I awoke abruptly, jerking my eyelids open. I looked around as I lay on something soft that I couldn't make out.

I tried to sit up, but I had a searing pain in my head that I knew wasn't specifically for this mission. I felt dizzy, and knelt on my elbows surrounded by what I now recognized as sand in the moonlight. Moonlight...it was night here. That was strange. Last time I remember it was daytime...

Sand...why sand? I thought as I picked up a little and let it sift through my fingers. No, no time for that. Focus on the mission. But what was the mission, exactly?

"Dubbilex? Are you there?" I called out mentally, asking the Genomorph for help. No answer. I guessed I had to figure it out on my own.

By now I had enough strength to stand. I looked around, finding nothing but dunes and some rocky cliffs in the distance. Those were my best bet to finding out where I was, other than a desert. There were lots of deserts, but which one was this? I had to find out.

Spreading my wings and flinching in surprise to find them only halfway respond, I looked back to see that they looked much weaker than when i last used them. I groaned. Of course, the "no flying in the desert" rule just had to be in play here.

I started walking then. I looked down at a noise and found I was covered in some sort of...armor. The night was cool right now, but come daytime I would likely have to start shedding some layers if I didn't reach those cliffs by sunrise.

I walked faster, picking up speed as my feet dragged the soft ground. It wasn't just my wings that felt weak, though. My whole body felt like it had been put through a meat processor. But I continued on towards my goal.

I heard a shout, and then suddenly had someone come ambush me from above. I barely had time to bring my arm up in defense before the person knocked me back into the dune. He looked angry, very angry. His face seemed almost familiar, though…

He rushed at me again, but this time I was prepared. I stood my ground as he rushed at me, and caught both hands as they made a desperate attempt to get to me. I smirked and threw him up into the air.

Using my wings, I flew and met him above the ground, and knocked him back down. Pushing against the air, I sent both my feet into his chest as he hit the sand, scattering it everywhere on impact. I leaped off of him as he growled and jumped into the air. He kept jumping higher than any human could off into the distance. I breathed a sigh of relief. Right now he was merely a distraction from my goal.

I continued along my way, running through the desert now and using my wings to gain even more speed. I stopped for a quick rest before continuing on foot again.

By now it was morning. Great, now my time to find shade would be up soon. I didn't seem to have any water on me, just a mace and sai hanging from my belt. At least I'm not defenseless, I thought, observing the sai carefully.

Another pair of muffled footsteps caught my attention as I neared a rocky obelisk. I immediately took cover and peered around a corner to see who it was.

There was a boy who looked shorter than me, with a red shirt, a mask, and black cape. I recognized him. Robin, the Boy Wonder, sidekick to Batman. And if he was here, then…

I put two and two together. So now I had three enemies in Robin, Batman, and the boy I fought earlier. That must've been my mission, taking down Batman.

Before I could ambush Robin, though, I heard trucks approaching. Staying where I was, I waited until they passed as I caught some words from Robin.

"Those...Bialyan Republic Army...what am I...in September? What happened to March?" At least I had dates now.

I heard him drop from the ledge, I decided to make myself known. I held the handle of my mace and flew out above him, being careful not to block out the sun.

As I closed in on my target and raised the mace above my head, something...stirred within me.

I was flying through a tornado, barely managing to keep my balance through the wind.

I landed safely. I heard footsteps behind me. "Hawkgirl, you flew!" I turned to see Robin grinning at me excitedly. I smiled back.

I ended up missing Robin by a few inches and gave away my position because of that...I didn't know what to call it.

Robin flipped backwards as I brandished my mace. He threw a couple of disks at me, which I deflected and rushed at him. I swung my wing at his head, but he ducked and rolled under my attack. Before I could rush him again, Robin threw a smoke bomb and disappeared.

I gritted my teeth in frustration. I hadn't thought to put a tracker on him -didn't even think I had any trackers- but he must rendezvous with Batman sometime. If only I knew which direction he'd gone in…

I knelt down to the ground, studying his tracks left in the sand. They just pointed back at me. Great.

I heard noises again, this time coming from the north. I guessed that was my best bet to finding Batman and Robin. I headed off in that direction once I climbed the rocks and used the stronger winds to keep me aloft.

I saw smoke in the distance. Figuring that's where the noise was coming from I kept going.

It was sundown by the time I reached the place. I kept going, not caring about the heat, or the fact that i have no previous recollection of anything before waking up, but I instead focused on finding Batman. He must've been here, right? His little sidekick wouldn't be out here all alone.

I saw more explosions coming from a group of tanks and trucks who seemed to be targeting something specific. I landed on top of one of the cliffs to get a better look at the action.

There was someone with a bow, and then a black blur. I studied the two. I only really knew of one person who could run that fast, but he didn't wear black. I knew of a lot of archers, but that one didn't seem familiar. Another memory shot up into my head.

I was walking along in the jungle. I saw two people ahead of me, one was a boy with black hair, a black t-shirt, and cargo pants, and the other was a girl with red hair, wearing a blue cape with a hood.

"Okay, Rob, now what?" Another voice asked. I turned to see someone wearing a black suit with a lightning bolt symbol on the front. Whoever he had directed his question to was already gone.

"Man, I hate it when he does that." He said.

"What if we split up? Y'know, cover more ground?" I offered.

The boy scoffed. "And risk getting ambushed out here?"

I shook my head clear. These new...memories, I think, we're getting annoying. Especially when they interfered with my mission.

All of a sudden, the boy I fought earlier appeared and dropped down in front of the two people. I watched from above as the fast kid was knocked to the cliff side as the archer kept shooting explosive arrows that did very little damage to the madman. So he's indestructible...but that would mean…

Before I could finish my thought, a middle was launched in the boy's direction, as he leaped off to deal with the tank that shot it. While he was busy, I also dropped down between the two that were currently laying on the ground.

Hmm, only weaker. Good, I thought with equal parts disappointment and excitement. It would've been nice to already cross the two off my enemies list, but I was also ready for a fight.

I heard the archer get up first. I kicked her bow out of reach as I got out the sai for the job. She looked up at me with fear.

"Wait, where did you get that sai?" She asked as I switched the blade's direction.

"Don't know, don't care," I growled in answer. Before I could bring it back down, though, I was knocked to the side of the cliff wall. My shoulder erupted into pain, but I shrugged it off as the fast kid helped the archer up. I launched myself at him, but he just dashed out of the way.

"Sorry, too slow," he quipped. I brought my mace out and swung it at him, dashing forwards as he once again ran out of the way. Before I could even see him, he had already dashed away and taken the archer with him.

That's three targets I've lost already. I'm not getting soft, am I? I looked on as the boy continued to tear apart the tanks. I guess destroying tanks wouldn't cause much harm, I decided as I flew up to bash my mace into the side of one, as it fired a missile at the boy, sending him into a dune.

I broke the nozzle of the tank with my mace, bashing it into the body. I ripped up the hood and flew up with the top part still in my hand, and threw it back down onto the tank.

I saw drones fly over my head, heading somewhere else. Now that the tank was destroyed, I decided to follow the drones and see if they could lead me to my targets.

The wind was to my face, though, as I struggled to keep up with the machines. I saw them open fire on something, and flew over to see the fast kid and the archer. Two birds, one stone, I thought as I once again grabbed the handle of my mace.

I flew back down as they became busy with the drones. "Don't worry, I'm almost there!" I heard a voice in my head. But it wasn't Dubbilex. I had no idea who it was.

I missed my targets again. That was becoming frustrating. I landed hard onto the sand beside my two targets. I sat up, staring at them while they looked at me in fear. I didn't attack though, turning my attention to the drones, which by now we're probably targeting me as well as those two.

Suddenly, I saw a girl, who I recognized as the one from my last memory, flying behind them. She clapped her hands, and the drones flew into each other in an explosion. She drifted downwards towards us as I stared in disbelief.

Now I have to kill Robin, Batman, the fast kid, the archer, and a Martian? This was getting too confusing. I wished Dubbilex was here to give me a clue, a word, something to help me figure out what was going on.

"Wow, J'onn, the costume looks...familiar, but I'm not sure the new bod screams 'manhunter.'" The fast Kid commented. I decided to play it safe for now and bide my time with these three. I didn't want to start a fight with them so easily being able to gang up on me.

"You know my uncle J'onn?" The girl asked. "Hello Megan, of course you do. You're Kid Flash, Wally! And you're Artemis!" She gestured to the fast boy and the archer, respectively. "And you're Hawkgirl!" My eyes widened from her words.

"How do you know my name?" I pointed my mace at her accusingly. I'd never seen her before save from some weird dream/possible memory.

"It's okay. We're teammates, friends. I made you cookies." She raised her hands in surrender. I scoffed in disbelief.

"I work alone," I said, putting away my mace and crossing my arms. I was still upset I had to pretend I was okay with all these targets in the same place and I couldn't do anything to take them out. At least, not yet.

"Wait, how come you're not all crazy like Superboy?" The girl asked me. "He was a Cadmus clone too, so why do you still have memories?"

Cadmus, how does she know about Cadmus? That must've been my mission all along. The heroes must've learned about Cadmus and I was called in to deal with them. That's why there's so many heroes running around.

I narrowed my eyes at her and made a dash for the Martian. I didn't care whether or not there were three against one, they already knew too much.

In a second, my mace was in my hand and I swung it as she flew behind the attack, gasping. I heard an arrow fire from Artemis, which I was prepared to deflect with my mace, but instead it split into a net that incapacitated me in a moment. I was really starting to get frustrated on how fast I went down.

I struggled against the bindings. "Yeah, good luck getting out of that. Synthesized steel fibers. Those ropes would hold a Kryptonian." Artemis explained my position.

I stopped trying to escape. There was no point. I'd been captured. There was nothing I could do but glare at the heroes.

"Come on,Robin and Superboy need our help." The Martian girl said as she levitated me towards some more smoke. Wait, I was allied with Robin? I was a hero? That couldn't be. These people -these heroes-were the enemy. I wouldn't deflect from Cadmus if they ordered me to.

"Of course, Robin and Super-what now?" Kid Flash asked as he and Artemis followed us.

It was dark again. The sun had set already, and the air was beginning to turn cool. I stopped listening to Miss Martian as she spoke her name and origin. I refused to believe that I was on their side and we were a supposed "covert ops team."

"Hawkgirl, Robin and Kid Flash rescued you from Cadmus, Superboy too." Miss mArtian turned to me. I scowled at her, not believing one word. She was trying to turn me to their side with my so-called memories. Well, I wasn't going to buy it.

"Your mentors are Hawkman and Hawkwoman, you said you remembered some things from before Cadmus, and you're my best friend." She tried to explain.

"I don't have friends. Only enemies." I glared at her as I spoke. It was true. As soon as I could get free, I would kill them all, including Robin and Superboy, so they couldn't reveal Cadmus's secrets to anyone. Miss Martian sighed and flew in silence.

I discretely worked on finding a weak point in my bindings. They seemed strong, and wouldn't even budge when I almost sliced my wrists against them. But then I felt it, a single loose fiber.

That was enough for me. I carefully used that one tiny weakness in the ropes and worked my sai into my hand. Being careful to not make a sound, I began sawing at the ropes. It took a while before one more fiber broke. Then another. Then another until the rope was severed about a third of the way through.

I saw us come onto a battle already in progress, as armed men shot at what I assumed to be Robin. My eyes weren't so good in the dark of night. Thankfully it was a full moon tonight, though.

I broke my way out of the net with brute force, grabbing the mace handle. I rushed at one soldier a she took a mace to the head, and knocked another with my wing.

"These targets are mine," I growled as I swung my mace at another man, sending him flying backwards into the dune.

As soon as the battle was over and before I could attack the others, I was once again trapped in another net from Artemis. She glared at me, daring me to try to escape again. I didn't, for the time being, and listened with disdain as the heroes compared their memories.

I still wasn't buying it that I was on their side. They knew about Cadmus, they had to be killed! I said nothing as some occasionally glanced my way. Still, I couldn't help but wonder about those earlier memories. Did I really work with these people? Were we really a team? Was I really working with these heroes? Did that make me a hero as well? I shuddered at the thought of working alongside these sidekicks and their mentors.

But, at least for now, I'll pretend I bought their little web of lies. Pretending to actually be on their side might actually prove more useful that going against them straightaway. It would make killing them a whole lot easier.


A/N: See? I told you it would be a rollercoaster. And now you know where Hawkgirl gets her "battle personality" from.

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