Renegade watched as her friends, granted the Atlantean wasn't known to her so does not count, were electrocuted and red stuff went into the sphere below. She heard their shouts of pain, clenched her eyes shut and looked away. "Where's Double X?"

I heard steps and turned to see him coming. Desmond turned and grunted. "Ooh. Lurking as usual," he said looking at Double X. "Get the G-Gnomes downloading their memories. When that's done, delete the source material," he finished and Renegade felt her breath catch. My actual friends, be killed? she thought.

She felt the blood from her face slowly draining at the thought. They continued screaming, apparently unaware of their imminent demise. The Atlantean had his eyes forced shut and I saw his mouth moving. I could faintly hear him talking but couldn't understand the words. He continued for a little before stopping.

After a little, there was a huge thud at the door. She turned toward it as did everyone else just in time to see Kr pulling open the door. She looked at him in disbelief. The sidekicks stopped screaming as the cloning process stopped. "I told you to get back to your…." they rushed forward and Kr pushed them aside.

They collapsed at the force and seemed unconscious. Renegade gave a small scoff at their foolhardiness and stepped in front of Kr. "Don't give me orders," Kr said to the man and continued forward.

"Don't make me do something that you'd regret," she said, hand by a pocket on her utility belt. He took another step forward and she flicked the pouch open and a soft green glow appeared. Robin finished unlocking his hands and jumped from the pod.

He landed on Renegade's back and pushed down. She yelled out started as she went to her knees. She pulled out the Kryptonite as Kr went past to get the others. He stumbled as he felt the Kryptonite and Robin kicked it out of her hand and away from Kr. "No you don't," he said and she snarled.

"You're going to regret coming to CADMUS," she growled. She ran forward, pulling her katana out and slashed at him. He back flipped out of reach and threw Batarangs at her. She blocked the throws with her katana.

"Why are you here, Renegade?" he asked and she didn't say anything. "I know you do what Lex and Slade tell you but the things Lex has CADMUS doing, that doesn't make any sense. Why is he doing this…." he paused and she wondered what he was going to say, "Riley?" he finished and she stumbled back.

"You do not get to say my name," she ground out and went toward him. "And you'll never find out!" she yelled as she slashed at Robin making him go on defense. She's letting her anger guide her actions which Slade doesn't like since it leads to mistakes and she realized this. She gnashed her teeth together and forced herself to think calmly.

"Aren't I your friend?" he asked as he managed to throw an explosive at her.

"Not when I'm Renegade," she replied albeit quietly. Though Robin heard her response.

"Then stop being Renegade," he said and she glared at him.

"I would never betray my master," she said. "And you know what could-would happen," she said softly, referring to when he and Batman tried getting her from the cabin which almost had her killed.

"We'd protect you," he tried again and she shook her head. Can't let them get to me. I'm loyal to the Light and my masters, she thought to herself and she pulled out a few shurikens. She threw them at Robin and he was forced to dodge. She heard a crash and turned in time to see the Atlantean put his arms under hers and jerk them up.

Her katana fell from her grip and she felt the electricity course through her. "AHH!" she yelled out in pain and glared at Robin as her vision was covered in spots and slowly darkened. "You shouldn't have…." she whispered before falling out of the Atlantean's grip, unconscious.

"Thank you," he said to Kr.

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Renegade forced her eyes open and squinted. "Urn," she placed her hands under her and pushed herself up. She pulled her knees under her and looked around. They were at an intersection surrounded by genomorphs with Double X by them. She shook her head and stumbled to her feet.

She swayed a little and leaned against the wall, wondering slightly how she got up here. They probably tried taking me with them, she thought. "You stopped them, good," she said to Double X. He didn't hear her and she looked between him and Kr. They seemed to be having a silent conversation.

"What's going on?" Guardian asked. The sidekicks slowly got up and looked between Double X, Kr, and Renegade.

"I….choose….freedom," Kr said and she narrowed her eyes at him.

"Feels like fog lifting," Guardian said, hand on his head.

"Guardian?" the Atlantean asked.

"Go. I'll deal with Desmond," he said.

"But you'll have to deal with me," she growled and pulled out her reserve gun.

"I think not," and the genomorphs parted and they saw Desmond standing there. "Project Blockbuster will give me the power to restore CADMUS," he said lifting a vial of blue liquid to his mouth.

"Wait! You said you hadn't figured out yet if the changes are permanent," she said and he shrugged, swallowing the liquid. Guardian backed up and Desmond started groaning. He fell to the ground and started getting bigger and his lab coat and shirt tore apart as he grew too big for them.

His skin ripped apart to show blue skin underneath with red in it and he stood up. He let off a roar and looked at the heroes. "Everyone back!" Guardian yelled and Renegade glared at him, the sidekicks and Desmond. Lex is not going to be happy, she thought to herself. Guardian ran forward only to be hit aside by Blockbuster.

Kr went forward and punched him a few times before Blockbuster hit him back. Renegade turned to the heroes and glared at them. "You'll pay for this," she growled. Leveling the gun at KF's chest she started to pull the trigger. They hear crashing and she stops to look up and saw parts of the ceiling coming down.

"Oof!" KF pushed Renegade out of the way and landed on top of her. He pushed the gun away from her hand and held her wrists down. Her eyes narrowed at him.

"Okay. That's one way to burst through the ceiling," they heard Robin saying. She lifted her feet and pulled them to her chest. She then pushed them out, kicking KF away from her. She pulled out a few shurikens and threw them at KF and he dodged them while Robin and the Atlantean go to the floor above.

They hear them battling above and grabs KF's arms. She goes in a circle, spinning him around and lets go. He flies up into the air and hits the opening. He grabs onto the edge and pulls himself out. She goes over to the hole and jumps onto a piece of rubble and pushes off, flips through the air and grabs the edge.

She pulls herself up and looks around. The sidekicks and Kr battle Blockbuster and seemed to forget about her. While battling she saw that the ceiling was getting unstable. "KF, get over here!" Robin yelled and she saw he had a layout up.

Blockbuster was beating up the boy and Kr got up and saw. Renegade ran over to Kr and held the dagger that was hidden in her boot. "Come get me, Kr," she said and Kr ran over to her and she flipped over his head and slashed with the dagger.

KF ran from Robin and got Blockbuster away from the Atlantean. "Aqualad!" Robin called out as he saw Superboy was dealing with Renegade. So that's the Atlanteans name, she thought as she battled Kr. Her dagger did nothing to Kr since he was a clone of Superman but that didn't stop him from getting mad.

Aqualad suddenly poured water on the ground where Robin made an X and KF ran onto it. Blockbuster ran toward them and Kr jumped away and punched Blockbuster to the ground. Aqualad then squatted down and sent electricity into the water and electrocuted Blockbuster for a little while.

"Move!" Robin yelled and Renegade looked around and saw explosives in the columns. She ran from the columns as the beeping got faster and they exploded. She yells out as the building collapses around her. She dives to the farthest wall right as a piece of concrete falls on top of her. It barely misses her, cutting into her leg.

She rips a piece from her cloak and tied it around the cut. She covers her head as more debris falls around her. She yelled out as a piece lands on top of her and her vision flicked from the impact. Soon the building stops collapsing and after a little, she heard talking, some of the voices sound familiar but she didn't concentrate on them.

She tried getting out from under the piece of concrete but it was too heavy and pieces went into her leg and part of her lower abdomen. She gasped out as a fiery pain went through her leg and abdomen. Her vision slowly got dark from getting hit on the head and blood loss.

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Robin watched as Green Lantern and a few other heroes fly off taking Blockbuster away. Superman talked to Superboy before flying off toward the heroes and he could tell Superboy wasn't happy. Batman came over to them and they looked over at him.

"CADMUS will be investigated, all fifty-two levels. But let's make one thing clear-" Batman said and Flash interrupted him.

"You should have called," he said and Batman looked over at him before looking back at them.

"End results aside, we are not happy. You hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed direct orders and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again," Batman said and KF looked down at the ground.

"I am sorry, but we will," Aqualad said while Robin looked around thoughtfully. He feels like they forgot something, something important.

"Aqualad, stand down," Aquaman said.

"Apologies, my king, but no," he said looking down then back up at his king. Aquaman raised an eyebrow at him in shock. "We did good work here tonight, the work you trained us to do. Together on our own we forged something powerful, important," he said. Flash stepped forward slightly.

"If this is about your treatment at the Hall the three of you-" he started.

"The four of us, and it's not," KF interrupted.

"Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us or why teach us at all?" Robin asked thoughtfully. He still couldn't get the feeling that they were missing something from his conscious though and he looked around.

"Why let them tell us what to do?" Kr said and that stirred something in Robin, it had something to do with the feeling. "It's simple. Get on board or get out of the way," he said walking forward, and Batman narrowed his eyes at them. Robin looked between them and then it clicked.

"Renegade!" he called out and everyone looked at him. "She was here fighting us and I don't know what happened after the building fell. We need to find her!" he shouted as he ran to some rubble and the heroes nodded.

They all started lifting pieces of rubble, trying to find where the assassin would be. Superboy looked around and heard something faint. He used his super hearing and could hear faint breathing by the less destroyed back wall and walked over to it.

He turned to the left and went to the wall there and everyone looked at him confused. He started moving rubble and debris and the breathing became louder as he got closer to the source. Robin and Aqualad followed behind him as they suspected he might have found Renegade.

He lifted a big piece of concrete and they looked around him. Laying there was Renegade with gashes on her leg and stomach.

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Sorry it took a while to post this. I've been in pain for a while. Please don't be mad if other chaps take a while too. Review! Luv ya! -RK