Wally Sr. was sitting on a coach. "I'm ready!" called Artemis
"I'm not happy about this,"
"Wow, we live together in the future?" Wally Sr. asked.
"Apparently." Said Artemis.
"As I recall, you were wearing the yellow and red just a few weeks ago."
"That was an emergency! I was needed."
"While I'm needed now,"
"He shouldn't need you, he's my best friend. He knows we're trying to leave the life behind."
"Don't blame night wing, the decision was mine." They kissed. "Babe, your freaking out over nothing. What could go wrong?"
"Oh, I'm the one you're mad at," Dick sounded disappointed.
"There both going to end up our responsibility, aren't they?" asked a voice.
"Wait, is that Mal, from school?" Conner asked his girlfriend.
"I think so," she replied.
"Not necessarily," said Nightwing. "Bart, Impulse, is staying with Jay and Joan Garret in central city. Roy, the original speedy, is recuperating at Royal Memorial Hospital in Star City. Arrows green and red are watching over him"
"Mm-hmm. They're both gonna windup our responsibility." Said Mal.
"Doesn't everything?" said Conner. "I mean, where are we on identifying the light's new partner?"
Nightwing sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. "No progress"
"L'gann don't eat so fast!" said M'gann giggling.
Conner frowned.
"I can't help it, Anglefish. The idea of cooking crabs is amazing enough, making them into tiny cakes?"
"Heh! You're going to choke." Laughed M'gann.
"If only," mumbled super boy.
"Someone's jealous," said Zala.
"Here let me," said M'gann.
"Mm. If that's not true love, I don't know what is… chum."
"Call me when it's time to leave" said super boy as he walked off.
"Yep, He's jealous." Said Myra.
The machine announced Artemis. "Time for the briefing," said nightwing.
"Artemis!" exclaimed M'gann, ditching L'gann.
Everyone laughed.
"Hi, M'gann," Artemis said as M'gann hugged her. "Whoa!"
"How's Wally?" M'gann asked.
"He's… Wally." Artemis answered, and they laughed.
As did everyone minus both Wallys and Paula.
"Welcome back, girl." Said Mal.
"Hey, Mal!"
"We have so missed you around here," said super boy.
"Conner!"
"I relish this opportunity to finally fight beside you, archer." Said La'gaan.
"Umm…Thanks, La'gaan," she said awkwardly.
"Just, wow," said Zala.
"OK, Gamma squad, listen up. The mission is Cape Canaveral, covert op to safeguard the first earth-mars com sat. There are people out there who don't even like the idea of aliens and will do anything to scrub this launch."
M'gann looked down. "But that's why I came back, because not all of us feel that way."
"So, why are you going?" Mal asked Dick.
"Let's just say after running this team for a year, I'm peckish for a little action," answered Dick.
"Oh, so I finally become leader?" Dick asked.
The scene changed to a launch site. "I know I'm not Wally's favorite person right now, but it's nice to have you back." Said Nightwing.
"I honestly don't know why future me is so mad." Said Wally.
"It's nice to be back." Said Artemis. "I didn't realize how much I'd been missing it, which is pretty much exactly what Wally's afraid of. He's worried the rush that comes with the mask, will get its hooks in, and I won't give it up until my dying day"
"I know exactly what you mean." Said Nightwing.
The scene shifted to Conner and M'gann in the bioship. "So, we're never talking again?"
"Gee, you read my mind." Said Conner.
"Wait, what's going on between us?" asked M'gann.
Conner frowned.
"I don't have to read your mind to know how you feel, Conner, but the breakup was your idea."
"Oh," said Zatanna and Raquel.
"Don't pretend you don't know why."
"I know, I know. You disapprove of how I use my psychic powers."
"You mean how you abuse them, ripping Intel from the minds of your victims with no concern for what it does to their psychies!" Conner yelled.
"I wonder what I did." Said M'gann.
"They're not victims. They're bad guys. That information is helping the team, the league, the entire planet."
"And leaving your victims in a catatonic state. It's not right, M'gann. You're behaving no better than Simon!"
"That's horrible," said M'gann, talking about herself.
"If you feel so strongly, why not tell Nightwing or the league?"
"I was hoping I mattered enough to make you stop. I didn't think you'd try to tamper with my mind, try to make me forget I was upset with you."
Everyone from the past gasped.
"Conner, I'm sorry about that."
"Sorry you did it or sorry you got caught? After all we'd been through, how could you think I wouldn't recognize your touch inside my mind? Didn't you know what that touch meant to me? And to have you pervert it like that… guess I was kidding myself. I mean how replaceable was I? Two minutes after I ended you're dating the rebound guy from the black lagoon."
"Rebound guy from the black lagoon, good one," said Dick.
"Says long term rebound guy," Wally Jr. muttered to his twin sister.
"La'gaan is not my rebound guy.
"Well, lucky La'gaan."
The scene changed to a rocket launching. "The mission may yet succeed." Said Kaldur launching a missile at the rocket.
Artemis fired an arrow at the missile stopping it. "No rust on me," she said.
"Wait Kaldur becomes a bad guy?" Artemis asked shocked.
"Artemis, behind you!" Dick yelled. He then got hit by Kaldur with a hammer.
Kaldur knocked Artemis's bow away and stabbed her. "Welcome back," he said and walked away.
Everyone from the past looked horrified, but none more than Kaldur. "Don't worry, it'll explain everything later," said Lian.
"Artemis!" Dick yelled. Then he grabbed her. "I got you. Hang on."
"Move out mission is a failure" said Kaldur. Then the rocket exploded. He looked upset. "We're done here."
Dick was trying to give Artemis CPR. Conner and Megan ran towards them. "I…I don't hear her heartbeat." Conner said.
Dick tried to revive her a little more than stopped. "She's dead."
"What!" Artemis yelled.
The scene changed to a werehouse. Dick looked at the photo he had taken of Artemis when he was 13. "We'll laugh about this someday," he said. He heard someone coming. "Wally?" he asked.
"No," said Kaldur. Then Wally arrived, and then Artemis. It then flashbacked how they faked her death. "I take it our ruse was successful."
"Good that means Kaldur isn't a bad guy and Artemis isn't dead." Said M'gann.
"Almost too successful. The team and the league are in mourning. They may never forgive us." Said Dick.
"And still only we 4 know the secret?" asked Kaldur.
"So we were kept out of the loop?" Conner sounded a little angry.
"This secret and the other that you've been under deep cover within Manta's Organization since leaving the team. How'd it go on that end?" asked Dick.
"Successful as well, I've proven my loyalty to my biological father. He is moving me up the latter, bringing me closer to the light and their unknown partner." Said Kaldur.
"Your dad's a bad guy?" Raquel asked.
"Not without cost, Kaldur. The com sat wasn't supposed to be destroyed, and La'gaan definitely wasn't supposed to be captured." Said Dick.
"It was the only way to save his life and maintain my cover." Said Kaldur.
"I'm not blaming you. I know you've been forced to make impossible decisions. Like choosing between saving the Crolatans on Melina Island,"
"Oh god, what happened there?" Paula asked.
"Or saving my friends," Kaldur finished. "And I will find a way to save La'gaan. You have my word."
"So what now?" Artemis asked. Dick put a necklace on Artemis.
"Uh, Dude, why are you giving bling to my dead girlfriend?" Wally asked.
People laughed
"Glamour charm, courtesy of Zatanna. Physiomorphic spell, I think. She said it backwards." Answered Dick.
"Wow, you look… exactly the same." Said Wally.
"To the 4 of us, and only us. But to anyone else, you're on entirely different person." Answered Dick.
"The more impressive trick is how you got something so specific from Zatanna without revealing who or what it was for." Artemis said.
"We have a history." Dick said.
"Dog," Wally said elbowing him.
Everyone minus Zatanna and Robin laughed.
"It is time." Said Kaldur.
Wally and Artemis hugged and kissed. "What could go wrong?" she asked.
"Heh! Don't say that." Wally said. Dick signaled the end of their display of affection. Kaldur and Artemis got on a sub. The screen showed Artemis in her disguise.
"I went undercover as a villain, didn't I?" said Artemis.
"Yep." Said Lian.
A/N: this was the longest chapter I've made on this story so far. I hope you like it please review and make sugestions.