My life outside the Mythical World

Auld Acquaintance

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Percy's POV

Percy sat cross-legged on the floor of the Cave, Wolf the gigantic white beast laid next to her as Percy stroked its fur. The wolf reminded her very much of Artemis the goddess and her last encounter with the deity, it had not been a fun adventure. The quest had been over for months now, yet the daughter of Poseidon still found herself waking up in the middle of the night breathing hard from bad dreams. Her demigod adventure is not done, in fact, it is far, far from done. Luke is still out there, Kronos is still out there, gathering forces and doing gods knows what. Percy can't worry about that right now, she had her own problems right here, right now. She glanced over at the rest of the Team, no doubt yesterday's incident was still fresh on their minds.

"We have reason to feel proud of yesterday's victories," Kaldur said. "But one thing has not changed."

Robin nodded in agreement. "Somehow, the bad guys are still getting intel about us."

Kid Flash crossed his arms. "Yeah, but at least we know none of us is the mole." At this, Percy's legal guardian - Batman - turned around from his work by the holo screen.

"That's correct," His voice was as gruff as ever. "The mole was Red Arrow."

Percy's eyes went as wide as sled bells. "Roy?" She exclaimed. "No way."

"But he was Green Arrow's protege." Miss Martian added.

"Yeah, w-we have all known him for years!" Robin exclaimed.

Red Tornado looked up from his work across from Batman. "Unfortunately, the Roy Harper we have known for the last three years is another Project Cadmus clone."

Batman took the conversation from there. "We've learned the real Speedy was abducted and replaced immediately after becoming Green Arrow's sidekick. The clone was pre-programmed with a drive to join the Justice League."

At this, Percy's masked eyes narrowed. Hold on...did Batman just refer to Roy as a sidekick? He had never referred to him or any of them as sidekicks before. If there is one thing she had learned over the last few years of training and working with Bruce was how much he values and respects his co-workers. Sure he was hard on her and Dick, but he did it with a reason: to prepare them for the real world. She could not name the number of times she had used the skills he taught to survive on the numerous dangerous quests she had gone on. So for Batman to call someone a sidekick...something is really wrong here.

"Which is why he was so angry over any delays to his admission," RT added. "And why he refused to join the Team. This Roy Harper had no idea he was a clone or a traitor and his subconscious programming drove him to become League-worthy. So he struck out on his own as Red Arrow. When he was finally admitted, his secondary programming kicked in. He attempted to betray the League to Vandal Savage."

"But fortunately, I had already deduced Red Arrow was a clone," Batman continued RT's words. "We were prepared."

"Savage was subdued, but Red Arrow escaped," RT said. "He is now a fugitive, armed and dangerous."

Superboy rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "If you guys hadn't rescued me from Cadmus," He said carefully, the thought of what Cadmus might have sent him to do frightened him. Percy shot the guy a soft smile.

"But you are not under their control anymore, you're free." She reassured him.

"So what happened to the real Roy?" Kaldur pressed. "Where is the real Roy Harper?"

"We don't know," Batman said. "He isn't at Cadmus. We have to face the possibility that the real Roy Harper is...dead."

The word stung, Percy is having trouble processing the information. She had known Roy for years, the clone Roy, the one she had fought alongside whenever the Arrow teamed up with the Bat. He was like an older brother, after what went down six months ago at the Hall of Justice, they hadn't talked and lost contact, Percy assumed the guy just needed space, he is, after all, a legal adult. Percy is more worried about Dick and the other two boys who had known Roy as long as she had, they were much closer to the older boy than she was.