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"Talking"

"Thoughts and mental conversations"

"Flash Backs"

Interstellar

Chapter 1- Independence Day

July 4| Washington D.C.| Sublevels of Cadmus Building

I hear a distant hissing noise as I slowly come into consciousness. A sense of urgency overcomes me and I lead forward blearily to get into a standing position.

Still being weak from coming out of my forced unconsciousness I begin to fall forward off the slightly tilted hard metal slap I had previously been laid out on. Before I hit the ground I was caught in someone's strong embrace.

"Whoa! What is it?" A curious male voice says in a language that I recognize as that of English its origin that of the planet Earth.

I tense slightly at the unfamiliar voice.

My thoughts drift back to how I ended up in this situation.

[Flash back start]

I had just arrived on the planet Earth, it was one of the first stops I had decided to make it one of the first stop in my journey to explore the universe.

After a young Anodite has completed their seventy-five years of study to gain control of their powers they are encouraged to leave Anodine and go explore the universe.

One of the first stops I had decided to make was the planet Earth. A planet that in recent years had been making quite the name for itself in recent years with its so called heroes.

My sister Verdona had stayed on the planet for a number of years and had had a couple of children before she left when her spouse died.

Still she had a number of good things to say about the planet when she returned home to visit and has suggested I check it out.

When I had first entered the Milky Way galaxy I took my time making my way towards my destination. I floated about lazily around the different surrounding planets.

Observing the different densities and colors they came in. Sometimes I stopped to play around in their different gravitational fields.

Eventually I arrived on Earth, sneaking past the many orbiting machines surrounding the planet.

I arrived in a dry dessert and made my way stealthily towards civilization.

Secretly I spent some time observing the population. Through observation I discovered I had landed in a state called New Mexico. The humans of New Mexico actually seemed to like aliens and had a whole subculture dedicated to it.

I spent a large amount of time in the state learning about Earth culture and language. Learning about how the humans kept time, their aging process and more importantly about their keepers of justice the Justice League.

It was certainly shaping up to be an interesting planet.

After about what I now counted time as six months is when I was attacked.

Because my brain worked faster than that of a humans in the past six months I had assimilated myself with earthen culture of the people around me and was preparing to start traveling about the rest of the planet when I was surrounded by a group of strangely dressed humans out in the dessert.

They were all dressed in all black outfits with only their eyes shown. The somewhat scare part was that they were all armed with different manners of weapons such as swords, kamas, throwing stars and nunchucks.

They suddenly swarmed me at once.

I flicked my hand creating a dark pink energy shield to block couple of throwing stars coming for my head. My long energy built hair split into six tentacles that grabbed and flung some of the humans coming up from behind me away.

A group of the black clad humans charged again and I created a dome of mana around me to block the numerous attacks. It did not last long after one of the humans attached a small blinking device on the front side of my dome.

The device suddenly went off followed by a blast that shattered my energy dome. I was flung backwards from then blast hitting my head harshly on the ground.

Through rapidly closing eyes I saw the shadowy figures gather around me. A set of hands neared me and harshly attached a thick metal color around my neck that as soon as it clicked shut sent a painful electric shock through my body that sent me into unconsciousness.

I sometimes had periods of fleeting consciousness. All I remembered from these moments were dark outlines of different humans leaning over me and causing me pain.

Sometimes the shadowy outlines cut into me, examining my insides or injected me with strange substances.

My whole world soon became only pain and unconsciousness.

I was really starting to regret coming to this planet.

[Flash back end]

Tuning back into the situation at hand I listened as the person holding me spoke for the first time in answer the first person.

"Not an it, Kid Flash. I believe the question is what is she?" He spoke in calm even tone.

"The files Cadmus has on her lists her as an unknown alien spices they acquired in New Mexico. From the experiments they have done on her so far the scientists have discovered that she is alien species composed entirely of energy. A lot of the files are still heavily encrypted but there is a whole list of theorized abilities that she might possess." A new younger male voice continues.

"Wicked!" The first voice chimes in.

Thoughts and feeling racing, I slowly work through my dizziness to open my eyes to see around me.

I am held against the chest of a dark skinned human male. He has very short pale blonde hair, grey eyes and gill like appendages on the sides of his neck. He is dressed in a form fitting no sleeved red shirt, black leggings with no shoes and a belt with a strange "A" symbol on it.

"Are you all right?" He asks me in a soft comforting tone.

Still feeling a little cautious about interacting with humans because of what the last one had done to me I just nodded sluggishly.

"Hey, don't worry! We the good guys and we are going to get you out of here!" Says the voice of the young man that I first heard.

I glance in his direction and see a young human with tan skin in a mostly yellow suite with red accents and a red lightning bolt in the center. Ginger hair sits messily atop his head, red goggles rest on his forehead and bright green eyes peak out of his mask.

"Hurry up guys! We still need to check out project Kr before getting out of here." The young male voice chimes in urgently.

This voice belongs to a young human male with pale skin, messy black hair with a small black and white mask covering his eyes. The young human male is dressed in a formfitting black and red outfit with a yellow underside colored cape and a yellow "R" over the right side of his chest. He was farther away than the other two males, hunched over a computer system glancing back and forth between that a holographic screen above one of his bulky gloves.

"I don't know if that is the best choice right now in this situation Robin." The dark skinned male said addressing the male by the computers.

"She does not appear to be in the best of shape and it would probably be a good idea to contact our mentors now." The dark male said addressing the young male I now identified as Robin.

"Come on Aqualad, poetic justice remember. Besides I promise we'll just be in then out." Robin said in a cheeky voice addressing the dark skinned male holding me upright.

For the first time I decided to speak up. If my supposed rescuers decided to investigate further might find out how to get this annoying collar off and finally be able to access by abilities again. Plus a little revenge might come up.

"I might not be in the best of shape, but I am not opposed to exploring more of this place." I said in a somewhat hoarse voice from what I guess was a result of a long period of no use other than yelling in pain.

All three boys turn to look at me in surprise.

"You can talk?" The red head blurts out.

Both Robin, Aqualad and I settle a quick glare at the red head.

"Kid Flash." Aqualad says in a stern voice.

Settling on a sleepish look, the red head I now identify as the strangely named Kid Flash utters a quiet sorry.

"Are you sure you would like to continue on with us? If we got out now we could get you medical attention and start trying to find a way to get your collar off?' Aqualad questioned me.

I nodded in response, not wanting to strain my voice anymore.

The three males traded wary questioning looks before nodding to each other.

"Ok, no use arguing with the girl. Let's get moving! Where to Robin?" Kid Flash said in a rushed excited voice.

"We need to head back to the elevator and go down a couple of more floors." Robin replied.

In response Kid Flash zipped out of the room in a blur of speed.

I jerked in response before remembering back on when I was first investigating earth's inhabitants. There was plenty of talk about the Justice League members, their sometimes powers and the young partners.

Though I had never seen the young partners I began to wonder if that is who my young rescuers were.

Hoisting my right arm over his shoulder, Aqualad helped me to stand and with followed Kid Flash out of the room. Robin had already disappeared mysteriously into the shadows.

After walking through the metal sliding doors Aqualad and I arrived in a long hallway.

Aqualad peaked around the corner then hoisted me up further against himself and we set off towards the elevator at the end of the hall.

The doors of the elevator were already open when we arrived with Kid Flash and Robin already inside. Robin with his strange holographic glove computer active and Kid Flash pacing in the small space.

As soon as Aqualad and I were inside the doors slid shut and there was a slight jerking motion as the contraption moved downward red numbers near the top of the elevator counted up till it reached the number 52.

When the doors opened it was to a strange cavern covered in a strange flesh like substance there were two wide hallways leading off into darkness.

Kid Flash and Robin jogged out of the elevator and began examining the different machinery laying around.

'Which way now?" Aqualad asked in a gruff voice when he had caught up with the other two.

"Yeah, bizarre-looking hallway one or bizarre-looking hallway two?" Robin muttered.

"Halt" A voice called out.

We all turned towards the new voice and saw a strange grey creature with horns on his head dressed in a white high collared shirt and white pants. Robin tosses a sharp disk like object at the creature. The horns all of a sudden glowed red and Robin's projectile stops in midair, a bunch of barrels come hurtling towards our group soon after.

Sense the creature was coming from the right it was an automatic decision to go left. Kid Flash zooms ahead while Robin fell back to help Aqualad hurry me along.

There is a commotion from behind us and when the three of us turn to peak we are met with the site of three other creatures charging down the hallway towards us followed by a muscular man dressed in blue with a gold helmet covering his head.

The two boys increase their efforts in dragging me along around the upcoming corner.

As we come speeding around we are met with the sit of Kid Flash running into a dark skinned woman exiting a set of bulky metal sliding doors that are rapidly closing. Seeing us coming, Kid Flash rushes to the side and wedges a tank like object to stop the doors from closing. He then jumps through.

Robin, Aqualad and I arrive at the doors soon. Robin quickly dives through. Aqualad passes me through then slides in himself.

Robin runs over to the panel by the doors and starts typing away while Aqualad kicked the tank out of the door letting it slam shut.

"I disabled the door, we're safe!" Robin says a second later.

Glancing quickly at me to make sure I am ok, Aqualad joins Robin by the doors panel.

"No, we're trapped." He states in a grave voice.

"Uh, guys. You'll want to see this!" Kid Flashes voices calls uncertainty from further in the room.

We all turn towards Kid Flash who is standing in front of a large array of computers. He clicks a button lighting up what is in front of him.

"Whoa!" All three chores when they gaze upon what is illuminated in front of them.

There is a rather large pod containing a teenage muscular male with short black hair dressed in a white skin tight body covering suit with an "S" symbol on the front. The male is laid upright on a metal slab with three mini horned creatures in glass balls above his head.

Robin and Aqualad stand frozen in apparent shock as Kid Flash makes his way around the array of computers to stand in front of the pod.

"Big K little r, the atomic symbol for Krypton." Kid Flash states in amazement.

"Clone?" He questions half turning to face Robin and Aqualad.

"Robin, hack." Aqualad commands after a moment.

"Oh. Right, right." Robin says in a dazed voice. He turns his attention to the computer in front of him taking a cord out of his gloves and attaching it to the computer.

As Robin does this I unsteadily make my way towards the group, holding myself up by leaning on the walls till I reach the computer stand and lean against that instead.

"The boy in the pod seems to be important to them? I wonder why?" I thought.

Silently I continued to watch to find out more about what was going on.

"Weapon designation Superboy, a clone force-grown in … sixteen weeks! From DNA acquired from Superman." Robin says in a shocked voice as he reads over the information now on his glove computer.

"Stolen from Superman!" Say Aqualad in an angry voice.

"No way the big guy knows about this." Kid Flash chimes in.

"Solar suit allows him to absorb yellow sun radiation twenty-four/seven." Robin adds still reading over the information cycling passed on the screen.

"And these creatures." Aqualad asks pointing to the horned beasts.

"Genomorph gnomes, telepathic, force-feeding him an education." Robin reads out.

"And we can guess what else." Kids Flash adds. Joining us by the computer station.

"They're making a slave out of, well, Superman's son." Kid Flash says in a grave voice.

"What have I gotten myself into?" I asked myself.

All of this information was starting to make me panic. I was really starting to wonder what my sister saw in this planet if this is what humans did to each other. I may have had control of my abilities but I was not a master. I was really starting to feel really young and out of my depth despite my already century of existence.

"I really just want to get out of here." I thought gripping the edge of the lad table I was leaning on tighter in fear.

"Now we contact the league." Aqualad stated, interrupting my nervous thoughts.

Aqualad pressed the "A" symbol in the center of his belt, Kid Flash fiddles with something at his ear and Robin tapped at something on his holographic glove screen. The sound of static filled the silence.

That dashed my hopes of a rescue.

"No signal." Robin said in a tense voice.

"We're in too deep literally." Kid Flash said.

Banging and growling noises could be heard from the other side of the sealed doors not far from us.

There was a hissing noise coming from the pod and the horns of the creatures glowed red.

Sparing a quick glace because of the hissing noise Kid Flashed turned back to face Robin and Aqualad.

"This is wrong." He stated.

"We can't leave him like this." Robin said.

They both turned towards Aqualad who was rubbing his chin with his right hand.

"Set him free. Do it!" He commanded after a moment with his hands now on his hips.

Robin brought up his holographic screen again and began tapping away.

There was a hiss sound and the door of the pod slip down into the floor.

Everyone tensed as a hissing sound filled the air again. The creature's horns glowed red and the teenager in the pod hands tightened into a fist.

All of a sudden his eyes snapped open showing a sky blue color. His face scrunched up into a scowl and he leapt at Aqualad. The two of them went flying towards the back of the room.

The white clad teen began punching Aqualad in the face. Robin and Kid Flash rushed to their friend's aid. Kid Flash grabbing the teen's right arm and Robin getting the teen in a head lock.

"Whoa! Hang on, Supey!" Kid Flash growled out under the strain of holding the teens arm back.

"We're on your side!" Robin rushed on.

The white clad teen yanked his arm out of Kid Flash's grip and punched him a couple feet away into a glass display.

"I don't want to do this." Robin growled out in response to his friend getting knocked out.

He took out a glowing disk and shoved it into the white clad teens face releasing a green gas and he lept away.

Getting his bearing, Aqualad brought his right leg up and kicked the disoriented teen away. Sending his crashing back into his pod.

Robin brought another gadget out of the belt around his waist and aimed it at the coughing white clad teen that was slowly standing back up.

It fired two long wires that attached to the white clad teens chest and sent out waves of electricity.

Seeming to have no effect on him the teen grabbed the wired and yanked Robin towards him. Catching Robin by the throat, the teen proceeded to slam him into the ground. Then press his foot onto Robin's chest making him gasp.

"Enough!" Aqualad yelled rushing forward swinging these two strange weapons he grabbed from his back. They glowed blue and seemed to gather water from the air to form a large hammer that Aqualad used to knock the white clad teen off of a now unconscious Robin.

All this was happening so quickly around me. I wobbly moved my way over to a downed Robin while Aqualad stood and faced our advancing attacker.

"We are trying to help you!" He said trying to reason with the teen.

The teen glared and then rushed forward trying to punch Aqualad who managed to doge to the side just in time. Where the punch landed was a big dent in the ground.

Aqualad then tackled the teen into the wall creating a crash. When he tried to deliver a punch it was caught. The he was kicked off rolled a few feet but came to a standing position. The white clad teen rushed forward to engage.

After trading a few blows Aqualad managed to get the teen in an arm lock. His tattoos glowed blue and he tried electrocuting the teen into submission.

The white clad teen jumped up a couple of time into the ceiling till Aqualad was knocked out and fell off.

The white clad teen spared one last scowl towards Aqualad before walking towards the door at the back of the room.

Using pure strength the yanked the doors open. A long brown haired man wearing a white coat entered and took a look around the room.

"Attaboy!" He said to the stationary teen in the doorway

The man then caught sight of me crouching by the unconscious Robin.

"What is she doing awake and out of her pod." He growled.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small square device and pressed the red center button.

I screamed as painful volts of electricity raced through me causing me to black out.

"Not again! Am I cursed to remain a prisoner here? Please, someone save me!" Were my last desperate thoughts.

Please be kind because this is one of my first fanfictions! This is the first chapter of my second story so yes I am still a total newbie. Anyway, I hope anyone who reads my story enjoys it. Young Justice was one of my favorite cartoons and after reading so many different fanfictions about the story line I decided to try writing one of my own. For more information on Anodites check out my profile. I have links to picture and a website that further explains stuff about the species. Also Vera looks just like the story picture in her alien form.

Also don't worry, I am not going to follow the Young Justice story line to a "T". I am going to stretch my imagination to come up with things to happen on missions that don't involve the whole team's presence.

Reviews telling me what you think of my story so far or offering constructive criticism are appreciated! Please No Flames!