Author's Note: Part three of this little mission the team is on :) Should be the last one… or not… I guess you'll find out when you get to the end lol. By the way, I sit here, in my bed writing, while my ankle throbs. Yes, it is sprained. Which means since I get to stay home tomorrow, there may be another chapter out. Please enjoy the benefits of my pain!

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice.

Chapter Twenty-one: Everything Goes to Hell

"This is just awesome," Wally muttered, rubbing his eyes.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Ferdinand practically whined. "We are going to run out of air soon."

"Sir, you need to relax," Atkins told the Prince.

"Don't tell me to relax!" Ferdinand snapped. "They're trying to kill me."

Remy sighed, getting to her feet. Not so cool and confident now."Can you give me a boost?" Remy asked Wally, eyeing the ceiling.

"What for— Oh no! You're crazy," Wally declared, attempting to pull Remy back down by her dress.

"Don't do that," she smacked his hand away. "Just lift me up. If I can get to the top of the elevator shaft then I can get us out of this."

"How?" Wally said flatly.

"I'm not sure yet," Remy admitted. "But I'll let you know when I find out. Now come on. Give me a hand here."

"May I suggest—" Atkins was trying to cut in.

"Shut up," Remy snapped. "This is between me and him."

Wally was not amused at Remy's sad attempt at humor. "Do you want to bleed out in an elevator shaft? Do you want to die?"

"Sometimes," Remy muttered, looking away.

"What?"

"Chill out, I was being sarcastic," Remy sneered. "Now for the last time. Up. And you better not look up my dress."

Wally shook his head, muttering something under his breath, before pulling a string hanging around his neck. It had a vial attached to the end and was filled with a clear liquid. He shoved it towards Remy.

"Take this before you do," Wally said.

Remy popped off the cap of the vial to reveal a sharp point meant for injection. "What is it?"

"Rob gave it to me for emergencies," Wally shrugged. "Said if I ever needed a boost to get the job done, this would do it."

Remy stared at the vial. Normally, she wasn't a fan of putting things into her body that were not supposed to be in it in the first place, but this was a bit of a special case. And if Robin had given it to him…

Remy jammed the injection point into her wrist, right where the vein was and waited until all the liquid had emptied out of the vial.

She waited.

"What's supposed to happen? I don't feel any different," Remy said.

"Give it time to work!" Wally hissed. "It takes the average person at least one hundred and fifty seconds to absorb—"

"Whatever, we're wasting time," Remy said. "Boost now."

"Fine," Wally said, kneeling down. He snorted as Remy's bare foot was placed in his hand. "What happened to your shoes?"

"Took 'em off," Remy said. "You try running around in high heels on a mission."

"Fair enough. Up you go." Wally lifted Remy up by her ankles, the latter wobbling slightly as she pushed one of the ceiling panels out. Remy grasped the top of the elevator and pulled herself up and out, her shoulder burning as she did so.

"This is crazy," Wally muttered. "Is this really necessary? You don't even know if you're going to get out of the elevator shaft. There could be nothing up there except ceiling and more cable."

Remy smirked, her head poking back in. "No risk, no reward."

As Remy disappeared, Wally could hear the sounds of her grasping the elevator cables with her bare hands and feet.

The ginger haired speedster shook his head. "She really is insane."

Remy felt wonderful.

Whatever was in that vial had given her the much needed energy necessary for her to ignore the throbbing pain in her shoulder and climb up the elevator cables. Her hands had suffered multiple lacerations, but somehow, it didn't matter to her.

Remy felt as if she could run faster and jump higher than she normally could. She felt like she could take on a five hundred pound sumo wrestler even!

It must be some kind of adrenaline, Remy reasoned as she pulled herself out of the elevator shaft.

She had struggled not to look down as she climbed, and it had been difficult. She could hear Wally spouting off lame jokes through the ceiling tile the whole time, after all.

Remy wiped her bloody hands off on her dress, making a left at the end of the hallway, to enter the stairwell. She noted that the blood didn't really look that out of place on her red dress. It blended in rather well actually.

Somehow, she was not surprised to find Ares waiting for her in the stairwell.

"It's about time you got here."

Ares was seated on the stairwell, glancing at the dirt underneath his nails.

"Where's the team?" Remy asked, forcing her voice to sound uncaring.

"They're safe," Ares said. "For now." He glanced up at Remy. "Thanks for the shot in the foot by the way. It felt great."

"What was I supposed to do?" Remy shrugged. "I have two roles to play if you remember correctly."

Ares nodded. "You could've at least grazed my goddamn foot."

"I did." Remy snorted. "Now what's the plan?"

"So eager to get it over with." Ares shook his head. "Head up to the roof. Cheshire may or may not have brought the rest of your team to the roof. Of course, as we speak, the elevators are slowly climbing to the top of the building. The Prince will be joining you shortly."

Remy started as she climbed a few steps. "So I just scaled the elevator cables for no reason?"

Ares shrugged. "Pretty much."

Remy glared daggers at the man's head.

"Get over it," he ordered. "Now get up there. Play your part and we'll take care of the rest."

Remy growled, irritated at his domineering tone. She was a goddamn member of the Shadows too. Didn't that at least give her some freedom?

Apparently not.

When Remy reached the roof, she was surprised to find Cheshire bantering with someone else. Someone who was definitely not her. Someone who was definitely male. With flaming red hair and bad attitude.

"—unless you want to tell me where they are?" Red Arrow snapped, an arrow trained on Cheshire's chest.

The Asian woman smiled at him flirtatiously, completely unperturbed by the deadly point of the arrow trained towards her. She caught sight of Remy out of the corner of her eye and turned her head.

"I see one of the kids managed to evade capture," Cheshire laughed. "More for me to play with."

Red Arrow scowled in Remy's direction, clearly not pleased at the sight of her.

"Where are they, Cheshire?" Remy demanded.

"Now, now," Cheshire held up a finger. "That would be telling."

"Tell us," Red Arrow pulled the bow string tighter.

Remy stepped closer to Cheshire, her hands at the ready. Cheshire smirked, stepping away from both she and Red Arrow.

Remy heard the sound of the rooftop door creaking open. Wally's voice filtered through as he led the Prince and Atkins out on the roof.

"Ookay then." Wally stopped in his tracks as he caught sight of the situation. "What are you doing here Spe—Red Arrow?"

"Later," Remy muttered, watching as Cheshire sized up Wally and Atkins. Her eyes lit up as she took in the appearance of Ferdinand. Her hand twitched towards the blade attached to her hip.

Remy didn't wait for her to make a grab. She lunged for the woman and knocked her to the ground. The two rolled around on the ground as Wally and Red Arrow watched in shock.

The simultaneous sound of a helicopter approaching and the rooftop door opening caused Remy to be momentarily distracted before she could land a punch. She looked towards the door in time to see Ares lunge for the Prince, only to be shot back into the wall by one of Red Arrow's arrows.

In that moment, Cheshire's fist connected with Remy's jaw and Remy was sent flying towards Red Arrow. Remy collided with his legs, effectively knocking him over.

"Get off," he growled, shoving her away.

Remy glared as she jumped to her feet, watching as Cheshire effectively knocked Atkins out and freed Ares from his arrow restraint. Cheshire made a move for the Prince as Ares launched himself at Wally.

The two engaged in a fist fight as the helicopter landed on the other side of the roof. Dumbasses, Remy thought, the fight is over here.

"Shit," Remy swore, shoving Red Arrow out of the way, as she pulled the gun from her garter once more.

Cheshire's blade was headed towards the cowering Prince. Remy reacted, firing a shot straight at Cheshire's arm, followed by another aimed straight at Ares's upper thigh.

Both bullets connected, causing Ares to fall to the ground in pain and Cheshire to drop her blade. Wally was on Ares in a heartbeat, knocking him out with a few quick punches.

Remy turned her attention to Cheshire who was backing away from the Prince, her hand clutched to her chest.

"You may have won this round kiddies," Cheshire seethed, glancing at Ares' unconscious body, "but this is far from over."

With that, Cheshire bounded over to the side of the building and leapt off of the roof. Remy dropped the gun and sprinted towards the edge of the roof. She spotted a small inflatable platform on the ground below and she watched as Cheshire's lithe body bounded off of the inflatable platform and took off running.

Remy sighed, knowing she shouldn't even try to go after her. She turned, finding Red Arrow much to close for comfort and stepped around him, helping Prince Ferdinand off the ground.

"Let's get him to the chopper," Wally suggested, releasing Ares to Red Arrow, who immediately began the process of securing his hands and feet together.

"We still have to find the others," Remy said. "And what are you doing here Arrow?"

"I need to get out of here now," Ferdinand growled.

"We get it, pretty boy," Red Arrow sneered, walking over to Atkins who was beginning to stir. "And I was tracking Cheshire, not that it's any of your business."

"Whatever, Red. Let's move," Remy said, grabbing Ferdinand's upper arm. She turned to Red Arrow. "Watch him and send Atkins to the chopper when he's up."

She and Wally steered Ferdinand towards the Chopper, both of them warily scanning for any more Shadows members. The chopper door opened and a Monacan secret service agent pulled the prince into the chopper.

"Nice shooting by the way," Wally commented. "How'd you get so good at that?"

"My dad used to take me shooting when I was younger." Remy shrugged, knowing it wasn't a complete lie. She and her dad did use to go to the shooting range when she was little, but Remy hadn't perfected her shot to such degree until a few years earlier.

At that moment, Atkins chose to make his way—albeit slowly—to the chopper. He nodded his thanks to both Remy and Wally before climbing in next to Ferdinand and slamming the chopper door just as the Prince was about to say something.

"Still don't understand why she just left," Wally mused, no doubt referring to Cheshire, as they watched the chopper soar off, "and why we weren't targeted for capture."

Remy shook her head. "I don't get it either, although I assume we won't have much trouble finding the others."

"And why's that?" Wally asked.

"Because they were trying to send a message," Remy thought aloud, turning to glance at Red Arrow and Ares. "Otherwise we would've been dead in a heartbeat."

"…and they basically just put us in the hotel fountain," Artemis said uncertainly. "It was really strange."

Batman raised an eyebrow. "They didn't harm you in anyway? They just put you in a fountain?"

"That's what she said," Conner snapped irritably, eliciting a glare from the Dark Knight.

Wally snickered at the age old phrase that immature teens everywhere used daily. Batman turned his glare towards the speedster. "Sorry," Wally coughed.

Batman turned towards Remy, who was now completely stitched up, her shoulder in a sling. "You didn't encounter any resistance until the elevator, you said?"

"Cheshire tried to execute Ferdinand on the stage, but Remy took the bullet," Wally explained. "Then we got trapped in the elevator, Remy went all hulk on us—" he grinned at her as she glared at him, "—and climbed to the top of the shaft and five minutes later the elevator started working again."

"We can assume that another member of the League of Shadows enabled the elevator once I left," Remy shrugged. "It was obviously a part of some twisted plan of theirs."

Batman rubbed his chin. "Where were you during all of this, Robin?"

"Dealing with a constant wave of thugs," Robin grumbled. "Half of the Prince's security team came to the room and attacked me. Obviously the Shadows bribed them or—"

"It was clear that we were compromised once I was attacked," Kaldur inserted. "It was one of the Prince's own secret servicemen that managed to incapacitate me. I tried to warn the others but—"

"That's irrelevant right now," Batman told him. "What matters is that Ferdinand escaped on the helicopter and is on his way to a safe location. You completed your mission, despite the complications."

"But Cheshire escaped!" Megan put in.

"She did," Batman allowed. "But now the League has a member of the League of Shadows—the agent known as Ares—in custody. Hopefully he will forthcoming with information."

The team made noises of agreement.

"Prince Ferdinand is—" Batman was cut off as someone spoke into his League comlink. "Yes, go ahead Diana. What—no how is that?—Atkins? Hold on a second." Batman addressed the team once more. "Are any of you familiar with the name John Atkins?"

"He was head of the Prince's security," Wally informed him. "Why?"

"That explains a lot," the Dark Knight muttered. He spoke back into the comlink. "No, I'll handle it personally this time. Inform the family that everything possible will be done."

"You're dismissed," Batman told the team suddenly. The teenagers stood, confused at the Dark Knight's sudden insistence for them to leave. "Except you three. Sit."

Wally, Artemis and Remy stopped in their tracks and sat back down. Robin looked back as he was the last one out, looking slightly hurt that he had not been asked to stay behind

Batman put his hands down on the table, glaring at them. "Kid Flash, Roulette, you two were with Atkins for the latter duration of the mission were you not?"

"We were," Remy said cautiously.

"And?"

"And what?" Wally shrugged.

"You didn't notice anything strange?" Batman persisted.

"Well, other than the fact that he was completely useless in terms of knowledge and fighting skills… No, not at all. Why?" Remy asked.

"Atkins was the inside source the Shadows had. I've just been informed that the Prince's helicopter was hijacked during flight and that its status is currently unknown."