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Port Addison.
September 22, 22:14
Port Addison was a shithole.
A lively shithole.
But a shithole.
It was divided down the middle and arguably worse then Gotham when it came to crime.
One side of the river that flowed into the Gulf of Mexico it was large shiny and modern filled with rich people, a massive modern deep water port where a whole load of legal good were trafficked and Bleu Illusion looked after it's people against the various villains who dared target Port Addison.
And then there was the other side of the river.
Where the immigrates lived, the slums, where the old docks were, where under the cover of night…and most of the day to be fair, all illegal stuff were brought into America.
Drugs, alcohol, people, clothes…you name it. Blue has seen it pass through the docks down there.
South Beach was run by the drug dealers and at least one in two people down there had touched drugs or a gun at one stage in their lives.
Crime was easy money.
And down there you needed every penny.
And despite what most people believed….
Blue lived in that shithole.
And she loved it.
And they loved her.
Not just her but Bleubell. They didn't know who she was obviously but they knew by the tanned colour of her skin though quite a bit lighter then most of the Mexicans and Cubans that lived there (mixed with Italians, Greeks, Irish, Portuguese and those from South America) they knew she was one of them.
She was from the Asilo Del Infierno.
Hell's Haven.
Port Addison sounded such a nice place with a nice quaint name.
No.
It fucking sucked.
But it was home.
And it was alive.
Especially tonight
The lights were lit and the festival was in full swing.
The slums were packed in close in high rise apartment buildings badly made and poorly finished.
The entire ground floor were shops and you had to go around the back to get to the stairs that would take you up to your apartment.
No elevator.
Bad luck for people on the sixth floor.
Despite the hell they lived in, people were happy.
The ground floor had one doctor's office, a vets, a chemist, one Quick-e Mart.
The rest were just fast food places, especially Mexican and Italian, with the occasional Irish pub and Greek place.
One bakery and a butchers place.
You could eat the food who loved the most cheaply and that's what counts.
Music played today as kids laughed and ran around kicking a soccer ball.
Couples danced and kissed.
It beautiful.
Except of course those teenagers who had skipped who hung out on the roof of their apartment buildings, drinking, playing their own music (and okay a few were getting high.)
That's were Blue was.
She looked out over the docks. She remembered the first time she came here…
The last time she saw her mother….
Her watch beeped.
Time to go back to the cave.
She arrived outside just after Robin and Artemis. "Bleubell down!"
She flipped out of the way of a fireball.
The room clouded with fire and smoke.
Oh shit smoke…
You see here's the problem….
Blue was asthmatic.
"What did you do?" She shouted.
"You think we did this?" Robin yelled.
"Wouldn't put it past Kid Flash!" She screamed.
They ducked and threw everything they could at them.
"Who are we fighting?"
"Don't know. But we're sitting ducks here. Head to the exit!"
Blue slid under another fireball following her friends but it did slightly burn her causing the girl to hiss in pain.
"Dammit."
Robin came running back up the hall. "Don't go for the exit!" He shouted and she stood up only to be engulfed in a tidal wave and thrown up against the wall thanks to the water.
"Who let the tide in?" She asked when the water went down rolling out of the way of another fireball.
They retreated into the training roof as a tornado of fire followed them.
They ran into the shower room as Robin attempted to contact the Justice League.
The older two began to turn on the showers.
Blue kneeled over and started to cough.
"Are you okay?" Artemis asked panicked.
"Oh shit Bleubell don't tell me are you...?"
"Asthmatic? Yeah…."
"Uh okay well we'll…Artemis keep turning on the showers."
"Let me do it." Blue said with one last cough before her eyes flashed blue as all the showers turned on.
"The com is down locked. At least the water's helping." He had to say it didn't he?
The water flared out of control flooding the room.
"Or not."
Robin blew out a hole in the wall into the hallway next to it and they started running again coming out into the kitchen.
"We need to get lost." Robin said.
"The air vent!" Artemis stated.
"Good go!"
But Robin didn't follow them.
"What are you doing?" Blue asked him.
"Downloading Cave blueprints could come in…."
They heard something.
"Go! Go!" He told her and they climbed up the vent.
"Go left." Robin said and they did.
Just missing the burst of flames that followed them.
"To close. Take the first right. There should be a vent cover right in front of you."
There was. They opened it and slid through coming out in the temperature control room.
"This way!" Robin ordered them and they followed.
They turned as a burst of flames and a shadow standing in the middle of it dropped from the vent as well.
The room was set in flames and the temperature meters went sky high.
"That's not good." Robin said.
The intruder officially spotted them as more fireballs were shot at the trio.
They ducked behind a generator and Blue moved her shoulder.
"You okay?" Robin asked.
"Burnt my shoulder a while back. How bad is it?" She asked as he checked it.
"Nothing that serious but don't let it get infected. It isn't to sore right?"
"I've had worse I can handle it." She told him.
Robin checked his computer watch. "I know that other access tunnel is here somewhere."
"You mean this one?" Artemis asked lifting up the latch as Robin planted an explosive to cover their escape they dropped down into it.
"Hold on." Robin told them he cracked open an old plug and plugged in a hard drive.
"Hacking into the Cave's heat sensors to prevent the enemy from tracking us."
"And I ask again. Who is the enemy?" Artemis asked.
"Let's find out shall we. Robin hack the security camera."
"Already on it….and there."
They watched the footage. Wally was fixing Superboy's motorcycle and occasionally asking for various tools from M'gann as Kaldur walked up to the three of them and Sphere.
"I have been meaning to ask." He said. "Any problem with juggling schoolwork with you're responsibilities here?"
"No." Superboy no wait Conner said.
"Juggling is just one of my many talents. Socket ranch." Wally said taking the tool.
"Being a cheerleader has presented a cheerleader." M'gann confessed. "Oh but my first loyalty is always to the team."
So that's what he's doing….Blue thought. He's following up on the mole thing. Oh boy…
"Artemis starts school today. Do you think she will have trouble maintaining loyalties?"
"Oh she'll manage alright I mean how much more hostile and annoying can she…"
Boom, the cave was blown in and the security camera cut out.
"What happened?"
"Explosion took out the camera. I'll get another angle."
The scenes were fast and the camera always taken out pretty quickly. After the explosion water rushed into the Cave and chased the team.
Finally the last angle turned to static.
"That's it." Robin said. "All four are dead."
They looked at him.
"The cameras I meant the cameras! Just give a sec to find the fastest roots to the hanger."
"Yeah they're fine! They've all got superpowers. They can handle anything…"
The three took off again a few minutes later finally leaving the tunnel and dropping into the library.
Blue's favourite place in the Cave.
"Okay guys I knew this place best. There's a second passage behind one of these bookcases."
"Seriously? Cliché much?" Artemis asked.
"You should see the Bat Cave."
"And Illusion's lair."
They walked slowly then heard the door open ducking behind a book case.
"Artemis? Bleubell Robin?" A robotic voice said.
"It's Red Tornado!" Artemis said running out to greet their supervisor but was met with a familiar looking but totally different android.
Robin dived and saved her Blue followed straight after. "Yes on the red no on the tornado!"
As they ran they were met with another android this one more…female looking so they hit the tops of the book cases and ran on them.
Until of course they were knocked over.
"Okay now I'm angry." Blue stated as she found the book and tugged it opening the passageway.
"Did you know Tornado had…siblings?"
"No." The other two sidekicks told the archer at the same time.
"So what now? Red Tornado is one of the power houses of the League how are we supposed to take down two of him."
"They do seem user unfriendly." Robin agreed.
"Don't joke they…"
A voice sounded through the speakers in the hall. A robotic voice. "Attention Robin, attention Bleubell, attention Artemis. You have exactly ten minutes to surrender or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished."
"Oh shit."
And they took off running. Every minute the robotic voice would tell them how much time they had left.
"We can access the hanger from here."
"Guys." Blue said as water rushed at them.
"Or not."
"Will you please stop saying that?"
They ran but where caught underwater again.
Artemis panicked and Robin gave her the thing that helped him breath under water.
Red Tornado's water using brother swam up and grabbed her ankle but Blue…
Blue that was raised in ports, on boats and lived in Port Addison was like a little fish.
Her eyes glowed and the arrows that had fallen from Artemis' quiver glowed and aimed themselves at the android. Only one though managed to her their embedding itself in its eye as Robin grabbed Artemis, shot his rope gun and Blue grabbed onto the rope as well as he hoisted them into the surface leaving explosives in his wake for the android.
They emerged and gasped for breath when Wally's voice shouted. "Look out!"
A fireball was thrown at their heads.
Blue pushed Robin and Artemis manipulating the water up rendering the fireball useless as they ducked under water swimming away from Tornado's fiery sibling.
"You guys okay?" They asked Wally and Conner who were encased in twisted chunks of metal as the water rose.
"Forget us help M'gann."
"Aqualad is she….?"
"She is unconscious, I fear she…we cannot survive much longer."
"I got them. You guys get these two out." Blue said but moved her shoulder too quickly and hissed. "Ah….son of a bitch."
"Bleubell!" Kid Flash frowned only now seeing the burn on her shoulder.
"I'll be fine." She told them then hit under water again emerging at the stairs her friends following.
However the water using brother of their supervisor emerged on one side and his sister blocked them at the top.
"I'm almost out of arrows." Artemis told them.
"Distract her now!" She did as the two siblings used their abilities aiming for the kids they dived under water again swimming up a tunnel and surfacing at the top of it.
"What do we do now?"
"We save them that's how it works."
"Maybe that's how it's supposed to work! But those super robots already took out four of our super powered friends."
"You seem distraught." Robin said calmly.
"She does doesn't she?" Blue agreed nodding.
"Distraught? We have no powers aside from an injured Blue and I'm down to my last arrow! Of course I'm distraught."
"Well get traught or get dead!" He snapped at her.
"How can you two be so calm?" She asked as they started to crawl.
"Practice. I've been doing this since I was nine." Robin said.
"Ditto." Blue said.
"What good is that now? What chance do we have against unrelenting machines?"
"Robin. You hear that they're machines!" Blue said a small smiling blooming on her face.
"Oh duh! They're machines and one magnetic pulse will shut down any machine."
"Great but you better have an EMP in that utility belt because I don't have one in my quiver."
"Sorry no. but I'm pretty sure I can make one. What do you say KF?" Robin asked hitting his com using the batarang that had been lodged beside Kid Flash's head during the previous fight.
"Is it doable?"
"Totally doable! If….you had more time."
They went to the med lab. "Extra machine." Wally told them.
"There's a small vacuum tube called a locator that converts small energy pulses…."
Wally began telling Robin step by step what to do.
"We'll need to hook it up to the cave's main generator." Blue said.
"Which is where?"
"Well we're gonna find out aren't we?" Blue asked as they hit the vent again.
They came out just above where their team was.
"Make with the distraction boys."
And they began as Robin and Blue used a zip-line to make it to the generator.
"It's not working."
"The circuits uncompleted." Blue told him. "We need something conductible a piece of metal."
"GUYS LOOK OUT."
The wave rushed over their heads as Robin dived for Blue but they were knocked off the generator.
Artemis watched through a crack in the vent they were trapped inside a dome of water, totally frozen, Robin still even had his hand around Blue's wrist.
When Artemis came out of the elevator she saw the two youngest of her team were collapsed on the ground next to each other soaking wet.
Artemis shot the arrow she'd taken from where Wally kept his souvenirs.
It hit its mark and the circuit was complete.
The robots dropped. And the team was saved.
"Kaldur how's M'gann?"
"She…she's breathing I believe she will recover and what of Robin and Blue."
Artemis placed a hand on both brunettes' chests in shock as they remained still but slowly they started to cough. "They…they're breathing too…"
"Way to get traught." Robin said in-between gasps for air.
"Way to go Artemis…we knew you had it in you."
-LATER-
M'gann and Kaldur were up but Kid Flash and Superboy were still encased in metal.
"We figured the only we to do this was get caught…..blacked out though..." Robin explained.
"M'gann…." Conner said as she took his hand.
"We'll you stop playing with that thing and cut us out." Wally shouted at Artemis indicating to the drill.
"It's not working genius EMP shuts down all machines."
"All Machines present at the time." A voice they knew. The real Red Tornado as he arrived in the cave. "What has occurred."
"We had a little visit from your family."
"Your extremely nasty family."
"You're sister is rather…fiery." Blue said checking her burn making sure it hasn't got infected yet.
"I was not aware I had relations."
"Where have you been?" Conner asked.
"Monitor duty on the Watch Tower. When it became clear that the Cave communications were done I attempted to investigate." He said walking over to where his shut down siblings were. ""But your zeta-tubes were also un-functional. I transported to Province and proceeded here."
"Uh huh…"
Red Tornado knelt down in front of one of his 'siblings' just two seconds later Sphere who'd been shut down during the EMP shot to life as did the drill.
"Hey boy…" Conner said.
"The pulse has worn off!" Three voices, Wally, Robin and Blue's stated turning to where Red Tornado knelt with the androids.
Slowly he stood up and turned….
Releasing three tornados and sucked the oxygen from the air.
The Team clutched their throats dropping to their knees before it all went black.
They didn't know how long they were out but when they finally came too they were met with the faces of their mentors.
Well…Bleu Illusion wasn't there.
He was still on some off-earth mission so Blue woke up to Black Canary but hey…it was a pretty good substitute.
"You okay?" She asked gently touching Blue's shoulder gaining a hiss.
"What happened?"
"I burnt it…fire I…" Blue coughed.
"Hey, easy…can you stand."
"Yeah."
Black Canary slowly helped Blue up just as Superman helped Artemis.
"What happened here?"
"What happened? The reds happened. Tornado and his….wait where are they?"
"Gone." Robin replied all three of them….gone."
And I'll see you next chapter.
Slightly delayed update due to the fact that SCHOOL HATES ME! WHY? WHY MUST U GIVE ME SO MUCH HOMEWORK?
I have a LIFE!
Mini rant over please review and again I'll see you next time.
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