Artemis looked around the abandoned building warily, expecting her father to jump out at her any second, but surprisingly, the search through the warehouse had been uneventful, nothing disturbing the eerie silence that hung over the building.

* * * Flashback * * *

"There has been a break-out in Belle Reve Penitentiary, and four high security prisoners escaped," Batman instructed the team, who had gathered to one of the many rooms in the cave.

Artemis had stationed herself at the back, quietly watching. She already knew about this, hadn't she cried herself to sleep because of it?

Batman continued on "The prisoners that escaped are Icicle Jr. and Sr. Jinx and the Terror Twins" Artemis stiffened, unnoticed by the rest of the team, she could tell what this mission was going to be before Batman said it, "Your job, is to re-capture them,"

"Hard-core!" the archer heard Kid-Flash fist-bump with his raven-haired friend.

Aqualad stepped forward, "Will there be others joining them?" he asked calmly.

Batman brought up several screens showing an old, rundown building, "Cheshire, Sportsmaster, Hook and Black Spider issued the breakout, so it is likely they will be there too. Now," the Dark Knight moved on, "We have tracked them to this abandoned warehouse," he pointed to the screen, "You will infiltrate the area and take them down using whatever means necessary," and with that, he walked out of the room.

* * * End of Flashback * * *

Already Artemis would imagine here teammates reactions to her origins, she could picture Wally's outburst and see herself being thrown away yet again. I am going to loose the only family that ever truly cared about me, Artemis thought to herself, when suddenly, her thoughts were interrupted.

""I found something guys"" Miss Martian proclaimed, her voice echoing inside of the team's heads. ""There is a hidden room and,"" Miss Martian's voice was cut off by a scream that Artemis heard through the walls.

""Megan!" Conner yelled in desperation, several bangs followed, Artemis guessed that it was Connor smashing through the walls to 'protect' her. ""They're here!"" he shouted mentally to the team. ""They were hiding in a secret basement,""

""Not so secret anymore,"" Artemis grumbled, but she quickly broke from her hiding place that she had been using during the search. Hoping to get to the villains before her friends did.

As she turned the corner, Artemis would have groaned, there the team was, locked in a ferocious battle. Though they were clearly outnumbered, each of her friends fought with energy and skill. Connor was pounding Black Spider, never allowing his foe to get the upper hand, just like Black Canary had taught him. Robin was snickering and dodging Jinx's vigorous attacks, continuously hitting her with batarangs while also battling hook. Even Kid-Idiot was fighting well; taking on Camer-Icicle Jr. Artemis quickly corrected herself. That only left Cheshire and Sportsmaster, who were seemingly fighting over a keyboard and Artemis already knew who was going to win.

It was time to act, but Artemis felt as though her body turned to lead. Nothing would move no matter how much she willed it to. Her family was fighting her family! No mater who she fought, she was loosing. Her team can first, but would she be strong enough to fight the villains that she had been allied with for so long? Then, before her eyes Kid Flash was turned into a Popsicle. Ice, freezing around him, incasing him in a deadly cold. Artemis's eyes widened, how could Cameron have done that? A rage filled inside of her and she ran at him.

* * * Flashback * * *

9 Months Pervious

"Please Arty I-" Cameron started, but was quickly interrupted.

"It's Artemis," she stated harshly, "and nothing you say will allow me to forgive you," her voice sounded strong, confident, but on the inside, she was falling apart.

"You know that I still love you. My father has given me no choice" He started but Artemis again interrupted him.

"You liar! I heard you and your father talking!" She yelled, angrily at Cameron. "All you care about is your job! Come clean Cam, then you and I can stop this worrying, stop living in fear that superman is going to come busting though and arrest us all! We can stop watching our backs!" she knew the last one was a lie, but she had to try to get him to stop his criminal activities.

Cameron laughed, "You think that we would stop watching our backs? And you call be a liar," he chuckled as though it was ridiculously funny, "We could have to leave the country to sleep safe at night, you don't just retire Arty,"

"But" Artemis persisted, desperately trying to hold back her tears.

"No buts, and besides, why stop at something your good at? With our ties, we could have an easy life," he tried again.

"No," she whispered fiercely.

"Goddammit Artemis, stop this nonsense!" Carmon shouted, icicles shooting from his fingertips uncontrollably. "I love you, please stop pulling away because of the stupid greater good!" He froze Artemis's hand to the counter of her house.

"Sorry, but I cannot," was all she said, tears now running down her cheeks, "I think that this should be where we part ways,"

"Fine," he spat at her, and walked out of the small apartment.

* * * End of Flashback * * *

Artemis sent a volley of arrows flying at Icicle Jr. each of them was frozen midflight. She scowled, he always beaten her when their fathers had pitted them against each other in 'Combat Training'. They circled around each other and out of the corner of her eye; she could see Sportsmaster rattling away as Cheshire and Aqualad seemed to be having a fight to the death.

Artemis reached her hand back into her quiver and found the one arrow she knew would take Cameron down. She had designed it after a humiliating defeat to make her father proud. The arrow would shut down his freezing powers for a while, covering his body in sand. She had showed Cameron once, and Artemis could only hope that he did not remember the design.

She sent the arrow flying through the air, missing Cameron's icicles and hitting him squarely in the chest. At impact, the green arrow exploded and covered him in gray sand. The ice around his body disappeared; his pale blue skin was soon covered in a grainy gray powder.

"Sand," Icicle Jr. gasped, falling to the ground. Only his face was left uncovered, but that was enough to see the betrayal in his eyes as he seemed to make the connection. "Arty?"

Artemis stiffened at the mention of her old nickname.

"Artemis? Is that you?" Cameron asked weakly, the sand quickly covering up his ice-based powers, "How could you?" he asked, betrayal laced in his hurt.

Her whole body turned to stone just as it had when she had first seen the team fight with the villains. Why am I showing this weakness? "You tell me," Artemis told him flatly and turned to the key board in which Sportsmaster was located, time for the real test.