Chapter 10. This chapter might stink, sorry. But if I go on to long it will take FOREVER until I can start my next story. Don't worry, this isn't the last chapter.

Rocket was crying steadily. Maybe it was because she had just watched Harley fire a flame-thrower at Megan for five minutes. Maybe it was because Megan hadn't moved for the last ten minutes and was in her original form.

It could have been for the fact that she had watched Conner get pelted with a shotgun. The bruises were dark and deep. Maybe she had watched as some kryptonite had been placed on Megan, and Conner had raced to help her just as the shotgun fired. Round after round, the sound still echoed in her mind.

She even considered the fact that she had just watched Batgirl get a vine stabbed through her gut. The blood that had exploded had made Rocket vomit. The acidy feel of her stomach still made her feel sick. She had watched her teammates fall, one by one. She hadn't cried out for it to stop, hadn't tried to struggle, she had just sat there. She felt useless.

There was also the chance it was because her own skin had been exposed too some sort of blistering acid from Poison Ivy. She considered that she was crying because her wrists were bleeding. A long red trickle that ran shoulder to wrist, wrapping around her arm.

Rocket knew it was all of these reasons and one more. Kaldur. She had caught eyes with him just before he had been dropped into the tank. That was two stops ago. She felt envious, Conner and Megan had been together throughout this whole ordeal. Rocket had felt Kaldur's gaze go straight to her soul. His silver eyes had reflected something she had been waiting for, love. She, when she had first met him, knew his heart had been broken and didn't expect him to be a possible partner. Rocket's tears increased.

She had fallen for him when his cool, calm voice had easily turned the ideas of saving their mentors into an actual plan. She had dared to kiss him in the watch tower! Every day she had found herself making excuses to be with him. She felt her heart break every time he looked to the sea, every time he had just gone quiet, every time he thought of his mystery girl. She wanted to know why she even tried. She thought he didn't want her around. Those last seconds when they had met eye to eye, she saw how grateful he was to her, how he wished to be with her one more time. Her heart crumbled. She had just watched him fall. Not just him, all of them. Now all she had left was an almost dead Robin, who had just been taken into some other room.

Rocket listened to Robin's fading screams. She was pathetic. She felt her body dragged over to a door. The door was opened and wind whipped her face and hair.

"You yourself are the most pathetic of all the members aren't you." Infinity told her the blunt truth. Rocket sobbed in defeat.

"I bet you wish it was all fake." Rocket nodded. "Good news, it's almost over, for you." A boot pressed against Rockets side and she went flying out of the airship they had been in since they had gotten ride of Batgirl. Laughter echoed through the air, but was quickly ripped away by the wind.

"Kaldur, I'm sorry." Rocket sped towards the sea below her. She had maybe a few seconds to live, but she had to get these words out. "I 'm sorry I couldn't help you. I love you, please forgive my, my inability to do anything helpful." She forced eyes open to see the sea rushing up to her.

I'll at least die with my eyes open, as if that could redeem me. She was twenty feet from the sea… ten… five…

Kaldur awoke with a gasp. His whole body hurt.

"Agg" he gasped. He felt his heart rate speed up. He was panicking, where was he? What had happened? Where was his team!

"Be at peace Kaldur." Kaldur calmed down at the sound of his King.

"Rocket?' He heard himself say.

Why did I say that? I should ask about… No she is more important than… who? Rocket, where are you? Tears burned Kaldur's eyes.

"Kaldur you should know something,"

"My King, if the new is ill, please hold off in telling me for now. I must know how my team is." Kaldur tried to sit up, but found his muscles fail him.

"What I wanted to tell you," King Orrin started as he eased a gasping Kaldur down, "was you must be careful. Your muscles will take at least a week before you can even start physical therapy. You are quite injured."

"But of my team! How are they, how is Rocket?" The last question burst out before Kaldur could stop himself.

"Glad to know you're worried about us." Wally was sitting against the wall, a little paler than usual, but very alive.

"Wally!"

"I'm alive too." Artemis was lying on the next cot over from Kaldur. Kaldur noticed that all the beds but two were occupied.

Conner was sitting up, but obviously in pain. He had some bullet holes on his arms, and huge bruises on his bare chest.

Megan was unconscious, but in her White Martian form.

Batgirl was also unconscious. She had many tubes and two IV bags going into her. He stomach was bare, but covered in bandages.

"Where are Rocket and Robin?" Kaldur dared to ask/

"Kaldur'am, I apologize, we weren't able to save them."

"No!" Kaldur yelled making himself wince and everyone else jump.

"Not like that Kaldur." Wally said quickly. "We just haven't found them yet."

"How long was I unconscious?" Kaldur asked.

"About three hours."

"How did I not… drown?"

"They didn't want you dead. They set of your com early so we would get there just after you blacked out." Artemis explained. Kaldur nodded.

"I hope we are able to save Rocket. And Robin of course." Kaldur felt exhausted.

"Sleep Kaldur'am, you are safe now." Kaldur followed his King's order.

Twenty feet, ten feet five feet, Man in a cape.

What! Rocket blinked as she was caught just before hitting the water.

"I've got you Rocket." Rocket buried her head in his shoulder and cried all the way back to the ship.

"Rocket!" Wally, Artemis, and a now conscious Megan cheered when they saw their friend.

"Kaldur! Is he alive. No I mean ok! Yeah!" Rocket looked wild and horribly tired. Her skin was red and she had cuts on her face and her wrists were bleeding.

"Um, he is sleeping now. Thing is you look like you need medical help. You'll be there when he wakes up." Artemis told her. Rocket jumped out of Icon's arms; almost fell upon impact with the floor, and race off to the small medical room where she could tell Kaldur everything.

'Anyone else notice how they both asked for each other first?" Wally asked. Conner shrugged, preferring to stay quiet. He held Megan tighter.

"Do you think she has news about Robin?" Artemis asked. The teens walked into the medical room. Rocket, who had her back to them, stood up from Kaldur's ear. She looked around and saw her friends. She walked up t them though each step pained her.

"Let's get you fixed up!" Black Canary was about to get Rocket onto a cot when Rocket shoved her away. (her belt had been returned to her.)

"No, first I must apologize. I just sat by while you guys were, were. Anyway, I must also tell you about Robin." Everyone froze. The whole ship was silent. Everyone, who had head towards the med room, listened to hear what she would say.

"I think he is either close to death or already dead." Rocket closed her eyes and prepped herself for the assault of words she expected. She opened her eyes when she didn't hear accusations. Everyone was silent with open mouths. It was almost comical, but no where near funny.

"Can you go into detail?" Batman asked, his voice flat.

"Yeah." Rocket took a breath to continue, but the shock and emotions that had kept pain away wore off. She looked at her hands as the tingling became a full out burning.

"She was in Shock?" Black Canary yelled.

Rocket was about to scream in pain when her body collapse and she mind went into the sweet painless world of darkness.

K. I'll admit, even though it is pathetic, when I was writing the beginning of this, I was tearing a little. Really sad. Anyway, I hope that the chapter wasn't too cnfusing.

Next chapter…. ROBIN!

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