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Tim POV January 6
"Alright, be careful everyone." Nightwing said before cutting the link to the comm.
We were in the bio-ship, flying to the known Kryolotain base that Miss Martian had forcefully probed from the aliens mind. It was weird of her to do that, though. She wasn't using her powers any better than Simon, yet she insisted that she was different, and said she was a hero. What hero went inside their enemies mind and completely destroyed it without a second thought? That seems like a villain thing.
"Are you okay Osprey?" Nightwing asked as Batman flew the ship.
"Perfect, just wondering why Miss Martian would use her powers like that then claim she's nothing like Simon. It's very ironic." I said, twitching slightly from being caught off guard.
"Watch it kid. She isn't anything like Simon." Batgirl said, glaring at me.
"Really? Because from what I saw, she completely destroyed that aliens mind. What do you think that is? Good? Last time I checked making people brain dead isn't exactly good. Kryolotains minds are stronger than human's mind, as well. And if she can do that to an alien with stronger mind then us, what can she do to humans? But your right, she isn't like Simon. Simon wouldn't make them brain dead permanently like she does." I said, raising an eyebrow at Batgirl.
She shut her mouth, scowling at me. I rolled my eyes and looked out the window of the ship. Influencing the team wasn't very hard. All I had to do was give them a reason to distrust one another, like I just did, and eventually their suspicion would grow. It would show in their fighting, and the Light would win easily. And I would get my revenge.
"You're a prick." Batgirl finally said.
"Maybe I am, but does that make me any less right? But it's not like it means anything really. After all, not everyone is perfectly nice." I said with a shrug.
"What do you mean by that?" Nightwing asked.
"Simple. Not everyone is perfect. Miss Martian uses her powers in a bad way, well, that's one thing that makes her just as normal and fucked up as the rest of the world. It's the same with everybody." I said.
"...Who the hell taught you that?" Batgirl finally asked.
I pressed my lips into a thin line, trying to think up an answer without giving a hint away. In truth, the first to teach me that was the Drake's, but others like Ra's, Deathstroke, and Talia taught me the same. "A lot of people." I said finally.
"Who taught you that first?" Nightwing asked, somewhat protectively. Why was he so protective? He knew I could take care of myself, and the protective tone was pissing me off.
"My legal guardians." I said with a blank face.
"Who teaches their kid that?" Batgirl asked shocked while I saw Batman twitch from my answer, like he didn't like it.
"I never said I was their kid. I just said they were my legal guardians." I snapped.
Crap. I always had that problem, telling people the Drake's weren't my parents. Whenever someone called the Drake's my parents... it just made me want to break something. Those monsters were never my parents. But now that stupid problem had come back to bite me in the butt.
No one said anything else for the rest of the ride, and I cursed myself the entire way. They knew I wasn't living with my parents now! All the work that I did convincing them to let me keep my ID when I first joined was going down the drain. All they had to do know was search for someone adopted in Gotham that matched my description. Shit.
"Remember this is a recon mission only. That's how it will stay." Batman said before checking to make sure Lagoon Boy and Aquaman were in Beta position.
"We're at drop zone Gamma. Get ready." Batman said, landing the ship and gesturing for us all to sneak out.
The base was on an island, surrounded by guards. Of course, we only had to take out one group of guards for this to work. A group of Black Manta guards. Hopefully he realized this was for the mission when I reported in next week.
Between the four of us, we beat them all quickly and quietly, then snuck into the base. This wasn't something I was used to though. Most of the time we got caught because someone was too loud. Guess that's what happens when you work with Batman, huh?
We managed to stay hidden along the top side of the ceiling, but dropped down onto a railing and split up on Nightwing's mark. Of course, Batman disappeared. Guess that's also what happens when you working with Batman. Asshole.
I hid behind a control panel, looking around the base. It was huge, filled with all kinds of stolen tech they took from other planets. But what were they going to do with it all? And why was the Light helping them? I was told they were nonsense. Why would they tell me the kryolotains are trouble when they're helping them? Was Black Manta fooling them into thinking we were helping, or was I lied to? It had better be the former, or else me and Black Manta were going to have words. And while he was older than me, I've known how to hurt people ever since the Drakes started hurting me, not to mention the torture methods I learned when I joined at the age of 8. That's 10 years of knowledge how to torture. Something tells me I could hurt him a whole lot more than he could hurt me.
That thought got interrupted when a Black Manta guard shot at the water, straight at our underwater allies. With that, alarms were alerted, and I was the first one found when a kryolotain pointed at me. Damnit. I should have hidden better.
I dodged a laser shot at me and landed on the railing next to Nightwing. Ugh. Great, I got stuck with him. Just my luck. "One on your right." Nightwing said as he dodged a laser shot at him.
"Thanks. One on your left." I said, flipping out of the way of a guard. Then, I blinked. Did I just help him?
A kryolotain jumping next to me about to attack drove me out of my thoughts, keeping me from thinking about what the hell am I doing?
The Atlantans helped us beat the kryolotains and the guards, but even they weren't enough. Taking out a whole base of aliens this big along with fighting Black Manta guards wasn't something 5 people could do easily. Especially when the kryolotains decided to use their alien like tanks. And to make it even better it was attacking me head on. Great, just great. "Osprey, watch out!" Lagoon Boy said in his larger form.
I rolled out of the way, and stood up quickly enough to see Lagoon Boy smash the tank with an explosion. "Thanks." I muttered before running to a guard and attacking him with my bo-staff.
In the middle of all the fighting, I guess it slipped my mind to look for the leader. But he made himself known easily enough when one person yelled, "Intionate End Game. You have 4 minutes to leave." All the guards started backing away, each of them going to a ship to get them to safety.
No way would Black Manta call off his guards this easily. There had to be something, something to take care of us when they left. "Nightwing here, enemy is retreating. Requesting back up." I heard Nightwing say from a railing above me, making me twitch at being so close to him without realizing.
Well, back up didn't actually take that long. I figured that out when I saw Superman blast his way inside with his heat vision, hitting one of the tanks, while flying Superboy inside. Wonder Girl and Wonder Woman both flew in, both of them dead serious as they started beating up aliens and minions. "Well, your back up gets here pretty quick." I muttered, knocking out a kryolotain with my staff.
"Well, when you have Superman, Superboy, Wonder Woman, and Wonder Girl as back up that tends to happen." Nightwing said, dropping down to the ground next to me to punch a guard in the face.
"Nice to know." I said, my foot meeting a guards head seconds later.
"I know, right?" Nightwing said with a smirk as he flipped over two guards and brought their heads together, both of them falling to the ground limp.
Just as most of the guards had left, Aquaman punched the leader in the helmet hard enough to make it fall to the ground. "Kaldur." Nightwing whispered before running towards Aquaman, Superboy, and Lagoon Boy.
With the rest of the kryolotains leaving along with the guards, there wasn't much left to do then watch. And what I saw was very confusing.
The arguing between Kaldur and the group that had gathered in front of him wasn't confusing, that was actually very normal in this situation. However, there was a sort of calmness about Nightwing, like he knew Kaldur wasn't really meaning what he said. What was that about?
Before I could figure out just what was happening, Kaldur launched a rocket from his suit at Lagoon Boy. I wasn't worried about him though, since Superman blocked him. And they didn't call him man of steel for nothing.
What did worry me was how only a few people like Superboy and Nightwing went down the tunnel Kaldur went into. I went down the tunnel, making it just in time to see Kaldur shock Superboy and tell Nightwing we had 2 minutes left. But why would Kaldur warn us?
"Team, we need to retreat. We have a bomb down here, alien tech, I cannot disarm this." Nightwing said, both in my ear and from where I saw him stand.
I left out of the tunnel quickly so that they didn't even know I was there, and went to the bio-ship to leave with the others. I managed to get out with Batgirl and Batman, the first ones to board the ship. Of course, I don't think any of us expect kyrolotains to be flying the bio-ship. "Hello Megan, I knew we forgot something." A familiar, annoying voice said before the kryolotains both shifted into the Martians we all knew.
Superboy and Nightwing made it next with the Wonder's flying Aquaman and Lagoon Boy into the bio-ship. "Wait, where's Superman?" Superboy asked, turning towards the exit of the ship as we flew off.
"Calm down. I'm guessing Superman got the nickname Man of Steel for a reason. If anyone can survive it, he will." I said, hoping to calm him down before he broke down the door.
He relaxed slightly, but tensed back up when he saw the blast from the bomb coming towards us. "Come on, old girl." Miss Martian said, willing the ship to go a little bit faster.
The explosion was getting closer and closer to us by the second... but we managed to escape it. "Circle back around. We need to look for Superman." Superboy said, looking worried.
M'gann went back around, dropping off Aquaman first so he could search in the water. "He'll be fine, you know." I said, standing next to the half kryptonian. "Yeah... I know." Superboy said with a small sigh, but he was still as tense as he was before.
I looked out the bio-ship window and saw Aquaman waving at us. "Looks like he's down there." I said, pointing towards the brightly dressed man.
M'gann nodded and lowered the ship down low enough that we would be able to pick him out of the water. "His pulse is strong, he'll live." Wonder Woman said when Conner pulled him inside.
"Good." Conner sighed, finally relaxing.
As M'gann flew us all to the Mountain, I thought back to how Nightwing talked to Kaldur. Nightwing had been warned that there were 2 minutes left. Why he do that? Unless, he wanted the team to get out safe. But, why would he want the team safe? He swore vengeance against them, as well as pledging to the Light. I should know, I was there when he did. Unless... he was faking, and I wasn't the only spy.
One thing was for sure, things were going to get very interesting.
I stood by, watching the team say goodbye to their mentors before they left for the court meeting to prove their innocence. Of course, that wouldn't be easy with Savage in the jury.
"What are you doing here Osprey?" Nightwing asked when he saw me. Of course the bastard was the first to see me.
"Just seeing them off. Is that a problem?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"No, I was just curious. You know, you really impressed Batman on the last mission." Nightwing said with a strained smile. For some reason, the smile made me feel... angry. Nightwing, no Dick, shouldn't have to strain a smile. Because this was Dick, and no matter what happened he was always smiling like he meant it, not like... this.
"Really? How did I manage to do that?" I asked, walking back to the Mountain.
"You did manage to keep up with the bats, and you haven't even been trained by him. I have to say that is impressive." Nightwing said, following me inside.
"Not really." I said, walking into the debriefing room so I could go to the zeta tubes.
"Well, most 12 year olds can't fight off aliens like you did." Nightwing said with a grin.
"Most grown men can't do it either, yet Batman still fought. What's your point?" I asked.
"Never mind." Nightwing said with a smirk.
The computer appeared with an alarm in front of us, signalling an... unknown energy impulse? What the hell?
Before I could ask what the alarm was about, a flash of lightning appeared out of the middle of the room, making us look away. When we looked back, there was a giant metal pod in the middle of the room. A latch opened, and the door to the pod opened, steam rolling out of it as we both got into our fighting stances. "Tada!" A red headed boy with a red and white costume said once the smoke cleared, showing him posing.
"What the hell is going on?" I whispered. And from Nightwing's look, he was thinking the same.
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