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Artemis stood in the playground of Gotham Academy with a heavy bag on her back and feeling tired. Who in their sane mind would make them meet for a school trip at seven in the morning? Who in their right mind would do a briefing late at night when they knew the others had to get up early?

The answers... the teachers and Batman. Artemis was almost certain that they had teamed up together just to annoy her.

While waiting for everyone to arrive Artemis went over the plan in her head.

Kid idiot will meet Red Arrow there. Superboy and Miss M will drop KF and Aqualad off and wait there. Aqualad will go to the river and stay there. The Bio-ship will be above them. I will be with the students and have a surprise back up that could be anyone and Robin will be... around. How very unuseful thought Artemis.

Just as Artemis started scowling to herself at the thought of having Robin stalking around in the shadows a dark blue Rolls Royce parked beside the school and out stepped billionaire Bruce Wayne followed seconds later by a bounding thirteen year old with a large smile.

That's the creep that took my picture one the first day... wait, that's Richard Grayson! Why the hell did he take a picture of me? Artemis thought to herself as she watched an old man emerge from behind the car with a duffle bag. They headed towards the front entrance.

"Do you have your under wear?"

"Yes"

"Spare socks in case it gets muddy?"

"Yes"

"A phone in case anything happens?"

"Yes"

"Peppermint spray?"

"Yes"

"Any way I can ask you not to go so that I don't need to worry?" Bruce asked

"Nope. Bruce, I'm going on this trip, it'll be my first school trip ever!" Dick replied

"That's why I'm worried" responded Bruce

"Hey Barbara!" Dick shouted waving madly. Seconds later a tall red haired girl ran up to them followed shortly by the head of Gotham Police Department, Jim Gordon.

"Hey Dick" Barbara replied running up

"Hello Barbara, Jim" greeted Bruce politely. He shook hand with Jim and Barbara and Dick started excitedly talking about the trip. Artemis had been listening to their conversation and tuned out. She could just tell how bored she was going to be.

After half an hour a large coach arrived and everyone piled on after saying a quick goodbye to their friend and family. Artemis took a seat in the middle of the coach and waited for everyone else to take a seat. There was enough space on the coach that Artemis got two seats to herself so she put her bag on the chair next to her as they drove off and attempted to sleep.

When Artemis tried to sleep she could hear the people behind her talking. After 10 minutes of a futile attempt to sleep Artemis decided to listen to what they were saying.

"All I'm asking is why did you want to come on this trip?"

"You know why Barb. I have never been on a school trip in my life. At the circus I was home schooled and here Bruce has never let me leave Gotham for more than a day without him" came a response.

"I know but I mean although you are in this grade you're not actually as old as everyone here because you were bumped up a couple of years. I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with that but -"

"I know, but not everyone has your point of view and some people don't like me and some people view me as a charity case yada yada yada. I'll just have to avoid the bullies and keep my head down but still enjoy myself"

"Fine, still don't get why you wanted to come though"

With that the two behind Artemis went silent. Artemis attempted to try and get some shut eye again but found it difficult because for some reason there was this annoying tapping going on behind her. She had no clue what it was but it was really annoying.

A really short chapter but I thought I might introduce Barbara a bit. Anyone smart enough to guess what the really annoying tapping was.

Please tell me what you thought and be honest... right, off to write the next chapter... shouldn't I be revising for my Spanish controlled assessment tomorrow? Oh well ;)