Okay so i have a couple of things i need to address I am a biology major and my tests are really starting to pick up ad this week i have an Organic Chemistry II test and an essay due next week that i have neglected to start on so instead of posting a couple of days in between, its going to have to be weekly for a couple of weeks so now onto the more relevant things that you care about. I know in this episode the adults disappear at about seven eastern time which would make it like five Star City time…I don't like that so I moved it back to hours….cause I can do that….YAY AUTHOR POWER! So yeah I own nothing except Carter and her stuff, hope you like it comment and review in that little box down below.

I hate galas….there is nothing worse than cramming every single millionaire or entrepreneur in a hundred mile radius into a single room. Wait there is one, when every single millionaire and entrepreneur in a hundred mile radius brings their spoiled spawns with them. I stood by myself sulking as I saw the clichés of the hierarchy form as the fashionably late showed up an hour after the opening. I despised when Oliver made me come to these things, but he always talked me into it in some way and I always ended up at these things in fluffy dresses…..I hate dresses….I specifically hate this dress. As I glared down at it as it sparkled. It was pink chiffon with intricate beading on the top that stopped at my waist and the dress bottom was plain and stopped short of the ground. I wore heels which really were not that bad and my hair was up in an intricate up-do and I had make up of covering the apparent flaws on my face that the make-up artist was complaining about earlier.

"You look like we tortured you into coming," Dinah commented amusingly as she appeared at my side. She looked gorgeous in a tight fitted white dress with black details and her blonde hair down situated over her shoulder.

"Might as well have, I am in a pink dress and surrounded by air heads. The only people worth talking to besides you and Oliver are the university professors. Even they are still unfavorable, they talk down to me and act like I have no idea what they are talking about. Then they act so amazed that I am in college. I might as well be tortured."

"It's not that bad," she said innocently.

"I got hit on by an eighty year old bachelor who insinuated that I didn't need college with my pretty face and naturally voluptuous body," I said with disgust, "In other words, torture."

She grimaced in disgust for a moment, "I dislike these events as well, but you know Oliver must keep up the image of the company. We've been so busy, he has been out of the limelight for longer than usual."

"I understand but does that have to include me?" I whined.

She smirked, "It's a shame you don't have an upset stomach," she said as she took a sip from her glass, "then you'd have an excuse to leave."

I looked at her and smirked before faking a grimace and grabbing my stomach, "Oh, look at that my stomach feels quite upset now that you mention it, Mom, can I go home? I would hate to get sick and ruin this beautiful dress."

She smirked, "You can take the car," she said holding out the valet ticket to me, "Oliver and I will take a car to his place."

"Thank you," I said as I kissed her cheek, "Love you."

I got the car, a new model convertible Corvette, and made my way to my house. Then something happened I shivered involuntarily as I felt a shift in the energy and then hard braked as a car in front of me swerved and took out a meter and hit a fire hydrant. I hurried up and parked and ran towards the driver's door. I opened in with a hard tug.

"Are you alright—" I stopped and looked confusingly at the empty driver's seat. I turned to the back and saw a crying toddler and screaming baby. I stepped back and opened the back door, "Hi, little guy," I said as I began checking him over, "Does anything hurt?"

"M-m-my c-c-chest h-h-urts," he stumbled out through his sob. I unbuckled him from his seat and lifted his shirt to see an outline of the seat belt on his chest. I paid attention to his breathing and heart rate and both appeared fine.

"Everything is going to be alright okay? Now can you tell me your name little man?"

"C-carson."

"Oh that's a great name, Carson, my name is Carter."

"W-where's m-m-my M-momma?"

I turned around and notices several things all the other cars around me stopped and no one was in the drivers' seats. Some cars were empty and others had children in the back or young teens getting out from passenger seats. I grabbed Carson and place him on my hip. "I don't know Carson but I'm going to find out. Now let's go check on your sister, okay?"

He gave me a nod and I walked around the back of the car and got out the now calmer baby. I grabbed her in the car seat and grabbed the diaper bag that sat between the seats and brought them to the car. I grabbed my purse and took out my cell phone. I called Dinah, no answer, I called Oliver, no answer, I called Roy, no answer. I grabbed my com out of my purse and placed it in my ear. "Guys, are you there?" I asked desperately.

"Carter! Where are you?" Kaldur's voice came over the com.

I sighed in relief, "I'm in Star City, and we have a problem, the adults are gone."

"Agreed, the disappearance is nationwide. Make your way to the cave."

"I can't," I stated, "Can you send Artemis or someone to help? There are a lot of children the need to be rescued from cars."

"I am on my way, we are sending the others to nearby cities to make refuges centers," Kaldur said.

"Before you leave can you bring me and extra set of my clothes? I can't really do much with what I got on."

"Confirmed, be at your coordinates in ten minutes."

I looked down at the baby and noticed she has gone to sleep. Carson going right along with her in the back seat. "Hey lady?"

I turned and looked to see a group of children, "Why are you dressed in a pretty dress?" a little blonde girl asked.

"Yeah, are you a princess?" another dark haired girl asked.

I knelt down and smiled at the two of them. "What do you think?" I asked amusingly.

They turned and looked at each other. They turned back and looked at me. "Princess!" they both said with smiles.

"Well since I am, you have to do as I say alright? It's not polite to go against a princess's wishes."

The group nodded. "Stay right here, okay? Don't move."

They nodded again and I got up and walked toward a group of teenagers who had gathered down the street. "Hey guys, listen up. We need to start gathering up kids—"

"Why should we listen to you?" one of them asked cockily.

"Because there are children scared of what just happened and you need to step up and help out that's why," I snapped, "Now go and gather every kid you can find and bring them to the rec center. When that gets full start filling up the schools, tell other teenagers to do the same." I pointed at the one of the girls in the group, "You, come with me."

They all left and began gathering children, I walked back to the car and saw that kids stayed there. "Hey you guys, you are so great for listening. Now I want to you to do something, you see this nice girl, she is going to take you somewhere for you to stay for a little bit, okay?"

The all nodded except for one, "Where's my daddy?"

"I don't know but we will find your parents, okay?"

He nodded, "Okay."

I turned to the girl take them and bring them to the rec center get any kids you see on the way. I'll keep the baby and the younger one."

She nodded, "Thanks for setting Zac straight, he needed that."

I shrugged, "Tough times call for tough measures."

She left with the kids after that, just as Kaldur appear in the alley I approached him and grabbed my clothes that were in his hands. "Thanks," I said with a smile, "Cover for me as I change?"

"I am unsure if I actually want you to," he said with a small smile, "You are gorgeous."

I rolled my eyes, "Alright, Wally #2, I'll dress for you like this another time, we have kids to gather."

I changed into my clothes and took down my hair. I grabbed the garments and placed them in the back of the car. I checked the back of the other car and found no stroller. I paused and looked around and spotted a small shopping center on the corner. "Watch the kids I'll be back." He nodded in response and I ran to the store and grabbed a couple of carts. I pushed them towards the car and he grinned in response. "I don't think they'll mind if we borrow these."

"Agreed."

We but the kids and one cart and left the other empty. It was quickly filled as we found toddlers. We meet up with another group of teenagers who brought them to one of the high schools for us. They said that the rec center was already filled and the high schools were already partially filled.

They left us and I turned to Aqualad, "We need to zeta back to the cave. We need to do a live feed."

"Agreed, the children of world needs to know someone is here."

We arrived at the cave and greeted the rest of the team and Zatanna. "Robin, hack everything, we have a message to send."

"On it," he answered as he began typing away on the holo keyboards, "Ready when you are." He said as he stepped away from the keyboard and stepped towards us. Aqualad nodded signaling he was ready.

"Children and teenagers of Earth, I am Aqualad these are my friends Robin, Kid Flash, and Blue Raven."

"We are using Justice League tech to broadcast and stream to every T.V, radio, computer, and smart phone on the planet," Robin said.

"We know you must be scared and angry. We know that with your parents missing there's a temptation to run wild. But please stay calm," Kid Flash said.

"We will find a way to bring your parents and all the adults back," Aqualad said, "We will note let you down."

"There is still hope and we are still here to fight for you and protect you, but we need your help too." I said calmly, "The oldest among you, please step up and take charge. There are younger children that have no one except you right now." I said as I grabbed Aqualad's hand, "Find them, take them into your homes or to your local schools or civic center, take care of them and protect them. Protégé los. Protégez-les. Sorera o hogo."

"It is up to you," Aqualad said, "Please help in any way you can."

I had walked into my room and changed into one of my newer uniforms. I had passed by the souvenir room and saw Wally staring at the Helmet of Fate. I walked in and approached him.

"We'll get them back, Wally," I said as I laid a hand on his shoulder.

He nodded, "It's still weird to know the uncertainty of it."

I shrugged, "Everything we do is based on uncertainty. It wouldn't be all that fun if it was the same cookie cutter missions. Have some hope, Wally, you of all people can't be the gloomy, that is Artemis's and Connor's jobs."

"I finally got through to Atlantis," Kaldur said as he walked into the room and approached us. "No adults are there either."

"So," Wally said not taking his eyes off the helmet, "Just how desperate are we?"

Kaldur turned and looked at it and I approached him and put my hands on both his cheeks. He looked down at me with several different emotions in his eyes. "We are not the desperate nor will I ever hope we have to be. No one is putting that helmet on, it's not worth the risk."

"You are right," he agreed, "Anyone who dons the helmet and allows Nabu to possess them may never be released from being Doctor Fate."

"So not that desperate?" Wally asked.

"Not yet," Kaldur confirmed. I sent him a look and was about to say something when I was stopped by Zatanna interrupting.

"Guys," she said with a face full of worry and doubt, "I- I'm ready to try my father's locator spell." We nodded and all began to follow her into the common room where the rest of the team and a hologram of the Earth were waiting.

Zatanna approached it and with a huge sigh she pulled out a wand and extended her arms towards the globe. "Etocal retnecipe of yrecros!"

A red dot appeared on the screen and I smiled. "You did it, Z, you're dad will be proud."

She turned and gave me a sad look. I was about to approach her but a strike of lightning appeared in the middle of the room. I whirled around with a gun aimed at a small boy who was grinning at us.

"It works!" he said excitedly.

"Where did you come from? Who are you?" Kaldur said firing the questions at the boy as the others approached him.

"Quick read my mind!" he said smiling at M'gann. Her eyes began to glow green and seconds later appeared normal with a gasp from her.

"He's Captain Marvel!" She exclaimed in shock.

"Yea and I'm Speedy Gonzales," Wally said in disbelief, "look just because he believes he's Cap-"

"Gee, Wally," the boy said as he crossed his arms, "Do I really have to bring you pineapple juice and nachos to get on your good side?"

After a couple of seconds of shock I picked up my gun with a laughed and approached him. I kneeled down in front of him in amazement, "You are actually a child? This explains so much."

"Yes, I am," he said with a smile.

"A kid beat us into the League," Wally said with a scoff, "No fair."

"Now is not the time," Kaldur said, "What we need are answers, explain."

The small kid version of Captain Marvel gave us a quick rundown of everything. He was in real life a young ten year boy from Fawcett City. He stated that there were two worlds, one for adults and the other for kids and he had the ability to travel between them. He immediately began going back and forth between both worlds as we formed a plan for a simultaneous attack on Roanoke Island.

As we began approaching the island I began to feel nauseous and very on edge. We were twenty minutes out and I unbuckled myself and made my way to the back of the bio-ship where we kept the first aid kit. I searched the kit and found nothing to help and I began to notice a headache was coming on as well. I turned around and walked back to the main room of the ship. I leaned against the door and grabbed my head as it began to pound. "Does anyone know where the anti-nausea medicine and or Advil is?"

"Why is everything alright?" Miss Martian asked.

I made a move to turn and look at her but it made my stomach turn. "I don't….know."

Aqualad was in front of me seconds later, "What is the matter?"

"I'm really…nauseous and my head is pounding," I said as my stomach turned again. "The closer we get to that island…the worse it gets."

He picked me up bridal style and asked Miss Martian to form a bed. He gently laid me on it, "You may have to sit this one out."

I began to protest, "No, we need everybody to be in this. I just need some medicine, I'll be fine really."

"We can handle this with who we have now. You would have us all worried and it would be severely risky if I were to let you go into a fight in this condition," he said, "In this case you would be more helpful if you stayed here."

I huffed and closed my eyes in annoyance, "I hate it when you are right," I stated with a smiled.

He shrugged, "It has to happen sometimes," he said as he took my hand in his own and squeezed it. I responded with a squeeze of my own.

By the time we had arrived I had already thrown up everything in my stomach and my headache had turned into body aches. They left of the bed with the ship secured in camouflage mode. I leaned over the edge of the bed gagging. I turned over onto my back and closed my eyes.

When I opened them my scenery had changed entirely. I was in a cobblestone walled room lite only by a fire place and torches scattered around the room on the wall.

"Carter."

I whirled around and turned to face the source of the voice with a gasp. "M-mom?" I ran toward her and wrapped my arms around her felling a familiar warmth I remember from when I was a child. I pulled away and stepped back to look at her.

She looked the same age she had been when she had died. She still had her long wavy dark brown hair that was partially held back by two silver clips on either side of her head. She still had her hazel colored eyes that was still filled with a certain warmth to them. She was dressed in a navy blue dress with long sleeves that ended with a silver design. Slits ran up the sides and stopped mid-thigh revealing her legs that had intricate silver tattoos wrapped around her leg starting from her ankle. She wore the necklace she always wore a dark purple crystal around her neck by a silver chain. She held her arms out to her sides causing her sleeves to fall down to the crook of her elbows revealing more silver tattoos. "Carter, please come there is much we must discuss."

"Am I dead?" I asked her apprehensively.

She smiled and shook her head, "No, Carter, you are not. You are simply of a different plane that you and I can both access. It's time you finally learned your true lineage."

"Which would be….?" I asked trailing off.

"There is no easy way to say this," she said as she grabbed my hands in hers, "My name is actually not Johanna Callahan, my true name is Talisie Reigns, Third Daughter of the Seventh Ring of the Dark Circle."

"So this means what exactly?"

"You are not a true mortal," she stated, "You are half mortal because of your father's lineage but I come from a long line of powerful masters and mistresses of sorcery."

"So….I'm a ….sorceress?" I asked slowly.

"In essence, yes," she said as she cradled my face in one of her hands, "That is why you became so ill when you approached Klarion's magic. When you and your siblings were younger I performed an incantation that would render you invisible to this world, however, the effects are fading and soon you will begin to develop your abilities."

"Come again?"

She smiled, "I know this is a lot to take in but I have very little time to tell you everything. Once I release you from this plane you must follow these instructions," she said as she handed me and envelope that appeared in thin air. "Oh I must hurry your friends need you," she said with a far off look in her eyes. She blinked and looked directly back at me. "We must help your friends."

"Wait, what I'm sorry, we?" I asked in a jumble, "Mom, I don't know if you realize this but you're dead."

"Exactly which is why you must allow me to use your body to use your natural power against Klarion," she said rushed, "It's the only way you can help them."

I thought about it for a second, "Alright what do I need to do?"

"Relax and let me take control," she said, "I see how you care for your friends and that boy. I will not allow you to lose the ones you care about again."

She grabbed my hands in hers and ordered me to close my eyes and think of nothing, clear my mind of everything. She began to chant something in another language and as she did an odd comforting warmth enveloped my body and suddenly I was in a dark room with one screen and a chair. The screen showed that I was back on the ship. Only I was not in control of my body, I caught my reflection in the window and saw I wore my mother's clothes instead of my own and my eyes were a bright purple. Mom transported out of the ship and appeared above the scene of the fight. I saw that my mom was right my team was not in the best of shape. Robin and Artemis were knocked to the ground with Zatanna tending to them. Klarion was using some sort of magical lightning and struck Kid Flash knocking him aside and was electrocuting Aqualad.

"No," my mother's voice rang through, "Your friend has made a grave mistake."

"Who?" I asked and suddenly a flash of yellow light flashed in my visions and I saw a female teenager in the outfit of Doctor Fate. "Zatanna!"

"There is nothing we can do, Carter," Mom said, "All we can do is help her defeat Klarion and the other four sorcerers and hopefully talk Nabu out of keeping her."

She flew down and floated next to the Doctor Fate. "Klarion, this ends now!" he/she exclaimed.

"I agree, Witch Boy, you have meddled in the human world far too much. It is time you return to your own world," my mother said.

"And just who exactly are you supposed to be, little girl?" Klarion asked in a demeaning tone.

"I am Talisie, Third Daughter of the Seventh Ring of the Dark Circle, and it is time you returned child Lord of Chaos."

Klarion simply shrugged, "We shall see about that." Suddenly a bolt of lightning went to strike us but my hands formed a dark purple shield formed in front of us. The purple haze absorbed the strike and turned into shapes similar to shards of glass and threw them to the orange dome that the Witch Boy had surrounded himself with.

"Is that all you have," he asked as he began firing large balls of magic at us and Doctor Fate. We all began to dodge them before Doctor Fate began to fire a streams of yellow magic at the dome. My mom didn't like that answer to much as she her hands began to glow a dark purple and form a similar streams at the dome as well. I could see on the ground Aqualad and Miss Martian attacking the dome as well.

Suddenly Doctor Fate began to falter switching between forms of Zatanna and Doctor Fate causing a lot of enjoyment and cockiness to the young Lord of Chaos. "Haha, now there see when the worlds divided the helmet is split to which means you are not all here, Nabu. And you are losing hold of the soon to be dead girl." He gave out a muffled laugh, "She gave you herself for nothing."

"No, Witch Boy, Fate decrees her sacrifice will not be in vain," Doctor Fate shot a steady stream of the yellow magic at the dome. My mother followed him and so did my team members. In the dome, Klarion began to protest which caused me to smile. He collapsed to the ground as his orange colored dome dissipated into the ground. Doctor Fate shot this golden shape at the Witch Boy trapping his head and hands in the shape.

"Now, Kid," Aqualad ordered. Kid Flash ran from his spot and grabbed a yellow stone from the middle of the circle and threw it to Doctor Fate.

The sorcerer began a chant and the stone glowed suddenly a flash of light blinded us momentarily revealing the other four adult sorcerers and four members of the Justice League.

"Eh, guess they don't make evil immortal sorcerers like they used to," the Lord of Chaos said and with a snap of his fingers the trap evaporated. He stood up and brushed off his sleeve, "Fun while it lasted, Teekl!" His cat which started out as a giant monstrous feline that was attacking Superboy to a small evil cat as he reached his owner. "See you later, Armadillos, unless I see you first," he said as he formed some type of portal, he entered it and disappeared with a cackle closing the portal right after him.

Kid Flash ran and appeared in front of the both of us, "Aren't you going to stop him?"

My mom floated down and landed on the ground in front of him, "No, Young speeder, a Lord of Chaos can never be captured, there is always a never ending battle between that and fate."

"Carter?" Aqualad said as he approached me.

My mother shook her head, "No, Aqualad, I am merely using my daughter's body as a relic to help you defeat Klarion. She will be back to you shortly."

Suddenly my mother appeared in the room beside me. "It is time I take my leave, My Beautiful Daughter, I have been gone to long and you must get back to your friends."

"Wait when will I see you again?" I said as I grabbed her arm.

She wrapped her arms around my body and gave me a hug, "You, unfortunately, will never be able to see me again, Carter. But I will always be here now as your guidance in here." She kissed my forehead, "I will always be watching and I will always give you pictures for clarity. I love you, now it is time for you to be with your friends and your family. Please tell Dinah and Oliver thank you for raising you to be so strong." She stepped away and formed a portal. She turned and smiled at me, "I like Kaldur by way. He has my approval."

I laughed and shook my head, "I love you, Mom, I'll come visit you soon."

"I love you too, and you will never forget, I will always be in here," she said touching her chest. She turned and walked into the portal and with a bright flash of purple light I was in control of my own body. I blinked my eyes open and saw Kaldur smile in relief.

He rushed forward and pulled me into a hug. "I had feared I had lost you," he whispered into my ear.

I laughed, "You can't get rid of me that easily."

"Fate!" Zatara shouted causing me to turn around and look at the older man approach his daughter that was still floating in the air. "Great Nabu, please release my daughter."

"No," Doctor Fate replied in a combination of his and Zatanna's voice, "I've witnessed the havoc wrought in these hours, the world needs Doctor Fate! And the girl's natural affinity of the mystic arts makes her an excellent candidate!"

"But she is just that, a girl, Nabu! She is still young she still has her life ahead of her who are you to decide that her's should be ended and replaced with a fate she did not want of her own!" I argued stepping forward.

"You have no say in this matter Daughter of Talisie," he ordered.

"I do when the matter involves my friends, Nabu. We all do!"

"Kent Nelson would never allow you—" Wally started as he stepped up to my side.

"Kent Nelson did object strenuously, so I released his spirit to the afterlife," Doctor Fate informed us much to Wally's shock. "He is gone."

"Take me instead," Zatara said suddenly, "My skills are already at their peak, and my body is physically stronger, better able to withstand the strain of your power."

"All true, but if I remove my helmet, what guarantee do I have you will don it?"

"My word," Zatara answered as he raised his arms and chanted something. Fate lowered down to the ground and once there Doctor Fate took off the helmet revealing a relieved Zatanna.

"Dad!" she exclaimed as she ran to her father.

"Zatanna!" the older magician said in relief as the two embraced. Seconds later he pulled back and kissed her forehead, "Remember, I love you."

"Take care of my girl," he said towards batman.

"You have my word," Batman vowed.

Zatara moved to place the helmet on his head and his daughter began to protest shrugging off Robin's attempts at comfort. She was too late, in her father's place was a male Doctor Fate who instantly flew away with the tied up unconscious sorcerers and disappeared in a yellow glow. She collapsed in shock to the ground and stared at the spot where Doctor Fate was moments ago in the sky.

I approached her and knelt down in front of her. She looked at me and with a lone tear falling down her face she said, "He's gone." I leaned forward and wrapped my arms around her now shaking body as she sobbed.

"We are here for you, Z, you will never be alone," I said to her, "I swear it."

We had got her settled for the night at the cave and would be moving her stuff in tomorrow. It was a bittersweet moment and I was sad she had to end up on the team this way. I zeta-ed back to Star City at three in the morning. I ran through the streets in my civies and ran home. I opened the door with a loud bang. "Dinah! Oliver!" I exclaimed. As I ran into the kitchen, "MOM! DAD!" I yelled as I ran through the dining room and into the living room.

"Calm down, Carter," Oliver said as he came into view as he and Dinah stood up from the couch. I ran and nearly tackled him to the ground with my hug. "Hey what's this for?"

"Because I love you that's why," I stated, "Now hug me already, never know when this will happen again."

He laughed and hugged me back, "Missed you too, Car."

I released him and gave Dinah a hug, "I saw my mom today, she says thank you."

She pulled back from me and looked at me, "She should be the one that should be thanked. She's the one who made such an amazing young woman." I smiled and hugged her again. I changed out of my clothes shortly after and I found an envelope in my jacket pocket.

"My room is right next door if you need anything," M'gann said with a smile towards Zatanna as she placed some boxes to the floor of Zatanna's room.

"Uh thanks," she said monotone, "I could use…some alone time. Okay?"

"Of course," Artemis answered as she and M'gann filed out of the room with Robin very hesitant to follow. Once he left I looked at Zatanna.

"I am always here for you, we all are," I stated, "Just know that there is always someone here to talk to several of us have gone through this." I shook my head, "Just know that you are never alone."

She nodded in response and I walked out of the room letting the door automatically slide closed behind me. I could hear her begin to sob through the door and I walked away with a heavy heart towards to common room.