Chapter Two. Today was one of those rainy days where you can't do much so you guys got lucky. Two chapters in one day...well almost one day I'm a few minutes late, but this won't happen many times but there's always the possibility. I was pretty surprise at the amount of reviews the first chapter got, but I won't argue with a good thing.
Zatanna's breathing was heavy as she pressed her back against the tropical jungle tree her bright cyan colored eyes nervously scanning the darkness that surrounded her. The pitch black night air was filled with the psychopathic criminal laughter of Batman's arch nemesis the Joker, who had surprised the whole team by being on the small Pacific island in which they had been sent to stop a small smuggling circle. Yet, the so called "smuggling circle" was just cover up for the Joker's latest demented plan. Located on the small island he had been producing more of his "joker venom" this time in an unbelievably large amount.
"Come out and play kiddo" Joker's voice called out loudly as the sound of gun fire erupted loudly as he had gathered some of his fellow Arkham Asylum buddies during his last escape and with their help he had created his own little gang for their specific job. Emerging from the shadows was no other then the Joker himself in both his hands he was wielding razor sharp machetes, his large trade mark grin displayed on his face.
"Play time!" Joker shouted as it was followed by a loud laugh with a crazed look within his eyes as he rushed towards Zatanna his blades gleaming within the moon light. With the twin blades cutting through the air Zatanna prepared herself to dodge the attack, but with a loud buzzing sound the blades never even reached her. Flying though the air producing the ear piercing buzzing sound were two of Robin's Batarangs.
"Teah taht s'nopaew letam!" Zatanna cried out nervously as she directed her magical energy towards the Joker himself and with the end of her chant she watched with amusement as the two machetes' metallic hilts became bright red. Holding both the blades tightly within his grasp the Joker released a loud pain filled cry as the heated metal burnt his bare palms and dropping them to the ground he stumbled back in pain.
"See you later, Mr. Clown-Face" Zatanna said jokingly as she stuck her tongue out at him before disappearing into the shadows along with Robin making their way towards the open grassy area to meet up with the others.
"Where's the Joker?" Kaldur cried out as he dodged several swings of a sword before he delivered his own back kick to the attacker's face knocking him out cold with one hit.
"Mr. Clown-Face, is on his way!" Zatanna cried out as she joined Rocket in her fight against several well armed henchmen who were obviously from the asylum as their eyes were blankly starring at the two and they released loud ear piercing laughs.
"Joker, at 10 o'clock!" Robin cried out but his warning was to late as the psychopathic criminal burst through the tree line his machete hilts wrapped with clothes so he could wield them. Conner quickly spun around prepared to deliver a powerful punch to the Joker, but before he could three henchmen latched themselves onto the super human hero and began to shock them with hand held stun batons. Racing in Kaldur was able to rescue Conner by hitting the three men off with his water created blades with ease.
"Thanks, Aqualad" Conner muttered lowly as they would always use their public names to cover up their true identity's.
"He's all mine!" Artemis called out as Megan dropped her from high above and with an explosive arrow already located on her bow she fired off the arrow towards Joker. Watching with amusement as she landed on both her feet not far from the others the blonde haired archer watched as her arrow hit the ground in front of the villain. Being swallowed up by a thick smoke the Joker released a loud cry of laughter surprising everyone except for Robin, who was use to the insane villain.
"Don't play with me, little girl!" Joker cried out loudly as he emerged from the thick black smoke heading directly towards Artemis both his machetes high above his head as he was planning on dealing a deadly blow to her. Realizing she was done for it Artemis shut her eyes and prepared for the blow, but it never came. With his super sonic speed Wally raced across the field taking out several henchmen in the process and dealt a powerful tackle to the side of the Joker.
"Not so fast!" Joker roared angrily as he landed a powerful kick to Wally's head sending the speedster rolling across the ground. Wally wasted no time to recover as he dug his hands into the dirt below slowing himself down enough so he could get a good running start. Racing towards the Joker Wally kept the image of Artemis in hsi head fueling his determination to beat the villain in combat alone.
"Lets see how fast you are, Clown!" Wally roared angrily as he advanced upon the Joker's position and observing the villains' movement carefully he was able to predict that the Joker was going to slash at his mid torso with his right machete.
Flexing his calf muscles as he ran Wally launched himself off the ground with amazing speed and crossing his arms to make himself as flat as possible he flew towards the Joker. Firing off a single punch towards the Joker's head Wally watched in amazement as the villain dodged the punch with ease, but Wally wasn't done yet. He unleashed a lightening quick kick towards Joker but once again it was in-vain as the Joker dodged the attack by stepping back.
"Not so fa-" Joker was about to taunt the young hero but he was silenced as Wally preformed a full spin and now facing the Joker he leaped forward. Using his super speed to his advantage Wally unleashed an barrage of punches towards the Joker's chest causing the villain to drop to the ground as he gasped for air. The Joker's chest had been pelted by enough force to break any normal human's bones, but luckily for the villain he was no normal human being.
"Nice, hits KF!" Robin cried out loudly as this made Artemis open her eyes to see Wally standing above an knocked out Joker breathing heavily as he placed his boot on the back of the villain's head. Artemis grinned weakly upon this sight as Rocket and Megan finished off the few remaining henchman and Conner secured the barrels of venom which the Joker had taken out of their hiding spot planning of transporting them to Chicago and several other large cities lining the Pacific coast by oil tankers.
"Souvenir!" Wally chirped happily as he grabbed both of the Joker's machetes but quickly released them as he cried out in pain not realizing that the weapons were still under Zatanna's spell.
"Sorry" Zatanna apologized as she rushed to Wally's aid leaving an amused Artemis to watch from the side lines with Megan who had taken note of her recent attitude towards the speedster.
The hangar was silent as the bio-ship had returned to its regular form and everyone had disappeared throughout the base to enjoy the rest of the night. Conner and Megan had raced off to Conner's room to "talk" with each other, Kaldur had to go report to Batman about their mission, Rocket who had been trying to hit to Kaldur that she wanted to go to the movies with him so she decided to continue trying to send him the hint, Robin and Zatanna went to the living room so they could finish watching the movie that they had been watching, and Wally raced off to the kitchen to eat. Leaving Artemis alone in the hangar.
"He really saved me today" Artemis sighed heavily as she sat down on a near by cargo box her eyes weakly starring at her feet as she had been slightly shaken up tonight. She had never expected the Joker to be able to get so close to her with such ease. The thing that bothered her the most that when the Joker did the unexpected she wasn't prepared, she was so shaken up.
Artemis released a low chuckle at the thought of Wally saving her as when she first joined the team she had always thought he'd be the one who'd always need the saving. She had never expected to have these feelings for the goody speedster who had sun tan cream on his nose and had his hands full of beach equipment when she first met him.
Starring down at her feet she couldn't but help notice a small sheet of paper sticking out from the bottom of the crate. Grabbing the sheet she gave it a strong tug and was surprised when a whole book slid out from under the crate. Recognizing the name "Keystone High School" as Wally's school Artemis immediately recognized the book as his year book, which he'd take out time to time to show Robin the "Babes" at his school. Oddly enough, he didn't do that so much.
"Lets see what a dork he truly is back at school" Artemis said with a grin as she picked up the book and carefully flipped through it not wanting to rip any corners. Reaching Wally's grade she was surprised to see the amount of black "x's" that had been drawn across some of the girls in his grade.
"Hit list?" Artemis questioned herself but then she quickly threw that idea away as she realized that Wally would never consider such a thing.
"No" A voice called out as Artemis spun around to see no other then Red Tornado standing behind her. Artemis jumped back as she hadn't even notice the robotic hero, her heart racing rapidly as she had almost had an heart attack.
"I detect an increase of heart rate. Did I scare you?" Red Tornado asked curiously his robotic voice on occasion would get on Artemis nerves.
"No! I just like having heart attacks for fun!" Artemis shouted back as she was angered that the hero would sneak up on her and invade her privacy.
"I detect anger and embarrassment" Red Tornado state as his robotic remarks which weer always correct was the number one thing that ticked Artemis off.
"What do you want, Tornado?" Artemis asked with a loud sigh as she had bene stressed out all day and just wanted to relax for a bit, but she'd never be able to with the robotic den mother hanging over her head like this.
"I couldn't help but notice that you seemed a bit interest in that book that I saw the others looking at earlier today" Red Tornado explained as Artemis watched his black empty eyes stare upon her which would always slightly creep her out. Artemis' grip upon the book tightened as her muscles tensed up as she realzied that she could find out what the speedster was up to and why he had hid the book from her.
"It seems there is a school event that is occurring soon and the boys were discussing who should be the candidate for this so called, Prom" Red Tornado explained as Artemis' heart sunk as she realized that there was still a few girls within the book who hadn't been crossed out and then the realization that Wally had already had someone in mind hit her.
"Oh..." Artemis mumbled lowly as she could feel herself die a little bit on the inside.
"I believe you were brought up as one of the candidates... Oddly enough, a boy was mentioned but I believe that it was an mistake" Red Tornado explained as Artemis' heart skipped a beat as she completely ignored the second part and raced off her face a bright red.
Artemis slowly made her way down the pitch black hallway as the only source of light was the end light which was located within the living room area. With it being the weekend the team would often stay over night at the cave instead of going home as they enjoyed hanging out with each other. Artemis had threw on a pair of black running shorts with a short sleeved white tee shirt, while heading back to her room she had noticed that a light was on in the living room. Making her way down the hall Artemis entered the kitchen area first her eyes falling upon the bags of chips and the empty bags of bread that Wally had gone through in a matter of hours. In the living room was where the source of light was coming from.
"Zatanna and Robin, must of forgot to turn it off" Artemis sighed as she realized the two obviously had a crush on each other so she found it hard to get mad at them both. Approaching the television Artemis noticed the remote control sitting on the top of the coffee table and as she reached over it she was suddenly stopped by a hand on her wrist.
"I'm watching that" A voice mumbled lowly as the speaker was obviously tired and as she looked down at the sofa she locked eyes with her red headed team mate, Wally. He was wearing a pair of grey sweat pants and had on a black tee shirt, his eyes weakly stared at her as he was obviously tired but was to tired to get up from the sofa.
"You look like you're about to pass out, go to bed" Artemis admitted with a grin as she realized that even with super speed Wally was the laziest person after he stuffed his face with food.
"I'm fine! Big boys don't have bed times, Arty" Wally cried out jokingly as he hadn't released her wrist yet and gave her a goofy smile as he adjuste dhimself on the sofa so there was enough room for Artemis to lay down with him.
"Wally, stop it we should go to bed before it gets any later" Artemis told him as she was lucky enough that it was dark so Wally couldn't see that she was blushing bright red. Artemis sighed as she watched Wally jokingly pat the empty spot on his sofa motioning to her to join him as he watched the Titanic movie for the eighth time.
"Draw me like one of your French girls, Jack" Wally called out to her in the most girlish voice he could do grinning ear to ear as he quotes the movie.
"You're an idiot" Artemis laughed lowly as Wally stood up and pulling her down onto the sofa he took a seat right next to her the two fo them resting their feet on the coffee table.
Artemis and Wally sat there in silence as they both watched the movie which they had both seen many times before as it was an classic. Yet, watching the movie with Wally made it seem different to Artemis and in some way it made the movie for romantic in some ways.
"Wally..." Artemis called out to him in a hush voice as at first he was to into the movie to hear her, but suddenly he escaped the trance of the nude scene to turn to her.
"Yeah?" Wally asked curiously as he slightly embarrassed that he had been caught watching the nude scene so eagerly.
"Thanks, for saving me today. I never got a chance to say it and well... I guess, I'm just really grateful to have met you" Artemis admitted as she had been thinking of ways to thank him for what he had done today all night and as she spoke these words, she realized how much better it sounded in her head.
"Don't thank me, Arty. You're my team mate I'd never let anything happen to you" Wally explained as he gave her a warm smile and gently placed his arm around her. Wally knew how shocked up she had gotten today after the little incident she had with the Joker and he wanted her to feel as comfortable as possible. Plus, having his arm around her was a plus.
"Plus, I hate clowns" Wally added on as he grinned as her laughter was one of his favorite things about her.
"So, did you know the Titanic is based on true events" Artemis stated as she was jokingly trying to make conversation.
"You don't say" Wally snickered lowly as he suddenly felt her silk soft blonde hair press against her neck and looking down he was beyond happy to see her resting her head on his neck.
Wally yawned lowly as he placed the sleeping archer into her bed the two had fallen asleep on the sofa and the only reason why he had woken up was because the movie, Saving Private Ryan was on next. Waking up to the bloody scene of Omaha beach was something that Wally didn't want to witness and it sure woke up him one of the heavier sleepers on the team and probably the world. Amazingly, Artemis hadn't awaken even with the television on full blast and Wally falling around the room looking for the television.
"Night, Arty" Wally whispered lowly as he placed her gently on her bed in the room she'd use when she stayed over night and tucking her securely into her bed. Standing above her he smiled weakly as he couldn't believe the feelings he was having for her and turning off the light he exited the room. Making hsi way down the hall he began to sing the My Heart Will Go On, as it was playing all throughout the movie.
"It's catchy" Wally snickered lowly as he entered his room and closed the door
I realize the action in this chapter was pretty boring but I was trying my best to kind of avoide the battle as much as possible. I wanted to focus on the relationship between Artemis and Wally. Review!