I woke up with a splitting head-ache. I sat up and looked around. I was surrounded on all sides by sand. So... desert maybe? I slowly stood up and touched a finger to my face. I gasped and looked down.

Whew! I'm not in spandex.

I touched my face again.

If I'm not wearing spandex, then why do I have a mask? I have vague memories of escaping from Her. They could be implants, but... I don't want to believe that.

I accidentally bumped my wrist on one of the rocks I was surrounded by. A holographic screen popped up, making me jump. I looked closely at it.

Why is this on me? Where am I? What happened?

I looked towards the bottom and did a double-take.

"September?! What happened to March?!" I asked, disbelieving the computer. I shook my head in a vain effort to clear it. I climbed out, using the rocks to help me. I got to the top and looked down.

"Hoover Dam, that's a big crater I made. I wonder what threw me." I said to myself out loud. I started walking in a random direction. Not the smartest choice, but I didn't want to just sit down and die. If I was gonna die, I would want to be moving.

I walked next to a rocky outcropping. I went to scream as I felt arms pin me and a hand covered my mask, which was stupid, but I realized that there was no point. I stood still. She hated me and abused me. Cadmus was paid to break me when She couldn't. Lord knows how I escaped from Talia. The last thing I remembered was Mara beating the crap out of me in training while Talia watched.

The person let go and turned me around. My eyes widened as I looked straight into the masked eyes of Robin.

"Whelp, I'm screwed. Goodbye world. I won't really miss you. You really were a--" Robin cut off my sorrowful farewell.

"What are you rambling about?" He asked. I shrugged.

"When I get nervous, I start talking." I answered. He looked me up and down.

"Never heard of you before, but you look like a hero." He muttered. I raised an eyebrow.

"How do you know? I could be a bad guy." I pointed out. He huffed.

"What month is it?" He asked. I blinked at the sudden question.

"I mean, my holo-computer thingy says it's September, but the last thing I remember was in March." I said. He smiled. I felt myself smiling under the mask. I tried to make it stop but I couldn't.

"My own facial muscles betray me." I groaned. His smile widened. He informed me that we were in Bialya. I pulled up my holo-computer. I flicked through until I found a small red blip, a little ways from our current position. "What's that?" I asked Robin. He shrugged.

"Don't know, but I have one there as well. We should go see why we put a tracer there." He said. I nodded and followed silently after him.

***

It was dark when we finally neared the blip.

"I wish I could remember why I put a GPS marker here." Rob muttered to himself as we crested the large dune we were climbing. I inhaled sharply, grabbed his cape and pulled him behind the dune. He was about to protest when I slapped a hand over his mouth. I put a finger to my lips and peeked above the sand.

There was a large heavy looking box sitting in the middle of a clearing. Rob popped up next to me. He turned and nodded to me. I returned the gesture and we split up. I went right, he went left. I discreetly lifted my arm and gave him a thumbs up.

He leapt out into the clearing and walked towards the box. Bialyan Republican soldiers rose out of the sand, surrounding the Boy Wonder. One started giving orders in Bialyan. They ran forward and Rob dropped a smoke bomb at his feet.

That's the signal.

I crept out from behind a dune and started taking out soldiers. One save from a green girl, another green girl, and a carrot head later, we had the men tied up and unconscious. The first green girl introduced herself as M'gann. She had green skin. The second introduced herself as Artemis. She had green spandex. The carrot head introduced himself as KidFlash. He had orange hair. The others were trying to figure things out while I stared off into space. Again, Rob would give me the abbreviated version.

Again? Where did that come from? I must know him from somewhere.

I listened to their conversation. I appeared to be off in Lala Land, but in reality I was trying not to cry.

"Where did she come from?" Artemis asked.

"Yeah, Rob. And why does she seem not all here?" KF asked next.

"She does seem... off. There is something not right with her." M'gann said. I sighed softly.

"She doesn't even seem to have a mentor. M'gann has her uncle. Rob has Batman. Artemis has Green Arrow and I have Flash. It's clear who our teachers are." Wally pointed out. My shoulders slumped.

These people were supposed to be like me. Supposed to be my team. My family. I guess not. They don't trust me. It could be because of the memory thing, but... I can't help feeling hurt.

"So we're a team?" Rob asked M'gann.

The... uhh... five of us and Superboy." She responded. I sighed loudly. I could practically feel their eyes burning holes in my back.

"You know I could hear you the entire time, right?" I asked sarcastically as I turned around. They froze. "You do realize that it's extremely rude to speak about someone behind their backs." I said pointedly. Rob and M'gann suddenly found the sand very interesting.

"Look, I'm sorry, but--" I brushed past Robin as he tried to explain himself.

"Whatever. It's not like I considered you guys family before this stupid mind wipe." I muttered just loud enough for them to hear. M'gann physically flinched and Artemis and KidFlash joined the sand watchers club. I huffed.

"We need our memories back." I said. M'gann looked uneasy, then she nodded to herself. "M'gann. What are you--" I didn't even get to finish my sentence before her eyes glowed and everything became blinding white. I slapped a hand over my eyes. When the brightness went away, we were not in Bialya. I was standing next to Robin in a large space. It was strangely lit and definitely not on Earth. There seemed to be memories, replaying on what looked like fragments of glass just floating around in space.

"We're looking at our memories." I murmured. Rob turned to look at me, but I ignored him. There seemed to be whispers coming from different directions.

Kill them... Never belong... Join me... Love is a lie... They don't love you... She's coming for them... Even if you stayed... They would still die...

The voices whispered. The others were looking at me. The voices were pointed at me. I covered my ears and squeezed my eyes shut.

"They're my family. Get out of my head." I said. I was starting to lose confidence. I started shaking my head. "You're not real. You're not real..." I whispered to myself. The voices grew louder and louder before they took physical form. It looked like spirits swirling in a tornado.

"Get out of my head. Please..." I pleaded. M'gann appeared and rushed over. I was crouched down with my hands over my ears. She grabbed my hands and jerked me to my feet. She dispelled the whispers and helped me regain balance.

"That was--" Artemis started.

"Not. A. Word." I growled. She nodded as M'gann made her way forward.

"I have brought us to a junction in our minds. As you have witnessed. I need your help to make our broken memories whole. Together. If you open your mind to mine." M'gann said. I took a step back in shock.

"You want to go through our memories. This is insane. You seriously just expect us to be okay with this?!" I asked her incredulously. She nodded, still unsure of herself. Artemis said much the same thing.

"I have no wish to intrude, but--" Rob interrupted M'gann.

"You need to hack our minds to figure out what happened to us. Got it. Go." He said.

"My brain's all yours." KF said flirtatiously. "Try not to let its brilliance overwhelm you." He said smugly.

"Or underwhelm you. Hey, why isn't anybody just--" Rob started.

"Whelmed? I dunno." I muttered from behind everybody. Apparently it was loud enough for them to hear.

"Exactly." Rob said. He was still looking at me curiously. I glanced over to Artemis and KF. He grabbed Artemis' hand reassuringly. I mentally squealed.

Cute.

Artemis sighed. "Last six months only, and only what you need." She stressed the last part. Everyone turned to me. My shoulders slumped.

"I'm still really not comfortable with this." I said uneasily.

"What do you have to hide? You won't even tell us your name. What secrets do you have buried in your past? Maybe we should go into your mind. See if you are who we think you are." KF said. I slowly turned to look him directly in the eyes.

"If you were to look into my past, you would be Joker level insane before you reached my twelfth birthday." I said monotonically. He turned away from my gaze and looked straight ahead. M'gann was still waiting for my answer.

"Do it." And she did.

We went back to the mission briefing. When we landed. When we found the Bialyan's control tent. When M'gann and I went to check it out. When Aqualad told us to maintain telepathic contact...

We all gasped simultaneously. "Aqualad!" We shouted.

"Where is he? What happened next?" Rob asked.

"I don't know. That's the last thing we remember." M'gann said. They started to talk about how to get Kaldur back.

***

When we found him, he was unconscious and muttering in Atlantean.

"I can't restore his memories in this condition." M'gann informed us.

"He needs immediate rehydration. Call the bioship." Robin ordered.

"It's out of range, but you can get him there fast." M'gann said, turning to KF. They continued to talk about how to get Aqualad conscious until M'gann started yelling.

"No! Superboy's in pain. We can't wait." She yelled, taking off into the air. She flew past me and on instinct, I reached out and grabbed her arm. Instead of stopping, she just pulled me along with her.

"We still don't know what erased our memories!" I heard Robin shout after us. "It could happen again!"

"I'll stay with her!" I shouted back as M'gann carried me towards Superboy.

This is not going to end well.

She flew straight to the Bialyan control site. I let go of her arm when we neared the tent. She didn't even seem to notice my absence and flew in camouflage mode into the tent. I sighed.

"Hopefully we don't get brain-wiped again." I muttered to myself as I ghosted between the guards. They didn't even notice as I entered the tent.

Amateurs.

I snuck around the perimeter of the inside of the tent. There were computers and equipment everywhere. Superboy was cuffed to a thick slab of metal standing straight up. There was a large ball in a type of cage. Every time a scientist would electrocute Superboy, the sphere would whirr and rotate. Like it was alive and didn't want to see another being in pain. Suddenly the machine that was electrocuting Superboy powered down.

M'gann.

"Well... someone's certainly a glutton for punishment. Both of you are." I heard a voice say. Something pulled me forward. I struggled against it.

Telekinesis.

It dragged me out into the middle of the room. I saw the man who made it happen. The only thing I caught was a flash of sickly pale skin and a hood.

"Fine. You want your boyfriend? Take him. But this one stays behind." The hooded figure said to a now uncloaked M'gann. She grabbed Superboy and turned to me. She set up a psychic link and I reinforced it with magic. Hood man wasn't getting in here anytime soon.

*I will come back for you, but for now, pretend like I'm not* M'gann said in my mind. I mentally nodded.

"You can't just leave me here! What happened to family, M'gann? What happened to a new sister? Did none of that mean anything to you?" I asked her. I was tearing up under my mask.

I could tell my words were actually getting to M'gann but she wiped her tears... and said, "No." And left.

"Teenage drama." Hood man scoffed. I growled in response. "Hmmm... You seem to possess the same psychic strength as a few of my allies. Let's find out for sure, shall we." He said. I started thrashing around.

Like heck I'm gonna sit here and let this guy mess with my head without a fight.

Suddenly I wasn't in the tent anymore. I was in my mind with this creep. He showed me my worst fears and thoughts. I tried to fight back. I had some psychic training. But not enough to get this monster out of my head. He was getting closer and closer to my memories.

I swear, if he messes with any of my memories, I'm going to beat him to the freaking moon. Memories are all I have left.

I struggled and fought. I wouldn't give in. Not yet. I couldn't. I started to lose the fight. Before I completely gave in, I sent out a desperate psychic message to the team.

*HELP ME!* I screamed. My vision went black and the only thing I could see were my worst memories on replay. I hid the most important ones from him. Secret identities, locations and such. I also kept most of my memories of Dick away from the monster tearing apart my psyche.

I occasionally resurfaced from the memories trying to drown me in their depths. I vaguely remembered that I was actually floating in the middle of a Bialyan control tent with a strange ball in a cage next to me. Then the hardest memory to face would come and drag me under again. When I told Dick that we would stick together... right before I was teleported to a world millions of light-years away from him without saying goodbye.

He made me relive our mistake of trying to figure out why there were extraterrestrial originating energies sourced here. I saw myself creep around the inside of the tent. I heard M'gann talking to Aqualad over the psychic link. They were talking about the ball thing. I was more interested in the equipment. It was Apokoliptan.

These people were using Apokoliptian tech and Boom Tubes to transport things. I felt M'gann start to panic. Then I heard the voice. The same voice that was torturing me even now.

"Psimon can't see you. Psimon can't catch you. But Psimon can make you all FORGET!" He said. I felt something grab my waist. Superboy had followed us.

"Save us." He said. Then there was a sharp pain in my head. I could feel the memories burn away. I tried to put the fire out, but I didn't have anything to put it out with. Six months disappeared in a flash of white. I saw a red Kryptonian symbol, then I was flying through the air. I blacked out when I hit the ground.

My family...

I snapped out of the memory. My psyche was already partly destroyed. This was his plan. To destroy my conscience and have me go on a rampage, killing my friends in the process.

I gathered what was left of my psychic energy and blasted Psimon. It made him flicker rapidly for a few seconds. Then he started laughing maniacally.

"Oh my dear. You can't get rid of me by yourself at this point. You're too weak." He said menacingly. I heard a familiar voice from behind me.

"Good thing she's not alone then." Rob said as he grabbed my hand. I looked down at him and squeezed his hand gratefully. Psimon attacked us. I threw up a glowing purple shield. It started to crack.

"You're strong and stubborn, I'm just kind of here for moral support." Rob said. I took off my domino mask so he could see my eyes.

"You mean mental support." I muttered. He smiled and I found myself smiling with him.

"Yes. Mental support." He confirmed. I dropped the shield.

"Get Out. Of My. HEAD!" We shouted simultaneously as we thrust our intertwined hands towards Psimon. A beam of pure white light shot out of our hands and hit Psimon. He screamed and I could almost hear his mind break.

Suddenly we were back in the tent. Except the tent was gone. There was a large tornado surrounding Psimon and I. It dissipated as Psimon crumpled to the ground. Rob and I were still holding hands. I was dropped to the floor when Psimon collapsed. Rob threw my arm over his shoulder and started walking me away.

"Are you okay?" He asked me.

"Not really." I confessed. "Psimon really did a number on my psyche." We talked until we reached the bioship. The others moved the ship near the tent and were helping Kaldur get rehydrated. Rob and I stumbled onto the ship. M'gann ran over.

"I told you I would come back for you!" She said.

"That's great, M'gann. I... really... need a..." I passed out before I could finish the sentence.

I recovered back at the Cave and everyone got their memories back. Superboy apologized multiple times about throwing me even though I told him multiple times that it was okay. Everything went back to normal. I got a few days off to spend with Dick and I enjoyed every second of it.

I'm never letting this family go.