Enigma | A Young Justice Fanfiction

Chapter 18

hehe so uh

As many of you have seen from my message board I've been going through some writers block for the past year or so, and on top of that I've been busy with college applications and senior year so I haven't be able to write as much as I would have liked to

I originally had planned to be done writing book 1 of enigma by now and be well into book 2 but obviously everything's been pushed back

This chapter is shorter than my usual ones, but it's finally done! I can't make any promises, but I hope to have the next ones out soon!

(Also i highly recommend rereading the last chapter because that one, this chapter, and the next few are all part of the same story arc)

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Aspen blinked a few times and rubbed her eyes, making sure she wasn't hallucinating. Nope, the snow was still there

"Ollie?" Aspen yelled through the house, still keeping her eyes on the window.

"Yeah?" he yelled back, and from the faintness of it, Aspen guessed he was in his study, aka the farthest point from her room.

"Just to double-check, there haven't been any major atmospheric changes in the past four years, correct? Such as, oh I don't know, it getting colder?" She watched as more snow fell from the sky, slowly blanketing the city more and more.

"Uh, no? Why?"

"Look out the window," she replied as she pulled out her phone, dialing Dinah's number.

"Hey, honey," Dinah said after she picked up. "What's up?"

"When was the last time you looked out the window?"
"Aspen I don't have time to really—"

"Dinah it's snowing."

"What?"

"Aspen!" Oliver yelled, his voice suddenly getting closer to her room.

"Sorry, Dinah gotta go!" Aspen hung up the phone just as Oliver came into her room.

"I just called the Watchtower," he said, breathing heavily. "Barry was on monitor duty and he had no idea what I was talking about until the alert popped up right after I called him. It must've just started."

"I just got off the phone with Dinah, and she didn't know about it either," Aspen said. She looked back out the window and saw that a few more inches had fallen. She could barely see the ground anymore. "It's coming down really fast." Aspen turned back around. "Did Barry say what it was?"

Oliver shook his head. "He was about to look into it when I came up here. He said he would call me back when—" Oliver's phone suddenly started ringing and he quickly pulled it out of his pocket and answered it. "Did you figure out what it was, Barry?" He pulled the phone away from his ear for a moment to press a button, then held the phone out in front of him.

"Scanner's picked up several machines hovering in the troposphere in California, Nevada, and Arizona that are freezing the air around them and causing the snowfall," Barry said from the other end of the line. "I contacted the rest of the League. Clark, Diana, and the Lanterns are on their way to investigate now, and the rest of the League is on their way. You should get here before the Zeta Tubes go offline. Aspen should get to the cave as well."

An alarm suddenly spread through the house as Oliver and Aspen both looked at each other.

"Sorry, Barry, I got to go. We've got an issue here in Star City." Oliver hung up the phone and the two of them went over to Aspen's computer, where she pulled up a live feed from the news.