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Alright here's part 2!
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It didn't take him long, they watched the building Superboy described as it flickered for a few moments before finally coming into view, accompanied by a dimly flashing red light and guards running all over, placing themselves at apparently already assigned positions.
"Quick, everyone move!" Aqualad encouraged them and they all raced off. Kid Flash took the lead, trailed by Miss Martian and Shadow.
A yellow and red blur took out the nearest guards, and more were thrown amongst some trees by Miss Martian, and Shadow took three more guard's guns and used it to knock them unconscious before following the blue hem of the Martian's cape threw a ripped canvas and into the building. She heard sounds from the battle behind her as everyone else fought off the rest of them. She could almost feel them fighting because of their linked minds.
They were flying down a corridor, KF skidding to a halt momentarily before speaking to the two girls via mind link. "I see three people in front of the room Robin is in. Be prepared."
Miss Martian nodded, bracing herself, and silenced her teammates' outside battle from their minds so they could focus better. Shadow drew her blades out with a quick slink noise. Readjusting his goggles, Kid Flash once again sped off.
They made a quick left, twisted to the right, and turned a final left to come face to face with Wizard, who grinned and tapped his cane on the floor, Joker, who gave a manic-looking smile, and Shade, who fingered his black stick and sneered with an air of boredom
"Hopelessly trying to save your little friend? You baby heroes are so predictable."
In a rage, KF snarled, "Predict this $& hole!", and went at him. Shade backed away and released the black mist form his staff, laughing.
The girls were about to help him, Shadow knowing she could easily defeat him, but Wizard started an incantation, quickly Miss Martian levitated him up,but he managed to croak before she could stop him. "Epac reh nrub erif!"
Her blue cape erupted in flames making Miss Martian screech and drop her captive. Distracted by the spontaneous flames, Shadow felt a great sting as something sliced across her cheek, and she turned to glare at the Joker.
She remembered him clearly and felt rage bubble up inside of her, suppressed only with a faint snarl as her fists clenched.
He had seven playing cards placed between his fingers, having just thrown one of them. With a mad cackle he sprinted off, leaping midway to turn and throw another blade at her which she managed to duck, but still received a tear in her shirt.
She heard him down the hallway, in a sing-song voice, "If you want to save the Feather Brain….better come after me…try and open up the door ….Wizard's 'cantation will make you see… laughing is such sweet glee!"
Shadow growled, Miss Martian had ripped off her cloak and was once again battling Wizard while Kid Flash was fighting Shade. Should she risk opening the door? It could be a bluff…Or he could be telling the truth and then they'd have to worry about helping you once whatever the door is supposed to do to those who open in it, happens!
She tore after the crazed man.
He had already gotten a good head start, but she listened hard for his guffawing laughter and followed it as best she could. The building kept shaking now and then and shouts and yells could be heard from outside. I hope they're doing okay.
She briefly thought before she paused in a junction, the way going right was dimly lit like the rest of the building but the way left was pitch black, and the laughter had gone silent.
She floated for a minute, wondering which way to go, when she heard something shift to her left and a tiny giggle. She dove to the dark corroder, an ominous feeling flying inside her.
She couldn't see a thing, but could almost feel another presence in with her. For a moment she drifted there, waiting for something to happen, then heard a giant slam, a burst of laughter, and light flooded the room.
"AAAHH!" Shadow yelled, immediately losing her energy and banging onto the hard floor, hands clutching her pounding head.
That ridiculous laugh filled the space and she opened her watery eyes a little. She was in a long rectangular corridor with bright yellow lights lining all along the walls. She slowly tried to stand up, but it hurt.
"You see girly! You see!" the Joker started his gloating. "We have discovered your secret and I must say it took us long enough." His tone then turned serious and he paced the short length between two of the sides, hand behind his back, as Shadow panted with a hand placed against the wall for support, her ominous feeling had bloomed into a mixture of panic and fear, which she fought down. This is not good...
"When we had you we only got the chance to test you two times, before you…cracked." He popped his neck accordingly. "But I must say you did leave an impression after you decided to go."
He then turned to her on his heel, staring at her with a maniacal look in his eyes. "Again I must say…"
His mouth opened in a grin, tongue slowly licking his blood-red lips as he brought his white hands together in front of him. "The demonstration you gave us…gave me… Why with power like that, I could rule Gotham-with-an-iron-fist!"
He had taken three quick steps in her direction, a hand raised in front of him, clenched tightly.
"But how to take the power from you…" The paceing had been resumed, and by now Shadow could stand, but didn't look at him so she could hear what he had to say.
"You see, I've never really thought about trying to take any superpower before. Batsy's detective skills are a power on their own, but…"
He paused for a moment, with Shadow wondering who 'Batsy' was, before he resumed his monologue. "…with this new technology at my disposal, the possibilities are endless!"
He jumped up and down in glee, but stopped as soon as he had started, and faced Shadow's back once again. "Although I still need to take you with me, see the other Light members don't know my secret plan for you, and I'd rather keep it that way. Have everyone think that you've run off."
She could hear him taking slow, deliberate steps, to her. "And while they search for you, alongside their favorite little jester, I'll also be silently looking for a way to extract what you have and place it inside myself!"
He was about twenty feet from her now. "And now, since I have rendered you harmless, thanks to this little improvision that I made."
He gestured to the corridor. "There is no way for you to escape."
He advanced a little farther but paused when she chuckled.
"Funny?" He inquired with a tilt of his head.
Finally, Shadow spoke. "If you think, that just because you have taken away my 'power' that you have 'rendered me harmless'…"
She allowed another short laugh before slowly turning to face him. "Then I say, 'do-your-worst'."
He seemed rather impressed by this and nodded his head. "Well, okay then."
With speed Shadow hadn't anticipated, he sent a kick to her side.
With an "Oof," she skidded to the other side of the room and with a slink brought her blades out, which had accidently retreated when the lights had turned on.
With a flick of her wrist she sent one flying in his direction, he contorted his body in unnatural ways to avoid it and the unusual knife spun in an arc before replacing itself in it's hold.
"Impressive," He shouted. "Let me try!"
He brought the cards between his fingers once more and flung them in her direction. Not have anything to hide behind, and unable to conjure up her powers, she took to running the length of the building, receiving a few nicks to her heels and calves. Then turned to try and send a blade at him again, only to discover that he was already in front of her, swinging down a sword.
Where he had hidden that, she had no idea, but her blade sliced through the top of it and the second one that he brought on her. Again and again she slung at him, but he kept producing knives and objects out of seemingly nowhere!
"Maybe this will teach you!" He yelled slamming something around her neck when it was briefly exposed and the thing clicked in place.
Electricity shot through her system and her blades automatically went inside their bracelets as she fell down once more.
"Try to fight me now!" He cried triumphantly and aimed another kick at her, but she caught it and glared up at him as he struggled to get out of her grip.
Flinging him away, she stood up and quickly used a tip of her blade to cut off the thing around her neck before he could press a button on a tiny trigger he had in his hands, which she figured was what caused the electricity to go through her. For some reason it had hurt really badly when she had used even that small tip of her blade, as if the electricity was still charged in them.
With a snarl of anger he threw the trigger at her, followed by a punch, which she blocked. There was a moment where they were frozen, staring at one another as if sizing each other up, then a flurry of kicks, punches, dodges, and retaliations followed, sending both of them around and around the room like some strange choreography.
Finally they sprung apart, both panting and Shadow feeling exceedingly weak. She noticed the look of shock and anger on his face.
"Why are you surprised?" She jeered at him. "I only have my powers at night. I am strongest during the night, so of course I would learn how to defend myself in the day!"
"Yes you're right," He mused, and then his face contorted with rage. "But it wasn't supposed to go this way!"
Suddenly, he composed himself. "No matter, on to plan D then?"
He pulled out three bright yellow balls, and hurled them at Shadow. There was nowhere for her to go, and three big flashes of light erupted before her eyes. She yelled out and fell to the floor once more, all energy gone, but at the same time there was a second explosion at the side of the wall and a wave of smoke burst through.
She heard Joker lovingly "Batsy! You came to the party!" The Joker ran to the source of the explosion, she thought she heard a fight but couldn't be sure. Who was Batsy? Her mind was tired and she couldn't think staright.
The smoke burned her eyes when she tried looking up, and at first she thought she was hallucinating, for an imposing figure of a bat walking upright was coming towards her.
A spark of fear gave her strength to stand as she realized this must be 'Batsy' and she sent a round house kick to his side. She caught him unawares and took the time he needed to recover to lay as many punches on the thing as she could.
He seemed about to say something while blocking her attacks, but just at that moment she hit him square in the jaw, causing him to stagger back a bit. She automatically brought out her blades, remembering too late how they had hurt, but was pleasantly surprised when they only gave a small twinge comparable to the strength of a static shock.
Keeping them intact she went after the man, she wasn't about to give him a chance to beat her up, especially when she felt as weak as she did.
Shadow soon discovered, though, that he had apparently been holding back…way back, and found herself on the offensive desperately trying to get away. A vicious kick to her abdomen had her kneeling in front of him, before she was grabbed her shoulder and slammed against the wall.
She coughed and her stomach hurt after having been crumbled and straightened again so soon.
"What do you think you're doing?" She heard him growl, then someone shouted from behind.
"Batman, wait! That's Shadow!" It was Aqualad.
"I know." Batman spat at him, then faced Shadow again. "She was about to explain as to why she attacked me!"
He let her go and she dropped down to her feet. But wasn't this the Joker's accomplice? What was going on!
In her panic and confusion she reverted back to Rusian, " YA dumal, vy rabotayete sDzhokerom." [TWC1] She muttered, and then froze when he replied back. In Russian.
" Menya zovut Betmena, i net. YA ne rabotayu s Dzhokerom." [TWC2]
He turned his head to Aqualad and barked, "How's Robin?"
Aqualad replied swiftly. "He is being taken to the bioship by Superboy, Kid Flash, and Red Arrow. He appears to be in good condition."
"And Miss Martian?" He brusquely inquired as well.
"Zatana took out Wizard just in time and Miss Martian is recovering easily."
"Good," The Batman said. "I've contacted red Tornado and Black Canary. They will be here in seven minutes to take care of the Joker, Wizard, Shade, and everyone else. I want you and the Team to take the bioship back to the Cave. I'll contact you as soon as I am able."
"What about Shadow?" He asked giving her an inquiry glance.
"She'll be coming with me." He said gruffly, then grabbed her by the shoulder once more and led her off, she glanced down and saw the Joker unconscious and cuffed in cylinder-like cuffs, that completely enveloped his hands and feet, however his mouth still held his demented smile.
Aqualad followed after them, dragging Joker with him, but soon departed down a separate corridor while she and the Batman strode on ahead.
She felt nervous, now realizing she had attacked what was apparently the Team's leader, and now she was left alone with him.
He brought her to a wide square room, with TV's hanging from the wall in a semi-circle fashion in the middle and a wall devoted to a wide assortment of computers, whis is where he led her.
The Batman stalked over to them and pointed to a space beside the monitors and wall saying. "pod-see-yest." [TWC3]
Shadow obeyed the command silently and sat in the corner, feeling a little indignant, while he sat in a black chair placed in front of a large keyboard.
She wasn't going to be the first one to speak it seemed. Although he had threatened to make her 'explain herself',but it didn't look like he wanted to talk anytime soon. So they sat in silence as he inserted something into the computer and raced his hands across the desktop.
She let out a silent sigh and rested her head against the wall. She hurt all over, as she finally felt all the stings, burns and bruises that seemed to be everywhere over her body.
At least Robin is okay and I'm not dead.
Other than that, she couldn't think of anything else that was going her way right then.
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Well I hope you liked it! I'm already working on the next chapter and will hopefully get that posted sooner. Please send me a review so I can know how bad or good I did, have a wonderful day!
Translations:
[TWC 1] I thought you were working with the Joker
[TWC 2] My name is Batman, and no. I do not work with the Joker.
[TWC3] Sit down
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