The Girl of the Wild {DC Comics/Part 1 The Wildflower Series}

Ch. 13 We're Still Here

"We're still here," I heard a deep voice say above me when I started to wake. The voices were murmuring about what had happened earlier on the mission. My eyes started to flutter open and then snapped closed again. Everything was blurry and white and spinning. After a few more minutes the voice was recognized at Green Lantern's, someone who I'd met just yesterday.

"So it seems," that was Solovar's voice I recognized then and I tried my best to sit up without trying to hurt my head. My eyes fluttered open again and I sat up from my back drowsily. The blast had knocked us out and now Grodd was gone, with Flash still passed out on the floor. I reached a delicate hand up to my head and looked around me to see Green Lantern and Solovar staring inquisitively back at me.

"Wha- what happened?" I mumbled dazedly as I tried to calm my roaring head. I had a pretty good idea of what had happened, but I wanted someone to confirm it for me- just in case. The gray ape and green clad superhero glanced at each other in question before they walked over to me. Green Lantern reached out a hand to help me up as Solovar spoke.

"Grodd, he activated his plan." He said simply as I stood up and we heard a moaning noise from Flash, who was still passed out on the floor. Green Lantern let go of my hand and turned to Solovar.

"The mind control- is he still," but Solovar answered him before he continued.

"No," he said simply. "This should be able to protect him." Solovar then produced another silver head band and put it around the speedster's cranium. The band glowed and crackled before sending a shock that abruptly woke up Flash. The red costumed speedster sat up and jerked his head around shouting, "Who, what, where?" Then his eyes slowly made their way back to Green Lantern and Solovar, before landing on me.

"You were put under his mind control again," I said as I crossed my arms and stared rigidly at Flash. In the corner of my eye I noticed Green Lantern and Solovar glanced at each other before looking back at us.

"Aw man, not again." Flash pulled his knees up closer to himself and rested his elbows on them as he put his palm to his forehead. I could start to tell he was getting annoyed with all the mind control business. "What did I miss?" He said as he looked back at us. Green Lantern extended his hand to help Flash up.

When they were standing he said to Flash, "That dumb ole gorilla got away," quoting Flash when he said this was going to be easy. Flash crossed his arms at Green Lantern's mocking and looked away as he said, "Go ahead; rub it in."

Lantern just ignored the speedster's cheeky comment and said, "This time, we're calling in for help." As he and Flash pressed their forefingers to their ears I could hear static coming from the other line of the link. They couldn't reach the others at the tower.

"And for good reason," Solovar said as he walked to the large whole in the side of the building where we blasted in. The rest of us peered out of the opening and noticed how different everything looked. There was a thick gray wrapping on the outside of the city. It covered the whole sky and almost symbolized some kind of strange fog.

"What is that?" I asked as I looked out amongst the city. Solovar looked back at me before facing back towards the city.

"Whatever it is, it's just like the shield that protects my city." I recalled what Solovar had said earlier about the shield that protected his city. He said the only reason why Grodd had escaped earlier was because the shield had been disabled at that time.

"Nothing can get in or out?" This was more of a statement than a question. Everyone knew it was true. However hard we tried, we wouldn't be able to get out of this city anytime soon, no matter how hard we tried. The quest seemed lost until Green Lantern thought up a possible solution.