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"Damn it we're trapped. How the hell are we going to get out of this one especially with all these students here? We can't just break out a fight here. They'll learn our secret id and could get hurt. What are we going…." He whispered.

"Calm down Wally. Getting yourself all worked up isn't going to help. Let's just bide our time and wait for a plan and the opportunity to present themselves." whispered Caldor. Nightwing, Aqua Lad, Kid Flash, Miss Martian, and Artemis were all in a small group in the conference room of Lex Luthor's new Cadnes facility trying not to draw attention to them. They were among about 20 students from Gotham High that were kidnapped during school. They had been kidnapped as well. Until they were taken here, the team had no idea the kidnappings were occurring. They knew something strange was happening so they went undercover using fake names to try and figure out what was going on.

"Hey, you 5; what are you whispering about," Lex Luthor questioned.

"Nothin'," the teens said in unison hoping they didn't sound suspicions.

"Watch them. I think there planning something," the leader said to his thugs.

One spoke up and asked, "There just a bunch of kids boss. What could they possibly do?"

"O, just watch them." The irritation was evident in his voice after that and no one dared challenge him.

"Alright boss. No need to get angry."

"God. They don't make minions like they use to. Doctor, is the machine almost ready?"

"Yes, but we need a test subject. Who should it be?" said the Doctor in a strong Romanian accent while he scouted the room for the subject.

"None of us thank you very much," said a girl about their age. She had blond hair, brown eyes, and looked extremely weak. It made since though since she was an extreme book worm and nerd. Little did everyone know that looks can be deceiving.

Everyone was taken aback by her sudden outburst, even the Doctor, but he was the 1st to recover, "Well wouldn't you make a perfect specimen?" A malevolent smile spread across his ghostly face.

"Hey leave her alone," Nightwing yelled, but no one was listening to him because the girl was speaking again.

"Who the hell are you calling a specimen you psychotic bastered?" Her anger and bravery surprised everyone. Most weak nerds at this point would be trembling in a corner, but not her. Nightwing caught her eye for a moment and realized that she wasn't afraid not in the least. He thought he must have been mistaken because in her eyes, he saw something familiar, something that challenged and intimidated him.

"You will do perfectly. Put her in the chamber." His malicious laugh rang through the room causing shivers to run the spines of everyone in the room.

"Hey get your fithy hands off of me." She was thrashing and yelling by now, but Nightwing was sure now that she wasn't scared. It was more like she was acting like that to make sure that they used her.

He was shaken out of his thoughts when Artemis said, "We have to do something. We have no idea what that thing could do, but knowing Cadnise it can't be good."

"Wait, something seems wrong about this whole thing." Nightwing was trying to decide whether or not to voice his thoughts from earlier When Lex Luthor called to the Doctor, "Activate the machine."

It took everything they had to not jump up and do something. The chamber closed and we all her the girl screaming. White smoke was billowing out of the machine and the Doctor was flipping switches and pressing buttons all over the control panel. Then everything stopped: the Doctor stopped pressing buttons, lights stopped blinking, and thankfully the screaming stopped.

"Well, did it work Doctor?" Everyone was on pins and needles wondering what the Doctor had done. The chamber opened, smoke billowed out, and where everyone thought they would see a monster, a human figure was clear. Then out of the smoke came a sarcastic snicker that rang throughout the room, one that Nightwing recognized immediately.

"Sorry, but no Lexi, it did not." Nightwing immediately knew who it was because he had heard her call Lex Luthor that pet name a thousand times. It was…