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Warning: Torture (insert maniacal laugh here)

Dani was the first to wake in the basement of the not-so-abandoned warehouse. She found that the wire was replaced with chains that held her to a table that was facing the door. Dani's chains were glowing. Recognizing what some of the equipment in the room was she started to panic and one of the machines started to beep faster, waking the boys up.

"Dani, it's ok. We're right here," Red Arrow said trying to calm her.

"We won't be . . ." Dani whispered almost inaudible, but Superboy heard.

"What do you mean?" Superboy asked.

Dani was too scared to care that he heard her.

"I know who has us." Dani said a little louder this time. "He's gonna kill us."

"Not if you keep proving useful to me," Atruevious said sinisterly, walking into the room. "I am sorry if I scare you, Danielle. But, I need all of you for my latest experiment."

"Why do you need clones?" Superboy asked.

"Good question. You see you boys were made so that if someone looked at you, they wouldn't know your clones. I need to see if I can use something from you to make my projects work for the Light," Atruevious said as he walked to one of the tables in the room, picked up what looked like a scalpel, and walked over to Dani. "But you Danielle, you're my favorite. Because you were saved by the person that was cloned. You were unstable, like all of my and Vlad's other attempts. But your will is stronger than most. I'm going to see if I can duplicate what Vlad did with you, plus the stability of the boys, and have it be loyal to the Light and only the Light."

Atruevious got closer to Dani and place hand on her forehead to keep her still as he raised the scalpel to her cheek.

"Leave her alone," Superboy growled, but Atruevious didn't seem to hear, as he still made a small incision across her cheek.

It wasn't deep enough to scar, but it did make Dani whimper in agony as blood stared to drip down her face from it.

"Now, now Danielle I know it hurts, but enjoy this test now. It'll only get worse for you clones from here," Atruevious said menacingly.

He went and cleaned the scalpel and did the same to the boys. They both grunted in annoyance to the stinging they had become accustom to.

"What's with the cuts?" Red Arrow asked after Atruevious had finished with him.

"I need to see how fast you heal. That will determine the amount of time in-between sessions. I suggest you get comfortable, you'll be here a while," Said Atruevious as he left the room with a maniacal laugh that rivals the Joker's.

"Dani, are you ok," Red Arrow asked and she nodded. "Who is that guy?"

"His name is Atruevious. He worked with the person that created me, before he went insane," Dani said.

"Yeah, we got the insane part," Superboy said.

Dani started to shake knowing what Atruevious did to his other failed clone attempts. He must have killed dozens of them trying to perfect his cloning process. Never in her life had she ever wished so bad to be in Vlad's company.

"Dani, you need to stay calm. We'll figure a way out of this," Red Arrow said.

"I know what he can do . . . and it's not good," Dani muttered. "He's right, this is only the beginning."

The boys tried to get a look a Dani. They had no idea what she had seen.

Danny had no idea what she had seen.

Right now Dani was scared out of her mind. She knew the second they proved unusable, they would be dead. She tried to calm herself, but failed.

"Who-who's the Light?" Dani asked still shuttering in fear.

"Basically . . . a team of the worst of our bad-guys," Red Arrow said. "But, they constantly underestimate us."

"Our team beat them before, we'll do it again," Superboy said.

Silence was what followed that conversation. For hours they just did not know what to say. For, although they hope, they knew it was unlikely for either of their teams to find them on their own any time soon.

As more time in silence passed their wounds started to heal and Atruevious came back in.

"Well, well looks like it's time for the first experiment," Atruevious said walking to a machine.

"What are you going to do?" Red Arrow asked.

Atruevious just scoffed and pushed a button on the inhibitor collars' remote. That sent powerful shocks of electricity into the clones' systems. Atruevious laughed evilly when Dani screamed and the boys grunted in pain.

Dani was the first to succumb to unconsciousness, with Red Arrow following a few minutes later.

Superboy dizzily tried to stay conscious, when the electricity stopped.

"Looks like you're first at bat, Superboy," Atruevious said looking at the dazed boy.

Superboy was barely aware of someone unhooking him from the restraints and being dragged out of the room, the rest of the equipment was still hooked up to him. Superboy's dazed state only pleased Atruevious more.

The insane man took Superboy to the next room over, where he took a sample of the boy's blood.

"What shall I do to you first?" Atruevious muttered mainly to himself since Superboy wasn't exactly coherent.

He decided on injecting him with a drug of his own concoction. Now, the drug was designed to numb pain, but he found that on most clones (98.7% of them) it made any pain they experienced increase by tenfold and make them highly susceptible to illness.

With the drug in Superboy, and knowing what he was going to do to him, Atruevious was glad that he had another clone similar to Superboy. It was likely that the Superboy would fail him, but Atruevious would have his fun first.

Thus, Atruevious started to work on his "experiment." Making several incisions on the boy's torso and arms, blood dripping from each gash. Each time the boy couldn't control his screams, as the pain was much worse than it should have been.

"Now, now little hero you wouldn't want to worry the others," Atruevious nearly chuckled, making a few more cuts.

"St-stop," Superboy muttered as a small amount of blood started to drip out of his mouth.

"Why would I do that?" Atruevious said and laughed wickedly cutting the boy on his arms several more times.

With that Superboy admitted to unconsciousness, as the pain became more than he could bear.

Atruevious noted that Superboy's heartrate had slowed a little, as he left Superboy to once again deal with the panicking Danielle.

Meanwhile, Red Arrow was trying to keep Dani calm so they didn't alert Atruevious that they were awake. Although, that was getting harder since Superboy had started screaming and Red Arrow didn't know what was happening to his teammate.

"Red Arrow, what are we going to do?" Dani asked fear evident in her voice.

"Someone will come for us," he said and Superboy's screams dwindled.

The heart monitor that was hooked up to Dani started to beep faster. She was starting to have a panic attack.

"Dani, come on just breath, you don't want . . ." Red Arrow was cut off by Atruevious walking in.

"Don't want what?" Atruevious said walking closer to Dani.

The heart monitor was beeping so fast now, that Red Arrow was surprised that Dani was still aware that Atruevious was getting closer. He had a syringe in her arm within seconds.

"What did you give her?" Red Arrow ask angrily, as Dani started to calm into a forced sleep.

"A sedative, Red Arrow, wouldn't want her fear taking her out before I got a chance to . . . play with her," Atruevious said.

"What did you do to Superboy?" Red Arrow was getting impatient with this creep.

"You'll find out soon enough," Atruevious left the room with that.

'This is just great,' Red Arrow thought. 'Uh guys, where are you?'

. . .

'Where are they?' Robin thought as the Bio-ship landed at the cave. 'This is taking too long, not to mention that Danny's sidekick is practically a newbie. We've got to find them before it's too late.'

"Robin, Phantom, are you coming?" Miss Martian asked.

"Yeah," Danny said getting out of his seat.

The both of them had spaced out thinking similar things. Both were growing more worried about their friends. Nearly a day had already passed, since they were taken. Time was not on their side.

So sorry that took so long but I never had enough time to get "in the zone" with this writing, because of school and my pets. I hope you like it. Please tell me what you think with reviews, follows, and favorites. (There are a lot of you now!) : )