I sat down to work on my Kingdom Hearts fanfic. I'm pretty sure that's not what this is. Oh well.
So…
My first story in the Young Justice section! Yay! I love the show. This was inevitable. Just to warn you though, this contains a whole team of OCs. There're five of them (a team), but I'm going to do my best to focus on the YJ.
Disclaimer: As much aster as I'm feeling for this show, it isn't mine. I've also never seen the movie I used for the title, so I definitely don't own it.
The Young Justice team was hanging around the mountain like they usually did between missions and training. This evening, Megan, per her norm, was trying to bake cookies. Artemis was watching her warily; paying close attention to the Martian's cooking. Robin and Wally were playing some sort of wireless game with each other on handhelds. Aqualad seemed lost in thought, and Superboy was watching the static on the TV again.
He really did love the TV static. He'd watched shows before, but most of those just made him angry.
They'd been hanging out like this for nearly an hour when the mountain announced Batman's arrival. They went to meet him, standing around in their civvies as he prepared to debrief them.
The Dark Knight pulled a couple of screens up and turned to the teenagers. "You have a new mission. There seems to be an independent team working in the vicinity of Victoria City. The League needs you to find out who these 'heroes' are and why they haven't made any effort to work with the League."
Wally raised his hand (Batman made him feel like that was necessary), "What does the League already know about them?"
"That the team consists of around five or six members and its members are around your ages," Batman clicked something and zoomed in on one of the screens, and overview of Victoria City. "There are rumors of some kind of heist going on in the city tonight. Young Justice will respond to this emergency; the other team will almost definitely show up to deal with the problem."
Superboy frowned, "Why does the League care about some small-time group of hero wannabes?"
"Because its teams like these that have the highest chance of going rogue or getting hurt and the League tends to get the blame for those things," Batman replied.
The team looked at their senior for a moment before Robin spoke up, "So when do we leave?"
"Now," Batman replied, turning to Megan. "Here are the coordinates."
While he got Megan set up with the information the bioship would need, the rest of the team got suited up.
Four minutes later, they were all sitting in the bioship as Megan initiated liftoff.
Meanwhile, Victoria City was in the middle of a small crisis. There were two heists going on. One of them appeared to be related to the Thieves' Guild; the other seemed to be small-time criminals.
The resident team of heroes (yet unnamed) decided to split up, three members one way and two the other.
If they were to be completely honest, the Young Justice would tell you that they were excited. Besides Red Arrow, they'd never met any heroes their own age. Most were much older.
"What do you think they're like?" Wally asked, breaking the silence in the ship.
"Us, I would guess," Kaldur answered. "They will probably ally themselves with the League when we explain the situation."
"That, or fight us," Artemis countered. "We should know better than anyone how stubborn teen heroes can be." She sent a pointed glare at Kid Flash, who stuck his tongue out at her.
"Don't start anything, you two," Kaldur chided.
Before either of them could defend themselves, Batman's voice came over the com link. "There has been an update. There are two robberies going on in the city. I suggest your team split up to deal with both issues."
"Yes sir," Megan responded before the link broke off.
The team turned to their Atlantean leader. Kaldur thought a moment before saying, "Wally, Robin, and M'gann will go one way. Superboy, Artemis, and I will go the other. We will use the radio links for this mission instead of telepathy."
The team nodded their understanding as Megan brought the ship to land in Victoria City.
They disembarked into the city's park – the only place large enough to land – and Superboy used his super hearing to locate the dual emergencies.
He tilted his head and said, "One is about half a mile that way –" he pointed "- and the other is a little further the opposite direction."
Robin walked off in the first direction Superboy had indicated. "We'll go this way. C'mon, Wally, Megan, let's go."
Kaldur led the other two in the other direction.
Wally couldn't help himself. He really just couldn't stand going the same pace as Robin and Megan; they were so slow. As such, he was the first one to get a glimpse of the action.
The robbers were easy enough to pick out. There were at least a dozen of them, all wearing matching outfits. It was kind of lame, if you asked Kid Flash. Lame or not, it made the super teens easy to pick out.
There were only two of them at this scene. One was a tall, tan boy in a black costume with a stylized phoenix across the chest. The other was tiny by contrast, but all Wally could tell was that the person appeared to be made of shadows.
While he was busy analyzing, Megan and Robin showed up.
"What does it look like?" Robin whispered near his ear.
"Lots of bad guys, only two heroes," Wally whispered back.
"Um," Megan said. "I only hear two minds over there."
"So the robbers are fakes?" Robin squinted behind his mask.
The small area – a statue garden behind what appeared to be a museum – was bursting with action. The tall guy was shooting fireballs into the crowd of thieves. The shadow person was throwing exaggerated punches with the aid of the night's darkness. If Robin hadn't been trained by Batman, he wouldn't have noticed the thieves disappearing whenever they were hit.
"Hey," he said. "Watch closely. Whenever they land a hit, the thief they get disappears."
His teammates strained their eyes at the group of people.
"Yeah, I see it," Wally said. "But the group doesn't get any smaller. One of them must be duplicating themselves."
"Uh-huh," Megan agreed. "But that still leaves room for three minds, not two."
"Whatever," Kid Flash stood up, pulling his red goggles over his eyes. "We'll figure it out later. I'm sick of sitting here."
With a roll of his hidden eyes, Robin followed his ginger friend into the fray. Megan camouflaged herself and flew in after the boys.
Artemis and her group had run into a wildly different battle. Like the other three, they stopped, concealed, within view of the crime scene to take in the situation.
The fight going on was taking place in a warehouse. They found themselves near the shore of the city's lake, but none of them could quite tell what the battle was over.
There was a small group of maybe four or five large thugs wailing relentlessly on a couple of heroes. The shorter super, a girl, had brownish hair and wore a grey-and-black costume emblazoned with an eye. The other was a boy with raven's wings. He would touch a crate, and its outline would begin to shiver (although Superboy was the only one who could tell); the girl would motion towards it, and the box would fly at the assailants. When it hit, it would explode.
During one of these explosions, the Kryptonian clone spotted something odd, like when Megan was camouflaged. He switched quickly to infrared vision. "There're three supers in there," he told the others.
"Huh?" Artemis turned to him.
"There's somebody invisible in there," Superboy clarified.
"Hmm," Kaldur processed this. "Do you see anything else unusual?"
Superboy waited for the next round of explosions to die down before using his infrared vision again. "Yeah, there's somebody on the roof."
"Do you see what they might be after?" the blonde scanned the area for any clues.
Superboy glared at her. "I don't have x-ray vision."
"Sorry," Artemis mentally kicked herself. The clone was really touchy.
"Alright," Kaldur interjected. "Let's get in there and help. Superboy, see what you can do about the person on the rooftop."
The raven-haired teen nodded and leapt off to the roof.
He and Artemis ran to enter the fray.
Okay, that's all I've got time for. Let me know if you've spotted any grammatical or continuity errors.
Also, reviews are the sprinkles to my donuts!
I do have a story over in the KH section called "The Lesser Nobodies," if you want to check that out. I should update it this weekend.
If this gets good feedback, I'll alternate weekends updating it and the other story.