Hello everybody! I hope you're enjoying your summer. I know I am. I got back from about a month in England, last week. It was great. I had my 18th b-day there. And that leads me into saying I'M SORRY! I meant to write while I was there, but it just didn't happen! I feel horrible. But now it's done and I hope you like it.

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Chapter 36
Foretelling

Cody jogged up to the group as they walked into the main area of the Cave. She had gone to call her brother, but had received no answer. That worried her. She now knew that Master and Erik didn't have her boys, but that left her to wonder where they were. If the enemy didn't have them, then where were they and why weren't they answering her calls?

"We have reason to feel proud of yesterday's victories," Kaldur said as they all walked together in the Cave after just arriving back from their last mission in Santa Prisca. "But one thing has not changed."

"Somehow the bad guys are still getting inside intel about us," Robin added.

"Yeah, but at least we know none of us are the mole," Wally said.

"That's correct," Batman said as they entered the practice and debriefing area. "The mole was Red Arrow."

"What?" Cody asked. No, it couldn't have been Roy.

"Roy?" Robin asked.

"No way!" Wally stated.

"Batman, that cannot be," Kaldur said. "He was Green Arrow's protégé. We have all known him for years."

Technically, I've only known him a couple months, Cody thought.

"Unfortunately, the Roy Harper we have known for the last three years is another Project Cadmus Clone," Red Tornado said.

"We've learned the real Speedy was abducted and replaced immediately after becoming Green Arrow's sidekick," Batman said. "The Clone was pre-programmed with a drive to join the Justice League, which is why he was so angry over any delays to his admission and why he refused to join the Team. This Roy Harper had no idea he was a clone or a traitor. And his subconscious programming drove him to become League worthy, so he struck out on his own. When he was finally admitted, his secondary programming kicked in and he attempted to betray the League to Vandal Savage. Fortunately, I had already deduced Red Arrow as a clone. We were prepared."

"Savage was subdued, but Red Arrow escaped," Red Tornado said. "He is now a fugitive, armed and dangerous."

"If you guys hadn't rescued me from Cadmus…" Conner started to say.

"What- what happened to the real Roy?" Robin asked.

"We don't know," Batman said. "He isn't at Cadmus. We have to face the possibility that the real Roy Harper is dead."

Something about this doesn't feel right, Cody thought. Okay, Roy was a clone. Okay, he was programmed to do what he did, but that doesn't mean he had any say in it. He couldn't help it. The League would have thought about that. They would forgive him. Why are they saying they're hunting him down as a fugitive?

"The clone Roy, the Team will find him," Kaldur said.

Of course we will! Cody thought.

"Negative," Batman said. "Red Arrow's a member of the Justice League now. Leave him to us." Batman pressed the comm. link in his ear and said, "I'm needed on the Watchtower. Tornado, stay with the kids." He then left.

Wait, kids? Cody thought. Since when does he call us kids? He never calls us kids, even when I went to his place for Christmas and jokingly said Dick was being mean on me.

Cody stared at the tubing with a confused yet calculating look on her face. She crossed her arms and continued to stare in that direction as Kaldur started to speak to him team through the mental link. She listened, but didn't move.

"Clone or no clone, Red Arrow was one of us," Kaldur thought. "We will go after him."

Red Tornado started to walk up behind Kaldur, and Cody's gut flipped. The robot raised his hand and was about to touch their leader when Cody yelled out, "Kaldur move!"

However, just as Cody yelled, Tornado shorted out and then froze.

"Tornado!" M'gann said.

"What happened to him?" Conner asked.

"He's totally powered down," Wally observed.

"All functions offline," Robin said, checking his status.

"Guys, I'm sensing a low-level mystic force at play," Zatanna said. "I don't know if it caused his shutdown, but now that I think about it, I was getting the same buzz off Batman."

"That would explain why this whole time I've felt like something was wrong," Cody thought.

"Batman, he called us kids," Robin said.

"You noticed that too?" Cody asked.

"Right, he never does that," he added.

"Look," Wally said, pulling something from Tornado's hand. "One of those biotech chips we confiscated off Cheshire."

"Something is not right," Kaldur said.

"Cody how did you know he was going after Kaldur?" M'gann asked.

"Gut feeling?" she answered.

"Robin, Kid, Zatanna, Rocket, Phoenix, see if you can get Tornado back online," Kaldur instructed. "The rest with me to find Ro- Red Arrow."

The group Kaldur had assigned moved out. Kaldur was going to follow behind, but looked a Cody before turning. Since Cody had been standing right beside him during the whole ordeal, she could clearly hear him when he quietly whispered, "Be careful, my friend."

"As always," Cody replied. "You just make sure you are too and find our friend. Bring him back to us."

"As you wish," Kaldur said. It was then that he turned around and ran off with the rest of his squad.

Cody turned her attention back to Robin as he said, "The problems hardware, not software. But where do we start?"

"I have a thought," Zatanna said, looking up to the ceiling. Cody looked up to find the hatch to Red Tornado's quarters. She had no idea what Z was talking about, but anything was better than nothing.

It would have been a challenge to get the other body – which Cody had found out - out of Red Tornado's quarters if it had not been for Z's abilities. While she was getting the body, Robin and Wally were setting up everything for a transfer down below. Raquel and Cody were standing to the side, not really knowing what to do. Cody was okay with technology, but not great. She could figure out how to wipe out camera and to put down a security system, but that had come with her training.

Wally connected the two bodies while Robin said, "Download in progress."

"So Tornado built this android to party," Raquel said.

Cody laughed and said, "It's good to have you, Rocket. I've missed your comments."

"Not how he'd put it, but yeah. More or less," Zatanna replied.

The system announced the arrival of Black Canary. The appeared at the Zeta-platform and Cody's stomach dropped. "I have a bad feeling about this," she muttered, but nobody caught it. She remained silent as the blonde haired woman started to walk over.

"Hey, guys," she said. "I wanted to check in, see how you're handling the- What are you doing to Red?"

"It's not how it looks," Kid said.

"It looks like you're downloading his consciousness into a new body," she replied.

The machine informed them that the download was complete as Wally said, "Okay, so it's pretty much exactly what it looks, but –"

The new Tornado sat up and yelled, "Team, get out of the Cave. Now!"

Canary used her Canary Cry at them. New Tornado, from the torso up, was thrown into Wally, causing both of them to fall while the other part was thrown at Z, Rocket and Phoenix. Phoenix saw it coming though, and jumped and flipped in the air to avoid it while covering her ears from the scream.

Robin ran over to attack Canary, but she flipped him over and then threw him. It wasn't a total waist though. Robin had placed a smoke bomb onto her jacket. When it went off, Rocket captured her into one of her kinetic bubbles with all of the smoke, knocking the woman out.

"Black Canary attacked us?" Z asked.

"Black Canary is the least of our problems," Tornado said. "We must abandon the cave."

Sphere rolled over to them and then transformed into vehicle that they all could fit in. They tied up Black Canary and put her in the back and also put in Tornado, the incapacitated one and the functioning one. The system went off and said that Icon, Dr. fate and Captain Marvel were coming. Everyone else got into Sphere as quickly as they could. They left before being seem by the other heroes.

"Stay off your radios," "Human" Tornado said. "Let the Super Cycle track Superboy. Instruct her to mask all signals. We cannot allow the League to track us."

"Right, of course," Wally said. "Why is the Justice League after us?"

"The entire League is under the complete mental domination of Vandal Savage," he explained. "Red Arrows seems to have been his means. His method was something Savage referred to as Starotech, an alien bio-organism fused with nano technology and magic. It shuts down the min's autonomy, allowing Savage to Reprogram the individual to suit his needs. Even my inorganic brain was not immune.

"But the process requires 0.16 nanoseconds to fully integrate with its host's nervous system. That delay allowed me to create an internal sub-program, which would disconnect my power cells if I attempted to infect another person. It seems Phoenix was able to sense something was amuck before I even shut down.

"Fortunately, the Starotech is body specific. As John Smith, I am now free of outside control."

"This Starotech, it worked on super-powered humans, four flavors of aliens, an android, even Dr. Fate, defeating all of you without a fight?" Robin asked.

"Indeed," John said. "A remarkable achievement. One not easily countered."

Suddenly, Phoenix heard Miss M in her head, "Here, Robin. Linking both squads and decamouflaging." The Bio-ship appeared above them and a whole was created in the bottom. The Super Cycle entered the Bio-ship and everybody got out.

"Great, 'cause we really need to compare notes," Rob said.

Robin's squad grabbed Black Canary, the empty Red Tornado and the conscious, legless John and brought them into the cockpit of the Bio-ship. After getting everybody situated and after swapping information, the team started to come up with a plan. After doing so, the teams fell silent.

It was awkward. Cody wanted to talk to Roy about everything. To see how he felt. To comfort him, but she couldn't do that while everybody else was there. That would just embarrass him even more, not to mention it would embarrass Cody as well.

Cody wasn't really taking her eyes off of the clone. Most of them were staring. She didn't mean to, but her eyes kept drifting over to him. She was concerned. She knew what it felt like to have her life twisted into something else completely. Having been told one thing for so long, while all of it was actually a lie.

It didn't feel good. And on top of that, he had even more things to feel horrible about. There was no way for Cody to understand those things either. Oh, Roy, Cody though. You poor thing.

What am I going to do?

xXx

The Bioship, in camo mode, attached itself to the bottom of the "Watchtower." The Watchtower was the Justice Leagues fortress and command center. Cody had always thought that the Hall was it, but it wasn't, apparently.

They moved into one of the hallways. They had broken into the wall to get in. They all crouched together, all nine of them, looking over Robin's shoulder at his little arm tech, waiting to hear his reply.

"RT did it," he thought. "Wirelessly by passed security for us as soon as he arrived. Savage shouldn't know we're here."

"Move out," Kaldur ordered.

Having gotten intel on who was at the Watchtower from Black Canary and Red Tornado, Phoenix knew that Erik was there. Erik was working with Savage. That either meant that Master was hiring him out or Master was in on it all as well. What were they up to? And why was Master interested in it? He was never interested in anything that wouldn't benefit him in some way, so what was it?

So when Aqualad told them to go, Phoenix bolted in search for Erik.

It didn't take very long. She found him a couple hallways down from the cargo bay. She skidded to a stop upon laying her eyes on him. He had heard her footsteps running behind him. He was facing her, a smirk plastered on his face.

"Well, well, well," He said, pulling out his sword, seeing her with hers out. "Look what the cat dragged in."
Phoenix remained silent. This annoyed Erik beyond belief. As he stated once before, he did what he did to annoy her. He loved to see her reactions. Having her remain silent and emotionless was torture for him.

Erik growled and charged forward. He raised his sword and swung it down. If Phoenix hadn't stepped to the side, she would have gotten her head sliced in two. She then brought her sword up and pointed it at Erik's neck. He reacted quickly though, she used his to force her sword to the side. He continued with his spinning motion and brought the sword back around, as if to get her in the side, but she moved faster.

Phoenix blocked the attack and then moved to take a blow from the top. A block. She spun around and was going for a backhanded swing. Blocked. However, their swords met and each side pressed as much pressure as they could into it. With Erik concentrating on their swords, Phoenix raised her foot and kicked him in the stomach, sending him stumbling backwards into the wall.

She moved to attach, just as he had at the very beginning, but he moved and used his sword to block. They stared at one another for a moment, pressing their swords together.

"Why are you here, Erik?" Phoenix asked.

"That's none of your concern, Girly," he replied. "Although, it soon will be."
"What are you talking about?" she asked, taken aback.

The boy used her shock to make a move. He forced the swords apart. Before he had a change to block, he sliced a small part of Phoenix's stomach. It was only a cut and it wasn't too deep, but it hurt and it was bleeding. It would continue to bleed too, unless she got something to put pressure on it. She wouldn't bleed to death though. It wasn't that deep. But the constant moving of battle would make it continue bleeding.

Erik laughed and took a couple steps back. "That's going to scar," he chuckled.

"You're such a-" Phoenix started to say, but stopped when she heard Kid Flash over their mental link.

"Hey, if you guys aren't busy," he said, letting everyone know that he needed help in the cargo bay with Artemis.

"On my way," Aqualad said. He gave orders to the people who were with him, but Phoenix didn't pay any attention to that. She got distracted by a kick to her side. She fell through the open doorway into the cargo bay, sliding to a stop in the middle by the wall.

"Phoenix!" Artemis called out, seeing the girl land on the floor.

Phoenix was able to look up just in time to see Erik jumping up to attach her. She raised her feet and as he came down from his jump, she kicked him in the stomach, sending him backwards onto the ground.

"Artemis, Kid, Phoenix!" Aqualad yelled. "Now, hold on!" He told them.

Artemis shot an arrow with a rope into the now closed door. Phoenix took her tanto and gammed it into the ground for her support. "Holding!" All three yelled.

It was then that Aqualad opened the doors to the cargo bay. "Warning, Cargo Bay venting atmosphere." The PA system alerted.

The air was being sucked out, causing everyone and everything to be pulled towards the doors. Phoenix was hanging on, but Erik was being pulled too. He went past her and grabbed onto her foot, causing her grip to slip. She was pulled along with Erik, Flash, Aquaman and Green Arrow towards the open door.

"Phoenix!" Aqualad yelled. He closed the door, having everyone who wasn't holding onto something, slam into the now closed door.

"Ow," she moaned.

She heard Erik groan beside her. She moved quickly though and punched him, knocking him disoriented. He wouldn't be coherent for a little while. Phoenix sat down, trying to relax just a bit so she wasn't in quite as much pain. She moved her arms so that they were covering her injury. Phoenix didn't want the other's to know and to worry.

After hearing Aqualad say, "Apologies, my Kind," the three other heroes rushed over to Phoenix to see if she was all right. "My friend," Aqualad said, bending down beside her. His hand was over her shoulder, making sure she was steady. It was also comforting. "I am sorry."

"Don't worry about it," she replied, looking up at them with a smile. "I'm okay, just need a second to catch my breath."

"Understood," he replied. "Are you in need of any assistance?"

"No," she answered, shaking her head. "You guys go on ahead and help the others. I'll be there soon enough."

"Got it," Kid said, rushing off. Artemis ran off after him.

Aqualad remained beside her for a moment, looking at her. His hand that was on her shoulder moved up to cup her cheek. "I never meant to hurt you, Cody," he whispered.

"I know, Kaldur," Cody replied. "Trust me, I know." She smiled up at him, pushing her face into his hand more. Cody's face was flushed. Her stomach was turning, but not in a bad away. She was excited and nervous to be that close to Kaldur. The one thing that kept running through her mind thought was, Come on, just a little closer.

"Cody," he started, as he leaned in closer, his nose brushing against her. His pale green eyes looked into her pale green ones, silently asking her permission to move in.

The girl's eyes closer only moments before his soft lips - tasting slightly of sea salt and mint - touched her's. The kiss was gentle, yet there was so much emotion behind it. It showed each other that no matter what they went through, that they still cared about one another. The emotion from Kaldur saving her from drowning on one of her first missions, for him saving her life during their training mission, and them being there to talk to one another about anything.

The kiss was short. Both people knew that this really wasn't the time nor place for it, but they got caught in the moment and who knew if they'd ever be able to do it again. They both had to continue on with their mission. But that small moment gave them enough time. It wasn't wasted either.

"I need to go," Aqualad said.

Phoenix smiled up at him softly. "Go ahead," she said. "I'll take care of these guys."

He smiled down at her and nodded before running off. Phoenix watched him go. She only took her eyes off of him when she hear Erik speak.

"That's was horribly disgusting," he said. "I feel like I'm going to be sick."

"Oh shove it," Cody said, kicking him in the side, causing him to groan. "What did you mean when you said that it didn't concern me yet?" she asked. "What does Master have planned?"

"You'll find out in due time," Erik said.

That's not good enough! Letting the anger get the better of her, Phoenix brought her fist down onto Erik's head, knocking him out. After doing so, she felt a little better, but also not great. She kind of resorted something that he would do. The made her feel gross. She just couldn't stand him not answering her anymore.

I need to help the others, she thought, getting to her feet. She looked down at her bare arm to see it covered with blood, but first I need to get cleaned up a little. Phoenix wondered over to a couple containers and opened them. One was of bottles water. She used that to wash off the blood. And in the fourth container she opened were bandages. She wrapped herself up to prevent her injury from bleeding more. Since her costume was red, the blood didn't show on it. She was thankful for that.

After she finished, she rushed to the main area to meet up with everyone. They were all gathering around as the cheerful and pleasant chime of the New Years went off. Artemis kissed Wally in his arms while Zatanna pulled in Robin. M'gann kissed her boyfriend. What really shocked Cody though was Raquel pulling Kaldur in.

Cody was able to hold in a small gasp. But her stomach felt like it drop and was stepped on by a herd of elephants. Kaldur pulled away, pushing Raquel gently. He was refusing her. Then made the girl feel a little better and Raquel nodded in understanding. Cody then continued her way over to everybody.

Robin went over to the girl and kissed her on the cheek. "Happy New Year," he told her.

"Thank, Little Bird," she said, kissing his forehead.

It was then that most of the Justice League members started to wake up. Flash, Green Arrow and Aquaman being a couple of them. That was when it hit Cody. "Where's Erik?" she asked them.

"Erik?" GA asked.

"Yeah, I left him unconscious with you guys," she replied.

"He wasn't there when we woke up," Flash said.

No, no, no! He can't get away again! Ah! "You've got to be kidding me," she groaned under her breath.

"Don't worry," Kaldur said. "We will get him to pay for his crimes. You must have patience."

That's something that he keeps warring down! "I know," Cody sighed.

Kaldur placed a hand on her shoulder, making her relax a little more. His presence just did that to her. It was comforting. "It'll be all right," he said.

"Thanks Kaldur," she replied, a smile playing on her lips. Her cheeks grew red, thinking about the kiss.

Looking up at him, all of her friends, her mentors and then the view down to Earth, Cody couldn't help but think, I sure hope this will be a good year.

Anyways, I think for season 2, I'll be writing it in a new story. I believe I'll be calling it Singed. I'm not sure yet. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know! I have one more chapter for this one so...See you soon?