Chapter 10! I realize I haven't updated in forever... I'm so sorry... but I have been very, very busy. But I'm still alive!
Anyway, this subplot is wrapped up kind of, well except for the Ollie and Roy scene (you'll see), so it's genre switch time again!
This is going to be from Artemis's perspective again.
I am making this a super long update to make up for all that time off. So this update will be 3 separate chapters that I'm putting up in one day. Thank you for sticking with this story!
I'm so excited! Young Justice is coming back on Saturday (1/5/13). Happy New Year everyone! At least we don't go through a 5 year time skip!
Disclaimer: I own nothing (As if it were ever really in question).
Ugh my head.
What happened?
I slowly opened my eyes and looked at the ground and recognized Ollie's marble floor tiles.
What am I doing here? Did I pass out at another of his parties again?
I sat up slowly and suddenly awareness flooded back into me and I remembered everything.
Robin!
I rapidly looked around the room and was completely unprepared for what I saw.
Black Mask was tied up with his henchmen next to Robin who was talking to Batman.
What was most disconcerting was Number One who was cowering in a corner, rocking himself back and forth while looking at Batman.
Robin realized I was awake and ran over.
"Artemis! You're not dead!"
"Nice to see you too Boy Wonder. Especially cause you left me laying on the floor"
"Well I didn't want to move you since I wasn't sure of what you would say when you woke up"
"I wouldn't have yelled at you... that much"
"Well we can leave the yelling to GA and Red Arrow cause Batman just called them over. The Zeta Tube room is kind of malfunctioning, so they're getting here by car. They're going to arrive in about 10 minutes."
Ten minutes?!
What will they do to me?!
Ollie is going to kill me for the damages and Roy... well lets not go there yet.
I began picking around the place, seeing if there was anything extremely valuable that I might lose my head over. Batman would protect me, right? Please?
Batman and Robin took the gang out and loaded them into the remaining Humvee which Batman drove down to the gate for the police to pick up, which was extremely far away from the house. I was left standing alone in the foyer trying not to piss myself out of fear.
About 8 minutes later, a black SUV screeched into what was left of the driveway next to the burning wreckage of what appeared to be the APC. What happened there?
Ollie burst out of the door and ran up to the house and gaped at the open hole that used to be his front door.
Well, I guess getting yelled at now is a little better than being dead. Only a little. Very little. VERY.
"Artemis you're ok! Thank heavens!"
Wut?
He ran up and hugged me and I'm pretty sure the look on my face was one of pure shock. I did not expect that.
"Iwassoworriedaboutyouandyour motherwouldkillmeifanythingh appenedtoyouIsanyoneevenread ingthisandIcannevermakeitupt oyouand ..." (A/N I can't get rid of the spaces cause the copy and paste thing won't let me when I save, sorry)
Dang, he was beginning to sound like the Flash.
"It's ok Ollie, calm down, I'm ok."
"I had no idea the mansion was under attack. Batman didn't tell me until about 15 minutes ago. I thought I would have lost you."
"That's uh... sweet. You're not mad at the whole mansion being trashed?"
"It's been worse after some of the parties. I just wanted to make sure you're ok. They didn't hurt you did they? They did, didn't they? I'm going to kill them!"
Talk about overprotective.
"Don't worry, I'm fine. Ugh you're overreacting. Speaking of overreacting, where's Roy?"
"Uh, I kind of haven't told him yet. I figured we should wait a little before telling him."
Well that's good. If Mr. Can't-control-my-emotions doesn't know, he can't freak out at me. Wait, never mind, he's going to yell at me either way or.
My com in my ear suddenly came to life as a smug voice came in from the other end.
"Hey Artemis, so sorry to break up this love-fest you're having but I thought someone might want to see his house. Have fun!"
That little troll! I'm going to kill him the next time I see him!
I then realized if a certain archer knew about the house, he would be on the radio sooner or later.
With that sudden realization, I flung my com out of my ear at the ground.
Not a moment too soon. The second it bounced, I heard the ranting of one very irate archer on the other end while simultaneously hearing another archer swear and clutch his ears before throwing his own com to the ground.
"Robin?"
"Robin"
"I'm going to kill him"
"Not if I beat you to it"
"You can't possibly beat the best looking archer in the world"
"You're right, I guess I should give you a 5 minute head start to make it fair"
With that, I left to grab my costume and equipment from my room and hope to run away before Roy got there. And if I got out early enough, I could kill Robin.
As I ran back down the stairs, my hopes dropped to nothing. I saw a dark red motorcycle pull into what was left of the driveway and the figure on it fling off his helmet and run toward the house.
Roy.
Wonderful.
He ran straight up to me with his eyes filled with fury, almost as scary as Batman angry.
"EXPLAIN"
"Well, uh..."
"NOW"
I do not have time for this, and I want to keep my eardrums intact.
I slowly reached into my backpack and threw a smoke arrow on the ground and ran back to my room.
Any other day I would stay there and argue it out with him but I had just pulled an all-nighter fighting Black Mask and I did not want to do anything after this except take a nice, long, hot shower and maybe hurt Robin.
He started banging at the door loudly, cursing and screaming at the same time. It's a wonder how he has so much energy to scream at me. I'm not even going to repeat the stuff he was saying, it was bad enough to make the Joker cringe.
Fortunately enough, Ollie, being the innocently stupid fool that he is, walked up the stairs to see what was going on. Bad choice. Very bad choice.
I listened for the next hour of Roy screaming at Ollie.
"You little piece of! How could you let?! I'm going to kill you motherfu!"
It basically went on like that over and over again while Ollie tried to get Roy to calm down.
"HOW COULD YOU LET THEM INTO MY ROOM?! DON'T YOU KNOW MY BOXERS WERE ON THE BED? WHAT IF THEY SAW? WHAT IF ARTEMIS SAW?!"
Yeah... Should I help Ollie out?
Nope.
Good luck with that Ollie.
I hopped out the window and made my way around the front toward the garage.
When I got there, I walked over to one of the motorcycles and revved it up.
I could still hear Roy from the garage, which was on the other side of the mansion, and over the noise of the motorcycle.
It's really a wonder he can get so loud. Maybe Roy is related to Dinah in some weird and twisted way. Actually, I don't want to think about it. Definitely had enough weird for one day.
So where was I? Oh right, I can escape from the dynamically dramatic duo and kill Robin. All in a day's work for Artemis Crock. Yep.
I peeled out of the garage, and sped down the driveway past the burnt out wreck of the APC.
As I got into town, I went straight for a zeta location, in this case, a hidden Zeta Tube behind a brick wall in a garage.
I punched in my coordinates and disappeared in a flash of light.
So this is the first part of the super update (1/3). I really toned down the Roy/Ollie confrontation but I am considering writing a oneshot on it separately if I get enough people saying they want it.
~The Archer Artemis