Worst Case Scenario

Chapter 6: Dominoes

6...

Robin, Red Arrow and Rocket took cover in the bushes.

This was actually the third set they had gone to, but Robin wanted to make sure they where far enough away from the crash site to avoid detection.

Finally, they set down Zatanna (who was showing no change in condition) and took a moment to rest.

Red Arrow was on the radio, trying to contact the Watchtower, the Cave, the Canadian Government, anyone.

Nothing.

Robin took a second to mess around with his wrist computer (which had been damaged in the fall) before reactivating it.

He pulled up a map of the area with nine glowing dots laid over it.

"Okay, I've still got approximate locations and vital signs from the Team's transmitters" said Robin.

The dots were in five groups: One white and one red dot farthest inland to the west, three white dots surrounding a red dot a little bit north of that, and then one white dot on its own, one yellow dot not too far from it and one last white dot out near the coastline. The computer took a second to assign a name to each dot.

"What do red dots mean?" asked Rocket.

"Health critical" replied Robin. "Yellow is injured, red is down."

"But they're all still alive, right?"

"For the moment" replied the boy. Labels appeared on each of the dots.

The group of four dots in the middle was, of course, them, Zatanna being the red dot. The dots further west were Artemis and M'gann, with the Martian in the red. The other two white dots were Aqualad and Superboy, the yellow one Kid Flash.

"Hey, Artemis? Can you read me?" said Robin into the radio.

"I don't think that'll work" began Red Arrow. "I can't raise anyone."

There was some static, followed by a reply.

"I'm here! Are you guys okay?"

Robin grinned at Red Arrow. "You aren't a genius. Besides, they're probably jamming our long-range coms anyway. Short-range is way harder to block."

Red Arrow rolled his eyes and took over on his radio. "Artemis. What's your situation?"

"Oh, well, you see, we was just flying along when there was this big explosion and we started falling out of the sky. You know. Boring stuff. How are you guys doing?"

"Not the time for sarcasm. What's Miss Martian's status?"

"I think she's okay, but she's out cold. She pulled me out of the ship and then passed out in midair and then I... uh... landed on her." Rocket winced. Having had half of the ship fall on her, she could definitely sympathize with the Martian girl on that one.

"Artemis, we're about half a mile north-east of your position" said Robin. "Can you move M'gann over here?"

"I don't know, I moved her away from the crash site but I think she's a little heavy to drag that far."

Suddenly there was an explosion over the radio.

"Crap!" screamed Artemis. "I've got bad guys, incoming!"

Robin and Red Arrow looked at each other. Robin nodded.

"Artemis, this is Red Arrow. I am coming to you, over. Do you copy?"

"Hurry!" replied Artemis. "They're everywhere!"

Red Arrow took one last look at the map and then sprinted off.