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Tim POV
"You know, nobody's making you go, Timmy." Dick said, making me roll my eyes at him.
"I've told you guys a thousand times, I am going to the Hall of Justice. Sheesh, you make it sound like I'm going to prison. Or boot camp with Jason. There's no reason to be worried." I said.
"Hey, who said I was going to boot camp?" Jason asked, glaring at me.
"Dad was thinking about it before remembering he couldn't send you there because your a vampire. Besides, you would probably attack all the others when you didn't get your Bloody Mary." I said, sipping a cup of blood so I wouldn't be hungry for when we left.
"Oh shut up. I liked it better when you were innocent-ish and 10. You didn't talk back as much then." Jason muttered.
Dick sighed dramatically from the other side of the table, and said, "His outside of Gotham friends have corrupted him. At first I thought it would be Steph and Cass corrupting you, but no, it's the friends that are outside of Gotham that turned you into this anti-hugging 12 year old. I want my hug able Timmy back." Dick said, pouting.
"Bart, Roy, and Jaime are not corrupting me." I said, rolling my eyes again.
"Tt. I find that hard to believe." Damian said, making me scowl at him.
"Damian, don't start a fight with Tim, Alfred just got the blood stains out of the tile. Tim, it's time to go." Dad said, standing up from his chair before I could start a fight with Damian.
"Alright." I said with a nod as I felt Jason ruffle my hair, dodged Dick's attempt at a hug, and walked over Damian's outstretched foot when he tried to trip me. Ass.
I put on my Red Robin suit, and walked next to Batman, who was standing next to a zeta tube. "Are you ready?" Batman asked.
"Of course I am. Why wouldn't I be? Today's the day." I said, walking into the zeta tube with a sharp smirk.
"You know, Dick was right. You don't have to go." Batman said when we landed right in front of the Hall of Justice.
"Why do you guys keep saying that? It's like you guys don't want me to join the Justice League." I said with an eye roll, walking towards the spot where Arsenal and Blue were.
"Hey guys." I said, fist bumping Blue, and sharing a smirk with Arsenal.
"Took you long enough. Older brother problems?" Arsenal asked with a grin.
"Not really, just Nightwing acting weird. Where's Impulse?" I asked, looking around for the speedster.
"Man, I knew we would be the last ones here." Impulse said, stopping in front of us as we snickered at him.
We walked onto a red carpet, ropes on both of our sides keeping the press and fans away from us as we walked in. "Is that Batman?" One person asked out loud, making me roll my eyes.
"Hey look, there's Flash and Flash Jr.!" One person shouted, making me, Arsenal, and Blue snicker as Impulse's eye started to twitch.
"No, you got his name wrong!" Someone else said, making Impulse start to smile.
"His name's Speedy!" The same guy added, making all of us laugh again.
"No, that's Green Arrow's sidekick." Another person said.
"Well that just makes no sense." Said someone else, me and Blue laughing our asses off while both the red heads looked like they wanted to kill the civilians.
"I've been around for 2 years, how can they not remember that my name's Arsenal?" Arsenal asked, his voice a low hiss.
"Don't know. But remember, you can't kill them. So stop twitching your hand like your about to grab a grenade we all know you hid in your belt." I said with a grin I learned from Jason.
"I don't know, I say they could use the explosion to help their memory." Impulse said, grinding his teeth.
"Relax, we're about to get a tour of the Justice League HQ. Don't let them ruin it, hermano." Blue said with a grin.
Impulse grinned back, nodding. We walked into the Hall of Justice, and the first thing we saw, was the giant statutes.
The original 7 that formed the Justice League each had their own statue made of what looked like gold. All of them were stuck in a serious pose, their arms cross or at their side in fists. Which seemed weird since the only one who would stay like that is Batman, because, well... he's Batman.
Our mentors, well, except Blue's, lead us to a door right under the giant statues where Red Tornado and Green Martian were waiting for us. "Welcome, Red Robin, Impulse, Arsenal, and Blue Beetle. You now have unlimited access to the gym, our fully stocked galley, and our library." Martian Manhunter said as we walked into said library.
I looked around, my eyes scanning the book spines. Even though there were at least a hundred books in Wayne Library, it seemed like there was somehow more here. But what really got my attention was the giant computer screen in the front. "And you wonder why we call you a geek." Arsenal muttered, rolling his eyes when he caught me staring at the computer with a smile.
I glared at him, wondering if it would be smart to hit Arsenal with his own robot arm in front of the League right after we just got in. Maybe tomorrow, when there aren't as many tourist watching through the glass. "Make yourselves at home." Flash said, causing Impulse to sprawl out on the nearest chair.
"You shouldn't have said that. Now this place might get infested with rats once Impulse starts hiding his food here." I said, dodging his attempt to kick me.
"Red Robin, yum!" Impulse said, laughing as my eyebrow started twitching when he brought up that stupid restaurant.
"Oh, shut up. At least I wasn't mistaken for Flash Jr." I said with a smirk, sitting down in another chair close to Impulse's.
The Leaguers were all chatting in their separate group, making me wonder what they were hiding. "That's it? I thought the first step was getting a tour of the HQ." Arsenal asked, narrowing his eyes at them as they turned to look at us.
"Isn't that what this place is?" Blue asked, gesturing around him.
"No. It's not. This is just some false front for tourists, and a pit stop for zeta beams to get to the real thing. A orbitting Watch Tower in space." Roy said, shocking us all.
What? No, no way could this be true. Batman promised that he would let us into the Justice League, he promised. And Dad wouldn't hurt me like that, he wouldn't set my hopes up so high just to knock them down. At least, I was pretty sure he wouldn't.
I looked over at him, hoping for him to do... something. Anything for him to tell me what Roy was saying was a lie.
But all he did was glare at Green Arrow like it was his fault he had to see the shocked and hurt looks on all of our faces. That only made me feel worse.
Before anyone could say anything, an image of Superman was pulled up on the screen of the computer in front of the whole library, gaining everyone's attention. "Superman to Justice League, there's been an explosion at project Cadmus. It's on fire." Superman said, making me narrow my eyes. What was project Cadmus?
"I've had my suspicions about Cadmus. This may be the perfect time for us to-"
"Zatara to Justice League. A villain, his name is unknown (I don't know who it was), and he's attempting on blotting out the sun. It's chances of working are 100%, unless we do something. Requesting full League response." Zatara said, cutting off Batman quickly before he could say anything else.
"It's a small fire, the authorities have it controlled." Superman said, Batman nodding.
"Cadmus can wait. All Leaguers are requested to go Zatara's location. Batman out." He said, pressing a finger to his comm communicating him to all the Leaguers.
"Stay put." Batman said, turning to us and giving each of us a glare.
His glares didn't scare me, not after all the things I've seen. But I kept my head down, keeping my eyes from looking at him. "As if you'd give us another choice." Blue said, his voice sounding hard and cold.
They all left through zeta tubes, leaving us in the room to think over what just happened. What I thought though, wasn't good.
I stood up quickly, and pushed the chair I was sitting in over. It crashed on the ground, the back legs making a loud cracking sound, even though I didn't use any vampire strength "Red, calm down!" Impulse said, grabbing me by the shoulders before I could do something else.
"Why should I? I've lived with Batman for years, Impulse, years. I thought I could trust him. But they lied to us Impulse, they told us we were going to the Justice League HQ, and they brought us here and lied to us." I said, pushing Impulse away.
"Red, you're not the only one. Ollie swore he wouldn't do anything to hurt me after Luther took away my arm, that I could trust him. Guess that was a lie." Arsenal said, leaning against a wall and glaring at the floor.
"Yeah, Flash said something like that. He said he wouldn't be like the people in the future. Well, guess this time lies more than mine." Impulse said, slumping into a chair.
"You know, you guys are making me glad I don't have a mentor." Blue said, trying to make us cheer up a little.
"Yeah, controlling adults are stupid." Impulse said, chuckling weakly.
I looked at the computer, an idea gathering in my head. "Remember how Batman was talking about Cadmus?" I asked them.
"Yeah, what about it?" Arsenal asked gruffly.
"Well... I was thinking." I started.
"Oh no. This can't be good, all bad things start when you think." Blue groaned, and I glared at him.
"This is a good idea. It will get the League to reconsider what they said about us." I said, walking over to the computer.
My fingers danced over the keyboard and I hacked the computer of the Justice League in record time. "Dude, how are you doing that?" Impulse asked, sounding impressed.
"It's the same system as the Batcave. Anyway, back to the point. Batman was talking about Cadmus. From this file, it's a genetics lab here in DC. But, if Batman is suspicious..." I said, trailing off with a grin.
"It would be poetic justice. Solving their own case before them." Blue said, grinning with the rest of us.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go check it out." Arsenal said with a smirk.
I smirked with him, running out of the Hall of Justice. I would show Dad to break his promise, that much I could promise.
Tim POV
"Looks like they're still getting the fire under control." Blue commented when we made it to the Cadmus building. The fire was on the second level, the glass to the windows on that level already broken.
"Which will help us get inside." Impulse said with a smirk before running up the wall to the building.
He grabbed the scientist about to fall out of the open window, and managed to get them onto the roof before he started to slip down the building. "Huh, Impulse, you are a moron." I said to myself before running towards the fire truck that was called out here to get the fire out.
I flipped onto the top of the top of the truck, ran up the ladder, and used the anger I still felt at my dad to power my jump that got me high enough to be able to launch my grappling hook at the window where Impulse was about to fall. I tucked my grappling gun into my belt, and helped Impulse into the building. "Thanks, red." Impulse said as I sat in a chair in front of a computer.
"We appreciated the help getting the scientists down from the roof." Arsenal said, glaring at us while Blue came in behind him minutes later.
"You guys handled it. Besides, poetic justice, remember?" I said, hacking their computers.
Arsenal rolled his eyes, and Blue walked out of the room to look around. "Um, guys, I think I saw something in the elevator. Something that is freaking me out." Blue said, his voice panicked.
We all looked at each other before running towards him quickly. After all, if Blue, the teenager that got an alien beetle strapped to his back, is worried, than it must be for a good reason. "All elevators should be shut down." Impulse mused while I walked next to the elevator and pressed one of the arrows. It wasn't going to us, even though the light above showed it should be.
I pulled up the blue prints for the elevator I got from hacking the computers on my glove computer, the one Damian said was stupid. Ha, take that Demon. "This isn't right. This is a high speed express elevator. It doesn't belong in a two story building." I said, frowning.
"Neither is what I saw." Blue said before blasting down the door with his sonic gun.
I looked down, my eyes widening. The elevator shaft should only have one more level. Instead, it looked like it had 50 at least more. "Well, now we know why they needed an express elevator." I said before launching my grappling hook at the top of the elevator shaft and started sliding down.
Impulse and Arsenal slid down my rope behind me as Blue flew down. It felt like we were falling forever, the floor still too far to see when my rope finally stopped at the 26th floor below the building, with a lot more floors below us. "Well, looks like this is where we stop." I said, jumping onto the ledge of the elevator door so the others could get off.
I pulled out my computer, hacking into the security. "All right, securities down. " I said, putting up my computer.
"Can you hurry up, Blue? It's kind of hard to balance on a ledge like this when your feet are two times wider than it." Arsenal asked, leaning against the wall so he wouldn't fall.
"Yeah, yeah. I'm hurrying." Blue said, blasting down the elevator door. Though, what we saw next made me wish Blue Beetle hadn't blown it down.
Herds of strange creatures that looked like a weird, pale, bonier version of Wooly Mammoths with no hair were walking down in an organized path to... somewhere in the building. On top of the giant creatures, there was a smaller creature on it's head with horns that made it look like miniature devils. "Oh yeah, nothing suspicious going on down here." Impulse said, sarcasm dripping from every word.
"Come on. We should find a computer somewhere so I can hack it. Maybe then we can figure out what those things are, then." I said, looking down a hallway that lead to a big door.
"Well, big door lead to big secrets." Blue said, flying to the door as the rest of us followed. Blue blasted the door down, and we looked around.
Giant tubes with more strange animals in them were lined along the wall, electricity coming out of them. "This must be how they keep off the grid. If they got their electricity from somewhere else, people would notice too much. But with these... things, they make their own electricity. What are they anyways?" Impulse asked, looking at me.
"Don't know. Let's look." I said, hacking into the computer I saw on a desk.
It only took a few minutes, a few minutes of focusing on the screen in front of me while trying to forget about what I felt about Dad hurting me back at the Hall of Justice. "Alright, I'm in. It looks like they call them genomorphs. Wow. Look at the stats on these things! Telepathy, super strength, super speed. Cadmus is making living weapons!" I said, shocked that someone would even think to make creatures like this.
"They're making an army. But for who?" Arsenal asked, his eyes narrowed dangerously. I couldn't blame him, I was doing the same.
"Not sure. But there are two other big projects. Project Kr, but I can't find out what it is. It must be encrypted or something. The other, Project Harper, is... oh no." I said, my eyes widening and my body freezing in horror as I read what was on the screen.
"Red, what's wrong?" Arsenal asked, shaking my shoulder.
I swallowed thickly, willing myself to meet his eyes. "When Luther kidnapped you and took your arm, he didn't do it for no reason. Cadmus needed an endless blood supply, to be able to clone you. That's what Project Harper is. An older version of you, force grown so that he could take your place when the time was right." I said, watching the blood drain from his, and everyone else faces.
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