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Tim POV
"I can't believe I got put on a mission with you again." Batgirl muttered as we hid behind a crate. We were at a dock at Star City, where hostages were being loaded on a ship.
"You know, I've never even done anything to you. I don't see why you hate me so much." I muttered as I followed her to a spot where we could see the kidnapped kids.
"You insulted Miss Martian, my friend, why would I like you?" Batgirl asked, glaring at me. Bumble Bee did the same when she heard what Batgirl said.
"I didn't insult her, I stated a fact. A kryolotain mind is stronger than a humans, and she made that kryolotain we brought back brain dead. Excuse me for noting that Psimon would do the same, or close to it. I guess brain dead is better than being mind controlled, right?" I hissed, ducking behind a crate when the assassin that hurt Nightwing, who I learned is named Tigress, looked over at our direction.
"Shut up! She didn't make him brain dead, you prick." Batgirl snapped.
"Really? Than why did he look like he was in a comatose state after she got done with him?" I asked.
"Bee, back me up here!" Batgirl said, looking at Bumble Bee for support.
"Well, as much as I hate to say it, Osprey does have a point. But that doesn't make Miss Martian anything like Psimon!" Bumble Bee said, glaring at me in the end.
I shook my head, rolling my eyes behind my mask. "I never said she was. I said she made people brain dead, and Psimon just controls people. I never said they were the same." I said, making her shut her mouth quickly.
We ran quietly to the fence keeping in the kids, and I looked at the guards. They were getting pods to put the kids in, and I looked at Batgirl. As much as I hated her for acting like a jerk to me because of a fact I pointed out about Miss Martian, she was the leader, and I couldn't do anything without her approval. She nodded and we both jumped into the fenced in area.
"Who are you?" One of the kids asked.
"Shh, we're here to help." Batgirl said, looking at them all with determined eyes.
"Why should we trust you?" A blonde asked right after.
I unzipped my jacket, and Bumble Bee flew into the pocket on the inside of my jacket. "Never mind, then." She said once she saw the hero she knew fly into my jacket.
No one else got a chance to ask a question, because suddenly, Kaldur's guards were pushing each of us into a pod. Batgirl sent me a quick look before getting into a pod calmly. I did the same, though I had to hold myself back from punching the guard that shoved me into the pod in the face.
I glared behind my glasses at the guard, willing myself not to do anything that would get me caught. Through all of my training, I've always been taught how to get out of these problems. To get stuck in one now, and willing, made me want to puke.
'Alpha squad, are you in?' Nightwing asked through our mental link.
'affirmative. We're in some sort of docking bay. We have a visual of the new aliens, AKA the kyrolotains competitor, AKA the Light's partner. And we have other company. It's Aqualad. If he makes us, we're over.' Batgirl said as Kaldur walked into the docking bay with Tigress behind him.
'Stay whelmed. He won't be looking for you, just don't attract attention.' Nightwing said, his voice echoing through my head.
'Not really concerning the mission, but what the hell does "whelmed" mean?' I asked confused. I had learned English quickly after being adopted by the Drake's, and never have I heard the word whelmed.
'It means to stay calm. I'll explain it after the mission.' Nightwing said, his voice sounding amused.
We were rolled into a room filled with pods with people inside, each of them kids. 'I found Gar and Bart. They're unconscious, but alive. There's no sign of Jaime or La'gaan.' M'gann said, her voice sending a slight chill down my spine.
I've never been good with mind readers, especially after I met Psimon for the first time. Having Psimon probe your mind was always the first step any member under Ra's had to take to get in, and it was one step I hated the most. He went into my head, controlled my thoughts and my body. Everything that I thought that would always be mine, no matter what, was taken away from me that instant. I was only able to push him out when his control weakened enough for me to break free, and after that, I demanded Ra's to teach me how to keep telepaths out of my head. I never wanted to feel like I had lost control of my own body ever again, and letting Miss Martian into my head wasn't helping. In fact, she was making things worse since her invasion into my head made me want to jump out of my pod even more.
Luckily, Ra's trained me so well to keep my mind to myself, I was able to keep that little train of thought out of the mental link. Good for me. 'We have eyes on Lagoon Boy... and Shimmer? Also, four civilians plus the teens we came with.' Batgirl said, looking around the room as I did the same. Why would Shimmer be in here if she was helping get the abductees aboard an alien ship?
'That's one thing you and me both are wondering. We're unsupervised now, but Blue's still missing, and escape could trigger a response. Do we wait?' Batgirl asked, her hands pressed against the glass of her pod, ready to leave.
'That's a negative, Alpha. Make your move, before you need rescuing too. The same for you, Miss M. Get our guys out of there.' Nightwing ordered in our heads.
Bumble Bee slipped out of my pocket and started blasting at the glass of my pod. "Move out of the way, Bee." I said calmly.
She moved, looking at me confused. I raised my hand up, brought my fist back as far as I could, and then punched one of the weak points in the glass. The pieces of glass shattered to the ground, and my pod opened just as alarms started to blare. "How did you manage to break the glass?" Bee asked shocked.
"Same way I did, he punched the weak point in the glass. Let's get everyone out of here." Batgirl ordered as she started to free the captive next to her.
I started unlocking the pod next to me. It had the blonde girl inside that questioned why they should trust us. "Thank you!" She said, hugging me right after she got out.
"Welcome, but we don't have time for this. Follow the other to the docking bay to get out of here." I said, pushing her off me with a slight blush.
She nodded and joined the other kids that were freed, running toward the docking bay. "Why are you blushing? Please tell me you've been hugged by a girl before." Batgirl asked with a smirk.
"I have, but she was threatening to kill me right before that, so I doubt that counts." I said, referring to the one time Talia hugged when I was 10. I started running towards where the kids were going, the girls following behind quickly.
"What did you do to make her want to kill you?" Bumble Bee asked.
"It was a misunderstanding. An asshole stole something of her and I punched him for taking it. She thought I was the one who took it, threatened to kill me, then hugged me when she found out I was only giving it back." I said, smiling a little at the few fond memories I had.
"Ahh!" The same blonde yelled as Kaldur's guards blocked the kids way into the docking bay.
"Get back into your pods!" One of the guards said, pushing a few kids back roughly.
"How about, no." Batgirl said as she round house kicked one in the head.
He was knocked out when his helmet met the floor, and the rest of the guards attacked after seeing their leader knocked down. "You know, you guys suck at fighting." I commented as I dodged on of their hits.
"Why you little twerp!" One guard yelled as he aimed a kick at me.
"Sorry, I'm not a twerp, I'm an Osprey. You know, as in a predator bird that kicks people's asses?" I asked with a grin, kicking one guard in the chest hard enough to bring him down to the floor with a bang.
"Ugh, you're as bad as Nightwing with the quips when he was Robin. Bumble Bee, get the others out of here." Batgirl grunted as she punched another guard.
My eye twitched as Bumble Bee lead the teens down to the docking bay, and I felt my eye twitch. "I am not like Robin!" I snapped, flipping a guard over my shoulder harshly in using a judo flip.
Batgirl noticed my anger towards what she said, then smirked. "Really, because you look just like him. Small, pale, black hair. Let your hair grow out a little and you could be his twin." Batgirl smirked.
My eye started twitching even more, and I punched a guard in the face hard enough to take off his helmet and knock him out at the same time. "That is to say, you could be his twin right now. I wonder, if you put on the Robin suit, would people think your actually the first Robin?" Batgirl asked, taunting me with every word.
I grabbed another thug, punching him in the throat and then round house kicking another guard to the ground. "Shut up!" I snapped, trying to find another guard to take my anger out on, but found that there weren't any.
"But why? It helped you beat up all these guards." Batgirl said with a smirk as I looked at all the guards I beat up out of pure anger.
"I hate you." I mumbled as I ran towards the docking bay.
"The feelings mutual." Barbara muttered.
We ran into the docking bay, stopping right in front of Superboy. "The link's down, I'm going to check on M'gann." Superboy said, running out of the dockinng bay before being punched back in.
"Sorry meat, but no one is going anywhere." A deep voice said a man with a black version of Jaime's armor walked into the docking bay and sealing it off.
Surprisingly, Wonder Girl was the first person to say anything. "Listen uh, Black Beetle! You totally out numbered! Open those doors now, and we'll go easy on you." Wonder Girl said.
"You, will go easy on me?" Black Beetle said amused before starting to laugh.
"Oh, that is not a good sign." Bumble Bee muttered behind me.
"Really? I hadn't noticed." I said sarcastically.
He stopped laughing, then aimed a sonic cannon at Wonder Girl with a sadistic grin on his face. "Trust me, you will not want to go easy on me." Black Beetle said with a grin before firing his cannon at her.
Superboy charged at him before he could attack her, but his punch barely made a dent, and he got punched in the chest hard enough to send him flying to the ground. Wonder Girl charged at him next, put he just caught her fist when he was about to punch him, and punched her hard enough to make her hit the wall. Even Blue isn't this hard to beat, so how the hell is this guy winning? His armor couldn't be stronger than Blue's, and a power house like Superboy and Wonder Girl could take him down easily.
Bumble Bee tried next, but just ended up being hit by his sonic cannon. Crap, this wasn't looking good at all. I started throwing exploding bird-a-rangs at him, and Batgirl did the same next to me. "What is his armor made out of?" I muttered angrily as the explosives didn't even dent his armor.
La'gaan decided to join the fight then, turning bigger to hit him from behind. But when his fists made contact with the black armor, something came out of the armor and latched onto La'gaans hands. Black Beetles armor shocked him, then let go of him so that Black Beetle could hit him with a sonic beam.
Sadly, me and Batgirl seemed to think a lot alike because we both pulled out our tasers and shot them at him. It didn't hurt him, no surprise there, but it did make him turn his head at us. Something formed out of the back of his armor, and giant like staples shot out at us.
Batgirl, unprepared for it, stood there for a second too long so that she was in the path of one of the giant staples. "Watch out!" I snapped, pushing her out of the way.
I got hit, my body roughly slammed against the wall I was pinned to, and my head knocked against the wall. "Why would you do that?" Batgirl asked in a whisper before dodging more giant staples.
That was a stupid question, I thought as I blacked out. Your my big brother's girlfriend, why wouldn't I try to save your stupid life? His smiles would be strained if something happened to you. Dick doesn't look right with a strain smile. That was my last thought, before my vision blacked out and my eyes closed.
"Osprey, wake up!" A familiar voice yelled at me as I felt myself lower to the ground. Beast Boy!
"What's happening?" I groaned as the gorilla who woke me up carried me towards a door as Blue and Black Beetle fought each other.
"We're getting out of here." Beast Boy said, setting me down inside the Bio-ship. Water was flooding the ship, and I felt the liquid soak into my shoes and pants.
"Everyone's on board!" Batgirl said.
I looked around, seeing Jaime still hadn't come on board. "Wait! Blue's still inside fighting Black Beetle." I said, standing up shakily.
"I'll go back in for him!" Impulse said, running into the docking bay. A sudden wave came into the Bio-ship, and he floated back to us unconscious.
"Nightwing, ceil the hatch! Docking bay's flooding the ship." Batgirl ordered, at which Nightwing nodded.
"But Blue!" Garfield reminded us.
"Gar, we can't help him if we all die from drowning or the depth crushing us from being the far below water." I said, leaning against a wall for support.
He didn't say anything after that, but stared at the hatch as it closed. We moved away from the Reach's ship, Nightwing careful not to get too far from the Reach so we could get Blue out when he left. "He just came out." Garfield said, pointing at Blue when he floated out of the giant hole in the Reach's ship.
"Alright, La'gaan go get him." Nightwing ordered.
Lagoon Boy nodded, dropping out of the hole that appeared in the ship so that he could get Blue. Apparently the Reach decided to shoot our ship down, because it was firing lasers at us and Lagoon Boy from dozens of different spots on their ship. "These guys are not making this easy for us." Nightwing said as he dodged laser after laser fired at us.
"They're aliens from outer space who kidnap humans. Why would they make it easy on us?" I asked.
Nightwing got us out of their fire range, and opened a hatch for La'gaan so he could get back into the ship with Blue. "He's out cold." Lagoon Boy said to us.
"Well, most of us were after fighting that Black Beetle." Batgirl said, then looked at me weird.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" I asked as Nightwing pressed a button to drain out the water.
Batgirl dragged me over to a corner of the ship so we could talk in private, though Nightwing was looking at us through the corner of his eye. "During our mission, we never once liked each other. So why did you take that hit for me?" Batgirl asked with a frown.
On the inside, I was asking myself that same question. I knew I did it for Nightwing, because he obviously was dating Batgirl, and she made him happy. But... why did I want Nightwing happy? "I don't know." I said with a shrug.
Her frowned deepened at the answer, and she turned away to lead the kids out of the Bio-ship at a Star lab we stopped at so the kids could get off. "Hey, are you okay, Osprey?" Nightwing asked with confusion over my frown.
"Yeah, I'll be fine." I said with a nod. Really, I wasn't sure I would.
Tim POV
"I'm here. Sorry I'm late. Nightwing wouldn't let us leave for a while." I said when the meeting started.
"It's alright. We've heard you've had a... delay. Timothy, meet our partner, the Reach." Lex said, Black Beetle, the Ambassador, and another Reach appearing on the screen.
"How is he in the Light? He's one of the meats working for the Young Justice." Black Beetle said with a scowl as he glared at me.
"Timothy is our spy on the team. He reports back to us with whatever info he learns on the Young Justice team, and also gains their trust." Savage said, making all 3 Reach members lose their glares.
"I see. Do you know anything about Blue Beetle? Anything, peculiar?" The Reach I didn't know asked.
"Yes. His suit talks to him, like it's something alive. Jaime constantly talks to it, argues with it even. Like the armor has it's own mind. Besides that, I don't know anything else that would count as 'peculiar'." I said, hiding my anger that this alien wanted to know about Blue's suit.
"Interesting." She said with a smirk.
"That aside, is there anything new to report?" Ra's asked.
"Yes. For some reason, Miss Martian seems... out of it. Something happened with her and Kaldur that shocked her, leaving her in a vulnerable state. I'm not sure what, though. I was hoping you could tell me, Black Manta." I said, looking at the man as his anger grew.
"That witch wiped my son's mind clean. He's-"
"Brain dead. She has a habit of doing that with her powers, though I'm not sure everyone on the team likes it." I said, finishing for him.
"Would you know anything about her whereabouts?" Lex asked.
"At the moment, I'm not sure. But she does date La'gaan, so I'm sure if you find him, you can find Miss Martian. And even if he's not with her, he can always be used as a hostage." I said, each word coming out of my mouth making me wonder why I was saying it at all.
Kaldur was the only one on the team also in the Light, if they got her, they wouldn't hesitate to kill her or La'gaan.
"Thank you for that information. Unless there is anything else, this meeting is over." Savage said, ending the meeting.
I walked out of the theater, careful to make sure no one saw me this time. "Good thing La'gaan is staying at Atlantis and M'gann is staying in her ship for the next few weeks, or I might have to actually be worried about them getting caught. I doubt the Light will be able to get them that way." I muttered to myself in Romanian. Though, the question, why was I worried about them getting caught? wondered around my brain. But deep in side, I knew the answer. It was the same exact answer to why I took that hit for Batgirl. I was starting to actually like them. And I hated it.
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