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Danni PoV

Slowly I held up my hands in surrender, but when they didn't stand down I glanced at Birdy for a little backup.

He glared at me then held up his hand, and almost immediately the guns were put away. I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms back across my chest.

"I was just pissed off! Jeez slow your roll!" Birdy quickly turned on his heel and started to walk off. I leaned back against the wall and listened to his footsteps. Finally I heard the door open, then slam shut.

I was alone once again.

I opened my eyes and I crawled over to my dusty mattress. I picked it up then started to bang it against the wall, dust flying off of it in waves. Glaring I set it back down then settled on top of it, trying to touch as little of the nasty thing as I could.

Just when I thought I had gotten comfortable I heard the sound of some sort of machine starting up. It only took me a few seconds to figure out what it was.

The air conditioner. Shivering I huddled into a curled up position and prepared myself for a very long night.

One month later

The door to my cell swung open, and in walked my jailor, the Martian. I glared at her then stood up and held out my hands, waiting to be cuffed. She smirked at me, then slapped the cuffs on my wrists. Quickly she turned on her heel, and I had to force myself not to jump at her from behind and strangle her.

Ok I think its time I catch all of you guys up. So remember the plan I formed in this very same cell one month ago, the one where I gained the justice babies trust so I could go and kill the cult that was ultimately responsible for turning me into what I was today?

Yea right now that plan is working pretty smoothly, the Martian doesn't trust me, neither does Birdy. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't trust anyone. Nightwing keeps me on a pretty short leash, but I'm still allowed to walk around, I just have to be wearing cuffs and my little power sucking collar.

The few who actually trust me is Blue and Beast Boy, but B.B. would trust Doctor Doom, if the guy wasn't a comic book character.

The Martian looked back at me and glared, "Nightwing wants to see you, personal business. And just to let you know, you're interrupting my movie night with La'gaan! Not cool!" She glared at me then turned back around and started to stomp off.

I hurried to catch up to her, I hadn't sucked up to them for so long just to lose it all by getting lost. Finally we came to a huge metal door, the Martian reached forward and pushed down on a thermal scanner.

A few seconds later the door opened and she shoved me inside. Once I had stepped into the room the door shut behind me, almost clipping my heels.

I looked up, quickly scanning the room. It was dark, everything in the room was either black or a dark shade of gray. There were no windows, only a few dim lights in the corners of the room provided any means of lighting. The room was sparsely furnished, only a large desk in the center of the room, and a chair behind it, not even a computer or writing utensils.

The room was overall bland looking, and there was absolutely no hiding places. I walked over to the desk and settled into the chair behind it, quickly throwing my feet up on the desk in front of me. I placed my cuffed hands on my lap and I waited for Nightwing to reveal himself.

But just as I had gotten comfortable the door slid open once again. I quickly swung my feet off the desk and I stumbled to my feet. I could only see a shadow in the doorway, but the bulky frame and unruly hair was enough to give away the identity.

I smiled and gave him a halfhearted wave, "Whats up doc?" The door closed and suddenly lights came on, one in each corner of the room, and one in the middle. The lights illuminated the figure standing before me, quickly affirming my guess to the identity.

I scrambled to his side and I rocked back on my ankles, "So why did you need to see me? I have a tour of the cave, again, in like ten minutes..." I trailed off and gave him a knowing look.

He walked ahead of me, then pushed a button on his arm computer, sending up a holographic picture of a man into the middle of the room.

I leaned forward and tried to decipher the mans identity.

"Roy Harper, aka Red Arrow or Speedy. Do you know him?" I glanced over at the bird, how did he know Roy?

I stepped forward and gave the picture a once over, "Yea I know him, helped him look for the real Roy once." I saw Nightwing's eyes widen and I rolled my own. "Yea I know he's a clone, he enlisted my help cause he thought I could shadow track him or something. Didn't work out though."

I smirked at him and spun the holograph around, taking in how small the clone had gotten, like he was deteriorating or something. His hair had gotten longer, and it looked like he was starting to grow a beard or something.

He looked awful, like a hobo on crack.

"I need you to.. help me with a mission of sorts." He looked up at the picture for a moment, then shut the screen down. He looked at his wrist then locked eyes with me. "Follow me."

Thirty minutes later

I crouched behind the chimney, Nightwing only inches away. I pulled my black winter jacket closer to my body and looked around at my surroundings. I was in one of the few crummy parts of Washington D.C. Roy had apparently just stolen some guys money, right after saving it from a robbery.

Personally I don't find what he did all that bad, but then again its my morals against their own. I had been allowed to change into different clothes. A long sleeved black tee shirt, black winter jacket, and black jeans and combat boots.

A whistling sound brought my attention back to what was going on around me. I looked to my right and I was just able to catch sight of an arrow implanting itself into the wall beside me. Nightwing grabbed onto my jacket and pulled me to the other side of the chimney so we wouldn't be spotted.

A few seconds later I saw Roy himself come zip lining in. But just as soon as he started to get close to the decent where he would jump off, he started to waver. His body was thrown from side to side until he fell off, rolling away from the line and towards where I knew Green Arrow to be.

When he came to a halt he was right in front of G.A. Slowly his eyes traveled up the boots until they got to his face. His jaw slacked open and his eyes widened at the sight of his former mentor.

G.A. leaned forward and held out his hand, "Hey Roy, need a hand?" I couldn't see his face, but his tone was kind and caring.

Roy's eyes narrowed, then he reached out and swatted G.A's hand away. "No!" He stood up, then grabbed his arm and looked down towards the ground.

Nightwing tapped my arm and motioned towards the pair. He stepped in front of me and began to walk towards them.

"We think you do." By this time he was out of the shadows, and I quickly followed behind him. Nightwing stooped a few feet in front of Roy, so I settled to the birds right. Out from behind other walls came the other heroes that had tagged along on our quest, Canary, Kid Flash unmasked, and some other random red head that I didn't know.

I saw his eyes move to each face, and when he got to me is eyes narrowed. He turned back to his mentor, a stubborn look on is face. "I have nothing to say to any of you, nothing to explain, nothing to justify!" He reached down and grabbed his bow and began to storm off.

I dashed forward and grabbed the wad of cash sticking out of the back of his belt. I held it up loosely in my right hand and raised an eyebrow at the clones back, "Nothing?"

He froze, his back still to me, "Its not what it looks like..." He paused then turned his head to face me. "I mean that store owner wont miss it!" He turned all the way around now, leaning forward, his bow held tightly. "He offered me a reward anyway! Besides, who are you to judge me on stealing? I deserve it! Guy wouldn't have any of his money back if I hadn't stepped in!"

He made a small lunging motion, and I took a small step back.

"Dude! Are you even listening to yourself!?" I looked back to see that the speaker was Kid Flash. Suddenly I felt the cash get ripped out of my hands.

"Look I need it!" I spun around to face Roy, and he waved the cash angrily in my face. "I need it to find Speedy, the real Roy Harper." I rolled my eyes, not that again. The dude needed to get on with his life.

His face relaxed a bit, and he looked down at the cash in his hand mournfully, "A search like that is expensive, especially when the rest of you have all given up!" His eyes roamed around, untrusting and a bit crazed.

I stepped back, if he started going all berserk on our asses I wasn't going to be the first one hit.

I heard steps to my right and I glanced over to see Canary walking slowly towards Roy. Slowly she held out her hands and I saw her stance change, at first it had been on guard, now it was relaxed. She actually trusted this bozo to not jump at her and kill her!

"Roy I know you feel lost," She paused for a moment then put her hands on his shoulders, "But that doesn't mean you're alone.." Roy jerked out of her hands and looked away.

"I'm not the one that's lost.." He stopped talking then turned and started walking away.

I saw Canary stiffen, then she put her hand on her waist. "When was the last time you trained, the last time you slept!?" Roy froze, his shoulders stiff.

"Don't even start! I'm in the best shape of my life!" His hands curled into fists, and he started to shake.

"Oh really?" Canary charged at him then swung out her foot in a slow round house kick. He just barley managed to dodge it, and he almost fell to the ground. Canary slowly punched at him several more times, till he was backed up against the edge of the building. She struck out her foot at his own one last time, and he fell over the side. At the last second she leaned over and grabbed onto his shirt and brought him back up.

"Best shape of your life?" Even from back here I could hear the challenge in her voice. "That was me holding back... Way back." She paused and I found myself releasing a breath I didn't know I had been holding.

"Roy you used to treat your body as a temple.." She let go of him, and he fell to the ground by her feet, "But now.."

Roy looked up at Canary cutting her off mid-sentence. "My bodies no temple, its a cheap knock off.. A clone!" Everyone around me froze, Green Arrow going so far as to actually put his hand out, like that was gonna comfort him or something. Canary gave him one last glance then walked back over to us, I guess there was nothing else she wanted to say to him.

I looked around our little group, "Well who's next?" All I got in return was silence and a lot of glares. I looked down at the ground, then back to the clone. Sighing I rolled my shoulders then started to walk towards Roy, "I guess that means it me..."

Once I reached the clone I knelt beside him and leaned back on my heels. "So hows it going Harper? I bet your wondering why I'm included in this bunch of morons. Believe me, I don't know why I'm hear either. We aren't best friends, I don't know any huge secrets about you that I could use as leverage.. Wait a second.. yea I do.." I gave him a small smirk and he glared at me in response.

"I'd say you are in a whole lot of trouble Mr. Wonderland... I wonder what your wife would say.." His head shot up and his eyes quickly flashed over to the heroes. I rolled my eyes at his panicked expression, "Relax Harper, they cant hear me, your secrets safe with me.." I looked up at the night sky for a moment before I looked back down at his face, "Maybe.."

He looked up at me and glared, "How is that supposed to make me give up looking for Speedy?" I smiled at him and stood up.

"Its not."

I slowly walked back to the little group of heroes and settled back into my place by Nightwing. Wings looked over at me and crossed his arms, "So what did you say?" smiling I tilted my head back and closed my eyes.

"That's confidential.." I opened my eyes back up and looked over at Nightwing, but he had already gone back to staring at Roy.

A few seconds later G.A started to walk over to Harper, slow, casual steps. When he finally got to where he was crouched he held out his hand once again.

"Roy come back to Star City. It'll be like old times!" I saw Harper's hand curl up, his nails scraping against the ground.

"You and me training, fighting crime, and just hanging out, shooting the-" Roy jumped up, his eyes flashing.

"Your confused, probably thinking of the other guy, the original, the one you stopped looking for!" Harper started to walk back towards my little group, probably to grab his bow, which was laying by Nightwing's feet.

"Me I'm just.." I glared, if he goes off on another, I'm not the real Roy Harper monologue I think I'm gonna barf.

But another voice rang out before I could say a word.

"We get it! You're a clone!" That's when the mysterious red head walked up to Roy. "But you're not the only clone on this rooftop!" That's when the clouds cleared and a light bulb went on inside my head. This guy must be a clone too! They had brought a clone to talk to a clone, like for personal experience and stuff.

"I know from personal experience," I smiled, yup there was the personal experience part,"How tough it was to come to grips with being a copy of someone else. That's why I gave up my identity as Guardian, so that I could figure out exactly who Jim Harper is supposed to be."

I could see that Harper wasn't soaking in any of this, his skin was just to thick. If this intervention was going to work I was going to have to bring in the big guns. I tapped Nightwing on the shoulder, I wasn't about to have him freak out if I just slipped off, that would cause... unwanted attention to my target.

He glanced over at me and nodded, "I need to... go somewhere, its personal ok. Don't freak out if I'm not back by the time he leaves." Nightwing's eyes narrowed, but before he had the chance to say anything else I turned around and ran towards the edge of the rooftop. Stepping on the edge of the ledge I jumped off into the cool, dark night.

I landed on the roof top below and rolled to absorb some of the shock that coursed through my body. I quickly dropped down onto the fire escape on the side of the building, I needed to put as much space in between me and bird boy as fast as possible.

Once I was on the streets I began running as fast as I could towards the store that had just been robbed. I flung open the door then launched myself at the cashier. He stumbled back but with a single hit he was out cold. Quickly I grabbed the companies phone and dialed the number. It rang once, twice, three times before it was finally picked up.

"I hope you have a good reason to call me on a non secure phone line like this.." Smiling I shook my head, not a how are you doing, or, hows life stuck with the hero squad. That's Jade for you. Rolling my eyes I tried to focus on my mission. "Meet me at Red's place in five minutes, and bring the kid.." I slammed the phone back down onto its pedestal and raced out of the store.

I knew she would probably be there in about two minutes, she always enjoyed being at appointed places first. I raced down city blocks, twisting and turning alleys, a labyrinth for anyone who didn't know where they were going.

Finally I got to the street, and I quickly flipped up the fire escape until I got to Harper's window. I quickly picked the lock on the window pane and lid the window open. Silently I crawled through the window, looking around and listening for any signs of Cheshire.

I saw a single dark shadow in the kitchen, and without any hesitation I walked towards it. Once I entered the kitchen the figure stepped out of the shadows. And once again I was proven right, Cheshire. Smiling I nodded my head in her direction, "Nice to see you Chesh, hows it goin'?" She slowly pulled off her mask and gave me and smile.

"Great, lovin' the free life.." Her eyes darted to the collar around my neck, "Break out of prison lately?" I laughed quietly and flipped a stray piece of hair out of my eyes.

"Not quite.." Suddenly her eyes darted to the window and she slipped her mask back on. I quickly darted into the dark shadows that the cabinets supplied and watched, waiting for our guest to show up.

A few seconds later Roy stumbled inside, quickly taking off his mask and throwing it to the floor. He never looked over at the two of us, probably didn't even know we were here. He walked over to his shabby couch and threw down his bow and plopped himself down, laying his head back on the nasty dusty thing.

Cheshire stepped forward slightly, "Someone looks worse for wear." Harper's head shot up, and he threw himself off the couch, grabbing his bow and aiming an arrow straight at Jade. She didn't even flinch, like she knew he wasn't going to fire the arrow.

Slowly she walked out of the shadows, exposing her masked face to him. Smiling I walked up beside her, a cocky grin spreading over my face.

His eyes widened in shock and he relaxed his grip on the arrow. "Cheshire.." Then his eyes flitted to me, "What are you doing here?" His grip tightened back up and his eyes narrowed.

Jade causally reached up and took off her mask, "Chill Red, We're not here to fight. She brought me here to make you clean up your act..." At this point Harper dropped the arrow and bow altogether. Sighing he looked up at her with pleading eyes.

"Not you too! Well forget it Jade, you lost the right to back seat drive when you ditched me to return to a life of crime." He stood up and walked over to his shabby couch, then sat down and put both of his hands on his head.

I glanced over at Jade, I wonder what sparkling piece of information she has to rebut that. "That's not why I left. It was just a.. side benefit." She reached up and grabbed onto the straps of the baby carrier. "Besides, I'm still your wife. Legally. Grants me certain privileges to knock sense into you." She started to walk over to him, and I gave her a smirk as she passed me by.

"Roy I left because your obsession with finding Speedy was all consuming. There wasn't room in your life for anything else.." She paused and slipped the back pack off one shoulder. Kneeling she looked him in the eyes. "Or anyone! Not me, and not our daughter." She turned her back to him so he could see her. Smiling I crawled forward and placed my hand on her head.

Harper's eyes grew wide, "We.. we have a daughter?" Smiling I let Jade take her into her own hands.

I looked up at Roy, "What you think you can knock her up and not get her pregnant? C'mon man this isn't a movie!" Jade glared at me and I held up my hands innocently, I was just stating the facts.

Jade looked back up at Roy and smiled, "Lian Windharver, she needs her father Roy. You have to get your head on straight. For her!" Jade handed Lian over to Harper, and I saw a change come over him, his eyes softened and he cradled the baby in his arms.

"That means you need to exorcize Speedy's ghost once and for all." Jade stood up, and I found myself doing the same. "So while I was away I called in every chip I had.." A smile grew on her face, delight sparkling in her eyes. "I got us a lead Red! One last chance to find the original Roy Harper." Roy looked up at Jade, his eyes betraying his surprise.

I could feel the family bonding moment that was sure to come, but of course I had to ruin the moment.

"Hey Dannielle, I don't know where you are, but I'm going to find out if you aren't back on this roof in two minutes!" I glanced down at my collar, of course it had a comm unit! I held my finger to my lips, if he knew who I was with I was going to be in a whole lot of trouble.

"Yea sure, I'll be there.." I gave the family a, I'm sorry for ruining the moment look, then I bounded towards the window. Once outside I raced towards the roof, I wasn't going to be late and give away where I had been.

When I finally got back to the roof I walked causally over to where Nightwing was standing. "Whats up Dick?" His shoulders tensed up and I rolled my eyes, "Geez somebody doesn't get cursed at all that often I suppose.." He relaxed and I found myself laughing, don't ask me why it was just funny.

Nightwing glared at me then turned towards the chimney we had been hiding behind, "Come on, you need to get back to your cell." Sighing I followed behind him as he walked over to the chimney, then he leaned forward and pressed his hand to the secret keypad for the Zeta beam platform. A huge opening appeared and he reached back and grabbed onto my arm.

Quickly he stepped into the light, dragging me with him.

When we got back to the base the first thing he did was of course drag me over to my cell. Swiping the key through the pad he pulled open the door and pushed me inside. Slamming the door in my face I heard him walk off, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

I walked over to my bed and sat down.

"Yup definitely a dick.."

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