I do not own YJ
A/n: Finally an update sorry it took so long, but this is a long chapter it's… more than 1750 words! That is a lot of words (for me).
Text in parenthesis (example) reflects inner thoughts, random things and mostly references to chapters 1 and 2.
Italics represent psychic communication
The man was wearing a blue overcoat, a Ferrari hat, and a yellow shirt, (none of those where particularly odd considering the business). His most shocking feature was his face, or lack there fore of he was wearing a mask that covered all of his features replacing them with a total blank. The woman wore a black cape, a black leotard that showed her belly, and attached to the side of her leg she had a miniature crossbow.
"Huntress" Roy addressed the woman.
"What's this about Red? I had a date before you went and triggered his investigative side," the woman shot back, slightly irritated.
"So how exactly are these two supposed to help?" Artemis spoke irritably. "Our friends are still in the same situation, and we get arrested by the League for suspected involvement."
"Because, I have a plan but it requires help from inside the League. The one person I know that might actually believe us inside the League just happens to be Huntress's boyfriend," Roy tilted his head to indicate the man.
"My name is Question. I believe you are Artemis Crook, the girl who claims to be the niece of Green Arrow," the man in the Ferrari spoke.
"Claims to be?" Huntress asked.
"Another time," Roy responded.
"Well then, let's hear the full story."
Conner was the first to wake up. He looked around. he was in a cell, about the size of the one he had been in at Belle Reve. Aqualad and Kid Flash were laying at his side, both of them were wearing titanium handcuffs and power restraint collars. Conner checked his hands, and sure enough he was also wearing handcuffs and could feel the collar around his neck.
Next to him, Aqualad stirred. "Where is Robin?"
"He wasn't here when I woke up."
Kid Flash pushed himself up against a wall. "Best guess he's at the batcave."
Superboy looked down, vocalizing the thought running through all of their heads, (that was usually Robin's job) "What now?"
Two officers came up to the cell. One spoke roughly (like they were scum). "Water boy, you've got a visitor."
Kaldur stood, the man unlocked the door, quickly closing it behind him. He walked in-between the guards without a word. They stopped at one of the private rooms.
The room obviously was set up for visits and interrogation. It was painted white, with one bright florescent light bulb burning overhead. Aquaman was inside (Kaldur's heart clenched). The guards left, leaving him in the room with his (former) mentor.
The younger Atlantian looked at the floor, trying desperately to avoid Aquaman's gaze.
"I was a fool to trust you. I can see that now. (Why Kaldur, why?) As I am sure you are aware, you committed treason and the penalty for such things in Atlantis is your life."
Kaldur didn't even flinch. Part of him was even happy, he could finally escape the hellhole that was his life.
"But instead I have decided to let the surface dwellers judge you." Orin continued, "It was their lands you plundered, so it is them that you shall answer to. I know how infatuated you always seemed with the surface world. (Or was that an act too?) Now you'll get an inside look at how they decide the gravity of crimes."
Kaldur remained silent. Orin twitched. "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" he roared.
"No, my king." The boy's reply was barely a whisper.
"I am no longer your king, I am severing all of my ties to you. (I want nothing to do with a criminal.) I suppose the apple doesn't fall far from the tree after all."
The two guards walked into the room and Kaldur left with them.
When Aqualad (was that even a name he could use anymore?) returned to the cell, he was surprised to see that Kid Flash was no longer in the room.
Conner answered his unspoken question. "They came for him while you were gone, said he had a visitor."
The older boy nodded and they sat in silence.
"3rd degree murder, thievery, assault of an officer, murder of an officer, running from law enforcement, attack of a Justice League member, assassination of political figures… need I go on?" Batman glared at Robin.
The two men were in the batcave (robin couldn't be called a boy, not after what he had seen, what he had caused). Robin was out of uniform, his mask had been removed. He was wearing titanium handcuffs.
"These are only a few of the charges facing you. You are a criminal and a murderer. Now I want to know why. What made you do this?"
"I…" Robin stuttered. "I felt like it." Oh how he hated saying those words, he hated lying to Batman, but he had to. (He had seen his parents die once, never again.)
Batman glared "You expect me to believe that you killed those people, destroyed those lives, on a childish whim?"
Robin didn't answer, he looked down, not able to even look at his mentor after what he had just claimed.
"Robin, if you just tell me who you were working for, or perhaps some criminal's identity, you may be able to dodge the death sentence.
Robin didn't speak. He kept looking away. (He deserved the death sentence anyway.)
Batman held up an injection needle. "Listen to me, I don't want to have to do this, but if you continue to refuse to cooperate, I'll have to. The drug in this device simulates total sensual deprivation. It's used on criminals at incredibly high security prisons as a substitute for an isolation cell. It quite literally leaves you alone with your thoughts." (1)
Robin didn't even move. Whatever Bruce did he had earned it. He should just tell Bruce, but he couldn't risk it. He couldn't risk his mentor's life on the hope of dodging a sentence he had earned many times over.
Batman walked over to the boy, injecting the substance into his arm.
Kid Flash sat at a chair in a room almost identical to the one Kaldur had been in only a few minutes ago. Flash (in uniform) stood in front of him.
Barry began, "I always thought that I did a good thing by helping you with your powers. I thought that you were a good kid. I thought that but, I can see now I was wrong. You're not going to be cut any breaks. I think I finally understand why you and Trickster were such good friends. You're just like him. Both of you act innocent, both of you proved many times you aren't. You're no different from the criminals I fight. I only came to make sure you understood where we stand. I'm not going to help you. You got yourself into this. And you aren't going to get out of making up for it." (It doesn't make sense, why'd you do it?)
With that Flash left the room. His (former) partner collapsed, sobbing.
When Wally returned to the cell he was still shaking, tremors racked his whole body. He cried.
Superboy and Aqualad tried to comfort the boy by being there. They didn't know what had happened, but it was clear that it wasn't good and that it had hurt the young speedster deeply.
"And that's what really happened." Roy finished his lengthy and in depth description of the events that led to this point.
Question looked thoughtful. (How could a faceless mask look thoughtful?) "Why do you need my help?" he asked.
"I need you to contact Wonder Woman, and it would be helpful if you made her a little more open to the idea that they are innocent."
"What do you intend to do then?"
"I'm going to ask her to use her lasso to make them confess, in a manner of speaking."
"And then?"
"I'm going to let the League take over then, see what they can do."
"What if the villains decide to do what you say they are capable of?"
"Kill the League mentors? I'm going by their headquarters tonight to make sure that doesn't happen."
"And the girl?"
"Artemis is going to get her from the place where they're keeping her before I go to the headquarters."
"How do you know where their headquarters are?"
"I'm going to one of the rooms they use for communication. From there I can track each of their signals and find out their identities as well as access all of their information."
"How are you planning on hacking their systems?"
"I have a device, given to me by a somewhat grateful scientist (2), just for that purpose."
"Do you know why I'm asking so many questions?"
"To make sure I have a solid plan."
"Good. Well, I'll do my best on my end."
Suddenly Artemis let out a gasp, falling to her knees.
Huntress reacted first, rushing over to the younger woman. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know. I just felt really sad, like my world had been torn out from under me." Artemis replied, trying to regain her composure.
A/n:
Yay! Huntress and Question, I absolutely love these two. Question would make a great contribution to YJ except for that he's too smart for it he plays the role of a conspiracy buff and I doubt that he would have missed the Light.
Wonder Woman has gotten very little screen time so far. The only things she has done is appear with the league when they show various members fighting, arriving at Cadmus. So yeah I'm giving her the screen time an awesome Amazon deserves!
1) I am fully aware that total sensual deprivation often leads to insanity, for the purpose of this fan-fiction, it will not.
2) Somewhat grateful scientist with the ability to create that sort of device, who could it possibly be? I'll give you a hint she appeared in 'Infiltrated' ;)
I'm not sure if I made this clear but, Me'gan has been unconscious since before this whole thing started, but has been monitoring the situation, so she knows what's happened but is helpless to stop it in her current state. For a reason that I don't know she can't just contact her uncle and tell him what's really happening.
Well please review!
*Waves hand Jedi-style* You will review the fan-fiction.