-Chapter 3-

-Guilt, Good Guys and Gab

*Hi Guys. Sorry for all the delays in my recent stories*

*I NUTONING Power Rangers*

**Flashback**

The Team

Dick slipped on his glasses again, fixed his clothes and he and Artemis had joined Kaldur, M'gann, Conner and Zatanna, the newest person to live at the cave. The four teens had already changed into normal lounge clothes.

Kaldur was sitting in a chair by himself, pretending to read a book. By pretending, Dick and his team knew that Kaldur felt too guilty to talk and was internally beating himself up, going over the mission, mistake by mistake, maybe absorbing a few words per page. They knew better than to talk to him, for then his military training would kick in and he would go into 'super soldier mode" and shut everyone out. It would be better to let him calm down, hence pretending to let him pretend to read.

Conner and Zatanna were sitting on the couch, playing a game of backgammon. "Russian Backgammon" seemed to be a game that helped him release his stress and anger. It seemed to be effective, as Conner didn't have the need for screaming or intense working out in the gym.

Robin (as the team called him, because Batman/Bruce had not given him permission to reveal much of his identity) vowed to tell the team next time they said his alias. He was perched on the sofa beside Zatanna. The mood of the game didn't seem the same without Wally peeking over their shoulders, recounting some exciting action that had happened recently and zipping back and forth between the kitchen and the sofas.

M'gann felt horrible as she half-heartedly tried to whip together some snickerdoodles.

**"Snickerdoodles." M'gann called out, emptying out the bio-ship in October.

"Babe, you rule my world." Wally sighed with relief.**

Wally. She had fought off Psymon with Superboy's help before and barely survived the first mental attack. Wally was lying racked up in the med-bay; because she didn't know he was there.

She should have sensed him. She sensed him before but he sensed her first this time. Wally found him, so why didn't she? All her fault. It was all her fault. She did have a knack for hurting the people she loved, her 'human family'-

Artemis walked over to M'gann. The Martian was distracted, so random spices and fixings were flying around the room, her eyes glowing green. The ketchup even started forming words in the air- 'my fault.'

"M'gann?" Artemis asked of the older girl curiously, grabbing her hand with one hand and pulling the distracted girl underneath her, trying to shield both girls from the flying ketchup tornado. The the room disappeared and immediately she saw a vision of Wally, a few hours ago, screaming in the Bio-Ship from M'gann's point of view.

**"It IS always like this" Raquelle smiled with satisfaction.

"Told ya." Zatanna grinned back at her.

"Mission accomplished." Robin and Kid Flash high fived. M'gann held Connor's hand and surveyed the scene. It was a rather odd one: a muscle bound thug lying on the ground, a half skinned purple man was prone on the ground and a group of teenagers were smiling like at the end of a Power Rangers episode.

"God, this day is awesome." Wally smiled cornily. He caught Artemis' eye.

"The police are here. I'll Zeta back at midnight." Raquelle smiled.

"You don't want to go back?" Zatanna asked.

"Well, I want to be a police officer, so I want to see how they do it here. I promise I'll be back tonight." She hugged Zatanna, winked at her team and walked towards the police officers.

"Let's go home." Connor said, wrapping his arm around M'gann. He led the way back to the Bio-Ship.

From where M'gann was, she heard Robin say: "Wally get up. We'll get you some food on the Bio-Ship."

M'gann turned around. Wally was slumped on the ground.

"Kid Flash?" She said cautiously. "Not funny."

Artemis saw herself go over a nudge Wally's cheek with her foot. "Not funny, you tool."

Wally didn't move.

Robin walked over to Wally and pressed the back of Wally's neck, a pressure point, to re-awaken his friend. "Dude, let's get some food in you." He said to the waking form.

Wally let out a moan of pain, gritting his teeth and holding his head.

"It hurts!"

"What hurts?"

"My head."

"Did you get hit in the head?" Kaldur asked him, gently.

"I-ugghhh- Sss."

"Let's get him to the ship." Artemis heard her voice. 'Oh no', Artemis thought. 'I don't want to see this again.'

"M'gann! WHAT's GOING ON? WHY AM I SEEING THIS?" Artemis yelled aloud, hoping the Martian would come down and tell her what was up.

Kaldur offered his hand.

"Suh-suh-Psi-mmm-mon."

Everyone's mouth dropped.

"Get him in the Bio-Ship. NOW." Robin yelled, propping his best friends body up.

M'gann levitated Wally's body, Robin running ahead of the group. Artemis followed herself and the group, knowing that whatever this was, she had to follow the events.

Despite the fact she really didn't want to see this again.

M'gann deposited Wally down on the bed.

"Wally, calm down!" M'gann told her friend, trying to hold him down. He was going to hurt himself, banging and thrashing like this.

"PLEASE. MAKE IT STOP. STOP OR KILL ME!" Wally screeched, yanking his hair and crying. "It hurts! IT HURTS!"

"Artemis, get the Bio-ship back to the Cave! FAST!" Robin yelled. Wordlessly, Artemis watched herself go the controls and started the passage back to America.

She kept eyes on the memory Wally. Wally started slamming his head into the back of the "bed" they made, tears leaking down his face. "ROB! PLEASE-END IT!"

Robin stood their horrified, eyes open. Connor held Wally down as Robin shook.

M'gann forced her hands against his head and Wally slumped. M'gann also cried out in pain, but kept her connection to the red-head.

Then, Artemis was pulled again into someone's head as the image changed.

There was an image of Psimon delivering punches to Wally's mental-body, leaving blood with each hit. Every time Wally fought back, Psimon seemed to use super-speed and punch somewhere else.

"M'gann? What's going on?" Artemis asked.

M'gann said, rather menacingly actually, to "Leave him alone!", only for the psychic-psychopath to ignore her and deliver another hard smackto Wally's head. Artemis ran to Wally, throwing her body over Wally's, but nothing happening.

M'gann threw a force field around Wally and Artemis before she stormed up Psimon.

"PSIMON!" She yelled.

"Welcome back, my little white Mar-" M'gann punched him in the mouth before he could finish his sentence. "Didn't think you'd do that." He replied, wiping his lip of blood.

"Me neither." Artemis mumbled in shock.

"That's for Bialya." She said in a low, frightening tone, before punching him harder. "That's for me."

"That's for Kid Flash." Punch.

"These are for my team."

SMACK.

SMACK.

SMACK.

M'gann panted heavily, tears welling in her eyes.

Psimon stepped back. "Still don't get it, girl? When you unlock your full potential, you could be just like me."

"I'm NOTHING like you." She yelled angrily, shooting a green blast at him.

"Shouldn't you be going to save your teammate? Your 'Kid Flash' is an interesting fellow. Talked me out of attacking you."

Artemis walked to M'gann. "M'gann!"

Mental M'gann didn't even acknowledge her. Her form flickered and her form flickered to 'white Martian' form. "YOU are the -monster." **

"M'gann! Snap out of it!" Artemis yelled, causing everyone to snap out of their respective activities, including M'gann's inner turmoil, causing pools of food supplies to splatter on the floor, Artemis' back and on M'gann's and Wally's clothes.

"What's wrong?" Kaldur asked, in a defensive stance. He had run across the room, jumping out of his chair (knocking it to the ground) and standing there, muscles stiff, head surveying the area. He had hit "soldier" mode. Conner had also come running, but at M'gann and Artemis, keeping speed with Robin. Both boys ran into the scene, Conner picking the scared girl off the floor. Zatanna took one look at the floor then at M'gann, and then spouted out "snemidnoc eht fo lla naelC." (Clean all of the condiments). A small wisp of magic swirled around the floor and the mess disappeared. "Setholc 'simetrA dna 'snnag'M ffo naelc".

Artemis put her arm around M'gann, pressing her lips together.

Dick/Robin smiled sympathetically at the girl. "By the way, Wally is okay. He's a little out of it. But we'll fix him. He'll be his usual flirtatious, overly happy, hyperactive self in no time."

"He's alright?" She asked quietly. "He's lying in a bed, with no memory. And I'm in here cooking."

"M'gann, it is alright to have stress relieving hobbies." Kaldur spoke with great gentleness.

"Cooking is actually pretty therapeutic. Just chill, M'gann. He's gonna to recover and everything will go back to normal." Zatanna smiled. She and M'gann shared a look and M'gann held herself together.

"Right. As normal as a shape-shifting alien, an Kryptonian powerhouse, an Atlantean-sorcerer with a leadership complex, a magician progeny, two scary ass Gotham kids with unparalleled skill and a living yellow blur in size nine running shoes." Robin snickered.

"I want to see him." Conner said simply.

"We all do. Batman told us to get out." Robin answered. Conner was confused again. How was it that Batman was so scary that even Superman would do what he said with a slight flinch, but still kept a teen sidekick? "Tomorrow. We couldn't even see him for more than ten minutes."

"Fine." He wasn't happy about it. Then again, everyone thought he wasn't happy. No, he was just confused, something only his team members- M'gann and Kaldur especially-realized.

The team looked at one another.

"He's not dead. So let's stop acting like he is." Roy's came out of nowhere. In fact, he slinked out of the shadows Robin like. "Well, he's not. Just amnesia."

"Roy's right." Conner said. Everyone just stared at him.

"Well, we know that." Artemis, Robin and Zatanna replied, words staggering over one another in annoyance.

"But at the same time, his memories of us, of all of us, are gone." M'gann said for the first time.

"He remembered his favourite food because of Artemis and your effort in the kitchen. I have a hunch that Artemis triggered something with Perdita's pack." Robin blurted out. His optimism was high on this one.

"Well, this should work out." Roy smiled. His head started to throb horribly. AGAIN. There was a feeling that he was supposed to be doing something. That there was something that he should have done already. But he couldn't remember.

"Roy?" M'gann asked. She steadied herself from Conner and went to Roy's side.

"M'gann?" He asked of the younger girl (or older, she was twenty-nine or thirty years older chronologically, even if she did act younger and was the biological equal of a sixteen year old.).

"I'm not reading your thoughts, I swear, but seem to be really confused, angry and scared. Is everything okay?"

Roy stared at the girl for a second, with an angry look on his face. He took a breath and sighed. "For someone NOT reading my mind, you're scarily accurate."

"Roy?" Robin looked at his 'oldest brother'. He used his big, wide eyes to try and coax things out of his brothers and mentors; cookies, extra missions, watching horror films with Wally, permission to drive the Batmobile (thankfully, the list shortened when he got older). This technique had always worked, even when they were children, but didn't work under a pair of sunglasses.

This had to be the most reckless things Robin ever did, Dick mused. Then, his hands went to his head and yanked off his glasses.

The entire team, with the inclusion of Artemis and Roy's, eyes widened. Zatanna whispered "Am I dreaming?" as she usually she was quite liberal (despite the fact her words could be dangerous). Artemis' mouth gaped. Superboy looked amused and even Kaldur, who had rather neutral facial expressions, was rather shocked. The only time the others had seen his face like this is when they met Billy Batson as Billy Batson.

"You could never resist "baby brothers" eyes when we were kids." Dick teased.

"Rob-Dick. Are you sure about this?" Artemis asked.

"Dick?" Zatanna asked, inquisitively, leaning against the kitchen counter.

"Yeah-Richard John Grayson: ward to Bruce Wayne. Robin: Partner of Batman. Baby of the Justice League. And younger "brothers" to Wally and I." Roy rattled off, with a weak smile. The first real smile Dick had seen of the young adult in a while. "Yeah, don't look at me like that."

Dick ignored him and opened his eyes wider.

"Please Roy. If there is something you would like to say, please know that you may speak freely. None of us will betray your trust or secrecies." Kaldur put his hand on the older boys shoulder, giving him a polite smile. Roy returned the grim smile.

"I don't-know. I keep feeling these headaches, just like when we were kids. On and off as long as I can remember. They don't affect me in any major ways, but they just hurt. And right now, I have this feeling I should have done something tonight. Like forgetting homework or something."

"O-kay."

"It's nothing. I just really wanted to go to the Watchtower. I've been waiting for so long. Then I got- pig-headed and went solo. And only really talked to you guys when things went sour. I didn't try to check with my brothers. I even know how hard it was for you at the Circus, but I focused on trying to find the "mole".

"Circus?" Zatanna asked.

"Hard?" M'gann questioned softly.

"Spill." Conner said evenly.

Dick glared at Roy. "Roy. You couldn't have kept that one SILENT?"

Roy's eyes widened and he cursed.

"Well, cats out of the bag NOW, ROY!" Dick yelled. "Yeah. The circus is where I lived for nine years. Bruce Wayne adopted me when my parents died. Jack Haley was good to me. I didn't want him to be in trouble, so I tried to investigate. I didn't tell Wally or want to bring Roy along, because you BOTH KNEW. You knew how important it was to me." Dick scowled.

Kaldur walked over to the younger boy and put his hand on the boy's shoulder.

"Thanks Kaldur. I'm okay. It's just hard sometimes. They would have loved to meet all of you. Sure, they weren't good at English- they spoke Romani- but they understand friendship and love better than anyone I knew."

Zatanna gave him a squeeze. Roy gave him a hug. And in three seconds, Dick Grayson found himself in the center of his team. His friends.

"Maybe we should go to home now." Kaldur suggested.

"No!" the three black haired kids yelled, M'gann and Artemis joining the others non-verbally.

"How about a sleepover?" Dick asked. He looked at Roy. "Like old times?"

Roy pondered this. He had to go to the Watchtower. It was commanding him in his skull. Go, go, go, go, go… But on the other hand, he owed his brothers.

"I'll be back in an hour. I want to see the Watchtower. Just to say 'hi'." He said.

"Fair enough." Kaldur smiled. Roy smiled back and waved his friends goodbye as he stepped through the Zeta Tubes.

"Oh, Dick. Who voices for the Zeta?" Roy asked, trying to instill some of their childhood banter and make the boy feel better.

"Ask Batman." Dick said, keeping with the old joke.

Recognised: Red Arrow, The female Zeta Tube voice chirped.

"Who does voice Zeta?" Asked M'gann.

"Catherine Cobert. Okay, Supey pick the movie." Dick asked. He and Artemis started walking to their respective rooms to change into loungewear. He was still "Robin", but had changed into glasses earlier. He didn't want to wear his mask for some reason he didn't know.

"No horror films." M'gann requested almost too quickly. She remembered the Paranormal Activity incident.

"Okay. But no chick flicks either." The words hit everyone. Chick flick. Wally would have laughed a little too loudly and tell the girls what was wrong with the chick flicks. Dick one time had to restrain Wally with three blankets and a pillow and sit on him before he shut up.

"Put on an action film, please." Kaldur spoke up. "Perhaps Pirates of the Carribean? The first one."

The team started back yelling their opinions of movie choices. Kaldur smiled sadly and again was pulled back into his mode where every move was guarded. Where nobody would feel his pain or guilt and- for the moment, he could not feel anyone else's.