A/N: I don't own Teen Titans or Young Justice. By the way this will be A LOT longer than my earlier chapters since I will be holding the rest of the episode in this. Without further ado, let's get on with the story.

Raven's Justice

Chapter 3: Independence Day

Robin's P.O.V.

Today was the day.

We were finally allowed see where the Justice League work, or at least where they news of it. When I said we I meant Aqualad, Speedy (a.k.a. Roy Harper), Kid Flash(Wally West) and I Dick Grayson or better known as the amazing Robin. We all had different reactions to being allowed into the Hall. Which I knew was to be expected, but it all came out to roughly the same emotion, excitement.

I felt nervous on the inside but was calm and collected on the outside, which was the typical default setting for any bat. Kid was being as hyper as ever, but wasn't being too out of control. Aqualad seemed calm also, but I just knew he was just as excited as the rest of us. Speedy was the oldest out of all of us and acted like it too, and was acting touchy about being called sidekicks. I personally never minded being called a sidekick because that's what we were. Roy was acting impatient and incredibly rude, but I dismissed that to being excited.

Today was just one of those days when a certain word would just really get on your nerves. For me it was whelmed. Earlier it was underwhelmed now it's overwhelmed. Why can't someone, anyone be just whelmed.

I was called back to reality when we all arrived at the Hall. There were lots of people there. I wasn't really surprised since it was "open" to the public; the Justice League wanted to show that they had nothing to hide.

As we all walked to the entrance we all had this feeling of awe. I would imagine this feeling would be similar to graduating; but since I was still in school I didn't know the feeling first-hand.

Today was the day.

As we walked in we were greeted by two of the League members, Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter. They led us into the "Private" Library; though it did have an observation window on one of the walls.

Once inside the League members started to discuss the large amount of Ice Villain attacks that happened today. Then they started to enter a room for League Members only.

"That's it! You promised us a real look inside. Not a glorified back stage pass." Speedy said to the group, interrupting their departure.

Aquaman was the first to respond "It's a first step. You've been granted access few other get."

"Oh really!" Speedy said while gesturing to the observation glass.

" Who cares what side of the glass we're on. "

"Roy, you just need to be patient."

"What I need is respect. They're treating us like kids, worse like sidekicks. We deserve better than this."

Kid Flash, Aqualad and I just stood there and glanced at one another. As far as we knew this was exactly what was supposed to happen, we were roughly all in high school so we weren't in as big of a rush to get into the League.

"You're kidding right? You're playing there game? Why? Today was supposed to be THE day. Step one to becoming full fledge members of the League."

" Well sure. I thought step one was a tour of H.Q." said Kid Flash.

"Except the Hall isn't the real H.Q. I bet they never told you. It was just a false front for tourists. And a pit stop for catching Zeta Beam teleporter tubes to the real thing. A orbiting satellite called the watch tower. "

The other League members looked disapprovingly at Green Arrow. While each of the members did trust their sidekicks with their lives, there were certain things you did not tell, one is you secret team hideout. "I know, I know. But thought we could make an exception… Or not."

"You are not helping your cause here son. Stand down, or..." Ordered Aquaman. With all the authority of the King that he was.

" Or what, you're going to send me to my room. And I'm not your son. I'm not even his." Roy said as he gestured towards Green Arrow. "I thought I was his partner. But not anymore."

As he mentioned those last words he took off his cap and threw it onto the ground. The bond between partners should be fool proof, and here we were just standing there watching such a bond fall apart. Roy could never come back from this, and he knew that. All we could do was stare with our mouths hanging open.

"Guess they were right about you three. You're not ready."

By the end of this we were all standing up and staring at him, not doing anything just watching as our friend abandons the way of life he sworn to up hold. It really sounded like he had a meltdown, as if this was the final straw. He then stormed off and left the way we came out of five minutes earlier.

Before anyone could say anything we were interrupted with a transmission from Superman. He was reporting a fire at Project Cadmus. Batman then tells the group how he had suspicions about Cadmus for a while, which didn't surprise anyone. He's known by the League and other heroes that Batman keeps files on everyone and everything that was even slightly unnatural.

But before he could start to present a plan, Zatara (another League member) interrupts him with another transmission. About another attack, a magician was trying to block the sun. Real original, but a real problem none of the less. The whole League was needed to stop the man made eclipse, while we were just told by Batman to stay behind.

I started to argue "What? Why?"

"This is a League mission." Aquaman tells us, as if that was a sufficient answer.

"You're not trained" adds Flash but was interrupted by Kid Flash "Since when?"

We had all been doing missions throughout our entire childhoods. I had been doing this job since my parent's death when I was still very young. To say that we weren't ready was more of an insult that anything. Thankfully Kid said something, because I knew for a fact that we were all thinking it.

"I meant as part of this team." Gesturing at the rest of the League members.

"There will be other missions, when you're ready." Aquaman told the three of us.

"But for now, Stay Put." Batman orders the group. I'm used to this kind of communication, but I can tell the other are kind of jarred by the sheer power that Batman's voice has with such few words. The next thing we knew, we were all alone in the Library.

I start to look around the room we were ultimately stuck in for the next couple hours. It had loads of bookshelves and not the friendly library feel but as if we weren't allowed to read any of them. I glanced up to the observation window and I saw this girl on the other side of the observation window, she had really pale skin I could have sworn it was gray. That wasn't the only thing that was off about her; she had dark blue hair and violet eyes, and oddly enough they were looking straight at me. She had this haunting feel to her but I could tell that she was trustworthy for some reason. I knew in that instant that there was a connection between us, I was about to go find her. Ask her who she was and why she was here watching me. But before that could happen I was called back.

It was as if I was in a trance, and once I was back I felt like something was missing. I glanced back up and she was gone. I guess I imagined her, my line of work must be finally getting to me. Making up girls with blue hair and gray skin must be my brain's way to say, hey Dick slow down.

"When we're ready. How are we ever supposed to be ready when they treat us like, like sidekicks." Kid Flash rants after they were gone.

"My mentor, My King. I thought he trusted me."

"Trust. They don't even trust us with the basics. They got a secret H.Q. in space!"

"What else aren't they telling us?"

"I have a better question, Why didn't we leave with speedy?" I added solemnly.

After a moment of silence. "What is Project Cadmus?"

Raven's P.O.V.

Robin had looked straight at me. I held his gaze and then when he glanced away I made sure that I was moved along. I have learned after enough hallucinogenic visions that if the thing that was weirding you out is no longer there when you try to look for it a moment later, it really does feel like you just made it up. It might have been cruel but now was not the time to meet; I'm going to have to push that encounter off for as long as I can.

About 15 minutes later I started to feel Robin travel. I made way to the exit so that I can follow him. I had a feeling that they were going on a mission, I had to make sure they don't kill themselves out there.

[_[-]_]

The building that the group eventually went inside of was called Cadmus. The building was on fire, but it wasn't a wildfire or anything like that. The firefighters had it under control.

I watched from afar, the boys came in and started helping out the firefighters.

There was one guy who was manipulating the water to help get some of the trapped scientists; I'm guessing he was this worlds' Aqualad since he was accompanied with this worlds Kid Flash and Robin. He looks drastically different than my Aqualad; his darker skin tone and the machine like weapon on his back that would light up on his body when he used his water ability. Kid Flash looked about the same, the same hyper, headstrong boy that always went head first into any situation. I found Robin working alongside them, and it was comforting to see how close they are. You could tell by the way they held themselves that they had been through a lot, not necessarily together but they still trusted one another. I was able to pick up on these little details through my powers, I doubt you could see these characteristics they did have reputations to up hold.

I noticed that Robin almost immediately left the group before they seemed to have time to make up a plan. This protecting business might have been harder than I originally thought.

At the moment I was across the street in an alley that overlooks the entire event. I decided to through caution into the wind and change into my uniform. I stash my back pack in the alley, and then I go in after Robin.

I find him in a room on the first floor. He's on the computer while the other two are searching the room. To make sure I wasn't seen I made sure I was invisible but just to make sure I float to one of the darkest corners and waited for the scene to play out. Hopefully this would be just a simple recon mission.

"… poetic justice, remember." Robin says as I situated myself in a corner.

"There was something in the…" I heard Aqualad say from the hall.

"Elevators should be locked down."

I followed Robin as he bursted out of the room towards the elevator shaft.

" This is wrong. " I heard him say.

I stayed near the door of the room that they had just left. I would peak at them every so often to make sure they were still there while also keeping my invisibility up.

"Thought so. This is a high speed express elevator. It doesn't belong on a two-story building."

"Neither does what I saw." Aqualad added. He then walked over to the elevator doors and pushed the elevator doors open.

"And that's why they need an express elevator." I heard Robin say as I watched all of them glance down the elevator shaft. This was definitely not a recon mission; oh boy I'm really in for it now.

I watched Robin go down the shaft first, then Aqualad and finally Kid Flash. I give them about a 5 minute head start before I started to fly down after them.

" I'm at the end of my rope." I heard from about 10 feet above them.

"I'm by-passing security… there, go. Welcome to Project Cadmus."

"Kid wait…" Aqualad said quietly. I'm hovered in the elevator shaft watching as Kid went speeding down the hallway. I knew that this was dangerous, Kid was impulsive but going into a situation without knowing what was on the other side was just plain old stupid.

I then realized that this must have been their first mission. They were disorganized, head-strong, and unfortunately have no leader. I'm glad that I'm watching them so closely; I had a feeling that something bad was going to happen to them.

"ahhh.." Kid slid under these gigantic creatures with glowing red eyes; they were the size of elephants and the gate of a gorilla. I was almost positive that they are alien, they were gray and had glowing body parts; which is not natural. There was another little creature on each of the big ones. I could feel telepathically all the way from the elevator doors that they are controlling the larger ones with some kind of telepathic hold.

"No, nothing going on here." Aqualad said quietly as if trying to not to disturb the beasts.

[_[-]_]

Robin had just hacked through another doorway, while the other two stood watch. They were starting to develop a system of a sort, Robin would hack then Kid would run in and Aqualad would try not get any of them hurt while they barreled through these unknown areas.

"Okay, I'm officially whelmed." Robin stated as they opened the doors, the room looked as if it was dedicated to electricity harvesting. The alien like creature in the room was what was emitting the electricity, and unfortunately there were hundreds of them there.

"This is how they hide a massive underground facility from the world. The real Cadmus isn't on the grid, it generates its own power with these things. This must be what they're bred for." Kid began to say.

"Even the name is a clue. The Cadmus of myth created a new race by sewing dragon's teeth to the earth." Aqualad added.

"And this Cadmus creates new life too. Let's find out why." Robin told the group. He plugged in his arm-held computer to the Cadmus mainframe.

It was only a couple seconds later when Robin told them that "They call them Genomorphs. Wow look at the stats on these things; Super-strength, telepathy, razor like claws. These are living weapons. "

"They're engineering an army, but for who?" Kid said in an uncharacteristically serious voice.

"Wait, there's something else. Project Kr. Ah, the files triple encrypted, I can't"

From what seemed out of nowhere a man appeared. He called out from across the room "Don't move."

The man in question ran into the room with the Genomorphs, I moved behind one of the pillars. This unknown man was white, and was wearing a Gold helmet and dark protective clothing. After being in the hero business for as long as I have you can weed out the amateurs from the professionals. This man was most definitely a professional, you could mainly tell by his voice and the military grade protective gear. I knew that this fight would be easily handled by the team, they were new at this working together gig but they weren't incompetent.

The guy in the helmet paused, and said in a confused voice "Wait, Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash. "

"At least they got your name right." Robin said to Kid mockingly, as he continues to hack into project Kr. Being a superhero was hard enough, I couldn't imagine being sidekick to someone when both you and your mentor look, sound, and have close to same abilities. I sympathized with Kid, he was trying to make a name for himself, and it didn't help that he was always being compared to and mistaken as the Flash.

"I know you, Guardian. A hero." Aqualad told the man, who now I knew as Guardian.

"I do my best." He said unchanged by the revelation.

"Then what are you doing here." Kid Flash inquired.

"I'm chief of security. You're trespassing. But we can call the Justice League to figure this out."I know in that instant that he was under the control of the Genomorph's. He truly believed that he was doing the right thing, and that calling the League was be the right way to handle the situation instead of revealing his whole operation. He was being played by someone much more powerful than I originally anticipated, and it had to do something with the Genomorphs. Guardian had one on his shoulder like the gigantic genomorphs from before. Whenever you have to fight someone who was under telepathic control you always have mixed feelings. On one hand they were good and you know that, but on the other they were literally fighting for the bad side and you still had to hurt them if necessary. It would take too much time and effort to try to talk someone out of a telepathic hold. I just hoped the boys knew that too.

" You think the League is going too approve of you breeding weapons." Kid Flash demanded.

"Weapons? What are you…" He was interrupted when his genomorph's horns glowed which I can now deduce that they are using they're telepathic powers. When the horns glowed there was some sort of telepathic power being used.

"What have I…Ugh… My head. Take him down hard. No mercy" He ordered the genomorphs.

The fight began. They all went in separate directions. Robin was the first to make it across the hallway from which Guardian came out of. He began to hack into a elevator, Kid Flash and Aqualad soon followed. I then easily floated above the chaos into the shadows behind Robin.

"Way to be a team player, Rob" Kid said to Robin angrily, I had to agree with Kid in that situation. Robin just seemed to bolt whenever a fight ensues. He did his own thing; maybe this Robin was more different from my Robin than I thought.

"Weren't you right behind me?" Robin answered, without really paying attention to Kid or the question being asked. It was moments like this that reminded me how young he was. It wasn't often when Robin would let his guard down and I am positive it is a difficult for this Robin to act his age as it was for mine.

Aqualad barely made it into the elevator before the genomorphs came. They began to travel down the elevator shaft. At least that part hasn't change, Robin was always mission oriented. Luckily I flew through the walls and was now on top of the elevator but oddly enough I could still hear everything being said inside.

"We're heading down?" Questioned Aqualad.

"Dude! Out is up." Kid added in an agitated voice, this wasn't what he planned to do to prove to the League that they were able to do missions on their own. This was becoming a total disaster.

"Excuse me. Project Kr it's down, sub level 52" replied Robin.

"This is out of control .Perhaps , perhaps we should contact the lead." Aqualad admited. They seriously had no idea what they were doing or what they were getting themselves into, what have I gotten myself into.

Before anyone could respond they arrived on level 52. I floated above them, while they explored the cavern. It had a reddish light, it was if the room was carved out of the ground, and has these round sacks growing from the walls.

"We are already here."Kid said to Aqualad as they exited the elevator.

Aqualad sighed and followed the younger boys, "Which way?" he asked while crouching next to Kid and Robin.

"yeah, bizarre looking hallway one or bizarre looking hallway two." Kid replied in a snarky attitude.

"Hold" said a voice off in the distance. A human like genomorph emerged from one of the hallways. He had blue skin ad large horns on his head with red eyes. But his arms and legs were human sized and he walked upright and was wearing a pair of white scrubs and some slip on shoes.

He started to throw things at the boys telekinetically starting yet another fight.

"They are heading towards Project Kr." He tells Guardian as he exits the elevator. They both follow the boys to where they meet doors that say Project Kr on them.

As Kid Flash rounded the corner he ran into a woman leaving a room marked Project Kr, the doors were still closing. Kid grabbed some metal containers to try to keep the doors open long enough for Robin and Aqualad to get through.

"Hurry!" He yelled. Instead of trying to hack the doors they just hopped through the gap and barricade themselves inside. I made it inside the room and moved to the ceiling again, no one ever looked up there.

"I disabled the door. We're safe." Robin told the group.

"We're trapped."

"Uh, guys…You'll want to see this." Kid informs.

"WOW."

A shared moment of awe swept over them as they gazed at what looked to be a young Superman. He was in a containment unit labeled Kr, which made sense. It stood for Kryptonian, and you would always keep your most dangerous and highly illegal project on the lowest floor. The guy inside was wearing a white suit with Superman's symbol on his chest. I had a feeling as though I should be worried, but I'm surprisingly not. I no rational reasoning for what I felt but it was as though his presence comforted me, it had been little over a day since my Robin died. Seeing this person for some reason a little of the enormous amount of pain I felt, and it kind of scared me.

"Big K, little r. The atomic symbol for krypton, clone." Kid Flash told the others.

"Robin, hack." Aqualad ordered. There was a sense of duty in releasing him, he was Superman's clone. A extension of the League, it was something they had to do, not a simple want.

Robin jumped back to reality, "Right, right. Weapon designation, Superboy. A clone force grown in 16 weeks. From DNA acquired from Superman."

"Stolen from Superman."Aqualad retorted.

"No way the big guy know about this." (big guy as in Superman himself).

"Solar suit allows him to absorb yellow sun radiation 24/7." Robin continued to read.

"And these, creatures."

"Genomorph gnomes. Telepathic. Forcing him an education." Robin added.

"And we can guess what else. There making a slave out of, well…, Superman's son." Kid said quietly.

"Now we contact the league. " Aqualad said to them. They all tried, and they all failed. I could have teleported out and find the League myself, but I wasn't ready to introduce myself to them and they wouldn't have believed me anyways. I would have been more helpful down here.

"No signal" Robin admited.

"We're in to deep, literally"Kid said, you could hear the worry in his voice.

[_[-]_]

"This is wrong." Kid Flash finally said. You couldn't really tell if he was talking about that moment, or what they had seen during the entire night. A lot of the things they saw would go to their graves.

"We can't leave him like this." Robin answered, agreeing with Kid.

"Set him free. Do it." Aqualad said with authority I could only assume he learned from his King and mentor Aquaman. I could tell that he would eventually lead the group, once they got a little more traction. Robin easily opened superboy's containment unit, and Superboy immediately started to attack Aqualad. Superboy was fighting him with such ferocity and anger it was if he had years of training and built up anger but it was just the way he fought naturally. I could also tell by the first punch that he had Superman's super strength, it would take time to see if he acquired any other Kryptonian traits.

"Wow, hang on." Kid Flash tryed to ask Superboy. Although Kid was fast, he always tried to talk things through, a method he learned most likely from Flash. Sometimes he could diffuse a situation before it blew out of proportion; today was not one of those days.

"We're on your side."Robin said simultaneously. It didn't help , Superboy still came at them at full force.

"I don't want to do this." Robin continued. But then Superboy went after him directly. I started to worry that the situation was beginning to unravel. I put my powers underneath each blow delivered by superboy onto Robin, minimizing how much force was actually delivered when he was punched. But I couldn't stop his punches completely, that would raise to many questions and eventually lead to me. This fight was getting out of hand, and the boys weren't bouncing back. I might have to come into the light sooner than I thought I would.

"Enough" Aqualad yelled as he hit Superboy across the room. Robin collapsed after trying to get up, I was trying to push him away telekinetically, but he was firmly planted where he was. My powers slipped as I was trying to push him away, and Robin got hit harder than I intended, knocking him out.

"We are trying to help you."Aqualad continue bargain, but ultimately failed. It was if talking to a wall. Superboy quickly knocked him out as well, leaving me all alone. Kid was across the room out cold, but he had increased healing abilities, and Aqualad also had an elevated healing power.

I materialized in front of Robin. Keeping my identity a secret didn't matter anymore I had to make sure he was still alive. I knelt down and tried to check telepathically how damaged he was but I couldn't get a accurate reading quick enough, and I began to panic. I could feel myself begin to hyperventilate but I started to hum my mantra to calm me down, it didn't work. I put both my hands on the side of his face, and I close my eyes and try to focus on him despite the chaos surrounding us began to heal him. I was worried because he hasn't moved at all, he was literally out cold. I started to murmur "Azerath, metrinon, Zinthos" out loud over and over again ,trying to keep myself calm enough for my powers to work correctly. And then before I even knew what happened. I felt someone strong pick me up away from Robin and throw me across the room, and the world went dark.

A/N: I'm sorry but I am going on a vacation with no internet access, and am going to have too skip a week. But it'll be as long as or even a bit longer than this one. I promise to put chapter 4 up the week after next.

Thanks for the follows. I'll answer a question one of you guys asked:

Alaska: Robin a Raven will develop a protective almost sibling like relationship because Raven still cares for him but not as a lover. That's where Connor will come in, they will be able to relate to one another on a different level, and will be able to comfort one another.

Thanks again Alaska, Katr5432, Regin, and TuTsXxX for being my first follows/ fav's.