Young Justice: Shinobi

Prologue

Star City, California, USA. Earth-16

November 25th 2004, 22:45 EST

It was a cold and wet evening in Star City, people were in the streets, busy with their own lives and business, but that's not where our story takes us. No, the story takes us to another location within the city

A car was saw, barrel down a freeway while passing the other cars on the road.

"***, are you sure that they won't get to us?" A long red-haired Asian woman asks a spiky-haired American man who was the driver of the car they were in as they were barrelling down the freeway

"I'm positive ***. I set the house to ablaze just before they came there for us." The blonde man says as he continues to drive

"But...do we have to leave? We were so happy with our lives in the city." The woman says, feeling that

"I know, I know that this was sudden and I know that this was your dream to come and raise a family in New York but we had to drop everything and escape. They're after our son, you know his meta-gene is something I've never seen during my time as a researcher. His Mete-gene is...extraordinary. I've never seen anything close to his in my life and career as a scientist." The man says, narrowly dodging a car. He looks at his flip phone and searches through his contacts for the one person he thinks thought to help them out

"I'm going to call ***** and ask him if he hides us in his house. Just for a little while until this whole thing cools down. If he can't, call your sister and ask her if she can come and take our son and hide him while we divert the attention away from him." The man says, the woman looks at him with a look of uncertainty

"I...don't know. I haven't talked to *** in ages. The last time I spoke to her was when she came to look after him when a few months from he was born and that was years ago." The woman says. She wasn't even sure that her sister was still out in the open since she hadn't any news on her in recent months "But...you know, if we do this, we might never see our baby again. Right?" The woman says, she turns back to the backseat and looks at the child in question

"I know, and I'm fully prepared for that. Even if it means, I'll never be able to see my son grow up and be in his life again just to keep him safe. I'll gladly pay that price." The man says, with competent

Just then, another vehicle collides with their car, sending them flying and rolling quite a distance right before they crash into the divider of the freeway. The other vehicle that collided with the couple's car was a black unmarked armored truck. The truck drives up to the wrecked vehicle and comes to a stop. Just then, someone exits the truck and walks over to the wreckage, and looks into the car. They see that the blonde man was dead due to how his neck was twisted the other way. He looks over to the woman and sees that she was knocked unconscious. His attention is then turned to the backseat of the car as he spots a 5-year-old spiky blonde-haired boy wearing a black beanie hat on top of his head, with sun-kissed skin who was also unconscious. That boy was his target. He picks up the unconscious boy and reaches for something in his pocket, it was a device, he presses the device and an image started to be displayed from the device, then a voice spoke from it.

"Do you have the child?" A voice spoke through the device

"I got him, sir." The masked man says, showing the boy

"Good, bring him to Washington. There is a lab there where we can bring our little package there and begin our projects. And make sure that you leave the scene as if a hit and run had happened." The voice says as the masked man nods