Takes place in five year gap between seasons. But I'll make it an AU because I'm not sure if I'm going to kill anyone off yet. Muahaha! (Original team plus Zatanna and Rocket)

Chapter 1: Lights out

Mount Justice, 20:47

Recognize, Red Tornado, 16

Red Tornado walked into the cave to find no one, to his surprise. He made an announcement for the team to report to the mission room. They all started walking in together from the caves leisure room in their uniforms.

"Batman has asked me to inform you all of your positions tonight. There has been a massive breakout in Belle Reve, providing escape for all the prisoners. The entire Justice League is assisting with the situation which has put everything else on hold. Mainly this." he said as he raised his hand to reveal a small flash drive.

" This was recovered on a previous League mission from the League of Shadows. It consists valuable information as to where the shadows are keeping their recent kidnap victims and what they are planning to do with them. Batman believes that there is a lot more information than that on this flash drive. But due to the Belle Reve breakout, he wasn't able to finish downloading the files. Robin. You are to uncover any information on the drive and rescue any hostages along with the team." He handed him the flash drive and started walking to the zeta tubes.

"I must assist the League. If you are in need of any help, inform a League member." He then disappeared in a flash leaving the team completely alone.

"Ok then. Lets get started." Robin said as he put the connected the flash drive into his wrist watch computer. He then wirelessly connected to the caves mainframe and the files started downloading. When the download was completed something happened that caught the whole team by surprise.

"Erm. What happened to the lights?" Wally asked.

"There's probably a storm in Happy Harbor" M'gann added.

"No. If it were a storm the caves generator would have been working right now. Something's wrong." Robin implied as he pulled out a flash light from his utility belt. He held it in his mouth as he tried to get his wrist computer working. "There must have been some sort of untraceable virus on the flash drive." He deduced.

"My comm isn't working either. What about you guys?" The team then tested their own communicators but to no avail.

"Hang on. I've got a cell phone." Artemis said as she pulled a cell phone out of her utility belt.

"Ugh! No signal!" Robin tried with his own phone and received the same results. They were all trapped in the cave with no one available to assist them.

Suddenly, a boom tube opened up in front of them all. Five League of Shadows ninjas stepped out followed by Sportsmaster, Cheshire, Deathsroke, Devastation, Shimmer and Mammoth walked out with the boom tube closing behind them. The team readied themselves for a fight. Some of the lights started turning on.

"Lucky for you brats, we didn't bring everyone to this party since you are all less of a threat than the Justice League." Sportsmaster said. M'gann had already set up a link when the villains walked in.

"Team, split up! We can't win here." Kaldur ordered. "We can use our knowledge of the cave to our advantage since we are outnumbered." They all proceeded to run off with the person nearest to them. Artemis with M'gann, Robin with Wally, Kaldur with Superboy and Zatanna with Rocket. Each member in different directions. The group of villains started to pursue but before they could leave the room, Deathstroke ordered them all to wait.

"Who put you in charge?!" Sportsmaster yelled while pointing an accusing finer at him.

"Well I seem to be the only one who isn't going in rashly so I appointed myself for this moment." Deathstroke answered. Sportsmaster stepped back.

"Well the what should we do Wilson? Wait for them to come back?!" Sportsmaster inquired angrily.

"Before we left for this mission, our superiors informed me that since our target changed, so did our objective. As you all know, the Justice League is needed alive for future plans. Unfortunately, Batman didn't download all the files from the flash drive which caused our plan to fail. (A/N Just in case i ever forget to mention it, the plan was to lock the Justice League in the watchtower and send in a LOT of villains to prevent them from escaping, so the Belle Reve prisoners can cause chaos without the JL stopping it, which would have damaged the public's view of the JL) Our new objective, is to eliminate any of the young heroes or take them as hostages. The Light would prefer that we bring back a few hostages, so don't kill them all! We're all going to have to split up. Shimmer, take two shadows with you." She nodded before running down a hall with two well armed shadow ninjas following her. "You three are another group" He said while he pointed at the three remaining shadows who immediately ran off. " The rest of you, scatter. Oh and Crock?" Sportsmaster turned around to face Deathstroke. "You can have your girl. I'll make sure not to kill her if I see her. Just so you can enjoy it" he said. "And try not to kill any of the major heroes' sidekicks like Robin. They could prove useful.

Aaaand there's chapter one. Hope you like it.