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Chapter 1

"Don't act like everything's ok, my right arm is gone!", Roy screamed at his former mentor. "I know, but you have to calm down before you hurt yourself." Green Arrow tried to calm Roy down before he did something he would regret. The team had finally been able to find and rescue the original Roy from Cadmus, but the end results were bitter sweet.

"How am I supposed to calm down? My right arm is gone! I can't be an archer without my right arm!" Roy has been screaming like this ever since they saved him. Everyone knows he has a right to be upset and all, but he's not even giving the rest of them a chance to talk.

"Maybe we can figure something out. Maybe Bats knows someone that can build you a new one." Green Arrow persisted. "I'm sorry Ollie, but I don't know anyone capable of building an arm that would allow Roy the ability to remain a hero.", Batman said in a solemn voice. "You see? It's over and there's nothing anyone can do to help me!", Roy continued to rant and scream.

"Actually, I might know someone that can help you." Robin said sheepishly. Now that's when everyone turned to look at him. As if the situation wasn't uncomfortable enough. Robin was about to tell everyone in the Cave a secret that he hadn't told anyone. Not even Wally and Bruce knew what he was about to say. "Robin", Wally started, "What are you talking about?"

"I have some…friends", he started, "And one of them might be able to help Roy." "Who are these "friends" your talking about?" Batman asked with a hint of annoyance in his voice. Robin cringed but continued to speak. "They're friends that I met about a year ago back in Gotham. They all live in the shadows because the outside world has been more cruel to them than you can possibly imagine. They make our back stories look like a children's book."

Everyone in the cave had a very uncertain look on their face. No one was to keen about trusting a bunch of random kids with Roy's future, but what else could they do. While everyone else was looking around at one another, Batman was busy giving Robin his signature Bat-glare. He obviously wasn't pleased about him keeping this a secret from him.

Roy was the first one to speak up. "So, these friends of yours, they can help me?" Robin looked over with a surprised look and replied. "Yeah. Without a doubt they can help you, or at least one of them can, but I'm not sure if they will." "What do you mean?" M'gann asked. "Like I said, they don't really trust a lot of people. Whether or not they help depends on what you're able to do for them." Green Arrow stepped up first. "Well, what do they want?"

"You'll find out when we get there. Assuming we're gonna go."

As Robin sat alone at the end of the couch, everyone else was talking about what he'd just said. The Team had broken off into one group and the Justice League into another. Batman, Superman, Green Arrow, Flash, Icon, Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, and Roy were all talking about the possibility of Roy getting an arm and what they would be willing to do for these kids to make it happen.

On the other side of the room Aqualad, Ms. Martian, Superboy, Kid Flash, Rocket, Artemis, and Zatanna were all talking about how Robin kept lying to them. He wouldn't tell them his name, where he live, or where he grew up, and now he had a whole nother…team that he didn't tell them about.

This is why he really didn't want to bring this up. He knew that everyone would react this way. He knew he wanted to help Roy, and he knew that he would never let his own fears prevent him from helping his friend, but he really wished it hadn't come to this.

Kid Flash was the first one to break away from the group and go over to talk to Robin. Out of all the things he could have said at that moment, he said the one thing that made Robin's heart twist inside his chest with guilt.

"I thought we were supposed to be best friends." Robin hadn't been looking at him, but the second Wally said that he whipped his head around and stared at him in pure shock. "Of course we're best friends. We always have been and we always will be." The second he got that out, Wally spat back at him. "Then why didn't you tell me about these guys? You told me your real name, you told me about your past, and yet for some reason you decided to keep this from me!" "I didn't just keep this from you, I kept it from everyone! Bruce, Alfred, Barbra, none of them knew! And before you ask, its not because I don't trust you, its because they're afraid of you!", Robin said in an angry whisper to prevent that others from hearing the names of the people he was talking about.

Wally seemed to calm down a little after he said that. He then asked Robin a very simple question, "Why?" Robin took a deep breath and tried to explain. "As I said before, their lives haven't exactly been full of sunshine and rainbows. They have suffered more in their lives than Batman has, and that's saying something. They have reached out to people before looking for help, but every time they did that, everyone would always run away, calling them freaks and monsters."

"Why did they run away?" Why couldn't Wally just stop talking? Robin took a deep breath and tried to explain, "My friends don't exactly look…normal okay. And unlike the people around here, they have no way to hide who they really are." "What do they look like?" Robin was now really starting to get annoyed, "You'll see when you meet them…if you meet them."

As if on cue, Batman then broke away from the rest of the Justice League and turned toward Robin and the rest of the Team. After staring daggers at Robin for a short while he said, "Ok, take us to your friends."