****Team Star City***

"Mar Rin?" asked Ari, who was leaning over May Rin. "You alright?" she asked.

May Rin took a deep breath. Where was she? A hospital. Oh yeah... for Amara's leg. She looked up at the red-headed friend. "Yeah. I'm fine, just a bad dream." She stood up, her shoulders and neck aching from sleeping in a chair. "How's Amara?" she asked, stretching out her sore muscles. "Oh, she's doing fine. They say her healing rate is almost supernatural." May Rin bit her tongue. The irony.

May Rin looked around. Maybe she should try again. "Um, I'm going to the bathroom." She said. She started to walk in the direction of the bathrooms. She knew that the hospital was re-building its west wing, which is where she was headed instead of the bathroom. As he walked away, her short hair flowed a little bit.

"May Rin, is that a radio in your ear?" Ari asked, noticing the small metal device.

May Rin stopped walking.

"Why on earth do you have a radio in your ear? Unless-." She was cut off. May Rin had unfroze and sprited like a deer to the west wing.

. 're going to find out! Screamed her mind to her. She pushed past medical staff and carts and thing until she entered the west wing.

Where to hide?

She looked around. The elevator shaft! But Ari had already followed her.

"May Rin, what did you do?" she demanded. May Rin hesitated. Should she? She pushed her glasses up so they were resting on her head, and Ari nearly gasped.

Her eyes were a deep hazel, sharp and refined, cold and calculating.

"May Rin?" Ari said in shock. May Rin reached slowly behind her. "You can't tell anyone." She said, her voice a little scared.

"Tell them what? I don't even know what you're doing."

May Rin's hand stopped. She didn't know about her past?

"You haven't been working for the bad guys have you? Feeding them information?" she asked. May Rin shook her head and dropped her arm. "No. I um, used to." She pushed her glasses back down, hiding her eyes.

"Then what's with the radio?" Ari asked.

"It was surgically implanted." She muttered. "And it's still active. They're always whispering to me. Telling me I'm on the wrong side. That I can't be a hero." She said it really fast and it all poured out, as if someone would stop her. "The bad dream?" Ari asked. "Yeah." May Rin said.

"You can't tell anyone!" May Rin said.

"Okay. I won't, but can you tell me who you were working for?"

"Do I have to?"

"Yes."

"The League of Assassins."

****Team Gotham****

"Connor. Why?" Sansa muttered. Connor didn't say anything at first, he just sat there, holding his shirt.

"After I got dumped here In DC after the Cadmus thing." He started.

"I was lost. Blind and confused. I got involved with the wrong group, and started to do drugs." He told her quietly.

"After a bit I got arrested and put into foster care, but it wasn't very good. Every night I'd come home drunk or stoned or high. Green Arrow didn't want anything to do with me after I became blind, and neither did the foster family. I ran away afterwards and swore I'd become clean. After a long time, I finally was, but a lot of people didn't like I wasn't pushing anymore." He said. Sansa was utterly entranced by his words. Green Arrow didn't want him anymore? Why not? Just because he was blind?

"I moved away to Gotham. Got a crappy part time job, enrolled in school and held a grudge." He said.

"When I went out to go get the food, they recognized me. Of course I don't know who it was. Next thing I know, I'm having a cloth wrapped around my mouth and someone is shooting me up with LSD."

He shook his head and chuckled, like That's just life.

"It was a bad trip. I did this to me." He moved his arms. "The nail marks and bruises. Bad trips are not to be messed with I came here and that was it. I'm stilling feeling it." He said to her.

Sansa could only stare at him. Drugs were everywhere in East End Gotham, but this was a whole new thing for her. She had never heard a drug story so sad, so… depraved.

He leaned on the wall from where he was sitting. "It sucks. And it hurts."

"What about the?" she asked him. "The black eye wasn't me. Or the throat cut he told her, his eyes closed.

Sansa snapped out of her trance. "Okay. I'll clean it." She said. She took his arm and started to wipe the blood away. From the nail marks and put the Instant Freeze pack on his welt on the arm.

"Tell me more." She said as she worked. Connor gave a little shrug. "There isn't more to tell."

"Cadmus." She said. Connor winced for the first time.

"Cadmus." He said slowly, as if he hadn't said it in years. Sansa started to use some gauze and bandages to wrap his left arm up.

"I don't remember much." He admitted. His words were less slow now, less slurred. He seemed a little more in control. The LSD was been wearing off.

"A normal day. I was… out on patrol with him."

Him must be Green Arrow. Sansa though as she untied the arm band from Connor's arm.

"We were in a warehouse. He suspected they were smuggling. I was rounding a corner." He said. Sansa started to wipe away the yellow puss from the injection hole. Connor winced again. "Ow." He said. "Sorry." Sans said in reply. "Go on." She told him.

"There were a lot of people there. They knew we were coming. I couldn't do much. I'd be overpowered or I'd run out of arrows if I even could hold them back." He told her. Sansa started bandage his left arm.

"Then… I don't remember. I woke up in a room. They tested on me and took blood and stuff."

"Tested?" muttered Sansa.

"Yeah." Connor said. "Can you see that, Connor? I can see it. Can you hit that mark? Yeah, I can hit it. Testing." He told her.

"Oh." She started to finish up cleaning and bandaging everything.

"Then they talked a lot. Men and women in white lab coats with clipboards. Then they told me I was a prime subject for them. I fought back. But whenever I did, they'd hurt me. Then I just stopped. Finally, I was just about to go under. They had masks on. That was the last thing I saw. When I woke up,I have bandages over my eyes. When they took them off, they muttered things. I was a failure. I could see, but only a little."

Sansa stopped moving. Her heart was breaking with each word.

They tried again, but this time I couldn't see at all after they took the bandages off. Then they gave me a bow. They told me to shoot it. I did, and they still muttered. I still had my skill, but no sight."

Sansa swallowed a lump in her throat. She had no idea about any of this.

"Then I snapped and ran away. Ran and ran. Once I was out, I called him, but he said since I was blind, he didn't need me anymore. I was alone and dumped in DC. Then I met the wrong group." He finished sadly. Sansa had gotten a white medical eye patch out and put a disinfection pad on it.

"Here." She said, tying it around the black eye.

"Done." She said. She dumped the bloody cotton balls and paper towels into the waste bin. Connor nodded. "Thank you." He said. He seemed a lot less hazy now, more in control of himself.

"You can't tell the others." Sansa nodded in agreement. "I won't."

She stood up. "Are you going to be okay?" she asked. "I just need the high to were off . I'll be fine." He told her. She picked up the first aid kit and opened the door. She stepped out into the light of the bus. Barbra jumped out of her seat. They were all sitting near the bathroom. It was brighter outside, the orange light cascading on the cars as people headed to work.

"Is he alright?" Babra asked. Sansa nodded.

"Are you alright?" she asked Sansa. She caught a glimpse of herself in the window she seemed a little unhinged, her skin pale and her eyes were wild, as though she had just seen someone die. She nodded, and forced her eyes to look calmer. "Yeah. I'm fine."

"What happened to him?"

She shook her head and walked to the front of the bus and put the kit away.

Dick took the hint. "The Library opens at 8:30 to the public." He said.

"What exactly are we looking for, Dick?"

Well, they have newspapers and books and thing from the 18th century almost. I'm hoping it can give more information on Grimore Heart, because when you look it up on the internet you get a dark guild for an anime."

"I love that anime!" Sam said, and then blushed. "Um… Fairy Tail, I mean."

"Exactly. It was actually a radical group. I'm sure that our information is correct. They've added new members, but the leaders are still the same."

Barbra bit her lip. "Lazarus Pit?" she asked. Both Sam and Sansa sucked in a breath, they had heard the stories about it.

"No. Not that." Dick said and both girls sighed in relief.

"I don't know what, but the heroes and villains disappearing. I think they've found a way to turn human powers, metagene, into a power source for a long life."

The bus was so silent, you could have heard a pin drop.

"Whoa." Muttered Sam.

"I think we should all eat breakfast then get ready for the libray trip." Dick said changing the subject.

"Wait, doesn't the Library of Congress have a metal detector? An x-ray machine?" Sans asked.

"Yep."

Sansa just shook her head. "Okay. I'll go get Connor out of the bathroom." She said. she walked to the back of the bus and knocked on the door.

"Connor? You ready to come out?" she asked. The door unlocked and Connor walked out. He was wearing his long sleeve shirt and a jacket that covered the neck bandage and long pants.

"Yeah." He said.

He seemed a lot more calm now, and his eyes were back to normal.

"Good." Sansa said. Sam and Barbra stared at him, and Dick pulled on a jacket as well. "A jacket's a good idea, it's freezing outside."

Sansa pulled on her jacket, as did Barbra and Sam (Who had help from Barbra.)

Dick opened the door and they all stepped out into the frosty air. Sam almost at once wrapped her arms around her herself and cursed loudly.

"Sam!" Barbra said, biting back a laugh. "I can't help it! It's freaking freezing!"

Sansa laughed. "Where are you from?"

"South Florida."

"That explains a lot!"

They stopped a place called Le Bon Café and got some breakfast of coffee and pastries. They sat inside at a table near the window.

Sam happily munched on something called a Gözleme and listened while the others talked about things. "So how on earth are we going to get in?" Connor said, breaking his Haddekuche in half. Barbra sipped her coffee. "No idea. I'm sure Sansa could get in no problem; both Dick, myself, you Connor and Sam have stuff that would be considered weapons."

Dick bit into his Pâté Chaud, spilling flakes on his plate. "We could always disguise them."

"As what? Pantyhose?" asked Sansa.

"No… like maybe wrap them in tin foil. That over throws metal dectors."

"And the X-Ray?" Sansa asked.

"Same thing." He said (A/N: I have no idea if this is true or not, by the way)

"Okay, so what about Connor's bow? And arrows?" Barbra pointed out. Connor shrugged. "I can handle knifes and Kunai."

"Kunai? Like in Naruto?" asked Sansa. Connor nodded. "They're small and easy to use. I can hide them well. We can wrap those up and some throwing knifes."

"You should still have a bow." Barbra said. "Okay, I'll bring my wrist crossbow. The arrows are like the size of pencils." He said. Sam sighed and looked out the window. Her shoulder was aching like crazy.

Across the street someone put a pair of binoculars down.

"This is interesting." The person purred. "Umbrella girl is with them, I'm sure the boss will love to hear this, huh, Garth?" she asked the black purring ball of fuzz next to her. The cat purred as she reached down and scratched his head.

"Let's go, Garth."

Across the street, Sam sighed and rubbed her right thigh, feeling the bandage marks on it. Damn those stupid claws…

'Sam?"

"Huh?"

Barbra smiled. "Can you get your umbrella in the Library?"

"Yeah." Sam said, and then checked her watch. "It's 7:30. We should buy some tin foil and head over to the bus." She told them. The group nodded and left the café. After a quick trip to a 24 hour shop they went back to the bus. They all sat in a circle and wrapped things in tin foil, and finally they were off to the Libray of Congress.

Just as Dick said, they passed the X-ray and metal detector with ease. The guards ushered them through, and soon they were in the library.

"Whoa." muttered Sansa. Whoa indeed. There were thousands upon thousands of books and it was filled with shiny title and…. It was pretty breath taking.

"Okay, here." Dick gave everybody radios. "Keep in always, and stay in pairs. I'll go with Sansa and Barbra. Sam, you go with Connor."

The group nodded in agreement and drifted off into the archives. There were a bunch of separate buildings, and Dick's team found themselves in the Newspaper Reading Room in the Madison building.

"What are we looking for?" Sansa asked as they thumbed through the newspapers.

"Anything on radical groups. Or extreme power sources."

"Here's the something on the Symbionese Liberation Army. Patty Hearst." Barbra said pulling out a paper that read, "Heiress kidnapped by the SLA!"

"No…" Dick said. "Too late. We need something from the early 1900's."

"Bonnie and Clyde?"

"No…." Dick trailed off. "Oh! Here!" he pulled out a new paper. On the front page it read, "Grimore Heart Cult founded by inventor Malum." He flipped the page. Just some information on them.

"Here's another one! Grimore Heart invention to show at world fair. Cool." Sansa said. Barbra reached into the same box.

"Grimore Heart's invention kills 4. Malum shamed." She said. She read the article. "Their invention released shock waves and killed four members. It says here they went into hiding afterwards."

'What's this?" Sansa muttered pulling out a newspaper. "It says here that the stock market crashed. Look!" she said pointing to the picture of a bank. "top right." She said. It was a picture of a boy who was skinny and pale, with black hair. "It's Ace. He doesn't look any older." She pointed out.

"Let's see that world fair one, Sansa." Dick said. She passed it over. He read it. "The invention drains the power of things and distributes into others. It seems to be a world class invention! This is it. They ARE using a machine to stay young forever."

"The super powers. They drain human life force and transfer to them! They're stealing life!" Barbra said.

"Whoa, check this one out." Sansa said grabbing their attention.

"New villain group Tempest kills five in robbery." She read out loud.

"Holy crap! It's powered humans, they were the first group of super villains. Look, one of bodies." She pointed to someone on the floor. "They have a heart of thorns on their hand. Wait… they all have the mark! They must have been feuding." She said.

At that moment Sam called them. "Sam, you okay?" Dick asked.

"No! No we are totally not okay! Hurry we're in the Jefferson Building! In the Genealogy room!" she sounded desperate and concerned, but oddly quite. "Hurry! They have Connor. They're planning on-! gave a shout that sounded like "Look out!" and a large boom.

The line went dead.

Okay! That was a long one for me, I just kept writing and writing and writing… there wasn't really an end. So, the last answer to the last question was The Human Torch. That was the last one. The winner of the Sponsor Questions is…..*drumroll*

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With a grand total of a whopping 24 points! I've already talked with them and the prize is set. In the next few chapters I'll have it up again, but for now…. NO! I also will have a new story out, so each time someone's past is introduced, I'll write it, so keep a look out for it! :D

What do you think happened to Sam and Connor? What are your thoughts on May Rin and Connor now? Until next time internet!

Peace and Mist,

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