Chapter 6: Nightmare

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Cat looks at me with curiosity as we make our back to the exit, which starts closing and an alarm sounds. The younger members on my team show panic in their eyes, but it quickly diminishes as I grab everyone and fly up with Leah.

"Can you break the dome?" She nods her head and sends out a wave of high pitched noises, the dome shatters around us and I fly us all out. They're so heavy that I can only carry them until the base of the forest, where we run and I lead them to the cave. Jumping in, I roll to my bed, my arm and leg muscles are starting to feel the effects of the team and the chase.

"You ok, guys?" I ask when everyone's in, I get several out of breath yes's and one no. I turn to Leah and she has a deep scratch running down her arm. I reach out to touch it and she pulls back quickly.

"Let me heal you, it won't hurt." She hesitates and brings her forearm closer. I place my hand on the wound and heal it completely. She gapes at me and I give a weak smile, I'm completely drained.

"Th-thank you, I didn't know you could heal people." I lay down and look up at her.

"Ja, I can also create viruses and diseases, but healing you took allot of energy so I should probably get to bed." I let my eyes close and I'm whisked off to a nightmare where different scenes of my past flash before my eyes, some are twisted versions of people who have tried to kill me, people who I didn't even know, and Magneto, in several of them. I'm standing knee deep in snow and a sword sinks into my back, protruding out of my chest before it's pulled out. I look behind me and I see Mystique with the same blank expression as when she killed me. I gag on the blood flowing out of my lungs, I'm cold, but I'm sweating. I cry out, but the wind tears the sound from my voice. I jolt, my shoulders shake, I close my eyes and give up, but, to my surprise, I can open them, and I see Dick bending over me, his worry etched into his brows.

"You ok?" he asks, I nod and he stays next to me.

"What were you dreaming about?" I look at him as he says this and think about the images that had flashed through my mind when I had fallen asleep.

"Things from the past und, sie waren nicht gut." He looks at me and I start to describe what I had seen.

"At least Joker's not here, right?" He says in a really bad mimic of Joker's voice and I smile.

"Be careful you don't want to turn into him by making bad jokes." I warn and he puts his fingers in the shape of a gun and points it at me.

"Bang, ha ha ha, looks like the jokes on me this time Batman." We both laugh and I lay down again.

"I didn't know you could laugh, Nightwing." I say with sarcasm and he cracks a smile.

"Anyway, what time is it?" He gets out his phone and says it's 7 in the morning.

"I might as well get up, we have a long day ahead of us."

"What are we going to do?"

"We're going to find at least one of the Avengers, and I know where he's being held." Dick's confusion is not easy to pick out.

"Genosha."

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