Part One:

"Give me a sec here…" Gwen focused on the cloth, tracing the owner through the shifting sands, "I got him! Let's go!" she took off on manna stairs, M'gann right behind her.

"You can't fly?" M'gann asked incredulously.

"I am not giving up my human life just so I can learn a few power tricks!"

"Tender spot, sorry I asked…"

Ben glared through the sun, seeing movement, "Wally! By order of the Plumbers I command you give yourself up!"

The moving thing froze, looking up. Ben landed, finding his target watching him warily. "We saw a spike of alien activity. You're on mission but you've lost your memory right?" However, it wasn't Wally he was talking to but Robin.

"How do you know?" Robin readied for an attack. Ben changed back to human but Robin wasn't startled.

"I've talked with your teammate Megan the Manhunter?"

"Who?"

Ben laughed, "Right, amnesia. Forgot. Here." He tossed the canteen to the boy who caught it and drank from it greedily. Both knew that possibly poisoned water was better than zero water after twenty-four hours in a desert.

As Robin drank Ben radioed his peers, "Found Robin. No sign of Wally. Taking him back to Rustbucket."

"Wally's out here too?" Robin demanded with alarm.

Ben nodded, "Yeah, him and a blonde girl. Jogging anything up there?"

Robin's eyes clenched shut, "Artemis, the girl's named Artemis. She's an archer. Like Green Arrow."

"Good, good." Ben nodded again, radioing the new information out.

"Uh Ben?" Julie radioed in, "I think I found one that Megan doesn't remember…"

Julie had stumbled across him by pure luck; an African-American youth, probably about Kevin's age. She had tried to rouse him but his skin was dry and starting to crack. She felt for a pulse via his neck and ran across gills. She forgot her original assignment and hurried to load him and get him back to the Rustbucket at a breakneck speed; they had a special room on board for Ben's aquatic forms. She could submerge the young man just like they would Ben. She laid the boy in the middle of the unit and raced out, locking the doors and throwing the switch to flood the unit. The boy stayed sunk but seemed to be doing a little better. He was mumbling but the water muted his voice.

"Found the runner."

Wally and Artemis drank from the canteens, Kevin had wisely taken two, as greedily as Robin had, taking shelter in the shadow of a cliff.

"So that guy," Wally gasped, "he's a good guy?"

"Yep."

"Could've fooled me," Artemis breathed, "What're you?"

"Plumber." Kevin replied.

"And your girlfriend is going after him?"

"Yep."

"Coward."

"You don't know me."

He suddenly disappeared with a soft pink light, leaving them with his car.

"Superboy's in trouble!" M'gann freaked and zipped away, breaking the sound barrier as she disappeared.

"Kevin!" Gwen summoned him, "we have to follow her."

He nodded as they began moving at hyper-speed. Wally and Artemis were in the jeep which was aiming for the Rustbucket.

When they found them Superboy was letting loose on the soldiers as M'gann was dealing with a psychic.

"Superboy!" Gwen shouted, catching his attention as she flung away the guards surrounding him, "Help Megan. We'll handle this!" he gave her a wary glance but dived headlong into the psychic battle as Kevin became coated with metal and punched a guard with a vicious right hook. He was about to get a dagger in the back but a sphere rolled up, running down the attacker.

"Great, another one."

It beeped at him happily.

Gwen's eyes widened, "Kevin! Get out now!"

He didn't question her but tackled her, carrying her out with him as a tornado began working itself up. They were thrown but he twisted them in mid air so he took the brunt of the impact as she spread a barrier over them. The building blew, but Superboy sat in the middle of the ruins, cradling M'gann as she rested.

"Who're you?" Superboy demanded of the other two.

"Plumbers." Gwen replied softly, "alien cops. We're here to help."

"You aren't taking her," he told them dangerously, the feral light coming back to his eyes, "she lives on Earth. I won't let you force her back to wherever she came from."

Gwen and Kevin chuckled, catching each other's eyes before Gwen spoke, "Wouldn't dream of it. Here." She pulled the canteen out of hyperspace, tossing it to him. He caught it easily, twisting off the top and helping M'gann drink from it.

Once both had drunken some they headed off to the Rustbucket. Superboy was carrying Megan. The sphere was following behind them.