Young Justice Transforms
Chapter 1
Aqualad sat in the chair of his personal room, located in the watch tower, it had been 6 months since the defeat of the reach, and since Wally's sacrifice. Since then multiple new heroes have joined the team, such as Starfire, Cyborg, Raven, Red Hood, the new Robin (after Tim Drake became nightwing due to Dick Grayson's "Death") and Supergirl. Things had been running smoothly throughout the league and the team, although on Aqualad's last mission, he and Batman discovered something at the new, more corrupt Cadmus, and had brought it to the watchtower.
"Kalder?" At the sound of the female voice he snapped from thought and returned to reality before turning to his door to see Artemis in her usual clothing.
" My apologise, what did you say?" He asked before she walked inside and gave him a stern look.
"After your last mission you haven't been acting, the same, what's wrong?" She asked and he gave her a fake look of confusion.
"Nothing is wrong; in fact, everything is quite right at the moment." He said with a smile but she just shot him a stern look.
"You're a terrible liar, and I want to know something before I leave the team." Artemis added and Kalder lost his smile and sighed. Artemis was leaving the team due to her mother moving to a small town known as Jasper in Nevada, and Artemis was being forced to go with her mother, but just to help out M'gann and Connor were moving there as well, in Artemis' opinion they were the greatest friends anyone could have.
"I apologise, but I can't say, Batman's orders." He said while looking down and she rolled her eyes.
"When have we ever followed Batman's orders?" Artemis asked and Kalder sighed.
"Tigress, Aqualad, Miss Martian, Superboy, come to watchtower main area effective immediately." A familiar voice said over the P.A system, forcing the two to leave their conversation for later. They both put their uniforms on with Artemis becoming Tigress and Kalder becoming Aqualad, before heading to the main area of the watchtower where Batman, Miss Martian and Superboy were waiting. Superboy now owned a suit built at the fortress of solitude, that suppressed his human side without him turning into a blood thirsty, anger machine.
"You wanted to see us Batman." Aqualad said and got a nod from the dark knight as a response.
"Exactly 23 hours ago, Aqualad, Robin, Starfire, Zatana and I infiltrated the new corrupt Cadmus, there we shut down all mechanical projects, as there was only one Organic project." Batman explained and Aqualad sighed, knowing that Batman was about to reveal why his was in a state of slight fear. Batman swiped his hand and pressed a few buttons on the holographic screen before an image of what looked to be a 12 year old boy wearing a skin tight, white outfit with a strange symbol in red on his chest, inside an identical pod as to the one Aqualad, Robin and Kid Flash located Superboy in.
"This boy was that project, along with this." Batman said before a second image of a giant, red and blue, half destroyed robot appeared on the screen.
"Batman, what's going on?" Miss Martian asked and Batman pulled up an audio file titled "Project TF"
'Day 43, log 173, our attempts to fuse subject T with subject F have so far proven unsuccessful, the others are saying that this is Project EO all over again, but I will do it! I will fuse this alien robot into a human!' The audio file ended and the three individuals just looked in shock while Superboy looked in anger.
"At the moment this boy is stuck in some sort of sleep mode, it's as if he's in a coma, only ten times worse, and if this boy does not wake up soon, his vitals will cease." Batman explained and Miss Martian caught onto what he was implying.
"You want us to go into his mind and wake him up, don't you?" She asked and Batman sighed and pulled up an x-ray of the boy to show metallic substances and wiring going throughout his body and linking with his organs.
"I want you to try, though from what we can tell we aren't even sure if his brain is functional in this, stasis." Batman Explained and the four nodded in understanding. Batman lead them down to the room in which the boy and the giant robot remained. Superboy looked and got slightly mad that the boy was still in a pod but shook it off as batman opened it.
"Ready?" Miss Martian asked and the three nodded in response, before she activated her psychic abilities and linked them all together.
"We have limited time, go in, find the boy, and get him out." Batman instructed and the four of them nodded. Miss Martian took a deep breath before attempting to link with the boy's mind, successfully, the four felt themselves enter the boy's mind before falling onto something cold and hard.
"That hurt." Tigress said as they all sat up and looked around their current surroundings, to see a giant, metal, city of some sort.
"A giant metal city, greeeeeaaaaat." Superboy said as he rolled his eyes slightly in sarcasm.
"Miss Martian, can you find anyone?" Aqualad asked, in response Miss Martian raised a hand to the side of her head and her eyes glowed bright green for a few moments before returning to normal.
"I've got something, it's faint but alive, it could be our missing boy." She explained before pointing towards a large, half destroyed structure. Miss Martian used her telekinesis and lifted Aqualad and Tigress before the four of them took off for the structure.
"I'm guessing this was the reason you were feeling uneasy before?" Tigress asked and Aqualad sighed and nodded in response.
"I'm not sure what, but there's something about this boy that doesn't seem right." He said before the four of them arrived at the structure, it was by far the biggest out of the buildings in sight. They walked into what they thought was the courtyard to see a giant statue of a robot with a gun on its right arm.
"Does anyone have any idea where we are?" Superboy asked and Tigress and Aqualad shook their heads in response.
"I think I might." Miss Martian said as she stepped forward to get a closer look at the statue.
"Years ago Uncle J'hann would tell me stories about a planet completely made of metal, holding a race of autonomous robot organisms that could think and feel like any other race." She explained and Aqualad thought about the theory before he was cut off a by some sort of explosion just next to them, knocking Tigress, Aqualad and Miss Martian over, but due to his suit Superboy only felt a breeze.
"What the hell was that?" Tigress asked before something moving was caught out of the corner of her eye; she redirected her attention to the top of a wall and saw what looked to be the giant robot that lay next to them in the physical world, only it was fixed and instead of a hand had a giant gun.
"Stay back!" It yelled in a very deep voice, causing them to prepare to fight, although Miss Martian stepped forward.
"We mean you no harm." She said and the robot squinted his eyes before jumping down, allowing the group to get a clear view.
"Who are you?" He asked forcefully and raised the gun to them.
"You are each of a different race, Atlantian, Martian, Kryptonian, and Human." It said and the four looked in surprise.
"I'm Miss Martian, these are my teammates, Superboy, Tigress and Aqualad." Miss Martian explained although the robot just looked in suspicion.
"I am Optimus Prime." He said and Miss Martian looked in surprise.
"Optimus Prime, leader of the Autobots?" She asked and Optimus nodded in response before his gun morphed into a hand.
"May I ask why you have come here?" He asked respectfully and the group relaxed knowing that he wouldn't attack them.
"23 hours ago we located your body, along with a young boy, from what we could tell you and the boy were forcefully fused together, we rescued both your bodies but the boy seems to be in a comma of some sort, and your body seemed dead. We came here to attempt to wake the boy up and save his life." Aqualad explained and Optimus took a deep breath.
"There is a second conscience here, that of a 12 year old boy named Levi Plestart. I have been able to communicate with him mentally, although since you arrived that connection has been cut off." He explained before lowering a hand, it morphed to reveal the young boy unconscious, allowing the team to sigh in relief.
"If you awaken him I believe my conscience will return to my own body." Optimus said and Aqualad smiled.
"Let us hope that is the case." Aqualad said before nodding at Miss Martian. She kneeled down next to Levi and placed a hand on his forehead, but as she activated her psychic powers she pulled away in shock and fear.
"What's wrong?" Tigress asked as she kneeled down next to her friend.
"So much pain..." She mumbled before snapping back into sense.
"It just, scared me, I can finish the process." She reassured and replaced her hand on his forehead while taking a deep breath; she reactivated her psychic powers and jolted slightly, but calmed down soon after, before anyone could react they were pulled out of the mind world and were back in the real world.
"Did you do it?" Batman asked but before they could answer Levi scrunched his eyes, began moving his head side to side, and mumbled incoherent things, as if he was having a nightmare.
"Miss Martian." Aqualad said and in response Miss Martian read Levi's mind.
"He's reliving the experiments at Cadmus." She said with a slight bit of fear in her voice, she could see him in extreme pain, being tortured, losing fights against other Cadmus experiments, being hurt to the point of losing consciousness. As she saw this a tear ran down M'gann's cheek, she couldn't stand to watch it, so she didn't, she left his mind and backed away, jaw dropped.
"M'gann?" Superboy said and she just looked at him, teary eyed.
"He's been through so much pain, suffering, I couldn't stand to see that happen to someone at his age." She said and covered her face, shaking, holding back tears. What she saw was haunting; it reminded her of how she was treated as a white Martian. Superboy held her close, hoping to calm her down slightly, Levi kept waving his head around with tears streaming down his face, before he calmed down and slowly opened his eyes, revealing them to be azure.
"Levi Plestart?" Aqualad asked as Levi's eyesight adjusted, he looked around in surprise, and fear. He panicked and within a split second he was at the other side of the room holding up his hands, as the morphed into blasters, at the same time he was shaking vigorously.
"Stay back." He said scarcely and moved the blasters from person to person.
"Levi, calm down, we aren't going to hurt you." Tigress said as she tried to take a step forward.
"I said stay back!" Levi step as he jerked his gun and Tigress took a step back.
"M'gann." Superboy said and she nodded before linking minds with Levi.
'Calm down Levi, I know you must be scared at the moment, but I promise we aren't going to hurt you.' She thought and he heard every word, though it did nothing and he just stood his ground, M'gann could feel how scared he was, he was terrified.
"Put me in. I'll talk to him, we're similar." Superboy said and Miss Martian nodded before adding him into the link.
'Levi, I know you're scared, I was too, we're alike Levi, I was a Cadmus experiment too, but I had my friends to help me through that fear, even though it looked like I was angry, I was scared for my life.' He thought and Levi just panicked a sight bit more.
'I only had one friend in Cadmus and now I don't know where he is.' Levi thought and Miss Martian sighed, they were too far away from Cadmus to find the person.
"Levi, they mean you no harm, they are attempting to help you." The group turned to see the half destroyed body of Optimus, sitting up and functioning.
"Optimus?" Levi asked and Optimus nodded in response.
"He's right Levi, I promise, I won't hurt you." Miss Martian said as she slowly walked towards Levi. She got close enough and he lowered his blasters before they morphed back into his hands.
"I saw what you've been through, felt your pain." She said and he shed a tear, even the thought of Cadmus was enough to make him feel pain. Miss Martian leaned down in front of him and placed both her hands on his shoulders, before embracing him in a hug.
"It's okay." She said warmly as he calmed them.
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