DISC ION
AN: AT THE BOTTOM
"m.. am... Sam." I heard my name, but I was too tired to respond. "She's okay." I heard a voice say. "Go away. Let me sleep." I told the voice, I felt too weak to get up. I tried to move but couldn't, my body didn't respond to me. I heard a conversation, but I knew something was wrong. I tried to breathe in, but my lungs couldn't inhale, I tried and tried but no air was going in so I felt my vision blacken again a few seconds later I lost consciousness.
"am... Sam." I heard again. I groaned weakly, coming out as a whisper.
"Thank god She's alive. Her hand, oh god, her hand is crushed we need to take her to the med bay." I heard a female say, probably Black Canary, my head is pounding, too dizzy to think.
"I'll take her." I heard a more familiar deep voice as I was picked up and carried.
"I'm... tired..." I said my voice came out rough and in a low volume.
"Don't fall asleep, not yet." The voice told me, my eyes couldn't make out shapes, but I felt really tired, my head hurt and I couldn't keep my eyes open.
"Too... late. I'm tired..." I said in a voice barely above a whisper as I let sleep overtake me.
I woke up, feeling a bulge on my hand; my tiredness still there but not as extreme as before, beside me was Kara she was sit in a chair sleeping with her head on the bed. I sat up carefully making sure to not wake up Kara I was in the med bay room, I looked at myself I had my Gotham Academy uniform on, I removed the IV in my right arm along the pulse tracker in my finger. I looked at my right hand and saw it was in ball out of bandages, I tried to move my fingers but couldn't all I could see were the tips of my fingers. 'That's good, I can't move my fingers. But I need to see what happened to everyone else.' I looked at Kara's sleeping form how her hair fell to her side how it looked as if it glowed. I moved my left hand to move the hair out of her face to place it behind her ear; her hair was soft and smooth. I saw how she smiled as I did that, the side of her mouth moving up. But I could also see that she had a worried expression. I got out of bed, as my feet touched the ground I felt pain flare up on my entire right side. 'I've had worse, pain is not something new.' I thought to myself as I slowly limped out of the room
"Seriously this room needs my name on it...Wait, where's my ring?" I said aloud I heard footsteps in the hallway and I stopped to see Black Canary and John looking at me giving me angry looks.
"What are you doing out of bed?" Black Canary scolded me.
"Young lady, you get back to that room right now." John demanded, the door of the room slammed open and I saw Kara as relief slowly washed over her face as she looked at me.
"Sam, thank Rao. You need to get back here and rest." Kara said to me.
"But I want to see how everyone is. And I need to talk to Batman about a serious matter at hand, it's about Red Tornado." I told them, they looked at each other. "And where is my ring?" I added
"Oh, I have it." Kara said as she opened her right hand showing me my ring, I took it with my left hand.
"Thanks." I thanked her as I made my ring fly into my left middle finger and began to force myself to walk; each step hurt my entire right side.
"Umm... I kinda need help. Everything hurts right now." I said aloud as I stopped and leaned on the wall.
"Here, let me help you." Kara said as she carried me bridal style her left hand too close to my breast.
"This is humiliating." I said aloud as my cheeks grew hot, from how she was carrying me and how close her hand was to my breast.
"Yeah, but everyone needs a little help every now and then." Black Canary told them as we Kara carried me
"Still that's why I don't like contact that much only with people I really trust and care about. Like some members of The Team or Dad, or the lanterns except Guy he's a jerk. But aside from them I don't like people touching me." I admitted, making John smile.
"What about me?" Kara said sounded hurt.
"You're among the people I really care about so it's okay for you to carry me like this." I admitted making her smile.
"What about me?" Canary asked me curiously.
"I like you, but not so much for a hug. With me you need to earn that." I told her
"That hurts me." She said with fake hurt dripping from her voice.
"Oh har har, buy me a pizza and a coke made in Mexico and I'll do anything for you." I told her smiling.
"Oh really?" She said intrigued.
"Yeah, I'm a slut for food." I said making her laugh; I looked at Kara who had a bit of red on her cheeks.
We reached the main room, and I saw everyone talking in a table Kaldur turned to me. "Sam!" He said announcing my arrival.
"Hey." I said smiling as Kara placed me in a seat in the table where everyone was seated.
"Told you guys she would be okay." Robin said.
"I knew that." Wally responded unsure of himself, while he was eating pretzels.
"Hey were those above the top left cabinet where there was a piece of wood that could be removed and where it was stashed away all those pretzels?" I asked him.
"Uh... no?" He responded.
I looked around and saw members of the League reconstructing the cave as the fighting took out walls, pipelines, furniture and the main electric generator, from the cave. Everything right now is a mess, the only source of light we only have the emergency power, currently I can't help since my hand broke. 'stupid robots breaking my right hand.' The weird thing is it doesn't hurt as it should, I mean it's a broken hand but it's weird it doesn't hurt. As the bandage completely covers my hand, John is an ex-marine and knows how to treat a broken hand. But this is overdoing it by a lot; but he did do a good job making my hand and fingers to not move, my ring being in my left middle finger its really awkward to have it there. We spent a few hours talking about what happened to everyone as they were ambushed, and how Robin and Artemis did to stop the reds and how Red Tornado betrayed us. But I realized they didn't tell me about Red Tornado, I hope John and Black Canary didn't realize I had knowledge of something that I wasn't there; luckily all cameras were down at the time.
"Synchronizing Cave security protocols with watchtower's mainframe" The computer said as the generator turned on us light again. Batman walked into the main room; while everyone else was talking I gave a look at Kaldur signaling him to talk with Batman.
Both of us got up and began to walk towards Batman, after being sit for a few hours I got used to the pain I can walk normally. After all I have good resistance towards pain.
"Hey boss, we need to talk to you." I told Batman as we reached him.
"What is it?" He asked us
"During the mission on the signing for the peace treaty between both Rhealasias, Sportsmaster gave us Intel on the possibility of a mole being in the team giving the enemy Intel on what was happening during our operations." Aqualad said.
"And after the attack last night by Red Tornado, I think either Red Tornado is the mole but we don't really know if he is since he is a Robot he could've been..." I told him only to be interrupted by Superboy tackling me, his body completely colliding against mine and crashing against the back wall making pain rise up through my body again as I was about to fall he grabbed me by the neck of my shirt and lifted me.
"YOU KNEW!" Superboy screamed as he lifted me up and kicked Kaldur away.
"That android and his maniac family almost killed M'gann!" He told everyone gripping my shirt tighter.
"Hey! Hands. OFF!" Kara yelledat him as her eyes glowed red, she ran over and took Superboy by his right wrist as he lifted me.
"Conner, Kara. What are you doing?" Miss Martian asked as she flew over, along with everyone else walking over.
"Kaldur and Sam knew we had a traitor among us and said nothing." He yelled back as Kara began to grip tighter I was struggling but pain flared from my right side a dry heave left my throat as the pain rose making my body go limp.
"Last chance LET, HER, GO!" Kara said as her eyes began to overload with red energy. Conner unclenched his fist letting go of my shirt as I fell like a rag doll onto the floor, Kara knelt down beside me and began to check on me.
"You both knew?!" Robin accused us.
"And didn't, tell us?" Kid Flash added
"We were trying to protect the team from." Kaldur argued only to be interrupted
"Protect us from what? Knowledge that might've saved our lives, her hand maybe?" Artemis said.
"You almost died." Superboy said to Miss Martian.
"She gave up her hand." Miss Martian argued.
"Yet she saved information that would've saved her hand instead of having her in that state." Kid Flash argued.
"Yeah, and Kaldur would've prevented that if he would've shared that information." Robin said, I slowly got up and got in front of Superboy taking his shirt by the S.
"Think about doing that again, and you will find out why this ring is the most powerful weapon." I threatened him powering up my ring.
"Enough!" Batman stopped us. I glared at Superboy, as we turned our attention towards Batman.
"With Red Tornado missing the team will now be overseen by rotating supervisors. Captain Marvel has volunteered to take the first shift." Batman told us. 'Great he leaves us with a ten year old kid in charge.' I thought.
"I'm really looking forward to hanging with you guys." He told us excitedly.
'He is a kid; I will try and keep my cursing to a minimum, like I did with Annie. God I miss my sister and this bandage in my hand is a lot like when she bandaged me.' I looked at it and smiled fondly at that memory, I looked to the team and everyone looked uncertainly at each other, Superboy turned to me I glared back at him.
"After I dismantle Red Tornado you and I are gonna..." Superboy told me only for batman to interrupt him.
"Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League that makes him a league responsibility. You will, leave him to us. I have another assignment for this team." He said motioning to the holograms of recent attacks by a gorilla.
"Gotham mayor attacked by gorilla guerrilla." Kid flash read the newspaper.
"Batman, please tell me you're not sending us on this joke of a wild ape chase." Robin argued.
"I, never. Joke. About the mission." Batman responded. Robin took his gaze away from his.
"I've checked the sources, I've studied the patterns. Mayor Hills is only the latest in a series of incidents. Aqualad you and your team will depart for India and check this out. To only scout; Kara you'll stay in the cave, you're not ready yet." He told everyone I nodded at Kara with a serious face, she comprehended everyone else started walking to the hangar.
"Ha, your team." Kid Flash told Aqualad as everyone else began to walk away. I saw Kara walk to Superboy and grab him by the neck of his shirt. Both of them glaring at each other soon after she let go of him as Superboy glared at me.
Aqualad placed a hand on my right shoulder; I placed my left one on top of his. We began walking to the bioship as me and Aqualad arrived at the hangar, Superboy glared at me as he made sphere turn and roll away; he glared back at me as he boarded the ship. Captain Marvel landed beside the Bioship, while Aqualad and I waited beside the ship for everyone else to board.
"You're coming with?" Robin asked Captain Marvel as he began to board the bioship.
"Sure we'll have a blast." He said as he walked to the Bioship. 'He is still a child, with those expressions.'
"Translation he blames us for Red fiasco, doesn't trust us." Robin said in his dramatic conclusions, Aqualad and I began to walk to board the Bioship as Robin and Kid Flash turned to us with scowls on their faces, I kept a straight face.
"It's a big club." Kid Flash said louder than he should to make us hear it. 'Can't blame him, after all that happened last thing I would've need was each one on each other's throats for blaming each other. Oh well I'll just endure it, until they understand.' Kaldur just stood there with a stone-cold expression, I placed my left hand on his shoulder to give him a little help as he did to me a few minutes ago. That broke him out of his thoughts as he placed his hand over mine and turned to look at me I gave him a little smile.
I saw Kara walk to the hangar to say goodbye as she always did, but that goodbye is always only for me.
"You sure you're okay going with your hand like that?" Kara asked me.
"Yeah, it's just a scout mission. It'll be okay... I think." I reassured her.
"I... I'm sorry, I couldn't protect you." Kara said her voice broke a little as a tear fell out of her right eye.
"Hey, don't cry. You did the best you could..." I try to make stop crying, she sniffed as tears began to run freely.
"I was weak, they took me by surprise. I ... I got encased in water and couldn't breathe and passed out. Only to wake up to hear you scream, oh Rao... it was horrible. I'm sorry,
I'm really sorry." Kara broke down as she hugged me; I wrapped my arms around her.
"Hey, it's okay. I'm okay. Don't worry, it was something beyond your power you were taken by surprise you wouldn't be able to do anything." I told her she sniffed and moved her head back she looked straight at me, I gave her a weak smile as she sniffed; I placed my left hand on her cheek and swiped a tear out of her cheek as it traveled down, she sniffed again a little snot came out of her nose I can only think that it's cute; but it hurts to watch her cry.
"Now, now don't cry." I told her as I boarded the bioship and took my usual seat, along with my book.
It took us three hours of awkward silence, while the hostility in the air was as clear as water. But we approached the mission to scout and scout only, which I knew wouldn't be just scouting; and yet here I am. "Arriving at the location." Miss Martian announced to us.
Robin and Artemis jumped down using zip lines, and began to scout for enemies nearby, the Bioship landed in stealth mode and we all unboarded.
"All clear." Robin confirmed.
"Switch to stealth, we'll need to see what parameter batman gave us in order to see what were faci.." Aqualad was interrupted again.
"Parameters? We don't need no stinking parameters." Kid flash interrupted.
"It's recon we know what to do." Robin added as they walked away.
"Kid Flash, Robin…" I told them.
"The four of us started this team because the Justice League was keeping secrets from us." Robin argued.
"Or did you two forget that? Like you forgot to tell us about the mole?" Kid Flash said as he placed his goggles on and ran away along with a disappearing Robin.
I turned to Aqualad who had that stoic expression again. "Come on I'll keep you safe." Superboy said aloud as he picked Miss Martian by the arm only for her to get out of the grip, she glared at him and crossed her arms."I just want to protect you." Superboy said to her.
"Like Green Lantern and Aqualad tried to protect us. I'm not sure if your protection or your patronizing is good for our health." Artemis said as she placed her bow on his chest and both walked away.
"Why didn't you stop them you're supposed to be in charge?!" Superboy told to Aqualad.
"I th.." He turned away from us and jumped off.
"Uhm did I miss the part where you actually said what the plan was?" Captain Marvel asked me, I along with Aqualad sighed.
"Come, we need to scout." I told them sternly. 'Maybe scouting will be a good distraction.'
We walked for a few minutes until we saw a clearing, the clearings ground had many different paw marks on it.
"I suppose this is where Mira Hill, monkey business went down. So at least we confirm your story right?" The captain told us. I crouched to try and remember the types of animals in the mission. "Green Lantern? Aqualad?" The captain told us.
"Oh sorry, it's just this claw and paw marks are bigger than normal. Meaning that the animals of this area are not normal, meaning they mutated or something. Also our teammates don't trust us because the team supposedly has a mole and all the trust we've built would've been lost the minute we told them about a mole, but the possibility of telling them about the mole would've destabilized the entire team meaning that the team would be divided. This is what it's currently happening." I told him, Aqualad just sighed knowing what I just said was right.
"Oh wow." The captain said to me. "You're smart." he added I smiled at him.
A rumble started to sound around us, making the ground shake, wood breaking came from in front of us and a mutated elephant rushed out of the forest and into us. Captain Marvel moved to intercept only to get thrown away by the elephant. The trees behind us began to crumble both elephant rushed at me; I flew out of the way I saw Aqualad get sent in the direction of the captain. I got hit from behind by a trump of the elephant that arrived without us noticing. "Oh that was cheap." I said aloud as I got up from the ground. 'Luckily I remember what made them attack.' I turned and pointed my right hand to shoot with my ring only to see a ball of bandages. 'Oh come on!'
The elephant got in two legs to try and crush me I saw muscles and ripped skin where his stomach and joints were, meaning venom was in their system. Captain Marvel hit the elephant out of the way, as I flew up to avoid being crushed. "Destroy the collars, they're shocking the elephants to attack us." I yelled as Aqualad distracted the first elephant that arrived as it was trying to stomp him. I made a construct of giant pincers and crushed the metal of the collar. The elephant immediately became docile and began to walk away.
I turned to see Captain Marvel punch the side of the collar with high precision breaking it, making the elephant walk away and follow the other elephant.
"Pretty sweet the way you knew the problem was the collars and what to do." He told me
"I knew it, they're being manipulated, used to attack and us being ambushed means the rest of the team is being attacked. Team report" Aqualad said in the earpiece, only for him to pull away as I heard static. "Comms jammed." He added
"Okay that's on me I didn't remind everyone to establish mental link." I said aloud.
"Batman always took command all he always did was boss me around. You two did a good job keeping that secret but you knew it would harm; now it's up to you to fix the situation." Aqualad and I looked wide eyed at him, he smirked as he tapped his head. "Hey wisdom of Solomon." The Captain told us.
"It's okay I have a plan." I said.
"Aqualad, Artemis and I were attacked by animals that had the same collar as the prisoners of Belle Reve." Miss Martian's voice sounded in my head.
"Oh cool the tiger." Captain Marvel flew toward the sound of the low growl.
"Captain, wait!" but he was already out of range. "Hey speed of Mercury." Aqualad said making me snicker.
"Link established." Miss Martian's voice sounded in my head.
"Should they really be giving us orders? And should you really be following orders?" Artemis asked.
"Oh good Green Lantern and Aqualad in my head; good thing that she has a broken hand she won't be able to punch us." Kid Flash announced.
"Hey Kaldur, KF and I were attacked by giant vultures cause since were moles you may think we attacked ourselves." Robin said.
"If they did they wouldn't tell you." Artemis said
"Superboy are you online or just pouting." Miss Martian told me
"Busy call back later." He cut in.
"What gets me is how nonchalant they are about not telling us." Kid flash continued
"They should be chalant, way chalant." Robin continued "Extremely chalant." I ignored them as we kept walking looking for the Captain as he didn't return.
"How can we be a team if they can't trust us with their secrets?" Artemis said.
I motioned to follow me to Aqualad who had a serious expression; we arrived at the place where Captain Marvel went to see three pillars of metal.
"Or if Conner doesn't trust us to take care of ourselves." Miss Martian said
"Did THEY really think you and I could've been the mole?" Kid flash said
"We've known each other for months; and Aqualad for years." Robin added
"Trust is a two way street." Artemis added
"And you know they hate it when we keep secrets form them." Miss Martian said
"Not that we do that, it's not like her sister would mind of her being a liar." Artemis said making me mad. 'Okay that does it.'
"SHUT THE HELL UP. I let you go your own ways think, to try and meditate and assimilate on what happened but we have a mission to do and right now. The Captain got captured and we need to act as a team to save him." Aqualad ordered as he got ripped a metal rod from the ground.
"Under your leadership I don't think so." Kid flash said
"This is not up for debate, I'm leader and you will obey me in order to save the captain. After this mission I will resign as leader." Aqualad said
"I will happily leave this team and return to space to do my job as a Green Lantern once we end the mission. Oh and Artemis I hear archers need both hands to shoot I wonder how will it feel to have two broken hands because, I broke my main hand for the team while you were cowering in fear in a vent, and I will break both of your hands if you ever mention my sister like that EVER AGAIN." I threatened.
"Now listen to Aqualad we have a trail so randevú on our position. Sorry John but I need my hand." I thought as I picked a piece of wood from a broken branch and placed it between my teeth as I knelt down.
"What are you doing Sam?" Aqualad asked me only for me to trap him against a wall construct with cuffs so he couldn't move.
"Wait GL what are you doing?" Robin asked.
"This will hurt a lot so, sorry about the curses." I said as I removed my bandage and saw the mess that my hand was; it had from my index finger up to my pink finger all bent at an odd angle. I tried to move them only for pain to travel across my arm.
"Sam don't do anything rash." Robin said as I took my middle finger and placed it in the correct way, pain traveled to my leg. "MOTHER FUCKER!" I yelled in my mind as I bit the wood a groan muffled by the wood.
"Okay that's one. Three remaining." I thought as I took my index finger which was bended in two different ways, I bit down hard on the wood as my teeth sunk into the bark. In a swift movement I clenched my left fist around the finger as it cracked it set the finger straight or as straight as I could; pain reached up to my shoulder. "OH MY FUCKING GOD! THAT HURT." I yelled in my mind.
"Aqualad stop her!" Artemis said.
"I cannot, I am currently in a construct cannot get free." Kaldur told everyone as he was fighting my get out of my construct.
"Okay third one." I bit hard and picked my right ring finger in my entire hand and clenched hard to straighten the bone, pain that felt through my entire body. "WHAT THE FUCK, OH MAN FUCK YOU AND YOUR MOTHER. GOD DAMN." I yelled in my head and my screams muffled by the wood which now had broken by the strength of my bite, I felt my vision go blurry for a second as tears covered my eyes, my face sweating heavily. The construct holding Aqualad faltered by the pain, but I kept it focused there.
"KF move faster." Robin said in the mental link.
"Too late." I said as I made the same process of straightening my last finger. "GOD DAMNIT, THIS HURTS SO BAD." I thought as pain coursed through my entire body, almost passing out as the piece of wood broke in half and my construct dissolved.
"Whoa I almost passed out." I spit out the pieces of wood and my construct got destroyed by a struggling Aqualad who was running at me, Kid flash appeared beside him and rushed at me.
"How is she?" Robin's voice sounded in my head.
I placed my ring in my right hand, clenching it a little it hurt to move it, not even half an inch moving and my entire hand hurt. But I forced my hand to open and close twice.
"You shouldn't move that hand." Kid Flash told me.
"Shut up, or make me." I responded.
I grabbed another piece of wood. "Sorry boys, but this needs to happen." I said as I made the same construct to trap them for a few seconds.
"STOP!" Both of the told me as they struggled as I placed a piece of wood on my mouth.
I made a construct to surround my hand, I began picturing my own hand, the construct began to apply pressure on the fingers in my hand I began making it smaller and smaller until it completely set the bones of my fingers to its rightful place from the outside in one simple go, making pain flare up again completely a muffled constant scream that left my mouth as the pain settled in. I can't think I bended completely gripping my right arm as my forehead hit dirt until the pain became bearable.
"There we go, almost passed out again but I'm okay now." I said as I got up slowly I saw Aqualad and Kid Flash by my side with worried looks, a few seconds later everyone else arrived except for Superboy.
"What the hell did you do?!" Artemis rushed at me and slapped me across the face; I just showed her my right hand.
"You are crazy. Why did you do this to yourself?" She asked me as she picked up the bandages.
"It felt weird using my left hand." I told her as she finished wrapping my fingers into the same way it was before only my hand didn't feel like that. "Now shut the hell up and follow us." I told them everyone nodded.
We moved following the trail and arrived to see a base, everyone crouched behind the nearby bushes.
"I'll fly over." Miss Martian said.
"No, Robin scan the base see what the pylons are for." Aqualad told Robin as he began to work on his arm computer.
"It's a dome over the entire compound." Kid Flash said.
"Pylons are insulated but one good shot could cause a momentary gap." Robin said as he scanned the pylons
"I see a target." Artemis said pointing at the door.
"Be ready." Aqualad said as he began to run towards the barrier he reached the barrier and sent electricity in the barrier.
"NOW!" Kid flash announced, Artemis's arrow flew and made contact with the bottom making the pylons power down along with the barrier. We ran out and regrouped with Aqualad. I looked up to see a monkey start to wail alerting the other monkeys. Making monkeys appear from the jungle and began to lunge at us.
"Focus the collars, these animals are just pawns being manipulated by the collars." I yelled aloud.
A monkey jumped at me and latched onto my face, I punched him with my right hand out of reflex. 'Oh shit.' I thought in my head as pain spread through my arm. "AAGH." I yelled,
"SAM YOU OKAY?" Aqualad yelled at me.
"Yeah. I'm okay." I said as I charged my ring and shoot at a monkey who jumped at me I shot his collar off the monkey as it became docile and ran away into the jungle.
I started focusing on the monkeys and their positions and began to make multiple pincers I got three monkeys but failed on two which Aqualad got only for the doors to open and reveal a gorilla with a beret and a minigun. "Miss Martian doors are opened move in." Aqualad told her via the mental link.
"Got it." Miss Martian said only for the gorilla to grab her and pin her to the ground
"Get your hands off her you darn dirty ape." Kid Flash said as he ran at him and drop kick the gorilla only to be thrown back, the kick didn't faze the gorilla.
"Okay plan B hit im hard though a wall." I said aloud.
"Superboy how nice of you to join us ... along with a wolf." I told him he looked worried at me looking at my right hand. "You're on point go in when Aqualad give you the signal." He nodded.
The gorilla charged at me I made a giant fist and punched the gorilla enveloping him entirely and launching him to a wall leaving a web like crack. Miss Martian used her powers to send him straight through the same wall making a hole; we all rushed into the facility. Inside was Captain Marvel attached to a table with different types of machinery. Beside him was The Brain a brain in a metal husk that looked like a trash can his brain visible by a glass with crystal clear liquid made to preserve the brain. He had white and black designs
"It's the brain!" Kid Flash said as he pointed at the Brain
"Ah, I can see it's a brain." Artemis said
"Not a brain "The Brain." " Kid flash said.
"In the flesh." The brain said in a thick French accent. "So to speak; Malat." The brain added.
The gorilla took a control out and pressed a button making pylons appear around us, and crushing us to the ground by making gravity heavier.
"Miss Martian take that controller, Superboy you're up." Aqualad passed the message, Miss Martian took the controller deactivating the trap and Superboy to punch through the wall.
"I'll get the Captain, the rest of you take the monkey and take on the brain." Aqualad said as he dodged Malat and shots from the brain, I flew at Malat as he was about to fire at Aqualad with his minigun, I cocked my right fist out of habit punched him with my right hand as hard as I could. Pain flared in my entire right side of my body making a tear fall out of my eye. But I pushed through the pain, focusing on the fight we're having right now.
I reached brain and covered Aqualad; I made a construct of a shield and shot at the brain who responded with lasers of his own. My constructs were faltering being destroyed in one shot from him. The pain was way too much for me to focus.
"You're faltering green lantern, a fatal mistake." The Brain taunted me as he opened fire I made shields as fast as I could but they were being broken to fast.
Malat landed beside The Brain, as he was surrounded. I pointed my closed right hand at him powering up to shoot.
"Now one good turn deserves another" The Captain spoke up as he freed the tiger.
Everyone surrounded the brain prepared to attack, Malat growled at us. "Try it, I hate monkeys." Superboy said as the white wolf growled at them.
"No Malat, this will not be our waterloo." The brain said as his body started to open and change form and he began to buzz. I kept pointing my fist at him. My body kept screaming in pain from the trauma in my hand.
"GET DOWN!" Kid flash yelled as the lights turned off and on a few seconds later.
"Wait that big weapon thing was... a light switch?" Kid Flash said aloud everyone relaxed, I fell to the floor as my the construct on my hand dissipated the change of pressure made my entire body flare in pain I gripped my hand from my wrist, a muffled groan escaped my throat.
"Hey are you okay?" Captain Marvel asked me as he knelt down and placed a hand on my shoulder, which made more pain.
"Sure, yeah. I'm okay." I told him as pain flared. 'What is with him and placing comforting hands?' We all began to move out of the facility, Kid Flash looked way to happy as he had the beret of malat.
We began to take the collars of the animals, there weren't that much left. "That's the last of the collars?" Captain marvel said as he knelt down to the tiger. The tiger only roared in what I assumed was confirmation
"I can count on you to keep the rest of the animals out of trouble." The captain told the tiger only to receive the same response from the tiger.
"Good, I'll be back for a visit; promise." With that the tiger made his way into the trees and disappeared into the jungle
"I think I'll call him Mister Tawny." He said as he waved at the tiger.
I stood near the entrance of the ship my body was on the verge of passing out from the pain I was barely awake by the constant sting of my hand. I looked to my right to see Superboy petting the wolf. "Hey can I keep him?" Superboy asked aloud; I glared at him. The memory of him threatening me still fresh in my memory, he just looked down at the ground in regret.
"Sure you can." Miss Martian responded for him.
Kid Flash neared them and started to talk to them, I got lost in thought thinking about my book recalling what happened, to stay awake. Robin approached me. Thank god my mask didn't show my eyes, they're closing and opening and my hand was palpitating. Aqualad began walking towards the bioship I began to follow him automatically, making my steps sure when my body was currently screaming me to pass out.
"Look I need to know. Why keep the mole Intel a secret?" Robin asked us I turned around to see everyone near the entrance.
"The source of the tip was Sportsmaster." Aqualad said to everyone.
"What?! You can't trust him." Artemis told us.
"I don't, it is possible he was trying to divide the team as it was having success on missions. By giving us fake information, meaning that we would lose the trust we have built since we began working together." Aqualad said aloud trying to sound sure and ignore the pain.
"And giving by how this mission went, he nearly succeeded. But you had to consider it might be true." Robin said to me.
"Yeah, Aqualad was in charge of finding out since I know he knew two of you from years of training together that you wouldn't be the moles. Miss Martian and Superboy since they lived together in the cave he could've found out. I would investigate about Artemis myself, but telling everyone would've caused panic amongst us destroying the team from within. Also it would've alerted the traitor that we're onto him or her, so he would start incriminating others and causing the team to collapse based on the accusations of those incriminations." I told them why explaining as I almost lost my footing, I took a step and forced myself to stay awake.
Robin sighed. "Hate to say it but, makes sense." Robin admitted.
"But from how this mission went, I am no longer in command of this team." Aqualad said as he was about to board the bioship, snapping me out of my thoughts.
"And I'm reporting to Oa to leave, or the green lanterns of earth. They'll give me something to do." I told them forcing my voice to sound normal.
"Wait! Why are you leaving? And you can't resign from being leader" Kid Flash said aloud.
"But you can't stop being leader." Miss Martian said.
"All in favor on keeping Aqualad as leader?" Kid Flash said raising his hand, everyone else followed suit on raising their hands, I turned to Robin who had his hand up, I raised my right hand pain passing through me again, I whimpered from the pain. I coughed to hide the pain.
"And all in favor for Green Lantern to stay on the team?" Kid Flash added, I looked around and saw everyone with their hands raised as Aqualad smiled at me.
"Guess its unanimous." Captain Marvel placed a hand on my right shoulder I contained a yelp from escaping me, he extended his right hand. 'Oh I hate my life.' I took his hand forcing my right hand to move and shook it fighting back pain as the bandage kept everything else in place.
"See ya tomorrow." He said as he began to walk away.
"You're not coming with us?" Robin asked him.
"Nah, gotta fly." He said as he took off everyone began to board the bioship Robin and Aqualad walked past me, with Aqualad placing a hand on my right shoulder pain flaring up but, I did the same as before placing my hand on his. He removed his hand and I relaxed in relief as he removed his hand. 'What is with people and comforting hand on people's shoulders?'
"So what are you gonna name it?" Miss Martian said as they passed me.
"What wrong with Wolf?" Superboy responded as they boarded
"Generic but acceptable." Kid flash said as they boarded.
I stood there in the exit as the bioship doors closed, my muscles relaxed and the adrenaline wore off. 'Oh this will hurt.' I could feel my entire body shut down from the pain emanating from my hand and began falling, before I hit the floor I was already unconscious.
I woke up seeing white bright light. "What happened?" I said aloud, my throat was hoarse, the light was blinding. "Please someone turn off the lights." I said as loud as I could a few seconds later the lights died down. I tried to get up only to be stopped by someone placing his hand on my shoulder for me to not get up. "Water?" I asked.
"Hey Sam, you gave us quite the scare." Robin's voice sounded on my right in almost a whisper.
"Here." Kaldur's voice told me as I felt a cup pushed gently to my lips and drank the water slowly as my throat stopped hurting, but I'm still tired.
"Thanks." I said aloud."Now what happened?" I said as my voice returned to normal.
"Well we boarded the ship and we took off only for after a few minutes of you not coming with us, so Artemis went to check on you and saw you on the floor passed out." Robin explained. I couldn't quite open my eyes, the light even being lowered the light is too blinding.
"Can the sun like not be on, or whatever that light is?" I asked and the room turned completely black, I could see outlines but that's enough
"Thanks. Who is here? And how much time?" I asked
"The entire team is here, waiting for you to wake up. Kaldur, Kara, and I never left. Artemis just went to get something to eat. As for time, well it's been around four hours it September 24." Robin said.
"Whoa, sorry guy, for worrying you." I told them.
"It's okay, but I have to admit you're strong. How long were you in that tired state?" Robin asked me.
"Well, since we made the plan to stop the brain." I admitted.
"Wait over four hours you were about to pass out?" Kaldur asked me.
"Yeah, I fixed my fingers, punched a monkeys, and one gorilla two times and the construct to keep my fingers in place also when the construct disappeared, and shaking Captain
Marvels hand that was like the tipping point. I enjoyed my one minute of standing as the doors of the bioship, and before I fell I was already unconscious. I just remember falling and wake up here." I responded
"Sam, how dumb are you? Your name just got written in that door. I mean, I'm worried about you and you go and do exactly that. It's frustrating to see you get carried unconscious here." Kara exclaimed.
I looked at my hand to see it in a cast up to my forearm. "Oh come on, it wasn't that bad for a cast." I complained
"Yeah it was bad, and also Batman and Canary said you're to stay in bed for the next day." Artemis spoke as she arrived with food.
"WHAT?! Hell no." I said as I tried to fly up only to not fly. "Really even my ring?" I asked
"Yeah, you restrained two of your teammates to fix your fingers which were broke. Then fought against a gorilla with a minigun." Batman said to me announcing his presence in the room.
"Oh right that happened." I reminded myself he just scowled at me.
"How many times do I have to tell you to not do irresponsible things?" He told me as he scowled.
"Well exactly it's been three times." I said to him
"You're out of commission; stay in bed and off missions until you're healed." He told me
"What?! Cant like Zatara, fix my hand? You know his backwards word magic can fix this, or I can travel to Oa and return in a few days." I said to him he just glared
"Fine, I'm out of commission. Can I have my ring now?" I asked
"Sure, but you can't use it against your teammates again. Or you're off the team." Batman told me as Karra took the ring out of her pocket and gave it to me.
"I did what needed to be done. It meant using my right hand to finish the mission and that meant pain for me so I did what was needed to complete the mission. Besides me in pain meant the team would come together at least for a moment. I sacrificed my pain in exchange for the team to be at their top game if we were to help Captain Marvel." I told batman.
"And yet you shook his hand with 4 broken fingers and your hand in that state." He told me.
"My bad?" I asked him, he scowled at me. "Fine I'm out of commission for about a week." I told him Admitting defeat.
"So I'm really tired and my hand is pounding sorry for worrying you but I need sleep." I said as I grabbed my ring and placed it my left middle finger, I let my head fall to the pillow, sleep took me immediately.
"You're not from around here." I heard a voice tell me.
"Here lies your conscience where the other one has left. Died in cold blood, where the young one saw as you left. Here's to hope, that the young one will go on, as you continue life in this world, where you don't belong." The voice was deep and ominous.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"Here's to love, for the one you seek will follow along, in this path you chose. Let's say you go on but what happens to the young one you left alone?" The voice continued.
"How do you know this?" I asked confused.
"Here's to rage, for your feelings of pain. Life goes on for the one you exchanged, while you hold on to this pain and self-hate will it stop when you're dead?" The voice knew me he was chanting what I did in my past life.
"Who are you? Answer me!" I demanded
"Here's to greed, for all you wish, to be on your reach, but what happens when you're in that breach, will you bend or will you break through?"
"I don't understand." I said as my voice cracked.
"Here's to fear, for they to know the truth, it will come to you it might sooth, yet it might not in that last tear, you will know what she goes through."
"Please stop." I pleaded
"Here's to compassion, where you left a life with passion, for a sister that loved you as you were her world, tell me what happened when you crumbled to the floor."
"Stop, please stop I'm begging you, stop." I started crying.
"She watched you fall and die. Tell me young one how does it feel for your life to end in that line?" The voice asked me. "What will you give to see her again?" The voice added
"Please, I miss her I would give anything to see her again. Anything, I'll give you my arm, anything to see her again. PLEASE!" I told him as I saw my left arm vanish.
"Not yet, for your road to end it will take time. Here's to death, where the ones who left are there, for the ones who share a fate, we all go there as if the end of your sheath, life ends in death."
I kept crying as the voice talked, I saw my left arm again appear.
"Here's to life, where the ones who are right, enjoy the thrills of it, while others fight for their right. You gave up your life for hers one day you shall see her again, she might not see you, but here's to hope that she will hear. The deal has been made." The voice stopped in that line, and my world turned black again. The voice gone.
I woke up, my eyes filled with tears I made myself a ball hugging my knees, and began to cry "I gave mine for yours and you; you almost died from my mistakes. You're alone there. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry." I kept repeating myself that, crying; I stopped speaking once I felt arms around me.
"It's okay, it's not your fault." It was Kara's voice.
"It was; me fighting got her killed." I lied to her, but that's the closer Ill get.
"What do you mean?" She asked me, I kept crying
"I killed her, me fighting for money. I won he lost and he killed her." I said to her.
"It's not your fault." She ran her hand on my back, giving me a sense of reality as I remembered how I died, how my sister cried as I closed my eyes one last time.
"He lost, he used drugs pointed a gun at her and shot it. She fell down I was too slow." I said to her, remembering the pain erupting from my stomach.
"Please kill me so I can see her, I don't deserve to live." I spoke aloud as I sobbed.
"SHH, SHH, its okay." She told me.
"I'm sorry Annie, I did my best and I failed you now you're alone; please forgive me. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I pleaded.
I don't know how long I was crying Kara just kept there gently running circles on my back making me feel something not losing myself to my mind as I kept crying until I fell asleep.
To guest: yeah the episode is about humanity, showing that a human with a ring from space even if the ring is the most powerful weapon in the universe means that Sam, doesn't know how to use the ring properly. She is just barely using it for complex constructs and her not being able to use it properly, she could've gained the upper hand but her knowledge of how her ring works. And from the comics the ring glowing armor it protects you from space and lets you breathe but the constructs are a problem for every lantern. Take for example Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz they have no idea on how their ring works, while Jessica appeals to the ability of the ring to adapt which gave me the idea for the ring to be sentient, but Jessica lacks the ability to make a basic construct. While Simon's constructs take form they lack strength as he carries a gun. Sam doesn't know how to reinforce a construct as other lanterns know how to do it, and that comes from experience. Sam graduated early because of how fast she cleared the tests; not how she learnt to use her ring. As the corps work as a police training academy, and at the point before the sinestro war (which is hinted that happened when the lanterns were off earth) no new green lantern recruits arrived years before as Kyle Rayner just revived the core after Hal becoming parallax. What I'm getting at is that Sam passed the test with flying colors but, they were just tests of survival and how they use the ring to it's most basic form. Meaning that the ring out in the field will work with the lantern but not to it's full potential as she's still a rookie; top rookie according to the results but rookie nonetheless.
The legend of coolness: finally someone got the references I've placed since chapter 2.
Guest: thanks!
Guest: sorry for the delay, I had to work wednesday from 10 am to 11 pm it was a tiring day and I began to play yesterday dark souls 2 which is an awesome game, by the way and it isn't as hard as I thought since after I beat the game I'll begin scholar of the first sin. But good thing is I have made it up to episode 18 along with a few filler of school for Sam.
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So we have a winner, guess Sam will be gay. Canonically Supergirl dated white banshee not explicitly said but it was there like it was really obvious they were dating.
So I just finished writing up to episode 18 which is halloween along with a birthday one as Sam's birthday is on october 22, and currently the story covers up to september 24. Next chapter I have a surprise for everyone as it's something I've been struggling to write, but I have high hopes of the final draft for the next chapters to come especially for the one in episodes 16 and 17. Those two are the two I'm most proud of, of writing them that is. I have big plans for this story. Oh and one more thing, Supergirl will join The Team in the mission against the injustice league to make her debut as a hero, and she will be revealed to the world and the light.
This is me ranting about comics.
So I read the end of civil war 2, man that was really disappointing way to end; but Inhumans vs X men that ones awesome. For DC JL vs Suicide squad getting really good I mean the last one was awesome. And the green lantern issues are getting better as the newest villain you get to the point of caring for him. Even if he is a power hungry maniac he just wants to be a GL. I haven't read any of supergirl rebirth or any superman tittles are good. Teen Titans is weird, I'm not sure if I like it or hate it; I don't like how raven is portrayed since the new 52 she looked mysterious and older. Right now Raven looks like an angsty goth teen, she always looked like that but now she looks like over the top goth and younger than in the teen titans tittles of new 52. But right now DC is good while Marvel is just getting new comics and the only ones that are good are all deadpool tittles and I believe avengers.
Next update will be next tuesday or wednesday as I go on a 4 day vacation and I won't be able to update since I wont be able to take my laptop with me. So happy new year and all that.