Young Justice

by Mint-age

This is a femRobin story with no pairing in mind. Basically this is going to follow the events of the YJ cartoon, but won't be carbon copy of the story. Just like my other story, Merston High, I'm going to try to keep this unique.

Chapter 1 - Independence Day

Haly's Circus rolled into town the morning of the 4th of July and the trapeze was being set up for the head-lining show, The Flying Graysons. All seemed well but the owner seemed somewhat on edge. Something young Rochelle noticed instantly. She followed the chubby guy to the edge of the clearing where he met with two shady guys.

Rochelle overheard them talking about money so she thought these were the guys that brought them here, but then she heard the words that chilled her to the bone:

"Cough up the dough or we can't guarantee your safety in this town."

The circus boss blatantly refused, Rochelle silently rooted for him, admiring the man for not being bullied. If only she knew what would follow, but how could she, she was only 8-years-old and about to make her debut on the trapeze like her parents before her.

Rochelle got into her costume, green spandex bottoms, a pair of pixie boots and a red spandex shirt with yellow collar bearing her initial, R, on the left side. She climbed the long rope ladder to the top where she would wait for her mom to give her the signal. Rochelle sat on pins and needles in her hiding spot, not daring to disobey her parents, but she was tempted to look down numerous times as the crowd gathered below.

Mr. Haly announced their act, John and Mary cart wheeled out of the back and made their way up the ropes towards the platform where Rochelle was hiding. John rested a hand on her shoulder and jumped out, starting to swing on the trapeze. Mary gave Rochelle a quick kiss and jumped off the platform into her husband's waiting arms.

As the trapeze reached the lowest end the rope snapped and the two fell to the ground screaming for help, Rochelle was draped in tears unable to safe her parents from falling to their deaths, but before they reached the ground it changed into the deranged skeleton white face of the Joker and it swallowed them whole cackling all the way mocking Rochelle.

The twelve year old woke with a scream from the nightmare she always had on this day, and like always Alfred came in to comfort her whispering calming words and assuring her that it was just a nightmare.

"Besides, Miss Rochelle, don't forget, today is the day." Alfred smiled. Rochelle did forget, but she was stoked again after hearing those words.

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The smoke rose from the mounts of ice indicating that the batmobile was just too slow and Mr. Freeze had already started his assault on the park. Robin reached into her pouch and felt for the different projectiles, no use in using the R's when Freeze wanted the bat.

"Ah Batman, I was wondering when you would show up," Mr. Freeze said just to be met by a disembodied chuckle, followed by a crack in his glass helmet.

"Boy Wonder, the bat send you, frankly I am a bit under whelmed." Freeze droned out.

"Yeah, cute but I'm kinda in a hurry here." Robin said crossing her arms, who cares if they still thought she was a boy, besides it worked out in the long run.

"Kids these days, always in a rush..." Freeze said with a sigh.

"I wasn't talking to you." Robin tapped her upper arm.

Freeze finally caught on but it was to late the cold air in his helmet rapidly receded causing the ice-man to pass out from the heat. Batman punched the glass out the rest of the way. Commissioner Gordon showed up seconds later and hulled Mr. Freeze back to Arkham.

Back in the bat-mobile Robin's phone vibrated. She pulled it out of the door and saw the three messages:

From BG to Ro:

Are you still in Gotham dad just got the call. =

From BG to Ro:

Never mind, I saw your skinny ass on the news. =

From BG to Ro:

Enjoy the HoJ, kisses. =

Robin smiled, sure Batman initially objected against Robin giving away her phone number to another girl at school, but he had to admit, Barbara Gordon was an exception. She had helped them both out a few times, whether it was just as a distraction, or a quick change of clothes. Robin also started training her to, one day, join the team. Robin started to text back, Batman nodded indicating that there wasn't anything else pressing.

From Ro to BG:

Yeah the jobs done, driving there now, Gotham Zeta tubes offline for maintenance. (R)

"I still don't get your and Miss Gordon's sign off. It seems wasteful." Batman said shifting to his 'Bruce' voice.

"Her sign off is a cape and stretched fabric over..." Robin was cut of by a cough. "Okay, not gonna say the word. And mine is simply a circled R, you know for both Rochelle and Robin." Batman shook his head, teenage girls.

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Even with them driving all the way, Batman and Robin was still first to arrive at the Hall of Justice. Aquaman and Aqualad were second followed by Green Arrow and Speedy. Last to arrive was the speedster duo.

"I knew we were gonna be last, what's the use of speeding if you're always last." Kid Flash berated his mentor who just shrugged.

"Today is the day," Batman whispered to Robin, placing a fatherly hand on her shoulder.

"I'm so stoke about this, has all the sidekicks ever been at the same place at the same time?" Kid Flash said to the group.

"Don't call us sidekicks, not after today." Speedy was being extra moody. Robin rolled her eyes.

"Sorry dude, I'm just overwhelmed that's all." KF said shooting the side of his head with his fingers.

"You're overwhelmed, Freeze was under whelmed, why can't somebody someday just be whelmed?" Robin pulled back the words instantly feeling a bit overwhelmed at the sight of the hall herself, but she filed it away for later use. She'll totally share it with Babs later.

The teens were met by the Martian Manhunter, who ushered them inside the hall and showed them the various rooms and areas. They ended in the library where the Zeta tube rested.

"You now have unlimited access to the gym, facilities and the library." Martian Manhunter said then turned to the other leaguers.

Robin jumped to the comfy chair sitting very unladylike with her one leg over the edge of the chair. She knew this was a glorified backstage pass, she overheard the Justice League enough times to know about Watch Tower. Speedy however decided to bring it up. Seeing the dismay in her friend's eyes she decided to act like she didn't know about it either. And then Roy Harper left.

"Are you kidding me?" Kid Flash shouted, Aqualad calmed him down.

"My king, my mentor kept this from me, what else are they hiding from us?" Robin chose that time to spring into action.

"I don't know, but let's start with Project Cadmus." The expression on their faces suggested they didn't follow her train of thought. "Bats is worried about this place so it must be something important."

Robin proceeded to hack the systems and downloaded as much information that she could into her halo-computer. She then made up a story about poetic justice, just to satisfy her sneaky side and besides, BG would definitely not let her live this down if she passed it up.

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Kid Flash ran up the side of the building slowing down a little too fast and almost falling down. Seeing this Robin couldn't help but laugh, she scanned the area and noticed that Aqualad would be able to handle it so she disappeared up the side of the fire truck and into the window helping kid flash up.

"Thanks bro, I slowed down too quickly." Kid Flash said sheepishly.

"I noticed." Robin said searching for a PC to download the building specs.

"Do you always need to do that?" Aqualad was upset.

"You totally handled it, I knew you could." Robin said not missing the are-you-serious look Aqualad gave her. "Anyway we are here for Project Cadmus not to be firemen."

Aqualad sighed and looked over the building noticing something odd going into the elevator. He ran towards it with Robin following. She activated her halo and tried to hack the elevator open.

"Okay that's new, a high-speed elevator isn't supposed to be in a two story building."

"Neither is what I saw," Aqualad used his hard water to pry the doors open.

Robin shot up her zip-line and jumped down using the break to slow down, the line ran out at sublevel 26. Odd considering the line could normally reach twice that above ground. She mentally slapped herself, each floor must be as tall as two at least.

"I'm at the end of my rope, literally." Robin remarked then jumped off to make way for the others while she hacked the security.

Aqualad prodded the door open, Kid Flash took that as a sign to speed ahead. Robin rolled her eyes, Aqualad tried to stop him. Kid Flash stumbled over something and slid to a stop. Seconds later he was almost stomped by gigantic beast. Robin's zip-line pulled him to safety.

"No, nothing abnormal going on here," Aqualad remarked. One of the smaller creature's horns glowed briefly.

Robin was curious to what these creatures were, but she knew another way to find out she pulled one of her cables out and started downloading and decrypting the information. The creatures were Genomorphs, living breathing weapons, but for who? She found a triple encrypted file, called Project Kr.

It was at that point that Guardian showed up, on his shoulder was one of the small Genomorphs. He recognized the teens and started to hesitate, a pair of glowing horns later and the Genomorphs started to attack them. Robin did her disappearing act to hack the elevator and close the flood doors once her friends were safe.

"What were you thinking disappearing like that?" Aqualad scolded her.

"Weren't you right behind me?" she asked unaffected, maybe a bit annoyed. They got into the lift and it went down instead of up.

"Dude, out is up." Kid Flash said.

"But Project Kr is down," Robin smiled, Kid Flash joined in. Aqualad was reluctant but followed them anyway.

They ran past endless halls, Kid Flash even knocked over a scientist before they were chased down another hall by a white devil. Robin couldn't help but wonder if this guy was helping them or luring them into a trap. They went into a tube and Robin disabled the door.

"Guys, I think you would want to see this." Kid Flash said then lit the test tube with a young version of Superman in it.

"Big K small R, the atomic symbol for Krypton," Robin said then started hacking the system. "The Superboy, a Genomorph clone created from the DNA of the Superman, grown in sixteen weeks. Genomorph gnomes are force feeding him an education. Solar suit helps absorb yellow sun radiation."

"There's no way the big guy knows about this." Kid Flash said looking for guidance.

"Now do we call the League?" Aqualad asked looking at Robin. She flicked her thumb hearing only static on her com-link.

"No signal, we're in to deep, literally." Robin said finally feeling the pressure.

Kid Flash punched into the computer to release Superboy. Seconds later he was busy attacking them. Robin noticed his eyes seemed blank just like Guardian's did before he attacked them. She didn't feel whelmed at all. While Kid Flash and Aqualad settled for the direct approach, Robin searched her belt for something that could bring Superman down. Too bad she took the wrong taser, since it had no effect on Superboy at all. Everything went black after that.

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"Wake up!" Robin woke with a start. The voice was forceful but friendly.

Robin glanced around the room. She was trapped inside a tube not unlike the one Superboy was trapped in. The only difference was that her hands were bound and she couldn't move her legs. Kinky she thought to herself, but totally inappropriate.

Robin noticed Superboy watching them, or rather Kid Flash. The red head deserved it since he was freaking out. Robin touched her index fingers and released the lock-pick. She started to distract the others while she went to work on the restraints. A geeky looking man in a lab coat came in along with the scientist Kid Flash ran over, Guardian and the white devil. She ordered the scientist to start cloning the teens before one of the gnomes climbed on Superboy's shoulder and made him walk back to his cell.

"No thanks, the bat cave is crowded enough as it is." Robin laughed nervously, the truth was that a clone would reveal that she was a girl and she didn't want any supers to know that yet, well Batman didn't want it.

After a few electric shocks and DNA extractions the large door suddenly got thrown into the room. It was also at that time that Robin finally got the lock picked. The shocks didn't actually help either.

"It's a good thing Batman isn't here. He'd have my head for taking so long." Robin muttered then went to free Kid Flash. "Help Aqualad, please." Robin asked Superboy, remembering how he reacted when Desmond gave him an order.

With the others freed, Robin blew up the machines and took point as she ran to the lifts. Around halfway there some of the other Genomorphs emerged from their pods and started attacking them. Superboy was holding his own. Unfortunately they didn't have time for games. Kid Flash made that point clear.

Robin shot her zip-line up and railed herself in. She cursed when she saw Aqualad and Superboy fall. She threw her staff for them to hold on to. Apparently Superboy couldn't fly. A noise brought her back to the present, the elevator was coming down.

Superboy started to give out directions leading them to a dead end. Seeing that Robin got an idea, she loosened the bolts of the vent and they hid in a room of to one side. She plugged into the computer system and started hacking the motion sensors and disabling the cameras. Soon she heard the Genomorphs in the vent and Desmond shouting out orders. She directed them into the ladies room and laughed at the irony. She then ran the opposite direction to get to the stairs. The elevator just wouldn't to in this instant. After some time and a few floors, Robin heard a noise for down below.

"Company!" she shouted.

Superboy stomped the stairs causing it to collapse buying them more time. They made it to sub-level one when they were confronted by Guardian and a platoon of Genomorphs. Her senses dropped out again and when she came too, Guardian stepped aside to let them pass. Desmond showed up at that time and drank a funky looking chemical that tore his skin apart.

"Seems like they're making steroids on steroids." Robin joked as she dodged a hit from the Blockbuster creature.

Superboy went toe to toe with it until it gave them an express route to the ground level, through the floor. Robin zipped up and scanned the floor for anything she could use to bring Blockbuster down. Then she found it, the entire building could do the job, and it would be a cool collect call to the Justice League.

Robin first filled Kid Flash in on the plan then Aqualad and Superboy. Within minutes the upper buildings of Project Cadmus was in rubble and Blockbuster was disabled. Robin brushed off the dirt and cursed that her cape was torn over the shoulder. She had just gotten it worn in too.

"Do we keep our promises or what," Kid Flash gestured to the moon. Seconds later shapes flew through the light in their direction, "What do you, know? Superman is here too."

"You hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed orders and nearly got yourself killed. You won't be doing this again." Batman said once he reached the ground, "Results aside."

Robin knew he was talking to her even if he addressed the group. She was in deep, and she knew it.

"Actually we shall." Aqualad said standing tall. Robin almost felt the whiplash as she jerked her head his way. Seconds later Kid Flash and Superboy joint him. Robin knew she'd get it later but she went to stand by the other teens.

"We did good work here," Aqualad continued, "We exposed Cadmus and freed the captive Superman clone. A clone designed to take out Superman if Cadmus had its way."

"Why do we even need their permission let's just go." Superboy was clearly angry that Superman didn't want anything to do with him.

"We did what you trained us to do and now you want to take it away?" Robin chipped in. Her thoughts were in for a penny in for a pound. "Can't you see that we are ready?" She directed these words towards Batman.

"If this team is going to exist, there is going to be rules, Justice League calls the shots. It will be covert operations only." Robin couldn't believe her ears. Batman was actually allowing this. It took all her will power to not jump up and hug him and squeal in her most girly voice.

She left the group and headed toward the batmobile. She just had to tell Barbara about this.

From Ro to BG:

Wake up sleepy head I got the best news ever. (R)

From BG to Ro:

I wasn't sleeping something big happened in 'Justice City' =

From Ro to BG:

Duh why do you think I woke you I was part of that thing, totally whelmed right now (R)

From BG to Ro:

New word? Nice, what happened? =

From Ro to BG:

Oh you know classified, but we did get a Superboy out of it. (R)

From BG to Ro:

You're gonna spill it tonight, I'll meet you on my roof. =

From Ro to BG:

See you later (R)