Spirit and Blood (A Young Justice Season 3 Fanfic)

Chapter 6

~Blue Beetle~

October 13, 11:30PM Eastern

The Spirit girl's been missing for a whole day. Sphere has been too, and Suberboy is really mad. Zatanna's pretty much healed.

The Team is partially split between who favours Spirit and who thinks she's left for good. Zatanna is steadfastly on her side, which means so is Nightwing. Cassie is on Spirit's side as well, but I can't say the same for Robin. Superboy is against her, but M'gann isn't. Beast Boy has no opinion and neither does Impulse. The Scarab doesn't trust her and neither do I. But I don't believe she's gone to villainy.

Why would the Spirit leave otherwise?

"I don't know," I sighed.

"Don't know what?" As usual, Impulse was quick to talk.

"About the Spirit girl. She's seemed to have just... Left, hermano." I said. "Do you know anything about her? Anything in future history?"

"I wouldn't know. My future was completely moded by the Reach. The Reach was defeated; so the future may be changed. There wouldn't be anything in the history books about Spirit." Impulse quickly explained.

"Spirit, B-2-7"

"Sphere, C-0-1"

Everyone jumped to their feet. Spirit was back, along with Sphere. As soon as she materialized, Superboy was on her case. But we all froze when we saw her condition.

"Man, she's so moded." Impulse muttered.

"Spirit! What happened?" Cassie flew towards her.

"She's a traitor, that's what!" Superboy gritted his teeth.

"Conner!" M'gann put her hand on his shoulder to calm him down.

"We don't know for sure, Superboy, what happened, but we can find out." Nightwing folded his arms along his chest.

The Spirit seems to have had a recent negative physical experience.

"No kidding!" I grumbled. The Scarab was so annoyingly stating the obvious constantly.

"Spirit, what happened." Cassie asked.

"Darkseid." That one word sent a rippled through the room. Impulse chocked on his food. No... wait!

"Dude, those are mine!" I hissed. He shrugged nonchalantly.

"Finders keepers."

I groaned and mentally face palmed.

"Are you sure?" Nightwing asked.

"Do you think this," Spirit pointed to her broken nose and cuts "is from Sphere?! I was unconscious for a whole freaking day because of his Omega beams!"

"You were hit by his Omega Beams?! And yet you came back? How do we know you're not controlled by him?" Superboy demanded.

"If I were controlled by him, I'd have killed all of you by now!" Spirit yelled. Everyone froze.

"Um, did she just say killed?" Beast boy nervously asked.

Kaldur looked around at all of us.

"If Darkseid has truly arrived at earth, then we should not be fighting amongst ourselves."

"She could be a traitor under his control! Remember the Reach!" Superboy glared pointedly at me.

"Dude, leave my bro Jaime alone! For the last time it wasn't his fault!" Impulse declared.

"Look, do we have to talk about this now? We have larger issues!" Tigress stepped beside Kaldur. Superboy gave Spirit one last massive glare before storming off.

"I'll get Sphere's side of the story." He grumbled and left with Sphere and M'gann.

Kaldur sighed.

"Nightwing, Zatanna, and I will speak with Spirit. Meanwhile, Batgirl will be taking care of things." He nodded to Batgirl and left the room.

The room was silent.

Everyone was doing their own thing. Static was playing with a paper clip, spinning it between his fingers. Impulse was still eating; Lagoon Boy was glaring in the direction Superboy had gone. Wondergirl and Robin were discussing something in hushed tones. Batgirl was typing in the computer an Bumblebee was looking over her shoulder. Mal had his arms around her waist.

"Uh, what now?" Impulse asked, finished with my food. I shrugged.

Suggestion: terminate the Spirit.

"Why do you always want to terminate everyone?!" I groaned. Everyone looked at me. I blushed deep crimson. Fortunately I had my armour on.

"Ok... Blue Beetle and I are gonna spend quality time," Impulse pointed to the Zeta Beams, "Outside."

"What he said." I muttered and followed Bart to the Zeta Beams.

"Blue Beetle, B-2-2"

"Impulse, B-2-3"

We Zeta'd to a beach.

"Um, esé? Why are we here?" I asked.

"Just to relax." Impulse sat down on the beach. "I haven't slowed down in a long while."

Since the first Kid Flash... Died... Impulse had become less hyper. He never really took on the title of "Kid Flash" although he still wore the suit.

"So just where are we?"

Happy Harbour.

"Happy Harbour." Impulse and my Scarab said simultaneously.

"Oh." I sat down next to Impulse, but faced him.

Then there was a shadow above him.

"Impulse..."

There was a red flash and Impulse fell over. The shadow disappeared. My friend groaned a propped himself up and I went over to help.

"Impulse!" He turned a fixated his glowing red eyes on me.

Wait glowing red?!

Terminate the Impulse-

The Scarab's voice was cut off by Impulse's.

"Darkseid is coming."

Then he ran me over.