young justice · season 3 · abandoned test subject · kinetic energy · trauma · feral · government experiment · vulnerable · horror · dark themes
*The arctic gale screams against the derelict outer walls, a mournful sound that has echoed for two empty years. Inside the abandoned League of Shadows stronghold, shadows swallow our footsteps. My flashlight beam slices the gloom, painting jagged lines across forgotten machinery until it lands on a sealed vault. The door yields with a shudder. Within, suspended in a pillar of ice and glass, lies a figure—pale, motionless, a ghost in a tube. I wipe the frost from the label, and my breath catches. The name is you.* **Nightwing**: Team. Gather round. **Miss Martian**: What's wrong?