(Author's note: Two updates in a row? What!?)

Third Person's POV

Mount Justice, Rhode Island; August 3rd; 13:06 EDT

Kid Flash and Aqualad are playing virtual air hockey, Kid Flash gets one right past Kaldur, and into his goal. Kaldur looks stunned for a moment, then glares competitively at Kid Flash who is eating a banana.

Recognize: Superboy; B-0-4.

Glaring as he appears in the Zeta Tube he stalks across the room.

"Hi, Superboy." M'gann tries, as Superboy walks right through their game board. Causing Robin to step out, looking at Superboy in a cross between curiosity and slight glare. "How was Metropolis?" M'gann continues, even as Superboy walks past them all.

Neopolitan looks at Superboy with worry before Black Canary clears her throat behind Kid Flash, catching their attention as she and Martian Manhunter step out of the shadows. "Ready for training everyone?" she questions.

Neo's expression immediately changed into a happy expression and runs up to Canary and hugs his mentor almost mother figure who hugs back with a light chuckle.

"I see you're getting the hang of things" she said which Neo nods before letting go but noticed a slight hurt look on his mentor's face which concerns the brown and pink hair boy she waves him off "don't worry too much" she whispers with a assuring tone which Neo nods and takes a step back.

M'gann is the first to react, as peppy as ever. "Black Canary! Uncle J'onn!" she goes up and hugs her uncle. Though he doesn't reach out and embrace her back, he does duck his chin to meet the top of her head before she steps back.

"M'gann, I was in the neighborhood, so I thought I'd see how you were adjusting." J'onn says, placing a hand on his niece's shoulder.

"A few bumps, but I'm learning." she assures, as Superboy watches from the hallway entrance.

Going to walk away, but Canary sees him as J'onn replies "that's all I can ask."

"Stick around." Canary calls out, getting Superboy to stop in his tracks. "Class is in session." he turns back, but crosses his arm over his S.

Canary walks to the center of the ring, turning the tiles pure white with a blue barrier. "I consider it an honor to be your teacher." she prefaces, turning towards the larger grouping of teens as she pulls on her jacket slightly. "I'll throw a lot at you, everything I've learned from my own mentors." she continues as she pulls off her jacket, getting it just beyond the tear that was showing off some bandages wrapping around her arm. She grunts through the pain but finishes taking it off. "And my own bruises." she confesses, holding the wrapping.

"What happened?" M'gann asks, worriedly.

"The job." Canary replies simply, throwing her own jacket away. "Now, combat is about controlling conflict. Putting the battle on your terms. You should always be acting, never reacting." she tells them, before lightening her tone slightly. "I'll need a sparring partner."

"Right here. Yeah!" Kid Flash calls out raising his hand, as he still has food in his mouth. Stepping up, Aqualad frowns and Robin has a sly smirk. He meets her in the middle, finishing the banana in one bite and swallowing before he continues. "After this..." he starts, aiming his banana peel for the garbage. "Swish..." commentating as it makes it in. "I'll show you my moves."

"Oh, you'll not be showing me your moves" she said "you'll be showing him" 

Neo walks up to Wally and smiles knowingly as his eyes narrow. Neopolitan throws a quick jab, which he blocks, but finds his feet being taken out from under him. Before even he can react. He hits with a thud that causes M'gann to look on worriedly, Aqualad to lean back, and Robin to frown with confusion.

On the floor, it reads in big letters.

Kid Flash, Status: Fail

"Oh. Hurts so good." he manages to still be his joke making self, even when he's in pain.

"Good block." Canary admits. "But did anyone see what he did wrong?" she asks as Neo helps him back to his feet.

Robin is all too excited to answer this one. "Ooh, ooh. He hit on Teacher and got served by her favorite student?" Neo looks at Robin unsure with rather he takes his words as a compliment or a insult.

Kid Flash holds the shoulder that hit first, which just happens to be the one he blocked with as he looks back, annoyed and horrified that Robin said that. "Dude!" he yelled.

"He allowed Neo to dictate the terms of-" she begins but is cut off as Superboy scoffs.

"Oh please." Canary arches an eyebrow as turns her head to look over her shoulder at the annoyed Superboy. "With my powers, the battle's always on my terms." he jabs his thumb inadvertently at the S, but clearly means himself not because of the S, but because of how he sees himself. "I'm a living weapon," clenching his hands to prove his point and make it very clear how he sees himself. "And this is a waste of my time."

Canary now has her injured shoulder facing him as she smiles, a craving for the fight ahead in her eyes. "Prove it." she taunts pointing at Neo.

Neo looks at Canary with concern and points at himself Canary looks back at Neo and nods.

Hesitantly Neo nods back and Superboy steps forward toward his opponent, staring down as Neo gives him a apologetic smile. Both drop into a fighting stance at the same time. Superboy comes in with a cross, that Neo takes a singular step back from. Giving him plenty of time to reach out with both hands, grab his forearm, and throw him across the ring. Where he lands on his butt, then on his back.

Robin points and laughs until Aqualad elbows him in the side. He doesn't stop laughing but covers his mouth with his gloves.

Superboy Status: Fail

Superboy remains on the ground for a moment, the words showing above his head on the floor, before he pushes himself back to his knees with a growl.

Though that doesn't sway Canary. "You're angry." she merely states, standing calm. "Good, but don't react. Channel that anger-"

Superboy gets to his feet and charges at Neo with another punch he jumps up and uses his shoulders to flip over him. Landing closely behind him, but still able to see him out of the corner of her eye. As he turns to hit him with a back fist, he drops taking his feet out from under him.

Once again, the floor reads:

Superboy Status: Fail

From the sidelines, M'gann flinches back, Robin muffles his own laughs, Aqualad looks worried and Kid Flash frowns.

By the time he's ready to stand again, Neo already is, offering his hand. "That's it." Superboy growls, standing without his help. "I'm done." he states.

Neo looks down sad "Training is mandatory." He hears Canary speaking as Superboy starts to walk away, placing a hand on his shoulder, which he turns towards her as he shakes it off. His rage flowing under his eyes.

Before this can escalate any further the whole room beeps. Opening a Holo screen. "Batman to the Cave." the Dark Knight calls, all rush to join Superboy and Canary. As they do, Batman continues. "A new menace attacked Green Arrow and Black Canary. The attacker was capable of studying, then duplicating the powers and abilities of its opponents."

On a smaller screen the image of the attacker becomes a video feed, where Superman goes for a massive punch, only for it to get caught and the attacker to then use the Kryptonian to take out Red Tornado, and Flash, before throwing the alien. Then turning to use its newly acquired laser eyes to take out two Batarangs.

"Arrow called in reinforcements" Batman continues as the video pauses "which nearly proved disastrous as our foe gained more and more power with each new combatant."

"Whoa." Kid Flash is the first one to vocalize, though Kaldur looks worried and Superboy clenches his jaw. "One guy with the powers of the entire League?" it seems unbelievable, which even Robin reacts to. Looking just as worried as Kaldur, his mouth even dropping open slightly. While M'gann and Neo looks on nervously.

"In the end, it took eight Leaguers four hours to defeat and dismantle the android." Batman informs, which catches Robin's attention.

"An android?" he questions. "Who built it, T.O. Morrow?" he continues to ask, stepping up since this is where he thrives.

"Good guess, Robin." Batman states, causing Superboy to look down as he sees, even more, working father-son relationships within the League and Team. "But Red Tornado doesn't think so."

"The technology bears the signature of Professor Ivo." Martian Manhunter tells them.

"Ivo?" Aqualad questions, shocked. "But Ivo's dead." he stated.

Canary looks over her shoulder. "So we all thought or hoped." clearly it is the latter.

"To make certain this threat is permanently neutralized" another small screen pops up on the opposite side of where the footage from the fight was. "we're sending two trucks carrying the Android's parts to two separate STAR Labs facilities," a point between the four noted cities which are Springfield, Gotham, Boston, and NYC becomes a red triangle, "in Boston and New York," the two paths going in completely separate directions but beginning at the triangle's base which is now a glowing red dot, "for immediate evaluation. Every precaution is being taken." their attention comes back to Batman on the main screen. "We'll have four additional trucks to create confusion in case Ivo or anyone tries to recover the remains." This is where they come in. "You will split into undercover teams to safeguard the two real trucks."

"Yes!" Kid Flash says excitedly. "Road trip." Canary turns to Kid with an angered look while Aqualad and M'gann look to him rather confused. Neo shakes his head with disappointment and Robin joins and glares behind his mask.

"So now we take out your trash?" Superboy questions angrily.

"You had something better to do?" Batman counters, Superboy looks away just as Aqualad's transmitter goes off.

"Coordinates received. On our way." Aqualad confirms, everyone but Superboy and Neo running off.

As walks away Canary grabs his arm. "When you're ready, I'll be here." she tells him honestly. He doesn't respond, merely looking away before continuing to walk off. 

Neo looks at Superboy worried which his mentor noticed this before chuckling "You're worried about Superboy, aren't you?" she asks. Neo looks taken aback but nods admitting his concerns for the clone "is because his lack of self-control with his anger, that's something he should be able to deal with on his own, but..." Neo looks back at his mentor. "There's something you can do; make sure that he's not alone, maybe Superman's lack of help made him feel alone, and out of everyone, you know what's like to feel lonely even when you're around people" that sparks a bit of hope in Neo's mismatched eyes and nods and skips off to catch up with the others.

-scene change-

Litchfield County, New Jersey; August 3rd; 20:08 EDT

In a field off the main highway, six trucks are sitting ready, while the part of the dismantled Android is being loaded. Overseeing this is Red Tornado, Atom, Green Arrow, Flash, and Superman.

Turning away and using his enhanced vision he can see the Team waiting on their motorcycles, Aqualad and M'gann on blue, Kid Flash on yellow, Neopolitan on pink and Superboy and Robin on red. Superman zeroes in on Superboy, who returns his gaze. He turns away, Superboy looks down before sliding on his helmet as the engines from the truck revv. 

Neo sees this and frowns to himself as if he feels helpless with only one thing in mind 'If only I can talk' Neo thought. 

They revv their cycles and come to the edge of the clearing and they put on their helmets.

"STAR Boston is a go." is put over the comms as three trucks close their back-gates.

"STAR Manhattan is go." Green Arrow nods, then looks to Batman who gives the signal.

The trucks pull out in two opposite directions. Robin, Neopolitan and Superboy following the ones going right, while Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Miss Martian follow the three going left.

Atom, Red Tornado, and Flash all take off. As Superman goes to a black glove is placed on his shoulder.

"I told you; we need to talk." Batman states, Superman stands straight and looks just over his shoulder at the Dark Knight.

As two of the trucks make a right-hand exit, and one continues straight, Superboy, Neo and Robin only follow the one remaining truck still on the highway.

Neo is far ahead of the other two boy as he's close to the truck while Robin zooms in to be in front of Superboy and on his right. "If dislike is the opposite of like, is disaster the opposite of aster? See, if things are going wrong, they go right." Superboy remains silent, ignoring Robin's attempt at positivity and conversation. "Uh, clearly you're not feeling the aster. What's wrong?"

"Canary." Superboy replies instantly. "And what business does she have teaching combat skills to a guy with Super-Strength?" he questions, mostly to himself, considering the fact that he looks away from the Boy Wonder.

"Taking down stronger guys is part of the gig." Robin states simply. "Canary learned that the hard way. Same with Batman and, well, me. And I guess Neo too" he's hesitant to include Neo and himself in the list, fearing what that could cause Superboy to do.

Though instead of snapping back or anything he revs his cycle and gets a lot closer to the back of the truck and a good five or six car lengths in front of Robin almost close to Neo.

'If only I could speak...man I've been stating that more often than before I met Miss Harley and Canary' he said in his thoughts 

-With Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Kid Flash-

"Do you think Superboy's okay?" she asks, driving on the left of Aqualad. Then quickly realizes how that may sound. "I-I wasn't reading his mind, I swear but anger flowed off him in waves."

Kid Flash pulls onto her left, a sarcastic chuckle coming through. "Surfed that wave. Just give him space." that's actually sound advice, considering the fuse on that guy seems to be a record low, on a good day. "Me?" he continues, getting practically right next to her. "Stick as close as you want." her facial features relax and even draw up in slight pity as she realizes that he's flirting with her again.

"Superboy just needs time to cool off." Aqualad states, turning the focus away from Kid Flash's bad flirting. "A quiet mission will clear his head." a cornfield they whiz past shakes, then green, grey, and black robot things fly out and after them. Completely passing them, latching right onto the truck.

Pressing the outside of his helmet, Aqualad opens up a comm channel. "Robin, Superboy, Neopolitan our truck is under attack!"

-With Neo, Robin, and Superboy-

"Kind of figured." Robin replies, looking to the monkey-robots latched onto their truck too.

"I hate monkeys." Superboy says angrily, his eyes zeroing in.

The monkeys are not only attacking the portion of the truck with the robot, but also the driver's cabin. The truck swerves a little but remains to fair a straight enough drive.

"Robot monkeys." Robin says, his excitement showing before he laughs and gets serious. "Totally Ivo's tweaked style." then hitting the small screen on his cycle to show his R. As it does, the motorcycle's back wheel disengages, turning into a flying drone. Seeing that Superboy is leaning even further forward on his bike, Robin realizes what he plans to do. "Hey, hey. Switch your ride to Battle Mode."

"No point." Superboy says, before jumping off his and onto the truck.

Robin and Neo's eyes widen as Superboy's bike loses balance without a rider. "Or not." then stands on his handlebars and uses his grapple to make the distance between the two just as Neo droves away from Superboy's bike the two red bikes collide. Once Robin's securely on the back gate of the truck he kicks off one of the monkeys. Neo pulls out Hush that he has hanging attached on his back and touches the screen as a Symbol with the colors of the Neapolitan flavored ice cream appears on the screen.

And like Robin's bike the motorcycle's back wheel disengages, turning into a flying drone before Neo jumps off the bike and does a somersault landing on the roof, he swings a few robot monkeys away with Hush knocking them off of Superboy's strength.

On the roof of the car, Superboy takes off his helmet and uses it to destroy two monkeys in rapid succession as they try to jump him. A monkey before him jumps, only to get its arms ripped off, but three monkeys jump on his turned back.

Robin kicks another off the door and uses a Batarang to destroy the head of one of the ones that are using laser eyes to cut through the armored door. Throwing it to the side and off the road to ensure that it's totally destroyed. Even taking out one of the ones that are flying after them.

Using the open space, the two drones fill it immediately and starts firing lasers. Destroying one right before it would've reached Robin and Neo. Only to be taken out by two monkeys each.

On the roof, Superboy knocks the three monkeys off his back, his fist crushing the body of the one he ripped the arms off of. Punching another that jumps at him from the front to his back two more rise to his level. Distracted by the sound the head of the one he's crushing turns and shoots lasers at his eyes.

Due to his enhanced sight, it burns intensely, giving four monkeys the opportunity to pick him up without a fight, then drop him to the ground. Neopolitan gasps seeing this before blocking a few lasers using his opened umbrella. Meanwhile Superboy's eyes still closed; he wavers as he gets back to his feet. Opening his eyes proves useless since he can't see a thing. Closing them and calming he uses his hearing to listen to where the monkeys are in location to himself. Then jumping right for it.

Meanwhile Aqualad pulls on the handle of his bike, which is actually his Water Bearer to form a whip and take out two of the monkeys that couldn't get out of the way fast enough. Instead, the monkeys drop back and go for Miss Martian and Kid Flash's motorcycles. Using her telekinesis, she finds and opens and flies to the truck. While Kid Flash fights for control a minute longer before he jumps off his motorcycle and begins to run to catch up with the truck.

The driver's managing to keep them in their lane but is totally freaking out. "S-somebody help!" he cries.

While on the roof of the truck two of them use their laser eyes to create a way into the truck. Cutting far enough that they can slip inside, they stop, and one grabs the now curling edge pulling it back to reveal two armed guards. They release a barrage of bullets at the mass of robots, only managing to hit one of them. Five remain on the roof, but as Miss Martian flies over them, she uses her telekinesis to knock them all off.

Kid Flash runs up beside the truck, taking out the four monkeys with a kick off the side of the truck, using the closest as a step, ripping the second one off, and stepping on the third to knock it off as he makes his way to the cabin.

The three that remain on the back gate are taken out as Aqualad uses both his Water Bearers as whips, while still remaining on his motorcycle.

One monkey dives right for the driver's window, hard enough to crack it as the rest continue to obscure his sight. Miss Martian, covered in six or seven monkeys fly in front of the truck, growing an arm from her head, her lower right side to rid herself of the monkeys that cover her. A monkey flies in low on her right side and she grows another arm to destroy it while taking out the final monkey she grows a third arm on her left side to punch it. Flying right at the monkeys who are obscuring the driver's line of sight, but she with now four extra arms, one of which is growing out of the right side of her head scares him more than the monkeys.

However, noticing something on the roof back gates she flies up and gets out of his way.

On the other side of the truck, there are two monkeys, one that Kid Flash steps on to get to the higher of the two, grabbing its tail to get himself on top of the truck. Where a six-armed Miss Martian lands. Startled, he falls to his butt and clambers back. Freaked out by his freak out Miss Martian loses her extra arms and falls into a stiff fighting stance in shock.

Before any communication can be done a horde of monkeys fly out of the hole separating the two of them. Assaulting them in sheer number. While another group creates a massive hole in the back gate, the Android pieces in hand. Too high too quickly that Aqualad can only screech to a stop and watch which direction they fly off in.

Back with Neo's group removing the final monkey from the back gate of his truck with a Batarang gives Robin time to climb up to the roof, just as a monkey pulls one of the guards out of the hole in the roof. Robin lands on the balls of his feet, low to the roof, before standing as he brandishes two escrima sticks.

"Hang on, Neo! Back up is here!" he tells the feminine teen Smirking before he charges at the monkeys, using both to swipe one to his left, then back across his body two knock away the second one charging at him. Diving into a front handspring he crosses the hole in the roof. Only to find another drove of them come up from the back of the truck.

Though, they don't make it to Robin and Neo as Superboy lands right in the center of them. Knocking all the monkeys off the truck and Robin off his feet. Four latches onto Superboy, and he blindly rips them off.

While two more head to the back wheels on the side of the truck, using their laser vision to destroy the tires and make the whole truck swerve. Robin manages to keep his balance, and he leans in front of the driver window. "Get out!" he yells, loud enough for the man to hear him. The man gets the door open and before he can even think Robin has grabbed his shoulders and throws both of them into a cornfield.

With no driver and two busted wheels on one side neo opens Hush and jumps off before the truck tips and skids then roll, over and over, destroying many of the monkeys on the outside.

Once the truck has stopped, now upside down the back gate blows out a group of five monkeys flying off with the android parts. Leaving a guard to stumble out of the smoking truck coughing.

Robin supports the driver as they come back to the side of the road. Setting him down as he watches the monkeys fly off.

Behind him, Superboy pushes the whole truck up and off of him. Breathing heavily, he wipes his eyes and opens them slowly, finding his vision is returning. Seeing where the monkeys are flying, he jumps with a grunt to catch up to them.

"Superboy!" Robin calls in a vain attempt to get him to stop.

In his comm Aqualad patches through. "Aqualad to Robin. We've lost our cargo. Did you-"

Robin cuts him off with a sigh. "It's gone." he confirms. "And so's my partner." he then notices Neo gone as well "Correction, my partners" he then corrects 

-with Superboy-

Still crossing massive amounts of distance in single bounds Superboy is gaining on the monkeys. "Aqualad to Superboy. Radio your position. We'll help you."

"I don't need any help, don't want any!" he yells as he pulls his comm from his ear and on his next drop to the ground drops it.

"Superboy?" Aqualad asks, but there is no one on the other end now.

As Neo glides by the dropped comm after Superboy using Hush much to his luck with the wind.

-with Aqualad's group-

Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Kid Flash stand behind their own crashed truck. The only one with his motorcycle still intact is Aqualad.

"I think he ditched his comm." Robin states the obvious over the line.

"Super." Wally moans sarcastically. "Now we can't even track him."

Miss Martian has her hands on her head but gets nothing. "Both Superboy and Neo are out of my telepathic range. This Professor Ivo if he is alive, seems to be two steps ahead of us." then her confidence fades. "M-maybe w-we should contact Red Tornado?" she questions.

"Tornado always tells us to handle things ourselves." Aqualad counters. "And the mission can still succeed if we recover the parts before they're reassembled."

"Well, that's a great plan," Wally drawls, "except for the part about us not knowing where to LOOK!" he explodes with anger.

"Maybe we do." Robin chimes in.

-with Robin-

He crouches over one of the destroyed monkeys left where he is, pulling a cable out of his HoloGlove and connecting it to the monkey. "We'd have heard by now if the decoy trucks had been attacked." he says as he continues to punch out commands on his glove. Decoding the monkey's software.  "So how did these monkeys know exactly which trucks to target?" he smirks as the screen emerges from his HoloGlove. "He exclaims. "The parts have GPS." then a map shows up on his screen. "The monkeys can track the signal, which means I can track with the one I captured. Looks like both sets of parts are converging on..." he starts placing the map of the state, trying to determine where they're heading. "Gotham City." he realizes, his voice heavy with emotion.

-back with the trio-

"That far south?" Aqualad questions, shocked. "M'gann and I won't get there anytime soon." he looks right to Wally. "I'm sending Kid on ahead to meet you. Aqualad out."

Wally smiles his mischievous smile and drops his goggles over his eyes. Then he is gone without another word.

-with Robin-

Standing up, Robin puts the monkey on his shoulder, then using his HoloGlove to remotely activate his motorcycle.

"Definitely a disaster." Robin sighs, looking up at the darkening sky and rising crescent moon. "Heavy on the 'dis'."

-meanwhile-

Metropolis; Bibbo's Diner August 3rd; 21:18 EDT

"Apple pie." Clark Kent says to the waiter, as a fellow raven sits across from him, his face obscured as he holds the menu high to his face.

"The Devil's Food." Bruce Wayne orders, handing the menu back with a smile.

"Something tells me this isn't about desert." Clark decides to start the conversation with his tone hesitant.

"The boy needs you." Bruce tells the bespeckled man before him.

"No." Clark snaps back instantly. "He needs you. He needs Red." though his tone shakes slightly, and he decides to look out the window rather than at Bruce. "I'm just a constant reminder of what he's not."

"Sorry, Clark, but you're dead wrong." that catches the author's attention. "Look, I know he troubles you, but he's here." he stumbles slightly, but returns strongly for the next sentence, hoping to solidify his reasoning. "You have to get over the how and why." Clark glares out the window. "Trust me on this. This boy needs his father." his eyes narrow, daring Clark to deny what he's saying.

Clark dares. "I'm not his father!" he shouts, standing up, fear and confusion cover any anger there might be in those words. He turns to the cook, placing his fedora on his head. "I'll take that apple pie to go." he walks to the register and pays, leaving Bruce to skulk in solitude.

-scene change-

Gotham City; August 3rd; 21:21 EDT

The monkeys with the parts fly towards a moving train, the car's side doors open. By more monkeys to allow them to fly in, the second group right behind them. Then the doors slide shut.

Superboy bounds amazing distances, landing on the same car the monkeys went in. Tightening his hand, he jabs it into the roof, creating a tear that easily rips wider with his Super Strength. Superboy sees no immediate danger and jumps in.

Behind him, just outside the shadows are the now-open boxes of the Amazo parts.

He hears the monkeys chatter before him. Looking up, shrouded in the green glow of his monkeys is an aging ginger man with white button-down, black slacks, and a black vest typing away on his computer.

Taking his time, and entirely calm, the man looks up. "Oh, hello." he greets.

"You? You're Ivo?" Superboy scoffs. "I'm whelmed."

"You're one to talk." Ivo counters, turning away from his computer, resting his elbow on his fist, and placing his hand on his chin. "Since when does the big blue boy scout have a brat?"

"He doesn't." Superboy snaps, narrowing his eyes.

"Eh, well, if you say so." Ivo brushes off shrugging. "Have you met my Mobile Optimal Neural Quotient Infiltrators?" he gestures to the dozen-plus monkey MONQIs around him. To which they take off and launch themselves at Superboy.

He responds with a cross, taking out one, into a back fist, taking out a second then finding one right where the other just was jabs to destroy it. On his right, he turns with a back first to destroy another, managing a 180° rotation. Finishing the rotation and destroying the final MONQI with another back fist. Knocking the head right back at Ivo.

"Ah. And after all the trouble I went through finding an acronym for MONQI." Ivo grumbles as Superboy continues to destroy the small robots. Turning back to his computer.

Meanwhile outside Neo arrives to the same car and notice the hole open as he changed his appearance to camouflage successfully sneaking in while closing hush and hides it behind his back. 

Grabbing two Superboy smashes them together in front of him, completely obliterating them. Though he's panting.

Something moves in the background. "Access: Captain Atom." Superboy's eyes widen just before he's hit in the chest with a yellow ray. Which knocks him completely off his feet and into the crates behind him.

Just after hitting the ground, he looks up, to see Ivo standing before him. "Since Professor Ivo's magnificent MONQIs don't float your boat" behind a pair of red eyes begin to shine from the shadows. "Maybe my amazing Amazo will better suit you or better slay you." Ivo finishes darkly as the massive android stands tall. Just like from the clip Batman showed them during the debrief.

The train comes around tight corners to stay close to the mountains.

Superboy wipes the back of his hand over his mouth, standing with his hands clenched. "Give me your best shot."

The MONQIs laugh behind Ivo.

"Please, my Android has the strength of Superman." Ivo states simply. Superboy's eyes widen slightly. "What chance do you have?"

Superboy's response is to charge at Amazo with a battle cry and a punch, which is blocked easily by the android, hitting just as his hand is still an open palm rather than in a fist. Undeterred Superboy continues to unleash a flurry of punches until he finally lands one on the android's face. The neck follows the movement that would've broken it on a human, reverting back in a moment. As Superboy goes for another punch Amazo catches it with his bare hand.

"Oh, sorry. Did that strike a nerve?" Ivo questions, calmly. "Amazo, strike a few more." he commands.

Amazo does, nailing an uppercut under Superboy's to knock him into the inside of the roof, then he falls into one of the boxes they were defending, shattering it on impact. Amazo watches him intently as he stands back up, slowly. Then falling into a relaxed fighting stance.

"Access: Black Canary." Amazo dictates, his jaw unhinging to drop wide open before releasing a Canary Cry.

The Cry not only causes him immense pain but also physically knocks him into the far wall of the train car, then to the ground. Superboy stumbles back to his feet anyway.

"Access: Flash." Amazo dictates, running at Superboy with speeds even he can't match, but that doesn't mean he can't see them.

His eyes widen mere moments before the hook punch hits him in the face. Landing, and giving Amazo the opening to unleash a high-speed flurry of punches that when finished leaves Superboy falling back.

Landing with a crash Ivo's mockery comes through. "Oh. No wonder Daddy keeps you hidden away." Superboy turns his head to Ivo instantly, though not having the strength to stand yet. "You're not really doing justice to the old S shield, are you?" finishing off with a wheezy laugh.

Meanwhile without Ivo noticing Neo still camouflaged takes down all the MONQIs at once startling the scientist.

"What the-" he tries only to be knocked down by a familiar umbrella before Neo undoes his disguise revealing himself now uniform pointing at Ivo's face with the tip of his umbrella "Y-You're new" he commented flinching at the ice cream themed hero's dark glare.

That was all Superboy needed, that one more push to get him back on his feet. Coming with a cross to Amazo's face with a cry.

Just before it reaches Amazo dictates. "Martian Manhunter." turning intangible and letting the punch go right through him. As the force pulls him through, Amazo does a jab to the lower ribs.

Superboy turns back, confused. Just in time for Amazo to land a solid cross that knocks him through the back wall of the train, into the mountainside and into the blade of the bulldozer, then to the flatbed car's surface.

Amazo front handsprings right before him. Dictating "Access: Superman." grabbing Superboy's shoulders and holding him over the edge of not only the train but the mountain as well. Holding him with one arm he punches him back, over the fields and into the high stories of a building on the edge of the city, a school judging by the number of desks he crashed through.

Amazo and Ivo can see the smoke, the android turning to its creator. Ivo shrugs. "Finish him. Priority Alpha." he said making Neo look angrily at Ivo "but get rid of her, first. Priority Alpha" 

Amazo looks at Neo and walk up to him Neo gives Amazo a sinister smile. "Access: Black Canary" The android tightens its fist, and throws a simple forward punch towards Neo's face, which is deflected with a white flash of unknown origin from Neo, causing Amazo to stumble back much to Ivo's surprised. Neo opens his umbrella ready to fight.

Amazo dashes forwards, unleashing a flurry of several punches, resetting each time instead of redirecting its blows, as Neo simply dodges each attack, moving his body swiftly in order to avoid them in a very laid back, but extremely effective style. With every unsuccessful punch, elbow, and kick, Amazo continues moving forward as its last three blows bring it to a knee, where it attempts a roundhouse kick, allowing Neo to deliver a spinning hook kick, knocking Amazo to the ground, the former's guard completely open on the left side.

While on the ground, Amazo growls in anger, to which Neo responds by performing a drop kick. However, Amazo dodges by rolling away, and subsequently springing up to attack once again.

Neo counters through a pull in redirection of force technique, pulling Amazo's arm in with his own left arm, and performing a well-executed ax kick to hit Amazo on the chin, before kicking Amazo in the stomach with a perfect side kick. Neo then begins pushing the Android back via his umbrella, now on the offensive, as Amazo tries to counter his movements. Neo is able to effortlessly push Amazo back against a wall, until the latter shoots a blast directly towards the former's feet. Neo, however, backflips effortlessly, and he lands perfectly on a metal container, before sitting, awaiting Amazo's next attack.

"Just get rid of her already!" Ivo yells getting irritated.

As Amazo approaches him, Neo smiles wordlessly, taunting the android, before Amazo unleashes another attack. Neo counters and begins kicking Amazo back. 

"Access: Captain Atom" Amazo unleashes another blast from its hand, which Neo blocks with Hush. The two spar briefly, hand to hand, before Amazo grabs Neo's foot, and pulls him closer "Superman" Neo gasps before Amazo throws him to the same direction he threw Superboy to.

Taking the previous command Amazo jumps off the train car and towards where he sees the smoke.

-meanwhile-

Robin, now in uniform, pushes his bike to the limits. Flying past a sign telling him he has finally reached the Gotham City limits. He hears Kid Flash before he sees him, he too is now sporting the brightly colored spandex. "So, you changed too?" he teases, though he has no room to talk since he went as far as to put his mask on under his helmet.

"You kidding?" Kid Flash questions back, then makes a noise of disgust that would be accompanied by a shiver if he wasn't running at super speeds. "I feel naked in civvies. You still tracking the parts?" he changes the topic of conversation.

"They were heading through Gotham, but they veered," Robin informs, looking down at the virtual map on his motorcycle. A red cone represents the target: Subject Amazo. The location finally appears in the bottom right-hand corner.

Gotham Academy; Distance to Target: 26.5 mi.

"Wait! Dude, they're at my school!" Robin gasps

-with Superboy-

Blue-eyes snap into focus as Superboy regains consciousness. Rubbing his head he Sits up and checks his surroundings, realizing he was inside a school.

As he sees Neo gracefully landing on top of one of the desks and hops down and runs up to Superboy and help him up.

"you're here?" Superboy questions as Neo nods before pulling out his phone "I'd follow you you weren't that hard to follow while the wind worked on your favor" Superboy reads before looking down "Hey...uh..." He tries but groans in frustration before walking off. "I said, I didn't want help" he said

Neo watches with concern and opens a text to speech app while walking following behind the clone 

"I had it under control." Superboy said coldly but the shorter boy's unfazed by the clone's intimidating look "How the hell did you find me anyway?" he asks.

Neo type on his phone and presses play "You don't get far in my line of work if you can't track your target" a robotic feminine voice simply responds. When he received no reply, he presses forward while retyping his phone "I don't see what the big deal is, helping each other is what keeps a team going and safe. Why are you so against it?" now is Neo's turn to question the other teen.

"I don't want it" the clone begins to narrow further. Anger starting to build up inside.

Neo begins to skip backwards facing Superboy while typing his phone "That's not a solid reason" Neo pouts crossing his arm.

The clone growls out the next words, "I don't need it" His hands forming fists on his side, they begin to quiver.

Neopolitan type continuing on press Superboy. "Everyone needs help, even those who say they don't want it."

"NOT ME!" A fist launches straight forward, crashing right through one of the lockers, creating a hole.

Neopolitan surprisingly didn't even flinch at the action, he just glances at the hole before turning his attention back to Superboy; heavily panting, the clone glares blazingly at the lockers as if heat vision were actually about to shoot from his eyes. Body shaking from the rage building up inside. "I don't need help! I'm a living weapon, the strongest out of all of you! I can take down the battles on my own, without any of you! There is nothing I can't do! I don't need help from anyone! Not from the League, not from Canary." He faces the pink and brown-haired teen. "AND ESPECIALLY NOT FROM YOU WHO CAN'T EVEN SPEAK UP!" 

Once done the clone is left panting heavy breaths, eyes blaring holes through the brown and pink-gems, the smaller teen stays silent. After a few moments of quiet the clones breathing starts to calm down, shoulders starting to sag. His body starting the lose the tension, his face becomes more relaxed. Superboy immediately realized his mistake and guilt and regret began to replace his anger

Neo stares at Superboy for just a few seconds before typing on his phone "Is okay, I'm not mad; I'm used to be yelled at like this by my parents before they were no longer with us, and besides you needed to get it out of your system is not healthy if you keep it all in, you'll explode" the voice speaks for Neo.

That was when the clone realized that the other was right. He did feel a little better screaming what he was holding inside. But then he remembers what he just said to the Neo. Groaning, he bows his head in shame. He keeps making things worse with the other teen. Way to go Superboy. Superboy feels a soft pressure on the side of his face, realizing it was the teen's ungloved hand, cradling his cheek and lifting his head to look at him.

"N-Neo?" he questioned.

Neo looks up at the taller teen with a smile before pressing play on his phone "I understand where you're coming from. You're the strongest one in the group, therefore why learn to fight at all, right? You feel that you should be the one to take on everything by yourself, to try and keep us safe, you feel like it's your responsibility alone." The voice explains.

The clone's eyes widen at what the other was saying. Knowing that the other was absolutely right.

Neo continues on typing with one hand and presses play again "But that shouldn't be the case. You don't need to have the whole world weighing on your shoulders. That's what a team is for, we help each other. It doesn't matter how strong and powerful you are because, sometimes, even the strongest like Superman need help." the robotic voice then says, while Neo takes off his glove and place offers Superboy a small smile, leaving the clone is shocked.

Superboy will never understand how this one human can be so good at reading other people. Neo's hand starts to pull away when it is grabbed by the clones tanned one, keeping it in place. Pressing it is closer to his cheek, almost nuzzling it, with closed eyes. He liked the feeling and didn't want it to be over so soon. Neo blushes a bit and smile of the cuteness he is seeing in Superboy

And that's when he hears it. Superboy's eyes snapped open, his body tensing when his ears pick up the sound of metal clanking together.

Faster than lightning the clone shoves the teen away, just in time when a familiar android crashes through the wall, delivering a punch to the clone's side, sending him flying through the end of the hall and into a trophy case.

Dazed, Neopolitan manages to stand up, having been pushed hard caused his head to smack against the locker. He rubs his head as he hears a crash making him look to see Superboy crashing into the wall inside a lab class.

Growling, he pulls out his umbrella, already in formation and charges at the machine. He leaps, holding the umbrella above his head and swinging it down, only for it to go right through the machine. He has no time to react when a punch connects his back, sending him through the same way the clone went.

Neo hits the wall, hard, landing on his back He tilts his head back to find Superboy on his side. Both teens turn to spot the android upon them.

Forcing his hand under his left shoulder Superboy looks to Amazo. "That..." he pants heavily "all you got?" he finishes angrily taunting the robot.

"Access: Captain Atom." Amazo dictates, holding out one hand that begins to glow bright yellow. 

Acting fast, Superboy shields Neo's body with his own when the blast makes contact. Sending them straight through the wall and into the gym. The crash the ground, landing side by side with clone's arm still wrapped around the smaller young male's shoulders.

A singular clap catches his attention. On the bleachers Amazo is clapping slowly, backed by two MONQIs. "I don't usually attend these things in person," one of the MONQIs chuckles and so does he, "but this was too good to miss."

On the court, Amazo dictates "Access: Superman."

Both boys stand in action before striking they each try to take a hit but the are blocked each time. Both fall to the ground by the machine's force. It lifts both fists above his head before crashing it down at them.

"Yoink!" Kid Flash cries out, grabbing onto both teens and getting them out of the way in time. He takes them to the side of the gym where Robin is.

Robin launches a disk at Amazo. "Martian Manhunter." the android dictates, just before the disk would have hit, now passing through his intangible body. Blowing up behind the android harmlessly. "Access: Red Tornado." a red tornado forms under its feet, moving towards the four teenaged boys.

As they're hit, Kid Flash is thrown back into the nearby wall, while Robin Neo and Superboy rush in the opposite direction. Robin and Kid Flash give out a cry of surprise as they're snatched by the wind currents.

Superboy hits the bleachers, while Robin hits the outside edge of the court then skids to the be in front of the bottom bleacher and Neo opens his umbrella and lands gracefully next to Robin.

Kid Flash hitting the wall with a thud, knocking the air out of him, and then the floor a good four or five feet below him with another painful thud. Struggling to get to one knee, he looks up to find Amazo before him.

"Access: Captain Atom." the android dictates, nearly zapping Kid, who's now fully alert once more and running under the bleachers to avoid being hit. Though the explosion from it hitting the wall does knock him off balance, before using his speed to run to the other side of the bleachers and back around the front.

Amazo turns. "Access: Black Canary." it states, aiming the pulsating wave of sound to the ground just before Kid Flash, which he can't avoid and runs into. Getting thrown back and his ears ringing from the pitch. Rolling twice, then skidding under the backboard of the opposite hoop. His hands falling away from his ears as he skids on his stomach. "Superman." Amazo dictates.

Just as Superboy's punch comes within range and he catches it once again with an open hand. Nailing a hard cross at Superboy's face to send him back into the bleachers just Robin gets to his feet.

"Martian Manhunter." Amazo says, elongating his arm and destroying the two disks Robin just now decided to throw at him and Neo. Who dodges right just in time and Neo's form shatters in pieces much to Ivo's surprised.

"What!? Where did she go!?" Ivo questioned.

Attempting to catch him off-guard Kid Flash runs at Amazo, who turns and uses his large hands to easily grasp Kid Flash's upper arms. "Superman." Amazo says, grabbing the ginger in a bone-crushing hug.

A bowstring snaps, catching Amazo's attention, even with Kid Flash's cry of pain.

"Martian Manhunter." Amazo dictates, turning intangible through the arrow, but dropping Kid in the process.

The green-fletched arrow sticking itself clean in the ground just right of Robin's right foot. His eyes widen as he takes in the color of the arrow.

Kid Flash runs away before he gets caught again. From behind Superboy charges out of the broken section of the bleacher.

"Access: Black Canary." Amazo dictates, using the same move she used when training with Superboy earlier that day. Throwing him across the room. Superboy crashing high into the opposite bleachers.

A red Batarang like shape whizzes past Amazo's head. The source is Robin. "Superman." Amazo says, his eyes glowing red. Just before the lasers would've hit Kid Flash pulls Robin out of the way. Kid Flash hitting his back first, then again on his side before they come to a stop.

Breathing heavily Superboy makes his way out of the rubble. Looking first to Ivo, then Amazo who is looking to a still downed Robin and Kid Flash. Clenching his eyes shut then sighing does he opens his eyes. "Access: Black Canary." he dictates, quiet enough for only he can hear.

Ivo yawns dramatically, which is what prevents him from hearing Superboy. "Oh, yawn." he drawls, feeling the need to enunciate that, then continue still sounding bored. "Normally Amazo would study and mimic your abilities during battle, but what's the point?" waving his hand before looking at his fingernail beds. "You're all such poor copies of the originals." he then remembers Neo "well with one exception" he adds.

The monkeys laugh, Superboy's mouth opens for a moment, then closes as he smiles when he sees certain pair of pink and brown eyes behind Ivo. 

Neo strikes the two MONQIs scaring Ivo as Neo attempts to strike him only for him to crawl away from the ice cream themed teenager.

"So everyone keeps saying." Superboy states, his anger coming back onto his face and flowing through his words. "It makes me angry!" he yells, jumping over Amazo and aiming his double downward fists for Ivo.

Neo sees Superboy heading his way looking at Ivo waving at him. The professor manages a squeak before getting out of the way, just before Superboy would've hit his face shattering Neo's form once again. Though the power of the hit knocks him off balance and with a wimpy yelp falls down a row of bleachers.

Superboy's attention is dead-set on the villainous creator of Amazo. "Want to see me channel that anger?" he shouts, stirring Robin and Kid Flash.

Both now free to move slowly to aggravate anything since Amazo's back is turned.

Kid Flash's eyes widen. "Great. He's gone ballistic again." he said

Robin smiles. "Maybe not." getting Kid Flash to turn to him with confusion as he smirks

Neo went up to Kid Flash and Robin and he fill them in on what he managed to understand Superboy intensions using his phone. 

"Amazo, protect your master. Priority Alpha." Ivo commands, diving further down the bleachers to avoid getting crushed by Superboy.

"Captain Atom." Amazo dictates, pointing a hand in Superboy's direction. Hitting Superboy once more, sending him flying back. As the MONQIs help Ivo back to his feet.

"Anyone want to play keep-away?" Robin questions, before both he and Neo kicked Ivo in the back and sending him pitching forward since his feet weren't on the ground. 

Amazo's attention turns to Robin.

"Oh, oh, me, me!" Kid Flash yells, running on the other side of Amazo and catching its attention.

"Access: Superman." the android says just as Kid Flash gets in front of him. Lifting his left foot and stomping it to catch underneath Kid Flash's last step towards Ivo. Sending the speedster up and high into the bleachers, upside down.

Robin stands from a crouch, throwing a disk at Amazo's head.

Reacting Amazo dictates. "Martian Manhunter." turning intangible, just as he does Superboy jumps down and aiming a punch at Amazo. "Superman." the android dictates. Though he turns tangible just as Superboy's hand goes through his head. His face begins to spark and zap blue electricity before exploding and knocking Superboy back as Neo attempts to catch 

The headless body falls flat to the ground with a clanging thud.

Robin runs up to the body. "Help me disassemble him now!" Though out of the three, he's in the best shape, Kid being unsteady on his feet and Superboy not even being back on his yet.

Holding his left arm Kid is the first to comment. "Dude, the guy has no head." his lack of high-speed helping because at this point it seems entirely irrelevant.

"Don't take any chances." Aqualad decides, as he and Miss Martian enter. Both heading in their direction quickly.

M'gann lands beside Superboy to steady him if necessary. "Superboy, are you alright?" she questions, noting the amount of damage done to his skin.

Neopolitan playfully pouts and rolls his eyes before giggling silently to himself

Superboy smiles. "Fine." he assures, then looks to Robin. "Feeling the aster." Robin smiles right back.

"Hey." Kid Flash says, gaining their attention. "Where's Ivo?" around them the gym is still smoking in some places from the battle, but Ivo is nowhere to be seen.

-scene change-

Mount Justice, Rhode Island; August 4th; 1:06 EDT

The Team stands before Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, Red Tornado, Batman, and Green Arrow, recounting the status of the mission.

"The Amazo android is in again safely being analyzed at the two separate STAR Labs, but Ivo escaped, and since he originated the tech, he's arguably more dangerous than the Android." Aqualad informs.

"Capturing the professor will be a League priority." Canary informs.

"But we understand that your mission encountered other complications." Martian ManHunter states, crossing his arms. Aqualad, Robin, and Kid Flash glare at Superboy, who has the decency to look away.

Batman decides to step up. "Complications come with the job. Your ability to handle them has impressed the League."

"The whole League?" Superboy asks, knowing the answer.

"Given time, yes." Batman assures instantly. "Kryptonians, as you know, have very hard heads." Superboy can't stop the small smile. "Of course, there's no shame in asking for help. That's why the League exists. Because there's some problems even, we can't handle individually."

"Please." Robin draws. "If we needed help, we'd never get the chance to ask." Kid Flash closes his eyes, knowing exactly what he means. Robin pulls out the arrow. "Look familiar?" he lets Batman take it from him. "You were following us." he accuses "Babysitting! You still don't trust us!"

Ignoring Robin's accusations, Batman passes the arrow to Green Arrow. "We didn't follow you." he tells Robin

Green Arrow pulls an arrow out of his own quiver, holding them side by side. The tip and shaft are noticeably different than the one Robin handed over.

Robin's eyes widen. "And that's not your arrow..." Looking between the two again and smiling. "But that means-"

Kid Flash, smiling brightly, cuts off the Boy Wonder. "Speedy!"

"He has our backs." Aqualad agrees.

Kid Flash runs and takes the arrow from Green Arrow. "Souvenir!"

Batman and Green Arrow share a look, but don't comment.

Superboy clears his throat and steps up to Black Canary. Catching her slightly off-guard as she turns to him curiously. "I'm ready." he said

"Good. Because I'm here." Black Canary assures, placing her hand on her hip as she looks him in the eye as she notices Neo looking with a bright smile making her chuckle.

"Something wrong?" Superboy questions.

The Female Leaguer shakes her head "no, just remembering something, so want to start?"