Author's Note: Here we goo again… Things are getting interesting. This chapter is really just a set up for what's to come, not really much action. But I hope you enjoy anyways. :)

Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice.

Chapter Twenty-Two: Teaming Up

"You're joking right?" Wally grinned, pointing at Batman with both hands. "Didn't know you were the funny type Bats."

The Batman merely glared. "You're dismissed Kid Flash. I need a word alone with Roulette and Artemis."

"But—" Wally cut off, catching the look on Batman's face. He quickly turned on his heel and sped out of the room.

Leaving Remy and Artemis alone with a clearly pissed off Dark Knight.

"What did you know about all of this?" Batman demanded.

Artemis put her hands on her hips. "Nothing. They didn't tell us anything."

"Do you actually expect me to believe that?"

"Yes." Remy spoke clearly and firmly. "We were just as surprised as you were. Ares collided with me on the hotel floor when I was with Wally and Ferdinand. I couldn't say that I had spotted him. He wasn't on the list of known Shadow operatives."

Batman turned from them. "That mistake has been corrected. In the future, do not wait for your entire team to disappear before taking action."

"We have two roles to play Batman," Remy snapped. "Give us some credit. We did the best we could."

"I'm confused though," Artemis put in. "The security team had obviously been infiltrated. We couldn't have done anything either way."

"That is troubling," Batman agreed.

"So what are we going to do about it?" Remy asked. "We have to get the Prince back."

"We don't have to do anything," Batman said. "I am personally handling the search and rescue of Prince Ferdinand."

Artemis and Remy shared a look. The blond archer spoke up first. "But it's our mess. We should be the ones to clean it up."

"You'll do none of the sort," Batman told them. "You're not trained to handle hostage situations. Neither of you are."

Remy blanched at being told what to do. She could get the Prince back if she wanted to. And she could damn well do it before Batman could.

"However," Batman held a hand up. "While you are both here for protection from the Shadows, you are meant to be gaining valuable information. I hope that you two will take that task more seriously in the future. It could prevent another fiasco like this one."

"This fiasco wasn't our fault alone. Had we known anything we would've told you," Artemis said. "We had no clue what was going on, even when Cheshire cornered us in the ladies room. She literally told us to just act normal."

"And you still didn't warn the team?" Batman growled. "There wasn't an identity issue with Cheshire. She's been a League target for a long time."

"We couldn't sabotage them!" Artemis snapped. "We're supposed to be working for them as well!"

Batman was silent for a moment. "I think the both of you need to take a step back from all of this and think over what you need to do in order to make this arrangement more beneficial for the League."

Batman opened up his wrist computer and typed something in. "I'm taking both of you off of active duty for the next week. Training will continue as scheduled but I come to the team with a mission assignment, you'll be excluded.

"You can't do that!" Artemis protested.

"I just did," Batman said indifferently. "Enjoy your time off."

"You know what?" Remy snapped, backing away from both of them. "I didn't come here to be patronized. I came here to debrief just like everyone else. So if you'll excuse me, I'm leaving."

She let the door slam on the way out.

"What are you doing?" Artemis asked warily, walking alongside Remy as she headed towards the Mount Justice computer.

"I'm not just going to sit here and do nothing," Remy muttered.

"You're going to hack into the Mountain's computer aren't you?" Artemis shook her head. "Good luck with that one, genius. Nobody except actual League members—and probably Robin—know how to get in."

"Does it look like I care?" Remy snapped. She was tired of being pushed around by Batman.

"You're going to get in trouble!" Artemis said, trying to reason with her.

As if on cue, the metallic voice of Red Tornado sounded from behind them. "Roulette, Artemis. I ask that you refrain from hacking into the League's computer systems while here."

As suddenly as the red android had appeared, he—or it—was gone, leaving Remy and Artemis dumbfounded as to how they missed his metallic sounding approach.

"There's an easier way to do this," Remy muttered, pulling out her phone.

"Do what?" Artemis cried, exasperated.

Remy looked at Artemis. Really looked her in the eye for the first time in the past five minutes. "This is something I need to do. You need to stay out of it."

"I don't like where this is going," Artemis warned, her voice low.

Remy shrugged, dialing Ares' phone number, and putting the phone up to her ear. "You don't have to."

"Just because—"

Remy held up a finger, silencing Artemis as Ares picked up his phone.

"What?" he grumbled.

"Ares. It's Remy. I've got a proposition for you."

Remy crouched on the edge of the Star City capital building only a day after having called in a favor with Ares. She wasn't supposed to meet Dinah for patrol for another hour at least.

Thump.

Remy smirked, turning slowly to greet Red Arrow. "Took you long enough."

Red Arrow's upper lip curled in disgust. "You got me here, now what do you want?"

"I think I know where to find Prince Ferdinand," Remy told him.

"Wait, what?" Red Arrow looked confused. "You guys got him on the helicopter, didn't you?"

Oops, Remy thought, guess Batman is really keeping this on the down low.

"Well, we did," Remy shrugged, "but the helicopter was hijacked and diverted to another location. The head of the Prince's security was a Shadows member."

"And shouldn't you have known that?" Red Arrow sneered.

Remy scoffed. "I'm on the YJ team you dolt."

"I know you're a double agent," Red Arrow told her, folding his arms. "I'm just not sure for who yet."

"I work for the Justice League," Remy said, making her voice sound as convincing as possible. "They're helping me get out from underneath the Shadows thumb and in return I'm giving them information."

Red Arrow studied her for a moment. "You seem truthful, but you're a Shadow. You can't be trusted."

Remy groaned, rolling her eyes underneath her mask. "I came here to ask you for help."

Red Arrow snorted. "The great and powerful, all-knowing Roulette needs my help? That's rich."

Remy struggled not to snap in his face. "My plan benefits you as well."

Red Arrow's eyebrow shot up. "Plan?"

"Batman is handling Prince Ferdinand's situation personally," Remy told him, fingering the lace on her costume. "I got stonewalled when I asked if the team could fix the mess, since it is our mess."

Red Arrow's face lit up in understanding. "You're tired of being treated like a sidekick."

Remy shrugged. "I'm going to prove I can get things done. And you're going to help me. We both get the credit."

"I've already proved myself," Red Arrow informed her smugly. "What do I get out of this?"

"With Dr. Roquette?" Remy asked. "Nice try. But you gave the mission to the team. Not your credit."

"You're a nosy bitch you know that?" Red Arrow snapped.

"And you're an asshole," Remy said, unperturbed. "But I know something you don't know."

"And what's that?"

"I know where Cheshire is. There's your reward."

Red Arrow seemed to think about this for a minute. "How do I know this isn't a trick?"

Remy smirked. "You don't. But sometimes you have to risk it." Red Arrow shook his head as if he couldn't believe he was standing here. "Do we have a deal?"

Red Arrow glanced at Remy's outstretched hand. He slapped his own hand in hers and they shook on it. " I can't believe I'm saying this but… yeah, it's a deal."

As Remy watched Red Arrow depart from the Capital Building roof, Remy turned in time to see Black Canary drop down on the roof.

"That wasn't suspicious at all," she commented, coming to stand next to Remy.

"You're early," Remy stated, suppressing the fact that she had been startled by Dinah's sudden appearance.

"And you're up to no good," she said, pointing to Remy.

Remy shrugged. "We just happened to run into each other."

Dinah raised an eyebrow. "I heard you say 'do we have a deal?'"

"We were making amends," Remy said offhandedly.

"You really expect me to believe that?" Dinah put her hands on her hips. "Come on. Ever since you and Artemis have gotten back, you've been acting strange."

Remy shook her head, looking away. "You're imagining things."

"Oh so I imagined the five voicemails I left on your cell phone that you never responded to," Dinah said smartly. "Did I also imagine that you skipped training this morning? And did I also imagine that you haven't been to Mount Justice since your debrief with Batman?"

Remy was silent before answering. "No."

"Then when I ask you what the hell is going on with you, I expect you not to lie to me," Dinah snapped.

Remy's head snapped up at this. Dinah had never used that tone of voice with her.

"Look I'm not lying," Remy protested. "Red Arrow and I got to talking a bit. He threatened me, told me not to hurt the team and such. And I told him what was going on. We both promised to be more civil."

"What happened in Bhutan?" Dinah asked, ignoring Remy's story completely.

Remy's face heated up. "It's none of your business. And furthermore, I don't feel like talking about it."

Dinah blanched. "You know, Roulette. You make extremely difficult to get close to you."

"Did you ever think for a minute that I like being alone?" Remy asked. "Did you?"

Dinah gritted her teeth. "It's like we take three steps forward and two steps back. I know Batman took you off active duty with the team, but I don't—"

"We don't do anything of the sort," Remy snapped " and this has nothing to do with Batman taking me off active duty. You're not my real sister. I can handle things on my own despite what you and Batman and everyone else on this fucking planet seems to think. And I don't need to talk about anything, because I am fine."

Dinah sighed and shook her head. "Go home."

Remy narrowed her eyes. "Excuse me?"

"I can patrol the city myself. Next time, check your attitude at the door." Dinah shrugged. "When you learn to do that, you can come back and patrol with me."

Remy stared at Dinah, her mouth hanging open unattractively. She couldn't believe this. Dinah was punishing her? Remy hadn't gotten in trouble with an adult, well, since her parents had been around to ground her.

First Batman, and now Dinah? Remy couldn't believe it.

"You can't do that," Remy protested.

But Dinah was already gone.

Remy felt something akin to sadness, or maybe shame, work its way into her system and she immediately shook the feeling off, pulling out her cell phone.

She waited as the phone rang. "Ares? Yeah, we need to move the timetable up a bit. I plan on leaving tomorrow."