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Great we're lost in this blizzard how are we supposed to get to the rendevous point now, we're gonna die out here!" Artemis yelled, trying to be heard over the wind. "Wait I think I see something" Wally said, then without asking for permission scooped up Artemis and ran them to a small shack he had seen in the distance. He thought to himself how did he get stuck like this, it had started out like any other mission...
12 hours earlier
"The league has reason to believe that the light has a secret facility in the far north of Siberia, your mission is to infiltrate the base and see what they are up to, also check if there are any other bases. The base it self has two major entrances, one from the sea and one from land at opposite sides of the base. I am leaving it up to you as to how the team is split up." Batman said as he looked at the team.
"Thank you Batman." Kaldur said immediately turning to the team. "We will split the team into two squads of three, Superboy, m'gann and robin will attack the land entrance of the base, Wally, Artemis and I will handle the water entrance."
"What!" Wally exclaimed, "Why do I have to be on her team!" He said looking at Kaldur and Artemis, the latter staring daggers at him. "Because the land entrance will be better suited to handle us and therefore we must put our stronger teammates there, the water entrance is more likely to be weaker and because of that we need your speed and Artemis's skill to ensure we go undetected."
Wally just grumbled agreeing with Kaldur's logic but still disliking it. Finally deciding that Wally was done, Kaldur turned to look at the map of the facility. "The facility is most likely capable of detecting comms, so we will have to use the mental link."
"Ok, oh wait, Hello Megan, that's not possible the size of the base means that you three will be out of range for most of the mission." M'gann said cheerfully.
"It's ok, we can function separately until we meet up, the bioship can drop off Artemis, Wally and I at the shore and then the rest of you fly to the entrance and begin exactly 5 minutes after you drop us off that way we begin at the same time." Kaldur said simply.
"Wait, what happens if we can't reach them or we are forced to leave?" Artemis asked. "We can set up a rendezvous point near by the base where we can meet if things go south." Robin said quietly.
Kaldur then looked at them "Get ready for arctic weather meet back here in 20 minutes" he said with finality in his voice before walking to his quarters.
The bioship landed near the water entrance to the base. "Here" Robin said looking at Artemis and holding out his hand "I'll be able to track you guys with this in case something happens, just push the button and if it starts blinking it means you're transmitting your location, I wouldn't put it past the light to be jamming it though so don't rely on it" she looked at his hand and saw a small gps tracker, "Thanks" she responded taking the device. "I'll also be hacking the cameras so they won't see you coming" Robin added.
With that Kaldur, Wally, and Artemis walked off the bioship and took cover behind some rocks while the bioship flew off to the other side of the base.
Slowly and quietly they made their way to the water entrance near the docks and got ready for the five minute mark when they'd begin their assault. Finally they reached an outcropping of rocks that offered them a good view of the entrance doors, huge 12 inch thick steel as well as a couple of guards with some weapons that looked like they came from Apokalips. They'd have to rely on stealth and smarts as opposed to strength to get through.
They didn't have to wait long for the right moment as only a few seconds passed before there was a loud boom signalling to them that Superboy had smashed through the land entrance door and was beginning to fight. The guards looked around and began to look around, one reached to his walkie talkie and nodded before pointing to another guard and then the door. The guard with the walkie talkie then walked to the right side wall as the other guard went to the left side wall, each brandishing a key, they both plugged them into the walls and then with a his the door opened.
"Kid flash, now" Kaldur whispered, and like a streak, Wally raced over and knocked the guards out, just as quickly he dragged them away from the door and hid them nearby. With that Kaldur and Artemis ran over. And the three went inside. Directly ahead of them was a balcony. With a hallway to the right.
They were all over whelmed by the sound of an alarm and by the sheer size of the base, it looked like a giant warehouse, everything from Apokalips weaponry to black manta armour was being moved around in open crates from one submarine to another by black manta's troops obviously in a rush to escape the base before it was too late.
They kept moving down the hallway when they saw a group of soldiers run down the hallway that ran perpendicular to theirs seemingly towards Superboy, M'gann, and Robin. "They're going to need help" Said Wally looking like he was about to run. "Remember the mission. I will go to assist, you and Artemis find a control room and see if you can find the location of another base, their must be another one if they're moving this much supply." Kaldur said hastily "Stay together. Good luck" and with that he ran down the hall the soldiers just went down.
"Great" Wally said sarcastically. "What's that supposed to mean?" Artemis shot back. "It means I'm stuck with you" Wally added as if it was blatantly obvious. Artemis just groaned. "Whatever, I feel the same way lets go". And with that they ran down the hall the soldiers came from looking every so often into the doors that lined the hall, only finding sleeping quarters no doubt for the facilities staff.
"At this rate we'll never find the control room" Wally complained as he opened another door and was surprised to see a wall of computers and about 20 guards all looking confused at the security cameras. They all looked at Wally as soon as they heard the door open but it was too late. Both Artemis and Wally went into attack mode and made short work of the guards.
Looking on the security cameras it became evident that Robin had just stopped hacking the cameras as they all flicked from empty hallways to a war zone as Superboy, M'gann, Robin, and Kaldur were fighting the soldiers back into the heart of the base. "Go M'gann" Wally said.
Artemis just rolled her eyes. "She's dating Superboy you know!" Artemis blurted out. "What?" Wally said looking at her wide eyed. "They've been dating a couple of weeks since the belle rev mission" Artemis said matter-o-factly . "Why am I only finding out about this now..." Wally started "Because your oblivious!" Artemis said cutting him off.
Suddenly the door burst open with armed guards on the other end of it opening fire on the two and taking them by surprise. Wally was quick enough easily dodging the bullets and knocking the few guards unconscious. With a smirk he turned back to Artemis, but the smirk turned to a look of horror as he looked at her lying on the ground with a bullet hole in her abdomen. "ARTEMIS!" Wally screamed, she looked at him with tears in her eyes, he went and kneeled by her side as images of the training exercise flashing before his eyes. "You're going to be ok, I need to take your coat off to see." Wally said softly as if she would break if he talked any louder, "ok" she said slowly.
He unzipped her coat and saw a lone bullet hole through the right side of her abdomen missing everything important and coming out the back. Wally breathed a sigh of relief "You're ok, it's a through and through, and it didn't hit anything important, I just need to find a first aid kit." Wally said relieved. "Ok" Artemis said with a small smile.
Wally stood "I'll be right back, don't move" he said looking down. "Don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon" said Artemis, and with that Wally spend off down the hallway. Artemis looked around she felt incredibly vulnerable and self conscious, how could she let her guard down like that. It was all his fault, he loves to get under her skin ughh. But as she thought about it the more she disagreed with herself, Wally had something about him that was disarming, she couldn't deny that she felt sad when Wally expressed only disappointment at being paired with her.
But that's impossible, she thought to herself, he's a complete jerk all he does is give me flak I can't catch a break with him. But then she remembered Bialya, when they had both made good first impressions on each other they got very close. Made that's what it is she thought, but her line of thinking was disrupted by Wally running back in with a first aid kit in his hands.
"Hey, how are you holding up?" Wally asked seemingly genuine in his show of concern "I'll be better once I get this hole sewn up" Artemis said painfully.
"Ok" Wally said "I just need to sterilize this needle and then I can see you up" he added with a smile, and Artemis could feel him disarming her again. "Whatever just hurry up" she snapped, not liking how he made her feel.
If Wally didn't like what she said he didn't make it known. He pulled out a needle and thread and wiped both the needle and the wound with rubbing alcohol, Artemis grimaced at the burning that came with the alcohol, "I know it hurts but you'll be ok" he said reassuringly.
And so he began stitching the hole up and then helping her flip over so he could do the other side while she was flipped over she couldn't see him but she could feel his hands roaming over her back, and the feeling gave her goosebumps.
Finally Wally stood up putting the needle back into the first aid kit and just leaving it on the floor. Glancing up he noticed that the rest of the team were leaving through the door, Robin was glancing at his wrist likely looking at data he hacked from the light.
"Looks like they're leaving, we should probably go too." Wally said while he helped Artemis up. As soon as she stood she tried bending over to pick up her bow and doubled over in pain. "Artemis, take it easy you just got shot" Wally scolded. Irritated Artemis clapped back not meaning to. "Well maybe if you hadn't distracted me I would have been shot" Wally noticeably stiffened at that, she knew it wasn't fair to blame him, but he was trying to baby her and nobody did that.
"Okay then let's go" Wally said quietly. "Wait one second" Artemis said reaching into her quiver and pulled out an arrow with a cylinder on the tip. "Put this on the control panel in front of the screens so they can't see where we went" Artemis instructed. Wally grabbed the arrow wordlessly and put the arrow on the control panel.
As he walked by Artemis he stopped and looked at her his expression softening, "do you need help?" He asked. Artemis just smiled and said "yes".
With that Wally grabbed her arm and pulled it over his shoulder so he could take some of her weight. Artemis was silently glad he was helping, even with the stitches her wound still throbbed slowly she reached into her pocket as they rounded the corner to head back down the hallway to the door where they entered and pulled out a small detonator. She waited until they reached the door and then pushed the button blowing up the whole room, along with the evidence that they had been there.
"Uh oh" Wally said looking up at the sky and seeing huge grey clouds. Artemis looked up and saw the same thing. "Do you still have that tracker" Wally asked, Artemis nodded and then reached into her coat and pulled it out pressing the button, it didn't start blinking, she tried holding it down, tapping it, pressing it once and then waiting it wasn't working. "Damn! They're jamming the tracker, we're stuck out here until they find us" Artemis complained.
Wally looked at her worried expression and took charge "don't worry we can find someplace to stay while they look for us" "Well that better happen soon because that storm is heading straight for us" Artemis said getting more anxious "If we don't find a place to stay we're gonna die" Artemis said finally letting out her fear.
Wally looked at her and smirked "Don't worry kid flash will save the day" Artemis just rolled her eyes "Let's go" she said. And so they began walking, it was slow going though because Wally didn't want to rush Artemis and tear open the stitches. They slowly tried to make their way to the rendezvous point.
After 15 minutes of walking the storm was on top of them. "Great we're lost in this blizzard how are we supposed to get to the rendevous point, we're gonna die out here!" Artemis yelled, trying to be heard over the wind. "Wait I think I see something" Wally said, then without asking for permission scooped up Artemis and ran them to a small shack he had seen in the distance. He thought to himself how did he get stuck like started out like any other mission and ended up in a total fiasco, his teammates had no idea where they were and they were forced to stay in a shack in the middle of a snow storm in the Siberian tundra.