Prompt Post - Part Five [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]

[yj_anon]

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3.6/5: Red and Green

[anonymous]

It’s the light that wakes him up. It takes him a few blinks to realize that he’s actually surprised to wake up-for a second there, he didn’t think he was going to. Then panic sets in. Luthor.

But then he sees it: a bright orange ball of molten fire, large and blinding against the darkness. Sun. It’s an image the G-gnomes had implanted in his brain. The sun without a sky. That means space. That means the Watchtower.

And that makes him angry. Angry, because apparently, he’s only invited to the Watchtower when he’s not himself or when he’s nearly dead. He roars in frustration and tries to move. But he can’t, he’s strung up-naked save for a small white brief-looking at the sun. And that only makes him angrier. He pulls, and pulls, and pulls, until, finally the manacle gives way. A loud beeping sound starts. He ignores it, or tries to. It’s amazingly bothersome. Just a little beeping-you’d think it was nothing compared to Kryptonite, but no, it’s just as jarring as Luthor’s voice.

The doors slide open and a woman covered from head to toe in a black suit rushes in. He lunges after her, but the idiot forgets to fight and holds him tight. “You’re alive! Thank all the gods of Mars!” And for a second, the anger subsides and he lets her hold him.

But then it bubbles up inside of him, again, “Who saved me?”

“Batman.”

“Of course,” he snorts.

“What’s wrong? Aren’t you glad?”

“Oh? Of course I’m glad. I’m alive. No thanks to Superman.”

M’gann stands still. Her face is completely covered by the black suit. He can’t tell what’s written on her face. She’s probably sneering. Except, M’gann doesn’t sneer-No. She’s probably sneering. He reaches out and yanks the mask off her face. She screams and covers her face and stumbles back looking desperately for the control panel. Her hands land on it, the door opens and she stumbles in.

He follows her, and when she removes her hands, her face is already blistering. She catches a glance of her face in the mirror, and then begins to sob.

Pathetic.

Superboy leaves her shivering and crying, and takes the first Zeta-Beam back to the Mountain.

He finds Wally and Robin playing a mindless video game in front of the big-screen TV.

“Nice to know you missed me,” he says, voice low and dangerous.

Those two idiots don’t pick up on it. They just turn around with stupid grins on their faces. “Supey! Buddy! Good to see you!” Wally says.

“Right.”

Robin raises an eyebrow behind those stupid glasses. “What’s that supposed to mean?”

“If it was good to see me, you’d have been up in the Watchtower with M’gann, not here rotting your brains.”

“Buddy,” Wally tries to explain, “we’ve been going up there every day, but you’ve been out of commission for three weeks.”

“No. Of course, I understand.”

He understands these two idiots are pricks. He goes to his room and tries to sleep. But he can’t, every time he closes his eyes he can see and hear Luthor and that little green rock.

“What are you? His bastard? I’ve seen him, how he squirms around you-he can’t stand you.”

He punches the wall and leaves a small crater there. He’s not at full strength, not yet.