Robin, the World's Second Greatest Detective
Wonder Girl, the Blonde Amazon
Impulse, the Hyperactive Speedster
Conner Kent, the Superboy
Amethyst, the Princess of Gemworld
Jinny Hex, the Western Wild Card
Keli Quintela, the Teen Lantern
Together, these seven teens form the Young Justice League!
Bart: Uh, dude? The readers already know who we are. There's no need to re-introduce us.
Be quiet, Bart! On with the story!
Vol. 2, Issue 7: Into the Multiverse
Earth-C
The newly formed Young Justice League materialized onto a field full of green grass, pineapples, coconuts, giant pears, and other assortments of fruit. Hold your horses, all will be explained soon.
As the team materialized, Impulse ended up falling face first onto the ground, Wonder Girl fell on top of Superboy, Amethyst was holding onto dear life on the passenger door of Jinny Hex's truck, and Robin was entangled in his cape. With the exception of Jinny and the Teen Lantern, the group were disheveled and disoriented.
"Owwww," Bart groaned, rubbing his head.
"Everyone okay?" Tim asked, his voice muffled from being trapped in his cape.
"Oh, I'm more than ok, my dude," Conner said, smiling at the blonde on top of him. "Y'know, Cass? This is strangely relaxing."
"Fun's over, Romeo," Cassie snarked as she got off the Boy of Steel, prompting him to pout.
After Tim freed himself from his cape, he and Jinny got out of the truck and looked around; while the sky looked normal and the trees and other things were not out of the ordinary, there was a big red flag in Tim's case.
The sun had a face.
A smiling face.
Jinny took notice of this also. "I must've hit my head on the way comin' here, 'cause there ain't no way a sun is s'posed to have a face!" the cowgirl exclaimed.
Tim walked over to Amethyst, who was adjusting her tiara. "Amy," the Boy Wonder began. "I'm pretty sure something went wrong when that Emerald lady transported us from Gemworld back to Earth."
"You're telling me," the princess said, looking down at the ground beneath her. "Anyone remember the ground filled with pineapples and other fruits."
Meanwhile, Keli was floating in the air and looking at a building that clearly resembled the Hall of Justice. The young Bolivian grinned and pumped her fist in the air.
"Alright!" Keli cheered. "Justice League internship, here I come!"
Before the young girl flew off in its direction, Cassie stopped her. "Whoa there, Keli!" the blonde said. "Let's not get too hasty. You don't even know if that is the Hall of Justice."
"It looks like it, so it must be it," Keli retorted.
"Makes sense to me," Bart said, walking up to the two.
Conner squinted his eyes at the building's arch, which read 'ZOO OF JUSTICE'. "Uh, Drake?" the Boy of Steel said. "There's something majorly wrong here."
"I know, man. Right now, let's try to not do anyth-" Tim's plan was cut off when he felt a shadow loom over him; the Boy Wonder looked up and saw a figure in a red suit and flowing cape descend down toward he and the rest of the team. This person had a red mask and a yellow 'C' emblazoned on his chest.
And he had a rabbit's head.
What?
"Great tidings, travelers of the multiverse, I presume!" the rabbit man said. "I am Captain Carrot, and this is my Hall of Doom-I mean-my Zoo of Justice! It's one of those for sure!"
Tim, Amy, Conner, Cassie, and Bart could only look at Captain Carrot in complete bemusement. Jinny and Keli, though...
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" the cowgirl and Teen Lantern shrieked, Keli hugging Jinny as if her life depended on it.
'This isn't weird at all. This isn't weird at all," Tim internalized. The Boy Wonder cleared his throat and spoke up. "Hello, Captain Carrot. I am Robin, uh, of Earth. W-we are Young Justice and we've kinda got ourselves in a bit of a pickle. We need to find our way back to our home and fast. Do you have what we need?"
"Earth, huh? I've encountered one of yours before. Dupe-Troop-no, Superman! Chubby guy in blue tights, right?"
"Yeah," Tim replied.
"I'm sorry to intrude on this lovely conversation, but can you get us home?" Amethyst interrupted.
"Why of course!" Captain Carrot said. "Follow me, believers of Justice!"
"I am not speaking here. I refuse," Conner announced.
"Aw, come on, Conner! It's so cute!" Bart said, a giant, cheesy smile on his face.
The inside of the Zoo of Justice was remarkably similar to the Hall of Justice: similar interior design, giant supercomputers, teleportation pads, hell, there was even a giant, circular table for all of its members. Although there were several similarities to their Justice League, there is one major factor that differentiates them.
Notably, they were the Zoo Crew, and were anthropomorphic animals. Currently, a giant walking cat, a pig, a duck, a poodle, and a turtle were gathered around the team, looking at them in wonder.
"Fascinating," the cat-lady said, poking at Tim's face. "I wonder if we're as strange to them as they are to us." The cat-lady walked to Jinny and Keli and lowered her hood. "Do you have any magic from your Earth that I can study and use here?"
"AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Jinny and Keli screamed once again. Cassie flew toward both of them and put her hands around their mouths, silencing their screams.
"Hi, yeah, we're having some interdimensional issues and, uh, are just trying-Jinny, licking my hand isn't gonna make me let go-to find a way to pass through back to our home dimensional, original place of origin," Cassie explained.
"You'll have to excuse Alley-Kat-Abra. She's always giddy about things like this," Captain Carrot said.
"Some of us have more experience with this kind of thing, so excuse the histrionics," Tim said.
Captain Carrot laughed and ruffled Tim's head. "Oh, don't fret, boy who dresses like a traffic light. We'll have you back home in no time!" He turned toward the giant pig man. "Pig-Iron! You have it, right?"
"Don't worry, I got it, we're good!" Pig-Iron said; he reached into his pocket and pulled out an oversized mallet.
"Where the hell did that come from?!" Keli exclaimed.
"My hammersepace!" Pig-Iron said. "Don't despair! I can get all of you home lickety-split! You're all good."
"With a mallet?" Amethyst wondered.
"Not just any mallet," Captain Carrot began.
"THE MULTIVERSE MALLET!" Pig-Iron shouted, holding said mallet very high.
A few moments of silence passed before Jinny Hex broke it in a calm, collected, fashion.
"WHAT THE #$% IS HAPPENIN'?!"
Yep. Chill as a cucumber.
Tim turned toward Captain Carrot. "So, he's gonna hit us with a giant mallet, and that'll send us home?"
"Precisely."
"AM I THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO AIN'T LOST HER #$%^ MARBLES?!" Jinny shouted. Cassie grabbed the cowgirl by her collar and began slapping her.
"You need to pull *smack* yourself *smack* together," the Wonder Girl said, her words emphasized by her slaps. "This is no time to panic!"
"This is the perfect #$%^& time to panic," Jinny hissed.
Alley-Kat-Abra looked around the scene awkwardly. "Um...I can place a calming spell on her if you'd like. Maybe some milk?"
"There's no need for that," Tim declared.
"Yeah! Now why don't you rev up that mallet and send us home, Bacon-Man! I mean, uh, Babyback Rib-Guy, I-I mean-" Bart said, constantly stumbling through his sentence.
"Christ, why couldn't they have a bronze glove with jewels in it for this?" Amethyst muttered.
Pig-Iron held the mallet and pointed it at the Young Justice team. The mallet itself pulsed with blue energy, crackling everywhere. "I bid you farewell, travelers! I nearby cast you out!"
The team all awaited for the effect to happen, but not before Tim's eyes widened. "Wait! Nearby?! Take us-"
Tim was cut off as the mallet's beam zapped the team, sending them to parts unknown.
Earth-22
The group, along with Jinny's truck, materialized outside of he Hall of Justice once again, landing on the grass and with Cassie, Amy, and Keli entwined with each other.
"I think we might back on our Earth now," Cassie said, her voice muffled in Keli's hair. "I also think Amy can get off of me."
The princess detangled herself from the other two girls. "I'm so sorry everyone. God, this is the worst!"
Jinny walked over to Amethyst, raising an eyebrow. "Amy, how's this any of yer fault?"
Keli flew up in the air, surveying the environment around them. "What city is this?"
Conner, Tim, and Bart all walked away from Jinny's truck and surveyed the Hall of Justice.
"Alright! Now I'll talk!" Conner exclaimed. The boy of steel looked at Tim. "Think we're here? Like, here here?"
Tim narrowed his eyes at the building. "Looking at it, you'd think so, right? But look again." The Boy Wonder motioned over to the pavement that led to the Hall of Justice. "It is the Hall of Justice, but the front lawn isn't a lawn at all." Tim looked over at Bart. "Bart, I need you to run and do a sweep of the surround-"
*WHOOSH*
"-and he's off," Tim finished lamely.
The Boy Wonder took out his phone and looked at the screen which read 20%. "Goddammit. Need to charge my phone," he complained. Tim turned toward the others. "Can anyone search what city we're in?"
"Aw, who gives a #$%?!" Jinny replied, looking at the trunk hidden under the tarp. "We're home safe. My trunk is home safe. The magic in the trunk is home safe. I'm home safe. No more talkin' rabbits."
Keli conjured up a screen from her gauntlet, showing a newspaper article. "Hmm. This is Metropolis, jefe."
"Anything abou-"
Tim was cut off when Bart reappeared in a gust of wind.
"BT-dubs, I will never, ever, ever, forgive any of you from taking me away from the most awesome place ever. Where I belong!" Bart scolded.
"You mean my new nightmare for the month?" Keli retorted.
"That place is God!" Bart said, sinking to his knees and crying overdramatically. "Paradise on Earth!"
"Bart!" Cassie spoke up. "What did you see out there?"
The speedster stood up, fully recovered from his short crying fit. "Normal, stupid, dumb looking people. Other than that, the streets are practically empty. It's a ghost town out there."
"This ain't our Earth, is it?" Jinny questioned.
"Wait. Bart, these people, did they tell you anything?" Tim interrogated.
The speedster scratched the back of his head. "Uh, I think one of them said, 'you got balls'. Whatever that means. I know what it means, but...I'm done trying to explain. Then they all ran off like they were scared of something."
"Or someone," Tim added.
The team all looked at one another in confusion. "The hell kinda place is this?" Keli wondered.
"I have no idea; but we should all get back in the truck. Conner, fly us somewhere high!" Tim ordered.
The Boy of Steel landed Jinny's truck on one of the many high rises of the alternate, ghost town Metropolis.
"We should've been more specific when we said for them to take us home," Tim said.
"Y'all joke, but I'm 'bout to have a nervous breakdown," Jinny commented, leaning against her vehicle.
"If this isn't our Earth, what is this place?" Conner asked.
"I knew I shouldn't have left my multiverse map back in the future. By accident," Bart said jokingly.
Meanwhile, Cassie was speaking with Amethyst. "This is all my fault. Again."
"What're you talking about, Amy?" Cassie wondered.
"I-I think-when we were transported to that whack-a-doodle Earth by Lady Emerald, I think we weren't meant to go home. She, and the rest of the Gem Council banished us."
"Hold up; after we defeated that Opal guy and saved them? #$holes," the blonde grumbled. Cassie then scrunched her eyebrows at the princess. "How do you know they banished us?"
"I heard them talking outside the door about it once," Amethyst admitted.
" #$%, that'll do it. Ok, maybe it was a miscalculation or a mistake-"
"No," the purple haired princess interrupted. "That's not how the Gem works."
Cassie threw up her hands in frustration. "Then I'm out of ways to make you feel better about this funny farm you got us sent into!"
Tim looked up at the floating Teen Lantern. "Keli? Did you find anything good? Is there a Superman here?"
Keli descended onto the rooftop and showed Tim and the others what was on her gauntlet. "Huh," Tim commented.
"He certainly looks...distinguished," Amethyst said.
"Maybe white 'round the temples is the newest fashion statement," Jinny sniped.
Tim grabbed at Keli's gauntlet. "Search if Batman is alive!"
"Oh, he is," a new voice called out. The group all looked up to the see the Man of Steel himself floating in the air before them. However, this Superman had a hrsher face and white around his temples. He had his arms crossed as he glared down at them.
"Question is: why do you wanna know?"
The team all looked at each other in worry, and Jinny could only say one thing in response:
"Oh #$%."
Our heroes are now lost in a sea of possibilities. One worse than the last. Can they make it out?
BTW, Earth-C is real. Look it up. No joke.
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