CONCEAL, DON'T FEEL [✓]

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"What's going on?" Alexis asked as Miss Martian had pulled at Nightwing's collar to reveal the back of his neck. "There is something in there. But I can't get it out."

"Show me." Alexis said as Miss Martian's eyes glowed and it revealed an implant on his spinal cord. Alexis' eyes went wide in fear and shock as she saw it before she looked at Miss Martian.

"M'gann, I need you to help me get him to the medbay now!" Alexis shouted as Miss Martian nodded and used her telepathy and took Nightwing to the medbay.
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"What do we have to do?" Miss Martian asked as her and Superboy tried to hold Nightwing down while he struggled. "Now that you guys are holding him still, I'm going to have to cool that chip down in his neck."

"How?"

"You know that feeling you get when you have a brain freeze?" Alexis asked as Miss Martian and Superboy nodded. "Well, that's how it's going to feel on him except it would hurt twice that much."

"But wait, won't that kill him?"

"Now, I hate him, but I don't hate him that much to kill him. And besides, I'm not that powerful enough to kill him." Alexis assured before she placed her hands gently against the back of his head. She slowly began to freeze the back of his neck, causing him to jerk violently and scream in pain.

"Hang in there, team leader. Hang on." Alexis whispered as she stopped used the ice to take out the chip, which had sunk into his skin and began to push the chip out. Just as the chip got out, the ice quickly covered his neck and began to heal the wound while Alexis picked up the chip.

"Ow! Ow. Hot! Hot!" She whisper shouted as she threw the chip from hand to hand at the contact of the flaming hot touch.

"What is that thing?" Miss Martian asked as Alexis took a closer look. All of a sudden, Alexis felt a bite and she yelled in pain as the chip fell out of her hand. The chip changed into some kind of bug, but Alexis was quick to blast it with her powers and destroy before it could get to anyone else.

"Well, it's dead, that's for sure. But, I recognized that chip. My dad use to work for this company that created chips to give clones emotions, feelings." Alexis explained as Miss Martian's green skin grew cold. She knew Superboy had his super hearing and she knew he would come over because he would be curious.

"What do you mean, give clones feelings?" They both heard Superboy ask as Miss Martian's suspicion was confirmed.

"He wanted to make clones into real people. He didn't want them to be robotic clones. He wanted them to feel, fall in love, feel sad, feel angry, feel happy. All of the above. But something went wrong and the company was shut down before I was born." Alexis explained as Miss Martian and Superboy looked at each other.

"Well, that's impossible." Miss Martian said as Alexis furrowed her eyebrows. "What do you mean?"

"Superboy is a clone and he was created 5 years ago." Alexis' eyes went wide as she looked at Superboy and then back at Miss Martian. "How? My Dad told me that they stopped making clones before I was born. I don't understand."

"Maybe your Dad didn't know?" Miss Martian suggested as Alexis thought it over. Alexis shook her head before she looked at Nightwing.

"I don't know. But whatever the case is, someone is still making those chips and they got to Nightwing." Alexis said as she sighed and looked back at the two. "You're worried about him, aren't you?"

"I mean, I guess. I still hate him, but I don't want anything to happen to him. There won't be anyone to lead if something happens." Alexis said as Miss Martian and Superboy looked at each other once again.

"Actually, the team thought that if anything happens to Nightwing, it would be either Superboy or me or one of the Justice Leaguers to lead us. That was the plan." Alexis nodded before smiling slightly. "Good plan B."

"Uhh.." The three heard as they looked to see Nightwing getting up from off the medical bed. "Woah, woah! Nightwing settle down!" Superboy said as Nightwing held his head.

"Where's Frostbite? Where's Alexis?! I need to apologize!"

Alexis and Miss Martian's jaws dropped as they looked from each other and then back towards Nightwing and Superboy.

"Okay. What the hell?"