[canon start, video]

[archerartemis]

[The video is kind of crappy, almost like it's surveillance footage. What might give that impression? The robot monkeys getting shot through with arrows outside of a prestigious high school.

If you got to see Artemis's archery skills during the zombie attack, then you might notice the skills used by a masked girl in a green costume familiar. Also, the face might look familiar, like when she realizes that yes, this is broadcasting, and looks over at the camera.]

Go! Go away!

[Another monkey comes at her, and she drops it with another arrow.]

I'll explain later, go!

Comments

[pikapikapikarin]

[Well there was a familiar sight. Yayoi is going to glance over the lacrosse armor she had kept and washed up before waiting for Artemis to finish.

This would be a doozy.]

[archerartemis]

[It's later, and Artemis is back at home, still masked, and using her phone.]

Okay. How much do I have to explain?

[pikapikapikarin]

Well first I want to know if that's a costume or if you transform.

Secondly, if the first, I wanna know who your tailor is because it is awesome.

[archerartemis]

It's a costume. I, um, made it myself based off Green Arrow's costume.

[She's blushing slightly.]

[pikapikapikarin]

I would have had a skirt but you know, difference between us. It's still really awesome for a archer-style hero.

[notmynature]

Uhh...this count as later? You're a hero but what the hell are you fighting?

[archerartemis]

Robot monkeys. I have no idea why either. But there was a cute guy in danger, so...

[notmynature]

Yeah, I actually guessed robot monkeys and then I sounded crazy in my own head so I had to ask.

I dunno, the monkeys looked like of cute. They'd never blend in with the real ones, though.

...Okay, they're cool even if they didn't look like the real ones. Uh..besides attacking you. That part wasn't cool.

[archerartemis]

Yeah, the whole trying to kill me thing was the last straw for them. Too bad the video didn't get a good shot of that guy, though.

[notmynature]

We're still talking about the cute guy? [She laughs and shakes her head.] You just saw robot monkeys! That's so much cooler than a guy.

Trade ya. I'll find a cute guy for the robot monkey. [She's joking but she's pretty amazed, too.]

[fairyofwind]

...what was all that?

[archerartemis]

I've just started heroing, and now I've graduated from fighting small-time crooks to robot monkeys. Do they give out a diploma for something like that?

[fairyofwind]

I've never heard of one.

So you're a crime-fighter?

[archerartemis]

Yeah, I'm...well, I'm just Artemis right now.

[fairyofwind]

But that's so cool! You get to stop bad guys and criminals!

[papillio_tempestatis]

[At first Butterfly is just assuming this is someone she hasn't met yet. She's not stupid, but the mask does cover enough of Artemis's face that it's actually going to take her a moment to make the connection.

That doesn't make the monkeys any less confusing. Particularly since Butterfly's first thought still isn't going to be "robot".]

... What's wrong with those monkeys, and why are they fighting you?

[archerartemis]

I don't know. They were also attacking a local high school and trying to kill a really cute guy, so I give up trying to understand.

[papillio_tempestatis]

They were attacking a school? To kill what I'm guessing is a student? Is there something special about him besides being cute?

[archerartemis]

There were some other superheroes' sidekicks there. I don't know if the guy was a student--it was late. Maybe he was a bystander who had to hide in the school? Or another hero himself? But they did a pretty good job with stopping the robot in there.

[papillio_tempestatis]

Hm. I suppose I'm not exactly in a position to guess. Do a lot of superheroes have sidekicks, then?

[a_new_innovator]

What... what are those things?

[archerartemis]

Robot monkeys. Cute but surprisingly deadly.

[a_new_innovator]

Sounds like it... Can I ask why you were fighting them?

[archerartemis]

They were attacking near a prep school. Some cute guy was in trouble, along with a bunch of superheroes' sidekicks.

[a_new_innovator]

Attacking? What were they after?