Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Young Justice franchise, I only own my character Crystal

Chapter 1: Names

The streets of Gotham are dark, and dirty, and unsafe. Now that Batman's sidekick was gone, he was one short, and he wasn't quite used to it yet. The thief knew that. She stood across from the Wayne Enterprises building ready to rob the rich billionaire; she knew that the Batman would see her. She knew it. Nothing happened in this town without him seeing it. She smiled at the thought of facing the Dark Knight.

She entered the building quickly. As she passed the security checkpoint she showed the security guard her badge. Her face and the name of a woman who indeed worked in the building were on the card, so as the guard scanned it into the system she was not discovered. The thief continued on through the building passing three more checkpoints, each one waving her through without a second thought. Adrenaline coursed through her veins, she was sure that she was going to be found out and that's what excited her. It wasn't the notion of finishing the crime; it was the thought of committing the crime even after having been caught. As she headed to the elevator she entered the only one with no one else in it, and shut the door before anyone could get in. She was being obvious, as obvious as possible. When she entered the elevator there were only buttons for the 150 floors on the building. But that isn't where she wanted to do. She pressed the buttons 3, 6, and 9 simultaneously. A retinal scanner appeared. She lowered the unneeded glasses and looked straight into the scanner. The contacts in her eyes would allow her to get passed this scanner. But this was Wayne Enterprises, there was bound to be more security where she wanted to go.

After the scan was complete a new panel of buttons appeared. They showed sub levels. There were three floors below the original Wayne building, and they were for the weapons department, the ET lab, and the third and final floor housed all of Wayne Enterprises special files. These included files on the Justice League, as well as all the super powered individuals currently known of. There were also files on criminals, and on competing organizations, such as Luthor Corp, and Queen Industries.

As the thief reached sub level three she pinned herself against the wall of the elevator, first taking out the cameras on the left, then she moved away from the walls and shot out the cameras on the right with silent darts that would keep the footage on a continuous loop. She walked into the file room. First she went on one of the computers and accessed the file on Slade Wilson, Deathstroke. She deleted the file, as she had with multiple companies over the past few days. She then plugged in a flash drive and downloaded all the information Wayne Enterprises had on the Young Justice League, as she had also been doing. As this was the information her employer really needed. She also had to get rid of the paper files. She walked over to the file cabinets and searched for W. She grabbed Slade Wilson's file and put it in her bag. She then searched for the file on the Batman. This was a personal choice. She wanted the file, not her employer. So she grabbed it and put it in her bag as well. As soon as she turned around she saw him. The Batman. Just as she'd expected. She knew for a fact she had not pulled a silent alarm, but being alone in the elevator was enough to make the Bat curious.

"I don't think those belong to you." He said with a deep voice.

"Must be why I'm taking them." She answered. She looked him over, identifying weak points. The groin was obviously protected, so it was pointless to try and take him out from here. The suit was bullet proof obviously, so a gun would do no good. There was no weak point in his armor except for the section of his face that wasn't concealed. A stupid thief may have tried to shoot him, but she wasn't stupid. There was only one way she was getting out of the room alive and un captured, and it wasn't by fighting.

"You know, it's truly an honor to meet you Batman. I've always idolized your work, how you work so cleanly and professionally. It's truly fascinating."

"Thanks, but that's not what you came here to do. You look too smart to have been as obvious as you were with the elevator."

"I was hoping you'd catch on. I needed to meet you, so I needed to make it obvious. And believe me, I am definitely not your average thief. I am much more intelligent than that."

"Then I'm guessing the blonde hair and blue eyes are a wig and contacts."

"Nice work, but that was also obvious as no intelligent thief would walk in without a disguise. You should also know that since I'm so smart I know there's not a chance of me beating you in a fight, or with my intelligence."

"Well, there's a first. Normally the villains think they can beat me somehow."

"Oh, I know I can't. I know there are very few who can, and I'm not among them. That's why I had to think about my exit very much to think of something that could allow me to get away without you catching me, and I figured it out."

"What is your brilliant idea that will allow you to escape?"

"My first thought was to put myself at risk, the Batman can't risk anyone dying unnecessarily, you've seen too many deaths to allow that. But then how would I secure my bag without you taking it? So you see that couldn't work. I had to think of something else. And since this room is below the surface I can't just blow up a wall and jump out with a parachute or something else equally as stupid. No I needed something brilliant. So it was simple really. Make an obvious entrance, and an equally obvious exit." The Batman looked at the thief. She was different than the rest. Much smarter. She actually knew there was no way to beat him, so she'd found a way around that. He was actually wondering what it was.

"That's why I set the security cameras on a timer. I know you make small talk with criminals, especially interesting ones. So I set the cameras on a timer, now all they can see is me, pointing a gun." She took out a gun and pointed it at Batman. His hope at finding a worthy criminal was gone. She would fire the gun, and it would do nothing, he would capture her and be done with this run of the mill thief.

"Don't worry; I'm not going to shoot it. Actually it's empty. But there's no need for the gun you see." She smiled and pulled the trigger a few times, showing that the gun was blank. Batman was intrigued, which was why he wasn't going after her.

"See since there's no sound on the camera, all the men sitting in front of the silly little security screens are seeing me shoot somebody, but they don't know any details, so now they're all here to come get me." And soon enough the men broke into the floor. The thief looked scared, though the Batman knew she wasn't.

"Mr. Batman sir, we're sorry sir, we didn't know you were here sir." A tall bumbling man fresh out of the academy stuttered. He was tall and lanky, his face was young, but his hair was short, almost shaved. He couldn't meet the Batman's eyes out of sheer fear.

"Cuff her, and I want to watch."

"Y-yes sir." The thief struggled against the cuffs, but she made it look as though she'd been defeated. But Batman knew better, he just didn't know what her game was. He wasn't sure yet. The cops took her bag and to Batman's surprise she let them. They then brought her up the elevator, and out the building. They were almost to the squad car when she concluded her theft. As the bumbling cop opened the car door, her entire body transformed into pure crystal. She broke the cuffs easily.

"Sorry hun, but I need that." She snatched the bag from the cop, then knocked him out with one punch. The Batman was behind her in seconds but she knew he was, which is why she ran. She just ran like an idiot. Batman sent a batarang after her knowing that that was what usually took down runners, but it merely bounced off her crystalline form. It exploded behind her but still on a scratch. That's when the Batman gave chase. He ran after her, when she hopped on a motorcycle he got in his batmobile and drove after her. He shot her back tire sending her flying off the motorcycle, which was exactly what she wanted. She shot a grappling gun at the nearest building and crashed through the 10th floor window. She knew he would be close behind as he had a grapple as well. She transformed back into a human and ran into the girl's bathroom. Of course Batman didn't fallow the 'no boys allowed' rule. So she removed one of the toilets to reveal a tunnel. She climbed down the ladder, and put the toilet back in place. She didn't even run down the tunnel, she just opened the near invisible door on the wall and into a subway station. Still dressed as the worker from Wayne Enterprises she walked onto the nearest subway. While on the bus she stripped the blonde wig and the contacts, revealing brown hair, and brown eyes. She then removed the Wayne Enterprises badge. After two stops she got off. She was in downtown Gotham. The thief strode along down the street, still not fully confident she'd lost the Batman, but that was the extent of her plan, so she had to deal with the discomfort. She entered a small family owned restaurant called Passport to Germany. It was a corny named family restaurant. But the family happened to be in deep debt to the man she was working for. So as she entered she walked through the door to the kitchen and up the stairs to a locked door with a peephole in the center. Of course the peephole was really a retinal scanner. She looked into it, and the door unlocked. She pushed it open to reveal the man she was working for.

"Hello Crystal." The gold and black masked villain known as Slade sat in a chair in the center room, loading a handgun with new ammo.

"Hello Father."