My eyes opened slowly to see the white light above me. Where was I? I sat up as pain shot through my head. I placed my hand on my forehead, tracing the line of stitches. The room I was in looked like a room in the hospital, though there were no windows so I had no idea where I was.

I pulled the oxygen off of my face and placed it beside me. I winced as pain shot through my ribs. I spun around and placed my feet on the ground. Great. Now I was going to have to find a way out of here. I got off of the bed and placed my feet on the ground.

"Going somewhere?"

My head turned quickly to see the Dark Knight of Gotham standing at the door. Jesus, Batman was more intimidating when it was just us in the room. In the park, he was at a distance and wasn't speaking to me so he didn't seem quite as scare. His glare made me want to confess every bad thing I had ever done. Even the small things. I opened and closed my mouth. I couldn't thing of an answer.

"Uh, um no sir."

"Good. Now sit down."

I sat down on the bed immediately. "Now explain what happened in Cadmus."

I explained the entire story. How I was kidnapped, interrogated and found by the other sidekicks. "Get changed," He said, pointing at my clothes folded up on the table beside the bed then pointed to the plate of food beside the clothes, "Then eat some food. Come out when you're ready."

I nodded slowly and Batman replied "Good." He turned and left the room. I got off of the bed again and pulled up my hospital gown. I winced at the sight of my stomach. It was covered in bruises from the punches. I got dressed slowly and ate the food. I didn't realise how hungry I was until I took the first bite, I then ate the sandwiches in a couple of bites. After setting down the plate, I left the room. I turned to look down the hallway.

"You're awake! Hi!"

"Jesus Christ! Don't sneak up on me like that!"

My head whipped around when I heard a voice from the other side of me. A girl stood beside me rubbing the back of her neck, her cheeks slightly pink. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to scare you! I'm M'gann!" Apart from the strange name you would think that she sounded completely normal. Oh no she wasn't. Her skin was green.

"Uh hey I'm Lila. Um, if you don't me asking, why is your skin green?"

She giggled and replied "I'm a Martian! I'm Martian Manhunter's niece. It's nice to meet you! I was wondering when you would wake up."

"Um…thank you?"

"Come on I show you around!"

I nodded and walked behind M'gann. She seemed sweet and bubbly. Defiantly not what I expected a Martian to be like.

"So uh how did you get to earth?" I said, making conversation.

"I stowed away on my uncle J'onn's ship and now I don't have to go back to Mars."

"Woah. Cool. So he didn't realise you were there?"

"Nope!"

She managed to stow away on the ship of one of the most powerful member of the Justice League and he didn't notice. That was badass.

We went into a couple of different rooms before coming to another large room. "And this is the-"

"She's awake!"

Why was everyone surprised I was awake? Two boys stood talking in the middle of the room. One was ginger and was eating a chocolate bar while the other had dark hair and was wearing sunglasses.

"Well hello beautiful! I'm Wally and Mr Mysterious over there is Robin. Batman's super secretive about their identities. Won't let anyone know how they are." Wally said as he put an arm around my shoulder. I grinned at them both. "So babe let me give you a tour." I frowned slightly. "Uh, M'gann's already giving me one."

"I'm sure Megalicious won't mind if I tag along, do you sweet thang?"

"Recognised: Aqualad B02."

"Hey Lila, come meet Kaldur!" Said Robin as he started walking over to Aqualad.

"Save the introductions for later. We have a connection with Scarlett."

I walked over to Batman as Scarlett appeared on the screen. She looked fine, apart from the bruise on her cheek. I grinned.

"Oh thank God you're alright kid."

"Apart from a couple of bruises. Where are you Scar?"

"Barcelona. Then probably the Middle East. I have to keep moving until I get Cadmus off my trail."

I rubbed the back of my neck. "What's gonna happen now?"

"I'm not sure yet kiddo. Tell me what happened at Cadmus."

I told Scarlett what I told Batman. When I had finished Scarlett sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"But I don't understand Scar. Andrew kept on going on about the serum and how you stole it. What's the serum?"

She sighed again. "It's a long story Lila but I'll start from the very beginning. When I was eighteen I had just graduated from high school and was planning to join the army. My uncle Eric worked with Cadmus as one of their scientists. He was working on a project that was planning to be used for soldiers so he suggested I would volunteer as a test subject. I thought it was a good idea so I signed up. The serum moulded the test subjects D.N.A. Made them stronger, faster and they would live longer. It made them stronger so that explosions and bullets would do less damage. Then everything went wrong. The stronger they made the serum, the more it would mess with people's minds. It would make them savage and vicious. They started killing the scientists and each other. I watched my uncle get his throat ripped out."

My eyes widened. "Wait, if you were injected with serum how come you're normal?"

"The dosage they injected me wasn't as strong. They made me stay at Cadmus and killed the test subjects that went insane. I wasn't allowed to leave or make contact with the outside world. None of the other living test subjects were allowed to but I couldn't stay there anymore. So I managed to get some files and escape Cadmus. I managed to get to the Justice League. But by the time we got back to Cadmus they had killed nearly all of the test subjects and they won't stop till I'm dead as well."

Scarlett ran a hand through her hair. "So I decided to do some good. I was trained by members of the Justice League and became Shade."

"But why did you fake your death?" Asked Wally.

"I was rescuing people in Central City when there was an explosion. I fell from the top of a building and did enough damage to my spine to be put into a wheelchair. I believed that I couldn't protect Lila from Cadmus so I made it look like I died in the explosion. No more Shade or Scarlett Blake. Nobody knew I was alive. Some of the other League members didn't even know. We moved to Gotham from Chicago and I tried to stay hidden but as you can tell that didn't work out. Cadmus managed to find me again so I had to get out of the house. I left a message for Lila, thinking that she would get out into time. That clearly didn't happen."

I sighed, rubbing the back of my neck. "What's going to happen to me?"

"You're going to be staying in the cave for the time being. Also, if you want to, I think you're ready to become Shade."

I gasped and grinned. "Are you serious?"

Scarlett looked over at Batman. He looked over at me and said "You will be trained by Black Canary and your skills will be assessed. You'll be trained until I authorise you going on team missions. Welcome to the team."

My grin got wider. "There you have it kid. I'll be back soon. Look after yourself Lila."

"Only if you do the same. Bye Scar." With that goodbye Scarlett smiled at me and the screen faded to black. It was going to be weird without Scarlett. We had never really spent that much time apart. I was going to miss her.

I turned around just as M'gann pulled me into a bone-crushingly tight hug. Damn, for a small girl she was really strong. "Yay! We're going to roomies and I'm not the only girl on the team anymore!"

I hugged back, grinning still. "It's great to be even on the team."

"Well babe welcome to the team! But don't worry! If you get into trouble the Wall-man will be here to rescue you! Also, you still haven't met Kaldur!" Wally ran up beside us as I let go off M'gann.

"Welcome to the team. I am Kaldur'ahm. Though my friends call me Kaldur." Kaldur said as he held out his hand for me to shake.

I stopped at the sight of his hand. "Is there a problem?" I looked up at as he gave me a questioning look. I then realised that I had been staring at them. Ah crap. "Oh sorry. Um- not expecting the webbed hands uh. " He chuckled. "Wally had the same reaction when we first met."

"In my defence I had never seen an Atlantian other the Aquaman and he doesn't have webbed hands!" Wally piped up.

"Whoa you're Atlantian? I've always wanted to go to Atlantis."

"Maybe I could take you there one day." I grinned at him.

"That would be awesome."

"Welcome to the team. Finally, another person with no superpowers, I'm outnumbered."

I turned to the boy wonder. "Thanks. Glad to know I'm wanted." I looked over at Superboy and he nodded at me, walking off. "Not much of a talker is he?" I said in a low voice to Robin. "Nope. He hasn't spoken that much since we got him out of Cadmus. He's angry too." Robin replied in an equally low voice.

"So M'gann any chance of finishing that tour?"