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Chapter 34 - 34. Desert

(POV General)

'Where am I?'

Shift looked up from his mask finding himself strapped in a cross-like manner with his limbs separated on a metal wall.

Shift found scientists seeming to study him of what layed upon his wrist.

'Where's Batman, Tornado, and Dinah! Where's the base!'

Shift's heartbeat became erratic causing the sensory devices to go off from the wall.

"Find what you can to calm him down!"

One scientist seemed to panic at Shift's minor rampage while another one took the opposite approach controlling a dial on a keypad controlling the wall Shift was currently strapped to.

"ArghhhAhhhh!!"

Electricity was sent coursing through Shift's bloodstream damaging him internally. As the pain continued for what felt like a century it suddenly stopped.

Shift was going from in and out of consciousness staring at his surroundings allowing his training to take course as he thought to stay awake.

'Two…outside.....five…inside...'

But the stress of the electricity was too much and all Shift could see before passing out was a man wearing a cloak to mask his head holding up his right hand mumbling the word.

"Sleep"

….

In the middle of the sands awoke Miss Martian speaking her native tongue of Martian as she felt the sand sink between her fingers.

After standing from the sand and traversing it the sudden realization of it came to mind.

"Hello Megan, I'm on Earth."

After she realized where she was she began to fly through the barren desert wondering on why it looked so different from how her Uncle described it.

"Arghh!!!"

An animal-like growl came from the sky hitting the ground and making a crater right next to Miss Martian surprising her at the sight of it.

A teenage boy wearing a black shirt with the Superman's known symbol of Krypton over his chest.

"Are you Superman?"

The teenage boy found the assumption angering and screamed another roar of animal instinct at her before jumping at M'gann trying to harm her.

Miss Martian thought quickly and used a telekinetic barrier bouncing the super-powered teen away.

Once the teen recovered from the new crater he created he ripped the red S off his shirt throwing it to the ground and jumped away.

Miss Martian was struck with fear of this beast-like Man and huddled into a ball trying to calm herself down from the experience she had just gone through.

….

Inside an abandoned building laid an unconscious Artemis who was being woken up by an unruly Kid Flash.

"Hey babe wake up."

Kid Flash continued with different phrases to try and awaken the sleeping Artemis until from the onslaught of pleas for her to wake up.

Artemis' eyebrows began to quirk and eventually woke up to a man in a black and red jumpsuit standing over her.

"Hey"

Kid Flash opened with a solid conversation starter but was met with accusations from the opposite party.

"Where am I? Who are you did you put me in this?"

Kid looked confused at the accusation he was given but introduced himself trying to resolve the current issue.

"Easy babe I'm Kid Flash you ever heard of me?"

Artemis looked at Kid with an even more distrustful gaze that turned into a glare as she stated after looking at his outfit.

"Last I checked Kid Flash doesn't wear black."

Kid, looked down trying to figure out what she meant, and found himself in his stealth suit and after looking showed a face of confusion.

"Oh I know it's Dad and this is one of his tests."

Artemis sounded sure of herself confusing Kid further than he already was and asked.

"Oh and what is the test?"

Artemis looked at Kid with eye-to-eye contact and said nonchalantly like it was the most sane sentence one could say.

"To kill you."

Kid looked underwhelmed by what he had heard but didn't have enough time to collect himself over as a missile was sent their way.

Without Artemis' permission, Kid picked her up and ran outside the building taking her away far enough to see the building they once were in finding it in flames.

"The Queen wants them alive!!"

The voice of a Bialyaian's soldiers could be heard not too far from Artemis and Kid's location. Where each soldier was either inside a tank or riding in a jeep driving towards them opening fire.

Kid still holding Artemis ran away with even more force than before trying to get away from the danger only to stumble down a sand hill rolling off dropping Artemis mid-fall.

At the bottom of the sand hill all both Artemis could hear was the roaring of a man in anger and see pieces of a tank being thrown over them.

Robin using his training from Batman found out that he was currently in Bialya a country ruled by a woman with the abilities of mind control and an army at her whim.

"I should report to Batman."

"Maintain radio silence…."

Robin who was first sure of himself found a hazy memory resurface as if it was blocked by something or one. Finding Batman in front of a holographic map showing a red Dot over their target of Bialya.

Robin was confused even more once he looked at the date on his arm brace finding it to be September when all he remembered was March.

"September? Whatever happened to March?"

After anguishing over his displacement of memory Robin looked at his map finding a set point over it.

'Why would I place a set point there?'

Robin began to follow the waypoint he had set hoping to find answers regarding his peculiar situation.

After walking through the sands of the Bialyain desert Robin found a piece of fabric in the sand.

After dusting it off Robin found a black shirt with the Superman symbol over it in red.

"Curiouser and Curiouser."