"Uh, babe. You okay?" 

"Yep."

"You sure? You're- You have acrophobia, don't you?"

"What's acrophobia?" asked Megan.

"It means she's scared of acrobats." Artemis said.

"Ho ho ho."

"Stop, Robin, you're scaring her."

"Glad you can joke about this," I said, gritting it out through clenched teeth. I glared at Wally. "And  I can deal with heights. It's the flying I have issues with." Flying on anything other than a pegasus if I was being specific. Even if it was highly unlikely for Zeus to strike me out of the sky now, the threat lingered in my mind. The threat of having the Master Bolt hit me, and down whatever aircraft I'm in, wasn't one to take lightly. And the risk only increased with an Atlantean flying in the same aircraft. So yeah, I'd say I have a wonderfully irrational fear of flying. 

"You don't need to worry, Bluejay," said Megan. "The Bioship is perfectly safe."

"That's only marginally reassuring." I didn't doubt that the Bioship was more durable than a regular plane. But I also don't doubt that the Master Bolt would disintegrate it, fry it to a crisp, or send us plummeting straight down. Water would only not make me into chunky jam if I, you know, hit the water. It wasn't going to do anything if there was something between me and it. Not to mention the fact everyone else here would die too. Anyway, back to the jam. Would I really be jam, or would I be salsa? Would a monster eat my splattered corpse on toast or on tortilla chips?

"We will be there soon," said Kaldur. "Do not worry."

"Kaldur can generate electricity form his tattoos and he can control water with his water bearers." Dick stretched and rested his feet on the dash. 

"Robin, I do not-"

"If she's going to be working with us, she might as well know what powers we have. Mine is winning people over with my smile."

"Doesn't she know this already?" Connor asked.

"No. No, she doesn't." I said, even though their powers wouldn't be all that hard to figure out. "I stole a suit, I didn't spend time looking through a supercomputer. I don't have the patience for that. Or, uh, you know the ability to hack into it. If you don't want to tell me, that's fine, but you don't have to be rude about it."

Sure, maybe I was being a bit hypocritical. I'd been plenty rude to the gods and to people I'd just met. The only difference was the gods are assholes ninety percent of the time, and the people I was rude to generally happened around points in my life when people got kidnapped or killed. And as far as I could tell, I hadn't crashed a funeral when I popped into the Cave.  It would-

"I don't mind." Megan interrupted my thoughts. "I'm Martian, so I can do some of the stuff my uncle can. Not that I'm as good at him or anything! He's a lot more advanced than I am. He can do stuff like density shifting, but uh, I'm pretty good at the simpler stuff like camouflage and telekinesis and tele- Hello, Megan. No one ever told you about the mind link."

"Mind link?"

"I can use my telepathy to let us talk to each other. It's pretty secure, except when Psimon's involved."

Just based off of how she said that name, whenever Psimon is involved it was probably bad. Could I really deal with some more people messing around in my head?

"Yeah, I don't think that's a good idea."

 "Why? Have something you're trying to hide?" Connor asked.

I sighed and sank lower in my seat. "Yeah? I mean, a lot of it is trauma, but then there's also the part where my memory got erased for a few months and I woke up surrounded by wolves. Not exactly something I'm anxious to open myself back up to."

"What."

"It's exactly what it sounds like."

"I believe we are nearing our destination," said Kaldur. I looked out the window. And I couldn't tell anything about the landscape below aside from it was land. I- Lightning flashed, and I jumped. My mouth clicked shut. 

The Bioship rotated as it lowered towards the ground before coming to a stop with a soft jolt. The restraints released and I stood up. We walked down the ramp. The cold air flowed around us, seeping through cloth. It didn't really bother me, and it felt more like fifty degrees than the twenty the thermometer on the holoscreen was showing. I breathed out through my nose. It was warmer than this on the beach, and yet I'm perfectly fine. I shook my head, clearing my thoughts of that being a certain goddess's work. No need to risk bringing her attention to it when there's no guarantee she's involved. 

Kaldur looked around, eyes locking onto the smoke rising into the sky. "Superboy, can you-"

"It's a big blob of heat. Either there's a lot of them, or they're committing arson."

"Let's go," said Wally, lowering his goggles. I reached out and grabbed his arm. My shoulder complained at the rapid strain that came with holding him back.

"Either you're running into a potential death trap--" Actually more of just a death trap for him. "--or you'll be running straight into a fire." Once I was sure he wouldn't rush off, I dropped my hand back to my side.

"She's right, KF. We don't need you running in blind. Again."

"Oh, like you're one to talk, dude. You were the one who hacked the computer in the first place."

"In my defense, whenever you investigate a kinda shady business you don't really expect there to be a whole underground cloning lab." 

"Yeah, yeah, we get it." Artemis shoved her way forward. I found myself hoping that Artemis wasn't with the Hunt. Things would get confusing very fast. Though it would give me the perfect opportunity to call her a nickname. "Batman said there's a chance they might be in danger. Shouldn't we be trying to make sure that they're the threat before we start trying to fight them? You know, like civilized human beings." She sighed. "And yes, I'm including the two aliens in that."

"Hey, I'm only half-alien."

"Do you want to test the limits of your invulnerability? Because it sounds like you want me to test the limits of your invulnerability."

Kaldur sighed. He ran a webbed hand over his hair, looking as though he needed eight more hours of sleep. Or a coma. If this was how things always went, then I'd probably be opting for the coma.

"Let's go." I pulled Wally after me.

"Bluejay, we need a plan," Dick yelled. 

"I have one. Don't die."  My voice floated down the hill. Once at the top, I froze. Dropping to a crouch, I couldn't help the small curses falling from my lips. They weren't fighting, they were camping. Rushing into a fight would have made it so much easier to not get someone shot. All it would take is one wrong move-

"What is it?" Kaldur asked. 

"Campsite."

"I'll go check it out," said Megan. Before I could protest, she flew down. I swallowed. This was going to end badly.

Artemis knelt beside me. Her bow unfolded from its collapsed form."How many girls?"

"Twenty," said Dick, looking through his binoculars. 

"Can you identify the leader?" 

"There's a girl with a circlet. She's the only person who could probably-" Synchronized, the blood drained from the Team's faces. Robin vaulted over a rock. "Come on."

We sprinted down the hill, dodging trees and roots. The scene laid out in front of us wasn't all that odd. Just Thalia holding a knife to Megan's neck. Basically a normal visit to Camp aside from I was pretty sure there weren't any aliens at Camp.

"Let her go." Connor growled.

The Hunt swiveled as if a hive mind, arrows aimed towards us. The aura of hatred and disdain around them at the level you'd expect from a bunch of people following a goddess who had a guy ripped to shreds by his own dogs. 

Artemis, in turn, notched an arrow and aimed it at Thalia, with the misguided idea that the Hunt wouldn't immediately murder everyone here if she shot it. "You move and I shoot." Great, now she's making it worse. We'd be pincushions before we made it to steps.

Despite the morbid image that painted, I snorted. "That's actually kinda funny," I said.

"Bluejay, uh, maybe don't antagonize the people pointing sharp things at us?"

A lazy grin fell onto my face. I tilted my head . "What can I say? Pissing people off is my favorite pastime. Plus, I'm pretty sure any one of these girls could intercept anything we throw at them."

Electric blue eyes focused on me. Electricity flickered around the knives, arcs increasing in frequency with every moment that passed. "Who are you?" Megan flinched as sparks showered her. Thalia's hand flexed, knuckles going white around the hilt of her second knife. 

"The sun's pretty hot, isn't it?" I smiled.

Thalia groaned. "I regret saying that."

"I regret getting in that vehicle with you," I said. Light flashed. My fingers sandwiched the blade, the guard hitting my glove. I flipped the knife around and caught it by the hilt. "I'm keeping this."

"Like the fuck you are. Give it back." 

"You threw it at me. I get to keep it."

"By that logic I should get to keep Travis."

"Well, since she already cussed," said Wally, "What the fuck are you guys talking about?"

I sighed, shook my head, and waved my hand. "Not important. And you can let her go, Thalia. I doubt she's going to hurt you? Right, Miss Martian?"

"I won't."

Thalia removed her knife from Megan's neck. I thought she would have backed away, hurried up and gotten the Hunt out of there and leave the Mist to cover their tracks. But no. Of course not. That would've been too easy. 

She stalked over me. Enough electricity crackled around her to power a small neighborhood. "Six months," she growled. "Six fucking months with no contact and then your mom got a voicemail?!"

"Why is everyone saying fuck so much?" Dick asked.

Wally gasped and covered Dick's ears. "Watch your language, don't corrupt the child." Dick reached up and clamped his hands over Wally's ears; Megan covered Connor's.  

"In my defense, your step-mom is insane."

"Shut up. We-" Thalia poked her finger against my sternum. "We thought you were dead." 

I grabbed her wrist. The electricity crackled over my skin, but it wasn't bad enough to get a reaction. Thalia's eyes were wide, and they met the white lenses of the mask. All at once the sparks fizzled out. She surged forward in a hug. The smile pulling at my lips was hard to hide, but I did my best. 

"They have orders to stop you, Diana gave me orders to make sure they don't. Also I'm pretty sure she doesn't know who I am, so maybe don't tell her about me being, well, me."

"Well, have fun with that." Thalia pulled away from me. Another zap, and she grinned. "Okay, girls. Pack it up. We took out that den, so we might as well get a move on."

"What just happened?" Wally asked. 

"I'm the reason that no one took several arrows to the knees and neck. You're welcome." I shoved my hands in my pockets. The Hunters were already out of view. That didn't mean they were out of the clear yet, even if their brutal efficiency and- I honestly couldn't think of anything that could keep them safe and out of view of the Team.

"We were-" Connor started.

"They might not be able to physically hurt you, Superboy, but trust me, they could find some way to kill you. I mean you have a heart, and I'm not sure how well you'd react to chain lightning. So would you rather follow orders, or make sure that we all walk out of this alive?" I turned from the silent Connor. Blanks eyes stared ahead of me. I moved on autopilot. Screams and yells rang in my ears, pain burned across my skin. 

Have a chapter. Now I'm going to idk, try to sleep or something

See yah