Episode/Chapter 23 - No Mercy

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"So can we really trust you?" Nightwing crossed his arms as Klarion stood before the team.

"Of course. If you couldn't, I'd be attacking you all right now, wouldn't I?" Klarion smiled. 

"He has a point..." Beast Boy shrugged. 

"So you have news?" Aqualad asked. 

"Yep. Information that the Light doesn't even know I have." Klarion said as he took out a flashdrive, stuck into a port in the cave computer, and typed in the pass-code. 

"How do you know the code?" Alacrity asked. 

"Easy. Vandal's daughter: Scandal. Stupid Vandal..." Klarion rolled his eyes as he simply got past all the security and codes. Teekl meowed, making Klarion annoyed, "I'm going as fast as I could! Stupid cat..." 

"We don't have all day." Nightwing peered his eyes at Klarion. 

"Yeah, yeah. Hold your hairs..." Klarion rolled his eyes again, "there." 

As the flash-drive opened, dozens of folders were opened, revealing documents and blueprints. Blueprints of teleportation devices and time machines. The documents were mostly criminal accounts stolen from police departments across the country. 

"Who are these villains?" Superboy asked as Oracle scrolled through the documents. 

"Wait... I recognize some of them... Oh! They're my friends! But why are they accounted as villains? They're not bad!" Miss Martian turned to Klarion. 

"Hmph. Or so you thought. You children are so naive... Protex, Fluxus, Züm, Primaid, Tronix, Armek, and Zenturion, they're all on here. Know why? They're all part of the evil White Martian version of the Light, Hyperclan." Klarion flipped to a different document, displaying a candid photo of the Hyperclan. 

"That's them

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"That's them... But... How could they do this?" Miss Martian questioned. 

"I dunno... World domination? The usual thing any villain wants." Klarion shrugged. 

"Coming from a villain, he's probably right, Hermano..." Blue Beetle said. 

"What's this?" Night Owl pointed out a file that wasn't opened yet.

Klarion opened it up, and read the title, "Project R.F. and C.B... I have no clue what this is..." There was nothing in the file except for a list of names, "Ooh, now this is interesting!" Nightwing turned to Kid Flash, who just shrugged, then rolled his eyes.

Nightwing sighed as Miss Martian turned to the list of names, and read a few off, "Peter Merkel Jr., Frances Kane, Cisco Ramon, Michael Christian Amar, Richard Swift, who are these people?" 

"Wait, that name right there." Artemis pointed at one of the names, "Rose Canton." 

"It's Rose!" Kid Flash walked up to the list, "does she have any connection to these other people?" 

"Oh, and Caitlin Snow and Leonard Snart. Killer Frost and Captain Cold. Two people that are related in some way..." Wonder Girl said. 

"And Lisa Snart? Is that his sister? Huh. Never really heard of her before..." Batgirl considered. 

"I really don't see a connection here..." Flamebird said as she pondered over the names. 

"We can take care of this later. Right now, let's focus on the main plan." Nightwing told Klarion. 

"Okey dokey. So here they have a file of where they're meeting, what they plan on doing, who their partners are, who they're contacting, how, when, where, all that jazz." Klarion continued sifting through files as Teekl meowed. 

"So who are they working with right now?" Jet asked. 

"Well, the Hyperclan for starters... the entire Light has reunited minus myself, and of course, can't forget about Red X." Klarion answered and nodded. 

"So what happened to the Dark?" Superboy asked, sounding a tad bit annoyed by Klarion already. 

"Ah. Psimon and Black Manta were re-admitted into the Light. But as for me, I was, and I quote, 'too sophomoric and reckless to join the Light'... Even though that's definitely what they look for in a villain..." 

"Yeesh. Rejection hurts, doesn't it?" Speedy chuckled a little. 

"So if you want my help, you have to cooperate." Klarion turned and tried to measure up to Nightwing. 

"Do we call the League on this one?" 

"No need. They'd have me locked up on the spot." 

"He's got a point." Kid Flash shrugged, "maybe avoid the League. How about more... Teens..." 

"Teen Titans." Nightwing nodded in agreement, "we can call in the Flock on this one, too." Nightwing then remembered that there were more teens he could call in. Most of all, he turned to the teen standing in the back of the entire group. Nightwing walked past everyone and up to Red X, "Look, Tim. You're lucky you just dodged a bullet. Seeing that there's another Red X out there just saved your butt. Will you help fight alongside us? As whoever you choose." 

Red X looked at Nightwing, at the rest of the team, at Klarion, then back at Nightwing as he took his mask off, "I'll go as Red Robin. It's in my blood, and it's who I was meant to be." 

"Good." Nightwing nodded, then turned back forward to Klarion, "so where are they meeting now?" 

"Hall of Justice. In an hour." Klarion smirked, "better get going, then." 

"Yeah. We'll call the Titans, the Flock, and we'll gather up more teens we know of that could help us out here." Nightwing announced, "we'll wait here for the rest of them, and as soon as everyone gets here, we'll split up squads, and we'll go do justice against the Light and put them all down once and for all. No mercy." 

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