A/N: I don't own Teen Titans or Young Justice. Without further ado, let's get on with the story.
Raven's Justice
Chapter 7: Drop Zone
Raven's P.O.V.
At the moment I was flying the Bioship over the Caribbean. It's been kind of getting me doing nothing for 3 hours, so I allow my mind to wander. The beach talk really brought our team together, we finally had that cohesion. With our training exercises we were getting better and better. I was noticing that Superboy was smiling more, Kaldur was noticeably less tense, Robin was comfortable enough to take off his shades when Batman wasn't around, and Wally was basically the same. Now that I got that, well everything off my chest I was finally able to be myself again. I haven't cried since that day on the beach, and I can honestly say that I'm feeling at least somewhat happy.
Now back to the reason that we are flying over the Caribbean Sea. We were finally given our own mission. I along with everyone else on the team was extremely excited. We could finally prove that we were meant to be a team, and that this team was a good idea. We were all wearing our night outfits, Kid and Kaldur had to adapt their uniforms for darker colors. The only alteration I had to made was to make my leotard a suit, my pants went down to my ankles underneath my boots and my sleeves went down to my middle finger where it was looped around so that my sleeve wouldn't slide up. My cloak was the same as ever, but I did braid back my hair to keep it out of the way.
A voice called me back to reality "Are we almost to Santa Prisca?" Robin asked.
"Yeah, within an hour everyone get ready to land" I tell him and the group.
[_[-]_]
I was thinking back to earlier today. We were called into the entrance hall. Batman was ready to announce our first mission. It looked as though Robin and Kid just came from school, but I knew that Dick went to a private school that had one of the most uncomfortable uniforms known to man. Wally brought a snack to the briefing. I was wearing jeans, an ACDC t-shirt and some converse. Superboy was wearing his signature of superman t-shirt and dark pants and dark sneakers. Kaldur was wearing his favorite blue jacket, dark pants, and sandals.
"This island nation is the primary source of a dangerous and illegal neo-steroid. A strength- enhancing drug, sold under the street name Venom. Infrared heat signatures indicate their factory is still operating at full capacity… but all shipments of Venom have been inexplicably cut off. That's where this team comes in. This is a covert, recon mission only. Observe and report. If the Justice League needs to intervene, it will. The plan requires two drop zones." With a mission coming so suddenly with not a lot of warning I can assume that Dick has been bugging him to hell and back about going on a mission. Got to love a persistent tween.
"So who's in charge?" Robin asked. I just want to smack myself in the forehead, now that we are all comfortable with one another Robin want to climb up to be the leader of the group. I'm not sure if it was because I told him that the Robin I knew was the leader of my team or that since he was Batman's prodigy. I guess I just see how this turns out, but I'm for Kaldur being leader.
Batman quickly glances at Red Tornado and then back to the group before he responds with "Work that out between you."
Within an hour we were up in air and back to the present.
[_[-]_]
"Drop Zone A in 30." I tell the group, I started to see Wally doze off.
Kaldur then stands up and touches the Atlantian symbol on his belt; it turned his uniform to a mix of gray and black. He then responds back with "Ready."
"I'm going to put the Bioship into its camouflage mode." I say mostly to myself. I don't know why but saying something out loud just kind of feels right.
As we come within a mile of the island I open the bottom hatch and allow Aqualad to dive into the sea. He dives with the grace and experience of his Atlantian heritage.
Within a couple minutes we get a transmission from Kaldur saying that the heat and motion sensors were patched through, and that the data was on a continuous loop. This was the all clear sign for us to move in. We make it quickly over to Drop Zone B, I am trying to keep this mission as close to text book as I can. If we do this mission right we should be getting a steady stream of missions in the near future. But if we bomb this one we could get disbanded, basically evicting Superboy and I. Cords drop down from the ceiling. Wally touches the lightning bolt on his chance, his suit turns black.
"How cool is this?" Wally tells me, he's always going to be the flirt.
I play along "Well since I just saw Kaldur do the exact same thing, it's kind of ancient history." I hear a burn from Robin's direction. I just smile and attach my hook to my belt.
"Hey, Supey. Not too late to put on the new Stealth-Tech." Wally taunts.
Superboy hits back with "No capes. No tights. No Offense." He is most definitely not a tights guy, I almost laugh at the thought of him in a brightly colored suit similar to Kid Flash's.
Once we all attach our cords, I open the same hatch I used for Aqualads drop off. Robin, Kid and I landed softly but Superboy jumped down, and made a mini crater when he landed. I cringe when I see him pick himself off the floor.
Robin immediately responds "And yet creating a seismic event may not have helped us much with the covert." quite angrily I might add.
I looked around and lifted my hood to cover my hair. I then use my earpiece to communicate with Aqualad "Aqualad. Drop B is a go." I'm trying to keep all the protocols are in check, because I know something will, one of our many hot-headed teammates to break. I want to be able to look at Batman when we get home and say we tried to follow the rules for as long as we could.
Aqualad responds with "Head for the factory. I'll track you GPS and rendezvous ASAP." From the way he was talking I could tell that he was on the same mind set as I was. Being the oldest of the team does have its disadvantages, we essentially became the mother and father of the group.
"Roger that." says Robin as he pulls up a map of the Island. He really is trying to lead the group, and for the moment he's doing okay but the mission has just begun. As I approach the group I rest my hand on Superboy's forearm, letting him know I was there. I have been told that it can be kind of frightening to have someone sneak up on someone, especially when that someone has super hearing and expects to hear everything. He looks up and he immediately relaxes once he realized it was me, and I gave him a small smile as a hello. Living with a fellow introvert allowed us to expand our nonverbal communication. As his usual response he gave me a small smile back and took my hand and gave it a small squeeze and then we both looked down at the screen together. Robin then took lead and led us deeper into the jungle like environment of Santa Prisca.
Everything was going great until I notice Superboy's back stiffen. For the most part I was floating at his speed roughly at his height. He raised his arm and stopped me to let me know something was up. To let the others know he asked "Did you hear that?"
"Uh, no. Wait, is this a super-hearing thing?" Kid Flash responded but then started to become more cautious, and began looking into the pitch black foliage.
"I'd imagine so. Can you tell what direction it came from?" I ask but he just shook his head and I grabbed his hand and gave him another smile. It kind of worries me how comfortable I'm getting with him, but in all honesty why should I stop this when it feels so right.
"Okay, Rob, now what?..." Kid asks, trying to be a good supporter of his best friend. But like a couple missions before we find out he's missing once again. I groan and drop Superboy's hand and rub that hand along my face, I swear this team is going give me gray hairs. "… Man. I hate it when he does that."
"You're telling me." I respond and I notice Superboy trying to laugh it off and just ended up doing the mirror response of what I did and ran his hands through his short hair.
Thankfully we were interrupted by the sound of Aqualad saying "Superboy, kid. Switch to Infrared. See if you're being tracked." Thank Azerath that he's stepping up, I would have been the next choice being the one with the most experience.
Kid puts on his goggles and then says "Got a squad of armed bozos incoming." Then Superboy moved forward and then says moments later "Two squads. But they'll meet each other before they find us." I put my hand on his shoulder as a somewhat use of positive reinforcement, he looked back real quick and smiled. Then we started to hear gunfire and then Kid says "No super-hearing required now." He always has to have that witty remark, for annoying habits that is somewhat manageable.
"Swing wide. Steer clear." We hear Aqualad say on the comm.
But Kid responds with "Yeah, yeah. As soon as I find Rob." Then speeds off to the gunfire, but then I hear Kid yell comically and he ended up interrupting the two groups. "So much for being stealthy." We hear softly on the radio.
"Ready to go save his ass?" I ask lowering my hood getting ready to fight. "Ready as I'll ever be." He then literally jumps into the fight. Kid is using his speed to draw gunfire. Robin of course uses this precise moment to jump in and start reprimanding us by saying "What is wrong with you guys? Remember cover? Why didn't you follow my lead? Vanish into the jungle?"
"Honey, that wasn't a lead." I say as I approach the scene, not in a total rush because I know Superboy uses times like this vent his anger. In our line of work, this is probably the best way to do it.
"That's what you were doing? Uhh. Way to fill us in. We're not mind readers, you know. Or I'm not, anyway." Kid responds to Robin angrily. He glanced at me when he was finishing up his rant. At that moment I was using my shadow hand to through a couple guys at a tree.
"You know I not to do that. But you might just tempt me." I say with what beast boy used call my evil grin. Superboy notices and gives a fighting laugh as he goes at his opponent. Then thankfully Aqualad arrives on scene finishing up the last guy.
A little while later once we checked and double checked the area we finally began to regroup. We ended up tying the guys to the trees, a pretty effective way to restrain prisoners. Robin started the conversation with "I recognize those uniforms. They belong to the Cult of the Kobra."
"I'm certain Batman would've mentioned … if he knew a dangerous extremist was running Santa Prisca's Venom operation. " Kaldur responds with, trying to stay loyal to the Justice League as a whole.
"Agreed. And since there's clearly no love lost between the cultists and those goons… I'm betting Kobra came in and tossed them out. That's why normal supply lines have been cut off." Robin replied.
I can tell that Kid was being worn down, "We get it. Kobra wanted super-cultists. Mystery solved. Radio and we'll be home in time for…"
Robin butted in trying to assert leadership with "These cultists aren't on Venom. Kobra's hording the stuff. We don't leave. Not until I know why."
"Until you know why?" Kid demands saying what the rest of the team was thinking, we can't afford to have our leader get power, more like knowledge hungry on our very first mission.
"This team needs a leader." Robin says as his justification.
"And it's you? Dude, you're a 13-year-old kid who ducked out on us without a word." Kid demands back. Robin was the youngest, protégé to reclusive Batman, and the ambition of a politician in Washington.
"Heh, heh. And you're a mature 15? You blew our cover first chance you got." Robin retorts.
I asked Superboy "Do you want to lead?"
"Not really. You?"
Superboy and I looked at each other and then almost simultaneously started to grin and laugh, at first Superboy was glaring at me but then he started to grin and then I started to laugh. I was trying to imagine myself or even Superboy as the leader of the team. It would be a horrible sight.
Then I see Superboy tense up as if he was listening to someone or something far away. I stop laughing and signal to the other to shut up and see if we could hear that something too, but with Superman's hearing we might not be able too. Superboy caught my eye, and then pointed at the prisoners. Apparently they were awake and talking to one another in Spanish.
Kaldur listened to me but Kid and Robin were still going at it. Kid Flash was almost yelling "Yeah, you don't even have superpowers."
"Neither does Batman." Robin yelled back, waking up most of the prisoners I assumed.
"Tscha. You're not Batman." Kid reminded Robin, a harsh truth that Robin seemed to have forgotten about. He's a confident kid and I could tell that having this much difficulty running his first team was really putting a damper on his leadership skills.
"Tscha. Closest thing we've got." I could almost see Robin's facade crumbling, but he was keeping a tight hold of that bravado.
One of the Spanish prisoners, I skimmed his mind to find out that his name was Bane. He started laughing and then says "Such clever niños. But you only know half the story. Let me show you the rest. Get you into the factory via my secret entrance." I felt like he was playing us but at this moment there was nothing we could do but tread carefully.
"Raven, can you try to see where the entrance is." Kaldur asked gently, knowing that this could become highly invasive.
"I'll try but I won't break him… There is an entrance, he wasn't lying. But he's also hiding something…"I say to the group.
"Ah, ah, ah, chica. Bane is not that easy." Bane says confidently.
"Unfortunately he's encountered a psychic before. He's reciting football scores, in Spanish of course. I can break through it but I rather not, it would leave permanent damage." I say, I really rather not mentally damage someone so severely, but if the team needs this I do it.
"It's not complicated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend." Bane says truthfully. Kaldur gives a nod and decide as a group to believe him and see where it takes us.
We untied him and followed closely to make sure he doesn't escape. Bane leads us to the edge of a cliff and then point at some buildings down below, there were lights and we could definitely tell that there were people there. He was apparently telling the truth. Robin uses his binoculars to look down at the factory, and he mutters "Look at all that product. A buy is going down. But if Kobra's not selling to the usual suspects, then…"
Kaldur finishes for him by saying "We need to identify that buyer."
Kid agrees by saying "Just what I was thinking." As he puts on his goggles.
"Yeah, you're the thinker." Robin says, accusingly. I frowned at him; all that leadership training was going out the window. He's reverting to childish tactics, and it's going to blow up in his face if he keeps pushing Kid Flash and the rest of the team.
"Sarcasm? Dude. A real leader would focus on getting answers." Now even Kid is trying to keep Robin on track, man this mission is going to shit. Now all I want to do is get done with this mission and get back home with no one getting hurt. But I know that probably won't happen.
Bane walks up to a boulder, and lifts it away. That boulder covered the entrance into a mine shaft, with lights and everything. He then says "Answers are this way."
As Bane walks in first Kid follows and comments by saying "So now El Luchador is our leader."
Robin's response was to push him into one of the walls of the mine. The team follows Bane to a control panel with red lights, he then presses the button closest to him and the red light on the wall turns green and opens. This leads us directly in to the factory. Bane keeps leading us to the next location but all Robin wants to do is but in and try to get there before Bane.
At one of the last doors into getting into the main factory Robin peaks his head around one of the doors Bane opened. He quickly tells the team "All clear." Before dashing out, once again leaving us without direction or a leader. By now the rest of the team is somewhat used to Robin's response, but Bane isn't.
"Has that little fool already been caught?" Bane asks.
Kaldur takes it upon himself to respond with "No, he just does that."
Then Kid says "Stay put. I'll get our Intel and be back before the Boy Wonder." And then dashes off, now it's a competition between Kid and Robin. I sense that explosion coming, and I become uneasy with the whole situation.
"Wait, kid…" Kaldur says trying to give the team some bearings.
At the same time I say "No Kid stop it… Now they're both gone." I run my hand over my face again.
As if to taunt us more Bane adds "Great chain of command." Though we can't really deny how badly organized we were it wasn't really on my list to have that pointed out by a master criminal. It made the rest of us feel uncomfortable, which of course was visible to Bane. We as a team grimaced as a whole and decided to just focus on the task at hand.
"It's a massive shipment." Kaldur said to try to change the subject, and it worked. We all take the hint and look back at the factory floor.
Superboy continues the conversation with "Yeah, but they're only taking new product off line. They're not touching this Venom."
"Maybe the freshness of the drug makes a difference with the performance." I add, but I don't really know because I never got into the drug world. Thankfully.
Superboy grabbed my hand suddenly and I look at him "Helicopter's coming." I feel as though I visibly relaxed, but that's still an issue we have to deal with. I squeeze his hand to say thanks for letting me know. Having this friendly physical bond is beneficial for both our socialization skills in general, and I was making the effort to try to keep encouraging this … well whatever it is. It made me feel comfortable, and even sometimes safe.
As we were waiting for the helicopter to land, Kaldur raised his hand to put the other to his ear to try and listen to his comm. "My comm went static. I think we're on our own now." As he's saying this he wipes a hand across his face, I guess he picked that up from me. This job more than stressful, and to the leader position is slipping to him and I can see it affecting him already.
"How about I go check out the helicopter and then let you guys know what's going on." I suggest since I'm the only one who can turn invisible (ish).
"That would be great but how will get in contact?" Superboy asks in his usual blunt fashion. His hand tightens around mine, admitting that he's worried but not willing to voice it out loud.
I give him a soft smile and say "If I have your permission I can make a telepathic link with you guys. It might be uncomfortable at first but you'll get the hang of it." I try to sound confidant and at ease with the whole situation but this type of bond is serious and no something that can just be removed without great difficulty. They all give me a nod and I raise my hands to my temple and reach out and lightly touch their minds. "Picture a door and then imagine it opening it for me, it'll make the whole transition better." Then almost immediately I am given easy access. I give Superboy's hand a quick squeeze and kind of pat Kaldur on the shoulder and raise my hood and went invisible.
It felt nice to be on own in the air and invisible. I came into the conversation when Kobra and Sportsmaster were talking about the Kobra-Venom. Of course he rants on about how that 'now he can go head-to-head with the justice league, blah blah blah'. I decided that now was probably a good time to contact the boys.
"I see Sportsmaster and Kobra, and from the way they're talking I believe Sportsmaster is the buyer in this relationship."
Almost as soon as I tell them I hear a ruckus come from inside the factory. I'm not the only one who noticed, and each side began to take interest. The man who seems to be the example of the Kobra-Venom seemed to take this as his point to jump through the window and enter the fight. I hope the boys can take hold of this, because I can't just leave the rest of the evil masterminds out here. I follow them at their pace into a keep to the background. Sportsmaster is extremely observant so I keep behind him during the fight. I mask my shadow hands by grabbing the minions and throwing them into the shadows. I notice that Sportsmaster knows something is up, so begin to slow my attacks and keep to the shadows. Then during the fight Kaldur contacted, well more like he yelled at me telepathically to link up Robin and Kid who now approached the fight.
I raise my hands to my temples and say "Kid, Robin imagine a door opening. It'll give me an easier access to your mind." Then I connected the whole team together to make a telepathic group chat. "Okay, everyone online?"
Superboy is the first to respond "Yeah" he tried to sound bored, but I've known him enough to know that he's actually worried about the whole situation.
Kid of course is the next to respond "You know it, beautiful." I groan, why does he always have to flirt with anything that looks remotely female. I hope to Azerath we get another girl on the team to even the playing fields or least someone who would literally kick his ass. This is really getting on my nerves.
Aqualad tries not to get involved in the issue and tries to refocus the group by saying "Good. We need to regroup."
But then Robin starts to blow everyone off by saying "Busy now." I feel as though he's not taking this leadership role he so desperately wanted seriously. It's not going his way and now he's frustrated.
"I agree with Aqualad let's retreat and make an actual plan before we go back out there." I tell the boys. Robin stopped responding, so the rest of us regroup despite Robin's aloofness.
Aqualad tries again a little more forcefully "Robin, now." From what little I am getting from Robin's mind I know that he won't listen, so I stop bugging and started to regroup with Superboy and Kid.
Aqualad continues with his instruction with "Strategic retreat. Kid, clear a path."
To my surprise Robin actually listened to Kaldur, maybe this is where Dick becomes more of himself and less like what I remembered. We all dashed into the door at the side of the factory that leads directly into the mines, and Superboy was the last to come in. He had the hardest time pushing off the Kobra-Venom experiment.
"Superboy, the support beams." Aqualad orders and we all follow his lead without complaint. This is what our team desperately needed, an actual leader.
[_[-]_]
Once the rock made a wall between us and the minions, Kaldur cracks a glow stick. We all take a minute to catch our breaths. Kid is out of breath and out of fuel, this was supposed to be a simple recon mission so he didn't pack enough energy bars to last him an entire mission. Or at least one this active. Superboy is frustrated by the whole mess of things, but is patient enough to wait for our next order. Kaldur is coming to the realization that he just stepped in as leader, and it's actually working out. Robin unfortunately is still in denial that he as any kind of control over the team, and is disappointed with himself and the team.
Robin takes his ranting stance with his hands on his hips and begins to say "How could my first mission as leader go so wrong?"
Kaldur is going to attempt to negotiate a change in command. He starts this long conversation with "You do have the most experience. But perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared. Fighting alongside Batman, your roles are defined. You two do not need to talk. But this team is new. And a leader must be clear, explicit. He cannot vanish and expect others to play parts is an unknown plan. "
Robin gets offended and argues back with "Oh, so I'm supposed to hold everyone's hands…Who am I kidding?" Then Robin takes a surprising change of direction. "You should lead us, Kaldur. You're the only one who can."
Kid tries to elect himself by butting in with "Please, I can run circles"
"Wally, Come on." Robin stops him before he starts on his own rant. He then continues with "You know he's the one. We all do."
"You know he's right Kaldur. This position was made for you." I say to him encouragingly.
Superboy agreed with as few words as possible "Could have told you." He even smiles to prove his point. I smile at Superboy; he really does look the great when he smiles. Wait, what am I thinking. .. Damn this is gonna get dicey I cannot start to like Superboy. That's just a mess waiting to happen, but somehow I think I won't have a choice in the matter. I keep smiling and hope no one is reading my mind and return my train of thought back to the situation at hand.
We all kind of stare at Kid until he says "Okay."
Kaldur walks up to Robin and says to him in all seriousness "Then I accept the burden…until you are ready to lift it from my shoulders. You were born to lead this team. Maybe not now. But soon." I literally could not have phrased that any better or anymore respectfully. He gives us a moment to accept the situation.
Then he jumps in and says "Our first priority is preventing that shipment from leaving this island."
Robin agrees and says "Funny, I had the same thought."
[_[-]_]
Robin begins to explain the Kobra Sportsmaster relationship, while running, and working on his arm held computer. "Sportsmaster's the supplier-slash-buyer. But it doesn't track. He doesn't have the juice to acquire the Blockbluster formula or to go get Kobra to do his dirty work. "
Kid continues with "And neither of them have the chops to bond Blockbluster with Venom. That took some major nerdage."
Kaldur then says "I believe the expression is 'tip of the iceberg.'" As the team came to a stop. I couldn't see why we were stopping and I ran into Superboy who caught me around the waist as I fell over. He kept his arm around my waist as we see our road block.
"Halt, niños…" It was Bane and he stole and took the Kobra-Venom, and not just one vial they were all over the floor. That guy Superboy was fighting just looked like pure animal, and I was truly terrified at what was going to happen. I leaned back into Superboy's arms and he tightened his grip on me as if to pick me up and put me out of danger. I get this overwhelming feeling of safety in his arms, but I knew that danger was coming just around the corner.
"…I'm feeling explosive." We then looked up to see bombs covering the archway that was directly above us.
Kaldur then asks "You betrayed us. Why?"
"I want my factory back…"
But then Kaldur did something that solidified my confidence in him he telepathically told us "Kid, you'll need a running start."
"…I forced you into a situation where you would either take down my enemies or die trying. If the latter, the Justice League would certainly have come to avenge their sidekicks. And when the smoke cleared, Santa Prisca would be mine once more. Blowing the tunnel with you inside should have the same effect." But before he could press the Deadman's switch Kid got it out of his hand.
"With what? This trigger thingy?" Kid says with his usual quirky response. As a team we were finally getting our groove back, and was also extremely beneficial for the mission over all. Bane started to charge at Kid, but before he even touched him I grabbed him with one of my shadow hands. I slowly began to lift him up higher and higher. A hand then rested on my shoulder and I turned to see Superboy.
He smiled at me and said "Finally drop him." So of course I did; but I gave Bane a little more of a push on the way down. Superboy then gave him a punch of a lifetime, and he dropped.
Once Bane was on the floor I turned back to Superboy who was smiling back at men. Then in the heat of the moment I ran up to Superboy and jumped into his arms giving him a tackle hug. He started to laugh, not just a small chuckle, but a belly aching laugh. I then started to laugh too, for the first time in a long time I finally feel like this team thing was falling into place.
[_[-]_]
Once we got Bane under control we devised a plan to stop the Cobra-Venom from getting on that helicopter. I saw Sportsmaster begin to walk towards the now operational helicopter that was the signal. Kid then raced down the minions, trying to divert the attention away from their departure.
"Take the shipment." Kobra says too Sportsmaster while he just waits for the fight to come to him. The giant monstrosity was standing next to him.
"Go again?" Superboy questions, almost sarcastically. He only gets an animalistic growl in response, and starts to charge at him. Kid runs and takes out a couple more minions and then Aqualad shoots Superboy's attacker with a giant jet of water.
"Sorry. Not the plan." Superboy says while walking towards another fight. But before I stop him Sportsmaster starts to shoot laser at Superboy's back. I turn myself invisible and try to grab him with one of my shadow hands; unfortunately I was standing to close to him. When I say that I turn invisible I really mean I turn into like a shadow, so I you really looked you could see where I was and today that meant Sportsmaster could see me. He then had his arm holding my shoulders in place, and he was surprisingly strong. I kept trying to get out of his hold but I just panic. All those years of training with Robin just went out the window, and all I could do was just try to pry his arm off of me. I used this state of visible panic to my advantage; I slowly began to levitate the bomb onto the cargo hold behind me. Sportsmaster was to focused on Superboy and keeping me still to notice a floating black box in the dark.
"Thanks for the workout, but I gotta fly." Sportsmaster says and then he throws me at Superboy. I mean I literally barreled into him and we both collapsed. His shit was in shreds and after our collision it came off completely. I feel my face blush and try to focus on getting up and then offering him a hand to help him up. Once we were up the helicopter was running and making altitude. I then smiled at him as I brought up the dead man's switch from my cloak. I pressed the button and light on the device flashed red and we saw a large explosion in the sky. The wave of relief I felt when it crashed into the factory making an even larger explosion was indescribable.
We regrouped in front of Robins fight with Kobra. It seems as though we came at the end of it. "I am plagued by mosquitoes." Kobra was using his foot to hold down Robin, but I could see the wheels in Robins head turning. "Good. Because this mosquito's mighty concerted over your pain." Robin then with ease of an acrobat escaped Kobra's hold. We were all now standing and waiting to fight Kobra together with confidence of any experienced team and it felt good.
"Another time, then." Kobra says quickly and walks backwards into the jungle. Robin runs up to where Kobra once stood but he left no trace.
"We picked the right guy to lead. Automatically making you the right guy to explain this mess to Batman." Robin says with a laugh, and I have to agree I would not want to be the one to explain this mess of a mission. I start to laugh and then everyone follows along. Everyone knows that a very uncomfortable conversation was coming up, but we were all happy it wasn't us explaining it.
[_[-]_]
The next morning came quicker than we expected or would have liked. I flew the way back and once we got back to the cave it was all just a daze and I just woke up in my bed with no memory of getting there. I got up quickly and put on some black yoga pants and w purple tank top, today was going to be a lounge day no question about it.
Not long after we woke up Batman called us into the center room. "A simple recon mission. Observe and report. You'll each receive a written evaluation detailing you mistakes. Until then, good job…" That last little part took us al by surprise, but a pleasant surprise none of the less."… No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. How you adjust to the unforeseen is what determines success. And how you choose who leads determines character."
For our first mission I think we did alright. We watched in awe as Batman left us, and we stand there for a couple minutes.
Then kid asks "You guys want to do a movie marathon? I'm free till 3."
"Which one? Cause I'm voting for Indiana Jones." I say, Superboy still hasn't seen all of them yet.
"Why not Star Wars? And same for me Wally, homework's a real bitch." Robin asks.
Wally reply's with "I know right."
We continue our banter as we walk back into our living room, relaxing into a peaceful do nothing day.
A/N: I trying to catch up on all the weeks I missed earlier. But I really enjoyed to the chapter before this, so the next one coming up after this will be another in between episode chapter. So let me know if you'd rather have the traditional episodes or if you like my filler chapters. And to answer Alaska, I'm sorry but I don't see her going back to the titans. But should I have one of the teen's titan appear in the young justice world. Let me know while I still have time to alter and adapt the story line. I just want to say thanks to silly60, GennytheTigerWolf, MariashaAziza, B00kfan, Snow413, New Moon9889, D-MINI-Q, Mako27, dah1507, Insane Blood Prince, Wolfy-Queen, zeona last, FlopsyTheStingyDingo, Katr5432, Regin, TuTsXxX, and Alaska.
