Hi hi~! Oh my god you guys I am so sorry about the month-long wait! Burklyn Ballet Theatre was incredibly fun, but twice as intense. I lost a toenail to the clutches of pointework. On the bright side, I'm super-duper buff now, I bet I could even do ONE PULL UP. Oh yeah, you know you're jealous.

Good news: Zatanna has been revealed to appear in YJ in Season 2 AS A REGULAR. I was wrong about Zatara, it turns out DC was referring to John Zatara instead of Zach Zatara, which doesn't make much more sense, but I forgive them.

This chapter definitely features more Spitfire. Definitely.

Special thank you to anonymous reviewer! Your review was extremely thoughtful and made me feel warm and fuzzy :3

DISCLAIMER: If I owned DC, Wally and Artemis would've had a make-out session by now. And Misty Kilgore would be in YJ.

Quick recap: They're in Star City now. Looking for Ivo's lab. Betcha can guess who's gonna show up.

Of course, the members of Young Justice couldn't just pilot their alien bioship down Main Street, so after "parking" in Orchid Park, they took a taxi to the South End. Unfortunately, there isn't enough room for six teens to fit in one taxi cab, so while Kaldur'ahm sat in the front seat, Robin convinced Megan to sit on Superboy's lap, while Artemis sat on Wally's. Megan was so embarrassed, she just morphed her size and sat in the trunk. Poor Artemis didn't have that ability.

Wally and Artemis were blushing insanely the whole ride, and the only sound you could hear was Robin's muffled giggling.

~~~Soggy Pinecones~~~

In the South End

"S-so, um…" Wally was still a little bit embarrassed from the awkward car ride, "Wh-What should we do now?"

Kaldur looked around the sleeping neighborhood and knew that Artemis was right in wanting to search here. This end of the city was filled with old apartment buildings and shutdown businesses. He saw a homeless man sitting outside a Starbucks, smoking a cigarette. Surely nobody would notice if someone were to inhabit one of the many abandoned buildings, they were too busy with their own problems.

"I suppose we search around for any signs of Ivo," he told the team, "We'll split once again into groups. Robin, you go with Superboy, Artemis and Wally, and M'gann, you'll come with me."

"Can't I get a different partner!" Wally whined.

"Quit your whining, Baywatch!" Artemis grabbed his ear and pulled, hard.

"I believe some of your arguments have interfered with a good number of our missions. Try to get along better."

Artemis dropped Wally's ear and yelled, "So this is some sort of bonding exercise? What, are we in freaking kindergarten? The kid hates me, and I'm perfectly fine with that!"

As she said those words, though, a twang of pain hit her in the chest. He… hates me, she thought.

"My position still stands. You two will search for Ivo's lab, together."

~~~Gomez the Pink Fluffy Star~~~

After hours of searching each abandoned building individually, Wally's short attention span got the better of him. He started speed checking each edifice, half a second per location. After about 5 minutes of that, he gave up.

"Agh! This is hopeless!" Wally exclaimed.

Artemis rolled her eyes, "Well, maybe if you had checked a little more thoroughly, you would've found something."

"Uh, dude?" Wally retorted, "How hard could it be to spot a mad scientist's lab in a run-down building?"

Artemis huffed, "I don't know! But considering we still haven't been able to find it it means we've been doing something wrong! He could have some kind of cloaking device, or, or—"

"Misty to Young Justice," a voice droned over Kid Flash's communicator. Artemis walked over to look at the holographic projection of a teenage girl. She looked about sixteen, with long black hair and purple highlights on her bangs. She had a lip piercing and heavy black makeup. She's a goth, both Wally and Artemis thought at the same time.

"…Can you hear me?"

"Yes," Superboy's voice came from Robin's line.

"Zatara and Zatanna told me to let you all know that we found the weird professor guy. He's here in Gotham County… so I guess you guys are done. I'm Misty, by the way."

"Yeah, we got that," Wally said.

The girl just blinked at him a couple times before the image went fuzzy and she hung up.

"…"

"SO WE JUST RAN AROUND THE ENTIRE SOUTH END FOR NOTHING? I RAN AROUND THE ENTIRE SOUTH END FOR NOTHING? WHAT THE FUDGE, BATS?" Wally was outraged. But then he thought he saw behind an old art studio a flash of red hair…

"Well, you can't blame him, he sent us here along with Zatara's team just in case we… Hey are you even listening to me?"

"I-It's her! It's gotta be!" Wally exclaimed.

"What're you talking about? Some hot girl again?"

"No! It's the alien! I'm sure of it!"

"Okay, Wally, that's stupid. The tracking device shows that she's still in Jump, I'm sure that Ice can handle whatever's going on down there now that she's back from Norway…"

"No, dude, I'll prove it to you go move!" Wally picked her up bridal style and dashed over to the spot he saw the alien girl.

"H-hey!" Artemis was blushing madly.

"Um… Wally I don't see anything," she said after he had put her down.

"But I could've sworn I saw—CRUD!"

Wally picked the archer up again to avoid a flurry of green starbolts heading towards their direction. The two looked up to see the alien girl floating in mid-air.

"Um… told ya so?"

The girl's eyes shone green as she glanced at a nearby car. She promptly propped it up on the top of her foot, and drop kicked it towards the duo. Kid Flash dodged it once again.

The alien's hands steamed, and she honestly looked quite exhausted. She mumbled, "Escafo" before launching another storm of green beams and escaping in the dust left after the attack.

"…"

"Guys?" Artemis said over the (unmentioned) telepathic link, "I think we may want to stay in Star City a little longer…"

Sigh. I'm really losing interest in this story. I do want to keep on going, but if I don't get some more episodes soon I gotta put it on hiatus. I just need some material to work with. Plus, high school starts tomorrow… sigh.

Again, I know the wait was painstakingly long, but I'll try to update at least once every two weeks or so, since, ya know, school. I'm a freshman ya'll!

Question: Look, ya'll, I need a self-esteem boost. I'd really appreciate it if any one of you would like to offer any advice, edits, or even plot suggestions. I've run into so many dead-ends with this story, and am worried about the number of plot-holes.

Just tell me what you think, and if you think it's worth it if I keep on going.

I fudging dare you to press the darn button.

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