Chapter 10: Drop Zone

Hey, Hey, Hey! Thank you so much for the reviews especially for piggythelaw who was the first to review chappie 9! Thank you!

Anyway, maybe I can publish like two chappies per week or once but last week I did not publish because of my first week in college and it was tiring. Still, this is my another version of Drop Zone and this is counted as Dani's first mission with the team. Her costume will be revealed!

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Caribbean Sea

July 22, 2010, 20:08 ECT

The whole room in the bioship is silent. Maybe serious about the mission. I mean, I should be serious because this is the first mission Batman has assigned to us.

I hadn't been serious about the mission because Hal told me everything about Dick Grayson. He thinks it's great that I have a friend but he's not yet sure about Dick because I don't know him yet.

"We're approaching Santa Prisca." Megan announced and I gulped, feeling a bit nervous.

I continue to stay calm and adjust the black domino mask in my face. My silver utility belt is fully loaded with my dagger, ropes and my other equipments.

I glanced at my sideways and checked everyone. It looks like everyone has serious faces except Robin. He seemed to be smirking. Maybe about earlier. We still haven't decided who is our leader, maybe he wants to be one?

"Drop Zone A and 30." Megan announced, making Robin startled. I looked at Aqualad and the seatbelt is automatically removed. He stood up and he presses his U button on his belt, turning his clothes to grey. Camouflaged mode. Awesome.

I'm glad that I had a dark green fitting shirt with white stripes on the arm. "Ready." Aqualad announced.

"Putting bioship into camouflaged mode." The ship turned invisible as we make our way to the island. A hole opens on the floor and Aqualad dived to the sea.

We hovered over and Megan announced, "Drop Zone B." We stood up and the seat dissolved. A rope appeared and they tied it around their belts except for me and Miss M.

Kid presses his lightning sign and his clothes changes into grey. "How cool is this." He said as he looks at Miss M.

"Very impressive." Megan said and her clothes also turned grey.

"Okay, how come everyone here has camouflaged mode and I didn't have any? This costume is dumb." I said but Robin puts his hands on my shoulder.

"You're costume is also nice, Dani. And it is already in camouflaged mode. Still pretty cool." He said and smiled at me. At least he knows what to say. "Even I don't have a camouflaged mode."

"You got a point though." I smile.

"Ughh. That works too." Kid says with his dreamy eyes on Megan. He turns to Superboy. "Hey Supey, not too late to put on the new stealth tech."

"No capes, no tights, no offence." He said and he crossed his arms around his chest.

"It totally works on you." She said in a dreamy voice. Then she changes, realizing that Superboy is looking at her. "In that you can totally do good work in those clothes."

Superboy's expression did not change and Megan puts on her hood and turns invisible. Poor Megan. Superboy is quite cute but he easily turn down girls.

They dropped to the ground and I jump. Then I teleport safely on the ground. Realizing that Superboy loves to land on the ground with a loud thud, I looked up and dodged to make way for Superboy to land on the ground, air from the smoke spread.

"Knew I didn't need a line." He said.

"And yet creating a seismic event may not have helped us much with the covert." Robin says.

We stood up and Megan hovered over. "Aqualad, drop B is go."

We went to Robin and he types something on his holographic computer. "Head for the factory. I'll track your GPS and rendezvous ASAP." Kaldur commanded.

"Roger that." Robin said and we run off. My black knee length boots were covered with mud but I tend to ignore it.

We followed Robin and we all climbed on the rock. I teleport and follow Robin, who is busy with his computer.

I scanned the surroundings and Superboy stopped. "Did you hear that?"

We stopped and looked at me. "Uh no. Wait, is this a super hearing thing?" Kid said.

"You do have great ears." Megan said dreamily.

"Remember he has Superman's DNA? That's why he has great ears." I added.

"Polaris, you look hot." Kid added and his eyes are dreamy. "Your costume suits you well."

I smile. "Thanks. My uncle and brother helped me made it."

Kid turned around. "Ok, Rob. Now what?" Robin disappeared. "Man I hate it when he does that."

"Where did he go?" I asked.

Aqualad interrupts. "Superboy, Kid switch to infrared. See if you're being tracked."

Kid puts on his glasses and turns on. "Got a squad of armed bozos coming." We head over to a place where they cannot see us.

"Two squads. But they'll meet each other before they find us." Superboy added.

Then a couple gun shots were heard. "No super hearing required now." Kid says.

"Swing wide, Steer clear." Aqualad ordered.

"Yeah, as soon as I find Rob." He rushed off and we looked at each other.

I activate my com. "What now?"

"Follow him. Make sure that he doesn't do something stupid." Kaldur said.

"Got it." We rushed off and find Kid in the middle of the two squads. They start shooting him but he quickly avoids it.

Superboy arrives and hits the guy with the mask. They continue to fight and shoot at us. I turn invisible. I teleported to the side and punched two men in the face.

Robin arrives and hits another man in the chin behind my back. "Nice."

He smiled a bit. Then resumes the fighting with two more henchmen. "What's wrong with you guys? Remember covert? Why didn't you follow my lead and vanish into the jungle?"

I pause for a while. "Wait, what?" A man showed up with his gun and I punched his jaw.

"That's what you were doing? Way to fill us in. We're not mind readers, you know." Kid says as he fights a man with a combo which was pretty cool.

Miss M knocked down two men and Kid looked at her with his dreamy eyes again. "Unh! Eer, I'm not anyway."

She hovered down. "You told me that I could read the bad guys mind."

I nod agreeing with Miss M. A man rushed off and Robin prepares his batarang to aim at him. He was caught by Kaldur and electrocuted him.

The man dropped to the ground, unconscious and Kaldur stomped his gun.

We tied those guys around the tree and they are still unconscious.

"Ahh! I recognize those uniforms. They belong to the cult of Kobra." Robin said.

I crossed my arms across my chest and studied these men. One was wearing a mask which I'm pretty sure that he is Bane. But I cannot conclude it right away.

"I am certain Batman would have mentioned it if he knew a dangerous extremist was running Santa Prisca's venom operation." Aqualad said to Robin.

"Agreed." Robin said firmly. "And since there's clearly no love lost between the cultist and those goons, I'm betting Kobra came in and tossed them out." He puts his hands on his chin, making him look like he's processing some information in his head. It is cute by the way.

I try to hid my smile and I looked at those goons. "We get it." Kid interrupted. "Kobra wanted super cultist. Mystery solved. Radio Bats will be home in no time-"

Robin cuts him off. "These cultists' aren't on venom. Kobra's hoarding on stuff. We don''t leave. Not until I know why."

"Until you know why?" Kid backs his question.

"This team needs a leader." Robin says. I can feel the heat tensing up. There gonna have a fight soon.

"And it's you? Dude, you're a 13 year old kid who ducked out on us without a word. Too immature."

"I'm also 13. Just so you know." I chirped in but none of them bother to listen.

"Haha! And you're a mature 15? You blew our cover first chance we got."

They kept on talking and I could hear Miss M and Superboy talking over this whole leader thing. I've always wanted to be a leader of an organization back home but they never let me. Of course, I know I am a bad at leading maybe Hal can sense it.

I shrug my shoulders. "Do you also want to lead, Polaris?" Miss M asked.

"Nope. Last time I did that, I got my whole team in detention. So probably the best way is to avoid leading." I hold up my hand in the air.

Kid and Robin kept on arguing and I rolled my eyes. Then Bane starts laughing, like he knows something.

"Such clever ninos. But you only know half the story. Let me show you the rest- Get you into the factory via my secret entrance." He offers.

"There is a secret entrance. But he's definitely hiding something." She kneels down and her eyes glowed white, indicating that she's reading his mind.

"Ah, Ah, Ah, chica. Bane is not that easy." He says confidently. This guy must have been through mental training because that is hard core. "The brunette isn't also easy."

He smirks at me and I could feel my body stiffens. Robin puts his hand on my shoulder to assure that everything is fine. How did this guy know about me? In Cadmus? Who does he think he is?

"You cannot read her mind. You're not a telepath." Robin said.

Bane just smiles. Megan stops, "He's mentally reciting football scores en espanol. This could take a while."

"It's not complicated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Bane says. This time he's getting into my nerves. He may know me a little but I could kick his butt.

We followed Bane and he leads us to a factory like he said. I still don't trust and I can't stop thinking about kicking his face with my bare hands. I really hate people when they know about me and even if I don't know them. It's creepy.

He pointed and we approached a little and Robin used his binoculars to get a better view of the factory.

"Look at all that product. A buy is going down. But if Kobra's not selling to the usual suspects then—" Robin said.

Aqualad cuts him off. "Then we need to identify the buyer." Right now, I'm thinking that Kaldur could be the best leader. But If everyone is not thinking about the leader thing then I'll just wait for the opportunity.

"Just what I was thinking." Kid says.

Robin snaps. "Yeah! You're the thinker."

"Sarcasm? Dude. A real leader would focus on getting answers." He pointed out.

Bane removes a rock, revealing another secret entrance. Okay, this place is cool and creepy sometimes.

He removes the dust on his fingers. "Answers are this way." He said. It revealed an old mine and I got a bad feeling just like what happen in Happy Harbor. Trusting someone is harder than I thought.

"I don't think we should trust him, Rob." I whispered.

"It's okay. We'll figure this out." He only said and followed Bane. His voice is serious like he wants to be responsible for this.

"So, now el ruchador is our leader." Kid says. Bane went inside and we followed him. Robin hits his arm, probably annoyed about earlier and went inside.

I took out my gloves and touch the walls. Nothing. I sighed and put my gloves back.

We walked few more steps and we arrived on the elevator. Bane presses his hands and we get inside the elevator. He kept on glaring at me which is very creepy. How does this guy know about me?

We arrived on the door and Rob checks to see if it's clear. He nods and we went inside. The next minutes, Rob is gone again.

"Has that little fool already been caught?" Bane says.

I rolled my eyes. "No he just does that."

Kid puts his glasses on. "Stay put. I'll get our intel and be back before the boy wonder." He runs off.

"Wait, Kid!" Kaldur says but he didn't listen.

"Great chain of command." Bane commented.

We looked at each other, not knowing what's next. "So we'll just wait for them?" I asked.

Kaldur puts his hands on his forehead and sighs. "We can take a closer look." We nod and followed Kaldur.

"It's a massive shipment." We watched the kobra henchmen shipping some venom.

"Yeah, but they're only taking new product off the line. They're not touching this venom." Superboy says.

"Maybe freshness counts?" Miss M added.

"Helicopter's coming." Superboy alarmed.

"The buyer is already here." I added.

"Sportsmaster. He is the buyer?" Kaldur says and puts his hand on the earphone. "Aqualad to Red Tornado, do you read? Ugh."

"Static?" He nod. This is so bad news. We can't contact the league nor Robin and Kid. So bad. Sweat starts to form in my temple and I could feel myself shaking. Calm down, Dani. Just let it flow.

I take a deep breath and realize that Bane is attacking the henchmen without our concern. I watched him fight. "Did you allow him to do that?"

"What is he-?" A bigger guy arrives, breaking the glass. I quickly used my telekinesis to stop the shards and throw them at the different direction.

Then the bridge got down and I think a fight is really on. I looked at Kaldur which he nods. I teleport to the other side and turn myself invisible. Maybe I could think. Kaldur knows that I don't fight well, so he lets me cool down my energy to save some.

"Destroy them!" I could hear a guy said to the blockbuster like monster. The monster attacks first and Superboy lunges forward.

The kobra henchmen fires at Aqualad and he shields himself with water. He shoots and shoots. I swish my hand and the men were knocked down.

They kept on attacking us and Megan was there to help. I looked around for bane and he was gone. Such a jerk.

Sportsmaster throws something to Megan and she got knocked down.

I open my utility belt and took out my dagger. I teleport and slashes some men in their clothes. That will just knock them. I teleport to the wall where they are hiding.

They seemed to be talking to someone. "Psst! What are you guys doing?" I asked.

"We forgot that you cannot be link!" Kid yelled.

I rolled my eyes and yelled back. "Just tell me the plan! You guys look weird when you're talking with your heads."

I laugh a bit and Aqualad is still serious. "Follow us!" I nod and he attacks some of them.

I teleport and punches some men in their chin and I throw my dagger to one who got knocked down. Kid clears the path and we bolt to the door.

Superboy closes the door but the monster destroys it. We run, "Superboy the support beams! Polaris block the way!" Kaldur commanded.

Superboy punches the wood and I quickly punched the ground. The ground starts to shake and we continue to run.

The rocks blocked the way and I huffed. Kaldur makes a lighter which glows red.

"How could my first mission as leader went wrong?" Robin says sadly, disappoint in his voice.

"You do have the most experience." Kaldur said. "Perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared. Fighting alongside Batman your roles are defined. You two do not need to talk. But this team is new. A leader must be clear, explicit."

"I just realized something." I speak up and they were staring at me. "Sorry for being rude. But you should lead us, Kaldur." I turn to Robin. "Sorry."

"Please! I can-" Kid says but Robin cuts off.

"Wally come on. Dani's right. You know that he's the one. We all do." Robin says.

"Hello Megan! It's so obvious." Megan says.

"Could have told ya." Superboy said.

"Okay, guys. It seems that we voted Kaldur for leader and it's a win for him! It is okay for you Kaldur?" I said.

Kaldur approaches Robin and puts a hand on his shoulder. "I accept the burden. Until you are ready to lift it from my shoulders. You were born to lead this team. Maybe not now but soon."

Then he shifts his voice to his serious one. "All right. Our first priority is to prevent that shipment from leaving this island."

"Funny. I had the same thought." Rob added.

We run through the tunnels and Robin says. "Sportsmaster, the buyer/supplier. But it still doesn't track. He doesn't have the juice to acquire the blockbuster formula or to get kobra to do his dirty work."

Kid added. "And neither of them have the chops to bond blockbuster with venom. That took some major nerdage."

We stopped and saw the idiot jerk face Bane, standing in front of us. "Halt ninos. I'm feeling explosive." We look up and saw a bunch of explosives above us, ready to explode.

"You betrayed us, why?" Kaldur asked.

"I want my factory back." He started. I could feel Kaldur whispering telekinetically to Kid. He backed away, ready.

"—the justice league would certainly come and to avenge their sidekicks. And when the smoke is cleared, Santa Prisca would be mine again. Blowing the tunnel with you inside should have the same effect."

He holds up the remote but Kid took it. "With what? With this trigger thingy?" Kid holds up the trigger.

He starts to punch but Miss M held him up in the air. "Finally, drop him." Superboy said proudly. And she drops him and Superboy punches him.

We attacked the place before Sportsmaster could leave. Kaldur was fighting the monster while Superboy was fighting Sportsmaster. I quickly arrive behind Sportsmaste's back but he grabs my arm, pain tickling in my body and kicks me.

I stumbled on the ground and quickly teleport. I helped Robin by kicking the girl in her face. "I know you don't want to get your hands dirty." Robin says.

I groan and touched my arm. It still hurts. Robin starts fighting Kobra and he is not winning. "What's wrong boy? You look disconcerted." I turn invisible to hide.

The helicopter flies and I went to Megan and Superboy. She smiles and she hold up the trigger. She presses it and the helicopter exploded.

It went to the factory and it exploded. Robin groaned and I quickly went to his side and land some punches on Kobra. But he avoids it and grabs my weak left arm.

"Ahh!" I yelled and he kept on holding it. "Your teammate's arm won't last for long."

"Polaris!" Robin yelled. "Let her go!"

Realizing that he won't win. He twists my arm, breaking it and I drop to the ground but Robin caught me quickly.

Robin touched my arm. "You're arm is broken. Dani, I'm sorry." That's right, he broke it. I couldn't feel it anymore. What will I do?

Still on Robin's arms, he said. "We picked the right guy to lead. Automatically you will explain this mess to Batman." He laughed.

Mount Justice

July 23, 2010, 01:06 EDT

Hal carries me and he took me to the waters inside the cave. Hope Uncle John's idea works. "You sure this is gonna work?" He asks.

I am wearing my black knee length skirt with white v neck shirt. I was absent for a couple of days because that jerk Kobra broke my arm and this water healing might work.

"Yeah let's just hope that it does." He drops me carefully on the water and water is climbing into my body. I float and let my right arm touch the water.

The water glowed and I could feel my strength rising up. It's working. The team arrives, witnessing the healing on my arm.

The water kept on glowing and my arm is better. I got up and Hal assisted me. My hair and my clothes are wet, "It worked!" I moved my left arm and it is just like before.

"Nice." Robin said and Hal smiled. "Looks like we have a healer."

"Please excuse us, I have to get my sister dressed." Hal said and we left to my room.

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