Hiya I'm baaaack! Never thought I'd be one to delay updating, so sorry about that. I have no excuse other than my summer has been crazy, and life goes on. So! Onto the shoutout thank-you thingamajiggers! People from the first chapter who faved/followed are still: BATMANMELTSI, Dawn-the-Dragon, Lil'LordBrat, and Akari Tatsumi! The people who favorited while I was… away… are: PandaTurtle, Queen Sound, i'm-the-one-and-only-girl. The people who followed are: .Soul, DemonessOfDepartingSorrows, Mysty Star, Queen Sound, RobinLover321, XxFlickerxX, and werekit. Thanks guys! Rest of note is at the end of the story! (Please enjoy!)
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It was a normal summer day for the team. Training had been cancelled five minutes after it started, resulting in a laid-back day for everyone. Megan was making cookies in the kitchen because she had only recently discovered "snickerdoodles," and she was determined to get the recipe right.
Conner was in the living room watching static on the TV, Wolf lying down nearby. No one really got why he insisted on not turning on the television, but they left him alone with it. After all, everyone has their quirks.
Artemis was cleaning and restringing her bow in the training room, having finished cleaning her arrows already. She was listening to music on her iPod with the earphones in, but it was playing much too loudly because you could still hear the music from standing a few feet away.
Wally was hanging out in the kitchen with Megan, eating an entire large pepperoni pizza. He wouldn't admit it, but he needed to be around people most of the time. It was just the speedster way of life.
Kaldur was currently in the mountains' pool, glad they had installed one just for him. It was like a little piece of his home, but without the sea creatures and exotic plants.
Robin, unlike the others, wasn't too happy that the training session had been cancelled. So, he had decided to make an unannounced session of his own. After sneaking through the halls, he finally came upon the room with all of the electrical controls. Cackling to himself, he hit the switch to all power in the mountain.
Thank goodness none of the League is here, He thought. Batman would be a mix between proud and mad.
Smirking, he turned around and used his grapple to get into the air vents. After all, he wasn't going to let his team slack off. Not today. And besides, he had been just itching to mess with his friends.
Let the trolling commence. He thought, smiling somewhat evilly.
Upstairs, the team was freaking out. Ok, not really freaking out as in screaming their heads off, but freaked out as in they all met in the TV room to try and figure out what was going on with the power. There was a backup switch, but it was all the way on the other side of the mountain, and Wally was almost vibrating on the spot as it was. He hated the dark, ever since he had been little (well, litterer…) and still couldn't seem to be able to get over his fear.
In fact, almost the entire team was scared, apart from Kaldur who was trying to keep up his leader image, and Conner who just wasn't scared to begin with.
"What's wrong, Kid Flop, scared of the dark?" Artemis taunted.
"Nope, just thought I saw a monster. Turns out it was you." He replied. This was one of the many perks of being a speedster. He could just imagine himself on a playing card with 'able to think of witty comebacks in under a second' as one of his strengths.
"Ugh! Grow up, will you?!" Artemis said, rolling her eyes.
"I'll take that as a sign of defeat." Wally declared, smiling at his small victory.
"Back to the matter at hand, why is the power shut off?" Kaldur asked, finally getting the attention of his teammates. It was hard work being leader, but nice too.
"I don't know, one minute everything's going fine-"
"Apart from being boring…" Wally put in.
"And the next thing I know, my cookie mixer shuts off and so do all the lights." Megan finished, used to the small interruptions from Wally by now.
"Where's Robin?" Superboy asked, saying something for the first time since everyone came in.
"Yeah, where is that little troll? I'm willing to bet he's the one behind this…" Artemis said suspiciously.
"Oh, Rob left to go back to Gotham. He told me to tell you guys, but I kinda forgot." KF told them, smiling somewhat sheepishly at his forgetfulness.
"Ok, then who is doing this?! That's it. I'm leaving. I'll see you all later." And with that, Artemis walked out of the room.
A few minutes later while everyone was discussing a way to get the power back on, they heard a frustrated yell that could only be Artemis. She stormed back into the room a sat down with in a huff.
"Uh, Arty? You doing alright?" Wally was sure to try and not provoke her at the moment, seeing as she was about ready to kill someone if they even tried crossing her path.
"I'm fine. Actually, no, I'm not, because all of the zeta beams are down, so I can't get out of here."
"Why don't you just go out the mountain's front or back door?" Megan said in her usual chipper voice.
"Yes, are the doors locked there as well?" Kaldur was beginning to worry. If they couldn't get out, the League might think they were just playing a prank of some sort.
"If they are locked, I could always bust them down." Conner grunted.
"So it's settled. We should split up, in case one of the doors is locked. Meet back here afterwards as soon as you find out. Megan, Conner, and I will go to the front door, and Artemis and Wally will go to the back door. Remember to come back here as soon as you find out if they are open." Kaldur wasn't too sure about the groups, but it was all they had for the day.
The two parties set out in opposite directions. Artemis and Wally would walk through the long hallway, then into the training room, turn, go down another hallway, then go through the mission room, and finally reach the back door at the end of another long hallway. Megan, Conner, and Kaldur would go through the kitchen, to a long hallway, then into the garage, through a different long hallway, turn down another hallway that had all of their rooms, go into the front room, then make their way down a short hallway that leads straight to the front door.
And Robin knew it all by heart. There were many times where he would get bored and explore the big mountain, and that's how he found out about the switch to the electricity. Of course, he downloaded it to the hologram computer on his glove, just to make it all more interesting.
He was also tracking their heat signatures, so he would know exactly where they are at all times. Checking Wally and Artemis's, he saw they were next to the big windows in the first hallway.
With a flick of his wrist, (and an evil chuckle) the window protectors slammed down with a boom. Nothing could get through that, not even Superboy. Doing the same for the rest of the mountain, he looked back and saw all of them running to their next upcoming room. The training room would be fun, but he had something special in mind for the garage. As soon as he hacked it, of course.
When the window protectors banged shut, Wally was a little frightened. Ok, so MAYBE that was an understatement. He was absolutely terrified. He had seen movies about haunted houses and ghosts killing off a group of friends one-by-one, but he never expected it to happen to him! He wasn't even sure if he believed in ghosts in the first place! He was already on edge about the lights going out, but when there was a loud noise followed by complete darkness, he jumped. About three feet in the air. Into Artemis's arms.
"What are you doing!? This isn't Scooby-Doo! And there's nothing to be afraid of, the power-outage must've just… turned the window protectors' holding clasps off! See? Nothing to be afraid of…" Wally could tell Artemis wasn't trying to comfort him though. She was trying to reassure herself.
"Oh, yeah, like you've never seen a horror movie before. The group splits up, and then they start to disappear one-by-one. And I'm first!" Wally exclaimed after nearly super-speeding out of her arms.
"Really? And what makes you say that?" Artemis had seen a horror movie before, in fact, she used to watch them all the time when she was a little younger, and knew exactly what Wally was saying. But she couldn't show him she was scared. She had to stay professional.
Wally stared at her with big eyes before waving his arms around while saying, "ARE YOU KIDDING!? The funny guy always goes first!" By this time he was pacing around nervously. "Then the one who acts as leader, then the buff work-out guy, then the emotional one, and finally the last one is left all alone with no way to get out. That's when the movie ends, usually with the last guy staring at some un-seen monster and screaming. But now, this 'movie' can't end! We're trapped with no way to escape!"
"Not yet. We still have to see if the back door is locked, then we can panic. But for now, at least try to stay under control." She was thinking of ways they could get there faster, without having him run into walls in this darkness. "Ok, so here's how we're going to do this. You are going to run at a normal speed next to me. That way, you won't be able to disappear since I'll be right by you. You have your goggles, right?" Artemis wasn't really used to taking the whole 'leader' position, but she would be able to do it if it was temporary. At least while Kaldur wasn't around to do it.
Pulling out his goggles, he said, "Yep. I never go anywhere without 'em."
"Good. Turn them on to the night vision mode, and let me know when we hit the training room. And don't worry, I'll use my arrows on any ghosts we might encounter." She added sarcastically to try and lighten the mood.
"Hardy-har-har. I doubt you'll be laughing when we actually do encounter one." He said as he put on his goggles and turned them to night vision. They could barely see each other before, but now he could see everything just fine, even if they did have a green tint to them. He grabbed her hand, and seeing her 'are-you-kidding-me-did-you-really-just-do-that' face, he said, "Just as a safety measure. Wouldn't want me disappearing, now would we?" after flashing her his trademark Wally smile, they set off to a normal run towards the training room. (That was seriously no pun intended. I caught that after re-reading it.)
Over on the other side of the mountain, when the windows slammed, none of them reacted like Wally did. Megan yelped and turned invisible, Kaldur took out his water-bearers, and Conner got into a fighting stance before he tried pounding the place where only glass had been before.
Giving a frustrated yell, he stopped and asked nobody in particular, "Why isn't this working!? It should have broken by now!" He hit it one last time.
Megan, who had come out of hiding, tried giving a good answer. "Well, this is where the League used to stay, so they probably installed some pretty heavy security in case of a large attack. Though some light would be nice…"
On saying that, Kaldur lit up his water-bearers so they could actually see each other. "This doesn't make sense though. If the power was out, how did these close? Surely there has to be some explanation."
"Maybe the power outage triggered something? Or maybe…" Megan then floated down to the ground, a worried expression on her face.
"What is it?" asked Conner.
"Well, about a week ago, Wally came here with a movie and said his TV wasn't working at his house, and he had rented a movie to watch. I made popcorn, and Artemis joined us a little later. At first it was a nice movie, a group of people went out for the weekend at a cabin, but then they started vanishing one at a time. It was very scary. Artemis assured me it wasn't real, but still…" She started glancing around nervously, even though it was too dark to see anything.
"Don't worry. I doubt that will happen. If you would like to hurry up though, we can." Kaldur had seen movies like that, and they usually had something to do with Wally making him. It was before Megan and Conner had shown up, but it appeared he had shown the movies to her as well.
"Yeah, I watched a movie like that with Wally and Robin a few weeks ago." Conner said. To him, it wasn't that scary, but it was enough to make him uncomfortable.
"So… we can hurry up now, right?" Megan was getting a little fidgety, and it was clear she wanted to go as soon as possible. Which, she did want to go soon, the hallway they were in almost felt suffocating without light. She was ready to get into the garage where it was less stuffy.
"We might even be able to open the bay doors when we get to the garage." Superboy pointed out.
Just then, the fire alarm started going haywire. They all looked at each other, and ran. A few seconds later, the alarm stopped, but they didn't. After rounding a corner, they were in the garage. Then the door closed, and made a sound like it bolted itself shut. The door opposite them, their only other exit, slammed shut as well. The lights flickered on and off, and the voice that announced the bay doors started talking, mainly saying how the bay doors were open, over and over again. But the doors never opened. Suddenly, it all shut down, the only sound being Superboy's motorcycle, which was now coming towards them at top speeds.
And again, they ran.
Robin was having fun with this. He had four different angles of the cameras to watch it all, too. It had taken him a while, but he had finally figured out how to control Supy's bike with his wrist computer like a video game. It was almost comical the way they all ran around. He wouldn't hurt them, of course, he was just doing it to get them to train. Involuntarily. With a motorcycle chasing them. And it was pretty funny to mess with his teammates.
A thought came to his head that almost made him laugh his signature cackle, but he couldn't laugh, not with Supy so close. So, he just went with the idea while desperately trying to NOT laugh. As the old funny classical music started playing, it was almost too much for him. Almost.
These guys look like they've got it handled. Might as well go see how the other guys are doing… As much as Robin would have loved to see how this was all played out, he had different group to mess with as well. And KF had given him the perfect idea on how to do it.
Alrighty guys that's not it; there shall be another chapter on it! But it will definitely be a while. I have camp for a week, then I go to Texas to see my dad the day after I get back for another week and a half. So, that's all I have to say, but NOW I have AWESOME NEWS. Awesome to me anyways. I GOT 3 REVIEWS. I JUST ABOUT PEED MYSELF. I WAS THAT EXCITED. I never really understood why the writers on here love the reviews so much till I got them! I was soooooooooooooooo happy! Now I can actually do mail!
XxFlickerxX: thank you sooo much for reviewing! Here's a good chapter for you! At least I hope it's good…
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Guest: (you know who you are) thank you soooo much for the long review! After this I'm hoping to do another villain chapter, but unfortunately, I know nothing of Catwoman. I'll try to see if I can watch the movie and actually remember it this time. That may be a different story for another time. Also thanks for the long review! (Love those!)
That's it for me! Again, it might be another month before I update, sorry I took so long to update this time. My summers are crazy. See ya next time and thanks for the support! Please please please please review! It would make my month if you did!
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