Chapter 29: Humanity
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Mount Justice
October 5, 2010, 8:00 EDT
The door opens, revealing a tall auburn guy with dark shades in his eyes. What the heck? Roy comes in, wearing black pants and blue shirt with white jacket. What is he doing here?
"Hey." He started. He sits down and pulls the chair toward me. I sit straight and give him a raise in my eyebrow.
"What the heck are you doing here?" I asked, crossing my arms.
He smiles and crosses his arms, showing his biceps. Show off. "You don't like me to visit you? You're lucky that I am visiting you."
"Why am I lucky?"
"What day today is Dani?"
"I don't know. Who cares."
He raises his eyebrows again which is kinda annoying. "You want me to remind you?"
"No. Look Roy, if it is that not interesting then you are just wasting your time because I'm really not good at guessing things. So good luck with that."
"Date." He finally blurted out. Oh. Right. Date. I totally forgot about that. He did asked me last last week. And last week was supossedly the date. Man, I feel bad.
"About that-" I started.
"Nah, it's okay. But you owe me." Someone knocks. "Dani?" I heard someone say. It's probably Robin.
I lowered my head, thinking about what I did. I could warm hands overlapping mine. I looked at Roy, "Hey, It's okay. You're really lucky that I am not one of those guys that get easily mad."
He stood up and kisses my forehead, "Take care Danielle." He went to the door and Robin stood there, in his civilian clothes. It looks like he's been there for so long.
Roy nods to him and Robin did the same thing. At least they are not fighting.
He comes in and takes a seat. "Hey, Dani." He said shyly. I forgot that he's been ignoring me for the past days and this time he is the one who talks to me.
"Hi, Rob." I said and smiled.
"I'm-" We both said and laughed. "You first." He insisted.
"Okay. Um, how should I say this? I'm sorry Rob for what I did. Even though, I didn't exactly know it." I say, playing with my fingers.
"Stop. I'm the one who's sorry. I'm sorry for being dumb and ignoring you. I'm really sorry Dani." He says and he lowers his head and clunches his fist.
I put my hand on his fist and gives him a smile. "Robin, it's okay. You must have a reasonable reason for it and I won't judge ya. Besides, I'm okay right?"
He laughs and holds my hand. "Yeah." He replies.
He lets go of my hand, "Right, sorry." I say. "Hal says I'm doing good now."
"That's good. What happened Dani? For the past days, you've been distracted."
"I don't know Rob. I think this has something to do with my other powers."
"You mean the light thingy?"
I nod. "Yeah. Everytime I overuse my powers something bad is happening. I glow. White energy all around me. When I was a kid, Hal used to warn me about these powers. And I never listened."
Robin takes a step closer, "Dani, I will help you alright. I will try to do figure out something."
I gave Robin a big hug. It seems like Rob is shocked. "Thank you so much Rob! You're the coolest friend ever!"
Mount Justice
October 10, 2010, 16:58 EDT
Artemis kicks Robin, causing him to fall. I watched them carefully and glanced at Wally's direction. Captain Marvel gave him a juice. Dang, that guy is so dumb.
"Good work, everyone." Black Canary says, congratulating each of them. "In fact, it's has been a very productive week."
"Not productive for me." I say.
"At least you have a reasonable reason, Danielle." Artemis says. "Except for Kid Mallingerer."
We all looked at him. "Hey! Arm broken in combat against the Injustice League here."
Black Canary laughs. "I've really enjoyed being your, uh, den mother this week."
Recognized Zatara 11
The zeta tube reveals, Zatara shows up with his cane and big hat and typed something on the computer.
Access Granted. Zatana Zatara A03. Authorization: Zatara 11
A black haired girl shows up wearing like school uniform that I don't recognize. She's like the same age as me and Rob's.
"Zatanna, this is the team. Team, my daughter Zatanna." Zatanna's face looks worried like she doesn't seem thrilled to be here.
Megan hovers, "Hi! I'm-"
"Robin!" Robin interrupts with a big smile on his face. "I mean, I'm Robin. She's M'gann, and that's Wally, Artemis, Kaldur, Connor and Danielle."
"Welcome to the Cave." Kaldur says.
"Uh Thanks." She says.
"So, uh, you—you joining the team?" Okay, why is Rob stammering? What's wrong with him? He never did that before. Unless….
"Let's not get ahead of ourselves." Zatara says, taking his magician hat off. "This is strictly a visit. Though I am sorry that we've missed the training. It's something from which Zatanna could benefit."
I raised my eyebrows, feeling bored of the conversation that they're having. Megan and the others were looking at each other like they are talking telepathically. Dang, I really hate these telepathic conversation. Man, I wish I could talk to them.
Superboy starts making hand signs in the air which makes it too obvious that they are having a telepathic conversations. What a loser.
"Are you guys having a psychic conversation? Cause I can't decide if that's cool or really rude." Zatanna says loudly, catching our attention.
I smirked and Robin elbows my ribs. "Ow." I whimpered.
"All right. Fine." Connor says. "We were talking about Tornado. It's been weeks since he attacked and the League hasn't told us anything."
"The League is searching for Tornado. As well as the other androids that invaded the cave and their creator TO Morrow. Batman's made tracking them down our highest priority."
Robin stepped forward. "But you've found none of the above."
"Not yet. But Tornado is Justice League. The Team is not to pursue this." Black Canary says.
"Why don't you take Zatanna on, a, uh, a tour of the cave?" Zatara suggested.
We all looked at Zatanna and she's petting wolf. She's a nice girl.
"You're giving a tour? Cool!" Captain Marvel says bringing a plate of food. Maybe for Wally.
"Actually I was hoping you'd take wolf outside. He needs the exercise. We'll join you in a few." Connor suggested.
"Sure, sure. I can do that." Captain Marvel says and he and wolf went out. Sometimes he acts like a ten year old instead of a 30 year old.
"Danielle?" Black Canary asks and I approached them.
"What is it, Black Canary? Is there something wrong?"
Black Canary shakes her head. "Nothing at all." She and Zatara exchanged looks.
"You can trust me." I say to them.
Black Canary takes a deep breathe. "Batman wants you to do something."
"What?"
"Your light powers can find Red Tornado. You can scan the place where he was last seen."
"I…I can't do that. I never tried that before."
"We know Danielle. You're brother suggested that."
"What?! Why would he do that?"
Black Canary and Zatara looked each other again. "Dani? Are you coming?" Robin asks as he appears next to us.
Canary just nods and I went along with Rob. We went to the kitchen. Zatanna appeared next to Robin, leaving Robin shocked of what he saw. Awesome.
"Were not really taking a tour, are we?" She asks. Now she is wearing violet sleeveless shirt paired with white shoes and pants.
We stopped. Why Hal would suggest that I should use my light powers in tracking Red Tornado? I've only used my lightian powers when I am desperate and it would consume a lot of my energy.
"What's wrong with him?!" I yelled so loud and I caught everyone's attention. "I really did not mean that. I was practicing for a role play."
Robin gave me a look and we went outside. I really don't care about what are they gonna do. But I know that we are hunting down Red Tornado. How should I use my powers? I never tried that one before.
We went inside the bioship and I sat next to Robin. Zatanna sits in front, next to Artemis. "Hey." Robin says. "You okay?"
I nod quickly. "Yeah I'm fine. No worries."
"You're really bad at lying Dani." He smirks.
"Megan, the bioship wasn't authorized for departure." Canary says over the radio.
"We're kidnapping Zatanna…er..show her happy harbor." Megan says. "Be back soon."
"Roger that." Canary replied, you can hear the worry tone in her voice. "Uh, have fun."
"Where are we going? Batman is the world's greatest detective, and he searched for Tornado and Morrow in every logical location. If we're gonna do better, we're gonna have an illogical solution." Robin says.
"A truly dumb idea." He says and looks at Wally. And within seconds, we all looked at him, waiting for an answer.
Wally explains and Megan steered the bioship.
Belle Reve
October 10. 2010, 18:35 EDT
"Warden Strange owe us a favor for stopping last month's prison break." Megan says to Ivo. "He's given us five minutes."
"Spill Ivo." Conner demanded. "How do we find TO Morrow and his Reds?"
"And why in the world would I know where to find Morrow?" Ivo simply reply as if he is not being interrogated.
"Because and here's a truly dumb idea. You're Morrow's biggest competitor in the evil android game who better keep track of what he is upto and where?" Wally asks.
"Ah." Ivo says. His voice is so freakin' annoying. "I see your point. So let me rephrase, why in the world would I tell you how to find Morrow."
"He knows." Aqualad says.
"He darn right knows. Let me just punch it out of his mouth." I say ready to charge but Artemis holds me. My hands were glowing white.
Ivo smiles. "Still having trouble with that? Can't figure it out?"
Zatanna chants something and Ivo finally said the truth. "Morrow's in a secret underground base beneath Yellowstone National Park."
All of us are speechless. Robin takes a sneak to find out what happened. She's a magician that's what. I heard Superman is vulnerable when it comes to magic. I wonder if that affects Superboy.
"Wait, what just happen?" Ivo says, shocked of what happened.
"Black out all external communication." Kaldur orders. "Soon, Canary and Zatara and Batman too. I imagine will know of our visit with professor Ivo. We haven't much time."
"Look." Robin chuckles. Okay he definitely has a crush on this girl. "I'm trying to be nonchalant here."
"Why? Be as chalant as you like." She says. Flirting much.
"I think we're all just trying to get a handle of your powers." Artemis says. "Could you just teleport us to Tornado or Morrow to a cell or force his bots to surrender?"
"Or create peace on earth for all time? Zatara couldn't even do all that and I'm nowhere near my dad's level. I need to know a spell cold or else I'll have time to prep it." Zatanna explains. She's pretty cool.
She continues, "Plus all magic requires energy, which usually has to come from within. I just can't make the impossible happen at will."
"What's our ETA to Yellowstone? I'm way past ready to stuff Tornado into a trash compactor?" Superboy says angrily, clenching his fist.
"Are you so certain that he betrayed us?" Kaldur asks calmly. Dang I wish I am calm.
"Are you?" Superboy asks angrily.
"I am not convinced."
"Look maybe, he's just being controlled by his creator or something. Tornado is a good guy." I say calmly. "We can't judge him quickly."
"Polaris is right. He deserves a chance to prove he's more than a weapon others designed him to be." Kaldur says.
Superboy closes his eyes and sits tight in his chair.
Yellowstone National Park
October 10, 2010 20:22 EDT
The sky is dark and I activate my night vision. Thank Hal for this. He told me one time, Danielle you will need night vision soon and don't blame me, blah, blah. I forgot some lines that he said. One thing I know for sure that it's annoying.
We stood up. "Stealth mode." Kaldur ordered.
Everyone starts pressing their symbols in their chest except for me and Robin. Zatanna opens the hatch.
I open the pockets of my silver belt and everything is there. I tighten my gloves and knee boots. I put my light brown hair into a fish tail.
I saw Robin getting ready and taking glances on Zatanna. "Yo, Robs. Zatanna's pretty cool if you ask me."
He looks startled. "What? I mean yeah. Sure." He went back to his belt.
"I'm not dumb, Rob. I know you like her."
He just smirked and we went outside. We raced through the forest while I turn invisible. We stopped and Robin turns on his holographic computer.
"Ivo was right. Something's down there." He says and Kaldur speeds up. The wind starts to blow and I lose my concentration.
We all grunted and eventually knocked on the ground. I try to concentrate to get out but the wind is just too strong.
Red Tornado is seen hovering above us. He sends a big tornado, big enough that can kill us. Three more appeared and they seemed to be coming closer. Wait, I can stop it. I have copied his powers back then. But I need my dagger to absorbed it to get the exact powers or else it is limited.
I make a big shield around us. "Why Tornado?! Why are you doing this?" Megan asks.
"Robin! I need to go near him. Make him stop the wind." I say and Rob nods.
More tornados surround us. "Can't concentrate anymore!" I yelled.
"Who cares why?!" Superboy answers to Megan's questions and charged.
"Superboy! Manuever 7!" Kaldur says. Superboy stills and prepares his hand. Kaldur jumps and launches at Red. Eventually he got knocked out.
"Dani! Now!" I took out my dagger and teleport at the back side of Red. I slashed the dagger and Red grabs my arm then neck.
Kaldur was sent flying and got hit to Superboy. He throws me and I got knocked on the ground. Artemis follows, sending two arrows. Red sends it back to her and Robin.
"Look out!" The arrows exploded.
I stood up and went for my dagger. I teleport and take the dagger from his back. Then I waved my hands and summons an exact tornado like his.
The Tornado is not that big. "Kid!" I yelled and concentrated more. "Distract him for a sec!"
Kid nods his head, "That does it Red! You're not the only Spin Doctor around here." He turns fast and quickly makes a big tornado.
Megan attacks from behind but her arm was grabbed by Red and she was sent flying to Kid. Both stumbled to the ground.
Zatannna tries to chant something but was cut off by Red. Red grabs her neck and throws her.
Two red tornados appeared by my side and I waved my hand towards Red. He makes the exact tornados.
Our tornados clashed and I could feel my energy losing. I yelled. "C'mon Red! Stop! We're you're friends!"
Another red guy appeared next to him. He summons a big rock and clashed it to me. I quickly make a big shield but the rock knocks my shield.
My head hits on the rock and my vision is blurry. "Polaris!" I heard someone say my name but my ears are clinging.
"Watch out!" I look up and saw a big chunk of rock about to crash me. I teleport to the other side and avoid the rock.
My vision is back and they attacked the other red guy with lava on his body.
"You are no match for me humans." The other red guy said and punched Kid.
"We're not human!" Superboy and Megan said at the same time. It's true though.
"Apologies." The other red said and summoned a pair of rock hands and smashed them both.
I stood up and take out my dagger. How do I attached my dagger on this guy?
He sends a big wave on the ground and Kaldur and Artemis fall to the hole. But they made it out in time before they got slammed.
Robin attacks, sending a batarang at him. Eventually he caught it and it explodes. But he did not have any scratch. Bummer.
"Tornado's memory files and my superior processing speed allow me to anticipate your move." He says. My hand starts to glow once again. Oh no.
Zatanna starts to chant and something wraps in Other red's eyes. "Tornado never learned my moves." She says.
"I bet you have some good ones." She looks at Rob. "Sorry, I might have sound like Wally."
She gives him a smile. "It's okay. I don't mind." Man, they flirt in the middle of the battle? Who does that?
A bright light escapes my hand and it hits the other red guy. At the same time his eyes glowed red and it got hit with a white light.
My body feels numb after that. I look at him and figured that it made him even angrier. The ground erupts and a big volcano appears, sending lava all over.
The lava was flowing fast. And it almost went to my knees. The other red guy sends rocks with lava at me and I teleport with the remaining energy I still have.
Rob appears my side and helps me get up. "You okay?"
"Yeah. Except for that."
"Wally says that he's activating stage 2 eruption. If it reaches stage 3, the atmosphere will be destroyed."
Kaldur attacks along with Superboy. Superboy punches him but got hit back. "Megan!" he yells and went for her when the Other Red guy summons heat from the rocks.
The other red jumps between them and hits Superboy. He grabs Megan's cape while Zatanna makes Wally's clones.
Sadly, the clones thing didn't work. But the real Wally saves Megan.
Rob puts my arm around his neck and a wave of water hits other red to the lava. "Nice hit!" Rob remarked.
"That hit was not mine." Kaldur says. "Look!"
The other red guy that controls the water appeared along with Red. Awesome. Then the girl red appeared too, attacking the evil other red guy.
"Sister, brother stop!" The evil other red guy said. The water controller red and the girl pinned him to the lava and Red joined them.
"He's gonna die!" I say. I teleport and grabbed Red out of the lava. The volcano looked like it was gonna explode.
"Tornado listen! Were on a verge of stage 3 supervolcano eruption, there's no turning back from that. We need a vent pressure fast! But the ash cloud will bring on worldwide nuclear winter unless you divert it." Wally says.
"Triangulate around the pressure locus." Wally instructed Rob.
I stood up and looked at Robin's computer. "Right." Three glowing red spots appeared. "There, there, and there."
Artemis shoots 3 flares and it hits the targeted spots. "Danielle, can you still make a shield in the atmosphere so that the ash cloud won't reach that high?"
"I can try." I concentrate and my hands glowed white, sending white blast to the sky. A wide white shield appears and Tornado went to the air, even though he's legless.
My body is getting weaker and the white blast from my hands is turning pale. Within minutes, the lava stops glowing.
"Yes!" Wally said.
I stopped the shield and I fall on the ground. But a pair of hands caught me, its Rob. "Good job, Dan." He says. He puts my arms again around his neck and we went to Red who just arrived from the air.
"There that should do it." Rob said. I sit down on a metal bed and watched Red functioning again.
"Yes, I can speak again." Red says.
"You were willing to sacrifice yourself to save the planet." Kaldur says as he approached him.
"The planet would have survived." Red says. "It is humanity that was saved though not by me. My sister and my brother were true heroes today."
Kaldur puts a hand on his shoulder. "My point is this, you were never the mole, never a traitor."
"No. I left to protect you from further attack and to find my creator, Morrow."
Kid went over to the other stuff in a desk. "Cool, souvenir!"
Robin holds a big red foot. "Reddy, we can rebuild you even better than before."
"Uh, I do not think that's a good idea Rob."
"I do not believe that I should be repaired." Red simply says.
"Why you'd volunteer to become our den mother in the first place?" Superboy asks.
"I was the pragmatic choice. I do not require sleep and I have no secret identity or second life to live."
"But you do have advanced AI programming designed to learn, adapt, evolve." Kid says.
"Hello Megan! You wanted to become more human." Megan says, making a slapping in the head gesture.
"You couldn't do that to the league. They're stiffs." Artemis says.
"You're sure not going to learn any emotion from Batman. Trust me." Robin says.
"Except for my uncle and brother. They can handle emotions that good." Everyone stares at me. "Well except for hardcore stuffs, then they can be stiff sometimes.
"Then the cave was not only a proving ground only for us, but for you as well." Kaldur says.
Red looks at him. "I do not know if these statements are accurate but perhaps they are true." He says. "And if I understand the term correctly, I believe I have come to care about you all."
"Aw, he does care. Who knew?" I say. " And you guys were saying all those stupid st-" Robin covers my mouth before I can finish.
"See? Practically a meatbag already." Superboy says ignoring the last thing that I have said.
"Which reminds me." Red says. Finally Rob lets go of his hands from my mouth.
Mount Justice
"Hey, are you feeling better?" Rob asks as we went to our rooms. After that whole mission, this is the first time that I am feeling so sleepy and tired. After all that yelling from Zatara, we finally went back to our rooms to rest. He even grounded Zatanna for life.
I yawned, "Yeah. I think I am. Aren't you heading back to Gotham City for duty or something?"
"It's midnight Dani. Batman doesn't do reports this late. Besides I'm going to Gotham tomorrow. You?"
"Maybe I'll go to Coast tomorrow as well. I feel so tired."
"The light thing it happened again right?"
I nod, "I thought it would disappear and all of that but it will appear when I'm nervous nor upset. What should I do Rob?"
"We'll find a way, I promise." I nod and we arrived at our rooms. "Danielle?"
"Yeah?"
"I will find out, okay?"
"Yeah, yeah." I say. We fist pumped. "Night."
"Night." And went to our rooms.
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