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Secret Cadmus base in South Africa
The mission was a success. Yesterday, Batman discovered another hidden Cadmus base, this one in South Africa.The Team just sneaked inside, cuffed the scientists that were working there, retrived the hostages and downloaded all files and sent it to Batman for further investigation.
Right now, the 5 scientists were standing before the bioship, with Aqualad guarding them. Miss Martian and Superboy were inside the bioship, calming the hostages and preparing it for the long flight to Mount Justice. Or maybe they were just doing something else.
Robin, Kid Flash and Artemis were standing in silence on the other side of the base.
"There is something bothering me about this mission," Robin finally said. "I mean, it´s Cadmus, right? Always super hightech, with all those security systems, alarms and armed guards? Why does it feels to me that this was almost too easy?
"Dude, chill out" Kid Flash started, in his typical manner. "All the missions doesn´t have to be hard. Anyway, this is South Africa, why would Cadmus have an important facility here?" Hetoucheda light bruise on his forehead. "Hey, lets get something to eat, I´m starving like hell! I don´t even have enough energy to heal this little wound".
"How did you even get that? We didn´t have a fight," Robin asked, with amused look on his face.
"Um, you know, I´m always ahead of you, and one of the scientist took me by surprise with a dining tray. Would you believe that?" Wally quickly mumbled, his eyes looking anywhere else than to Robin´s domino masque.
Artemis, who stood silent all the time and was watching the jungle far away under their feet through the giant window, suddenly turned to them. "No they didn´t! I saw you ran to a glass counter! Idiot." Although her voice sounded like always, as if she was mocking Wally, but Robin could see little sparks of amusement deep in her eyes.
"Yeah, whatever," replied the redhead, suddenly preoccupied with watching M´gann and Conner walking out of the bioship, holding their hands.
All of sudden, the speedster could see as one of the scientists got his hands out of the handcuffs and pressed a switch he´d been hiding all the time and wall of flames busted out in the middle of the room, effectively cutting the three heroes out of the bioship and the rest of their team.
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Other side of the room
Superboy watched in horror as the flames spread from the sides of the room to the middle, hiding his three teammates from his sight.
M´gann slightly staggered, as the Martians were vulnerable to fire. Superboy quickly strengthened his grip on her, but she just said, with eyes full of fear: "I´m fine, the fire is not close enough to hurt me, but I think it´s blocking my telepathy. Leave me here, go help Kaldur." The clone nodded shortly before storming of to the wall of fire.
Kaldur was standing there with helpless look on his face. His hand was pressed to his ear. He welcomed the cloned with troubled look.
"The comm links are jammed. And I can´t see through that fire. But maybe you could get through."
He stepped aside, his fishy green eyes watching the Kryptonians furious face.
Conner was almost in the flames, when he felt his hand being burned. He yanked with his hand away, confusedly looking at it. He felt sharp, but not agonizing pain and smelled charred fabric of his T-shirt.
"I–I don´t understand," his confused eyes looked at his hand and then at the Atlantean. "This never happened."
"Of course you can´t pass through that fire," answered the one scientist that pressed the button switch with an evil frown on his face. "We modified the fire so its wavelength matches the red sun rays. You don´t have any powers right now."
His typical, furious expression settled itself on Superboy´s face. But before Conner could jump on the scientist and wipe the smirk out of his face, he revealed another switch in his other hand and pressed the button.
This one was linked with explosives set on the other side of the room.