Vigilante Justice - A Young Justice Fanfiction

Chapter 25: An Identity is Revealed

Wally had just stuffed another handful of fries into his mouth when they arrived outside their ramshackle apartment complex.

After Nightwing and M'gann's...whatever that was, the young heroes had taken a few minutes to regroup before going back down to Sniper's hospital room.

The hitman had still been unconscious—likely spent after Nightwing's interrogation—so the team hadn't worried about exposing their identities while taking turns changing out of their costumes behind a curtain.

M'gann had morphed her suit into light pants and a blouse before changing her colouring to a pale peach, the skin around her eye beginning to swell where Nightwing had nailed her.

Not only did it look painful, it was also making Conner even more difficult to be around than usual. He kept rifling through Sniper's room, muttering about finding an icepack and knocking a certain blue-black colour schemed vigilante's brains out.

He wasn't happy, to say the least.

Once they looked like a group of normal college students again, they'd exited the hospital after contacting Griffins. Who, despite the late hour, had agreed to find someone to sub in for their Sniper guard duties.

Using the bioship was out of the question, given M'gann's recent unconsciousness, so they hailed a taxi, cramming inside while the cabbie glared sullenly at them.

Conner kept hovering over her during the ride, insisting that they stop and get her something to drink. Which had then turned into getting her something to eat.

Which had then turned into a full fledged late-night fast-food run while M'gann waited for them in the taxi, having made it her personal mission to lift their cabbie's gloomy spirits.

And now here they were, standing outside their apartment and trying to determine who'd remembered the complex key.

"I thought Kaldur grabbed it," Artemis said, leaning against Wally and snatching some fries while he was distracted by her close proximity.

"Hey," He murmured weakly, but the conversation had already moved on.

"And I was under the impression you had grabbed them." Kaldur slurped his water through a plastic straw, which Wally felt like shouldn't be allowed.

What ever happened to saving the turtles? Shouldn't an Atlantean of all things be a little more concerned?

Kaldur narrowed his eyes at Wally, like he'd just read the speester's mind, and slurped harder.

"M'gann didn't grab them," Conner had an arm around his oddly silent girlfriend. It looked like he was bodily keeping her from keeling over. "Last I saw it, the key card was in Kaldur's hand."

Kaldur shook his head. "I gave it to Artemis."

Artemis turned, stealing another fry and pointing it at Wally accusingly. "I gave it to you."

Oh. Right.

She had given him it earlier.

In his defense, Wally's brain turned to mush whenever she was nearby. She was just so...distracting.

Wally nodded, pulling the key card out of his pocket and holding it up between his fingers. "Yeah, I got it right here."

Conner growled at him, sounding like some kind of M'gann centric beast. "And you didn't think to tell us earlier?"

"Honestly?" He pretended to ponder it. "No."

The clone made an unintelligible grunting noise and stalked toward him.