We got our first mission of the week. On Wednesday, the next day. Batman had called us into the mission area, and he was currently giving us the details on the mission. We had to go to Chatizen Republic's peace meeting between Chatizen and Slovakia and make sure there were no assassination attempts, or attempts to sabotage the peace meeting or anything like that. This was a very important meeting, these two countries have been enemies for decades and batman insisted we make sure nothing messed with its success. Almost all of the population in both countries, and a few surrounding countries were supporting and hoping the peace meeting would be a success. But, there were always those powerful people against the idea of peace, for their own benefit, and there were more than enough against peace between Slovakia and Chatizen, and most of those people would take it to extreme, extremes to get what they want. Batman finished up with final parameters, announced 'Batman out' when he was finished, and the screen went black.
We all jogged to the hanger and they all headed for a red ship that looked like an egg.
I'm pretty sure M'gann said this is the ship that they would take most often when they left the cave. It was a mountain, why they called it "the cave", I have no idea. When we got closer it changed and I jogged a little slower and Wally ran into me.
"Sorry." I said, as I returned to running.
"What're you slowing for?" Wally asked curiously.
"It's moving" I said and a little freaked out by the shifting aircraft.
"Oh, yeah, It's a Martian bio ship... it does that. It's like... linked with M'gann." He said, and I thought 'duh', of corse that's what M'gann had said after she'd explained about the hanger, that she could control it. And she's telepathic duh she meant control it with her mind, not like human aircraft controls. I looked at everyone else as the Bioship continued changing and we all kept running towards the Bioship. As I looked at everyone else, I noticed Kid Lantern, who looked almost as surprised as I was about the shifting ship. Nightwing noticed his confusion and I'm pretty sure he explained. Stepped into the Bioship with the rest of the team, although I felt off being inside the unknown aircraft. Six seats popped up around ship. Then there was one in the middle that M'gann walked over too and sat in in. Artemis motioned for me to sit next to her. I went over and sat next to her and the straps immediately tightened around me. I gasped and Artemis looked at me and realized no one had told me about all of the ship's... special features. I guess they had all become so accustomed to it they no longer thought of it as strange.
A few seconds after sitting down, I looked around and looked at everyone sitting. Miss Martian had made two new chairs, for me and Kid Lantern. In the chair on the right closest to the back of the Bioship was Conner, and In the chair on the left closest to the back of the Bioship was Nightwing. Then the next closest chair to the right hand side was Kid Lantern, then mine a little in front and to the left of his, then Artemis' a little in front and to the left of mine. Then the next closest to the back on the left hand side other than Nightwing, was Wally a little in front and to the right of him, and then Kaldur, a little in front and to the right of Wally. Then in the middle and towards the back of the dome was the larger seat, where M'gann sat driving the Bioship, using two glowing blue/green spheres. We headed out of the hanger and everyone was talking about the coordinates how we were all going to enter and decided on a plan of sorts. Me and M'gann would be sitting near each other and blending into the crowd, while keeping a watch on the balconies above us. Nightwing, Aqualad, ad Kid Lantern would be posing as reporters, keeping watch over all of the doors and windows. Artemis and Conner would be outside watching all of the entrances and the outside of the building and around it. Wally would be posing as a butler guy, not really a butler, but more like the ones that ask the important people at a gathering if they need anything Ike water or something and most of the time they just ended up stand near them the whole time. Kind of like a waiter, but not.
"M'gann could you set up the mind link?" Kaldur asked.
M'gann nodded, and them I felt something really weird. I can't really describe it, but it was weird.
Then from inside my head came Kaldur's voice.
"Ok, go." Kaldur said.
What on gods green earth... I heard myself think.
"Oh it's the mind link, so we don't need ear coms and risk the possibility that they may hack into our ear coms and hear what we're saying to each other." M'gann replied in my mind.
"This isn't strange at all." I heard Kid Lantern say, sarcasm edging at his voice. This must have been his first time experiencing the 'mind link' too.
"Cool, it must be really useful." I said into the mind link. I think, I dint know how but I think I did, it felt really strange.
"It is actually, we use it all the time." Wally said.
I guess it worked.
"Can you filter it or just whatever you think goes into... this..." Kid Lantern asked
"We'll explain it later, right now we need to go." Kaldur cut in.
We entered the building, except for Conner and Artemis who took their spots outside, and we made our way over to our spots as the meeting started and the leaders and other 'important' people walked over to their seats on the risen platform. The room was set up with the risen platform, well more like a stage, in the front, then seats on lower ground for other important people, spectators, and reporters to sit. Then there were the balconies above us, and the front doors behind the seats. Then there were a few other doors and some Windows in other places. They talked and raised their voices a few times, but overall, it was mostly non eventful. Then Artemis spoke into the mind link.
"Someone's about to run in the front doors. They have weapons, definitely a gun and a knife and I can see something else, but I can't make out what it is." Her voice sounded inside of my head.
"I tried to stop him with an arrow, but he dodged it. Like five seconds before it was going to hit him he caught it. He's not a regular human." She added.
"Ok he's pissing me off he just dodged four more of my arrows, catching two, while he wasn't even paying attention to me. He is definitely not human." She added again, sounding irritated.
"Thanks for the heads up, we're ready, keep your post in case there's more." Kaldur said into the mind link.
I readied myself for the soon coming attack. I looked up at the stage, and the leaders looked like they were coming to an agreement. Seriously, could they have any worse timing?
Then the guy entered and shot out a few windows making himself known. So much for our useful info on a secret attack. Wally was ready to jump in front of the leaders, he had bullet proof everything on for just that reason, and a layer of thin armor underneath in case knives were thrown. The guy who barged in was wearing a long brown coat with grey pants and shirt. He looked at the surprised politicians and leaders and such, and smiled insanely. He was big and strong looking, but looked like a business man, except for the psychotic smile on his face. He was scary. He laughed crazily. And looked back at the people on the stage.
"All of you dirty scheming politicians, making decisions based on your best interests. What about the people, aren't you supposed to represent the people? What do the people want, and how are you helping them?" The guy asked putting his hands on his weapons he had a regular gun, and something else I could. Wonderful... another psycho.
"The people voted, they want peace!" The main leader of south Chatizen yelled at the man.
"Is that so?" He asked sarcastically.
He then pulled out the two weapons, and I saw the other one. It was a stun gun. Why did he have a stun gun. I looked closer at it and almost gasped. It had enough voltage to knock out an elephant for hours, it'd be like lightning shooting out of the barrel. How did he even get that? And why did he have such a high... Oh no. He knows kid flash in here. How? I didn't have time to contemplate the possible answers to my dilemma, because he was getting ready to pull out the guns. He was going to stun Wally so he couldn't block the bullet psycho was going to shoot from the regular gun. Ughhh, I knew what I was going to do, and I really wished I didn't have to. I held onto the book I had and jumped up and flipped, moving myself in the air to where Mr. Crazazy's body language was showing he would aim, and as he pulled out his gun to aim, I was almost in the right position to catch the bullet. I don't think I could survive that much electricity, and Wally would only be out for a few minutes because of his accelerated healing, so I was aiming to stop the bullet. I moved the book I'd been holding, up when I flipped into the air, I moved so the bullet would stop in the thick book. But as it got closer, time seemed to slow due to the adrenaline being released into my bloodstream, and I saw it wasn't going to stop.
'Shit' I thought, not even aware it went into the mind link, but the rest of the team heard it clearly as they watched. I knew everyone in the room was now looking at me. They all watched in slow motion(or was that just me) as the bullet went through the book and landed in my arm. At least the book slowed the velocity. Now I could probably get it out when I landed, wrap in in whatever I could find, and be able to get back up quickly. Wow, that hurt more than I had anticipated, I was really just focusing on not getting it lodged somewhere important, not really taking into account that it would hurt that much. Wait, I need to land... I had gotten wrapped up in my thoughts and was currently tumbling through the air ungracefully. Un-oh.
I couldn't fix my position, or even the way I was falling before I awkwardly fell onto a bunch of chairs and other uncomfortable things. One word. Oww!
I just kind of laid there for a second, I thing I hit my head on something. People ran and screamed, but thankfully none stepped on me. I was only able to stop the bullet because I saw the guy was going to pull out his gun, I wasn't Wally fast, I was just fast human with adrenaline fast. I honestly felt pretty accomplished, I really wasn't sure if I would get there in time to stop the bullet, but I did! By what I could pay attention to around me, the guy had been too stunned to shoot another bullet, and Artemis was able to shoot the gun out of his hand with one of her arrow's so he couldn't shoot at them again. She was still outside, but I assumed shed left her post to get a clear shot, and had gone back once she'd hit his gun. I'm pretty sure Kaldur and Nightwing were currently fighting the guy. And I think a few members of the team had maybe had called my name in the mind link, but everything was fuzzy, I wasn't sure. Yep, definitely hit my head. I tried to sit up, and I got a little dizzy, but it cleared after a moment. I saw M'gann running by, giving my a worried glance, but I gave her a reassuring one, and she hesitated, but then started running to help Nightwing and Kaldur again.
I looked at my arm. I'm pretty sure the bullet had gone into the brachioradialis muscle of my lower left arm. Thankfully it only limits my semipronated movement, the movement of my arm when it's straight down at my sides, and lifting the hand in an upward motion in only that one position, so I will be able to continue using my arm, without too much limitation as to what I can do. The bullet hadn't gone deep enough to get to the bone, thank god for that book, but the bullet was about halfway in my arm. It wasn't a major injury, I'd probably be fully healed in a few days. I could see it and take it out, without much difficulty. Eww, oh gosh this was going to be gross. I made sure I knew where it was exactly and what to do, quickly, before turning away from it, and pulling it out. Oh my gosh, it made a sound that was a horrible sound. My stomach sank. The whole getting shot, and having to pull the bullet out myself was seriously grossing me out. It took all of my will power not to get physically sick, and I refused to look at it till I wrapped it in something. I'm definitely not becoming a doctor. I put the bullet in a plastic bag I had brought, and slid it into my pocket, it was valuable evidence, could be used to track the crazy guy in case he might get away. I pulled a small roll of medical wrap out of my utility belt and wrapped it around my arm. I refused to look at the wound, I hated blood, it freaked me out, I hated wounds and breaks, and ow, and blegh, I always cringed just thinking about things like that, thank god huntress had told me basic things like this to fix myself up in case we were separated. This could have been much worse if I didn't know what to do. When I tied off the bandage, that was the only time I looked at it. The medical wrap was white and thin, perfect for making a makeshift bandage, that didn't get in the way. It wrapped around the wound, and a little of the tender surrounding area, I think it looked as stable as one of Black Canneries, and she's really good at these things. I was ready to go and help the others with whatever I could. I got up, and was making my way over when I saw Wally still passed out on the stage, and ran over to make sure he was ok. I got over there, and first checked for a pulse. It was there, like I thought. I propped him up so he was upright instead of the strange position he'd fallen in. I kneeled next to him and put one of his arms over my shoulder and left the other hand swinging at his side, then stood, hauling him off the ground. I half dragged him, to a corner of the room that was farthest from the fighting and kind of hid him behind a table, so Mr. Crazazy wouldn't see him and hurt him again. M'gann and Nightwing were fighting the crazazy while Kaldur had begun evacuating the building. He had gotten the politicians and leaders out first then the civilians rushed towards the door, so he helped them all get out. I went over to him to make sure he didn't need any help before I went to go help fight this maniac. When I got to he was getting the last twenty or so people out of the building, and Conner and Kid Lantern were escorting everyone to safety, a bunker for the people who were on the stage and store a little ways from the meeting building. The people who were on the stage had a higher risk than the others, and why endanger the civilians with their presence, so the higher risk people were in the more secure bunker.
"Do you need any help, or are you good?" I asked Conner.
"No, but you should be careful." He said glancing at my arm. I nodded and resisted the strong urge to roll my eyes at his comment.
"Well look whose back from dying. Welcome back to the land of those who didn't purposely get themselves shot." Kid Lantern humorously. I almost laughed a little at this, but serious, mission, need to focus on mission, my head was spinning enough as it is.
I looked over at my teammates fighting the psycho guy, and I ran over to help. I flipped over my teammates and kicked the crazy guy in the throat before moving in the air and landing in an awkward looking one handed back handspring, and ending on my feet. I helped a little, mostly just distracting him and trying not to use my arm. We eventually defeated him, handcuffed him in special handcuffs just in case he was super powered (we weren't sure), and handed him over to the police to put in Belle Reve. We had gotten Wally, who still wasn't awake, and Nightwing had carried him in. Thank goodness, he was kind of heavy, and I didn't really feel like carrying him again, and then got into the Bioship and headed home. M'gann fussed, as expected, over my arm.
"I'm fine M'gann, the bullet isn't even in my arm anymore, I got it out already. I just need some disinfectant just in case, and fresh bandages when we get back to the mountain. I'll be fully healed in a few days." I told her as she examined my arm and moved it. I hadn't taken the bandages off , but she was having a go just looking at the outside of it.
"The Bioship has a common Martian remedy for wounds and will heal it faster." Looking at me for permission. I had no idea why she was making such a big deal out of this. Yeah I was freaked out by injuries, but that stuff happens pretty often while superheroing.
"Oh yeah I remember when we used it on..." "Oh yeah" "It works great..." I heard a couple of them start talking about it. I didn't hear their full comments just bits and pieces, but it sounded like good things, so I said.
"Ok, knock yourself out." I told her and she closed her eyes and a door in the back of the ship opened, and a little container that held a purple glowing substance floated through the open door towards us. I looked away as she took off the bandages and put on the glowing purple stuff. Then some bandages appeared next to us and she wrapped it. It started to sting a little but immediately started feeling better. I barely noticed it was hurting. We got back to the cave and walked to the mission room for debrief. Kaldur described the mission and the success that fallowed, the peace treaty was signed afterwards, and the countries will be joining again. He told batman how the bad guy had stunned Wally with a large amount of electricity, who was just now waking up, and how I kept the bullet from killing the leader of South Chatizen, and had lodged the bullet in myself in the process, and my not-fun landing and the evacuation and Artemis' shot at the gun, and Conner taking the people to two separate locations, then the fight, and Wally's situation in great detail. Batman looked satisfied, mostly monotone looking as he always was, but an almost unnoticeable hint of mediocre satisfaction. Some of the others probably thought he just had a blank expression, and I almost thought so too, but I saw it.
Yes! My first mission with this team was a success.
Everyone was kind of tired, so we all went to bed a little early.