Perspective is Ki (Young Justice/DBZ, Male OC)

Chapter Ten

Apartment, Philadelphia, 11:30 AM.
July 4th, 2010.

"It's a snow day today, but it isn't even snowing!" Cat Grant said wryly, "We have been getting reports all day about an ongoing attack by a series of ice-related villains."

The collar hummed as it powered down, and Aiden allowed himself to drop back down to the floor.

"In an astounding show of co-ordination, a multitude of villains have staged an assault on several different cities," Cat Grant continued, "Mr. Freeze attacked Gotham City park before he was apprehended, Icicle Jr was stopped in Star City, Killer Frost was caught after an attack in Pearl Harbour, Captain Cold was shut down in Central City."

A chill ran down his spine. Four different villains attacking throughout the same day in different places? His phone felt heavy when he snatched it up off the table and dialed a number.

"Is this all part of a greater plan? Is this just the beginning?" Cat Grant asked steadily, "Will more attacks still occur-"

"Bubbles?" The Blue Snowman's voice came through the line.

He must have caught the man at a strange time because the digitized voice wasn't on, but he was clearly attempting to disguise his voice by making it about a thousand times deeper.

The base voice was strangely high as well; was the Blue Snowman actually a kid? That would explain the fixation on snow themed stuff at least a little bit.

"Please tell me you aren't planning on attacking somewhere in the city today," Aiden said wearily.

"Uh," Blue coughed, "I was planning on calling you tonight about another job? How did you know?"

"Cancel it, idiot." Aiden said immediately, "Turn on the news; Ice villains are going down like flies today, don't risk it, alright? You still haven't found me a client yet."

Although he was starting to think that was never going to pan out, he might as well excommunicate him.

"Really-Uh," The villain coughed again, his voice had gone strangely higher-pitched for a minute there, "Thanks for the heads up, Bubbles. I've got a lead on that front, but it will take about a week before I find out."

Huh, maybe he would wait a little while after all

"Fine," Aiden said evenly, "Don't go out in costume, or I'll capture you myself."

He didn't bother waiting for the kid to reply, instead; hanging up and dropping down onto his sofa with a sigh.

Fucking villains.

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Apartment, Philadelphia, DC, 2:00 PM.
July 4th, 2010.

He stared at the screen curiously; Robin, Aqualad, Speedy, Kid Flash, and a blonde girl with a white costume and a red cape were all being led into the Hall of Justice in Washington DC.

So he'd been partially wrong about where he was, kind of?

After he had figured out he was in a world with Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman; he'd put it down to being in 'DC' and hadn't thought much more about it; the mystery had been solved.

But he'd seen this scene before, a long time ago, the Ice villain attack should have tipped him off, but he hadn't been in the mystery-solving mindset at the time; he'd simply thought that villains were all stupid.

It was pretty obvious that this was one of the first scenes of Young Justice, which he'd never watched more than the first season of, along with some of the fights in passing. He couldn't remember much of the show either, other than Superboy, Miss Martian, and uh, Artemis? Ended up joining that team soon after.

It had been over a decade since he'd seen the show, so his memory was pretty foggy, but he was still a million percent sure that there hadn't been a blonde with a pixie cut there.

"Even so," Aiden murmured. "Who was the main villain?"

Had Bane been there; on an island or something? That magical helmet debacle was a thing as well, with the wizard dude inside it who wanted to steal people's souls or something.

It was probably Lex Luthor; that guy was always evil, and there had been some hidden organization or something going on. It could have been worse, he supposed, it would have sucked if he was in a world that had that Darkseid guy hanging around.

There was a Black Adam in this version too; there was a vague memory of him fighting alongside some other villains? That guy was probably one of the higher tiers of physical capes here, and one he should strive to become stronger than.

That should place him at a level that he would be able to hopefully safely exist here without getting one-shotted by some random comic-book plotline. Then again, the guy had been able to go toe-to-toe with Superman in several continuities; he should probably just aim to surpass the Kryptonian instead.

He was pretty sure if he tried anything against either of them at present, he would be getting his ass clapped.