Chapter 5: The Masked Phantom

Night has reached its point as the Young Justice were on guard at the hotel Alice Liddel and Magenta Umpire were staying in. As Alice was asleep, Magenta was wide awake and helping out the team with watching.

"You don't have to do that, Magenta."

"Oh, but I want to. I know I'm just a small 14 year-old... But I wanna prove that I'm not weak. Many people, even Alice, risk their lives to protect me... But now I wanna do the same for them." Magenta said then M'gann pat her head.
"You both are like sisters; Always looking after one another."

"I wish I had a sister..."

"Hey," Superboy called then M'gann turned her head to the closed door.
"What is it?"

"We got someone here. Says he knows Magenta."

"Oh, let him in please." Magenta said then when the door opened everyone saw a young man with snow white hair, the tips of his dyed teal, and he had hazel eyes.

"Jagger!" Magenta said as she hugged the young man.

"I'm so glad you're both safe, but was this really necessary?"

"What do you mean?" Magenta asked then she heard someone cleared their throat.

"And who is this?"

"Oh, this is my big brother, Jagger. Jagger, we asked help from these people because we need to know who murdered Marshall..."

"If only I didn't have a job that requires so much of my time..."

"Not to interrupt anything, but we will make sure to keep these girls safe in our hands."

"Don't make promises you can't keep, KF!" Robin said, as he elbowed his best friend in the stomach. As the two boys were fooling around, M'gann walked towards Jagger.
"We'll make sure to keep them both safe."

Jagger looked at his little sister then sighed.
"I'll leave to you then..."

When Jagger left, Alice woke up with a loud yawn. Magenta hugged the raven hair girl then she softly whispered in Alice's ear.

"I understand..." Alice said then the lights suddenly went off. Everyone got into position. Robin and Kid Flash both stood close to Alice and Magenta when everyone heard Superboy and Aqualad grunted then the door broke down. The two boys were down then they saw someone standing in the door way. It was a boy, about close to Robin's height, had short black hair that was similar to Robin's but the ends were ruffled up, and he wore a mask that only covered his eyes.

"You...! You're..."

"The Masked Phantom." The person said then Artemis fired her arrows but the boy caught one and grinned.

"You really think these would stop me?" He said then his body twitched. He opened his mouth and something crawled out of it.

"Ugh! Gross!" Kid Flash almost gagged at the sight of what everyone saw. What crawled out of the boy's mouth was a person. The person held a scalpel then it charged straight for Alice and Magenta.

"Watch out!"

Robin and Kid Flash pushed the girls to the side, barely dodging the person. The Masked Phantom snapped his fingers then more of the person who was holding the scalpel appeared behind him.

"Take the girls out of here!" M'gann said then Robin and Kid Flash nodded. The both grabbed the girls and ran out of the building.

"I'm not letting you get away!" The Masked Phantom said, as he ran after them.