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Wally: Hooray.

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Wally: HOORAY.

Rellow: Oh gosh...*face palm*. Well anyways, guess who's doing the disclaimer today!

Wally: Is it the ice cream man from down the street?

Rellow: No.

Wally: Then I don't care.

Rellow: You are such a glutton!

Wally: Hello, high metabolism here.

Rellow: Well...fine...*motions to shadow lurking in the corner* Will you do the disclaimer now please?

Batman: Rellow does not own Young Justice or any of its characters. Thank you...*suddenly breaks out into song* AM I BLUE~~~~~~?

Chapter 5- Red-herrings

The giant screen blinked to life and Batman's booming voice echoed throughout the cave.

"Team, I have a mission for you."

Wally was the first one there, eager for a mission. It had been three days since…the incident, and he'd been just itching to get out of the cave for some action.

"We've received rumored reports of the Riddler participating in illegal drug dealings–,"

"Wait," Robin cut in. "What do you mean 'rumored'?"

Batman shot him a glare for interrupting him but carried on. "We got an anonymous tip, but the League is busy with some off-planet business and I've got another case to work on so we're leaving this to you.

"It seems very suspicious and is likely to be a trap…so be careful," Wally could almost see a tinge of concern in the Dark Knight's eyes but shrugged it off as a trick of the light. No way was Batman capable of showing emotion. Heck, did the guy even have emotions?

The team was out of the cave in minutes, silently gliding over Happy Harbour and on towards the home of their Boy Wonder and his mentor:

Gotham City.

"Man, this place gives me the creeps. And it's so cramped!" Wally whined. "Dude, how do you live like this?"

"Meh, you'll love it once you get used to it," Robin smirked.

"Which is like…NEVER!" Wally retorted. Artemis rolled her eyes and they trudged on quietly down to the docks. Wally hated cramped spaces. The buildings in Gotham were all so closely knit together that he rarely had any spaces to dash around freely; apart from the many alleyways that could suck you in and spit you out covered in cuts and bruises.

That's partly why he never visited Robin and why the latter was usually the one coming over. Also, Gotham was so damn far away! Robin told him how dumb that was; that the one without the super speed was always the one that had to travel.

"Are we there yet?" he grumbled and was quickly hushed by Artemis. They had arrived on a cliff overlooking the docks. Robin grabbed a pair of binoculars out of one of his many belt compartments and swept the area. No signs of any aerial activity.

"Miss Martian, could you…?" Kaldur started and Megan nodded, instantly knowing what to do. She linked them all up then proceeded to turn herself invisible. She flew around the docks for a while before making a U-turn back to them.

"It's completely empty," she thought to them.

"What?" Robin's eyes widened for a moment before he hastily pulled up his wrist monitor. "It can't be. Batman said that they'd be here."

"Hey!" Wally mentally yelled, tapping Robin on his shoulder at 60 taps per second. Robin yanked his arm away from Wally cursing as he asked Wally why he felt the compulsive need to set his shoulder on fire.

"Look!" Wally yelled (mentally) excitedly, a stupid grin plastered onto his face. The rest of the team huddled around him, trying to see what he was pointing at.

It was a fairly large cargo ship, but it was still extremely far away from the docks.

"Wow, Wally," Robin praised out loud. "Now I see why you don't need to wear glasses – despite all the video games you play," he muttered the last line under his breath and Wally still gave him a 'You-know-I'm-the-best' wink.

"If we intercept it now, we might be able to stop this whole thing before it even reaches Gotham," Conner inputted.

"But we are not sure if this is even the right ship," Kaldur pointed out.

"Dude! It's Gotham! No ships come here unless it's something illegal!" Wally and Robin said simultaneously before fist-bumping each other with a 'yeah!'

It was settled. Team one, which consisted of Aqualad and Artemis, was to swim to the boat and get themselves up onto the main deck, where they were to take out any patrolling guards as swiftly and as silently as possible.

Team two, which was made up of Miss Martian and Superboy, was to get to the ship by air with the earlier carrying the latter. They were to drop onto the cargo area and secure it, checking to make sure that the ship was transporting drugs.

Wally had been paired with Robin to form Team three. They were to zip-line their way to the boat and try to get into the ship unnoticed (duh) and find the engine room, where they would sabotage it. Then, they were to make their way to the control room and Robin was to hack into the ship's system and voila! Robin could check everything on-board the ship and they'd find any criminals and round them up in no time.

The Riddler; he was a bonus. After all, it was only a rumor. Any Team that ran into him was to report through Miss Martian's telepathic link and they would all take him on together.

And with that, Aqualad dove into the murky depths with Artemis soon following, re-breather between her lips. Miss Martian and Superboy followed suit, with Megan grabbing her somewhat-boyfriend's hand and flying off towards the ship.

That left Kid Flash and Robin. Wally gave a curt nod to his best friend, who in turn nodded back and produced a grappling gun from out of nowhere.

"How does he do that?" Wally gasped in his head.

"Magic," he heard Robin giggle. Wally almost slapped himself; he had forgotten that they were all linked up. He was about to invade Robin's mind with the superiority of science and the foolishness of the existence of magic, when the Boy Wonder snapped his fingers at Wally and pointed down the line.

A zip-line was already set and Wally wrapped his arms around Robin's waist and they slid down to the ship with a whiz, Robin showing off at the end by somersaulting onto the deck, leaving Wally to fall hard on his butt.

"Thanks," he muttered and shot Robin a glare. His best friend just ignored him and flattened himself against a wall before motioning for Wally to follow.

Robin pressed down onto the door handle and pushed, surprised that it wasn't locked. "Guess they didn't count on being 'hijacked'," he thought.

"No duh," he heard Wally think back.

"Team, status," Aqualad's voice rang loud and clear through their heads.

"We've secured the cargo area. No sign of any guards," Conner reported.

"Same here. It's like a ghost ship," Artemis agreed.

Something was very wrong. Wally felt a tug in his gut. Something was very, very wrong.

He burst in through the door; ignoring Robin's loud 'hey!' as he ran past. He flung open door after door. There was absolutely no one.

A faint beeping caught his attention. Wally swiveled around and his eyes bulged when he caught sight of the giant bomb ticking away in the corner.

"Rob!" He yelled. His best friend came charging in and stopped short when he saw the device of destruction.

"Guy, we've got a bomb. We've been set-up. The ship's a dummy," Robin mentally punched himself. How could he have been so blind? There were so many tell-tale signs! Oh god…

Robin quickly knelt down next to the machine and started to open the circuit board. He cast a side-glance at the ominous numbers that were decreasing alarmingly.

01:00…

00:59…

00:58…

"We've got another problem!" Megan thought to them. "Conner and I just checked one of the crates. They're not filled with drugs; they're filled with explosives!"

"Which means…" Wally gasped.

Robin nodded sourly. "If this bomb goes off, all of them go off."

OOH~~~~cliff-hanger~ What will happen next? Will Robin be able to diffuse the bomb in time? Or will the team be able to get rid of all the bombs before it really becomes one big-mega-ultimate-super-extremely-chaotic problem? Will it be Wally's turn to shine?

Find out on the next chapter of...CAFFEINE WITHDRAWAL! Brought to you by your friendly neighbourhood Rellow. :)

Wally: OMG, that was so cheesy.

Rellow: Says someone who wears yellow.

Wally: HEY!

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