Kudos to: BLA, and chaneldancegrl, So about the title: ozone is a scent that appears around lightning and fletching is the feathers at the end of an arrow shaft so the title refers to the Spitfire!Kids.
"Tag you're it," a juvenile voice mocked. The blond boy dragged his little sister by her shirt as he was running to some unknown destination
"Jai stop this, you can come back home, just stop doing this to yourself," his sister pleaded. She gave him her largest puppy-dog eyes and trembled her lip.
"If you ever had powers little sister you'd realize I can't," Jai patronized. The girl considered correcting him but decided that it wasn't time to reveal her powers.
Fed up, she finally growled: "Jai go home, or I will-"
"Aww little sis, that looks like that was your stop, I hope you land in dinosaur crap," he taunted. Jai turned and continued to race towards his goal, decked in black and green. Grinning ferally he raced to the future, already planning on torturing his twin back home.
She was falling in synchronization with someone a half a world away. She tore at her arm grasping at a branch as she tried to bleed momentum. Bark, branches, and leaves tore at her skin as she descended. She tossed her backpack and rolled down the slope skin further tenderized by oncoming bushes.
"Inza you're really in for it now," she commented to herself. "Well deciduous trees mean that people have to exist somewhere if I correctly recall," Inza muttered to herself. "Well time to make a base camp and scrounge for food," she stated determined.
Artemis was falling. How could a simple mission go so wrong?
Her arm yanked out of its socket as was caught. Something fluttery and golden was tossed over the side of the building. "I've got you sis, and to be honest I'm really sorry for the next part," her body landed on the ground with a thud; swiftly followed by an explosion.
"Artemis!" Wally screamed. It echoed to where her unconscious body was being stolen away, by her family, eyes leaking tears in silence. Crying because she never got to say goodbye to the boy she loved.
"Artemis..." he whimpered. "Don't leave me, don't go."
Inza stretched. She calmly observed the base camp she had set up in under a week proud of her work. It was decently camouflaged and fortified. She scratched a scab on her cheek, then she put on her sunglasses.
When the League told me about time travel for bedtime stories they never mentioned: the mud in your teeth, crazed siblings, and being stranded in the middle of nowhere with nothing to do. Seriously! I must have overestimated the coolness of time travel, or the Doctor raised my expectations. Since my brother is the one who sent me here, does that him a weeping angel?
She paused in her contemplation to move to survey another area adjacent to her camp.
Moving on. Urrgh I really crashed, probably one worthy of being a Kid Flash, like dad. I really wish I could have convinced them to let me train before I got my powers.
Inza sighed. She looked back in the direction of her base camp, adjusting her hoodie. Distracted, she completely missed the camouflaged Bioship that was landing in the middle of her clearing.
Base camp set up with requirements with my metabolism suppressant that I am slowly becoming immune to and do not have the supplies to replicate. I really need to figure out where I am so I can run home. Too bad I didn't memorize star positions.
She knew that eventually, she'd have to take a risk and try to get home. Inza waited, hoping that something would happen, so that it would be feasible for her to return home soon and warn her older sister about her brother. Inza also hoped she could break that smug idiot's jaw in the future for his transgressions.
Does that sound like fighting? I need to go check that out.
On unsteady legs she rose. Inza tried to recall Uncle Dick's lessons on stealth, sneaking up to a nearby clearing that she had previously avoided. It had taken a better part of two years after the incident to get her atrophied leg muscles into condition. Then when she was out visiting relatives via Zeta beam her brother ambushed her. Inza became furious at the recollection of what happened two years ago. Two years of hiding her powers, of starvation, two years of benevolent neglect because she was too young to be someone's sidekick. She was quite ready to beat the crap out of something.
Okay use logic which set is your enemy and which...Is that Dad!
Inza threw a knife from her pack at the assassin, pinning him to a tree. She dropped in assisting Aqualad with his attackers and generally taking out her rage on those nearest available enemy combatants. The team was initially shocked by the sudden reinforcement, but seemed to accept the impromptu addition to their fighting force.
A hushed silence fell over the clearing; a nervous tension filled it, only to be broken by an irate Kid Flash.
"Who are you?" Wally demanded. The others exchanged sidelong glances and shrugs at his behavior.
Inza shrugged and then decided to stretch out her arms.
Well, if that isn't ironic, I don't know the definition of irony.
"I am called Izzy," she sighed, smirking. True, if a little misleading.
That went over well, I bet they were expecting a surname too. If Inza Tenacity West is anything, stubborn would be 're probably arguing over the mindlink trying to figure out what to do with me.
"What do you want?" Robin finally inquired. Uncle Dick always the voice of reason. I am so getting him back for trolling me earlier. Ontological paradoxes. Remember Izzy, non-threatening body movement, you don't want to startle them.
"You're the detective. What does any wayward-traveler want?" She got a kick out of their surprised reactions to that response.
Let's see him put it together. It's kind-of hard to read microexpressions through his mask. I hope these sunglasses even the playing field. Inza tried to shift her weight to a more comfortable position. She sneezed and fidgeted as she waited for Robin to figure it out, blatantly ignoring the weird stares the team was giving her.
Crap, I might have just slipped up and revealed too much. I really hate time travel, one misspoken phrase and you suddenly unexist. Okay avoid mentioning who's kid you are and terrible things that happened in the future that they can't change.
"To go home of course, so where is home?" Crap, lielie makeupsomethingbelivable crap. Ummmmmmmm...
She fidgeted much to Robin's ire.
"I am so very enthused to get the third degree from my honorary aunts and uncles," Inza retorted sarcastically.
It took a bit for it to settle in the team's reactions varying from mild shock to total disbelief.
"Wait, honorary aunts and uncles?" Great job, child of fail. You just exploded your main directives into dust and the ink didn't have any time to dry. Okay so no powers to reveal parentage and avoid talking about the future.
"Did I mumble or something? Was that somehow unclear? Anyways, I need to get back to the future to keep my brother from killing my sister," she replied exacerbated.
Inza turned, ready to leave. The team ignored her in favor of their mental argument.
Now that I have a reference on the timeline, I can build a device and get back home. Crap you mentioned the future. Wait! Something's off...
Inza whirled back to survey the team. They temporarily shifted to a defensive posture as she took a head count.
"Wait... Someone's missing. Well, several someones. Okay, whoever it is, they're probably behind me...nope, okay let's see Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin, Superboy, Miss Martian, Zatanna, Rocket, Arte...So that's who's missing! What happened? Does she have the flu?"
A everyone was thrown by this line of reasoning, everyone except Wally and Robin.
"She's dead," Wally replied flatly. I'm still here dad she's obviously not dead.
Inza gave him an incredulous look. She calmly replied: "No she isn't, not in my time at least," Why would they think she's dead?
Wally seemed shocked at this information and quickly directed it towards anger.
"She's dead!" he insisted furiously. Dad, mom's not dead don't do this to me. Don't make me cry. I know about the training exercise but she's alive.
"Well honestly, it wouldn't be the first resurrection. But I can't ask her if that's what happened, because I'm stuck in the past with you," her calm tone disguised her inner turmoil. Okay if I start to use logic, you have to use logic too.
Kaldur seemed to be prepared to interfere, while Robin remained clinically observant, the rest of the team watched with baited breath.
"Artemis is gone!" Or staying in denial is good. But I'd rather not unexist if something has happened to her now.
"Are you going to tell me Santa Claus isn't real next? Should we all take a trip to the future so you can tell Lian that her favorite aunt is dead?"
Okay having never read the comics I shall give the best approximation of Jai and Irey I can make. Posting this as motivation to update my other fic, brilliant. Tell me if you like the concept please. I am definitely shipping Strangealiens after Earthlings, but it also will take a while to be completely comfortable with M'gann as well. Baby Beastboy is cute! And I just want to hug my new ship! Alanna and Adam are adorbs.