Cave Justice, March 19, 2036, 11:11 PM

The room was tense, sweet, salty sweat beaded on Terry's forehead as he sat on the couch spamming the controllers buttons and growling aggressively. Rui sat next to him, calmly pressing buttons on her controller and smiling subtly. She didn't know it, but she was annihilating Terry in Mortal Combat X. And she had no idea that she was, infuriating the boy even more.

Sam sat in the chair next to them laughing his ass of and eating popcorn. Nearly choking at times. Terry glanced over to Sam and rolled his crystal blue eyes at him. "Fatality!" Terry jolted his head back to the screen to see his character be sliced in half. His jaw dropped and his left eye teared.

"What!?" He shouted, Rui smiled at him softly as he slumped into the cushions of the brown couch. He crossed his arms and started to pout, Rui bit her lip and turned to Sam. "So, when are you and Mary getting together?" She asked, this time Sam truly choked on his popcorn.

"She's just a friend!" Sam coughed, Terry yet again rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, and so was Gretchen." Terry said, Sam swiped at his neck.

"Who's Gretchen?" Rui questioned, Sam blushed, "A girl whom I used to," Terry interrupted him.

"A MS13 member whom he smashed under the bleachers at Homecoming." Sam slapped his face into his hands. Rui stared at Terry blankly, "What?" He defended, "It's not like he married her, she's actually really nice just born into a bad spot... and doing twenty years for attempted murder." He slowed himself towards the last part.

"Okay, changing the subject..." Rui said as Red Arrow walked in with a box of doughnuts. "Discount, thought you kids would like these." Roy said, Terry jumped up and opened the box.

"No sprinkles, no wonder you got these for less." Terry said, Roy shook his head, "So you don't want these, I could always take these to The Titans, I'm sure Nate would eat them a-" Roy started as Terry grabbed a glazed doughnut and ate in his face.

"Okay then." Roy smiled as he set the box on the table. Then Dylan ran in, holding a light communicator.

"Terry? Why was this in your locker?" Dylan asked, Terry recognized it, the same one he took from Pyro. Bryce, Dylan's boyfriend, member of Ace's team. Everyone stared at Terry. And the doughnut in his hand plummeted to the ground.

Terry breathed in slowly, the air around him chilled as his chest collapsed in on itself. He stared blankly at Dylan, soaking in his stern green eyes. He closed his eyes and bit the inside of his mouth, he opened his eyes and glanced at Sam and Rui, who glared at him curiously. He lowered his head and inhaled, he looked back up at Red Arrow and exhaled.

"When we fought Pyro, I stole it from him right before he escaped." Terry said, Red Arrow raised a brow and huffed loudly. He shook his head and glanced at the light communicator.

"Why didn't you give it to the League, or the Titans?" Roy asked. Terry brushed a hand across his forehead, and bit his lip.

"I thougt maybe, maybe I could use it to track the other members of Ace's team. "He said, "so I left it in my locker when it failed to yield any new information." Roy grabbed it out of Dylan's hand and shoved it into a pocked on the left side of his utility belt.

"I'm taking this to Red Robin, you stay here." Roy said, starting for the door.

"Wait, not only did I get his com, but," Terry said, his heart pounded in his chest, he glanced over at Dylan who stared at him softly. Terry wanted to hold his tongue, he knew Bryse would keep up his end of the bargain if he kept up his, but he could not let this information not be shared, it could help finding him and bringing him to justice. So, he stood there as Roy stopped in the door way, staring at him, waiting for Terry to finish.

"What?" Roy asked impatiently.

"I found out Pyro's identity, when he took off his mask and showed me his face I had a solid confirmation of my previous suspicion," Terry said, he breathed in deeply and closed his eyes, "I had suspected a man, well boy named Bryce Gonzales to be Pyro, we know Bryce as a friend of Dylan's, originally I didn't want to come forth with my theory as I had little to no evidence, other than upon meeting him his hand burnt mine as I shook it and noticing that his left arm was broken, just as I had seen footage of Pyro breaking that same arm earlier that day." Terry stared down at his feet, "My confirmation came when Bryce left a phone at mine and Dylan and his table, I picked it up to return it, but it turned out to be that exact communicator." Terry finished, pointing at the communicator in Roy's hand.

"And you didn't tell anyone sooner?" Rui asked, glaring at Terry who bit his lower lip.

"He told me that he would quit the life of a villain in exchange for me finding a way to clear him." Terry said, that's when Dylan snapped. He shot up into Terry's face, their noses mere centimeters from each other. His breath was hot on Terry's face, his green eyes looked right through Terry, staring directly into his soul.

"Terry you can't just trust that, his his word for it!" Dylan snarled, small amounts of spit flinging out of his mouth and onto Terry's.

"I mean you trusted him." Terry said, Dylan scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"I had no idea!" Dylan said, throwing his arms to the sides dramatically. Roy stood in the back snickering like he was eighteen again.

"Wait, isn't Bryce your boyfriend, kid you just pulled a me." Roy said, immediately regretting his words as Sam stared at him weirdly.

"Except he didn't marry his bad guy and impregnate them." Sam said, Roy's face grew almost as red as his own hair.

"Well they legally can't marry till they are eighteen and it's physically impossible for them to-" Roy started off, everyone stared at him like he was a complete lunatic, "i'll go get this to red." He said, quickly running out of the room leaving the team in there dazed as to what just happened.


Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica California, March 23, 2036... 12:22 PM

Marine landed on her feet after she jumped and dodged a laser beam from a new member of Ace's team, who stood seven yards away growling at her as she danced gracefully across the playing field of the pier. She flipped through the air, jumping higher and higher thanks to her strong leg muscles, evading Atomic's blasts. She grinned at him playfully as he thrusted his arms forward, firing tons of irradiated force at her, she bended herself backwards. Playing limbo with the blast. She sprung back up and glanced over at a ferris wheel just as Ace had put the bomb on the controls.

Oh no, she thought, Ace planted it! She ran towards Ace, the wheel, and the bomb. She plowed right in front of Atomic, shoving him down to the floor and dashing right for Ace. She reeled back her left arm and thrusted her fist towards Ace, unfortunately he saw her coming as he grabbed her arm and flipped her over himself sending Mary into the wooden boardwalk they stood on. Mary gritted her teeth as Ace aimed his pistol at her, she shot back up and grabbed hold of the gun, crushing it in her hand with her atlantean strength. She ripped its remains out of Ace's hand and threw it to the side. Ace grinned.

"Usually I'd hear a witty remark, but I think Manta made sure that wont happen." Ace said oily, Mary's brow furrowed and her nostrils flared. Ace took notice of her frustration and laughed in her face. "How pathetic, you can't even make a noise tat sounds like a growl just to satisfy me, no wonder you're the one member of your club who they rarely send out on missions, what good is a soldier who can't speak." He said, Mary then twisted her self and leaped in the air extending her leg, kicking Ace in the side of his head.

He laughed, and drew his staff, and pushed its end towards her stomach. It slammed into her and she folded over it, Ace laughed as he then beat her in the back and side with his weapon. She stayed hunched over, taking each hit like a trooper. She breathed heavily, she closed her eyes and bit her lip. Call this useless. She thought as she then stood straight and grabbed his staff out of his hand. She snapped it in half like a twig and used the one in her right arm to hit Ace straight smack in the face, turning her body enough to throw the half in her left hand at the bomb. The end of the staff she threw flew into the bomb, with four seconds till detonation, it stabbed through the bomb cutting it circuity down deactivating it instantly.

Ace hit the floor hard and rolled over to the edge of the boardwalk, he called out for Atomic to come to him. Mary started to run towards them to finish the fight, but Ace took out his Father Box and grinned at her.

"Home please." He said calmly, then in a puff of gold him and Atomic were gone. Mary stopped in her tracks as she stared into the horizon, her black hair blew in the slight breeze as the sun tanned her already dark skin. She breathed in the salty air and closed her eyes. She took out her communicator and used its texting function to call for a ride back to the cave, of which Sam replied saying him and the bio ship would be there in a few minutes.

Twenty minutes later she was sitting in a passenger seat of the bio ship, starring off out of the windows as Sam rambled on and on about how he thinks why she should start calling herself Aquagirl. Marry breathed in, and exhaled slowly as Sam stopped talking as he saw a slightly distressed look on her face.

"Mary, you okay?" He asked, she turned around to face him, she shook her head and signed to him the she was feeling slightly off. He nodded, then he smiled at her.

"Well, hey, you kicked Ace's ass today, that's something," He said excitedly, Mary turned back around and stared back out of the window. Yeah, then why am I not feeling that 'something'.


Cave Justice, March 23, 2036... 1:31 PM

*Kid Martain, C09, Marine, C13* The computer said as the pair entered the cave, which unusually wasn't empty. Mary walked down to the living room where Brendon and Abby were watching Dumb and Dumber, she sat on the couch and stared at the TV screen, as Brendon and Abby's laughter filled her ears. Just hearing everyone's voices made her anxious, she gritted her teeth as she forced a tear not to trickle out of her right eye. She ignored it when Brendon noticed that she was there and bid her hello.

She sat there on the couch listening to everyone and everything around her, Abby and Brendon's endless flirting with each other, Terry hollering in the next room that he kicked Dylan's ass in ping pong, Carrie screaming as she burnt herself on the kitchen stove as Miss Martian taught her how to cook. Mary breath in a deep breath and closed her watery hazel eyes and smiled; a fake smile. She then laid herself down and soaked in every sound: Rui yelling at Jai in Chinese, Savannah laughing rather obnoxiously, and Kat and Damian fighting as all siblings do.

Even if she tried, she couldn't help a slow tear from escaping her closed eyelids and running down her face.


I know that this was a really short chapter, I had a full one written but my computer crashed and I lost it(which is why I have been so long to upload this one), I'm sorry it took this long, what a month, as I do try to have one out every week or so.

I also would like to use this time to announce that we are coming up on the home stretch with New Light, yeah it's almost over, just seven planned chapters to go, afterwards I don't know what I'll do, I was thinking about a sequel but I'll only do it if you guys want it after the last New Light episode comes out. Also, I have a new pole on my profile, please go and vote to see wich Batkid is your favorite in New Light. Kat, Terry, Val, or Carrie.

Until next time, I'll be back in a flash...

-Beast Dragons232