Disclaimer: I still sadly do not own Young Justice; all rights go to their respective owners. I only own the Rangers and the plot
Batman strode into the penthouse.
"Agni, Kaldur ad Robin training room, now." He said to the team who were all sitting casually in the living room
Agni looked at the others who mainly just shrugged so he followed them down the hall into the training room.
"What information do you have so far?" Batman asked Agni
"Well all we know is that he's working with some guy named Lex Luthor and he has several bases in the city." Agni replied
Batman nodded and turned to Kaldur "How many have you destroyed so far?"
"None Batman, we were worried that any explosions may worry the public."
He then turned to Robin "How is the Team getting along with the Rangers?" he asked him
"So far there has only been a slight problem between Wally and Agni." Robin said trying not to look in Agni direction
Batman turned to Agni who in returned nodded in confirmation
"Yes we had a slight problem but I talked with him and sorted it out." Agni said
"I give you permission to take out all of Abaddon's bases as you can. Just try not to hurt any civilians." Batman said
"Yes!" Agni said under his breath
"And start right away. How many of their locations do you know?" Batman asked
"We know of 4 urban bases they have been hiding in and coming out at night and they have been coming out of another Cadmus base that I have to drag Agni away from."
"Well I would go blow it up." Batman said
Agni bowed and turned to leave "Right away."
"How much does he hate Abaddon that he's always so eager to bother him?" Robin asked
"More then you'll ever imagine." Kaldur said
Agni went to inform the team of their next mission and told them to meet him in the training room in 10 minutes; He then went to his room to put on his armor. He opened his weapon closet and thought about what weapon he should bring.
"What weapon have you not used out of the ones in there?" Roy asked from behind him while putting his costume on.
Agni tilted his head and looked at his closet going over its contents.
"These." He said pulling a pair of khopesh's
"Do you know how to use them?"
Agni sniffed "You offend me by thinking I wouldn't" he said with mock sadness
Roy rolled his eyes and slung his bow over his shoulder.
"Hey I think I'm going to bring this." Agni said behind his.
He turned around to see what he was holding.
Agni was waving a pistol around.
"Put that down!" Roy said ducking every time the pistol barrel was pointing towards him.
"Why?" Agni asked waving it around again
"Because you have no idea that to do with it." Roy said ducking and rolling behind the bed
"What does this part do?" Agni asked pulling the hammer back
Roy peeked over the bed to see what it was and immediately ducked again. "Put it down slowly."
Agni looked down it barrel. "Is it some kind of really small crossbow?"
"PUT IT DOWN AGNI!"
"Fine, okay!" Agni said he pointed it down and dropping it.
*BANG*
"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH! DAMN! WHAT IN THE G-DS NAME WAS THAT?" echoed through out the entire penthouse.
Connie charged in with his hammer raised over his head poised to come down onto someone and everyone else charged in after him.
"What's wrong?" Richie demanded appearing in a shadow across the room.
"What did you do now Agni?" Anna said coming up
Roy sighed and stood up "He shot himself in the foot."
Wally and Richie collapsed on the bed laughing their hearts out.
"That's not funny!" snapped Zatanna running over to him "I'll heal him." She said pulling her wand out.
"No need to I'm a cleric." Anna said murmuring a spell while waving her hand over his foot Agni flinched in pain as the bullet came out of his foot into her hand.
"Use a healing stone to heal the wound and bone." Anna said
"Damn human weapons!" Agni cursed under his breath breaking another stone light blue stone and crushed it over his foot.
"I told you to put it down." Roy scolded
"I just wanted to know how to use it." Agni retorted
Robin picked it up and removed the magazine "Like this." he said demonstrating how to shoot it.
Agni stood up unsteadily "Okay let's go." He said
"Are you sure you're limping." Zatanna said
"I'm fine. It'll stop in a few minutes. Zatanna, Anna we can teleport them. Follow my magical trail." Agni said "I'll take Robin, Richie and Arty."
"I don't want to go with Arty!" Richie hissed
"Too bad." Agni whispered back
"I wanna go with da crazy loon." Connie whined.
Agni sighed and took a deep breath and here was a loud crack and a flash of white light and he was gone.
A few minutes later.
"You enter here and blow this wall out and place explosives here." Agni said pointing to the hologram hovering over Robin's wrist. "Me and Zatanna will go in here in front of everyone and go down to the 3rd underground floor and place bombs here, here and here blowing anything that gets in my way. Then Robin will remotely set the times, I have no idea how, and give it 5 minutes after I'm out."
"Why do I have the top floor?" Wally complained
"Because you can't fight off as many trolls as me and the archers." Robin said "No offense bro."
Wally nodded. "Where is Arty and Connie going to be this whole time?
Arty smiled wickedly "We will be causing a very large distraction outside. Connie will be riding Beowulf"
"Dwarves ride ears into battle in our dimension." Richie put in to explain.
Everyone went over their plans in deep thought.
"Um Agni?" Robin said suddenly.
"Yeah?"
"So the plan is pretty much is run in blow shit up and run out?"
"No it's go in take down the foundations, kill trolls, loot the damn place and run out."
Zatanna sighed and patted him sympathetically on the shoulder, "Sure it is." She said.
"Everyone read? Okay GO!"
Everyone jump down he building and ran off in different directions. Agni and Zatanna ran around to the back of the building and waited leaning against the wall.
"What are we waiting for again?" Zatanna asked
Agni counted to 10 and took a few steps back taking Zatanna with him.
The wall where he was standing a second ago blew out.
"That one." Agni said running in. "Thanks!" he shouted to Artemis who was standing across the room shooting her bow.
She nodded back and continued covering Wally while he placed the bomb around the complex. They left the room to place more bombs so Agni and Zatanna ran to the middle of the room where there was a large hole. They levitate down 2 floor where Robin, Richie, Miss Martian, Aqualad and Anna were watching Conner pound the floor.
"Where's Red Arrow?" Agni asked
"Right here." Roy said from behind him.
"Is everything on schedule?" Agni asked
Superboy fell through the floor and several guns were heard going off. Agni jumped in with his bow out shooting several shots and landing next to Superboy. Robin, Anna, Richie and Miss M landed next to them and began to help them fight off the gunman.
"Red Arrow and Aqualad keeping to the schedule?" Agni asked pulling out his khopeshe's and rushing at them.
Richie was behind him spinning his staff and paralyzing his enemies by hitting their pressure points. The soldiers retreated and the Team regroup beneath the hole.
"Who goes off here?" Zatanna asked
"We do." Richie said pointing at himself Robin and Anna.
"Remember this is supposed to be the largest floor, be careful." Agni said
Superboy went through the floor into the next level followed by Miss M, Agni and Zatanna
"Okay we go here you two okay?" Agni asked pulling his bow back out and notching a pachynite arrow
"Yeah we'll be okay." Conner grunted pounding the floor.
Agni nodded and walked down the hall with Zatanna behind him. They went around the corner into a large empty room.
Agni stopped and lowered his bow "You here that?" he asked Zatanna
Zatanna listen carefully "No I don't it's completely silent." She said
"Exactly, it's impossible for it to be this silent. It's being silenced magically I think."
"I think this may be a trap."
"No really? What was your first clue?" Agni said chuckling
"What do you mean?" Zatanna asked
"Well have you noticed our floor happens to be deserted? When we were shot at in all the others? Did you notice that you could hear machinery and buzzing noises on the others and how the lights were flickering there? Or how about our almost undisturbed descent here?"
"You mean this was all a trap?" Zatanna said
"Right from the very beginning. They knew I would jump to the chance if I thought Abaddon might be hiding here or that there might be trolls coming out of here."
"But there were."
Agni shook his head "No there weren't I could tell they were not real and made in what Richie had said 'big tubes filled with liquid where they make things grow'."
"Then why did we come?"
"Because it's a trap that means either Abaddon himself, Iivdril or the Ogre mage will be here to try and capture us because they know no one else can."
"But how did they know you would be on this floor?"
"That is something I am going to keep to myself."
Agni looked around there was a balcony over hanging most the room several door leading out so he quickly set up some explosives around the room adding some extras connected to a different detonator he also secretly put some in more hidden places while he was doing the others and continued to search the floor cautiously finding nothing. They doubled back and stopped before reentering the room with explosives.
"Now how much do you want to bet that there are dozens of armed goons on the other side?" Agni said
"A milkshake and a meal from any restaurant you choose. If this was a trap they would have already gotten us."
Agni smiled and opened the door and walked into the center of the room.
Zatanna walked up beside him and smiled "Well guess who owes me a milkshake and a meal from any restaurant I choose?"
Agni smiled even wider "Wait for it." He said.
The lights went of.
A spot light went on shining on them and on several rows of armed men standing around them ready to shoot.
"Oh noes it was a trap Zatanna and guess what? That's oldest one in the book too."
Zatanna smirk and lifted her wand.
Agni's bow was out in a flash and ready to fire.
"So you bows want to do this the hard way or you can die easily." Agni said
"I wouldn't do that to you if I were you." Said a voice from the shadows
"Ahh Iivdril I wondered when I would have to beat you again." Agni said turning around
Iivdril laughed and stared at him. "Not this time." She said "I hold all the cards now."
"Oh really, and how's that?" Agni asked
A large screen lighted up to their right showing the rest of the team shackled against the wall. They were shackled exactly to their weaknesses. Connie and Conner were shackled with kryptonite. Roy, Artemis, Arty, Robin, Richie and Robin were shackled in so many ways they couldn't move. Kaldur and M'gann where in cages of fire. Beowulf was nowhere to be seen.
"And what makes you think I won't kill you and free them?" Agni said dropping his bow and pulling out his khopeshes and taking a few steps forward.
"Because of this." Iivdril said. She faded into the shadows and then abruptly returned behind Zatanna
Holding a long wickedly long knife.
"You may think you have no weaknesses but I know you… and I know your only one so take another step and I kill the pretty human girl that you like so much."
Agni's eyes narrowed dangerously and his ruby began to blaze threateningly.
"Oh you wouldn't" he said
The knife drew a long thin line of blood across Zatanna's neck
"You… You BITCH"
Sorry about the cliffhanger but I love suspense.
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