A/N: I don't own Teen Titans or Young Justice. Without further ado, let's get on with the story.

Raven's Justice

Chapter 4: Fireworks

Robin's P.O.V.

The last thing I remember was being in a terrible fight, as in I was losing and BIG TIME. The Superman clone, wait no; he called himself Superboy and he was kicking the whole team around like we were rag dolls. We were in an underground lab of some sort, and most importantly we couldn't reach the League.

Before I completely lost consciousness I remember a girl kneeling next to me. It was the same girl that I saw at the Hall of Justice, who was she? I felt her hands on the sides of my face. They were soft and yet strong. I instantly feel better, but the feeling came too quickly and I was swept away into unconsciousness by the sweet relief.

"Time runs short."

I feel myself slowly start to wake up. I'm not as uncomfortable as I thought I would waking up in an unknown location. But it definitely wasn't the worst sleep I've had. Some of Batman's "tests" are a little more extreme that one would like. At the moment I was being held up by two metal clamps that gripped onto my wrists, they weren't cutting of the circulation but they were most definitely digging into my hands. I was in a pod just like the one we found Superboy in.

"You must awaken. You must awaken now!"

I open my eyes to see Aqualad, Kid Flash, and the mystery girl. That girl, she risked her life trying to help me and the team so in that moment right there and then I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt on her background. Her hood was pushed back it was a dark blue; the leotard she wore underneath was covered with debris from the fight. Her hair was a dark purple and reached down to her stomach. Her hair covered part of her face but the other side had a bruise on her cheek from what I assumed was the knock out hit.

Once we get out of this situation I'm going to have to ask her some questions. Like what's her name? What was she doing here before I passed out? Was she following me? Stuff like that.

I look down, I see the guy who knocked us out, Superboy. He was just standing there, it probably annoyed me more than it should but all I really wanted to do was smack his stupid clueless look off his face. But thankfully Batman taught me pretty early on to keep most of my emotions a t bay during missions, still learning but I got most of the technique down.

Kid has always been quick to recover, due to his heightened metabolism. It also didn't help that he lacked the control to know when to say things. "What. What do you want?"

Superboy just kept standing there and looking at us. It honestly felt kind of creepy, him analyzing us set my nerves on edge. Apparently Kid agreed with me, "Quit staring. You're creeping me out."

Rule number 1 of being captured by an unknown hostile force. Don't insult them in any way, especially when the person literally had no experience with sarcasm.

"Uh, KF, how about we not tick off the guy who can fry us with a look?" I mean come on, this dude could have every power Superman has, and he could already hate us. The situation can always get worse, another thing I learned from my years of working with Batman. I let them take over the talking while I start to think of a way to escape. This pod was made to hold Superman, or at least it's clone; I have to be think smarter not harder to get out.

Aqualad tries a different tactic, "We only sought to help you."

Kid once again had other ideas "Yeah, we free you, and you turn on us. How's that for grat…?"

Thankfully Aqualad stopped him this time "Kid, please, be quiet now. I believe out new friend was not in full control of his actions."

I begin to use the lock pick that is in the tip of my glove, when I hear Superboy say "What if I…? Hmm. What if I wasn't?"

The look on his face was as if he was realizing something, in that moment right there he showed his age and inexperience.

But then Kid had to open his mouth again, "He can talk?"

Superboy's expression quickly turns to anger when he reply's back "Yes, he can."

I've got to remember that, Superboy always leans towards the angry side of all emotions, got it. After he said that the room instantly more awkward yeah thanks KF. It seemed as though no one except me realized that there was also a girl captured with the rest of us, but she seemed to be just observing us now. Now that she was awake I could see her eyes, they were violet. I can't believe I forgot her eyes, but now that I could look at them I could see sadness in them. What happened to her to make her so sad, most likely what happens to all of us; death. Losing my parents the way I did made it so I could work closer with Batman, but also made me into the person I am today. I couldn't be who I am without that happening to me.

Then to try to make the conversation 'better' Kid Flash added "Not like I said "it."" Like that helps anyone, really. He needs to learn when to shut up. Being captured kind of ruins my attitude, so excuse my mental rudeness.

Thankfully Aqualad came to the rescue. He quickly changed the topic and asked Superboy "The genomorphs taught you telepathically."

Superboy took the bait and responded with "They taught me much. I can read, write. I know the names of things."

I try to keep the conversation going by adding "But have you seen them? Have they ever actually let you see the sky or the sun?"

"Images are implanted in my mind, but, no, I have not seen them."

As we talked Superboy's face became more confused, sad, and angry. We were getting to him; we just need to keep him on this path.

Aqualad jumps in again with "Do you know what you are? Who you are?"

"I am the Superboy. A genomorph. A clone made from the DNA of the Superman. Created to replace him should he perish. To destroy him should he turn from the Light."

I looked at KF with a concerned look; Superboy was talking as if he was programed to say these things. Can he learn not to do them, or is it ingrained into his being.

Aqualad continues to talk him down by saying "To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration. But like Superman, you deserve a life of your own. Beyond that solar suit. Beyond your pod. Beyond Cadmus."

If KF, Aqualad and I continue to do missions together I am absolutely comfortable with letting Aqualad taking the reins with hostage negotiations, and talking to people in general for that matter. He has a way of calming people; unlike myself or Kid Flash. I am told that I lean on the side of to direct, rude- like. I'll just try to shut up Kid; he is too hot- headed to say anything of use right now.

"I live because of Cadmus. It is my home!"

I respond with "Your home is a test tube. We can show you the sun."

"Uh, pretty sure it's after midnight, but we can show you the moon." Kid Flash corrects.

Aqualad continues, "We can show you, introduce you to Superman."

Superboy begins to look hopeful, but then a voice from behind interrupts the moment by saying "No, they can't. They'll be otherwise occupied. Activate the cloning process"

An angry man in a lab coat with a small genomorph on his shoulder is accompanied by Guardian and the female scientist who ran out of Project Kr earlier was coming into the room. They all had genomorphs, but the angry one who talked seemed to be the one in charge.

I looked around the room but then realized that the girl in the pod was gone, but how did she escape. I tried to mask my shock; I'll just have to look for her after we deal with this situation.

Sassy remarks are one of my specialties if I don't say so myself and so I added "Pass. Batcave's crowded enough."

"And get the Weapon back in its pod." The angry scientist told Guardian. I could tell something is definitely off about Guardian, he was being too passive. He was a hero, why was he working for Cadmus? Another question added to my long list of confusion.

Guardian begins to walk towards Superboy, to direct him back to his pod, when KF stupidly adds "Hey, how come he gets to call Supey an "it"?" But I'm sure that was just an indirect way to get Superboy to realize that he was called an 'it' by his so called family.

Aqualad gives it one last chance to convince him, "Help us."

Superboy shrugs Guardians attempt at leading away, roughly I might add. The angry scientist further insults by adding "Don't start thinking now."

A Genomorph then jumps from the scientist shoulder too Superboy's and his horns start to glow, and Superboy's expression turns blank. The scientists were using some kind of mind control on everyone that answers one of my many questions.

The angry scientist continues "See, you're not a real boy. You're a weapon. And you belong to me. Well, to Cadmus. Same thing. Now get back to your pod."

Superboy walks away with the door closing behind him. And the 'cloning process' begins. Two metal arms jet out from below us, and lock onto our chests. It felt as if I was being electrocuted, which I have also experienced under Batman. It was bearable enough to not kill us outright, but if takes a while we may not survive the process.

I hear over the sound of screaming "Where's Dubbilex? Ooh! Ugh." It was that angry scientist, god thay guy is an ass. "Lurking as usual." The tall human like genomorph from before came into view.

"Get the G-Gnomes downloading their memories. When that's done, delete the source material." Wait that's us, if I wasn't being electrocuted I would probably gasp or something. Though since I am being electrocuted, I'll just focus on that. The pain is starting to overwhelm my mind. My eyes are barely open but I see her she came back or she never left but now she is moving around the room. She looks as though she was covered in darkness, like a shadow. She lifts her index finger to her lips, the universal 'shush' symbol. I then see some of the darkness that surrounded her comes over to me, and like before I instantly feel better but cold. Though she doesn't take away all the pain, she only takes a little. It becomes more manageable, and my head starts to clear.

I then hear banging on the door, and then seconds later the door gets ripped from the wall. Superboy picks up the door and the cloning process stops. It seemed as though he ripped out the electricity to the machine along with the door.

The angry scientist starts to yell at Superboy again "I told you to get back to you're…" but Superboy pushes him, hard, and Guardian along with Dubbilex hit the wall.

"Don't give me orders."

Kid Flash then asks "You here to help us or fry us?"

"Huh. I don't seem to have heat vision, so I suppose helping is my only option." Nice, he has a sense of humor. Maybe adjusting him to the outside world won't be as hard as I originally thought.

I feel then the girl's darkness solidify around me; it then pulled me out of the pod and put me on the floor. I shiver a bit but other than a few electrical burns and bruised wrists I was fine. I look up to see the girl float down to the floor and heading towards me.

She looks nervous, but despite that she tells me "Well, I guess I can't hide anymore. My name is Raven. You have no reason to trust me, but I am here to help. I know you have lots of questions but we are a little busy at the moment, but I promise I'll answer all of them once we are out of this mess."

Wow, it was like she was reading my mind or something, but I was content with this at the moment. "OK, as long as you answer ALL my questions. My name is Robin, and the guy with the yellow suit is Kid Flash, and the blonde dude is Aqualad. Welcome to the team I guess."

I round the corner and begin to tell the group "Ugh, finally. Lucky Batman isn't here. He'd have my head for not being able to get out. Oh and by the way this is Raven, she's cool. She got me out."

"Seriously? That's what you're worried about? The whole League will have our heads after tonight. Hey do I know you from somewhere? If not let me introduce myself, I am Kid Flash here, but I bet you already knew that from my reputation." KF said rapidly and with a mischievous smile on his face.

"Actually I know your names because you're not as quiet as you might think." Raven says with a wink and a smile while I start pressing buttons to release the other two.

"It is nice to meet you, and thank you for releasing Robin. May I ask why you are down here?"

I then tell Superboy "Free Aqualad. I'll get Kid Mouth."

"That is a long explanation that we really don't have time for. I answer all your questions when we out of here. But I promise I will do everything in my power to help." Raven tells Aqualad.

While Superboy and I were having our own tense conversation "Don't you give me orders either."

He then leaps over to Aqualad and breaks the wrist restraints. Aqualad says "Thank you."

I quickly take KF's restraints off, and we all start to head towards the door. As we are moving I see that Raven put her hood back up and was floating again as if it was more natural than walking itself, so I decided to stash that along with my other questions. After a day like today, this isn't even registering on my weird scale.

"You..! You'll never get out of here. I'll have you back in pods before morning."

I turn around and start to grab something out of my tool belt "That guy is not whelmed. Not whelmed at all." But before I could do anything Raven's eyes begin to turn black and she lifts the angry scientist, with her mind I might add, and throws him against the wall, knocking him out. Kid Flash and I just stand and stare at her for a second. "What, he was getting on my nerves. I couldn't exactly do that that until you guys knew I was here." Raven replies sheepishly. I then throw three explosives at the pods to destroy all the data Cadmus got from us, we really didn't need our clones running around.

"Well, okay then. What is it with you and this "whelmed" thing?" KF says with a smile on his face. Superboy looked at her with an amused look on his face, and ads "Come on…"

[_[-]_]

Raven's P.O.V.

The last half hour has been one of the most stressful and the most awkward of my entire life. Once I woke up, I realized I was in a pod. My wrists were bound and I wasn't alone. Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Robin were also bound. I didn't really pay much attention to the conversation going on all I know is that they were conversing with Superboy. I underestimated him before, a mistake I won't let happen again. I don't trust him; my emotions aren't as foolproof after my Robin's death. I now have to rely on just what I've seen; I can't trust my feelings in any way shape or form.

It took me awhile to get out of the pod, a lot longer than I would have hoped for. It turned out that the pod dampens powers since Kid, Aqualad, and I were all still stuck. But my powers are different than theirs; mine are demonic in origin and exceedingly more powerful than theirs. Eventually I melded through my pod, it took more energy that I would have guessed and I almost blacked out again.

Once I came too, I flew over to Robin. He was looking straight at me. I held my pointer finger to my lips; I don't need Superboy coming at me right now I needed to focus on getting Robin free. The next thing I knew they were all being electrocuted. I tried to lessen the impact of Robin's injuries, but I couldn't let the scientists know I was here. Then Superboy appeared in the door way, apparently he left. Good to know, and was now on our side.

I get Robin out. They all know who I am now. Great.

The next thing I know we were running down the many hallways. Well I wasn't actually running, I was flying. Once I learned I could fly, I loved it. I did it as often as could, and it was easier than running.

"We are still 42 levels below ground. But if we can make the elevator…" Aqualad reminds us. He will most definitely be a leader, hopefully for this team, but he will lead in some point in his life.

Before we could reach the elevator those elephant like genomorphs surrounded the entrance; stopping us in our tracks. We look back; the sacks on the wall begin to glow. They must be eggs, because now I could see more genomorphs come out of them, inevitability trapping us.

I smile, it's time to fight. After the last couple days I really needed to vent. I focus on the fight at hand, in the background I also notice Superboy giving angry grunts here and there, but other than that they were pretty quiet fighters, good quality for heroes to have.

But before I get too into it, I hear Aqualad say "Superboy, Raven. The goal is escape, not to bury ourselves here." I sigh knowing he was right only added to the fact that I let myself become unhinged. I really needed get under control, I drop the Genomorph I was fighting, with a little more force than needed but I let go of my fight. Superboy seemed to be thinking along the same line as I am, I smile at the others sheepishly again. I pull my hood back over my head slightly embarrassed, while Superboy just looked angry. Then he screamed at us, "You want escape?"

I was ready to grab hold of him; maybe I could stop him I don't know until I tried. I know that uncontrollable rage is never a good thing.

I hear the sound of metal being squished, and I glance over to see the rest of the boys at the entrance to the elevator. We all start heading up the shaft, Superboy was carrying Aqualad while Kid Flash and Robin and I were making it up by ourselves. But then Superboy begins to fall, I realize he can't actually fly. I'm the first to notice this and I grab them both, I don't grab them with my hands but with my powers it looks as though a couple giant shadow hands came from beneath my cloak and grabbed them around their waists.

"I…I'm falling. Superman can fly. Why can't I fly?" We keep moving up, but now I'm moving a lot slower but we are being met by Robin and Kid. We all stopped at this level, I feel slightly winded but am still grateful for the rest.

"I don't know. But you can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Still cool." If there is one thing I can count of Kid for, it's his optimism.

Superboy glances at me with a sad and disappointed look "Thank You", I could tell that he would like to independent one day and failing at this task just brought him down. "You do know that this doesn't make you any less by not being able to fly or shoot lasers from your eyes. You are your own person." I tell him, this guy really needs a friend at the moment, someone to keep him from insanity. I will try to be that person since none of the others seem to know or care. He gives me a smile and a nod; I really hope he takes this to heart.

We were interrupted by Robin saying, "Guys, this will have to be our exit." Unfortunately I had to agree with, I was getting exhausted. I knew that teleporting so much was going to have negative effects on the duration of my powers. I just hope it doesn't show too much, but thankfully my Robin demanded me to learn some hand to hand combat. Now after hundreds of hours of training I was able to hold my own in a fight with him, or I was. I quickly try to think of something else anything else, so I decide to focus on the moment. One thing at a time.

So burst onto sub level 15.

We start running, and I'm now running with them. I hear a muffled voice but I could tell it was telepathic in nature. I glance around to see Superboy have a shocked expression; the voice was talking to him. I choose to peak into his mind for further communications.

"Go left. Left." Superboy yells we all follow, without question.

"Turn right." I hear an older male voice say, it's that Dubbilex guy. I don't tell Superboy because I don't think he would like me delving into his mind without his permission.

"Right." Superboy says. We follow again; I hope Dubbilex isn't trying to trick us. Then we are led to a dead end, but there was a vent.

"Great directions, Supey. You trying to get us re-podded?" Kid adds unhelpfully.

"No, I don't understand." Replies Superboy, sounding confused; he doesn't know that he actually led us to the perfect escape route. I catch Robin's eye, we both smirk looking at the vent on the back wall. We know the importance of air vents; they can take you basically anywhere in any building.

"Don't apologize. This is perfect." Robin says with a smile.

[_[-]_]

We are now crawling in the air vents. Behind me are Kid Flash and Superboy. I feel Kid's gaze on my ass, I zap him in between his eyes. It was low but painful electrical shock, it left no mark but hurt like a bitch.

"Stop doing that." He says.

"Then stop looking at my ass" I reply, my cloak was too long to crawl with so I morphed into a jacket. I picked up the ability to morph my cloak into different things awhile back, now that I think about it I really didn't need to steal those cloths, dammit.

"I'll stop looking at your ass when you're not in front of me, because right now there's nothing I can do about that." He says back, even though I'm facing forwards I can tell he's smiling. So I decide to float ahead, moving through Aqualad, landing in front of him.

"Sorry about that Aqualad, but I trust you know where to look." I say to Aqualad quietly.

He chuckles "It is fine. Maybe a little warning next time though, but I understand your discomfort."

Robin then pipes up and says "If KF gives you anymore issues, just let me know" He's says this almost protectively. I smile at this but our attention gets drawn back to Kid when he changes the subject "At this rate, we'll never get out."

"Shh. Listen." Superboy says to the group. We could hear the Genomorphs were closing in. Robin stopped the group, and we sat there for bit, waiting for an explanation.

"I hacked the motion sensors" He finally tells us, I let out a sigh of relief.

"Sweet." Kid said moments later.

"Still plenty of them between us and out." Robin added, reminding the group that the mission was not over just yet.

"But I've finally got room to move." Kid tells Robin before running off up the stairs. We all start running behind him, though of course not as fast and follow him up the stairs.

I start to think that most of the conversations I've heard today have been between Kid Flash and Robin. I can only assume that they've known one another for years and were comfortable with each other to be this chatty during a mission. I believe that Aqualad is just generally a quiet person, and I am most definitely not talking. I say things here and there but I am honestly just not ready to talk just yet, and I believe Superboy is in the same boat. Other than his sudden bursts of anger and the directions from earlier he doesn't talk much.

"More behind us." Robin says from behind me. I glanced back he was on his arm-held computer, and running upstairs with acrobatic grace. I was always amazed at Robin's ability to multi-task. Moments later I feel the staircase shake, Superboy breaks off the stairs so that the Genomorphs can't follow. Effective, but dangerous and not well thought out. This team will need some work once we get out of the current situation.

Once we reach the top an alarm starts to go off, and I hear KF say at the end of the hall "…Unh!"

"We're cut off from the street." Aqualad tells the group angrily, hitting another road block.

"Thanks, my head hadn't noticed." KF replies with a snarky attitude. We all start to try to pry open the doors. Aqualad, Superboy and I began to pull the doors apart; Aqualad and Superboy used their arms and I used my power, what little I had left at the moment.

"Can't hack this fast enough." Robin told us from a couple feet away.

The elephant sized genomorphs came around the corner. I could feel my powers slipping away, and begin to see black dots and I drop to the floor. My head almost hits the door but I feel a strong arm under my knees and on my back. I feel myself being rushed to where ever the group was heading, I hear Robin briefly say "This way."

I look at my rescuer, it was Superboy. He had a determined look on his face, and his grip tightened around me letting me know that it was going to be okay. And the world goes dark.

[_[-]_]

Superboy's P.O.V.

All I feel is anger and confusion. Everything I meet is dealt with one or the other, and this girl Raven is no different. The darkness that surrounded was somewhat comforting, for some unknown reason. She would watch over me with intelligent eyes, not angry or oblivious; just knowing. I keep an eye on her, I feel as if something might happen to her if I don't. I know that I'm using my feelings to dictate my actions towards her, but I don't know what else to do. It frustrates me to know so much about things but ultimately know nothing at all.

I've noticed since the beginning that the group was fueled by adrenaline, and endurance. I had no doubt that Raven also had this but I could visibly see her slowly wear down. Her face was naturally a pale grey, but now she was almost as white as my suit. Her hands started to shake, and when Aqualad and I gave up trying pry open the door I see her eyes glaze over. I may only have Superman like powers but right there and then I could have beaten Flash in a race. Before I knew it I was holding her in my arms, I never realized until then how tiny she was. I try not to squeeze her and to focus on escaping but I can't help but worry.

"Somethings wrong, she just collapsed." I say to the others hoping someone would know what to do.

"There's nothing we can do to help her until we get to the surface, let's go." Robin tells me, I can hear his voice quiver but now was not the time to get overwhelmed. I nodded and we headed into yet another hallway.

Out of nowhere we were surrounded by Genomorphs of all sizes. I felt my mind begin to fade away and I tighten my grip onto Raven, hoping to shield her from what might happen, and the world faded into darkness.

Then a voice woke me up, the same voice that directed me to the air vents earlier. I was 100% sure about this because no one has spoken in my mind except for him.

"…himself."

"It was you." I say to the humanoid Genomorph, I set Raven next to the other incase a fight breaks out.

"Yes, brother. I set the fire and lured your new friends down into Cadmus… woke them when they were in danger."

"And guided me. Why?" Why do I always have to live in this constant state of confusion, it is just so damn frustrating. The guys I understand well enough. Robin young and impulsive but has potential beyond belief. Kid Flash is a fast talker and wears his sense of humor on his sleeve as a defensive mechanism, is annoying but can be counted on in a fight. Aqualad in a natural leader who is level headed, and has the strength both inside and out to match. Raven, she is just a mystery and I'm not sure if it's because she's the first girl I've ever met but I feel as though if I don't watch her closely she'll slip through my fingers. For the first time I feel like I have something worth fighting for, a future. A future that might, if I'm lucky, contain Raven.

"Because you are our hope, the genomorph hero. You will blaze a trail for all our brothers, showing us the way to freedom."

And when he says those last words Guardian is released from the telepathic hold, "What's going on?" he says acting confused and disoriented.

Then the rest of the team begins to wake up with him, including Raven.

"What is your choice, brother?"

"I choose freedom."

Guardian tells everyone that it "Feels like fog lifting."

"Guardian?" Aqualad asks, trying to determine which side he is one. I notice Robin wrap an arm around Raven; I feel the sudden urge to punch him through a couple walls. But I decide not to know that he is only trying to support her, because she physically can't stand for too long.

I called away from my thoughts when Guardian replies "Go" .

"I'll deal with Desmond." I could tell by the determination in his voice that he would, now was our chance.

But then from behind him was the person in question. The Genomorphs made a wide birth between Guardian and Desmond, expecting a fight to begin.

"Project Blockbuster will give me the power to restore order to Cadmus." I watch as he downs a vile filled with a glowing blue liquid. This may just be my first day out of my pod, but even I know something bad is going to happen because of Desmond's stupidity. We all begin to slowly step back, Desmond's body begins to grow and change until he became this Frankenstein monster that resembled a Genomorph.

"Everyone, back." Guardian yelled at us. This did nothing, we were a mixed assortment of super powered highly trained super heroes, and we weren't just going to run away. Guardian charges at Desmond and is thrown across the room and I see red. I then charge at Desmond, but I was struck down again and again. I leap towards Desmond and he and I break through the ceiling.

I hear Robin say in the distance "Okay, that's one way to bust through the ceiling."

"You think Lab Coat planned that?" Kid Flash questioned.

"I doubt he is planning anything anymore." Aqualad replied with a serious tone, and a new found focus on the fight.

And almost immediately when Raven gets through the opening, Desmond throws me at her and we go flying across the room. Kid Flash races over to check on her and Robin to me, "I'm fine, really. I've been hit by worse." I hear Raven reply. I relax a bit and return my thoughts back onto Desmond.

We all charge at Desmond, Kid Flash distracts while Aqualad and get ready for the punch of a lifetime. We both hit Desmond straight on, and Raven was able to trip him from behind using her powers I assume. It is actually too dark to see much of anything, especially not Raven's dark telekinetic powers.

"We learned that one in kindergarten." Kid Flash banters. We were finally getting into some kind of system, and it was paying off.

He then rams me into one of the many pillars holding up the roof after deflecting some of Robin's things (I really have to ask at some point what those are). Aqualad tries to intervene but get thrown roughly into the ground, and I get chucked at another pillar. Kid Flash and Aqualad go at him again, and Aqualad gets pushed through a pillar and almost another and the roof begins to loose its integrity.

"Of course. KF, get over here." Robin calls over Kid Flash, if there is one thing I have learned over last couple hours is what exactly Robin's 'I have a plan voice' and that was it.

Aqualad was just getting pummeled and I saw Raven trying to drag Desmond away from him, but he was to strong. I come at him from behind, and he drops Aqualad and throws me through another pillar. There is now only four left holding up the roof.

Kid Flash then diverts Desmond's attention in front of another pillar, and I got the plan. We need to knock all the pillars down so that the roof will collapse most likely crushing Desmond and freeing us.

"Got your nose." Kid Flash taunts Desmond with the skin that once covered his nose. It wasn't hard to rip off; it looked as those Desmond was shedding skin off, it held on like cloth.

"Superboy, Raven, Aqualad. Go." Robin directs us to some of the pillars, we each take one.

"Come and get me, you incredible bulk." Kid Flash says closing in on his pillar. But is hit by a stray piece of debris and falls down.

Aqualad lays out some water, Desmond slips and slides down to where Robin drew a X and the Aqualad electrocutes him to keep him in place. Before he can go anywhere, Robin release charges that bring the roof down in one swift series of explosions. This brings down everything; I grab Raven and shield her from the majority of the impact. I feel a bubble form around the group; Raven is trying to decrease the major impact. I can see her straining to keep the force field going, she begins to shake in my arms. Then the smoke began to clear, and I pushed some of the concrete away.

"We did it." Aqualad pants.

[_[-]_]

Raven's P.O.V.

We are all now standing in the ruins of what used to be Cadmus. We are all panting, our costumes torn, and we all feel that sense of accomplishment.

"See? The moon." Kid gestures at the full moon reminding us that we promised Superboy a view of the outside world. Superboy just stands and looks at it with wonder and amazement. The amazement turns to the familiar face of confusion. A figure begins to emerge from the distance, its Superman and the Justice League. Ah shit.

"Oh, and Superman. Do we keep our promises or what?" KF says with a smile, not realizing that the League was coming in to kick our asses.

At the very least a punishment would be given out to the sidekicks, I don't know what they'll do with Superboy and I. I suddenly grab Superboy's hand he gives my hand a quick squeeze and walks towards Superman. He lifts up the ripped section of suit, mainly the part that had the Superman symbol on it. He glances at Superman with a hopeful look and is met by a stern glare and then his expression hardens.

"Is that what I think it is?" Batman asks.

"He doesn't like being called and 'it'." Kid says quietly to the League.

"I'm Superman's clone." Superboy blurts out, I could tell he was growing frustrated at, well, everything. The League members glance at one another with expressions of horror and anger.

"Start talking." Batman demands to the group.

I walk forward, "I want to introduce myself before you start questioning the others. My name is Raven; I appeared in this world earlier today and was drawn to help Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad. I followed them into Cadmus worried that things would get out of control, and they did. I have telekinetic, telepathic powers, I am an empath and I can fly in this form and as a dark mass of energy. I can teleport as well, but I won't be able to for some time after today, because it takes a lot of my power. My powers are also strongly linked to my emotions, and sometimes they can get out of hand. "I paused, to see if they had alarming questions. But they didn't, "I can go more in depth, if you want." I added after a bit of time passed.

"No, for now it is okay. We need Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad to describe the events. But after that you and the clone will be thoroughly investigated. Do I make myself clear?" Batman said to me in a stern voice.

I walked back to the others, wondering if I had made a huge mistake.

[_[-]_]

After some time, Superman finally walked over to Superboy. Superboy has been glancing at him randomly for the past hour.

"We'll, uh… We'll figure something out for you. The League will, I mean. For now, I'd better make sure they get that Blockbuster creature squared away." Superman told Superboy, as if that would help at all. I guess Kryptonians aren't known for talking, about anything.

Batman said to the group as he walked over," Cadmus will be investigated. All 52 levels. But let's make one thing clear."

"You should have called." Flash continued.

"End results aside, we are not happy. You hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed direct orders and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again." Batman added angrily.

"I am sorry, but we will." Aqualad says proudly.

"Aqualad, stand down." Aquaman orders Aqualad, knowing where this conversation will head towards.

"Apologies, my king. But no." Aqualad says back respectively.

"We did good work here tonight. The work you trained us to do. Together, on our own, we forged something powerful, important." He continues.

Flash tries to negotiate "If this is about your treatment at the Hall, the three of you…"

"The five of us. And it's not." Kid replies.

"Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us. Or why teach us at all?" Robin adds.

"Why let them tell us what to do? It's simple: Get on board, or get out of the way." Superboy says angrily.

"I may be new, but it's time for us to do something together on our own." I add. We all now stand facing the Justice League just waiting for some kind of response.

[_[-]_]

It was a tense couple days after Cadmus. Superboy and I were just lumped together in conversations and placement. They surprisingly didn't ask too many questions, they just wanted me to go under the guidance of Martian Manhunter. With us both being telepaths, it was decided that he could keep an eye on me and help me be an asset for the team. I am fairly advanced with telepathy but finding someone who could teach me new things, a way for me to expand my powers, I was welcome to it. I was incredibly pleased with the amount of privacy I was allowed to have, but they did ask what I meant about what I meant when I said that I appeared in this world. I told them about Azerath, how I came from a peaceful people and that I survived the genocide of my people. That we were attacked by the Demon Trigon, and that I was the only survivor and there was literally nothing to go back too. They stopped with the questions after that. I feel somewhat bad, but I told them things that weren't exactly lies, but I honestly think that it would be too far-fetched to tell them the whole truth. I was ordered to go to the Martian with any questions, or problems because he would be like a probationary officer. Superboy would be assigned to Black Canary; she would keep a discrete eye on him. He was too emotional to deal with the control a P.O. would have over him. Canary would also be like a den mother for the rest of the team, but Batman also told me to telepathically call the Martian if anything gets to out of control in anyway. He told out right that he didn't trust me yet but getting in contact with someone telepathically was 100% fool proof if the person was conscious. I agreed and we left on uncomfortable terms, but I expected nothing less.

Now we were being led by Batman through the place Superboy and I would now call home. The League members were decked out in their uniforms but the rest of us were in our civi's, I was wearing my cloak as a jacket, my black leotard was my (shirt), and I was wearing some black skinny jeans with my uniform boots. Superboy was wearing a black superman t-shirt, blue jeans and black trainers. Robin was wearing sunglasses, a red sweat shirt, a black jacket over it, and black pants. KF was wearing a white long sleeve t-shirt, a blue button up shirt over it (open), and brown pants. Everyone was wearing black shoes except for Aqualad who wore black sandals, with black sweats and a blue exercise jacket.

"This cave was the original Secret Sanctuary of the Justice League. We're calling it into service again. Since you four are determined to stay together and fight the good fight you'll do it on League terms. Red Tornado volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary's in charge of training. I will deploy you on missions." Batman tells the group.

Robin then asks "Real missions?" As if he was getting tricked into something else; even though we were all thinking it, Robin was the only one with the guts to ask him directly.

"Yes, but covert." Batman responds back.

Flash adds "The League will still handle the obvious stuff. There's a reason we have these targets on our chests."

"But Cadmus proves the bad guys are getting smarter. Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly." Aquaman says to the group.

"The five of you will be that team." Batman confirms.

"Cool." Robin says with his signature smile on his face.

"Today is the day." Aqualad says with a sense of accomplishment in his voice.

We were all smiling at the thought; this is going to be the start of something good.

A/N: Hey guys. This is my first fanfic story, and I overestimate how long it would take me to write chapters. So unfortunately I will have to at the most 2 weeks in between chapters. I throwing the every Friday thing out the window, I have a chapter out whenever I get it done. I want to say thanks to;Mako27, dah1507, Insane Blood Prince, Wolfy-Queen, zeona last, FlopsyTheStingyDingo, Katr5432, Regin, TuTsXxX, and Alaska.