Face Your Fears

Young Justice "Face Your Fears" is an in-continuity Young Justice Comic Book story released as one half of the "Free Comic Book Day" promotional comic cover-titled "Free Comic Book Day" "Young Justice Batman the Brave and the Bold(using the logos for each)" "Super Sampler".

The story titled "Face Your Fears" is written by Art Baltazar and Franco Aureliani, illustrated by Mike Norton.

The story takes place on July 25 with the opening page identifying the time as 13:21 MDT.

Summary: Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, and Superboy are sent by Red Tornado to Salt Flats, Colorado. They fight Psycho Pirate who is stealing a container of plutonium and controlling a large number of civilians by the use of his Medusa Mask. Psycho Pirate causes each member of the team to experience their deepest fears, paralyzing them so that he can escape with the plutonium. Their deepest fears are portrayed as follows:

Kid Flash: He's not good enough to be Flash's sidekick, Flash never wanted or chose him to be his sidekick, he'll never be as fast as Flash, He eats all the time and he's always hungry, Everybody thinks he's a joke.

Robin: Batman won't need him. The team won't need him because he's the youngest.

Superboy: Everyone compares him to Superman but he'll never be as good as him. What information did Cadmus put in his mind?

Aqualad: Always feels heavier and like he's drowning he's on land. He has to constantly concentrate because aromas in the air feel like they're drowning him, He has to show Aquaman he's worthy to be Aqualad-- worthy of the honor granted by his king.

Miss Martian: Nothing on Earth is like Earth on TV. As a Martian she's an outsider on Earth. She can't help hearing everyone's thoughts and violating humans. She has personal things she doesn't want everyone to know.

Kid Flash, in his fears, slowly realizes that not everybody thinks he's a joke. Robin is his friend and Kid Flash is the only one of the team Robin fully trusts (the illustration shows Robin removing his mask to show Wally his secret identity). Kid Flash shakes off the mask's control --he is the first in the team to do so and he speculates that this is because of his faster metabolism. He throws mud on the mask and snatches it off Psycho Pirate's face flinging it away. Psycho Pirate screams and falls to his knees. Atomic Skull arrives to collect the plutonium (apparently traveling in a flying replica of a Deep Space 9 "Runabout"???) and blasts the ground causing Kid Flash to fall and drop the plutonium container. The rest of the team arrives and attacks Atomic Skull who takes off in his ship. Miss Martian uses Telekinesis to get the container but drops it. Kid Flash catches the container and says the team captured one villain but the other one got away.