Chapter 3

Robin and Superkid

"Ok now I need to see you." Robin said pointing to Clark.

"But we're in the middle of a Nerf war!" Superkid replied.

Robin smiled at the thought of Conner and Clark spending time together.

"Sorry. The Nerf war will have to wait. I bet when the others get back you can play with them as well though."

"Nah. Conner rocks at it." He said the next part in a deep voice: "I have finally found a worthy opponent."

Conner beamed as he heard Clark talking about him.

"Well I'm sure we can play later kiddo." Superboy interjected.

"Fine." The boy huffed.

"Good, now come on, Conner would you show B to the library."

"B? Oh ok."

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"So do you have any questions?"

"Uh yeah. Where am I?"

"Well you are in a place we call the cave, and it is our HQ."

"HQ for what?"

"Well we are sort of superheroes."

"So than how come I have never heard of you?"

Oh good question.

"Uh we are a secret group."

"Are you bad guys?"

"No"

"Ok then" Superkid replied with a shrug. "Can I go now?"

"Not quite, I need to know what you can do."

The boy started to get nervous. "What do you mean?" he asked. His eyes darted nervously around the room while he wrung his hands.

Man this kid is a horrible liar.

"I mean do you have any super human abilities."

"N-noooo." Clark replied, wringing his hands and staring at the ground.

Uggg, its amazing that the justice league keeps any secrets with him around.

"Hey you can trust me."

The boys eyes went wide, "I'm not talking!" he yelled and pulled his knees up to his face.

Ok, well this tactic is apparently not working so now what? Oh I know!

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"Conner! I need you!"

Conner's head jerked up. For the past ten minutes he had done nothing but watch this kid read. He was soooo bored. Watching the other Superman was much more fun.

"Can you come here?"

What did he want?

"Yeah." Batboy can watch himself for a few minutes right? How much trouble could he get into while reading?

Conner walked over to where Robin was standing.

"I need to find out how much of his powers Superman retained, and he is not willing to talk to me. I think he will be more willing to talk to you."

"Um, ok."

They walked back into the room and saw the boy was still crouched in his seat. Conner crouched down next to the small boy. He was surprisingly small for a boy that grows up to be the tall Man of Steel he knows.

"Hey"

"Hey" the boy replied in a small voice.

"You can trust us you know, we are not going to do experiments on you or anything. I would never let that happen to anyone."

"Really? My ma always says that if I tell anyone they might try to experiment on me. And my ma is always right!"

Ugh! how do I respond to this one?

"Well…. I wouldn't and I know Robin and the rest of the team won't either. Most of this team has powers and I know we hate being experimented on so we won't do it to you."

"No way! You guys have powers?! What powers do you have?"
"Well I have super strength, hearing, invulnerability, infrared vision, and I can jump really high."

"OH MY GOSH! That is so cool!"

Conner smiled at the praise from his idol.

"So can you do anything like that?" Conner apprehensively asked.

"Well…. I can see through walls and it is really scary cuz I can't make it stop, but sometimes I wear glasses and that helps me control it. I can run pretty fast… oh and the other day I woke up on the ceiling! I have no idea how I did that. I have been trying to do it when I was awake but I can't."

"Don't worry I'm sure you will get it." The clone replied with a knowing look on his face. "In the meantime why don't we go finish our Nerf war in the training room."

"Ok!" the boys face lit up at the word Nerf.

"Wait, what should we call you since you can't tell us your real name?"

"You can call me Kal."

"Kal? Why Kal?"

"I dunno, I just always thought it would be a cool name."

"Ok Kal it is."

"Lets go nerf warring! Race you!" Kal yelled.

"Race ya!" the small Kryptonian yelled.

The two boys started to run out the door. Robin stopped Conner.

"You did great." The boy wonder whispered. Conner glowed as he raced his would-be mentor down the hall to the training room.

"Hey no fair! You have super speed!" yelled Conner.

Sorry about being so late in posting! I hope none of you exploded because you had to wait so long! Merry Christmas! (Well day after Christmas… but who's counting?)