Them

2

Artemis

Days Earlier
The Mission

"Switching to camo," Wally stated, as his suit turned from yellow and red to black and red.

"I'll keep this mind-link online, if anything happens meet at the rendez-vous point." Miss Martian also stated, as everyone steparated to their assigned areas.

Superboy was lookout for strange activity around the building. Miss Martian was on exploration duty .
Wally and I were obviously stuck with infiltration. That was fine, infiltration was the best job out there.

I started on the north wing of the building, Wally on the south wing. We planned to meet in the middle, and explore the east wing together. That was our plan, but who knew if it would pull through.

I drew and arrow quietly, as I slowly walked through the hallways. I was set on completing this mission, the team couldn't afford another failure.

I heard heavy footsteps echo through the hall, and a loud masked deep voice. "I don't care! We need to stop those pathetic excuses called heroes! Our partners can't afford them messing with our plans."

I froze at the mention of these so called 'partners'. Last time we heard that, The Light was involved. My father works for them, and they area also responsible for most of the damage and chaos spread throughout the planet.

"I know, my love." Another voice said, "We will be on the lookout and stop those brats." The voice wasn't male, it was to high pitched for that. This voice was feminine. I grabbed a small recorder, hoping I could get audio recording to report with at the next briefing.

The masked voices took a deep breathe, "You better Scarlett, or else." That's when I heard the male stomp away.

Then I heard an irritated scoff escape the female named Scarlett. Her heels tapped on the ground, as I noticed the footsteps were coming closer to my direction. My grey eyes widened, and I quickly tried to find a hiding spot. I spotted a air shaft, and quickly hid inside the ventilation system.

I got a semi-good at Scarlett. She looked to be around 5 foot 6, and she had short black hair. Her eye colour looked to be black, but it was lost likely the darkness off the room to make them appear that way.

"Guys, I found something." I said into the mind link.

"Same, there is this guy over here. He's on the computer, looking at something. Let me get a closer look." Wally's voice in the mind link went dead for a while, "This isn't good..."

"What Wally?! What isn't good?" Miss Martian asked cautiously, her voice filled with concern.

"He's looking for information about the team! More specifically about Artemis and her family!"

'Why would they be researching my family?' I asked myself.

"Another Problem," Connor yelled inside our heads, "We've got company!!"

"What kind of company Superboy?" Miss Martian asked.

"The Bad Kind." Connor stated, before going completely silent on the telepathic communication.

"Miss M, go help Superboy! I'll try to find-"

"Sorry for interrupting babe, butthere is a problem. That big scary dude, you know with the creepy masked voice and evil behavior? Yeah, I think he-!" Wally's like was abruptly cut off, and soon fell completely silent.

"Artemis, go after Kid. I got Superboy." Miss Martian said, and I didn't have to speak for he to know I already agreed to the plan. It was already in action. My feet were already taking me to where Wally last checked in.

I soon fell into a fully fledged sprint. I was sprinting to Wally's location like my life depended on it. At some point during my run, all communications with the others were gone. I wasn't worried about that now, I knew Miss M and Connor could handle themselves.

My breathing slowed down by the second, I couldn't find my damn speedster.

I wasn't leaving this place without Wally. He might be my boyfriend, but he is also a team member on my team. Teammates don't leave teammates behind. Nor do partners.

I'm also not my father, I don't leave my loved ones behind to fend for themselves.

My feet slowed down, and my grip tightened on my bow.

I came to a screeching hold when I heard feminine laughter and click of high heels. I couldn't forget that horrid sound, it was Scarlett's. I turned around slowly to be faced by a tranquilizer gun. Scarlett pulled the trigger, hitting me with a dart. Everything suddenly went blurry, my hands went on my head, as I struggled to fight to stay conscious. I stumbled back, the tranquilizer was too strong.

"Goodnight Artemis. Please let the bed bugs bite."

That's when everything went black.

•••

I woke up in a panic, my palms sweaty and my breathing rigid and unstable. I opened my mouth to speak, but my throat was dry. I looked around, seeing my teammates. Miss M was surrounded by fire, meaning Superboy wouldn't act out if she was in danger. I saw Wally, Wally was covered in ice. His face showed he was in physical pain, and I wanted to do anything to make that go away. I wanted to take away the pain he was feeling.

"Good, you're up." Scarlett smiled with wicked curve tugging at her lip, as she roughly grabbed me by my arm. "Your friends will be fine. Well, maybe."

I didn't saw anything, only forcefully pulled my arm away from Scarlett. I put my fists up, I was ready to attack.

"Ahh, I wouldn't do that." That wasn't Scarlett's voice, it was to deep to be hers. A male figure appeared from the shadows, and I knew it to be the man from earlier. "You wouldn't want your team to be hurt now would you."

My lips pierced, and I crossed my arms. "What do you want?" I growled, my sharp eyes sending daggers towards the man.

"Question is, what don't I want?" The man laughed, before shaking his head slowly. "I need information girl, and you're the only one who can give it to me."

•••

Hello! It's me! Yes I'm alive!
I hope this doesn't suck, but it probably does.
I began writing this chapter like after the first one was published in June 2017. So, it's kinda choppy.
That's okay, the other chapters won't be like that hopefully!

-Ash
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