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Carribean Sea
June 22, 20:08 ECT

(The team is in the bioship.)

Miss Martian: We're approaching Santa Prisca.

(Flashback)

Batman: Isla Santa Prisca. This island nation is the primary source of a dangerous and illegal neurosteroid, a strength enhancing drug sold under the street name "Venom." Infrared heat signatures indicate their factory is still operating at full capacity, but all shipments of Venom have been inexplicably been cut off. That's where this team comes in. This is a covert mission only. Observe and report. If the Justice League needs to intervene, it will. The plan requires two drop zones.

(Robin speaks up.)

Robin: So who's in charge?

(Batman & Red Tornado look at each other & then back at the team.)

Batman: Work that out between you.

Dick: *smirks*

Cassie: [whispering] Hey, (Y/N).

(Cassie taps his shoulder.)

(Y/N): Hm?

Cassie: [whispering] You want to be in charge, don't you?

(Y/N): [whispering] Why are we whispering?

Cassie: [whispering] So Batman can't hear us.

(Y/N): [whispering] I suppose that makes sense.

Cassie: [whispering] So do you want to be in charge?

(Y/N): [whispering] Not really.

Cassie: [whispering] Why not?

(Y/N): [whispering] Because I see myself as more of a warrior or a soldier. Just point me in the right direction and tell me what to do.

Cassie: [whispering] Basically, you're not smart enough to lead.

(Y/N): [whispering] *small glare* I don't know how you interpreted that.

Batman: White Lightning. Wonder Girl. I advise you both to stop talking.

(Y/N) & Cassie: Sorry!

(End Of Flashback)

Miss Martian: Drop zone A in 30.

(Aqualad gets out of his seat & turns his suit into stealth mode.)

Aqualad: Ready.

Miss Martian: Putting bioship in camouflage mode.

(Miss Martian camouflages the ship as Aqualad jumps into the water & swims towards the island. Which he successfully does. In doing so, Aqualad hacks the heat & motion sensors so the team won't get caught. He then lets the team know through the communicator.)

Aqualad: Heat and motion sensors are patched. Data is now on a continuous loop. Move in.

(The team is now hovering over...)

Miss Martian: Drop zone B.

(The team stands up from their seats & Miss Martian makes two zip lines for Robin & KId Flash. Kid then presses on his logo to turn his suit into stealth mode.)

Kid Flash: How cool is this?

Miss Martian: Very impressive.

(Miss Martian changes into her stealth suit.)

Kid Flash: Uh, that works too. Hey, Supey, not too late to put on the new stealth tech.

Superboy: No capes, no tights. No offense.

(Superboy crosses his arms as White Lightning places an arm across Superboy's shoulders.)

White Lightning: I'm gonna have to agree with Superboy on this one.

(Wonder Girl presses on her logo to turn her suit into stealth mode.)

White Lightning: Wow, you...look good in black.

(Wonder Girl stares at White Lightning.)

White Lightning: Which means that you'll be perfect for stealth missions!

Wonder Girl: Right...

Miss Martian: It totally works for you...

(Superboy stares at Miss Martian.)

Miss Martian:  ...in that you can totally do good work in those clothes.

(Miss Martian gives Superboy a thumbs up as he turns away from her.)

White Lightning: Nice save.

Miss Martian: Right back at ya.

White Lightning: [awkward chuckle]

(Miss Martian turns herself invisible. Kid Flash & Robin zip line down, Miss Martian & Wonder fly down, & White Lightning slowly hovers down on a cloud he summoned. But..)

*BOOM*

(Superboy drops down through White Lightning's cloud resulting in him hitting the ground & creates a crater in the ground.)

White Lightning: Ow.

Superboy: Knew I didn't need a line.

Robin: And yet creating a seismic event may not have helped us much with the covert.

(Wonder Girl picks up White Lightning.)

Wonder Girl: Your clouds aren't really durable, are they?

White Lightning: [sighs] Unfortunately.

(Miss Martian speaks through her communicator.)

Miss Martian: Aqualad, drop B is go.
Aqualad: Head for the factory. I'll track your GPS rendezvous ASAP.

(The team looks at Robin's holoscreen to look at the map.)

Robin: Roger that.

(Robin turns off his holoscreen & the team makes their way to the factory.)

(Cut to the team walking through the forest where Superboy hears something.)

Superboy: Did you hear that?

Kid Flash: Uh, no. Wait. Is this a super hearing thing?

Wonder Girl: Probably.

Miss Martian: You do have great ears.

White Lightning: They're alright.

Kid Flash: Okay, Rob, now what?

(Robin's disappeared from the team without telling them once again.)

Kid Flash: Man, I hate it when he does that.

White Lightning: A head's up would be nice.

(Aqualad talks through his communicator.)

Aqualad: Superboy, Kid, switch to infrared. See if you're being tracked.

(Kid Flash puts his goggles on & switches them to infrared.)

Kid Flash: Got a squad of armed bozos incoming.

(Superboys blinks into infrared.)

Superboy: Two squads. But they'll meet each other before they find us.

Wonder Girl: I wish I had infrared vision.

[rapid gunfire]

Kid Flash: No super hearing required now.

Aqualad: Swing wide, steer clear.

Kid Flash: Y-yeah, just as soon as I find Rob.

White Lightning: I'm sure Rob's-

(Kid Flash runs away from the team.)

White Lightning: And he's gone. [sighs]

(As Kid Flash is running, he trips & falls in the middle of the firefight. Kid Flash evades the beams thanks to his superspeed. Superboy takes on Bane. We now cut to White Lightning on a cloud in the sky.)

White Lightning: So much for being covert.

(White Lightning summons a thunder cloud over some of the goons and...)

*CRACK*

(Temporarily paralyzes the goons. Wonder Girl sees this & uses this opportunity to catch one of the goons with her lasso & swing into the paralyzed goons.)

White Lightning: *stares dreamingly at Wonder Girl*

(Robin drops down from the tree he was in & knocks out a goon.)

Robin: Hyah! What is wrong with you guys? Remember covert? Why didn't you follow my lead, vanish into the jungle?

Kid Flash: That's what you were doing? Way to fill us in. We're not mind readers, you know.

(Miss Martian flies in after taking care of two goons.)

Kid Flash: Er, I'm not anyway.

Miss Martian: You told me I could only read the bad guys' minds.

Wonder Girl: White Lightning.

White Lightning: *still staring dreamingly at her* Yes?

Wonder Girl: Stop staring and focus.

White Lightning: *stops staring* Right!

(Aqualad knocks out a fleeing goon. Cut to the team after subduing both groups.)

Robin: I recognize those uniforms. They belong to the cult of The Kobra.

Aqualad: I am certain Batman would have mentioned it if he knew a dangerous extremist was running Santa Prisca's venom operation.

Robin: Agreed. And since there's clearly no love lost between the cultists and those goons, I'm betting Kobra came in and tossed them out. That's why normal supply lines have been cut off.

Kid Flash: We get it. Kobra wanted super cultists.

Wonder Girl: We're done already?

White Lightning: I don't think so.

Kid Flash: Mystery solved. Radio bats, and we'll be home in no time--

Robin: These cultists aren't on venom. Kobra's hoarding the stuff. We don't leave. Not until I know why.

Kid Flash: Until you know why?

Robin: This team needs a leader.

Kid Flash: And it's you? Dude, you're a 13 year old kid who ducked out on us without a word.

Robin: Ha ha! And you're a mature 15?

White Lighting: [laughs]

Robin: What's so funny?

Kid Flash: Yeah, (Y/N).

White Lighting: That you two are arguing over who should be leader. I thought an argument such as that was beneath the both of you.

Robin: You're only saying that because you want to be the leader of the team, don't you?

Kid Flash: Not at all. I just think we have bigger priorities than-

Wonder Girl: He's too stupid to be the leader.

White Lightning: That's not true and you know it!

(Cut to Miss Martian & Superboy.)

Miss Martian: Don't you want to lead?

Superboy: [scoffs] You?

Miss Martian: After the Mr. Twister fiasco?

Superboy: You did alright.

Miss Martian: *blushes*

(Superboy, with his super hearing, listens in on Bane & a goon's conversation. Kid Flash & Robin continue to argue until they're interrupted by Bane.)

Bane: [chuckling] Such clever ninos. But you only half the story. Let me show you the rest, get you into the factory via my secret entrance.

Miss Martian: There is a secret entrance but he's also hiding something.

(Miss Martian begins to read his mind.)

Bane: Ah, ah, ah, chica. Bane is not that easy.

Miss Martian: Ohh. He's mentally reciting football scores en Espanol. This could take a while.

White Lightning: I could...

(Lightning surrounds Y/N's arms.)

White Lightning: ...shock it out of him.

Bane: I would love to see you try but it's not complicated. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

(The team looks at each other.)

(Cut to the venom factory where we see a cultist and Kobra.)

Cultist: Sublime master, he approaches.

Kobra: Activate the radio jamming net. Nothing must interfere.

(Cut to the team & Bane watching the cultist move venom.)

Robin: Look at all that product. A buy is going down. But if Kobra's not selling to the usual suspects, then--

Wonder Girl: We need to identify that buyer!

Aqualad: Beat me to it.

Kid Flash: Just what I was thinking.

Robin: [sarcasm] Yeah, you're the thinker.

Kid Flash: Sarcasm? Dude. A real leader would focus on getting answers.

(Bane moves a rock revealing the secret entrance.)

Bane: Answers are this way.

Kid Flash: So now, El Luchador is our leader.

(Cut to the team & Bane inside of the factory.)

Bane: Has that little fool already been caught?

Aqualad: No, he just does that.

Kid Flash: Stay put. I'll get our intel and be back before Boy Wonder.

Aqualad: Kid, wait-

(Kid Flash runs off.)

Bane: Great chain of command.

Wonder Girl: Great, now we're being judged by the evil luchador.

White Lighting: *closes his eyes & pinches the bridge of nose*

(Robin takes control over a room & starts hacking a computer while the team & Bane continue to watch the cultists move the venom shipments.)

Aqualad: It's a massive shipment.

Superboy: Yeah, they're only taking new product off the line.

White Lightning: They're not touching this venom.

Miss Martian: Maybe freshness counts?

Wonder Girl:  Hmm, possibly.

Superboy: Helicopter's coming.

(Cut to Kid Flash running into the room Robin took over.)

Kid Flash: What you got?

Robin: Chemical formulas.

(Kid Flash runs next to Robin.)

Robin: I'm guessing it involves, but...

Kid Flash: This one's venom, and that one's--Whoa. The Blockbuster formula from Cadmus. Mixed correctly, Kobra's new juice is three times stronger than venom...and permanent. But how did Kobra get access to project Blockbuster?

Robin: Our mystery buyer must also be Kobra's supplier! Using the cult to create a blockbuster venom super formula.

(Robin tries to contact Aqualad but gets static. Cut to outside of the factory where Sportsmaster exits the helicopter & walks up to Kobra.)

Sportsmaster: Lord Korba.

Kobra: Sportsmaster. The shipment is ready.

(Shimmer shows the viles to Sportsmaster & he picks one up.)

Sportsmaster: The new Kobra venom?

Kobra: A complete success.

(Shows off Mammoth.)

Sportsmaster: Our friends will not be disappointed. This is a game-changer. Finally we can go mano-a-mano with the Justice League.

(Miss Martian has been watching all of this thanks to her cloaking herself.)

Miss Martian's thoughts: Aqualad, sending you a telepathic image of the buyer now.

(Cut back to the inside of the factory.)

Aqualad: Sportsmaster. He is the buyer? Aqualad to Red Tornado. Do you read?

(Aqualad gets static.)

Aqualad: Ugh. Can't reach the League, Robin, or Kid. Comm's jammed. We need a plan, now.

Bane: I have a suggestion.

(Bane jumps down & causes gunfire which alerts the cultists & Mammoth.)

Aqualad: What is he--

(Mammoth jumps through the window & breaks the platform that the team is standing on. They're now staring at Mammoth.)

Mammoth: [roars]

White Lightning: You're big. I've fought bigger.

Wonder Girl: Of course you have.

Kobra: Destroy them.

(Mammoth charges at the team with Superboy & White Lightning charging back at him, Wonder Girl flies into the air, & Aqualad creates a shield, & fires back at the cultists. While this is happening, Bane scurries away.)

Bane: [chuckles]

(Cut to Superboy & White Lightning fighting Mammoth.)

Mammoth: *throws Superboy at White Lightning*

Superboy: [yells]

(White Lightning dodges.)

White Lightning's thoughts: Maybe I should've caught him.

(White Lightning & Mammoth clash & lock hands. Neither one giving the other much if any ground.)

Mammoth: [roars]

White Lightning: Not bad, beast.

(Lightning surrounds Y/N's arms.)

White Lightning: Let's see if you can withstand this!

(White Lightning electrifies Mammoth.)

Mammoth: [painful roars]

White Lightning: Fall!

Mammoth: [growls]

(Mammoth headbutts White Lightning.)

White Lightning: Argh!

(Mammoth picks up White Lightning & starts charging at Superboy with White Lighting in his grasp.)

White Lightning: Unhand me!

(Sportsmaster starts watching the fight as Miss Martian, who's still cloaked, flies in & starts tossing aside cultists with her telekinesis, Aqualad is still firing back at cultists, Wonder Girl is knocking down cultists as she flies through the air, & Mammoth charges into Superboy with White Lightning.)

Superboy: [grunting]

White Lighting: [yells]

(White Lighting grabs Mammoth by the waist & Superboy punches Mammoth in the face which sends him back. Sportsmaster notices Miss Martian through her cloaking & sends an explosive javelin at her which explodes, sends Miss Martian back, & is able to get her out of her cloak.)

(Cut to White Lightning & Superboy still fighting Mammoth.)

Mammoth: [roars]

(Mammoth punches Superboy which sends him back.)

Superboy: Argh!

(Wonder Girl flies behind Mammoth, wraps her lasso around him, & attempts to lift him.)

Wonder Girl: *struggling* Come on...!

(Mammoth pulls her forward & headbutts her with the back of his head.)

Wonder Girl: [screams]

White Lightning: No!

(White Lightning charges at Mammoth & elbows him in the gut which drops Mammoth to a knee.)

Mammoth: [roa-

White Lightning: Shut up!

(White Lightning crawls his way on top of Mammoth & begins punching his face; Kid Flash & Robin finally rejoin the team & assist  in the fight.)

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Aqualad: Miss Martian, radio is jammed! Link us up!

Miss Martian's thoughts: Everyone online?

Superboy's thoughts: Yeah.

Wonder Girl: Yup!

(White Lightning is still on top of Mammoth & continuously punching Mammoth's face.)

Mammoth: [muddled roars]

White Lightning's thoughts: Yes!

Kid Flash's thoughts: You know it, beautiful.

Aqualad's thoughts: Good. We need to regroup.

Robin's thoughts: Busy now.

(Robin is about to take on Shimmer but Aqualad convinces Robin to come back.)

Aqualad: Strategic retreat. Kid, clear a path.

(Kid Flash clears a path & with the combined strength of Superboy, Wonder Girl, & White Lightning they throw Mammoth into the cultists. The team runs back into the secret entrance but Mammoth breaks the door & the cultists give chase.)

Aqualad: Superboy, Wonder Girl, the support beams!

(Superboy & Wonder Girl break the support beams sealing the team off from the cultists. Aqualad breaks some light sticks.)

Robin: How could my first mission as leader go so wrong?

Aqualad: You do have the most experience. But perhaps that is exactly what has left you unprepared. Fighting alongside Batman, your roles are defined. You two do not need to talk. But this team is new. And a leader must be clear, explicit. He cannot vanish and expect others to play parts in an unknown plan.

Robin: Oh, so I'm supposed to hold everyone's hands? [groans] Ah, who am I kidding? You should lead us, Kaldur. You're the only one who can.

Wally: Please! I can run circles--

Robin: Wally, come on. You know he's the one. We all do.

Miss Martian: Hello, Megan. It's so obvious.

Wonder Girl: Duh!

Superboy: Could have told you.

White Lightning: [chuckles] Took us a while to realize it.

Wally: Okay.

(Aqualad walks up to Robin.)

Aqualad: Then I accept the burden until you are ready to lift it from my shoulders. You were born to lead this team maybe not now, but soon.

Robin: *nods his head*

Aqualad: Alright, our first priority is preventing that shipment from leaving this island.

Robin: Funny, I had the same thought.

(The team is making their way out of the tunnel.)

Robin: Sportmaster's the buyer-supplier. 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.

Kid Flash: And neither of them have the chops to bond blockbuster with venom. That took some major nerdage.
Aqualad: I believe the expression is "tip of the iceberg."

(The team runs into Bane at the exit where he's dropped something.)

Bane: Halt, ninos. I'm feeling explosive.

(Explosives are revealed above the team.)

Aqualad: You betrayed us. Why?

White Lightning: [sarcasm] Oh no.

Bane: I want my factory back.

Aqualad's thoughts: Kid, you'll need a running start.

(Kid Flash begins backing up.)

Bane: So I forced you into a situation where you would either take down my enemies or die trying. If the latter, The Justice League would certainly have come to avenge their sidekicks. And when the smoke cleared Santa Prisca would be mine once more. Blowing the tunnel with you inside should have the same effect.

(Bane is about to press the trigger but Kid Flash takes it.)

Kid Flash: With what? This trigger thingy?

Aqualad: White Lightning, now!

(White Lightning fires a lightning bolt at Bane which hits him directly in the back.)

Bane: [shouts]

(Miss Martian lifts Bane with her telekinesis.)

Superboy: Finally. Drop him.

(Miss Martian drops Bane & Superboy punches him in the face.)

(Cut back to the factory where Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, & White Lightning are taking out cultists, Aqualad is taking on Mammoth, Superboy & Miss Martian are taking on Sportsmaster, & Robin is about to take on Kobra after subduing Shimmer.)

Robin: I know you hate getting your hands dirty.

Kobra: True.

(Kobra takes off his robe.)

Kobra: But sometimes, even a God must stoop to conquer.

White Lightning: Did he really just call himself a God?

Wonder Girl: He really did.

(Kobra easily blocks Robin's attacks.)

Kobra: What's wrong, boy? You look disconcerted.

(Kid Flash, Wonder Girl, & White Lightning continue to take out cultists & Aqualad takes out Mammoth after dowsing him in water & then shocking him. Sportsmaster defeats Miss Martian & Superboy but they get the last laugh after blowing up the shipments which cause Sportsmaster helicopter to crash into the factory with a tied up Bane watching in the distance.)

(Cut to Kobra standing over Robin & looking at the burning factory.)

Kobra: I am plagued by mosquitoes.
Robin: [grunts] Good cause this mosquito's mighty concerted over your pain.

(Robin is able to get Kobra's food off him & jumps in front of the team.)

Kobra: Another time, then.

(Kobra disappears into the jungle.)

Robin: We picked the right guy to lead. Automatically making you the right guy to explain this mess to Batman. [laughs]

Mount Justice
August 4, 0106 EDT

(Batman is scolding the team.)

Batman: A simple recon mission, observe and report. You'll each receive a written evaluation detailing your many mistakes until then, good job.

(This surprises the team.)

Batman: No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. How you adjust to the unforeseen is what determines success. And how you choose who leads determines character.

(Cut to some meeting room with Sportsmaster.)

Sportsmaster: All I recovered is a single ampoule of Kobra venom.

???: Peut-être, the drug can be reverse engineered. Mais what of our young heroes? First, Cadmus, then Mr. Twister. Now, Santa Prisca.

???: Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. But three times is enemy action and enemies of the light must not stand.