( MADELAINE PRINCE )

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐎𝐔𝐓𝐇, the ground she was on pricked her skin slightly as madelaine pushed herself up, a pain shooting through her head as she latched onto it and opened her eyes slowly, adjusting to the light.

sand? she was in a desert? where was diana? nothing made sense to her, she should've been back in gotham with diana training. glancing down to her body she let out a confused grunt as she noticed a yellow and orange woven bracelet secured around her wrist. it so did not go with her hero outfit. blinking quickly she frowned at the fact she was in her human attire and not hero one.

a loud bang in the distance caught her attention causing her to shoot to her feet which she was still slightly unstable on, something in the short distance boomed with black smoke. her hero instincts kicking in and her body shooting to the air.

she didn't even know what country she was in or who she came with but she needed answers and that loud explosion was all the best she'd get. two small figures flinging onto the ground grabbed her attention as she stopped flight above a blown up shed?

in the sand, three tanks are approaching. lead by a jeep armed with a machine-gun. "makala vusee agravu! (don't let them escape!)" one shouts. the soldier fires the machine gun at their retreating forms.

the girl on the floor looks over her shoulder before dropping into a roll on a diagonal, coming to a kneeling position with her bow aimed at the leading car. she releases the arrow, which impacts the ground below the front of the car, flipping it over both her and the boys heads before it lands and bounces two more times.

the boy looks back to the girl, seeing her hidden behind a small rock formation and firing at more of the bialyan troops. he slides his goggles over his eyes before taking off.

madelaine can see at the distance, that tanks fire two more missiles, her body flying down in front of the two people on the ground and creating as much an energy shield she can considering her fatigue state.

the girl gasps as the boy picks her up and runs off at an unexplainable speed. the missiles hitting madelaine's shield and weakening the girl slightly, but before it drops fully and lets her get blown into small pieces she feels herself being picked up.

"are you alright?" he asks well speeding them away, madelaine throwing her head over his shoulder to see the tanks aiming at them again.

once again the tanks take aim. the boy looks over his shoulder before running faster to dodge the impacts, causing madelaine to turn more into his hold to avoid the dust and dirt and to minimize the fact that she's clenching her eyes shut with each impact.

"thank you" she says quietly as they finally start to run in a more straight line again.

the boy laughs lightly. "i'm a good guy. now-uh- not to pry, but- uh- what's your name?" he says with a small smile, though it drops ever so slightly. "and how did you get here?"

———

i'm actually on Earth. m'gann thinks excitedly as she flies around the desert landscape. I've wanted this for so long... even if it's not exactly like tv. she makes a loop around a rock formation that stands tall in the air before coming to a stop between two tree carcasses. but why can't I remember how I got here? she sits cross-legged, but still floating in the air. concentrate remember. her eyes open, glowing white.

it's dark in the bialyan desert, before m'gann is superboy, kneeling down on both his knees. Looking around confused for a few moments before he grabs his shirt and rips it apart with a yell. charging at m'gann.

superboy stands tall in front of a large machine, looking at the control panel.

"good idea. go." aqualad's voice instructs.

"be careful." superboy tells m'gann with a small smile.

.:.

"careful, superboy, they're hot." m'gann tells superboy as he reaches for a tray of cookies. taking one off the tray with no problem.

wally- in his uniform- zips in and takes the cookie from superboy's hand. "not as hot as you babe." he says, before throwing it into his mouth, oblivious to the angry look superboy and mads are giving him.

superboy takes another as he looks m'gann. "uh, thanks, wally. that's uh... sweet." she says hesitantly.

"not as sweet as you, sugar." wally says, barely after swallowing.

madelaine slapping the boys arm at his constant flirting, ignoring the small noise of pain in favor of an insult and taking a cookie. "leave her alone"

"you know you're the only girl for me, sweetheart" wally flirts back as he gets up close in the girls face with a teasing grin, madelaine rolling her eyes

robin smiling along at madelaine's jab at wally and wally's constant persistence.

"team, report to the mission room." batman's voice travels over the speaker system, gaining everyone's attention

.:.

m'gann smiles brightly. "i'm on a team. i have friends, and a superboy who might be..." she trails in thought, before forcing herself to focus again. "i have to him-them."

"hello? um, team?" she tries with her telepathy.

maybe they're just out of my range. m'gann thinks to herself, staying positive before she takes off going faster and disappearing due to her camouflage.

———

wally comes to a stop on the far side of a small ravine, using the shade to block them from the afternoon sun. setting madelaine on both her feet before bending over, panting. madelaine turning to see the blonde from earlier with her arms crossed.

 the girl looks at her in an odd combination of annoyed, jealous, and confused. she was a pretty girl madelaine thought, but from the way she was glaring her down she didn't think she liked her very much.

"sorry. running on empty." the boy says as he wipes at his brow standing straight again, but still breathing heavily. "don't think i've eaten in awhile." opening a small compartment on the inside of his wrist. "been out here over 24 hours, or my cupboards wouldn't be bare."

"wait, you look familiar" madelaine speaks up as she takes another look at the boy dressed in a black suit, the flash on the centre of his chest causing a spark of realisation to hit her "you're kid flash!"

kid flash smirks in happiness before it drops "wait, you know me? who're you?" he says as she quickly shakes her head remembering she looked human. she shut her eyes momentarily before flipping her head back and letting her white hair take over, purple eyes glowing in against the bright sun.

"you're mystique!" his shocked tone not going unnoticed by either female. madelaine nods urgently as she turns to the blonde girl beside her.

"green arrow enthusiast?" she questioned, only remembering roy being green arrows sidekick, whoever this girl was she had no clue.

the blonde girl just shrugged as she insecurely covered her chest "no clue how i got in this"

"so we all have amnesia, great..." madelaine trailed off as she started chewing on her lip in thought. wally looking the girl over noticing a familiar yellow and orange bracelet on her wrist.

"hey, wai-" the boys sentence cut off as a boy who looks similar to superman drops in between the three . the jump causes a kick up of dust and sand before it fully clears the boy turns and yells at kid flash, startling the speedster before hitting with a backhand that knocks him into the ravine.

madelaine shoots to the sky as quick as possible to avoid getting thrown anywhere, with her current state she was sure she could easily break a bone with one hit from the scary kid.

looking over his shoulder he sees the blonde. realizing she's, his next target she jumps into a back-handspring giving herself enough space to draw her bow and aim an arrow at the boys chest. though it has no effect, she keeps moving back and firing more arrows. she dives into a roll to avoid superboy's attempt to get her around her waist.

he looks to the sky and yells into the void before jumping high and latching onto madelaine's legs pulling the girl down. just a tell tale whistle can be heard. zooming right past the blonde and landing right between superboy and madelaine's feet.

the collective cry of pain is enough to reach m'gann. gripping her head she sees superboy surrounded by the flames of the missile. "superboy, where are you?" she asks looking around until she sees black smoke on her left. taking off for the source as fast as she can.

two Bialyan tanks approach the crater and a fallen madelaine. the girl grips her head harshly before crawling to her feet again, she knew if she stayed there she'd die.

"kid, blondie!" she calls as she begins to stumble to the blonde girls side and help her up to her feet.

 gripping her head again, madelaine looks at the tanks and is shocked to see the boy land in front of them, almost protectively. before he jumps to land on top of the left bialyan tank, grabbing a hold of the main gun and bending it. as he rips it off the machine gun on top of the tank shoot the boy in the back. 

turning towards the source the boy grabs the gun, removing the barrel from the gun the soldier is holding. before grabbing the soldier and throwing him up and away. finally, with a scream, the boy grabs onto the top of the tank before ripping it clean off and throwing it away too. the second tank shoots at him in the back, the force throwing him into the rock face away from the tanks. unhurt the boy of steel stands up in the small crater before jumping back at the tank with a scream.

"whose side is he on?" the girl asks herself out loud.

"you wanna stick around and find out?" wally asks back, the three of them watching as the young superman looking boy beats up on the tank.

madelaine shakes her head well shooting to the sky and waiting for kid flash to pick the girl up so they can get out of there.

kid flash runs quickly over the sandy dunes, unfortunately tripping on a rock on the way down, only giving him and the girl enough time to gasp before they roll the rest of the way down the hill.

"are you guys alright?" madelaine asks as she lands beside the two on the ground, before a loud sound goes off above their heads causing kid to throw an arm over her back and pull her down.

they wait till they fly past before getting up and watching them, thinking they're not the targets. however, the fighters circle back around, firing at the three.

"get down!" kid flash yells over the gunfire, bringing him and madelaine to ground again as the fighter blows past them.

the two circle back around, the blonde girl nocking an arrow and taking aim.

"don't worry, i'm almost there." m'gann's voice rings out in their heads just as the blonde takes her shot, though stunned she misses completely.

"did you hear that?" madelaine asks at the same time the blonde asks "did you just hear a girl talking in your head?" completely freaked out.

the voice was so familiar to madelaine but it was impossible for m'gann to be on earth. there was no need for her to be there, let alone in the same place as her.

"girls are always on my mind," he says with a smirk, though his eyes change slightly as he looks more directly at madelaine out of the corner of his eye. "but they're not usually talking."

m'gann flies behind the two planes, hiding in their blind spot, before she moves both her hands out in front of her, then clapping them together. in mirror the two planes crash into each other. creating an explosion behind m'gann's back as she lowers herself to the ground by madelaine, the blonde and kid flash.

"well, j'onn, the costume looks familiar, but I'm not sure the new bod screams 'manhunter'." kid says to the martian with enough sarcasm and impressively creeped out hots to get his point across.

madelaine may have been mistaken but it sure did look like m'gann, except her outfit was different.

"you know my j'onn?" the green girl asks excitedly. "hello, megan, of course, you do! you're kid flash. wally! and you're artemis." and you're madelaine!

"m'gann? oh my gods" madelaine sighs out as she rushes to the girl and throws her arms over the martian girl, a sigh leaving her throat considering she wasn't alone out there.

"wait, wait, wait. martian manhunter is your uncle?" wally asks, taking in the new information happily considering he's not riddled with bullet holes thanks to her. " is that how you know my name?"

madelaine pulled back from the martian girls embrace before looking between the two of them confused, how m'gann knew any humans besides her and batman confused her.

"your name is really Wally?" artemis asks, unimpressed.

wally hangs his head and groans. "ohh..." he was quite cute madelaine thought to herself.

"it's okay." m'gann assures. "we're teammates, friends, i made you cookies."

"teammates? you know m'gann?" madelaine asks turning to wally with a raised eyebrow and a face written over with confusion.

"no, i swear, gorgeous. never seen her before in my life." wally tries to explain. "at least not that I..."

m'gann sighs. "you've all lost your memories too." she hears more jeeps come in, turning she sees them heading towards a black pillar of smoke. "c'mon, i fill you in as we go. robin and superboy need our help."

"why's robin here?" madelaine asks as wally continues "super-what now?" he asks, only now realizing what she said as he was about to say it.

———

madelaine hadn't seen robin in months and now here he was fighting off soldiers single handedly in the middle of a desert. what a reunion.

m'gann, wally and robin had taken out a majority of the guards and madelaine and artemis were left to get the last to . a green arrow following one of the attempted escapees as the same time a soldier dropped from the air landing on the man. a bola releases from the arrow and wraps around the two soldiers, causing them to crash to the ground. 

the three on the ground look to artemis on the dune, a stoic look on her face, before she smiles softly and makes her way down the dune. before looking up at a descending madelaine.

"kf!" robin says as he and the redhead head towards each other, grasping the speedster's hand in his own. "man it is good to see a familiar face."

"hey rob." the boy wonder seems to have been expecting that kid flash continues. "memory loss?"

"six months!" robin cries, outraged, or just offended. "let's hogtie these creeps and compare notes." the six are hogtied and groaning before long.

"hey mads" robin says as he joins madelaine's side with a smile, the girl smiling back before nudging his shoulder

"so i'm meant to believe that we're in a team?" madelaine asks as she gestures to the five of them with a sceptical look.

"the five of us and superboy." m'gann says, saving the hardest to believe piece for last.

though not hard to believe as robin grabs something from his belt and responds with ease and speed. "then this must be his." in his hand is black polyester with a red s decal on the front.

"yes." m'gann gasps, taking it from the boy wonder. "did you see him?"

"i think we did!" artemis realizes while madelaine and kid mull it over.

"feral-boy? some teammate, he attacked us." wally says annoyed.

"he doesn't know who we are." madelaine defend the boy "i don't even know who we are!"

"i remember batman ordering radio silence." robin inputs. "our team must work for him."

madelaine frowned for a second, batman was a good man. always provided her a safe place to stay if needed but he didn't seem like the willing type to take on six proteges.

 in an instant, wally has a smirk on his face. "how do you know we don't work for my mentor?" he asks, hitting the flash logo on his chest for emphasis. though when his suit suddenly goes back to bright yellow he stops short. "whoa." He hits it a couple more times, watching as his color scheme changes. "this is so cool." 

artemis, robin try it too, with no results. madelaine's however turns black and silver making her eyes widen.

 "we look ridiculous." artemis snaps, catching everyone's attention but wally - who is still acting like a 5-year-old with a new toy. "quit touching yourself!" wally does it one more time, causing artemis to make a sound of annoyance. "we need our memories back."

madelaine guessed artemis and wally were dating or something from the way the too interacted, she doubted she was with robin considering he was like her brother and superboy seemed a bit too intense for her liking. maybe she was still hung up on roy?

m'gann nervously rubs her hands together nervously. to help superboy. she thinks to herself, hardening her resolve before bringing her hands to her head and her eyes glowing white.

madelaine, robin , artemis, and wally look around stunned as they see small chunks of memories playing around them.

"i brought you into my mind to share what I remember so far." a white form appears before the three, holding m'gann's voice. "but I need your help," finally m'gann's hooded form appears. "together our broken memories can form a whole if you open your minds to mine."

artemis looks angered and betrayed. "you wanna paw through our private thoughts?"

m'gann raises her hands in defense before she even responds. "i don't wish to intrude but-"

"you need to hack our minds to figure out what happened to us. got it, go." robin finishes, snapping his fingers as he gives her his okay.

"my brain's all yours. try not to let its brilliance overwhelm you." wally flirts.

"or underwhelm you." robin pipes up. "hey, why isn't anyone just whelmed?" he asks.

artemis ignores the fact that he's spouting nonsense and turns to m'gann. hearing wally step up, her eyes fall on him, what catches her attention is his soft smile and the fact that his hand is reaching out for hers.

"last six months only. and only what you need." she tells m'gann, glancing back at wally briefly.

"don't dig too deep" madelaine speaks up with a hesitant nod as she stands her ground wally's other side.

m'gann nods, reaching her hands out as astral projections of hands branch off her hands and her head to meet with madelaine, artemis, wally, and robin's heads. the memory clips become more uniform before finally becoming a full image.

.:.

"the watchtower detected an immense power surge in the bialyan desert." batman's voice speaks. forming an image of the dark knight in mount justice, displaying a map to the team. "spectral analysis revealed elements non-terrestrial in origin." madelaine, artemis, kid flash, miss martian, and superboy stand before him. "find out what happened at that site. what landed there?" batman hits his remote again, changing the screen to show queen bee. "bialya is a rogue state ruled by queen bee and not a member of the league's un charter. all communications are subject to interception." the image changes back to the map. "maintain radio silence at all time."

looking out through binoculars at the bialyan desert, batman's voice continues. "you will land in quarac, on bialya's border," the binoculars fall and the attention is turned again to miss m, superboy , and artemis, who are backed by the bioship, and superboy is moving the same thing that robin had a gps marker on. "two clicks from the hot zone."

"all clear." the boy wonder tells them.

"the bialyans control the site." artemis' voice speaks up, her and Robin crawling in the desert to look over a small bialyan camp.

"set up here." kaldur's voice tells superboy, who drops the device he was carrying on his back. the straps disappearing and only needing one button to fully activate the machine.

"we'll be up and running in no time." robin says as he types away at the keyboard on the machine.

"jackpot!" wally says from behind the boy wonder, standing up from his slight crouch. "this site's lousy with zeta beam radiation." robin looking to the speedster.

"some of us aren't that much wally" madelaine says from in front of robin as she leans against the large machine

"detecting non-terrestrial trace elements from the tent." he informs the team.

"i'll check it out in camouflage mode." m'gann offers.

"good idea, go." kaldur tells her.

"careful." superboy says immediately.

"and maintain telepathic contact." kaldur reminds her.

"i will aqualad." she promises.

.:.

"aqualad!" all five shout, remembering.

"where is he? what happened next?" robin asks.

"i don't know. that's the last thing I- we remember." she admits, worry coating her voice.

madelaine look to wally and artemis as they look down to their clasped hands, both of them pulling away. the small tug at madelaine's hurt making the girl turn her head quickly.

"ugh-" wally grumbles, moving his hand to rub the back of his neck, looking up and away as he talks. "i-uh-we landed 24 hours ago. if kaldur's been wandering the desert that long, well, that's not good for a guy with gills."

"now that I know to look for him..." robin grumbles, instantly pulling up his hologlove. "he's close, but he's not moving." he informs.

———

"du ra, vis ol may," aqualad murmurs, his face scrunching up in pain as robin, kid flash, artemis, madelaine and miss m nervously look him over for any physical damage. "aga pa, olsey."

"i can't restore his memories in this state." m'gann tells the others.

"he needs immediate rehydration." robin says sternly. "call the bioship."

"it's out of range."  miss m says instantly, then looks to kid flash. "you can get him there quickly."

"he's too heavy, and I'm too low on fuel." kid says almost breathlessly. "right now, I couldn't even carry her." he gestures to artemis with his thumb.

artemis pushes it away with a scoff, looking at miss m. "why not just levitate him back?" 

miss m sets the once-again-unconscious aqualad back down. "i can't I have to find superboy." she says, standing up, facing down artemis. "six months ago he didn't exist, just animal impulse, i'm the only one who can help him."

"i'll find him, you help with kaldur. he's in a critical state" madelaine tells the martian as she sends the atlantian a worried look

"superboy's indestructible, just ask those tanks." kid points out. "it's Aqualad who needs your help- like- now."

m'gann clutches her head as an image of superboy being electrocuted surfaces.

"no!" she shouts. "superboy's in pain. only i can bring his memory back" she takes off with nothing else on her mind.

"m'gann wait!" "m'gann!" madelaine and artemis yell after the martian.

"we still don't know what erased our memories!" robin calls after her. "it could happen again!"

madelaine cursed her best friend out under her breath before turning to her remaining conscious team mates "we need to move him, now."

———

madelaine and artemis drag aqualad on a stretcher, with wally and robin leading the way. a map and gps tracking system showing on his hologlove. the four of them hear the bialyan jeeps before they see them.

robin instinctually turns his head towards the source, slowing down and pointing to a rock formation before them. "quick, over there." the boy wonder gestured.

kid grabs the back of the stretcher and him, madelaine and artemis take off after the boy wonder. all five of them making it to the hiding place just as the bialyan troops drive past.

aqualad groans, but remains unconscious. "tula, dena me ta. etah en atlantis ih ba ohse." 

kid turns his attention away from aqualad, as robin moves closer to the edge of their hiding place, and artemis presses her hand against his forehead.

she shushes him quietly. "kaldur, quiet now." she tells him.

robin sees a group of five bialyan soldiers, all of them armed, walking past where they're hiding. dropping back down to kid, madelaine, artemis, and aqualad; the boy wonder huffs. "we can't risk a firefight with aqualad ko'd like this."

wally groans, agreeing. "it's not just him. i'm way out of juice." he rubs the back of his neck looking to artemis and madelaine, hopefully.

"and I'm almost out of arrows." she pulls on her mostly empty quiver to prove her point.

"i'm way too tired, i don't think i've slept in a few days" madelaine admitted before going to turn to robin only then do the three of them notice that robin is missing.

"ugh, I forgot how much I hate it when he does the ninja-thing." wally groans then looks to artemis knowing the boy wonder can handle it. "hey, you never said why your dad to..." he runs his thumb across his neck, making a bad sound effect. "...me."

"i got confused by- um- some old movie I saw the other night..." artemis turns her back towards the speedster. "about a ninja girl whose ninja dad ordered her to kill her ninja boyfriend 'cuz he was from a rival ninja clan."

"so, I'm your 'ninja boyfriend' huh?" kid teases the girl. madelaine now tuning their conversation out as she stares forward.

wally just never gave up she thought to herself. first m'gann, then her for a day and now artemis. she didn't doubt he'd be back to m'gann by tomorrow but the pure fact he had the audacity to flirt with them all in front of the others said something.

her hand instinctively went to her wrist but the woven bracelet hanging there caught her attention. it was wally's colours she noticed but as she turnt to look at the kid flash she stopped herself and dropped the subject.

artemis' eyes go wide before she composes herself and turns back to him. "hey, amnesia, remember?" she glares at him harshly as she nearly snaps at him. "i completely forgot how truly annoying you are."

"oh, like you're the goddess of congeniality!" kid gripes.

"yeesh! get a room!" robin suddenly speaks, catching both of them off-guard. madelaine sighing out happily that he was back

"dude, where were you?" kid questions.

the boy wonder smirks. "breaking radio silence."

robin's laugh comes from in front of the bialyan soldiers and they take off after the sound. 

as the bialyans come to the source of the sound they hear devices begin to beep. before them, slightly hidden by a small rock, are three of robin's disks. the blinking and laughing speed up just before.

robin stays kneeling beside aqualad and artemis while madelaine and kid are in front. as the disks creating smoke bombs robin turns to the other three . "that's our cue. move!" they waste no time doing exactly that.

———

"imagine we never got our memories back" madelaine speaks up as she takes the wet cloth out o f artemis' hands and walks over to aqualad who had an iv in as he lay down in the bioship.

"i know imagine not remembering me!" wally exclaims like that was the worst thing. madelaine only rolled her eyes playfully.

"hey everybody,i've got superboy." m'gann's voice calls out of the link.

madelaine stops what she's doing and looks up at the same time a stunned wally does.

m'gann flies low to the desert, holding superboy beside her. "he's back to normal we're on our way."

aqualad jolts up, panting, looking to madelaine with wide eyes. "who are you?" he questions, though not putting up much of a fight as madelaine pushes his shoulders back down. "and how did you get inside my head?"

"hello, megan." the martian continues, bumping her head. "aqualad's memories.  knew I forgot something."

"aw man, me too," wally grumbles. "i didn't get a souvenir for the mission." completely ignoring how artemis and kaldur turn to look at him in varying levels of annoyed.

"don't worry, i think m'gann's probably got something covered" madelaine said with a sure smile as she sent the ginger boy a smile causing him to blush with an awkward cough.