A/N: This was late because of school, and tests, but it's updated because of Thanksgiving break! Thanks to that! I've noticed that some of you have questions, and I will answer them at the bottom! I'm sorry for the confusion, my earlier chapters were really rough. I'm sure this will be revised sometime. I didn't know how to really do Robin, but I'm glad you guys liked it. Also, I know you guys would like to think that this is with the Justice League Unlimited, but it's not. Only chapter 2 was.
Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice.
DTS! 9: Watch Tower
Miss Martian was floating a few inches above the ground as she hummed a gentle tune. She came to the hallway where there were giant glass panels that displayed Earth. She gasped as she hovered up to the window and placed her hand on it. "It's…Beautiful," she mused with a small smile.
"I too have come to enjoy the colors," Martian Manhunter stated as he walked up to her. "Such gentle hues of blue and green, unlike our home planet."
Megan nodded as she placed her hand away from the window, "Why did you come to the Earth, Uncle J'onn?" She asked as she turned to face him.
"I came to warn the people of Earth of an invasion. One that destroyed my happiness," he stated in a grim manner as he looked at the blue and green planet. "I did not want to ruin the cheerful lives of the people of Earth."
Megan furrowed her eyebrows, "Do you ever want to go back?"
Martian Manhunter shook his head, "I do not wish to see the graveyard that my planet has become. In your dimension is Mars different?"
"There's fighting…Lots of pointless fighting," she stated with a frown. "Between the white Martians and the green ones."
"I understand. This is why you ventured to Earth?" He asked as he started to walk away. Miss Martian followed him as she landed on the ground softly.
She grabbed one of her arms with her hand out of nervous habit as she nodded solemnly, "One of them…Another was to get a new start."
"Because you are a white Martian?" Martian Manhunter asked bluntly.
Megan cringed at being called a white Martian, "I suppose…I was tired of being judged…Of not being accepted by the green Martians."
Martian Manhunter stopped walking and turned to face the girl with a small smile on his face, "Worry not, I do not judge. I too, know what it is like to be judged."
"You do?" Miss Martian asked, in genuine confusion. "I always thought-
"Being at a new place, not knowing how to accept customs. Surely you know how hard it is to fit in?" Martian Manhunter asked with a slight tilt of his head. "I am not just describing changing how you look, but to genuinely fit in, M'gann."
Miss Martian nodded in understanding, "Yes. That's why I tried so hard to fit in by watching films of Earth!"
"It is basically the same. It took me a long time before I could finally understand the Earth. But, that is not to say that I did not face challenges before I came to that acceptance," he said as he turned around again and started to walk through the doorway. "Clark showed me Christmas once. I had fully understood their customs at that moment."
Megan smiled, "You participated in Christmas? That is great, Uncle J'onn!"
"Yes, it was truly the greatest gift that I have ever received," he said as he nodded, a small smile placed on his face. "Aside from your presence, M'gann," he said as he looked behind him, "For a long time I was the last Martian, but now that you are here, I do not feel as isolated as before."
"I'm glad that I'm here too!" She yelled in excitement as she hovered in the air, "To be honest, I was scared that we wouldn't connect…Because I'm a…You know…" She trailed on as she looked down at the ground, implying what her true form was.
Martian Manhunter shook his head, "M'gann, it does not matter what color you are. It is your actions and personality that defines you. As long as you have that, you should hold your confidence in the highest regard. Be proud of who you are. You are my niece, and I am glad that I have met you."
Megan blinked as tears started to roll down her cheeks, "Thank you, Uncle J'onn!" She yelled as she embraced the man tightly. Martian Manhunter stared blankly ahead before he wrapped his arms around the girl. "I didn't want to be alone again…" She mumbled so quietly that he barely heard.
"Damn thing!" Cyborg yelled as he threw his hands in the air in frustration. "I've tried everything!" He yelled as he kicked the side cabinet.
Azure blinked with no emotion as she watched her mentor takes his misplaced aggression on the steel cabinet. "I heard that if you 'check the shaft' you can find things," she said as she began to walk around the metal archway that had multiple carvings in it. "What is a shaft?"
Cyborg sweat dropped, "Let's not talk about that…" He trailed as he examined the archway again as he brought out his arm and a blue light started to illuminate on it. "Maybe if I readjust that carvings again…" He said as a cannon extended out of his arm and he began to solder the metal to make a smooth metal surface again, erasing the carvings.
"It's the freakin' weekin' let's go clubbing," Azure said in a dull voice as she materialized her arm into a blow torch and began to work on the other side of the archway.
Cyborg remained silent, taking in what his protégé had said, "Do…You even know what clubbing is?" He asked as he rose an eyebrow, curious to see how much she knew about the world.
"Is it not where you party with golfing clubs?" She asked with a slight tilt of her head in innocence.
Cyborg bursted out laughing, "No…No, that's not what it means!" He yelled as he accidentally marked against the archway, making a clear image appear on it.
"Ah, then I must update my systems…However…" She trailed as she darted her head to the archway, and Cyborg's eyes went wide as he backed away quickly from the archway to avoid messing anything up.
"It worked?" He asked as he stared at the screen that was transparent, not able to believe that he had gotten it working.
Azure tilted her head, "Stick a hand through it," she said as she walked closer to the screen.
Cyborg scoffed, "I ain't sticking my hand through there…You do it," he said with attitude as he crossed his arms.
"Cow," she responded.
"It's chicken…And I am not!" He yelled with narrowed eyes.
"Hello?" A voice yelled out as an image of a red suited man rang out. "Is there someone there?"
Azure bent down to her knees, her long hair touching the floor, "I believe this is contact," she said as she poked the image, only for her hand to go right through the screen.
"Whoa! Who are you!" The red suited man yelled as he got closer to the screen, his face growing in size as it took most of the screen. "How did you just appear out of nowhere?"
Cyborg raised his eyebrows, "Are you…Flash?" He asked as he felt a smile grow on his face.
"Yeah? Who's asking?" Flash asked as he crossed his arms, "Because if you're a salesman, I don't want anything."
"What are you-? No, my name is Cyborg, I'm part of the league," Cyborg introduced, he was about to introduce his protégé to the other Flash, but he was rudely interrupted.
"No you're not," Flash argued.
Cyborg rose an eyebrow, "Yes, I am. And this is-
"Nuh-uh," Flash argued. "I would know, I know everyone in the league."
"I'm in the league in this-
Flash grinned, thinking he was winning the argument, "Nope!" He argued, making Cyborg growl in frustration.
"Look here, Flash! Because I'm only going to say this once," Cyborg warned, and Flash narrowed his eyes, "Your partners are here, and we're looking for a way to get them home."
"I don't think so. But this is the best lie that I've heard. Our partners are dead, defeated by Klarion. Don't contact us again," Flash said in a dangerous growl, making Cyborg cringe in surprise. He then noticed Flash running in circles around the image, making in fade from existence, despite Cyborg's protests of stopping him. Once the image was gone, Cyborg face palmed.
"That dim-witted-!" Cyborg began to rant, but was cut off by a door opening. Miss Martian and Martian Manhunter entered the room.
Martian Manhunter spoke, his face giving nothing away as usual, "I sensed a disturbance in this room. Did something happen?"
"Captain Obvious…" Cyborg mumbled as he glared at the older Martian. "Something did happen! I made contact to the other side, tried to tell Flash that their partners are here, and he completely blows me off!" He yelled out in an angry huff.
"Perhaps he misunderstood," Martian Manhunter suggested as he walked closer to Cyborg, only for the man to start rubbing the back of his head.
"Maybe…He thinks they're dead," Cyborg said in a low mumble with down casted eyes towards the ground.
Miss Martian let out a gasp of surprise, "They can't! We aren't dead!" She yelled as she took a couple of steps towards Victor. "They have to know! They wouldn't stop looking for us!"
Cyborg shrugged, "He said to not contact them again…I don't know what I should do. We should contact Superman or Batman."
"I shall contact them," J'onn stated as he began to bring his hand up to his head to activate his com link in his ear, but there was a sudden black out at the watchtower.
Everyone remained in silence for a few seconds until Cyborg glanced at Azure with a small glare, "Did you pull another one of your electrical pranks?" He asked accusingly.
"No. The power outage happened a few levels below our location," she stated as she stood up from her crouched position. Her eyes illuminated in the dark a faint dark red color. Her hair was still serving its function as it still flowed down to the tips, as if it were an electrical current. Different shades of blue that were faintly glowing, otherwise hard to see in detail in the light. There was a flash of yellow traveling down her hair as her eyes lit up a bright yellow before returning to their normal hue of red. "An intruder in the watchtower."
Cyborg narrowed his eyes as he brought out his arm in front of him as it turned into a blue cannon. "Who would be dumb enough to test against my security systems?"
Miss Martian's eyes lit up a white color, "I'll find out. Hold on," she ordered as she gazed towards the ceiling, her mind traveling elsewhere.
"Whoa. Can you do that too?" Cyborg asked as he rose an eyebrow at Martian Manhunter.
"Yes. However, it appears that she has not been trained to the best of her abilities. The other J'onn must not have had all of my abilities," he said as he looked at his niece.
Cyborg smiled, "So you're warming up to her," he said slyly. "I knew you would. It was really Batman that I was worried about."
"Batman explicitly chooses whom to get close to," Martian Manhunter argued.
"Still…I'm sure that she would like to get to know you better," Cyborg said with a friendly smirk.
Martian Manhunter nodded, "It is nice to see another Martian," he said as he turned to his niece. "What did you find?" He asked the girl, who closed her eyes, her mind going back into her body.
"I saw a man," she said as she looked at J'onn and then at Cyborg, "He was wearing this suit that lit up yellow. I never saw him before. Who is he?"
"Arthur Light," Victor stated with slight disgust in his voice, "How he made it here, I'll never know."
J'onn rose his eyebrow slightly, "You know this man?"
"He used to work at S.T.A.R Labs, before he decided to steal the technology for his own personal gain," Cyborg said as he started to walk out of the room. "But what does he want inside the watch tower?"
Azure followed after him, "The energy crystal at the center most likely," she said as she held out her arm in front of her and a sword materialized in her hand, it lit up blue, much like Cyborg's weaponry.
"How are you doing that?" Megan asked in innocent curiosity as she looked at the android in confusion.
"Azure has nano-scopic probes in her body that activate at her will. She can change them into anything she wants," Cyborg stated as he walked out the door, the group following behind him.
Miss Martian nodded, "That's really cool, Azure!" She said with a big smile, trying to be friendly.
Azure glanced in her direction, "Booyah," she said as she nodded before darting her head to the front.
"You two density shift and take the bottom floor, we'll try and get the power back on," Cyborg said as he started to run down the hallway, his robotic feet making an echo through the steel floored hallways. Azure glanced in their direction before running off after her mentor, her high heeled boots echoing through the hallway until she disappeared from sight.
J'onn glanced at his niece, "After you," he said as he gestured to the floor. She nodded and made her body transparent as she fell through the steel floor and floated to the next floor. J'onn appeared next to her in a split second, making her surprised.
"Whoa. You're fast," she said in awe as she smiled at her Uncle.
"I have much to teach you, M'gann," he said as he then darted his eyes to the empty vacant hallway in front of them. "But first, Arthur Light is here."
There was a chuckle from the hallway that seemed to bounce off the wall as footsteps came closer to the duo. "You know, light has wavelengths, and that's how they travel," he said as he appeared in front of the two Martians. He lit up his hand, filling it with light, making the area seem darker than what it actually was. He let it go and directed the attack to the wall. The two observed as the light bounced off the walls before it collided into the two of them, making them fall on their back and they slid a little on the ground before coming to a stop. "There's a two point source interference, that's how you know light is a wave," he said as he took another step before he teleported a few feet in front of the two.
"You will not obtain what you seek," J'onn stated as he bore his eyes into the gaze of Dr. Light.
"The amplitude of a light wave is measured by its intensity," Dr. Light responded with a smirk as he bent down over the two downed Martians. He brought out two hands, palms up, and filled them with concentrated light energy. "And intensity…is the absolute measure of a light wave's power density. But the brightness of light…" He trailed as J'onn narrowed his eyes. "Brightness is the relative intensity as perceived by the average human eye."
J'onn rolled over to cover his niece, "M'gann, close your eyes!" He warned as a bright light covered the area as Dr. Light let go a flash bomb of light, making it blindingly bright. The girl listened as she closed her eyes tightly. Once the brightness had went away, Dr. Light had ran away further into the watch tower.
Martian Manhunter rolled off of his niece as he stood up, he clutched his head, taking the blunt end of the attack had left him slightly disoriented. "Uncle J'onn?" Megan asked as she stood up to her feet.
"We must go after him," he said as he started to run down the hallway, M'gann nodded as she hovered into the air and flew after him. "Do not use heat vision, he drains it away."
"Heat vision?" Miss Martian asked with a slight tilt of her head, "I can't use heat vision."
J'onn grew silent before he took to the air as well, "Then forget what I mentioned. This way," he said as he stopped to the circular part of the tower that stood as its core. "This will take us directly to the energy crystal."
"Uncle J'onn…I don't know if I can density shift that long," she said as she looked at the older Martian in worry.
"Do not worry, M'gann," he said as he offered his hand, "You will learn how," he stated with a thin smile on his face. She nodded as her confidence returned. She grabbed his hand and he density shifted the two of them through the core and traveled through the pure steel rod downwards.
Miss Martian was looking at her uncle in amazement, "To be honest…I never spent a lot of time with my Uncle J'onn…He was always busy with the league. I never knew he could do these things."
Martian Manhunter, "Now you can," he said with a small grin as they approached the central room where the energy crystal was kept. They landed on the steel bridge that connected the platform of the energy crystal to the main part of the watch tower.
"This place is incredible," she said as she looked around at the area. It was pure darkness, and the only light came from the energy crystal that was glowing a spectrum of colors. "What exactly is it?" She asked, referring to the crystal.
"I am told that it belongs to a different dimension. Which one, I am not certain," J'onn stated with a slight shrug.
The doors opened up with a burst of light, and the two Martians set themselves into an offensive position. Dr. Light entered with a smug grin, until his eyes landed on the two Martians that were on his way from achieving what he set out to get. He narrowed his eyes as he held two light blasts in his hands. "You two keep standing in my way," he growled.
"M'gann. Please provide me with backup," Martian Manhunter suggested as he took a step forward.
"But what if you need help?" She asked, slight fear in her eyes at the possibility of losing her Uncle again.
"I am stronger than I look," he stated as he gave her a reassuring grin. He then density shifted down wards, leaving Miss Martian by herself for the moment.
Dr. Light chuckled, "Now this is hardly worth a challenge!" He yelled with confidence as he was about to unleash his attack, but was stopped when Martian Manhunter appeared behind him and grabbed his arms.
"Your fight is with me," he said as he flung the Dr. Light over his shoulders as if he weighed nothing more than a piece of paper.
The man landed to the ground with a thud and he skidded a few feet form the force of the attack. "If that's how you want to play, Martian," he smirked as he was about to attack the girl, but was stopped when a green hand grabbed his arm before snapping it back, making the man yell in agony.
"I stated that your fight is with me," he said with no emotion as he disappeared again.
"The light cannot hit you if you are not in the vicinity!" Dr. Light yelled in frustration as he scrambled to his feet. He looked around the area, only to be hit in the jaw from below as Martian Manhunter had density shifted and performed an uppercut on the man. He was sent flying into the air before landing on the ground again on his back. "Enough of this!" Dr. Light yelled as he produced multiple illusions of himself. "Hit me now!" He, and his other various copies taunted.
Martian Manhunter appeared on the ground, he then nodded at the challenge addressed to him, "I will," he said as he transformed into a green dragon with red eyes as he shot off at the speed of sound and pierced each copy directly through the mid-section of the torso, before they all disappeared, except for the original.
"You think you have bested me?" He asked rhetorically as he smirked. He stood up, and as J'onn went to strike him, he found that he had hit nothing. Confused, the Martian quickly drew his hand back. "Light can bend its rays. It's called displacement, Martian," he stated in a snide manner. "Can't use those silly mind powers, can you?"
J'onn offered the villain with no response as he simply fisted his hands at his side. "I suppose not."
"Arthur!" M'gann yelled as she stepped out from the room with the crystal in it. "Maybe we can't use our mind tricks, but we can still resort to our old tricks," she said as she held a bag in her hand.
"What nonsense are you sputtering-?" Dr. Light began to state but was soon coughing because M'gann had launched the bag at the man, covering him, and the area in flour. Although his image was transparent, his footsteps could be seen a few feet to the right.
Martian Manhunter, seeing the opportunity, took the hit as Dr. Light fell to the floor, clutching his shoulder that he was attacked on. "Great work, M'gann," he complimented his niece as she nodded shyly. The lights came on shortly and both Martians looked up with smiles on their faces. "Though I am curious. Why did you have a bag of flour on you?"
"I always carry some around since episode sixteen of-!" She began to state in excitement before she caught herself, "Uh – Just because!" She yelled, a slight blush coming to her face.
Azure and Cyborg came running down the hallway, "I see Dr. Light is defeated…" He said as he then looked at the flour that was littered on the floor, "And I also see that the hallway is completely covered in flour…Any explanation?" Cyborg asked as he rose an eyebrow.
Martian Manhunter and Miss Martian looked at each other with a grin, "Just teamwork," Miss Martian said as she put a hand out and the flour started to raise from the floor and began to flow back into the bag.
"I couldn't have asked for a better partner," Martian Manhunter said as he walked over to Dr. Light. "I shall contact Superman and Batman in the morning. As for our friend…" He trailed as he lifted the man and put him over his shoulder, "A holding cell will do for now."
Azure began to walk away from the scene, "We miss everything," she stated as she pinned the blame on Cyborg. "I am hibernating for the night," she said as she disappeared from sight.
Cyborg sighed, "I'll update the security. Dr. Light will not get in again-!" Cyborg began to say but then cut himself off again. "Wait…" Cyborg trailed, piecing the clues together. "Dr. Light isn't capable of pulling this off…At least by himself."
"There are accomplices?" Martian Manhunter asked.
"It is possible. And if that's possible, what would they want with the energy crystal?" Cyborg asked as he rose an eyebrow. "I'll work on running a scan on all the possible candidates. You two get some rest, you deserve it." Cyborg said as he began to walk away.
Miss Martian yawned, "I'm getting kind of tired," she said as she had a small smile on her face.
"I am sorry you had to be put through this," Martian Manhunter said in a grim voice.
"I'm used to it," she said as she placed her hands behind her back. "Goodnight, Uncle J'onn," she said as she reached up to the Martian and kissed him on the cheek. She then began to walk away towards the bedrooms.
J'onn put a hand on his cheek, "Goodnight M'gann," he said with a true smile on his face.
To be continued…
A/N: Flash made a mistake, and Batman will be enraged, as will the rest of the members. Flash, you idiot.
Q & A
That bit with Huntress going rogue and Green Arrow and Black Canary being put on security detail for a mob boss hinted very strongly that this was the dimension of the Justice League cartoon, but in the cartoon, Batman was a founding member. This is true. This is so true. But I think dimensional travel is supposed to be confusing. In this universe, Batman is a part time member, which is why the episode where the Justice League were turning themselves in, Batman simply stated, 'I'm not a full time member. Don't bring me into this'.
Why would Kid Flash ask the person he thought was Barry if they were going to Barry and Iris's house? Because that was a typo, and I am sorry that I haven't gone back to fix it. But thanks for pointing it out, I knew that someone would eventually.
How does Batman not know Robin? He doesn't know Robin because Robin never existed in this universe. That's what I originally thought, but that little cameo with Nightwing in it, I missed. I completely derped up this story now. But, it's too late to change it. So, let's pretend that Robin doesn't exist in this universe, at all. And Static Shock also does not exist. And Terry still exists. Now that this is very confusing, I hope I answered your question.
