Well, it's a new fic and a sequel as what the description says. sorry if it he first part is kind of weird, I just wrote that clearly tried and high on ice cream cake. Don't ask. Just enjoy and hope you stay past the first couple of paragraphs.

We start this story anew with five years pasting. New paths were walked and changes happened to each team member, leading them to a different life. But these paths still have to meet again, because it's destined to happen.

Of course we start with the protagonist's, Aria Muses, return after half a decade to her birth city. There's no doubt that it was big news to the city and the moment she walks out of the airport, she faces a blockade of cameras and microphones. She tries her best to smile, but she really just wants to sleep and that 16 hour flight gave her no comfort of rest. Plus those other two days without sleep really wasn't helping her right now.

Well it'll be boring giving details of her home coming, so we'll just skip a couple hours and draw the sky black with white dots. Yes, night will be the start of this. Since that's when all the exciting things happen no matter where you go.

At the Gotham Opera house Aria stands in front of a crowd of a few thousands, but not alone. She bows and gives way to the orchestra she's been conducting for the past few years. And with luck would have it, the performance gets unexpectedly canceled because of unwanted guest.

The minute a bunch of men dressed in black came down from the rafters above holding guns, everyone evacuated the building, leaving hostage only one. And with all that extra stuff finally done and over with, time for me to shut up and let events flow their own way.

(Normal POV)

She faked feeling scared to the goon in front of her, and she felt her blood trickle down as the blade got closer to her larynx. "You're our hostage now, so be good or you'll..." But the man passes out and a batarang lands silently beside her. She picks it up and starts cutting at the ropes behind her. Aria hears movement now and looks up to see a well built man in the rafters.

Aria stood up as the dark figure comes down from the ceiling. "You must really be rusty if you can get yourself caught that easily." The figure smirked and Aria quickly knew who he was, "Then again it's been around five years."

She rolls her eyes as she breaks the rope around her, "Haha, very funny boy blunder. That's the perfect greeting to someone you haven't seen in a long time." She rubs her wrist as it starts healing away the rope marks. "You barely changed a thing Robin."

"It's Nightwing now actually." The ninja pointed out nonchalantly.

She arched an eyebrow, but never spoke the question. Shaking it off, she went for a different topic. "So how is this gonna go down? I pretend that you saved me, and I help? Or will you let your team do the rest?" Aria motions her head upwards as she sees movement from above. And two more figures appear, landing silently to the ground. She smiles and bows in greeting, "It is an honour to meet you both, Batgirl and Robin." A wild guess of the names turns to hold truth when silence filled the air.

The two new figures looked confused and shocked at the calm attitude of the small hostage, as Nightwing shakes his head, "Enough with the sarcasm. I need your help, so after this is done go zeta tube to the cave. Oh, and either way, you're the damsel in distress." Aria rolls her eyes again, and throws a batarang that she used to cut the rope. Nearly missing Nightwing, it hits the goon getting back up and gets knocked out again.

"Who's the damsel now?" She smirked as they watch the man fall to the ground.

"I'm confused. What's going on here?" Robin looks at both the musician and his elder.

"I'd like to know as well." Batgirl places her hands on her hips and glared at the two, "You two had a thing, didn't you?"

"No time to explain. And no, it's not like that." Aria turned to the shadows, "That goon has friends, and it'd take a while. So another time maybe." She jumps away as bullets come her way, and the others followed, taking out other men not firing.

Three men surround Aria, she just smirks as she flips kicks each men and they go flying off the stage. She looks around and sees the others were done with their goons, and she fixes up her dress. "It's either I'm really rusty, or it's freaken hard to fight in a dress cause I felt really awkward moving around like that." Nightwing walked up beside her to hang cuff the men at her feet and stands at full height. "You've gotten really tall in those five years." Aria measured herself to him.

"And you shrank over the years." Nightwing teased and Aria threw a punch which he catches. She retracts her arm and Nightwing shook his wrist that caught the fist, "Yup, still very deadly. And to think you won the Nobel peace prize and rumors popping up saying you'd fill in for earth's representative."

"Oh shut up." Aria jumps off the stage and heads for the door, "So what I'm saying is that you all save me right? Then when all that dies down, I head on over to the cave." Nightwing nods and she leaves. Once the door closes behind her, tears run down her face on command and she starts to run frantically outside where police, ambulance and the media are waiting.

A blonde hair woman, her manager Ms. Tomson, came running to the girl. "Aria! Thank goodness you're alright. They didn't hurt you did they?!"

Aria quickly shook her head and made her voice sound small and weak, "I'm fine. Just still fighting the shock of what happened. If it weren't for the heroes here in Gotham, I don't know what'd happen. I just wish to go home now and leave this all behind me." The paramedics came and wrapped a blanket around her, and soon was followed by reporters, microphones shoved into her face. At the corner of her eye, she sees three figures swing away through the night sky.

She was momentarily blinded from the flashes from cameras and she could make out few words from the multiple reporters asking similar questions. "I'm sorry, but my client wishes to be left alone and forget this incident ever happened. So please excuse us." Ms. Tomson answers sternly and leads Aria to a waiting car, ready to take her home. They both get inside and Aria wraps the blanket tighter around her for affect. "You sure you're not hurt?" She asked as the car moves towards Muses manor.

"Yes, I'm tired so I'll just go straight to bed when I get home." Ms. Tomson nods knowing full well that she hasn't had a good nights rest for a while, and watches Aria close her eyes and lean her head to the window, looking like a beautiful angel as the moonlight danced off her black hair.

A few minutes later, they arrive at the manor and Ms. Tomson wakes the girl from her nap. She wakes without resistance and gets out of the car, bids her manager a good night and watches the car take her away to her apartment. Once the car turns the corner, she goes inside to change in more comfortable clothing. Satisfied with a black hoodie, jeans and a tee shirt, she headed out the back gate and walked towards the city lights. About a 15 minute walk, she got to Main Street and blended with the crowd. With her hood up, she looked like a regular thug on the street, and is able to hide in plain view.

More twist and turns, and she finds herself in the sketchiest area of Gotham. There's less people on these streets, but she can easily smell the multiple types of drugs in the air, and can hear distance struggles between people. Without any trouble, she got to the alley that held a zeta tube inside an unused telephone booth and went inside. Seconds later, a robotic voice rang out and she felt the familiar buzz of teleporting and walked into the cave.

Aria looks around the main area, but sees no one around. She thought it quite odd, so she decided to look around. The place looked exactly as how it was from when she left, and a wave of familiarity ran through her as memories flooded her mind. But the one person that kept repeating in her head was Kaldur, and her heart raced a bit at the thought of being able to see him again.

While walking the halls, Blue Beetle(out of uniform) and Beast Boy were talking about a new game being released when Beast Boy smells something that's unfamiliar to him, "There's an intruder." He states and transforms into a cheetah to where Aria is. Blue Beetle reacts seconds later and follows.

They find Aria in the training room holding a bo staff and her hood up, covering most of her face. Without question or hesitation, they both attack her. She reacts to them and blocks Beast Boy's claws from hitting her. "What's going on?" She grunts out as she pushes him off her. Once she got her footing, Blue Beetle shot a sonic beam at her and blew her to a near wall.

She fell to the ground pretending to be defeated. It worked and Beast Boy walked towards her, feeling proud, "Dude, that was too easy. We must be getting better at this. Now to get a souvenir for this battle." He reached down to grab the staff in her hands, but once his hand was on the staff, her eyes opened and she flipped the staff causing him to crash into the same wall. Without a second hesitation she turns to Blue Beetle and attacks, avoiding the other sonic beam.

Blue stopped shooting and went with a hand to hand battle. "Would you guys stop attacking? Nightwing asked me to come here!" Aria yelled, since her hearing was off from that last attack.

"Not likely chica, he's not even here." He answered, but she didn't get it since her ears were ringing like crazy. "How did you get in anyway?" He pushed her off and she flips away and bounces off the wall to high kick his head. He goes to the ground and gets back up. He scans the area, but sees nothing. However, he knew she was still around and tries to wake Beast Boy. He wakes up in time to see Aria behind Blue standing there. He points and screams at her and Blue turns to block the attack from the staff.

Beast Boy gets up and transforms into a gorilla, grabbing her from behind and locking her arms. She flips around and kicks him, having him loosen his grip around her. Before anyone could blink, she hits all his pressure points and he hits the ground now immobilized.

Blue gets up and they face off again. The ringing in Aria's head stops and she finally gets access to full use of her five senses.

In the mean while, Superboy comes in with Wolf and Sphere. Both he and Wolf hear the fighting and run to see what was going on. What he sees is Beast Boy on the ground not moving, and a hooded figure fighting against Blue, who seems to be losing. Without another thought, he jumps in and throws a punch at the hooded figure. Aria sees some movement and grabs Blue's arm and pulls him to the path of Superboy's punch. It lands and Blue falls to the ground.

Aria and Superboy now face off, and she finally sees him. He moves to punch her again, but she stops him by pulling her hood down. "Wait! Conner, it's me. Aria." But he was already in mid punch. She blocks and stays put, but the blow doesn't come. She opens her eyes to see that he was able to stop inches away from her. Letting out a sigh of relief, she finally feels the effect of not sleeping for 3 days. "Gave me a scare there." She gasped out.

"Says the girl who randomly pops up without notice and attacks my teammates." Conner teases as he pats her head. He notices and removes his hand. "Sorry, habit from Superman. It's been a while hasn't it."

"It has hasn't it. You don't look any different." She smiles, but notices the change in emotion in Conner's expression, "Did I say something wrong?"

Conner shakes his head, "No, it's just that it's true. I don't look like I've aged a day. Kind of a side effect of being able to grow in a matter of months I guess." There was silence before she bursts out laughing, "It's not funny."

"Sorry, sorry. I'm not being mean or anything, it's just that you don't have to worry about that. I mean look at me, I look the same as I did five years ago to. Not exactly the same, but people do think I'm still in my teens." She puts her hand on his shoulder, "Conner, have you ever seen an Asian person age? They barely look their age until they're in their 60s, and with medicine now a days you can't even tell how old people are now. Who cares about appearance right? It's the way you act that shows your age." She gives him an encouraging smile and he smiles back.

"Thanks." They both hear Blue groan and they remembered what just happened. "We should probably get them up." Aria nodded in response and they head over to help Blue up.

"What hit me?" Blue groaned as his suit retracts to show his civil clothing. "Did you get the intruder?"

"Well, he looks fine. I'll just remobilize that green gorilla." Aria pointed, heading off to where Beast Boy lay. She hit other pressure points, he transformed back and stood up feeling extremely tired. "You feeling ok?" She asked him, and he looked up.

"Who are you? How do you know Superboy?" He asked keeping a distance from the girl. "And what'd you do to me?"

Blue watched and was able to identify the girl by her celebrate status, "What's Aria Muses doing here?" He looked again, and he was still sure he was right.

"Looks like you have a fan." Conner blankly responded through the silence.

"I'm not a fan, she's usually shown on TV." There was a pause before he spoke again, "Am not, and that's not an option."

"Does he do that a lot?" Aria asked with her head bent to the side. Both Beast Boy and Conner nodded. "Ok... Well, it's nice to meet new members. As was already said, I'm Aria Muses." She stuck her hand out and Beast Boy took it.

"Beast Boy." Beast Boy smiled, his tail curling around.

"Blue Beatle. Or Jaime if you want." They both shook hands, and Aria greeted as politely as she would any other.

Beast Boy jumps in, take the role of curious George, "Do you mind if I ask, how is someone like you know how to get here? Not even the president knows about this place."

She thought about it, not wanting to give too much away. "Well, how do you put it? I guess it's complicated is the right word for it." Aria answered and Conner nods in understanding. "But the past is the past; it's not really a need to know piece, now is it?" She smiled sweetly, secretly hoping Q and A was over.

"Noted." Was all the changeling said. To her relief, that was the end of the personal stuff. But Conner won't end the questions just yet. They got to the living room, and once the other two were busy watching tv, the two former team mates talked more.

"I get why you're a secretive person. You don't like to say old stories. That's the past, now it's the present. And five years later, I'm wondering why you're back." Conner looked, not trying to be intimidating but failed at it.

Though Aria knew better and just shrugs off his cold stare, "Ask Ro-I mean Nightwing. I'm don't even know all the details. He just told me to come here."

"How'd he even contact you?"

Aria blushed a bit and hid a little behind her bangs, "Well-" she got cut off by the tv showing the story of the events she just experienced, "That should explain it." She points at the screen as they watch the news anchor explain events in their perspective.

"This evening, not even and hour ago, the young mistress Aria Muses was attacked during her homecoming performance with the Gotham Symphony Orchestra at the opera house." A short clip of her exiting the building with shock and helplessness written clearly on her face, "The motive for the attack is still under investigations, but we all hope the young girl is safe and sound. She's Gotham's angel, a prize example of the good that's still here in this city." The story soon changed into a new opening for Lex corp, and the two teens found no interest in that story.

Conner's eyebrow arched in question, "Gotham's angel?" He half smiled, thinking its rather amusing for this girl to be called an angel.

"Don't ask me, they gave it to me." She sighed and rolled her eyes, feeling even more tired. "So ya, that's a good summary of what happened I guess." Aria shrugs and leans back on her chair, just letting all that stress gone. Having to be polite and poised took a great toll on her and she's grateful for being back, even if she has to step out of retirement. "Well, enough about me. How's everyone? I see that Zatanna got into the league, how about everyone else?"

"What's left of the former team you knew is just me, Nightwing and M'gann. They each had different reason to leave." Conner started, picking his words carefully so to not give her all the bad news in one go.

He took a bit too long to think of what else he was gonna say, so Aria interrupted him, "Well, then how about you and M'gann? I'm sure you're still together." She smiled, knowing the look on Conner's face when he talked about his girlfriend. But that look didn't come, and she knew something was wrong, "Don't tell me, you two actually end it?"

"Ya, well. I don't want to talk about it." Conner turned away, not able to look her in the eye.

Knowing not to push the subject, she decided on other form of conversation, "So how about Wally and Artemis?"

"They retired like you and lived in Palo Alto for school." Again, trying to avoid the news but failed to do so.

Sharp to people's speech, she caught on. "Past tense, what happened to them?" Conner again avoids his eyes, but she wouldn't have it. She caught his gaze and looked into them to see sadness. And as always, she wants to know the truth so she kept pushing, "Please Conner, tell me what happened to them."

Letting out a sigh again, Conner let out the slightest of whispers escape his mouth. "Artemis was killed. Died in action, killed by Manta's new protege." Rage coated his words at the memory of the mission. Without knowing it, he spoke the last part loud enough for everyone in the room to hear.

The news hit Aria like a pile of bricks, she felt rage running through her. The past five years of concentration and meditation, she could feel that strong killing intent again; sharpening her senses and teeth, getting ready to get the one who ended the life of one of her friends. Her mind became muddled, and things turn red for a second. Unknown to her, her eyes blazed red again and Conner sat a bit further away, getting ready for what might happen. Both BBs didn't know what was going on when they saw her eyes, but they noticed how Conner tensed up a bit and got a ready as well.

A second pasted and she calmed herself as best she can. Her mind was clear again and looked Conner straight in the eye. "Who's this new protege?" A eerie calm coated her voice, making it monotone and unfeeling. But Conner could see that she was far from calm, that was just the mask she could easily slip on.

Conner won't say it. He couldn't since he knows what it might do to her. He couldn't believe at first either, but after a while he just accepted it like he did with other things. But he didn't had to say it because Beast Boy said it out loud before Conner could say anything. "It was Kaldur."

They couldn't see what was going on inside Aria's mind, but it became total chaos. She couldn't make sense of it, she clearly heard his name and she knows never to mistrust her hearing. But there's still a little voice in her head saying that he wouldn't do something like that, not to a friend or enemy.

"I see." Was all she said before getting up and heading out of the room. She pauses for a second to look back, "If Nightwing is looking for me, I'll be in the simulation room. I kind of want to see how out of practice I've become." Without a second to spare, she was out of there and in the simulation room.

Well that's it for now. Not 100% sure when the next chapter would be, but I swear I'll get it asap. So I'll love to hear your thoughts about this chapter and if I should keep romance in it. If so, tell me if I should keep the original couple (if it weren't already obvious) or go for a different OC pairing. Also old characters are sure to come.

plus, I'm trying something new in where I'll incorporate your ideas in events. So any ideas just PM or review. Whatever you can do to get in touch with me.

well that's all. BYEBYE!