The Team decided that the first thing they should do the day after defeating Vandal Savage, would be to go to Hawaii for some fun. Aqualad, being the responsible team leader he was, would bring all of the supplies that the team would need. He was bringing towels, snacks, sunscreen, and other things. Superboy was in charge of grilling/bringing the food, napkins, buns, and silverware, because out of the team members he was the only one that knew how to grill. The genomorphs had taught him all kinds of survival skills, including grilling. Miss Martian was happy to make a schedule for when they were going to be doing things, what they were going to be doing them, and how long they would do them. Robin, Zatanna, Wally, Artemis, and Rocket were told that by Miss M that all they had to do was show up and participate in the fun. Everyone was to be at the zeta tubes ready to leave by 10.
Around 10:15, they found a spot on the beach with a volleyball net, volleyball, a grilling area, and more. After Aqualad made sure everyone had put on sunscreen, he allowed Miss M to take over. "Okay guys, so this is how today is going to go. At 10:30 we will play volleyball; at noon we will eat the lunch that will be provided by Superboy; at 1:00 we can choose between swimming, getting a suntan, or making sand castles; at 2:00 there will be a game of waterballoon volleyball; at 3:30 we will take some time to relax; and then at 5:00 we can set up multiple canopies around each other, and we can set up our sleeping arrangements; then, at 6:00 we will eat again; at 7:00 we will play spin the bottle, truth or dare, and seven minutes in heaven; at 9:00 we will eat s'mores and tell ghost stories; and after that I have nothing else planned so we can all go to bed whenever we want after that!" Miss M exclaimed. Needless to say, Miss M was talking for a very long time and everyone was glad when she stopped talking.
"Finally," Robin said, "you were talking for soooo long, can we just pick teams now and play?"
"Yes, Robin, although instead of picking teams myself I thought we could pick teams by pulling the popsicle sticks I grabbed and labeled either one or two," Miss M said in an annoyed manner,"okay, now the straws will be picked alphabetically by our superhero names, starting with girls first."
Artemis drew first, obviously, and got 1; Miss M got 2; Rocket got 2; Zatanna got 1. Then it was the guys turn to draw: Aqualad got 1, Kid Flash got 2, Robin got 2, and Superboy got 1. What Miss M did not think of, which might have been important was that they did not have a referee to make the final calls, although she did remember to mention that there were no powers allowed and just to make sure no one used their powers, Miss M put inhibitor collars on everyone. Miss M even came up with a huge trophy for the winning team to have after, along with one for the waterballoon volleyball for later, and those trophies would be souvenirs to remember what happened that day. Since Artemis drew first and got 1, team two started with the volleyball. Of course, Wally decided that he wanted to be the one to start off serving the ball, and Miss M said one more thing before he could start, that the tournament would be a best of three to see who would win.
Wally scored right off of the serve, and needless to say this made him a little too overconfident and cocky already, "Hey Megan," Wally said as he winked at her, "that was for you babe." The comment made Artemis extremely jealous, it made Megan shake her head, and Superboy was not the happiest about what he said either. Although, it caused snickers from everyone on Wally's team. Wally served it again, but this time Superboy was able to set up Artemis who hit the ball right into Wally's face so hard that he fell down. "Was that for Megan too Wally?" Artemis asked with a chuckle as she high fived Conner. "Haha, very funny," Wally said as he got back up. The rest of the game was similar to the beginning with an almost point for point score, the score was 24 for team 1 and 22 for team 2. Team 2 called for a time out, because they knew it was match point. They came up with a plan to let Robin set up the volleyball and have Rocket fake a spike, and then have Wally finish them with an actual spike. The plan worked perfectly, and the score was now 24-23, and it worked so perfectly that they tried it again. Although, this time when they tried it a crab came out of nowhere and latched on to Wally's big toe causing him to miss the ball and cry out in pain. Eventually, he got the crab off of his toe, but it was already too late at that point. Wally knew he was never going to live down the fact that he lost to Artemis and Robin was also embarrassed that he lost to Zatanna. Then, they both remembered that it was a best of three and were no longer upset. They came back with a whole different strategy for game two. The final score was Team 1, 20 points and Team 2, 25 points. It was all down to this final game, and Superboy had to start grilling, so Team 2 had to substitute out between Wally and Robin so it was an even 3 vs. 3. Team 2 scored almost every time Wally was out there, but Robin was not having as much luck. The score was 24-24 and Wally was back in, he knew that he could win, because he had been killing it all game. Zatanna served and Rocket missed the ball and Wally almost yelled at her in rage, but remembered that everyone makes mistakes. It was then Wally's turn to serve and it was match point, they were able to keep the ball going for a very long time until Aqualad hit the ball a little too hard, and Wally could not get to it before it hit the ground, it landed right in front of the line and was barely in bounds. Wally yelled, "Not fair, not fair, not fair! That was all luck." Artemis looked at him, rolled her eyes, and said, "Yeah right Wally, what that was, was skill." Everyone took off the collars and set them aside for later. Artemis grabbed the trophy and kissed it with glee, she was so happy she beat Kid Idiot.
Everyone walked over to where Conner had just finished grilling and grabbed some food at sat at the picnic table. It was a very quiet meal, as everyone was starved from all of the exercise that they had just done, especially Wally being a speedster and all. Everyone thanked Superboy for the meal and then rested for a half an hour before Miss M let them know it was time to choose between one of the three activities she had offered as choices. Zatanna and Artemis decided to suntan; Kaldur, Raquel, Conner, and Megan went swimming, and Robin and Wally decided to create sand castles. Robin and Wally decided that they were going to make a scale model of the batcave, with some small modifications. Artemis and Zatanna changed their minds about suntanning, and walked over to help Robin and Wally with their project. Only Wally knew what the actual batcave looked like out of The Team other than Robin, so he knew that all of the things that the girls were adding to it were wrong. They added a spa, and several other girly things that Robin and Wally ignored.
Megan let The Team know that it was time to get ready for water balloon volleyball and had them put their collars back on, the teams were: Zatanna and Wally, Artemis and Robin, Conner and Rocket, and Kaldur and Megan. This was a tournament where everyone played each other once, and then there were matches set up after that where two teams would compete for first and the other two teams would compete for third. At the end of all of the games it ended up with Zatanna and Wally 3-0, Artemis and Robin 2-1, Conner and Rocket 1-2, and Kaldur and Megan 0-3. Conner and Rocket faced Kaldur and Megan first, and to everyone's surprise, Kaldur and Megan won. Now, it was down to the match that everyone had been waiting for. To everyone's surprise, Wally had not been overconfident or said anything cocky at all out of the water balloon volleyball games he had played in. Although, this probably had something to do with Zatanna pulling him off to the side before they had even started a game and started whispering things in his ear. Wally started laughing at something Zatanna had whispered and Wally whispered something back causing her to laugh as well. This had made both Artemis and Robin visibly upset and jealous, and was probably one of the reasons they lost their first game to them so easily. Although, now they had their heads in the game, and they were prepared to take Wally and Zatanna down. A little while later, the score was Wally and Zatanna with 23 to Robin and Artemis with 15. Then, Wally and Zatanna were able to finally get a point after a back and forth battle for what seemed like forever without either team scoring, it was now match point. Wally was so happy that he hugged Zatanna and she kissed him on the cheek. This was the last straw for Robin and Artemis, so Artemis grabbed Robin and kissed him on the lips. Kaldur, Megan, Conner, and Rocket looked in complete disbelief. Both Wally and Zatanna were very upset about that and once they one the game, they took the trophy without celebration.
Megan was happy to get everyone to take off their collars and destroy them, it was fun using them while it lasted. Everyone spent an hour setting up canopies in a big circle around the fire, and under them they had set up their tents with all of their stuff. They pushed the tents out to where they were behind all of the canopies so they had room to hang out under the canopies until they went to bed. Then, Megan had everyone gather around to eat. It was a very quiet meal until Megan said that everyone needed to just agree that what happened during the water balloon volleyball game did not really happen. Everyone was quick to agree with her and things were back to normal, without any awkwardness this time.
Now it was getting to the fun part, Megan decided that they would play Truth or Dare first. Zatanna chose first, and she chose Wally. "Wally, Truth or Dare?" Zatanna asked. "Dare," Wally responded. "Okay then," she said, "I dare you to run to Mount Justice and go take a picture of you kissing Black Canary. On the lips!" she added mischievously. "No problem," Wally said. He was gone and back again in a flash, and he had a very scared look on his face. "I got it," he said and showed everyone the picture, "but she was very upset and threatened to hurt in very descriptive details if I ever tried anything like that again." Everyone laughed but Artemis who was upset with Zatanna for having him do that in the first place. "Okay, I guess it is my turn to choose, so Robin Truth or Dare?" Wally asked. Robin responded, "Dare of course." "Okay, I dare you to choose who on The Team you would pick to be stranded on a deserted island and why," Wally answered smugly. Zatanna thought about how she wished she could be stranded with him and then started to blush. "Well," Robin replied thoughtfully, "I would choose Kaldur, because he would be able to swim for a very long time in water and I could count on him to find someone to help us or find the way home." Zatanna was upset when she heard his answer, but she understood. "Okay, Artemis your turn," Dick exclaimed. "Oh, I guess dare," she said. "I dare you to kiss whoever you want to date out of everyone here on the lips," Robin said knowing who she would kiss. Artemis got up walked over to Wally made a big show of kissing him and said, "There, you happy?" This went on for a little while until they decided to play a little spin the bottle and a little seven minutes in heaven. Once it was nine Megan went to bed and so did Rocket, Kaldur, and Conner. They always went to bed early and got up early if they could.
The rest decided to stay up. Wally walked over to the beach and set his feet in the water. He could hear someone walking over to where he was, and then all of a sudden Artemis was sitting to his right. "So, you want to date me?" Wally teased. This caused Artemis to blush and reply, "No, I was told to kiss who I wanted to date most out of the group not in general, and the only reason I kissed you was because Conner and Megan are dating, Kaldur and Rocket are interested in each other and so are Robin and Zatanna." "Oh, well if you don't want to date me then I guess I shouldn't do this," Wally whispered as he leaned in to kiss her. Artemis went rigid and first, but then she opened herself up and started to kiss him back. Back at the fire something similar happened between Robin and Zatanna and both pairs decided that they were going to officially start dating. Then, they decided that they should go to bed, because they had had a long day.
"Well, everyone how was yesterday?" Megan asked just before everyone was leaving. Everyone told her how it was so amazing and how they couldn't wait until the next time that they did something like this. It was nice for them to be able to do something like normal teenagers for the first time in what seemed like forever. They all headed back to the zeta tubes and Wally said something along the lines of home sweet home or something like that. Artemis was more concentrated on Wally than she was on what Wally was saying. She didn't know what had happened to Wally, but he had changed alot since they had first met.