Eleventh Chapter
I know that I originally said that I would wait to upload this chapter, but I just couldn't wait. So here you have chapter Elleven of my story: Reunion X3
I do not own Young Justice or any of it's characters. That right goes to DC Comics and WB. I own only this story, the Danian race, Caroline, Jaqueline and Carmen Ericson
"Don't Belle Reve what?" He asked and shook Jackie. She made a small grunt but didn't say anything else. He looked at her and waited for her response, but she didn't say more. Her face looked content and she was breathing normally. He looked at the door and got up.
"I have to find a way to get out of here" he said and looked around. He looked at the window and walked towards it. He could hear someone rustle in the bed and looked at Jackie who was waking up. She looked a little around and then looked at him. Her eyes widened for a second then she smiled and got out of the bed.
"You're okay!" she yelled and hugged him. He looked down at her in confusion and she looked up. She saw the confusion in his face and stepped back.
"Hello Megan!" she said and smacked herself in the forehead "you don't know the plan!" Robin looked even more confused.
She walked down stairs and out the front door. She breathed in the fresh air and exhaled loudly. She giggled and swung her hammer on her shoulder.
"I have my little sister in my possession. Mother will surely come to rescue her, then I'll have mother" she smiled and walked further away from her head quarters. She hummed a little as she walked and thought everything that had happened in the last month through. She had been taken away from Dania by a psychic named Psimon, tortured back to insanity by the Joker, found a toy and made him experience the same pain she did, got her Robin in her possession. She stopped up and looked into the ground.
"Why do I still feel empty then?" she asked. She looked around. She swore she had just heard something. She closed her eyes and tried to hear it again. She couldn't and brushed it away as her imagination.
"I am insane after all… a few imaginary sounds is to be expected" she kept on walking and looked around, in case she hadn't heard wrong. She used her mind to try and locate minds if there should be any. She got tired of having the hammer on her shoulder, and let it fall on the ground. It made a loud thump and she was sure she could hear someone gasp nearby. Her head whipped towards the sound and her pupils went small. She could feel the grin widening on her face and walked towards the sound.
"Come out, come out wherever you are!" she said and swung the mallet up in the air, slamming it down into a bush. She didn't feel anything under it but didn't turn away from the spot. She walked closer to the bush and took away some branches. There wasn't anybody there but she could see small traces of hands and that someone had hurried away from there. She smiled and looked in the direction the hurrying footsteps would have walked and walked that way. She was humming while walking and she smiled while doing it. She could hear scared steps ahead and walked faster. She knew it could be a trap, but she didn't care anymore. If she got killed, Robin would hate himself for not being able to save her from both death and insanity. And if he was freed from the house and found her being attacked by someone else, he would try to help her. She could feel a sting in her heart and brought out her ring. She could feel it vibrate again and read out the words.
"Coldness can freeze us to the bones" she kept on walking and put the necklace back and looked forward again. Suddenly she could hear multiple minds coming from multiple directions. She stopped up and stood completely still. The minds were screaming and yelling at her. She could recognize all the voices and looked around.
"Come out! I know you're out there! Robin's little scout troop!" she yelled loudly. But no one answered and the voices became stronger. She couldn't make out what they were saying. But she could pick multiple sentences and words. She screamed loudly and fell to her knees. Tears streamed down her cheeks and she got up again, swinging her hammer around trying to shut the voices up. She screamed again and again, her screams echoing through the entire forest. Every scream she made only made the voices in her head louder.
"Miss Martian?" he asked and she nodded.
"We've infiltrated Carmen's organization again, this time with a little more success" she said and changed herself into her Martian form.
"How? Why? You're in danger!" he yelled and she laughed slightly.
"Calm down Robin. Carmen doesn't know it's me" She smiled at him.
"But how?" he asked. He was still angry with her.
"Zatanna made a spell so Carmen would think that Zatanna was one of her goons. Then we brought her to Dania, I was with her. That trip was to make sure that Zatanna could describe the environment if she was asked about it. I went so I knew how Jackie looked as a Danian. She also told me about something she'd seen in a dream not long ago. If Carmen were to read my mind, I would just think of that"
"But why? Carmen can't hurt me! I would never let her! And what about the others?" he asked and walked closer to her.
"They're in the bio-ship. They're waiting for us a little away from the window" she smiled and pointed at the window "we've planned this carefully. So don't worry about anything, okay?"
"Well if you…" he stopped talking when he heard an ear piercing scream going the entire forest, cracking the window. He looked at the window and widened his eyes.
"Carmen!" he yelled and looked back at Miss Martian "We have to help her!"
"Robin no! We have to get away from here!" She yelled but he passed by her, punching on the door.
"We have to help!" he yelled and suddenly the door opened, Zatanna standing in it.
"Robin!" she sounded happy but he ran past her and tried to figure out how to get outside. He heard the scream again and went down the hall. He could hear Zatanna and Miss Martian yelling behind him, but he didn't care. He passed multiple guards, who seemed like they were waking up from some kind of day dream. Every person he passed held their heads and some had passed out.
"I'm too close" he said to himself and found the main door. He ran outside and looked around. The screams were louder outside and he tried to locate them.
"Robin!" he could hear Kid Flash yell beside him and he looked into the eyes of his friend "Rob what the hell are you doing?" he asked and Robin started running again.
"I'm saving Carmen! I don't care what you guys think about her! She's my friend and I will save her!" he yelled and Kid Flash ran after him.
"Dude, No! We haven't got the time for that!" suddenly he heard the scream too and they both stopped up. The scream had sounded so loud and they looked to their side. Robin ran in the direction of the scream, pushing away branches and fell multiple times.
"Rob wait up!" Kid Flash yelled and ran after him. He didn't fall as many times as Robin, since he knew where to be careful. When they both reached the place Carmen were, they both stopped up and Robin gulped loudly. She was swinging her hammer and screaming, like she was fighting of some sort of enemy. But they couldn't see anything.
"Dude, what's up with her?" Kid Flash whispered and he looked at her. He gulped when he noticed that she had stopped swinging her hammer around she was facing away from them and they looked at each other. She stood completely still and they could only hear her breathing. Suddenly she whipped around and looked at them. Her eyes looked red from anger and Robin made a clear sign for Kid Flash to get out of the way. Robin swung himself up into a tree and looked down after Kid Flash, who had raced to the back of Carmen.
"Leave me alone!" she yelled and swung her hammer around. She hit Kid Flash on his arm and Robin could hear a loud cracking sound. Kid Flash held his arm while Carmen kept on swinging her hammer while screaming. Kid Flash backed away from her and looked at her with pure fear in his eyes. Robin tried to see what she might be doing, but only one thing came to mind.
#she's fighting hallucinations# he thought and felt something he couldn't describe completely. It felt like he was being sucked into a black hole, the only thing holding him in place, being the thought of a sane Carmen. He just stared at her and felt his heart sink deeper and deeper into despair.
"Shut up! Shut up!" she yelled and threw the hammer away. It hit a tree with such a force that the tree broke in two. Robin snapped out of his trance and looked around, trying to figure out how to help her.
"Robin!" He heard someone yell below him and saw Zatanna and the rest of the team standing there. He jumped down and they all looked at Carmen behind him. He looked himself and sank a lump.
"We have to help her" he said and looked at the others.
"But how?" Superboy asked "and where's Kid Flash?" he looked at Robin.
"He's behind Carmen, and I think his arm's broken"
"His arm's broken? How'd that happen?" Artemis asked.
"Carmen swung her hammer at him" Robin looked behind him to see that Carmen had stopped up again. He could hear some low mumbling and looked at Superboy.
"What's she saying?"
"Why would that be of any importance?!" Artemis yelled "She's insane Robin! She's probably mumbling some weird stuff that has nothing to do with anything!" She prepped her bow and aimed at Carmen "so how 'bout I just make sure she won't be able to move and then we get the hell out of here!" she yelled and pulled the arrows back.
"Artemis don't" Robin said and she looked at him. His voice had been so sad and full of pleading, that she just couldn't do anything but do as he said.
"I swear guys, she's still in there, the real Carmen" he said and looked back at her. She was still, but had fallen to her knees. He could still hear the quiet mumbling and looked at Superboy.
"So? Can you make anything out of her mumbling?" he asked and Superboy looked at him.
"She's just repeating the same two things over and over again" he said.
"So what are those things?" Robin asked and he could feel his ring vibrate.
"Something along the lines of 'what does it mean?' and 'coldness can freeze us'. That's all I can make out of it" he looked back at Carmen. She was holding her head and looked like she was screaming in silence.
"Wait… I'm picking up something" M'Gann said and held her head "It's strong" she said and looked at Carmen. Her face turned painful and she went down on her knees slowly.
"M'Gann, what's wrong?" Superboy asked and she tried to talk, but had a great deal of trouble with it.
"It… hurts… She's… hurting… can't… describe…" she said and looked into the ground, making a loud pained sound. Robin looked from M'Gann to Carmen and walked towards Carmen. He could hear Artemis yelling at him, but it was faint. He looked behind himself to see that was yelling her lungs out, but she didn't move at all. He reached Carmen and looked down at her and sat down in front of her. He stared at her for a little while. She still looked like she was in pain, but she did scream anymore. She was still holding her head and the tears were streaming down her face. He could hear her mumble again, but this time he was able to make out the words himself.
"Coldness can freeze us to the bone" she mumbled and he reached out his hand. He held her neck and took out her ring. He read the words in his head and she stopped mumbling. He took out his own ring and brought their foreheads together, reading the words out loud.
"In the days we feel most alone" he said and she opened her mouth.
"Coldness can freeze us to the bone" Robin felt his body growing weak when she had said the words, and closed his eyes.
"Rob what the hell are you doing!?" Kid Flash yelled at his friend. But he didn't respond at all. He tried to get up the best he could without his right arm. He fell down on his stomach and tried again. He got up this time and walked towards his friend, only to find that he couldn't get close to him.
"Is there some kind of barrier around him or…?" he looked around and reached out his hand.
"Kid!" He could hear Artemis yell. He looked behind the two on the ground and now noticed that the others were there too. He walked over to them, going in half a circle around the weird force field. He looked at Artemis and smiled.
"Hey Babe, is something wrong?" he asked and she slapped him. He groaned and looked back at her.
"You Idiot!" she yelled at him and then he hugged him, making sure not to crush his arm "I was worried sick about you!" she said loudly, on the edge of yelling.
"Sorry… didn't mean to worry you like that" he said and hugged her back with his healthy arm "but what's up with Robin?" he asked and looked at Robin, who seemed like he had entered some sort of trance like state.
"I can't tell… he's still there but…" M'Gann said and looked at them "I can't read his mind at all. I can't pick up anything at all"
"Did that girl do something to him?" Zatanna asked and looked at them "if she did" she clenched her fists in an unspoken threat.
"Don't you dare hurt her in that state!" they heard someone yell and Caroline walked out of the trees "this state might very well be the last chance we have of pulling my daughter out of insanity!" she walked past them and stopped up. she reached out her hand.
"There's some kind of force field up, isn't there?" Kid Flash asked and looked at her.
"No, but she decides who enters a certain space around her right now. If she doesn't want you to enter, then you won't enter. It's as simple as that" she said and turned around "we should see to that arm of yours" she walked back to him and pulled out some bandages.
Robin looked around and found that he was in some sort of black space. He was barely able to make out anything. He reached out his hand and started to walk a little around, trying to make out his surroundings. He suddenly bumped into what felt like a stone wall and squinted his eyes.
"a cave" he said and looked around. He could hear small drops falling down around him, and someone besides him walking. He walked towards the sound of the steps with his hand on the wall. The darkness continued and he was getting scared of what might attack him while he was in there. He could the steps getting closer and sped up slowly. Suddenly he could hear someone singing softly. The voice was scared, but sounded like it was trying to sound confident. He recognized the voice and walked even faster. He came to what felt like a room. The voice had disappeared, but he could hear someone breathing.
"Carmen?" he asked into the air and he could hear the breathing hitch slightly. Then there was the sound of small steps again. His eyes were getting used to the light and he could faintly make out the silhouette of a girl. She stepped closer to him and reached out a shaking hand.
Cliffhanger X3
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