Young Justice: The War

(11) Same Old Same New

Aphrodite's POV-

It's been four months. 12 weeks. 84 days. 5,040 minutes.

That's how long it's been since we've heard from Ali. Every day at Mount. Justice, Zoey, Roy, Nightwing, and I line up phones and wait for her to call. We did the same today. Once again, Roy paced back and forth between the phone and the rest of us. The only difference, the team joined us today.

"Roy," Max says going over to him and placing a hand on his shoulders. "I doubt she will call today. I mean what makes today different the any other day?"

"You never know when she will call. She could call any of these phones, even this one!" Roy shouts pointing to the Mount. Justice phone.

Then, it rings. The exact phone Roy was pointing at. He stood there shocked, trying to see if it was real. He answered and put it on speaker.

"Hello?" We hear Ali in a shaky voice. The she starts laughing. "Is anyone there?"

"Uh, yeah!" I say. "Hi Ali."

"It's AC right now." She laughs again. We could her rustling in the background and the wind howling against her phone.

"She's running." Connor whispers.

"Al-AC," Roy asks. "Are you running?"

"Yeah, I'm on a mission, and I remember that I haven't talked to you guys in months, so I called!" She exclaims then mumbles, "Logan's going to kill me."

Ali's POV-

I stole it. Logan told me to leave it alone and I stole it.

"AC!" Nightwing yells.

Oh I forgot I was still on the phone with them.

"Are you in trouble?" Nightwing asks.

"No!" I lie then hang up.

I continue running through the woods until I get to a body of water. The people that were trying to steal what I stole came after me. They were Bane's people. Screaming at me in Spanish.

"I don't speak Spanish!" I yell and jump into the water.

I swim too quick for them to keep up but they don't quit. They are still yelling at me in spanish.

"I've been called worst than that!" I yelled back at an insult thrown at me.

"Well I think I've been called worst than that." I mumbled

I kept swimming till I knew they weren't behind me anymore.

I get out of the water. Uh, my phone! I pull it out. It dripped, soaking wet.

"Crap." I whisper. Where was I? I didn't have a scent, a trail or anything.

I continue walking until the sun goes down. I sleep in the cave and do this for days.

I finally stopped.

"Where am I?" I ask myself. Then I hear something. Cars! At least ten miles from where I was. Maybe. I don't know I'm still getting use to my abilities.

I run in that direction.

@@@@Flashback@@@@@

"Strike!" Logan demands. I was his to take care of. I went to classes like the other students and went to training class like the rest, but Logan trained me more. He didn't run off now. He treated my like... well his own daughter. Which I am not. Some what.

I kick again. This time hitting the weak spot of Logan's side. He drops and I kneel down on his back pushing up his arms until he yowls in pain. He take out his claws, which startles me. I jump off. We fight like our claws were swords. A student walks in amazed.