Enigma | A Young Justice Fanfiction

Chapter 1

Ghost stood on top of the building, taking in the crowded scene below her. People pushed past each other in the streets and honked their horns in their cars. Yells and curses could be heard for miles and miles throughout the city. This time of year was always busy regardless of where she was: everyone wanted to get Christmas gifts for family and friends, and they wanted to do it quickly.

    Just what she needed. Crowded streets made for better coverage, and in a city like Gotham, no one would even give her a second glance when she took out her target.

    Snow fell around her and a cold wind chilled her skin. She scanned the crowded streets for her target: Kathryn Reyn, a biochemist working at STAR Labs. What was she doing in Gotham at a time like this? She didn’t know, nor did she care.

    All that mattered was the job, and pleasing the people that employed her.

    She soon spotted the brunette biochemist coming out of a coffee shop, wearing a very expensive-looking jacket and talking on a phone. Ghost quickly and quietly jumped down from the top of the building and into the alleyway, catching herself on railings and fire escapes. She peeked around the corner of the alley to make sure that Reyn was still close by.

    During her second look, Ghost noticed that Reyn was not alone: there was a tall man with black hair walking next to her. She looked at the man closely and saw that his eyes were covered with a pair of dark sunglasses, despite the gloomy sky. However, she was still able to detect the small shifts in his face as his eyes darted around the street.

Ghost moved back into the alleyway and pressed her finger to the comm in her ear.

    “We’ve got a problem,” she reported to whoever was on the other line at the moment.

    “What kind of ‘problem’?” came the all-to-familiar growl of Cheshire.

    “Reyn has a bodyguard or some kind of protection,” Ghost explained, hoping Cheshire would give her some sort of guidance or an idea of what to do. “I won’t be able to get her away from him; he’s got his eyes trained on her like a hawk.” She peeked around the corner again to make sure the pair was still there.

    “Improvise. You were employed to do a job, I suggest you do it.” With that, Cheshire shut off her side of the comm, leaving Ghost to handle the situation on her own. She sighed and leaned her head against the rough brick wall behind her and racked her brain for any possible ideas.

    Since she couldn’t think of any plans, Ghost decided to do what Cheshire said in the first place: improvise.

    She hugged her jacket closer to her body and walked out of the alleyway, keeping a close tail on Reyn and her bodyguard, whom she decided to call ‘Sunglasses’. She followed them for a good three blocks, thankful that the streets were busy that day as it made it easier to follow them for longer.

    Ghost felt around in her pockets to see what she had on her. She had a small dart gun, a few smoke pellets, a regular gun strapped to one thigh, and a thin dagger strapped to the other.

    She thought about using her gun to take out Sunglasses and Reyn one by one, but she deemed it too risky in this crowd of people. Plus after firing one shot, it could miss or Reyn could have time to run away.

    Her mind wrapped around another idea, which involved her ability to shapeshift. If she could distract the bodyguard, or even take him out, she could shift into him and…

No that wouldn’t work, she would need another person to help her. Before she could think of another idea, she smacked into what felt like a wall.