Hi people! As some of you might know my beta reader is kinda offline so this is done without her. So please bear with the mistakes I might make.

Disclaimer: I don't own Young Justice in any way! All rights go to Greg Weisman, DC and Cartoon Network! (sorry if I forget someone!)

Warnings: The story is M-rated because of language, blood, deaths, abuse and later on sex scenes. Don't worry, I'll try do describe the sex scenes as less as possible. Only when something important happen I might have to describe them more.

Enjoy!

Six dressed up teens running through the forest on the heels of an older man who was dressed in a bright red costume that looked like the one of a magician you find it the old fashion comics. Guess that tells enough about who we're talking about. Yes, the team born from the sidekicks from the Justice League. Young Justice.

What their newest mission was? Simple, find the man called Andracore, a.k.a. the weird man in the red costume, dismantle his organization and bring him to the League. Easy enough… though the man escaped as the team fought his thugs. And now they're chasing him.

"Kid, catch up with him!" Aqualad called out to the speedster as he kept is how steady pace through the woods.

"I somehow can't go any faster!" Kid Flash shouted frustrated as he tried his best to speed up but to no avail. It felt like he was running on top speed but his actual speed was just as fast as the rest.

"How about you Superboy? Can jump ahead to stop him?"

The clone shook his head. "Already tried but I barely leave the ground."

"Wait!" The raven-haired teen shouted as he made an abrupt stop. "Stop chasing him!"

The team stopped but they wanted to move on, Robin noticed. "What? We're losing him!" Artemis said as she couldn't believe the boy was letting the man get away.

"That doesn't matter."

"How does that not matter? We're here to capture him, not to let him escape!" The blonde girl said sharply finishing her attitude by placing her hands on her hips.

"I know but we're not chasing him. Not the real him," the boy explained.

"What do you mean, not the real him?" The Martian asked tilting her head a bit so her brown locks brushed over her shoulder.

"We never left that building, or even finished the fight. You can't fly, Superboy can't jump and Kid Flash can't run as fast as normal. That is all wrong. Plus I'm feeling weird ever since we're changing that man. I bet he has put us under one of his spells," the teen spoke convinced. "And because this all is not real…"

"We can't use our powers," Aqualad ended his sense. "That makes sense."

The boy nodded happy the team finally understood and sat down crossing his legs. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

"What you're doing?" Superboy asked bluntly.

"Breaking the spell," the boy said in a bit absent voice as let the air escape his lungs.

"No offence, but you have no powers," Kid Flash spoke. Watching the boy open one eye.

"No I haven't but I have a trained mind. Batman taught me how to break spells by meditating," the teen told and closed his one open eye. "Now if you will be quiet."

The team watched in silence how the youngest boy started to calmly breath in and out. After a few times of deep breaths taking in en blowing out the team started to think the boy was messing with them until the saw him fade. At first they could see through him and wanted to react but they kept silence because the boy seemed to be concentrating very hard and above all didn't seem to mind or even notice that he was disappearing.

After a few second the teen had completely disappeared and the team started to talk. "So, Robin is out. What do we do now?" the speedster asked shrugging.

"Do the same?" Megan asked as she sat down too imitating the boy's pose. Normally she would do this in the air floating with her powers but Robin was right. Neither of them could use their power so she couldn't either.

"Yeah, you might be able to do that but we're not trained like that. I can run and handle my powers I can't break stuff with my mind," The redhead comment

"We can at least try," Artemis spat as she hit the ginger with a fist in his upper arm. Nothing special but she received the needed yelp of surprise and discomfort from the teen.

Suddenly a quack made the teens fall to the ground and everything went black. As they opened their eyes against the unnatural light they noticed a shadow moving in front of them.

"Robin?" Wally spoke his friends name as he wanted to rise but notice the ropes tied tightly around his waist. He looked around finding himself in the old and empty warehouse were they thought those man. Robin was right, they never left the building.

A scream startled the team to full awake and saw how Robin stepped back from the man with a pained face.

"You might broke one spell of mine but that doesn't make you immune for my spells," the man laughed as he pointed his wand on the boy who started to scream again.

"Robin!" the team shouted in choir but couldn't get up and help their friend for the reason that they were bound.

The boy felt the shocks of electricity run over his body ripping his skin. "I," the teen started almost unable of talking in the pain. "I can,"

The man shrouded in red cloths roared an evil laugh seeing the boy struggle against his attack. "No little bird, you can't. because you have no powers!" the man said before he started once again to howl with laughter.

"I can because you're not using spells!" the teen shouted as he finally broke the grip the man had on him. The electricity disappeared and his skin was no longer torn. He smiled. "You're just playing mind games, making us think you're a wizard. But your attacks are not real and can be broken with a strong mind. Something I have," the smile had turned in a smirk as he saw the man become nervous.

Robin walked to his friends and cut them free with a birdarang. "So, how about finishing this game?" The boy said and leaped up to the man and kicked the wand out of his hand only to pin him down against the wall the second he was back on his feet.

"That was rude!" the man whined while the boy smirked. "Didn't your parents ever taught you any manners?"

The man noticed the grip tighten on him and saw the smirk of the boy slowly changing into an angry one. "Stroke a nerve?" The man asked smirking on his turn. The boy was indeed strong minded but this seemed to be his sweet spot. If he could just peel enough to…

The boy frowned deeper. "Quit the games!" the boy said strict trying to mask his anger, to mask his hurt.

"What didn't you parents love you?" the man asked peeling more and more.

"Shut it!" the boy sounded irritated and close to a burst out. It was going to right way for Andracore.

"Or did they leave? Out of shame for having such a failure of a son perhaps?"

"Shut the fuck up!"

The man smirked satisfying. "I would too. I mean look at you. You're what, twelve? And you look like a stupid kid from ten years old. So short…" The man licked his lips. "Or did they kept you, to use your body. The only thing you can is flip around with that weird body of you. As parents you can perfectly use you to earn money."

Now Robin flipped. He let out a roar of anger as he let go of the man's hand but quickly pinned him onto the wall again only this time his hands around the man's neck chocking the man with enough force to make him whimper.

Robin pressed even harder, digging his fingers into the man's throat. Painful sounds were audible from the man's neck en the man self was also making unpleasant sounds.

"Robin?" Kaldur walked up to the teen laying a hand down on his shoulder. "I think that's enough."

The Boy Wonder didn't heard his leader. All he heard were the man's words echo through his head. He felt tears sting in his eyes and tighten his grip even more. He felt the skin tore open under his fingers and saw the man's blood seep out.

"Robin!" the Atlantean tried to pull the boy away but he was immoveable. "Robin you're killing him! Stop it now!"

Robin's grip tighten even more and the man started to scream, or at least tried to but all what left his lips were coughs with blood and chocking sounds without breath.

The raven-haired boy suddenly let go of the man who sunk to the ground with a shocked face. The boy quickly left the scene with a fast pace and without a word.

"Rob?" Wally wanted to fallow but saw everybody gather around the man called Andracore. He also came closer seeing the man move unnatural, making horrible chocking sounds.

"He needs help!" Aqualad spoke as he crouched down. "Contact the League."

"Okay," Artemis nodded and reached for her communicator in her ear. "Artemis to Watchtower, come in Watchtower."

"Watchtower to Artemis, what's the problem?" the voice of the older hero Captain Atom sounded back over the com.

"We need medical assistants right away. The man Andracore is injured and have serious respiratory problems." The girl explained.

"Okay. Hawkman and Green Lantern are on their way. Make sure the man get as much room to breathe by laying him on his back and his arms on the ground." The superhero told. "Watchtower out."

"Lay him down," Artemis said as he returned to her friend.

"Okay," Megan took her role as she carried the man away from the wall and carefully placed him down with her telekinesis.

"Lay his arms beside him and give him room to breathe."

Megan did as she was told and the group held enough distance between them and the man. "It's okay. Help is on the way," Aqualad reassured the man as the team watched him struggle against the chocking.

-\/-

"Robin," Kaldur walked up to the younger boy. "Can we talk to you?"

Robin turned around on the green couch so he faced the leader. "Sure," The boy said as nonchalant as he usually sounded.

"Come," The Atlantean said cold and walked off.

Robin was kind of surprised by the way he was spoken to but followed him anyway. As he entered the room he saw the team sitting in chairs with a serious but cold mood hanging in the room as a sharp smell. A loud thud behind him told him that Kaldur had closed the door behind him. A sudden trapped like feeling creep up inside him and many alarms went off in his head. What was wrong?

"I'll come with it right away," Kaldur spoke up as he stood beside the chairs his team sat on. "We want you to quit the secrets and tell us who you are."

"What?" The boy said beyond surprised by this confrontation. Did they just actually asked him to tell his secret! "You know my identity must be a secret."

"We don't care," Conner said bluntly.

"Listen Robin. You completely freaked today. We could see something was serious wrong and we want to know everything about it," Kaldur said trying to sound as calm as possible.

"What gives you the right!"

"You almost killed that man!" The Altantean had clearly lost his patience.

Robin had suddenly become quiet and smaller. He knew what he had done. He just hoped they had forgotten.

"You've gone too far Robin," Megan tried a bit softer approach at the boy.

"We haven't told Batman yet about what happened but in exchange for that we want to know what happened," Kaldur took over again.

"Batman will know anyways. He will definitely know because the League had to help. Plus, I'm aware of what I did,"

"So…?" Artemis spoke up for the first time after watching the conversation develop.

"So what?"

"So, are you going to tell us what's up with you or what?" Wally now also jumped in.

"No!"

"Robin, we can't operate with you as a team when we don't know when your bluffing or seriously freaking out and barely killing someone!" Kaldur yelled back losing all his cool he had before this all started.

"This is the first time it ever happened! Don't act like I do this daily! Also, I can't kill someone! Seriously I can't!" Robin shouted as defense as he noticed the sitting part of the team had the urge to rise.

"Well, we wouldn't know because you keep everything a secret!" Artemis rose from her chair as she joined the shouting couple.

"I'm outta here!" In the turned toward the door the boy was stopped by a firm hand from Aqualad. Robin shot the teen a death glare. "Let go of me."

"What's wrong with your parents?" The leader said knowing his hit was aimed as a bull's-eye. It was what made him flip in de first place.

"Nothing. Is. Wrong. With. My. Parents!" The raven-haired boy gave his leader the same death glare he had given the man from before and it was recognized by the blond teen.

"He's completely closed up now," Megan said as he had lost the small and fragile link she had to the boy's emotions.

That made the boy snap. "You!" the boy said in an almost breath like voice as he could not believe his so called "friends" would pull such a stunt on him. He clenched his fist making his dull feeling fingers dig into the palm of his hand and swung his hand through the air causing a hard hit onto the Atlantean's face. "Son of a-!" the boy let out a loud roar of anger and reached for the door to storm out of the room.

"Superboy!" The oldest teen said giving the clone the cue he had waited for.

Conner jumped over to the door grabbing the youngest of the team and held him around his torso together with his arms so he could no longer move.

"LET ME GO!" the boy struggled hard against the iron grip around his body but to no avail.

"Sorry, but you leave us no choice," Kaldur said in a sickening polite voice what somehow brought up a pure feeling of disgust in the younger teens stomach. He seriously started to feel hatred toward that person.

"You can't do this to me!" The boy struggled even harder, moving his head wildly from right to left. It was until Megan held his head still with her telekinesis. "No!" he saw Kaldur's hand coming closer every split second what passed. "Nonononononononononononooo!"

The dark skinned hand came closer and closer till it touched the tensed up boy's face. He started to pile the mask. "Kaldur! Stop!" bit by bit the mask was coming of his face showing more and more skin. "Please!"

With one finally pull the mask flew of the boy's face showing deep blue, shocked, eyes.

There was a moment of complete silence till a soft gasp came from the blonde girl. "Dick Grayson," the girl said as she finally could place his face to the freshman who had surprised her on the first day of school by taking a picture of her.

"Wait, you mean in the Dick Grayson, the son of Gotham's billionaire Bruce Wayne?" Wally started to recognize the boy's face from the papers which even reached his city.

"That would made Batman Bruce Wayne," Megan said as she started to understand. She has seen the two only once in the papers, since she had only read two of those.

Superboy let his arms return to his body and walked back to his place so he could see the boy's face too.

"So, is this so bad?" Kaldur asked as he could not read any emotions of the boy.

"You," the boy said trying hard to control his voice. "…Have no idea how angry I am right now," The boy said with his teeth together and his jaw tensed. "I FUCKING TRUSTED YOU! HOW THE HELL CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME!" The boy suddenly shouted in his leaders face.

"How is this bad! We're your friends! So what's wrong with us knowing who you are, like you know who we are!" Kaldur raised his voice after being shout at.

"Because my secret identity also protects you guys!"

"How does it protect us?" Artemis placed her hands on her hips making her attitude even sharper.

"I though you would understand since you grew up in Gotham! The villains in Gotham would kill you guys just to get out of you who I am!"

There was a silence before Wally spoke up. "Se- seriously?"

Dick snatched his mask out of Kaldur's hand and placed it back on his face. "Even if I had no reason, I still would have though you would have the trust in me to leave it. I never forced any of you to reveal your identity," again a silence fell over the teens. They started to feel sorry for ripping the boy's mask off. "Don't worry about those villain, I'll quit this team."

"What?" The Atlantean grabbed the youngest teens arm before he could turn away from the team. "Why?"

"first of all; for your safety. As long I don't have contact with you they will never suspect you guys from knowing who I am," the boy held up a finger counting the reasons. "Second; I clearly can't trust you guys. And I haven't planned on placing my life in the hands of people I don't trust. I never do," the teen said while holding up two fingers and looked around the room giving each of the team his infamous bat-glares. His third finger was soon to fallow. "third; Batman would take me away from here anyways if he finds out what you guys pulled me," now the fourth finger went up. "Last but not least; I don't want to see you anymore."

With that the boy turned around and left the teens. The team watch each other for a few minutes in silence. The gazes flew from one to the other. They had just drove one of their team away. Not to forget they had most likely enlighten the fire of Batman's rage.

Robin practically ran down the hallways. He felt the tears running down his face and was certain his knees were about to give in. How could they have done this to him? How could they have hurt him like this? Betray him like this!

He entered the codes to teleport himself to the Batcave but felt the stuck subs coming up. He tried hard to suppress them. He couldn't cry here. Not when they may could hear him. He stepped into the Zeta Beam to watch the sight on the cave slowly disappearing and being replaced by the sight of the Batcave. He moved soundlessly through the Batcave hoping his father would not hear him. But he should have known better because after about six steps he heard the chair turn and saw his father raise to face him.

"Robin?" He clearly hadn't expect the boy to be back so soon. Most of the time he uses the time after a mission to have some fun with his friends. As he approached his awfully quiet protégé, who hadn't move ever since his name was called, he noticed the tears on his face. "Robin, what happened?"

Robin heard the sob sounds coming from his throat and could no longer stop them. He ran up to his father and fall into his arms as his knees gave in. He cried loudly in his father's arms who carefully surrounded him into a warm embrace only a father could give.

He waited for a few moments till the sobs became a bit softer. "So, ready to tell what's wrong, chum?" he piled of the boys mask seeing his blue eyes stained with the clear liquid what had made its way down.

Robin rubbed in his eyes with two clenched fist trying to get his vision back from blurry to clear. "They ripped of my mask," the boy spoke with a voice hoarse from the sobs which were still in the back of his throat.

"What?" the man said in disbelieve after his heart sank at the words spoken by his son. They had hurt him badly to make him cry like this. And then hearing his voice so forced and feeling so much emotion flowing over his voice. It means it is serious.

"They first demanded to know who I was because I freaked at the mission and I told them I couldn't tell and didn't wanted to tell and then Kaldur made me pissed so I hit him and thereafter Superboy grabbed me so I could not move and Megan held my head still so Kaldur could take off my mask," a loud grasp for air sounded came after the way too long senses. He had said it in one breath as almost one word. Though Batman had understand every word.

This was the first time in Bruce's life that he was out of words. He would have never thought or even dare to consider that his friends would do such a thing with him. Trap him like a beast and just rip it off him. How could they even think of such a thing. Why didn't they trusted his son? Why didn't they? Why did they had to hurt him like this?

The older hero watched his son break down in a new session of loud sobs and thick tears. "Go rest," Bruce carefully wiped the boys tears away with his thumb while his hand rested on his cheek. "I'll take it from here."

-\/-

"What were you thinking, ripping off his mask!" The man growled loudly at the teens, anger swollen in his chest as the memory of the crying youth was fresh in his mind.

The team was silence and stared at the ground. They could have seen this coming. Making the bird upset would lead to an upset bat. It was clear Robin was angry and not a little. They had never seen Robin react like that. They had seriously pissed him off.

"Well!" the man asked sharply, frowning deeply at the team.

"We hadn't the intension of ticking him off like that but what he had done today in the mission was the reason for us to step out like that," the leader spoke looking up as he stood up for the deeds of the team.

"And what was urgent enough say that Robin has no longer the right of keeping his identity a secret?"

"He almost killed someone! That man, whatever his name was, he was chocking him!" He started to believe Robin was perfect in his eyes. It made him angry because they were now the bad guys in his eyes.

"Robin would never take someone's life!" Batman said beyond disbelieve they actually thought that Robin was a murderer.

"Well he as good as did! If it was not for the Watchtower sending help the man would have died!"

Batman was silence, Batglare still on full power. "So that's the reason?"

"We first thought he was bluffing until we saw that the man started to bleed. But if we know what'll tick Robin off we know whenever he's bluffing or not," the teen explained their full reason.

"It is not Robin who has to spit all that. It's You who had to tell me this so I could take care of Robin's misbehave. Compromising his identity is not a way of solving the problem."

"I'm sorry. You're right. We had to go to you first," Kaldur said seeing the mistake he had taken and had taken the whole team into. It was his idea at first to force Robin to spill the truth.

"Well I'm not sorry!" Superboy came in between. "Robin is the only one keeping secrets. How does that work in a team? Well not well! That's for sure," The boy said almost as emotionless as Batman could be.

"I hoped you knew by now the reasons. And even if it wasn't for the reasons you could at least think of how much you've hurt him by this!"

"Hurt?" Megan came in between concern. She knew he was angry and fully understand but hurt. Was it that bad?

"What else do you think? He saw you guys as his real friends because he could be himself when he was around you. There are just a few things he kept away from you and most of them were demanded by me," the man spoke sharply.

"Can we see him? To apologize," Kaldur asked feeling guilty for hurting their friend and teammate.

"I don't think he wants to see you anymore. I've never seen him this upset," the man turned to the Zeta tubes. "I'll ask him tomorrow."

The team watched in silence how the bat dressed man disappeared in the machine and was teleported to who knows where.

-\/-

It was so nicely warm and soft. Why did I wake up? I can still feel the heaviness of the sleep on my eyelids though my heart is going crazy. My senses are ringing like nuts.

Suddenly I heard something in my room. Is that why I woke up? I opened my eyes and saw something silver being pointed at my head.

My eyes shot further open as I identified what was actually pointed at me. It was a gun.

I completely froze up and my eyes focused more so I could see the man holding the cold weapon. "Two-Face," My voice sounded hoarse as I spoke the villains name.

"Good morning little bird and good night," the man smirked as his finger slowly moved the trigger.

A hot feeling of panic and shock run through my veins as I saw the deathly machine being triggered to do it's damage on me.

So much shot through my mind in that one split second of life. How did he know who is was? How did he got in my room? And above all; where is Bruce.

The time was too short to get any answers. The trigger was pulled and a loud shot sounded as the bullet was fired.

Yeah, finally I succeed in making a cliff hanger! (yay me!)

Sorry for Kaldur and Superboy being a dick but I needed them to be otherwise the whole story couldn't be set off.

Oh and yeah I know the first chapter might be really soft after the warnings at the beginning. But it will happen later on in the story.

Thanks for reading! And please review! :3