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:D update! I must warn you before preceeding, there is a part in this story where it gets pretty dark. Like I'm rating this chapter T because of it. Call me paronoid at the end if you read and are all "Oh that wasn't bad at all I've read much worse stuff." Fine, but I just want you guys to be prepared. Also, again, please vote! So now that I've left a really long author's note, enjoy what happens to our favorite heroes!
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They started again down the winding trail that was the park's sidewalk. They weren't saying a word to each other but that was to be expected. It wasn't long before out of no where...
WHAM!
Vines hurtled themselves at Robin. Shadow instantly turned around blades flashing in the low light when vines tackled her back to. An angered female voice shouted. "You brats have been a thorn in our side long enough!"
Shadow was briefly disoriented, however she could make out Robin giving some clever remark. "And it's just as wonderful to see your pretty face Poison Ivy."
Shadow blasted away at the plants, but paused at the woman before her. She had ruled out that ,since this inter-dimensional travel, few things could shock her, but this was one of them.
The lady was a pale green. Sure Kurt was furry and blue, but this woman was green with a darker green outfit and dark green stripes and red hair. Definitely a mutant. Shadow thought, although she wasn't the only person there.
There was a man in a brown jacket and wearing a strange helmet that made him look like he had one red eye, it reminded her of Scott.
A man with a white face, green hair, bright red lips twisted in a creepy grin, and wearing a purple and green suit was there, also that brain thing, his freakish gorilla, Wizard and Scarecrow came back along with the man in the black suit, Shade.
This might be harder than last time. Glancing over at Robin she knew he was thinking the same thing. Thinking fast she used her energy to grab him and flew in the air.
"Tel reh hgiew ekil deal!" No sooner had Wizard shouted out the words that Shadow felt very heavy very fast and wound up crashing to the ground.
They recovered quick, Shadow felt her heartbeat race as they advanced on white faced one cackled. "Is that all you brats got?" Than his face became sad. "Then this will be no fun..." Then he burst into a chaotic laughter.
Through her peripheral vision she saw Robin throw a small ball on the ground, instantly smoke surrounded them as more plants erupted from the ground. It stung her eyes and made her cough.
Can't see! She flew above the rising smoke, and flashes of people could be see in it. A red beam of light shot towards her.
She used a shield to block it but a part of it bounced off and onto her foot. She clenched her teeth, "Innnn..." But still lost some of her focus plummeting lower than what she would have liked.
"Tel sekans ylf ta reh!"Before she knew what was happening a horde of snakes were sailing threw the air and coming in her direction. She couldn't help but think. This is to bizarre. As she covered herself and decided to go head and take out that annoying Wizard.
Landing she coughed and tried to ignore her eyes as they stung, then noticed Poison Ivy unconscious on the ground. Kid must of taken care of her. She sensed someone behind her and turned around just in time to block Shade's stick from crashing into her head.
"I'll teach you why you don't fly me, Shade, the master of darkness into the woods!" He yelled at her, lashing at her with his cane her again and again.
"And I'll show you what happens when you talk in third person!" Robin smacked into his side, the man fell to the ground cane rolling out of his reach. Shadow went and smashed it in two with her foot.
Then Shadow heard a cackle that sent shivers down her spine. "I don't think we've had the privilege to play with her." It was the white faced man, his face emerged from the smoke, staring directly at Shadow. "Let's see if she's any fun, shall we?" He sent, cards, flying at her. Robin disappeared once again so Shadow flew directly up, but then thick vines encased her.
"Let's just get this over with!" Poison Ivy said. There was a little blood on the corner of her mouth. Shadow heard a screech and Robin came back flipping into view fighting the gorilla. Once again she burst from the plants but was hit by the red beam, full force.
Dirt sprayed up from where she connected with the ground. She tried to get up but someone smashed their foot into her back, "Gah!" she let out. "Don't be afraid now..." Came the silky-slimy voice. Gathering energy to help her, she twisted around but he sent some sort of smoke down on her. Only then did she realize it was Scarecrow and what Robin had said. "Try not to breathe in the gas. It will cause you to hallucinate."
Shadow felt her heart speed up, sweat formed, and what she saw kept...going in and out getting darker and then lighter. Then Scarecrow became the most terrifying thing in her life. All what she wanted to do was get away from him. She shrieked and shot up, avoiding plants and blasts.
She was confused but couldn't figure out where she was going, she thought she was going up but face planted in the ground all what she could see was. Her. She ran smack into a big hairy stomach, then darted into the other directions and saw Sunshine?
No not Sunshine. Robin. She had to save him too! But it was to much! All to much! Her head throbbed, she was back in Russia, getting chased by a gang. Then she was trying to grab Robin so they could fly out but something bound her and she couldn't move!
A thick necklace was placed on her, a collar? She could only watch as again and again the man in the purple suit swiped at Robin with a knife again and again, then he was knocked aside and getting punched.
Punched rained down on his face! Then they captured Sunshine and Chamele. Shadow screamed and tried even harder to get at them, but all she could was watch as they got beat up! Tears streamed down her face, her heart felt as though it could fly out of her chest. To much! It was all just to much!
The black out was letting up, whatever (or whoever) had caused seemed to be finished, so the team could find Robin easier. They were about to set out when. Recognized Red Arrow B06
"I heard Robin went missing. I'm here to help." Red Arrow said coming in through the zeta tube.
The Team, plus the now healthy Zatana and Rocket, were just about to head over to the bio-ship, which had been retrieved by the Justice League and with the combined skills of M'gann and J'hon, had been healed and ready for combat.
"We welcome your assistance." Aqualad said and Red Arrow came over.
Aqualad started to brief him on their way to the ship. "The Justice League went out to investigate the blackout which as slowly been letting up, needless to say that crime became worse because of it so they are dealing with that also. Robin has been missing for two days now and we have reason to believe that the Shadow has kidnapped him and holding him hostage."
"Or she's just handing him over to whoever brought her here!" Kid Flash interjected, Artemis put a calming hand on his arm.
Aqualad continued. "Or, yes, that she has handed him over to whoever she is working for. So if we fail to find Robin we can at least capture and interrogate her as to where his whereabouts are."
"All right," Red Arrow said. "So where are we heading."
"At a warehouse in Lincoln Nebraska. Batman had managed to get a location at one of the places Robin had been,"
"And you have no idea who this Shadow is?" Red Arrow asked as they went in the ship, Miss Martian added more chairs to accompany them all.
Artemis was the one who answered. "We checked everything, everywhere but there's nothing on her. It's like she appeared out of nowhere."
Rocket said. "Well you guys said that the Light was working on some top secret inter-dimensional junk so...maybe it worked."
"That could be true." Miss Martian seconded.
"But the machine was destroyed in that fire so we wouldn't be able to get anything off of it." Superboy said.
"I don't care how she got here!" Kid Flash said. "I just want her to pay for what she's doing to Robin right now!"
"She will," Artemis said in a low calming voice.
"Trust me," Aqualad reassured him. "She will."
"NEEEYYYEEEETTTT!" Shadow cried trying to bolt up, but was restrained. She looked wildly around. Nothing much was comprehending and she kept speaking gibberish in Russian.
FOCUS! The voice in her mind yelled. She laid back down and took deep breathes. In...out In...out Finally she was able to calm down. Memories came bake, but it was only flashes. She decided not to think about it until she dealt with the matter at hand.
She was in a glass ball held in place by yellow glowing bands at her wrists and ankles. It was emitting rays resembling sunlight. Great, can't use my powers to get of here. But she did notice her wrist blades were still intact. Ha, idiots probably couldn't get them off.
She tried looking around. The glass made everything hazy. But she assumed she was in some lab again, glancing to her left she saw...Oh no. Robin lay there. Wires attached to him. He was breathing hard and crusted blood could be seen even threw the haze of the glass.
My fault! It's my fault! Panic zinged threw her but she bit her tongue trying to keep her thoughts focused. No one still hadn't entered the lab. It was brightly lit, with big metal machines around.
If I can break these bands than maybe I can bust out of here as well. For Shadow there was no if about getting out of the bands, she hadn't met anything that her blades couldn't cut threw, except Wolverine's claws.
But there were no windows and she had no idea how long she had been unconscious or what time of day or ,night it, was. Not to mention how well guarded this place has to be.
But I'd rather escape before I find out what they want to do with us. She wriggled her right wrist a bit and was about to unleash her blade when the door whooshed open. She paused not wanting to get caught.
The guy with the strange helmet and red eye walked up to her. "Ah, you are awake. Perfect. We wouldn't want you to miss out on what we have in store for you."
She glared at him, not saying a word. "Want to keep quiet hm? Not as entertaining as some of the others. Oh well." He walked off. The brain in a jar and his gorilla were working on some controls in a corner. Others...what does that mean?
The brain came up to her. "Ah yes the little doh-mp, I've been waiting to experiment on you." Did he just call me dumb? "You see the Light was more than pleased that we got you. You can not imagine how this will change things!"
The gorilla huffed a couple of times. "Excuse me but, it seems we are ready to proceed."
He rolled away. Dread was like lead in her stomach. Whatever they were going to do it was not going to be good. And sure enough, it wasn't.
Once the Brain reached the controls he pressed a button, all the light went out save for the glowing of dials and machines, and then he pulled a lever up.
Blue lightening shot around the ball and threw Shadow. She couldn't suppress a scream of agonizing pain. It coursed threw her like fire and she yelled with all her might. Arms straining against her restrictions. She couldn't focus. Couldn't think. Only knew the absolute agony her body was going threw.
Then it stopped, though her body jerked. The light came back on and there was a whirr as a computer processed the data. But Shadow didn't care, she was panting trying to calm herself down. The red-eyed man came up to her again, running a scanner across the globe. "There, that wasn't so bad now was it?" He said with a smile. Shadow let out a string of Russian profanity at him. "Now, now, looks like we might need to teach you some manners." The turning to Brain said. "The results seem good, after the machine revives I think we should run it threw again, see if we get anything else."
"Yes," Brain responded. "But first, a blood sample, Professor Ojo?"
"My pleasure." He walked over to a computer next to the globe and typed something in. A hole appeared in the sphere and a robotic arm with a syringe came over to Shadow. She snarled and tried scooting away but it was no use, she winced as the needle punctured her sensitive skin and entered her vein. She watched in anger and dismay as blood filled up the container. Then it retreated, a drop of the red liquid evidence that it had been there.
Thirty minutes later they did another lightening round. Although Shadow was expecting it, it didn't help with the suffering. But soon it was done and she started trying to formulate a plain on how to get out of here.
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Hope you liked it! According to google translate d'ombre means Shadow. Again I apologize for the dark turn but on that part my inspiration sorta shoved me out of the driver's seat and jacked my car, but I'm liking where it's taking me. :) Anyways I'll try to update next week bye!