Sorry I forgot to put all the disclaimer stuff about the story. DUH moment on my part.

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I do not own disclaimer here. But it would be so awesome if we did.

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List of Young Justice Stories follow. I write these as episodes but you don't have to read all of them to follow the story line. So by all means pick a story and go for it.

Episode 1: A Time to Trust Episode 2: A Promise That Wasn't Known.

Episode 3: Dreamscape Episode 4: Lost Then Found

Episode 5: New Beginnings

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New Beginnings

July 01 – 11:05 am

Mount Justice

Batman calls a meeting for the Team with a special assignment unlike anything they have done. He looks over the group of young heroes before he speaks.

"There is a rumor that the League of Shadows has targeted the German Chancellor on his visit to the United States. The best time for the Shadows to strike will be during the 4th of July outdoor concert in D.C. I have arranged for most of you to act as stage crew during the show to keep an extra eye on the Chancellor. Kaldur, you will be the main contact working with the Chancellor and his staff. Artemis and Wally, you two will have a special assignment during this operation. None of you will be in costume. This is to remain a covert operation no matter what. Wally, I am counting on you to get Artemis out of the area as fast as you can. Artemis, your task is to assassinate the Chancellor before the Shadows can take him."

"WHAT!" comes from the Team, Paula included.

"Batman, you can't do that! Artemis does not need to go back to that life! You Promised Me!" Paula having no fear towards the Dark Knight as she yells at him.

"Huntress, It's a mock assassination. And because of Artemis's training, she is the best person for this assignment." Batman clarifies.

"But why a mock assassination? I can think of at least 3 different ways we can do this, and that's without thinking." Wally responds.

"It's a lot more complicated than what it seems. There is an outside party who wants to remove the current Chancellor and replace him with their own. There is a good chance Cadmus is also involved. By faking the death of the Chancellor, Cadmus cannot kidnap, clone, and then hold him for ransom."

"Cadmus." Conner spoke out, his voice filled with hate.

"So Cadmus wants to replace the Chancellor with a clone, why?" Robin questions Batman.

"If Cadmus can replace key members of government with clones under the lights control, it would make it easier to gain power in those countries. So a fake assassination would throw Cadmus' plans of using a pre-made clone of him useless."

"I agree. I also believe in Batman's decision for Artemis' role in this assignment as well." Kaldur speaking out is role as team leader.

Paula turns to her daughter. "Artemis, you don't have to do this because Batman tells you to. This should be your choice if you want to do this."

Artemis pauses for a few moments weighing all of her options before speaking up. "I'll do it but I want to be told everything. Nothing left out, agreed. And I go solo."

"Try again, Beautiful." Wally is quick to cut her off. "Whether you like it or not, you're not going without me."

"Wally you don't know what's involved in this. You will only slow me down or get in the way."

"Or keep you safe and bring you back alive. So you better get use to the idea that I'm going with you."

"Wally, I swear to god you are the most. . . ." Artemis gets cut off by Wally again.

"Sweetest, caring, most loving, not to mention the hottest looking superhero boyfriend in the world." The group of young supers laugh at Wally's comment.

Artemis tries to hide her small smile from Wally. "Fine but you have to do what I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you to do it; got it."

"No worries babe. Anything you want, you got it." Wally answers with his signature smile just for her.

Artemis turns back to Batman and takes her moms hand in hers. "Okay, Let's do it."

After the Team is dismissed; Batman, Paula and Artemis meet back up after lunch to form a plan of action for the mock assassination. After their 3 hour meeting the Team is called back to the War Room for briefing. Everything has been addressed from staging points for the Team to escape routes for Artemis and Wally. The Team is set with the plan and will have everything they will need by tomorrow. The members working stage crew have to be there by tomorrow night to run through rehearsals on the 3rd and the show run on the 4th. During dinner Artemis lets the Team know about a small addition that was made to the plan after Batman lets her know that everything is set.

Batman walks into the kitchen where the Team is eating and lays a card beside Artemis. "Everything is set for you and Wally."

"Thanks Batman." Artemis says as she stands up and takes the card and slides it in her pocket. "Better finish up, Wally. We gotta go."

"Go? Go where?" M'gann speaks up from the table.

"We're going to D.C. tonight instead of tomorrow with you guys." Wally answers as he wipes his mouth and stands with plate in hand heading towards the sink.

"Wait, you and Wally are going to D.C. by yourselves for a whole night?" Zatanna comments looking over at Artemis then Wally.

Rob looks up at Batman. "You do know that they are dating, right?"

"Yes I do but they are heading to D.C. tonight to scout the grounds and report back." Bats said calmly.

The entire Team stops what they are doing and looks over at Batman. "This is a mission, nothing more. And I expect all of you to be ready for this and not make this into something that will cause problems. Everyone here knows my thoughts on dating within the team but you make your own choices in your private life. I only ask that whatever you chose to do, do not jeopardize the lives of your teammates with personal problems. Clear?" The Team just stares and nods. "Artemis, Wally we have to make a stop in Gotham before heading to DC. Are you ready?"

"Yep." Both answer at the same time as they left the kitchen to grab their gear.

July 02 – 7:10 am

The Madison Hotel – D.C.

The flight was quiet with Bats at the controls with Wally in the back and Artemis sitting on his lap. Apparently no one asked about passenger room in the Bat-plane. Of course Wally didn't mind the fact that Artemis had a death lock on his hands keeping him from trying to tickle her during the fight. Bats landed on a rooftop helipad dropping off the two teens and taking back off again not saying a word. As Bat's flies away Artemis turns to look at Wally and slaps him in the arm.

"Ouch. What did you do that for?" Wally questioned while rubbing the bruised spot on his arm.

"Tickling me behind Batman's back during a 3 hour flight is not my idea of fun especially after that little speech about this being a mission, WALLY."

"That maybe true but the only thing I am hearing from you is problems with Bats and not me tickling you. So to me we both were having a little fun."

"Wally let's just go before I hit you again." Artemis turns her back to him and grabs her bag and takes a walk towards the stairs. With a smile forming on the speedsters face, Wally zips behind her and pinches her on her butt then zips back to his bag to pick it up. Artemis jumps in surprise then turns to Wally.

Wally answering out of reflex and not trying to play it off. "I didn't do it." As he drops his bag and holding up his hands while keeping his smile.

Artemis drops her bag then proceeds to chase him around the heli-pad. "Wally come here before I hurt you."

Wally just laughs keeping his distance from her before using his speed to get behind her and grabbing her then playfully biting her neck making chomping sounds.

Artemis now screaming and laughing at the same time. "Ok,ok,stop,stop,stop."

Wally stops and loosens his grip on her but doesn't let go. Artemis turns to him placing her arms around his neck. "There, you got me. Happy now?" Artemis flashes a smile.

"Believe it or not, Yes, very happy. Which is your fault by the way."

"Sometimes you can say the most idiotic things but every so often you say something worth wild."

"Hey, I'm still new at this so give me some time. After all you were the first to actually say yes to my charms."

Artemis slides her hands to his chest and shoves him away with a playful smile. "Well you're going to have to work on that charm of yours some other time, we have work to do so grab your things and lets go." She then turns and walks over to grab her bag. As she bends over and picks up her bag Wally gives a wolf whistle towards her. She stands back up with bag in hand and looks over at him.

"Hey, I'm just identifying what I think is hot. And just so you know, that was for you, Beautiful."

"Gee Thanks, Wall-man." Artemis says as she turns sashaying away from Wally.

Wally eyes every step she takes before moving to catch up to her at the roof access door.

Artemis and Wally finally made their way down to the hotel room. Artemis took the card out of her pocket and placed it into the card reader on the door.

"How many rooms did Bat's get for us?" Wally piped up while Artemis pulled the card out of the reader and opens the door. "Just one."

"Really?" Wally responded while leaning up against the door frame smiling at her.

"Will you stop that, Wally. The room is big enough for the whole team."

"But it's just us tonight." Wally raises his eyebrows while smiling all chalantly.

Artemis rolls her eyes and walks in leaving Wally in the hall. As she enters walking past the kitchen area into a great room with two couches, a large LCD TV and two small desks, one on each side of the room. She tosses her bag on one of the couches and turns to look at Wally who is now standing at the kitchen area looking into the great room. "Holy. . . . . I didn't even know they made hotel rooms this big."

"It's a Party Room for companies to rent. Now you go that way." Artemis points to her left to a set of double doors. "Boys on that side, girls on this side. Both rooms have their own baths."

Wally is now looking at Artemis with disappointment across his face then drops his bag at his feet. "You're not even going to let me try anything, are you?"

Artemis grabs her bag off the couch and walks over to the girls room and opens the door. "I'm going to get cleaned up so we can do some shopping."

Wally drops his head not getting any type of response for Artemis. However, just before she closes the door she sticks her head out to look at Wally. "You can join me if you like."

Wally's head shoots straight up looking directly at her and smiles bright enough to light up D.C. He takes one step towards her forgetting about his bag and trips on it falling straight to the floor. Artemis laughs hard enough to stop breathing for a few moments falling down to her knees still gripping the door handle trying to stay upright. By the time Wally is able to untangle himself from his bag Artemis starts to recover wiping her tears away.

"Wally, I'm kidding. I'll be out in 20." As she goes back laughing she closes the door. Wally is so embarrassed he decides to stay on the floor until she comes back.

July – 02 – 8:22 pm

Madison Hotel – D.C.

The rest of the Team arrives at the hotel and make their way down to the room where Artemis and Wally are. Before Kaldur could open the door Robin stops him.

"Wait, let me do it and everyone keep quiet." Rob tells the Team.

Kaldur looking down at Robin taking note of his wicked style of smile. "This is what is known as trolling, correct." The Team nods as Rob quietly enters the room.

The Team follows quietly stopping just inside the door propping it open. Artemis is seen with her back toward the door wearing a sports bra sitting up on one of the couches looking down talking to whoever is under her.

"Ahh, jesus that hurts." Wally's voice comes from the couch.

"Will you stop fighting and let me put it back in. God you're such a baby."

"I'm sorry I'm such a baby but it freaking hurts!"

"If you just relax and let me handle it, I promise it won't hurt a bit." Artemis tells him in a relaxing voice.

"Yeah right, I know when you're lying to me because you use that bedroom voice on me when you do."

"Fine, I'll stop and you can stay there and try to take care of it yourself." She says while crossing her arms. "Or maybe when the Team gets here you can have Rob do it for you." Rob's eyes shot open as he froze. His sunglasses slowly sliding down the bridge of his nose.

"NO. Please no, Artemis. Look, I'm sorry I yelled, okay. I want you to do it. Please."

Artemis sighs. "The things I do for you. I swear Wally, why do you have to be a clumsy idiot all the time?"

"It's part of my romantic charm but look on the bright side, I'm your clumsy idiot."

"Aww that's so sweet, Wally." CRACK! Echo's through the room as the Team cringes at the sound except for Robin who stands motionless.

"AHHHHH!" Comes from Wally. "Ermahgerd Da Pern."

"Now that that's done. Boys on that side and girls on that side." Artemis announces as she points to each door. "And for you" Artemis bends over and kisses Wally on the cheek "I'll get you an ice pack."

"THERNK U." Comes from Wally as she stands up and walks over to the Team then stops.

Artemis stops in front of Robin and leans closer to him looking at the shock expression on his face. She waves her hand in front of him. "What's with him?"

"Robin was in the process of trolling you and Wally but upon entering the room to finding you on top of Wally speaking to each other in what seemed to be cryptic words altered his plans." Kaldur answers.

"So in other words you guys thought we were having sex on the couch." Says Artemis. The Team nods. Rob still not moving.

"I think it was your comment of having Rob 'do it for Wally' when we got here is what freaked him out." Raquel comments while doing quotations with her hands.

"Ah. Okay." Artemis giggles as she passes the Team moving into the kitchen grabbing an ice pack.

"What happened to Wally then?" M'gann asked.

"I had Kid Idiot run one of our escape routes through the park and he tripped over a root and nailed a tree." The team making an 'Oh' face. "Apparently speed healing doesn't reset slipped disks." Artemis makes her way back to Wally and puts the ice pack on his back and looks back at the Team. "And can someone wake up bird boy. That face is creeping me out."

Once the Team got settled in and Rob was snapped out of his trance, the rest of the night went by quietly. The following day everyone had their assignments and went to work. Robin and M'gann was placed on stealth patrol throughout the crowd. Kaldur was placed within the security detail of the German Chancellor. Raquel, Conner, and Zatanna are on stage crew for quick response if needed.

After the rehearsal the Team met back up at the hotel and had a conference call with Batman to make any final changes to the plan. After the meeting Kaldur suggested to everyone to get some sleep for the following day.

Around one in the morning Wally woke up and decided to get up. He knew with tomorrows plans things were just plain weird. Last time Wally checked, the good guys were suppose to save people not pretend to assassinate them. So when he walked out of the bedroom he was not shocked to see Artemis eyeing a small rifle that she had assembled out of her bag.

"Hey Beautiful." Wally walked over to her sitting down on the couch beside her. "I can guess what you're thinking."

"Yeah, I bet." Is all she says as first. "I know what we are doing and I know everything is planed down to the second but shooting someone just seems. . ."

"Un-Hero like." Wally finished her sentence. Artemis nods.

"Are you going to be okay with doing this Artemis?"

"Yeah. I have to be okay with it. It's not like you can do it." She tells him with a smile.

"Even though that's true, just remember that I'll be right there with you. Every step of the way, I promise. And you know how I am with promises."

"Thanks Wally. I know that you will be there but I think I just needed to hear the words from you."

"As I told you when this mission started, Anything you want, you got it." Artemis smiles at Wally. "Anything you need, you got it." Artemis smile turns into a questioning look. "Anything at all, you got it." After Wally's last words he sings out "Baby" holding the note as best he can. Artemis pops him in the chest as he starts to laugh.

"Lyrics!, You were hitting me with lyrics? You Ass!" Artemis yells out but starts to laugh. Wally pulls her back to him still giggling as she settles back down.

"As long as you know that you mean the world to me. That you are my everything. I swear the only thing that matters. . . ."

Artemis cuts him off. "If you want to be single, keep singing."

"On that note, shutting up now."

"And for the rest of the night too?"

"Ouch you hurt me babe, but if that's what it takes to keep you then deal."

"Wow, that's all it took. Who knew." She says with a smile which Wally returns before both of them sinking into the couch in comfortable silence, both still eying the oversize paintball rifle.

July 04 – 5:30 pm

Wolf Trap National Park

As the stage crew runs around on stage doing a changeover of bands an announcer walks onstage to address the crowd with mic in hand.

"HELLO D.C. AND FOR THOSE WHO JUST ARRIVE, WELCOME TO THE PARTY!"

Crowd screams in response.

"I want to thank all of you for coming out today to celebrate our nation's birthday. We have two bands down and two to go but I got to ask all of you out there something. Are we having fun?"

Crowd screams "YEAH!"

"Before we get the next band up I want to give a shot-out to our government personal who said 'to hell with quiet family time' and came out here to party with the real people of this city." Pause for crowd. "And a special welcome to the visiting Chancellor of Germany who I think was responsible for bring some of the finest beer of us to enjoy tonight, am I right?" The MC holds out the mic to catch the roar of the crowd. "Now I would love to have the Chancellor say a few words but since he's about to be kidnapped, I don't think we have the time."

The MC holds up a small device and presses the button. Smoke bombs go off in the overview loft on top of the front of house decking. The onstage team rushed the MC pinning him to the floor while Black Spider jumps in from the front of the loft and targets the Chancellor. Kaldur tries to engage Black Spider but was not able to get to him in time before Spider grabs the Chancellor.

"Look at you, if it isn't the Justice Kids. I see your parents let you play with the big boys now." Black Spider tells Aqualad.

Kaldur squares off with Spider but not moving in, just enough to block him from leaving the same way he came. "It would be wise for you to surrendered Spider."

"Nonsense, me and my new friend here will be leaving the party early. Don't wait up for us kiddies." As soon as Spider finishes his sentence a gunshot echoes through the air hitting the Chancellor then he falls to the floor. Spider doesn't move at first and looks down at the body. "Oh Crap. No paycheck for me. C'est la vie." Spider drops a smoke bomb and shoots out the door behind him and web slings away. Kaldur runs towards the Chancellor and checks on him. When the Chancellor opens his eyes and nods to Aqualad, Kaldur announces to the team using the telepathic link that the Chancellor is fine and they will use the medics to get him out of the area.

Kaldur, Robin and M'gann take the Bioship and follow the ambulance to the Airport to fly the Chancellor out of the country. Conner, Raquel, and Zatanna take the MC into League custody for questioning. When the Chancellor is on board and taking off Kaldur gets a radio call from Conner.

"Conner to Kaldur, come in." Conner's voice comes into Kaldur's ear.

"I read you Conner."

"We have a problem. It's been over an hour and Artemis and Wally never showed up at the rendezvous point."..."Kaldur, their missing."

TO BE CONTINUED. . .