Spitting Image Chapter 7, a young justice fanfic

I am so sorry for not updating sooner, my grandma is in town and I have finals and sleep has become a rarity. Thanks for all of the reviews; they made my kinda horrible week so much better. I'm still pretty mad about the season two thing, I think what the writers did was borderline traitorous. Also the moment you've all been waiting for is almost here. Beware there are future plot twists that no one will see coming, not even the dynamic duo could guess what will happen next. I dare you to predict what you think is going to happen next.

I still don't own yj and if I did season two would be way better and devoted to spitfire, but I digress. And now for the moment you've all been waiting for (drum roll please)…

Spitting Image Chapter 7

Wally had his first real glimpse of the girl as he tried to help her. It was dark but he could still see a little bit of orange hair peeking out from under her ball cap; freckles covered her face and she had eyes that looked almost green under the dim lighting. The scarlet speedster had a slight feeling of déjà vu when he saw her face, she seemed so familiar…

He knelt down in front of the shaking girl, trying to calm her down. Her voice was full of fear and anger as she told him to go away. The teen's voice sounded remotely familiar. The Flash was completely caught off guard when the girl slugged him in the face. "How can someone so small pack such a large punch?" he thought. This time he was ready for the girl to strike back, but was going to try to reason with her. But it was too late, she already had the switchblade in her hand and she quickly pounced.

Wally was prepared for the girl to strike, but he was not ready for an opponent with speed and reflexes that rivaled his own. The Flash tried to block each strike, but with no avail. He felt the blade slice through his costume and break skin. The girl was moving at the same speed he was thus canceling his home field advantage. Sure the Flash was good in hand to hand combat, but not as good as other heroes. The teen on the other hand seemed to be extremely proficient in many forms of martial arts. (A/N: I forgot to mention in the previous chapter that Abby was black belt, just pretend that I mentioned it before) Wally continued trying to block the girl's strikes, he was careful not to hit back. With unbelievable speed the girl knocked the Flash on the ground and impulsively stabbed her switchblade into his knee.

These actions completely shocked the scarlet speedster, the Flash grunted in pain as he tried to get up. He couldn't, the speedster looked up and saw the girl run to the end of the alley. In the darkness her silhouette looked almost familiar to the fallen speedster. At the end of the alley a menacing dark shadow awaited. Wally's eyes grew wide with fear under his scarlet cowl; he tried to stop the girl from running into the arms of Sportsmaster.

"No, stop!" He shouted.

Shit.

It was too late; she was in the iron hold of Sportsmaster. The girl barely let out a squeak before a needle slid into her neck and she fell limp. The Flash did everything he could to try to stop the villain, but he couldn't even stand up. The hero felt helpless as Sportsmaster vanished into the shadows with the unconscious girl.

Wally frantically reached for his communicator, it took all of his self-control to prevent himself from talking at superspeeds.

"Flash to League, requesting emergency assistance." The speedster hated the formality but it was protocol.

"Watchtower to Flash, rerouting to nearby members. What's the situation?"

"Hurry, I'm in an alley in Central. I saw Cheshire attacking some kid and I tried to help but then I was attacked. I tried to help the kid afterwards but then the kid attacked me and stabbed me in the knee. And then I think she was kidnapped by Sportsmaster, I'm not sure, but hurry!" the frantic speedster shouted into the comm.

"Sending units now, it'll be a minute." Replied the monotonic voice.

The Flash sat there impatiently, he felt terrible about letting a kid get snatched by one of the most notorious villains. He assessed his injuries, most were minor except the knife sticking out of his knee. Wally gritted his teeth as he pulled the small weapon from his leg, pain exploded from the now open wound and fresh blood gushed out. The speedster was too shocked by the knife to even notice his bleeding knee. He held the switchblade up in the light to get a better look at the green weapon. Wally gasped as he immediately recognized the blade; the handle was dark green and the blade was a lighter emerald shade, both blade and handle had an arrowhead logo. It was Artemis's. The bewildered hero stared at the knife in disbelief, "There is no way this could be her's ", he thought. He turned the bloody knife over to reveal a small faded smiley face he had drawn on the knife almost 18 years ago as a prank.

"It can't be." He breathed. The speedster was in complete denial/shock.

Artemis, M'gann and Zatanna were flying over Central city in the bioship, scanning for any signs of Abby. The ship was silent, any attempts of conversation were abandoned, and the eerie quiet was suddenly disturbed by a familiar frantic voice. The archer paled as Wally's voice was heard over the communicator.

Artemis's knees gave in with the news, her knuckles were white as she grasped on to the seat and kept herself from falling.

"No", she gasped. Her heart dropped. "This can't be happening."

M'gann and Zatanna looked at each other with dread, It was worse than they could've possibly imagined. They immediately sprung into action and radioed the Flash.

"Miss Maritan to Flash, we're on our way."

They knew something was off when Wally didn't even reply with a flirty remark.

"Hurry!" He shouted through the comm.

The bioship flew at top speeds toward the alley. Artemis was slightly recovered from her state of shock; she was furiously growling a slew of profanities as she readied her weapons. Zatanna prepared the medical supplies and M'gann focused of flying the ship.

As the bioship neared the location Artemis took a deep breath; she was facing her biggest fear and was about to confront her second greatest fear in a matter of seconds. The archer put on a brave face and focused on the mission. When the ship hovered in front of the alley Artemis was the first to jump out of the ship followed by the martian and the magician. They scanned the alley only to find a few bundles of trash and a red heap.

…..

Wally thought he was seeing things when he saw the angry archer storm up to him. She looked slightly older, but she still looked like Artemis. The speedster blinked a couple times and opened his eyes and discovered she was still there, angry as ever storming towards him.

Artemis was steaming with anger as she stormed toward the red clad hero leaning against the wall. She could see a small pool of blood and a faint outline of a knife on the ground. It was clear to her that he was hurt, but she didn't really care about his injuries; she was more concerned about Abby. The Flash looked unpleasantly surprised as she approached him. With stunning strength the archer grabbed his costume and pulled the grown man up to her level.

"Where is she." She hissed.

Wally knew she was real as she pulled him off the ground. He felt her hot breath and her piercing gray eyes were like daggers. "Speak of the devil." Was all the bewildered speedster thought for a moment before her harsh voice broke the silence; he was very confused.

"Artem- wait wha- oh, she um-was-uh.." was all the disoriented hero could stutter.

Her stormy gray eyes reflected impatience and fury; she could feel her blood simmer as her glare (that would make any batglare figuratively wet it's pants) intensified. Wally flinched under her stare. He started wondering why the girl from earlier had the archer's favorite knife, and then why said archer appeared out of the blue 16 years after she seemingly disappeared off the face of the earth. The speedster was also wondering what the teenage girl had to with the situation, and why she looked so familiar. The Flash's head thinking a million things at once, he was starting to get a massive headache and the blood loss wasn't helping.

Wally was finally brought back into reality when an almost feral snarl escaped the (very angry) archer's lips as she thrust him against the hard brick wall. She tried to remain calm but he could hear the underlying rage.

"You asshole. Where. Is. The. Girl? Tell me now or so help me God I'm gonna…"

Before Artemis could finish her 'interrogation' Zatanna pulled her off of Wally and held her back to prevent her from causing him anymore bodily harm to the injured speedster.

"Artemis, let him go. I've scanned the whole area and she's not here." M'gann sadly informed her through the mental link. The martian rushed over to help Wally stand. Zatanna was acting as a wall between Wally and Artemis to try to prevent the furious blonde archer from ending the scarlet speedster.

"Wa-Flash, you have about ten seconds to tell me where the girl went before you become a very non-existent speedster." She growled, this time Artemis didn't even bother masking her anger.

Wally was finally somehow able to find his voice under the fear that Artemis might actually carry out her threat. He knew she was very capable of ending him and he preferred to live so he spoke up.

"I-I don't know, she was here, then she wasn't and then Sportsmaster had her."

He noticed that Artemis grew pale, but she continued questioning the Flash as he was 'safely' protected by Zatanna. This time the archer's voice was softer and more reluctant.

"What, what did she look like?" she asked as she prayed that it wasn't her daughter. Wally thought for a moment before he answered the seemingly simple inquiry.

"I didn't get a good look at her, but she looked to be about 14 or 15 and she had freckles and reddish hair. I think she was slightly shorter than you, but that's all I can think of." He recalled.

Artemis's expression twisted from angry to a horrifying pained look. Her legs turned to Jell-O and she collapsed on the dirty pavement, tears threatened to escape her stormy blue eyes. It was if the world had shattered. Wally looked at the blonde in shock, this was the most emotional he had ever seen her. M'gann was almost done dressing most of his cuts, he had barley even noticed the martian bandaging him up.

"Flash, did Cheshire do this to you? I need to know so I can check for poisons." She inquired quietly

"No, Cheshire didn't touch me. The girl did this. She came at me while I tried to help her, I don't know how she did it but I was on the ground with this in my leg." He said holding up the green knife stained with his blood. Artemis recognized the weapon instantly, confirming that it was Abby. To make sure she snatched the knife out of his hands and closely examined it in denial.

"The girl did this to you?" she asked hoarsely, there was a minute hint of pride for her daughter. The speedster just nodded slightly. He was slightly ashamed of the fact that some random girl had basically beaten the crap out of him. Wally looked up at the three women; he knew he was missing something. There was something they were not telling him, he had to ask the inevitable question that all of them dreaded; they had already enough drama that day to last them a lifetime.

"What's going on? Who was that girl and why did she attack me with Artemis's knife?"

The three heroines expressions were mixed; Zatanna had a slight deer in the headlights look, M'gann looked guilty and Artemis's face was full of incomprehensible pain, fury, guilt, regret, grief and a hint of fear. Zatanna was about to give their former teammate a cliff notes version of the whole fiasco but she was interrupted by Nightwing's voice in their comms.

"Miss Martian, Zatanna, Artemis. Do you have Flash? If you do bring him to the Central City League Embassy pronto." He paused and his voice grew softer. "Artemis, there is something you need to see urgently."

"What, did you find her?" she asked slightly hopefully.

"Just hurry, I can't tell you now." Nightwing replied guiltily.

"What happened?" the other two women chimed in, dreading the bad news they all knew was coming.

"Hurry!"

! Another cliffie, I know I'm evil. I hope you liked it and I am truly sorry about not updating sooner, I only have 7 days of school left and finals are gonna be the end of me if I don't study. Also im going on vacation soon so updates might take longer but I will try to update it least twice before I head off to Hawaii. Review, review, review pretty please with sprinkles, gummy worms, whip cream and a cherry on top. I will try to find time to break from my knowledge cramming secessions to update, but the future can be unpredictable. Reviews might help though (hint, hint, wink, wink) By clicking the little sentence below and typing up your thoughts could help speed up the updating process and also make my day :D. SPITFIRE FOREVER! Tootles.