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AN: Another Young Justice x Judge Dredd segment. I think I only wrote one more chapter's worth of these. I recall writing a bunch of stuff that was ripped straight from Phantom Pain and adapted to my character's own story and the YJ universe. I'll dig it up some time and throw it on here when I get the chance.

As always, please remember that these are snippets of earlier stuff that I wrote. Eventually, I'll probably throw newer, other ideas on here as I get the urge to write them. I'm only breaking up paragraphs and correcting spelling and serious grammar issues before posting them.

This one was basically my take on the 'no win scenario' episode as seen from the perspective from the MC. Judge starts out on his own dealing with the alien invasion and rally's his own defense.

For those of you wondering, the police precinct mentioned here and the characters are from the show Rookie Blue. I had recently marathoned the series as I was writing this and threw some of that stuff on here.

"This is Judge Raider to all Law Enforcement personnel in the Los Angeles region. A state of emergency has been declared. The city hall has taken heavy damage and many senior law enforcement officials including the city chief and commissioner are missing and presumed KIA. As such, I am rallying as many officers as I can to the Precinct 15 house to arm and organize. All officers not on duty are to report to either the nearest precinct or to the nearest superior officer. Judge Raider, out."

"And just what the hell are you expecting us to do, Judge!?" Captain Peck belligerently asked me. The officers standing behind her were glaring at her back, clearly not in agreement with her line of reasoning. "We need to leave this to military and national guard units. And aren't you Leaguers supposed to take care of problems like this? What the hell do we keep you people around for!?"

I had had just about enough of this. If we weren't around so many officers, I might have just punched the injured woman and been done with it. As it was, I might still get away with that given how angry she was making the officers assembled in the bullpen.

I leaned in, getting right in her face and causing her to stumble back into her daughter who was standing behind her. "To uphold the Law and defend the citizenry." I growled into her face. "Serve and protect, Captain. People need us out there to coordinate defense of shelters and help evacuate the overrun areas. Then there's also the duty of maintaining as much order as we can during this crisis. So we're going in, expecting hard contact with the bastards. You can stay here and heal up. Your street days are clearly behind you if I have to remind you of that obligation."

"We're not freaks like you!" She told me, with only a slight tremble in her voice. Behind her, her daughter looked offended by her choice of words. "We're not psycho Judges with authority to do whatever the hell we want! We have rules here, dammit!"

I stared at her hard, my scowl more pronounced than I can remember making it in my entire life. I looked up and saw the gathered officers around me. Many of them shared looks of determination at whatever would come next. Some of them however, betrayed nervousness on their faces. They had never expected to be needed in such a large crisis. This wasn't Mega City One and there wasn't a mass crisis averted every decade. These men and women were nowhere near as well trained as I or even the average Judge was. Even the other members of my current team had more training than this.

But, maybe I could do something to help fix that.

I turned over to where the younger officers were standing Epstein and Diaz looked especially nervous and their fellow rookies weren't looking much better. I took a step towards them and pointed at Epstein. "Epstein," I said. "How long have you been an officer, you, Diaz and the rest of your group?" I knew the answer, but I wanted to make a point with this. This next part was going to be all about how I acted it out.

Epstein looked nervous when I pointed to him, but he answered in a strong voice. "Almost two years, sir!"

I nodded. "Very good. You've put in your street time, all of you. Now, kneel."

Everyone looked confused by that last bit, so I tried it again, this time louder. "Take a knee!"

As the rookies knelt down on the carpet, I turned and shouted to the room as a whole. "Every officer who plans to wear that badge today, kneel! On your knees!"

Most of the officers looked damn confused, but obeyed when I yelled the second time. I saw that only the severely injured and Captain Peck hadn't kneeled. The captain looked surprised that everyone had obeyed me, her daughter in particular. I turned and strode around the small clear spot the Captain and I were standing in while we argued. We were now both standing above every officer in the precinct, but every eye was on me, waiting to see what I did next.

From the inside of my vest, I withdrew the precious leather bound book I had been working on these past few months. It wasn't entirely finished, but it just had to be here for this next part. The gold eagle of the Hall of Justice gleamed over the black leather cover while large red letters shone with the words, 'Book of Law.'

I had struggled with this new world when I arrived. Many of this world's laws were way too damn soft for my tastes. Over time, I had learned to compromise to serve both the Law and the people of this world as best I could. So, I had done the unthinkable and began to re-write the Book of Law. It was the culmination of everything I was taught as a Judge, but framed in a way that those of this world could also understand its virtues. Every page was hand written, more a personal preference on my part. I spared it a few minutes or an hour every so often and I had nearly finished. Now, the book was to be called to action.

I held the book out in front of me and rested it atop Epstein's right shoulder, it's spine touching his vest and it's golden shield gleaming in his perepherial vision as he bowed his head.

"You were born without purpose." I intoned, reciting the speech given to every rookie Judge upon recieving their badge. "But now you have been called upon to serve. You may have been weak, you may have done things you are not proud of, but that changes today. Today, your neighbors call upon you to be more. The backbone of our society is and will always be the Law. Wherever there may be chaos and disorder, you will be there. Wherever the citizens call for help, you will be there. Uphold the Law. Serve and protect the innocent.

"Now rise, a Judge! Rise!"

Epstein rose shakily to his feet, but the look in his eyes said it all. He was ready to serve and protect. Every officer rose after him and they now stood straighter than before. They needed this. Now, I believed a few more just may survive this day. I turned and held the Book of Law over my head as I walked towards the exit.

"Time to get to work, Judges!"

The room behind me erupted into cheers that boomed against the walls so loudly, I think they rattled the windows. Before I could go any further I heard a shout.

"Just what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Captain Peck said once again. But this time, all eyes were on me, clearly ignoring the senior officer in favor of following my lead. "Is calling them Judges, making them like you, supposed to make them better officers!?"

I turned slowly to look her in the eye. Not a sound was made by anyone else in the precinct, waiting for my response.

"Yes."

With the Team:

We entered the ruins of the D.C. Hall of Justice. The other members of the Team cast despondent looks at the trashed statues of their mentors as I kept my rifle up and checked around the other side of what had once been the statue of Superman's head. "Clear!" I called out. Around the room, other members of the Army detachment called out that their sectors were also clear.

Suddenly, the Bioship disintegrated in a bright yellow flash. M'gann recoiled from the psychic backlash as I snarled in anger. That had been our best bet of holding this position. We needed to start falling back before enough enemy forces gathered to overrun our position.

"Aqualad," I yelled. The Atlantian raised his head and looked over to me. "I'll cover you and the others! Fall back beside those tanks and get ready to cover me!"

Aqualad nodded and began sprinting. I started firing at one of the enemy mechs marching towards me. It took a few hits and fell forward before falling, but managed to get a shot off before that. Two infantrymen were vaporized with a scream and flash of yellow.

"Judge, we're good! Fall back!"

Robin's voice spurred me into motion as I sprinted back to where the tanks were setting up behind some rubble for cover. Superboy, M'gann and Kid Flash were ferrying wounded personnel back as I leaped over a boulder and settled into a firing position beside Robin, who was filling me in.

"We can get the Army guys out with us, but the Zeta Tube system won't let us put more than one through at a time." Robin conveyed with a grim face.

"Don't we have a damn override for emergency situations like this!?" I demanded, firing a few more times at an enemy aircraft making a low pass over our lines.

"If there is an override, I've never heard of it." Robin said, throwing a few explosive discs at a mech that was rushing one of the tanks.

My mind had already brought me to an inevitable conclusion. "Then we need to hold this line as long as possible while we keep the Tube open for the Army." I said. "Robin, fall back and help the others hurry this up. And send Aqualad up here."

"I can't just leave you up here!" Robin yelled back, indignant.

"It's the best course of action!" I yelled back, pausing to reload my weapon. "Your combat style doesn't suit our current situation very well. I need someone with better range abilities and Miss Martian is suffering from backlash after the Bioship got taken out! There's no time to argue, those grunts need you back there more than up here! Go!"

Robin looked mutinous for a moment but, reluctantly, agreed. He ran back to the Hall as another Abrams tank blew up down the line. I took the chance to move a bit further from the tank to my right as it seemed they were drawing more fire than the infantry.

A short time later, Aqualad worked his way down the line towards me, using his whips to lash out at approaching mechs with good effect. He ducked behind the piece of rubble I was using as cover as another yellow blast from an alien weapon whizzed over our heads.

"What's the evac look like?" I asked, reloading again.

"Not great." Aqualad conveyed. "It's slow going, but we're getting them through."

A Humvee with a heavy machine gun on top was taken out by another blast. "Won't be that many left to evacuate at this rate." I replied, grimly. I resumed my firing.

Aqualad and I held the line until we lost the Humvees and the last Abrams was taken out and the enemy began to advance on our position. There was no way to fend them off now that we lost our heavy support.

"Fall back into the Hall!" I called out. "Fall back!"

The call was repeated by several more defensive positions as we all made a fighting retreat into the main entrance of the Hall. The thick walls and columns would provide good defense, but I still didn't expect it to last.

I made a headcount as we entered the Hall and more soldiers ran past me.

'15…20…24. Shit.'

That was less than a quarter of what we had started with for just infantry out there. I turned my head and saw that there were only a dozen soldiers left to be evacuated by the others. I heard one of the wounded men mistakenly call Conner 'Superman' before walking into the Tube and vanishing before Conner could correct him.

Aqualad came running into the Hall, rolling as a blast threw up dirt behind him as it struck the ground.

"I'm the last one! They're right behind me!" he called out.

I fired a few rounds behind him at the pair of mechs that were chasing him which we managed to bring them down with our combined firepower. After that, I turned back to the others who were rushing the last of them through the Tube.

"We need to go, now." I said, wiping away dirt from the exposed portion of my face and checking my ammo. I was down to two grenades and was running short on ammo for my rifle. "I'll hold with the others and we'll fall back here, but you guys need to start moving through right now."

"I'll stay with you. We'll both be the last out." Aqualad spoke, coming up next to me. I was glad he didn't try to tell me to go. I didn't want to risk spending our last moments together with that hanging over us.

The rest of the Team began to voice various protests, but I didn't even stop to hear them out. I slapped my last fresh magazine into my rifle and turned back to where the last of the infantry were already under threat from the enemy mechs coming up the steps to the Hall.

After another few minutes, I felt Aqualad come up behind us and start ferrying men to the Tube. When there was only a dozen men left, the enemy fliers made a big pass over our position. A dozen aircraft strafed the ruins around us as marble exploded and forced us all into cover. When I looked back up, the mechs were rushing the steps again for their biggest push yet. I called out to whomever was left standing from the defenders.

"We're falling back to the inner hall! Frag out in five seconds and go!"

The remaining soldiers responded by grabbing their grenades and hurling them down the steps. I followed suit by hurling both of my last two grenades down the steps after them.

"GO, GO, GO!" I yelled, not even pausing to see the grenades explode as I sprinted ahead and re-entered the inner room. When I turned back, only two men had followed behind me, one being carried by another. We only had seconds before those mechs came over the steps and into the Hall. And I only had three shots left in my rifle.

"They're closing in! Everybody go, NOW!" I yelled at them in my most 'Dredd-like' voice.

There was some commotion behind me as the others started arguing over who was next after the soldiers went. It seemed they were arguing over who stayed to buy time.

Slinging my rifle over my back, I drew my trusty Lawgiver and fired just as the first mech came over the edge of the steps. It crashed back from the impact of a HighEx round and I heard it clatter into more mechs right behind it.

A hand suddenly gripped my shoulder and tried to pull me back. I roughly shoved it off.

"Judge, you next!" It was Aqualad. I appreciated him coming back for me, but I was too busy firing at the approaching enemies to express that.

"I'm right behind you!" I yelled.

Suddenly, a very large mech crashed into the wall behind us and reached for the two of us with one large metal clawed hand. I shoved Aqualad out of the way in time and was grabbed by the three steel fingers of the alien mech. I grunted as the damn thing constricted me in it's grip as I got a good look at it.

The damn thing was at least four meters tall and looked much more heavily armored than the other mechs we had fought. It had much thicker arms with a large device on it's back of some kind. Given the thruster looking nozzles on the bottom section of it, it looked like a jetpack of some kind. Two smaller cannons reached over it's shoulders and glowed menacingly yellow. On it's face were three red glowing eyes that seemed to glare at me as it tightened it's grip. Luckily, I still had my shooting arm free. It raised me into the air as I aimed at the three glowing eyes on it's 'face.'

"RAPID FIRE!"

I unloaded half of my magazine into the damn thing and it just seemed to shrug off the smaller caliber rounds of my Lawgiver. Wishing desperately I still had ammo for my rifle or some grenades, I yelled as I began to use my armored fist to hit the joint of one of the mech's fingers. In response, it began to tighten its grip on me.

I grunted in pain from the increased pressure, when I finally broke the mechanical joint loose and fell from it's grip. Had I been a normal human, that damn thing would have probably snapped my spine. As it was, I could feel my bones creak and bruise before it let me go.

Aqualad chose then to act. With me out of the way, he swung his water whips at the super-mech, knocking it back a step but inflicting no obvious damage. That was when Robin threw a pair of explosive bird-arangs at the thing's center of mass, still not doing much damage.

I raised my Lawgiver and took aim right between the super-mech's three 'eyes.'

"ARMOR PIERCING!" I yelled and fired.

The first two shots didn't seem to do much, but the higher quality ammo in my Lawgiver broke through whatever kind of armor the super-mech had on it's face. A sizable section of the armor broke and fell off, exposing it's internal components in a small gap.

The super-mech seemed to realize it was in trouble now and aimed it's two shoulder cannons at Aqualad and I. I took less than a moment to decide. I charged at the damn thing and slammed into it with all my augmented strength was capable of, uncaring of whatever damage I did to myself in the attempt.

I must have been pumped up hard on adrenaline and the super-mech was just damaged enough, because it toppled back out the hole it had made in the wall and slammed into the ground. I felt my bones crack from the impact and was certain I had managed to concuss myself, but now I had it right where I wanted it.

I jammed the muzzle of my weapon into the exposed section of it's inner workings. As I did so, I noticed both of those shoulder cannons had not stopped charging.

They had just both switched aim to point at me.

I grinned savagely, knowing that it may get me, but I was taking the bastard with me. Dimly, I heard Aqualad shove Robin through the Tube, telling him that I was buying them time and that he was right behind him. My grip tightened on the trigger of my Lawgiver.

"EAT IT, DIRTBAG! HIGHEX!"

Just as I pulled the trigger, the super-mech fired it's twin shoulder cannons at me. I heard Aqualad yell behind me, my world flashed yellow and the sweet embrace of darkness overtook me.

I inhaled sharply and jerked up off the bed. My hands shot to my head as a harsh headache hit me. I groaned and felt a hand come to rest on my shoulder.

I reacted and my hand shot to grip the one that had touched me. I pulled back my other hand and readied a fist when I registered the face of Hal Jordan looking back at me.

"I get what you're trying to do here, Canary and I appreciate the thought. However, I don't think you get my own view of what happened."

Canary raised an eyebrow at that. "And that view is?"

"I feel…serene I believe is the right word." I said cautiously. Canary looked skeptical at that, so I elaborated. "My life has been one dedicated to a cause, the Law. When I came to this world, I felt lost, but then I realized people and society still needed the Law. That they still needed me.

"When I was trained at the academy, it was clear what sort of life I had to look forward to. One where I would serve and eventually die in service to the people I protected. Whether a traffic stop would go bad, some scum gang member got in a lucky bullet or I took the Long Walk and a cursed nuclear landscape took me, I knew - and still know - that I am going to die. The only question would be how I faced it.

"I feel at peace knowing that when I was confronted with my own death, I faced it well. My gun in hand, my actions clear. I protected those men and my teammates. My death in service to that goal is acceptable, expected even.

"Now, I know that when the day comes for real, I have nothing left to fear in regards to my own heart. My most dreaded question has been answered. The fear of death will not deny me a proud end or make a coward of me."

Canary looked shocked by the little speech I had given. I don't think I've ever said so much to any of the Leaguers ever.

"You don't feel scared or angry at all?" she asked, trying to clarify what this young man had just said.

"Oh, no." I responded lightly, smiling a little as I responded. "I still feel fear. Fear of death is only healthy, especially in our line of work. I am slightly angry that the scenario went out of control like that, but I accept that Miss Martian didn't mean for it to happen. I have actually already forgiven and thanked her for what happened."

"You thanked her?" Black Canary blurted out, surprised again.

"Yes Canary, I thanked her." I responded, standing up and picking up my helmet. "She didn't seem to really get why I was doing it, but it wasn't really for her, it was more for me."

I put my helmet back on my head and re-fastened the strap. "If we're done here Canary, I actually need to get back to my base in LA. I'm expecting results back from a lab test and want to see them as soon as they're in."

I walked to the door. "Good day."

Behind me, the door slid closed on it's own, leaving behind a Black Canary too surprised by my reaction to try to stop me.