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Mount Justice
December 5, 16:55 EST
"Recognized: Blink, B04."
Mia walks in the cave with a smile on her face "Today's been good so far" "Hey guys. What's the plan for today?"
Everyone but Artemis and Robin were there and they turned to greet Mia.
"Hey Mia" Zatanna says.
"Z, what's going on? Why's Green Arrow here?" Mia looks at Green Arrow with curiosity.
"I think Wally can answer those questions."
Mia looks over at Wally to see him laughing nervously and shifting his weight left and right.
"Wally?"
"So here's the thing. It's actually quite funny now that I think about it…"
"Wally, you're stalling. Spit it out" Mia crosses her arms.
The announcement of someone arriving answers her question.
"Recognized: Red Arrow, B07."
Roy walks in all cocky and Mia turns around glaring at him.
"What the hell are you doing here Harper?"
"Wouldn't you like to now?" Roy taunts.
"Actually I do. Now are you having trouble remembering or do you need me to knock your brain loose? Because I can totally do that."
Mia struts over to Roy and before she could throw a punch, the cave gets another visitor.
"Recognized: Artemis, B08."
Artemis walks in to see Mia about to punch the living daylight out of Roy while everyone else just watched.
"Art."
"Mia."
"Artemis. Just in time. Look who's agreed to join the Team" Green Arrow states.
Mia and Artemis were shocked, however Mia voices her opinion first.
"Ah hell no! That's what you were trying to tell me? Thanks a lot cuz" Mia glares at Wally.
Wally nervously laughs then clears his throat "Finally!"
"Sure. Team needed a real archer" Artemis finally says.
"Ok, people, listen up. The dynamic duo's on a case in Gotham, but Batman gave me a heads up" Green Arrow pulls up information about the mission "Sportsmaster was spotted coming from Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport"
"In full costume? Nervy" Zatanna comments.
"Sounds too good to be true" Mia adds.
"In street clothes. Facial recognition software picked up the id. Find out what he's up to."
"All of us? Seems like overkill for a shadow job" Conner states.
"Perhaps a small squad. Miss Martian's camouflage abilities seem ideal" Tornado suggests.
"Thought the sidekicks-sorry, ex-sidekicks-could suit up on this. Aqualad, Kid Flash, Red Arrow" Green Arrow offers.
"Good. Stakeouts make me crazy" Conner says.
"We could use the night off" M'gann comments.
"I want in. With M'gann and Robin out, no one's logged more hours piloting the bio-ship" Artemis states.
"Artemis, are you sure?" Green Arrow asks.
"Absolutely."
"I'm coming too" Mia stood next to Artemis with confidence "There's no one better at keeping everyone in line than me. Besides, there's no way in hell that I'm going to leave Artemis alone with these idiots. That shouldn't be a problem, right Green Arrow?" she raises a brow challenging him to defy her.
"Nope" "She's worse than Batman and Dinah combined."
All five of them headed for the bio-ship. When they arrived, Roy and Kaldur went to the back while Artemis, Wally and Mia were in the cockpit. Wally turns around to talk with Artemis.
"Ahh, this could wind up being one of those things that sounds better in my head than out loud"
"Oh, I've got to hear this" Mia remained silent watching her idiot of a cousin talk.
"But…you are a real archer. No, I mean, I'm jazzed about Red Arrow. We go way back, you know. But you, you've made your own place on the Team. You have nothing to prove. Not to me. Ok?"
"Ok" Wally turns around "And, Wally?" he looks back at Artemis "It sounded fine out loud."
A soft smile appears on Mia's face so she gets up and places a kiss on Wally's head.
"For once you said something good" Mia whispers then went back to her seat.
In the back, Kaldur and Roy were locking in a motorcycle and had a quick chat.
"I gather you did not join the Team for the camaraderie."
"And not to please G.A., either. There's a mole on you team, Kaldur. You don't want to face it, so I will. And the prime suspects are Blink and Artemis."
Back at the cave, Conner, M'gann, Zatanna and Wolf were bored at the moment.
"No offense, guys, but even my boredom is bored" Zatanna mentions.
"Maybe a night off wasn't the best idea" M'gann says.
"Red Tornado" he turns around to face the trio "You got any good stakeouts for us?" Conner bashfully asks.
"I do not. You must amuse yourselves" Tornado flies up into his room.
"That's Tornado's apartment, right?" Zatanna asks.
"It is" M'gann answers.
"But Tornado doesn't eat or sleep or change clothes, or, well, anything."
"So?" Conner asks.
"So…what does he do up there?"
"It's a shame Mia went on that stakeout" M'gann says.
"Yeah, she would've loved this after yelling at us about personal space" Conner comments.
Orleans Parish
December 5, 21:27 CST
Roy stayed up in the trees watching Sportsmaster enter a rental boat and taking it down river.
"Target's heading north" Roy walks down the hill and rides after Sportsmaster in his jet ski.
'Pursue, but maintain a discreet distance and that goes double for you two, Artemis and Blink' Mia rolls her eyes at Roy's comment 'Sportsmaster's proven adept at spotting Martian camouflage when in motion.'
Mia looks over at Artemis with an irritated look like Can he be anymore of an ass? Artemis smiles at Mia then turned her focus back to following Sportsmaster. Kaldur follows him underwater, Wally follows by land on a motorcycle, Roy follows on the jet ski and the girls maintained a distance so Sportsmaster doesn't get tipped. Sportsmaster slows his boat to a stop and docks on a shoreline then continues on foot.
"He's stopped. Hold your positions. I'm moving in for a closer look" Roy states.
As Roy spies on Sportsmaster, Artemis brings the bio-ship closer to his location.
"Art, what are you doing?"
"I'm going down there."
"Now as much as I would love to annoy the hell out of Speedy, I think we should stay here."
"You don't get it. I need to-"
"To prove yourself to everyone so they wouldn't think that it was a mistake letting you join the Team. Look I get it, hell I'm still proving myself but I'm not doing it for them now, I'm doing it for me" *sighs* "If you still want to go down there then go ahead, I'm not stopping you because I'm going with you" Mia smirks.
Artemis returns it with one of her own and the two girls silently dropped out of the bio-ship. Artemis hid behind a tree while Mia was a few feet behind her. It was silent until Mia felt someone was watching them and she instantly knew who it was. "Jade."
"Hey, sis…" both girls saw Chesire standing in a tree located between them.
"Guess she didn't spot me. Huh that's just like her" Mia slightly frowns.
"Long time, no reveal who you really are to all your friends."
"Now what the hell does that mean?" Mia raises a brow. She searches through her memories of what Jade looked like back at the compound then thought of Artemis and that's when it hit her. "They're sisters."
Chesire jumps down with her sword raised and attacks Artemis who holds her own against Chesire. Mia quickly rushes over to help.
"Nice. Canary teach you that?" Artemis notches an arrow at Chesire "Bet you run out of arrows before I run out of swords. Unless you plan on breaking out the pointy ones to use on your own sister."
"You know" the sister looked over at Mia "You always had to make a bet and irritate your opponent. Guess old habits die hard huh."
"Labiwa, good to see you again."
"Cut the bullcrap. What are you really doing here Jade?" Mia narrows her eyes.
Artemis' eyes went wide "You two know each other?!"
"That was a lifetime ago Artemis. Now Jade, do I have to kick your ass like old times or are you going to talk?"
"How about a rematch?" Chesire turns around to face Mia.
"Fine by me" Mia got into a fighting stance and made two daggers appear in her hands.
Before the two could fight, an arrow was shot at Chesire and a net traps her against a tree. Mia and Artemis look over to see Roy walking towards them.
"Why, Arrow. If you wanted another date, you only had to ask" Chesire teases.
"You two are dating?!" Artemis and Mia yell out.
Roy looks at them saying "What? No!"
"Ohh, why deny the attraction? After all, Arrow, you're here."
Mia narrows her eyes at Chesire "Something's off here" she walks over to Chesire pointing a dagger at her mask "What did you do?"
Chesire doesn't answer so instead she cuts herself free and kicks Mia back a few feet.
"Really, I'm so fond of you three. I couldn't bear to hurt you…much" she places her sword into the ground and attacks them.
Chesire quickly takes down Artemis then throws smoke bombs at Roy. He hears the sound of a boat motor coming to life then turns to see Sportsmaster escaping.
"Sportsmaster."
Chesire quickly tackles him and lands on top. She takes out her sai and points it at his cheek "Oh, too bad, lover boy" Chesire takes off her mask to kiss him which enrages Mia. Mia runs over to them just as Chesire says "But at least a kiss is still a kiss."
Before she could get to Chesire, Wally appears and knocks her off Roy "And a sai is still a sai. And quite the souvenir, by the way."
"Artemis, tracer arrow on Sportsmaster, now!" Roy orders.
While Artemis was doing that, Mia took the opportunity to fight Chesire. She quickly appears behind her then spoke "You're not getting away again. Not this time."
"Just one second" Chesire pushes Mia away then walks over to the couple "Oh, that's got to sting. He makes the shot you were afraid to even try."
Mia appears between Jade and the couple with a dark look on her face and cracks her knuckles "Your fight is with me, not them" she got into a fighting stance with her daggers ready "So come at me or are you still afraid?"
Jade starts to throw shuriken stars at them and Mia expertly blocks them with fluid motions. Artemis runs around back to grab the sword while Mia continues to block the stars.
"Leave them alone!" Artemis came at Jade with the sword but Jade overpowers her quickly and got the sword back.
Using the slight distraction to her advantage, Mia attacks Jade and the two clashes. Jabs, thrusts, blocks, kicks, swings, and many more were exchanged between the two fighters. Mia had gotten a few hits on Jade as well as earning some from her but that didn't stop Mia. As they continued to fight, the couple just stared in shock and awe not believing their eyes.
"She's just as good if not better than Jade."
"Since when did Mia learn how to fight like a Shadow? What else is she hiding from us?" Wally's attention went back to the fight when he hears a body hitting the ground and what he saw wasn't what he was expecting. Mia standing over Jade with her daggers poised over Jade's mask. Just as Mia was about to restrain Jade, she hears Labiwa's voice again.
"Ah just like old times. Now kill her so we can get this over with."
"No!" she drops the daggers to clutch her head "Leave me alone!"
"If you say so" Jade kicks Mia away.
The couple rush over to Mia's side and when they looked up, Jade was gone.
"Did you..." Wally starts.
"Tracers on her sword" Artemis finishes.
"Brilliant. I knew you could-" the sound of a jet ski caught his attention.
"Oh just kiss her already you idiot" Mia comments as she gets up rubbing her head.
"Oh, hey, there's the guys" Wally walks away to greet Kaldur and Roy.
Mia stood next to Artemis whispering "I won't tell anyone unless you want me to."
"Ditto."
The train passes by and Artemis fires a tracer at it while Mia does nothing to stop her since she's going to follow Artemis to get back at Jade. They turned back towards the guys and caught the last bit of Wally's explanation of what went down.
"So we threw the fight as ordered, after Artemis planted the tracer. But I guess Blink didn't get the memo and went full ninja on Chesire."
They looked over to see the duo walking over.
Artemis holds up a GPS locator "Chesire's heading north."
"Sportsmaster was heading south. Kinda like this mission" Roy comments.
"Are you done complaining Mr. Sunshine?" Mia says earning a growl from Roy.
Right as he opened his mouth, Artemis spoke "Maybe he'll double back. Maybe she will."
"Either way, they'll rendezvous, and we'll find them" Wally says.
"We had better. Sportsmaster acquired an attaché case. We need to learn what it contained. If you had stayed aboard the bio-ship…" Kaldur states.
"I saw Chesire sneaking up on him" Artemis defends herself.
"And I wasn't going to let her go alone" Mia adds.
"Then you radio a warning" Roy states.
"And if she found you by hacking our frequency?"
"What then lover boy?" Mia uses the new nickname Jade gave him.
"It is true. We have come to rely on M'gann's telepathy over our radios" Kaldur explains.
"Even if Meg was here, Lover Boy over there wouldn't have enough room in his brain to even hear us due to his oversized ego" Mia jabs at Roy.
He growls then stood right in front of her "You want to run that by me again."
"Would you look at that, your brain process is slow and hard of hearing. Two new things to add to the long list of everything that's wrong with you."
"I've had enough of your attitude."
Mia scoffs "I've been done with yours since the 4th of July bub."
"I have no problem with hitting a girl."
"Guess that makes two of us" Mia fires again with another witty retort.
Roy took out his bow "Whenever you're ready."
Mia teleports her daggers into her hands "Bring it on Speedy."
Wally pushes them apart "That's enough, you two can argue like an old married couple later. So let's stop looking to place blame and start looking for Chesire."
Roy backs away but held his gaze with Mia's. The two of them glared murderously at each other with the same thought. "I hate him/her."
"Here. Since clearly we can't be trusted" Artemis tosses the locator at Roy and he catches it "You track her."
"Think you can handle it?" Mia asks.
Wally snatches the locator out of Roy's hand and walks over to the girls "Artemis, Mia…"
Artemis sighs "It's fine. We'll follow in the bio-ship."
"We wouldn't want to get in the way of Red Arrow the Great" Mia adds then they headed for the bio-ship.
Once they were farther away, Artemis pulls out another GPS locator and saw the original tracer heading south. Mia nods and they went after her.
Red Tornado leaves the mountain while the trio and Wolf were still in the mission room underneath Tornado's apartment.
"Etativel!" Zatanna flies up "Hctah siri nepo!"
The hatch opens and the girls fly in.
Conner looks over at Wolf "Bark if Tornado comes back" then he jumps in.
Inside Tornado's apartment looked a bit like a lab with one small area that has a small Christmas tree and other holiday representation. A light underneath a covered table turns on, grabbing their attention.
"Is that what I think it is?" Zatanna asks.
They walked over and Conner pulls the cover off revealing what was on the table.
New Orleans
December 5, 22:18 CST
Sportsmaster opens the case in front of Ivo and a MONQI activates.
"Thank you, Sportsmaster. We'll take it from here."
Mallah opens the case from STAR Labs by fingerprint scan then takes out the tube containing the star fish arm and places it on the table. The Brain fires a small laser at the arm then the MONQI releases microscopic robots into the tube which fuses with the arm. Klarion adds magic to it and repeats the process.
Outside the warehouse, Artemis and Mia stood on top by the skylight. Artemis opens the window and jumps down while Mia teleports to the ground. Just as they got ready, a small ping was heard and they turned to see Jade coming out of the shadows.
"Pulled it off my sword about a minute after you put it there. Thought you'd want it back, since it goes so nicely with the one Red Arrow gave you."
"Damn you Harper" Mia tightens her jaw.
~"Someone on your team doesn't trust you"~
"I trust her" Mia states.
"You're just as bad."
Jade pulls out a tablet and zooms in on Roy about to enter the warehouse. The camera zooms out to show Sportsmaster on the roof ready to throw a javelin at Roy. Artemis fires an exploding arrow at the garage door which saves Roy while Mia kicks the tablet out of Jade's hands.
"Round 2?" Mia asks.
"Maybe later" Jade kicks Mia away then went after Artemis.
Mia crashes into a Mardi Gras float and groans a little. Soon she hears through her coms Roy saying 'Arrow to Aqualad. Located Chesire and Sportsmaster. Rendezvous at my coordinates.'
'Acknowledged. Sending Kid ahead' Kaldur responds.
Mia slowly got up and was about to join in when she hears Labiwa for the second time today.
"Come on Mia, just let me out for a spin."
Mia clutches her head and shuts her eyes tight "I told you to leave me alone!"
"You know I can't do that. I'm the part of you that's never going away no matter what."
"Trust me when I say this, I will never let you take control for as long as I live."
"You say that now but when you're stuck between a rock and a hard place, you'll come back begging for my help" then she's silent.
The trio were shocked and Conner drops the blanket.
"So is Red building a friend, or what?" Zatanna asks.
The hatch opens and a gust of wind enters "Perhaps you should ask Red" Tornado retorts.
"Wolf" Conner mutters.
When Tornado lands, Conner starts the conversation.
"All right, what's with the new bod?"
"I am a robot. This is an android. He will serve as my alter ego John Smith, and allow me to download my consciousness so that I may walk along humans, interact and learn."
"I think it's a wonderful idea" M'gann says.
"Your approval is appreciated, but your presence is uninvited. Is this a sign of disrespect?"
"Uh, curiosity" M'gann answers.
"Boredom" Conner says.
"You know, he's cute. But if the goal's human interaction…Evig mih stnap!" Zatanna snaps her fingers and the blanket turns into a pair of pants then it's on the android "He really needed pants" "I can't believe Mia's missing this."
The fight continues as Roy battles with Sportsmaster while Artemis battles with Jade. Mia saw that Wally went to help Artemis so she had no choice but to help Roy. She pushes him out of the way in time from Sportsmaster's punch and stood in his place.
"Now who the hell are you?"
"Wow, for once someone actually doesn't know who I am. That's a nice change in pace."
She punches him but he blocks it and it continues this way between them. A red glow caught Mia's attention which distracts her for a second. Sportsmaster took the opportunity and punches Mia sending her flying to where Roy was.
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Well I was trying to help you."
"I don't need help from anyone especially from you."
"You took the words right out of my mouth" Mia pushes Roy away in time to see a javelin lodged in the wall between them "Fight now, bitch later."
Roy went to fight Sportsmaster while Mia went to check out what the red glow was about. She meets up with Artemis and before they barged in, Mia felt the hairs on the back of her neck stand. "What's he doing here?"
They barged in with Artemis ordering "Freeze!"
"Stay where you are. Especially you Cat Boy" Mia glares at Klarion.
"Don't be absurd. With what we've created tonight, I could-" Ivo states.
"Why waste such power on them? Do what they say. Freeze" Klarion says.
All of them turned to ice and the ice sculptures were destroyed. Mia growls then punches the door with enough force to break someone's bone. Artemis rests a hand on her shoulder and Mia starts to slowly calm down. Soon Sportsmaster and Jade were turned to ice meaning that they got away too.
Mount Justice
December 6, 03:21 EST
"Let me be clear-we failed. Though the Injustice League is in custody, their allies still scheme. And we have learned nothing of their plans" Kaldur states.
"Gee, I wonder why" Roy turns to glare at Artemis and Mia.
"Excuse me?" Mia raises a brow and crosses her arms.
"Hey! Who found out Sportsmaster was working for Brain, Klarion, and Ivo?" Artemis asks.
"Yeah, great intel. Except Ivo's been in Bel Rev the whole time. And the guard's just checked-it's the real Ivo, not a robot" Roy counters.
"We know what we saw and I sure as hell know that I saw my mother's murderer in that room along with Ivo, who in fact was right there with that damn robot monkey of his on his shoulder, and that stupid French Brain with his goddamn gorilla. So don't you dare call us liars" Mia stood in front of Roy defending herself and Artemis.
"You know, I'm getting pretty tired of you dumping on them" Wally adds.
"Don't waste your breath Wally. He just can't help himself from doing so" Mia comments.
Roy holds up the tracer.
"Artemis' tracer, so? Chesire ditched it" Wally defends.
"No, Artemis ditched that to send us on a wild goose chase" Roy gestures to the tracer in Kaldur's hand "She put this one on Chesire and Blink went along with it."
"Artemis? Mia? Are you two that freaked out about Arrow joining the Team you had to prove yourselves by bringing down the bad guys just the two of you? Please tell me I'm wrong" Wally looks at his cousin and "crush."
Mia spoke first "Honestly, I don't care if he's on the Team or not but I did what I had to do in order to get Chesire. Discovering Klarion was just a bonus. This was personal."
Artemis just inhales and exhales, not saying anything because it was true for her.
"Well. Nice going. What you two have proven is that you're both insecure and selfish" Wally tosses the sai in front of Artemis' feet "Keep the sai. This is the right souvenir for the mission" Wally takes the tracer from Roy's hand and walks away.
"So how will you two betray us next time?" Roy demanded.
Mia lifted her hand to bitch slap him but Kadlur clasps Roy's shoulder.
"Enough. If making a mistake was a betrayal, we would all be traitors. I must report to Batman. The rest of you…get some sleep" Kaldur says.
Soon everyone but Artemis, Mia and Roy leaves. Roy walks up to Artemis' side and whispers "You're not who you say you are. This isn't over. Not by a longshot."
Then he walks over to Mia and before he could say a word, she bitch slaps him across the face hard enough to leave a handprint.
"Don't you dare threaten my family and don't ever call me a liar again. You do not want to make an enemy out of me" Mia glares murderously at him.
"Is that all?" Roy raises a brow.
"For now it is but next time, I'm taking your ass down. Do I make myself clear Harper?"
"Whatever" he shoves past her and she bites her tongue from saying anything else.
"Now I have to talk with Wally."
Central City
December 6, 02:45 CST
Mia taps on Wally's window scaring him in the process. Wally looks over his shoulder then ignores her.
Mia sighs "Wally I know you can hear me. Are you really going to let me, your cousin, freeze out here?"
Wally slouches and eventually walks over to his window then opens it allowing Mia to enter. She hops in and closes the window but stood in her spot while Wally walks back to his bed with his back facing her. The two of them don't talk for what seems like hours when in actuality it's been a few minutes.
"Why?" Wally spoke so soft that Mia barely heard him.
"Why what?"
"Why did you two go alone without any backup?"
"We weren't thinking Wally. Now I'm not excusing anything that we've done but we had our reasons to do so. Artemis did what she did to prove herself to the Team but deep down I think she's trying to prove her worth to herself. Me on the other hand, it had to do with the time I was kidnapped."
Wally finally turns around to look at her "Mia, what happened to you and your siblings? We're family now, you can tell me."
Tears started to build in her eyes and she lets out a shaky breath while brushing her hair away from her face "Ok. You might want to break out the hot chocolate and get comfortable Wally because it's a doozy."
She sat on his bed and leaned up against the headboard then began to tell everything that happened to her in Ra's al Ghul's compound from when the plane landed in the compound to her using her powers to teleport out of there and arriving at Ted Grant's boxing gym.