Chapter 8: Red Tornado?
"Now I know why villains look at me when I burst into the room." I say to M'gann, who still looked like me, while I circled around her, well, me, examining myself from head to toe. "I look amazing in that suit."
"Or it could be that you shine brighter than the sun." Wally scoffs playfully, smirking at me.
"I'm gonna take that as a compliment." I flicked my hair behind my shoulders sassily, Robin and Aqualad chuckling at me, while Superboy barely cracks a smile. Better than nothing, I guess.
I turned to Megan. "What about your clothes?" I ask, amazed. "Why do they change, too?"
"They're organic. Like the ship. They respond to my mental commands." She grins at me. She never seems to stop smiling. She changed back into herself, clothes morphing.
"As long as they're the only ones." Superboy mutters spitefully, still glaring out the window, refusing to speak to us, except for the offhand angry or sarcastic comment.
Even though that was mean for M'gann, you have to admit, that was a good line to just slip in there.
"So, can you ghost through walls? Like Martian Manhunter?" Wally asks thoughtfully, once again staring at M'gann.
She shakes her head sadly. "Density shifting? No, it's a very advanced technique," she said, looking down, embarrassed.
"It's okay," Robin attempts to comfort her, smiling.
He pointed to Wally. "Flash can vibrate through walls. When he tries it, blood nose." We all laugh, while Wally pouts, crossing his arms.
"And GL can break through the speed barrier while flying," I say, with a small smile. "I can only go, like, six hundred miles an hour, if I really try."
"Only six hundred," Robin mutters, scoffing. Joking, obviously.
"Well, it's average for a Lantern." I reply, crossing my arms. "I'm learning how to go faster. I'm gonna beat Hal in a race one day. That's my ultimate goal in life." I say to Robin.
"Mine is to beat Batman in hide and seek." Robin smirks at me, crossing his arms. "He always just blends into the shadows. I can never find him."
"Here's something I can do though," M'gann tells us, bringing me and Robin back into the conversation. "Camouflage mode."
She presses a button, and, presumably, our ship turned invisible. Nothingreally happened on the inside, though. I could still see everything.
Guess we'll just have to trust her on this one.
"Red Tornado to Miss Martian," Red's voice comes through the intercom system on the ship. We all sit up straighter, intrigued by Red Tornado's voice.
"Red Tornado to Miss Martian. An emergency alert has been triggered at the Happy Harbor Power Plant. I suggest you investigate covertly. I'm sending coordinates." Red Tornado said through the intercoms.
All of us are on high alert as a beeping noise comes from the ship, the coordinates being sent to us.
"Received. Adjusting course." M'gann says, swerving the ship midair, us almost falling to the left. I had to grab onto Aqualad for support, holding him by his shoulders. He steadied me, putting a hand on my waist.
We just stared at each other for a few seconds, neither of us being able to break the electrifying hold. I was basically sitting on his lap in the chair.
I had taken off my seatbelts, because they were really annoying me, and I had nothing to stop me from falling into Kaldur. Not that I was complaining, really.
Robin scoffs, bringing us out of our dazed state, pulling our hands back, as if we were burned. I kept my eyes on the ground, being too embarrassed to look at Kaldur.
"Tornado's keeping us busy again." Robin huffs, rolling his eyes.
"Well, a simple fire led you to Superboy. We should find out what caused the alert."
M'gann says optimistically,as she takes the Bioship down and mere feet above the surface of the parking lot.
Superboy turns out the side window. "I think I know the cause." he says, looking out of the window.
Right outside the Bioship is a tornado. Heading right for them. M'gann attempts to alter our course, so we don't get caught up into the tornado, but we were being shaken around, and camouflage mode failed, us being visible again.
I stood up, pushing my arms out to the side. I created a shield around the ship, trying to steady it from the tornado's wrath. I gritted my teeth, the tornado pushing against my barrier roughly.
I closed my eyes, concentrating as hard as I could on keeping such a big shield over the ship, especially as the tornado was continuously pushing against it.
Luckily, my shield gave M'gann enough time to land the ship, us rushing out, so that we weren't swept up in a tornado. We had landed in a Power Plant.
I was breathing heavily, hands on my knees.
"You alright?" Robin asked me.
He was still in his civilian clothes, having not been able to change, but his utility belt was around his waist. I think he brings that thing everywhere. I just want to know where he puts it.
"Yeah, I'm good." I smile at him. "Never kept a shield that big up for that long before." I panted.
Suddenly, a tornado of wind surged towards us.I picked Robin up, and flew out of the way, while Wally super-speeded away, and Superboy super-jumped our of the way, M'gann flying alongside me.
Miss Martian used her telekinesis to dissipate the winds, but another one was quickly thrown at her.
"Robin, are tornados common in New England?" Aqualad called out, but Robin was nowhere to be seen, his creepy laugh echoing around the air.
"H-he was just here...." M'gann mutters confusedly, obviously not realizing he does this a lot.
We rush toward the sound of conflict, and reach a clearing. There, Robin is trying to fend off the giant thing, alone.
When Robin was thrown back toward us, I flew in front of the team, throwing a blue frisbee-like disc at the robot. It knocks him back, giving me time to fly back to the team.
"Who's your new friend?" Kid Flash asks Robin, giving him a hand up.
"Dunno, but he plays kinda rough." Was his only reply.
"Apologies, you may address me as Mr.Twister." A robotic voice said from inside the robot.
Me and Aqualad exchanged looks, worried for the team, and ourselves. This thing looked strong, maybe even stronger than us. I looked down, deep in thought.
We fought so hard to make this team possible, what if we were beaten by this thing? The JL would probably disband our team, because if we couldn't take down a simple robot, how could we become like the Justice League, taking down world threats?
Another tornado was thrown at us, just as I looked up. I quickly created a shield, pushing against the strong winds as Aqualad pulled M'gann out of harms way.
I pushed the shield to the side, throwing the tornado to my left, where it crashed into a lamp post, bending it.
At least the tornado dissipated.
The giant suit of armor was mostly red and navy, with tubes coming out of its back, and arm thrusters. To be honest, it was a badass suit.
The arm thrusters we're creating the tornados. One was thrown at KF, him being thrown into Superboy, who threw Wally off of him, and jumped at the person.
Superboy tackled it, throwing it to the floor. The robot threw him fifty feet in the air with a tornado, and threw him away when he came down.
Robin threw some batarangs at it, flipping out of the way of the tornados that were sent his way. Robin got behind it, and placed a small explosive on his back. He ran far enough away, and detonated it. It sent him onto his face, but didn't even leave a dent on his armor.
All it did was knock us away, not trying to seriously hurt or kill us. It seemed almost like it wanted something.
"I find your presence here quite disturbing." It said, kicking Superboy into a nearby wall.
"Let's see if your more turbed once we kick your can!" Robin smirks, throwing some more batarangs at him.
Robin couldn't hold him up for long, and was eventually thrown into Wally, who was just about to start running, sending them both flying into the ground, groaning.
"Yes, I found that quite turbing." It quoted Robin.
Superboy kicked his chest area, sending him flying, and denting his armor, but it just got back up, shooting more tornados at us.
We kept fighting, but all we could do was push him back no more than fifty feet, not even leaving a dent.
Robin perked up, having an idea.
"M'gann, read his mind!" He shouted to her, Megan looking up confused.
Wally was circling around the robot, trying to cut off the air, so that he couldn't make the tornados, while Aqualad was shooting his water-bearers, attempting to break the tornado-makers, while it barely affected it.
"I thought I couldn't do that on Earth?" She asked, knitting her eyebrows as she throws him telepathically into a lamppost. Damn, those lampposts we're having a rough day.
"It's okay with the bad guys!" He screams, frustrated.
"Just tell us what he wants." I told her, calmer than Robin. I was older, might as well act it, even though I hate being responsible, I thought as I threw everything I could think of at the robot.
She squints her eyes, concentrating hard on the task she was given, but looked back up at me sadly once she stopped. Her eyes widened, and she hit her head with her palm.
"I can't read his mind! It's Red Tornado!" She shouts, completely sure with her theory, and it seemed that the others believed it, too.
"Red Tornado dent is here to keep us occupied!" Wally shouted in rage, fuming.
I flew to the robot, hitting it with a baseball bat, finally denying his armor slightly. I silently fist pumped myself, proud I had hit him hard enough to dent his armor. It seemed it was made out of some kind of tough metal.
Instead of using another tornado, like I want expecting, he threw his arm out, and sent me shooting head-first into a wall. I tried to sit up, but I was too dizzy, my head felt like it was being repeatedly stabbed with tiny toothpicks. Those things hurt like hell.
Wally am over to me, pulling me out of the robots way, and safe from harm. I could barely move, my head was spinning so much, KF was basically supporting my full weight.
I get why M'gann thinks that this is Red, but something seems off about the idea. I can't imagine Red purposely wanting to hurt us.
Unless, like all of those robot movies, he secretly wants to overthrow the human race... both theories could be true, you never know.
"We will not fight!" Aqualad called out to the robot, showing him that we knew he was Red in disguise. "We will not engage, Red Tornado!"
The robot chuckles, almost condescendingly. "You think I am Red Tornado? How foolish."
He creates another tornado, but this time, it is charged with lightning. It slowly got bigger, towering over all of our heads. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up with the electricity.
"Ugh, guys? Can Red Tornado do that?" Wally called out to us, sounding slightly scared. I knew it, that couldn't be Red.
He threw the electric tornado at us, and I didn't have enough time to create a shield to protect us. We huddled together, probably thinking we were gonna die, and closed our eyes, bracing ourselves.
Nothing happened. We looked up, to see that the tornado was nowhere to be seen. The robot looked slightly confused.
He said something about us 'hiding,' which left me kinda confused. We were in plain sight, right where we were before the tornado. Why couldn't he see us?
"I admit you children have power, but you are just copies of the originals." He shouted into open air, still not seeing us. I mean, was this guy blind?
He flew off, and I looked at my team, slightly confused and in pain. "I used the bio ship to shield us." Miss Martian told us, sheepishly, obviously understanding how much damage she just caused by the false accusation that that was Red Tornado.
I groaned, leaning my head against Wally's back, basically lying on top of him.
"It's okay," he whispered gently into my ear, which was strange from him, combing his fingers through my hair softly. "You can sleep."
And that is what I did, passing out the moment he finished his sentence, the pain in my head becoming too much for my body to take.
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