"Alpha! Hey! You sorta disappeared after that attack. is everything alright?" Someone grabbed my shoulder, I whipped around to see Zane smiling at me.
"Everything is fine... I just have some... questions to ask you."
"Ask away!" Zane smiled, picking up a box of props for the show tonight. I stared slightly at his muscles. Not even Wally could lift that box, it was heavier than him. "Alph?"
"Oh. Right." I walked alongside him, carrying a smaller box. "I was wondering if you perhaps knew the reason Joker and the other villains are attacking you."
"I'm from the future."
"What?!"
"That got your attention." He smiled. "I might be related to him distantly..."
"WHAT?!"
"Gotcha!"
"Zane, quit joking around."
"Oh, oh oh, it's magic. You know-oh-oh. Never believe it's not so~."
"ZANE!" I snapped slightly, he looked at me surprisedly. "Just... answer my question, alright?"
"Sorry Robin." he looked at the ground. "He's looking to use my voice in a manner to hypnotize teen girls into forming an army to capture and when he captures me, he'll probably use my intense programming skills to build him an army of robots with my voice."
"Why?"
"Because the Joker is probably a psychopath who uses grandiose thoughts to trick himself into thinking that he can do anything he pleases." Zane looked at the ground. "That and it'll actually work too."
"Okay, that covers Joker, but the others?"
"Vio-Later and ReWire?" Zane looked at the ground. "They're my cousins but from the future. Vivaldi Orlator and Rhea Wyre. Rhea invented Vivaldi's time traveling viola, and they left the night I had my first big concert."
"The night of?"
"They never wanted to see me become famous, so they keep coming back with more future tech, trying to destroy me." Zane put his box down. "At every concert. Putting fans in danger. That's why... I got a mentor."
"Mentor?"
"I'm one of you now."
"What?"
"Hawk Town... is the Hawkkid." Zane pulled a pair of strap-on wings from the box, buckling them to his person. He looked at me "Hawkman agreed to train me. The wings are made from a material that reacts to my thoughts, entirely new. Neurofabric, covering a pliable hollow material that mimics a bird's bones." He continued. "I designed it. Training shouldn't be hard either, I was once a circus kid too."
"Too?!"
"At Kathlyn Sister Circus Company in the states. I was an acrobat... and that''s exactly what I plan to return to tonight." Zane waved at me before I watched the wings assist him into the skies, to the other siide of the train. There was something odd about him... I just couldn't place what.
Roy and Conner exchanged glances as I entered the cabin again. Everyone else was getting ready for the show tonight, I was still trying to figure out why there was something off with Zane. Maybe I'd call Hawkman to verify the information I got out of Zane... or Batman. I was quite sure that Cicipedia did not say that Zane was ever in Kathlyn Sister Circus Co., and I was certain he wasn't a circus kid like me.
"Rob, are you alright?" Wally was pulling on his Arrowbat vest. "You seem dazed."
I tapped into my phone, looking for 'Kathlyn Sisters', eves widening when I didn't find anything. "He lied..." But Zane doesn't lie, meaning that isn't Zane at all. I tucked my phone into my utility belt.
"Rob?"
Zane must've been kidnapped and replaced when the Joker attacked. Which must mean, if I am correct... "He's a clone."
Roy and Conner looked at me. "Who?"
"Get your uniforms on." I looked across my Team. "We're going to find the Joker."
(A/N: We're back! Once again, travelling makes for delays in updates, and there's absolutely no wifi at my camp. Poor 3G reception at camp does not make for quick updates. So, what do you think of the latest chapter? Read & Review please. Even if you don't have an account, leave a review if you'd like.)