AN: I am sorry but I can't post chapter a day anymore. On the other hand my chapters became bigger.
Enjoy and review.
Infiltrator
It was a sunny and team decided to spend a day on the beach. "Hello Megan! We should go to the beach more often!" stated the very excited M'gann.
"First a moment of silence for our poor comrade." said Robin who bowed his head.
"Poor Wally." M'gann sighted.
"Don't give a damn about Kid Mouth, let's have some fun." Harry ran to the water while the rest of the team followed him.
Soon teens had fun swimming, building sand castles and playing volleyball. After lunch Robin asked."Harry did you bring it?"
"Yep, do you want to have a try now?"Harry answered.
"Why not? It's going to be a blast." Robin said.
"Fine, if you say so."Harry waved his hand and soon his potions pouch was in his hands.
After a little bit of digging inside of the pouch wizard took out four vials with a strange a plant inside, soon Kaldur's eyes widened."Is that gillyweed?"
"Wow, I am surprised you kn0ow about it since you definitely don't need it."Harry answered.
"What it does?"M'gann asked.
"Once eaten you grow gills and webbed feet and hands for one hour. We can use it explore nearby. As long as we swim in the area that I warded." Harry explained.
"I can grow gills myself, but what about Superboy?"M'gann asked.
"We can stay at the surface for five minutes just to make sure everything is fine and then we can go exploring." Harry answered.
"So Superboy want to do some exploring?" Robin asked.
"Why not? Sounds interesting." SB answered.
The next hour was spent swimming underwater but everything good always comes to its end. This time the relaxing day was ended by Batman's announcement that team has a mission. Soon everyone was ready for briefing. In the common room they saw Batman, Green Arrow and a new girl in green costume with bow and quiver behind.
"Team I would like to introduce you to your new teammate." Green Arrow said as the team relaxed after a day at the beach.
"Hey I'm Artemis." She greeted feeling a bit uncomfortable around the young heroes.
Harry was the first to introduce. "I'm Arcane and these are Robin, Aqualad, Superboy and Miss Martian." He smiled holding his hand out. "Nice to meet you."
"Same here." She said shaking his hand prompting the others to do same. Soon they started to get acquainted with their new teammate while waiting for Wally. Thirty minutes later everyone heard computer announcement.
Recognized Kid Flash B03
"The Wall man is here!" Wally shouted as he ran out of the teleporter decked out in full beach gear with several beach accessories. "Let's get this party start-" Slipping on his towel Kid Flash fell. "-ed" He finished lamely looking up at the adults, Batman and Red Tornado just looked at him while Green Arrow and the team stared at him in amusement.
"A Wall Man huh?" Artemis said. "Love the uniform." She said smirking at him. "And what are your powers exactly?"
Wally got off the ground and looked at Kaldur ignoring her. "Uh who is this?" He asked indicating to the young archer.
"I'm Artemis your new teammate." She said introducing herself once more.
"Kid Flash, never heard of you." He told Artemis a bit rudely.
Green Arrow walked up and put a hand on her shoulder. "Ah, she is my new protégé."
"What happened to your old one?" He asked refusing to accept that Speedy had been replaced.
Recognized Speedy B06
"Well for starters he doesn't go by Speedy anymore." Roy said stepping out of the teleporter. "Call me Red Arrow."
Green Arrow stepped up. "Roy you look-"
"Replaceable." he finished.
"Roy it's not like that." Green Arrow said in an attempt to defend himself. "You said you were going solo.
"So why waste time finding a sub!" Roy said a bit bitter about being replaced. "Can she even you that bow?"
"Yes she can." Artemis said stepping up to defend herself. "And she is going to smack you if you keep talking like she isn't here."
"Who are you?" Wally asked.
"I'm his/she's my niece." both her and Green Arrow said at the same time.
"But she is not your replacement," Aqualad told him. "And we have no quota on archers."
"And if we did you know who we'd choose." Kid Flash said.
"My vote to the lady, five minutes with her proved me that she is more adequate than the 'Red Arrow'. "Harry said.
"What do you know?" Roy asked threatening.
"What I know? What I know is that she didn't throw any temper tantrums unlike someone as soon as it was clear that you don't get something you wanted. In my eyes it makes her more trustworthy." Harry answered.
In attempt to stop another argument Aqualad stepped in. "You came to us for a reason Roy?"
Red Arrow took a deep breath and answered the question. "Yeah a reason named Sterlin Roquette."
Robin's eyes lit up in recognition. "She one of the world's foremost expert on nanorobotics. She vanished two weeks ago."
"She was abducted two weeks ago." Red Arrow corrected. "By the league of shadows."
"You want us to rescue her from the shadows? Hardcore!" Kid Flash said giving Robin a high five.
"I already did that." the archer informed them. "Only one problem." bringing up another holo-screen the young man showed the image of a cylinder object. "The shadows had already forced her into building a weapon. Doc calls it the Fog. It's made of millions microscopic robots. That can eat through anything stone, flesh, bone and even steel. But that's not their true purpose, their true purpose is data collection they eat and store data." Roy said explaining the true purpose the machines. "This gives them access to weapon, top secret information, cutting edge tech."
"Perfect for the extortion, blackmail, manipulation, power broking." Artemis listed off what they could do with such a weapon. "Yeah that sounds like the shadows."
Kid Flash snorted. "Like you know anything about the shadows." Artemis just smirked at him causing him to throw his hands up in frustration.
"Roquette is working on a virus to render the Fog inert." Roy said.
"But if the shadows know she can do that..." Robin said following his train of thought.
"They will target her." Roy finished. "Right now she is safe and off the grid. Stashed her at the local high school."
"You left her alone?" Green Arrow asked.
"She is safe for now." Roy answered.
"Can you tell me if I am wrong but didn't you just said that you left a defenseless scientist alone in a building full of entrances and exits that are very easy to access?" Harry asked."I thought you are prideful but apparently you are also an imbecile. We should roll out ASAP unless we want to find a body instead of Roquette." Arcane went out with the rest of the team followed him.
Half an hour later the team has found their target.
Kid Flash glared at Artemis who rolled her eyes and looked away. It wasn't her fault Speedy or Red Arrow whatever he called himself now didn't join the team.
'Miss Martian link us up.' Aqualad order as the team split up to cover more ground. 'We do not want the shadows intercepting our com.'
'Everyone online?'
'Uh this is weird.' Artemis said.
'And distracting! Coding and distributing an algorithm virus on a kiddy computer with less ram than a wristwatch is hard enough. But now I have to hear teen-think in my head ugh!" she said grabbing her head in frustration.
'Lady, do you always complain when people try to help you?' Wally asked taking a bite out of his snack.
'Pot have you met kettle?' Artemis asked rhetorically reminding him of how he was treating her.
'I don't need crap from the girl who drove Red Arrow off the team!'
'That is so not on me.' Artemis said jumping of the desk and pointing at Wally.
'Fate of the world at stake!' Roquette said in annoyance.
'Okay folks I have a plan. Miss M, KF you get the perimeter. Superboy lift Artemis on the roof, then join perimeter. Kaldur you will stay with doctor while I will try and erect some simple monitoring wards around school.' Harry said.
'You should go easy on her.' Robin told Kid Flash. 'It was her arrow that saved you.'
What no that was Speedy's. I mean Red Arrow's arrow. Right?' KF asked with hope.
'Not so much.' Robin and Arcane said at the same time.
'Well, I'm still not giving her the satisfaction.' Wally said acting like a child crossing his arms stubbornly.
'You know I can still hear you right?' Artemis asked with amusement in her voice and Wally let out a cry of frustration.
Roquette pinched her nose in annoyance. 'I couldn't get the justice league.'
'Take what you get or leave it' Harry answered.
'The virus won't be of much use if we cannot find the weapon.' Aqualad pointed out. 'Can you track it?'
'My Utility Fog is not a weapon.' The doctor objected. 'It is science brilliant science and of course I can track it but I would need to go online to do so, but if I do that I might as well rent a billboard with this address saying 'assassinate me' in neon.' she said looking down she may have hid it well but she was very nervous.
Aqualad put a comforting hand on her shoulder. 'We will protect you.'
She sighed and pressed enter on the keyboard. 'Tracking the fog now.'
As Superboy gave Artemis a lift to the roof she said. 'Mmm that boy.'
'He can hear you.' Miss Martian Reminded her. 'We can all hear you!'
'Oh I know' the archer responded with the mental equivalent of a smirk.
'Miss Martian Dr. Roquet has located the Fog reconfigure the Bio-ship so Robin and Superboy can chase it down.' Aqualad said.
'I disagree we should leave Superboy with the doctor. Robin and I are more suitable for this task. Even if virus fails I can try and fry it somehow using magic.' Harry said.
'You are right let's do it your way.' Aqualad answered after giving it some thought.
Soon Harry and Robin were in the bioship. For some time they were flying in silence until Boy Wonder decided to speak up."Why are you so aggressive towards Roy?"
"Because he is as much of an adult as me, technically but not in reality, though I admit it works differently in our case. I got an early emancipation. You know that I spend a significant amount of time in the Wizengamot chambers since I was twelve both in lawmaking and as part of the High Court of the Magical Britain. I have responsibilities and by managing them I gain respect. His brilliant decision to leave doctor at school alone just to bicker with us and League means that he has yet to grow up. Why he couldn't just call the League, explain everything and then Batman can just send us his way? He didn't need to come to the cave. If he didn't want to talk to the League he could have called us directly. I know he can." Harry explained his position.
"I see." Robin answered thoughtfully.
"Hey, do you have anything planned next weekend?"Harry asked.
"No, why do you ask?" Robin asked.
"Well I own a dragon preserve in Romania and I was thinking about inviting whole team to spend some time there. The plan is: I get portkey to the villa in France Friday evening we sleep, and then in the morning we catch another portkey to the preserve. We spend day in the preserve, go back to villa, sleep and we can choose to go either to Paris or spend some time on the French beaches then we come back home." Harry explained his plan.
"Sounds nice but I got to clear that with the old man." Robin answered.
"Oh bugger."Harry said as they approached STAR labs.
"Robin to Aqualad we located Shadow's target. It was STAR labs we are too late. It's destroyed, totally destroyed. This is bad STAR labs has some cutting edge science and now their secrets in the hands of the enemy." Robin reported.
'We are moving the doctor, rescan and hope that we will be in time.' Aqualad answered.
"Their next target most probably is Wayne Tech." Robin said as he received the virus.
"Professor Ojo already let the machines out." Harry said pointing at the parking lot.
"Can you transfigure them?"Robin asked.
"No, too small and there are too much of them for me to transfigure." Harry answered.
Arcane had to go defensive due to the barrage of optic blasts from Ojo until he was able to find a small gap that he used to transfigure the van used by villain into a bear that knocked him out. That was the moment when Harry heard on radio. 'Yes, the infiltrators have been outfiltrated."
'Time to go home.' Harry said.
'We got Black Spider and Hook.' Kid Flash said into the radio.
'Good job, but I want to get my beauty sleep if you don't mind' Harry answered.