Chapter 4

Blair's POV

Lunch with my dad was probably the most awkward thing ever, I was almost glad for the siren meaning the country was under attack, although that's probably never a good thing.

"Blair what's going on?" My phone starts buzzing with a constant stream of texts and phone calls.

"Oui."

"Blair?"

"(Where do you want me?)"

"(Palace now, intruders.)"I hear Tate's voice on the other end he's the leader of my squad.

"(On my way.)"

"Blair, what is going on?" My mother asks frantically as I grab my jacket from the coat rack.

"The palace is under attack, I'm closest, I'll be back soon, I promise."

"We're coming with you." My father tells me. I only ever just found out he's alive I'm not losing him already.

"Falcon business, I'm sorry it'll be better if you get to a bunker, I know you're safe."

"We can help." He says again.

"Wally, now is not the time." Dick intervenes.

"We can talk later, but every second I waste here someone I love could be dying." I say running out the front door, in the direction of the palace.

It takes less than a minute full on sprinting and the palace is eerily silent, I don't use the door, I use a passageway, the castle's full of them. I slip my com into my ear, all I get is an out of breath pant, obviously a com is on the floor somewhere and in the heart of the battle.

"Can anyone hear me?" I whisper into the com, keeping my back to the wall, no one could stab me in the back if I was next to a wall.

"Hey Simba, I got the king, queen, Bree and Ric, but there's still Fin and Emilia to find."

"K, are you alright?" I ask Kate,

"I'm fine, Nik and Tate are still up there, as far as we know there are 8 of them, highly trained assassins. Be careful B."

"I will, don't worry about me. Keep them safe, they come first."

"B, don't do anything stupid."

I hear the scream before I can reply. I run in the direction of the sound, it's one of the scientists, the queen works closely with our scientists and some of the world's finest contribute research. laws on research are different here, we can test on willing human subjects quicker than in other countries. They're working on a miracle healing serum and all the test so far have been positive, the only flaw is that it activates dormant meta genes.

I rush into the room, she had a briefcase in hand obviously she'd been protecting the research, she'd gone back for it, brave but stupid woman. "Run!" I shout at her. She does as told fleeing down the corridor briefcase in hand, please be safe.

The woman in the room, has wild hair and a mask on, she sighs "Aw, you let my plaything loose." She sounds like she's pouting. I turn around to face her properly, she gasps, her sword lowers and I see the moment to strike, I act on impulse, it's probably my worst flaw I'm constantly impulsive, and one day it's going to get me killed. That day will not be today.

I land a solid kick in her stomach, she gets up, and we start fighting trying to get the upper hand. As long as I keep her entertained it means one less assassin for the boys to face. My com bleeps, incoming transmission. "Prince Fin is down, I repeat prince Finland is down, send medevac now, Nik is entertaining our guests but he's slowing down, send all available Falcons."

"Sorry, for cutting our dance short, but I appears, I'm needed elsewhere." I say landing a solid punch to the head, ouch, that's got to hurt.

I continue through the castle listening for the sound of fighting. I know where Fin is, but my priority is now Emilia. If I were a stubborn kid where would I hide?

A crackling surges through my com making my ear hurt. "E to Falcons, I repeat E to Falcons, I'm safe, I'm in my special place and I have a talkie, clear the palace and keep my brother safe."

"Red to E, stay there don't move, I will come and find you once the palace is clear. Keep your talkie on but stop making contact."

"Rodger that B." She knew what to do in this situation, she'd been told since she was able to walk what to do. If the alarms go off, grab the talkie in her draw and get to a safe place.

She's in the vents, only a small person or a kid could fit in them and I know she has her little den in the centre of the old ventilation system. It was a little nest of old pillows and duvets the queen doesn't know about it, nobody does, except Nik and I we were babysitting her and we couldn't find her so we went into her room, and found that the vent was slightly off the wall, the little monster's been sneaking down there for the last few years.

At least I knew she was safe. That solved one problem now to get the assassins out of the palace.

"At your 10!" I shout as Nik, we were working in a pair, back to back, like always. I throw a punch, at someone.

"Hey babe!" I shout.

"Yeah?" Nik replies

"Next time, can we just do something boring on my birthday, like eat dinner watch a movie or something?"

"Manoeuver 11!"He says avoiding the question.

I comply, I do a flip over his head, his hands are there holding up the assassin's that we are fighting, I grab the hands as I fall toward the earth I pull them along with me flipping them on to the floor. The assassin was on the floor, unconscious, I think, that move is dangerous and a bit of a last ditch, it can shatter the vertebrae if they fall in certain way.

"Another down, that makes six. You think the other's got away?" He asks me as I survey the area still in battle mode. Falcons were everywhere, and the palace was crawling with nearly everyone not on mission. We were on high alert. Adrenaline was rushing everywhere.

"I don't know." There was something strange about this attack, it didn't seem to have a purpose, if they were after the king and queen why didn't they follow Kate? Why were they in the lab? This didn't make sense. The research was available to everybody, all you had to do was email the Scientist in charge and get an update, and the papers were available to anyone who contacted us through any leading science organisations; Star labs, Wayne tech etc.

"Red, I can't read minds, I can't help if you don't tell me what's going on?" Nik says looking at my eyes hands on my shoulders.

"Get me Harris. This wasn't random." I had my work face on no one was going to mess with me. "Get Ward to send me surveillance of the labs and to run a scan on this, and send it to my CPFA (Computerized Personal Falcon Assistant). I want all the information available on it." I say showing him the Sais that I'd taken off the strange lady with wild hair and a creepy ass mask, I walked back to the lab, she was gone from her place on the ground, I'd growled in frustration. I felt a calming hand on my shoulder, "Red, breathe." Tate tells me from behind.

"Where's Doctor Kolwicz?"

"She was escorted to one the bunkers until the all clear."

"Get in contact, see what she salvaged from the lab."

"On it." Tate says, usually he'd be leader not when the royals were involved, they were like my family, and if anyone messed with them I'd hurt them.

"My family are they safe?" I say slipping out of work mode and into caring daughter mode.

"Yeah, they're in a bunker, Kent made sure when he was evacuating, he knows how stubborn your mother is."

"Remind me to thank him later."

"Will do. Harris will be here in 5."

"Good, is the area clear yet?"

"We're checking the houses in the near vicinity and giving everyone a falcon to guide them home, the light is dwindling and no one wants anybody to get speared."

"Good." My CPFA bleeped, "And Ward is officially the best." I sing song The assassins were shadows, the one I knocked out was Cheshire, this being the case she made a tactical retreat, they will attack again."

"Good observations Red, what else you got?" Harris asks from behind me

"You want the good news or the bad news?"

"Good news first."

"They weren't after the royals."

"The bad news?"

"Well this is just a theory, but they were after the research, and they used the royals as a decoy knowing we'd get them out first, against their wishes, and I'm guessing that's how Fin got hurt. I think that they're aim is to create strife between the nations, we both know that all it takes is one idiot to start shooting their mouth off about how the research is sensitive and integral to humanity, for people to start doubting us. We need to do everything possible to secure the scientist a new lab, regain any lost information and work leads on who it is trying to undermine our country."

"What do you need from me?" He asks.

"Your rank and age, sir. I need you to put out the instructions, I'll find all the leads I can. I need you to talk to all the ambassadors seeing as they won't really take orders from a 17 years old, and the UN rep, so they know what's going on, you know I don't do the politics side of things hence why I refuse to accept a higher rank. I need-"

We all stop still on high alert, we hear bickering coming from a tall oak tree

"Wally shut up I'm trying to listen."

"Sorry, I'm just confused why is she ordering around a man that looks twice her age." I see a flash of red hair and a blonde ponytail, I groan and face palm, could my parents get any more embarrassing, I understand my dad has a lot to catch up on but could he not do it when a country is in the middle of a crisis.

"Red, it appears your mother is sitting up in a tree with 2 men and binoculars should I tell her to come down and act like a normal person." Tate interrupts.

"Bollocks. I'll shoot them out if you would be so kind as to send her over here along with my father and my uncle."

This statement gets a lot of confused looks, and a hushed murmur runs through the crowd.

"I guess it's time to tell my mother what my rank really is." I mutter as I shoot an arrow at the branch they're on. It falls and there a selection of grumbles, "Ow Dick you're on my head, Wally would you get your ass off my legs." My mom grumbles, she was stuck underneath both of them. I wince apologetically, oops.

Artemis's POV

A hand is extended to me, I look up shamefully, it's Tate, and I feel like a teenager, damn you Wallace, you've been back a day and you are already getting me back into trouble.

30 minutes earlier

"Artemis, I'm bored." Wally whines from my left, we'd been ushered into a bunker by one of Blair's friends.

"What do you want me to do about it? Look we're stuck here until they sound the all clear."

He pouts, then turns his attention to Dick. This was going to be a long couple of hours.

Wally had been whinging for the last 10 minutes non-stop, I'd had enough, I needed to get out and find out what was happening with my daughter.

Kent was by the door, it'd be hard to sneak past him, he'd be looking out for me under my daughter's orders, and I knew more about her job than she thought. After she started sneaking out frequently and coming home with bruises, I'd started to worry and one night I followed her out. I found more than I bargained for, she'd frequent the local fight club, and she was a champion, something I was secretly proud of.

I was proud, my kid's a badass. So with the help of Dick and Wally, we got into the action right at the end, well there was no action just Blair ordering people around. Blair was clearly the one people looked to in a situation like this. I don't know why my daughter being in charge of a situation that affects not just the country we live in but many others as well makes me proud. Also kind of scared I don't really think putting a moody teenager on an international situation bodes well.

Wally was getting fidgety and was asking lots of questions getting louder per second.

"Wally shut up! I'm trying to listen." I hiss getting annoyed. I couldn't hear what was going on a man had shown up in a black jeep meaning he was of importance. It was General Forton Harris, and he seemed to listen to what Blair was saying, just how high of a rank was my daughter, she wasn't in uniform so I couldn't judge, but she was obviously high enough for the general to listen to.

"Sorry, I'm just confused why is she ordering around a man that looks twice her age." He looked amazed, an adult actually listening to a teenager. Next thing I know everybody was stopping and looking in our location, Kid clumsy had struck again. Our daughter mutters something unintelligible, grabbed a bow form someone on her left and shot the branch we'd been sitting on.

Lucky me, I was stuck under 2 fully grown men and one was on my head. "Ow Dick you're on my head, Wally would you get your ass off my legs." I moan, they quickly jump off, A hand enters my vision it's Tate, I grudgingly take it.

"Mom? What were you doing in a tree." my daughter says in an exasperated voice, she didn't want to have to deal with me, and an international crisis, that's a lot for a newly minted 17 year old to deal with on her birthday.

"I wanted to see if you were okay."

"Did it occur to you to just ask Kent for his com?"

"That's not the same and you know it."

"Mom, I'm a little busy here, can we talk about this later, it's late and I have work to do. Tate can escort my mother home personally." She says in a clipped and detached voice. That doesn't sound like my Blair, cold, I'm guessing this was her in work mode.

"Blair what rank are you because you clearly aren't a recruit."

"I don't specific rank, I'm a special case."

I look at her to elaborate. Wally just looked shocked.

"Mom, I promise that I will tell you everything, including the stuff I've been hiding from you. I promise." I believe her, her eyes show me she means it.

I turned away when Wally decided to stick his foot in it, "Wait, kiddo we can help."

"Wally." I say trying to stop him before he lets loose about our old hobby, but it's too late.

Blair's POV

"I highly doubt that."

"Really well you're talking to 3 members of the old young justice team and 3 reserve justice leaguers."

"I'm sorry what?" I as I can feel my eyes bugging out of my head. "You're justice league?" I ask my mother.

"I take it she didn't know that." My dad muttered.

"No." My mother whispers furiously at him.

"(This is great, you got so angry when I told you about me wanting to be a Falcon, and you used to be freaking justice league! Mom, I can't even begin to describe how angry I am at you right now. Go home, okay, I'll talk to you when this situation is sorted out, but right now I have an international situation to sort out, a prince to check on and possibly a few assassins loose in the country, and that's at the top of the very long list. Tate, escort my family home, stay with them and keep them on lock down.)" My mother wasn't exactly good at following orders, I couldn't guarantee that she would stay at home. My mom's almost as headstrong as me. Almost.

"Blair, you can't just order us around like another soldier." My mom says, I bit my tongue trying to bite back tears. I felt betrayed, untrusted, confused. People were asking me question after question, I had about as much clue as was going on as the next person, I was overwhelmed with panic, I had to get out of there, I needed to breathe.

"Harris, follow my orders, I need to check on Fin and suit up, and we'll regroup in an hour in the mission room. Tate, take four recruits, any will do, and somebody get the king and queen involved, it is their country after all." At least now I had some time, I could calm down, I needed some tea.

How'd you like my very action packed chapter, I suck at fight scenes and honestly this just seems a little bit messy to me, I don't know, I had like a billion and one ideas about how this chapter could go, I chose this. Is it just me or did Blair become a little bit of a B***h this chapter. This was a little rushed, sorry. Thanks to anyone who reviewed followed or favourited this story :) I'll answer any questions or comments if you review, hint hint ;) bye lovelies xoxox

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