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Parallels	By : sirensoundwave Category: DC Verse Cartoons > Young Justice Views: 3184 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Whooo! I’m on a roll. I finished this last night but couldn’t post it. Oh well.
This is about Artie, Ollie and yes Roy. We get to watch Artemis lament over her schizo family, Green Arrow go into full Daddy!Arrow mode, and Roy watches them both from his room in Lady Gaia’s palace wondering why they both just can’t get it together.
Egypt Central’s White Rabbit leads us down the rabbit hole.
Chapter 11
White Rabbit
Your magic white rabbit
Has left it's writing on the wall
We follow like Alice
And just keep diving down the hole
You can't fix your broken promise
Our ties have come undone
I will not be used to be battered and abused
It's the reason why I choose to cut my losses
Your lies fool no one
Your magic white rabbit
Your white room straight jacket
Artemis would not remember putting the hurt on several league members. The time between seeing Kaldur look like Kaldur again and Sylphine hovering over her looking worried was a huge blank. A blank Zatanna and Megan would fill in quickly. It included the beat down, the confession by Aquaman and the twins helping.
Who knew Mr. Calm, Cool, and Collected was one bad day from snapping like that?
Sweet and shy Sylphine instantly wanted to help ‘fix their owies’. She was so adorable, the heroes still standing didn’t have the heart to tell her a few scrapes and bruises were no big deal. That Kaldur’s pain would be more complicated the heal. That the only one who needed such healing was passed out on the floor with possible nerve damage. When they watched Gabriel’s version of ‘helping’ they wished they had told her.
He grabbed the serviceman’s head and sent a massive jolt through his prone body. Green eyes shot open and he screamed in pain.
“Jesus Christ kid!” Green Lantern yelled at the silver haired boy after bolting upright. “You tryin’ to finish the job?!” Deep purple lightning was still arcing across his suit. Though his wounds were now gone, he still wanted to fall over and writhe in pain.
“Of course not.” The child scoffed. He suddenly leaned closer so only GL could hear him. Or see the purple flash in his eyes. “If I wanted to end you, there isn’t a damn thing you could do about it you intergalactic rent-a-cop.”
Everyone looked at GL like he was nuts when he scooted away from the boy like his ass was on fire. Gabriel only smiled like an angel.
It made Artemis consider her situation. Was she angry? Hell yeah.
But she didn’t have to worry about powers that she didn’t really have. Only her own normal human options for self destruction and taking down others as collateral damage. She felt that she didn’t really have anyone to go to with her problems. Canary was great but for reasons she could not describe, the blonde archer don’t feel comfortable talking with her. Like everything she told her would make it back to the head honchos. Just what she needed. To feel like more of a bug in a jar.
Knowing that her sister and father were the ones with the codewords that triggered Red Arrow’s programming made it worse. Because of someone she still had sisterly feelings for and the man she wished would go play in traffic on the Zaranj-Delaram highway*, her new family was crippled in a way they had yet to recover from. The Light situation was not under control. Roy wasn’t going to get any better, especially since he was never sick. The League was not ‘handling it’. Everything was not fine. No matter how Ollie tried to spin it.
Speaking of Ollie, she and him were like oil and water. She had no problem beating the daylights out of fuckers that got in her way with or without the bow. That was the only good thing that came from the torture Sportsmaster called training. She’s seen Ollie without his arrows. He didn’t die, but his pride did. He had to be saved by a little girl.
They argued a lot, just like he and Roy had. Like when he insisted that the time he got his ass kicked was a fluke. That he was a good fighter hand to hand. Uh-huh. She’d believe it when she saw it. The papers had to have been confused about Green Arrow showing up on Batman’s turf.
She knew he was trying to keep her away from the path her family took. But the bond everyone else (barring Superboy) had with their mentors just wasn’t there. They lived in different cities! She also knew she’d begun to push people away so she could never be hurt again. It was her fault as much as his.
She always suspected that there was something to her full ride to Gotham Academy. Her grades were good but not academic scholarship to such a hoity-toity school good. There she met Dick Grayson, whom she would later learn was her teammate, and the police chief’s daughter Barbara Gordon. She couldn’t believe that her father could afford such an education even on a top-cop salary. And he couldn’t. Barbara was on the same scholarship as she was from the Wayne foundation. Oh, and the only female member of the bat-clan, Batgirl, who picked up the slack when Robin wasn’t around.
Batman wasn’t kidding about wanting final say about heroes in his city, young and old.
Sonnova bitch.
Times like these made her contemplate just leaving it all behind. Her mother, her sister, her sperm donor, Ollie...the team. Everything. She had begun to develop feelings for Kid Flash but how could he return them? She was so not worth the time of the Flash’s nephew. She was so dirty no matter how many showers she took or how she reminded herself “Hey, at least he did have the chance to rape you before you hit him in the nuts. You're luckier than most”.
That lie she could never completely believe. Her own father...he wasn’t even drunk or high at the time. Her sister hadn’t been around to protect her anymore. He mother was in prison thanks to her past. There was no pity just because she was paralyzed. She was an easy target in the slammer. And she hated them both for leaving her with that monster.
It was hard seeing her family often but knowing it could never be repaired. Not when her sister and father were trying to kill her at every one of these meetings. Or seeing the woman who once kicked in the heads of terrorists for her adopted country only to later become a supervillaness, robbed at gunpoint by some asshole that didn’t care that she was in a wheelchair. All because her dear husband decided that if she wasn’t going to be with him, she wouldn’t be with anyone. Then tried to use Artemis as her replacement.
At first it was his hand resting on her leg or him holding her a little too long when they sparred. Then he started watching her weird when she hit puberty. He found interesting ways to catch her changing or naked. They were ‘accidents’. Waking up with him looming over her was the final straw. He had pushed her nightshirt up and was fondling her as she slept. It didn’t get beyond shoving his hand down her pants before she rabbit punched him in his happy place (which fortunately or unfortunately was hypersensitive at the time) and ran like the devil. Barefoot and terrified. Straight into the mess she was in now.
When she was younger, the Lewis Carroll stories had been her escape. A world where things were nonsensical and upside down on purpose was preferable to one that was but shouldn’t be. So, when Robin paid for everyone’s new hobby, Al1ce@La$t was born.
*I am bum...bum...bum...a line break!*
Green Arrow was not going to admit it but seeing Artemis like that almost made him wet himself. Yeah...let’s go with almost.
It brought front and center everything he wanted to keep from happening to her. Being swept up in something she could not control or get out of. Being trapped in a life that was not her own. He wasn’t as close to her as he should have been but because of her tensions began to rise between himself and the Dark Knight. Coming to a head a few months ago; when he had his own violent episode.
He blamed that damn game fully.
It all started when the Bat gave him Artemis’s online ID and a program to let him spy on her. He was doing it to keep her safe. Heroine or not, there were some serious whackadoodles out there in cyberspace. And it didn’t take long for her to run into one. But she would never know that. So long as that oversized rat with wings didn’t tell her.
Al1ce@La$t was of course a denizen of the Wonderland (or Underland) themed area of the Karuselo de Sonĝoj kaj Koŝmaroj online world. Contrary to her actual self, she was simply a little girl in a blue dress, white apron, white stockings, black mary janes and a black hair bow. What made her stand out from the thousands of Alices was her hair bore a white rabbit clip on each side. She spent her time at tea parties, running through the forests and just meeting new people.
That’s how she met the creep. An avatar named 10/6forTea modeled after the Mad Hatter.
Neither noticed the playboy pin up of a rabbit. A woman with big floppy white ears, a puffy tail, white hair and a stripper’s body dressed in a green sailor suit that often appeared nearby. The name PeridotBuni hovering over her head.
At first it was completely innocent. He never asked her about who she was or anything. Instead he told her that he was an inventor in Gotham who happened to enjoy these stories too. They talked about childish things and liked to make up new words together. They met regularly for tea.
What made the hair on GA’s neck stand up was the fact that the program Batsy set up went crazy several weeks after they met. This guy was tracing her profile and ISP signature trying to find out where she was. All while having a Mad Tea party with her and several others. The program automatically intercepted and began back-hacking him. 10/6forTea got a dummy location in Colorado. But he tried again.
But his location in a building near the outskirts of Gotham was already found. In the warehouse district.
This was not too far from where several young ladies, all some form of Alice online, were found beaten, suffering from severe neurological impairment, dead or a macabre hodgepodge of the three. The story was late breaking and the Bat had an idea of who was behind it but was having trouble finding the hideout’s location. Something about him having gotten smarter. The bastard had somehow infected the Batcomputer with a virus when he tried the same thing. Oliver now knew exactly who and where he was.
This guy was so up shit creek without a paddle.
Green Arrow suited up and broke the single most important rule of the JLA. Don’t set foot in Gotham unless you have a death wish. For messing with his daughter? This seemed like as good a day as any to die.
The headline the next day was Green Arrow had captured the Mad Hatter, beaten him within an inch of his life and blown his hideout sky-high. He turned Tetch over to the police with enough evidence to solve the case and put him under Belle Reve. During his strip search, the GPD discovered a message carved into his chest by an arrowhead. Backwards so it was readable in a mirror:
There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter. Which luckily you are, Tetch.
Yes. Every last word of the quote. Needless to say there wasn’t an unmarred inch of flesh on the man’s torso. He would never forget the day he met a PO’ed Green Arrow.
The media was in a tizzy. People began saying that the Emerald Archer had lost his friendly nature and basically turned into an arrow wielding version of Gotham’s hometown hero for one night. There was speculation that the Mad Hatter had done something to him personally that made him flip.
“What the hell was that all about? Seems rather personal.” Batman glared at him on a Gotham rooftop.
“It was. That sicko was using the game the kids play to snatch girls looking for his perfect Alice. His next target was Artie. The software you gave me only worked to a point. We saw what became of the rejects. Every last girl who lived through that is now a drooling vegetable. I would have been more merciful if he had killed them.” The marksman sat down and sighed.
“You could have let me handle this.”
“Oh yeah cuz you were doing a bang up job of it! He was finding girls by their ISP address. It’s why they were all from within a 20 mi radius. That could have been Artemis! She’s already been through hell because the people who were supposed to protect her didn’t! That’s not going to happen again on my watch.
Chew me out all you want for trending on your territory but if another one of your rogues comes after her, he or she is dead.” The Robin Hood of Star City hopped over the edge and out of sight. Even though he would do the same for his little bird, the Bat was left seething on the rooftop alone.
Things were about to get worse as their companies went head to head for a very lucrative account.
*I am bum...bum...bum...a line break!*
“Really Ollie? Just talk to her!”
“Master are you okay?” Epsilon poked his head into his master’s room.
“Wha? Yeah. Just wishing Oliver would talk to Artemis or vice versa. Out of everyone, they have the smallest divide to cross.” Sagittarius flopped back down on his bed, dismissing the sphere he’d been spying with. “But they’re both so damn stubborn.”
“Would you like me to Whisper to them? I bet they’d make up then.” The child climbed onto the bed. He made himself comfortable in his master’s lap. The ginger smiled (not in a creepy way you pervs! Get your minds outta the gutter) and ruffled his already unruly hair. Their relationship was much closer than his elder brothers and their servants. Not that he minded. Epsilon was almost always underfoot unless he sent Jade back to her father.
Pollux and Castor both told him that it was because the bond was new, only a few years old. Epsilon needed to be near him until the bond settled more. Then the he wouldn’t be so clingy. And he would slowly start to remember the desperate plea Cheshire made to whoever was listening as she lay dying and what she sacrificed to make sure her sister had the chance she never did.
It was easy to keep her older self in the dark. The doll he had take her place simply transferred its memories to her when they switched places. Sportsmaster never suspected a thing either. The doll was a perfect imitation of his oldest child. Ollie really shouldn’t feel bad about not noticing the ‘clone’. His creations were flawless.
“It might come to that kitten. You’re very strong, but we all agreed that Superman was the only one that wasn’t going to change his outlook without help. And he’s fighting my spell tooth and nail. I’m gonna have to amp it up. The others are at least trying to get over themselves. Nabu certainly ain’t helping the situation.”
“Oh. Are you still sad?”
“I’m gonna be Kitten until this mess gets sorted out. A lot of people I care for are hurting but it’s a part of life. Falling is easy, it’s getting back up that becomes the problem.” He grumbled. “Let’s go get some ice cream ‘kay?”
“Yeah!”
The little boy bounced up then cartwheeled feet first into the swirling black portal followed by his chuckling master.
*I am bum...bum...bum...a line break!*
*A highway in Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and riddled with IEDs.
Poor Artie. She’s had it rougher than her friends know. Stay tuned for more. Sirensoundwave out.
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