"Hello Captain." Nightwing smiled at her. "Get ready for your world to change."
"Sir yes Sir." Artemis saluted smartly, not entirely sure how to answer, making Nightwing laugh. He motioned for her to come aboard and she followed.
"First of all don't call me sir." He smiled easily. "I'm in charge of my team, but none of us outrank you. This is a simply observe mission on your part. This is Miss Martian." He said, introducing the alien.
"You can call me M'gan." She smiled.
"Hello." Artemis smiled back.
"Also, I want you to know that I was given your file and read it. I won't tell anyone else the classified contents."
"Thank you sir – I mean Nightwing." Artemis smiled gratefully.
"At our base we're very casual. Some people may tell you their ID's; you are not to repeat them to anyone, understood."
"Yes sir- I mean yes." She said. "That might be a habit that won't break."
"I understand." Nightwing smirked. "The Green Lanterns have the same problem. Half of them came out of the Air Force."
"Oh, ok." Artemis said din surprise.
"Also, you'll be coming on any missions we may have." He saw her about to protest and put a hand up. "We have a uniform and mask for you to conceal your identity, and your only role would be possible back up. It's mostly just observing."
"Anything else?" Artemis rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, no more pointing guns at my team." He smirked.
"I can't make any promises." She smirked back. Finally looked around she whistled. "Nice, erm, Plane?"
"It's a Bioship." M'gan grinned. "It's controlled by my mind."
"Handy." Artemis dead panned. "Wish Helicopters worked that way."
"You fly helicopters?" Nightwing asked and Artemis shrugged.
"I've been … well trained." She explained, abet poorly.
"That's good to know." The martian smiled warmly. "You can call me Meagan."
"I guess since I'm not going to be in uniform you can just call me Artemis." She replied.
"Here we are." Nightwing said after a bit more of flying in silence. They arrived to a large mountain and flew into a hidden entrance.
"Nice." Artemis smiled as they got off.
"Hello again Captain." Came a familiar voice. Artemis saw a smiling Superboy walking toward her; she had also worked directly with him during the conflict.
"Hello Superboy." She smiled back. "Call me Artemis."
"And you can call me Conner." He replied with a handshake.
"Man, you weren't kidding when you said people were casual here." Artemis said to Nightwing.
"A little too casual." Came a new voice. A young woman, about Artemis' age, with long black hair walked toward her. "I'll warn you now, these boys like to walk around in their underwear. Not that I mind of course." She flashed a grin to Nightwing as she gave him a quick peck on the lips.
"I see the rumors of dating within superheroes is correct." Artemis deadpanned, gaining a laugh from the girl.
"Oh, she is going to fit in great." She smiled. "I'm Zatanna by the way."
"Artemis."
"I know." Zatanna poked Nightwing. "He briefed us on your arrival."
"Hey Angle Fish." Came another voice now. A, well, a giant fish think walked into the room now and planted a kiss on Meagan, and Artemis noticed a grimace from Connor.
"Hey L'gaan." She smiled. "This is Artemis, that Marine Nightwing briefed us on."
"Greetings." He said, shaking her hand.
"Hi." She responded politely.
"Well, I'll just take her to her room then." Zatanna said quickly and led her away. "And that was you're first hint of team drama."
"Um, yeah." Artemis chuckled. "Talk about tension. Is it safe to assume Connor and Meagan were once an item."
"More like once engaged." Zatanna shook her head. "No one really knows what happened, but she started dating L'gaan a little while after."
"That's why I don't date within my field." Artemis grimaced. "Once was more than enough." She said making Zatanna laugh.
"Here we are, your room for the next week."
"Thanks." Artemis said as she unpacked. Zatanna helped and they just chatted at random. When they were done, Zatanna looked up suddenly.
"Woops, almost forgot." She laughed. "You're outfit."
"What about my outfit?" Artemis asked.
"The one you'll be going on mission in." She smiled. "Tell me, what would you like?"
"Um…" Artemis said at a loss.
"Here, let me try something." She smirked. "Eht tcefrep emutsoc rof Simetra!" Suddenly, Artemis was in a very sexy green outfit with combat boots and a bow and arrows. "Huh, are you good at archery?" Zatanna asked.
"Um, kind of." Artemis said. "I use to … go hunting with my dad."
"Let's go see!" Zatanna said excitedly, showing her to the training room. They made their way to targets and Zatanna set them so they were moving. "Go ahead."
"If you insist." Artemis shrugged as she took aim. She fired all five arrows and Zatanna stopped the machine. All had made non-lethal targets that would still stop an assailant.
"Nice." Came a voice from behind them. The girls turned around to see Nightwing behind them. "Just in time too, Clayface is terrorizing in Jump City of all places. Let's go."
Artemis watched the scene very closely. She was impressed to see that everyone showed up in a timely manner and was well briefed. Apparently another team was currently on a mission and others were doing, well, other things, so this 'Beta' team of Artemis, Zatanna, Miss Martian, Superboy, L'gaan, and Kid Flash would be going.
"Who is this?" Kid Flash asked, finally noticing her.
"It's Captain Crock." Nightwing said and Wally looked over.
"Oh." He shrugged. "Well, come on. I'm team leader."
"Sir, yes sir." Artemis saluted smartly getting grins from the others as Kid Flash rolled his eyes.
"What's your code name anyway for this?" He asked, then he saw the bow. "And what's with the Arrows?"
"She a pretty decent shot." Nightwing shrugged. "And with Red Arrow now in the Justice League, we can always use an archer. As for the code name, why not Artemis?"
"But that's my name." Artemis said slowly.
"Exactly!" Nightwign grinned. "It's perfect! It's the goddess of archery! And no one would ever think it was also your real name."
"It's not like Donna Troy or anything." Zatanna grinned. Donna may be a mentor to all of them, but they loved making fun of her lack of code name.
"True." Artemis said dejectedly. "Let's go find us a Clayface."