Spirit and Blood (A Young Justice Season 3 Fanfic)

Chapter 11

~Wondergirl~

October 19, 1:25 PM, Eastern:

"AHHH!!" The young woman screamed in terror as the thugs closed in around her. Gritting my teeth, I jumped in right beside her and punched the ground- a little trick I learned from Superboy. Tim swung in beside me, eying the circle of knocked out guys. The woman huddled to herself on the ground, shivering. I held out my hand and she took it, a grateful look in her eyes as she left. I glanced at Tim aka Robin.

"Not bad eh?" I smirked. Tim smiled back and nodded. After Spirit vanished, everyone was more detached. Although she'd only been with us for a few days, the Bat family had already gotten attached, not to mention Zatanna.. Or me. I couldn't believe it when she went haywire. It just couldn't be her! Everyone's still been searching, as side missions from the ones Kaldur and Nightwing assigned us. We all wanted answers. Especially now, with M'gann, Zatanna, and Impulse confined to the infirmary... Yeah, they were rocked pretty hard. Superboy is furious, whilst Nightwing keeps looking- full time. He's gone for days on end. When he does go back to the Watchtower, it's only to heal and then he's off again. Blue Beetle is fretting over Impulse along with the Flash. Tigress is disabled too. She's better off, but she can't move her legs and she's freaking out, muttering things about her mother.

"You alright?" Tim asked me, gently taking my hand. I nodded, sighing.

"Yeah. I think so."

The ground started shaking.

Startled, we glanced around, but couldn't see anything. I flew up into the air, carrying Tim by his waist. In the air, we could see a flash of red light, and mist blotting it out.

"That looks like Spirit's mist." Tim commented and I flew closer. Right there, in the middle of Happy Harbour, there was a huge oval-like portal, the rims made up of mist and red light. Tim and I dropped off on an overlooking roof. Without M'gann, Tim had to use the com.

'Robin to the Team. You've got to get here.'

We shared a glance. In only a few mintes, the whole valid Team had assembled there, even Tigress, though she was in a wheelchair. Kaldur stared at the portal, then at us.

"Where is Nightwing." He asked. We looked around us. He wasn't here.

'Aqualad to Nightwing. Do you read?'

No response. Kaldur shook his head in frustration.

'Aqualad to Nightwing. Do you read?!'

"Nightwing's not coming." He sighed. But as he spoke, a black metallic object flew by him and lodged into one if the portal's rings. Nightwing climbed onto the building, bruised and bleeding from his lip, nose and other scratches.

"Sorry I'm late. I got caught up and my com fell out." He smiled. "Now let's take down this thing." That would've been our cue to attack, but something came out of the portal. She had black hair and fiery eyes that were more red than anything. Her arm was covered with bracelets that attached a thin curtain like material to the rest of her clothes. She wore a red flexible short sleeved top that flared out at the sleeves. Her skirt spread out like algae in water. She hovered a few inches above the ground and wore a circlet on her head. It was Demary... But not. She turned to face us with her merciless eyes. Stretching out her hand, she said,

"Darkseid is come."

Monsters poured out of the portal, but didn't come to attack us. They flew around the town, until they covered the horizon and spread to other parts of the world. Other figures stepped from the portal. I could name a few- Vandal Savage, Klarion, Poison Ivy, Ra's al Ghul- but some I couldn't name. They were dressed as oddly as Demary. And the last that stepped out...

"I AM DARKSEID." He boomed. "SUCCUMB LITTLE HEROES AND I WILL SPARE YOUR PUNY LIVES FOR MY CAUSE."

"Not a chance." Nightwing shouted back, raising his Escrima sticks. Darkseid nodded disappointingly.

"VERY WELL." Spirit went for Nightwing, her hands raised, filling with white mist. "KILL HIM." Each of Darkseid's allies came for us. And we were outnumbered. Where was the Justice League?

I fought some strange woman who seemed to have endless stamina. She came at me with a punch to the head, and I ducked, shooting my feet out at her stomach and kicking her off balance. I quickly attacked with a punch to her jaw, knocking her out. I recoiled my lasso, but was levitated into the air and thrown into the ground. Who...? I stared up at the sky, and a familiar face glared back at me.

"M'gann! What are you doing?!" M'gann's eyes glowed red and a crate slammed into my face. Half-conscious, I rolled aside to avoid the next attack. Superboy turned at the sound of M'gann's name. His opponent, Poison Ivy, tried to take advantage of that and summoned plants to help her, but Superboy knocked her aside fiercely, knocking her out. He bounded towards us. As soon as M'gann saw him, she froze.

"M'gann?" Superboy asked.

"Go away already!" She snarled, and threw Superboy into the air behind her telekinetically as if he were a rag doll. She levitated my in the air, then threw me against a crate. My back hit it with a thud. With huge effort, I stumbled to my feet and stared at M'gann.

"I- I'm not.. gonna fight you. If... If Darkseid wants you to kill me... then do it!"

"Cassie!" Tim started to run over to me, his opponent defeated.

M'gann ripped a chunk of the metal crate and formed it into a spear-like shape with her mind. I gritted my teeth, got ready to jump into the air. M'gann shot the projectile, faster than I thought possible, but I still bent my knees. I knew I didn't have the strength to jump, but I wasn't going to fight my friend.

Tim ran out in front of me.

The projectile stopped inches in front of my stomach, as I stared in shock at Tim.

He sank to his knees, a little blood on his lips.

"Ca...ssie...."

"TIM!!!!!!"