Ch. 7 - Awkward

I saw The new Teen Titans series and I hated it! Not just because of Young Justice or Green Lantern, but because they ruined Teen Titans. Raven was so out of character with that pony crap. Teen Titans was a good action packed and funny show. Seeing it like this makes me furious and I worry for the future of CN. Some people say it reminds them of how CN used to be. The only BIG difference between this show and the old CN was that CN was actually funny. It was so corny, I wanted to cry. I know I sound like a hater but that's just how I feel. If you guys have any comments about about how much you hated it, express it in the reviews. So that we can all share the hatred.

Anyway, I'm sorry for the late update but the regents are getting close and I got a lot of homework over the week.

Enjoy!


F. Conner slowly opened his eyes. "Oh, what happened?" He sat up.

"You, Artemis and your younger selves passed out." F. M'gann said as she checked his vitals, writing it down on a clip board.

"How long were we out?" Conner thought for a moment. "Why only us?"

"You were out for a day. Nightwing made sure that we started preparing for the mission immediately. You guys passed out because Cadmus is finalizing their machine. They even left a message for us." She took his wrist and studied his pulse.

"A message?" He asked, trying not to focus on the fact that M'gann was holding his hand.

"Yeah, it was a really.. freaky experience. You'll hear about it later." She replied.

"Okay. Where are the others?" He asked looking around the med-bay. He and M'gann were the only people there.

"Young you and Artemis are being examined in the therapy room. Our Wally took our Artemis home to rest." M'gann said as she got closer to him.

"It's gonna be really awkward between their younger selves now that they know. You think Nightwing to recorded what happened?" She started examining his eyes.

"Probably." They smiled, thinking about their friend's trollish ways.

"You know we were all really worried when guys fainted." She looked him in the eyes with concern.

"I didn't think you would be that concerned. Considering.."

"Conner don't say that. No matter what goes on between us. I'm still gonna care about you." M'gann smiled and put a hand to his cheek. And this is the perfect moment when La'gaan decides walks in.

"Hi Angelfish. Are you done with his exam yet?" They pulled away from each other.

"Yeah, just finishing up. How do you feel?" M'gann looked down at hands, now resting in her lap.

"I'm fine now, thanks. I'll see you at the debriefing." Conner said as he quickly left the med-bay.


F. Wally was watching tv on the couch in the cave. He and Artemis had just got back from their apartment. After Artemis woke up and was done with her tests he took her home for some rest. Young Wally walked in and sat down beside him. There was an awkward silence before Wally spoke.

"So Artemis, huh?"

"Yep."

"Uh, what's it like?"

"Great, couldn't be better."

"You can give more detail." Wally said plainly.

"I know, I just..can't explain it. Especially to the me that was confused about her. All I know is that I love her and I can't picture my life without her." Wally nodded. "Besides you think she looks great in a bikini, wait til you see her naked. Ha, now that is a sight worth seeing." F. Wally smirked while his younger self made a face.

"So your birthday, was it her?"

"Uh, yeah."

"Ugh." Wally complained. "To think I thought it would be special."

"It was. Best gift I could ever asked for."

"You were probably drunk."

"It's almost impossible for speedsters to get drunk. We need space booze for it to happen. It was really meaningful." F. Wally said honestly.

"Right.." Wally rolled his eyes. He decided to bring up a haunting memory of Artemis. "Before we came here we bumped into each other and with her school skirt being too short-"

"You saw her underwear." F. Wally finished.

"Yeah. She had on-"

"Kid Flash panties. I know, those are my favorite pair." He smiled, thinking about it.

"I'm so disgusted with myself." Wally shook his head. "You don't have anything with her right? It's just a fling."

"Well, we have an apartment together, we go to Standford together and we have dog."

"You live together?!" Wally said shocked.

"Yep."

"And go to college together?"

"Yeah."

"And a dog?"

"Yes." F. Wally repeated for the third time.

"Wow." Wally was surprised at how much Artemis had affected his life. "You had to settle for Artemis. I mean you could have all of that, with like M'gann."

"Not 'settle'. I was lucky to have. And you and I both know that M'gann was just a phase. We never truly liked her. We were just using the flirting to cover our feelings for Artemis." F. Wally explained.

"Look, You're gonna fall in love with Artemis one day. Soon actually, we were around your age when we got together." Wally was about to speak but was cut off. "Anyway, everyone can see it. The league, the team, our families. Even Kent Nelson could see it and he only seen us together for 10 minutes. We're meant for each other." He smiled. "She's my Spitfire."

"I don't like Artemis!" Wally said.

"Are you really telling me that? I'm dating her."

"I'm serious."

"Egypt must be really nice this time of year."

"Okay. I'm leaving." Wally got up and headed for the door. F. Artemis bumped into him.

"Oh, sorry Wally."

"I don't like you!" He yelled and ran out. Artemis looked at her boyfriend.

"Wow, he must really like Egypt." She walked into the kitchen.

"Tell me about it." He ran a hand through his hair.


Wally walked in the therapy room, thinking about what his future self had said. He pondered on it. 'What would be like to have a serious relationship with Artemis.' He thought. He shook himself out thought when he saw Black Canary taking Conner's and Artemis' blood pressure. She looked at the readings.

"Both of your blood pressures are fine. But since you're younger, we'll have to do blood work to make sure nothing messed with your systems." Black Canary said as she walked out. Conner and Artemis unwrapped themselves and sighed.

"How do you feel?" Robin asked.

"Better then I did yesterday." Artemis replied.

"Better." Conner said simply.

"Did you know we live together?" Wally said quickly.

"Uhh, What?" Artemis and Robin said. Artemis with confusion, Robin with laughter.

"We live together and have a dog. We go to college together too."

"What?!" Artemis looked shocked as her jaw dropped.

Robin cackled. "Ah man I wish I caught your face on camera." He wiped a tear from his eye.

"Security cameras." Zatanna said, laughing. Conner put Artemis' jaw in place as he chuckled.

"Right!" Robin continued laughing.

"Ugh, this day keeps getting worse and worse." Artemis said as Black Canary walked back in with supplies for the blood work.

"Yay, needles." Conner said sarcastically.

"Okay, hold out your arms." They did as she said and she felt the pulse point while wrapping a band around each of their arms. "You're gonna feel a slight pinch." Artemis cringed.

"They always say that. It's never a pinch." Artemis said, nervously.

"It's ok, just look at me." Wally smiled and made a face that made her laugh lightly she didn't even notice when Black Canary inserted the needle.

"Wow, I didn't feel that at all." Artemis said. She smiled at Wally and he smiled back.

"Aright, now just keep your arm still." She said while putting a test tube to the cord that the needle was connected to. She started to focus on Superboy. "I had to put a little kryptonite,dust on the tip for the needle to penetrate your skin. So if you feel any pain tell me." Conner nodded as she inserted the needle.

Wally looked at all the blood filling the test tubes. He gagged. "Wow, that's uh." He gulped. "That's a lot of blood." Raquel leaned toward him.

"You know that's 4 pints each. That's half the blood supply in their entire body." She whispered into his ear. He put a hand to his mouth and went for the door.

"I gotta go!" He ran out. Zatanna following him while quietly laughing.

"Thank you." Robin said to Raquel as he handed her money.

"Trolling is fun." She replied. Black Canary unhooked everything from Conner and Artemis.

"You're free to go Conner."

"Thanks." He said as he, Robin and Raquel left the room.

"Since you're younger and have no powers. I'll have to do more tests on you. Just to see if you're suffering from any side effects." Black Canary said as she held up another big needle. Artemis' eyes widened.

'You just had to leave, didn't you Wally.' Artemis thought.


Artemis focused on the bandages on her wrists, Black Canary needed more blood to be analyzed, while she walked down the hall. Wally speed walked in the hall, still looking a bit sick. They both turned a corner and bumped into each other.

"Again? Really?" Artemis asked.

"Well sorry if you don't know how to walk." Wally snapped at her. "Well at least I can't see your undies this time." He said as he got up.

"Someone's in a bad mood. What happened?" Artemis got up and dusted her self off. Wally avoided her eyes.

"I had a very weird talk with myself. About you." Artemis looked confused. "He, uh, told me some things about us." He turned away from her, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Us? T-There is no us. It must of started with a one night stand." She said quickly, turning away from him.

"It was you on my birthday." Artemis' eyes widened. "We weren't drunk and it wasn't a last minute present."

"You mean.." She gagged. "I lost it t-to you?"

"Yep." Artemis looked disgusted.

"Ugh! That's sick!" She facepalmed. "What was I thinking? I could do so much better!"

"Excuse me, I could do better! You ruined me!"

"You ruined me! I was so young. Your older self took my virginity!" She accused him as she got in his face.

"What?! I'm only a few months older than you. You jumped me! I was happily enjoying my birthday before you decided to give me the worse present in history." He glared at her.

"I made you a man and you know it." They got closer to each other.

"In that case I made you a woman." They stared into each other's eyes, smirking at each other. Artemis looked down at his lips for a second before going back to his deep green eyes. Wally did the same with her stormy, grey eyes. Wondering what it would be like to kiss each other, their eyes widened as they jumped away from each other. They made excuses.

"I have to use the bathroom!/I left my sandwich on!" Artemis and Wally ran away in separate directions, blushing as red as Wally's hair.


The team met up in the living room/kitchen. Nightwing sat in the chair closest to the tv.

"Anything strange happen to you before you guys passed out?" He asked.

"I didn't get out of bed all day." Conner said. "I could barely lift my head."

"I got a headache when young me and Wally were yelling at me." F. Artemis said.

"You had a hand on your head when you were talking to us in the hall." F. Wally said to F. Conner.

"And Artemis had a headache that morning." Zatanna said.

"Well that was all because of Cadmus. They even left a message for us."

"A very creepy message." Raquel commented.

"I'll show you what happened." Nightwing brought up the video on the tv. "This is the video feed from the med-bay." He showed them what happened in the med-bay. They were shocked as they had no memory of what happened.

"Well that's disturbing." F. Artemis said as she leaned on F. Wally.

"More like bizarre." F. Conner said.

It was quiet for a moment before young Artemis started groaning in pain, holding her stomach as she fell to knees.

"What's wrong?" Wally said as he went to her side.

"It hurts!"

"What hurts?"

"Everything!" She said.

F. Artemis stood up and looked at hands. She started to breathe heavily.

"Artemis calm down!" Nightwing shouted. She started coughing hard, her eyes glowing blue.

"What's happening to me?" Artemis said through her coughs. She fell to the couch and passed out.

Suddenly F. Conner jumped, ran to F. Artemis and started giving her CPR.

"What are you doing?" F. Wally asked, worried for his girlfriend.

"Her heartbeat is getting weaker!" F. Conner said. F. Zatanna ran in and saw her friend in pain.

"Esaeler Simetra morf reh niap!" (Release Artemis from her pain!) F. Artemis woke up and started breathing right again.

Young Artemis sighed as she felt the pain ebb away. "The pain is gone."

"Her heart rate is back to normal." F. Conner sat down and tried to relax.

"I came in here to tell you that everything is done. What the hell happened in here?"

"Cadmus and their machine." Kaldur said to her.

"We need to get a plan ready." F. Wally said.

"But we don't even know where the machine is." F. Artemis said, weakly.

"I went to Cadmus yesterday and placed a tracer on the machine." Nightwing said.

"How could they not see that?"

"1, they're stupid. 2, I mixed it with martian camouflage."

"Nice." F. Zatanna said.

"Thanks. Now everyone get some rest. We leave tomorrow at 19:00."

"And that is..." M'gann said.

"7 o'clock." M'gann made a face of understanding. "Now get some rest and be prepared."


I don't really like this chapter that much. It's more of a filler chapter just to move the story along. I wanted to make the awkwardness between Artemis and Wally funny but I tried.