Another Hope

Chapter Six

Hayley's Pov

Everyone in the room looked at Demi, all with matching expressions of shock. Another child? I thought.

Does she mean we have another sister? I looked at her with a questioning look. She simply nodded. I made a simple explosion-like motion around my head.

"Ok, well this villain, Techno-Glitch, is in a warehouse with Harley and The Joker." Aqualad told the team and us, "Everyone is going to fight."

I looked to Demi and smiled, her arms were crossed and she looked proud. I could tell even behind her sunglasses.

"Except Demi and Hayley," Aqualad spoke up.

"WHAT?!" We yelled in unison.

"You can't do that to us! We can help! We're not little kids!" I protested.

"We know, but we don't want you hurt," Zatanna said softly.

"We CAN help, though. We've stopped crimes all over on our Earth. We're heroes there. Please, can we help!" Demi took the calmer route. She glanced at me, I was tempted to yell but she took off her glasses and looked at me with soft eyes, I didn't yell.

"We want you two safe, and you need training. And that is final. You two are staying here." Aqualad said as he lead everyone out of the room. Wally and Dick stayed behind.

Demi sighed, "We aren't kids. We are meant to help a-and save." Tears brimmed her eyes.

Wally walked over to her and bent to her height, "Demetria, We just want you safe. Hey, Dick and I will contact you in case we need help. Okay?" He spoke gently.

She nodded, Dick and Wally hugged us before getting their uniforms beamed on them and catching up with their team. Demi grabbed my forearm and pulled me off to our room. We walked the barren halls and turned corners, we reached our room quickly. We entered and walked over to our desk chairs.

"WHY WOULD THEY BRING US HERE AND TELL US TO STAY PUT ON A MISSION?!" I yelled as I fell back into my chair.

"Remember your theory? I think it may be correct, they're out parents, they want us safe, and I also think Wally and Dick need to be honest." She said calmly. How was she being so calm about this?! We're being held back from a mission! I started pacing in circles. They don't trust us. They may be trying to keep us safe, but something could happen to them. I made another one of my instant decisions.

"We're going," I said, tapping my watch and waiting for Demi to do the same. "Well, come on." She stared at me, not moving an inch.

"Are you out of your mind, they told us to stay here." She said, as though it would change my mind. I was NOT going to miss any action I could get involved in.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I am out of my mind," I said, grabbing her wrist and transforming her clothing too. Now all I had to do was convince her to come along. "Call me crazy," again I couldn't help but think, "But I have a gut feeling that they're in trouble." She seemed to trust my instincts and nodded.

"Ok, I'll come." and with that, we left Mount Young Justice.

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I skidded to a stop so Pixie could land alongside me, she landed soundlessly. She left her grappling hook where it was, she would come back for it later. We looked at each other and nodded then sprinted up to the cracked open warehouse doors. Pixie peeked in, only her forehead and eyes went past to see. She looked back to me.

"They're all in cages. Paired in twos. Joker and Harley are knocked out with a girl sitting next to them." She whispered.

I nodded and flashed in quietly to the other side of the building and upstairs so I was above the girl. Demi quietly walked in, finally a few feet away from the girl she stomped her right foot. It echoed in the silent place, everyone turned to her.

The girl stood up, she was shorter than Pixie by a head, she had dark ginger hair that reached her shoulders. She turned around and faced Pixie. A moment later she was behind her and pushed her over so Pixie tripped over the Joker and she pounced on her with a dagger to Pixies neck. I bolted down to Glitch and rammed my side into her, she flew into the wall. I loomed over Pixie and helped her up.

"You okay?"

"Yeah, how did she do-wait? If she's our sister she's half flash and half techno geek. She literally a glitch!"

As if on cue a flat voice spoke, "What about me being a 'Glitch'?" I turn around to be punched in the gut, then came a pound to the face. Pixie jumped on top of Glitch's back, causing her to focus on Pixie. She dragged Glitch to the ground and wrapped her arms around Glitch's neck, holding her in place.

"COMET, GET THE TEAM OUT. I'LL HOLD ONTO HER!" Pixie yelled. I nodded and sped over to the other side of the warehouse up to the cages.

"So, Aqualad. About Pixie and I staying put at Mount Justice for safety?" I taunted as I studied the lock on Nightwing and Flash's cage.

"Shush. I thought it would be easy." He sighed, brooding over how thirteen-year-olds were saving him.

"Is the lock hard to crack?" M'Gann spoke up.

"No, I just need to hack into it. I need-," I paused and looked at my watch. I smirked, "Now if my watch can scan the lock I can hack into it." I moved the face of the watch and it scanned the lock, then a hologram appeared. I ran in between Superboy, M'Gann, Beast Boy, and Artemis's cages. I slid down the wall and sat crisscrossed.

"That is not logical." Beast Boy spoke.

"Yeah, Pixie and I aren't logical, but it works." I look up to see Pixie and Glitch fighting with katanas. I continued to hack the locks wondering where the katanas came from...

"What are you even after Glitch?" Pixie shouted. She always somehow talked with the enemy.

"Vengeance against Young Justice." Her voice wavered, not flat. But it was more lively.

"How much more hacking?" SuperBoy asked.

"Hold on, I'm only an eighth of the way done. I'm an okay hacker. Not as good as Pixie or Nightwing though." I told him.

"Why do you want," I heard Pixie grunt in pain, "Vengeance?!"

"They didn't look for me, but I knew they could sense me there." Her voice was more emotional this time.

The bar on my hacking increased to half, all I needed to do was click the password in. I swiftly went to Superboy and M'Ganns lock, I looked at it and realized it was the same ones from gym class. I slid it off and told them the password, soon everyone was out of the cages. They were discussing what to do with Techno Glitch, as they put the Joker and Harley in cages already. Everyone was cut off with a scream. Pixie's scream.