Yo! This is my 1st time making a fanfic! Please forgive me for any grammatical mistakes I've made. Also I might get certain parts of the canon show wrong(specially in season 2)...so please keep any flames mild...
I drew inspiration for this story by reading another one called 'Dark knights of Gotham'. It's really good!
Alright! Disclaimer:Young justice and PJO-HOO belong to me...NOT! But their respective owners.
BTW, HOO ends 2 years before YJ season 1 starts!
Now on with the story!
JUST JUSTICE
Gotham city,July 5, 8:30 p.m, 2010, Greenwich time
It was nighttime in Gotham, the crime capital of USA, protected by it's Dark night and his colourful sidekick. Now a normal night in Gotham would involve a majority of citizens trying to keep off the streets, gangs and other petty criminals and mob bosses doing all sorts of crimes while trying to make sure they wouldn't get caught by GCPD or that damn bat!
But, Tonight wouldn't be a normal night in Gotham city. For if one were to go take a peek at crime alley( not that anyone sane would go, mind you) they would find a young boy of about 17 years of age, dressed in some pretty odd clothes with a walking stick in his left hand.
The boy was wearing a near pitch black cloak that reached his ankles and made it almost impossible to see anything underneath the hood. If the cloak were to be taken off by some chance, one would find a boy with shaggy black hair and deathly pale pale skin eyes seemingly looking like a void of infinite darkness.
This boy was no ordinary boy by any chance. But, enough beating around the bush. Let's get on with the story shall we?
-I'M JUST A LINE DONT LOOK AT ME-
Nico di angelo was tense. Yes tense. Why? Well, when you spend 2 whole years trying to track down a guy whose hard to find while constantly hunting down spirits that escaped damnation thanks to an angry goddess...well you tend to get exhausted mentally.
Nico's thoughts were mainly on his hard to find target, Andrew "Andy the bloody" Lawrence a serial killer who has killed god alone knows how many. Brother of Bryce Lawrence, sons of Orcus, the greek/Roman god of punishment. Ever since the giant war when Nico killed Bryce by "ghostifying" him, Andy made it his personal mission to avenge his brother by killing Nico. Of course, he found that he would have to go through the Roman AND greek camps to even reach Nico. Not to mention he was quite powerful himself and would have to face Hades/Pluto's wrath. So like a coward he ran away and hid as well as he could. He had made deals with all sorts of monsters and criminal mortals to amass an army begin enough to get him.
Meanwhile Nico was tasked by Hades to hunt down all 681 souls that escaped during the giant war. Thanatos couldn't do it since was busy since thousands of people die everyday for whatever reason. While Nico did this, he also took to being trained by the dead spirits to better his skills and learn new things. He learnt from warriors like Achilles how to fight with different fighting styles, people like Hitler how to negotiate and talk(along with some respect for command and some table manners), about modern weapons like guns and grenades and how to use them in conjunction with weapons like swords,shields,etc. He watched movies like "Equilibrium" and "Wanted" to create his style of "gun fu" and integrate it with his close combat styles. Heck he learned from the soul of BRUCE LEE OF ALL PEOPLE for martial arts!
His personal life wasn't that interesting really. He finally manned up and revealed his crush to Percy and told Will he wasn't really interested in any relationship currently. He also found out that apparantly Leo was alive and flying around on his mecha-dragon Festus with formerly punished titaness Calypso in tow, exploring the World beyond. He often kept in contact with him through his newly invented L-phone, a device Leo made for all demigods to use so they could use phones without having to attract monsters. It was a marvel really, it was like a normal phone, only it could last upto 5 days even if you used it continously and only needed a max 1 and a half hours to get fully charged and also had a 'mist-clearer', an attribute that allowed it's user to look through the mist as if it were nothing through it's camera mode. Wasn't cheap though, he charged like 20 drachmas per phone!
Nico often kept in contact with him, mainly since he really knew what he makes. He provided Leo with lots of raw stygian iron(with Hades's permission, of course) only on the promise that they keep this deal between themselves. Leo looked a little downfaced on that condition but immediately set to it.
Leo had made for him 2 berettas made of pure stygian iron, that bullets made of the same metal and silver(he also ran into creatures like werewolves and some...troublesome humans). With Calypso's help, Leo was thankful enough to also give him some kevlar-like armor that was fireproof and bulletproof. The armor was flexible and lightweight so it wouldn't restrict his movement much.
Currently, Nico was walking towards an abandoned apartment complex that was due for demolition next week, if the sign above the entrance was anything to go by. Nico knew better though. Talking to various souls in the underworld helped him learn that he had been recently hiring various humans to kill the nearby residents just so no one would notice any suspicous behaviour coming from he building.
Nico stood in front of the 6-storey building and looked around. The structure was surrounded by similar buildings that were only different from this one in terms of height. He expanded his soul-sensing power to see just where his target was and and what all threats and traps there were.
'Strange', Nico thought. He doesn't seem to have that big an army'. He had 2 whole years and he knew Andrew isn't stupid, He could probably guess how powerful Nico had become!
So why could he sense only a few laistrygonians, Dracanae,empousai and humans in the building aside from the bastard's soul?
'Doesn't matter. I'm so close. I wont let him escape' he thought as kicked the entrance and rolled in taking out his berettas from under the cloak.
He was instantly blinded and had a ringing sound in his ears. It took him a full minute but he recovered. The lights were on showing that he was in a reception room with the recption desk, 2 armchairs an elevator door and 2 other doors next to it one of which was a fire escape door that led to a series of stairs.
Suddenly he hear a voice coming from his far left "NICO! GLAD YOU COULD MAKE IT! LIKE THE FIREWORKS PRESENT? HOPE YOU LIKED HOW I MADE YOUR ENTRANCE FLASHY!"
"ANDREW" Nico thought darkly before shooting right at speaker at his left without even looking just in a split second, with point-blank aim and accuracy. He looked around and now noticed the CCTV camera on the ceiling and promptly shot it in the lens.
He detected 2 humans behind the door(not the fire escape) the only other life forces he could detect on this floor. Nico just took out a bronze like sphere, roughly the size of his palm, pressed a few buttons gears on it . The LED screen showing 5:00 and immdeiately started counting down. He gently rolled the sphere towards the door whre it stopped. He quickly and silently took the dorr next to it which led to a staircase. 'Damn this'll be a looong night' he sighed looking at the sheer number of stairs he'd have to climb to reach the top floor where he detected Andy to be.
Imediately, he started the long,boring and annoying process of climbing stairs.
-JUSTALINEJUSTALINEJUSTALINE-
.Pissed. Turns out the bastard had an army of ROBOTS somehow that could tank some punishment. No wonder there were so few monsters and humans in the building. Nico can't sense robots at all since they're non-living, thus having no soul!
The lower part of his hood had been burnt off revealing the black pants and combat boots he had which slightly bullet resistant(enough to stop them from piercing his skin,maybe but he'd still feel the force behind it).
He had only 2 floors to go now. As he neared the door of the 5th floor, suddenly an empousa stumbled out screeching only to be turned into dust by a hail of bullets. Nico immediately activated 2 of his incendiary bombs,threw them into the hallway and just calmly scaled the stairs 2 at a time, not even turning his head back when 2 loud 'booms' that shook the 2 whole floors, followed by various human and inhuman howls and screams of pain and anguish. This was a process that he'd repeated every time he passed by a door, though last 3 had a shit-ton of those infernal machines!
Finally he reached the 6th floor. Releasing a sigh of relief for no longer having go over any more stairs and just getting this done, he kicked the door open, berettas pointing down each side of the hallway. After a full 3 minutes of slowly walking and scanning and determing that theren't any other life sources here, aside from Andrew's, he approached the door on the far left end of the hall, 5 doors before it. He stood in front of it, just standing, gazing calculatively at it.
He suddenly unloaded both clips of his berettas on the door, the bullets punching through the weak wood, going in every direction. He immediately kicked it open, his reloaded left beretta in his left hand, and pure stygian iron knife in his right hand in a backhand way.
He scanned the room. It seemed pretty ordinary, with a bed at the far end, asmall window and bedside lamp next to it, a small broken TV in front. That is if you don't count the 2 humanoid robots that looked like those purple mutant hunters from 'X-men:Days of future past' only black instead of purple and with 2 missile launchers on their shoulders. They had quite a few bullets puncturing their eyes and chest area, courtesy of yours truly.
He narrowed his eyes and yelled "Just come out already, ya motherfucka! There's nowhere else for you to run"!
"Who says I'm running?" said a voice from behind the bathroom door. Slowly the door opened and out came a boy of 18, dressed in medieval greek armor, hands over his head.
Andrew Lawrence, the blond, sickly-green eyed son of Orcus, eyes flashing with sick amusement and burning fury scarcely hidden in his eyes came out, a sly smirk on his face. He didn't seem to have any weapons on himself despite the armor, bit Nico still stayed vigilant.
Bitibg back another scowl, started "Andrew Lawrence, son of Orcus, traitor of Ro-" he suddenly felt massive pain in his left arm. Looking down, he saw what looked like a knife wound with his blood pouring out. Looking up, he saw Andy holding 2 scalpels in his hands, the right one bloody with his blood.
Suddenly the smirk turned into a scowl. "I've been waiting for this day" he said. Rushing forward . Nico was able to wrap his cloaks remains around himself, willing the darkness to come from under the cloak and wrapping around him like semi-circular bubble. He could hear metallic screeching outside. "2 years it's taken me! Finally! After All this time! Do you know how much planning and precision it took to get you here? I knew you'd come for me all alone thinking you had the upper hand thanks to all your friends! But guess what, I've made friends too! And boy haven't I felt better than ever! I knew you'd eventually come for me. My messages and art must've reached you quite intact!"
Eyes glowing red with fury, Nico burst out of the black bubble, attacking Andrew with his sword . How dare he just laugh off the murder of so many innocent people !
Another stab, this time in his right wrist. Shit he couldn't use either of his hands anymore! Neither for shooting, since his aim would be way too off, plus the recoil would hurt like a bitch nor for his knifes nor swords. Good thing he had more tricks up his sleeves.
"You're wrong about one thing though. I didn't come alone".
The window suddenly cracked with Andrew immediately yelling in pain, clutching his back.
Across the street on the adjacent rooftop
Nico hadn't been so arrogant to think that Andy wouldn't have something prepared for Nico after 2 years, which is why he had the foresight of having 2 US marines uniform dressed skeletons following behind him from quite a distance afar, both having sniper rifles. They had both shot at Andrew exactly at the same time at his back. Once again they looked down the laser sight of their scopes, aiming at his head this time.
Back in the room from where we left off
Andrew was able to duck down in time before he his brains got splattered all over the walls. He immediately pulled out a gleaming M9. Possibly celestial bronze and shot at Nico's head. He shadow-travelled through his cloak, said clothing also coming through with him under the bed.
Multiple bullets either bounced or burrowed into his partially bullet-proof suit. He hadn't even seen him move and yet he was already at the bed's foot, the M9's nozzle touching his forehead, green eyes glowing with glee.
"Once I put your head on a pike, I'm gonna carve a message into yer little telling that bitch of a praetor why you shouldn't cross me! Then I'm gonna -" interrupting him mid-monologue using a tendril of solid darkness to yank him off his feet, he shadow-travelled out to the 1st place in Gotham that came to his mind.
Unknown place,unknown time
Eyes black as night fluttered open. Their owner slowly got up, immediately hissing in pain from the injury in his right wound. The young(old?) son of Hades looked around, then on the surface of the rooftop he was half-laying on. Getting on his feet and slowly walking towards roof's ledge, he looked across the street, seeing the large letters of GOTHAM CITY POLICE DEPARRTMENT(GCPD) illuminated in bright neon yellow. Now, some of you might be wondering, how our favourite demigod could read these words in perfect English when he's dyslexic thanks to being a demigod. However he had gone to lady Hecate, greek goddess of magic to create a spell that would erase the dyslexia symptom of all demigods using a spell. Of course, magic comes with a price.
And Nico paid that price. Badly.
"Now's not the time to think of the past. What's happened has happened. All I can do is learn from from it and think of the future while still standing back to understand that every second of Today all, that's why it's called the ''present'' thought Nico darkly and wisely.
He pulled out his H-phone, checking the time. Seeing it was 11:59, he thought "Good. I'm not late. God alone knows what the flying rodent does when kept waiting".
"Glad to see you're not late."' said a menacing, dark voice, growling with with each word.
If Nico was surprised, he didn't show it(not that you could see through the shadow his cloak's hood cast on him) since he sensed his soul as soon as he got his head straight.
He turned around, seeing a dark figure with gleaming white lensesand pointed ears from his head gazing at him. He remained partially hidden within the shadows cast by
the tall building nest to the one they stood on, though Nico could see through the dark the bat-themed black and grey kevlar armor of the dark knight of Gotham.
"So, what was so important that you had to practically demand from my go-to tech guy that you need to meet me here?"asked Nico with genuine concern and curiousity, for if someone like Batman were to go to such lengths like finding his hard-to-track friend simply to contact him, it was a need for concern.
"remember the favour that from a year ago?' Batman asked gruffly.
Nico tensed up, not enough to let even someone like Batman be able to spot any hints/signs though. For the Dark knight to ask him,him of all peopleof a favour, especially considering the fact that Batman generally likes to work alone unless he can take his dear sidekick Boy Blunder on board or has to(like when Earth is under attack or he fights someone who can be beat by
only certain things/beings like Superman,Zatara,etc) and that too of what had happened with them almost a year ago was enough to make him really worried.
"What is it?" asked Nico, letting a little bit of his concern actually slip out.
"What do you think of joining a group of youngsters working as a covert ops team for the league?"
Yeah, things were now going to be very,very interesting.
END PROLOGUE
Fellow members and lovers of fanfiction, PJO-HOO and DC(marvel lovers you're invited as well!) and especially of Nico di Angelo, Litestryke proudly presents to you "Just Justice"a story filled with adventure, betrayal, love, loss and betrayal as well as pure madness(the fun kind, not the pure evil psycho type) as Nico di Angelo faces down all the seemingly endless odds that pile up against him as he tries to just survive the crazy journey known as life.
Stay tuned for more dear readers, as I put our fav demigod go through a perilous journey with twists and turns with multiple surprise guests you'd definitely never come seeing on a fic involving YJ!
