Case Of The Grey Eyes

|Chapter 20|

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Mount Justice; September 22nd; 19:00 (4pm)

I crawled out from under my bed pushing away whatever rumble got in my way and I sat up to look around at my destroyed room.

It takes me a minute to get my bearings as I get up and make my way to the hallway. Everything was pretty much trashed, on fire or singed, it was like multiple natural disasters hit here at once.

Recognize:

Robin | B-0-1 |

Hearing the Tube go off I ran towards the tubes hoping to get to Robin before whatever happened earlier happens to him too. It seems he had the same idea because we ran into each other halfway and he grabbed me and pulled me behind fallen rubble.

"What is going on here?!" Robin shouts over the fire and loud sounds.

"I-"

Recognize:

Artemis | B-0-7 |

"Dang it, Art! You stay here!" Robin shouts, not even giving me the time to respond before he runs out towards the tube to get her. Robin eventually came back with Artemis just to grab me and we take off again down the hall again.

"Who are we fighting?" Artemis speaks up, shooting an arrow over her shoulder and going to nocks another arrow.

"Don't know," He starts, throwing disks over him " We're sitting ducks here, head for the exits!" We take a turn in the hallway, dodging the fire that was thrown our way. We almost made it to the exit but a bunch of water came out of nowhere and swept over it heading our way.

"Or not!" We turn and try to run away but it's pointless as the wave catches up to us and sweeps us away with it. I felt a sharp pain in my right arm as I slam into a wall and the wave dispersed, leaving us on the ground.

"Are you okay?" Artemis asks, helping me to my feet and out of the way of more fire.

"Come on!" Robin grabs Artemis' bow running past us and leading the way down another hallway. We eventually get to another room with the door closing behind us to give us some time to breathe.

"What is happening?!" Artemis screams while trying to catch her breath too.

"I don't know!" I yell back, I put my hands on my knees and hunched over taking a few deep breaths and moving my sore arm around to make the feeling come back.

"We can worry about who later, for now we need to see if we can reach the others." Robin interrupts and gets to work on his... glove, thing.

When they couldn't reach the team, whatever was after us started up again, and again we were running deeper into the room we were in. We ran to the shower area as Robin began saying a bunch of different things into his come trying to see if anything was working.

He started turning on the showers and me and Artemis followed suit still trying to figure out what was going on.

"The comms are a no go, they're all down. At least the water is helping." He says, like saying that will make us feel any better.

"What are we supposed to do now? Just wait to see if anyone notices anything and come help?" I asked, leaning against the wall behind me.

'I am not the fittest person to be running around like this all day!'

As if my own words came to bite me in the ass, the walls started to creak and groan causing us to look around where we stood. The knobs and the showerheads started to burst off and filled the room with even more water causing it to start filling up quicker.

"Okay maybe the water isn't helping!" He grabs a disk from his belt and starts to swim to the wall opposite from us and places it there before pressing the button on it.

The disk exploded the wall making the water, and us with it, to flow out into the middle of a hallway. We got and kept running till we almost did a full circle and made it to the kitchen.

"We need to get lost!" Robin looks at us, seeing if we had any ideas, when Art spoke up after looking around.

"The air vent!" She exclaimed and we all ran over, Robin made quick work of getting the vent cover off, and helping me and Artemis in. That's when Robin stopped and looked back before returning to the door and hooking his glove up to the wall.

"Rob, what are you doing?" I ask after looking back at him.

"Downloading the Cave blueprints, It could he-, we need to go!" He snatched the cord out the wall and hurried back over to the vent and I helped pull him back in as we moved quickly to get down further in.

"Go left!" We follow Artemis as she guides us through, we barely manage to dodge the ball of fire that followed us through.

"Take the first right, there should be a vent cover right in front of you." Artemis rips it open and jumps down and I follow after stumbling a bit but I didn't fall over at least.

"Where are we?" I questioned, looking around at our surroundings as Robin joined us on the ground.

"Boiler room, come on let's keep moving." Robin goes to lead the way and we follow, but we don't get far before my feet are swept out from under me and I hit the ground.

"Zane!" Robin and Artemis grab my arms to help me back to my feet but the water wrapped around my leg and was dragging me back.

"Why is water so strong!" I exclaim, trying to kick at the water with my free leg to break free. The water gave one last big pull, ripping me out of Robin's and Artemis' grasp.

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"Z?...Z! Wake up!" I groaned as I open my eyes, everything was blurry and all I could hear was ringing in my ears. I shake my head a bit to clear it and someone helped me to sit up better on the ground. My vision cleared up to where I could actually see faces and I saw that Connor was in front of me and most likely the one that helped me up.

"What happened? Please tell me it's over?" I asked looking around and noticed that others were being woken up and that we were at the back exit of the Cave with everything being trashed.

"Not exactly." Batman explains with him and Robin walking over and everyone else joining us. Connor helped me fully stand up before going over to the other to confront them about what happened.

"Red is gone, all three of them are." Rob explains. The looks on everyone's faces screamed of guilt or uselessness, like they could have done something.

"We will find him."

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