Fair warning. Since this show is a decade old (weird how time passes), I'm just going to refer to whatever music and other media I want without worrying about anachronisms. Enjoy the chapter!

-TheDarkAbyss

Location: Mount Justice

Date: Aug 8th

Time: 13:34

Emmy shot up in her infirmary bed. She looked at the clock. It had only been a few hours since she got back to Earth. Four concerned sets of eyes surrounded her. She had three IV bags connected into a single tube entering her right arm. Her left shoulder was bandaged and her whole arm was in a sling. Her head was pounding and M'gann, ever the empath, put a water bottle to Emmy's mouth. Emmy drank the whole thing. She was surprised at how much better she felt.

"So, how was the beach?" She asked with a smirk.

Poor Megs looked ready to cry.

"We were just trying to have some fun and get my mind off the problems on my home world we weren't trying to abandon you or-"

"Woah, woah, woah, M'Gann," Emmy sat up more. "You did nothing wrong." The other three were avoiding her too. "None of you did. I got called away on GL business, so I did the GL business! You could not have and should not have come. What were you supposed to do? Mope around until I got back? Besides, I wasn't even gone that long," Emmy tried to coax smiles out of her teammates.

"The 75 hours felt long," Robin muttered. She felt oddly touched that they seemed to have felt her absence deeply.

"Oh." Emmy's stomach grumbled loudly. "Well, I could use some food and some beach time then!"

After some persuasion, throwing her ring in the lantern to charge, and a promise not to play volleyball with them, Emmy and her teammates (minus Wally) were on the beach again. This time eating hotdogs and telling stories. Hunter and Sage hugged her tightly, and she wished she would stop getting called away from Earth so often. Emmy gave a brief overview of the civil war between the clones. Then the other four teens had given her a debrief on their Amazo mission. Evidently, Superboy had really made some great leaps in his team player mindset. He blushed when M'gann complimented the way he beat Ivo. And a mysterious green arrow had saved Kid from being crushed at the last minute. Robin leaned in conspiratorially when he told Emmy he didn't think the arrow was from Speedy because it was green.

Emmy had a very vague idea of who Speedy was, but she kept her mouth shut. She caught the bird staring at her tattoo as it peaked out from underneath her sling. She smirked and lifted her arm up a little, ignoring the burning pain.

"A butterfly over a bullet scar," his face was so close to hers that she could see a touch of blue eyes through his sunglasses. "Very poetic."

She rolled her eyes and nudged his shoulder lightly. She had thin black outlines of two butterflies on her ribs. The lower one was a little bigger, covered the bullet scar so that it was harder to tell what made it, and wrapped around her side slightly. The smaller one sat on the front of her last true rib. They were five years old, but they still looked good even if the lines were wispy in a few places now. Emmy liked them better that way. They changed along with her body. The team spent two hours on the beach before Batman called them to get ready for a new mission assignment.

Emmy was standing with her team, all of them fully clothed again, by the Zeta Tube, wondering what this whole thing was about when a robotic voice filled the quiet mountain.

"Recognize: Kid Flash; B-0-3."

Wally appeared in the Zeta Tube, arms full of beach day items. "The Wall-man is here!" He called out, unwisely running in flip flops. "Let's get this party star-" He got cut off when he tripped on his umbrella pole and smashed into Emerald. Thanks to only having one arm available, all Emmy could do was accept her fate and slam into the ground as a brightly colored beach ball bounced past Batman. Wally lifted his head out of Emmy's good shoulder and finished his sentence weakly "-ted."

"Ow," Emmy groaned. "Listen, Kid Fiasco, I know it's inevitable that you'll fall for me, but it's supposed to be metaphorical."

"Oh, Please, Green Large-ass, the only reason I would ever fall for you would be if you gained any more mass and the gravitational pull of your grotesque face sent me plummeting towards the Earth's core." He pulled back from her slightly and noticed her bandaged arm.

"Wait, when did you get back? What happened to your shoulder?"

"Today. War." Emmy deadpanned.

"Are you okay?" Wally's concern was so genuine and immediate that she floundered and had no idea how to respond with his clear green eyes completely focused on her.

She opened her mouth to bypass the opportunity to have a genuine conversation by hitting him with an insult when a new voice entered the equation.

"Wall-man and Green Large-ass, huh? So, when's the wedding?"

The girl's voice illuminated their current position. Emerald was on her back propped up on her right elbow with her left one pinned to her chest by the sling and Wally's body. Wally, very shirtless Wally, had fallen directly between her legs. On the way down, he put his right hand behind her head to keep her skull from cracking on the cave floor. What a gentleman, she scoffed to herself. So, one of his palms was on the back of her head, and the other was on the floor brushing against her free elbow. Their heads had gotten closer during their quippy conversation, and it probably looked five seconds away from being an X-rated moment despite the abandoned beach equipment strewn about. Wally was off of her before she could blink, and Emmy did a quick backward roll to her feet. She had been planning on clearing her throat, but her shoulder bumped the ground painfully when she rolled, and she hissed instead.

"Who is this?" Wally yelled accusatorily. His cheeks were tinted a slight pink, but he sent an almost worried look at Emmy when he heard her pained exhale and took a half step closer to her.

All their teammates smirked at the embarrassment irradiating off their two snappiest members. Emmy ignored her similarly pink cheeks and turned to view the bodiless voice. Oh, you have got to be kidding me. There, in all her Green Arrow glory, stood Artemis Crock. Her half-sister.

Emmy's spine locked in place, and she swallowed her heart as it tried to jump out of her mouth. What was with all the accidental family reunions lately? Calm down and get it together, East. Artemis didn't seem to recognize her, so it was most likely that the light-haired blonde girl had no idea who she was. Fathers who cheat on their wives and have a second "family" don't usually tell their legitimate kids about the bastard ones, right? Right!?

"Artemis. Your new teammate," she introduced herself almost teasingly.

"Kid Flash. Never heard of you," Wally matched her tone.

"Emmy," the Lantern nodded at the girl in what she hoped was a casual manner.

Green Arrow stepped up. "Um, she's my new protégé."

Wally's eyes went wide. "What happened to your old one?" he stuttered in concern. The Zeta Tube answered his question.

"Recognize: Speedy; B-0-6."

"Well for starters, he doesn't go by Speedy anymore." A random redhead walked out of the Zeta Tube. "Call me Red Arrow."

The original trio of sidekicks looked stunned by his appearance and Green Arrow jumped to react. Emmy zoned out during the new guy's introduction. She kept trying to subtly stare at Artemis. The blonde had an impassive face and was focused on the new, taller redhead. New Guy was probably Kaldur's age or older. Emmy decided that Artemis had had plenty of time to recognize her. She had not, which meant that Lawrence had only shared his infidelity with the Easts. Okay, that's fine. You're fine. She clearly isn't like him either if Green Arrow is teaching her. Emmy relaxed. She would befriend Artemis like she had Megan and eventually figure out what was going on with the girl.

Roy turned to the blonde archer. "Can she even use that bow?"

"No, it's decorative," Emmy scoffed at New Guy at the same time Artemis stepped up to him declaring, "Yes, she can."

Artemis and Emmy's team looked at the darker blonde in shock. They hadn't expected anyone to stand up for Artemis, but the Lantern was still looking at Red Arrow unimpressed. Emmy had a bad habit of being overprotective of her siblings, and even though this was her first time officially meeting Artemis, that spark of familial rage was still there.

"You're the one talking about being independent even though your new name is literally just your mentor's with a different color, so how about you step back and crawl out of her ass, Red Arrow?" Emmy glared at Roy.

"Who are you?" Wally and Roy snapped simultaneously, each looking at the girl they hadn't seen before.

Artemis and Green Arrow quickly declared a story about Artemis being his niece, while Wally wheeled on Emmy. Any concern long forgotten.

"You haven't even met Roy before, so you don't get to try to scare him away! You know nothing about him," he frowned at his teammate. She narrowed her eyes at the speedster.

"I know that he threw a tantrum about not being asked to join the League and abandoned you guys to go to Cadmus by yourself!" Wally crossed his arms at her response.

"Another niece?" Robin quipped, ignoring the separate arguments.

"But she is not your replacement." Kaldur assured Roy even though the older boy wouldn't look at him. "We have always wanted you on the Team, and we have no quota on archers."

Wally stopped scowling at Emmy to happily turn to Roy. "And if we did, you know who we'd pick."

"Pfft," Emmy scoffed and turned to her secret half-sister. "I have never met or seen Unoriginal Arrow before in my life, so you're my top pick."

Artemis smirked at Emmy appreciatively. "Your girlfriend is way out of your league, Baywatch."

"She's not my girlfriend!"

"I'm not his girlfriend!" The Lantern and speedster glowered at each other when they finished speaking at the same time.

"Right," Artemis continued unconvinced. "Either way, I'm here to stay."

"Nice rhyme," an obnoxiously amused Robin chimed in.

Roy started to walk away but Kaldur stopped him, "You came to us for a reason."

"Yeah, a reason named Dr. Serling Roquette," Roy admitted, observing Robin as the young gymnast excitedly recognized the name. Emmy frowned in recognition.

"The weird nanotech lady?" She asked.

"What would you know about nanotech?" Wally barked, still annoyed with her.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Emmy glared. "You're right. You are the resident expert on all things nanoscale." She looked pointedly between his legs. Wally's frown deepened as Artemis chuckled loudly. Right when I thought we were starting to get along.

"Try nanorobotics genius and claytronics expert at Royal University in Star City. Vanished two weeks ago," Robin corrected with a smile, pulling data up with his hologlove.

"Abducted two weeks ago by the League of Shadows," Roy corrected.

"Whoa. You want us to rescue her from the Shadows?" Robin asked, visibly excited.

"Hard-core," Wally agreed, initiating a fist bump with the bird.

"I already rescued her," Roy burst their bubble before continuing. "Only one problem," he pulled up a screen next to Robin's. "The Shadows had already coerced her into building a weapon. Doc calls it the Fog, comprised of millions of microscopic robots, nanotech infiltrators, capable of disintegrating anything in their path, concrete, steel, flesh, bone, but it's true purpose isn't mere destruction. It's theft. The infiltrators eat and store raw data from any computer system and deliver the stolen data to the Shadows."

Roy let the concerning information ruminate for a moment before he finished. "Providing them access to weapons, strategic defense, cutting edge science and tech."

"Perfect for extortion, manipulation, and power broking," Artemis listed. "Yeah. Sounds like the Shadows."

"Like you know anything about the Shadows," Wally scoffed. His smirk falling when Artemis sent him one of her own. His frustration built before he finally yelled "Who are you?"

Emmy waved a hand in his face and started rapidly signing as she spoke. "She said her name was Artemis. What are you deaf too now?"

"Roquette's working on a virus to render the Fog inert," Roy stated ignoring yet another argument.

"But if the Shadows know she can do that…" Robin trailed off.

"They'll target her," Roy nodded. "Right now, she's off the grid. I stashed her at the local high school's computer lab."

Emmy snorted while Green Arrow questioned his old sidekick. "You left her alone?"

"She's safe enough for now," Roy argued.

Green Arrow started asking Roy to join him for the mission, but Batman stopped the blonde man. Green Arrow told Roy it was the team's mission now and Roy left the cave. Wally was shifting his glare between the two blondes, but Batman halted any more arguments by turning to Emmy in front of everyone. "Are you capable of contributing to this mission? Robin informed me that you had nine pieces of shrapnel removed from your shoulder when you returned to Earth."

"Don't worry about me, Batman," Emmy smiled at him. "The ring will increase my healing once it's done charging."

She called to her ring and thankfully found it re-energized.

"Returned to Earth?" Artemis asked slowly.

"Yeah," Emmy felt her ring approaching and took her sling off carefully. The ring shot onto her left hand and she powered up, relieved to find that the throbbing pain in her should immediately dulled. "I'm a Green Lantern."

Artemis mouth fell open slightly, "Woah."

Emmy sent the lighter blonde a small smile. Damnit, East. Stop trying to impress your younger half-sister and focus.

Location: Happy Harbor

Date: Aug 8, 2010

Time: 21:59

The team was inside and around the local high school. Megan and Superboy were on the roof, Aqualad was in the hallway, and the other four were inside the computer lab. Emmy was laying down on a table with one leg dangling over the edge and one foot propped up. She could feel Wally's periodic glare at her, but he couldn't say anything since they were staying silent. Aqualad commanded Megan to link them up, and she did so quickly.

Artemis groaned slightly, sitting down on the desk Dr. Roquette was working at. "This is weird."

"And distracting," Doc complained mentally. "Coding a distributive algorithm virus on a kiddie computer with less RAM than a wristwatch is hard enough. Now I have to hear teen-think in my skull?" she gripped her head with annoyance.

Emmy sat up and glared at the woman unimpressed. "Hey Doc, which one of us made a deadly fog that could eat through anything without thinking, 'Hmm, perhaps I should throw in a line of human genome, so it knows what to stay away from?'"

Wally was eating a granola bar on a window ledge while Robin looked out of the blinds from behind a pillar. He mentally chuckled at Emmy's rebuttal. "Yeah Lady, do you always complain when someone tries to help you?"

"Pot, kettle," Artemis raised her hands. "Have you met?"

"Hey, I do not need attitude from the newbie who drove Red Arrow off the team," he whirled on Emmy when he heard her snort. "And you didn't help either!"

Artemis frowned at the redhead. "That is so not on us!" Emmy gestured at Artemis in agreement.

"Fate of the world at stake!" Doc snapped. Emmy threw an aggressive curse at her in sign language, knowing the doctor wouldn't understand it.

"She started it," Kid argued childishly. Artemis offered to go help patrol the perimeter and started walking away before Aqualad could tell her that was a good idea.

Robin told Wally to cut Artemis some slack since her arrow was the one that saved him from Amazo. Wally hung his head at the realization before griping, "Well, I'm still not giving her the satisfaction."

"She can still hear you, Kid Futile," Emmy looked at him from her spot on the table. Artemis confirmed from her position outside and Wally groaned out loud.

"I couldn't get the Justice League," Roquette grumbled, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"We couldn't get a decent coder," Emmy mimicked the same tone and motion. Now a little offended by the notion that her team was incompetent even though she had basically said the same thing back at Cadmus.

Wally started to huff a laugh but stopped and glared at Emmy. "Stop making me laugh. I'm still mad at you."

"Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't realize I'd ticked off my girlfriend," Emmy scowled back at the speedster.

Aqualad pointed out that the virus wouldn't do much if they couldn't locate the fog weapon, and Doc started ranting about her fog being 'beautiful science' and 'not a weapon' and that she could track it if they only had a safe internet connection.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night, Oppenheimer," Emmy mentally muttered. She saw Wally's lips twitch upward, but then she winked at him and his countenance returned to a scowl. Aqualad assured the Doc that they would protect her if she tracked the fog, so she went online and quickly identified its location.

Artemis had joined the half of the team outside and scoured the perimeter. Superboy walked in front of her and she let her first thought enter the chat.

"Mmm…that boy."

"He can hear you," Miss Martian snapped while Emmy failed to stop a mental chuckle from entering the chat. "We can all hear you!" Maybe some competition would make Megs admit her feelings to the clone faster.

"Oh, I know," Artemis drew out with a slightly smug voice.

Emmy heard Aqualad tell Megan to get the bioship ready for Superboy and Robin and noticed two less presences in the back of her mind as they got out of range. She couldn't help but worry that her mental wall keeping the team out of all her thoughts wasn't strong enough; she needed more practice with that. Right now, she was concerned that a certain secret relation to a certain Greek goddess would slip out, so she closed her eyes and started singing 'Often' by The Weeknd in her head. She spent most of her time singing in her head anyway. She tried to keep it confined to her mind only, but as she relaxed a snippet slid into the group consciousness.

"Ask me if I do this every day, I said, "Often."

Ask how many times she rode the wave- "Not so often".

Bitches down to do it either way, often.

Baby I can make that pussy rain, often," She sang softly in her head.

She wasn't getting a record deal anytime soon, but she had a decent voice, so she wasn't self-conscious about the possibility of her team accidentally hearing her.

Wally was thrown off by the husky voice suddenly singing in his mind. He recognized it as a sexier version of Emmy's and turned to the Lantern mentally sputtering, "Are you-are you seriously thinking about pussy right now?!"

Crap, my mental block is weak, Emmy thought to herself before replying. "No. I'm thinking about a song about pussy. There's a difference."

"Yeah, cheer up, Baywatch. She hasn't decided to leave you for another woman quite yet. But who could blame her if she did?" Artemis's voice interjected mischievously.

Emmy snorted in her mind. The moody scientist glowered at them, Aqualad chastised their banter, and they went silent again. Kid started walking out of the classroom and motioned for Emmy to come with; she rolled her eyes but complied. He leaned against the wall outside the classroom and appraised her.

"Yes?" she whispered expectantly, trying to talk without getting in trouble over the mind link again. He couldn't hear her, so they ended up pressed together.

His voice barely registered in her ear, but she was suddenly all too aware of his body heat. "Are you a lesbian? You were awfully flirty with Canary."

She smirked up at him. Enjoying how he gulped and looked away quickly as she stood on her tiptoes, using his shoulder for balance, and asked her own question. "Why? Did it make you jealous when I hit on Canary and not you?"

He turned to her with an overly defensive expression about to rebut when a shadow on the floor caught their attention. They pulled away and chased it down the hall. They split up with Wally heading toward the pool and Emmy going to the gym. The gym was empty, and she frowned. She tried calling to Wally and got nothing. Emmy raced back to the computer lab.

She got back just in time to hear a woman tell Aqualad that he had been poisoned.

"We're under attack in the computer lab. One of you come here, and the other go check on Wally in the pool," Emmy barked through the link. She slammed the woman between the floor and ceiling a few times before running to the groaning Aqualad. His eyes were unfocused, but he shook his head and sent a water whip at Cat Lady's face. Emmy sent another lasso around the woman and pinned her arms to her side.

"What poison did you use?" She narrowed her eyes at the cat mask.

Aqualad was trying to move Roquette out of the room but his motions were getting noticeably slower. Cat Lady used Emmy's glance at Aqualad as an opportunity to flick a shuriken at the Lantern. It hit her still sore shoulder and she dropped her structure with a hiss. The Cat kicked at Emmy. She caught it underneath her arm, yanked the shuriken out of her deltoid and shoved the unused side into the Cat's thigh. Cat Lady's eyes went wide under the mask.

"Poison a teammate twice shame on me," Emmy offered already feeling a little woozy.

"Jellyfish toxin," Aqualad muttered. Whacking the woman with a water sword. "I'm largely immune."

Shit. I'm not. "Largely," Cat Lady taunted as the Atlantean fell to the ground. The Cat pulled a small needle out of her mask and stabbed it into her thigh. Emmy needed that mask and the anti-toxin. She sliced at the woman with a large green sword as Artemis burst through the door and aimed an arrow at the woman.

Emmy stumbled and leaned against a desk. She was starting to feel slow.

"This gig is getting interesting," Cat Lady purred. Artemis shot at her, but the woman cut the arrow with her sword. Emmy caught the Cat in a box barely large enough for her body. Artemis looked at the other blonde in surprise before turning to the woman in the cage.

Emmy groaned and the cage started to flicker right as Kid and Miss M came in the door. "Maybe a little too interesting," she admitted. The assassin jumped out of the cage and threw down a smoke bomb when Emmy fell to her knees.

Kid jumped through the smoke only to find Cat Lady gone. He turned on Artemis. "This was all your fault. You were on the perimeter! How'd that Shadow get in?"

"That's not really fair," Megan interjected. "I was outside too."

"Outside being distracted by her." he snapped before his tone got flirtatious. "Besides, I can't be mad at you." His mind connected to the group, "You gave me mouth-to-mouth."

Miss Martian's eyes went wide in slight embarrassment. "We heard that!" Artemis snaps angrily. "Your girlfriend is right there, Dude," gesturing in Emmy's general direction, not realizing the Lantern was struggling.

Kid Flash turned away with a groan, "Dang it! And for the last time, she's not my girlfriend."

"Will you guys shut the fuck up and help me get to my feet?" Emmy complained in their heads, her vision speeding up in some spots and slowing down in others. They all whirled around to the Lantern facedown on the floor, blood dripping down her arm. Aqualad moved to her with concern, his mind had been too cloudy to realize she had also been poisoned. Wally beat him to it and quickly lifted Emmy to her feet. She slumped forward into his chest and he sprang to wrap his arms around her before snapping his head toward Kaldur.

"What the hell happened to her?"

"How long does this jellyfish toxin crap last?" Emmy asked mentally. "I can't move."

"I-"Kaldur hesitated. "It is not lethal for a human, but it can be painful and paralytical for a few hours. Sometimes even days."

Emmy sighed into the speedster's suit.

"This is all your fault!" She heard him yell at Artemis over her head. "She got poisoned because of you."

"No, I got poisoned because I looked at Aqualad instead of paying attention to the chick in front of me." Emmy smirked into his chest, feeling woozy again. "I caught her leg and stabbed her in the thigh with the other side of the shuriken though. I bet that looked pretty badass."

Wally huffed an exasperated laugh into her hair. "I'm sure it did," he placated into the green waves.

"We need to find the Cat girl and make her give us the antidote," Artemis snapped, Megan nodding her head with concern.

"Can you put me on a table or something?" Emmy asked through the link. Wally furrowed his brows but laid her down on her back.

"What, you gunna nap it off?" He asked incredulously.

"Nope," she responded mentally. "I'm going to make my body get the toxin out of my system faster. Ignore me, I'll probably be a bit."

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Alright, Ring. Time to help a girl out again. As she exhaled her hair, eyes, and bright parts of her uniform started glowing and she floated a few inches off the table. Her other teammates shared concerned glances but decided to trust that the Lantern knew what she was doing.

"Believe it or not," Megan offered to the new girl, "my first mission actually went a lot worse." She put her hand on the archer's shoulder and continued comforting the girl while Aqualad spoke to Robin over the comms and Wally tried not to look like he was staring at Emmy. Aqualad decided it was time to move the petrified doctor.

There was a slight argument when Wally thought that they should bring Emmy with them, but no one knew if moving her body would cause any problems or not. He snapped something about not leaving a teammate behind and picked her up bridal style as they moved to the new location.

Dr. Roquette was inside the single room building, typing on her computer. The glowing Lantern girl was inside as well, but the other four teens were protecting the building from outside. The doctor sighed again when the in-charge one told the archer one and the fast one to stop glaring at each other because he could feel it mentally. The fast one told the archer one that the lantern one better be okay 'or else'.

Dr. Roquette grit her teeth before snapping at the teens again through the mental link. "Do you not realize how serious this situation is?"

"Oh, you mean how one of us is in a coma because of your Fog screw up?"

"We get it, Red,' Dr. Roquette rolled her eyes and doubled her typing efforts. "You like the green one that glows. She said she would be fine so calm down."

Fast one indignantly stuttered through the link. "I do not like her. In fact, most of the time I can barely tolerate her," she felt him glare at the non-glowing, non-cape-wearing, green archer one. She sighed. Why were all the girls on this team green in one way or another? "But Lantern is an actual member of this team unlike Fake Arrow over here."

"Enough, Kid," Aqualad interjected. "We are all concerned for Lantern, but she will be fine. Focus."

Kid and Artemis were observing the Doc from the top of the computer tower when a black figure broke through the window. Kid started sparring with the assassin as Artemis shot at the new hooked-hand figure who entered. Dr. Roquette started to panic but Artemis shot another arrow and turned to her sternly commanding, "Don't stop typing!"

Emmy felt her body return to being active and her mind clear a bit. She dropped into a crouch and took in her surroundings. Cat Lady was looking at Megan pretending to be Doc and angrily yelled, "We've been duped!"

Emmy tackled the woman from behind and threw a structure on top to keep her down. "That was an interesting poison, Cat Girl. I'll give you style points for hiding the antidote in the whiskers of your mask." Wally zipped over to the Lantern and poked her in the face. It startled her so much that she dropped the structure and Cat Lady ran away yelling about pursuing the target. The group started fighting the Hook guy and black spider guy as Artemis jumped out the window and yelled that she was pursuing the leader.

"Why did you do that?" Emmy screamed at Wally before jumping on Hook guy's back and strangling his neck, using a structure to keep his hook away from her.

"I was checking to see if you were okay," Wally yelled defensively while fighting the other assassin.

"By poking me in the face?" Emmy snapped in his direction, letting go of Hook boy and kicking him out the window when she noticed that Megan had a rope around her neck too tightly.

"It seemed like a good option at the time!" he screamed at her while blocking punches of the second assassin.

Once Megan was free, the two girls dove away from the Hook guy. "We need to end this!" Megan stated through the mind link. Emmy nodded at the Martian while sending 1000 darts toward the two attackers.

"It's like you read my mind, beautiful!" Wally called over his shoulder. He grabbed the red webs that had been shot onto his shoulder and used them to spin and throw the assassin toward Emmy's massive green fist. She punched the assailant into the pews behind them and he crashed through two rows before falling unconscious. The lantern and speedster fist bumped.

"You're an idiot," she muttered at him while Megan cheered about beating her assassin.

The trio jogged toward the rest of their group. Aqualad asked Artemis where the leader was, and she looked at the ground and said that she got away.

"Oh, from you?" Kid taunted. "Big surprise. Notice how we got ours." He pointed at the two unconscious assassins bound with green rope structures floating telekinetically. His tone changed to jovial when he leaned down to pick up Cat Lady's mask. "Cool. Souvenir!"

"Did you see her?" Aqualad pulled a few darts out of his chest. "Her face?"

"It was dark," Artemis looked into the bay defensively. Emmy quirked an eyebrow. Now there's a lie if I've ever heard one. Interesting.

"It's fine," Aqualad assured her. "Robin and Superboy neutralized the Fog, and Dr. Roquette is safe, thanks in no small part to you."

The archer turned back to the four other heroes. "Welcome to the team," Aqualad smiled. She gave a small one in return.

Emmy rolled her eyes at Wally's newest souvenir and casually threw an arm around Artemis's shoulder. "Everyone has a shitty first mission."

Artemis raised an eyebrow at the girl. "Are you putting your arm on me as a gesture of friendship or because you're still feeling the poison?"

Emmy paused and glanced at Artemis out of the corner of her eye. "You know, actions can often be multidimensional, Moon Goddess." The archer snorted but put her arm around the Lantern's waist and tried to help her stand up more.

Wally frowned at Emmy and she sheepishly admitted, "I kind of heard you guys struggling in the fight and came out a little early."

Megan cut off Wally's lecture about that being a bad decision and beamed at the two girls. "I've always wanted two sisters!" she hesitated. "Here on Earth, I mean. I have twelve back on Mars, but trust me, it's not the same." Emmy snorted in agreement.

Artemis sent a questioning glance at the green-haired girl. "I have a sister. Brother too. You'll meet them eventually," Emmy smiled. "Fair warning though, teammate or not, if they ever end up hurt directly because of you, you die." Alright, so she was still hesitant to totally trust the girl who had spent more time with their father than the Easts had. Especially since Artemis just lied about letting Cat Girl get away. Sue her.

Everyone blinked in surprise at the change of tone from the one girl who had been defending Artemis's presence from the beginning. "I-" Artemis halted. "Noted."

"Great," Emmy smiled lazily. "Absolutely welcome then."

Megan elbowed Wally, and he huffed. "Yeah. Welcome." His tone begrudging, and his glare noticeable.

Emmy took her arm off Artemis and did a handstand in an attempt to gauge how much of her balance was back. She lasted a few seconds, watching the archer and speedster shake hands shortly, before kicking her legs over her head and standing up. She groaned as the world spun and grabbed her head.

"Shit. Too soon."

"Ya think, Einstein?" Wally scoffed from her side, but he put his arm around her waist and helped her get to the bioship.

"Are you mad at me about Red Arrow or not?" She asked him, slightly drowsy. "You've been very hot and cold with the anger today."

He rolled his eyes. "Still mad about Red Arrow. Still concerned about my teammate. It's a delicate balance. I'll let you know when I figure it out."

"Don't worry. I was a little indecisive when I was your age too."

"You're barely older than I am!"

Location: Mount Justice

Date: Aug 9th

Time: 01:27

Emmy was finally feeling normal again. Her ring had finished flushing the toxins from her body. Her shoulder was still sore, but the shrapnel puncture wounds were healed up and had not even left scars. It should be totally normal again in a week or so. She had popped into the kitchen for some water when she bumped into her favorite teammate doing the same thing. Emmy shifted slighted. She had given the group a short summary of what had happened on Mars, but this was her first time alone with Megan since getting home.

"M'gann?" Emmy turned to the girl, feeling that using her true name was most appropriate here.

"Yes," Megan looked tired and a little scared. Emmy bit her lip, unsure of how to proceed. It would be easier to just go back to bed, but she felt like she needed to reach out to the Martian.

"I had no idea what it was like on Mars. I'm so sorry, M'gann. I can't even fathom how horrible it must feel to be one of the last Green Martians, but I'm here if you ever want to talk, cook, or punch something," Emmy finally offered.

Megan got a downcast face. Emmy knew the Martian was hiding something, but as a secret keeper herself she wasn't going to prod the girl.

"Did," Megan halted. "Did you think that the White Martians looked horrible and scary?"

Emmy wanted to support her friend and yell that they were all monsters, but she decided to tell the truth. She thought of the death and smoke and destruction she witnessed during the short clone war. She had held White Martians hands as they died. Sure, they were startling to look at after a lifetime of mostly humanoid companions, but they didn't look evil. And just as most of the Germans alive today weren't Nazis, most of the White Martians she had seen were kind and horrified by the war, grateful that the Lanterns were there to stop it.

"No," Emmy met the misting brown eyes. "They looked scared."

Megan abruptly hugged Emmy. The shorter girl felt like she had just passed a test she didn't know she was taking.

"Goodnight, Emmy."

"Goodnight, Megs."