Cracking An Enigma (a YJ fanfic) COMPLETED

Chapter Seven: First "Mission"

"All the while, you're between will and what will be."
Michael Sembello, She's A Maniac

WE JUST ABOUT GOT OUT OF THAT. We landed a safe distance away, and ran out, to observe the absolute chaos that was ensuing. "Robin? Are tornados common in New England?" at least I think that's what Kaldur asked. The wind was too strong to hear anything clearly. "Robin!"

The boy had only gone and disappeared. Instead we heard a childish laugh echoing around us.

"He was just here!" stuttered Miss Martian.

"Well then, we should find him!" Wally said, looking extremely intimidated.

We went inside the warehouse where Robin was fighting who I supposed had started the mess; a great big man, who was red all over, who looked ridiculously stupid. "Who's your new friend?" asked Superboy, helping him up from the floor.

"Didn't catch his name, but he plays kinda rough!"

"My apologies; you may address me as Mr Twister." Said the weird guy.

"Bad name," I muttered, though my hands were shaking.

Superboy tried to get to him, but was knocked away. Then we started to fight. Well, not me really, I was trying to find my emergency gun, and shockers, whilst also trying not to get blown into oblivion. Honestly, I was not good at all with dealing with overpowered things, I was more accustomed to fighting regular idiots, so those with otherworldly abilities terrified the shti out of me.

Tricky stuff, multitasking.

I could tell the others were also getting, really annoyed. When the guy had knocked most of the others out, and had gone outside, I followed. I took the chance to fire a low powered shocker at his back, while he wasn't using his wind.

"What?!" he turned.

I waved nervously. "Hi... You seem... Annoyed."

"That would be an understatement," he growled.

Wally came out of nowhere. "What have you done to my team?!"

"Hello?!" I yelled, waving my free hand in the air.

"Embarrassed them. Largely." Mr Twister answered. Then he sent KF flying.

"Just me and you now... Whoever you are," Mr Twister said, peering at me.

"I'm Shadow... or Shady, I guess," I answered with a weak, polite smile. Then I took cover behind a large rock, as he blew a large gust at me. I poked my head over the top, and squinted at his armour; funny, he seemed to be moving incredibly stiffly. Then, perhaps, was he a robot? Would make sense, but I didn't really want to end up taking any chances.

Just as a loaded up another shocker into my gun, making sure the power wattage wasn't too high, the rest of the team finally came outside.

Obviously done with doing nothing.

"Shady, you ok?" Wally asked, over the roaring wind.

"Fine!" I grumbled, reloading my gun, "absolutely fine,"

"M'gann, do you think you could read his mind?" Asked Kaldur.

"Err, alright!" she replied nervously. Then she slapped her head, "Hello, Meghan! Mr Twister is Red Tornado in disguise! I can't read his mind, and they both have the same powers!"

"That's what he meant by a test!" Wally growled. "Speedy called it; we're a joke!"

"I don't think-" I tried to say, but they were already too cross to be reasoned with. I honestly didn't think this was a set up, but I didn't really want to wait to find out.