Note: sorry about missing yesterday's chapter my electricity was down ad there was no way I could write it.
SorifTheHunter
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, 5:14 PM. Somewhere in New York.
Roy was looking around the corner with Agni and Zatanna behind him.
"Robin is over there on that building." He whispered
"How are we going to get there?" asked Zatanna watching the guards patrolling the shadows.
Agni chuckled softly "I'm not a wizard for no reason." He said placing a hand on each of their shoulders and smiled, with a small cracking noise they opened their eyes to see that they were on the roof with Robin a few feet in front of them about to throw his batarang.
"Oh it's you guys." he said looking back over the wall to where they were a second ago, "Weren't you just there a second ago?"
Roy collapsed to the floor clutching his stomach
Agni held himself up by holding onto the ledge of the roof swaying slowly. "Whoa teleportation is very different on this dimension." He looked at Zatanna who was standing up with no problems at all. "You're used to it?" he asked straightening himself up and walking towards Robin
"Yes I used to teleport a lot you should know it would be different in another dimension especially one so different from the one you're from." She said
"Your father was a boring teacher I tended fall asleep during his classes." Agni said looking at the building there were supposed to be going into.
Zatanna rolled her eyes and joined Robin and Agni at the edge of the roof.
"Where's Conner and his team?" she asked
Agni pointed in front of them where Conner was standing hidden in the shadows with Wally next to him
"I can't see them." Said Zatanna staring in the direction he pointed in.
"That's because he's using infravision. Or both of us are blind." Robin said then said something into his intercom. "Yeah he's over there." He said to Zatanna
"Where is Aqualad?" asked Roy now felling better stood next to them on the edge of the roof.
"He's under water looking for an entrance. We should enter now." Robin said
Agni nodded his head. "I guess I 'm going to need those things you all have in your ears." He said with a frown
Robin nodded and tossed one at him "I brought one for you and take this." He tossed something at him. "If you see computer plug this into it."
Agni looked at it. "What will it do?"
Robin smiled, "Download any information in their computers."
Agni nodded and motioned to Zatanna and Roy to follow him. "If you find Richie or Zatanna get out of there as fast as you can"
Robin nodded and pulled out his grappling hook and swung down off the roof.
"Where's Miss M?" asked Roy
"She's down there waiting for him. You guys ready?"
They nodded and followed him off the roof.
Agni sent a signal that told Conner that he could start his attack. They waited a few moments before they started hearing very loud bangs, explosions and shouts.
"That's our signal." Agni said grabbing a window sill and opening it. "Common guys let's move."
On the inside was an almost empty room with a few crates in it, Agni rolled behind one and looked around.
"There's an elevator over there." Roy said pointing across the room. "But it's being guarded."
Zatanna came up beside them "I'll take care of it." She pointed the wand Agni gave her and said "Egnahc rieht sehtolc otni sgnidnib!" The guards fell to the ground tied up.
"Nice wand." Roy said turning to say something to Agni but found him not where he was a second before. "Damn it, where did he go?"
"Over here." Agni Said walking up dragging 2 guards by their feet. "I found these two lurking next to that big gate over there." Said Agni dropping them
They walked over to the elevator and Agni pressed his ear against it.
"Are you sure we should go down in this thing?" asked Zatanna
"We're not; we are going to slide down." Agni said pulling out a grenade from his belt and took a few steps back. "I'm going to use this." He said tossing it up and down
"What happened to stealthy entering?" asked Roy face palming
Agni smirked and tossed his grenade at the door to the elevator, it exploded soundlessly splashing the door with acid quickly melting it.
"You got to give me some of those." Roy said
Agni walked to the acid dissolved doorway and levitated in. "None of you can fly right?"
"I can levitate." Zatanna said joining him above the looming darkness down the elevator shaft. "And I can levitate Red Arrow down."
Roy looked down "I think I could slide down."
"Okay. Meet you down there." Agni said slowly descending down.
Zatanna nodded at him and followed Agni. Roy gulped and slowly slid down.
At the lower down Agni was leaning against the metal door waiting for everyone to catch up. He had lined the wall with farie fire to light the.
Zatanna slowly lowered herself next to him and asked him why there were not going down lower.
"Start here work our way down." Agni said catching Roy as he slid down.
"Thank you." Roy said "How are we going to get in without being seen by guards?"
Agni levitated back and pulled out his bow and notched a regular arrow. "Watch and learn… literally." Agni shot the arrow and it phased through the door. They heard a grunt on the other side and what sounded like something hitting the ground. Agni threw another grenade and melted the door away. There was a man holding a gun slumped on the floor with an arrow sticking out of his back
"Did you kill him?" asked Roy in a low voice
"No, but he won't feel very good when he wakes up it was tipped with sleeping potion." Agni replied also in a low voice
He walked over to the guy and picked up his rifle and tucked it into his Bag of Holding.
"What are you doing?" hissed Roy
Agni looked up in surprise "Looting… what else would I be doing?"
Roy rubbed his forehead "In this dimension it's called stealing."
"How else do you finance your equipment and all the stuff you need?"
Roy began to explain but Zatanna shushed him and went too peered around the corner and came back. "6 armored hostiles." She whispered
Agni pulled 2 of his mini crossbows from his belt but these were different they had magazines coming out the bottom.
"This will be fun!" Agni said. He walked around the corner and shot several times from his crossbow.
Roy and Zatanna could here stuff crashing onto the floor while they waited for Agni to come back.
"Everyone's down Agni said coming back around slipping his crossbows back into their holsters.
They ran down the corridor checking all the rooms they found, most of them were barracks that were empty.
"There must be another way in and out." Roy said opening yet another empty room.
Agni ran a hand through his hair (he did it very often) "They're waiting for us down the hall in a large room."
They stopped and thought of what they should do next.
"Air vents. We should go through them" said Roy
Agni looked up and noticed there were two vents going in different directions "You two can go up and use the element of surprise we will distract them long enough. Agni said
"Who's we?" asked Zatanna
Agni whistled and said "Come to me Beowulf my shadowy companion"
There was suddenly a black hole in the floor and a large black bear climbed out of it and paddled up to Agni.
"Wow." Roy said
"A familiar, I should have guessed. What happened to small time wizard?"
"I'm modest." Agni laughed rubbing his bear's head
"You really like black don't you?" said Roy inching closer to the bear.
"It makes me look bad-ass, aren't I right Beowulf?" Agni said
The bear rolled its eyes and pawed Agni's hood
"I don't wear that anymore Beo I stopped hiding who I am." Agni said "Somewhat…"
Beowulf roared and stood up.
"Okay guys you go through the vents I'll give you as much time as I can." Agni said walking up to the door
Roy and Zatanna disappeared up the vents. Agni opened the door and walked in. There were soldiers standing around the room pointing the guns ant him.
"Stop right there and drop your weapons."
Agni looked around disgusted "You got to be kidding me. You couldn't think of anything better"
In another room
Robin and Miss Martian had no problems getting down. There searched the place finding no one.
"Conner must be putting up a really big fight if everyone had to go up to him." Robin said
"Or they might have found Agni and the others."
Robin shrugged and kept walking, he opened a door to his right and looked in
"Found a computer room finally." He said walking up to the nearest computer, he plugged it into his wrist computer and started downloading. He typed something and pointed at the screen.
"They are keeping a girl prisoner, most likely Zatanna from the other dimension. And look at this." Robin said
Agni was standing in the middle of a room with a bear beside him. The room filled with smoke and there were several explosions and what sounded like growls, shouting, something being said backwards and someone laughing. It took several minutes for the smoke to clear out leaving Agni, with his crossbow in hand, in the middle of the room with Zatanna, Roy and Beo.
"That's a big bear you got there." Robin said into his intercom
Agni turned around and looked around then put his finger to his intercom
"Yeah, like it?"
"Why didn't you use him before?" asked Roy
"I only use him when I need to because he tires if he's on the materiel plane." Agni paused "That would be here." He added
"Ahh, so we found where they are holding Zatanna and Richie." Robin said
"Where is Richie?" asked Agni "We'll get him. I rather not get Zatanna."
"Why?" asked the Zatanna who was standing next to him.
Agni gulped. "We might have had a little row before the battle that we were sent here in."
"You mean you two were fighting?" said Robin cheerfully
Agni glared at the ceiling "You could say that…"
"What was it ab-" Robin continued
"Robin if you don't shut up I swear I will hang you off the Bio-Ship by your toenails."
Robin shuddered "Okay I'll stop… but I'm going to find out later. I'll send the coordinates to Red Arrow."
Agni sighed and returned his crossbow to its holster "Where do we go from here?" he asked Roy
"Down the hall. Down about 2 flights of stairs and a left from there. Let's go."
Robin watched them run down the hall then he turned and went in the opposite direction with M'gann. They ran down the hall and don a flight of stairs. They reached a door that was locked from the other side.
"She's somewhere in there. Go check if there is someone on the other side." Robin said to Miss M
M'gann nodded and phased through the door, she was back a second later. "There waiting for us." She said
Robin nodded and hooked up some explosives to the door. He took a step back and hit the trigger making the door blow off its hinges into the room. He tossed some smoke pellets in and the room filled with smoke. The soldiers inside started shooting randomly in the doors direction, Robins devious laughter ran throughout the room frightening them. They began to hear themselves being knocked out in the smoky darkness. Robin was leaping from one person to another hitting them with his Eskrima sticks. Batarangs spun throughout the room knocking people out. Smoke cleared out as Dick and M'gann searched the place. They saw a single door at the far side of the room. They looked at each other and nodded. They ran to the door and Robin kicked it down and sprung into the room. There was only a bed in the room with a girl tied down to it with her mouth gagged. She was able to raise her head and looked at them; her eyes opened and she struggled trying to motion at something.
Robin turned around and a large man swung a baseball bat at his head. He ducked barrel rolled out of thee way. Dick stood up and smiled widely at him.
"I wouldn't try again if I were you." He said
The man sneered at him and swung again.
But his bat was halted mid-swing, he look at his bat as it started to float away. He looked at Robin with horror on his face as he started to float in the air. Behind him Miss M laughed and launched him into the wall. Robin dashed over to the bed and removed the gag from Zatanna's mouth. She took a deep breath and said "yam eht sdnib emoceb inghton." She said, watching the straps fade away.
"Thank you!" she said standing up slowly wobbling trying to catch her balance.
She shook out her medium length black hair and brushed the wrinkles out of her clothes. She looked almost exactly like Zatanna everything from the hair to her physical appearance and bright cyan colored eyes. She was wearing a white shirt with a dark grey jacket with numerous small pockets on the inside; she was wearing a tight white bow tie that was around her neck with gray stockings and black boots reaching midway up her calves. She had black earrings in her ears and a black pearl around her neck. It was an exact replica of Zatanna except for one thing; she had pointed ears sticking out from the back of her hair.
She looked at them in appreciation "You have my thanks strangers." She said eyeing them "You must have been sent by the Blackranger." She said as statement more then a question
"Yes we have, he went to go find Richie." M'gann said
"Thought so… he knows I'm angry with him." Zatanna looked them over "You must be this dimensions Richie what may I call you?
"Robin and this is Miss Martian." Dick said
"How are we going to get out of here?" Zatanna asked
"Same way we came in. Where's you equipment?"
"They took it. I think they said it was to an armory."
Robin looked at her for several minutes deciding what he should do. "Miss M get her out of here I'll get her equipment."
M'gann nodded and helped Zatanna out the door.
Outside there was a whole company of guards pointing their guns at them. Robin appeared in the doorway and raised his hand to throw a batarang
A gun went off knocking it right out of his hand.
"Get on your knees or we shoot!" someone said
Robin's ear twitched and he smiled "Sure we'll get down but I would suggest you would do the same."
A rush of water came pouring down from above them and Kaldur dropped down in front of them using his Water-Bearers to direct the water at the guards. When everyone one stopped shooting.
"Hello I hope I didn't miss anything." Kaldur said replacing his Water-Bearer's to his shoulders.
"Not much I was going to get her equipment and Miss M was going to get her Zatanna of here." Robin said
"There will be no need for that, I found this wand and bag with runes on it and assumed it belong to her so I brought it along." Kaldur said taking the wand out of his pocket and the bag off his back. "And I found this cloak in a testing room I also assumed it belonged to you. I put it in the bag." He continued holding up a
"Thank you Kaldur." Zatanna said pulling her cloak out of the bag and onto herself she stuck the wand in a designated pocket and smiled at them. "We should get going, no?"
"Where are Agni and the others?" asked Kaldur
"What others?" Zatanna asked
M'gann and Kaldur looked at Robin who gulped. "He's looking for Richie with Roy the Red Arrow." Robin said quickly leading them out of the room and down the hall.
"You're hiding something." Zatanna said suspiciously.
"No, Zatanna not at all." Robin said
"Call me Anna it's what most people call me."
"He's also with our dimensions Zatanna" blurted M'gann
Anna's eyes narrowed, "Oh is he? Rather run off with a different me than face me like a man or elf, does he?" She shook her head in disgust "Oh I'm going to have a nice long talk with him later?"
"What did you two fight about?" Kaldur asked
"You'll find out soon enough."Anna replied
A floor down and a little east from where Dick was standing.
"He's behind this door." Roy was saying notching an arrow. "Time to stop sneaking around and let them know what's coming."
Agni nodded his head in agreement and kicked the door open. With his crossbow out he entered and looked around.
A boy looking exactly like Dick and dressed in almost the same exact clothes was standing up with guns being pointed at him. Richie was being held at point blank gunpoint by two guards, chained to the chair.
"Hiyas Agni I'm in a bit of a situation here… care to help me out?" Richie said cheerfully smiling widely.
"You there with the dark skin drop the bow or the pointy eared freak gets it."
"OI! Who you calling a pointy eared freak?"
The guard smacked him in the back of his neck. "Now drop that bow."
Agni slowly lowered his hands in till they were level with the guard's chests he dropped the bow and clenched his hands really tight jerking them down.
Two three inch darts shot out of his bracers and hit the guards knocking then out almost immediately they slumped to the floor.
Agni ran over to Richie and helped him up and gave him a warm hug. Roy and Zatanna came in with their weapons drawn but lowered them when they saw the guys on the floor. Beowulf growled from outside.
"I see you didn't need any help" said Roy
Richie stared at them "You must be this dimensions Roy and Zatanna. I see why you didn't go rescue Anna first, she must be still mad with you."
Agni nodded his head solemnly
"But running around with this Zatanna is going to really piss her off."
"We're not running around we're rescuing you." Zatanna said
"Feel free to tell that to her."
Richie looked at Agni again and realized something. "Uh Agni you're not wearing your hood…"
Agni smiled and shook his head "I don't wear it anymore."
Richie stared in shock "Well this is very whelming." He said after a few moments
Roy groaned "Yup it's defiantly him."
"You realize Master Bruce is going to kill you, right?" Richie asked, rubbing his wrists.
Outside they found another room holding his equipment they helped him get it all on (it was almost as much as Agni except a lot of throwing stars, other bladed throwing items and a collapsible boa staff. On their way out Agni plugged in the, as he called it 'The little piece of that gods damned technology', Dick gave him into a computer and downloaded all the information it could. They ran to an elevator and blasted the door open and Roy shot an arrow up and began to climb Richie went up after him with trouble Zatanna was about to levitate up but Agni stopped her to tell her something
"I got to go do a few things you guys go ahead I'll meet you guys back at mount justice." Agni said "Don't wait for me."
"Okay…" said Zatanna she waved goodbye and levitated
Agni ran into the room where that had the big fight and took out his portable hole; he laid it on the ground and took out from it a large sled and several saddle bags. He called Beowulf to him and strapped the bags and sled to him. He proceeded to loot the whole place taking all the weapons he could find and packing them onto the sled. He continued to work whistling to himself as he packed up weapons and ay valuables he found.
"Now this is exactly what I had a feeling you'd be doing." Said Zatanna from behind him
Agni spun around with his hidden dagger out but slipped it back when he saw who it was. "Where are Roy and Richie?"
"They went back I came back down to keep you company." She said
Agni put the last gun on top of the sled and patted the bear as it walked through a portal back into its plane of existence.
"How did I not detect you aura?" Agni asked turning to face her.
"I hid it very easily."
"And that is why I never tell anyone I can detect them."
Zatanna smiled and tilted her head. "Do you have a problem with me sneaking up on you?"
Agni returned the smile and laughed "Well I can't really say I do." He said walking up to her.
Zatanna smiled and blushed under the dark elf's red eyes as they gazed into hers, suddenly hearing something that sounded like a magazine being slid into place, Tey jumped away from each other with weapons out.
Lex Luthor was standing there with his body guard Mercy next to him.
"Well what do we have here Doctor Fate's brat and the legendary Black-Ranger that I have been hearing about a lot lately." He said in that calm voice of his
Agni sighed and slowly slid his hand into his cloak "And who might you be?"
"That's Lex Luthor." Zatanna whispered "He's the one who created Conner."
"Lex is what you may call me." Lex said "Now when Abaddon told me to catch an elf he didn't say I would have to fight the whole Young Justice team."
Agni eyes narrowed dangerously "You're working with Abaddon?"
Lex shook his head "I work with him as a partner and I will rule by his side when he conquers this world." Lex looked at his watch "Well I must be going Mercy take it from here."
Mercy looked at Lex and nodded her head and looked back to Agni with her arm now in the shape of a gun. "Please drop all your weapons or else I'll be forced to hit kill the girl."
Agni smirked "And what makes you think you'll be able to kill her?"
"You may not be able to be hurt by bullets but the girl can."
"Can you teleport us out?" Zatanna whispered
"No. they have something that's disrupting all my magic you must be able to feel it too."
Zatanna nodded and said "What are we going to do?"
"Follow my lead."
Agni took of his bow, quiver and sword and dropped them to the ground, he then took off his belt that had on it the knives and crossbows and dropped that onto the floor too. "There I dropped them"
Mercy eyed him "The knife in your boot and gun on your back."
Agni smiled and took them off to
"Take the grenades off your should and place them gently on the ground." She ordered
Agni smiled and did as he was told "There all my weapons, I can't summon anything because of your magic disrupter so that means Zatanna can't use anything either, happy now?" Agni asked
Mercy sent over a few men who cuffed Agni and Zatanna's hands and led them down a few flights and into a small for where there were left to hang a few feet above the air. They also left Agni's weapons in a large chest that was padlocked in the room next door.
"The cameras are down." Said Zatanna shifting her weight a little
"Robin took them out?" Agni asked
"It was most likely the first thing he did."
Agni flexed his wrist and a small lock pick flew into his hand and he began picking the lock
"They forgot the bracers?"
"I am the only one who can take it off."
Agni dropped to the ground and freed Zatanna. They opened both doors leading out of the room one just held Agni's stuff in a chest the other led into a large empty room Agni went over to the chest and bent down next to it.
"We got to get out of here and back to the cave and to think that a few minutes ago we were about to kiss. Damn I have bad luck" Agni said absently beginning to pick the lock to the chest.
"How did you not notice their auras?" Zatanna asked checking the door to see if anyone as coming.
"I was a bit preoccupied if you remember. You looking at you is quite distracting."
Zatanna blushed and check her pocket for the wand she took out and examined it. Agni popped the chest lid open and put all his weapons back to their places. He handed Zatanna a crossbow "Here use this." He said "You may need it."
Zatanna accepted the crossbow and opened the door. There were four guards with their backs towards them. Agni walked up to two of them in the back and drew out his crossbow he shot the first and kicked the second in the back of the knee and bashed him upside the head. The other two turned around and were shot by Zatanna.
"We have to get out of range of the thing that's messing up our magic." Agni said
They ran down the hall taking out a few sentries but didn't stop.
"Look at all the good loot we are leaving behind." Agni said mournfully
Zatanna rolled her eyes and kept running. The lights went out and they heard footsteps running at them. Agni grabbed Zatanna and pulled her behind her and turned around.
"I'm assuming you're not very good at blending into the shadows." He whispered
"Not really." She said
"You know you have beautiful eyes."
"Now is not the place or time to compliment me." Zatanna said staring into his currently purple eyes.
They guards ran by and Agni and Zatanna swung off heading towards the elevator.
"I can start to feel my magic coming back, just a bit further" said Zatanna
Agni nodded his head and tossed a grenade at the door it exploded setting off the alarms.
"Whoops wrong grenade." Agni said
They were able to levitate up the elevator shaft when they heard it coming down.
"Damn the abysses I just need a bit more." Agni said scowling at the incoming elevator. "Just a bit more." Agni said gritting his teeth the elevator was coming down fast.
Zatanna closed her eye and grabbed Agni.
And they disappeared with a crack they were gone.
Longest chapter so far, now doesn't that deserve a review?
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