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Kid Lantern	By : JessieMundaiFan Category: DC Verse Cartoons > Young Justice Views: 2074 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: This is a fan-made story I do not own Young Justice.I make no profit on this fanfic

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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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(Brief Recap)
Distracted, Darren and Superboy didn't notice the gorilla's snarling at them at the tree beside them.
Swiftly, the gorilla's pounced ferociously.
(End Recap)
(General POV)
Feeling a shadow loom over him, Darren looked to see the gorilla's flying down toward the two of them.
"Conner quick," Darren urged pulling the Kryptonian next to him.
Just barely, Darren was able to produce a shield that protected the two of them from the gorilla's assault. The gorilla's fell onto the barrier roughly putting all their weight onto the shield.
They pounded on the energy induced shield but to no avail, they were not able to break it. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the tree branches they were on.
Due to the excessive amount of weight, the tree branches all of them were lying on gave out causing all of them to fall from the tree.
"Ow," Darren winced clutching his sketch book in his hands.
Hearing some growls, Darren looked up to see the animals that were on the ground staring at the two of them menacingly.
"Let's take them out," Superboy growled balling up his fists.
"Conner no," Darren cried out grabbing his friends fist.
"Why not," Superboy demanded angrily.
Darren looked at that animals at were slowly approaching them carefully.
"Most of these animals are endangered," Darren answered, "especially those mountain gorillas. We can't hurt them."
"So what the hell can we do then," Superboy questioned.
Cautiously, Darren looked from Superboy to the animals and back to him again.
"Run," Darren shouted taking off to the south.
With an annoyed grunt, Superboy followed his friend with the rabid animals hot on both of their tails.
Darren, seeing that he wasn't going nearly as fast as Superboy, opted to just fly as to not hold them both up.
"I'm calling the team," Superboy announced activating his wrist communicator.
"Robin we have…"
"Let me guess. Crazy rabid animals with no pupils chasing you down like you just stole their last scrap of meat," Robin asked.
"Good guess," Superboy replied dryly.
"We got the same problem," Robin told him grimly, "I have absolutely no idea how they got past my sensors but they showed up right by our camping site."
"Is everyone okay," Darren asked in concern.
"We're fine," Robin reassured him, "it was just a couple cheetahs and Megan was able to push them back pretty easily."
"Where is everyone body now," Superboy asked.
"We moved ourselves to this huge tree in the middle of the forest," Robin answered, "I'll send you the coordinates via your communicator."
"Alright," Superboy agreed, "meet up with you guys in a little bit."
Superboy looked up at the young Green Lantern.
"We need to ditch these animals and fast," Superboy told him looking back at the rabid animals that were still chasing them.
Darren nodded in agreement. He could capture them with his ring. However, that would prove useless seeing that as soon as he gets to a certain distance his energy construction will fade away to nothing.
There has to be another way, Darren thought to himself.
"I got an idea," Darren snapped his fingers.
"Got for it," Superboy urged.
Using his ring, Darren created a giant mechanical fan in front of the two of them. Turning it on, Darren let it blow great winds in front of them.
With little effort Darren turned the fan behind him, being careful not to hit Superboy, and let the animals have a full powered blast of wind.
Despite all the struggling they did, the animals were literally blown a great distance by the green mechanical fan.
"I did it," Darren smiled happily.
Superboy gave him a smirk before proceeding to guide the two of them to the tree where they were to meet with the others.
"Up here guys," they heard Megan call out to them from a tree branch.
Darren floated both himself and Superboy up to the tree where there friends were.
"Are you two alright," Megan asked them worriedly although looking more at Superboy than Darren.
"We're fine," Superboy waved off her concern.
Hearing a whooshing sound from behind him, Darren was surprised to see Wally standing behind him.
Critically, Wally eyed his friend searching for any damages on him.
"Wally," Darren asked hesitantly.
"I'm glad you weren't hurt," was all Wally said before went back to the branch he was leaning on.
Darren sighed to himself lowly.
"What the hell is up with those animals," Artemis asked clenching her bow tightly, "they've gone nuts."
"That's what we have to find out and quick," Aqualad replied, "before they get a chance to hurt anyone."
"How can we do that," Darren asked clueless.
Robin gave him a smirk.
"Before Megan drove off the cheetahs I managed to put a tracker on one of them," Robin informed everyone pulling out his wrist computer, "now I know exactly where that cheetah is."
"Yeah, but you don't know what he's doing," Wally reminded him, "we need follow them back to whatever or whoever caused this."
"We can't follow them ourselves," Artemis proclaimed to the team, "they could easily smell or hear us."
"Maybe Darren and I could use our Mind Link/Energy Twin combo to find out what going on," Megan suggested perkily.
Aqualad thought about this for a brief second.
"Sounds like a good idea."
The Atlantean looked to the Green Lantern of the team.
"Are you up for it," Aqualad asked him.
With a nod, Darren sat down Indian style on a branch and started to summon up his power. Unleashing his energy, Darren formed a twin of himself.
Focusing her power, Megan connected every one of her teammate's minds with one another's.
Everybody online, Megan asked.
Yes, they all replied unison.
Go Darren, Aqualad ordered.
Fly straight ahead until I tell you to make a left, Robin advised looking at the coordinates from his wrist computer.
Complying, Darren flew for a couple miles going straight.
Now turn left, Robin advised suddenly.
Swiftly, Darren turned to the left and flew past the trees below him.
Now make a right, Robin directed, the tracker seems to stop there.
Turn right and moving a couple more miles, Darren stumbled onto a village. The team all watched in awe as the villagers were chased around the rabid animals.
What the hell, Wally thought in confusion, there not hurting anyone.
Indeed all the animals seemed to be doing is scaring the poor villagers and not actually hurting any of them.
What in the world is going on, Artemis wondered.
Suddenly, all the animals stopped chasing the villagers and just left. All the villagers looked on in confusion, afraid of what to do.
Follow them, Robin urged.
Obeying, Darren's twin cloaked himself invisible and trailed the animals. The animals brought him to cave in the deepest part of the woods.
Through the energy twin's eyes, the team saw that within the cave was a mass of computers and gadgets within it.
Wow it's like a low budget bat cave, Robin commented dryly.
All the animals lined up together in front of what looked to be the main computer in the cave. In the distance, the team heard slow echoing claps from the back of the cave.
"Excellent my pets, excellent," the apparent clapper said in amusement.
Coming out of the shadows, the culprit revealed himself to be a man in an orange and black mask.
Deathstroke, Robin's eyes widened in shock.
You know him, Superboy asked.
Robin nodded grimly.
Yeah, and he's big trouble.
Just then, the computer screen turned on revealing nothing but a man in the shadows.
"How did it go," the shadowed man asked.
Deathstroke looked from the animals to him.
"They are under my complete control," Deathstroke answered, "I ordered all these animals to run and chase everyone they see and they did it without fail."
"So the test run was a success," the shadowed man sound pleased.
"The mind scramblers do their job well," Deathstroke nodded.
Mind scramblers, Megan repeated with a furrowed brow.
"So you know what to do next," the shadowed man asked.
"Of course," Deathstroke chuckled, "with the mind scramblers I have set all around Africa I can use the animals to attack everyone they see. We'll force the ambassadors of Africa to hand over their precious countries to us."
"Or we'll kill off everyone citizen those animals can find," the shadowed man finished, "a brilliant plan."
"Let's just hope the Justice League doesn't try to spoil them," Deathstroke growled clenching his fist.
The shadowed man chuckled lowly.
"Calm yourself Deathstroke. The League is busy dealing with a problem around the surface of the moon (that we created). By the time they realize what's happening it will have already been too late."
"Good," Deathstroke nodded, "Deathstroke out."
The villain pushed a button on the computer shutting it off. Blankly he looked toward the animals.
"By tomorrow morning the all the mind scramblers will be fully charged and ready to take control of all the animals in Africa."
"I can hardly wait," Deathstroke laughed evilly leaving the main part of the cave and going into a deeper part of it.
He didn't even respond as all the animals collapsed from exhaustion at the same time.
Darren come back, Aqualad told him.
Immediately, the energy twin dissolved in a ray of light and Darren returned back to his own body
"What should we do," Megan wondered.
"Destroy those mind scramblers," Aqualad told him immediately, "we can't let Africa fall into Deathstroke's hands."
"Or let him hurt those people," Wally added.
"Let's storm his cave," Robin suggested, "with any luck I can hack into Deathstroke's computer systems and disable the mind scramblers."
Aqualad nodded in agreement.
"We act at midnight," Aqualad commanded.
Sure enough when midnight rolled around the team was all suited up and prepared to make there move. They left all of their belongings in the tree for safe keeping.
"Let's move," Aqualad told the team.
Stealthily, the team made their way through forest careful not to alert anyone or anything of their presence.
Carefully the team approached Deathstroke's cave attempting not to make a single sound.
"Hold it," Robin stopped everyone.
"What is it," Kid Flash asked impatiently.
Experimentally, Robin tossed a stick at the entrance at of the cave. Unsurprisingly, at least to the boy wonder, the stick was zapped by a bolt of electricity.
"A barrier," Artemis pointed out.
"We need to find a way to get passed the electric field to get inside the cave," Robin told the team.
"Perhaps a distraction would be best," Aqualad voiced.
"Leave it to me," Miss. Martian offered with a smile, "I'll force him to come out by making a bunch of loud animal's noises."
"I'll go with her as backup," Artemis added.
"Make it happen," Aqualad nodded at the two of them.
Both female superheroes hurriedly ran a great distance away from the team. A few minutes later a loud elephant noise could be heard in distance. The trumpeting sound continued to get louder and louder with each passing minute.
Finally, the electric field was lowered and Deathstroke came stomping out of the cave.
"What the hell is that noise," growled the villain.
Violently urging the rapid animals to follow him, Deathstroke ran to where the loud noise was coming from.
"Now," Robin urged once Deathstroke was out of sight.
All five male superheroes rushed into the cave and to the main computer.
Robin went to the computer and started hacking into it.
"Superboy guard the cave entrance, Kid's let's see if he can find anything useful in the cave," Aqualad ordered.
"Nothing, nothing, nothing," Kid Flash emitted as he sped through the cave finding nothing of importance.
"I got it," Robin cried.
"What," Aqualad asked running to his side.
A large amount of information appeared on the computer screen.
"The mind scramblers a giant towers that Deathstroke put all around Africa to emit waves that manipulate the minds of animals," Robin informed them all.
"How was he able to hide those giant towers," Darren asked.
"He disguised them as trees," Robin clarified.
"Can you shut them off from here," Kid Flash asked as he zoomed next to the boy wonder.
"Give me a second," Robin told him.
The boy wonder typed furiously on the computers keyboard trying to disable the mind scramblers. To his utter frustration, Robin was denied the ability to.
"Damn that clever bastard," Robin snarled.
"What's wrong," Aqualad asked.
"There are two main towers that must be disabled manually in order to stop the mind scramblers from sending out their signal," Robin explained.
"Two," Kid Flash repeated.
Robin nodded and showed everyone a map of where the two towers where in Africa.
"One is here in the Congo Basin and the other is a couple miles north of here."
Suddenly their communicators went off.
"What is it Miss. Martian," Aqualad questioned into his comm.
"We need some backup," Miss. Martian replied sound frantic, "this Deathstroke is a pretty tough guy."
"Superboy help them out, we'll take out the towers," Aqualad ordered.
With a nodded Superboy ran off to help out the girls.
"I can run over to the far away tower in snap," Kid Flash proposed.
"Good idea. Take your partner with you," Aqualad replied, "Robin and I will take care of the one in Congo Basin."
Partner, Kid Lantern thought to himself with a blush.
As Robin and Aqualad ran out of the cave, Kid Flash walked up to Kid Lantern.
"Um, yes," Kid Lantern asked shyly not knowing where the two of them stood at this point.
Kid Flash turned around and leaned downwards.
"Get on my back," Kid Flash, "well get there faster."
Obediently, Kid Lantern climbed on his friends back with legs being held by Kid Flash arms and his arms around the speedster's neck.
"Hold on tight partner," Kid Flash grinned as he took off at a great speed.
Kid Lantern couldn't contain the smile on his face at his friends calling him partner.
In no time the two of them made it to the tower conspicuously disguised as a tree.
"How should we disable it," Kid Lantern asked.
Kid Flash searched around the tower until he found a control pad on it.
"Blow it up," Kid Flash said simply.
"And caused a fire to spread in the forest," Kid Lantern questioned with wide eyes.
"Not if you put a shield over it," Kid Flash grinned ripping off the towers control pad and starting to rip out any and all wires he could get his hands on.
Speeding all up and down the tree, Kid Flash started punching holes in the tower causing it to spark up.
"It's gonna blow," Kid Flash yelled jumping away from the tower, "put a shield up quick."
Complying, Kid Lantern enveloped the tower in a shield. Feeling it starting to explode within the shield, Kid Lantern increased the power to the shield.
However, with a giant explosion that destroyed the tower, Kid Lantern was pushed back hurling head first onto a tree.
"Kid Lantern," Kid Flash cried out hurrying to check up on his friend.
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The fight between the Young Justice team and Deathstroke was a brutal one (and not just because of his animal followers).
Not a single one of them was able to land so much as finger on him. With his agility, strength, and cunning he was easily a match for the three teenage superheroes.
Hearing explosions to his left, Deathstroke turned around angrily.
"That better not be what I think it is," Deathstroke warned.
"It is I'm afraid," Artemis told him with a smirk.
In the time frame of a second, all the animals that were fighting for Deathstroke passed out. They weren't injured but merely tired.
"Now, that you're out numbered," Artemis readied her bow and pointed an arrow at the villain, "talk!"
Calmly, Deathstroke looked to her.
"What would you like to know my dear," Deathstroke asked fearlessly.
"Besides you, who else was involved with this plan," Artemis demanded, "and where did you get all the technology you were using."
"Why do you assume someone else was involved," Deathstroke questioned tilted his head slightly, "were you naughty little kids spying on me."
"That's none of your business," Superboy snarled cracking his knuckles, "now talk or we'll make you talk."
Deathstroke chuckled in amusement.
"You'll get your answers soon enough children," Deathstroke reassured them, "my colleagues and I are getting quiet sick of all of you."
Before anyone could react, Deathstroke threw a smoke ball at the three of them. By the time the smoke cleared Deathstroke was long gone.
"Oh no, he got away," Miss. Martian groaned.
…
"Kid Lantern are you okay," Kid Flash stood above his friend concerned.
Kid Lantern hissed in pain from the blow to the head he took.
"Oh crap I'm sorry," Kid Flash apologized, "that was such a stupid plan. What was I thinking? Why did I not think about what could happen to you? How…"
"Wally," Kid Lantern intervened, "it's okay. I'm not hurt just shook up. You don't have to worry about me."
"I can't help worrying about you. I'm always worrying about you," Kid Flash replied frantically.
"You are," Kid Lantern asked in shock.
Carefully, Kid Flash helped his friend up.
"Yeah," Kid Flash nodded, "I don't know why but I'm so protective of you. I feel like that if you get hurt by something I failed you somehow."
"Wally…"
"Maybe that's why I got so pissed at you for keeping that creepy guy from me," Kid Flash sighed, "he could have hurt you right under my nose."
"I'm really sorry about that Wally," Kid Lantern apologized, "I didn't mean to make you mad at me."
"I know you didn't and I'm not mad anymore," Kid Flash grinned at his friend, "I don't think it's possible for me to stay mad at you for long."
Impulsively, Kid Lantern hugged his friend tightly. Immediately Kid Flash returned the hug.
"I'm so happy you're not mad anymore Wally," Kid Lantern smiled into his friends neck.
"I like you a lot Darren," Kid Flash blurted out unconsciously.
Kid Lantern looked up at his friend curiously.
"Y-You d-do," Kid Lantern stuttered as blush appeared his cheeks.
"As a friend," Kid Flash cried out trying to cover his tracks, "I like you as a good friend. Not that I couldn't see you as more than a friend but I just…well…I'm…"
Kid Lantern blinked up at his friend.
"Uh," Kid Flash was at a loss for words.
The speedster's gaze went to the rubble that was once the tower.
"Oh look potential souvenirs," Kid Flash zoomed away from his friend to pick out something in the rubble.
Kid Lantern felt he should press his friend further about what he was going to say, but ultimately his shyness kicked in a he backed off.
Kid Flash was mumbling to himself incoherently as he looked at all rubble.
"Do I really like Darren as more than a friend," Kid Flash whispered to himself in confusion.
…
"Black Canary to Aqualad, I repeat Black Canary to Aqualad."
Aqualad held up the comm on his wrist to his mouth.
"This is Aqualad go ahead," Aqualad answered.
"I'm coming to pick you all up now," Black Canary informed him, "anything exciting happen down there."
Aqualad and Robin shared a look with each other.
"You could say that," Aqualad grinned.
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