A/N: This plot still has me by the throat… Okay, I forgot to mention this back when the review originally came in, but thanks to Just A Girl With A Keyboard for catching the dramatic irony in Chapter 6. No one else did and I found it strange that you were the only one to note it in a review. Lol. Thank you!

Disclaimer: No, I do not own DC Comics. If I did, would I really be here? Also, Artemis will not appear in this series. Sorry. She just doesn't fit in with it all.

Warning: I am not good with fight scenes, so please try to be patient…

"Training," came the voice of Black Canary that followed a ready banging on the door that Superboy was sleeping behind. "Let's go, boy." And she moved on, already hearing the ringing of Mount Justice letting in Robin and Wally, both suited up and ready for their instruction. The two were waiting out in the training area when Megan emerged right behind the blonde woman that was their battle teacher.

Superboy, rousing himself, managed to haul some pants onto his body and swipe a shirt that he hoped was clean off the floor before ducking out into the area where he knew he would have to work today. He was only a minute or so behind the green girl and appeared just seconds before Aqualad came in. "So we're all here," he said before pulling on the shirt. It smelled like old, cold sweat. Apparently, his piles of clean clothes and dirty clothes had gotten mixed up somewhere along the line…

"Who's up first?" asked Black Canary, stepping onto the blue platform as it registered her as the teacher. "M'gann?" The woman's blue-gray eyes found the red-haired girl who stood against one wall, almost in the shadows. "Would you like to go first?"

The girl was about to open her mouth and avoid the question entirely when Kaldur saved her. "I wanted to go against Superboy," said the Atlantean as he flexed his arms as if preparing. "If that would be alright with you, Black Canary." The dark-skinned teen never lost his polite manner.

Without saying a word, Black Canary nodded, stepping off the platform with a slight grace in her step. She watched the two get on, both with fists raised and eyes determined. They stood opposite of each other, ready to go. "Fight," said Dinah, tone neutral because she knew the boys would go at it a lot, each being of about equal strength.

Superboy was the first to make a move. He charged blindly, Kaldur stepping out of the way with ease before slamming a fist into the clone's back. Superboy wasted no time in turning, his feet skidding across the platform with ease. He watched quietly past Kaldur as Megan stepped away, into the shadows. Someone had to be on the computers to see the readings. And she was the one who knew how it was all going to work. Technology had never been her forte, but she knew Kaldur and Superboy wouldn't be able to do any better.

The clone took another charge at the gilled boy; this time, his fist connected with Kaldur's arm as the Atlantean had tried to slip out of the way unsuccessfully. He was thrown slightly off balance, one foot not getting the right edge he wante-

Without a second thought, Superboy was all over Kaldur, his hits not malicious, but definitely intentional to knock down the other teen. He watched as Kaldur slipped below his grasp and managed to clip the back of his knee with the heel of his foot, but just that little bit of weight transfer from Kaldur had given the clone just the right opportunity to thrush his palm into the chest of Aqualad and the dark-skinned teen went down on his back, the pad instantly registering him as a fail.

"Fair enough," remarked Aqualad, taking the hand that Superboy offered to haul himself up off the ground. "You win."

"Next up," began the trainer, "M'g-"

"I want to fight Robin next," said Superboy, trying to cover for Miss Martian who had disappeared into the deeper shadows to hide the soft light of the computer's glowing screen. He couldn't let Black Canary see that Megan had left the area. The clone motioned with two fingers for the ebony-haired thirteen-year-old to step forward into the ring.

Kid Flash couldn't help but watch and hope that this worked. He was ready to find out a real name instead of getting a number of names. The list was still at twenty people. He wanted a smaller number. This could be the moment of truth.

"Fine," said the blonde woman, watching Robin step out onto the training pad. "Fight."

Instead of making any sudden motions, Superboy stood with his fists raised and his eyes alert. He knew he had to hold Robin still to have Megan get the reading.

To his surprise, Robin moved first anyways. The smaller boy flitted to one side of the clone, working to get his bearings and to watch the larger teen try to turn slowly. The young kid knew how larger, bulkier baddies worked. Superboy wasn't a baddie, but he was still larger and still had the same inability of possessing agility.

Superboy turned only to find that Robin wasn't there anymore. He turned his head to the other side to get a square kick in the face from Robin's metal-plated combat boot. He had to take a step or two back to regain a sense of motion and to try and stop his head from ringing.

"This might not go as well as we had planned," muttered Kid Flash to Kaldur who had stepped beside him. His green eyes followed the movements of Robin all around Superboy as the larger of the two tried to move just to find him. "It looks like Rob is kicking Supey's butt…"

The amphibian boy nodded quietly beside Wally, watching the fight resume at it's lighting fast pace.

Another kick had landed on Superboy's back and the clone roared with rage as he nearly lost his balance, almost falling. He didn't want to be failed. Especially not against Robin. The kid was only human. He had nothing at all. Just martial arts against brute strength. How come Superboy couldn't land a single hit?

Before he knew what happened, Robin's fist slammed right into the corner of Superboy's jaw, shifting all his weight onto one foot. The second Robin ducked down low and swept a foot beneath the leg that was holding all of the clone's weight, the larger boy went down. The training pad registered a fail upon the ebony-haired brute. All he heard from Robin was a quiet little "Gotcha."

"Me next," said Kid Flash, stepping onto the pad as Superboy stood and hauled himself away over towards Aqualad who now had his arms folded across his chest. The chances of this working were looking slim and horrible now…

Black Canary, almost wondering what was going on with these kids, looked to the ginger that pushed his way to the training pad and stood on it now. Her cloudy sapphire eyes watched the two, each standing still with their arms at their sides. "Fight."

Kid Flash just stared down his best friend. His mind had been counting how long Robin had been standing still. He watched with eager eyes, hoping that Robin would hold still long enough… Eight seconds…

Robin flashed out, darting forward to at least make an attempt to hit the redhead that he had been put up against. He didn't know why training wasn't going like it normally would, but he was eager for a good fight. He moved right past Kid Flash who had ducked out of the way without a second thought. "Speed versus agility in a battle of wits," remarked Robin, hearing Wally running behind him. The boy managed to spring over the head of his friend in a flip, his hands pounding against the ground followed quickly by another flip to land him on his feet.

Eyes ablaze with hope of keeping Robin still, the speedster tried to stay put, hoping Robin would do the same. Wally started counting in his head once more. He took one step towards Robin. His friend didn't move. Five seconds… He took another step slowly and deliberately. Seven seconds…

Robin lunged to one side as if expecting Wally to come at him any moment. Seeing his friend still standing there, Robin rose to his feet again. "Come on, man, fight like you mean it," hissed the ebony-haired one, his masked features daring the green-eyed boy to come at him. "Fight like you actually wanna hit me."

This was annoying Kid Flash. It was either Robin wouldn't hold still or he instigated him to move. The kid was like a ticking time bomb, always waiting for another motion. "Just hold still," huffed the redhead.

"Says the guy with super speed," snorted Robin.

Wally took this into account. If one way didn't work, he'd have to try it another. The speedster raced at his companion, only to watch the younger boy once more flip out of the way. This made his blood boil a bit. Agility versus speed and no one was going to land a hit.

Just as Robin had landed safely once more, his blue eyes flitted up to his attacker and-

A gloved fist clipped his shoulder and another hit the right side of his chest. Robin had to take a step back to regain his footin-

Another punch got his collarbone. "Dude, now we're talking," snickered Robin, finally feeling like this fight could get somewhere. He lightly bounced out of the way of the next punch only to see Kid Flash charging again in the same way that Superboy had against Aqualad. Kid Flash managed to hit him with one hand while Robin's gloved fist grabbed the other. From there, it didn't take long for Robin to swing out of the way of another punch.

Simply growing furious with the whole thing, Wally took advantage of the way Robin had his hand upon his opponent's. The speedster whipped his hand downward, using his speed to slam the younger boy onto the floor with a loud thwunk!

Robin didn't move for a few seconds. Wally wasn't even counting. He just stared down at his friend, upset that he hadn't beaten him sooner. The redhead's chest was heaving as the blood surged through his system faster than it should have. He just stared at his best friend who was laying on the training pad with his head on the ground.

"Got it," came the nearly inaudible whisper of Megan from the shadows. Only Kaldur heard her over the fierce breathing of Robin and Wally.

Robin still wasn't getting up.

"Dude, you alright?" asked Kid Flash, offering a hand out to his friend as the training pad's grade of the ebony-haired teen's failure disappeared.

An obviously pained wince spread across the younger's features as he struggled to reach up to take Wally's offer of help. "Yeah, I'll live," he said with a cough as he managed to get to his feet. "Just don't do that again."

He hadn't meant to hurt him that badly. It had just happened. "Man, I'm sorry, I didn-"

A small smile played across Robin's face as he stretched towards the sky, hoping that would take away some of the pain that was spreading through his back from where his best friend had thrown him so fiercely into the floor. "Just don't do it again," he repeated a bit softer. "You might kill me next time."

"Robin, go get Batman to take you back to Gotham. You should make sure nothing's serious." The woman in the room wasn't afraid to let the kids know that she was going to watch over them. Black Canary, finally stepping into the ring for the second time of the day, declared, "No more one-on-one, you got that?" Her scolding gaze found the ginger boy in the room. "Someone's going to get seriously hurt."

A/N: Longer. Does that make y'all happy? And my fight scenes… There are reasons I don't do fight scenes, okay? Haha. Hope it was alright. Be sure to leave a review. Constructive criticism must be necessary here with my weak point and all…

~Sky