A/N: Ack! I am so sorry! I just started postponing this for so long! Please forgive me! Also, I don't have much of a plot formed in my head, but I do know what I'll put in each chapter. Sorry these are so short, but I usually make these on my phone, soo...

As a response to MusicLyric and IloveRobin1822's request, Here's a list to help!

Supermartian-Al and Martha

Dibs-Zee and John

Torpedo-Raquel Jr.

Redcat-Lian

Spitfire-Rudy and Jay

Disclaimer: Why would I own Young Justice? Why?

Chapter Four

(Rudy's POV)

When I woke up, Raquel was standing above me, next to a worried Jay and a frantic Martha. Jay was noticeably relieved when I opened my eyes, and there were police everywhere investigating. My mind was still fuzzy, and I slowly sat up and winced. My head hurt, and my lungs ached from breathing in that weird fog. I clutched forehead.

"Hey, what do you remember last? What happened? Any idea where John might be? Cuz' the same thing happened to Martha, on the other side of the mall. Zee's gone too, and the police think she was kidnapped," Lian asked, walking over to us.Well, that explains why Martha is as worried as Jay, I thought. Standing up slowly, I pointed towards a corner of the store. Raquel jogged through the police and went in there. I remembered the blond-haired woman standing above me.

"Well, if this was a kidnapping attempt, I think I know who the suspect might be. Uh, blond hair... red suit...She was wearing a gas mask, so I didn't see much...She had this crazy laugh, too..." I groaned and leaned on my brother, who willingly supported me. Raquel came back to us.

"He's not there, but the place was trashed. Game pieces everywhere, shelves knocked down, some games were ripped to pieces...Maybe he escaped? Let's ask someone," she suggested.

I was finally able to stand on my own and we walked to a nearby police officer watching an interview between a detective and a witness. "Excuse me, have you seen our friend? Red hair, blue eyes, male? Thirteen years old?"

He pulled out a picture. "Is this him?"

I gasped. It was a picture of him when he was around nine, probably taken for Gotham North's Picture Day. "Yes, that's him! How did you know?"

He sighs, in a way that says bad news. "We believe he's the victim of a kidnapping, along with his sister. Zatanna and John Grayson, right?"

Martha looks down at the floor guiltily and we walk away, dejected. We went down the escalator and reached the entrance of the store when I turned around, for one last look. Then I saw something on the ground and walked towards it. It was a playing card. I picked it up gingerly and turned it over, my hands shaking. It was a joker, but it wasn't like any other card I'd seen. Instead of a joker, it had the face of a man with cherry lips, and scrawled across the bottom were the words, 'Why so serious?' It creeped me out.

"Rudy!" Jay called out to me, and I turned around, stuffing it in my pocket. I knew that I was contaminating evidence and that I should have given it to the police, but it was one of the only clues we had to find Zee and John, and it was my fault John was gone.

Joining the rest of the group, we left to the front entrance of the mall. The sound of police sirens and ambulances didn't shake me from the shock I was in. The entire time we walked home was spent in complete silence, with Martha and I guiltily staring at the ground, Al and Jay with pitying and worried looks, and Lian and Raquel trying not to focus on what just happened. We reached the doorstep and heard talking and laughter on the inside, which meant they hadn't started the barbecue. They were most likely waiting for us since John loved to start the grill with his dad. But he wouldn't do that this year.

Martha broke the silence. "What are we going to tell their parents?" he asked as Lian looked at him, a brand new idea in her eyes.

"Why don't we search for them?" Everyone stared at her wildly. I raised an eyebrow, but I was still interested in the idea.Wecould find our friends.Wecould stop the bad guys.Wecould find a way to unravel the mystery of our parents' lies.

"It was just a thought. But we are smarter and more talented than we think we are, and they're going to find out anyways from the police. Right?" she tried again. I shifted from one foot to another. This subject was getting a little too close for comfort.

"Well, John and Zee get kidnapped all the time because of their fame. This is probably what happens every Wednesday for them," I said, trying to cut off her idea.

"Actually, I overheard the police talking at the mall, and they don't think this is a normal kidnapping. The gas used to knock you out was supposedly made out of biochemical components and didn't follow the air currents like most gasses do. It had traces of noxious oxide too, but that didn't kick in because the gas was let loose through the vents, and there is always an emergency filter in Forever 16 that takes out anything harmful. But the main component of the gas was the one that knocked you out, and it doesn't do anything but make you sleep, so it was let through.

"The police were saying something about how the last time they saw gas like that, it was a couple of decades ago, when a few major villains worked together to knock out Gotham's vigilante and lead him on a goose chase across the country. John told me the story once. The guy's name was...Shadowman? Birdman? I can't remember, but one of the villains, Poison Oak, I think, decided to kill Shadowman and convinced her partners, Double-Face, Harlequin, Jester, and Penguin to do so. I think Shadowman had a partner, Sparrow, but I can't remember.

"Eventually they killed Shadowman, and Sparrow disappeared. Oh, and there was also a Shadowgirl. Anyways, they said the cameras were destroyed, and the security guard was drugged, so I don't think these were random thugs. They seemed more like professionals," Al explained in a quiet voice, telling us what he heard.

"Exactly! Girl, how are we supposed to defeat professional kidnappers, when we're just kids?!" Raquel exclaimed before we all shushed her for fear of the parents hearing them. When nothing happened, she continued, whispering this time.

"It's impossible!" she told Lian, gesturing with her arms.

"Maybe, but we can't justnottry," Lian stated. "Besides, maybe we can identify the kidnappers. John and Zee are our friends, and we should make some sort of attempt to help them!"

"Yeah, by helping the police. I found this card back there, and I kinda regret not giving it to the police now," I explained, pulling it out as Martha made an audible gasp. "That's contaminating the evidence, right?"

"That looks like the man I saw at the mall, right before I fell unconscious!" she said, and Lian grasped her by the shoulders.

"You saw him?! Why didn't you say something?! What did he look like?!"

"Uh...Green hair...purple tuxedo...and because of Rudy's card, I'm guessing red lipstick. He did have a gas mask on,' she described, clearly racking her brain to remember something. "He was tall and lanky, with polished brown shoes."

"Maybe she's a work partner of the tall guy? The girl I saw, I mean," I said, voicing my thoughts to the group.

"Wait, when did you see someone?" Raquel asked, confused. I mentally facepalmed.

"Right, sorry, you were checking out the corner of the store John was in. I saw someone before passing out too. Blond hair put in pigtails, also wearing a gas mask, wacky red jumpsuit with a jester-like hat. Had white diamonds...Or maybe black...she also had a mad scientist laugh. All-in-all, she seemed like someone who belonged in an asylum," I said, trying to explain the figure I saw. Jay pulled out his phone and showed something to me. He had somehow found an article from the Gotham Gazette at least twenty years old. 'Destruction of Arkham' it read at the top in Big bold letters.

'Recently we received word that Arkham, one of the worst criminal storage facilities here in Gotham, was destroyed in a major breakout. We have no asylum for now but please do not panic. If you see one of the most dangerous villains that face off with Batman, make sure you walk in the other directionveryquickly.Currently, authorities are tracking down criminals as we speak.'

I stopped reading and rolled my eyes at him. He can get caught up in mysteries sometimes. "I think I've got it. I searched for the worst criminals in Gotham, and I found this article. Look!" he said enthusiastically.

"Jay, I didn't mean it literally. The people we saw probably didn't even go to, uh, Arkham Asylum!" I told him, taking the phone and reading the asylum's name off of the article. I punched him lightly in the shoulder. Sometimes he could get carried away with things.

He scoffed and pointed to the screen. "Scroll down, idiot. There's a picture of what I think was your crazy psycho lady. This her?" he asked, making sure to show the picture to the entire group.

"Yeah, that's her. Harley Quinn. Wasn't that one of the villains that killed...er...what was his name? Batman?" I questioned Al, remembering what he had said earlier.

"Actually, I'm pretty sure it was Shadowman, right Al?" Martha asked her brother, correcting me.

"I remember when John told us the story. I still think Batman sounds way cooler. Hewassupposed to be the epitome of fear, and what better than a dark creature of night to pick as a name? Besides, isn't Shadowman taken?" Lian stated as Jay began to scroll through his phone again.

"Ok, so we know it was Harley Quinn, and, uh, it says here this other guy called the Joker. But it also says that they weren't the norm back then. They're not the type of bad guys who would kidnap someone for money, but for attention, so that's possibly why they took John and Zee. I've been looking at other stuff they have on them, and a lot of people say that the Joker is 'Batman's Greatest Foe.' Now that we've done our research, what should we do next?" Jay said, summarizing what we figured out.

"I think we should start at Arkham Asylum."

A/N: Gosh, I am really sorry ittook so long to update. I'm kinda uunhappy with this ending too... I sorta got bored with this idea (which seems to happen a lot to me) and became alittleless obssessed with Young Justice...more than a little...please review, critism is appreciated!

MusicLyric: Heehee...I hope I'm evil enough for another one soon!

IloveRobin1822: Yeah, the guide at the top should help with your question!

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