Young Justice: The Super Soldier 12 The Drop At Prisca Part 3

Sportsmaster eyes continue to narrow as he brings out a rod. Which then extends to form a sharp point that he throws at Miss M. She just barely manages to dodge, but it blows up right beside her. Knocking her away and hitting her hard enough to turn off her camouflage.

Superboy and Blockbuster continue to exchange punches as Robin and Captain America run along the catwalk over their head. Kid Flash runs behind them and comes to a stop to watch over the chaos.

Kid Flash runs off, while Robin and Cap remain and Robin gains a mischievous look before he runs back the way he came while Cap just down and joins the fight.

Aqualad is now standing upright but is being backed up despite his shield and projectiles. Ducking behind some piping he can put down his water-bearers, but then finds two more Kobra agents on his other side.

Before they can fire Kid Flash runs in and slams his feet into both their chests to knock them out and back. Only for three more to arrive on the catwalk over where the two now lay unconscious. But before they can shoot Cap throws his shield hitting them before he catches it.

"seriously Cap your shield doesn't abide by physics at all" Kid Flash says before running back into the fight.

"Miss Martian, radio is jammed," Cap tells her since at this point she's the only one that doesn't know "Link us up!" when Cap gave this order this Aqualad was confused he was just about to say the exact same thing so how did Cap know? But soon shakes his head dismissing any ideas and just concludes it was just a coincidence.

Behind the men shooting Aqualad she's slowly coming to. Her eyes widen as she processes what she heard, bringing her hand to her head. "Everyone online?" she asks.

Superboy growls through the punch that hits him in the face. "Yeah," he replies, though he still doesn't like someone in his head but since it was Miss Martian he didn't mind all that much.

"Same here" Cap said while taking out multiple Kobra agents without a sweat.

"You know it, beautiful." Kid Flash says with a smile, despite the fact that he's getting shot at, still.

Aqualad ignores that. "Good. We need to regroup."

"Busy now." Robin's voice cuts in.

The Boy Wonder lands at the Helicopter pad, Kobra stepping up right behind him, the girl by his side. Robin stands and turns instantly picking up on the movement. "Batman must be desperate if he sends whelp to task me."

Robin ignores the insult as he decides to banter with the villain instead. "What's wrong, Koby? You look disconcerted."

"This is beneath me. Shimmer, take him." Kobra commands. Shimmer runs at the Boy Wonder, whose only response is a smirk.

Flipping over her as she gets close enough, then lands behind her. He stands back into a fighting stance. "Robin, now." Aqualad's voice commands. The youngest grits his teeth, just barely losing concentration in time for Shimmer to come in with a punch ready.

However, Robin drops a flash grenade, giving him time to get away and leave the two alone.

Aqualad uses his water-bears to create long whips and take out many of the still shooting Kobra agents. "Strategic retreat. Kid, clear a path."

Kid Flash takes out seven Kobra agents, Aqualad running behind him and Robin grappling above and behind the Atlantean's head. Miss Martian flies in behind the Boy Wonder. As he drops from his line she returns to the ground, as Superboy continues to hold off Blockbuster.

Finally getting a proper hold he throws Blockbuster into ama.s.sing Kobra agents to give him time to get away as well. He makes it through the door then slams it shut.

He and Aqualad are the only ones who have to take off and run, which they don't wait on as Blockbuster knocks the door in.

Catching up the rest of the Team Aqualad shouts a command. "Superboy, the support beams."

He punches out three in succession but wasn't expecting the cave in to be so rapid. Thankfully Miss Martian grabs the back of his shirt and pulls him away from the debris.

Forcing the Kobra agents to the same on the other side of the cave in. Blockbuster takes one look and walks away.

Aqualad snaps a glow stick create a light source. Robin stands with his back to Aqualad, looking to the cave in, while Kid Flash leans heavily on the wall, Superboy calmly stands beside and Miss Martian is on the other side.

"How can my first mission as leader go so wrong?" Robin questions.

'seriously he still thinks he's the leader even after what I told him earlier?' Cap thought while he started to sit on the ground.

Aqualad sets down the two pieces of the glow stick, before looking to the youngest member. "You do have the most experience. But perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared." Kid Flash stands and the whole group has their focus solely on the Boy Wonder's body language. "Fighting alongside Batman, your roles are clearly defined. You two do not need to talk. But this team is new. And a leader needs to be clear, explicit. He cannot vanish and expect others to play part in an unknown plan."

Robin turns and physically swipes the idea away. "Oh, so I'm supposed to hold everyone's hands?" then looks down with a pained groan. "Ah, who am I kidding?" he questions, entirely to himself and with a note of pain in his words. "You or Cap should lead us." which catches the attention of Cap who was off in his own world again "only you guys can lead this team"

Please!" Kid Flash shouts. "I can run circles-"

"Wally, come on." Robin cuts him off, even using his secret ID in the field. "You know they are the ones who can, we all do."

"h.e.l.lo, Megan!" Miss M says, placing her hands on her hips. "It's so obvious."

"Coulda told ya." Superboy concurs, leaning against a support beam slightly behind Aqualad with his arms cross and actually smiling. He turns his attention towards Kid Flash with a frown.

Wally brings his hands off his hips and over his shoulders as he shrugs, then brings his hands back to his hips and smiles. "Okay, but who's gonna be the leader out of the two?."

"Yea I'm out, Kaldur should be the team leader" When Cap said this it surprised everyone including Robin "I feel like I'm not quite ready to lead just yet, so, for now, Kaldur should be the leader" luckily Kaldur understood.

"Then I accept the burden," he says as he walks towards Robin pausing as he places his hand on the smaller boy's shoulder. "until you or Cap are ready to lift it from my shoulders. You two were born to lead this team. Maybe not now, but soon." Robin is smiling the whole way through the speech and confirms the terms with a small nod.

He turns away and looks to all of the Team. "Alright, our first priority is preventing that shipment from leaving the island." they all gather around.

Robin laughs, crosses his arms, and takes on a Wally-like smirk. "Funny. I had the same thought."

On the helipad, Sportsmaster is in the chopper while Shimmer and Kobra remain outside listening to it creak and stutter, but not start.

"Sabotage." Sportsmaster states, considering it was running fine when he left. "Robin?"

"Undoubtedly." Kobra agrees, his annoyance showing before he turns to Shimmer. "Find the problem. Fix it." she bows and walks off as Sportsmaster steps beside Kobra and one of his agents and Blockbuster join the two.

"Master, shall we send search parties after the intruders?" he asks.

"Don't be absurd, they'll come to us." Kobra snarls, walking away.

"Sportsmaster the supplier/buyer." Robin says as all five run down the mine tunnel. "But it still doesn't track. He doesn't have the juice to acquire the Blockbuster formula or to get Kobra to do his dirty work."

Despite having superspeed Kid Flash remains beside Robin, though both are in the lead, with Aqualad and Superboy behind them, and Miss Martian the furthest back and in the air.

"And neither of them have the chops to bond Blockbuster with Venom." Kid Flash agrees. "That took some major nerdage."

"I believe the expression is ＂tip of the iceberg＂." Aqualad states, coming to a stop as they see Bane standing in front of their exit. Something long and metal dropping from his grip. Joining at least half a dozen more just like it on the ground.

"Halt, niños." Bane commands, something bright green sticking out of his left hand. "I'm feeling explosive."

Behind them are explosives on the second to last support beam, judging by the cave in they experienced they wouldn't make it out in time.

"You betrayed us. Why?" Aqualad asks, sounding honestly confused.

"I want my factory back." Bane states simply.

"Kid, you'll need a running start." Aqualad says through the mind link, the ginger does as he's told and slowly starts taking steps backward.

"So I forced you into a situation where you would either take down my enemies or die trying." he smirks proudly before continuing. "If the latter, the Justice League would certainly come to avenge their sidekicks. And when the smoke cleared Santa Prisca would be mine once more." he holds out the trigger. "Blowing the tunnel with you inside should have the same effect." he didn't notice the blur and went to hit the b.u.t.ton on to find it missing.

"With what?" Kid Flash's voice asks from behind the supervillain. Leaning smugly against a nearby tree as Bane turns to him. "This trigger thingy?" he continues to question, showing Bane the still intact trigger in his hand.

Bane went to go punch the ginger but was pulled back and away by an unseen force. Or rather M'gann's telekinesis. Now being held a good ten feet off the ground the others join her where Bane can see them.

Superboy drops into a fighting stance. "Finally." sounding both pleased, amused and some frightening degree of desperate. M'gann looks to him and fully settles into his stance. "Drop him."

She looks up innocently as she drops her hand, the force holding Bane diminishes and he falls right into the hard uppercut from Superboy.

The helicopter is now up and running again and they're loading product once more.

"The helicopter is operational, exalted one." an agent states the rather obvious. Sportsmaster walks back down towards the chopper with the silver box from before. Only to be stopped as Kid Flash runs in and takes out the two furthest agents in the rows on both his sides, then over to one of the agents now shooting at him. Kicking him in the chest and knocking him away from the gun.

"Take the shipment!" Kobra commands. Two more agents come up behind him, and as Sportmaster goes to leave Superboy drops in, cracking the concrete mere feet away from the helicopter.

"Go again?" he asks Blockbuster. The monster roars, Kid Flash takes out one other Kobra agent between the two super strong forces, just as he gets within striking distance a stream of water takes out the monster. "Sorry. Not the plan." then looks over to ensure that Aqualad isn't being ambushed as he holds the water stream.

Sportsmaster gets behind Superboy, using the cover of the helicopter and hits him with a bright red blast from his gun on the teen's back. He gets two more shots, then starts rapidly firing as he manages to force the clone backward. In his distraction, Miss Martian goes unseen.

Until she tries to swoop in and help, only for Sportsmaster to hit her hard, disabling her camouflage and get her in a choke hold. All while still shooting at Superboy.

Kid Flash takes out one of the few remaining cultists' guns, swiping his mask in the process. "Souvenir." then continues to run as the agent falls unconscious. Shimmer and Kobra taking a step back.

In a second a bola wraps around her body and knocks her to the ground. Looking to the source Kobra glares at Robin. "I know you hate getting your hands dirty." the Boy Wonder snarks as if he did the cult leader a favor.

"True," though he reaches up and takes off his cloak. Revealing his shaved head and matching pale the body. "but sometimes even a G.o.d must stoop to conquer." Robin smirks but before he can Charge he's stopped by someone grabbing his shoulder when turned around he saw Cap.

"Robin could you let me handle this while you help to team with sportsmaster, " Cap said causing Robin to frown but instead of arguing he went to help the team.

And unfazed Kobra stands there as if he was looking at bug but soon was surprised as Cap ran towards him with his shield knocking him away "How dare you to hit the G.o.d who will lead the world into the next."

"you sound like my brother both of you are lunatics." Both Cap and Kobra were countering each other moves but Kobra couldn't land a good hit because every time he tried Cap would just block with his shield but before Kobra tried to attempt another hit Cap kicked his chest sending him flying.

A furious Kobra got back up and cracked his neck while smirking and saying "You are nothing without your shield" he said trying to bait Cap into fight hand to hand combat.

Knowing Kobra was baiting Cap smirked and happily obliged as he puts the shield behind his back and said "let see about that" both charged at each other at full attack mode but this time was different everything Kobra did Cap would do the same countering all of his punches and kicks it was like Kobra was fighting his mirrored self.

The more the minutes went on Kobra could see everything had failed the helicopter that was carrying his supply has blown up and seeing blockbuster was down he needed to retreat which caused him to lose focus when he threw a punch which Cap grabbed and having caught his arm Cap broke it making Kobra yell in pain before Cap delivered a moth kick towards his chest sending flying in front of the forest.

"I am plagued by mosquitoes!" Kobra proclaims.

"You're just mad because you got your b.u.t.t kicked," A grinning Robin said as the team a.s.sembles around him.

The six stand ready to fight, still holding his broken arm Kobra glances to the side, then steps back calmly. "Another time then." then he disappears into the shadows.

Robin attempts to follow but is shocked to find only shrubbery and darkness. He walks back to find the other four still waiting, though Miss Martian comes back to the ground.

"We picked the right guy to lead." Robin tells Aqualad sincerely. "Automatically making you the right guy to explain this mess to Batman!" then walks away laughing.

Aqualad can only look down in thought.

Mount justice July 24th...(they say August 4th which confused me since the next ep said August 3rd when superboy goes to see Superman so I changed it)

"A simple recon mission." Batman gets within inches of Aqualad's face as he berates him. "Observe and report!" then backs off. "You'll each receive written evaluations detailing your many mistakes." Batman walks past all Six, who stand at full attention. Coming to a pause beside Captain America, who is the last one in their line. "Until then - good job." all of their heads snap up in shock except Cap, look to Batman out of the corner of their eyes. "No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy." all of them relax and stand slightly more comfortably. "How you adjust to the unforeseen is what determines success." they all watch him as he continues and starts walking away. "And how you choose who leads determines character." Robin smiles, and Aqualad looks down at the smaller boy and does as well.

Somewhere unknown July 24th...

"All I managed to recover is a single vial of KobrVenom." Sportsmaster holds it up to prove his point.

"Peut-être… the formula can be reverse-engineered." a projected voice says, with a slight accent. " Mias what of these heroes?" the voice comes from a screen which looks to contain only a container. "First Cadmus, then Mister Twister. Now, Santa Prisca."

"Once is happenstance ." another agrees, his voice dark, and turning darker as he continues. "twice is coincidence. But three times is enemy action, and enemies of the Light must not stand including when he has just woken up,"