Disclaimer: I do not own young justice. if i did, Tim would be in it cause he's my fav.

Chapter 3
"A separate dimension? Really?" Black Canary looked unconvinced.
"Dr. Fate confirmed it, they are from another dimension." Diana assured her.
"And in this dimension, we need side-"
Clark shot Green Arrow a sharp look.
"Partners. We need partners." Ollie corrected himself. "And I'm on my second?"
"Yeah, Roy quit a couple of months ago."
"Why?"
"He kinda sorta maybe hates you." Artemis said simply. "You treated him like a baby and made him wear a stupid yellow hat. He finally threw his hands up and left. I replaced him."
"I'm awesome! I don't understand why anyone would quit on me." Ollie actually looked genuinely disappointed.
"Despite that, we have some bigger issues to discuss." Batman cut in.
"Yeah, about how everyone here is an ass." Wally muttered under his breath.
"Super hearing." Clark reminded him.
'Maybe we should take this Clark home and leave ours here. I don't think they'd mind.' Wally thought.
'I'd be cool with that. Maybe then he'd actually treat Supey like a person.' Robin agreed.
'He doesn't know I'm his clone. When he does, he'll be exactly the same way.' Conner crossed his arms and glared at the older Super.
"You're mentally communicating again, aren't you? Remarkable, why didn't we think of that?" Diana said. She was truly impressed.
'Is nothing sacred? Now they're trying to take our strategy.' Artemis mentally screamed.
'It's not like she's in our heads or anything and J'onn only pokes in every once and a while. It could be worse.'
'You should have let me shoot him.'
'Right now, Clark's the only one on our side. We need him.' Robin reminded her.
"Well I don't care how smart they are. They initiated an organized attack. They should be back where they came from." Kara huffed in frustration.
"I agree." Green Lantern nodded.
"You put me in a cage. I don't like being cages." Superboy growled.
"Hey, let's try to keep the peace, okay?" Superman held his hands up between the two groups. "No fighting."
"She started it."
"Spoken like a child." Green Lantern chided.
"That's it!" Artemis yanked her bow into a firing position.
"ENOUGH!" Superman cried. "Put the bow down! Stop making rude comments. Everybody needs to stop fighting!" he sighed exasperatedly. "How about this? Everybody will feel better after a good night's rest. We'll reconvene in the morning."
"Fine, you know they'll just try to escape during the night."
'Please make them stop.' M'gann pleaded. She could feel everybody's feelings, each and everyone like a stab to her mind.
"My niece is exhausted. This is taking its toll on her mind. Superman is right, they require rest. They will not try to escape tonight." J'onn said gravely.
M'gann was so tired that she almost didn't notice the fact that J'onn still referred to her as his niece.
'Why are you doing that?' she asked suspiciously.
'Because the others will not appreciate being deceived.' He sent a small smile her way. 'I have seen your memories. I am happy to think of you as my niece.'

"So you'll be sleeping here. It's not much but none of the watchtower rooms are very big. I hope you like it." Conner didn't know what to make of the different Superman. Why was he being so nice? "I'm not going to lock you in here so you don't have to be afraid-"
"I'm not afraid of you." Conner snapped. Clark was taken aback by the sudden burst of hostility.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it that way. I just, I got the feeling that I've done something wrong and I don't know what it is. Will you tell me?"
"You're the one who hates me. You hate me because I'm your clone. You're threatened by me." Conner looked as if he wanted to punch Clark right in the face.
"My clone? Who's cloned me?" Clark asked. He'd seen the resemblance between himself and the boy but had dismissed it as his own imagination.
"Cadmus. They made me and you hate me for it." Everything clicked. All the rage, it made sense. Superboy desperately needed a mentor and the other Superman had rejected him.
"I'm sorry. I know it wasn't me that did this to you but I'm sorry. You don't deserve it. No one does. It shouldn't matter at all. You're still a person." Clark placed a tentative hand on the boy's shoulder. "I don't want us to hate each other especially since there are only two other kryptonians left. We need to stick together."
"The girl."
"My cousin, Kara Zor-El. You'll know her as Supergirl."
"We don't have a Supergirl where I'm from. It's just me." Conner informed him.
"Interesting." Clark contemplated that. "You should get some rest. I have a feeling it's going to be a long day tomorrow."

"Kid Flash?" Robin had asked to bunk with his best friend. They're beds were across from each other.
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry about Barry. I know this is killing you." He said softly.
"Nah, it's cool. We're gonna get back soon and I'll see him again. I'm sorry about your dad though." Wally tried to direct the conversation back onto Robin. He didn't want to talk about having an uncle who looked at him the exact way his father did. It was painful to even think about.

"I miss him." Dick responded almost silently. It was true. Bruce was his everything. The man had taken him in when no one else would. He could still remember the children's shelter he'd been force to stay in the month after his parents died. It had been hell.

"When we get back I never want to leave Central again. It'll just be me, uncle Barry and aunt Iris." Kid Flash muttered.

"Please let us get home."

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'I want to go home.' "The children are miserable. They miss their families desperately. It is sad to listen to." J'onn commented. "I am afraid for them."

"What if we can't get them back? They could end up trapped here forever." Diana said. "Never seeing families ever again. What that has to their minds. They're desperate."

"People do things when they're desperate." Clark sighed.

'Just like my dad…'

'I can never go back there. Never. That place was awful.'

'He's lying, he'll never care for me. I'm his clone, I can't trust a word he says.'

'I'm not a child. I've had to fight for myself my whole lie, how dare they call me a child.'

'I wish he really was my uncle.'

'I wish I could see Atlantis again.'

J'onn closed his mind, almost overwhelmed by the grief. It hurt. "There is more. The children are much the same as us. Scarred by experience, marred by guilt at weakness over past battles. Not one is unscathed. They seek solace in their mentors and have found that they are alone in a strange place. It is miserable."

"Barry, you could have been nicer. He's harmless really." Clark tried.

"He and his girlfriend shot out my knees! That's far from harmless."

"He's your nephew. You're family."

"In his dimension, his uncle is all he has. He cares and deeply respects him." J'onn informed him. "You are not that man."

"Damn right I'm not. I don't need a kid's help." Flash crossed his arm indignantly.

"He managed to take you down. Super speed or not." Batman said darkly. Though he would never admit it, he was impressed.

"They're trained fighters. They're dangerous." Black Canary cut in.

"So they stay here. No big deal. We handle it. I don't think they'll try to be trouble." Clark insisted.

"That girl was going to shoot you with an arrow laced with kryptonite! She could have killed you!" Kara raved.

"It wouldn't have killed me. Besides, it shows they're resourceful. They were trained by us so it's no wonder that at least one of them carries it. I imagine it's Batman's kid that has the stuff."

"It would make since." Bruce conceded.

"See? I think they've proven that they don't have to stay here if they don't want to. Had it just been the founders here, I think they could have taken us. But as J'onn will vouch, they're all in their rooms letting us decide for them. It isn't right." Clark wanted to make them understand.

"I just don't think it's right to keep children locked up." Green Arrow sighed. "That's my opinion."

The Leaguers stared at each other and a dark silence filled the room. They were in a deadlock.