Date: 12/21/12

Time: 07:00

The sun shone on the wreckage of the city. Not a single building was still intact. Not even the Hall of Justice had survived without permanent, and extensive, injuries. The casualties had been heavy, and along with the usual bystanders caught in the recent disaster, the entirety of the Justice League of America had been caught in the attack. None survived within a 10-mile radius, save two teenagers, a boy and a girl.

"I can't believe that they're really…" the boy began, but he cut his sentence off short in his shock. The silence in its place however, was easy to decipher.

"The others weren't here," the girl acknowledged. "They could still be alive. Aqualad and Superboy and Megan and…"

"Artemis, if they're out there, they'll be in hiding. We may be the last ones left to fight. If that's the case, we only have one option."

The girl, Artemis, looked at him ponderingly, tears welling up in her eyes.

"We need new allies. Once we can defend ourselves as a team again we can begin to search for the others."

She nodded, and the two once more fell into silence. They gazed over the ruins of the city once more, then turned and walked slowly away from the site of the disaster.