I'm sorry for the grammar and spelling mistakes, I only have spell check.

"On our right we have KANE!" Kon starts walking in in cargo shorts with boots, shirtless, black gem necklace on his chest, fingerless gloves, his hair formed a sort of almost mohawk. "To the left, Titan!"

The other guy walks in, 3 times his size, jeans, muscle shirt, metal wrapped in his arms as if they were bandages. Fighting in the cage as they both put up their fists.

"Who will win? Telekinesis or Super Strength?!" the announcer yells out to the cheering crowd. "Fighters ready?! Set?! GO!"

Kane punches twice and shoots out two blasts of blue TTk. Titan evades the attacks, and Kane follows up with a jumping roundhouse kick that sends out an arc of blue TTk blast. Titan ducks under it and evades another blue blast punch. Kane using his TTk to kicks a large rock at Titan, but he leans out of the way, as well as avoiding another blue blast by ducking. Titan dashes forward and knocks away Kane's next punch with a punch, then follows it up by punching Kane's stomach. Kane grunts and stumbles back, and Titan punches him again under his chin Kane goes cartwheeling through the air and landing hard on the ground.

The audience cheers for Titan, after all of the attacks Kane had been lashing out, he hadn't even touched him once.

Titan chuckles and bounces on the balls of his feet. "Wanna take a break kid? Looks like you could use it."

Kane slowly pushes himself back up and gets into his stance.

Kane squints, Titan smiles as he hears his name being chanted on the stands. Kane does a wide uppercut and bends up a wave of rocks underneath Titan, but Titan rolls to the side and then backflips when Kane swings his other fist and sends out a blue blast. Kane runs up the rocks and then propels himself higher with a rock spire before doing a flying side kick and sending another strong blue blast of TTk at Titan. Titan ducks to the side, and as Kane lands he does a side kick and shoots out a blue blast. Titan ducks under it and does a sweeping kick, under Kane's foot to trip him. Kane is able to land on his shoulders and quickly flip back on his feet, but just as he does so, Titan does a jumping roundhouse kick into his stomach once more, knocking Kane down.

Kane looks up angry and stands up quickly and wildly throws out a TTk blast, then and, both of which Titan easily evades. Kane runs at him, uses his TTk to pick up more rocks to jump high and does a blue blast TTk flying knee, but Titan still evades.

Kane throws out another TTk blue blast, then follows up with a spinning back kick which sends a large rock at Titan, followed up by another spinning kick that shoots out an arc of blue. Titan continues to evade all attacks by weaving to the side, and after he evades another boulder, Titan elbows Kane in the face, he skids over the ground against the cage.

The audience cheer as Kane groans and looks up at him as if waiting, Titan laughs at him. Kane stands back up and yells as he throws out another blue blast.

He was getting weaker and weaker, he swings his arm with another blue blast and falls on his knee panting. Titan walks over with a smile, Kane looks at him tired, as he sees Titan looking down at him. Titan punches him, Kane falls down completely, Titan kicks him back to the cage. Kane gets back up bleeding, Kane grabs him, head butts him, punches him in the stomach, then on his jaw, Kane goes back to the other side of the cage. Titan grabs him by the head picking him up, Kane going limp bleeding, eye bruised, lip bleeding. Titan smiles as he starts punching him on his stomach, as he holds Kane in place with his other arm and continues punching him over, over and over, then keens him on his face, his nose bleeding. He drops Kane down, Kane falls on his back, Titan starts kicking him on his stomach as Kane screams out in pain blood flying out of his mouth, Titan kicks him again and the crowd cheers even louder.

"Come on kid tap out." the announcer whispers as the crowd continues to cheers Titan on.

Titan stomps him harder and harder as he laughs as the crowd cheers screaming his name. The announcer looks at the fight worried. Kane looks up at Titian, his Bloody self looks down at him, red eyes staring at him, then gets knocked out.

"He's tap out!" the announcer yells out, the crowd boos, Titan looks over at the man with the microphone glaring at him, he was lying, Kane hadn't tapped out. "And our still winner is Titan!"

The crowd cheers, screaming his name exited, Titan walks to the middle of the cage with Kane's blood on him with a smile as he raises a fist then sees a waitress, he walks over to the cage.

"Hey sweetheart." Titan says to the blonde, blue eyes, fit, in a pink skirt and a blue tank top with high heels.

"Hey Titan." She says back.

"Your new right?"

"Yes."

"How about a bottle of champagne?"

"Sure."

"How about you bring it over to my room?"

She smiles at him. "Sure."

Two hours later

Kane wakes up automatically putting his hand around a doctor's neck.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" the doctor says scared. "Just trying to help kid." he says a little shaky.

"What happen?"

"You got beat to a pulp by Titan." The doctor says slowly putting his hand on Kane's hand down. "Now let me check your stomach. Pretty sure you have internal bleeding."

"I'm fine."

"Look I know you can beat me up but I really need to check." The doctor says, Kane just lays back down as the doctor grabs a sonogram device and runs it over Kane's stomach. "Huh."

"I'm I dying?"

"There's nothing, no broken bones, no internal bleeding."

"Yeah." Kane stands back up. "Figured as much."

The doctor looks at him. "You're lucky you're alive."

"Yeah, I get told that…a lot actually."

"I'm not an actual doctor but I'm pretty sure what you just said means your suicidal."

"Then it's a good thing you're not a doctor."

Kane goes to pick up his bag from the floor.

"Here." The doctor says tossing him some medicine in a bottle, Kane looks at him as he caches it. "For pain."

"That's alright, save it for someone who actually needs it." Kane says tossing it back to him and walking out of the room.

"Kane." Kane turns to see the announcer also the one who own the club. "The doctor cleared you?"

"Yeah, he said I'm lucky to be alive."

"I should have told you, we mostly have super strength on our roster." He says to him. "Titan is our champion, forty-five wins and no losses, he's never lost a fight."

Kane looks at him. "I knew."

"Then why didn't you tap out?"

"I was waiting for someone to show up." Kane says to him. "He never did." He starts walking off with his backpack.

"You look really familiar." He says to him. "Do I know you from somewhere?"

"No."

outside

Kane starts walking outside, his eye still bruised as he walks out into the night of New Orleans.

"Look, I can't, I just got a call from my mom-"

"Come one, just a little taste."

"No, sorry."

Kane walks over to the alley as he sees a girl with Titan.

Titan grabs her and pins her against the wall. "Don't fight."

"Get off me!"

Titan punches her.

"HEY!" Kane yells at him, Titan turns to look at him. "Back off."

"Oh please." Titan scoffs. "Kane was it? Why don't you go and lick your wounds somewhere else."

"Sure, I'll take her with me."

"I just fucked up your ass in front of hundreds of people, do you really want to do this?"

"Get the hell away from her."

Titan looks at him. "You're funeral." He says and goes to punch him.

Kane stands as he picks up his hand and caches his fist. Titan looks at him shocked, Kane bends it breaking his writs, Titan gets down on his knees now at Kane's level, he grabs his arm breaking it as his bone comes out. Titan screams loud as he bleeds.

"You should have just left." Kane says as he puts his hand on Titan's shoulder breaking his collar bone, Titan screams. Kane lets him go, he walks over to the blonde girl holding her cheek. "You ok?" he asks her.

"Yeah."

"Do you need a doctor?"

"No."

"Ok." He says and starts walking away.

"I'm-" She says standing up.

"I don't care." Kane says and starts walking out.

"Thank you."

"Whatever." He says and leaves the alley.

Kane was sleeping outside on the grass using his bag as a pillow, holds his head as he hears people screaming across the world.

"Please! Help me!"

"HELP!"

"My baby!"

"Superman!"

"Fight back!"

"None of this is working."

"Get away from me!"

"I'm so afraid."

"Afraid."

"AFRAID!"

"Are you afraid too…son of Luthor?"

Kane stands up turning to see Superboy looking at him, Kane looks at himself up and down.

"What's happening to me?" Kane asks.

"Losing your mind." Superboy says with a smile. "I thought that was obvious."

"I saw him, before I passed out."

"Yeah, I know."

"Who is he?"

"You."

"No! I'm me! Who is he?!"

"If you keep this up, you're gonna have a hard time finding out."

"What the hell is that supposed to me? Why are you doing this?" Kane asks him frustrated, he turns around when he hears something, people talking, he turns back around, Superboy was gone.

Fight Club

"Glad you could make it Kane, we have a slot open, Titan got his ass beat the other day by some super hero." The owner from the club says. "You drew him, Bones." He says pointing to a bald man. "He's got super strength, so watch yourself."

Kane takes off his shirt leaving on his shorts, he goes into his bag pulls out bandages and wraps them around his hands to his elbow. He looks up at Bones he smiles at him.

Bones throws an uppercut at Kane and he falls back on his back, Bones raises his bloody fists, the crowd cheers. Kane's vision blurry as it fades in and out as Bones stands no longer him, but a Bloody self, his skin cracked in places, exposing red muscles underneath bleeding, his arm wrapped in the chain as it dripped with blood, his bare feet scratched bleeding, his eyes red as he stares at him.

Kane's gets back up bleeding, from his mouth. Bones turns as the crowd stops cheer for him.

"Ok, kid, let's go." Bones says putting up his fists and lunges at him swinging his fists at Kane.

Kane seeing himself putting his fists up, Bones runs and starts punching, Kane puts his forearms up protecting his head. Bones kicks him in the stomach sending him back to the metal cage, Kane coughs up blood. Kane stands up sluggish as he sees himself walking towards him, he goes to punch, Bones easily dodges it putting his hand on a fist he takes a step forward and punches him on his cheek hearing a snap.

Metropolis

"We want to fight Earth's warrior."

"We are Earth's warriors." Superman says.

"No, we want the other one." The leader tells them. "The half breed."

"What?"

"Sir, we've found him." an alien says to his leader.

"Very well, bring him to us."

He stands there with his arms outstretched and eyes closed. Kon appears lying down in between both armies. Kon was in his cargo shorts, necklace black gem on his chest, arms behind his head, eyes closed, he opens them seconds later feeling like he was being watched, he sits up. Kon's hair had changed, it was mostly shaved off from the sides, forming an almost mohawk out of the hair at the top of his head, his bangs on is forehead, tapering off into a point at the nape of his neck.

"Are you kidding me?!" Kon yells at them.

"Kon?" Superman says. "What did you do to your hair?"

"This isn't happening. This can't be happening. This goes beyond stalking!" he yells at them standing up glaring at them.

"We didn't bring you here, they did." Batman points behind him.

Kon turns standing sideways. "What do you want? Can't you see I'm busy?"

"We will make it quick." The leader tells him. "Fight my greatest champion if you win we will leave this planet. Lose and we will kill you all."

Kon looks at him. "Give me 5 minutes to pack."

"Excuse me?"

"I've been thinking of leaving the planet, see what else is out there-hey maybe I can come with you guys. What do you think? I was trained by the best in the universe, I'm an indestructible weapon, and an awesome roommate."

"Kon!"

Kon turns to look at him. "I'm kidding…sort of." He mumbles.

"What's the matter?" the champ say, grayish purple skin, red color eyes, black tattoo burst over both eyes. "Can't throw a few punches?" he asks.

"You don't want to fight me, I'm too screwed up right now." Kon tells him.

The crowd of aliens behind him boo him. "Go easy on him. I'd be scared of me, too." Champ says, as to his warrior army laughs.

"Alright, let's go." He says getting into a fighting stand.

"How about we go to an arena?" the leader says to him.

"Arena?" Kon asks. "Oh an arena for fighting, warriors, I got ya, follow me."

Metropolis Sharks Football Field

"I do not like where this is going."

"On the brightside." Wonder woman says, they turn to look at her. "He's alive."

"Is that how you fight?"

"Sorry I don't do onesies." Kon mocks in his cargo shorts.

"This is a warrior uniform."

"Well your warrior uniform is showing off your bits."

"You will pay for that."

"Let's get this over with."

Kon gets knocked back down for the 10 time.

"This is getting painful to watch." Superman says, as Kon gets back up panting.

"Getting?" Green Arrow asks. "It was painful hours ago, now it's just pathetic."

"What do we do?" Flash says eating popcorn.

"Sit and hopefully Kon will realize that he needs to fight back." Wonder woman says to them, she shakes her head. Kon wasn't fighting the way any of them taught him, she knew Kon's fighting style, this wasn't it.

Kon brings his hands up to shield his face as a chunk of earth smashes against his forearms. Another rock hits his head from the side while a small jagged piece of earth juts out to his belly. Kon cries out in pain and two more smaller pieces of rock fly towards him, pushing him backwards onto the ground.

Kon was on the ground as he pushes himself off the ground slightly. Kon growls his vision suddenly changes it wasn't the Champ alien anymore, it was bloody Superboy staring at him.

"There he is." Kon mumbles to himself.

The crowd of aliens yell out as their champion looks like he's winning. Kon stands up gets into a defensive position as his Bloody Superboy disappears again.

"Great protector? Great warrior? I just don't see it."

"How about we cut the crap? I think all this wielding of powers is extremely tiring." Kon says to him. "I swear on my honor I won't use mine."

"How…" he pauses for a word. "attractive."

Kon starts walking towards him, Champ stands looking down at him, Kon looks up at him he was just as big as Superman, quickly gives him two punches in the face. Champ stumbles back.

"Gotta watch me." Kon tells him seeing bloody Superboy, as Champ laughs, then disappears and sees Champ again.

"That is cute. I like that." he laughs at him.

Kon puts his two fists up, so does Champ, Kon throws the same two punches, Champ dodges them kicks Kon on his thigh. Kon grunts as Champ grabs him by the throat, punching him, Kon falls down quickly get up, throws a kick, Champ grabs him throwing him down easy enough, then stomps, Kon gets out of the way standing back up, dodging another kick then gets punched in the face then kicked on his chest as he falls down again.

"oh Kon." Superman whispers as he sees Kon bleed from his lip.

Kon stands up goes for a punch, Champ grabs his arm his other arm grabbing his throat pushing him back to the stadium's wall. Kon struggles to breath as he gets chocked, Champ punches him, twice, grabs him by the head down kneeing him in the head, still holding Kon he lets him go as he launches himself to him punching him Kon falls on his face.

"Get up half breed!" Champ yells at him.

Kon gets up on his knees and stands as soon as he does Champ kicks him on his chest sending him back down rolling on his back. Champ laughs as the crowd yells cheering him on. Kon tries to stand back up, Champ goes to punch him back down, Kon does it first punching him on his jaw then tries to tackle him but fails as Champ pulls him down, Kon tries to get back up but Champ keeps him down getting on top of him and starts punching him.

Kon starts to see his bloody self again punching him as he tries to protect his head putting up his arms he sees his red eyes looking at him, Kon pulls up locks his arms around his neck and bites his ear off, Champ rolls off as Kon continues to bite him, Champ kicks Kon off him.

Kon stumbles bleeding from his eyebrow, broken nose, and mouth. Kon looks at him. "Come on Champ."

Champ was holding his bleeding ear, Kon rushes him grabbing him, Champ holds his ground as they struggle to knock each other down. Champ jumps up, putting his weight on Kon wrapping his legs around his body, Kon falls down. Champ rolls him so that Kon now has an arm and head in-between Champs both powerful legs choking him. (Triangle choke)

Kon tries to stand, growling as Champ laughs, then feels Kon slipping from his grip as Kon stands on both legs. Champ puts him back down putting both legs on Kon while his arm was still in between Champs legs. (Arm bar)

Kon bites Champs thigh ripping off his skin, Champ screams out letting Kon go, Kon rolls out of the way getting up quickly spitting out the piece of skin in his mouth. Champ gets up putting his fists up and punches him slowly, Kon easily dodgethem getting behind him punching the back of his head.

"Oh fuck!"

"You like picking on little planets?! Huh?!"

Champ punches him, Kon blocks it then gets elbowed in the face, Champ tries to kick him, but Kon grabs hold of his leg on his waist and punches him twice then pushes him off. Champ pulls his fist back and swings it forward to Kon with powerful force, Kon puts up his elbow as Champ punches it, he screams out in pain as he breaks his knuckles and fingers.

Kon grabs him and headbutts him, Champ pushes him back, Kon falls down and Champ holds him down with his good arm and starts elbowing Kon on his stomach with his bad one, Kon grunts in pain. Kon then throat punch him, Champ stop fighting and tries to breath, Kon grabs the hand the was pushing him down flips it, palm up and splits his thumb breaking it. Champ falls down on his stomach panting in pain, Kon stands up and goes kneeling beside him, he grabs Champ's elbow twits it behind him pulling it off breaking his bones.

Champ screams out in agony, Kon rolls him on his back then gets on top of him and begins punching him with both fits slowly but hard.

"Kon enough!" Wonder woman yells out from the stands.

Kon stops punching, then sees bloody Superboy staring back at him with his red/blue eyes with a calm face. Kon growls puts a hand down on his chest and begins punching himself over and over and over harder and harder each time.

"KON STOP!" Superman screams at him.

All the of the justice league was sitting down shocked to see Kon that way, they had seen him as Superman's little brother, Superman would never do that, lose himself in a fight that way.

Kon punches and misses hitting the field making a crater beside Champ's bleeding profusely, no longer recognizable. Kon stands up looking at the aliens.

"I win." Kon tells them. "Now get the fuck off my planet!" he yells at them, bleeding.

"As you wish."

"Take your trash with you." Kon says pointing to an almost dead Champ.

The leader presses a button on his writs and they get beamed off in a purple light.

Superman flies over to him. "Kon?"

"I'm fine." He says to him. "Next time handle it yourself." He says then tries to teleport out but gets fuzzy and falls on his knees.

Superman runs to him. "Kon, you're exhausted."

"I'm fine."

"You're not fine."

Kon tries to get back up and passes out, Superman catches him.

Mount Justice

Kon wakes up in his old empty room. "oh no." he mumbles.

"Yeah well what are we going to do? We can't make him stay."

"We lock him up in his room with you, because you can talk anybody into anything." Nightwing says to Superman. "And if worse comes to worst, we will follow him every day and we will camp out there to make sure he stays. I'll take morning, you take afternoon, someone takes nights, or the other way around, I have no life-I'm flexible. And I know there's a few kinks to work out, the kidnapping thing might be a little problematic but either way, he is not leaving again. This is his dream. I am not going to let this happen."

"Dick." Superman says to him.

"I don't understand?! Why are you letting him do it?"

"I have no choice." Superman says to him calmly.

"Yes, you do. You can stop him. You can pull some of that Superman crap that you always do and get him to change his mind."

"Yup!" Zatanna yells out nodding.

"Kon can't quit being a super hero! We have to do something."

"I agree." Zatanna says nodding.

"I mean we should kidnap him. Drag him back here and tie him up, and not let him loose until he listens to reason."

"Yes!" Zatanna says pointing to Dick.

"Zatanna!"

"Hey, my suggestion first." Zatanna tells him.

"We can't keep letting him do whatever he wants, he needs to come back here and fight crime with the rest of us. It's a waste of his potential to just let him go off and Blue Laggooning it right out of this life."

"Kon is a very smart, very independent. He can be anything he wants." Superman says to them, Batman looks at him a little surprised by Superman's words. "Except a diplomat." He adds.

"You are so right about that." Kon says walking in listening to their conversation. "So I can't teleport yet, I'm just gonna go out the zeta beam."

"Kon."

"In case you didn't hear Superman, you can't make me do anything I don't want to do, so back off Dick."

"Why are you doing this?" Dick asks him.

"We miss you Kon, just come back."

"No." Kon tells them simply.

"You are doing this on purpose." Roy tells him. "We saw the fight, it was broadcasted all over the world. You're not hurt, you're just being immature."

"You don't know what you're talking about."

"You're pushing us away because you're too stupid to admit what happened to you. Kaldur poisoned you and your pride is wounded, you're too good to be beaten down by him. You're too good for us."

"It's not about him!"

"Then what's it about?" Zatanna asks him.

Kon turns to look at Superman and Batman, he flashbacks to fighting them, then turns back to look at Roy. "You think I'm being stupid? You, the guy teasing the same guy who beat another guy twice his size senseless with his bear fists?"

"Kon listen to us."

"No you listen, I'm doing great." Kon says to them. "I got a new wardrobe, new boots and the best part no one almost dies every other day." He says to him with a smile. "Oh a new haircut." He says pointing to his hair.

"Yeah, we really need to talk about that." Zatanna says to him.

"And you thought I looked ridiculous with my beard."

"How did you even cut it?"

"That's not the point, I need change, so I changed. I'm not Kon-El, I'm not Conner, I'm not Superboy, I'm just me."

"You're not going to tell us your new name?"

"So you can start stalking me? Hell no."

"Kon-"

"I'm happy, I'm doing whatever I want."

"If you're so happy, then why did you just beat up a guy who had no chance in winning?" Roy asks him.

"I'm done with this." Kon says and walks out of the cave.

"So what are you gonna do?" Batman says to Superman.

Superman turns to him. "About what?"

"You know about what."

"Nothing."

"Come on."

"Come on, what? I have to go."

"No, we haven't talked about this."

"Because there's nothing to talk about."

"Yes there is."

"Bruce, this is Kon's decision, ok. He knew exactly how I felt about the situation and he chose to ignore me, he chose to move out, he chose to leave, he chose to quit being a super hero."

"He's a kid."

"He's not a kid. He's twenty-one. He's going to be twenty-two in March. He lived on his own for three years in the phantom zone. He's not a kid."

"He's five!" Batman yells at him.

"And 20 year olds have to be allowed to make mistakes. I've made much bigger mistake when I was his age, I stole a Ferrari, I robbed a bank, and even more when I was much younger."

"So what!? Just because you made it on your own Kon has to also?"

"That's not my point."

"Then what is your point?"

Superman takes a breath. "My point is, that I wouldn't have listened to anyone in that situation, even if there was someone to listen to. I had to go through that. And Kon has to go through this. Now he's smart and he's strong and hopefully he'll figure it out but I'm not going to force my way in. He wants to be on his own? Fine he's on his own."

"Really?" Batman asks him astonished.

"Tough love baby." Superman says.

"So, that's it?"

"That's it."

"And you are ok with this?"

"I'm totally ok with this." Superman says and walks out of the cave, flying off.

"He is sooo not ok with this." Nightwing says.

Fight club

Kane gets knocked down, the rich people at the stands cheer. Kane gets back up, they boo.

"Fuck Kane, you getting back up?" the other guy says. "You looking for a real beating boy?"

"Come on Kane, stay down." The announcer whispers.

Kane falls on his knees panting, the other guy starts running to put him down. Kane looks up and sees his Bloody self. Kane stands up punching the other guy out of the metal cage into the stands, people run out of the way.

Everyone was quiet, the announcer walks in, picking up Kon's arm.

"We have a new champion!" the announcer says, everyone cheers.

Kane was sitting on top of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge.

"You know Kane, I like it, Kane, like Kon but with an A E. like Leave, with some extra letters."

"What?" Kane says a little confused.

"You know cause you always leave people, you walk out of their life, or you walk out of your life."

"Go away."

"Nah, I like our little talks." Superboy says with a smile. "Oh hey an alarm is going off, and there go the cops." He says as he uses his super hearing on the city. "Now shooting."

Kane turns to listen and stops himself from flying off. "I don't care."

"Sure you don't." he says to him. "Oh hey officer down." He says with a smile.

Kane flies off, Superboy stays and his smile turns into a frowns.

Kon was in the lake as he wipes off the officers blood on his hands when he tried to save him. He looks at his hands they were clean but they still felt dirty. He starts walking towards his backpack on the grass.

"It was your fault you know." Superboy says standing by a tree.

"Oh god." Kane says annoyed to him

"He died because of you."

"Go away." Kane says as he puts on his backpack.

"Admit it, he died because you were too stubborn to go help in the first place."

"I didn't want to get involve, Superman or whomever would have come."

"But they didn't." Superboy says Kane turns to the lake giving him his back. "He died, he had a family, a mother, a father, a sister. They will all mourn him, their life has changed forever because you wouldn't be bothered to get up!" he yells at him, Superboy teleports behind him. "You pathetic! Weak! Boy!" he screams at his ear.

Kane closes his eyes frustrated and goes to punch Superboy who was gone and punches nothing but air.

unknown island

Kon was sitting on a rock as he sits in the middle of island surrounded by nothing by ocean water, trees in the back as he looked over the sun.

"Does everyone leave, or do I push them away?" Superboy says knowing what Kon was thinking. Kon turns to look at him grabs his bag and walks away. "You can't keep running." He says looking at Kon walk into the forest. "Do you hear me! I'm not letting you run away anymore!" he yells at him angry.

Swiss Alps mountain

"Are you ignoring me?" Superboy says as Kon climbs up a Swiss Alps mountain. "You are, why?" he asks him as he stands on the mountain while Kon climbs up, he walks. "You think I'm not real? Well you need to stop, stop and go home. Stop this nonsense. Go back to the Team it's where you belong." Superboy stands in front of him. Kon doesn't even look him in the eye as he pulls away from him climbing into a new direction.

Africa…Congo

"Kyle!" a woman with black hair yells out as Kyle drives a jeep he gets out, the woman slaps him, then grabs his face kissing him. "You had me worried." She tells him.

"I brought the medications you need." Kyle says as he gives her a smile and starts to unload the wooden boxes.

"How did you get these?" a man asks sweating from head to toe.

"It doesn't matter, let's start administrating them before they go bad."

"Agreed." The woman says as she yells out for everyone to come and get the medicine.

"Thanks Gillian." Kyle says to him.

"Wait, we can't just-"

"We just did." Kyle says to him holding a box. "Move." He tells him pushing past him.

Kyle was twirling some lumps of rocks and water drops, above his raised left hand sitting on the ground, a lake in front of him surrounded by palm trees.

"Hey."

Kyle drops the water and rocks. "Hey." He says back.

"I'm Carter."

"I know." Kyle says to him as he turns his head to hear an explosion.

"That sounded close."

"Yeah a mile, maybe two."

"You're English is amazing, where are you from?"

"D.C." Kyle says quickly, it was technically where he was born.

"Washington?"

"Yeah, it's a city." Kyle says a bit condescending.

"No, yes, I know, I thought…I-never mind."

"Where are you from?"

"Chicago."

"A doc from Chicago, you speak any French?"

"Does high school count?"

"Not really."

"How long have you been here?"

"Almost ten days, my penance, I suppose."

"Penance for what?"

"My ways back in the other world."

"And do you steal most of the medication?"

Kyle turns to look at him, eyebrow arched. "Doc, you just help vaccinate 200 lives." He says looking at him. "When was the last time you saved that many people in one afternoon?" he asks him as he stands up and walks away.

Carter nods, it did make him feel good but he felt like he could do more, much more.

"Kyle, sweetie mind translating for me, I have to go check on a patient."

"Sure." Kyle says grabbing a cup of water giving it to a sick patient. "Take it slowly." He tells her in French, she nods. Kyle walks over to Carter.

"Where's Gillian?" Carter asks.

"Patient." Kyle says to him as he walks over to a man holding his son. "Hello, what seems to be the problem?" he asks in French, Carter looks at him as the father answer his question, Kyle nods. "Ok, trouble with urination, fever and a cough." He tells Carter. "His name's Saidi." He adds as they put him down on a bed.

"He's about 60 years too young for an enlarged prostate." Carter says as he starts is examination. "Bladder's huge." He says as he tables his belly.

"Yeah." Kyle nods as he writes it down on a paper.

"Foley?" Carter asks.

"No, manual compression." Kyle tells him. "Mild fever, 101.5."

"Any urinary-tract infections that local kids get?"

"No." Kyle tells him, he turns to the father who was standing looking at them confused, Kyle tells him in French that they are examine him, and find out what's wrong with his son.

"Okay." Kyle smiles at Saidi. "Ok try to sit up for me." He says to the boy in French, he tries to sit up but can't, the father comes to help. "No, no, no dad." He says to him in French, letting the boy do it on his own. "Ok try again." He says to him, Saidi tries to get but can't. "OK tripod sign." He says to Carter who was watching him beside him the whole time. "Bladder paresis, tripod and head-drop signs." Kyle says as he writes it down.

"I'm sorry?" Carter says a little confused.

"Poliomyelitis." Kyle tells him. "Without a spinal tap, we use the tripod and head-drop sign as diagnostic tools.

Carter looked shocked. "He has polio?"

"Yes." Kyle tells him simply. "You did great kid." He tells him in French.

"It's polio?" the father asks in French.

"Yes."

The father takes a breath holding his tears in, Carter looks at them shocked, he couldn't believe it, he helps him gets his son back on his arms as he walks off.

Carter was looking over some papers as he looks at all of the patience they had seen in just 24 hours. He was outside on a table using a lantern for light since the inside of the house was hot, hot, hot, extremely hot, so hot he could barely sleep at night. Kyle walks over putting a water bottle in front of him.

"I'm not thirsty." Carter tells him.

"You need to hydrate." Kyle tells him as he opens his own and starts drinking sitting down with him. "You should know that."

"I do." Carter tells him as he opens his water bottle and drinks then goes back to reading, he expected for Kyle to leave but he didn't. "Anything else?"

"What? Too big for company?" he asks him.

"No, I just-"

"Hey, this seat taken?" Gillian asks sitting down with a banana and a water bottle and a cigarette between her fingers.

"Yes." Kyle says to her.

"Nice." Gillian says as Kyle slumps back looking out into the dark nothing as she smokes inhale and exhale.

"Should I leave?" Carter asks looking at them.

"Ignore him." Gillian says to him smiling at Kyle as she continues to smoke.

"Ok."

"So how are you doing? Two days in, you ready to go back to the windy city yet?"

"A little."

She turns to Kyle. "So, how's he doing?" she asks in French, Kyle looks at her, she puts out her cigarette not even done with it. "Please?" she says with a smile.

"Well…he's a little surprised by the primitive conditions."

"I'd be suspicious if he wasn't."

Carter looks at them. "You two do know, I'm sitting right here right?" he asks them.

Kyle looks at him. "She asked how you were doing, I said fine and we'd be fine on our own tomorrow." He says to Carter.

"Oh all right." Carter says to him, not sure if he was telling the truth or not. "How old are you? You look a way too young to be a doctor or a nurse so…"

"I'm just traveling."

"He's our good Samaritan drifter." Gillian says to him smiling at Kyle.

"So how old are you?" he asks again.

Kyle stands up, taking off his dirty button up blue and white strips shirt. "I'm going to bed, who's coming with me?" he asks them now half naked.

Carter looks at him a little surprised, Gillian looks at Carter, Kyle walks off with his shirt as he puts it over his shoulder.

She giggles. "Three's a crowd." She says as she follows Kyle to his bed.

"Wow." Carter says still in shock.

Carter wakes up in his tent with a mosquito net, he gets up turning up the gas lantern listening to some music as his sits up then walks out of the tent seeing Kyle dancing with Gillian, he realized that Kyle didn't have a shirt on as he spins Gillian on the platform.

"Need a drink?" a man asks him.

"No, I'm good." Carter says to him as he walks a little bit up looking at Kyle, he smiles at him as he pulls Gillian close then dips her, she laughs as he picks her up.

A bomb drops down, Kyle automatically pulls Gillian down to the wooden platform, then looks up to see Kyle still standing a few feet away another bomb drops down.

"GET DOWN!" he yells at him, Carter drops down, covering his head.

It was quiet, as bombs went off in the distance and thunder started to roar in the sky. They hear a scream and a woman running with her daughter scream as her foot was basically dangling off her.

"Carter! Foot's missing above the ankle."

"Get a BP cuff." Carter yells as they go into a camp with other people patients sick.

"Foot's gone. We have to operate below the knee." Gillian yells.

"Do we have any surgical equipment here?"

"No."

"What about anesthesia? Ketamine?"

"Only lidocaine." Gillian answers.

"Okay." Carter says shaking off the shock as he tries to concentrate on the girl screaming in pain. "We need to do a Bier Block with lido! Gillian!"

"Yes."

"Start an IV in the popliteal."

"Somebody please get this poor girl's mother away from here." Carter says as the mother begs. "Gillian, get a suture kit and the biggest knife you can."

"We have a saw." Gillian says as he picks it up.

"We're gonna need to sterilize that." Carter says a bit sick. "What's her name?" he asks.

"Chance." Gillian says.

"Chance? She's unconscious." Carter says a bit relief that the screaming had finally stopped. "Okay, skin's good below the knee." He says as he looks at it his hands filled with blood, no gloves. "Tie off the bleeders. I need the flashlight closer." he says, Gillian pulls it closer to the foot.

"They are fighting! They are coming this way!" a man yells as he runs into the camp. "We need to evacuate the patients." He tells them.

"Where?!" Carter yells as he tries to stop the bleeding.

"Into the old plantation." Someone yells back.

"Come on! Run, hurry! GO, GO!" he yells getting the patients up on their feet carrying them out of the tent into the woods which were mostly covered in palm trees.

"Hurry!" Gillian yells at Carter.

"There's another bleeder." He says as he sutures it tight. "I got it."

"We should go." Gillian says to him as she hears gun fire.

"Not yet." Carter says trying to stop the bleeding.

"They're getting too close." Gillian tells him, Carter shakes his head. "Carter, we have to leave her."

"No!" Carter yells at her. "Saw." He orders her.

She pours an orange liquid on it. "Betadine." She tells him.

"Ok, hold it steady." Carter says. "Alright, I'm through, moist dressing."

"Ok, let's go!" Gillian yells out.

"Wait, where is Kyle?!" Carter yells, he hadn't realized he wasn't there.

"Get down, get down, someone is coming." They whisper as they hid in the palm trees, staying down in the ground as they gray sky covers them. They crunch down on the leaves as they hear someone coming.

"It's Kyle!" Gillian yells out and runs out of her hiding spot and hugs him, Carter turns and sees Kyle holding a 3 bags, one in each hand and on his back. "I was worried." She says as he kisses his cheek.

"I'm alright." Kyle tells her. "Carter, I got supplies." He says picking up the bags in his hands.

Carter walks over to him as he picks up a bag looking inside it. "Iv's and morphine?" he says looking at the bottles reading them, they were in english. "Where did you get them?" he asks.

"Does it matter?" Kyle asks walking over to a little girl. "I have water in this one." He says pulling out a water bottle and passing them around.

"Are those bullet holes?" Carter asks looking at his clothes.

"Gillian could you help me with this?" Kyle asks her as he gives her a bag with filled with ensure shakes, for kids and adults. Carter looks at him shocked how did he get them in the middle of Africa.

"Ok." Gillian says as if you could find them around the corner of the block.

"How's her pulse?" Carter asks as Kyle gives Chance a low dose of morphine in her IV bag.

"Strong." Kyle tells him. "Regular." He adds.

"If there's no infection in four days, I'll revise it and clean up the flap. The skin looked good, should make a nice seat for a prosthetic."

"That was impressive." Kyle tells him.

"I was…" he pauses for a word.

"Scared." Kyle tells him as he walks over to him.

"Yeah, I was." He admits.

"In the beginning, there's a lot of talk of national pride and patriotic speeches but after a few weeks, it becomes this." Kyle tells him with a sigh as he sits next to him against a palm tree. "Nothing but death and sadness, these people just want what everyone else wants, their kids to have something to eat, to see them grow up laughing, happy. They don't care where the border is or who gets to call themselves president they just want this to stop."

"I don't even begin to try to understand the politics here." He says to him honestly looking around at his 30 or so patients that were able to run away with him.

Kyle smiles at with a scoff. "We're Americans, Carter." He tells him, Carter looks at him a bit confused. "We believe if people are given the chance to convert to democracy-the world would be a better place."

"What's the alternative? Military dictatorships?" he asks him, it was the most ridiculous thing ever.

"We fight wars from the sky with bombs and missiles. Then our planes land back on the aircraft carrier and the pilots watch late night shows on satellite TV."

"Hey, American soldiers have died in Iraq."

"Yeah, but children don't starve to death while men fight and women aren't raped in front of you."

Carter gets quiet looking up, he was right. Kyle closes his eyes. Carter looks at him, what had happened to the boy next to him that made him like this. He wondered.

"What happen to you?" he asks him out loud.

"A lot." He tells him as he opens his eyes looking forward seeing his past bloody shadow far away for everyone to see.

They finally arrive at another camp with dead people lying on the ground flies buzzing around, they had found a solider badly wounded. They put their patients in a hut. They managed to stay there for 2 days as they tried to take a break from the walking and dodging bullets. Kyle was getting water from the lake nearby, he cleaned it all up with his TTk power they were crystal clear, healthy enough to drink.

"I have patients who can't be transported." Carter tells a man.

"The fighting's heading back here." The man says back.

"What's going on?"

"Angelique wants to abandon the clinic until it's safer."

"Roads open again?" Kyle asks him.

"We think so, a UN food truck got through today."

"We move them, they'll die." Carter tells him.

"How many?" Kyle asks him.

"At least three." Carter tells him honestly.

"Listen, take everyone else, leave supplies and come for me in a few days." Kyle says to him.

"No, I can't." Carter tells him. "I'll stay, they're my patients." He says to Kyle.

"I'll try to reach Jean on the radio." Angelique says as he walks back in the hut.

"I can stay." Kyle tells him. "You're a doctor, they need you more than they need me."

"That's not true." Carter tells him, putting his hand on his cheek caressing him, he didn't know why he did it, he just did.

"Take Gillian." Kyle tells him taking a step back. "Make sure she gets back safe." He walks towards the hut with the patients with the water.

"What was that all about?" Gillian asks.

"Road's open." Carter says, hoping she hadn't seen that.

"You'll need help." Gillian tells him.

"Patrique is staying." Kyle tells her.

"He has no medical training. You cannot take care of three critical ill patients alone."

"Of course I can."

"Oh, yeah? How are you supposed to do a Bier Block on that amputation without a nurse?" Gillian asks him angry.

"You're not staying!" Kyle yells at her.

"It's not your decision!" Gillian yells back.

"You're getting into that truck and going." He tells her.

"No, I'm not."

"It's only for a couple of days, then you'll come back and get us." Kyle tries to reason with her.

A truck drives up with dust, they stay quiet.

"Pull your I.D out." Kyle tells Carter, he pulls his badge out of his dirty white t-shirt.

"Is it Mai Mai?" Carter asks looking at the soldier walking out of their truck.

"Yeah." Kyle tells him.

"We are the world medical group." James says to him. "We're doctors." He points to the truck with a red cross on it.

Carter gets kicked in the leg, he falls down, the other soldiers grab them putting them in a line, all of them, Kyle, Gillian, James putting them down on their knees, telling them to put their hand behind their head, they do as their told scared as guns are pointed at them ready to shoot.

Two of the soldiers start talking with each other specking in French pointing at Carter, one of the soldiers points a gun at him.

The gun was pointing right at his head as he was on his knees, hand behind his head. "What's he saying?" he asks scared.

"That you tried to save his brother." Kyle tells him calmly the gun pointing at his forehead. "That you tried for a long time." He tells him.

The soldier tells him something in French, Carter nods not sure what he had just said.

"Thank you." The soldier that had saved him says to him.

"You're welcome." He whispers and inhales not realizing he had been holding his breath.

Another solider points a gun at the wounded soldiers that they had saved a day before next to Kyle and shoots him, the blood getting on Kyles face, Gillian flinches trying to keep her tears in, Carter tenses up shutting his eyes shut. Two in the stomach, another in his chest then finally on his head. They all walk off leaving them tired as they get on their trucks driving off.

Carter was leaning on the white truck waiting for Gillian who was kissing Kyle good bye, they pull away from each other, Gillian leans on him whispering something, Gillian gives Kyle a kiss and walks away with her backpack getting in the truck. Carter looks at Kyle, he walks over to him.

"The girl without the foot, just giver her antibiotics if she starts-" Carter starts.

"I know."

"The polio boy-"

"I know."

"And the girl with malaria-"

"I know." Kyle tells him for the third time.

"You don't have any medical training, I should stay with you."

"I'll be fine."

"Why do I get the feeling that this is just another day for you."

Kyle looks at him. "Cause it is, now go they need-"

Carter lunged at him, his lips covering his tight, kissing until he felt the fear leave him. Kyle went stiff then started kissing back, then pulled away. Kyle looked up at him.

"Don't do anything stupid." Carter tells him as he walks back to the truck.

Kyle smirks at him. "Like what?"

"Getting yourself killed." He says getting in the truck shutting the door.

Kyle smiles and goes inside the hut with his three patients in the middle of the room was bloody Superboy the blood dripping down on the wooden floor. Kyle looked shocked, he looks around to the three kids being taken care by their parents. They didn't see him.

"Kyle?" a woman asks. "Are you alright?" she asks in French.

Kyle turns back to the middle of the hut, he was gone. "I'm fine." He says in French.

Jungle

It was getting worse for him, he didn't have one moment of peace without him showing up. He didn't know what to think, maybe it was like last time, his body was shutting down, maybe he was dying again. That was it, he was dying, his brain was shutting down making him see hallucination of himself. He turns his head feeling someone watching him. He was right, he was looking at him glaring.

"LEAVE ME ALONE!" Kon screams at him.

Bloody Superboy looks at him, his fist clench as blood drip down his knuckles. Kon takes a step back then teleports out, lands beside the sun in space, his clothes quickly burned off as he drinks up the sun's radiation, he closes his eyes, trying not to breath.

Kon was running away ,the vines smack against him as he pushes through and when he clears the obstacles, he slips into a pool of water at the end and his apparition is standing in the water, waiting for him. Kon looks shock as he sees him. Kon stands up and backs away from the phantom of himself, his skin torn open with blood dripping, fingers bleeding as his nails where completely torn off, his feet bleeding.

"NO! You're not real! You're just in my mind, nothing else!" Kon yells at himself angry.

Bloody Superboy looks at him unemotional, then narrows his eyes before moving his arms in a circle, punching a blue blasts out from both fists towards Kon. Kon see it and is thrown backwards from the attack and he hits a tree behind him. He falls down into the water and pushes himself up, he wipes his mouth and sees blood.

Kon turns to look at himself lumbering past some broken vines towards him. Kon swiftly uses his TTk to move two streams of water towards himself. Bloody Superboy seemingly teleports from side to side to avoid the water blasts. Bloody Superboy punches out another blue blast of TTk, then kicks a stream of water, and picks up a chunk of earth from behind him towards Kon. Kon flips backwards to avoid the blue blast of TTk and water but as he lands, the chunk of earth hits him in the stomach, knocking him to the ground and causing him to tumble backwards into a ditch.

Bloody Superboy chases after him and leaps in the air, performing a cartwheel and his foot bright blue as he releases a TTk blast. Kon at the bottom of the ditch rolls away to avoid getting blasted on. Kon gets up and runs away but Bloody Superboy sends another blast of water at him, causing him to fall and slide along the muddy ground. Kon quickly recovers and pushes himself up, running away from himself which teleports a few feet and punches a rock at Kon. Kon ducks, allowing the rock past his head harmlessly. Kon stomps and picks up a piece of earth towards Bloody Superboy before propelling himself off the ground by with air jumping up faster, flying in midair, he sighs.

He didn't see himself anymore, he holds his forehead on his palm in pain, then turns when he feels a shift in the wind, he puts up his forearm as Blood Superboy kicks him, he goes flying off to a nearby town.

"What was that?!"

"EVERYONE GET AWAY!

"It's Superman!"

"He's kinda young and his hair."

Kon stands up panting then turns to look at people gathering around, he sighs looking down then looks up to see Superboy looking at him, he gets up then takes a step forward.

"What do you want?" Kon asks him angry.

"Dude who are you talking to?"

Kon turns to look at him. "You can't see him?" he asks.

They look around.

"Him who?"

Bloody Superboy rushes towards Kon, who pulls back in surprise as he comes at him with an uppercut covered in rock, Kon back flips out of the way as the rock shoot into the air. Bloody Superboy follows it up with a spinning kick sending an arc of rocks at him, hitting him back. Kon looks at him walking to him. Kon stands up and runs away at Super speed, Kon falls back down as if he had just hit a wall.

"Ahh." He grabs his head in pain getting back up.

Bloody Superboy lifts his arm up and swings the chain towards Kon. Kon turns to look at him as he tries to punches a rock but the chain wraps around his leg, knocking him off balance and he hits the ground again. Kon raises an arm up protectively and chains wrap around that limb. Kon looked scared as Bloody Superboy walks towards him menacingly.

"Leave me alone!" Kon screams at him as he punches a wave of TTk.

Some towns people had gathered around the street as Kon is seemingly attacking nothing but air.

"What's wrong with him?"

One scoffs. "Man that's not Superboy, he's just a crazy kid."

"Right." They walk off.

"Young man." A old man says to him walking to him. "Are you all right? Do you need help?" he asks putting his hand out.

Kon look up at him, his eye bruised and busted lip. "No, I don't need any help." He tells him, he gets back up and walks away. "I don't need anyone."

Kon walks on a road, he had no idea where he was, he didn't want to know, a couple of people had stopped and asked him if wanted a ride, No was his answer, he couldn't afford getting people hurt with the way things were going. He stops walking as he realizes he's not on the road anymore but a jungle again.

He looks around and sees himself.

"Haven't you had enough of beating me? Just leave me alone." He starts walking again, Bloody Superboy was in front of him. "Not this again!"

Kon yells out angry as he rushes him as they begin to fight, hand to hand, Bloody Superboy was swift he was moving too quickly. Kon punches, Bloody Superboy puts up a hand with a shackle and blast his face with a powerful TTk.

Kon gets thrown back into several trees breaking them then crashes into rock, Bloody Superboy walks forward, Kon stands up, bleeding from his face as a cut had appeared on his face, bleeding from his nose and teeth covered in blood he jumps up on a tree lands on a tree branch and propels himself up again.

Bloody Superboy violently shakes his arm down and unwinds the chains around his bloody wrist before slamming the length of the chain to the ground like a whip. He swings the chain upwards and as it coils itself around Kon's ankle. Kon was trying to get back up to fly as he get yanked down by the chain and he grabs onto a fat branch pulling himself up, while his other arm grabs onto a vine. Bloody Superboy stands staring up at Kon.

Kon props his foot on another vine, trying to pull himself up to the top of the tree branch. Bloody Superboy slowly starts to pull the chain down, pulling Kon down with him. Kon grunts and valiantly continues to hold onto the vines to prevent himself from being tugged down, then digs his fingers into the tree branch. Bloody Superboy, now using his other arm to pull the chain down. Kon loses his grip on the tree branch, he looks at his bloody fingers, nails broken and he lets go in pain, now dangling from the vine with his remaining hand. Bloody Superboy continues to pull down the chain with both hands as they bleed into the chain.

Kon struggles really hard but the vine he's holding breaks and he falls down screaming. He looks up but it wasn't himself he was looking at it was the Justice League-Superman, Batman, Wonder woman, Flash-all of them, his eyes widen they bend down and start beating on him.

"Help!" Kon screams out not sure what the hell had just happen.

Mount Justice

"If something is so powerful to beat Kon we should investigate."

"I agree." Superman says. "But Batman we don't even have a clue on what that is."

"I know, my satellite didn't pick anything up, just Kon fighting what appears to be nothing." Batman says looking at the video on the Holo computer.

"Well if he was able to bring Kon back to us, I'd like to thank it, then put him in jail." Roy says with a smile.

"Roy." Superman says.

"I'm kidding…sorta." He mumbles.

"Whatever happen we'll know soon enough." Batman says.

"When he wakes up you mean?"

"Yeah and when is that exactly?" Nightwing asks looking at Kon on the briefing room table.

"Shouldn't you take him to the pod at the fortress?" Megan asks him worried.

"No, I don't want him waking up in there."

"Well then…"

"We wait."

"How long?"

"Tomorrow should be enough for him to heal under the sunlight radiation." Superman says as he runs his hand on Kon's mohawk.

"Ok."

Only Superman, Batman, Nightwing, Batgirl Megan and who insisted on being their La'gaan where in the briefing room scattered around looking at Kon, still sound asleep.

"Are you sure, you know what you're doing?" Nightwing asks her.

"Yes, I've done it before."

"I know but Kon-"

"I know, I've taught him everything."

"If you don't think you can do this, tell us now." Batman warns her.

"It'll be fine." Megan says as she puts her hands on Kon's head, closing her eyes she concentrates then opens her eyes glowing green.

Kon's Mind

Kon opens his eyes looking around, he was tied up with some kind of spider webbing, swinging upside down, his feet tied to the roof he struggles to get free. "Oh fuck! What the hell?" he says looking around as he sees more dead bodies swinging upside down, he sees some fire and starts swinging towards it trying to catch the rope he was in on fire, he starts to struggle for himself to get free and falls down on his back where the floor was covered in bones and other dried up carcasses. He screams out as a bone pierce his skin on his side.

Kon sits up shaking as he pulls out the bone on his side, he screams out, then closes his mouth shut whatever had taken him to the cave, it might still be around or hunting either way, he should shut up. He starts walking putting pressure on his wound walking in the maze of the dark cave seeing more dead bodies, hanging on the roof stepping on skeletons and dried up corpses.

He starts walking a little quicker as he hears mumbling coming his way, he sees a hole and starts crawling on his knees seeing that that was is only way out. Someone grabs his foot he turns on his back, then kicks the three eyed almost human trying to grab him, on the head as he gets pulled back out the hole.

Kon kicks a rock and it falls down on top of the three eyes head crushing his head, the blood covering him, he turns back around, crawling faster on his knees as he, the felt water which was so thick he felt as if he were swimming in some thick, syrupy substance. It weighed him down, confining him and bearing him to the murky bottom as he felt it get narrow and deep, he takes a shaky breath and goes in the 'water' quickly trying to get to the other side, he finally takes a breath and crawls into a wider space, he sees a light at the end of the tunnel as the cave starts to shake, he starts running to it.

The floor falls down, Kon screams out in shock and runs faster as it crumbles down around him, he jumps over holes and jumps on a narrow space then crawls faster as he feels his hands bleeding from the rocks, he stands back up and continues running, bumping into things then sees a light from above him, he jumps up, grabbing a rock as his fingers bleed and his finger nails break, his clothes gets torn, his back gets scratched from the sharp rocks, hitting the other side of the narrow hole up.

He pushes himself, as every muscle and bone in his body begged him to stop.

Kon finally comes out of the hole seeing the gray sky, he pulls his legs put to his knees to his chest as the rocks crush the hole. He sighs as he closes his eyes, he opens them when he feels something looking at him, he sees a zombie looking gorillas glaring at him.

Kon gets up and runs as fast as he could seeing a cliff, he pulls out the Kryptonian dagger that was on the inside of his jean, he jumps off the cliff into a pillar, he stabs the rock sliding down griping it tight as he puts his feet down then finally stops. He looks up at the zombie gorillas screams at him.

Kon pants as he starts climbing back down safely, he takes a wrong step and falls down, he screams out as he falls on his back.

Megan screams out as she falls down on the floor as if she had been pushed back, Kon opens his eyes.

"Megan are you alright?" Nightwing asks.

"Is she ok?" Batgirl asks.

"What happen?" Batman asks her.

"Get away!" Megan screams out as she could feel everything that had happen to Kon as if it was her own body.

Kon stands up, he had felt someone in his mind which is why he choice that memory to show them to trap them in his body as he went through everything all the pain, anger he felt being on the run every time he came across an enemy. It had been a long time since he had Megan in his mind, it had felt different, didn't feel like before.

Kon goes over to her and hugs her, he puts his head to her's, letting her finished his memory as he had fallen on a rock, then more, then another as he rolls on the side of a pillar and ends up on a ground floor.

He was on the ground in pain, looking up, he closes his eyes finally able to rest.

He pulls away from Megan's mind.

"It's ok, I'm ok." He soothes her.

Megan hugs him, putting her arms around his neck, as he wraps her arms around her torso, she cries.

"That was so horrible! It was horrible!" Megan yells as she cries on his shoulder.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know it was you. I won't have done it if I'd known."

"What did you do to her!" La'gaan yells at him getting in his inflated form.

"I didn't do anything." Kon says standing up looking up at him unafraid, as Megan wipes away her tears on the floor.

"I don't believe you." He yells at him putting his hand on Kon's shoulders, Kon puts his hands on him, ready to fight.

"I'm fine, La'gaan." Megan says getting up and in between him and Kon.

La'gaan goes back to normal. "Are you alright?" he asks caressing her cheek.

"Yes, I'm fine, I promise, it was just…overwhelming."

"I really am sorry Megan, I didn't know it was you."

"I know." She says to him with a small smile. "I don't remember teaching you that."

"I've picked up a few things."

"I guess you'll have to teach it to me."

"With pleasure."

"Kon." Superman says to him.

"Hey." Kon looks to the side hesitantly. "Is it okay that I'm here?" he asks permission.

"Of course." Superman says to him.

"We saw what happened, are you okay?" Batman asks.

Kon frowns and tears start to form in his eyes, they run down his cheeks as he closes them shut and he runs towards Superman and Batman hugging them.

"It's ok." Superman says to him putting his hand on Kon's back.

"Everything's alright kid." Batman says to him but his hand on the back of his head on his hair.

"I'm sorry for everything! I'm sorry for hurting you, I'm sorry for leaving, and for all the pain I've caused you and Kal over the years." Kon apologizes over and over.

"No." Batman says to him. "We're the ones who should be apologizing." Kon pulls away from them looking at them, he wasn't crying anymore, his tears where dry on his cheeks. "After everything you've been through, you weren't ready to come back."

"We forced you, we pushed you to come back here." Kal says to him. "When you came back from the phantom zone, I was so proud of you. I could never have done what you did. Survive after so many years on your own."

"We should never have held you back." Batman adds.

"I never thought I could have family, I thought I was going to be alone forever but then we discovered you at Cadmus I knew I could never be alone again."

"We knew one day the world would need you, and you wouldn't need us anymore."

"Kal, Bruce, of course I still need you."

They share a group hug, this time Kal curled his fists into Kon's t-shirt and held him steady. Batman grip Kon's hair tight, knowing it wouldn't hurt him no matter how hard he pulled.

Mount Justice

"So what? We're supposed to just let him back in?"

"He messed up, he'll apologize and-"

"And what leave again?"

"He was going through something, you're not thinking straight when you're going through something like that."

"We are-"

"AH! I always forget how good hot showers feel." Kon says as he starts to walk in ruffling his short mohawk hair with a towel, the towel covering his vision.

"Kon, the team needs to speak to you."

"Oh yeah, good you're all here." Kon says a towel resting on his shoulder, he was still wet from his chest, shoulders and his hair was growing out of his mohawk, in his boxers. The girls all look at him, mouth slightly open, not blinking as they see his wet stomach on his abs, wet very muscular shoulders and wet muscular legs. "I wanted to apologize for what I put you guys through, you're my team, and I was your leader I should have lead you better. I'm still learning and I hope you can give me another chance."

"Yah." Batgirl manages to say, Wondergirl nods.

"Ok, thanks, I won't let you down." Kon says to them with a smile. "Canary still hasn't cleared me but we can train, you know get back in the groove."

"Ok." Cassie says looking at him smiling.

"Dude where's all your chest hair?" Jaime asks.

"I'm highly evolved." Kon snaps at him and walks off.

"Seriously that's what it takes for you to take him back?" Robin asks them.

"He's very hard to resist." Cassie says, Batgirl giggles.

"Wow you guys suck." Kon says looking at them on the floor. "Have you guys even been training?"

"Yeah, we've been training, we train all the time."

"Well maybe you should train more."

"What is that anyways?" Cassie asks rubbing her arm.

"Judo."

"Judo?" Robin asks.

"It's called Nage waza, throwing techniques."

"You learned Judo in 5 months?"

"No, I mastered Judo in 2 weeks."

"Why?"

"Because I wanted to."

"Ciao amicomiei!" Zatanna says as hello my friends in Italian appearing in a purple smoke. "Oh Kon! Amore mio!" she yells out my love. He walks up to her with a big smile on his face, hugs then spins her around puts her back down never stopping the hug.

"I missed you to!" Kon says to her in Italian.

"What's wrong with them?" Zatanna asks looking over his shoulder.

He turns to look at the team on the floor sweating and a little confused as to what they were saying.

"They're just tired."

"Let's go catch up!"

"Ok." Kon says back to English. "Dismissed." He says to the team as they teleport out.

"That was Italian right?" Cassie asks them.

"Yeah." Robin nods.

"I'll add it to the list." Jamie says with a sigh falling down on his back laying down.

Shadowcrest

Zatanna puts down a box of pizza on the coffee table and turns on the Tv.

"Hey, I should bring steak sauce, right?" Kon asks as he looks inside the fridge.

"For what?" she asks looking around flipping through the channels.

"Pizza." He answers back.

"I just got back from Italy."

He pauses. "So?" he asks a little confused.

"So they'd shoot you in Italy for that. "

"But this is America, where we unapologetically bastardize other countries' cultures in a gross quest for moral and military supremacy."

"I forgot. Bring on the imperialistic condiments."

Kon chuckles as he brings the steak sauce and the ranch bottle.

"Close your eyes." She tells him quickly as soon as he sits down.

"Ok." He closes his eyes.

Zatanna gets up and puts her hand on his ear putting an earring on him

"OW!" he says and touches his ear. "What the hell was that?" he asks her pulling away from her.

"A telephone."

"I have one thank you."

"You can call me and I will be there in a puff of smoke."

"You already do that."

"OH but I can't do that if you're in space."

"No you cannot, thank you."

"You're welcome." She says with a smile. "Rorrim." She says mirror and it appears, she puts it up for him to see it.

He moves his head to see the black hoop earring on his right ear. "Yeah all right, it's cool."

"Does it hurt?"

"A little, it's fine."

"Pizza time." She says tossing the mirror as it disappears and grabs a slice.

"So how was it."

"Unless I forgot something, did you visit Italy once upon a time?"

"Yeah, Venice, Rome, Venice's hotel room."

Zatanna chuckles. "Artemis told me, she couldn't feel her legs the next day."

"Yeah, I helped her out in the morning."

"She told me about that too."

"You jealous that I didn't invite you first?"

"I don't think Dick would have approved."

"Cause that ended so well?"

"Hey, by the end of it, we were practically ripping each other's clothes off."

"That's healthy."

"OH you so do not get to judge."

"I do to!"

"When is that last time you had a stable girl?" she pauses as she takes a bite out of her pizza. "Or boy." She adds. Kon opens his mouth then closes it. "HA!"

"Alright it's been a while, but I have plenty of sex."

"Mm-hmm.

"I do have sex whenever I want."

"Uh- Huh."

"I think Rose might be interesting."

"If you have sex with Rose, I will never speak to you again."

"Cassie?"

"You can't, Robin likes her." She points out.

"Megan?"

"She's with La'gaan and Megan is into long term relationships, you can't be with her with your track record."

"I'm running out of names here."

"How about Tana?"

"Who?"

"Tana, you told me about her, smart, funny, smart, future Lois Lane? Remember?"

"Yeah, I guess I could maybe."

"Awesome!" Zatanna says exited as she pulls out a phone and starts flipping through it.

"But last time was weird, she saw my scars and I kinda freaked and then I got into that fight with Kal and- long history, I don't want that. Let's pick someone else." Kon rambles, then turns back to Z who was texting. "Is that my phone?"

"Hey, Tana, I'm back in town, I wanted to know if we could maybe get a drink and catch up." Zatanna reads the text she had just send, then shows it to him.

"OH MY GOD!" he yells at her, she laughs. "How can we delete it?"

"Oh hey she responded, that was quick." She says looking at the phone. "How about tomorrow, Bibbo's diner you can buy me lunch."

"I hate you."

"You love me." she pouts.

Bibbo's diner

"You ordered without me?" Tana asks.

"It's 2, you said 1, I thought you ditched me." Conner says to her

"I did not ditch you, I was writing a story and I got all into it."

"Sorry, you can order if you want."

"I will, I'm starving."

"Thanks." Kon says to the waitress as she puts down a plate of fries down.

"I'll have the salad-chicken grilled, lemonade and make sure it doesn't have any onions."

"Ok, anything else?"

"I'm thinking about it."

"Ok." She says to her, she turns to look at Conner. "So can I get you anything? Anything at all?"

Conner looks up at her with a smile. "Just pie, thanks."

"Type?" she asks with a smile.

"Surprise me."

"Will do." The waitress walks off biting her lower lip.

"So were where you these past months?"

"Africa."

"What's in Africa?"

"Animals and also Lions."

"I heard that the fighting had gotten pretty bad."

"Bad doesn't even begin to describe it, it horrifying it's bloody, it's sad and-" Conner stops talking, Tana looks at him. "Sorry, I don't want to talk about it."

"It's ok, want to talk about something else?"

"What's new with you?"

"I'm officially a part time journalist."

"That's awesome."

"The pay is sucky but I'm doing something I love."

"Even more awesome."

She smiles at him. "So what have you been up to?"

"Honesty? Nothing, much."

"You finally going back to school?"

"No, not gonna happen." Conner says quickly.

"You're brother wants you too."

"If I did everything Clark wanted me to do, I'd never end up having fun."

"Do you at least have a job?"

"No."

"Well, I went to Yale, so I can help with the traumatizing experience that comes with applying to colleges."

"I don't think I'd do well in college."

"Sure you would."

"No, it's not for me."

"Clark and I don't seem to think so."

Conner chuckles then finally looks up at her with a smile. "Thanks."

"Is there another reason you don't want to go to college?"

"I just don't think I'd fit in."

"Why not?"

"Well…high school was a bit rough for me, I never really fit in with anyone other than my two friends but they both had groups of people and I was always just…in between."

"You can take online classes, no student interaction involved, you can go to a vocational college, or get a certification or go to a college or-"

"I can join the space program."

"Don't be silly I can barely get you to go to college. Aim a little smaller Kent."

"Your pie, your salad and drink, anything else."

"No we're good."

"So what about Metropolis Community College?"

"Are we still on that?" he asks her.

Tana grabs the fork and starts eating and smiles at him. "Give me a good reason." She asks him.

"I'll give you three. One I don't want too. Two I hate school and three it would make Clark happy."

"Those aren't good reasons!" she yells at him laughing.

"I can't please you can I?" he jokes.

"I can help you study."

"What?"

"You're classes, I can even get you into Metropolis Community College."

"I'm alright where I am."

"What about the future?"

"What about it?"

"Don't you want to do something? Be someone?"

"And I have to go to college for that?"

"Is it like a cool thing?" she asks him.

"I could care less about being cool." He tells her.

"But don't you have any plans?"

"Yes, I plan to live."

"And live where?

"Wherever."

"And do what?"

"Whatever."

"Wherever, whatever." She imitates him.

"I'll live where I live, I'll work when I need money, and I'll see where I end up."

"You could do more."

"Oh, here come the pompoms."

"No, no pompoms, just me saying you could do more."

"I guess going to Ivy Town wouldn't be the worst thing." Conner says with a shrug, she laughs at him, he smiles at her. "What?"

"Aim a little lower, not even I could get into Ivy town."

His smiles quickly fades. "You don't think I could get in?" he crosses his arms sitting back on the booth.

"Well, honestly? No I don't."

"Why not?"

"Because your well no offense but you're not actually Ivy Town material." Tana says hesitantly, Conner nods.

"Anything else?" the waitress asks again holding a notebook.

"Check."

"I got it right here." She says giving him the receipt.

He puts down 20 and a 5. "That 5 is for you." He says giving it to her with a smile.

"Thank you." she says with a big smile. "And that's mine number." She points to the receipt and walks off.

"I wasn't finished." Tana says pointing to her half eaten salad. "You didn't even touch your pie."

Conner turns to Tana grabbing his jacket lying beside him on the booth. "And for your information, I did get accepted into Ivy town." He gets up puts on his jacket in one smooth move. "And I got a full scholarship."

"Wow! That's amazing."

"Yeah it was. And just because I decide that I could spend my time doing something else doesn't mean I'm an idiot."

"I didn't say-"

"Or that you could judge me because of my appearance."

"I wasn't-"

"You were, just because I have ear rings and different haircut and come from a bad back ground doesn't mean I couldn't get into a university like Ivy Town."

"I think you misinterpreted what I said."

"No, I didn't. I have spent most of my life doing what other people thought I should do. I thought you were different, but you're not and I am sick and tired of trying to prove myself to people like you." He says and walks out.

Mount Justice

"I'm not spying on you! My god your paranoid, you and Batman spent too much time together." Zatanna says to him.

"Then why are you here?" Dick asks her annoyed.

"KON!" Zatanna yells out.

"Oh no." Kon moans.

"It's barely 3, why are you home? Did she not want to in the afternoon, some girls are like that." Zatanna tries to explain to him.

"What girl? What are we talking about?" Roy says stepping forward.

"I made Kon go on a date with Tana."

"Black Lois Lane, awesome!"

"That is so rude!" Zatanna yells at him hitting his shoulder.

"What? Why?" Roy asks her confused.

"It's totally racist."

"Oh I'm sorry African American Lois Lane, better?"

"Much."

"We didn't have sex." Kon tells them.

"It's the afternoon dude, some girls don't like that." Roy tells him, Zatanna nods.

"I'll back him up on that one." Nightwing says standing beside him.

"Are you serious?"

"Yeah." Nightwing, Roy and Zatanna say at the same time.

"Who are you people dating? I have sex in the afternoon all the time."

"Bastard." Nightwing says and walks back to the computer.

"Asshole." Roy says and walks with Nightwing.

"What happened?" Zatanna asks him.

"She called me an idiot who couldn't get into Ivy town even if I tried." Kon tells her.

"Didn't you get in?" Roy asks.

"Yes."

"Didn't you get a full scholarship?" Nightwing asks.

"Yes."

"Did you correct her?" Zatanna asks.

"Yes."

"How?" Zatanna, Roy, and Nightwing ask him at the same time.

Kon pauses. "I might had said that um she was judging me by my looks and that I was tired of people like her that judge me."

"Oh Kon."

"What?"

"Dude you have to apologize." Roy says to him.

"Why!?"

"Because she doesn't know, she barely even knows you."

"You totally explode at her."

"I'm not apologizing."

"If you ever what to sleep with her." Roy tells him.

"I'm not apologizing for standing up for myself. End of conversation." He tells everyone and teleports out.

"Did he always have an earring?" Blue Beetle asks.

"No, I bought it for him." Zatanna answers.

"I like it." Cassie says with a smile, Robin rolls his eyes slightly.

"I wanna get a tattoo." Roy says.

"No." they all say at the same time in a monotonous voice.

Kon enters the kitchen with Rose siting down eating her cereal, he starts to grab a bowel.

"Oh hey, morning." Rose says quickly and gives him a piece of paper. "A girl named Wendy called you while you were in the shower."

"What? Why? What-what-what did she say? What did you say?"

Rose looks at him, she had never seen him stammer. "She asked where you where, I said you were in the shower."

"Oh…thanks."

"Another set up?"

"What?"

"I heard Zatanna was trying to set you up, is she another one?"

"No, she's an old friend."

"Sex friend?"

"Well she-she's kinda of my ex."

"Kinda?"

"She is, form a long time ago."

"You slept with her didn't you." She tells him.

"Excuse me?"

"And on your first date? You slut." Rose teases.

"It wasn't exactly our first date, Rose."

"High school doesn't count. Now, spill." Rose tells him with a smile, Kon walks away leaving his empty bowel. "Ooh, that bad, huh?" she asks following him to the briefing room.

"No, actually that good. It was... well, we were naked. But that's not the point. I told myself that things would be different. That we would take it slow. It just shouldn't have happened, that's all." Kon tries to explain to her.

Robin and Cassie comes down the come up from some stairs from the gallery.

"What shouldn't have happened?"

"Kon slept with a girl named Wendy." Rose blurts out.

"Hello!" Cassie yells out shocked.

"Congratulations?" Robin says not sure what to say.

"Thanks a lot, mouth."

Rose smiles at him.

"My god what are you people doing so early in the morning?" Roy asks walking in from the zeta beam, with Zatanna and Nightwing.

"It's 10 am." Robin says to him.

"Exactly." Roy says rubbing his eyes.

"Kon slept with a girl named Wendy." Rose says to everyone.

"Could you stop that?" Kon tells her.

"WHAT!?" the three of them yell out.

"Oh fuck!" Roy yells out irritated.

"You gotta be kidding me." Nightwing says annoyed.

"Please tell me there is another Wendy in your life." Zatanna says putting her hands together.

"Only one."

"Oh, I can't believe you! You've been so good for three years!" Zatanna yells at him.

"Yeah and this is my reward!"

"Hold on a second, alright?" Nightwing says to them. "Just think about what you went through the last time she broke up with you."

"NO! You know what? Fuck that! Think about what we went through the last time she broke up with you." Roy says angry pointing at himself, Zatanna and Nightwing.

"YEAH! That whole you coming in the middle of the night with me and Zatanna, freaked me the hell out." Nightwing tells him.

"Ok, so this time I'll make sure we don't break up!"

"OHHHH!" the three of them yell at him.

"All right! All right! I'll tell her it was a onetime thing." Kon says annoyed that they knew him so well.

"Good." Roy says putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Thank you." Nightwing says to him.

"You'll find someone." Zatanna says putting her chin on top of his other shoulder, holding his hand.

"Just not her." Roy says quickly.

"Definitely not her." Nightwing nods.

"Who the hell is this chick?!" Rose says with a smirk. "And can I meet her?"

"No." the four of them tell her.

Therapy session

"I want you to do something for me." Dinah says to Kon with a smile.

"I don't like this."

"I want you to get a job."

"A job?"

"Yes."

"That's what you want me to do?"

"And keep it for a month-no scratch that, a week."

"Then you'll clear me for missions?"

"Then I'll clear you for missions."

"You are going to regret saying that."

"Good luck."

"Damn it!" Kon yells as he storms into the cave.

"Bad day kid?"

Kon turns to look at him. "What the fuck did you just call me?"

"Kid, I thought it was a nickname, Batman and Superman-"

"Do you look like Batman and Superman? Do you even remotely resemble them?"

"No sir…Kon…Superboy."

"Bad day Kid?" Batman asks as he walks in look at Kon, he was radiating anger.

"I am only going to say this once, the real world better start showing me some respect, otherwise, I am going to stop saving it every other week."

"What happened?" Batman asks him.

"I just had the worst job interview for a position that a monkey could fill. Provided that the monkey could explain why it needed flexible work hours." Kon says without taking a breath. "Why aren't you at work?" he asks Batman.

"Because I do have flexible work hours."

"So Batman-"

"Canary told me."

"I'm just gonna pop up in-"

"And don't even think about going to your brother, Canary talked to him as well."

"I hate this assignment! I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!" Kon yells as he walks off into a hallway to his room so he could sulk.

"I love that his back." Nightwing says with a smile.

"It certainly makes life more interesting." Batman says, Nightwing smiles.

Happy Harbor…Relator building

"As you can see we're a small firm but we've built a very successful business."

"Oh, well, size doesn't matter to me. What does excite me though, is the chance to work with someone who is successful. I mean, if I want to be a success who better to learn from right?"

"Oh, I like that. I've heard all I need to hear. When can you start?"

"Wait, are you serious? I got the job?"

"I can spot talent when I see it. Um, can you start today?

"Uh, yeah, yes of course."

A woman walks in.

"Hi, honey. Give me a second." He says to her, she smiles and walks back out. "Here are the keys. Louise is out of town, I've got..." he pauses. "I'll be in Phoenicia for the day, so all you have to do is answer the phones."

"Taking a romantic midweek break?" Conner chuckles.

"Well, yeah." He nods with a smile. "Um, which reminds me, there is one special task I'll need you to handle from time to time." He says to him, Conner nods. "If my wife calls, I'll need you to cover for me."

Conner's eyes widen and he laughs nervously. "Oh, uh, sure."

"Our little secret?"

"Oh, of course."

"Well, you have my cell number. Have fun." He tells him as he gets up puts on his suits jacket and walks out.

"Okay." Conner says with a smile as he walks out. "You too." He sighs.

Restaurant

"Dude, you're late." Roy says sitting down on a table for four.

"Sorry, I had work." Conner says sitting down.

"Ooo work." Roy teases as he reaches for the salt and knocks the jar over spilling some salt.

"Oh, oh, quick. Throw some over your shoulder." Zatanna says to him.

"Don't be ridiculous." He tells her.

"It's bad luck. You could be attacked by evil spirits."

"Z, we have been attacked by plenty of evil spirits and they had nothing to do with salt. And considering who we are, I can't believe that you want to rely on this for our protection."

"My feeling is, you can never be too rich or too safe." Zatanna tells him.

"Then it's a good thing you are rich." Kon chuckles, then sees a ladybug on the plant on the table. "Oh, look, a ladybug."

"Is that bad luck?" Roy teases, Zatanna pulls a face and sticks her tongue out a little.

"No, actually I read once that whatever direction it flies in, you can find your ideal mate." Kon explains. "We've gotta try it." Kon flicks the ladybug's leaf and it flies across the room and lands on a man.

"Oh." Zatanna quickly turns around.

"So does a positive superstition cancel out a negative one?" Roy asks her.

"I don't know." She snaps at him.

"Wait, what's going on?" Conner asks them.

"That guy has been trying to talk to Zatanna all day and she has been avoiding him because she-" Roy stops talking as a waiter trips and spills drinks all over him. Zatanna and Kon wipe him with napkins.

"You should've thrown the-"

"You know what? Zatanna, don't even say it. I'm going home to change." He tells them as he gets up and shakes some of the food off his hair.

"Alright well I have to get going to. I gotta get back to work." Conner sighs as he gets up.

"How's the new job?" Zatanna asks him.

"Great, except my new boss wants me to lie to his wife about an affair that he's been having."

"Oh, how nice. What are you gonna do?"

"I don't know. I'm just hoping it never comes up. Hey good luck." He tells her referring to the guy staring at her with a wink.

Relator office building

"Okay, heads-I tell her the truth, tails-I lie." Conner says as he sits on his desk, he flicks a coin in the air and it lands on its edge. "Oh, that helped a lot." He says annoyed as he picks up the coin. "Hi, may I help you?" he says as a woman enters the office.

"Hi, I was looking for Adam."

"Oh, he's not here but I can tell him you came by. What's your name?"

"Susan Warner."

"Oh, you're Adam's wife."

"Unless he's got one I don't know about."

Conner laughs. "No, no. He doesn't have another wife."

"I thought I'd surprise him and take him to dinner. Do you know where he is?"

"Uh, yes. He went out." Conner says to her.

"Ok, well, I think we established that. Do you know where?"

"Uh, well, he...that's actually interesting, he, uh... I can't do this."

"I don't understand."

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Warner, but I can't be the assistant your husband wants without compromising my beliefs and I just won't do that."

"Wait a minute, slow down."

"Don't worry about the office, I will lock up." He says as he grabs a post-it, he starts writing a note.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"For not lying to me about Adam's affair."

"You knew?" Conner asks her.

"I've tried denying it for some time now but I guess there comes a time when you have to face the truth."

"I'm so sorry."

"Don't be and please, don't quit on my behalf."

"I'm not, I can't work with someone like him anymore."

She smiles at him. "Know any good divorce lawyers?"

"No, but I do know an excellent place that makes milkshakes."

She giggles.

Mount Justice

"So how was your first day?" Dinah asks Kon.

"I quit." Kon says.

Dinah laughs. "You're kidding." She says with a smile, Kon looks at her. "You're not kidding?" she asks, he shakes his head. "Kon the whole point was for you to be normal for a week."

"The guy was an asshole who was cheating on his wife."

"Which is wrong but that is what normal people do, they put up with they're cheating bosses." She tells him.

"Well then it's a good thing I'm not normal."

She sighs, he smiles at him. "Was he really cheating on her?" she asks him after a while.

"Yes."

"Did he really ask you to lie?"

"Yes."

"What a jackass." She says angry.

"This is what I'm saying." Kon nods.

She hugs him.

Kon was in the bathroom washing his face then looks up at the mirror seeing Superboy behind him.

"I don't know why you're here." Kon says to him, Superboy looks at the mirror looking back at him. "I don't know what you want from me so just tell me. Tell me and I'll do it. What do you want? What do you want me to do? Just tell me, tell me!" Superboy stares at him. "Damn It Just Tell ME!"

"You're touching it."

Kon looks down at the water filling the sink, Kon looks back at the mirror, Superboy was gone.

"No." Kon shakes his head turns off the water and walks out of the bathroom.

Nightmare

Kon was trying to gasps for air as he falls into the ocean water, swallowing water, he was drowning.

Kon wakes up in a panic panting, he looks at the desk, Superboy was sitting on.

"Did you do that?" Kon asks him trying to calm his breathing.

"You did it to yourself."

"Go away."

"Can't I'm you."

"You're my worst nightmare."

"You keep calling me, it's hard to ignore."

"I am not calling you!"

"Yes you are!"

"NO! I am not!"

"What happened in the water?"

"Shut up!"

"Why are you so afraid to let me in? I'm you after all, if there was one person you have to trust is you."

"Are you fucking insane?! I don't trust anybody!"

"Hey! You mind keeping it down?" Roy says opening the door then looks around. "Who are you talking to?"

Kon turns to the desk, Superboy was gone. "I was having a nightmare."

"Oh…are the phantom zone nightmares back?" Roy asks a little worried.

"Yeah, they just come up every once in a while. I'll be fine."

"Do you want me to stay?"

"No, I'm good."

"Alright, well I'm next door if you need anything."

"Thanks Roy."

"You look good." Kon says to Nightwing as he puts on his escrima sticks on his side.

"Thanks." Nightwing says a little odd and starts walking down the hall.

"Is that a new suit?"

"Not really, just some new updates."

"That's good and the escrima sticks, did you do something new to them?"

"Yeah actually, now they release a shock of electricity which…" he stops talking and moving looks at Kon who smiles at him. "Oh god what do you want?" he asks him.

"I need you to clear me for missions."

"No."

"But Dick-"

"No."

"Dick"

"Read my lips. No!" he says pointing to his lips.

"Dick!" he yells when they enter the briefing room, they turn to look at him. "You're being unreasonable, so is Canary. You guys are being completely unreasonable."

"No." Nightwing says again as he walks up to the middle of the room with the team looking at them.

"But I'm ready, I'm ready."

"Canary has not given you an all clear."

"She's...I've done everything she's asked me to do. Everything."

"Everything?"

"Yes."

"So if I call her right now-"

"I just want a mission a little part of a mission."

"No."

"But I have told her everything in the 7 months I was gone, from applying to Seminary school to the illegal meta-human fight club."

"You went to seminary school?" Nightwing asks.

"I was very confused." Kon tells him.

"I'll say, you're not even catholic." Red arrow says to him.

"She's being unreasonable." Kon says again.

"Unreasonable is that you're chatting with us instead of talking to her about whatever it is your hiding. That's unreasonable. You clearly are not reasonable yet. I think that's the point Canary is trying to make."

"Fine, maybe one of you guys will die and I'll take over your spot."

"Here's to hoping." Nightwing says with a smile.

"I hope you're the one that bites it."

"Now wouldn't it suck if I actually did die?"

Kon turns to him. "People leave me all the time, I'll get over it."

Nightwing turns to look at Red Arrow, they look at each other worried.

Daily Planet

"I'm sorry kid, I know I said I could make us dinner but I-" Clark says as he tries to type then moves some papers around his desk.

"I know Kal, it's ok, you're job's important." Conner says sitting down on a chair in front of the desk.

"I just have a lot of stuff to do."

"I know." Kon says.

"And I just can't make dinner from scratch."

"I know."

"You are being very reasonable right now, are you ok?"

Conner chuckles a little. "I'm fine, I'll just go patrol or something."

"Ok." Clark says to him as he starts typing again. "Call me if anything earth shattering happens."

"Will do." Conner says and stands up walking out of the small office.

Kon goes to the elevator not wanting to teleport or fly off, he was in a walking mood. The elevator stops several times as it lets people in and out, Conner was at the corner of the elevator as he waits it go to the first floor.

"Hey."

Conner looks up. "oh crap." He mumbles.

"I'm sorry."

"Yeah, ok."

"No I really am, I'm sorry."

"It's fine ok."

"No, it's not."

"Tana-"

"I've been judged my whole life, not because I'm a girl or a black girl. I've been judge because I'm a smart girl." Tana starts rambling, Conner looks at her. "I'm not being arrogant, it's just kind of a fact. My parents didn't understand why I wanted this, they thought I should be a business woman or a lawyer or someone that makes a lot of money that I'd be great at it because of the way I am-smart, so I get it, I'm a smart girl. And not in a from a book worm type way, in an obvious way." She continues to ramble as the elevator speeds down, Conner looks at her. "It's how everyone sees me. I'm not a pretty girl or interesting girl, I'm a smart girl. It confuses guys into thinking that I'm someone else. And I'm used to it. And I'm used to them walking away when they realize it...but…you, your different, you don't see the big brain." she pause again looking at him. "I was nervous that's why I said that things I said, I didn't mean them. You're beautiful, but you're also smart I knew that the second I saw you. You are so beautiful there was no way you'd be interested in me." She pauses again and they look at each other. "Aren't you going to say anything?"

"I was just waiting to see how long you could ramble on for."

Tana laughs. "I'm a reporter I can ramble on for days."

Conner laughs, he grabs her hand and puts his other hand on the back of her neck then gives her a kiss, she kiss back.

Mount Justice

Kon sits in a lotus position as he opens his eyes blood red around his blue eyes, he tries to keep calm as he breaths calmly. He inhales sharply and slumps forward sweeting dotting his arms, head and chest.

"You're running out of time." Superboy says standing up away from him.

"What?"

"I can't keep doing this."

"Then go away."

"I can't, you keep calling me and I'm getting tired of you not listening."

"I'm not calling you." Kon says going back into his position meditating.

"Yes you are."

Kon opens his eyes as he was in the ocean swimming up, trying to swim as something was holding him down in the water, he looks down to see Superboy. He teleports out to the beach on all fours panting.

"You tried to kill me!"

"I'm getting tired of you not listening to me."

"What do you want!?"

"You know what I want."

Kon looks down at his hands shaking, then looks back up to Superboy gone.

Kon was in the green room, trying hard not to cry sitting on the green single couch looking at the waterfall on the wall waiting. Dinah walks and see Kon.

"Wow you're here early." Dinah says as she walks in to sit down. "Are you ok?" she asks looking at him worried.

"I have to tell you...something that I haven't told anyone else." He says not looking at her sniffing as he tries to keep the tears from falling down.

Dinah sits down opposite of him. "Ok."

"Ok." Kon says as he puts his hands on fists on his knees.

"Whenever you're ready."

Kon slumps over trying not to cry. "I was swimming." He starts as tears start to fall down on his jeans. "I was fighting." He pauses as he cries. "And then I thought…just for a second, I thought…what's the point?" he says as he cries putting his hand over his eyes, covering his face. "And then I let go, I stopped fighting."

Dinah sits up and gets down on her knees hugging him as he cries on her shoulder. "It's ok." She says as she puts her hand on his hair.

"Please don't tell anybody. Please."

"I won't I promise."

He cries as he hugs her back.

"You got cleared?"

"That's fake." Roy points.

"Call Canary, cause I'm back baby."

"Why'd you say to her to make you clear you?"

"None of your damn business." Kon snaps at him, they look at him. "So any missions?"

weeks later

"And we disabled the nuke saved Hong Kong." Kon says with a smile as Dinah telling her about his day.

"That's amazing Kon." Dinah stay finally after Kon had told her everything about what happen on his latest mission. He smiles at her again. "So why didn't you use your super speed and then fly up into the sky?" she asks him.

Kon looks at her. "Pressure points, it could have detonated at any moment."

"Ok, and why didn't you use your heat vision to cut the wires?"

"Robin knew more about it."

"But you could have used your x ray vison to see it correctly."

"Yes…but if a wire was hiding under a lead panel, I wouldn't have seen it."

"True." Dinah says. "But it wasn't."

"Ok I don't see your point." Kon says getting back on his green chair.

"Think about it."

"What are you talking about? I disassembled it, Batman has all the pieces and is tracking down the guy who made it."

"Kon you had 5 seconds left on the clock, I've see you disassembled a machine before, it takes time to do it, to touch it or whatever you do."

"Scan."

"My point is, you could have done about 100 other things to stop it, but you didn't use your other powers."

"So?"

"Why didn't you use your other powers?" Dinah asks him point blank.

"I thought my TTk would be better."

"Why?"

"I don't know." Kon says getting impatient.

"Kon, you do know, you know because I've trained you and Diana trained you and Bruce trained you. We've all taught you to think before you act in a fight, it may not seem like it most times, but you do think, you think it through." She pauses, Kon looks at her. "Why did you use your TTk?"

"You know what, I told you I almost committed suicide. Isn't that good enough for you? I mean why do we have to keep meeting like this?"

"Because you did committed suicide."

Kon sighs. "Let it go already! It was like months ago."

"Then why did you cry?"

"Because I didn't want to tell you."

"Then why did you?" Dinah says getting annoyed.

"Because he-" Kon stops himself from talking.

"Because he…what Kon? He who?"

"It was a good day." Kon tells her, he stands up. "Why'd you have to ruin it?" he asks and walks out of the room.

"Now we're getting somewhere."

"You're not going." Canary tells him.

"You cleared me for missions, this is a mission." Kon tells her.

"I cleared you for certain missions, missions that most certainly do not involve Lex Luthor."

"If you won't clear me, then I'll just go deliver it myself."

"You can't do that."

"Why the hell not?"

"Because I have the flash drive." She points to herself.

Kon turns to look at Nightwing. "Well I didn't give it to her." he tells him a little scared.

Kon sighs annoyed. "This is so not working for me."

"Was your life not working for you when you let that slip form under you?" Canary asks him.

They turn to look at her.

"Okay, when are you going to stop suggesting that I'm suicidal?" Kon asks her even more annoyed.

"When you start acting like someone that wants to be alive."

"Give me the flash drive."

"Why?

"Because I'm not suicidal, and if I want to talk to Luthor I will."

"What happened 7 months ago when you fell in the water?"

Kon stomps, the cave shakes. "How dare you throw that in my face!? And that was months ago!"

"You put your hands on an unexploded nuclear warhead last week."

"I was trying to save Hong Kong!"

"I read the report Kon! Why is it that every other person in that room had the sense to evacuate?" Canary asks him pointing to the Team. "You know, people run away from this line between life and death. Especially people like us, we have to assess the situation and fall back if its death. You seem to stand on it and wait for a strong wind to sway you one way or the other." She tells him, Kon looks at her. "You're careless with your life. You're not slitting your wrists but you're careless. Probably because Luthor told you you were a waste of space on this planet. The problem is I think you believe him. And if you don't watch out, one of these days you're going to die because of it."

Kon takes a step forward. "Hand me the flash drive." He tells her with a clam voice. "Now!" he yells out, she goes into her jean jacket and pulls out a black stick, he takes it from her. "And don't ever talk about Luthor again."

LexCorp

"Kon, I'm just so glad you're ok." Luthor says in his suit as he walks over to him, he had about 10 guards with him, and Mercy.

"Yeah, I'm awesome." Kon says a bit irritated. "We have something for you."

"And why are you giving it to me."

"You don't want the info? I'll take off now."

"You are being very bitter."

"I'm having family issues." Kon says putting down the flash drive on the desk.

"Can I help?"

"You? Help me? I'll pass."

"I'm just trying to be useful."

"You where the one poisoning me in case you forgot."

"I did not poison you, you are my most prize possession."

Kon angrily grabs him by the neck and slams him against the wall. "Don't you ever say that again! EVER!" he screams at him, all of the guards point their guns at him and Mercy with her robot arm, Luthor nods, Kon releases him and teleports off.

Mount Justice

"You threaten him!?"

"Yes, I can't believe he ratted me out. What a wuss."

"Kon, he's the UN Secretary-General, you can't just go around threatening him."

"He's tried to kill me on multiple times, why is he the only one allowed to-"

"We do not threat public figures!" Superman yells at him.

Kon had a sudden vision of Superman punching him.

"Fine." Kon says and walks off then teleports out.

"That was weird." Superman says.

"Let's keep an eye on him." Batman says.

"Good idea."

Bar

Tana drinks her beer and then smiles. "Ok, first kiss."

Conner chuckles. "Here in Metropolis a random girl came up to me and kissed me on the lips."

"Are you kidding?"

"Nope, I was 13 and it had tongue." Conner lies.

"A random girl?"

"A random girl." Conner conforms, Tana looks at him. "And you?"

"Spin the bottle, I was 14 and his name was Dex."

"Dex? As in Dexter?"

"I was in a boarding school."

"Got it." Conner nods.

"So what about…"

"What about what?"

"Another drink?" Tana asks waving her beer bottle.

"I got it." Conner says and stands up to the bar, a blonde girl was sitting down in the stool with her red haired friend. They both look at Conner and smile at him. "Can I have two beers?" he asks the bartender, ignoring the beautiful two girls.

"Yeah." The bartender says and gives him two beers bottles.

Conner walks back to the table and gives her the bottle. "You have no idea the affect you have on women do you?"

"I guess not." Conner shrugs. "Why?"

"Those two girls where totally checking you out." she says to him.

Conner turns to look at the girls at the bar, they both smile at him. "I think you girls are making my girlfriend uncomfortable." He tells them loudly, the other people look at him look at the girls, the girls look at each other and get up walk out of the bar.

Tana giggles. "Oh my god, you are horrible."

Conner smiles at her. "I like your laugh." He blurts out.

"I like your eyes."

"Yeah they're Kal's." he says a little irritated.

"Who?"

"Oh um, Clark's…we have the same eyes."

Tana looks at him, thinks about Clark. "OH yeah! You do. That's so awesome, my brother has honey colored eyes, you wouldn't even believe we're related. You and Clark do look a lot alike."

"Yeah I don't like talking about it."

"Why not? He's not bad looking and neither are you, just so you know."

"Yeah, I know, everyone tells me, it's not exactly something I want to be reminded of."

"You really don't care about looks do you?"

"No, I don't."

"Well let me be the person to tell you, you are gorgeous and I have no idea what you see in me."

"What I see in you is your laugh, your determination, your independence, your ability to push yourself to be better." Conner tells her, she looks at him. "That's what I see you in."

"Wanna come home with me?"

Conner smiles, then his phone rings, he pulls it out of his jacket pocket and looks at it, he sighs. "Rain check?"

"Check the left wing, go." Kaldur orders and four shadows run off.

"What now?" Tigress asks.

"We need to get to the mainframe before them."

Superboy clears his throat, Tigress and Kaldur both turn around. "If I wanted to, I could have already been there."

"Yet you're here?" Kaldur says as he walks to him, Tigress follows.

"I got friends." Superboy tells him, Robin jumps down from the hole in the roof. "Go."

"Are you sure?"

"Run."

"But-"

"Now." Superboy orders.

Robin runs, both Tigress and Kaldur pull out swords Superboy appears in-between them as he holds both of Kaldur's and Tigress writs with their swords. Robin jumps over them and runs. Tigress and Kaldur both push away from Superboy.

"Do you really think you can take us both on?"

Superboy puts up his fists. "Bring it."

"You can do this Robin." He mumbles to himself. "Never a dull moment with Superboy." Robin ties typing as fast as he can, hacking into the mainframe, he sighs when he hits another firewall, he breaks it down and smiles as the information pops up, he puts in his flash drive and starts downloading it.

Tigress twirls her blue kryptonite Sais weapons dripping in blood, Kaldur gets up from the floor behind him.

"Ready to give up?"

"Not when I'm winning."

"You really are arrogant." Tigress tells him.

"It's a genetic thing. Enough about me though, I hear you are Kaldur's new assistant."

"Watch it." she growls at him.

"Not assistant? How about bitch?" Superboy asks with a smirk, Tigress growls. "OH wait I know, pet." Tigress runs to him, Superboy knocks both sais out of her hands then tosses her to Kaldur, they both fall to the floor. "See, I win."

Superboy holding the sais in his hands as he twirls them around, then turns back to look at them on the floor with a smile, he then sees Bloody Superboy behind them, he takes a step back his smile quickly fades.

"What's he doing?" Tigress whispers to Kaldur.

Kaldur turns around to see nobody there. "I have no idea." He says turning back to look at a very horrified Superboy.

Bloody Superboy super speeds Superboy to a wall pinning him.

"What's happening?" Tigress asks standing up alarmed.

"I don't know." Kaldur says again.

Superboy pulls up the kryptonite sai about to stab Bloody Superboy, he grabs his fist making sure he couldn't drop it as he turns it on himself.

"No, don't!" Superboy yells at him.

Bloody Superboy makes him stab himself under his collar bone, Superboy screams out then tries to stab him again with the other sai, Bloody Superboy grabs it again then turns it on Superboy, Superboy fights back as he keeps his fist clenched on the sai trying to turn it back around. Bloody Superboy pushes the sai on Superboy's chest.

Superboy tenses up and looks down at the sai slowly gets pushed all the way in, Bloody Superboy pulls away from him stepping back as Superboy slides down to the floor, blood on the wall.

Mount Justice

"ow." Kon whispers as he opens his eyes. "Hi Kal."

"What the hell is wrong with you?"

"Why are you yelling at me?"

"Because I'm trying to figure out why my brother keeps trying to kill yourself."

"What are you talking about?" Kon says sitting up, Superman points to the holo-computer screen, Kon turns to look. "oh."

"Well."

"I can explain?"

"We're listening."

"Well I hadn't seen him in a long time, so I just figured he was gone he's not but I thought he was."

"He who? Who are you talking about?"

"Well that's kinda of the thing, I think he's me, or some part of me. I'm pretty sure I'm crazy and you guys can lock me up in Arkham if you want, I would however suggest the phantom zone. Let's be realistic here if the Joker can get out so can I."

"What are you talking about?"

"It's hard to explain."

"Then start from the beginning."

Batman starts scanning him in the middle of the platform, it was mostly on his brain still no shirt on since it was filled with blood.

"You've been seeing him this whole time?" Nightwing asks.

"Yeah." Kon answers.

"Is that why you left?" Roy asks him, Kon says nothing.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Megan asks.

"Well I thought I was you know, going crazy."

"Well maybe you are." Cassie says to them, they turn to look at her. "I'm just kidding, you're obviously fine." She chuckles nervously.

"So?" Kon asks looking at Batman.

"There is nothing physically wrong with you."

"Ok then, back to the phantom zone it is."

"Don't say that." Superman tells him.

"I'm kidding." Kon says to him. "Sort of." He adds. Superman walks over to him, putting his hand on his shoulder. "Do you really recommend the phantom zone for me?"

"I'm not putting you in the phantom zone." Superman snaps at him.

"You're right, I know where the exits is." Kon nods. "I'm sure Green Lantern knows some good alien prisons."

"Stop it!" Batman yells at him.

"I'm just saying." Kon mumbles.

Batman walks over to Kon, looking at him. "You've been going through this for months, we can help now."

"How?"

"We'll figure it out. In the meantime-"

"No missions, I know."

"Missions seem to be the stressor, so you are."

"Excuse me?" everyone says mouth open.

"Not with the team, but with us." Batman adds.

"Wait what?" Ravager says unsure of what she just heard.

"Seriously?" Kon asks with a smile.

"Just until we have this figured out."

"Yeah ok." Kon says exited. "It's not even bothering me that you're just tell me all of this to spy on me."

"I…" Batman starts to make an excuse, Kon looks at him. "Yes."

"I'll still do it."

"Superman." Captain Atom says over the com.

"I'm here."

"Order from the P.R.C. to a sub in the East China sea, ordering it to launch on Taiwan!"

"Let's go."

They exit the zeta beam, Kon gives the team thumbs up and flashes say.

"He goes crazy and gets to join the league. How is that fair?" Ravager asks.

"It's not." Nightwing says to them.

"It's Kon's world, we're just living in it." Roy shrugs.

Gotham

"You can't escape my vines!" Poison ivy yells at them as she waves her hands wrapping, Batman against a tree.

Superman is wrapped around a vine with growing yellow flowers as they puff out pollen making him drowsy.

"You have been a very bad boy." Ivy says to Superboy. "You should have stayed away."

More vines growing from the ground around Superboy and ensnare him, lifting him off the ground, they squeeze him. "AH!" he screams out in pain. "Stop!" he screams. "Stop squeezing." He says grunts.

Superboy struggles as he is squeezed tighter and the vines continue to tighten their hold on him. Superboy grunts and his eyes go bright red as he enters his Rush mode. He manages to free his arms and falls back, but Ivy grows more vines and they wrap around him.

Superboy ensnared and struggling in the vines as Poison ivy looms over him with her plants helping her up. Superboy takes a huge breath.

Poison ivy laughs. "Your breath can't help you."

Superboy exhales a torrent of fire at Ivy. Ivy uses her plants to protect herself and screams out as some of the fire hurts her as she's pushed back and releases her hold. Superboy looks down and breathes fire at the vines, burning them and freeing himself. Superboy does a butterfly kick to throw out an arc of wind and avoids a blast of his head vision. Superboy stomps the ground using his TTk power to pop up two large rocks, then uses his TTk into large spikes that shoot into Ivy and knock her into the air before Superboy uses his TTk power to pick up more rocks sending them to her bring her down to the ground she screams out in pain. Ivy puts her hand on the ground making a wall with vines, she runs away.

Superboy uses his heat vision to cut them all down and looks around, his eyes turning back to normal and he pants.

"Superboy!-" Batman starts.

"I'm going after her!" Superboy yells before Batman has a chance to and runs away.

Batman starts to cut the vines with a batarang.

Superboy runs then suddenly is tripped by a root, he rolls in the mud, then stops himself on his heels.

"Ha, you're in my home child!" Poison ivy yells.

Superboy stands up and takes a look around slowly as he puts his hands up ready to fight, then sees his Bloody-Self.

"No, not now." Superboy tells him, he sees Poison ivy running away from the corner of his eye. "Let's do this at another time."

Superboy tries to run away when Bloody Superboy appears in front of him grabbing his head and slamming it down to the ground.

Mount Justice

"ow." Kon mutters and stands up holding his head. "This is sooo not good for my ego."

"You ok?"

"Fine." Kon says still holding his head. "ish." He adds.

"Look." Batman says pointing to the computer as it shows everything on Kon's point of view, himself getting beat on by the other Bloody Kon.

"I have one hell of a left hook." Kon says looking at the computer as he rubs his cheek.

"That's not the point."

"Right." Kon says to them. "Well he's real so."

"I ran various wavelengths on the videos, it's your astral projections."

"I'm sorry, his's what?" Robin asks.

"Astral projections." Nightwing says to him.

"What is that?" Cassie whispers to Robin.

"Well it's…"

"You have no idea." Blue beetle says to him.

"I can't have all the answers."

"It projects his consciousness, soul, astral form outside his body, gaining Spirit Physiology." Batman says to them, Robin nods understanding.

Blue beetle, Ravager, Wondergirl all looked confused.

"I can make copies of myself."

"Ohhh." they say in unison.

"I'll put it on the list." Wonder girl says.

"Why didn't you just say that?" Ravager asks them.

"So what? He's trying to kill himself?"

"No! I swear, I'm no suicidal." Kon says to everyone.

"Call him out." Batman tells him.

"But what if-"

"We're here for you Kon." Superman says putting his hand on Kon's shoulder. "We'll help you, remember you're not in this alone anymore."

Kon nods, he sits down and takes a breath, then exhales.

"What is he doing?"

"Calling him out."

"How is-"

"Shut up, I'm meditating." Kon snaps at them, they stop talking and Kon sits down meditating for almost an hour the others getting bored as they sigh multiple times.

"Can we leave?" Rose whispers.

"I don't think so." Cassie whispers back.

Luthor walks in and looks at everyone staring at Superboy.

"I have information on a Korean nuclear warhead, if anyone is interested."

"Shh." Nightwing whispers to him.

"Excuse me?"

"I can't do this, I haven't even used this power in years."

"Really?"

"Months, maybe, I'm not sure."

"Try again."

"I have been trying."

"That's why I said again."

"He's right, he's been trying to whatever it's called for the past 2 hours." Rose says. "If he wants to quit, let him."

"Why are you here?"

"To see if you really are trying to kill yourself."

"I will feed you to sharks." Kon tells her. "Alive." He adds.

"You sure you're Superman's brother?" she asks with a smirk.

"Yes, Deathstroke's daughter."

"Pay attention, Kon."

"She started it." Kon points at her.

"Enough, Kon-El." Batman tells him.

"I can't ok, my head's full."

"I believe that's called thinking." Luthor says to him.

"When did you get here?"

"I have Korean nuclear warhead information."

"Korean's don't have the technology to launch a nuclear warhead." Kon says to him as he takes a breath closing his eyes.

"He's right." Nightwing says to him.

"Korean's aren't exactly our allies."

"I'm sure you can win them over with your personality."

"Just like you." Luthor says back.

"I can't do this." Kon says.

Superman looks at Batman, Batman turns to look at him then down at Kon, he gets down on his knee.

"We're here for you kid." He whispers to him, then stands back up.

Kon nods, he takes a couple of breaths and quickly opens his eyes, the Bloody Kon stands feet away from them, they look at him.

"whoa." They whisper.

"That's what he looked like?" Ravager asks them, seeing the blood dripping from him, his skin peeled off showing off his muscles and part of his collar bone.

"Yeah." Cassie says looked a bit scared.

"Damn."

"Kon?" Superman says to him.

"It's true." Kon says looking at himself. "But why? Why are you doing this? Who are you?"

"I am you." The bloody Kon says to him his voice a little deeper than normal, talking for the first time.

Kon looks at the floor and to the side then back up to him. "Who am I?" he asks him, still sitting down.

Another Kon shows up, shows up wearing his Superboy outfit cargo pants, military boots, black and red S tshirt, then another with his new hair cut with a I know right from wrong. Wrong is the fun one. t-shirt, another Kon shows up with a black shirt, a red L on his shirt, Superboy with his solar suit Cadmus outfit then a Superman version of himself.

"Whoever you want to be." They all answer him. "Do you know who you are?" they ask him back.

The real Kon looks at them all, his different lives of himself. "My name is Kon-El." He says standing up. "I'm Superboy."

Superboy smiles at him, everyone else disappear into red shiny specks, he walks over to him.

"Good choice." Superboy says as he stands in front of Kon then grasp hands in a brotherly handshake. "You won't regret it." he says as he lets go with a smile then disappears in shiny red glitter.

"wow."

"Thank god that's over with." Kon says turning around looking at them. "Who wants ice cream?" he claps with a smile.

"Kon-El, kicking asses and having epiphanies like nobody's business." Nightwing says.

"Let's call Z, she'll want come." Kon says exited ignoring Nightwing.

"Fine, but if Z is coming I'm getting pistachio." Nightwing says.

"Because she hates pistachio ice cream." Kon says as he puts his arm around his shoulder.

"Yeah." Dick says to him.

"I'll get Coffee." Roy says, Kon puts his other arm around his shoulders.

"This is gonna be great." Kon says. "It's a great new start." He sighs.

"I can't believe you tried to kill yourself." Roy says. "Again." He adds.

"Oh yah, I'm getting shit from the guy who married an assassin."

Dick laughs Kon let's go of Roy and they start walking.

"Seriously? How many times are you gonna use that against that me?" Roy asks walking following them.

"How many times are you going to use that against me?" Kon asks back.

"Five more times…a month?"

Kon stops walking, Dick shakes his head a little as he stays with his brother.

"You never told me how Jade was in bed." Kon says.

"I won't bring it up anymore." Roy says to him quickly. Dick and Kon laugh at him as Roy glares at them, Dick ruffles his Kon's hair. "Stop laughing it's not that funny!"

"Roy I love the scratchiness of your bread." Kon makes fun as he holds Dick's hand face to face with him.

"I shaved it!" Roy yells at him.

"Jade, your eyes look so black behind that cat mask." Dick says back.

"She's retired." Roy tells him annoyed, Kon and Dick look at each other, then at the same time look at Roy. "What?" he asks as they look at him. "Whaaattt?"

"You talking to her again?" Kon asks crossing his arms. "Because if you are I can understand why you didn't tell me."

"Yeah, he's been on suicide watch for like months now." Dick says, Kon turns his head to him. "But why didn't you tell me."

"I need to change." Roy says walking off avoiding them.

"Ohhhh." Dick and Roy follow him in the hallway.

"Shut up!"

"You're the one who brought it up!" Kon yells back at him.

"I did not!"

"Yeah you obviously want to talk about." Dick nods.

"I do not!"

"It's ok to admit you have a thing for her. She's all dark twisty, I had a thing with Artemis, remember that."

"Yeah that was a totally disaster." Dick says honestly.

"Wait hold on, when was this?" Roy asks trying to remember.

"Before she and Wally started. You remember, don't tell me you don't remember." Kon says to him.

"Yeah they were at it like bunnies all the time." Dick agrees.

"We were not that bad, besides, she was teaching me."

"What the hell was she teaching you?"

"Stuff."

"Wait a minute, did she teach you the ways of love." Roy teases.

"Noooo."

"Aww your blushing." Dick teases.

"He's totally blushing." Roy says smiling.

"Stop it!" Kon yells at them stepping back. "She was like the second girl that I was with, she's my best friend, and yeah we experimented together she was patient and…" he pauses, and points to Roy. "He is the one who married an assassin, if that's not a cry for help I don't know what is."

"Fine, we're give it a second change there you happy?"

"As a clam." Kon says putting his hand out, Dick went inside his pocket and pull out a 5 dollar bill.

"Seriously?"

"We had this bet going on since you told us you broke up."

"Be grateful that I know you this well." Kon tells him with a smile.

"You're an asshole." Roy says and hugs him, Dick joins the group hug.

"I'm glad he's back."

"Me too."

"I'm right here!"

"We know."

Roy ruffles his hair, Dick puts his hand on the back of Kon's neck.

"Ice cream!" Kon yells out and teleports out.