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I own no part of young justice! Otherwise I would have Nightwing locked up in my closet and I wouldn't have to wait till Sunday to watch him... sigh my life sucks.

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One year later

My feet pounded along the alleyway, sewer water spraying back onto my face when I stepped into a puddle. I stopped and peeked along a corner, then slipped around and crept along the edge of the wall, listening for any sound to tell me if my partner was here. I could hear nothing, but he had been able to sneak up on me before so I wasn't about to relax just yet.

I looked at the place surrounding me, huge brick walls cornered me in every direction. I put my hands on the wall that was behind me and felt slime, and some sort of moss squish in between my fingers.

Normally I didn't come to this part of the city, but to get what I needed I didn't care where I went. I shook a few drops of water off my shoes and watched as they hit the ground, quickly joining back with their puddles.

I growled, if he didn't show up in the next two minutes I was out. I hadn't paid yet, so if I left I wasn't losing anything. Except my prize, but there where others who would sell to me. Then I heard it, the sound of a small rock being set loose from its mortar. I crouched down, quickly pushing myself back into the disgusting wall.

I heard a laugh, ugly and as sharp as knives. Then a man came into view. He was ugly, even in shadow it was obvious. He had a big hooked nose and his hair was sticking out crazily from under his grimy ball cap. His eyes kept darting around, looking for me.

He cackled again,"Come out girly! I know you're there! Ya cant trick meh'!" Then he lept to his right and smashed his fist into the wall, only inches from my face. My eyes widened but I stayed still, calming my fast beating heart. He smiled and looked around, "Your good, I will give you that.." Then he lept to the other side and swung his foot into the wall again. He nodded and cackled, "Alright you can come out, I have what you ordered!" Then he pulled a leather bag out of his jacket and held it out.

I narrowed my eyes, sure this was a trick, so I pulled out a small rock from the pocket of my leather jacket. Then I threw it to my left. The mans eyes flew over to where the noise had come from and pulled out a gun. Then he let loose a hailstorm of bullets.

I smirked, so that's what was gonna happen.. interesting. The man smiled then walked over to the spot where I was supposedly "dead". When he found no body he was gonna be pissed. "Aargh!" I heard him scream, "There's my cue." I mumbled. Then I sprung from my hiding place and latched onto his back, wrapped my hands around his throat and started to squeeze.

Gasping he stumbled back and dropped the gun on the floor, along with my bag. His hands went to his throat and he tried to peel my hands off of it.

But that just made me squeeze harder, finally I was able to cut off all oxygen and he fell to the floor, unconscious. I smiled and picked up the bag and gun, they would both come in handy. I turned and walked off, skipping like a little girl coming home from a picnic.

When I got to the end of the alley, and to an actual street I stuffed the gun into my pocket and the bag into a hidden compartment in my jacket. Then I walked out into the flow of people. I was quickly whisked along, I had learned to just go with it, not to fight it until it slowed down. When we finally got to where I needed to leave I made my way to the side and pulled myself out of the flow.

I pushed open the door of the bar and wrinkled up my nose when the smell of alcohol and vomit reached it. I shook my head to clear it and walked over to the bar-keep. He smiled at me, "Did ya git what yer was wantin'?" I nodded and gave him a small smile, "The usual Fin." He winked at me, "Sure thing lass." Then he reached under the counter and brought up a bottle of gin and coffee. He quickly mixed the two together and handed the glass to me.

I nodded and quickly took a sip. The drink raced down my throat, burning it. My eyes shot open and I sighed and put the glass down. This was my one year anniversary, I was supposed to be out celebrating, instead I was in a bar. Like father like daughter, I guess. I glanced around the small pub, only the usuals tonight, so sad. I had really wanted to learn about what was going on outside of this place.

I looked back to Fin, "Anything new going on out there?" I jerked my thumb towards the door and took another sip of my drink.

He laughed, "For once ya, there's some new supah hero team or somthin', supposed ta be sidekicks of da other heroes." then he threw his head back and laughed heartily, then he looked back down at me, "No and thay wont be helpin' us lass! They be fightin' tha big guys up in Gotham or somthin'! No thay wont have time for us! We are just little bugs on their shoes.." he laughed again, and everyone that had been listening laughed as well.

I smiled at Fin, he could always cheer me up. Then I drowned down the rest of my drink, "I will see you soon Fin!" He nodded at me. "Stay safe Danni!" Then he picked up my glass and started to clean it.

I pushed past the crowd and swatted away groping hands until I came to the door. Pushing it open I breathed in the cool air. I stepped out and started walking away. I was probably a block away when I heard it, footsteps behind me. I was barely able to stop myself from glancing back, for all I knew it could have been one of the guys from the bar... but they knew enough not to follow me. And they would have called out to me by now. So I did what anyone else would have done.

I ran.

Now usually I don't do cowardly things like that, I should have stopped, or at least confronted the guy! But no I had to wimp out and be a pansy! But you cant blame yourself for past mistakes. Especially not when you are running away from a potential mugger.

So I turned into the confusing tunnels of the alleys. But the damn guy was fast and I could hear him catching up. Not the happiest moment of my life. I turned right and skidded to a halt. A dead end.

I was trapped! I turned around and faced the man. He was huge, probably six feet tall and had more muscle than an ox. I glared at him as he approached, "My self-defense teacher said never stop moving unless your dead.." Then I launched myself forward and punched him in his nose, quickly breaking it. He staggered back and held his hand up to his nose. When he lowered his hand he quickly glanced at it, upon seeing the blood he started to growl, "You little bitch! You'll pay for that!" then he swung at me.

I was easily able to duck then bring my knee up and hit him in his.. lower region. He grabbed his crotch and fell to the ground in pain. Smirking I swung my foot forward and kicked him in the head, knocking him out.

I stood back and admired my work, "And that's how its done!" then I heard a noise behind me. Instincts kicked in and I roundhouse kicked whoever it was right in the kisser. They fell back and landed against the wall. I frowned and looked at who I had hit. Upon seeing their face my mouth hung open just a little bit, it was one of the drunks from the bar. But how had he snuck up on me? That was when five more literally melted out of the shadows. "Metas" I whispered. I stepped back only to find that one was behind me as well. I spun around and tried to figure out what the odds were.

Seven to one.. that seemed about even. Not to mention they were metas and I was completely human! I put my hands up in a defensive position and readied myself to fight. One of the goons lept forward, making me duck and stick out my foot to trip him. I got up and flipped over one of the dudes heads, grabbed his hoodie, and pulled it over his eyes. I then proceeded to kick him in the back, sending him flying into one of the other men. I backed up to the wall and grabbed hold of the leather bag inside of my jacket.

Then all of the drunks jumped forward. I gasped and jumped up, spun around and slammed my heel into at least two of their skulls. They fell quickly and I dashed through the hole in their ranks. Then I turned around to face the last two. They were smiling and glanced at something above my head. At the last moment I threw myself to the ground and a bullet whizzed through the air and hit the man standing opposite to my in the forehead.

I wasn't able to contain the loud scream that erupted from my mouth. I couldn't stop myself and I quickly threw a hand over my mouth in an attempt to. The last thug still standing looked down at his fallen comrade. "Paul.." he whispered, then he looked at me, "Aargh!" he screamed then he dove at me, a switchblade now held in his hand. I dove to the side and spun round to face him, my eyes wide and hands shaking. I had just seen a man die, with a bullet in his head meant for me. Now given he had been trying to kill me but still. The man was dead! I ducked under the blade and punched the man in the jaw. He took a step back and swung the knife yet again. I grabbed his hand and twisted it, successfully breaking it. He cried out and dropped the knife.

I smirked then twisting his broken hand behind his back I popped his shoulder out of socket. He screamed in pain, and I could hear the faint wailing of sirens getting louder with each second. I threw the meta to the floor and grabbed the switch. I pushed it into the back of my jeans pocket and ran over to the fire escape. I jumped up and grabbed onto the rusted ladder. Swinging myself up I ran up the floors until I got to the roof.

As soon as I was up I ran across the roof and jumped across the gap, rolling to absorb some of the shock of the landing. I fumbled up and kept running. When the police got there I planned on being very far away. All of a sudden I felt something wrap around my legs. I fell to the ground and grunting I looked over to where the trip wire had come from.

A boy about ten stepped out of the shadows. He had something in his hand and I didn't want to find out what it was. I flipped up and pulled out the gun, leveling it at his head. He held his hands up and smiled at me mockingly, "I surrender!" then he sprang forward and kicked at the my hand. I pulled back and whipped my foot up, but his hand shot out and caught it. Grunting I flipped around and using his hand as leverage I pushed my other foot up and kicked at his face, forcing him to let go.

I landed in a crouched position and I leveled the gun at him, this time not waiting for him to move I shot at him. But the bullet moved right through him and hit the wall behind him. My eyes widened but I refused to show any other signs of shock. I put the gun back in my pocket and took out the switchblade.

I flicked it open and slowly approached the meta. He laughed, "Relax, I'm not gonna hurt you. C'mon you've gotta meet the rest of the crew!" then he did the dumbest thing ever, he turned his back on me. I took advantage of this and jumped forward and stabbed the blade into his shoulder, or at least tried to.

He turned around again and smiled at my shocked face as I slowly pulled the blade out of the intangible kid. "And now you have passed the last test! Congrats you are officially a Red X!" he stepped forward and shook my hand.

"Wait what?" I was confused, what was a Red X? Some sort of terrorist group?

Like a mind reader he smiled and laughed, "That's what we call ourselves! I don't know why exactly, first thing Iggy came up with I guess.." I raised my eyebrows, this kid sure did talk a lot.

Then he turned back to me and smiled again, "So are you coming or not?" I sighed seeing as how I had nothing else to do I figured I might as well. And you know what they say, curiosity killed the cat. I followed him till we came to another fire escape. This time we went down until we came to another dead end.

"Um kid are you sure you know where you're going?" He smiled and grabbed my arm then he ran full speed towards the huge brick wall. I pulled back and tried to get away but he ran full speed into it. At what seemed the last second we went through it. As soon as we were on the other side I fell to the ground, gasping for breath. I had never been so scared in my entire life! He turned and looked down at me, "Wasn't that fun! I'm gonna go again!" Then he ran back through the wall. A few moment later he was back on my side and grinning like it was Christmas morning.

"C'mon Bella's gonna be mad if I don't get back soon!" he grabbed my arm and dragged me down a hallway. I glanced back at the wall, how was this possible? A whole headquarters right behind a wall! This didn't make since but then again neither did magic and yet this was clearly some type of it.

I let myself be pulled along until we reached another door, which he seemed intent on phasing through. I pulled out of his grip and opened it up the normal way. The boy frowned, "Aw you ruin all the fun!"

then he stomped through towards a huge round table. No one was there yet but he seemed to know where to sit. He plopped down in a chair pointing west and looked over to me.

"Just wait a sec, they should be hear soon." That's when the doors opened, setting my already frazzled nerves on fire.

"Nick!" A girl that looked only a couple of years younger than me yelled and ran over to the young boy.

"Bella!" He yelled right back at her and rolled his eyes turning to look at me with a, "can you believe this girl?" face. I smiled, the small display was cute.

The girl looked at me and raised her eyebrows at the sight of my frazzled and dirty clothes. "Sweetie I thought I told you not to bring strangers home?"

He laughed, "But Bella shes not a stranger! Shes a Red X now! I gave her the initiation and everything!"

The girl sighed,"Just because you gave her the initiation doesn't mean that you can bring random people here alright?" Nick nodded and looked down, pretending to be chastised. "Good." Then she turned to me, "Hi my names Arebella, that's my little brother Nick. But I can see that you've already met.." she trailed off as the door to the room swung open yet again, this time though I got the feeling that the person entering the room wasn't going to be as accepting as Arebella.

I turned around and came face to face with a boy. I refused to show that I had been scared and narrowed my eyes instead. The boy was slightly taller than me, and he had blonde hair, but I could see red highlights glinting in the light. His blue eyes pierced my silver ones and he narrowed his eyebrows in an exact copy of my own.

His eyes never left mine as he barked, "Who is this?" to Arebella. She tentatively stepped forward, "I didn't quite catch her name, but my brother wants her to join us,he found her on the roof."

He narrowed his eyes even more, leaving them to be practically slits. Then his hand shot out. I grabbed it and twisted it behind his back. Then he did something that surprised me to no end. He popped his shoulder out of socket and rolled it around so that I was holding it out in front of him and put it back into place.

His other hand shot out and gabbed hold of my own arm. But when he tried to pull it behind my own back I twisted around and placed my ankle in front of his own and pulled back. He stumbled forward and twisted around, slapping me in the face. I placed my hand on my cheek and glared at him. No one touched me... I jumped forward and roundhouse kicked at his head. He blocked it but I swung at him with my fist as well. His hand just barely blocked it before I was swinging at him with my other fist as well. He grabbed it as well and I used this as leverage to kick him in the gut. He doubled over and I slammed my elbow into his back, driving him to his knees. I then went to karate chop him in the neck, which would have knocked him out.

But before I got the chance his hand came up and fire came hurling towards my face. I flipped back but he still managed to singe off some of my bangs. He stood up and I saw now that his hands were on fire. I just growled and ran towards him again. He raised his eyebrows yet again, probably surprised that I was still trying to kill him.

But I had always been told I was stubborn. I kicked ay him, but had to roll away to avoid getting face full of fire. I looked around for a fire extinguisher or anything that would help me put out his flames. But no such luck. Then I glanced up, bingo! Smoke detectors! I smiled at him and ripped off a piece of my shirt, quickly wrapping it around my hand. He raised a single eyebrow but didn't say anything.

I ran towards him once again, but this time with a plan. As I expected he swung his arm at me fire trailing in its wake. I let the piece of cloth go and let it trail through the flame, letting it catch and light up. I turned and ran towards the table quickly catapulting off of a chair and up and off the table. I stretched my arm up and let it lightly touch the sprinkler head. Then I started to descend. But before I had even gotten both feet back on the table the sprinklers went off.

Soon the everyone in the entire room was soaking wet, including hot-head. He looked me up and down and started to laugh, and by laugh I mean Fin laugh. Hmm speaking of him I couldn't help but wonder where he was. But that was irrelevant, I tried to focus on the matter at hand.

I scowled, great just another test. Let me be the first to say that if I had to go through one more test I was gonna be thoroughly pissed off. He walked forward and even though he was smiling I was still on my guard. He shook some water out of his hair and leaned forward, hand outstretched.

"My names Iggy, leader of the Red X's, but you can call me Ig." I nodded and slowly reached my hand out and shook his own.

"Danielle, but you can call me Danni." We shook hands and then stepped back, still sizing each other up. He wore some sort of fire proof jacket, I'm guessing some spin off of leather and the same material of trousers. His jacket was zipped up, but I could see a white shirt peeking out from the bottom. He had trainers on, but they didn't seem fireproof, but I wasn't sure.

I glanced towards the door, trying to decide if I could make it there without him catching me, but he seemed to sense what I wanted. Smiling and almost causally he stepped in front of the door, blocking it.

"So I'm guessing your not a meta?" I shook my head, but I realized I should have said yes, then they would have been a bit more wary. "And you are yes?" He smirked and nodded.

"I'm a pyro-kinetic, I can produce and control fire. Its very helpful." She smiled and turned to the rest of the group, "That's Nick, he's the youngest and a meta, he can turn intangible." He waved and gave me a toothy grin.

"Yes, we have already met." I nodded back to him and looked to the girl, then back to Iggy.

His face lighted up, "Oh yea! That's Arebella, she's our healer! She's also Nicks big sister. He is ten to her fourteen." I nodded, that looked about right. And I could see the similarity's that they shared. The same brown hair. But his was cut short, and hers flowed down her back. Their eyes were the same color green, and their face shapes seemed to be the same.

"Wait! Don't start to eat without me! I'm done! Don't exclude me!" I twirled around in a pirouette that would have made even the most professional ballerina jealous. In the oh so magical doorway was another boy. But this one looked my age, he had purple hair, which let me tell you is just as strange as you think it is, and big blue eyes hidden behind giant glasses. So your average nerd. I smiled at him, "So let me guess, your the smart one?"

His eyes grew to about two times their natural size and he started squealing, "You brought home a girl? Awesome!" Then he ran over and gave me a giant bear hug. "I can already see that were going to be great friends!" then he grabbed my hand and tugged me over to the table.

My mouth was hanging open and when Iggy passed by he quickly pushed it shut. "Your going to catch flies doing that!" Then chuckling he walked off.

The boy, who's name I now learned to be Xander, was talking my ear off. The topics ranged from socks, to different types of foods he couldn't eat. So all over the place. Arebella came over, obviously seeing my distress.

"OK X I think Danni wants some space, this is probably a lot for her." he slowly raised himself out of the chair and looked at me, "Well if you ever want to talk to me again you know where I'll be!" then he waggled his eyebrows at me. And I lost it. Soon I was rolling on the floor, in hysterics.

When I had finally calmed down enough I turned to Bella, "So you never answered my question, what is Red X anyway?"

She smiled at me, "Why don't you see for yourself.." then she turned and picked up a remote that had been lying on the table. She pushed a button on the top and a TV appeared from the wall. She hit the power button and the national news appeared on the screen.

"Once again the Villainous group Red X has struck again, this time not only robbing banks but taking hostages as well. So far only one body has been located and is in a comatose state." she turned the news off and looked at me, "So are you still in? Or do we have to take you out?" I blinked, that was a shock, I mean you dont just dump that on someone! But I closed my eyes and thought about my options.

Lead a life of crime and possibly die in the process, or get captured and serve jail time and torture. Or die right here right now.

"I'm in!"

Bella nodded, "Good but there's one thing we still have to do before its official."

I cocked an eyebrow, "And that is?"

She smiled evilly, "Get you a code name and costume!"

OK did any of you see the Smallville reference? Any of you... please tell me if you did cause... well.. CAUSE YOU HAVE TO!

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