"Ready?" I ask Nightwing as I approached the door.

"Not even in the slightest" he muttered back.

I couldn't help but giggle as I turned the handle...

I was using my x-ray vision and was monitoring the 5 guards who had been monitoring the halls outside where Nightwing hid.

As soon as the door cracked open all 5 of them pointed the gun at the door handle. I whipped into superspeed as I flung the door wide open as a distraction and zipped out.

Nightwing was hidden behind the corner of the door, so when all that the guards saw was a closet door spontaneously spring open, one of them yelled at the others to hold fire as they inch forward to inspect it.

With them being unaware of me being right behind them I smash the heads of the four guards left behind in pairs of two. Careful not to use too much force to break their skulls but enough to instantly knock them out without causing any cerebral damage.

Once having done that I suppress my urge to dance in glee and move about to make sure the last guard standing doesn't spot Nightwing.

The guard tips his head into the room to inspect it when I came up behind them. Sensing my presence they were about to swing around when I flicked my finger at the side of their helmet and sent their head banging into the door jam.

I glance inside the room and signaled Nightwing to come out.

Carefully while carrying his sensitive materials and contents, he gingerly walks out of the room and surveys the scene.

He looked up in admiration and was about to praise me when I, begrudgingly, stopped him by putting my hands to his lips. Moreso so I could touch him than to actually silence him.

I shook my head at him in a gesture clearly meant to convey for him not to speak. I then motion for him to move out of the way of the room he'd just exited.

Then set about dumping the unconscious bodies of the guards in it and closing the door behind me. I contemplated laser melting the door shut but that just seemed cruel because we'd be long gone by the time they woke up and getting them out of the room if I did that would be way too difficult.

I turn back to Nightwing and reach out to hold his hand, for professional reasons this time!

I don't know how to do undercover covert mission sign language yet so all I could do was hold his hand and guide him down where I needed us to go. It was all purely professional-I swear!!!

I use my x-ray vision again and look left, then right, and pulled Nightwing down the left corridor and use my laser eye blast to take out a security camera that was pointed down a hallway we were about to take.

In a slight panic, I remembered I didn't check if the corridor we were on had cameras pointing at us right this minute and I didn't bother to check and destroy them.

Before the panic could fully set in I feel warm lips brush against my ear, pushing my hair aside.

"Don't worry, no cameras are pointing down this corridor, that's why I chose this place to hide..." Dick whispered ever so slightly that even with my super hearing it was hard to pick up. I would definitely be the only one who heard that.

I look over my shoulder at him, he gave me a reassuring smile and mouthed the words -You're doing great!- at me.

He must've registered my moment of slight panic and tried to put me at ease. Even in tense moments he was, I believe they phrased it, looking out for me?

And that was so sweet.

I turned away from him as my heart melted into a shameless puddle right after the embarrassment I'd face not too long ago in the closet.

I shook my head slightly to focus, nearly turning back to mouth-yell at Nightwing to "Stop distracting me!" But thank the deity earth people believed in as God that I resisted.

I switch over to using my x-ray vision permanently and began moving forward, pulling Nightwing behind me as I did so.

We made a right into an empty hallway and walked slowly down. The content that Nightwing carried was highly sensitive so we couldn't move faster than an earth slug...em...snail's pace.

I froze as a guard was just about to come up from a hidden left turn. I momentarily let go of Dick's hand, superspeed my way past the guard to bang my hand through a glass window at the other end of the corridor from them, effectively shattering the glass, and coming back and grabbing Dick's hand before it fell to meet his body.

Now some might consider that unbelievably fast, but I felt I moved a tad bit to slow because Dick's hand had begun to fall and he'd registered my absence.

I knew I wasn't and could never be as fast as The Flash (the jury's still out on if Superman is) but I aspire to be and unconsciously knew I was close!

While all these things were happening to me in real-time, for Nightwing and the guard things were probably going supersonic fast.

The guard heard and registered the window glass break right as their body came into view of us from the left turn but then they flung their body away and charged down the corridor to investigate the noise.

I then tug on Dick's hand to move slightly faster than usual for us to move straight down our path, ignoring the left turn and moving down onwards.

I wasn't gonna lie and say the situation wasn't tense, tense enough to cut a fucking knife with!!!

But I could not believe I was pulling things off and the mission was progressing successfully.

Now I wasn't going to declare victory just yet because M'gann had warned me about this scary thing humans called Jinx. I was warned that whatever I did, I DID NOT want to jinx a situation.

And the last thing I wanted now was to invoke jinx before completing my mission.

Jinxing things right now was unacceptable and OUT of the question...

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After what felt like 20-45 mins of using x-ray vision, super speed and heat vision. I was dizzy and exhausted.

But I could see the exit of the building in sight and I couldn't give up now!

I began second-guessing not latching shut the door I stored those 5 guards in because I DID NOT think things would take this long!

Goddammit-I NEED TO PEE!!!

I fought back the urge as I let go of Dick's hand for what honestly felt like the 20th time and raced forward to trip a guard down some stairs.

The trip didn't hurt them, seeing as they were fully suited up, but the fall disoriented them a little and allowed us to come out of the alcove we were hiding in and walk passed the flight of stairs and down towards the main lobby.

Where in the home stretch! I gleefully think to myself and throw a triumphant look at Dick.

It was then I noticed his increased pace of breathing. I blink out of my x-ray vision mode, which I was honestly thankful for because navigating with x-ray vision is a level of hellish torture in and of itself... EVERYTHING BLENDS TOGETHER! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IS SOLID AND WHAT ISN'T!? DISTANCE AND SPACE IS A LIEEEE!!!

Once I was seeing properly, in 3D and in colour, I notice Dick's face was taut and beading with sweat. I nearly shriek with fear and spin around and cup his face in my hands.

He gave me a passive look and reached up to pull down my hands.

I'm okay, he mouths to me.

But without even switching back to x-ray vision I could tell he was not.

For one, his heartbeat was through the roof! Hammering harshly against his chest as I literally see the organ clearly through his chest convulsed and I see him suppress the spasm that spread through his body.

If I was tired, then Nightwing was on the verge of cheer collapse because he was well passed the point of exhaustion.

I wanted to offer to help with the contents he was carrying, but he picked up on my intentions and shook his head in refusal. He wanted me focused on one thing and that was getting us out of here, which I deeply appreciated.

I turned back around, fighting through the mild headache I was getting from the constant use of x-ray vision and made our way slowly but with a slightly quicker pace to the lobby.

And just as we came up from the right-hand side of the lobby, hidden behind a huge potted plant, I feel Dick interlock his fingers with mine. It took all my Kryptonian self-control NOT to have my head explode open like a volcano. Unfortunately, my body didn't get the memo as it froze in place ever so slightly, but I tried to hide it (more like ignore it) and continued moving forward.

And just my luck, right as I was enjoying my fingers being laced and interlocked with Dick's (more than any person should be, honestly), a guard walks out of a semi-hidden entrance to the left of the lobby and walks up to talk to the desk clerk.

I was just so.fed.UP with everything that from my intense need to keep holding Dick's hand and my entire exhausted existence, I broke off a piece of the wall with my other hand and chucked it over the head of the two remaining people we needed to pass so we'd be home free, as they say.

The chunk of wall flew over them and connected to the wall on the far left of the reception. Both people turn their heads and I dive forward, yanking Dick behind me and using my freeze breath and froze both people solid with the heads facing the opposite direction.

I made sure to coat them in enough ice that they couldn't move or scream, but since I was freezing them from the back it would leave some of their face open.

I hate freezing people's nose shut cause I ALWAYS felt like I was suffocating them.

Using my x-ray vision I made sure the ice was covered up to their mouth but their nose was free. Most of their eyes were frozen so even if they did catch a glimpse of us it would be fine cause our image would be distorted.

And with that final huddle passed Dick and I made it out the front doors. All security cameras had either been fried by my heat beams or an electric pulse sent out by Dick before he entered the building.

Once outside the cool night air hit me square in the face and I collapsed to my feet and sucked in a deep breathe.

"You did it..." I heard Dick whisper softly to me.

I whip my head up and look at him smiling warmly down at him, our hands still connected.

All of a sudden a Bat jet plane lands out of freaking nowhere and Dick, now full Nightwing mode, straightens up and faces it.

I quickly, but reluctantly, let go of his hand at the same time as he did as the glass cover of the jet slides open to reveal Batman in the drivers (pilots?) seat.

I fight my exhaustion and push myself up as the Bats got out of his plane, jumps down, and stand before us.

"I got the stuff," Nightwing cryptically says.

"Good." Batman simply answers and turns to retrieve a volt like object that he and Nightwing begin placing the contents that Nightwing carried carefully into it.

I would've offered to help but I deduced that if they wanted my help they would've asked for it.

Once everything was safely tucked away, NG and Bats got into the plane and NG gave me a somewhat confused look.

"Hey, uh...SG?" He tries to find the words, "About what I said back there-"

"I'm going home," I quickly interrupted him in an overly sweet and fake voice.

Bats gave me his usual trademark stern look.

"Despite the unGodly amount of time you've taken to complete your mission, your performance today was well above lackluster-"

"I do not care," I say with a raised arm at Batman. "Keep your insulting compliments to yourself. I'm off to bed. Night." I simply say and blast off.

I heard them take off not long after and cruise in the other direction.

After 5-15 minutes of flying alone, I finally let out a gut-wrenching groan and facepalm myself so hard it sent a mini sonic boom.

"I have no idea how to even process what happened today" I cry to myself as I resolve to go home and drown my sorrows in a tub of chocolate and strawberry ice cream.