Disclaimer: I own nothing of Young Justice...that all belongs to the creators of DC Comics and such! Bastet/Alexandria is my OC!

YOU ALL NEED TO GO BACK AND RE-READ CHAPTER 1 BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN REVISIED AND REWRITTEN! GO NOW!

July 22

During the few day's that she's been with the team, Alexandria seemed to get along will with the team. Although Wally was constantly trying to hit on her and M'gann, she's gotten used to his antics and he succeeds in making her laugh. Kaldur is still unsure how she'll handle missions because of her shy and timid nature even though Black Canary accured him that she could handle her own. Superboy keeps to himself for the most part and M'gann's even more thrilled about there being another girl on the team.

Currently, the Team sat in M'gann's Bioship heading to Isla Santa Prisca, located near the Caribbean Sea, where an illegal steroid known as Venom was being outsourced but the islands supply lines have been cut off.

The Team's mission was simple and covert: Find out what's happening and report back.

The Justice League would intervene if needed. Then Robin asked the one question everyone wanted to know.

"Who gets to lead?" Batman paused for a second before answering.

"Work that out amongst yourselves." Robin grinned as he sat in his seat.

Bastet thought back to what Black Canary told her before they left

*Flashback*

Black Canary pulled Bastet aside as the others started preparing for the journey.

"Remember Alex, trust in yourself and your team and remember what Diana and I taught you."

"Yes, Auntie. I won't let you down." The young one gave Black Canary one last hug before climbing aboard the ship where the organic seat strapped her in automatically as she sat down.

*Flashback End*

"Drop Zone A in thirty." M'gann noted as Kaldur unstrapped himself and pressed a button around his waist that changed his costume into a darker version.

Kaldur and Wally were given new suits with stealth mode technology built into them because their costume consisted of bright coloring. Bastet, Robin, and Superboy didn't need any because their contumes were already dark colored while M'gann could change her clothes at will via her mental commands. Aqualad dove through a hole in the ship into the sea below. Everyone else headed for Drop Zone B while awaiting status updates from Kaldur.

"Heat and motion sensors have been patched and data now runs repeatidly. Move in." he stated over the comm link.

Everyone stood as the chairs disappeared and lines came out. Wally pressed the bolt on his chest and his costume went into stealth mode while M'gann changed her clothes.

"C'mon Supey! Try out this new stealth tech." Wally encouraged but the clone just shook his head.

"No capes, no tights...no offense." he stated causing Bastet to chickle.

M'gann tried to make a flirty comment but ended up throwing her hood over her head in embarassment. Robin and Wally hooked their lines around their belts and waited.

"C'mon Kittycat, you can slide down with me. I'll keep you safe." Wally flirted so Rob punched him in the arm.

"Thanks but no thanks Wally...Cat's always land on their feet." She replied back shifting into a black panther.

"Heh, me-ow." Rob punched him again. "Dude, will you quit that?" Rob didn't answer as everyone left the ship.

Rob and KF let go of their lines as they touched the ground while Bastet used the trees to ease the landing. Miss Martian landed the Bioship while Superboy landed, shaking the earth.

"Ya know, creating an explosive creator isn't going to help us much!" Robin scolded as everyone revcovered themselves from Superboy's landing.

"Aqualad, our Drop B is a go." M'gann spoke into her comm.

"Roger that. Now begin heading north towards the factory. I'll track you through GPS and meet up ASAP. Aqualad out." As soon as the comm link cleared Bastet looked around.

"Uh...where'd Robin go?", she asked causing the others to jump a bit.

"You can talk?!" KF shouted with M'gann sushing him as a result. "Well of course I can talk...I learned to when I was two. But can we talk about this later. We've got a mission to do...So...where did Robin go cause I hear something?" she asked again.

"He's somewhere around here." Kid Flash answered.

Aqualad's voice came back on over the comm link.

"Kid, you and Superboy switch over to infer-red. Check to see if you're being tracked." Wally ducked down behind some bushes to the right of the group pulling down his goggles.

"I got a squad full of idiots incoming." Superboy stepped to the left and focused his eyes to see in infer-red.

"Looks like two squads...but...they'll meet each other before they find us."

As the group sighed in relief, the silence was broken by multiple gun shots going off, coming from different directions.

"I don't think super hearing is needed at this point." Kid Flash stated loudly over the noise.

"Swing wide and-"

Kid Flash interrupted Aqualad's sentence with something about finding Robin before taking off into the jungle.

"We need to silence that noise before back up shows." Bastet said.

The remaining three teens ran towards the two groups and began taking out the gunsmen, being careful of the bullets though there were some close calls. As they fought, Bastet caught Robin and Kid Flash's argument.

"What is wrong with you guys? Why didn't you take after me and disapear within the trees?!"

"Oh is that what you were doing? Cause it kinda helps when you tell us. We're not all mind readers, ya know!" It was during that opportunity that two goons were flung telepathically into a tree behind him by Miss Martian. "Well...I mean...I'm not."

A goon tried to jump Miss Martian from behind but was tackled down by Bastet in her lioness form before grabbing him by the hood and giving him some harsh shakes, then tossed him against a nearby tree that knocked him out on impact.

"We'd better get these goons tied up before they run away and call for more goons." she called as Aqualad had arrived and assisted in tying everyone up.

One group wore gang street clothes with a man wearing a mask as the leader. The others wore red hooded robes that Robin seemed to recognize.

"These guys belong to the Cult of Kobra. He must have come here and kicked the goons out which explains why normal supply lines are no longer operational." Robin stated with a triumphant smirk while Kid Flash just rolled his eyes in annoyance.

"Alright, we get it. Kobra wanted botched followers, no more enigma. Let's hurry up and call Bats so we can be home before midnight." Bastet shifted back to her panther form, shaking her head.

"There's a problem here, KF. Kobra isn't suping up his cultists, he's stashing the steroids somehwere. Otherwise they'd most likely be as jacked up as Nacho Libre over there." she motioned to the big guy with the mask.

"Bast's right so we're not leaving until I know why this is all happening." Robin said as the speedster looked at him in disbelief.

"Until you know why? So you're suddenly the leader now? Dude, you're a thirteen year old hacker who left us in the dark about your plan."

"Oh and you think you're so mature cause you're fifteen? You blew our cover at the first opportunity because you can't watch your going!" Boy Wonder argued back.

As the two continued to squabble, Miss Martian, Superboy, and Bastet conversed on their own.

"Superboy, don't you want to be the leader?" The green alien asked him but he shook his head.

"No...you?" She put up her hand with a definate 'no'.

"Not after what happened with the whole Mister Twister thing", she muttered but Superboy gave her an understanding smile.

"You did alright." he complimented, as the Martian's face went red with blush.

"What's a Mr Twister? Who's he?" Bast asked.

"We'll tell you when we get back from the mission." M'gann answered giving the cat girl a scratch behind the ears.

She purred instinctivly under the touch bu snapped her head to the left when she heard Nacho Libre converse with one of his men, but it was in Spanish so she couldn't understand. Yet Robin and Kid Flash still continued to argue.

"How can you be leader? You don't have any powers!" Kid yelled.

"Batman doesn't either!" Robin shouted back.

"Tch, you're not Batman!"

"'Tch'. Closest thing we've got!" Rob mocked.

The big man chose this time to chuckle at the scene.

"Such clever ninos. But that's only half the information. I can help you get into the factory using my ever so secret entrance." Miss Martian placed her fingers to her head and tried to probe his mind.

"He's right about there being a secret entrance...but..." Bast approached the man, growling with claws unseathed and fangs bared.

"Ah ah ah chica...Bane is not that easy." He responded as M'gann broke contact with a dissapointed sigh.

"Crap, he's reciting football scores in Spanish...This might take a while."

"It's not as hard as you might think. The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Bast growled putting her face just inches away from Bane's.

"But the enemy of an enemy could still be our enemy." Hearing a big black panther talk caused the man beside Bane to completly freak.

"AAAAHHH! EL DIABLO! EL DIABLO!"

"Siempre la boca!" Bane ordered as Bast roared loudly and more meanacingly at the man.

"I may not know much Spanish, but I am NOT the devil!" She roared at the man as he shrunk back as if trying to merge with the tree.

"Si, si." He whimpered.

"So ninos...what's it gonna be?" The Team looked at one another before making a decision.

"Alright but if you try anything stupid, my claws meet your throat. Got it?" The shifter threatened.

"Si, gato." he replied with an amused look.

Bane was set free and led the teens to a covercliff which overlooked the factory and warehouse. Robin pulled out his binoculars and took a look below.

"There is a buy going down but that has to mean that the mystery supplier is the buyer as well. We should go and get some answers." He said as Bane grunted behind them, moving away a huge boulder from the entrance to an inground tunnel.

"You're answers are this way." He headed inside with the Team following.

"So now we're supposed to be taking orders from El Luchador?" Robin gave Kid Flash a punch for the comment. "Dude..."

Bane led the others to an entryway down at the loading docks. Freight crates were being lifted and brought out to the loading bay.

"So there's our massive shipment but that's all new Venom. They're not bothering with these other shipments." Bast whispered. "What do you think Ro-"

Robin had dissapeared again.

"Has that little bugger dont and got himself caught already?" Bane grumbled.

"No that's just what he does." Aqualad replied.

"No problem. I'll go get intell before the Boy Wonder even returns." Kid Flash sped off before anyone could protest against it.

"What a great chain of command you've got here, chico." The masked man commented sarcastically.

"There a helicopter approaching." Superboy warned and sure enough an army chopper landed.

Miss Martian camoflauged herself and flew out carefully, awaiting the buyer. When she got the chance, she opened a small link.

'Aqualad, I'm sending you a telepathic image of the mystery buyer now.' She sent the image of a well built man wearing a blue t-shirt, a hockey mask over his face and had bright blond hair.

"The buyer is Sportsmaster!" Aqualad identified.

"So what do we do now?" Bast asked, though not knowing who Sportsmaster was.

"We need to stop that transaction from taking place."

Bane smiled at Aqualad's thought and took it to heart as he leapt over the ledge of the overpass, taking out two cultists. Aqualad, Superboy and Bastet had no choice after that but to follow suit. More cultists joined the fight with a creature that looked similar to what happened to Desmund at Cadmus a few weeks back.

"Miss Martian, link us up!" Aqualad called as he blocked away bullets.

'Everyone here?' she asked.

'Yeah...' Superboy grumbled in annoyance as he pulled himself from some rubble.

'You got it, sexy.' KF flirted.

'I'm set.' Bast responded as she changed to a jaguar and knocked some cultists away.

'Robin, are you ready?' Aqualad asked.

'Busy now!' The Boy Wonder responded.

As more cultists appeared, it was clear to the young hero's that they were outnumbered.

'We need to retreat! Now! Kid, open a path for us!'

Kid Flash followed Aqualad's order and knocked away a clear path of goons as everyone headed for the secret entrance that they came out of. The giant creature and a number of cultists followed behind, slightly gaining.

"Superboy, knock down the supportbeams!" Aqualad called as the clone followed behind.

The collapse of the beams created a cave in effectivly separating the cultists from the hero's. Once there were sure they were safe, they all sat down for a breather. Aqualad broke open some red glowsticks for light. Bast shifted back to normal and saw Robin sitting a way's off.

"How could my first mission as leader turn into such a disaster?" he murmered.

Bast placed a hand on his shoulder in a comforting way.

"It's ok, Robin. Not every mission we go on is going to turn out the way we want."

"Alexandria's right. When it comes to being a hero, you are the most experienced one out of us all, but that's because when you're with Batman, you already know your role so no words need be exchanged." Robin sighed at Aqualad's words.

"You're right, Kaldur...you should be the leader." Wally tried to protest.

"Oh come on! I can-"

"Wally, think about it...He...he's the logical choice." Lexie added and the speedster sighed in defeat.

"Then I accept this democratic decision until you feel ready to take over. It is your destiny to be the leader someday." Kaldur reassured the thirteen year old who smiled. "Now we just have to stop that buy from going down." The Team headed down the tunnel where Robin had explained that the serum from Blockbuster in Cadmus had been enhanced by Kobra's Venom to create a more permenant steriod.

They had just reached the entrance again when they were stopped by Bane.

"Freeze, little ones cause I'm feeling quite explosive." Bast looked up to see a few black C4 boxes stuck to the dirt ceiling with the trigger in the brute's hand.

"You traitor!" she growled and shifted to her tiger form.

"It's not that hard to figure out. I simply used you where you would take out my enemy or be destroyed in the process of tiring them out. By then, I know that the Justice League would come here to avenge their little sidekicks."

'Kid, get yourself a running start.' KF backed away slowly into the darkness as Bane continued his monologue.

"Either way, I get my factory back and Santa Prisca becomes mine once more." As he set to push the trigger, Kid sped past and snatched it out of his hand who looked down in surprise.

Bane looked down in surprise.

"And were you planning to accomplish that with this trigger box thingy?" He teased as he held up the box for Bane to see.

He growled in frustration and lunged for Kid onl to be tackled by Bast, pinning him down roughly.

"Easy Kittycat, we don't want his blood on your pretty head, do we?" Wally asked.

"I warned him that if he tried anything funny, my claws would spill his blood anyway." she growled as her teeth got closer to Bane's neck.

"Bastet! No." She looked back at her now leader who gave her a stern look but gave a nod for her to let him up.

The second she did, M'gann picked him up and Superboy stepped forward.

"About time..." he brought his fist back. "..drop him." M'gann gladly let down the big brute as Superboy socked him do hard, it knocked Bane out.

Robin tied him up and they continued on their way through the jungle to the landing bay where the helicopter was getting ready to take off.

"Hurry. You all know the plan." Aqualad took care of Mammoth while Superboy would distract Sportsmaster long enough for Miss Martian to get one of those explosive boxes aboard the helicoptor. Bastet would take down Kobra's loyal henchwoman, Shimmer, while Robin got Kobra himself.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in." Shimmer taunted as the tiger approached her.

"Apparently it tried dragging you in but only managed to get half your hair." Bast hissed as she linged for the servant.

Shimmer backflipped and tried to throw a kick but Bast latched onto her leg. Shimmer struggled to free herself but that only made Bast hold on tighter.

"Let me go, you stupid animal!" she demanded as she continued to struggle, blood now dripping down from the wouds created from the bite.

Angered by the comment, Bast swung Shimmer around smacking her against the nearby metal shipping crates until she fell unconcious.

"Don't ever call me a stupid animal again." she threatedes, spitting out the girl's blood onto her face.

She turned her concentration to Kobra who had his foot stomped on Robin's chest.

"I'm surrounded by gnats!" The cult leader growled as the helicopter exploded.

"Get off of him!" Bast yelled, knocking Kobra off Robin who took a breath before backflipping away to the others who had now gathered.

Kobra kicked the tiger off and stood, assessing the situation.

"Some other time, perhaps." he said and stepped backwards into the jungle.

"NO!" Bast pounced through the trees where Kobra vanished through but saw nothing. "Get back here, you snake!" she roared angerly, her pupils narrowing dangerously.

But the villan did not heed the call and she roared again in frustration.

"RRRRRRAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGHHHHHH !" Birds in nearby trees suddenly scattered and flew off, frightened.

"Geeze, remind me never to make Lexie mad." Wally whispered.

As Bast stepped back throught the trees, she shifted back with a saddened look.

"I...I lost him...I'm...I'm so sorry..." The girl looked ready to burst into tears as she dropped her gaze to the ground as she apologized.

M'gann came up and gave her a hug.

"It's ok, Lexie. You don't have to get the bad guys everytime, right guys?" she turned to the boys who nodded their heads in agreement.

"But Mother and Auntie Dinah always tell me, 'Never lose sight of your opponent'."

"True, but it is like you said before. Not every mission we go on will work out as planned." Aqualad stated, placing a reassuring hand on the girl's shoulder.

She smiled up at her leader.

"We really did make a great choice in picking you as the leader." She said.

Both Robin and Wally came up and gave Kaldur a pat on the back.

"Yeah we did!" KF agreed.

"And being leader automatically holds you as the perfect candidate for explaining this mess to Batman!" Robin laughed as he gestured to the now burning warehouse.

The Atlantian sighed heavily knowing full well that he was going to be the one that Batman would scold the most as leader. Miss Martian brought in the Bioship and the team headed back to Mt. Justice where Batman was waiting.

"Go change and report right back here." He ordered.

The Team did so and then described in detail what happened on Santa Prisca. When they finished, Batman began the harsh scolding.

"I sent you on a simple recon mission to observe and report. Tomorrow you will each recieve a written evaluation naming off your many mistakes." The Team winced at his words and harsh tone. "However...you did a good job. No plan of action goes through a mission exactly as it's written. How it's handled within the situation and who you choose as leader is what counts for character. You're dismissed. Baster, stay back. We need to talk."

Everyone else cleared out of the briefing room, through Robin was a little more than hesitant because he knew how harsh Bruce could be but Wally dragged him away.

"Yes, sir?" she questioned in a quiet voice, feeling like she was going to be yelled at for letting Kobra get away.

"You cannot let the fact that the enemy escaped hang over your head like a weight. Yes, it was a small mistake but this was your first mission and all except Miss Martian and Superboy have experience with villans. I didn't expect you to be so determined in catching someone as slippery as Kobra or even threatening Bane. That man could snap you like a twig even in your strongest form. What you did took a lot of courage...Though it was also very foolish."

"I just...wanted to prove that I can handle myself now...That...I'm not the shy little stray picked up two years ago...After letting Kobra get away, I...I thought I messed up my chance."

Batman stepped closer to the girl and led her to the zetatubes.

"No, you didn't." He activated the tubes and transported them back to Wayne Manor.

"But for now, head back to your room and get some sleep. I'll have Alfred come wake you later." He ruffled Lexie's hair before she headed through the hallyways back to her room where she collapsed on the bed and fell into a peaceful sleep.