A Video to You and The Outsiders

[Young Justice verse]

Star City, California
Harper Residence
19:41 P.M.

Artemis was dressed in her alter-ego suit as she closes the door behind her and taking off masking throwing it on her bed. The blonde Vietnamese woman started to do breathing exercises trying to compose herself. Emotions were racing through her veins and thoughts were running all over her mind. She just got done doing a mission with Tara, Violet, Bart, and Garfield. They just did a cover operation against Lex Luthor. Artemis bends down to her knees trying to stay still than standing back up to her feet. She clothes her gray hues in order to relax her but her emotions felt like they were slowly coming up to her like word vomit. The blonde woman opens her eyes and walking over to the small desk. Artemis opens her laptop logs in to her password.

Her hands quickly type into each keynote to her laptop as it is second nature to her. She uses her right index finger to open up the camera and opening it. Artemis sees a clear image of herself and clearing her throat, “Okay, okay.” The Vietnamese woman said underneath her breath. She uses her index finger to press the record button seeing a red dot then putting her hands together to start talking.

“Hello, this is to anyone watching this and I wanted to make this video just in case if I were to ever cross over to join my family’s business or being killed. I’ve been wanting to do this… for the longest time and I need to get this out there. You know I’m not good with my emotions to stuff like this so let’s see if I can do this in one take.” Artemis starts off telling the truth as she looks directly at the camera straighten up in her seat before continuing, “I’ve never thought that I would be the one to break the mold from my family; when I was growing up, I was always told to never depend on anyone and never trust anyone that’s kind to you. It’s what HE taught me. I was raised to cut emotions off because it was a weakness. I was trained to be an Assassin; the ideal soldier to be a part of The League of Shadows and League of Assassins. Until one day, I saw Kid Flash on TV saving the day,” She spoke the truth about her upbringing than having a small tear mentioning Wally. “Both him and Green Arrow saving the world, a citizen, and a city had changed everything for me to be an archer. My Old Man agreed to go with it, just not the hero part. When my mother was released from jail after taking the fall for my father; she saw something in me that he couldn’t… me being a hero.” Artemis replied with a cracked voice knowing this is the real raw truth and using her hands to cover her face to hide her crying face. She breathes in and out trying to hold her emotions together before continuing her words then taking her hands from her face. “Joining The Team was the best god damn thing I’ve ever done with my life. Sure, there were a few bumps during the first year.” Artemis chuckled a bit remembering the times. “My teammates became my friends, best friends, and a boyfriend out of it. I’ve lost some dear friends because of the job. Being injured on the job is normal and be near a death experience that almost left me which made me think long and hard to leave the Team with Wally. The thought of going to college, Stanford of all places still blows my mind. Being the first in my family to attend college and getting a degree minus leaving my life to join Kaldur in an undercover mission.” She pauses at her words knowing that moment when Nightwing called still haunts her to this day. Her gray orbs look down for a moment then looking up, “Saying yes to it. Faking my death to become an undercover Assassin and from being an Assassin; my dark thoughts started to come out. Thinking the worst of the worst and when Wally passed…” The Vietnamese woman choked on the last part of her words and shaking her head. “A two-year recovery trying to get my life back together again, getting my Masters, become a mentor, a leader, and an aunt. Those dark thoughts would pop up every once in a while, if or when I’m feeling down. Yes, I had Bart, Cassie, Dinah, Barry, My Mom, D*ck, Kadur, Connor, Zatanna, M’gann, and Will. But sometimes I held it in. So… This is a video to You and The Outsiders if something happens to me. Thank you for Green Arrow being my mentor, to Will, my friends being amazing practically family, a family member to Team Flash, An Aunt to my beautiful niece, and being Wally’s partner. I wouldn’t trade anything about my past. Bye.” She stated a tearful yet honest truth with tears falling down her face and wiping them away using her right hand to press a button on the keyboard to stop the recording. Artemis saves the recording to a file typing it saving it on her laptop and the other one to something else. She closes her laptop and getting up from her seat.