A lone figure stood on the rooftops of Washington D.C. At 5'11 he was at average height for a 16 year old. His hair was a light brown and was partially covering one of his deep green eyes. He was wearing a black outfit odd for this day and age that blended into the shadows. On his outfit were throwing knives, various bombs, a dagger, and his hidden blade along with his hook blade. His lithe, yet muscular body gave off an aura of confidence that was unusual for someone his age. On his belt was a triangle looking insignia. His name was Derek Williams and he was an Assassin.

Derek, or Creed as he called himself while he was in uniform, was looking at his target building from the roof of another building across the street. "It doesn't look like much, but looks can be deceiving," He muttered to himself. He looked up to see the sun beginning to set. "Once it gets dark I can-". Creed's thoughts were interrupted by a small explosion on the second story of the building, causing it to catch fire. "Or that could happen."

Not wanting to waste this golden opportunity Creed leapt across the rooftops until he stopped on the Cadmus building. Using his hook blade he scaled down the wall until he came to a window. Looking inside he saw that everyone had already evacuated."Good, no witnesses." Walking over to one of the computers he looked up the schematics for the building. Everything seemed normal until he looked at the elevator. "What's an express elevator doing in a two story building?" Creed asked himself.

A cry for help caught his attention. "Help!"

Sliding to the edges of the wall to avoid being seen Creed looked out just in time to see two scientists propelled out of the building by an explosion, but before they hit the ground a blur caught them. It carried the two men safely to the roof but it couldn't get up all the way. After it stopped moving, he saw it was a boy. He fell back down a bit and grabbed onto the ledge. Creed then saw another boy skillfully jump onto the fire truck and swung on a cable to save his friend. A third boy directed some water to the trapped scientists and formed a platform for them to get on. He levitated them to the ground and then blasted the fire with twin streams of water, extinguishing it. Creed then realized that these were some of the heroes that he had heard about and that they were probably investigating Cadmus as well. Walking out into the hallway Creed froze when he saw the trio staring at the elevator and saying something he couldn't make out. Creed watched as they opened the elevator and the acrobatic kid fired a line and they began to descend into the hidden levels of Cadmus. Creed gave them a few minutes before going down the line himself, knowing that if they did look up his dark outfit would hide him from view.

After a while Creed finally came to the end of the line and saw that the trio had hacked open a door. Creed jumped into the hallway and seeing nobody around he decided to find out what the Templar were up to.

Staying in the shadows Creed found the trio looking at glowing capsules concealing wasp-like creatures inside producing electricity. "That must be how they stay off the grid."

"Don't move!"

Creed stiffened, but then relaxed a bit when he saw that the man in yellow and blue with a small group of some more mutants was looking at the trio.

"What? Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash?" asked the man.

"At least they got your name right," said the caped boy.

"I know you. You're Guardian, a hero," said the taller boy.

"I do my best," said Guardian.

"Then why are you here?" asked the fast kid.

"I think that's my question boys. I'm chief of security and you're trespassing. But we can call the Justice League and figure this out," he replied.

Creed heard a beep and saw the caped boy look back at the computer terminal.

"You think the League's gonna approve of you breeding weapons?" cried the fast kid.

"Weapons? What are you-" Guardian stopped talking just as the little creature on his shoulder looked at him and his horns began glowing. Guardian gripped his head for a second. "Take them down hard! No mercy!"

Creed was about to help them when he heard a growling behind him. Quickly spinning around Creed delivered a punch to the creature's jaw that was about to attack him that sent it flying into a nearby wall. The other creatures charged him but he easily fought them off.

"Whoa…" Creed looked to see the sidekicks staring at him. Another creature lunged at him, but he jumped on top of its head and leapt over to the others.

"You guys gonna stand there all day? Come on, they'll have back up any minute now!" Creed said to the still staring sidekicks.

The caped kid broke out of his stupor and quickly threw down a smoke grenade so as to lose their pursuers. He easily made his way ahead to another elevator and began hacking. Creed looked back down the hallway and saw more of the creatures coming at them. Creed grabbed a caltrop bomb and threw it in front of the attackers. They creatures hissed in pain as they stepped on the caltrops.

"Nice," commented Robin

The caped boy managed to hack the terminal and they all jumped into the elevator just as the creatures nearly broke through.

"Ok who are you?" cried Kid Flash.

"You may call me Creed."

"Well Creed, I suppose we should thank you," said Aqualad. "I'm Aqualad this is Kid Flash," he said pointing to the quick kid, "and this is Robin," he said pointing to the caped boy.

"So why are you guys here?" he asked.

"Investigating, you?" asked Robin.

"Same here, maybe we can help each other out. At least until we're finished with this freak show."

"Sounds good to me," said Robin smiling.

"Wait, why are we going down? Out is up!" cried Kid Flash.

"Excuse me? Project Kr is down, on sub level 52," replied Robin.

"This is out of control," said Aqualad. "Perhaps we should contact the League."

"So you're part of the League?"

"Well, kinda," said Robin.

Kinda?" he asked, cocking his eyebrow.

The elevator door opened and the area started looking less like a lab and more like the inside of a stomach.

Robin swiftly jumped out. "Well, we are already here," said Kid Flash.

Everyone else followed Robin out of the elevator.

"So which way are we supposed to go?" asked Creed.

"Yeah bizarre looking hallway #1 or bizarre looking hallway #2?" replied Robin.

"Halt!"

Everyone looked over and saw a blue skinned creature with horns dressed in a white lab outfit. His horns began glowing and with a flick of his wrist, he sent two explosive cans flying at the teenagers.

Everyone easily ducked as they exploded behind them. Robin threw a projectile at the guy but it stopped it in mid-air before it reached him. He lifted up another pair of explosive cans.

"Come on, let's go!" Creed said leading the others down the second hallway.

Kid Flash ran ahead and tripped a woman as he crashed near a closing door. He quickly read the sign on the door, saying "Project Kr", and stuck a container between the closing doors to keep them open.

"Hurry!" he cried. Everyone jumped in through the door as Aqualad kicked the container loose so the doors shut.

Robin quickly accessed the control panel near the door and began hacking again. "I disabled the door, we're safe."

"We're trapped is what we are," said Aqualad.

"Hey, at least they aren't trapped in here with us," said Creed.

"Uh, guys, you should look at this," said Kid Flash.

He pressed a button at a terminal and a pod in the middle of the room lit up. Inside the pod was a young man wearing a white skin suit with a red S on his chest.

"Big K, little R…the atomic symbol for Krypton," said Kid Flash.

"I'm gonna pretend that you guys are familiar with this kind of stuff," said Creed.

"Robin, hack," said Aqualad.

"Huh? Oh, right." He plugged in his USB cable and began hacking. "Let's see. Weapon designation 'Superboy' grown in 16 WEEKS?" he cried at the end. "From DNA acquired from Superman."

"More like stolen," said Aqualad.

"No way the big guy knows about this," said Kid Flash.

"It says here that his solar suit allows him to absorb yellow light radiation 24/7."

"And these…creatures?" asked Aqualad.

"Genomorph gnomes…telepathic, force feeding him in education," replied Robin.

"They're brainwashing him, oh that is so Templar," said Creed.

Robin looked at Creed. "Templar?"

Creed replied, "If we make it out of here alive I'll tell you."

"Now's the time to contact the League."

Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad tried to use their communicators but to no avail.

"No signal," said Aqualad.

"We're in too deep…literally," said Kid Flash. He looked over to Superboy. "This is wrong."

"We can't leave him like this," said Robin.

"Set him free," said Aqualad.

"It would be the right thing to do," said Creed.

Robin pressed a few buttons and the pod opened. Superboy suddenly jumped and tackled Aqualad to the ground and started punching him.

Robin, Kid Flash and Creed quickly ran over and grabbed onto Superboy trying to hold him back.

"Hey, relax! We're on your side," cried Kid Flash.

Superboy punched Kid Flash into a large glass test tube, shattering it on impact. He moved back and punched Creed in the gut and sent him flying into the wall. Creed tried to get up, but he was in too much pain from the blow to the gut and the subsequent hit to the back. He wouldn't be surprised if he had fractured some ribs.

Superboy stepped back and waved his hands to clear the air. Aqualad kicked Superboy into the terminal that Robin had hacked to open Superboy's pod.

Robin quickly pulled out his shock gun and fired it at Superboy. Just as the wires made contact with his chest, he grabbed the wires and pulled Robin towards him. Superboy grabbed Robin and threw him to the ground. Before Robin could recover, Superboy put his foot on Robin's chest and began stepping down, hard. Robin tried to push Superboy off him, but he was far too strong.

Aqualad formed a hammer with his weapons and smashed Superboy off Robin. Aqualad tried to help Robin up, but Superboy had pressed his foot on Robin's chest too hard and he passed out.

Superboy began walking over to Aqualad.

"We are trying to help you!"

Superboy charged at Aqualad, who managed to dodge in time and tackled Superboy into the wall. Aqualad tried to punch him but Superboy grabbed Aqualad's fist and pushed him off. Aqualad grabbed Superboy from behind, but Superboy just jumped up to the ceiling to get Aqualad off. It only took two jumps for Aqualad to lose consciousness.

Superboy walked over to the door Robin had locked and pried it open with his super strength.

Creed's slipped into unconsciousness just as a man with orange hair dressed in a white lab coat walked in and smiled when he saw the four helpless teenagers.

/

'Time is short. You must awaken. You must awaken…NOW!'

Kid Flash, Aqualad, Robin and Creed suddenly opened their eyes and found themselves stuck inside pods with their hands restrained above their heads.

"Great," Creed mutter sarcastically.

Superboy stood in front of the pods just staring at them.

"What? What do you want?" cried Kid Flash.

"Stop staring at us like that!" cried Robin.

"Yeah, you're giving us the creeps!" said Kid Flash.

"Hey, KF, why don't we try not to tick off the guy who can fry us with a look?" retorted Robin.

"We only sought to help you," said Aqualad.

"Yeah, we free you and you turn on us! How's that for gratitude?" said Kid Flash.

"Kid, be quiet now. I believe our new friend was not in complete control of his actions," said Aqualad.

"Wha-what is I was?" asked Superboy.

"He can talk?" cried Kid Flash.

Superboy clenched his fist. "Yes, he can."

"Nice going motor mouth," said Creed.

Robin and Aqualad gave Kid Flash a look. "What? It's not like I said 'it'."

"The Genomorphs taught you, telepathically," said Aqualad.

"They taught me much. I can read, write, and I know the names of things."

"But have you ever actually seen them? Have you ever seen the sun or the sky?" asked Robin

"Images are implanted in my mind…but no."

"Do you know what you are? Who you are?" asked Aqualad.

"I am the Superboy, a Genomorph clone of Superman, created to replace him should he perish…to destroy him should he turn from the light."

"Oh now the Templar are going after heroes too, great," Creed said.

"To be like Superman is a great aspiration. But like Superman you deserve a life of your own, beyond that solar suit, beyond that pod…beyond Cadmus," said Aqualad.

"I LIVE BECAUSE OF CADMUS!" shouted Superboy. "IT IS MY HOME!"

"Your home is a test tube," said Robin. "We can show you the sun."

"Actually, I'm pretty sure it's after midnight, so it would be the moon," said Kid Flash.

"That's not the point," said Creed.

"We can show you, introduce you, to Superman," said Aqualad.

Superboy's expression changed from serious to deep thought.

"No, they can't."

The orange haired man, the woman Kid Flash ran into and Guardian entered the room, each with a Genomorph gnome on their shoulder.

"They'll be otherwise occupied. Begin the cloning sequence."

"Pass, Batcave's crowded enough," said Robin.

"Wow, I thought you guys were trying to get rid of the Assassins, not make more of them," Creed quipped.

The orange haired man just smiled, "We'll use your memories to track down the Assassin bases and end the order once and for all." Creed didn't show it, but he was worried, he knew the location of a lot of Assassin bases, if the Templar got their hands on that, well he didn't want to think about it.

"You're an assassin!" Kid Flash asked.

"I said if we get out of here alive I'll tell you." Creed said.

"I'm afraid you won't be leaving this place. And get the weapon back in it's pod!" he ordered Guardian.

"Yes, Mr. Desmond," replied Guardian.

"Hey, how come he gets to call Supey an 'it'?" asked Kid Flash.

"Not the main issue right now," said Creed.

"Help us," said Aqualad.

Guardian put his hand on Superboy's shoulder to lead him out, but he shook Guardian off.

"Don't start thinking now," said Desmond. A Genomorph gnome jumped onto Superboy's shoulder and it's horns began glowing. "You see, you're not a real boy, you're a weapon and you belong to me! Well, to Cadmus, same difference! Now get back into your pod!"

Superboy turned and left the room without a word.

Desmond looked over to the woman, who nodded. "The cloning sequence is ready, sir."

Two robotic arms with four needles appeared and pierced Creed's chest. The contact caused a powerful electric shock to course through his body. He cried out in pain as the needles drew blood from his veins.

The same arms appeared in Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad's capsule and began drawing blood from them, causing them the same pain Creed was experiencing.

All of a sudden, the door was torn off and tossed aside by Superboy.

"What are you doing? I thought I told you to go back to your pod!"

Desmond, Guardian and Dubbilex ran to grab Superboy, but he easily pushed them aside.

"Don't give me orders."

The needles withdrew, stopping the electric shock.

"So are you here to help us or fry us?" asked Kid Flash.

Superboy narrowed his eyes. "Huh…I don't seem to have heat vision, so I guess helping you is my only option."

Robin's restraints suddenly unlocked. "Ugh finally! Good thing Batman's not here, he'd have my head for taking so long to pick that lock."

"Seriously, that's what you're worried about?" asked Kid Flash. "THE WHOLE LEAGUE WILL HAVE OUR HEADS WHEN WE GET BACK!"

Robin pressed a button and the remaining capsules opened.

"You free Aqualad and Kid mouth, I'll get Creed," said Robin.

"Don't you start giving me orders too!" said Superboy. Superboy jumped over to Aqualad and Kid Flash and ripped off their restraints.

Robin looked over to Creed's pod only to see he was already climbing out.

"How…" Robin's question trailed off.

Creed just smiled and said, "You're not the only one that can pick a lock." Hey then raced out of the room.

"You'll never get out of here! I'll have you all back in pods within minutes!" shouted Desmond at the fleeing teens

"That guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all." Robin turned and threw four of his projectiles at the containers holding their blood, which exploded on impact.

"What is your deal with this 'whelmed' thing?" asked Kid Flash as they left.

"We're still 42 levels underground. If we can get to an elevator, we can-" before Aqualad could continue talking, a herd of giant Genomorphs stood between them and the only elevator.

"You forgot to factor in Murphy's Law." said Creed.

Behind them the smaller Genomorphs began coming out of egg-like shells attached to the walls. One of the large Genomorphs slammed their fists into the ground. Everyone managed to jump back and avoid it and ran ahead while easily dodging the oncoming attacks. However, Superboy, seemed intent on fighting.

"Superboy! The goal is escape! Not to bury ourselves!" shouted Aqualad.

Superboy picked up one of the giant Genomorphs he had knocked down and slammed its body into two others, knocking them back.

Aqualad pried open the elevator doors.

Creed and Robin both fired lines up the elevator shaft and began to ascend.

Superboy grabbed Aqualad and began flying up the elevator shaft, but started falling.

"I'm…falling?"

Robin threw a projectile at the wall, which Aqualad grabbed a hold of.

"Superman can fly…why can't I fly?"

"Don't know, but looks like you can still leap over buildings with a single jump. Still pretty cool," said Kid Flash.

All of a sudden, an elevator from above began descending.

"Guys! This'll have to be our exit!" shouted Robin.

Aqualad and Superboy opened the elevator doors and they got out of the shaft just before the elevator came crashing down on them.

They began running down the hall as a group of Genomorphs appeared and chased them.

'Turn left…' Superboy heard a voice in his head.

"Left!" he cried out. They turned left at the corner.

'Turn right…'

"Right!" They turned right and wound up at a dead end with a vent.

"Great directions Supey, are you trying to get us repodded?" cried Kid Flash.

"No…I don't understand," said Superboy.

"What are to talking about?" Creed asked.

"Yeah, don't apologize, this is perfect!" cried Robin. Creed ripped off the cover of the vent and they all crawled in.

"Shh! Listen," said Superboy.

"I don't hear anything," said Robin.

"It's the Genomorphs. There in the vents." Superboy explained.

They reached an opening into an empty hallway and Robin began hacking again.

"What are you doing now?" asked Creed.

"Just a second….there. I hacked the motion sensors." Robin smirked.

"Nice," complimented Creed.

"But there's still plenty of them between us and out," said Robin.

"Who cares? At least I've got room to run now." Kid Flash put on his goggles and zoomed up the staircase, pushing aside any Genomorphs as the other followed behind.

Suddenly, red lights turned on and alarms sounded. Just as Kid Flash got out of the stairway, a large door shut in the hallway.

"Oh crud." He said, crashing into the wall.

"We're cut off from the street," said Aqualad.

"Thanks, my head hadn't noticed," said Kid Flash.

Superboy and Aqualad tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge.

"I can't hack this fast enough!" cried Robin. He turned around and saw a herd of giant Genomorphs. "This way!" Robin led them through a door but it only led everyone to a bigger heard of Genomorphs led by Guardian.

The Genomorph gnomes' horns started glowing, causing the teenagers to lose consciousness. Superboy, however was still awake.

"You…" he said.

'Yes, I set the fire that lured your new friends down into Cadmus; I awoke them when they were in danger…'

'…and guided me. Why?' thought Superboy.

'Because you are our last hope, the Genomorph hero. You will glaze a trail for all our brothers, showing us the way to freedom.'

The Genomorph on Guardian's shoulder jumped off. "What? What's going on?" Guardian groaned while he rubbed his head.

The others began regaining consciousness.

'What will you choose?'

"I choose…freedom!" declared Superboy.

"Guardian?" asked Aqualad.

"Go, I'll deal with Desmond," said Guardian, clearly thinking.

"I think not. You kids have caused me a lot of trouble today. Project Blockbuster will allow me to restore that order. May the Father of Understanding guide me!" said Desmond. He held up a test tube containing a blue liquid and drank it. His body began changing into a large rock like substance as all his clothes, except his pants, were ripped off as his body expanded.

Guardian moved to attack but Blockbuster pushed him aside. Superboy tried next and landed a couple punches before Blockbuster grabbed him and jumped through the ceiling onto the next floor.

"Well that's one way to burst through a ceiling," said Robin firing his cable.

"You think lab coat planned that?" asked Kid Flash as he and Creed grabbed onto Robin.

"I doubt he's planning anything anymore," said Aqualad.

Once they all made it to the upper level, Blockbuster threw Superboy into Aqualad, sending them both flying back. Robin, Kid Flash and Creed ran back to make sure they were ok.

Kid Flash ran up to Blockbuster and slid beneath him. Distracted, Blockbuster quickly turned back just as Superboy and Aqualad punched him. Kid Flash knelt down so Blockbuster tripped over him.

"Learned that one in kindergarten." He said.

Robin jumped over Kid Flash and threw two projectiles at Blockbuster who blocked them with his arm.

"What are we going to do? This guy isn't going down without a fight!" cried Creed, whose throwing knives were having little effect on Blockbuster.

"Yeah, tell me about it. We need a plan," said Robin.

Blockbuster punched one of the pillars just as Kid Flash dodged, causing the above structure to crumble slightly.

"That's it!" Robin's digital computer brought up a diagram of the building they were currently in. "KF, get over here!"

Kid Flash managed to get up and made his way over to Robin and Creed.

"If we can break all the pillars, we can collapse the building on him. You distract him and I'll get Superboy and Aqualad caught up," explained Robin.

"Got it." Kid Flash ran over and punched Blockbuster, drawing his attention away from Superboy and Aqualad.

Superboy, Aqualad and Creed smashed the remaining pillars as Robin drew an X in the middle of the room with some chalk.

"KF! Get him on the X!" cried Robin.

Kid Flash ran over to Blockbuster and punched him in the head, making Blockbuster chase him. Aqualad sprayed the floor with water as Kid Flash used it to slide to a stop just in front of the X. Superboy jumped up from behind Kid Flash and punched Blockbuster to the ground. Aqualad sent a powerful electric shock into the water, which carried the electricity to Blockbuster.

"We've got to move!" cried Robin. Everyone began running for the door just as several of Robin's projectiles on the broken pillars detonated causing the entire building to collapse.

Superboy and Aqualad quickly covered Kid Flash, Robin, and Creed.

Once the building had fallen, Superboy lifted a large piece of debris off them. Everyone was fine and had only a few minor scratches and rips on their clothes.

"We…did it," said Aqualad.

"Was there…ever any doubt?" asked Robin. He and Kid Flash high-fived each other before grabbing their chests in pain.

"That was awesome! We need to do that again sometime!" cried Creed.

Superboy walked over to the crushed Blockbuster.

"See?" Superboy turned over to Kid Flash. "The moon."

Superboy looked up at the moon and squinted. A figure in red and blue flew towards the teenagers and landed before them. Many other superhero-like figures landed behind Superman.

"Wow, and Superman! Do we keep our promises or what?" asked Kid Flash.

"Oh, you guys are soo busted," said Creed.

Superboy walked up to Superman and showed him the red S on his chest causing Superman's eyes to widen. Superboy smiled slightly but it quickly faded when Superman's face turned serious.

"Is that what I think it is?" asked Batman.

"He doesn't like being called an it," whispered Kid Flash.

"I'm Superman's clone." Declared Superboy, causing the other supers to look at each other in shock.

Batman glared at the teenagers. "Start taking."

"Well, I'd love to stay and chat but I have some work to do. And since you're not in charge of me, I can't get in trouble. So…bye!" Creed threw down a smoke grenade and when it cleared, he was gone.

After the teenagers explained what happened, most of the supers hauled Blockbuster away while Superboy looked over and saw Superman speaking with Wonder Woman and Martian Manhunter.

Superman walked over to Superboy. "We'll, uh, figure something out for you. The League will, I mean. For now, I, uh, better make sure they get that Blockbuster creature locked up straight away." With that, Superman departed.

Batman, Flash, and Aquaman walked up to the teenagers. "Cadmus will be investigated, all 52 levels, but let's get one thing straight," said Batman.

"You should have called," said Flash. "And who was the boy?"

He said his name was Creed. He was investigating just like we were and he really helped us out," replied Robin.

"End results aside, we are not happy. You hacked League computers, disobeyed direct orders and endangered lives. You will not be doing it again," said Batman.

"We did good work here tonight: the kind of work you trained us to do. Together, on our own, we forged something powerful and important," said Aqualad.

"If this is about your treatment at the hall, the three of you…" said Flash.

"The four of us," said Kid Flash. "And it's not."

"Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us, or why teach us at all?" Said Robin.

"Why let them tell us what to do?" asked Superboy. It was clear he didn't like being given orders. "It's simple, either get on board, or get out of the way."

/

"This cave was the original headquarters for the Justice League. We're calling it into service again. And since you four are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms," said Batman.

"Red Tornado has volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary will handle training. I will deploy you on missions," finished Batman.

"Real missions?" asked Robin.

"Yes, but covert." replied Batman.

"The League will still handle the obvious stuff. There's a reason we have these big targets on our chest," said Flash, pointing to the lightning bolt on his chest.

"But Cadmus proves that the bad guys are getting smarter and Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly," said Aquaman.

"The six of you will be that team," said Batman.

"Cool…wait, six?" asked Robin.

Everyone turned around and saw Martian Manhunter with a girl similar to his appearance.

"This is the Martian Manhunter's niece, Miss Martian."

"Hi," she waved.

"I'm liking this gig already," said Kid Flash. "I'm Kid Flash, this is Robin, Aqualad. It's ok if you forget their names."

"I'm honored to be included," she said.

Everyone walked over to introduce themselves, except Superboy.

"Hey Superboy, come over here and meet Miss M," said Robin.

Just as he walked over, Miss Martian's shirt turned from white and red to black and red to match Superboy's.

"I like your T-shirt," she said, giving him a coy smile while she blushed.

Superboy smiled, just before Robin elbowed him in the rib and smiled at him.

"Today is the day," said Aqualad.

"Wait, you said six of us. With Miss Martian, that's only five," said Kid Flash.

"Miss me guys?" Everyone looked as Creed steeped out of the shadows.

"Creed! What are you doing here?" asked Kid Flash.

"Tall, dark and slightly scary, here tracked me down and offered me a spot on this team. I've got my reasons and being part of this team serves to assist those reasons. So since we're going to be a team, I suppose you guys should know my name." Pulling his hood down he smiled and said, "Derek Williams at your service."

"Well…we have secret identities to protect ourselves and our loved ones," said Kid Flash.

"Yes, but I assume we'll all be living together, besides, all my loved ones are perfectly capable of protecting themselves."

"How so?" asked Robin.

"Their part of the Assassin Brotherhood."

"The Assassin Brotherhood?" asked Aqualad.

"The Assassin Brotherhood is an organization that has been recorded in history since the Crusades. Their primary objective is to protecting the free will of the people from the Templar and have been proven as masters of combat and stealth," explained Batman. "You're a member of the Brotherhood…aren't you?"

"Yes," he said a little concerned on how someone outside the Brotherhood knew all that, he would have to ask Batman where he got that information.

Aqualad smiled and said, "Well Derek, welcome to the team."