Of Teams and Secret ID's
A/N: So thank you to the person who reviewed to chapter two! Not really much to say.
Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice. I don't own Frequency/Dalyn, she belongs to SilentStorm1999. I do however own Jani, and I own Jake even though he's not a big deal in this chapter. Enjoy!
"Batman 02." The Team looked up from the training we had been doing.
" Team to the Mission briefing room." He told us all, then headed in that direction. Robin and I were the first to follow, with Frequency aka Dalyn Jones aka my best friend aka Dick's girlfriend aka adopted daughter of Black Canary,yeah I think thats all, following us. Then Artemis, then Kaldur, followed by Conner and M'Gann who was followed by Gar, then Zatanna and Raquel.
Once we had all gathered Batman began to talk, "Frequency, Kid Flash, Artemis, Aqualad, Superboy and Miss. Martian. You will all be going undercover to discover the why the villian known as the Joker has infiltraited Gotham Academy. Zatanna, Rocket, and Beast Boy you will be working from the cave. Processing any information they recieve. Robin, Sparrow, you two will be working on a seperate mission with me."
I rolled my eyes at how obvious our secret ID's were becoming, but I made no comment.
"Wait, so I have to go on a mission at my school?" Artemis asked.
Batman gave her a curt nod, and it was all I could do not to burst out laughing. She groaned, but didn't try to get out of it.
"You six who are in the field will take on the personas of new students except for Artemis, all enrolled in the class that Joker has essentally taken over. You will recieve scheduals by this evening. Artemis you will continue with your normal day. Kid Flash and Frequency you will be staying at your friends house in Gotham, and Artemis, Miss. Martian, and Superboy will be staying at Artemis's house. You may go pack your bags, and the bioship will take to Gotham at 5:00 pm Gotham time."
"Because we have our own time zone..." I muttered sarcastically. Bats glared at me. I rolled my eyes. "Can we go home now?"
"Yes. You two need to rest for the mission." Bats agreed. In reality I needed to clean my room before Lyn came.
We arrived at school the next day, not in my car, or Dick's, but in the limo, driven by Alfred. He said that since we had guests we should treat them special. Lyn was pulling at the skirt in her uniform, the shortness bothering her. Wally was pulling at the tie, and Dick and I were just laughing at them.
I led Wally to our history class, as Lyn and Dick would be going to math. Jake caught up with me halfway to History. He took one look at my hand grasping Wally's, dragging him to class, and Jake flipped. He gave Wally a look of pure loathing before angrily signing to me, "Who is this?!"
I let go of Wally's hand, "New student."
"Why were you holding his hand?" His signing getting more violent.
"We're running late, and I personally don't want to make Mr. Fischer angry."
"Mr. Fischer loves you, he won't be mad if you run a few minutes late. Why were you holding his hand?"
"Because he's the slowest person in the world and he would lose me if I didn't. Don't worry, he's taken anyways." I signed trying calm down my normally not jealous boyfriend.
Jake calmed down knowing that Wally was taken. "Okay, Okay."
I rolled my eyes, and took his hand, squeezing it. He smiled down at me, and squeezed back. "Come on Wallace." I told Wally, Jake and I leading the way to what was sure to be a interesting school day.
In English Dick, Wally, Lyn, myself, and Conner were all together. Dick and I sat in our usual seats, me next to Jake and him next to Babs, Lyn sat in the seat next to Dick, and Wally sat in the seat next to me. Jake's interpreter hadn't shown up 1st period and was still not there by the time the bell rang. I imediatly suspected something, but I said nothing in case I was wrong. Dick tapped me on the shoulder and pointed at ' ' who was smiling at our small group. I held back a shudder but would not give him the satisfaction of a reaction.
Dick, I noticed had grabbed Lyn's hand, and I saw Wally sqirming in his seat. Jake was looking worried, since he had no one to explain to him what the teacher was saying. I wondered if I should get up and sign for him, but I also wondered if that would give myself away to Conner.
"Can you interpret?" Jake gave me a hopefull look. Darn it!
"Of course." I signed, not able to give him a good reason why not to. I raised my hand getting 'Mr. Kerr's' attention. He rolled his eyes at me, but nodded.
"Jake's interpreter isn't here, may I stand and interpret for him?" I signed and spoke. Dick jabbed me hard in the back, but I ignored him.
' ' gave a dramatic sigh, but nodded all the same. I got up and stood in front of Jake, then waited for ' ' to begin speaking. " Today we will discuss what you read yesterday from War and Peace." He looked down at his roll call list, "Ah new students. Tell me Mr. West is it? What did you think?" I rolled my eyes at the concept of a new student knowing what we had read the day before.
"I umm...well It's about war...and peace." Wally shrugged. I laughed at his answer. Dick rolled his eyes and Dalyn groaned. 'Mr. Kerr' however just smiled at Wally.
"Thank you for enlightening the class Mr. West. However you're not entirely correct. Miss. Wayne could you explain the setting and major characters in the novel?" He asked me.
"It's Pohl-Wayne actually." I rolled my eyes, "The novel takes place in Russia, during the 1812 invasion of Russia by Napoleon. Some of the Major characters are obviously Napoleon and Tzar Alexander the first. But mostly the cast is made up of artistocrats, such as Pierre Bezukhov, his friend Prince Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, who is aide-de-camp to Prince Mikhail Ilarionovich Ktuzoc." The names rolled off my tongue easily, as I spoke Russian and had been reading the book in it's original Russian,as Bruce and my Russian teacher were forcing me to.
' ' nodded. Then began asking other students questions of similar nature. "Why didn't you sign your answer?" Jake asked me, once ' ' wasn't looking.
"Because niether of us can sign RSL.*" I signed back.
He rolled his eyes, "You could've fingerspelled.*"
"I could've. " I signed back, smirking.
"Is there something you two want to share with the class?" 'Mr. Kerr' asked me and Jake. I signed what he said, then looked at Jake, expecting him to answer.
"No not really, what I say to my girlfriend is my buisness, not yours or the classes." He signed, a smirk plastered on his face.
"I'm not interpreting that!" I signed to him, shocked he would ask me to.
"I'll say it." He threatened, though it wasn't much of one, I didn't care weather he used his voice or not.
"Go ahead." I signed back.
" What I said was, No not really. What I say to my girlfriend is my buisness, not yours or the classes." He signed and spoke. Most of the class gasped, just shocked he had spoken at all, not really at what he had said.
"Both of you, see me after class!" 'Mr. Kerr' said in an angry voice. I of course had heard him use said voice so many times before that I was rather unimpressed, but the rest of the class, except Jake, and Dick looked terrified. I rolled my eyes.
"Was that supposed to scare us?" I asked, wishing I had some bubblegum to pop, just to be more annoying.
For the first time you could clearly see the Joker. Despite the makeup and wig, you could see the scars, the madness, all of it was written all over his face. That's what freaked me out, not what he had said. "If I were you I wouldn't say such things!" He growled.
I raised my hands in mock surrender, "Okay okay."
He took a deep breath, "Class why don't you all just finish book one." He phrased it as a question, but it wasn't as if we could choose to do it or not. "Miss. Pohl-Wayne. Hallway now."
I nodded and followed him out of the classroom. "What?" I asked.
"Your behavior his terrible, at best, and I will not stand to be disrespected in such a way." He growled at me.
"You do realize you don't scare me?" I asked him. Dick and I had decided that for the two us it would be a good idea to make him feel as though we knew. That way maybe he would slip up and we could figure out how to stop him.
"You do realize that I could have you expelled?" He matched my tone.
"Oh really? How? Bruce Wayne is this schools largest benifactor. Without him there wouldn't be a Gotham Acedemy, they wouldn't expell one of his kids." I smirked.
"Well in that case, more drastic measures may have to be taken." He smiled at me.
"Nothing you can do to me will be that effective." It's the truth, torture didn't ever work on me. Nor Rob for that matter.
"Oh I think it will." He continued smiling.
I rolled my eyes and snorted. "Whatever helps you sleep at night Mr .J." I snickered.
"What did you call me?" The smile left his face.
"What? You're ID card, you know the one hanging on your pocket? It says your first name is Joe...Mr. J..." I shrugged, holding in the laughter that was threatening to make me burst at the seams.
"Right, but I would prefer if you called me Mr. Kerr." He nodded, looking slightly shaken.
"Whatever." I sighed, "Can I go back to class now?"
"Yes. But remember, I can , and will punish insolence." He threatened, to which I shrugged. I walked back into the classroom, my head reeling with all the new information.
We all had lunch together, thanks to Bruce and we had all huddled around a lunch table. I had sent Jake to go get me a hamburger from the McDonalds on the other side of town, using the excuse that it was 'that time of the month' and I was craving one. From that particular McDonalds. So he would be gone until two minutes before the bell. It was mean but I couldn't come up with anything else.
"What are you two doing here?" Artemis asked myself and Dick.
"I was told to stay by Wally's side all day and make sure that he found all his classes." I explained, just wanting to annoy the archer.
"It's fine. I'll make sure he gets to his next class." Artemis said in a forceful voice.
"How do I know that?"
"Come on surioară (sister), we've bothered them enough." Dick grabbed my arm and tried to drag me away.
I pulled my arm away from him, " Not nearly enough."
"Oh it's been enough." Artemis said.
"Are you sure?" I asked.
"We're all sure!" She replied.
Dick rolled his eyes, grabbed my arm again, and then dragged me to another table. "Okay what did you find out?" He asked me.
"Joker's willing to hurt students." I put it simply.
"So we need to figure this out faster." Dick said, running a hand through his hair, one of his nervous habits.
"Dick we don't have much to go on. You know that we could arrest him, and nothing would happen." I pointed out.
"Gordon's willing arrest him, but most of the other police aren't. They say 'whats the point?' And can't you blame them. They never see fruits of their labor. Joker always breaks out again, and usually kills more people then before." Dick sighed.
"They have to arrest him." I told him, not believing that the POLICE wouldn't want to arrest the homicidal clown.
"How can we even prove that it's him?"
"Take the make up off. That's all ,mission acomplished." I said triumphantly.
"We can't get it off without being arrested ourselves for harrassing a teacher."
"Then lets skip the rest of the day and go see Bruce about all of this. He'll know what to do with the info."
"No! He gave this to the team. We're not going to go ask him for help when it gets hard." Dick looked annoyed that I would even suggest asking Bats.
"Okay,then we'll tell Lyn and she can tell Kaldur." I sighed, hating that I was having to pretend that I wasn't involved in a mission that was in my own city, with a villian I was pretty close to.
"You think thats the best idea?" Dick asked, raising an eyebrow.
"What other option do we have since you don't want to talk to Bats, and we're supposed to be working on a different mission?"
He sighed, deafeted. "Okay, I'll text Lyn with what we've got then us four can work the rest out at the Manor."
I nodded and began looking around for my boyfriend, and more importantly my hamburger.
"How was school?" Alfred asked us as we piled into the limo.
"Fine."
"Fine."
"Fine."
"We got hardly any information other then Joker is willing to harm the studnets, which only makes this mission more stressfull!" That last one was Dick.
I rolled my eyes, but nodded in agreement when Alfred gave me a questioning look. Dick was right, but it was really only stressfull for us as we had to work on the mission without even our team knowing and now we had the added stress of making sure none of our classmates ended up with perminant smiles, or worse; dead.