Robin's Cousin

chapter eleven

Dick's POV

"I'm worried about Pietro." I looked up at Kaldur's words, not surprised I didn't hear the Atlantean enter. He can be silent when he wants to be. I raised an eyebrow, hinting that I wanted Kaldur to continue with his troubles. "He has not left Wanda's side since the day he trained with us. That was a week ago."

"And we haven't heard a peep out of the Light. I don't like this. Not one bit." Artemis chimed in from her perch on the counter, her legs swinging carelessly. "They are definitely planning something. Something big."

"Yeah, but what?" Wally asked through a mouthful of popcorn, earning himself a few disgusted looks from the rest of us.

I was too deep in thought to hear the petty argument between Artemis and Wally, trying to come up with a way to wake Wanda up. Then it hit me. "M'gann! Have you tried to wake her using your telepathy?"

The Martian sent me an exasperated glare. "No, I never thought of that. What a great idea, Dick." Conner snorted in shock at the sass emitting from his girlfriend, hiding it poorly behind a cough. M'gann sent him a smile. "I have been trying to reach her since she went into her coma and have gotten nothing."

"Yes, but what if we used the same technology that the Justice League used on us during that team bonding mission where we 'shared a mind'? We could all try to reach Wanda and pull her back to the conscious world!" I snapped my fingers, hope basically pouring into my words. My teammates were silent as they thought about, Jason being the one to agree first.

"I wasn't there when y'all did that the first time, but it sounds like it is worth a shot?"

Roy was next. "I have been absent the past few weeks, but I'm here now and I'm all for getting our Wanda back."

The others nodded in agreement, settling the matter. Now all we had to do was convince the Justice League and Pietro.

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"You want to try what?" Pietro's jaw was on the floor, staring at our teammates and Zatanna, who volunteered to monitor the mission.

"We want to try to enter Wanda's mind and pull her back to consciousness." I explained, taking a seat next to my cousins. "What do you say? She is your sister, after all."

Pietro was silent for a few moments, glaring at the ground. He eventually looked up, steely determination in his silver eyes. "I'm in, but only if I get to go."

I smirked. "We wouldn't have it any other way, cuz."

Pietro grinned, squeezing Wanda's hand. "How will this work? Do we just hook a few machines up to ourselves and Wanda and then bam! We're in?"

Zatanna stepped forward. "Close, but not exactly. I will place a helmet on Wanda to set her up as the focal point of the machine and then when the rest of you are all wired in, I will hit a few buttons on the monitor to send you into her mind. M'gann will send me a telepathic message to let me know when to draw you lot out."

Pietro blinked at her. "That is basically what I just said." He smirked, standing up with a big stretch of his arms over his head. "Alrighty, lets get this show on the road."

"Right. Follow me." Zatanna led us out of Wanda's room and down the corridor to a room we had already prepared for the mission. We each took a seat on one of the cots that we laid out, laying down and waiting for Z to come around to hook us up. Zatanna made quick work of attaching the electrodes to our heads, pausing at the doorway when she was done. "I'm just going to place this helmet on Wanda and then we should be good to go."

It was tense while we waited for our resident magician to return. I decided to try and lighten the mood. "Hey, M'gann? Try not to kill us all this time."