Well, this was up before, but now I think I'm over my writers block. Also check out my other update, When Birds Meet An Arrow.

An Attack At Headquarters

For the past four years, the team that was founded by four of the original five protégés and a couple of new friends had thrived, and they knew they were starting to need help, so they had been gathering more young heroes to aid in their fight against injustice. Their latest recruit was a young girl named Terra. When they found her, she was on her own, and could barely control her meta power, earth manipulation.

Now, she was able to control the earth without losing control when she exerted her power too much. She was just a trainee back then, but today was the day she was officially welcomed to the Team.

"Well, Terra, you ready to be officially welcomed." Flamebird, one of the original protégés asked.

"I think so, I know it wasn't your element, but you really helped me learn control." Terra said.

"Well; Kaldur helped me when I was only eight, he could control water, but even though our elements were different, he really taught me a lot." Flamebird said.

Just as the two walked into the main part of the cave, the alarm sounded and the area was bathed in a red light. Terra was confused at first, but Flamebird was able to get a computer screen and keyboard pulled up. When the earth manipulator saw the fire controller's face, Terra knew it was very bad. Flamebird reached up to her right ear and activated her Team comm link.

"Flamebird to all available team members, we have a breach in the cave's magma core. Return to cave immediately." The veteran team member said. "Terra, since you and I are the only ones here right now, we need to get down there and see what we can do."

With that said, Flamebird headed off and Terra was close behind her.

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Down in the heart of the cave, a shadowy figure was watching everything on a video screen attached to the cave's security system.

"So, one of Batman's brats is coming with a new recruit, this should be easy." The figure said, and with that it disconnected the video screen and headed off into another part of the cave.

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While Flamebird and Terra headed down to the magma core, the zeta tubes powered up, and several heroes were announced.

"Recognized Batgirl B16; Nightwing B01; Bumblebee B17; Lagoon Boy B18; Superboy B04; Miss Martian B05"

"Well, we came when called, so where are they." Bumblebee stated as she noticed there was no one to greet them.

"If I know my sister, she and Terra must have gone to check on the problem." Nightwing said, hoping he was wrong.

"Why not wait for backup?" Batgirl asked.

"The magma core here can go at any moment unless she's there, but if it's a bad as she made it sound, then she probably needed Terra's help." Nightwing answered. Just then, his comm link beeped. "Yea, sis."

"The core is worse than I thought, it's leaking magma into the room. Terra and I can control it, but we need you to come seal the tunnel." Flamebird's voice came back over the link.

"Alright, I'll be there." And with that the link was severed. "Alright, you guys look around the cave, something's not right here, Batman created the design for the magma tunnel, so this was no accident."

With that said, Miss Martian set of the mental link and everyone confirmed that they were online, well all but two.

"Terra, Flamebird; are you in the link." Nightwing mentally asked.

"We're here, this is taking more concentration than I thought." Flamebird said.

"I'll come help you." Nightwing responded.

"This was sabotage; I'm getting a foreign heat signature." The former boy wonder's sister said.

"Batgirl, you come with me; everyone else, search the cave and report back if you find anything out of place." Nightwing said and with that, he and Batgirl headed to where Flamebird and Terra were.

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Beta Squad

Miss Martian and the others split up to search different areas of the cave, and Superboy was the first to encounter something amiss. When he entered the kitchen, the Kryptonian felt a familiar and painful sensation. Within seconds he was leaning against the wall and when he looked around for the source of his pain, he found an unknown figure hidden in the shadows, and in its hand was a chuck of kryptonite.

"So, you may be only half Kryptonian, but you are still weak to kryptonite, how interesting." The unknown figure said.

"How did you get in here?" Conner asked out loud. "Guys, intruder's in the kitchen, and he has kryptonite."

"I know about the little mind link, Superboy." The figure said, and with that, he walked closer to Superboy.

The Boy of Steel was now in severe pain as his assailant came even closer with the kryptonite.

"You will come in handy, but first, a little insurance." With that, the figure moved one hand and produced a gun.

"Even with that kryptonite near me, a gun won't do anything." Superboy was able to choke out through the pain he was feeling.

"Well, let's just test that theory, shall we, Conner." And with that said, the figure fired the gun, and in about three seconds, Superboy felt the bullet actually penetrate his skin, and blood was coming out of the wound. "Oh, and one thing, the bullet was a chunk of kryptonite. Have fun."

With that said, the figure vanished, and Conner passed out.