Third Person's POV

Red Tornado and Aqualad are in the Training Center of the Cave.

"So, you have told no one else of this Mole?" Red Tornado asks Aqualad.

"I cannot be sure one exists. And if it does, if the Team is being betrayed from within, I must investigate without... tipping my hand." Kaldur, as contemplative as always, still looks to Red Tornado. "But perhaps I should tell Batman?"

"Generally, the Batman expects the Team to handle its own problems, but the decision is yours." Red remains a mediator, nothing more. "I will return after Monitor Duty on the Watchtower."

"I thought you were exempt from monitor duty since becoming our... den mother." Kaldur says, confused, as Red Tornado types in his Zeta Code and powers up the first tube.

Recognize: Red Tornado; 1-6

Red Tornado turns back to Aqualad. "I agreed to cover for Green Arrow. He has an interpersonal event with Black Canary. A "hot date"." he explains as he vanishes from sight.

Kaldur ignores Green Arrow's bad habit and contemplates his dilemma further. But suddenly sighs "How much you heard?"

"Since Tornado mentioned about the mole, so I guess the whole thing" Trivia walks out the kitchen with a phone in hand and a homemade Strawberry milkshake in the other. Trivia then types on the phone using only his thumb "Hey I understand where you're coming from, but they're part of the team... they deserve to know, beside if the mole knows that we know it would alert it" The voice from Neo's phone said making Aqualad nod at him.

"That leave me where I'm standing now...undecisive" the Atlantean said

"Does anyone other than me and Tornado knows?" Trivia ask while drinking his milkshake.

"Red Arrow" Kaldur responds "I still can't be sure about the Mole thing could be true" Neo nods at Kaldur's explanation before he then pats Trivia's head "I'll be checking on the others, I'll... talk to you later" he said before walking away and hiding his blush.

As trivia watches Kaldur walking away there's one thing that has been bothering Trivia for the past weeks since he joined the team 'All of them are incredibly unique in their own unique way, M'gann, innocent and welcoming, Artemis cool and bit of prideful, Kaldur, calm and collective, Dick, smart and athletic, Roy although not a official member of the Team, but he can be serious and surprisingly kind, and Wally, sweet and a bit of air head, but I care for them overall; but I did enjoy my time with the boys'

-flashback-

Robin and Neo took out the Penguin and his goons together.

"You really keep up with me neo" Robin compliments the ice cream boy.

Neo winks and raises a hand to Robin to high five him with a closed eye smiled Robin quickly give the dual-colored hair boy a peck on the cheek before hiding his blush and leaves.

-flashback x2-

Wally and Trivia are in the theater watching the Magic show much to Wally's cringe he notices that the shorter boy is enjoying himself as giggling silently. Wally smiles at Neo before leaning to give him a peck on the cheek.

"I'm glad you're enjoying yourself, Trivia" he said with a goofy smile.

Trivia blushes and smiles back.

-flashback x3-

Trivia and Conner are in middle of training and the clone manages to push the shorter boy off him. Conner then due to the hot temperature he takes off his shirt and throws it away, catching Neo by surprised and keeps his stance but he can't take his eyes off Conner's exposed upper body as the sweats rolls down from his face to his neck to his pectorals to his abdomen Neo seems too distracted, only to be pinned down by Conner.

"Never let your opponent distract you, that's what you taught me" Conner smirks down at Neo. He then notices how close both he and Neo are and he then blushes and gets off him and helps the shorter boy before the two notices M'gann looking at the two with shocked "I-Is not what you think!" Conner states out of panic.

M'gann "who's the top, and who's the bottom?" Both Conner and Trivia tilt their heads "Artemis told me what it was, so?" she asks.

Conner then notices that Trivia was nowhere in sight probably run away from the embarrassment he's experiencing

-Flashback x4-

Red Arrow's pursuing a biker with a Machine gun in hand he fires the gun at Arro which he rolls down preventing the bullet from hurting him.

The biker looks forwards and sees Black Canary and gasps before Canary jumps and knock him out of his Motocycle by head-scissoring him the biker glances at Black Canary as you can see her reflection through the vizor as once she blinks her eyes changes from blue to pink and brown before smirking down at the biker knocking him out cold with a kick.

Red Arrow lands as he already knew it was Neo not Black Canary "I had that" he said to Neo who shifts back into his real self.

"Green did warned me about how stubborn you can be sometimes; I happened to be in the neighborhood and have some crime fighting time to entertain myself" a robotic feminine speak through Neo's phone

Roy groans "You really are Harley Quinn's Protégé"

"And the best she has!" Neo stands proudly making the older teen look at Neo with low chuckle.

Roy looks at Neo and moves a piece of hair of the ice cream boy's face to have a better look at him "You're lucky that you are so cute" he said before giving Neo a peck on the cheek "thanks for the help. You'll take care of the rest, right?" he asks the frozen Neopolitan.

Trivia snaps out of his dumbfounded state and nods making Red Arrow chuckle and leaves the shorter boy.

-end of flashback-

'Just what am I supposed to feel about them? Or how will this affect the team in general? ...what are we?' he questions.

That's when he sees a fire ball heading his way and gasps and dodge and sees two red robots similar to Red Tornado design wise.

Neo tries to pull out Hush but realizes that he doesn't have it with him making him cursed internally before jumping and rolling away from another fire attack and runs off.

-time skip-

Neo heads to his room and pulls out Hush after noticing that he lost the Robots who were pursuing him

"Attention, Robin. Attention, Artemis. Attention, Neopolitan" Red Torpedo one of the two robots announces over the Cave's system. "You have exactly 10 minutes to surrender, or the lives of your teammates will be extinguished."

Neo gasps 'Oh no so that means they got the others' Trivia states with worry.

-meanwhile-

Fire sizzles in a cage that surrounds an unconscious M'gann and a worse-for-wear Kaldur.

Sphere beeps as it can't move from the crater it is stuck inside the wall underneath Kaldur and M'gann.

The fire android rides a wave to stop just before the cage. Her eyes glow red and the cage burns hotter.

Meanwhile Wally and Conner fight against some grey goop that keeps them stuck on the ground level of the Cave.

The Water android rises up from the cave's naturally occurring water pond. Raising a hand to flood the dryland. Overtaking the stairs and quickly rising up by Conner and Wally.

"9 minutes and 45 seconds." he informs.

Both boys look worriedly at the still rising water level around them.

-with Robin and Artemis-

Robin and Artemis run down the hallway. "Eight minutes" Red Torpedo informs again.

"We can access the hangar from here." he tells her but turns further over his shoulder when a distant sound catches his attention. When he stops and Artemis has at least enough common sense to know to listen to the Bat-Instincts. Gasping as water rushes through the room they were just in, and down into the hallway. "Or not."

Artemis' voice cracks as she turns to start running again. "Will you please stop saying that?" she almost demanded

As the water surges, they both get swept off their feet by the force. Artemis losing her arrows out of her Quiver as the water makes both of them tumble.

Robin grabs a rebreather out of his utility belt. Breathing easily as he swims to Artemis. Helping her find her orientation before giving her the rebreather. Looking over his shoulder to try and keep them from being snuck up on.

Red Torpedo grabs Artemis by the ankle. She gasps, losing the rebreather, as he tries to drag her away from Robin. The Boy Wonder is quick to swim after her, as she hits Red Torpedo.

Robin swims just over Artemis' left shoulder to hit Red Torpedo in the eye with an arrow.

He grabs onto Artemis as he fires his grapple to the far wall. Leaving a line of disks that start beeping before Red Torpedo gets thrown back as they go off one after the other.

Robin and Artemis break the surface of the water gasping for air.

"Look out!" Kid yells from a distance.

Both Artemis and Robin look up, taking a deep breath, before diving under the surface to dodge another fireball.

They surface, only to have to dive under again to avoid her second shot.

Kid and Conner look around as she continues to search for the two other Team Members. Until Robin and Artemis surface less than two feet from Kid.

"You guys okay?" Robin asks lowly.

"Forget us." Conner snaps. "Help M'gann." he points out worried for his female best friend bringing their attention to the fire cage on the outlook.

"Aqualad, is she-" Artemis can't bring herself to finish it.

"She is unconscious." Kaldur shouts to them. "I fear she... we cannot survive much longer." his own voice breaking shows just how much trouble he is in as well.

Robin and Artemis are forced to duck below the surface again as more fire is thrown at them. The two make a break for it while under the water. Coming up by the stairs by Sphere.

Red Torpedo stands out of the water, blocking them from the water. While Red Inferno lands at the top of the stairs to block their way up.

Artemis is quick to pull an arrow from her quiver but turns to Robin. "I'm almost out of arrows." her voice mostly calm with only a slight edge to it.

"Distract her, now." Robin snaps as he heads down the stairs.

Artemis fires her special tipped arrow at Red Inferno, the tip explodes, covering her and making it hard to tell if anything actually happened. Until she walks out of the smoke and the fire forms a hair like wave behind her.

Robin heads down the stairs, throwing disks at Red Torpedo. They bounce off the robot. One ricocheting and coming close to Kid's head.

"Whoa." the teen speedster mumbles lowly.

As Red Torpedo raises his hands to form columns of water, Robin and Artemis back away from their respective enemies. Waiting for the moment the two are about to strike before diving into the water.

The water and fire meet and screech into steam.

Robin and Artemis dive deep into the water. Where Robin rips off a cover to the vent system. Letting Artemis in first as she makes her way to the first set of vertical pipes and follows them up.

Both break the surface high in the mountain, gasping for air. As they pull themselves out of the water and into the dry vent.

"Six minutes." Red Torpedo calls out.

"What do we do now?" Artemis asks worriedly.

"We save them." Robin says lowly, but even with his mask on the anger and edge are clear he's not as calm as his voice implies. "That's how it works."

"Maybe that's how it's supposed to work, but those robots already took out our four SuperPowered friends." Artemis snaps, her emotions coming out fully.

"You seem distraught." the Boy Wonder comments.

"Distraught?!" she almost screeches. "M'gann is dying. We have no powers and I'm down to my last arrow. Of course I'm distraught! AND WHERE THE FUCK IS NEO WHEN WE NEED HIM!?" she yells at the younger teen.

"Well get traught or get dead!" Robin loses his cool as he snaps right back at her, the use of a not-really-English-word would be funny if it wasn't obvious that he wasn't making a joke.

"How can you be so calm?" Artemis asks as she has no choice but to follow him as he leads the way down the vent.

"Practice." Robin manages a light smile, even if it is to himself. "I've been doing this since I was nine."

"What good is that now?" Artemis asks. "What chance do we have against unrelenting machines?"

Robin slowly. "Oh. Duh!" he sounds lighter when he continues speaking. "They're machines, and one electromagnetic pulse will shut down any machine within range."

Artemis gives a bright smile and a very sarcastic "Great!" before her face shows how annoyed she still is. "Except you better have an EMP emitter in your utility belt, because I know I don't have one in my quiver."

"I'm fresh out." Robin smiles despite his words. "But I'm betting we can make one." he brings a hand to his ear. "Whaddya say, KF, doable?" the younger boy's voice asks through the disk by Kid Flash's head.

The redhead smiles. "Totally doable."

"Five minutes."

He looks worriedly at the water level as he continues speaking "Ya know, if you had more time."

Robin pushes a panel open close to the floor, as he and Artemis step out. "Med Lab, X-ray machine." Kid instructs.

Robin makes his way through the lab, staying slightly hunched in case.

"You'll find a small vacuum tube called a vircator" Robin opens a panel on the X-ray machine. Finding what Kid's talking about. "That converts high energy pulses." Robin plugs in his HoloGlove. "Reprogram the unit's microwave conversion from X-rays to EMPs" Robin does as he said, then shuts off the Holo before reaching to take it out. "With a cascading energy vector directed outward." he turns it slowly before it pops out.

"A ripple effect," Robin realizes. "like dropping a stone in a pond."

He opens the Holo again. "A stone with 10 to the twelfth power wattage," Kid recites with a joking tone. "Yeah."

"So, I'll need to hook it up to the Cave's main generator."

Artemis arches an eyebrow as Robin shuts down the Holo. "Which is where?"

He says nothing as continues to look down.

Red Torpedo walks across the outlook, coming to stand beside Red Inferno.

"Four minutes."

In a higher hallway, Robin and Artemis open a panel that the Boy Wonder lands silently out of. From here they can overlook the scene without being seen.

"Okay. Make with the distraction." he tells Kid through the comm.

"Hey, Red Tomato! Who's your girlfriend, Red Onion?" Kid yells, Conner looks confused but catches on easily.

"Yeah, and by the way, worst death trap ever." he shouts. This gains the robots' attention. "We can escape any time we want."

"I can vibrate my molecules out of here before your binary brains can count to two!" Kid taunts.

"Cover me." Robin tells Artemis as he hooks a grapple line to the wall, and swings over the generator. Artemis having nocked her last arrow.

"And you can't drown a Kryptonian, dumb bots. We don't breathe air." Conner bluffs.

Kid laughs obnoxiously as Robin disconnects his cable.

"And Ms. Martian?" Kid continues as Robin pulls open the panel and sets the tech inside. "I can't believe you're buying her act." Robin connects his HoloGlove.

"Rerouting power now." he tells them lowly.

"Yeah." Conner is quick to pick up. "You know how hot it gets in the cave of Mars?"

Robin looks over his shoulder, before glaring at the screen. "It's not working."

"That cage is just making her homesick." Conner gripes.

"Duh!" Kid laughs again.

Robin sees the problem: a small gap between the two components. "The circuit's incomplete." he puts the connecting cord back into his glove. "I need something conductible. A piece of metal or-"

"Robin, look out!" Artemis screams, just before a massive wave overtakes him and the platform he's on.

Artemis takes aim, only to be knocked off course by a narrowly missed fireball from Red Inferno.

The arrow flies right past Red Torpedo and Red Inferno tries to hit Artemis again, but the archer is quick to duck away. Going for another arrow, only to come away empty.

She turns and heads back into the vent. Barely avoiding Red Inferno's fire that licks at her boots. She gets to a part of the vent that has been torn open from the events. By looking through another torn vent in front of the one she is in gives her the ability to see them while they can't see her. Watching as Red Torpedo brings Robin to the outlook, still suspended in water.

He's not fighting, and he looks like he's not breathing.

She gasps and stumbles back. All the sights of her friends in danger flash before her eyes. Kid and Conner watching as the water gets closer and closer to overtaking them. Kaldur and M'gann trapped in the fire cage. Worst of all, Robin, still suspended in water.

"No. No, no, no." is the only thing she can mumble as she curls into a fetal position. "No, no, no." she almost sobs.

The water drops Robin onto the outlook, but he doesn't even cough when he's freed from the water.

The two robots look at him, while now Kaldur and M'gann are both unconscious.

Wally and Conner have to keep their chins up to avoid the water as Sphere beeps.

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That's when they hear a shattering sound as Neopolitan walks out of the smoke coming out looking down at the two robots before him.

Wally and Conner smiled at the teammate "Neo!" they called.

Neopolitan analyzes his surrounding and nod and dives towards the Reds before Inferno fires a fireball at Neo which shatters in pieces before the real Neo strikes a few times with hush before noticing Torpedo launching a wave at him.

Conner and Wally look worried "Neo!" they called Neo smirk before riding the waves with his Umbrella.

Little did the Androids, and the team knows is the Real, Real Neo is looking at the panel with the tech Robin and Artemis made. 'Is this Robin's doing?' Neo questions before jumping to the platform Robin once stood. Neo takes a good look at it 'It's seemed like is missing a piece, but what?' he wonders.

Neo looks back at the fight and jumps back in once he notices that Torpedo's about to annihilate the fake Neo which shattered much to Superboy and Kid Flash's relief, Neo knock Red Torpedo back away from his teammates he runs to Miss Martian and Aqualad and Robin.

Neo looks at the unconscious duo and 'I'm sorry I took so long' he said before turning back to the Red who seemed ready to fight before the three of them hears the Elevator door opening revealing Artemis walking out of there 'Artemis?' he questions in his thoughts.

Artemis has her bow in her hand and an arrow in her quiver but doesn't look ready to attack. The Reds turn to her instantly.

"I surrender. Stop the clock." she tells them, her voice still broken.

Kaldur stirs from unconsciousness, looking at her as she walks closer.

Artemis sees him, but glances at Robin, a confused Neopolitan, and then Wally and Conner as the water level covers them. She offers her bow to the Reds.

Red Torpedo holds out a hand for her to give it to him, she adjusts her hold on it before suddenly springing into action. Kicking Red Torpedo in the face and landing on Red Inferno's wrist to push the fire away from her. Flipping backwards and pulling the arrow from her quiver. Lining up the shot across the Cave to connect the circuit of the EMP emitter.

When it hits, electricity starts to crackle as the vircator starts to glow bright blue. Sound warps as a wave shoots out from the device. Everything starts shutting down, while the Reds crackle with energy before falling to the ground.

As their eyes go dark the fire dissipates and the water level drops, leaving Conner and Wally gasping, but conscious.

"Kaldur, how's M'gann?" Conner asks worriedly for his best friend almost sister.

He groans as he pushes himself to his rest on his right elbow. "She breathes. I believe she will recover." he looks over her head. "What of Robin?" he asks

Neo drops Hush and skids to his knees beside the Boy Wonder. Cautiously touching his head and his chest. Neo then checks on his pulse by taking off one of his gloves and put two fingers underneath the left side of his jawline. He hacks, but thankfully no water comes out. 

Neo nods at Kaldur as Artemis sighs with relief "He...he's breathing too." she says, a bit teary.

Robin continues gasping until his breathing regulates. "Way to get traught." he tells her with a smile. Relief sinks in as she falls back to sitting.

Neo helps Robin sitting up before going to check on Kaldur and give him a concerned too

Robin, Kaldur and Artemis stand before Wally and Conner who are still encased. M'gann leaning heavily on the Neo. The still disabled Reds are now on the same level as them, while Artemis holds some type of cutter that has no power.

"Figured my only shot was to "surrender", pretend to drown before I actually did." Robin says confidently. "Blacked out though." he shrugs.

"M'gann?" Conner asks worriedly, taking her hand in his.

"I'll be fine." she assures, though her voice isn't as strong as it normally is "But Neo..." She looks at Neo "Are you okay?" she asks worried

Conner also looks at his cru-teammate worried. Neo give Conner a reassuring smile and put his hand on both M'gann and Conner's hold hands giving them a comfort squeeze which relax both of them a bit.

"Will you quit playing with that thing and cut us free already?" Wally demands of Artemis.

She gives him a deadpanned look. "It's not working genius. EMP shuts down all machines, remember?"

"All machines present at the time." Red Tornado's voice speaks up as he makes his way across the room, landing beside Wally and Conner. Only when the tornado stops whirring does he continue. "What has occurred?"

"Had a little visit from your family." Robin looks at the Reds, putting his hands on his hips.

"Your extremely nasty family." Artemis is quick to gripe.

"I was not aware I had relations." Tornado remarks.

"Where have you been?" Conner demands.

"Monitor duty on the Watchtower." Tornado remarks, making his way over to the other robots. "When it became clear that Cave communications were down, I attempted to investigate, but your Zeta Tubes were also nonfunctional." he kneels down beside the two. "I transported to Providence and proceeded here."

Sphere starts to whir, catching his attention. Managing to himself free.

"Hey boy." Conner greets and gets beeps in return.

The machine- a laser- turns on in Artemis' hands.

"The pulse has worn off." Kid and Robin say in unison.

Red Tornado reaches out to Red Inferno, and a zap connects their fingers as her eyes light back up.

Red Tornado's eyes glow in return. Before turning towards the Team and using a tornado to raise him up, and two aimed at them.

Artemis drops the laser cutter, clutching her neck. Neo clutches his neck as well 

Kaldur drops M'gann in surprise as he holds his neck as well.

Robin stumbles, as he loses his breath.

Conner and Wally can't fight back and slump in their holds.

Finally, Artemis falls to her knees. "Can't... breathe." watching as Robin and Neo falls over before her own world tilts and goes black.

-later-

"Artemis. Artemis can you hear me?" she groans as she opens her eyes to find Superman above her. He looks to the side, towards the source of the buzzing. "She's alright." she grunts as he helps her stand up.

Before her are Green Arrow, looking to her, Batman, who is talking to Robin, Flash, who is using the same tool she had to help Kid out, Atom, who is melting Conner out, Martian Manhunter, who is kneeling beside a still sitting M'gann, Black Canary, who is watching over them, and finally Aquaman, who is speaking to Kaldur.

"What happened here?" Superman demands.

"What happened?!" Artemis demands back. "The Reds happened. Tornado and his..." she stops trying to figure out a way to describe them when she realizes something's missing. "Wait, where are they?"

"Gone." only then does Robin turn towards her. "All three of them." he is clearly beating himself up over it, but the malice in his voice is obvious. "Gone."

Batman walks up "that's not all..." he shows a clip of Tornado taking Neopolitan with him "he took Neopolitan as well" Canary frowns out of anger that her protégé got kidnapped.

"Why would Tornado want Neo?" Robin demands

"Trivia's Illusion had become more realistic as he grow, and we still don't know the full extent of his power, and I don't think is Tornado that wants Neo" Batman looks at Canary.

Dinah sigh and walks away from the group and pulls out her phone and dials a number and places it on her ear "Hello?" a feminine voice is heard from the other line.

"Sarah? I need your help" Black Canary said.