NOTES:
This is a work of fantasy based on the characters in the cartoon Young Justice and Young Justice: Annihilation with the characters being envisioned as being of a responsible legal age. This is an original work featuring DC Comics characters, and I claim no ownership of them.
This work is based on a chat session playing as those two characters and exploring how they might have interacted sexually.
This is dedicated to my sweet Artemis. A collaborator and a partner who can curl my toes every time. Thank you so much, dear, for the incredible encounter.
Thanks to the readers and writers on literotica. I really do admire what you do, and I hope this story isn't too bad for a first effort.
All characters in this story are over the age of eighteen.
This contains explicit material, so if you are prohibited by laws or morality from reading that sort of thing, please stop reading now.
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The martian ship slipped quietly through the sky, making her way back home. In her control center, Artemis offered a disappointed groan as she readjusted the harness straps securing her into her seat, instinctively glancing to recheck her bow and quiver, stowed within easy reach. She broke the silence in the cockpit with her smoky voice. "Was it just me, or did that last mission just seem too easy to you?"
The other occupant of the craft, Miss Martian, looked over to her teammate. "Well, it was easier than some we've had recently, but with the rest of the team gone, I'm just glad things weren't worse. We did well, but how well do you think we'd do against a 'real' baddie like Lex Luthor or the Joker?"
Artemis was not so easily placated by her friend's usual optimism. "Well of course they wouldn't give us Superman or Batman's arch-enemies, but there has got to be some middle ground between the most dangerous people on the planet and... for god's sake, M'gann, these guys were burglars! Burglers! If we weren't using this ship, the stuff we recovered wouldn't have paid for the gas to get down to Happy Harbor to hunt them down. We're supposed to be heroes. Gah!"
To her friend's disgust, Miss Martian kept up her usual cheery demeanor. "Well, it's good that we were able to stop the burglars. Happy Harbor is a safer place because of us. Even if, um, maybe it's not that much safer. They can't have perfectly tailored missions lined up for us every time, and we do need to keep in practice."
Artemis sighed in disgust and gave up. It would be more effort than it was worth to convince the other woman things were less than ideal. She looked up to the viewport. "At least we'll be home soon."
"Yeah," the martian responded, wistfully, "back to our empty mountain. Alone. How long can this secret mission take? I'm going crazy without the others. Without... well, not that you're bad company, but we never have really hung out all that much."
Artemis could not help but notice the omission. She knew her friend missed Connor, but it would do no good reminding her of the fact. Besides, she would find herself forced to dwell on Wally, and she didn't think she needed that right now. She did hope the rest of the team would hurry back. "I know what you mean, but you know they'd never turn down an assignment." She chuckled. "And Dick jumps up like a puppy every time Batman snaps his fingers, so it's not like the league is going to hear any objections from us. Still," she sighed. "It does get lonely."
The martian added, "Yeah, how much can we really train or watch TV? We need human... well, we need interaction. I can't tell you how dull it gets after you've gone to your room and I suddenly feel you... I mean, after you've gone to sleep."
Artemis was focusing on her friend's slip of nearly calling herself and the kryptonian human so much she nearly didn't put together her other slip. Many nights in the cave, the archer would find herself missing Wally, and after she turned in for the evening... The restraints kept her from springing up from her chair, but she shot a glare at the martian known to freeze criminals in their tracks. "M'gann," she said, her cheeks reddening. "Have you been spying on me?"
The other woman shifted uncomfortably. "Well, no, I mean not really. I mean, not on purpose." She flinched at Artemis's continued scowl. "I didn't try to peek, but, well, you were kinda broadcasting your feelings very strongly when you... Um... well, I felt you... uh... and the first time, it was a new sensation, and I just, sorta... peeked... to... make... sure... you... were... okay?" The martian looked like she would have liked nothing better than to sink into the floor.
Artemis was still incensed. "Don't you dare lie to me. There's no way you don't know how it feels when you... when someone climaxes. How long have you been going out with Connor?"
The martian's face turned from its normal green hue to an unnatural beet red color. "I'm not lying to you! We don't, I mean, Connor, he... he wants to wait."
Artemis's eyes grew wide. Miss Martian had never... "Oh god, you're a... I'm sorry, I didn't realize. I was just embarrassed that you knew that I... look, I didn't mean to put you in that situation. You know that, right?"
Artemis herself was nearly nineteen. Word in the team had M'gann as significantly older, perhaps in her forties, but the way her species aged put her maturity on par with her human counterparts. Artemis had never given the other woman's sex life any real thought, but she would have assumed M'gann to have experimented with sex, or at least thoroughly explored her own body, well before now.
"No, it's fine. You should be free to do what you want in your own time. It's just... not so easy to block out very intense thoughts for me. I swear, I never meant to pry."
Artemis felt the soft bump as the ship touched down in the hangar. "Tell you what? Why don't we forget it? No one meant any harm, and the only hurt was a little embarrassment for both of us."
They emerged from the ship arm in arm and laughing about the whole thing. The martian brought them to a halt and yelled, "It's so empty here!" Both women laughed as her echoes came back to them. "You want to do something?" she added. "I can't go back to training again today. I just can't take it."
"Definitely," replied the archer. "I don't know what I'd do if I had to shoot another practice robot tonight. This is officially our night off."
The martian bent closer to her friend, waving her hands to momentarily disable surveillance in the hangar. "Listen," she said quietly. "He made me promise never to tell anyone, but back in the day, when Connor and I were stuck here all the time, Dick rigged up a little control box that lets us watch pay per view channels in the den. It's a little hard to control what you're watching, but I could hook it up if you wanted to make some popcorn. Maybe we'll find something worth watching."
Artemis laughed heartily at the image of the younger Boy Wonder, paragon of justice and good, using his crime-fighting equipment to pirate cable. "Stealing movies? I knew he wasn't always such a boy scout." She chuckled again. "I'm in. That sounds like a lot of fun." She placed her bow and quiver with care on a rack as they exited the hangar and removed her mask, tucking it into her belt and shaking out her long blonde hair.
They separated, and she entered the den a few minutes later in the den balancing a bowl of popcorn and two bottles of soda. She saw the martian had hooked up a box to the television with a series of wires and was fiddling with some controls on it. M'gann began to murmur, as if to herself, "He explained it all once. Something about encryption and signal spikes or something... I was just jazzed when we could have pay per view without having to explain the bills."
Artemis let herself sink into the couch and, deciding it was payback for the disappointing mission, propped her booted feet onto the nearby coffee table. As she opened the sodas, she scoffed. "The Justice League has a space station. A space station! It's not like they couldn't afford a few movies."
The martian continued fiddling with the descrambler. "Afford? Yes, but can you imagine trying to explain to Red Tornado why we should be able to?" She looked up and modulated her voice into a perfect impersonation of the android who had spent so much time in charge of the team. "If you have extra time to waste watching films, you could be training or applying your mind to more practical matters." Both women laughed.