Chapter 7: The Controller
When you arrived at Mount Justice, you made your way to the living room to see who else was here. Even if there was not a mission for you, you were sure you would be training with Black Canary tonight. Before you entered the living room, you could hear two familiar voices talking to each other. Instead of walking into the room, you remained by the doorway to listen to their conversation.
"Robin, I still think you should just tell her how you feel. You are just digging yourself into a big hole," Kid Flash said trying to reason with his best friend. "I understand what you are saying, KF. However, this is the only way I can keep her safe as well. Beside I'm not the only one who is not telling their crush their true feelings. If you are too chicken, I can tell Artemis when she arrives," Robin replied back before a small chuckle let his lips.
Typically, you enjoyed hearing the sound of Robin's laugh. However, you could feel a small pain in your heart as you heard that Robin had someone he liked. The sounds of Kid Flash pleading for Robin not to do it seemed to fade away as you drifted into your thoughts. Your thoughts started to focus on who this mystery girl could be. It had to be someone from his normal life since it didn't seem to be someone on the team. However, you had no idea who Robin was in real life. The only person who seemed to know was Kid Flash. You knew that even if you asked him, he would never tell you Robin's true identity.
A few tears started to form in your eyes. It was then when you realized how silly you were being. Robin was first and foremost your teammate. You did have a crush on him, but it was nothing more than a silly school girl crush (or at least that was what you were telling yourself).
After letting out a sigh and wiping your eyes, you walked into the living room to greet Robin and Kid Flash. "Hey you guys," you said putting a smile on your face as you entered the room. You noticed a slight panic look on Robin's face, but it quickly disappeared. "Hey Midnight, when did you get here?" Robin asked with a slight nervousness in his voice.
"Just a couple of seconds ago. I had to run home and change before coming here," you answered as you tilted your head to the side. It was strange for Robin to act nervous around you. However, that thought was pushed to the side as Red Tornado walked into the room with a mission for you.
"Batman has detected some strange reading coming from a warehouse outside of Gotham. The readings are very similar to readings he had gotten at Star Labs the night the information was stolen. He wants a couple members of the team to go do some recons and recons only. He stressed that point. You guys can take the ship, but make sure to use the invisible mode once you are close enough. We don't want to let the enemy know that we have found them," Red Tornado said as he pulled up the information on the TV in the room for you to look at.
"It's not a good sign if it's the same villain and Poison Ivy. They don't seem to be slowing down," you said knowing that it was bad thing for a villain to gain momentum. They needed to be stopped now before they complete whatever plan they are working on.
"Hey Red, did Batman ever figure out what they are planning with the information they took from Star Labs?" Robin asked hoping to gather a bit more information on the situation. Red Tornado shook his head at Robin's question. "Batman is having trouble pinpointing what they were exactly after. Apparently, they took a lot of various files to cover up their tracks. One thing we can be certain of this plan was very well thought out and executed," he answered knowing that was not what the young team wanted to hear.
"Let's get moving. We are not getting any younger here," Kid Flash said before speeding off to the ship. You started to head that way too until Robin grabbed your arm to stop you. "Midnight, is something wrong? You looked like something is bothering you. You know you can come to me if you have a problem," Robin said in a sincere, calm voice. You shifted your eyes away from Robin before pulling your arm out of his grasp. "No, I'm fine. Let's just get going before Kid Flash runs there himself and blows our cover," you muttered before starting to head to the ship again. You felt bad for brushing off Robin like that especially since he had been worried about you. However, you figured he didn't need to be worrying about another girl. After all, you were a superhero and could take care of yourself.
When you arrived on the ship, you strapped yourself in your normal seat and waited for Robin to pilot the ship to the location that Batman gave them. Since you had been looking out the window, you had missed seeing Robin looking back at you every couple of seconds. Even though you didn't say anything, Robin knew he did something wrong to upset you. Robin did his best to push his feelings aside since he needed to focus on the mission at hand. He knew that his emotions could put everyone in danger including you.
When the ship arrived at the location, all the team could see was a warehouse. All the windows were cover with a black material and the doors were shut. "I'm going to do a heat scan on the place," you said as you hit a few buttons with your fingers to active the ship's heat scanning software. In a minute, the scan was done and revealed no heat levels at all. "That's odd. Are you sure we are in the right place?" you asked looking over at the two boys.
"Yes, these are the coordinates that Batman gave Red Tornado," Robin answered as he double checked his wrist computer. "I'm going try a few more scans to see if I can pick something up," he added on as his fingers swiftly started to mover across the keyboard for the ship. You let out a sigh and unbuckled yourself from your seat. You made your way over the ladder built on the wall.
"Hey, where are you going Midnight?" Kid Flash asked noticing that you were leaving. "I'm going to check out the warehouse and see if anyone is home," you answered not wanting to waste the night hanging out at an abandon warehouse.
"Midnight, you can't go by yourself. What if it was dangerous?" Robin said in a worrying tone as he stopped typing on the computer. "I will be fine. I can use my powers to sink into the shadows. I will easily be able to get into the warehouse thru any cracks without needing to be open anything. I will remain in the shadows and no one will know I'm even there if there is someone inside," you said knowing that you could handle this simple task with your powers.
Kid Flash and Robin exchanged a look with each other. However, neither one said a word. "Okay, I'm leaving then," you said before starting to climb the ladder so you could leave the ship from top. "Wait. Here take this. It's a GPS locator plus it will monitor your heart levels so if for some reason our communications are cut off, we can still know if you are okay," Robin said as he walked over and slipped the device into your hair so it wouldn't be discovered easily. When he was done, he slowly ran his fingers through your hair. You could feel your heart going crazy as butterflies formed in your stomach from this simple contact. For a moment, you locked eyes with Robin and everything around you seemed to disappear.
The moment was soon over when Kid Flash cleared his throat. A blush appeared on both yours and Robin's faces before you started to climb the ladder to leave the ship. While you were climbing, you missed seeing Robin glare at Kid Flash for interrupting the moment.
When you opened the hatch to the ship, you quickly slipped into the closest shadow so your presence would not be detected. Adrenaline started to pump through your veins as you shifted from one shadow to the next until you made it to the ground by the warehouse. You knew the reason why Batman always sent you on recon missions was because of the uniqueness of your powers. You were fine with having a niche on the team.
After surveying the outside of the warehouse, you saw nothing out of the ordinary so you made your way over to one of the doors of the building. You let out a small sigh before slipping underneath the crack in the door. Once inside you started to move across the wall looking for any sign of evil. Everything was going just fine until you were thrown out of the wall.
You did your best to remain calm as you tried using your powers to shift back into the shadows. However, no matter how much effect you used, your powers did not work. 'I can't be out of energy. I barely used my powers,' you thought as you took cover behind a couple of box crates. You bit your bottom lip as you debated if you should call Robin and Kid Flash. Since you had not seen anything yet, you decided against it. There was no point in alerting the boys if she was not in trouble.
'I will just finish sweeping the building and hopefully by then my powers will be working. Otherwise, I may trip an alarm when I leave,' you thought as you quietly started to search the warehouse by foot. After about fifteen minutes, you had the place pretty much cover accept the office area. 'One last place and if nothing is there then, Batman gathered some bad data for us. Hopefully, he wasn't trying to test us or something,' you thought knowing that it was a high possibility that this was some kind of test for the Young Justice team. After all, you would think you would have seen something by now if this was a villain home base.
The door to the office was opened so you were able to enter the room without making any noise. After taking two steps into the room, you were thrown against the wall. You let out a groan sound the moment your back hit the wall. Instead of falling to the floor, you were pinned against the wall about a foot off the ground by an invisible force. As you opened your (eye color) eyes, you saw the same male villain from Star Labs.
"You know I really love when plans work out perfectly. I was hoping that you were going to show up by yourself, Midnight. You and I need to have a little chat," the mystery man said as he walked over by you. Your heart started to race as you started to wonder what he wanted to talk about. "I guess I'm being rude by not introducing myself. I'm known as the Controller," he said with an evil grin.