A/N: See the first chapter for author's note. If you read this story, please review.
BIALYA
SEPTEMBER 4, 00:16 EEST
Miss Martian woke up to find herself not knowing where she was, and not having any memory of how she got to wear her current outfit. Megan started talking to herself in Martian but switched to English upon realization that she was on earth. She continued questioning things such as why her head hurts and how she got to be on earth. In the middle of her questioning Superboy landed right in front of her with an expression that belayed animalistic rage.
Megan takes a moment to look Superboy over and then recognized the Superman symbol that was on the shirt Superboy was wearing. She stated this aloud and asked Superboy if he was Superman, but Superboy responded to the question by ripping off the Superman symbol while making an animalistic cry.
Superboy proceeded to run forward at Megan in an obvious attempt to attack the befuddled girl. Megan at the last second dodged the attack and then took to the air in flight, which Superboy answered by attempting to leap at her. Megan managed to repel Superboy via telekinesis but the effort made her fall from the sky. Superboy then jumped off as if he was trying to find an easier target to take on. Megan after she caught her breath remarked that this wasn't a dream, it was a nightmare.
The next day Hermione woke up to find herself lying on the desert floor right next to Harry with both of them in the stealth form of their uniforms. She groaned as she had a pounding headache, but the migraine quickly passed into nonexistence.
Hermione sat up and poked Harry while she said "Supermagus, get up."
Harry groaned and to Hermione's surprise grabbed Wonder Girl around the waist and pulled her to lie down next to him.
Accompanying this reaction Harry mumbled "in a minute Mione."
Hermione feeling she had no choice sent a stinging hex at Harry that sent Harry sitting up straight so fast that it threw Hermione a few feet away. Thankfully, due to her powers she was just startled and not hurt in the least by being thrown that distance.
Harry whose eyes had shot wide open when he was woken up like that then said to Hermione "Donna, why were we passed out in the middle of the Bialyan desert, and where's the rest of the team?"
Hermione took a moment to think this through and then said, "I don't know, but we could use some homing magic to find out. We shouldn't use our radios as Batman told us to maintain radio silence for this mission."
Harry then used his internal magic to figure out the date and time and then said "agreed, and I think we should look for Aqualad first as the team has been in the desert for much longer than Kaldur can last out of contact with water."
Hermione agreed to this thought and together the couple took flight over the Bialyan desert while they used their combined magic to locate their missing Atlantian friend. When the two got there, they would find their two fellow British teammates there. The two didn't get very far before they got a magical message from Neville that told the two that he and Hannah would look for Kid Flash first. Harry send back a message that told Neville that they should meet up in the area where they had set up GPS marker.
Just as they were about to start out on their search for Kaldur they heard Megan in their heads as she attempted to contact the team. The two of them quickly realized that that for some reason while the two soul-bonded couples remembered the last six months; Megan seemed to have forgotten them for the most part. After assurances that they were fine, the two telepathically responded to Megan that they were going to look for Aqualad, and they would meet her and whoever else she could find at the place where they had been setting up GPS marker.
Like Hermione Neville woke up to find himself lying on the desert sand wearing his costume in its stealth mode. Neville took a moment to let the migraine he had die down to a more manageable level. After the headache had faded to nothing Neville looked around him and found that next to him was Hannah laid out as he had been.
She wore a formfitting black one piece bathing suit that had leggings, which came down about ¾ of the way to her kneecap. The center front of the costume had a red circle with a red arrow pointing both up and down. The outfit also had a facemask that covered all of her head except for the eyes, nose and mouth. In addition, there was a slit at the back that let her hair come out and hang down to the upper reaches of her back. If her outfit was not in stealth mode, there would have been a rendition of matter swirling and falling into a black hole on the middle of her back.
Neville to a moment to think about the mission they were on and then woke Hannah up gently. After she took a moment to let her pounding headache fade away, she stretched out.
Hannah then said to Neville "Kid Lantern what happened, we were on the mission just setting up our base GPS marker when we got knocked out by somebody that latched on to the team's psychic link."
Neville said, "I have no bloody idea but seeing that we are separated from the rest of the team I believe we should look for the others."
The two took the moment to check the time and after they observed it, Neville said, "we should go and find Wally, we've been on the mission long enough that he probably ran out of food. We know from past experience that he can't use his powers well when he is running on empty."
Hannah agreed and added, "We should also send a message to Harry and Hermione as they are bound to be together due to them being in a soul bond."
Neville thought this was an excellent idea and sent a magical message to the other soul-bonded couple. About ten seconds later he received a reply that told Hannah and Neville that Supermagus and Wonder Girl would be looking for Aqualad first, as the guy probably needed emergency attention after being out of range of water for this long. Hermione added to the message that Neville and Hannah should meet them at the spot where had been setting up the GPS marker.
Neville then said, "We should be able to find Kid Flash by using our combined magic, he shouldn't be too far from where we are so he should be in range."
Before the two could do this, they were contacted telepathically by Megan, who they told that they were fine. Before they could continue their telepathic conversation, Megan told the two that she had briefly established a link with Superboy. She said that she would head in that direction and then meet up with then at the GPS marker they had set up earlier.
Neville had in the meantime taken to the air and had Hannah with him, as while she could fly it was not as fast as he could move with his ring. The two moved at a pace that made the sand dunes below them look like blurs, but stopped after a minute of travel. They were just in time to see Miss Martian use her telekinesis to send two planes that harassed Artemis and KF into each other, causing a large explosion. The two landed right next to Miss Martian right in front of KF and Artemis.
Kid Flash and Artemis were bogged down by two fighter planes from the Bialyan government. Kid Flash due to his not consuming food for quite a while now was not much help as he was unable to use his powers. Just as Artemis was about to shoot an arrow at one of the planes she along with KF heard a telepathic communication in their heads from Megan.
It said 'hang on you guys I'm almost there,' and Artemis due to the surprise missed her target by a wide margin.
In response to the voice she heard Artemis said, "Did you just hear a girl talk in your head?"
Wally in his usual mature level said, "Girls are always on my mind" in response to the inquiry made by Artemis.
The two then saw the two planes crash into each other and Megan up in the air along with two people they vaguely recognized. One of the two people they had trouble recognizing was a teenaged man with a soft green glow hugging his body with a thick cord connecting his green aura to the young woman. The young woman next to him also had a soft green glow around her. The three beings together gently landed in front of an astonished Artemis and Kid Flash.
As he got over his surprise first, Wally sarcastically said, "Nice costume J'onn, but the costume doesn't really scream Manhunter."
Megan in excitement said, "You know my uncle J'onn? Hello Megan, of course you do! You're Kid Flash. Wally! And you're Artemis."
Kid Flash then said "Wait, wait, wait. Martian Manhunter is your uncle? Is that how you know my name?"
Artemis with some humor in her voice said, "Your real name is Wally?"
Neville noticed that it sounded like Artemis and KF also suffered from amnesia and said "you two don't remember anything either? Why is it the two of us plus Harry and Hermione can remember the last several months?"
Hannah took this one and said "Harry and Hermione can most likely remember things because of their soul bond status. As for me and you I'm guessing that we are also soul bonded."
Neville then said, "How would being in a soul bond protect us from having our memory erased?"
Hannah then said, "Well a soul bond as you know protects the couple from all forms of mind control such as potions and spells."
Neville got where she was going with this and completed her thoughts with "and if you even erase one memory a person has it can allow someone to control that person."
Meanwhile Kid Flash got more and more annoyed and finally couldn't wait anymore.
Wally said "what the heck is a soul bond?," and in response Hannah and Neville gave a very brief explanation that they said they would expand upon later.
Getting back on topic Megan then said, "We should try and find Robin and Superboy then meet up with the rest of the team."
Neville and Hannah looked at each other, and Hannah then said, "Neville and I will fill you three in on the way seeing as that we both still have our full memories."
The group of five then moved towards where Neville and Hannah said their GPS marker was set up. Neville with his magic conjured up a small snack for Kid Flash to munch on to refill his energy stores.
Harry and Hermione in the meantime had found Aqualad nearly dead from dehydration, but the two were able to conjure some water to give to him. In addition, Harry took a drop of phoenix tears he had on him in a vial and put it in Aqualad's mouth to heal any damage to Kaldur's body, and after this Aqualad was back to full strength.
After he recovered Aqualad said "Thank you, but who are the two of you? You both look vaguely familiar but I can't remember why."
Harry and Hermione looked at each other for a split second and communicated telepathically to decide what to do.
Hermione then said, "We'll explain on the way who we are while we bring you to the rest of the team that we're meeting at the GPS mark we set up yesterday."
Thinking it would help Supermagus said, "We'll be meeting up with Kid Flash, and Robin if that helps."
This did help as while he couldn't remember the last six months of his life he was able to remember who Robin and Kid Flash were.
Aqualad said "I guess I'll go with you seeing as I don't have any other choice, and besides that I know Kid Flash and Robin."
The two looked at each other before Harry picked up an astonished Aqualad and began to fly alongside Hermione on their way to the GPS marker.
Harry as if to explain how he was doing it said, "Now as for whom we are, my superhero name is Supermagus and I'm Superman's brother…"
"…And my superhero name is Wonder Girl," continued on Hermione, "and I'm Wonder Woman's younger sister."
The two of them saw that Aqualad looked shocked at this, so Harry said, "you don't believe us?"
"No I do believe you," said Aqualad "I've seen and heard stranger things, and beside you two telling me that seems to have somewhat unveiled the blocked memory where I was told that before."
Harry and Hermione smiled at this, as it was a sign that the memories of their teammates were not erased but were just suppressed. This meant that in all likelihood it was possible for the memories to be restored quite easily by a powerful telepath like Miss Martian. The couple continued to explain things as best as they could while they headed toward the GPS marker where they had agreed to meet up with the rest of the team.
Robin was running with his portable holoscreen on and said, "Wish I could remember why I put a GPS marker here" to himself.
After he settled himself in a hiding spot a stone throw away from the GPS marker that he couldn't remember setting up and said, "Hmm guessing that's why."
After he saw that there seemed to be no hostiles in the area Robin moved gingerly forward towards the GPS marker. Just as he was a few steps away, multiple hostiles popped up from their hiding spots in the sand. One of the solders remarked that their ruler wanted the boy alive, but despite that, they still all aimed their guns at Robin. Before the platoon of soldiers could do anything else Robin took used a smoke bomb, which had the desired effect of creating an opaque smoke screen around Robin's vicinity. Robin used the opportunity presented to start bringing down the hostiles, but despite his efforts, Dick Grayson found himself overwhelmed by the sheer number of solders.
At this point Kid Flash reached Robin's position and took the guns that the enemy soldiers were using to shoot Robin. A few seconds later, the rest of the team minus Superboy arrived, and together they took down the rest of the hostiles.
Robin showed he also had amnesia when he responded to his sighting of Kid Flash by saying "KF, man it's good to see a familiar face."
The exchange that followed between the two friends made it clear that like the other team members that had amnesia his memories were six months behind.
A short time later both soul bonded couples and Megan had explained the situation to the team members with memory loss. After remarking on the fact that Superboy's a member of the team Robin took out the piece of cloth he had with the Superman symbol on it, and concluded it belonged to the missing Superboy.
Megan asked Robin if he had seen Superboy but got the response of "I think we did" from Artemis instead of Robin.
Kid Flash told the group about how Superboy attacked himself and Artemis, but Hermione was quick to point out that Superboy probably doesn't remember the last six months of his life. She further postulated that since it had been less than six months since Superboy had existed it was likely he had absolutely no memories of any kind.
Harry picked up where Hermione left off when he said, "since memories make us who we are this means that Superboy most likely has just his animalistic impulses to guide him."
Robin said, "I remember Batman ordering radio silence, we must work for him."
Wally responded in a subtly whiny tone when he said, "Hey, how do you know we don't work for my mentor."
At this point Wally poked himself in the middle of his chest, which caused his uniform to switch from camouflage mode to his regular costume. Wally was too entertained by this discovery to hear what the two soul bonded couples said next.
Hermione said, "Again we work under the orders of Batman as we have already explained."
The group sans the present Miss Martian proceeded to dilly-dally for a short time, but after getting a resolved face Megan took the action that she felt was needed.
She pulled the team sans Superboy into her mind and took a moment to explain what she was doing for the team.
Unknown to her the soul bonded couples could only be pulled into her mindscape because they trusted Megan and allowed it.
Megan explained that she wanted to have the members of the team help them all recover their memories by reading and combining their collective memories. After a few minutes, she was able to convince the team to allow her to do this. During the process the memories of the team sans Superboy were successfully restored, and Megan remembered how another telepath that had been present had forced the team to forget. This had been accomplished by utilizing the psychic connection the team had with each other.
When the memories of the amnesic members of the team had been restored, Artemis and Wally had stopped holding hands as they remembered their dislike of each other much to the amusement to the rest of the team.
Unknown to the team at that moment the man who had tried to erase their memories suffered from a headache, which was from the failure of his attempt to erase the memories of the soul-bonded couples. As he cursed the four he had trouble with and rubbed his head, he watched as the scientist present tortured the captured electronic ball they had received from the unnamed partner. In addition Superboy was given massive electric shocks that caused the boy immense pain.
Back with the team minus Superboy Miss Martian rushed off when she telepathically felt the pain Superboy was in.
A/N: the fight that happened between the combined forces of Superboy with Megan and Psimon happened as it did on the show.
QURAC
SEPTEMBER 5, 02:32 EEST
After a while of waiting in the bioship the team minus Superboy and Megan heard the telepath's call, which told the rest of the team that she had recovered Superboy and had brought back a souvenir (the electronic ball the scientists were torturing).
A/N: the briefing between the light and Psimon happened exactly as it did on the episode.
MOUNT JUSTICE
SEPTEMBER 5, 19:06 EDT
The team entered the cave to find Batman looking annoyed, but if you looked closely and knew the man well you could see the subtle signs that he was finding something to be humorous.
Batman said "Har-El did you have anything to do with this." Batman then turned on a holoscreen that showed a news report of an embarrassing incident that had happened to Lex Luthor. On the news network was also the story of a prank that Queen Bee had been put under. Both Queen Bee and Lex Luthor had their reputation tarnished when several secrets they didn't want known to the public were revealed.
Hermione gave Harry a look that said you'd better explain now if you know what's good for you. Harry sighed and explained what he had done just a few days ago to prank Lex Luthor.
Flashback
NEW YORK
SEPTEMBER 2, 09:16 EST
Harry discussed with Sirius and Remus his next prank he was going to pull on Lex Luthor in the home of Giovanni and Zatanna Zatara. Zatanna came in at that point and said that she had heard what the trio was planning. The trio of guys thought they were busted until Zatanna requested that she be allowed to help with the prank.
With Zatanna's assistance, the guys set up a prank that was set to go off in three days on Lex Luthor. The prank would be set off in three days at precisely 10:16 EDT, and would change the look of the top of the Lexcorp building in Metropolis. At that moment the large lit up sign on the roof of the Lexcorp building would change to say Superman Incorporated. In addition, a truth ward would activate around Lex Luthor making him unable to tell any lies for the duration of the prank. The changes would have a reversed notice-me-not charm on it that would draw attention to them like moths to a flame. The changes would last for ten hours if there was no interference from other magic users.
At the same time this prank occurred, the dictator of Bialya would also be under a prank. The reason that they were pranking the woman was that they detested people like her, and suspected she might be one of the top dogs in The Light along with Luthor and Ra's al Ghul. The prank would temporarily deactivate her ability to put men under her control. In addition, she would be unable to lie for the duration of the prank, which like the prank on Luthor would last ten hours without interference.
End of Flashback
The prank had obviously gone off successfully if the news stories were anything to go by. Batman mumbled about how this would potentially get Zatanna in trouble with her father, while the team found the situation humorous to varied degrees. As of now, Lex Luthor was being held in jail due to several things he had said during the duration of the prank.
Queen Bee would have been arrested but she had diplomatic immunity and could not be arrested. Batman conveyed that he doubted Luthor would stay in jail for long, as the man was a slippery eel. Because of the prank, the thought that Luthor liked Superman was in the news once again. In fact, Superman had been asked about the situation, and the superhero's response was to say 'no comment' and then rush off.
After the explanation, Batman left to do what he needed and Aqualad told the team that he was going back to Atlantis.
A/N: Well that is the end of the chapter, so please review
