Hope you all enjoy this chapter. Like I said before this story is part of the YJHU or Young Justice Heroes Universe. This is Earth 42 called: BirdGhost.
I call it BirdGhost because it's mainly about Danny with his big brother Dick.
In a cave two people walked in as it was lit by small lights on posts.
Black beetle and deathstroke entered and black beetle moved the the side to let in aliens that claimed to be friends of earth but where exposed to not be.
The Reach. They walked in and faced the members of the villainous group called the light.
Savage and other members entered and they stood across from the reach. Including Artemis in descize as tigerus and kaldur.
"imbasiter," savage said.
"Savage," the alien said with a small smile.
"As head of security for the reach, I must insist on no mask be worn at the sumt," black beetle said coldly.
"Simply because you insist is no garnet," Mander said.
"Mander, if you wouldn't mind, after all we are among friends," ras said gently.
Mander grunted and took off his masked helmet and the others followed his lead as well as tigerus and death stroke.
"We are way over our heads," tigerus whispered to kaldur who shushed her.
"Satisfied?" Ras said with a smirk. Black beetle growled a little and walked behind imbasiter.
"Excellent, now with these formalities out of the way," "let us begin," savage finished the aliens sentence.
"And the rest of the light? Would they be joining us?" imbasiter questioned.
"Our more public members are occupied, inducting damage control to imitate your resent defeats," ras ah ghoul explained.
"And in any case, we are defishant," savage added.
"Fine, I know you caulk this summit, but the reach has come with grieve and commitment against the light, please explain how the young earth champions where aloud accist to the bealu scarup temple under your control?" He pushed a little harshly.
"If I may respond," kaldur asked.
"No you may not," black Beatle answered.
"Mander, keep your welp meat silent," he said flatly.
"Beatle, your insolence grows progressively less charming," Mander scowled at him.
"My friends, I think we can all agree on that in resent days no one has done more, sacrificed more, for both the light and the reach than kaldur'ahn," savage spoke up.
"That's is why he was entrusted with security of this summit, and why he is able to voice here," savage ended.
"Of course, he may speak," the alien leader put a hand up to stop black Beatle.
"Thank you imbasiter," kaldur walked down. "We know that turns over the actions of my former team, but you must know as the light could have known the significance of the temple or that's enchant earth agic could reach technology for blue Beatle and green Beatle from your thrall, if the reach had been more forthcoming about how long ago the scarup had been sent and infiltrate earth with its warrior, the light may have made the connection temple and simple provided security for it," kaldur explained the situation.
"I told you how I wanted to study blue Beatles scarup to crash prior to putting it back on mode, if had follow my advice you would've known the temple and- uh apologies my misguided term," she cut herself off and bowed a little.
"No dear, you where quit correct to question your master tactic question, the light has provided everything the reach required and you aliens had it all slip away," Mander told them with disappointment in his tone.
"I don't believe this is a productive direction for our discussion," imbasiter said offensively.
"No? Or your public approval ending are at the record, as our sales of the reach which you have hoped would enslave that populars," ras said.
"You aloud the young heroes to be rescued by the very teenagers meta genes you enhanced," savage accused.
""After allowing an escape as well," mander added.
"And worst of all, blue Beatle and green Beatle have slipped from your grasp and fallen into the helms of the enemy, the justice league," kaldur finished.
"Rest assured the Beatles will soon return to the voice of the reach, in fact, black Beatle has been summoning to earth to his post guarding accist to the key chamber of the war world," imbasiter explained.
"You have my...thanks..." Ras said to tigerus from her accidentally bumping into him as she and death stroke fought against the reach as well as some of the other member of the light fought as well.
Tigerus shot arrowsThe from her small cross bow at some reach soldiers that where running at them.
It created a foam that turn hard immediately and they where now stuck.
Death stroke caught black Beatle with a bow staff and jabbed it in the center of black Beatles chest.
He did a back hand spring away and mander came in and was about to fight black Beatle until kaldur stopped them.
"Enough! We are allies, not enemy's any conflict between us only benefits our true opponents, the justice league and their side kicks," kaldur stopped them.
"Kaldur'ahn is quit correct," savage walked up.
"Agreed, we must not allow any disagreement rival wedge between us, gratitude kaldur'ahn, stand down warrior," imbasiter told black Beatle.
"Imbasiter-" "stand down," the alien said sternly and black Beatle growled and put away his weapons.
"Should we not be concerned that superman and batman and green lantern and the rest should soon return to earth and once again swipe public opinion aside," kaldur asked but more explained.
"Superman in those accused with him will never leave rambor the attack was with them on that world plus a few well placed bribes is guaranteed their conviction," savage told them.
"And the green lantern are forbidden on guardian treadey from returning to our world now that we convinced UN sang to welcome us here," imbasiter commented.
"It is saying that pubic opinion, though I wouldn't be concer tide has to a certainrey that a simple matter would have truths, we would have already used discredit in order to discredit them," the alien continued as ras ah ghoul walked toward tigerus.
"Great one?" Tigerus asked in a monotone voice as he reached for her necklace. She gasped as he ripped it off revealing Artemis's identity.
Everyone looked at her shocked including kaldur.
"Artemis..." Savage growled.
"I..don't understand, I thought Artemis was dead," imbasiter said surprised.
"So did we all," savage growled. "But it seemed tigerus is Artemis,"
"This is a glimmer charm, created I'd weigh by zatanna or Doctor fate, to hide Artemis's true identity," the old man concluded and Artemis scowled at him with a glare.
"But kaldur'ahn killed Artemis, if she lives and in discized as lutendent, that means," "that means, aqua lad duped them all," black Beatle finished imbasiter sentence.
"Including is own father," they looked at mander who looked in disbelief.
"Ugh, kill them both," imbasiter commanded and black Beatle walked toward kaldur with swords for hands.
"No, you will not kill my son," mander stepped in front of kaldur.
"He's right," death stroke shot kaldur in the chest then Artemis.
"The light takes care of its own," death stroke out away his gun.
"Kaldur," mander kneeled down to his son.
"It's to late father, I have already...won..." Kaldur said with a final breath and let go of something in his hand. A hollow gram popped up of kaldur.
"If your watching this then it's truly over, the light and the reach deserve each other, both sides played at being part of us, but the reached believed that the light had to be their noneve tools to conquest. When in fact the light had been tricked by the reach from day one," kaldur's hollow gram spoke.
"Shut this off," savage growled at death stroke.
"How?" He asked back.
"It was the light that brought the reaches attention to earth by sending the justice league to rembor, and set their trap, and the reach snatched the bait, fulfilling the lights desire to cross our world into galactic spotlight part of their diversion of survival of the fittest scheme for the planet, which they believe transform the earth and the light of the Milky Way.
Though the light made a deal to help the reach take earth, they always planned on sabotage the reaches efforts, they cannot pass meta teens in the reaches hands. Then added a neutralizing fact into the reaches drink so this population became survival. They turned public opinion against the reach then intentionally let the team enter the scarup temple to cleanse blue and green Beatle, so you see, any agenda either side was not for a carefully cracked illusion," kaldurs hollow gram explained further.
"I trust I have shattered that illusion as well as whatever remains of the sorry alliance, good night," he faded in the hollow gram and disappeared.
"Kaldur, what have you done," his father whispered to the dead body.
"He has done more to damage my plan than any living creature has rolled in fifty thousand years, I'd be impressed if I wasn't so-" savage was interrupted by imbasiters angry scream.
"You earthlings are impestitole and a plague, you dare sabotage, dare betray us!? Have you forgotten who controls the war world?!" Imbasiter yelled.
"The light is fortunate that we don't carve up your planet as we speak!" He ranted.
"That would indeed impresses I have the war world crystal key," savage stood intimidatingly over the alien.
"That is all I needed to know," kaldurs voice echoed.
"Kaldur... Your..-" "alive, yes," kaldur stood up.
"If you would," Artemis held her hand up behind ra's with a smirk on her face.
"Sigh* and I allays heard the great one was such a gentle men," she said with fake disappointment and stood up on her own.
"Impossible," savage looked at her in surprise.
"Death stroke killed you both," savage said with wide eyes.
"Just for a little while, after all I wouldn't want to do any permanent damage to my friends," death stroke morphed into Megan holding a sword at savages throat.
""Not wanting a little misdirection sin Hollywood special effects instead," she walked over to her friends still with the sword.
"For we value our true friends and unlike you we are not short on them," kaldur said and teens of the justice league appeared at the entrances of the cave.
Nightwing, batgirl, kid flash, phantom and lightspeed where at one and kid flash waved with lightspeed near him.
"Hey there Vandy, did you miss me?" He teased and phantom had a smirk on his face.
"Well played, well planned, but the light always has contingency," savage said calmly. The brain glowed a little and the entrances on the side of the cave closed and the top opened.
Ninjas jumped in from above surrounding the heroes.
"I've had my fill of your interference, do not expect to survive," he growled.
"Kill them all, superboy and phantom may be a problem but we'll deal with them when the other children are bleeding on the ground," savage said calmly.
"Rude," phantom commented quietly.
"Still you refer to us as children no wonder outer success was mound, you concisely underestimate us," kaldur said with a very small smirk.
Suddenly blue Beatle took off a ninja mask and started shooting sound waves at the aliens. Soon beast boy and lagoon boy attacked as well.
Kid flash dodged the attacks of the ninjas and pulled the caps off of the smoke grenades and bat girl flipped in the smoke and took the men out.
Nightwing fought against a ninja and one came up behind him and he easily took the two out.
Lightspeed zipped and shouldered some of the ninjas and was tripped by another but rolled back to her feet and spin kicked one in the jaw.
"Whew! Thank god for gymnastics!" She smirked and ducked a sword from a ninja and did two back hand springs and landed a perfect back tuck away and punched an alien in the face and elbowed one in the gut behind her.
"Nice job my student," kid flash stopped in front of her.
"Learn from second best in the family business," she smirked at her mentor.
"Aww, I feel the love cuz," he ruffled her hair and zoomed off next to Artemis.
Three more men where taken out by Robin, impulse, and wonder girl with her lasso.
"It is true, the light has always underestimated these young heroes but no more, it is time," he released something out of his ring and the sword Megan held turned into a large snake made out of fire and she fainted due to the heat.
The boy of chaos snapped his fingers and a red portal ate him and savage to some where else.
"Savage has the right idea, this battle is pointless, do not resist the heroes have restrictions," ra's ah ghoul said.
"Meaning every piece of meat of the light is a coward," black Beatle growled and punched superboy and threw him into a wall by the head as he walked to the great one.
He created a sword of his hand and stabbed ra's in the stomach and pulled out the blade making the man drop to the ground.
"Master!" A man yelled and pushed Artemis out of the way as well as lagoon boy.
"Such as the fate of all meat," black beetle walked away.
"I have you master, oovo will keep you safe," oovo said and grabbed his master and a grappling hook and got out of there.
Artemis was about to jump and stop them but was kicked back by oovo and was caught by lidl flash. Kid flash set her down and where surrounded by ninjas and where back to back in fighting positions.
"I sooo want to kiss you now, or maybe kill you for making us go through all this," kid looked back at Artemis.
"Hold that thought, you can decide later, when we're alone~" she said flirty and they both had a small smile on their face and fought the ninjas.
"I can not comprehend this betrayal kaldur, how could you?" Mander said sadly in a face off with his son.
"I admit to being conflicted father, I have seen your noble side but you left me no choice, as long as you waist your gifts on villainy I will stand against you," kaldur brought out his water weapons.
Phantom ran up to a ninja and rammed his knee into his jaw with a jump and back kicked another ninja in the shoulder in mid air.
A ninja was about to hit him with a ninja star but blocked it with a small shield and blasted them with an ecto blast.
"You guys need to cool off," he smirked and froze five ninjas in a block of ice.
"Ha ha ha, your hilarious," Robin ran passed him.
"I know," he blasted an ice ray behind Robin at a ninja who was about to come at him with a sword, Robin nodded at him and lightspeed was back to back with phantom.
"First fights a little nerve racking," she breathed.
"Get traught or get dead, we are not loosing this fight," he told her and she nodded and they both where surrounded by ninjas and attacked the enemy.
Megan was still out and the snake still had her, lagoon boy jumped in the fire snakes mouth and became like a puffer fish and made the snakes head explode. Megan fell but he coughs her as they landed.
"Thank you lagon," she said telepathicly and put a hand on his face and he gave her a small smile.
The brain was shooting at kid flash who was circling around the machine and impulse and lightspeed followed next to him.
"Hey boys," the blond speeder smirked as they dodged the brains shots.
"Hey there champ, whatcha doing?," impulse waved at his second cousins.
"Same old same old, driving bad guys nuts," kid flash smirked at the two.
"And this guys my mentor," she rolled her eyes teasingly.
"Nice look by the way," kid looked back at impulse but snickered a little at her comment.
"Ha, you think?" Impulse looked at his clothes.
"Yea, but I always thought you'd wined up in something a little more yellow and red," kid flash smirked.
"Seriously?" Impulse asked in disbelief and lightspeed smirked a little more.
"Hey once this whole invasion thing is over, me and Artemis are going back to retirement, I'll still be mentoring lightspeed but someone needs to carry on the family tradition," Wally smiled at Bert.
"Dude! That is so crash!" He exclaimed and lightspeed giggled and her and impulse high fived.
"Nice promo!" She smiled.
"You watch! I'll make ya proud!" He looked back at kid flash.
"Start with the brain," kid flash smirked and lightspeed let impulse through.
"Oh right!" He laughed and zoomed over to the brain.
"TADAAAAA~" he sang once he finished disarming the robot.
"Nice job red," light speed put her hands on her hips as she and kid flash stopped. Impulse was hit by a large green gorilla knocking the future speeder out and beast boy looked back at mola the other gorilla.
Mola was about to smash impulse with a large rock until beast boy came back as a rhino and charged into the gorilla and into the wall.
"So that happened," phantom floated over.
"Quit fooling around snowflake, get traught or get dead, right?" She smirked and zoomed off.2
"God, you and dick are so much alike sometimes," kid flash chuckled at phantom.
"Must be a Romanian thing," he shrugged and went back to the battle.
The imbasiter and his scientist tried to escape but blue Beatle came up and stapled them to the walls.
"Warrior!" Imbasiter called for black Beatle.
He turned to see the two aliens stapled to the wall after throwing wonder girl into Robin with her lasso.
"Hurry warrior, we must leave!" He said in a rush.
"Pathetic, looked at what you're maggot missions have left us," black Beatle looked at the two.
"Free me at once," imbasiter demanded. "That is an order!"
"Your numerous failures render under all orders, under article 16 of the reach planetary code I officially declare unfit to lead this mission," black Beatle said coldly.
"No, noo!" He yelled.
"You might still be of use," he grabbed the female scientist alien.
"Gratitude," she said and he flew out of there with her. Blue Beatle, miss Martian and phantom tried flying after him but he shot a large blast but phantom put up a shield to block it from hitting them.
Everyone stopped fighting and saw they where victorious of the battle.
"We did it!" Lightspeed gasped as phantom landed next to her and she jumped and hugged him excitedly.
"You did good for a rookie," he smirked at her and she punched his arm once they let go of the hug.
"Rookie my ass," she snorted as he held his shoulder.
"Good arm," he breathed.
Nightwing walked over to kaldur who was standing over his fathers unconscious body.
"I had hoped we could have ended this tonight, but savage escaped with clarity as did black Beatle and reaches head scientist, Luther and queen bee didn't even show, and ra's ah ghoul will no doubt-" "are you kidding me? Kaldur you won!" Nightwing cut him off and kid flash walked over.
"Won? You triumphed!" Wally exclaimed holding hands with Artemis.
"You crippled the reach and literally opened the light in half, even took down death stroke before the summit," Artemis explained happily and picked up the glimmer charm.
"And telepathicly transported the entire deal, we where able to use the bad guys own word against them to clarify the justice league," she finished and she was attacked in a hug by beast boy and phantom.
"What was that?" She giggled and looked down at the two boys.
"I'm still just so glad your alive!" Beast boy smiled up at her.
"I really missed you arty, it hasn't been the same," Danny smiled at her with his goofy grin.
"Yea and that aqua lads not a traitor," he motioned to the antlantantian.
"And no more faking anyone else's deaths for about a year, okay," he pointed at nightwing. Phantom let out his cackle making Artemis and aqualad groan.
"My reaction too, and I second that," kid flash smiled at them and phantom smirked.
"Sigh* agreed," kaldur looked at the ground.
"Kaldur this has been a good night, maybe the best since the three of us had took off for Cadmus five plus years ago," nightwing put a hand on his friends shoulder.
"Come on, join the moment my friend, you've earned it," Kid put a hand on kaldurs other shoulder and phantom nodded in agreement.
"Tonight was successful, there's nothing changing that," Phantom smirked at the young man.