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"You got the intel, Baby Girl?" Sportsmaster questioned, making Artemis grind her teeth. She bit on her tongue to stop herself from yelling at him to stop calling her 'Baby Girl'.
You know that you'll cop it if you do, She scolded herself.

Instead, she held the flash-drive out to her dad.

Sportsmaster took it, muttering under his breath, "I can't believe you didn't kill Baby Bats when you had the chance, Artemis."

"She's too soft," Cheshire purred.

Don't. You're not soft, you're strong for having restraint. Artemis refused to become like Sportsmaster and Cheshire, willing to kill anything with a heartbeat for money. They had no sense of decency or honour, no thought of who they effected when they murdered enemies of the Shadows.

She quickly made an excuse for not killing Robin. "He'd activated the security," She lied, hoping Cheshire didn't pick her up. "If I killed the kid, we wouldn't have the information."

Sportsmaster shrugged nonchalantly. "Whatever Baby Girl."

Green Arrow studied the mystery girl's weapon intensely, holding it at eye level and examining every inch of it.

"So, you don't have any security footage of her, nor have you seen her face?"

Batman and Robin reluctantly shook their heads.

Biting back a sardonic remark, Green Arrow placed the arrow back on the table. "Well, you're at another dead-end guys. That one's home-made."

Robin ran a hand over his face.

"But that's hardly possible," Batman argued. "It's a trick arrow. It expelled knock-out gas."

"Then she clearly has resources," Oliver shrugged.

Extremely frustrated, Robin slumped down in a chair. "I can't believe this! How does she keep evading us?"

"We need a trap," Batman said thoughtfully. "We at least need to discover her identity..."

Robin stared unmoving at the café below his perch on a nearby rooftop. He was going to find out the mystery girl's identity, he was sure of it.

"Batman, have you located her?" Robin whispered into the comm.

"Cheshire's in there. There is another girl with her, but I'm not certain it's your girl."

Robin gritted his teeth. "She's not my girl."

He could imagine Batman rolling his eyes.

Robin waited, growing increasingly impatient. Finally, he spotted Cheshire and her companion rising from their seats and head to the door. "They're on the move." He whispered.

"Good. Let's do this," Green Arrow replied.

When the girls were out of public view, an arrow shot from the sky, planting itself into the wall in front of Cheshire. Smoke leaked out of the arrow, making the two girls double over coughing violently.

Robin leapt into action, shooting his grappling hook and zipping to the scene. Batman and Green Arrow were down there, but if they'd any hope of catching a glimpse of Mystery Girl's face, their hopes were crushed.

It seems they carried masks and weapons everywhere. When the smoke had cleared, the girl had pulled a balaclava over her face, and Cheshire had her trademark cat mask, even though Robin and Batman already knew who she really was.

"Well, well, well," Cheshire purred. "Looks like we have company tonight, little sister."

Little sister? What? Robin thought.

Mystery Girl pulled out a crossbow. "We'd love to stay and chat boys, but I'm afraid Cheshire and I have business to attend to. What do you say we catch up for drinks another time?"

With that, she stealthily shot an bolt in Green Arrow's direction, while Cheshire flung sais at Batman and Robin. As the three of them dodged the weapons, the girls made their escape.

Disappearing into the alleyway, they vanished without a trace.

"This is seriously getting ridiculous, Batman!" Robin exclaimed. "We're the greatest detectives in Gotham, how come we haven't found out who this girl is yet?"

Batman sighed, managing to keep his ever-calm demeanour. Green Arrow paced thoughtfully, twirling Mystery Girl's arrow between his fingers.

"Maybe we shouldn't try to ambush them as heroes. Surely Cheshire and the Shadows don't know our secret identities, or at least not yours." He said.

"Yes, but how are we going to find them again?" Batman questioned.

"Well," Robin said, spinning in his computer chair. "Cheshire called her 'little sister', so we just need to search Jade's file for family ties."

Green Arrow shook his head. "Jade's only family on record is Paula and Lawrence, and nothing ever been reported of another child in the family."

"Nothing in League files, no. But what about school files? Surely she goes to school." Batman reasoned.

Robin turned to his computer and accessed the student files in Gotham. "So, are we looking for Jade's last name, or Crusher's?"

Batman and Green Arrow leaned over Robin's shoulder. "Try Lawrence's."

Biting his lip nervously, Robin went to the list to the C compartment.

"There," Batman pointed at the screen. "Artemis Crock."

Robin shook his head. "But that's impossible, I go to school with her. Artemis definitely isn't a criminal."

Regardless, he clicked on Artemis's name, opening her school file. She was indeed Lawrence Crock's daughter, but she lived with her ex-criminal mother Paula, aka Huntress.

"But you were when Huntress went straight, surely she wouldn't allow the only child she had left to follow her footsteps. And Artemis has no criminal record what-so-ever."

Green Arrow shrugged. "I guess Lawrence has pulled her in behind Paula's back. You know teenagers Dick, they do that."

Robin fought off the urge to strangle Oliver when he felt Batman's piercing gaze on the back of his neck. Why to be inconspicuous, he thought.

"Whatever," Robin replied hastily. "we know who she is, what now?"

Artemis pulled Cheshire behind a building when the heroes were gone. "What the hell! Now they know we're related!"

Cheshire pulled off her mask and smiled. "So what?"

"They can track your criminal record for family relations, Jade! They know who I am!"

"They know who I am," Jade shrugged. "It never stopped me. It doesn't matter if they know, you obviously out skill them. And besides, when are they going to be able to confront you?"

Artemis fumed, refusing to acknowledge the fact that her sister had a point. Batman and robin couldn't try to attack her at school, or in a diner like they just had.

"At least know you don't have to worry about covering your tracks so much. It will be all the more frustrating for them if they know your identity, and they still can't catch you."

Well, know Robin knows who she is. Way to go Cheshire ;D

Please R&R