Disclaimer: Do not own Young justice or the Justice League. They are property of DC Comics and their respective creators/writers.

As of now it will be stated that there will be at least two new OC's. Will not be popping up within every chapter. More like once every so often as the story progresses.

Note- There will be words other than English within the text below and in future chapters to follow. I apologize in advance if my translations are off. I've only studied Chinese-Mandarin for like two years, Japanese for a few months as of now.

There is a bit of cursing within this chapter. Nothing too bad. Death within the chapter midway down, do not worry it is not one of the team…or is it? Dun dun duuuuuuun. Lol.

Extra side note: If it feels like I've strayed from the original story line do not fret. Everything will be "Brought to the light." Enjoy!

And as always thank you for the reviews! XD.

Wednesday- Night

"We will break off into teams," Aqualad said once they were in the Bioship. "Zatanna and Rocket will make team 4. Stay on the Eastern side. Artemis and Superboy, team 3. You both will be posted to the North. Team 2 will be Robin and Kid Flash, you both will cover the Southern wall leaving M'gann and I to cover the Western side. Stealth will be kept up at all times, radio silence and no one is to go off by themselves. Hit the offices and nothing else."

Turning to Robin, Aqualad spoke to the youngest member. "Where you able to get the geographical plans and the blue-prints?"

"Yea." Pulling up a holographic scene of the area they were all able to see a 3-D projection of the building. It was three stories tall, brick, shaped like a cross, one arm for each wing. Half the building was surrounded by trees and forest, the one they were flying over now, while the other sat near a body of water, more than likely a man-made lake. Altogether the place didn't look anything like a drug or arms facility.

Pulling up the blue-prints for the building he went through each office and who would be going through which one. All four offices where within a different wing, two on the third flour, one on the second and one on the first. Zatanna and Rocket had the office on the first floor, Artemis, and Superboy, the office on the second floor, leaving the last four members with the rooms on the third floor.

"There may be activity in the facility so stay clear of any and all people. Keep up communication every eleven minutes."

"Eleven?"

"Shut-it Kid-Mouth."

"I'm asking a question Apollo chill out."

"And this is why you both aren't going to be partnered with each other on this."

"Like I would-"

"Enough." Aqualad looked from one guilty face to the other. "Now we are almost there. Please take caution. Batman said these people are not to be handled with kid gloves. Non meta-human or not we are to not engage."

"If we have no choice?" Superboy asked speaking for the first time since entering the Bioship.

"Then you call for back-up immediately."

"I'm pretty sure there's not much they can-"

"We as of right now do not know that. The information Batman has on this group although made to appear extensive is very limited."

Robin was impressed that Aqualad had picked that up as well. They were pretty much going into this blind, not any different than any other mission but the amount of times they had been cautioned alone was a big enough hint as to how things could go bad very quickly. If he trusted them this much to go on a mission of this caliber than why didn't he-

"Get traught dude."

"I will." Robin gave his friend a grin. The red-head picked up on where his friends thoughts were going stopping them before they got any further. Truth be told, Robin hadn't thought about the room much since they started the mission, his mind too busy sorting through other things.

"Alright," Kaldur said once Miss Martial pulled the Bioship to the edge of the forest. "Do not go in until everyone is in position." Watching everyone prepare themselves to start the mission Aqualad stepped next to Miss Martian patting her on the shoulder.

/Everyone linked?/

/Yep./

/This is still so weird./

/You'll get used to it babe./

/Do you ever stop Kid-Idiot./

/We don't have time for this./

/You alright M'gann?/

/Yes, Con. /

/Alright team, move out./

BreakBreakBreak

9:36 p.m.

"You've been hanging around the Boy Wonder way too long," Rocket said dusting her hair yet again for another spider web. The girls had made it to their wing crawling through the overhead air ducts. Both in dark clothing they were not going to take any chances sticking to the ground, especially after hearing feet rush past them. They had ducked into a previously locked and empty room thanks to Zatanna's powers. It definitely helped having a magician on the team.

"It's an effective route to get from point a. to b. undetected."

"Yea and it's also an effective way to get bit by something poisonous. I mean couldn't you have made us invisible or something?"

Chuckling at her friends distress Zatanna continued to crawl through the vents. "Where's the fun in that?"

Stopping short Zatanna motioned for Rocket to keep quiet. /Aqualad I think we've run into a snag./

/What is the problem?/

Crawling up to the vent gate Zatanna moved over it carefully allowing Rocket to see down to the other side. Directly below them were two figures, one of which looked familiar. Extending the link out to the others Zatanna spoke. /Dante Ueda is in our office. We will wait till he leaves./

/Be careful. Out./

/10-4./

Zatanna looked to Rocket a smirk on her face. Really? She mouthed trying not to laugh for more reasons than one. Shooting back her own smirk Rocket winked at the magician before both turned their attention to the matters at hand.

"And so you would like me to what?"

"Lei owes us!"

Rocket noticed Dante twitch from the other male using his boss's first name.

"Lady," Dante said, stressing her title, "Lei owes nothing to no one but herself and her father. It would pay you and your men well to remember that. Get out."

Zatanna noted that they must have missed much of their conversation as heated as it was. The male talking to Dante looked between storming out and punching the relaxed Japanese-American in the face.

"Not until you give me what is rightfully mine or so help me I will go to the others with this." Opening his hand the male revealed a vial of light green powder. It was no bigger than a pen, skinny and smooth one would have mistaken it for a syringe.

Staring at the male for a few seconds Dante looked to the ground and shook his head before meeting the male's eyes once again.

"Should have just-

POW

-left."

Rocket jumped about to go down and help the guy, knowing that he was probably already dead at the point but Zatanna stopped her. Dante had given no warning of even planning to shoot the male, he wouldn't stop at anything if they showed up.

/Everyone okay?/

Zatanna jumped slightly at hearing Artemis's voice penetrate through her head from so far away. It was weird when they weren't near each other.

/Yea, why?/

/What's up?/

/Heard a gunshot./ Superboy answered the question.

/We're all fine/ Zatanna thought out to everyone taking a moment to answer. She had looked over to Rocket for reassurance in her answer.

/Yea, tell you all later what happened./

/Affirmative. Everyone stay alert./

/Stay safe guys./

Sighing internally again to settle her nerves Zatanna looked down the vent at Dante who was by now ranting to himself.

"If he had just left when I told him to leave instead of show-boating, "Oh look what I got,' the Baka-ka."

Returning his gun back to his waist band Dante cracked his neck before throwing up his hands in exasperation. "Nobody listens, nobody freaking listens to what I have to say and now look what just happened," Dante said to himself shaking his head. "Blood all over the walls and I just had the floor cleaned." Rubbing his temples in annoyance he stepped over to the dead male giving him a contemplative glare before smashing the vial next to his hand with the heel of his shoe.

"Teme. Do they understand how much it's going to cost to get those stains out?" Checking his suit for any stains his temper flared more on seeing a speck of blood on the toe of his black shoe. "Unbelievable. Next time Kaito's dealing with this bull." He took out a cigar, placed it in his mouth and lit it. Inhaling deeply he slowly withdrew before walking over to the desk.

Taking out a blank sheet he withdrew a pen from his suit scribbling something down quickly before folding it and placing it at the edge of the desk. "Unbelievable." Taking another puff of his cigar Dante straightened out his suit collar and left the room.

Waiting a minute after the male left the room Rocket and Zatanna entered through the grate leaving it open just in case they needed to make a quick retreat. Not trying to stay too long in the room with the recently departed Rocket moved over to the vial after swiping another blank paper from the desk and rubbed it on the powder making sure to not kick up any of the dust.

Zatanna had managed to conjure up a plastic bag to put the evidence in before slipping it into her jacket pocket.

/He knew we were here./

Turning to face her teammate Rocket looked to the paper Zatanna had in her hand. The one that Dante had written on just moments before.

/What does it say?/

/"Happy trails. You can take a sample but you won't find anything. With love ~Akashini"./

/This guy is sick./

/Yes./ Zatanna glanced at the dead male still on the ground. /He is. We should meet up with the others./

/Yea./ Giving one last look at the dead man Rocket and Zatanna left the room. She may not have known the guy, and maybe he was just as crocked as Dante, but he didn't deserve to get killed like that. No one did and so help her she would see that man behind bars for his crimes. The whole lot of them.

BreakBreakBreak

9:36 p.m.

Artemis and Superboy had made their way to the North Wing. Unlike Zatanna and Rocket who had chosen to take the high ground both stuck to the ground ducking into rooms whenever they heard noises which in their case was very often. Artemis took to the back letting the Boy of Steel lead as per request. Claiming that it was due to his hearing she knew otherwise. His interactions with the Man of Steel as of late hadn't gone well, he just wanted an excuse to fight someone first chance given.

Getting to the room that Robin had pointed to as the office Superboy had stopped her from entering the room. /There's someone in there. Few someone's./

/How many?/

/About four, maybe five. I'm going to see if I can figure out what they are talking about. Give me a second./

Turning his super hearing up, the Boy of Steel picked up a lot of papers being shuffled, feet moving and people talking in incomprehensible languages. The name Kamishiro was thrown around quite a lot. /I think Kaito might be in the office./

/Maybe we should take a closer look./ Catching Artemis's double meaning Superboy nodded his head in agreement.

/I'm game./

Looking above her Artemis shivered thinking of the last time she had ventured through the vents. She was going to maim the little bat when she saw him. /We need to go through the vents, come down on the other side./ It was the only way possible to get the upper hand on the man. It would be pretty tricky and risky to do it with others in the room but they'd work something out.

Artemis couldn't, however, stop thinking of Batman's warning earlier. They had fought against meta's with bigger background checks than these guys. Not to mention her sister and father could probably put these guys to shame. They would have at least known by now they were being infiltrated and even more, there was no way they'd be found so quick by the League. They didn't even have any cameras for crying out loud!

/Surprise?/ Superboy wasn't going to comment on the fact that Batman had told them not to engage. If these people where dealing in illegal drugs then the only way to talk to them was through force. Nodding his head in agreement he lifted Artemis up for her to pry the vent top open giving her a little extra lift to enter. Once she was safely inside Superboy followed jumping up with as little noise as possible and latching on to the inside of the vent before hoisting himself up with Artemis's help.

Now the tricky part. Timing.

Making their way into the vents above the room Artemis radioed into Aqualad letting him know that they had made it into the office. She left out the bit about going to apprehend the male in the room, she'd do that latter.

It didn't take long to get to the vent in the room, luck would have it that it wasn't above the ceiling but high on the wall behind a shelf. From this point they could see all of the people in the office, the one familiar male, Kaito, sitting at the only desk in the room. He had been partially facing the door, his attention not on the people wandering the room speaking to him but the papers on his desk.

"Zhi ge shi4 shou4gou4. Get out."

"Dan4shi4-"

"Bu2shi4. Leave."

"Hai, Kamishiro-dono." The male closest to Kaito bowed. Straightening his glasses he took the shoulder of the other male both leaving the room followed by the ones who hadn't spoken leaving the male by himself.

"Kamishiro-dono." Shaking his head at the title Kaito went back to his papers.

This was perfect. Giving Superboy a sidelong glance Artemis figured there was enough space for both her and Superboy to whittle their way out of the vent and behind the shelf. Telling Superboy that she would go first she quietly unscrewed the vent taking into the space so it wouldn't cause any noise before dropping down to the ground.

Notching an arrow onto her bow she slowly crept up behind the male who was otherwise preoccupied with his papers to notice her. That would soon cost him.

"Don't. Move."

"Oh," Kaito said looking surprised. "Was not expecting this."

"Hands above your head and no sudden movements." Pressing the head of her arrow into his neck a little to get her point across she smirked when he complied. "Stand up. Nice and slow."

Following her wishes once again the male got up slowly, keeping his hands where the female archer could see them. She had moved the arrow tip from his neck to the middle of his back letting him know one false move and it was over.

"What do you plan on doing now?"

"Just shut up and move to the corner," Artemis growled out pointing the arrow head further into the males back. By this time Superboy had made his way out of the vent and was standing at the door. If this man was thinking about making a break for it he had another thing coming.

"Fine, fine," Kaito said moving to the corner farthest from the door. "You have a handle on that weapon right? Wouldn't want to get shot on accident." Kaito turned his head back to look at the archer only to get pushed.

"Head to the front, on your knees."

"You won't just as long as you listen," Superboy said glaring at the male.

"Seems like I should listen then huh?" Getting to his knees Kaito placed his hands behind his head and sighed. "So what do I owe the pleasure of the Leagues young ones in my facility?"

"You guys are manufacturing a new drug. We want to know what it is and where you have it stashed."

"This isn't a drug facility. Honestly I don't even know what you are talking about."

Why do they always have to play it like that? Artemis thought to herself before turning to Superboy. /I'll keep an eye on him, check the desk. Those papers seem very important./

/On it./

"If we check those papers and find something about a drug-"

"Then obviously you all planted them there."

Telling herself that it was not okay to just shoot the male now and go through his office she chanced a glance over to Superboy who was riffling through the papers on the desk. From the way his eyebrows were knitted together it seemed like he wasn't finding anything useful to help them on their search.

"What was that?" Superboy stopped shuffling through the papers and looked down at an angle. The noise seemed to have come from the floor below them in one of the other wings. So it wasn't M'gann.

"What was what?" Kaito asked cutting of Artemis from asking.

Shooting the male a glare Superboy turned to look at Artemis. "I heard a gunshot."

"One of your people?" Artemis asked shoving the arrow head into the male's neck again.

"Probably," Kaito said as if he didn't have an arrow dangerously close to killing him.

/Everyone okay?/ Artemis asked extending her mental link back to everyone and not just Superboy.

/Yea, why?/

/What's up?/

/Heard a gunshot./ Superboy answered the question curious as to what was going on in the other areas of the facility. He had to stop himself from leaving to find out relying on the others capabilities to remain okay.

/We're all fine/ Zatanna thought out to everyone. A sigh of relief.

/Yea, tell you all later what happened./ His curiosity was peaked once again at Rockets words.

/Affirmative. Everyone stay alert./

/Stay safe guys./

"So, about those papers," Kaito spoke up turning a little to face Artemis once again.

"You know I'm getting real tired of you."

"Not the first time someone's told me that," Kaito said shrugging. "Won't be the last." Neither Artemis nor Superboy were ready for what came next. The male had spun around quickly pushing aside the arrow in the process. Out of harm of being skewered he grabbed Artemis by the shoulder and tossed her into Superboy. The clone caught the female archer stopping her from barreling right into him or worse the hard oak desk. In doing so Kaito was able to make it to the door and out the room.

"Damn him" Artemis growled out once her feet hit the ground again. Running to the open door they were met with a clear and silent hallway.

/Can you hear him?/

/No,/ Superboy glared down the hallway.

Cursing under her breath Artemis swiftly turned before storming back into the room. /Let's just see what we can find in the room./

/Then meet up with the others./

BreakBreakBreak

9:36 p.m.

"This is going to be so easy," Kid Flash whispered looking around the room. Robin shook his head at his friend's sarcastic remark. The office they had been given was larger than the blueprints had shown, obviously someone had done some remodeling and had not updated the blue-prints. He would hack into the city's data base and work on it later.

Making sure that both doors to the room were locked he made his way further into the room. Keeping the lights off both he and Kid Flash had switched to night vision. There was no sense in alerting someone that they were in the room. The little light coming in through the small window from the half moon outside was doing nothing for them.

/I'm pretty sure that I can search the whole room in just a under five minutes./

/Yea, and trip over something in the process. We're doing this the smart way./

/I haven't tripped over anything since I was 13./

/Bialya./

How the heck did he know about that? /It was a giant rock that came out of nowhere and sand…Dude not cool./ Kid Flash tapped his friend lightly on the back of the head for cackling in his head. When this mission was over he was going to stuff the bird in a closet somewhere for a few days.

Walking over to the first filing cabinet Kid Flash decided to leave the large desk to Robin. The Boy Wonder would be better suited at looking through the papers and place them back were they belonged. His mini-bat complex, as he liked to call it, wouldn't allow him not to. Going through the first drawer he found it and the next three to be empty.

Why do these people even have so many offices? Kid Flash thought to himself. This is just crazy and overkill.

Shrugging it off he moved to the next cabinet only to find the same thing with this one. Okay, he was seeing a trend of these things in the past few days. /If the next two cabinets are empty like these two,/ Kid Flash said motioning to the ones he already checked.

/You'll scream?/ Robin asked, the amusement clear in his voice.

/You know me all too well./

Before he could comment on that Robin and Kid Flashes thoughts were interrupted by Artemis.

/Everyone okay?/

That was weird, Robin thought to himself before glancing over to KF. Had it been eleven minutes already? /Yea, why?/

/What's up?/

/Heard a gunshot./ Superboy answered sounding only slightly worried. Robin would have immediately thought of Artemis at that point seeing as he was with the other junior hero prone to set off people's alarms. Seeing as she was the one asking that left Zatanna and Rocket, or M'gann and Aqualad.

/We're all fine/ Zatanna's voice broke through the short silence that followed Superboy.

/Yea, tell you all later what happened./

/Affirmative. Everyone stay alert./

/Stay safe guys./

When the link went silent Kid Flash turned to Robin. /What was that about?/

/Don't know. Let's just get this done and meet up with the others./ If there was a chance that someone knew they were there then Robin was sure there would have been more than just one gunshot going off. The only thing he could think about was it was an internal conflict. One he was sure to keep himself and KF away from.

Picking up a packet of papers on the table Robin slowly scanned through each one starting from the back and working his way through to the front. Each page had a set of numbers on them, no names, not even a word. They could have been a number of anything. Sighing he placed that one down exactly where he had found it before and moved to the next one. It was the same.

How the hack were they even to find out what was going on if they went to a country, that none of them had studied. He had studied German, Spanish, and Italian, even Arabic, never once really thinking he'd need to know any of the Asian languages. Oh how wrong was he. Robin was pretty sure KF knew a bit more than he did when it came to the country, at least food wise. That wouldn't help them here.

Sparing a glance at his friend Robin noted that he had finally found a filing cabinet with things in it. At least maybe they'd have some more luck now. He, himself, had gone through the whole of the top desk and the first drawer finding nothing that looked remotely like flight or shipping plans let alone the make-up of a drug.

/Think we should take a few copies of these back with us,/ Robin thought out to the red-head.

/Yea. What was Batman thinking sending us to a country where they write using pictures? That's so ancient Egypt./

/KF…Shut up and go back to looking./

/Yes, mini bat-boss sir./ Robin didn't have to turn around to know the young speedster had given him a salute. Shaking his head he went back to the desk stooping down to open the last of the drawers. Maybe if he planted a bug and came back for it later they could at least have it translated at some point. About to do just that he stopped dead in his tracks when the lights to the room came on, blinding him for all of a few seconds.

There is no way someone should have gotten into the room without me knowing, Robin thought before snatching off his goggles.

/Thought you locked the door dude,/ Kid Flash thought out to him staring at the four men whom had walked into the room.

/Did. Don't know how they got in without me knowing about it. Alarms didn't go off./

/Dude is that Kaito?/

Taking a second glance at the older of the Asian's standing at the door Kid Flash was right. It was him.

"Well this is a bit of a surprise," Kaito said scratching his neck. Turning to the male closest to him he patted him on the shoulder. "I told you we were being overrun today."

"My apologies Kamishiro."

"Don't worry about it," the male said stepping further into the room, his eyes never leaving Robin and Kid Flash. "May I help you?"

/Leave it to me./

Rushing to the males, Kaito in particular Kid Flash was less expecting the three other males to step in front of their boss taking the hit. Three on one was never a big thing for the young speedster but it could get dodgy with concealed weapons which he was pretty sure they had. Bouncing off of one male he kicked another in the face before punching the last of them. Moving to Kaito he side stepped at the last second as a knife whizzed past his head. Yep, concealed weapons sucked. He needed to at least keep them busy enough and away from Robin so attacking the boss was the best thing. Take him down and it was easy for the others to follow.

Dodging another knife Kid Flash zipped over to the male stopping him from even reaching for another projectile before decking him into the wall. Turning he side stepped a would have been well placed punch tripping him into his fallen friend before grabbing the other, a brunette, by the shoulder and tossing him into the two males, one of which was trying to get back up.

All clear for taking down Kaito who had yet to move a muscle to take him down let alone help his men he was about to run over when yet another projectile came at him. Jumping out of the way he looked to the entrance from which it came to see that it was yet another one of Kaito's men, this one wearing glasses.

Saying something quickly to Kaito and bowing he took out two daggers from his shirt sleeves and stepped in front of his boss glaring down the junior hero.

/Dude, they just keep coming./

/Stall them./

/What do you think I'm doing?/ KF nearly yelled through their link as he knocked one of the males down to the ground again. /Having a tea party?/

/Sounds like it Kid-Hatter./

/Shut it Boy Doormouse./

A few more seconds of fighting Kid Flash yelled once again in exasperation. /These guys are like Weebles wobbles!/ This had to be like the fifth or sixth time he'd knocked the guy with the knives down onto the ground. About to finish him with a solid punch to the face he was pulled from behind by the brunette and flung. Catching himself in midair he allowed the force to propel him back into the guy barreling him over.

/Hurry up and copy those papers so we can go./

/Going as fast as I can speed demon. Just keep them busy./

/You tell me that one more time and I swear-Woah!/ Kid Flash ducked a dagger that had honed in on his neck. When did he? The red-head hadn't heard let alone seen the glasses wearing male move from his spot in front of his leader managing to get within inches of severing his head from his body. Ducking and dodging yet more killer shots he silently thanked his luck for having sparred Artemis so many times before.

The guys attacks came at him much faster than the other males but not so fast that he couldn't catch them as they came. Moving into another swipe he managed to get under the male and flip him onto the ground. Groaning in annoyance Kid Flash mentally slapped his forehead when the dagger wielder had bounced back up onto his feet in seconds.

"Jin. Take Yoite and Ping. Now." Kaito walked further into the large office his eyes still trained on the mini-bat who at this point had split vision keeping one eye on the older male and one on his work.

The brunette complied with a quick apology to his boss before picking up both his partners and making his way out of the room.

"You guys are very troublesome. Michi, finish this."

Walking over to Robin who by now had stopped copying the files he crossed his arms over his chest staring down the thirteen year old. "I don't normally like fighting children."

"Then stand still and this will be over quick." Robin lunged at the male starting up his own fight.

Kid Flash kicked out at the male catching him in the ribs. He was bit different from the other two males he had fought, smaller framed with a more solid body. Each one of his punches had been met with a somewhat well timed block managing to keep up with him only marginally being thrown back. Connecting a solid hit to the male's chest Kid Flash was about to follow through with a shot to his temple when something caught his attention in mid punch distracting him for just a fraction of a second. It was enough as he felt a heavy fist plow into his abdomen followed by a fierce uppercut to his jaw.

Both males dropped, one unconscious, the other to his knees panting from the exertion.

Hearing the change in the room Robin looked over to see his red-head friend down on the ground out cold. "KF!" Throwing a bird-a-rang that effectively stopped Kaito's advance for a few seconds he rushed to his friends side disregarding the male he had been fighting. Within feet of reaching his friend he stopped when something landed in front of him smashing as it hit the ground. Glass.

"Just get my things and leave," Kaito yelled to the young man who was still at the moment trying to catch his breath.

"Yes sir." Bowing quickly he stood and rushed to the desk bypassing Robin on the way and began picking up different papers that had been left in the top drawer.

"You will not get away with that." Ignoring Kaito, Robin ran to the male at the desk only to get side tracked by another item zipping to his head. Back flipping out of the way he turned to see Kaito tossing a paper weight into the air. "Where do you think you are looking?"

Robin stared down the older male taking out his metal staff again. From the way he fought previously this guy was not going to go down easy he could tell that right off the back. Sure he had at least one gun on him Robin was able to tell that he was not like the shoot happy thugs of Gotham. Sloppy and pure muscle they couldn't have hit him with a wooden boat if he was standing still. This guy had thrown a paper weight and had almost hit him had he not moved at the last second.

Not one to wait, Robin wanted to end this as quickly as possible, stop the guy from leaving the room and check up on KF.

For an older male Kaito moved faster than Robin would have thought as he swung his staff repeatedly at the male. He was sure he'd have given Batman a run for his money if it were him instead who had fought. Each punch, kick, and thrust of his metal staff was met by a powerful block, the male never going in for an actual hit.

Is he trying to make me into a fool? Robin jumped back, throwing a smoke bomb at Kaito's feet before jumping back in. If regular hand to hand didn't work then he would have to improvise. The smoke seemed to be working in disorienting the male enough, Robin managing to get a few hits into the male's side and chest but it didn't last long. With the smoke clearing Kaito was getting his bearings back able to once again throw the younger male off like it was nothing.

Going to reach for his staff again Robin's eyes widened when he noticed that it wasn't were he put it. Neither was his belt for that matter. It seemed like the smoke hadn't been just good cover for him as he could see Kaito had his belt over his shoulder, staff in his back belt loop. How did he? Oh that's it. Quickly chancing a glance at the desk he found it to be empty, the male nowhere in sight. Kaito had effectively managed to buy his man time.

Going in once again the Boy Wonder fought Kaito trying to get him to turn just enough to try to at least grab for his staff. He'd worry about the belt later. Going in for a kick Robin wasn't expecting the male to move into it. Not prepared for what happened next Robin would lie to anyone who asked how he ended up on his back, with a throbbing shoulder blade, hands tied behind his back.

It was the same move Aqualad had used against him just the day before except better executed and hurt a hell of a lot more actually knocking him out for a few seconds. Long enough to be tied up with a wait…where did he even have rope to tie his hands up with? Glaring at the male he understood where.

"Didn't your parents ever tell you not to go through other people's things?"

"I feel as if this is an instant of the pot calling the kettle black." Kaito said with a small smirk. "You should not go through people's factories Xiao1bian3. At least not without a proper invite. There could have been horrible people running around trying to ransack the place."

"And your gang being in here isn't just as bad."

The smile disappearing for all of a few seconds Kaito walked to the desk in the room riffling through the papers that were left. You couldn't be called a second to the leader and not double check the work of your charges. "So, to what do I owe the pleasure of the League's partners in China?"

"What do you think?" If he was stuck here he might as well stall long enough for the others to get there. That and get as much information on the drugs as possible. Batman was so not going to like that they didn't listen to a word he said earlier. No missions for a long time, he could feel it.

"I wouldn't be asking, Chisai Koumori, if I knew. Ah ha." Picking up a sheet of paper Kaito pulled out a lighter and set it aflame, humming a little tune to himself.

"Drugs? Guns? Ring a bell? You're destroying evidence right in front of me." /Guy's, Kid Flash is down and I'm a little preoccupied at the moment./

/Down?/

/Is he alright?/

/Idiot./

/Yes, just knocked out. We ran into Kaito. I'm stalling as much as I can right now but I don't know how long we have./

/So that's where the slime-ball went./

/Affirmed. Rocket and I will head over with Superboy. M'gann, Artemis, and Zatanna head back to the Bioship./

/Just hurry./ Robin didn't know what the guy was going to do now. If he was anything like Batman had said then Aqualad and the others needed to hurry. Fast.

"I tell you what," Kaito said walking back over to Robin and sitting down on his heels, ignoring Robins comment minutes before. He sat just far enough away that if Robin did try anything he could defend himself in time. Smart. "I will give back your belt and let you go, long as you promise never to come back here. This no place for children." The smile that crossed the older males face irked Robin to no end. He was so not traught right now.

What type of nonsense was he spewing? "Or how about you give me back my things and turn around so I can arrest you." And kick your sorry ass (five dollars in the swear jar for Alfred) for touching my belt, Robin thought to himself. He wasn't idiot enough to say it out loud. That was left to his mouthy friend who at the moment was still knocked out cold.

Chuckling, Kaito stood up, still with Robin's utility belt slung over his shoulder. "You young kids are so fiery. You really need to learn respect for your elders, stay in school and get a good job."

"Kaito!"

Turning the Japanese male cocked his head to the side as a different young male, stockier than the first four and with a permanent scowl, walked into the room his hard gaze catching the three occupants in one motion. Saying something quick in Chinese Kaito shrugged his shoulders before speaking back. Robin should have been surprised that the Japanese male spoke Mandarin but thought better of it. He was in China…and more than half his team plus his boss were Chinese.

"I will be out in a second."

"Why not kill them?" The male said eying Robin who glared at him. "They are Justice League. Less for us to worry about." Robin knew this guy spoke in English to try and scare him. If anything it just made him more angry. Who the heck did he think he was?

"Bu2Shi4. They are kids."

"Makes no difference." The male pulled out his gun and raised it at Kid Flash's body aiming to shoot but stopped when Kaito grabbed his arm and flung him onto his backside., the gun now in his hand.

Standing over the male Kaito growled out, "Wo3 shi2 yi3 ni4de ren3 wu2 ke3 ren3! Ni4de qu4 wai4bian."

Getting up the male made a threatening step towards Kaito but stopped when the older male's facial expression changed. Robin himself felt the temperature drop slightly as Kaito's eyes narrowed slightly, his mouth in a thin hard line. This guy was no joke. "Wàibian. zhè zhènzi."

Bowing his head quickly the male left the room without a word other than a quickly thrown apology.

"Baka." Cracking his neck to release his frustration Kaito turned back to Robin. "Shitsurei. I do apologize about that. Not all of my company act out with such vile manners." He went back to the desk riffling through more papers.

"I'm sure they don't but what could you expect from gangbangers." /Seriously where are you guys?/ With Kaito's eyes preoccupied elsewhere Robin had begun to get up, slowly trying to make his way to his friend.

/We will be there in three minutes. How is Kid Flash?/ Aqualad's voice rang through their mental link.

/Still out and so will I if you don't hurry up./

/Hang on./

Raising an eyebrow at the terminology used Kaito laughed. "Kids."

Pausing in his efforts Robin slowed down his movements having covered at least half a foot. He was so not going to relay this back to the team.

"I'm going to ask you only once to stop."

Oh sugar honey ice tea.

Stopping dead in his crawl Robin looked up to see that Kaito had a gun trained right at his head. Experience taught him that the male had it dead center of his forehead and with him tied up he would not miss. Taking the papers that he held in his hand he bit onto the corner holding them now between his lips before setting them on fire.

Robin didn't know what was crazier at this point. Him holding the gun trained to his head, or setting papers on fire so close to yourself. Letting them drop onto the ground he stomped them out before it could spread, the whole while never looking up at Robin once.

About to speak his phone went off. Holding his hand up in the silence motion Robins glare intensified. "Moshimoshi. Ah, Ueda, ah. Oh…" Speaking quickly in Japanese that was the last bit Robin was able to pick up (A/N: really I'm just lazy) of the males conversation before he switched back to English. "It's not that big of a deal, I'm dealing with it right now. Yes, yes, yes, so calm down…" Holding the phone away from his ear Kaito shot Robin an annoyed look before returning it back to his ear. "I'll buy you new ones. How is that?...Wait just a moment how much do you think I get paid…Well I know that…Fine, yes. Love you too."

Hanging up Kaito placed the phone back in his pocket and returned his gaze back to Robin. "Thank you. My partner would not have been so forgiving."

"Because holding a gun to my friends head or mine is forgiving," Robin shot back. He knew he was pushing it but at this point he was getting pissed. He had to have been tied up for the last ten minutes talking with this second seat mob boss who was said to have been dangerous but seemed, for the most part, no more than a domestic rabbit. At least when it came to younger people.

"The baka? Goodness no, Ueda. He would have killed your friend on first glance. Two bullets right in his chest, one in head, all the while making you watch. Then you." He placed his gun away.

"So I should be glad that I'm only tied up and don't have a bullet in my head?"

"There is an American saying that goes, "We do not always get what we want."" Walking over to Kid Flash, Robin was about to yell at the male to not touch his friend when all Kaito did was lay his utility belt and staff on the ground at his side. "Tell Batman that if he wants information on this drug that he claims we have, to come and get it himself."

Giving a short wave the older male left the room before Robin could say anything to him.

"So now he wants to admit it," Robin huffed under his breath. The last words Kaito said to him struck a chord. He wants Batman to investigate what's going on. Why? Most people wanted to keep downwind of the Dark Knight whenever possible, especially when they were doing something completely illegal. People don't go looking for Batman, he just found you. Kaito must have felt insulted that he would send young people to do his bidding. Constantly being called kid during their encounter didn't make it any better. Or was it something more?

In the process of thinking about all of this Robin had managed to get up and walk over to Kid Flash who was finally showing signs of waking. "Sleep well Kid-Aurora?"

"Dude, shut up." The Speedster sat up slowly rubbing his shoulder, the other arm holding his middle. "Did you manage to get the license plate of that truck?"

"Yea K-A-I-T-O. You want to help me out now?"

"Wha- Oh. Dude…How did he steal your belt?"

"Not a word."

By the time Kid Flash managed to untie his best friends hands, for Robin to place back on his belt and tuck away his staff Aqualad and the others had shown up.

"You both are unharmed."

"For the most part," Robin said helping his friend stand.

Rocket looked from Robin to Kid Flash and back. No bullet wounds, no visible bruising, and no one was dead. "Considering that you both are the second two to walk into Kaito I say that's good 'cause that Dante Ueda guy is no joke."

All they got out of Superboy was a head nod and a non-committal grunt. He wasn't going to voice it but he was glad the two were okay. Kid Flash had a way of always getting into trouble but he was more durable than their bat. When he caught up with that guy there'd definitely be hell to pay.

"What happened?" Robin asked moving over to the desk Kaito was at earlier. The papers were a complete mess but just by one look the Boy Wonder could tell all the ones left were completely useless. At least they had copied some of them.

"Me and Zatanna almost ran into the guy like literally. He was in one of the other offices talking with some suit. Apparently we weren't the only ones looking for this drug. He was like the leader of another gang from the looks, or at least their informant."

"Killed him."

Robin and Kid Flash looked to the clone, trying to understand if they heard him right.

"And you guys couldn't-"

"There was nothing they could do," Aqualad placed his hand on the youngest members shoulder.

Shaking his head Robin could only think that maybe KF and he were in fact lucky to run into Kaito.

"We should probably head to the ship now but what exactly did he say to the guy before blasting him?" Kid Flash asked moving slowly towards the door. His chest still hurt from being knocked earlier. Seemed like he still needed to practice on slowing down when fighting others. This feeling was so not cool.

"That is the best idea." Aqualad gave a look over the papers at the desk, he too coming up empty on anything solid.

BreakBreakBreak

Moving to the Bioship to meet up with Artemis and the others, Aqualad stayed at the rear, Superboy to the front and Rocket right behind him leaving Robin and Kid Flash in the middle.

"And that's when he shot him. Ueda stepped on the vial that the guy had spreading the powder but we managed to get a sample." That would mean that they had to be in the room when Ueda left, with the dead man still there. They were going to have to have a nice long talk with Black Canary when they got back. Robin could only imagine what was going on in either of his friend's heads at that point.

"He knew we were there," Rocket added after a moment. "Left a note. Show it to you guys when we get back to the Bioship."

"Did you find out anything about the drug?" Aqualad asked Robin and Kid Flash.

"He avoided talking about it until before he left. First he denied even having it but turned around to say he wanted Batman to come and talk to him instead of sending us."

Nodding his head Aqualad quickly turned to the younger member before returning his attention to where he was running. "On meeting up with Artemis and Superboy they told M'gann and I that they too ran into Kaito. He however slipped out before they could get anything out of him."

"So I'm guessing that's why he went to the office to begin with," KF said thinking about all of the possibilities. "Get rid of anything that would incriminate the Jade Sun."

"He was already doing that when Artemis and Superboy busted him."

"So maybe the suit wasn't from another gang."

"No he was," Rocket said kicking open another door. "The Eastern Snow Leopards. At least that's what the tattoo on his neck said."

"Me and M'gann were able to get that they were headed to India with the drugs. Now that they know however that people are on to them they may switch to another location. All ,however, is not lost."

"Considering that we didn't listen to anything Batman told us," KF said running alongside Robin. "I think we are going to need to bring in someone from the gang in order to not get shoved off of missions for a year."

BreakBreakBreak

KF was right. They were in deep crap.

Once they had all gotten back to the cave Batman wanted a complete briefing on what happened. From start to finish each member gave their briefing on what happened from what they heard to who they had run into. Batman was not pleased to say the least once he had heard everything that needed to be said.

"You all could have been killed! Did you listen to anything I said earlier? Do not answer that. Get washed up. Black Canary will handle your punishment." Batman's glare lingered onto his protégé longer than it did the others sending the message clear. He was utterly disappointed in the male's actions.

"The League will take over this mission from here." Pocketing the drug sample that Zatanna had given him along with the note, Batman left the room, his cape swishing ominously behind him.

His anger overriding his relief that the team was safe, Batman could only think about a few things right now. How lucky the kids were to be alive at the moment (they would wish different when he was through with them, their punishment did not end with Black Canary.) The fact that maybe he shouldn't have sent them on the mission to begin with. And Kaito's message to him through Robin. "Tell Batman that if he wants information on this drug that he claims we have, to come and get it himself."

Overall he was not a happy Bat. Not a happy bat at all. "Be careful what you wish for."

Entering the Zeta tube Batman had one other thing on his mind before heading to the cave. Another loose end that hadn't been tied up last night.

End

Note-Some words will be in different languages from here on out so I will be translating them for you guy's. As far as Chinese (Mandarin) and Japanese names go I won't be translating those.

Japanese

Baka-ka-Dumb a

Teme-Son of a -biscuit eating bulldog. (Clean version)

Hai-Yes

Chisai Koumori- Little Bat

Chinese-Mandarin

Zhi ge shi4 shou4gou4- This is enough.

Dan4shi4-But

Bu2shi4-No

Wo3shi2yi3ni4rěnwúkěrěn!- I am at the end of my patience with you.

Ni4de qù wàibian- You, go outside.

Wàibian. zhè zhènzi- Outside now!