Hey everyone, I'm late again. First things first there is some strong language in this chapter not much put you'll know it when you get there. As for why I'm late well work and some of my friends wanted me to play some games so I never got a chance to finishing writing. Another thing is I'm sure some of you noticed I changed the cover picture. I mainly based Jacob of the original look for Cole in infamous 2. I kinda wish they kept the look as an outfit choice, I understand why people didn't like the look Cole looked like a completely different person compared to infamous 1.

August 19 mount justice

Artemis POV

"Initiate combat training." The computer said over the speaker as superboy and Aqualad charged each other in a friendly sparring match

"Kaldor's, uh nice, don't you think? Handsome. Commanding. You should totally ask him out." I said making small talk with M'gann

"he's like a big brother to me." She said before grinning. "But do you know who would make the cutest couple? You and Jacob."

I look past wally and see Jacob holding a AA battery and flicking his finger against it to see sparks. All while having an amused grin on his face.

"you're so full of passion and he's so full of, uh-of" M'gann tried to think of a compliment for out human light socket before his grin turn into a look of horror as the battery exploded in his hand. Making wally start laughing

"AHHH Holy shit." Jacob said holding his hand "Oh my God" He said while breathing heavy

"are you ok?" I asked concerned.

"yeah I'm good I just wasn't expecting that." He said trying to play it off.

"How could you not expect that to happen you were over charging a battery." Wally said laughing at him.

Jacob was about to retort but started laughing instead. Wally then started talking about the look on Jacobs face before the battery exploded.

"Boys." I said to M'gann causing us both to laugh.

"fail aqualad" the computer announced. We turned to see kaldur on the ground and superboy standing over him.

"Black Canary taught me that." Superboy said dusting his hands off.

Just then Red tornado appears from his room and starts to walk off before wally runs in front of him.

"do you have a mission for us?" he asked excited

"mission assignments are the batman's responsibility." Tornado said bluntly

"Yeah. Well, the Batman's with the Robin Doing the dynamic duo thing in gotham, But you're headed somewhere, right? Hot date or a-a misión?" wally argued.

"If we can be of help." Kaldur said

"seriously we have nothing better to do." Jacob deadpanned

This is Kent Nelson, a friend. He is 106 years old

Jacob then let out a low whistle. "damn."

"Guy doesn't look a day over 90." Wally whispered loudly to me

"And he has been missing for 23 days. Kent was a charter member of the justice society, The precursor to your mentors' justice league." Red Tornado explained

"Of course. Nelson was earth's sorcerer supreme. He was Doctor Fate." Kaldur concluded.

"more like doctor fake. Guy knows a little advanced science and "dumbledores" it up To scare the bad guys and impress the babes." Wally whispered again.

Kent may simply be on one of his walkabouts, But he is caretaker to the helmet of fate, The source of the doctor's mystic might, And it is unwise to leave such power unguarded." Red tornado said

"He's like the great sorcerer priests and priestesses of Mars. I would be honored to help find him." M'gann said praising Nelson

"Me, too." Wally's hand shot up "So honored I can barely stand it. Magic rocks." He said hold up devil horns

Take this. It is the key to the tower of fate." Tornado said holding out a key for Kaldur

"What are the chances we both so admire the mystic arts?" wally flirted with M'gann

A little while later on board the bioship.

"Hey where are we headed anyway." Jacob said bored while resting his head on his hand.

"the coordinates red tornado has given us shows were heading to Louisiana. More specifically a small town called New Marais." M'gann said

Jacob eyes widened "oh no."

We all looked at him confused

"what's wrong?" Kadur asked

"well I uh, never wore a mask when I got my powers, so uh someone might recognize me." He stuttered looking nervous.

"just put your hood over your head, besides its dark outside no what is the chance of you running into someone." I reasoned

Jacob took a deep breath and exhaled. "that's a good idea Artemis thanks."

"No problem." I said

Jacob then resumed his position and stared out the window still looking nervous "whatever is on his mind his secret identity is the least of his concerns." I thought.

Jacob POV

"FFFFFUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK. GODDAMNIT WHY?! OUT OF ALL THE CITIES IN THE GODDAMN WORLD ITS NEW MARAIS. THIS IS BULLSHIT, FUCK." I mentally shouted. I really didn't want to see the place where my dad died and my role model betrayed us. I'm just glad the team bought my excuse. I really don't care if someone from New Marais recognized me, from my understanding they held a huge funeral for my dad so they have done right by me.

After another 10 minutes of silence Artemis decide to question wally's 'interest' in magic.

"So, Wally, When did you first realize your honest affinity for sorcery?"

Wally had a smug look. "Well, I-I don't like to brag, but, uh, Before I became Kid Flash, I seriously considered becoming a wizard myself."

"can you show us a magic trick?" I said joining in

"well I didn't bring my deck of cards but I can show M'gann some of my tricks after the mission." Wally said.

I just gave him 'really' look then looked at Artemis and mouthed 'is he serious right now'

She just shrugged then glared at him.

"we've reached tornado's coordinates, but- nothings there." M'gann said

"once we touch down we will scan the area." Kaldur said

When we touched down everyone started to head out but I stopped right at the hatch and took a deep breath

"hey, what's wrong with you?" Artemis said behind me

"Artemis hey. I uh well uh umm I am, well you see-"

Artemis just crossed her arms and stared at me. "wow that was pathetic. Jacob what's really going on? And don't say you scared of someone seeing you, no is here."

I let out a sigh. "remember when that plague struck and that beast was rampaging across the east coast?"

"yeah, a lot of people died, I even had to plague before I was somehow cured."

"really? Damn. Well you can thank my dad for saving you. as for what's going on me. This is the place my dad died." I said sadly.

Artemis eyes soften. "Jacob I'm sorry."

"No, it's okay it's just I'm not ready to be back here. I was supposed to die that day, we had a device to cure the plague but it would kill all the conduits on earth or at least we thought. The last thing I remember is my dad saying he loved me and he was proud of me then I blacked out. After he died I've been on the road alone, that was until I literally bumped into Aqualad and robin." I explained.

Artemis put her hand on my shoulder and said. "you should visit city after we finish up here. It's the least you can do for your dad."

"your right we should meet up with the others. I believe we still have a few words to say to wally." I joked

We started walking to the open field we everyone was looking around and wally was running around the whole area look for the tower. He then stopped right in front of us.

"Nothing. This isn't simple camouflage." Wally reported

"So what do you think, Adaptive micro-opto-electronics combined with phase shifting?" Artemis suggest casually.

Wally looked impressed and was going to complement her until M'gann walked up. "Absolutely not. clearly mystic powers are at work here."

Artemis and I just glared at him.

Kaldur pulled the key out from his pocket and examined it.

"A test of faith. Stand behind me." Kaldur walked up and placed the key forward and turned it and with a click the tower was revealed leaving us dumbfounded.

As we all walked in a felt a small surge behind me making me turn around. I looked at the abandoned theater and narrowed my eyes.

"hey Jacob, you coming or what?" superboy said.

"yeah coming. Just had a gut feeling that's all." I said following after them

As soon as I walked through the door it disappeared.

"umm what?" I said confused

"uh, where'd the door go? Superboy questioned

Before anyone could answer some sort of hologram of an old man appeared.

"Greetings. You have entered with a key, But the tower does not recognize you. Please state your purpose and intent."

Before anyone could answer wally said "we are true believers, here to find Doctor Fate."

The hologram frowned at him and disappeared. Just then the floor crumbled and collapsed under their feet, making us all fall towards the lava below us.

Acting first I used a lightning hook to throw superboy above me and I twisted my body so I was facing the team and I sent a shockwave suspending them in the air for a few seconds while I used my static thrusters to their fullest extent almost giving me the ability of flight.

Using their extra time wisely superboy grabbed the wall making a handle for himself while M'gann grabbed wally and hovered in the air and Artemis pulled out a crossbow fired a grappling hook, she swung around and caught kaldur.

Both M'gann and I were both having trouble staying in the air.

"Having trouble, maintain altitude. Gah, I'm so hot." M'gann said wiping the sweat off her forehead.

"You certainly are." Wally sighed dreamily.

"Wally!" Artemis shouted

"Hey!" he shot back. "Inches above sizzling death, I'm entitled to speak my mind."

"we're gonna die because of you!" I shouted angrily.

"my physiology," kaldur said, "and M'gann's are susceptible to extreme heat. We must climb out quickly.

"That not our only problem." I said. "I'm using a lot of electricity to keep me in the air. When I run out I'm drained"

"hello, Megan." M'gann slapped her forehead weakly. "We never truly answered the question. Red Tornado sent us To see if Mr. Nelson and the helmet were safe!

Just then a hatch closed covering the lava. We all lowered ourselves down.

Kaldur crouched down and placed his hands on the platform. "This platform, it should be red-hot, But it is cool to the touch."

"Don't worry, megalicious. I got you." Wally flirted.

Artemis was going to say something but I beat her to it by walking up to wally and punching him in the face. "You stupid Motherfucker! You almost got us killed!"

The punch pushed wally into the wall while Kaldur and Superboy held me back.

"What the heck! When did this become my fault?" wally demanded.

Artemis then explained "during your little 'impress megan at all cost' game you almost got us all barbecued when you lied to that whatecer it was and called yourself a true believer."

M'gann looked surprised and asked. "wally you don't believe?"

In that moment of silence kaldur and superboy let me go and I nodded to then gratefully then I glared at wally crossing my arms.

"Fine! Fine! I lied about believing in magic. But magic is the real lie, a major load." Wally admitted

Kaldur then said "Wally, I studied for a year at the conservatory of sorcery in Atlantis. The mystic arts created the skin icons that power my water bearers."

"Dude, you ever hear of bioelectricity? Hey, in primitive cultures, Fire was once considered magical, too. Today it's all just a bunch of tricks." Wally argued.

"What about this?" I asked holding up some electricity.

"Oh, don't give me that crap. You're a conduit and you got you powers through ray sphere energy. That's science and the thing is Jacob you already knew that." Wally said.

I was going to give him an electrified fist to the face but Artemis put her hand on my shoulder.

"You're pretty close-minded for a guy who can break the sound barrier in his sneakers." She said.

"That's science. I recreated Flash's laboratory experiment, and here I am. Everything can be explained by science." Wally stated.

"Let us test that theory." Kaldur said grabbing a handle near the middle of the platform.

"Wait! The back-draft from the lava will roast us alive!" Kaldur just ignored wally and opened the hatch and reveal not lava but snow.

"It's snow." M'gann said happily.

I just looked at wally and started laughing as if the look on his face was the funniest thing in the world.

Artemis smirked "Do you ever get tired of being wrong?

Once we all jumped through the hatch we found ourselves in a snowing mountain range and the hatch that we came through disappeared, we all looked at wally expectedly "Well?" Artemis asked

"Ever hear of string theory?" wally said "We're in a pocket dimension."

I decided to give up on wally, the only reason I believe in magic is because it isn't the strangest thing I've seen in this last year.

"what's that?" M'gann asked pointing to a cane.

"that would be a cane, it's what old people use to help them walk." I said sarcastically as I grabbed the top of the cane.

Artemis and wally must have had the same idea because they both grabbed the cane and they both voiced what I was thinking.

"I got it, ahh, I can't let go." Wally/Artemis said

I tried to electrify the cane to release me to no avail, as it teleported us.

When we came to we were in a room full of stair cases.

"Abra kadabra." Wally said the second he saw the other people in the room.

"well, would you look at that." The old man on the ground said as the cane started to glow and so he did as well.

The old man flew to us and a door opened behind us. "in here." He said.

"NO! NO! NO! I want that helmet! I want it! I want it!" a kid in a nice suit shouted as he fired red lightning at us.

The door wasn't closing fast enough so I raised my arms absorbing the lightning. I looked at my arms in fear as red lightning danced across my arms, so I quickly sent the lightning back at him.

When the door closed I produced my usual blue lightning.

I let out a sigh. "still blue."

After a short moment of silence, the old man said. "I'm Kent Nelson, by the way."

"No duh." Wally said sarcastically.

"I'm Artemis and this is Jacob" Artemis introduced us. "Miss manners here is Wally."

"Well, Artemis, we're up against an opponent with tremendous mystic power." Kent said

"Abra Kadabra?" Wally scoffed. "Flash proved he uses futuristic technology to simulate magic. Guy's all show and no biz."

"Right you are." Kent agreed

"He is?" Artemis exclaimed as wally smirked

"Abra is a charlatan. But Klarion, the witch boy, the Kid with the cat, He's an actual lord of chaos." Kent explained

"makes sense." I said

"it does?" wally asked

"when I absorbed that lightning I felt, I don't know, Chaos." I tried to explain

"you're a conduit correct?"

"Umm ye-yes sir." I hesitated on my answer. Conduits are rare and unpopular at the moment.

"it's good your keeping your morality in check, the destructive force a conduit can leave behind is devastating. That power you felt could have been your own if you took a different path."

I thought for a second, in the beginning I always debated doing the right thing or something that would make my life easier. Everyone else on the team would jump into the fray without a second thought but I always carefully weighed my options.

"one other thing kid." Nelson said. "you should trust you gut more often you gut never lies. Before you entered the tower, you were staring at us. You would had figured it out if you didn't give up."

"So, what? If I get that feeling just go with it?" I asked

"Yes. Don't ever give up on something you strongly believe in." Kent said, "Well anyway back to the matter at hand a lord of chaos is the ultimate enemy of a lord of order like Doctor Fate."

"Right. You're a lord of order."

"Oh, no, not me. I'm just an old coot fate used to put on Until my wife Inza convinced me there could be more to life. Ah, she was a real pistol, that Inza. Anyhoo, Klarion's after the helmet. If he gets his sticky little mitts on it, He'll turn the planet into his own personal playground of pandemonium." Kent explained

With a ding, the elevator opened revealing a similar room full of stairs but here there was a giant bell. On the ceiling, a door opened and with a grunt Kaldur and Superboy fell through followed by M'gann floating down.

"Friends of yours." Kent asked wally and I as Artemis went to help them up.

Just then a bolt of lightning past over our heads making everyone scatter except me, not really caring if I get hit with lightning while wally shouted "Friends of yours?!" Kent went up to the bell and hit it with his cane making the whole thing glow. Wally and Nelson walking inside the bell and the kid with the cat followed after them.

After a few minutes of fighting I realized Abra kadbra was a harder foe to fight then I originally thought. He quickly took out the rest of the team we were at a stalemate, while his lightning didn't affect me he could absorb any I sent to him so I couldn't hurt him and for some reason after I absorbed the witch boys power I felt almost drained so I couldn't use my stronger attacks. The stalemate continued for another few minutes until fates symbol appeared behind abra and his close and wand disappeared. Before I could fry him Superboy got up and said. "shows over." And punched him in the face without even reeling his fist back.

After the 'fight' we all waited for wally near the bioship. Once got back he didn't say a word and was holding the helmet of fate. While everyone starting piling into the bioship I looked at St. Ignatius cathedral off in the distance. I spared one more glance back at the bioship and then quickly climbed up the nearby building and used power lines to quickly traverse the city. Once I got there I noticed a few people staring at me with surprised looks. I still had my hood over my head and I placed my finger to my lips making shushing motion. As I walked past to people to my destination they patted me on the shoulder and mutter thank you for everything I did for them. I stopped as I finally made it. it was just a simple rock but my father's AMP was imbedded into the stone and engraved on the bottom it said, 'in memory of our patron saint of New Marais Cole Macgrath.'

"Hey dad." I said to the stone trying to hold back my tears. "don't know if you can hear me, but I'm sorry I haven't come to visit at all I still don't know where they buried you. It's been rough since you died, I was alone for 5 months on the road, I felt like an outcast but I made friends, superhero's who have been fighting crime. We formed a team and now I work for batman of all people. I got a mentor now Wonder Woman. She's great, she reminds me of mom, always wanting to help people. But it's just not the same without you or mom. I can still barely remember what happened that day we were going to end everything. Even after everything that's happening I feel like I'm fading away."

After I finished my speech I heard a lot of gunfire in the distance.

"gotta go dad someone needs help." I said before running to the source of the gun fire. I used the trolley wire to grind on to move faster

"where have you been?" I turned around and saw wally sprinting near me.

"I had to go see someone. Where is everyone?" I asked

"they are in the bioship heading to the gunfire. The only reason I'm on foot is because Artemis asked me to look for you."

I didn't say anything, normally I would but after seeing my dad's Amp I didn't feel like talking.

Artemis POV

Jacob decided to take my advice and took off without saying a word. Somehow, I got wally to go look for him. We were going to patrol from the air but we heard gunfire. Once to the fight there was some fat guy were attacking a large group of armed men.

After a few minutes of fighting wally and Jacob showed up but Jacob didn't use his powers just started attacking the thugs till a point where they started running away

"that's right run bitches." The fat guy shouted at the fleeing group of men. But he quickly ran out of breath Kaldur and the rest of us went to see if he was alright

"Man, that was- that was awesome." The man said breathing heavily.

"you should be more careful you almost died tonight." Kaldur said in a calm voice.

"Nah, like my brother and I always say. Half as long-"

"twice as bright." Jacob said as he pulled his hood down.

"Christ alive Jacob?!" Zeke questioned.

"uncle zeke." He said as they hugged

"I can't believe it. let me look at you." Zeke said breaking from the hug.

"uncle Zeke these are my friends Kaldur, Megan, wally, SB, and Artemis." Jacob pointed to each of us respectively. But I noticed he only used our real names and just said SB for superboy.

"nice meeting y'all. I hope your taking care of my nephew."

"He can be a bit of a pain but you manage." I joked.

"yeah, Jacob's difficult."

"Zeke." Jacob tone turned serious all of a sudden. "what happened to me."

CLIFF HANGER. Yep I did one and I always talk about how much I hate them. I was going to write all of it during this chapter but that would have taken me a few more days and I'm already a few days late. The next chapter will be a little shorter. I think. I always miss judge. but let's talk about something else. I have a science question how would Jacobs body react to an EMP. I know it shuts down power so he will be affected by that but it's a pulse of electricity shouldn't that give him power? Well I have no idea I talked to free man writer and he gave me his opinion but I want to hear y'alls. PM or review what you think. I am having trouble coming up with ideas for the episode Homefront, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Some good news is that free man writer and I have been brainstorming ideas for something after season 1 if my story lasts that long. (I hope so at the rate I'm going it will be like 2 years before then.) to be honest I really can't wait to get to second son I have some very big ideas for that. Some bad news is I might not be able to do the festive of blood, I was going to do it during the Halloween episode but I have something big planned around that time period and its story my mess up what I have planned. I figure that out later. Lastly please answer this question soon, should I have Jacob join aqualad to see Atlantis in the next episode and before you guys state the obvious I do have a plan to work arounds Jacobs problem with water. So please let me know what y'all think if you have any ideas please let me know I want to hear from you guys.