guilty, forcing the two to briefly hide from the law. The two encountered an explorer named Victor Volcanum, whom Knockout hoped Superboy would kill as a sign of deference to her. Superboy refused, and thus Knockout killed Volcanum instead. Upon seeing Knockout's true colors, Superboy managed to defeat her and bring her into custody. Knockout never escaped custody for the rest of the Superboy series, as anti-gravity items were used to keep her restrained. In the storyline Hypertension, Superboy met a number of variations of Knockouts during his journey through Hypertime, one of which was an agent of Black Zero, an alternate adult version of Superboy. Another notable version gave her life to save Superboy and the Challengers of the Unknown from a horde of rampaging Doomsdays. Since then she has been revealed to be on the loose and has joined up with the Society as seen in Villains United. In that book, she was revealed to have joined the Society as a mole at the request of her lover, Scandal Savage, a member of the Secret Six. Secret Six Knockout joined the Secret Six alongside Scandal. The team successfully assassinated a jail warden in North Korea, allowing the Secret Six to relax for a time. Each member celebrated in his or her own way when a team of assassins attacked each member, save Catman. Knockout was almost killed when she was shot by an assassin with a Thanagarian sniper rifle. The shot implanted a bomb in her skin and when Scandal refused to leave her side, she threw Scandal from the blast range telling her they would meet again in the afterlife. After the bomb went off, Scandal scrambled through the debris to find Knockout miraculously still alive, though horribly burned and unconscious. Knockout received medical treatment for her extensive injuries but recovered fully due to her body's Apokoliptian regenerative capabilities. Knockout rejoined the Secret Six in hopes of finding the person behind their attempted assassinations, but was injured when Rag Doll attacked them due to Doctor Psycho's manipulations, although her regeneration prevented any lasting damage. Although she was Scandal's lover, Knockout was found having sex with Deadshot, when Scandal caught the two in the act. It was revealed that Knockout had slept with Floyd because she misunderstood the sexual exclusivity of her relationship with Scandal; Apokolips lacks any similar social convention and she was surprised but apologetic that