A/N - Back from a much needed trip to San Diego with my crazy ass friends last time I ever play King's cup and tell a girl that she can't talk when I draw a Jack card but anyways thanks for being patient people. The team is now on Apokolips and ready to save Miss Martian or are they?

Enjoy!

All Wally could see at the moment was gold light. He was traveling through Doctor Fate's portal he assumed with the rest of the Team. He was in the portal was for what seemed like five minutes and then he crashed on his back hard.

"Damn," he grunted sitting up slowly. He looked behind him and saw that Doctor Fate's portal was still open. Wally looked around and saw that the rest of the Team was getting up slowly too. Some were holding their heads, others were making sure their equipment wasn't damaged. Finally Connor came through the portal and landed on his back but got up instantly ready to go.

"Alright everyone knows the mission parameters," said Connor quickly. "We get in, find M'Gann, and we get out."

"Slow down Supey," said Wally. "It's not going to be as easy as that."

"Dick, Tim, and I downloaded schematics from Batman's computer without him knowing," said Barbara.

"I'm sure he knew," said Artemis. "He probably just thought that we would never make this journey."

"Good," shouted the clone. "You've got schematics, we know how to navigate the place, and now we're wasting time! Let's go!"

"Connor," said Kaldur sternly. "I understand that you're ready to find M'Gann, we all are. But if you can't focus you're going to be a liability and we can't have that in an unknown territory."

Connor took a few deep breaths. "Okay," he said. "I'm sorry, but according to Zatanna today is M'Gann's last day and if we don't hurry she's dead."

"And it's not going to come to that," said Dick. "But we still need a plan." He looked at Barbara and Tim and they all activated their holo-computers. A giant castle made of stone appeared and began rotating.

"This is Darkseid's castle," explained Tim. "It's the center of all Apokolips."

"There will be some dangerous people here," continued Barbara. "Desaad, Granny Goodness, Hellspore, The Furies, and of course Darkseid himself."

"Good he's going to pay for taking M'Gann," growled Connor.

"Connor," said Cassie putting a hand on his shoulder gently. "I know you want revenge, but taking out Darkseid is not mission priority and he's way out of any of our league."

"She's right," said Jaime also putting a hand on his shoulder. "We're here to get your girl, and then get the hell out of here."

"And fight our way out only if we have to," said La'Gaan with his arms crossed.

Wally couldn't help but smile; the little freshman had come pretty far in just a little while.

"Fine," agreed Connor. "Fighting is a last resort."

"And we should try to keep it that way," said Wally. "Zatanna do you have any idea how long the Doc's portal will remain open?"

Everyone looked at the magic user who shook her head no. "Nabu said that we need to try to get back as soon as possible," she said. "Holding portals open takes a lot of magic."

"He sounded like he was struggling when I left," admitted Connor.

"Then we need to move fast," said Dick. "The Teams will go as followed."

He got down on one knee and was about to assign them when Wally reached inside his suit. He pulled out a small disc that was black.

"Wally what is that," asked Barbara.

"We have a problem," said Wally slowly.

Flashback 1 hour ago

Wally was in his room at the Cave lying on his bed waiting for the League. He turned on his side and closed his eyes. He was just going to stay for the brief and then go home. Wally wanted to believe that M'Gann was alive, but they had looked at her body and examined it. Batman had looked at her body and examined it. The Bat didn't make mistakes so there was no way that she was alive. Now Zatanna was spitting crazy talk and she had managed to rope Connor into believing her. And if she was wrong, this was just going to break Supey's heart again; not to mention the Team was going to go on another emotional rollercoaster he wasn't ready for.

"Hey."

He turned and saw Artemis walk into the room in her uniform. She closed the door behind her and Wally sighed.

"Not you too," he said slowly sitting up.

"There are something's you can't explain with science Baywatch," explain Artemis. "You've worn the Helmet of Fate. Are you telling me that you could use the abilities that you used when you were Doctor Fate now?" Wally sighed and didn't answer respond. "I can never get you to shut up, and now you choose not to answer? What's really bothering you Wally?" Wally turned away from her and remained silent. "Don't you want Zatanna to be right?"

"OF COURSE I WANT HER TO BE RIGHT," roared Wally. He turned back to face her and there were tears streaming down his face. "There's not a night I haven't gone to sleep in the last month wondering if I had been there to help them would it had made a difference."

Artemis was quiet then she put her hands on his shoulders. "Why have you been holding this in the whole time," she asked gently.

"Because what if Zatanna's wrong," asked Wally his voice mixed with emotion. "Do we seriously want to put the entire Team through the loss of being so close to a teammate and having it snatched away again? Do we want to put Connor through that again?"

Artemis sighed and wiped his face. "Do I want to do it for nothing no," she admitted. "Do I want to do it because there may be a glimmer of hope M'Gann's alive, yes."

He sighed and then he pulled her into a hug and kissed her forehead.

"I can't lose you the way Connor lost M'Gann," he said. "It would kill me."

"And it damn near killed him," she agreed. "But he needs the closure, we all do."

"Please Artemis don't go."

"I'm sorry Wally but the Team needs me to go, and they need you too."

Wally sighed and put his head down on her hair. There was no way that she was going to change her mind about going to Apokolips.

Wally exhaled deeply and said," fine I'll go, but Zatanna had better be right."

Artemis pulled back from the hug, gave him a kiss, and made her way to the door. When she opened it Batman standing outside.

"We were just," started Artemis but Batman put up a hand to stop her.

"What you do in your downtime is not my concern nor my business," he said. "You two have shown that you can have a relationship and that it doesn't affect the Team's progress."

"Oh... well okay." Artemis left and this time Batman entered the room and closed the door.

"We need to talk Wally," said the Dark Knight.

"Uh you're not my type Bats," said the Speedster. Batman sighed and walked up to Wally.

"I believe Zatanna," he said. "I know that you don't believe-"

"I do."

"What changed your mind?" Wally remained silent with a smirk. Batman raised an eyebrow but didn't question him. "Artemis is more convincing than I give her credit. But the reason I'm here is to tell you that I believe her also, but I know the Justice League will not. They will most surely try to stop you all from going to Apokolips."

"Well it's not like we could stop you all at once," admitted Wally.

"No you couldn't, but using smart tactics you could take us out one by one easily. Have Jaime Reyes take out Superman, you take out me, and Zatanna take out Hal Jordan, and the rest will come to you guys easy."

"Batman setting up the Justice League to be taken out? Who would've guessed it?"

Batman smiled a rare smile and said," I could easily incapacitate entire League if I wanted to but that's not the point." Batman opened his utility belt and took out a disc. "When the time comes Wally give this disc to Dick. He'll know what to do with it." Batman turned and left for the door, and Wally headed to his drawer to grab his uniform. "Oh and Wally, one more thing. Despite what you may think... male or female... I'm everyone's type."

End Flashback

Wally handed the disc to Dick who put it in his holo-computer and began typing away. A video recording of Batman appeared.

"Team if you are watching this video then you successfully knocked out the Justice League and have made it to Apokolips. Your mission is to find Miss Martian and return her to Earth safely. If you can in the process manage to obtain any resources from Apokolips or data bring them back with you to Earth. They will be invaluable in our fight against the Light. My suggestion is that you split into three teams. One to find Miss Martian, one as a distraction, and the last to find data. The choice is yours; good luck and come home safe. Batman out."

"Does he really think of everything like that," asked La'Gaan.

"It actually gets to be quite annoying," admitted Barbara.

"Who cares," yelled Connor. "Priority is to find M'Gann remember? We don't have time to look for data."

"Dude," said Wally. "If we have data on the Light they wont be able to kidnap anyone ever again. This is way too good an opportunity to pass up; we have to take this chance."

"I'm with Connor," said Zatanna. "My father is struggling to hold open the portal we don't have time for side trips."

"But if we could have more data," said Kaldur. "It would better prepare us.

Everyone looked at Dick who sighed. "Great," he grumbled. "I'm the deciding vote." He took a deep breath before continuing. "Here's what we'll do. Break into three teams and before you start yelling Connor, I have a plan if you'll listen." Connor glared at Dick but remained silent. "Connor, Jaime, Kaldur, Tim are Alpha. You guys locate Miss Martian and get back to the portal. Connor you're in charge." The Kryptonian nodded his head. "Beta is an all female squad, you guys will be our distraction and keep the guards off of us. Artemis you're leading." The archer sighed. "Delta is the remainder La'Gaan, Wally, and myself will extract any data that we can."

They all nodded their heads.

"Enough talk," roared Superboy. "Let's find M'Gann and go home!"

Kid Flash watched as Alpha and Beta squad left. "Are you sure about splitting us up like this dude," he asked.

"Large groups attract too much attention," explained Nightwing. "Are we all ready?"

"To kick Apokoliptian ass," roared Lagoon Boy. "Damn right!"

Kid Flash smiled and said," yeah this guy is way more fun than that new Robin."

Nightwing groaned and with a smile led the way to Darkseid's castle.

A/N - sorry for such a short chapter people but i'm still a little tired from a 10 hour car ride. I promise though tomorrow you wont be disappointed . I'll try to get up at least two chapters three if i'm really feeling it.