Author's Note: Yes Artie may have figured something out, after all giving CPR to a boy feels very different than giving CPR to a girl. I own nothing! Please review.
8. Traitor Among Us
Artemis helped Robin to her feet as M'ggan slowly woke. Once she was coherent the four of them made their way down to where Superboy and Kid Flash were still trapped. Robin was still unsteady on her feet, but Artemis didn't blame her. Drowning was bound to make even the most coordinated person a little clumsy.
"Robin! Are you ok? Mygodyoualmostdied! Welltechnicallyyoudiddie! Whatwereyouthinking! Neverscaremelikethatagain, younearlygavemeaheartattack." Robin laughed as Kid Flash spoke faster, vibrating in place but not quite enough to actually vibrate out of the metal.
"Chill out Wally or you're gonna give yourself a nose bleed trying to get out of there. Wally pouted as Artemis laughed.
"Dude!" Robin grinned looking tired.
"Hey Artie, how about you see if you can find something to cut Kid Mouth and Superboy out of this stuff?" Artemis nodded and sat Robin down next to Kid Flash before racing off to see what she could find.
"So Robin, dude, what happened! We were worried sick about you guys when they left to go find you!" Robin sighed and began to explain. By the time Artemis returned with a large laser Robin, never one to mince words or sugar coat anything unless necessarily, had finished telling them all she knew.
"Didn't mean to drown, blacked out before I could do anything." Wally glared at Artemis who was fiddling with the switches on the laser.
"Would you quit playing with that thing and cut us loose already!?" Artemis returned his glare.
"It's not working genius! EMP shuts down all machines!" They all whirled, as best they could as a terrifyingly familiar mechanical voice sounded from the entrance to the hanger.
"All machines present at the time." They all sagged with relief as Red Tornado flew over to them.
"What has occurred?" Robin, who had leapt to her feet and reached for her utility belt, wobbled on her feet but waved off Aqualad who reached out to help her.
"Had a little visit from your family." Artemis glared at Red Tornado as Robin gestured to the two prone robots which Aqualad had dragged down to the primary level of the hanger so they could keep an eye on them.
"Your extremely nasty family!" Artemis quipped still trying to get the laser to work. If Red Tornado had possessed eyebrows Robin would bet good money they would be raised in surprise.
"I was not aware I had relations." He walked past the group towards the robots and Superboy growled.
"Where have you been?" Red Tornado did not react to his obvious anger.
"Monitor Duty on the Watchtower. When it became clear cave communications were down I attempted to transport here but your zeta beam tubes were also non functional. So I transported to Providence and proceeded here." As Red knelt down next to investigate the robots Rolly, Superboy's pet alien machine whirred and pulled itself free of the wall rolling to his side where he was barely able to pet it. At the same moment the laser in Artemis's hands went off, nearly frying her foot. She cried out in surprise but managed to not drop the machine. Robin's eyes widened.
"The pulse has worn off! Red don't!" Robin raced forward as Red Tornado touched the hand of the other red robot. A spark of deep red light passed between them and Red Tornado whirled on the team. Two large tornados appeared sucking the air from the room. Wally and Superboy were the first to go down followed closely by M'ggan and Aqualad. Robin pulled out a bird-arang and threw it at Red Tornado but it never got close to hitting him as he summoned another tornado around it sending it spinning back toward Robin who tried to move out of the way, but too slow as the bird-arang exploded sending her flying into the metal that surrounded Superboy, her head met metal and she knew no more.