Hey! I loved this chapter! Oh and tell me if this is a good length; I usually will write this long. But don't be surprised if I write a super long one; if I write a short one I probably have a good reason. The first chapter was short to see how you guys liked it.
I can't believe this is the second chapter I uploaded today, can you? Wow, I am amazing. Anyway, here goes nothing folks…
Artemis's P.O.V.
We didn't scream, but we were very frightened. I was scared. Badly scared. Things were coming out of the damn screen for crying out loud!
"We need to help these people!" M'gann yelled.
"I don't have my costume but I'll try anything!" I yell. It was very loud in here. With the screaming and the moans from the monsters, and also there was this buzzing sound in the background.
"Robin, do you have your utility belt?" I ask still yelling.
"Yes," he shows me it. I grab a metal pencil type object that fits in my hand, I push the end of it and it transforms into a long staff.
"Let's go!" Aqualad yells taking his jacket off revealing his Atlantean tattoos. Megan's costume magically gets transformed on and Superboy has always been in costume.
We check to make sure everyone is out of the theater and run outside the exit/entrance to the lobby.
"Oh my god," I mutter. Every single monster in every single horror movies is rummaging around and Poison Ivy, the Joker, and Wotan are on the top of this huge plant thing. It must be controlling everything. Then we're running, and I don't know what exactly what happens, but then I'm running from Jason in the movies holding a toddler as he runs after me with an axe.
"Dear God!" I yell. I see a woman in front calling the toddlers name.
"I'm scared," he whispers.
"Trust me child, I won't let anything bad happen to you," I kiss his forehand.
"My child!" The woman runs to me. I give her him and in a split-second I'm turning around blocking the axe with the staff I got from Robin. Jason is silent as normal.
"Run!" I yell to the woman and child behind me. They scurry off somewhere. Then I see Michael Myers coming up to my right.
"Dear God!" I dodge his attack and flip them both to the wall.
I start running down the hall seeing no pedestrian in the hall I was just in. It seems none of the monsters are leaving the movie theater so I don't worry that much. I look ahead to the middle of the lobby where the mother plant is. M'gann is battling Poison Ivy and the Joker and Wotan are still on the plant. M'gann isn't doing so good…
"Hey Clown face!" I yell knowing I shall regret this later. "Come down here and fight like a man…if you are one." The Joker's grin wavers but comes back when he jumps down.
"Now who shall you be?" he asks taking a knife out of his pocket.
"Bite me," I say gripping harder on the staff.
"Feisty girl," he cackles. "Let's dance!" He grins wider and runs towards me. I easily dodge his first attack but he's quick for a second attempt. I do a flip missing the knife by mere inches but it doesn't scare me.
"Done with the Martian girl," Poison Ivy says holding M'gann by a vine. "You want me to help finish off yours."
"Nah, I'm not used to a pedestrian fighting," he laughs. I look at M'gann's body; it's limp but she's breathing. I just want to run and help her but I can't do that without showing them my identity, if they don't know already. So even though it kills me, I have to protect her and me.
"Someone save me!" I swoon; trying to get the attention of my teammates. M'gann never got a chance to set up a telepathic link. In an attempt to show how scared I am, I run and jump over the counter.
"I knew she was a wuss," Joker laughed. I unzipped my leather jacket and looked inside my pocket. Yes, it's there. "Yet, when someone challenges me, they must be finished off."
I run for it.
I jump over the counter but soon get hit hard in the ankle. I waver and my leap isn't successful. I wince when I open my eyes. The Joker's standing there with a bat in his hand. I look to my ankle; it feels like it's sprained, and it's bleeding on the side. But that's not going to stop me.
"Sorry girl," he says doing one last swing. I move out of the way and start running/yelping by the pain in my ankle. I do the only thing I can now.
Throw it.
"What's that?" Ivy says as I do my best throw I could to the mother plant. "NO! MY BABY!" While she's distracted I jump up grabbing M'gann, but land on my ankle.
"Shit!" I shriek. I only put a 10 second timer on the bomb so I just sprint to the other side of the theater ignoring the horrible aching pain I'm feeling.
I jump behind the staircase covering M'gann from the bomb. Martians can't do fire. As the explosion behind worsens, I throw her behind a corner so she won't feel the fire that's reaching my back. I feel a rush of warm wind as something picks me up at lightning speed. Soon I feel being put against the back of a wall and opening my eyes.
"Your welcome," Kid Mouth's expression is gruff and he's cut everywhere on his face. I look around to see where Megan was put, luckily Aqualad, Superboy, and Robin were with her.
"Whoa," I say standing up but fall quickly. Kid Flash catches me and looks at me.
"What's wrong?" he asks a bit more concerning. I stand up again this time aware of everything.
"Just the shock of the heat," I lie. I'm not a complainer.
"Alright," he says uncertainly. We run over to the other corner with the rest of the "Team."
"That was risky Artemis," Aqualad's hard mad expression awakens me a bit more. "You didn't know where people where at when the explosion happened, you're lucky the rest of the public and that we are safe. Never—."
"Kaldur," M'gann cut him off sitting up.
"M'gann, are you alright?" Superboy asks.
"Artemis saved me," Megan started again standing up fully. "She could've left me when she was defenseless, but she didn't. She saved me. I owe my life to her." For the first time being here, M'gann was dead series.
"Yes Miss Martian," Kaldur sighed.
"You think that's the end of it!" The Joker strode over, with a slightly weeping Poison Ivy, and Wotan with fire in his eyes.
"Yes, yes it is," Batman said handcuffing the Joker. Wotan and Ivy start running but they get stopped when a net coming out of nowhere caught them. I turn to see a man wearing a suit and had the image of looking a bit Italian.
"Zatara and I managed to track you guys," Batman's monotone voice says.
"Batman, we—," Robin starts but Batman's hand stops him.
"You did well," he said. We all sighed of relief. "The police are looking for any victims but there is already a large population outside so we think there won't be many seriously injured."
"Was our mission a success Sir?" Aqualad steps forward.
"This never was a mission, but you treating it like one I guess it shall count," Batman says. "I shall talk with you, Aqualad, later. I want all of you back into Mount Justice so you won't get confronted by anyone. Especially the heroes not wearing costumes." I wasn't the only one not wearing a costume but I swear his eyes under that mask were staring at me.
"Confirmed," Aqualad said. "M'gann, call the bio-ship."
Superboy P.O.V.
"Are you sure you're fine?" Robin asks Artemis when we're boarding the ship. "You keep wincing everytime you move."
"I'm fine," Artemis says.
"She's lying," I can sense it.
"What?" M'gann asks.
"She has a sprained ankle, not severe," I say. I'm highly observant. I don't have supervision, but I can tell when someone's muscle is the wrong way.
"You said you were fine earlier!" Wally yelled. "You lied?"
"I didn't know if the bad guys were coming back," Artemis says. "I've had sprained ankles before; this is one hurts the least out of all of them."
"Your health is still important Artemis," Aqualad said.
"I never said I don't care about my health," Artemis's temper rose but at the she sighed. "It's just other's health will always be more important."
"We never got to finish the movie…," Wally said totally ignoring Artemis. "Now I'm going to have to go home and finish it."
"Don't we have the movie at the Cave?" M'gann asks.
"The Ring? Um…yeah, I got it last summer," Robin says.
"We could always just finish it there," M'gann shrugs.
"Just as long as I get enough sleep tonight, I am not going to be late again for training," Artemis says leaning back.
"I have to leave to see my King and Batman wants me, but maybe…next time?" Aqualad says trying to use slang.
"I'm up for it. Supey?" Robin says turning to me.
"Sure," I say as we continue the way.
Robin's P.O.V.
Artemis refused to have any medical attention until after the movie was over. So once it was over, she went to the nurse and Black Canary treated her ankle. I think Green Arrow took her home. Superboy and M'gann went to their bedrooms right after and K.F. went home.
Depending on Batman's schedule, I either stay with him at the Bruce Wayne mansion or here. So I went to go find him. I decided to go my favorite way: the vents. I went to my room and to the tech wall. I personally updated each icon. I pressed the one I stashed behind the TV and the side door opened. I went inside and closed the door. I had security cameras, hack codes, many vents, maps; basically everything I need to stay whelmed.
"Bruce, where are ya?" I search up his name in the computer area map and I quickly find him. He's in the conference room with two other people. I quickly hack the security camera in that room and show the room on the screen in high clarity. Kaldur and Zatara are there.
"Hmm...," I say taking a closer look. I open the vent and crawl through. I have memorized the tunnel layout so it's very easy for me to make it to the conference room.
"I know, it's just that…," Zatara stops. "Your protégé needs to understand that magicians sense everything."
"Robin," Batman's voice is heard under the vent. "Come out, we need to speak with you about something." I jump out of the vent and land on my feet.
"Yes," I say walking up to them.
"During your fight with the Joker, Wotan, and Poison Ivy, we were being ambushed. We believe the last place Cheshire wanted to visit was Wayne Enterprises," Zatara said.
"Did they steal anything?" I immediately tense up.
"No physical damage was done, but the security cameras caught Sportsmaster stealing a very important file on a flashdrive," Batman said showing the security film on a hologram. Sure enough it was Sportsmaster. "The file was rejected from the company because it seemed too dangerous if gotten in the wrong hands."
"What was it about?" I ask.
"Human weapons," he says showing more of the weapon data on the screen.
"Wait, do you mean Superboy?" I ask.
"No, that was cloning," Aqualad said. "This how they can either surgically make a human have weapon features, or a robot weapon disguised as a human."
"It was such an advanced science no one could sense them anything but a regular human being," Batman says. "People could easily steal information with no one noticing."
"Did anyone spot where Sportsmaster went?" I asked.
"No one," Zatara said. "But we are suspicious that Lex Luthor is involved somehow."
"Why?" I ask.
"It has been rumored that they have been working together lately, and Lex Luthor has been known for stealing very important files like this for years," Batman says. i nod.
"What do you want the Team to do?" Aqualad asks.
"For now, you two are to tell no one," Batman says. "This could be a small problem or huge. Until we are positive I'm ordering the Team to avoid this."
"Understood," Aqualad says. "Is this conference dismissed? My King is waiting."
"Kaldur, Robin, you two are dismissed," Batman says. I walk out of the room but stay back just to see if my suspicions are correct.
"You know it's more complicated then a small problem, Bruce, this is bad," Zatara's Italian voice carries through.
"I know."
My suspicions are confirmed.
Wally's P.O.V.
After training, our mentors thought for this week's Sunday "fun fest" we were going to play volleyball. Every Sunday we get to play a hardcore game with Black Canary, Green Arrow, the Flash, Captain Marvel, Red Tornado, and this week Batman's replacement is Zatara.
"Volleyball?" I ask. "I suck at volleyball."
"Oh, I think I've heard about this on Mars," M'gann was cherry as ever.
"6 on 6," Arty says walking up to us. More like limping. Her sprained ankle was quickly healing but she still had a bunch of Band-Aids on it. Well the Band-Aids were for the cut, the rest was covered in a wrap of some sort.
"Are you sure you want to play?" Black Canary asked.
"I'm not letting you wimps win," she says.
"That's my girl," Green Arrow smiles. This is how we set up:
Our side:
Server/Back Right: Me
Middle Back: Superboy
Back Left: Aqualad
Front Left: M'gann
Middle Front: Rob
Front Right (in front of me): Arty
Their side:
Server/Back Right: Green Arrow
Middle Back: Black Canary
Back Left: Flash
Front Left: Zatara
Middle Front: Captain Marvel
Front Right: Red Tornado
"Alright, as for the rules," Black Canary says. "Everyone must try to get three hits then over the net, overhand serve but M'gann is allowed to underhand because this is her first game I believe, we play to 25. Got it?"
"Yeah," we all mumbled.
"Alright, who serves first?" Dick asks holding the volleyball.
"Us!" we both argued.
"Just pick already!" Artemis yelled annoyed. Robin just threw the ball in the air.
"Go get it!" he yelled. So many people dived for the ball. Everyone except Arty, so when we all dived and the ball went rolling the other way, it landed at her feet.
"I guess we're first," she says picking up the ball. We all got back to our spots.
"I'm the one serving Arty!" I yell rolling my eyes.
"Don't call me that," she says annoyed as she throws the ball to me.
"Zero to Zero!" I yell serving the ball. It hits the top of the net but goes over. Zatara's quick about it though and dives and bumps the ball backward.
"I got it!" Flash yelled. Man, it was funny seeing him like that. He set the ball to Red Tornado who somehow without using his powers, set it over.
"Mine!" M'gann dived and hit it high. Rob hit it over by Arty. I doubt she was going to spike it so I run forward. But I'm too late. However, she jumps and spikes it hard over the net.
"How'd you do that with your ankle?" I ask jogging back to my spot.
"It's just volleyball," she says watching the other team.
Green Arrow's P.O.V.
"Nice game Artemis," I congratulate her once we're inside. We beat them by four, but still it was a close match.
"Thanks Ollie," she says before sipping a glass of water. The whole Team is inside with us. I'm the only Justice League member with them right now.
"What time should I come here tomorrow?" Wally asks. "I have school now remember."
"School doesn't start for me until 3 weeks," Robin says.
"I'm been transferred to a different school this year, all I know is that I have to go to this orientation program for a week in a week or so," Artemis says.
"Team, report to briefing room," Batman's voice was heard over the intercom.
"I just lost to a bunch of adults, now he wants us to do a mission," Wally hung his head low. "Dear God." We started walking down the hall.
"You'll get used to it kid," I say with a smile playing on my lips.
M'gann's P.O.V.
"The League of Shadows has been seen around Tokyo, stealing technology and important files," Batman says. "I want a full report; it is critical to find any piece of information about the League of Shadows."
"Red Arrow: B06," the computer said as Roy appeared.
"I'm coming along," he said.
"Roy, I thought you said you didn't want to apart of the Team," Green Arrow stepped forward.
"The League of Shadows and I have unfinished business," he said firmly.
"Yeah! It's time for the old gang to get back together!" Wally said putting his arm on his shoulder. Red Arrow smiled slyly.
"Batman?" Green Arrow looked at Batman.
"If you can, you are accompanying the Team, and it's not my position to choose if you are allowed to come along," Batman stayed monotone. "I only assigned this to the Team, therefore their leader must pick if they request back up."
"Kaldur?" Wally asks giving his genuine puppy-dog face.
"I give my permission," Kaldur said.
Artemis's P.O.V.
I rolled my eyes.
Not him, I already was lectured by him the other day. I do not need another day of him telling me I'm a "replacement."
I'm an improvement.
"Then Roy you have permission to accompany the Team," Batman nodded. "But Kaldur is the leader; you must follow his directions and not your own even if you're not on this Team."
"Yes," he said.
"Alright then, you are dismissed," Batman says walking off with Green Arrow.
"To the bio-ship everyone," Kaldur says as we start walking off. As I'm walking Roy passes me.
"Don't mess this up," he says without looking at me.
"Same to you," I scoff.
Cheshire's P.O.V.
"Oh so pretty boy's coming along, how fun," I say looking at the screen.
"They're expecting us, just as planned," Black Spider smiles at me. I dated him last year; what an idiot I was. Now he stares constantly at my body and doesn't get anything done.
"I'll communicate the news," Professor Ojo says walking away.
"Perfect," I smile though no one can see it under my mask.
"So, Cheshire…," Black Spider scoots closer to me.
"Be look out," I warn him before jumping over the fence. Oh how the guards were so easy to fool. I got to the top of the building and looked for a hatch. No guards or security cameras were put on the roof.
Hmm…maybe I should write a letter telling them their mistakes.
I mean it's the "highly guarded Japanese penitentiary," even I expected a little better.
Writing Cheshire is so fun! You'll see more of her later (*wink* *wink*)! I was surprised; I was looking up the Young Justice villains online and there wasn't that many, so the prison shall show a bit of my amazing villain OCs. I barely know any Japanese, so I will probably have to do a little research on that. IF ANY OF YOU KNOW JAPANESE PLEASE JUST WRITE A FEW "PRISON" WORDS IF YOU DO! Thanks anyway!
By the way, my answer for last chapter's lucky question of the day (or chapter because I upload on the same day sometimes) is Wally. Or Robin. Hell, I'd kiss each boy on that Team.
Lucky question of the chapter: Biggest pet peeve? I'll tell you mine next chapter :)
Sincerely,
Royallynot ;)