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A/N: Thanks BubbleEwa for your reviews. I have to be a little mean. Sorry. Maybe this will answer some of your questions about Miss Martian.

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"This is mind link conversation."

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We followed them to the large opening in the center of the cave, where I had met them when I first arrived. Already there was a slender lady with a blue jacket and black undershirt. I glanced at my brother. I figured he knew who she was.

"Black Canary," he whispered in my ear, smile shone widely across his face, proving me right.

The Team all stopped in front of her.

"Well, well. Looks like we have a couple of new faces. My name is Black Canary. I'm one of the Justice League. Welcome to our training session. You two don't have to participate if you don't want to."

We nodded at each other as we made our way to the sideline.

"Today we will be working on a new maneuver since we now have the pleasure of Artemis joining us one again."

I tuned her out. She wasn't talking to us, just about some boring technique. I was just ready to see them start fighting each other.

They finally began after she showed them on the hologram screen what they would be doing. She had picked Robin as the adversary, since he had been the only one to defeat her using the move. They're goal was to use the move they had just learned to take him , they could use whatever technique they wanted, as long as the new move was used.

Robin sparred with each teammate individually.

"Watch all sides," Canary called out as Robin fought with Superboy. The Boy Wonder still defeat the Boy of Steel in a matter of minutes.

Robin fought Aqualad next.

"Faster, Aqualad. Be strategic, but be quick," yelled Canary.

Kid Flash stood no chance against Robin either.

"Think before you act," Canary called out before the speedster was thrown out the ring.

"Don't telegraph," she told the Martian.

"Artemis, these are rookie mistakes. Pick it up."

"Cut me... some... slack. I haven't fought... in over... a month," Artemis called back before being slammed to the ground.

Artemis was the last one Robin fought. He had beaten them all and had preceded to gloat. Not only hadhe defended against everyone once, he did again beating each faster than before.

"Guess I'm the master here. And no, I'm not cocky, I'm just that good."

Everyone else groaned. Black Canary began to scold them. Once she had finished her little pow-wow, she turned back to Robin.

Alex and I looked at each other, surprised the training was at an intermission. When he had had training back in the past, it was way more vigorous than this. Sometimes kids didn't even come back out. This was nothing.

"No one can beat me," he told her, "I know all their moves."

Canary shook her head as she looked around. At this point, he was right. Then she zoomed in on Alex.

"Then why don't we try something new."

She grabbed Alex by the hand to help him off the ground. I could tell he was confused.

"What, what are you doing?" he stammered.

"I was wondering if you would fight Robin. You don't have to if you don't want to. But I'd figured I'd get you two involved since you're here anyway. Don't worry, he's not much older than you."

He looked back at me. I shook my head furiously. "No" I mouthed. But everyone else was boosting him , they didn't know that Alex really couldn't fight.

In the end, he gave in to the pressure of the group.

"Okay," he said, like an idiot. This was not going to

end well. I had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Alex met Robin in the middle.

"Begin," she said.

Robin was aggressive the whole time. His punches were quick, and he was on to his next move before you could react to the first one. He was much different than the older kids that we had fought in the past. He was a lot better.

"He doesn't stand a chance," I mumbled.

"He's not that bad," said the Martian.

I glared her, noticed Superboy, then looked back. I didn't have time to confront him. My brother was gonna get creamed and I needed all my focus on him. Alex really wasn't doing that bad, though. He was dodging allRobin was throwing at him. I could tell Robin was getting frustrated. Alex couldn't fight, but at least he knew how to avoid trouble.

"Good Alex. Now try hitting him," Canary called.

That's when things took a turn for the worst. Alex had gotten confident with everyone boosting him on that he forgot he couldn't fight. He took the first swing at Robin, and that's when all went downhill.

Alex had lost his rhythm, so everything the Boy Wonder was throwing was connecting, fist and feet. Alex was getting angry which wasn't good. The Team hadn't seen him when he's angry, and it's not a pretty picture.

"We got stop him," I tried to warn everyone.

"It's okay Vanessa. Robin won't hurt him,"said Miss Martian.

"No Martian. Listen. He's gonna go ballistic. We need to stop the fight now!"

But it was already too late. Robin had him pinned to the floor. The momentum Alex had gained was gone as he squirmed on the floor.

"Not feelin' the aster are you?"

Alex had lost it. He started glowing as he grabbed Robin by his chest, and threw him to the ground. Alex stood up and grabbed Robin again, and threw him over his shoulder. With his arm still in his hand, Alex pulled back on it with his foot on his back.

"Not feelin' the aster?" Alex yelled back as he pulled harder on Robin's arm.

We all heard something pop.

At that point, three people had manhandled Alex and ripped him away from Robin. He was rolling on the floor clutching his arm.

"My shoulder," he repeated over and over.

I looked back at Alex as if to say "What did you do." He looked just as confused as I did, dazed even. His weird glow was gone.

As he stared at all the angry faces, he ran off. I ran after him.

"Alex!" I yelled.

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THIRD PERSON POV

The rest of the Team headed to the living room.

Robin had been sent to the infirmary to have his arm examined. Black Canary had ended the rest of the training session due to the extreme injury.

"What was that? I mean, what just happened?" asked Kid Flash.

"The children have more power than we first realized," said Aqualad.

Miss Martian spoke up. "Well, we've only seen one of them actually use their powers."

"Yeah," chimed KF, "Ms. Killjoy has yet to use hers."

"Well, if she keeps using her power to talk, she'll get a little of what Robin got," said Superboy to himself, but loud enough for the others to hear.

"Little harsh don't ya think SB?" the speedster said.

"Have you seen the way they both stare at her? Or the snide comments they make. Before Wonderboy went off on Robin, she told M'gann to back off."

"M'gann, is this true?" Aqualad asked.

"Of course it's true. You guys hadn't noticed how little she talks when they're around?" Superboy answered before Miss Martian got a chance.

"Maybe that's because you won't give her a chance to speak. M'gann is perfectly capable of answering the question Aqualad asked her," Artemis said.

"Oh, like you answer for the Terror Twins. You can't protect them forever."

"Sounds like you two need a room."

It was Robin.

"Robin, dude, what are you doing?" said Kid Flash.

"They let me out for good behavior."

"Are you okay?" Miss Martian asked.

"I'm gonna be left handed for a while, but otherwise I'm fine. Thought I'd come down and see what all the arguing was about before those two got a divorce." He pointed at Artemis and Superboy.

"Perhaps we should continue this conversation by a different means," Aqualad said.

They all connected via mind link.

"You're always sticking up for them. Those kids are nothing but trouble. You know that they hate M'gann, yet you continue to help them attack her."

"Fine," Artemis admitted, "I help them when they're making a mistake like that because I'm trying to keep it from getting out of hand. I know that if it was left to you, they would be pounded into the ground by now. But what are you guys afraid of? The kids are harmless. Like you said, Vanessa hadn't even used her powers."

"I don't know. Alex nearly took my arm off. Seems pretty harmful to me." Robin said.

"It's fine. I'm used to it. Back on Mars, white martians were mistreated. Trust me I can handle it." M'gann chimed.

"But you shouldn't have to," said Aqualad.

"Maybe if their ambassador would say something, this wouldn't be an issue," Superboy growled at Artemis.

"I don't have to listen to this," Artemis said as she walked out the room.

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VANESSA POV (FIRST PERSON)

"Alex!" I called after him. He had run to the bathroom.

"Vanessa, leave me alone."

"But Alex, I-"

"Vanessa! Leave me alone!" he yelled. I had never heard him yell at me like that before.

"Fine!" I yelled back, not so much for anger, but to cover my own hurt.

I ran back to our room and plopped on the bed. As I stared at the broken remote, a flood of emotions hit me. I started thinking about our escape, and how we had destroyed everything we touched. Tears started to flow down my face as I came to the conclusion that this was hopeless. If Alex and I couldn't control our powers, they would kick us out for sure. I didn't want that no matter how much I told myself I did.

I sat there for ten minutes, alone, crying, and lost in thought. Alex came in soon after. He sat on the bed nextto me. He saw me crying, but he didn't say anything. We both just sat there trying understand all the things that had happened to us. He didn't even grab my hand.

Then there was a knock on the door. Artemis walked in.

"Are you two alright?"

We looked at her. Alex spoke first.

"Fine. I should've never gone up there though."

"Alex, don't beat yourself up. Robin is fine. His shoulder was dislocated, but they fixed it. Nothing that he hasn't seen worse than."

Alex was silent again.

Artemis looked around, as if looking for words in the air.

"Has this ever happened before?" she finally asked.

"Yes." Alex said. "When I was younger, I was forced to fight a friend. Prior to it they made me really upset. We fought. I got mad like I did out there, and he ... uh ..."

He took a deep breath.

"He was never the same afterwards," he finished, voice trailing off.

The silence filled the room again.

"What happened to you two?" Artemis asked, breaking the silence.

"Nothing," we said simultaneously.

"If nothing happened then why do you two hate martians so much?"

The question seemed to have come out of the wild blue yonder.

"Where did that come from?" I asked.

"Nowhere," she answered quickly, "I was just thinking about something you said to Miss Martian during the fight."

I didn't believe her, but Alex proceeded in telling her our life story anyway. He was to eager to get it off his chest.

"It's a long story, but, when we were younger, we lived in a government orphanage. We got adopted when I was six and she was three to this guy named BarnabasNaitram.

"Life wasn't always the best, but we really didn't know any better. We had restricted privileges. We couldn't watch TV, play outside, eat any kind of processed foods, and whole bunch of other stuff.

"To be honest, I don't think he ever liked us. He used to just hit us sometimes for no reason. And he yelled all the time even if we weren't doing anything wrong. But if we did do something bad, well, let's just say I still have bruises from that.

"But like I said, we didn't know any better"

I interrupted him.

"What does telling her our life's story have to do with why we hate the Martian out there?"

"If I don't tell her the background, why we actually hate them isn't going to make any sense."

He continued on.

"Anyway, an official from the orphanage would come in and check to see if everything was fine. To see if we were adjusting fine and to see if the foster parent was a good fit. He did this every year or so, nothing new.

"We stayed with Mr. Naitram for about three years, and this year round was nothing different. The official was coming and he was telling us to be on our best behavior.

"The official came a few days later. I don't know what was wrong with us, but we were being bad for no reason. We did the opposite of everything he told us. We were breaking stuff and just not listening. I think me andher even got in a fight. I don't know if it was just me, but I had a headache the whole time.

"Then he told me to, I think he said take out the trash. But the way the day had been going, of course I told him no. He kept asking, until finally I hit him. He flew across the room to the next wall. I hadn't used my powers before then.

"The official had seen enough. He said that we couldn't stay with Mr. Naitram. He said that he was unable to handle the responsibility. They dragged us outas we begged not to go, but I think about it now, I don't know why we were. Anyway, Mr. Naitram was acting as if he didn't care if we got took. He didn't even pit up that much fight to keep us.

"We got in the car crying. Mr. Naitram had followed us to it. The official pushed us in really hard and rolled down are window. Mr. Naitram put his head down so wecould see him. Then he said 'Good night.' The window closed quick and then I blacked out.

"When we woke up, we were in a strange place we'd be locked up in for the next three years."

"So why do we hate martians? It's simple. While we were at our new "home," we had a lot of doctor ... uh ... check-ups. Wellsworth came in and told us he had a surprise for us. We knew not to trust him so I put my guard up. At that point, I was up trying to watch Vanessa 'cause she was asleep. They didn't like it when we slept. They said it gave us ... never mind.

"Wellsworth told us he had a surprise. As I put my guard up, Mr. Naitram walked in. I definitely was surprised. Hmm, I thought he was gonna come in and save us. Boy was I stupid for thinking that."

Alex closed his eyes as he recited this next part. He said it like he was actually there, reliving it. I knew in his head, he was .

"Alex, you wouldn't attack your father would you?"

"Mr. Naitram? What are you doing here?"

"Just helping an old friend take care of two pestering little kids.

"Then he shape-shifted into the beast he really was. I jumped back 'cause it took me by surprise.

"What's the matter Alex? You look like you've seen a monster. Did he look like this?"

"Then he turned into this big, ugly thing. He was torturing me. I felt like a monster was really there trying to get me. He started laughing at me."

"He stopped laughing then looked down at Vanessa. She was still asleep.

"Wake her up. Don't want her to miss out on the fun.

"No. I won't let you hurt her.

"Then I'll make you."

Alex shuddered as he retold this part.

"He ... he invaded my head, my thoughts, my emotions, everything. I couldn't even move. It felt like hewas tearing me apart from the inside out.

"I fell on top of Vanessa and she woke up. He had shape-shifted back into Naitram.

"Rise and shine. Didn't want you to miss out.

"Mr. Naitram?

"A little confused are we? Allow me show you a

different side of me then.

"He shifted back into his martian form and went into her head. I wanted to stop him, but I didn't know what to the do. I was helpless to save her. He messed her up bad. I could tell. She was screaming 'Alex, make it stop' or-"

"Alex stop!" I yelled at him. I couldn't take it anymore. I didn't want to relive that day, that moment. I didn't realize I had started crying again.

Alex stopped. I don't think he had realized how much I was reliving it too.

He looked over at Artemis who had listened in silence.

"Artemis, you can't tell anyone."

"Alex, I understand this was traumatic, but don't you two think if you told them, they would be more understanding?" she asked.

"Artemis, please," he pleaded.

She looked from me to him, and took a deep breath.

"You have my word."

An alarm went off and Artemis reached at her com-link.

"I'll be right there."

She looked back at us. Then she turned to exit.

Right as she opened the door, she turned back.

"Why did you tell me all that if you knew it would hurt so much?"

"You asked," Alex said.

"Yeah, but the others have asked you questions like that too and you didn't answer."

Alex stood and thought about that for a second.

"We don't trust the others like you," he said finally.

Artemis nodded and walked out.

The door shut behind her. Silence filled the room. Alex came and sat next to me on the bed. He wiped my face as I looked down at the ground.

The silence was devastating as we continued to dwell on our past.