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The BioShip gained altitude and cruised over the Earth. I looked at the dials in front of me, all was reading normal. Behind me Cassie tugged at her suit, "Relax WonderGirl," I gave her a smile.
"I'm just so excited this is going to be great," She blurted out. I looked over at M'gann who rolled her eyes. I had a soft spot for Cassie, she was so enthusiastic about everything, but sometime that got her trouble when we were on missions, I only hoped that she would contain herself for this mission.
The computer came on in front of us, Dick was calling to fill us in, "Ok, so investigating the origin of the Alien bomb that destroyed the Krolotean Invasion force is still a high priority. We suspect the bomb many have been smuggled to Earth via a Boom Tube. Watch Tower sensors picked up that there is a Boom Tube activity over Qurac. Alpha Squad your mission is to…."
"Sneak behind enemy lines recon known Boom Tube hotspots and find alien tech matching the bomb, oh, and don't cause and international incident! Right?" Cassie said at ninety miles an hour, and pressed a button on her suit turning it into stealth mode.
"Yeah that just about covers it," Dick grinned.
"And what about Simon?" M'gann asked, her voice laced with hatred. Simon was a physic that was working for Queen Bee, the last time he and M'gann met, M'gann totally mind wiped him leaving him in the hospital.
"We have conformation that Queen Bees telepathic enforcer is still catatonic in a Quraci hospital, after his last encounter with you," Dick told her. "But Bialya's dictator Queen Bee is another story, her ability to control the minds of men is why Alpha is an all female squad for this mission."
I decided to have a little fun and crossed my arms, "Oh really? And would you have felt the need to justify an all male squad for a given mission?" I raised my eye brows.
I could see Dick squirm slightly and he coughed, "Em… eh… I….theres….. theres no right answer eh for that is there…. so….. Nightwing out." The screen went blank.
I leaned back in my chair, "Queen Bee isn't the only woman that can mess with a man's mind." The girls laughed, poor Dick, but he dug is own grave for that one.
M'gann landed the BioShip just outside the location of the Bialian camp, we finally had a lead. We got ourselves to the edge of the camp and stopped, I nodded to M'gann to start up the physic link. I looked over the camp with my binoculars; three hangers were present, some soldiers patrolled the area, armed to the teeth, and there were some tents set up too, nothing too complicated then. "Ok the other Boom Tube hot spot have all been busts, but this much security must be guarding…"
"Some big deal Alien stuff, right?" Cassie cut in.
"Our job is to find out," M'gann told her, "Blade take the south hanger, Bumble Bee take the middle and I'll take the north, Wondergirl hold position." Good call M'gann, I thought.
"What? Why can't I go in?" Cassie looked taken back.
"You're WonderGirl honey not Stealther-Girl," Bumble Bee said to her.
"I can do this!" Cassie protested.
I felt sorry for her, "No ones knocking you're enthusiasm Cass, and in a fire fight there is no one I would rather have at my side, but we are trying to avoid that, and we need a look out," I gave her a faint smile.
"Use the physic link only," M'gann instructed, "The Bialians can hack our radios, anything goes wrong we scatter and meet back at the rendezvous point." Time to move out.
I went over the brow of the hill and saw Bumble Bee turn in to her minuet size and M'gann went invisible, I had to rely on my training, no superpowers for me. I slid down the sand dune and waited until the guards past then I ran to a jeep and waited. I heard a car door opening, I dropped to the ground and looked, my eyes grew wide, this wasn't possible. Getting out of the car was Simon, I couldn't warn them on the physic link now, not when he was here. I would just have to continue with my part of the mission and hopefully we'd be ok. I ran to the side of the hanger and saw a vent, perfect! I shot a cable up and climbed up, shutting it behind me. So I needed to scope out this place, I crawled down until I saw an outlet. I plugged in to my gauntlet computer and took in the read out of the building, I read over the plans, that was strange, there was something underneath us, it was huge, possibly a chamber or some short. I turned off the read out making sure it was stored and I kept crawling, I needed to take the next left and then I would be over the main hanger. But something stopped me in my tracks, a huge crash went off outside, I ran people running and shouting. I cursed, no radios and no physic link, I was flying blind here. Well there is no point just sitting here Alex, I told myself. I went to move but I couldn't, you have got to be kidding me, I was stuck! Stuck in a base that could potentially explode or otherwise at any stage.
I had been stuck for about fifteen minutes when I heard a noise, it was coming from down the vent on the left. I pulled my hand forward and made a fist energising my tasers on the knuckles of my glove. I waited and pulled my arm back, 50,000 volts coursed through. It was getting close, I took a breath, one, two, three.
"Ahhhhh! No!"
I stopped mid punch, "BumlbeBee? What are you doing here?" I hissed.
"Girl! You look like turkey stuffing on Thanksgiving!" She said sniggering.
"Thank you that's so helpful," I glared at her.
"This was your escape route?" She put her hands on her hips.
"No I got stuck and the alarms went off," I told her, getting a little more annoyed. "What happened?"
"No idea, I can't get anyone,' She shrugged.
Oh great, I thought, "Ok, we need to get down to this hanger, its below us." I showed her the plans.
"Ok," Bee went to move. After some contortion on my part, that Dick will never find out about, I managed to get myself free. I crawled after BumbleBee and slid down the vent and dropped to the floor. My good lord, what had we found. My archaeological brain kicked in, but I couldn't fully date it, it wasn't anything I'd ever seen before. The room was in ruins, pillars had collapse, but in the centre was a signal pillar and a odd looking star shape carved into to the ground. But something on the far wall caught my eye, it was a beetle, that was strange. Without saying a word to BumbleBee, I snuck around amongst the rubble. I took out a scanner and scanned the wall, top to bottom, I needed to be quick, god knows what was coming. I looked over to see if any of the guards that were on computers in the far corner had seen me yet, it looked so strange to see computers in here, it was so ancient. The scanned was complete, but something else caught my eye, I crept over and peered down to a runway. "Oh no," I breathed. I jumped off my spying place on to a container, then on to the ground. I wasn't wrong in what I saw. Across the room is stasis pods were teenagers and young adults, all the ones that had been reported missing I remembered their faces. My head felt all heavy, I stumbled, wait, I never stumble, what was going on. I shook my head, come on Alex, get your act together. But the feeling got stronger, a feeling of dread came over me. This wasn't me, it was Simon, he was here, somewhere. "Arrrh!" I screamed, it felt like my head was going to be ripped apart, the pain was too much, my vision went in and out. I dropped to my knees and then my head hit off the floor heavily, and all was black.
I couldn't open my eyes or move my body, I panicked, what was going on. Get grip, I told myself, listen, remember to listen.
"What are you doing?" A voice said, "The rest of these kids are strays they won't be missed. But a Bat-Brat!"
"Batman himself is out of the picture," I knew that voice for sure, it was Simon, "And if anyone else misses her, like Nightwing, Simon says he just doesn't care." I laughed inside my head, oh pal if you think that just because Dad's off planet that you won't get your ass served to you, when Dick finds out there will be hell to pay, if they can find me. "Ok load the cargo, Bat-Brat included on to the plane. Shimmer confirm the fight plan, we need this bird in the air in ten." Simon instructed.
I heard footsteps coming towards me, "You didn't turn the stasis pod on properly," A gruff voice said. I heard buttons being pressed and then nothing.
"OWWW! What the hell!" I shouted, my breathing was ragged.
"I'm sorry girl!" BumbleBee said to me, "But we need to get out of here, and you are the only one qualified to fly this plane., we need to get the abductees to safety. It's ironic seeing as you are the only one on Alpha that can't actually fly."
"Yeah ironic," I said rubbing my chest where she'd shocked me. I sat down in the pilots seat and strapped myself in. I turned the key and switched the blades on to rotation. I heard some banging outside and shouts, but I needed to focus. I powered it forward and set the flaps on the wings. "What happened by the way?" I asked BumbleBee.
"Eh, well Cassie kicked some ass and M'gann did to, to cut a long story short, and now here we are!" She said. I felt the plane jump slightly, we were nearly ready and nearly at the end of the run way which was a cliff edge. I heard a scrapping, it was like a metal on metal sound. The dials in front of me went crazy. "What is going on?" BumbleBee asked me.
"Eh, simple answer. We have no left wing," I shouted fighting the stick trying to regain control, but there was no point. The plane hurled itself against the wall and tore off the right wing. Well this is going to be the shortest flight ever, I thought. The runway came to an end and we dropped, we dropped like a dart. I saw Cassie fly past the window and went to the nose of the plane and tried to push it back, but it was no good. I tried to think, what could we do? What was the weight of this plane, my cable couldn't hold it. But there was a deafening thud on the roof and we levelled out.
"Are you guys ok?" M'gann came through the physic link.
I rubbed my head, "Yeah but being in a stasis pod does nothing for me."
We landed the wrecked plane in the desert, I opened the door of the plane and heaved it outwards. I jumped down to the ground and my knees gave way I landed heavily in the sand. "You ok Blade?" Cassie asked me.
"Yeah I'm fine Cass, just a little tired, I'll be good to go in a minute. You wanna help get the abductees in to the BioShip?" I looked up at her, she nodded and walked back.
After a few minutes I stood and rolled my shudders, gotta get the game face on Alex, I told myself and made my way over to the BioShip. The group of abductees were out of the stasis pods and sitting down in the BioShip.
"Everyone ok?" I asked them. There were a few nods and a few 'Oh my god its Blade'. "We are going to take you back to the Hall of Justice, Black Canary is waiting there for you all, she will take names and addresses and start contacting your parents and guardians." I walked to the front and sat down, "Let's go M'gann."
Once everyone was safe with Canary we headed back to Mount Justice where Dick was waiting for us. I had to stop myself from running over to him and kissing him in front of everyone. "Welcome back, and well done, the mission was a success." He said to us.
"But Simon was there," M'gann crossed her arms.
Dick sighed, "Simon planted mental suggestion in the minds of his nurses and doctors. They've been attending an empty bed for months, I'm sorry."
"It had to happened eventually," M'gann said.
"So no sign of any Alien tech?" Dick asked.
"None, but what we found was strange enough," I thought about telling him about the chamber but I decided to wait.
"It was clear in Shimmer's mind that Queen Bee was acting as a middle man delivering abducted humans to a third party." M'gann said.
I nodded, "We questioned all the victims, most were runaways, all were kidnapped after the destruction of Malina Island."
"So if the Bialians weren't kidnapping humans for the Kroloteans, then who is this partner?" Dick rubbed the back of his head.
"Another unanswered question," Cassie sighed.
Dick gave her a faint smile, "New questions keep the investigation going forward, you saved lives, and you got each other home safely. Its a successful mission in my book. Good work Alpha."
The squad was dismissed, M'gann headed to her room while Cassie and BumbleBee headed to the Zeta Tubes to go home.
"You coming Blade?" Cassie called.
"I'll see you later guys," I waved them off. I wandered over to Dick and leaned my head against his back.
He turned to me, "You ok? I heard about the stasis pod."
I nodded, "Not exactly something I would want to relive, but I'm here now." He grinned and kissed me, my heart flipped, I ran my hand up through his hair.
He broke away from me, "Wanna go back home?" I nodded.
We made it back to the Manor and upstairs, I glanced at the clock on the way up, god it was three in the morning, missions mess up your body clock. Dick opened the door to his room, I looked at the floor, all there was was clothes everywhere, I shook my head, he seriously needed to clean. But he had other ideas. He was there behind me, so close. I turned to look up at him and gave him a smile then took off my mask. I reached up and took his from his face. His blue eyes glistened in the moon light. He pulled me to him and kissed me, my heart fluttered and soared. My hands reached to the front of his suit and found the zipper. I unzipped it and ran my hands on his bare chest, it was like a statue, but so warm. I felt his hands wind their way back to my costume and he expertly unzipped me out of it. Before I had time to get out of it fully he picked me up and my legs wrapped around his waist. I hated people picking me up, ever since I was a child I hated it, but when it was Dick I knew he wasn't going to drop me. I wrapped my legs tight and hung on as he kissed my neck and chest. I arched my back and ran my hand through his thick black hair. I kissed his neck and jaw then whispered in his ear, "Bed." He nodded.
He let me down on to his bed, it was unmade but what did I care at this point. He lay over me, his hair flopping in to his eyes, I laughed and brushed it away slightly. He lowered himself and kissed me again, everywhere, I moaned in pleasure and laughed kissing his neck. I breathed in his smell it was like home to me, any time I was upset or angry just breathing in his smell made everything better and after that mission I needed it. He kissed down my body, I squirmed, it tickled. Then I decided to make some calls. I flicked my leg around his and tugged. He was flat on his back in seconds and I sat over him pinning his arms to his sides with my legs.
"Hey no fair! No martial arts in bed!" Dick protested.
"Hush," I whispered and kissed him lightly on the lips. I kissed down his chest to the base of his torso, teasing him, I felt him squirm and tremble at each kiss. I grinned, so this is why Poison Ivy enjoyed this power so much. The usual chatty and big mouthed Dick Grayson was silent.
"Enough," he grunted and sat up grabbing me. I let out a yelp as he turned me again.
I made a face, "Not fair, you're stronger than me."
Dick grinned as he kissed me, "Thank god, imagine the trouble I'd be in if you were."
I rolled my eyes, "Shut up."
A while later we lay beside each other breathing heavily. Dick's chest was glistening with sweat and his hair was even messier than usual, I smiled but I wondered how awful I looked. I kissed his chest and nestled into his body, his strength and power keeping me safe. I heard his breathing get deeper, he was fast asleep. I smiled, but my mind began to wander, there were so many unanswered questions. I shook my head trying to get the images away, Dad on another planet, his life was depending on the mercy of people he didn't know, and we were left here, with this unknown darkness that was slowly seeping in.