Naruto x Young Justice Fanfiction

AN

Hello there

And welcome to the 8th instalment on the story, first of all sorry for taking so long to post, school has been on my ass lately,

Second people keep asking me to add Zatanna to the pairing or change it, I really need to make emphasis on this, in another type of universe, like game of thrones or Naruto's universe, a harem could work, not in Young Justice's, so Nate/Naruto will only be paired with Artemis and that won't change and I wont add anyone else to that pair, this doesn't mean that the same pairings of the show will be the same, the only pairing that will remain the same is going to be Superboy and Megan, also just because someone isn't paired with Nate it doesn't mean they wont have a big role on the story, so if you think that because Zatanna isn't with Nate that I wont treat her right that will not be the case, trust me I have a plan for everyone on the team

And third, you will noticed by reading the chapter that I skipped the downtime episode, this story is heavily focused on Nate's perspective, and that episode is heavily focused on Aqualad, so I decided not to write about it, if you want to know what happen on this story timeline, this is what happen, every thing is the same in the episode and Nate goes to the underground to party

So, with that being said, hope you enjoy the chapter and I'll see you later

"Normal talk"

"Thoughts, Mental link, and electronic communications"

"A.I, Demon's speech and Magic spells"

Chapter 8: How in the hell did I get here?


Bialya

Nate groaned as he lifted his head from the sand, half of his face was covered with sand as he stared at the dark sky, he rubbed his face getting the sand of as he stood up and looked at his surroundings

"Where the fuck am I?" Nate asked himself mentally as he cleared the sand from his pants "Sand? What the…?" he thought as he looked around and notice he was surrounded by seas of endless deserts "We are not in Kansas anymore" he said under his breath as he rubbed his head in annoyance "Okay think Nate, there's no deserts on the underground, and last night I was in a bar fight, how the hell did I get here?" he thought as he stared at his hands "My wounds are healed, I know I have rapid healing but there's no way I healed in one night" he thought as he didn't saw the scars on his hands

Nate was going to start walking but a weight on thighs made him looked down as he noticed two black guns on each of his legs, he grabbed them and took them out as he stared at the back of them

"80%?" Nate thought as he appreciated the guns noticing the switch pointing at two words "Heaven and Hell? Wait, project ghost was just an idea I had, how are they real?" he asked himself as he remembered something

"So basically, hell mode is for killing and heaven for incapacitation" Nate remembered Fred saying as he turned the pistols on heaven mode seeing the pistols turning from their red color to a blue one, he was so engrossed on the pistols, so he didn't heard the footsteps around him until it was too late

Nate looked up and saw a bunt of soldiers wearing brown uniforms with the Bialya flag on their chests pointing their guns at him

"قال جلالتها لإعادته على قيد الحياة" Nate heard a soldier said as he heard a robotic voice coming from his facemask "Translation completed" the A.I on the face mask said as it translated what the soldier had said

"The queen order us to bring any man alive" Nate heard as he figured he was the captain of their squad, Nate narrowed his eyes as he stared at soldiers, he thought fast of a plan as the same solider threaten him "Drop the gun and surrender yourself!" the soldier said as Nate smirked, but the soldiers couldn't see it because of his mask.

Nate dodge down and started shooting at the soldiers, he took down two of them with two quick blasts as the remaining three looked at him in fear, Nate took advantage of that as he shoot two blast at the soldiers that connected to their helmets, they weren't of any use as the power of the blast knocked them out instantly, the leader of the squad drooped his gun as he drop to his knees and beg for mercy, Nate pointed one of the guns to the head of the leader

"Sweat dreams" Nate said as he fired a blast to the head of the soldier knocking him out instantly, Nate looked at his guns as he checked the battery of the guns "78%" he said under his breath "I'll have to keep an eye on that" he said as he put his guns on the holsters and leaved quickly the scene before more soldiers came here

"Good thing I didn't killed them" Nate thought as he travel the desert "Don't want to cause a mayor outbreak here and have Bialya targeting the underground" Nate thought as he rubbed his head in annoyance "I still don't know how I got here" he cursed under his breath as he climbed a mountain of sand trying to get his bearings right "I need to find civilization" he thought as he made up his mind and started heading north, he travel a few meters until he saw a bow under his peripheral

"The hell is that?" he thought as he approached the bow, once he arrived at where the bow was, he grabbed it as he stared at it in confusion "Green arrow is here?" he thought as he stood up

"Yeah, yeah what ever you say captain" he heard a feminine voice on his head but couldn't place a face on the voice as he grabbed his head in pain, he blinked and saw a figure laying on the sand a few meters ahead, he approached the figure slowly as he put the bow on his back, he arrived where the figure was and Nate noticed that it was a female, she was wearing a green cargo pants, a green sleeveless t shirt that didn't reach to her waist, she had a green mask and blond hair and Nate noticed she had green arrows on her back, he crouched and with two fingers touched her neck to check for a pulse

"She is just unconscious, probably because of the heat of the desert" he thought as he found her pulse "I can leave her here like this dammit" he cursed mentally as he took out the bag of arrows from her back and placed them on his back, he crouched and carried the woman bridal style as he look around trying to find a shelter

He travel a few meters through the sand trying to find an abandoned house or some rock formations to rest, util he saw a big brown mountain but what catches his eye was that in the middle of the mountain he could see a cave there

"How I'm going to get there?" he asked out loud as he stared at the wall until a memory pop out on his mind as he stared at the mountain

"This boots are my pride they will let you stick to anything you want you just need to say…" Nate remember again the words of Fred as he put a feet on the wall and said the command

"Activate boots" he whispered as he saw the boots turning blue, he put both feet on the wall and saw that gravity wasn't working as he stayed glued to the wall "Holy shit, these are awesome!" he exclaimed making the girl in his arms groan, he grew quiet and started walking up to the cave

Nate arrived at the entrance of the cave as he deactivated his boots he stared at the cave for a moment and the at the girl in his arms, he change the position of the girl as he put her on his shoulder and took out a gun, he walked slowly into the cave.

He travel a few meters ahead until he saw a fort build inside the cave, he grabbed the handle on the door of the fort and turn it unlocking the door but not opening it, he put his back on the door and pushed opening the door slowly pointing the gun at the room as he entered and checked if anybody was there

Nate entered and noticed two military looking beds on one of the walls of the fort, and on the other side a desk with a bunch of papers, some security camaras and communications systems where there, Nate walked to one of the beds and put the woman there, he searched for a blanket but couldn't find one, he took pity on the girl and took out his jacket and put it over the girl.

Nate then headed towards the desk as he put the bow and the arrows next to him as he took a sit in front of the desk as he searched the compartments of it, he found a few bottles of water and military rations, he took them out and put them on the desk as he stared at the papers and noticed the big notebook in the middle

He grabbed the notebook and open it, he started reading through the pages and realized this was a journal keeping track of something, he skimmed trough the pages until he landed on the last entry

"August 29" he read out loud in surprise as he looked at the date "This was written not long ago compare to the other entries, so today is definitely not March" Nate thought as he checked his pockets searching for a phone, he felt one on his right pocket and looked at the date "September 22, yep today is definitely not march, so I can't remember the last six months, great" he thought as he started to read the reports of the notebook as he put his phone on his pocket

He read the hole notebook as he waited for the women to get up "So Bialya is keeping check of Qurac, there a lot of reports of inner politics and the hierarchy of their army, this is suspicious it seem Bialya wants control absolute of Al-Qawiya, they have everything here, its fucked up" Nate thought as he read through the journal until a certain entry made him froze and looked at the journal in disgust "They did more than observed they abducted and tortured citizens of Qurac here" he thought as looked towards where another door different from the one he used to entered was, he approached sacred to find whatever the inside had, he opened the door slowly as he entered the room, he draw his gun as he entered the room, soon the smell of blood and putrefaction entered his nostrils and Nate knew what kind of room he was in

"Jesus fucking Christ" Nate exclaimed in disgust as he put a hand over his nose, he could see different bodies piled together and by the looked at them they have been dead for a while now "They didn't died quietly or fast, they were tortured" Nate thought in disgust as he looked at the walls of the room "May you find a better place in the afterlife" he said quietly as he bowed at the bodies, there was nothing Nate could do without alerting the local authorities so he left the room and headed to the other one, he closed the door and noticed the woman was still unconscious, he looked at the hour on his phone and realized he could take a short nap

He sat on the other bed that was on the right side of the woman as he lay there looking at the ceiling, because of climbing the mountain and the fighting he was tired, so he didn't took long to fall asleep


Bialya four hours later

Nate woke up and blinked as he got his bearings, he sat up and stretched his arms, he got out of the bed and headed to the desk, he looked at the woman noticing she was still asleep, he thought about waking her up, but he preferred to have a quiet breakfast, so he let her sleep

He sat at the desk and grabbed the provisions the soldiers had left and noticed something about the provisions "Chicken burrito, damm this soldiers are really being taken care of" he whispered as he saw the provisions, he was going to start preparing the burrito until a groan behind him making him grabbed his gun and turn back. He saw the woman waking up as she sat up on the bed and rubbed her eyes

"Hey there gorgeous, sleep well?" Nate called out to the girl as she looked at him in fear and reached behind her but froze as she didn't felt her bow "Looking for this?" Nate asked with a smirk as he pointed to her bow, the girl narrowed her eyes and glared at him

"So, what now, are you going to kill me?" the girl asked him making Nate chuckle

"Darling if I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't have carry you to this cave and make sure you are safe" Nate said in between chuckles as he put the gun on the desk "Answer me a question and I'll give you your bow, okay?" he asked the girl sarcastically, she glared but nodded nonetheless "Good, now are you part of the Bialyan army?" he asked as he stared at the girls eyes noticing the confusion in the girl´s eyes

"Bialyan? Hell no, I'm from Gotham" The girl said making Nate freeze thinking both of them could've been abducted

"What's your name?" Nate asked as he crossed his arms

"Artemis and yours?" Artemis answered as she kept glaring at the blond "And where the hell are we?" she shouted as she pointed at the room and noticed the jacket on her legs

"I'm Nate, and we aren't in Gotham anymore" he said taking a pause as he pinched his trying to think "We are in Bialya" he said as the girl gasped in surprise at that comment "Let me guess you don't remember how you got here, do you?" he asked as the girl shook her head "Fuck" he cursed as he rubbed his head in frustration, he took two bottles of water and two provisions as he approached the unoccupied bed, he sat there as he handed one bottle and one provision to the girl

"One last question, what day is today?" Nate asked as the girl looked at him in confusion

"March 22" the girl said with a raised eyebrow, Nate took out his phone and show it to the girl "September!?" the girl asked in surprise "What the fuck?" she asked as Nate sighed

"I don't know why are we here, but what I know is somehow or someone took our memories from the past six months" Nate explained as Artemis looked at him in fear, he sighed and look at the girl "Let's eat first and then we need to figure out next steps" he said as the girl nodded, she looked at the food in confusion

"How do you eat this?" Artemis asked as Nate opened his and took the frozen burrito out

"You take this out first, then you see this with thingy here?" he asked as he pointed to the end of the bag, Artemis nodded and Nate continued explaining "You put water in it, juts to fill it at the middle, then you put the burrito in again and fold it, it would start to heat up and about 2 or 3 min it should be done" he explained as he started to doing that with his own bag

They prepare their meals in silence and once they were ready, they eat in silence also, Artemis had her eyes on the jacket as she glanced at the teen next to her, once she finished eating, she asked a question

"This jacket is yours?" Artemis asked as she grabbed the jacket, Nate turn and looked at her as he nodded "Why is it on my legs?" she asked as she looked at the blond teen with a raised eyebrow

"I didn't want you to catch a cold" Nate said as he scratched his head nervously, Artemis smiled at the embarrassed teen, Nate coughed trying to get his embarrassment off as he headed to where the bow and arrows were "Here" he said as he handed over the bow and the arrows to the archer "We need to find civilization or whoever took our memories from us" he said as the blond woman handed him his jacket "We can't do any of those things if we stay here" he said putting his jacket on, the girl nodded as Nate grab his guns and put them in their holster

Both of them got out of the fort as they headed towards the entrance of the cave, they arrived at the entrance of the cave and Artemis looked down

"You climbed all the way here with me on your back?" she asked as the blond man smirked

"Yeah, impressed?" he said as he activated his boot and start heading down "You need a hand?" he said before he started walking down

"Nah I'm good" the archer said as she jumped and threw a hook behind her, she landed on the mountain and started grappling down as Nate looked at her in amazement

"Damm, that was hot" he whispered to himself as he started running down the mountain both of them arrived at the end of the mountain, Nate turned to speak to the blond girl, but an explosion stopped him from doing so

Both of them looked over where the explosion was, Nate narrowed his eyes at that and turned to the girl

"Well, we have two options, we go to where the explosion was or the other way. What do you think?" he asked as he crossed his arms

"In a normal situation I would tell you to go around, but I got a feeling that's where our answers are" Artemis said as Nate sighed

"Your right" he said in defeat as they decided to approach the explosion "By the way, are you a new sidekick of green arrow or just a fan?" he asked not looking at her

"What do you mean?" she asked in confusion

"Well, your custom looks a lot like his" Nate said as he looked at the arrow sing on the girl chest "Especially because of the arrow on the middle" he said as the girl stared at her outfit

"The hell am I wearing!?" she said just realizing her outfit "Did you put this on me?" she asked angrily at the blond teen

"Why the heel would I do that?" Nate asked sarcastically chuckling at the thought "I found you like that" he said facing the road ahead

"I bet this is some kind of test from my dad" Artemis said cursing her father

"What kind of test?" Nate asked curiously

"He probably wants me to kill you" Artemis said with narrowed eyes

"Well, I know now who isn't wining father of the year award this year" Nate said chuckling "I'm guessing this isn't the first you've been put on one of his test have you?" Nate asked as Artemis shook her head, Nate stopped walking and turn to the girl looking at her in concern "Have you ever killed someone?" he asked in concern and slight fear

"No thank god, he said I wasn't ready" she said making Nate sighed in relief "Why? You against it?" she asked with curiosity

Nate thought for a minute formulating his thoughts "Sometimes is kill or be kill, but what your father wanted you to do was cold blood murder" Nate said staring far ahead in deep thought "Once you kill in cold blood, there's no turning back" he said as Artemis looked at him in sympathy and with that comment all conversations cease to be

They travel into the desert to where the explosion had occurred until Nate saw a blur on the distance, he signal Artemis to crouch down and they hide behind the sand as they stared ahead, they saw a black and red blur running away from some missiles and they saw the blur running towards them

"Its that the flash?" Nate asked out loud in curiosity without looking at the girl

"I don't think so, the league has no grounds here" Artemis said as Nate nodded remembering that information "Kid flash?" she asked in curiosity

"It's a good guess" Nate said noticing the blur approaching "He is heading this way, do we help him or no?" he asked the girl as he stared at her

"There's no place to hide, and it would be wrong not to help him" Artemis said shrugging as Nate sighed

"Okay then" Nate said taking out his guns and turning them into hell mode "Hey kid flash!" he shouted as he saw the blurred stopped for a second in surprise "Get down!" he shouted as the blur ducked down and Nate fire two blasts at the cars that were chasing the sidekick, the red blasts connected to the front of the car and went through the hole car, making it useless

Kid flash stopped and looked behind him at the flaming cars and the running soldiers, he turn and looked ahead of him noticing two figures ahead of him, he speed up towards them to say thanks

Nate saw the destruction ahead of him and turn to look at his guns, he whistle in appreciation "I got goose bumps" he whispered as he looked in amazement at what he had done, he then saw the blur approaching them as he holster his guns

Kid flash arrived in front of them out of breath as Nate looked at him in concern "Hey dude, are you okay?" Nate asked the out of breath sidekick

"Yeah, thanks for saving my ass" Kid flash said getting his breath out of control "You don't know how long I've been running" he said with a chuckle

"Mind if I ask a question?" Nate asked the red-haired teen as Artemis took out her bow just in case "isn't your costume supposed to be yellow?" Nate said with a raised eyebrow putting a hand on his right gun just incase this teen was an imposter

"Yeah, it is, I'm not really sure how I got this" Kid flash said as he stared at his custom making Nate pinch his nose in annoyance

"Just one more question, what day is today?" Nate asked as Kid Flash looked at him in confusion

"March 22" he said simply making Artemis eyes winded in surprise and making Nate sigh, Nate took out his phone and show it to the sidekick which caused Kid flash's eyes to winded in surprise "September, what the hell?" kid flash asked in surprise

"You're suffering what ever happened to us too" Nate said as he put his phone back on his pocket "We can't remember the last six months, and we don't know why" he said making Artemis frown and crossed her arms in annoyance "We need to get out of here, we are to open" he said walking ahead without waiting for the other teens, Artemis followed him without a question, Kid flash narrowed his eyes at been told what to do but he figured he had better chances with them

"Great I run out of reserves" he muttered as he checked his pouch and followed the teens

They walked for a few meters until they find a mountain, they decided to rest on the shades trying to escape the heat, Nate sat on the sand trying to think for next moves, he had an idea, but he didn't know if the sidekick would be up for it

"We can't keep going without an actual direction, other wise we could get lost in the desert" Nate explained as the teens took a sit in front of him "In normal cases I could check my phone for a map, but we are in Bialya and with the monarchy cellphones are a death sentence here" Nate said as the teens nodded "I have an idea, but if you're against it I can figure something else" he said as the teens looked at him in curiosity

"What sort of idea?" Artemis asked with a raised eyebrow

"We get information from the soldiers" Nate said as Artemis frowned thinking about that, Kid flash replied quickly

"It doesn't sounds like a bad idea, why did you think we would be against it?" he said innocently as Nate sighed but Artemis responded for him

"Because the soldiers won't give us information that easily idiot" Artemis said with a frown as Nate nodded "You want to torture them?" she asked as Kid flash looked at him in fear

"Not exactly" Nate said as he stood up and dusted his pants "Common soldiers are easily corrupted, especially this ones, we just need to asked them nicely and they'll give us all we want, so we won't torture them exactly" he said scratching his head, Artemis looked like she would accept and Kid flash thinking about it, Nate was going to speak at them until he saw a shadow forming rapidly in the middle of them, he look up and saw a figure heading towards them "Look out!" he shouted as the three of them dodged whatever was headed towards them

Nate stood up quickly and looked back at the dissipating sand cloud, he noticed it was a human being, a dark-haired teen with only black pants that for some reason seem familiar to Nate

"We are brothers from now on" Nate remember for a moment as he saw in his mind a memory of him talking to the same guy in front of him on a beach, he grabbed his head in pain as he noticed the dark-haired teen punching Kid flash into the mountain, the figure turn to him and growled

Nate doges as the dark-haired teen threw a punch at him, he kept dodging as he dint want to hurt the teen in front of him because of the memory he had witness, he saw under his peripheral an arrow soaring towards the dark-haired teen, the arrow created a small explosion that gave Nate enough time to separate a few meters away from the attacking human, he run towards where Artemis was, he stood next to her as she kept shooting explosive arrows towards their attacker

Nate stood there trying to get his shit together until he heard a noise behind him, he turn and his eyes winded as he noticed to massive tanks headed their way, he saw one of them aiming at them and he didn't hesitated, he grabbed the woman by her waist, he put her on his shoulders and started running away

"We need to go!" he shouted at kid flash as he saw the tanks pointing at the darkhaired teen "Can you shoot!?" he asked the woman on his shoulders

"Yes!" she said as she pointed her bow at the fading scene

"Aim for the cannon!" he said as he kept running, the woman nodded and aimed for one of the cannons of the two tanks, she fired and the bow struck it desired target, the cannon bowed up giving their former attacker the breather he needed, the dark-haired teen jumped and started attacking the tanks destroying them easily, Nate didn't want to wait for him to change targets so he decided to do something he didn't like because it remind him of what those bastards did to him "Hey darling, I'm going to need you to hold on tightly!" he ordered as he started to move the girl form his shoulders to a bridal style, the woman grabbed his neck tightly and nodded in confirmation. Nate took a deep breath as he focus his strength, stamina and energy to his legs, his eyes narrowed ahead as he stopped for two seconds and then he started running at an incredible speed, while it wasn't compared to the speed of Flash and was a 20% slower than kid flash's at the eyes of Artemis, they were going pretty fast

Nate ran until he saw the red blur ahead of him tripping on a rock and falling to the sand, he sweat dropped as he started slowing down, he stared running normally as he approached the fallen sidekick, they had run far away from the wreckage behind them Nate figure they were saved for a moment he looked down and notice the woman hanging from his neck for dear life and with her eyes shut, he put the woman feet on the floor as he put a hand on her shoulder and looked at her in concern

"You alright?" he asked at the girl in concern, the girl breath and open her yes as she got her fear under control

"Yeah, I was surprised that's all" she said with a huff and crossed her arms, Nate shook his head and smirked at the antics of the girl, he turn and looks at the speedster who had just managed to stand up

"I'm fine too, thanks for asking" Wally grumbled as he rubbed his head, he took out his googles and narrowed his eyes

Nate was preparing to say something but a voice in his head stopped him from doing so "Don't worry, I'm almost there" a feminine voice said on his head as he grabbed his head in pain

"Did anyone else heard a girl talking on their heads?" Artemis wonder out loud as she grabbed her head

"Chicks are always on my mind" he said with a seductive smirk as Artemis looked at him in disgust, Kid flash frown and started talking again "But their usually not talking" he said as Artemis took a step away from the sidekick looking at him in disgust

Nate chuckled at the antics of the sidekick and the blond woman, he was going to interrupt until he felt a presence above them, he grabbed the handles of his guns and looked up, he saw a feminine figure dropping slowly between the three teens, the first thing that Nate noticed was that the girl had green skin, so he figured she had to be a relative of Martian Manhunter

"Well, J'onn" Kid flash said moving to face the girl "The costume looks familiar, but I'm not sure the bod screams Manhunter" he said sarcastically thinking the person in front of him was the league member

"I don't think she is Martian Manhunter dude" Nate said causing Kid Flash to dropped his head in embarrassment

"You know my uncle J'onn?" she asked excitedly at kid flash "Hello Megan, of course you do, you're Kid flash, you're Wally, Artemis and Nate" she said excitedly pointing at each respective teen

"Wait, wait, wait your uncle is Martian Manhunter?" Kid flash asked in surprise "Is that how you know my name?" he asked in a whispered afraid of what the answer might be

"Your real name is Wally?" Artemis asked unimpressed by the fact

"You know I can see it" Nate said looking at the face of kid flash "You do look like a Wally" he said with a chuckle causing Kid flash to grew a thick mark on his forehead "But yeah, how do you know our names?" Nate asked turning to the Martian girl

"We are teammates" she said simply as Nate raised an eyebrow at her "Friends, I made you cookies" she said excitedly looking at Nate who sweat dropped as he felt a dark presence behind him glaring at his head

"You know her?" Artemis asked with narrowed eyes making Nate chuckle nervously as he scratched his head

"I never forget someone who cooked for me" Nate said making Artemis narrow her eyes more "But sorry sweetheart I don't know who you are" he said making the Martian girl frown

"You've lost your memories too" she said with a frown not noticing how Nate narrowed his eyes, she looked at her right noticing a jeep coming towards them "C'mon we need to help Robin and Superboy" she said as she started to move away from the scene

"Of course," Wally said following the new girl "Save Robin and Super-what now?" he trailed as he kept following the Martian girl

Nate and Artemis trailed behind them as Nate whispered to the young girl without looking ahead "Keep your guard up, she tries anything don't hesitate" Nate said narrowing his eyes at the back of the Martian girl

"You don't trust her?" she asked in curiosity without looking at him

"We both are from Gotham, we don't trust easily" he said as Artemis nodded in confirmation of what he had said "She is too innocent to be a bad guy, but I don't want to take any chances" he said, and Artemis nodded preparing herself mentally for any kind of attack


Bialya some time later

The four teens had travel a lot in the desert that it had already turn dark and cold, Nate saw how the archer was shivering by the cold winds and took pity on her, he took out his jacket and threw it to the blond girl, he continued to walk ignoring the yells of protest, he knew that the girl was to proud to ask for help so the best course of action was to give it to her without saying anything

Artemis took out her arrows case and put the jacket on grumbling in the process he put her arrows on her back on top of the jacket, she run a little catching up to Nate she stood next to him and whispered forcefully at him

"I didn't need help" she whispered making Nate chuckle making the girl hit his arms to stop him from laughing

"Clearly" he said chuckling as he followed the Martian girl, he took a few steps until he heard a shout coming from his right making him stop, he followed the shout unknowingly being followed by the rest of them, he stopped as soon as he heard a gun shot "Kid" he said without looking at the speedster

"On it" Kid flash said as he speed up to where the gunshots where

Nate run after him and in no time arrived at a starting fight, he noticed how kid flash had taken the guns from the Bialyan soldiers and notice a boy no older than 14 fighting a select group of soldiers, he noticed three soldiers approaching slowly at the wonder boy and didn't hesitate

He ran and jump throwing a kick at the side of the unknowing soldier, he connected knocking out in an instant the soldier and landing on the back of the soldier, he looked up and saw the two soldiers staring at him, they narrowed their eyes at him and prepared to attack but Nate didn't give them the chance

He ran at them and in an instant stood in front of them, he threw a punch at the stomach of one of the soldiers who arched in pain and gasped for breath, Nate grabbed the head of the soldier and slammed it on his knee breaking the nose of the soldier and knocking him out cold instantly, Nate felt a punch coming at his head, he dodged it and grabbed the arm of the attacker and flip him over, the solider hit the sand and bounce from the impact, Nate then crouched and planted a fist on the face of the soldier knocking him out

Nate stood up and looked at the ongoing fight in front of him, he then saw an arrow headed his way but didn't move as the arrow went by him not harming him and lodging itself on a soldier that was preparing to attack him, he turn and saw the injured soldier, he then turn and looked at the smirking archer, he smirked and shook hi head as he approach the injured soldier and took out the arrow and the soldier passed out form the pain

He walked towards where the archer was and handed her arrow to her, she thank him and put the arrow back in her case as the wonder boy approached the group looking suspiciously at the people he didn't know until he noticed Kid flash and started talking to him

"Wanna help me hogtie the soldiers?" he asked Artemis who looked at him with a smirk

"Only if you ask nicely" she said as Nate scoffed as he turn and walked towards the down soldiers, Artemis smirked and started helping him anyway

They finished tying the last soldier as they listen to what the Martian girl was explain at them, and the boy wonder asked her what everyone else wanted to know

"So, we are a team?" Robin asked the green skin girl kind of believing what the girl was saying

"Yes" The Martian girl said facing the younger boy "Us five and Superboy" she said, and Nate couldn't help to wonder out loud

"Who the hell is Superboy?" he asked out loud but didn't receive an answer as Robin grabbed a piece of clothing and show it to the Martian girl

"Then this must his" Robin said showing a piece of clothing with the symbol of superman on it

"Yes, did you see him?" she asked grabbing the piece of cloth and brining it to her chest

"I think we did!" Artemis exclaimed as Nate looked at her in confusion

"We did?" Nate asked with a raised eyebrow and stared at the girl in confusion

"Yeah, the shirtless guy that attacked us earlier remember?" she asked rhetorically making Nate eyes winded in realization

"Oh yeah!" he exclaimed remembering the attack from earlier "He kick the shit out of Wally" he said simply making Artemis chuckle lightly and Wally looked at him in indignation "But he was different from us , you know why?" he asked the Martian girl who frown and shook her head "Does anybody remember anything at all?" he asked the group trying to figure something out

"I remember Batman ordering us radio silence" Robin offered stepping up "Maybe our team works for him" he said as Nate scratched his chin

"Me working for the dark knight huh?" Nate thought as he noticed how Kid flash was changing his custom from black to yellow by touching his chest driving Artemis mad

"Quit touching yourself!" she snapped in frustration as the sidekick stooped what he was doing, Nate couldn't help himself and started laughing at what the blond girl had said, the blond girl looked at Nate in frustration and turn to speak to the Martian girl "We need to get our memories back!" she exclaimed and punch the shoulder of Nate who was trying to get his laughter under control

The Martian girl rubbed his hands in deep thought as she stared at the teens "To help Superboy" she though as her eyes turn white and glowed

Nate saw a blinding white light around him and blinked trying to get his eyesight under control, he looked around and saw a purple waste land around him with different images of the teens around him, he looked at the pictures and was surprised to se him hanging around them

"I brought you into my mind to share what I remember so far" Nate heard a feminine voice on his right and turn to see the Martian girl in a hood "But I require your help, together our broken memories can form a whole if you open your minds to mine" she said as a look of protest crossed Artemis's face

"You want to paw over our private thoughts?" Artemis asked in protest and betrayal, Nate narrowed his eyes at the Martian girl sharing the same thoughts as Artemis

"I don't want to be intrusive but…" The Martian girl

"You need to hack into our brains to figure out what happened, got it you can procced" Robin said with a smirk stepping up

Nate ignored the conversation that was happening in front of him as he crossed his arms and started thinking, he didn't want the Martian girl to go through his memories, but he couldn't stay like this, he made a decision and decided to trust the overly excited girl in front of him, he noticed how the blond girl was hesitating about this

Nate grabbed her hand as the blond girl look at him, he nodded telling her without words to trust the Martian girl, both of them stared at the girl in question and Artemis nodded

"Last six months only, and only what you need" Artemis said as Nate nodded next to her

The Martian girl nodded and for blue hands come out of her body and connected to the heads of the teens, who closed their eyes at the feeling of someone going through their minds


Mount justice

"The watchtower detected a massive power surge in the Bialyan desert" Batman said as a map of Bialya showed up with a red dot on the border of Bialya and Qurac "The parameters showed nod terrestrial energy here, we need to find out what it is and if it's a potential threat" the dark knight said as Nate took a step forward

"If something landed there, Bialyan forces are testing it no doubt" the blond man said as Batman nodded and waited for the blond to finish speaking "Want us to find out what test they are doing?" he asked as the dark knight thought about it for a moment

"Yes, but that's priority two" Batman said as Nate nodded, Batman then hit his control as a picture of a black skinned woman showed on the hologram "Bialya is a rouge state under the rule of Queen Bee and its not part of the league UN charter, all communications are subject to interception. Maintain radio silence at all times" he said as the team nodded

The scene changed as the team had already arrived at the desert and was installing themselves outside the testing zone, Nate and Artemis were scouting the testing site as Superboy and the rest of them unload a big black machine

"The Bialyans have this site under their grasp" Artemis said as she and Nate rendezvous with the team

"Set up here" Nate order Superboy as he dropped the machine in the middle of the desert "You're going to be fine?" he asked to his right as a black skinned teen with blond hair entered the scene

"I'll be fine my friend, if my physiology starts to become an issue I'll head to the ship" the new revealed teen said as Nate nodded and turn to the Marian girl

"Megan link us up and head to the testing zone" Nate ordered as the Martian girl nodded "See what you can find and make sure they don't notice you" he said as he headed to where Robin was

"Be careful" Superboy told her with a small smile

"Keep the link up at all times" The black skin teen suggested

"I will Aqualad" Megan said as the scene fade out of existence


Bialya present time

"Kladur!" Everyone except Nate shouted in realization

"What happened, where is he?" Robin exclaimed in fear stepping in front of the Martian girl

"I don't know, that's the last thing I-we remember" she said in deep thought about the situation at hand

Nate blink trying to oriented himself as the memories of the last six months came crashing to him, he felt something on his right hand and looked down, he noticed another hand holding his hand and looked up and saw the eyes of curiosity of Artemis, their eyes crossed for a moment and then both looked away and separate hands in embarrassment. Nate put his hands in his pocket to simulate his embarrassment and Artemis unknowingly hugged the jacket closer

"By the fact that my rations are out, we landed here roughly 24 hours ago" Wally said steeping up "If Kaldur has been wandering for that long well, that cant be good for a guy with gills" Wally said nervously

"Rob" Nate said to the wonder boy who nodded and took out his pad

"Tracking his location now" Robin said as he rapidly started typing on his pad "Got him, but he is not moving" he said as he turn to Nate

"Good, we need to get him. Lead the way" Nate ordered as Robin started to run towards where Aqualad was , team followed but Nate noticed Megan hesitated to followed them for a moment

"I know what you're thinking Meg" Nate thought keeping his eyes on Robin "I'm worried about him too, stay safe brother" he thought as he send a prayer to whatever god that was listening, he then saw Robin turn right and followed him closely

"Found him!" Robin called out as Nate stood next to him, he saw the Atlantean boy lying upwards in the sand, he approached the boy and noticed he was breathing heavily and murmuring something

"Tula, vis ol may" Nate heard the teen murmur as he facemask translated for him "Tula, please" he heard the translation as Kaldur kept murmuring "Tula, I love you" he heard and took pity of the Atlantean boy

Last week when Batman order them too take a time off kaldur had confined of him of how he had been feeling lately and about the girl he was murmuring about, and after kaldur had return from Atlantis he told Nate about how his crush had started dating his best friend, Nate knew that the both of them didn't have the best relationship of the team but Kaldur told him he could trust Nate with this and Nate knew the Atlantean only confined in him because of how close their ages were.

"I know she is pretty, but don't follow her just yet my friend" he whispered as he place a hand on the shoulder of the Atlantean "He's fine, relative speaking, can you restore his memories?" Nate asked as he stood up and looked at the Martian girl, he saw how she was thinking of something else and worrying about Superboy, he knew that he couldn't reason with her in that state of mind, so he approached her quietly without her noticing him

"We need to hydrated him immediately" Robin said crouching besides Kaldur and turning to face Megan "Call the bioship" he said as Megan shook her head

"Its out of range" she said as she turn and looked at Wally "You can carry him there quickly" she said as Wally shook his head

"He is too heavy and I'm low on food" he said showing his empty compartment "At this point I couldn't even carry her" he said pointing at Artemis who glared in return at the young speedster

"Why not just levitate him back?" Artemis asked in curiosity as the other teens nodded

"I can't, I have to find Superboy" she said as she put Aqualad down and faced Artemis "Six months ago he didn't exist, he is running on animal impulse, I'm the only one who can help him" she said as Artemis narrowed her eyes at her, she was going to protest but Megan eyes winded in fear and grabbed her head in pain

"No!" she exclaimed as an image of Superboy being electrocuted entered her mind "Superboy's in pain" she whispered as she got in position to fly away ignoring her teammates which caused her to miss the blow that was coming to her neck

Nate karate chop the neck of the Martian girl knocking her in an instant as the rest of the team looked at him in surprise

"Dude what the hell!?" Wally exclaimed as he took a step forward to confront his leader, but Robin put pout his hand in front of him stopping the speedster in the process

"Rob, can you track the ship?" Nate asked as he walked towards the Atlantean

"Give 5 seconds" the wonder boy said as Nate arrived at where the teen was "Got it" Robin exclaimed and Nate nodded, he crouched and grabbed an arm of Kaldur as he managed to get up the Atlantean he then put the unconscious boy on his shoulder in a fireman type of carry, he then walked towards where the Martian girl was and crouched and grabbed her by the waist with one hand. He then stared at Robin, Aqualad on his shoulders and Megan on his said and speak up

"Lead the way then" Nate order as the team looked at him in awe, Robin blinked and turn serious as he stared at his pad

"This way" Robin said as Nate followed him without a problem, he walked like he didn't have any people on him


Bialya sometime later

"Its here" Robin said as the team arrived at the ship without any problem, the team entered the ship as Robin activated it having his permission to commandeer the ship, he made a bed for Aqualad and Nate didn't wasted any time, he put Kaldur on the bed as Robin and Wally connected an IV into his hand giving him water

Nate placed the Martian girl on a nearby chair and crossed his arms and frowned as he started to think of a plan, the stealth part of the mission was fucked so he needed a new approach

"Whatever the hell happened to us had to come from somewhere" Nate thought as he put a hand on his chin "Think Nate, we send Megan to scout and all of our memories where wiped out, what could had caused that?" he thought trying to come up with something, he stared at the Martian for a moment and his eyes winded in realization "A telepath, of course" he whispered as he saw the team started to surrounding him

"Before you say anything about me knocking Megan out" Nate said as he looked the narrowed eyes of Wally "We needed to bring Kaldur to safety and we didn't know who had took our memories, she was going to put herself at risk and I couldn't have that" he said as he saw how Artemis and Robin had accepted his decision easily, Wally took a moment but then nodded accepting his call "But I know now what the hell happen to us" he said as the team looked at him in curiosity

"What happen?" Robin asked his leader with a raised eyebrow

"We were attack, mentally" Nate said as the team eyes winded in realization "Someone noticed the presence of Megan and hacked into our link and made us forget we were a team" he explained the theory he had and looked at Megan "We need to save Superboy but we can't go in without a plan, fortunately, I have one" he said with a smirk, he walked and shook the shoulder of the Martian girl waking her up in the process, Megan woke up and found herself in her ship and her eyes winded not seeing Superboy, she was going to stand up but a firm hand on her shoulder prevented her from doing so

"Calm down Megan" Nate said as the girl stared at him in fear "I know you want to save Superboy, me too but that doesn't mean you have to do it alone, take a deep breath" he order as the Martian girl took a deep breath and calm down "Good, now want to hear my plan?" Nate asked and Megan nodded

Nate turn and face his team as the Martian Girl stood up and stood next to him "Right now, stealth is out of the picture, they know we're here so there's no point of hiding ourselves, but that doesn't mean we need to head on" Nate said as he approached Aqualad "Rob, Wally I hate to do this but I have to sideline you" Nate said as he noticed the looks of protest forming on the younger boys, he put a hand up stopping whatever protest they could come up with "Right now Wally you're out of stamina and rob you're out of explosives, and we can't leave Aqualad unguarded, I need you too stay here and guard him and if by any chance we get caught and don't come back, Rob I need you to leave us and contact the league" he explain as Wally seem like he was accepting the order but Robin still have something on his mind

"But we can't leave you here" the youngest of them all said in protest

"We won't get caught, trust me" Nate said as he put a hand in the younger boy "The only real threat is whoever the hell took our memories, that's where you come in Meg" he said as he looked at the Martian

"But, if someone took our memories, that takes power I don't know if I can defeat someone like that" Megan said as she looked at the floor in defeat

"Who said anything about beating him?" Nate said with a smirk as Megan looked at him her eyes winded in surprise "I just need you to make him or her focus on you mentally, you just need to give me and Artemis enough time too take care of the soldiers and search for whatever information they had, once we have that if you defat the telepath that's good, but if you don't, I will" he said taking out his boy as he had a mischievous look on his face "So any questions?" he asked the team as all of them frowned an thought about the plan, they looked at him and shook their heads "Good then, lets head out" he said looking at the two girls "Megan take a head start we will follow you closely, Rob, Wally" Nate said as Megan exited the ship "Stay safe and good luck" he said as the younger members of the team nodded

Nate and Artemis exited out of the ship and headed towards the enemy base camp "I don't know how much help I can be, my arrows are running low" Artemis said just as they exited the ship

"I've seen you fight Artemis" Nate said without looking at her "You don't really need that arrow to take a few soldiers" he said with a smirk "On a different topic, why did you think your dad wanted to kill me?" he asked sarcastically and with mirk on his voice

Artemis's eyes winded and she rapidly came up with an excuse "I got confused by a movie I saw… that day" she said in an obvious lie but Nate didn't comment on that as he was trying to make her forget of what was going to happen "About a ninja girl whose ninja dad ordered her to kill her boyfriend because he was from a rival clan" she said as Nate started to chuckling

"So that makes me your ninja boyfriend huh?" he said with mirk as Artemis turn red from embarrassment

"Shut up!" she say as she started running ahead of him

"She didn't say no" Nate thought with as mirk as he looked how his jacket hugged her body "I care for Kladur, but I can't let what happen to him with Tula, happens to me too" he reminded himself as he saw Artemis stop and crouched

Nate stood next to her as they saw Megan entered the military base and he narrowed his eyes at the camp

"What's the plan again?" Artemis asked as she looked at her leader

"We're going to do a Batman" Nate said as he looked at the camp "We get in quietly and knock out the soldier, if this goes right me and you wont have to fire any shot" he said as he took out his tantos and gave one to Artemis "You told me you haven't kill anyone right?" he said as Artemis frowned and nodded

"Yeah, I told you that" she said cursing herself for giving up that fact

"What are your thoughts on killing?" he asked as he prepared mentally

"I know killing is bad and that but…" she trailed off as he stared at her

"But sometimes there are no other choice" he said as he looked at her in understanding "I wont ask you to kill here, we are not cold-blooded assassins, but if it comes down to them and you, always chose yourself" he said as Artemis nodded "Lets get this show started, we won't have communications there so stay safe" he said as he and Artemis headed into the testing site

The walked and hid behind a military truck as two guards were on the other side, Nate looked at Artemis and nodded as both rant to the other side of the truck, each one of them grabbed a soldier and dragged them back towards their hiding spot, Artemis wasn't as strong as Nate but she made up for it by her skill, they put the solider on the floor and hit their heads knocking them out, Nate looked up and saw three soldiers on the outside, one of them was closest to them than the other two giving Nate and idea

He whistle as hard as he could but only loud enough for the closest soldier to hear him, the soldier turn to were he had heard the noised and walked towards it, he approached as he saw two of his partners on the floor, he ran too them and checked their pulses and took his helmet off, he was going to alert the rest of the soldiers, but he felt a hand on his side

Nate grabbed the head of the soldier and smashed it into the military truck knocking him out cold, he turned and looked at how Artemis took care of the remaining soldiers easily, he saw how Artemis flipped the soldier into the floor and knocked him out, she looked at her leader and Nate pointed with two fingers at the tent, Nate saw her nodded and entered the testing site slowly, he entered and the first thing he noticed was how all the people were staring at the middle of the room and saw Megan staring deeply at a white skinned male with a showing brain who had his eyes on the Martian girl, Superboy was unconscious on the side of Megan and Nate figure they were having their mental fight, he locked eyes with Artemis and nodded, both of them started to take out the soldiers and the scientists, they work like a well oil machine and without anyone noticing them, Nate fade out the last solider as he looked at the work he and Artemis had done, thankfully no one had being killed and the both telepathic users were still concentrated in their mental fight, Nate saw Artemis approaching him and they headed towards where the computers were

"Watch my back" Nate said as Artemis nodded and put herself behind him drawing her bow, Nate took out a usb port out of his pocket and stared at the little black skull painted on the port "Who knew you'll be useful" he whispered as he inserted the port on the computers and started downloading the file "And now we wait" Nate said as he sat on the table and looked at the fight

"Are you going to help her?" Artemis asked as he took a sit next to the blond teen

"I'm giving her until this process ends, if she is not back then" he said as he took out his gun "I'll shoot the bad guy" he said with a smirk

"What process? Also, I didn't know you could hack" Artemis said looking at the computer

"Well, I didn't want Rob to feel left out so don't tell him" He said with a chuckle "As for the process, I'm downloading the files with the tests they did on that big sphere over there" he said looking at the gray sphere "Do you feel like it's looking at you too?" he asked Artemis as she looked at the sphere

"Yeah, and it's also kind of protecting Superboy don't you think?" she asked as Nate noticed the sphere hanging closer to the clone, he nodded as he felt creep out by that fact "Are you only downloading the files?" she asked trying to change topics

"Nop, but you knew that already, didn't you?" Nate said with a smirk as the blond girl also smirked

"I know you captain" Artemis said with mirk "You have an opportunity to mess with bad guys here, there is no way you let that pass you by" she said with a chuckle as Nate smirked and took out his phone

"You know me so well ninja girl" He said as Artemis blushed remembering the awful excuse she had come up with "If they try to find their files, this is what will they find" he said showing her a video on his phone

"You have to be kidding me" Artemis said as she saw Rick Ashley dancing to his most memorable song "A rick roll, you put ta rick roll as a virus?" she asked rhetorically

"Trust me, villains don't have sense of humor" he said with a chuckle "And also its infected, once they enter to the files every single communication, they use from here will play this song on an endless loop" he said as he started laughing

"You're so such an idiot" Artemis said with a laugh and looked at the computer "Its done" she said as Nate turn to look at the computer, he took out the usb port and looked at both telepathic users

"Well, a promise is a promise" Nate said as he prepare to shoot the bad guy as he took out his gun, but before he could do it, both Megan and the pale man opened their eyes and gasped as the pale man fell to the floor unconscious

Megan fell to the floor also, but Superboy caught her as he also had woken up, they both stared at each other for a moment and smile, Superboy then started to lean forward looking for a kiss, as Megan started doing the same, but they were interrupted by a noise, they both looked up and saw Nate and Artemis with smirks on their faces

"Are we interrupting something?" Nate asked sarcastically as Megan and Superboy blushed, the big gray sphere then ran to where Superboy was

"Can I keep it?" he asked as he looked at Nate

"Fine lover boy" Nate said as he stood up followed by Artemis "But I'm not cleaning… whatever the hell it poops" he said as he put the usb on his pocket "Lets get out of here, before these fine people wake up" Nate said sarcastically as he headed out of the camp

"Why is she wearing your jacket?" Superboy asked Nate as they exited the tent the girls where behind so they couldn't hear their conversation

"Because I'm a gentleman" Nate said as Superboy frown at that "Although I'm starting to think maybe I wont have that jacket back" he said with a sigh as he rubbed his arms, but then a smirk formed on his face, but his facemask covered it "You were going to kiss Megan, weren't you?" he said with mirk on his voice

"Shut up" Superboy said with a blush on his face "I was caught in the moment" he said as Nate started to chuckle "Please don't say anything, I want it to be natural and between us, not get together because everyone wanted to" Superboy pleaded

"Don't worry I wont tell anybody" Nate said as Superboy sighed in relief "But I wouldn't recommend to wait much longer dude" he said as Superboy looked at him in confusion

"What do you mean?" Superboy asked with a raised eyebrow

"You remember what Aqualad confined with us?" Nate said as he placed his hands in his pockets

"Yes, but I don't see what it has to do with…" Superboy said but he was interrupted by Nate

"I wonder whose Megan's Garth would be?" Nate asked sarcastically "I don't think Wally could be, but you never know" he said with a chuckle as he saw Superboy frowning "What I mean, its that life is short dude, don't wait to long because there might be no tomorrow" he said as he smiled but Superboy only saw Nate eyes closing

"Like you and Artemis" Superboy said rhetorically as Nate frowned "I don't see you seeing the moment" he said with a chuckle

"I guess you're right" Nate said with a frown on his face "Although, knowing her, she will get impatient and ask me out first" he said chuckling as they saw the ship at the distant

"Knowing Megan, she will too" Superboy said with a smile as they girls approached them, and they all headed to the ship followed by a big gray sphere


Mount Justice

"Report" The dark knight order as he faced the team of young heroes, he noticed how Aqualad had an iv on his hand and he also noticed that Artemis was wearing Nate's jacket, but he didn't commented on this changes

"Meg, you're the one who was lucid enough" Nate said turning to the Martian Girl "Floor's yours" he said as Megan stepped up and started giving the report

Nate then blocked out whatever conversation Megan was having, he started thinking on what happen on the mission and he felt sick with himself, he felt useless, he couldn't do anything to prevent losing his memories, he couldn't do anything for those people on the fort, but the thing that frustrated him more was the thing he had done to get Artemis out of the fight

"Blocking my memories is really getting on my nerves" he thought as he stared at the dark knight "I know things are peaceful since the doc free me, but if have power to protect my friends I need it now" he thought as he frowned and noticed Megan had finished giving the report

"Good work, even if you had a debacle" Batman said as Megan scratched her head nervously "You managed to pull out together, good job." The dark Knight finished as he saw the team smiling at the praise except one teen, Batman had grown respect for the leader of the team even if he didn't like how much similar the two of them were, he also knew that Nate wanted to say something else "Something in your mind Nate?" Batman asked as the team looked at their leader

"Yeah, two things" Nate said as he crossed his arms "Rob already gave you the usb so I don't actually have to explain you that, so in reality is just one thing" he said looking at Artemis "In one of my jacket's pockets there's a red notebook in there, could you take it out?" Nate asked Artemis as he felt the notebook and took it out giving it to the Dark Knight, Batman looked at Nate in curiosity and Nate explained "Page 35" Nate said simply as Batman open the notebook and read the page the young man had told him to read

Nate waited silently for the hero to finish reading as he prepare mentally for the questions there were about to come, Batman's eyes winded at the information in the notebook and stared at the young man

"Explain" Batman said simply as Nate sighed and nodded

"While I had my temporary amnesia courtesy of Psimon, which I have to say is the stupidest name I have ever heard" Nate said as the team agree with him "I found Artemis passed out on the sand and I grabbed her and look for a shelter" he said as Batman nodded and told him to continue "I found a cave on a mountain and went there, and there was a fort in there, at first I thought that the fort was from the Bialya military forces, now I'm not so sure" he said as he frown and stared at the Dark Knight

"What makes you think that?" Batman asked as his eyes narrowed at the young man

"The notebook" Nate said as he put his hands in his pockets "Bialya is tight on what sort of education they give out, so why the hell does the notebook is in English?" he asked sarcastically as Batman nodded

"Did you see the bodies?" Batman asked as the eyes of the rest of the team winded and looked at his leader in concern

"Yes" Nate said simply as he heard Megan gasp and he could feel the stares of his team on him "There was a separate room on the fort, they were there, I counted at least 7 I think" Nate said as he scratched his head "But it was something else that catch my eye, the eyes of the victims, six months ago I didn't know what they mean, but now I know" he said as he started to head towards the hologram computer and started typing on it

"I hope I don't get in trouble for this" Nate whispered to himself and only Superboy heard him "For you to understand what I'm about to say I need to show you an example, you guys know what Mk204 is?" he asked the group looking at Robin knowing the little encyclopedia would know about this

"That's the metahuman drug that's been running around metropolis since Superman showed up" Robin said as he looked at his pad "Thankfully the police department have a tight control on those drugs cartels and it hasn't left the city and travel into the rest of the world" Robin said with a smirk as he looked at his team feeling proud of the local authorities, but his smirk faded as he noticed the looks on Nate's and Batman's faces

"I hate to break it to you kid, but the drug not leaving Metropolis doesn't have anything to do with how good the Metropolis police department is" Nate said with a sigh as he rubbed his face in annoyance

"Police department on Metropolis struck a deal with higher bosses of the mafia in Metropolis, the mafia doesn't sell the drug to civilians and the police turns a blind eye to certain deals they have" Batman explained as the team frowned at that comment

"Does the big guy knows about that?" Nate asked as he crossed his arms

"No, I would like to keep it that way" Batman said glaring at the team, the oldest members nodded but the two youngest were ready to protest, but only Wally did as Robin was to afraid of Batman to protest

"But its our job to stop the bad guys, why we let them do that?" Wally said in protest and Batman was going to explain but Nate spoke first

"Because the world isn't black and white" Nate said with arms crossed as Wally glared at him "You have a good heart Wally, I hope that doesn't change" Nate said with a sigh, he knew he was getting out of track but he needed to explain this "If the police fight with the mafia, they will start giving the drug to civilians, the government don't want that, even if isn't for the right decisions, and that something I think the league agrees with, doesn't it?" Nate said looking at Batman

"Yes, the side effects of the drug could be catastrophic for the regular civilian" Batman started explaining as the team focused on him "With only criminals being affected by the drug we have excuses to control them, but if the mafia start to give civilians that drug…" Batman said, and Nate finished for him

"Metropolis would become like Gotham, only with crazy metahumans instead of regular crazy people" Nate finished with a chuckle "No wonder you didn't tell sups, you would rather die than see another Gotham" Nate said as Batman glared at him, Nate ignored him and turn to Wally "Look Wally, I don't like this anymore than you, but our priority is to keep civilians out of danger not fighting the bad guys" he said as Wally nodded, he didn't like it but he accepted it

"We got out of track, what does this" Batman said bringing the notebook up "Have to do with Mk204?" he said narrowing his eyes at the young blond "Leave no detail out" Batman said as Nate nodded

"As you know, mafia in metropolis is dumber than the ones in Gotham" Nate said as Batman nodded "So, Mk204 is a copy of sorts, when Superman and Flash appeared on the scene people figured out that we have a metagene and only certain people could activate it, that's how superheroes were born, but the mafia in metropolis modified a previous drug and created a new one, one who lets you tap into that metagene for 5 minutes, they called it Mk204" Nate explained as the team focused on him listening to every word, Nate noticed how batman was going to protest, demanding to get to the point but Nate put out a hand stopping all protests from the Dark knight "Relatively speaking Mk204 is a safe drug, but its predecessor isn't" Nate said as he started typing something on the hologram "Mk204 taps only on the metagene of the subject, this one taps into everything, it brings out the most powerful and darkest side of a person, one of the problems of the drug it's that it causes instant addiction, one taste and your hook forever and just like any addict if you stop using it you go into withdrawal" he said as he finished typing "But this withdrawal, it's harder and uglier" he said as different type of people in withdrawal appeared on the screens

The team saw people without any sort of fat, they could see their bones showing on their skins, they were men and women broken but the thing that stood out was that they had bright pink eyes and purple veins surrounding their eyes

"We called it shimmer" Nate said as a bottle with a bright pink liquid showed up on the screen "And we haven't seen it since you destroyed the factory" Nate said looking at Batman, the dark knight raised an eyebrow as the teen continued speaking "When you fought Ra's Al Ghul, on your first year as the cape crusader, the train landed on the factory were the shimmer was being fabricated on" Nate said as a recording of a subway landing on a factory and blowing it off showed on the hologram "That's the last time we saw anything about shimmer, until four weeks ago" Nate said as he started showing a video on the hologram

"Four weeks ago, a Gotham task force was sent to this location after reports of disturbance here" Nate said as the team and Batman looked at the video "Just to show they are doing something, but that's not the point, after a while something attack them, pay close attention" Nate said as the team stared at the video

The task force were searching for the building until they heard a growl behind them, the one who was recording turn as the camera showed a big pale mane with purple veins on his body, that monster reminded the team of blockbuster, the monster growled and lunged towards the task force, Nate stopped the video as the camara focused on the face of the monster

"See the bright pink eyes?" Nate asked rhetorically at the people on the room "That's how you know he was on shimmer, the bodies on Bialya had the same eyes" Nate said as he turned and face the dark knight

"Where did you get this information?" Batman asked as he narrowed his eyes at Nate

Nate cursed and started thinking of a way to get out of this, he didn't want to lie to the team or his new boss, but underground secrets are well guarded, he didn't knew if he had permission to divulge it or not, he was going to lie until a memory resurface to his mind

"We need the help of the league, we need to make contact wit the Dark Knight himself" Nate remembered his boss saying to him in that meeting, he sighed and looks at Batman

"From the underground" Nate said, and he saw the eyes of Batman narrowing even more

"What does a kid your age have anything to do with that place?" Batman asked as he glared at the blond teen

"I got lost in the road of life and ended their" Nate said sarcastically "We have a rule there, a secret for a secret, if you really want to know, you just have to tell me your civilian name" Nate said with mirk and cheeky smile as Batman glared even harder "Didn't think so, its my private life please leave it like that" Nate said as Batman reluctantly nodded

"Is this all the information you have?" Batman asked trying to change the topic

"For now, yes" Nate said as he turn off the hologram "We don't have to much to go by, but my bosses are working on it" Nate said as he put his hands on his pockets "I have orders to report you everything we find to you" he finished as Batman raised an eyebrow under his mask

"Report to me? Why?" Batman asked in curiosity

"The underground want this issue resolve" Nate said simply "And we don't have the resources to do it alone, but this team can" Nate said smiling at his team "That's what they told me, but I think they want something else" Nate said

"What?" Batman asked in curiosity

"This issue show us that the world is changing, and also shadows are moving a lot lately" Nate said as he scratched his chin "We need to pick a side, and I think my bosses already did" he said looking at Batman "I don't know yet, but I think they want to make a deal with you" he said as Batman nodded

"I trust you won't put the team on danger" Batman threaten as Nate gain a hard look

"I would rather kill myself that put this team on danger" Nate said in full seriousness making Batman smirked

"When the time comes, I'll heard their offer" Batman said as Nate nodded "Until then good work, dismissed" Batman said as Nate nodded and approached his team

"Before we go to the living room" Nate said scratching his head "I cant tell you anything more about the underground, so don't ask me about it" he said as the team nodded reluctantly "So, living room?" he asked sarcastically as the team nodded and headed towards their usual place

Nate started to walk too but Artemis threw his jacket at his face making him stop, he grabbed his jacket and looked at the smirking Artemis "So a secret for a secret huh?" she asked in wonder as Nate smiled

"Yes, that's how it works" Nate said as he put on his jacket, he could smell Artemis scent on the jacket but didn't thought much about it

"If I wanted to know your secrets captain, what would I have to tell you?" she asked in full seriousness, something that surprised Nate

"Nothing" Nate said causing Artemis to looked at him in shock "I just need time" he said as he started walking towards the living room

"Time? Time for what?" Artemis asked in curiosity

"Time for me to know that when I tell you I won't scare you" Nate said with a small smile, his insecurities showing themselves on his face, a looked that Artemis knew well, he had the same looked she had when she thought about telling him about everything

"And if I wanted to know your secrets ninja girl, what would I have to do?" he asked as Artemis frowned and looked at the floor

"Time" she said simply referring to what Nate had said previously, Nate just hummed and didn't say anything more

"We are broken people, aren't we?" Nate thought as he noticed how the living room had neared them, he looked at Artemis and thought about what kaldur had told him with his crush "I rather die than let something like that happen to me" Nate thought as he saw Artemis entering the room

End of chapter 8

AN

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