SUMMARY: After freeing the Justice League from the Light's control, the Team, with the clone Roy Harper, were bonding but they also need a mission bonding. Naturally, they get one. Their mission? Stop a villian with the name "Time Stream". But everything went wrong with the mission. One second they were fighting the enemy, the next they were in Watchtower with Superman and–was that?–Zatanna looking at them. One problem? The Zatanna they were staring at looked a little older and more beautiful and they can't have two Zatannas, can they?
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Young Justice, folks! If I do, Wally West should never had ceased and Nightwing should never had leave the Team. Though, I own my OCs in this story.
WARNING: There may be foul word/s in this story (courtesy of one Jason Todd)
BETA-READ: May 8, 2016
EDITED: May 14, 2016
REVIEWS: Thank you for all those reviewers. See, there's this Review Button below that is begging to be pressed. Review more, guys!
Princess of Flames: Thanks for the compliment! I hope you'll like the upcoming chapters.
Unlucky Alis: There's no more suspense in others than in those future secrets. Well, Robin is far smarter for his age and he has this ability to easily read people so he recognized Zatanna first, even recognizing the future Zatanna faster than her past self, so no there's no question about it. There won't be a Nightwing appearance, I'm sorry. But yes, future Dick Grayson will appear in this story just with a different alter-ego. That alter-ego will appear in Chapter Seven, which is not yet to appear until maybe next month or May. M'not sure.
Lea: IKR! Young Justice Archive really lacks that type of fan fiction. But all the YJ Time Travel stories I've read so far are great, albeit done are unfinished D=. Really? The characters are spot on? I just do my best to not make them OOC, but we do have different opinions yet thanks. Cliffhangers also annoys the life out of me.
Dankmemes: Wow, this is a coincidence. Barbara is in this chapter! Along with Bruce, Tim, and... *drum roll* JASON! Aren't you in love with his bad-ass attitude? And suspense tends to make readers crave for more so suspense is still involved. Don't worry about the chapters' length, they will be longer. Maybe not in this chapter because this is just a filler, but the upcoming ones.
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Chapter Four:
The Missing Hero
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|January 5, 1:32 AM EDT
|BatCave
|TEAM YEAR SIX
Barbara Gordon, most known by her teammates as Batgirl, sighed as she leaned against the chair by the Bat-Computer. She had been searching for any traces of Nightwing's disappearance. Well, he didn't really disappear, it has been half a year since he left the Team to take a "leave of absence" after Wally West's death.
Tigress, the former Artemis, was still on the Team. The problem was she was more aggressive and more reckless. She can't blame the latter, she would be exactly like her if the love of her life disintegrated in front of her. If Dick disintegrated in front of her. She loved the guy with all her heart, the only thing that was keeping her from dating him was that like she once said:
"Because in the immortal words of Wally West, you are a DOG, Dick Grayson. You're not ready for me yet."
As much as she loved him, she didn't want to have a broken heart. Sure, Dick said to her that he loved her so much he liked to enter a steady relationship, but she can't help but think that Dick was not ready yet. Not ready to enter a loving and steady relationship with her, Barbara. They may have shared a few loving kisses, but that's all of that for now.
A loud beep from the computer interrupted her thoughts, and she quickly pressed a key on the keyboard to check it out. It was a transmission, one from Tim, the current Robin.
The transmission started with a loud boom, which startled Barbara. Then, it was proceeded by coughing and wheezing. She heard a shouting of warning from the background and she quickly tried to pinpoint his location. A voice spoke through the transmission, "Batgirl, can you hear me? Anyone?"
"Robin, this is Batgirl. Can you hear me?" said Barbara in a serious voice. Even though she was not as good as Tim with the computers, her skill rivaled Dick's, she may even have surpassed him. But maybe one day she'll be the tech expert in the family rather than Tim.
"Loud and clear, Batgirl." he replied. "Batman and I may need backup right now. Bane and Killer Croc are proving that they can defeat us, and I think it can really happen. Send in backup, would 'ya?"
Barbara snorted, "Bane and Croc? Gotham has lousy villains this night."
"I don't-cough-think you understand! I-hyah!-said they're winning."
"All right, I'll send backup." The transmission ended and Barbara checked her comm. link. Who should she send? Batman will get mad once she send a League member on the field, so she erased the Justice League on her choices. It can't be possibly Nightwing since she's got no idea where he is. So Nightwing was out of the picture. Then, she got the idea, Bruce may not like it but he can at least be grateful he had a backup. She spoke to her comm., "Red Hood, do you copy?"
There was static, then a gruffly voice replied. "The hell, Gordon?! Can't you see that I'm asleep! Can't a fucking guy just get some nice sleep from now on?!"
"Nice to hear your voice, Hood." Barbara said sarcastically, ignoring Red's choice of words. She was used for his constant swearing and his aggressiveness when his sleep was interrupted. "I am just calling you 'cause Bats and Rob need back-up and your the only one I could think of."
"Can't you send Goldie?!" he cried, somehow slightly caused a ringing in her ears.
Barbara snapped, "Can't send him when I don't know where he is and how to contact him!"
Red Hood, or most commonly known as Jason Todd, sighed from the other line. Barbara sighed too, she didn't mean to snap at Jason but all the stress that Dick's 'disappearance' caused her was bordering her patience. Jason Todd was the second Robin, killed by the Joker after only few months of working with Batman. But just last year, he was resurrected by Ra's al Ghul, who said he felt at fault by the young man's death. Since then, he became an anti-hero, not entirely a villain nor a hero (but they knew that he only killed villains). "Okay," he replied. "Just send me the coordinates of those two and I'll take care of it."
"Will do. And... Thanks, Jase."
Silence. Then—"No probs, Gordon. Hood out."
She smiled as Jason cut off his link. The smile quickly vanished as she rubbed her eyes and typed the coordinates to Jason. She leaned back to the chair again for a moment of relaxation. She really had been stressed for weeks, she needs to rest. Her dad was getting worried for her well-being and she always shrugged it off to him as 'teenage girl problems' that he might not want to hear. She then heard footsteps behind her and smelt an aroma of fresh-baked cookies and hot chocolate. "Do you want some cookies and chocolate, Miss Barbara?" asked Alfred, the Wayne's butler.
"Sure, Alfie." she grinned and took a cookie and the mug that Alfred was offering.
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|January 5, 1:41 AM EDT
|Todd's Apartment
|TEAM YEAR SIX
Jason Todd was never the man for sappy emotions. He didn't like hugs and kisses unlike few people. He didn't like sharing a moment with other people. Most importantly, he didn't like showing some emotions he didn't know he possessed. Well, he knew he possessed though emotions—he was human, after all—he just didn't show those.
So he didn't like it when he was worried for Grayson's disappearance and Gordon's health. He might had to replace Grayson as the second Robin but he didn't really think they were close, and he and Gordon never really got along. They always got into fights, challenging whose better, gloating how one can do better than the other, and more. His relationship with Grayson was like a distant brotherly-relationship and his relationship with Gordon was more like a competition than a real relationship.
After placing his red helmet on, he tucked his gun into his holster and opened his door from his apartment. Before going out, however, he checked the time on his clock on the bedside table of his. 1:42 am.
He groaned as he softly closed the door, avoiding too much noise in this early time, even though it certainly means nothing for the people in Gotham anyway. As he walked towards his motorcycle, Jason thought of ways how to kill-er, hurt his replacement once he see him again, tossing his keys to his motorcycle to air and catching it while repeating the process. He just couldn't wait to blast the villains' heads tonight—or today, blasted time!
He climbed on his motorcycle, started the two-wheeled vehicle, and drove off rather noisily.
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|January 5, 2:07 AM EDT
|Gotham Docks
|TEAM YEAR SIX
Jason stopped his motorcycle few blocks before the docks in order to maintain silence for him to sneak up on the bad guys, that is if he didn't run into thugs. As he got near the docks, a slight vibration on the ground caused him to halt his actions to see that Killer Croc had pounded his fists to the ground, trying to crush Robin. But the replacement had move out of the way before the fists came in contact with him,
While the replacement was busy fighting Killer Croc, Batman was busy with Bane. Jason watched as Batman dodged a incoming fist for him and catched it with his hand, returning the punch to Bane, sending the big guy tumbling.
He then turned his attention to the replacement, who somersaulted over Killer Croc and started hitting him with his collapsible bō staff. Killer Croc roared as Robin suddenly poked his eye and lunged at the little guy.
Grabbing his gun from the holster, Jason aimed it at Bane's tube-like thing on the back of his neck and pulled the trigger. He then aimed it at Croc's fine eye and shot at it. The gun created two loud 'bang's as both bullets hit its target. Green liquid (or is it juice?) from Bane's tube-like thing splattered on the ground as the bullet made contact and Killer Croc howled in pain as blood peered out from his eye. Both the two vigilantes looked temporarily shocked before turning their gaze to Jason, who blew out smoke from his gun.
The red-hooded vigilante smirked, "I didn't miss all the fun, did I?"
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CHARACTERS:
•Speaking Roles: Jason T./Red Hood, Barbara G./Batgirl, Tim D./Robin, Afred P./Agent A
•Non-speaking Roles: Bruce W./Batman, Dorrance/Bane, Waylon J./Killer Croc
•Mentioned: Richard G./Nightwing, Wally W./Kid Flash, Artemis C./Tigress, Ra's al Ghul/L2, Joker, Jim G.
NOTES:
Well, I'll just remind you people that this is just a filler chapter. This is what happened before the Team appeared on Watchtower. Are you guys happy I brought Jason as Red Hood into the picture? I am deeply sorry that there has been not enough action in this chapter, I am just new to this action thingys so I am not that good. But I'll probably improve, that's not a promise, but I can try! So if you must know, I'm a certified DIBS/GRAYBAT fan. I like CHALANT relationship in the first Young Justice, but in the comics of YJ:Invasion, I fell in love with DIBS! So sorry for CHALANT fans here but the main paring between the two is DIBS, though there is slight CHALANT (the past). *Gasps* If you look hard, there's a subtle foreshadowing about Barbara being Oracle.