[26th February 2011]
[Museum of National History, Athens, Greece]
"Well, this is...different" Artemis muttered to herself as she landed on the rooftop of the building just overlooking the plaza and saw the fight currently in progress. Or 'fights' plural from the quick scan of the area from her perch. Her finger moved to her communicator, calling out an outline of the problem that had dragged them away from investigating the dig site to a real fight...fights...
"Eyes on the Museum, I've got ninjas fighting a tree-man-thing looks like, and police are trying to set up a cordon around...fuck..." she swore as she recognised one of the ninjas in question"...that's Deathstroke the Terminator down there guys"
"Understood" Wonder Woman's voice echoed back in her ear, and to the rest of the team "Zatanna, join Artemis on the rooftop as support, Miss Martian stay invisible, Aqualad with me, I'll take point and support with water bracers when we engage. Artemis send footage back to base , Robin, Bumblebee, Enchanter will attempt to identify what we've got in the others"
'Ugh, stupid goggles' she thought pulling down the pair over her eyes from beneath her hood. Batman's idea of course after he looked at, and started modifying [suggesting improvements he'd called it] to Skulls and hers wok on her new body armour. It was bit baggy looking in her opinion, and the hood had been an irritant with her hair, but it proved great over all...though she still didn't like the goggles they made her look so dorky with the damn things on. Still she brought them down, the fake-glass shimmer ever so slightly as she hit the 'on' button beside her temple "Copy, transmitting now"
Zatanna flew up beside...cheating in that cool way of standing on lid of something and just flying up to the roof like it was nothing. But Artemis ignored it, stepping forward and reading her bow just in case as she tried to captured the fight taking place in and out of the museum as...ninjas fought trees as best could tell. It was hard to tell exactly as the figures kept shifting back and forth from cover such as statute and the doors as...
"That's Blackbriar Thorn guys..." Skulls voice came over the comms "...so be damned careful, he's old, hateful, and powerful. He's a heavy hitter magically; controls plant life, air manipulation, illusions, the likes of that, he won't go down easy"
Artemis heard Wonder Woman mutter something in maybe Greek before again getting all bossy as a Justice Leaguer with the Team always was "Send Superboy and Troia in support now, and contact Zatara to see if he is available to aid us"
"You got it Boss Lady, need me to deploy as well?"
"No, Robin remain on station. Artemis, do you have flash-bang arrows as Green Arrow does?"
Artemis nodded without thinking as Zatanna came over to stand near her wand out and looking at the fight as Artemis tried to keep monitoring it as well as watch for other attackers "Yes Wonder Woman, do you want me to use them?"
"Yes, target Deathstroke, Zatanna can you cast set the trees on fire?"
"Yes"
"Then on the count of 3...1"
Artemis's hand shifted into her quiver and drew out the requested arrow, drawing back on her bow and resting one foot on the stonework of the building as she tried to track the rapidly moving ninja with sword and gun in hands. Hard to do as he just...kept...dodging...the other monsters thrown wooden stakes or whatever those things the Tree-Man was throwing at him. No wonder the local police were staying back, it was like a male magical Poison Ivy, or an evil version of that Swamp Dude Skulls and his mentor were buddies with, and even with...
"2"
...out of the corner of her eye she saw Wonder Woman and Kaldur charge forward, though Wonder Woman suddenly braced herself, shield at the ready...
"3"
...and Artemis let loose the arrow. Wonder Woman jumped...
...as her arrow flew across the plaza, Zatanna's words echoing out as suddenly the tree-man and the greenery immediately around him caught alight in a minor blaze. But Artemis was already moving away from where she'd been standing, drawing another arrow and letting loose as she dashed away from her first launching spot fast as she could. It was never a good idea to stand still like that, and it...
'Woah, seriously?' was all that popped into her mind as her first arrow was detonated by a shot from the ninja-man as he moved between statue and pillar, shooting her arrow mid-air, and then back at the tree-man. Still it served as a distraction as Wonder Woman...landed between the ninja and snarling-shrieking tree-man, unbalancing the ninja a moment. Aqualad though had used his water bracers despite being further back than Wonder Woman, and Artemis's own second stun arrow had exploded to the front of the staggered ninja's head, a water canon hit him immediately after wards...flinging him back into a pillar behind him.
"Artemis, Zatanna coming up to the roof you're on! To your left!" echoed into her ear-piece, and she whirled, just as Zatanna cast 'Pots' at one of the fights far distance, and drew another, a 'normal' with one of Skulls stun spells on, arrow from her quiver as a shadow jumped up unto the room. Catching a decent chance at a shot, she let loose...
...only for the shing-ing sound of blade being drawn, followed by the clatter of her arrow being deflected, to reach her ears as she reached for another "Zee move!"
Zatanna thankfully did so, glancing over her shoulder eyes widening, and then running towards, and past, Artemis as a ninja appeared on the other end of the roof sword in hand. Dressed pretty similar to the very, very, dangerous Deathstroke, and that likely meant bad things based on what she'd heard from Mom and Sis, and Dad, in the past. Her earpiece buzzed softly as she unleashed another arrow, deciding then to kick backwards into a half-flip as mini-Deathstroke with breasts charged at her.
"Delay her or run, sending support"
'Crap Zee is crap at close range' she mentally growled at herself immediately discarding her beloved bow by holstering it magnetically to the backpack and grabbing the fighting batons in her hands. The other girl, her general age and build looked like, was moving too fast and with too much experience for Artemis to play 'keep away' archer tactics and defend Zatana as well. Rooftop was too constricted, and throwing weapons were too easily available on the charge ninja-girl's belt and harness. Still Skulls had given her magic boots to wear, so decided to make use of them...
...and the sudden burst of speed and blurring effect as she activated the effect caught the ninja by surprise. Not obvious, but the slight change in stance, the hand that had been moving to grab a shuriken to throw at Zatanna suddenly moved for the other sword slung over her back. It cost the other girl though, a second too slow as Artemis moved with both hardened batons to attack; the first one blocked by the sword, but the second slamming into the ninja's arm as she protected her head...
...then it was a dance. One the other girl was better at it was clear to Artemis even after landing the painful blow and her enemy winced, but shrugged it off apparently by moving as if uninjured. Kicking with one leg, then another, as both moved through a flurry of movement back and forth as Artemis focused on both disarming the equipped blade while preventing the drawing of the other. Her opponent was also very clearly intend on killing her, the blade slashing over her face as Artemis ducked under a swing and rolled, attempting to slam home her batons but finding it dodged at the last moment...
"Peels!"
...just as the ninja did an emergency back-flip as Zatanna's efforts...
"Pots! Mrasid!"
...though the last sent the sword flying out of the other girl's hand, along Artemis to again land another blow on the arm as her opponent again blocked a strike on her body. Now was the time to press...
...kick, blocked, try close and hit with batons...
...dodged, damn this bitch was agile even with both her attacks and Zatanna casting whenever she tried to break away...
...the punch slammed into her belly catching her by surprise as she over extended the act, but was absorbed by the material just another, then another, hammered home in rapid succession staggering her backwards...
...stumbling back a step she caught herself, reversing the grip on the baton and allowing it to flip over so the lengthier bar was against her arm she braced it...
...blocking just in time as the other sword sprang free from ninja-girls back in a fluid, two-handed motion to collide in a shing of sparks...
...then she was on the defensive, forced to block blows in rapid succession as she fell back step by step...
...till the noise of a body landing nearby caused her to grin as Troia arrived shield in one hand, sword in th other, and Zatanna had seemingly managed to summon duplicates of herself.
"Need a hand?"
At the Amazon's words the masked ninja girl danced back from Artemis, eyes behind the mask clearly taking in worsening odds as she flowed into a flip, then a roll...then moving in three shockingly fast strides to jump at a glass-metal triangular sky light nearby...
"Catch her..." Artemis managed to get out as Zatanna shouted out "Pots!" to little avail as a loud crash echoed out as the glass shattered at the ninja-girl canon-balling into it, and the falling down through the skylight as Artemis and Donna Troy dashed forward, hands moving as with each step to 'sheath' her batons and liberate her bow once more...
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