Kat looked back and forth between the two devices that were rigged to go off in seven minutes. The air around her was silent except for the beeping coming from the timer as it counted down to destruction. The city was completely empty; the evacuation process a success. She too was supposed to be leaving with the rest of her team, but she had other plans in mind. No one, not even her own teammates, could understand what she was about to do. Kat felt that all the blame was to be put on her. Steel City was going to be destroyed in…the timer wound down another minute…six minutes.

Just ten minutes before, she was standing in the main room of the tower, waiting for just the right time to make her move. Bee left the room, the room now completely deserted. She quickly grabbed her keys off the counter before rushing down to the garage, taking two steps at a time. She knew she had to get out of there fast, or the others would stop her. Her bike roared to life before she released the clutch, zooming down the wet roads that led to the soon to be fallen Steel City.

It didn't take long to find the devices. They were giving off really strong energy signals that her built in computer detected them without her instruction. It was her power that was emitting such a strong signal, and she thanked God that it was or she probably would never get there in time to stop the explosion. It didn't surprise her when she checked the coordinates to see the bomb was located in the center of the city, on the heli-pad at the top of one of the many corporate buildings. One device, the power supply, was on one side of the pad, the actual bomb on the other.

Five minutes…

"A person has to step in the path of it…"is what Slade had said. "It" meaning the current, and she knew why it had to be a person. Kat's power could easily split through inanimate objects if she was just trying to shoot it, and it would burn a hole right through the very material it was made of. However, it couldn't do this to humans, and apparently robots as well. All it would is electrocute the person and knock them unconscious, so using an object other than a person to block the current would still lead to the utter destruction of her home.

Four minutes…

"Even your little superhero friends who have electric powers would die because the electricity would just be too much for them to handle." She believed that too. When she had her power, it was never so tightly contained before, so it was never a threat to a human's life, but that it was being concentrated into one small current, it would be deadly to get caught in the path of the electricity. She could even see the power now, and it was completely unstable. It could kill someone with just one shock.

Three minutes to go. She took a deep breath before walking to the center of the heli-pad, effectively putting herself in between the two devices. How did she know that the electricity wasn't going to rip right through her since it was more concentrated now? She didn't know…Was she going to survive and still get to see her friends one last time? Most likely not…but she didn't care if she did or not. She was going to save her city…no, her home. She had lived there for too long now, and she had made too many memories in the city with Speedy and Aqualad. She wanted to give the team more chances to make more memories even if it meant she wasn't go to be there with them. She didn't care if she could make it out alive with the rest of the team. The choice she was making was her own, and she felt it was the right choice.

"KAT!" Damn it, she thought, I forgot about the tracking device in my bike! Speedy and Aqualad were running up the stairs to the roof, but she wasn't going to let them stop her. Concentrating, she surrounded the entire heli-pad with her shield, preventing anyone from getting in. Speedy, not noticing this, ran face first into the barrier, letting out a groan as he rubbed his forehead. Kat would have laughed at that at any other time, but at that moment, nothing was humorous to her anymore. Aqualad pounded on the shield, but his attempts were useless. Her shield was always too strong for anyone to break through. They would need the biggest possible explosion ever to get through it.

"Kat…please don't do this!" The Atlantean exclaimed, never ceasing his attempts to break through the barrier. She ignored him as she turned her back to them.

"Goddamn it Kat!" Speedy cursed, "You don't have to do this! The people of the city are safe and out of harm's way of the bomb! It can go off, and no one will get hurt!"

Two minutes to go…

"I have to save the city…" she murmured just loud enough for them to hear.

"What is there to save? Buildings? Trees that are already dying and decaying because of all the damn pollution?" He shouted, "It's not worth saving! This hell hole we call a city is not more important than your life! Now, stop being so stupid, and let's get out of here!" Kat let out a low growl before turning on her heel to face the archer and Atlantean.

"Now…doesn't that sound familiar?" she glared at him, "You said something like that the day I left the team. Don't you remember? You said something about how my life was more important than that dog's, and how I made the stupidest choice ever in my life!"

"Well, you're making an even stupider choice right now!" he retorted. Aqualad put a hand on the archer's shoulder, stopping him from his small tirade.

"Speedy…calm down," he whispered before looking back up at Kat, "…You don't need to do this. The city can be rebuilt, and so can the tower, but you can't be brought back to life." She turned her head as she tried not to cry, "Kat, please…none of us want you to go. None of us want you to die. Don't do this…" One minute…the seconds were winding down. She dropped the shield, and the two boys ran to her and hugged her tight.

"I'm sorry…I was just thinking that this was my home… your home, and I didn't want it to get destroyed because of me. It's my power…so I feel…responsible! And for some reason, I feel like this happened before, but I can't remember what, and if it did, I don't want it to happen again!" Speedy and Aqualad broke eye contact with her. They knew why she was having that feeling.

"Look, I'm glad that you're not going to kill yourself, but um…" Speedy pointed to the timer…forty seconds.

"Shit!" Kat screamed, "We have to get out of here now!" They started running towards the stairs, but she stopped. The building was huge. They'd never make it downstairs before the bomb would go off. She looked over the edge of the roof and could see her bike and Speedy's bike parked at the bottom, but they could never jump. It was too high, and they'd most likely never survive the jump. Well, it seems I'm gonna die either way…she thought. She looked over. There was another building across from them; this one a little lower to the ground.

"Guys!" they stopped, turning around to look at her, "We can't go back into the building. We need to jump!"

"Well, I think she's officially lost it!" Speedy exclaimed, grabbing his friend's arm to pull her along with them, but she pulled her arm out of his grasp and pointed to the building across from them.

"You can make that jump…but we have to hurry! If we can get our bikes and get as far away as possible from this building, I can probably create a shield that can protect us from the full effects of the explosion…"

"Are you sure?" She looked up at the Atlantean, shaking her head.

"No…but we have to try…" She looked back at the timer. There were thirty seconds left, "…you have to jump. Roy, Garth, if we don't, then there was no point in you coming up here to stop me…" The red head sighed, strapping his bow to his side.

"Let's do it…Kat, you can hurry up and fly down to the ground, Aqualad and I are right behind you…" She nodded before activating her jets. She hovered in the air for a second before flying down to her bike, landing on the ground. Roy and Garth backed up a bit before running towards the ledge, jumping to the other building's rooftop. The next jump wasn't too bad as it was not that high off the ground unlike the other building. Before Kat knew it, both boys were mounting the other bike and were ready to go. The engines started, and they zoomed down the streets of the city.

Kat was starting to doubt her plan now. Even if they did get far enough and she'd get her shield up, she wasn't sure if they would survive. The amount of power in that device was going to create a huge explosion that she wasn't sure if her shield would be strong enough to protect them from it.

"Kat, your shield!" Aqualad yelled at her. She nodded her head. It was worth a try. They had gotten this far, so now all she had to was hope it would work. The barrier surrounded the two bikes and its riders just as the bomb exploded. A cloud of fire rose in the sky, expanding out as it grew bigger. She looked over her shoulder and could see the multiple glass windows of the buildings behind them shattering, the structures starting to give way from under the pressure of the explosion. It was getting closer, and their bikes were already maxed out.

She cursed to herself. She should have to stayed back there and stopped the bomb from going off, but it was too late to go back. The pressure hit her shield, and she lost her ability to breathe. The shield was destroyed, and everything slowed down. The bike hitched and tossed her off her seat, her body slamming into the ground. Her head smashed into the curb. The air around her was becoming hotter. It was burning her. Consciousness was slowly leaving her, and the last thing she saw was Speedy and Aqualad lying unconscious a few feet away from her; the bikes were destroyed. The buildings above them were coming down, but she wasn't about to let any of them die. She concentrated, harder than ever before, and she created two more barriers, one surrounding her friend's bodies, the other surrounding her own. Everything blacked out.

Forgive me! This chapter is really short because the next part i was going to add to it actually became the next chapter! Eh...i hope you like it...i guess.