"Danny said he knew how to drive..." Tucker moans as he uses his power over sand to get the mud off of him while helping Sam with subduing the people currently attacking them.
"In his defense, the gigantic water hand out of the lake caught us all off guard..."
Jazz in her ecto suit is surrounded by the ones she's taken out, currently holding up the one in charge, "you better start taking or I'll keep swinging."
She's giving him her best 'I'm disappointed in you' face.
The guy himself however is looking like he's about to throw up any moment now. Probably from all the swinging around she's already done to him.
"I'm simply following orders..."
"That's not good enough." She holds him up a little higher and the guy starts scrabbling at her armor clad arm.
"They say- they said, the one who controls the princess controls the king and the one who controls the king... Its- listen, listen just- please put me down."
Parts of the lake are frozen and even though that makes for a strange sight overall the lake itself now seems deceptively peaceful. That's until about five other men get thrown out of the water and land painfully onto land after which a rather angry looking Danny wades through the water and gradually walks onto the shore.
With of course a happily giggling little girl in on his arm.
Tucker turns to him and asks, "What took you so long?"
"She's great at hide and seek, and there was a lot of kicked up muck down there helping her out."
Sam grins, she remembers what a hassle it was to get her out of the aquarium in the first place, "She looks better." Sam notes.
"It might be that Aqualady over here just needs to be in water more..." Danny sheepishly runs a hand through his hair.
"That would explain why we initially found her in the aquarium."
Their relaxed musing is interrupted by a shout.
"What are you doing! you traitor! Are you betraying your own kind and actually giving in to this land dweller's demands!?"
"I would like my insides to remain inside!"
The other rogue Atlantean gets up enough to throw some kind of crystal at Jazz. The others react instantly and jump to push her out of the way while she's still holding the other guy.
In a flash of light all of them vanish.
"You stupid idiot, now the princess is gone too!"
A sudden rustling is followed by a green bloodhound running out of the bushes, he sniffs the air before saying, "Oh c'mon, You have got to be kidding me..."
Next thing the rogue Atlanteans know several other titans emerge out of the bush, some more elegantly than others.
Raven closes her eyes in concentration, "I sense traces of teleportation magic."
"Yeah they were here literally a second ago, the scent I was following just vanished." Gar keeps snuffling around over the ground until he's at the exact spot team Phantom just stood.
"Where are they," growls Tempest while Nightwing has a hand on his chest.
Meanwhile Donna and Starfire lift the busted car out of the lake.
"I bet our lord is absolutely losing it by now isn't he," is the only sneering reply he gets though.
Dick has to use a lot more force to keep Garth back and he looks over at Donna who is already running their way.
Roy mutters to Gar, "does he want to have his teeth kicked in orrr...?"
Gar shifts into a bear, shrugs, and makes a 'idunno' noise.
He'll gladly help Garth with the kicking though.
"I can trace the magic, Tempest." Raven's hands start glowing. And Garth finally let's himself get pushed back by his teammates muttering a soft apology to them that's tinged with frustration.
Dick takes him aside, "Garth I don't want to do this, but if you can't keep your head cool-"
"No, I'm fine, just," he pinches the bridge of his nose, "they were so close, that's all, I'm..." a long exhale.
"Raven is tracing them, we'll know soon. Take a moment, we'll handle these idiots."
Sam glares at the rogue Atlantean (who is sweating bullets while sitting on the ground.) And bounces little Andrina in her arms.
Jazz is a little off to the side calling her parents "Hey mom, dad, uhm.. just wondering, how much pressure can the Fenton ecto-exo-skeleton handle? ... yeah- like water pressure... uhuh, oh okay, hm? Oh, no, just curious you know, no reason. Hmhm... Danny is with his friends right now so he can't come to the phone, sorry. I'll tell him to call you guys back later, yeah. Okay. Love you too bye."
She hangs up and walks to Danny who is busy freezing a layer of impenetrable ice outside of his ecto shield bubble.
Right now the bubble is the only thing keeping them from drowning and getting crushed under an ungodly amount of water.
"Mom told me that their trip got extended, so I guess that's something we won't have to worry about for a while longer. You doing okay Danny?"
"Yeah, don't worry, I'm just thinking about how I'm gonna get you guys out of here safely..."
"Well, I'll be fine in the suit apparently, it's made so I can bust ghosts even down in the marina trench." She says mimicking their dad's enthusiasm.
"Let's not think about it too hard."
Danny pauses anyway and then says, "...Seas' haunted"
Jazz does a fake gasp, "The Flying Dutchman."
"I'll get you Davy Jones!"
Tucker is busy fiddling with his phone in the meantime, "Okay so I'm done trying to triangulate exactly where we are on my phone and... we are very, very deep."
"Yeah no kidding, I could have told you that... but where deep." Sam sets the little girl down who finds the nearest sandy puddle to splash in.
"That's harder to say..." Tucker's phone simply can't get a good signal from any satellite for that kind of stuff what with them being this deep, and he wouldn't be surprised if more magical stuff is messing things up as well.
The little girl holds a handful of watery sea sand near Tucker and the water just quickly glides out of it leaving desert dry sand in her hands instead, she giggles.
"Maybe our new friend can shed some light?"
Their 'new friend' would much rather just stay ignored.
His eyes glide over the four teens, fully aware what they are capable of now.
Sea plants are already curling around Sam's ankles unprompted, a good chunk of Jazz's suit is still keeping her protected and he's seen how smoothly and quickly the rest of it can latch back on to her again. Water seems to recoil from Tucker as more and more bone dry sand surrounds him and the impromptu ice dome is handling incredible amounts of water pressure without so much as a groan or a creak.
Yeah he knows he's out of his league here, the princess is incredibly well protected, as expected from their king really. He should have known better, they all should've.
"We're somewhere between the city Tritonis and Xebel."
Suddenly Andy gets fussy and for a moment the guy thinks he's fucked up until Jazz picks the little girl up and takes a little pot of mashed fruit for babies out of her bag.
"So that's not really as helpful as you might think it is, appreciate the clear answers though, Go on," Sam urges.
In the background Tucker goes, "so there are like a bunch of cities down here then?" to which Danny responds with a, "Not now Tuck."
"Uh, this was meant as a pick up point, get the princess and-"
"No you misunderstand, what I meant-"
"Sam I think he's been living his entire life underwater, he might not know the names we use for parts of the oceans."
"…hrm, maybe a map would help, Tucker can you pull up a map on your phone?"
Before they can put that plan into action however the icy walls around them rumbles as something latches onto the it, a something that looks like a big mechanical manta ray.
It starts drilling into the ice wall with what appears to be some kind of laser powered apparatus.
Now Danny probably could just reinforce his ice and just not let them through… However~
He grins, "guys, I think our new ride just arrived." The others of team Phantom also get a dangerous look in their eyes and the Atlantean guy knows enough to shuffle backwards until he's pressed on the other side of the dome in hopes of avoided most of what is about to come.
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