Chapter 6:
"Kid Flash B-03" the computers voice called out at the cave. Artemis and Kaldur both looked towards the zeta-beam when they heard Kid Flash's name. They both noticed that his face was slightly paler and he seemed a little more frantic than usual.
"Where are the others?" He asked
"Megan and Conner are teaching Wolf tricks outside and I don't know where Robin is, why?" Artemis sounded concerned
"Can you get them, Batman's given us a mission" was all Wally said before speeding off to the mission room.
"I will get them, you can head to the mission room" Kaldur said. Artemis nodded and headed to the mission room. When she arrived she gasped at what she saw. There was a kid tied to a chair, he had been badly beaten and there was a fair bit of blood. Wally turned to her when he heard her gasp.
"I-I know that kid, he goes to my school"
"But he goes to Gotham Academy, don't you live in Star?"
Artemis realized her mistake and mentally kicked herself
"Uh..yeah but I got a scholarship"
"Oh.. uh okay"
"Wait how do you know what school he goes to?"
It was Wally's turn to mentally kick himself
"I-I..um...Batman told me" He stuttered
Artemis looked skeptical but let the subject drop
"So why isn't Batman here and where is Robin?" she questioned
"Their busy taking care of some assassin organisation or something out of town"
"So what are we doing?" Artemis glanced up at the image on the screen
"I'll explain when the others get here" Wally said and turned back to the screen. Artemis looked up at the image of the young boy she remembered her first day of school, when she met him.
'He walked over to her and took a photo of them, "We'll laugh about this someday" he said and then disappeared. "Uh, who was that?" Artemis asked Bette "Just a freshman, ignore him" Bette had answered'. Artemis felt terrible at the thought of someone so full of life and happiness being hurt like that.
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Megan and Conner were trying to teach Wolf how to roll over but he was too distracted by the food they were supposed to reward him with. Megan laughed as Wolf tackled Superboy and leapt after the food he had dropped. Superboy smiled and stood back up. Then Megan froze,
"Something feels wrong" she told Conner
"What is it?"
Then Kaldur appeared
"Batman has assigned us a mission and Kid Flash is waiting to explain it to us in the mission room"
Megan and Conner went to the mission room with Kaldur while Wolf and Sphere went to the living room.
When they entered they had the same reaction as Artemis, except they didn't recognize him.
Wally was facing the keyboard and Artemis was staring at the ground, both were silent.
"What is the mission?" Kaldur asked when everyone overcame the shock of seeing that image.
"We have to rescue this kid, his name is Dick Grayson" Wally told them then he pressed play and walked over to where they were standing to watch the tape.
[A man walked into the camera view and held Dick's head up while holding a gun to it.
"Hello Gotham" A man with a red scope covering his right eye said darkly
"This here is Richard Grayson, Bruce billionaires son, and if you have any intention for him to continue breathing, Bruce, you will hand me a million dollars, preferably in a nice briefcase by 8:00pm tomorrow, I will find a way to contact you to tell you where, see ya" he finsihed then kicked Dick over. Dick groaned a little but didn't appear to wake, then the camera switched off]
Artemis gasped when the man pushed Dick over, Megan was hugging Superboy and trying not to cry, Wally had a pained expression, Kaldur had his normal expression but the sadness in his eyes was evident and Conner was extremely angry, if he hadn't been holding Megan he probably would have broken something.
Wally walked back to the computer and told the team what ''Batman'' wanted them to do,
"Kaldur and Conner, Batman wants you to find out more about Deadshot-which is the man keeping Dick hostage"
they nodded than left the room
"Megan, Batman wants you to go to Bruce Wayne's house to both comfort him and get as much helpful information as possible" She walked out and went to the zeta-beam.
"And what are we doing?" Artemis asked
"We are studying the tape, to try and find out where he is being kept"
"Hmhm, Batman wasn't the one that assigned the jobs was he?"
Wally hesitated "No, he wasn't"
"So why are we the ones studying the tape?"
"Because I don't want to have to put the others through this"
"The real reason Wally?"
"Because we both know him"
"I go to his school, how do you know him?" Artemis demanded
Wally sighed "He- he's my best friend outside of the whole hero gig"
Artemis' expression softened immediately "So basically we have more of a motivation to find him"
"Yeah" Wally practically whispered
"Then let's get started" Artemis said and pushed Wally away from the keyboard.