AN: So here we all are a new update. Honestly it feels like it has been a while, even if it hasn't really been that long. Still here it is, I hope you enjoy and leave a comment or a review! On top of that thanks for all the support and favs and follows, this story is nearly the top of the PJ/ Young Justice crossover sections now. So thanks for that, your support really means a lot!

Hopefully it'll eventually be the top of the Young Justice crossover section too at some point, though I reckon achieving that will be damn difficult.

Hope you enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or Young Justice.

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(Last Time)

"And yet causing a seismic event might go against the point of being covert," Robin replied sarcastically shaking his head at the clone. To which Superboy just shrugged, not caring in the least.

Percy meanwhile narrowed his eyes, the clone was once again proving himself to be too impetuous. This group of young heroes still had far too many problems to properly call themselves a team.

"Right let's get moving!" Robin then said, after which he took off without bothering to wait for the others, or name a direction, instead disappearing into the dense woodland as if he expected everyone else to follow, or know where to go.

The rest of the team sent each other bemused looks at this, before they too started to move off and into the dense, surrounding woodland.

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Chapter 7

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(On the tropical island of Santa Prisca)

The climate on the island of Santa Prisca was warm and very humid, even during the evening the air was hot and sticky. On top of that the island was also heavily wooded with numerous types of tropical trees, fauna and flora spread throughout it, creating a dense undergrowth, one which tended to inhibit movement and make sneaking about difficult.

Suffice to say for the five teens trekking through the woods it was not easy going, for Percy, Wally and Superboy it was especially difficult to move quietly due to all the fallen leaves and branches, and the thick leafy bushes and plants all around them. And that was not taking into account the stifling heat and climate, or the wildlife that they could hear all around them.

Yes, travelling through Santa Prisca was not easy, or at least it wasn't easy when you were trying to be subtle and quiet.

Robin of course was in his element, the cloaked teen occasionally popping into the others vision as he darted ahead, moving swiftly and silently from tree to tree.

Megan too was also finding it easy as she used her Martian abilities to turn herself invisible and fly overhead, weaving through the branches with ease completely unseen by all.

In contrast the other three were less experienced and skilled in subtlety and silent moving. Still they made an effort as they slowly but steadily made their way deeper in land, all the time looking for the rendezvous point where they would meet up with Aqualad. After which they would head for the drug creation and distribution facility in the centre of the island, where they could fulfil their mission and investigate why said facility was no longer operating as it should.

After a couple more minutes of travelling, Robin once again appeared in front of them, the youngest of the group lifting up his arm and clenched fist in a similar way to how soldiers did so in films. Opening his hand wide as he then gestured for the other four to stop, which they did, even if Percy and Wally shared a bemused look at Robin's attempt to take charge, and Superboy just grunted in irritation.

"We are almost at the rendezvous point." Said Robin quietly, his eyes narrowed behind his mask as he darted backwards so he was closer to the other four, close enough that they could hear him whisper.

Ideally they would have been wearing communication devices of some sort, unfortunately though Batman had vetoed that idea when Percy suggested it whilst going off his own interpretation of the few spy films he had seen. With the Dark Knight having been leery in case there was some kind of scanning equipment on the island that could hack into the signal.

"Ok, we should wait there for Aqualad." Percy spoke up, shifting around as he continued to get used to his new armour. Armour that he had noticed had distinct similarities to Batman's own costume, both in terms of design and colour scheme, only Percy's had a distinct Ancient Greek design to it, and provided far more protection that Batman's probably did, even if it was also probably heavier and more restrictive than the Dark Knight's armour, plus is didn't have the cape. "Don't get too far ahead, we need to do some recon and strategise before we head into the base."

Robin frowned as he heard that. "I know, and we will, but first let's meet up with everyone. Then Aqualad, Kid Flash and I can head in closer to get a proper look at the facility and whether there are any patrols. After that we'll come back and sort out what your roles will be."

Reaching up Percy pulled his black, steel helmet off of his head, gladly removing the constricting headpiece from his head as he then fixed Robin with an irritated look. "Don't get ahead of yourself, of all of us Miss Martian is the most suited to recon, with her telepathy she can look for patrols and try and see how many there are in the facility, and with her invisibility and flight she can do so unseen."

"She's too green," Robin shot back, shaking his head, clearly not picking up on the pun. "All three of you are."

"Hey you two, this isn't the time to be arguing about this." Miss Martian cut in nervously, reappearing as she floated back down to earth.

Percy initially frowned as he heard her words, but a few moments later he nodded, locking eyes with Robin as he did so. "She's right, let's meet up with Aqualad first. We can sort the rest out later."

Before Robin could answer, Superboy spoke up, tilting his head as he looked away from the squabbling duo, with him instead picking up a faint crunching sound in the distance. "Did you hear that?"

"Hear what? Wait is this a super hearing thing?" Kid Flash asked with a frown, looking around the area and straining his ears to hear what Superboy did.

"Is it Aqualad?" Percy tagged on just as quickly, looking away from Robin now as he instead looked to Superboy.

Superboy didn't answer though as he instead continued to listen in on the sound.

So instead Kid Flash put on his goggles, the lens lighting up as he activated their infrared mode and scanned the surrounding area. "I've got five signatures about a quarter mile away."

"I see six others. The two groups are about to meet," Superboy tagged on as he used his own X-ray vision to scan the area, combining it with his super hearing.

"Right," Percy nodded, drawing on his control over water now as he spread his senses out through the humid air in the forest. This technique wasn't perfect by any means, but it would at least allow him to track movement in a several hundred metre area around him. "I've got them."

Superboy sent him an odd look at that statement.

"I've got my own sensory ability, it allows me to track people through water molecules in the air, I feel out vibrations and it gives me a rough idea of what and who is around me." Percy admitted grudgingly, weighing up his privacy with the usefulness of sharing elements of his abilities, and finding it was best to share a little in order to make the team more cohesive, and aid in strategizing.

"Sweet, one of these days you're going to need to tell us how you can do all this stuff!" Kid Flash muttered, an impressed look on his face.

"Maybe later." Percy's muttered back, his lips twitching upwards slightly. "For now let's focus on the mission shall we?"

"You're right, so Robin what…" Kid Flash began, only to freeze when he noticed that the Boy Wonder had disappeared. "Hey, where did he go?"

"He was here a second ago," Miss Martian tagged on blinking in confusion as she looked around.

"Yeah I felt him leave about a minute ago." Percy said a wholly unsurprised expression on his face.

"Great, why didn't you stop him? I mean now we have to find him as well as Aqualad, all while avoiding those two patrols." Kid Flash grumbled irritably. With him being annoyed with both Robin for being impetuous and running off, himself for noticing Robin slipping off, and Percy for not stopping the Boy Wonder, not that Robin would have willingly allowed Percy to stop him, but still.

Before anymore could be said gunshots began to fill the air. "Don't need super hearing for that," Kid Flash continued, looking back to the two unfamiliar groups only to see that they had now met up and were having a shootout.

Both Percy and Superboy also looked off in the same direction as him as he did so.

Pulling his helmet back on, his sea green eyes still visible through the slit in the helmet, Percy unsheathed his Drakon bone sword twirling it in his hand instinctively as he did so. "Let's go, try to stick to the shadows, we'll circle round them whilst they're distracted."

Megan nodded at that a smile on her face, before she went invisible again. Superboy meanwhile grunted, locking gazes with Percy as he did so, before he then nodded, grudgingly acknowledging the older teens order.

"Right, let's go." Kid Flash whispered with a quick smile, before in a burst of speed he took off running in the direction of the two groups, looking to get a glimpse of what was happening, and who the two parties were, with his none infrared vision before circling round. Unfortunately though, the wet, leaf strewn forest floor caused him to slip as he sped along, which led to him slipping on some mud, before he then stumbled forwards and tripped over the roots of a nearby tree.

After which he rolled forward almost comically, muddying up his suit and rustling the nearby brush, as he landed straight in between the two battling groups. His appearance immediately drawing the attention of the assembled men.

"So much for stealth," Wally gulped, looking around nervously as he saw a host of guns now trained on him.

"For fuck's sake." Percy grunted some distance away, holding off the impulse to face palm, as he instead leapt forward, barging through the brush and towards Wally's location, Miss Martian flying overhead and Superboy running gamely at his side. The best they could do now was to incapacitate the two patrols before which ever group was in charge could send a warning back to the facility.

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(With one of the two groups)

Bane scowled as he and his men attempted to fight off the red cloaked interlopers from his island. All of them using machineguns to do so, even Bane himself, though that was mainly due to Kobra, the man behind the invasion, having taken his usual equipment and Venom from him, thus stopping him from engaging in his usual style of combat.

Suffice to say that was just one of a number of things he was going to make Kobra pay for once he retook his island.

Gritting his teeth behind his El luchador like mask, Bane rattled off a few more shots, moving so he was looking around the trunk of the tree he was hiding behind as he tried to hit one his equally well armed opponents.

"Take no prisoners!" He then shouted in his first language, Spanish, his brow furrowing as he ducked back behind cover as several bullet struck the tree shattering and splintering some of the bark. "Kill these bastards!"

His men all roared at that, even as they started to unleashed more firepower, not that it did much good as they were outnumbered and in a stalemate. With Bane having only been able to free a couple of his boys when he escaped captivity.

Growling at this, Bane was about to start shouting again when he was caught by surprise by the sound of rustling bushes and a loud cry of pain. Following on from which a ginger haired, teen in a tight fitting black and grey outfit, with goggles and a lightning bolt symbol on his chest crashed through the trees and landed in the centre of the clearing.

Almost immediately the gun fire stopped as both Bane and his men, and Kobra's cultist followers stopped attacking and stared at the unexpected interloper. Bane quickly identifying the symbol on the boy's chest and the teen himself as the Flash's protégé, Speedy, or something like that. Which of course begged the question of what a sidekick from America was doing here?

"Kill him," Bane ordered bluntly, he could get answers later, once he had retaken his island.

Almost immediately both side started firing, only this time at the teenage sidekick. The sudden loud bursts of gunfire masking the sound of more rustling bushes in the distance.

In response Kid Flash was on his feet in moments, and blurring around at an incredible speed as he tried to avoid to sudden onslaught of gunfire.

As he did this several bird-a-rangs flew out of the tree line, knocking weapons out of Bane's men hands, even as Percy and Superboy thundered out of the brush.

"What are you doing? Why didn't you vanish into the woods?" Robin shouted as he swung down from one of the tree branches, his eyes narrowed as he saw the attackers were already regathering themselves.

"Oh is that what you wanted us to do!? We can't read your mind you know that don't you?!" Kid Flash snapped back as he blurred forward and tripped up one of the Kobra cultists, before he then disarmed another, after which his gaze flickered over to the other members of the team, including the now once again visible Miss Martian, who at that moment was telekinetically wrenching guns out of people's hands. "Well, at least I can't!"

"It's not my fault, you told me I was only allowed to read the bad guy's minds!" Miss Martian shot back as she darted through the air, avoiding a sudden spray of bullets from one of Bane's men.

"Enough bickering!" Percy snapped as he made his presence known, with him swinging his sword up and cutting one of the Kobra cultist's guns in two, even as Superboy thundered forward and engaged Bane. Not that Percy paid much attention to this, as he instead suddenly raised his other hand and made a gripping motion. "We need to finish this as fast and quietly as we can before they send an alert to someone at the facility that there are intruders on the island!"

With that said the six Kobra cultists and four of Bane's men started making gagging sounds, grabbing at their throats or heads as Percy seized control of the water in their body, in particular their blood as he cut off their circulation, stilling their lungs for the moment and siphoning away the blood from their brains.

With several ragged gasps the ten men then collapsed to the floor unconscious. After which Percy released his control on them, a single bead of sweat rolling down his forehead and a ragged gasp leaving his lips at the level of control he had had to maintain to achieve the feat. Honestly controlling people's blood when it was still inside the body, it was no easier thing, and the more people he had to control and the stronger, physically and/ or mentally, they were the harder it became.

"Well shit…" Kid Flash muttered as he came to a halt and saw that all their enemies were now down, save of course for Bane who was still tussling with Superboy.

"What did you do, did you kill them!?" Robin snapped out harshly, taking a few steps towards Percy as he pulled his helmet off and pushed his sweaty hair out of his eyes.

"Give it a rest, they're unconscious." Percy sighed, already tired of Robin's attitude as he brushed past the younger boy. "Thus far I've have seen nothing that calls for their deaths, neither through their actions or their abilities."

"You…" Robin began to say, his eyes narrowing even further.

Only to be cut off as Percy continued speaking. "Now do something useful and tie them up."

"You can't talk to me like that, I'm the leader!" Robin replied angrily.

"To be the leader you actually have to lead." Percy shot back dryly, after which he ignored the scowling Boy Wonder as he instead walked over, and came to a stop next to Kid Flash, both of them and Megan watching as Superboy overpowered Bane.

"Why didn't you take him out too?" Kid Flash asked, a bemused smile on his face as he looked between the angry Robin and Percy.

"He's Bane, the leader here. Of all of the people here he would be the most useful to interrogate. If I took him out the same way as the others though then we might not be able to do that, that ability I just used is not as easy as it looks, which is why I've no idea when those lot will wake up." Percy shrugged, glancing back at the unconscious thugs, all of whom Robin was now going around, tying up their hands and feet, a scowl still on his face as he did so.

"They will wake up though won't they?" Megan asked suddenly nervous.

"Yeah they'll be fine. I basically just took control of their blood and starved their brains and lungs of oxygen." Percy replied easily, looking to the Martian now. "I could have done much worse stuff, but I decide to play with kiddie gloves and bring them down as fast and as silently as I could."

"Damn, that's kind of scary. So your control over water is so powerful you can control people's blood. Shit, that's beyond anything Aqualad can do, maybe even Aquaman too!" Kid Flash muttered, the expression he was sending Percy holding a mixture of both awe and wariness. "Just what are you?"

"Maybe later." Percy replied, his gaze still on the fight. "Oi Superboy hurry up!"

"I am trying!" Superboy growled angrily, after which he threw another right hook, only for Bane to block it, before nailing Superboy in the face with a straight jab.

The villain, despite not possessing his usual Venom enhanced super strength, still proving himself a more skilled hand to hand fighter than Superboy. So much so that he was keeping pace, despite the clone being stronger and more durable.

"You think you can take down Bane?" Bane snapped out in highly accented English, throwing another punch at the clone's face. Only for Superboy to take the blow, and then catch the fist in his much stronger grip. "Oh shit!"

Smirking, Superboy wrenched Bane forward and then delivered a nasty punch into his gut knocking all the air out of his lungs and sending him crashing to the floor.

"Enough Superboy, we need him conscious!" Aqualad said as he suddenly jogged onto the scene, probably drawn in by the sounds of fighting, and immediately took everything in.

"He's right, we can interrogate him." Percy nodded, sheathing his sword now as he walked over and sent Bane smacking into the floor when he brought his foot down on his shaking back. "We need to know what's going on here, it'll be useful for when we make our plan."

"Right," Aqualad nodded, before he patted Superboy on the shoulder and gave him a nod. "Kid Flash, you and Miss Martian help secure the others. Perseus, you, Superboy and I can keep an eye on Bane until everyone is finished, after which we can interrogate him."

"I know these outfits," Robin said to the group at large as he and Megan finished tying up the last of the gunmen, nodding to the red cloaked men as he did so. "They are part of the Cult of Kobra."

"I am sure that if Batman knew such extremists were on the island he would have let us know," Aqualad said as he and Superboy leant Bane against a tree, and then stepped back and allowed Robin to tie him up.

"Which means that Kobra are the ones that took over the island," Robin said once he finished incapacitating Bane, looking to both Wally and Kaldur now, ignoring the other three none of whom knew what the Cult of Kobra was, though going off the others reactions they could assume they were some violent, highly dangerous, religious extremists.

"Great, now we can contact the League. Mission accomplished," Kid Flash said with a grin, looking around at the others as he did so.

Robin shook his head in the negative. "No way, Kobra isn't selling Venom they are hoarding it. We aren't leaving here until I find out why."

"Until you find out?" Kid Flash asked incredulously.

"This team needs a leader." Robin shot back quickly.

"And you think it is you? You are thirteen year old kid who bailed on us." Kid Flash replied, a hint of irritation entering his voice now.

"So I guess you are a mature fifteen? Ha, you blew our cover at the first chance!" Robin snapped back, standing up and getting in the older boy's face now.

Watching this back and forth, Miss Martian looked at Superboy and the bored looking Percy. "Don't either of you want to be leader?"

Superboy scoffed and shook his head, "No way. How about you?"

"I don't think I am ready to be a leader. I am new to all this hero stuff," Megan shrugged, surprised by Superboy's almost amiable response. "What about you Percy?'

"Not particularly." Percy replied, eyeing the two squabbling teens in irritation, before looking back at Miss Martian. "It's not a roll I want to step into again, not unless I have no other choice. Trust me leading isn't all it's cracked up to be. There is a lot of responsibility, and a lot of stress involved.

"So you've been a leader before?" Megan asked in interest.

"A long time ago." Percy replied vaguely, before he sent her a smile. "But I may tell you about it later."

"Ok," Megan nodded with a smile, she had enough sense to know when not to push. Everyone was entitled to their own privacy and their own secrets. She would be a hypocrite if she thought otherwise.

With that said both of them tuned back into the ongoing argument.

"Do you think you are Batman or something?" Kid Flash asked angrily.

"I am the closest thing we've got." Robin replied aggressively.

"Should we stop them?" Megan asked.

"Yes," Kaldur spoke up, before either Percy or Superboy could reply.

Before the Atlantean could do as he said though, he was interrupted by a sudden burst of laughter from Bane. All six of them looking to their captive as they heard his laughter ring out, Wally and Robin trailing off in their argument as they saw the smirk on the villain's face.

"And what do you have to laugh about?" Percy asked bluntly, absentmindedly fingering the hilt of his sword as he eyed the dangerous villain suspiciously, he had read this man's file on the journey to Santa Prisca. This was a man that by all accounts deserved death, he was a murderer, a drug peddler, a violent, remorseless psychopath, one who had no regret for anything he did, and someone that would likely never change no matter which institution or prison he was put in.

"I am laughing at you, you think yourselves to be clever children don't you? Well if you were as clever as you think you are, and you want to find out what is going on, then you should stop arguing and just ask me! I can take you inside, I can help you." Bane smirked here, his gaze flickering over to his unconscious and bound men, before going back to the six suspicious looking heroes. "I know a secret entrance into the factory, and I can show you."

Aqualad looked over at Miss Martian as Bane said that, his question obvious.

The red haired Martian nodded as she saw the look, walking over to Bane as she did so, her hazel eyes focused on him and narrowed in concentration. "There is a secret entrance, but he is hiding something." Megan said, wincing slightly as she struggled to keep up with all his thoughts. "Wait, he is now reciting football scores in Spanish."

"It is not my first time dealing with a telepath, alien!" Bane smirked in response, seemingly unperturbed by her psychic intrusion into his mind.

"Why would you be willing to help us?" Aqualad demanded, his gaze flickering from Megan to Bane now.

"It is not complicated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Bane shrugged, forcing a patently false, friendly smile onto his face.

It was a smile that Percy didn't buy for a second. "Until you stab them in the back?"

Bane's smile faded as he heard that. "And why would I do a thing like that?"

Percy cocked an eyebrow, before he looked around at the scattered guns and tied up thugs, after which he sent Bane an amused look, as if to say 'isn't it obvious?'

"If there really is a secret entrance it would allow us to get into the factory undetected." Robin piped up suddenly, a conflicted, pensive expression on his face.

"If he tries anything I'll take him down," Superboy tagged on helpfully, smacking his fist into an open palm as if to emphasis his point.

Aqualad, who now seemed to have nominally took the lead by default, for the moment at least, glanced around at the rest of the team. Trusting Bane, one of the most dangerous villains in the world, well it was risky to say the least. All of those present knew that. Still the possibility of a secret entrance into the factory was a good opportunity, plus the three original sidekicks were still feeling slightly rebellious.

"It is the best plan at the moment." Robin said suddenly, seemingly making his mind up, untying the rope and freeing Bane as he did so. "The way I see it, he doesn't have his Venom and with Superboy here we can easily deal with him if he tries to turn on us. Looking at it objectively the pros of using what he knows outweighs the cons."

Kid Flash, Superboy and Miss Martian all shrugged as they heard that, after which they shared a few looks and then nodded as they, as one, decided to just go along with Robin's decision for now.

Percy meanwhile fingered the hilt of his sword, his eyes narrowed as he gave Bane a suspicious look, before he shrugged. He would keep an on him no matter what, and the moment he sensed betrayal he would bring him down, after all with his abilities and the fact that Bane didn't have Venom pumping through his system at the moment, the man himself wouldn't be too difficult to deal with.

"Lead the way," Aqualad order, nudging Bane onto his feet with his foot, after which he and the rest of them team began to follow the criminal through the forest.

'I have a bad feeling about this,' Percy thought to himself, even as he followed the others through the thickly wooded forest, pulling his helmet back on as he did so.

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(Ten Minutes Later)

A few minutes later, the group, now led by Bane, reached the edge of a cliff, one which provided an overlook down into the facility below. With the thick woodland providing the assembled heroes, and one villain, adequate enough cover for them to group together and look down at the sprawling, expansive facility.

The moment they came to a halt, Robin fished around his utility belt for a moment before he pulled out a small set of binoculars which he then used to observe the facility own below. With Superboy likely using his supervision to do the same. Whilst Kid Flash once against used his infrared, even if it only had a limited effect due to the distance.

The rest of them however could only wait around for one of the others to give them a more detailed description of what was going on down below.

"It looks like they're moving a lot of product down there. And when I say a lot, I mean a lot, they are moving a load of those crates to the roof. A buy is definitely going down." Robin muttered, passing his binoculars to Kaldur now as he turned to the rest of them. "But if Kobra is not selling to the usual suspects, then…"

"Then we need to identify who the new buyer is." Aqualad finished for him, observing what was going on through the binoculars himself before he passed them on to Megan who had a look, and then on to Percy who also had a slight glance at the red cloaked men and women, all of whom were slowly moving a large number of crates onto the helipad on the roof of the facility, crates that almost certainly were filled with this Venom drug.

"Just what I was thinking." Kid Flash spoke up with a nod as he took his turn with the binoculars now, a cocky grin on his face as he then returned them to Robin after a quick glance.

"Yeah, you're the thinker." Robin muttered dryly as he stowed the binoculars back in his utility belt.

"Sarcasm? Dude. A real leader would focus on getting answers." Kid Flash shot back quickly, his brow furrowing, though his lips curved upwards into a cocky smirk.

"Enough bickering." Sighed Percy, he was really beginning to get pretty irritated now. Was he this shitty when he was their age?

"Perseus is right, this is no time for arguing. For now we need to get inside to get a closer look," Cut in Aqualad, his own brow furrowed as he sent the two other teens a frown before sending Percy a nod of acknowledgement.

Percy cocked an eyebrow at that, before he smiled slightly. Maybe he was being a bit harsh, not all of them were acting like brats, and as bemused as he was about Kaldur and his origins, the slightly younger teen had, for the most part, proven himself pretty dependable.

Sure the dark skinned teen was not flawless, he had his own faults and had things he definitely needed to work on. But of the lot of them he, along with Miss Martian too actually, was the most focused on the mission and the matter at hand.

Smiling again at this, Percy was soon distracted by the masked villain, Bane, who choose that moment to walk away towards a large boulder a few feet away.

"And what are you up to Bane?" Asked Percy, his right hand already raising as he summoned water from the humid air and created four floating spears of water around him.

Bane glanced back as he heard that, his eyes narrowing behind his mask at Percy's display or power, after which he then sent the green eyed Demigod a smirk.

"This." He said, before he grabbed the boulder and with a slight amount of exertion he moved it to one side, revealing a hidden entrance to a cave behind it as he did so. "Your answers are this way," Bane continued, before he made to enter the cave.

"Great, now El Luchador is our leader," Kid Flash grumbled, only for Robin to elbow the elder teen in the ribs, after which he started to follow Bane. Kid Flash following along closely after him, along with Superboy who sent Percy a speculative look, eyeing the water spears curiously, before disappearing into the gloom.

"Aqualad, Miss Martian." Percy suddenly spoke up as the two made to enter the cave too, the water spears around him dispersing back into the air as he saw he had their attention. "Keep an eye on Bane, I don't trust him for a second. The moment he shows his true colours, or becomes a liability, he needs to be taken down before he endangers us or the mission."

"I agree." Kaldur nodded, holding back more of his questions about Percy's abilities as he instead focused on the matter at hand. That being said he would be pressing the older teen for answers the moment they got back to Mount Justice, and would be reporting back to Aquaman what he had seen so far too. "He agreed to help us too easily, I think he has something planned."

"Probably a double cross, he likely wants us and this Cult of Kobra to wipe one another out, which will leave him free to once again take over the island." Percy stated bluntly, he had already pondered on Bane's treachery.

"I will keep listening in on his mind then, it should give us at least a little bit of warning before he betrays us." Megan spoke up decisively, a smile on her face as the three of them began to walk into the cave now.

"Good idea," Percy nodded with a smile, even as the three began to catch up with the slowly moving group of four ahead of them, none of whom, save for Superboy, seemed to have noticed their momentary absence.

Continuing on through the dark tunnel, Bane soon led them to a secret, metal door at the end of the cave. After which he put his hand on what looked like a high-tech fingerprint reader, which beeped, the light going from red to green as he put his hand on it, before the door slid open silently.

Opening the way for all of them to enter the factory.

"Robin…" Aqualad said as he tried to force his way to the front of the group as they entered what looked like a massive warehouse. Only for the others to look around and see that the Boy Wonder was already gone, gone before any of them could stop him.

"Don't tell me he was captured all ready," Bane chuckled mockingly.

"No, he just does that," Aqualad sighed in response, knuckling his temple with his hands as he did so.

Kid Flash meanwhile just smirked before he put his goggles on. "I'll go get the information we need before Boy Wonder returns." After which he vanished in a blur of motion, far faster than the others could react, meaning that none of them had the chance to stop him either.

Honestly this team didn't seem to be improving, if anything their teamwork was getting worse.

"Great chain of command." Chuckled Bane, his lips once again twisting into a disdainful smirk as he looked to Superboy, Miss Martian and Aqualad, after which his expression turned into a scowl when he noticed another of the heroes missing. "Hey wait where's the oth…"

That was as far as Bane got before he felt a hand clamping onto the top of his head, after which he knew only blackness as a callous and cold voice muttered. "That's enough out of you."

Releasing Bane's skull and allowing the heavily built man to collapse to the ground, there was a look of complete disinterest on Percy's face as he used his foot to turned Bane onto his back, after which he summoned more water from the air and cocooned the man from the neck down in a thick shroud of water, water which he then turn to ice, encasing him from the neck down in a thick, compact coffin of ice.

"What was that?!" Superboy hissed as he Aqualad and Miss Martian looked to Percy in shock.

"The same as I did to his men, only it's easier when I make physical contact." Percy shrugged, before he cocked an eyebrow when he saw that the clone didn't look satisfied by the answer. "The guy was going to betray us. Better we deal with him now quickly and quietly than wait for him to turn on us. Call it a pre-emptive strike, we deal with him now before he betrays us later and becomes a liability, and you can bet that he was going to betray us!"

"Percy's right, Bane might have been thinking in Spanish but I could sense the negativity of his thoughts." Miss Martina spoke up for him. With Superboy grudgingly nodding, as he heard the pretty green skinned girl speak up for Percy. "Though I'm not sure about taking him out now before he actually did anything?" She was a bit more uncertain on that point, it seemed a little… excessive.

"If we leave him in that ice for too long he could get frostbite of pneumonia." Aqualad stated, his blue eyes fixed on the ice encasing Bane, not so much perturbed by Percy's reasoning, as he was by Percy's methods, and pre-emptive strike.

"Then we better make sure we finish this mission quickly then. I would have put him in the earth if the floor weren't metal, but manipulating metal isn't really in my repertoire. Nor do any of us have any robe to tie him up, and I am certainly not letting someone like that walk around loose." Percy said sharply, looking down at his watch now before he looked around at the others. "Now come on, we can't tarry here, we have to go."

"You're right." Aqualad nodded, sending one more apprehensive look at the bound and unconscious Bane before he made to move. He wasn't entirely comfortable with this, but like Percy said they were in a rush, this was enemy territory and they were dealing with a highly dangerous organisation. There was no time for them to be standing around debating like this.

"Wait," Superboy hissed, making them freeze, only for him to grab Bane's frozen form and move him back into the tunnel, after which he forcibly closed the secret door, but not fully as he wedged it so it was still a fraction open. "Covert right? We don't want people just stumbling over him?"

"Good idea." Percy nodded to the clone, getting a nod and a slight smile in return as he did so. "Now let's go before the other two blow our cover."

With that said the remaining members of the team snuck through the factory, heading for the main hangar, with Megan, Superboy and Percy using their respective sensory abilities to guide them.

Ducking behind a pile of crates as they came to a more crowded part of the room, all four of them kept down low as they kept an eye on the activity going on in front of them.

"It looks like they are moving all the new shipment. None of the old shipment," Superboy muttered.

"Maybe freshness counts?" Suggested Miss Martian with a shrug.

"Freshness?" Percy asked dryly, his lips quirking upwards in amusement. With Miss Martian gained a light blush as she saw this.

"No, she may have a point." Aqualad cut in, looking to Miss Martian with a smile on his face. "She's shown she has good instincts before."

"Maybe, but although I can agree with you on Megan's instincts." Percy muttered, sending Miss Martina another smile. "But I don't think this is due to a case of freshness. No, I think there is something else at hand here."

"Helicopter," Superboy suddenly cut in, his head tilted as if he were listening to something, before he gestured for the others to look up.

"Come on, let's go." Aqualad said decisively, ducking down as he gestured for the others to follow him. "This must be our mystery buyer. Miss Martian, can you turn invisible and fly out there, and then send us a telepathic images of what's going on?"

M'gann nodded as she heard that, after which she turned invisible and shot off towards to the helicopter pad. The red haired Martian extending her mind as she did so, connecting to them in a noticeable manner so that all three of them could feel her in their minds.

'Don't worry it's just me, I will only use feather light touches though, I promise.' Miss Martian's disembodied voice rang through their heads, making Superboy wince slightly, his hands tightening into fists for a moment, before he then took a deep breath and seemed to relax.

'Okay, now can you project what you are seeing into our minds?' Percy asked mentally, still a bit leery on this whole telepathy thing himself. Though he would remain open minded, just as long as she didn't probe too deeply into their heads and touch on things she had no business knowing.

A few moments they all could hear the distinctive noise of helicopter blades as a large, military grade helicopter descended from the sky, lazily flying over the jungle before setting down on the landing pad. Its doors then opening to reveal a tall, heavily muscled man with short blonde hair, and what looked like a silvery, metallic hockey mask covering his face.

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(Elsewhere in the Factory)

Robin didn't say a word or make a sound as he snuck along the top of a line of crates, his eyes narrowed behind his mask as he saw a Kobra cultist sitting at the console of a nearby computer juat a few feet in front of him and at ground level.

Pulling a specialised bat-a-rang out of his utility belt Robin threw it with pinpoint accuracy, piercing the ground at the cultist's feet and making the red cloaked man flinch back in surprise. That was all the man could do though, because moments later gas sprayed out of the projectile, the unique chemical makeup of the gas rapidly, and painless robbing the cultist of consciousness.

Seeing this Robin darted forward, leaping soundlessly off of the crate as he alighted on the ground behind the now unconscious cultist, after which he pushed the knocked out Kobra follower to the floor and took his seat at the computer console. His eyes already narrowed in concentration as he began to type rapidly, hacking into the system as fast as he could.

This was where he thrived. Already he knew that it was this level of skill, experience and professionalism that set him aside from the other heroes in the team. The rest of them, they all lacked the technical know-how, the skill or the subtlety to do this kind of work, on top of which they were all so inexperienced. It almost made him cringe how they couldn't adapt to new situations, and quickly at that, with them instead just standing around dumbly.

Honestly they were amateurs, or at least three of them were. Though even Aqualad and Kid Flash, the two most experienced after him, hadn't seemed to have developed the instinctual knack needed to excel in this line of work. They too were both too slow on the uptake sometimes.

As for Superboy and Miss Martian, both of them relied too much on their powers. Which meant they lacked the skills to keep up, that and they were perhaps the most inexperienced of the lot, both in terms of hero work and life in general. Honestly they were both too naive, which considering their abilities was a dangerous mix.

And then there was Perseus. The guy had power, Robin could give him that much, but it was uncontrolled power. On top of which Percy was too irresponsible and emotionally immature, to Robin at least. The guy abused his power and threw his weight around when he wasn't getting his way. Yes, he was far too childish and immature, and although he clearly had skills, he like Superboy and Miss Martian relied too much on his variety of powers.

Which was another problem in itself, Percy was an unknown. Specifically his origins and abilities, Robin had already surmised he had a link to the Amazon's his relationship with Wonder Woman made that obvious. Perhaps he was a male Amazon, a genetic anomaly, an outcast on the island of Themyscira who was sent here to mature and make something of himself. Or maybe an Atlantean like Kaldur, just one who was brought up with the Amazon's for some reason, perhaps even because he was part Atlantean and part Amazon. That too could be a possibility, a very realistic on too.

Honestly the guy was a mystery, and a loose cannon as well. It was perhaps the worst mix he could be, and Robin didn't like it, nor did he really like him as a person. Still, he was a professional and the leader here, and this was his team, and as such he had to make the best of it. Really he just needed to find a way to make them recognise his authority, on top of which he needed to reign in the more impetuous members of the group; like Percy, Wally and Superboy.

"Find anything?" Kid Flash's voice suddenly interrupted Robin's thought process, making him twitch before he jerked round to see his old friend standing just behind him.

"I am decoding the system now," Robin replied, recovering quickly as he then continued to type, Kid Flash leaning forward to look at the console's screen as he did so. "Where are the others?"

"That is the original Venom formula." Said Kid Flash suddenly, ignoring Robin's question as he instead pointed at the screen, which was currently showing a new blue strand appear next to the purple Venom strand. "And that is… the Blockbuster formula by the looks of it. Wow, Kobra found a way to combine Venom and Blockbuster together. And by the looks of it, together the new drug is three times more potent, and permanent too." Kid Flash's eyes widened now. "How did Kobra get his hands on Blockbuster?"

Robin's eyes narrowed as he heard that. "The Buyer must also be the supplier." With that said he reached up to his ear to activate his emergency communication link, now they had more information it was time to call in help. "Robin to Red Tornado. We have… static."

Kid Flash frowned as he saw this, their communication was being blocked somehow. They were on their own.

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AN: So what did you all think? I know I took my time with this one, but I am still trying to fully flesh out the characters and am especially taking time to do the interactions. That being said the next chapter will be fun, and I am kind of looking forward to writing it as I have a fun if loud and explosive idea! Either way the next chapter should be interesting.

So yes I hope you all enjoyed the chapter and continue to read and support. On the topic of pairings which I touched on last chapter I have decided not to tag the pairings I would like, but I instead have decided to just name them in this AN. That being said these aren't final, they're more just interesting pairings which I could choose and which I think would be fun to develop.

As I have said before I am going to let the story and the characters in it develop more before I finalise anything, as personally I find that trying to force things that are not meant to be can ruin a story. I have read a few that have been ruined in such a way, hell I have written and published a few that were ruined for that very reason.

Still the two potential pairings, it probably won't be both, and it could be neither, that I am thinking is:

Tula/ Aquagirl, I think there could be some fun drama, animosity and dynamics to explore there, as well as the way it would directly link Percy to Atlantis, plus she is a relatively undeveloped character which gives me room for my own creative interpretation.

Or Dreamer, one of the New Gods. This of course would open up the interesting question of divinity and the differences between the two realities, as well as the differences in theology and philosophy, a romance between two different pantheons could be fun to explore. On top of which she too is a relatively undeveloped character which again would give me room for my own creative interpretation.

Look them up online if you don't know who these two are.

Either way those are two possible pairings I am pondering, but nothing is confirmed, and I am open to suggestions or other people's opinions, so long as the reasoning is good and they aren't being deliberately rude.

But anyway, this is the update I hope you enjoyed it and leave a review. If you have time please check out my other stories too.

Thanks for reading.

Greed720.