Bruce: 36

Dick: 18

Lillian: 14

Wally: 18

Forming The Team Part Two

"We're headed down?!" I hollered as I took notice of the numbers on the elevator.

"Dude out is up!" Kid Flash pointed at the roof of the elevator.

"Excuse me, project Kr is down on sublevel fifty-two." Robin stated.

"This is out of control." Aqualad expressed. "Perhaps we should contact the League." Just then the elevator dinged, letting us know we had reached sub level fifty-two. Robin and Kid Flash rushed out immediately racing onto the floor.

"We are already here." I shrugged at Aqualad before following after my brother.

"Which way?" He sighed reaching our side.

"Bizarre looking hallway number one or bizarre looking hallway number two?" Dick said reviewing our options.

"HOLD!" A creature from our left demanded. It launched an explosive at our heads, causing us to duck on instinct. As an afterthought I sent a Batarang flying in the creatures direction. It had no effect as more explosives were hurtled upon us. Sprinting, we raced off down bizarre looking hallway number two. After rounding several corners we soon came to a rapidly closing hatchway. Wally raced forward jamming the door open with something before calling back for us to hurry. Vaulting forward we launched ourselves into the room, just in time to avoid the party chasing behind us. Aqualad kicked at the door and whatever had been holding it open was removed. Robin disabled the door effectively locking us in the small chamber.

"Uh guys…" Wally murmured over his shoulder "You'll wanna see this." Standing before us, encased in a giant tube was a boy about sixteen in a white solar suit. Across his chest a giant red "s", the symbol for superman.

"Kr, big K, Little r, it's the atomic symbol for Krypton." I supplied my scientific knowledge to the boys.

"Robin, hack!" Aqaulad ordered, waving his hand over the computer that accompanied the giant tube.

"Right, right." Dick worked furiously but quickly tapping into the system with ease. "Weapon designation, Superboy, A clone force grown in…Sixteen weeks! From DNA acquired from Superman."

"Stolen from Superman." Aqualad implied.

"No way the big guy knows about this." Kid Flash agreed.

"The solar suit allows him to absorb yellow sun radiation twenty-four seven!" I read out loud over Robin's shoulder. "And those things…" I pointed at three alien looking things at the top of the tube. They're Genomorph Gnomes, telepathic creatures that are force-feeding him an education."

"And we can guess what else." Robin surmised. "They're making a slave out of Superman's well…son."

"Now we contact the League." Aqaulad asserted. We each reached for our various communication devices but none of them were working.

"We're in too deep, literally." Wally declared.

"This is wrong." I said looking through the glass tubing at Superboy. "We can't leave him like this."

"I'll set him free." Dick decided. Within seconds the glass was being lifted from the entrapped boy. But something was wrong, his fingers were flexing into fists. Superboy launched forward throwing Aqualad to the ground with ease, he raised his fist as Wally and Robin sprinted forward.

"We're…on your… side." Robin struggled to get out as he wrestled with Superboy's fist. The boys hadn't even managed to slow Superboy down before being tossed off in opposite directions.

"What did we get ourselves into?" I groaned before aiming a Bat-Taser at the muscular boy's chest. The electric vaults had no effect. Superboy pulled at the tethers that had escaped my gun and dragged me to the ground. Landing hard on the concrete floor I felt his foot land on my chest, I was helpless and pinned to the ground.

"Enough!" Aqualad rang out before generating a giant water hammer and knocking Superboy in the head. "We are trying to help you." Aqualad stated before launching himself at Superboy again. Robin rushed to his aid as Wally came to mine.

"Alright there Batgirl?"

"Yeah, I'm…" Wally, Robin and I watched as Aqualad generated an electric shock that seemed to at least be slowing down our pursuer. That is until Superboy vaulted upwards and smashed Aqualad into the rocky ceiling. He fell limp on the ground and superboy marched out of the room, shoving the heavy hatch open with easy. "Robin and Aqualad are unconscious and even together the four of us couldn't take him down. What do we do now?" I asked Kid Flash.

"Patch up those two I guess." We never got the chance. In all the commotion we'd somehow forgotten that the reason we were in Superboy's sub-chamber in the first place was to hide. At the temporary incapacitation of Robin and Aqualad, Wally and I failed to assess our surroundings. This earned us both a knock on the head.

I woke moments later suspended in a tube-chamber similar to the one we had found Superboy in. Looking around Robin, Kid Flash, and Aqualad were there as well. All three boys appeared to be awake and Wally was shouting at a now freed Superboy.

"What do you want? Quit staring it's freaking me out!"

"Ah KF how about you not tick off the guy who can level us with a look?" I suggested.

"We only tried to help you." Aqualad said addressing Superboy calmly.

"Yeah we free you, and you turn on us. How's that for gratitude?" Kid Flash barked.

"Kid please," Aqualad interrupted. "I believe our new friend was not in full control of his actions."

"What…what…if…what if I wasn't?" Superboy struggled the words out.

"He can talk?!" Wally blurted out.

"Yes, He can." Superboy responded angrily.

"The Genomorphs talk to you telepathically correct?" Aqualad asked.

"The Genomorphs taught me much. I can read, write, I know the names of things…"

"But have you seen them?" Robin asked. He had been suspiciously quite up until this point. "Have you ever actually seen the sky? Or the sun?" I watched my brother carefully, his hands were twitching with a strangely familiar rhythm to them. Of course! I should have thought of that sooner! If my hands hadn't been cuffed into place I would had smacked myself. While the rest of us had been chatting it up with Superboy, Dick had been planning our escape. From the inside of my gloves I produced two miniature lock picks and began fiddling away at the wrist cuffs.

"Images are implanted in my mind but…no. I have not seen them." Superboy answered Robin's question.

"Do you know what you are? Who you are?" I asked trying to keep the conversation going long enough to free my hands.

"I am the Superboy. A Genomorph, a clone made from the DNA of the Superman, created to replace him should he perish. To destroy him should he turn from The Light."

"To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration." Aqualad told Superboy. "But like Superman you deserve a life of your own, beyond your pod, beyond Cadmus."

"I live because of Cadmus!" Superboy barked. "It is my home!"

"Your home is a test tube." Robin said sympathetically. "We can show you the sun."

"I'm pretty sure it's After Midnight." Kid Flash disagreed. "But we can show you the moon."

"We can show you, introduce you, to Superman." I added.

"No they can't!" A man's voice called. He walked into the room with another scientist, and a man dressed in blue and yellow armor. "They'll be otherwise occupied. Activate the cloning process."

"Pass!" Robin bellowed. "The Batcave's crowded enough!"

"And get the weapon back in its pod!"

"Help us!" Aqualad said calmly. Superboy said nothing a G-gnome climbed into his shoulder.

"Don't start thinking now!" The scientist exclaimed. "See you're not a real boy, you're a weapon and you belong to me! Well to Cadmus, same thing. Now get back to your pod!" We watched as Superboy marched out of the room, more than likely being controlled by the G-gnome on his shoulder. The next thing I knew giant prongs were tethered to my chest and some sort of electrical charge was pulsing through me. All I could think about was how much pain I was in. Just as suddenly as the pain had begun, the power was cut to the machine. With all the strength I could muster I picked up my head to look for the cause. There I found Superboy.

With little effort he dispatched of the scientists and the man in the armored suit. I frantically began picking at my wrist locks again hoping that either I would free myself or Superboy would come to our aid.

"Are you here to help us or fry us?" Wally asked through gritted teeth. I rolled my eyes at him. Leave it to Wally West to think this was the time for a joke. Superboy squinted hard in Wally's direction.

"Well I don't seem to have heat vision," He smiled for the first time. "So I suppose helping is my only option."

"Finally!" Robin called before dropping safely to the ground surprising, Superboy and Aqualad. "Lucky Batman isn't here, he'd have my head for taking so long!"

"You!?" I laughed still fidgeting. "He'd never let me live down the fact that I completely forgot I could free myself!"

"Seriously that's what you two are worried about? The whole league'll have our heads after tonight!" Kid Flash exclaimed with certainty. Robin ignored us both and turned to Superboy.

"Free Aqualad, I'll get Kid Mouth."

"Don't you give me orders either!" Superboy grunted before running off to help Aqualad. Dick simply shrugged before freeing his best friend.

"Thanks Rob." I hissed drop to the ground at last.

"Knew you could handle yourself sis." He assured me once Kid Flash had been freed. Once Aqualad was free the five of us hit the ground running. The scientist called to us when we ran passed.

"You'll never get out of here, I'll have you back in pods before morning!"

"That guy is not whelmed! Not welled at all!" Dick laughed.

"What is it with you and this whelmed thing?" Kid Flash questioned. Robin didn't bother to answer as we continued running.

"We are still fourty-two levels below ground but if we can make the elevator…" Aqualad was interrupted by four ten foot monster Genomorphs blocking our path. Kid Flash raced past them with ease, while Robin hopped onto of them as if they were rooftops. Aqualad used this as a distraction and ran under their three foot tall feet. I had found a perfect spot to aim my grappling gun, before turning to Superboy.

"Superboy the object is escape not to burry ourselves here!" I shouted.

"You want an eascape?" He grabbed a giant Genomorph by the ankle , using it to knock the other three to the ground. "There's your escape now come on." He grabbed my wrist and forced me forward. We reached the other three at the open elevator shaft. Once we reached the group, Robin fired off his own grappling gun. Superboy scooped up Aqualad and leapt up into the shaft.

"Guess that just leaves you and me babe!" Wally grinned as he grabbed onto my waist.

"You should have gone with Robin." I grumbled before shooting off the grappling gun.

"Couldn't do this with Robin could I?" He asked kissing my temple.

"Jesus Wally we're working." I growled. Several levels up my feet landed beside my brother's.

"I'm falling!" We heard Superboy say from above us. Aqualad skillfully caught a beam one level above us before lowering himself and Superboy next to us. "Superman can fly…why can't I fly?"

"Don't know." Kid Flash shrugged. "But it looks like you can leap tall buildings in a single bound which is still cool!"

"Guys! This will have to be our exit!" Robin announced suddenly. He was right an elevator was moving in the shaft and it was headed right for us. Superboy busted the Elevator door open and we safely moved to the floor before the elevator came whizzing by.

"Go left!" Superboy called out as we ran down the hall. "Right!" He called out again as we quickened our pace. We ran straight into a blank wall.

"Great directions Supey!" Kid Flash moaned. "Are you trying to get us re-podded?"

"I'm sorry I…"

"Don't apologize!" Robin stopped him. "This is perfect!" The next thing I knew we had hoisted each other inside the ventilation system and were crawling around on all fours. "We'll come out right about…Here!" Robin grinned before kicking open a vent to another floor.

"Uh hate to burst your bubble Robin but what if they were tracking us through there?"

"Can't." He said still grinning. "I hacked their motion sensors!"

"Sweet now I'm free to move!" Kid Flash said dawning his goggles. He raced down the hall and through a doorway that led to a flight of stairs. We followed after him a series of passed out Genomorphs ahead of us. We reached sublevel one just after Wally, who sat on the floor rubbing his head.

"We're cut off from the street!" I shrieked.

"Thanks my head handn't noticed." Kid Flash complained.

"You alright?" I asked, helping him up.

"Should be just fine." He nodded. Superboy and Aqualad tried desperately to pull the door open while Robin tried to open it through the computer.

"Can't hack this fast enough! This way!" He hollered. We followed quickly. We followed Robin right into a trap. The five of us were surrounded on all sides by a hoard of Genomorphs.

"Perhaps our brother Superboy should make up his own mind."

"Stand down!" Superboy order to us before turning back to what was obviously the leader of the Genomorphs. "It was you!"

"Yes Brother I set the fire and lured your new friends down into Cadmus. Woke them when they were in danger…"

"And guided me! Why?"

"Because you are our hope, the Genomorph hero! You will blaze a trail for all our brothers, showing us the way to freedom. What is your choice brother?"

"I choose freedom!" Superboy answered confidently.

"I think not!" The creepy scientist who had pursued us all this way rang out. "Project Blockbuster will give me the power to restore order to Cadmus!" The scientist downed a vial of a blue colored jelly-liquid and transformed before our eyes. First his clothes were torn off as colossal muscles grew. Then his skin flaked away leaving a blue and red pattern up and down his body. Superboy launched himself at the new creature and was sent skyward. A giant hole appeared in the ceiling were both figures had been previously.

"That's one way to bust a ceiling!" Dick declared reaching for his grappling gun.

"Ooh labcoat plan that?" Kid Flash questioned as he grabbed onto Dick.

"I doubt he's planning anything anymore." Aqualad said solemnly.

"Going up?" I offered him a hand before shooting my grappling gun upwards. We landed on the grand level just in time to see Kid Flash and Superboy getting their butts handed to them by the giant Blockbuster thing. I scanned the room for Robin who was currently absent from the action. He was standing in the corner of the room studying the structure of the room through his computer watch."Um Robin now might not be the best time to study the architecture."

"I'm not studying the architecture!" He snapped as I approached. "I'm thinking of a plan. See these columns around the room?"

"Yeah..."

"They're not just for decoration, they're structural. Meaning if we take out some of them, we could bring down the roof on this place!"

"Wont that kill us along with that thing?" I asked pointing to the super-creature our friends were battling.

"With Aqualad and Superboy's higher than human strength they should be able to shield us just fine."

"Let's hope you're right Boy Wonder!" I smirked before racing off to join the fight. With great precision and skill the five of us were able to bring down all the beams necessary to bring the roof down on us. Thankfully Dick had been right about Aqualad and Superboy being able to shield Wally and us from the majority of the debris. We were sore and tiered but we were alive.

"We did it!" Aqualad breathed heavily.

"Was there ever any doubt?" Robin smirked. Together he and Wally clapped a High-Five before recoiling their hands in pain.

"Nicely done you two!" I held out my arms for my brother and boyfriend to hug.

"Aqualad, Superboy you two want in on this? Batgirl gives the best hugs!" Wally promised. The pair exchanged a look of uncertainty.

"Come on, I don't bite!" I said waving them over. Both boys looked uncertain but joined in the group hug anyway. "Hey look the moon!" I smiled pointing up at the sky. The four boys turned their heads upwards to see a brilliant full moon shining above our heads. But the moon wasn't the only thing we could see, heading straight for us was a figure, something was flowing behind it.

"Oh! And Superman!" Wally grinned. "Do we keep our promises or what?" But it wasn't just Superman approaching in the sky. Behind him soared in several of…all of…the Justice League.

"We are in so much trouble!" I squeaked, wishing I could hide behind Dick and Wally and just disappear.