"I swear something's wrong... I haven't seen Bart in days..." Alacrity crossed her arms as she stood in the mission briefing room, "he hasn't been answering my calls and the only way he contacts me is through text."

"What does he usually say?" Night Owl asked.

"He just keeps saying stuff like 'I'm sorry' or 'I'll explain everything later'... But that's it. It's been like this for the last few days."

Blue Beetle sighed, "I tried to find him. But he's just running from us... Literally."

"Is there anything we can do about it? Please tell me there's a way to get him back." Alacrity pleaded with Blue Beetle.

He only swallowed hard and turned to look at Supergirl standing next to him. She sighed and shook her head.

"Listen, Chris. He could be gone forever for all we know." Jet grabbed her shoulders and turned her around to look at him, "I'm sorry."

"Don't say that! You don't know that!" Alacrity slapped his arms away.

"HEY!!!"

Everyone was silent as they all turned to one of the Zeta Tube entrances. There was smoke surrounding it, and just as everyone was ready to attack whoever this person was, a familiar figure walked in.

"Will you all just SHUT UP?!" Red Hood yelled loudly, making everyone deadly silent.

"Why's he here?" Black Bat asked, gesturing to her past teammate.

"Father left me to babysit him..." Robin answered as he followed Red Hood through the smoke and up to the crowd.

"Uh, hello, I'm the one who was left to babysit you, Moron..." Red Hood shook his head, "so where is it?"

"Here." Blue Beetle pulled up the cave computer that contained the list of villains, "this is the list we got from Klarion. We've already confirmed who some of these people are."

"Leonard Snart, Captain Cold. Caitlin Snow, Killer Frost. This is basically all we know so far. We still don't exactly know who the rest of them are." Supergirl explained.

"So we decided that with the people we have here," Jet spoke up, "we track down these people and talk to them. See what their connections are with the two mysterious figures we saw in the video. They must have some connection with Impulse, though. We can only hope."

"Good. So we've got four targets for now." Blue Beetle eliminated some names from the list so there were only four names on the list, "we'll investigate Deborah Morgna, Peter Merkel Jr., Richard Swift, and Hartley Rathaway."

"Now. We'll go in squads of two." Jet explained, "I'll go with Night Owl."

"Obviously..." Alacrity smirked.

Jet only rolled his eyes before continuing, "We'll go after Morgna. Blue Beetle and Supergirl, take Merkel. Alacrity and Black Bat, go after Richard Swift. Red Hood and Robin take Ra--"

"NO WAY! I'M NOT GOING WITH THE DEMON SPAWN!" Red Hood protested.

"Shut up and deal with it!" Jet snapped.

"No way!" Robin added, "I refuse to work with Todd!"

"Boys, just suck it up! He's your babysitter anyways, isn't he?" Black Bat could feel her blood boiling. Then again, she didn't blame Robin for not wanting to be with Red Hood. She knew he was a real pain in the butt.

"Whatever." Jet shook his head. Night Owl could already see the veins in his neck from being so angry, "I'll go with Robin, Night Owl will go with Alacrity, and Black Bat will go with Red Hood. We'll go for Morgna, Night Owl and Alacrity will go for Richard Swift, and Red Hood and Black Bat will take Rathaway. No more changes!"

"WHAT?!?! NO!!!!" Both Black Bat and Red Hood retorted at the same time.

"What did you say?" Jet turned to them, eyes dark, and wings starting to open, making him look like some angel of death.

Red Hood scoffed, "Pfft. That doesn't scare--"

He was suddenly cut off, because in only a few seconds, Jet had flew right up to him, grabbed his neck, and slammed him hard against the wall, "No. More. Changes. Deal with it. Do I make myself clear?"

"C-crystal..." Red Hood muttered before being dropped. Jet huffed as he turned and walked away, fists still clenched tight.

"Fine. Move out everyone." Blue Beetle sent one last look in Red Hood's direction, then gestured to Supergirl to go.

"That son of a..." Red Hood muttered as he cracked his neck.

"Let's go. I'm not going to waste time because of you." Black Bat cringed as she grabbed his jacket collar and dragged him away.

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"Do they have some sort of issue?" Jet asked as he flew high overhead.

"Everyone has an issue with Todd." Robin replied in the comm as he drove his motorcycle through the streets of Metropolis.

"No. I mean him and..." Jet sighed, "well, I guess you're right. But what's up with him and Black Bat?"

"They have somewhat of a backstory that's, even for me, rather hard to follow. That's a path you want to stay far from."

"I don't understand..." Jet shook his head, "just... Explain it in simpler words?"

"They were a thing." Robin said, "they dated. It was awkward then, and it still is for them now. So I'm sure that I would've made a more efficient squad partner."

Jet stared down at his friend in shock, "you've got to be kidding me... Okay. Whatever. We'll see how they do. That's it. That apartment building."

Robin nodded and drove down into a nearby alley. He ran out after parking his motorcycle, where he met Jet.

"What floor?"

"Thiry-seventh. Room 143." Jet replied as they looked up the building, "it's ten at night. There couldn't be a whole lot of people awake to see us..."

"There's no such thing as being too careful." Robin said as he shot his grappling gun to the top of the apartment building, then began flying up. Jet shook his head and chuckled as he opened his wings and flew up, following close behind him.

"Thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven. This is it."

The two stopped and broke through the glass. They ran down the hallways and searched for the apartment number 143.

"This is it." Jet said as he pulled in his wings and brushed dust off his clothes. Robin took off his mask and changed really quickly into his civilian clothes as they stood and knocked politely on the door. They had to wait for some time before they heard the lock on the door click open.

"What do you want?"

Alex and Damian stared at the woman standing before them at the door.

"A-are you Deborah Morgna?" Alex gulped.

"Yeah?" The woman was really fit and really pretty with long red hair. She looked to be in her early twenties, not too old.

"Sorry, are we interrupting?" Damian apologized as they looked her up and down. She was wearing nothing but a bath robe, so they were feeling very uncomfortable now.

"No, no. Come in." She opened the door wider and gestured for them to come in. They both looked at each other, confirming their decision as to whether they should or not. They did anyways.

They looked around her rather clean apartment just before noticing her peek her head into her bedroom, say something, then shut the door.

"So what do you boys want? We don't buy Girl Scout cookies, just to clarify." Deborah smirked as she took a seat.

"No." Damian narrowed his eyes, clearly getting irritated. He looked at Alex, and they both knew that they could smell the alcohol in her breath.

"My name is Alex Hall. And this is Damian Wa--"

"Damian Walfred." Damian cut his partner off.

Deborah stared at the boys with a weird look, until they all heard the door to her bedroom open.

So there really was someone in there... Alex thought.

"Who are these young fellows?" The man about the same age as Deborah asked.

But the sound of this boy's voice sounded all too familiar to them for some reason.

"Oh, Babe. This is Alex Hall and Damian Walfred." Deborah smiled as her boyfriend walked up to her and held her shoulders. To her surprise, he leaned down and kissed her.

"Uh..." Damian and Alex stared at each other in the most awkward way as the two made out right in front of them, "anything odd or suspicious about this drunk?"

"You bet..." Alex's eyelid twitched as they tried their hardest not to stare.

When the couple finally pulled away, the man looked at the two boys, "nice to meet you Alex and Damian."

The two turned to stare at the man, because they finally recognized the voice, and as soon as they laid eyes on him, he looked exactly like the person they thought he was.

"Bart?!?!"

- To be continued! -