Chapter 2

Disclaimer: Hey, guess what? I DO own Young Justice! You all thought I was just some obsessed girl, but NO I'm Greg Weisman! My Mom: "Honey… you aren't Greg Weisman." Dang it! I really thought I was that time, so NO it appears I do not own Young Justice.

Author's note: OMG! WoW, I'm kind of shocked people viewed, favorited, followed and reviewed my very first story, thank ALL of you soo much! I'm so glad that at least some people took the time to read my story; I'm super happy right now! P.S for anyone who wondered, 'Bestia' is Latin for beast or animal.

Also I will try to update every few days, but these things take time, so please review!

Ok, enough with the dilly dallying, on with the story!

Robin's POV.

This cannot be happening.

I must be hallucinating or something, yeah, that gas we breathed in could have been hallucinogenic, so what I'm seeing might just be an illusion. Then again I felt awake, and the pain I had just felt didn't feel that fake either. And if it had been hallucinogenics, my vision would have been swimming, like it was in my last encounter with the Scarecrow.

So that meant…..this was real?

That meant that the things I had extended in front of me, thinking they were my regular arms, WERE really wings.

Yep, this was definitely NOT good in any way imaginable.

Then something snapped into place in my brain, if I really was turned into an animal, which meant Luthor wasn't lying when he'd said that all those animals really were the scientists. Luthor must have forced them to make the serum or improve it, and then used them as literal guinea pigs for this Project 'Bestia'.

Now it all made sense, the animals in cages, the files about animal DNA, and all of the vials of serum that the team found. All the pieces of the puzzle suddenly fit together, all but the question of why.

I knew Cadmus hates the Team, since the moment it was formed, but the reason for them going through all this trouble just to capture the team and use us as test subjects.

Wait, the rest of the team, what happened to them, were they turned into animals too?

After some struggle, I stood up and looked around at my surroundings, where exactly was I?

It was a little dark, most likely the result of a blanket or something being draped over the cage. My cage.

That last part still terrified me, being turned into some sort of bird, and then being shoved into what I assumed was a bird cage. I would have laughed at my predicament if I wasn't so terrified.

I sensed movement outside of my cage, and suddenly the blanket was lifted and a blinding light shot streaming in.

A shadow soon blocked most of the light, a shadow the shape of a human, most likely one of the guards from the earlier ambush.

"Wake up Bird Boy," said a slightly disturbing gruff voice, "well, it's actually just Bird now, isn't it" the man laughed and shook the cage, sending me sprawling to the floor yet again.

Now that the black spots obscuring my vision were gone, I could focus now on the world around me. The man was tall, although I probably saw him as at least 10 times his normal height. I was in a small dank dusty room filled mostly with boxes like the ones on the cargo trucks.

I watched as the man picked up the cage via a handle on the top, walked across the room, and out the door.

It was early morning outside and a chilly breeze blew.

Wait, I recognized where we were, we had just walked out of the building Aqualad and I had first investigated, it seemed like all of that had happened days ago not a couple hours ago. At least I thought it was only a couple hours ago, for all I knew it very well could have taken place days ago. My head's still super foggy from the whole ordeal.

At least we had not left the compound yet; if we had, the league might never find us, seeing as the last thing they'd ever expect would be their sidekicks being turned into animals by Lex Luthor.

And then I saw where we were going, straight to the cargo trucks. So much for being saved by The League…

Once we reached one of the trucks, the man carrying my cage lifted the tarp on the back, roughly shoved my cage inside, and fastened the tarp down once more. Great, in the dark again, and since I didn't have opposable thumbs any more, there was a very small chance of me being able to untie the tarp and escape, even if I somehow managed to get out of this stupid cage.

After a minute or two, the truck started, by then my vision had adjusted to the darkness of the truck and I noticed some other cages surrounding me, I knew that there were at least 3 of them, but a pile of what I assumed were cargo boxes next to me limited my field of vision.

"Hello?" I asked loudly, though I came out as yet another "Chirp?"

A series of growls and feline noises came from the cage 5 feet to the left of mine. But the weird thing about the growls was that I understood them. It was almost as If there were two voices speaking at the same time, one making animal noises, and one speaking in English, saying "But Aunt Iris, I don't wanna get up."

"KF?"

"Rob, what's going on?" he asked drowsily and tried to locate my voice.

For a split second the tarp of the truck flapped slightly open, illuminating the inside of the truck, and I saw what was lying in the cage that Wally's voice had come from. It was a cheetah , how Ironic.

"Rob, you're -a…., a Robin, like - a real one!" he exclaimed, his cat eyes glowing in the creepily in the dark.

"Yeah, I know. Also not to freak you out or anything, but Wally, you're a cheetah."

"Yeah right, like I'm actually a cheet – What ?!"

I guess that Wally had just put the puzzle pieces together, like I had just a couple minutes ago.

"Sooo, is this really happening, or is it all a dream?" Wally tentatively asked.

"Yep, it's really happening." I answered, though I was still a bit unsure about that myself.

"Do you know where the rest of the team is?"

"Not exactly, but I have a feeling that they are probably in these other cages around us."I said motioning to the cages.

"Oh, well we better wake them up then. HEY GUYS, WAKE UP!" He shouted.

Seconds later we heard something moving and a voice we knew well rang out, "Will someone shut Kid Idiot up, I'm trying to sleep." Growled a voice to the right of us.

Artemis, she must be here too.

Another voice mumbled something in a language that sounded like Atlantian. That must have been Aqualad.

"Guys, wake up and prepare yourselves to be freaked out. We all somehow got turned into animals by Lex Luthor."

Way to let them down easy Wally.

"Kid Flash, this is no time to Joke, we must work together so we can escape." Said Aqualad, not believing him.

"Uh actually guys, Kid Flash is telling the truth, we did get turned into animals. Also Aqualad, unless you or Artemis still have opposable thumbs, then it's going to be practically impossible to escape from these cages." I said.

They were both quiet for a while after that.

"Wait," said Artemis, finally breaking the icy silence, "Seriously?"

I nodded, then realized that it was too dark for her to see me, so I just said, "Yes."

"How?" she asked, and I explained to everyone what had happened after we passed out.

"But what about Superboy and Miss. M?" she asked at the end.

"Uh, that one I don't know."

After that revelation sank in, we rode on in silence for what must have been hours, until finally, the truck slowed to a stop. We heard men outside talking, catching a few random phrases like 'another base camp' and 'give them to him once you get there.' We heard the driver get back into the truck and we traveled alone on the bumpy dirt road for a few more minutes until stopping again.

I knew we would be here for a while because the driver turned off the engine now, unlike last time where he had left it running, spewing noxious exhaust fumes into our cages in the back of the truck.

Suddenly, the tarp of the truck was untied and lifted, revealing that smirking scared face of one of the leagues greatest adversaries, Vandal Savage.

"Well…. hello Junior Justice League."

Yeah, I know all of you probably can't stand me right now for that cliffhanger and I'm sorry, it just seemed like a really cool place to end the chapter.

Also, I need your help with something; I don't know what animals to make the rest of the team. Here's what I'm thinking so far, but I could use some help to decide: Artemis-Wolf, Aqualad-Seal (because he needs to go on land and in water, also who would hold the fish bowl when they escape?) Megan-Chameleon (natural camouflage), Superboy-I'm thinking either polar bear, or gorilla (so it would be ironic)

SO, please review and tell me who you think should be what. I value your suggestions ;)