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"ASTRID!" Anna screamed as she ran to the bird bath, Superboy right behind her. But before she could reach her sister, Astrid's body disintegrated, going up in a cloud of red smoke. Waves of red energy spread out from the Waters like ripples in a pond, healing everyone's physical wounds, whether controlled or not they were healed.
"What happened?" Bella's voice came from a cloud of steam.
"She's dead," tears escaped Quanta's eyes.
"Fall back! We can't fight-" Lydia's order was cut off as she was knocked out the sky by Miss Martian, no way for her brain to be salvaged. Bella quickly changed the other girls states to steam, and got out of there as quickly as possible.
Back at the warehouse in Hawaii, the girls were in shock. Astrid and Lydia were dead. Anna shook her head, it would not do well to grieve right now.
"So, now, they have the Waters, we just need to take it back," Anna stood up.
"Easier said then done," Grace muttered, head in her hands.
"I know, seeing our friends, our sisters, get killed, it's a bit of a shock. Yes, I know it's hard, I lost my sister today too, and now all we have left is each other. But if those villains get their hands on the Waters, what then? Lydia and Astrid wouldn't want us to sit around moping, they'd want us to go out and stop Dagger, Knife and Sword. So, are you coming or am I going alone?" Anna knew she wouldn't have the guts to go by herself, and she hoped at least one of the girls would come with her.
"I'm coming," Bella said firmly.
"Me too," Quanta nodded.
"Me three," Grace agreed. Anna smiled, turning on her heel and walking out of the warehouse. She didn't even have time to scream.
Superboy snapped her neck in less then a second, and Anna fell to the ground, her eyes unseeing.
Oblivious, the other three girls walked out, and moved quickly. Impulse wrapped his arms round Bella, not giving her a chance to change state, knocking her to the ground. A lock of Quanta's hair was singed off by Blue Beetles cannon, and Grace barely managed to phase through Beast Boys attacks. The rest of the team watched the fights, smirking each time the girls came close to death.
Grace, in the middle of a roundhouse kick, didn't notice the claw heading for her neck, and spun right into it at normal density.
Only Quanta and Bella were still standing, and the Team were getting bored. They ganged up on the girls, five to one.
Quanta threw a branch at Miss Martian, and Blue Beetle shot his cannon, straight at her defenceless back.
Bella was alone, but when Impulse brought out a knife, she left to join her friends.
Bella sat up, gasping for air. Looking around her, she saw Lydia, Astrid, Quanta, Grace and Anna all in the same predicament, some slightly better then others.
"What?" Bella asked. Bart ran up to her, and she squirmed, falling off the other side of the table.
"What happened in there?" Nightwing asked.
"We died," Astrid answered, checking her stomach over for any wounds.
"What's going on?" Bella asked, still confused.
"Don't you remember Bella? It was a simulation," Lydia looked at her sister. Bella remembered, it all came rushing back.
"You will be going into a simulation, as all members of the team must," Nightwing said, "it's a train for failure exercise, so most of you will die. Everyone ready?"
"Oh," Bella said.
"More detail on the dying?" Nightwing asked. Astrid recounted all that she knew, up until the point she died. Robin looked horrified at what his simulation self had done. Lydia carried on from there, then Anna, then Grace, Quanta, and Bella finished it off.
"Go rest, you look like you need it," Nightwing ordered. The girls nodded, and split up, heading for their own rooms. Robin grasped Astrids' elbow just before she left the room.
"I'm sorry, you know I would never do that on purpose," Astrid flinched at his touch, but turned around and smiled at him.
"I know," and she walked off.
