In the bat-cave, this was one of the best places to get information out of criminals: a room only illuminated by one light source surrounded with darkness. Both Conner and Kory couldn't see what was beyond other than the lights that were illuminated on both of them. Damian and the rest of the team observed their actions through a mirror, which was actually a see-through glass.

"Are you sure that you're going to let Kory do this?" Stephanie asked. "Especially with her vendetta thing, you know?"

"I don't need information." Damian said. "I only need confirmation."

"By beating the living crap out of him." Tim crossed his hands. "I doubt that this is going to get along. How are we going to know if he's telling the truth or not?"

"I can observe." Damian said. "Like for example, I can observe his shoes."

"His shoes?" Stephanie asked. "Oh this is where you're doing the 'observe, don't see' thing?"

"Let me do it." Tim said. "His shoes were filled with sands for some reason, and this sand definitely didn't came from Gotham's nonexistent beach, not that Gotham wanted to be engrained with beaches anyway."

"So you're saying that he just travelled in from the deserts?" Stephanie asked.

"Yes." Damian said. "That kind of sand could be found in tropical biomes, particularly a land with deserts around it."

"And this theory might came off as a stretch." Tim said. "But do you think that the invasion of Turbain was assisted by the aliens?"

"Only one way to find out." Damian said.

"How can you come into that conclusion?" Stephanie said.

"It's really strange that the inferior men and inferior firepowers of the Turbain rebels were able to take Fascana in less than eight minutes." Damian said. "This was for the record one of the shortest capital city takeover in the last decade. And why would ARGUS take drone strikes of white phosphorous bombs towards the capital full of civilians?"

"You somehow make the answer 'Because they're aliens in it' sounds incredibly plausible." Stephanie said. "Damn. This world is crazy sometimes."

"It's crazy enough that two aliens from different planets actually get to be here right in front of us." Damian said. "Now the problem is if Conner is going to tell lies or truths."

"Have you told Kory where the aliens actually are?" Tim asked.

"I told her about it, but I said it was just my observation." Damian said. "The only way to find out the truth is if we hear it directly from Conner himself."

"Right." Tim said. "So we're going to have to wait."

"Or maybe not so much." Stephanie turned around to the rest of the heroes. "Does any of you here have any powers to detect lies?"

##

Kory punched Conner in the face as he woke up, proclaiming more about her pain and the times at Tamaran. Rachel didn't know what was going on between the two, but it sure as hell felt personal. Her empathic abilities managed to determine their emotions, and what would they do to make sure that it's going to be done.

"It seems that the Princess had a personal affiliation with Conner." Rachel said. "And Conner returns that feeling greatly."

"Wait, he has feelings for her?" Stephanie said.

"And the feeling is genuine." Rachel said. "He really wants to help her. He has no intentions of hurting her at all."

"How do you know about that?" Damian asked.

"The intentions of hurting someone can only be felt with anger." Rachel said. "And yet I didn't feel anger from him. I feel compassion and good intentions."

"So he's not a bad guy?" Stephanie said.

The dialogue excerpt continued inside at the point where Conner said his defense.

"Look Princess Koriand'r," Conner said. "Please don't do this. You won't get any result from it. I'm not on their side anymore."

"He's telling the truth." Rachel said.

The dialogue inside continued:

"Do you know who leaked the information to the Tamaraneans that caused your escape?" Conner said.

The princess had her hands crossed with her face full of anger. She smirked on the thought that someone like him would cause a significant backing.

"Was it you?

"Yes. It was me." Conner said. "I leaked the information so that you can flee safely and I can get out of that planet. Honestly, I'm tired of having a war with you or with anyone period, even if you have commited some serious atrocities."

"What?" Kory said. "I didn't! How dare you suggest that!"

"Yes you did. We both have." Conner said. "You have no idea the amout of Citadelians that you kill without mercy. You have no idea how many Kryptonians died thanks to your power."

"The Citadelians have interrupted our peace for centuries long!"

"The Citadelians are your own peoples!" Conner said. "They are the peoples that you banish out of Tamaran without a single thought, just because their ideas conflict with your utopian society. You banish Tamaraneans out into the Citadels for no good reason other than that. It was like if the Citadel is a prison to you, even though it was just outside of your hometown Tamaran at the same planet that you're staying."

"Our Utopian Society shall be Utopian had you didn't interrupt our peace."

"Your Utopian Society was built in the basis of the innocent lives you banish into the Citadels" Conner said. "The Citadelians, they were wild and crazy sure. It was all because of your people. You stripped them out of the resources and you forced them to become feral. You take the resources of this planet and claim it for your own. You never even share any food. Do you think that your Utopian Society can last long the more peoples you banish in there?"

"They were banished because they break the laws."

"No. They were banished because they think wrong." Conner said. "This is why your sister was banished into the Citadelians. She thinks that freedom and liberty is more important than control. I'd say congratulations for making a city like that to be peaceful, but maybe because the lies that peoples tell to what happens beyond the great wall, especially how you consider your own species to be another one entirely just because they didn't stay in your place."

Rachel widened her eyes throughout that entire conversation. "Wow."

"What wow?" Stephanie asked.

"Conner was telling the truth." Rachel said. "And it seemed like Kory was in huge denial."

##

"I honestly have no idea why you treated me peacefully." Conner said. "When I grow up in the Citadels, I knew nothing but war. I knew nothing but to survive, and to kill anyone who tries to kill. It's a wild world out there, but it's the one that grows me into what I am right now."

"It was a mistake bringing you in there." Kory said. "It was a mistake kidnapping you and the other Kryptonians."

"It wasn't." Conner said. "In truth, you helped me. You still couldn't convince me that what the Tamaraneans have done are not wrong, but you've shown me what it's like to be peaceful. You convinced me that I can live in a place without a war, and I have enjoyed that time greatly with you."

"Then why me?"

"Because I really like you." Conner said. "All that time we had in Tamaran, I've never met someone like you. I've always been alone throughout my times and I've always been fighting, but I'm tired of it. You showed me what it's like when I'm not fighting, when I don't have to be constantly on my watch for peoples trying to kill me. Tamaran is a utopian society no doubt, but it was built through the sacrifices of unnecessary lives. I condemn your methods, but I don't condemn the results."

Conner really had to bring that speech up to her. He knew that this was the worst ways of gaining her trust, but he had to bring that point up even if it costed his own life. She meant too much to him, and he believed that he could change her.

"We have one unifying ideology that makes us to be what we are. That ideology is peace." Kory said. "If someone goes against it, then that unity is broken, and therefore breaking the peace. When there's no peace, there's violence."

"And even the slight change of that idea will brand you to be insane, just like what happened to your sister." Conner said. "And I know what you're going to say. You're going to say that your sister is a traitor and someone who opposes the ideology, even though I met her personally and believe it or not, she stil loves you. She doesn't want to bring hurt to you at all. She said that you were so innocent and that you have the potential to change who you really are."

"If my sister loved me, she wouldn't have betrayed her own peoples." Kory said. "She would've stayed with me."

"Why should she do that?" Conner asked. "She realized what your father has done towards the other Tamaraneans that were banished into the Citadel. You know what she did out there? She vowed to change your minds. She asked me not to do it."

"Komand'r is a traitor."

"Did your father say that to you?" Conner said. "Princess Koriand'r, I know that you're a good person. I don't want to let these bad ideas to define who you are, and I don't want you to defend the bad peoples who hold these destructive ideas, even if it means your own family."

Kory seemed to have cooled herself off when he said that. The level of denial that was engrained in her was too much. She needed to be snapped out of it, and he knew that it's going to cost his own life in the process.

"If you want to kill me out of revenge, that's fine." Conner said. "But just so you know, I lost good peoples from the Citadels too, some of whom are my great friends. I lost them to you. You slaughtered them too without mercy. I forgive you for that, mainly because we're just pawns to a bigger enemy."

The princess apparently didn't listen to what Conner offered and just focused on the killing part. She took her starbolts out of her hands and she prepared it so that it could heat up on his face and burn him to death. Conner kneeled on his knees, preparing to accept his fate.

That is until...

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Raven popped up, grabbing Kory from right behind her shoulder. She knew that the conversation would go on to violence, but at least some information came out of it, irrelevant information but still information. She had no choice but to take the step in as the interrogator to make sure that the conversation was on point.

"Stop." Raven said. "Whatever you're going to do, it's not going to benefit us."

"Let go of me!" Kory yanked her hands off of her and glanced towards an emotionless Raven. "You have no idea what he has done to deserve this."

"Robin was right." Raven said. "He would only open his mouth when he encountered you, but your emotional state would've taken the better of you eventually. He was worried that you wouldn't extract any relevant information out of him, and he was right."

"What are you talking about?" Kory asked.

"Let me ask the questions, the relevant ones." Raven said. "You can go for your own personal vendetta later, but we have an alien invasion to be concerned about. Isn't that right, Conner Kent?"

"Uh.. yeah." Conner said. "I'll tell you about the invasion, or at least the preparation for it."

"The preparation?" Raven asked. "What do you mean about it?"

"To be truthful, we didn't prepare any sorts of invasion for this planet." Conner said.

"He's lying!" Kory said. "I know when he's lying."

"No, he didn't." Raven said.

"How can you defend him so easily?" Kory asked. "You barely knew him! You have no positions to judge this."

"And yet throughout the last few conversations, I find that Conner was telling the truth the entire time." Raven said. "And you were in denial of something. How about you explain that to me?"

"In denial of what?"

"It's better if I test you on something." Raven said. "Give me a statement, any statement, like something that happens in your planet or your birth place or the capital of your city, but deliberately make it right or wrong. I will tell you if it's right or wrong."

"Why?"

"So that you can believe what I say." Raven said. "Start with your birthplace. Again, you have the choice to make it right or wrong."

"Alright." Kory said. "My birthplace is in Palamar."

"False."

Kory widened her eyes. "Palamar is where I lost my friend."

"True."

"Myand'r is my brother's name."

"False."

"Myand'r is my father's name."

"True."

Again, Kory widened her eyes. "How did you know that?"

"I am an empath." Raven said. "I read on people's emotions. I know when they're telling the truth or not. I know when they're lying or not. I know when they're in denial of something or not. I can tell people's true emotions that are deep inside. The point is that's not important. What's important is where is Conner Kent's army really is."

"I..." Conner began. "The Kryptonian army resides in Turbain, specifically Fascana."

Both Raven and Kory glanced at Conner, realizing exactly what he meant about and the recent news that fell on to it.

"That can't be." Raven said. "Are you serious?"

"Are you talking about the city that just got bombed with what you call 'white phosphorous'?" Kory asked.

"Bombed?" Conner said. "You mean-"

"Guys." Robin said through the PA. "Meet me at the meeting room. I think we're done for now."

"Meeting room?" Conner said. "Where... where are we?"

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The bright lights were turned off and the rest of the cave was illuminated. It turned out that Conner was in the really bottom part of the so-called Bat-Cave. Apparently the strange deformable human Garfield Logan was able to gather up superheroes to the point of having even Princess Koriand'r on the team. He had to admit he was impressive.

Conner walked up the stairs into the so-called meeting room, basically an oval table where the heroes could gather up strategies. Garfield himself was standing in among the other superheroes, and he cheered up the moment he caught glance at Conner himself.

"Hey!" Garfield said. "I got it all! I got it for you!"

Conner giggled. "You did a great job. Wait... what?"

He was flabbergasted the moment he saw both Tim Drake and Stephanie Brown among the group. Stephanie was wearing what appeared to be a purple bulletproof armor with some sort of a yellow 'bat' symbol on her chest and a cape on her back. Tim Drake was wearing another armor, black with a touch of red here and there especially the the head of an Eagle on his chest, also a cape on his back. They were both smiling the moment they caught glance on Conner Kent.

"You're..." Conner said. "You're in this, Stephanie?"

"Used to." Stephanie said. "I quit a long time ago. Too many peoples are taking up the Batgirl mantle. The real one doesn't seem to appear all that much."

"And so is... Tim?"

"Yeah." Tim said. "Sorry I poisoned you with that sedative. Never thought that's going to work."

"And I never thought that you're going to condemn your own race."

Another superhero said, also equipped with a complete body armor set but instead of black, his costume was dark green with some yellow touches on his cape and the 'R' insignia crafted on the upper left corner.

"You're... Robin." Conner said.

"Yes, I'm Robin." Damian said. "But I'm also Damian Wayne, the billionaire entrepreneur. You sure have heard about me."

"Stephanie talked a lot about you."

Damian glanced at Stephanie with sharp eyes. Stephanie could only crack a little smile.

"What?" Stephanie said. "You're so interesting to talk about and you're one of my sources of income."

"Regardless." Damian said. "I'm impressed that you're turning against them. Why do you want to do that?"

"Because if I come with them, I got nothing but war." Conner said. "I had nightmares, constant nightmares about the peoples that I've killed. And I wanted to end it. Thanks to Stephanie, my nightmares are lessened, and I had lived in a world where I never encountered any war. I owe her so much."

"Yeah you're welcome." Stephanie said. "Although no offense, but you're not exactly good in bed."

Conner blushed really hard. Kory had a perplexed or puzzled face in her with eyes wider than a golf ball, Rachel raised her eyebrows. Damian stayed emotionless although slightly annoyed. Garfield had his mouth open. Mia grinned. And finally Tim promptly slapped Stephanie on the back of her shoulder.

"Oww!" Stephanie groaned. "That hurts!"

"So are you going to fight with us?" Tim asked to Conner.

"If it means protecting Stephanie and this world, then yes." Conner said. "I'll do my best."

"You know, you shouldn't have put your entire motive on me, you know?" Stephanie said. "I mean am I really that good of a girl?"

"That's what I thought before I dated you, remember?" Tim said.

"Oh right. Even the second smartest man in the entire world fell to me."

"Wait, who's the first?" Tim asked.

"That's enough, you two." Mia said. "We got an alien invasion coming right here."

"Julia, feed me in the details." Damian said. "We're going to war."

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A/N: After this chapter, there's going to be a four/five/six part finale on S01. I'm going to divert my fan-fictions into this one and this one only to prefect the ending.