"Supey!" Kid Flash and Robin ran into the infirmary, clearly happy to see their teammate awake, "Man, you scared us!"

"Sorry," He sighed quietly before looking them over. None of them were seriously hurt, only a few bruises here and there, and the super figured he was the only one that needed overtime in the infirmary. "What happened with all the kryptonite?"

"The people came and took them into the town while we got you back to the Mountain," Artemis answered, sitting in a seat next to his bed. "How do you feel?"

"Fine," The teen of steel grunted out, looking away from them for a moment. "I'm almost fully healed," He gestured to his wrapped up arm, lifting it up with ease. Of course, he was still gritting his teeth when a sting of pain ran through it but he hid it from his team. He didn't need their pity. "I'm going to my room."

"Um, okay," M'gann said, smiling softly. "Do you need help?"

"No," He said firmly, resisting the urge to glare at the girl. He got up, careful not to show just how weak he felt, and walked over the door, not looking back at his team.

"And the teen of steel awakens!"

Superboy looked up to see Core sitting on his bed crisscrossed in a pair of sweats and a V-neck, a bag of blueberries nestled on his lap. Propped on one knee was one of the super's books on Sherlock Holmes. The clone had researched that it was one of the most famous mystery novels and had decided to try them out. They were fairly entertaining.

"Have you been reading the whole time?" Superboy asked, tilting his head.

"Well," Core slipped a sticky note in place and lightly closed the book. "Yes and no. Yes with the fact that I've been reading since I've come into this room. No in the sense that I've only been in this room for two hours. Tops."

"Two hours? What have you been doing before then?"

"Oh, you know, spying here, terrorizing there -the usual. So, how'd the mission go?"

Superboy sighed, walking over to sit on the computer chair in front of the bed, which was still pushed against the wall, "You know how it went."

"Well, yes," Core agreed, popping a blueberry in his mouth. "But I only know how the last bit went. Tell me about how it led up to that point," He sifted through the bag of blueberries for a moment before tilting his head up, black goggles flashing in the light.

"Robin, Aqualad, Artemis, and I were driving on our cycles while Kid Flash ran beside us and M'gann flew when I looked back and noticed these robot birds."

"Robot birds?" Core nodded slowly, like he was trying to warm up to that idea, "Did your team bring one back?"

"I'm not sure. Probably."

"Alright, I'll find it," He waved his hand in the air dismissively. "Anyway, you were saying?"

"I noticed these robot birds and turned my cycle around, warning Artemis and M'gann about them since they were watching our backs. I took a couple down before the others noticed and helped. The truck was stopped when the road was barricaded just outside of the town with boulders so we had to fight off the robots. One robot was actually partly a bomb and snuck under the truck and, well, you know the rest."

Core nodded before tilting his head towards the door, "These lock automatically, yeah?" At the clone's nod, he continued, "I wanna see your arm."

Superboy scrunched up his eyebrows in confusion but complied, "The doctors have already examined it and wrapped it."

"I see that," Core hummed, working on taking the wrap off. "But I've talked to Superman a couple of years ago and I know you don't like to talk about him but he gave me a Kryptonian cloth that absorbs sunlight while protecting the wearer from outside forces."

"You're going to use that instead?" Superboy wondered, "But wouldn't they be able to tell it was switched?"

"That's a good point, Superboy, but I've already thought of that. I'm going to first clean the wound and wrap it in the cloth. Then, I'm going to put on a small wrapping only to hide the Kryptonian cloth. All I ask is for you to let me be the one to change your bandages and take it off when you're healed, that way Batman doesn't know I'm staying here. He probably already suspects that I'm in the Mountain anyway, knowing him."

"Are you planning on lying low?" The clone asked, reaching over and grabbing a blueberry, slightly surprising the nineteen year-old.

"Yes," Core answered truthfully, finished with wrapping the super's arm. "But, first, I want you to realize something," He tapped the clone's neck, causing the boy to flinch in surprise. "You've almost died today. You could have died today. You need to be more careful during missions. This is for future references; you can't help how this mission played out, but just listen. You can't charge into a place and think that you're invincible because you're not and today proved that. You and your team need to wait and make a plan before starting a fight."

Superboy was silent for a moment before nodding, "Okay."

"Okay," Core got up, throwing the blueberries on the clone's desk and patting him on the shoulder. "Good talk. I'm heading to sleep. Good night."

"Good night," Superboy said, watching as the nineteen year-old opened the closet door to reveal, what looked to be, a nest made out of fluffy pillows and blankets. Apparently, Core had chosen to take out the extra bed (where he put it, the super had no idea) and decided to just sleep on the floor.

"You're training-" Core cut himself off with a yawn, stretching before snuggling down into his blankets, "-will resume when you're healed. Until then, relaaaaxx."