Beware the Mary Sue   von Kau-tan
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                              Kapitel 1: Prologue
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The mission itself hadn't sounded to hard. Superman, who was off-planet along
with half of the League members, had given the team a short mission briefing
back in the base. Some villain had appeared in some of the major cities, not
causing any serious harm, but quite a lot of confusion and mischief. The Man of
Steel's bets were on his old enemy Mr.Myxzptlk, an imp and prankster from the
Fifth Dimension. He wasn't all too dangerous, he had said, but still, the team
decided to be careful. After all, their supposed enemy wasn't bound to the laws
of this worlds -  And that could be dangerous.

Luckily, Happy Harbor was the town the trickster had chosen to play in when
Superman's call came. In a matter of mere minutes, the team was there. And
finally, they could see what kind of “havoc” the imp was creating. 
“Wait... what?” Kid Flash came to stop on a roof along with the team,
watching the small town drown in... chaos? No, that wasn't the right word. In
fact, not many people were even panicking. It didn't look like a threat at all.
Artemis, who hadn't realized that she had been ready to shoot an arrow ever
since they arrived, relaxed a little, putting it back into her quiver, looking
around with questioning eyes. It really seemed like everything was alright. But
then she picked up a faint blue glow and pulled at Robin's cape. 
“Hey, did you guys see that?” She looked at the others, and Aqualad and
Robin nodded as they watched the glow disappear and reappear. 
“We should follow the glow.” Their leader said, causing the others to agree.
Aqualad took a few leaps to jump off the roof, followed by Artemis, Miss Martian
and Superboy. Robin and Kid Flash were the last to follow, and the first to
arrive at the glow, which suddenly reappeared right in front of them.

“Remember, you have to make him say his name backwards.” Came Aqualad's
voice through the mental link as Robin reached out, trying to touch the blue
orb, his other hand holding a birdarang. Before he could do anything, the light
encased his arm, forming a ring around his body. And with a small, ringing sound
and a short flash of white light, it was gone again, reappearing in front of the
others in a matter in a matter of seconds. 
“What happened?” Robin asked, voice sounding a little unsure, not as even as
he intended it to be. He didn't feel different. 
“I don't know.” It was Kid Flash who replied as the light formed a ring
around him as well. The same flash of white light. And that happened to all of
them, leaving them confused but not harmed. 

All of the sudden, the glow was gone. It only took a few seconds for someone to
scream though, and the teenagers quickly got to their senses, running to the
source of the scream. It was a young woman with a pale face, shaking and tearing
up. In front of her were a man and a kid  - with turkey heads, making gobbling
noises as walking around with their heads bobbing. And behind the woman, there
was the blue glow again, a faint sound of laughter in the air. 
Miss Martian slightly tensed as she suddenly picked up a voice in her head –
as if it was an open mental link.
But instead of a high male voice, the one she had given Mr.Myxzptlk judging from
the description Superman had given them, it was a female one. A very immature
sounding, amused female voice.

“Okay, that one wasn't that good. Nah, it actually sucked. Fuck, I'm getting'
all rusty... Never gonna find a good plot like that!”
As soon as she had heard the last word, the two turkey heads were replaced by
normal, albeit massively confused, ones, and the woman gasped before she threw
herself at both the man and the child, breaking into tears.
And the Martian heard the voice again.
“Maybe I'm gonna make the kids make out or something... Gawwwd, I hate those
writer's blocks! Probably should scan them again...”

Again, the glow disappeared.

“I don't think it's the imp Superman told us about,” Miss Martian finally
said, earning a surprised look from the others. 
“What makes you say that?” Aqualad seemed like he wanted to comfort the
woman and her family, but stayed with the group for the sake of everyone's
safety. 
“I... I heard it's voice in my head. I don't think it's able to control it's
thoughts, or maybe it... Maybe it wants me to hear it?” That spiked Robin's
interest. The boy crossed his arms for just a moment, as if he didn't know what
to do with them.

“What did it say?”

The green-skinned girl was floating a little, a light blush on her cheeks. 
“Well... It seemed like it's trying to overcome a... It said it's trying to
find a plot. And that... That it wants to make us make out...” Her blush got a
little deeper. “And that it wants to scan us. Again. I think that was what it
was doing with the light.”

That alarmed them. Their unnamed enemy scanned them? That meant that it probably
knew their secret identities. 
This fact made everything far more serious.

Another scream managed to break their conversation, as they had to look what
happened again. It seemed like it was going to be a long day. 

~*~

It was a goose chase through the town. The mysterious glow managed to cause a
few more weird situation, such as a fountain spewing maple syrup instead of
water, or a giant inflatable (and bright pink) actually eating people, spitting
them out mostly unharmed.
The sun was already setting when the team  - tired and unnerved – managed to
corner the glow. It had given Miss Martian a few more insights throughout the
day, and actually had dropped a hint how to stop it back at the fountain. 

“If it comes in contact with anything sticky, it will show it's true form.”
She reminded them through the mental link as they circled around the floating,
twitching orb of blue light. This time, she couldn't pick up anything other than
muttered swearing as the glow seemed to think. 
Until Robin threw a small grenade spewing glue right beneath it. A squeal, a
blinding light – and all of the sudden, a small, furry creature, more than a
foot shorter than the Boy Wonder,  was in it's place.

And boy, did it look pissed.

“We finally got you.” Artemis said as she looked down at it. Even with it's
rather large, rounded ears it barely reached her chest. It's grey fur was
covered in pale yellow glue, and it's small and thin tail were sticking to the
ground. 
“Well, fuck, look like ya did!” The creature was growling, but there was
nothing remotely intimidating about a four foot tall - was it a bipedal dog? A
cat? - wearing an oversized hoodie that was covered in glue. As it was swearing
and trying to get free, Kid Flash and Aqualad tried to calm the people gathering
around them down, managing to do so quite well. The other heroes were left with
the little trickster that had caused all that mischief.
It was Superboy who stepped a little closer first, crouching down to be face to
face with the creature. The glue had hardened by now, making it impossible for
it to free itself. 
“What'cha lookin' at, ya bloody-” It was cut off by Artemis, who gripped the
mop of black hair on the seemingly female furball's head, causing it to squeal
in distaste.
“Quit whining. Who are you, and what are you doing?” The blonde archer
asked, obviously sick and tired of their enemy, after chasing them for a few
hours. She'd rather fight a real villain, instead of having a game of hide and
seek with... whatever that thing was. Especially because now it started swearing
at her, growling and showing off it's actually pretty sharp looking teeth. 

“Weeeell, I don't see any reason why I should tell you!” The thin tail
twitching, it tried to rip itself free from the hardened glue, only managing to
rip out a few hairs. It was hopelessly trapped.
“
“Tell us!” Superboy demanded, grabbing the creature's collar, yanking it a
little. There was an ugly ripping sound, like velcro, and the captured foe
gasped in pain as it's leg was freed. However, ever kick it tried to deliver to
the Boy of Steel's shin simply bounced off. 
“But I don't wanna! I-”

All of the sudden, it stopped kicking, struggling and complaining, an ugly grin
coming over it's features, showing off way too many, way too sharp teeth. A
short, cackling laugh followed and the creature raised it's sticky hands,
putting them on Superboy's cheeks.

“Plotbunny!”

With that, it yanked it's hoodie up, exposing  a pouch on it's stomach. As it
had been covered, it wasn't covered in glue, so she – by now, everyone was
sure that it was a girl – pulled out a large jar of glitter and a gallon jug
with a label that had a skull on it, breaking both on the ground before anyone
could react. 

When Aqualad and Kid Flash had cleared the obnoxious cloud of glitter, the furry
creature was gone, leaving nothing but a bunch of glass shards, with traces of a
fuming green liquid, an absurd amount of glitter and a crudely drawn smiley face
in the dissolving glue.

The faint trace of a blue glow was still there, and so was a voice in Miss
Martian's head.

“Beware the Mary Sue. The Author will be back.”

~*~

As the weird foe had escaped and they didn't know what to do, Young Justice had
returned to Mt. Justice, to wash off the glitter, analyze the liquid and discuss
what to do next.

Well, that was what they had planed, at least. As they all gathered around the
kitchen counter, freshly showered, ready to talk about strange, furry monsters
and the meaning of “Mary Sue”, they heard footsteps behind them. Grabbing
their weapons, they turned around, just too look into the face of an obscenely
pretty girl in an obscenely tiny outfit, smiling brightly at them.

“Hello, my name is Black Wolf and I'll be your new team member. Nice to meet
you!”

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