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GOTHAM CITY
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
07:20 EDT

Barbara was talking about her trip to Vlatavastok with her family when something caught my eye. I nudged Dick and bobbed my head in the direction.

A smirk grew on Dick's face before he let out a laugh. He turned to Barbara and said, "'Scuse us for a sec, Barbara."

We skirted off to where Artemis was talking to Bette, the Student Liaison that we had assigned Artemis to. Dick pulled out his fancy smartphone, courtesy of Bruce, and we got on both sides of Artemis. Dick placed his arm around Artemis's shoulder and said, "We'll laugh about this someday," before he took the picture.

She winced at the flash, but Dick and I were already on our way back to Barbara.

"Uh, who were they?" I heard Artemis ask with my keen hearing.

"Dick Grayson and Verena Blake, the Student Body Presidents here at Gotham Academy," I heard Bette reply. "They're in the same grade as us."

"Dick, Verena?" Barbara called as we approached her from behind. "What was that about?"

"Nothing, Babs," I replied, approaching her. "We're just bein' friendly to the new girl."

She rolled her eyes and began to walk away. Dick and I exchanged looks and then we looked at the picture. Dick and I were smiling at the camera while Artemis just looked confused.

We followed after Barbara, heading to our lockers inside the school. Because of our connections, the three of us had lockers next to each other. I spun my combination, and the locker in-between Barbara and Dick's popped open. I grabbed my AP Chemistry book before closing it.

"You two are lucky Bruce assigns it so the two of you have the same classes," Barbara commented, pulling out her Algebra II/Trig book. "And in the same grade." Barbara was a freshman while Dick and I were sophomores, because we were awesome and smart like that.

Dick and I exchanged looks before shrugging. It was just convenient. We bade Barbara a bye before she walked away to the Math Wing.

"I'll hold it," Dick said, taking the book out of my hands. He held onto both his book and mine, holding them easily at his side.

"Thanks," I gave him a smile.

"No prob," Dick replied.

GOTHAM CITY
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
19:28 EDT

Robin and I landed on the rooftop silently, and I nudged him. He quirked an eyebrow at me before looking at where I gestured. A wicked grin spread across his face. Artemis was there.

"Artemis?" he asked mischievously, landing on the ground next to the broken phone booth with me.

She gasped in shock, eyes darting back and forth between us. "Robin! Black Falcon! I… uh…"

I resisted the urge to crack up while Robin approached the older girl. "How random that you're in Gotham City! Instead of Star City, where you uncle, Green Arrow, lives."

"I'm… uh, here to see my cousin. She… was in the State Spelling Bee. Here, in Gotham," she obviously lied. While Dick was a mathematician and competed in math competitions regularly, I participated in English competitions. The State Spelling Bee wasn't until May.

Robin's grin got wider and he looked at me, making me roll my eyes. "C-O-O-L. Did she W-I-N?"

Artemis's eyes narrowed. "N-O."

I piped in at that time. "What a P-I-T-Y."

Artemis glared at me and then pointed at the broken phone booth. "Yeah, whatever! Let's just go to the Cave."

"Ladies first," Robin said, bowing and gesturing to the old, broken phone booth. I'm pretty sure it's rusty in some places too.

Artemis placed her hands on her hips. "Your town, you guys go." Robin shrugged and the two of us entered the phone booth.

"Recognized: Robin: B-Zero-One. Black Falcon: B-Zero-Two."

"You're such a jerk," I laughed, pushing Robin playfully once we arrived to the Cave. Robin laughed and then we suddenly ducked down as a fireball came hurling straight toward us. I quickly detached my guns and shot where the source of the fireballs were coming from.

"Recognized: Artemis: B-Zero-Eight."

"Get down!" I hollered to Artemis through yet another explosion. Robin grabbed my wrist and pulled me away from a fireball that was hurling towards us.

We ran to Artemis, who had her bow and arrow ready. There was smoke everywhere, but I kept my focus on what was undoubtedly behind the smog. Robin through multiple birdarangs, and then a blast of fire shot out.

I rolled out of the way easily, just as my vision adjusted to the debris. I could see two figures approaching the three of us and I aimed towards there. My nose twitched as the hot, stinging smell of ashes flowed into my nostrils, burning the inside.

"Who are we fighting?!" Artemis demanded.

"Dunno," Robin sighed, landing next to me. "But we're sitting ducks by these tubes! Head for the exit!"

I broke out into a run, shooting at the shadows over and over again, trying to get some reaction. A blast of fire was heading straight towards me, so I hand to jump in the air, doing multiple flips before landing beside Robin, running alongside him.

A rush of water made me stop in my tracks. "Or not," I bluntly stated, referring to Robin's earlier comment. The three of us whirled to try to run away, but it was too much.

I grunted in pain as the water roughly hit me, pushing me forward. I let out a groan of pain as I hit the wall, choking on some water. I coughed slightly before pushing myself off and running, dodging a fireball. Seriously, where was all this coming from?

We headed towards the gym, and my hair almost got singed by a fire tornado. A fire tornado. "Robin to Team!" Robin cried, pressing on his com-link. "Aqualad, can you hear me?!"

I pressed on my com-link. "Superboy?! Kid Flash?! Come in!" I felt the pressure of an explosion behind me as the doors to the gym were destroyed. I lost my balance and fell, but quickly pushed myself up, following Artemis and Robin out of the room.

"Robin, the Batcave!" I called.

Robin nodded and we activated the showers, trying to protect ourselves from the fire. "Robin to Batcave! Override R-G-Four! Cave calling Justice League! H-O-J-slash-Watchtower! B-Zero-One! Priority red!"

"Comm's down?" I muttered, twisting the last faucets. Robin looked at me solemnly and nodded.

"At least the water's helping," Robin muttered.

There was a loud creak and I dodged a hurling faucet, making it hit the wall, cracking it. "You spoke too soon," I groaned. "You just had to go and jinx it, Rob." The tiles began to break and water rapidly filled the room.

I held my breath and watched as Robin placed an exploding birdarang onto the wall. It exploded and I coughed, landing on the ground on my back roughly. After clearing my lungs, I got up and made a dash for the kitchen, with Robin and Artemis on my heels.

"We need to get lost somehow," Robin panted as my eyes darted back and forth around the kitchen.

I spotted the fan that filtered the excess smoke in this place and pointed. "Anyone up for some crawling?" Robin turned to the security system on the door as Artemis and I went to pull off the entrance of the vent.

We pulled it off with ease and Artemis turned back. "What is he–?" she began.

"Downloading the Cave's blueprints," I cut her off.

"It could come in…" he trailed off and I focused on my hearing. There were some light thumping of footsteps. Robin disconnected the cable and he, Artemis, and I jumped up the ventilation shaft.

The three of us crawled through the slightly dark tunnels, with the only light coming from the ends, where the rooms were brightly lit. "Go left!" Robin ordered and I followed Artemis, who had turned left. Just in time too, because as soon as we all did, fire shot out just where Robin was a nanosecond ago.

Robin let out a huffy sigh. "Ugh," he groaned. "Too close." We continued crawling in silence until Robin spoke up again. "Take the first right. There should be a vent cover right in front of you."

Artemis pulled it open and the three of us slid down and into the temperature control room. Robin turned on his blue prints again and then he looked at me. "This way," he said, and dashed off down the stairs. We both followed him but then an explosion caught my attention.

I whirled around and saw a figure, a female figure, surrounded by fire. Something told me by those red eyes she wasn't human… or at least, a normal one. I jumped off the railing, with Robin and Artemis doing the same.

I glanced at the temperature monitor, seeing the levels getting higher and higher. "Oh man, I don't think that's good," I pointed out before running off. To alleviate the heat, cold steam started bursting out, but it wasn't working. I felt a trickle of sweat down the side of my face and wiped it away as I ran.

Artemis found the access tunnel and Robin and I jumped down it just before his birdarang exploded. "Hold on," Robin called for our attention before we moved on.

He opened up the USB ports that were located down here and activated his computer. "Locking out Cave heat and motion sensors to keep the enemy from tracking us."

"And I ask again, who is the enemy?" Artemis asked.

"Let's find out then," I said, pulling out my own USB cable. I plugged it in and tapped into the security cameras while Robin continued locking out the sensors.

I downloaded the video, and saw the other four were in the hangar, fixing up Superboy's bike. Well, Kid Flash was. Kid Flash stood up just as Aqualad mentioned Artemis, but he was cut off by an explosion. I had nothing but static now.

"What happened?" Artemis asked, looking at me worriedly.

I narrowed my eyes. "The explosion took out the camera. I'll find another angle," I replied before typing on my holographic keyboard. I found them quickly and saw that they were all soaked, and now attacking, but the cameras were all knocked out before they died.

"That's it," Robin muttered, and I nodded. "All four are dead." Artemis looked at us, shocked, and Robin corrected himself. "The cameras! I meant the cameras!"

"I'm sure the others are okay," I said, placing a hand on Artemis's shoulder. I looked at Robin, "We should find the quickest route to the hangar." Robin nodded and pulled up his blueprints.

Artemis slumped back. "Yeah, they're fine. They've all got superpowers. They can handle anything," she said, but it was more like she was convincing herself.

"Here," Robin pointed on his blueprints. "Cut through here and enter the library via secret entrance."

We quickly moved our way through the vents, finding the library. I needed to find time to drop by in here. There were books upon books, just like a real library. Wait, focus Fal.

"There's a secret passage behind one of these bookshelves," Robin commented as we jumped off the stairs to work faster.

"Seriously?" Artemis scoffed. "Cliché much?"

I snorted. "You should see the Batcave." I scanned through the aisles of books, looking for one that I knew Batman would use. The least predictable one.

A noise caught my attention and I pulled out a gun, keeping it low but ready. I cocked my gun to the fourth level and hid behind a bookshelf.

"Artemis, Robin, Black Falcon," Red Tornado called.

"It's Red Tornado!" Artemis exclaimed happily, jumping out of the shelves before I could stop her. Robin and I tackled her down before she was attacked.

"Yes on the Red!" Robin yelled.

"No on the Tornado!" I called, rolling under the table. At times like these, I was glad I was short.

Fire struck us, and that led to the sprinklers being activated. I landed between the aisles and bingo! I pulled out Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho, and a secret entrance appeared. We all jumped in before the bookshelves crushed us.

"Did you two know Tornado had siblings?!" Artemis exclaimed, obvious distress in her voice.

Robin and I exchanged looks since we were running next to each other. "No," we replied at the same time.

Robin and I made to turn around the corner, but Artemis grabbed our hands to stop us. The two of us turned to Artemis, and I quirked an eyebrow.

"So now what?!" she demanded. "Red Tornado is one of the League's powerhouses! How are we supposed to take down two of him?!"

"Well, they do seem pretty user-unfriendly," Robin commented, making me crack a grin.

"Don't joke!" Artemis snapped. She looked like she wanted to say more, but she was cut off by Red Tornado's voice.

"Attention Robin. Attention Black Falcon. Attention Artemis. You have exactly ten minutes to surrender or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished." A moment of silence passed as I looked at my teammates. "Nine minutes and forty-five seconds."

We all dashed off towards the hangar. My legs felt like they weighed a ton and my clothes were sopping wet, adding some extra weight. Despite my fatigue, I pushed myself. It's up to us to save the others.

"Eight minutes."

"We can access the hangar from here," Robin commented, but then I stopped, almost making Robin run into me. I turned around and saw a rush of water heading towards us.

"Or not," I commented and dashed off ahead of them.

"Will you two please stop saying jinxes?!" Artemis cried as she ran behind me. We were pushed by the water, and I clenched my eyes together as water consumed me. I pulled out my rebreather and attached it on, seeing as this water wasn't going anywhere anytime soon.

I almost got hit by Robin's cape, which he had unhooked, as I tried swimming back to them. I put shot the Red, and he retaliated by blasting me with a water bullet. I flinched as it hit me and knocked out my rebreather.

I saw a line shoot past me, and then Robin grabbed my hand as the line pulled him towards the wall. The three of us swam up to the surface, and I took in a deep gulp of air.

"Fal, look out!" I faintly heard Kid Flash call before Robin pulled me away. A fireball landed where I previously was.

When I was able to refocus, I let go of Robin's hand and we swam over to where Kid Flash and Superboy were. I panted as I kept myself afloat. "You guys okay?"

"Forget us!" Superboy exclaimed. "Help M'gann!" If our lives weren't in danger right now, I'd quirk an eyebrow or make a comment or something.

I looked at Kid Flash and touched whatever was bounding them as Artemis asked for Miss Martian's condition. It was melted metal. Wow, this must be pretty strong if it was keeping Superboy at bay.

"Heads up," Robin said before the three of us dived underwater.

We swam towards safety; well, as safe as you could get with two killer androids on the loose in your second home. I gasped, pushing myself out of the water and Robin pulled me up. After helping me up, he followed Artemis up the stairs, and I ran after him.

Did the muscles on Robin's shoulders get more defined? Wait. Snap out of it, V. You're on a mission here. Check out Robin/Dick later. I paused in my running.

What the heck was that?

I focused again just as the androids cornered us, and I detached my gun from its holster. Artemis glanced at me. "I'm almost out of arrows," she told me. I looked and saw that she only had two left. Well, crap.

"Distract her, we'll handle the other one," I told Artemis before rushing towards the male android. I pulled out my other gun and set it to level eight, and shot at him multiple times, but they gave no effect, just like Robin's birdarangs.

"Whoa!" I heard Kid Flash gasp and darted quickly to see a birdarang just a few inches from his face. The android began to summon water, and Robin and I looked at each other.

We nodded. It was our cue to go. I turned to the edge and without hesitation, dived down. We headed deep under the Cave, and Robin spotted a shaft. He pulled open the cover of the entrance and Artemis and I swam inside it.

I gasped for breath as I emerged from the water and hoisted myself out and into the small tunnel.

"Six minutes."

"What do we do now?!" Artemis exclaimed.

"We save them," Robin told her.

"That's how it works," I added, nodding in agreement. I let out a heavy cough, and rubbed my chest. I'm not swimming for a while after this.

Artemis glared at us. "Maybe that's how it's supposed to work, but those robots already took out our four superpowered friends!"

"You seem distraught," Robin pointed out the obvious.

This made the blonde snap. "Distraught?! M'gann is dying! We have no powers and I'm down to my last arrow!" She pulled out her weapon for emphasis. "Of course I'm distraught!"

Robin glared back at her. "Well get traught or get dead!" I placed a hand on his shoulder and he turned to me. He glared at me at first, but I didn't flinch. His eyes then softened and his facial features relaxed as I kept my gaze on him, never once waving.

He turned around and began crawling, and I followed.

"How can you two be so calm?" Artemis inquired from behind me.

"Practice," Robin replied. "I've been doing this since I was nine."

"And you?" Artemis asked, and since Robin already answered, I knew she was asking me.

I pursed my lips. "Since I was nine too. I'm only around a year and a half less experienced than Robin." There must be something that could take out those dang machines. I stopped crawling, making Artemis almost bump into me.

I face palmed myself, making a loud slapping sound as my palm made contact with my face. Robin whirled around at the sound and looked at me. He raised a brow at me.

I looked at him. 'They're machines!' Realization donned onto his face and he did the same as I did a few seconds ago.

"Can you explain to me why you guys are hitting yourselves?" Artemis demanded, huffing angrily.

"Duh!" the two of us exclaimed at the same time. "They're machines!"

"And with one electromagnetic pulse," Robin said eagerly.

"Will shut down any machine within range," I finished.

Artemis smiled for the first time today. "Great!" Then her face fell. "Except one of you two better have an EMP emitter in your utility belts! Because I know I don't have one in my quiver."

"Well crap, I used my last one on a mission last week to black out that building," I muttered, looking at Robin. "And you used yours yesterday."

"I bet we can make one," Robin mused. He pressed on his com-link. "What do you say, KF? Do-able?"

"Totally do-able!" I heard through my com-link. I thought it was strange that Robin's birdarang almost hit Kid Flash by accident. He probably calculated the angle as he was throwing those birdarangs at that android to keep in contact with the others.

"Five minutes."

"Y'know… if… you had more time…" I heard Kid Flash's voice drop.

I pressed on my com-link. "You're not the only science genius in this place," I commented. "With the two of our brains working together, we'll have it done in a minute. What do you say?"

"With you, babe? Anything."

I looked at Robin, ignoring Kid Flash's advance. "We've gotta head to the Med Bay. They have an x-ray machine." Robin nodded and opened the blueprints, and we continued crawling.

Robin kicked open a dead-end soon, and I found myself in the Med Bay with the two. "You guys using the vircator?" Kid Flash asked.

"Yup," I replied. "Then converting the microwave conversion from x-rays to EMPs."

"Remember the cascade energy's gotta be directed outwards," Kid Flash added as Robin took out the vircator.

"A ripple effect," Robin commented, understanding our plan. "It's like dropping a stone in a pond."

"A stone with ten to the third power wattage, yeah," Kid Flash agreed.

I pursed my lips. "You'll need to hook it up with the Cave's main generator though…"

"Which is… where?" Artemis looked at me curiously.

I sighed. "The hangar." Artemis's face dropped and we were back in the vents.

We found ourselves back in the hangar, and I pressed on my com-link. "Kid, Superboy, distraction."

As the two were distracting the two androids, Artemis, Robin, and I continued to sneak by to the generator. The two males jeered at the robots, bragging about their superpowers. Kid Flash vibrate his molecules? Hah.

"I can vibrate my molecules and escape out of here before your binary brains can count to two!" Kid Flash bragged, and I covered my mouth to keep from laughing. Robin smirked while Artemis looked confused.

"Cover us," Robin whispered before he hooked a line. We swung ourselves down to the generator and Robin placed the vircator inside. I connected my computer to it and began to reroute the system.

I narrowed my eyes. "It's not working," I said to him.

Robin glanced at the object. "The circuit's incomplete. You need something conductable."

I pulled out my gun, pushing in a bullet, until I heard Artemis yell, "Robin, Black Falcon, look out!"

Robin grabbed me and we grunted as the tidal wave washed over us. I began to run out of oxygen, and everything went black.

MOUNT JUSTICE
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
20:01 EDT

I felt water rush upwards. My eyes widened and I rolled before water came spilling out of my mouth. My eyes watered painfully as I coughed uncontrollably, the water burning my nose and my lungs felt heavy.

"Oh thank God," Robin heaved out before pulling me up towards him. The two of us were completely soaked, and I felt pretty cold, but ignored it. I've been through worse. "You weren't breathing," he said quietly. "Don't scare me like that again." I welcomed his arms, which were hugging me a bit tightly, but it was fine.

I still coughed, but managed to choke out, "No promises, but I'll try."

Robin helped me up and supported me while Aqualad supported Miss Martian. Artemis quickly found a drill and we headed down to where Superboy and Kid Flash were still trapped.

"Feel alright, sweets?" Kid Flash asked, flashing a grin at me. I returned it with a weak one of my own. I notice the small exchange between Superboy and Miss Martian, but chose not to say anything.

Kid Flash then turned his attention to Artemis. "Will you quit playing with that thing and cut us free already?!" he snapped.

"It's not working, genius," Artemis snapped back. "EMP shuts down all machines, remember?"

"All machines present at the time," Red Tornado's voice came. I lifted my head up to see the good red android approaching us. "What has occurred?"

Robin filled the League member in, adjusting his stance to make me more comfortable. Artemis added to it and after Superboy asked where Red Tornado was, the android walked towards the two fallen robots.

Sphere and the drill-laser came back online then, and my eyes widened. "The pulse has worn off!" Kid Flash, Robin, and I exclaimed at the same time, and then that set me off to a coughing fit, since I cut off my even breathing.

Red Tornado suddenly turned around, and I suddenly couldn't breathe. And all went black again.

MOUNT JUSTICE
SEPTEMBER 22, 2010
20:51 EDT

"Fal?" I heard multiple voices call. "Fal? Can you hear me?" I groaned in pain, even with my eyes closed, my brain pounded and I couldn't focus.

"Make it stop spinning…" I groaned. I slowly opened my eyes, wincing at the light. I saw the concerned face of Robin and the stern face of Batman looking down at me. I groaned again, curling up into a fetal position.

"She nearly drowned earlier too," Robin told Batman. "I had to give her CPR because she wasn't breathing. Add in asphyxiation and she's down for the count."

I felt myself being lifted up from the ground and groaned, burying myself into the black, hard yet soft chest. "I don't feel good, Daddy," I muttered quietly. The light cologne and fresh laundry smell that was Batman soothed me, but my head still pounded and it was difficult for me to breathe.

I felt a hand stroking my head and knew it was Robin's. I could make out the feel of his wet glove through my thick, wet hair.

"She'll be alright," Batman spoke, his chest rumbling as he did. The vibrations were lulling me. "Just exhausted. Sleep."

I didn't need to be told twice. I closed my eyelids, and let myself drift off.

Next Time on Black Falcon:

"C'mon, Fal."

"Fal!"

"You fell for me again."

"I couldn't be mad at you."

"Robin!"

'I bet you can guess what I'm thinking.'

A/N: Now before any of you start correcting me, I know that Dick is a freshman in the series, but I purposely made him and V sophomores on purpose. There is a reason for my madness. Anyways, check out the website for this series if you haven't. It's not much yet (since it IS a lot of work to maintain it), but do look around. Dick's, V's, Roy's, and Bruce's pages are done. As well as this story's. :) Link is on my profile. And remember guys, review~!