Mimic

Blenders

Apologies in advance for the less than stellar chapter, especially since it followed a cliffhanger that was apparently pretty good.

The blinding white light was quickly replaced with a new scene.

I was now in a place I could only really describe as a cave. I tried to turn my head to look at my surroundings, but I found I was unable to move. I started to panic slightly, not knowing what was happening.

"I don't know Bats," a familiar voice said. Where did it come from?  Without wanting to, I turned my head slightly to the side to see none other than Batman.

'What's happening?'

The words were stuck in my throat. I tried desperately to yell, but nothing would happen.

"I think you're letting your emotions cloud your judgment," Batman said in his usual tone of voice.

"What? No, I'm not," the familiar voice, that I realized with a start was Robin's, scoffed.

"Robin, you have evidence that she's communicating with someone. If this was anyone else you would agree with me in a heartbeat," Batman said calmly. 

"I just think there's more to this," Robin said, and with horror and shock, I realized something.

Robin's voice was coming out of my mouth.

In an instant, I was back in the gym, sitting on the floor with Robin's arm draped over me, his face an inch away from mine. Still panicked about what had I had just heard and saw, I quickly jumped up to my feet and took a few shaky steps backward, managing to stumble and fall back down.

"Whoa!" Robin said, moving over to me, "Are you okay? You seemed to black out there for a sec."

"Don't," I sharply started, but stopped when I realized I had no clue what to say. I shut my eyes and tried to calm my breathing. "Nothing, it was nothing."

"How can you call that nothing?" Robin asked incredulously, "Actually, you've done something like this twice now."

"Stop I," I took a deep breath, getting up from the floor, "I need to go."

"Alex, wait!" Robin called, getting up from the floor himself. But I had already sprinted out of the gym.

***

"What is happening to me?" I hissed to myself as I paced back and forth in my room. What the heck even was that? I've gotten two visions now,  I can't just write it off as superhero hormones anymore. 

Just calm down, I told myself, think about this logically. 

Both times I've had a vision, I was with Robin. And we were making physical contact. Just now, I was seeing the world through Robin's eyes, apparently--still creepy-- but what about the first time? Was that a memory of Robin's? People dying during a circus act?

So my second power is to see people's memories?

I strained to remember the conversation Robin and Batman had in my vision.

You have evidence she was communicating with someone, Bats had said.

My eyes widened and I gasped, sending a glare to my wrist communicator, which was still lying dejected on my floor. Robin knows.

"You stupid piece of-" I muttered angrily as I scooped up the watch, storming out of my room. I sprinted to the kitchen, where M'gann was, unsurprisingly, baking some cookies. The rest of the team was huddled around the TV.

"Oh hey Alex!" the Martian said cheerfully as I entered the room. I ignored her and immediately started searching through the cabinets. After finding what I wanted, a blender, I set it down on the counter and plugged it into the wall.

"What are you doing?" M'gann asked curiously, not noticing my still furious expression. I opened the lid to the blender and dropped the watch in. After closing the top, I turned the blender on to its highest setting and watched in sick joy as the communicator was destroyed. (I don't think blenders can do this, but pretend they can, okay?)

"Whoa!" Artemis said, shocked, "Why'd you do that?"

Everyone had jumped up from the TV and was now closing in on me. My eyes scanned the eight teens in a sort of fright, afraid of what they would do. I glanced at the wrecked communicator in the blender and sighed.

Crap that was stupid, I said to myself. Father will kill me for that.

"I don't know what I was thinking," I muttered truthfully.

"I think we need to discuss a few things," Kaldur said slowly.

Everyone sent each other strange looks. Untrustworthy looks.

Father will kill me, that is, if they don't kill me first.