Author's Note: All right, sorry for the late update guys. I know some of you have waited a while for this one. I hope you like it.
Chapter 2
King Snake
As Damien examined the bodies strung about him, the hero scoffed and retrieved his sword from the ground. Sheathing it he muttered something incoherent to himself and he slung the weapon across his back and made his way out of the alleyway. As he left he heard a soft moan coming from one of the men. Damien stopped in his tracks and looked over his shoulder at the guy that was groaning, pretty soon he heard the same coming from the other men. She hadn't killed them after all, he thought. The man quirked his eyebrow amused by this. He wasn't sure why, but for some reason he felt better knowing they were alive. A smile crept on the young man's face and hurried away from the scene before they all came to. He knew he'd regret it later, especially since it gave King Snake a reason to pursue him further. But at the same time he liked a challenge. This certainly wouldn't be the last time he'd tangle with either of the villain's organizations.
Hours later in Kowloon, Hong Kong word would reach King Snake and his criminal syndicate.
"I'm sorry my liege but we seem to have run into a bit of opposition here in Gotham. A female vigilante calling herself Black Tiger attacked our group while we were already engaged in battle with another person." A boy in his late teens said on monitor.
"Did you get the name of the other person you were fighting?" he asked.
"Something Wayne…I overheard them say something about him being in league with the Batman. I think his name was Damien sir." The youth said.
"Damien Wayne." The crimelord said his name in venom.
"My sources tell me he went by the identity of Red Robin at some point. Any clue why he was out there?" Snake asked.
"No idea sir. He brought the battle to us, we had him on the ropes until this Black Tiger chick came to his rescue." he replied.
"I see, that is all general." He told him.
"Y-your not going to punish me?" he asked rather timid.
"Not right now, but if you fail me once more I assure you it will be your last." he warned.
"Y-yes Lord Naja! I shall not fail you again!" he replied.
"See that you don't." he said before ending the transmission.
The crimelord turned in his chair in a darkened control room. He was an English man with long blonde hair and was shirtless with a green snake tattoo on his chest and wore dark green pants with boots.
"So the Batman's son is involved in this…I'll have to keep an eye on those two." He said to himself.
"Lynx." He said aloud.
"Yes master?" a female voice said on another computer.
"I have a job for you and your Shadow Dragons." He told her.
"Understood my liege." The girl said.
Back in Gotham Damien was getting a hot dog from a local vendor on the street.
"Thanks." He said receiving the dog.
"You always carry a sword around with you?" the old man asked.
"Oh uh not really, I'm attending a sci-fi convention." He smiled.
"I see, you have a good one." The man waved.
"Uh huh, you too." He said and left. The vendor shook his head.
"Kids these days." He said and went about his business.
Damien continued down the sidewalk a while later eating his dog, scolding himself for carrying something like that out in the open. As he passed by an alleyway he heard a scuffle going on and could see a woman being mugged, dropping his dog he quickly made his way into the alley.
"Hey." He said as he ran up to them.
The men stopped and slowly turned to face him. It was then he realized he walked into a trap.
"Well this should be fun." He said getting into fighting stance.
The first man yelled as he jumped ten feet in the air. He looked up as the man came at him with a flying kick. Grabbing him by the ankle he slammed the crook face first into the brick wall beside him. He looked up and saw the second man doing back flips towards him as he got back into fighting stance; the second man drove his foot into Damian's chest knocking him back. The mugger did a backhand swing at his neck. Damian dodged it and another punch before grabbing the man's arm and breaking it with one swift snap. The street ninja screamed holding his arm before being kicked in the chest by Damian. The punk fell on his back infront of the girl, with his legs in the air as Damian made his way past him.
"You all right?" he asked.
"Better than you." she said before tazoring him.
Damian yelled as the current ran through him and fell to his knees seconds later. The girl came up to him with a smirk on her face as he hovered in and out of consciousness. The boy sometime later chained to a wall. The girl from earlier was now dressed in a red skintight uniform with dark blue armor and a white oriental styled lynx mask with long black hair tied into pigtails.
"Glad to see your awake, my master will be most interested in meeting you." she said.
"Wish I could say the feeling's mutual. To what do I owe the pleasure Miss?"
"I am called Lynx. Leader of this sector's Ghost Dragons." She told him.
"Well Lynx it's not everyday I get kidnapped, so I guess the better question is. What does your boss want with me?" he asked.
"Don't play dumb with me little man." She said.
"Little? I bet I'm the same age as you." he replied.
"It doesn't matter, my master will be here shortly." She said.
"So I guess that means dinner's out of the question?" he asked sarcastically.
The door opened seconds later as King Snake entered the room.
"Right this way master." a teenage boy said leading him over to Damian. The crimelord stood infront of him, hands behind his back as he surveyed the prisoner.
"So this is the famed son of Batman." he said.
"How did you know?" he asked.
"I know many things my dear boy. I also know that you've caused me quite a bit of trouble and I dont like that." he said calmly. Damian noticed that the man's eyes were pale and unfocused.
"Your blind." he said.
"Yes I'm blind, but I assure you I'm far from disabled." he said.
Damian's binds came undone seconds later to face the master. Before the two could even exchange punches, glass shatters above them as a team of people entered the room.
"Who dares?!" growled Snake.
"We do, we're Young Outsiders." said Sin.
Standing next to her were six other teenage superheroes. Static, Geo-Force, Ryand'r, Squire, Catgirl and Katana.
"Mind if we crash?" joked Static.
"Attack!" King Snake yelled.
The Ghost Dragons headed their master's command and lunged at the team. Static stepped forward as his hands lit up generating spheres of violet energy.
"Sorry guys, but we're going to have to make this short." he said zapping them.
The teen street fighters were blown back by the attack and magnetized to the walls of the warehouse. A second wave of fighters attack as the rest of the team went into battle. Geo-Force struck the ground with his fist generating a quake that threw the Ghost Dragons off balance. While Black Tiger rushed into battle drawing her weapon and quickly dispatched the Dragons. Catgirl unfurled a whip around her waist and lashed at the other Dragons dispatching them just as quickly. Ryand'r pointed a red starbolt at King Snake.
"Get down!" he yelled at Damian and blasted Snake.
The Squire took out her slingshot and fired gas pellets at the remaining ninjas. Damian felt Sin wrap her arm around his waist and wisked him away from King Snake before he could recover from Ryandr's blast. While Katana fought off those that had rejoined the battle assisting Static. Black Tiger rushed past her teammates with Damian in tow ignoring his objections over being saved.
"Let's go!" she yelled firing a zip shooter at the skylight and carried him off.
The rest of the team retreated soon after to the frustration of King Snake. On a nearby rooftop Damian finally wrenched himself free of Sin.
"What the hell? I could have taken him!" he said.
"You could have been dead, and your welcome." she replied.
Damian adjusted his jacket venting frustration turning his attention to the others.
"So who are these guys?" he said.
"Like I said earlier, these are my teammates. This is our field commander Bryan Markov." she said starting off.
"I'm Geo-Force." he said shaking hands.
Bryan was the tallest member of the team wearing a black t-shirt, brown vest, and cargo shorts. The team captain had blonde spikey hair and wore a green bandana under a pair of ski goggles.
"Over here's Static." she said.
"S'up man? Virgil Hawkins." he said pounding fists with Damian.
Static was African American and wore a black shirt with gold logo, black pants and a blue and yellow overcoat. and also wore a white facemask with shades and dreadlocks.
"Think you might be familar with this guy." she said directing him over to the team's powerhouse.
"You're..."
"Nitrofire, Star's brother. How you been?" he said shaking his hand.
Ryand'r had long red shaggy locks tied back in a ponytail and wore a black shirt, with a spiked shoulderpad on his right arm along with armor plating on his forearms and legs with dark blue pants. And had a notable scar on his right cheek.
"Uh good it's...been a while." he said suprised.
"And these are the girls." Sin said.
"How's it going lad? Beryl Hutchinson, the Squire at ya service." she said.
Beryl was a young British girl dressed in form fitting black trousers with red lacing that ran up the sides and wore a loose fitting green and yellow jacket with a large symbol on her chest and in the form of crossed arrows and wore a green domino mask with a large red Robin Hood styled hat and feather with long red hair.
Another Asian girl walked up to him.
"This is Cassie Cain, she doesnt say much but she's pretty effective in battle. She's the second Katana." Sin told him.
The girl didnt look him directly in the eyes and was dressed in civilian gear simular to Black Tiger. Another girl in a purple catsuit walked up to Damian, which seemed really odd to the boy.
"Let me guess, Catgirl?" he said with a smile. The girl raised her goggles.
"Yeah I'm Carrie Kelly." she said shaking his hand.
This by far was the strangest member of the team. Here stood a teenage girl in a purple and white furry catsuit. Why she was dressed that way he didnt have the foggiest. Inside he was dying from laughter at the gaudy costume she wore. Aside from the white chest, her costume also had large black spots that went down the back of her costume topped off with orange cat's eye goggles.
"Oh good god, where'd they pick up this case?" he wondered.
"I think he likes me." she thought back.
"Why she still wears that thing I'll never know." Static said though clinched teeth.
Author's Note: All right I've been meaning to get this one out for a while. Sorry it took so long to update, I was kind of a lazyass in doing so. Anyway I'm pretty sure most of you would recognize who Geo-Force, Ryand'r and Static are. Personally I just wanted to throw together the most awesome team imaginable. Carrie Kelly is actually a character from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Dark Knight Strikes Again. Orginally she was Robin and then for some reason Frank Miller made her into Catgirl, which personally I think is one of those things that shouldnt have happened. The costume is a slight exaggeration of the one she wears in Strikes Again, but still just as bad. XD It seems like she's always been protrayed as kind of nerdy. Anyway that's all for now, hope you guys like it. I know Damian didnt do much. But meh. So what does everyone think of the lineup?
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