Mount Justice; September 22nd, 18:43 EDT
Wynonna's P.O.V.
Recognised: Phoenix B-08
So I just got home after spending the afternoon with some friends from school. We went to see a movie and hung out at a cafe we like near school. It's very rare we get missions on weekdays and training is alternated during the week to help most of us deal with our school loads. I tend to get my done the same day I get so it doesn't get backed up. What also helps with my work is my powers. I always use my powers to help, I hover all my books near me and use my pen to write for me. Everything I read gets written down in my own words. Thanks to that i'm an A student; in all subjects but math.
Anyway, I walked into the lounge expecting to see Connor and M'gann but they weren't there. I shrugged my jacket off and threw it onto the couch along with my bag and skateboard before turning around and yelling
"Connor, M'gann you guys here?"
"In the hanger bay" with the confirmation from M'gann, i turned around and headed to the hanger bay.
I entered the hanger bay to see M'gann, Connor and Wally huddled around Connor's motorbike.
"Hey guys, what are you doing?" Wally looked up and said
"These two have been spending a lot of time working on his bike. Obviously, they need the Wall-man's expert help" I put my hands on my hips and said
"Expert help?"
"Yes! Expert help. Can someone pass me a Torque Wrench" M'gann used her telekinesis to float it over to him. He smiled at her and said
"Thank you Green Cheeks."
I then noticed the look on Connors face as he moved his hands to his hips, he looked almost jealous. Kaldur then walked over and joined us, he stood next to me as he spoke
"I have been meaning to ask, any problem juggling school work with your responsibilities here?" Connor was the first to respond
"No." I then said
"I'm used to it by now" Then Wally
"Juggling is just one of my many talents." Wally's voice was full of pride, he then chuckled slightly before saying
"Socket Wrench." M'gann gave it to Wally with her telekinesis as she said
"Daily cheerleading practice has presented a challenge." she quickly turned towards Kaldur once Wally had the wrench and said
"Oh, but my first loyalty is always to the Team. This Team, not the Bumblebees."
Kaldur folded his arms before speaking again
"Artemis starts school today. Do you think she will have trouble maintaining her loyalties?" I went to question him but stopped when Wally stood up and said
"Nah, she'll manage alright. I mean how much more hostile and annoying can she-" he was cut off by an explosion.
I collided with the wall, smacking my head hard. Wally quickly ran over and helped me up. However as quickly as we were up, we were swept off our feet by a huge surge of water; It filled my nostrils and my lungs. I resurfaced, gasping and coughing but was on my own
"Kid! Superboy! Aqualad! Miss Martian!" I then heard Wally's voice
"Phoenix! Lookout!" I tried to look for him but couldn't see him. A strong metal hand gripped onto my shoulder and hoisted me out of the water.
As whoever it was lifted me up, I felt my shoulder begin to crack in multiple places. Coughing and Gagging, i tried to take in as much oxygen as possible but as quickly as i was out of the water i was shoved back in. I inhaled so much water and I felt myself start to convulse.
The process of dunking and lifting my head in and out of the water continued until my attacker was shoved off me. I fell onto my back, coughing up as much water as I could. I'm completely powerless right now, I can feel it.
M'gann's screams then echoed through the cave. I looked over and watched as a red female-looking robot that resembled Red Tornado created a fire cage around her and Kaldur. I then heard Wally yell. Rolling over onto my side I saw him and Connor encased in some weird looking rock stuff. Wally looked up at me and yelled
"RUN!" I tried to get to my feet but stopped moving when a pair of red feet stopped in front of me. Suddenly, a shift kick to my stomach sent me falling into the water below…
"Attention Robin, Artemis. You have exactly ten minutes to surrender, or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished"
"Come on princess, wake up!" every inch of my body is screaming. My head is pounding, my ribs are throbbing and my chest feels tight. I tried to move but was stuck, all I can move is my hands.
"Come on princess!" Wally was calling out for me. I then opened my eyes and said
"Don't call me Princess!?" He smiled and said
"Welcome back" I looked up and said
"What happened?" I then saw that I was encased in the same rock stuff as Wally and Connor. I then said
"Wait where's M'gann and Kaldur?" I then heard Kaldurs voice
"We're up here Wynonna" Connor then yelled
"Kaldur hows M'gann?"
"Unconscious but alive"
I went to say something but was cut off when Robin and Artemis dove into the water. One of the bots noticed them when they emerged causing me to yell
"Watch out!" They disappeared under the water as a fireball was thrown their way. They resurfaced right next to us. Robin looked at me and said
"Are you okay?" I smiled slightly and said
"Peachy, my powers are gone and i'm pretty sure I've got a couple of broken ribs" Artemis then said
"Your powers are gone?" Rob then said
"It's the water, isn't it?" I just nodded. Connor then yelled
"Forget us, save M'gann" Artemis then said
"Aqualad, is she-" Kaldur answered her
"She is still unconscious. I fear she- we cannot survive much longer!"
Another fireball was then flung right in front of me causing Robin and Artemis to disappear under the water again. When the fireball hit the water I felt a surge of power from the heart but it wasn't enough to do anything. I then looked round as Robin and Aretmis emerged from the water by the stairs.
As soon as they were out they were stuck in between the two reds that were attacking us. Robin then began throwing Birdarangs at the reds, one of which wedged itself in the stone next to Wally.
"Whoa." The Red male robot then raised his hands to form columns of water, Robin and Artemis backed away from their respective enemies. Waiting for the moment the two are about to strike before diving into the water.
The water and fire meet and screech into steam. Robin and Artemis dive deep into the water. Where Robin rips off a cover to the vent system. Letting Artemis in first he looked back at me, I gave him a small nod before he followed after her.
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Robins P.O.V.
As we got clear of the water and out of danger, the male red robots voice echoed through the cave
"Six minutes." Artemis looked at me and said
"What do we do now?" I then replied with hardly any emotion in my voice
"We save them. That's how it works."
"Maybe that's how it's supposed to work, but those robots already took out our five super-powered friends."
"You seem distraught."
"Distraught?! M'gann is dying. Wynonna is powerless. We have no powers and I'm down to my last arrow. Of course I'm distraught!" I then snapped
"Well get traught or get dead!"
"How can you be so calm?"
I began to crawl through the vent as i said
"Practice. I've been doing this since I was nine."
"What good is that now? What chance do we have against unrelenting machines?" I stopped coming to a realisation
"Oh. Duh! They're machines, and one electromagnetic pulse will shut down any machine within range." Artemis smiled before saying sarcastically
"Great! Except you better have an EMP emitter in your utility belt, because I know I don't have one in my quiver." I smiled before saying
"I'm fresh out. But I'm betting we can make one." I pressed my coms and said
"Whaddya say, KF, doable?" Wally responded
"Totally doable."
"Five minutes."
"Ya know, if you had more time"
I pushed the panel to the medbay open and jumped down, closely followed by Artemis, as Wally said
"Med Lab, X-ray machine." we made our way through over to the machine whilst keeping an eye on our surroundings, just in case. I pulled open one on the panels on the x-ray machine as wally said
"You'll find a small vacuum tube called a vircator that converts high energy pulses" I then plugged my hologlove into the machine as he continued
"Reprogram the unit's microwave conversion from X-rays to EMPs" I did as he said, then shut off the holo before reaching to take it out.
"with a cascading energy vector directed outward." I turn it slowly before it pops out.
I then said
"A ripple effect, like dropping a stone in a pond." I reopened the holo whilst he said
"A stone with 10 to the twelfth power wattage, Yeah."
"So I'll need to hook it up to the Cave's main generator."Artemis then raised her eyebrow and said
"Which is where?"
"Urm"
"Four minutes."
We reentered the main hall but kept out of site. We need to get to the generator on the other side of the room without being seen. I then said through the comm
"Okay. Make with the distraction." Wallys voice then echoed in the room
"Hey, Red Tomato! Who's your girlfriend, Red Onion?" Then Connors
"Yeah, and by the way, worst death trap ever. We can escape any time we want."
"I can vibrate my molecules out of here before your binary brains can count to two!" We watched as the two bots turned to look at Connor and Wally.
I then glanced back at Artemis and said
"Cover me." I then took out my grapple gun and shot it across the room, hooking it onto the wall. I swung across the line just as Connor yelled
"And you can't drown a Kryptonian, dumb bots. We don't breathe air." I began disconnecting some cables and put the device in as Wynonna said
"And Ms. Martian? I can't believe you're buying her act." I then connected my glove and said through the comm
"Rerouting power now." Connor then said
"Yeah. You know how hot it gets in the cave of Mars?"
The EMP should be working. I glared at my screen whilst saying
"It's not working."
"That cage is just making her homesick."
"Duh!" That's when I saw the problem, there's a small gap between the two components. I unplugged my glove and said
"The circuit's incomplete. I need something conductible. A piece of metal or-" I was cut off by Artemis yelling
"Robin, look out!" I looked around just before a massive wave crashed into me….
Wynonna's P.O.V.
"Robin, look out!" I wiped my head around just as a massive wave crashed into the platform Robin was on. A fireball was then thrown in Artemis direction just as she was about to fire her last arrow. The Arrow just missed Red Torpedo just as she headed back up into the vent barely avoiding Red Inferno's fire.
Red Torpedo then brought Robin to the outlook, he's still suspended in water. He's not fighting, and he looks like he's not breathing. The water dropped Robin onto the outlook, but he doesn't even cough when he's freed from the water. I then screamed
"Robin!" No response. The water around us began to raise. Wally, Connor and I had to strain our necks to keep us from going under.
"Three minutes."
I can't believe this might all be over, this could be the end. We're out of time, no back up, no plan, no powers. We've got nothing left
"One minute."
I was snapped out of thoughts when I heard the elevator open. Artemis walked out with her bow in her hand and an arrow in her quiver, but doesn't look ready to attack. The Reds turn to her instantly.
"I surrender. Stop the clock." I zoned out of what happened next as the water got very very high. I took a deep breath just as the water covered my face. As the water covered us I remember something i learnt in school about drowning
When you're drowning you don't actually inhale until right before you black out. It's called voluntary apnea. It's like no matter how much you're freaking out, the instinct to not let any water in is so strong that you won't open your mouth until you feel like your head's exploding. Then when you finally do let it in, that's when it stops hurting.
I was just about to open my mouth when the water began reseeding. With my head clear of the water I took in a few deep gasps. Connor then yelled
"Kaldur, how's M'gann?" We heard Kaldur groan slightly before replying
"She breathes. I believe she will recover. What of Robin?"
Artemis didn't respond straight away, So I said
"Artemis hows Robin?" I then heard a small cough just before she said
"He- he's breathing too." I let out a breath i didn't realise I was holding as I heard Robins voice
"Way to get traught."
A few minutes later Robin, Kaldur, Artemis and M'gann were standing in front of me, Wally and Connor as we are still stuck in this weird rock. M'gann is leaning heavily on Kaldur. The still disabled Reds are now on the same level as us, while Artemis holds some type of cutter that has no power. With the water now gone I had dried off just enough for one incantation
"Universa Ruina In Tenebras Ra Damis Infinitum. De Lon Dem Ex Nahal da Six"
The rock around me broke apart and I fell forward only to have Robin catch me
"Thanks" He smiled at me whilst helping me stand. Robin then said to the group
"Anyway I figured my only shot was to surrender, pretend to drown before I actually did...Blacked out though." Connor then reached out his hand toward M'gann whilst saying
"M'gann" She took his hand before saying
"I'll be fine." her voice isn't as strong as it normally is.
Wally then looked at Artemis and said
"Will you quit playing with that thing and cut us free already?" well more like demanded. She shot him a deadpanned look before saying
"It's not working genius. EMP shuts down all machines, remember?" I went to say something but was by Red Tornado
"All machines present at the time." he made his way across the room, landing beside Wally and Conner. Only when the tornado stops whirring does he continued
"What has occurred?" Robin gestured to the two other robots before saying
"Had a little visit from your family" Artemis then said
"Your extremely nasty family."
Tornado looked at the two bots before saying
"I was not aware I had relations" Connor looked up and growled
"Where have you been?"
"Monitor duty on the WatchTower." Tornado began making his way over to the other robots whilst saying
"When it became clear that Cave communications were down I attempted to investigate, but your Zeta Tubes were also nonfunctional. I transported to Providence and proceeded here." Sphere the rolled over to Connor
"Hey boy."
The laser cutter in Artemis' hands then came to life. Wally and Robin then said in unison
"The pulse has worn off" Red Tornado reached out to Red Inferno, and a zap connects their fingers as her eyes light back up. Red Tornado's eyes glowed in return. He then turned towards us and used a tornado to raise him up, and two aimed at us. All the air in the room began to disappear.
One by one we all clutched our necks and began to stumble, gasping for breath. I fell to my knees the same time as Robin whilst gasping
"Can't… breathe." soon everything went black...
I was the first out of the team to wake up. When I woke up I could feel that I had all my powers back but just to be sure I pulled my hair over my shoulder and saw red.
"Recognised- Superman 01 Batman 02 Green Arrow 08 Flash 04 Atom 18 Martian Manhunter 07 Black Canary 13 Aquaman 06"
The 8 leaguers rushed out of the now functioning Zetatube just as Robin, Kaldur, Connor and Wally began waking up. The mentors rushed over to their protegees, well all except Superman who went to check on Artemis, Instead Atom went over to Connor. Black Canary came over to me as I tried to get up. She held onto my arms and said
"Take it easy Wynonna, sit down" my head was still pounding so I sat back down next to Robin.
I then heard Superman speak after M'gann woke up
"Artemis. Artemis can you hear me?" she groaned before opening her eyes, he then said
"She's alright." Superman then turned to the entire team and said
"What happened here?" Artemis then spoke up
"What happened?!" Artemis demands back. "The Reds happened. Tornado and his…" I cut her off by saying
"Wait, where are they?" Robin looked at me and said
"Gone. All three of them. Gone." he is clearly beating himself up over it, but the malice in his voice is obvious.