A/N: Thanks to everyone who's reading/following this story. I'm having a blast writing it, and I hope you enjoy as well!

Gotham City

Throughout the zeta tube journey to Gotham, Robin felt like he was living up to his real name. Dick. He felt awful about leaving his Team, his friends, to face Eclipso alone. Although no one had said anything, he knew that they had needed him. Artemis looked pretty banged up, and the others looked grave.

He shook it off. There were much bigger things at stake. Seemingly, Eclipso and his partner Prometheus had defeated the entire Justice League. That in itself should have been impossible, but it had been done in the Watchtower. Robin knew that was impossible.

How? And why didn't Eclipso kill them when he had the chance? Why attack them alternatively like this?

He knew that they would have to find answers soon. The stakes were building up, and he had to have his head in the game. So Robin decided to do what he did best - detect. But to do that, he needed time. And he had a plan. He just hoped that he had not miscalculated.

They found Eclipso engaged in battle with the GCPD cops right outside the Central Police Plaza.

Subtle, Robin thought.

"Same attack plan as earlier," Kaldur said. Robin assumed that it would the standard maneuver they had done several times.

"Um, that one didn't really work," Artemis said, gingerly crossing her arms.

"This guy isn't a magic user. I can take him," Conner growled out.

"He's still big fish, I think we need a different plan. We're not really running on a full tank here," Wally said, glancing at Artemis. She rolled her eyes.

"I think Artemis is right. He was definitely responsible in some way for bringing down the League. We should be careful." M'gann was completely cloaked, but they all glanced to a spot above Conner as she spoke.

They all turned to look at Robin.

"Right," he said. "Miss M, can you read his mind? Or get into his head?"

"I've been trying since we got here, I can't. I'm sorry."

Robin took a deep breath. "It's alright. I have to agree with Kaldur, I think we should attack in the open, standard maneuver."

Wally looked at him with narrowed eyes. He was gearing up to say something, but Artemis put a hand on his shoulder. She looked Robin in the eye.

"If you say so, Rob," she said quietly.

There was silence.

"Okay, team. Move out." Kaldur said, reaching behind his back to activate his water blades.

It went about as well as could be expected. Robin knew that his helmet gave Prometheus almost high-level powers, but even with this knowledge, it was impossible to get within range of it.

Prometheus was able to deftly avoid Superboy, leaving the Kryptonian growling in rage. He was more than a match for Kaldur in hand-to-hand combat, and Robin could from Kaldur's body language that the blows hurt.

Miss Martian, without her mind-capabilities, could only use her telekinesis. She sent flying objects rushing at him, but Prometheus stopped them in mid-air with his hands, and redirected them towards Superboy.

Wally nodded towards Robin, and they attacked together. Wally dashed forward, and Prometheus turned to face him, exposing his left side. Robin chose that moment to lunge towards him. "Now, Artemis!"

There was a twang of the bow, and an arrow flew towards Prometheus. It missed him, just barely, but it focused his attention towards Robin. Dick braced himself, but even through his Kevlar-lite costume, his bones shuddered from the kick. A yellow-red blur rushed past Prometheus, but Prometheus reached out with super-normal reflexes, caught Wally's arm, and flung him away.

Prometheus then took out a pair of electrically charged batons and twirled them, facing Artemis. Robin saw her expression tighten, and then she was flipping forward, firing arrows continuously. Miss Martian took this opportunity to approach him from behind. But, he suddenly turned and struck her, and she fell to the ground, inert.

And disappeared in a sprinkle of blue light.

"M'GANN, NO! I'll KILL YOU!" Conner, his eyes glowing red, attacked Prometheus.

Prometheus threw a small disc toward Conner, and there was a vicious crackle in the air as he was electrocuted. He lay still for a minute, but before he could move, he also vanished in blue light.

Wally pointed and yelled, "That's zeta technology, like the Watchtower uses!"

Robin nodded, "I figured."

"Should we regroup?" Wally asked.

"We have decided on course of action, we should follow it," Kaldur said as he joined them. He was breathing heavily.

Artemis looked at Robin and then said, "We have to finish this."

Wally didn't look too happy with this course of action, but he lowered his goggles and moved into a running stance.

"Whatever, you say beautiful." He blew an air kiss at Artemis, and dashed towards Prometheus.

Robin threw a smoke bomb to mask Kid's approach, and watched as Artemis nocked an arrow. Prometheus dispersed the smoke and attacked Wally, landing a solid punch in his solar plexus. Wally doubled over, and coughed once, before lying still and disappearing in the zeta radiation.

Kaldur went next. He attacked ferociously, but he went down almost as fast as Wally.

Robin looked at Artemis and nodded. "Are you traught?"

"As traught as can be, Dick."

He started for a second, and then he smiled. "I knew you deserved that Gotham Academy scholarship." He winked at her. She smiled at him.

He and Artemis fought with Prometheus in concert, but they both knew that it was going to be a short fight. He winced a little as he saw Prometheus kick Artemis in the chest. Then, he took hold of one of her hands and twisted it behind her back. She cried out.

"Ready to be beaten again, Prom Loser?" Robin said, in a hopeless effort to divert his attention.

Prometheus held Artemis's head in a chokehold. Her legs struggled for a second, but then she went still, and dematerialized.

"I'm not going the be the one who gets beaten, Boy Wonder." Prometheus smirked in his direction.

It ended pretty much as he expected. He was no match for Prometheus with his helmet on, augmenting his natural combat skills, and giving him speed and strength. He dully felt a last blow near his head, and then he felt the familiar prick of the zeta technology on his skin.

He opened his eyes to see a blurry Wally and M'gann leaning over him.

"Hey guys." He tried to wave, but his arms hurt.

"Where are we?"

"We were kind of hoping you could help us figure it out." Wally looked a little worried.

Robin sat up. "How's Artemis?"

"A little banged up, but I'm okay," Artemis said from the corner.

From the way she was bent in on herself, he could tell that she was in pain. Her arm was swollen and red.

"I'm so sorry, Artemis."

"Why are you sorry? What's going on?" Conner asked.

Robin looked at each of them.

"I have a plan. And I needed for us to be captured. I knew you guys could handle it, but Artemis and I are not as durable and she was injured."

Artemis shook her head. "I figured as much. I missed that arrow on purpose, but I don't think it made any difference."

Wally ran and knelt next to her. "What's the plan, Rob?"

"We're linked up," M'gann said.

Robin took a deep breath.

"Well, here goes..."

Prometheus was speaking to Eclipso. "I need the frequency to contact the other heroes. We need everyone under our control before we do anything else."

He saw Eclipso smiling gleefully on the screen. This guy is enjoying this a little too much, he thought.

One of the Green Lanterns came up on his monitor. "Sir, these are the frequencies you asked for." He recited a bunch of numbers.

Prometheus took note and shut off the screen. He then opened another channel, and set to work.

"Listen up, Stragglers..."

A/N: As is obvious, I'm a huge fan of Robin/Artemis BrOTP :P