Heeeeerrrrre's DragonChild157!...yeah, somehow just isn't as catchy as "Here's Jonny".

Shout out's to: Jasmine Nightshade and Robin For Life. You guys make me feel the aster!

ENJOY!

"Is your homework done?"

Artemis groaned, her head dropping back against the sofa before she resumed pulling on her boots. "Yes Mom, I got my homework done. And before you ask, no, I don't have time for dinner! The team's waiting on me!"

Paula Crock rolled herself into the living room. "I know they're waiting for you Artemis. That's why I didn't ask." She came to a stop in front of her uniformed daughter and dropped a paper bag into her lap. "I just assumed."

Artemis grinned and jumped up to give her mother an appreciative hug. "Thanks Mom."

Paula chuckled. "You're welcome!" she shooed her daughter toward the bedroom and the fire escape. "Now get going! You're team's waiting!"

Artemis grinned and darted away, grabbing up her bow as she went. She checked the fire escape, making sure no one saw her leave, then began climbing up the metal ladder.

Down below, she heard her mother whisper a soft "Be safe." and then close the bedroom window.

"HELP!"

Artemis eyes widened and she darted across the roof towards the source of the cry. Her bow was already in her hands and an arrow was nocked to the string by the time she peered over the wall on the other side of the roof.

Her sharp eyes took in the scene before her in a second and she brought the bow up to bear.

Below her, two men were dragging a struggling girl down the sidewalk. One was trying to hold some sort of pale cloth over her mouth and nose, but the fiery little redhead was putting up quite the fight!

Artemis sighted along the arrow, preparing to fire, when a thought struck her. She hurriedly dropped her arrow and dug into one of the many pouches on her belt, fumbling with the snap.

"Come on…" she growled. "Come on!"

There! She yanked a small disk out of the pouch and put it on the string, pulling it back to her ear. It was harder to shoot this way with no arrow shaft to sight along, but she was known as one of the best in the world for a reason! Her mentor and her predecessor were of the very few who could match her.

Her eyes narrowed. This had to be done just right.

She tracked them down the street with her bow, slowing her breathing. In through the nose, out through the mouth, counting her heartbeats to make sure her breaths were even. The girl was losing the fight, her struggles growing weaker. She suddenly flung out her arm, and Artemis let the small disk fly.

The tracer flew straight and true, hitting the now all but unconscious girl's side and sliding down into the pocket of her pink house coat. The girl jumped, startled, but her kidnappers paid her no attention. As she seemed to lose consciousness seconds later, the two men apparently assumed it was a last ditch effort before she passed out.

Artemis hurriedly pulled out a rectangular piece of technology from a belt pouch, punching a button on the side of it and bringing the screen to life. A small yellow blip appeared, blinking up at her from the screen. She smiled grimly and quickly stowed it away in her belt again.

Grabbing up her bow, and the arrow she dropped, the blonde archer turned and ran in the opposite direction to the one the kidnappers had taken.

As she ran, she thumbed her com link on and sent out the call signal. She had to get the team, and she had to get them now.

Or else she would have let her poor neighbor's daughter get kidnapped for nothing!

"Where is she?"

Robin grinned at his best friend. Together with Coyote, his hyena, and Aqualad, he and Wally were lounging on a rooftop waiting for M'Gann, Conner, Zatanna, and Artemis to arrive. "What are you worried about KF? She probably just got hung up on something, she'll be here soon enough. And you're not half as worried about the others!"

Wally gave him a look. "They're all coming together in a group. She's coming straight from her house here in Gotham."

Robin burst into laughter. "She was born and raised here KF! She'll be fine!"

Wally shook his head. "But it's weird dude! She's always on time, if for no other reason than to give me a hard time when I'm late! Aren't you even a little bit worried?"

Robin shook his head. "Not particularly! Artemis is a good fighter, she can take care of herself." Out of the corner of his eye, the boy wonder watched as Coyote suddenly reached up to his ear with a grimace.

After seeing Coyote completely zone out in the sewer, the team had determined to carefully watch him while in the field in case it happened again. They were already beginning to like the easy going boy, and none of them wanted to see him hurt.

"Coyote, you okay?" Robin asked, immediately drawing the attention of his teammates to the vigilante.

The dark haired teen winced and nodded. "Yeah, I'm alright. There's this ringing sound in my ear…"

Robin frowned. "Ringing sound…?"

"Jeeze don't any of you ever answer your com's?"

Everyone whirled, eyes widening in shock as a very winded blonde archer jumped down off of a higher rooftop to land in their midst. She stumbled, just barely managing to catch herself. Standing bent over with her hands on her knees, she glared at them.

"I've been trying… to reach you..on the com's….for the past five minutes!" she panted.

Robin frowned. Well that explained the ringing in Coyote's ear. For whatever reason he'd been able to hear the call when Robin, Wally, and Kaldur had not. But why weren't their com's working? "We didn't hear a thing, Artemis. The first we heard of it was Coyote picking a a ringing sound from his com."

"There you are! We heard Artemis over the com's and she said none of you were answering!" Zatanna called. She jumped across the narrow alley to their rooftop, Conner and M'Gann following close behind.

"Artemis are you ok?" M'Gann asked anxiously, beating Wally to the question.

Artemis shook her head and waved the Martian off. "Just…out of breath..M'Gann." she panted. Dragging the tracking device out of her belt pouch, she forced herself to straighten up and passed it to Kaldur. "Kidnappers… took my neighbor's kid…Same guys that took..Tony…Tracer's in her pocket."

Kaldur smiled and gripped her shoulder. "Well done." He passed the tracker to Robin, telling him to lead the way, then returned his attention to Artemis. "We will go immediately. The child's abductors could discover your tracer at any moment and dispose of it. Superboy, Miss Martian, or Kid Flash will carry you, allowing you time to catch your breath. We haven't any time to spare."

Wally darted forward, scooping her up in a bridal carry before she had a chance to protest. "Ooh! Ooh! Dibs on the blonde!"

"Why you…!" Artemis yelled, trying to squirm out of his arms without forcing him to drop her on backside.

Batman scrolled farther down on the screen.

He was sitting in a side room of the Watchtower, reading the reports both Kaldur and Robin had sent him. He'd been too busy the night before to receive the report via vid-com, and so had had them type their reports up and send them to him.

The Dark Knight frowned, his eyes narrowing. There was something incredibly familiar about all of this. The kidnappings, the trouble's at home, the six to ten year age range, the sewers… He leaned forward, fingers flying over the keyboard as the reports sparked a memory.

The sewers…

Behind him a door slid open, and the soft thump-click of high heeled boots told him that it was a woman. And the most likely one to seek him out was Diana. Hence it was probably Diana behind him.

He continued to type, ignoring the presence behind him.

Diana sighed and shook her head. She had thought she'd find him here. "You never sleep do you?" she asked coming to a stop beside him and setting down tray of food she'd brought. He didn't pause, or even glance at her or the food she'd brought.

"Or eat." She added pointedly.

Batman suddenly gave a low growl, his hands curling into fists on the computer table.

Diana starred. That wasn't normal! Batman very rarely lost his cool like this! "Batman…?"

"He's back." The Dark Knight growled. "The creep came back!"

"Who?" Diana asked, anxiously leaning in to scan the screen. But she was unable to see whatever it was he'd just discovered in the report from Aqualad and what appeared to be an old case file. In amongst the other windows she could see photos of several dirty children in some sort of stone or concrete room.

"Batman, who? Who's back?"

Batman ignored her, reaching instead for his com link. "Robin…Robin…" He returned his attention to the computer, a new window flying up onto the screen as his fingers attacked the keyboards. "He's not answering." He growled.

A blip appeared on the screen, moving at a pretty good clip across a map of Gotham. A few clicks of the keys and the map suddenly shifted. It tilted on its side, the gold lines standing up to outline the buildings of Gotham.

The bright red blip continued to move, the pattern seemingly erratic to those who'd never seen Robin loose in Gotham at night. The small ninja's wild leaps, long sweeps on the grappling cables, and sudden, controlled drops off of the higher roof tops were clearly shown now through that little red blip.

Whatever was keeping Batman from reaching Robin on the com's, Robin himself was fine.

Batman clicked several more keys, and new colored blips showed up on screen. All moving in the same direction as Robin, though nowhere near as enthusiastically as he did! It took Diana a moment to understand that those were his teammates.

Robin was alright, and he wasn't alone.

She cocked her head, mentally assigning names to the various colored blips. Red was Robin, obviously. Bright, canary yellow, that was Kid Flash. Green, that was Artemis. Apparently Kid Flash was carrying her. Zatanna was a pinkish purple. Black was probably Superboy. A reddish orange dot she felt certain belonged to Aqualad. And the dark blue dot was Miss Martian.

Batman suddenly got to his feet. "I'm going to Gotham." He growled. "The league can handle things in Metropolis until I get back."

Diana nodded, reaching past him to click off the computer. "I'm going with you."

Lol, getting a little peek of "Daddy Bats"! Love writing that overprotective lug!

Review? Please and Thank you!

Until next time...