It was a normal day for everyone in the mountain. Robin was watching the team with a smirk, Artemis and Wally were fighting, Aqualad was looking with disappointment, Superboy was stoic, and Miss Martian was copying the moves of some cheerleader on the television that for once did not show static.

"Shut up, Wally!" Artemis said with no avail as the speedster just kept running his mouth a mile a minute. Artemis held her hand in a fist seething with anger.

"Uh, Wally you should shut it." Robin gave the helpful tip to his best friend.

"Oh, come on I can talk whenever I like besides you all adore my voice."

"Kid, please refrain from annoying Artemis." Kaldur said with a sigh. They were all waiting for something to do. They were hoping a mission would come in from Batman or Black Canary, for now, they had to deal with talking and idling by.

"How was everyone's school day?" M'gann asked peppy walking to the kitchen counter the television was left on with the brown haired girl doing cheer moves in Artemis's opinion the most annoying voice.

"It was boring and humiliating as always, Megalisious," Wally said looking at her with a dreamy look.

"Pretty unasterous, there is this one teacher that I swear hates me or something, I don't know why. Maybe it was because I corrected her work too many times." The bird gave a small cackle.

"I followed M'gann all day."

"This boy named Dick was the most annoying kid today. Made the teacher give us some extra homework for saying something to the teacher about it being pointless."

"Sounds like a Dick." Wally laughed and Robin glared at his friend who pretended to look innocent.

"Atlantis has a different kind of school but I did talk to my friends Garth and Tula today." He gave a smile at the thought of the Atlantean girl.

"How about you, M'gann?" Kaldur asked making her face practically glow with happiness.

"My fellow killer bees talked about the new outfits we are getting they are adding glitter at my recommendation!" She clasped her hands in delight.

"Sounds swell, Megs." Wally said.

"Recognized Black Canary 13" The zeta beams announced. Kid Flash sped as fast as he could in front of the trainer.

"BC! Do we have a mission?" Wally fastly questioned pretty much vibrating with enthusiasm.

"Yes, come to the debriefing room." She said in a serious tone that gave the team a feeling of uneasiness. They looked at each other some with happiness others boredom and one looking to burst with excitement.

The team plied through the doors to see Canary looking at them with a serious expression.

"Listen up, everyone." She said looking at the group of young heroes. She pulled up a blue hologram containing the layout of their upcoming mission.

"There is a suspected super drug being shipped out at this location I just sent the coordinates to Robin." Robin tapped his holo-glove a few times then gave her a thumbs up.

"We are not 100 percent sure who is running this, but we do know there is a lot of basic street thugs as the protection. While their fighting is weak the bullets are not, so do not underestimate the situation. If anything goes wrong contact the league and I mean do not wait until it may be too late." She gave them a stern look.

"You can count on us." Aqualad told her with a straight posture.

"Good, the mission should take about four hours max. Half an hour to get there and back and the rest on the mission."

The team left to the bioship to get to the mission as soon as they could.

Landing at their destination, the team looked to the stereotypical warehouse competed with the shattered windows.

The outside was not guarded at all which automatically made Robin question if this was the right place.

"Wow, another warehouse." Artemis drolled and rolled her eyes with sarcasm.

"Robin you and Artemis scout inside the building, Kid you and M'gann try to secure the perimeter, and Superboy and I will wait for the signal to enter from Robin and Artemis." Kaldur ordered the team whose emotions turned to serious.

"Link us up." He told the martian.

"Link is up." She said as her eyes turned green for a second.

'Everyone here?' She asked.

'Yep.'

'Sure thing!'

'Hm.'

'I am here.'

'Same.'

Robin disappeared in a second which annoyed the team being it is hard to keep track of the little bird. Wally switched to his covert mode and sped to search around the building. Miss Martian went invisible and Artemis ran through the cool night air to sneak inside.

Robin jumped on the beams looking down at the dark warehouse the only light being the moon's light that came from the broken windows. What unsettled him was the fact that there were no thugs or drugs anywhere.

'Uh, do you and Wally see anyone M'gann?' Robin asked sweeping through the air to enter the next warehouse room.

'Not yet.' She replied.

'I am in the east room and all I see are wood boxes with peanut packaging.' Artemis told the team.

'Was Black Canary wrong?' M'gann asked.

'I mean Batman is usually the one to give us missions, perhaps she accidentally gave us the wrong address or something.' M'gann said.

'Well, it is boring out here so should we just leave or contact her?' Conner asked.

'I think we should contact the league.' Kal said.

'No wait, I think I see something.' Robin said in the link.

'What?' Artemis asked.

Robin jumped down bringing up dust with him as he picked up a piece of paper. The paper gave him a slight chill as it had an owl-like marking in black ink.

'Nevermind it is just a piece of paper.'

'All that suspense for that!' Wally yelled in the link.

'Kid, be glad there is no chaos to cause others pain.' Aqualad told him.

'Yeah, yeah.'

Wally put his goggles down and rolled his eyes at the leader and continued to search the perimeter. Coming to a halt and bringing up dirt with him he spied a paper on the faded brick. Tearing it off it showed a black backward Flash symbol.

'Uh, Rob what was on that paper?'

'Why, it was just an owl.' The hacker answered his friend his eyes narrowing at the paper in his hand not realizing the speedster was doing the same.

I found one with a backward flash symbol.' He told the team not hiding the uneasiness.

After searching the building more the team soon enough had papers containing multiple weird symbols in the same black ink. They met up inside the building to search for some more. They had an owl, a flipped flash symbol, An L, A weird looking mantis with eyes, which Wally laughed at, a rose, and a crown.

"Guys this is weird. Do you think they are codes or something?" M'gann asked.

"This is not a code I have ever seen before." Robin eyed the paper in his hand with a misplaced feeling.

"I think we are being paranoid they are just shapes." Conner growled out crushing the paper in his hand and tossing it to the ground.

"I don't know Supey, I feel like I have seen this before." Robin said squinting at the owl searching his mind for where he had seen it prior.

0o0o0o0o

Meanwhile at the Justice League Watchtower:

The league was having a meeting about how to deal with the spreading rumors of a new copycat injustice league calling themselves "The Bloodlines."

"Do we even have any clue who is on this injustice League?" Flash asked the heroes at the table.

"Not yet, but I am trying to figure it out." Batman growled.

"How do we know this is not just a rumor?" Green Lantern asked the dark knight.

"We don't, but The Joker said something about some copycats who are trying to be them."

"The Joker is an insane man. How can you trust his word?" Diana asked not wanting to waste her time on the words of a mad man.

"Joker may be mad, but I know when he is telling the truth." Batman said looking at his team members.

"We are safer to look into this and hope it is just a goose chase then to regret ignoring it later." Superman stood at the end of the table with Wonder Woman crossing her arms sitting to the left of him.

Suddenly, the league's computer pinged with a message from an unknown source. The league looked in surprise, well except Batman who just started emotionless.

"Should we open it?" Green Arrow asked and Hawkgirl gave him a deadpan look.

"No, why would we do that?" She said with sarcasm.

"Enough." Batman barked and pressed except on the keyboard in front of him.

The message was a picture of a piece of paper with words written in black ink.

Blood is thicker than seawater

As lies are spoken and spread

You better hurry and don't falter

We will come for your head

Looks is something you can't alter

Even if you see red

The league looked at the eerie poem in front of them feeling unsettled.

"Look at the format." Batman said already reading the message ten times.

"A rhyme?" Flash questioned.

"No." He growled. "Line four says we, so there's multiple, each line is written with a different message, so we can infer that there is at least six different members, and the one thing they all have in common is they all seem to be talking to a single person."

"What do you mean a single person?" Martian Manhunter asked.

"Some say you or your." The Dark Knight explained to the alien.

"So, are they after one of us or just one person?" Aquaman asked.

"It could be they are after one person or they could be each after a different person." Flash added which some of the league gave him a surprised look.

"What I am smart, I mean I am a forensic scientist." Barry said which caused Oliver and Shayera to laugh.

"That is interesting, Flash." Clark told his friend looking at Batman who looked deep in thought.

"Where are the kids?" Batman asked Black Canary.

"They are at a warehouse to stop a drug from transporting."

"When should they be back?" He asked.

"In about forty-five minutes if it went well."

"Why do you ask about them?" Superman asked wondering why the detective wanted to know about the team when they had this problem with the Bloodlines.

"I have a bad feeling. Try to form a contact with them." The Gothamite told J'onn.

The Martian's eyes glowed a deep emerald and held a focused expression.

The league was shifting in anxiety at how long it took and Batman's unease, which they all knew was always valid.

"I am afraid I can not." The martian said with a sigh.

"Why!" Green Arrow yelled now worried about Artemis.

"M'gann could be too focused on something she is unwillingly blocking me out, too far of a distance, or she may be unconscious."

"I am trying to contact Robin." Batman said pressing buttons on his bat shaped wrist computer.

The wrist computer emitted a beeping noise for a few times but went unanswered

"Let's go to their last known location." Batman commanded already out to get his jet the others following to leave.

0o0o0o0o

While Robin was staring at the paper he heard a noise from ahead.

'Do you hear that?'

''Yeah, I think we are not alone.' Artemis said drawing her bow and arrow.

'I do not hear anything' Kid said.

'I do it is around us, but the heartbeat ratio does not make sense.' Conner thought.

'What do you mean?" kaldur asked his water-bearers ready.

'I hear shuffling all around, but no heartbeats really.'

'Wind?' Kid laughed nervously in the link. The dark warehouse seemed to get a bit colder and darker. Suddenly, six figures emerged from the shadows. Their eyes widened at the looks of their enemies quickly learning this was a setup.

Two they all knew, Sportsmaster and Lex. Another seemed to look like Flash but reversed, there was a tall formidable looking man in all black with an odd helmet, another looked like M'gann but in white martian form, but the creepiest was the man with glowing eyes and looked like a walking corpse.

"Who are you!" Aqualad shouted holding his swords out.

"My son, we are all part of each of your team's family." The helmet guy said in a deep voice.

"I don't have a family." Robin said glaring at all of them with three bird-a-rangs in hand.

"Au contraire, my flying Robin the Gray-Son of Gotham." The glowing eyed man said with a wide grin that reminded Richard of The Joker.

"I don't know you." Robin glared throwing a bird-a-rang at the man only for him to swat it away like an annoying fly.

"You are my great grandson heir to the court." The talon explained stepping forward.

"Those heroes kept you all from us and we will idle no longer." Lex held venom at the word heroes.

"Flash has never mentioned you." Wally said looking at the reverse of his uncle.

"Of course he hasn't. I am a distant descendant of Malcome Thawn and Barry Allen. Although, we may not be blood you are considered family."

"You are crazy, dude." Wally said putting his goggles down ready to fight.

Aqualad looked to the guy in the black suit.

"You are my son, Kaldur'ahm. Orin took you from me when you were little. He is the villain who has filled your head with lies!" Black Manta exclaimed.

"We do not wish to fight you just come with us." Lex stepped forward to Superboy.

"You are worse than Superman and that is saying something." Conner growled at his half genetic father.

"The league has filled your heads with lies!" Sportsmaster yelled to the teens but aimed it mainly at his daughter.

0o0o0o0o

M'gann

M'gann knew very well who was standing before her. It was her younger brother, Ma'alefa'ak. The last time she saw him was on mars when they were getting beat up by the green martians.

"How could you stand for the human and green kind!" Her brother snarled.

"J'onn and my friends have given me nothing but compassion which you can have too." She looked with sadness to her little brother she once swore to protect.

"They are all lying, and now you are corrupted!" Ma'alefa'ak yelled to his sister with a sneer.

M'gann flashed back to her life on Mars. She did feel guilty for her younger brother having to deal with it alone, but he was never this angry. She could practically feel all of their emotions pushing against her mind. Her brother held pure anger, not like Conner's, he was more… tainted. The guy that claimed to be reverse Flash held a bit of malice, but more curious. Kaldur's apparent father was calm and collected as was Lex, Sportsmaster held disgust and gave his daughter a glare that no parent should direct to their child, the man with glowing eyes had no emotion whatsoever.

"I am truly sorry, Ma'akefa." She said trying to send her emotions of regret to her brother.

"Look at you! You took their form, do you hate the white Martians too now?" He said in spite, clenching his teeth like an animal.

"No, I do not."

"Lies!" He yelled and his eyes glowed a toxic green.

Conner

The monsters who stood before Conner made him want to break something, like them. The way that other martian is glaring at M'gann makes him wish he had heat vision. Lex Luthor was also someone he currently wanted to fry. He always looks so smug and it was starting to piss him off. The memory of the patches made him fill with regret as Lex held one out.

"Come with me and together we will destroy Superman." His posture was straight as a pin and his eyes held mischief.

"Superman is better than you." Superboy said. Someone being lower than Superman on his likeness scale meant they could die for all he cared. M'gann was on the top and her younger brother was plunging right by Lex as he heard the alien's yells.

"Come now, Superman does not care for a clone."

"I don't care what he thinks!" Conner clenched his fists.

"Oh, don't you?" Lex questioned.

"No." He tried to look impassive by using Black Canary's techniques of controlling anger.

"Well, did you know that there is another Kryptonian. Superman accepted her right off the bat, like a puppy to a treat." He clicked his tongue.

Conner stared blankly, but inside he was raging with fury.

"He even calls her by her name, Kara Zor-El, or Kara." He smirked and Superboy wanted to burn him to ashes.

"Superboy." The man emphasized his name mocking Conner with it.

He couldn't take it any longer, so he charged with intent to break the man.

0o0o0o0o

Artemis

How dare he come here expecting her to just waltz back into her old life. How he treated her and her sister was unforgivable. The past memories of being forced to harm Jade. Whenever Jade or she refused or held back punishment came. Staring at her poster of Alice in Wonderland came to her every night wishing she could jump down a hole, like Alice. When Jade left that is when he became unbearable. The punishments were fierce and she was broken down like a piece of shattered glass. She would never forgive that excuse of a human being. Drawing her bow she held it with perfection as if she was daring him to mock her.

"Come now, Artemis. How can you throw on a mask and forget your past?"

"I never forgot." She growled tightening her hold on the bow.

"Do they even know everything about your past?

She clenched her teeth.

"How about you screaming for Jade to come and save you."

Artemis could feel her anger rising to the point of crying.

"Your mother left you, Jade left, do you think they will stay?"

"They are my true family!" She yelled.

"Wake up Alice, this isn't Wonderland." He smirked and she fired her sharpest arrow.

0o0o0o0

Kaldur

He stood tall and bore the helmet of his king's greatest enemy. This man murdered many innocents and caused chaos to Atlantis.

"Who are you." Kaldur drew his water bearers ready for a fight.

"Your father, Kaldur'ahm. Did that wretched Orin brainwash you that much?" The man stood in a regal manner.

"My king would've told me." He stood tall like a leader back.

"Would he now? Did he tell you anything about yourself? Or did he train you like a dog to follow his commands?" Black Manta challenged trying to make his son feel doubt.

"My king as took me in, and even if your words are true, you will never be a father to me." Kaldur got into a stance empowering himself with the magic from Atlantis.

"Please, I mean you no harm." Manta grounded out.

"But I do to you." Aqualad said.

"You will come to your senses." Black Manta drew his weapon and they clashed with a bang.

0o0o0o0o

Wally

Not that he would admit it, but this guy was giving him the heebie-jeebies. Sparks of yellow and red lightning came from him and Wally did not like it one bit. Reverse Flash held an aura of someone who felt no remorse for his actions. Wally did not know why his uncle did not tell him of this man, but he will find out later.

"Ha, someone has no originality! I think my younger cousin could come up with a better suit and name." Wally laughed trying to hide his unease.

"Wallace West, also known as Kid Flash, I think you are the one lacking originality." The man stated.

"You just stooped to a teen's level!" Kid laughed

"Join me, Wallace. We must stop Barry from creating Flashpoint." He said with such seriousness that made Wally almost believe him.

"The future must be saved." The lightning became a darker color.

Sure, run from your problems." Wally grinned.

"Oh, I'll run alright." The man gave a grin like the Joker's and the lightning got even darker to Kid's dismay.

Wally didn't even see him coming.

0o0o0o0o

Richard

"Gray-son of Gotham." The freak acted like someone who greeted a past friend with delight.

"Excuse me, but I have no clue what that means." Robin equipped himself with more bird-a-rangs.

"The Bat has taken you from your lineage and destiny." His eyes glowing made the bird feel like he was looking into his soul.

"Yeah, I don't know man." Robin said acting exasperated.

"Gray-Son you were meant to be Talon. The leader of the Court of Owls and we do not appreciate the Bat intervening."

"Sorry, you're going to have to take it up with him." Robin threw a bird-a-rang again. The man looked annoyed and caught it between his fingers in front of his face. Flicking it aside he glanced up at the bird with pity.

"You can be so much better. This is pathetic I have expected more from you, Richard."

The dark shrouded everyone with visible light.

"Still don't know what you are talking about or who you are. I mean why not just leave me alone, because that would be whelming."

"Your words are puerile, Gray-son. We will have to work on that.

"Who are you?"

"William Cobb." The man grinned eerily and somehow just that look made him more frightening than Batman or the Joker.

"Pathetic." Cobb sneered and threw a dagger with accuracy and with vast speed at Robin, who barely dodged in time.

"You have much to learn, my Gray-son

0o0o0o0o

The fight was all over the place. Speed, strength, and endurance keeping the teens going. They tried to talk in the link, but M'gann's mind battle seemed to be taking up her focus, so no link. Wally was hardly dodging and his defense was poor compared to the man. Wally was convinced Reverse Flash was messing with him like a cat with a mouse. Superboy was down due to a new kryptonite weapon Lex used. Currently, Artemis was guarding him and fighting both Lex and Sportmaster off with difficulty. Robin flipped with a grace that reminded Cobb of his son. He truly was his gray-son, although he needed a lot more training and the pesky taunts needed to be gone. Robin would be quite easy to take down, but Cobb was entertained by the flips. Aqualad and his father is in a violent, yet elegant sword battle. The villains heard the sound of a jet and they knew the league was here.

"We shall give you one week to decide. Remember Wallace, Flashpoint." Reverse Flash said and sped off in a blur taking Sportsmaster and Lex with him. Black Manta gave his son a slight nod and jumped out the window to the water below. M'gann's brother growled and brain blasted M'gann to the ground, only to vanish. William stood high in the center of the warehouse with no intention to leave.

"Dude, you are toast." Wally laughed as the league burst through the doors.

"Get away from them!" Wonder Woman yelled throwing her sword like a javal it pierced the air. Cobb merely caught it with a twist. Now holding the Amazonian's sword he gave a gruff laugh.

"Pathetic." His eyes pierced sharper.

"Who are you?" Batman asked his eyes peering at the man who held a familiar face.

"William Cobb, I am here to take my Gray-son back." The sword was thrown at the Bat with speed to rival Flash.

Luckily, Superman was quicker and shielding his friend.

"You have ruined our lineage, so now the court it out for your head." Cobb said.

The heroes tensed when he turned his back to them.

"One week." He looked at Robin and left through the window.

The league hurried to help the kids.