Ten Little Superheroes, Chapter 1
Ps.—Sorry for all the typos in the intro, I got really excited :|
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Nine.
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Artemis Crock woke to a raven-haired teenage girl in her face.
"Zatanna?! What the hell? What time is it?" she managed to get out.
"Sorry! I just needed to get someone up, and your room is closest to the living room. I'm freaking out, Artemis! Freaking out!"
"What? Why? What's wrong? Are you hurt? Are you…pregnant?"
There was a pause while Zatanna shot Artemis a "what-the-fuck?" look.
"What's that supposed to mean?" she asked coolly.
"Nothing, that's just the first thing that popped into my mind when you said that you were freaking out. And anyways, lately, you and Robin have been a little—" She made a hand gesture.
"Artemis!"
"Sorry. Why are you freaking out, then?"
"Oh, come on!" Zatanna grabbed Artemis' wrist frantically and dragged her out of the room and into the hall, where they (quite literally) ran into Wally, Robin, and Conner.
"Oops," Connor said. "Sorry, Zatanna." He proceeded to help her to her feet after she ran into him.
"S'okay," she rubbed a sore spot on her nose.
"Are you girls alright?" Wally asked. "We heard Zatanna yelling."
Everyone looked at Zatanna expectantly.
"Huh? Oh, right. Come with me!"
The four teens ran after Zatanna and into the Cave's living area. When they arrived at their destination, they all sat in shock, looking at the scene before them.
One by one, the rest of the team arrived.
Kaldur, M'gann, and then Black Canary each sat for a moment, absorbing what lay before each of them.
"What the hell happened here?" Everyone turned to look at Roy, who had just entered the room. Black Canary stooped over to examine the pieces of what looked to be Red Tornado. At least, that's who the pile of scrap metal reminded them of.
There was half of a leg here, several fingers there, the tattered remains of a blue cape strewn across the couch… And then, perhaps the most unsettling of all, they found a head.
"Dude," Wally nudged Robin with his elbow. "Can you… fix him?"
Robin picked up the head and examined it. When he managed to get into Red Tornado's "brain" to examine the damage it had taken, he was given a shock, and he quickly retracted his hand. He gave a frustrated sigh when he turned the head on its side and the circuit board fell to the ground in a heap of charred metal and wire. He pursed his lips.
"Well?"
Robin shook his head dejectedly.
"No use. The only way we could fix him now is if we built a completely new Red Tornado." He sighed. "There's nothing we can do for him."
"I don't understand," Conner interjected. "You mean he's, like… dead?"
There was a heavy silence.
"As dead as a robot can be, I guess," Robin answered sadly.
"Wait, do you think there might be something useful in the batcave?" Wally suggested.
"Maybe." Robin pondered this thought before walking to the Zeta tube. Instead of announcing his name and his team designation number as it did usually, however, there was only silence.
He turned around and gave a confused look. Then he turned back around and tried again.
Still nothing.
"What the—"
"Seriously? Zeta tubes are off?" Artemis practically yelled. "Why?"
"Wally, check all of the other exits in the cave, please," Black Canary commanded absently, being that she was in deep thought.
"Sure thing," Wally saluted before disappearing.
Less than twelve seconds later, he reappeared with a blur of color and a gust of wind. He shook his head.
"Nothing."
"What do you mean, nothing?" Roy demanded impatiently.
"I mean, there's no way out. The exits are all sealed."
"Do you think Robin would be able to hack them to let us out?" Conner asked.
"Not unless Robin can reconstruct all of the panel boards to each of the doors. They've all been torn up. Pretty roughly, too, from the looks of it."
"How is that even possible?" M'gann asked worriedly.
"What the hell is going on?" Artemis voiced.
There was more silence.
"I believe we are all asking the wrong questions." Everyone turned to look at Kaldur. "I believe the question we seek the answer to is this: Who has done this to us?"
The team looked around at each other. They looked down at what remained of Red Tornado. They looked at Black Canary, still lost in her own thoughts.
"Are we saying what I think we're saying?" Wally asked worriedly.
"We are if you think we're saying that someone in this cave is responsible for all of this," Roy gestured towards the pile of scrap metal.
The cave was deadly silent for the third time that day, and it was only just after noon.
"Wait," Conner cut in. "You mean we're seriously going to sit here and think that one of us did… all of this?"
"Of course not! That's impossible!" M'gann all but shouted.
Silence was starting to become the Team's awkward friend. The teens looked around.
Something was really, truly, incomprehensibly wrong.
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So whodunit?
Guess you'll have to wait and see! :P
As always, thanks for reading! Reviews are always nice… *hint* :)