Howdy folks! Man, oh, man, has it been a long time. I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while…Aw, who am I kidding? Really, how many people were sitting on their computers and checking my profile going, "When the hell is Saiko gonna post something? I can't wait any longer!" The answer is most likely none, but I'm cool with that. I'm busy, and I like it that way. Besides, I'd rather write a few great works that I'm proud of and people enjoy instead of churning out maybe not quite as good stories on a biweekly basis. I don't mean that I've been spending the last year or so working on this one story, but you get my point.

Anyway, I've had a big year. I think I've grown as a writer and as a person thanks to what I've experienced and what I've read. I think it shows in my writing, but I'll let you, my dear readers, be the judge of that. Enjoy and I plan on writing more often from now on. I had almost forgotten how fun this shit is!

Here's my first "Young Justice" fan-fiction and my fourth overall publication on FFN (although one of my previous works does have like 12 chapters). I went for a comedic angle here. I'm not sure how long this story will be…probably at least 3 chapters. I hope you enjoy it!

- Saiko

Chapter 1: Boredome Invades Mount Justice (or, New Friends in the West)

To put it mildly, it was a slow day for the young heroes of Mount Justice. Batman hadn't given them any missions in nearly a week, Wally and Artemis were running out of things to argue about, and Megan and Connor's lips were inexplicably and severely chapped. Not to mention is was Monday. Monday in Rhode Island. Seriously, these kids were breaking the world record for most bored group of teens, and they all have super powers (except Artemis and Robin, but who needs superpowers when Robin is The Goddamn Batman's protégé and Artemis has huge…arrows). In a nutshell, these young heroes were itching for activity. Unfortunately, their den mother for the week, Red Tornado, being an android and all, wasn't very fun or relatable; and he just hung out in the training room by himself, so there was no refuge from boredom there.

Anyways, our friends (sans Robin, who had yet to arrive at the cave and was probably on some super fun adventure without them) were watching paint dry in the living room—which had become a favorite pastime of theirs over the past few days in which they would each bet money on which spot on the wall would dry quickest; it was quite exciting (Wolf was undefeated)—when all of a sudden Wally lifted his head from his pillow and said in a tired voice, even though he had done nothing for at least a day, "Did you guys hear? I heard the League is starting a sister team on the West Coast; Young Justice West, or something." His head fell back down onto the couch cushion, where it seemed intent to stay for all eternity unless coaxed out by food, a mission, or boobs.

The rest of the team looked at Wally, either genuinely interested in what he was saying or just latching onto anything to occupy their attention one couldn't be sure. Artemis awakened from her coma on the floor and spoke up. "Nah. I haven't heard nuthin'. What's the dealio with this new team, Wallace?" she asked, her lips forming a soundless echo of the word "Wallace," an action that, if observed by a medical professional of any caliber, would be revealed to be, in fact, not normal, and a sign that our little archer has gone completely insane with boredom and should be kept an eye on in case she goes on a Jack-Torrance-level killing spree.

Wally sighed as his brain rebooted from severe inactivity and searched for the information he knew about the new team in the West. "Well, I hear they've got some good talent coming in. Let's see, they've got some chick named Raven with, I dunno, bird powers or something." He paused, in this lethargic state, the young speedster's mind was about as slow as, well, everything, compared to him.

"Oh!" he half-heartedly exclaimed as he remembered another teammate. "That one kid from the Doom Patrol is joining!"

"You mean the green one?" Zatanna asked from where she had been merging with the wall behind her. "Yea, that one!" Wally replied, thrilled to be having a conversation. "I hear he's got fangs and elf ears, too. And he can turn into animals! And…and, get this: He can still talk when he's animal! Cool, huh? Now what was his name? Animal Boy? Kid Creature? Um…" He tapped his fist against his forehead as he tried to remember.

"I swear I can actually hear your brain overheating right now just by trying to remember this guy's name, Wally," Artemis teased. The team laughed at his expense.

"Ha ha, very funny, Arty," Wally retorted. "Why don't you tell us his name, if you're so smart?" He grinned into his pillow, proud at having beaten Artemis at her own game.

"It's Beast Boy, you idiot," she said without hesitation. Even though they couldn't see it, everyone in the room could practically hear Wally's face fall, along with his mood. "Oh," was all he had to say. He had lost.

After a moment of sullen moping, Wally perked up. "But wait! There are a few others!" The speedster had forgotten his defeat and met his second wind. "There's this guy they've got on the new squad, Cyborg; he's half robot and he's got super strength and shit!"

"Interesting," Megan said from where she and Connor had taken root in the armchair across from him. "Are there others?" She and the other heroes were starting to get interested in their new comrades.

"Wail shore!" [Well sure!] Wally replied in a pointlessly enthusiastic Southern accent. "Let me think…Oh! They've got speedsters too! These two Hispanic twins, Más and Menos, they can run as fast as Mach 1, but only when they're touching! How strange is that?" Miss Martian and Zatanna were now openly interested in these new teammates and Artemis and Kaldur were listening closely although they didn't show it quite as much. Connor seemed just about as interested as Wolf; that is to say, not.

"I think they've got Blue Beetle," said Wally, his brain now fully booted up. "He's supposed to have some kind of alien-tech armor bonded with his spine that gives him all sorts of weapons and abilities. This guy's like a real-life Iron Man!"

"Ugh. I hate Marvel's superheroes," Connor groaned.

"Why?" Kaldur asked.

"I have no idea. They just seem…inferior," he mused. Everyone nodded in agreement.

Kaldur looked up from his spot at the counter in the kitchen, making the nest that a pair of birds had been building on his head for the past day fall, much to their feathery chagrin. "So, there won't be any Atlanteans on this new team, then?" he asked, a little sad.

Wally gave him a weird grin that seemed to be a combination of comforting and teasing. "Nah, Aquabro, it seems there won't be any Atlanteans in the West," he replied, mocking sympathy. "However," he said mischievously as he looked at a confused and suspicious Miss Martian. "It would appear that our sister squad has taken in an extra-terrestrial of their own. Ah, yes, the lovely and powerful Tamaranian Princess Koriand'r, or Starfire, as the League has taken to calling her. This hot biddy can fly and shoot energy bolts from her…" he paused suggestively, earning himself an annoyed glare from Artemis and Connor, "…hands." He chuckled. "Not to mention she can throw a bus farther than Kid Superman can jump. Pretty sweet, right?"

Connor growled at the epithet but Megan calmed him down. No doubt with a worried telepathic warning telling him he shouldn't get into it with me 'cuz he wouldn't stand a chance, Wally joked to himself when he noticed the urgent eye contact the two aliens were making with one another.

The teens were glad that Wally had somewhat saved them from their monotonous prisons; however, once Wally had finished listing the seven members of Young Justice West, the crippling boredom that they had all thought, had all hoped had gone, came back with a dull vengeance.

That was it. They were done. The monotony had finally broken them. They were all going to die like this; defeated by the very curse that plagued every teenager, both super and mediocre. They were beyond saving. Fini. Hoffungslos. Terminado.

Suddenly, like the booming voice of a flaming sword-wielding Seraph from Heaven Above, a phat beat started blasting out of the Cave's loudspeakers, jolting our young heroes back to life, miraculously throwing them away from the edge of their own mortality.

"What the hell is that?" shouted Artemis above the hip-hop beat's filthy-ass bass.

As if to answer her question, the Cave's computer announced to the teenagers, "Y'all better…Recognize, Robin. 01."

The team got up and ran to the training room only to be stopped in their tracks by what they saw strutting out of the Zeta Tube.

END CHAPTER 1

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