An Apprentice's Future

By: Malaizjan Dejesus & Reina Grayson

Author's Note: This is the climatic installment of the Batman Beyond Saga. Everything is coming together and this is the crossover fic. If you're a fan of either this series or Young Justice, than you will enjoy this! I am going to list the theme songs to various DC tv series and most of the theme songs can be found on Music of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary, which is available now, and the YJ Theme song is on its own album titled: Young Justice, which is also available. So if you don't have them, I suggest you go and buy them both!

Also, I had lots of help with this story. Reina Grayson deserves half the credit in getting 90% of this chapter done. I was stuck on scenes and she helped make them much better.

Chapter 8

Music Playing: Justice League Unlimited Theme Song

In the Future…

Drow punched a wall after the LOD made a poor performance in keeping the heroes from leaving: Killing a few heroes didn't sit well for the grandson of Two-Face. He wanted them ALL dead.

As he sat at the head of the table of the conference room, he was seething with anger. "We got creamed by KIDS! K-I-D-S! HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN!?"

"Drow, it wasn't like-" Yami began but he got cut off.

"ALL OF THE HEROES ARE SAVED AND AT WATCHTOWER!" he screamed. He looked like his disfigured face was going to explode off of his head.

"Maybe we should go invade their headquarters," Mordred suggested. He was playing with his sword, looking rather bored.

A light bulb went off above Drow's head. "Mordred, sheer brilliance!" Drow grinned.

The others looked at him.

"Let's invade Watchtower in space. With everyone and EVERYTHING we got. Capture them all. Torture them some. Then...KILL THEM ALL!"

"We will need some more lackeys," Talia said.

"Then let's hold auditions." Drow then went off to get to the NET. It was time to call out all the villains in the world. He was ready to hit the heroes where it hurt... And he was going to enjoy every moment of it.

Darkin grinned to himself. It was time to get his own group together…

In the past…

They had arrived in the Batcave and Meygan was a LITTLE surprised because there were MORE trophies than there were there in her time.

"Hello Master Bruce; Master Dick…Oh dear." A british voice said.

"It's alright Alfred; this is Rave, one of the four young heroes from the future I told you about. Bruce, as he pulled his cowl off, said.

"Oh yes, I remember; it is nice to meet you, Miss Rave." Alfred said

"Call me Meygan." Rave said as she removed her mask. Her blue eyes shined happily at meeting Alfred.

"I see that you truly are Master Dick's daughter. "Alfred said; a smile on his face.

As Alfred walked over and hugged young Meygan, Bruce headed over to the medical area to prepare some fear toxin antidote for his future granddaughter.

"I shall returned soon." Alfred said as he released Meygan and headed out toward the manor.

"Meygan…..how did you get exposed to fear toxin?" Dick asked.

Meygan sighed. "Mordred captured me after I got in a fight with Mathen and ran away to the ruins of Camelot. The vines he created had fear toxin in them and when the thorns pierced my skin…..well you get the idea."

"So you were DIStraught huh?" Dick asked, a slight laugh in his voice as he said distraught.

"Yea, I was so upset that I didn't even sense him coming up behind him."

"It's alright, sweetie, it happens to the best of us. A while back I didn't even hear Bane come up behind me in our first encounter." Dick said as he hugged his first born daughter. "What was the fight with this Mathen about?"

"Mathen's your son; and Raven's brother took him over and made him say what was in his heart about my having these demon powers and everything."

"Villains suck sometimes, don't they?" Dick said as he released the hug.

"Yea."

"The cure is ready for you, Meygan." Bruce said; stepping into the opening of the medical area.

Just then, Alfred returned with three mugs on a silver platter. "I thought you all could use a warm drink."

Meygan saw her father's face light up and she figured it Jason put it…an Alfred Specialty. The two Grayson each took a mug and turned toward the medical area.

"Oh, Alfred; I have something for you." Meygan said as she reached into her utility belt, pulled out an envelope and handed it to the Wayne/Grayson family butler. The young Grayson from the future then went with her mug to start getting that antidote.

Alfred was curious and so he opened the envelope, pulled out the folded paper and started to read it after opening it.

Hey Old Man:

I hope this letter made it through all the hell Meygan's probably been through. I never had the chance to tell you a few things so I'll say them now. I may have been a pain in the ass when it came to you teaching me manners, but they did stick; it just took 30 years.
I never had anyone care about me as much as you, Bruce and Dickie-bird did so here's the last thing. I love you, Alfred and don't worry, you sandwich dip recipe is safe with me.

Your SECOND Grandson,
Jason Peter Todd

Alfred didn't know what to say or even how it was possible that this young girl had a letter from the deceased Jason. After Bruce and Dick left to let Meygan get some rest,

Alfred hesitantly walked over and watched Meygan rest.

"You have a question, Great Grandpa; so go ahead." Meygan sadi as she didn't open her eyes.

Alfred was a little thrown off by the whole 'great grandpa' thing, but he found his voice. "How do you have this letter?"

"I won't go into details, but Jason does come back to life. He wanted you to know how he felt about living here, and so he wrote the letter." Meygan said, opening her eyes, but not moving much.

"Well, when you return to your time, please tell him that I miss him, and I hope he is still on the side of good." Alfred said; smiling.

"He did go to the wrong side for a while, but he's back, so I'll let him know. If you don't mind, Alfred, I'm going to sleep while this cure gets into my system.

"Very well, Miss Meygan." Alfred said as he took the now empty mug (she drank the contents before the IV was inserted) and headed out to tend to the manor.

Star City was so different to Vincent, but that was because he was 30 years in the past and most of the buildings he knew had not been built yet. Being out on patrol with his dad and Ollie, the first two hero archers in the history of the justice league, was great. They made their way to the Queens Industries building, and stood tall looking out over the city.

"It's different." Vincent said lowly.

"Don't worry, Vincent, the thugs are still the same." Roy said.

"Don't tell me you trained with Dick and Reiena for a while." Vincent said, still hating the bat training.

"Just for a couple of months. You don't like the way Batman trains people, do you?" Ollie said, remembering when Roy wanted to know some of the things the twins knew.

"It's just that sometimes they're either psychic or have super-hearing. It drives me crazy some of the things that the Bat family does." Vincent said; a small smile on his face.

"Yea, it can be annoying sometimes." Ollie said with a laugh.

Just as they were talking, a signal sounded on GA's belt. After he checked it, he looked at Roy and the young (in this time) knew exactly who it was.

"You two going to fill me in?" Archeron questioned.

"It's Brick….feeling up to a challenge." Roy said; smiling at his future son.

"Oh, Daniel Brickwell; I've dealt with stronger." Archeron said, and with that statement, the two present time archers were shocked. "I studied the Justice League history books. So are we going to stop him or not." Archeron stated.

Green Arrow took the lead and headed out to find the spot where Brick was. Red Arrow and Archeron took off after the older archer.

"I'll beat you there, dad." Archeron remarked.

"Careful Archeron." Red Arrow cried out, and it was then that the two redheads had to dodge gunfire.

"There's more arrows boys, I'll give a reward to the ones that kill them." A husky voice said.

"I'd like to see you try." Archeron said as he launched an arrow at the huge guy in the fine Italian-looking suit. The arrow hit and exploded on impact. As the smoke cleared the archers could see that Brick was still standing.

"Couldn't have told you kid, he's invulnerable." Green Arrow remarked.

"Just getting a feel for his fighting style." Archeron remarked; a smile on his face.

"That's my little brother." Red remarked, he didn't want to give away the fact that this 15 year old archer was really his son from the future.

"Well then boys, looks like it's a family affair." Brick said as he got ready to throw some punches of his own.

"We'll see about that, Daniel." Archeron said as he readied a special arrow from the future. "Guys, you got any ear plugs?"

Green and Red Arrow nodded and pulled them out of their belts. Once Archeron knew his family was protected, he launched the arrow and it hit Brick square in the chest. The contact with Brick activated the special tip and a supersonic sound went off. Brick and all of his men went down but the archers were still standing even thought they were in range of the sound. Soon enough the arrow stopped emitting the sound and the three heroes went to check on the villains.

"Not bad, son." Red Arrow said as he saw that everyone's vitals were alright but they were out cold.

"Supersonic arrow. Gear created them for me." Archeron remarked.

"Wish I had those right after I went solo." Red remarked.

"Heard that the high density polyurethane foam did the trick thought." Archeron said; smiling.

"That's true. Let's get these guys to the police then you two can hang out." Green Arrow said as he finished restraining the gum smugglers.

Red and Archeron had wide grins as they looked at each other. "Target practice…..person with the most bullseyes earns a fancy meal." Red remarked.

"Alright, but be prepared to pay, dad." Archeron remarked as his grin turned into a smirk.

The three of them then gathered everyone up and started toward Star City Police Station.

On Watchtower…

Superman stood outside of Ian's cell, watching him. The villain seemed to be merely waiting patiently on the bed, the only piece of furniture in the cell. "So you're Ian."

"And you're Superman. Not impressed." Ian/Slade said.

"Neither am I." Clark stood there, watching.

"You want to know, don't you? About that clone of yours. Superboy."

"He's not just a clone. He's my brother," Clark corrected him.

"Tomatoe, to-MA-toe…"

Clark was already getting irritated with Stalker. "Why?"

"Why go after Dick Greyson and his oh-so-precious family?" Ian/Slade asked. For this he sat up and eyed the hero Kryptonian with contempt. "Him and his family are nothing more than thorns in my side. It's as simple as that."

"What did he do to you?" Clark asked.

"He got my grandfather killed. He was Deathstroke's final apprentice before I picked up the mantle. So he and his best friends can drop dead. Well, one actually did already…We almost had the other."

"So Wally getting taken out was all for revenge?" Superman was upset. To mess with the timeline just so revenge could be done? What kind of psycho was being bred in the future?

"And the brownie goes to the MAN of Steel…tell me, how attached are you to that clone?"

"Don't you dare," Clark warned.

"Or what? You'll actually use that heat vision of yours on me? I'm still waiting from last time you said that," Ian/Slade chuckled.

Clark had no idea what he was talking about.

"You know he has 3 kids now, right? In my time… a clone having Kryptonian/ Martian brats. You would be impressed."

Clark walked away. He had to…because Ian/Slade got on his nerves in the worse way. And he didn't believe a word the villain said. But why was he so calm? Superman was afraid to know the answer to that.

Back in the Future…

Ebon hung in the background, watching these so called auditions with boredom. He reached up to his Bluetooth ear piece to answer the silent call. "Yeah?"

"Do you wants us in these auditions" asked he voice on the other end.

"No. Let Drow, Stalker and Deathstroke play their games. The heroes will win. When the smoke clears, I will be the leader of the LOD and I'll have spots for you there. Lay low. Our time will come."

When Icicle Junior came for the through those double doors, there were groans all around. The villain should have retired decades ago.

"Cameron, go home," Drow told him. "You're ancient."

"I will ice your ass!" Cameron retorted.

A shot rang out. A bullet hole right between the eyes.

Icicle Jr. went down.

Talia/Ra's a'Ghul blew on the smoke coming from her gun. "Send the next one."

Yami just sighed. He was so taken by her.

"I wanted to do that," Star Sapphire complained.

"Sorry. The next one is yours."

Darkin sighed. This was so a waste of time. To him, that is.

Then someone got his attention. A lady HE never thought would come to such a silly thing.

Her name was Spoiler. She was a saboteur, corporate and otherwise. She and Darkin had crossed paths before, especially within the last 5 years. The girl was good. She never crossed him nor interfere with his assassinations so he saw no need to end her life.

Now she was here.

"I don't know…we have a saboteur…" Drow began.

"I can vouch for her," Darkin said, stepping out of the shadows he hid in. "She's good at countering any firewalls in our way. If Inque cannot. It would be a good thing to have one such as her. And her fighting skills are on par with the heroes."

Slade/Stalker nodded. "I agree. Do you have a name?"

"Spoiler. Just…Spoiler." The blonde haired woman nodded to Darkin in thanks. Lila Brown couldn't believe her good fortune. Her mother feared that she wouldn't get in. And thanks to Darkin mistaking her for her mother Stephanie, she got in.

Now she just had to stop the villains from within.

After the group of new villains was chosen and the plans were in place, Drow knew it was time to call Inque, so he used his Bluetooth looking comm link.
"Inque…..It's time; get us access to Watchtower." Drow said, and with that he ended the call.

Watchtower; cargo hold

Inque just finished getting the go ahead so she moved into the ventilation system to get to the security shield controls. With her speed when she was in 'liquid' form, she found the monitor room and so she got to the controls without anyone seeing and seeped into the console. It wasn't long before she pulled the wiring out and disabled the shield that protected the heores.

The espionage expert then left the ian without being d headed to an empty place so she could call Drow back. She entered an abandoned training room and solidified herself then reached up to her comm.

"Shield's down, Drow…..you are ready for entry." Inque said with a smile on her face.

"Good work, my dear." Drow said back and so the call was ended.

Everyone was going about their business, seeing Dick and Serenity wonder off together and Kaldur talking to King Orin of Atlantis on the comm, and then there was Conner checking out the situations in the few free countries left in the world...but something didn't seem right to the two resident geniuses so they decided to check out the control systems with their hi-tech backpacks.

"Dad, I'm not picking up anything out of the ordinary." The smaller genius said.

"I know, Billy, but something just doesn't feel right." The father said. "It's...there's no WAY the LOD is letting us get away with storming their HQ..."

It was just then that Billy AKA Syfon found the problem. "SON OF A ….. dad the security shield is down!"

"Shit, we've got to contact….." The father, who was known as Gear in Dakota City; said and with that he reached up to his comm link.

Just as he pressed the comm; a gray portal opened and several Slade Bots came right for the two heroes. The father son duo threw every zap cap they have at the bots, but they didn't do any good as the bots kept advancing. They gave their mental commands to their backpacks and they returned to their backs, ready to assist when needed.

"Billy, find the other kids, you all need to stay together!" Gear told him son.

"Alright, be careful dad." Billy said.

Billy took off flying with his rocket boots to find him siblings as Gear got ready to fight these bots coming for him. He knew he couldn't fight them alone, so he called on his brother via Shock Vox. "Vman, I need some help here, Slade Bots are in Watchtower."

"WHAT!? On my way, bro! Hold them off!"

"Sorry, hero, but you won't be getting away from me this time." A familiar voice said.

When Richie who it was, he couldn't believe it. "Ebon…..but how? You died on that cargo ship decades ago! And where's Hot Streak!?"

"I'm called Darkin now. The hot head is gone and it wasn't hard when your living shadow." Darkin said as he came out of the shadows.

The shadow powered villain was getting close to Gear as the Slade Bots had him cornered, but just as Darkin was reaching for the high tech hero; a ball of purple electric energy hit him right in the back and the villain screamed in pain.

"Sorry….Darkin; but you're not getting him today. I'll kick you out of Watchtower in a few seconds." A familiar voice said as the electricity died down.

"Sorry, Static, but that's where you're wrong." A familiar voice said, and just as the Dakota City hero turned around he blocked a piece of equipment coming at him.
There was a problem as the machine reacted badly to Static's power and he was thrown into the nearby wall.

"Fell for it again, huh brat." The attacker said. "Decades later, and you STILL haven't wised up. I fortunately, HAVE."

"Sinestro…? I thought you'd be dead by now." Static weakly said as he tried to get up.

Sinestro didn't waste any time and encased Static in a yellow bubble and made it shrink until the captured hero was having trouble breathing, then he passed out.
"STATIC!" Gear hollered.

"Better worry about yourself, hero." Darkin said and with that he sent his body to encase Gear…..and the two Dakota heroes were captured.

Terra was in the gymnastics room, using the tumbling mats to spar with Eric. Although he was only 12, Eric was the grandson of a Bat. And Terra wanted to get back into fighting shape after being frozen in stone for decades.

Hector was cat-calling Terra after she blocked a kick to her head and she punched Eric in the kidneys, knocking him on his ass. She had borrowed yoga-type leggings and a crop top to work out in. So of course, Hector was just being a typical teen boy and got on Terra's nerves fast.

Eric got up with a pop flip up and he got a glancing punch to Terra's cheek. She backed up and double kicked him in the chest, offically knocking him on his rear end and calling it.

"I give," Eric said. "You're not as rusty as you may think."

"Thanks," said Terra as she glared at Hector. "Okay you...Jaime's son, right? Get over here. I'm old enough to be your mother!"

"But you would be one hot mamasita," Hector said as he got to the tumbling mats.

"Just stop flirting! I'm not interested!" cried Terra.

"But everyone loves me; ask the women," Hector continued.

Virgil Jr. spit out his lemonade. He nearly choked on his laughter.

Hector stood there, smiling. Of course, not taking the sparing seriously, he presented his backside to Terra. "First shot."

"Turn around, idiot!" she told him.

"Aw, c'mon. Afraid I'll stop you?" he asked.

Terra fumed. She rushed him, spearing him from behind and to the mat.

Hector had the air knocked out of him. He gasped as he hit the mat.

"You should have turned around, you fool," she said, getting up.

"I believe she is truly not interested," the Scarab said to Hector.

"Uh..." Hector agreed.

There was a series of pops as a grayish portal opened up. Dozens of Slade Bots invaded the gymnastics room.

The four heroes stood there, shocked.

"What the-!?" cried Shock as he sent electrical pulses at the first line of Slade Bots, shutting them down.

But dozens more were coming through.

"RUN!" Terra cried to the younger heroes as she ran for a boa staff and twirled it above her head before attacking.

Shock didn't need to be told twice. He and Robin (IV) grabbed Blue Beetle (IV) and got out of the gymnastics room-

ONLY to get caught in the crossfire between Cyborg, Black Canary and Donna Troy with incoming Slade Bots that were coming through the same portal as the first group did.

**Oh boy. Well, the LOD didn't take to their HQ being invaded by heroes none too kindly... What will the heroes do? And when will OMEGA SQUAD come to the rescue!? **