Hey! So here's Chapter 6! I decided to make Match more...talkative, and arrogant like how he was in the original young justice comic. Anyway enjoy

Wally's POV

Palo Alto [February, 5 15:30]

Criminal.

Accesory to murder.

Fugitive.

I'd like to say it's easy to sit and listen to people call your best friend in the world all those name's and more.

I've known Dick Grayson for a long time. He's the closet thing to a brother i've ever had. I know he wouldnt have chosen to side with Zatanna unless he was abosulutely sure she didnt do it. But he's on his own now. The people that probably framed her,and the Justice League are after him.

He and Zatanna are truly on their own. I dont even think the team will be willing to help them. Most of them are young kid's just following what their Mentor's tell them.

Even Conner's definition of justice is too black and white ever since his relationship with Superman got on track. He's alone. That's why i've been internally debating with myself ever since i this whole mess started .

Do i help him? I want to , but frankly Wally West cant do much to help two fugitives.

The only person who can hlep them is Kid Flash. But that part of my life is over now. I dont want to look back, and do it alll over again.

I'm too afraid.

Afraid the rush, the action, the thrill will pull me back into the game. I dont want that for myself.

"Wally?" Artemis called from the kitchen.

Artemis Crock. My girlfriend, and former the archer and protege of the Green Arrow.

We decided together to retire. To live together, and go to college together.

Were happy, and we have a piece of mind.

Which makes her opinion on how we should Help Dick, and Zatanna...complicated.

She want's to put the mask's back on. "Wally? She called again. Come down here."

I swear to god, I love Artemis, but sometimes she sound's like an angry mother. i Sped dow n the hallway and into the kitchen.

"Yeah?" I asked her. She didnt answer,but she threw my kid flash uniform at me as an answer.

"Were going." She said holding her costume, and her quiver.

"I called our parent's, and told them our situation, and i told our proffessor at school that were not going to be for about-

"Artemis." I interuppted. "I know he needs us, but that part of our live's is over, and he's entirely cabable of handling the situation."

She gave the look that said "Stop Bulllshitting me."

I really hate it when she does that. "Are you trying to convince me he's okay, or yourself?"

I opened my mouth to speak, but truthfully didnt really have any idead how to answer that one. She got close to me and kissed me.

"Wally..." She whispered. "He need's us. He need's you." I looked at her, and she looked like she was almost pleading with me. Dick, your are so lucky my girlfriend is more compassionate than i am.

"Alright. " I caved. "We'll find him, and Help him." I just hope were not that out of practice. Can we really keep pace, now that were out of semi-retirement?

Well, We'll never know until we try.

Dick's POV

Bialya [Febraury, 5 18:45}

I looked at Superboy. Something was wrong with him.

Something Menacing.

His eyes were angry and cold.

And how was he flying?

Conner has never had full-kryptonian powers.

It's a side effect of being a half-human.

This simply means is that some of the powers he should have gotten from superman he didnt.

An example being flying and heat vision. But here he was flying, and sporting a new get up.

I knew there was something up, but Zatanna didnt seem convinced.

"Conner! Thank god! We need your help. She said running towards him. I know what the league probably told you, but were not murderers i promise you."

Superboy looked down and at Zatannna, and his lips formed into a cruel smile.

I saw his eyes flash red.

"Get down!" I yelled tackling Zatanna to the ground.

The moment we hit the ground i heard the sound of a blasting lasers.

heat vision.

I threw a wing-ding But he caught it and and crushed it in his hand.

"Please! He finally spoke throwing the crushed wing- ding back at me. Dont insult me by fighting with toy's!"

He both looks and sounds like Conner, but their are a ton of differences.

This guy's ego is over inflated, and he carries anger, but is much more arrogant about it.

And the clincher: His kryptonian poweres are 100% rather than only 65%. It wasnt a stretch to think Conner could be mind controlled or possessed. Lex Luthor could be mind controlling him, and giving him Shield patches, which are basically kryptonian steroids. I looked directly at him and realized a horrible detail i should have realized before.

The "S" Symbol on his chest was flipped backwards.

Like Superman's other clone, bizarro.

I dont know who this is, but he's not conner, and im not gonna chance he's on Ra's side.

I threw two wing-dings at him this time, and once again he caught them.

"The same stupid trick? He mocked. I can't wait to shove these up you, and your girlfirend's-

Before he could finish his sentence the wing-dings exploded in his face. Did i mention they were explosive Wing-ding's? I whipped out the remote for the "Bat" and said "Fly to coordinates."

It would take the plane about two minutes to reach us.

Which means i have to figure out away to avoid me and Zatanna getting our necks broken by this copycat Superboy for two minutes. Sounds easy when i say it, but i know better.

As soon as he recovered from the explosion, The clone stared at me like he was going to melt my face off with his heat vision. "Congratualations... He grimaced.

You've succeeded in making me very angry." He flew toward's me, but Zatanna tried to stop him.

"Dinb mih ni tekcajthgiarts!" Immediately the clone was wrapped up in a straight jacket, but it didnt even faze him. Quicker than the jacket was wrapped around him, he snapped out of it with his godlike strength. He turned away from me and stared at Zatanna mencaingly.

"You, Babe. He said licking his lips at Zatanna. "I'm gonna kill you just for some fun."

He turned his attention from me to her, but this time it was my turn to intervene.

I pulled out a grapple, and grappled it to wrap it around his feet. He looked back at me with an evil grin.

"What are you gonna do pretty boy? Give me rope burn?" It was my turn to grin. "Not exactly."

I clicked a button,and a 750,000 volt charge zapped the wannabe boy of steel.

I upgradeed my voltage higher since our encounter with Bane, but this was as high as it could go, and he didnt seems to be extremeley affected by it.

He was shocked (Literally) at first, but he cut the cord with his heat vision, and clapped his hands together,making a shock wave. The force was so powerful i flew back about 7 ft. When Zatanna tried to help me he did the same to her.

I wanted to get up but i was dazed.

He was powerful. He's as strong as superman, and definitely stronger than conner.

I'm not sure we could hold out much longer like this. He walked toward's me cracking his knuckles smugly. He grabbed me by the neck and paused to bask in glory.

"I'm going to enjoy this pretty boy. He said. But don't worry. It'll be quick."

He raised his fist, and was about to crush my face like a soda can, but he stopped.

He went really silent like he was hearing somthing. The next thing I knew,Ace jumped on the clone's back, and clamped his fangs down on his shoulder. I reasoned that because Ace was here the "Bat" showed up, as well.

I glanced over and it was clone let go of me, and Ace jumped off him ripping part of his suit. He growled at him, and got ready to pounce on him again, but this time the clone was ready. All it took was a simple flick of his hand and Ace went flying and hit the ground. He whined in pain trying to stand, but the clone wasnt finished yet.

he floated towards Ace, and charged up his heat vision. "End of the line Snoopy." He said Mocking Ace.

I decided then and there i had had enough of this guy.

I ran to him, and punched him in the jaw, nearly breaking my hand doing so.

"Dont touch my dog!" I yelled in rage.

I took advantage of the situation, and threw a sonic Wing-ding at the clone.

The Sonic Wing-Ding fires a blast of sonics's that could rival Black Canary's Canary Cry.

It's the only one i have in production.

had been meaning to test it soon, but i guess now is as good a time as any.

The sonic's didnt finish him but he became disoriented.

I ran to Zatanna, picked her up, and put in the backseat of the "Bat". I whistled for Ace, who had recovered, and once he was on i got the hell out of their. I didnt know how far he was behind us , and i didnt care. I gunned the engine and made the Bat go at top speed. Zatanna began to stir.

"Dick?" She asked. "Dont worry." I reassured her. "Were getting out here."

Ace came up to me, and whined hopping on one paw. I pat his head.

"You did good boy." I petted him.

He barked happily and went in the back and sat with Zatanna,who pat him affectionaly.

We were silent for a minute until Zatanna looked at the moniter that's in the back seat.

"Dick...what's the top speed on this thing?" I looked back at her.

"Mach 3. I answered. Why?"

"Well... She paused staring at her moniter.

"Is that faster than a speeding bullet?" I turned on one of my moniter's to see what her's was seeing. Sure enough the Superboy clone was on the moniter gaining on us.

"Damn. I cursed. We have to lose this clone, before he catches up to us."

Zatanna seemed confused. "I thought that was Conner." I turned back to look at her again.

"I thought so too, but now i dont thinks so. No matter how mind controlled he is Conner would never be that...Arrogant."

I turned on the "Bat's" weapon's, annd prepared to launch missiles at the clone.

"I guess that means we dont have to be guilty about blowing him sky high."

I locked the planes back missiles, and hit him with two. It didnt really seem to faze him that much because after about two minutes he was back chasing us. It only took him a few minutes to catch up to us , and grab the side of the plane.

He shook us like a dead animal. I launched the last six missiles i had right at his face. He fell from the sky but he took part of the plane' shell, and engine with him.

"Warning. engine failure." The plane spoke to me blinking red flashing lights on my moniter.

"What does that mean?" Zatanna asked.

"It means that unless we come up with something soon, then were going to be on the ground with that psycho clone." I panicked.

I steered the "Bat" trying to figure out how we were going to stay in the air.

I had installed a backup generator, but it has major flaws. I'd lose the radar,the moniter, and pretty much all my other instruments.

The generator only gives me enough power to sustain flight.

The weapon's would be gone too. At this point i didnt see much choice in the matter.

I turned on the generator, and the plane experienced a black out.

"Now running on emergency back-up power." the plane announced.

I flew the plane as fast as it could go,and got out of there.

After a minute or two my digital map came back on. Well at least we knew where we were going.

"Z, can you sense that clone's presence?" I asked. "Like when you found me back in metropolis." She looked at me like i was a genius. "That's a good idea. Hold on." She put her hands to her forehead.

"He's alive, but he's on the ground about 13 miles back knocked out." I was impressed that she was so detailed in her sensing technique.

Focus Dick.

There will be time to compliment your love interest later.

"So..where too now?" Zatanna asked. I wasnt totally sure how to answer her.

I had an idea but it was a slim one.

That Superboy clone had to be a direct clone of Superman, or a modified Clone of Superboy. Based on what i've seen so far i knew both Ra's, and Luthor were a part of this.

Both seemed intent on kidnapping Zatanna. Ra's distracted me with the fight, so Talia could come in and grab her, and Luthor used Langstrom, and his Man-bat formula.

Their were still too many things in the dark. One thing Batman always told me is that you cant do an equation without having all the variables in it.

I dont know how Ra's fall's into all this, but i do know what Luthor, and that clone have in common. Project Cadmus. According to his financial records Luthor has been funding Cadmus since it was created.

Luthor was directly responsible for making a failed Superman clone known as Bizarro, so it wasnt a stretch to think he would try again. My only question was why was he in Ra's employment.

Luthor and Ra's are coporate enemies, so it's not like he would just give him the clone to loan.

My other concern was Dr. Fate. If Luthor created a Dr. Fate clone to infiltrate the justice league then that would explain who we saw on T.V. Unfotunately, It's Cadmus Policy to delete the source material.

This simply means that the Dr. Fate we saw in the alley was most likely the original and not a clone. I decided to keep an open mind, for Zatanna'a sake.

I knew for sure Cadmus was our next stop. It was pretty much our only lead.

"Dick? Zatanna asked ending my thought. Are you listening?"

I cleared my head, and dropped back down to earth.

"Sorry Z. Were going to Washington."

It took us about 7 hour's but we made it To washington on the generator.

It's flight cabability suprised even me.

When we landed a few blocks away from Cadmus in a back road, i punched something in my Holo-computer. "What are you doing?" Zatanna asked. I grinned. "I'll tell you later, right now we need to get in that building."

We were about run when an air vehicle flew over us. When i looked up i saw the Super cycle and it's passenger's. Superboy, Beast Boy, Wonder Girl and Blue Beetle all staring at me like I betrayed them. "I'm sorry. Superboy Said in angry tone. But your not going anywhere."

I clenched my fist in frustration.
I had hoped with every fiber in my being that it didnt have to come to this. Conner's my friend, and i had enough enemie's that i didnt need my friend's to be my enemies too.

"Conner... I hesitated. i didnt know how to start this. Conner's not exactly the type to listen to reason. "Conner hear me out-"

"Shut up!" He yelled at me.

"I thought we were friend's, but you turned out exactly like Kaldhur! Both of you!"

I tried not to let that statement bother me.

So far Kaldhur, and i have both had to take up a criminal's agenda in our friend's eyes.

And that...that scares me. Zatanna took a soft approach, and tried to reason with him too.

"Conner please listen to me. I'm not a murderer, and i certainly wouldnt murder my own father. Nightwing's only trying to help me prove that. "

"Stay out of this Zatanna! He said snapping at her. "People lie! Always! Especially murderer's like you!"

I looked her, and she looked hurt. Maybe because they lived togather all those years ago. Maybe because all of us,even Kaldhur considere each orignal team member our lifelong friend.

For whatever reason she looked like she was going to cry.

I know Conner see's the world as black and white like superman does, and i know he's been scarred for life by the number of people who have lied to him, but i was stil angry with him. And after fighting that clone i was eager to start a fight.

"How dare you? I asked in an equally angry tone as his. How dare you accuse someone you've known longer than Supeman of murder? She's your friend Conner. And you side with the league just cause your looking for Supeman's approval!"

I knew i hit a serious nerve with that last part. Conner's face turned Bright red

"Take them." He instucted the others through gritted teeth.

Gar turned into a gorrilla and pounded on his chest, Blue Beetle brought out his sonic cannon, and Wondergirl cracked her knuckles.

I whipped my escrima sticks out, and got into a fighting stance.

Damn.

I didnt want to hurt any of them,honestly but i didnt even think i could win against all of them.

In a split second everything changed. Two green smokescreen arrow's were shot right at the supercycle. Immediately afterward's something ran circles around the supercycle so many times, that it created a mini, non lethal twister with the smokescreen.

"Time to go!" A familiar voice rang tapping my shoulder.

I recognized the voice almost instantly.

"Wally?" I asked.

He stopped moving for a milisecond to grin at me then returned to his smokescreen twister. I looked at the green archer on top of the building next to us. Artemis? You might think i panicked because almost all my friends were against me, but to have Wally and Artemis at my side again was amazing. It helped me regain something i had lost since this whole mess started. Hope.

Next Time: Dick,Zatanna,Wally and Artemis uncover the truth about what happened to Docter Fate. And What will Dick do when Batman get's in his way of helping Zatanna? Will he side with is Mentor, or will years of partnership, and friendship be broken?