This is late. Uh-oh *dodges several tomatoes* hey- WOAH *dodges watermelon* what is it with people and tomatoes and watermelons like come on, can't we try to be a little bit origina- *gets hit with a grape* ok.

No worries, I'm here. It's just... School ya know. I'm trying to keep up with it and meanwhile, my gf totally got me into Supernatural, which is the only show I know of that has me walking away from every episode thinking 'I hate this show.'

Thanks to Taz for reviewing and so sorry this is so late. Enjoy!

PQ sighed happily as she threw the ball for Max. She chased the ball inside as PQ dropped her bag for a minute. They had just gotten back from the first camping trip she'd ever been on, and boy, was she glad she was back in the city.

"You know Maddie, I can't believe you skipped that. I mean, that was a chance for some really good character and group development," PQ told me.

But, it would've been two chapters of camping nonsense, and nobody has time for that. We got to keep on the main storyline. It was just more fluff man.

"Yeah, okay."

PQ had gone on the camping trip, hopes super high, only to find that yeah, it was a nice place, but the bugs were too much for her. Big giant black widows (not the cool ones like Natasha Romanoff), huge horse flies, bees, wasps, oh boy. She didn't go into the bathrooms, nope. Not after she saw the tarantulas hanging from the ceiling. She'd nearly passed out.

"You know, I should probably go and unload," she paused for a minute before chuckling and snapping her fingers. All of her bags disappeared and reappeared where they belonged.

Max ran back out with the ball clutched in her tiny jaw. PQ giggled at the cute, tired little dog she had brought with her on the trip. She scooped her up, walking inside and scratching behind Max's ear.

As soon as she got inside, she went to the restroom, turning on the water for a bath.

"You're kinda smelly Max," PQ told the pup at the questioning look she received.

She then proceeded to give Max a bath, which turned out to be a lot harder than it seemed. After ten minutes, she was done, drying off her dog.

"Alright, you. I'm napping for the rest of day, and you should too," she pointed to the pup, who'd padded off to her cove, which PQ had decorated a day before the trip. It now had little hearts on the wall behind her, a blue igloo for her to nap in, which had a toy and a pillow for her to play with. And next to that was a food and water bowl that refills itself every nine hours (which PQ needed to plug back in).

"Oop! Thanks for the reminder!"

What would you do without me?

She plugged it in and went to her bedroom, grabbing a Pop! on the way.

She took a sip, before placing it on the floor next to the bed and going to sleep.

She woke up to Max barking. She sighed as she rolled out of bed, grabbing the Pop! and checking the time.

4 PM.

"Max, what is-" she paused when she heard two people chatting quietly in the main room.

She picked up Max, put down the Pop! and went out into the main room.

She pointed at them, looking u- OH got it.

I knocked them out. They slumped down on each other.

PQ sighed, turning on the light.

"Oh em goodness!" she smiled, heading over to the coffee table in front of the couch. "Wake em up Maddie."

The two boys groaned, sitting up.

"Now, what're you two idgits doing?" she asked them.

"Oh. Hey," Wally said through a yawn.

"Look, when yall come over, yall gotta put out a sticky note on my vanity or something. So I know it's you. Ya can't just like walk in here," she scolded tiredly, rubbing her eye as she made to grab her Pop!

"But your fort is open and always unlocked," Wally pointed out.

"Exactly, which is why it's all the more important. Random strangers could just walk in here anytime. And that's why you gotta do the sticky note thing. And when you come and I'm not home, put one on the outside. Yeah, that sounds good," she curled up on a seat adjacent to the couch, sipping on her soda.

"Well, anyways, we came to get you," Dick told her, having watched the conversation with amused interest.

"What, you guys aren't tired?" she looked at them, noticing how awake they were. "Fine. Where we going?" she stood up, going to throw away her Pop! can as she had finished it. It hadn't really helped her wake up.

"Uh, we were thinking we could go-"

"To the park? Oh boy!"

She snapped and she, the boys, and Max were at a large grassy field with trees.

"I was gonna say to the movies, but I guess this works too," Wally said.

Dick's eyebrows rose behind his sunglasses before he leaned over to Wally and whispered something in his ear.

Wally looked in the direction Dick had been staring and smiled mischievously as he looked back to PQ, "Hey, see those people over there?"

He was pointing to a group of four teens that looked about his age. There was a blonde girl who looked bored, a cheery redhead, a broody brunette, and a boy reading a book under a tree.

"Yeah, what about them?" she asked.

"I dare you," started Dick, "to go over there and invite them to hang with us."

He was smirking, as if that was such a bad thing.

"Alright, how much do I get if I get them to come over here?" PQ asked, still looking at the teens.

"Um, twenty bucks. And if you lose, you have to... climb that tree and knock down that beehive," Wally supplied, nodding.

PQ shuddered at the thought, "Okay. I won't lose."

She flashed the boys a smile before running over to the teens.

"Dude, this is so lame. What're we doing here again?" Artemis asked as she died yet again on Temple Run.

"I thought it'd be good to get out of the cave," Megan replied, picking at the grass next to the blanket she was sitting on.

"Oh yes," Connor, who had quickly picked up sarcasm, looked up from the ant he'd been studying in the grass. "This is totally not the same thing we were doing earlier."

*Five minutes earlier*

Megan sat on the floor of the cave in front of the couch, brushing dirt around. She was definitely more bored than Artemis, who was playing Temple Run and kept dying, angrily cursing every time. Kaldur was engrossed in a book on the recliner and Connor was watching the nature channel, learning about bug colonies.

"Hey guys," Megan said. "You wanna go to the park?"

Replies of "Sure" and "Okay" came back to her, and she quickly gathered all of the things they'd need and they left.

*Present*

Megan sighed, "Yeah, I guess not."

A girl who had straight brown hair with purple tips ran up to them, grabbing their attention.

"Hey, my two friends over there and I were about to play a game of frisbee, but we saw you guys and you look kinda bored. Do you wanna come and hang with us?"

The team exchanged glances before deciding anything was better than this.

"Sure, we'd love to!" Megan told her cheerfully.

PQ's heart skipped a beat. How had she not noticed? But she paused, she needed more information.

"Cool, what're your names?" she asked.

"Artemis," the blonde said.

"Megan," the redhead responded as she and the brunette started gathering up the blanket and food. "That's Connor."

The boy offered her a short wave.

"And that," Artemis pointed to the person under the tree, "is our resident bookworm, Kaldur."

"Cool! I'm PQ!" she said, trying to keep calm. "I'll see you guys over there!"

And with that she ran to Dick and Wally.

"Guys! Guys!" she yelled, out of breath. "It's... It's Artemis and Megan and Connor and Kaldur and omigosh why didn't you guys say anything I seriously thought I was going to faint holy..." she panted.

Dick snickered, "So are they coming?"

"Yeah," she said. "They'll be here in a few."

"Or less," Wally smirked as they walked up to them.

"Alright, frisbee!" PQ smiled cheerfully. "Oh, btw this is Wally and that's-"

"We've met," Dick cut her off quickly.

"Oh," PQ acted disappointed, but she was internally smirking evilly. "How'd you guys meet?"

She, Dick, and Wally all smirked as the four floundered for answers, all saying different things.

"We play tennis together," Megan had said, while Artemis had said "We're pen pals." and Connor had told her they work out together while Kaldur had simply stated, "Book club."

Megan laughed nervously before launching into what would be a very complicated story, "We started as pen pals before deciding that we needed to do more so we made a book club but then we wanted to be more active so we went to the local gym and started working out but that was- whew!- exhausting so we all eventually settled on making a tennis team."

Murmurs of agreement passed through the four.

"Oh..." PQ said, smiling at how proud of herself Megan looked. It was adorable.

"How did you meet Baywatch and short stuff over there?" Artemis asked.

"Well, I go to school with Wally and he introduced me to Di- ow, man!" PQ cradled her foot. "Not cool."

"So, frisbee or what guys?" Wally asked, drawing out the "so."

"Sounds good to me!" Dick replied cheerfully.

"Yeah, hold on lemme grab it," PQ grumbled as she exaggeratedly limped over to the bag, holding her hand above it as the frisbee shot out.

"Woah! PQ, what is that thing?" Dick asked. He hadn't even seen technology like that.

"Frisbeetron. It's really cool and if you focus it'll come to you! So that we don't have to run if someone throws really far away, like this," she demonstrated by throwing it really far behind her.

Then, she held her hand out and glared at it until it came back to her hand.

She hissed, "Dang, it hits hard. Although, that shouldn't be a problem for you three, hm?" she grinned as she pointed at Kaldur, Megan, and Connor who threw confused looks at each other.

"Where'd you get it?" Dick asked, almost fangirling over it.

"Oh, you know, friends with Maddie so..."

PQ threw it at Wally, who jumped and caught it just barely before tossing it to Dick, who tossed it to Artemis and so on.

PQ smiled and looked away, noticing that Max was sitting patiently.

"Hey, girly. Whatcha doin?" she asked as she sat down next to her.

The group hadn't noticed her absence and continued playing as she watched with her dog.

"You know what? I've got the perfect thing for you!" she said, digging in her bag.

"Fetch!"

The ball soared through the air as the small dog chased after it, barking happily.

This was peaceful, and PQ was slightly enjoying it.

"Yeeeeeaaaah... we're gonna have to fix this whole... 'peaceful' thing."

I was afraid you'd say that.

When Dinah had walked into the Cave, this had not been the scene she was expecting.

A mixture of mashed potatoes and beans littered the floor along with about nine Nerf guns and several bullets. She also noticed some of Artemis's arrows, and a few small craters. The walls were spray painted with logos and random exclamations such as "I like pie!" and underneath that, "Cheese is better". Beside the overturned couch Raquel and Kaldur stood next to Robin and Zatanna who were arguing about something, occasionally interjecting. Connor and Megan were making food in the kitchen and Wally and Artemis were sitting sideways on the couch watching the conversation with interest, and popcorn.

She cleared her throat loudly, grabbing the attention of everyone except the two in the kitchen.

"What is this mess?" she gestured to the destruction around her.

Immediately, everyone stood up and pointed at a girl she hadn't noticed earlier who was sitting on the couch, all unanimously saying, "It was her fault!" except Kaldur, who just sighed.

"Told you we should've cleaned up!" Megan yelled from the kitchen.

"Oh, uh... Hi?" PQ stated standing up. Dinah took in her appearance rather quickly.

She was wearing blue basketball shorts with a white shirt that had "Thirty-one" printed several times in a fashion made to look like a keyhole.

Dinah ducked into a fighting stance, "Cover your ear- wha-?"

She was very surprised as the girl disappeared. She felt a light tap on her shoulder and turning she found the girl behind her.

"Okay, hold on let's not jump to con- AH!" PQ moved as Canary let out a sonic scream.

"Hey! Come on can't we just-" she reappeared by the kitchen, " -talk about this-" she reappeared by the hallway, glaring at the snickering teens, who were watching the exchange with amusement. "A little help-" reappear, "would be nice!"

"Nah," Wally shrugged, "you got yourself in this mess, you get yourself out."

It continued on like this until PQ got fed up.

"DINAH!" PQ shouted in annoyance. "I already have approval from Bats to be down here so if you could just knock it off, I'd appreciate that very much."

Dinah was stunned. This random person, whom she'd never seen, knew her identity, and had Batman's approval?

"Yeah, yeah, it's a lot to take in, but it was technically Wally and Robin's fault for waking up Max, who woke me up."

Dinah wondered who Max was.

"Max is my dog," PQ explained. "Now, how about we watch that awesome security feed of the last thirty minutes?"

"This all happened in thiRTY MINUTES?" Dinah exclaimed.

"Yes. And it was quite an interesting thirty minutes, if I do say so myself," PQ grinned, as did the rest of the teenagers in the room.

"Just in time! I made cookies! And they aren't burnt!" Megan said, bringing out a tray. "Only two, Wally," she warned.

Wally grumbled as he reached for the cookies.

Three teens rushed through the zeta, giggling and cackling as they ran.

They ran into the living room, diving over the couch as bullets started flying at them. Nerf bullets, of course.

The three teens, now recognized as Wally, Dick, and PQ, flipped the couch to make a barrier.

Connor, Megan, Kaldur, and Artemis walked in, shooting until Artemis held up a hand to stop them. Immediately, the three behind the couch shot up, shooting the other four.

Suddenly, "Mm whatcha say" blared all around them as the four that were shot dramatically fell, the others high-fiving each other.

PQ stood up, throwing her gun on the ground, "Okay, guys. Let's do something else."

"Like what?" Connor asked, sitting up.

"Let's-"

"Hey guys!" Zatanna walked in. She paused as she looked at PQ. "Who are you?"

"JOHN CENA! Nah, jk. Hey, let's spray paint!" PQ smiled, running over and grabbing Zatanna's hand as a box of spray paint appeared in front of them.

"Hold on," Kaldur said. "We should think about this, what are the consequences?"

"Pfft," PQ scoffed. "Consequences schmonsequences. I can clean everything with a snap. Literally."

"Oh."

"Yeah," she said, shaking a can of gold paint. "Let's get started!"

Two minutes later, every wall in the Cave had been covered with logos and words that don't matter, and Zatanna and PQ were chatting happily.

"I still can't believe she knows our identities. And she was so straightforward with it," Artemis told Dick quietly.

"Yeah, but she was super psyched when she got here."

"Got to the Cave?"

"No. Apparently she's from a different dimension. She's pretty cool, we went camping and I found out she had a humongous fear of bugs. But yeah, she just showed up one day and then she was just there, all the time. I don't even know how, but she managed to make Bats like her."

"Oh," Artemis looked over to Dick. He'd grown slightly over the last year, and he was filling out. He was almost as tall as her, and at the rate he was going, he was going to pass her soon. "Do you know how she got here?"

"No. She said that she didn't either though. She never really talks about herself. I guess you could say she likes to live in the moment."

"Do you think she's lying? About knowing how to get here?" Artemis asked thoughtfully, but before Dick could answer, PQ shoved cans of spray paint into their hands and showed them a spot on the wall, telling them to get busy.

Covering the walls were all either mentor logos or their logos (PQ just painted pieces of cheese all over, and when asked why, she'd just respond with "why not?").

That's when Raquel walked in.

"Oh, hell no! Gimme one!" and she filled in the rest of the space with her and her dad's logo.

When they were done, they all took a minute to admire their work.

Sadly, PQ got bored again. She moved herself right behind Wally, who was diagonal from Artemis. Then a glob of beans appeared in her hand. She sighed, examining the substance, it was very mushy, but not sticky.

Perfect for throwing into hair.

She aimed right for the back of Artemis's head, then launching, disappearing into the rafters.

She watched as Artemis whipped around, glaring at the unsuspecting redhead. She noticed her bow and arrows were suddenly on the ground next to her, and she picked one up, PQ suddenly appearing at her side.

"Here, if you really want to get him, put these at the end of your arrow instead of the tip," she said quietly, handing her a bowl of gloppy mashed potatoes and spheres that opened enough to contain them.

Artemis smirked in thanks, not taking notice of PQ's bean-covered hand, and nocked an arrow, aiming straight at Wally, and letting it fly. it exploded on impact, spewing potatoes all over the back of Wally's head. Beginning a very large mashed potatoes and beans fight that PQ made sure had enough beans and potatoes.

All the while, PQ had sat up in the rafters, thinking about how much more fun it was here than back at her home.

She fell back as a piece of potato flew at and smacked her in the face, knocking her down, causing her to holler, "STUPID MINT CHOCOLATE SPRINKLED STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM WITH NUTS AND CHEESE WITH PURPLE FOOD COLORING AND A NERD TO EAT IT!"

Then, she hit the ground.

When she opened her eyes, she found the team above her, Connor sheepishly telling her that he was sorry for hitting her in the face. She brushed it off.

"Hey, everyone needs a good twenty foot fall from the ceiling every once in a while," she smiled, scooping up a pile of beans and mashing her hand in his face.

"Yeah, I guess I deserve that."

PQ got a thoughtful look on her face, before standing up and walking over to a wall, punching it very hard, "AH! GOD WHAT THE ELL IS THIS WALL MADE OUT OF HOLY MOTHER OF NEPTUNE THAT HURT!"

But she was very satisfied with the small dent in the wall.

"Rob, you try!" she looked over to him. They all looked stupefied.

"Try what?"

"See how big of a hole you can make in the wall!"

"Ooh! Me too!" Megan exclaimed, flying over to the wall and happily punching it.

Eventually, everyone had punched a hole in the wall, PQ's being the smallest from a lack of strength.

"Hey! I'll have you know I'm very strong!"

Right, sorry.

PQ, having been very satisfied, plopped down on the sideways couch, staring at the ceiling. She was soon joined by all of the mashed potato and bean covered team, all just enjoying each other's presence.

"I'm hungry!" Wally whined.

"I'll make something, come on Connor!" Megan said and they went into the kitchen.

"Thanks Megalicious!" PQ called.

"Hey! That's my thing!" Wally mock-glared.

"Oh well."

"Hey, why don't you ever cook?" Dick asked Zatanna, beginning a very heated argument.

Kaldur sighed and Raquel looked over at him, "Should we... Help him?"

"Maybe it'd be best to just observe," Kaldur said, rolling off the couch, Raquel following suit.

"I'm gonna make some popcorn," Wally said, zipping to the kitchen.

Soon after that, Dinah walked in.

Dinah stopped the tape, "Why?"

"Why not?" PQ responded with a giggle. "Okay, we gots to go! Hey thanks for letting me hang with you guys!"

"Who else has to go?" Rocket asked.

"Me, myself, and I," PQ responded, quickly covering her small mistake.

"See ya, Peek," Wally grinned.

"Peek... Hmm, I like that," she smiled. "Byee!"

And like that, she was gone, taking the mess with her.