Disclaimer: We've been over this. Not yet.
The team had been training all morning.
Artemis and KF were sparring AGAIN, each time they ended the loser claimed that the winner had cheated and demanded a rematch.
They alternated positions.
"Ha! Take that condiment boy!" cheered the blonde archer as Wally stood up clutching his head.
"You cheated, PMS Queen! I demand a rematch!" he shouted lunging at her.
As they fought continuously, and I mean literally (it had been two and a half hours since they started), the rest of the team were doing their own thing.
Robin was flipping around the gym equipment, Superboy was in the pool doing laps (he was an okay swimmer, but wanted to get better) and Kaldur was helping M'gann in hand to hand combat, in case her powers were disabled.
Frankly, she couldn't win in a fist fight between her and a puppy when she first joined the team.
Now she could at least beat the common thug without her powers.
Then the door to the training room opened.
Superman had been heading to the training room to get the kids for their tests.
As he opened the door he saw the children were all diligently training.
At that moment, a thought popped into his head.
These were kids. The other thems were training KIDS to risk their lives fighting crimes!
Batman's prodigy was probably already fighting Joker and the other insane Gotham villains! (If only he knew...) Superman shuddered at the thought.
And speak of the devil, right as he shuddered, 'Robin' noticed him and stilled his routine.
The kid didn't seem kind of nervous of him or slightly in awe of him like the rest of the dimension-jumpers.
The reason was, Robin was very used to Superman and Clark Kent.
He was kinda like his uncle.
You know, the non- don't-talk-to-them-they're-crazy- uncle. That was Hal.
"Well," he said, clearing his throat, "Batman said testing begins now."
The rest of the team stopped what they were doing.
Kaldur told M'gann that she was improving, which was extremely true.
Superboy climbed out of the pool and retreated into the change room to change.
Artemis took one last swing at Wally, hitting him square in the gut, winding him and causing him to topple over.
"Cheater! I call rematch!" he wheezed defiantly.
The team rolled their eyes, not paying attention to his demands.
They followed Superman to the med- bay where Batman had an array of needles, test tubes and other instruments laid out.
Artemis would never admit it, but she was terrified.
What if he found out who her parents were! The team would find out and her life would be OVER!
Connor had worries too, what if they found out about Luthor being his other father? Would they still accept him?
Wally had something ELSE to worry about. Let's just say... him and needles don't mix...
When he saw the medical equipment, an extremely out of character screech left his lips and he took off, breaking the sound barrier on the way.
Batman's eyes narrowed even further, if it were possible.
'Great, that probably means they're hiding something! And now we'll have to delay the tests' he thought angrily.
As if reading his mind the smallest boy, the other him's prodigy, named Robin he believed, let out a bone chilling laugh. Well, more like a cackle.
"Don't worry. He's just scared of needles. He'll come back when he gets hungry. You might as well start the tests on us, no use wasting time, right?" the kid smirked.
After a stressful hour, half of it JUST with that childish red-head, Batman finally had the results of the tests.
As he examined the results, he had to admit that he was slightly distressed by them.
Martian-girl checked out. She was related to J'onn, and was a martian. No problems there.
Speedster-boy was in the clear, too. He was Barry's nephew. Didn't need to worry about HIM. Half an hour of stress for nothing...
The clone was telling the truth. Superman's DNA, but also Luthor's... Lex Luthor's. That was odd... He couldn't exactly trust the clone, they'd have to keep an eye on him..
Artemis was another red flag. She was NOT Green Arrow's relative.
Her DNA revealed that she was the daughter of Sports-master and Huntress.
Why was she in the hero business?
The Atlantean was hard to figure out... He had no blood relation to Aquaman, yet he never claimed to have one, so that didn't bring up worry.
The fact that he had a blood relation to Black Manta though, THAT brought up worry.
That's three members that he had no possibility of trusting.
The other him's... apprentice had no blood relation to him.
That's good. It would be odd if the boy was his son or something.
He ran it through a DNA database and he finally found a match.
What he found were two Romanian acrobats, named John and Mary Grayson who's DNA matched as parental.
Okay, so his sidekick was a Romanian acrobat. So THAT'S where he learnt acrobatics that intricately.
Batman sat down at his surveillance monitors.
He flipped to one of the cameras watching the training room that the teens were using.
They had resumed what they were doing before testing. He watched them carefully, one or two at a time.
'Aqualad' was assisting 'Miss Martian' in hand-to-hand combat. She was okay. Better than a civilian, worse than the rest of her team. 'Aqualad' was much better, but he was slowing down and lessening the power behind his hits to give the girl a chance to react.
'Kid Flash' and 'Artemis' were in a not-so-friendly sparring match. They looked like they were honestly trying to hurt each other. To be honest, it reminded him of himself and Selina...
'Robin' was doing some impressive stunts on the equipment, and no matter how much he disliked the idea of having a 'partner' he had to admit the kid wasn't THAT bad.
'Superboy' was swimming, but his mind was somewhere else. He looked oddly content. They were stranded in another dimension where they were being held in space until they could send them back, which they had NO clue how to do.
Why was this kid HAPPY?
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Unbeknownst to Batman Connor was excited because in one hour, he was going jumping with Superman. A Superman who actually WANTED him. Although his friends were all appropriately upset, Superboy couldn't be happier.