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Blue Eyes Angel 2
Chapter 9 Infiltrator
Happy Harbor City: Happy Harbor: Mount Justice: August 8
It was a sunny day outside, the perfect day for the team to go to the beach.
M'gann in her yellow swimsuit ran out on the shore carrying a boogie board. "Hello, Megan! We should hit the beach every day!" she cheered.
Robin, Kaldur, and Supergirl were following behind her. Robin was wearing red swim trunks while Kaldur had on a blue pair. M'gann was wearing a two-piece yellow swimsuit, and Supergirl had on a light blue one piece.
"First a moment of silence for our absent comrade," declared Robin while he rests his hand on his face.
M'gann also lowered her head and closed her eyes. "Poor Wally."
Unlike the rest of them, Wally's first day of school had started at Central City High School. The poor speedster was forced to go to class while the rest of them got to go to the beach. Supergirl knew that school was a place where children go to receive an education. She had never been to a real high school before, but she heard from Wally and Robin that it was not a place you wanted to be at during the summer on a perfect day.
"It is sad that Wally could not join us, but I am sure that there will be other times that he will," said Kaldur.
Robin raised his head at his and nodded. "Kal is right, come on, let's have some fun!"
Robin and M'gann ran to the ocean with Supergirl and Kaldur following.
Within time Supergirl found herself enjoying the beach more than she realized. She enjoyed the feeling of the cold ocean water splashing against her skin as she swam with the others, the hot soft sand between her toes and hands as they built what Kaldur called a sand castle and playing a game Robin referred to as volleyball. M'gann and Supergirl even beat the boys a couple of times once they started to get the hang of the game. Also, Supergirl got the chance to try a hot dog. Although Robin had to convince her and M'gann the hot dogs were not really pet dogs, just meat. Now she was sitting on the beach under the warm sun watching M'gann and Kaldur collect seashells that would wash up on the shore.
M'gann was right; they should visit the beach every day. It was almost too perfect out here, and it would be more fun when Wally joins them next time. The sun was suddenly blocked from Supergirl when a shadow covered her. She glanced up to see Red Tornado standing above her.
"Hello, Red Tornado." Was all she could say, she was surprised that the robot was even out here.
"Greetings, I have come here to tell you that Batman and Green Arrow will be here soon, and they require you all to be present," he announced.
"Is it a mission?" asked M'gann as she and the boys walked over to them.
"No, but they did say it was important, so I suggest you all be ready when they come," he replied.
Red Tornado began to walk back to the cave as Supergirl, and the others started to pack up. M'gann, Kaldur, and Robin guessed out loud about what Batman wanted to see them for, Supergirl was too busy turning the mystery over in her own head to put her two cents in the conversation.
Red Tornado said that Green Arrow was going to be there. Supergirl hadn't seen Green Arrow since they fought Amazo. Supergirl didn't really know much about him, and he never really made much effort to talk to her. It's not like he's a mentor to anyone on the team. What business does he coming to the cave?
Supergirl walked into her room and got changed out of her damp bathing suit into her clothes that she could sort of call her "hero outfit." Wally tried to convince her, but she just wouldn't wear tights like the rest of her comrades. It just wasn't her style. Her outfit was straightforward; she wore a bright red hoodie sweatshirt, with a black shirt underneath, dark navy-blue skinny jeans with red and white sneakers. When she put on her black bra, she tried to ignore the thought of now knowing there was a scar on her back. She put on the silver wristbands that she got as a gift from the unknown person.
Supergirl finished dressing and made her way over to where the team meets Batman for missions. She just walked in when the zeta beams announced the arrival of the two heroes and a third person as well. Supergirl was too focus on the mysterious young girl to listen to her name being called on the zeta beams. She was about an inch taller than Supergirl with long blond hair pulled back into a tight ponytail. She wore an all green suit with a mask that only went down to her face mid-way and covered her forehead. She had an arrow pointing up on her chest with a pack of arrows on her back, and she held a metal bow in her right hand.
It was then that Supergirl realized who she was. This was the girl from the window! The girl who saved Kid Flash when they fought Amazo. Supergirl was about to say something when the zeta beams went off again.
"Recognize Kid Flash, B03."
Wally came with all his beach stuff, wearing swim trunks that looked the same colors as his Kid Flash costume.
"The Wall-man is here ready to," but before the young speedster could finish his sentence, he tripped and crashed to the floor hard. All his stuff spilled all over. The beach ball he had bounced towards Batman and Red Tornado who didn't look amused like the rest of them.
"- party" groaned Wally.
"Wall-man huh, I love the uniform, what exactly are your powers?" spoke the female archer for the first time.
Wally got off the ground and walked over to the team, "Who is this?" he asked pointing to the girl.
"Artemis; your new teammate," she answered.
"Kid Flash," introduced Wally. "Never heard of you."
"She's my new protege," announced Green Arrow.
"What happened to your old one?" asked Wally.
"Recognized: Speedy, B06"
In walked a tall boy with red hair like Wally's, also with a bow and arrow except he wore all red and black and his mask was similar to Robins.
"He doesn't go by Speedy anymore," said the young man.
Green Arrow stood there looking a little shocked. "Roy, you look."
"Replaceable." he snarled looking towards Artemis.
"It's not like that; you told me you weren't coming back." defended Green Arrow.
"So, you go and get a new sidekick, can she even use that thing?" snapped Roy.
"Yes, she can," replied Artemis who met his glare right back at him.
"Who are you?" asked Wally towards Artemis.
"I'm his niece." "She's my niece." Green Arrow and Artemis said at the same time.
"Another niece," commented Robin.
"But she is not your replacement, we have always wanted you on the team, and we have no quota on archers," said Kaldur.
"And if we did, you know who we choose," commented Wally.
"Whatever bay-watch, I'm staying," remarked Artemis.
"Please," sneered Wally. "I want you to at least proof that you can shoot an arrow before you join this team."
Artemis looked like she was about to accept that challenge but Supergirl stepped in before things got a mess.
"Well if Amazo hadn't phased through she would have shot it right in the face."
Everyone looked at her shocked except Red Tornado and Batman; who never shows emotion at all; it seems to Supergirl.
"Supergirl, what are you talking about?" asked M'gann.
"It was her who shot that arrow when we were fighting Amazo," she stated.
Now everyone was just looking stunned at this new information.
"I didn't think anyone noticed me," mumbled Artemis quietly.
"Why didn't you say anything?" asked M'gann. "Why did you let them think it was Speedy?"
Supergirl shrugged. "Well I didn't know who she was at the time and I didn't even know who Speedy was either, I guess I just didn't know they were two different people."
"So, feeling underwhelmed," said Robin.
"And it's not Speedy anymore, it's Red Arrow, and who the hell are you?" hissed Red Arrow, looking up and down Supergirl.
"Supergirl," she answered.
"What?" he asked stunned.
Supergirl really didn't feel like having to tell her whole story to his guy.
"Umm…trust us it's too long and too complicated of a story to explain right now," explained Robin, coming to her rescue.
Red Arrow nodded accepting Robin's answer.
"You came to us for a reason?" asked Kaldur.
"Yes, a reason named Doctor Roquette," said Red Arrow.
Robin gasped as he pulled up a screen image with his wrist computer. "I heard of her, she's a scientist from Star Labs."
A picture of a blonde hair woman wearing glasses and a lab coat came into view. She had to be in at least her twenties, but Supergirl didn't see her as any danger.
"She vanished two weeks ago," informed Robin.
"Abducted two weeks ago, by the League of Shadows." corrected Red Arrow.
"Whoa" gasped Robin. "You want us to rescue her from the Shadows?"
"Hardcore," said Wally. They both slammed fists.
"I already rescued her," informed Red Arrow.
"Who is the League of Shadows?" asked Supergirl.
Again, everyone looked at her.
"You're kidding right?" questioned Artemis.
"No."
"The Shadows are a highly trained group of assassins that work for Ra's al Ghul," informed Batman.
"Who's that?"
"Do you live under a rock or something?" questioned Red Arrow.
"A bad guy, who doesn't prefer Batman so much, but the feeling is mutual," Robin whispered to her.
"But if the League of Shadows is a group of assassins why not kill her instead of kidnapping her?" she questioned.
"This is the reason," answered Red Arrow, pulling up a screen picture of a small robot that looked like a bug. "The Shadows had forced her into making what the Doc calls "The Fog."
"The Fog?" asked both M'gann and Supergirl.
"It's a weapon that has millions of microrobots; they are cable of destroying anything in their path. Steel, concrete, flesh and even bone," he explained.
Supergirl shivered, she couldn't imagine being torn apart bit by bit from tiny little microrobots.
Red Arrow continued. "But it's true purpose is theft. They can steal any data from computers and deliver the Intel to the Shadows. Providing them access to weapons, defense, and cutting-edge science."
"Perfect for twisting people the way you please, yep sounds like the Shadows," grumbled Artemis.
"Like you know anything about the Shadows," taunted Wally.
The females only reply was a small know smirk that made the speedster fume.
"Who are you?!" he exclaimed.
"Roquette's working on a virus that can stop the Fog," stated Red Arrow.
"And if the Shadows know she can do that-"blurred out Robin.
"-They'll target her." finished Red Arrow. "Right now, she's off the grid; I stashed her at the nearest High School computer lab."
"You left her alone," said Green Arrow, his voice sounding disapproving.
"She's safe right now," remarked Red Arrow.
"Then lets you and I keep her that way," suggested Green Arrow.
"You and I, I thought you want to take your new sidekick." he sneered.
Green Arrow was about to take a step towards the young archer when Batman rests his hands on the man's shoulder. The two exchanged eye contact before Green Arrow turned back to Red Arrow.
"You brought this to the team, it's their mission now, which means it's hers now too," replied Green Arrow.
Red Arrow huffed. "Then my job is done."
"Recognized: Speedy B06."
"That's Red Arrow, E06 update."
And like that he was gone.
"Well, he was nice," Supergirl whispered to M'gann.
Wally shot Artemis a glare, and she gave a nasty look right back.
"Spot-stealer"
"Bay-watch"
Supergirl could tell this was going to be a long mission.
Happy Harbor City: Happy Harbor High School: August 8
The team was now at the Happy Harbor High School. It was midnight, and they were dressed in their stealth gear. Miss Martian and Supergirl were patrolling out of the school on the roof while the boys and Artemis were inside the school's computer lab with Doctor Roquette.
"Miss Martian, link us up we do not want the Shadows intercepting our comma link," ordered Aqualad.
Miss Martian replied. "Everyone online?" she asked.
"Ugh, this is weird," commented Artemis.
"And distracting, it's bad enough I have to create a virus on a kitty computer with less data than a wristwatch, now I have to hear teen think in my skull!" yelled Doctor Roquette.
"Should I take her off the mind link?" Miss Martian asked Supergirl outside of the school.
"No," replied Supergirl.
"Lady, do you always complain when someone tries to help you?" asked Kid Flash.
"Pot, kettle, have you met?" joked Artemis.
Supergirl held back a chuckle.
"Hey, I don't need attitude from the newbie that drove away Speedy!" remarked Kid Flash.
"Oh, that was so not on me!" snapped Artemis.
"Fate of the world at stake here!" yelled the Doctor.
"She started it!" said Kid Flash.
"No one cares, just finish it!" snapped Supergirl getting annoyed with them already.
"Fine, how about I go help Supergirl and Miss Martian patrol outside," offered Artemis.
"Good idea," said Aqualad.
"You know you might want to cut her some slack, it was her arrow that saved your butt against Amazo." pointed out Robin.
"What no, that was Speed's arrow- I mean Red Arrow's, right?" asked Kid Flash.
"Not exactly, weren't you listening to Supergirl at all?" questioned Robin.
"Supergirl's still a newbie, she doesn't know better," replied Kid Flash.
Supergirl fumed at that.
"-and besides, I'm still not giving her the satisfaction."
"You know I can still hear you!" snapped Artemis.
"We all can hear you," growled Supergirl.
"Aghh!" yelled Kid Flash.
"I couldn't get the Justice League," groaned Doctor Roquette.
"We will do our job, please do yours by stopping the weapon," instructed Aqualad.
"My Fog is not a weapon, its science, brilliant science and for me to stop it; I have to track it first," she snapped. "Might as well post a billboard online with the address where I'm at and write "Assassinate me" in neon!"
Supergirl was glad that she was outside because she didn't really know how to deal with people, especially when it came to any kind of empathy level, luckily Aqualad did.
"We will protect you."
That seemed to have worked because soon the Doctor replied with.
"Tracking Fog now."
Artemis made her way outside, and Miss Martian flew down next to her on the ground. It looked like they were having a conversation but Supergirl didn't bother to join. Miss Martian would always talk about girl stuff, things called makeup and other weird subjects that Supergirl found no importance at all. Supergirl wonder if Artemis was just as much of a girl as Miss Martian was.
She soon realized that Artemis was staring at her; she was giving her almost of a glaring.
"What I don't get is why they don't want me on their team, but they allow some freak of a clone on."
It took a while for Supergirl to realize that these were Artemis thoughts she was hearing. She tried to look like she didn't hear any of that, but M'gann had already spoken as Artemis realized too.
"You know we can hear you, we can all hear you," she hissed.
"I know," grunted Artemis.
"Well that's not going to get you on the team any faster!" snapped Kid Flash.
Thankfully for Supergirl, Aqualad stepped in before a full-blown fight could break out.
"Team, Doctor Roquette has found the Fog, I want Robin and Supergirl to take Miss Martian bio-ship and track it down, see you can stop the Shadows," ordered Aqualad.
"Right," replied Supergirl.
"Roger," answered Robin.
Miss Martian lowered the bio-ship that had been in cameo mode above the school down for Robin and Supergirl to get on. Robin took the primary controls of the ship, and Supergirl sat down in the front of the main deck. He started the ship, and they took off towards the first city where the Fog was last tracked; Star City.
Both Supergirl and Robin sat in silence as they flew to their destination until Robin decided to speak.
"You shouldn't let her get to you," he said.
"I don't know what you mean?" lied Supergirl; she knew exactly what he was talking about.
She knew that Robin did too, but he played along.
"What Artemis said, or more thought. She doesn't know you like the rest of us do," he replied.
"So, you guys don't think of me as a freak," she asked afraid of the answer.
"None of us do," he said. "Especially not me."
The sound of a beep told them that they were there. But they were too late. Robin and Supergirl watched at Star Labs fell to the ground. The Boy Wonder pulled off a 3D map of Star Labs. But Supergirl saw no purpose in it.
"We're too late," she announced.
Robin decided to call Aqualad and update him.
"Robin to Aqualad, we reached where The Fog's new target was, Star Labs, but it beat us to it, its destroyed," he reported.
"What did they want from Star Labs?" asked Supergirl.
"Mostly likely their cutting edge technical, now it's in the hands of the Shadows, "said Robin.
"So, what's our next move?" she asked.
"Re-track The Fog," answered Aqualad. "Find it," he ordered.
"How's it going over there?" asked Robin.
"We have to move the doctor," informed Aqualad.
"Why, what happened?" asked Supergirl.
"We were attacked by a Shadow, but keep the focus on your mission," he ordered.
Both Robin and Supergirl nodded before flying off at top speed to the next location that The Fog was going.
"Robin, what are we going to do if we can't stop The Fog?" she questioned.
"I'm not sure, that's why we have to," replied Robin.
Soon they were in Gotham, but Supergirl couldn't see a reason for The Fog to be here.
"They're going to Wayne Tech," gasped Robin. "In theory, they can use that system to hack-"but Robin cut himself off before he finished.
"To hack what?" she asked in suspense.
"Never mind, what matters Wayne Tech operates on a 24-hour workforce. We'll never get everyone out of the building on time!" he yelled.
Supergirl gasped. "But all those people-"
"We'll die unless we don't stop it! The company has thousands of people there!"
Robin put the bio-ship in autopilot as both Supergirl and Robin ran to the end of the ship for the cockpit to open.
"The virus is downloading," announced Robin, showing it on his computer wrist.
Supergirl looked down below them to see a gray van and a man wearing a strange helmet that had only this giant red circle in the center for his eye and with what looked like some kind of machine.
The Fog!
"Don't need it!" she called as she jumped out of the ship.
"Supergirl wait!" yelled Robin but it was too late, she was already out as she let gravity take her to the gray van where the machine was. If she could just get to it before they had turned it on there may still be a chance to save those people.
The man with the weird helmet soon noticed her. Supergirl didn't see before that he had another device with him that he was wearing like some kind of purse. All of a sudden from that giant red circle on his head a red laser beam shot out towards her, and she was hit by this hot tingling pain. The beam ripped her black hoodie across her stomach along with her left shoulder. Her body was flown back as she landed on the hood of a red truck.
Quickly she got up and saw the Fog go to Wayne Tech as Robin chased after it. There was no choice now, that machine needed to be destroyed she wasn't sure if it would stop it or not, but if Robin couldn't load that virus, it was their only hope. Soon she started to run at the truck.
The man shot another beam at her, but Supergirl dodged it and continued running. Then in one move, Supergirl punched the man directly in the center of the source of his laser eye. The glass broke, and he hit the van before falling to the ground. She wasted no time, she grabbed the device that was attached to the man and smashed it into The Fog machine. Both machines exploded on the impact of each other.
Supergirl looked up to that The Fog was soon disappearing. Robin had done it, the virus had worked, and The Fog was stopped. Supergirl brought her attention back to the now destroyed machine.
Supergirl really hoped that Doctor Roquette didn't want that back.
Happy Harbor City: Happy Harbor: Mount Justice: August 9
Supergirl was back at the cave in her room changing her shirt. Robin and Supergirl met again up with the others to find Doctor Roquette safe, Artemis now an official part of the team and Kid Flash with a new souvenir from the Shadow they fought named Cheshire.
Supergirl didn't know how she was supposed to feel about Artemis being on the team. Guess she was okay with it unlike Wally, who was a little grumpy because of it. But at least he got a new souvenir. Kaldur went to the medical wing to get toxic out of his skin. M'gann tried to convince Supergirl to go too but she didn't need to, all she had was a ruined sweatshirt.
When she finished dressing a knock on her door made her turn around and answer it. There stood a girl with long blond hair pulled into a ponytail and blue eyes. She wore a brown jacket and a white shirt underneath, and she was wearing blue jeans with black boots. It took Supergirl time to realize that this was Artemis.
"Hey," she said.
"Hey" was all Supergirl could reply to.
"Can we talk?" she asked.
"Oh sure," said Supergirl closing her door behind her.
"Look, I know that I was out of line with that comment I made early. I shouldn't have said that since you were the only one who defended me with Red Arrow and Kid Flash. I'm sorry," she said.
"No, it's okay, I realize you just wanted to be part of the team," replied Supergirl.
"To be honest I'm still new at this whole team and hero thing," admitted Artemis.
"Join the club," said Supergirl.
"So, we good?" she questioned holding her hand out to Supergirl.
Supergirl stood there for a moment before taking her hand. "We're good."
Artemis nodded before walking away.
Supergirl stood and watched Artemis leave, as she crossed paths with Wally she smirked.
"Hey, bay-watch."
"Don't call me that!"
Maybe having another teammate wouldn't be so bad.
TBC