Prologue: The Council of Light

Unknown Location, January 1, 04:34 EST, 2010

Vandal Savage stared up at the holographic screens in front of him. Each one of them showed footage of several young teens in tightly fitted costumes, fighting against stronger larger adults also in bright coloured suits.

His scowl was particularly grim as he caught sight of a strong tall dark figure with a black cowl and cape be defeated by a smaller teenage boy with a red and black suit and a black and yellow cape.

Those damn little sidekicks. Who'd have thought they'd be such a nuisance?

Vandal Savage sighed as he gestured to the holographic footage to move to the side as he pulled up a file. It was a document all in blue, with bright white text and various images flashing across the screen.

He had hoped it would be a long time till he had to make use of this contingency. The Light had many years yet till their true plans could come to fruition, yet the Justice League always had a way of forcing their hand to speed up the process.

It was a good thing he was always prepared.

He swiftly typed on a holographic keyboard and brought up a rectangular window through which a man's face was quick to appear as the video link was connected.

Through the video, Vandal could see the bleary face of a bald Caucasian man, with dark eyebrows and dark blue eyes, which glowered tiredly at him.

"Savage, do you have any idea what time it is?"

"This is urgent Luthor. It seems our plan to turn the Justice League against the Earth has failed."

"I know. Scarlett has already informed me of the situation" Lex Luthor sighed as he squared his shoulders straighter where he sat. "I take it you have a plan to rectify the situation?"

"I do indeed." Vandal Savage's smile widened maliciously "Ready your plane for the morning and meet me and the other council members at these coordinates. We will discuss more there"


Bermuda Triangle, January 1, 10:45 ECT, 2010.

The conference room was bathed in hot orange-red light, as a flowing wall of magma poured down from behind the giant glass wall behind the head of the table.

In front of this window and behind the head chair, Vandal Savage stood, staring down all the members of the council of the Light that had agreed to meet him.

To his right sat three figures, an older distinguished man in a green cape with greying temples, a young man with jet black hair spiked up like devil's horns, with an orange tabby cat sleeping in the seat between him and the last figure, which turned out to be not even human at all, but a brain situated in a movable robotic cylindrical body.

On the opposite side of the table sat Lex Luthor, no longer tired and dressed in a sharp dark business suit. On either side of him sat two women. The one on his left was regal looking, with dark skin, jet black hair and a golden crown that sparkled against her silvery grey outfit. On Luthor's right, an equally beautiful pale-skinned woman sat, with platinum blonde hair, red lips and a tight fitted crimson business dress with a plunging neckline that left nothing to the imagination and a chequered black and white domino mask.

It was this woman that, cleared her throat and narrowed her hazel eyes at Vandal Savage, drumming her fingers on the table, making the black spider tattoo on her wrist dance with each movement.

"Well, I take it there is a reason you summoned us all personally here to this island?" she spat when he didn't respond to her first cough.

"There is Scarlett" Vandal Savage smirked, amused by his colleague's impatience "As you all know, our plan to infiltrate the Justice League and infect them with the Starro Tech chips, hasn't gone quite according to plan"

"Pff! Understatement!" the young devilish pale man pouted stroking the cat next to him.

"Not quite true" a robotic voice spoke from the vessel of the robotic brain. "Our off-world operatives were able to finish their assignment before they were cured. We might still be able to turn the tide"

"The Brain is correct." The man in the green cape, Ras Al Ghul, agreed, his voice solemn as he addressed the room at large. "If we act soon we might be able to put a stop to the Justice League's investigations before they get anywhere. They already know about the Starro Tech, it won't be long till they start tracing it back to Cadmus and our other activities."

"Then there is the clone Roy Harper." The dark regal woman beside Luthor murmured grimly. "Now that he is aware of his roots, he will undoubtedly start searching for the original Speedy"

"Let him try, Queen Bee" Luthor smirked leaning back in his chair "Our Cadmus facilities are all well hidden. It will be quite some time till Red Arrow finds him, and if he's hitting too close to home, we can just throw him a bone for him to sniff in the wrong direction"

"Indeed, and that is precisely the reason I summoned you all here today." Vandal Savage smiled as he finally sat in his chair, his form a dark shadow against the fiery lava flowing behind him.

With a swipe on the table, he illuminated a white holographic computer, swiping forwards several documents towards each of the council members in turn.

"Project C.R.I.M.E?" Queen Bee quirked a brow at her fellow council members. "You can't be serious?"

"Desperate times call for desperate measures" Vandal Savage shrugged, not at all phased by his colleagues' scepticism as they all read through the documents at their own pace.

"I see you have decided to take a leaf out of the Justice League's book and make them a team" Ra's Al Ghul sighed as he flicked through the contents of the document, his green eyes scanning each page quickly. "Though I hardly see how we can prepare them in such a short space of time"

"That depends on who we can hire to train them" Scarlett pursed her lips as she traced her fingers over a line of text "Though I agree with you Ra's. Training operatives from the ground up takes time and resources. Two things we are running short on"

"We can make do." The Brain spoke robotically from his spot "Besides, half of them already have the abilities necessary for the job. And we already have the genomorphs to speed things along should we find them too slow"

"And if that doesn't work, I can always play with them" the pale dark boy gave a gleeful creepy cackle, only to be silenced by Luthor's cough of distaste.

"There won't be any need for any of that Klarion. We have already chosen some fine specimens to start with, they just need refinement and guidance."

"Both of which they will receive here in the Tartarus facility, and more, under the careful eyes of very specialized trainers and handlers." Vandal Savage assured the room, pressing his fingers together in front of him.

"Rest assured, I have taken no chances and spared no expense to arm and protect this island from outside threats. And even if the Justice League or their little team of children do find out about it, we have special contingencies set in place so that they do not discover our true intentions. After all, these Agents of ours are merely a smokescreen, a distraction if you will, to keep the League busy while we prepare ourselves for Phase two of our great plan. If all goes well, the Agents might even prove themselves useful when Phase two is in effect and long after."

"And if they're not? What if they become more of a liability than a help? What will we do then?" Scarlett's lips curled and all eyes upon Vandal Savage seemed to harden considerably.

"There are failsafe for that too" the man in question, smiled oh-so-pleasantly. "Though I doubt we'll have to resort to such drastic measures. If you'd like I can send you more information on some of our other options to distract the league, though none of them will be nearly as effective as the one you see before you."

"I suppose" Scarlett murmured as she considered the document before her thoughtfully.

Opposite her, Ra's Al Ghul rolled his eyes.

"We are wasting time. Every minute we waste only gives the Detective and the rest of the league more of a chance to interfere with our plans. We all should vote now on our next course of action."

"Agreed" Luthor nodded as he straightened up in his chair, clearing his throat importantly "All those in favour of Project C.R.I.M.E?"

He and Vandal Savage were quick to raise their hands, though the rest of their compatriots all hesitated. Finally, after a couple of seconds, they all raised their hands, or at least the humans raised their hands while the Brain raised a stick like robotic appendage from the side of his metal body.

"It seems the vote is unanimous." Vandal Savage smirked maliciously at the table at large as they all lowered their hands.

"Congratulations Council, Project C.R.I.M.E. is now, officially, in operation."


AND TADAA! Young Injustice is officially underway!

so this is just the prologue but I think you can get a taste for what might be coming soon. it took me a while to get used to the time stamps again, seriously I hate having to look up all the Time Zone codes for each of the areas, it takes up so much time and effort. But I wanted to keep it in the similar style to the original YJ episodes. there is the original members of the Light, plus one OC, Scarlett, a villainess from my first fic Swift Ascenscion. The rest of the OC's or "Agents" as I like to call them are to appear soon so I'm pretty excited to see where this is going.

Anyways, if you guys enjoyed just read and review and hopefully i'll get something up soon.

Cheers,

Fuzzybeta