Hello Hello my pretties! :D
JapanRules555: You can bet your bottom dollar I'll keep going!
Jayfeather63: Why thank you. Yeah I was a bit worried about the first chapter it seemed shaky to me. But in the end it was a good starter in my opinion.
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Unleash The Shadow: Nah he's not a clone, though that idea sounds pretty sweet. Why don't you try to write it? I know I'd read it!
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BloodMoon93: Haha, I actually wasn't gonna start writing this one ^-^; simply because it was just a random thread floating around in my brain and I just sort of started writing whatever popped into my mind there. But now I've thought more about a main story line to go along with it and I'm still developing the idea hopefully it will turn out really good!
Thanks for all the reviews! They keep me going.
This chappy is inspired by Awake and Alive by Skillet. And yes I'll always tell you the song that the Chapter is named after. :)
I don't own YJ!
Enjoy.
Chapter two – Awake
He was awake. He knew that he was. He could slowly start to feel his own body twitching and moving as his mind collected itself and rebooted in a way. Yet even though he could feel his limbs waking up, everything still felt a bit fuzzy, a bit numb.
He couldn't open his eyes yet, they felt to heavy to even try, but his ears were in perfect working condition. And he could hear someone talking.
"-alive, I'm not sure when he'll awake though. Amazingly enough the bullet entered a area of the shoulder between the neck that was made up of muscles and tissue, and it exited cleanly. All thats left is a hole through his shoulder, which we've matched to sew up using extra skin around the area of the wound." It was a female voice. Sounding like a doctor giving news to a family about their relative.
"Thank you Lesley." A deep booming voice said in response to the woman.
He heard the tapping of heavy boots coming closer to him. But then they stopped and he could hear the faint swish of a cape.
"Br- I mean Batman, wait." Dr. Lesley's voice was soft. "When he does wake up...Be gentle with him, he's been through a lot. From what I saw of him when I was patching him up, I'm almost positive that they were keeping him alive with some heavy drugs that might still have some bad side effects on him." She paused, he heard her flipping through some papers. "If he has any dangerous symptoms then call this number. It's the number of my friend's house, I'll be staying with her for a while. So my old number won't get you anywhere if you call it."
"Dangerous symptoms?" This was a new voice, lighter, maybe even higher pitched, but it was still distinctively male. Someone must have entered just moments into the conversation.
"Yes, something like a fever above the average fever of a child with a cold. Vomiting blood. Those sort of things. But don't call me if he throws up after eating. Thats normal I'd say in his case. Anything of the extreme and I need to be notified." Followed by her words there was a tapping noise. High heels. Then the swish of a door. She as gone.
His eyes didn't feel so heavy anymore, he figured now he could open them a least a little.
The boy slowly opened his eyes, first looking around the room. It was just him and two men in what looked like a hospital wing of some building. One man was the one dressed as a bat that he had been drawn to. The other was a man who had also been at his break out. He wore a mostly red suit with some yellow, and a lightning symbol on his chest.
The boy looked around him again, at the room. The room was large, yet not to big. It had several metal tables in the room holding varies utensils. There were beds lining the walls, one of which he was lying in. Hooked to his arm was an IV which was hooked up to a clear bag that must have been some type of drug.
He looked back to the equipment in the room. It was all a bit daunting. Sharp objects, syringes, machines. It reminded him of the experimentation laboratory he was often sent to for testing. At that thought his heart began to race, his breathing quickened. He had to get away, before the doctors came back and did God knows what to him!
"Hey I think he's awake." Said the red and yellow hero as he stepped up to the side of the bed and looked down at the blue eyed boy who looked thoroughly freaked out.
The boy jolted at the sight of the man, he was a hero. He could help him. Get him out of here. The boy's hands reached up and grabbed desperately onto the other man's arms, his fingers clawing at the suit's fabric. This caused the other to look a bit shocked at the sudden movement.
"Please, you have to help me. I have to get out of here before they come back!" The boy's eyes were wide with terror, pleading for the hero to save him from his hell.
"Whoa whoa, kid, calm down. Your safe here. No ones going to do anything to you." The hero said, trying to calm the youth down.
"No, you don't understand. Their going to come back soon and then they'll do more tests." He pleaded as he looked frantically around the room.
Thats when it dawned on the hero that the kid was afraid of the medical bay, he thought that it was a lab. "Kid, no ones going to get you. Your not at Cadmus Labs anymore. Just calm down. The only doctor here just left after patching you up." The hero said as he gently brushed a hand over the bandages wrapped tightly around the boy's shoulder.
The boy looked down at the bandages, just now noticing them. His shirt was gone, but he still had his pants on. He let a hand drop from the man's suit and brushed his own fingers against the bullet wound now wrapped up. Maybe the man had some truth to him. But still he didn't want to be here. He didn't trust the room, he feared it.
He looked back up at the man, he was a bit calmer looking, but he still held the edge of fear in his features. "C-can I just please get out of here?" He asked in a small voice that made him look even more vulnerable then he already was.
The man gave him a reassuring smile and handed him a new folded up white shirt to put on, seeing as how his old one was covered in blood and had a hole in it. "Sure kid, put this on and then we can leave. Maybe get you something to eat. I think I saw M'gann cooking something earlier." The man's eyes seemed to light up at the thought of food.
The boy quickly slid on the shirt.
Then the other man joined the two. The man dressed as a bat. He took the boy's arm and slowly removed the IV needle. He didn't say anything he stayed perfectly silent. The boy looked up at him, but soon found the other hero helping him to his feet. Which were wobbly at first but after a moment he was able to walk. As the other hero led him out of the room the boy cast one more look at the bat still standing by the bed he had been on. Then the door closed and he could no longer see the man.
BREAKBREAK
Sooner then he would have liked the boy found himself sitting on a tall stool around an island in the center of the kitchen surrounded by people. He remembered some of them. Particularly 'Superboy' as they had called him, who now sat closets to him. He blinked at everyone for a long moment.
Then a plate holding buttered biscuits was set down in front of him. It looked like heaven on a plate, even though they were just a bit burned. Before anyone could have even told him those were souly for him he had plucked three from the top and scarfed them down like a starving dog presented with its first meal in months.
"Wow, with the rate your going at I think you could put Flash or Wally to shame..."Said the blonde archer. Who now wore normal looking cloths and had no mask or weapons with her.
Slowly he stopped eating for a moment long enough to give her a questioning gaze. It took her a moment but she seemed to clue into what he was giving her that look for.
"Oh right, you have next to no clue who we are...Even though we might have told you yesterday when we rescued you. You were dealing with blood loss so I doubt you remember us much." She gave a apologetic look to him. He finished what was on his plate and sat up straighter to pay more attention now.
"Well, I'm Wally or Kid Flash!" the red head from before announced loudly with a friendly smile. "The lovely lady in green is M'gann, also known as Miss Martian or by her earth name- Megan." He pointed to the girl who took the boy's plate and put it in the sink. "Then theres our maagnifisent leader – Kaldur, Kal, or Aqualad." He pointed to the boy then leaned closer to the new quest. "He's a little fishy if you ask me." Wally said with a sly smile, the boy clearly didn't get the joke.
The blonde slapped Wally on the back of the head and glared.
"I'm Artemis, thats my real name, and my hero name." The girl said as she looked back at the boy with a small smile. Wally pouted in his defeat to the archer.
"I'm Flash, Wally's uncle and mentor." Flash said as he waved at the boy he had just escorted from the medical bay.
"And I'm Superboy, or Conner." Superboy said drawing the other's eyes back to him.
Everyone was silent for a long moment as if expecting something. But it just remained silent. So finally Kaldur spoke up.
"May we know your name?" He asked lightly, not wishing to cause the new comer stress with the question.
The boy was silent for a long moment, at first everyone thought he wouldn't answer. They'd all heard him talk, so the question of if he was simply mute was out.
"I'm not sure..."He finally answered which brought everyone out of their own personal thoughts. The kid looked down a the ground as if ashamed at his own answer.
"You mean you can't remember your own name?" Wally asked bewildered. He gained a simple shake of the head in reply. "Do you remember anything about who you are? Or have you always been..." at Cadmus. No one wanted to say it, but it was there.
"No, I haven't always been at Cadmus." Some relief flowed through the crowd, only to be stamped out by the realization that at one point in his life the boy would have been kidnapped and taken from his parents. "I was taken when I was...eight maybe..." He paused for a long moment to gather what memories he had. "After everything thats been done to me it makes it hard to remember things that happened long ago and even more so seeing as how I was at a young age when you don't remember that much anyway."
"But you must remember something, I mean eight years of childhood couldn't have been completely washed away could it?" M'gann said in an almost pleading like tone.
"I do remember some things. I remember animals...Lots of animals. Where ever I lived there were lots of animals all the time. I think I remember my mother. But I'm not sure...It could have just been some other woman but something tells me she was more." He said with a conflicted look on his face.
"The memory of the woman, what was she doing in it?" Conner asked slowly, almost as if he was afraid to ask.
"She was dancing. With someone else but I don't remember his face."
"Your dad maybe?" Artemis suggested.
"What were they dancing to?" Flash asked. Which earned a weird look from Wally.
"What does it matter what song they were dancing to?" Wally asked.
"Well, you never know it could jog more of the memory." Flash shrugged.
They both looked to the boy for an answer.
"It was something about birds...It sounded kind of old. And the guy who was singing about it kept talking about rocking..."He said with a questioning look to everyone around the table.
"Rock a by baby?" Wally suggested which earned a slap on the head from Artemis.
"He said it was something to do with birds, not babys, Baywatch!" She growled at him.
Wally glared at her for a long time then went back to thinking. As did everyone else.
"Birds and rocking..."Artemis murmed slowly.
Flash suddenly snapped his fingers, which made everyone jump a bit in surprise at the noise cutting into their deep thought. "I've got it! Was it Rockin' Robin?" He asked happily.
A small light flooded into the boy's eyes like recognition. Everyone was surprised yet relieved when he showed a broad smile on his face. "Yeah! That was it!"
"Well then it's settled." Everyone looked to the dark figure just now entering the kitchen. "We'll call you Robin until you remember your real name."
"Heh, I didn't even think of what we were going to call him. Good jon Bats." Flash said with a smile of his own.
"Bats?" the newly named 'Robin' asked.
"Oh right, ahem. Robin I'd like you to meet Batman. The man who actually found out about the second Cadmus facility and decided to check it out." Flash introduced the two and stepped out of the way so Robin could get a better look at the man who had saved his life.
Robin slowly stood up and inched his way over to Batman. Once he was standing just steps away from the man he flung his arms around the Batman, every mouth in the room except for Robin's and Batman's hit the floor. You didn't hug THE Batman.
Batman didn't even flinch at the show of gratitude for a long moment, then finally he moved. He rested his hand on the teen's shoulder and when Robin looked up at him he gave him the slightest of smiles that only Robin could make out against the dark angry facade of the man.
Robin released the man and Batman left the room, followed by a stuttering Flash. Robin turned to look at the others.
"Dude! You don't hug Batman!" Wally shouted.
"Why not? I was just thanking him for saving me...Did I do something wrong?"Robin asked with a confused look.
"No, Robin. You did nothing wrong." Kaldur cut Wally off and gave the boy a reassuring smile.
"But-" Wally tried to say something else but was once again cut off by someone, this time it was M'gann.
"So Robin! How old are you?" She asked louder then she should have, but obviously she, along with everyone else didn't want to get on the topic of what you shouldn't do around Batman. Which was a very long list.
Robin scratched his head for a moment. "15 I think. Unless its June, then I might be sixteen, I think my birthdays in June..." He said with uncertainty.
"No, its December, so 15 it is." Artemis said clapping her hands together.
"What do you say we go set up a room for you?" M'gann added as she happily floated out of the kitchen, followed by all but Superboy and Robin.
Robin looked at Conner for a long moment.
"Robin...What did they do to you?" Conner asked as he looked at Robin who seemed frozen in place.
"W-why do you want to know?" Robin asked trying to keep his voice calm.
"Cadmus doesn't abduct children and experiment on them for years just to have some fun with no end result. They must have been working on something specific with you. Like they did with me. They created me to replace Superman if he should fall. What was your purpose?" Superboy said as he came to stand before the slightly shorter teen.
"I don't know..." The lie slipped easily past his lips.
Superboy was about to question further when someone called for Robin to hurry and see his room in the mountain.
Robin took that as an escape and left Superboy behind in the kitchen alone.
Superboy knew he was hiding something very important from them all. And something inside him told him that it would come out sooner then Robin would like. So when that happened Conner knew that he had to be there for Robin no matter the outcome. Him and Robin where connected, Robin was the only one who could ever understand how he felt. And he wouldn't let anyone, not even Batman or Superman, take that feeling of understanding away from him.
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