Gateway City
August 7
"Are you sure you want me to do this?" I ask Diana as we exit the cab.
She asked me a few days ago if I wanted to go to work with her. She works as a Military Secretary, but that's all I'm aloud to say about it.
I told her that I wouldn't mind, but in saying this, I had signed a verbal contract that requires me to have new clothes to fit the part as an intern.
We got quite a selection of clothes at a place called the Mall. Stores lined the many walls, and levels of this 'mall' place. We went shopping in places called 'Tilly's', and 'Forever 21', and 'Hot Topic'. Since the Justice League knows that not all of us have a job, or school, they give us 'allowance', so I insisted on paying for my things. But Diana greatly insisted that I am her daughter, and she should have the right to 'spoil' me as she pleased.
At the end of our day, she told me since I don't wear a mask on my missions, it would probably be a good idea to get a pair of non-prescription glasses to make me look less like me in front of the people who have probably seen me.
I chose a pair that had big black frames, that I believe are considered 'nerd glasses'.
"Absolutely," She replies.
Diana has glasses too, but hers are more rounder than mine are. She wears a grey pencil skirt with a dark blue button up shirt tucked into her thin black belt. She also has the classic black heels and black nylons. She has her long black hair up in a bun, secured in place with a bunch of bobby pins.
"Who else can I trust with this job?" She asks.
I wear something semi-professional. I am still a teen, after all.
I have an orange sweater on with a little grey rib-cage printed on the front, and arm bones on the side. My skirt is a cute army print, with a leather band lining the top part. It's made of a wavy fabric that's been ironed in pleats, and underneath that is a solid army green fabric that helps the army printed part not be see-through. Under my skirt, I have on black tights, and a pair of really cute shoes that we found at a place where we, evidently, pay less. They look like boots from the front, and the soles have the same texture as if they were boots, but they have a three inch chunky heel. They tie in the front, and zip up on the sides. My mid length chocolate brown hair is pulled up into a high ponytail, secured with a tie, and a black ribbon shaped into a bow. And on my face, my big 'nerd glasses'.
"Well… only if you're sure. I don't want to write down any wrong information," I tell her as we enter the base.
"You'll be fine, Addie. I promise. Oh, Good morning, Major," Diana greets as a man in uniform walks up to us.
"Good morning, Diana. How have you been?" The man asks.
"Is his name Major? Or is that his rank?" I wonder.
"Oh, I'm doing well. How about yourself?" She asks.
"Overwhelmed with the amount of work that I'm being given, but aren't we all?" He smiles.
I take it he just now notices my presence.
"I don't believe that I've had the pleasure, Miss…?" He asks.
"Oh! Miss. Prince," I answer. "I'm Diana's-"
"Oh, this is your girl that you've been talking about, Diana. Nice to meet you, Adeline, was it? My name is Steve Trevor," He says, outstretching his hand to give me a handshake.
"OH! You're Steve Trevor! Diana has said many great things about you!" I say, giving him a light handshake.
"Not too much, I hope," He laughs. "Well, I'll leave you two ladies to get settled in! Have a good day, Diana. And nice to meet you, Adeline!" He calls out as he walks away.
"You to, Steve!" Diana waves back.
"So…" I trail off after a moment. "Steve…" I tease.
"Oh, stop it, you," Diana smiles.
So, my job wasn't too difficult. I just had to take partial notes on the meetings, paraphrase, and quote people on what they said.
Not too hard.
Then the subject of school was brought up among Diana's coworkers.
"Doesn't she go to public school, Diana?" A woman asks her.
"No. We haven't talked about it, but she's been home-schooled her whole life, and I think she'd rather keep in that way," Diana answers.
"What do you mean? Don't you know that being home-schooled lessens the child's ability to interact with other kids?" The woman asks.
"Actually it doesn't," I weigh in. "It increases their learning, and if they need to slow down for a subject, they can. And if they're excelling in another subject, they can just move right along. So you could be in eighth grade but be in seventh grade math, but you could also be in eleventh grade English. And if you're having trouble with a subject, you go to a building where they teach those classes, but you'd only have to go for like, two and a half hours of the day, then you could go home, do the work that you're assigned, then chill out for the rest of the day. And since you'd be going to the building anyways, many other kids would be going in for different subjects as well, and you can meet up with people with common interests."
"Since when do I know all of that?" I wonder.
"Oh really now?" The woman laughs. "Then I suppose you don't get out much?"
I inwardly smile. "You'd be surprised, honey."
"She gets out enough. She does do a lot of community service," Diana covers.
"Oh?" The woman remarks.
"I'm starting to not like you, lady…" I growl in my head.
"Yes, she cleans up the streets whenever she is asked to, and she has some wonderful friends who help her if she asks," Diana says.
Clearly this woman doesn't understand Diana's double meaning.
"Is that so?" She asks. "Well, I ought to let my son take a lesson or two from you. He could use some good, old fashioned community service."
"Any time, ma'am," I smile.
"Never in a million years," I say in my head.
"Well, we must be going now, Adeline has been invited to a sleepover with her friends, and she really mustn't be late," Diana dismisses.
"I have?" I wonder.
"Oh, yes you mustn't," The woman agrees. "Well, good bye now!"
"Yes, good bye!" We say.
"I can't stand her…" I whisper to Diana as we enter the cab.
She laughs loudly.
"Barely anyone can, my dear," She responds.
"So where am I going?" I ask.
"Oh, Megan invited you to stay the night at her house, and then tomorrow, you two are going down to the beach with some friends," Diana codes, as the cab driver could probably be listening in.
"Really? Sounds fun!" I say.
"Good," Diana smiles.
"Just remember, be safe, don't drown, and no boys," Diana reminds me as I enter the Zeta tube, with my overnight duffle bag.
"I won't!" I assure. "I promise I'll be fine."
"Okay," Diana breathes. "Have fun!"
"Bye!" I say as I step into the old telephone booth.
"Recognized: Wonder-Bat. B0-0," The mechanical voice rings out.
I see a flash of light, then, I'm in the cave with M'gann and Superboy.
"Hey, Addie!" M'gann greets, flying to me from the other side of the cave.
"Hi, M'gann! Thanks for inviting me to stay over. I'm… not quite sure how this whole 'slumber party' thing is supposed to work though…" I say.
"Oh! No worries! I looked it up online, and I have some things for us to do!" The martian smiles. "We're going to have so much fun!"
"If you say so…" I say wandering over to the living room right behind M'gann.
"So this is where we'll be camping out," She says as I set my bag on the couch.
I notice that M'gann has set up a variety of small, decorated boxes.
"What are those?" I ask.
"Oooooh!" She squeals. "They're makeup boxes! I thought that we could do makeovers, and give each other manicures and pedicures! We're going to have a lot of fun!"
"What has Diana gotten me into?" I ask myself, a little afraid.
"Then we can bake, and tell scary stories-"
"I've got a scary story for you," Superboy says walking into the kitchen. "Hearing you two squealing about guys all night."
"Doing what?" I ask M'gann.
"Don't worry about it," She says. "He's just grumpy because he's a guy and can't do all this stuff with us."
"Huh!" Superboy snorts. "Yeah. I'm envious."
"We shall try and keep the noise level down, Superboy," I assure.
"Yeah, whatever," He says, grabbing a soda out from the fridge, popping it open, and leaving the room.
"So," M'gann starts. "What do you want to do first?"
After about six hours of figuring out which brush was for which part of the eye, and manicures and pedicure, and making a mess of the kitchen, M'gann and I decided to tell scary stories in the dark, with a flashlight.
"Then, the girl ran into the cave where the campers set up camp, only to hear the frightening huffing and coughing of Wendigo right behind her. She lit a flare, and Wendigo's full, moose-skull headed, bloody mouthed form right in front of her…"
I am intrigued by M'gann's story.
"The screams were heard by the other camper, and she ran off into the woods. Little did she know, that the Wendigo was sneaking up behind her… and when she heard the thumping of feet behind her stop… the Wendigo let out a big… loud…"
"ROOOOOARRRRR!" Someone screamed from behind us, shaking the couch as they did so.
"WENDIGO!" I scream, socking whoever it was in the stomach with all my power.
"Hunnnn" They groan as they fall over on the ground.
M'gann goes to turn the lights on, only to see that Nash had returned, and was currently clutching his stomach in pain.
"...Worth it…" He wheezes.
"You moron! I could've killed you!" I yell at him as he tries to pick himself up off of the ground.
"But ya didn't!" He points out from behind the couch.
"Oh, but I'm about to…" I threaten.
"When did you get back?" M'gann asks.
"A few minutes ago," He says, getting up, still clutching his stomach. "Heard you two in here tellin' scary stories, and I saw an opportunity to have fun."
"I see an opportunity to beat your-"
"Hey," Superboy calls out. "What's with all the noise?"
He glances at Nash holding his stomach, me with a readied fist, and then the flashlight in M'gann's hand.
"Nevermind…" He groans, going back into his room.
"I was kind of hoping for a nicer 'Welcome Back to Earth' greeting," Nash pouts, jumping over the couch to sit next to me, arm wrapped around my shoulders. "Still not too late…" He sings.
"For what? Another punch? Oh, gladly!" I say readying my fist again.
"Nananananana!" He chants, jumping backwards up onto the back of the couch. "No ya don't!"
"So, what were you doing on Oa?" M'gann asks.
"Eh, some new orders from the Guardians came out, concerning this guy 'Sinestro' who went rogue a while back. He destroyed a few planets, and now we've got intel that says he's got a 'Planet Hit-List' and no doubt Oa's on that list. So just so you gals know, if I need to leave for Oa suddenly, it's because G.L's are being called in to defend it," Nash explains, sliding back down on the couch, arms crossed behind his head.
"Nash, that sound like a serious situation! You should be on constant alert!" M'gann warns.
"Eh, we'll be fine. Besides, it's not like Sinestro has a chance against an entire planet of Green Lanterns. I'm sure we'll all be good," Nash assures.
"If you're sure…" M'gann says.
"I'm positive! Trust me," Nash assures.
"Great, now," I say pushing him out of the room. "Leave! This is a slumber party! And no boys are allowed!"
"Says who?" Nash argues.
"Says Wonder Woman!" I defend.
"UUH. Yeh, I'm out. I'm not about to get on WW's bad side," Nash agrees, placing his hands above his head in surrender, making his way to the zeta tubes.
"Are you coming to our Beach day tomorrow?" M'gann asks him as he's about to leave.
"You guys are having a Beach Day? Sweet! I'll see… I think school starts tomorrow…" Nash says, leaving through the Zeta tube.
I glance at M'gann.
"Boys," We say in unison.
August 8
Robin, Kaldur, Superboy, Nash, M'gann, and I woke up, and arrived early to the cave, ready for a Beach day.
"You ever been swimming, Addie?" Nash asks, throwing his arm around my shoulders.
"Is that just a habit of his?" I wonder.
"On Paradise Island, Donna and Wonder Woman did teach me how to swim, but it wasn't in the ocean…" I admit.
"You excited?" He asks.
"Is there a difference between a pool and the ocean, other than the waves and sea creatures?" I ask.
Nash lets out a hearty laugh.
"Aww… you have no idea, Princess," He calms down.
"Oh, about that," I say, as I elbow him in the ribs. "You got Wally into that! I thought I told you-"
"Hey, hey! Let's not fight about who said what," Nash tries to cover. "Today's a Beach day! Let's have some fun!"
"Come on guys! Let's go!" M'gann says, flying in front of us, then taking off again.
We all exit the cave, to be greeted with a warm, sunny day.
Robin is holding some sort of ball that look like it's made of bandages, Superboy and Kaldur are holding iceboxes, Nash holds a few umbrellas, M'gann and I have 'surfboards' I believe is what they are called, and we all carry our own set of towels.
M'gann is wearing a yellow, board short style bikini, while I wear a black, high waisted two piece with dark pink stripes on the edges of my shorts, and top, tying around to the back of my neck.
Robin wears blue trunks with dark red lining, Kaldur wears dark blue trunks, Nash is wearing trunks with dark army-prints on them, and Superboy wears grey trunks with white stripes on the sides.
"Hello Megan! We should hit the beach every day!" M'gann shouts excitedly.
"But first a moment of silence for our… absent comrade," Robin says, dramatically.
"Poor Wally…" M'gann says, downheartedly.
"The struggle is real when it comes to school…" Nash agrees. "Let's hit the water!"
"Agreed," Kaldur smiles.
"Why would we hit water? What did it do?" I asks silently to Superboy.
"It's an expression," He says, putting his stuff down to go join everyone in the ocean.
"Oh…" I say.
"Come on, Princess!" Nash says. "Time to swim!"
He came up from behind me, catching me by surprise as he swooped me up and over his shoulder, and he ran into the water.
He didn't let me go until we crashed into thigh deep waters. Then we went underwater, where I got a good taste of salty ocean water. I launched myself back up and out of the water with a big gasp of air.
"Again," He gasps from behind me, his sandy hair wet, as he runs his hands through it to get it out of his face. "Worth it."
I smirk, and narrow my eyes at him. Then I start splashing him with water, and soon everyone joined in, splashing each other until we decided to try out those surfboards.
"Do you know how to surf?" Robin asks me.
"I've seen it on the television.. but no, I have not done it by myself," I admit.
He smiles.
"Come on," He says. "You can sit on the board with me while I show you."
"Okay," I smile, sitting on the edge of the board while he slides the board in the water, and paddles into the ocean.
"Not many big waves right now, but what we can do is catch some of the small ones to the shore," Robin informs.
"Okay," I smile.
As Robin said, we did not err...catch… many good waves, but we did ride some back to the shore, which was still pretty fun.
As we ran back up the beach after falling into the water, Kaldur calls out to us:
"Robin, Adeline, we made Hot-dogs!"
"What are those?" I ask Robin in horror. "Are we eating canines!?"
"No! No, they're just called that because there's a dog called the wiener dog, and when the hot dogs are made, it just looks like one of them put in a bun," Robin laughs.
"Oh," I realize.
"Come on, Princess," Nash calls. "You're missing out!"
"Did he just call you 'Princess'?" Robin asks.
"He insists on doing so," I inform, as I take a seat on my blanket next to M'gann.
"These are good," I say as Nash hands me a 'hot-dog' right off of the beach grill.
"They're better with toppings!" Nash states with his mouth full.
"Chew with your mouth closed, genius," Robin reprimands, poking at a hot-dog without a bun.
Next, we decide to play a game called 'volleyball', where we had to keep Robin's weird looking ball off of the ground, but we had to hit it at each other, and make it go over the net to the other team's side.
Superboy, M'gann, and Nash are on one side, while Kaldur, Robin and I were on the other.
"No fair!" Nash calls out as Kaldur slams the ball down on the other team. "You guys have two bat's!"
"And if I were on any other side, you'd have two super-strengths on one team!" I defend.
Later on in the day, Nash decides to set up a blanket, and umbrella on the sand.
"What are you doing?" I ask curiously.
"Setting up for nap time," He says, pushing his big black glasses up on his nose.
"A nap time?" I ask again.
"Yep. A time in the middle of the day to sleep," He says.
"And this is required?" I ask again, sitting down next to him on his blanket.
"Not really," He says. "But I think it should be. Naps are the best! Especially if it's in the middle of the day, or when you're overwhelmed, or if you're with someone who wants to take a nap with you…" He flirts, sunglasses dipping down his nose to reveal his bright, green, glowing eyes
"NO WAY IN ANY UNIVERSE!" Robin yells over to us, helping M'gann and Kaldur cover a sleeping Superboy under a mountain of sand.
"The Jury has spoken," Nash comments.
"So it seems," I reply. "Enjoy your ...err… nap… Nash."
I get up and walk across the beach to the others.
"Why are you turning Superboy into a Pyramid?" I ask Kaldur.
"That's what happens when you decide to sleep and we become bored," Robin cackles.
"Then I do not wish to take part in this napping idea," I decide.
The time is about 4:30 when we all decide to go inside and get ready, just in-case we had a mission come in.
That's when Batman, Green Arrow, Red Tornado, and a new girl in a similar Green Arrow suit show up.
"Recognized: Kid Flash B0-3," The overhead voice says.
"The Wall-Man is here! Now let's get this party star-" he trips over his own feet, dropping everything he's holding, falling at our feet.
He looks up at us, with a strange substance on his nose.
"-ted?" He finishes uncertainly.
"Wall-man, Huh? Wow, love the uniform. What exactly are your powers?" The new girl asks, bow resting on her hip.
"Uh, who's this?" Wally asks Kaldur, standing up and motioning to the girl.
"Artemis," She says. "Your new teammate."
"Merciful Minerva! This team could use some more girls," I mentally cheer.
"Kid Flash," Wally introduces. "Never heard of you."
"Um..." Green Arrow interjects. "She's my new protege."
"What happened to your old one?" Wally asks a bit defensively.
"Recognized: Speedy B0-6," The automatic voice announces.
"Well, for starters," The red haired man starts, walking through the zeta tube. "He doesn't do by 'Speedy' anymore."
The man wears a red and black suit, close enough to the Green Arrows, but this guy wears no hood. Just a black mask, and a quiver on his back.
"So this guy is this Speedy that I've been hearing about?" I realize.
"Call me 'Red Arrow," He says.
"Roy…" G.A begins. "You look-"
"Replaceable?" Red Arrow finishes for him.
"It's not like that," G.A defends. "You told me you were going solo!"
"So why waste time finding a sub? Can she even use that bow?" Red Arrow scoffs.
"Not even two minutes and I already don't like you…" I growl in my head.
"Yes," Artemis interjects. "She can."
"Who are you?" Wally yells again.
"I'm (She's) his (my) niece," She and G.A answer at the same time.
"Another niece?" Robin speculates.
"Yes, M'gann is the niece of Martian Manhunter, and now Artemis is the niece of Green Arrow?" I speculate in my head.
"But she is not your replacement," Kaldur assures Red Arrow. "We have always wanted you in the team, and we have no quota on archers."
"And if we did," Wally adds. "You know who'd we pick."
"Whatever, Baywatch," Artemis steps up. "I'm here to stay."
"You came to us for a reason," Kaldur observes to Red Arrow.
"I can't believe these guys… M'gann and Nash were new, and they did just fine on missions. Why do they not accept this...Artemis as well? I can't see the appeal in Red Arrow. He seems to be quite...what's the word again… Diana said it once… Oh! Sexist! That's the word…" I think to myself.
"Yeah. A reason named Roquette," Red Arrow informs.
I see Robin's eyes light up with joy.
"Nano-robotics genius, and clay-tronics expert at Royal University in Star City!" He explains, pulling up many articles about the blonde haired woman on the hollow-screens. "Vanished two weeks ago."
"Abducted two weeks ago," R.A corrects. "By the League of Shadows."
"The what now?" Nash asks.
"Whoa," Robin beams. "You want us to rescue her from the Shadows?"
"Hard-Core," Wally says, err… 'fist bumping' Robin.
"I already rescued her," R.A informs, walking to the nearest hollow-screen. "Only one problem: The Shadows had already coerced her into creating a weapon. Doc calls it: The Fog. Comprised of millions of microscopic robots. Nano-tech infiltrators, capable of disintegrating anything in their path. Concrete, steel, flesh, bone…
"But it's true purpose isn't mere destruction. It's theft. The infiltrators eat and store raw data from any computer system, and deliver the stolen intel to the shadows. Providing them access to weapons, strategic defense, cutting-edge science, and tech."
"Perfect for extortion, manipulation, power broking…" Artemis buds in, listing off possible uses. "Yeah. Sounds like the shadows."
"Like you know anything about the Shadows…" Wally retorts.
Artemis replies with a smirk.
"Who are you!?" Wally cries again.
"Ha! Aww, man… I like her," I laugh in my head.
"Roquette's working on a virus to render the Fog inert," Red Arrow begins again.
"But if the Shadow's know she can do that…" Robin begins.
"They'll target her," R.A finishes Robin's though. "Right now, she'd off the grid. I stashed her at the local high school's computer lab."
"You left her alone?" Green Arrow asks in disbelief.
"She's safe enough for now," R.A defends.
"Then let's, you and I, keep her that way," G.A offers.
"You and I? You don't want to take your new protege?" Red Arrow asks a bit harshly.
Batman grips Green Arrows shoulder, stopping him from moving forward, and he gives the green clad man a look.
"You brought this to the team. It's their mission. which means it's her now, too." Green Arrow explains.
"Then my job's done," Red Arrow scoffs.
"Recognized: Speedy-"
"That's Red Arrow," He spits at the machine. "B0-6, update."
With this, the man formerly known Speedy exits through the Zeta tube.
I look over and see Wally and Artemis glaring at each other.
"We leave in five," Aqualad informs, making his way to the room where he keeps his water-bearers.
"Artemis!" I call over. "I'm Adeline. Or Addie. Whichever you prefer. Known as WonderBat. Don't mind Wally, he's not so quick when it comes to running his mouth."
I shake her hand.
"Don't worry about it, err… Addie. I can handle a bit of pressure," She assures.
"I don't doubt it," I laugh.
"So what can you do?" She asks me.
"Power wise or Hand-to-hand wise?" I ask.
"Both, I guess…" She says.
"Well, I can fly, I have super-strength, deflect bullets with my cuffs, lasso my enemies into the truth, and I have incredibly quick reflexes. I was trained on Paradise Island with the Amazons, so-"
"AH! I thought you said you couldn't disclose that information!" Nash yells from the other room.
"I didn't tell her what I learned there! And why are you listening in?" I yell back.
"I wasn't! You just happen to be the only voice I can hear from over here!" Nash tries to defend.
I roll my eyes.
"I do have most of the abilities that Wonder Woman does, but I don't have all of them," I explain, my attention moving back to Artemis.
"Like what?" She asks. "Oh! No, I don't mean to pry or anything. Just… curious…"
"Don't worry about it!" I assure. "Wonder Woman can fly faster than I can, she can listen in to prayers sent down from this goddess… I forget her name though… and she knows more languages than I do, but, the most important thing is that she has more experience than I do."
"Why does that matter?" Artemis asks.
"She has had on the job training, and she knows and understands how to deal with an unknown enemy. I don't. Talking it out doesn't usually work, then what? Do I attack, or not? Do I wait for an opening? What are the risks? The circumstances? Questions that I don't know how to answer. But I do know one thing, that it's okay to mess up. That's how you learn," I say.
"Well… that's interesting…" She trails off.
"Way to be optimistic, Princess…" Nash says in the other room.
I narrow my eyes.
"I thought you stopped listening!" I cry out.
"You thought wrong," Nash says, walking across the room now in his Green Lantern get up.
"I ought'ta strangle you…" I growl.
"But you don't!" Nash says, swinging over to me, throwing an arm around my shoulders. "Because you love me!"
And just before I could push him away, he does something weird to my cheek. A… kiss… I believe it's called…
Before I could say a word about it, he was already across the room, making his way to the Bioship.
"You two are adorable," Artemis states, a smirk across her face.
"What?" I ask.
"You two are together, right?" She asks.
I give her a confused look.
"Like… dating together… right?..." She tries.
"We go out to eat at places together, yes. But we are not together…" I say.
"Take it from me, Addie," She says, placing hand on my shoulder. "You two should be."
"Not if I have anything to say about it," Robin grumbles from beside us, seemingly popping out of nowhere. "C'mon. I'll show you to the Bioship."
"The what?" Artemis asks as she's suddenly being pulled along by Robin to the Hangar.
Nash and Wally
"Dude," Wally deadpans. "You have a death wish? If Rob catches you pulling that, you'll be a dead man!"
"Then it looks like I'll just have to make sure Boy-Wonder doesn't catch me pulling that then, huh?" I joke.
"You are going to die. I can feel it," Wally deadpans.
"Pshhh, nahh…" I say, throwing my arm out. "Robin won't kill me."
"No, he'll torture you until you agree to leave Addie alone," Wally states, folding his arms over his chest.
"Puhh! Dude," I say, throwing my elbow on his shoulder. "I'm a Green Lantern, the one thing that can beat torture, 'willpower', is kind of our 'thing'. That's how we use these?" I say, pointing to my Green Lantern ring.
"Your 'thing' is going to be your 'funeral,' dude," Wally warns, placing his red goggles over his eyes.
"You gonna meet us at the school?" I ask.
"Yeah, it isn't too far," Wally confirms. "I can't believe this new girl. I mean, who does she think she is?"
"Well, Addie seems to like her," I point out. "And hey, maybe she's not so bad. I mean, Bats' wouldn't have let her on the team if he thought she'd weigh us down."
"Whatever," Wally pouts as Robin, Artemis and Addie walk into the room.
"You guys ready to go?" I ask them.
"Yeah, so we're just waiting on Superboy, Aqualad, and Miss.M?" Robin asks.
"Ye," I answer.
"Ye?" Addie asks, mimicking my reply.
"Short for 'yes'," I clarify.
"But 'yes' doesn't need to be shorter… it only has three letters…" She says.
"'Ye' is more fun to say though," I defend.
"Are you all ready?" Aqualad asks as he, Supe's and Miss.M walk into the Hangar.
"You know it," Wally replies.
"Let's go," Aqualad orders.
Happy Harbor
August 8
9:00 PM
M'gann and Superboy are patrolling the rooftop of the High School,
Aqualad, Artemis, Robin, and Kid Flash are in the computer lab with Dr. Roquette.
I am sent to patrol the sewer lines with Kid Lantern.
"Every one online?" Miss.M's voice asks in our heads.
"Ohh," Artemis voices. "This is weird."
"You get used to it," I say.
"And distracting," Dr. Roquette says. "Coding a distributive algorithm virus on a kiddie computer with less ram than a wristwatch is hard enough. Now I have to hear teen-think in my skull?"
"Lady," Kid Flash says. "Do you always complain when someone tries to help you?"
"Pot, kettle." Artemis says. "Have you met?"
"Hey. Hey, I do not need attitude from the newbie who drove Red Arrow off the team," Wally attacks.
"That is so not on me!" Artemis defends.
"Fate of the world at stake!" Dr. Roquette shouts through the link.
"She started it!" Wally blames.
"How 'bout I just help Miss. Martian and Superboy patrol the perimeter?" Artemis asks, clearly done with Wally and his pouting.
"Good idea," Kaldur agrees, a bit angrily.
Meanwhile, K.L is down here with me, making shadow puppets with his ring.
I slap him in the arm.
"Stop that!" I say out loud.
He gives me a sad face, and turns his ring down.
"You're too serious on missions…" He pouts.
"You might cut her some slack," Robin says. "It was her arrow saved your butt against Amazo."
"What? No, that was Speedy's- I mean Red Arrow's, arrow. Right?" Wally asks.
"Not so much," Robin replies.
"Hmph," He responds. "Well, still not giving her the satisfaction."
"You know, I can still hear you?!" Artemis says over the link.
"This is way too entertaining," Kid Lantern says through the link.
"Stop it!" I reprimand, hitting him in the chest.
"I couldn't get the Justice League," Dr. Roquette complains.
"The virus won't be of much use if we cannot find the weapon. Can you track it?" Aqualad asks the doctor.
"My utility fog is not a weapon. It's science, brilliant science,and of course I can track it, but I'd have to go online. Might as well rent a billboard with this address and 'assassinate me'written in neon," Roquette gloats.
"Ahw, Man!" K.L laughs out loud. "Is this lady serious? She really thinks she's all that? Ahww… I can't wait to tell Kilowog about this gem!"
"We will protect you," I hear Aqualad assure.
"Tracking the Fog now," the Doctor replies after a moment of silence.
"Mmm," Artemis's voice sounds off after a moment. "That boy…"
"He can hear you." M'gann says viciously. "We can all hear you."
"Oh, I know," Artemis says.
"Okay," KL intervenes, "TMI."
"Miss Martian," Aqualad's voice chimes in. "Dr. Roquette has located the Fog. Reconfigure the Bioship so that Robin and Superboy can pursue."
"Ready. you embarrassed Superboy!" M'gann reprimands.
"Didn't hear him say that," Artemis challenges.
"Must you challenge everyone?" M'gann asks, almost exasperated.
"Where I come from, that's how you survive," Artemis reveals.
"M'gann, Kid, Artemis, We are under attack in the computer lab," Kaldur groans.
"On our way!" Artemis responds.
"What about us?" I ask.
"This might be a diversion," Kaldur says. "Lantern, patrol the outside perimeter while WonderBat patrols the sewerlines."
"Got it," K.L replies.
"You gave me mouth to mouth,"
"We heard that!" Every one reminds through the link.
"Yo, what?" K.L asks in shock.
"We are missing something," I deduct.
"Lantern, Wonder-Bat," Kaldur addresses, gaining my full attention. "Meet us in the computer lab A.S.A.P. We need to discuss our new plan."
"Got'cha," K.L replies.
"On my way," I respond, turning around in my path.
After we had discussed our new plan, we had all moved into our new assigned positions in a church. Mine was with Artemis, K.F, and M'gann, who is using her shape-shifting to pretend to be Dr. Roquette.
"Stop it, both of you," Aqualad says.
"What?" K.F and Artemis ask in unison.
"I can hear you glaring," He replies.
"Well, he's not wrong," I say.
Moments later, a guy in a black, purple, and red suit bursts through the double doors, attacking K.F by shooting some sort of webbing at him. K.F responds by throwing an air-tank at it.
Then, another guy breaks in, but this time, through the ceiling behind Artemis and I. And this guy had a large cartoonish hook for a hand.
"Don't stop working," Artemis tells M'gann/Roquette as she engages the man.
"What? You guy's don't have one for me?" I ask, helping K.F with the Spider-Man reject.
"Martian's here!" A masked lady says from the sky-light window. She holds some sort of crossbow in her hand, and her arrow is stopped by some sort of cabinet that M'gann used to protect herself. "It's now or never,"
The fake Spider-Man kicked K.F out of the way, webbed the cabinet away, and tried to fend me off.
"Heeeeyyy…" He says. "You're kinda cute."
"I'm not cute!" I yell at him, untying my lasso, and twirling it around. "I'm deadly!"
"Who says one can't be both?" He flirts, trying to dodge my lasso.
"Listen here, you Spider-Man reject-" I begin, catching him with my lasso.
"We've been duped!" I hear the lady yell once she saw that it was M'gann instead of the Doctor.
"You'll never find Dr. Roquette!" M'gann states.
"Never's such a long time," The lady says, feigning sadness as she runs off to find her. "Pursuing target, keep them busy!"
"Pursuing their leader," Artemis sound off. "Take the rest down!"
"You are so not the boss of me!" K.F yells as he tries to take down Spidy, who had escaped from my lasso.
"Just do it!" Artemis replies.
Spidy grabs K.F from behind, and starts to place him in an arm lock. I fly above him, and use my lasso to lift him up in the air by the shoulders. Then, once he's at a decent height, I slam him down onto the ground a few times.
"Still think I'm cute?" I yell at him.
"Kid Flash, Wonder-Bat, we need to end this now," M'gann states.
"It's like you read my mind, beautiful," He replies, as Spidy webs him. But then, K.F super speeds himself around, making Spidy fly forwards towards K.F, who then kicked him in the chest when he got close enough.
"Yaah! whoo-hoo! I got mine," M'gann cheers.
"Great!" Wally says, sitting on the ground a bit wrapped up. "Uh… Little help?"
"Would you say that you're a little… tied up?" I laugh at my own pun.
"Ha ha, very funny," K.F deadpans. "Now get me out of this!"
After we cut K.F loose, we rush over to the cafe where Kaldur, and Nash are guarding the Doctor. We were met with Artemis standing outside the store right next to the cafe.
"Artemis, where's the assassin?" Kaldur asks, exiting the cafe with Doctor Roquette holding him up, limping a bit, and panting heavily.
"She, uh… she got away," She reveals sadly.
"Oh, from you? Oh, big surprise. Notice we got ours." Wally accuses, motioning behind him to where M'gann is levitating Captain Hook, and cheap Spider-Man.
"Pipe it down, would you K.F?" Nash says punching him in the arm.
"From the records of your first mission stored in the cave, you didn't do half as good," I say, hoping to bring his ego down a notch.
"Cool," He blows off, noticing the assassin's mask on the ground. "Souvenir!"
"Her mask?" Kaldur asks, pulling tranquilizers out from his chest. "Did you see her... her face?""
"... It was dark," She says downheartedly.
"It is fine. Robin and Superboy neutralized the fog, and Dr. Roquette is safe, thanks in no small part to you," Kaldur reports. "Welcome to the team."
"I've always wanted a sister. Here on Earth, I mean. And with the exception of Addie. I have 12 back on Mars, but trust me, it's not the same," Artemis welcomes.
"I wouldn't know, but thanks," Artemis says.
"I have a feeling that we'll get along perfectly fine," I smile.
"Yeah. Welcome," Wally groans shaking Artemis's hand, after Nash elbows him in the rib cage.
ALOHA! Hope you enjoy this new chapter! Sorry that I've been gone for a while,what with exams and homework and all that.
So there is something that I'd like to address right quick:
First: Yes, I know that Green-Lantern rings aren't hereditary. I am writing a D.C fic for a reason. I know what I'm talking about.
Second: For those of you who have tried to comment about W.B being Mary-Sueish because she can fly, unlike Superboy, she has All of WW's powers, unlike Superboy, she was unloyal to Cadmus in the very beginning, unlike Superboy, (Which, if you actually read the Two first chapters, no she wasn't. She just didn't say much.) I have a simple argument to make: SHE'S NOT LIKE SUPERBOY BECAUSE SHE'S NOT SUPERBOY. If I wanted her to be like Superboy, she would've been Superboy. So please make like Elsa, and LET IT GO.
For those of you who are enjoying my fic, THANK YOU SO MUCH! You are appreciated!
