Start City

July 4, 9: 30 PST

"Ollie, if you had told us you and Speedy had this under control, we wouldn't be having this conversation." Black Canary argued as her and Green Arrow discussed the fact that he had called her and I into a mission, and when we got there, Freeze Jr. had already been incarcerated. I agreed with my mentor, I could have been at home, watching the television, if not for dear old Oliver.

"Women…" Roy scuffed from next to me. We were both sitting on a large trashcan in a particularly dirty alley way as the couple bantered back and forth.

"You're just mad that you can't understand us, that's probably why you don't have a girlfriend. If you also just changed you're attitude—" I raised my hand to point at him to emphasize my point.

"—Alright, genius, I get it. Be less uptight is number two on my checklist." Roy cut me off with a snarky remark. I smirked up at him.

I heard Black Canary let a heavily dramatic sigh out of her lips. "Okay, guys, we're having lunch before you have to get to the HQ. Let's go." Roy and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes behind our masks.

This is how it normally goes and goes. They fight, and then they act as if nothing ever happened the next second. It drove Roy and I nuts, to the point of even asking them to move to Ollie's house together, so Roy and I could occupy Dinah's house without their weird relationship actions.

The four of us quickly changed to our civilian clothing. I had always hated having to change from my uniform to regular clothes because it was so hard.

I had a grey full-body costume with white stripes running along the sides of the pants and the arms until the lines reached my gloves and feet and it turned them all white. The suit was also covered in white from my chest down to my upper legs. My grey utility belt ran diagonally from the top of my waist to its bottom. My mask was very much like Speedy's, except that instead of having black around the edges, it was the same dark grey from my suit. The white material of my suit was made out a bulletproof, and heavy, material.

I liked my costume, it was perfect for combat, but I would like it more if it was easy to take off.

"Alright, who wants to go eat Mexican today? I know this restaurant that will blow you three of your feet!" Ollie exclaimed, raising his hands up in exaggeration. Dinah and I looked at each other, smiling at his silliness. Roy only crossed his arms across his broad chest; he was never exactly the friendly type.

"Well, I know I wouldn't mind Mexican today." I responded.

Washington D.C

July 4, 14:00 EDT

Green Arrow, Black Canary, Speedy, and I arrived at the hill in front of the Hall of Justice. I sighed contentedly to myself; it was nice knowing that the League trusted you enough to let you in its HQ.

I nudged Robin with my elbow, making him mock wince when I made contact with his shoulder.

"Are you excited?" He asked.

"Of course I am! It's the Justice League's headquarters, remember?" I smiled, ruffling his jet-black hair.

"We have waited a long time for this, haven't we?"

"You're nervous, aren't you?"

"How did you know?" His eyes widened behind the domino mask.

"I've known you for three and a half years now, Bird Boy. I think I can tell your mood changes and all that." I put a hand on my hip, pointing a finger at his chest. He grabbed it and pretended he was about to chew it; I let him, until he actually bit my finger and I retreated it with a punch on his arm.

"Alright, that one hurt!" He rubbed his arm.

"Hello, Robin, Timeless, Speedy." Aqualad regarded all of us with a smile and a nod.

I came to stand in front of the Antlantian to give him a brief hug; I hadn't seen him in so long, a month to be exact. Kaldur returned the hug and let go of me, letting me fall right next to him as we awaited the arrival of Flash and Kid Flash.

"It's ironic how they're always the last ones." Robin muttered in front of Batman.

A slightly distant 'Oh man!' was heard from behind us, and everyone turned around to see Flash and Kid speeding towards us.

Wally didn't seem too happy to be the last one; I had to bite my lips to refrain from letting out a chuckle. "I knew we'd be the last ones here!"

Our mentors made their way down the hill to the entrance of the Hall of Justice, the rest of us teenagers hot on their heels.

There was a small group of paparazzi formed in the front of the large dome, and questions were being shouted at us from all angles.

'Is that Batman?'

Yes, it is, can't you see the giant Bat on his chest?

'I see Flash and Flash Junior!'

Poor Wally…

'I thought his name was Speedy?'

'No! Speedy is Green Arrow's sidekick!'

'Well, that makes no sense.'

Sometimes I thought that, too.

'Is that Timeless? I hear she can stop and reverse time!'

Also, I can fast forward it, but who counts, right?

'Is she with Black Canary?'

Have you not seen us together, ignorant civilian?

"Ready to see the inner sanctum?" Green Arrow asked both Speedy and I. I saw the first smile Roy had given anyone today, and we both looked at each other, grinning in excitement. "Born that way."

"I'm glad we're all here." Aqualad announced.

"As am I," I nodded.

"Have all five sidekicks ever been in the same place at the same time?" Kid gushed, and I mean it, he gushed.

"Don't call us sidekicks, not after today." Speedy snapped in Wally's direction. I gave him a pointed look, telling him to calm down.

"Sorry, first time at the hall. I'm a little overwhelmed." Kid Flash apologised.

"You're overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone ever just whelmed?" Robin said.

"Probably because it isn't a word, Bird Brain!" I pointed out.

"Well, it is now!" Our English teacher was not going to be very excited with her most troublesome pupil making up a word all of a sudden. She already had enough against Dick.

Everyone marched into the Hall of Justice, and I sucked in a tight breath.

The statues were huge! I could not believe such a great thing was kept from our view. When I get older, I want to be in the Justice League, just so I can get someone to make a giant statue of me next to the superheroes.

A door opened to reveal Red Tornado and Martian Manhunter behind it. "Welcome, Speedy, Aqualad, Timeless, Robin, Kid Flash." Martian Manhunter said as he led us through the door that slammed shut when we came through. "Now, you have unlimited access to the gym, our gallery, and of course, the library."

"Make yourselves at home!" Flash smiled, raising his hands in the air.

Kid Flash, Robin, and Aqualad took the three seats available, making Speedy and I have to stand in awkward silence. I glared at Robin to give up his seat, but he just smirked at me, slowly moving out of the seat.

"I'll give you my seat, babe." Wally flirted, standing up, signalling for me to sit in his chair.

"Hey, KF, she already asked me." Robin crossed his arms across his chest.

Kid put his hands up in mock defense, "Alright, Bird Boy, don't get too jealous."

I rolled my eyes at them, sitting down on Robin's chair at last, I was tired out already, and it wasn't even time to go home. I just wished to curl up in my bed at Dinah's house in Gotham and relax; all this excitement cut out a lot of my energy supply.

"Quick debrief to discuss the coincidence of four ice villains attacking on the same day. We shouldn't be long." Batman announced to us. The zeta-beams scanned the seven Leaguers in front of us, quickly reciting their names by heart.

"That's it? You promised us a real look inside, not a glorified backstage pass!" Roy demanded. The four of us teenagers looked at it each other. This can only mean trouble.

"It's a first step. You've been granted access a few others get." Aquaman reasoned.

"Oh really?" Roy pointed at the glass window that showed tourists looking into him argue with the older men. "Who cares which side of the glass we're on!"

"Roy, you just need to be patient." Green Arrow tried to calm Speedy down, but even I knew it was a futile attempt.

"What I need is respect!" Roy snarled. "They're treating us like kids, worse, like sidekicks! We deserve better than this!"

I pressed my gloved hand against my temple, rubbing it slowly. I honestly hated when Roy started getting all irrational and impulsive. It brought havoc between us, and between the Justice League when he started fighting.

I just wanted to smack him in the face now, we were slowly building our way up to being Leaguers, and Roy is going to blow that chance that he had by behaving like a spoiled child.

Aqualad, Kid Flash, Robin and I looked in between each other. We all silently disagreed with Speedy, but he was our friend after all, we didn't exactly want to tell it straight up to his face.

"You're kidding, right? You're playing their game?" Roy was incredulous now. "Today was supposed to be the day! Step one to becoming full-fledged members of the League!"

"Well, sure, but I thought step one was supposed to be a tour of the HQ." Kid Flash explained almost reluctantly.

"Except this isn't the League's real HQ! I bet they never told you it's just a false front for tourists, and a pit stop for catching zeta-beam teleporter tubes to the real thing! An orbiting satellite called the Watchtower!"

That was the last straw for my three friends, they looked shocked and betrayed, and I guess they were. No one ever told them the truth about the Justice League's Headquarters.

I looked at Black Canary, silently agreeing with her to tell no one that I also knew about the Watchtower.

Ollie had spilled the secret when he took Roy and I in a walk at Central Park when we'd gone for a mission to New York. I looked at Green Arrow, and we agreed on the same thing. Don't let anybody know.

"You are not helping your cause here, son, stand down or—" Roy rudely interrupted Aquaman.

"—Or what? You'll send me to my room? And I'm not your son! I'm not even his," Roy looked pointedly at Ollie, "I thought I was his partner, but not anymore." Speedy threw down his hat, and it landed with a thud.

My eyes widened in horror. "What are you doing?" He only gave me a slight shake of the head before saying, "I guess they were right about you four. You're not ready." He left after that one last sentence.

I stood in front of my chair. The back of my eyes stung with anger. Roy was like a brother to me, and he couldn't even say sorry for being so harsh? For leaving me, us, so suddenly?

I felt a heavy hand press against my shoulder-blade, and when I looked at it, I instantly knew it was Robin's glove. I attempted smiling at him, but it turned into more of a grimace. I wanted Dick to know that I was okay, or, at least trying to be.

An alarm cut through the surprised silence, and Clark's face popped on a giant screen, "Superman to Justice League: There has been an explosion on Project Cadmus. It's on fire."

"I've had my suspicions on Project Cadmus," Batman spoke up, "This may present the perfect opportunity to—"

"Zatara to Justice League: The sorcerer Wotan is using the Amulet of Aten to blot out the sun. Requesting full League response." Zatara's face also appeared on the wide computer screen.

"Superman?" Batman pried.

"It's a small fire. Local authorities have it under control." Superman decided to answer. I could tell that it was not just a small fire if Clark asked the Justice League to go investigate.

"Then Cadmus can wait." Batman pressed a large button on the League's keyboard. "All Leaguers rendezvous to Zatara's coordinates. Batman out."

The computer went black as soon as Bruce stopped talking. The four of us approached our mentors, ready for action, but Batman told us to stay put.

I looked at Black Canary and huffed, she only shook her head, listen to Batman. It's for your own good. I had seen that look from her so many times. I was starting to wonder if she saved it only for me.

I heard arguing from both Robin and Aquaman. "You're not trained—" Flash started, but got cut off.

"Since when!" Kid Flash shouted.

"I meant you're not trained to be part of this team." Flash gave Wally a very quick glare. Do not defy my authority, Wally.

"There will be other missions, when you're ready." Aquaman finished with the explanation.

"But for now," Batman spoke, "Stay put." The League members left, leaving us all dumbfounded.

Wally huffed. "When we're ready? How are we ever going to be ready if they keep treating us like, like…" He scouted his brain. "Sidekicks!"

"Thank you, for rubbing that in our faces some more." I answered with no energy.

"My mentor, my king…I thought he trusted me." Kaldur muttered, with the same upsetting demeanour as me.

"Trust? They don't even trust us with the basics!" Kid retorted. "They've got a secret HQ in space!"

"What aren't they telling us?" I rubbed my white-gloved fingers over my masked eyes.

"I've got a better question," Robin finally spoke up in between the confusion, "Why didn't we leave with Speedy?"

That left us thinking, and I sighed. I actually had the thought of leaving with Speedy on my mind, but decided not to let rage cloud my judgment, and stay.

"What is Project Cadmus?" Aqualad mumbled.

I was almost glad he asked that. I felt a growing need to prove to my mentor, to my mother, that I could do what she did. That I could find out things that even the League couldn't by themselves. I wanted to prove to her that I was ready. I was strong enough for the job.

"I don't know, but I can find out." Robin smirked mischievously. Oh, I definitely liked it when he got like that.

Robin started hacking the software of the League's computer, leaving us other three watching in amusement and amazement.

"Access denied." The computer announced.

"Ha, wanna bet?" Robin's smirk only grew as he silently gloated the fact that he could get through any security program ever invented.

"How exactly are you doing that, Rob?" I inquired, resting my elbow next to the metal keyboard, watching his moves.

"Same system as the Batcave!" Robin grinned at me, and it was one of his 'to drool for' smiles that won over ladies from all over the globe.

"Access granted." The computer said in that monotone voice that unnerved me.

"Project Cadmus: genetic lab here in D.C…That's all there is." Robin paused, "But if Batman's suspicious, then maybe we should investigate."

"Solve their case before they do. It would be Poetic Justice." Aqualad smiled, realising Robin's master plan was actually pretty good.

"Hey!" Robin chuckled, "They're all about justice!"

I rolled my eyes, "Good one, Bird Boy."

"Thank you very much!" Robin sarcastically bowed.

Aqualad sighed abruptly, "They said stay put."

I groaned, "Kaldur, you know I love you, but stop being such a goody-two shoes!"

"Goody-two shoes?" He asked in confusion.

"Never mind that. They said stay put for the blotting out the sun mission, not this!" Robin interrupted us with a goofy smile on his face.

"Wait, are you going to Cadmus?" Wally's face lit up, "'Cause if you're going, I'm going!"

"You can count me in, too, Commander!" I saluted Robin with a smirk plastered across my face. Wally joined me in on the joke, and imitated my actions.

We all turned to Aqualad with pleading grins on our faces, trying to make him give in to our ingenious plan. "Just like that, we're a team on a mission?"

"We didn't come for a play date." Robin answered.

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When we arrived to Cadmus, the building was still on fire, much to my surprise. You would think that the fire could have been taken out in less than half an hour, but no. There must have been some chemical that mixed into the fire so it was more water resistant.

"Help!"

"Get us out of here!"

Two scientists were shouting pleas into the air as the fire came closer to them. An explosion resounded throughout the area, making my ears ring, and gravity sucks the two scientists right out of the building. Kid ran ahead, catching the two older men easily by their lab coats, and hoisted them up to the building again.

Wally almost fell down as he lost momentum in the end, making my heartbeat louder. Now, he lay dangling on the ledge of the building's roof.

"So smooth." Robin chuckled.

"Does he always have to run ahead?" Aqualad muttered, angered at the youngster's antics.

"That's what he does, Aqualad, and you know it." I reasoned.

"I do, but we need a plan, we—" Kaldur paused. I looked to the spot where Robin once was, as an almost evil cackle was heard.

Robin was running on the roof of the fire truck, going up the ladder and shooting his grappling hook onto Cadmus' building, grabbing Kid by the arm as he lost grip of the ledge.

I rolled my eyes, a smile on my lips. "Show off!"

Aqualad grabbed some of the water from the fireman's hose and created a liquid tornado to go up the building. He motioned me to go up with him. I stepped on the water gingerly; I was surprised to find it solid as a brick.

Kaldur dropped me off where Robin and Kid were and went up to rescue the two men, placing them down on the ground.

I waited for him outside, and we went in to where Kid was guarding the door, and Robin was hacking the security.

"I appreciate the help." Aqualad deadpanned.

"You handled it! Besides, we're here to investigate." Robin breezed his way out of a lecture like he did it every other day.

I looked through cabinets, searching for something that could possibly spark Batman's interest.

Suddenly, a closing door was heard, and I ran out with Kid to see Aqualad in shock. "There was something in the—"

"Elevators aren't supposed to be working!" I realized, running up to it. Robin came to stand behind me, and pressed twice on the down button.

"This is wrong." Robin spoke, opening his portable computer.

"What gave you that idea?" I said irritably.

"Apart from the elevator working? Nothing..." Robin muttered distantly, "Aha! This is a high-speed express elevator. It doesn't belong in a two-story building."

"Neither does what I saw." Aqualad spoke. He opened the elevator doors with an ongoing grunt. Sometimes, I could only stand in awe when Kaldur demonstrated his strength.

Atlantians and their super powers, I swear.

I peeked over the ledge, surprised at how deep in it went. Robin propped his grappling hook, motioning me to hold onto him.

"I can just slide down the side of elevator, and use one of my foam pellets to land on top of the elevator." I patted Robin's hand away.

"Timeless, we're not sure to which floor the elevator went to. Robin's line might not go as far down as the cabin did. We can get separated. It's better if you go with him." Aqualad decided.

"Hold on tight to your boyfriend!" Kid Flash joked as I took hold of Robin's broad shoulders, and one of his arms wrapped tightly across my back, pressing me against his side to secure I wouldn't fall off.

He might have pressed me into him a little more than necessary.

"Now is not the time, Flash Junior!" I grunted as Robin and I went down. My stomach went up to my throat, making me hold on tighter to Dick. I felt my hair flutter violently on top of me, tickling Robin's face so much he started laughing.

"Control your hair, D!" He rolled his face to the other side.

"You control your nerve system!" I snapped back, clawing at his back desperately.

We came to a lurching stop, "I'm at the end of my rope." Both of us swung forward, clinging to the wall of sublevel twenty-six. Aqualad and Kid Flash came behind us, sliding down Robin's rope, too.

Robin started to hack through the level's software, and Aqualad opened the elevator doors once he gave the signal that he was done hacking security. The doors opened to show a maroon tainted room with a long hallway leading up to the end of the room.

"Welcome to Project Cadmus." Robin announced in as much shock as us.

Kid sped off, leaving us three to trail behind him. We all ran after him.

We caught up with Kid and I had to take one step back. What were those? They seemed like giant mammoths with red eyes, and a little thing was perched on their backs. The mammoths made high-pitched gurgling sounds, they reminded me of monsters in a movie.

"No, nothing odd going on here." Aqualad said, out of breath. The mammoths walked past us, as the little creatures looked upon us, their horns glowing bright red.

We moved slowly through the left side of the hallway, encountering a high-security vault door in the end of the narrower passage. Robin found this door harder to hack through to open, and that only sparked our interests more.

The door opened with a loud click, "Okay, I'm officially whelmed."

"I couldn't agree with you more." I said, my eyes widening to their largest behind the mask. There were thousands of pods in lines, all filled with liquids and a strange creature inside of them. Their brown skin sickened me to see, and the electricity going into their tanks made them look extra creepy.

"This is how they hide this massive underground facility from the world!" Kid Flash exclaimed, "The real Cadmus isn't on the grid! It generates its own power with these…things."

"It must be what they're bred for!" I finished the explanation. I touched the glass of one of the experiments, and watched as the creature inside floated in a trance.

"Of course, even the name is a clue. The Cadmus of myth created a new race by sewing dragon teeth into the Earth." Kaldur explained.

Robin and I shared a look, thinking the same thing, what exactly is this new race for?

"And this Cadmus creates new life, too." Robin spoke up.

"Let's find out why?" I inquired at our master hacker; he nodded, and set to work with his arm computer.

"They call them genomorphs." Robin started. I looked over his shoulder, processing all the data that the computer gave us of this (most surely) illegal project.

"Guys, come look at these stats! Super strength, telepathy, razor claws…these are living weapons!" I finished.

"They're engineering an army." Kid muttered darkly. "But for who?"

"Wait there's something else," Robin went on, "Project Kr…Ugh, the file's triple encrypted. I can't—"

"—Don't move!" My heart stopped beating for a whole second as I whirled around to face a man I recognized, Guardian. He was with some of the genomorphs at his side, was he working for Cadmus?

"Wait, Robin, Aqualad, Timeless, Kid Flash?" For a second, Guardian seemed dumbfounded into his spot.

"At least he got your name right." Robin smirked at Wally.

"Robin, this is not time for jokes." I shook his shoulder.

"I know you, Guardian, a hero." Aqualad said.

"I do my best." Guardian spoke modestly.

"Then what are you doing here?" Kid Flash asked impulsively. I thought it was pretty obvious why he was down here. Guardian was a traitor.

As Guardian explained that he was chief of security, Robin and I glanced at the computer as it beeped. It was done downloading the information we needed to show the Justice League, and just in time. Guardian commanded the genomorphs to fight us.

The four of us took fighting stances before Robin threw down a smoke pellet, as he shot his grappling hook in the air, and landed on the other side of the fight, where he ran away. I hope he was at least going to do something useful if he wasn't fighting.

I punched and flung off as many genomorphs as I could. I roundhouse kicked one of them on the top of the head, and started spiralling sideways so I could perform an advanced kick on the other. I gagged one with a smoke pellet from my utility belt.

There were too many of them coming from either side of me. They grabbed me by the arms, pulling on them until I felt that they were going to be ripped out of my body.

I concentrated hard, and suddenly, the pulling wasn't happening anymore, and the noise had been reduced to complete silence. I opened my eyes, looking at how the scene before me had been frozen still. A shiver passed down my spine, and a smile formed on my face, no more pulling arms.

I disengaged from the genomorphs, quickly carrying them in my arms and dumping them on one corner of the room. I quickly heaved Aqualad and Kid Flash to the other side of the room. I grabbed Guardian and his genomorph, throwing them down with the other enemies before unfreezing time and running toward Robin.

"Way to be a team player, Rob!" Wally shouted over the sirens blaring in front of the closed door Robin was trying to hack. Kaldur and I were a good distance behind them, and I could hear the genomorphs starting to catch up on us.

Aqualad and I ran towards the elevator that was now opened and I cartwheeled into the cabin just as it closed and I felt the elevator go down. At least that was done.

"We're headed down?" Aqualad exclaimed.

"Dude, out is up!" Wally pointed at Robin.

"Excuse me? Project Kr is down on sublevel fifty-two." The Boy Wonder said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Excuse me?" I mocked Robin, "—But this is way out of our control, Rob. We need League backup! We can't do this alone,this is too dangerous! One of us could die in here!"

Before Robin had the chance to answer back, the elevator doors burst open.

We were in sublevel fifty-two, and the four of us got into our fighting stances. If what we had just seen wasn't weird enough, well, they gave us this. The walls were a dark pink and squishy-looking. I felt like I was walking on goo. Baby genomorphs were growing everywhere around us.

"Which way?" Kaldur asked, annoyed with the fact we were actually doing this.

"Yeah, Robin, choose which bizarre hallway you merrily want to walk down to!" I hissed at him, grabbing him by the upper arm, and squeezing hard. Robin groaned and untangled my fingers from him.

"Halt!" What seemed to be an adult genomorph, shouted at us. He used his telepathy to throw metal barrels at us. We ran away from him as an explosion went on as the oil inside the cylinders collided with the walls.

Kid Flash sped ahead of us, and kept the door of Project Kr open as we slid through it. The door soon closed, crunching the metal that held it. Robin hacked the security, and locked the door behind us. "I disabled the door, we're safe."

"We're not safe. We're trapped!" Aqualad exclaimed.

"Uh, guys?" Kid reckoned us over to a keyboard, "You'll wanna see this." He pressed a button and a pod lit up, showing a boy, about sixteen or seventeen with a white body suit, and the Superman logo on it.

"Big k, little r! The atomic symbol for Krypton!" Kid Flash announced in awe.

"It looks an awful lot like Superman. A clone, I suppose?" I was mainly talking to myself, but Robin started hacking when I mentioned the word clone.

"Weapon designation: Superboy. A clone grown in sixteen weeks? From DNA acquired from Superman!"

"Stolen from Superman." Aqualad clarified.

"His solar suit allows his to absorb yellow sun radiation twenty-four seven." Robin added.

"Genomorph gnomes. They're force feeding him education!" I exclaimed as I looked at Robin's computer.

"They're making a slave out of Superman's son…" Kid Flash said thoughtfully. I didn't really think Clark wanted to have a son that was a clone of his.

"We should contact the League." I muttered to Robin.

"No signal." He said after a few moments of waiting. "We're in too deep, literally."

I looked at Superboy, and instantly felt guilty if we just escaped. He was a human being, too. "Guys, we can't leave him."

"Set him free." Kaldur agreed with my request. "Do it." He commanded Robin after there was no movement from the Boy Wonder. Robin added in some digits into the computer, and the pod opened.

The four of us waited for a reaction, and next thing I knew, Superboy's eyes burst open and he flew towards Aqualad, punching him square in the face.

I went over to help Kaldur, I kicked Superboy in the eye, and he staggered back. Kid grabbed him from behind, and tried to strangle him, but Superboy just threw Wally like he was a rag doll.

Before Kid made contact with any hard surface, I focused to stop time, grabbing onto Wally who hung in midair with a hilarious expression on his face, and set him down onto the ground. I unfroze time and ran toward Superboy.

"Alright, that did it, Copy Face!" I shouted before punching Superboy mercilessly. Robin extended electric wires that connected to Superboy's chest, but he grabbed them and pulled Robin towards him, and stepped on him.

I grabbed Superboy, and kicked him behind the knee, making him fall down on the floor. I twisted him to that he stretched his legs and back until it hurt. Robin was passed out cold, and I knew I would be a dead man, too, if I didn't stop Superboy soon.

I willed time to stop once more, to try to lock Superboy in his pod, but the effort and focus that I had to put into my powers while being this exhausted from fighting a super strengthened boy only made me fall down on the floor, and see all black.