Fireworks

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Washington D.C

"Time runs short. You must awaken. You must awaken now!" My eyes shot open as if someone had doused my body in ice cold water. I was illuminated in a green light, the rest were a normal blinding white.

My body felt weak and my streanght was gone. Leading me to thinking my pod had kryptonite emitters in it. 'Great'

The clone stood watching the three of us as we hung in individual capsules next to each other. "What? What do you want?" Wally asked.

The cloned eyed him. "Quit staring. You're creeping me out." Wally said.

"Uh, KF, why not piss off the guy that can fry us with a look?" I said looking at the boy.

"We only sought to help you." Kaldur said to the boy.

Wally didn't take the hint to stop agitating the superboy more than he had to this point. "Yeah, we free you, and you turn on us. How's that for grat—"

"Kid, please, be quiet now. I believe our new friend was not in full control of his actions." Kaldur said.

"What if I.. what if I wasn't?" Superboy said quietly. This surprised us seeing as he'd only grunted at us so far.

"He can talk?" Wally asked.

"Yea he can."

"Great you pissed him off genius." I scolded. Superboy turned his eyes onto me. He seemed to be looking at my chest. "Dude, my eyes are up here." I said shifting in my restraints.

"That symbol on your chest. You're Astria." He said. I nodded. The suit I wore had the symbol my father dawn on his suit too.

"You know me?" I asked, my eyebrows furrowed in slight curiosity.

"The genomorphs thought you telepathically." Kaldur said.

"They taught me much. I can read, write. I-I know the names of things and some people." Superboy explained.

"But have you seen them." Robin chimed in. "Have they ever actually let you see the sky? Or the sun?"

"Images are implanted in my mind, but no. I have not seen them." He replied.

"Do you know what you are, who you are?" I asked. My heart kinda broke for him. I mean he didn't choose to be cloned and he seemed to have an entire mind of his own.

"I am the Superboy, a Genomorph, a clone made from the DNA of the Superman. Created to replace him should he perish... to destroy him should he turn from the light."

We looked at each other in concern. "To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration but you deserve a life of your own, beyond that solar suit, beyond Cadmus."

"I live because of Cadmus." He argued "It is my home!"

"Superboy, just because they gave you life it doesn't mean they have a right to control you. Is this how you want to live the rest of your life? Under the telepathic control of another being that doesn't see you as anything but a weapon? Living out of a test tube?" I question the boy.

He looked at me as if contemplating our words. "We can show you the sun."

"I'm pretty sure it's after midnight. But we can show you the moon." Wally said. 

"We can show you, introduce you to Superman." Kaldur offered.

"No. They can't." True head scientists and Guardian walked in. "They'll be otherwise occupied. Activate the cloning process."

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