Artemis stared out beyond the transperent sphere cell thing, sitting boredly with her arm slung over her knee. Seven other spheres formed a circle with hers, each containing seven other bored teens.

She noticed Wally was slumped against the sphere tiredly and she frowned, her worry flaring as his eyes dropped slightly. He was placed next to her within the circle, Zatanna being on her right. She noticed how Wally curled in on himself slightly, and she knew that he was more than hungry. He was exhausted and as hungry as hell.

She didn't blame him. The fight before hand had drained her of her energy, putting in all her effort to make sure they were not taken down. That seemed to go to waste as they had all been taken out. Artemis was still a little fuzzy on the details, but now all that mattered was that they were 8 normal bored teenagers now, no weapons or powers being in reach.

She studied each of the members of the Team again for the third hundredth time.

Kaldur had his wrists shackled to the bottom of the sphere, Conner was visibly drained from the laced Kryptonite sphere, M'gann was still unconscious, Rob was... Well... He had basically been robbed of any weapons or computers. Zatanna was sitting unhappily with some unmovable mouth guard thing, and Wally was just simply tired. Rocket was left powerless, but Artemis didn't exactly see how. Heck, she barely knew how that girls powers worked anyway. She herself had been left naked (and not in a fun way) without her arrows, which basically left her to slump against the sphere in defeat. The spheres were also apparently sound proof, because Artemis knew she would be able to hear Wally's stomach rumble from half way across the country otherwise.

The ridiculously bright lights surrounding them dimmed slightly, an they all looked around in alert as there spheres began to glow with an eerie colour. Hers was a dark green, and that's when she noticed the irony. Wally's was emitting a bright yellow, Robin's conflicting with a darker colour of red. Kaldur's began to glow a light blue, M'gann's a darker shade of blue, Conner's a lighter green than hers (which was probably from the Krptonite), Zatanna's a soft gray and Raquel's a dark purple.

The colors matched somewhere on their uniforms, which where now dirty and torn. Her head tilted slightly along with a couple of the other teammates. Even Wally was looking much more alert and awake.

And, thankfully, M'gann was slowly awakening.

She turned her head up sharply as a voice rang out.

"So wonderful of you lovely children to join me! I've had no one to play with recently, and then you all came along! We're going to have such fun!"

Artemis's stomach twisted, knowing all too well that, in terms of villains, fun wasn't exactly all that fun. Her fingers itched for her bow, but she managed to hide their growing anxiety.

"See, here's the rules. You win a round, you win a prize. You lose a round and you may wish you didn't. Simple enough, really!"

The high pitched voice began to really get on Artemis's nerves.

The Team all shared a glance and the voice boomed above them. "If you don't play with me, you'll end up 10 feet underground!" The voice was deadly serious.

Having a tea party with Cheshire actually sounded quite inviting at that moment.

"So, my players, do you accept my game challenge?"

Well they really didn't have an option now, did they?

They reluctantly nodded, and the voice took control again. "Here is just a glimpse of some of your prizes if you succeed a challenge."

Instantly, the Team was sitting much straighter and looking at the image in front of them.

Arrows. A bow and arrow. Oh, how her fingers urged to grab the holographic bow. She could see the rest of the Team also struggling to remain composed and even uninterested.

Kaldur seemed to mouth something, and the voice came back. "No catch! You win, you get the real thing for a period of time. Losing is another story."

Instantly, a cry of pain caught the Team's attention. Artemis realized, with horror, that the cry was to her left. Wally was on the ground, clutching his head as tremors racked his body. Artemis realized horrifically that the speedster was being electrocuted.

Eventually, the tremors stopped and Wally lay there, moaning in pain and not making a move to get up. "You see, you lose and someone else will be punished for your failure. The best part is you'll all have to watch and hear it." The evil laughter chilled them to their spines and Artemis turned her head slightly to the ceiling, but the red headed speedster didn't stay out of sight.

"Your first challenge will begin in an hour. Until then, my little gamers, rest and eat up. Any attempt of escape will not go without consequences." The announcement ended with a soft click, and suddenly there was a new holographic image in front of her. A tray of food.

And her eyes narrowed as the image became solid, and she knew she had the same suspicions as everyone else. Could they trust it?

Wally was already at his tray of food. Artemis raised her eyebrow slightly as the teen scoffed down the food. It was gone before she knew what had happened. She, along with everyone else, watched with mild curiosity for any side effects. If anything, the speedster just looked more refreshed.

Her head turned to Zatanna, realizing something. How could she eat with a gag thing? Zatanna was already a step ahead, trying to pull off the guard. The Voice was another step ahead, and the gag seemed to pixelate before disappearing. Zatanna smiled, but then her eyes widened in panic. Artemis watched her, then realized what had happened. Zatanna still couldn't speak.

Artemis's hunger won out against her stubbornness, and the tray was eventually left abandoned of any food. Everyone else had succumbed to the same fate, so it didn't bother her as much as it could've. Even Zatanna had calmed down, sitting boredly again.

Everyone looked up from their gaze at the floor as the floorboard in the middle of them seemed to part, opening some clique kind of stage. On the stage stood some sort of stand, which held some speaker.

Instead of the voice coming from above them somewhere, it came from the dark blue speaker in the middle of the room.

"I'm so glad you all look ready for our game. In case you forgot, winning means prizes. Losing means torture for someone else as your punishment as failing."

Artemis had to admit, her heart was racing. She was nervous, scared even, and seriously Where the hell was the League? Weren't they meant to save them from messes like this?!

She groaned as their glowing spheres dimmed to they were back to their original state of non-glowiness.

"Alright now, let's give a cheer to our first competitor!"

The room remained silent, and their mouths remained in thin lines. No, they did not want to play some stupid game.

The lights dimmed to blackness, and they were stuck in blindness. Suddenly, a light blue light emerged brightly, surprising her. She knew it was Kaldur's sphere thing as she could faintly see his outline. And then suddenly a darker blue outline appeared as Kaldur's sphere faded.

M'gann's sphere.

And then the next sphere lit up. It was like a dizzying circle, her own sphere blinding her slightly as it lit up. The rotations began to grow faster until it eventually just became one big blur. And then it all stopped.

And her sphere was glowing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, our first competitor! Artemis, the lovely archer!"

Oh, hell.

But it seemed that hell just got worse as chains suddenly wrapped themselves around her wrists and legs, effectively pinning her. "Now, just to spice it up, let's see who she's playing the safety for!"

Wait, what? And then it clicked as the spheres lit up. Whoever the next person was that was chosen was who would suffer torture if she failed this challenge.

Her face drained of colour when a canary yellow sphere was left glowing.

Oh hello there! So this kind of just came to me randomly, and I thought 'Oh hell, may as well do it.' I've been pretty sick and I ended up writing stuff.

So voila :3 This is the result. If anything confuses you, please let me know!

So... Do you think Artemis will succeed? Or will poor Wally have to suffer?

Find out in the next chapter ;) Reviews are extremely loved! (nothing too mean please ^^)

So... Review and tell me your thoughts! Next chapter should be longer :L

Kayla :)