The Rogues were not happy when they got back to their H.Q.
"What's this I hear 'bout Baby Flash gettin' nabbed?" Captain Boomerang growled as soon as he entered the warehouse, heading straight to the living room.
Behind him entered Mirror Master and Heat Wave, both worried for being called back from their night out. All three men were surprised to find both teenaged Rogues waiting for them in full costume with a strange man standing beside them.
"What did Cold tell you about visitors?" Mirror Master asked in a sigh, not up for any kind of stupidity tonight.
James had called him in the middle of a robbery and yelled about Kid Flash and his team getting kidnapped and if not for a slip up from the police officer's, he would have gotten a very hurtful gunshot wound to his arm.
"That doesn't matter now!" Trickster yelled, running towards them. "Boomer, M.M., Heats, this is the Red Hood. Yes, he's from Gotham. No, he's not crazy. Please don't blow him up, Boomer." The blonde teen said in a single breath, making all three men look at him with wide eyes. "Now listen to him and stay quiet until he finishes! There's not a second to spare."
That was when Captain Cold ran into the warehouse, Weather Wizard and Top following behind him.
"Where's the Baby?" Cold asked, looking over the people assembled before him.
"That's where I come in." Red Hood spoke up, taking a step forward. "Introductions are not needed, I know you all and you all know me. But I have dire information and if we don't act now, I assure you your little 'baby' will not be fine."
Captain Cold muscled his way to the younger man and grabbed him by his collar, "What did you do to Kid Flash?" The bald man asked, glaring through his sunglasses.
Red Hood's gaze let him know he was not amazed with his bravado.
"I did nothing. Lex Luthor, on the other hand, is going to. Now shut up, listen to me, and you'll be able to get your baby back."
The adult Rogues glanced at one another, as if asking each other if they should trust the man from Gotham, but James jumped on Cold and begged him to listen. And when James had an idea stuck in his head, he would just not let go of it. So Cold decided to listen to the Red Hood if only to shut the blonde from bursting into tears.
"Ah, Kid Flash. You're quite an amazing person, did you know that?"
The young red head groaned as he was brought into consciousness. He remembered having come to Central City for a mission... Then he remembered the mental link collapsing and then...
Wally's eyes shot open and he glanced around his surroundings, looking for either Black Adam or Sportsmaster. But he didn't find either man. What he found, though, was a room surrounded by metallic walls- presumably lead- that had almost nothing inside, apart from the metal bed he was strapped onto, a metal cart, and a smirking Lex Luthor.
"Luthor!" He growled, baring his teeth at the billionaire. "Where's the rest of my team?" The teen barked, feeling a sense of dread when the bald man only smiled at him.
"Oh, the Kiddie League? You really musn't worry about them, Kid Flash, for they are in no danger at the moment." Lex told him with a smile as he made his way towards the cart to Wally's right. "You, on the other hand, are..."
Lex examined the boy's confused face for a second before patting his shoulder.
"You see, I've always wondered about a speedster's physiology. And seeing how capturing Flash is hard, Zoom and I decided you'd be the best runner up."
Wally restrained himself from trying to hit the man with his right hand, "And why me if you have Zoom accessible?"
The man turned around now, allowing Kid Flash to only see his back as he began to pick out the best instrument from the cart. "Because, my dear boy, to explore someone's insides is a very dangerous game. One that should not be played with allies... With enemies, on the other hand..."
Now he turned around and Kid Flash's eyes widened as the light glinted off the scalpel in the man's hand. "Well, enemies are fair game when it's in the name of science."
Once the Rogues had listened to Red Hood's full tale, they were all angry and ready to save their baby. Red Hood was grateful for this and began to explain the plan he and Hartley had come up with during their wait.
Now the group was standing in front of the Star Lab's the kids had been investigating, every individual prepared with their favored weapons at the ready.
"You all know the plan, right?" Captain Cold asked as they stepped through the window of Star Labs, entering the dangerous place.
Every man there nodded. "Trickster, Piper, you're with me." Red Hood ordered, and soon enough the group of three was making its way through the halls, already having been decided that they would be the stealth team.
"Mirror Master, you know what to do. Find our kids." Cold commanded, and the orange and green clad man nodded.
"I'll contact you once I know where they're all being held."
With that the man was gone into his mirror dimension, leaving Captain Boomerang, Captain Cold, Heat Wave, Weather Wizard, and the Top inside the hostile territory.
"Let's go kick these nutjobs asses."
Zoom was the first to figure out that something was amiss.
Black Adam told him he was just being paranoid and Cheshire mocked him and told him he must have fried his brains a bit too much to acquire his superspeed. Sportsmaster, on the other hand, only asked him what was wrong.
"I don't know..." Zoom muttered as he looked at the door to the room the Young Justice team was being kept. "It just feels like... There's someone watching us."
Sportsmaster slapped his back hard and shook his head, "You're just itching for a fight! Nothing surprising 'bout that!"
Unfortunately, the two missed Mirror Master's image as it passed their small rec room's window and headed towards the door Zoom had just been looking at.
"We're going to shut this place down. That was Young Justice's initial objective and I'll be damned if people keep getting hurt after this."
Jason wasn't completely sure why he had decided to complete the mission for the tykes, but he knew why they had been sent here. And he'd much rather be thrown into the pit again before he was the reason more bodies of potential metas continued mounting.
Trickster and Piper were the best for this job because it was a pretty simple one. Just destroy all the files, computers, and destroy the whole damn building after they were sure everyone that came in with them and they were looking for were out. The two teenagers were also much too worried about their friend to be put into a fight at the moment. If they found themselves fighting they would most likely wind up hurt because of carelessness brought on by worry.
"Just what are those things?" Jason asked as Trickster placed what looked like one teddy bear on every computer in the laboratory they were in.
This was the fourth lab they had entered.
Jason had placed his own Bat Bombs that ensured the success of their mission and he had Piper helping him out on the set up, but Trickster had been too occupied placing the bears to help them out.
"Exploding bears, of course." The blonde smiled broadly, showing one to Jason. "Packs enough C-4 to destroy a computer! And, because they're stuffed bears, they catch on fire pretty quick! There will be little to no existence of these guy's experiments and findings!"
It was then that Jason decided Trickster wasn't that bad.
"I found them."
Captain Cold turned around to find Mirror Master standing a foot away from him. "Follow me and get ready for a fight. Black Adam, Zoom, Cheshire, and Sportsmaster are guarding the way in."
Captain Cold couldn't help but smirk.
"Please, as if that could means anything. You know the plan, we distract, you evacuate."
But Mirror Master didn't smile like Cold expected.
"What's wrong?" Boomerang asked, also catching on to Mirror Master's mood.
"Kid Flash wasn't with his team. I didn't search much farther after I found the kids because I know I was supposed to tell you where they were, but.."
Heat Wave smacked him upside the head.
"We know where they are! Now you go get those kids out while we distract the bad guys." The man in red growled.
Cold nodded in agreement, "Get those teenaged capes first then start searching for Baby Flasher. We'll wait five minutes before springing."
Mirror Master nodded and jumped into his dimension once more. Captain Boomerang couldn't help but sigh.
"Hope the bloke's all right."
If only his one fear hadn't already come true.
Okay, I decided it shall be a three-shot because this chapter got long! I hope you really liked it and I'll be finishing this story tomorrow!
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