Author's Note: Hey YJ Readers! Another week, another chapter. But I admit, my mind isn't totally on YJ and I blame the horror game Ib on that. For a horror game on RPG Maker, it's very beautiful lol. The storyline is fantastic and the music is spine chilling. I do recommend you play it. It's not scary, but rather twisted. As twisted as Heath Ledger's Joker can get. I am contemplating making a story version of Ib, but not right now. Maybe when I'm a good 10 chapters into this story. Don't worry guys, I will still be working on this story!

Shout Outs:
- sky-rider125: Thanks much! And I'm glad you love the title lol. I was actually inspired by a panel on one of the original Young Justice comics, though it was Tim Drake who said it or said something similar to it.
- WolfTear262: I sent you a PM concerning her fear, but I will say it again one here. In the last chapter in the beginning, you get a taste of Shadow Heart's fear.

Disclaimer:
I do not own Young Justice
Young Justice belongs to Greg Weisman, Brandon Vietti, Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. Animation, and DC Entertainment
Ariane Prince/Shadow Heart belongs to me

Chicks Totally Dig the Cape is filmed before a live studio audience.

Chapter 4: This is Only the Beginning

If this was the definition of screwed, then we were totally screwed.

"Everyone back!" Guardian commanded as he charged towards the newly transformed Desmond, only to be swatted away like a fly.

Superboy rushed forward and successfully punched him in the face, but got punched back. He composed himself quickly and started rapidly punching Blockbuster. Blockbuster slapped him away. Superboy jumped up in the air and was about to pile dive Blockbuster until he took the initiative to jump up through the ceiling, bringing Superboy with him. The rest of us ran under the hole in the ceiling.

"Okay, that's one way to burst into a ceiling." Robin shot up towards the edge of the hole and hook shot himself and Kid Flash up to the top.

"You think Mr. Steroid Labcoat planned that?" I asked.

Aqualad shook his head. "I doubt he's planning anything anymore." Aqualad crouched down and locked his hands together. I stepped onto his interlocked hands and waited for him to launch me up in the air. As soon as I was airbourne, I did a quick flip and landed on the level above in a graceful position. Sort of.

I saw a flash of white quickly coming towards me. I reacted too slowly and came into impact with Superboy and smashed into Aqualad behind me. I, along with Aqualad, groaned as Robin and Kid Flash ran to us and helped us up. As we held on together for support, we stared down Blockbuster, fire burning in our eyes.

With a mighty roar from Blockbuster, we ran towards him. Kid Flash quickly accelerated and slid between his feet. Superboy and Aqualad charged forward and punched him in the face. Kid stood on all fours as soon as Superboy and Aqualad punched Blockbuster, making him trip and fall backwards. Robin and I both dashed quickly to Blockbuster and jumped, throwing a flurry of shadow blades and birdarangs, but both were swatted away like flies.

As Robin and I both fell down, Blockbuster roared at us, causing us to ram into each other and tumble to the ground.

"Ouch," I choked out, the wind blown out of me from when I fell.

"You alright?" Robin asked. I nodded.

Robin stood up and gave me a hand, which I gratefully accepted.

I looked to see if the others needed any help. Kid was currently being thrown off by Blockbuster, so I took the chance to summon my shadow demon and charged towards Blockbuster. He heard me coming and punched through the body of my shadow, making it shatter like glass. he was about to punch me, but luckily, Aqualad intercepted and hit Blockbuster with his water mace. Before Aqualad could even make contact with Blockbuster, Blockbuster grabbed Aqualad and threw him at me.

"Oof!" I groaned when I felt the weight of Aqualad being thrown onto me.

Aqualad quickly got off me and helped me up before rushing towards Blockbuster again. I saw Kid on the ground and ran over to him to help him up.

"KF, Shade! Get over here!" Robin shouted. Kid and I looked at each other and nodded. We ran to where Robin was listened to whatever he had to say. "We have to bring the building down," he said.

"How do we do that?" Kid asked.

Robin showed us the holograph blueprint of the floor we were on and showed us the weak spots on the floor. "Got it?" He asked.

"Yeah."

"Got it."

Robin nodded. "Go."

I summoned my shadow again and began punching the support beams. I stopped once they were weakened enough.

"Shade!" Robin shouted.

I turned to look at him. "What!" I shouted back.

"When this place goes down, I want you to cast a barrier over us!" He yelled as he hurried to draw a big 'X' on the floor.

"But it won't hold!" I yelled back.

"Better than being flat out crushed!" He retorted.

I nodded reluctantly and followed after him.

"Now!" Robin shouted.

I quickly created a barrier over us and waited for the explosion. As soon as the explosives went off, the building quickly came down on us. My hands were up in the sky, struggling to make barrier hold together, but my strength wore thin and my arms gave way to the debris above us.

Superboy threw the huge pieces of debris off us. I slowly stood up, whole body sore and clothes torn.

"We did it," Aqualad breathed out.

"Was there ever any doubt?" Robin asked.

Robin and Kid gave each other a high five. A disgusting crunch was heard as soon as their hands made contact and both of them recoiled in pain. I laughed, only to be attack with abdominal pain. "Gah." I grabbed my side.

"See?" Superboy turned around and looked at Kid. "The moon." He gestured.

We all looked at the moon and admired it. A figure then began making it's way towards us.

"Oh no," I groaned.

"Oh! And Superman!" Kid exclaimed. "Do we keep our promises or what?"

Superman began to land with Martian Manhunter, Zatara, Captain Marvel, and Red Tornado behind him. I turned around and saw the entire League.

Superboy stepped in front of Superman. The older Super narrowed his eyes at his younger counterpart. Superboy grabbed the corner of his ripped suit to show Superman the identical 'S' shield he had on his chest. Superman's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Is that what I think it is?" Batman asked.

"He doesn't like being called an it," Kid whispered in a sing-song fashion.

"I'm Superman's clone!" Superboy shouted.

Tension immediately built up in the air when the League members heard this.

Batman narrowed his eyes at us. "Start talking."

Robin and Kid took the liberty of explaining everything that had happened from when we were still at the Hall to right now. Aqualad, Superboy, and I explained some things that appeared far fetched.

I looked at my mother who was talking to Superman and Manhunter. She saw me looking and gave me a disapproving look. I quickly looked back down in shame. A hand fell onto my shoulder. I turned and saw Robin giving me a reassuring smile. I smiled back weakly.

"We'll, uh, we'll figure something out for you. The League will I mean. For now, I better make sure they get that Blockbuster creature squared away." Superman left without saying another word.

"Cadmus will be investigated." We turned around and saw Batman, Flash, and Aquaman. Wonder Woman flew over to us and landed next to Flash. "All 52 levels, but let's make one thing clear-"

"You should have called!" Flash interrupted.

Batman dismissed Flash and continued on, "End results aside, we are not happy. You hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again."

Aqualad stepped forward. "I am sorry, but we will."

"Aqualad, stand down," Aquaman commanded.

Aqualad bowed slightly to his mentor. "Apologies my King, but no."

I placed my hands on my hips. "We did something you guys would've probably down also. Maybe not as messy and uncoordinated, but still." Wonder Woman gave me a hard look, but I did not back down this time.

Aqualad backed me up. "We did good work here tonight. The work you trained us to. Together, on our own, we forged something powerful and important."

Flash stepped in this time. "If this is about your treatment at the Hall, the four of you-"

"The five of us," Kid interrupted, "and it's not."

"Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us," Robin said, "or why teach us at all?"

"Why let them tell us what to do?" Superboy questioned. "It's simple, get on board or get out of the way."

We looked to our mentors, who in turn gave us a hard stare.

"Three days." We looked to Batman in hope.

"Three days isn't so long," Kid said.

I turned around. "Hey, guys?"

We looked back and saw Superboy standing by himself.

Kid smiled. "Hey Supey!"

Superboy looked at him. "What?"

"How 'bout you come home with me?" Kid invited.

I smiled also. "It'll be nice, Superboy. Kid's family is really nice."

Superboy looked unsurely between us, but eventually nodded.

"Shadow Heart." I gulped and turned to see a peeved Wonder Woman. "Come here," she ordered.

I obeyed and walked over to her. I stood up straight and waited for a long lecture.

"What you did today was wrong. You bended my rules and disrespected me. But, I will let this slide."

I looked at her in confusion.

"You are right. We would have done the same thing. We are only reprimanding you and your team because you guys are still young and inexperienced. Anything could have gone wrong."

"But it didn't," I reminded her.

She gave me another looked. I quickly look down.

"It did not but it could have," she said simply. "Come. Let us go home."

I nodded and climbed on to her back, waving goodbye to the others. She adjusted my arms. "Remind me to have Batman make you an aerial craft."

I laughed and enjoyed the ride.

MOUNT JUSTICE
July 8, 08:04 EDT

"This cave was the original secret sanctuary of the Justice League. We're calling it to service again. Since you five are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms. Red Tornado volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary is in charge of training. I will deploy you on missions." Batman walked to and fro in front of us as he filled us in on the aspects of what were to happen to our newly formed team.

"Real missions?" Robin asked.

Batman nodded. "Yes, but covert."

"The League will still handle the obvious stuff." The others and I turned to face Flash. "There's a reason we have these big targets on our chests," he said while pointing to his own insignia.

"The Cadmus proves the bad guys are getting smarter," Aquaman said.

Wonder Woman stepped in, "So Batman needs a team that can go on the sly. Under the table."

"The six of you will be that team," Batman said.

"Cool! Wait, six?" Robin said confused.

Batman looked over us and towards the door. We turned around and saw Manhunter with a girl identical to him.

"This is Martian Manhunter's niece," he explained, "Miss Martian."

Miss Martian smiled. "Hi."

"Sweet," I chimed. I immediately skipped over to her and held my hand out to her, which she took. "Shadow Heart, but you can call me Shade." She nodded politely.

"Welcome aboard!" Wally said as he pushed me aside. "I'm Kid Flash, That's Robin, Aqualad. It's cool if you forget their names."

I rolled my eyes. "What he's saying is that it's cool if you forget his."

She giggled. "I'm honored to be included."

Robin turned around. "Hey Superboy! Come meet Miss M!"

Superboy approached and we all made room for him. Miss Martian looked away shyly before her top changed to one similar to Superboy's. "I like your T-Shirt."

I giggled and gave Aqualad a knowing smile. He smiled back.

"Today is the day."

Whoop, whoop. Is finished. I'm only like 2 hours late. It's like 2:10AM right now, but that's okay. I just came back from watching Bourne Legacy. I love Jeremy Renner. My sister and I have been watching all of his movies the whole summer. Fun times. I also finished playing Ib and I got the good ending. Yeah, I type this story over the course of the week, so the beginning Author's Note may look inconsistent to the ending Author's Note. Anyways, I go to end this Author's Note a little early because I have to go to a wedding in a couple of hours. So, I hope you readers enjoyed this one and please continue to spread the love to other YJ Readers and reviewing this baby.

Till next time YJ Readers!

~DoubleRaineBow~