Chapter 9: Status Report

Using night as their cover, the Teams and Leaguers got into position. They wouldn't know if Miss Martian was successfully distracting Psimon until a telepathic-link was established.

"Psimon wants revenge on Miss M so bad he hasn't noticed the mind-link!" Robin the Girl Wonder said through everybody's heads.

"Now that that's done," said Dark Eagle, looking through her night-vision binoculars "Speed Arrow, Flash, Kid Flashes. Go,"

The speedsters ran from the Bio-ship and across the sand. They were moving so fast the sand didn't even shift beneath their feet. They ran past the solders and vibrated their way through the walls.

"We're in," said Speed Arrow "I'm searching the East side, nothing yet,"

"I'm in the North side, there's nothing so far," said The Flash.

"There ain't anything here, in the South side," said K.F.

"Wally West ain't in the West. Hahaha!" Bart, Kid Flash, laughed.

"Hilarious, Kid Flash. Stay whelmed and stay on topic," said Dark Eagle "Zatanna, Wonder Girl, Robin, how are you 3 holding up?"

"Nothing's happening and it's SUPER boring," said Zatanna, unknown to everyone she was lying flat in the vent, resting her head on her arms.

"I agree with Zatanna," said Robin 5.0.

"Ditto," said Wonder Girl "This is as pointless as look-out duty,"

"Hey!" everyone on look-out duty protested, causing Wonder Girl to cringe.

"So..." said Batgirl, allowed to Dark Eagle "You and Speed Arrow, huh?"

"What?" said Dark Eagle, looking at her fellow Bat.

"You and Speed Arrow. You like him, don't you? It's pretty obvious you're both into one another," said Batgirl.

"Now you sound like Sword-Swipe,"

"Who?"

"Never mind," said Dark Eagle, quickly "And Speed Arrow better be into me..." she saw the look in Batgirl's eyes "he's my unborn child's father,"

"I knew it!" Batgirl said, happily.

"You can't tell anyone my kid's father is Speed Arrow, okay? That could change some things from happening in the future, it might even prevent us from being allowed to date when we were teenagers," said Dark Eagle.

"If there's one thing us Bats are good at it's keeping secrets," said Batgirl, smiling.

"Shimmer!" Zatanna suddenly exclaimed into everyone's heads "Crap,"

"Be careful," Dark Eagle said "During the Reach Invasion they enhanced her meta-jean, she can disintegrate things with a touch,"

"Thanks for the tip," Zatanna said "I'll watch out for her- AAAH!" Zatanna suddenly screamed.

"Zatanna!" the Teams and Leaguers shouted.

Zatanna lent against the wall. Shimmer's hands glowed orange, she smiled and disintegrated 2 boxes for fun. Zatanna snarled and got her bearings. To prevent distractions she dropped out of the mind-link to not hear the desperate pleas of her former team-mates, the Future Team and her current team-mates. Shimmer punched forward at Zatanna but the Magician ducked out of the way. The wall behind where she once was disintegrated.

"Etativel reh!" Zatanna quickly said.

Shimmer hovered above the ground.

"Help!" she shouted "Devastation!"

"Tuhs-pu," Zatanna said.

Shimmer's mouth moved as she spoke but no words came out. She started punching the air, reaching for Zatanna.

"Emit rof a pan," said Zatanna.

Shimmer stopped struggling and went limp, she drifted into a dreamless rest. Zatanna dropped her to the ground and panted (she had never held anyone in a magical-telekinetic hold for so long before). The Magician opened up an empty barrel and managed to get Shimmer in it. She closed the lid, making sure the cap on top was open for air. It was then Zatanna allowed the telepathic-link to go through her.

"Zatanna? You okay?" a worried Nightwing said in her head.

"I'm good. Shimmer's having a nap in an empty fuel barrel though," said the Magician.

Everyone mentally sighed in relief.

"Zatanna, Devastation's attacking Miss Martian. Wonder Girl and Robin are having trouble holding her back. Psimon is yet to realize what's happening in the real world. Get there, now," said Dark Eagle.

"On it!" said Zatanna, running into the adjoining room.

Miss Martian floated above the ground, her cape and hair floating around her. Wonder Girl was pushing Devastation back. There was a grappling cord attached to Devastation's tank-top. It went upwards, over an iron beam and Robin the Girl Wonder was holding onto the grappling gun. Robin #5 pulled back on the grappling gun as Wonder Girl pushed forward with Devastation. Zatanna saw what they were doing. They were using the grappling gun as a pullie. Zatanna ran over to the Girl Wonder and helped pull. Seeing Zatanna, Wonder Girl pushed harder and Devastation was pulled upwards and slammed into the wall. The room shook as she hit the wall and the 3 super-heroes fell over. Robin 5.0 hit her head on the ground, rendering her momentarily unconscious...

"Daddy! Don't!" a 7-year-old cried.

"You're not my daughter," the man said, pulling back on the trigger.

"NO!" an 11-year-old cried as her father killed her little half-sister.

4 times in the chest. Twice in the neck. Once in the head.

The 11-year-old cried as her father took his hammer and smashed the dead 7-year-old's collar bones, leaving his signature so the world knew... Danika Ashland was killed by Bone-Crusher.

"ROBIN!" Wonder Girl shouted "Wake-up!"

Robin #5 opened her eyes. Everything was blurry and she was disoriented. She clenched her fists on the ground and she felt a... heat. Zatanna and Wonder Girl gasped. The Girl Wonder looked down and saw flames flickering over her gloved hands. Robin #5 shook her hands and the flames rolled off and disappeared in the air. Zatanna cautiously gave the Girl Wonder a hand up.

"You have powers?" the Magician said, she meant it as a statement but it came out as a question.

Tears formed in Robin #5's eyes, visible through the slits cut in her mask. She nodded and wiped the tears away before they spilled. Zatanna and Wonder Girl looked at the Girl Wonder, both wondering why they felt sorry for her. Psimon was suddenly thrown across the room and he slammed into a table. He stared into space. Miss Martian lightly landed on the ground and turned to look at her friends.

"He knew Wally's real name but I've erased everything he knew about him," the Martian said "What?" she saw the looks on their faces.

"Y-your uniform..." said Zatanna.

Miss Martian looked down at herself and realized. Her cape, that was usually dark blue, was white and the red of her uniform was white as well. She looked up at her friends.

"I'll explain later, let's go! Psimon won't be any trouble for a while," said Miss Martian "I don't like messing with peoples minds anymore... but Psimon deserved it,"

"Dark Eagle," Wonder Girl said through the mind-link.

"Yes?" came Dark Eagle's response.

"We're coming back," said Zatanna.

"Wally isn't here. He was for 3 days but he was moved after an escape attempt. I don't know where because Psimon didn't know where," said Miss Martian.

"Nightwing, Robin #3, Static, Beast Boy and Archeress are already inside, get out. Now," the Black Mistress insisted.

Archeress notched an arrow, she was prepared. Static sat cross-legged on his manhole cover as it hovered, Beast Boy (in a monkey-form) perched on his shoulder. The 2 Bats with them typed away on the computer.

"Okay, we have all the information on Wally," said Nightwing "Let's go!"

They all walked into the Bio-ship. Miss Martian, somewhat dreamily, sat down in the captain's seat. Everybody eyed her costume change.

"Um... sis? What's with the new look?" Beast Boy asked.

"Hmm? O-oh yeah! S-sorry," said Miss Martian "This is what I look like in my mind... it's who I really am... very few Martians have been known to reach this level of telepathic-physical unity,"

"So it's a Martian-thing?" said Superboy "Okay then,"

"That's what Miss Martian wears in the future," said Archeress "When I asked her about it she didn't answer, she went off into a daydream,"

Speed Arrow patted Archeress's blonde/red hair.

"How much information were you able to get?" Dark Eagle asked Nightwing.

Nightwing smirked a smirk that was strangely similar to Dark Eagle's.

"All of it," Robin the Boy Wonder said.

I hope chapter 9 was exiting. And about that 'telepathic-physical unity' thing... basically M'gann found inner peace, don't ask me how! Read on! And PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE review!