Allies

A Day's Work

Chapter 10

A/N: Hey everyone! Welcome back! Hope y'all're enjoying the story so far. Anyways, remember, I'm just the writer, Emerald belongs to Sil Vaturha 98, and the other characters are products of their producers.

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Telepathy/Flashbacks

'Bee talking

Central City, July 9, 13:28CDT

"It's nice to have a day off," Emerald sighed as she sat in her civies outside a café, sipping a cup of iced tea, "especially after the past few days."

"Way to brag Erica," Wally muttered.

Raising a brow, the redhead looked to her cousin, "And what am I bragging about?"

"Please! You and 'Bee got to fight zombies in space! Do you know how awesome that is?!"

"Uh, Wally, technically we were just driving off Megatron's cannon fodder. The zombies didn't even make it to the other end of the spacebridge before we blew it up," 'Bee corrected, rolling his eyes.

"But still, why is it you guys get to do the awesome stuff?!"

"Because they can survive in the void of space," Robin deadpanned. "Anyways," he reached into his red jacket, pulling out a polaroid, "check this out."

"So...who are we looking at here?" Wally drawled.

"Her name is Selena Gonzalez."

"And we care why?" the speedster asked crossing his arms as he leaned back in his chair, "Other than the fact she's hot?"

"She's here, in Central City, and she's being targeted for a hit," Robin answered. "There's a reason, but I don't know what it is yet. But I did find something I think might be related to her."

Sitting up in his chair, Aqualad leaned forwards, "Related how?"

"Looking through some of Batman's files, I found that there've been a few targets, seemingly unrelated. However, I've cross-referenced tons of data and I think I found a pattern."

"Wait!" Wally interrupted. "Looking through? You mean you hacked Batman's files!"

Erica slapped her hand over her cousin's mouth as she glanced towards the other groups around them. "How about you say it louder and announce it to the whole world dummy?"

"Sorry."

"Anyways," Robin started, "I think this CEO might be next. All of these hits have been made to look like accidents, muggings gone wrong, things like that."

"And you figured we could look into it," 'Bee concluded. "But still, what brought this to your attention in the first place?"

"I've been looking into Cadmus the past few days—between the world-ending events—the corporate holdings, who they do business with, and all that. I noticed a few people they've done business with have had some unexpected accidents."

"You want us to look into a hunch that someone might've put a hit on this CEO? Cool!"

There was the sound of another smack as Erica slapped her hand back over the speedster's mouth. "Ok, no more talking from you." Behind her hand, Wally scowled and Erica yelped, yanking her hand away. "Did you just lick my hand?!"

"Stop slapping it over my face!"

"Only if you stop being stupid!"

"What about Superboy and Miss Martian?" Aqualad spoke up, ignoring the arguing teens.