Chapter 18- The Mole
The team walked down a long corridor, still basking in the victory of yesterday's events.
"That was so awesome, we are the perfect team" Kid Flash wrapped an arm around Robin's shoulder.
"Yea, so when's our next mission" Rocket looked around at her teammates, curious for their next assignment.
"Well, Batman did call us to the briefing room so, we may be getting one right now" Robin explained to her.
"I wish, we could celebrate more, I called Roy to see if he wanted to party with us tonight, but he wouldn't answer his phone" Wally shrugged. Artemis scoffed crossing her arms as she heard the statement.
"What, just because he is apart of the Justice League now he's to good for us?" She ridiculed her rival archer, Zatanna chuckled at her childish attitude. Aqualad glanced at his teammates with a sullen look.
"We have reason to celebrate, but somehow, the enemy is getting information on our movements" Kaldur explained to the others, Wally punched his chest and smirked.
"Yea, but now at least we know its nobody on the team" the team entered the room, Batman and Red Tornado stood in the center blank expressions on their faces. Zatanna raised an eyebrow, she felt a strange sensation travelling through her body. Some kind of magical disturbance.
"As you know, suspicion was on Artemis, Superboy and Miss Martian for possible traitors" Batman stated, the three heros gave annoyed sighs.
"That is not the case, the traitor is Red Arrow" The holoscreen formed an image of the entire team were taken back by this revelation.
"Roy!?" the white of Robin's masked eyes widened.
"No way" Wally stated, there was no possible way, that one of his oldest friends is a rat.
"Batman, this cannot be, he was Green Arrow's protegee, we all knew Roy for years" Aqualad reminded the dark knight.
"Unfortunately, the Roy Harper you've known for the last three years is a cadmus clone" Red Tornado explained.
"He's a sleeper agent for the light, his objective was to infiltrate the league, which explains his extreme reactions when his access was originally denied" Wally, Kaldur and Robin glanced at each other. They believed Roy was upset, because he was being treated like a sidekick not because he was a spy.
"Wow, if you guys didn't save me from cadmus I would've been…." Conner scratched his head, lingering on that thought. M'gann patted his back trying to comfort him.
"He was going to use the starotech you found to put the league under mind control, Luckily I already deduced Roy was a clone and I was able to stop him" Batman stated.
"What of the original Roy Harper?" Kaldur asked him. The sidekicks gave Batman a hopeful look.
"We can only deduce that the real Roy Harper is dead" Wally clutched his chest. It felt like someone just put a knife through his chest, Kaldur looked down at the ground, processing the news. Robin couldn't even look at his father figure, Zatanna pulled him into a hug. Artemis placed her hand on Wally's shoulder. Signifying that she was there for him if he needed her.
"Batman, let us help find Red Arrow" Kaldur tried but was instantly shut down by the dark knight. He raised a hand to silence the young boy, a blank expression upon his features.
"He is League business now we will handle this, Tornado stay here with the kids, ill try to track him from the watchtower" Batman began walking to the Zeta Tube. The machine started up, a golden glow covering Batman.
"BATMAN 02" the device announced his departure as he vanished. Kaldur turned to M'gann, she nodded her eyes glowing green for a split second.
"Link established" She thought.
"We know, what we have to do correct?" Kaldur thought, suddenly his head was filled with a wave of agreements. Out of the corner of his eye he saw red, he turned to see Red Tornado shut down, his head slumping forward.
"What the?" Robin walked to the android examining his body. Wally waved a hand in his face, he knocked on the android's chest and raised an eyebrow.
"Complete shut down, what happened to him" Wally circled around the machine. Robin's eyes widen noticing one of the nanochips in Red's hand.
"This is the same tech we found in the briefcase" Robin thought out loud. Zatanna turned to the team, a look of concentration on her face.
"Guys, I'm sensing some low level sorcery at play here, actually, now that I think about it I felt the same reading coming off of Batman" Zatanna informed the team, a look of realization dawned upon Robin.
"Batman, he called us kids he never does that" Robin stated amazed that he didn't pick up on it sooner.
"Robin, Kid, Zatanna and Rocket you stay here, try to fix Red Tornado and figure out what's going on. Miss Martian, Superboy, Artemis and myself will take the bioship and find Red Arrow" Kaldur instructed the team, they nodded and split up. Zatanna glanced upwards, remembering a while back, the second body in Tornado's apartment.
"I may have an idea" she smirked, she chanted a spell which opened the hatch, she floated up there followed by Rocket who was carrying Red Tornado.
"Hey wait" Wally stopped Robin before he could grapple up there. Robin looked at his boyfriend confused at the intrusion.
"Are you okay? I know the rules no boyfriend stuff on missions but….are you okay?" Wally asked the boy wonder, his red gloved hand wrapped around Robin's black gloved one.
"I'm okay, I just, this is alot going on right now" Robin looked away nervously, Wally grabbed his chin forcing him, to look at him.
"No matter what, I'm here I love you" Wally blushed, he looked away embarrassed by those words.
"I love you too ya big dork" Dick leaned in pecking Wally's cheek.
"Hey guys, um this is adorable but, could you get up here, freaky stuff is going on" Raquel called out for the speedster and boy wonder. They made their way upstairs, there were two beds in the center of the room. One held Red Tornado's deactivated body. The other held a android body that appeared to be human. A wire connected the two robotic bodies.
"A while ago Conner, M'gann and I found this, he said he wanted to interact with humans on a more intimate level" Zatanna smiled down at the body, appreciating the sentiment.
"So Tornado built an body just so he can party?" Rocket stated, Zatanna chuckled to herself.
"Not quite how I'd put it" Zatanna crossed her arms.
"Shouldn't be that long till Tornado's memories are implemented into new body" Robin said typing away on the computers
"RECOGNIZE BLACK CANARY 13" the computer announced the blonde's arrival.
"Hey team, I wanted to see how you're" her blue eyes widen as noticed what was going on. Her fist clenched, rage filling her.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO RED!" she screams at the teenagers. Wally raised his hand in a defensive position, he backed up slowly nervously laughing.
"It's not what it looks like" he said defensively, she got closer, raising an eyebrow.
"It looks like you're downloading Red Tornado's subconscious into a new body" she growled out. The teens looked at each other wondering how she caught on so fast. The android's blue eyes shot open, he sat up looking at the blonde woman, she took a deep breath.
"TEAM GET OUT OF THE CAVE" he instructed the team, Black Canary let out a sonic shriek directed at Tornado, the concentrated high frequency sound ripped off a piece of Tornado's face. He fell to the ground hard, the teen stood in shocked at the assault. She turned to them a menacing glare on her face.
"EIT REH PU DNA GAAAAAA!" Zatanna screams as a sonic scream sends her crashing into the wall hard. Kid Flash ran at super speed, he rammed into her. She fell to the ground hard, she pushed herself up and kicked him off his feet.
"KF move, Rocket get ready" Robin threw a fist full of pellets, Wally quickly crawled away as gas burst from the pellets, Canary tried to back out of the gas, a blue energy bubble formed around her. She glared at Rocket, as the bubble filled with gas. Rocket lowered the bubble, the gas dissipated, Black Canary fell to the ground completely unconscious. Robin quickly helped Zatanna up, she groaned holding her head in pain.
"Her Canary cries hurt alot, Eit pu dna gag reh" Zatanna held out her hand, a rope and gag appeared. The gag magically tied around Black Canary's mouth as the rope tied up her body. Kid Flash and Rocket helped up the wounded Superhero.
"We need to get out of here right now" Red Tornado warned them, they quickly made themselves to the hanger bay.
"RECOGNIZE CAPTAIN MARVEL 15, DR FATE 17, ICON 20" the computer announced their arrival in the cave. They quickly loaded Canary into the Super Cycle, they made a quick escape from the cave through the opening.
"RECOGNIZE BLACK CANARY 13, RED TORNADO 16, ROBIN B01, KID FLASH B03, ZATANNA B08, ROCKET B09, SPHERE C01" The computer in the hanger announced the departure of the team.