Hey people! I really loved the review for last chapter! Hehe! I think I'm going to show a few Invasion characters sooner or later so be up for it! Banana! Sorry, I just found a banana and I'm really hungry...just go ahead and read...
Roy's P.O.V.
We made it to Tokyo a few minutes ago, now we were just scoping out. I was with Aqualad and Superboy, Wally was with Robin, and then Miss Martian was with "my replacement."
I scowled. The League of Shadows could be anywhere right now and we are just on top of a building downtown.
"Has anyone seen anything yet?" Aqualad's voice flooded my mind. I cringed; I wasn't used to Miss Martian's telepathic link.
"Nothing over here," Wally said.
"It looks fine over here so far," M'gann said.
"Good, keep radio silence at all times and keep a good eye on everything," Kaldur said.
"Wait, what's that?" Artemis's voice reaches over.
"What?" I ask annoyed.
"Artemis, what building are you at?" M'gann asks.
"Artemis?" Robin asks.
"I'm dropping connection, going for a closer look, it may just be nothing," Artemis says before a slight buzz stopped.
"M'gann, is everything alright?" Kaldur asks.
"She blocked the connection, I'll go on camouflage mood and try to find her," M'gann says.
"What the hell could she be doing?" I say in my head.
"I don't know," Wally replies.
"Team! Report to the Chiyoko Penitentiary immediately! I'll fill you in on-," she gets cut off and the buzzing sound completely stops.
"M'gann!" I yell in my head. No answer.
"I lost all connection," Kaldur comes to me with Superboy.
"Same," Superboy says.
"Let's get there and find out what happened," I say.
Wally's P.O.V.
Dick and I make it there quickly. We don't see or hear anything wrong until we hear a large crack coming from the penitentiary. We nod and come through the door.
"Boy Wonder and then Flash Boy, why is a raven like a writing desk?" Cheshire says sitting on one of the ledges above.
"Why?" Wally asks his anger fuming.
"Well honesty, I don't know," she says jumping down. "What brings you two here?"
"Where are they?" I yell.
"That depends on who they is," she says.
"Artemis, Miss Martian!" Wally screams.
"Oh, that 'they'," she says walking around.
"I have a short temper," I say.
"So do I! I wonder what other wonderful things we have in common," she says keeping her same sassy tone.
"You're dead," Wally said.
"Oh, I'm bored," Cheshire said taking one more step. "I guess it's time to disappear." She laughs and throws a smoke grenade at us. It goes off and I use the smoke to my advantage, hearing people running towards us. I quickly flip over the first one noticing him; these are grown men, Japanese, they must be some of the prisoners here. I doubt they speak a word of English.
"*there was a Japanese word but it got deleted, so think of the word attack in Japanese*!" one of them yelled. I couldn't understand it but I heard many more footsteps coming. I saw a man coming to my right but I was already defending myself from two others. Suddenly a red arrow comes through the fog wrapping the man at my right with a net.
I smile and continue.
In about five, no, wait six minutes (five is too mainstream) the smoke stops stirring and we finally get to see. There aren't any men left; only twelve are in here. But I swore I heard more footsteps…hmm….
"Everyone alright?" Roy asks. I gave him a thumbs-up
"Okay, let's go," Kaldur says walking through the doors Cheshire must've went. We start walking down a hallway, just a regular hallway, and turn right. We see a door with a broken lock on it. We nod and go in.
We found the prison.
Artemis's P.O.V.
My eyes open slowly. I instantly take in my surroundings. I'm sitting in this box thing with a gate on the side; weird. I try to speak but I notice it comes muffled. I look at my hands and they're in handcuffs.
"Hmm…," I hear something from my right. I turn and see M'gann sitting there. I wobble over to her and try shaking her.
"Meeegooon," I try to mumble her name but the duct tape (or I hope it is) on my face isn't helping. I check her pulse and she's alright; but she's definitely old cold. I walk over to the gate side and gasp.
I'm in a cell.
A prison cell. I'm high above the hallway stuffed in one of the highest cells on this wall. I see figures walking on the hallway, but I can't be sure who they are. I don't want whoever they are to lock us up anyway so I decide I have to do this myself.
I walk back to the wall and relax my shoulders and take a deep breath. I remember my ankle but start sprinting to the door. At the last second I do a kick-flip move. I flip back and look at my progress. Side of the door fell off. But the half wasn't in the door, it fell the long flights down to the hallway ground.
I don't have any time.
I grab Megan and somehow get her on my back. I then walk out of the cell and onto the opposing ones, planning to use them as a ladder down.
Big mistake.
There are prisoners in these.
Deadly prisoners.
God.
"Who are you?" the man in the cell comes close so I can't see his face, but his hands. I'm deciding on to be thankful or terrified that he's not Japanese.
"Eemmm," I manage to get out. He reaches his hand and I flinch because I can't lean back without falling. He pulls the duct tape off quickly luckily not messing up my mask.
"I don't have time for this…," I shakily say before trying to go down again.
"Well I do," he grasps my hands and I feel his nails dig in my skin. I shriek and almost lose my grasp on M'gann. His strength is incredible and pulls my handcuffed hands back up blood and all. He holds us away from the ledge, just dangling from that hand of his.
"Stop," I say loosing a bit of my grip on Megan.
"There they are!" Someone faintly says underneath. I look down for a second and see just a bunch of small figures. I turn back to the man in front of me.
"Oh so you're with them," he scoffs. "And to think I was going to let you guys live." He shakes his hand making Megan fall off my back. I grasp her with my legs, using the rope on them to secure she won't fall again.
It's time to brainstorm.
"Tell me your name," I say to him.
"Tell me yours," he says back.
"Alice," I lie.
"Oh, how nice," he says. "Why is a raven like a writing desk?"
"Well, honestly I just don't know," I say on reflex.
"That's my line," he says coming closer so I finally can see his face. My eyes widen; he looks exactly like…
"The Mad Hatter," he says. "That's my name."
"Artemis! Miss Martian!" someone says closer. I look down and see Robin and Roy coming up. But then I look down. All the way down.
"I thought your name was Alice?" The Mad Hatter asks. I can't stop looking down. My vision gets blurry quickly but I'm glad I can still see.
"Hand us Megan and then jump over!" Roy says. I throw Megan with my legs. They catch her and I try to jump. Then I remember I'm being held.
"So you want to leave me already!" The Mad Hatter yells his eyes fuming with red rage. Exactly like that, red rage.
"Huh…," I say confused but then realize what's going to happen. "Red Arrow! Shoot at—."
Damn.
He let go.
I'm falling as some of my arrows from my pack come out from the rush of wind. I grab one and push a little button at the end, making it into a rocket arrow. It shoots me to the right and soon it touches the metal and stays. Now I'm just hanging.
"Artemis!" Someone yells. I notice there's no ledge over here. I swore that I wasn't going to look down but I look a bit. I'm still up high. I look up and see I didn't fall that much, but now I'm about to fall.
"C'mon…," I say trying to find my grip again. Suddenly I feel being picked up and I look up. M'gann is carrying me.
"Thank god you're okay!" she says as we float down.
"Where's everyone?" I ask as soon as we reach the ground.
"Robin and Red Arrow took a vent up there," M'gann says using a key to take my handcuffs off. Then I start untying the rope around my legs. "I don't know where Superboy, Wally, or Kaldur are."
Then we heard a huge snap coming from the room down the hall.
"Get the link up," I tell her. She puts her hands up to her head and her eyes start glowing.
"Everyone on?" M'gann asks in my head.
"Yeah," Robin says.
"Uh huh," I say grabbing the bow off my back.
"Yes," Roy says with his same gruff expression. I roll my eyes grabbing a few arrows that fell on the floor.
"We're outside of the penitentiary!" Baywatch's worried voice fills my head.
"Team, report outside," Kaldur says.
M'gann's P.O.V.
We started to run. Artemis kicks open the doors and we saw no one inside so we continued going to the back. After a few more minutes of running, we came across a large office in the back. It was on the middle lever but we heard rummaging here so we decided to come.
The wall must've been all glass; because there was glass everywhere. We walked to the edge noticing a few of the glass edges were bloody. We looked at the edge and the next thing I know, Artemis is kicked through and falling.
"Artemis!" I yell and start to fly but something's caught on my cape. I look behind and see Black Spider.
"Martian girl," he sighs. "I must've kicked the wrong one, but hey, I'll get an easier challenge." My eyes start glowing with anger. I used my telekinesis to lift a desk and threw it at him. He laughed.
"That's all you got?" he asks.
"Nope."
Robin's P.O.V.
We got there quickly. Quicker then M'gann and Artemis because they weren't in sight. We were fighting off Cheshire, Hook, and Professor Ojo. Also a lot of the same Japanese men were fighting us too. I understood why they called for back up.
"Where are they?" Wally says in my head.
"Calm down K.F.," I say kicking this guy in the jaw. I see a man jumping over me so I look up. Then I see her falling. "Wally get Artemis!"
"Huh?" he says. I point up. He rolls his eyes and sprints off the right. He gets there a few seconds before she reaches him. Then he runs back here holding her.
"You're welcome again," he sighs (which I have no idea how he can sigh in my head) and throws her off. She does a flip and lands on her feet.
"A guy pushed me," she says shooting two approaching guys with a net.
"Where's M'gann?" I ask. Artemis's eyes widen.
"Dear God, I left her up there," her voice tenses.
"Megan will have to manage," Aqualad says. "Artemis is needed to stay here." Soon we finished off the last of the men and Roy and Artemis have captured them all in nets. Cheshire, Professor Ojo, and Hook just stand in the corner. Then M'gann comes floating down holding an unconscious Black Spider. She throws to the top of the other men.
"Klarion it's time to go," Cheshire smiles and moves out of the way for a boy to past.
"Witch Boy," I mutter.
"What?" Artemis asks out loud.
"Bye!" he cackles as a cloud of mist covers them and Black Spider.
"No!" I yell out loud running through the mist. But they're already gone.
"Link's down now, what happened?" M'gann asks.
"I'll report to Batman, Red Arrow you too, you were accompanying this mission," Aqualad says as we walk to the Bio-ship.
"Not again," I whisper to myself.
Artemis's P.O.V.
"I've talked to Kaldur and Roy," Batman says grouping us all back together. Well Roy left earlier. Luckily. I'm just grumpy because I need to take a shower and I'm still in my costume. Gah! "Only two people escaped from the Chiyoko Penitentiary."
"Who?" Wally asks. I hit him hard in the shoulder. "Ow!"
"Klarion the Witch Boy who you apparently saw leave with the League of Shadows," Batman says. "And then a newer villain calling himself The Mad Hatter." I was about to hit Wally hard in the shoulder again but my blood froze.
"What?" I ask memories flooding my head.
"The Mad Hatter," he said.
"Wait, was that the guy…?" Robin asks looking at me.
"That creepy dude that dropped Artemis?" M'gann asks.
"Artemis you were dropped?" Aqualad says concerned.
"It's not a big deal," I say grabbing my bow. "I have archery practice with Ollie."
I left without another word.
Wally's P.O.V.
I ached of pain.
It was after our mission with Klarion the Witch Boy, after Kent died. I still didn't believe in magic; it was just fake.
The Helmet of Fate isn't fake. It's just kinda like Zatara's powers; advanced sorcery giving the illusion of real magic.
Kent Nelson was dead. It just went to his funeral yesterday; at least he got buried next to his wife. He would've wanted that.
And now here I was, waiting in the souvenir room on Thursday, a few minutes before I'm going to leave for school just staring at that damn helmet.
"Wally, Barry wants you to go to school soon," Black Canary says walking in the room.
"I am," I say getting up. "What time should I be here for training?"
"Five to seven, and remember you're scoping out Gotham with Robin and Artemis tonight," She says as we walk out of the room.
"I seriously have to with Artemis? That thing?" I roll my eyes and whine.
"Wally, she's a member of your team," Black Canary says turning to me.
"I'll only do it if Megan makes cookies," I say.
"She already made a few batches already," Black Canary sighs but grabs onto my shoulder before I run to the kitchen. "Get. To. School."
"Fine," I huff. "Just wanted a cookie…."
Still in Wally's P.O.V.
The only thing I like about being a sophomore: Physics and Gym class. I mean even though I'm the hottest chick magnet on the block being a super hero, high school isn't exactly my forte.
"Alright class," Mrs. Brown said. She's a bigger woman who adores blue eye shadow a little "too" much. "Today we're going to play dodgeball. Smith and Lewis, you're captains."
Stupid teacher, both of those guys hate me.
Soon it's just me and Roderick, a 13 year-old who skipped a few grades.
"I'll take Roderick," Lewis says smirking at Smith.
"Can I please get more choices?" Smith yells.
"Huh? West go with Smith," Mrs. Brown says. I walk over to him and he gives me the death stare. I ignore it; he's never seen most of the Justice League's death stares before, especially Batman's. His is nothing compared to theirs.
"We better win dork," he hisses at me. If only I could use my powers….
The game starts and we lost two already, won one. We're playing the game and suddenly I see Artemis and Robin walking in the door. They see the teacher and hide. I watch them as they run up the stairs and sit on the bleachers.
"Move West!" Lewis says pushing me out of the way so he can throw the ball. I land on my back and so want to kill him.
"West, you're out," Mrs. Brown says.
"What?" I say. "I never got hit by a ball!"
"Yeah, yeah. You'd just fall on the ground for no reason," she says. I walk out of the playing field and turn to see Smith's smirking face. God. I walk over to the wall on our side that people go when they're out. The bleachers are above.
"Hey Wally," Dick whispers to me. I look up.
"Why the hell are you here? And why is that thing here?" I say looking at Artemis.
"Robin made a bet with me," she shrugged.
"What?" I ask.
"She said I couldn't make her laugh, so I brought her to your gym class," he smirked.
"Haha, real funny guys," I say.
"I owe him $5 now," Artemis says.
"Hide, the game's almost over!" I say seeing only a few people left.
"We'll go to your locker," Dick says as they scurry off. Great, now the replacement knows where my locker is.
Again still in Wally's P.O.V.
We lost. And now Smith and Lewis are going to argue about it the whole entire time. I'm in the middle of their lockers. I walked the long way back to my locker seeing Artemis and Dick standing by it. No Lewis or Smith yet.
"Took ya long enough," Arty rolls her eyes.
"It takes time to look this good!" I say starting to open my locker. I open it quickly using a bit of my super speed with my hands. Artemis then starts laughing.
"What's that?" she asks pointing to a picture when I was five. My mom was smiling while I was pouting. "You were so small and genuine back then; wonder what happened?" I gave her the death stare but she didn't notice.
"Hey buzz kill, thanks on losing the f-…who's this?" Smith asks looking at Artemis.
"Artemis," she says looking at other stuff in my locker. I swat her hand away a few times.
"Alright, I know Wally would never get a girlfriend," he says laughing. "You must be his sister."
"I'm not," she says oblivious.
"Either way, maybe I could give you a tour around the place? Take you somewhere nice later?" he winks at her. I barely barf.
"Sorry, I don't go out with strangers," she says as I shut my locker. "Especially not your kind."
"My kind?" he asks.
"Yup, the stuck-up dumb asses like you," she says before walking off. Robin catches up to her.
"What did that bitch say?" he yells at me. I see Artemis stop and turn around.
"Turn around," I smile before walking off with Rob.
"Wha…," and those are the last words Smith says before getting a broken nose.
Haha, I love when Artemis beats up people. It's just funny. Beware: the next chapter is going to be a long one showing a bit more of The Mad Hatter…hehe…. Did any of you guys read some of my Alice in Wonderland trivia? Why is a raven like a writing desk? Honestly, I don't know. And I want you guys to know even though I'm a Spitfire addict, I can't put a bunch in because I'm following the season. But I will add a bunch of cute fluff now and then. And either way, even their arguing is adorable!
Answer from last time: I can't stand ticking clocks or when people say "Whatever" to end the conversation. No one wants you talking like a stereotype teenage girl people. I do have a few friends who use it all the time, so I'm used to it but it still bothers me a bit. If you love the word whatever, I'm not saying I don't like you. I'm saying I don't like when people rudely end the conversation with it.
Lucky question of the chapter: In your own words and especially for this chapter, why is a raven like a writing desk? *just had to guys*
Sincerely,
Royallynot ;)