Disclaimer: I do not own Young Justice, all rights go to their respective owners I only own Agni, the Rangers and the plot
April 8, 4:17. Training Room, Mount Justice.
Agni ducked Kaldur's swing, and lunged his own blade upwards at him; Kaldur crossed his swords and blocked it as he kicked his foot between his Water-Bearer's hilts. Agni dropped on to his back and caught Kaldur's foot twisting and pulling him onto the floor. Agni jumped back up to meet Kaldur again with his fighting knives out this time attacking him with a spinning technique not allowing Kaldur to regain his footing. Kaldur swung one sword high and the other low, Agni jumped back out of his reached and lashed out his sword knocked Kaldur's Water-Bearers to the ground and pointed his knife under his chin.
Agni sheathed his knives and blade. Picking up Kaldur's Water-Bearers back to him, he said. "I like your technique but you leave many holes in your defenses." Agni said bowing to him
Kaldur bowed back. "It is very rare I fight someone with you skill in sword fighting. I try very hard to prefect my fighting style."
"It is fine if you are fighting someone with a bow or someone that does not fight with a sword but against another swordsman, you had holes in your defenses and you must be able to regain your balance after a failed attack."
"I will do what I can to fix my defenses." Said Kaldur
"Good, we'll be going out on a mission later so rest up."
Kaldur waved goodbye to Agni and walked out
Agni looked over to Wally. "Hey Wally com'ere" Agni shouted
Wally looked up and walked over to him. "What's up?" he asked
Agni removed a bottle from his belt and tossed it at him. "Take this use it well."
Wally opened it and peered at the liquid in it. "What is it?"
"Invisibility potion." Agni said looking through his quiver
"Sure it is." Scoffed Wally
Agni glared at him, shutting him up. "Fine, then give it back."
Wally looked at the bottle for a moment "I'll try it."
Agni nodded his head "Can you do me favor?"
"Sure thing, what is it?"
"Go find Artemis and Roy. Tell them I need to talk to them."
A few minutes later Roy and Artemis walked into the room
Agni threw them each a quiver, "These are a bunch of my special arrows." He said "The mithril tipped ones will go through just about anything; the ones with the green heads will explode like a fireball on impact. The one with black heads will release a smoke that will knock anyone out in about a 10 meter diameter from where it hits. Use them well." And without another word he walked out the door leaving Roy and Artemis staring at the arrows. Once the door closed behind him he smiled to himself, he was playing mentor to them quite well. He would make them into fine Arcane Archers before he left. The dark elf strode down the hall he smiled again.
"I think I did that pretty well. Don't you think so M'gann?" said Agni to the wall
M'gann phased out with a look of resignation on her face. "I'm never going to be able to sneak up on you am I?" she asked
Agni smiled "Not unless you knock me out with a cooking pan. How was your day?" Agni asked, not pausing his stride.
"You know what I'm going to ask." M'gann said
"No I am sure I do not. But I do know that Batman wants us."
"How do- never mind just tell me what I want to know."
"Team, please come to the mission room for briefing." Came a call from Batman over the intercom
"Can I say I told you so?" Agni asked. He looked at M'gann who was glaring at him. "Okay, okay." He said "Why don't you go ask her." He said running down the hall before she could reply
At the end of the hallway he saw Robin also running towards the mission room.
"Ready for the mission?" Dick said when Agni reached him
"As ready as I'll ever be." Agni replied
They entered the mission room and waited for everyone to show up. A few minutes everyone was in the room Batman began the briefing
"Team today you will be rescuing 2 of Agni's teammates who we think are in a Cadmus base in New York City." A hologram appeared in front of them. "We think it is underground so you might find a way in through the pier or you might just break your way in it's up to you." Batman said looking at Kaldur
"If I may Batman I would like to give this mission to Agni for it's his teammate we are rescuing."
"Agni you may accept the leadership of the mission."
"I do." Agni said, he stared at the hologram "Well it's obviously going to be well defended so I think it would be best if we set up a distraction and have a few of us silently slipped in."
"I think that's probably a smart thing to do." Said Robin
"Then set your plans, I will be going." Batman said "Good luck"
Agni gazed at the hologram some more "Okay here's what I've decided: Conner, Wally, Artemis and Wolf you're going to enter from the front door blowing things up as you go along, I want you to take your time doing it because you will be the distraction."
"But I wanted to go help save you teammates." Grumbled Conner
"You'd rather sneak around underground than blow random stuff up?" asked Agni
"Well when you put it that way I guess you're right." Conner said
Agni looked at Kaldur and said "You will enter from the pier trying to find an entrance from there."
"That sounds good to me." Kaldur said nodding his head in approval.
"Robin and Miss M will enter as one stealth team, Roy and me as the other and that only leaves Zatanna. Uh you can pick to go with either me, Robin or Conner." Agni said looked up from the hologram he was studying.
"I want to think about it." Zatanna said
"Okay." Agni said looking around at everyone else "Is everyone okay with their positions?"
No one said no so Agni pulled a few flasks out of his bag and handed one to everyone. "This is for if you get hurt." He said. "It will let you regain most your strength and heal small wounds in a few minutes after drinking."
"Does it work?" asked Wally
"It's saved my hide many times." Agni said. "We leave in 5 minute okay?" everyone agreed "Zatanna please choose who you will be joining by then." He added before he walked out to go to his room
Everyone filtered out leaving only M'gann and Zatanna still there.
"You're going with him aren't you?" asked M'gann
Zatanna looked are her trying to hide her blush "Yes I am. Is there something wrong with that?"
"No but everyone is going to think you like him if you keep following him like that." M'gann said
"Maybe I do like him." Zatanna retorted
M'gann smiled "I finally got you to admit it."
Zatanna stared at her furiously "So what if I like him what's wrong with that? He's incredibly nice, and you can't say he isn't handsome… for someone with almost purple skin and white hair."
M'gann shook her head surprised at Zatanna's outburst "You should know that he does like you but he gave up the idea because he thought you weren't interested. And for other reasons he refused to tell me."
"How do you know all this?"
M'gann grinned "We chat a lot telepathically."
Before Zatanna could say anything Agni (who was wearing his cloak just without the hood on entered the room with Robin next to him, they were discussing fighting techniques and styles. They hardly seem to notice M'gann and Zatanna in till everyone else entered.
"Uh… Zatanna did you pick because we need to go now." Agni said
Zatanna looked at both of them "I want to go with Agni to see some magic he uses, if that's okay with you Robin."
"Fine with me." Said Robin cheerfully
"Does my opinion matter?" mumbled Conner to himself
"Okay Robin meets me in the building across from our target Conner await my orders to attack Kaldur you go ahead and stay contacted over intercom. Everyone ready? Let's move out!" Agni said
Conner and Wally ran towards the garage to get Sphere while Robin and M'gann went to the Bio-ship, Kaldur went outside and walked into the water and swan off while what did Agni do?
He went to call his horse
"How are we supposed to get there?" demanded Roy
"Be patient young one, be patient."
In front of them three horses started forming out of air.
"Will we get there in time?" asked Roy
"Why don't you ask the horses?" said Agni patting his horse on the neck
A little while later while riding horses
Roy was riding his horse a bit far away from them so Agni took the opportunity to talk to Zatanna
"Uh Zatanna could you spare a moment to talk with me?" he asked riding up to her
"Do you always start your sentence with uh or is that only for me?"
Agni thought about it for a second "You are correct; I do seem to only star my sentences with 'uh' when I'm talking to you. You have my apologies Mistress Zatanna."
"You don't have to apologize for everything Agni."
Agni nodded his head making a mental note of what she said "I wanted to give you this." He said holding out a beautiful looking wand with runes and roses etched into it.
Zatanna gazed at its perfect craftsmanship and exact runes on it "Where could you have gotten such a lovely wand?" she asked when she was done looking at it
"It was a wand I made a long time ago. I have only used it a few times. I carved it with many different runes to make it very powerful. I was looking for something to give you and I found this in my portable hole."
Zatanna leaned over to him and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you so very much for such a present."
Agni rubbed the spot where she kissed him without realizing it while Zatanna giggled at him.
"I was wondering how would you like doing something together or sometime when were not on our way to kick-ass or training? Like maybe a picnic or whatever people do in this dimension,"
Zatanna looked at him for a moment to see if he was joking. "Sure sounds like a nice plan
"We're almost there" Roy called from in front. "So if you two could stop talking and get over here that would be nice."
Agni nodded to Zatanna and they rode up to Roy.
"We're here guys." He said solemnly
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