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A/N: As promised another chapter and it might make story more understandable.
New York, N.Y.:
'It was bad timing for the Bat to go help the JLA on one of their missions,' a young man thought as he flew around a venom pumped Joker. " You're wasting your time Titans!" yelled Bane as he pumped more venom into the Joker. Match rolled his eyes at the villians ramblings. " Puh-lease. Inertia do something about that babbling idiot." " Sure thing Match," replied the speedster as he sped thru the Joker's Daughter who was in a catfight with Poision Ivy.
Finally around midnight the Titans East members were exhausted by the time they got to their tower. Duela Dent went to the kitchen for something to eat while both boys went upstairs to their rooms. As he walkd into his room, Match found an envelope on his bed with the initials C.K. on it. ' C.K.,' he thought as he opened it. ' Could Kon still be alive? I thought he died.' Matched scratched his head in confusion as he washed his face and checked himself in the mirror. He looked exactly like Kon except for his pale skin and the backwards s-shield on his shirt, other tha that he could pass for Superboy.
A knock sounded at his door and Duela stuck her head in. " Hey Match, Thad and I are going to get pizza. Wanna come?" Match looked up from reading the letter and gave Duela a confused look, " What?" " I said Thad and I are going to get some pizza, do you want to come?" she repeated herself. " Oh, sure. Give me a minute," Match replied.
As he got up to find another shirt to go over his uniform, Match decided to call Superman and as what a good S.I. would be. Then he thought of his Kryptonian name that Supes gave him, Ky-El, and changed his mind about calling Superman.
Finding a pair of glasses in his drawer, he turned to Duela and asked, " How does the name Kyle sound to you?" She looked confused, " Why?" " Because I need a civillian name too. Not just Ky-El." " Oh. Then it sounds good," Duela shrugged as she went out the door with Kyle.
Thad was waiting for them downstairs when he saw Match's new look and started laughing, " You know Match, you look exactly like Kon with those glasses on." " I know. By the way it's Kyle now," Mach replies.
" So Kyle," Thad said as they sat in back booth of the pizza parlor. "' What are your plans this week?" Kyle looked up from reading his letter and replied, " Oh nothing at the moment, but I might go visit the kents for a while." " The Kents?" asked Duela as she bit into her slice of pineapple pizza. "Yeah? So? What's wrong with that?" said the young teen. " Nothing. Just curious that's all," she replied. " But I thought that the Kents and the rest of Superman's friends and family didn't like you." " Some do and some don't. But I'm going to probably stay in Smallville fo awhile though," Kyle replied. Thad, who had is tenth slice of pizza asked why. Kyle grinned at his friend and said, " Well, Thad that is a very good question. I recieved a letter this evening with the intials C.K. printed on it. And it specifically asked me by who wrote to go stay with the Kents since Kon died." " So basically you have been asked by a myserious person to temporarily take Kon's place at the Kents when o'Supes contacts you?" Thad nodded in understandment. "Yep," replied his friend.
A young man walks away from the pizza parlor satisfied that the other young superheroes got the message and hoped everything would turn out the way it should. He glances at the young pale boy who was laughing with his friends and hoped his twin would help the other Titans.
" The Kent residence," says Martha as she answered the phone the next day. " May I ask who is calling?" " Ky-El," Match's voice said from the other end. " May I please speak to Kal?" Martha looked up as she heard her son come in the door. Clark mouthed," Who's on the phone?" " Ky-El," his mother mouthed back. To Match she says," Give me a minute Ky." She hands the phone to Clark who says," Hello?" Match replies, " Kal, I recently recieved a letter from with the initails C.K. Can we talk somewhere in person?" Clark agrees, "Okay Ky, where do you want to meet? " Match and Clark agree to meet at the old Young Justice HQ.
Meanwhile at the shopping mall, Kara pulled a t-shirt off the rack and went to the dressing room where Cassie and Rose were waiting. "Hey Cass, check this out," she said as Cassie stuck her head out and asked, "What is Kara?" The young Kryptonian teen held out a blue baby tee with a rose on the shoulder. "Oh, that's pretty," both Cassie and Rose commented. The three girls left two hours later with two or three bags each and headed downtown for lunch.
"T.G.I. Fridays?" Rose asked as they walked down the sidewalk. "They have very good onion rings." Kara and Cassie both look at each other and said, " Sure that sounds good." Cassie just shakes her head and replies, "I don't really care at the moment." Rose looks at her friend and notices that she is sweating profusely. She reaches out to touch Cassie's forehead and feels intense heat radiating off the young Wonder. Giving her a concerned look, Rose asks, "Cass, you 'kay?" "Yeah," she replied. "Why?" "I don't know. You look pale and hot, that's all." Rose shrugs and looks at Kara whose eyes went from blue to green since she was using her x-ray vision. Shaking her head to clear her thoughts, Kara looks at her friends and says, "Rose is right you don't look well. And personally I think after we eat lunch we should go back to the tower and have Starfire check you out." Cassie laughed as the three of them walked into the restaurant. "You guys, I'm fine with the exception of being extremely hungry." Rose and Kara exchanged looks at they went and sat down.
As the girls ate lunch downtown, two superheroes were headed to Topeka, Kansas. Superman was waiting in the field when Match landed near the Young Justice HQ entrance. "Ky-El," said the Man of Steel as Match walks up to him. "You have changed since we last saw each other. Match nods and replies, "Kal-El, we need to talk about Kon-El and how to fix the problem of his death." Superman activated a wristwatch device on his wrist and says, "Ky, there is vital information I'm about to tell you and you must not tell anyone. Do I make myself clear?" "Yes," replied the young Teen of Steel. "Good, then come inside and I will show you what you need to know." The two heroes walked into the YJ HQ and as the door shut behind Match, Superman flipped a switch to activate a hologram of the Kent Farm. "Now Ky, what you are seeing is the home of the Kent's. They are my adoptive parents. Since you are Kon's clone and essaintly his twin brother, that would make you my son." Match looked at the Kryptonian who was basically telling him his life story. Superman continued, "My real name is Clark Kent and I'm asking you to help me keep Kon's death a secret from the public. You will be welcomed by my family I am sure, and even though you are not Conner, everyone will think that for awhile until something else comes up." Match's mouth dropped open in shock that the world's greatest superhero would tell him his most valuable secret, his secret identity. He rubbed his face and sat down in a nearby chair and looked up at the man whose DNA ran through his bloodstream. Finding his voice, Match replied, "So basically you want me to temporarily take Conner's place at the Kent farm? All the other Titans hate because I did just that to Young Justice." Clark laid a hand on match's shoulder and said, "I know, but I was given specific instructions to contact you only for this special assignment. Don't worry about the others; I have already spoken to them. They may grow to like you." Match nods, "Okay, but can I think about this?" "Yes you can," answered Clark who remembered another piece of information. "Also another thing, you've heard of Lex Luthor and his on the Titans and the Outsiders?" Match nods. "Well he did that attack through Conner by brainwashing him before he escaped Cadmus Labs."
"So you're saying that Conner has Lex's DNA as well as yours?" Matched asked after a while. "Yes." "Oh-kay. I guess that means that Lex is also in my system," the young teen nods in understanding. Clark flips the switch to turn off the hologram and right before he opens the door Match says, "Wait a minute! If I do this assignment will I be able to go back to being Kyle?" Clark looks confused, "Kyle?" "Yeah that's my S.I." "Yes, infact you can become Kyle Kent if you want." The young pale Teen of Steel nods.
Later that night Kyle slipped back into the Titans East tower as quietly as he could and flew up to his room shutting his door unaware that someone else was in the room. He flipped on the light switch and turned around to see a grown Bart Allen. " Bart," Kyle hissed at the Flash. " You scared the crap out of me." " Sorry," replied Bart as he removed his hood. " I came to ask you a favor." kyle rolled his eyes," What is it?" "To join the Teen Titans." Kyle gave Bart a suspioucious look and said," What about the others? As you recall I wound up gettin the crap beat out of me by Robin, Wondergirl, Superboy and you as Impulse."
