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Kid Lantern	By : JessieMundaiFan Category: DC Verse Cartoons > Young Justice Views: 2074 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: This is a fan-made story I do not own Young Justice. If I did own Young Justice do you think I would be writing stories about?
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(General POV)
"I can't believe you didn't tell anybody," Hal fumed for the fifth time.
Darren stared down at the floor of his father's apartment in silence.
It didn't take long for the news about a Blue Lantern appearing at the Young Justice's last mission to get back to Hal. Needless to say he was not pleased with Darren at the moment.
John watched from the sidelines as his partner paced back and forth in front of his son who was on the couch. He wasn't there to scold Darren as well, but merely to act as a referee in case things get to ugly.
Finally, Hal stopped pacing and folded his arms in front of his son. His breaths were coming out in small bursts.
"What were you thinking," Hal demanded.
"I-I d-don't know," Darren stammered not use to the angry tone of his father's voice, "I just didn't think it was a big deal."
"You didn't think I was a big deal," Hal repeated incredulously.
Darren looked up and shook his head helplessly.
"You didn't think having an extraterrestrial stalker from god knows where in universe was a big deal," Hal questioned his voice getting louder with each word.
"I thought that with my ring I could…"
"I don't want to hear it," Hal interjected abruptly, "there is no excuse as to why you didn't tell anybody about this stalker of yours."
The look in Darren's eye was one of fear and sorrow. He just thought that he would be safe if he just kept his ring with him at all times. It's not called one of the most powerful weapons in the universe for nothing, right?
Hal, as if reading his son mind grabbed his son's arm that had his ring on a held it up to his face.
"This is a powerful weapon Darren, but it is not the ultimate weapon. There are plenty of ways to get past and defeat its power," Hal informed his son, "one of the basic rules of a superhero is never underestimate you enemy. Not only did you underestimate your enemy you overestimated yourself, two things that are dangerous in combination."
Thinking over what was just said to him, Darren's eyes widened in shock at his father's words. Darren realized that his father was completely right. He didn't think of how dangerous Tobi could have been, all he thought of was how protected he was by his ring.
Darren felt ashamed of himself.
Seeing the guilty expression on his son face caused Hal's mood to soften somewhat.
"It's okay to believe in your own powers Darren, but just remember that you are not invincible," Hal reminded his son gently, "you can't face every obstacle on your own. If this Tobi kid tries to contact you again you have to let me know."
Darren nodded in agreement.
"I have to make sure you understand how much danger you could have put yourself in," Hal told him sternly, "so if I find out that you've been keeping big things like this from me, I'm afraid I'll have to take your ring from you."
Darren gasped fearfully.
"Not permanently," Hal reassured him, "just until I feel that you are ready to have the power again. The Green Lantern Corps is a team Darren. You shouldn't act alone, I won't let you act alone. You got that?"
"Yes sir," Darren muttered.
"Good," Hal grinned down at his son, "now I think it's about time for you to get to Mount Justice, your teams probably waiting for you."
Getting up off of the couch, Darren quietly collected his stuff. Before he left, Hal went over and ruffled Darren's hair affectionately causing him to giggle a little bit.
"Good luck today son," Hal smiled at him.
"Bye dad," Darren nodded, "bye John."
"See ya kid," John waved at him kindly as Darren ran out of the door.
Once the young teen was gone, Hal flopped down on his couch with a loud thud.
"Not bad dad," John smirked at his partner, "I was afraid you were going to choke at the punishment."
"I thought I was going to choke," Hal told him sighing tiredly, "whoever said being a parent was easy was insane. I felt horrible for threating to take his ring away."
"That's what you need to do," John reminded him strictly, "if you don't give him punishment he won't learn from his mistake."
"Yeah, I know," Hal nodded, "I just wish I didn't have to be so hard. I need a nap."
"Not so fast," John interjected, "we still need to tell the council about that Tobi kid and get more information about that Ring of Silence he told Darren about."
"Your right," Hal groaned standing back up, "a heroes work is never down."
Both Green Lanterns quickly put on their suits and flew out of the window to Oa to find out more about this Tobi and what he was about.
They just hoped they could find out something useful.
…
"We're going where," Artemis asked in disbelief.
"The Congo Basin," Black Canary repeated showing them a map of Africa, "where you will be having your survival exercise."
Black Canary had already informed them ahead of time that they were going on some kind of overnight mission and told the team to pack a couple things. Luckily for Darren it was a weekend and he was able to give his mother the excuse that he was going on a camping trip with his friends.
"Why are we doing this again," Superboy demanded to know.
"Can we do this," Wally questioned curiously, "I mean is the habitat human friendly."
"I want to test all of your survival skills in a foreign environment," Black Canary answered, "and yes the region is very human friendly. The Congo Basin has been inhabited by humans for more than 50,000 years."
Wally whistled, sounding impressed.
With a sigh of relief, Darren put his hand down. Feeling eyes on him, Darren looked over to his right to see Wally staring at him blankly. Their eyes held each other's for a moment before Wally jerked his head away sharply.
Darren went to say something to his friend before he was interrupted.
"I assume you have some rules for us," Robin guessed.
"Of course," Black Canary replied with a smirk. "Rule number 1: No contact with anyone else besides your teammates. So hand over your cell phones."
Groaning in annoyance, the humans on the team fished out their cell phones and handed them to their teacher.
"Rule number 2: you can only use the resources around you to survive. Rule number 3: most importantly, you must work as a team. This exercise is to have you all spend more time together and come closer as a team."
"We are close," Wally argued, "we know what it means to be a team. Well, some of us do anyway."
Darren didn't need to know who his friend was referring to. He could practically feel Wally's distain of him dripping off of his body.
I wish I knew what to say to him, Darren asked himself.
"Regardless, I want you all to go in this training exercise," Black Canary ordered, "and I want a full report on the experience from each of you."
"Yes ma'am," they cried in unison.
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Not an hour later, the team and Black Canary were flying over Congo Basin in a Justice League ship.
"Are you all ready," Black Canary asked from her seat in the cockpit.
All of them gave her a gesture of agreement. Black Canary had given an extra bag filled with supplies she felt they needed in the Congo Basin.
"So when do we land," Megan asked.
Black Canary smirked to herself.
"You all are about to land in 3, 2 …"
"Hey wait minute," Wally tried protested guessing what was about to happen.
"… 1, now."
With a pull of the lever in front of her, Black Canary not only unbuckled their seat belts, but she also opened up the floor underneath the Young Justice team leaving them all to fall down into the forest below.
"I love my life," Black Canary smiled to herself as she heard her pupils screams of panic.
The team was all plummeting to the forest floor at an alarming rate.
Wally had his hands in front of his eyes, not able to bear his fate.
"Oh god, oh god, oh god, oh god," Wally repeated continuously as he fell.
Suddenly, he fell onto on something soft and fluffy. He looked down to find himself on a giant green pillow next to Aqualad who didn't look nearly as surprised as him.
Wally looked up to see Darren smiling down at him calmly. With a huff, Wally turned his head away from his friend. The young speedster looked to his left to find Megan gently floating herself, Robin and Artemis with her psychic powers.
They didn't grab Superboy for obvious reasons.
With a loud thud, Superboy landed on the ground completely unaffected by the fall.
Once near the ground, Wally quickly ran off of Darren's pillow refusing to turn around and look at him.
"What should we do first," Megan asked she landed herself and two teammates on the ground safely.
"We should find a place to set up camp," Aqualad suggested, "get ourselves situated in this environment so we can explore."
Everyone agreed and they looked for a good spot to rest.
"This place looks pretty tame," Artemis suggested pointing to place near a river.
"I don't know," Robin voiced cautiously.
"What do you mean," Darren asked.
"We should make sure there are no people nearby," Robin rubbed chin in thought, "we don't to cause any problems with the locals for messing with their food and water sources."
"Oh," Megan's eyes widened excitedly, "I'll do a mind search. It will allow me to check if there are nearby functioning minds."
"Go for it," Aqualad nodded.
Focusing her power, Megan allowed her mind to probe the area all around her. She found that aside from her own team, there were a couple of large groups of mind around them.
"There are people around us," Megan acknowledged, "but they are at so far a distance I doubt they would come near us for food and drink."
"Great," Aqualad smiled in satisfaction, "now let's get to work."
Quite easily, they were all able to set up some tents for all of them to sleep in.
"We only have three," Superboy pointed out, "why did Black Canary only give us three tents to sleep in?"
Robin shrugged.
"Maybe she thought three was all we needed," Robin assumed.
Immediately, Aqualad began assigning tents for all of them to take.
"The girls can have the left tent; Robin, Superboy and I can have the middle tent; and Wally and Darren can have the right tent."
As soon as those words were said, Robin quickly opened his mouth to reference a certain scene in a certain iconic movie evolving two cowboys alone in a tent together.
"If it's something tasteless don't say it," Aqualad ordered.
Pouting, Robin shut his mouth shut.
Wally had something to say about this.
"Why do I have to share a tent with him," Wally complained. He ignored the hurt look on his friends face.
"Wally, please," Aqualad rubbed his eyes trying to keep his patience with his team, "let's try to be professional about this."
"Fine," Wally folded his arms childishly.
"What's next leader boy," Artemis asked stretching tiredly.
"We need to make ourselves secure in our environment," Robin suggested, "we need food, fresh water, firewood, and traps."
"Traps," Darren repeated in confusion.
"Can't have any wildlife sneaking up on us at night can we," Robin dug in his bag and pulled out a couple metal circular objects.
"That's not going to hurt the animals is it," Darren questioned cautiously being well aware that many animals in this region are, or are most likely, endangered.
"These are just noise makers just to scare them off," Robin reassured him, "they will also act as scanners so I'll be able to detect when someone of something gets a little too close to us."
Aqualad made a sound of approval.
"Wally can help you set those up," Aqualad looking to the young speedster who gave him a grin in agreement.
"I'll test out the river and see if the water is substantial or not," Aqualad briefed his team, "the girls can get firewood while Darren and Superboy find something to eat."
"Firewood," Megan squealed, "aren't guys supposed to do that sort of thing?"
"Would you rather hunt for food," Aqualad raised an eyebrow at her in amusement.
Megan's eyes widened for a brief second before she threw down her stuff and practically started dragging Artemis off into the distance.
The boys chuckled to themselves before they started putting their things into the tents so they could leave.
Seeing Wally unpacking his stuff, Darren realized this was the perfect opportunity for them to talk.
"Um Wally," Darren said quietly.
He got no response as Wally continued to unpack his things with his back turned to his friend.
"I'm really sorry about what happen," Darren apologized.
Again, he got no response.
"It's just that I didn't think Tobi…"
In the span of about a millisecond, Wally turned around with anger in his eyes.
"Don't say his name," Wally stressed lowly.
At his friend's angry tone, Darren's eyes widened in shock.
"I don't care that your sorry it's just," Wally ran his hands through his hair in frustration, "I can't believe you didn't tell me about that creeper. Who knows what that freak could have done to you."
Wally had the most horrible set of nightmares the night before showing him everything that Tobi guy could have done to Darren.
It was by far the worst night of his life. Wally wouldn't have been able to live with himself if anything happened to Darren.
"I just-I can't talk to you right now," was all Wally said before he stomped hurriedly out of their tent.
Darren eyes followed his friend out of the tent. Feeling his eyes starting to water, Darren let out of couple deep breathes to compose himself.
Pull yourself together Darren just pull yourself together, is what Darren chanted to himself to keep himself high in spirits.
Throwing down his things, Darren walked out of the tent. He jumped as he came chest to chest with Superboy.
"I'm sorry," Darren apologized quietly.
Superboy stared down at him for a brief second before walking off to the west.
"Let's go," Superboy ordered not even bothering to look back.
Squealing in shock, Darren ran to catch up with the Kryptonian clone.
Their walk was a very silent one. With neither of them being very social people, they didn't know what to say to each other.
Thankfully, Darren struck up the courage to say something.
"Um, listen," Darren began, "I've never really killed anything before in my entire life. So I was wondering how you…"
"You hold it, I'll kill it," Superboy answered simply.
"Oh, um, okay," Darren agreed, "thank you?"
Superboy didn't respond back, but simply kept trekking through the forest in search something to eat.
Darren felt like he should keep trying to engage the Kryptonian clone in a conversation, but was afraid all his rambling would get him snapped in half.
"Why were you crying earlier," Superboy asked him after a while.
Darren's eyes snapped up at him in shock. He didn't think he was being that obvious when he left his tent.
"Um, that's because…"
"Shh," Superboy gestured for him to be quiet as he stopped dead in his tracks.
"I hear something," Superboy announced.
Peaking over a bush, both of them saw a lone gazelle drinking near a river.
"He's perfect," Superboy he looked to the young Green Lantern, "ready?"
"As I'll ever be," Darren told him reluctantly preparing his rang.
Swiftly, Superboy emerged from the bush going to capture the gazelle. The gazelle, hearing him, tried to run away.
Unfortunately for him, Darren set up a giant cone shaped barrier around the gazelle effectively trapping him.
The poor thing didn't stand a chance.
Darren watched as Superboy dragged the now dead gazelle back with them to their camp site. While he didn't die painfully, all Superboy did was snap its neck, he felt bad for thing. Sure Darren eats meat, but killing your own meals can be a saddening thing to do when you not use to doing it.
"You didn't answer my question," Superboy reminded him.
"Hm," Darren blinked up at him.
"Why were you crying earlier," Superboy repeated.
Darren blushed and looked down at his feet.
"I'm just overemotional," Darren admitted, "I was just upset because Wally's still mad at me for the whole Tobi thing."
"Hn," Superboy said back to him.
"I don't know why I thought I could handle him on my own," Darren shook his head at himself, "I barely have any experience with my powers. I'm just so used to being alone and doing things on my own. The only person I've really had in my life is my mom and she always taught me not to depend on other people to do things for me."
"It's not easy," Darren's head snapped up at Superboy's words, "to go from having no one around you to have several people around you."
"I should know," Superboy smirked sardonically, "I was born in a lab with no one around me. It took me a while to get used to having people around me that actually care what happens to me."
Darren listened with rapped attention as the usually stoic Superboy engaged him in a conversation.
"One thing I've noticed is that friends tend to get protective when one another is or could be hurt by something," Superboy told him, "Wally's probably just worried about you."
Darren inwardly agreed with everything Superboy said. He's positive that Wally will talk to him again soon.
"Would you like to be friends," Darren asked the Kryptonian clone impulsively.
Superboy looked down at him in questioned.
"O-Only if you want to," Darren blushed and looked away, "I just figured that it couldn't hurt for us to be friends seeing as were on the same team and all."
Darren stopped as he saw Superboy big hand in front of his face.
"Call me Conner," Superboy gave him a small smile.
Darren smiled back at him and shook his hand firmly.
Darren yelped as Superboy pulled him closer.
"Just a tip, I don't like worry about people. So if you decided to the whole withholding information thing again I'll beat you into oblivion," Superboy warned him, "got it?"
Darren nodded rapidly.
What did I get myself into, Darren asked himself worriedly.
…
"Taste just like chicken," Wally muffled chopping down more on his gazelle meat.
It was night time in the forest, and all of the team was sitting down at their camp fire eating their dinner.
"Why does everybody say that," Robin asked in confusion, "not all meats can taste like chicken. Something has to taste different."
"It's really good though," Artemis looked to Aqualad teasingly, "sure wish we caught some fish though."
Aqualad didn't even bother to respond. He just pointed his finger at her and sprayed with a stream of water.
"Ah," she shriek in shock, "I was joking."
"Sure you were," Wally smirked between his bites.
"I'm full," Megan announced, "I'm gonna go to sleep."
"Yeah me too," Artemis agreed whipping the water off her face, "shoul we have somebody on guard duty."
"No," Robin denied, "my devices are doing their job fine. If someone of something gets to close an alarm will go on my radar."
Both girls nodded and went to their tents. Pretty soon everybody had finished their meal and went into the respective tents.
Darren was having trouble sleeping that night. He was having trouble partly due to Wally, but mostly because he felt too uncomfortable in his sleeping bag.
So, in middle of the night, Darren tiptoed over to Wally's bag.
"Wally," Darren whispered nudging him slightly, "Wally wake up."
Wally mumbled incoherently in his sleep.
"Wally," Darren nudged him more insistently.
"What," Wally mumbled opening his eyes slightly.
"I can't sleep," Darren told him softly, "can I sleep with you?"
Wally looked at his friends pleading face blankly.
"Hop in," Wally told him tiredly.
Happily, Darren got in beside Wally in his sleeping bag. There was just enough room for both of them to fit together.
However, it was so tight that every single part of their bodies touched each other. Their faces were mere inches away from each other's.
"Thank you Wally," Darren whispered in gratitude.
"Hm," Wally had already closed his eyes.
Peacefully, Darren was able to go to sleep and have the best sleep he's ever had in his entire life.
…
The next morning Darren was upon a tall tree observing the forest.
Contently, he was sketching every piece of the land he could see. He had been doing that ever since he woke up.
"What are you doing?"
Darren jumped slightly in shock as he heard Superboy's voice.
"Conner, you scared me," Darren chuckled, "I'm just drawing the forest. It's so beautiful here I just couldn't help myself."
"Is drawing fun," Superboy asked going to sit beside him on the tree.
"It's very fun," Darren told him excitedly, "I love drawing and making. It's my life's dream to become an artist."
Superboy froze suddenly.
"What's wrong," Darren asked in concern.
"I'm hearing a lot of growls and snarls coming our way," Superboy asked.
"Where's it coming from," Darren wondered in panic.
"Below us," Superboy answered.
Looking down, both of them saw a large number of forest elephant's, okapi's (1), gazelle's, and cheetahs snarling up at them.
That wasn't the strange thing however. The strangest part of this was that all the animals' eyes were completely white. They just looked like feral beasts.
Distracted, Darren and Superboy didn't notice the gorilla's snarling at them at the tree beside them.
Swiftly, the gorilla's pounced ferociously.
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