Chapter 2 - Young Justice part 1

Mount Justice.

July 9, 10:00

"What do you mean by another trainer and supervisor?" Wally West, well known by his hero codename Kid Flash, crossed his arms in front of him looking annoyed at the Justice League member in charge. "I thought you and Black Canary were those things."

"Allow me to explain…" The supervisor of this newly formed covert team, Red Tornado talked in his monotone robotic voice. "I shall remain in my role as Supervisor of this team and Black Canary will handle your training, but the league decided to also send someone who is well versed in covert operations to help evaluate your performance in and out-side of missions."

"I thought this was our team." Superboy scowled thinking that the league was assigning them a full time baby sitter as if they needed one.

"It is." The android reaffirmed. "Because of the nature of his missions, he is not a registered as a member of the league or publicly known as a hero."

Now that got everybody's interest; a deep cover agent that no one but the league knows about? That was quite remarkable.

"So who exactly is this new addition?" Robin, the boy wonder and Batman's sidekick, was the most curious of them all. Anything that was a mystery or an unknown he had to crack it.

"He is known by many names." Red Tornado informed. "He changes his identity quite often, but he is known to us as: The Fool."

"The Fool?" Wally couldn't help but laugh. "What kind of name is that?" Though nobody else said it out-loud, the team shared the speedster's sentiment.

"One with a lot of meaning." A deep voice with a heavy accent cut in surprising the heck out of the team. "Very unlike the ones you younglings possess."From the shadows, the owner of the voice walked into the light showing himself to the Team.

It was a middle aged man, Middle Eastern judging by his accent and skin tone, with above average height and a noticeable heavy build despite the clothes he was wearing. Speaking of clothes; the man was wearing a heavy overcoat with elbow-long sleeves, and a long scarf. On his head he was wearing a headband and underneath his black haired was tied upwards in a very unusual style. He also wore a long metallic necklace that hung from his ears, depicting several strange symbols.

Needless to say, the man had a very "noticeable" appearance. But the most striking thing about the man was the fact that on his shoulder he was carrying a black and white Boston terrier.

"Hey, what do you mean by that?" Wally took offense at the man's claim that he and his friends' codenames weren't meaningful.

The man chuckled as he took out a long card from within his coat and threw it towards the Speedster. Fortunately, it wasn't hard enough for the boy to snatch it from mid-air.

"Huh? What's this?" He said looking at the card.

"I shall explain since you don't seem to know." The robbed man walked towards the group who watched him with interest. "The Fool Tarot card is often viewed as representing: Naivety, foolishness, recklessness, risk-taking. All of which can be applicable to all of you." Before the more hot-blooded members could complain about his words, he continued. "But in reality, The Fool is a card of potential, new beginnings and innocence; it shows the highest potential for your life, reaching a state of renewal and new beginnings, where each day is an adventure and each moment is lived to the fullest."

"Really?" M'gann M'orzz, a.k.a Megan a.k.a Miss Martian, the niece of the Martian Manhunter, looked fascinated by his words. She had always been interested in Magic and divination as well.

"This new Team has just begun its journey. And it is up to you to find out if this new beginning will bring up your full potential as heroes or if this team was a foolish errand since its conception." He finished, his solemn words engraving themselves in the minds of the young heroes.

Even so, the peaceful moment of quiet that followed was severely interrupted by none other than the boy wonder. "Do you carry this card with you at all times to explain your name?"

The robbed man ignored the boy's smartass comment.

"You may call me Abdul for now." He introduced himself and then pointed at the dog on his shoulder, "And this is Iggy."

"He is so cute." Miss Martian gushed at the small dog, while the others thought that the animal looked like it suffered a severe case of slobber.

"You may not find him so cute after today's exercise." Abdul said ominously.

"Are we to start training for today?" Kaldur'ahm, or Kaldur for short a.k.a Aqualad, looked both interested yet cautious at the same time. It was a commendable way to approach this.

"It would be more like a survival test." Abdul said ominously. "You may attack me at your own discretion, whenever and however you like. I recommend you to not hold back." This he said with a small smirk adorning his face. "The point is to show off your skills against mine and whoever does not impress me will be removed from the team."

The reaction was instantaneous.

"What?!"

"That's not fair!"

"You can't do that!"

"I may not be an 'official' member of the League, but they trust my judgment. If you don't believe me, you can go and ask Batman and he'll tell you the same thing." He informed self-assuredly. "Whether you like it or not, my decision of who stays or leaves will be final." Abdul said in a deadly tone. "So you better give 100% because if you don't you can all fail and be removed from the team." Like the real word, this was do-or-die at its finest. "30 minutes. I shall be waiting at the beach."

And with that, the man and dog walked away, leaving the groups of teens both confused and frustrated.

"Who the hell does that guy think he is?!" Wally clenched his fist both angry and a little intimidated by the possibility of failing.

"Hmn, he doesn't look that tough." Superboy, the clone of Superman, said sounding disinterested. "He wants us to show him our powers, then I'll show him mine!" he cracked his knuckles.

"He couldn't possibly fail us all, right?" Ms. Martian asked still worried by the man's warning.

"There's no way! This must be a trick." Robin rubbed his chin in deep thought. "There's no way the League would waste time fixing this place up for this team only to kick us out."

"It could be a tactic to put us on edge." Aqualad theorized. By putting the fear of failure on them he could either make them push their limits or fall into despair. "What can you tell us about him, Red Tornado?"

Everyone turned towards the android and awaited his answer.

"My only advice is to heed his warning, because he never goes back on them." The android had known The Fool and despite of his name, he didn't kid around. "I do not know what type of test he has planned, but I recommend you to prepare for anything." Having said that, Red Tornado was prepared to leave, but was held back by another of Robin's questions.

"How strong is he?" He didn't beat around the bush. "He being an infiltration expert, means he isn't really that big of a powerhouse, right?"

"Appearances can be deceiving." And that old saying applied perfectly to The Fool.

"But like, he's not stronger than you, right?" Wally asked hoping to gauge the man's powers with someone else to compare him to.

Red Tornado went quiet for a few seconds, though for the team it felt like an eternity. "I've never met him in battle," He began, broking the heavy silence. "But based on all information available and footage of his past battles, I'll say… I would never want to have him as an enemy." And with that, the android left the teens alone with their thoughts.

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After getting out of their civilian clothes and gearing up, the team walked towards the beach where Abdul was supposed to be waiting for them. Instead they found another strange man.

"Excuse me? Who are you?" Megan was the first one to ask as they approach the man who really shouldn't be in this place.

"Ah! So you decided to come! Good!" The man said too casually, as if they had already met before.

"Do we know you?" Wally asked looking at the man's appearance.

First of all he looked like he was 50 or something thanks to his gray hair and beard, but he had very well defined muscles, not to mention he was very tall. As for his clothes, he was wearing a light, short-sleeved, button-less shirt; khaki pants and a fedora. Honestly he kinda looked like a buffier yet older Indiana Jones.

"I can't believe you already forgot who I am." The man reproached before smirking. "It is me: The Fool."

"You honestly think we are gonna believe that?!" Kid Flash pointed towards the man with his index finger. "You do not look anything like…"

"K.F. don't you remember?" Robin interrupted his friend. "He is an infiltration expert. It is not hard to believe he might be able to change appearances." Heck they had a shape-shifter in the team, although she was not all that good with it by her own admission.

"You can shape-shift?" Megan asked intrigued by The Fool's abilities.

"Or maybe this is just a type of misdirection." Aqualad reminded them they were currently in a test. "He can say he is the Fool, but how can be sure that's the truth."

"Indeed. You are quite perceptive, Aqualad." The man claiming to be the Fool clapped congratulating the atlantean for his quick thinking. "The ability to never take things for granted and always looking for deceptions will do you good in this line of work."

"So are you or are you not him?" Superboy asked getting tired of all this back and forward. "I thought we were here for a test."

"To answer your first question: Yes and no." The man answered before he elaborated. "I am The Fool, but I'm no longer Abdul. Right now I am Joseph Joestar." He introduced his new persona. "As for proving if I'm the real thing or not; you can either take my word for it or not."

"That actually doesn't help at all." Wally pointed out getting even more suspicious.

"Well, if I were a fake could I do this?" The man, now identifying himself as Joseph, whistled making a small dog, Iggy, come running and jumping onto his shoulder. "See?"

"Still doesn't prove anything." If the dog was trained then it could answer to anyone who knew the right command.

"Anyway, let's start with the test." Joseph announced ignoring the speedster's words.

"Finally." Superboy cracked his neck and knuckles in preparation for whatever the test might be.

"The objective is simple. All you have to do is to capture me." Joseph said sounding serious. "Like I said before, you can attack me however you like and DO NOT hold back, because I will retaliate like this was a real battle. Show me you have the skills for this sort of job, otherwise you are out! You have three hours!" And with that, the color in Joseph's body faded and he crumbled in a pile of sand.

"Wow! What was that?" Wally pointed incredibly towards the pile of sand that once was their instructor.

"Some sort of Sand construct." Robin pointed out. "Maybe his ability is similar to that of Clayface?" The boy wondered recalled the Batman rouge whose abilities revolved around the manipulation of mud-like clay.

"That is probably why he made us met at the beach." Aqualad sounded alarmed. "He can hide and attack from anywhere."

"Who cares? I'll just find him and beat him up!" Superboy declared as he jumped away from the rest of the team in search of The Fool.

"Wait we shouldn't…!" The Martian girl tried to warn the kryptonian but it was too late.

"Damn, if he founds him first and takes him out then we won't be able to show off our skills and we'll be kicked out." Wally said as he adjusted his goggles and then bolted in a flash.

"No don't!" Kaldur tried to stop the speedster but he was a little too late.

Then when a cackle reached his ears, the atlantean realized only the only members that remained were Miss Martian and him.

"This won't end well." He could already feel that the rest had fallen into whatever scheme The Fool had prepared for them.

"Uhm… Kaldur?" Megan asked soflty. "What should we do now?"

"It is better if we stay together and search for the others."

"What about Iggy?" The girl pointed towards the small black and white dog that was still near the pile of sand that once was Joseph.

"Let him be. It probably was left behind so that it would stay away from battle." Right now, there was better things to worry about than a dog.

"Ok then." The girl nodded deciding to trust in Kaldur's words. "Bye Iggy." She waved the dog goodbye and she then followed Aqualad in the search for the others and their instructor.

But what they didn't realize was that Iggy was staring at them with very calculating eyes.

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Author Notes:

So we jump from Gravity Falls to Young Justice; a series that unfortunately had a very troubled life-span on the air.

Like the title said, this is part one, so be in the wait for part 2, which will have more Iggy! or should I say, The Fool, kicking ass.

As always, I am open to suggestion as to where or what series do you want to see Iggy in next. Do not be afraid to speak your mind.