Hi again! Sorry I took so long to update but I would've put this chapter up the weekend after the first chapter and I even had this all typed up! I couldn't because my friend had a teary break down because her dad was a jerk and I had to rush over on Saturday and Sunday all day to check she was okay and I had no time! I did consider staying up till unearthly hours to update but then I fell asleep on the sofa and I had school the next day (damn school and homework... grrr) ... so no update then D: Last weekend I was in Italy so I couldn't do it then either and I only got back yesterday at 00:30 and after I slept I had to unpack and stuff so I'M REALLY SORRY!
A BIG thankyou to OwlheadAthena, SilverxDawn, and DarkAngel for reviewing because I really appreciate it; it gives me confidence to write more! Also, thanks to everyone else who added this to your story alerts and favorites, I love you guys too!
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Phew, now that thats out of the way, ON WITH THE STORY!
Hidden Angel Chapter 2
Robins POV
'Time is short, you must awaken. You must awaken NOW!'
My eyes snapped open and I found myself in an unfamiliar environment, which seemed to be happening a lot recently. I looked around the room and realised I was strapped into a pod, and so was everyone else: Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Sakura who was just hanging there limply with a purple shoulder and a bloody red side. Her wound had reopened and blood was seeping out, yet she was making no move to heal it.
At first I wondered if she was still unconscious... or worse... But then I saw her eyelids flutter open and her head tilt upwards slightly. She looked so drained of energy again, but this time it was worse than before.
Her head shot up when she noticed where we were and she looked around the room, her face now panic-stricken and pale with more than just worry, probably blood loss. She frowned as her gaze fixed on what was in front of her and I looked to see too.
Superboy was standing in front of all our pods, staring at each of us individually, but his gaze was lingering on Sakura.
She returned his stare and growled "Its rude to stare you know."
"Leave her alone!" I gritted my teeth.
"Yeah, you're giving us all the creeps!" said Kid Flash.
"Hey, KF, why don't we try not to tick off the guy who can fry us with a look?" I advised, realising my earlier mistake.
It was then that we all noticed the purple splurge on Superboys cheek.
"Supey got punched!" Kid Flash exclaimed "Who was the lucky guy that did it? I wanna know who to thank for paying him back for me!"
The teenager's head whipped back and forth, looking at me and Aqualad in turn, but when both of us shrugged, his eyes widened and he turned to look at Sakura.
"You hit him? How did you do that?"
"We only sought to help you." said Aqualad, ignoring KF.
"Yeah, we free you and you turn on us. How's that for gratitude?" questioned Kid Flash.
"Kid, be quiet now. I believe our new friend was not in complete control of his actions." Said Aqualad.
"Wha-what if I wasn't?" murmured Superboy.
"He can talk?" said Kid Flash, stunned.
Superboy clenched his fist and replied angrily "Yes, he can."
"Nice going." Sakura murmured sarcastically.
Cue evil glare from me and Aqualad at Kid Flash. "What? It's not like I said 'it'."
"The Genomorphs taught you, telepathically." Said Aqualad, ignoring KF again.
"They taught me much. I can read, write, and I know the names of things." replied Superboy.
"But have you ever actually seen them? Have you ever seen the sun or the sky?" I asked.
"Images are implanted in my mind…but no."
"Do you know what you are? Who you are?" asked Aqualad.
"I am the Superboy, a Genomorph made from the clone of the Superman, created to replace him should he perish…to destroy him should he turn from the light."
"I'm not sure about this whole superhero/ Justice League thing but even I know that can't be good." commented Sakura.
"To be like Superman is a great... aspiration. But like Superman you deserve a life of your own, beyond that solar suit, beyond that pod, beyond Cadmus." Said Aqualad.
"I LIVE BECAUSE OF CADMUS." roared Superboy. "IT IS MY HOME!"
"You're home is a test tube." I said. "We can show you the sun."
"Actually, I'm pretty sure it's after midnight, so it would be the moon." Said Kid Flash.
"Not helping KF." said Sakura.
"We can show you, introduce you, to Superman." continued Aqualad.
Superboy's expression shifted from caution to concentration.
"No, they can't." came a voice.
A man in a lab coat, a lady with a clipboard and Guardian entered the room, each with a Genomorph gnome on their shoulder.
"They'll be otherwise occupied." said the man with the lab coat "Begin the cloning sequence."
"Pass, Batcave's crowded enough." I said.
"You're going to clone us?" Sakura asked in a small voice. I looked over and I could see her trembling from where I was.
"Yes we are, and get the weapon back in it's pod!" he ordered Guardian.
"Hey, how come he gets to call Supey an 'it'?" asked Kid Flash.
"Help us." Said Aqualad to Superboy.
Guardian put his hand on Superboy's shoulder to lead him out, but he shrugged him off.
"Don't start thinking now." the scientist moaned.
A Genomorph gnome jumped onto Superboy's shoulder and it's horns began glowing.
"You see, you're not a real boy, you're a weapon and you belong to me! ...Well, to Cadmus, same thing! Now get back into your pod!"
Superboy turned and walked out of the room without a word.
The man in the lab coat looked over to the woman, who nodded. "The cloning sequence is ready, sir."
"Good. Now my little escapee, seeing as I warned you before, but you didn't listen, you will have to be punished. We shall start with you."
Two metal arms appeared inside of Sakuras pod and they parted to reveal four needles. They plunged into her chest, sending an electric current through her body and they began drawing blood. Sakura screamed in agony, but she seemed to bite down on her pain and the cries were reduced to whimpers. "Stop it. Let her go!" I cried desperately, trying to pick the lock and run to her side without success.
"Don't you worry! You will be joining her in her pain soon enough. But first I want to hear her to scream again." The labcoat guy twisted a dial to the limit and I watched in horror as Sakura began screaming again as the needles began to draw a lot more blood.
Then the same robotic arms appeared in our pods and we were subjected to the same torture Sakura was feeling, except for her it was 10 times worse.
I writhed around in pain, struggling to free myself from the restraints. I was still trying to pick the lock but it was hard to concentrate with the feeling of electricity pulsing through my body. I looked over to my teammates, and saw that Kid Flash was also squirming around inside his pod, and Aqualad was gritting his teeth, yet he seemed to be speaking to someone.
Suddenly, the doors flew off their hinges and I saw Superboy stride in.
"What are you doing? I thought I told you to go back to your pod!" shouted the scientist. Guardian and the other scientists ran to grab him but Superboy flung them aside.
"Don't give me orders." Superboy growled.
The robotic arms stopped functioning when the doors were torn offtheir hinges, causing the pain to cease.
"So are you here to help us or fry us?" asked Kid Flash.
Superboy frowned and concentrated but nothing happened. "Huh, I don't seem to have heat vision, so I guess helping you is my only option."
I finally unlocked the restraints and leaped out of my pod, thinking in disbelief how long it took to pick the locks. "Ugh finally! Good thing Batman's not here, he'd have my head for taking so long to pick that lock."
"Seriously, that's what you're worried about?" asked Kid Flash. "THE WHOLE LEAGUE WILL HAVE OUR HEADS WHEN WE GET BACK!". I ignored him, he had never seen the Dark Knight angry before, and it was terrifying.
I pressed another button on the panel and the remaining capsules opened.
"You free Aqualad and Kid mouth." I said. "And I'll free Sakura."
"Don't you start giving me orders too!" Said Superboy. Despite what he said, Superboy reached over to Aqualad and Kid Flash's pods and easily ripped off their restraints.
I glanced in Sakuras direction, and my heart plummeted through the floor.
"Sakura!" I shouted while I ran to her pod. There was blood flowing freely from the bottom of her pod and almost the whole of her top was drenched in the warm red substance. I freed her from her restraints and she slumped over my shoulder, no longer having the energy to stand. Picking her up bridal style, I walked a few steps back and then set her gently on the ground. Everyone else had rushed over to see what was wrong and even the emotionless Superboy looked concerned.
I felt for a pulse on her neck and started to panic when I couldn't find one. Pressing harder, but not too hard in case I suffocated her, I relaxed when I felt a tiny heartbeat underneath my fingers.
"Is she going to be okay?" Aqualad asked "she has certainly lost a lot of blood."
"There's definitely a pulse but it's very weak, wait... It's growing stronger, I think she's healing herself" I replied.
"Her wound opened again? We should really get something done about it." said Kid Flash. "I'm sure I had-"
"Just use these." I said whipping out the bandages before the speedster had a chance to pour out the contents of his pockets again.
KF made a move to take the bandages but I shifted them so that Aqualad could take them.
"Hey!"
"I think we should leave this to Aqualad; there's someones life on the line and we don't want you to mess it up." I replied.
"Humph!" Kid Flash crossed his arms and pouted while I handed Aqualad the bandages and he began to wrap them around the bleeding wound.
Sakuras eyes flickered open and she slowly sat up just as Aqualad finished. She looked down at her bandaged wound and sighed.
Sakura's POV
Again? I had made everyone worry and it was costing us time that we needed desperately. This wound was really starting to get on my nerves and I was starting to consider curling up in a corner to let it heal properly. But I cant do that now; this is too important, we have to get out of here quickly.
The three boys were leaning over me and I was feeling a little claustrophobic, but I put on a brave face, pretended I was fine and that the wound didn't hurt at all, which was a complete lie because everything still hurt like hell from when that demented scientist shot an electric current through me!
Robin helped me up, but he was giving me a weird look, which was a mix between concern and surprise that I could stand at all.
"Will you be alright?" asked Aqualad.
"As good as I'll ever be with a hole in my side so come on, we need to move." I replied.
We all turned and headed out of the room. I saw the scientist on the floor reach for a remote of some sort, and my eyes widened when I realised what it was. I quickly ran over to where he was and crushed the device beneath my heel, then ran back to join the others. The collar still refused to come off, so I was guessing that wasn't the only copy of that remote.
The scientist raised his head slightly to yell "You'll never get out of here! I'll have you all back in pods within minutes!". As we left, Robin turned and threw 4 exploding projectiles at the four containers that held our DNA and they blew up, leaving four smoking pods.
"That guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all."
"What is your deal with this 'whelmed' thing?" asked Kid Flash as we passed through the exit.
We ran through the twisting hallways, trying to find an escape route to safety.
"What do we do?" I asked.
"We are still 42 levels underground. If we can get to an elevator, we can-" before Aqualad could finish what he was saying, we rounded a corner to see a a group of huge Genomorphs come to stand between us and the elevator.
Behind us, newborn geno's burst from jelly-filled, egg-shaped capsules on the walls and surrounded us. We were trapped. Jeez, De Ja Vu or what?
One of the giant geno's raised its fist and slammed it into the ground, moments after we jumped out of the way to avoid it.
"I thought you said that they couldn't send any backup!" Wally shouted, dashing past a geno who almost pounced on him.
"I thought I wiped most of them out! Those pod things must have healing properties so that they can regenerate quickly." I shouted back.
I rolled under a huge geno when it wasn't looking, dashed to the elevator, pressed the up button and waited for everyone to catch up. A small geno noticed me standing idly by the doors and leapt towards me, fangs bared and claws out. Thinking quickly, I grabbed it's oncoming arm and swung it into a wall. I rubbed my arm as Robin, Aqualad, and Kid Flash ran over. We all turned to see Superboy still fighting the geno's.
Aqualad noticed the crumbling ceiling weaken with every blow Superboy dealt and shouted to him "Superboy! The goal is to escape, not to bury ourselves!"
Superboy picked up one of the giant geno's by it's leg and swung it into the other ones, sending them toppling over like dominoes.
"YOU WANT TO ESCAPE?" Superboy yelled.
"Someone got issues." I mumbled.
Aqualad tore open the elevator doors and we all jumped in the shaft.
"Hang on Sakura!" Robin fired a line and wrapped his arm around my waist again as we were pulled up. Superboy grabbed Aqualad and leaped up, but began falling.
"I'm... Falling?" Robin threw a boomerang thing which imbedded itself in the opposite wall and Aqualad gripped onto it.
"Superman can fly…why can't I fly?"
"Don't know, but looks like you can still leap over buildings with a single jump. Still pretty cool." Said Kid Flash.
I heard a sound and looked up to see the elevator coming down onto us.
"Uh, guys..."
"Guys! This'll have to be our exit!" shouted Robin.
Aqualad and Superboy pulled open the elevator doors together and we got out of the shaft just as the elevator came crashing down on where we would've been.
A bunch of genmorphs appeared at the end of the hall and started running towards us so we ran in the other direction.
Superboy began to tell us where to go, like he knew where we were going.
"Turn left!" He ordered, so we did. 'Any plan is better than no plan.' I thought 'Unless it's suicidal, then it's just stupid.'
"Right!" swerving to the right we came to a dead end with only an air vent in the wall.
'Well this turned out to be one of those suicidal ones then. Whoops.'
"Great directions Supey, are you trying to get us repodded?" KF said sarcastically.
"I don't understand..."
"Don't apologise, this is prefect!" exclaimed Robin, ripping the cover off the end of the air vent.
Normal POV
The four teens crawled throughout the air vents, with Robin at the front, then Aqualad, Superboy, Kid Flash and lastly Sakura; who'd insisted she go last even though Robin had said ladies first, but she didn't want anyone looking up her skirt, not that there was much to see because she was wearing tight shorts underneath. It still made her feel better knowing that there weren't any weirdos wearing spandex behind her in a small air vent.
"At this rate well never get out." complained KF.
"Shh, listen" Superboy silenced them and closed his eyes in concentration.
"I don't hear anything." said Robin.
"I'm guessing this is a super hearing thing, but I can feel them, there are geno's in the vents." said Sakura.
"You can feel them?" asked Kid Flash.
"Yes, can't you? It's pretty hard to miss their heavy vibrations below your fingertips."
"Either way, we should hurry." said Aqualad.
"Right."
They kept crawling for a while when Robin came to a stop.
"Through here" He crawled out of the vents and hopped down to the empty hallway as Aqualad, Superboy and Kid Flash followed.
Kid Flash offered his hand to Sakura as she came out and she took it, neither of them noticing Robin silently fuming in the corner.
Robin pulled up a screen and began rapidly typing on the computer on his arm to distract himself from what he thought was pointless anger without reason.
Robin grinned to himself and looked up to the group and said proudly "I hacked the motion sensors"
"Awesome!" said Kid Flash.
"But there's still plenty of them between us and out." said Robin.
Kid Flash pulled on his goggles and said "Who cares? At least I've got room to run now."
He ran down the hallway and up the stairs in a blur, and any genos unfortunate enough to be in his path were bowled over by the streak of yellow and red. A few seconds later the rest of the group followed, running, but way behind Kid Flash.
Sirens blared and red lights beamed as the alarm was finally sounded. Kid Flash came to the top of the stairs and saw two huge metal doors starting to close in the speeding teen's path and block the group's route to freedom. Kid Flash didn't quite see this coming and tried to stop too late, resulting in him crashing loudly into the huge doors.
"Oh crud." He murmured while sitting up and rubbing his head.
The rest of the team arrived and Aqualad saw their problem.
"We're cut off from the street." he said.
"Thanks, my head didn't notice." said Kid Flash, still rubbing his head.
Aqualad and Superboy attempted to pry open the door but it refused to open, so they gave up. Robin was attempting to open it through the computer system but it wasn't working either.
"Dammit, I can't hack this fast enough!"
"They're here! I can feel them." shouted Sakura, her palm pressed to the ground. But it was too late, they all turned around to see a huge bunch of genomorphs at the end of the corridor advancing towards them.
"This way!" Robin shouted. He opened a door to their left and they ran straight into another, even bigger herd of genomorphs in the next room. In front of the surrounding forces stood a familiar face dressed in the gold and blue spandex; Guardian, who had a geno gnome perched on his shoulder.
The gnomes' horns began to glow and four teens slumped to the floor unconscious, but Superboy was still awake.
His eyes opened and he looked up at the tall blue geno before him.
"You..."
'Yes, I set the fire that lured your new friends down into Cadmus, I awoke them when they were in danger...'
'...and you guided me. Why?' asked Superboy, slightly unsure of the voice in his head.
'Because you are our last hope, the Genomorph hero. You will blaze a trail for all our brothers, showing us the way to freedom.'
'How can I trust you? A little while ago you were trying to hunt us down and put us in pods.' questioned Superboy.
'Well actually, I helped the girl to-... Ah, I see she hasn't told you yet, she shall tell you when she trusts you.'
Superboy glanced back curiously at the unconscious pink-haired girl and wondered what she wasn't telling them.
All the genomorphs' horns stopped glowing, except for the tall one, and the geno gnome on Guardians shoulder sprung off.
"Wha- Whats going on?" Guardian mumbled.
The rest of the group regained consciousness and stood up clutching their heads.
'What will you choose?' the blue geno asked.
"I choose, freedom." Superboy declared proudly.
"Guardian?" asked Aqualad, having recovered from the pain in his head.
"Go, I'll deal with Desmond."
"I think not." the geno's parted to reveal the scientist holding a florescent blue vial. "You kids have caused me a lot of trouble today. I had a fire in the upper levels, there was a perimeter breach that I failed to notice immediately, four children have managed to wreak havoc in my security system, and I let a most interesting test subject escape." He said the last part staring at Superboy, who stared back defiantly, and Sakura, who was mindlessly fiddling with a long strand of pink hair, which just raised suspicions around her even higher.
He pulled out a remote from his pocket and Sakuras eyes widened and she took a small step back. Robin stepped infront of her defensively, obviously having figured out her situation, but the scientist just smirked and pressed a button on the remote. Behind Robin, Sakura fell to the floor struggling to breathe with the pain, and scrambling to pull something off her throat.
"Sakura! What's wrong?" Robin cried.
"What did you do to her?" Aqualad demanded of the scientist.
"Why I only have her a little shock, except it may be severely harmful if its dealt through the neck, which it is." Kid Flash ran over and knelt down beside Sakura.
"It's the collar, get it off her!" he shouted.
"I'm trying! But this thing's pretty hard!" replied Robin.
"The- the remote..." Sakura tried to speak but she was chocking on her own words.
Superboy and Aqualad turned to the smirking scientist "Project Blockbuster will allow me to restore order." He held up the vial and swallowed it the contents.
He instantly dropped to his knees, completely crumpled up in pain as his body began to bulge in several different places.
The remote was carelessly flung aside and Kid Flash grabbed it and dashed back to Sakuras side. He pressed a button and the collar fell open, and Robin threw it to the other side of the room. She was gasping for air but she still pushed herself up and stood, saying that she was fine when she obviously wasn't. She focused her powers to healing her neck and the shock dealt to her system so that she could still fight.
The scientists' clothes were shredded as his entire figure began to expand and change, and even his own skin seemed too small for him, so parts of it were hanging off him in places. He let out a deafening roar as he revealed his grotesque form.
Guardian charged at the huge Blockbuster monster, hoping to land a hit, but was easily flung aside. Superboy tried as Guardian had, but after landing a few successful punches, Blockbuster grabbed him and jumped through the ceiling onto the next floor.
"That's one way to burst through a ceiling." Said Robin firing his cable to pull himself and Sakura, by the waist, to the next floor.
'Is he doing this on purpose now?' thought Sakura. Kid Flash grabbed on too and asked
"You think lab coat planned that?"
"I doubt he's planning anything anymore." answered Aqualad.
They set themselves down on the next floor just in time for them to see Superboy being hurled across the room and crash into Aqualad, knocking the breath out of both of them.
Kid Flash and Robin ran back to check if they were alright but Sakura charged straight at the huge creature. It threw a punch to her right side but she jumped over the huge fist and used her momentum to fuel a kick to Blockbusters shoulder. He blocked it with the other hand and pushed her off, sending her skidding back towards the rest of her group.
Kid Flash took Sakuras place and ran towards Blockbuster, sliding underneath him and distracting him. The huge creature turned to see both Aqualad and Superboys clenched fists heading straight for his face. He stumbled backwards and tripped over Kid Flash who was waiting behind him on all fours.
"Learned that one in kindergarden" said Kid Flash as he dusted himself off.
Robin leaped over KF and threw two exploding disks at Blockbuster, who blocked them with his arm. "Not much seems to be working." Sakura shouted, as she fumbled for something in her sleeve.
"We need a plan." Said Robin.
Robin looked over to where Sakura was unsheathing a hidden katana blade from within her sleeve and ran to join Kid Flash as he dodged a punch. Blockbuster instead hit the pillar and some of the ceiling trembled and crumble slightly.
"That's it!" Robin pulled up a computer screen which showed the structure of the building around them. "KF, get over here!"
Kid Flash left Sakura to fight the huge unnatural creature alone while he ran over to Robin.
"Hey! Where are you going?" Sakura shouted through clenched teeth while struggling to hold a block over her head as a giant foot attempted to crush her into a wall behind her. She forced Blockbuster back and off her and quickly jumped up and tried to swing at him from above before he could recover. The monster regained its balance and easily knocked Sakura's attacks away.
She decided that the katana wasn't the wisest choice of weapon for this fight, so she slid it back into place in her sleeve and pulled out some small bells on senbon needles (what else does she keep up there?) and started to fling them at the monster. They shot into the rock beneath like bullets with a loud crunch. At first Blockbuster just looked at the three needles embedded harmlessly in the ground at his feet and smirked. Then the bells started glowing and ringing faintly, and suddenly exploded, and he stumbled back into the pillar behind him, causing it to crumble under his weight.
Kid Flash whizzed past and grabbed some scraps from Blockbusters face as he got up. KF looked at the weird material in his hands, then pointed at it and said "Got your nose?"
Blockbuster snarled and followed KF as he ducked and dodged his punches, leading him closer and closer to the puddle of water on the floor. KF ran to the puddle, skidded, and managed to get the target right on the x, before Superboy pounced and sent Blockbuster crashing to the floor with a strong punch. Then Aqualad put his palms to the water and sent an electrical current through it, electrocuting Blockbuster and knocking him out.
"We've got to move!" shouted Robin. They all ran towards the door and the whole place started to crumble as the three remaining pillars were destroyed.
Superboy and Aqualad dived to cover and protect Robin, Kid Flash and Sakura from the falling remains of the the building.
Once all the debris and rocks had stopped falling, Superboy lifted a large slab of concrete and everyone got up.
"Thanks... I really... owe you guys one." said Sakura, panting heavily "I thought... I'd never... get out."
"We… did it." breathed Aqualad, not daring to believe it was true.
"Was there… ever any doubt?" panted Robin. They were all tired but speaking didn't help.
Robin and Kid Flash high fived and then flinched and clutched their chests in pain.
"Are you guys okay?" asked Sakura "Here this should help." She placed a hand on where they were both clutching their chests and she closed her eyes in concentration. Her hand started to glow and the pain subsided, making it easier to breathe. Sakura pulled her hands away and opened her eyes to see two stunned boys gaping at her.
"What?" she glanced away awkwardly.
"How did you do that? That was awesome! It barely hurts now!" shouted Kid Flash, grabbing Sakura by her shoulders and shaking her back and forth.
"Owww... That hurts KF. Remember you're not the only one who's injured. And by the way, Sakura isn't my real name, its just part of a name that I liked that some one called me."
"So you trust us now?" asked Superboy.
"Maybe."
"Well then, what is your real name?" questioned Robin.
Ignoring him, Sakura turned to Superboy and Aqualad and asked if they had any injuries that they would like to have looked at. She still didn't want to, no, she couldn't answer that question, at least not truthfully.
Shaking his head, Superboy turned away and strode towards Blockbuster who was crushed beneath a huge slab of concrete.
"See?" Superboy heard a voice from behind him and turned to see Kid Flash pointing to the beautiful night sky.
"The moon." Superboy squinted and saw a figure heading towards them.
The flying figure came to land softly infront of them and Superboy instantly knew who it was by the big S on his chest.
"Woah, and Superman! Do we keep our promises or what?"
Many other superheros came to land beside Superman and a green lantern lowered a platform carrying Batman, Flash, and many other non-flying superheros, none of which looked very happy.
"Uh, right. It looks like you guys are getting in a whole lot of trouble, so I'm going now, bye!"
With that Sakura threw down a flash bomb but when the heroes opened their eyes, she was gone.
"How did she do that? And where did she get a flash grenade from?" asked KF.
Robin quickly flipped open one of the pouches on his utility belt and stared for a moment before mumbling something under his breath that sounded like "how could I not notice that?"
Superboy stepped forward and lifted the flap of cloth that was covering the Big red S on his chest to show Superman. Supermans eyes widened slightly while Superboys looked hopeful, having finally net the man he always wanted to be. But when Superman frowned, the smile disappeared from his face.
"Is that what I think it is?" asked Batman, referring to Superboy.
"He doesn't like being called an it." whispered Kid Flash oh-so-discreetly.
"I'm Supermans clone." announced Superboy. The superheros' eyes widened and they murmured among themselves, in shock.
"Start talking."
Robin did most of the explaining about what happened at Cadmus; what was really going on in the underground labs, the genomorphs, the brainwashing, the Blockbuster monster, how they freed Superboy and met Sakura, with Kid Flash adding his own points in at times.
"...and that was when you guys got here and Sakura took off-"
"She still didn't tell us her real name" interrupted KF.
The Blockbuster monster was hauled away by part of the Justice League and the four teens were left to talk. Superboy occasionally glanced back at Superman, Wonder Woman, and The Martian Manhunter, who were talking, but he was caught staring, or glaring, at them when Superman turned.
He walked over to Superboy, obviously wanting to be somewhere else.
"We'll, uh, figure something out for you. The league will, I mean. For now I, uh, better make sure they get that Blockbuster monster locked up right away." And with that, Superman flew away, following the huge creature in the night sky.
Batman, Aquaman, and the Flash appeared infront of the teens and Batman spoke.
"Cadmus will be investigated; all 52 levels, but let's just get one thing straight-"
"You should've called." finished Flash.
"End results aside, we are not happy; you hacked league computers, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered lives of many, and by the sound of it, especially that pink-haired girl."
"But we were the ones who got her out of that weird place!" defended Kid Flash.
"She was bleeding to death half the time, she was electrocuted on multiple occasions, and she was forced to fight despite her wounds and the amount of mental and physical stress that had built up. You will not be doing this again."
Aqualad looked at the others and said "I'm sorry, but we will. We did good work here tonight: the kind of work you trained us to do. Together, on our own, we forged something powerful and important."
"If this is about your treatment at the hall, the three of you-" began Flash.
"The four of us." Kid Flash corrected his mentor, "And it's not."
"Batman, we're ready to use what you taught us, or why teach us at all?" asked Robin.
"Why let them tell us what to do?" asked Superboy, pushing his way forward. He was sick of being controlled. "It's simple, either get on board, or get out of the way."
Mt. Justice.
"This cave was the original headquarters for the Justice League. We're calling it into service again. And since you four are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms." said Batman.
The four teens were standing in the hollowed out mountain that would be their base from now on.
Batman continued, "Red Tornado has volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary will handle training. I will deploy you on missions."
"Real missions?" asked Robin cautiously, he was liking where this was going but he was worried it would all fall apart if they stretched it too far.
"Yes, but covert." Replied Batman.
'Better than nothing!' Robin thought.
"The League will still handle the obvious stuff. There's a reason we have these big targets on our chest." Said Flash, gesturing proudly to the insignia on his costume.
"But Cadmus proves that the bad guys are getting smarter and Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly." Said Aquaman.
"The five of you will be that team." Said Batman.
"Cool…wait, five?" asked Robin.
'Soon to be six, hopefully.' thought Batman.
Martian Manhunter and a younger girl, who shared many of his features, walked through the door and the team turned to see them enter.
"This is Martian Manhunters niece, Miss Martian." said Batman.
"Hi." Miss Martian waved timidly.
"I'm liking this gig already!" said Kid Flash, walking up to their newest member. "I'm kid Flash: this is Robin, Aqualad. It's okay if you forget their names."
"I'm honoured to be included" she said humbly.
The team walked over to introduce themselves but Superboy hung back. Seeing this, Robin called him over.
"Hey Superboy! Come meet Miss M."
As he walked over, Miss Martians top turned black, leaving the cross over her chest red in a similar style to Superboys.
"I like your t-shirt." she said nervously.
Superboy smiled slightly and a grinning Robin elbowed him in the ribs.
"Today is the day." Said Aqualad.
Yay! Independence day episodes finished! Sakura pick-pocketed the Boy Wonder lol! I think I might try out the whole love triangle with Robin, Sakura and Wally; I've read loads of other fanfics like that and it seems to work, and I think it'll be funny making Robin jealous, I already did it a little in this chapter.
I've still got to finish writing chapter 3 and I feel like it's too long but I don't know where to end it! *Sigh*
I'm looking for more beta readers to help me out, you know what they say: the more the merrier right?
Anyways, R&R please, the button's not evil, I checked this time hehe. Please tell me what you think, I think I might be switching POV's too much, and its only between Robin, Sakura and Normal. Ill try to do it from someone else's POV next time, not sure who yet...
Next Chapter: We shed a little light on why Sakura was in Cadmus all bloody and stuff, but I will not reveal all! MUAHAHA! (sorry, I had a moment there).
~SakuraTenshi out!~