Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice. And yes there's an Artemis POV, this isn't just about Cheshire and M'gann.
Cheshire
"So what do you want out of this party?" I ask turning to the Martian.
"My brother, my boyfriend, and revenge for Artemis," she replies.
"Oh so you care about Artemis huh?" I ask grinning.
"Of course, she was like a sister to me," she answers.
"Gee, that's funny she was like a sister to me too," I mock.
M'gann grimaces as we continue to walk along the side of the ocean.
"What is this accomplishing exactly?" she asks turning to me.
"No idea," I mumble still walking.
"I could breathe underwater if I turn grow fins or something," she says trying to sound helpful.
"What would I do?" I press.
"Um…you could…get a submarine?"
"Right, so I magically get a submarine and sneak up on the other submarine in it. Brilliant plan," I scoff.
"Can we just please hurry," she begs.
"Why I'm in no rush," I say with a smile.
"Let's see how do, we get to the bottom of the ocean…" she trails off.
"A submarine might sound stupid, but it's our only option!" M'gann replies waving her arms around.
I sigh, "Okay, where do we get it from?"
"Umm….a boat store?"
"Nice try, but no," I say shaking my head.
Artemis
The fear in their eyes was immense, and heartbreaking. If I wasn't undercover I'd have done something, but I couldn't, I just had to go with the flow, because our mission is so important, so vital.
"Hey beautiful," Icicle Jr. flirts walking up to Tuppence.
"Shut-up," she scoffs.
"Oh come on, you know that you love me."
"No I da' not," she snaps.
"Then what will make the sparks fly?" Icicle questions.
"Ya jumpin' off a cliff," she growls.
"Awe sweetie you don't mean that," he purrs.
"You two are giving me a headache," I whine.
"Tigress our love isn't any of your business," Cameron mops.
Tuppence rolls her eyes and sighs looking like she's about ready to punch him.
M'gann
"So we'd like to buy a submarine."
"A submarine?" the shop owner asks shocked.
I nod.
"What she means is do you know where we can get one, because obviously the grocery store won't have any," Cheshire says glaring at me.
I've shifted into my Caucasian form, as to maintain a low profile while we search for a way to get to the bottom of the ocean.
"Um…no sorry bout that," the shop owner answers he looks downright confused.
"Well thanks for the help," I say waving as we leave the store.
"What help? He was completely useless," Cheshire points out.
I shake my head, why am I putting myself through this?
"Okay, I have a better plan, it's called the internet."
"I know what the internet is," I mumble, "How's it going to help us anyway?"
"We can look up 'where can you buy a submarine'," Cheshire responds.
"Okay, but how do we find a computer?" I ask.
"The library, duh! No wonder you partnered up with me, you'd be screwed otherwise," she mocks, so I glare at her.
"Fine, but where do we find a li…"
"Don't even say it, its right there!" Cheshire remarks pointing at an old building across the street.
We quickly walk towards the library, and once there I pull the door open and hold it for Cheshire.
She leads me back to a table with five big bulky computers sitting on top of it.
She sits down at one and feverously begins typing something into the search box. She clicks enter and large pictures and links about buying submarines pop up.
"So?" I press leaning in to get a closer look at the screen.
"Here…Happy Harbor Submarines, sounds promising," she says clicking on the link.
A picture of a chubby man smiling as he points his finger at a large submarine behind him pops up. Cheshire scrolls to the bottom of the page, nods her head, then stands up and begins leaving the library.
Cheshire
"What can I help ya with?" that same chubby man from their site asks.
"Oh we'll help ourselves," I say with a smile as I pull out my sais.
"Cheshire no!" M'gann screams.
"I thought that you said that you'd do things my way, besides I'm not going to do anything…yet!" I threaten pressing it closer to his neck.
"Well why do you need them?" M'gann asks.
"Do you have any money?" I question.
"No."
"Do you think that submarines are free?"
"No."
"My point exactly, now unless you want whoever you said that you're saving to die, use your telekinesis to take one, and let's get out of here!" I command.
M'gann gives me a wary look before she lifts her fingers to her temples and a small blue submarine lifts up from the ground.
"Hello Megan!" she remarks slapping her forehead, "The Bio-ship is a submarine!"
"You have got to be kidding me!" I yell turning to her. "You've had a submarine this whole time? I should stab you with this sai! We've wasted so much time, I'd be better off on my on! Oh you idiot!" I nag pacing back and forth trying to resist the urge to jab her with my weapon and throw her in the ocean.
Artemis
"No, no, no!" I scream shaking my head. The cold water drips down my cheeks as I stand by the mirror splashing my face with the water, no one can know that I'm crying. No one.
Our mission would be ruined if they did…then again our mission is already ruined.
I press my forehead against the mirror and try to think of a way out of this, a way that I won't get the blame, a way to reverse everything and go back in time. Maybe I need a few pointers from Impulse.
I laugh dryly till I hear a knock on the door.
"Hurry up I gotta' go," Tuppence calls.
My heart begins to beat rapidly my eyes dart, what do I do?
I feel more tears pressing out, if I open it she'll see that I'm crying, but if I don't she'll kick the door in.
I slowly crack the door open. "One second Tuppence, I have to wash my hands."
She groans, "Isn't it enough that I already have to deal with psycho lover Icicle, now I have to deal with you?"
The mention of Icicle Jr. sends me back to full throttle crying.
"Ares ya cryin' in there?" Tuppence asks.
My heart stops, oh no, I've ruined the mission!
"No, I just have asthma," I moan and begin fake sneezing and wheezing.
"Right an' I believe tat bout as much as I believe tat it's takin' you this long ta wash your hands," she mocks in her deep southern accent.
"It's true *Achhooo!*" I fake.
"Shut-up I's know that ya'll's crying cause you're just a baby who can't take ta killing," Tuppence laughs.
"We were ordered to keep the prisoners alive! What good are they to us dead? Icicle Jr. purposefully disobeyed direct orders!" I shout accidentally putting to much emotion into the statement.
"Well's that don't explain why ya are cryin'," she presses.
"For the lat time I'm not crying!" I scream storming out of the bathroom after wiping away all my tears. "There, have a party!" I pout walking away.
I pace through the ship till I finally find the person I've been looking for, Kaldur.
"Kaldur, what do we do?" I cry fighting the urge to hug him, not because I love him, that spot's taken by Wally, but I need comfort right now.
"About what?" he asks, dropping my jaw.
"I thought that you'd be the first one to know!" I remark shocked.
I look around for my Tigress mask, and realize that I've left it in the bathroom, but that's the least of my worries.
I sigh and attempt to choke out the words, but I just can't, my mind hasn't even had time to process it.
"One of the prisoners has been killed by a rogue member," I report trying to sound official, trying to sound as if this is strictly business not someone's life that we're talking about.
Not just someone, his life.
Kaldur looks shocked for a second before trying to compose himself.
"Which one? Who is the rogue member?" he asks looking worried, but he's relatively calm for the situation.
"The prisoner is number 3, Beast Boy," I mumble hanging my head down.
"Who killed him?" Kaldur demands.
"Icicle JR.," I answer.
"How?"
My mind grows dizzy as I try to focus on what he's asking. "What?" I ask the world blurring before me.
"Tigress, focus you need to tell me what happened!" Kaldur demands.
"Okay. So Tuppence was mad at Beast Boy for whining, so she was like 'Shut-up, your getting' on my nerves!' Then Icicle asked her for the eighteenth time what he had to do to get her to love him, and she said that he should 'get rid of that nuisance.' And so…" my breath gets caught in my throat as I try so hard to tell him.
"And so, Icicle thought that she was serious and he stabbed Beast Boy with ice, and he bled to death," I feel a tear run down my cheek, and I wipe it away as quick as it emerges.
I don't tell him about how badly I endangered the mission, he doesn't need to know. And no I'm not talking about my crying, I'm talking about what I did for him…
My mind flashes back to it, relishes in it.
"Beast Boy!" I screamed running to his side.
He was lying on the ground with blood seeping out of the slash in his stomach, his containment pod stood next to him.
I glared at Icicle Jr. before I gently picked up Gar.
I ran to the infirmary receiving looks from The Reach.
The boy moaned in my arms.
"It's going to be okay, it's all going to be alright," I comforted rubbing his hair as I placed him on a hospital type bed.
"M'gann," he sputtered, breaking my heart.
I'd known the boy for a year, before Wally and I quit the team, and actually we'd become quite close.
I knew that he needed someone…to hold his hand as he died.
I knew that Jamie and Bart were in their containment pods, and I knew that it had to be me.
I took off my Tigress mask and kneeled down next to him. I knew that I looked nothing like myself, and I knew that it was a long shot, but I tried anyway.
"Gar, it's me Artemis," I whispered.
He coughed before shaking his head, "No you're Tigress."
He looked like he was about to fall asleep…forever.
"I'll be back Gar," I called standing up as I ran out of the room.
I ran to the lower level of the ship straight into one of the labs.
His old lab.
Bart had seen him be killed, and he had been screaming and pounding on his pod the whole time. And when I'd taken Gar he'd cried, I could hear him.
And he was still crying.
"Impulse!" I called closing the large door behind me.
It had to be Bart, I didn't have access to Jamie's pod, no one did.
"What?" he cried trying to compose himself.
"You need to come with me!" I ordered trying to sound like I was going to run labs on him or something.
He moaned as I opened up the pod.
I clasped a collar around his neck so that he wouldn't use his powers and escape.
I roughly bent his arms behind his back and pushed him all the way to the infirmary.
I shoved him in. I thought for a moment about leaving them alone, because they deserved that, but I decided against it and stepped inside the room.
"Gar?" Bart gasped seeing all the blood.
"Bart!" Beast Boy rejoiced.
And with that my heart swelled, sure the mission was probably completely ruined because of this, and yes Nightwing and Kaldur will have my head, but the boy was going to die, and I actually made him smile.
I don't know how good of friends the two are, but I do know that they're teammates, and teammates care about each other.
"Gar, Gar, Gar!" Bart begins crying again as his happiness stops.
I look up returning to the scene in front of me. And as my daydreams die, I realize that Gar has too.
I begin crying too.
Bart turns back to me and gives me a curious look.
Through the tears he asks, "Why are you crying?"
My mind runs a blank as I attempt to answer his question.
"That is none of your business prisoner! Now back to your pod!" I shout grabbing hold of his arms and dragging him away.
"Tigress, you're going to blow our cover with this, Beast Boy would have wanted us to move on with our mission and not ruin it because of him.
"That! Is! Such! A! Freakin'! Lie!" I scream before looking around at the odd expression on Tommy's face at having had heard me scream this.
I spin away and quietly sulk to the bathroom to retrieve my mask.
Cheshire
M'gann's practically bouncing with the excitement of seeing her brother as she steers the so called, 'Bio-ship.'
I yawn as she keeps blubbering about how much she misses Gar.
I wish I could be that excited, but sadly the person that I'm going to rescue is already dead.
And boy how their switching spots! Gosh, I am so sorry about how sad this chapter was, but I kinda had planed for this. And I'm so sorry about how Cartoon Network is taking away DC Nation till January…grr! Anyway please review!