AN: Hello dear readers! This is my take on the Young Justice TV series with many noticable changes that differs from the show. I will do my best to keep with what the show has done but will add some changes to character origins and powers, kinda like they did for Beast Boy, Conner, a few others but it (hopefully) won't be too out there for fans of the series. So please read, discuss and give me your honest review about!
Also, I do not own all these characters or the TV show this is based on. All legal copy rights belong to DC Comics & Entertainment, Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation!
Gotham City, New Jersey
July 4th, 2003 12:00 EDT
The sun sat tall over Gotham City Park, shining down brightly on the many families celebrating the national holiday. A father stands over a barbecue grill, slowly turning sausages and burger patties so they'll be ready for wife and daughter. Satisfied with them, he calls his daughter over to let her know that they are ready. Just as he hands her a plate, a technological snarl explodes through the air followed swiftly by a sudden cold. Ice is blasted around the park transforming the summer into Gotham's harshest winters. The family looks up in time to find the towering Mr. Freeze standing tall above them.
"Enjoying family time?" Lowering the gun to face them he fires trapping the family in a glacial ramp. "My family has other plans."
Sliding down the new formed ramp, Freeze raised his gun on the fleeing crowds. Suddenly two batarangs slammed into the side knocking his gun off course.
"Batman" He growls his gun around to find, nothing but a familiar bodiless laugh in the air. Hearing a slight crunch of ice he looked to meet Robin as he drop-kicked Freeze into his helmet cracking it. As he slammed into the ground two further batarangs bounced off his damaged helmet. Looking up he felt himself relax slightly as found his opponent. He was skinny, small, clad in a black and red costume with a yellow belt and yellow in the underside of the black cape. As Freeze rose to his feet, the annoyance seeped into his voice.
"Oh, Boy Wonder," he grumbled as he slowly lifted himself back onto his feet. "The Bats sends his newest lackey to drag me off to prison. Frankly, I'm underwhelmed!"
"Great, but I'm kinda in a hurry here."
Freeze scoffed. "Kids, always in suck a rush. I prefer to preserve these moments." He pointed his ice gun at Robin, who smirked as it powered up. "Or rather..."
"Not talking to you," sung Robin, cutting the man off.
Realizing too late of his mistake as he turned around before Batman jumped into the air, seeming to fly. The sun was half blocked by his form. He came down, throwing a punch straight through Freeze's helmet.
Star City, Oregon
July 4th, 09:01 PDT
It was morning at Star City right now, and the peaceful day was ruined by another ice-theme villain. This one was called Icicle Jr., a young man with spiky white hair, blue eyes and his skin is a light blue color. With his metahuman ability he uses his powers to create a shell of ice around him, create ice, and shoot ice. The young boy was terrorizing the people on Star Bridge by overturning cars, believing to be amusing for his sick sense of humor.
As he was laughing like a maniac, an arrow came flying and impaled by ice-covered shoulder, catching the villain by surprise. The arrow then exploded, causing him to flinch. He looked up to the top of the bridge and saw the heroes Green Arrow and Speedy, Star City's archery duo.
"Finally, I was wondering what a guy had to do to get a little attention around here."
Speedy looked down at the teenage supervillain with disbelief on his face.
"Junior's doing this for attention?" He asked dodging a wave of icicles the two archers quickly made their way down the bridge as they pulled out a arrow from their quivers on their backs. "This seriously better not take us forever."
Green Arrow and Speedy fired another explosive arrows at the villain, but Junior managed to create a wall of ice to shield himself from the explosion. But it didn't matter at the moment because the blast managed to create an opening in the wall. Junior fired more ice at Speedy, but Speedy managed to evade them by jumping in the air and then fired a punch arrow straight through. Speedy watched with relish as his second arrow smashed into Junior's mouth. Knocking the teen villain out cold.
Landing on the bridge, Speedy looked towards his mentor who's chuckling over the beaten foe.
"Kid had a glass jaw." Oliver smirked over the at his own joke.
"Hilarious." Speedy scowled at Green Arrow. "Can we go now? Today's the day."
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
July 4th, 06:02 HST
An oil tanker was stuck in the ocean as the water is frozen solid and snow was pouring down, defying the fact it wasn't the appropriate temperature during the Summer season. The cause of all this was done by another ice-themed villain causing trouble for Pearl Harbor; Killer Frost, a female Metahuman with pale skin and blue hair as side-effects of her power to control and create ice. She was currently facing against the superheroes who was tasked protecting the ship and it's passengers was the queen of Atlantis, Aquawoman, and her protégé, Aquagirl.
Aquawoman ran towards Killer Frost only to be met with a freezing shot towards her chest, her body encased in a ice block, she quickly burst out of it but not before her protege leaped over her head with twin trails of water whipping behind her hands as she ran.
"Don't tell me you're not nervous. Your normally more talkative than this."
She heard Aquagirl laugh before she replied. "Normally you don't like my what was it... 'tempest of noise.' And besides shouldn't we focus more on the matter at hand." As she spoke, she slid under a blast and thrust her hands forward. The water she had been pulling whipped around in front of her catching Frost around her neck. From the floor, Aquagirl pulled Frost towards her kicking forwards to knocking the girl out. Mera waited till Tula had climbed to her before speaking again.
"Well?"
"Fine. I'm a little nervous." She grinned up at her partner and older sister. "Today's the day."
Central City, Missouri
July 4th, 14:00 EDT
In Central City there was already a fight in progress in front of the jewerly store that has just been robbed. The fight was between The Flash, the fastest man alive, and his sidekick, Kid Flash; against another ice-villain, Captain Cold.
However, the criminal Leonard Snart is a normal human being that uses a special ice-ray gun to commit his crimes. Snart is a squat, pale man that wears a clear blue parka, and slightly darker blue pants. His hood and cuffs are lined with white fur, and his shoulders are adorned with a matching white snow motif. He wears dark blue goggles at all times. His costume wasn't just for his gimmick but for protection from his gun's below zero temperature whenever he uses it.
The fight between Central City's speedsters against the thief isn't going in to his favor as they repeatedly circled around for God knows how many times. He tried to to blast them with ice but they were too fast for him to even aim straight.
"Stealing ice? Seriously?" The elder Flash said gesturing to the bag of diamonds that Cold had clutched in one hand. "Isn't that a bit clichéd even for you?"
Kid Flash rolled his eyes at his mentor/uncle. Always made time for jokes that wasn't there.
"Come on, we don't have time for this!" said Kid Flash as he snapped on his down as he sped into the middle and grabbed the gun as it fired off another burst that only managed grazing him on the shoulder. Shaking it off he heard Cold's growl, Captain Cold was knocked out by a delivered punch in the face by Flash. Kid Flash turned around to be met with his uncle's smirking face.
"Calm down kid."
"Oh please. You'll chat it up with the cops, bystanders, Cold even. No." he said using had to push thought things off the table as a broad smile burst across his face. "Today's the day."
Hall of Justice. Washington, D.C
July 4th, 14:00 EDT
The group gathered around just as Aquawoman, Aquagirl, Green Arrow, Speedy, and Batman and Robin. Robin gave his fellow friends high-fives while Speedy gave Aquagirl a hug, which made Aquawoman frowned. Tula had to explained to her older sister multiple times that he was nothing more than an older brother to her.
The crowd that had gathered kept calling out to them, making Speedy the first to wave at them. She noticed a group of little kids holding pictures of Speedy in action. He smiled and walked over, crouching down so he was at their level. "Hi, are you superheroes in disguise too?"
The children giggled before asking for signature. The other young look at their mentors who just nodded their heads allowing them interact with fans while they'll wait for the Flash and Kid Flash to finally arrive. Aquagirl stayed where she was for a moment before mindlessly wander around because she barely bothered nor cared that nobody knew who she is. The only recognition she once had was a time a civilian mistakenly called her "Aqualass" once.
Tula noticed that Robin is standing in front of a group of fangirls holding pictures of him and asking for autographs. She watched as he simply signed Robin, with a quick silhouette of a bird with its wings spread. Appropriate, she thought to herself. She sighed deeply while forcing herself a smile, she didn't denied of how she's green with jealousy of Robin's and Speedy's popularity but is honestly glad that they're seen to those children as positive role models.
"Uh...Aquagirl?" the voice came from behind Aquagirl as she turned to see a seven-year-old blonde girl who was face was red with embarrassment as she handed a picture a picture of Aquagirl. This picture the little girl gave her was different from the others. This photo was of the adventure of her, Aquawoman and Aquaman posing for one of the news crew, with the adults standing next to each other and Tula in the middle with the tied up supervillain King Shark from about a month ago.
"How did you get this?" Aquagirl asked in confusion, smiling, a little flattered.
"My...my daddy is a photographer," she admitted, "I'm Cissie King-Jones."
"Hi, Cissie King, I am Tula." She shook the blonde girl's hand as the blonde laughed.
"Is that a real knife?" Cissie asked as she pointed at Tula's holster for the knife she keeps. Her costume was mostly designed by Arthur Curry himself as she wears a green one-piece suit with a belt similar to his and the knife holster strapped to her left leg (Arthur stated how she reminded him of a character named "Honey Ryder" from one his favorite movies), golden bracelets and some foot gear.
"Yes, it is." Aquagirl lightly pat the knife. "But its not a toy for little girls to play with."
"I know." Cissie said with a nod.
Aquagirl handed back the child's picture, now signed 'Cissie, thank you for making me smile, Aquagirl!', and walked to their mentors as the six heroes gaze of amazement rested on the Hall of Justice, the original headquarters of the Justice Society of America, the world's very first superhero team. Now it belongs to the current generation of Earth's mightiest heroes.
"Today is the day." Batman said, placing his hand on Robin's shoulder.
"Welcome to the Hall of Justice." Green arrow supplied.
"Headquarters of the Justice League," Aquawoman continued, "and one day, you." Mera finished, wrapping an arm her sister.
"Aw man!" A voice cried from behind, the six heroes turned to see the Flash and his sidekick Kid Flash zooming forward to meet them. "I knew we'd be the last ones here," he frowned, crossing his arms.
I hope everyone likes my first chapter of my alternate version of the Young Justice TV series!
