For a while, they just stared at each other blankly- Robin and Wren from the roof, and the small mob of super kids surrounding the building beneath them. Every face was grim and set-no one really wanted this fight. It was almost surreal, the calm before the storm, as if everyone there knew that they were supposed to be fighting together, not with each other. The sidekicks knew that the criminals were supposed to be heroes, helping them protect what they had stolen. The criminals knew it, too.
But something had gone awfully, terribly wrong. Something that was evil incarnate, in a one eyed mask. Standing there, on the roof, the twins saw what had been taken from them by Slade, and their hearts sank.

A flash of green light and an explosion shook them from their thoughts as Starfire burst through the opening and fired at their backs, sending them twirling to the ground seconds before the blasts hit their marks. Robin grabbed onto a window ledge with his hand and snatched Wren out of the air, flipping them both around like trapeze artists in a circus. He landed a minute in front of his sister, both of them standing side by side. Their bodies were tight and tense, but their faces were masks of casual ease.

"Well, well, well...the gang's all here. What's up, Super Babies?" Robin cackled, grinning widely underneath his mop of black hair. He looked slightly insane. Wren cocked her hip flirtaciously at Super Boy. "Hey, Conner, you look pale. Did you catch something?"

"Yeah," the clone growled, flexing his arms threatningly. "A pair of filthy thieves." Wren smiled and tossed her head. "Aw, and we thought you didn't like us. How nice of you." Robin snorted and stepped forward, like they were just going to walk out. "This was nice, but we've got an appointment to keep." He turned as Starfire and Raven drifted down from the sky, boxing them in. "We told you before. You will not leave with that meteor."

"What, this?" Wren asked innocently, gesturing at the canister. "This is a souvenir, from the fabulously trashy Jump City. A little gemstone, that's all." Artemis rolled her eyes and gripped her bow in a tight, sweaty hand. She looked nervous. "Look, we don't...we don't want a fight. But you don't know what you're doing."

Despite looking sick and shaky, Super Boy strode forward and shoved his face into Robin's, towering over the smaller boy. "You have one chance, rat. Give us the rock, before I kick you out of orbit." Robin sneered confidently, the hate in his eyes burning through his blank white mask. He despised the clone, and it was clear in every line of his body. "It's INTO orbit, test tube. And I'd really, really like to see you try."

"Con-"
"Supe, wait, Bat said-"
Ignoring them all, Super Boy threw his fist into Robin's face hard enough to crumple tank armor, hatred fueling his hit. The punch almost landed-his knuckle grazed Robin's jaw bone and sent him flying backwards.

But he didn't fall out cold. At the last minute, he had rolled his head to the side and followed the punch, using the momentum to flip and land on his feet. A flash of silver gleamed in the moon light-while he had been in Conner's face, Robin had extended his bo staff by his side, which he know flung at the clone. Super Boy jumped backwards and into the air to avoid it.

"Take out Slade's rats-NOW!"

The other sidekicks surged forward. A barrage of arrows, starbolts, and inky black spears flew towards them. Beast Boy shifted into an enormous green wolf and leaped, roaring, at Wren, spit flying from his fanged jaws. He landed on her and snapped and growled, trapping her under huge claws. The canister containing the Kryptonite was knocked free from her hands as she wrestled with him.

Miss Martian dove for it, but Robin fired his gun at her and punctured her cape, barely missing her side. She spun away, then placed her hands on her head and squinted her eyes. Robin only grinned as the device in his skull vibrated harder than ever. The green girl cried out and sank to the ground, blood pouring from her nose and tears in her eyes. "N-no telepathy...I c-can't put them down..."

Artemis fired a quick three arrows at him, two of which stuck in his arm and left leg and staggered him. She yelled triumphantly, aiming again, but Robin laughed and snapped the arrows free of his armour. She growled and kept firing, along with Cyborg and Starfire. Robin became a moving target, dancing around the edges of the lot and just missing the projectiles. He kicked his staff towards Wren, who snatched it out of the air with one hand and slammed the side of it into Beast Boy's muzzle. He howled and released her, but came back snarling, striking at her throat.

She jumped on his back and wrapped a thick cord around his neck like a leash, looking like a crazy cowgirl as he bucked and writhed, trying to toss her off. Hawk Girl swooped at her from above, swinging at her head with her mace. Wren raised her good arm and hit the sonic switch on her brace to maximum volume, letting go of Beast Boy to do so. She could only hold him with her weakened hand- the one that had been affected by the corrupted Kryptonite. She flew off his back, unable to hang on, and landed hard on the wet concrete, winded and gasping. She thought she heard something snap, and agony radiated through her chest.

Beast Boy started letting out piercing, pitiful whines as the sonics ripped his hearing apart. He howled and curled painfully on the ground, turning back into a screaming boy, holding his ears.

"B.B!" Wren's vision swam from the hard landing, but she felt herself lifted into the air by an invisible hand. Darkness grabbed her from the ground and dropped her at Cyborg's feet, who scooped her up by the throat and held her at eye level. Despite the pain in her side, she still managed to smirk. "H-hey, Vicky..."

"Bitch." Cyborg spat, holding her higher and tightening his grip. Her feet dangled a foot and a half off the ground. She kicked at his abdomen, but they recoiled off his hard metal plating. The pieces of her broken rib scraped and pulled, and fuzzy darkness began to gather at the corners of her eyes. She was in the wrong position to head butt him, and her side flamed. Wren was passing out.

"Rob...in..."

She knew he wouldn't hear her. Wouldn't...

Cyborg yelled out and dropped her as another flash of light lit up the area. Starfire, intent on hitting Robin, had allowed him to distract her long enough so he could position himself directly behind Cyborg. The alien girl, not thinking, had then hit her own teammate. Cyborg turned around and tried to grab Robin before he slipped away.

Wren rolled to her knees and clutched her side, inhaling through the pain and pushing the pain to the back of her mind, the way Slade had showed them by injecting them with adrenaline and then beating them senseless. Unable to pass out, they had been forced to fight...or die.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw the edge of the canister lying on the ground,c and started to scramble towards it, before everything was lost in a huge, roaring whirlwind of red and yellow. Kid Flash had spotted her and had begun to circle her in a human tornado, throwing random kicks and punches faster than she could see. He caught her in the ribs, and she bit back a scream. An invisible foot knocked her hand away from the canister and an invisible hand grabbed it up. Shielding her face, Wren dug into her belt once more and removed a handful of marble sized balls-but they weren't bombs.

She tossed them into the midst of the tornado, and a large, crackling electric charge flew from them, lighting the speedster up like a Christmas tree. He stopped cold with his foot inches away from her nose, twitching and paralyzed before dropping unconscious and steaming to the ground. Wren kicked him away brutally and recovered the canister, feeling battered but still fighting. She removed her gun and aimed it at the sky, pulling the trigger and blowing a bloody hole in one of Hawk Girl's wings. She screamed and dipped dangerously. Wren started to fire again, but three of Artemis's arrows caught her in the knee.

Robin kicked Cyborg in the head and dropped him, then turned and blasted Raven with a flash grenade. It caught Starfire as well, and both girls clutched their hands over their eyes, blinded. Artemis darted forward, but he quickly disposed of her with a few punches to the skull. She fell at his feet, blood staining her long blonde hair. Miss Martian tackled him from behind. Robin flipped her and grabbed a broken arrowhead from the ground, jamming it deep into her arm. It looked like there was no stopping him as the Titans and the sidekicks fell around him like dominoes.

"Wren, we have-!"

"ENOUGH!"

The thin boy spun around with an expectant sneer on his face. Super Boy stormed towards him, flying in at the speed of a fighter jet. His eyes flashed an ugly red.
"THIS ENDS HERE, RAT!"
"BRING IT, E.T!"

Wren gasped in horror as her brother leapt to meet the raging clone.

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(DUNH DUNH DUNH...CLIFF HANGER! MWAHAHAHA!
The battle will continue...in the next chapter.)