Chapter 1

Through the Rabbit Hole

He stood in the middle of the street, a bright contrast to the darkness of Lower Gotham. This place was even creepier than normal Gotham. It just seemed... well, darker. More oppressing. He felt the sudden urge to cover his costume, to try and blend in with the dark pulse of the city. But he couldn't. No, he had to be the one they sent out to go find Darkness. He was terrified he'd be confronted with Batman. For all he knew the Batman here would be even MORE terrifying.

"C'mon just get moving and find Darkness before Batman finds out you're here..." Kon gave himself a shake, and rose into the sky, scanning the rooftops and praying he'd find Darkness soon.

He was examining the depths of a rooftop shadow when a deep, spooky voice sounded from behind him. "What are you doing here?" Kon spun around with a start, almost falling over. 'Oh shooo...' he thought. "Uh... I'm, uh, looking for, uh, Darkness, Sir." Batman gave him The Look. Kon tried not to cower. "He's not here." Kon blinked. "He's... not here? Uh... Where is he?" Batman just stared at him for a moment. 'Oh god, this it... He'd gonna kill me...' Kon thought. Then came a question Kon was in no way prepared for. "Why are you in this universe?" It was Kon's turn to stare at Batman. "We.. Need his help. Sir." Batman gave him another measuring look and turned away. "He's at the Young Justice Headquarters." With that he was gone. "O-kayyyy..." Kon breathed, thankful NOT to be Batman's dinner. 'Might as well try the same place HQ is at in our universe...' he thought, and flew off.

Darkness slumped into his chair at HQ. It had been an eventful month or so since his adventure in the Human Universe. In that period Young Justice had acquired a new member, the hyper, yet mysterious Chronos, who he had recognized as Impulse, and had gone through one hell of a war. Batgirl, Cass, was nearly killed. She'd been confined to bed until her injuries had healed. Valkyrie... Valkyrie's home was gone. Destroyed in an attack aimed for her. She was holding up surprisingly well, but he knew she cried in her room at HQ.

Him? Well, he was... Preoccupied. His mind was on a certain someone in another universe. He had tried to put it out of his mind, to put HER out of his mind. His luck with girls was notoriously bad. Not that he couldn't get them to go out with him, heck no. It was just that they tended to end up dead. Spoiler, his last girlfriend, has murdered rather brutally in front of him.

His thoughts were continuing in this pattern when Valkyrie walked in. She sat in the chair next to him and cleared her throat. "Brooding again, Dar?" she asked with a smile. He looked up. "Yeah, I guess." "Let me guess... Brooding over I girl." He stared at her. She smiled again and flipped her ponytail over her shoulder. "Your mind's been on another planet, or in another universe, since you got back. Maybe you should try and visit?" Darkness shook his head. "You know my luck. Besides, we're too busy here to go visit." Valkyrie shook her head. "Whatever."

An alarm went off . The intruder alarm to be exact. Just as they were jumping to their feet and on the alert, Superboy flew into the room.

--END--

(A dark-ish room. Rae is tied to a chair, typing on the laptop in her lap. Rae looks up at Kon and Darkness and sighs.)

Rae: I'm done. Can I go now? I'm hungry.

Darkness: ...Fine. But we expect the next chapter in a timely fashion...

Disclaimer: DC owns Young Justice, I own the Seraphic Universe and this story.