Hey new summary guys, I decided to write out a few chapters for season 6 and the rest will be for Spitfire :D and new deal from now on my A/N will be at the bottom instead of top and bottom! And I'll be adding location, date and time to make things a little clearer!

Chapter 2: Bird Brain

Cape Canaveral
March 19, 21:22 EDT

"Twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty!" Nightwing pressed his lips to Artemis' unmoving ones and huffed air into her lungs quickly. He listened for a heartbeat and again huffed air into her lungs.

No response.

He paused and clutched his hands into the sand tightly before releasing his hands and with a sigh whispered the words nobody wanted to hear. "She's dead..."

!~*~*~!

Mount Justice
March 19, 22:40 EDT

Megan's heavy sobs filled the silent room. The whole team stood silent, not sure on how to react. Megan was shaking with sobs, not only for Artemis but also for her, now a hostage, boyfriend. Conner stood silently behind, contemplating on whether or not to comfort the sobbing martian. When he made up his mind, Beast Boy sat beside the sobbing girl and hugged her tightly causing him to stop and forget his previous thought of comforting the girl.

"It'll be OK sis...Artemis didn't die in vain...and we'll avenge her death." Garfield swore. Megan nodded.

"And La'gaan...we'll g-get him back t-too." she smiled cleaning away some tears. Gar nodded with a forced smile and spoke again through clenched teeth.

"Right...him too." he glanced at Superboy who just rolled his eyes and then began to walk to a distraught looking Nightwing.

"Need something?" Nightwing asked as he rubbed his temples for the millionth time that night.

"I need to know why you haven't gone to tell Wally yet." Conner crossed his arms getting suspicious some how. Nightwing glanced up and sighed.

"I don't know where he is." he mumbled.

"What?" Conner raised an eyebrow.

"Wally." Nightwing looked around realizing everyone was looking at the pair. He shook his head and spoke to everybody in the room. "Wally went missing February 28th and there has been no sign of him. Artemis had informed me of this when I invited her to help us again. She's told Wally's family and they've been doing all they can to find him. There's nobody left for us to contact about Artemis."

"Except her mom." Megan whispered, everyone turning to the green little alien.

"Right." Nightwing sighed. "More people to disappoint. But hey, I brought this on myself." he narrowed his eyes behind his mask then pushed off the wall he had been leaning on. He walked out of the room, nobody bothering to stop him.

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Bludhaven
March 20, 04:00 EDT

"We'll laugh about this someday." Nightwing whispered to himself, staring down at the picture of a surprised and confused blonde girl being slightly hugged by a younger, short black haired freshman who quickly snapped a picture with a wild grin plastered to his face. He chuckled lightly until somebody coughed slightly.

He turned to see Aqualad standing there, Artemis slowly walking towards them from around a corner. Nightwing nodded and everyone moved silently towards each other. Nightwing longed for his missing childhood friend but remained silent. He brought out a golden necklace and clipped it around Artemis' neck. She coughed slightly and Nightwing raised an eyebrow.

"Wally would have.."her voice cracked and she bit down on her lip before speaking again. "Said something like 'dude, w-why are you giving bling to my dead girlfriend...?'" her eyes held tears and her lips curled into a forced smile, laughing slightly at her own joke. Nightwing felt his own eyes stinging before he nodded.

"It's a Glamour charm... I got it from Zatanna after much begging, it's created to disguise you so nobody will recognize you." he explained.

"She looks the same to me." Aqualad pointed out.

"She will look normal to us three but to everyone else she will look like a different person." they nodded at the simple answer. "It's time." he whispered. They headed out and before walking out the door he pulled Artemis into a tight hug. "Be careful..."

"I will." she whispered.

"Wally will never forgive me if something happens to you." Artemis began to shake but nodded. "We'll find him." he felt her tense up and he let her go. She nodded her head, blinking the tears away. She followed Aqualad to the Manta Sub and they climbed in.

Nightwing watched from the top of the warehouse and shook his head.

"Wally where are you when people need you the most?"

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Manta Sub
March 20, 04:47 EDT

"Who is this?" Black Manta growled as he stared at the black haired girl beside Aqualad.

"This is Brenda. I found her while on my walk. She was being attacked by two thugs, I saved her and she said she wanted to bring pain to others the way those thugs had to her. I hoped she could be of help to us." Aqualad spoke in a dark voice that sent shivers up 'Brenda's' spine.

"Very well. She will have to prove herself helpful. If she is of no help to us she will pay...with her life." Black Manta chuckled and was soon gone.

"Scary." Artemis whispered with sarcasm.

"Come, I'll get you your own suit." she glanced at the suit he was wearing himself hoping it wouldn't be like it. To her joy it wasn't one of the suits with the helmets with the laser shooters. It was a jumpsuit actually. A black skin tight jumpsuit that covered her whole body from neck down, the boots were to her knees and pitch black, slightly shiny like the whole suit. She wore gloves that reached just below her elbows. The rims of the gloves were red, the collar on the suit was also red as well as the top of the boots. Two red circles wrapped around her shoulders and under her arms, the zipper was on the front and was a simple gray. Her 'black' hair held up in a ponytail held back with a red hair tie.

"I like how the colors vary." Artemis joked. Aqualad gave her a small smile and led her to her new room. It was empty except for a bed with black sheets, the small circular window that showed the ocean on the other side of the wall, a small dark blue, almost black, metallic dresser, a mirror hanging above it, and a small desk beside the closet. She walked in and looked around, everything seemed so dark, so evil. So different from her home, that was bright and warm.

"They brought you any essentials you might need..." he blushed slightly as he pointed at the bathroom, Artemis laughed and nodded. Not like I'll need them... she thought to herself as she hugged her arms around her abdomen. "If you require anything else, press this button, other than that stay put, you don't need to get off to a bad start with my father." she nodded and he shut the metallic door behind him. She only worried about how they would find Wally...this mission..it should have scared her but of course she wasn't normal, so she wasn't scared, no she was excited...to say the least.

She made her way to the bed and sat on it, of course it wasn't too soft but at least it wasn't rock hard. She slowly laid down on her back, a hand resting on her tummy.

"We'll get daddy back." she whispered.

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2 months later

Manta Sub
May 20, 10:00 EDT
(3 ¾ months pregnant)

Sure the two months had been hard for Artemis who was getting back into the swing of things. She hadn't been allowed off the ship much, at least Black Manta thought so, of course things weren't as he thought they were. She was, you could say, Black Manta's second favorite. She had only been here two months but yet she was already commanding under Aqualad. Third in command so to say.

Black Manta had taken a huge liking to her, he treated her like a daughter, of course since she had hated the suit so much she was allowed to wear her jumpsuit. She felt it was more stylish and suited her better, she never did take a big liking to large metallic suits, she had always preferred the thinner things, like her simple archer clothing. Here she wore her jumpsuit and when times called for it, she wore her makeshift helmet. It looked like a bikers helmet, it was black and had a red one way screen for her to see, of course people couldn't see her eyes. The helmet had red rings around where her ears were placed and the thing covered her whole head, only the read screen and a few other red lines covered the helmet. Some were glowing from the red wires under the surface.

She had proven her skills in hand to hand combat, Black Manta liked this. She was a great 'lair' so to say. She was great at being 'ninja' like as she put it, and she nearly competed with Aqualad. Of course she did take it easy herself knowing she was pregnant, and did not want to lose the child, it was one of the few things she had left of... Wally.

She hadn't stopped thinking of him the whole time, Nightwing hadn't told her how long this mission would last but she was sure it would take a while. But she knew the firs thing she would do after this mission was look for Wally, the first thing she wanted to do.

She had learned that Black Manta might have been working with the Light but they didn't take him seriously sometimes. Sure the man had his own army and everything and was quite powerful but they thought he wasn't of much use to them and their plan. Soon the light had begun to call Artemis in for questionings, they had little mission's they would send her on. Black Manta was proud that two from his own had been liked by the Light.

The Light used both Aqualad and 'Brenda'. Aqualad gave them info he had on the Justice League and on the team. Brenda was sent on missions to distract the team. She would get thugs and bank robbers all gathered and send them on a rampage all at one time so to confuse the team and the Justice League. Of course it worked and it kept both teams busy while Black Manta soon became just a tool for the Light. They had confided in Artemis to tell her that Black manta was just a tool, they used him as a distraction and they had no real use for him. They said Artemis could be more, if she dropped the Manta act and joined the real 'bosses' at the top.

She had been given time to think this through, they told her they had many other tests for her and soon she agreed, she had talked it over with Nightwing and he had told her to take the chance and try to see what they had in mind for her. Soon she was sent on mission's to steal things, to bring them these things. She had even gone so far as to hurt some of the team members. She had been sent to another planet to get a weapon they had, technology that was too advanced for earth. Soon she was bringing creatures home from other planets, some that could help the Light to build the weapon they need.

She was told to not tell Black manta how he was just a tool, she agreed and soon enough they told her they had one last mission for her.

And for that reason she was now standing in this large room with seven screens, of course she knew who was behind each screen, so she waited for them to speak.

"You've proven most helpful." the figure in the middle spoke. She knew all the members who were there, their voices were disguised at the moment though and seeing as how they were hidden by light, she couldn't see who was addressing her.

"Yes but of course there's always the one test to prove if what they did before was in true loyalty and out of the evil 'kick'." another voice spoke. Queen Bee, she sighed in her mind.

"So this final test will be above all others." the first voice spoke.

"Of course it's the worst of them all." a third voice snickered and the others growled in annoyance. Klarion. She decided, nobody else was that annoying on The Light.

"First some information on why we want you to complete this mission." a fourth voice spoke. "We had a great assassin on our side, she had much going for her of course she threw it all away when she decided to go for the pathetic clone Red Arrow." the voice growled in annoyance. "She could have been much higher than where she was. So we want this one...back." he purred, she was confused, who could be talking now? Were they talking about her own sister? Jade?

"Yes, she might not be the best but she's still young and has a lot of potential." yup they were talking about her sister. "So this one has a so called 'child'-" yeah no mistake now. "And we think this child is the root of the problems. If we were to get rid of it, then perhaps we could get this assassin back to us. The last time we called her for a message from us, she had the child with her, we've come to the conclusion that she does not trust anybody with her own child. So if we get rid of it, she'll become heartless again."

"We could also use the arrow boy." a voice spoke with pauses between each word...the brain. She nodded and finally spoke up.

"So what exactly do I have to do with this? This assassin you're talking about, if she's a good assassin I'm sure she could take me down with a hand tied behind her back, even kill me off if I tried to lay a finger on her child." Brenda pointed out.

"That is where you are wrong dear child." the brain spoke again.

"If you get her, at her weakest time, you would be able to take her on." Queen Bee sneered.

"How?" Brenda asked.

"Now, now young one, we don't want to do all the work for you." the first person spoke again, still not sure who he was she nodded.

"I'm sorry." she whispered, sounding slightly scared she wasn't sure what she was suppose to do with Lian once she captured Jade and Roy.

"So you get the child out of the picture then bring us the assassin and Red Arrow."

"What do I do with the child?" she questioned, afraid for the answer.

"Before May 30 you must bring us Jade and Roy, we want you to kill the child, Lian." the voice whispered slowly to her, her eyes going wide and the hairs on her neck standing on end. She blinked rapidly, but nodded her head none the less.

"Very well." she whispered before leaving the room.

!~*~*~!

Docks
May 20 12:00 EDT

Artemis was pacing the docks, looking around, waiting for Nightwing to show up. Dear God what was she going to do! She couldn't kill her niece! Sure she could capture her own sister but killing a child was a whole other thing!

She was not a killer!

Sure she could steal things from other planets, bring other creatures prisoners, back stab people, hurt her old team mates, go under cover and do all of this, but kill her own niece? No way! She would not do that! Not in a million years! She couldn't! She wouldn't!

She took a deep breath and looked around. Where was he? She growled in annoyance then walked to the warehouse and looked inside again. Sure it was abandoned but you never knew if somebody might randomly show up, like her for example.

She finally decided nobody was here and she pulled the necklace off. She didn't feel any different, she didn't look any different but she knew that she was once again 'herself'. She knew her blonde hair was now visible to the world as well as her fog gray eyes.

"That's dangerous you know." she jumped at the sudden voice and brought her knife out quickly from her boot. She aimed it at Nightwing then dropped her arm. Of course.

"Typical." she spat. "You wait for me to not expect you to show up then you scare the crap out of me." she snapped and got a chuckle from him.

"You know me so well." he grinned.

"Shut it boy wonder, I need help, now." she snapped and he nodded, both getting a serious expression.

"What exactly happened?" he asked.

"They told me I had to kill Lian and bring them Jade and Roy before May 30 to show them my true loyalty." he nodded as she explained it and he sighed.

"Damn it!" he screamed kicking over a forgotten box. He held his head in both hands and stood still. "Just when things were going good." he growled.

"What do we do?" she whispered. He just shook his head. "I can't kill her-"

"You won't kill anybody!" he snapped his finger pointing at her accusingly. She nodded and he dropped both hands to his hips. "We need a plan." he mumbled.

"You don't say." she rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest. Nightwing looked at her and his expression softened. He saw the real Artemis now. Sure he could see the real her before but now, now there was no sort of magic trying to conceal the real one from her.

He stared on and came to the conclusion she looked different. She looked tired, worn out and like she had been over doing it.

"What?" she snapped.

"You look so different..." he explained.

"How? The charm never hid me from your eyes." she questioned but he just shrugged.

"You just look worn out to me."

"Because I am." she dropped her arms. "Look Nightwing I need you to do your brain and thinking stuff and do something!"

"I'm trying." he turned his back to her and she stood still. "I got it." he muttered. He turned to look at her with a glimmer of hope in his voice. "What if we used a clone?"

"What? But those take weeks to create! We don't have weeks! We have a week!" she threw her arms around a bit as if it would help her prove her point.

"We don't need to be a genius. Just need it to bleed, cry and look real, which I'm sure we could create with in a week. We'll have it ready right before May 30th don't worry, just go May 29th at night and do your thing." she nodded.

"You better hope this works because I don't want my cover to be blown now, they trust me so much and I'm getting so much info off these idiots. I'm actually hoping I could get some info off them about Wa-" she cut herself off and shook her head.

"Wally?" he whispered finishing her sentence and she just nodded.

"Too much for me to hope for?" she looked up with hurt filled eyes and he shook his head.

"I wouldn't put it past them." she nodded and put the necklace back on. Nightwing noticed it did have an affect on his own eyes. She gained some color in her skin, her eyes shone brighter and the dark circles under her eyes were gone. All in all, she seemed less worn out.

"Take care." he whispered, hugging her and she nodded.

"Don't worry about me bird brain." she grinned rubbing his head.

"Don't call me bird brain." he laughed but she just chuckled and walked away.

"Hey Arty have you seen Bird Brain?" Wally called out from the kitchen. She turned her head over the coach to look at Wally.

"Who?" she raised an eyebrow.

"Bird Brain? Robin? Boy wonder? Need I go on?" he asked.

"Try checking behind you." she pointed a finger and Wally went wide eyed. He spun around and bought his paint gun up but was slightly slow for being the 'fastest kid alive' he was shot.

Robin laughed as Wally made it into a huge scene. He dropped his own gun and stumbled backwards knocking everything off the counter.

"No!" he screeched, clutching his chest, even though he was shot on his right side. He stumbled to the living room where Artemis was watching with an amused expression. "No! I'm too y-young." he cried, falling to his hands and knees in front of Artemis who was giggling at this point. "A-arty." he whispered grabbing her hand lightly.

"Y-yeah?" she managed between her laughs.

"I... I l-lov-" Robin shot him again, this time in the head and he fell over.

"Dude that hurt!" he groaned as he rubbed his head, the red paint smearing into his own head of fire like hair.

"Just wanted it to end." Robin laughed.

"Shut up Bird Brain." Wally snapped.

The flashback had brought a bit of pain back to her. She remembered the first time he had called Robin bird brain, a while before they quit the team. A while before Aqualad left. A while before La'gaan came in..before Megan and Conner broke up...right when things were normal and nobody was missing or being threatened. When everything was fun and games.

When Robin was Bird Brain.

So I decided to name the chapters too... amazing. So like I said A/N at the bottom now, date, place and time located through the chapters now. Well I don't have much to say.. except thank you to everyone who reviewed, favorited, and put the alert on! I love you all! You guys are amazing! I didn't expect to get that much of a response!

So sorry it took a few days... my dad took my laptop away because I gave mys sisters gerbil away and my other sister started crying about it...yeah.. lol OK well leave a review and stuff guys!

I also decided I would put what I thought would happen through out season two then I'll post the two years later thing, and don't worry guys I will have flashbacks of Wally through out the story until he comes back!

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