DISCLAIMER:Power Rangers belong to Saban, as does Justin (in his original incarnation of Justin Stewart.) Geo, however, is mine. Kris & Kay Thomas are 2 very real young ladies and I continually thank Kris for her permission, as I do Ellen Brand for Franklin Park. JLA, Young Justice, Robin, Superboy, Wonder Girl, Impulse, and all related items are DC comics’. Brian Taylor is mine. If anyone has an idea for a cool heroic name for Brian other than Green Lantern, please e-mail me at .
YOUNG JUSTICE
by C.A. TURNER
PROLOGUE 1
The Olympian Gods, looking over the Earth from their home, Mt. Olympus, were none too pleased with the current Wonder Girl, Cassandra Sandsmark, and decided some changes were needed.
Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, decided: “I shall give the new champion the wisdom of the Olympians, and an intellegence second only to Diana’s.”
Demeter, Goddess of Power: “I shall increase her might to the point of equal with Diana.”
Hestia, Goddess of home & hearth: “I shall give her access to the flames of Truth. To this end, I have cut a small piece of Diana’s golden lasso in order to create one for Wonder Girl.”
Artemis, goddess of hunting:
“I shall give her the hunter’s eye and the warrior’s skill.”
Aphrodite, goddess of love & beauty: “There is truth in beauty, so I shall contribute the beauty of youth, as well as that of a loving heart, so, like Diana she shall be.”
Hermes, messenger of the gods: “Like that of Diana, I shall give her superspeed, along with the power of flight.”
It was then that Hera, queen of the gods, asked “How will these gifts help improve Cassandra’s performance as Wonder Girl if she has not done at all well with what we’ve already given her?”
“They shall not. It was my folly for giving them to her in the first place. I should have realized that Cassandra was too impulsive to handle these abilities. Thus they shall be given to another, the first teenager that Diana knew when she first came to this world. Vanessa Kapatelis is nowhere near as impulsive, and will not be as likely to make terrible mistakes. Let it be done.” spoke Zeus, King of the gods. _
PROLOGUE 2
Ganthet, looking over Angel Grove, was watching a young boy doing a combination of dance & martial arts, which his older brother referred to as the Hip Hop Kido. He knew then this was the right person for this, so he approached the young man.
“Brian Taylor?” Ganthet asked. “You got him.” he spoke up. In seconds, he was wearing a ring like Kyle Rayner’s, and was holding a power battery. _ 3 days later…
Robin, Jason Lee Scott, Rocky DeSantos, & the 6 Geo Rangers were helping both Superboy & Impulse sort out all of the items & articles in the JLA’s old HQ, a cave on the outskirts of Metropolis.
Rocky frowned, “Man, I do not believe that the World’s Finest superheroes made their home here at one time. Batman, I can see, but Black Canary? Why would she want to roost here?”
“I gotta go with Rocky here.” Superboy added. “I mean, when you say, ‘Justice League of America’, you think of grand…exotic. Not… this!”
Justin Steed, the Red Geo Ranger and grandson of British superagent John Steed, explained “After that bloody mess with that whole ‘World Without Grownups’, Zordon thought that we should be a team, for the time being. I do wish that Robin would join us. With Impulse on this team, we need all the rational, level-headed people we can get.”
“WAS THAT A DIG ON ME?” Impulse shouted.
“I’d say one of the kinder ones. Besides, Justin, you and Superboy are the real leaders of this team.” Robin spoke up.
Mark Stanton, the Blue Geo Ranger, frowned “HEY! What are the rest of us supposed to do, stand behind them and go ‘doo-wah, doo-wah’?”
Green Geo Kris Thomas spoke “Come on, one Impulse in this group is enough! Besides, do you think you’d like to be in charge?”
“Unlike my sister, I’d love it!” Yellow Geo Kay Thomas spoke up.
Kris quickly responded “Thank you, Evita Peron.”
“Come on, what is this, pick on the super fast kid day today?” Impulse whined.
Karen Peel, the Pink Geo Ranger, griped “What are you, the poster child for paranoia? We weren’t talking about you. Get a grip!”
Jason looked at Robin. “You really think they can be a team without trying to kill each other first?”
“Come on, Jase, give ’em a chance. As for different personalities, 4 words of reminder: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.”
“Uh, guys, not to interrupt the murder of my least favorite speedster, but does anyone else besides me see a green glow over the meeting table?” Franklin Park, the Black Geo Ranger asked.
“I think it’s also starting to change shape and harden. Didn’t the Guardians used to get around like that?” Kay Thomas, the Yellow Geo Ranger, spoke up. In seconds, they had their answer. It was a Guardian, Ganthet, along with 2 other teens, one strangely familiar to Jason, the other…
“Hey, Wonder Girl! We could have used your help earlier. Glad you went back to your old look, that new one reeked.” Superboy smiled.
“That’s because I’m not that Wonder Girl. Name’s Vanessa. Vanessa Kapatelis.”
“Uh, are you Diana’s sister? You look like a younger version of Wonder Woman.” Jason asked.
“Nope. When I use these powers, I look like this. Otherwise, I’m a 15 year old redhead with a underdeveloped body. Damn, I wish Diana was here!”
“Who cares! I’m bored! I want some action!” Impulse frowned.
Kris groaned. “Will someone please put a leash & muzzle on this jerk?”
“We tried. Nothing seems to work.” Superboy told her.
“You sure you want to be a part of this?” Kay asked the 2 newcomers.
“I think it’s a little too late to change our minds.” Wonder Girl told them.
“Since we’re introducing ourselves here, I’m Brian. Brian Taylor.” the young man with the Green Lantern ring spoke up.
Jason thought to himself -Oh. My. God. Zack is going to have kittens.-
“Hey, guys, lookit! I’m surfin the Tornado!” Impulse shouted.
“PUT THAT BACK WHERE YOU FOUND IT, SIT DOWN, DON’T MOVE, OR SAY ANOTHER WORD TODAY!” Robin shouted.
“Can’t we just drop him off at the nearest insane asylum?” Karen asked.
“I am afraid not, miss.” a voice spoke up.
Impulse screamed “YIIII!”
Wonder Girl frowned. “Now what?”
Rocky groaned “Who said that?”
“I did. I had come to shut myself off, because I felt that I had lost touch with humanity. I still have a connection, thanks to you, because I too, want to rip Impulse’s head off his shoulders. Thank you.”
“You’re welcome…I think.” Brian finished. The alarms went off. “Now what?” Robin groaned.
Now they were on their way to Carlsbad Caverns. Amazingly, it was Impulse who found out what was going on. “It seems that one of the Archivists were digging on that site, and unearthed an object that struck that person with a beam of light. I don’t know anything else after that.” Impulse told everyone.
“Imp, do me a favor: Don’t ever hand me straight lines like that.” Kris told him. “I can see at least a dozen zingers from that already.”
The 13 heroes landed at the site, where they were stopped by 2 men, one in black, the other in white, both were trying to cordon off the site, a huge crater. Robin demanded id…and got it.
“DEO…CIA…FBI…SCOTLAND YARD?…MI5?” the young teen hero asked. “No one has that much clearance.”
“This we do indeed, young man.” the man in white, called Maad, spoke, rather pleasantly enough.
His partner in black, calling himself Fite, was more abrasive. “Damn straight. We got more clearance than God!”
“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s a government yahoo who is rude and full of shit! I don’t give a damn if you’re the bloody President! Get out of our way, lives could be at stake!” Rocky bellowed.
“You wanna fight, punk?” Fite snarled.
“Put it in park, Fite. Apparently, there’s more here than meets the eye, if these young people are involved. It probably would be best if we let them have first crack at this.” Maad, the obviously more calmer of the 2, spoke.
Impulse, however, wasn’t waiting for anyone’s permission, and shot down to the site.
“Young man, kindly do NOT stick your head in there!” Maad warned.5 guesses what he did, anyway.
After, there was a crash. Impulse was fine, but the glass case was totalled.
“Oh, nice going, Imp!” Superboy frowned. His tone quickly changed when he saw who came out after him. Built for-well, for want of a better term-puberty dreams, she shouted “I see you up there, shivering in fear-”
“THAT’S NOT FEAR, THAT’S ANTICIPATION!” Superboy smiled. Rocky, Mark, Franklin, Brian, and Impulse agreed. Even Robin, Jason, & Justin were impressed.
The girls, however, were disgusted. “Easy, stomach. Don’t turn over on me now.” Wonder Girl groaned.
“I shall make this sorry planet over in my image! Thus speaks MIGHTY ENDOWED!”
“Figures.” Kris groaned.
“I shall destroy all who oppose me! I-oh, no, too top-heavy! Can’t stand-” And with that, she fell flat on her face in the sand.
All 4 girls almost died laughing.
“Nerts.” Superboy frowned. His tone quickly changed as he jumped down into the chasm, and pulled out a rather strange-looking vehicle.
“Hello, hello, hello, what have we here?””Looks like some type of intergalactic motorcycle. Let’s look ‘er over.” Brian spoke up.
“Whatever it is, it’s mine. I’m callin’ it the Supercycle!”
Impulse whined “Oh, no. Why should the rest of us ride in something that gives you top billing?”
“Cause it’s a hell of a lot better than riding in something called the ‘Impulsecycle.’ UGH!” Kris frowned.
“As far as I’m concerned, no one’s riding the bloody thing until we give ‘er the once over. Robin-” Justin asked.
“Sounds good to me. Let’s take a look.” Soon, both were checking out the cycle, but were soon held fast to the vehicle’s seating compartments. In seconds, Wonder Girl, Franklin, Kris, & Jason were helping Justin, while Karen, Kay, Superboy, Brian, and Rocky tried to help Robin. Impulse, however, fiddled around with the controls, when a mechanical voice spoke ‘hold on’.
“Uh, did this-cycle-just say hold on?” Wonder Girl gasped.
“That settles it! Everyone, off this thing, NOW! Robin soon shot into the sky for an unknown destination with 12 young heroes all screaming in terror-
“WHAHOO!” Impulse shouted.
Well, almost all.
Within minutes, they were over the Great Wall of China…
“…and it looks like we’re gonna hit it in seconds!” Karen frowned.
“Terrific.” Robin’s sarcasm quickly came to the surface.
“There’s a group of nuns at the bsae of the wall. Probably tourists.” Brian added.
“Not to mention other tourists.” Justin added, British accent coming in loud and clear.
“Terrific.” Robin snarled.
“There’s also a van with explosises at another part of the base…set to go off in 5 minutes.” Superboy frowned.
“I GET THE PICTURE! Man, when it rains, it pours!” Robin finished.
“Shall we go to work, everyone?” Justin asked.
“My thoughts, exactly. Karen, wanna help me get the nuns & tourists out of the way?” Kris asked.
“You bet. Time to go to work.” In minutes, the wind & some trees had moved the observers to a safe distance. Brian used his new power ring to save a few more bystanders, and Superboy & Wonder Girl got the explosives out of the area.
“All right, now what?” Justin asked.
“We try to figure out where this…cycle…” Robin started.
“SUPER-cycle!” Superboy quickly corrected.
“ENOUGH ALREADY! I will not call it the Super Cycle!” Impulse shouted.
“Well, it sure as hell beats calling it the ‘Impulse Cycle.'” Kris finished.
“If I may be allowed to finish…we try to figure out where we are headed, and why?” Robin finally finished.
Where they were heading was an oasis hidden under a snowy mountaintop. This is where the Ali Ben-Steyn(I kid you not, that’s his name) ruled. Fite & Maad had already arrived, and warned him about his upcoming…visitors.
“OYYY! Why do I get this kind of tsuris?”
Meanwhile, back to our heroes…
…flying directly over the same mountaintop, Impulse shouted “I don’t like this! Something weird’s going on here!”
Kris glared at the speedster. “Oh, and the rest of this has been an everyday thing? 9-10 speedsters running around, and we get the one with no BRAINS!”
A rumbling sound finished any other things they might have said. The rumblings exposed both the oasis, and a weird creature called Shattershock. “At last, AT LAST! I LIVE AGAIN!”
“Why us?” Justin & Robin asked no one in particular.
Shattershock continued “Now my cycle has returned! Thank you, gnats!” he addressed the young heroes.
“Oh, no, he didn’t call us what I think he called us!” Wonder Girl growled.
“NOW GIVE ME MY CYCLE!” he snarled.
Superboy & Mark both exploded. Mark: “This cycle?”
Superboy: “After what we just went through?”
“After this day?”
“Sorry, Charlie!”
“You’re out of what’s left of your mind!”
“Walk east ’til your hat floats!”
Shattershock then charged everyone, but by this time, they had become a team. Robin had programmed the cycle to come only to the young heroes, while Superboy, Wonder Girl, & Brian slammed into Shattershock with an unleashed fury, sending the villain crashing into his own army, wiping them out. Franklin then created an earthen prison around him, Mark doused it with water to make it more pliable, Kay added energy barriers, Kris strengthened it with vines, Karen shot it into the air, and Justin blasted it with a heatflash to rival the Sahara. It turns out that Shattershock had captured Steyn’s kingdom, and was turning the people into his unwitting drones in a war against Darkseid.
Steyn was pleased. “Thank you, my friends. You have saved my people. You can take anything I have…except my money. (Why doesn’t that suprise me?)
Superboy’s eyes were on a certain maiden. “Actually…”
“DON’T EVEN GO THERE!” Wonder Girl snarled.
Back at the old JLAHQ, Nightwing was waiting for them. “Robin asked me to fill in for him while he’s with the League, so, if you guys don’t mind, I think I can make you almost as good as the Titans.”
“Sounds good to me.” Justin spoke up.
Wonder Girl, Brian, Kris, Karen, Kay, Franklin, & Mark all agreed.
Jason & Robin smiled. They could get back to the JLA.
Superboy smiled. “Hey, I’m easy. As long as we have the Super-cycle!”
Impulse started “We are not…Oh, the hell with it!”
THE END