Thalia stood abruptly from the table after the briefing. She stormed back into the gym and began assaulting the nearest punching bag. Red hot anger poured through her veins as she punched. The heavy punching bag flew back and forth wildly rattling the chain from which it was hanging. Thalia didn't realize that she had acquired an audience. Nightwing stood at the door watching as his girlfriend beat the poor punching bag. If she had been beating a person they would have been dead. Nightwing walked behind her and grabbed her arms pinning them behind her back as he rested his head on her shoulder.

"Killing that punching bag isn't going to help your friends, Firecracker," Nightwing whispered.

"Well, I'm angry,"

"I noticed, Now, why don't you stay here-"

"Why?"

"You can access the Dark Net can't you?"

"Yes, why?"

"I need you to dig up information for me. I have a hunch that someone has placed a bounty on Mystery Inc,"

"That's plausible,"

"I know. Now, do you want to stay here and do the digging?"

"Yes,"

"Good, I'll radio you if we need your help in the field,"

"Okay,"

With that, Nightwing pressed a kiss to Thalia's head before releasing her and stepping out of the room.

…...

Thalia worked hard. Being raised by criminals, she knew how to access the dark web. With only a few strokes of the mouse, she was in one of the hidden chatrooms. Thalia had an edge over most. She knew how to ask things without making it obvious. Within thirty minutes she had sufficient information written on a white board. Some of the wealthier criminals her friends had put away worked for crime lords that wanted dead for interfering in one too many of their schemes. A million dollars for each dead member of the team. She also found that the villains knew that the young justice team was watching out for her mentors.

What Thalia saw next made her blood freeze. Firefly was leading her teammates into a trap.

"Nightwing," she hissed into her communicator.

"What is it?"

"Firefly's leading you guys into a death trap. Abort now or you're toast,"

"What about the gang?"

"From what I've gathered he doesn't have them yet- oh no,"

"What?"

"He's going to blow up their headquarters,"

"Got it, you call Shaggy and warn them. We're on our way,"

…...

The rest of the team found Thalia anxiously pacing the lounge. Upon seeing her worried state most of the team froze. Thalia wasn't one to show emotions unless she was angry. Worry was a new thing. True they'd only worked with her for a short time but they had heard plenty of tales from Nightwing about his "Firecracker". Most of those stories made Thalia seem like an emotionally detached person. Leading them to wonder why he was dating her in the first place.

"Thalia?" Danny questioned nervously.

At the sound of her name, Thalia turned to face them with panic in her eyes. It was written on her face as well. Clearly, she was not taking this very well.

"Well?" she questioned crossing her arms and acting like she wasn't about to have a panic attack.

"We saved them and the JLA is putting them into protective custody,"

"Good,"

"Why are you getting so bent out of shape about these people?" Nails asked rasing an eyebrow in question.

"Let's just say those guys are special to me," Thalia bluntly replied.

Nightwing saw this was an opportune time to separate the two lest the gouge each other's eyes out. He quickly grabbed Thalia by the arm and ushered her out of the room.

"What did you find?"

In response, Thalia handed him a file folder overflowing with her findings. Including a list of known criminals that were involved. Some of which were:

C.L. Magnus

Cuthbert Crawls

Mr. Wickles

The list was extensive and informative. All the villains were angry because the gang had shut down the operations they had been running for their bosses.

"Good, I say it's time we hand this case over to the JLA," Nightwing commented as he skimmed the folder.

"I couldn't agree more,"

...

Okay, that's the end of this chapter and now I have questions for you. What do you think will happen next? What's going to happen with Nails and Thalia? Will they ever be able to work together? I guess we'll find out together. Please leave a nice long review for me while I punch a wall because I hate job hunting and continue to be unsuccessful.