Hey! I loved the reviews from last chapter, really got me all excited for this story! And it did feel really good going back to my regular old Spitfire roots, I think I should learn how I write the past first before the future. Alright, concerning the story The In-Between, I did dedicate that story to someone and I feel really horrible giving up on that story after personally telling her it was for her. But for this story, I am going to stay committed. So I really want you guys to look up orangekangaroo (that's her screen name) and look at some of her stories. Orangekangaroo, if you're reading this, this chapter's for you…
P.S. PowerToThePeople23: The papers are telling like when training starts, how they do things there, contracts making her not tell anyone, etc. I will explain them more in upcoming chapters. And Ollie isn't her real uncle, Artemis only said that because of them being in a public place they don't want anyone to suspect otherwise.
If any of you guys have questions like PowerToThePeople23 I'm up for answering them.
Artemis's P.O.V.
I was wrong to judge Robin's smirk when he said "Oh, you'll see."
And here I am with the team in street clothing running around Gotham.
"C'mon Arty, it's just 15 miles!" Baywatch yelled. I was breathing hard. This luckily was my 12th right now but I was nearly dying on the inside.
"You run 100 miles a day Baywatch!" I yell.
"We usually just do 7 but I guess today they want to see your skills," Robin ran next to me.
"I'm an archer!" I yelled and looked at Mount Justice but turned back when we had to do a rough turn.
"It's almost over," Aqualad yelled in front.
"Thank god," I muttered. Soon we got to a picnic table by the park and we all sat down.
"That wasn't that bad," The Flash said.
"I could go for a few more," Kid Flash said stretching.
"Race you back," Flash smiled.
"You're on," Wally yelled as he and the Flash started running at high speed.
"I could call the bio-ship over," M'gann says standing up. She's in her "Caucasian" form as she calls it and I'm not quite used to her looking that way.
"Bio what?" I ask still heavily panting. I hate super long distance running.
"Bio-ship," she corrected me. "It's my ship we use for the Team: it's an organic Martian ship." I didn't really know all about Martians but I nodded anyway.
"Alright, let's get her down here then," Robin smiles. I finally catch my breath again and stand up.
"I'll try to awaken her," M'gann says as she puts her hands up to her head and her eyes grow a white-greenish color. I am used to this but it still freaks me out. "She's coming. We just need to get on her without anyone having suspicions. I'm going to let us speak telepathically now." By the end of her sentence she's already in my head.
"Alright, everyone good?" Robin asks.
"Yes," I say.
"Affirmative," Aqualad says.
"I'm good," M'gann says.
"Hmm…," Superboy hums.
"Okay, I guess we could climb the tree…wait, nevermind…," I start to brainstorm forgetting they're in my head.
"Artemis is right, we could just go deeper into the park and then climb a tree," Robin says.
"Aqualad?" M'gann asks; he is well the leader.
"Just make sure it's faraway," he says. We start walking through the rack of trees, and once we found an easily climbed one we reach the top. There's still people walking around, but a lot of people climb the trees here; I guess it's now normal for them.
"Is the bio-ship here?" I ask with annoyance in my voice. Well, my thinking-voice. "I just skinned my knee on a branch."
"You alright?" M'gann's worried voice floods my mind.
"I'm fine, I just don't think people want to see a lot of blood on the trees," I say looking at the blotches of red on the bark.
"Well, she's in camouflage mood so I'll call her over to us," M'gann eyes start glowing again and I climb higher up to the top. Suddenly I see this moving sensor in the sky.
"Is that her?" I ask as a hatch door opens.
"Yes, that is," she says as they all scatter in. I'm last in and the room surprises me.
"You can have the seat behind Wally," she smiles as she walks up to this throne in the middle. I walk to the side of the room that doesn't have people sitting down and I sit in the seat I was requested to go.
"Nice huh?" Robin asks me.
"Different," I say looking around. M'gann looks at me confused. "A good different." She smiles and we continue to fly. Despite of how fast and high we are going, I feel no air sickness at all. I just lean back and look at the clouds.
The ride isn't long. Soon the hatch door opens to Mount Justice and we're landing on the metal surface. I see Baywatch and Flash waiting for us.
"What took you guys so long?" The Flash laughs. We come out and stand with them.
"We don't have super sonic speed like you guys," Robin laughs.
"Here, let's go to the kitchen so I can clean your cut," M'gann says leading me back down that long hallway.
"Thanks," I say sitting down on one of the bar stools and supporting my leg on the one in front of me.
"No problem, have you seen your room here yet?" she says starting to get a paper towel and putting it in the sink.
"No, all I have seen is this place, the training rooms, the room we were just in, and then every corner of Gotham," I smile. She laughs and starts cleaning my room. I don't wince because it doesn't hurt very much.
"Well training's over now. It ends at 4," she says pointing to the clock on the microwave. "I'll be glad to show you around and show you your room." She throws away the blood-stained toilette and puts a large Band-Aid on my knee.
"Thanks," I say getting up. I hate when Band-Aids are on my knee but I just live with it. I just don't like how restricted my knee feels now. "So where do we start?" I grab my gym bag and bow off the couch where I put it earlier.
"This way," she says leading me down the opposite hallway from the one we came. We turn two times and she shows me a room on the left side of the hall. "This one yours, it can be opened by two things: hand-print and password."
I put my hand on it and the computer says the same thing when I get transported here by the zeta tubes "Artemis: B07".
"Whoa," I say as the room opens up to this large room. The room is a dark green with arrows representing my costume everywhere. The bed is a large teal color and dark brown wood nightstands on each side. A bunch of posters are up of superheroes I can't name and newspaper articles too. A flat screen TV is facing the bed and the whole wall surrounding it is decked out with technology.
"Nice huh?" she smiles. I smile seeing that's the same thing Robin said on the ship. "It has the same format as the others but it's personally designed for each person." I threw my gym bag and bow on my bed and walked around.
"What do all these do?" I ask looking at the wall of technology.
"Anything basically," she smiled. She pressed a button and a door opened. I walked into and saw a whole set of different types of arrows inside. Then she pressed it again and the door closed. I manually opened it but gasped. Now it was just a bathroom. "You'll get used to it."
"Sounds cool," I say pressing another button. This time a bunch of wind comes from everywhere changing from cold to warm each second resulting in a great temperature. I look at M'gann confused.
"Hair dryer," she says pressing the button turning it off. "Now I know you want to check everything out, but this is only the beginning of the tour."
"'Right," I say as she walks out the door. I follow but I quickly stop to turn on the hair dryer one again. She turns and sighs. "Sorry! It's fun!" I turn it off quickly and run to the door.
"The room next to yours is mine," she says opening the door to her room. I step inside; it was the same format as mine but hers has so many different designs and colors I could stare at it forever.
"Isn't it cool!" M'gann's cheery tone awakened me and we kept on our way.
"Are we the only girls?" I ask seeing different rooms on the opposite wall.
"Yeah, those are for when Batman gives us more girl teammates," she rolls her eyes but smiles. "The guys are down the hall." We walk down and shows me the four rooms. Each door has the symbol of their costume.
Superboy: Superman symbol.
Aqualad: Picture of Atlantis.
Baywatch: Flash symbol.
Robin: Batman symbol.
"Hey babe," Wally said walking up to us with Robin.
"Baywatch," I scowl.
"Arty," he scowls back.
"Don't call me that!" I yell.
"You guys are like an old married couple…," Robin rolled his eyes.
"Eww!" I yelled.
"Gross!" He yelled going into his room. I peeked in and saw the Kid Flash symbol everywhere.
"Jealous?" he asked seeing me look in.
"Nope, not at all," I smile and start walking with M'gann again.
"What are you guys doing anyway?" Robin asks walking with us.
"Showing Artemis around," she smiled.
"Have you seen your room yet?" Robin smiled. "The tech is so awesome!" I smiled; Robin acted like a kid on Christmas.
"I saw," I smiled.
"Favorite icon?" he asks.
"Hair dryer," I say. M'gann laughs. Again wind hits my face.
"Hair dryer?" Baywatch says. "Wow."
"It's fun!" I say.
"Are we still going to the movies tonight Babe?" Wally asks M'gann.
"The whole team is silly," M'gann smiles. She has no idea he's courting her, does she?
"What movie?" I ask.
"Every Saturday we go to the movies as long if there's not a mission or anything," Robin said.
"Cool, can I come?" I ask.
"Of course!" M'gann's cheeriness surprised me, but it was nice to have someone always happy. "You are apart of the team now."
"Unfortunately," Wally mumbled.
"I can hear you!" I yell going ahead in front of M'gann.
"Wally! Be nice!" M'gann yells catching up with me.
"Where to next?" I sigh/ask.
"Besides the living room you saw near the kitchen, we have two more," she says going down the hall. "This one is kinda like, I don't know, a 'Man Cave.' It has a pool table, table tennis table, some other games, a small little kitchen in the corner and a huge couch plus a television. The guys will usually come here for football games or something like that."
"Not bad," I nod. "Where's the other one?" We turned the corner and she opened another room.
"This is my favorite," she said opening it. I could tell why it was her favorite; the wall opposite of us was just a wall of glass. A beautiful view over Happy Harbor. "This one is the only way to the indoor swimming pool. This again has a kitchen, TV, couch, but this is the only one with a bunch of video game systems."
"Awesome," I say looking at all the games. "I'm great at these."
"The guys always say they're the best," she smiles.
"Of course they do," I say walking out of the room.
For the next 2 hours, I went into every corner around Mount Justice. Even though it seemed boring, I actually did enjoy. It felt good to get a girl's opinion on the Team. She told me about Robin having this "ninja" thing, how to never disturb Aqualad when he's swimming in the indoor pool or he'll get pissed, and on how to avoid Batman's death stare.
"What time is it?" I ask once we reach the kitchen.
"Lemme check," M'gann floats on over to the clock. "7:27. We're going to the movies at 8."
"Ooh, I should get home!" I say running down the hallway. I halt and run back. "Thank you!" I then run to the zeta tubes running into to someone.
Superman. The Superman.
"Oh, sorry!" I say helping him gather the papers he was holding.
"It's fine," he says standing up. "Artemis, right?"
"Yes…uh, sir," I say trying not to sound rushed.
"Congratulations on making the Team," he smiles.
"Thank you Superman, I mean sir," I say and start walking. "Bye!" I run to the zeta tubes seeing Ollie standing close to them.
"Artemis, there you are," he says walking towards me.
"Sorry Ollie, got to go!" I yell being transported through the zeta tubes. The feeling's unnatural for me but I make it through. I'm still wearing my jogging outfit: red basketball shorts, a purple tank top, and sneakers. I jump on the dumpster and onto the bridge. I jog up the steps and soon make it to my room.
"Hey Mom! I'm home!" I yell. My mother wheels her wheelchair in the doorway.
"Artemis, how was your day?" she asks.
"Great," I say lightly kissing her cheek. The same spot I did this morning. I wheel her out of my doorway and into the living room.
"Good," she smiles.
"I'm going to take a shower and then go to the movies," I say.
"With who?" my mother asks.
"My new friends," I say.
"Oh, those friends?" she asks catching on.
"Yeah," I say walking into the bathroom.
Kaldur's P.O.V.
Miss Martian made us all wait in the kitchen. Artemis arrived a minute ago wearing a pair of jeans, boots, blouse, and a leather jacket. Superboy wore his regular clothing. I had on a long sleeve blue jacket with a pair of jeans and sneakers. Robin had on his dark shades, jeans, blue pair of Sperrys, and a blue button up shirt. M'gann and Wally weren't ready yet.
"I seriously rushed home and they are the ones late," Artemis said hanging her head.
"Megan won't take long, it's Wally I'm worried about," Robin said.
"Hmm…," Superboy said watching his static show on the television.
"Sorry I was late guys!" M'gann said coming in. She wore a pink floral dress with a shawl over her shoulders and a pair of flats.
"The Wall-man is ready to mingle!" Wally came out wearing jeans, blue sneakers, and a green t-shirt.
"The Wall-man?" Artemis asks.
"He's the only one who calls himself that," Robin says. I give a small smile while Artemis laughs.
"Let's just get to the movie," Wally groans and walks with us to the zeta tubes.
Someone's P.O.V.
I saw them appear walking into the movie theater.
She saw them appear inside.
"All is going to plan," the Joker's crankily voice came through the communicator.
"Once the movie get's halfway through, we will begin," Ivy's voice came through.
"Yes," I said, hearing the small accent my voice gave. "The monsters shall do the rest of the work so Sportsmaster will be able to break in."
"Perfect," Ivy's voice came through.
"Are you sure that's them?" the Joker says.
"Oh, Joker," I quietly laugh. "Sportsmaster confirmed that girl was his and that she is apart of the Team they made now. Once we start, she'll communicate her 'Team' for back up, which will make the Team and Justice League suspicious of these actions instead of Sportsmaster's."
"Oh, how I love horror movies?!" Joker's cackled laugh ended the conversation.
Now all we need to do is wait.
Wally's P.O.V.
"I'm dying for popcorn!" I whine as we wait in line.
"We're almost to the front!" Robin shushed me.
"So what movie are we seeing?" Artemis asks somewhere behind me. I turn to her.
"Only one of the most amazing scary movies ever!" I said excitement filling me.
"Every theater in this place is having a horror movie marathon!" Robin said as high-fived.
"We're seeing The Ring," M'gann says.
"I love that movie!" Artemis smiles.
"I bet you'll be screaming the whole time," I scoff.
"Shut up Baywatch, you'd be crying," she retorts. "What other movies are being played?"
"There's a lot of old and new horror movies," M'gann explains as we get closer to the front. "They have those old Halloween Mike Myers movies, It which freaks me out, Jaws which isn't even considered a horror movie, and a lot of Jason movies. Those are most of the old. The newer are The Cabin in the Woods, or Don't Be Afraid of the Dark."
Artemis's P.O.V.
"Cool," I say as we reach the front of the line.
"Hi, how may I take your order?" This guy said to us. He was young, brunette, with blue eyes. Sorta cute but I wasn't interested.
"We're all going to be together," Megan says nicely. "I'll have a small popcorn with a medium diet coke."
"Medium popcorn, medium Mountain Dew," Robin says.
"2 Large Popcorn, 1 large Pepsi," Wally smiles. The dude looks confused but writes it down anyway.
"Small Popcorn, and a water bottle," Aqualad nods.
"I'm not hungry," Superboy shrugs.
"Oh my turn," I say looking at the menu above. "Um…small Mountain Dew, medium popcorn, and small nachos."
"Isn't that a lot of food for a little lady like you?" the guy winks at me.
"I'm a big girl, and no thanks buddy," I say seeing his flirting attempt. "Not interested."
"That'll be 34.24," he frowns.
"I'll pay $7," I say putting my money in M'gann's hand.
"$8," Robin puts the money in.
"I already put in $7, so $12. 24 left," M'gann said.
"I'll pay the change," Superboy put a quarter in her hand.
"And we'll both pay $6," Wally and Aqualad put the money in her hand.
"Here you go," M'gann gave it to him.
"Alright, your food should come shortly, just stand to the side," he said. "And you change is one cent."
"Thanks," I say putting my hand out.
"Not so fast cupcake," he says making me wait.
"There are people behind me," I say annoyed.
"Don't you want my number?" he raises his eyebrows. In a attempt to stop this, I do the first thing that pops in my head.
"Hey Robin come over here," I yell to him.
"Yeah," he says walking over.
"Can you tell this guy to back off your girlfriend?" I say. Robin gets confused but somehow catches on with a blush on his face.
"Yeah Babe, just give her the change," he looks at him with fire in his eyes. Robin sure knows how to perform.
"You're dating him?" the guy asks disgust on his face. "Aren't you supposed to babysit that toddler instead of dating him?" I grabbed the penny out of his hand and looked at him hard in the eyes.
"At least I'm dating somebody," I walk off holding Robin's hand. Once he's out of sight, I sigh.
"Thanks Robin, I owe you one," I say handing him the penny.
"Yeah…okay," he says with a lovestruck blush on his face. I shake my head and grab my food.
"What took you guys so long?" Baywatch asks.
"I'll tell ya later dude," Robin's still smiling. Wally looks at us confused.
"Let's just go watch the movie," Kid Mouth says walking into the darkened theater. We go up the stairs and sit in the middle of the rows of seats. We sit in this order starting from just where we entered:
Aqualad
Robin
Wally
Me
M'gann
Superboy
"Do I seriously have to sit next to this 'thing'?" Wally asks meaning me.
"This 'thing' has a name you know," I whisper/yell.
"Fine, do I seriously have to sit next to it?" he tries again. I sigh.
"That's not what I meant," I hang my head.
"I know," he smiles but sits down finally. I sigh but lean back to watch the previews.
Dick's P.O.V.
I was really shocked what Artemis just did, but then again, I don't have any complaints. I guess you could say I have a small crush on her, okay a medium crush, but that's the same for Megan if you think about it. Either way I am going to enjoy being Artemis's body guard against unwanted boys.
"Did anyone get candy?" Wally whispers to me when the before credits are starting.
"I don't think so," I whisper back. Suddenly Artemis gets up and tries to pass through.
"Move Wally," she whispers/yells.
"Where are you going?" I ask her.
"Bathroom," she says.
"You couldn't go before," Wally says keeping his legs out.
"Move," she says again.
"Let's just go get candy now and then she can use the restroom," I say standing up.
"Fine," Wally moans. Artemis quickly tells M'gann where we're going and we head out the way we came.
"Hurry up and get the candy," Artemis says running to the restroom. We walk over to the concessions line. It's empty so we go to the front. The same guy is there.
"Oh, it's you again," he scoffs.
"Huh?" Wally asks.
"Just get your food," I sigh.
"6 packs of Skittles, a bunch of those sour things, and then 9 Kit Kats," he says taking out his wallet.
"$21.40," he sighs and takes the money. "And your change is…a dime."
"Thanks," I put my hand out.
"No way," he says. "Tell that girl of yours first if she wants a man she can come back to me."
"He's more man then you'll ever be," Artemis says behind me.
"Oh, so now she's your back up," the guy rolls his eyes.
"Excuse me, but I didn't come to chat," Artemis says anger in her voice. "Now hand the nice man the damn change."
"Or what?" he says.
She is so lucky we didn't get kicked out.
Artemis reached over the counter and found the soda dispenser thing; it's a long coil that apparently sprays soda or something. At least I think it's soda. She aimed it at him and sprayed it all over him.
"Run!" she yells. We're running into the theater glad that no one saw our little fiasco.
"We almost got kicked out, thanks Arty!" Wally says disgust in his voice.
"I just saved your guys' asses out there," she retorts.
"Stop that you too," I say opening the door. "Let's just watch the movie." They come in, both of them crossing their arms.
M'gann's P.O.V.
It's in the middle of the movie when it starts.
A scary part just occurred so I used this opportunity to hide in Superboy's chest; I can be a very good actress. Artemis is just smiling and Wally and Robin look like they are going to hurl.
"You thought that was scary?" Artemis asks seeing Wally's face.
"Ugh, no," Wally defends himself but once Artemis turns back to the movie his face is back to its frightened stage. I think it's long enough and slowly sit up.
"Sorry, that was a little scary," I play it off nicely and try to look genuine.
"It's fine," he nods again looking at the screen. I give a small smile and begin watching again. This is going to be harder then I think.
Suddenly, the movie stops. Just pauses actually.
"Huh?" comes everyone in the crowd.
"Sorry, children," Someone's voice is heard. "The movie marathon is going to take a different turn, be a little more 3D." Everyone cheered but the Team was a little more suspicious. Well, Wally and Robin were ecstatic.
"Have fun kiddies," A different voice came through. Everyone else cheered but the Team didn't. That wasn't a regular old voice, it was the Joker's.
But that wasn't the scary part.
The screen was.
In mere seconds the room was filled with vines. Hundreds of plants and vines. We even saw Poison Ivy's smirking face as they went everywhere.
But event though that was horrific, that wasn't the main reason we were screaming.
The screen was moving.
And something was coming out of it.
Monsters.
Alright, I can't stand horror movies. I'm a wuss when I watch them. I like older horror movies a lot more though. I can watch the old Jason movies and then the Halloween movies with Mike Myers. But The Ring scares me badly. Real badly. I really liked the reviews for the first chapter, I was blushing reading each one! Thanks!
Lucky question of the day: if you could make out with someone on this team, who'd it be (I said this team because I'm not including all the newer character). This team=Kaldur, Wally, Robin, Connor (Superboy), Artemis, and M'gann.
Sincerely,
Royallynot ;)