Hello everyone it's JessieMundaiFan once again.

I've been helping my brother out a lot lately with the new baby. Well, I don't think taking care of my other niece sometimes while he keeps the newborn at home counts as taking care of the new baby per se but it really takes a load off his mind. I wonder how long you have to wait until it's okay to travel with a baby. My brothers planning on taking a trip to Florida next month and I just hope it's okay for the baby to go.

Enough about my personal life though because it's time for more story. Strap in for this one guys because we're going to get some back story in this chapter.

I would like to thank both HMMaster and MyLittleAngelxxx for reviewing and giving me advice and criticism. I really appreciate the support you guys.

Disclaimer: This is a fan-made story I do not own Young Justice. If I did own Young Justice do you think I would be writing stories about?

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(General POV)

Hal flew up as he saw four giant metal tentacles soaring through the sky after him. They seemed to have no limit as to how far they could follow him as he bobbed and weaved out of there reach but to no avail.

"Enough of this," Hal hissed lowly getting tired of this chase.

With his ring he created a gigantic buzz saw to slice through the tentacles. He sliced through each one of them once but it was only enough to damage them.

With a mighty roar, Hal swung his weapon around like a madman hitting each of the tentacles enough times until they were completely unable to function.

"Come on," Hal snarled into the darkness. "I know you're here you son of bitch! Come out and fight me!"

As if that command was enough, a large squared shaped robot appeared out of nowhere and faced the enraged Green Lantern.

Not wasting a single minute, Hal morphed his saw into a whip. Wrapping said weapon around the mechanical beast's head, he swung it up and thrust the robot into the ground creating a crater in its image.

Then, in the span of about two seconds, Hal changed his weapon again. He turned his whip into a sword and started stabbing the robot in every section of its body he could see.

It didn't look as if Hal was paying that much attention to what he was doing, rather he was just trying to violently demolish his enemy and because of this he was open for an attack.

Hal cried out in pain as his shoulder was stabbed. Turning around he saw yet another metal tentacle that came from a part of the robots body he missed.

Hal's eyes briefly shifted from green to red. You could feel the anger pouring off of him in large waves.

With his bare hands he ripped the tentacle off his shoulder and threw it to the ground beside him. Without saying a word, Hal flew up to the sky, about thirty feet from the ground, and looked down at the robot.

Hal's eyes were dead, void of any emotion as he looked down upon his foe as if he was a god. Pointing his ring directly at the robot, Hal slowly gathered up his energy focusing it on one point. Then, with a ferociously large blast, he fired the attack directly at the robot.

It didn't even stand a chance, the mechanical marvel was burned to a cinder almost upon contact with the attack. Hal didn't so much as flinch as his foe was defeated, in fact he looked somewhat disappointed.

"Simulation over."

With that sudden declaration the world around Hal faded away into nothing but the plain white room of the simulation deck in the Justice League's space base.

Silently, Hal walked to the door and into the simulation control room where his dear friend John was waiting for him.

"You are going to kill yourself if you keep training like this," John said observing his friend as he walked over to his towel and water bottle.

"Any news yet?" Hal asked pouring water on his face.

John let out an annoyed sigh but still looked at partner with sadden eyes.

"You know the answer to that," John told him quietly, "no one had any clues as to where they were an hour ago and they're not going to have everything figured out now."

It had been a couple days since the Young Justice team had been taken right in their base. Needless to say that having some of the best and the brightest of the new generation of superheroes taken right under their noses didn't sit well with the Justice League. They had their most brilliant minds ( lead by Batman of course) working around the clock, analyzing clues and taking in every situation just to find the seven teenagers but so far they haven't made much progress in finding them.

"Set up the simulator again," Hal requested of his friend.

"I can't set up another simulator Hal, you've worn the poor thing out," John explained carefully, "you've been using this thing for the past ten hours."

Hal didn't say anything in response just choosing to walk out of the simulator room. He was followed closely by his fellow Green Lantern.

"Where are you going?" John demanded as he could see the fatigue in the way Hal walked down the hall disregarding everyone that got in his way.

"To sign up for a mission, I have to do something," Hal said briefly with the slightest bit of pleading in his voice.

Hal was a very proud man, not once in his entire life had he ever been ashamed of who he was or what he was about. However, now that he was completely useless in the search for his own son he wished that he was as smart as the detectives in the League. Hal was sane enough to know that anything he did at this point to find his son would not only be pointless but it would probably delay the League from finding him. He was pretty much helpless at this point.

"How about you get some sleep," John suggested lightly, "you haven't slept since Darren had gone missing."

"I'll sleep when I get my son back," Hal snapped at his longtime friend. '

Without waiting for John to respond, Hal flew to the command base attempting to go and take the most dangerous mission they could come up with.

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"Alright, alright we're going," Kid Flash grunted as the armed guards started poking him and his teammates with the barrels of their guns as they walked.

"Walk faster," One of the armed guards said from behind them.

Attempting to escape would be futile, the team knew this was obvious. With every step they took they could hear even louder steps echoing behind them. The G-Trolls were trailing right behind them, as proven by the loud grunts that could be heard every couple of seconds.

"Look dude if I were to go any faster you probably couldn't see me," Kid Flash pointed out folding his arms behind his head, "besides, it's not like your boss is walking that much faster than us."

Lex Luthor had been walking at a very calm and relaxed pace. It was kind of irritating for the people behind him that had guns pointed at their heads.

Kid Lantern silently shook his head at the speedster's antics. Over to his side he could see Megan, the only one of them that didn't have a gun pointed at her, walking along with them. She had her head pointing right at the ground, which is understandable given the heated looks Superboy and Robin were giving her.

Artemis kept shooting Miss. Martian hurtful looks, something you could never visibly see on her face usually. Aqualad and Kid Flash weren't even paying attention to her, choosing to ignore her entirely. Although, if Kid Lantern had to guess, Aqualad probably wasn't looking her way mostly simply because he was thinking up an escape plan (he tended to zone out while he was thinking sometimes). Kid Flash was probably too pissed at her for words and was just ignoring her out of spite (not that anyone could blame him).

"Through this door young superheroes," Lex Luthor said calmly gesturing to the large door in front of them. Lex Luthor walked in the room first giving him a head start of about a minute in the room.

Kid Flash sighed to himself knowing that they really didn't have any choice in the matter. However, as he went to walk ahead like his friends did he was stopped as he felt something grab his arm.

The young speedster saw that it was the gloved hand of his lover. Kid Lantern wasn't looking at him, he was staring at the door nervously as he didn't know there fate beyond them. Kid Flash eyes lit up and understanding and he took Lantern's hand them behind his own back.

Together they walked into the room seemingly ready for what was ahead.

The room was pitch black, not even a single stream of light could be seen. The problem was made worse as the door suddenly closed trapping them all inside.

"Hey did somebody not pay the electric bill or what?" Kid Flash commented loudly.

"Somebody turn on the damn lights and stop trying to be ominous," Superboy grunted in an equally loud voice.

The room was then illuminated as seven view screens appeared in its center. One by one the individuals were revealed on the screens.

Vandal Savage, Ra's Al Ghul, Lex Luthor, Queen Bee, Brain, and Klarion all appeared before the Young Justice team before their very eyes.

Miss. Martian looked at the seven of them with eyes of sorrow. She hated that she had to do this, hated that she let herself be used the way that she was by the seven of them but she had had no choice in the matter.

"Luthor how'd you get back there so quick?" Kid Flash asked breaking up whatever tension there was in this scene, "You got some secret teleportation powers we don't know of?"

"What is going on here? What is all this?" Robin demanded being far more rational than his teammate at the moment.

Vandal chuckled as if there was something funny in what Robin said.

"Calm yourself little bird. Didn't that bat you call a father teach you any manners?" Vandal reprimanded as if he was his parent.

Robin clenched his fist in his hands. He would have loved nothing more than to throw a batarang right at Vandal's face but sadly he wouldn't get any answers that way.

"Just shut up old man and tell us what we want to know," Superboy snarled stepping up to the view screens threateningly.

Vandal just simply raised an eyebrow. Completely ignoring the angry Kryptonian clone, he chose to speak to Luthor.

"Did the boy make a connection to Superman Lex?" Vandal asked his colleague.

This caused some confusion all around for the team (even Megan). Why would they care about whether Superboy and Superman made some kind of connection or not?

"We were told by our darling little spy that they have been slowly developing a father/son relationship," Lex informed Vandal.

Miss. Martian winced everyone's eyes wer once again centered on her. She would have preferred it if she could have just stayed ignored.

Superboy snarled as his former girlfriend before turning back to the view screen along with everyone else.

"Now, children don't go yelling at yourselves now," Vandal said eyeing them all with his terrifying eyes, "there will plenty of time for that later."

"You're holding us as hostages for the League," Aqualad assumed calmly, "you want us to act as bait."

"As smart as always young Atlantean," Vandal complemented with a crooked grin, "I knew there was a reason why you were chosen as the leader."

"Hostages for what?" Artemis demanded to know stepping up to the view screens, "What are you planning on doing with us?"

"If you all would calm down I will explain it to you," Vandal said slowly as if talking to a five year old.

"Why?" Kid Lantern whispered to himself aloud.

"Why what?" Kid Flash asked as he was still standing next to his now confused lover.

"Is he going to explain to us his plan?" Kid Lantern asked the more superhero experienced red head beside him.

"Yep," Kid Flash replied looking over at him with a grin.

Kid Lantern eyes widened. "In its entirety?"

"Yep," Kid Flash repeated with a pop sound and the end of the word.

"That's not a very good idea. There's no telling what we could do with this information if we manage to escape." Kid Lantern pointed out.

"Yep," Kid Flash said once again look happier than he should be right now.

"But that doesn't-"

"Darren," Kid Flash proclaimed in a warningly. "Didn't we have a talk about this?"

"Uh-"

"Just let it go Darren," Kid Flash ordered squeezing his hand tighter.

"But I-"

"Let it go you delectable defeatist," Kid Flash told him in a superior tone of voice.

"Do you two mind?"

The two Kid's turned around and noticed that everyone was looking at them expectantly. Apparently they weren't being as quiet as they thought they were being.

"We're sorry," Kid Lantern apologized nervously, "Please continue, uh, Mr. Evil Person?"

Kid Flash couldn't help but chuckle at how innocent and young his lover sounded at the moment.

Unbeknownst to everyone else, Robin pushed a button on his wrist computer.

Vandal cleared his throat and started up once again.

"Yes, well, as I was saying. We seven represent a society called The Light."

Kid Flash snickered into his hand quietly. As he went to make a quip about the name of their organization however, Kid Lantern silenced him with a hand on his mouth.

"So called The Light because we exist for the survival of our beloved planet earth," Vandal stated with a calm smile. "Our mission is to ensure the safety of the planet from all the evil in this world."

"Wow, that was a really great speech," Robin nodded before his tone turned dark, "now can you get to the part that isn't total bullshit?"

If Vandal was annoyed by the Boy Wonder's rude interruption he didn't show it as he just continued on with what he was saying.

"Oh okay," Kid Flash was whispering once again to his partner, "you stop me from delivering grade A jokes but Robin can be as snarky as he want? Favoritism much?"

Kid Lantern just kicked lightly at the Flash's foot.

The young speedster responded by briefly separating his hand from Darren's and slapping him on the butt making him squeal in shock. Kid Lantern blushed in Kid Flash's direction but he just had an innocent look on his face.

"And because our mission is to plague the world of evil where else should we start than the superheroes of the planet," Vandal specified.

"Hate to break it to you buddy but isn't that a contradiction?" Artemis said with a raised eyebrow. "You can't be a superHERO and be evil. Heroes are people that do good and who help the world."

"Ah, that's where your wrong my dear," Vandal said with a dirty grin, "Superheroes do what they claim is right and moving the world in the direction they want it to be in. It's simply unfair to the people. They're not allowed to make their own decisions on superheroes, they simply go on what the media tells them."

"Oh please," Robin scoffed, "the media shames superheroes much more than they praise us. I can't tell you how many times Batman's been accused of assaulting people for information on crimes. All of it was false."

"All of it was false?" Kid Flash repeated looking flabbergasted.

"And besides," Robin said talking over his friend, "the good that we do far outweighs the bad. Sure, none of us superheroes are perfect but we try and do the right thing and protect the planet from psychopaths like you."

Vandal nodded his head seemingly taking in what Robin said to him.

"That may be true, that you all try and do the right thing, but you all are incredibly selfish," Vandal commented with a sigh, "and it's time the world finds that out."

"Yeah, just imagine what would happen if a couple of the Leagues own went missing and they were just so busy trying to find them that they neglected protecting the world a couple times," Klarion smirked speaking up for the first time.

And then the team got it, they now understood what The Light's plan was. They were in complete shock, even Miss. Martian (much to the surprise of the team). Perhaps she wasn't as invested in this as they thought she was.

"An interesting idea but that would never work," Aqualad proclaimed assuredly, "the League would never distract themselves to the point that they couldn't do their jobs as superheroes, they are much too focused."

"Maybe," Klarion shrugged with his grin still present on his face, "but maybe they will be so distracted during a mission that they would unconsciously slip up, especially if they are being sent videos of all you being slowly tortured by us and then slowly being presented as to where you all are with tiny clues."

Aqualad couldn't find anything to say to that. Mostly because he didn't believe that The Light could do this but also because he could in theory this plan working.

"It will be a slow process but a gradual one," Vandal said picking up from where Klarion left off, "we will purposefully target the cities of all your respective relatives and mentors, creating catastrophes for them to stop while at the same time leaking information about all of you. With their minds in other places they will slowly but surely slip from time to time until they start letting more and more "accidents" happen around cities and two people."

"The people of earth will begin to doubt the capabilities of the Justice League," Lex added smugly, "and with doubt comes frustration, and with frustration come anger, and with anger comes hatred."

"Protests and riots will rise up, demanding the retirement of such a large an inept group like the Justice League. That watch tower will almost definitely have to go leaving them extremely vulnerable," Vandal pointed out.

"And with their major defenses gone, them still distracted, and the hatred of populous at large, it will be the perfect time for us to initiate plan "Final Strike". Lex announced.

That didn't sit too well with the team.

"And what's plan "Final Strike"," Artemis demanded in a slightly panicked voice.

"You don't need to know that," Vandal quickly said flippantly, "since you won't be here to witness it regardless."

"What do you mean we won't be here? Where are you taking us now?" Superboy snarled his fists clenched together.

Vandal looked down at the seven of them as if they were merely ants.

"We are aware there are some brilliant people in the Justice League and they will no doubt put the clues of your whereabouts together and they always will as long as you all are on earth."

"Hold on a minute," Miss. Martian protested and again surprising the team, "What exactly are you going to do with them? You swore to me that they wouldn't get hurt and that they would be let go eventually!"

"Yes, I did say that and I am letting them go," Vandal stated simply, "letting them go straight into outer space."

"W-What? You can't do that!" Artemis stammered. "There's no way you can send us into space without the League knowing."

"That's what cloaking devices are for little girl," Vandal said carefully.

"Wally," Kid Lantern whispered lowly. If he had been a weaker person he would have been shaking in his boots due his fear.

"We're going be okay," Kid Flash swore gripping his hand tighter, "even if he does succeed in his plan we're still going to be together, no matter what."

"I hope the seven of you have a nice flight," Vandal said giving them a small wave before reaching for something on his left.

"The seven of us?" Miss. Martian's repeated, "Why is it the seven of us?"

For a moment Vandal looked genuinely shocked before he started laughing hysterically.

"Oh Miss. Martian you impressionable young soul," Vandal shook his head at her. "You should know better than to trust strangers."

"Especially villians," Klarion said with a roll of his eyes. "Idiot."

"I had no choice, you all know I had no choice," Miss. Martian declared, "you wouldn't give me any other option."

"That's right we didn't," Vandal pointed out not looking the slightest bit guilty.

Just then a gas swiftly entered the room taking the team by surprise. They thought they could fight off whatever effects it had in order to launch an attack but this wasn't the case. The gas took effect much too quickly knocking them all unconscious in a matter of seconds.

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That's all for this chapter.

I hope you all liked it and I will see you guys later!