A/n: I do not own young Justice
Warning: If you tilt your head and squint you might see slash. I like to call it two teenagers in the same room, talking. If you consider this slash because of that, I have a question for you, how do you possibly survive daily life?
For a challenge on the YJ challenge forms (on ) for an amazing author named Scarlett mist. The challenge was to do a fan fiction about Red X, so I took it and ran with it.
Superboy POV
When Me'gan and I infiltrated Belle Reve to stop the prison break I didn't think about what it would mean. Not really. That's why I'm here today, I know I shouldn't be here, but I have to be.
I opened the door to a small visiting room. There he was, the first person who had ever really understood me. The person I betrayed. "Hey,"
"That's all you have to say 'Hey'?" he mocked in outrage. "I can't believe you have the guts to show your face here! After you betrayed me! Did it ever occur to you that I gave up the right to be tried as a kid for this? Did it ever occur to you that instead of spending a few months in a juvie for freaks that I'm now going to spend a few years here? Did it?"
"No, it didn't." That was true; I was still new at this, at life. I didn't have a good grasp on the reaching repercussions of actions. I understood that if you caught bad guys they went to jail. If bad guys try and escape from jail, you stop them. I didn't think about what that meant until recently. A random comment Robin had made.
"Yeah, and I bet that stuff about your father was all lies too! You just wanted me to trust you!"
"No, the stuff about my dad was true. I don't see much of him and he avoids contact with me. He lets Batman and Red Tornado do the parenting."
Jr. seemed to relax a bit. "You mean Mr. emotionless and gloomy and Mr. robot?"
"Yeah."
"Why are you here? I know you didn't just come to talk. Want to rub it in my face, or convince me to reform?"
"No… I just had to come so I could make a decision."
"What do you mean?"
I smirked slightly, "make sure you're in the cafeteria late tonight to get a midnight snack."
I left before he could ask any questions.
Red Arrow stood next to me on the rooftop. "Remind me why I'm helping you again."
"Because I promised to help you get your girlfriend."
Roy sighed
"Right, the costume's in the case. It's got sensors, built in weapons, teleportation, everything you asked for."
"And you have a suit for yourself?"
"Yes, now let's get this over with."
"There was a break out at Belle Reve prison last night. Icicle Jr. was not in his cell during the morning head count. No official statement has been released but police believe that he may have had outside assistance. Jr. is considered armed and extremely dangerous." the blond woman on the TV continued on to talk about superman's defeat of Grundy; Conner muted the TV.
Robin turned off the TV.
"Seriously?" Wally whined, "They get his name right every time but they can never seem to remember mine!"
Artemis looked at him "Seriously? That's what you're worried about? The guy escaped from Bell-rev!"
Robin smirked "You guys want to go after him?"
I barely restrained myself from shouting 'no' right then.
Thankfully Kaldur responded first "it's a high profile case, the League will handle it."
I started to head towards the hangar/garage. Sphere was there, quickly transforming into her cycle form. I grabbed the small backpack that I had stowed away in the corner earlier, and left.
As soon as we were away from the base, Sphere transformed from her usual red to a sleek black. Man this 'bonded' thing's cool. I pulled over at a rest stop and quickly changed into the suit.
Normal POV
"Recognized Batman 02"
"Team, briefing room now."
The team, minus Conner who was still out, headed into the mission room.
"Let me be clear this is not a mission assignment, we are merely making sure you are aware of the issue. We have reason to believe that Red Arrow assisted in the break out at bell-rev prison. If any of you contact him, arrest him and inform League immediately. Do you understand?"
"Wait, why do you think Speedy er, Red Arrow was involved in this?" Kid Flash asked.
"The stuff used to break him out was stolen from a Wayne-Tec lab yesterday and the perp used his arrows and was an excellent marksman. There are only about five people in the world who might be able to have pulled that off, including Green Arrow, Red Arrow and Artemis. Green Arrow's off planet and Artemis was here last night." Robin looked down as he explained the evidence. "And, he's known to be courting an assassin."
"Courting?" Me'gan asked
"Basically he's trying to get this assassin to go out with him." Kid Flash explained. "Which assassin?"
"Cheshire." Kaldur answered
"WHAT?" Artemis exclaimed.
"When I assisted him at the convention he seemed to have a rather… interesting relationship with her."
"Ok, probably a bad time to explain this but, Cheshire's my sister."
Conner POV
Now in my new suit and mask I headed towards the place where Jr. was staying. I opened the door and entered.
"Hey."
"Why'd you bust me out? I don't think I did anything for you ever."
I sighed and took off my mask. "It's my fault you were in there so I got you out."
His eyes widened slightly "Dude, you aren't supposed to do stuff like that, you're a hero, right?"
"I… I'm not really sure, what I do know is that it was something your dad asked you to do that got you in there, not something you did for yourself."
"Well, yeah but you're a hero because of your dad right?"
"He… was my idol but now, he treats me like I'm not even there. In some ways I think if he finds out he'll be forced to at least look at me."
"Oh, yeah forgot how bad you had it with your old man, so what now?"
"Now, that's up to you."
"Hunh?"
"I don't really understand much about the world. I got you out so… yeah you're free to go do whatever you want."
"And you?"
"I'm going to play it by ear. Probably just go back and pretend it never happened."
"Ok,"
I put my mask back on. "I Guess I'll see you again sometime."
"I'll find you." Jr. answered.
Batman looked again at the security footage. It appeared that, using the stolen technology, the man had teleported into to the room, grabbed Jr. and teleported out. He zoomed and refocused. The suit was black and the mask was in a bone like shape with a red x covering the forehead.
a/n: If it's not obvious, Conner Kent, Superboy, clone of superman is (in this fan fiction) Red X.
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