Chapter 8: Illusions

At Mount Justice, Alice and Magenta were treating Robin and Kid Flash's wounds, though the weird thing is that they were the only ones that were hurt pretty badly. Aqualad and Superboy were hurt but not bruised badly.

"How did this happen...?" Kid Flash groaned as Alice was wrapping bandages around his arm.

"Megan said that when the Masked Phantom ran after us, those creepy people just suddenly vanished."

"The Masked Phantom must've been messing with your minds." Magenta said then Robin looked at her.
"Well, I'm just speaking out my thoughts..."

"No, I think you're onto something, Magen." Kid Flash said then M'gann gasped.
"Hello, Megan! Illusions!"

"Pardon?" Alice said then Magenta looked at her.
"Megan believes that the Masked Phantom uses some sort of technique to trick peoples' minds. That person thing crawling out of the boy's mouth was an illusion, isn't that right Megan?"

"That's exactly right. But what bothers me was the photos of Marshall's murder... From the pictures that Robin found, it looks like Marshall was sliced to death."

Alice covered her mouth then Magenta wrapped her arms around her waist.
"It's okay, Alice... It's okay." Magenta said then Alice sighed and nodded. Robin looked at the two raven hair girls then tilted his head to the side.
From what we were just talking about... Could it possibly be that what I saw last night be an illusion as well? Could Alice and Magenta be hiding something from us...? Robin thought then he gasped when he heard Aqualad calling his name.

"Take a look at the wounds... These cuts are obviously come from a sharp weapon, like a knife or something smaller..."

"Like a scalpel?" Robin suggested then Magenta and Alice looked at the Boy Wonder. Robin walked towards the group then pointed at a cut on the picture.
"See right here, this cut could only be penetrated by something like Aqualad said; a knife."

Everyone started mummuring to each other then Robin looked at Alice and Magenta. The two girls had a sad expression in their eyes then there was a guinea pig noise.

"Is there a rat in here?" Kid Flash asked then Robin heard a little scoff noise.

"How dare that boy! I am not a rat!"

"Keep making those guinea pig noises, and you gonna be a rat."

Am I imagining things? Or am I really hearing someone talking?

Robin looked around then he noticed that Alice and Magenta were holding their rabbit dolls.