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The Return Ch.12

Chapters: 12/? Fandom: Teen Titans/Young Justice Crossover Main Pairing: Jinx/Kid Flash Additional Tags: smidgen of Spitfire, mild Language, warnings will be added as I go, Teen Titans/Young Justice crossover, mainly Flinx, Mentions of RobStar and BBRae, also some mentions of Joy (Jade/Roy) aka Cheshire/Red Arrow, a very nonexistent pairing, hints of Billy Numerous/Kyd Wykkyd (in future chapters), m/m implications, FINALLY ACTUAL PLOT Chapter Summary: From friends to enemies, and being caught.

Archiveofourown.org - http://archiveofourown.org/works/8268928/chapters/18944068

Fanfiction.net - https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10498440/1/The-Return-Rewrite

She was standing on what looked like a sidewalk a block away from her home. And then suddenly she was walking. Walking and walking and walking… But to where? She wasn't sure herself, but she kept walking. Not only that, but the world around her looked bigger than she remembered as if she suddenly shrunk a few sizes down.

Finally, after finding her own will back, Artemis stops and looks down at herself. The first thing that caught her sight was that she wasn't wearing her usual brown ankle boots nor her black combat boots from her hero outfit. Instead, she saw worn-out green sneakers. Lifting her hands, she saw that they were smaller, more child-like. She was wearing her old jean overalls and a green t-shirt under it.

Against her will once more, she began walking toward an unknown destination. She thought about forcing herself to stop but decided there was no use fighting back. This was most likely a dream, which she has no actual control of, so might as well see where this child-body of hers takes her. Although, she could take a guess as to what might be happening. If she was a kid again, this must be a part of her training from her father.

As Artemis makes her way to cross the street, still slightly confused and deep in thought, she didn't notice a car coming towards her at full speed. The car's horn broke her away from her thoughts, and Artemis stands frozen in fear. Her feet wouldn't budge from their spot in the middle of the street, and she feels her eyes flutter close as the car get closer and closer until…

She was tackled to the ground on the other side of the street, towards the sidewalk. The car dashed away, not even checking if the little girl they almost ran over was alright. There was a ringing in her ears that seemed to drown away the world around her. A face appears in her line of vision, a girl probably the same as her current age in this dream-world. The girl's lips are moving, and it's then that she realizes that the girl is yelling something at her.

"-ey! Are you crazy!?" Her savior exclaims, "You could've been a pancake if it weren't for me, you scatterbrained bimbo!" The girl continued as she got up and dusted off the dirt from her jeans. Artemis watches her, eyeing the girl up and down to determine if the girl was friendly or dangerous.

What especially caught her eye was the girl's wardrobe. For one thing, the clothes she was wearing seemed too warm and too much dark colors for the middle of July ('Oh,' Artemis thinks to herself, 'Look, at that, a hint as to when this could have been. July. Thank you, little me's knowledge.'). The girl was wearing a violet and black striped long sleeve with dark jeans and purple sneakers. Her hair was covered under a violet beanie that looked a one size too big. Artemis could see, however, a strand of black hair peeking out from beneath the violet beanie, while the rest seemed to be stuffed inside her hat. And for some reason, Artemis couldn't see the girl's eyes; she couldn't even tell what color they were…

It took her a few moments to realize that the girl was waiting for a response. "Well, luckily, you were here in time." Artemis replies, slowly recovering from the near-death shock. The girl's lips curl into a scowl. "Luck had nothing to with this," She huffs, muttering more to herself rather than speaking directly to Artemis. "I did it because I wanted to." Artemis scowls at the girl's answer but waves it off as being none of her business.

Instead, she tried to process what was currently happening. Was this a memory of hers? This was obviously a dream, too real to be one, but a dream nonetheless.

The girl looks her up and down before her gaze narrows in on her elbow. "Oh, you're bleeding." Removing her pink bag from her back, the girl took out a bandage roll. She also took out an alcohol wipe to clean the wound. Gingerly, the girl began wrapping the bandage around Artemis's elbow. Artemis wondered if this girl had a whole medical kit in her bag. Why she had one in the first place was beyond her.

Tightening the bandage securely around Artemis's elbow, the girl smiled and stood straighter, lending a hand toward Artemis, which she gladly took. "Thank you." Artemis said as the girl helped her off the ground.

"Don't mention it." The girl tucked the strand of black hair behind her ear. "What were you doing just standing in the middle of the street?" The girl asked.

Artemis still had no control of her words. She responded with, "I guess I was too deep in thought."

"Why were you in deep thought?" Artemis had no idea what little her would say next. She doesn't remember this at all. Was this one of her memories? All she knew about her reason was that it had something to do with her dad and his training. "Just thinking about how my dad pushes me to do all these ridiculous tas- erm- chores."

Well, it wasn't a total lie. She always thought some of her training were ridiculous. While some kids were outside playing hopscotch, she was inside, learning how to find people's pressure points. Most girls got cell phones for their birthdays, Artemis got her first utility belt and stun bombs. Usually kids hide in closets when playing hiding and seek, she was locked in one to find her own way out.

It's not the ideal life for a child, but who cares about childhood memories when you're going to fulfill your father's villainous legacy?

The girl eyes her carefully. "He probably just wants to prepare you for the future."

Artemis raised an eyebrow. "The future?"

The girl nodded. "Isn't that what dads do?" She tilts her head to the side, "They prepare you for the future. The future is mysterious; anything can happen. You have to be prepared for whatever obstacle is thrown at you. He probably wants to know if you can handle yourself in the future when you're on your own, you know? Especially if you're all alone." Artemis's eyes widened. She hadn't thought of it that way. She always thought that her dad just wants her to be his little super-villain sidekick, but now that she thinks about it, using her skills, she could be prepared for anything.

"I never thought of it that way," Artemis admits.

The girl nods her head in understanding before smiling sadly. "Wish I had a dad who cared for me that much…" The girl muttered softly, so soft that Artemis barely heard her.

Artemis tilted her head to the side in confusion. "Don't you have a dad?"

The girl shrugged. "Probably...I mean, I must have come from somewhere, right? But I've never met him. Or my mom for that matter... "

"I'm so sorry." The words slip out before Artemis could even process the thought. The girl cocks her head to the side and gave her a reassuring lip-tilt of a smile, but Artemis could tell it was more forced than genuine.

"Nothing to be sorry about. I'm perfectly-" she was cut off by a loud police siren as a police car was turning the corner. Stumbling to her feet, the girl sidetracked backwards and began dashing off. "It was nice meeting you, scatterbrain, but I gotta run!"

"Wait, why are you-?" The girl, however, continued to run, not turning back. Artemis could only guess that she had not heard her.

Artemis watched as the little girl ran. Suddenly, the girl's retreating figure grew taller and more slender. The black and violet striped long sleeve was by a witch-like costume, dark jeans were replaced by black and purple striped leggings, and purple sneakers morphed into black platform boots with the heels colored purple. The strangest part? The black beanie disappeared, and the girl's hair was put in a ponytail. The only thing that was different was that her hair wasn't black anymore.

It was pink.

Crock Residence in Gotham City

July 7, 12:40 AM

Artemis was woken up by the sound of an alarm. It wasn't her usual alarm tone, but one that she recognized as an incoming message through her hero communicator. It was a new device Robin had created in order to be able to keep in contact with everyone outside of missions, when they couldn't communicate telepathically. Robin designed them to look like watches, which was more convenient for everyone other than actual, bulky communicators that could be easily lost or damaged.

Artemis sat up out of bed and grabbed the watch from her bedside dresser. As she does this, she glances at her alarm clock. 12:40 AM. She peers down at the watch's screen and sees ROBIN in bold letter across the screen. Artemis presses a button on the side to accept the call, and, instantly, the Boy Wonder's face fills the screen. "Robin? What's-"

"The Cave is under attack."He says, breathlessly, cutting her off before she could finish. Her breath catches at the words that escapes his lips, and, the next thing she knows, she's flying across the room, hastily tugging on her hero suit. "Get Kid, and head over to Mount Justice ASAP. Bats and I will meet you there." With that said, Robin abruptly ends the communication line. She fastens on her boots, while tapping icons on the screen of her watch to call Kid. As she waits for the line to connect, Artemis grabs her bow and quiver and escapes into the night through her window; her strange dream already slipping away into the back of her mind to be forgotten once again…

Jinx could barely contain the emotions, threatening to spill out of her any second now. She didn't know whether to start bawling or be horrified. What was Starfire doing? Attacking Mt. Justice like this? This wasn't normal behavior for Starfire. She couldn't possibly- the answer strikes her through the heart, igniting her growing anger. Slade.

Glowing green eyes flicker around the damage before focusing on her. A vicious smirk snakes its way onto Starfire's face. "Target sighted," gone was the cheerful glee that Jinx was used to hearing from the orange-skinned alien, and it was replaced with a cold, hollow voice that sent a chill down her spine. "Master Slade will be most pleased." Starfire raises a hand, ready to throw another starbolt at the pink-haired sorceress, only to be tackled to the side.

Miss Martian throws the alien princess into the remaining walls, turning to Jinx to check for any injuries. "You okay? C'mon, we got to-" Jinx's eyes flash pink and her eyes widen.

"Miss M, watch-" She warns, but it's too late. The green-skinned alien was grabbed into the air, Starfire's battle wail the only indication as to who the attacker was. Miss Martian manages to wrestle out of Starfire's grip, kicking her away. The two aliens take the fight into the sky, Starfire throwing starbolts, while Miss Martian uses her telekinesis to lift some of the pieces on the ground to throw back.

Jinx stands on unsteady legs, using some of the tall rubble for has to do something. Anything to help M'gann. Gotta find Superboy and the twins… She limps around the fallen debris, searching for any signs of life beneath the rubble. She sees a figure through the darkness, and she squints as she tries to recognize the form. "Supe-" She hears the sound of something charging up and comes face-to-face with a white-blue light.

…no, not a light.

A sonic blaster.

A tiny, red light blinks through the dark, and it's then that Jinx finally recognizes the figure. "Cyborg-? No, no-! Wait-!" She barely has enough time to dodge as Cyborg shoots. Jinx can hear his arm-blaster recharging for another shot, and she barely has enough time to evade it.

A water tentacle-like form wraps around Cyborg's arm and pulls it up to shoot the remains of the ceiling before throwing Cyborg into more rubble in a farther corner. Jinx scrambles to her feet and lets out a sigh of relief at the sight of her savior. "Kaldur! Just in the nick of time…"

"We have to go." Kaldur jumps down from his own pile of rubble before grabbing Jinx and running off. Once they made it to a secluded section, he checked her over for any injuries. "Jinx, are you okay?"

Jinx gives him a small smile of reassurance. "A little scraped and bruise, but, other than that, I think I'm good." She glances around for any signs of the others, but it was only the two. "Have you seen any of the others?"

"I was in the training room when the explosion happened. You were the first person I had bumped into." Kaldur explained, glancing around the perimeter for any threats. They had managed to outrun Cyborg, but it was only a matter of time before they would get spotted. "We need to get to Miss Martian and find Connor and the twins-" before Kaldur could finish his sentence, Jinx's eyes flash pink, and she barely has enough time to tackle Kaldur to the ground just as the wall they were hiding behind is destroyed by beam of blue light.

Something large and heavy jumps through the newly-created hole in the wall. It lands loudly onto the ground, and Jinx could hear it let out an animalistic growl as a towering shadow looms over them menacingly. She pushes herself up, giving Kaldur room to move around. Jinx forces herself to look up, despite the incessant desire to not do so and have to face their sudden attacker. She already knew the heartbreak she'd be facing instead.

There was a sudden swishing noise as the shadow grew taller and much larger than before, and the figure finally came out into the strip of moonlight leaking from the destroyed ceiling.

A green gorilla stood before them, beefy hands reaching out toward the two. "Beast Boy..." Jinx chokes out as she takes a shaky step back. Kaldur rolls into a crouch, letting his water-bearers form into whips in both hands.

Another sound to her left catches her attention, and she glances back the giant hole to see Cyborg charging up his arm-blaster for another attack. "Beast Boy…Cyborg…Why?" It was a stupid, rhetorical question, but she couldn't stop the word from escaping her lips. She knew Slade was behind this attack, just as she knew that Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Starfire were being brainwashed to attack them. It wasn't their faults.

But it was hers. She had gotten them captured, basically handing them to Slade on a silver platter. It was all her fault that her friends have now become her enemies.

This isn't fair. Jinx couldn't help but think as she stared sadly at her two friends planning to attack her. This isn't fair… I can't fight them. I can't-! But she has to; Jinx knows this well. It's been ingrained into her since she could understand words.

There's no room for friendship in the game of survival.

There was no other choice…she had no other choice. "I'm sorry…" Jinx whispers softly to herself as she fights back the tears. Taking a steady, deep breath to soothe the ache in her chest, she positions herself to take on a fighting stance. Jinx lets her eyes be consumed with a pink glow as her hands become inflamed with pink hexes. She fires one at Cyborg, which changes the direction of his shot, just narrowly missing Kaldur by a few centimeters. She winces at the sound of impact, but she forces herself not to linger on the guilt for too long.

Don't think of them as your friends… Jinx doesn't give Cyborg a chance to recuperate as she throws more hexes his way, while avoiding being hit by his own attacks from his sonic blaster.

Think of them as your enemies.

"Jericho is Slade's son?!" Kid Flash exclaims, eyes wide with shock, unable to even form a proper sentence. "H-how-?"

Kyd Wykkyd scowls at him. 'I don't want to be the one to give you the birds and the bees talk. It's embarrassing.'

"I just meant-" Kid Flash's words were interrupted by a noisy beeping sound. He looks down at his wrist, where Robin had installed a communicator device into his gloves. Kid taps on the small lightning bolt insignia indented into the red leather and watches as a holographic screen appears with the name ARTEMIS in bold letters. He glances at Kyd Wykkyd, gesturing him to move away from being seen on the screen before answering the call. "Artemis? What's wron-"

"Kid, head to Mount Justice ASAP! The Cave is under attack!" Artemis says, slightly short of breath. His heart drops as he finally processes the words that just escaped her lips.

"What do you mean 'the Cave is under attack'?! It's the Cave. No one is supposed to know its location-"

"Well someone did." Kid can see the scenery quickly moving past her; she must be running over to the nearest zeta-tube to get the Happy Harbor. "And I'm willing to bet it had something to do with your traitorous girlfriend."

"Jinx had nothing to do with the attack." Kid retorts, glancing over at Kyd Wykkyd, whose face has turned pale with realization. The bat-look-alike signs the name, 'Slade', slowly. Kid mutters a string of curses under his breath.

"Believe whatever you want, but I'm on to her little game-"

"I'm on my way. I'll meet you at the nearest zeta-tube." He ends the call curtly and turned back to Kyd Wykkyd. "I have to go, but this conversation is being put on pause. We have more we need to discuss, and I think it's best if we go to Robin with this." Kyd Wykkyd is already shaking his head vigorously at the sound of the Boy Wonder's name.

'It's not safe-'

"The Cave is being attacked, Wykkyd. We're already way past staying safe." Kid snaps, his voice raising in volume. Kyd Wykkyd withers a little at the anger in his voice, forcing Kid to take a deep breath to calm down. "Jinx is in trouble, and we're going to need all the help we can get. I'm trusting you, and I hope I haven't misplaced that trust."

Kyd Wykkyd bites his lower lip, hesitant, before nodding his head in defeat. 'Okay…' He signs, almost reluctantly. The corner of Kid's lips tilt upward in a small, reassuring smile as he gives the bat-look-alike's shoulder a gentle pat.

"Let's meet back here again tomorrow. Same time." Kyd Wykkyd gives him another nod, and Kid spins on his heel, getting ready to leave. "Oh, and maybe prep yourself to face the cold, death stare of the Boy Wonder," Kid jokes before zipping out the door in a blur of red and yellow. He gets to the zeta-tube in under a minute, and he can't help but feel as if the whole world is going slower than it actually is, even when he was using his powers. He inwardly curses at the limitations of his powers.

Faster. Faster-! The word drowns away every other thought in his mind. Too slow; need to be faster.

Hold on, Jinx. I'm coming.

Kyd Wykkyd lets out another defeated sigh once the speedster is gone from sight. He pulls out a small pocket watch from his cape to check the time. 12:50 AM. Ten more minutes before he has to meet up with the others. He decides to return to the rendezvous point early and hang around there for the time being. Making up his mind, Kyd glides over to the door and exits, only to walk into a broad, firm chest.

The person he had walked into wraps an arm around his waist to stop him from falling backwards. Without thinking, Kyd slipped his arms around the person's middle. "Whoa, there." The person spoke in a breathy whisper in his ear, making him shiver in delight. He knew this voice, almost as intimately as his own. All he wanted to do was melt in the man's embrace and stop thinking entirely. He wanted nothing more than for this Billy to be his Billy, who would whisper ridiculous pick-up lines in his ears until the gray tinge of his face changes to bright tomato red. He wished this Billy would reassure him and draw circles at the base of Kyd's spine with his thumb in a comforting way like his Billy would. But Kyd was content with just being in this Billy's arms. He missed this. He missed his Billy.

But this is not your Billy. He reminds himself, trying not to look too disappointed as he forces himself to pull away from the embrace. Kyd didn't manage to get very far, seeing as the arms around his waist tightened, but not in a romantic gesture that Kyd was used to. Instead, it made Kyd feel trapped as if he were caught…

Billy is smirking at him, eyes cold and unforgiving. "You should have been more careful, babe." Wrong. Something about that statement was wrong.

Unfortunately, Kyd realized a moment too late what exactly was wrong as he felt something press against his ribs. Currents of electricity surge through his body, and his lips form out a silent scream. Just before he can lose consciousness, Kyd manages to catch the tiniest glint of sorrow in Billy's eyes.

And then the world around him goes dark.

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