A/N: Hey guys! Sorry to make you wait, as always. But I finally found some time to write (a.k.a., I have two papers and a midterm this week and I'm totally procrastinating XD). Thank you for all your amazing reviews and guesses! Hope you enjoy this chapter, and be sure to read the end A/N! :D

1:47 AM

"Hold on, big guy, I think you've got the wrong girl," Artemis held up her arms defensively, slowly taking a few steps back.

"No!" Grundy retaliated defiantly, pointing his large finger at Conner, "Thing on chest is 'S'. 'S' mean he Superman," he then pointed at Artemis instead, "And that mean you BLONDIE!"

"What?" Artemis yelled out, jumping out of the way as the monster swung a heavy fist her way, "That doesn't even make sense!"

"He's a zombie," Superboy reminded her, "Judging by all those old black and white movies your boyfriend made me watch, I'd say they usually don't make sense." Turning his attention to said creature, he then called out, "Hey, I don't know who this 'Blondie' you're looking for is, but I'm no Superman." The moment the words left his mouth, he felt like he'd punched himself in his own gut; he'd merely parroted what the laser girl had kept telling him earlier. Guess she got to me a little more than I realized, he admitted to himself.

He wasn't allowed much time to dwell on his own words when Grundy started swinging punches at him. "SUPERMAN THINK GRUNDY THAT STUPID?" the zombie bellowed into his face, "'S' MEAN SUPER! 'S' ON MAN MAKE YOU SUPERMAN! THAT MAKE HER BLONDIE!" The concrete below their feet continued to shatter beneath the raging monster's pummeling fists, and the two heroes barely made it onto the next building before the rooftop entirely caved in. Unfortunately, their foe had made it across safely as well. His hate-filled eyes turned towards Artemis and he let out another roar. "BLONDIE TRY TO BURY GRUNDY UNDER ROCKS AGAIN! RAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

"What the hell!" Artemis cried out, tossing her arms into the air, "I didn't do anything!"

"I don't think he's listening," Superboy noted, yanking her out of the way just in time as a large grey fist slammed down where she had just been standing. With a meaningful shove, he pushed her towards another building and stepped between her and the villain. "Go find the others!" he yelled to her over his shoulder, eyes trained on the zombie's powerful fists, "I'll hold him off!"

"Are you crazy!"

"Go, Artemis!"

The archer hesitated for a moment, but then turned around and raced across the rooftops. "I'll be back as soon as I find the others to help!" she yelled back at him.

The monster's head swung around, beady eyes following Artemis. "NO! GRUNDY MUST CRUSH BLONDIE!" He paused mid-roar as a planter crashed overtop his head. Swinging back around, he eyed his assailant and let out another roar. "NOW SUPERMAN TRY BURY GRUNDY, TOO!" All it took was a single swat of that giant hand to send Superboy flying across the rooftops, but it seemed that the clone's distraction had worked; Grundy was now entirely focused on pummeling Superboy into the ground first before going after his original target.

Scrambling to his feet as fast as possible, the Kryptonian narrowly escaped the monster's raging fist but forgot to look out for the second one. All the air left his lungs, and after skidding backwards across the concrete once more, Conner considered himself lucky that his lungs hadn't left his body as well. He groaned in pain as he pushed himself back up. Because of his powers, he wasn't used to taking this much damage in just one night, let alone from one villain. His human-strength muscles were practically screaming in agony, and he wasn't even sure how to tell if he'd broken anything. He really hoped that wasn't the case.

But before he could even get his bearings, the hefty shadow of Solomon Grundy was already looming over him again. A giant grey hand gripped him by his hair and yanked him into the air until he was eye-level with his attacker.

"Grundy done playing," the villain growled through large grinding teeth, his voice icy and ominous, "Say bye-bye, Superman."

Conner's body tensed, and he prepared for another hard body blow. He just hoped he'd make it through this one.

2:02 AM

Raquel glared at the two villainesses in front of her. "What was that?" she demanded, her voice shaking slightly with anger, "Another one of yours come to attack us as well?"

"Did you say… zombie?" Zatanna questioned a bit disbelievingly.

Harley looked at the two girls, then back at her own ally, who was still staring off in the direction of the roar.

"Hey!" M'gann yelled, concern for her boyfriend building up inside her, "Answer our quest—"

"Shhh," the laser girl hushed the girls urgently, holding up a hand towards them in silent warning to stop talking. Her eyes never left that same spot, but a frown was quickly etching its way onto her features.

But no one shushes Rocket; she had made that quite clear earlier. "No, I will most definitely not 'shhh'!" she yelled defiantly, "What made that roar?"

Suddenly, a figure leapt from a nearby rooftop and landed next to the group of girls with a stumble.

The young heroines spun around and gasped in surprise and relief. "Artemis!"

"SOLOMONGRUNDYISHERE!" she quickly spat out in one gasp, panting as she tried to catch her breath.

Zatanna seemed to go pale. "What?"

"A-and Conner is h-holding him off alone!"

"WHAT!" M'gann practically screamed, "We have to do something!"

"Alright, you two, we don't have time to mess around with you anymore, so…" Raquel started to say as she spun around to face their opponents, but she quickly noticed that the laser girl had mysteriously vanished. "Wha—where'd she go? We only turned away for two seconds…"

Harley giggled and climbed up a nearby ladder until she was at the top looking down over them. "Doncha worry about a thing, kiddos," she called down as she waved goodbye, "Your puddin'll be safe n' sound by the time you get there." And with that, she took off in the opposite direction of Grundy's roaring.

"Wait!" Artemis yelled back in vain, "Aunt Harley, what do you mean?"

"Never mind that!" M'gann called out, already climbing up a ladder on the opposite side of the alley, "Conner's all alone over there! If we don't hurry, he could get really hurt and—"

"We don't need to worry about that," came a voice from behind them.

The girls all jumped at the sound of the familiar voice, but Raquel was the first to respond. "Kaldur!" she exclaimed as she ran towards their suddenly-appeared leader, but then she froze mid-step when she noticed the water bearer in his hand, its usual blow glow protruding from one end. She eyed him up and down suspiciously, afraid of being right. Aqualad's eyes didn't look glazed over at least, but that didn't mean that Ivy hadn't sunk her jaws into him again. "…Kaldur'ahm?" she asked carefully, "Are you…" A small smile played on his lips, and Raquel felt relief flow through her like a tidal wave when she saw his usual warmth in his face. This definitely wasn't the same Kaldur that had attacked her earlier that night. "You're alright," she said definitively, more to herself than to anyone else.

Aqualad took a step forward and set his free hand gently on her shoulder. "I am alright." Then he looked up at the others. "Superboy will be alright, but we should hurry and meet up with the others, just to be on the safe side."

"What? Wait, how are you using your powers?" Artemis asked, "And what do you mean by 'others'?"

Kaldur's gaze remained steadfast as he spoke the one phrase none of them expected to hear. "We are giving up. The Bats win."

2:02 AM

"SUPERMAN! STOP. RUNNING!"

"I'M. NOT. SUPERMAN!"

"GRRRAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

Superboy threw his arms up just in time as another heavy punch connected with his body. Flying into the air, he came down on the concrete hard, paralyzing him momentarily from the shock. He desperately gasped for air, his chest heaving with every breath. He wasn't sure what a broken bone felt like, but he was pretty sure he had about 16 by now. He tried to push himself up off the ground one more time, but his aching body was screaming from just that simple strain. He collapsed back down, panting harder than ever before. Come on, he urged himself, I have to get up before—

"LAST CHANCE!" Grundy roared, chambering up another deadly blow as he approached the wounded boy, "WHERE BLONDIE?"

At this point, Superboy didn't even have the strength to come up with some quick remark, so he just resorted to his usual man-of-few-words persona. "No."

Anger flooded the giant's features. "THEN DIEEEE!" he bellowed, preparing to throw his final attack.

Conner braced himself for impact, not sure if he would be able to survive one more hit. But just before the punch made contact with Superboy's face, a dark figure abruptly jumped in front of the clone and effortlessly halted Grundy's fist with a single hand.

"Hey! Big, grey, 'n ugly!" he heard the girl yell at his opponent, "You're lookin' for me, right?"

Superboy hoisted himself up onto his elbows to get a better look at his savior, and found himself totally lost when he recognized the leather and fancy goggles. "Laser girl?" he huffed out disbelievingly, "How… how did you stop that blow?"

The dumb creature grunted in confusion, his eyebrows furrowing as his small brain attempted to reason out why the boy hadn't been crushed to death. His eyes traveled from his target sprawled out on the concrete to the obstacle standing in his way. "Grundy looking for you?" he questioned angrily, "Who you? Grundy don't know a Laser Girl!"

The laser girl smirked a little and gave an exaggerated sigh. "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that puny brain of yours can't put two and two together," she told him with mock empathy, "Here, maybe this'll help explain things for you." With her free hand, she easily ripped off her goggles and tossed them aside, revealing piercing blue eyes burning with anger. "That better?"

Grundy's eyes widened as he finally pieced things together, but quickly changed to an expression of pure rage once more. "BLONDIEEEEE!" he roared at the top of his lungs and prepared to swing his free arm at her.

"Oh, good. So it is me you're after," she said with a fake smile. The monster roared again and threw all his weight into his punch, but before he could even close that small gap between them, the girl drew back her own free fist and nailed him square in the jaw. Grundy soared through the air with a pained roar and only came to a stop after he'd crashed straight through four abandoned buildings.

Conner just stared at the scene, totally bewildered at what had just happened.

The blonde girl glared down at the wreckage that had collapsed on top of the grey villain and yelled out so that he could hear her clearly, "Then keep your filthy rotting hands off my baby cousin!"

A/N: And that's all for now, everyone :) Also, I am not excepting anymore guesses as to laser girl's identity. I mean, you can still guess if you want, but at this point, I'm sure a lot of you will have a pretty good idea who it is, so your guess won't be 'valid' so to speak. But just in case some of you aren't sure who it is, I'll hold off on announcing the winners of the guessing game til next chapter :3

Well, as always, thanks so much for reading! Don't forget to leave a review and let me know what you thought!