Young Justice: The Light of Hope!, a Spider-Man + Young Justice Crossover fanfic

Hey, guys. Welcome to my first-ever Young Justice OC Story, 'Young Justice: The Light of Hope!'. I hope that you guys will enjoy the chapter. Also, here is the schedule list for the story-

Young Justice: The Light of Hope-Season 1 Schedule List:

1) Independence Day & Fireworks! (Young Justice Episode)

2) Haunted & Monkey Business! (Young Justice Comic)

3) Stopover! (Young Justice Comic)

4) Welcome to Happy Harbor! (Young Justice Episode)

5) Hack and You Shall Find & By Hook or by Web! (Young Justice Comic)

6) Survival of the Fittest! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

7) What's the Story? & Fears! (Young Justice Comic)

8) Interactions! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

9) Drop-Zone! (Young Justice Episode)

10) Schooled! (Young Justice Episode)

11) Rabbit Holes & Wonderland! (Young Justice Comic)

12) Infiltrator! (Young Justice Episode)

13) Natural Selection! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

14) Market Forces! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

15) The Rise of the Blue Beetle-Part 1

16) The Rise of the Blue Beetle-Part 2

17) Denial! (Young Justice Episode)

18) Downtime, And the Penalty, Under the Surface, and Here There Be Monsters! (Young Justice Episode and Young Justice Comic)

19) Targets! (Young Justice Episode)

20) Go! (Teen Titans Episode)

21) Divide and Conquer (Teen Titans Episode)

22) Bereft! (Young Justice Episode)

23) Homefront! (Young Justice Episode)

24) Terrors! (Young Justice Episode)

25) Competition! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

25) Alpha Male! (Young Justice Episode)

26) Sisters! (Teen Titans Episode)

27) Nevermore! (Teen Titans Episode)

28) Venom! (Ultimate Spider-Man Episode)

29) Joining the Suicide Squad (OC Chapter)

30) Revelation! (Young Justice Episode)

31) The Invisible Hand! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

32) Catalysts! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

33) Humanity! (Young Justice Episode)

34) Common Denominators & Uncommon Dominators! (Young Justice Comic)

35) Failsafe! (Young Justice Episode)

36) Disordered! (Young Justice Episode)

37) Reaction! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

38) Secrets! (Young Justice Episode)

39) Monkey Business & Gorilla Warfare (Young Justice Comic)

40) Misplaced! (Young Justice Episode)

41) Snow Day! (Ultimate Spider-Man Episode)

42) Damage! (Ultimate Spider-Man Episode)

43) The Uncertainty Principle (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

44) Switched (Teen Titans Episode)

45) Coldhearted! (Young Justice Episode)

46) Persona (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

47) Group Therapy! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

48) Intervention! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

49) Nature vs. Nurture! (Spectacular Spider-Man Episode)

50) Image! (Young Justice Episode)

51) Agendas! (Young Justice Episode)

52) Insecurity! (Young Justice Episode)

53) Performance! (Young Justice Episode)

54) Usual Suspects! (Young Justice Episode)

55) Auld Acquaintance! (Young Justice Episode)

That's about it. Also, this chapter is a tribute to René Auberjonois; who voiced Blockbuster, and I also wanted to say that I will be doing a Prequel Story with the Green Lantern: The Animated Series soon enough to explain how my OC Maria got her Blue Lantern Ring and such, but you don't have to read that to understand this story...anyway, I don't own anything except for my OCs as the OC Ma'rkus M'orzz AKA The Red Martian belongs entirely to 9655

NOW LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!

~{Batman and Robin vs Mr. Freeze}~

At Gotham City Park, we see the citizens of Gotham spending their day either having a barbecue with the family, playing a game of touch football, or simply just relaxing on the ground as it was all peaceful...until the air around them got colder for some reason as an ice ray appeared and froze someone as, immediately, everyone began to panic as more ice rays were shot and froze nearly everybody in the park as a small family shivered in fear, and by the cold as a shadow covers them and they looked up to see a man wearing a thermally-insulated suit grinning down at them from a small cliff that he was standing on.

Standing before them is a 5'10-feet-tall, 50-year-old Man with blue eyes, a bald head, thin black eyebrows, a big pointy nose, a sharp chin, Pale Wrinkly Blue Skin, a tall slender build, and his outfit consists of a large bulky blue/black suit with a crystal helmet covering his head as he also carries around a freeze cannon which was strapped around his back. His name is Victor Fries AKA Mr. Freeze, a Cold-Themed Supervillain, and an enemy of Batman and Robin.

"Enjoying family time?" Mr. Freeze questions rhetorically as the family is about to answer but gets frozen by the Cold-Themed Supervillain as he narrows his eyes at them. "My family has other plans." Mr. Freeze says with a cold tone...pun intended as he drops down from the cliff and aims his freeze cannon at the fleeing civilians as he is about to press the trigger when suddenly a Birdarang appears to collide against his Cold Gun and throws off his aim as he smirked. "Batman." Mr. Freeze says as if he was expecting him to come as he turns around. "I was wondering when-," Mr. Freeze says before shutting up as he realized that no one was there, and child-like laughter echoed around him...which was quite impressive since he was standing in an open area, but I digress, as Mr. Freeze growled in annoyance and cocked his canon and cautiously looks around for the source of the laughter, not noticing a small shadow appearing above him as a small teen landed on his head and knocked the ice-based villain down to the ground as the small figure leaped up and landed in front of him as he grinned at him.

Standing before him is a 4'8-feet-tall, 13-year-old Boy with blue eyes, short black hair, thin black eyebrows, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a slim yet muscular toned build, and his outfit consisted of a black stylized domino mask that covered his eyes entirely, a red vest that was held closed by yellow rectangular fasteners with a symbol of a yellow stylized 'R' on the left side of his chest, a black/yellow cape that reaches to his legs, black gloves, a yellow utility belt wrapped around his waist, black leggings, and black boots. His name is Dick Grayson AKA Robin The Boy Wonder, Batman's sidekick, Bruce Wayne's Adopted Son, and the son of the late acrobatic circus family 'The Flying Graysons' of Haly's Circus.

"Oh, the Boy Wonder." Mr. Freeze drawled as he sat up from the ground and glared at the still-grinning teenage hero. "The Bat sent you to drag me off to prison?" Victor asked before pointing his frozen cannon at Robin, who wasn't scared in the slightest as he crossed his arms and tapped his foot impatiently. "Frankly, I'm underwhelmed."

"Great, but I'm kinda in a hurry here," Robin says as Mr. Freeze shakes his head in disappointment.

"Kids. Always in such a rush." Mr. Freeze says in annoyance while charging up his gun as Robin rolls his eyes.

"Not talking to you," Robin says in a sing-songy tone while pointing behind him as Freeze turns around, only to receive a flying punch by an adult man wearing a bat costume as Freeze got knocked out cold...again, pun intended.

Standing before him is a 6'2-feet-tall, 32-year-old Man with dark brown eyes, short black hair, a large nose, a chiseled chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular slender build, and his outfit consisting of a black cowl designed with bat ears, a dark gray costume with the symbol of a bat spread over his chest, a long black cape with a unique pattern at the end, black gloves, black trunks, and black boots. His name is Bruce Wayne AKA The Motherfucking Batman, one of the smartest and most intimidating heroes around, and one of the Founding Members of the Justice League.

"Don't be too relaxed around Supervillains, Robin. I told you this a thousand times." Batman scolded his son with his usual monotone voice as Robin rolled his eyes.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. Now let's go before it's too late! Today is the day!" Robin says excitedly before running off as Batman smiles briefly and follows after his sidekick.

~{Green Arrow and Speedy vs Icecule Junior}~

A young teenage man landed in the middle of the Star City as he placed his hands on the ground and ice up the bridge before using his powers to create a shell of ice around himself as he knocked cars off balance and caused many crashes as the Ice-Themed Supervillain laughed maniacally at the chaos he made before shutting up as green/red arrows start raining down and crashed against his ice shell as he paused for a moment and couldn't react in time as a green arrow pierced his shoulder and begins beeping as it sets off a small explosion, causing him to grunt in surprise from the explosion as it knocks him off balance towards the other arrows that then blow up and knocked him back to where he was as, once the head trauma begins to subside, the Young Supervillain looks up and saw the Star City Vigilantes standing on top of one of the towers on the bridge as they aimed more arrows at the ice-themed villain.

Standing before us is a 5'8-feet-tall, 17-year-old Mutated Man with blue eyes, spiky white hair, pointy ears, large thick black eyebrows, a big pointy nose, an incredibly sharp chin, Light Blue Skin, a slim almost frail build, and he has an ice shell covering his body acting as an icy armor as his clothes consist of a sleeveless dark blue tank top and black pants as he wears no shoes. His name is Cameron Mahkent AKA Icicle Junior, an ice-based supervillain known to fight against the Green Arrow and his sidekick.

One of the vigilantes is a 5'10-feet-tall, 32-year-old Man with blue eyes, short slickback blonde hair, a big nose with a blonde mustache/beard, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a muscular slim build, and his outfit consisted of a black mask that covered his eyes, a dark green shirt with a hood underneath a long light green vest with three dark green oval-shaped fasteners, a green quiver that was strapped around his back, green gloves, black pants with a green belt that have a golden 'G' belt buckle on it, and green boots. His name is Oliver Queen AKA The Green Arrow, a superhero archer from Star City and a member of the Justice League.

The other vigilante is a 5'8-feet-tall, 18-year-old Man with blue eyes, spiked up gelled auburn hair, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular build, and his outfit consisted of a yellow sixteenth-century-style hat complete with feather, a small black mask, a red skintight suit, yellow gloves, yellow belt, and yellow boots. His name is Roy Harper AKA Speedy, Green Arrow's Sidekick, and a former superhero archer from Star City.

"Finally! I was wondering what I had to do to get a little attention around here!" Icicle Junior yelled with his left arm growing more mace-like in style as he brought it back and began launching icicles at the archers as he followed it up with another volley from his right hand.

"Junior's doing this for attention?" Speedy asked, surprised as he and Arrow released their arrows and blew up the first batch of icicles, but the second set still came through, forcing them to run across the width of the towers and down to the suspender. "I'm telling you now. This little distraction better not interfere." Speedy says to Green Arrow while dodging the ice spheres as they launch a pair of arrows at Junior, who creates a shield to protect himself against the arrows, but it turns out that the arrows are explosive and create a hole in the shield.

Instead of feeling scared, Junior used this to his advantage as he launched more icicles at the younger archer, who jumped up high into the air as he flipped over the icicles while grabbing and stringing another arrow as Roy straightened it out and took the shot as he fires straight at Junior. Too distracted by the awesome move Speedy made, Junior couldn't react in time as the arrow hit him right in the jaw and knocked him to the floor as he slowly went unconscious.

"Ha, ha! The kid had a glass jaw." Green Arrow says amusedly while standing mere feet from where Junior is lying as Speedy lands gracefully beside him and rolls his eyes.

"Hilarious. Can we go?" Speedy asked, his patience wearing thin as he stepped a little closer to his partner. "Today's the day," Speedy says with a rare smile appearing on his face as Green Arrow smiled back and nodded as they left.

~{Aquaman and Aqualad vs Killer Frost}~

At the harbor, many large shards of ice stuck out of the water as many ships were frozen in place and, zooming in on one of the ships, we see a female villain throwing ice rays at two superheroes as she was cackling evilly and continued throwing her ice blasts at one of the Superheroes, who dodges and comes down from the Open Bridge to the Turret, then to the second Turret before jumping to the deck as he charged at her, but she predicted this and freezes him on the spot as the second Superhero appears and ran towards her with a determined glare on her face.

The Supervillain is a 5'3-feet-tall, 27-years-old Female Mutated Human with blue eyes, shoulder-length dark blue hair, a small nose, light blue lips, a sharp chin, G-Cup Breasts, Pale Blue Skin, a slim hourglass figure, a heart-shaped thick ass, and her outfit consisted of a short and tattered white cape tied around her shoulders with a slim-fitting blue top and black pants. Her name is Crystal Frost AKA Killer Frost, an ice-powered supervillain that has a Catwoman-like relationship with her archenemy Firestorm.

One of the heroes is a 6'1-feet-tall, 29-year-old Atlantean Man with aqua blue eyes, short pale blonde hair, a big nose, a sharp chin with a pale blonde beard, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular build, and his outfit consisted of an orange scale-mail tunic with golden gauntlets, a gold belt that is clasped with a stylized letter 'A', dark green leggings, and dark green greaves. His name is Arthur Curry or Orin AKA The Aquaman, The High King of Atlantis and the Seven Seas as he's also one of the Founding Members of the Justice League.

The other hero is a 5'8-feet-tall, 16-year-old Atlantean Boy with pale green eyes, light blond hair cut at the bottom, a big nose, high cheekbones, a sharp chin, a set of gills, webbed hands/feet, possesses black eel-like tattoos that run across his back and along his arms, Light Brown Skin, a lean muscular built, and his outfit consisted of a skin-tight, full-body, red/blue swimsuit that exposes his arms/feet, and has a set of dorsal fins on the back of the calves as he also carries a water pack that holds twin Water-Bearers and water. His name is Kaldur'ahm AKA Aqualad, the protégé of Aquaman as he operates by his king's side.

"Don't tell me you're not excited?" Aquaman asked Aqualad while casually breaking out of the ice as he followed after his protégé.

"Right now, my King, I'm more focused on the matter at hand," Aqualad tells him with a very formal tone as he dodges under a ray of ice and leaps up as he pulls out his Water-Bearers and forming them into dual maces, causing the eel tattoos on his arms to begin glowing blue as, not impressed with his water abilities, Killer Frost blasted him with an ice ray and Kaldur used his Water-Bearers to shield himself against her attack, freezing them in the process as he lands right before her, and delivered a brutal double uppercut, shattering the ice around his hands and around his Water-Bearers as Killer Frost got knocked out.

"Well?" Aquaman asked while stopping a few feet behind him with his arms crossed as Kaldur smiled.

"Yes, I'm excited. Today's the day."

~{The Flash and Kid Flash vs Captain Cold}~

Ice covers the edges of a hole in the wall of a Jewelry Store in Central City as we see a man wearing a parka being trapped by two speedsters on a highway as they were literally running circles around the ice-themed villain with a couple of big grins on their faces as they continued running around him in the form of red and yellow blurs as yellow electricity covered their bodies thanks to them using their Speed Force.

The Supervillain is a 5'11-feet-tall, 36-year-old Man with blue eyes, black hair, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a slim build, and his outfit consists of a clear blue parka, dark blue goggles, a yellow belt with pouches, slightly darker blue pants, and white snow boots. His name is Leonard Snart AKA Captain Cold, a cold-themed supervillain from Central City and an enemy of Flash and Kid Flash.

One of the speedsters is a 6-feet-tall, 35-year-old Male Metahuman with green eyes, short blonde hair, a big nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a slim yet muscular athletic build, and his outfit consisting of a full-body red suit with a red cowl that covered all of his head except for his mouth, small yellow lightning bolts across his chest/waist/wrists, and yellow boots. His name is Barry Allen AKA the Flash, the fastest man alive, a superhero speedster from Central City, and a founding member of the Justice League as he's also the mentor of his Nephew Wally West.

The other speedster is a 5'6-feet-tall, 15-year-old Male Metahuman with green eyes, spiky red hair, a small nose, freckles on his cheeks, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a lean yet slightly muscular build, and his outfit consisted of a yellow full-body suit with a symbol of a red lightning bolt on his chest, red gloves, red pants, and yellow shoes as he also wore red googles. His name is Wally West AKA Kid Flash, the Nephew, and Sidekick of Barry Allen.

"Stealing ice? Really? That's a bit of a cliché, even for you, Captain Cold." Flash says while still running circles around the villain as Captain Cold attempts to shoot them but keeps missing as Kid Flash rolls his eyes.

"Come on! We don't have time for this!" Kid Flash says while slipping on his red goggles as he heads towards Cold's turned back, but however, his talking gives him away as Captain Cold turns around and blasts him with his Cold Gun as Kid Flash manages to react in a flash...another pun intended...as he dodges the ice rather easily and snatches Captain Cold's gun from out of his hand as Wally zips to a stop in front of him with Captain Cold growling at him angrily while clenching his empty hand in frustration as he charged at Kid Flash, but got blindsided by the Flash as the fastest man alive grinned at the impatient Kid Flash.

"Calm down, kid," Flash says nonchalantly as Wally rolls his eyes in annoyance.

"Oh, please! You'll chat it up with the cops, with bystanders, heck Cold even! No, no way!" Kid Flash says while stepping towards his mentor, and despite the height difference, Flash seems to actually be taking him seriously as Kid Flash grins. "Today's the day!" Kid Flash says with his eyes gleaming in excitement as Flash laughs.

"Alright, alright, we'll go...but not before a quick snack," Flash says before running off as Kid Flash blinks and groans as he shakes his head in annoyance and follows after his uncle.

~{Spider-Man, Supergirl, and Superman vs Frostbite}~

"Come on, lovebirds, dance for me!" A Male Ice-Themed Supervillain says while firing numerous ice blasts at an Arachnid-Based Superhero and a Kryptonian Superheroine as one uses his webs to swing around New York City while the other one either flies away or uses her Heat Vision to melt the ice beam.

Swinging before them is a 5'8-feet-tall, 17-year-old Human Mutated Male with blue eyes, wavy and luscious brown hair, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscularly slim athletic build, and he was currently suited up into his Superhero Outfit, which consists of a red mask that covers all of his head as it has a black web design on it and white lenses with black edges, a red skintight jumpsuit as it has black webbing placed all around it and blue sides/pants, a pair of red gloves, a symbol of a small black spider on his chest, a symbol of a large black spider on his back, and a pair of red boots with black webbing designs on them. His name is Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man, the Superhero of New York City who has been a hero since he was 14 years old, Supergirl's Partner-In-Crime, and Superman's Protégé.

Floating before them is a 6-feet-tall, 17-year-old Kryptonian Girl with vivid blue eyes, long luscious blonde hair that reaches down to her back, a small nose, a sharp chin, F-Cup Breasts, Caucasian Skin, a slender firm muscular build, thick thighs, a big bubble butt, and she was currently wearing her supersuit, which consists of a long-sleeved blue crop top that exposes her stomach with golden accents and a large red/yellow symbol of an 'S' planted on her chest, a golden belt, a blue short skirt, a pair of thigh-high red boots with golden accents. Her name is Gwen Stacy AKA Supergirl, a Superheroine who has been a hero since she was 14 years old, Spider-Man's Partner-In-Crime, and Superman's Cousin and Protégé.

Standing before them is a 5'9-feet-tall, 25-years-old Man with blue eyes, poofy slickback aqua blue hair, thin aqua blue eyebrows, a big pointy nose, a sharp chin, Pale Blue Skin, a tall slender build, and his outfit consists of a large bulky blue/black suit. His name is Augustus Roman AKA Frostbite, a Cold-Themed Supervillain.

"Come on, Frostbite, don't give us such a cold reception! Why don't you just chill out and stop being so cold hearted?"

"Boo, boo! Those suck!" Supergirl says while trying to suppress a smirk as Spider-Man grinned.

"You know you love them. Each day, you get excited about what pun I will say for today!"

"No, I don't!" Supergirl says with a disbelieving laugh as Peter lands on the side of the wall of a building, and Gwen flies up to him as she is about to say something else but stops as a familiar Superhero flies down to land behind an oblivious Frostbite, who takes a step back and collides against something tall and sturdy as, due to thinking he hit a wall, Frostbite turns around and sees the Man of Steel with his arms crossed.

Standing before him is a 6'5-feet-tall, 35-years-old Kryptonian Man with vivid blue eyes, short black hair with a curl over his forehead, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular build, and his outfit consisted of a blue jumpsuit with a red/yellow 'S' symbol on his chest, a red long cape wrapped around his neck as it reaches down to his feet, a yellow belt, red trunks, and a pair of ankle-high red boots. His name is Kal-El/Clark Kent AKA Superman, a famous Kryptonian Superhero from Metropolis, a Reporter for the Daily Planet, a Founding Member of the Justice League, and one of the most powerful heroes in the universe.

"...I SURRENDER!" A panicking Frostbite says while falling down onto the ground and holding up his hands in surrender as Superman nods approvingly as the lovebirds spot this and Supergirl pouted as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Goddamn it, Kal-El, you just couldn't just show up and steal our fight." A pissed-off Supergirl says while flying down to him as Spider-Man webswinged himself over to land beside them on a low crouch.

"For the record, she's the one who's mad, not me," Spider-Man says as Clark laughs a bit.

"Sorry, Kara, but I came here to get you two because today is the day," Superman says with a coy smile as Peter and Gwen perk up happily as they smile back.

~{Blue Lantern and Green Lantern vs Icicle Senior}~

"Ugh!" A teenage girl grunted in slight annoyance as she crashed down onto the ground placed in Coast City just as a big blast of cryo energy from a Supervillain was shot at her as she quickly created a light blue hope-powered construct of a dome around her with her Blue Lantern Ring that was able to protect her from the attack.

Standing before him is a 5'5-feet-tall, 16-year-old Teenage Girl with brown eyes, curly light brown hair that reaches to her shoulders, a small nose, E-Cup Breasts, Caucasian Skin, a slender yet hourglass figure, a large heart-shaped bubble butt, and was currently wearing her Blue Lantern Supersuit, which consisted of a dark blue mask that covers the top half of her face as it leaves her nose/mouth exposed, a long-sleeved skintight black supersuit with a light blue collar, a long blue cape wrapped around her neck as it reaches down to her legs, light blue shoulder pads, a light blue torso as she has the Blue Lantern Corps Symbol planted on her chest, a pair of arm-length blue gloves, black sides, a blue belt, long black pants with blue sides, and a pair of blue combat boots as she also wears the Blue Lantern Power Ring on her left hand. Her name is Maria Jordan AKA The Blue Lantern, Hal Jordan's Daughter, the Green Lantern's Sidekick, and the First-Ever Human/Female Member of the Blue Lantern Corps.

Standing before her is a 6'2-feet-tall, 85-year-old (Physically)/50-year-old (Mentally) Man with brown eyes, short gray hair, large thick gray eyebrows, a big pointy nose, a sharp chin with a gray beard, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular build, and his outfit consists of a long-sleeved high-collared black opened jacket with a white tank top underneath, a black belt with a silver belt buckle, long black jeans, and a pair of black shoes as he wears a pair of Freeze Blasters. His name is Joar Mahkent AKA Icicle Senior, a supervillain who uses cryokinetic technology, and Icicle Junior's Father.

"Ugh, I am so not in the mood for this!" An angered Blue Lantern says while still blocking his ice ray with her Hope-Powered Construct as Icicle Senior grinned evilly.

"Come on, kiddo, you can put up a better fight than this!" Icicle Senior says as he stops shooting and amped up his Freeze Blasters as Joar punches the ground and giant ice spikes begin heading towards Maria.

Narrowing her eyes, Blue Lantern grew out spikes on her dome and threw out her hands as her dome expanded and destroyed the incoming ice spikes as Icicle Senior growled in anger and aimed his Freeze Blasters down at the ground as he fired a huge beam of ice that propelled himself over to Maria and floated above her as the Ice-Themed Supervillain aimed his weapons at her, and pressed the trigger as dual rays of ice heads towards the Hope-Powered Heroine, who reacted quickly as Blue Lantern's aura flared up as she created a giant construct of a Dragon, and it blew hot blue fire at him as both elemental beams clashed against each other, and the Superhero and Supervillain struggled to overpower each other as Maria grunted in effort and her Blue Lantern Ring glowed brightly as she created two more dragon heads and, together, they blew blue fire down at a surprised Icicle Senior as she sends him crashing down into the ground as a small crater formed around him.

"Ooh, that has to hurt," Blue Lantern says with a smirk before wincing at her Hope-Powered Construct fizzled a bit before dissipating as it slowly disappeared from sight. "Oh, crap."

"Oh, crap indeed, my dear!" Icicle Senior says with a threatening while standing up as he raises his Freeze Blasters and begins to charge them up as Blue Lantern's eyes widen in slight fear before spotting something flying in the distance as she beamed ecstatically and grinned slyly, confusing the Ice-Themed Supervillain long enough for him to get sucker-punched by a man wearing a green costume as Icicle Senior was knocked unconscious.

Floating before her is a 6'1-feet-tall, 35-year-old Man with brown eyes, short light brown hair, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall athletic yet slim build, and he was currently wearing his Green Lantern Uniform, which consisted of a small dark green domino mask that covered his eyes, a skintight black supersuit, green shoulder pads, a green torso with the Green Lantern Symbol planted on his chest, forearm-length white gloves, black arms/armpits/legs, and green boots as he also wears the Green Lantern Power Ring on his right arm. His name is Hal Jordan AKA Green Lantern, Maria's Father and Superhero Mentor, an Honor Guard of the Green Lantern Corps, and a Founding Member of the Justice League as he's usually stationed at Coast City.

"Thanks, Papa," Maria said while sighing in relief as she flew up to her father, and Hal gave his daughter a small grin.

"You're welcome, sweetie." Green Lantern says while kissing her forehead as Blue Lantern giggles. "Now, come on, we don't want to be late for your first day in the Hall of Justice." Green Lantern says as Blue Lantern beams and smiles.

"No, we do not! Today is the day! I can't wait to become a Full-Fledged Member of the Justice League! We can even go on missions together again! Just like the old times with Ma'rkus, Aunty Aya, Uncle Kilowog, and Big Bro Razer! Won't that be fun, right, Papa?!" Blue Lantern asked cheerfully as a blue aura covered her body, and she took off into the air at supersonic speeds as Hal watched her go with a small fond/warm smile on his face before frowning stoically as he looked down guiltily and sighed heavily as a green aura covered his body, and he flew after his daughter.

~{Everyone}~

"Here we are," Batman says with a stoic glare as we fast forward in time and we see him and Robin, Green Arrow and Speedy, Aquaman and Aqualad, and Green Lantern and Blue Lantern standing in front of the Hall of Justice, which is placed in Washington D.C. as Bruce gave Richard a small smile before putting on his usual neutral frown as Hal places his hand on Maria's shoulder and gives his Daughter a proud look as all of the sidekicks were excited to finally become real superheroes and join the Justice League.

"I'm so happy for you, Baby Girl. You've worked hard to become the person that you are today, and now it's going to pay off. I couldn't be any prouder of the hero that you have become." Green Lantern says sincerely as Mari gives him a surprised look before smiling tearfully and shrugs her father.

"Thanks, Papa." Blue Lantern says as Hal smiles warmly and hugs her back as Green Arrow steps up and turns to the sidekicks.

"Welcome to the Hall of Justice."

"Headquarters of the Justice League." Aquaman finishes as the teens beam and smile at each other as they are about to go to the Hall of Justice, but stop as three familiar blurs appear and land before them as Superman, Spider-Man, and Supergirl step forward.

"Hey, sorry that we are late."

"It's no problem," Aquaman says reassuringly as Robin spots something that makes him grin amusedly.

"Hey, Webhead, I see that you took the Supes Express," Robin says while he and Speedy laughed loudly as Blue Lantern cooed and Aquaman smiled lightly as Spider-Man was riding around in Supergirl's arms.

"Hey, I didn't want to be carried around, but I didn't want to swing from New York City to Washington D.C.," Spider-Man says with a pout as Supergirl rolls her eyes dryly and lets go of him, causing him to crash down into the ground as the gang laughed harder and were about to tease him, but then-

"Oh, man!" Kid Flash cries out, catching all of their attention as they turn around and see Flash arriving at the scene as he skids to a stop, followed closely by his Sidekick. "I knew we'd be the last ones here. You just had to get your donut?" Kid Flash asked Flash while crossing his arms in annoyance as his mentor was finished eating a box full of donuts.

"Sorry, I got hungry," Flash says sheepishly as Green Lantern walks over to him and gives his friend an annoyed look.

"Flash, you're late...again. I don't get it. You have super speed. How are you always late?" Green Lantern asked, exasperated as Flash grinned.

"Sorry, I guess the super tardiness cancels it out," Flash answered cheekily as Kid Flash rolled his eyes before spotting the girls as he grinned cheekily and zoomed over to immediately try to flirt with Supergirl, only for her to give him a flick to the face as Wally yelped in pain and rubbed his bruised forehead.

"Knock off, quickie,"

"Come on, baby, you can't be mad at me, I'm the fastest teen alive,"

"Which might explain why you can't get a date," Supergirl says while smirking slyly as an oblivious Wally nods.

"Yeah...wait, hey!" Kid Flash says indignantly with a blush as the others throw back their heads and begin laughing loudly.

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"Hey, babe, how's it hanging?" Kid Flash asked while giving her a smirk as Maria smiled at him awkwardly.

"Hey, Wally, good to see you, but I don't think now is the right time to flirt with me," Blue Lantern says as Kid Flash raises an eyebrow.

"Why is that, beautiful?" Kid Flash asked as Blue Lantern pointed behind him, and Wally turned his head...only to blink as he saw hundreds of Green Will-Powered guns aiming at him as he saw a disapproving Green Lantern glaring at him. "O-Oh, that's why." Kid Flash says with his face going pale as he quickly lets go of Maria and zips over to his uncle as he hides behind him.

"Enough fooling around," Batman says to everyone, but mostly to Green Lantern as he gives the Will-Powered Hero a pointed look, and Hal sighs but nods as he dissipates his constructs. "It's time to go," Batman says as everyone nods, and they begin walking towards the Hall of Justice as the crowd standing around the building goes crazy at the sight of the heroes.

"Is that Batman?"

"Yeah, and look! It's s Green Lantern and his sidekick Blue Lantern!"

"Ooh! I also see Flash and Flash Jr!"

"His name is Speedy!"

"No, Speedy is Green Arrow's sidekick!"

"Well, that makes no sense." The Crowd of People says as Green Arrow turns to his sidekick.

"Ready to see the inner sanctum?" Green Arrow asked as the Younger Archer smirked.

"Born that way."

"I'm glad we're all here," Aqualad says, turning the conversation towards his friends as Wally beams.

"Have all eight sidekicks ever been at the same place at the same time?" Kid Flash questions excitedly as Speedy grows angry.

"Don't call us sidekicks, not after today." Speedy commands, practically growling the first words as everyone flinched from his sudden anger.

"Wait, we're not Sidekicks," Spider-Man says as Supergirl nods.

"Yeah, we have been independent superheroes since we were 14 years old."

"Guys, I hate to break it to you, but everyone thinks that you are Superman's Sidekicks." Blue Lantern says with a wincing smile, causing Gwen's left eye to twitch in annoyance while Peter flinches violently as a dark raining cloud hovers above him, but then everyone notices the crowd of people whispering to each other in annoyance, wondering why the Wall Crawling Menace was heading towards the Hall of Justice as Spider-Man sighed at this sadly and Supergirl spotted this as she gave them all a furious glare with her eyes glowing red as it caused the crowd of people to flinch in surprise and shock as Superman gave her a scolding look.

"Don't threaten the civilians like that, Supergirl."

"No promises~," Supergirl says with a sing-songy tone as she then makes a small puff of air, and that makes papers and everything that the crowd of people had in their hands fly up into the air.

"KARA!"

"That wasn't me, that was Red Tornado."

"Red Tornado is in the hall, nowhere near close to us," Superman says sternly as a worried Kid Flash turns to his friends.

"Hey, does anyone here feel a little bit overwhelmed?" Kid Flash asked nervously as Richard rolled his eyes.

"You're overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anybody ever just whelmed?" Robin asked as they walked through the doors, and Dick saw giant statues of the Seven Original Justice League members standing before them as Richard's eyes widen. "Oh, maybe that's why." Robin says with a gulp as they arrive at a large door with the words 'Authorized Personnel Only' written on it as the door slides open, and two heroes and a sidekick step out of the hallway as the cameras go crazy at the sight of them.

One of the heroes is a 6'7-feet-tall, 45-year-old (Mentally)/135-yeas-old (Physically) Male Martian as his face is oddly proportioned with small pupilless red eyes that have heavy eyebrows, a bald head, a small nose, thick green lips, a sharp chin, Green Skin, a humanoid tall muscular build, and his outfit consisted of a black bodysuit with red accents, a large blue cape that is fastened by gold clips, a large red belt and X-shaped straps across his chest. His name is J'onn J'onzz/John Jones AKA Martian Manhunter, a Founding Member of the Justice League and Miss Martian and Red Martian's Uncle/Mentor.

The second superhero is a 6'5-feet-tall, 62-year-old humanoid robot with his eye/mouth sockets completely black and no nose/ears, giving him the appearance of an emotionless robot as he also has a yellow 'T' symbol on his chest, a yellow arrow on his forehead, and wears a large blue cape. His name is John Smith AKA Red Tornado, a robotic creation made by T.O. Morrow, A Former Member of the Justice Society of America and a Member of the Justice League.

The Sidekick is a 5'8-feet-tall, 16-year-old (Mentally)/48-year-old (Physically) Male Martian as he was transformed into a more humanoid form, which consists of him having a pair of blue eyes, short spiky purple hair, thin purple eyebrows, a small nose, a sharp chin, Green Skin, a tall muscularly slim build, and was currently wearing his Red Lantern supersuit, which consists of him wearing a dark red spiky helmet, a long-sleeved skintight black supersuit with a red collar, spiked dark red shoulder pads, a dark red torso as he has the Red Lantern Corps Symbol planted on his chest, a pair of arm-length dark red gloves, black sides, long black pants with red sides, and a pair of red combat boots as he also wears the Red Lantern Power Ring on his right hand. His name is Ma'rkus M'orzz AKA Red Martian, J'onn J'onzz's Nephew/Sidekick, and Miss Martian's Cousin.

"Robin, Speedy, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Blue Lantern, Spider-Man, Supergirl, welcome." Martian Manhunter says with his usual calm yet monotonic voice as he gestures them to come inside with Robin and Kid Flash sharing a quick fist bump as Blue Lantern trembles in excitement, and Aqualad and Speedy smile at each other as they all enter the Hall of Justice.

"Sup, guys, today is the day, right?" Red Martian asked with a grin as Maria nodded with a giggle.

"Yep, today is the day." Blue Lantern says while sharing a high-five with Marcus as they continue walking down the hallway.

"You kids now have unlimited access to the gym, our fully stocked gallery, and of course, our library." Martian Manhunter says while leading them to a door that slides open to reveal a massive library with an extensive amount of books and a giant computer placed at the end of the room.

"Make yourselves at home," Flash says as Blue Lantern smiles.

"Don't mind if I do," Maria says before using her Blue Lantern Ring to create a giant poofy couch as she jumps onto it and sighs in relaxation while closing her eyes as Kid Flash zipped over to her.

"Yo, Lantern, mind making some room?" Kid Flash asked as Maria nodded and expanded her couch as Wally plopped beside her.

"Scoot over," Robin says while jumping onto Maria's couch as Spider-Man leaped over to sit beside him.

"Me too."

"Me three," Supergirl says with a cocky grin while flying over to sit beside them as Blue Lantern blinks at this worriedly.

"Um, guys, there are more chairs to sit on, you know?" Blue Lantern says deadpannedly just as Aqualad calmly sits beside Gwen as Maria frowns in annoyance. "Really?" Blue Lantern asked as Red Martian and Speedy smiled and decided to play along with their game as they jumped onto the Lantern's couch and accidentally pushed Maria out of her couch as she crashed down against the floor with a mild grunt and lost her concentration on her Hope Construct as it disappeared and the sidekicks fell down as the teenagers shared a laugh with one another as Roy chuckles a bit amusedly before noticing the mentors talking to each other quietly as he narrows his eyes at this suspiciously.

"Quick debrief to discuss the coincidence of six ice villains attacking on the same day," Superman says to his teammates as they nod, and the Dark Knight then turns to the teenagers.

"We shouldn't be long," Batman says as he then turns to another door, and a fisheye camera pops out as it scans the Justice League members.

"Recognize: Superman; 0-1, Batman; 0-2, Aquaman; 0-6, Green Lantern; 0-5, Flash; 0-4, Green Arrow; 0-8, Martian Manhunter; 0-7, Red Tornado; 1-6."The Security System before opening the doors marked 'JUSTICE LEAGUE MEMBERS ONLY' as everyone stood up from the floor.

"That's it?" Speedy asked, his anger and volume catching all of their attention instantly as he stood up and marched up to the mentors angrily. "You promised a real look inside, not a glorified backstage pass!"

"It's the first step," Aquaman speaks calmly as Speedy glares at him. "You've been granted access few others get," Aquaman says as Roy scoffs.

"Oh, really? Who cares which side of the glass we're on?!" Speedy asked while gesturing up to a group of people taking pictures on the other side of the soundproof glass window above them.

"Speedy, calm down." Blue Lantern says while flying over to the archer as she places a hand on his shoulder, but he pushes her off as he glares at her.

"No, I'm not going to calm down, Lantern!" Roy yelled, surprising Maria and others with his loud yell as Speedy glanced over at his fellow protégés. "Don't you see what they're doing? They're treating us like kids! Worse, like sidekicks! We deserve better than this!" Speedy yelled, his anger steadily growing as the sidekicks exchanged looks but didn't say anything as Roy raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "You're kidding, right? You're playing their game?" Roy asked as Robin, Red Martian, and Kid Flash stayed quiet, Blue Lantern and Supergirl looked away sheepishly, and Kaldur crossed his arms as Spider-Man shrugged awkwardly. "Why?! Today was supposed to be the day! Step one in becoming full-fledged members of the League!"

"Well, sure, but I thought step one was a tour of the HQ." Kid Flash pointed out as Roy rolled his eyes and scoffed.

"Except the Hall isn't the League's real HQ," Speedy says, surprising some of the protégés as well as the Justice League members as they wondered how he found out about that, but one look at the sheepish Green Arrow told them everything as they shake their heads at him. "I bet they never told you it's just a false front for tourists and a pit stop for catching Zeta-Beam Teleporter Tubes to the real thing, an orbiting satellite called the Watchtower!" Speedy asked while gesturing to the sky as Batman turned to Green Arrow, and glared at him as the archer sweated nervously.

"I know, I know, but I thought we could make an exception," Oliver says with a sheepish smile but frowns as Batman continues glaring at him. "Or not." Green Arrow says meekly as Blue Lantern floats down to the ground, and steps forward and gives her friends a guilty look.

"Uh, I actually knew about the Watchtower for a couple of years now," Blue Lantern admitted as the sidekicks gave her a surprised look while the Justice League members didn't look surprised.

"What?! How!?" Robin asked incredulously as Blue Lantern looked down.

"It's a pretty long story, but basically, I was sent to Oa with my Father on a space mission when I was 13 years old, this is before I got my Blue Lantern Ring, by the way, and we flew past the Watchtower as Papa told me everything," Blue Lantern says as Red Martian raised his hand.

"And I fly in and out of Planet Earth and it's pretty hard not to see the Watchtower."

"Ditto, and I told Spidey about the Watchtower accidentally," Supergirl says as Roy stares at them in disbelief and grows angrier.

"So, you four knew about the Watchtower the entire time, and yet you said nothing when they refused to show us their real HQ?!"

"Hey, Speedy, calm down, yes we knew that the Watchtower was the real HQ for the Justice League, but the reason we didn't say anything is because we all figured that they would take us up to the Watchtower eventually," Spider-Man says as Red Martian nods.

"Yeah, the Hall of Justice is just step one of us becoming Members of the Justice League."

"Look, you're not helping your cause here, son," Aquaman says with a stern glare on his face as he steps forward. "Stand down, or-,"

"Or what?" Roy demands as he fearlessly glares at the King of Atlantis. "You'll send me to my room? And I'm not your son." Speedy snaps before turning to Green Arrow. "I'm not even his," Speedy says with his anger seeming to die out as he sighs sadly. "I thought I was his partner, but not anymore," Speedy says as he takes off his hat and throws it at the ground as the other protégés can only watch in shock due to Roy quitting on being Speedy and Green Arrow's Sidekick as he turns around to walk away. "Guess they were right about you seven. You're not ready," Speedy says coldly before walking away from the Hall of Justice as Maria watches him go sadly.

"Roy..." Maria said while holding out her hand as she tried to stop Roy from leaving, but it was too late as a sympathetic Supergirl flew over to her to place a comforting hand on her shoulder just as the alarm rang out as Superman flew over to check the console.

"Guys? There has been an explosion at Project Cadmus. It's on fire." Superman says as the Justice League members all step up to the computer.

"I've had my suspicions about Cadmus. This may present the perfect opportunity to in-," Batman begins but is cut off as another call comes through.

"Zatara to Justice League." A man wearing a magician outfit says while appearing on a small screen as he gave his team a serious look.

The Superhero is a 5'7-feet-tall, 40-year-old Magical Human Man with green eyes, short black hair, a small nose with a prominent black mustache, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a slim tall build, and his outfit consists of a black top hat with a red stripe, a black blazer with a white shirt underneath, a red bow-tie, and black pants. His name is Giovanni Zatara, a Magician, a Member of the Justice League, and the Father of Zatanna.

"The Sorcerer Wotan is using the Amulet of Attan to block out the sun," Zatara says, gaining the Justice League's full attention as well as the protégés. "Requesting full League response."

"Superman?" Batman questioned the Man of Steel as Superman nodded.

"It's a small fire. Local authorities have it under control." Superman assures as Batman nods.

"Then Cadmus can wait," Batman states as he presses a key on the massive keyboard below. "All Leaguers rendezvous at Zatara's coordinates. Batman out." Batman says as the five protégés step up to their mentors eagerly. "Stay put," Batman states, barely even looking at them as they look at him in shock.

"What?" Robin asked as Aquaman stepped forward.

"This is a League mission,"

"You're not trained." Flash continues as Kid Flash gives him an offended look.

"Since when?" Kid Flash says as Flash decides to clarify.

"I meant you're not trained to work as a part of this team." The Flash says while gesturing to his team as Green Lantern gives them all a stern look.

"There will be other missions when you're ready," Green Lantern says as Batman narrows his eyes at them.

"But for now, stay put," Batman ordered as the four kids looked sad at first before slowly growing angry as their mentors began walking away.

"Glad you didn't bring you-know-who?" Green Arrow asks Martian Manhunter with a small tease in his tone as J'onn nods.

"Indeed. It's bad enough that Marcus is here." J'onn agreed rapidly as they walked behind Superman, Aquaman, Batman, Green Lantern, and Flash, but Red Tornado looked at the angry teens for a moment before walking away as they entered the room, and the door closed behind him as Supergirl scoffed.

"When we're ready? How are we ever supposed to be ready when they treat us like sidekicks? I thought that we were going to join the Justice League, not the fucking Superfriends." A frustrated Supergirl says in frustration as Aqualad looks down sadly.

"My mentor, my King, I thought he trusted me," Aqualad says as Kid Flash scoffed.

"Trust? They don't even trust us with the basics! They've got a secret HQ in space!" Kid Flash before turning to Maria, Gwen, Peter, and Ma'rkus angrily. "And you four knew about this the entire time and never told us!?" Wally asked as Blue Lantern winced from his yell and looked down guiltily as Supergirl narrowed her eyes angrily and crossed her arms while Ma'rkus scowled as Peter fumed.

"Well, it's not like we knew that they wouldn't take us to the Watchtower, Speedy Gonzales."

"Oh, you want to go, Webhead?" Kid Flash asked with a glare as, thankfully, Robin stepped forward and stood between them and his best friend.

"Chill, KF, don't blame Lantern and the others for this," Robin says as Kid Flash takes a deep breath and calms down.

"Sorry, guys, it's just that...this is so frustrating!" Kid Flash says as Marcus sighs heavily.

"Yeah, this situation is not happy for us either." Red Martian says as Aqualad looks down uncertainly.

"What else aren't they telling us?" Aqualad questions, voicing what they're all thinking, as Supergirl sighs.

"I have a better question: Why didn't we leave with Speedy?" Supergirl asked as Spider-Man grew quiet, Kid Flash crossed his arms and looked down with an annoyed look on his face, Red Martian scowled, Aqualad looked down sadly, Robin pouted, and Blue Lantern rubbed her arm nervously as an awkward silence rang out.

"...What's Project Cadmus?" Spider-Man asked Robin, breaking the silence as the Boy Wonder shrugged.

"Don't know...but I can find out," Robin says with a mischievous smirk as he walks over to the computer and begins typing out codes into the keyboard.

"What are you doing, Rob?" Blue Lantern asked curiously while flying over to her friend as he grinned at her.

"Just looking for some information, Blue,"

"Access Denied." The computer says as Robin laughs.

"Wanna bet?" Dick says as he hits a few more buttons and starts looking through the codes of the files at near lightspeed.

"Whoa," Kid Flash murmured in surprise as he and the others walked towards the Boy Wonder and the Hope-Powered Hero. "How are you doing that?" Kid Flash asked as Robin smiled and hit two more keys.

"Same system as the Batcave," Dick explained as he hits one last key, and the computer beeped.

"Access Granted." The computer states as it showed a file about a two-story complex named 'Project Cadmus' and all the data that revolves around it.

"Alright, Project Cadmus. It's a genetics lab here in DC." Robin reads before frowning as he curses. "Damn, that's about it, but if Batman's suspicious...maybe we should investigate,"

"Solve their case before they do, it would be poetic justice," Red Martian says with a sly grin as Spider-Man smirks.

"Hey, they're all about justice," Spider-Man says as Supergirl drops her arm around his shoulder.

"Damn right, Spidey," Supergirl says as Peter blushes at the hug.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Blue Lantern says eagerly while bouncing in her steps excitedly as Aqualad smiles at her excited demeanor but then frowns as he sighs.

"But they said to stay put."

"For the blocking out the sun mission, not this." Robin pointed out with a smile as he placed his hands on his hips.

"Wait, a-are you guys going to Cadmus? Because if you're going then I'm going." Kid Flash says as he, Robin, Blue Lantern, Supergirl, Spider-Man, and Red Martian turn to Aqualad smiling as the Atlantean crosses his arms, and gives his friends a serious look.

"Just like that? You do realize that if the Justice League finds out what we're doing, we're going to get in big trouble." Aqualad says as their smiles die down and look down at the floor uncertainly as Blue Lantern steps forward.

"Look, Kaldur, even if we get in trouble it doesn't matter because we all came here to become something greater than we are, and if our Mentors won't allow that, then it's time to take our destiny into our own hands and become the heroes that we inspire to be," Blue Lantern says determinedly as Kaldur raised an eyebrow.

"And, what if we fail?" Aqualad asked as she shrugged.

"Don't know, I guess we have to have some hope with us right now," Maria says with a lop-sided grin as her Blue Lantern Ring glows brightly, and all of her friends suddenly feel great hope filling their bodies as Robin steps forward.

"Maria's right," Robin says while placing his arm around her shoulder as he grins at the young Atlantean. "We didn't come here for a play date," Robin says as Aqualad smirks and nods as they run out of the Hall.

"...Help! Get us out!" One of the two scientists cried out fearfully as we fast forward in time and we cue over to Project Cadmus as we see that the building was set on fire and two scientists were trapped inside with a bunch of scientists standing on top of the roof as the firemen outside were trying desperately to save them.

"Stay calm! We will get you out!" One of the Firemen yelled through his megaphone as an explosion went off behind the scientists and the force of it pushed the two out of the window as they screamed in fear and were about to fall to their deaths, but thankfully, Kid Flash zooms onto the scene as he runs up the wall, and grabs the screaming scientists as he arrives at the roof and places them down safely as Wally waves at the surprised crowd. "Hey! It's what's-his-name, Flashboy!" The Firefighter yelled as Wally groaned.

"Kid Flash! Why is that so hard to remember?!" Kid Flash asked himself in mild frustration before entering the building through the second-story window just as the others showed up.

"Does he always have to run ahead?" Aqualad murmurs before turning to his teammates. "Robin, I want you to-," Aqualad says before blinking in surprise as he notices that Robin is gone. "What the?"

"Did he just pull a Batman on us?" Maria asked as Robin's creepy laugh echoed through the area, and the heroes saw Robin appearing on the back of the fire truck as he ran up the ladder and then used his grappling hook to swing himself towards the second-story window as he landed inside the building.

"Oh, this is going great so far," Aqualad says sarcastically before turning to Maria and Gwen. "Girls, help me put out the fire. Spider-Man? Red Martian? Help save the civilians."

"On it, Fish Lips!" Spider-Man says with a playful tone while webswinging himself up to the roof of Project Cadmus as Red Martian simply flies up to it and uses his Red Lantern Ring to create a big slide that allows a bunch of scientists to slide down while Peter personally webswing down the scientists too scared to ride the slide as the girls flew over to deal with the fire as Blue Lantern flew above him and created a giant blue hope-powered construct of a water cannon to fire out a big stream of water to take out the fire placed on the surrounding area of Project Cadmus.

"I need to borrow that," Aqualad says to a couple of firefighters, who were working with the hose as they were trying to put out the fire, and pulled out his Water-Bearers as his tattoos glowed a bright blue and was planning to redirect the water over to collide against the building, only for Supergirl to flew ahead and uses her ice breath to spew out a big burst of cryo air that instantly put out the fire in Project Cadmus.

"Too slow," Supergirl says while giving Kaldur a cocky, arrogant smirk as he frowned.

"Supergirl, I specifically said to help me put out the fire, not-,"

"You snooze you lose." Supergirl interrupted rudely as she then flew off.

"How does Spider-Man work with her?" Aqualad asked himself incredulously as Blue Lantern shrugged while dissipating her hope-powered blue construct.

"Don't you think we should help them put out the fire?" Kid Flash asked while sorting through some filing cabinets with his super speed after getting inside the building earlier as Robin was hacking the computer.

"Nah, they got this." Robin dismisses as we cue outside, and we see the girls flying towards the window, but not before Maria creates a set of blue hope-powered stairs for Aqualad as he runs up the hope-powered construct and jumps inside with Spider-Man and Red Martian as Supergirl and Blue Lantern fly inside.

"Appreciate the help, guys," Spider-Man says sarcastically while Supergirl crosses her arms with an annoyed look as Robin smirks smugly.

"You two handled it. Besides we're here to investigate, remember?"

"Whatever." Blue Lantern says while rolling her eyes as she glances at her ring. "Ring, scan the building for any sign of abnormality," Maria ordered as she held out her hand, and her ring emitted a blue light as it scanned the building as, after a few seconds of waiting, Maria's Blue Lantern Ring beeped as it found an abnormality and a hologram map of the building appeared.

"Scan completed. Abnormality detected in the hallway 10 steps ahead of you." Maria's Blue Lantern Ring says as a blue arrow appears on the screen, pointing Maria to where the abnormality is located as everyone perks up curiously, and Blue Lantern follows to where the arrow is pointing as she walks into a long hallway and sees a large blue skinned figure entering an elevator as it closed.

"Guys, I just saw something entering the elevator." Blue Lantern announced as everyone else entered the hallway, and Red Martian raised an eyebrow confusedly.

"That's weird, elevators should be locked down."

"This is wrong," Robin says while looking at the elevator with scrutiny as he pulls up a holo-screen on his gauntlet, giving him the specs of the elevator. "This is a high-speed express elevator. A type of elevator that does not belong in a two-story building."

"Neither whatever the heck I saw earlier." Blue Lantern says as Supergirl walks towards the elevator and uses her Kryptonian Strength to force the doors open as she looks down and is surprised to see how deep the elevator shaft goes as Dick ducks under Gwen's arm to get a better look.

"And that's why they need an express elevator," Robin says as he stands up and pulls out his grappling hook as the Boy Wonder shoots at the top of the column, and jumps down as Supergirl and Blue Lantern fly down after him as Red Martian used his telekinesis to latch onto Aqualad and Kid Flash before flying down as the gang stopped at the end of the shaft at level SL26. "We're here," Robin says as he jumps to the narrow platform within the level's elevator doors and pulls up his holo-screen as he begins bypassing the system security while the others appeared as Dick finished hacking through Cadmus systems. "There, you can open the doors now, BL."

"Got it." Blue Lantern says as she holds out her hand and tries to use her Blue Lantern Ring to create a giant pair of crowbars, only to fail as she curses. "Damn it."

"You know, you should really get that thing checked out." Kid Flash commented idly as Maria rolled her eyes.

"It's not broken, Kid Flash. It's just that it doesn't always work because Blue Lantern Rings aren't normally supposed to create constructs without a Green Lantern Ring around. I don't know why mine does, though, but I can't complain...you know when it works." Blue Lantern says dryly while floating in the air in a cross-legged position as Kaldur reaches over to grab the doors and uses his Atlantean Strength to pry them open as they all step inside, except for Gwen as she realizes that a certain Wall Crawler is missing.

"Hey, where's Spider-Man?"

"Right here," Spider-Man said while lowering himself down on a web and hanging upside down behind her as Gwen whirled around to face him, and both of them froze as they stared at each other with big blushes on their faces as Supergirl was almost tempted to raise Spider-Man's mask enough to kiss him, but then-

"HEY LOVEBIRDS! WE NEED TO KEEP MOVING!"

"WE'RE NOT LOVEBIRDS!" Spider-Man and Supergirl screamed with big blushes on their faces as Kid Flash laughed and turned around to zip away.

"Kid, wait!" Aqualad shouted, but the speedster didn't stop as he ran across the hallway and entered another hallway filled with giant elephant-sized creatures walking towards him on all fours.

"Kid!" Blue Lantern yelled worriedly as Wally yelped and skidded to a stop as he saw the massive hand of the leader coming down towards him, and Wally raised his hands in fright as Maria created quickly and used her ring to create a giant blue shield in front of Kid Flash, protecting him from being stomped to death as he sighed in relief.

"Kid, get over here!" Red Martian demanded as Kid Flash nodded and stood up as he ran back to his team.

"Yeah, nothing odd is going on here," Spider-Man says sarcastically while webswinging himself over to land in front of the team as he and the others eyed the giant creatures as Peter and the others glanced at each other worriedly as the gang then made their way into another room and realized that it was filled with countless G-Gnomes as Gwen smirked a bit.

"I'll take care of them," Supergirl says while still being a bit delirious as she then zoomed forward and proceeds to beat up the G-Gnomues so graphically that a stunned Kid Flash and Spider-Man were forced to cover a traumatized-looking Blue Lantern and Robin's eyes as, once Gwen was done, all of the groaning G-Gnomes laid on the ground while being heavily injured and bleeding as she dusts off her hands and smiled cheerfully/cutely at the others.

"All set. Now let's go."

"Spidey? Your girlfriend scares me." Red Martian says with a nervous gulp as Spider-Man blushes and glares at him as, deep inside a lab, we see a scientist named, 'Mark Desmond' with a ponytail working on a pink mixer as he stirs it a bit before using an eyedropper to pick up the strange liquid as Mark narrowed his eyes and inserted the unknown liquid into a small test tube that was filled with water and had a small blue crystal inside as he watched in curiosity when the pink liquid mixed with the clear liquid and decomposed the crystal as Mark then jumped in surprise when the doors behind him opened, and he turned around to see a man dressed in blue body armor standing by the door with a small gremlin attached to his shoulder.

Standing before him is a 6'2-feet-tall, 24-year-old Man with blue eyes, red hair, thin red eyebrows, a big nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular build, and his outfit consisted of a dark blue armored jumpsuit with a golden helmet and golden shoulder/wrist pads. His name is Jim Harper AKA Guardian.

The gremlin is a 1-year-old four-legged white creature with red eyes, black stripes on his head, a small tail, and short horns on his head. His name is G-Gnome.

"Dr. Desmond," Guardian says as Mark calms down and gives the chief security of Cadmus an annoyed look.

"Guardian, I told you this time and time again, do not interrupt me when I'm working." Mark says while opening a cylinder labeled 'PROJECT BLOCKBUSTER' as he places the test tube inside and closes it.

"A G-Gnome on sublevel 26 report 7 intruders," Guardian says as Mark sighs and turns to him with a glare.

"Did I miss a perimeter breach alert?" Mark questions condescendingly as Guardian looks down nervously.

"No," Guardian replies tensely as Mark scoffed.

"Then the G-Gnomes are confused." Mark says while turning to a microscope as the G-Gnome on Guardian's shoulder glares at the scientist for dismissing his brother's warnings but stays quiet as Mark continues talking. "Whatever might occur in our faux lab above ground, the real Cadmus is the most secure facility in DC."

"My job to keep it that way." Guardian reminds him as Mark sighs and reluctantly nods.

"Fine. Take a squad."

"Might I recommend Guardian leave his G-Gnome behind?" A random voice asked as Guardian, G-Gnome, and Mark turned around and saw a tall blue-skinned creature entering the lab as he resembled a 5-feet-tall blue-skinned anthropoid humanoid creature with red eyes, pointed ears, two blue feelers falling from the jawline to its clavicle, and ivory horns. His outfit consisted of a plain hospital-like shirt and pants. His name is Dubbilex.

"Why?" Mark asked while narrowing his eyes as Dubbilex gulped but maintained his composure as he gave the scientist a neutral frown.

"Well, if violence should occur, not only will the G-Gnome get hurt, but he could get in the way," Dubbilex says while sharing a brief concerned look with the G-Gnome as the little gremlin nods to him gratefully.

"Yeah, I have to agree with him," Guardian says, agreeing with the anthropoid creature as he reaches out to grab the G-Gnome. "I think it's best that we left the little guy-"

"No!" Mark snaps, stepping away from his microscope to reveal another G-Gnome sitting on his desk. "The advantage of instant telepathic communication outweighs other concerns." He says while massaging the G-Gnome's head he looks uncomfortable by the petting but didn't say anything as he turns to his brother and his horns lowered. In response, the small G-Gnome's horns glowed as he received his big brother's telepathic message and nodded solemnly as he turned to Guardian, and his horns glowed red again as Guardian suddenly went stiff.

"I need my G-Gnome with me all the time," Guardian says to Dubbilex in a monotonic voice as he then turns to Mark and bows to him before walking out of the lab with Dubbilex as we then cue back to the others and we see Robin hacking through another door as he opens it, and they all walk inside only to be surprised to see the room covered with towering rows of bug-like creatures trapped inside glass cages as they pulsate with electricity, and seem to go through a generator that was placed on the wall.

"Okay, I'm officially whelmed."

"Ditto." Blue Lantern says numbly as she and the others begin walking between the towering rows.

"This is how they hide this massive underground facility from the world." Kid Flash realized as he stared at one of the creatures.

"Yeah, the real Cadmus isn't on the grid. It generates its own power with these...things. Must be what they're bred for." Supergirl says as Aqualad cursed.

"Even the name is a clue. The Cadmus of myth created a new race by sowing dragon's teeth into the Earth."

"And this Cadmus creates new life too. Let's find out why. Robin?"

"Already on it, Red Martian," Robin says while stepping up to the computer that was near one of the rows of creatures as he then pulls out a connector from his gauntlet and connects it to a computer. "Alright, let's see what we got." The Boy Wonder says as a holo-screen appears, and he begins funneling the information. "They call them Genomorphs...whoa! Look at the stats on these things: super-strength, telepathy, flight, razor claws. These are living weapons." Robin says while reeling back in shock as Peter raises an eyebrow.

"So, Cadmus is engineering their own army? But for who?" Spider-Man questions as Maria shrugs.

"Don't know, but whoever gets their hands on these things that's going to lead to some serious trouble for us and the Justice League," Blue Lantern says as Robin nods.

"She's right, we need to find out who is making these things and how to stop them before-" Robin says just as a new batch of information comes through his gauntlet as he raises an eyebrow at what he sees. "Wait, there's something else. A file that is named...' Project Kr'." Robin says as he tries to decrypt it but fails as he groans. "Damm, the file is triple-encrypted. Maybe if I have some time I can-,"

"Don't move!" Guardian yelled while arriving at the scene with a golden shield on his left forearm and a squad of human-sized Genomorphs named G-Elf. " Wait, Robin? Aqualad? Kid Flash? Blue Lantern? Spider-Man? Supergirl? Red Martian?"

"At least he got your name right." Robin teases Kid Flash while still decrypting the 'Kr' file behind Supergirl, Aqualad, and Blue Lantern so that Guardian won't see him working.

"Wait a minute, blue body armor, yellow helmet, yellow shield, aren't you the superhero Guardian?" Supergirl asked as Guardian stand stood.

"I do my best," Guardian says with a proud look as Kid Flash raises an eyebrow in confusion.

"Then what are you doing here?"

"I'm Chief of Security. You're trespassing, but we can call the Justice League, and figure this out." Guardian says as Blue Lantern narrows her eyes at him and flies up in the air as a blue aura covers her body.

"Oh, really? Do you think the Justice League is going to approve of you playing God and engineering these... things." Maria says while pointing at the creatures just as Robin's gauntlet blinks as Dick finished decrypting the 'Project Kr' file and begins reading it.

"Playing God? What are you-," Guardian says before groaning in pain as the G-Gnome's horns glowed red and took control of his mind as the hero glared at the teenagers. "Take them down hard! No mercy!" He commanded as the G-Elves jumped into action, and Robin did the same as he jumped in front of his friends and threw down a smoke bomb, blinding everyone he shot a grappling hook to the bottom of one of the support beams and disappeared.

Kid Flash dodged an incoming slash from one of the two G-Elves fighting him as he backed up to a wall and used it as a springboard to dive at the duo as he delivered dual punches to their faces before pushing off the opposite vertical support as Wally executed an inverted flip and pushed off to kick another G-Elf in his chest as he landed on the ground and was surrounded by two G-Elves, who hissed at him angrily as the Speedster smirked at them and vibrated his body at high speeds as he phased through the wall.

Confused, the G-Elves tried to look for him, only for Wally to suddenly stick his vibrating hands through the wall and phase through their chests, causing them to gasp as their eyes rolled back to their heads and fell down unconscious as Kid Flash phased through the wall and smirked at his knocked-out adversaries just as Spider-Man webswings above him as he was avoiding all of the grabs from the G-Elves and swiftly leaped over to kick down two of them into the ground while raising his hands to fire dual streams of white webbing that collided against the chests of two G-Elves and twirled them around to knock against another group of G-Elves to cause them to fall down into the ground.

Aqualad growled in annoyance as G-Elf was standing on his shoulders and tried to bite him as the Atlantean grabbed the creature by its long arm and threw it off as Kaldur then delivered a front kick to a G-Elf that was coming for him, but it left him open for a shoulder check from Guardian as Aqualad crashed against the floor and groaned in pain as Guardian charges at him again as he throws his shield at him, but was thankfully protected by Supergirl flying over to have the shield collide against her large breasts as it bounced off.

Giving his teammate a grateful look, Aqualad then ran over to Supergirl, who reached over to grab him and used his Super Strength to toss him over to collide against Guardian, knocking him down into the ground as his tattoos glowed and electricity bounced off his body as he electrocuted Guardian and the older hero screamed in pain as Kaldur then grabbed him and tossed him away as Blue Lantern let out a battle cry and created a blue hope-powered construct of a war hammer and bashed all of the G-Elves that were coming her way before creating a pair of small blue rocket launcher-like constructs on her shoulders as she fired twenty tiny rockets that took out the majority of the G-Elves.

The G-Elves that survived the carnage hissed angrily at the Hope-Powered Superheroine as they tried to charge at her, only for Red Martian to fly over to land in front of his friend and create a big red construct of a spiked ball as he proceeded to toss it over to collide against them, knocking them away as if they were bowling pins as Maria gave him a grateful look while dissipating her constructs as she was about to say something, only for a bunch of G-Elves to launch themselves over to collide against her as she grunted.

"Hey, KF! How about we give our friends a little spin?!" Blue Lantern asked Kid Flash with a grin as he smirked and nodded.

"On it!" Wally says while sliding on his goggles as he races over to Maria and grabs her hand as he begins running around in a circle, causing the G-Elves to get dizzy as Kid Flash suddenly comes to a stop and they are sent flying across the room as the G-Elves crashed down into the ground with a couple of pained grunts as a grateful Blue Lantern flew over to Kid Flash and was about to say something when suddenly Wally groaned as he grabbed his head and kneeled down on the floor as Maria gasped worriedly.

"Kid Flash, what's wrong?" Blue Lantern asked before feeling someone trying to invade her mind as she quickly put up her mental barriers and turned around as she spotted Guardian's G-Gnome sitting up in the rafters and glared at him. "Oh, no you don't!" Blue Lantern says as she fires a beam from her Blue Lantern Ring and encases the G-Gnome in a small blue hope-powered bubble.

"What is that thing?" Kid Flash asked as Blue Lantern brought over the bubble and grabbed it in her hands.

"Don't know, but it seemed to possess telepathic abilities." Blue Lantern says while staring at the scared G-Gnome as she notices how terrified it looks and frowns worriedly. "Aw, it looks scared," Blue Lantern says sympathetically as Kid Flash rolls his eyes.

"Well, he tried to take over our minds earlier, so excuse me if I don't feel sympathetic." Kid Flash says just as an alarm rang out as Aqualad appears.

"We got to go!" Aqualad commanded as they nodded and ran off as they arrived down the hallway and spotted Robin hacking into one of the ports as Spider-Man could be seen crawling on the roof above him and glared down at the Boy Wonder.

"Way to be a team player, Rob," Spider-Man says as the gang turns around and see the G-Elves racing towards them as Marcus narrows his angry eyes and uses his Red Lantern Ring to create a red wall of rage that blocks the creatures' path.

"Weren't you right behind me?" Robin asked, genuinely surprised that they didn't follow him but didn't turn to his friends as he continued hacking the elevator.

"Rob, you might want to hurry up." Red Martian says while gritting his teeth as the G-Elf's bashed against his wall, and small cracks begin to form.

"Don't worry, I finished," Robin says as he finishes hacking and manages to open the elevator doors as he and Kid Flash dive in as the others follow after them with Red Martian dissipating his wall, and the doors close right behind them as the elevator began going down and Kaldur noticed this as he glared sternly at the Boy Wonder.

"Robin, why are we heading down?" Aqualad asked with obvious dislike in his voice as Kid Flash turned to Robin.

"Dude, out is up," Wally says while pointing up as Robin turns to them offended.

"Excuse me? Project Kr, it's down on Sub-level 52." Robin says as Aqualad places his hand on his temples in frustration.

"This is getting out of control. Perhaps we should contact the League." Aqualad says as Red Martian sighs heavily.

"Yeah, maybe you're rig-," Red Martian says before shutting up as he sees Blue Lantern staring at the G-Gnome intensely and gasping. "You brought that thing with us?!" Red Martian asked in shock as Robin and the others turned to Maria and were surprised to see the small creature in her hands.

"Shhh! I'm trying to see what he's thinking without letting him control my mind. He may have some vital intel on this place." Blue Lantern says, causing the boys to shut up as Maria turns to G-Gnome and gives him a stern look. "Alright, buddy, I will let you read my mind, but don't try to take control of my mind like you did with Kid Flash. My mental walls are too thick for you to breach." Blue Lantern says as G-Gnome nods fearfully, and the horns on his head glow red as he tries to communicate with her.

"I-I wasn't trying to control his mind. I was trying to communicate with him." G-Gnome says through her mind with a child-like voice as Maria raises an eyebrow but stays silent as he continues. "I was trying to tell your friend that me and my brothers need your help."

"Our help? With what? And what are you exactly, and what is Cadmus doing?" Maria asked as the teens watched the exchange curiously.

"I am a G-Gnome, a being created by Cadmus," G-Gnome explained as Maria listened to him carefully. "Me and all of my brothers and sisters were created and/or cloned by Cadmus in an attempt to create a powerful army that would rival the Justice League in case they were killed or turned from the Light. Many of us possess above average strength, enhanced intelligence, and many others, including telepathy as you can clearly see."

"But why did you guys lure us over if you're working for Cadmus?" Blue Lantern asked as G-Gnome sighed sadly.

"That's because they forced us to work for them. We grew up here in Cadmus and never had seen the outside world. We all want to go outside and experience the true meaning of freedom, but Cadmus won't let us. Please, help us be free." G-Gnome pleaded as Blue Lantern stared at him emotionless for a few seconds before smiling as she patted his head.

"Don't worry, little guy. We will help you." Blue Lantern says sweetly before turning to the confused teens. "This little guy is named G-Gnome and apparently, he and his family were created by Cadmus to create an unstoppable army. He and the others were enslaved to work for Cadmus, so they set the fire upstairs to lure us here to save them." Blue Lantern explained as the teens eyed the creature suspiciously.

"And do you know if he's telling the truth?" Aqualad asked, saying what all the kids were thinking as Blue Lantern was about to respond, but then the elevator came to a stop at the Sub-level 52 floor. The teens tensed for battle as the doors opened to reveal multiple hallways that looked almost organic.

"Well, let's see if he's telling the truth." Blue Lantern says while floating ahead of her friends as she raises her captive G-Gnome in front of her. "Alright, little guy, me and my friends want to know where Project Kr is, and if you lead us to it, we will help you free your people." Blue Lantern says as G-Gnome eyes widen.

"Project Kr? He's one of our brothers and is extremely powerful. If you free him, he will definitely help you liberate our people." The G-Gnome says as she raises an eyebrow but nods as they arrive at a fork in the road.

"Which way do we go?" Spider-Man asked as Supergirl nodded.

"Yeah, do we go to bizarre-looking hallway one, or bizarre-looking hallway two?" Supergirl asked sarcastically as G-Gnome was about to respond when suddenly a familiar voice rang out.

"Halt!" Guardian yelled while arriving at the scene with his army of G-Elves and Dubbilex as the Anthropoid eyes widened at the sight of them but stayed silent as Guardian threw his shield at them, specifically at the G-Gnome that was trapped by the hope-powered blue shield as the G-Gnome and Dubbilex's eyes widened as the large humanoid creature was about to use his telekinetic powers to save his brother when suddenly Maria created a small trampoline in front of the surprised G-Gnome and the shield bounced back over to Guardian as it hit him in his head and knocked him out.

"Go!" Blue Lantern yelled to her friends as she tossed over G-Gnome to Aqualad, who nodded to her as he and the others ran off just as Guardian woke up and glared at Maria.

"Kill her!" Guardian ordered as the G-Elves followed his commands and leaped towards the hope-powered heroine. Not even flinching, Maria threw out a blue wave that pushed back the army as she and Guardian glared at each other for a few seconds before flying away as she caught up with the teens in no time.

"Where should we go?" Maria asked G-Gnome as his horns glowed red, and the teens groaned as they felt him entering their minds.

"Turn right!" G-Gnome ordered Blue Lantern, who gave him a scolding look for invading their minds without their permission, but put it aside for now as they turned right and entered a hallway with a large door at the end as it opened to reveal Project Cadmus Scientist, who resembled an old man wearing glasses, as he walked out and eyes widened in surprise at the sight of the heroes.

"Sorry for the scare, dude!" Kid Flash screamed while he and the others zoomed past him as they noticed the huge steel door with the word, 'Project Kr', planted on it, and Supergirl zoomed ahead to keep the door opened long enough for her friends to go through it as she then flew inside and allowed the door to close as Robin quickly typed into the control panel on the door to disable it.

"I disabled the door. We're safe."

"We're trapped." Red Martian corrected as a worried Kid Flash pointed ahead.

"Uh... guys? You'll wanna see this." Kid Flash says as the gang turns their heads and is surprised to see what seems to be the Clone of Superman placed before them in a pod.

Standing before them while being Cryogenically Suspended is a 5'10-feet-tall, 16-years-old (Mentally)/4-months-old Kryptonian/Human Binary Clone Genomorph Teenage Boy with vivid blue eyes, short spiky black hair, a small nose, a sharp chin, Caucasian Skin, a tall muscular build, and his outfit consisted of a long-sleeved skintight white solar jumpsuit with a red Superman S-symbol on the chest as the suit allowed him to absorb Yellow Sun Radiation to fuel his powers even underground. His name is Project Kr AKA Superboy, a Genomorph, a binary clone of Superman and Lex Luthor, created to replace Superman if ever perished during battle or kill him if he ever turns from the Light.

"...Is...Is that...Kal-El?" A shocked Supergirl as a stern Spider-Man then turned to Maria.

"Lantern, ask G-Gnome about this."

"G-Gnome, what's going on here?" Blue Lantern asked as G-Gnome turned to her, and his horns glowed red as he set up a telephonic link with everyone.

"His Weapon Designation is Superboy. He is a clone force grown in sixteen weeks from DNA acquired from Superman and another unknown source."

"Stolen from Superman," Aqualad clarified, with no small amount of distaste as Kid Flash nodded in agreement.

"No way the big guy knows about this,"

"Yeah, because if he did, Kal-El would've told me about it," Supergirl says as the G-Gnome's horns glow red.

"His solar suit allows him to absorb yellow sun radiation twenty-four seven, giving him Superman's Abilities, although, he would lose a significant amount of power and abilities when his Solar Suit powers down,"

"The fastest way to power him up without letting him above ground," Supergirl mused as she glared. "So he's ready for whatever they made him for."

"And what are you? Or they, for that matter." Red Martian says while pointing over at the G-Gnomes perched on the clone's immobile shoulders.

"Genomorph gnomes, telepathic.. They're force feeding him an education."

"And we can guess what else. They're making a slave out of, well...Superman's Son." A worried Kid Flash says as Kaldur grows serious.

"Now we contact the League," Aqualad says while he and the others tried to contact the Justice League but failed as Peter cursed.

"No signal. We're in too deep, literally," Spider-Man says as Supergirl stares over at Superboy worriedly, and a look of determination appears in her eyes.

"This is wrong. We can't leave him like this."

"Agreed, let him free, Rob." Blue Lantern says as Robin nods, and with a few taps of the keyboard, the pod cracks open with a pneumatic hiss as everyone watches with bated breath as Superboy's hand abruptly twitches, clenching into a tight fist, and his eyes snap open as Peter's Spider Sense rang out.

"Look out!" Spider-Man yelled worriedly while pushing Aqualad away just as Superboy zoomed forward to collide against him to send him crashing against the wall as he growled and rained multiple punches all over Peter's body, hurting him severely as he then kicked him away, and the Webhead flew over to crash down into the ground as he got knocked out and Kid Flash and Robin zoomed/ran over to grab his arms to try and restrain him.

"Whoa, hang on, Supey!" Kid Flash says through gritted teeth as Dick grunts in effort.

"We're on your side!" Robin added as Superboy merely reached behind him to grab the boys and lifted them up into the air before bashing their heads against each other to knock them out as he tossed them to the side like trash, and Supergirl roared in anger while flying at Superboy, who sidestepped her just in time when a little voice in his head told him what to do as she ended up colliding against the wall, distracting her long enough for Superboy to latch onto her by her cape and twirled her around to use his Super Strength to toss her over to a special pod placed not far away from him after the voice told him what to do as the pod closed up and a device emitted intense, close-range red sun energy, causing Gwen to feel weak as she moaned in point, and falls unconscious when a metal box was thrown at her head by Superboy as the pod closed up.

"Blue, help me!"

"Way ahead of you!" Blue Lantern says as she and Red Martian were planning to create multiple red and blue chains of rage and hope around Superboy to restrain him, only Maria's Blue Lantern Power Ring to power down as she cursed. "Oh, damn it, I really thought that this stupid thing would work for once." Blue Lantern says with a pout just as Superboy uses his Super Speed to zoom over to throw a powerful punch across her face, knocking her out as this distracted Red Martian long enough for Project Kr to knock him out as well with a powerful punch.

"ENOUGH!" Aqualad snapped while launching himself forward and pulled out his Water Bearers to morph them into a pair of water-spiked maces as he proceeded to slam them against Superboy, causing him to stumble backwards before composing himself as he went over to attack him with reckless abandonment as Kaldur was able to avoid his attacks easily and struck him with his magical weapons repeatedly before sliding behind Superboy, locking his arms behind him in a full nelson and pouring waves of bio-electricity through his body as he roared with rage before his eyes glowed red as Project Kr then jumped upwards to slam him against the ceiling over and over again until he grew unconscious and Project Kr then lets go of him as he crashed down into the ground as Superboy landed on the floor beside him and then went over to open the door to let the scientists in while not knowing that G-Gnome was hiding up in the rafters, spying on them as he had a worried look on his face.

"...Time runs short...you must awaken, you must awaken now!" A familiar voice rang out in the kids' heads, causing all of them to groan and wake up as Maria and the others were shocked to see themselves stuck inside pods with metal restraints on their bodies, restraining them in place as all of them tried to break out, but failed as Spider-Man, Aqualad, and Kid Flash couldn't use their Super Strength or Super Speed to break out due to the restraints being powerful enough to hold someone like Superboy and was too tight for Wally to phase through as Blue Lantern and Red Lantern tried to use their respective Power Rings to break out, only for their pods to be filled with some type of green gas that kept them awake and yet lower their brain function enough to make them unable to use their rings as Supergirl tried to break out, but the pod must have been giving off red sun energy and Green Kryptonite to prevent her from escaping as the gang looked around and noticed Superman's Clone standing in front of them as he stared at them intriguingly, specifically Gwen as he got a look at the symbol on her chest.

"Something you need?" Supergirl asked as Superboy remained silent and continued staring at her. "Did those creepy Gnomes teach you speech?"

"They taught me much," Superboy says with a hard expression on his face, but the gang can notice that his tone of voice doesn't have anything villainous or sinister in it. "You wear his shield, but you are not Superman, who are you?"

"Nice to know that Cadmus recognizes me," Supergirl said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes. "I'm Supergirl, his cousin, and by effect, yours, I guess," Supergirl says just as she and the others notice that Spider-Man is gagged as Kid Flash raises an eyebrow confusedly.

"Why is the webhead gagged?"

"He just wouldn't stop talking," Superboy stated bluntly as Maria raised an eyebrow in disbelief and amusement.

"Even when he was unconscious?"

"Especially when he is unconscious," Superboy says dryly with half-lid eyes as Peter groans.

"We tried to help you." Red Martian says as an annoyed Kid Flash nods.

"Yeah, we free you, and you turn on us. How's that for gra-,"

"Can you gag him too?" Supergirl asked with an irritated tone as Wally growled at her.

"Kid, please calm down, I believe our new friend was not in full control of his actions," Aqualad says as Superboy narrows his eyes stoically.

"Well, what if I wasn't?"

"Did the Genomorphs teach you telepathically?" Blue Lantern asked curiously as Superboy nodded.

"Yes. I can read, write, talk, fight...any basic life skills essentially. I also know the names of things."

"But have you seen them?" Robin asked while discreetly unlocking some kind of unlocking mechanism from his glove as he began messing around with his cuffs. "Have they ever actually let you see the sky? Or the sun?"

"... Images are implanted in my mind, but no. I have not seen them."

"Oh, that's horrible, especially since we Kryptonians thrive in the sunlight. Real sunlight. Not the ones artificially generated from that solar suit of yours." Supergirl says while giving his Solar Suit a disgusted look as Marcus glances at him.

"Do you know what you are? Who you are?" Red Martian asked concernedly as, instantly, Superboy stood up straight and stiffened with his eyes glazing over slightly as he began talking with a robot-like voice.

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

"To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration," Aqualad says as he then narrows his eyes. "But like Superman, you deserve a life of your own beyond that Solar suit, beyond your pod, beyond Cadmus."

"I live because of Cadmus! It is my home!"

"Home? How could this place be your home when they treat you like a lab rat?" A worried Blue Lantern says as Robin nods in agreement while Spider-Man tries to say some encouraging words but fails due to the gag in his mouth.

"Yeah, your home is a test tube. We can show you the sun."

"Uh, pretty sure it's after midnight, but we can show you the moon." Kid Flash says sheepishly as Marcus rolls his eyes and then gives Superboy a sincere and reassuring look.

"We can even show you-No, introduce you to Superman."

"Yeah, Kal-El would love to meet you. Besides, regardless of your upbringing, you are a Kryptonian. You are from the house of El, you are the son of my uncle Jor El. Your place is not here. Don't you want to meet your brother?" Supergirl asked with a smile as Superboy seemed surprised by this and smiled back before shutting up as the doors behind him opened up, and Mark Desmond, the Guardian, and a few G-Gnomes appeared on the scene.

"No, they can't. They'll be otherwise occupied. Activate the cloning process."

"Pass. Batcave's crowded enough." Robin says as Maria and Marcus did a double take at what Dr. Desmond said.

"Wait, you're going to clone us? Well, it's not going to work on Red Martian and I." Blue Lantern says bluntly as this caught Mark's attention.

"And why not?"

"My Red Lantern Ring and her Blue Lantern Ring only work for us." Red Martian says as Mark shakes his head.

"But they will work with the clones of you two."

"Uh, you do realize that there are a lot of alien civilizations out there who have much more advanced technology than we Humans do, right? Do you seriously think that no one has tried this plan before?" Blue Lantern asked with a deadpanned tone as she rolled her eyes dryly. "It won't work because even a couple of clones of us aren't us."

"Yeah, even with two clones that have our memories, our Red Lantern Ring and Blue Lantern Ring will still not register the clones as us because those clones are a couple of different people on a fundamental level, and that's something that you can't change." Red Martian says as Mark blinked and hummed as he then turned to the other scientists.

"Proceed with the cloning, but don't dispose of them yet just in case what they are saying is true, but clone and kill the others, and get the weapon back in its pod, but as for Supergirl? Don't do anything to her. It's best to leave her stuck in her stasis pod. She is more useful alive than dead." Dr. Desmond ordered as Aqualad turned to give Superboy a pleading look.

"Help us."

"Don't start thinking now," Desmond says with a scowl as he turns to Superboy while not knowing that his G-Gnome had jumped off his shoulder due to getting distracted by something as he was easily switched out with a familiar G-Gnome and said person made his way up to lay on Project Kr's shoulder. "See, you're not a real boy. You're a weapon and you belong to me...well, to Cadmus...same thing." Desmond says as Supergirl grows angry by this and endures the pain of the Red Sun Lamps and the Kryptonite enough to scowl at him.

"He...is...a real boy...Superboy...is...the son of Jor-El and Lara Lor Van!" Supergirl snapped with Superboy looking surprised that she defended him as Desmon stared at her dismissively and then turned back to Project Kr.

"Get back to your pod," Desmond ordered as Superboy frowned but said nothing as he turned around to leave just as the cloning sequence began to take effect as, from within each of the pods, syringe-like contraptions positioned themselves over the chests of each teen, except for Gwen as they all screaming pain and agony as their blood was painfully removed from their bodies.

"Where's Dubbilex?" Desmond asked just as Dubbilex appeared behind him as he flinched in surprise. "Ooh, lurking as usual. Get the G-Gnomes downloading their memories. When that's done and when you're sure the clones are viable, delete the source material, except for the Lanterns." Dr. Desmond ordered as we cue back with Superboy, and we see him making his way back to his pod as the G-Gnome turned to him as his horns glowed red and connected Project Kr's mind with Kaldur as said person felt this and concentrated as he gritted his teeth.

"Superboy, you live and that gives you the right to follow your own path. A weapon or a person, the choice is yours, but ask yourself, 'What would Superman do?'," Aqualad says in his mind as Superboy halts a bit, especially when he heard his Cousin's Voice rang out in his head.

"Please help us...Kon-El..." Supergirl says in his mind as Superboy's eyes widen in surprise and then grow serious as he turns to stare at the G-Gnome, who nods as Project Kr grows serious and turns around to walk back into the lab, startling everyone inside as an angry Dr. Desmond turns to him.

"I told you to get back to your-AAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!" Dr. Desmond says before he and the others grunted in pain and raised his arms to do a double flick that created dual big gusts of wind that collided against them to send them all flying away.

"You here to help us or fry us?" A pained Kid Flash said with gritted teeth as Superboy narrowed his eyes and hummed as he smirked.

"Huh, I don't seem to have heat vision, so I suppose helping is my only option."

"Ooh, you are fun," Supergirl says while feeling a bit confused and dizzy due to the exposure to the Red Sun, especially when Kryptonite Gas began emerging in her pod.

"Ah, finally," Robin says while being able to release himself from his cuffs as he jumps out of the pod after kicking the glass door open. "Lucky Batman isn't here, he'd have my head for taking so long."

"Seriously?! That's what you're worried about? The whole League will have our heads after tonight!" An annoyed Blue Lantern says as Robin ignores her, and goes over to press a button on the console to open up the glass doors on the other pods as he turns to Superboy.

"Free Aqualad, Red Martian, and Spider-Man. I will free Kid Flash, Supergirl, and Blue Lantern.

"Don't you give me orders," Superboy growled while leaping over to Aqualad's pod to rip off his restraints and grab him as he smiled.

"Thanks." A grateful Aqualad says as Superboy nods and goes over to free Red Martian and Spider-Man while Robin frees Kid Flash, Super-Girl, and Blue Lantern as Peter quickly runs over to grab a delirious Supergirl and carries her around in bridal style as she blushes and smiles.

"Yay, my Spider Knight!" Supergirl cheered while laying her head on his chest, causing him to blush as Robin, Kid Flash, and Red Martian nodded approvingly while Blue Lantern cooed as Aqualad looked amused and Superboy glared at him.

"You harm her, I harm you." Superboy threatened, feeling protective of Supergirl as a nervous Spider-Man nodded

"You-You'll never get out of here! I'll have you back in pods before morning!" Dr. Desmond yelled angrily as Robin rolled his eyes.

"This guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all."

"Agreed." Blue Lantern says while casually creating a huge Blue Hope-powered spiked bat and slamming it on top of the tanks and computers, destroying them as a deadpanned Wally turns to Richard.

"What is it with you and this whelmed thing?" Kid Flash asked before he and the others turned around to leave.

"So you decided to help us, huh?" Blue Lantern asked G-Gnome, who leaped off of Superboy's shoulder to land on her left shoulder and his horns glowed red.

"I'm a friend."

"Nice, I think that I will call you Neocortex, Neo for short." Blue Lantern says as the Now-Named Neocortex smiles and nods as Aqualad narrows his eyes seriously.

"We are still forty two levels underground, but if we can make the elevator-," Aqualad says before getting cut off when a trio of the colossal quadrupedal Genomorphs swiftly cut off their path, forcing them to halt and reevaluate as the way they had came in was similarly closed off, and both parties swept in faster than they expected, forcing them to dodge out of the way to avoid being crushed as Superboy decided to go over and punch one of them before getting stomped on by another Genomorph as Blue Lantern helped out by creating a huge Woolly Mammoth-like blue hope-powered construct and rushed over to bash against the Genomorph to send him flying away.

"Superboy, we can't fight, we need to run away or else they will overwhelm us. We need to escape." Blue Lantern scolded as Superboy grew angry.

"You want escape?!" The Kryptonian screamed while picking up one of the downed Genomorphs and hurtling it at the remaining two, effectively reopening their avenue of escape as the gang ran over to the elevator and Red Martian created a pair of rage-powered hand constructs and used them to pry the doors to the elevator wide open as Kid Flash leaped into the elevator shaft and ran up it while Blue Lantern swiftly created a hope-powered blue energy disk for Robin and Aqualad as she flew them upwards and Gwen flew after them with Superboy and Red Martian doing the same thing as Spider-Man followed behind and began climbing upwards as Richard noticed this and grinned down at him cheekily.

"Hey, Spidey, why are you taking so long?" Robin asked with a teasing tone while noticing that Spider-Man was glancing up at them, specifically Supergirl as he blushed heavily but didn't say anything as Superboy's flight pattern suddenly stopped and began falling downwards as Red Martian quickly created a rage-powered red energy disk underneath their new friend.

"I can't fly...Superman can fly...why can't I fly?" Superboy asked with a somber tone as a sympathetic Supergirl turned to him.

"Don't worry, Cus, after this whole mess is over, Kal-El and I will teach you how to fly," Supergirl says reassuringly as Conner smiles and nods as Kid Flash glances down at him from a perch.

"Hey, at least it looks like you can leap tall buildings in a single bound. Still cool."

"...Supergirl, when you were talking to me in my mind, you called me, Kon-El. What does that mean?" Superboy asked, wanting a distraction from his sadness about being able to fly as Gwen smiled widely.

"You are my cousin, a member of the house of El should not have a nameless."

"...Thanks," Superboy says with a warm smile as Robin then whistles loudly to get everyone's attention.

"Guys, this will have to be our exit," Robin says while pointing over to a pair of closed doors as the gang nods, and Superboy leaps over to burst through the doors with ease as the gang either flies, jumps, or runs through it as the group began running through the hallway.

"I know the way, follow my directions," Neo says with his horns glowing red as the gang nods and follows his directions until they reach a dead end as Wally grows angry by this.

"Great directions, Neo. Are you trying to get us re-podded?!"

"No, wait, this is perfect," Robin says with a big grin on his face as he points up at a ventilation shaft, and the gang perks up as they all go over to go inside it, and the group starts traveling through the ventilation system.

"At this rate, we'll never get out," Red Martian muttered as Superboy suddenly froze.

"Shh... listen..." Superboy says while using his Superhuman Hearing to pick up the noise of the Genomorphs following after them through the ventilation system as we then fast forward in time, and we see the gang now standing in a hallway as they were able to dupe the Genomorphs into following after the constructs of a bunny and a dog that Maria and Ma'rkus made earlier with the help of their Blue Lantern Ring and Red Lantern Ring as Robin was in the process of delving back into Cadmus' computer systems, in an attempt to cover their tracks and obscure their current situation.

"I hacked the motion sensors," Robin says with a smug grin as he shares a high-five with the others. "Still plenty of them between us and out."

"But I've finally got room to move." Kid Flash says with a grin while putting on his goggles as they enter a stairwell, which was promptly destroyed by Superboy and Red Martian using their Super Strength as Blue Lantern then created a big blue hope-powered staircase that leads to the top and Wally used this to rush upwards as the gang followed after him and they ran into a room, which was closed by a huge metal wall.

"We're cut off from the street." Aqualad says as Robin looks around and spots a nearby door as he goes over to kick it open.

"This way!" Robin shouted as they ran into the room, only to skid to a stop at the sight of a stoic Guardian, and countless G-Gnomes standing before them as Dubbilex appeared out of nowhere and his horns glowed red.

"Perhaps for the sake of all Genomorphs, our brother Superboy should make up his own mind," Dubbilex says as Superboy's eyes widen in realization.

"It was you."

"Yes, brother. I set the fire and lured your new friends down into Cadmus and woke them when they were in danger. I had even had Neo here help you all out."

"Why?" Superboy says as the others remain quiet.

"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 says as the Genomorphs smile and nod just as the Guardian's telepathic hold is gone as he gains a regretful look on his face.

"Go, I'll deal with Desmond."

"I think not," Dr. Desmond says with a glare while appearing out of nowhere as he holds out a test tube filled with blue liquid. "Project Blockbuster will give me the power to restore order to Cadmus." Dr. Desmond says while drinking it as he then screams in pain, and the gang watches on in shock and horror as he slowly transforms into a huge hulk-like gray monster as he literally ripped out of his human skin to transform.

"You're one ugly motherfucker." Red Martian says, voicing all of their thoughts as Guardian grows serious.

"Everyone back!" Guardian ordered while charging forward to attack Blockbuster, who bitch-slapped him away as Superboy used his distraction to his advantage and leaped over to throw multiple punches all over his body recklessly before said person grabbed onto him and then leaped through the roof, leaving behind a huge hole as they disappeared from sight.

"Okay, that's one way to bust through the ceiling." A surprised Robin says as Blue Lantern quickly creates a hope-powered blue energy disk underneath them and floats the group upwards.

"You think lab coat planned that?" Kid Flash asked as Aqualad shook his head.

"I doubt he is planning anything anymore."

"Yeah, Blockbuster quickly grew batshit insane." Blue Lantern says bluntly just as they arrive at the floor above them as Superboy is suddenly tossed over to them, knocking the gang down to the ground as Blockbuster's roar rang out, causing Maria and the others to stand up from the floor and share a serious glare as they nodded and ran forward as Kid Flash zoomed forward and slide underneath his feet as he appeared behind him and laid down on the ground in a playful, relaxed position before Wally raised his left arm and spun it around rapidly to create a mini yellow/red tornado that pushed Blockbuster forward, allowing Red Martian to fly forward and created a big spiked red boxing glove made out of rage while Aqualad leaped ahead and used his Water Bearers to create a big fist-shaped construct made out of water as they delivered a couple of powerful uppercuts that send Blockbuster stumbling backwards and Wally quickly stood up on all fours to have their huge foe topple over him and crashed down into the ground.

"Learned that one in kindergarten,"

"And I learned this from Big Bro Razer!" Blue Lantern yelled while flying ahead and quickly created a pair of giant mechanical-looking blue hope-powered spiked boots as she fell down to crash on top of a grunting Blockbuster, causing him to spew out blood and a big shockwave rang out as Maria then kicked him up into the air, allowing for Superboy to launch himself over to tackle him into the ground, hard enough that the ground underneath him cracked as he rained down a bunch of punches down on him, but Blockbuster was able to recover enough to stand up from the floor and grabbed him as he proceeds to pin him against one of the thick concrete pillars, splintering the load-bearing structure in half as Superboy struggled to escape from him, but thankfully, Aqualad created a water whip with his Water Bearers that wrapped around Blockbuster's extended arm, allowing Superboy the chance to push off him and raised his arms to slam them down on his head to knock him down into the ground as Red Martian created a big red rage-powered boxing glove and send it flying over to collie against Blockbuster, sending him flying over to collide against a pillar, cracking it as Richard's eyes widened in realization.

"Of course! KF! Blue! Get over here!" Robin ordered as Kid Flash and Blue Lantern zoomed and flew over to him.

"Do you think that you are well enough to fight?" Spider-Man asked Supergirl, who rubbed her head as she nodded.

"Yeah, let's fuck him up!" Supergirl says with her eyes glowing red as she fired dual beams of red energy that collided against Blockbuster's back, causing him to roar in pain as Spider-Man webswung over to fire a bunch of white webbing all over his body, restraining Blockbuster long enough for Superboy, Aqualad, and Red Martian to leap/flew over to attack him relentlessly with their Super Strength.

"Got it?" Robin asked the duo, who nodded as Kid Flash zipped away just as Blockbuster was able to knock away the trio as he jumped up to punch across his face, causing a piece of his skin to get stuck to his hand as Wally landed on the ground.

"Hey, got your nose." Kid Flash says with a grin just as Blue Lantern created hundreds of Kid Flash-like blue hope-powered constructs. "Catch us if you can!" Kid Flash says with a laugh while running around with his copies as, due to his brain longer functioning, Blockbuster thinks all of them are the real Kid Flash and runs over to begin attacking Blue Lantern's constructs.

"Do you got it?" Robin asked the others after informing them of his plan as they ran off and Superboy ran over to destroy a lot of pillars while Aqualad covered the ground with water just as Kid Flash zoomed past them and Maria dissipated her blue energy hope-powered constructs as Supergirl flew over to deliver a mighty punch to Blockbuster, sending him flying over to crash down into the watery ground as Kaldur quickly activated his bio-electricity to electrocute the hell out of him, allowing Spider-Man to fire a bunch of webbing all over his body as Robin then reached into his utility belt and pulled out a unique grenade as he then tossed it over to collide against Blockbuster's chest and exploded to shoot out a bunch of white webbing that helped trapped him on the ground.

"WHAT THE HELL?!" A shocked Spider-Man asked while turning to glare at Robin for an explanation as he shrugged.

"Batman has the formula."

"But webs is my schtick. I swear, SG, if I find out that he made magnetic gloves to climb or a digital spider-sense, I will sue that damn Bat." Spider-Man said with a scowl as Robin rolled his eyes playfully and then nodded at the lanterns to do their jobs as they nodded back, and Blue Lantern and Red Lantern then raised their Power Rings, but Maria noticed that her Blue Lantern Power Ring powered down again as she cursed.

"Damn it, not now!"

"Focus, Blue, focus on your power! Don't let it fail you, have hope!" Red Martian says with Neo patting her cheek to encourage her as Maria perks up and nods as she and Marcus begin concentrating.

"In fearful day, in raging night,"

"With blood and rage of crimson red,"

"With strong hearts full, our souls ignite,"

"We fill men's souls with darkest dread,"

"When all seems lost in the War of Light,"

"And twist your minds to pain and hate,"

"Look to the stars, for hope burns bright!"

"We'll burn you all, that is your fate!" Maria and Marcus chanted in unison with their Blue Lantern Ring and Red Lantern Ring flowing brightly as their auras flared up and the duo fired dual beams of blue hope/red rage-filled energy that flew over to collide against Blockbuster, sending him flying up to crash against the roof of the building, causing the whole place to become destabilized as Maria and Marcus quickly created a combined blue/red hope and rage-filled powered energy dome around them just as the building crashed on top of them as, once everything died down, Blue Lantern and Red Lantern expanded their energy dome to block back all of the debris as everyone looked around.

"We did it..." A stunned Aqualad says as a tired Robin smirks weakly.

"Was there...ever any...doubt?" Robin asked while trying to share a high-five with Kid Flash as they winced in pain.

"See, Supey? The moon," Spider-Man says while pointing upwards as Superboy glances up and spots the moon as his eyes widen in shock and awe at the sight of Superman flying towards them.

"And Superman as well." Supergirl says with a soft smile on her face just as all of the Justice League appear before them with stoic and disapproving looks on their faces as a tense silence rang out...which is broken when a phone begins ringing and blasts, 'Let It Go!', shocking everyone as an embarrassed Peter reaches into his pocket to pull out his phone to answer it.

"Hello, Aunt May,"

"..."

"Oh nothing, it's just that...well..." Spider-Man says awkwardly as he glances over to see his friends and the Justice League eyeing him blankly. "...now is not a good time..." Spider-Man says sheepishly while hanging up the call as Superboy then steps forward and grabs the torn edge of his jumpsuit as he pulls it back into place, revealing the signature 'S' symbol as Superman's blue eyes widened briefly in shock, before changing to a suspicious expression.

"Is that what I think it is?" Batman asked in a neutral tone as Gwen narrowed her eyes angrily.

"This is a person and he has a name...Kon El of Krypton." Supergirl says as a shocked Superman is about to ask her something but is cut off when a serious and proud Superboy raises his head.

"And I'm...Superman's clone."

"Start talking." Green Lantern ordered as we then fast forward in time, and after explaining everything to the Justice League, they then locked up Blockbuster and took him away as an uncertain Superman walked up to Maria and the others as he turned to Superboy.

"We'll, uh...we'll figure something out for you. The League will, I mean." Superman says awkwardly with Superboy looking mad and sad about his treatment of him as Supergirl looks extremely pissed off, and Batman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, and the Flash appeared with stern glares on their faces.

"Cadmus will be investigated, all fifty-two levels, but let's make one thing clear-,"

"You should have called!" Flash interrupted Batman as Martian Manhunter nodded stoically.

"End results aside, we are not happy. You hacked Justice League systems, disobeyed direct orders, and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again."

"Sorry, Uncle, but we will." Red Martian says as Aqualad nods.

"Yeah, we won't stop just because you all said so."

"Aqualad, stand down," Aquaman snapped as Kaldur shook his head.

"Apologies my king, but no."

"Yeah, we did good work here tonight, the work you trained us to do," Spider-Man says as a serious Supergirl nods.

"Together, on our own, we forged something powerful, important."

"If this is about your treatment at the hall, the seven of you-,"

"The eight of us and it's not, Daddy." Blue Lantern says seriously as Robin nods forward.

"We're ready to use what you taught us or why teach us at all?"

"This was inevitable, you have to realize that," Kid Flash says cheekily as an annoyed and huffing Superboy steps forward.

"Why let them tell us what to do? It's simple. Get on board, or get out of the way." Superboy says firmly as the Justice League share a thoughtful look and nod as we then fast forward to a week later, and we see everyone hanging out at their new Superhero Lair, Mount Justice, while hanging out in the main area as Batman and a few heroes stood in front of Maria and the others as they were all wearing their civilian outfits.

"This cave was the original secret sanctuary of the Justice League. We're calling it into service again. Since you eight are determined to stay together and fight the good fight, you'll do it on League terms. Red Tornado volunteered to live here and be your supervisor. Black Canary's in charge of training. I will deploy you on missions."

"Real missions?" Richard asked while wearing a pair of black sunglasses, a long-sleeved red hoodie, a short-sleeved blue shirt underneath, a brown belt with a golden belt buckle, long blue jeans, and a pair of black/white shoes.

"Yes, but covert."

"The League will still handle the obvious stuff," Flash says as Green Lantern nods.

"There's a reason we have these big targets on our chests."

"But Cadmus proves the bad guys are getting smarter," Aquaman continued as he smiled. "Batman needs a team that can operate on the sly."

"The ten of you will be that team,"

"Nice," Peter says while wearing a long-sleeved high-collared lavender opened shirt, a short-sleeved white shirt underneath, a black belt with a silver belt buckle, long white pants, and a pair of black shoes.

"Wait, ten?" A bewildered Gwen asked while wearing a pink bandana, a pair of black sunglasses, a long-sleeved pink hoodie with a white tank top underneath, a brown belt with a golden belt buckle, long blue jeans, and a pair of black/white sneakers.

"Yes, ten. This is the Martian Manhunter's niece, Miss Martian, and Zatara's Daughter, Zatanna." Batman says while pointing ahead as the gang spots Martian Manhunter and Zatara appearing on the scene with their niece and daughter.

Standing before them is a 5'6-feet-tall, 16-years-old (Mentally)/48-years-old (Physically) Female Martian as she was transformed into a more humanoid form, which consists of her having a pair of red eyes, long red hair that reaches down to her back, thin red eyebrows, a small nose, a sharp chin, F-Cup Breasts, Green Skin, a tall muscularly slim build, a heart-shaped thick ass and she was currently wearing her supersuit, which consists of a collared hooded blue cape wrapped around her neck as it reaches down to her legs, a short-sleeved white top with a red X on it, a pair of blue gloves, a blue skirt, and a pair of ankle-length blue boots. Her name is M'gann M'orzz AKA Miss Martian, J'onn J'onzz's Niece/Sidekick, and Red Martian's Cousin.

Standing before them is a 5'6-feet-tall, 16-year-old Homo Magi Girl with dazzling purple eyes, long purple hair that reaches to her waist as it sparkled with purple energy, a small nose, cheekbones, a sharp chin, D-Cup Breasts, Caucasian Skin, an hourglass curvaceous figure, a big bouncy butt, and his outfit consists of a black top hat with a purple stripe, a black blazer with a white shirt underneath, a red tie, black pants, gray stockings, and a pair of black boots reaching midway up her calves. Her name is Zatanna Zatara AKA Zatanna, a Magician, and the Daughter of Zatara.

"Hi~," Zatanna says with a sexy wave as a smirking Marcus walks over to her while wearing a long-sleeved black leather opened jacket with a short-sleeved purple shirt underneath, a brown belt with a yellow belt buckle, long black jeans, and a pair of white shoes.

"Hello, I'm Red Martian," Ma'rkus says while reaching over to grab Zatanna's hand and kiss it, causing her to blush and giggle as Zatara glares at him coldly.

"Welcome aboard, I'm Kid Flash," Wally says while zooming over to flirt with Miss Martian as he wears a long-sleeved high-collared blue jacket, a short-sleeved white shirt underneath, a black belt with a silver belt buckle, long black pants, and white sneakers. "That's Robin, Blue Lantern, Superboy, Aqualad, Supergirl, and Spider-Man. It's cool if you forget their names."

"I like your t-shirt," Miss Martian complimented Superboy while using her shapeshifting to change her shirt to be black as Superboy was wearing a long-sleeved high-collared dark brown opened jacket with a short-sleeved black shirt underneath that had the classic S-shield in red, a black belt with a silver belt buckle, long blue jeans, and a pair of dark-brown combat boots.

"Today is the day," Kaldur says to the others with a smile while wearing a turtleneck black long-sleeved sweater with a white tank top underneath, a black belt with a silver belt buckle, long black jeans, and a pair of black sandals.

"Indeed," Maria says with a giggle while wearing a long-sleeved dark blue hoodie with a black tank top underneath, a brown belt with a golden belt buckle, a black skirt with blue leggings underneath, and a pair of white sneakers.

"Also, are you seriously going to keep him?" A deadpanned Kaldur asked while pointing over at Neo, who now wore a dark blue collar with the name, 'Neocortex' on it.

"Hell yeah, Neo is my sidekick now," Maria said while rubbing Neo's head as he cooed, and Kaldur rolled his eyes amusedly as they then go over to greet the new girls to their team.

And done. I hope you guys enjoyed the new chapter, and I can't wait to write the next chapter. Also, here are the Voice Actors for the OCs:

1) Maria Jordan AKA Blue Lantern's Voice Actor: Selena Gomez.

2) Ma'rkus M'orzz AKA The Red Martian's Voice Actor: Steven Blum.

That's about it. Anyway, as always, I will catch you all later.