Okay, so this is my very first fan fiction story. It's also the first time I wrote a complete story in english (which is not my native tongue). A few things:
I still have to come up with a better title, so this is just temporarily.
I just love Young Justice and I was inspired for this story by the fanfiction piece "Graceful Willow" by PureWolfWarrior
I made Roy character a bit more like he is in the teen titans, although I never actually read those comics sadly enough.
More chapters are coming as soon as I have time to write them.
I also have a profile on , if you want to check it out my username is the same so you can find my profile.
Hope you like it and please comment I would like to have some feedback!
Disclaimer: I don't own young justice
Mount Justice Feb 26th 14:16
"Your mission is to go undercover within the league of shadows, to try to learn as much as possible about Cheshire and then turn her over to the local authorities."
Batman deep voice rang through the mission briefing room at Mount Justice, leading a shiver down Roy's spine.
No matter how many times he had spoken with Batman, the man still gave him the creeps.
Maybe it was because of the stories that were going around, about the times Batman had even threatened Superman.
"Okay, but…" he started to say, but Batman cut him off.
Roy quickly shut his mouth.
It was better for the sake of his life that he didn't argue with the Dark Knight.
"After you have turned her over, we'll handle it further. Black Canary is going to help you with your disguise. Dismissed."
The Dark Knight disappeared from the holographic screen.
"I was going to say that Cheshire knows how I look, but never mind. Why do I always get the most fun assignments?" Roy muttered sarcastically while he looked around the room.
Robin chuckled.
Next to him Kid Flash shrugged, "Dude, you get to hang out with one of the hottest villains. Remember to bring a souvenir for me." He said with a smirk as he made his way to the kitchen.
Roy shook his head, he still didn't understand what his fellow redhead wanted with all the 'souvenirs' he had collected.
It just piled up in his room.
"I wish Batman would trust me enough to give me a solo assignment, but he still thinks I'm too young to handle big missions on my own." Robin said with a sigh.
Roy looked down at the boy who standing at the other side next to him and who was still more than a head smaller than him.
"Yeah, I wonder why he still thinks that way, squirt." He said with a grin and received an elbow to his ribs.
He often teased the boy about his age and length but that didn't mean he had no respect for him.
On the contrary, of all the heroes he knew Robin was one of the best.
"Shut up, Roy." With a grumpy look on his face Robin followed Wally to the kitchen.
Again Roy looked around the room, only Black Canary was still there, patiently waiting for him.
"Why did they have to be with the briefing anyway?" he said half to himself and half to Dinah.
"Can you for once just stop complaining an act like the adult you claim to be?" Dinah said.
Roy shrugged.
To someone else it might have sounded harsh, but he knew she didn't really mean it.
"Come on, I have to get you in your disguise before 4 o'clock. Or else Ollie will also have something to complain about."
She said and stalked off to one of the unused quarters in the Cave.
For mission like these there were always all kind of clothes kept in the empty rooms in the Mountain.
Reluctantly Roy followed her.
"What kind of disguise are we talking about here?" he asked cautiously.
He had used disguises before, but if he had to fool Cheshire he probably needed something more extreme, like a wig or something.
"Oh, just the usual. Hair dye, contact lenses…"
Roy froze. "H-hair dye? But, but, but…" One of the things he liked best about himself was his hair color.
The fiery red always worked good with the ladies.
Dinah wished she could have taken a picture of Roy's face.
With his mouth hanging open en his eyes almost popping out of his skull.
She laughed, "Don't be a baby, it's just temporarily.
Two months and you have your own hair color back."
That seemed to calm Roy a bit, but on the look on his face she could see that he still didn't trust her completely.
But his fear of Batman overruled so he reluctantly told Dinah to do what she wanted.
"Take of your mask." Dinah ordered him. Still muttering to himself he took of his mask to reveal dark blue eyes.
"Sit down." and Roy obeyed.
Dinah was too young to actually be his mother but that didn't seem to bother her.
She had always cared about him like a mother, just like when he was younger and still lived with Oliver Queen.
When Dinah was finished with his hair she handed him his contact lenses.
They were a dark shade of brown.
"You can wear them for a month without having to take them out. But after four weeks you'll have to replace them."
Al least he didn't have to worry about forgetting to put them in this time.
The last time he wore contacts for a mission he almost betrayed himself by forgetting to put them in.
Luckily the group of criminals he had infiltrated were too stupid to notice it.
After Roy put the contacts in he looked in the mirror.
There was a guy staring at him that looked half Asian, with black hair and dark brown eyes.
"Wow." Was all that he could say. He cautiously touched his hair.
"You sure it doesn't stay this way?" he asked worried.
Dinah laughed again.
"Don't worry, I promise it will only last for two months. After that you can go back to being a carrot-head."
Roy snorted and was about to make a remark about Dinah's hair when Robin, Kid Flash and Green Arrow walked into the room.
"Dude!" Wally exclaimed, "Now who am I supposed to talk to who understands being a carrot-head!"
Roy stared at him, "Not you too." he was about to complain, but Robin cut him off.
"Who are you, and what have you done with Roy?" he said with a big grin on his face.
"Roy is gone, all there is now is Danny who secretly goes by the name Arsenal." Oliver said while he dropped a sports bag on the floor.
Making Roy ready to go undercover had taken at least an hour and Oliver had used that time to pick up the bag that Batman left at the watchtower.
"In here is everything you need: ID, cash, clothes, you name it. Batman even made sure there is an 'Arsenal' costume in there."
Roy noticed that Ollie still wasn't sure how to act around his former protégé.
So he just acted like nothing had happened.
Roy was fine with that, at least he didn't have to defend himself all the time this way.
"So, what's my story?" he asked.
"I can't just confront Cheshire and say that I want to know her better. That would raise a lot of suspicion wouldn't it?"
Robin snorted and Kid Flash shrugged.
"Why not? That's how I would do it." He said.
Robin gave him a shove, "Like that worked, as far as I know you're still single."
He said with an evil smile on his face.
Roy sighted.
Even though they were best friends they always bickered about something.
"Enough!" Dinah said with enough authority to make the two bickering friends immediately shut up.
Roy and Ollie simultaneously gave her a look that said 'thanks'.
Even with all her motherly instincts, Black Canary was still one off the best martial artists that Roy had ever seen.
And Robin and Kid Flash both knew that too.
"As for your 'story', you have a Vietnamese father who left you and your mother when you were a baby. Your mother took you back with her to America.
You grew up in poverty en vowed to take revenge on your father an became an assassin for hire to feed your mother.
Now you're going back to Vietnam to find your father and kill him.
You took up the identity of Arsenal so your mother would never find out how you came by money.
The rest you'll have to make up for yourself." Dinah smiled.
Roy took everything in.
He had to make sure he could prove his back-story if anybody in the League of Shadows asked him about it.
He was about to ask how when Ollie answered his thoughts.
"Batman also made sure that there is proof to confirm your story in the bag."
Suddenly Batman's voice once again was heard throughout the mountain.
"Batman to the Cave, Red Arrow report to the mission briefing room."
Then it was silent again.
"He still creeps me out." muttered Oliver while they all made their way to the mission briefing room.
Roy rolled his eyes.
The Bat freaked him out too, sometimes.
But they had to torture him before he would ever admit that to anybody.
On the screen Batman was waiting until everybody had arrived.
He glanced at Roy. "Good work, Black Canary."
Roy was about to open his mouth to say something but he was again cut off by Batman.
"We have a Zeta-beam ready to transport you to Happy Habor Airport."
Roy was just muttering about how everybody had been interrupting him the entire day every time he tried to say something when all of a sudden a thought hit him.
"Where am I going to live?"
Batman gave him a look that seemed to mean something like I'm-The- Batman-I-never-forget-anything.
"In your bag is a key for a locker on the airport in Vietnam.
It contains a key for a motorcycle and keys for an apartment. You will also find further instructions there. Maintain radio silence at all cost"
There was a silent moment.
Then Batman spoke up again. "Good luck, Batman out."
His image disappeared from the holo-screen.
Roy just stood there for a moment but then he picked up his sports-bag an hoisted it on his shoulders.
Oliver handed him his plane ticket.
For a moment he didn't know what to say.
Then he just shook Roy's hand.
"Good luck. Kiddo. I still have another appointment so I, uh have to go now."
With that he stalked off.
Roy gazed after him.
Then he shrugged, it was an improvement after all.
Out of the blue Dinah crushed him into a hug.
"Be careful, Roy." she whispered.
Behind her he could hear Robin and Kid Flash snicker.
"I will, Dinah. Can you please let me go now?" he begged.
"Sorry" she said sheepishly.
Sometimes she could overreact just a little bit.
Kid Flash and Robin both gave him a fist bumb and wished him good luck.
"See you later again, squirts." He said with a grin.
"Shut up, Roy!" they chimed.
Then he approached the Zeta-beam 'Red Arrow B-03' it announced.
"Got that finally right." he mumbled.
As he stepped into the Zeta-beam the last thing he heard was Kid Flashes voice:
"Don't forget my souvenir!"