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Hi people! I love the support for the book so far. As I have said plenty of times before, I have another series on Wattpad which is just amazing, according to others. It's based in an original DC city and with original heroes and villains. Just look for Titan Chronicles. Apart from that, have fun. (Spoiler!) This Chapter will replace the episode where the cave is attacked.

5) Why Always Me?

22nd September, Happy Harbour High - 1:00 PM

Patiently waiting for the two lovebirds to arrive, I rub my entire body, which is still banged up from the events of the past week. The school dinner hall is packed with teenagers with all kinds of hero merchandise, most of them wearing the big three. A few even have a lantern shirt on. Good job kids. Guess who's a REAL lantern? Me, that's who. Basking in the view, I sit on one of the benches, still scanning for Supes and Miss M. As though hearing my call, the one and only Martian steps into the hall and I give her clear wave. Seeing my gesture in the crowd, she waltzes over in the usual grace with she usually walks in. Reaching me, we fist bump and she sits on the seating part of the bench on my bottom left. "Do you know where Connor is?" she questions, her eyes flitting around for the grumpy guy.

"Nah. I usually try to avoid him. I have a feeling he really hates me for some reason." I shrug, throwing pieces of a sandwich into the bin a few yards opposite me.

"No, he doesn't." she sincerely assures, she clearly has no idea how much I annoy people. The only reason I don't annoy her is that I find her kind of cute, in a strictly professional way. "I believe that he needs some time to become friend with you, that's all. What do you think about the team? We are all one big family, right!?." she beams in a horrifically creepy way, I hope never to see that type of smile ever again.

"I... like it. Sure, Robin and Aqualad get on my nerves, but KF and you are actually pretty fun." I respond, although I may have lied about Miss Martian, she is literally the most boring creature in the universe. Believe me, I know every being in the universe and there are some parasites that you can have more fun with. I mean, come on, her favourite hobby is cooking... cooking!. "Anyhow, I have no idea where your buddy is." I inform my female friend, surprise hit me when a brief expression of disappointment flashed across her face.

"Hey, are you ok-"

My concern was cut severely short by an eruption of screams from the hall. Followed by a mass stampede, as our fellow students poured out of the hall in a state of panic. "What's going on!? " Megan telepathically yells into my brain.

"No idea. We should find out." I reply, shoving my way towards the direction they are fleeing from. Reaching the entrance to the hall that connects to a corridor, I stare down the long path and to my shock, a horde of undead are filing towards us. "Zombies? I HATE zombies!." Grabbing Megan's arm, I lead her down the corridor towards the zombies and turn right. Finding the store cupboard, I kick it open and pull her in with me.

"Zombies? What are zombies? " Megan asks, clearly she has never seen a horror movie before.

"Dead things or people that have been ressurected. " I explain, whilst pulling out my communicator and attempting to call Black Canary. "Come on!. Come on!. Come on!." I impatiently wait, until a short clicking noise happens and a familiar voice booms through the com.

"I'm sorry, but Black Canary is unable to reach her device. Please may I respond on her behalf?." the mechanical tone of Red Tornado emerges into my ear, a calming relief vegins to soothe my growing anxiety.

"Uhhhh... well, zombies are attacking my school, so yeah, help please." I blurt out, struggling to phrase the sentence so I don't sound like a crazy person.

"Very well. Standby for assistance, allies will be there soon." Red Tornado flatly answers, sometimes I wish he actually had emotions, at least then he would know when to be nice.

"I guess that's our cue. " I telepathically anounce to my companion and standing straight up, I construct my armour and mask. "I'm pretty sure that this calls for identity protection, don't you? " I joke, trying to at least brighten up the dire situation a little bit. Feeling the sting of my still bruised rib, I shake it off and watch Megan change from Caucasian to green before my very eyes.

"All set, let's go find Connor." she advises and steps cautiously out of the room.

"I never thought i'd say this, but I sure hope we can find him."

Robin and Artemis's POV

"This is Red Tornado to all Young Justice members, Happy Harbour High School is under siege and requires your assistance." Red Tornado's voice appears from the earpiece I always have in my ear, when I am in school.

"Sorry Miss, go to go. My cat ate a shellfish." I excuse myself with the first thing I could come up with and before she could stop me, I rush out of the class and bound down the stairs. Once at the bottom, I turn left and barge the door open, ending up in the open air of Gotham. Seeing Artemis doing the exact same thing, but on the opposite end of the school, I flash her a serious stare. "Let's go!." I sternly command.

With speed we never thought possible, we didn't stop running until we got to the zeta tube disguised as a postbox. When our friends are in trouble, nobody can stop us. Feeling driven, I follow Artemis into the tube.

Kid Flash's POV

Oh dear, looks like my friends are in trouble. Pushing myself from the table, I stand up and observe the confused faces of my classmates. "I dropped my... pen, outside. I'll go get it." I excuse and run at normal speed out of the classroom. Once outside, I zoom away in the blink of an eye. Uncle Barry is so going to kill me.

Young Justice POV - Third Person

Soaring through the air, the Green Lantern and the Martian bombard the rapidly increasing crowd of the undead. "We need to find where they are coming from." Megan orders, sending a group of undead crashing to the ground with a telekinetic blast.

"Good idea, but I hope you have a plan to go along with that. I'm almost one hundred percent sure, that these guys are not natural." the Lantern remarks, whilst sending blasts of energy from his ring into the crowd. "Find someone in there that is thinking, might mean it's alive." he advises, hovering a few centimetres higher to avoid any flailing arms.

"I will need some time." she states, earning a smirk and a nod from Kyle. True to her word, she stops and holds her hands to her head, meanwhile, Kyle constructs a train and sends it into the crowd; this sends bodies catapulting into the air and back down with a thud.

"Uh, Megan." he interrupts her concentration.

"What is it, Kyle? "

"Sorry to bother you and all, but I think i've found your boyfriend. " he casually announces, whilst playing whack-a-mole with the heads of zombies, using a very large hammer. Halting his game for a second, he points into the distance and they could see tens of undead being launched into the air at a time, as a particular teenager jumps a football pitch at a time.

"Help him, Kyle." she orders, distress clearly present in her voice.

"Will do." he salutes and does a backflip in the air, changing direction to go support the Kryptonian powerhouse. Flying through the air to his ally, he was suddenly hit by something and sent crashing through thewall of the school and onto the hard gym floor. "Owww." he groans, while slowly picking himself up.

Hearing Kyle being sent through the wall, Superboy jumps through the hole and helps him up. "Thanks, Superkid. What happened? " Kyle slaps him on the back.

"Stop calling me that! " Connor yells back, returning the favour and sending Kyle into the spectator benches.

"Owwww... again." the Lantern telepathically groans, pushing off pieces of wood from his chest. Remembering that there is a horde of undead outside, Superboy jumps out of the hole and starts smashing the endless amounts of soulless. Kyle quickly follows suit and flies out, sending constructed rockets into the crowd. Suddenly the movement stopped and the undead drop and to the ground and seemingly dissapears into thin air.

With all the enemies gone, a lone person was left, someone they had hoped to never meet. "Felix Faust." Superboy briefs, although he needs no introduction to the other two heroes.

"Such a pleasure to meet you all, I didn't expect for anybody to turn up." he sadistically cackles. "Look who we have here, i've heard about you, Superboy." he looks directly at Superboy, who recoils slightly at the attention. "I could give you what you want most. I could give you powers, even Superman couldn't dream of, but only if you destroy your friends here." he offers, an evil twinkle forming in his eye.

For a second, Superboy heavily considered the offer, but he realised that he would never do that to his friends. However, his hesitation didn't go unnoticed by Kyle and Megan. "No. Not a chance. I'd rather beat you down!." Connor screams. With a battle cry, he leaps towards Faust, but gets hit back an invisible wall and is sent backwards and lands roughly on the ground. Faust lowers his arm and lets out another cackle.

"Together, this time. Ready Kyle? " Miss Martian commands.

"Hell yeah, this old man is gonna wish he stayed in his care home."

As if waiting for this exact moment, two zip lines smash into the ground and Artemis and Robin zip down them. Upon hitting the ground, a familiar whizz introduces Kid Flash. " You weren't going to start the party, without us, was you?" Robin jokes in his usual hero humour. Smiling at the arrival of backup, Superboy and Kyle charge straight for Faust. Superboy being tripped over out of nowhere and Kyle being sent out of the air by a blast of magic.

With a few flicks of his hands and two quiet words from Faust, the groubd shakes and a huge creature that looks like a 20 foot long undead dragon rips out of the ground and lifts off into the air. "Bye now, I have already served my purpose." Faust announces and vanishes right in front of the befuddled team.

"Let's slay a dragon." Connor mutters.

All at once, the team assualt the mighty beast. Flying back into the air, Kyle constructs a chain around its neck and pulls it back down to the solid ground. Superboy and Kid Flash begin to swerve and dodge the dragons tail and jaws, countering whenever the opportunity arises. Robin, Artemis and Miss Martian all attack the beast with whatever they could get a hold of. Artemis uses explosive arrows on its body, ranging from its neck to its tail. Robin is throwing his disks, filled with an assortment of tricks, including: Explosives, Electric charges and just normal metal blades. Meanwhile, Megan throws broken pieces of rock at the beast using telekinesis.

Struggling to hold the dragon down, Kyle adds extra reinforcement to his chain and forms gloves around is hands, strengthening him slightly. "What is taking so long guys?" Kyle questions, annoyed as to why the thing was still up and kicking.

"It's kinda hard to beat Kyle, i've got to dodge it's tail AND jaws at the same time." Wally complains, frustrated with the lack of progress.

"In other words, shut up!." Superboy adds, being sent for the fourth time into the floor. Sighing, Kyle focuse all of his will into keeping this thing from flying off into the unknown. Superboy jumps onto its neck and attempts to strangle the dragon, giving up shortly after, he begins pounding on the creatures spine. Seizing the moment, Robin and Artemis also jump on the dragon using zip lines, following Superboy's example, they bring all of their arsenal to bear on the poor things back and wings. The team moved with a fluidity and easy motions that at a first glance you would mistake them for their mentors.

Adding to the fight, Megan distracts the beast by flying and around it's huge jaws, only just avoiding being eaten whole every time. "Wally! Form a vacuum." Robins orders across their minds, without Kaldur, he knows he has to take up the position with absolute control.

"One vacuum, coming right up! " Wally obeys and utilising the mysterious speed force, he sprints in circles around the creature, constantly growing in speed.

"Let it go, Kyle. After that, we're going to need you to help Wally contain it." Robin barks.

"If you say so." with that, the Green Lantern breaks his construct and flies out of the range of the dragon's fearsome weaponry Foloowing his cue, the group which was on the dragon's back jumps off and runs away. As Wally gets faster, the dragon hopelessly tries to flap away with it's wings to no avail. "No air, no flying." the team starts to grow in confidence, when it all goes wrong. Out of nowhere, a well-timed swipe of the tail sends Wally into the nearest wall, unconscious.

"What now!? " Superboy angrily growls, preparing to jump onto the beast once more.

"We need to all remain calm." Robin assures.

"Are you kidding me? How are we supposed to remain calm, at a time like this?" Artemis interjects.

"Robin is right. We need to asses the situation, before we act." Kyle gives his view.

"That's just great coming from you! How many times have you panicked before? Even in training you do." Superboy pushes in.

"Oh no, you didn't." Kyle responds.

"Get yourself together, you idiot."

"Superman rip-off!"

"Batman ass-kisser!."

"Has a crush on Megan."

"Has a crush on Wonder Woman."

"Born in a test tube. Ouch, that must have gave you third degree burns."

"Only has powers, because he wears a magical ring from outer space."

"It's NOT MAGICAL!"

"Hello Megan!. Why didn't I think of that before? Space!." Miss Martian cuts off the all-out war between Kyle and Superboy.

"Space? " both Connor and Kyle say at the same time.

"Kyle can pull it up and leave it in space, until the League can dispose of it." she explains, with the utmost faith in her own plan.

"One problem: I could barely keep it on the ground, so how will I be able to lift it up that far?." Kyle asks.

"Your ring relies on willpower, right? So, I can pour everyone's subconscious into your mind and temporarily combine our wills." she figures out, Kyle and Superboy take a moment, but ultimately agree to the plan. Just as they were about to ask Robin for his approval, they noticed that him, Artemis and a now awake Wally are fighting the monster.

"We got the plan. Are you ready guys? " Artemis assures and they all stop fighting and group around Kyle. Within a few mere seconds, Kyle could feel a rush of energy, as the team entered his mind. The power was unlike anything he had ever imagined, every step he took shook the ground with energy. Sticking to the plan, he lifts off and constructs a massive hand, wrapping it around the neck of the dragon. With relative ease, he soared upwards and into the surrounding space, dropping off the monster.

Still filled with energy, he obliterates a nearby meteor shower with incredible power. Suddenly, he felt incredibly weak and lost control of his entire body. Hurtling towards the Earth, he lost consciousness, a warm trickle of blood running down his nose.

Mount Justice - A few hours later

"Guys! He's waking up!" Wally yells to his friends and they are rush over. Kyle has to force his eyes open, when his entire body racks with pain.

"Owwwwwwwww" he cries under the severe agony.

"I can only image how much pain you are going through right now, good, you deserve it." Connor laughs maniacally.

"Connor!" Megan glares and he instantly stopped.

"What happened? I feel like I just went on a night-out with Red Hood." Kyle groans.

"You passed out, man. Got hit by a couple of big rocks on your way down, that's why your entire body hurts like hell." Wally informs, concern flooding his tone.

"Also, the amount of energy in your body from our combined wills, was too much and your body collapsed. I'm so sorry, it's all my fault." Miss Martian says, tears forming in her eyes.

"It's okay, as long as Wonder Woman is my nurse, i'll be fine." Kyle jokes, however, there was a hint of truth in there. A cough interrupts us and Black Canary steps out from the shadows with another set of bandages. She stops at stares at Kyle.

"I will have to do." she smiles, Kyle exhales, having been holding his breath in anxiety.

"That's not the worst part." Robin speaks up and the faces of the team members go sour. "The Helmet of Fate was stolen."

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Hope you enjoyed the chapter and can I say now that I am sorry if you find any of the jokes offensive, but that was the whole point of putting it there.