As I woke up I could feel cuffs around my wrists my vision coming back three pods on the wall held the three idiots that had made the situation immensely worse, great even when I'm about to be killed I can't escape these idiots. Across form them was mister tall white and angry just staring, talk about creepy. Then kid flash shouts at him "yeah, we free you and ya turn on us, how's that for gratitude"

Then the atlantian silences him saying "kid please, be quiet now, I believe our new friend was not in full control of his actions"

Then the guy in white shakes his head slightly as if getting the cobwebs off and says "what if i… what if I wasn't?"

Then the obvious happened kid idiot shot his mouth off again "he can talk?"

The guy obviously peeved by it says "yes, he can"

I let out a sigh as his friends glare at him to which he defends "not like I said it"

At this point I could no longer put up with him "would you just shut up" I spit with venom at the speedster.

He looks at me "this wouldn't have happened if you hadn't slowed us down in the first place"

I roll my eyes how dense can this guy be "yes because he obviously wouldn't have turned on you if you had reached him a minute earlier" I mock

"You wanna go?" he barks in anger

How did this guy survive so long being this short sighted "ya know, I'd love to but the funny thing is, you're in a tube and I'm stuck to this wall at the moment so for now were going nowhere"

He was dumbfounded by the fact that he had forgotten about his tube and instead says "screw you"

Kaldur interrupts "enough both of you," before looking to the guy again and saying "the genomorphs taught you, telepathically"

The guy responds "they taught me much, I can read, write, I know the names of things"

Then Barbra asks "but have you seen them" oh leave it to the hopeless romantic that still believes in fairy tales to bring up sappy things "have they ever actually let you see the sky? The sun?"

The brooding one replies "images are implanted in my mind, but no I have not seen them"

Then Kaldur asks "do you know what you are, who you are?"

Then the guy replies "I am the super boy" and that was as far as he got before I tuned out as his long winded explanation drew on and on, don't get me wrong I love having a sense of self as much as the next guy but that doesn't mean I spew it to a captive audience.

Kaldur says "to be like superman is a worthy aspiration, but like superman you deserve a life of your own, beyond that solar suit, beyond your pod, beyond Cadmus"

"I live because of Cadmus" he spits "it is my home"

Then I say "dude, you don't have a home, you're a test tube baby"

Then Barbra says "that's not a life, that's an existence, we can show you the sun"

"Uh, pretty sure it's after midnight, but we can show you the moon" offers kid flash

The Kaldur interjects "we can show you, introduce you to superman"

Then a voice from behind him says, "No they can't" I am really beginning to hate this guy "they'll be otherwise occupied" yeah its official, I now hate him. "Begin the cloning process"

Then Barbra says "pass, bat cave's crowded enough as is" so she does have some wit on her after all.

Then the scientist says "and get the weapon back in its pod"

"Hey" kid flash complains "how come he gets to call supey an it"

Oh my god, the banter never ends with this trio of idiots I tune them out, I'd heard all I needed super boy was leaving and going back on ice, so now all I had to do was get free of these chains. I always kept a micro blowtorch in the index finger of my gloves, just in case and today was its time to shine I thought smugly.

A few minutes passed as the three were electrocuted, they finally made themselves useful by masking the sound of the blowtorch with pained grunts, and finally I had cut all the way through so I made my move. Giving a kick off the wall the bar snapped where I had weakened it and came off in my hands, a genomorph lunged at me with its claws but only found the blunt end of an iron rod.

With a home run swing that would make Babe Ruth jealous it went flying across the room and crashed into the large steel door. The door behind it shuddered, I didn't think I hit it that hard. the door was immediately ripped off of its hinges and a very angry super boy was holding it over head. The cloning pods depowered immediately. The scientist ran up only to be pushed around like a rag doll and sent flying across the room. Super boy looked down at him and said "don't give me orders"

"You here to help us, or fry us?" kid flash asked

With a smirk super boy said "I don't seem to have heat vision, so I suppose helping is my only option"

Barbra dropped from her pod and ran over to super boy "uh, finally" she groaned "lucky bat man isn't here, he'd have my head for taking so long" what an idiot.

"Seriously" kid flash asks "that's what you're worried about, the whole league will have our heads after tonight" he yells at her.

Gordon walks over and press a button on the console releasing the pod door controls "rescue aqua lad" she says to super boy and turns to glare at kid flash "I'll get kid mouth"

"Don't you give me orders either" he growls at her

"Think of it as a suggestion" I interject

With our little band of misfits freed we make for the surface as the scientist says "I'll have you back in pods before morning"

"That guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all" I mutter as I blow up the pods with explosive shuriken

"whelmed? " kid flash asks "is that even a word?"

"Don't get me started" I sigh as we run for the exit. Then the pods on the walls start glowing red as the genomorphs all begin to activate, as I begin to think that hanging around with these guys may be bad for my health.

"We should head for the elevator" aqua lad says

As we turn for it two hulking masses of muscle appear out of nowhere breaking to the. One of those monsters takes a swing at us but only finds concrete. Super boy however also throws a punch, difference being his sends it reeling, only to be flattened by another massive fist. Aqua lad and Batgirl both jump over opposing shoulders and make it past the monsters.

Super boy however was still intent on fighting his way out until aqua lad tells him "our goal is escape, not to bury ourselves"

"You want escape" he yells before picking up one of the monsters overhead and throwing it. Arriving at the elevator shaft Barbra fires a magnetic grapple while kid flash holds onto her waist, shameless pandering. While I begin to flip from wall to wall using each to gather momentum and get higher.

Super boy comes and grabs aqua lad under the shoulder and jumps, but soon begins to fall. I throw a knife that lands just below them, Kaldur catches and holds himself and super boy up stopping my ascent, I shout back "what's the holdup?"

"Superman can fly, why can't I fly?" he asks himself.

Kid flash says "don't know, but looks like you can leap tall building in a single bound, still cool" did this guy have a joke for every occasion?

I hear a small whining noise and look up "guys" I shout, "this'll have to be our floor" as I point out that the elevator is about to come down on our heads, Kaldur and super boy both punch the elevator doors sending them flying.

As we pile out of the elevator those things are on top of us instantly, opting to not fight a pointless battle we break down a corridor "go left" super boy shouts and we do "right" he says what the hell, the only thing this guy knows is the inside of a test tube but now is not the time for arguing. That is until he leads into a dead end, kid flash starts going off about how he's too handsome to die and blah, blah, blah.

But I see what he's doing I might have to take back all the things I said about him once this is over, up on the wall, a ventilation shaft, movie cliche? Yes. Effective? Also yes? "come on" I say pulling my gun and shooting the grate, you see the thing in movies is that they never show that ventilation shafts have screws on them but a gun takes care of that. Only 3 rounds left, have to be sparing with them from here on. No more shooting unless I absolutely have to, doesn't help that I'm out of explosives and only have 2 throwing knives left, my tanto and 5 shuriken but I can't really resupply right now so it'll have to do. Popping out of the vent I tap into the security system and reroute the motion sensors "and with that they're chasing their tail" I say with a smirk"

Kid flash takes up off the stairs knocking genomorphs out of his way and clearing a path, I guess if the hero thing doesn't work out he has a promising career as a linebacker I muse "more behind us I say"

"Not for long" super boy scoffs and with a mighty kick at the ground sends the lower levels of the staircase crumbling down upon itself. We reach sub level one and get cut off by an army of genomorphs and that's the last thing I remember before I passed out.