"So anybody want to tell me what's going on?" Artemis asked, finally breaking the silence inside the bioship, which had been going on for so long that she was beginning to think the others were excluding her from a psychic conversation.

Wally had died yesterday, and Artemis really had no intentions of leaving her apartment today. But around two in the afternoon there was a knock at her door and when she opened it she found Nightwing standing of the other side.

"Sorry about this Arty" he said and then without warning he slung her over his shoulder and sprinted to the nearest zeta tube. At first she had been surprised and demanded he let her go and tell her what he was doing, of course he didn't listen. Then it crossed her mind that maybe he was trying to cheer her up, maybe he thought that 'kidnapping' her would make her smile when they finally got where they were going, wouldn't be the first time the team had tried that. But then they zeta tubed to the watchtower and Nightwing didn't put her down until they were inside the bioship.

"Alright let's go!" He shouted as he put her down and for a moment Artemis thought that maybe her friends had lost it and she was legitimately being kidnapped.

As the ship took off and Artemis got her bearings she noticed that M'gann was piloting, and sitting in the passengers seats was Kaldur, Connor, Red Arrow, and of all people, Cheshire.

"What is going on?" She asked; eyes locked onto her sister.

"Just take a seat Artemis" Nightwing instructed as he took his own seat.

Artemis opened her mouth to protest but Kaldur spoke up before she could say anything.

"Cheshire is here to assist us on an important mission, but we need you as well" he explained, his voice calm and commanding as usual.

Artemis nodded and took her seat, at this point she was still thinking that the team had some insane plan to try and cheer her up and for whatever reason they had called in her sister for help.

So, knowing that when her friends wanted to keep a secret they were more than capable of it, Artemis didn't ask any questions. However when the bioship left earth's atmosphere she drew the line.

"It's for your own good that you don't know yet" Red Arrow answered her.

"So I'm just supposed to let you drag me into outer space without any explanation?" She questioned him bitterly.

"I'll give you a hint" Cheshire offered before tossing her younger sister a lump of orange and black "you're going to need this" she said, Artemis caught the lump and unfolded it only to realize that it was her Tigress costume.

The archer looked at Cheshire with a look that said she trusted her about as far as she could throw Connor, but Nightwing nodded in agreement.

"She's right, and we'll be there soon. Go get changed" he said, Artemis wanted to argue but figured that if the whole team, plus her sister, were all set on not telling her where they were going then what chance did she have? So with a scowl Artemis took the costume and went into the small bathroom in the back of the bioship.

So what's the plan? Connor mentally asked when Artemis had left, he didn't want to ask out loud because the walls of the bioship are far from sound proof, but if she were still present she'd be able to tell they were all talking psychically based on some of their faces.

According to Luthor's files each disruptor alone only had enough power to transport things from one place to another, which is why the Reach was using so many of them. When the energy at the North Pole used Wally as an exit route, it transported him to the Reach's home world. Roy replied

I know but what's the plan? Connor asked again, quickly losing any patients he had.

The plan is we infiltrate the Reach's home world and find Wally! Nightwing shouted in response. Once we're within the atmosphere M'gann is going on a mental search for Wally, when she finds him we'll let Artemis know what's going on and we'll bring Wally home. He continued, much more calmly.

But we don't tell Artemis until then, not until we know for sure that he's alive. Cheshire put in.

Just then Artemis came back, dressed as Tigress. She took her seat silently, seeming to have given up on getting any information on the mission.

The rest of the flight past silently and that silence was finally interrupted when a small, reddish brown planet, came into view.

"Connor take the controls," M'gann ordered and without a word she and her boyfriend traded seats.

"Preparing to enter atmosphere" Nightwing announced, internally praying that they wouldn't run into any complications.

Artemis looked out the window quizzically at the planet below, the place looked completely destroyed.

What are we doing here, and why does Connor need to drive all of a sudden? She wondered and that was when Miss Martian's eyes began glowing.

"Ok I get that you guys clearly want to keep me in the dark, but what is M'gann doing?" The now orange clad archer demanded, she had seen her friend's eyes do this before but only when she was using a lot of her own power.

"She's scanning for life" Nightwing responded, his attention only half focused on Artemis, the other half somewhere distant to the archer.

Again Artemis looked down at the planet, but wasn't quite sure if the distant buildings were abandoned or not.

"She can do that?" She asked, unaware that her friend was not only looking for life, she was looking for a particular one.

"We're about to find out," Nightwing answered.

For a while it was silent, everyone on the ship was practically holding his or her breath as Connor piloted around the gray sky, save for Artemis who still wasn't entirely sure what was going one. Suddenly M'gann gasped

"Connor, go back!" She exclaimed and instantly the ship began flying in reverse.

"Did you find something?" Red Arrow questioned

"I don't know, I think I-stop!" She shouted to Connor and then never finished answering Red Arrow, after another minute she gasped again.

"He's here!" She exclaimed

"Whose here? What is going on?" Artemis asked, by now she was completely lost in the conversation and really just wanted to go home, lie in bed, and cry. Wally, quite possibly the best person to have ever entered her life, had DIED yesterday and her friends decided that for whatever reason they were going to drag her halfway across the solar system without saying why, she was done!

"Wally" Nightwing answered with smile, Artemis felt her heart stop.

Wally didn't know where he was or how he got there, for a minute he thought he might be dead. The last thing he remembered was an incredible amount of pain, then realizing that he could literally see through his hand and thinking that it was the end, he was about to die. He told Uncle Barry to tell his parents and Artemis that he loves them, then the next thing he knew he was waking up in a dumpster. Looking around he found himself in a city that looked like it was straight out of an apocalypse movie. Peering around a corner he discovered some 'people', and by people he meant aliens that looked to be the same race as the Reach. By that point he concluded that he was in fact alive, alive but god knows how many light-years away from earth. Instantly he felt hungry, he hadn't eaten in a few hours. Opening the snack compartment on his wrist he found he had forgotten to restock it and the only thing inside was a cruel reminder that he was stuck on the other end of the galaxy as his spitfire. He had bought it while she was away, and planned to give it to her, well now, after the mission.

"Knew I should've done it in Paris" he muttered under his breath, if he hadn't wanted to wait until the old team was around he would have, and now he may never get the chance.

After scrounging up some dinner (from the dumpster) Wally slept in an abandoned building, hoping that he'd have an easier time finding a way off this planet after some sleep that wasn't teleportation induced. Once we woke up he left the building, searched for breakfast in the dumpster again, then made sure to stick to the shadows as he made his way around the city. For what seemed like a big city it appeared to have the population of a small town, and based on the destroyed buildings Wally guessed that it wasn't exactly a thriving place.

Wal- a sound that almost sounded like M'gann's voice cut into his thoughts, but only for a second before it was gone.

Still, it was enough to make Wally jump and look behind him.

Hello? He asked mentally, thinking that if somehow it really was the Martian girl than she would hear him. At first he got no reply and was about to move on when he heard it again.

Wally? The voice asked; it was M'gann!

M'gann?! Wally returned in surprise, she was then gone for a moment and Wally almost thought he was going crazy, but then her voice came back.

Wally stay right where you are, we're com- She began but she never finished, and Wally felt it when the link between them evaporated.

"M'gann?! M'ga-" Wally began to shout but that was when a gag came over his mouth.