The Lives We Changed
Chapter 11
Disclaimer: I don't own and I hate typing this so much.
Yeah! Yumi is back! I would have updated sooner this week but I was making up tests that I missed. I typed an extremely long chapter and I hope this makes up for all the time that I missed on updating. EXTREMELY HIGH IMPORTANT NOTE AT THE BOTTOM!
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|Bloomington, Minnesota 2:24 PM
|The Mall of America
Panic and chaos was everywhere in the mall as gun fire and the shells rained down. The Team had taken shelter behind a large wall with Connor and Kaldur blocking the bullets from the more vulnerable young teen heroes.
They all still had some part of their uniforms on along with a few weapons. To everyone else they looked like some weird ass kids.
Artemis and Kid Flash had their cowls pulled down so they looked like they were wearing hoodies with some hero emblems on them. KF had his goggles around his neck so he looked like a steam punk. Artemis' pants were fine, though to some other people she was showing off her flat and nicely sculpted stomach. KF on the other hand got some weird looks from his skin tight bright yellow and red pants.
Connor and M'gann were probably the most normal out of them. Connor just looked like a Superman fan with his t-shirt, and Megan was her Caucasian disguise she so often did at school or when they are just out for a night of fun.
Kaldur got the most stares. Luckily someone from the JL gave him a jacket with a turtle neck so his gills weren't showing, but people looked oddly at him because of his blond hair and dark skin with tattoos on them.
And Robin took his cape off and left it at the Watchtower, leaving his red tunic top and red striped black pants. Somewhere in his utility belt he pulled his famous mirrored, led lined, Kryptonite dusted, dark glasses. Even though everyone knew who he was, Robin still felt a bit self-conscious without his shades and with the scar near his eye, people just locked their eyes to his mysterious dark blue ones.
"Hands up where we can see them!" Shouted the only guy who wasn't wearing a ski mask, he had more of formal attire that the others dressed in sweats and ski masks. The henchmen all held some semi-automatic gun while he was the only one again with something different. He just had a plain hand gun, so he's probably the big boss man.
*What do we do?* M'gann asked franticly. Thankfully the Team hid behind one of the large pillars where the henchmen and no one else can see them.
*We're still heroes M'gann. We may not have been here, but we are still heroes at heart.* Robin said pulling a compacted utility belt out of nowhere.
*Dude, really? Seriously, you brought your utility belt with you?* Wally looked skeptically at him.
*I told you, first thing Batman taught me. Never leave home without It.* Robin said unfolding the small rectangle into his normal belt full of his favorite toys.
Artemis and Roy both pulled small black utility belts out of nowhere. They folded out into bows and just enough arrows to get through a big good fight.
*evil cackle. I've taught them so well." Robin wiped an imaginary tear in his eye. He reached into one of the many pockets of his belt and pulled out 2 domino masks. He put one on and the other he gave to one to Roy. Wally and Artemis pulled up their cowls, and Wally adjusted his goggles. Megan morphed into M'gann with full uniform on, Kaldur took off his jacket and pulled his water bearer out, and Connor kept watch.
*Okay, here's the plan…*
|Mall of America
|2:46 PM
By now, almost all the shoppers at the mall were rounded up on the main floor, in the center of the mall. The henchmen surrounded them, corralling them into a tight circle like cattle.
Police sirens blared out and the SWAT was there but couldn't get in. So many calls for help but no one could help or lives would be taken. There were mentions of bombs strapped to the top of the main support pillars and if anyone was to try to save these people before they got their money, there goes the mall and everyone in it.
Aqualad, Superboy, and Miss Martian were in disguise and in the center of the mob of hostages. Artemis and Red Arrow were on top of the support beams right above them, they had a view from where they are and could see all the police outside and the families of the ones held captive. Robin and Kid Flash, now in stealth, were first at the main power room, then the boiler room, at a few stores to pick up some supplies, had about 15 minutes to spar until they had to be at their places so they go some food, they got up into the air vents, and now Robin was on some of the pillars and Kid Flash was waiting on the top floor for their ques.
|Watchtower
|3:03 PM
All the heroes except the mentors were watching the new of hostages at the Mall of America.
RECOGNIZED: SUPERMAN 01, BATMAN 02, AQUAMAN 06, FLASH 04, GREEN ARROW 08, MARTIAN MANHUNTER 07, RED TORNADO 16, BLACK CANARY 13
"What's going on?" Black Canary asked, usually most of the heroes were at their respected cities.
"There's a hostage situation at the Mall of America. They are asking for 10 billion dollars or everyone in there gets blown to bits and smashed." Green Lantern said, thank god it was Hal and not Guy.
"Isn't that where the kids went shopping?" Flash asked zooming up, all the eyes in the room stood in shock. Even Batman's white eye slits went wide.
"Get a camera in there now" Batman growled.
"Hera, I hope they are safe." Wonder Woman walk up into the screen.
"Don't call them," Superman said. He got crazy looks and even a glare from Flash.
"What? WE HAVE TO SAVE THEM WE-"
"I want to see what they're made of. Let's just see if our dimensional selves trained them right."
"How do you know ifthey are train properly?" Hawkwoman said, gesturing to the wall with a Superboy sized indent from their last training.
"I support Superman. I want to see if their Black Canary trained them right." Black Canary said walking up where Superman is.
"I believe that they can handle this on their own." Batman said. He moved aside and showed the other heroes what was about to happen. M'gann, Connor, and Kaldur were in the crowd, he panned the camera up and zoomed into the two archers in the rafters. Then he switch cameras and on the top floor stood Wally, all tights and glory, underneath Robin who was messing with a really big bomb. The small ebony ripped out a huge chunk of wire and threw it to the ground and Kid Flash ran him up to the next bomb.
|The Mall of America
|3:07
*Is everyone in their positions?* Aqualad asked his team
*Yeahs* from both archers and the clone.
*Of course* Miss Martian said cheerfully, finally the team was happy that they could do something.
*YES!* Robin and Kid Flash screamed in the mind link, making everyone connected in it visibly flinch.
*Good. Go.* Aqualad said as the Team acted as the plan.
Robin activated a switch to the AC and glitter started blowing out of the air vents, making every unsuspecting person look up and get un-tracted. And hit another button that made all the water overflow.
Aqualad pulled all the water using his water bearers and created a huge glowing water dome over the crowd of citizens as the henchmen began opening fire on the huge dome.
The archers started to take people out who got too close to where Robin and Kid Flash were working.
Miss Martian levitated Superboy over to a wall where she knew the SWAT team was outside. Superboy started to punch through the wall where she said to punch.
One of the news crews was able to get this inside footage of some unknown heroes. Suddenly a little girl, maybe 4 or 5, ran from where she was hiding and a thug pointed a gun at her. The teen with the Superman shirt ran over to her and put his arms around the little girl as the man started shooting. The people trapped in the dome started screaming as they thought the teen was sacrificinghimself to save the girl. But instead the bullets just bounced off him, the man stopped shooting when he noticed it, he started stuttering as he backed away.
A very young boy, young teen at least, jumped out of nowhere onto his back and kicked him to the ground. A few more guys with guns ran over but the boy in black and red threw down a gas pellet like Batman. All you can hear was punches and kicking hitting something and the occasional scream and grunt of being punched.
When the gas cleared all the men were on the ground unconscious with the boy standing in the center of them, not a scratch on him. Suddenly he threw 4 black objects to more men who came their way and knocked their guns out of their hands. One of the objects bounced off the gun after it fell to the ground and embedded it's self in the water dome.
"It's a Batarang. Like the ones Batman uses." The new man said with an open mouth.
The larger indestructible teen walked over to the wall and drew all his power into one more punch, he threw his fist at the wall and it finally came crashing down. The teen that created the water dome extended a part to the wall so the occupants who were inside it could exit safely to where the police men and ambulances are.
"I told you that if anyone tries to be a hero today then everyone here dies!" said the big boss of this robbery. He pulled out a remote with one single big red button and pushed the single red button.
Nothing happened.
He pushed it again.
Nothing happened.
"Damn it Josh! You had one job! One job! To make sure this remote works right! Damn it Josh, it was only one job!"
Now there were more henchmen with guns who took aim at the shied once more and started firing.
"Please keep moving out!" Aqualad said trying to keep his voice calm, but he was growing tired keeping the dome up.
The noise of machine guns firing stopped without a warning. All you can see was a very fast blur of red and yellow taking the guns away. When all the guns were taken the figure stopped and dropped the guns into a pile and then he stood perfectly still with one hand stuffed in the middle of the gun pile. Then the young teen, as it was now perfectly seen, started to shake, started vibrating. And then all those guns started to vibrate just like him. Then he ran away to the other side where the teen with the Superman shirt stood. And the gun pile exploded.
"When did you learn how to do that?" Superboy asked as he cocked his head to the side.
"A few months ago. My molecules are a bit unbalanced since I'm still in puberty. But when I'm done then I can vibrate though walls like Flash. The first few times I did this I got a bloody nose though." Kid Flash said to Superboy as if it was a normal conversation between them.
"We still go some butt to kick!" Robin said jumping down onto the older ebony's back.
Then just as he finished a whole bunch more henchmen came out.
"Maneuver 11" the bird said and Superboy grabbed him by his arm. He shot him as if he was the sling shot and the younger boy was the projectile.
The Boy of Steel, the Boy Wonder, and the Fastest Boy Alive started to fight the remaining henchmen.
|Watchtower
|3:47
"Oh my God! Are we all watching the same show?" Flash asked awestruck.
"Yup…"
"Yeah…"
"Uh huu…"
"Oh holy cow."
"Maybe we did underestimate them." Wonder Woman said. She had no real idea how well these kids could work together, their mentors must be proud.
"Well, their Black Canary did train them well after all." Black Canary said with a smirk.
"Well Clark," Hal said, "we should have given them more credit than this."
"Woo-hoolook at Wally fight! He's an ass-kicker!" Barry yelled cheering on his nephew.
Robin was now paned on the screen, he was jumping, flipping, and just being a BAMF. He ran up behind a robber and jump, twisted, and kicked him square in the jaw, landing in a crouch.
"I will say that they are exceptional fighters. Though Superboy is still very brash when fighting." Batman said.
"He's only a few months old, give him a break Bruce. With more training from a Kryptonian he'll be a better fighter." Canary said, gesturing to Superman.
"I'd love to train the boy, honest. But what happens if we find them a way back home and he wants to stay. That's going to be a really big issue on their side. Their Superman may want him to say here if I'm hearing them right." He said putting his arms up.
"We will have to discuss this later. We are going down to talk to the Team as soon as they have this situation under control." Batman said turning up the volume and switching the video screens to watch them more carefully.
|Mall of America
|4:04
*let's finish this fight up* Artemis said into the mind link as she and Red Arrow jumped down from the rafters. They both landed on top of the dome were Miss Martian was also trying to keep it up.
"LET'S FINISH THIS NOW! NO HOLDING BACK" Red Arrow echoed what the other archer said in the mind link, his voice was so much more angrier than hers when shouting, and more inspirational.
The rest of the citizens had escaped unharmed, but a bit traumatized. Now Aqualad and Miss Martian can join in on the fight.
She quickly rose into the air and send out a wave nocking 5 henchmen into walls and pillars.
Aqualad whipped out his water bearers and with one created a shield, with the other made a mace and charged at the remaining henchmen.
The SWAT and police men slowly moved into the mall, they were greeted by a bunch of unconscious criminal bodies on the floor sprawled out randomly. There was only one henchman left as the officials began slowly approaching him. Then the youngest of the strangely dressed kids jumped out of nowhere once again and ran from behind the man and grabbed his shoulders, threw him into a wall, and stuck two more red and black things that looked like batarangs to him. They guessed that his favorite and signature move. But this time, he rolled onto his back in a fit of laughter, pointing to the last guy he threw into the wall. Then a blur of mustard and ketchup ran up behind him and shouted, "Dude! I called beating the crap out of him!"
"Well too bad! I got 68 points, and with him now I have 69!"
Now both of the strange boys were on the ground rolling with laughter.
"I got 63." The big bulky bullet proof boy said. (Alliteration!)
"54" the red clade archer yelled.
"AND I GOT 64!" the red head yelled out from another fit of laughter. By now all of them were laughing so hard.
"Idiots." The female archer hissed as she walked by and kicked the red head with freckles in the stomach.
"Ouch!" he complained, curling up into a ball.
"Miss M, how many guys did you knock out?" the smallest asked.
"I think I got 59." The green girl replied.
"Arty?" he asked.
"Hey, how come birdie gets to call you arty?" the speedster whined.
"Because he doesn't annoy the hell out of me like you do Baywatch. And I got 61."
"Aqualad, What do you have?" The younger red head asked the dark skinned one.
"I believe I have 32. But I may have miss counted." He replied back to his younger team member.
"That means we KO'd 404 henchmen!"
"WE HAVE FOUND 404!" Robin yelled laughing.
Some of the Team members started laughing; others looked at him in confusion.
The officials who witnessed the entire tid bit of the end looked at the children differently. Some thought that they should be locked up; others believed they disserved a medal. But unfortunately the head boss thought of the young heroes as punks who should be locked up.
"Hands Up!" he shouted as he pointed his gun at them, the others behind him reluctantly followed.
"Whoa, take it easy. We're on your side. We took out the baddies and save the hostages." The red clad archer said walking up in front of them.
"I don't care if you were Queen Victoria! NOW HANDS UP WERE WE CAN SEE THEM AND DROP YOUR WEAPONS."
"Please Commissioner Steel, they are with us." Superman said flying down followed by the entire Justice League. Batman jumped down from Green Lantern's platform that Black Canary, Green Arrow, Flash, and Aquaman were also standing on, and landed right next to where Superman had landed. Wonder Woman flew down to the other side of Superman.
"Sorry if the Team has caused any trouble, and we take full blame for this." Superman said.
Turning around to face the Team, "We underestimated all of you. Your abilities, team work, cooperation, skill sets, everything. We're sorry. Your mentors have trained you all far better than we thought and they should be very proud of each and everyone of you."
MY LAPTOP IS BEING STUPID AND WON'T CONNECT TO THE INTERNET SO I WON'T POST FOR AN UNKNOWN AMOUNT OF TIME. UNTILL I GET MY LAPTOP FIX I WILL BE UPLOADING ON EITHER TITUS' COMPUTER (WHICH IS REALLY OLD AND I KNOW THAT IT'S NOT BAD BUT IT IS TO ME AND ITS AN I CORE 3 WHILE MINE IS AND I CORE 7) OR MY BROTHER'S COMPUTER WHICH IS EVEN WORSE THAN TITUS BECAUSE IT'S OLDER THAN ME AND IS LIKE A TUBE.