Pandora~ A Young Justice Fanfiction

Before the Dawn

Anastasia's POV

"Sorry we had to pull you off of the teams mission, but-"

"You needed my excellent expertise?" I ask flying through the air with Captain Atom, Zatanna, and Rocket at my side. "Exactly," Atom continues, and even though I wasn't excited at first about being reassigned I understand why it was necessary.

I wouldn't want my emotions to affect the mission anyways, and I made sure Dick knew there were to be no ulterior motives this time and he agreed.

After our blowout it took a day or two for me to cool off, and he apologized profusely telling me how I was right. I of course blamed myself a lot in the end saying how it was unfair of me to go off on him when I agreed to this plan as much as he did.

Overall while I'm still not pleased it went down the way it did, I can't blame everyone else and I know that. I still trust Dick, and I still trust Kaldur, the only person that's starting to lose my trust is myself.

"Considering she was shooting Dick, you better watch it, glares before we left I'd say it was for the best." Raquel laughs, and I slow down a little so I can nudge her with my shoulder. "Technically I'm apart of this team first, so could we go over the details again?"

"Klarion the Witch Boy has stolen the magical branding iron that belonged to Morgan le Fay a long time ago, and he's using it to make several villains do whatever he wants." Captain Atom explains, and just as he says this I watch a building start to come down in the silhouetted Gotham ahead of us.

"Flash, Aquaman, and Atom are in Central City handling the chaos there while, Marvel is in Fawcett with Plastic Man, and Green Arrow and Black Canary are in Star. Red Tornado and Doctor Fate will be meeting us in Gothan where most of the chaos is taking place." He continues and I nod, but I think we're all entranced by the smoke that's now pouring out of the city. "Poor Gotham just can't catch a break," I sigh.

"You can say that again." Zatanna gasps as we watch two, thankfully empty, cars launch into the sky. Why or how? I'm not sure, but it's Gotham so who knows.

Honestly this whole situation seems odd, and it lined up with the teams mission a little to well for my liking. "Do we know why?" I ask as we land on one of the streets right in the middle of the madness. "It's Klarion anything for chaos," growls Zatanna.

"You all know what to do." Atom states before taking off to fight every Gotham villain one could think of, from the Joker to the Riddler. Red Tornado is down at the other end of the street fighting Mr. Freeze and Scarecrow, while Doctor Fate is amongst all the chaos fighting the brat that started all this.

Rocket swoops in too stopping Riddler from terrorizing a family that managed to escape the building Joker just brought down. I join her kicking the Joker to his knees while he's distracted laughing hysterically, and even as he lands down on his knees he keeps laughing.

I grab one his wrists keeping it pinned to his back, but his other skinny wrist slips from my grasp and he slides out a knife from his pocket. With the blade clutched in his free hand he slices through the air behind his back catching my wrist, and with a hiss a release his arm. "I think you're in the wrong city Wonder Brat."

"Oh but I just missed you guys so much," I growl gripping my bleeding wrist in my hand.

He jumps quickly turning around that smile, that I swear is painted on, making me terribly uncomfortable and the burning red M in the middle of his forehead isn't helping. No matter how old I get, and how puny he is compared to my other opponents, it's always so hard to fight him because of how easily he terrifies me.