Good morning! Grrr. I have officially gotten writers block! (No worries. It's a minor case :) But still. I need suggestions! But Enjoy!
"Gamma squad, you have permission to land." Nightwing came in over the radio.
"Copy that. Can you please get a bed in the infirmary ready? Also can you have Megan on standby. We have a situation." Robin replied over the radio.
The squad had dropped off the other hostages in a safe location where they would be questioned and helped. Now they just had to worry about the girl. Her shivering had gone down a little, but everything else still remained the same. Her lips and fingers were blue and her skin pale. She hadn't once woken up on the flight.
"Why? What's wrong?" Nightwing asked. He pushed one of the buttons on the screen in front of him. "Megan, could you please report to the main room." Nightwing asked over the cave's intercom.
"One of the hostages, the base. It was all wrong. I can't believe this all happened-" Robin said quickly.
"Woah. Calm down. Everything is going to be okay. Just bring the person here and we'll talk when this is all sorted out. It's going to be alright." Nightwing said to Robin. Robin forced himself to inhale deeply. He couldn't get scared now. She needed him.
...
As soon as the transport landed Robin carried the girl, who was covered in blankets and still slightly shivering, out of the transport and into the cave. La'gaan and Beetle followed closely behind.
"That her?" Nightwing asked as the squad ran into the cave's main room. Robin nodded. "This way." Nightwing lead the way to the infirmary.
The white, sterile doors automatically opened and the four of them rushed in. There was already a bed set up. Robin laid the girl down on the bed and stepped back. Just as Nightwing had said, everything was set up. There were two doctors in the room. They immediately ushered everyone out of the room.
There was a small waiting area outside the infirmary. It was equipped with a couple chairs and a sofa.
"Sit down. All of you." Nightwing said. Robin sat in one of the chairs while La'gaan and Blue Beetle sat on the sofa. Nightwing paced between them. "Now tell me, what happened?" La'gaan and Blue Beetle looked at Robin. He was the leader for the mission. This responsibility fell to him.
"We got in as planned, but this base was different. You know how last week we were talking about how the Kroloteans were using humans as Ginny pigs, trying to find some meta-gene? I think this base was some sort of experimentation base." Robin said. He folded his hands in his lap.
"The platforms looked like they hadn't been used in months." Blue Beetle added.
"In the middle of the base was this glass room. That's where we found the girl. They were using some mind-laser it looked like. We got her out of there and brought her back here. But during the explosion, I... I lost her." Robin looked up. "When we found her, she was in a critical state of hypothermia. I brought her here because I thought we would want to find out what happened to her. And here, I took these. Maybe they can help." a small disk was transferred to Nightwing.
"You did good." Nightwing put a hand on Robin's shoulder. "All of you." he looked at the rest of the squad. "I would suggest going and warming up. She won't be up for seeing anyone for a while." and with that, the squad was dismissed and Nightwing walked back to the main room of the cave.
...
"Hey, you wanted to see me?" Megan said as she entered the room. Nightwing was busy typing and dragging things on the screens in front of him.
"Oh, hey. Yeah I did." he finished doing something and then turned to face Megan. "The Gamma squad went on another base mission. They successfully neutralized the base, but found something strange." Nightwing took out the disk Robin had given him and put it into the computer. Images came up on the screens.
There were pictures of the old platforms, the outside of the base, and the strange glass room. Nightwing zoomed in more on the glass room pictures. The whites of his mask grew wide. He had just looked at the picture of the laser being used on the girl. He looked at Megan and she had the same look.
"What do you think this is? Robin told me it looked like they were experimenting to try and the meta-gene, but this doesn't look like it." Megan nodded.
"It looks like they are doing something inside her mind. I need to see her as soon as possible." Megan said.
"As soon as the doctors say she is stable enough. She caught a severe case of hypothermia. I might be a few days." Nightwing said. He took the pictures and saved them into a file for later reference.
"Okay, but be careful with her. Her mind could be highly unstable" Megan said. She turned around to leave.
"You'll be one of the first people to see her." Nightwing called after her.
...
It seemed like days had passed to Robin, but it had only been about eight hours. He had stayed at Mount Justice just in case anything were to happen. Robin had mostly stayed by the door of the infirmary. He tried it a couple of times, but it was locked. Finally one of the doctors came out of the doors. She was on her way to find Nightwing and tell him she was stable enough to see people.
"Can I go in?" Robin asked the doctor.
"I would prefer you to wait here while I go and talk to Nightwing. I want to know what he wants to do." she said hastily.
"Can you at least tell me if she's alright?" Robin asked nervously.
"She's fine. If it wasn't for your quick thinking and determination to get her back here, she would not have made it. Now, I really must go and find Nightwing." and with that, Robin let her go. He sunk down into the couch with a sense of relief.
Moments later, Nightwing appeared with Megan and the doctor not far behind.
"Wait here for a moment." Nightwing told Robin. Robin nodded and watched them go in.
Inside the infirmary, the girl was still sleeping peacefully. Nightwing walked up to her. She was tucked tightly under the white blankets. She looked so familiar. Her face. He swore he had seen that face before. Megan was thinking the same thing.
"She should be stable enough now. Her hypothermia is under control. She recovered quite quickly." one of the doctors said. Megan nodded. She sat in a chair next to the bed. Megan reached out a hand and touched the girls forehead. The girl's eyes flicked open and she screamed.
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