Chapter 4
The dream was…strange, I stood staying out into a what once would have been a beautiful landscape but was now not hing but dead and hollowed out desert with a large city out in the distance (Or maybe it was closer and the desert heatwaves were making it look farther away?)
A man stood to my left looking sad and so lonely that part of me wanted to go to him, to take him into my arms and tell him everything would be alright, but I just stood there and watched him…there was something about him that made me think of J'onn which was weird considering….. Oh hell no.
Opening the pathways of my mind I stepped out of the dream and into the garden of my inner mind and saw that the first set of shielding used to keep unwanted visitors out was simply gone and the second set that protected my mind was being tampered with, as I watched the right section of my shielding was beginning to form a small but very there hole big enough that if it was breeched would allow a small virus to enter my inner mind and download whatever it was looking for.
Slamming up another layer of shields I struck out mentally as hard as I possible could and began to 'burn' the intruder with my telepathic ability's.
"GET OUT!" I screamed at it while hitting it over and over and over again increasing the heat to scolding tempters as I hit again and again, I knew if I didn't stop soon I would flam out from all that us of power but I need to get 'it' out of my head first.
"GET OUT! I'LL KILL YOU. I'LL KILL YOU!" I Screamed at 'it' left bleeding and whimpering in pain.
I forced myself to cool down and start rebuilding my shields, anger a pulse fire in my veins as I worked. My outer shields were well and truly gone, they had been burned away by something and it hadn't been 'it', whatever had caused my outer shields to be burned away into ash had to have been some kind of drug or medicine, sadly some meds did that to shields which was why I didn't take any meds unless I had to. The risk of someone planting a virus inside my mind outweighed the need to be free of a headache.
I forced myself to wake the hell up, as good as going into a healing sleep would be it was clear to me that I wasn't safe enough to be the vulnerable, and I knew exactly who to thank for that.
Awareness came back in bits in pieces until everything came into focus I heard voices arguing…loudly.
"YOU GAVE HER AN EXPERIMENTAL DRUG!" Clark yelled.
"Not experimental," Bruce retorted. "I designed it to relax her mind so J'onn could get through."
"YOU HELPED HIM WITH THIS!"
"I was asked to test her defenses, I had no knowledge of the drug or that she would reacted so violently."
I got up slowly and moved almost silently to the door, I could feel the tension in the other room like a thick wave.
I felt so violated that it wasn't even funny, what Bruce had done had been the equivalent of slipping me a mental date rap drug then having his psychic buddy start to take off my clothes only to have me wake up half way through it and start to fight back.
"Dammit Bruce! You violated that women! Betrayed the trust she placed in us and fro what? Because she knows who's under the cowl? So what? She has been nothing but cooperative with you and all of your safety measures… for fuck sakes Bruce she let you put a fucking tracking on her!"
I slammed open the door to see Bruce and Clark arguing over J'onn who was laying in the public medical bed, the Martian looked like he had been through a battle and looked pained for some reason. I saw that there were towels nearby covered in a purple liquid and I relized it was J'onn blooded.
"You sick bastard!" I hissed as I moved painfully into the room.
"You make me sick, you…god your parents are probably rolling in there grave right now! You tried to mental rape me!" I snarled and then everything went black again.