Chapter 1
Fireworks
It was like waking up for the first time in years but I knew I hadn't been alive that long. I only knew this because of the information I was given by the genomorphs. I could hear muffled voices around me though it was hard to distinguish through the glass of my containment pod. I could faintly make out someone, from the sounds of it someone quite young or around my age, telling I'm assuming others about 'Project SuperTwins' , and another voice arguing saying that this is wrong and to free us. Now this sounded like a good idea until I felt the Gnomes beginning to take over my mind.
I knew what we were and why we had to be hidden. I was the Supergirl and with my brother the Superboy we were to replace Superman If anything happened to him or destroy him should he turn from The Light. Together we are 'Project SuperTwins'. When my mind finally became my own I was aware of two things, the way the room was practically destroyed and my brother walking towards the door only to rip it open as I was walking towards him to stand next to him as walked towards us only to look at the fallen sidekicks and smirk.
"Atta' boy, " Was the first thing he told brother as we stood there emotionless not quite used to being free "Good girl." he told me on his way out of the room to talk to the man I knew as Guardian. He said he had an important meeting to have and to put the 'weapons' ,which I knew to be us, back in our pods. When he was down the hall the Guardian turned to us.
"You two have been in there for awhile why don't you take the prisoners down to the cloning room and stretch your legs?" He asked though it came out as more of a demand. Brother picked up the two larger sidekicks, one with red hair and wore a costume similar to that of the Flash, and another male with dark skin and had the symbol of Aquaman. I took the smallest male who I was able to recognize as Robin the sidekick of Batman. As we were walking I was wondering who got what powers as we were not given that information. That was about when my feet started to leave the ground and I gave a sharp gasp. I was able to gain control of myself rather quickly and fly after brother as he did not wait for me. When we got to the cloning room we quickly put the prisoners in pods, and stood back to wait for them to awaken. They all woke up at the same time with a sharp gasp and stared at us until the one who looked like Flash spoke,
"What!? What do you want!?, " but we kept staring because of the loss of words, "quit staring you're creepin' me out!" he demanded , "KF how about we not tick off the people who could fry us with a look?" Robin asked, who I now realize is kid flash rather sarcastically.
"We only sought to help you-" the dark skinned one started gently before being cut off by Kid Flash, "Yea we free you and you turn on us, how's that for grati-" "Kid please be quiet now." The dark skinned one cut him off, "I believe our new friends were not in full control of their actions.". As he said this I stepped forward slightly as I started to speak for the first time in my short life, "What if we," I started but paused at the sound of hearing my own voice , "What if we weren't." I Finished as Brother stepped up beside me. "They can talk?" Kid Flash asked sounding surprised. "Yes they can." Brother forced out. the other two sidekicks looked at kid flash until he said, "Not like I said it." lamely. The dark skinned one turned back to us and asked, "the Genomorphs Taught you? telepathically?" "They taught us much," Brother began " we can read, write, we know the names of things." I finished as most twins do. "But have you seen them? Have they ever actually let you see the sky or the sun?" Robin asked us curiously. "Images are implanted in our minds, but no we've never actually seen them." I stated sadly. "Do you know what you are? Who you are?" the one who I've realized is aqualad ask, "I am the Superboy," "And I am the Supergirl," we stated and began to talk in sync like we've said this a million times, " Genomorphs, clones created from DNA of the Superman. Created to replace him should he perish, to destroy him should he turn from the light." we finished.
"To be like Superman is a worthy aspiration but like Superman, you both deserve a life of your own beyond those solar suits, beyond your pods, beyond cadmus." Aqualad told us. " We live Because of Cadmus!, " brother said angrily and grabbed my hand as I gripped it back just as tightly, "it is our home!" "Your home is a test tube. We can show you the sun." robin started , "Uh, pretty sure it's after midnight," Kid Flash started lamely "but we can show you the moon." he offered "We can show you, introduce you to Superman." aqualad said. All these things they said they could show us sounded amazing but I knew as soon as he said he'd introduce us to Superman we would be breaking out of Cadmus tonight. I flew up to the pod holding the Kid Flash "You'll show us the moon?" I asked childishly he was about to respond until walked through the door, "No, they can't. They'll be otherwise occupied. Activate the cloning process." He demanded the scientist to his right. "And get the weapons back in their pod!" "Help us," Aqualad pleaded and I decided I was getting usand them out of this place so I stayed floating and superboy shrugged of the hand that Guardian put on his arm. "Oh don't start thinking now," as he said this the Genomorph on his shoulder jumped onto superboy's shoulder and the one on guardian's shoulder began staring at me until I touched the ground, " you see you aren't real kids, you're just weapons, and you belong to me." Desmond stated i could hear him but I could not respond as I was trying to regain my control, "Well to cadmus. Same thing! Now get back in your pod!" he yelled and we started walking. As we were walking though the gnome gave me back my control but I was given no time to think about before Superboy threw his away and looked to me. I looked back and gave him a confident nod before we ran back to cloning room.
When Superboy threw the door open I walked in, "I told you to get back in your-" now I hated being violent but this guy needed to stop pushing us around so I shoved him and the scientist to the left and guardian to the right and walked up to the pods. "Don't give us orders," I said forcefully and stood in front of the pods.
"Are you gonna help us or fry us?" Kid Flash asked. Almost simultaneously me and superboy squinted, "Huh, I don't seem to have heat vision, so I guess helping is my only option." superboy said and I had a hard time telling if he was joking or not.
The robin unlocked his restraint things and jumped down next to us, "Ugh , finally. Luckily Batman wasn't here. He'd have my head for taking so long." this guy needs to sort out his priorities. "Seriously?" Kid Flash said with slight irritation, "That's what you're worried about? The whole league will have our heads after tonight!" he said angrily. Robin disregarded him and turned to us, "Free Aqualad, I'll get kid mouth." he told us, "Don't you give us orders either," superboy said and jumped up to get aqualad.
As robin was getting Kid Flash out I pulled the strange pointy things out of his chest, "Hey there names Wally-" but I cut him off by pulling the needles out so he slightly cried out, " no need for violence." he threw in as an after thought. I didn't say anything and so we were on our way and on the way out Desmond screamed at us , "You'll never get out of here! I'll have you back in pods by morning!"
Robin turned around and threw three bombs I'm assuming at the bubbles full of DNA , " That guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all." I couldn't help but wonder what this 'Whelmed' he was talking about was. "What is it with you and this whelmed thing?" Kid asked as we ran out of the room. "We're still 42 levels away from the surface." I informed them, "But if we can make the elevator-" aqualad cut himself off as we turned the corner and saw large mammoth sized Genomorphs blocking the way, "oh dear," I said. Me and the other three ran underneath them as brother stayed behind to distract them, "Superboy! The goal is to escape, not bury ourselves here!" Aqualad cried out as Brother kept beating them down, "You want escape!?," Brother yelled and grabbed one of the giants arms and swung it around at the last two that were standing knocking them all down. I couldn't help feeling bad for the poor beasts.
After that we continued to the elevator and aqualad forced open the doors, "Take my hand," I told Kid flash as he was the only one who couldn't fly or have a way of going up so without question he took my hand and I flew up next to Robin but stopped when I heard brother ," I'm falling," oh no. Luckily robin threw a birdarang and aqualad grabbed it before they fell down the elevator shaft, "you can fly how come I can't?" He asks me sadly as I set Kid on a ledge and held Brothers hand, "You got super hearing so I got flight." I said softly "But it looks like you can still leap tall buildings in a single bound. still cool." Kid told him. He nodded slightly and looked to aqualad, "Thank you," he said. "Guys! this is gonna have to be our stop," Robin yelled to us as the elevator started coming down the shaft Aqualad Forced open the doors and the running started again. We had to go left since the Genomorphs were coming from the straight hallway and as we were running I heard a voice in my head but i know Brother heard it too, 'Turn left twins' "Go Left , left" me and brother said, 'Turn right' "Right" I yelled to Kid. As we turned the corner there was nothing but a vent on the wall, "Well that's not right." I said bluntly. "Great directions guys," Kid said angrily, "are you trying to get us re-podded!" "No...I don't understand." Brother started but robin cut him off, "Don't apologize!," he said "This is perfect!"
I have to admit climbing in air vents isn't my idea of 'perfect' but as long as it helps us get out of here then I'll do it. "I don't like this," I whispered knowing Brother would hear me, "I know but we'll be free soon." he told me from behind me as I was behind Kid. Speaking of Kid, "At this rate we'll never get out," he whined. "Shhh!" brother shushed us, " listen." we did and all we heard was scratching from the Genomorphs getting louder the longer we waited so naturally we went faster. When we got out of the vents Robin pulled out a small screen from his glove and started typing, " I hacked the motion sensors," He told us with smug smile on his face, "Sweet" kid told him , "There's Still plenty of room between us and out," robin said "But I finally got room to move." Kid said while stretching his arms and putting his goggles on and dashed down the hallway and up the stairwell.