Hey! Sorry for the wait. I meant to post this a few days ago, but a certain hurricane got in the way. It's kind of hard to post if there's no internet...
Anyway, enjoy!
Oh, and if anyone reading also reads my other stories, the next chapter of Divided should be up later today.
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Aqualad groaned and slowly raised his head, wincing against the headache. He looked around, his first instinct to make sure his team was alright. No one was awake but him. Slowly, he stood and made his way to the person closest to him- Artemis. He gently shook her awake. "What happened?" She moaned. "I'm afraid Ivy defeated us." Aqualad informed her. "We must wake everyone else, then we can figure out what to do now." Artemis nodded, moving towards Miss Martian. "It was almost like she didn't recognize me." Artemis muttered. "She comes over to our place all the time. She wouldn't attack me like that."
Kaldur paused. Something about this seemed fishy. "I… I am not sure why she did not recognize you. Perhaps she never saw you in costume?"
"No, she has. We've met sometimes when I go to the zeta beam. She recognized me right away the first time. And is it just me, or should the Bat kids have some sort of weed killer in their arsenal?"
Kaldur nodded. "Robin does. He showed me once."
"So why didn't he use it?"
Now Kaldur knew something was up, but he pushed it out of his mind to keep waking up the rest of the team. After 15 minutes, several punches from startled teammates, and some swearing from Red Hood, everyone was awake.
"What do we do now?" Superboy demanded. "We can't just leave that woman running around Gotham."
"We will find her." Kaldur assured him. "Perhaps Robin or Batgirl could assist us."
Just then, he became aware of someone tugging on his pant leg. He looked down to see Red Robin gazing up to him.
"Um, Mr. Aqualad?" He said tentatively. "Robin an' Batgirl an' Kid Flash aren't here."
Everyone looked around in alarm. Sure enough, there was no sign of the older Bats and the adopted-Bat.
"Terrific." Artemis muttered. "Ivy must have taken them."
"Yes." Kaldur nodded. "But to where?"
In an unspecified location (aka some greenhouse):
"Jeez." Batgirl grumbled. "You would think that they would notice the lack of creepy cackle and bad puns sooner." Robin punched her playfully on the arm. "Yeah, they're not the best with observational skills."
He, Batgirl, Kid Flash, Harley, Ivy, and Selina were sitting on some vine couches that Ivy had grown, snacking on popcorn and watching the team on secret Bat-cams that the Bat-kids had planted. Sure enough, Batgirl had, somehow, managed to hide snacks somewhere on her person, and upon arriving to the greenhouse had produced them. She had denied that Zatanna or Zatara put an extension spell or something on her belt. Robin had backed her up, pointing out the fact that Batman hated magic and would never let it close to their equipment.
Speaking of Batman, he was no doubt watching the fun from the safety of his Batcave.
"Well, at least Aqualad suspects something." Selina commented. "Maybe they're not completely hopeless."
"And Artie noticed that you guys weren't really fighting to the best of you abilities." Ivy added.
"True." Robin shrugged. "But still they missed the clues we planted."
"What clues?" Harley asked suspiciously. "What're you kids up to now?"
"Well, if they were paying attention, they would have noticed that we planted some old fertilizer that used to be manufactured from this greenhouse." Batgirl rolled her eyes. "But they completely missed it. Look, they're leaving."
Sure enough, the team had just left to begin their search- minus an essential clue.
"Idiots." Kid Flash smirked
Yeah, the team has to work on observational skills. The Bats are making this as close to a Gotham case as they can, and the Team isn't used to that. They're more used to Batman going this is what's going on you have to do this go here.
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