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Road Rage

Cassius watched the last of the android parts be loaded up. They weren't following the trucks with the Bio-Ship. They were splitting in half and taking motorcycles. Cassius would be riding with Megan and Kid Flash to Boston, while Robin, Superboy, and Aqualad headed for New York.

"Everyone ready?" Aqualad asked as the trucks all started.

"Ready," Cassius nodded. "Miss Martian, Kid Flash, while we're escorting, I'll be taking command."

"Okay," Megan nodded.

"Yeah, I don't know if I trust the assassin to be in charge," Kid Flash said.

"Then you'd better start," Cassius said as the trucks began to leave. "Time to go."

He and Megan pulled out of the trees they were hidden in behind the truck and after a moment, Kid Flash caught up.

"Seriously, why you?" Kid Flash asked.

"Because he has the most experience," Megan said. "He knows how to react to changing situations. He's also a lot older than us."

"Wait, you are?" Kid Flash asked. "How old?"

"I woke up with my goo powers and no memory about...Oh Christ...fifteen or so years ago now," Cassius said. "I don't age if I don't want to, and when I met woke up the Shadow who trained me had brown hair that was starting to turn grey. Now he's got a head full of silver hair, starting to turn white, and knee problems."

"Okay, so you have as many years of memory as me," Kid Flash said.

"Yeah," Cassius said. "Fifteen years as an assassin. You have how many as a super hero? And beyond that, how many years do you actually remember?"

Wally hesitated before sighing. "Fair point. Fine. You can be in charge."

They rode for several hours in silence before anyone spoke again.

"Do you two think Superboy's okay?" Megan asked. "I wasn't reading his mind, I swear, but...anger flowed off him in waves."

Kid Flash laughed. "Surfed that wave. Just give him space. Me? Stick as close as you want." He pulled his bike closer to hers.

"Despite his horrifying attempts at flirting, he's right about giving Superboy space," Cassius said. "He doesn't know who he is either, and while I've had fifteen years to get used to not knowing, he's had a couple months. He needs time to adjust to being a person and figure out how to deal with his emotions."

"I guess you're right," Megan said. "I wish I could help, though."

"I'm sure you'll think of something," Cassius said. "If you want to help, do something to show you're a friend and concerned about him, but that you're not going to pry or force him to talk about it."

"How do I do that?" Megan asked.

"Easiest way would be to tell him," Cassius said.

Megan nodded, sinking into her thoughts. Just then, about a dozen black monkey robots with glowing green lights from their eyes and between their bodies metal plates shot out of the corn field they were passing, jetpacks on the monkeys' backs flying them to the truck.

"Aqualad, out truck's under attack by robot monkeys," Cassius said over the communicator.

"Our too," Aqualad said. "Protect it!"

"Will do," Cassius said, disconnecting. "So, since you two are the only babysitters I have, yes or no to breaking the toys?"

"Yes," Kid Flash said. "Break them. Break them all."

Cassius grinned. "Megan. Pull some into the air."

She did as instructed, lifting five, and he raised his arm, each of his fingers firing a goo spear into the monkeys' heads before the goo shot back to him, rejoining with his back.

"Nice!" Kid Flash said.

"You should see what I can do against humans," Cassius smirked, then revved his bike, speeding up next to the truck.

Once he was next to it, he jumped, using an extra set of arms made out of goo to lift himself onto the truck before swinging his bike like a club, smashing three monkeys with it, though his bike was also smashed. More monkeys began to fly toward them as several leapt at him, only for his four arms, all encased in goo now, to each grab and crush one, then slam the remains down on four more on the ground as they charged. He hurled their remains off the truck just before a pair of lasers blasted into his back. He yelped, spinning, only for the monkey's eye lasers to fire again, blasting Cassius's own eyes. He shouted in pain, staggering away, and holding his hands to his face, only to form new eyes on his chest, seeing six moving to grab him. Goo spikes erupted from his torso and stabbed them as his eyes finished healing and he let the extras return to being goo as he opened his normal eyes. His vision was blurred for a second, and as it sharpened, a wall of monkeys formed in front of him.

"Oh shit," he sighed, before a wall of lasers exploded into him, launching him backward off the truck.

"Void!" Kid Flash shouted.

"Missions," Cassius groaned, giving his body a few moments to heal from the second degree burns covering his front half.

Once he was healed, he stood, forming a goo motorcycle and shot after the truck. It wasn't as fast as a real one, but it could hit forty five. Fortunately, the truck had slowed considerably as it was being attacked, so he was able to reach it quickly. He used goo to pull himself back up to the top just as Megan landed on the roof with two extra arms growing from her sides and one from the left side of her head, startling Kid Flash, who recoiled suddenly and ended up startling Megan.

"Focus!" Cassius said, dropping into the truck and looking around, only to receive yet another laser blast to the face.

He shouted in pain, just as it suddenly began to get very, very warm, and he smelled smoke. He swore instantly, trying to form himself a new set of eyes, but his goo wasn't responding. He groaned, forcing his eyes open and agony lanced through him as the multicolored blur before him swam in front of his face. He groaned as he saw that fire filled the bed of the truck. He was against the wall nearest the cab, and he had about three feet of space before the flames. He collapsed, groaning and holding his hands to his eyes. He lifted a hand to try and form goo around it to free himself, but nothing happened. Then, suddenly, there was a shriek of metal being ripped apart above him and he suddenly shot into the air and stopped. After a moment, his goo began to respond properly again and his eyes healed quickly. He opened them, blinking several times before looking around, seeing Megan giving him a worried look.

"Are you alright?" Megan asked.

"I'm fine," Cassius said. "They caught me in the eyes before I could react. What about the others?"

"They lost their cargo too," Kid Flash said as Megan set Cassius on his feet and landed in front of him. "And then Superboy took off after them and ditched his comms. "

Cassius nodded, raising a hand to his ear. "Aqualad, orders?"

"Robin is tracking the parts through GPS trackers inside of them," Aqualad said. "It is how they were able to target the correct trucks."

"The parts are converging on...Gotham City," Robin's voice was quiet as he finished.

"Megan and I aren't fast enough to make it in time," Cassius said, then glanced at Kid Flash, who instantly groaned but nodded. "I'm going to have Kid Flash run there while wearing me, like on Santa Prisca. We'll meet you there and Megan will join us as soon as she can."

"Understood," Aqualad said. "Robin's sending the exact coordinates now."

"Got 'em," Kid Flash said. "Alright. Hop on. The Wally Express is ready to depart."

"Be careful," Megan said. "You're still not a hundred percent from that fire."

"We'll be fine," Cassius said before forming himself into goo and encasing Wally's torso.

"We're on our way," Kid Flash said, beginning to run.

Time ticked by slower than Cassius would have hoped. He wasn't sure how long he could remain as goo without negative side effects, but after about an hour, he suddenly began to feel himself drifting off. He groaned, trying to sit up, only to remember he was goo. And then, he wasn't. He crashed to the ground, bouncing and rolling to a stop, and Kid Flash skidded to a stop, looking back at him.

"You alright?" Kid Flash asked.

"W...What?" He asked, blinking several times before shaking his head, clearing the cobwebs. "Yeah. Go on ahead. I don't think I can hold my goo form much longer without it being permanent."

Kid Flash nodded and took off again. Cassius remained on the ground for a few more minutes before pushing himself up, and taking several long breaths before forming himself a set of wings and taking off after him, this time flying straight, rather than following the roads, as Kid Flash had been. Finally, after the sun had sent, he finally smashed through a window into Gotham's main high school in time to see the android, fully reassembled, turn intangible, allowing Kid Flash, who had been about to get crushed in a bear hug, to fall, also allowing the arrow it had been avoiding, to pass through its head and stab into the ground.

"Access Black Canary," the android said, just in time to use the same throw on Superboy as Black Canary had when they sparred.

Then, Cassius's fist exploded into the android's face, sending it exploding across the gymnasium. As it began to stand, an explosive disk below it went off, hurling it into the rafters. Cassius leapt at it, only for it to raise its arm.

"Access, Captain Atom," the android said, less than a second before a beam of golden energy flashed from its hand, blasting him and sending him exploding back into the ground.

He groaned, beginning to push himself up, only for it to switch to Black Canary. His gut dropped instantly, just before its Canary Cry blasted into him, sending him exploding backward into the wall of the gym, a shriek of agony ripping out of his mouth in a spray of blood. Then, Aqualad, who'd been unconscious against the opposite wall, finally woke, wrapping a water whip around it and electrocuting it. However, after a moment, it switched to Aquaman and swung Aqualad around into all three of the others by the whip. Cassius forced himself to his feet, blood running down his chin and gasping for breath.

"Access Black Canary," the android said again.

"Oh for Christ's sake," Cassius groaned.

Just before it could shriek, however, Kid Flash slammed a barrage of punches into it then sped away, leaving several explosive disks where he'd stuck them. They exploded and the android crashed into the bleachers on one side, only to walk back out of them a moment later. Cassius groaned as his legs wobbled and gave out, dropping him to his knees.

"This isn't going well," Robin said.

"Superman," the android said, eyes glowing just in time for Kid Flash to tackle Robin out of the way of the android's heat vision, which set off an explosion against the bleachers behind Robin.

"Yawn," Ivo, who was sitting in the bleachers near the wall, said. "Normally Amazo would study your powers during combat and try to replicate them, but you're all such poor copies of the originals that there's no point. And then the kid with the goo powers just isn't a threat."

"Everyone keeps telling me I'm a bad copy," Superboy said. "It makes me so angry!" He shouted in rage, leaping across the room and punching at Ivo, who shrieked in fear, the two monkey robots with him flying him out of the way.

"Great, he's gone ballistic again," Kid Flash said.

"Maybe not!" Robin said.

"Get Ivo!" Aqualad said, turning and running over to Cassius. "Are you alright?"

"No," Cassius said. "My entire body's scrambled. I'm down for the count on this one. Damn."

Just then, as the other three alternated between attacking Ivo and the android, the android turned intangible to avoid one of Robin's disks, only for Superboy to hold his arm through the android's head as it returned to being tangible, making its head explode a moment later. Cassius sighed, rolling onto his side and clutching at his torso as his entire body throbbed, every organ in his torso feeling like it had shredded glass in it.

"Help me disassemble his body!" Robin said urgently.

"Dude, the guy has no head," Kid Flash said.

"Don't take any chances," Aqualad said.

"Superboy!" Megan said, flying through the door and landing beside him. "Are you alright?"

"I'm fine," Superboy said, glancing at Robin. "Feeling the aster."

Robin grinned, then looked to Cassius. "You okay, Void?"

Megan glanced over at him before gasping harshly. "Oh my God! Cassius!" She flew over and knelt beside him. "I told you not to push yourself!"

"This isn't from that," Cassius groaned. "I got hit with a Canary Cry, and it scrambled my insides."

"Are you okay?" Megan asked.

"No," Cassius groaned. "But I will be."

"Hey, where's Ivo?" Kid Flash asked, staring around at the now empty gymnasium.

"He split," Cassius groaned. "About the same time you blue up the android's head. Fuck I need alcohol."

"I have the Bio-Ship outside," Megan said.

"Good," Aqualad said. "Let's get the android, and Cassius, on the ship. We can use it to drop off the pieces. We'll disassemble it on the way."

The others nodded and Megan lifted Cassius with her telekinesis while Superboy carried the android. Then, a few minutes later, they were heading for New York.


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