Welcome to my first story, Young Justice: Fall of Cadmus. This is my first attempt at making a fanfiction, so any helpful hints will be welcome. I will take requests for characters for a short period of time. My story will encompass not only the television series, but the comics from Young Justice, as well. The story will follow a plotline in which some features of JLU are tied in. I do not own JLU or Young Justice, but my OCs are my children, so no stealing. Any ideas for new ones are welcome. So, without further ado, let us begin. Any influenced words, phrases by robots or telepathy will be denoted by italics.
Young Justice Chapter I
Independence Day Part One
Metropolis, January 1, 10:05 EDT
In the ruins of Metropolis, a lone figure ran for his life. Fear was plastered across the man's face as explosions shook the cityscape around him. Lex Luthor was busy replaying the moments of the last twenty-four hours. He had nearly died three times at the hands of the New God Darkseid and the last near death experience still played across his conscious. His anger over Brainiac's death had made him irrational but that hadn't meant he was going to give up his life for the deceased android or the heroes he despised, so in short he had fled. He eventually ran out of breath about a mile from the battle zone. As he bent over to finally rest, he heard a deep gravelly voice address him in a mocking tone.
"Lex Luthor...still playing the coward, I see," Vandal Savage declared, staring down at the broken man with thinly veiled contempt on his scarred face.
Savage was older and more powerful than most of the countries on the planet. He had seen empires burn and tyrants rise. He had walked alongside beasts that most people had only seen in museums and killed monsters lost from history. He was a man to be respected, but more than that he was a man to be feared. Yet, at that moment, Luthor felt neither.
"What do you want, ape-man?" Luthor replied with an angry glare.
"What's wrong, Luthor? Where is that calm, cool demeanor you always display?" Vandal asked patronizingly
"You try and stay calm when your life has almost ended three times in one day!" Lex quipped back.
"You know nothing about facing death, Luthor," Savage said with a growl as he picked his way towards Luthor, knocking aside ruined cars as if they were made of paper mache, "But back to why I have come to see you. I have a proposition for you Lex and I think you will enjoy the ramifications, especially the monetary rewards."
"And what might that proposition be?" Lex asked, intrigue painted across his face.
"Simple, I'm putting a team together that will soon put the Justice League to shame." Vandal declared.
"I remember another ape, who claimed to know better than me, make the exact same proposition," Lex remarked dryly, "And that team has fallen apart with half of them dead and the other half captured or turned traitor!
"I am not some gorilla with a sense of grandeur." Savage growled as he clamped a hand on Luthor's shoulder, "I have lived on this earth for thousands of years! I know how to make plans that will actually come to fruition."
"Oh really, and who will help us with this little venture of yours?" Lex asked skeptically.
Behind Vandal, six red and black portals opened in a flash of light. Out of them stepped some of the most discreet and powerful villains in the world.
"Come on, Lex, it could be a lot of fun, and I, for one thing, am very excited to to work with you." said Queen Bee with a charming smile.
Lex looked around at the collection of villains and a smirked, "I think you and I can work out some sort of agreement Savage." Luthor said with a quick wink at Queen Bee as he reached out a hand for Savage to grasp.
"Welcome to the Light, my friend." Vandal said with a sadistic smile.
Five years later
Gotham City, July 4, 12:00 EDT
The sun beat down on the Robinson park and yet no warmth was being felt by any of the pedestrians. All around people were running and screaming before suddenly being frozen in place by a massive blast of cold air from Gotham's resident madcap snowman. Mister Freeze was standing in the middle of the park with a wicked smile upon his pallid white face. His exoskeleton was covered in a fine frost despite the 90 degree weather. He aimed at a fleeing mother and her child when a red winged batarang knocked the gun barrel aside.
"Batman?" Freeze asked as he turned to the side, "I was wondering when…"
But to his surprise all that met him when he turned was a burst of mocking laughter.
He looked up just in time to see a young boy dressed in a skin tight red, black, and yellow outfit with a black and yellow cape, black hair and a raccoon like mask flip over his head.
Mister Freeze's smile morphed into a look of slight irritation, "Boy Wonder, the Bat sent you to cart me off to Arkham? Frankly I am underwhelmed."
"Overwhelmed, underwhelmed, Why isn't anyone just whelmed?" The 13 year old hero replied as he chucked an explosive disk at Freeze's head causing the villain to stumble backward with a large crack in his helmet.
"Can we wrap this up?" Robin asked, "I'm kind of in a hurry here."
Mister Freeze sneered in disgust, "Kids...always in a rush."
"I wasn't talking to you," Robin quipped, looking pointedly behind Freeze.
Freeze turned around just in time for a black armor clad fist to smash through his helm, and then slam across his face. With Mister Freeze incapacitated the Caped Crusader stood up to his full height,he was wearing black and dark grey kevlar armor, with his sigil printed across his chest, a long black cap and his signature cowl. He looked up at his young protege/adopted son and gave an exasperated sigh, "You didn't wait for my signal"
Robin smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, I got a little excited; today is the day!"
New York City, 12:10 EDT
The populace of Manhattan was gripped in fear as another ice villain ran rampant across the cityscape. The villain in question was Icicle Jr., who was busy trying to convince his father that this time he would make him proud.
"Come on dad this time will be different I promise," Icicle whined, "Yes, I do remember what happened last time! Yes, I remember how embarrassing it was when Ice defeated me with one punch but you know that wasn't entirely my fault."
"You better not screw up this time or you won't have a place to come home to," His father Icicle Sr. said gruffly, on the other end of the line, "Now, I got to go the Archers are on my tail."
"Okay dad I promise I wo-ctk," Icicle Jr. never got to finish his sentence as a Nth metal mace collided with the side of his head.
"Hello Ice Cream," Quipped a sixteen year old girl who was descending from the sky on a large pair of reddish brown hawk wings. She had long reddish brown hair and slightly tanned skin, most of which was covered by a set of grey metal armor. Her bright golden eyes were hidden behind a hawk shape dynamo mask.
"Oh, hello beautiful ready for our third date," Icicle laughed as he created an ice shield to deflect another blow from her mace.
"In your dreams Icepick," Hawkgirl sneered, jump-kicking him in the stomach with her Nth metal boots.
"I wish," Icicle replied, firing off a barrage of ice shards.
Suddenly a armored golden claw plowed into the ground creating a bright blue magic seal that melted the ice shards into nothing.
"Be very careful about what you say in front of a girl's father," Hawkman snarled, wrenching his Fist of Horus out of the ground.
"I was just kidding sir, I would nev-ugh" Icicle began to declare, just as for a second time his speech was cut off by a mace, with Hawkwoman landing a clean hit against the back of his head.
"You were wonderful darling," Hawkwoman said affectionately as she walked towards her husband, "I've never seen a boy so scared"
"Thank you beautiful, but I believe every boy feels scared when a girl's dad appears." Hawkman remarked, lifting his wife's chin.
"Okay, guys you can do this when we get home, in the privacy of your own room, but please not today," their daughter moaned in aspiration, "Today is the day!"
Central City, 11:03 CDT
Captain Cold once again found himself in the middle of a multi-colored tornado, as his archenemy and his protege circled him. He fired off several shots hoping to land a hit but he was met with no success.
"Seriously Snart you're stealing ice." Barry Allen said, dressed in his armored red body suit, pointing at the bag Snart was caring, that was in actuality filled with diamonds.
"Isn't that a bit cliche even for you?" He asked with a laugh.
"Very funny Barry," Snart said, missing yet another shot, "But I'm not in the mood for your witticisms today."
"We don't have time for this!" Wally West yelled, Flash's fifteen year old nephew/protege, who was dressed in his classic yellow and red armored bodysuit that showed of his red hair and green eyes.
Kid Flash then proceeded to race in, knock Cold aside with a glancing blow, and steal back the bag of diamonds.
Cold fired of a shot at the young speedster almost catching him in the back. The villain then preceded to earn a punch to the face from the Flash causing him to black out almost immediately.
"Calm down, Kid." Flash laughed, as he began dismantling Snart's Cold Gun.
"Oh, please," KF sighed with exasperation, "You'll chat it up with the cops, the bystanders, even with Cold! No, no way! Today is the day!
Pearl Harbor, 06:02 HST
Killer Frost smiled sadistically as she fired blast after blast of ice at the two heroes, who in her point of view had come to ruin her fun.
She leveled a clean hit on Aquaman, King of Atlantis, and despite his great strength he was held fast.
His sidekick and squire Kaldur'ahm also known as Aqualad jumped over his trapped form and ran into the fray, the seventeen year old Atlantean wore a red and black vest that left his tattooed arms exposed, and skintight blue legs that lacked coverings for his webbed feet.
Aquaman finally broke free and calmly remarked, "Don't tell me you're not excited."
Aqualad as always was business first, "Right now my King, I am more focused at the matter at hand."
Killer Frost fired off another round of ice blasts hoping to freeze the heroes but to her disappointment she missed every shot. Aqualad propelled himself into the air and pulled out his water bearers, Atlantean tech which allowed him to form hard water constructs. He lowered two hard-water maces towards Killer Frost's head and immediately had his forearms flash frozen by the smirking villainess. Her smirk was immediately wiped off her face when Kaldur sent a withering uppercut into her jaw, shattering the ice around his hands. The icy villainess slumped to the ground unconscious just as Aquaman caught up with his charge.
"Well?" Aquaman asked, giving his protege a smug smile.
Aqualad replied with a hesitant smile "Yes, I am excited, today is the day."
San Francisco 9:25 PDT
The figurehead of the entire attack, original ice villain Icicle Sr. was busy running from his old foe Green Arrow and his apprentice Speedy. This whole attack had boiled down to one thing, Senior's escape from his cell on the refitted Alcatraz. He kept running, blasting cars out of the way using his cryo gauntlet, looking backward to see a green figure running along the rooftops behind him.
"Dammit, I thought I lost them." He growled clearly frustrated with the debacle that his master plan had devolved into.
He turned a corner only to see a red boxing glove come flying out of nowhere and nail him right in the jaw. He spun around due to the shear force of the hit only for another boxing glove, this time green, to smack him right between the eyes. He passed out right there just as a two Christmas colored figures appeared above him. Green Arrow looked up with a smile at his young friend.
"Looks like he still has that glass jaw." he remarked with a smirk.
Speedy looked over at his mentor with his natural annoyed glare before responding, "No, no jokes. We don't have time. Today is the day."
Next time we make it to Cadmus and have a whole load of adventures. If any of you are fans of the Incredible Muffin you will have realized that my prologue chapter mirrors the ending of Ben 10:Unlimited, I did this with his blessing so no yelling. So this took me a really long time and I hope you enjoy it requests and helpful suggestions are wanted however any flames will be devoured by my pet phoenix Vox. Until next time this has been Damont Evermore. Peace!