Apart of the team Young Justice fanfiction

Drop zone

The Bio-Ship flew through the air at over Mach five as the entire team was gathered inside mentally preparing themselves for their first official mission.
"We're approaching Santa-Prisca" Miss Martian announced as Alex looked through her aliens and made a mental list of who she wanted to change into first. She had never truly been on a strategic mission with stealth being a requirement. Whenever there was mission back home, she would just walk in and beat up the bad guys with her brother and friends, it was that simple. Now however; she has to be careful with her transformations and her glowing bright pink hair considering a bright green light or pink light may give away her location.
1 hour ago
The team was gathered in the main hall of Mount Justice in their civilian clothes as Batman introduced their first real mission.
"Isla, Santa Prisca" Batman announced as he pulled up a satellite image of the island on a holo-screen "This island nation is the primary source of a dangerous and illegal neo-steroid. A strength enhancing drug, sold under the street name 'Venom', Infrared heat signatures indicate that the factories are still running at full capacity but, all shipments of Venom have been cut off. That's where this team comes in. This is a covert recon mission only, observe and report. If the Justice League needs to intervene it will."
Alex looked over to Megan who seemed extremely nervous.
"Hey, don't worry about it" Alex nudged at her in a whisper "I used to do this kind of thing all the time" her comforting didn't need to be factual, did it?
Megan smiled at her as they both turned to listen to Batman once more.
"So who's in charge?" Robin asked as Red Tornado shared a look with Batman before turning back to the team.
"Work that out amongst your selves" Batman said.
...
Present
"Drop Zone A ready to deploy?"
Aqualad stood up and pressed the symbol on his belt which caused his red Atlantean body armor to turn into a black variant.
"Ready" he said with determination.
"Putting the Bio-Ship in camouflage mode" Miss Martian announced as the ship disappeared from sight.
A small hole in the ship opened up as it flew closer to the water, Aqualad leaped out of the hole in the ship and head first into the water.
After a few minutes of silence Aqualad's voice came through the coms "Heat and motion sensors have been patched, data's now on a continuous loop, move in"
"Drop Zone B" Miss Martian announced as she stood from her seat and the control center melted back into the ship. She lifted her arm at the ceiling of the ship and long purple cables formed down from it.
Robin and Kid Flash attached the lines to themselves.
Kid tapped the symbol on his suit causing the color scheme to go from yellow and red to black, grey, and red. "How cool is this?" Kid asked Miss Martian who smiled.
"Very impressive" she responded as she shifted her costume to a red and black variant.
"Uh that works too, hey Alex, Superboy! It's your last chance to try out the new stealth tech."
Alex chuckled lightly "I don't think I'll be needing it" "No cape, no tights, no offence" Superboy said
"It totally works for you" Miss Martian hummed as she stared at Superboy. "As in that its good that you can totally do good work in those clothes" she gave a thumbs up causing Superboy to raise his eyebrow.
After this happened Miss Martian covered up her blushing face with her hood, fading into the back ground with her camouflage mode.
Alex slammed the dial of the Ultimatrix and her preset alien, the green light engulfed the ship and what remained was a large purple lizard with darker purple camo-esque spots all over her body and a short tail. She had three triangular eyes, the left being blue, the right red and the top green.
"This is all the stealth I'll need" the creature chuckled and let her skin fade into the background as she entered a camouflage mode of her own.
When the hole in the floor of the ship opened up, Miss Martian hopped through and floated to the ground followed by ChamAlien, Kid Flash and Robin.
After they had all landed and detached themselves, Superboy jumped down like the others. The only difference being that he didn't attach his line before jumping. As he landed from over a hundred feet up, he caused the ground to shake and massive crater to form.
"Knew I didn't need a line" Superboy chuckled.
"And yet causing a seismic event may not have helped us much with the 'covert' part of the mission"
"Aqualad, Drop B is a go"
"Head for the factory, I'll track your GPS and rendezvous ASAP"
"Roger that" Robin replied.
ChamAlien and Miss Martian reentered their stealth modes as the five teenagers dashed through the jungle.
After running for a while; Superboy stopped running as he had heard branches and twigs being stepped on somewhere nearby. "Did you guys hear that?"
Everyone stopped to look at the boy of steel and even ChamAlien and Miss Martian revealed themselves to listen more carefully. After seconds of nothing unusual, ChamAlien looked at Superboy and asked "Is this a super hearing thing or what?"
"Ok Rob, now what?" Kid Flash turned to ask the boy wonder who was nowhere to be found.
Kid threw his hands in the air "I hate it when he does that!"
ChamAlien took a serious tone. "Superboy, Kid, Switch to infrared vision and see if we're being followed"
The two nodded as Kid twisted the lens of his goggles and Superboy blinked a few times as to adjust his vision.
"I got a squad of armored bozos incoming" Kid announced
"Two squads, but they'll meet each other before they meet us" Superboy added.
Bullets sprayed as the shots echoed in the distance, Miss Martian put a worried hand to her mouth as Kid chuckled. "Guess we don't need super hearing after all"
"Swing wide, steer clear" ChamAlien advised.
"Yeah yeah just as soon as I find Rob" Kid sped out into the fray dodging bullets and energy rifles.
"Damn it Kid!" ChamAlien yelled as she slapped the symbol on her chest. The transformation once again malfunctioned causing her to transform into a random alien. A bulky, armored suit appeared with an oven like lid and three open slits with red light emerging from inside.
"NRG? Damn it!" She yelled in a thick Russian accent.
Kid sped up until he accidently tripped on a vine that sent him flying into the dirt and skidding to a halt right in front of a buff man wearing a black tank top and a white and black hockey mask.
"So much for the stealthy part" Kid dashed in the opposite direction barely dodging point blank gun fire.
The man in the mask had his sight set on Kid and was about to pull the trigger when a kryptonian fist caught him in the jaw and sent him off his feet and into a tree. Superboy landed on the man in a mount, he grabbed the gun and crushed the barrel with his grip before tossing it aside and sending three more hits to the face. The man grabbed hold of Superboy's torso with his legs and flipped the boy over his head and into the ground before hopping to his feet and smashing Superboy's head into the dirt with his fist. Superboy was about to get out of it when a bulky metal fist hooked the man across the face and sending him to the ground once more.
Two more men had set their sights on Kid who had disarmed half the assailants already. Before they could even fire, Robin jumped from a top a tree and kicked one guy in the face using his shoulder as a jumping board he round house kicked the second shooter in the face knocking them both out near simultaneously.
"What's wrong with you guys? Remember covert? Why didn't you follow my lead and vanish into the jungle?" Robin exclaimed as he hit two more guys in front of him with a Taser gun.
"That's what you were doing?" Kid Flash exclaimed as he finished knocking another man out. "Thanks for filling us in, we're not mind readers ya know!"
Miss Martian flew from behind him and pushed aside three armed men with her telekinesis.
"Well most of us aren't"
"You told me I could only read the bad guys' minds!"
As the leader of the first team was about to retreat he turned to face Aqualad who gently placed his hands on the leader's chest and generated his Atlantean bio electricity shocking the man and knocking him out cold before stepping on his weapon and crushing it.
...
"I recognize those uniforms" Robin mentioned "they belong to the cult of the Kobra"
"I'm sure Batman would have mentioned if he knew a dangerous extremist was running the Venom operation" Alex who had changed back to normal pointed out the obvious.
"Agreed and since there's clearly no love lost between the cultists and those goons, I'm betting Kobra walked in and kicked them out." Robin deduced. "That's why the normal shipments have been cut off"
"We get it, Kobra waned super-cultists mystery solved, radio bats and we can-" Kid was cut off by Alex.
"These cultists obviously aren't on Venom; Kobra's holding it all at once"
Robin grunted "Exactly and we don't leave until I find out why!"
"Until you find out why?" Kid commented.
"This team needs a leader!" Robin defended.
"And it's you? Dude you're a thirteen year old kid!" Kid got closer to Robins face as he narrowed his eyes under his domino mask. "Who ducked out on us without a word?"
Robin chuckled and backed up "And you're a mature sixteen?" Robin crossed his arms. "You blew our cover first chance you got!"
Miss Martian looked over to Superboy who was watching the argument.
"Don't you wanna lead?" She asked as Superboy crossed his arms and scoffed.
"You?"
"After the Mr. Twister fiasco?"
"You did alright" Superboy commented causing a casual smile to cross her face.
"Thanks" She said blushing .
As the fight continued the two walked past prisoners that they had previously tied up when the one in the hokey mask spoke up.
He laughed suddenly before speaking "Clever niños, but you only know half the story" he paused for a moment "Let me show you the rest, get you into the factory via my secret entrance"
"You're Bane, one of Batman's worst enemies, why should we trust you?" Aqualad asked rightfully.
Miss Martian knelt down beside the man and let her eyes glow green while she pried through his mind.
"There is a secret entrance but, he's also hiding something" Miss Martian narrowed her eyes before widening them in confusion "Ugh, he's mentally reciting football scores in Española, this could take a while" she turned to Alex who narrowed her eyes at Bane.
"It's not complicated; the enemy of my enemy is my friend"
...
Bane led them to a cliff where they could easily see the layout of the compound and factory as well as the landing strip for helicopters and planes.
Robin took out his binoculars and gasped lightly "Look at all of that product, a buy is going down but, if Kobra isn't selling to the usual suspects..."
Alex sighed "We need to identify that buyer"
"Just what I was thinking" Kid added.
"Yeah" Robin said sarcastically "You're the thinker"
"Sarcasm? Dude, a real leader would focus on getting through the mission not sarcastic remarks"
"My brother was the leader of my team in my Universe and trust me there was a lot of sarcasm involved" Alex remembered before sighing once again as Bane picked up a large boulder and tossed it aside revealing a mining tunnel.
"The mission is this way" Bane said waving them towards the tunnel before leading them inside.
"So, now El Luchador is our leader?"
Robin bumped Kid as he walked by him and into the tunnel.
They came across a panel with some buttons on it, Bane pressed a few and a door way opened up leading them into the factory.
"All clear" Robin said as they dashed through the room in silence.
Bane looked around moments later to find Robin nowhere in sight "Did that little fool already get caught?"
Alex looked around and sighed "No he just does that"
"Stay put, I'll get our Intel and get back before the boy wonder!" Kid dashed away as Alex called out to him in a loud whisper. "Damn it Kid!"
"Great chain of command" Bane muttered as he walked past them.
They walked until they came across a bunch of workers moving crates and lifting boxes; they ducked behind a stack of crates in the far corner and watched the workers do their jobs.
"It's a massive shipment" Aqualad pointed out.
"Yeah but they're only taking new product off the line, they aren't touching this Venom" Superboy mentioned referring to the crates of Venom they were observing from.
"Maybe freshness counts?" Miss Martian proposed only to be shot down by Aqualad.
"Doubtful, I have a hunch they've altered the formula somehow and that's why they would only need the new product because the old product hasn't been altered"
"Helicopter inbound" Superboy said before Alex could process her own deduction.
...
As the helicopter landed Miss Martian floated in the sky and ChamAlien on the ground next to the landing pad both in camouflage mode.
The helicopter opened and a man with blonde hair wearing bulky body armor and a hockey mask stepped out. As he approached the Cult Leader the man looked In Miss Martians direction and squinted but carried on as if nothing was wrong.
"Lord Kobra" the man said as a greeting.
"Sportsmaster, the shipment is ready" the cult leader said wearing a red cloak that hid most of his features other than his paper white skin.
A red headed woman with half her head of hair shaven walked up holding a small box, inside was eight viles of a blue liquid. "The new Kobra Venom?"
"A complete success" the cult leader said waving to his eight foot tall subordinate with massive muscles. "Our friends will not be disappointed"
"This is a game changer; finally we can go mono a mono with the Justice League!"
'Aqualad sending you a telepathic image of the buyer now' Miss Martian spoke through the mental link.
Aqualad focused on his thoughts as an image suddenly appeared in his head.
"Sportsmaster!" Aqualad exclaimed "He is the buyer? Aqualad to Red Tornado do you read?" static erupted from the com line.
"I can't reach the league, Robin, or Kid, we need a plan!" Aqualad said looking over to Superboy who shrugged.
"I have a suggestion" Bane said suddenly before jumping off of the cat walk they were hiding on and landing next to two cultists whom he back handed into the wall but not before they let some gun fire out.
"What is he-" Aqualad started before a massive beast busted through the window above him and grabbed Superboy by the head, dragging him off the cat walk and onto the ground twenty feet below.
The cult leader walked in and saw Aqualad with Superboy and Bane. "Destroy them!" the beast that attacked Superboy charged once again mere moments after the half-kryptonian had managed to get to his feet. This time Superboy met the creature mid-way stopping him in his tracks only to have himself picked up and tossed into the wall behind them.
Cultists began shooting at Aqualad who created a shield out of water with his water bearers. A green flash erupted from nowhere as a giant brown dinosaur grabbed the beast man-handling Superboy by the neck and tossed him aside. Humungousaur helped Superboy to his feet before charging the behemoth once again.
Bane used this distraction to slip away of course, he laughed maniacally first.
As Miss Martian began tossing cultists away with her telekinesis she caught the eye of Sportsmaster who was able to put two and two together. He narrowed his eyes at the shimmer floating above the battle and grabbed a small device from his belt that extended into a javelin. He threw the javelin directly at Miss Martian who barely managed to avoid the attack however as it passed her, the middle of the device glowed bright red before exploding in her face knocking the Martian to the ground.
Aqualad took cover behind a large metal container of some sort when two cultists came from behind and pointed their guns at him. It was a short lived victory as Kid Flash came from the side and drop kicked them to the ground.
"Miss Martian! Coms are jammed, link us up!"
Miss Martian got to her knees and nodded as the entire team felt a small nudge in their brains.
'Link established' she said before falling to her stomach again.
'Good, we need to regroup' Humungousaur said through the mental link as her physical voice growled due to her trading blows with the beast that was only known as Mammoth.
'Busy now' Robin said as he finished sabotaging the helicopter and landed in front of the cultist leader known as King Kobra.
'Robin now!' Humungousaur stressed as she tossed Mammoth aside and into the wall before landing a bone crushing punch to the face that also caused the entire wall to collapse.
Humungousaur slapped the symbol on her chest and a pink mess of goo with a UFO floating above her head appeared. 'Strategic retreat; Kid clear a path'
Kid Flash ran through the factory knocking cultists aside and relieving them of their weapons as Goop, Aqualad, Robin, Miss Martian and Superboy followed behind him. Once they were back behind the secret entrance, Superboy shut the door causing the light on the door to turn red signifying the lock had been activated. It was short lived as Mammoth had broken the door down with little effort.
"Aqualad the support beams!" Goop yelled as Aqualad formed a mace out of water and smashed apart the beams supporting this part of the tunnel on each side causing a cave in that blocked the cultists and even Mammoth from getting through.
Goop slapped the Ultimatrix and reverted back to Alex. As Aqualad snapped a glow stick in half lighting up the area.
"How could my first mission as leader go so wrong?" Robin asked as he looked at the large rocks blocking the nearest exit.
"You do have the most experience" Alex added "But maybe that's not a good thing, you and Batman have defined roles in your team and you don't really need to talk but, this team is new and a leader can't just expect us to know what to do"
Robin smiled and looked over to Alex "You're wrong"
Alex raised a brow "I am? I thought I was spot on"
"The last part was but, I've only been doing this for four years, you've been doing this for way longer"
"Oh yeah" Alex said rubbing her chin "I guess you're right"
"Who am I kidding?" Robin said "You should lead us Alex"
"I don't know about-"
"Hello Megan, it's so obvious!" Miss Martian said as she put a hand on Alex shoulder "You're totally better at this than any of us"
Alex looked over to Superboy who shrugged his shoulder "I'm not leading"
Alex then looked to Kid who crossed his arms "yeah I guess you are pretty good at the hero thing"
"Ok then I guess I'm leader" Alex said as she looked through her aliens. "Our first priority has to be preventing that shipment from leaving the island, and I know just the alien to pull it off"
...
The team ran through the mine shaft and headed for the exit that wasn't buried and blocked.
Robin brought up a Holoscreen from his gauntlet "Sportsmaster's the buyer but it doesn't add up, he doesn't have the resources to acquire the Blockbuster formula on his own same for Kobra."
"And neither of them has the chops to bond the formula with Venom" Kid ran slowly so that he could keep up with the rest of the team "That took some major nerdege"
"I bet Asmuth could do it in his sleep" Alex mentioned as everyone continued to run but turned to her with confused look. "Never mind"
Aqualad put his arm out stopping everyone in their tracks "I think the expression is 'tip of the ice burg'"
Bane stepped in front of the exit holding a detonator in his right hand.
"Halt, niños" he said as green lights lit up the cave around them "I'm feeling explosive"
"You betrayed us, why?" Aqualad asked out loud.
"I want my factory back" he started.
'Kid, you'll need a running start' Aqualad said through the mental link.
"I forced you into a situation where you would either take down my enemies, or die trying" Bane smiled "If the latter, the Justice League would surely come to avenge their sidekicks and when the smoke cleared Santa Prisca would be mine once again" Bane lifted the detonator in his hand "blowing the tunnel with you inside should have the same affect"
Just as he was about to press the button on the detonator a black and red flash zoomed by and the remote was gone.
"With what? This trigger thingy?" Kid added with the detonator in hand.
Bane went to punch Kid who didn't move as Bane was suddenly lifted into the air by Miss Martian who smiled as she did so.
Superboy walked to just underneath Bane "Finally, drop him"
Miss Martian complied and dropped the man as Superboy's fist connected with his face and sent him flying.
...
"The helicopter is operational exalted one" one of the cultists said as Sportsmaster approached the helicopter once more.
Just as he was about to step on a grey blur dashed through the area and knocked several cultists over just by running past them.
"Take the shipment!" King Kobra yelled as Sportsmaster nodded and hopped onto the helicopter.
Superboy landed In front of Mammoth who growled at his presence.
"Go again?" Superboy asked as the behemoth roared and charged towards him only to be knocked aside by a large pulse of water directed by Aqualad. "Sorry not the plan"
Superboy watched as Aqualad added his bio electricity into the water pulse shocking and knocking the behemoth out cold.
Superboy smiled slightly until he was hit in the back by some sort of explosive... and it actually hurt.
Superboy turned around to see Sportsmaster holding a rifle of some kind as he fired it again and again knocking Superboy to the ground.
Miss Martian saw this and tried to sneak up on him but was tackled to the ground expertly before having the rifle pointed at her head. Superboy put his hands down and Sportsmaster grabbed the Martian by the neck and continued to point the rifle at her head as he backed into the helicopter once more. "Thanks for the work out but, I gotta fly"
After he was safely inside, Sportsmaster tossed the Martian out and closed the door behind her.
The helicopter was about to take off when the entire dashboard turned into a black consul with no buttons or switches and a green circle in the middle.
"Sorry" the circle lit up as the voice echoed through the helicopter "But I can't let you leave with all of this stuff in tow" the entire helicopter became covered in the black and green substance.
Sportsmaster growled and grabbed a rocket launcher from the side and loaded it. "Let me off or I blow you, me and this entire demon helicopter to rubble and I heard that this new formula is highly flammable so unless you want your Team out there to burn with you, I suggest you comply"
Silence rang through the helicopter as the door to the rig suddenly opened allowing Sportsmaster to jump out and escape into the jungle with the rocket launcher being tossed into the grass.
Miss Martian and Superboy ran into the helicopter after Alex had transformed back.
"What happened to Sportsmaster?" Superboy asked.
"H-He got away" Alex answered feeling ashamed for letting her personal feelings get in the way of the mission.
Robin looked out into the jungle and sighed "So did King Kobra"
"Well we did manage to acquire the Kobra-Venom before it was shipped off to whoever was employing Sportsmaster" Aqualad added as he restrained Mammoth with a metal pipe "All in all; I say we did pretty well"
...
"A simple recon mission!" Batman growled as he reprimanded the entire team who had been lined up in front of the caped crusader "Observe and report, you will each receive a written evaluation on your many mistakes"
Batman walked away towards the exit before stopping "Until then, good job" the dark knight walked into a Zeta-Tube and disappeared
A smile rose over the entire team as Megan jumped onto Alex hugging her friend.
"Let's celebrate! Milkshakes on me!"
They all cheered
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