Chapter 4: The Unknown Villain

The man let out an angrily sigh. "It is probably one of those damn lab rats you let out," the man shouted at Poison Ivy. Poison Ivy didn't really appreciate this man's tone towards her. She turned around before walking towards the man again. Your body started to relax as Poison Ivy walked away from where you and Robin where hiding.

"I won't have release them if someone would have done a better job hacking into the alarm system," Poison Ivy retorted back. "Relax darling. The files are almost download and we will be gone in no time so don't get your panties in a bunch," he said trying to calm Poison Ivy down.

Robin placed his hand on your shoulder to get your attention. You jumped slightly in your spot since you had been so focused on the conversation between Poison Ivy and the mystery man. As you looked over at Robin, you notice he was starting to use sign language to talk with you.

It took you a few seconds to pick up what Robin was signing to you since it had been a few years since you learned it. You understood Robin was telling you that he had no idea who the other man was in the room. He also told you that you two will wait until Poison Ivy and the man were leaving the room to attack them.

You signed back that you understood the plan. You thought it was a good idea to surprise the villains when they are about to leave. Their guard will be down since they think they are going to get away successfully.

Before the villains left, Robin signed that you should take Poison Ivy while he took down the mystery man. You nodded your head in agreement. The last thing that Robin signed to you was 'be careful'. Your heart seemed skip a beat at his concern. You knew he probably only said it because you were teammates, but it felt nice knowing he cared.

"I'm all done, babe. Let's get out of here since this place starting to give me the creeps," the man said as he took a disc from the computer before slipping it in his pocket. "Agreed," Poison Ivy said before the pair started to head towards the door.

You shifted your weight slightly so you were prepared to jump out from underneath the table at the two villains. Adrenaline pumped through your veins as you waited for Robin's signal. When it finally came, you darted out from underneath the table and ran towards Poison Ivy. Before she could turn around completely, you did a flying kick to her side, which sent her flying against one of the walls in the hallway.

Your eyes glanced around the hallway looking for Poison Ivy's shadow so you could paralyze her. "Midnight," a voice cried out at the end of the hall. You turned your head to see who had called out your name and froze.

At the end of the hallway was a boy who looked a few years older than you. He had icy blue eyes that complimented his blue hair very well. You had no idea who he was, but he looked so familiar to you. A smirk formed on his face as he noticed the sudden effect he had on you. He took a few steps towards you as he started to put you in a trance. You could not look away from his glaze even if you wanted to.

"Midnight," Robin shouted loudly before tackling you to the ground. He wrapped his arms tightly around you as the two of you rolled to the ground. Robin absorbed most of the impact from the dive. When you finally stopped rolling, your eyes widened when you saw the giant vines that had crashed against the floor and almost on top of you. If Robin hadn't tackled you to the ground, you would have flattened by the vines.

"Midnight, are you okay?" Robin asked with a concern voice as he moved to stand up. A small hiss escaped his lips as he grabbed his side. Robin knew right away that he bruise a couple of ribs. "Yeah, I'm fine thanks to you," you answered as you stood up.

"Good. Now hurry up after them. I will call Artemis and Kid Flash to let them know about Poison Ivy and the other villain," Robin said in urgent tone. "But shouldn't I-" you started to say, but was cut off by Robin. "I'm fine, Midnight. You need to go retrieve that disc with the data they downloaded from the Star Lab's hard drive. It's the only way we can figure out what they are up to," Robin said in a tone to let you know this was not up for debate. You nodded your head before quickly taking off after the two villains.

Using your powers, you were able to disappear into a shadow in the hallway. You jumped from shadow to shadow in the hopes of catching up to Poison Ivy and the mysterious villain. A small pain was felt in your heart since you knew that Robin had gotten injured, because of you. If you weren't distracted by the other villain, you could have capture the villains and Robin wouldn't have gotten hurt. Now you are chasing down two villains by yourself in the hopes of stopping them before they successfully leave Star Labs with the information they wanted. Today, seriously was once of the worst days ever for you.

By the time you made it outside, Poison Ivy and the other man had disappeared. You bit your bottom lip knowing that you would have to explain to the team that you had lost them. After letting out a sigh, you head back into the building to find Robin and the others.

"Midnight to Robin. Midnight to Robin. I lost sight of Poison Ivy and the other villain," you said using your communicator to contact him. After a few seconds, Robin responded back. "There is nothing we can do about it now. Come back to the room that they were in. Artemis and Kid Flash are with me. We are trying to figure out what information they download," Robin said updating you on the mission. "Okay, I will be right there," you replied back before jogging down the hallway.

When you arrived back in the room, you saw all three of your teammates huddled around the computer screen. "Rob, are you serious that you can't figure out what the villains were after? You're a computer genius after all," Kid Flash said with a voice of disbelief. You supposed Robin wasn't having any luck figuring out what they had stolen from the Star Lab's computer system.

"Relax, KF, I got this. I just said I'm going to need a bit more time to pull the information off the hard drive," Robin responded back. You were about to say something, but stopped when you heard noise coming from the end of the hallway. After shutting the door quietly, you used the crack between the door and floor to glance out in the hallway to see who it was. Your eyes widened a bit when you realized it was the security guards from Star Labs.

"Robin, you better hurry up, because the guards have just woken up," you said as you moved away from the door. "I just need thirty more seconds. You guys head towards the bikes I will meet you there," Robin said as his fingers quickly moved across the keyboard.

"We are not leaving you here, Robin," Artemis said as she took out one of her arrows. Your adrenaline started to kick in again as you moved over to the window to open it so you guys could escape once Robin was ready.

Artemis narrowed her eyes when she saw shadows by the door. "We need to go. Now," she shouted as the door opened up. Artemis released her arrow, which landed in front of the security guard. A gas quickly started to fill the room as you escape with the Young Justice team.

"Did you get the information?" you asked Robin as you guys ran back to your bikes. Robin smiled and gave you a thumbs up with one hand as his other hand held his side. "Piece of cake," Robin answered before a frown appeared on his face. He was a bit curious why you had suddenly stopped in the middle of a fight like that. It wasn't like you to freeze up like that. If he hadn't been paying attention, you have been serious injured.

"Let's get back to Mount Justice so we can tell the others what we found out," Artemis said once you guys had made it back to your bikes. After gearing up, you four headed back to Mount Justice. You had a feeling that you guys were going to get another lecture from Batman since the villains escape with the information they wanted. Today was definitely not your lucky day.