It was a trap. Of course it was a trap and they all knew it.
But weren't they heroes? Wasn't it their job to walk into traps, beat the bad boys and save the day?
So when the Young Justice team ran through the dark corridors of a secret laboratory somewhere in Gotham city they understood the risk. Well as far as a group of underage teenager was able to.
"Which way?" Kaldur asked the youngest member of the team.
Robin took a short look on his holographic computer and shrugged nonchalant.
A sigh escaped Aqualad and he felt the urge grow to bang his palm against his forehead. Whatever, there wasn't that many choices anyway...
"Split up!" he ordered. "Robin, Kid Flash, Superboy you take the left way. The rest comes with me."
The team nodded and the Atlantean watched his friends vanish into the opposite direction.
"Hurry up~~~" he heard an energetic KF shout from the distance. He could literally picture Wally running circles around the other boys by now. A gentle smile found its way on Kaldurs face at the thought. Keep your head in the game, he reminded himself, before he continued towards their target.
The mission was easy. At least it was supposed to be. Four heavily armed gangster behind every corner. Three genius Professors held hostage. Two already disarmed time bombs. And one Clown. It shouldn't be a problem.
As they reached the end of the hallway Kaldur gave the signal. Artemis took an arrow out, ready to shoot and Megan started to form an invisible, telekinetic shield around them. Just in case.
"Lets go!"
When Aqualad kicked the door in, his water blades were already resting in his hands. He quickly scanned his surrounding.
It looked more like the inside of a warehouse or a storeroom than a part of a laboratory. Most likely not used for scientific purpose. The room was way bigger than expected. Good that would gave them enough space to attack and doge. It was filled with huge crates and barrels. Even better they could use them as cover. Across the door were two henchmen busy carrying one of the bigger boxes, three others were just standing around with their machine guns, apparently doing nothing in particular and the last one put some kind of test tubes into a metal briefcase. So far nothing special.
Thought, he didn't know if their enemy's were surprised to see them or not, cause each face was plastered with a creepy clown mask.
Deadly silence filled the room, when the thugs paused in their movements. The tension of the upcoming battle let the air crackle.
So much for the confirmation of world wide gangster-movie cliches. Guess they had to maintain a certain reputation after all.
Kaldur stepped forward ready to use the small advance of surprise that was still left.
*PFFFART*
Another silence filled the room. The awkward one.
The young Atlantean thanked mentally all of his gods that neither KF nor Robin were here to make fun of him. And in a corner of his head he thought, that this was really lame.
Aqualad lifted his foot from the whoopee cushion, he stepped on a second ago, before he finally realized what was going on.
"Get down!" He yelled, pushing both girls into the ground.
*BOOM*
While the heat of the explosion washed over them the team leader tried to protect his friends with his body as much as possible from the burning flames. He knew that Artemis couldn't handle such an attack directly and that the only weakness of a Martian was fire. Somewhere between these thoughts he managed to put a water shield up.
Once it was over a rough cough escaped Artemis. Kaldur rolled to his side allowing the archer and the Martian girl more space to breathe.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Artemis said in disbelieve as she slowly got back on her feeds, holding her still dizzy head.
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
That was the first time Aqualad heard his laugh.