Heya guys Mini here I hope you like this new story I've come up with about Artemis and her best friend Milly. Now there's actually not gonna be a lot of interaction between the main characters and the canons (Cept for Robin trolling them) Also this universe is kinda changed a bit and the chapters don't really follow the episodes at all.

Chapter 1: Secrets hidden from a friend

It was a nice day in Gotham for once. The sun was out from behind the clouds and it was in the 70's with a light breeze blowing over the city. It was perfect. But not for all. One of those people was a skinny brown haired girl with olive skin and green eyes, her glasses showed intelligence and it could be supported by the mathletes t-shirt she was sporting. Her face had dimples and a mouth that was used to smiling. But it wasn't smiling now. Actually it was scowling. And the person had a good reason too.

Milly Lastiloza was fuming. Why? Well her best friend had decidedly ditched her on her 16th birthday vacation. A vacation she and Arty had been planning for weeks. One that was supposed to be full of fun, as they hung out on a cruise ship flirting with the cute boys on the ship.

But noooo the bad ass had disappeared with only a text to explain it. The text was and I quote 'Sorry Mils won't make it stuff came up at work' Milly had reread that text so many times and the only emotion that came from it was anger.

How could Arty do this to her? On her 16th birthday nonetheless.

The sixteen year old sighed looking up at her adoptive parents "She cancelled, Some family stuff came up," Milly didn't know why she lied. Maybe it was to help put up a mask that she was fine.

"I'm sorry honey," Her mother cooed to the teen trying to calm her daughter. "But we can still have fun together," She added with a light smile trying to make Milly feel better. "Yeah, I guess," Milly responded shrugging her shoulders in disappointment.

This hadn't been the first time Arty had cancelled. It had started about a month ago. Her and the blonde would go out every weekend and explore, but those weekends started to get cancelled, after school hang outs started to get few and far between. It didn't help she was going to that new gotham prep school.

Their friendship was starting to well (atleast to Milly) fall apart, And that hurt. Like really hurt. But what could she do? She felt useless tiny in this situation. Milly could figure out equations faster than the Flash could run, go on long rants about coding, and she could even teach the teachers how to teach. But the one thing the girl genius couldn't do was figure out what was going on?

Was it drugs? Maybe something illegal like gangs? Milly shuddered at the thought of Artemis getting involved in that stuff knowing how much damage a gang could cause. But a worse thought was a obvious one. Maybe Artemis didn't want to hang out with Milly anymore. Maybe Milly had done it and drove away her best friend.

That thought brought a few salty tears to her face but she wiped them away before anyone would notice. No use in crying. But there was use in thinking, thinking of whatever it could be that Artemis was hiding from her.

- Two weeks later-

To say the trip was eventful would be a lie. Personally if Milly had a choice she would have stayed home and gone to school. Done something useful with her time. But nooooo she was forced to go on a vacation and socialize with strangers. But at least she was back home in her family apartment.

Milly loved her family's apartment, Though small the place was cozy and comforting always filled with happiness even when skies were gray. Milly felt lucky to be able to live here. She felt lucky just to have such a nice family. She felt lucky just to have her own bed and bed room. Speaking of which as soon as they got inside Milly shot off towards her sanctuary of peace and comfort.

"Are you sure you don't want dinner honey?" Her father asked as he began to make dinner for the family which was probably gonna turn into some toxic goop that her mom would somehow come in and save the food. Why do they still let him cook again?

"Yeah I got some papers to do," Milly lied, actually she was gonna come up with a plan to figure up whatever Arty was up to (Also she wouldn't risk eating the food)

"Ok, If you want any you can just ask," Her father said dejectedly but knew how important Milly's grades where to her. He also knew that his daughter was a introvert and needed as she put it "Recharge time" So letting her be, the man continued working on supper (Death potion)

Milly entered her room. Now the young geniuses room was like many others teenager's rooms. With a messy floor and things strewn around. The only difference is that hanging on the walls where science posters, Achievements, and many other geeky/ nerdy things.

Spinning into her rolly chair she felt her cat Cujo jump onto her lap immediately rubbing up against her. She pushed him off "Not now demon cat," She said to him playfully rolling her chair over to her desk that had her computer on it. Milly's computer was her prized possession building it herself. Milly cracked her fingers in front of her lifting up her glasses she allowed the computer to scan her retina. Yes scan her retina. Logging her in on instant.

"Don't you love it when your a super genius and can build anything out of nothing," Milly chuckled to herself as she then pulled up her web browser closing off the tab that had been used to access Nasa's main frame.

Going to google docs she then began to type out a list of everything she would need to find out what was going on with Arty. She also typed out a list of what could be the secret, it ranging from secret boyfriend to alien took the real Artemis and has disguised themselves as Artemis and was using her persona to infiltrate earth. When done with the list of things Milly reread it...twice.

"Hmm whatcha think Cujo anything else I should add?" She asked her Cat that had somehow made it back into her lap without her noticing. The cat meowed back to her shaking it head almost to say 'This is stupid, Now love me'

Scratching her cats head she then closed out of the document yawning as her eyes began to feel heavy. Rolling over to her bed. The young girl collapsed onto it not even getting into her PJ's. Let's just say she had a long week ahead of her.