For the Love of Nightwing

Beneath: Part 3

         "Every mission takes an unexpected turn. We recover and adapt. That's rule one." Miss. Martian was explaining to Wonder Girl as Bee and I made our way to them in the desert.
"Sounds about right." Bumblebee said proudly as she flew into their view.
 
          "Bee! Hatter! You're alive!" Wonder Girl shouted happily.
"Was that really in doubt?" I asked, acting insulted. She shook her head, calming down a bit.
"Have you seen Batgirl?"
"Captured." I stated, "So we have to go. Now. I'll brief you both on the way. I have a plan."

           "Cargo is secured. Just need a coupla more minutes to complete refueling." Psimon instructed. I motioned two fingers towards the plane and Bee nodded. She flew inside where Batgirl lay unconscious.

          I then motioned for Miss. Martian to go to the control panels and send out an alarm. She morphed into Shimmer and left to the controls.
"Shimmer, what are you-- Martian!" Psimon yelled as the alarms went off.

          "Plane's fully fueled. What's going on?" I heard Icicle Junior say from where I was hiding. Psimon and Martian were both standing in a offensive position about ten feet from each other.
"The Martian is here." Psimon growled, "Posing as Shimmer. We're engaged in psychic battle." 
"Uh, dude. You don't exactly have a winning record against her." I smirked at Juniors comment. I may not have known exactly what Martian did to her victims but I could tell it was brutal- and I didn't care since it was a bad guy.

         "I don't have to win." Psimon argued back, "I only have to hold her attention on the psychic plane while you kill her in the material world." I gasped loudly as the group of villains began to approach Martian, but I held my position and waited for the plan to follow through.

        "Devastation's right." Junior chuckled menacingly, "Your brain is pretty." I scoffed at his hideous comment, them snorted as I noticed the plane was beginning to depart.
"Wait! Who's at the controls?!" Devastation cried out in anguish.
"Mammoth! Devastation! Stop that plane!" Psi on ordered, not removing his focus from Miss. Martian, "Junior, close the hangar door!"

            Devastation jumped to the roof of the plane and punched a giant hole near the pilot's seat.
"Alpha? Little help?" Batgirl begged. I ordered Wonder Girl to go take care of Devastation while I went to help Miss. Martian.
"Devastation!" Wonder Girl shouted, pulling out her lasso. She threw it around the large woman and pulled her backwards.

          "This is for breaking my heart in Belle Reve, Martian." Junior called out just as he was about to attack Megan with an ice blade. I quickly went into action, running over to him and delivering a solid punch to his jaw. I could feel a few tiny bones in my hand crack and break because of his hard, ice jaw. He stumbled backwards as Bee began to sting Psimon

        "Psimon says Enough!" He yelled, swiping his hand at Bee and losing his focus with Megan. Bee flew between his fingers and shot at his head.
"Bumblebee says good night!" She declared loudly, sending him flying backwards onto the floor. 

            When Miss. Martian recovered she turned to look back at Junior.
"Uh-oh!" He muttered.
"Uh-oh's right." She growled, raising a hand with her eyes glowing red, ready to do mental damage.

         "Martian! Bee! We need to go! Now!" I yelled once I noticed the fight on the roof of the plane.

         "Yes! We did it!" A few minutes later, as we were flying out of the hangar. Batgirl and I were inside while the people who could fly on their own were outside. For a few moments everything was good... Until the wings were taken off by a large piece of debris thrown at us by Mammoth. I fell to the floor as the plane shook violently.

       "Sh*t, sh*t, sh*t!" I cried out, standing up and pressing buttons on the panel even though I knew it wouldn't help.
"It's too heavy!" Wonder Girl shouted from the nose of the plane: it had fallen out of the hangar and was hurdling toward the ground.
"For me too!" Miss. Martian shouted, I assumed her telekinesis wouldn't hold it up, "Time for Plan B! Good girl!" I felt the plane up in the air again and let out a sigh of relief.

        "Thank goodness for the bioship." Batgirl murmured to herself.
"Thank goodness for Megan." I added, giggling. Batgirl nodded in agreement as we flew back to headquarters for a debrief.

        "Psimon planted mental suggestions in the minds of his doctors and nurses. They've been tending to an empty hospital bed for months. I'm sorry." Nightwing explained glumly when we reached the cave once again.

         "It had to happen eventually." Megan replied comfortingly with a shrug, I nodded in agreement.
"So, no sign of any alien tech?" He asked.
"None." Bee answered, "Though what we found was strange enough."
"It was clear in Shimmer's mind that Queen Bee was acting as a middle man delivering abducted humans to an unknown partner."

       "We questioned all the abductees. Most were runaways. All were kidnapped after the destruction of Malina Island and the Kroloteans." I informed, feeling good to have some input, for some reason it just seem like I had to compete with Megan- like she was a competition.

        "So if the Bialyans weren't kidnapping humans for the Kroloteans then who is this partner?"
"Another unanswered question." Cassie sighed in frustration.
"New questions keep the investigation moving forward. You saved lives. And you got each other home safe. It's a successful mission in my book. Good work, Alpha." Nightwing consoled. We all cheered happily giving each other high fives.

         "Late night drinks in Gotham on me!" I shouted, fist pumping the air. The girls let out another cheer as the went to the teleporters. I skipped by, stopping at Nightwing with a big smile.

            "Can I borrow some money, big bro?" I begged innocently, batting my eyelashes. He snorted and shook his head.
"I don't have my wallet on me, sorry." I shrugged.
"No biggie, I'll just invite Jaime and borrow from-"
"Wait!" He laughed awkwardly before reaching into a compartment on his suit and pulled out four 20 dollar bills.
"Thanks," I said, taking it, "I promise I'll pay you back."

     A/N: So much to do and so little time to do it!!! I'm sorry I haven't updated in forever but I have a LOT of homework, volleyball, and conditioning. I will definitely try to do better. I have decided on my storyline and her future hero name (soon to come). Till then! XOXO😘😘😘