Batingency Plans
#43
Nightwing, Batgirl, and Robin were placed in different rafters across the large room, ready to provide backup if need be. They were Beta team.
Alpha was everyone else, and they were working to destroy a machine that the Ultrahumanite had built. No one knew what it was for, but he was threatening to shoot the White House with it, so it had to be bad.
Right now, they were disabling the machine. Bumble Bee was working on the wires, trying to understand what it did and see how hard it would be to build it again. Superboy, Lagoon Boy, Wonder Girl, Miss Martian, Beast Boy, and Impulse were standing guard. This might sound like overkill, but tey wanted to cover all their bases so that they didn't have any trouble.
"Superboy, I can't tell what this is. I'm going to take scans of it then you need to destroy it," Bumble Bee said, scanning the machine.
Superboy nodded. That's when the Ultrahumanite and several of his minions entered the room. Alpha began to fight them, and the Ultrahumanite ran straight for the machine. He reached it and batted Bumble Bee away. Miss Martian contacted Beta squad for backup. The thugs forced the teens together in the middle of the room, and the Ultrahumanite shot them with the machine.
There were no ill effects, so they fought on. Superboy smashed the machine and threw the Ultrahumanite against the wall. Nightwing, Batgirl, and Robin came rushing in, and soon the thugs were taken care of.
The Team left, happy to have gotten through another mission successfully.
Back at the Mountain, those who had been in Alpha squad had started acting strange. They would see things that weren't really there. They would randomly start humming, then giggling. It was starting to get a bit unnerving.
Nightwing called them into the mission room to see what was going on. They tried to be serious, but having them all together seemed to only intensify their problems. It was Garfield that started what happened next, though.
"Picture yourself in a boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
La'gaan calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes," he sang slowly.
The others picked it up, and soon they were all singing and dancing along.
"Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for Cassie with the sun in her eyes,
And she's gone," M'gann sang, floating in the air.
They all gathered in a circle and threw their hands up, dancing and twirling. Meanwhile, Robin, Batgirl, and Nightwing, the only ones not infected, glanced at each other.
"Batingency Plan 43?" Batgirl asked.
Nightwing nodded and they all pulled out matching cameras to record their teammates.
"Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah..." Cassie sang.
"Follow M'gann down to a bridge by a fountain,
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies.
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high," La'gaan sang, grabbing M'gann's hands and swinging them.
"Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you're gone," Connor and Bart sang together.
"Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah..." they all joined in this time, with sparing moves that had taken a more artistic edge.
"Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes," Karen and Jaime harmonized.
"Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Karen in the sky with diamonds,
Ah... Ah..." they finished up, and then collapsed, lying on their backs, looking at the ceiling.
Bart suddenly got up, and shook his head. He sped over to the three Bats who were putting their cameras up.
"What's going on?" he asked.
"Seems to be an effect from the ray you were shot with," Nightwing said. "But it apparently wears off."
"So we're cancelling part 2 of Batingency Plan 43?" Robin asked.
"I guess so," Batgirl said, preparing to leave.
The rest of the teens, still under the influence of the ray, sat in a circle and started singing again.
"You know you love me," M'gann started.
"I know you care," La'gaan added.
"Just shout whenever," Connor said, pointing to his ear.
"And I'll be there," Cassie said.
"You are my love," Karen sang.
"You are my heart," Jaime continued.
"And we will never ever ever be apart," they sang together, forming a group hug.
"On second thought, it can't wait," Batgirl said.
"Agreed," Nightwing replied taking blood samples with which to form an antidote and dropping gas pellets to knock them out.
I don't own Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles, or Baby by Justin Beiber. This was definitely a strange one... I don't know what happened. And Ash and I separated she has her own account where she's going to be posting her stories. There's a link on my profile if you want to check her out. That's all for today!
-Shadow