Young Justice
by Mint-age
This is a femRobin story with no pairing in mind. Basically this is going to follow the events of the YJ cartoon, but won't be carbon copy of the story. Just like my other story, Merston High, I'm going to try to keep this unique. Reviews always welcome. Also Thank You 'Broken Antler In Winter' for your reviews on every chapter so far.
Glossary of the different font styles:
Italics = Text messages
Bold Italic = Telepathy
Bold = Computerized Voices
[Square bracket] = Kryptonian/Martian/other
Chapter 4 – Official and Unofficial Teams
Robin lay bruised on the ground. Most of her clothes were torn including the domino mask she wore, effectively blinding her still covered eye. Yet she smiled in defiance and pushed herself to her feet and laughed in the face of her opponent.
"Aovehm dhehraoghehd!" the pale imitation of Superman shouted.
Robin dodged a few more blows. Enduring the constant shouting of 'aovehm dhehraoghehd' she assumed it had something to do with death. And then it was too late and she hit another wall of the cave. Before she passed out she heard a female voice.
"Nahgrhahdh wegh!"
When Robin came to she noticed that the pale imitation Superman was laying on the ground next to her with his brains scattered over the floor. Robin scanned the room and saw Harley Quinn leaning against a wall reading a book.
"Finally," Harley said as she skipped towards Robin. "Had a nice nap?"
"Harley what," Robin felt for her mask it was still on.
"Don't worry little red bird, I won't remove your mask unless it's killing you, I told you the last time there are weirdo's out there, this one almost killed you. Good thing Mr. J stole a piece of the green rock that hurts Superman."
"Ugly was like Superman, that explains a lot." Robin said trying to get up. "But what are you doing in Smallville?"
"I come here to read. The legends of Krypton always fascinated me." Harley said smiling.
"You can read kryptonian? I find it hard to believe Superman will take the time to teach you.
Instead of replying Harley took the gum out of her mouth and walked towards Robin who still couldn't get up. Harley stretched her gum out and placed it in a hole above Robin's head. The room started to glow and the next thing Robin knew she was making out with Harley, or so she thought.
"Now so do you." Harley smiled then skipped out the room taking her gum with her. "By the way you kiss as good as you dance little bird."
Robin flicked the homing beacon in her gloved hand and lay back down. She glanced at the wall next to her testing Harley's theory and sure enough she was able to read it. Read it and understand it. While she waited for Batman she lay and read the tale on the roof, The Legend of Nightwing and Flamebird.
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[And that is why I can speak kryptonian.] Annie said as she trailed a finger over the hole Harley's gum was in. [In hind sight I think Harley was force feeding me Kryptonian]
[I see.] Kara said then took a necklace out of her costume. On the necklace there was a shaped crystal. She placed the crystal in the hole and the room lit up again. [Perhaps you can force feed me the languages you know.]
Before Annie could resist Kara's lips met hers, she could feel the sensation pouring out of her. She remembered the sensation from way back with Harley but at that time she didn't think much of it. She gave into the sensation and even after it was gone she and Kara didn't part, until Annie needed air.
[You are a great kisser, Annie.] Kara said causing Annie a blush.
[I'll probably get in trouble for this,] Annie said smiling, [But my real name is Rochelle Grayson. I am both Robin 'Boy' Wonder and Nightwing.]
[Why keep it secret with fake names?] Kara asked taking her crystal out and walking to the exit.
[Unlike your cousin and his clone, I don't have super powers. The secrets are to protect my friends and those who are like family to me.] Rochelle confessed.
Kara smiled then flew Rochelle home. Once in Gotham, at the Robin's nest, Rochelle slipped inside and retrieved something she was working on for Superboy. A wrist-phone that was able to withstand Superman's full strength, it ran on Wayne Tech Cellular, a project Rochelle begged Bruce to implement. She gave the phone to Kara and showed her how to work the halo screens.
[To keep in touch, I beamed three numbers into it. Feel free to add more as your friends grow.]
"Thank you," Kara blushed. "Thank you for considering me s friend."
"Of course and as a friend I suggest you get a sign off." Rochelle sent a quick message to Kara.
From Ro to KZE:
I have two (R) for Robin and (V) for Nightwing
"When you get a pressure suit call me, I'll take you to Sanctuary." Kara smiled and flew away.
"Who was that?" Barbara asked coming in through the window.
"Kara Zor-el, Superman's cousin from Krypton." Rochelle smiled while she heated a needle to remove the smart wig.
"Ah, you know that Krypton blew up when Superman was a baby right? You told me that remember, how can he have a younger cousin?"
"What makes you think she's younger? Chronologically she's in her forties, physically not so much."
Rochelle handed the hot needle to Barbara who stabbed at the small bead behind Rochelle's ear. The wig loosened and Rochelle took it of. Barbara took hold of Rochelle's head and led her to the bathroom where she washed the wig residue out.
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Batman called the meeting. He finally had a covert mission to send the team on, Santa Prisca, Bane's island, the place that makes the illegal steroid Venom. The island has been running without stop for weeks but no new products showed up anywhere.
The team is being sent to investigate and report back when they have anything solid. There were going to be two drop zones, the first was going to be Aqualad into the ocean. His job was to get to the island and neutralize the security. Robin couldn't help smiling. Being the person with the most experience meant that she was the obvious choice for leader.
"Security system is on a continuous loop, I'll meet you at the rendezvous point." Aqualad said into his com.
Miss Martian lowered cables from the roof of the bio-ship and the team went into stealth mode, new armor Batman brought to the cave, for each of them, Superboy chose not to wear the kryptonian weave outfit, calling it a monkey suit. The team lowered onto the island and the bio-ship went into hiding, after Superboy made a crater in the ground that is.
When Superboy mentioned hearing a sound Robin disappeared into the forest, hopefully the others would follow her lead. She heard Aqualad tell Kid Flash and Superboy to switch to infrared. She just knew that they didn't go into hiding so she palmed her face and backtracked to their location.
And then Kid Flash blew their cover when he went looking for her. Robin sighed and changed direction. Feeling her pouches she cursed herself, she took her old utility belt with the bird-arangs instead of the R's. She took them just the same and threw them at the guns firing on Kid Flash.
Seeing Superboy take care of Bane, Robin jumped out of the trees and took out two of the cultists. She gave Kid Flash the stink eye.
"Seriously dude, this was supposed to be a stealth mission, why did you go crashing the party?" Robin snarled. "Why didn't you follow my lead and disappear into the forest?"
"That was what you were doing?" Kid Flash snapped. "We're not mind readers you know. Well I'm not anyway."
"You said I can only read the bad guy's minds." M'gann said taking out some guards.
Somehow the thought flew over Robin's head at that time. Aqualad showed up at that moment and took care of the last guards. They tied them to the trees and Robin gave the 411 on the cultists.
"So Cobra wants super-cultist case solved lets call Bats and go home." Kid Flash said clearly misunderstanding.
"Cobra isn't on Venom, they are hording the stuff. We can't leave till we know why." Robin said and then she figured why Wally was like that.
"Till we know why or till you know why?" Kid Flash said.
"The team needs a leader and I have the most experience." Robin snapped, she didn't really want to be the leader. She had the whole Nightwing thing back in Gotham.
"You're not Batman!" Kid Flash snapped back.
"I'm the closest to Batman we got." Robin huffed and turned around she wanted to desperately sway her hips like she saw in movies but resisted.
"Such clever niños, but you only got half the story." Bane practically laughed.
"Miss Martian" Aqualad said and she went to read his mind. All she got was something about a secret entrance into the factory.
"Ah, ah, ah chica, Bane is not that easy." Bane shook his head.
"He's mentally residing football scores, in Español. This can take a while." Miss Martian said before going back in.
"It's easy, the enemy of my enemy."
Bane took them into the factory where Cobra was hard at work making the new Venom. Robin disappeared into the computer room knocked out the guard and started to hack the system. There she found two components fused together and started to reverse the process to figure out what was happening. Kid Flash showed up just as she identified Venom by its formula.
Then the fight started. Robin knew she wouldn't be able to fight the big guys the rest of the team did so she set out to sabotage the helicopter Sportsmaster arrived in and then she saw Cobra himself. Robin couldn't help herself. She made herself known just as she heard M'gann in her head.
AQ: Robin we need to regroup.
R: Kinda in the middle of something here.
AQ: No time we need a plan.
Robin threw down a flash grenade and disappeared. She totally could've taken out Shimmer if she had the time. They escaped through Bane's entrance and caused a cave in to stop Mammoth from following them.
It seemed even clearer to Robin at that point that she wasn't ready to lead the Team, in Gotham it was another story, she had home turf advantage and she wasn't sure the team would trust her anyway.
"This mission is going south and I think it's my fault." Robin said turning her back to the group, mostly to hide her smirk. Body language she can fake, but not the smirk.
"I will admit you have the most experience and would be a great leader for this team, but you lack communication." Aqualad said. "With you and Batman your roles are defined, so you do not need to speak. This team however is still young."
"You should lead this team Kaldur, currently you're the only one that can." Robin said then interrupted Kid Flash before he could say anything. "You know it's true."
"Then I accept this burden until you are ready to take it from me." Aqualad rested his hand on Robin's shoulder. "But for now we need to keep that chopper on the ground."
"I had the same idea so I borrowed some parts that looked important." Robin held out several bolts, the spark plugs and a handful of cables and tubes.
They ran the long way around and got confronted by Bane. It seemed that Bane laced the cave with explosives. Aqualad mentally told Kid Flash to get the bombs and detonator. Kid Flash handed the bombs to Robin and took the device from Bane.
Bane wasn't happy so he tried to end the speedster's life. Too bad he didn't figure M'gann and Superboy into the equation. M'gann lifted him of the ground and dropped him on Superboy's waiting fist. He was out cold.
The chopper was ready to leave when the team showed up to stop the party. Kid Flash took care of the robe wearing cultists and took a mask as a souvenir. Superboy was to distract Sportsmaster while M'gann planted the bombs. Aqualad took care of Mammoth, by tiring him out on a water run then shocked him. Robin was the only one qualified to deal with Cobra, so she was left to it.
"What's wrong boy you look disconcerted." Cobra mocked.
Sportsmaster got into the chopper like they planned and took off. Seconds later M'gann pushed the trigger to set off the bombs. The chopper crashed into the factory burning it out. Robin could only imagine Bane wasn't too thrilled, but she had her own problems with Cobra, the pale freak, decided to fight himself and was fast gaining the upper hand.
"I'm plagued by mosquitoes." Cobra shouted.
"Good, because this mosquito is mighty concerted over your pain." Robin smiled as she got to her feet, her friends soon formed ranks.
"Another time then," Cobra said then vanished into the forest.
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"This was supposed to be a covert mission, observe and report only." Batman said to the Team. "You will all receive a written evaluation stating your many mistakes, until then good job." Robin just knew this was coming, she smirked. "No plan always survives against the unknown, how you adjust determines how you succeed and how you choose a leader determines character."
The Team was dismissed and Robin took the opportunity to speak to Batman. She wanted to invite some friends over to the Robin's nest and stay out the night, not as a crime fighter but as Rochelle Grayson. He agreed and volunteered Alfred as chaperone. Batman had business with the League and Alfred would've been alone in the mansion. Robin resisted the urge to hug Bruce there and then and searched for M'gann telepathically, lucky the team wasn't linked anymore.
R: I got a get together at the Robin's nest tonight, just a few girls, you game?
M: Sure, beats being here the whole night. Superboy needs some space.
R: See you later, can't wait for you to meet the other girls.
M: Girls? You mean it won't be just you, me and Babs?
Rochelle just smiled and left through the Zeta tube. She arrived in Gotham and made her way to the Robin's nest. Barbara was already waiting for her. Rochelle slipped inside without saying a word and went to the computer.
"She's in Gotham," Rochelle said studying the screen and stripping out of her civvies. She got dressed in her Nightwing outfit and went to the window.
"I guess this is a no on the party?" Barbara asked somewhat dejected.
"The party is on, Alfred is on his way here now. We just need to get two more guests." Rochelle smiled.
"The archer and M'gann," Barbara asked.
"Already got M'gann, but I had another alien in mind." Rochelle smiled and the two made their way over the roof tops in search of Artemis.
They found her at the edge of town in her civvies waiting for a bus. Rochelle wanted to stop her from getting on it but stopped when Artemis greeted a woman in a wheelchair. Rochelle recognized her as Huntress.
"We should leave them tonight. Her mom just got out of prison it seems."
Rochelle made the quick connections. She recognized the woman as Huntress, which meant that she was the wife of Sportsmaster. That meant Artemis was even braver than Rochelle originally thought.
"Let's go, Alfred's probably busy with the pizza."
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There was a gentle knock on the door, Rochelle opened it for M'gann in her Caucasian disguise. After ensuring that the cost was clear she dropped the disguise to her cheerful green self. Moments later there was one on the window as well. Barbara opened and Kara came in, the party was ready to start.
Kara was wearing a green dress with a white scarf and a white leggings/boots combo*, the dress bore the S insignia. M'gann frowned but welcomed the girl anyway. She even changed her outfit to match Kara's. (*Similar to her outfit in New 52 Supergirl #0)
"So is Superman your uncle? The Martian Manhunter is mine." M'gann smiled.
"Not exactly, Kal is kinda my baby cousin." Kara smiled. "Not so clear on all the details, why I'm as young as I am."
"Well, I'm glad to meet the other member of the family, Superboy might also like to meet you."
[Ro, what is this Superboy, did my cousin have a baby?] Kara turned to Rochelle.
[Not exactly, a team of scientists stole some DNA from Superman and made a clone.] Rochelle noticed Kara's eyes stretch.
[How did they get pass the uncontrollable aggression? And the black eyes must be really freaky.] Kara said clearly on edge.
[Wait, what?] Rochelle said then ran to her computer and started hacking into Cadmus, lucky she left something in one of the vents just in case.
"What did you say to Ro?" Barbara asked standing up from the bed.
"I only asked if she didn't find Superboy's black eyes freaky. Krypton abandoned the entire cloning process due to the aggression and freaky eyes." Kara said as if it was common knowledge.
"I'll admit Superboy is mad a lot, but his eyes are pretty normal." M'gann changed her eyes to Superboy's.
"Not pure Kryptonian DNA," Barbara read over Rochelle's shoulder. "Deemed too unstable, DNA was combined with that of a human host to stabilize."
[But who was the human?] Kara asked but didn't wait for an answer. "I was told there was going to be pizza."
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Rochelle was confused to say the least. Batman has called her, Barbara and Kara to the Robin's nest without giving a reason. Rochelle and Barbara were at the mall on Rochelle's private day showing Kara a good time.
"I wouldn't call you here if it wasn't urgent." Batman said as Kara arrived. Earlier today the League fought an Android capable of studying and mimicking the abilities of the league members that fought it."
"Was it T. O. Morrow's?" Rochelle asked remembering the android she and Batman fought a year ago.
"Unclear, I will discuss it with the other Leaguers later and come up with a theory. But for now I need people trained to think my way to assist the team with their mission, and since 'Robin' is off grid."
"It's up to Nightwing and her companions to fill the void. Just by the way, where am I today?" Rochelle smiled.
"South Africa." Batman said.
The girls got dressed while Batman contacted the League to search for answers. Rochelle applied some of the eye shadow that masked her identity with a smart wig and modified cowl. She and Barbara cut out a piece to let their hair flow. Batman didn't seem to mind. Rochelle only did it after the day she went with Superman. Batman led them to a building only a block away where he scanned Kara and went through the Zeta tube. The girls followed.
Recognized. Batman 02. Oracle. D01. Nightwing. D02. Supergirl. D03.
The team was busy sparring, read losing to, with Black Canary when they arrived. Batman explained the situation and gave the team their mission. They were to be split into two teams and follow a truck containing the parts of Amazo.
Nightwing and Oracle were teamed with Superboy leaving Aqualad, Kid Flash and M'gann on the other team. Kara confessed that she couldn't ride a bike, there weren't any on Krypton. So she would be the little blue bird and go where she's most needed if she's needed.
The trucks were off and so was the team. Nightwing noticed that Batman stopped Superman from leaving. She somehow knew it was because of Superboy. It was clear that he was distraught. So Nightwing decided to make him traught.
"Superboy was it?" there was a grunt in reply Nightwing continued. "If dislike is the opposite of like, is aster the opposite of disaster. You know instead of things going wrong they go right?" there was a slight smile.
"You remind me of Robin, he also has this weird way with words." Superboy said.
"We used to spent time together I guess Robin is rubbing of on me." Nightwing said smiling. Oracle was in her own space, laughing to herself.
Halfway to Manhattan the truck was attacked by robot monkeys. Nightwing advised to switch the bike to battle mode, more as a way to not break it then actual battle. But it rubbed a sore spot for Superboy as he went on about not needing it.
"Well Bee, I guess we get the leftovers." Nightwing said over the com.
"Seems like it double-A." Oracle said then switched her bike to battle mode took out her utility belt.
Superboy was decimating monkeys left and right while Nightwing and Oracle tried to prevent them from taking the cargo. The truck eventually topped over and the monkeys made their escape in the madness. Superboy took out his com and jumped away after the monkeys.
"Huh, Nightwing we lost our cargo." Kid Flash said over the com link.
"Kinda figured, same situation here, I'm guessing the parts had GPS seeing as the other trucks weren't attacked. I got a metal fuzzy here. I'm hacking it to get a reverse location."
"You're not Robin in disguise are you, cause you're kinda hot." Kid Flash said.
"Robin would take offense. Anyway the GPS is moving south towards Gotham. Bee and I will meet you there." Nightwing nodded and the girls took off after Superboy.
It took only a few minutes for the girls to change into their outfits and reach Gotham it seemed that they were heading towards Gotham Academy, Rochelle and Barbara's school. Kid Flash soon joined them.
"Yellow and red is a bit obvious don't you think?" Nightwing said with a smirk.
"Nevermind that, where are they heading?" Kid Flash was clearly not feeling the aster.
"Gotham Academy, hope things don't get out of hand." Oracle answered.
The teens arrived just in time to save Superboy from being a smudge. Supergirl went to fetch Aqualad and Megan. The battle with Amazo wasn't really a fair deal. The android fought eight Justice League members before it was shut down. Nightwing and Oracle stayed outside the android's range and peppered it with projectiles hoping it would slip up. Kid Flash and Superboy opted for the hands-on approach.
Kid Flash was about to be bear-hugged to death when an arrow saved his life. Nightwing recognized the arrow instantly, Artemis. She made it her mission to thank the archer some way. She was still in thought when she saw the cause of Superboy's distraught.
"Access Black Canary," he said then shouted. "I'm angry, do you want to see me channel that anger!" Superboy went after Prof. Ivo.
"Let's play keep away with the creepy inventor." Nightwing said and the rest of the group all started attacking the professor.
Nightwing threw an R at the android when she saw Superboy approaching it. As predicted it accessed Martian Manhunter, but it was too late to access Superman when Superboy struck. The result was the android's head exploding. Nightwing and Oracle made quick work to start disassembling the android. You could never be to sure, unfortunately Ivo got away during the confusion.
"Now I'm totally feeling the aster." Superboy winked at Nightwing.
Not really wanting the attention of the super powered teen, Nightwing grabbed Oracle and gave her a kiss while whispering what she knew Superboy might be thinking. Oracle didn't seem to mind though. Kid Flash snagged the arrow and the rest of the team showed up.
After seeing the parts to their respected Star Labs the teens returned to Mt. Justice for the debriefing. Kid Flash confronted Green Arrow about the arrow with his eyes stretching when it was revealed that it wasn't his arrow. Then he went on about Speedy and how he got their backs, Nightwing wanted to smack some sense into him but a stern look from Batman stopped her.
