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Chapter Eight: Hiding Place

"WE NEED TO GET THEM OUT," Cyborg yelled. 

The Team moved toward the rubble to get their teammates out from under it.

"What even was that scream," GL asked, shocked by Phantom's ability.

"How 'bout instead of standing there like idiots, you help us get them out from under all this," Dick told them.

They all got to work moving the rubble. Superboy, Cyborg, and the Green Lanterns were the most useful in moving it. Superboy moved a larger chunk of mountain, and gold light could be seen.

"I got something," he called. "Cy, I'll need your help."

Cyborg went over, helping him with more of the rubble. As they moved most of it out of the way, they saw what was causing the light. Siren had managed to put up a shield around him and his brother, as a dome. But he looked exhausted and just about ready to pass out. Phantom was on the ground, actually passed out. He had also changed back to his human form.

"Yo, White," Cyborg called. "You doing okay in there?"

"While I appreciate the attempt at optimism, Cy, I can't hold this shield for much longer," White said. "I don't know how I was able to put it up in the first place."

"And Danny," Conner asked,

"Well, he's not breathing, but that's normal," White stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"WHAT," the Team and League yelled.

"Ow," White winced. "Be careful with the yelling around those with super hearing will ya."

"I've been telling them that for years," Conner says.

The Team and League managed to move the last of the rubble. As they got the last of the rubble off, Siren dropped the shield and collapsed. He also turned back into his human form. They could see the toll that the fight with Superman took on them. Bruises and cuts from the punches and crashes as well as freezer burn and burns from the heat vision and arctic breath.

Aqualad and Superboy picked up the two, carrying them to the infirmary. They laid the twins on the medical beds. Batman and Nightwing ran some tests.

"Their power levels are low," Batman evaluated. "From what we've gathered on ghosts and mystics, they must have depleted their cores with the amount of power they used. And with Phantom's use of that ability weakened him quite a bit."

"Siren's are the same as well," Dick said. "That last shield he put up must have taken the last of his strength."

"So, what can we do," M'gann asked, worried.

"Their cores will refill in a matter of hours," Batman told the Team. "They just need to rest. We'll bandage their cuts and burns, then let them sleep."

He and Nightwing did just that. Not that they really needed to, except for the worst wounds. Because of their healing factor, most of their smaller cuts and the bruises heal within minutes or second of the twins getting them. But injuries like burns and larger mortal wounds needed to be taken care of as they could take hours or even a few days to fully heal.

*****Time Jump*****

Both twins stirred and groaned as they sat up. They immediately took notice that they were in the Cave's infirmary.

"Looks like we overdid it, big brother," White said, shaking the dizzy out of his head.

"Why'd he have to say that of all things," Danny shivered, hugging himself. "I just can never get his voice out of my head. Every time, his constant of how me becoming him is 'inevitable.' Every nightmare I have is about him."