A/N; Honestly?! I'm so happy with the response - I mean over 8 faves and 7 follows already I'm so happy, thank you all so much!
This would have been a little eariler if I didn't have to rewrite it all bc I changed it from being Omega's POV to Conner's, honestly it was a disaster I'm yelling
Regardless, I hope you enjoy! I hope I'm doing the Team justice in how I write them
Dedicating this to my first viewer; Kosongbird! You're great

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Athens
July 23rd, 22:04

"Oh man, I cannot believe I embarrassed myself twice in front of her!" Wally exploded from his seat after being silent for the majority of their five hour flight.

Due to the Bioship's speed, they were able to reach Athens quicker than on a normal plane, which would have taken near to ten hours. And time was something they couldn't afford to lose for the power could came back on and their only lead may be more prepared for the situation of any incoming offences.

Everyone had been fairly short in the discussion; either small talk being created or mulling over what Wonder Woman had given them. As usual, Superboy remained in his normal hush when the people around him would talk. From his seat on the front left of the ship, Robin laughed loudly in his seat, turning back to face his friend.

"Oh dude, your face was classic! And you got destroyed like twice, it was awesome," Robin gave another chuckle when he saw the downtrodden face on his friend.

"But normally I'm such a hit with the ladies," He pouted, crossing his arms sulkily and Superboy gave a slight shake of his head over Wally's ridiculous antics.

"I'm sure that it wasn't so bad, Wally! She is an adult though so maybe it's different?" M'gann voiced her support meekly to which Wally gave her a toothy grin, a dopey expression passing over her face.

"Besides, bud, you weren't the only one," Robin added as all eyes turned to the stoic Kaldur, who rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Yes, questioning superiors never quite turns out to head in the correct direction. But Wonder Woman seemed to be far more disdainful about it," He moved his hand away from his neck and glanced back at his teammates.

"Hell hath no fury like a woman's scorn, make sure you remember that next time, KF," Robin mentioned, the side of his lip twitching up into a smirk at Wally's returned miserable face, shoulders slumped again.

After that, the rest of them fell into a silence as they travelled the last few minutes of their journey, the seriousness of what they would find in their overcoming Superboy. From all the information presented a few hours ago, he knew that he wasn't going to like what they would find. Using ill people and a convincing them that they would be healed of whatever their condition was as a front to simply lure them in whatever those in the compound, made him feel disgusted. Even though he did not know the full extent as to what happens in there, he could take an educated guess.

They weren't going to be experiments of the decent kind.

In some odd way, Superboy was glad he didn't have to go through with that at Cadmus. Nothing that he was aware of anyway. Hopefully, they could save these people stuck in there.

"We're here," M'gann pulled Superboy out of their thoughts. His attention turned to Kaldur who was now the official team leader, his first mission of doing so.

"Kid Flash, Superboy and I will enter through the back entrance. As for Miss Martian and Robin, the two you will enter through the rooftop where Batman showed schematics of their being glass panes to enter through. Your mission is to gather any information that you can, while the three of us is to investigate and find people. Is this clear?" He gazed at each other them in the eye to show his authority and that he was utterly stern in his phrasing.

This was quite a delicate mission and needed to be handled properly, which Superboy definitely understood. They all nodded in affirmation to which Kaldur returned.

"Good, then let us link up and we can begin the mission," Once they had all been linked up telepathically - something that Superboy still wasn't a fan of but accepted reluctantly - M'gann created a hole in the Bioship's hole.

Without hesitation, Superboy jumped through, hair sticking up as he fell. He bent his knees as the wind whipping around him rapidly to prepare for his landing and that he didn't gain recoil from an unsafe landing. The dirt below him gained a dent as he slammed into it, the noise echoing around him.

"Gee, so much for subtlety Supes," Wally quipped in his mind, snarky enough to seem like it had actually come out of his mouth.

"He did the angry superhero landing thing didn't he?" Robin's voice intruded as well, amusement bouncing across his mind. Superboy's chest rumbled and he felt himself growl in irritation as they talked about him like he wasn't even there. It was something that the duo seemed to do constantly around him and it never ceased to spike his gall.

"Kid Flash, Robin, please focus on the task at hand. Miss Martian what is your status?" He commanded as the three of them begun to make their way over to a conveniently open window near to the back entrance.

"We're just entering now, a few guards are running around frantically in there," She reported as Kid Flash peered over the edge to see if it was safe to go through.

But Superboy's heightened hearing enabled him to hear that no one was passing through their corridor, instead there was yelling and the sounds of struggle further into the building.

"As are we, keep us informed," Kaldur instructed as Wally confirmed that the coast was clear and pulled himself up to enter into the building.

Kaldur swept his arm out in the window's direction indicating that Superboy should go first. Not even thanking him, Superboy hastily stomped past him. He assessed the gap that he had to be able to fit into and found that with his broad build that he'd never get through. So he simply curled his fingers around the window's frame and torn it clean off it's hinges, concrete ripping away as well. He discarded it onto the grass like it was nothing.

Without even glancing back to see Kaldur's expression he grabbed onto the ledge and hoisted himself up with ease. This time, he landed softly on the steel floor rather than his usual brash ones, figuring that he needed to start doing this properly. Besides, he would probably have more opportunities later to be noisy, which would involve fighting. Whilst Kaldur made his way into the building, Superboy squinted his eyes and focused his vision into X-Ray.

Throughout the facility, there were many figures all packed together within. At the top level above, he found some people were splayed across the table with their movements frantic and struggling but they were restricted to their position. Rather than looking below him, his attention turned swiftly to many people rushing their way over to a lone figure who was curled up into a ball, as though they were ready to explode.

"You look like you have seen something," Kaldur observed, coming to stand beside him.

Superboy nodded in confirmation, "Yeah, a head of us down a few corridors, large numbers of guards look like they're heading toward someone," He informed, storming ahead and taking lead to show them where they needed to go.

The situation that was escalating in his vision seemed like it would lead them to whatever was happening around here. Unexpectedly, a force smashed into his body, effectively causing him to fly off his feet and crash into his teammates. They provide a human cushion as the trio made contact with the wall behind them.

"Guys! Are you okay? Did you see anything? What happened?" Robin all but yelled in their minds, making Superboy wince at the volume.

Slowly, he opened his eyes with a few blinks and tried to gain his bearing. The back of his head throbbed painfully and he winced as he pushed himself forward and away from them. In front of him debris was stockpiled up to the ceiling, mostly coming from the room from the corridor that they had just been previously travelling down. He could smell smoke from various fires that raged all around the building now, he heard screams of terror from others too, sounding more feminine than masculine. Nonetheless, the never ending screeching made his insides churn over how horrific they sounded

"Superboy and I are no more worse for wear but Kid Flash seems to have took the brunt of our crash into the wall and appears to be unconscious. Unfortunately, we did not see what caused the explosion, " At the first part Superboy sharply turned his sore head to glance at his fallen teammate, seeing a significant open head wound on his forehead that made him wince slightly.

Kaldur gave him a order through his eyes and without question, Superboy picked Wally up into his arms and swung him over his shoulder like a ragdoll. Robin and M'gann's worried voices flooded his head persistently.

"Calm down, the pair of you, we will join up with you halfway and begin to deal with the situation," As Kaldur spoke, they had already began to be hastily navigating around the unknown buildings that seemed to be like a maze.

"Okay, we'll make our way towards you as soon as possible. Didn't get any information though, all the power is still out and they don't appear to have any computers," M'gann mentioned, sounding quite defeated already and they'd only been here less than five minutes.

They'd always managed to get through worse if the past two missions were anything to go by. Still, a place having no form of simple appliances like computers was odd. Maybe they were trying to remain as hidden away from the world as much as possible. It was clever, but in events like this, whatever information they may have could be easily destroyed.

"That is fine M'gann, we'll sort it out once we are all together," When they turned a corner, a door flew off it's frame, followed by a man wrapped around in a white ball.

The pair skidded to a halt and Kaldur whipped his swords out from his back. With no gentleness, Superboy placed Wally onto the floor, putting himself into a defensive position. However, the man didn't attack them for he was struggling in the bubble that was appearing to become smaller with each second. Eventually, the guard was crushed into a million pieces but not in blood and flesh, rather pieces of metal, spring and other non-human components.

"Guys, is everything alright?" Rather than either of them answering, they stood there frozen at the peculiar event that was happening in front of them.

Superboy heard someone travelling out the room the guard had flown out from and his posture turned poised to attack whoever came out. Yet as the figure stepped out he paused; there a girl, no taller than five foot four, her form barely covered in white cloth, there only being enough to maintain her modesty. An array of scars were across her bronze skin, significantly one that reached from the base of her skull down to the base of her spin. There was a heavily, inked Omega symbol on her lower back too. Her figure quite muscular, not fragile like he would have thought. If the scars and their shaved head was anything to go by; this was a definitely a test subject.

To his left, he saw Kaldur lifted his swords to strike but Superboy threw a hand out in front of him. The girl panted heavily, hands resting on her knees in exhaustion over the task she had just completed. Something that left Superboy puzzled about how she had done that. The mysterious girl rose from her brief slouch, flexing her quaking hands. Then, her head snapped to their direction, glazed, almost white eyes widening in fear. Briefly he studied her face; her nose was crooked, as though it had been broken several times and she had full, chapped lips, cheeks making her face rounded. Yet at the sight of her eyes, it was then when he realised who she was.

"Aqualad, she's one of the missing women," He glanced at his fellow team member, who began to lower his swords, placing them back onto his back. Kaldur began to approach the girl slowly, opening his mouth to speak to her.

A strange blue glow came from her hands unusually and he knew that it wasn't going to end well.

"Stop! We aren't going to hurt you," He told her before Kaldur could, wanting nothing more to go disastrously like it already had.

His words seemed to work for her hands fell back down to her side, head tilting to the side like a dog would when they were curious. Her thick eyebrows furrowed, almost as though she was confused that someone wasn't going to hurt her. Or she was just trying to figure out who they were, which probably wouldn't work seeing that she was acting like she was blind.

Rather than replying to him, she spun on her heel and started to race down the partially destroyed hallway. Without hesitation he raced after her.

"Superboy!" Kaldur yelled out loud rather than in his mind. irked at his actions but he didn't care.

This girl was the one that he had seen in the images Batman had shown them at the Cave and she probably knew what was going on around here. Regardless that she had been taken away from her home and a most likely a test subject here, he needed something, anything for information. Nor M'gann or Robin had been able to find anything and this girl was the only lead he had. Plus, she was dangerous, judgment based on what she has done to that man. For all he knew, she could be heading to the others, intent on hurting them.

While the others shrieked in his mind, he chased after her, ignoring whatever they were talking about. The last thing he heard from them was how Robin and M'gann had found a friendly, non threatening child that was much too willing to help them out before he blocked them out completely. His target had created a blue shield around herself, close enough that she was still able to maneuver herself around with ease and that he had some form of protection.

Rather annoyingly, she only seemed to be gaining in speed anytime he thought he was getting closer. It made a growl rumble in his chest and he willed himself forward. His normal rage was beginning to spike and he knew that it probably wouldn't end well for whoever this was before him. If it was one thing he hated was when people didn't go with what he wanted to happen, it was supposed to work his way and no way else.

Nonetheless, he still kept up with her, his wrath fuelling him on. Unexpectedly, she took a sharp left that made him skidded across the marble floor and his rammed into the nearby wall, somewhat cushioning his stumble. Something dug into the wall next to him, missing his nose by inches. Peering at it, he discovered it to be a bullet and he pushed himself away from the wall hastily, ready to tackle whoever had taken the shot. However, he didn't need to for the mystery girl had extended her shield away from her body, the shape resembling a brick wall. As she sprinted forward, he could only stare in astonishment at her ability, never having seen anything like it before. Her wall barrelled into the guards when she had neared, effectively crushing into the wall and into scrap metal. After that, she halted, her power dimming away momentarily.

In the corner of his eye, he saw Kaldur finally manage to catch up with him, Wally slung over his shoulder uselessly. The atlantean seemed breathless but Superboy didn't expression his concern. Instead, he raced forward again, knowing that he had her this time.

"Omega!" A child's voice came from the girl's right and it made him halt in his tracks.

They had kidnapped and experimented on children as well? This place made him utterly disgusted and he was glad that something like this had gone wrong in their mission. No child should be subjected to whatever horrors had gone on in this place. The girl, that he guessed to be Omega, twisted her body to where the voice had come from, her features showing relief. When Omega dropped to her knees, arms widespread, M'gann and Robin appeared from around the corner, the latter smirking when he saw them but M'gann's attention remained on something else.

A small girl, who was probably no older than nine was clutching M'gann's hand tightly. Similar to that of Omega, she was also sporting a shaved head, freckles slayed around every inch of her body. There was scars in between every gap in the freckles and his hand clenched into a fist. She slipped her hand out from M'gann's own, flying into Omega's waiting arms.

"Who is she?" Kaldur questioned whilst the new discoveries had a little reunion, obviously meaning quite a lot to one another.

They all met in the middle and anxiety was etched across M'gann's features, flying over to Wally.

"Is he alright?" She wondered rather than answering Kaldur important question. Kaldur moved Wally's limp body from his shoulder and into his arms, holding the ginger bridal style

Next to M'gann, Robin let out a very loud laugh.

"Oh man I wish I had a camera!" Superboy didn't refrain from rolling his eyes this time, unable to comprehend how Robin was so amused in this neverending disaster that was their mission.

However, through his hearing, he found that the building was utterly deserted. There were no guards running around aimlessly, waiting to shoot at the first person they laid their eyes on. No one was screeching, the fires had died down significantly. Instead there was just nothing, save for the girls discussing something between themselves. Overall, it made him more apprehensive then he would have liked, having a gut feeling that there was more to this than meets the eye.

"Focus you too. Wally will be fine. What happened to you after the explosion happened?" Kaldur's stern voice in his mind brought him back to the previous conversation and her centred all his attention on them.

Robin and M'gann moved their gazes behind them, which in turn made Superboy do the same, observing the scene of the two girls grinning widely at each other in their own little bubble.

"Well, when we were coming to you guys, we passed a room and we just heard this scream. It was pretty awful not gonna lie," Robin visibly shivered at whatever he was remembering, fiddling with something on his utility belt.

"After we heard it, we knew someone was in trouble so we went into the room and we found Omicron, which her is name, strapped to a chair and was being. Uh, I think you get the idea. Then he dealt with the guards and set her free," Robin finished off, only giving brief information and Superboy was glad that he didn't have to hear it all.

Though there was a peculiar, thoughtful expression etched onto the martian's face that had Superboy question her about it, knowing that whatever she was thinking about what probably going to be useful.

"Oh, uh, I was just, um," She quickly peeped back Omicron, who was in Omega's embrace again, the latter rubbing her friend's back soothingly before staring at her feet, which only made Superboy's previous apprehension rise.

"When I checked over her mind to see if she was going to hurt us or not, which is totally isn't by the way. She was kind of acted like we weren't real, like we were just imaginary, a fairytale. I just thought it was odd. Didn't everyone know who superheroes are?" M'gann informed them and Superboy's eyebrows furrowed.

How could Omicron not think that M'gann and Robin were real? He could understand if he didn't know who M'gann was for the Team had been her first superhero business when having first come to earth and the Team weren't exactly making themselves globally known like the Justice League but Robin?

The last time he checked, Robin and Batman were probably the more famous superhero types known across the world than any of the others. There was definitely something sinister going on behind Olympia and what they were doing to their test subjects. As if on cue, Omicron had begun to talk about the thoughts going on in his private mind.

"It's the superheroes! They're here, like Delta always told us. They're actually real!" Omicron informed her friend cheerfully and Omega's jaw fell open in shock, causing Superboy to turn his attention back to them, wanting to see where this would lead to. Maybe it would led to so clues as to why they couldn't remember who people were.

"Like Delta always told you?" Kaldur probed kindly that he knew to be a tactic to get them to reveal information. Omicron fell for it, the gigantic grin still plastered on her face since he had first seen her.

"Yeah! She would always tell us about all these superheroes she could remember seeing on the news, like Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman and Batman. She even told us about their sidekicks. Who are totally cool," She rambled on, having since moved away from her friends hold and was now bouncing around on the spot almost like she was ready to explode in excitement. Yet her explanation still told him little about how this Delta knew about them so well while these two didn't.

"Um, m-me and Omicron and the others, we, uh, don't remember anything about who were or where we come from, just knowledge like English and Maths, nothing else. D-delta, is the only one who remembers everything about her past life," Omega piped up, arms around her middle in a cowardly way, having drawn back into herself.

In the corner of his eye, he saw Wally begin to stir in Kaldur's hold, to which the leader gently moved Wally down to his feet while still retaining a firm grip on him. Meanwhile, Robin and M'gann discussed the new information in his head.

"It's so cool that Superman is here, 'Mega," The last part was more hushed than the others, as though she was afraid that he would hear her.

Yet, having super hearing meant that he heard every word. He snarled at the girl without meaning to, hating that people still managed to mistake him for Superman even though he was far young and didn't wear a stupid tight fit costume with a flowing cape behind him. Omega gave Omicron a small smile, seemingly amused with her friends words. Too bad she was the only one.

"Actually, that's Superboy, Omi," He quirked an eyebrow up at, she must have picked up his name when Kaldur had shouted it earlier. Regardless, he appreciated that someone had called him by his proper name for once.

Above her, Superboy picked up on chanting, the word 'Iota' being repeated by three voices. They sounded like they were casting a spell as they came closer to each other. Whatever it was, it couldn't have been good. In fact, it made his skin crawl and he had never, ever having felt like that before. How hadn't he managed to hear people above him when he had been scouring the building before?

"Why has Supes go that look on his face?" Wally's sudden dazed and drowsy voice came, M'gann fussing over him instantly.

If Wally had been more awake, he would have revelled in M'gann's actions. But he pushed those stupid thoughts away knowing that there was a much more important task at hand to be dealing with.

"What does Iota mean?" He wondered, frowning at the others like they would somehow know what he was talking about.

They didn't however, for they all just stared at him in bafflement like he had grown a second head. Wally however, was just rubbing his eyes in Kaldur's hold, still trying to rouse himself.

"The triplets," Omicron and Omega gasped out in unison, fear colouring their tone.

He glanced over at his friends, all wide eyed as they stared frantically at each other. Whatever that meant, it wasn't going to be a good thing for any of them. An odd and unpleasant feeling violate his body and he stiffened in his spot, shoulders hunching. Though it was gone as soon as it came, a blue hue fusing its way out his body and his eyes flickered over to the source, knowing that it had come from the girl. Everyone else around him had a similar reaction, Wally's being the noisiest and Superboy shook his head. The chanting above his ceased and an unexpected force crashed into the shield surrounding him. Snapping his head up, he found that there was a grubby giant foot above and his eyes widened. This place just seemed to be getting stranger by the second.

"Holy moly," Omega breathed out and it perfectly reflected his feelings in this current moment.

The shield blocked out any other sound, which made him unable to hear what the owner of the foot's next actions were going to be. Instead, he squinted his eyes, using is X-Ray vision to figure out what was going on. Thankfully, it worked and he squinted to get a better look at the beast. From his viewpoint, he saw an extremely large figure that was at least eleven foot tall. Though what was most weird about it was that it had three arms and three legs. The other two legs were further spread apart from the one that was pressing against Omega's field. In between its chest was a ball, about the size of a beach ball.

Whatever the ball was, it didn't matter, finding nothing to explain how the triplets had merged together to form one giant monster. There would have to be a great deal of genetic research and other advanced technologies that would allow the triplet to have an ability like this. All he could think about was Cadmus and how they had managed to advance to cloning so quickly in time when there were still other normal investigation on how to do it across the world. He supposed it may be different being that he was an alien.

"How long are you able to hold the shield for?" Kaldur pressed urgently, still sounding calm and collected despite how they could be stepped on like ants and even given moment.

"I-I don't know," She murmured and Superboy narrowed his eyes at her. He really didn't see the reason why she had to keep the forcefield up.

Yes, the foot was slightly larger than a natural size but the five of them could easily taken whatever it was down easily. In all honesty, she was probably making the situation have more unnecessary complications that it already did. She cried in anguish, back becoming slumped down further when the foot rammed back onto the shield, the time being able to send vibrations through the ground that made him teeter on his spot.

"Great! We're gonna be crushed to death!" Wally exclaimed, far more aware of his surroundings than he had been moments ago.

"Everyone listen. When the foot lifts again, which it will, Miss Martian you will have to pull the older one, Omega, to you, it's the only way to stop her from maintaining the shield. Superboy and I will attack it when the shield drops. Robin, you will assist the others in getting the girls out of here without any trouble. Kid Flash are you up to the task of moving Omicron out of the way?" He instructed and Superboy had to bite his tongue to prevent his stubbornness over being told what to so from coming out.

They didn't need anymore problems during their dire situation. Instead they all nodded their agreement and waited for the right moment to act. As if on cue, the foot rose from its position on the bubble. Promptly, they all sprung into action. When M'gann used her telekinesis to drag Omega to her and Wally sped forward to grab Omicron, Superboy raised his arms above his head. A grunt passed his lips when the foot smacked into his awaiting plans, his knees bending from the unexpected strength behind it. He had no idea how Omega was able to endure it for so long.

"Superboy push it up!" Kaldur commanded, sending fury through him over being told what to do.

It fuelled him on however for he channelled all the power he had into his arm, shoving the foot away from him roughly. He want to attack it properly this time only for Kaldur to beat him to the punch. The leader had created a sharp hard water sword, effectively slicing Iota's foot, a nasty cut going clean through the middle. Iota howled in agony, three other shrieks layered with as well. Kaldur's actions caused it to lose its balance, causing it to begin to topple backwards. Superboy began to crouch down to his knees, prepared to launch at it for a full scale attack, only for a hand to press onto his shoulder. In irritation, he snapped his head back, lip curled into a snarl just to show Kaldur his defiance. There was a vibration in the ground as Iota collided with the ground behind him. It almost sent him falling to the ground as well if not for the well balanced position he was in.

"Guys," Robin's voice came from next to him, not in his head like he would have thought.

"I thought I told you to get the girls out?" Kaldur started, making his way over to those who were waiting. Superboy stared at the bleeding foot before him, there was no indication that it was going to get back up any time soon. So, he brought himself back up to his full height, knowing that it must well and truly be gone, being that its size would have made it obvious whether or not it was going to act again.

"They wanted to watch," Wally explained and Superboy instantly frowned, turning to the girls. Omicron was talking to Omega adamantly about what had just transpired, the latter had a closed lipped smile on her face.

"Omega is blind," Superboy informed them and they all turned gawk at said girl.

She seemed to have sensed this for her smile fell, she turned to face them, her eyes focusing on the wall behind his shoulder. Omega held onto her friend's shoulder as she tired to, in vain, hide behind her, obviously not liking this sudden attention they were all giving her. Omicron peered up at her friend, a perturbed expression on her face.

"We will deal with that later," Kaldur commented like that piece of information wasn't the least bit important.

"Let us leave before the building collapse on us," With that, they all started off in a light jog with one another because Omega seemed a little weary after her endurance against the massive foot.

The little girl even had to keep a firm latch onto her hand just in case she would faint, which he really hope that she didn't. Wally and Miss Martian took up from, Robin and Kaldur behind whilst Superboy chose to reside next to the blind girl. When he did, she flinched at their closeness, moving further away from him. He narrowed his eyes at her reaction, not out of disdain over her behaviour but rather inquisitiveness as to why she didn't want him near her. They had just rescued her after all, she should be a little more grateful. He tried not to hold it against her, after all, he was still a stranger that she didn't know about but it still made him vexed.

"Omega, Omicron, when we leave this place, Kid Flash will take you two back to our ship whilst we deal with this Iota," Kaldur's instruction made an unreadable expression pass over the eldest subject's face that he couldn't decipher.

The other one whipped her around to face Kaldur as they turned a corner and he knew it was that last one before they were at the back entrance, remembering that this had been the route that Superboy had taken when chasing after Omega.

"No! I have to stay, I'm the only one that can defeat it," Superboy peered at her, she was practically going to get herself killed.

A nine year old that was no taller than his hip would never be able to defeat a twelve foot tall monster. In comparison, she was like an ant begging for a death wish when it went to an anteater.

"And how the hell can a nine year old do that?" Superboy scoffed in disbelief, thinking that she was probably only saying that to appear brave and not useless, she hadn't exactly shown if she had any powers or not.

"I have the power to go through things! Like anything, apart from steel though, which kinda sucks but I put my hand through someone once, it was awesome! " Her over excited tone them represented that at the end of the day, she was still a child that had never truly been able to experience life beyond these walls.

The thought spread sorrow through him. Though they may not be truly trustworthy having only just known them for less than around fifteen minutes, no child nor teenager should be locked away in here. He could tell that they didn't get out much for their skin tones were lighter than they should normally be and their cheeks were a little too gaunt, Omicron more so than Omega.

"And that matters how against this big beast?" Robin wondered.

They had all managed to reached the back entrance now, Wally and M'gann heaving against the door. The former doing it with too much vigor needed then necessary, throwing a dazzling smile in M'gann's direction to which the martian's cheeks tinted pink. As the others continued forward, eagerly listening to Omicron's explanation of how she enters through their chest using her intangibility to separate the biological ball that fused them together and split Iota back into the triplets., Omega lagged behind causing Superboy to halt in his footsteps.

With a frown, he observed as the girl became apprehensive, arms enclosing around herself as she drew away from the sudden warm breeze that flowed through the half destroyed building. There was only horror on her face, leaving him perplexed at her actions. Did she not want to leave this place? Was she mad? Who on earth would want to stay stuck in a place like this? She was more perturbed than he had realised.

"What are you doing?" Superboy grumbled impatiently.

This wasn't the time nor the place to be simply standing around, they had more pressing issues to be dealing with rather than a girl who was reluctant to step one foot outside. Any minute now, Iota could start to rise again and attack them instantly.

"I can leave? Like I can actually leave? This is real?" She breathed, her tone telling him that she was still in denial that this was actually happening to her.

At that, he soften a tad, knowing that he was being slightly harsh about her in his thoughts. For all he knew, he could have been like this if Cadmus hadn't kept him locked up in his pod during the sixteen weeks that they had grown him in. He could have be let out and treated like a slave like the genomorphs have. Though, he wouldn't have any experience with that, so he had no idea what was going through her head.

"Yeah, doors right in front of you," His, what he hoped to be, supportive words seemed to made her snap out of her stupor as soon as he had finished speaking.

"You promise?" He frowned again, this time deeper than it had been before over how childish this was. But he could see in her face how much this moment meant to her, so he complied, admittedly reluctantly.

"Yeah, sure, promise, whatever,"

Like a flash, she sprinted past him, heading directly for the still open door. Without hesitation, he followed her with haste, not wanting her to accidentally trip over in his excitement. She didn't however, for the moment she exited the building she fell to her knees in defeat. Next to him, he saw Wally and M'gann glance at the now weeping girl, Omicron pausing in her conversation with Kaldur and Robin to rush over to her friend. All four turned their curious eyes in his direction and he could only shrug in response, not really having an answer for them.

"Riiiiiight, okay that's….oh shit!" Wally's once calm voice turned panicked in his mind all in a split second.

The ground below his feet vibrated violently, almost causing him to stumble if he had been any closer to the source of the quake. A rapidly growing shadow was darkening around himself and the two girls, like it was about to crush them to do death. While he knew that he would probably survive, the others would, completely forgetting about their powers momentarily. Not even thinking twice, he dived forward, his teammates retreating behind his as well. Superboy wrapped each arm around the girl's torso, Omega giving a high pitched screech that almost deafened him.

Despite that he sped forward, whatever had been approaching them slammed into the soil and he barely missed it by an inch. The shocks from the powerful force whisked him off his feet this time and he tumbled to the ground, his hold on the other two slipping. His chin whacked against the ground, catching his tongue in between his teeth. Involuntary, his teeth bit into his tongue and he the taste of metal filled his mouth. From his position on the floor he spluttered, finding the liquid in his mouth absolutely revolting. Tiny, bony hands wrapped around either bicep, tugging him up with unneeded might. He shrugged them off, perfectly capable of being able to climb back to his feet by himself. As the hands came to unlatch from his form, he hastily rose back up, the increased vibrations motivating him to act as soon as possible.

Everyone, expect Omega, had their necks craned up, their jaws either agape or faces etched in astonishment. Superboy copied their actions, wanting to see what the fuss was all about. Sure enough, his eyebrows rose past his hairline at the sight before him. Iota was certainly an ugly sight, its face especially. Its face was like a child had crudely stuck pieces of play dough together, claiming it to be their best art pieces they had ever created. An eye was located on their chin, another where an ear should be. It only had one nose, which was located at the centre of their forehead, an ear just below it. He couldn't spot a mouth however, which succeeding in making him more terrified at this monstrosity.

Iota peered down at them with their more obvious red eye, its focus directly on the girls beside him. Then, it leaned forward, drawing its arms back to let out a roar from wherever its mouth was and it simply an inhuman noise. Phlegm flew past his shoulder, some of it splashing onto his cheek rather disgustingly. He pulled himself from his daze when the blood in his mouth became more apparent. A wave of fury passed over him as he spat out the blood that had been filling his mouth like a small pond. Superboy lowered himself to the ground, situating his body so that he was in a crouch, building up energy so that he could shoot up.

Kaldur protested in his mind over what he was doing but it only spurred him on. With a war cry, he pushed himself up into the air. Iota leaned back slightly as he came in its direction, obviously not having expected him to do that. Not that he cared, far more concentrated on making sure he landed on its arm. Somehow, he managed to do that, doing a front roll to have a better landing. Once he came back onto his feet again, he rushed forward across its extremely long arm. The creature whipped its hideous face in his direction, misplaced eyes narrowing into slits.

He didn't even acknowledge the arm that was beginning to fly to where he was to swat him away like a bug but instead he fastened his pace, wanting to punch it right in the eye that was closest to him. When he came to its mid bicep, he launched into the air again. He raised his fist raised above his head, stubby nails digging into his skin, ready to deliver a powerful blow into its eyes. However, massive fingers wrapped around his body, trapping his arms in its hold before lifting him away. In vain, he attempted to struggle as it came to bring him to its eye level but his movements were limited. The hand started to squeeze excruciatingly and he thought was going to be snapped in half, despite his invulnerability.

Iota howled unexpectedly, grip on his body loosening afterwards. From his left, he could hear a beeping noise coming from something that was stuck in its hand. Hastily, he climbed out of its exceedingly sweaty hand, leaping up so that he was situated on its arm again. He stumbled when an explosion came from whatever was dug into his hand and he latched onto the shredding fabric that was once its shirt. Once he righted himself, he crouched down, not wanting to waste anymore time. It was distracted by something else below it, handing him the perfect opportunity to attack.

Giving a brief glance, he noticed Wally sped around at its feet, throwing joking remarks at it, which only succeeded in making it more vexed. He didn't know if it was the stupidest or the smartest thing Wally had ever done. Either way, it gave him a way to finally beat the monster, his fury over it getting a hold of him. For what seemed like forever, he landed a hit on Iota directly on the bridge of its nose. Though he wasn't done yet. In the best way that he could, he balanced himself on its nose, starting to kick it with all his might. The creature howled as he did so but he didn't pay any mind to it, his eyes only flashing red. He had allowed it to capture him in his grasp and he didn't do too well to failure. So, he kicked repeatedly, knowing he would stop once he had vented all his rage out.

"Superboy! Stop! I need you to help me!" Kaldur's commanding yet strained voice came, causing him to halt in his ministrations.

Although he didn't like to be told what to do, the slight wobble in Kaldur's voice made him fill with concern, fearing that something drastic had happened to his friend. Before he went to do what his friend wanted, he gave Iota's now crushed nose one last kick for good measure. He launched off the nose to his right, the light blue hue that he had been in the corner of his eye guiding him, guessing that it was Kaldur's water-bearers. Sure enough he was right, the water contracts acting as a whip wrapped securely around two of Iota's arms. When he landed on the ground making a crater around him, the first thing he saw was Kaldur's face pinched up like he was in agony, to which he rose an eyebrow at.

"Help me hold onto this... Need to get Omicron to Iota," This time, he didn't protest or act stubbornness against his leader's orders, reaching over to latch onto Kaldur's weapons.

The effect of his actions were immediate for his friend practically deflated like a balloon yet kept a light hold in order for them to work properly. Whilst he tugged against the bearers with ease, he scanned the area around him to see what he had missed out on when he was in an wrath induced state. Wally was no longer racing around at Iota's feet, instead he was sprinting on the spot, desperately holding onto something that he knew to be Robin's grappling gun. Omicron was halfway to Iota now, encased in a white bubble to protect her, which lead his eyes over to how she was levitating in the air.

M'gann had her hands spread out, eyes fully focusing on her task at hand to get the little girl there safely, though there was a distinct expression of anxiety etched onto her face. Beside her was Omega, who seemed a little worse for wear. Her nose was bleeding heavily, blood gushing out of her nose like a waterfall and she was shivering badly. He didn't focus on that however for his couldn't seem to find Robin anywhere. Yet, there was a limp body behind the two girls and his eyes widened, unable to see whether his friend was dead or not.

"He is fine, just unconscious. He took a large blow to Iota when he saved you from being crushed," Kaldur explained, obviously having seen the horror pass over his face.

This time, he attempted to make his expression emotionless, not wanting to project the guilt that was churning in his stomach. Instead, he turned his attention back to the matter at hand. The white ball had since gone, Omicron with it so he knew that she had phased into it. For all two missions he had gone on so far, this was the strangest one yet.

One second, he was situated on the grass, pulling on the bearers with easy, the next he was being flung backwards by an unseen force. It caught him completely off guard and he was helpless to do anything about it. In his vision he saw three figures shoot off in different direction, another one falling back into Olympia rapidly before his back crashed into a nearby tree. He bounced off the surprisingly sturdy tree, coming to land on his front. Grass, dirt and god knows what else filled his mouth, making him push up from his spot on the ground. Spitting the earth and the leftover blood from earlier, his eyes fell onto the site before him.

Olympia was in complete ruins, the building having collapsed onto itself. Dust spread out from its remains, like fog in a marsh. There was smoke billowing up from the north end of the building which he guessed to be fires that were still somehow blazing away. Iota had vanished and there was no evidence to tell them where the now split triplets had gone apart from his fleeting glance of them all flying off. Apart from that, everything else seemed almost tranquil, like something heavy about the place had been lifted away, giving it a sense of freedom.

When Kaldur passed him, he decided that it would be best to climb back onto his feet rather than sitting in a daze. He ambled after his friend silently, tearing his eyes away from the destruction that had been half caused by them. Himself, Kaldur and Wally all came to stand before M'gann and Omega, the latter was on her hands and knees, still quaking madly with the former hovering over her.

"Whoa, hey, you alright?" Wally pondered at the state of her and, for some reason or another, he felt concerned about her as well. It was like she was about to keel over and collapse at any moment. She didn't do that however, for her head rose weakly, cocking it to the side.

"W-where's Omicron?" She croaked out and he stiffen, realising now who had been the one that had fallen back into the ruins.

His assumptions were correct when he heard that faint whimpers of a little girl come from Olympia's wreckage. He shared a meaningful glance with Kaldur before spinning on his heel, rushing over to the source of the whines. In a blink, Wally had already reached the location he was heading towards a few metres away. That and the rapidly fading away cries from Omicron added to his determination to get there as soon as possible. If he didn't get there in time, she would be suffocated or squished to death from the lingering hazardous debris that would further collapse into itself without his help. Though what he found odd was why the girl hadn't simply just phased through the concrete. After all, she did have intangibility like Martian Manhunter did. Did she just want to be crushed to death willingly?

He grabbed onto the first piece of debris where he could only hear a faint heartbeat, the sobs having ceased completely. The only other noises he could hear was Omega's demands to know where her friend was, M'gann trying to hold her back. Kaldur and Wally stayed out of his way as he chucked various pieces of rubble either to his right, left or his front.

"Oh no," Wally's dejected voice came from behind him as he pushed the final piece of debris away, throwing it to the side far away.

At the sight before him, his eyes widened until they were practically bugging. He could hear Omega wailing at M'gann, demanding to know where Omicron was. Rather than letting the girl know where she was, he remained rooted to the spot, to horrified to tear his gaze away from what lay at his feet.

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A/N; hmmm what's gonna happen? Guess you'll have to stick around to find out (sorry)

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