"Time runs short. You must awaken. You must awaken now!"

The three heroes simultaneously woke with a gasp. After her years in training and dealing with the villain in Gotham, Robin quickly accessed her situation. All three of them were being held in pods that were very similar to the pod where the clone was kept in. Their arms suspended on top of their heads and feets dangling, the cuffs on their wrists keeping them suspended from touching the bottom of the pod. So in short, definitely something not good for her broken ribs.

Standing in front of their tubes, was the clone. None of them dared to talk and just seemed to start a staring contest. After a few minutes of just staring at each other, Kid Flash had enough.

"What? What do you want?" he grumbled but when he seemed to get no reply, he just got more aggravated. "Quit staring, You're creeping me out."

"Uh, KF. How about we not tick the guy who can fry us with a look?" the Girl Wonder joked aloud though she wasn't sure if the clone in front of them won't do what she said. She winced slightly at the pain from her ribs but quickly hid it but wasn't fast enough since Kid Flash saw the momentary flash of pain.

"We only sought to help you," Aqualad told the clone.

"Yeah," the speedster said, his voice laced with anger. He already broke one of his promises now he wasn't able to keep the other. "We help you and you turn against us! How's that for grat-"

"Kid, please. Be quiet now," the Atlantean cut him off before he can make things worse. "I believe our new friend is not in full control of his actions."

Great, Robin thought. Would it be wise to bring him to the League if he could still be under the control of Cadmus? How would we even know if he is under their control completely or just did it on a whim? How would we know when to trust him?

"What– What if– What if I wasn't?" the clone stuttered, finally speaking up for the first time.

For someone who's never used his vocal chord before, he did damn well in his first time speaking, guess those genomorphs did force feed him some things. But at the same time, he did get the hang of some of his powers a while ago despite being in his pod the whole time since his creation. But that wasn't the time to think about it, quickly bringing out her pick lock and started to pick her way through her handcuffs. Hopefully, this place was high-tech enough to make the cuffs linked to each other.

"He can talk?" Kid Flash asked aloud. Robin rolled her eyes under her mask and would have laughed aloud at her best friend.

"Yes, he can," the clone said stiffly, glaring a bit at the redhead. Both she and Aqualad turned to stare at the other hero in exaggeration.

"Not like I said 'it'," he defended himself.

"The genomorphs taught you telepathically," Aqualad remembered what Robin had said earlier.

"They taught me much," the clone agreed. "I can read, write, know the name of things."

"But have you seen them? Have they ever actually let you see the sky or the sun?" Robin asked.

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

"Do you know what you are— who you are?" Aqualad asked the clone.

"I am the Superboy, a genomorph, a clone made from The DNA of the Superman, created to replace him should He perish, to destroy him should he turn from the light," the clone answered like it was implanted in his brain.

The heroes exchanged looks with each other. Aqualad decided to speak up on their behalf knowing what they were also thinking.

"To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration, 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!" the clone defended.

"Your home is a test tube," Robin pointed out. "We can show you the sun."

"Uh, pretty sure it's after midnight, but we can show you the moon," Kid Flash corrected.

"We can show you, introduce you to Superman," Aqualad said, looking at Superboy straight in the eyes. But before the clone could give his answer, Dr. Desmond came in followed by Guardian and the female scientist Kid Flash knocked down earlier.

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

"Pass! Batcave's crowded enough," Robin joked.

He ignored her and went beside the other scientist to look over her work only to notice that Superboy wasn't in his pod. "And get the weapon back in its pod!"

"Hey. How come he gets to call Supey an 'it'?" Kid Flash said aloud.

Before Guardian could lead Superboy away, Aqualad stared at the clone's eyes once more. "Help us."

Superboy seemed to pause at his words but was momentarily cut off again by Dr. Desmond and the small genormorph jumping onto his shoulder. "Don't start thinking now. See, you're not a real boy. You're a weapon, and you belong to me! Well, to Cadmus. Same thing. Now get back to your pod!"

As Superboy walked out, under the control of the genomorph on his shoulder, two long mechanical arms that had four needles connected to the end of them rose from the base of the pod and implanted themselves on the heroes' chests, electrocuting them while drawing out their blood. The heroes screamed in pain but thanks to his Atlantean skin, Aqualad wasn't experiencing as much pain.

"Where's Dubbilex?" he heard Dr. Desmond ask. "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."

Hoping that Superboy has superhearing, the Atlantean started to whisper under his breath. "Superboy, you live. 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?'"

He thought for the worst since nothing happened but all of the sudden Superboy came broke through the door, making the machines malfunction, the arms that were electrocuting the heroes shutting down.

"I told you to get back to your--"

Superboy quickly cut off the head scientist by throwing him and the other scientist and Guardian to the side. "Don't give me orders."

The three heroes were catching their breath as Superboy turned to them.

"You here to help us or fry us?" Kid Flash asked, finally catching his breath.

"Huh. I don't seem to have heat vision, so I suppose Helping is my only option," Superboy joked around.

Robin, who finally got her bearing with her, finally got through the lock to her cuffs, both of them opening and making her fall on the ground, her pod automatically opening.

"Ahh. Finally! Lucky Batman isn't here. He'd have my head for taking so long," she panted.

"Seriously, that's what you're worried about? The whole League will have our heads after tonight," Kid Flash asked incredulously.

"Free Aqualad. I'll get kid mouth," she told the clone as she ran to pick the lock off the speedster.

"Don't you give me orders either," Superboy said but did as he was told.

When he ripped off the cuffs holding down the Atlantean, Superboy had to help Aqualad stand.

"Thank you," the Atlantean said to the clone.

The group of heroes then turned to run out the door as Dr. Desmond was waking up.

"You– you'll never get out of here! I'll have you back in pods before morning!" the scientist yelled from the floor.

Robin then remembered that their blood was drawn from them and swiftly pulled out three explosive birdarangs and threw them to each of the glass orbs containing their blood. "That guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all."

"What is it with you and this whelmed thing?" her best friend asked as he waited for her. She just ignored him and ran out of the room, following Superboy and Aqualad. The speedster fondly shook his head and sped out of the room. 

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AN:

Wow! Another update in one month?! Yes! Not 100% sure if I'll have two updates per month but I definitely plan one update a month! And I just wanna say that if any of you like BTS, I started a new fanfic about them and its an AU! If you guys are interested you can find it on my Wattpad or my Ao3 account! Bye!