Author's Note: This is something I've wanted to do for quite a while now. For the longest time I've wanted to do a crossover between Young Justice and The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. While it's not the first, I'm hoping to pull off a decent enough job writing it. Both are great shows that are brilliantly written and I hope to do it justice. Let me know what you think.
JLA/Avengers
In Science City, Russia the team had been sent on a reconnisance mission to track the suspected illegal arms trafficking movement of the Russian based Kronas Corporation. Young Justice stalked the rooftops of a local dock as they watched and recorded the exchange between a large group of men, who were all dressed in black in the middle of a warehouse loading area. The team watching them were all layed out on thier stomachs peeking over the edge of a roof while Megan held a camcorder. The group all decked out in thier stealth-tech wear remained silent while Megan's camera taped the deal.
"So can we bust them yet?" Wally asked looking over Megan to Rob who was beside her.
"Keep it down Flash I want Batman to hear all of this." he answered with a hushed voice.
Wally rolled his eyes and groaned loudly thumping his chin on the back of his hands bored out of his mind and was quickly hissed silent by his teammates.
"Shut up!" Conner growled through his teeth.
"They're going to hear you." Megan implored softly.
"This is unbearable." he moaned throwing his legs up behind him. Artemis punched him in the back of the head scolding him.
"Your unbearable!" she hissed.
"Hey!" he barked rubbing his skull.
"Get your legs down! Do you want them to see us?" Rob softly yelled throwing his feet down before hitting the dirt just as fast.
"Cut it out all of you! Your going to compromise the mission." Aqualad warned. And a multitude of green arms reached out silencing all her teammates while two more reached over restricting thier movement.
"Your going to get us all in trouble." Megan said still holding the camcorder with her natural hands. The martian soon retracted all of her spare arms back into her body and continued filming while Kid and Artemis glared at one another and looked away sullen.
The criminals down below seemed unaware of the young team's presence and went about thier business as a hooded man walked to the middle of the area as the men moved in. Megan zoomed in on the hooded man but couldnt make out his face, aside from faint traces of red along his jawline and was dressed completely in black.
"Is the shipment ready?" he asked keeping his head down.
"Yes sir." one of them replied.
"Good." he replied as he turned to his left. Robin narrowed his eyes as he tried to get a look at the supposed buyer.
"Who is he?" Superboy asked.
"Dont know." Aqualad replied. The man removed his hood revealing him to have a blood red face devoid of flesh. While the others were disgusted by it a horrified Robin quickly realized who the man is. His teammates quizzically looked back at him as he dropped his binoaculars.
"That's...that's not possible. That's the Red Skull! The German war criminal!" he said stunning his teammates.
"But how can that be? I thought the Red Skull was dead?" Aqualad replied.
"That seems true for alot of villains anymore." commented Artemis.
"That's one thing if the Joker or Ivo does it. Do you have any idea how old this guy is?" Robin said trying not to shout.
"If someone as evil as the Red Skull is involved in this. Then it cant be good."Aqualad said standing up and drawing his water bearer.
"Kaldur what are you doing?" Megan hissed.
"Putting a stop to it." he replied activating his wand.
"Kaldur'am wait!" Robin yelled.
The group looked up as Aqualad flew at them with a wave of water flowing out of his weapon and struck. Red Skull jumped back as Aqualad used the fluid as a whip slamming a group of thugs into the wall behind them while Kaldur pointed his other wand as the Red Skull's chest. The war criminal looked at him quizically while Kaldur'am glared back.
"What are you doing here? How are you still alive?" he demanded.
"The Red Skull lives forever. I did not know there were those like you here in Russia." he replied. Kaldur'am's face twisted into a scowl and slashed at him.
"Well this didnt go according to plan." Robin said from the rooftop as machine guns cocked.
"And this is worse." countered Kid Flash.
The Red Skull rolled across the ground after being struck by the hydro-whip and found himself on one knee before standing up soping wet.
"You think you can hurt me with mere water boy?" he asked.
"No, with this." he answered as his tattoos lit up electrocuting the Skull in a massive puddle.
The war criminal roared in pain as the electricity surged through him with his head thrown back while Aqualad continued to zap him. A shotgun blast rang out hitting him in the back as Aqualad went down revealing one of the Red Skull's associates. The Skull was quick to recover even as thin traces of smoke wafted off his body and glared at his attacker.
"Are you all right sir?" the man asked.
The Red Skull growled and picked him off the soaked pavement and made his way over to Aqualad.
"That was a very brazen move mein junge. Few have been able to harm me like you have. I assure you even fewer have survived." he said drawing a pistol. Aqualad groaned showing he still had plenty of fight left in him as he looked up at the criminal mastermind.
"You really think that'll finish me? Think again." he growled as the eel head tattoo on his hand glowed shocking him once again along with the one who shot Kaldur'am earlier. As Aqualad jumped to his feet.
"Cant believe you fell for that trick a second time!" he yelled punching the Skull in the face knocking him back.
Aqualad went after the war criminal with a flurry of successive hits. The Red Skull opened his eyes as Kaldur came at him grabbing the boy's arm and twisting it behind his back, stabbing his lower back repeatedly with a small knife. The Skull's eyes widened seeing that the blade was bent in several places before Kaldur elbowed him in the temple with his free arm and bashed the back of his head against the Red Skull's face and twisted around to punch him once more with his free hand.
The Atlantian rotated his right shoulder having already freed himself as the villain staggered back clutching his face. He removed his hands revealing a large diagonal crack across the bridge of his face.
"So it is just a mask after all. Your not the real Red Skull." Aqualad surmised.
"A good guess, but incorrect. I am the Red Skull." the foe replied.
"Then why did your accent change?" he asked as the man glared back at him.
"The Red Skull is dead, always has been. Your a man living off his legacy. So then answer me this, what do you hope gain by impersonating him?" Aqualad inquired.
"How are you certain I am not who I claim to be?" the Red Skull asked.
"Because the real Red Skull's face was mutiliated in an accident. He only wore a mask in the early days of the war." Aqualad told him as the crack on the Red Skull's mask healed. His eyes widened and gasped at the sight.
"Dont be so sure of your assumptions boy. Because sometimes the truth is worse than you can imagine." the Skull replied cryptically. The war criminal backed away from Aqualad releasing a smoke screen and disappeared from sight. Aqualad stood for what seemed like an eternity till the sounds of battle brought him back to the present and was soon joined by his teammates.
"Aqualad, Aqualad did you get him?" Robin asked grabbing his shoulder. The Atlantic marvel jumped momentarily and looked down at the petete Robin, sighed and closed his eyes slowly shaking his head.
"I did not." he replied.
"Do you really think that was him?" Superboy asked standing behind him. The mage stared at the spot he last saw the Skull with his head down.
"I'm not sure." he finally said.
"We better tell Batman who we came across." the Boy of Steel advised.
"You are right." said Kaldur while Robin called it in.
"Report." Batman said at the cave.
"I'm afraid the news isnt good." he said.
"Did you stop the shipment?" the Dark Knight requested.
"Yeah we did, but that's not the problem." his squire told him.
"What is it?" he asked.
"We came across somebody who shouldnt be alive. Someone who really shouldnt be alive." Robin told him. There was a brief pause on the other end.
"Go on." he replied.
"It was the Red Skull Batman. The buyer tonight was the Red Skull." he replied.
"The German war criminal?" he asked with no change in his voice.
"Yes sir." Robin nodded, another pause.
"Stay where you are. I'll be there as soon as possible." he ordered.
"Rodger." Robin sighed and looked back at his team who were equally exasperated at the turn of events.
Back at the Justice Cave, Batman began typing in the coordinates for Zeta Beam transport to Russia before making one last call.
"Alfred, Robin and the team have just reported seeing the Red Skull in Russia." he said while typing.
"I beg your pardon Master Bruce but did you say the Red Skull?" Alfred's voice said on the other end.
"It's likely an impostor, but it's still worth looking into. Go ahead and cancel dinner, I dont suspect either of us will be home tonight." Batman replied.
"Very good sir, I shall cancel the pizza then." Alfred said. A light smile played on the Dark Knight's features and a hint of a chuckle could be heard.
"Sir, if I may be so bold. What if this really is the Red Skull?" he asked. The smile vanished from the Caped Crusader's face returning to his previous demeanor as he stood before the teleporter.
"Then the whole world may be in danger Alfred." he said looking over his shoulder and stepped inside.
"Recognized: Batman. A-02." the computer chimed as he exited the cave.
"Do be careful sir." Alfred's voice said in the now empty cave.
Author's Note: All right, what'd you think of that? Usually this is the part where I explain a character's appearance. But I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of the Red Skull right? Show of hands? Okay cool. Usually I would answer but I dont want to give away any spoilers. Even his appearance is a dead giveaway for who will appear next. I hate it when I'm in this perdicament. Anyway as I said I'm hoping to make this into an Avengers crossover so we'll see how that goes. For those of you familar with my fics, when I do a crossover I usually write them as taking place in the same reality. Rather than having them cross from one show's universe to the next like most writers. Mainly because it saves me having to explain the how and why and just get into it. It is lazy? Maybe a little. Is it pratical? Absolutely and I'm all about doing things differently. All right so now that's out of the way let me know what you think. If you need me to explain anything I'll be more than happy to.
Also I might be a little late getting back because I'm heading over to Indy to watch the premier of Transformers: Dark of the Moon in IMAX 3D. Catch ya later.
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