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'Does everyone understand their job?' Aqualad looked around at his team, who all nodded. 'Good. Miss Martian, open the hatch.'
A hatch opened in the bottom of the bioship, and flipping Aqualad a thumbs-up, Robin jumped out of the ship and began sneaking through the halls of the Bialyan palace as Artemis hit enter on the bird's laptop, sending the message to the Turkish government that they would be bringing Yilmaz in to them.
'He's in the throne room. Queen Bee's nowhere in sight.' Robin's info came through the mindlink, and Miss Martian brought the bioship in near the throne room, letting the rest of the Team out and cloaking the ship. They slid into their positions, surrounding Yilmaz.
'Superboy, go.' Aqualad cued Superboy in, and with a roar, said Superboy jumped down near Yilmaz, who jumped then grinned, pulling out a machete. The two clashed, and Superboy threw yilmaz over to where Kid Flash removed his machete. Grunting, Yilmaz just pulled out a knife, as Robin threw birdarangs at him, one hitting his hand and forcing the Turkish man to drop the knife. Artemis shot a volley of arrows at him, which he dodged, only to have a hardwater mallet swung at him by Aqualad. Miss Martian swooped in to telekinetically throw him against the wall, and with a smirk, Yilmaz threw a live grenade at her, and when it exploded, she cried out, weakened by the fire. Turning, Yilmaz faced Aqualad, hitting a few pressure points and knocking him out. Superboy threw himself at the villain with a roar, and he just barely rolled away. Robin jumped from the rafters, landing on Yilmaz' head, knocking him down so Artemis could jump down and tie him up.
'Miss M, you okay?'Robin looked over at his green friend, who nodded and smiled. 'Okay, let's get going. We're heading to Turkey.'
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"Well, that went nicely, don't you think?" M'gann asked Conner. The Team was back at the Cave, and Robin was back on his laptop, looking up the head honcho for Drachenfluch. Drachenfluch was a German mercenary group, headed by an unknown individual who had the intelligence to remain unknown to their followers. Hacking into the German government, he found it harder to get past the firewalls so he set his hacking and researching aside for a while to spend time with the Team.
"I guess," Conner replied to M'gann's earlier question.
.:Meanwhile on Mars:.
'And why not?' a young martian had his hands on his hips, glaring at his mom.
'Because I said so!' An older female martian glared at the younger one.
'Ugh! Fine!' The young one turned and slipped outside into the cold Mars atmosphere, heading through the red sands to the old ship he had found and been repairing. For the martian equivalent of a human twelve-year-old, he was doing quite well. Smiling, he shifted his shape to appear more human, and ran a hand through shaggy black hair, blinking now-amber eyes at the ship. Who knew, maybe soon he would be able to leave for Earth and see his cousin M'gann again.
Floating up, M'aax M'reet surveyed the ship. Just a few more parts, a few more patches, and some supplies, and he'd be ready to go. With a smile, he shifted to his less-human form and floated away from the ship.
.:Back on Earth and a week later:.
"C'mon, Artemis! Keep up!" Robin laughed as he and his temporary partner swung through the Gotham Saturday night. "We'll never catch the baddies with how slow you are!"
"Well maybe if you would slow down I would be able to keep up!" The blonde archer shot her jibe back at him.
"We can't be slow if we want to catch Gothamite crime-doers!" Robin stopped to wait for Artemis to catch up. "They've started to develop a sixth sense for this stuff!"
"Okay, okay!" Artemis stopped beside him. "Oh, look at the pretty police sirens!"
"Yep. Robbery in process at the bank on fifth and Westwind. Overheard it on the police radio," Robin grinned.
"You hacked the police radio. Why am I not surprised?" Artemis shook her head.
"Because you just aren't?" Robin replied, then got serious again. "C'mon." He started swinging over to the bank that was being robbed, landing on top of its roof. Slinging himself over the side, he opened a window and slipped inside, followed by Artemis. They tiptoed through the bank, where shouting could be heard down below.
"Come on! Hurry up before the Bat gets here!" A male voice called in an angry, hurried way.
"Sheesh, haven't you heard? He hasn't been seen in two weeks!" Another voice called back to the first one.
"You can never count on the Bat not being here," came the wise words of a woman.
"Okay, we go in, kick butt, and leave them wrapped up for the police. Got it?" Robin hissed to Artemis.
"Aye, aye, captain," she hissed back.
"Okay, now go!" Robin hissed back, and the two ambushed the robbers.
"See, what did I tell you? We were crazy for choosing to rob here!" The woman had brunette dreads and a domino mask covering her eyes.
"Alright, I'm out of here!" The first man turned and began running towards the exit, but an arrow attaching his pant leg to the floor stopped him.
"Not so fast!" Artemis called out, jumping down from the ceiling.
Robin smirked, then flipped forward to grab the woman's dreads and use them to flip her over. Once flipped over, she somersaulted forward to land on her feet, pulling out a gun. Robin let loose a birdarang, but a shot rang off as he threw it. The bullet hit his side, and he doubled over in pain. Artemis quickly knocked the gun out of the lady's hands and hit a pressure point, blacking the woman out.
"Okay you, let's get out of here and take care of that bullet wound," Artemis said while walking over to Robin.
"Yes ma'am," Robin wheezed, his voice tight in pain. Artemis picked him up, and started heading back up to the roof. Making her way over to where he had parked his motorcycle, she quickly got on it, and Robin shifted to hold on to her as she drove, getting blood on her uniform as she started the engine. They roared off through the Gotham streets, Artemis being more comfortable with the way to the Batcave so she could push the cycle faster. Once they got onto the lone road to the cave, she was able to push it faster, slowing down just enough to turn into the drive up into the Batcave. Once in there, seeing Alfred waiting for them, she slowed down. Robin was almost unconscious, barely hanging on to it, as Artemis removed him from the motorcycle. Alfred got the emergency from her body language and began prepping the med room, getting everything ready.
"I think the bullet's still in there," Artemis told him, placing Robin on the bed that was prepped. Alfred just nodded, grabbing a pair of tweezers as she removed the top half of Robin's uniform. The gunshot wound was a mess of blood. It was on his right side, and Artemis took the moment to look at the red line that was the knife wound he got from Two-Face. It had healed up quite nicely, but now Robin had another injury to worry about.
Alfred politely pushed Artemis out of the way, using the tweezers to poke around in the bullet hole and remove the actual bullet. He then cleaned it and carefully stitched it up, before giving Robin some painkillers.
"He'll be fine for now. Miss Artemis, you should be heading back to your home. I presume Master Robin showed you how to use the zeta platform?" Alfred looked over at Artemis.
"Uh-huh," Artemis nodded.
Alfred turned away from her, and she took this as her cue to leave. Walking to the zeta room, she typed in her destination.
Recognized: Artemis B07
She came out of the old phonebooth, looked around, and slipped into her house. She walked along to her room, changed into her pajamas, and turned on her laptop. She had to finish an essay for her English class on her personal hero.
Okay here is chapter whichever number this one is, I've been watching lots of different things lately but I probably won't ignore this fic, I've still got a good five more chapters written for this.
