"It's very simple. It's designed to download things form his head, and pour information into his head."
Robin hit the wall. The grownups where in Cyborgs room, looking at the screen.
"Dick calm down."
His wife tried to calm him down, but she was too upset. Lochan had volunteered to take the children to the park, as he understood something was wrong.
"How did he know?"
"I don't know."
Cyborg looked at the screen, but look quickly away. There was William's entire life. His hopes, dreams, fear and secrets. Everything that he held dear, and Cyborg had seen it all.
"We need to find out how he did it?"
Beast Boy was pasting back and fourth.
"Isn't that clear. He just went into his mind like Mina. There is actually a simple spell that could do the trick."
Raven was levitating, trying hard to keep her emotions in check. They where dulled down since Mina was there and since she was pregnant, but they could still do damage since she was so upset.
"So, a better question is why he sent the spiders."
Suddenly Mina had all of their attentions.
"What?"
Robin took a step closer.
"It was working. What ever he had planed, he did manage to download a good deal of information from William, and we had no idea. If he hadn't sent the spiders, no one of us would have ever known. So what we should find out is why he ruined it by sending spiders after him, and forcing someone to come inside his mind."
They looked at her, then at each other, then back at her. Mina started to blush.
"You're right."
Robin sent her a small smile, and Mina felt her spirit lift.
A week, and still nothing. At least they hadn't told her anything.
The children could feel how tense their parents where, and her mother had asked Mina take trip into each of their mind to check if any other of them had been bugged, as Cyborg was calling it. Nothing.
Mina was getting more and more tense, but tried to calm down when she was around the children. Not even shooting calmed her down as it used to, but she still did her training every day. Didn't want to be sloppy.
She also tried to not be alone with Lochan. She was stressed out about William, and it didn't help that she just felt confused when she was around Lochan as well.
"Is it just me, or have you been avoiding me?"
She was in the shooting rink, trying to practice.
"It's just you. Now leave me alone."
He just stood there. Mina could feel her concentration weaken, and got angry. At him, at her, at the person that had hurt William.
"Can you pleas leave?"
"I could, but I think you need to talk."
"No I don't. I need you to leave me alone."
He came closer.
"Why?"
"Because I can't deal with us right now."
"Us?"
He was pushing her, and she started to shake. But she still tried to shoot.
"Our hormones. Now leave."
He grabbed her arms, forcing her to put her arms down. She wasn't wearing her cloak. She hadn't worn it in over a week. Couldn't. She was just wearing green pants and top. He was wearing blue jeans and a red t-shirt.
"Why do you want me to leave?"
She turned, dropping her bow and glared at him.
"Someone downloaded William. They read hid mind, his hopes, his dreams, his fears, and his secrets. They violated him, so I'm sorry if my mind is to preoccupied with him to care about your teenage hormones."
She was crying and he pulled her into him, laying his arms comforting around her. She grabbed his t-shirt and pulled him even closer. Crying into his chest.
He rested his chin on her head, and just held her. It broke his heart to hear her cry, but he knew she needed to. After a while she took a step back and dried her swollen cheeks.
"Better?"
She nodded, not trusting her voice. He smiled and placed a loose strain of hair behind her ear. She always practised with it in a ponytail, but after crying so hard, some of it had gone astray. She let it loos, and liked the way it fell down her back.
"Have you eaten anything?"
"No."
He laid an arm around her shoulders.
"Come on, I'll make you something."
He placed her in a chair in the empty common room. Now, it was rear that the room was empty, but the children where in school, Erlea was napping, and the grown ups where still trying to figure out the whole William thing.
Mina was actually happy. She didn't want to talk to anyone right now. Lochan didn't care to take down his sunglasses, and they where just resting on the top of his head. He opened the fridge and started to make her some sandwiches.
"Can I ask you my second question Lochan?"
"Go ahead."
"Why don't you where your sunglasses when we are together?"
He didn't look at her, but continued to work.
"I mean, I understand why you are used to wearing sunglasses all the time, thou I don't think you should since you have wonderful eyes, but again that's up to you. But why do you take them of when you are with me?"
He turned and placed a plate in front of her. Still he didn't say anything.
"You have to answer Lochan. That was the deal."
"Because you don't seem to mind."
"The others wouldn't mind either, you know that."
He turned and went back to the fridge to clean up.
"Because you don't give my any reason to shield my self. I actually don't want to hide anything from you. That's why I agreed to answer the questions too. I want to be your open book."
Mina nodded and took a bite, and made a slight sigh of joy. It was the best sandwich she had ever tasted.
"That's so good. Where did you learn to make sandwiches like that?"
She was talking with food in her mouth, but she didn't care. It was just that good. He turned and placed a glass of juice in front of her. He looked at her quickly before turning again, now making something for himself.
"My mom."
"I'm sorry."
He sat down, with his own sandwich and juice, next to her.
"Don't be. It's okay to talk about them. I need to talk about them."
She took a new bite of her sandwich.
"Okay. If you need to talk, I'll listen."
He smiled and took a bite of his own sandwich.
"My father was a optician, and my mother was a stay at home mom. They where so boring, and squared you can get. With the exception of their powers, they where actually the perfect suburbs family."
He let out a chuckle.
"They fooled everyone. Out there they where Seymour and Angelica Soans. But behind private doors they where See-More and Angle. One with the power to do strange things with his eyes, the other with angel wings and the power to fly."
His smile faded.
"I grew up learning that power make you not normal, and not normal is dangerous."
"Didn't anyone tell you that normal is boring?"
He laughed, and she smiled.
"No."
She got to her feet and took the empty plates.
"Just look at me. I'm normal, and boring as hell."
She bent down to put them in the dishwasher, and when she got to her feet he was suddenly standing in front of her.
"You're not."
"What? Boring?"
"Normal."
Her heart started to beat a little faster, and she smiled as she went past him to take the empty glasses. Damn hormones.
"Yes I am. Normal, ordinary and boring."
She placed them in the dishwasher.
"Why do you keep pushing yourself down like that?"
She turned and looked at him. He would never understand.
"I grew up with my brothers being able to read my mind, teleport, morph and move things with their mind. I was never able to do anything like that. I got jealous, and staring hating them because they had powers, and I didn't."
He was standing very close to her, but she didn't care.
"So I started to put the blame on myself, instead of them. Not really getting that it was nobody's fault. I just didn't want to hate them that much. But after a lifetime of putting yourself down, you can't just turn that of like that."
She flicked her fingers.
"Nightwing?"
The two jumped apart as Speedy suddenly appeared on the big screen.
"Hi Roy, I'll get him for you."
Mina bit her lower lip, suddenly realising Lochan was there, but none of them seemed to notice, so she just got out of the room as quick as she could. She brushed her cloths as she ran down to the meeting room. She knocked on the door, and Starfire opened.
"Mina?"
"Roy's on the video link in the common room. He wants to talk to uncle Dick."
She nodded and told Robin. He quickly came through the door, and she followed him in to the common room.
"Roy."
"Dick. Do you know where your children are?"
Robin was taken a bit back by the question. Speedy didn't know about William. Suddenly could Mina hear someone cry behind Speedy.
"School, why?"
"Are you sure?"
He took up the communicator.
"Kory, check the children. Now."
He turned back to Speedy.
"What's going on?"
"They are gone. Felix and Su, they're gone."
The crying got louder, and she could sense at least three different people crying. She could also hear some Spanish muttering, and even thou she couldn't understand them, could she easily guess.
Then it hit her. The children where gone. She suddenly got a bad feeling as Starfire flew threw the common room door.
"They have gone. They are not at the school."
Cyborg, Bee, Raven and Beast Boy came quickly behind them.
"The twins are gone too."
"P.C. gone from his school,"
"and Erlea is not in his crib."
Robin turned to the screen. You had to know him well to see that he was distressed.
"What is going on?"
"I don't know, but this makes things worse. How could someone grab all the children from across the country?"
"Mina?"
Mina was holding her hands to her head. It felt like it was going to split in two. She could hear the children cry, and this made her cry. She could feel how scared they where.
"Mina what is it?"
"Mina."
Her knees collapsed under her as she heard Erlea scream. Someone grabbed her, and held her to her feet.
"Leave him alone."
"Leave who alone Mina?"
She could hardly breath it was so painful.
"The children. We need to save the children."
She closed her eyes. The pain was excruciating. Suddenly she felt cold.
"Mina?"
She opened her eyes as Luanna called to her. She was in a dark room. When her eyes got used to the darkness she could see the children.
"Luanna, William."
She ran over to the siblings. They where held down with a green sort of beam. She tried to touch it, but it was like fire. She quickly took her hand back. She turned and saw her brothers in some sort of cage.
"Gavin. Ulrich."
She ran to them. Gavin was lying on the floor, and Ulrich was sitting by his side, tears falling from his eyes.
"Ulrich."
He looked up at her.
"Mina?"
"It's okay Ulrich. I'm here."
"We can't get out. Gavin is hurt."
Mina nodded and smiled warmly to him.
"How is he hurt?"
"The wall."
He hinted to the walls of the cage holding them in. Mina touched it, and it was like ice. It hurt, and she could see her skin becoming paler, but she pushed through, and at last her whole hand was through.
"Pull him closer."
Ulrich dragged the almost lifeless body, and Mina could just touch him with her fingertips. But it was enough. He took a deep breath, and started to cough. Mina cried as she saw her brother sit up and lean on his twin.
"Gavin."
"Thank you Mina."
She pulled her hand out and when she was free her entire hand was blue. She saw P.C. sitting by the walls, chains around his limbs. Felix, Erlea, Su also had chains around them. Mina was happy she had found them, but she was hurt that she couldn't help them.
She rose to her feet to start to think. She had do find a way to help them. She placed her hands on her hips to think, when she felt something odd. She reached in, and pulled out her gun.
Why was she carrying it around? She was a bit confused, since she actually couldn't remember that she had picked it up, but she was happy. She went over to P.C.
"Hold still."
The tiny boy nodded and looked away, bracing himself. She held the gun against the chain of his robotic arm and fired. It came of.
"Now, do you have some sort of lock picking device in that arm of yours?"
He smiled to her.
"Of course."
She looked as he picked his lock and finally was loos.
"Get the others."
He nodded and started to work on his brother. Mina turned to find a way to get the four others free. She went over to William and Luanna. Their arms where bent behind their back. She looked over at the box where her brothers where sitting.
"William, can you shoot starbolts with your eyes?"
He nodded. Something he resonantly learned.
"Shoot at the cage."
"But that's how Gavin got sick. We shoot, and it went right through and hit Gavin."
She turned to her brothers.
"But you can't move anything outside the box?"
They nodded.
"Okay. Shoot at the cage. When it comes inside the cage I want you to change it's direction and fire it on the thing that holds them trapped. Okay?"
They nodded.
It worked. Soon Luanna and William was flying around, the room. Getting their feelings back in their hands. But her brothers where still trapped. She went over to them.
"Everyone, I want you to take cover."
They did as they where told, William holding Felix, and P.C. holding Erlea. She turned back to her brothers.
"I know you are tired, but I need you to try something. I want you to make a force field around yourself. Small at first, but carefully expand it. When you feel resistance from the wall I need you to keep growing. I'm hoping we can break it."
The boy nodded, and held hands. Their powers where always more powerful when they was touching. She could see the green force field form around them, then slowly growing. She held herself close to the wall, and soon she could see it stretching.
"You are doing great boys. Don't give up. Almost there."
The wall was on its thinnest, and she could see her brothers couldn't hold it on much longer. She pushed her arms through the wall, grabbed them and pulled them out.
The three of them where lying on the floor, their skin bluish and their breath visible. Mina cried as she grabbed her brothers, and kissed them. They were safe.
The lock on the door was easy to get up. Luanna just shoot it. She carefully checked the halls. Empty.
She turned to the children and nodded. She turned and started to walk, knowing they where following here. She walked down the hallway, surprised that it was empty.
She had no idea where she was heading when the hallway stopped, and was replaced with a door. She opened it, and found a big pool on the inside. A stone bridge let on into an island.
"William, Luanna can you give us some light?"
They walked in over the bridge and P.C.s eyes light up as a big high tech portal stood on the island.
"What is it?"
P.C. went over and looked over it.
"A teleport."
"What?"
William was hushing Felix, who was fussing.
"It kind of works like Gavin and Ulrich's teleporting. It teleports you from one place to another."
"Well, can you make it work?"
P.C. gave Erlea to Mina, and went quickly over it. Mina had never been so happy for P.C. head as now.
"Well we need two keys, and a lot of luck. But I think can get it to work."
"Keys, what kind of keys?"
"I don't know."
"Water."
Su had wandered of to the edge of the water.
"Su."
The girl jumped into the water. Mina ran of to the edge, and saw the girl make a perfect landing.
"Hold him."
She passed Earle to Luanna and jumped in after her.
"Su."
She swam a little before diving. The girl was heading downwards to the bottom. Mina took a deep breath and dove after her.
The girl picked up something on the bottom and was on her way back when Mina had to turn about half way down. They broke the surface at about the same time.
"Key."
The girl handed her a flat rectangular stone.
"Good job Su, can you get the other one?"
The girl smiled and dove down. She swam like only the daughter of Aqualad could.
"Luanna."
Luanna passed Erlea to Ulrich and flew down to pick the key from Mina's hand. She didn't want to go up in case the child had problems.
"It fits."
She heard P.C. make a yell of excitement and smiled. Su came up with another flat rock. The girl smiled from ear to ear. Luanna flew down and picked the girl up before getting Mina out of the water.
Both of them dripping wet. P.C. had taken the key and where now doing the last few adjustments.
"Does it work?"
He nodded. There was a sort of computer pillar in front of the portal.
"We press down on this, and ask for a lot of luck."
Felix laughed. Mina turned to the boy, and suddenly smiled. Well, his name did mean lucky. She took the boy and let him press down on the palm printed button.
Suddenly the portal opened into a picture of their parents, but it was foggy. Like they were looking at them threw water or something.
"Mommy."
Before Mina could think had Luanna run through the portal and leaped into her mothers arms. She could see how Starfire started to cry as she hugged her daughter.
"You others go."
"I should tell you, the portal only stays open if someone has their hand on the button."
Mina could have cried, but she calmly replaced Felix's hand.
"Go."
"Butt…"
"I said go."
The children, one by one left through the portal, and Mina could see how they rejoined with the grown up titans. They know saw the portal and looked through it. At last it was only Ulrich with Erlea on his arm.
"Ulrich go."
"No."
"Ulrich, go or I swear to God."
Ulrich looked unhappy, but started to walk when Bee and Cyborg started to yell, well at least tried since they couldn't hear anything from the other side, and point at there necks.
They looked down at Erlea's necklace. Mina took it and Cy pointed to his arm. A locator. Mina smiled, took it, then motioned to Ulrich and Erlea to walk threw the portal.
"Go."
Ulrich turned and went threw the portal. They couldn't get in the way back. She saw the titans trying to get back, but it was useless.
"Bye."
She waved, and let go of the button. She broke down and started to cry. Slowly and painfully slithered the tears down her cheek. She hoped they would find her.
She got to her feet and quickly dried her eyes. She had to find out where she was, and find a way to get back home.
"I told you she could do it."
Mina froze as she heard a voice, and turned. She saw Gizmo, the Spanish girl and Malchior.
"You know, you are a very hard person to get a hold of."
Malchior came closer, and bowed.
"Nice to see you again Minerva. Let me introduce my friends. This is Zhana, and Gizmo. We have been wanting to talk to you for quite some while."
"You are the one who put the disk in Williams mind?"
Malchior smiled.
"You used me to get to him."
"No, I might have taken a bit of information from you first, but I used him to get to you."
Mina got sick just looking at him, but again there was something beautiful about him. This only made her sicker. Malchior laughed.
"What do you want with me?"
Zhana took a step closer.
"We want you to join us."
Mina took a step back.
"And what makes you think I will join you?"
Zhana laughed.
"The same reason my dad got your uncle to join."
She showed Mina a small computer.
"One push of a button, and all of your little friends get sick."
Mina just looked at the computer.