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Summary: Robin sends out a signal to send a message that they need help. They eventually got out only having Aqualad to reveal that there were two signals…
Chapter 4: Transmission
"Wake up."
A groan came followed by the flicker of the eyes. Tim opened his eyes and at first it was blurry but it eventually got cleared.
"Huh? What?" Tim gasped. He stared ahead of now, just now figuring it out that he was in a different location.
The place he was in had little light. Most of the area was covered in darkness and judging by how he can't move, he figured that his ankles and wrists were chained to the wall. He also looked around more and noticed that in a glass container, Batgirl's and his weapons and device was there.
Great.
Tim looked to the right and saw the rest of his teammates.
"La'gaan? Batgirl? Cassie!" he exclaimed.
From the sound of his voice, the team started to wake up.
"Tim?"
The masked boy raised an eyebrow when a new voice was heard and he squinted his eyes to see through the darkness.
There it is!
Through the darkness, Tim was able to make out a dull yellow color.
Robin raised an eyebrow and called out the name since it was the only one that reminded him of.
"Flash?"
"Robin? Is that you?"
"It's me but are you...you?" Robin asked.
"You mean the one who kicked your butt at the training area then yeap. It's me."
Tim growled. "Watch it, punk. You got easy."
Flash laughed. "Easy? You're telling me that you went easy on me?"
Tim twitched when Flash kept on laughing.
"Prat." Tim muttered.
"Alright, you fools. Enough. We're trapped in who knows where and all you guys can think of fighting over a match that took two days ago?"
Batgirl raised an eyebrow at the familiar voice. "Bumblebee?"
"Wait...is that...Batgirl?"
"Yea it's me. I'm sorry that you had to suffer with Flash."
"Likewise."
"Hey!"
"So, where do you suppose we are?" Tigress spoke.
"I have no clue." Cassie spoke.
"I'm not surprised that you don't know where you are. It's quite funny, really." another voice announced.
Tim narrowed his eyes. "Whose there?" he demanded.
"Such an impatient boy."
The shadow walked forward so that the darkness fell off the person. It wasn't much to see since part of the face was slightly covered in the dark.
"Tell me, are all of the bat members this demanding and have lack of patience?"
Batgirl and Robin growled.
"Watch it." Tim snarled.
The person made an unreadable expression and walked towards the boy who never tore his gaze away.
"Or what? You will kill me with your dry sense of humor?" he sneered, nastily.
"No but we will defeat you." Tim said.
The sneer fell off the man's face and there was a tense moment. All of a sudden, the man brought his fist and punched Tim in his stomach, hard.
Tim grunted from the pain and when that happened, Batgirl shouted.
"Hey, leave him alone! He's just a kid!"
Robin lifted his head up to glare angrily at the man before the fiend scoffed.
"Such a weakling. You cannot hope to defeat the evil that is coming to Earth."
He then walked away, walking towards a desk that had equipment.
Tigress narrowed her eyes. "What are you planning? Who are you working for?"
The man picked up the needle and activated. "Nothing that concerns you."
"Uh if evil is coming to our planet and is threatening it then I would say that it concerns us." Blue Beetle spoke.
The evil man gave a small chuckle. "Well, at least one of you has a sense of humor so your team is totally not lost."
He then turned around and walked towards Tim who looked suspiciously at the figure.
"I created this substance to control people at my will. But seeing as that I never got a chance to test it out, I think the youngest of the group should have the honors, don't you think? Men! Take the Flash and Robin…they are or guest of honors." the man responded, grinning cruelly.
"No! You will kill them!" Batgirl screamed, trying not to be free. The chains were strong—even Cassie had trouble being free and she was the strongest of the group.
Two men came and one of them went to Flash while the other went to Tim. They unchained them at the top part and dragged them towards another wall where it was hooked with all kinds of equipment. The men once again chained the two boys.
"Resisting is futile. I would save your energy." the evil man replied.
The two men then injected the needle into them which caused them wince a little.
"Now, let's see if this works. Mind you, I have no promises that you will both survive." he responded, turning on the switch upwards. Tim looked at it but then he was met with a ton of electricity that was coursing through his body; Bart was experiencing the pain and the two screamed in agony.
"Hang on, guys. We're going to get you out of there!" Beetle shouted, trying to free himself.
As the two screamed, the fiend frowned, noticing that none of them were completely broken down yet. He then rotated button, taking it up a notch and this caused even more painful screams.
As the pain was flowing, Tim had trouble bringing his hands together. If he could just press the button…not everything will be lost. When he was close, he felt his hand slipping away but he still tried. At last, Tim pressed the button that was on his arm before he collapsed his head drooping down.
"Tim!" Bart exclaimed.
"Stop it! Stop! You're going to kill them!"
The horrible brute was about to turn it up a bit more until there was a sudden loud explosion and then nothing. Eyes narrowing, the man growled as he was irritated from the interruption and walked towards the door. The minute his hand was on the door, he was suddenly met with a powerful impact as the door was in front of him; both of them flying backwards until the man collided with a wall.
He grunted, eyes narrowing when he saw several figures. The group looked confused but when they heard the voices, they were delighted.
"So, do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?" the voice asked.
The shadows fell off them and it revealed Superboy, Miss Martian and Beast Boy who was in a form of a tiger.
The man widened his eyes with anger. "What? How did you get here!?" he exclaimed with rage.
"We have our ways." Superboy smirked.
The enemy turned around only to see Tim who grinned crookedly and he spat out blood from his mouth.
"You!" he screeched, walking towards him. Tim braced for impact when he saw the man standing in front of him and the enemy was about to punch him in the face but his hand was stopped.
The foe looked up and saw Superboy who blocked the hit. He then raised an eyebrow and a playful smirk was upon his face.
"My turn." with that, he punched the man roughly, sending him flying backwards.
Just as the man was hit, Cassie broke free of the chains and was glowing with anger.
"Beast Boy, M'gann. Get the others out of here. I'll deal with this pest." Superboy replied.
Because the two had another help, Cassie went to free Bart and Tim.
"Hang in, guys. You better not die on me." Cassie responded.
"Heh…I'm still partly alive…I don't know about Wonder boy though." Bart responded, weakly.
Cassie growled. "Tim for the love of God, you better be alive or I'm not speaking to you for weeks!" she exclaimed, feeling the threatening anger tears that wanted to fall down.
Once the two boys were free, Bart fell to the ground but he placed his hand on the ground to catch his fall.
Tim gave a gasp as he felt himself being free.
"Timmy!" Cassie exclaimed.
"Now that he's alive…we need to get your weapons ba—"Bart started to take a step but Tim pulled out a grappling hook and fired it from the side.
The hook flew towards a glass container that contained his device. Once it smashed the glass, the hook grabbed the computer device and brought it back to him who put back on his arms.
"Er…or you can have a spare and do it yourself. Yeah…that's totally fine." Bart said with eyes wide.
With that, Tim eventually collapsed, no longer being able to stay awakened any longer.
"Tim? Tim, buddy! Wake up!" Bart exclaimed, frightened from the sudden pass out.
Cassie put her two fingers at the neck, checking for his pulse. She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt a weak soft pulse.
"He's still alive but unconscious." Cassie breathed, picking him up and she slung him over his shoulder.
"Bart, will you be okay?" Cassie asked.
"Uh…still a little woozy but I will be fine." the Flash answered.
"Good." Cassie then looked ahead and saw that the team were freed. Batgirl had already gotten her weapons and belt back.
As the team were free, Superboy delivered a one last powerful punch and the wicked brute was sent flying across the table, smashing the equipment along the way.
One of the glass pieces scratched his face, making a mark across the face.
"You meddlesome fools will all go down! Your victory will mean nothing to you!" he snarled, clutching his face.
He then got up, running towards a button that was implanted on the wall. He then punched it and a loud blaring noise rang throughout the building.
"Initiated self-destruct." a computerized voice announced over the loud blaring.
The man then escaped, leaving the group in the room.
"Uh, oh. We better run for it!" Beetle yelled.
The group started run out of the room and ran down the hallway. As they were halfway, the top of the ceiling started to crumble and it was about to topple on to Cassie who was ready to block it with one arm. Before she could do that, another pair of strong arms came and she looked forward, seeing Superboy who was holding the rocks.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. Thanks. We better book it."
Nodding, Superboy threw the rock and they resumed running. As the group was running, they would often avoid a few falling rocks that fell from the ceiling but as they were near the exit, the floor crumbled and it brought Beast Boy down who gave a shout of exclaim and transformed into an eagle to fly himself to safety.
"Stay together! We don't need anyone falling to their doom now!" M'gann shouted.
At last, they all made it out of the building but as soon as they exited, the building exploded which made Blue Beetle, La'gaan and Bumblebee be hit from the shockwave that was emitted from the blast. They gave out a scream before they collided with the ground with a harsh impact.
"Bumblebee!" Tigress exclaimed, running to help her.
"I'm fine." she said.
"Oh sure. Don't ask us. I mean it's not like we got hit from the blast too, you know." Beetle muttered, dusting himself off.
The group then walked towards their ship and once everyone was in, the ship took off.
:(/\):
Kid Flash hissed when a needle was injected into his skin.
"Steady. Don't move so much." Aqualad responded.
"Well, it hurts." Flash scowled.
After a few seconds passed, the thing that was injected into Flash was now removed. Flash gave a raised eyebrow as he stared at it.
"What's that?" he asked, seeing a round thin circle that was around the needle.
"It's what has been inside you. It's a device that can have the user to control people at his or her will." Aqualad stated, throwing it into the garbage after he smashed it.
"Oh…that's what the evil dude said." Flash remembered.
The Athleatean went towards the out-cold Robin and performed the same process. Once the circle was out, Tim let out a sigh and he rolled over.
"As long as he gets some rest, he should be fine." Aqualad stated.
And so, two days had passed and before the team knew it, Tim was up and running around. Tim ran his fingers through his hair and the minute he walked into the meeting room, he was instantly greeted with hugs that were thrown at him.
"Tim, you're alive!"
Tim coughed a little as he felt the air being choked out of him but he regained his balance.
"Uh…yeah…" Tim mumbled, hugging Cassie.
"Good to have you conscious." Superboy said.
Tim smiled faintly then he eyed Aqualad who bore a rather confused look. He walked towards him to see what's up.
"What's up? You seem rather…flabbergasted." Tim said.
"I am…" Aqualad said, furrowing his eyebrow. "You see, when you send a signal to the WatchTower, we got the message and that's where Superboy, Beast Boy and Miss Martian went. But…"
"But…?" Beast Boy asked.
"There should've been only one." Aqualad said, confusing the teams even more.
"Now you lost me." Bart said.
"Not surprising considering you never had a brain." Beetle said while Tim snickered.
The speedster glared.
Aqualad turned to face the teams, having an unreadable expression was on his face.
"The computer revealed that were two signals." Aqualad said.
And everyone widened their eyes with shock and bewilderment…
Author's Note: And another cliff-hanger, bet you guys hate me now XD ooo who could the second signal belong to? That's for you to guess. Oh yeah, and as for that button which Robin had to send the signal, it was just already planted into his suit but was hidden. Toodles!