A/N: May 7, 2012

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WHISPER

My name is Whisper. Weird name, but if you know me personally it'll make sense. Don't worry, I wasn't actually born and named 'Whisper' by my parents. I shed that life like a skin and started new with Whisper like the rest of my companions. Those companions are Robin and Tempest. We're all really different, but love each other like brothers. Ugh, I'm sounding really sappy, not like me at all. I swear Robin would probably sent me to a mental institution if I screamed "Rob, I truly love you bro." in a sobby voice like my dog had been killed.

The funny thing is I'd never even had a dog before. Hmm, I should ask Tempest about that…

Anyway, we actually share a lot in common. One thing is we don't like the Justice League. We don't hate them (Actually Tempest and I hate a specific member but that's another story to tell. Don't know about Rob though.) we just don't like them. It's hard to explain.

Wait, I just thought of a reason to not like them. You see how would you like it if you worked really hard to gain respect and just when you think that you've earned it, it's snatched away. The three of us haven't personally experienced something like that specifically, but we've all had our share of mental pain.

Great, now I'm getting off topic slightly. The point is that the Justice League has 'sidekicks.' One is Speedy. He's with Green Arrow, and the first 'sidekick.' The other is a less known and newer. Her name is Miss Martian, and as the name suggests she's a Martian. Her mentor is Martian Manhunter. The last one is the newest, like only a couple months new. She's Artemis and also with Green Arrow. Technically, of today, there are only two sidekicks because Speedy had this giant speech about their rights and left.

Good for you, Speedy.

Today is July 4th. Since there was this grand gathering at the Hall of Justice we decided to break in afterwards. Rob's our master hacker so getting in the JL's computer should be a piece of cake. He also got this idea of taunting the JL by hacking the security cameras so they don't show us, but leave the sound.

In the files we found this giant file about Cadmus this research facility on DNA or something. Never really cared for them, I was too busy trying to survive. Rob had also heard Miss Martian and Artemis planning to head over because they'd seen this report thing on a fire at a Cadmus lab and been told from Green Arrow.

I think Green Arrow sometimes talks too much for his own good. He told Speedy about the true JL HQ that was in space. That kinda triggered all his feelings to make him leave.

About that Cadmus files, we're going there. To Cadmus I mean. Who else is going to keep an eye on the sidekicks?

So we head over to the Cadmus building that was on fire. The fire men looked like it had it under control so we just snuck in via grapple gun. Nothing like the old fashioned grapple gun.

"How do we find Artemis and Miss Martian?" Tempest asked.

"We start," I answered, "by looking for tracks. Robin's already started." Rob was like a ninja. Literally, he even looked like one with a black ninja top and identically colored trousers. He had a facemask too, (A/N For those who've watch Naruto, think of Kakashi's facemask.) but then again he's never let anyone see his face. It upper head and ears open though revealing messy black (I once asked Robin why'd he have so much black on. His response was a roundhouse kick though a wall. I still have nightmares about it.) hair and dark brown eyes.

He even has ninja weapons thought the only one I see usually is across his back parallel. He once showed it to me. It was a foot long silver tanto sword with a black leather bound hilt. The sword was usually covered by a brown leather sheath.

Robin, our ninja friend, had excellent hearing and tracking abilities though. As I'm speaking now, he has his eyes closed in concentration. He opened them and pointed down the hall. I ran ahead and checked it out. The hall was dark and at the end was an elevator. Weirdly enough, the door was closing, but not before I saw an tall elfish figure with curved horns.

Check plus, Tall Elf-Dude, for creepy.

"Tempest, Rob, I just saw a creepy dude go down the elevator over here." I called to them.

"Can you describe him?" Tempest asked once he and Robin had joined me.

"I only saw his silhouette. Tall, elfy, with horns." I said.

Robin inspected it. He pointed at me and gestured running. Then pointed at the elevator. High speed elevator.

Tempest pulled open the elevator doors. Did I mention Tempest is an Atlantian? He's darker skinned with eel tattoos circulating his arms. He has pale blond hair and pale green eyes that look silver. He wears a full body dark colored swimsuit (A/N Think of his outfit in steal-tech.).

I think the three of us have a bad habit with dark clothing. It makes us look criminal.

I looked through the now open elevator opening. There was a straight endless drop leading down. Robin looked down it and pointed. The girls definitely went that way. "Great," I said, "A straight plummet to God knows where. Sounds like fun."

TEMPEST

Robin shrugged and launched his grapple gun at the top and leapt off. Whisper followed and after, I swung on Robin's line and slid down, lifting my hands slightly every now in then in order not to get rope burn.

I don't think Whisper likes how Robin and I wear black. He said once it made us look like we're going to steal something. If not, then Robin's mask and a glare that rivaled Batman's would scare them. At least, that's what Whisper said.

Anyway, I think he's called the kettle black, if I said the expression correctly. He was wearing his normal attire of black with red stripes Adidas pants and a black zip up sweatshirt. The sweatshirt looked normal, but Robin and I knew that in it contained many pockets holding his arrows, bow, and other things. He currently had his hood up but underneath was a dirty blond hair that looked like it might have streaks of a dark red, brilliant green eyes, freckles, and a thick metal necklace with red bars. To me though it seemed more like a collar than a necklace, and when I'd said that, Whisper hadn't denied it. (A/N Can anyone guess what those necklaces are? I'll give you a hint: they were in 'Terrors.') His T-shirt was a dark grey.

Whisper wears as much dark colors as Robin and I.

Robin stops sliding down. His rope must be out of line. I meet the rest of them. We were at level 26. Robin scans the door. Sighing he unsheathes his tanto sword and slides it through the doors. With a sharp jerk the door slides open. Then he sheathes it. Whisper scowls. "Show off." I see one Robin's mask a faint difference in the area around his mouth, and I smile too. He was smirking at Whisper.

Apparently Whisper noticed because he said, "Smarty," Robin's smirk grew.

We walked warily out of the elevator shaft and entered a massive hall with red lights and steam. The ceiling had pipes going along it, and cubby-like stalls were along the wall. In them were grey rectangles. Whisper walked out slowly and his eyes widened. Then he did something I'd thought he'd never do.

He took off his collar.

Suddenly becoming a black streak, he vanished from sight. Beside me Robin's eyes had narrowed, but I wasn't paying attention to him. Then he was back with two girls. One had green skin, red hair, a cape, and a red 'x' across her chest. That must be Miss Martian. The second had grey eyes, long blond hair in a pony tail, a green outfit, and a quiver of arrows across her back. Because of the arrows and the green one can only assume she was Artemis.

Miss Martian calmly thanked Whisper and left his arms. Artemis, though, scrambled out of them and drew an arrow threateningly at Whisper. "Who are you?" she asked demandingly, "What do you want? Did the league send you to take us back? If they did, you can tell the league-"

We never knew what to tell the league. "We are not here to bring you back." I interrupted her. "We wish to help you."

Artemis opened her mouth to say something, but thundering sounds stopped her. Crossing the hall, from our little enclave, were creatures of various greys. They had four trunk-like legs, red marks, spikes in places on them like an old-fashioned armor would, and red eyes. Their heads reminded me of gorillas I've seen as did the way they walked.

Whisper pointed at them, "That's why I saved your butts." He said bluntly.

The archer whirled in his direction. "How did you see them!" she asked in the same tone as before. "And do you have superspeed?" Whisper ignored her and put his collar back on.

"Are you… restraining your powers?" Miss Martian asked. She seemed much more kinder and less demanding than Artemis.

Whisper sighed. "I don't like using my powers." He said. "They remind me of a person I don't really like much." Don't really like much? Whisper was fluffing that up. More like hated that person.

No one said anything. They couldn't understand why a person would want to hide their powers nor how to react.

Miss Martian looked in my direction. "What is your friend doing?" she asked. I looked in the direction she was. Robin, who had been originally standing was now sitting with his legs crossed, eyes closed, and hands on his knees.

"He's meditating," I answered.

"Meditating?" Whisper scoffed. "More like, got bored of our arguments and decided to ignore us." He walked over to Robin and started to punch him.

"That's not going to work," I said. He ignored me continued. Just as his fist was about to hit, Robin grabbed it and threw him, single handedly, to the wall. "I told you," I called to the fallen teen.

"I know," he grumbled. "It's just one day, I hope it will." Robin rolled his eyes. Like that's ever going to happen, but nice try.

"Hey, hey," Artemis said in a rushed voice, "If you guys are done acting nonchalant, then maybe we can focus on the creatures that walked by us just now! What are you names anyway? No way am I cooperating with complete strangers."

"I'm Bob," Whisper said before I could speak, "that's Damon," a point to me, "and that's Sora." A point to Robin.

Said people glared Whisper who smiled cheekily.

"Well, I'm Miss Martian and that's Artemis,"

"Back to the main focus," I said, "Back stories can wait as can more information than we won't hurt you if you won't hurt us. I agree with Artemis, but I don't think it's the best idea for us to follow them. Their size and number would overwhelm us." That was a lie.

Robin tapped my arm for my attention and motioned typing. "Also, does anyone have a computer of the sorts?" I asked. Artemis took off a thick brown glove on her right hand that reached to her elbow.

"This is a holographic computer," she said presenting it to us, "Green Arrow gave it to me, but I'm really not into hacking and stuff. It'll probably serve one of you guys better than me, but I want it back afterwards." She didn't trust us. That was perfectly reasonable. I took the glove and handed it to Robin. He activated it and after a minute he'd hacked into it. The glove was now officially his. I couldn't tell what he was looking at, but he'd run off in the hall until he'd reached a metal door with a red circle in it. After a brief Robin hacking moment the circle turned green and the door opened.

"Woah," Whisper, well whispered.

'Woah' was right. The room was taller than the halls and filled with two shelves of stacked jars. In the jars were giant bug-like creatures that glowed an electric blue. Electricity sparked around each one giving them all a giant eerie glow. Between the two stack was something sparking, probably a generator.

Whisper walked around. "Now wonder they were able to hide these creatures. The creatures are probably genetically made creatures by Cadmus. These ones are bred just for generating Cadmus's energy. Those creatures in the hall were probably made, too." Robin walked over to the computer near the generator and connected his computer to it. Scanning through information quickly he soon came to what he was looking for. He moved left slightly to present his find.

"Let's see," I said, "They're called G- Nomes." Whisper read faster than me.

"Oh God," he said, "Telepathy, razor claws? Cadmus is building an army! But, for who?"

"There's more," Artemis continued her eyes squinted in the computer glare, "A Project KR…" She frowned at Robin. "Why aren't there more files up?" Silence. "Are you just rude or you can't get them?" Silence. "Speak!"

Then the doors opened. A man in a dark outfit and a golden helmet ran out. "Freeze!" he shouted. Along with him were several G-Nomes. These ones had elfish faces, were pale white, had weird skeletal bodies, whip like tails, and front legs that looked longer than the back so they had to be bent. They made guttural growling sounds like a wild beast..

Recognition hit me. "You're a hero," I said in surprise, "Guardian, right? What are you doing here?"

"I'm chief of security." He answered. "I know who the two girls are, but not you three. I can call the Justice League. I'm sure they'll want to interrogate you." Wrong words.

Whisper's eyes narrowed. "If you're a hero, why are you working for a place that makes weapons?" he almost growled.

"Weapons?" Guardian echoed. Then a little impish G-Nome with small horns and black markings sitting in a frog position turned to him. His horns glowed red and Guardian looked in pain and confused before a hard look came upon his face. "Take them down!" He ordered, "No mercy to tresspassers." Then the bigger G-Nomes leapt into action.

Before anything big could happen there was a flash of black and smoke obscured my view. Robin must've activated a smoke bomb. Whisper grabbed Artemis with a "Hey!" from the archer while I bridal style carried Miss Martian. Dodging G-Nomes I kicked Guardian in the head leaving him with a ringing head. We then followed Robin down a hall. He reached an elevator and hacking in it. The door opened and we rushed in. I looked up at the numbers stating which floor we were on. The number was rising which mean we were going down.

"Why are we going down?" Miss Martian asked. Robin traced 'kr' on the elevator wall.

"He says we're going for Project KR." I interpreted.

"Well, I think we should call the league." Artemis said putting her hands on her hips.

"C'mon, babe," Whisper seduced (A/N Not in the, you know, mature way.) "Don't you wish for a chance to show the JL you're worth it? Don't you want to show them that you don't deserve to me treated like kids?"

Artemis's resolve weakened. "Well, ye-"

"This is your chance!" Whisper exclaimed. "You may not have another like this anytime soon! Sure you'll get into one heck of trouble, but it'll be worth it, because you'd have shown them that you can handle whatever they throw at you."

Artemis looked down doubtfully, biting her lower lip.

"Please," Whisper encouraged, "I know you can do it. I can tell you have potential to do great things."

Artemis took one look at Whisper's pleading face. "Fine," she sighed. "But call me 'babe' again and I'll castrate you." (A/N For younger viewers who don't know what castrating is, I'll just say it's something you do with males that's like giving them a scar.) Whisper gulped and nodded. I smirked inside. There was no way Artemis would be able to castrate Whisper.

"Why don't you guys tell us more about you?" Miss Martian said. "I mean, give us good reasons why we shouldn't knock you out and turn you in to the Justice League. For all we know you guys are delinquents." Her eyes widened and I had a bad feeling about what she was going to say next. "Artemis! What if they're mass murderers?" Next to me Robin rolled his eyes.

"I can assure you," I said with an edge of laughter, "That we aren't delinquents or murderers. We're just three boys that travel together."

"Yeah right. With one that has superspeed, one with hacking skills, and all three fighting expertise we'll believe you."

Whisper rubbed his neck uncomfortably. "Well, we've encountered people that want to hurt us so we had to learn to fight. Me gaining superspeed was an accident with some science chemicals and a storm." Artemis didn't look convinced, but the elevator stopped at level 52.

The room out had two separate paths. The paths were like caves with the same red light as the first room, but more of a magenta color. The walls looked like smooth rocks with the occasional blue one. In front of us was a bunch of equipment. The place practically screamed "I'm holding a secret!"

Then a tall elfish thin humanoid G-Nome came out of one of the paths. It was wearing a white T-shirt and pants. It had a familiar shape. "That's the G-Nome silhouette I saw in the elevator!" Whisper exclaimed.

The G-Nome raised its hand out in our direction. Its eyes and horns glowed red and two barrels came flying at us. Miss Martian held her finger-tips to her temples and the barrels redirected themselves from us. Unfortunately, they exploded at impact to the wall. We had no choice, we ran down one of the paths with an explosion at our heels. Whisper, being naturally faster than us even without superspeed, ran ahead and form my view was able to collide with a dark-skinned woman in lab coat. She fell with a yelp. Whisper saw the door and put one of the exploding cans in the doorway to stop it. "Hurry up!" he called to us. Robin rolled his eyes in annoyance. We're not that far behind you, keep your shirt on.

We entered the room. On the outside of the door, I noticed it said it said Project KR. Artemis kicked the can out of the door and leaned against it panting. Near me Robin was fiddling with a computer. Then he gave me the thumbs up. We're safe.

"Guys," Whisper said, "You might want to see this," We walked over to where he was. He turned on a light, and there in a cylinder container, was a teenage boy wearing a glowing white outfit. What really surprised us, was the unforgettable red 'S' on his chest. Only one man has that type of 'S.'

Superman.

Three of the G-Nomes that were on Guardian's shoulder were above the boy's head. On the cylinder were the letter's 'Kr.'

"Big 'K' little 'R,'" Whisper said, "The sign for Krypton." He ran over to Robin who had hacked into the computer. "It says, this guy is a clone made 16 weeks ago from Superman's DNA! The G-Nomes above him are force feeding him information. There's no way JL knows about this never mind weapon making." I looked around. Whisper and Artemis seemed surprised. Robin was typing, but Miss Martian was oddly blushing.

Robin typing in some keys. He reached to press one final button, but Artemis grabbed his arm. "Um, what are you doing?" Robin looked at the clone and rolled his eyes like it was obvious. Artemis's eyes narrowed. "I have no idea how to decipher what you're saying, but if you plan on releasing the clone, then change your mind." Robin glared at her. Defiantly he resisted and managed to hit the final button.

The cylinder door opened. The clone's eyes snapped open. And then he launched himself at Whisper and started to punch him with roaring noises. Artemis started firing arrows rapid fire. Upon contact, they exploded. Beneath the clone, Whisper drew his own razor sharp arrow and stabbed the clone's hand. The clone roared and leapt of Whisper red blood falling from his hand. Artemis looked at Whisper in shock. "You use arrows too?"

Whisper smirked. "What? You jealous?" Artemis's face turned red with fury. She didn't have to be angry for long, because the clone punched Whisper to Artemis and into the metal door. Both collapsed, unconscious. I drew my water-bearers and snapped my wrists. A blade flew out of each one, turning them into daggers. Yelling, I attacked the clone. He blocked my blows, but I was using blades. His knuckles started turning red with the blood from the cuts on them.

In the air, there was a cackle, the only sound Robin could make, and the said boy landed on his shoulders like they were playing an Earth game in a pool called chicken. Robin looked at the clone with regret. I don't want to do this, but you're making me. Reaching in a pocket he withdrew something. Smashing it against the clone's chest, yellow smoke erupted from it. Robin then leapt off him, but not before giving him a sharp roundhouse kick to his shoulder. My mind ran. Robin had aimed for the shoulder. One of his kicks could bruise the clone's shoulder. If Robin had wanted to kill him, he would've aimed for his jaw. I got Robin's message. He wanted to help the clone, not kill me. Maybe Robin felt a connection with him from Robin's own past, I don't know. All I do, is I wanted to help him too.

Miss Martian floated above me. "Robin and I want to help him." I told her. "Do you?" She nodded. Then she put her fingers to her temples like before and closed her eyes in concentration, but I couldn't tell what she was telling him. But, her efforts weren't wasted because the clone held his hands to his ears and his face contorted in pain. Then he let out a roar and through a can at her. Miss Martian's eyes widened and not expecting it, she got hit.

I focused my power in my water-bearers. A glowing cerulean hammer emerged from them. I let out a yell and attacked the clone. He blocked every one of my attacks, but I was pushing him back. Growling, he grabbed my wrists and threw me to a wall. The force of which I was hit caused several cans to fall on my back, trapping me down. I couldn't get up, but I could still see. Robin was facing him. In his hands were two eskrima sticks and blocking the clone's blows. I tried to get up, panic rushing through me. Robin wasn't good had direct hands-on combat! The clone punched, aiming for Robin's midsection, but Robin back handspring. Fortunately, Robin was an expert at gymnastics.

But, the clone grabbed Robin in midair around his neck. Natural instinct kicked in and Robin's hands flew to the clone's desperately. I could tell the grip was tightening, but Robin didn't thrash. I admired him for that, but I could tell that there was a chance Robin would die. All of us were unconscious except for me, but I was trapped. I couldn't help him. Then his body went limp.

There was a black streak, a snapping sound, and then Whisper and Robin were next to me with Robin gasping for breath. The clone clutched his hand and roared in pain. Whisper must've broken it. He didn't have as much physical strength as he could have, but try being hit by something that went 50 miles per hour.

Quickly, Whisper got the cans off me. I thanked him and went to Robin, but he waved me off, hacking. A few seconds later he was find, just breathing deeply, like he'd run his normal three mile run.

Whisper grinned. "The girls are unconscious," he stated. Robin nodded. Whisper's grin grew. "Time for no more holding back?"

I smirked and next to me, I saw the movement of Robin's facemask, signifying his smirk too. "Definatly,"

We surrounded the clone like a pack of wolves on a stag. Then we attacked.


A/N: Mwaaaahaaaahaaaa! I can't reveal their true power yet, now can I? I'm sorry it took so long to update.

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