I'm back! Congrats to SuzyQ113 who was the winner of the contest from last chapter.
Good news though, I will have a contest every single chapter! But I now have rules and restrictions that apply to everybody. Check them out at the bottom and they'll also be placed on my profile if you ever want to check them out.
Also I have another two contest I'm setting up, anybody can enter with permission from your parents, JK... anybody can enter. Read rules and restrictions at the bottom.
PS. This went from a 15 chapter (16 plus Epilogue) to a 30 chapter (31 plus Epilogue) hope you enjoy. New Summary at bottom.
Manta=Aqualad BTW
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Chapter 4: Tigress
(1)
Polo Alto
February 28th 10:22 EDT
Artemis grinned a little as she snaked her arms around Wally's stiff neck. She grinned even more as she kissed his cheek lightly and he mumbled something.
"Need something babe?" he finally asked, his pencil still scribbling away at the papers coating the kitchen table.
"Yeah, I have a question for you." she stated, her chin resting on Wally's shoulder.
"Shoot at me." he muttered sounding uninterested. Artemis rolled her eyes but asked anyways.
"What are we?" Wally's hand faltered and he caused a scribble on the paper. He sighed and dropped the pencil.
"We're human babe, or did you forget?" he joked after a moment of silence. She sighed pulling his chair out a little then walking around, sitting in his lap, her arms still draped around his neck.
"No, I meant what are we?" she repeated. Wally bit his bottom lip then looked her in the eye.
"What do you mean?" he asked playing the dumb card. She growled and shook her head.
"I mean, we're dating but live in the same house! Damn it Wally when are we going to be more?" she hissed. Wally flinched at her tone but sighed, he dropped a hand to his pocket, a nervous grin growing, a deep blush filling his face.
"Actually I-" the buzzing coming from the kitchen cut him off. He cheekily grinned and she sighed.
"Whatever." she stood and walked to the bathroom. Wally flashed into the kitchen and snapped the phone open.
"This better be good Nightwing!" he snapped, having already seen who the caller was.
"Oh it is." he chuckled. "Some kid from the future showed up, claims to be Barry's sons son." he cackled. "You should probably check it out, he's over at Barry's house by now I bet." Wally narrowed his eyes at nothing but slowly growled back.
"What are you playing at?"
"Nothing." Nightwing laughed. "I'm telling you the truth, the kid claims he's related to Barry, and judging by his speed he might as well be."
"Fine, but if Artemis hurts me, it's on you!" he snapped the phone shut, Artemis who had been listening in from the hallway, scrambled to the restroom after she heard the snap.
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Manta Sub
June 2nd 20:00 EDT
Artemis jolted from her nap and panted, looking around. Damn, just a dream. She frowned and looked at her costume which was hung on the wall right across from her bed. Every time she saw the costume she teared up a little, it reminded her of what she had done to Lian. Something that was unforgivable.
"Art-Bren- uh this is quite difficult...Red manta?" a soft knock and voice came from her door. Artemis looked at it for a moment, knowing all to well who was behind the door.
"Come in." she croaked and the door cracked open just enough for Aqualad to stick his head in.
"Black Manta wishes to see us..." he paused for a moment. "Go to the restricted floor, somebody will be there to lead you to the room." Artemis nodded and Aqualad left the room. She sighs and glances around her room. She spotted her suit and narrowed her eyes. She hated seeing that thing. It always reminded her of what she had done to her own niece. Hell it reminded her she was a killer.
She shook her head and climbed out of bed. Knowing Black Manta, she probably shouldn't keep him waiting.
She was quick to shower and pull her outfit on. She never applied any make up, so she stared at her reflection. She couldn't believe how far this mission had gone. She felt tears sting her eyes but blinked them away. She made her way to the exit and walked outside.
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Aqualad starred on in horror. He really couldn't believe it, he didn't even think that he would end up here. Yet it was probably going to be better than his original punishment, death.
"Fath-" Black manta shot Manta a death look for even thinking of calling him that during 'work'. "Black Manta," Manta corrected himself. "What is the meaning of this?" he pointed at the test tube in front of him where none other than, Lagoon boy was strapped inside(2).
"All will be explained soon." Black Manta muttered as he messed with some buttons. Kaldur glanced at Lagoon Boy and noticed him stirring. La'gaan let out a sigh and his eyes blinked open causing Kaldur to stare even harder. La'gaan finally noticed them but he looked frightened.
"Can he see us?" Kaldur questioned.
"Only blurred shadows of us. From our side we can see him fully. From his side he can see..how should I explain this..." Black Manta questioned himself. "It is like looking through thick red glass and seeing dark red shadows." Kaldur nodded slowly at the dumb response but glanced again at La'gaan. He became panicked and begun to scream in a language Kaldur didn't recognize.
Kaldur jumped at the sudden scream of pain and bright flash of light. When the light died out La'gaan was once again in a deep sleep.
"What the heck was that?" Artemis snapped loudly from the entrance.
"Good you're here Red Manta." Artemis frowned at the name but nodded. "Now then if you'll come here I would like to explain why Lagoon Boy is in a test pod." Black Manta walked to the case and opened it, Lagoon Boy shifting. "See Lagoon Boy can breath under water and my army, can not." Artemis could barely stop herself from rolling her eyes, of course they couldn't.
"We have been working on the DNA of Lagoon boy, finding ways to shift his DNA into that of my army, in hopes of it causing them to gain the ability to breath under water. It's truly a simple process but did take time to figure out." Artemis raised her hand with a question.
"You said we. So who is we?" Black manta smirked at her question.
"That is an answer for another time." he chuckled. "Now let us go, you have seen enough here." he quickly pushed them out the door and they begun to walk down the halls once again. They finally reached the top floor and Artemis ducked down and spun Black Manta around to face her.
"I'll keep working for you but under one condition." she growled. "I get my own name and outfit from now on. No more copy cat, I'll be my own villain." Black Manta took in a deep breath and thought this over, but finally nodded. "Good."she hissed and stalked off to her room.
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Artemis couldn't help but laugh at what she had just done. She didn't know what came over her. She just had the sudden urge to tell him she would become her own persona. She had some sudden mood swing and now, she was sitting on her bed laughing her ass off. A knock echoed through the room and she opened the door, giggles escaping her mouth.
"Is everything alright Red Manta?"
"That's not my name." she chuckled out. "But...but yeah every things fine." she shut the door and walked to her restroom. She was losing the last of her sanity. Splashing water into her face she looked at the mirror. She was definitely not the same Artemis, and she never would be.
She sighed and walked back to the bedroom and looked at the materiel on her bed. She would be making her own outfit, she also had to pick her own name. This would take a while, she knew that, but she was glad she knew how to fix outfits herself, one of the many things her mother had taught her. She felt the soft orange materiel, soft and warm on one side, smooth and slippery on the other. Glancing at the black materiel she felt it, the same, smooth and slippery on one side, soft and warm on the other. She looked at the plain cowl she was given, she would have to fix it up and shape it herself, adding her own affects to it. She planned on making it just a mask.
She stared at the rest of the fabric, green, red, yellow etc, none of them caught her attention the way the orange and black one's did... She smiled at the different colored straps and pockets she had been given, picking out only black ones she started to really feel better. She started creating a small black backpack that would hold various things, and let her grab them with ease. She was having more fun creating her new alter ego than she would ever admit.
She smiled as she got to work on the mask, orange being the base, black in various spots on top of it. She had cut it out to cover her nose, cheeks, forehead and left her eyes in full view. She smiled at the final result of the mask..it was perfect for her taste.
The full body outfit was next. Sure she had been given plenty of colors to work with but she felt that the two colors worked the best. And she was quick to put most of the straps she had been given, to use. Smiling at her final outfit she threw everything that was left over into the bag and threw it into the hall. She pulled the outfit on and looked in the full body mirror. Her smile widened, this was the outfit she had always dreamed of. One of her worst nightmares come alive. In a way, it was like Batman. Putting her own fears into her enemies, so they would fear what she fears...Her greatest fear...had become her.
Thus, Tigress was born. (3)
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Manta Sub
June 9th 20:00 EDT
It had been a week since Artemis had taken on her own persona. Most of the members of the Manta Army had felt fear when they heard her growls to get out of her way. Her small purrs before she struck them with some sort of pain. But worst of all, the soft tap tap tap of her heals coming at you. Sure her heals were only hearable when she was sneaking up on you, that was what put the fear in you.
She had created the master outfit. Consisting of a new body tight orange jumpsuit, with a black spot covering her whole chest and half her thighs and wrapping around her back with black fingerless gloves on her hands, black spots on the back of her knees, her jumpsuit wraps around her legs too but she wears black boot wrappings around her calves and under her heels and toes. Two black straps tied to either thigh holding small cloud bombs on one, and poisonous hallucination bombs on the other and on the sides holding down the pockets that hold the tasers. Two black belts tied to the belt around her waist both holding tasers, one to knock people out the other to paralyze them for a while (depending on what setting it was on) two more straps around her armpits and tying a flat holder for her staff. And loosely holding a bow for easy reach and arrows also strapped to her back A small pocket on her waist belt holds her communicator. A mask that shows all her hair, it has brows that point down making her look mad, and only her mouth and eyes are visible and black strips are on the corners of her mask and towards her cheeks looking like tiger markings, a small black nose that enhanced her sense of smell. All in all, she looked Badass.
"Tigress..." Kaldur had been uneasy about the whole new alter ego thing. He wasn't use to this and wasn't expecting it.
"Yeah?" she questioned, Kaldur being the only person she showed any tolerance towards.
"Meeting." he replied and walked out of the dining room. Artemis climbed to her feet and stalked of towards the room she had been taken into plenty of times. It was strange, a large dark room, the walls a dark blue, a circle in the center of the room, one to stand on, and right on the wall in front of the circle were place seven screens. Seven screens that would light up and show the shadows of the seven Light members.
She swallowed hard then walked in, her master mask put on, the one that struck fear in everybody. Her master scowl.
She walked to the center, Kaldur beside her. The seven screens came to life and she raised an eyebrow at them, her arms crossing across her chest.
"Manta...Tigress." Queen Bee purred. "I think you'll be happy with this next mission." Tigress felt her expression falter but luckily her mask hid it. She felt a sudden wave of fear from the sound of Queen Bee's tone.
"What is it?" Kaldur questioned.
"You will be infiltrating the Young Justice cave." Ra's begun.
"I suggest they just finish off those idiotic sidekicks." Klarion suggested. Tigress could hear the rest of the members growling.
"We want you to plant a chip in Nightwing, for certain...unspecified reasons. One that will be explained soon. We have other devices that you can use should you need them to get to Nightwing." Lex continued.
"We also want to see if you are smart enough to sneak in, trap all the members and get out without even taking long." Klarion cackled. The other members raised a hand to their temples and shook their heads, at least that's what it looked like to Tigress.
"Fine, we'll do it. Where are the devices we need to set up, and what do they do?" Artemis growled in her new found Tigress voice. Well one she used often, but only when she wanted to put fear in those around her.
"Behind you stupid." Klarion snapped. Tigress' right eye twitched but nonetheless, she and Kaldur turned to see a table raise from the floor, several traps resting on top of it, some ranging from small, others to large.
"The one labeled FC1 is a fire cage that will trap and weaken the Martian." Lex Luthor answered. Tigress had learned the voices of each and every member, as well as the personalities. "The one labeled KB2 is a Kryptonian bullet that will shoot and knock out Conner." Lex sneered, anger in his voice as he spat out Conner's name. "The one labeled RR3 is a robotic runner that will trap the quickster." he shook his head, from what Tigress could tell. "That one was the most difficult to create, matching his speed was near impossible, and still it was not perfected." he took a short pause then spoke up again. "The one labeled IC4-5-6 is an illusion creator, curtsey of Mars technology. It will create hallucinations for the the Robin, Bat, and shape shifter. One's that aren't so pleasurable for them, it will target their minds and set up their worst memory for them to watch, then the ES4-5-6 will electrocute them once the HC4-5-6 has been set into action for a minimum of thirty seconds."
Tigress had begun to tone out and was just looking at the objects, she didn't have much interest in this right now, and she had begun to wonder how she would warn Nightwing about this...
"The BF7 will send frequencies to the Blue Beetle that will mess with his mind and the scarab on his back. It will eventually weaken the scarab and when it shuts off it will shut the boys mind off until it reloads." Tigress raised an eyebrow, the scarab? What the hell was a scarab.
"MC8 is a mind chip that will take refuge in Bumblebee's head and cause her to imagine things, then short out her abilities and knock her out from the inside." Tigress thought these traps were getting stupider by the minute, she never new most of the team had silly weaknesses like these, they probably couldn't get any worse...
"The one labeled BB7 will bound Wonder girls bracelets together, thus weakening her to the point of having the ability of any normal human." this spiked Tigress' attention. So they could get worse...yet this one was still interesting...
"Does that work on Wonder woman as well?" she questioned. She could just feel all seven members grinning at her.
"Taking an interest in the weaknesses of the Justice League members now?" Queen Bee laughed. "But yes dear it does, but for her, it would have to be a man to bound and weaken her." Tigress nodded and looked down at the remaining weapons. Only one.
"The final one, the one for the all might Nightwing...that one would be you." her eyes widened in shock.
"W-what?" she choked out. "How in the hell would I defeat the freakin Nightwing?! I mean come on, he was trained by the freak Batman, himself!" Tigress shouted.
"Enough!" Vandal shouted. She stood silent but was breathing hard in anger, Kaldur wondering how she herself would defeat him... "We trust you would find a way to place that chip in his body. Cause him to swallow it one way or another, it will give us control of his mind. It will only work one time like the other traps. All of them will be used when our plan calls for it, and you will find a way to place it in him." Tigress nodded and sneered at them.
"Let's go Kaldur." she grabs some of the objects from the table and walks out. "Well be back soon." she snaps and the door shuts behind her as the screens go black.
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Even though it was silent in the plane that Kaldur was flying, both he and Artemis were thinking the same thing through.
How would they warn Nightwing without getting caught? They couldn't call him up now, the Light would sense the frequencies while they were in the Manta Plane...and the mountain would sense the frequencies while they were sneaking in.
There would be no possible way to warn them.
"I guess we take them by surprise..." Tigress whispered.
"It appears so." Kaldur glanced at her with a frown.
"I never knew I would sign up for this." Tigress choked out.
"Neither did I." the rest of the flight was silent. They weren't sure how they would fight this off. They didn't know who would fight who.
"We need a plan." Tigress finally spoke and Kaldur just nodded.
"You get Nightwing. Find anyway to make him swallow the chip... I will take out the rest of the team while you do that." Tigress agreed.
"How are we going to get in, undetected?" she questioned.
"Easy, we know how to get in from the various training Nightwing put the team through when we were still there. We know all the ways in and out, and where the main power source is. We still know how to shut off the alarms form the outside and then-"
"Set them off right before we attack to catch them off guard!" Tigress finished with a wild grin.
"Like you read my mind." Kaldur smiled.
"Who knows, I just might have." Tigress laughed.
"We are near."
"Set it down here." Tigress pointed to the large field. Kaldur landed the Manta Plane and they climbed out. He quickly grabbed the weapons. The fire cage, Kryptonian bullet, the bounder for Wonder Girl, the illusion maker, and the frequency maker, the mind chip for Bumblebee would activate on its own though. Tigress would take on Nightwing while Kaldur took on Megan, Conner, Cassie, Batgirl, Robin, Beast Boy, and Blue Beetle. Bumblebee would go down easy on her own, and Impulse would be Tigresses as well...she had said she had some things to tell him on her own.
Tigress was quick to find the hidden keypad, hand scanner, and tunnel on the outside. She set off the alarms first and made sure that they would set off in exactly one minute, and with a quick scan from her hand and a few numbers she deactivated the main cave computers.
It was sad she was enjoying this more than she wanted to admit...
Kaldur climbed in to the tunnel first and went up into the air vents, Tigress was quick to follow, a cat like grin framing her features perfectly. They made it down easily and luckily for them almost the whole team was there...though she did notice that Beast Boy and Impulse were gone. So much for her talk with Impulse. The alarms blared around them and Tigress' grin grew bigger.
Show time.
The end! Of the chapter not the whole story! Silly, so go looking for the contest if you're interested!
(1)this is a flashback (just in case any of you didn't catch that...) but it's an unfinshed flashback! So make sure you remember this flashback, it'll be finished in later chapters, but not for a long time though.
(2)I used this scene from the spoilers trailer from comic con. This is like the second to last scene, I worked it up and figured out what to do with it! So this is the one where La'gaan is waking up and then I added the part where the red like window thing is looked through and two figures were standing there. Watch the trailer if you haven't seen it, you'll understand me a lot better then.
(3)I figured I should use the Tigress outfit from the comic con spoiler trailer. I really loved the outfit. So I used it. I used every scene in the trailer, I figured how to spread everything out and make my story a lot more epic but probably not as good as the actual story idea from the actual show...
So yeah, next are the 3 contest I have created!
!~*~*~!CONTEST NUMBER 1!~*~*~!
OK so this is a new contest, this one is a title entering contest. I need a new title, since I stink at writing titles! Lol, so here's a new summary to help you figure out a better title. All titles must be entered before Monday, that is when the next chapter is going up.
In that chapter I'll list all the titles and I want EVERYONE to vote for one title so I can pick one.
New Summary: With Wally gone and Artemis pregnant, Nightwing calls on her for an under cover mission. After taking on the alter ego Tigress, she goes through events in her life she would have never imagined herself living. Even when everything is over, gone and done...life is normal, well that is until the "claimed dead" Wally West walks into the cafe asking Artemis for some pie and coffee.
PS. It'll be five years after instead of two years later.
!~*~*~!PRIZE FOR CONTEST 1!~*~*~!
The winner will get a shout out and will also get to ask me one question about the story, any kind of question. Example: "Who is the partner?" but it CANNOT be something that will give away so much. Example: "Where did Wally go?"
!~*~*~!RULES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR CONTEST 1!~*~*~!
1. Entries must be entered by the due date, other wise the entry will not be accepted, no exceptions to anybody.
2. Entries must be yours and yours only, no copy written titles allowed. (I will look up the Titles)
3. Is not permitted. No begging people to vote for your title. I have my ways of finding out.
4. Be member to give entry. Anonymous entries will not be accepted and will be ignored.
5. Entry is not owned by you, permission must be granted.
6. have fun with entry and there will always be the next contest, until we get to chapter 30 then it's over.
7. A prize any question will be allowed to ask expect for those concerning Wally (Where, when, who, why etc)
!~*~*~!CONTEST NUMBER 2!~*~*~!
OK so I need a cover for this story, it can be virtually anything, just leave some kind of link, this contest will be judged by me, though I will show the other contestants to everybody else. All entries must be entered before Monday, the winner will be placed on Monday as well (next chapter or the one after)
!~*~*~!PRIZES FOR CONTEST 2!~*~*~!
The winner's cover will be used and the winner will also get to ask any question about the story but no questions involving Wally! I am being serious about that, if you try you will lose your one question prize.
!~*~*~!RULES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR CONTEST 2!~*~*~!
1. Entries must be entered by the due date, other wise the entry will not be accepted, no exceptions to anybody.
2. Entries must be yours and yours only, no copy written titles allowed. (I will look up the Titles)
3. Is not permitted. No bribing me, threatening me or anything that involves me getting hurt or hunted down and forced to listen to horrible music...please.
4. Be member to give entry. Anonymous entries will not be accepted and will be ignored.
5. Entry is not owned by you, permission must be granted.
6. Fun with entry and there will always be the next contest, until we get to chapter 30 then it's over.
7. A prize any question will be allowed to ask expect for those concerning Wally (Where, when, who, why etc)
!~*~*~!CONTEST NUMBER 3!~*~*~!
This is the original contest, and the only one that will be continued through out the whole entire story. So this is the one where you answer the question (you have to answer it first and CORRECTLY) so here's the question you all have to answer:
What's wrong with the real Roy Harper when they finally show him? (Physically) Be SPECIFIC or answer will not be accepted.
!~*~*~!PRIZES FOR CONTEST 3!~*~*~!
You get to ask one question about the story, but I want no Wally related questions, if you ask any Wally related questions then you will get no answer and you will lose your one question prize.
!~*~*~!RULES AND RESTRICTIONS FOR CONTEST 3!~*~*~!
1. Answer must be correct, no "What did you mean by this?" and then telling me you actually meant what the real answer was.
2. Answer must be first and correct in order to win, if somebody else has already answered, you can still answer, they might be wrong for all you know.
3. Cheating by getting people to give you the answer and then like entering it first, or getting somebody to give you the answer just because they didn't want to enter...or something like that.
4. Fighting or blaming others (in other words don't be a sore loser)
5. Must be in a review, Private messages will not be accepted no matter who you are or even if the answer is correct and first, if it's not a review it will not be accepted.
6. Have fun, there's always next time, until we get to chapter 30 then cause it's like the last chapter really.
7. Question will be given as a prize but I want no Wally related questions, no joke, if you even try and ask a Wally question then you lose your one question prize.
Well that's it I guess, all three contests are now up, please have all submittions in as soon as possible!
So I'm sure that's everything...I have contests, new chapter, blah blah I saw the Dark Knight Rises finally blah blah blah I wasn't as happy with it as I was hoping to be... blah blah blah there wasn't enough Batman in it..blah blah yeah that's it! :D leave a review.
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