A/N: Hi guys. I realize it's been a long time since I have updated and I am so so sorry! This has been the craziest summer every! My life has actually been less busy since school started. how ironic. =P
This chapter is kinda like a set up for the next few chapters, so I'm sorry if it's not super long or not that exciting.
I hope you all enjoy this!
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice.
Why did we have to leave them behind? Why couldn't they have just waited, and all gone into the mall together?
When Miranda stumbled into Dick and they started talking Jacque, Oliver, and I just looked at each other and smirked, and kept walking. It didn't even cross my mind to wait for my younger cousin.
When we got into the mall I headed straight for the arcade. Oliver and Jacque had gone off to look at clothes or something. I hadn't seen them for almost an hour when they came into the arcade. Oliver started playing with me and Jacque watched us, pretending not to be interested.
"Do you want to play Jacque?" Oliver asked.
She scoffed. "Why would I want to waste brain cells on something so stupid as a video game?"
I returned her scoff and looked at her. "Well just standing there doing nothing must be helping your brain sooo much." My voice was dripping with sarcasm.
Jacque rolled her eyes but didn't comment.
"No that's not it," Oliver smirked. "She just knows that she wouldn't be able to beat me."
Jacque's eyebrows shot up.
I looked at Oliver and mirrors his smirk. "Ah, that makes sense."
Jacques' eyebrows lowered and she nonchalantly tossed one of her pigtails over her shoulder.
"I could beat you at anything at any time." She said as if stating a fact.
Oliver put his hands on his hips and narrowed his eyes. "Prove it."
"Fine, I will." she pushed me out of the way, taking the plastic gun out of its holder.
Oliver put the coins in the game and took the other gun. "Let's do this."
The two of them started playing the game and to our surprise, Jacque was really good.
The three of us were so enthralled in the game that we barely noticed the real gunshot that rang out over the computerized ones.
When the first shot was fired Oliver's head snapped up.
Another computerized gun short sound emanated from the game and Jacque began jumping up and down.
"I did it!" She shouted.
"Woah Olli! Dude how could you let her beat you?" I Asked, shocked that Jacque had beaten the guy I had been trying to beat at this game ever since the tour started.
"See what did I tell you?" the girl looked at Oliver, "I can beat you anywhere anytime at anything."
We both looked at Oliver and our shocked and gloating expressions faded to confusion and concern.
"Oliver, what's wrong?" I asked.
"That was a real gunshot." He said.
"What?" Jacque said skeptically. "It was in the game, idiot."
"No, no! It was a-" Oliver was cut off by a loud BANG.
And scream erupted in the mall.
"Oh no." I breathed out as we looked out the arcade window to see people screaming and running for the exits and trying to get into the stores before the security doors closed all the way.
"Oh my god!" Jacque dashed for the doors that were slowly closing.
Oliver and I followed.
Jacque and I were about to rush out and find our family members but Oliver stopped us.
"You can't go out there!" He shouted over the screams.
"But we have to find them!" I struggled to get my arm out of my friend's grasp.
"Wait," Jacque pointed. "There they are!"
I looked where she was pointing to see my cousin dragging Miranda behind him trying to get to the exit.
"Dick!" I screamed. When he didn't hear me I tried again. "Dick!" Dick slowed down and looked around trying to locate my voice.
"Dick over here!" We were all shouting and he looked to the door of the arcade.
His eyes widened, seeing the security doors were closing.
He began running towards us, weaving through all the frantic people, Miranda still behind him
"They won't make it!" I yelled.
"We have to stop the doors!" Jacque said frantically.
"But how?" Oliver asked.
"Wait!" I stopped them, "they might make it."
"Come on!" I screamed. "Run!"
The three of us were shouting and screaming for a lake of better a thing to do.
There was only about a foot of space between the doors and at the last second Dick pushed Miranda through and the doors slid shut.
Miranda fell on her hand and knees and Jacque was at her side in seconds. She held her shocked and scared sister in a tight hug.
"NO!" I screamed and threw myself at the door, pounding my fists on it. "Dick!"
I could hear him pounding on the outside.
I then moved to the window to see Dick doing the same. Oliver was next to me and the twins scrambled to my other side.
"Charlie!" Dick shouted pounding on the glass.
"Dick, you need to get out of here!" Oliver shouted but it was cover up by another gunshot and the screaming picked up again.
Dick hit the floor looking around frantically. He then dove under a bench nearby.
"There's the gunman!" Oliver pointed at I big man in a ski mask holding a gun. He was looking around as if trying to find someone and when he spotted Dick he began walking over to the bench.
"Dick!" Miranda yelled. "Look out!" But he didn't hear her.
The man picked up the bench and threw it across the walkway.
At this point, we were all screaming for him to run and almost everyone else in the arcade was crowded around the window doing the same.
Dick jumped up and tried to run but the man's big hand wrapped around his neck and slammed him against the window. Miranda was on her knees sobbing and Jacque shrieked.
The class creaked and the man pointed his gun at Dick's head.
I had tears streaming down my face and I screamed.
Then the man's hand jerked and he fired. The gunshot echoing in my ears.
"NO!" I screamed and the man dropped my cousin. Dick lay on his left side screaming in agony, blood pouring from his shoulder. I sunk down to my knees so I could be closer.
"Dick!" I screamed. He was so close, but there was no way I could get to him. Dick's eyes rolled back into his head and he went limp.
"No!" I continued to scream. "Dick, open your eyes!"
I continued to pound on the glass as my little cousin bleed out on the cold floor of the mall.
"Richard John Grayson, you open your eyes right now!"
But no matter how loud I yelled I knew his eyes wouldn't open.
Then someone came to Dick's side. He looked like a teen with wild red hair, he was wearing jeans and a dark hoodie. He leaned over Dick checking for a pauls.
Then another teen, a girl with long black hair ran over and knelt down beside Dick and the red head.
"Does he have a pulse?" She asked she sounded almost as worried as I felt.
The other kid kept moving his fingers around on Dick's neck and we all held our breath.
After what seems like an eternity the kid looked up. "He has a pauls." He exclaimed, and we all let out a breath of relief.
The girl smiled and put her finger to her ear where I could see something that looked like an ear piece.
"We have him and he's alive. Mission accomplished.
What did she mean mission accomplished?
The redhead then picked Dick up and started running, the girl hot on his heels.
"What?!" I shouted. "Where are you taking him?!"
This couldn't be happening.
It had taken about another 30 minutes before the doors opened and it was deemed safe. The cops had shown up and managed to take down the gunman, but when Charlie frantically asked them about Dick none of them knew where Dick or the teens who ran off with him were.
Charlie freaked out and after a long time of trying to calm him down, Oliver was able to get him back into the truck. They had to get home, they were supposed to be back over an hour ago. A couple of officers followed them back to the circus so they could take to Dick's parents.
When they got back to the circus grounds the group of 4 teens and 2 police officers went straight to the Grayson trailer.
When they opened the door they were immediately swarmed by the Charlies parents, the twins parents, Oliver's father, and pop Hally.
"Are you alright?" Carla pulled charlie into a hug.
The other parents doing the same to their own children.
"We saw the new and we were so worried." The twins mother told them.
There were so much clamor and chatter among all the worried adults and their kids that no one noticed the officers talking to Mary and John until the red headed woman let out a small sob and everyone looked over to her.
"What do you mean you don't know where he is?" John asked, anger and concerns slipping into his voice.
"Mr. Grayson," The taller officer started. "It was confirmed that your son was shot during the the shooting."
Mary's hand went to cover her mouth, trying to suppress a sob. Fear was written all over her face.
"It was reported that he was alive when he was taken from the scene of the shooting, but we don't know who took him,where they took him, or if they had a connection to the shooter." The officer finished.
"Well, what can we do?" John asked, wanting to have his son back home.
"We have men out looking for him now, and we can put something on the news if you have a picture of him," The other cop spoke. "That way if anyone sees him or recognizes him they will know to contact us."
John nodded. "Yes, we have a picture you can use."
The first officer spoke again. "Now, if we could ask the kids some questions about what they saw, it could really help. We could give them some time to recover if needed, but the sooner we get information the sooner we can find your son."
Charlie spoke up. "You can ask us now. We need to find Dick." The others agreed.
"Well then, let's get started." The officer turned to the group of kids.
"What. the hell. Happened?" The angry voice of batman echoed through mount justice. Even though the team now knew who was under the cowl it didn't make him any less terrifying when he put it on.
Aqualad spoke up. "We were following Rob- Dick in the mall, as instructed, but then Warp was spotted. We had to take Dick before Warp did." Aqualad paused. "Then the shooting started. In all the chaos we almost lost Dick. The shooter got to Dick and by the times we were able to get Dick out he was hurt and unconscious." Kaldur finished.
There was a long moment of silence as Batman tried to think oh what to do next, his scowl never leaving his face.
He came to a decision. "No one is to go into the infirmary until further notice. You are all dismissed."
Hesitantly the team left the briefing room and headed towards the recreation area.
Once the team was out of sight Batman put his finger on his com unit.
"Martian ManHunter, report to Mount Justice."
Ok so there we go! I really hope you all liked it and thank you to everyone who waited for me to finish this chapter. I will hopefully have another chapter up next week. hang in there guys! Please review!
Thanks for reading!
~EbmerSun