FanaticalFanatic; Maddi may have powers, but she is (quote from the Reach) an ordinary Martian, just like La'gaan is an ordinary Atlantean. This is why the Reach took her; to see if they could find any hidden powers like they did with the humans that were snatched up.
SnowWolf22; I know, I'm trying not to do that, but it's hard because I don't have any of the episodes of Young Justice: Invasion, so I have to use any and all references that I can find. I did, however, manage to find this episode online, so hopefully I won't have copied anything by the end. I also like the fact that Dannie is undercover, because it gave her a reason to be hesitant in blowing up the cave; she didn't want Dick to get hurt. I thought that Alfred knocking some sense into Tim would really help with my plot line, so I'm glad I did that. I really hope that I got his character right... Anyways, the reason that I did the whole thing where they said 'i love you' so soon was because I wanted their first kiss on the lips to take forever. And yes, I do like third person a lot better, at least for this story.
Once again, I do not own anything. All rights go to their respective owners.
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Pacific Ocean
March 30, 18:28 HAST
The only thing that Maddi registered was that she was unconscious.
She knew what had happened last time she was awake; experimentation.
There had been electricity running through her system, causing her pain that was only paralleled by the mental trauma she'd received on Mars, where constant rejection was a normal thing to have happen to her.
Before the experimentation, had been sadness. Sadness for the loss of her home, and for the pain her teammates were now dealing with...
No. They were more than just teammates; they were Maddi's family. Gar might be her brother in blood ever since M'gann gave him a blood transfusion, but the rest of the team were her siblings in fondness of each other, and love. Maddi loved her Mars family, but they were many, many miles away back on Mars. Maddi had found her Earth-Family.
Star City
March 30, 21:57 PDT
Tim's hidden blue eyes were scanning the area around him, looking for any signs of Maddi. Alfred had told him to be patient, but it was hard to be patient when his girlfriend had been taken by the guy who killed a founding member of the team.
What if she didn't recognize him? Was she even still alive? Stop that Tim. He scolded himself. You need to focus on the mission right now, even though Maddi might not be alive, or if she is she's probably getting tor- stop that!
Okay, so he was having a hard time keeping himself under control, but Maddi had been gone for a week now and he was more than ready to get her back.
Dannie came out from behind several Manta troopers as one of the teens they'd captured said, "Let us go! Now!"
She looked over the teens, and her heart fluttered when she saw Valerie in the mix. Sure, the two had never really gotten along very well, but as Spirit and Red Huntress they were good friends.
Good Godfrey Kal, this was starting to get a little too close to home.
Dannie turned to the troopers and hissed, "Bring out the pods! Now!"
Once the pods were out, she turned away from the teens and said, "Alright, get those pods open. Kaldur'ahm does not tolerate delays."
At first, Huntress thought she had heard something from the large metal crates behind her, but when she looked, she saw nothing, and just passed it off as some very unwhelming nervousness.
From the crates where they were hiding, after Barbara had kept Tim from getting caught by the Manta troopers, Batgirl hissed, "Tim, the goal is to not get caught."
"I'm sorry Babs, but Maddi has been gone for a week now, and I am beyond ready to get her back." he replied.
"If you get caught, how are you going to help her?" Babs questioned.
"... You're right. Sorry. I'll try to stay focused from now on." he promised her.
"Good, now let's go." she whispered back to him.
When Huntress's back was turned, Tim and Barbara jumped down into the cage.
The teens started gasping in fear until Barbara said, "Sh! We're here to help."
Valerie was indignant as she said, "Why should we trust-"
She was interrupted as Bumblebee flew down and into Tim's jacket pocket.
"Okay, never mind." Val whispered, seemingly annoyed.
"One per pod!" Huntress shouted quietly. "Move!"
One by one, each of the teens was placed in a pod until finally Tim and Barbara had been podded.
When the Manta flyer rose from the ocean, Huntress glanced quickly at the ship before looking back to the troopers.
"Okay. Get em on board, and we might not get into trouble with Kaldur'ahm for being a little late." Huntress said harshly.
Once every single teen was aboard the ship, they took off for their destination, with Nightwing, Wonder Girl, and Miss Martian following behind in the camouflaged Bio-Ship.
"Good." Nightwing stated, still not happy with how he lashed out at Wally. "They're leading us to Lagoon Boy and the others."
"How can you be sure?" Cassie asked.
"Wishful thinking?" he offered as he closed up his holo-glove.
"And... the abductee shipment at the docks. How'd you know about that?" the blonde questioned.
"Aquaman came across the Intel while searching for La'gaan." he lied.
AS they kept going, they finally arrived at an alien looked ship, which the Manta flyer docked at it.
"So this is the Light's partner!" Dick exclaimed. "And that ship shares the same alien design scheme as the bombs that destroyed Melina Island and Mount Justice!"
"Kind of reminds me of... Blue's armor." Wonder Girl put in.
Looking down at a screen, Nightwing said, "Miss M, you're up."
The Martian girl stood up and reduced her cape to nothing more than a hood, shifting gills onto her neck and pulling the hood up.
When Miss Martian neared the ship, she said, 'Alpha squad, I'm heading into the alien ship. Are you aboard?'
'Affirmative.' Batgirl answered. 'We're in some kind of docking bay. We've got a visual on the new aliens, AKA the Kroloteans' competitor, AKA the Light's partner. And we've got other company. It's Aqualad. If he makes us, we're over.'
'Stay whelmed.' Nightwing answered. 'He won't be looking for you. Just don't attract any attention.'
'I found Gar and Bart.' Miss Martian's voice rang out. 'No sign of Jaime, La'gaan, or M'addi.'
'We've got eyes on Lagoon Boy and Kid Martian, and Shimmer? Plus four civilians and all of the teens we came with.' Tim looked happily at the different pods until he found Maddi. She was unconscious, but alive nonetheless. The aliens finished loading the pods and left the room, not even considering that anyone might escape. 'We're unsupervised now, but Blue's still unaccounted for and an escape could trigger a response. Do we wait?'
'Negative Alpha.' Dick answered. 'Make your move, before you need rescuing too. You too Miss M. Get our boys.'
If you looked closely in that room, you would've seen a pair of glowing green orbs as the doors on Bart and Gar's pods were destroyed, and the two boys were lifted out.
'Garfield?' M'gann asked, clearly concerned about her brother.
'I knew you'd come for me.' he mumble-thought. 'Are you shorter?'
'What? Oh, the pressure from the water outside the ship contracted-'
'Thanks for the rescue!' Bart thanked. 'But now I'm off to find Blue!'
'Impulse!'
Meanwhile, Huntress was staying in one place, 'hoping' to catch who or what had triggered the alarm.
A trooper slowly came up behind her, and she said to him, "Hold your position trooper!"
He grabbed her arm and threw her across the room, rendering her unconscious.
Some other troopers attempted to attack their rogue, but he quickly defeated them and removed his helmet, revealing that he was actually Superboy.
'Docking bay secured.' He reported.
'About time handsome.' Karen chuckled as she flew in with all of the teens, plus Maddi and Lagoon Boy. Maddi was still unconscious(probably because, for some strange reason, her pod had been iced slightly), but Lagoon Boy was carrying her back to the Bio-Ship while Robin and Batgirl fought off the aliens.
Meanwhile, Huntress got up.
She made her way towards the docking bay, but the doors closed themselves behind Black Beetle, so she ran towards the Reach's labs.
"Uh, listen, Black Beetle!" Cassie shouted, trying to sound tough. "You're totally outnumbered! Open those doors now, and we'll go easy on you!"
"You will go easy on me?" the darker version of Blue Beetle began to laugh sinisterly as the spikes on his back grew to a larger size.
"Oh that is not a good sign." Bumblebee muttered, flying above La'gaan and the, still, unconscious Maddi.
Meanwhile, M'gann was having a brain battle of sorts with Kaldur. She saw his every memory, including the ones of Nightwing putting the magic necklace on Dannie.
"No." she gasped quietly after ruining Kaldur's mind.
Dannie entered the corridor as Huntress and gasped, "Kaldur."
She ran over to him and then looked to M'gann, but for the first time, M'gann saw her as Spirit instead of Huntress.
'M'gann, what have you done?'
'I thought he killed you; that he deserved-' Miss Martian couldn't finish her sentence.
Beast Boy started to attack in the form of a tiger, but Dannie threw a smoke bomb down and said, "I'll take mine, you take yours. Count yourself lucky."
Gar shifted back to normal and went over to M'gann as he said, "M'gann, snap out of it. You did good! You took out Aqualad! But the others still need our help."
Lagoon Boy left Maddi with a civilian as he joined the fight, but it didn't matter much.
Black Beetle threw everyone aside that attacked him and stapled Robin to the wall.
As Batgirl and Wonder Girl continued to fight Black Beetle, Maddi finally woke up. She slowly made her way to Robin, leaning against the wall for support.
When she got to him, she grabbed the staple and shifted its density, depositing Tim to the floor.
He slowly woke up and threw his arms around Maddi, breathing out, 'You're okay.'
'I hate to say it, but this has been the worst week of my life.' she told him, returning the hug.
'Let's do what we can to help them out.'
'Blue's already distracting Black Beetle. We should help Barbara get the others out of here.'
He nodded and ran off to help Superboy and Bumblebee as Maddi used her telekinesis to lift Lagoon Boy, Beast Boy, and Miss Martian into the Bio-Ship.
When water started to flood the ship, Impulse said, "I'm going back in for Blue!"
But as he attempted to run back in, a wave of water washed Bart back in, and they were forced to take off.
When they took off, Maddi fell on top of Tim and the 2 heroes blushed.
Tim smiled through the blush and told Maddi, "You okay? I know that they iced the pod you were in a little."
"I'm fine. It can get pretty cold on Mars, especially during- mph!" Maddi was interrupted as Robin pressed his lips to her own.
Of course the one that was most surprised by his actions, was Tim himself.
He'd never pictured himself kissing Maddi, and clearly, she'd never pictured it either. It seemed that they were the only ones who never thought it was possible, because Gar and Impulse were smiling at the fact that Maddi and Robin finally had their first kiss.
When Blue was spotted, Nightwing looked to Lagoon Boy and said, "You're up. Think you can swim?"
Lagoon Boy smirked and said, "What kind of question is that chum? Of course I can."
La'gaan swam out of the Bio-Ship and grabbed the armored teen, bringing him up to the Bio-Ship.
Jaime was promptly plopped into a chair at the back of the ship, and Cassie sat down next to him, waiting for him to wake up.
Suddenly, Jaime shouted, "It's me! It's me!"
Impulse smirked and said, "Course it is."
"Mission accomplished everyone." Nightwing announced. "Well done." In truth, the bird themed hero felt a lot better than a week ago when he lashed out at Wally. He saw how much happier Tim was now that Maddi had been rescued, his little bro had even managed to kiss her, and that made some of his guilt disappear.
At last, Dick didn't feel like he had a knot it his stomach.
"Care to take the controls Miss M?" he asked her.
Miss Martian said nothing and just stared at the ground. What was wrong? M'gann had La'gaan, Garfield, and Maddi back. She should be thrilled, crying out of joy because her little sister was safe.
"I think she's still basking in the glow of victory!" Gar informed Nightwing. "She totally nailed Aqualad! You should've seen it! Well, actually it didn't look like much, but I'm sure it was very cool inside their heads!"
Dick's breath hitched in his throat. Miss Martian. Telepathy. Aqualad nailed. No!
What did Miss M see?
Tim glanced at Maddi and said, "Do you mind if I walk you home later?"
Maddi's face fell and tears started to slowly drip down her face.
"Mads, what's wrong?" Tim asked.
"Mount Justice was my home. Now it's gone." she told him, cuddling into his side.
Tim put a comforting arm around her and said, "I'm sorry. I forgot about that. But... Nightwing has a temporary base of operations set up, and I know that M'gann has been living there, so... do you want me to walk you there?"
Maddi smiled weakly and put her arms around him.
"Sure. I'd like that."
Bludhaven
March 31, 2:45 EDT
As Tim and Maddi walked a little bit behind M'gann, they soon arrived at the warehouse that was their temporary base of operations. the younger of the two Martians felt her boyfriend's grip on her hand tighten as she tried to let go and join her sister. Tim had just got Maddi back. He didn't want to let go for fear that she might get taken again if he did.
She flashed a smile for him.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry about me so much. I'm not going anywhere; I promise." she assured him.
He tried to believe her, he really did, but it was hard when he just got her back.
Maddi saw the doubt on Tim's face and said, "I'll make a deal with you. If something happens to me again, I'll take 1 week away from being Kid Martian to be Maddi Morse instead, okay?"
Tim smiled, liking the deal his girlfriend had suggested.
"It's a deal Mads." he promised her.
He pressed a quick kiss to her lips before she joined her sister inside the disgusting warehouse.
Maddi had an area that was not very far from M'gann's, sealed off by curtains. It wasn't very clean, it was cold, and the bed was beyond lumpy, but Maddi didn't complain, because for now, it was home.
Bludhaven
March 31, 3:00
Dannie was sneaking around Bludhaven until she finally found Dick. Thankfully, he was alone.
When he was passing an alleyway, she grabbed him, making sure to cover his mouth.
While he struggled she whispered, "Calm down Wonder Bread; it's me. We need to talk, but I needed to get you someplace private. I'm going to let go now, so no shouting."
He nodded his head to the best of his abilities, and Dannie let him go.
"What do we need to talk about that's worth jeopardizing your cover?" Dick asked angrily, although in truth, he was really happy to see her.
"I think my my cover is already jeopardized. I haven't been able to tell Kaldur because he hasn't been alone, and he's never witnessed death, so my telepathy is a no-go. Besides that fact, there's something that you need to know. It's about... It's about Shade. Shade was the other name of my evil future self. She went by Shade, and Sapphire Phantom. I thought you should know." She explained quickly yet quietly.
"Why do you think that your cover is jeopardized?" he asked, worried for Dannie's life.
"It's... It's the way that Deathstroke looks at me; like he knows who I really am." she admitted.
"Feed them a fake secret ID, and I'll create a sob story online for you that involves the League somehow." he told her.
"Let's go with Helena Bertinelli." Dannie replied.
"Fine, I can work with that... Wait a minute, you hate the name Helena!" he realized.
"I know, which is why I'm using it. If I use a name that I like, I might be spotted easier. I have to go now. Bed check is in 10 minutes."
And with that, the halfa left.
Yay! All done with this chapter! Happy 4th of July everyone!
Believe it or not, this chapter only took me a day to write!
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Signing off,
-MckennaTennyson-Harper12