Welcome to part two of Recognized B02 please leave your arms and legs in the ride at all times, as to avoid injury of person.

Location: Mount Justice Med-Bay

Time: 1700 PST

Date: August 11, 2021

Mason's P.o.V (3rd person)

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'Where...where am I?' Mason thought as he struggled to open his eyes, every time he opened them they had drooped shut as fast as he opened them, after a few minutes he managed to get them to stay open, at that time he became aware of the pressure that was being pressed against his chest, when he saw the source of the pressure he instantly paled, and it seemed the person felt him moving around, because they glanced upwards, a small scowl on their face. "Ro-Robin?" He asked as he saw the usually sunglasses covered face of his hopefully still comrade, he noticed his scowl widen and suddenly a fist contact with his cheek. "Do you know how worried everybody's been Bolt?!"Damian yelled as he shot up. "Sorry, how long was I out for?" Mason asked as he held his hand up to his still stinging cheek, Damian took a deep breath before sitting back down. "You've been in a coma for a whole month." Damian said and gently placed his hand on Mason's shoulder when he saw his panicked face. "Don't worry, nothing's really changed, well, Raven and Starfire have joined our team, but other than that, Allen has been down the whole time you were out, so has Stone, and Zor-El." Damian then paused and grabbed Mason's wrist and pulled it up. "What I really want to know about is, what are these?" He asked as he unwrapped the bandages and revealed scars littering his arms. "And don't tell me these are wounds from battles, because these are to straight to be battle wounds."

Mason paled even more, they knew about his cuts, true he didn't do it anymore, but the scars would be always be there as a reminder of the darkest time in his life. "I don't do it anymore." He said as he looked down to the blanket covering his legs. "I did it because even if it was for a short time, I could get away from the pain, could feel numb." At this point Damian had stopped scowling, and he had a look of almost...sympathy, to be honest, it was unnerving.

"Bolt, why did you need to get away from pain?" He asked and Mason was instantly back to looking back to the sheets of his bed. "I don't want t-" "Well, you're going to tell me anyway, if not I'll drag Allen in here and you'll have to tell him about these." Damian interrupted, Mason looked up shocked. "You can't tell him!" He pleaded, this caused Damian to smirk. "Tell me why and I won't." Damian said as he noticed the nervousness on Mason's face, so for the next hour he listened to Mason's explanation and once it ended he stormed out of the room, muttering to himself. 'Hopefully he doesn't tell Bart anything.' Mason thought as he pulled himself up into a sitting position.

A few hours later he heard hesitant knocking on the door. "C'mon in." He said, the door opened to reveal the form of one of his closest, and possibly only friends. "Hey Mas." Bart said as he hesitantly walked into the room, he lowered himself onto the chair next to his bed and laid his arm across Mason's chest. "How've you been Bart?" Mason asked as he turned his head away from Bart, this unbeknownst to Mason had hurt Bart. "Not much, I was too worried about you to even think about doing anything." Bart let silent tears fall and he grabbed Mason's hand and remembered back to the first night, that night nobody got any sleep, they were all sitting in the living room praying, and afraid that he wouldn't make it.

One Month Ago...

(3rd Person)

Location: Mount Justice Med-Bay Entrance

Time: 1500 PST

Date: July 11, 2021

"How is he?" Bart asked when he saw Red Tornado, M'gann and. Kaldur walk out of the Med-Bay, RT came up and placed a cold hand on his shoulder. "He is stabilized for now, but according to my readings, he has a less than a 10% chance of making it through the night, I recommend the best course of action would be for you all to start saying your goodbyes." At this point Bart was about to break down, after all, his hard work to be happy is now hanging by the thread known as fate. "I'll go in first." Bobby said as he stood up.

Hey amigo." Bobby said as he sat down, reaching out and taking Mason's hand. "If this is the last time I'll ever see you, might as well tell you my origin story." Bobby paused to look at the man in the bed before him, he looked as fragile as glass, with all the IV drips attached to him, and all the stitches hiding under bandages, respirator covering his entire mouth, "I'm a distant cousin to Jaime, I never met him until after he became BB, I was jealous at the fact that my cousin was a hero, so I spent day in and day out trying to replicate the suit he wore, at one point I even tried to steal the scarab, when I figured out trying to forcefully remove it was hurting him, I thought about my choices, I nearly died from guilt, for the next few months I spent every day building my gauntlet." Bobby paused to run his hand over his shaved head, his black eyes complimenting his dark skin. "Then I met Raquel, and I realized my gauntlet wasn't that much different from her belt, well, mine, harnesses and amplifies my physical strength, while her belt uses and harnesses kinetic energy, but you know the gist, I just wanted to say that...you need to make it through this, if you don't this place just won't feel like a second home anymore, but if you can't then...goodbye." With that said he left the room and motioned for Amanda to come in.

"Hey Mas, its me, Amanda, not sure if you can hear me, but I want you to know my origin story, the entire story." She paused as she closed her eyes and forced the tears threatening to run free back. "My family died nine years ago, I was only eight at the time, but I remember that night as clear as day, I wanted so bad to get revenge, to just go and hold the gun that he used to kill them, up to his head and pull the trigger, but my parents taught me better, so I just repressed the urge and went to a detention facility, my social worker turned out to be racist, I had spent the next three years in that horrible place, getting beaten up every day, then I got adopted by the Stones, and that was one of my happiest years, then Victor died, and my life became a mess." She paused and wiped a few running tears.

"I would barely eat, and when I did I would end up puking it back up, I didn't want to live anymore, I had lost all hope, then came the next year and I received a message from Victor, asking me to meet him in a place called Jump City, at first I was hesitant because I thought he was dead, I ended up going anyways, but i'm glad I did, because if not I wouldn't have been able to become Tigress." She paused once again, this time grabbing his hand. "I ran home the minute our talk was over and I confronted my adoptive parents, they told me that 'They couldn't lose their son.' that 'they needed him to be able to pay for all their expenses.' at that point I had enough, I ran out of the house and had Vic boom tube me far away from them, I ended up in Palo Alto, and that's when I met Artemis and Wally, they took me in, I found out that Artemis was a villains daughter, I asked her to train me...she agreed after a few attempts." She smiled at the fond memory.

"After a few training sessions she told me that she was the hero Artemis, and that she once held another mantle that she wanted to pass onto me, and from that moment forth, Tigress was born, I guess the memo I wanted you to get was that, no matter what your chances of surviving are, you can always bounce back, I've grown to love you like a little brother, if I lost you, then I have no doubt that that pit of depression I fell into once, I would fall into again, so please make it through this night for us, and all other nights until you're better, I hate the fact that I'm even remotely capable of having the thought of losing you, but if I do, then...goodbye." And with her conversation over she left the room, and motioned for Claire to move into the room and say what she needed to say.

"Mason, my origin story isn't really that exciting, but i'm going to tell it anyways, I was an ordinary schoolgirl, I was a member of the cheerleaders, one night at a game they decided to pull a 'funny' prank on me, we were cheering at a football game, and we were nearing the end of a cheer, little did I know, they had fast acting bleach hidden under the bleachers, they pulled it out and poured it over my head, and I got the nickname of 'Whiteboard', because my hair had been turned so white it looked like a fresh never used white board, I kept it white so that I kept in mind that I could never easily trust people, I ran away from home and ended up in shadowcrest, the ancient home of Zatanna's family, or at least thats what I think she considers them, she asked me what had happened and I told her all about it, she then asked why I was so pale, I answered that i've always been unnaturally pale, but the bleach made me paler than usual, she told me that I could stay as long as I needed, I found out about her practicing magic and I asked her to teach me, she agreed, and the rest is to boring to mention, pretty much just a bunch of learning magic happening, but I just wanted to let you know, you need to get better, if not for me, neht rof lla fo su, I really hope this doesn't have to be...eybdoog

When she was finished talking she left the room, letting her tears finally fall from seeing the broken state of her friend.

Cissie was next to enter. "I just have just thirteen words for you, get better and I will make you all the foods you ever wanted." with that said she left the room.

Kara entered the room next, she walked up and just grabbed his hand and held it in both of hers, silently praying to Rao to keep him safe and guide him back to them.

Damian entered the room and scowled. "Bolt, you better get better, or else there is a Lazarus pit waiting for you with your name on it." he said as he walked back to the door, pausing mid step when his eyes caught sight of a single lone scar peeking out from under the bandages on his wrists.

Garfield was the next to enter, turning into a cat and curling up into a ball next to him, he remained there, only moving to eat.

Bart entered the room and took a seat in the chair closest to the bed, he grabbed Mason's hand and let his tears fall, whispering a silent prayer and falling asleep leaning his head onto the bed, kissing Mason's forehead and whispering an "I love you."

Bart awoke to the sound of the heart monitor beginning to start flat lining "GUY'S!" Bart yelled out into the mountain as the tears he'd been holding in began falling, he backed into the corner of the room and falling down to his knees. Amanda and Kara were the first two to enter the room, eyes widening as their sight fell upon the motionless line that had been registering a pulse not even two hours before. "Kara, go get M'gann and RT...HURRY!" Amanda yelled, Kara didn't spend even a second to nod as she raced out of the room. "Bart, I need your help over here!" Bart was barely registering anything that Amanda was saying, his head was spinning out of control, he was now panicking, his head racing with thought. 'He can't die, he's come bouncing back from worse, right?' had just been one of those thoughts, he was brought back to reality by a slap on the back of his head "Ow!" He screamed, only to realize that it was his cousin.

"Bart, Amanda could really use our help right now!" Wally screamed as he pulled Bart towards Amanda "What you need A?" Wally asked, sitting Bart on the chair that is closest to the bed. "I need you to use your speed to act as a makeshift defibrillator, to jump start his heart." Amanda explained, pausing to turn to Bart. "This will only be needed long enough for M'gann and RT to show up Bart." "It's no good Amanda, he's freaking out, and who wouldn't be, this is his best friend we're trying to save." Wally said taking note at the fact that his cousin was now curled in on himself, holding desperately onto Mason's hand, like he was the only thing in -he world to him. "No." Amanda paused to look back up to Wally. "He's more than that to Bart, he' not just his friend, honestly, he's more, not sure on how much more, but he's more to him." Amanda finished and went back to helping buy the needed two more time.

"We're here, what's wrong gu-" M'gann paused and instantly flew over. "Ok-Okay, I need some space to work, everybody but Bart out!" She said as she shooed them away. "Bart, I need to connect your minds again, but this time you need to remain conscious, talk him into fighting for his life, if you managed to, I know for a fact that his survival rate will sky rocket." When Bart nodded M'gann linked them up again.

Everybody was sitting in the living room, it was had been a few hours since M'gann pulled Mason once again into surgery, and Bart had gone in with them, everybody was sitting in the living room, Artemis, Conner, and Dick were there, after a few minutes M'gann called the other mentors in.

"Hey guys." She said as she looked down to the ground. "I have some good news, and bad news, which one you want first?" She asked, aiming this question mainly at Kaldur. "Good will do well for being first." He said as he saw her let out a hesitant nod. "I managed to stabilize him again, and due to Bart's help, his chance of survival went from less than ten, to a fifty percent chance, so now his life is being left to fate." She paused to take in a deep breath. "The bad news is, he's fallen into a coma, there's no telling when he'll wake up, if we're lucky then he'll wake up within the week, worst case-scenario he doesn't wake up at all." M'gann let her tears fall. "How long has it been since it's just been the six of us, not fighting, not arguing, just us...afraid?" M'gann asked as she looked around the room, they were all in their civvies. "I miss the good old days, when it was just the nine of us, going out on missions, hanging out, just having fun." Wally said as he stared Dick in the eyes.

"We grew up, but if you ask me, this is to much change." Conner said, breaking the staring contest, then proceeded to mutter under his breath. "You two are oblivious, just kiss already." he smirked when he saw M'gann and surprisingly Artemis nod. "So, anybody know if the other three will show up?" Dick asked, he let out a grunt when he saw everybody else shake their heads. "I'll be right back." He said as he left the room and went for the zeta tubes.

Recognized:

Nightwing B-01

"I know where he's going." Wally smirked, noticing everybody else started smirking as well. "He's heading to get everybody else." M'gann stated as she sat down, and took Conner's hand in hers. "So, any chance of us all being able to get back at least some semblance of the old days?" Wally asked, taking a look around at the hesitant heads in the room, Conner stared out a window, Kaldur looked to Artemis who was staring at the ground. "I'm not sure, we all grew apart after the Deathsafe simulation, I don't really think there's enough of our old selves to bring back out." She said as she looked up and stared into his eyes. "Well, i'm sure our old selves are still there, just buried deep within ourselves, we just need a reminder, and I believe that my partner almost dying was my reminder." Kaldur said as he stood up. "I am returning to Young Justice." This statement was met with nods from both Wally and M'gann.

Recognized:

Nightwing B-01

Red Arrow B-06

Zatanna B-08

Rocket B-09

"Roy, he's been staying with you, how could you not care about if he makes it or not!" They heard Dick screaming at Roy, when he walked into sight, Artemis pulled out her phone and took a picture of quality blackmail material, for the sight they saw was Dick, pulling the three by the ear like misbehaving children. "You need to send me a copy." Wally whispered into her ear, she smirked as he received the copy he asked for, they all started laughing when he sat the three down and explained. "There, now that you know everything, I hope you feel bad, he is in that room fighting for his life right now, and all you were doing was sitting at home, being obsessed with once again finding out where the real Roy was taken, do you know how much of a family you are to him?" Roy shook his head and this had further angered Dick. "Whenever he would visit Damian, all he would talk to me about was you, how amazing you were, how once he got to old to be Tempest he would base his new identity off of you, he admires you Roy, and you repay him by not even bothering to show up here, he nearly permanently flat lined Roy, he nearly died, and you were doing nothing!" He stopped his rant long enough to turn to Zatanna and Raquel. "You two are the ones I'm most disappointed in, your partners are sitting out there right now, praying to every known holy being to save him, and you don't even bother to show that you care by showing up!" This statement made the three of them look down to the floor in guilt, it was true, they didn't even bother to show that they cared.

M'gann looked back up hesitantly. "Guys, there's something else you should know." Everybody else in the room looked up at the martian who had another look of sorrow on her features. "During the surgery he flat lined twice, if Bart hadn't been there, I don't think he would even still be alive, I think he's in there fighting not for himself, but for Bart." Dick, who was the worlds second best detective, simply smirked at this comment, as had Artemis, after that was said they all left the room.

Present Day

"After he scolded them, they came out and sat with us, all of them, they were scared with us, I really don't want to imagine what would have happened if you didn't make it, oh, and when you get released, I want you to meet me where we first met." This comment made Mason turn his head back to Bart. "What do you mean, why?" He asked, Bart simply shrugged and got up. "You'll have to show up to find out, anyways, I'll get M'gann in here to see if you're ready to be let out yet." He said as he walked out of the room, a few minutes later, M'gann came walking into the room. "Okay Mason, I'm going to check your mental landscape to see if you're ready to leave the room, is that okay with you?" she asked, when she saw him nodding, she calmed him down with her hand, while placing her other one on his forehead, closing her eyes, opening them a few minutes later. "Alright, you're good to go, if you need anything don't be afraid to ask." M'gann said, in an instant he was on his way to Blüdhaven, changing into his civvies before entering the Zeta Tubes.

When he got to Bludhaven, he was unaware of the masked shadow watching him from the rooftops.

And there's the end of part 2, what do you think Bart wants him to meet him in Bludhaven for, who do you think the person watching him was, what were their intentions?

Please review what you think it will be and who it was and why they were watching him, and what you thought of the chapter.