to see the figure of the female assassin wearing the mask similar to Slade's.
Too weak to haul himself up to fight her from the whole experience of the day, Damian slipped out an electrocuting disk from his belt and slammed it onto the exposed part of the woman's hand, electrocuting her instantly and in that moment, he grabbed a hold of her and yanked her over the railing, sending both of them crashing down to the main deck in a painful heap.
Both of them rolled around, groaning in pain as the armed men around them were engaged in battle with the supergirl.
/
Kara was having a tough time keeping up with what she could only describe as a blur. She had sped forth at her fastest speed, trying to catch the speedster but while they were racing for one second, the next thing she knew, the blur was running circles around her, landing punches from various angles when she was least expecting it.
Blow after blow landed on the blonde teenager who was swinging her fists around madly in rage, unable to touch the speedster. She roared and let crimson beams burst from her eyes as she followed the speedster's path.
She managed to catch him in the back , sending him flying forward and crashing into nearby guards. She caught a sight of the masked fellow in the yellowish suit with crimson eyes in his mask as she stared at her before he shot towards her, landing a solid punch on her stomach before she could react, sending her crashing straight through a wall behind her due to the concussive force of his speed punch.
Then, the speedster closed in and begun speeding in a tight circular pattern around Kara and as he did so, the girl of steel stood there, confused as to what the speedster was doing. Then,Kara began to feel the air being sucked out from her vicinity. The speedster was creating a sort of vacuum around her, forcing her to choke due to lack of oxygen.
Gradually, the girl of steel was forced to her knees as she gasped for air in the vacuum around her but the crimson blur speeding around her just kept increasing it's speed, creating a red tunnel around Kara as the armed guards watched the episode take place in front of them.
All of a sudden, a blackish stream of energy shot out from a landing above deck level and hit the crimson blur head on, throwing it off balance. Kara struggled to her feet as she gasped in air . She saw the body of Kid flash lying motionless on the metal flooring a few feet away from her, his brownish hair sprawled over his face, hit by one of Raven's energy blasts.
From the looks of it, Raven appeared exhausted as she gripped the railing to support herself. Echoing streams of high pitched vocals erupted from somewhere behind the horde of armed guards and Kara caught sight of Black canary blasting the guards with her canary cries.
So M'gann had done her job. She had gotten Raven and Black Canary out . But where was the green skinned martian?
Seconds later, a familiar voice echoed out through the air from the skies and as everyone turned around, the saw the figure of Wonder woman flying in towards them, her jet black hair billowing in the wind and a determined look on her face.
"Stand down. I do not wish to call upon unnecessary bloodshed. The Justice league will be arriving shortly for your apprehension.", the amazon woman bellowed commandingly over the shipment as she hovered mid air, drawing out her sword.
"Stand down, titans. We have the situation under control." she added to the teenagers .
Kara cursed under her breath. The league couldn't even trust the titans to handle this mission on their own? Black Canary had probably called them in.
A slightly weakened Ravager stood up from her spot and gazed up at the figure of the amazonian who stared right back at them.
There was no way they could fight off a Kryptonian girl and an amazon at the same time.
"Vibe get us out of here.", Rose murmured into her comms unit and seconds later,a bluish portal opened next to Ravager whereupon the figure of the boy Damian had beaten previously reemerged with his hand wrapped around the silvery cubical containment unit .
He then thrust his hand out in front of him whereupon a beam of circular blue energy erupted out of his hand and a second portal opened up in front of them and moments later, before anyone knew what was happening, both Vibe and Ravager had disappeared from the area, escaping through the portal.
Simultaneously, Kara noticed the all the armed men around them were staggering slightly on the spot, as if disoriented . Most of them were glancing around with a confused expression on their face while some clutched their head as if recovering from a massive headache.
"It's like...fog lifting..", Kara head some of the men mutter . Most of the men seemed surprised to see the titans nearby and Wonder woman hovering mid air.
So the men were all under the mind controlling toxin just like all the hostages were.
Kara wasted no time storming towards the blonde figure of Black Canary who was helping Damian stand up.
"What the hell!?", Kara scoffed scornfully, waving her arms around in anger to emphasize her point to the justice leaguer, who was taken aback.
"What?", Dinah retorted, not taking lightly to the girl's hot headed shouting.
"Why'd you call the Justice league in for? We had this under control!", Kara spat furiously.
"I didn't call anyone in. I was just as much under the mind control toxin as the others.", Dinah replied with her eyebrows cocked .
"What?", Kara scoffed, a little confused as she whipped around to see the figure of Wonder woman flying in towards them.
As they watched, the figure of the amazon princess began to change, morph as her skin began to turn emerald green and her hair turned a flaming red. Her suit also changed from a unitard to a full body figure hugging suit and as she finally landed next to them, M'gann had a slightly apologetic smile on her face.
"I didn't have a way to let you guys in on my plan since the radio frequency's been jammed. And you didn't want me inside your head.",M'gann said as she moved her bangs out of her eyes.
Kara had a shocked look on her face, unable to think of what to say.
"I'm impressed. Good job, Kid .J'onn's taught you well.", Dinah said with a warm smile as she slung Damian's arm over her neck to prop him up and reduce the bleeding on his shoulder.
Kara was still gazing at M'gann with a shocked expression on her face.
"So. Team Two. Black Canary informed us of the biological weapon getting away. Most of the men on board that ship were Naval officers, put under the influence of the mind control drug. The league will get to the bottom of who the supplier of the drug is.", Batman remarked through the telescreen as both teams of titans gave in their mission reports.
Apparently, Kori's team had no cockup and had carried out the mission undetected, unlike the team Kara was on, who had caused a bit of a scuffle. But in her defense, they had a new teammate they had to get used to and it wasn't easy.
"But you did discover a deadly toxin that is weaponizable against the league. And you took out the entire barge and you recovered the hostages . Good job. You may take your leave.", Batman remarked.
"Not you two.", Bruce added as the titans turned to leave, indicating Kara and M'gann who exchanged glances with each other.
As the other titans vacated the room, with Damian bandaged up, Bruce turned his attention to the two girls in the room.
"Black Canary informed us of the lack of cohesion between the two of you as a unit. You both were the root cause of the hindrance in the mission and almost cost you your own lives. You will both receive a written evaluation detailing your many mistakes ... Until then, good job.", Bruce finished , leaving M'gann and Kara a little confused.
"No unit survives contact with enemy lines on the first attempt. How you adjust to the unforseen is what determines your success. You both managed to move aside your differences and work together as a unit to free your teammates from the mind control toxin. For now, you both did a good job.", Bruce replied as Kara and M'gann exchanged glances .
"Carry on.", Bruce replied before the screen went black.
Both girls were still a little surprised at the way Batman reprimanded them . Or was it even that?
"Uh..guess we should be going.", Kara muttered a little awkwardly, rubbing the back of her neck .
"Yeah.", M'gann nodded and walked with Kara towards the door.
"Hey..um..You did good..", Kara muttered a little sheepishly with her hands dug into her sweatshirt pocket as they walked through the corridor to the common room.
M'gann blinked a couple of times , staring at Kara before smiling sweetly at her.
"Thanks. I still have a lot to learn though. And I'm sorry about ...the getting inside your head..thing.", M'gann added with an apologetic smile.
"Yeah. It's okay. You didn't know about my issues with that kinda stuff. So.. Have you ever tried Bolivian food?", Kara asked with a smile .
"We lost the hostages and the justice league knows about the A-one thirteen toxin now. It would be prudent to use it again . ", Rose remarked with a stoic expression as she gave in the mission report to her superior.
She stood in the presence of her superior, who had his back turned to her , with his hood drawn up and his silhouette outlined against the reddish mist wafting through the air.
The giant underground hall in which she stood was mostly empty and vast, with blow torches lining up the walls , casting an orangish light over the hall . There was no civil appearance about the hall and there was no sign of any form of technology anywhere to be seen. Most of the walls were made of red sandstone and the flooring was slightly uneven to the touch. There was one giant rectangular stone table set in the middle of the hall and there were no chairs anywhere for anyone to sit on. It rather looked like a sacrificial table, if anything.
Rose stood at the base of a rising platform,knelt on her knee at the base of three sets of stairs carved out of the platform on which the superior stood.
"No matter. The biological weapon has been acquired and is what is desired by our benefactor. An overall successful mission. ", the superior , with his figure silhouetted among a reddish light emanating from a source beneath him replied.
Rose swallowed.
"Something troubles you, Ravager?", the cold drawling voice echoed through the hall.
"Yes. ", Rose muttered through clenched teeth.
"I...came in contact with the teen titans. The Robin, he..bore some sort of grudge with me, but I don't recognize him. He recognizes my mask..who is he?",Rose asked, lifting her eyes up slightly.
A smile crept on the Superior's face, unseen by Rose.
"Yes. A worthy opponent for you skills, Ravager. But that is not all. He, along with the rest of his little group are accomplices in your father's demise, so it is only natural for him to recognize the mask you wear.", the superior breathed and he heard a sharp intake of air from Ravager behind him.
Her father, Slade Wilson had disappeared two years prior and she hadn't had contact with him since. Many believed him to be dead and after all this time, she had been beginning to believe it too. Now that she had confirmation from her master that her father was indeed dead an unfamiliar feeling flooded through her. She rolled her palms into fists and stood up, turning to leave.
"Thank you,Master.".
So that's the beginning of the new story arc folks! And in this arc, I will be focusing on Kara mostly, but I will have more chapters more centric on the other titans as well. And I'm going to try and make this fic an amalgam of both the teen titans and young justice tv show genres.
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Until next time!