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Chapter 36 - 36. Mind Games

(POV General)

"Wish I wonder why I placed a GPS marker here?"

Robin who was within a fifteen-foot radius of the object of his curiosity soon found a black box about the size of a human standing out in the sand like a sore thumb.

Robin upon sight of the box ducked behind a large sand dune observing said box while also saying to himself.

"I guess that's why."

It took Robin five minutes to analyze the box which seemed human in nature. Yet the box seemed alien to him.

Robin went up to the box to investigate it further only to be surrounded by Bialyan soldiers armed to the teeth with guns.

The leading soldier barked commands as he led the charge towards Robin.

"Her Majesty wants him alive!"

Once surrounded Robin smirked knowing he walked into their 'trap.' Robin threw a smoke pellet to the ground clouding everyone's line of sight. 

Well, everyone except Robin that is. Through the smokescreen, Robin began to eliminate each opponent he found by either Punch, Kick, or somersault.

As the smoke cleared Robin became seen by the Bialyan soldiers and was about to be gunned down.

"Thank you. I'll take that."

A black and red flash passed each soldier taking their guns and once each one was in hand Kid Flash showed himself dropping his guns onto the sand.

Robin was surprised to see his friend KF there but focused on the fight attacking each solider that came within arms reach.

Kid Flash took five grunts at once giving each a punch to the jaw and knocking each man he hit unconscious.

Miss Martian used her psychic powers to slam two soldiers together also knocking them out of consciousness. 

Robin continued his fighting with the several soldiers that weren't down just yet until one remained.

The spoiler tried running away hoping to inform the others of the group that infiltrated their country was shortly stopped by an arrow to the legs.

Artemis fired an arrow at the soldier's legs where on contact opened dispensing a bolo tying the soldier's legs together causing him to fall over into the sand.

Once the battle was finished Robin walked over to Kid Flash high-fiving him happy to see him.

"KF! Good to see someone ya know!"

"Hey Rob memory loss?"

Kid was happy to see his long-time friend and asked him if he had any issues with his memory and to his dismay he did voicing his complaint.

"Six months!"

The team didn't seem surprised by Robin cause the same had happened to them. Miss Martian filled Robin in on what happened. Starting an argument from the team about the rampaging SuperBoy.

'For SuperBoy.'

Miss Martian steeled herself as she formed a forced psychic link between everyone taking them to her mindscape showing the same influx of colors as she saw before.

Everyone besides Miss Martian herself was confused so she explained.

"So if we combine our memories we can fill in the gaps if I go through your minds? With your consent."

Artemis looked appalled at the idea of someone going through her thoughts and voiced her negative opinion which was outcasted by both Robin's and Kid Flash's comments.

"So you need to back our brains to fix us? Go ahead."

"Alright beautiful, but don't let my brilliant mind overwhelm you too much."

"Uh…Alright but only the past six months nothing else!"

Artemis ultimately agreed that M'gann was beginning to focused but was distracted by Robin's side comment before connecting their minds.

"Overwhelmed. Underwhelmed. Why can't people just be Whelmed?"

M'gann after ignoring her teammate's comment focused her psychic power into three extensions of herself forming three hands.

Two elongated hands from her physical arms while the third appeared from thin air connecting her mind to the one it grabbed being Artemis.

Once all four minds were connected several images fueled their heads one was of Batman. Batman spoke of the mission at hand which was a simple covert infiltration mission purely to observe.

Another Image was of SuperBoy carrying a box and finally a voice within that Memory.

"Good job SuperBoy. Aqua-lad you will lead everyone while Miss Martian and I observe the source of our coming here."

"Understood."

Aqua-Lad stood firm like a soldier given orders and intended to follow. While the one giving them was a man who had the voice of a commanding personality for that of a leader.

"""" Aqua-lad/Shift!""""

Everyone screamed at the realization of their two forgotten teammates and suddenly began to panic.

"If Calder's out here in the Desert. Well really sucks to have gills. He'll be hard to locate."

Kid Flash was the first to speak of the dilemma at the hands of finding their lost teammates until Robin who brought up his holographic map projected by his arm brace said.

"No. now that I know where to look….there he is!"

A big red dot began to beep like a heartbeat on Robins's holographic map showing a location that was about a five to ten walk from where they were.

"I need to find SuperBoy!"

M'gann was the first to act beginning to levitate into the air but before she could proceed to find him Kid Flash spoke to her in reason.

"Wait! Calder's the one who needs help. He's basically a fish in a frying pan, not a good sight if you ask me!"

"SuperBoy didn't even exist six months ago so now he's just a creature based on animal impulses!"

M'gann fought her side of the argument against Kid only for the newly reminded Artemis to break the conversation addressing something important.

"Where's Shift?!"

Both M'gann and Kid looked to Artemis who seemed more worried about him than both Aqua-lad and SuperBoy. 

"Already ahead of ya."

Robin unlike his fellow teammates followed the most basic ways of a rescue mission finding either their current or last known location. And just like with Calder another red dot showed itself beeping to life right next to Aqua-lad.

"He's next to Aqua-lad let's go!"

Robin took charge of the distracted team forcing them to focus on the task at hand which was finding the others.

M'gann reacted to Robin's command by flying away to a direction she could sense the most minds knowing SuperBoy had to be there being held against his will.

While M'gann flew towards the center of the brainwaves she sensed. Robin's team takes a quick stop finding a dried and passed out Aqua-Lad on the floor mumbling in his native tongue of Atlantean. 

"It's alright buddy we got ya."

Kid Flash was the first to both act and speak picking Calder up to lean on him. 

Robin and Artemis used some cloth and some sticks making a cot for Calder. Where once placed was dragged at a slower pace than M'gann's flying.