Hi guys, so this is my first fanfic every so go easy on me. Just warning you now I'm not the best at spelling and grammar so I'm going to apologies for that now. I've read a lot of Young Justice stories and I got this story line in my head from reading some of them. There are some concept and OC characters that others have used that I'm using but this is my take on it. I'm not trying to copy anyone, I promise. So I hope you guys like it, if not that's cool with me tell me what I can do to make it better. Thanks guys.
Oh and I own nothing.
Reunion
It was supposed to be a simple surveillance mission. Stay hidden and just observe, no noise, no interaction, but most importantly, no getting caught. The Justice League got a tip that the League of Shadows was going to be making a deal in a warehouse not too far from Gotham. There wasn't that much detail on the actual deal itself like who they were making a deal with or even what was being traded in this deal. All they knew was that the Shadows were paying some major cash on whatever it is they wanted, and when the Shadows wanted something, they got it by any means necessary. A trait about the Shadows Artemis knew way too well, she had the scars to prove it.
The deal was planned to go down in two hours so the team got packed up onto the bioship and headed off to the warehouse district just outside of Gotham. Once they got there M'gann landed the bioship in a small clearing far enough away from the warehouses, luckily they had plenty of tree cover as Aqualad gave out the team assignments. "Okay now remember this is a stealth mission, M'gann link us up."
As commanded M'gann connected everyone to their mental link and had them check in.
"Everybody good?"
"I'm good"
"Same here"
"Read you loud and clear gorgeous"
"Oh shut up Kid Idiot"
"Excellent," with everyone connected Aqualad continued to give the game plan "okay now there are six main warehouse buildings. M'gann we're gonna need you to go invisible and try and scope out the first two buildings, Robin you get the next two and Artemis you get those last two…" but before he could finish. "Hold on, wait a second" Kid Flash had to interrupt. "Okay I get M'gann and Robin checking out the warehouses, but Artemis?" "What about me?" Artemis snapped back at him, already getting irritated by his questioning. "I could check out those warehouses a lot quicker than you can!" "I hate to break it to you Baywatch but this is a STEALTH mission and if you haven't noticed you're not the most stealth let alone most graceful member of our team." "That was one time and I had all that beach stuff in my arms and…" "Enough both of you!" Kaldur was getting frustrated now, "The deal is going down in less than twenty minutes. We need to find out where this all going down." They both went silent realizing their mistake. "Alright then, once one of you has found the possible meeting place report back the location. When we get there we need to go into full on stealth mode, we are observing and reporting back to the League about what we find." He looked around at the rest of the team making sure each one understood. "Artemis I'm gonna need you to make your way from the roof on to the rafters, we will need air cover incase anything goes wrong." "Got it." "Alright let's move out."
M'gann, Robin, and Artemis looked through their designated warehouses as Aqualad, Superboy, and Kid Flash tried to keep hidden in the shadows.
"Any luck?" Aqualad checked in not hearing any news of the meeting yet.
"Nothing over here"
"Same here."
"I think I've got something" Artemis responded as she looked into the last warehouse from the roof skylight. Inside stood a man nervous man, Artemis could tell, heck anyone could tell by how profusely the man was sweating on his balding head. Not to mention his shaking hands and the occasional nervous gulp. What caught Artemis' eye was his outfit, he appeared to be some kind of scientist with the lab coat and glasses, cliché yes but that wasn't the only thing she noticed. Next to him there were these three cases ranging in size lying on top of one another. What ever were was in those three cases had to be apart of the deal. "Guys come to warehouse 6, the deal is going down here." "On our way."
As instructed earlier Artemis made her way from the roof and onto the rafter making sure to find a good spot while still kept hidden. Which to Wally's disbelief was not that hard for her, she could easily out ninja Robin, I mean come on she was freaking trained by the Shadows, and they were called the Shadows for a reason. Just as she got settled in to her position the rest of the team checked in confirming to be in position as well. They all waited patiently as they kept a close eye on the man standing in the middle of the room.
"Why would the shadows make a deal with this guy?" Wally asked as he looked over the nerdy looking man who appeared like he was ready to either throw up or pee his pants.
"I don't know, maybe that's why we are here! To observe and find out!" Artemis commented annoyed by his simple question. Wally was about to counter back when the main doors of the warehouse opened and in walked non other than Sportsmaster.
Oh great. Artemis thought to herself, making sure none of her teammates would hear.
Sportsmaster wasted no time and walked to the center of the room confronting the man with two henchmen following him. "Ahhhh professor Linz, do you have my Venom?"
"WHAT!" the entire team seemed to shout at the same time.
"There is no way, we destroyed all the venom last time, didn't we?" Wally asked still stunned by Sportsmaster's question.
"Apparently not," Robin stated as he became more interested by the exchange in front of him.
"Yes right here," the professor nervously stated as he reached for and opened the small box on top revealing eight viles, "I took that vile you gave me before and recreated it and made modifications to the serum as you requested." "Good, good. And I'm assuming those other two boxes are my new weapons and amour as well?"
What are you up to dad? Artemis thought to herself as she tried to put the pieces together.
"Yes they are Sir, made to exact requirements and specification." The professor answered again, with hope that this all would be over soon. "Excellent. You have done well professor." "Thank you Sir." He answered with signs of relief. "Your services are no longer needed for tonight," Sportsmaster started as he walked around the professor. Meanwhile his two henchmen started to pack up and grab the cases and out of nowhere four more of them appeared from the shadows.
"Crap" Wally exclaimed
"We are not alone" Aqualad stated, "everyone keep calm and stay hidden"
But before anyone could make another comment a loud Bang! went off in the warehouse. Sportsmaster stood still holding his gun in hand where the professors head was seconds ago. Wally's eyes went wide as the sight of the professor's lifeless body laid in a growing pool of blood on the floor made his stomach go in knots. The pure shock of what he had scene caused him to collide with the crates he used to hide behind. It wasn't like a thunders crash, but it just enough to make the crates move ever so slightly, giving his position away to anyone watching him and unfortunately for him someone was.
Not even two seconds later an arrow goes flying past his face just barely missing his nose and stuck into the wall behind him. Whether it be the adrenalin of an arrow barely missing your head or the fact that he had super speed in not only his physical attributes but in his brain Wally was flying through questions about what just happened. What the heck was that? An arrow? Why the heck would Artemis be shooting at me? I mean I know we have our issues…wait no she wouldn't do that. Wait this isn't one of Artemis' arrows. Wait what is with the beeping and the flashing red light? "Oh. Crap." And with that last question answered in his head Wally went into total Kid Flash mode and just started running for his life, as not even a second later the arrow exploded leaving a huge hole in the wall where he was a moment ago.
"We're not alone," and with that Sportsmaster made a simple hand gesture and the rest of the hidden shadow members came into view. "Find them!" With that all hell broke loose, as all the Young Justice members went on the offensive. But before any of them could do much damage they had to avoid and take cover from the arrows raining down on them. Artemis searched the rafters hoping to find the culprit before they did any serious damage to her team. When she finally found the opposing archer she couldn't get a clear shot with out exposing herself she had to get closer. This was when her training from the shadows came in handy. Just as she fully came around the last support beam separating the two with bow and arrow cocked in hand. The hail of arrows toward her teammates stopped as the archer redirected their attention to Artemis who was shocked to see some one had caught her.
Artemis stood poised yet strong as she held her cocked bow at the bowman in front of her, mirroring her actions and stance. She tried to settle her breathing as her masked opponent stood motionless, focused on her. Barely five feet away from each other, they kept their arrows aimed directly at the others head. A single drop of sweat slid painfully slow down Artemis' cheek as neither one of them dared to take their eyes off of the other.
It was like a classic Mexican stand off, they glared at the other waiting for someone to make a move. Now of course unlike those classics they weren't standing two stories high in the rafters of some warehouse as a battle between teenage super heroes and trained assassins went on below them. With every crash and explosion booming throughout the warehouse, the two still stood unfazed to their surroundings, unwilling to give the other any kind of advantage.
Artemis took this time to study her opponent, looking for any weakness or at least anything that could give her some kind of advantage. There was not much that could help her figure out his identity, the archer was dressed in a skin tight black body suite, making look like a ninja which I guess you could say was the standard outfit for shadow henchmen. The archer was muscular, but not like Superboy built more similar to Roy or as he prefers it now Red Arrow. He wasn't much taller than her maybe only an inch or two. As she studied him more she got the strange feeling that she knew him some how. Then she got to his eyes, the only part of him that wasn't covered by black fabric, she stared into eyes that resembled her own grey cloud eyes.
Where do I know those eyes? Artemis thought to herself, wait…no it can't be. She gazed into his eyes once more trying to see if her crazy conclusion was indeed correct.
"HEY! Artemis!" that was until a certain speedster interrupted her thoughts. "You gonna help us out down here or are you going to continue with your little staring match!" Kid Flash shouted to her as he dodged a swift kick aimed for his ribs.
Artemis was ready to rip him a new one when an unexpected chuckle escaped her opponent's lips. "Artemis?" he asked as he chuckled again. Acting as if he couldn't believe what the speedster had shouted. "Well I was not expecting this," he said in a calm, soft voice as he lowered his bow.
Artemis kept her bow cocked still pointed at his head, not ready to let her guard down. "Oh come on Artemis," he said with another chuckle as he put his unused arrow back into his quiver "is that anyway to treat your brother?" He questioned her as he put his hand her bow, guiding her hand down so it was redirected to the floor.
"Apollo…"
"Hey sis,"
