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Mount Justice
August 8, 07:30 EDT
Mia wakes up bright and early and heads to the kitchen with a spring in her step. She starts making breakfast for herself, M'gann and Superboy while humming "Livin' La Vida Loca" and dancing a little. M'gann and Superboy walk in to see Mia dancing and singing and they looked at each other then to Mia. They softly spoke to each other.
"Is Mia ok?" M'gann asks.
"How should I know? It's not like this is the weirdest thing we've seen her do" Superboy counters.
The two have flashbacks about the weirdest things Mia has done at the Cave: jumping off the top of the mountain, hanging upside down while sketching, and many other wacky things that should not be mentioned…ever. Mia finally turns around and notices the duo standing there awkwardly watching her by the door.
"Buenos dias! I got breakfast ready."
Mia expertly carries a stack of pancakes on her arm, a tray of scrambled eggs on her head, a plate of bacon in one hand and a pitcher of orange juice in the other. Once she set everything on the dinning table, the three had a comfortable quiet breakfast.
"I guess she's feeling better" Superboy thought as he eats breakfast.
"So you ready for the beach?" M'gann asks.
"Oh yeah. Man I haven't had a tan in so long, I'm starting to look pale" Mia comments.
They finished breakfast and quickly changed into their swimwear then waited for Kaldur and Robin to arrive. It was around ten when Kaldur and Robin arrived and all five of them headed to the beach. M'gann carried a red surfboard, Robin was holding a volleyball, Superboy carried the cooler, Kaldur helped Mia carry her umbrella and Mia carried her lounge chair. The first to run to the water was M'gann excited to have a beach day. She's wearing a yellow bikini contrasting her green skin, Robin wore blue and red swim trunks and his black sunglasses, Superboy was wearing a gray and white swim shorts, Kaldur's were all blue and Mia wore a red bikini with a white cover up.
"Hello Megan. We should hit the beach every day."
Robin stands next to M'gann's right and Mia was on her left.
"First a moment of silence for our absent comrade" Robin sadly states.
"Poor Wally" M'gann said in the same tone.
After a moment had passed, Mia shouts "Ha! Sucks to be him right now" and laughs.
She walked back a little and went to set up her things. After opening up her beach umbrella, Mia places her beach chair underneath it and takes off her cover up.
"You guys have fun, I'll be there in a bit."
"Oh no you don't."
Superboy tosses Mia over his shoulder and walked towards the water. Mia had a sinking feeling in her gut as they were approaching the water.
"Supey put me down this instant! I swear if you don't, I'm sending your ass to the moon!"
"Whatever."
Superboy holds her bridal style then tosses her into the ocean while she screams. A few seconds later, Mia pops up gasping for air and glares at Superboy.
"You. Are. So. Dead. Mister."
Mia notices that Superboy was silent and blushing as well as Robin and Kaldur.
"What are they looking at?" she looks down and was mortified. Mia screams and quickly covers her breasts with her arms "MEG!"
M'gann looks over and gasps at the sight. Mia covering her breasts, topless in front of the boys. She quickly rushes over to Mia's aid and helped find her top that was floating not too far from them. After helping putting the top back on, M'gann had a telepathic conversation with Mia.
"Are you ok?"
"I'm mortified. Do you think they saw?"
M'gann looks back to see the boys still blushing and frozen "I think they did."
"Oh great."
"So what are you going to do?"
"Threaten them of course" Mia said a little too happily.
Mia walks back to the beach to face the guys. When she was in front of them, she snapped her fingers and they returned to normal but they were still blushing profusely.
"Let's get something straight here, you saw nothing and if you tell a soul about what happened you three will have a hard time trying to have kids in the future. Capisce?" all three instantly protected their crotches and rapidly nodded "Good. Now lets have some fun."
And they did have fun. Mia 'surfed' with the help of M'gann keeping her upright on the surfboard, they played in the water, and Mia left to tan on her chair for a bit. Lunch time came around and they grilled hot dogs, Mia had to explain to M'gann that they weren't really eating a dog, it was named after a breed called Weiner Dogs. When M'gann wanted to know what was in them, Mia shakes her head saying "Better if you don't know, trust me."
After lunch, they played volleyball. Kaldur and Robin on one side, Superboy and M'gann on the other and Mia kept score and was judge. Mia switched with Robin after a game and took down M'gann and Superboy with a whooping 10:6. She does a small victory dance then asks "Who wants to play Chicken?" and a smirk forms on Robin's face.
The two of them raced to the ocean and waited for the others to come. Mia climbed on top of Superboy's shoulders while Robin went on Kaldur's. The four of them tousled for a bit until Mia and Superboy were the victors.
After that, everyone heads back to the beach and relax. Superboy takes a nap and is soon buried under a giant pile of sand set up Robin, M'gann and Kaldur. Mia was watching it go down and decides to sketch the scene naming it "Beach Day." She smiles fondly at them thinking "I'm lucky to be part of this Team. It's like being in a family again." Looking down, Mia spots a sand dollar and decides to put it on top of the pile like a flag.
Soon it was about five in the afternoon when they went back inside to change into their suits. Mia was the first one done and heads to the Mission Room accidentally bumping into someone.
"Oh I'm sorry."
"It's fine."
"I'm Blink. You joining the Team?"
Mia extends a hand and the girl shakes it.
"Artemis."
"You know Artemis, I've got a feeling that we'll get along just fine."
"Really now?" Artemis states skeptically.
"Trust me" Mia winks at her.
Eventually the others arrived and were introduced to Artemis by Green Arrow and Batman.
"And we're just missing-" Mia began.
"Recognized: Kid Flash, B03" the computer announced then Wally appears wearing swimming trunks and holding beach stuff.
"Speak of the devil and he shall appear" Mia remarks.
"The Wall-Man is here. Now let's get this party star-"
Wally trips over the umbrella and falls causing him to lose the beach ball. The beach ball bounces over to everyone and ends up behind an unamused Batman.
"…ted."
"And this is Stupid 2. You know the Things from Cat in the Hat?" Artemis nods "Meet the Stupids."
Mia points to Robin, Wally and Superboy. Superboy frowns but deep down he knew it was true since Amazo.
"Wall-Man, huh? I love the uniform. What exactly are your powers?" Artemis wonders in a sarcastic tone.
Mia wraps an arm over Artemis' shoulders "I knew we'd get along."
Wally finally stands up and walks over "Uh, who's this?"
"Artemis, your new teammate."
"Kid Flash. Never heard of you."
"Um, she's my new protégé" Green Arrow answers walking up to Artemis.
Mia walks away and stood next to Kaldur.
"What happened to your old one?" Wally asks.
"Recognized: Speedy, B07."
"Well, for starters, he doesn't go by Speedy anymore. Call me Red Arrow" Roy answers.
"How original" Mia retorts.
Roy sends her the stank eye.
"Roy. You look-" Green Arrow started to say.
"Replaceable" Roy finishes. He walks up to face Artemis.
"It's not like that. You told me you were going solo" Arrow reasons.
"So why waste time finding a sub? Can she even use that bow?"
"Yes, she can" Artemis responds.
"Who are you?" Wally asks.
"I'm his niece" "She's my niece" Artemis and Arrow answered at the same time.
"Another niece?" Robin wonders.
"Nice to have another girl on the Team" Mia comments.
"But she is not your replacement. We have always wanted you on the Team, and we have no quota on archers" Kaldur reasons.
Mia didn't comment about what Kaldur said and really wanted to say something but she kept quiet.
"And if we did, you know who we'd pick" Wally claims.
Mia huffs and slaps Wally's head "Don't be a jerk unlike someone here" she glares at Roy.
"Whatever, Baywatch. I'm here to stay" Artemis states confidently.
"You came to us for a reason" Kaldur told Roy.
"Yeah, a reason named Dr. Serling Roquette" Roy answers.
Robin started searching for information about the doctor "Nanorobotics genius and claytronic expert at Royal University in Star City- vanished two weeks ago."
"Abducted two weeks ago by the League of Shadow" Roy clarified.
"Who?" Mia asks.
Everyone looks at her stunned that she doesn't know who the League of Shadows are.
"What? I started the hero gig just last month, cut me some slack" Mia states.
Everyone returned to the mission at hand.
"Whoa. You want us to rescue her from the Shadows?" Robin asks.
"Hard-core" Wally says fist bumping Robin.
"I already rescued her. Only one problem. The Shadows had already coerced her into creating a weapon. Doc calls it The Fog, comprised of millions of microscopic robots, nanotech infiltrators capable of disintegrating anything in their path- concrete, steel, flesh, bone. But its true purpose isn't mere destruction. It's theft. The infiltrators eat and store raw data from any computer system and deliver the stolen intel to the Shadows…Providing them access to weapons, strategic defense, cutting-edge science and tech."
"Perfect for extortion, manipulation, power broking. Yeah. Sounds like the Shadows" Artemis states.
"Like you know anything about the Shadows" Wally smugly states.
She sends him a smug look and he yells "Who are you?!"
"Roquette's working on a virus to render the Fog inert" Roy starts.
"But if the Shadows know she can do that…" Robin continues.
"They'll target her. Right now, she's off the grid. I stashed her at the local high school's computer lab."
"You left her alone?" Arrow asks.
"She's safe enough for now."
"Then let's you and I keep her that way" Arrow reasons.
"You and I? Don't you want to take your new protégé?"
"He's getting on my last nerves" Mia glares at Roy again.
Arrow went to reason but Batman stops him by placing a hand on his shoulder. They have a silent conversation.
"You brought this to the Team. It's their mission, which means it's hers now, too" Green Arrow states.
Roy scoffs "Then my job's done" and he starts walking away.
"That's it" Mia mumbles and walks after Roy.
"Hey Mr. Sunshine!" Roy turns around "You have no right to treat anyone like that especially Artemis just because her uncle is mentoring her. The way your acting is disrespectful and it's not doing you any favors for being a douchebag. Honestly I have no idea how Green Arrow mentored you but you need to learn how to chill and go learn some manners while you're at it!"
"She's at it again" Robin told everyone but Artemis telepathically.
"Mia-" Kaldur began.
She sends him a glare deadlier than the Batglare and he shuts up.
"If Green Arrow isn't going to teach you any manners and how to properly treat people then I guess I'll have to teach you the hard way" Mia stood right in front of his face "Listen here Mr. Sunshine, if you continue to act this way towards my teammates with me around you're going to get your butt whooped. Got it buster?"
Roy doesn't say anything to her and turns back to the zeta tubes.
"Recognized: Speedy-"
"That's Red Arrow, B07. Update" and he was gone.
Mia growls and went to go after him but Superboy grabs her from behind and held her. Everyone waited for Wally to get ready so Artemis had a small conversation with Mia.
"Thanks for sticking up for me."
Mia smiles "No problem. You're part of the Team now aren't you? That means whoever has a problem with you, have to deal with me. Besides I've been waiting to chew him out. You know I did it to Batman."
"No you didn't" Artemis states not believing her.
"It's true. Ask the boys."
Artemis looks over to Robin, Kaldur and Superboy and all three nod.
"Wow. This chick is a badass" Artemis thought looking at the 5'4" Latina girl.
Wally was finally ready and they started the mission.
Happy Harbor
August 8, 21:59 EDT
M'gann and Superboy patrolled the roof of the school while the others were in the computer lab protecting Roquette.
"Miss Martian, link us up. We do not want the Shadows intercepting our com" Kaldur orders.
"Everyone online?" M'gann asks.
"Ohh. This is weird" Artemis states.
"Eh. You get used to it" Mia shrugs.
"And distracting. Coding a distributive algorithm on a kiddie computer with less RAM than a wristwatch is hard enough. Now I have to hear teen-think in my skull?" Roquette complains.
"Hey be grateful that you have access to a computer at all" Mia states.
"Lady, do you always complain when someone tries to help you?" Wally asks.
"Pot, kettle. Have you met?" Artemis retorts.
"Hey. Hey, I do not need attitude from the newbie who drove Red Arrow off the Team" Wally comments.
Artemis gets up from her seat "That is so not on me."
"Actually that's on me" Wally looks over to Mia "I've never liked the way he treats you guys, he thinks he's better than everyone. If no one was willing to knock him down his high-horse then I was and I did."
"Fate of the world at stake" Roquette stresses.
"She started it" Wally says acting like a five year old blaming Artemis.
"How 'bout I just help Miss Martian and Superboy patrol the perimeter?" Artemis suggests.
"Good idea" Kaldur approved.
Mia walks over to Wally and pulls on his ear hard.
"What did I tell you about not being a jerk?!"
"Ow Blink let go!"
"No! Not until you apologize to Artemis."
Wally was being stubborn and Mia finally let's go muttering colorful words in Spanish.
"You might cut her some slack. It was her arrow saved your butt against Amazo" Robin states.
"What? No, that was Speedy's- I mean Red Arrow's arrow right?" Wally hoped.
"Not so much" Robin comments.
"Humph. Well, still not giving her the satisfaction" Wally claims.
"You know, I can still hear you" Artemis states.
Wally groans out loud while Robin snickers and Mia shakes her head in disappointment.
"Presenting Stupid 2 everyone! Give him a round of applause" Mia sarcastically retorts.
"Hey!" Wally complains.
"I couldn't get the Justice League" Roquette complains.
"The virus won't be of much use if we cannot find the weapon. Can you track it?" Kaldur asks.
"My utility Fog is not a weapon. It's science, brilliant science, and of course I can track it, but I'd have to go online. Might as well rent a billboard with this address and 'Assassinate Me' written in neon" Roquette states.
"I'll pay for it" Mia offers playfully.
Kaldur places a reassuring hand on Roquette's shoulder. "We will protect you" he assures her.
She presses enter and the computer started the search "Tracking the Fog now."
Philadelphia
August 8, 21:57 EDT
Sitting in a private jet was Professor Ojo enjoying a drink when he gets a notification about Roquette. He quickly informs Sensei.
"Roquette has surfaced to track us, but that link is a two way street. Sending her location. Now."
"Who do we have near…Happy Harbor, Rhode Island?" Sensei asks.
Back at the school, Superboy's patrolling the perimeter for a bit then jumps to the roof and leaps a few times to get to the other side. He lands behind M'gann and Artemis and continues to patrol.
"Mmm. That boy" Artemis says.
Superboy looks back at her like What?
"He can hear you. We can all hear you" M'gann states.
"Oh, I know."
"Hey! No flirting on the job!" Mia exclaims.
"Miss Martian, Dr. Roquette has located the Fog. Reconfigure the bioship so that Robin and Superboy can pursue" Kaldur orders.
M'gann did just that and the duo headed towards the bioship. Before they left, Mia warns them.
"Don't do anything reckless! You hear me?!"
"Yes ma'am" they responded.
Roquette looks over to Mia with a weird look and Mia notices.
"I keep them out of trouble…most of the time" Mia explains.
The doctor doesn't say a word and goes back to looking at the screen. Before Mia could talk, she heard M'gann's voice in her head.
"You embarrassed Superboy" M'gann states.
"Didn't hear him say that" Artemis counters.
"Must you challenge everyone?"
"Where I come from, that's how you survive."
"Ok girls, put away the claws and let's get back to work" Mia offers.
Wally stood outside guarding the room when he notices a shadow on the floor and went after it. He follows it to the pool and slips on some marbles, falling to the ground. The intruder knocks him out and kicks him into the pool. Mia notices that it was too quiet in her mind "Something's wrong. Where's Kid?"
She gets up from her seat asking "Kid?"
That's when a shuriken was aimed at Roquette and Kaldur jumps in to protect her.
"Doctor, get down!" he ordered.
This time, Mia jumps in front of Roquette and gets hit with three shurikens to the arm. She quickly pulls them out, grabs Roquette's arm and tries to teleport out of the room but only managed to teleport to the front of the room.
The assassin barges in "Hmm. That had to hurt."
"Atlantean skin is quite dense" Kaldur states.
"Mine on the other hand, not so much" Mia added holding her left arm.
The two start fighting and the assassin states "And my shuriken are quite poisoned."
Mia touches the wound with her finger then licks it tasting the poison "Huh. Jellyfish poison, been there done that."
Mia was in no condition to help so Kaldur fought the assassin alone. When she straightened her back, her vision became blurry so she had to kneel for a minute.
"M'gann, Kid, Artemis, we are under attack in the computer lab" Kaldur states.
"On our way" Artemis responds.
"W-where's K-kid?" Mia slurry asks as she struggled to stand up.
The assassin throws a sai at Roquette and Mia jumps straight up. It ended up embedded in her right shoulder and Mia didn't fall instead she stood tall placing herself in front of Roquette.
"You're not going to kill her, not on my watch" Mia states breathing heavily with her arms stretched out. She continues to breath heavily as the poison is starting to take effect.
"Almost. Poison slowing you down?" the female assassin asks.
"Jellyfish toxin, I'm largely immune" Kaldur states.
She head butts him and Kaldur falls to the ground.
"Largely but what about your little friend" she wonders.
The assassin looks over to see Mia panting, barely able to stand and bleeding from her shoulder wound. She holds up a second sai to stab Kaldur with but it got knocked out of her hand by Artemis' arrow. She turns around to see Artemis aiming at her.
"Don't…move" Artemis orders as she steps closer.
"Heh. This gig's getting interesting" she states.
She pulls out a sword and Artemis starts firing at her. Wally and M'gann shortly arrive and Mia lets out a sigh of relief. "Thank god he's ok. Me, not so much" Mia lets out a small groan before straightening her back a little bit more.
The assassin turns around to see M'gann, Wally, Mia and Kaldur ready to fight and defend the doctor. "Maybe a little too interesting" she pulls out a smoke pellet and throws it to the ground, disappearing.
Wally tried to grab her but he went through it and ends up grabbing Artemis instead. Mia saw it and chuckles a little before falling on her butt.
"She's getting away! You're letting her get away!" Roquette yells.
"Doc not so loud" Mia complains softly while rubbing her head.
"This is all your fault! You were on perimeter! How'd that Shadow get in?!" Wally yells at Artemis.
"That's not really fair. I was outside, too" M'gann states.
"Outside being distracted by her. Besides, I can't stay mad at you" "You gave me mouth-to-mouth."
"We heard that!" everyone said.
"Dang it!" Wally complained.
"Hey, I don't want to be a bother but does anyone have an antidote for jellyfish toxin cause that would be lovely to have right now" Mia softly spoke panting heavily.
Roquette helps her up and puts Mia's arm over her shoulder.
"Focus everyone. The Shadows will be back" Kaldur claims.
'Robin to Aqualad. We're over Philadelphia. We've located the Shadow's next target, STAR Labs. We're too late. It's destroyed, totally destroyed. The Fog decimated it. This is bad. STAR Labs is cutting-edge science, and now their secrets are in the hands of the enemy. What's our next move?'
"Rescan for that Fog. Find it. We're moving the doctor" Kaldur orders.
As they went to move Roquette, Kaldur had to help Mia walk to the café where the real Roquette is. He eases Mia onto a chair and Mia hisses when she sat down.
"Will you be alright?"
"Don't you worry about little ol' me" *groans* "Worry about protecting Roquette, not me" Mia pants.
Kaldur nods and went outside to proceed with the plan.
"Stop it, both of you" Kaldur orders.
"What?" Wally and Artemis ask.
"I can hear you glaring" he states.
"Aw. Love at first glare" Mia giggles.
"Great, now Blink is delirious" Wally states.
"Am not."
Mia lets out a long sigh and tries to control her breathing. Roquette looks over at her a little worried.
"Are you sure you're ok?"
Mia fakes a smile and speaks to her in a calm loving tone she used on her siblings "I'm ok. I'll be alright, just worry about uploading that virus. It's my job to protect you not the other way around."
Roquette skeptically looks at her before going back to the computer screen. "She's dying of poison and bloodloss, still has that sai in her shoulder and all she cares about is my safety and well being. This girl spoke to me like I'm a scared little kid, why would she do that? I'm just some stranger to her" Roquette thought as she finishes up the virus.
A few minutes later, Kaldur shows up and notices that Mia had gotten paler than before. She looks at him and shakes her head at him. He turns to look over at Roquette.
"I've almost got it" she said.
"Good. You know, let's get some sushi after this. What do you say doc?" Mia jokes.
"And here I thought that sushi would be the last thing you'd eat after this."
"Heh heh. I'm in the mood for it now" Mia chuckles.
She groans in pain and Kaldur took a step in her direction but Mia raises a hand to stop him.
"The mission is about protecting Roquette. I-I can take care of myself" he frowns "Aqualad, I'll be fine. Promise" she smiles fondly.
Kaldur's heart broke in half when he saw her smile and at that moment learned the true meaning behind it. She's been hurt like this before and she's promised before to someone she cares about. "Why Mia? Why must you put others before yourself? Perhaps you have younger siblings, is that it?"
A thump was heard on the roof and the heroes got ready.
"We have company" Kaldur states.
"Uploading now" Roquette says.
"Perfect" Mia barely stood up and teleports to Roquette's side "Aqualad you deal with ninja girl, I've got Doc."
"And by the way, you said you'd protect me" Roquette complains.
"That's why I'm here doc" Mia comments.
"You can barely stand. How are you going to protect me?"
A pellet rolls in and releases smoke. Kaldur faces the door then quickly turns around and gets hit with three poison darts. The assassin jumps down from the ceiling and lands gracefully.
"Let's test the limit of your jellyfish immunity, shall we?"
Kaldur fought with the assassin while Mia pushes Roquette behind her and walks backwards towards the wall.
"Just stay behind me and you'll be safe Ana Sophia" Mia proclaims not noticing the slip of tongue.
"Who?" Roquette asks.
Mia doesn't answer as she saw the assassin knocks out Kaldur.
"There. Limit tested. Now as for you" she states looking at Mia.
Mia raises her hands and mustered all of her willpower to fight the assassin. She strikes first landing a blow to her stomach.
"Wow. No one's been able to land a punch on me since" she pauses "Labiwa?"
Mia doesn't respond and continues to fight her. The assassin blocks a few of Mia's punches and kicks then stabs her with a kunai knife to the stomach.
"Don't worry, I didn't hit any vital organs. I need you to be alive for the time being. Now go to sleep little one" Mia groans then falls to the ground unconscious "Now, doctor, time for my appointment."
While hovering over WayneTech, the boys got ready.
"It's downloading!" Robin states looking at his holo-computer.
Superboy looks down and see Ojo opening the van's door and getting ready to release the Fog.
"Don't need it!" he jumps from the bioship.
"Superboy!" "Well there goes not doing anything reckless."
Superboy heads straight at Ojo. He fires up his machine and shoots a red energy beam at Sueprboy. Superboy falls to the ground allowing Ojo to release the Fog into WayneTech.
"No!" Robin yells jumping out of the bioship and following the Fog.
The security guard sees the Fog entering and Robin chasing after it.
"What in the- Hey! You can't come in here! Unauthorized entry!"
Robin sees a gate closing, cutting him off from chasing after the Fog. "WayneTech override- Archie 4" and the gate raises allowing him to continue pursuing the Fog.
Back in the boat house, M'gann dodges another attack from Hook.
"Kid Flash, we need to end this now."
Wally dodges a stream of web by flipping over the seats and ending up by the front door.
"It's like you read my mind, beautiful."
Wally get hits by a string of web so he spins around bringing Black Spider to him and kicks the guy in the chest. Hook aims at M'gann and shoots his hook at him. She uses her powers to repel the hook back at him hitting his head in the process.
"Whoo hoo! I got mine."
"Great. Uh, little help?"
The Fog continues to wreak havoc in WayneTech and Robin makes it to the cafeteria. The cashier sees him and the Fog in the ceiling.
"What's going on? What are you doing?"
Robin plugs in a cable to the register praying as he searches on his holo-computer. "Please be linked to the mainframe. Please be linked to the mainframe."
The assassin moves closer to Roquette and places a sai to her neck. Roquette glances over to the computer screen as does the assassin and both saw that the virus had been successfully uploaded.
"So you finished the virus, eliminating the reason for your elimination, though not the entertainment value" she pushes Roquette "Lucky for you my orders are clear. You live to program another day. After all, doctor, the Shadows may find another use for you."
Before she left, Mia crawled over and grabbed her ankle.
"Y-you're no-not go-going anywhere" Mia pants.
She looks down at Mia and crutches down to look at her in the eye. The assassin takes out a needle and plunges it into Mia's arm releasing the antidote into her bloodstream.
"Don't say I never did anything nice to you. We'll meet again Labiwa" and she leaves.
Mia started to feel better but she's still hurt and losing blood fast. She looks over to Roquette worried.
"You good doc?" she nods "Great, now help me carry Aqualad."
Mia slowly stands up and bends down to pick Kaldur up. She places his left arm over her shoulder and struggled a little to keep him up. Roquette rushes over to help Mia and grabs his right arm and placing it over her shoulders. As the trio began to walk outside, Roquette found her voice.
"Who's Ana Sophia?"
Mia took a minute to respond "My younger sister. She's dead."
"Oh. I'm sorry."
"Me too."
Kaldur began to wake up.
"Hey bud."
He looks at her then to her stomach and his eyes widen at the stomach wound.
"You're hurt."
Mia looks down and jokes "Oh would you look at that, I've been stabbed."
"Blink…"
"I'm fine, honest."
Kaldur drops the subject at the moment and sees Artemis "Artemis, where's the assassin?"
"She, uh-she got away" Artemis answers.
Wally quickly shows up beside her "Oh, from you? Oh, big surprise. Notice we got ours" he gestures to the tied up baddies. He looks down to see a mask "Cool" he picks it up "Souvenir."
Mia lets go of Kaldur's arm and marched toward Wally. She pulls on his ear "When we get back, you and I are going to have a serious talk about your attitude mister."
Wally frowns and Kaldur walks over by himself pulling out the darts.
"Her mask? Did you see her, her face?" he asks Artemis.
"It was dark."
"It is fine. Robin and Superboy neutralized the Fog, and Dr. Roquette is safe, thanks in no small part to you" Artemis turns around "Welcome to the Team."
The four heroes walked over to welcome Artemis. Kaldur shakes her hand.
"I've always wanted a sister. Here on Earth, I mean" M'gann starts.
"Hey what about me?!" Mia complains.
"I mean another one. I have 12 back on Mars, but trust me, it's not the same."
"I wouldn't know. But thanks."
M'gann elbows Wally in the gut.
"Ow. Yeah. Welcome" Wally grimly spoke.
Artemis extends her hand and he shakes it. Mia leans on Artemis smiling at her new family member.
"Forgive him, I'm still teaching him on how to properly talk to girls."
"Hey!"
"Anyway, glad you're on the Team Artemis."
"Thanks Blink. I-" she sees Mia bleeding "You're bleeding!"
Mia lets out an exasperated sigh "I'm fine! Look" she does a few jumping jacks "Perfectly fine. Will you guys stop freaking out?!"
"Kid take Blink back to the base" Kaldur orders.
"But Aqualad" Mia starts.
"This is not up for debate. Kid now."
Wally grabs Mia and carries her bridal style back to the Cave. On the way there, they have a small conversation.
"How can you be so reckless Mia?! You've lost a lot of blood and yet you managed to do some jumping jacks. How?!"
"Because I'm stubborn as a mule that's why."
"What about the poison?"
"You won't believe it but the assassin gave me the antidote."
"Seriously?!"
"Seriously."
"Whoa. Why?"
"No clue but at least we don't have to worry about that."
"Oh sure, now all we have to worry about is you not dying from blood loss. Not to mention the amount of stitches you have to get for those two wounds" Wally sarcastically remarks.
"Just shut up and run Wally."
That was the end of the conversation and Wally made it to the Cave in record time. He lays Mia on the examination bed and steps aside so Canary can patch her up. Mia had to get a total of 14 stitches for both the shoulder wound and stomach wound. She stands up and looks at her stitches sarcastically stating "Great two more added to the ever growing collection. Yay!"
Wally gives her a weird look and she waves it away. The duo head back to the Mission Room to debrief the mission. On the way there Wally glances at Mia thinking "How many scars does she have? Mia what did you do to get so many scars?"
On an island, Sensei reported to his masters.
"Report."
"Masters…Before Ojo's capture, he transmitted the STAR Labs data you required, but the WayneTech intel still eludes us."
"Once again, the young…heroes interfere, so it's fortunate we have an operative on the inside" a voice spoke.
"Also Chesire as informed me that Labiwa is part of the young heroes" Sensei states.
"So she alive" a second voice said.
"It seems that Professor Ivo's intel was correct" a third voice states.
"Let's give her a family reunion, shall we?" the first voice comments.
In a mountain range, two young men were training in a temple when a man calls them out.
"Numawr alttaw'am!"
They stopped and went to kneel in front of him.
"Yes Master" they spoke.
"I need you two to retrieve someone" the man smiles cruelly.
Translations courtesy of Google Translate:
Labiwa= lioness.
Numawr alttaw'am= Twin Tigers.