OK, so this is an idea that I had for a while now. I didn't mean to jump on the Young Justice band wagon, However I recently re watched Teen Titans and then I just had to check out Young Justice cause I saw how people kept comparing them. And thus, I have become a fan. Usually I try and make my chapters longer a minimum of a thousand words, but this one is short due to it being a prolog and I'm trying not to give too much away. After all, I wanna leave you guys hanging, if only for a while. So, before I continue to rant, and get my word count up to a thousand: I don't own Young Justice if I did Wally wouldn't have died! And yeah so... enjoy... Oh and please review.

February 4, 2005

04:45 EST

Gotham city. It is not a place you wish to be under normal circumstance. Not with its gloomy almost always gray sky and the various "super-villains" that roamed about. However, there were two young children were apparently unaware of these facts about the home of the hero known as the Dark Knight. They were two young girls or at least that would be what they appeared to be.

The taller of the two had a tight grip on the smaller one's hand and her guarded green eyes glaring at every possible threat in sight. That was a lot of possible threats, it didn't help that they were in a dark grimy alleyway.

"Can't you make this place a bit lighter Alice?" The smaller girl asked in a weak and frail voice. The bigger girl shook her head.

"I don't have any dice and I need to roll nine to do anything concerning light." She said. If only she hadn't left the pair of dice her father had given her on the coffee table when the pair had fled.

"Alice I'm scared." The small girl said as the two stopped. Alice pulled the little one close still looking around for anything that might harm the one so precious to her.

"It's OK Charlie. I'm not going to let anything hurt you. You have my word." She said fiercely. She stroked Charlie's thin pale shoulder length blonde hair. Hair that matched her own in color. However, Alice's hair was thicker and cropped short.

A nearby trashcan made a metallic noise as if it had been hit. Charlie jumped. "Shh." Alice whispered into her sister's ear before turning on the threat. She thrusted out her hand and the trashcan moved. Not as if it had been hit, but as if there was a rocket beneath it flinging it up in the air. Behind it was a small orange tabby cat.

"Perhaps we're jumping at shadows." Charlie muttered, despite the fact she didn't let go of her older sister's hand.

"Have you learned nothing Charlie? There is no such thing as jumping at shadows, especially not here." Alice asked as she rounded on other things in the alley that could be hiding something behind it.

"Just because they went after Mom and Dad, it doesn't mean they'll come after us." Charlie whispered almost as if she didn't want her sister to hear. Another trashcan blew up.

"Did you ever think that maybe they went after Mom and Dad because of us?"

A sudden laughter on the wind had both girls whirling around to find the source.

"Oh, my lovely little girls. You're going to wear yourselves out like that." A voice that reverted with the same sound as the laugh said.

"Who cares?" Alice shouted as something else blew up in the alley way. Actually, now a lot of things were blowing up all at once and Alice was no longer directing these explosions with her hands. Her anger was doing it for her.

"I do sweetheart." The voice said sweetly. Alice growled low under her breath.

"No, you don't." She knew that the only ones who cared about her and her sister were her and her sister. After all their Mother knew they were freaks, all their father wanted was money, not that it mattered any more since they were both dead now.

"If you wish to test that theory little Alice O'Malley, here." A pair of dice rolled and bounced until they hit the toe of Alice's form fitting sneaker. It would have hit Charlie however Alice had pulled her behind her.

"How do you know my name?" Alice snapped not bothering to pick up the dice. She didn't know what the owner of the voice had done to them.

"I know a lot of things my sweet child. Why don't you pick up the dice and show us your real power?" Alice bristled. Us, that meant there was more than the owner of the voice around them. Trapping the two sisters. And that was when Alice made the decision. She didn't know what might have been done to the dice, she did however know that she had to protect her sister and the only way to do that was to use her powers. Alice bent over scooped up the dice and let them fall back to the ground. The dice didn't immediately land; no, they bounced and rolled over one another. Finally, they settled and when they did a huge flash of light filled the alleyway.