Still not owning!
Mount Justice,
September 23, 06:34
"You should be fine now. Does it hurt?"
"Not especially I'm fine thanks Canary….I better go over to Kaldur…I have a feeling I know what he's saying…"
"Okay but try not to really strain it."
"Okay; I promise." And she hopped down off the table to go and stand beside the Atlantean who was as expected telling Batman about the possibility of a mole in the Team.
Blue took over. "During the Taipei mission with Red Arrow…we ran into Sportsmaster and he revealed the possibility of a mole in the team to us. After last night we have reason to believe that the traitor is Red Tornado but whether or not he betrayed us willingly or was reprogrammed is still…"
"You knew!" Conner came flying and grasped her shirt, picking her up and pushing her against the wall. "That android and his family nearly killed M'gann!"
Kaldur placed a hand on his shoulder but Conner shook his off.
"Conner what are you doing?" M'gann asked in shock.
"These two knew we had a traitor in the Team and didn't tell us!"
"You knew!"
"And didn't tell us!"
"We only sought to protect the Team." Kaldur said.
"From what information that could've saved our lives!" Artemis shook her head.
"Do you really think I wouldn't have told you last night if I thought it had anything to do with the mole?" Blue snapped. "Sportsmaster said the Team not the Justice League."
"You almost died!" Conner said to M'gann.
"Enough." Batman ordered and Conner let Blue drop.
"With Red Tornado…missing…the Team will now we over seen by rotating supervisors. Captain Marvel has volunteered to take the first shift."
"I'm really looking forward to hanging with you guys!"
When did he show up? Blue thought frowning.
"After I dismantle Red Tornado you two and I are gonna…" Conner began but Batman interrupted him.
"Red Tornado is a member of the Justice League. That makes him a League responsibility. You will leave him to us." He turned around and the screen lit up with a newspaper article. "I have another assignment for this team."
"Gotham Mayor attacked by Gorilla-Gorilla?" Kid Flash asked.
"Batman please! Tell me you're not sending us on a joke of a wild ape-chase!"
"I never joke about the mission. I've studied this and checked the sources. Mayor Hill's encounter was only the latest in a string of incidences. Aqualad you and your team will depart for India and check this out."
"Huh your team…" Kid Flash huffed as they head to the Bio-Ship.
North India,
September 23, 21:36.
They landed and left the Bio-Ship with Captain Marvel their 'supervisor' who decided to come with because they'd 'have a blast'
"Switch to Stealth and we'll go over mission parameters."
"Why do we need mission parameters."
"It's recon we know what to do." They turned away.
"Kid, Robin!" Aqualad began.
"Please stop!" They turned to see Blue looking…slightly desperate. "Please, don't just blame Kaldur…remember to blame me too…I…I am so sorry you have no idea…I…"
"Bleubell…."
They looked shocked but Robin shook his head and sighed.
"The four of us started this team because the Justice League was keeping secrets from us!"
"Or did you forget that like you forgot to tell us about the mole."
M'gann disappeared with Artemis leaving Aqualad, Superboy, Blue and Captain Marvel.
"Why didn't you stop them you're supposed to be in charge!"
"I am…" Aqualad began but he turned away and left too.
"We're falling apart!" Blue sat down on the ground and gathered her knees up to her chest…tears slipping down from beneath her mask.
"Bleubell…" Kaldur began.
" I can't lose this family…" She cried . "I don't think I could handle it." She looked up at him and suddenly she looked much younger then the twelve year old who could knock Conner on his ass with one eye flash if she really wanted too…
She looked frightened, scared….desperate.
It broke his heart.
"You're not going to lose them, us…I promise…it'll be okay Bleubell." He knelt down in front of her "I give you my word."
He offered his hand and she took it.
"So what's the plan?" Captain Marvel frowned.
"Make it up as we go along I guess." Blue said wiping her eyes her face slightly flushed, dried tears stained her cheeks and to anyone who knew her it was plain she was crying.
Her eyes behind her mask were wide and red rimmed….
"Great…" He muttered.
They headed into the forest and were soon met with gorilla tracks.
"So I guess this is where the uh monkey business went down."
The two heroes didn't reply. Blue's face was still flushed and she was miserable.
She wouldn't admit to the few tears that escaped when she thought about how the team could potentially hate her for keeping secrets…
She hugged herself as she walked.
"Guys?"
"My apologizes Captain. I am plagued by doubts now that I see the consequences…maybe…maybe we were wrong to withhold…."
They heard heavy footsteps coming towards them that made the ground shake.
"Oh no…."
Elephants burst through the trees, very savage looking elephants….
Certainly not the cute ones.
These were able to smash Captain Marvel to the ground and the two sidekicks fell just minutes later, Kaldur in front of Captain Marvel and Blue into the shadows on the other out of her friends and the Captain's sight.
She screamed as she hit the tree smacking her burnt shoulder against the bark.
"Bleubell!" Kaldur shouted.
No answer.
Kaldur and Captain Marvel defeated the elephants…well actually they got the inhibitor collar off them and they left….first they found Blue holding her shoulder.
"Aw…fucking hell…forgive my language but…ow!"
"She shouldn't have gone on the mission…it was dangerous." Captain Marvel frowned.
"You don't know Bleubell…she's hard-headed…" Kaldur sighed.
"I'm insulted."
"We should get back to the team regroup."
Captain Marvel nodded and helped Blue on his back.
They started to walk. Marvel began to berate Kaldur for letting the team scatter.
"….They would not listen."
"I guess but back at the Cave Batman was able to get everyone to stop arguing with a single word." Okay that was true.
"Because Batman is….Batman."
"Hey you don't have to tell me! When I first joined the League all he did was boss me around and it's hard not to take it personally. But – I never disobeyed an order and that's probably what kept me alive."
"Batman takes command…he has too…for the good of the League. Thank you for helping me understand."
"Hey wisdom of Solomon!"
"Aqualad can you hear me?"
"Yes Miss Martian report."
"Artemis and I were attacked by wild animals wearing inhibitor collars like those used on convicts at Belle Reve Prison"
"Hey cool the tiger I'll be right back!"
"Captain Marvel…"
He was gone.
"Hey…speed of Mercury." Blue sighed
"Uh huh…" Blue nodded. "I heal fast. Let me down."
"He's right you know." Blue said suddenly."
"Huh?"
"You gotta do what's best for the team I heard Captain Follow-the-Tiger I was listening. He's right."
Kaldur sighed. "Maybe."
"Miss Martian. I need a telepathic link between the entire team."
"Link established."
"Should he really be still giving us orders and should you still be following them?" Artemis asked.
"Listen. Please."
"Oh good. Aqualad's voice in her head I so missed that." Wally thought.
"Hey Kaldur! KF and I were attacked by vulture's course if we're moles you'd probably think we attacked ourselves!" Robin said.
"If he did he wouldn't tell you."
"Superboy are you online or just pouting?"
"Busy…call back later."
"What gets me is how nonchalant he is about not telling us! The both of them are!"
"They should totally be chalant. Why chalant, extremely chalant."
Kaldur stepped into a clearing where there stood four electric pylons and saw tracks that indicated someone being dragged on the ground.
"Did he really think you or I could have been the mole!"
"We've known each other for years!"
"Trust is a two way street and you know they'd hate if we kept secrets from them…" Artemis huffed.
"We wouldn't do that…" M'gann said.
"Enough!" Kaldur ordered. "Captain Marvel's been captured and we must act as a team to get him back..."
"Under your leadership?"
"This is not up for debate. You all chose me to lead when the mission is over if you wish to collect a new leader I will happily step down but until then. I am in command here."
The team met up with each other excluding Conner and found the door to…
Okay they didn't know what was behind it.
But they were pretty sure Captain Marvel was behind it.
"I'll fly over."
"Don't the field extends over the field like a dome."
"It's perfectly insulated but one good shot came cause a momentary gap."
"I can force it wider and keep it open if we got one." Blue said.
"I see a target."
"Then be ready to hit it. Be ready…all of you."
Aqualad and Blue walked forward. Using his electrical powers he tore a gap in the field and Blue took over keeping it open as Artemis shot the arrow.
Bull's eye.
They approached the entrance by was that a monkey?
Yep. It screeched and set off the alarm as more of its brethren joined and attacked the Team.
"Again with the monkeys!" Blue growled eyes turning her favourite colour forcing three collars to fall off the monkeys.
Kaldur had told her about it on the way over.
"Remove their collars!"
"Sounds easy when he says it." Robin replied.
The doors opened and out came…
An armed guerrilla in a red beret came out.
Why not?
He did however manage to sniff out a cloaked M'gann as she tried to sneak past making Kid Flash come to her aid.
But he was thrown back onto the ground.
The team blasted the gorilla in through the walls into where Captain Marvel was being held and his captor…
A giant robot with a brain?
Well that won't haunt me for life….
"It's the brain!"
"I can see it's a brain!"
"Not a brain THE brain!" Kid Flash said.
"In the flesh." The Robot brain agreed. "Eh…so to speak. Mallah the pylons."
Blue hated Pylons more then she hated Klarion the Witch Boy's encasing circles.
That over powered magical idiot had been showing up in Port Addison more and more often and was really becoming a pain in the ass for Blue when she was at home.
Hey at leas the feeling was neutral.
He detested Bleubell.
And she loved it.
"Miss Martian Superboy now!"
Thank could for telekinesis huh?
Miss Martian shut down the pylons and the wall was blown in by Superboy (though his shirt was ripped and torn in many places and he had scratches that looked like claw marks but he was okay) with a vicious white wolf.
And now they fight an armed guerrilla.
Blue and Aqualad got to Captain Marvel first her eyes flashing and his inhibitor collar fell off.
"Thanks." He grinned hopping up and kneeling in front of the tiger he had chased that was now lying on the floor in front of him taking off its collar as well.
They surrounded the gorilla that snarled and raised his gun.
"No Mallah." The brain said with a surprisingly deep French accent. "This will not be out Waterloo. Au revoir mes amis."
"Get down!"
They did but all that happened was the light went out and when they flicked on again the heroes were alone.
"Wait what?"
Later they stood outside the bio-ship as dawn began to brake over the trees.
Aqualad removed the last collar from the last animal and their mission was officially over.
"Look I need to know." Robin said as Blue and Kaldur passed him. "Why keep the mole Intel a secret?"
The team froze and turned all wanting to know the answer.
"The source of the tip was Sportsmaster." Kaldur said.
"What you can't trust him?" Artemis said outraged.
"It seemed likely that he was attempting to divide the team make us suspicious of one another so we'd crumble from within by feeding us false information." Blue said.
"And given how this mission went…he nearly succeeded." Robin agreed. "But you had to consider it might be true."
"Yes; as leader I did in which case I did not wish to alert the traitor."
"Hate to say it but…it makes sense."
"I am still prepared to step down…"
"All in favour in keeping Aqualad as leader?"
the result was unanimous.
Kaldur stayed on.
"See you tomorrow!" Captain Marvel said smiling.
"You're not coming back with us?"
"Nah I've got to fly!" He said before taking off.
"Okay amigos let's go home I'm hungry and I want pancakes!" Blue smiled.
"I can run with the idea of pancakes!"
And just like that they became a team again.
No, they became a family again…
Thanks for reading and PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEASE! Leave a review so I know someone's reading the story!