(Artemis)

16 Minutes

After beating Center Hall, the day was pretty boring for Artemis. She had managed to get lost for the better part of a half hour, before finally finding her way down to the Colony. But as most things went, luck was not on her side. After barely a minute, she had encountered the fire haired girl, Starfire, her name was from memory. For the last fifteen or so minutes, Artemis had been ducking and dodging from behind pillars, firing everything her arsenal had to offer. Now however, she was out of ammunition, all her arrows had been fired off. There was only one option left, and she was dreading it.

Moving from behind the pillar and dropping the bow, Artemis ran forward. From her back pocket, she pulled out an ionic charge ring. Ollie was working on this in arrow form, and in that form, it worked differently. In that form, When two or more arrows were fired, they would create a field that could knock down even the toughest opponents. He was also working on one that would atomize anything less durable than steel.

However, in this way, Artemis knew that it would act differently. This was a one time shot, and when it hit anything, it fired a concussive force through the target that could shake concrete apart. This bitch was tough, and Artemis was banking on her being tough enough to take the hit.

"Come to die?" She asked. Despite missing, Artemis was largely the one winning the fight. Her misses had not been by much, and several arrows had made their mark. Ther joints, and one that had made its home in her hip. Good shots that would put down a normal person, but this chick must have had something with her being an alien that allowed her to ignore it. Lunging forward, Donna put everything she had into the punch.

BOOM!

Stumbling over herself from the carried momentum, Artemis felt the heat and power from this little device. It was like a lava lamp at her knuckles. Looking up from the ground, She grinned as she saw the bitch laid out. But it quickly disappeared when she stirred quickly, and even more rapidly, got back to her feet.

"That hurt, I must say. Had you opened up with that and one or two of your stray shots had made their mark, you might have bested me. But no, and now you're going to suffer the consequences." She said as she started to walk towards Artemis. Artemis managed to begin a short crawl back to her bow on the ground. As soon as she put her hand on the string, Starfire pressed her boot down on Artemis' hand.

"This was nice. But sadly, it's all over now." Looking up, Artemis saw the girl's hand start to glow green. Shit. Artemis prepared herself. When suddenly.

BANG!

Blinking to make sure she were still alive, Artemis saw Wally standing in front of her. Before she could even say anything Wally was already standing her up.

"You alright? I thought you would have taken care of this situation already." He joked. In her gut, Artemis could only feel one appropriate reaction. Lunging forward, she wrapped her arms around Wally as tight as she could.

"Hey, are you alright? I was only messing with you." Wally defended himself.

"I'm fine. I was just waiting for you to get here, thought maybe you could be the hero like you always are hoping to be." She joked back with him. Wally grinned.

"Well looks like I was right on cue. Listen, I need you to get out of here, there was a mix up, and this place is coming down." The tone turned on a dime, Artemis changed gears from a relaxed nature back to a stern and serious one.

"How long do we have?"

"About fifteen minutes. I have to run, I'm still looking for Supergirl and Robin."

"Alright. Which way out?"

"I tagged the way with spray paint. Can't miss em'."

"Sounds good. See you soon."

ZOOM! And once more, he was off. Artemis turned her attention to her opponent, who was not struggling to get up. Reaching back for her bow, Artemis felt a fresh quiver of arrows on her hip. She rolled her eyes. Wally was such a showoff.

Walking over, Artemis strung her bow, but quickly relaxed her grip when she saw the aliens face.

"What is?" Looking up, she saw Artemis. "You! I remember fighting you, did I cause you any harm? I apologize if I caused you any harm." These words coming out of that mouth, one that only a minute ago was spouting death threats, was now asking if she was ok. That necklace thing must have been what was causing the issues.

"I'm fine. What about you?" Artemis asked.

"I am ok. My head hurts. That necklace was ruining my thinking, It made me do things against my will. I am Starfire, princess of Tamaran. If my memory serves, this is what you would call 'Earth' correct?"

"Yeah. Hey listen, we need to get going. This place is coming down any minute now. So we need to make our way out."

"Of course. Your name is Artemis?" She said as she started to follow flying as Artemis started to run.

"Yeah."

"You know I can feel the emotions of others. That boy back there who punched me, you must feel very strongly for him. I heard you two talking, and I was levitating without even trying." Artemis wanted to crack this girl across the face for even suggesting that notion.

"Listen, If we make it out here alive, I'll give you my whole lifes story. Till then, just keep up." Artemis said as they ran to get out of the facility.

(Cyborg)

11 Minutes

"Comm Check, where is everyone at?" Victor asked. His brain was firing on all cylinders, and so were the computer systems. Victor had gotten in contact with the watchtower. They were currently working on stopping the firing of the fusion reactor, but they were short handed. Martian Manhunter only had Hawkman and Hawkwoman, Green Arrow and Phantom Lady on hand. Superman was busy in Metropolis, Wonder Woman was dealing with some issues on Themyscira, Batman had a clown problem in Gotham, Hal and Jon were out near the Oort cloud. Mostly everyone was busy, so the Manhunter had turned over the Justice Leagues Javelin fleet to him. Currently victor was operating fifteen ships remotely.

Wally was running in and out every forty five seconds with a handful of kids. The Titans main ship could hold, at best, forty people. According to Wally, there were at least two hundred people that needed to get out. So This was a problem. The good news was that J'onn had set up an emergency Relief site in New Orleans. Victor was going to fly a Javelin that was full to the site where Hawkman and Hawkwoman were to help these kids.

"Cyborg!" Looking over it was Artemis. She was with the fire haired girl, who looked a bit different. It took a second, but Victor realized that her necklace was broken off. The theory that they were causing a form of brainwashing was correct.

"Artemis. There's first Aid on the ship for you and Starfire. Get those cuts cleaned up." He ordered.

"Sure thing. How are we coming along?"

"Wall has gotten approximately half of the kids out." Looking up, the Javelins were arriving. There were around 100 kids sitting here, scared. Only one thing to do. Vic amped up his voice modulator, which would allow him to speak louder.

"Hey! I need your attention. We're going to start loading you guys up onto these here javelins" He said pointing up at the fleet of ships. "We will be bringing you back to to your families. When you get to New Orleans, we will have emergency workers to help you find your families. You need to stay calm, and relax. Everything is going to be fine." He said.

Almost as soon as he stopped speaking, the commotion started up. Victor could hear almost everything with his enhanced hearing in his left ear. It annoyed him. Just listen and it will all be alright. Once more he amped up his volume. Now he was annoyed.

"HEY! I said stay Calm. Now Stay. Calm." This time everyone listened. The Javelins began to line up and open up. This would be tricky.

"Artemis, I need your help. I need you to help these kids get strapped in and keep calm. You do that?" He asked.

"Sure. Beats being in a fight all day."

"I would like to help too." Starfire spoke up. Those gems sure made a difference. Normally, she seemed like a brutish warrior, but now without her mind being dominated by another, she seemed almost sheepish and shy. It was quite ironic.

"You sure?" Vic asked. "This is a pretty big job."

"I have cause you all more than enough trouble, it is my new wish to help you, if you will give me a chance."

"I'm cool with it. Another pair of hands will make this easier."

"Alright, go on." Artemis started off, helping the kids load on. "Lot of work to do in the next 10 minutes." Vic mumbled under his breath. Not quietly enough however, starfire was within earshot.

"Until what?"

"There's a bomb coming to blow this place up. Your boss was gonna let you all burn while he got away." Instantly, her hair looked like it was flaring up and burning.

"Ohhhhh. That… that… Zorkmorking Clorbag!" She yelled, her hair flaring out with the emphasis om whatever that last part was.

"A...Zormokin… What?" Victor asked.

"Another time, we need to hurry. I will help the one you call Artemis." And she flew off.

"Cyborg!" Looking back, Victor saw it was Robin. And he was riding a green horse.

"You know when I woke up today, there was a list of things I didn't expect to see. This takes it by a mile." He said bewildered. As Robin got off, the horse morphed itself back into a human form, with a purple and black suit. Beast Boy. Robin had managed to break his mind control device too.

"What's going on?" Robin asked.

"We're loading these kids onto the javelins, I'm operating them remotely. Artemis and that fire haired girl are keeping everyone organized. I still haven't heard from Supergirl or Captain Marvel, and Wonder Girl went in around five minutes ago to look for them."

"Did she say who she was looking for?" Robin asked.

"I think she said she was looking for Supergirl."

"Alright. Beast Boy, Come with me, were going to get Captain Marvel."

"Right." And this time, Beast Boy turned into a velociraptor. Dick jumped on without missing a beat.

"Man, did I say that last one was the top of my list, I meant this one." Victor said. Beast Boy looked back and grinned with his knife edge teeth.

"You haven't seen anything yet." Victor threw him a grin in response.

"We can mess around later. Find Captain marvel and anyone else, we're running out of time." He reminded the two.

"How much?" Robin asked.

"A little bit north of eight minutes." Victor informed them.

"Plenty of time. Hold on." Beast boy said, and they rocketed away.

"You better hope your little green butt that's the case." Victor commented to himself as he turned his attention back to the matters at hand.