Chapter 2

Everyone knew that the fastest man on the planet was the great Barry Allan or known as The Flash to most.

The fastest boy in the world, was Wally West, otherwise known as Kid Flash. Kid Flash was so fast that he could run across water, he once ran all the way across the country and back to bring home one of Central City's famous Pepperoni pizzas for the gang in less then 8 minutes…course, if you take out the waiting period and bad customer service…it probably would have taken Kid Flash maybe 4 minutes..if that.. to return..

But right here, on the golden beach of Happy Harbour, no one could have foreseen this. The blonde haired teenager that was clad in medieval with a touch of fantasy armour had taken an instant disliking to the speedster..maybe it was the "Princess" comment..Kid Flash couldn't be sure.

Before, Wally could make a dash towards the blonde haired buffoon, he saw it. The hammer flew across from the hand of the blonde haired one known as Thor and caught him straight on the chin and then as if it possessed its own will, it returned magically back to the hand of Thor, who made a grunt as he caught his hammer with a satisfied grin across his face.

Wally was laid out cold and deep in the land of slumber.

"TAKE EM!" Connor roared as he charged forward.

"Wait!" Nightwing yelled sitting on the coast as he watched helplessly in his stealth boat.

Thor moved forward to meet Connor, he swung Mjolnir and missed. Connor counted on this mistake and planted a left hook to Thor's defenceless rib-cage, Thor growled pulling the pain in and continued his attack by swinging harder and faster.

"You." Loki pointed at Megan. "You're the strongest."

"I don't think you realise how strong." Megan smiled as she pulled herself into the air, her eyes began to turn a dark shade of red as she began to concentrate on incapacitating her green clad enemy.

Megan had the ability of Telekenisis and Telepathy, right now she was using her Telepathy powers to gain a hold on this trickster that could create false images of himself but her ability seemed fruitless, there was nothing there as if..he did not exist..or maybe..he was not there but he was standing right in front of her with a big creepy smile..Unless…

"I don't think you're as strong as you think you are." A voice came ushering into her head and then all of a sudden flames roared up from the beach below, Megan felt the flames lick at her green skin and scratch at her, burning her.

"HELP!" She screamed as she tried to escape but the flames chased her across the beach, growing hotter and more ferocious, burning everything in its path to taste her sweet Martian flesh.

Artemis, Nightwing, Robin and Garfield (Beast Boy) watched helplessly as Megan fell from the sky and landed on the sand.

"Uhhhh…Nightwing…" Garfield felt the pangs of fear take hold as he watched Connor battle the hammer wielder and Megan fall foul of the green trickster mind tricks.

"I'm coming!" Nightwing yelled as he deactivated the stealth mode on the mini-war ship that Batman had designed for his protégés to protect Happy Harbour from water attacks. He turned on the engines and blasted full speed towards the beach.

"A simple trick my Mother taught me." Loki smiled as he admired his handiwork , he had slipped into Megans mind without her even knowing as she was fully concentrated on the false image he had created of himself and then he had simply pulled her greatest fear forward and the Megan did the rest by giving into her weakness.

Thor caught Connor across the shoulder with Mjolnir and then capitalised with a brutal shot to the ribs and followed magnificently with swing of his hammer that caught Connor across the jaw, Thor smiled as he thought even Odin would be jealous of this mighty blow.

The Asgardian waited for half a second as Connor hit the ground with a small thud that sent a shiver down the spine of the island And then the impossible happened. Thor had turned Rock Trolls to dust with Mjolnir, he had beaten down Frost Giants with his hammer and it was this hammer that was forged from the heart of a dying star, it was the greatest of absolute power..it was God Magic, nothing could withstand its fury and yet this boy, belonging to one retched world known as Earth..Mid-gard…this boy was able to simply rise up after taking a beating even Algrim, the greatest of the Dark Elves would fail to return from.

"What devilry is this?" Thor asked in disbelief.

"It called Kryptonian." Connor smirked dashing forward and planting a fierce right hook to Thor face.

Artemis fired shot after shot but the green one known as Loki was fast and agile, and every now and then, he would duplicate himself and then create a triplicate to throw her off. But if it was not for Beast Boy, Artemis would have been a goner long ago as Artemis and Beast Boy took it in turns to attack Loki, Beast Boy was no threat as Loki thumped him with punches in whatever form the shapeshifting Young Justice member took. Artemis watched as green T-Rex tried to chomp Loki's head off, but Loki simply held his clamping jaws open and then threw him across the sand.

At which point, Artemis fired another arrow. This time..she got the punk!

The boxing glove arrow caught Loki across the face but he only seemed amused as evidenced by his smirk that grew larger and larger. He marched towards her flicking at arrows she sent toward him.

"We, train children of tender ages to fire more faster and dare I say it..more accurate shots at our Academy!" Loki told Artemis as he made his way toward her. "I could teach you..if you wish it."

"Back off!" Artemis yelled reaching for another quiver only to realize that she was all out. She took half a second to think and realised that all her other gadgets were on the kitchen counter, the Young Justice team had had to suit up immediately, the moment these two perps had arrived…she had barely enough time to grab her bow and arrows…

"I have a boyfriend!" Artemis told Loki as he glanced at a fallen Wally.

"You misunderstand young maiden. I do not wish to court you…nor do I wish to contest for your hand in marriage. I thought but simply I could teach you how to fire arrows." Loki smiled, but unfortunately that is the one thing one should never say to a five time world archery champion.

"Ok.."Artemis smiled and took out from her pocket her hidden weapon. It was the thing she kept for extreme emergencies, if everything else was to fail..it was a pocket pen shaped taser, small and indiscrete and more importantly dangerously effective.

"The first point to note young maiden is that—" As Loki began to draw closer and begin his lecture of how to be a better archer, Artemis drew the taser pen and pointed it directly at the Asgardians face chest and clicked the button were someone would press to begin writing, but with this pen, a small silver spike flew across and pinned itself on Loki's coat and then Loki felt for once on this little backwater planet the closest thing to pain..It was excruciating as electricity ran through him and threw him to his knees, his brother had done this to him growing up and although he had been electrocuted countless times…it was and always will be. Painful.

"COME!" Thor ducked as Connor threw a jab. "So slow!"

"Yeah?" Connor took a moment taking a step back.

"Does the mighty Boy-Man yield to his true superior?" Thor joked throwing his hands up.

Connor closed his eyes for a moment, concentrating his anger and then opened his eyes. Thor who bellowed in laughter stopped taking a good look at the Kryptonians eyes that gleamed a dark red and fixed on him.

Artemis moved forward, ready to lock down Loki with her specially designed handcuffs that were given to her courtesy of Queen Industries. Loki lay on the floor unmoving, face first in the sand.

"STAY DOWN!" Artemis yelled orders as she reached behind her back for her shiny silver cuffs.

Artemis grabbed hold of Loki's right wrist and placed one cuff on and as she reached for the other, Loki turned quickly pulling her to the ground, Artemis struggled but Loki was stronger and bigger. A few mere seconds later, Artemis found herself face first in the sand.

"I have spent a childhood learning to break free from restraints. Some tangible, others not so…" Loki told Artemis.

All of a sudden, Thor flew across and crashed into the ditch that was created on their arrival to Earth. Loki moved too fast for Connors fiery gaze that had incapacitated his brother.

"Tis quite a feat to bring down my brother. You should be happy and yield, while you still draw breath." Loki told Connor who cooled his anger and burning eyes.

"RAAARRHHH!" Connor growled fiercely super-speeding straight into Loki, both hit the sand with a thud, Loki locked Connors arms with his leg, a move similar to an arm-bar, Connor fell backward, his rage had blinded him. And Loki had seen this and exploited it perfectly.

"Surrender!" Loki shouted.

"Never!" Connor yelled back.

"Then die!" Thor's echoed as he charged towards the Kryptonian with his hammer held high. Connor was caught in a hold he could not break away from and his skull was on its way to being cracked wide open.

"WAIT!" Nightwing's voice cut through the battle cries and stopped Thor in his path.

"Another one!" Thor turned.

"I don't want to fight!" Nightwing stated his position.

"Finally, the one that knows his place." Thor smirked.

"No." Nightwing shook his head. "We're at a stalemate. Neither side will win."

"Stalemate? My brother and I have taken down five of your people..I think we are victors." Loki told Nightwing as he released his grip on Connors right arm, the half-Kryptonian landed on his back clutching at his bruised arm.

"For now." Nightwing glared. "But I have others on their way as we speak. This is our home and we'll do what we have to in order to protect our own!"

Loki rose up from the sand and joined his brother side by side.

" I am Loki and this is my brother, Thor. We do not want war. We hail from Asgard and seem to find ourselves lost. We simply wish to return home." Loki slowly approached Nightwing, who put out his hand in a sign of friendship, Loki took it.

"I'm Nightwing. And this is Happy Harbour." Nightwing smiled. "I'm sure we can help you get back home."

"We are most grat-" Before Thor could say his peace, a rush of wind shot past and Thor felt the force of the world's fastest boy's punch as he hit the ground.

"How do you like that Princess?" Wally asked as he stood finally awoken after being knocked unconscious by Mjolnir.