Wally hated magic. He hated it more than brussel sprouts and history class combined, particularly when it was aimed at him. The evening had started out well, he'd been blowing off steam with Robin and M'gann busting some muggers and other petty criminals between getting samples from every ice cream parlor in Happy Harbour. He was having a good time, even if M'gann had invited Artemis to tag along.

And then things got a little more interesting. Following the sound of screaming alarms back to a bank, they discovered a large chunk of wall appeared to have just vanished into thin air.

"Magic?" M'gann guessed, visually scanning the hole.

"That's likely." Robin confirmed, looking closely to compensate for the dying light, "Look at the edges, this wasn't cut or blown up and there's no debris."

Wally couldn't help a slight scoff, causing Artemis to glance at him. He knew she shared his distrust and borderline disbelief in the mystic arts, but he scowled in return to her look, "What?"

"Nothing!" She shot back defensively, following Robin and M'gann as they cautiously stepped through the hole in the side of the building.

Maybe that was a little uncalled for, but his feelings about Artemis had been all muddled up since a certain training exercise gone wrong had forced them all to witness her death and he was trying really hard to find her as annoying as he had before. And that was annoying. After all, it wasn't like she'd really done anything to endear herself to him beyond being a decent teammate and a pretty good archer and, well, actually fairly easy on the eyes...

"KF look out!" Wally was pulled out of his thoughts by Robin's voice as what appeared to be a teenage girl in a ski mask came barreling out of the bank with his friends hot on her heels.

Jumping into action, he sped around in front of her to cut her off, "You didn't think it would be that easy, did you?"

The girl didn't look particularly worried even with Artemis sneaking around her left side, in fact she was smirking at him, which he found a little unsettling. She had to know she was in trouble. Raising her hand, the girl pointed at him, "te visurum."

What happened next happened very fast, even for him. A bright light shot out of the girl's hand, hurtling towards his chest. Someone yelled his name. Something big and green hit him hard in the side. And then everything went black.