Ch. 10 - Powers?
"Etaerc Nobir snoisulli." (Create Robin illusions.) Zatanna said. Many Robins appeared from thin air. They cackled as half of them attacked Red Inferno and the other half were trying and failing to take down Red Torpedo.
Nightwing couldn't help but laugh at his younger self cackling. It reminded him of the good times. Unfortunately, it distracted the real Robin that was about to take down Red Inferno. "Are you laughing at me?!" He said.
"Red Inferno grabbed him and threw him to the ground, knocking him out. Making all the other Robins disappear. Zatanna rushed over to help him but was thrown against the wall. F. Zatanna jumped in front of her younger self.
"Stobor fles tucr-" She couldn't finish as Red Torpedo's eyes glowed red and sent a signal to F. Zatanna, making her freeze in place as her eyes went half closed and her arms fell to her sides. (A/N: Just like what happened to her in Cornered.)
"Zatanna!" Nightwing shouted as he shook her, trying to get her to respond. "Zatanna, speak to me! What's wrong? Answer me!" He didn't get anything from her. Red inferno came up behind him punched him into the wall and he passed out.
Zatanna opened her eyes slowly and watched as Red Inferno picked up her future self and Robin and walked through a secret doorway on the side of the tunnel. She felt herself slipping into unconsciousness. She hoped the mind-link was still on.
'We've been captured by smaller versions of Red Torpedo and Red Inferno.' She said weakly. 'It's up to you guys now.' Zatanna passed out before anyone could respond.
Blockbuster threw F. Artemis into the diving board pole. F. Kid Flash saw this and angrily, ran into Blockbuster, shoving him into the wall. KF went to help F. Artemis up. He slowly lifted her to her feet. She was breathing deeply as she held her side.
"Thanks. Ugh, I'm gonna feel that in the morning." F. Artemis said.
Young Artemis jumped down from the diving and kicked Blockbuster in the face, sending him away from F. Kid Flash. She punched and kicked but it did no damage. Blockbuster threw his around her and squeezed her so hard he was crushing her back.
"Ahh! Let go of me!" Artemis punched him in the face and F. Kid Flash punched him away from her. Artemis flipped back and landed on her hands and knees. Then F. Artemis shot an arrow at Blockbuster. Foam wrapped around him and hardened while shocking him.
"Nice work on the new arrows, Babe!" F. Artemis smiled at her boyfriend. And he smiled back.
Suddenly the walls shook and more flaming objects came from the dark side of the room. Artemis caught one before it hit KF. She quickly climbed up the latter to the diving board and threw it back.
"Artemis, No! You're going to get severely burned!" Kid Flash said.
"Better me than you." Artemis replied as she stood on the middle diving board. She kept flipping from diving board to diving board catching and throwing the flaming arrows, hoping to hit whatever was creating them. Kid Flash watched her as she did this, he was amazed that she didn't get burned at all and he was really impressed by it.
Blockbuster struggled but eventually managed to break the foam around him, a big chunk of hardened foam hit F. KF in the back as he was trying to see what F. Artemis had fractured. When F. KF hit the floor, Blockbuster went to attack him.
Everything at that moment went in slow motion for F. Artemis. As she watched Blockbuster attacked her boyfriend, rage filled her. Suddenly all the pain was gone, she stood up straight and gave a Blockbuster a death glare that would make Batman run home to Gotham. She ran toward Blockbuster as he was still running toward her boyfriend. She rammed him into the wall. The wall cracked and some pieces of the ceiling fell on Kid Flash.
When he got up, she attacked him with all her strength. F. KF watched this with shock. When had Artemis gotten so strong? And are her feet not touching the ground?
Young Artemis shot one last flaming arrow into the dark side of the room. The lights turned on. There were five machines on the very top of the wall that were destroyed by the arrow. Artemis looked down to see her future self fighting off Blockbuster quite well. Then she saw Kid Flash trying to get off the ground. She jumped down to help him.
"Are you okay?" She asked as she helped him up.
"I'm good. No damage done." He smiled.
'We've been captured by smaller versions of Red Torpedo and Red Inferno. It's up to you guys now.' Zatanna said weakly.
'Zatanna!' Artemis said. 'Zatanna, can you hear me?'
'Zatanna, what happened?' Kid Flash said. Zatanna never responded. They looked at each other worriedly.
Blockbuster fell to the ground against the wall. F. Artemis came up to him and kicked him in the face so hard he passed out. She then went to help her boyfriend.
"How did you do that?" He asked, still in shock.
"Do What?"
"What you did to Blockbuster. You literally knocked him the fuck out."
"I don't know. When I saw you get hurt it just came out of me." She shrugged. "All I felt was pure rage." When he got up, F. KF looked at her and was shocked again.
"Babe, y-you're floating." F. Kid Flash said in awe. F. Artemis looked confused and looked around her self to see that her feet were no where near the ground.
"Ah! I-I don't know how to land." F. Artemis said as she waved her feet trying to get back on the ground.
F. Kid Flash grabbed her shoulders and lightly pushed her down til her feet touched the floor. When he let go she started to float again but he grabbed her shoulders again and held her.
"Well now that it's over, can we go now?" Young Artemis asked. They all looked at her in shock. "What? Why are you staring at me?" She said as she rubbed her arm, insecurities setting in. They still remained speechless.
"Uh, your eyes." Kid Flash told her.
"What about about them?"
"They're on fire." He said softly.
"What!" Artemis started fanning her eyes and freaking out. Her future self grabbed her arm.
"Calm down. It must not be hurting you if you didn't know in the first place." She reasoned and Artemis calmed down.
"How do I make it stop?"
"Try to relax." Kid Flash told her and held her hand. "Relax." Artemis blushed lightly and took a deep breath. Their future selves smiled at the sight. The flames in her eyes went away. Artemis sighed.
"Okay, that's over. Let's go." She said. She quickly let go of Kid Flash's hand and walked ahead of everyone. Kid Flash shook his head, wondering what he did this time and followed the others.
Miss Martian helped her boyfriend from against the wall and watched as their future selves fought Match.
Match punched Miss Martian in the stomach and it sent her flying into the wall. F. Superboy scowled as he saw this and attacked Match. Match, who was prepared for this, shot lasers out of his eyes and into F. Superboy's eyes.
"Ahh!" He grunted, rubbing his eyes. F. Miss Martian used this to attack Match by pinning him against the wall.
But Match broke free and the force that she put on him pushed her to the floor so hard that a crack had formed where she was lying. Superboy got up and helped his future self attack Match. They didn't stop until Match was against the wall, looking like he was going to pass out at any second. There was a buzz in his ear and he shook his head. Match punched both Superboys out of the way and grabbed the still knocked out F. Miss Martian, throwing her over his shoulder.
"Leave her alone!" F. Superboy charged at Match. Unfortunately, Match was too fast for him and ran in a secret door at the side of tunnel.
"M'gann!" F. Superboy tried to run after him but the door closed. He punched the door and tried to rip it open. He gave up and sighed.
"There's nothing we can do now. We have to keep going." F. Superboy said as he started walking with his head held low. His younger self and Miss Martian stayed quiet and followed him.
F. Artemis and F. Kid Flash and their younger selves walked into another room with a huge gap.
"How many rooms are in this place?" KF said.
"This is strange. How are we suppose to get over there?" Artemis said. Suddenly, the ground shook and Artemis and F. Artemis fell of the side.
"Noo!" Both Kid Flashs shouted as they tried to reach out them. They didn't fall though. They were all shocked as they floated in air.
"Whoa!" Young Artemis tried to swim her way back to their side of the room. She grabbed KF's hand as she landed on the floor next to him.
"This is incredible!" F. Artemis laughed and F. Kid Flash smiled. "Wait, Wait. There's something I've always wanted to do." She stood on the edge of the platform. She did a backflip off the platform and flew back up.
"Calm down, Babe." Her boyfriend chuckled.
"Sorry. But it feels like I'm on an emotional roller coaster ride." F. Artemis said, quickly.
"I guess your father succeed." F. Kid Flash said.
"I guess so. But honestly I'm not complaining." F. Artemis smiled and flew to the other side of the room where she saw a lever. She put in and the floor from her side expanded to their side. The ceiling cracked and a piece of the ceiling fell.
Artemis held Kid Flash close to her and a shield formed around them, protecting them from the ceiling tile. It broke in-half when it the shield. Their future selves looked at them, in shock at what they just saw.
"Let's get going before anymore weird stuff happens to me." Young Artemis walked toward the other side of the room.
Eventually, the tunnels connected and the team or whats left of it reunited.
"What happened to Miss M?" F. Kid Flash asked.
"Match took her." F. Superboy said, roughly.
"Well look what we have here. A screwed up science experiment and a disappointment for a daughter." Sportsmaster said as he walked out of the shadows.
"What have you done with our team?!" F. Superboy shouted at Sportsmaster.
"Oh, they're right here." All the lights came on and showed the captured team members chained to the wall. They were all awake and angry.
"What was the point of all this? Why are you doing this?" F. Artemis yelled at her father.
"To fix you. This is all for you and Superboy, to help you become who you were really meant to be. If people didn't interfere. We're trying to improve you, we even gave you powers."
"Have you lost it?! No one messed with me. I'm like this because of me."
"You would think, but somewhere along the road I went wrong with you. You stopped being afraid of me, even before your sister left. I was the one who interfered with your life." Sportsmaster explained.
"Yeah, no kidding." F. Kid Flash commented and Sportsmaster blasted him, KF, young Artemis, young Superboy and Miss Martian into the wall, making them get chained to the wall.
"So you did all of this for redemption?" Superboy asked.
"On the contrary, Superboy." Lex Luther walked into the room. The machine appeared in the background. "We did this to get back what is ours. And you two, are ours."
"Yeah, cause that's not creepy." Robin said.
"Shut it or I'll zap you." Robin rolled his eyes. "If you think you can defend yourselves and prove us wrong, (A/N: Reference!) prove it in a battle against family." Luther explained.
"Against my father? Let's go." F. Artemis smirked darkly.
"Oh no. You will meet your opponent soon enough. Superboy, I believe you know Match." Match walked out in his red supersuit. Sportsmaster pulled a hair out of Artemis' head and put it on the scanner of the machine and a cell connected to the machine started to smoke.
"I would like you all to meet someone." The cell stopped smoking and the door opened.
"Artemis, Meet your mother. The woman I married all those years ago." Sportsmaster said as Huntress stepped out of the chamber.
"So this is the pathetic daughter I've heard so much about." Huntress gave Artemis a once over. "While beautiful, you're still a disappointment." Artemis scowled. Huntress and Sportsmaster slowly walked up to Artemis. Artemis was backing up. Match doing the same with Conner.
"Ahh, the family battle I've been waiting for." Sportsmaster said as he cracked his knuckles.
"Fine. You wanna fight," F. Artemis stretched out her arms and two swords came out of her sleeves. "Let's fight."
"Whoa!"
"And now you know why she went with sleeves." F. Kid Flash said.
"Ah!" F. Artemis and F. Superboy yelled as they rushed to fight their family.