Guys I'm really sorry, but due to recent events I don't know when the next update will be. All I know is that it's going to take me a lot of time to recover from it. So I apologize beforehand for yet another undetermined hiatus. Sorry for failing as a writer. Honestly, I hate myself for this too. I'm really really sorry.

Also, I didn't plan on having this so early on in the story but TRIGGER WARNING!

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Danni

Unlike how the previous memory/scene/whatever those things are when they ended and changed to the next one, with a bright white light that seemed so welcoming, this time there was only darkness. Cold, unwelcoming darkness that never seemed to end. The cold wasn't like how you'd feel when it's a cold winter's night, or when a northern breeze blows through your clothes. No, this cold is like those uneasy chills down your spine you get when you know something bad is about to happen.

Danni tried to look around, not that it would do her any good as it was somehow even too dark for her ghost eyes to see, like something was just sucking up all light so one would be left in total darkness. With unease creeping up her spine, she created a ball of her ecto-energy to use as a means to lighten the room. But to no avail. Instead of lighting up the room like it was intended to do, the ball puffed out of existence. Though it seemed as though the energy released while creating the ball, and the energy from the ball itself, had started the...whatever those things are.

A single lamp flickered on, dangling above a tied down, only slightly younger looking Danni. Younger Danni was looking at the lamp, eyes following the dim yellow light above her. Seemingly mesmerized how it swung to the front of her, almost plunging her back into darkness while also revealing massive pools of dried up blood. And how it swung back behind her, now falling back into darkness while unseen but not unknown to the Younger Danni, bloodied knives, syringes and other blood covered tools were revealed. But not just any blood. The tools and tiles were covered in not only red, but also green. Although it went mostly unnoticed by the older girl in the room.

Swinging forwards, to the pools of blood.

Backwards, to the bloody tools.

Forwards, pools of blood.

Backwards, bloody tools.

Pools.

Tools.

Forth.

Back.

Forth.

The older Danni looked away from the lamp and what it revealed, blinking away the dots and trying to put an end to what she was imaging that caused all that blood to come from. She spared one last look at her younger self and frowned. She didn't remember this at all. Was this some trick of that 'not so crazy but still pretty crazy' old ghost that started all this? Or is it just her mind playing ticks on her, showing her a long forgotten nightmare?

"No."

Shaking off a weird sudden pinch of sadness, Danni quickly turned back to her younger self, but the younger girl hadn't moved at all and frankly seemed to not have heard anything. But to be honest, it sounded too...broken, too sad, and a little bit too... male to have come from her. Frowning, she shook off the feeling, ya know that feeling you get when you know you're about to do something you may not be supposed to do, yeah that, and created another ecto-ball, by some miracle it didn't disappear like everything before it. But nothing changed. It was like the neon green ball wasn't even there. Putting more energy into the ball, making it brighter and finally managing to slightly have more light, Danni started looking around again, this time slower than before.

She was about ready to give up, accepting she just imagined it, when she felt it. That weird feeling you sometimes get when you know somebody is standing right behind you. But it didn't feel like that entirely, more like how it felt like a ghost was behind her, yet not also that entirely. More like an in between feeling. Danni slowly turned around, and even though she was prepared for somebody to stand there, she almost screamed her head off.

In front of her stood the blurry girl she had seen in a previous thingy. The girl's facial features and other details were very hard to distinguish but the colors were clear enough. One blue and one green eye stared in, what she guessed to be, sadness in Danni's direction. The girl was only slightly smaller than herself as well, about the same height as the tied down girl she guessed. Though one thing was surprisingly clear. A red, slightly glowing, chain was wrapped around the girl's waist, leading off to somewhere as the shackles got more translucent the further they were away from the girl and was it levitating?! Danni tried to get a closer look of the girl, now that she was standing in front of her for longer than a split second, hoping that she would be able to recognize her. But the closer she got, the blurrier the girl became.

Stepping back from the mysterious girl, she opted to look behind her, where the younger girl was still looking at the light. After a few moments of watching that insufferable light and her younger self staring at said light, she could still feel her presence behind her. Really, it was almost more annoying that that stupid light!

Danni sharply turned around, facing the girl again. "What? What do you want?!" But the girl merely kept on looking. Huffing annoyed, Danni stepped to the side, created a chair and went to sit on it. But unlike the ball before, and like the first ball, the chair puffed out of existence, right as Danni sat on it making her fall to the ground. Blowing some strands of hair out her face, she looked back to her younger self and the blurry girl, nothing had changed yet.

Grumbling a "Stupid chair." She stood back up, only to come face-to-face with blurry green and blue orbs. "What the-?" Knitting her brows together, she took a wide step to the side, and as she thought, the girl's sad gaze followed. Danni gasped in shock. "You can see me?!" So far nobody has been able to see her! And to her utter surprise, the girl nodded.

"Do you know what this is? Where we are? Who are you anyway? You seem somewhat familiar, have we met before?" But as soon as her surprise came it disappeared and changed back to disappointment when the girl didn't respond. Frustrated at the girl's silence, Danni turned around again and sat on the floor to look at her younger self once more. Out of the corner of her eye, she could see the girl come stand next to her, the red chain slightly rattling over the floor. "Fine, go ahead. Don't say a word and stand there. Not like it would change anything!"

Just like her younger self, Danni went back to staring at the light swinging back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and- "Wait a damn minute. Nothing has changed!" She yelled and jumped up, turning to the blurry girl. "See that lamp? How it swings?" She asked the blurry girl, pointing to the lamp hanging above her younger self, and though it was a little difficult to see the girl nodded a 'yes'.

"That lamp should have lost its momentum a long time ago! It's clear we aren't on a boat, seeing as nothing else is moving, and there is nothing pushing the thing! And now that I think about it, that me has neither blinked nor breathed the whole time I've been here!" Danni yelled out, pointing at the lamp and her younger self. How could she have missed such obvious things?! Somebody must be messing with the time! But who? She sure as hell couldn't. Would crazy old clock ghost do it? Yeah he probably would because, come on, he's a loon. But he wouldn't do it without a reason, right? Probably, no matter how loony the man may seem. That just leaves...

Looking at the girl, Danni could sort of see she was smirking. Like she had known the whole time! "Are you the one replaying those same seconds the whole time?" And the girl nodded again. "Well could you puh-lease let it continue on? That light is driving me nuts! Well that and the fact that I have no idea why I am watching this! This is not even my memory!" This time the girl shook her head and looked away, rubbing her arm uncomfortably, making Danni scoff. "I think I would know what is and what isn't a memory of mine!"

The girl closed her eyes while placing her index to what Danni guess were her lips, honestly it just looked like 2 pink-ish lines, and shook her head slowly. Opening her mismatched eyes again, the girl pointed downwards.

"What? Is there something on my shoe-AAAAHHHH!" She yelled out as she lost her balance and fell head first. "Help me!" She cried as she floated upside down next to the blurry girl. "Oh, duh." She face palmed as she remembered her flight training and leveled herself out again. Danni stared at the girl, hoping she would give her some sort of answer as to why they're floating a few feet above the ground, with a birds, or ghosts, eye view of- ah.

"This is your point of view, isn't it?" The girl nodded sadly, waved her hand and landed on a translucent floor just a little bit beneath her, Danni following. "Well then. Suppose I will still be doing whatever I'm supposed to be doing during these things from up here, right?" She said as she gave a small smile to the girl. "Wow, long time since I've been randomly nice to someone." She mused in her thoughts as she sat down on the floor.

The girl nodded and put a hand on Danni's shoulder. Not expecting the cold and utterly sad feeling she got once the girl's hand made contact, Danni flinched but looked a little apologetic at the girl. "Sorry, I wasn't expecting...that." She gestured to where the girl had put her hand on her shoulder, hoping not to offend her. "Why am I suddenly so...weird? Giving a damn about some weird girl I don't even know's feelings? What's wrong with me?! You are not that kind of girl anymore, D. Don't be like that anymore. It'll only get you hurt. Great, now I'm talking to myself in third person. AGAIN!"

The girl's face morphed into a sad yet understanding smile and nodded. Once again she placed her hand on Danni's shoulder, this time making sure Danni saw and was prepared. To Danni's surprise the touch didn't feel like cold and sadness, but more like a warming hope and happiness, 2 things she hasn't truly felt in a long time.

As if reading her thoughts, the girl smiled sadly at Danni again and directed her attention to the scene below. Danni followed her gaze and with one wave of the girl's hand, the scene began to play.

Mount Justice

Wally walked back in the mission room, catching Conner's questioning gaze. "They were just finishing up when I got there, shouldn't take them long to get back. Oh and M'gann, Rob says thanks."

M'gann smiled at Wally and turned her attention back to all the news and satellite feeds from all around the world. Even though the sound was off, thankfully, they could still practically hear the people scream as the aliens' beam hit them. Each and every screen showed the same. Burning buildings, car alarms going off, people who got injured during the mass panic lying on the ground but most of all alien ships roaming the skies. A sight of pure chaos. A nightmare they all hoped would wake up from.

Just then, Robin and the girl walked back in already discussing the further course of action after Conner's distraction.

"-ship by jumping on one of the ranks. Than he can attach one end of the line launcher on the end of the platform and we can sneak on that way." The girl said pointing at the hologram of the mothership Robin had displayed on his glove.

Robin frowned. "But that would take too much time. It'd be easier if he just carried both-" "Like he can carry that weight and get the momentum needed to make the just without being seen or one of us falling off." The girl said cutting him off.

"Hello! Standing right here, ya know." Wally said annoyed waving his arms around. "And FYI, I am not weak!"

The girl pinched the bridge of her nose and she walked closer to the young speedster. "Tell me, how fast would you have to go carrying 2 people on your back in order to make a, say 50 foot(15,2 meters) jump? Oh and do factor in that both people can't fall off, have to survive the jump unharmed all the while not being spotted by the enemy ships in less than 10 seconds." She asked the stumped speedster. Stuttering a less than sufficient answer, Wally crossed his arms and looked back to the screens.

Robin crossed his arms. "Fine, you have a point but the whole ordeal with the line launcher takes way too much time."

"Then do both." Conner suggested. "Of course! One is carried by Wally while the other stays behind and then uses the line launcher to get on. Bolt over there-" "HEY!" "wouldn't have to carry that much weight making it easier to get the necessary speed and momentum, and seeing as only on has to go over the line it goes a lot faster! Good thinking, SB!" The girl said, catching on to what Conner meant and ignoring the speedster's cry.

Conner smiled at the praise he got. He didn't know the girl, but it sure felt nice getting praised by somebody. Maybe if he worked a bit harder even Superma-No. He can't. Not anymore. Wait, yeah he can! The Team's going to rescue him along with all the others! Maybe if-

"Anyway." Robin said, snapping Conner out of his thoughts and turning everybody's attention to him. "Back to the mission." He brought up a hologram of the mothership on the main computer. "We'll be split up in 3 teams. Team A consists of Manhunter and M'gann. You go inside and make sure that the ships leave and that the coast is clear. Make sure that you are camouflaged the whole time. J'onn, I trust you can help M'gann to density shift inside." At J'onn's nod, he continued.

"Superboy, you're team B, you cause a distraction to get the ships out. Make as big as a mess as you want, we need all of them out. Use one of their cannons, fight fire with fire." Conner nodded.

"Team C consists of KF, me and Moroi." The girl, now identified as Moroi, waved a small "hi" before Robin continued. "We will sneak in using the distraction that Superboy creates. We will then rendezvous with team A and proceed to destroy the mothership." He concluded.

"And save everybody who was teleported inside." Wally pitched in off handily as he was only half listening, getting distracted by the news casts and satellite feeds. Or more accurately, the people it now showed. The few who were still out there, though mostly soldiers, looked so...void of hope. Like they didn't know if there was a future after this. Like there was no hope in Earth's heroes. No hope in them. And that simply cannot be. "Look at them. The men and women protecting this planet. Like they lost all hope in us. We need to fix that first."

M'gann nodded. "We have to let them know they're not alone, that we're still here and willing to fight."

"And I know just the way." The smirk in Moroi's voice was clear as she looked to the main computer.

Danni

The lamp swung back one more time before it started flickering again. "Let me out of here!" Cried the tied up girl, anger and confusion burning in red eyes. The older Danni wondered why her eyes were red instead of their usual neon green or sapphire, but that was something to ponder on later. Her full attention was turned back to the scene below as her younger self yelled out again. "I know you can hear me! Please, let me go! I have to pee!"

A muffled laugh could be heard, echoing through the hall outside the room the girls were in. Slowly getting louder. Shoes clicking closer and closer. The Danni's listen closely as the laughter gets louder, slowly trying to edge away from where it's coming from. Not that the younger had a lot of room to move, but that didn't stop her from trying. As the seconds tick on, they nervously track the origin of the sound and sigh in relief when the laughing starts getting quieter and quieter.

Both Danni's and the blurry girl jumped when the sound of a door creaking open filled the room. Suddenly that same shadow encased door slammed open, no doubt cracking the door as well as the wall. A shrill, maniacal laugh filled the dark room, followed by the clicking of shoes. As the sudden rush of fear and panic started to subside, Danni noticed a frightening element. "That laugh."

Full disbelieve she watched on as purple leather shoes walked out of the shadows. "Let me go! P-Please, let me go!" The man mocked. "Now why would I want to do that? Hhhmmm? Where is the fun in that? Oh no, no, no, no, no, you're just gonna stay here, like the good lil dolly you are, and have some fun!" The maniac that had her tied down exclaimed. "And do you know how we have fun around here?!" He asked as he reached the tools behind the young girl.

"I don't suppose it's by playing card games?" When you're completely incapable of using any physical offence, sarcasm is the way to go. Or so she hoped. The comment drew out a deranged laugh from her captivator.

The girls all jumped when the laughter suddenly seized and a hand slammed down on the metal table. The young girl let out an involuntarily squeak when the chair was harshly turned around, making her face the angry man. "Don't you try to be the funny one here, I AM!'' He yelled, harshly grabbing her face with one hand while putting the other on her throat, squeezing slightly.

From up above the other Danni was watching on in fright. What is he doing here? Doing to the gir-me? Why is he doing this? Why is it suddenly getting harder to breathe? She looked over to the blurry girl, who was clawing at her throat. Danni jumped up, wanting to help the girl but almost fell down. The world started spinning around her as the oxygen stopped flowing to her lungs completely. She collapsed to the ground at the same time as the girl did, holding her throat trying to find whatever it was that was blocking her from breathing.

Just as black spots started dancing in her vision did the pressure on her throat vanish, allowing her to breathe again. She sucked in deep breaths before coughing. Looking over to the girl she could see she was having the same reaction. Maybe it was due to being deprived of air, but the chain on the girl looked...shorter. Panting heavily the blurry girl was staring downwards, not taking her eyes off of the scene below, and Danni followed her gaze.

By now the man had released the younger girl's throat and was fixing up his jacket and hair. The girl was panting heavily, head hanging downwards as she was catching her breath.

"Now then. Let's play shall we. What to start with? Hhhmmm. How about this?" The madman picked up a sharp knife, playing with it in the light, watching how the light reflects on the small patches of non-blood covered metal.

The young girl's head shot up when she heard him utter the words, watching frightfully as he picked up the knife and toyed with it. "No. No, please! Please don't do this! I didn't do anything! Please! I'll be a good girl! I promise!" She pleaded but it didn't cause the reaction she hoped for.

"Ugh. So annoying when the toys don't keep their mouths shut. Now, now, now, don't look at me with those eyes. Wouldn't want to have to cut them out now would we?" He said as he put the knife down and turned the chair back, making her face the empty wall and dried blood pools again. "Now where were we." He said as he picked up the knife again. He walked across the room, circling around the bound girl, showing off the knife. "I really like this knife. It's pretty and sharp, don't you think?" He stepped closer to the girl and slashed the knife over her arm.

All 3 girls screamed and reached for their arm, only 2 actually being able to hold it. The eldest girl looked in fright at her arm. Nothing seemed wrong yet there was a burning sensation similar to the pain of a knife wound such as the bound girl's. Quickly she looked over to the girl next to her, who was also holding her arm in the same place, hoping to find answers. The shackled girl looked up, blurry eyes burning with rage, the chain visibly got shorter when more screams tore through the room and more pain bloomed out of their arms.

The madman added a few more slices to the bound girl's arms before he got bored. "Huh, it really was quite sharp. Is there anything more fun?" He skipped back behind the now slightly crying girl as blood dripped off of the knife. He hummed as he looked though his collection of 'toys' on the table before pulling out a barb wire wrapped bat. "Now let the real fun begin." He laughed as he stepped closer to the girl.