[TO BE REWRITTEN] LEGENDS NEVER DIE {Trollhunters/Young Justice}

52 ARTEMIS 52

THEY HAD BEEN tense all weekend. They couldn't text, couldn't plan, nothing.

//Link is up.// Megan barks into their minds as soon as they were all together.

//Good,// Kaldur comments gravely, //Zatanna, are you close enough to Arnold to do anything?//

//Maybe. I don't know. It's easier if I'm in the same room as them.//

//Guys.//

//Not now, Robin.//

//Guys.//

//Not now, Robin!// Kaldur repeats with a snap before continuing. //M'gann, is there any chance you can--//

//Connor, what the actual fuck is Strickler doing here?!// Robin demands in furious alarm.

//Uh... him and Dr. Lake are dating..?// Connor says unsurely. They look at him and he kinda shrugs.

//Okay, that's it. I've been trying to tell you, but this is bad. Guys, Jim isn't the top of the food chain, he isn't even a big fish!//

//What are you saying?// Artemis demanded lightly, an exasperated edge to her tone.

//I'm saying that we've been looking at this all wrong. Everything is being calculated. Who took an extra interest in Jim and his friends right before they suddenly got rep sheets? Strickler. Who dropped off Arnold? Strickler. Who's pressuring the hacker? Strickler-- Jim's a decoy. It's Strickler we need to worry about.//

//W-we need to tell--//

//No can do, Miss M. The hacker's got blackmail on all of us. We contact Batman or he contacts us and it's all over.// Robin says grimly through the link. //And I mean our identities, by the way.//