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Episode 2 EX-Sidekick Postal Service

Mount Justice: June 12th, 2010

Meghan was baking. human food was so cool, so many cooking shows, so many recipes, even if the most popular one was an angry man yelling at his employees. Meghan didn't care much for reality TV, even on Mars, Seseme Street, Dick Van Dyke, and all the old movies Star Labs had been broadcasting for over a year were more available anyway.

Wally was eager to help with clean up and more enthusiastic about taste testing. His remarks were mostly encouraging. Milk wasn't bad, but it was very strange. So far, she found that it only served as a binding agent, to make things fluids thicker and mashes and doughs creamier. It was like flour, cheese was like bread, edible but also an ingredient.

The rest of the team wasn't nearly as eager to test her samples, but similarly supportive.

"Team, report to the mission room"

The team filed in, lining up for the briefing. "This morning the Justice League subdued a modified, Metallo Prototype, it contained integrated New Genesis technologies. For obvious reasons, we want the entire league to make sure Metallo's parts make it to each destination safely."

Robin had been updating them on the fight for the past six hours. "Your job will be escorting half of the six-pound geode of kryptonite to an Argus Facility in Star City. It's a four-hour drive and the league can only be in so many places at once. Obviously, no one, but us will know the contents of each truck."

The team was anxious, but ready to prove they could do this job. Meghan was exited, this was her first mission, she hadn't even been on earth a week yet.

"Robin, make your strategy and get ready to move out."

Zatanna was riding in the truck, easy or not, magic was a misunderstood but diverse skill set, Robin wanted to use her skills in the mystic arts as a secret weapon.

Meghan Aqua Lad tailed with the bioship cloaked. Speedy and Robin were escorting, and Kid Flash was trailing a half-mile behind in an old Ford, to be called up as a secondary deterrent.

Robin had a well-trained danger sense. Something bad was going to happen he could feel it. Batman taught him to harness that feeling, use it as a tool. When he was younger, he thought Batman was paranoid and he was just afraid. Batman taught him different, Robin's hands didn't shake, he wasn't panicked, he wasn't afraid of the bad guys, he knew something was off.

People tried to explain it with Juju or Luck or Hex songs. It was the irrational foolishness of mankind. Batman had taught him about that too. Fear rules the minds of criminals, it guides their actions and thoughts. Fear can be controlled and manipulated.

Robin's train of thought was broken by Meghan's voice echoing inside his skull. 'LOOK OUT!' Robin felt the feeling climax as he yanked on the left handle and twisted the throttle. Narrrowly dodging the car that tried to kill him. He looked right at his attacker. The darkness couldn't hide the white hockey mask, covering Sportsmaster's face, or the killer glint in his eyes. 'Who is that Robin?' the invasive thoughts made his skull throb in pain. 'Meghan Comm!' he thought, hoping he understood telepathy.

"Robin can you hear me?" thankful she wasn't in his head distracting him responded. "It's Sportsmaster, he's a member of the League of Shadows." Zatanna responded concerned, "Can you take him?"

Robin took out his front tire with a Bat-erang "yeah I got him" The car was going at least seventy, it skidded left before flipping and tumbling to a stop as the escort zipped away.

"Speedy Check in how's it looking up there?" "Fine so far, wait… SHIT!"

Robin watched an explosion ring out ahead, a pickup truck ahead of them had another shadow member standing in the back reloading a rocket launcher. He swerved around the inferno. "Incendiary, holy crap." Kid Flash called out on the radio, "I'm coming up!"

Kid flashed, past robin and ran along side the pickup, grabbing at the launcher, only to get shot at by the driver with a crossbow. Kid dropped to behind the Shadow's truck, still trying to struggle with the more heavily armed of the two. He managed to drag the shadow out of the back of the car, not wanting to drop her at that speed was forced to slow down, Robin sped past, the other shadow needed to be disabled too.

Then the driver turned the pick-up turned side-ways and skidded it to a stop. Robin and Speedy dodged the maneuver, The Semi didn't have time to slow down, it collided with the pick-up coming to a screeching halt. Robin and speedy began to circle back. "Zatanna you ok?" "I'll live but Holy Fuck who's driving this thing?" Robin sped back, Speedy in tow. Robin jumped from his bike and pulled the ARGUS agent from the cab, the air bag saved his life, but little else, they were completely dazed. Speedy fired an arrow at the shadow, leveling a crossbow at him, forcing her to take cover on the far side of the wreck.

Robin recognized the Tigress ohmage. Sportsmaster's retired ex-wife? Some relevance? They weren't in contact. Kids? Maybe.

Robin didn't have time to do analysis, he dragged the agent to the middle of the road. 'Meghan come get this guy.' The bioship decloaked seconds later with Aqua Lad jumping out the back to take the agent.

Robin looked up 'Kid' 'He's trying to keep the other shadow busy.' Meghan's voice in his head wasn't as painful now. Robin used his comm "Kid get up here! Zatana get that crate out here! Speedy keep that Tigress knockoff pinned."

The crate came flying out the back of the trailer. Kid Flash caught it and ran for the Bioship, stopping short and stumbling to a sprawl on the pavement, a large red dart poking out of his back explained why. Kid seethed in pain. "FUCK!" Robin grapple gunned the case. Throwing it over his shoulder to Aqua Lad. Speedy ran to assist the red-haired speedster.

Robin caught a javelin and spun in a circle carrying the momentum and sending it flying back at Sportsmaster, who was running full sprint towards them. Robin knew the math, he had a 3:48 mile without gear, 3:58 in body armor, his top speed would be 26 miles per hour even if he could only sustain it for a few hundred feet, not a lot of time.

Every fiber of Robin's being told him to "fight that guy!" but he needed to: dodge. Robin jerked his head to the right, letting a crossbow bolt fly over his left shoulder. "Speedy! I told you to keep her pinned!" he yelled dropping a smoke bomb "Were out of here!" Robin bolted for the bioship but was deterred by another crossbow bolt, missing his shoulder by less than an inch.

The boy wonder threw a blind electrostatic disk and hurtled forward faster, pulling his cape in the way of a hockey puck bomb. It absorbed the initial heat wave, but the force threw him backward. KF saw his friend get tossed and bolted in to help. Cheshire was using the divider to advance on them, throwing a series of eight-pointed shuriken at them. KF poked them out of the air one by one.

Robin recovered and threw another electric disk at Tigress followed by a quip "How's your mom's old outfit holding up?" The response was efficient if not classy: Fuck You!

Robin smirked he had an in, "She must be so proud of the family business." Sports master was closing in, preparing a disc, 'Meghan Catch his next throwable.' He thought. "I mean I know your mom isn't doing anything this fun, seeing as her job put her in a wheelchair" KF poked two throwing knives out of the air, "Dude I think you're pissing them off." Meghan caught the disc mid-air with her telekinesis, and Robin blew it up with a bat-erang over his shoulder.

Kalder advanced on Sportsmaster using his water-bearers to make twin blades. "Robin! The shadows are not our mission this night." Sportsmaster crossed blades with Aqua Lad battering at the Atlantian with a flurry of swings and strikes. Aqua Lad blocked and countered, giving up ground in pace, to lessen the force and retreat toward the bioship. "Not bad for a fish stick!"

Speedy set of a pair of explosive arrows at the barrier keeping Chesire hidden from sight. "Let's Go!" Kid flash swept the Atlantian off his feet and retreated toward the bioship.

Robin joined his comrades on the bioship with equal haste. "GO, GO, GO!"

So, I'm telling my own story with these Artemis a bad guy! I know this was a thing in the comics, I didn't know that till I started writing this and checked her mom's name. I will use Superboy eventually because he is awesome. So, fans of the half-kryptonian hold tight.