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Your superhero name is Midnight. You have the power to manipulate darkness/shadow. Some of your powers include creating or manipulate your shadow or someone else shadow. When you touch a person's shadow, they become paralyzed. You can disappeared into a shadow, but you can't disappeared another person with you.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Young Justice. I don't even own your character. Nor do I owe any pictures in this story!

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~A Secret Discovered!~

“Class, you will have one hour to finish your exam. Once you are finished, please turned your exam up front and then return to your seat. You can work on something quietly until the hour is up,” your teacher said before she started to pass out your algebra exam. You let out a sigh in an attempt to relax yourself, but instead you felt something hit you on the back of the head. You quickly turned around and glared at the boy behind you.

“What do you want, Dick?” you whispered to him since you didn’t want your teacher to kick you out of the classroom before the test started.

“So do you think you are going to finish before me, [Name]?” Dick asked in a teasing manner, which caused you to roll your eyes. It was a well-known fact around the school that you and Dick Grayson were the top students of the freshman class at Gotham High. However, no matter how hard you tried, Dick always seemed to be one step ahead of you.

“It doesn’t matter if I finished before you or not as long as I get a better grade,” you retorted back before your teacher placed your exam on your desk. She glanced down at you, giving you a look of ‘you better be quiet or else’. You let out another sigh before turning your attention towards your exam. You could hear the ticking of the clock in the background as you started to answer the questions on the exam.

About 20 minutes into your exam, you heard a loud bang that sound like it was from explosion of some kind. The whole school seemed to shake for a moment before things settle down. The fire alarms started to go off and screams filled the air as frighten students started to panic. “Everyone remain calm. Pretend this is a fire drill and head to the nearest exit,” your teacher shouted to your class.

Everyone quickly got up and started to leave the classroom. You made sure to grab your backpack, which contained your extra superhero outfit. If there had been an explosion, someone must have caused it and you were going to figure out who and why. As you followed the sea of students hurrying out the building, you slip into a supply closet to change. It did not take you long to completely change into your outfit since you made it a habit of practicing changing into your superhero outfit quickly for circumstances like this. According to Batman, in one of the many lectures he gave the team, you never know when danger will strike so you need to be ready to at all times.

The only part left of your costume you had to put on was your mask. Just as you about to place your mask on your face, you heard the supply closet door opened. You were not thinking clearly as you turned around to see who it was. A look of dread appeared on your face as you mentally cursed yourself for turning around and trying to hide your identity. If you would have been smart about the whole situation, you would have put your mask on first before turning around to see the very last person in the world you wanted to see, Dick Grayson.

“So [First Name] [Last Name] is Midnight the maiden of darkness. Very interesting,” Dick said with a smug look on his face. He looked rather proud of himself for discovering a major secret of yours. You shot a glare at Dick as you put on your mask. You were speechless and didn’t have time to think of a response to Dick’s smugness.

The sound of laughter filled the hallways, which reminded you why you had changed in the first place. There was only one person in the world that had a laugh like, the Joker. You were about to tell Dick to get out of here when the Joker appeared at the end of the hallway.

“Tsk, tsk naughty children didn’t you hear the fire alarm. I suppose I should probably to teach you a lesson about safety,” the Joker said with a laugh before tossing three bombs with smiley faces on them towards you and Dick. You quickly stepped in front of Dick and used your powers to manipulate your shadow to create a shield to absorb most of blast. The blast did cause you to stumble back into Dick, but you quickly recovered. You knew you couldn’t fight Joker head on when you had Dick to worry about.

“I hope you can run,” you said to Dick as you turned your head to look at him. You noticed that Dick seem unfazed about the whole situation that was unfolded in front of him. However, you did not have time to questioned Dick’s odd behavior. Using your powers, you created a shadow between you and the Joker that covered the whole hallway. All the Joker could see is pitch black darkness of your shadow. You grabbed Dick’s hand and started to run down the hallway away from the Joker. He easily was able to keep up with your speed as you ran down the hallway to put some space between you and the Joker. The first corner you came upon you turned with Dick since you wanted to be out of Joker’s sight before the shadow you created disappeared.

“Shouldn’t you be calling for help or something,” Dick said as you opened the classroom door to the science lab. “I can handle this,” you snapped back at him as you pulled him inside the classroom. You did not appreciate Dick giving you advice on how to be a hero. Who did he think he was? Batman or something. You quickly walked to the back of the room with your hand still grabbing Dick’s wrist. You dragged Dick towards the back of the room in the hopes of finding a hiding spot. You could hear the Joker’s laughter getting as he made his way towards the class that they were in.

“Get in here,” you said as you opened the science supply closet where all science equipment was held. Figuring your best bet was to hide Dick until the Joker had been stopped, you swiftly shoved Dick into the closet. “Hey wait,” he cried as he stumbled inside of the closet. However, you did not care about his pleads. You shut the door and locked it to make sure he didn’t leave and end up in the middle of the fight. You ignored the sounds of Dick trying to open the closet door as you made your way out of the classroom to find the Joker.

“Midnight to team, the Joker is attacking Gotham High. Is anyone available to help?” you said as you pressed a button on your communicator in your ear. “I have the Joker corned in the cafeteria,” Artemis replied after rolling behind the counter to dodge the poison darts the Joker was throwing at her. “Midnight go help Artemis. Superboy , M’gann, Kid, and I will be there as soon as we can,” Aqualad responded as you rushed to the cafeteria. You noticed that Aqualad did not mention Robin at all. It was odd seeing that Robin was from Gotham City. Maybe he was on a mission with Batman or something.

When you entered the cafeteria, you quickly slide down to the ground to avoid getting hit by a green arrow. “Opps sorry, Midnight,” Artemis said as she stood on the opposite side of the room with her arrow aim towards the Joker. Your eyes glanced over to where the Joker was standing. A smirk appeared on your face as you noticed the Joker’s shadow only a few feet away from you. The Joker seemed to be distracted by Artemis so you took this opportunity to move closer to his shadow. The moment your hand touched the Joker’s shadow, he became paralyzed.

“Hey what’s the big idea? I can’t move,” the Joker said as he tried moving his body to escape whatever hold he was under. “Sorry Joker, but school is over with and now it is time for you to go back home,” you responded with a smile on your face. You turned your head towards Artemis as you hear her walking towards her. “Nice going girl,” Artemis said giving you a high-five. “Thanks. Do you mind tying him up? I don’t want to stand on his shadow until the police arrive,” you said to Artemis as you rubbed the back of your neck. “Sure,” Artemis said with a small laugh as she walked over to the Joker to tie him up.

“Awe, it looks like we missed all the action,” Kid Flash said as he walked into the cafeteria with the rest of the team minus Robin. He let out a sigh of disappointment. “Cheer up, Mr. Pouty. I got you a souvenir,” Artemis said as she finished tying the Joker up. She then tossed Kid Flash one of the darts the Joker had been throwing at her. “Cool,” Kid Flash said catching the new souvenir. You let out a laugh at Kid Flash’s childlike reaction.

“You two did a good job capturing the Joker. Everyone can head back to Mount Justice. I will wait here with the Joker until the police come to take him away,” Aqualad said as he placed a hand on your shoulder as a sort of congrats for stopping the Joker. You give Aqualad a small nodded before following the rest of the gang into the hallway to leave Gotham High. “I will meet up with you guys in a second. I need to grab my bio book so I can start studying for my exam tomorrow,” Artemis said to the group. As Artemis mentioned biology, you started having this lingering feeling that you had forgotten something. “Don’t you think you should have been studying for that exam earlier,” Kid Flash said in a Mister Know-it-all voice. “Well some of us are too busy saving the world to have time to study,” Artemis retorted back before heading down a different hallway to go to her locker.

“Oh crap,” you said as you realized what you had forgotten about. “I will meet up with you guys at Mount Justice. I need to take care of something first,” you said as you started to hurry down the hallway towards the science lab. How could you have forgotten that you had locked Dick in a closet? He was definitely going to be mad at you. Usually you wouldn’t care if you made Dick mad. You would probably consider it a personal victory, but now he knew your secret. How are you going to convince him to keep your secret after you locked him in a closet for who knows how long?

As you entered the science lab, you could feel your heart rate starting to increase as you approached the closet door. After taking a deep breath, you unlocked and opened the closet door. There sitting on the floor was a rather calm looking Dick Grayson. You raised an eyebrow at Dick’s calm demeanor. Dick glanced up at you for a moment before standing up and brushing himself off.

“I’m glad to see you didn’t forget about me, [Name]. So were you able to stop the Joker alone or did you call for help?” Dick asked as he walked out of the closet. His calm demeanor was really starting to bug you. No one would be this calm after being locked in a closet on purpose for a long period of time. You had a feeling that he had been planning something while he was stuck in the closet. “That’s really is none of your concern. Besides there are more importantly things that we need to discuss like you knowing my true identity,” you said as you crossed your arms. Your eyes followed Dick as he moved around the room.

“I have no problem keeping your little secret, [Name]. As long as you do something for me,” Dick said as he stood a few feet away from you with a small smirk on his face. “And what do you want me to do?” you asked a bit hesitantly since you hoped whatever he wanted you to do wasn’t illegal. You figured Dick didn’t need you to rob a bank seeing that he was the adopted son of Bruce Wayne, who probably was one of the wealthiest men in Gotham City. However, there was always a chance he could want you to steal something. You bit your lip slightly as you nervously waited to hear Dick’s request.

“Well what do you want me to do? I don’t have all night,” you said growing impatient. You knew that Dick was just messing with you. He was just dragging this out to get on your nerves and it was working. You hated that he had the upper hand in this situation. Dick gave you a smug smile before answering your question.

“I want you to be my girlfriend,” Dick said nonchalantly as his smug smile remained on his face the whole time.