Hi hi~ Yeah, I know I really haven't been updating that often and I'm sorry for that…
GREAT NEWS THAT YOU MUST READ NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW:
Episode 10 is officially airing September 16! Meaning that EPISODES 11 AND 12 ARE AIRING ON SEPTEMBER 23 AND 30TH YES FINALLY MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hopefully this will put a lot of us out of our slumps and give us newfound inspiration to write! Episode 11 is supposed to be a SuperMartian episode, and Episode 12 focuses on Robin and Artemis.
The spoilers given in chapter 2 were, in fact, uploaded by some *ouch* bag who felt like making us die-hard DC fans pee our pants. Which sucks. Oh well.
I apologize if I can't do fight scenes.
DISCLAIMER: You know the drill, I don't own DC, I don't own any cities or characters mentioned, I don't even own half the plot, I'm just a happy messenger showering many open mouths with the StarfirexYJ crossover they all wanted to taste so freaking badly that they pestered me while I was on the East Coast. Don't take it to heart, you guys, the more caps lock reviews, the happier I am! This was a long disclaimer. Muffins.
Star City, Orchid Park.
"She's here! Are you sure!" Robin exclaimed.
This could not get any worse, he thought exhaustedly.
"Unless you know another redhead chick with glowing green eyes, super strength and laser powers then yeah, I'm pretty sure it was her," Wally said.
M'gann spoke up, "But… wouldn't the tracking device Robin put on her back have shown such results?"
Robin fiddled around with his mini-holographic projector and scowled. "My tracker is still in Jump… but Wally and Artemis say that the alien's here…"
"Maybe she knocked it off somehow," Artemis shrugged.
"You can't just knock it off!" Robin yelled, frustrated by his failure, "It's top-notch technology that Batman invented himself! You can not just knock it off!"
"Sheesh, alright," Artemis held up her hands in mock defeat, "But I know what I—what we saw. It was definitely her, no doubt about it. And she did not have a tracking device to be seen anywhere on her body."
Superboy scoffed, "So what if it is her? Our mission's done here, Batman'll give us another lecture if we disobey him again."
Kaldur looked at his team, "Conner's right. Batman specifically told us not to get off track… if we make contact with the girl again we could get punished severely."
Wally whined, "Let's just go home, I've got a lot of Algebra homework to do before school on Monday. And I for one am not in the mood to get lectured by my parents about how my grades are dropping again."
"Again?" Artemis snickered.
Wally opened his mouth to defend himself, but before he could say anything, a shadow was cast upon Orchid Park. (A/N: This sounds like a fudging horror movie.) Young Justice looked up and saw a golden spaceship about the size of three cruise ships (translation: It's freaking gimongo, guys) hover slowly across Star City. The ship stopped near the bay and fired what looked like a missile onto a small island in the middle of the water.
The object projected a hologram—an image of a large, green, lizard-like creature. Hideous, was the first thing Wally thought.
"People of Earth," the hologram began in a raspy voice, "We come to your planet hunting an escaped prisoner. A very dangerous prisoner."
The members of Young Justice all gave each other a knowing look; they knew whom the alien was referring to.
"Do not interfere and we will leave your city with only minimal damage," he went on, "But if you attempt to assist her," he paused.
"Your destruction will be absolute."
The hologram flickered out of sight. Luckily for the team, most people were currently asleep, so they didn't need to worry about the panic that comes with a declaration of war on a city. Artemis's communicator beeped a couple times, signaling a call from someone.
Everybody gathered around the archer as she answered the message. A picture of Green Arrow showed up on the screen.
"Young Justice," Mini-Hologram Green Arrow nodded to the team.
"What's up, GA?" Robin asked, struggling to see behind all the tall people up front.
"I'm sure you just saw the minor alien invasion in my city," he started, "And I have a favor to ask of all of you."
Everyone's heads turned as a noise sounded from the spaceship out on the water. The hatch on the side slowly creaked open to reveal a horde of green aliens identical to the one that appeared on the hologram. They all flew out and scattered around the city. The teens could see them causing "minimal damage" by forcing open car roofs and blasting massive holes through walls with their trident-like weapons.
"A-Anyway," Green Arrow went on, "I'm on League business right now, and I know Bats doesn't want you guys interacting with the alien, but Artemis,"
"Yeah?"
"You and your team are going to have to take care of this for me, okay?"
"W-Wait, what? Ollie!"
"Thanks, knew I could count on you, dear niece, and don't worry about Bats; I'll make sure he lets you off easy! See ya!" The picture went blurry as Mini-Holographic Green Arrow hung up.
"That stupid…" Artemis was fuming.
He's a lot like Wally, both Megan and Conner thought.
Aqualad sighed, "Well, we've been assigned a new mission, everybody. We'll have to start again by tracking the alien…"
"Oh no. Oh, no no no no no I am not going through that for a second time," Wally said.
"However unpleasant it may be," Kaldur replied, "the only way to get the aliens out before they cause too much damage is to turn in the girl."
"And then we wouldn't be having too many more problems with her either," Artemis said under her breath.
"But it's haaaaaaard," Wally whined.
"I may be able to recognize her thoughts if I search again," Megan suggested, "It'd be a fairly quick process, considering most people are asleep."
"Please do that, Miss Martian," Kaldur nodded. "Until she locates her, the rest of us will—"
"Found her!" Miss Martian squealed. "She's in the Emerald Plaza convenience store!"
Everybody gave her a stunned look.
~~~Duck, duck, BRICK!~~~
Arriving at Emerald Plaza, Robin had to admit he was a little nervous. Yeah, the Boy Wonder gets nervous sometimes too, kids. Even though he wasn't supposed to.
But what would you expect, the girl tried to kill him, then kissed him on the lips, and now he's supposed to capture her and take her to an evil space gecko? How would you be feeling right now? Yeah, Robin wasn't so sure either, actually. It was kind of like a mix of every single emotion jumbled up and mixed with Pudding. (A/N: Hey, that's me!)
He heard Megan's voice ring out over the silent strip-mall, "It's over here, you guys!"
The team walked into the store carefully, not wanting to attract any attention. You can imagine their reaction when they saw that inconvenient face scarfing down bags of un-popped popcorn and candy bars at a speed not even Kid Flash could match.
"Uh, those taste better without the wrappers," Wally informed her. Artemis slapped him upside the head for revealing their poor attempt at a camouflage.
The girl turned around, chocolate on parts of her face, and snarled at the team, her hands and eyes glowing a bright green.
"It's alright," Robin said slowly, "we don't want to hurt you," ("Says who?" Wally said before Artemis slapped a hand over his mouth) "We're friends, remember?"
"Friends?" the girl retorted, "Why? For what purpose did you free me?"
"Just… trying to be nice?" Robin grinned a little sheepishly. (Artemis used her other hand to give herself a facepalm.)
"Nice…" the alien repeated, "We do not have this word on Tamaran. The closest is rutha. Weak."
Wally bit Artemis's hand and almost yelled at the girl, "Well around here, nice means nice, and if you want us to keep being nice, you better tell us why the lizard king took you prisoner!"
The girl's look softened, "Not prisoner… I am… prize." Her eyes lost their glow and she lowered her hands. "In order to defend my planet the Gordanians deliver me to the Citadel to live out my days as their servant."
"And the Citadel are?" Superboy asked.
"Not. Nice," she glared at him.
"Then you're not going with them," Aqualad smiled fondly at her, "Not if we have anything to say about it."
Wally exclaimed, "Wait, what happened to getting rid of the Space Geckos?"
As if on cue, the wall to the right of them exploded, revealing a squad of Gordanian troops through the hole they'd made in the wall.
"Seize her!" one of them yelled from the front.
All looked at the girl, who was blown back from the blast and was on the ground. She glanced up at the team and smirked, her eyes glowing.
The aliens charged, shooting blasts from their tridents and flying at frightening speeds. Young Justice, in turn, ran forward to face the army.
Robin easily took out much of the group. When one Gordanian was knocked out, another would come up from behind him. But that's what every villain does now, isn't it. Their weapons were cheap, like they were made out of plastic.
He threw another punch, sending the lizard-humanoid creature flying towards the wall. Aqualad enveloped the alien in his water… things, along with others, and sent them all out the hole.
The alien girl seemed especially furious during this fight. She was very capable of using her laser powers, but instead chose to use brute force (of which she has a lot) and her flying abilities to knock them out one by one.
One of the aliens grabbed her from behind, throwing her through the wall. She recovered quickly, coughing the dust out of her system and, now even more furious then before, starting shooting green energy orbs rapidly from her hands. She approached the one that had gotten the better of her, and threw a punch, to which he cleverly dodged and thrust her to the ground.
As she lay there, momentarily too weak to get up, the Gordanian landed near her feet, his trident aglow and ready to shoot.
Robin, who was currently fending off one of the aliens with his pi bo rod, noticed the girl in danger and quickly slid underneath his attacker and threw him towards her, causing the two Gordanians to collide and be shoved to the ground unconscious.
The Gordanians that had come had all been knocked out, and the reinforcements they sent for seemed too scared to fight, and fled.
Robin walked over to the girl and offered his hand. She smiled up at him and accepted it.
"I believe your expression is… 'thanks'," she said reluctantly.
"No problem, babe," Kid Flash winked at her. Artemis elbowed him, at which he flinched. The poor clueless alien girl was blinking confusedly at this display of Earth's culture.
"Hello Megan!" Miss Martian playfully slapped her forehead, "It's awesome to meet another alien around here! Now that this is over we should see if you could join our team! I'm M'gann M'orzz, but my Earth name is Megan Morse! What's your name?"
The girl looked bewildered by the amount of questions, but answered, "I… would prefer to not remain on this planet… Not to do you any offense."
"Oh…" M'gann looked crestfallen.
"This isn't over yet, though," Artemis said. "Now that we've interfered…"
"The Gordanian Army will strike harder," Aqualad finished, "It is only a matter of time before—"
"Fools!" the same scratchy voice from before sounded from the hologram on the small isle. "You Earth scum were warned. Your insolence will be punished. Your city shall be destroyed."
As the image faded, the spaceship's front shifted to reveal a large laser beam, currently charging and pointing directly at the port.
"Great," Superboy said sarcastically.
Wally tried to piece together the information, "So, after trashing Jump City's pizza place and a perfectly good convenience store, now we've managed to make a humongous Space Gecko mad enough to vaporize the entirety of Star City?"
"Go team," Robin said flatly.
"All the fault is yours!" the girl turned to Robin, "I commanded you leave me alone but you insisted upon the BEING NICE!"
"My fault!" Robin retorted, "You blast me, you kiss me, but you never stop to mention that they have a gigantic particle weapon?"
"QUIET!" Miss Martian yelled through the telepathic link.
Everyone turned to look at her, including the alien, who looked especially confused.
"Hi," Megan said nervously, waving her right hand.
"Look," Aqualad said, putting a hand on the two teen's shoulders, "It does not matter how we got into this mess; we're in it, and we will get out of it. With your help, perhaps," he said, looking at the redheaded alien.
She nodded, looking at them all individually.
"Yes, let's change out of our civvies!" Wally yelled excitedly.
Dude, civvies is a word? Spell Check, you never cease to amaze me… pretty good chapter, if I do say so myself. Although, you will find that if you watch Teen Titans episode "Go" many of the quotes have been copy-pasted onto this story and redistributed for a different character. Wally gets most of Cyborg's and BB's lines, Superboy gets most of Raven's XD, and Artemis, Kaldur and Robin just kind of share Robin's lines.
I'm going to have trouble giving Starfire in-character lines after the story REALLY becomes a fan fiction and stops following other plots.
My god, next chapter, they're totally getting her name I can't stand typing "the girl" over and over again. I said "redheaded alien" once and then I was like, "Wait, Megan's one too!" Ugh.
I officially hate Geometry. And my Spanish class is like ¾ sophomore and junior.
Question of the chapter: Guys, I have no idea what to ask you… hm. How about, any suggestions for Green Arrow's 'League Business'? The reason why YJ had to deal with the Gordanian invasion. You know what, I don't even know. Just review, please? For me?
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