A/N: I do not own Young Justice nor any DC characters depicted within.
Completed for Dextra2's Famous Movie Quote Challenge located in the Yong Justice FanFiction Challenges forum. This contains some swearing toward the end so you have been warned.
Hope you like it despite it's short nature. Please review!
July 27th, 2012 – 8:00 p.m.
Mount Justice
After a day of training intermixed with some downtime the team decided to lounge around the TV for the evening. It was currently storming outside so doing anything outdoorsy was currently not an option and thus the team set out to find an appropriate movie for the evening. Last time the girls had gotten to pick a chick flick with the help of Black Canary so it was quickly decided by a majority vote (i.e. all the guys) that the gentlemen would pick the evening's entertainment.
Wally and Dick, ever the exuberant pair of heroes, excitedly ran through the DVDs and Blu-Rays that were kept in the cave. Starting on the opposite end of the rows of movies the two worked toward the center examining and discarding multiple options until finally they both reached the middle and their eyes fell on the same movie simultaneously: Snakes on a Plane. They both had a glint in their eyes as they knew this would be great payback for the girls who they were positive couldn't stand the many snake related horrors within the film.
Two hours later and the boys were not disappointed. Artemis had nearly vomited when a snake bit off a certain unique part of the male anatomy while M'gann was visibly shaking. Zatanna had left after the first 40 minutes, determined to not bear witness to the downright creepy as hell legless monsters. Artemis was trying her best not to appear as though the movie affected her in the least, but snakes were one of her biggest fears. After all, what sane person wasn't at least a little freaked out by a snake? When the movie ended she quickly, perhaps too quickly, made a beeline for her room.
Seeing her reactions throughout the film gave KF and Robin a most mischievous idea…
Four days later
Over the next four days Wally and Dick took great pleasure in tormenting their female counterparts on the team with a variety of snake related pranks. They used the caves computer system to project fake snakes crawling around the training room whenever any of the three girls entered the room. This had worked for several hours until RT examined the room and concluded that there was no snake presence.
The boys then moved on to placing some movie prop (Dick just told Wally not to ask where he got them from) snakes within the girls' room and more specifically under or in their pillow cases. That night the cave was treated to three loud and terrifying screams that woke the other sleeping residents. Needless to say that particular prank drew the ire of a very irate Black Canary, thought the two considered it well worth the consequences.
The boys had also been placing the snakes in various spots around the bio ship so that on each mission they went on a snake would be "discovered" there by unsettling the girls on the team. All in all the constant barage of the snake pranks was taking it's toll on the girls, especially Artemis who the guys were certain was about to crack and actually admit to being frightened of them. So far the archer had vehemently denied any fear associated with the creatures, but it was clear to most that she was lying through her teeth.
But their various efforts had nothing on the last and best prank. Wally had been running all over the place trying to find just the most perfect specimen to scare the absolute bejesus out of one Artemis Crock the next time they went out in the bio ship. Finding what he was looking for in a meadow near the mountain he smiled and laughed manically as he sprinted back to the cave to meet up with Dick to plan their masterstroke.
Onboard the bio-ship – July 31st
Training exercise
The team had been giving a live fire training exercise by the League to be fought in a remote location in the Midwest. The team was eager to please the League and each member was quickly rechecking their equipment and weapons while en route to the drop zone. Robin took out each of his gadgets and replaced them in his suit, mentally checking off the contents as he did so. M;gann focused on piloting the ship. Kaldur adjusted his waterbearers. Wally put on and removed his goggles and, of course, kept poking the stealth function on his suit. Superboy simply stared straight ahead while Zatanna sat inwardly ran through a list of spells.
Each were contemplating deeply on the task at hand when they were shook from their thoughts by a violent, high-pitched, and over the top scream from a certain green-clad archer. Atremis had sat alone in the back of the bio ship and examined each arrow in her quiver before replacing to look at another. She had not expected to find a garter snake attached to the shaft of one of the arrows.
Everyone on the team turned to face the archer who had bolted up from her chair and thrown the offending arrow as far away from her person as she possibly could. The ship was silent as the teens took in the sight of their friend and teammate nearly hyperventilating. Well, everyone was silent by Wally and Robin, who were straining, and failing, to cover their snickering. The noise did not escape the blonde archer who went from frightened to angry so fast it nearly gave the team whiplash.
"You two!" She bounded forward toward the two teen heroes in questions, "Enough is enough! I've had with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking bio-ship!"
And despite the fact that she was a 16 (15?) year-old girl she was just about as intimidating as a pissed off Samuel L. Jackson. Needless to say, the boys quit using snakes as a scare tactic from that point on.
- Fin
So what did you think? If you're wondering the quote is from Snakes on a Plane. Google Artemis's last line and you'll see what I mean, but substitute plane for bio-ship.
I'm also thinking of writing a KF movie quote story, but he'd probably spout the classic, "Get to tha choppa!" line from the Arnold Schwarzenegger in Predator.
Let me know below what you thought of the story!
