A/N: Thanks again for all of your support, and I apologise if the first chapters seem slow. I'm trying to get in as much personality and characteristics in each individual, so they don't seem unrealistic. And I definitely had fun butchering Gotham's most famous names. Thanks for reading, and enjoy this chapter!
Disclaimer: Wait, so if I didn't put a disclaimer, someone would actually sue me? Cuz I don't own Young Justice, and you'd be stupid to believe I did.
Chapter Three
(Martha's POV)
Man, I love visiting the city! Living on a farm isn't pretty, you know. We have to drive a very long way to get to school. I heard some people don't have chores in the evening. They are soo lucky. Al and I come home, do our homework, and go straight to work. We have a lot of things to do.
Alright, where did Jay leave off? The mall, ok. Let's see...
Al and I came right after Zee and John. By then it was around eight, and we played a couple of games, including Twister, Apples to Apples, and Settlers of Catan. Zee dominated us all in Twister, seeing as how her dad was an acrobat, and I guess he taught her all of his skills. John came in second, but he wasn't anywhere near where Zee was. Around the time we finished Apples to Apples, Lian came, and we finally were able to go to the mall. The rules were that we had to have at least two chaperones over fourteen. After asking our parents, we walked there and pulled out the money they gave us.
"So, rules for tonight are the same as always. There are five floors, and eight of us. Every two people get one floor, and every twenty minutes we will rotate, going up a floor. If you're on the the last floor you take the elevator down. We should regroup here at the base of the first escalator in an hour and forty-five minutes. Stay in the group you are assigned, and don't go anywhere without someone else," Lian instructed.
"The groups are, Lian and I, Al and Jay, John and Rudy, and Zee and Martha. Make sure you buy things that are appropriate for your age!" Raquel added. She grabbed a pen and opened it to write who would go where.
"Now, start calling floors, Lian and I will signal when to switch if we see you, and do the same if you see anyone."
Zee and I whispered to each other. "Well we're taking floor one!" I said.
"Floor three, the video games," Rudy answered.
"Aw, we wanted floor three. I guess we'll just take floor two then," Jay said with disappointment.
"Then that means we have floor four, sports. Tell me if I got this right, the older girls have floor four, sports, the younger girls have floor one, clothes, older boys have floor three, video games, younger boys have floor two, board games, and no one has floor five. At least one person in each group has a phone, so we will message you guys when it's time to switch. Make sure you don't put your phone on vibrate!" Lian said. Then she and Raquel walked off towards the escalator. The others did the same, while we went straight into Justice.
"Oh my gosh, look at this! Isn't this necklace adorbs?"
"Hold on real quick, I gotta go to the bathroom," Zee told me, walking in that direction.
"Do you want someone to go with you?" Lian and Raquel did say not to go alone, and my parents always tell me the same thing.
"Nah, I'm good. You keep searching through the store, surprise me with something!" she called back.
I shouldn't have listened to her. Listening to her always caused trouble. Maybe if I had paid a little more attention, none of this would have happened.
I was searching through the pants section for something easy that I could shift my skin to look like when I heard a clicking sound. I may not have had my brother's hearing, but I still had slightly exceptional ears. This should have been my first clue, but unfortunately, I kept looking at clothes. If it was anything dangerous, who would want to attack me? It was getting hard to breathe, and my reflexes began to slow down.
I coughed twice, trying to think through my muddled brain. I became dizzy without knowing it.
The fog surrounded me and I barely registered the others in the store falling too. When did that get there? I pulled my shirt up to block my mouth and nose. It was getting harder to stand up now, and my eyes could barely stay open. I collapsed on the ground turning my head to the side. Above me stood a man with a gas mask, his hair a vibrant shade of neon green. Faintly I realized that I should have been able to go into camouflage-mode and fly away. But who would try to target me?
Wait, the real reason that I didn't leave was because of Zee. I couldn't leave her behind! Poor Zee...who was rich...and pretty... and lived between two of the most corrupted cities out there...
God, I was such an idiot. Whoever this man was, he wasn't after me, he was after Zee! I somehow stayed awake long enough to see and hear him laughing, dropping a card from his sleeve. Then I passed out, feeling like I failed a friend.
A/N: This chapter was orginally much longer, but I decided to split it in two. I kinda hate the end though. The next one might explain things a bit more, and since it's already half-done, I might update much quicker. Thanks for everyone's reviews!
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