AN: This chapter is more or less a filler. The plot does advance, so it's not totally worthless! Also, I have been in Disneyland the last couple of days, and it was AWESOME! In other news, I still don't own Young Justice. Or the Avengers. Well, that's all. Enjoy this chapter!
Unknown POV:
There was a loud boom and a flash of light before my control shattered. I snarled in frustration. Now the children will be free! I played back some footage that came through prior to my failure. I had to regain concentration so I watched my work, smirking in pleasure and forgetting my previous frustration. I loved breaking Blondie's leg, that part was fun. In hindsight, the team wasn't exactly acting like they would if this situation was real, but she seemed to fall for it. Well, it is bad news the speedster wasn't affected by my nanobots. His metabolism must have flushed them out, I mused. Then I threw my coffee mug against the wall in anger. I lost the kids! That, and the girlie hasn't run off to Sportsmaster yet. Oh man, he was going to kill me.
"Bipolar much?" the voice of said man growled from behind me. "I watched go from disappointed, to happy, to pissed, and now you're terrified."
I pushed my glasses up on my nose, scowling. "I-I, I have every right to be a bit l-l-loony, sir!" I stuttered. "I-I'm sorry to say, I m-might have l-lost control of the darling children. A-and your daughter and K-Kid Flash seem to have... disappeared, or else shocked the t-team enough to come out of their... daze, sir."
Sportsmaster POV
I growled. This set back everything! How could I pay my debts to the Shadows if I didn't get both of my daughters to join their ranks. I punched my loyal scientist square in his face in anger, hearing a satisfying crunching noise. He hunched over, squealing like the weakling he was. I flicked blood off my hand, and crouched to his level.
"Get the kids back online, and find out what happened to Artemis and Kid Flash. I want to hear positive things about this by next week, you hear? You get that done, and I won't put you right back into Belle Reve," I said, smirking as I exited, knowing he would be working double time tonight. After he finished nursing his wounded nose and pride, that is.
Team POV
Robin woke up first. He was slumped on the roof of a building in... New York? How strange. Looking around He noticed Aqualad, Super Boy, and Miss Martian sprawled around similarly.
"What happened?" he wondered aloud as Aqualad sat up.
"I do not recall. But Robin, while we wait for the others to wake up, can you hack any security cameras for an image of what occurred here?" their leader said calmly as always.
"Sure! Give me two minutes," the Boy Wonder replied, pulling up his wrist computer. While he did that, Aqualad shook Miss M awake, asking if she felt alright, before moving on to Super Boy. Soon they were all huddled around Robin. "Here! I've got a picture from the building across the street. It's a little fuzzy, but it'll do," Robin concluded before playing the video.
It was fuzzy, but there was the unmistakable green and yellow blur that made up their two missing members. Super Boy heard Miss M suck in a tiny breath at how gentle KF was being. Was Artemis hurt? After this was pointed out, Robin froze the playback and zoomed in as far as he could. They found that there was definitely a blood stain on her pant leg, that either came from or spread to Kid Flash. Soon they were watching the rest of the soundless video. First Wally took something metallic off of Artemis, and before long he looked up, alert all the sudden. He picked up the archer swiftly and sped about a yard as dark, familiar silhouettes leapt from the sky, where a camouflaged bioship sat hidden, as M'gann informed them. The figures were illuminated by the flash of light that came from the top of the building, before the light died down and the figures slumped to the ground.
"So we were... doing what... chasing Wa- KF and Artemis?" Super Boy asked. "And why did they disappear?"
"KF must have accelerated way faster then he should've," Robin mused, "the first flash, Jay Garrick, talks about going into the speedforce by doing that. He says it's like, a dimension for speedsters. So KF and Artemis might be-" he was cut off by a tracker signal flashing suddenly on the roof of the building they sat on. "Wha? Who on Earth did I put a tracker on...?" he left the question hanging. The rest of the team was oddly quiet, until Aqualad spoke up.
"Perhaps... you stuck one on Kid Flash or Artemis?"
"Well they aren't here, so maybe we should bring this back to the Cave, and talk to the League about it. The Flash especially," Miss M piped in.
"Alright," Aqualad decided, "to the Cave." The Bioship, which was already above them, landed softly as they loaded on. Before long, they had reached their destination. When the were all off, they noticed they were surrounded by their mentors.
Martian Manhunter was frowning, the Flash looked confused, Aquaman looked disappointed, Green Arrow was outraged, Black Canary filled in for Superman, looking disgusted, and Batman was Batman.
"Care to explain what happened to my niece?!" Green Arrow spat.
Put simply, the Team was very confused.
