And I'm back Jack! Fair warning that this chapter may be short since there really isn't much to tell now so please bare with me until the next..
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Superman
My head hurts... So does the rest of my body. Everythings dark and I can't think. Feels like I got a knock inthe head with a brick... made of kryptonite of course. I couldn't feel my body and as far as I could tell none of my powers were working. Wonder where I am. What's happening, where am I, where the others are... All this stuff floating around my head as I felt myself drift. It felt weird to be floating without my flight power, kind of nice though. Maybe this is why Bruce liked standing on tall buildings...
Where was Bruce? Last I saw he was at the Cave with the team and the other mentors... Images race through my mind like an old movie projection. I see Conner talking to Lois, a news broadcast with a picture of me and a question mark, Conner lifting a fallen building in a suit that looks almost exactly like mine (he even had the curl), I saw him flying, actually flying over Metropolis with a smile on his face, then I saw Luthor (grrrr!) with his hand on Conner's shoulder like they were a father/son team...
Suddenly there was a bright flash and I was standing in an apartment. M'gann was there but she was older, like twenty years old older. Was this going on now? Where was J'onn? Where was I and why was I seeing this? The door opened and Super- Conner walked in. Great Scott he looked older. Nearly twenty and just like me. M'gann asked him something. Funny that I couldn't hear anything. He takes off his jacket, which looks like the one I wore in highschool, sits on the couch and turns on the TV. He and M'gann continue talking while I try to read their lips, somthing Bruce tryed to teach me but I never really had the patience for. Always thought I could just rely on my super hearing. Then Bruce would give me a look and walk away.
M'gann sat beside Conner on the couch, seemingly comforting him. Conner started yelling angrly about something while tears formed in his eyes, M'gann had tears too. It hurt to see them so distraught, I liked M'gann she's a sweet girl and Conner... Well after Bruce had knocked some sence into me and the whole Light taking over the League feasco I had learned to accept the clone- sorry human- kryptonion... Whatever. He was okay by me now. I had even stared to teach him a little, well you know, after Lois and Bruce had lectured me for a week on bad parenting skills.
M'gann was in tears now and I wondered what Conner could have possibly have said to make her so upset. Then they were hugging while M'gann smiled. The her cookies got scorched, they laughed. Conner walked out of the room, my vision following somehow. He walked into a bedroom, I'm guessing they were sharing a room since one side was covered in pictures and very tidy with a teddy bear on the dresser. He picked up the phone and dialed, speaking a silent conversation to someone. He hung up then sat on the bed and picked up a photo. From my spot at the door I could see the picture, it was one of the team when they were younger, like three years ago if I went by Conners age now.
There was Conner and M'gann standing beside each other with Kaldur and Roy behind them, Wally and Artemis in front looking like they wanted to attack each other and Robin at the very front smiling like the goofy little kid he is. I wonder what happened to the rest of them? Artemis and Wally would be about eighteen, nineteen now. Kaldur would be about twenty-one and Roy would be almost twenty-three. Dear God Dick would be sixteen now. A full teenager! Yikes! How long was I gone for? And where are the other mentors?
The image vanished in a cloud of smoke and I woke up on a cemente floor with Barry in my face.
"Hey! He's awake!" I sat up and saw J'onn, Ollie and Barry starring at me.
"What?"
"Did you see anything?"
"Umm...
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Aquaman
I was not in the Cave. Nor was I in Atlantis. I was traveling at an alarming race, images blurring past me and as one came into focus I saw Kaldur'Ahm, my apprentice, standing before the villain known as Black Manta.
"Rise my son." Manta said and Kaldur obeyed. He looked the same as ever, only now he wore an all black suit. He had found out about his heritage. I had tried to protect him from it, though I know it is wrong to keep a father from his son, Kaldur was found all alone and Mera and myself had agreed to keep it from him for his own safety. He a kind boy, strong and level headed. A good leader.
"Father. I wish to ask you something." Kaldur sounded older.
"Ask away."
"I must ask you to permit me one day one land every year for personal business. No guards or missions."
"And why do you ask of this Kaldur'Ahm? What personal business awaits you on the surface?"
"A friend. One that I have recently lost and wish to pay my respect to each year following."
Which friend?
"A friend? Kaldur, may this be one of your old teammates?"
"Yes father." Good Neptune not one of the team.
"I have heard of this myself. Your friend, Robin yes? He was lost after Gotham as I have heard."
Gotham? Robin? No that was not possible! He was only thirteen...
"I will agree. Kaldur you have my permission to pay your friend his respects. I understand the pain of losing your loved ones."
Kaldur bowed his head, "Thank you father."
The scene changed and I felt myself moving again. This time I saw the other children, Conner, M'gann, Wally, Artemis and Kaldur'Ahm all two years older, all standing on a hill in a graveyard. I recognized Gotham City in the background, half of it was missing and being rebuilt. The team stood in front of a grave, tears in their eyes. I could not hear them but their faces told me everything. They stood in front of Robin, the boy wonders grave.
The scene changed again and I was underwater, though and I could see two people, swimming before me. One was a red haired young lady of possibly twenty-two years old. Tula, I recognized her. Now a grown woman and more beautiful than ever. Beside her swam Kaldur'Ahm. An adult man the same age as Tula and in a black uniform.
"Kaldur." Tula stared.
"I already know Tula. Roy and I have spoken and the agreed time is six o'clock. I will not be late."
"I'm going too."
"Tula I do not think that-"
"Kaldur I want to. I know I did not know him well but I of him. He was your friend and I want to be there for you."
He smiled lightly them took each others hand, swimming towards the surface. "What of the others?" She asked him.
"They are meeting us there, then we can all pay our respects."
The scene vanished in smoke and I was laying on a cold, hard ground (lol sorry). Above me was Superman and Flash.
"And his majesty returns!" Barry says happily. I pull myself up and face the other mentors, Superman, Flash, Green Arrow and Martain Manhunter. Each was sitting in on the floor looking at me.
"What happened?" I ask them.
J'onn looks at me. "We have each woken up after seeing visions of our students through out a series of time slots. Each one of us has seen a similar version to another."
"Do all of these versions include Robin's death?" I ask.
J'onn nods.
"Are you certain these visions are real?"
"We believe that each of us has been mentally attached to our apprentices somehow. We are certain that we have been gone for a series of three years and that Robin has been dead for two of these three years. Everytime a vision ends we awake which can mean we have been caught up to the present."
I stayed calm because what J'onn said truely frightened me. "What of Batman?"
Oliver pointed behind me and I saw an unconcious Batman on the floor. "And you say we were attached to the children mentally?"
J'onn nodded and I felt the worry grow, "Then what if he never wakes up?"
OH I AM SOOOO EVIL! Sorry if this is a sucky chapter. Aquaman and J'onn are hard to write and I'm sorry that theres not enough visions-of-Kaldur. I really want to get this and the last chapter done so the story can get a move on.
Review! Next chapter is BATMAAAAAAAN!
