AN: Sorry I'm late, I was mourning. 'Nough said.
Disclaimer: If I owned, I would change tons and tons and tons of stuff (Like it being cancelled and Wally dying)
"Where are we going?" Whisper and the Team were currently in the Bioship, on the hunt for Red Tornado.
"Batman is the world's greatest detective and he searched for Tornado and Morrow in every logical location. If we're gonna do better we need an illogical solution." The teen paused as he realized the very image for illogicalness was sitting behind him. Turning around in his chair, he faced Kid Flash. "A truly dumb idea."
"As a matter of fact..."
"Warden Strange owed us a favor for stopping last month's prison break. He's giving us five minutes with you."
Whisper remained in the shadows in the back. Ivo had done several jobs for the Talons and he did not need to be recognized.
"Spill Ivo! How do we find T. O. Morrow and his Reds," Superboy demanded.
"Now why in the world would I know how to find Morrow?"
Kid Flash stepped forward. "Because, and here's a truly dumb idea, you're Morrow's biggest competitor in the evil android game. Who better to keep track of what he's up to, and where?"
"Ah. I see your point. So let me rephrase. Why in the world would I tell you how to find Morrow?"
"He knows," Aqualad insisted. "Do what you must."
Miss Martian's eyes closed for a moment before opening once more, this time a vivid turquoise. Ivo leaned back in his seat. "Oh please. As if I've never faced a telepath before."
Whisper's inner battle finally ended at that statement. Ivo was in prison, so it wasn't likely he was going to get out any time soon, therefore making it almost impossible to contact other criminals. Stepping forward to the front of the group, Whisper leaned his hand on the table and pushed closer to the scientist. "Maybe you'll tell us because I'm here," he suggested, smirking evilly.
Ivo's face drained of all color. "You...b-but you..."
Glaring, Whisper growled out, "I'll give you three seconds. Where. Is. Morrow."
That seemed to get a reaction. "Morrow's in a secret underground base beneath Yellowstone National Park, 100 meters south of Old Faithful."
Whisper inwardly sighed as he literally felt the Team's stares on his back. This would take a lot of explaining.
"Lock out all external communication," Aqualad ordered. "Soon, Canary and Zatara-Batman, too I imagine-will know of our...visit to Professor Ivo. We haven't much time."
Whisper waited a few seconds before sighing. "Artemis, I can feel you staring at me."
"I think we're all just trying to get a handle on what happened back there. How did you do that? Do you know him or something?"
"Nope," Whisper responded truthfully. "Never met him before in my life."
Kid Flash chose that moment to intervene. "Well he certainly seemed to know you."
"Yeah, well, most villains do."
The Bioship fell into a deathly quite atmosphere. "Whisper," began Aqualad. "What do you mean by that?"
Whisper flinched slightly. He was just digging himself a bigger hole; time to start lying his tail bone off. "I ran into some...trouble a few years back with...Bane. I had already been trained and taking him down was easy enough. But villains like to gossip, and soon I was...some kind of legend in the criminal underworld." Under half of that was true, but the Team hopefully wouldn't be able to tell he was lying.
"What's our ETA to Yellowstone, I am way past ready to stuff Tornado into a trash compactor." Whisper relaxed slightly as the conversation took a turn to safer ground.
"Are you so certain he betrayed us," Aqualad questioned.
"Aren't you," demanded Superboy.
"I am not convinced. And even so, that makes him but the victim of his creator's programming. Certainly he deserves a chance to prove he's more than the weapon others designed him to be." While the remark was meant for Superboy, it struck a nerve on Whisper, too.
Maybe if he told his Team about his past...no. That was too dangerous. Them getting involved would only get them hurt, and he would not allow that. Not ever.
Whisper adjusted one last wire before taking a step back. "There, that should do it."
"Yes," Red Tornado confirmed. "I can speak again."
Aqualad stepped forward. "You were willing to sacrifice yourself to save the planet," he stated.
"The planet would've survived. It is humanity that was saved, though not by me. My sister and brother were the true heroes this day."
As the robot spoke, Whisper and Kid Flash walked over to the bins in the workshop and started going through them. Whisper had to admit he was impressed; Morrow definitely wasn't an idiot.
"My point is this. You were never the mole, never the traitor."
"No," Red Tornado said. "I left to protect you from further attack and to find my creator, Morrow."
"Cool," Kid Flash interrupted. Waving around a mechanic, red hand, he said, "Souvenir."
Whisper pulled out the bottom part of a leg and started towards the robot. "Reddy, we can rebuild you! Better than you were before!"
"I do not believe I should be repaired." Whisper furrowed his eyebrows.
"Why'd you volunteer to become our den mother in the first place," Superboy questioned.
"I was the pragmatic choice. I do not require sleep, I have no secret identity, or second life to live."
Smiling, Kid Flash declared, "But you do have advanced AI programming designed to learn, adapt, evolve." As he spoke, he straightened the fingers of the robot hand one by one.
"Hello Megan," Miss Martian spoke as she slapped her forehead. "You wanted to become more human."
"An you couldn't do that with the League. Their stiffs."
Whisper grinned at that. "You're sure not gonna learn emotion from Batman. Trust me." Bruce influenced emotion, but he sure as heck didn't teach it.
"Then the Cave was not a proving ground only for us, but for you as well."
Red Tornado turned towards the Team. "I do not know if these statements are accurate, but perhaps, they are true. And if I understand the term correctly, I believe I have come to...care about you all."
"See," Superboy deadpanned. "Practically a meat bag already."
"Which reminds me..."
Whisper walked onto the ramp leading into the Bioship before pausing. If Red Tornado wasn't the mole, than didn't that mean there was an open spot for an accusation? The teen sighed as he began walking once again. He would cross that bridge when he came to it. Right now, he just wanted to sleep.
AN: It's done yay. Next is Failsafe (And I haven't watched it since seeing the finale, so I know I'm going to break down crying when I see it). Sorry for the delay. I'll try to do better.
SPOILER: I miss you Wally. I want you back. You too, Young Justice. And I love you Jason Spisak. You are amazing. That is all.
-GSDLover