Hi Guys! Thanks for all the reviews and the favs! Here's the next chapter in the serious.
Ben's Ultimatrix is a lot more advanced and much more powerful. Virtually indestructible and hard. I'm going to take themes from the JLU cartoon and put them in a mostly Young Justice centred universe. That means Supergirl lives, etc. Ben has some JL alien transformations. His sidekick Claw has an omnitrix with 11 or so aliens. Superboy is also stronger and faster than he is in the cartoons. Superboy will get flight and heat vision (not straight away) and be stronger than he was in the cartoon. The series will basically follow the path of the cartoon but it might vary from time to time in some spots
Chapter 2
Independence Day
4 years later
San Francisco July 4 9:25 PDT
As far as hero wise, San Francisco had three of the most powerful heroes in the world, the Shapeshifting alien Legion, Mecha and Power Girl. There were very few villains that made that city home. Especially due to the fourth hero in the city.
Samantha Owen or Energy blasted towards Claw. She was a tall woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, who after the discovery of her powers and the death of her family caused her to lose her control. She possessed almost all of Superman's powers but to a much lesser extent and could control energy. Strength and speed wise, Hawkgirl could over power her.
Claw was a 14 year old boy who wore a black suit similar to his mentor Legion. On the front however was a blue and black hourglass symbol on his chest. Claw had superhuman strength, agility, senses, and short almost impenetrable retractable claws on his hands and was incredibly good at martial arts. His real name was Samuel Ives and he was the adopted son of Benjamin Kirby and his wife Julie Kirby.
He had an omnitrix which was like Ben's but without as many aliens. It only had 10 or so forms. It also had a communicator, a tracker, a USB port, a holographic display screen, a watch and it had Master Control unlocked so he change into his forms at will as well as the necessary security precautions. It also had armour which could cover him in seconds, the armour left his mouth open but it closed for space travel and underwater travel. He rarely used his alien transformations, it was better he felt without it. He mostly used the omnitrix for communications, hacking and music.
"It would be advisable that you end this confrontation now unless you wish to be late," a voice said. Claw gritted his teeth at the voice of his psychic AI Gwen. He sighed. Energy wasn't strong, her blasts were just destructive.
"Come on out, Claw!" The crazed metahuman continued to blast around the bank.
Claw rolled his eyes. "Come on! Get better lines'" He quickly ran to a wall and back flipped over Energy before putting a collar around her neck which neutralized her powers.
He rolled his eyes and began to carry her out where his mentor Legion and Power Girl were at. Galatea had taken the name of Karen Starr and was now a superhero in San Francisco she had one really good friend another clone Donna Troy who was the clone of Wonder Woman. Ben was now a leader of Kirby Industries one of the world's leading companies in electronics, engineering and agricultural science. He and Julie had joined the Justice League shortly after the Apokoliptan invasion and then he had helped Karen join as well. That was what had helped lead up to this moment.
Most of the Leaguers liked Legion but obviously didn't like his almost endless array of alien forms that was complicated even further when they heard of his Ultimate forms.
"Can we go?" Claw asked. Karen rolled her eyes and took Energy and began to fly away. "Today's the day."
….
Gotham City 12:00 EDT
It was a stunning day in Gotham which was strange considering the crime, families were out enjoying themselves when it got worse. And cold. Families were frozen where they stood, they weren't dead, just in ice.
A well-built man in a black and blue exo-suit walked out, the only part of his face visible was his face which was chalk-white and in a transparent dome. In his hand he carried a large heavy gun with cold air coming from the tip.
Freeze was about to blast another family when a batarang hit his gun. He tensed. "Batman, I was wondering when you'd show up." Laughing lit the air then he turned as a slim figure hit his helmet and knocked him to the ground whilst hitting him with two more batarangs. The figure wore a skin-tight red and black outfit with reinforced black gloves, a black cape and a black R could be seen on the left side of his chest. On his face he wore a black domino mask and his hair fell in the middle of it.
"Ah, the Boy Wonder," Freeze got up. "The Bat sent you to drag me off to prison. Frankly I'm underwhelmed."
"Yeah sure," Robin or 13 year-old Dick Grayson said. "Can we wrap this up? I'm kind of in a hurry!"
"Kids," Freeze sneered. "Always in such a rush." He pointed the gun at Robin
"Not talking to you…" Robin gestured behind Freeze.
Freeze quickly realised what that meant and he looked up in time to see Batman fall from the sky and knocking him out. Batman glared at Robin. "You didn't wait for my signal."
Robin shrugged. "Today's the day!"
….
Pearl Harbour 6:02 HST
Several ships were frozen in the area as Killer Frost fired beams of ice at two figures. One was the King of Atlantis Aquaman or Arthur, he wore golden and green armour and he had blonde hair, light skin and he had a belt around his waist, the other was a dark skinned adolescent with swirling tattoos around his body, he wore a red and black hammer with a slim device on his back, he was Aqualad or Kaldur to his friends.
Aquaman landed on the deck of the ship and Killer Frost fired and froze him in a block of ice. Aqualad back flipped over the king and raced past him.
"Don't tell me you're not excited Kaldur," Aquaman said as he broke free.
"Right now, my King I'm more focused on the task at hand," Aqualad replied. He dodged the blasts from Killer Frost and took out two thick sticks that were around the length of his forearms. He formed two maces with them and jumped up as Killer Frost fired at him, the ice hardened around his hands and he landed neatly before slamming the maces into the villainess's face knocking her out.
"Well?" the bearded superhero asked as he came up to his protégé.
"Yes, I'm excited." Aqualad turned from the unconscious body to his king. "Today's the day."
...
Star City 9:01 PDT
The citizens of Star City panicked as another ice-villain ran amok. Icicle Jr had the ability to coat his body in ice and generate large quantities of it.
He smiled as he walked across the bridge. That was until an arrow went across his path. He turned and narrowed his eyes till he saw a familiar green figure and a man in red and yellow.
"Finally!" Icicle said. "I was wondering what a guy had to do to get attention!" He shot ice diamonds at the two heroes.
"Is he doing this for attention?" 17 year-old Roy Harper or Speedy asked as they shot.
Oliver Queen or Green Arrow shrugged. "Maybe."
The two of them leapt off the bridge and landed on one of the supporting wires. Running Speedy jumped up and back flipped over two ice particles and fired at Icicle. The arrow hit the villain in the face knocking him out.
Green Arrow chuckled. "Guy had a glass jaw."
"Hilarious." Speedy put his arrows away. "Can we go now? Today's the day."
….
Central City 11:03 CDT
Captain Cold muttered darkly to himself as he shot at two blurs moving around him, one was a red blur, the other was half yellow. None of his shots hit his targets much to his sadness.
Wally West laughed as he dodged and ducked Cold in his red suit which identified him as Flash. "Come on Cold, seriously? Stealing ice?" He referred to Cold's diamonds. "Isn't that a bit cliché even for you?"
Barry Allan was a young 15 year old boy in yellow and red armour with red being on top and yellow on bottom, with red gloves, yellow boots and red goggles. He growled. "Come on, we don't have time for this!" He turned and quickly yanked the gun out of Cold's hands being iced on the shoulder.
Cold growled and stepped forward only to be punched by Wally. Wally looked down at his nephew. "Calm down Kid."
"Oh please," Kid Flash said. "You'll chat it up with cops, with bystanders with Cold even. No, no no way, today's the day."
….
Washington DC 12:00 EDT
Robin, Batman, Speedy, Green Arrow, Aquaman, Aqualad, Claw and Legion all stood proudly in front of the Hall of Justice. The testament to all the hard work the Justice League had been doing.
"Today is the day," Batman said as he tapped Robin's shoulder. His face was creased in a rare smile.
"Welcome to the Hall of Justice," Green Arrow smiled.
"The Headquarters of the Justice League," Aquaman said.
"And home to an amazing smoothie bar," Legion said only to receive a mild glare from Batman.
There was a pause then rapidly approaching feet. Then Flash arrived with Kid Flash seconds behind him. "Oh man! I knew we'd be the last one's here!" He crossed his arms and huffed.
Batman began moving forward. "Let's get moving." He ignored the comments of the crowd.
"Is that Batman? And Robin?"
"Oooh, I see Flash and Flash Jr!"
"His name's Speedy, duh!"
"No, Speedy's Green Arrow's sidekick!"
"It's the shape shifter and his sidekick!"
Green Arrow smiled at Speedy then whispered over his shoulder. "Ready to see the inner sanctum?"
Speedy grinned. "Born that way."
Aqualad smiled. "I'm glad we're all here."
Kid Flash grinned. "Have all five sidekicks ever been in the same place at the same time?"
"Don't call us sidekicks." Roy lifted his head. "Not after today."
"Sorry." Claw rolled his eyes as Kid Flash continued speaking. "First time at the hall, I'm a little overwhelmed."
"You're overwhelmed," Robin said. "Freeze is underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone just whelmed?"
The group entered the Hall where they saw seven large statues of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash, Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter. They were greeted at the door to the restricted access area by one of the figures Martian Manhunter accompanied by Red Tornado.
The Martian stepped forward. "Robin, Aqualad, Speedy, Kid Flash and Claw. Welcome." The group followed him and as they went in J'onn kept talking. "You know have unlimited access to the gym, a kitchen and of course our library."
They entered a large room with armchairs and couches, on the walls surrounding the rooms was a large library. Flash grinned. "Make yourselves at home." The younger heroes collapsed on the couches whilst Speedy stayed standing. One side of the room were several large computers and screens.
Batman drew the older heroes away. "A quick de-brief to discuss the co-incidence of four ice villains attacking on the same day." He gave the sidekicks a look. "We shouldn't be long."
He turned to a large door where a camera came from the roof and began scanning. A female voice rang out. "Recognized Batman 02, Aquaman 06, Flash 04, Green Arrow 08, Martian Manhunter 07, Red Tornado 16, Legion 17." The door opened and the group began to get ready to enter.
"That's it?" Speedy asked, the older heroes turned around to face him. "You promised us a real look inside." He crossed his arms. "Not a glorified backstage pass."
"It's a first step," Aquaman replied. "You've been granted access few others get."
"Oh really?" Speedy retorted. He pointed up at the glass where the photographers and the civilians were looking. "Who cares what side of the glass we're on?"
"Roy." Green Arrow stepped forward. "You just need to be patient." Claw rolled his eyes.
"What I need is respect." Speedy turned around to face the other teens. "They're treating us like kids, worse like sidekicks. We deserve better than this."
They all looked at each other then back at Speedy. "You're kidding right? You're playing their game! Fine! Today was supposed to be the day. Step 1 into becoming full-fledged members of the League."
"Well sure," Kid Flash said. "I thought step 1 was a tour of the HQ."
"Except the Hall isn't the League's real HQ." The other sidekicks sat up whilst Claw rolled his eyes. He knew about the Watchtower. He had the world's most advanced computer, the existence of the Watchtower was easily discovered by him. "I bet they never told you, it's just a false front for tourists and a pit stop for catching zeta beam teleporter tubes to the real thing, an orbiting satellite called the Watchtower."
"I didn't know that," Kid Flash said.
"I knew." Claw got a glare from Robin. "What? I have the world's most advanced computer systems. Of course I knew. But we wouldn't get on it straight away." Ben gave Claw a dark look.
Green Arrow got a glare from Batman. "I know, I know but I thought that maybe we could make an exception." Batman's eyes narrowed and Arrow's hopeful expression died out. "Or not."
"You're not helping your cause here son, stand down." Aquaman gave Roy a hard look.
"Or what? You'll send me to my room?" Roy glared at Aquaman. "And I'm not your son and neither am I his son." He gave Green Arrow a look. "I thought I was your partner, well not anymore!" He tore off his yellow hat.
The other sidekicks looked at him in shock. Speedy began to walk past them and out of the building. "Guess I'm not right about you four," he said as he did so. "You're not ready." The other sidekicks stood up in shock and watched him.
A transmission showed up. "Superman to Justice League, there's been an explosion at Project Cadmus, it's on fire."
Batman turned to Superman. "I've had my suspicions about Cadmus. This maybe the perfect time to…" He was cut off by another transmission.
"Zatara to Justice League. The sorcerer Wotan is using the Amulet of Aten to block out the sun! Requesting full League response!" The magician showed up the screen.
"Superman." Batman looked back at the Man of Steel.
"It's a small fire. Local authorities have it under control."
"Then Cadmus can wait. All Leaguers rendezvous at Zatara's coordinates, Batman out." He turned to the sidekicks as they came up. "Stay put."
"What? Why?" Robin asked.
"This is a League mission." Aquaman stated.
"You're not ready," Flash said. Legion almost face palmed. This was so not helpful.
"Since when!" Kid Flash said.
"I've worked with Leaguers before!" Claw said.
"You're not trained to work park of this team." Flash motioned to the Justice League.
"There will be other missions," Aquaman said almost gently, as if he was talking to his child. "When you're ready."
"But for now," Batman said in a dangerous tone as his eyes narrowed. "Stay put." He turned and walked away followed by the others.
"Glad you didn't bring you-know-who?" Green Arrow asked Martian Manhunter.
"Indeed," he replied.
Legion turned around, he didn't like the vote the senior members had taken but at least he could still help them indiscreetly and said. "Be careful there's no-one here to supervise you." The Leaguers all filed out and moved away and the large door closed.
"When we're ready?" Kid Flash snorted. "How are we ever supposed to be ready when they treat us like…?"
"Sidekicks," Claw muttered darkly under his breath. "I hate this."
"My mentor, my king," Aqualad said. "I thought he trusted me."
"Trust?" Kid Flash said. "They don't even trust us with the basics. They have a secret HQ in SPACE!"
"What else aren't they telling us?" Aqualad said.
"Will they want us to be their sidekicks for life?" Claw said. He was mad, Ben never treated him like a sidekick. Never. This was …. Wait Ben had said something at the end. He turned to Robin with a smile and the Boy Wonder realised what Claw was thinking about but he had something to say.
"I have a better question," Robin said. "Why didn't we leave with Speedy?" The teens paused and thought about it.
"What is Project Cadmus?" Aqualad asked.
"Don't know," Claw said. He reached for his omnitrix and activated the computer systems. The others gathered around him and he enlarged the screen. "But I can find out."
"Whoa," Kid Flash said as he saw the firewalls breaking. "How are you doing this?"
"Galvan tech, way better than even Kryptonian technology." A photo came up. "Project Cadmus, a genetics lab in DC." Claw frowned. "That's everything."
"But if Batman's suspicious," Robin said. "Maybe we should investigate."
"And solve their case before they do," Aqualad said with a little smile. "It would be poetic justice."
"Hey," Robin smirked. "They're all about justice."
Aqualad sighed. "They said to stay put." He wasn't very keen on going against his king.
"For the blotting out the sun mission," Robin said. "Legion said there's no-one here to supervise us, remember?"
Kid Flash nudged Robin. "Are, are you going to Cadmus? Because if you're going I'm going!" They turned to Aqualad.
"Just like that?" Aqualad asked. "We're a team on a mission."
"Yeah." A blue flash lit the area. In its place was a slim looking alien with blue armour and a long tail, it wore a blue and black hourglass symbol on its chest. "Streak. We didn't come for a playdate guys." Then he dashed out of the room.
"Oh you are so on." Kid Flash raced after it.
….
The fire was blazing through the building and it had no intentions of stopping. From the second floor, two scientists yelled down to the bottom. "Help! Get us out of here!"
"Stay put," a fireman spoke into his megaphone. The scientists nodded then screamed as the building blazed. They began to fall only to be caught by a blue streak which deposited them on the top of the building.
Aqualad, Robin and Kid Flash quickly followed Claw after Aqualad helped the two scientists at the top of the building to get to the bottom. When they got there, they saw Claw in his human form hunched over a computer with his omnitrix out.
"Appreciate the help," Aqualad stated to Claw
"You handled it," came the response. "Besides we're here to investigate. Poetic justice, remember?"
Aqualad continued walking and he entered a hallway where he saw a horned figure in an elevator going down. He frowned as Kid Flash came up. "There was something in the…"
"Elevator should be locked down," Kid Flash said. Claw and Robin came up with Robin making his own holo computer.
"This is wrong," Robin said. The screen came up with something else. "This is a high speed express elevator. That doesn't belong in a two storey building."
"Neither does what I saw." Aqualad came forward to the elevator and pulled it open, only to reveal a long shaft going down. "Huh?"
Robin grinned. "And that's why they need an express elevator." He fired his grappling hook and began making his way down followed by Kid Flash and Aqualad. Claw simply turned into Freezer (his name for Big Chill) and floated down with them. Robin continued to slide down to the 26th floor where his rope stopped. "I'm at the end of my rope." He quickly swung in and landed neatly on the ledge catching himself before he fell backwards into the shaft. He quickly hacked the computer as the others arrived.
"Hacking is so overrated," Freeze grabbed Aqualad and Kid Flash and going intangible he went straight through the door. Robin quickly opened the door and when they did, their eyes widened. "Welcome to Cadmus."
Kid Flash darted forward leaving the others, which infuriated both Aqualad and Claw. "Kid wait," Aqualad said then Kid Flash went headlong into what looked like an army of gigantic creatures which were grey skinned and looked to be incredibly strong. They didn't notice the small creatures on top with horns and red eyes.
"Damn," Claw said, he changed back into his human form wearing armour. "We are so over our heads."
….
A man in a lab coat with brown hair and glasses sat hunched over his lab. He smiled approvingly when red disappeared and was replaced with blue in a small vial.
"Dr Desmond," a man wearing a black and blue combat suit with a golden helmet and golden shield entered the room. A small monkey like animal was on his shoulder.
"Tell me Guardian," came the response as Desmond placed the vial away in a container labelled Blockbuster. "What part of 'no interruptions' do you not understand?"
Guardian was unfazed. "A G-Gnomes on sublevel 26 reported four intruders."
Desmond sighed. "Did I miss a perimeter breach alert?"
"No…" Guardian responded.
"Then the G-Gnomes confused," Desmond snapped. "Whatever might occur in our faux-lab underground, the real Cadmus is the most secure lab in DC."
"It's my job to keep it that way."
"Fine. Take a squad." Desmond sighed. He turned back to his work.
Before Guardian left another figure entered the room. This one was skinny and grey skinned and wore a white shirt and pants. He had elf-like ears, red eyes and two horns that curved upwards. "Might I suggest Guardian leave his G-Gnome behind," Dubbilex said. "If violence should occur…"
"The little guy might get in my way," Guardian finished patting the G-Gnome.
"No!" Desmond turned back to face the duo. "The advantage of instant telepathic communication outweighs other concerns." The G-Gnome he was fondling, the horns glowed as did the one on Guardians shoulder.
"I need my G-Gnome with me at all times," Guardian said this in a robotic tone. He then bowed his head and exited the room with Dubbilex behind him.
….
The group avoided the strange creatures and opened a door which Robin hacked and the four heroes were stunned.
"Okay," Robin said. "I'm officially whelmed." The others reluctantly agreed with him.
The room which they were in had rows of large translucent jars; inside each one was an identical, insect-like creature with arcs of electricity emitted by its abdomen. The electricity was then stored by a device at the bottom of the jar.
"So this is how they hide this facility," Kid Flash said whilst studying the creatures. "The real Cadmus lab isn't on the grid, it has its own power source with these … things."
"It's what they're bred for," Claw was scanning one of the creatures. "They made them from scratch and they generate huge amounts of electricity and power."
"Maybe," Aqualad frowned.
"These guys create life," Robin said, he was already hacking a computer. "They're called geno morphs. Wow, look at the stats on these things! Super-strength, telepathy, razor claws, these are living weapons!"
"They're engineering an army," Kid Flash said, "but for who?"
"Wait, there's something else." Robin quickly broke through a firewall. "Project Kr… the file's triple-encrypted I can't…"
Claw frowned. Kr as in …. He was broken out of his thoughts by someone.
"Don't move!" Guardian rushed into the room followed by a pack of grey skinned creatures with razor sharp claws. The creatures snarled but didn't attack.
"Wait," Guardian said. "Claw, Kid Flash, Robin and Aqualad?"
"At least he got your names right," Robin joked as he continued downloading files.
"I know you," Aqualad said. "You're Guardian, a hero."
"I do my best," Guardian replied with a smile.
"Then what are you doing here?" Kid Flash asked.
"I'm the chief of security," Guardian said. "And you're trespassing, don't worry we'll call the Justice League and they'll figure something out."
"Do you thing the League's going to approve of your weapons?" Claw asked gesturing around them.
"Weapons? What are you…?" Guardian trailed off when the G-Gnomes horns on his shoulders glowed. When they stopped Guardian snarled. "Take 'em down! No mercy!"
The Genomorphs charged, Robin disconnected from the computer and fired a grappling hook into the air whilst dropping smoke pellets. The smoke gave them pause, which allowed the heroes' time to retaliate. Kid Flash began ducking some of his attackers, his super speed enabling him to easily defeat them and giving incredibly hard punches. Aqualad drew his water hammers and began to slash them around hitting the Genomorphs left and right and ducking their claws.
Claw faced off against Guardian and began to fight, Guardians skills were good but Claw didn't want to severely damage him so he quickly changed into Electron (Buzzshock) and zapped the hero till he twitched as his nervous system began to adapt to the electricity. Quickly exiting the room with Kid Flash followed by Aqualad, they caught up to Robin who was breaking into an elevator.
He sure does break into stuff a lot Claw thought as he ran to the Boy Wonder.
"Hey Rob, nice team work!" Kid Flash said.
"Weren't you behind me?" Robin asked, he was genuinely confused about the others had been taking so long. They piled in just before the Genomorphs and breathed a sigh of relief, before they noticed the direction they were in.
"Umm, we're headed down," Claw said. "I thought you were smart?"
"Dude!" Kid Flash said. "Out is up!"
Robin narrowed his eyes at Kid Flash. "Excuse me?" he said it in an insulted tone. "Project Kr is down on sub-level 52."
"This is getting out of control," Aqualad said as he paced the elevator scratching his head. "Perhaps… perhaps we should call the League."
"We are already here," Kid Flash said.
The elevator opened and the group tensed. The room was like the inside of an intestine, the walls looked like raw flesh whilst blue pods were attached to the wall. The group continued.
"I STRONGLY ADVISE LEAVING THESE PEOPLE! YOU'LL GET YOURSELVES KILLED!" Claw's AI was yelling. He ignored it for now, and went with them. They continued to a fork in the pathway.
"Bizarre looking hallway one or Bizarre looking hallway two?" Robin said. "Take your pick?"
"Hold!" the four turned to see Dubbilex at the left hallway. His horns glowed red and a crate lifted from the ground and hurled itself at them.
"I think we know!" Kid Flash raced ahead of the group as they dashed down the hallway.
Dubbilex took a few steps forward only for the elevator to open and Guardian with some Genomorphs came out. "They are headed for Project Kr!" Dubbilex shouted as they ran past him.
….
Kid Flash quickly came to the end of the hallway where a large vault-like door reading Project Kr. He dashed past a scientist and quickly put a crate in the before the door shut and jumped in, he was followed by Robin, Aqualad and Claw who shoved the crate out before their pursuers could jump in.
Robin quickly hacked the door. "We're safe, I deactivated the door."
"And locked in here." Aqualad gave Robin a disdainful look, he was beginning to regret coming here.
"Uh guys," Kid Flash said pointing at something in the shadows. "You might want to see this." He flicked the light switch.
In the centre of the room was a teenage boy around their age appearing to be unconscious leaning against an upright table in what looked to be a glass pod. He was muscular for their age; he wore a white skin tight suit which only showed his hands, wrists and face. The only thing that appeared young on his face was his mop of spiky dark hair, the look on his face appeared to be far too serious. But that was ignored when they saw the red, triangular shield with a large stylised S in the centre.
The House of El and Superman's symbol.
"Look," Kid Flash pointed to the Kr imprinted on the side of the pod. "Big K, little r, the symbol for Krypton."
"Clone?" Claw asked.
"Robin, hack," Aqualad said firmly. If they got out of here alive, the League would love this.
"Right, right." Robin replied quickly as he hacked into the computer. "Um, weapon designated Superboy, a clone force-grown in sixteen weeks! Created from DNA acquired from Superman and based on theories on Galatea before stabilization. Who's Galatea?"
"Galatea is Power Girl, she was going mentally insane because her cloning process wasn't done correctly, Legion stabilized her," Claw said.
"DNA was stolen from Superman more likely," Aqualad growled.
"No way Big Guy know about this," Kid Flash said.
"Solar suit allows for absorption of yellow sun radiation 24/7," Robin continued.
"And these creatures?" Claw asked pointing at the small creatures hovering above his head in the pod.
"Genomorph Gnomes," Robin continued. "They're telepathic and force-feeding him an education."
"And we can guess what else," Kid Flash growled. "They're making a slave out of well Superman's … son."
"Now we contact the League," Aqualad said. He reached for his belt where his communicator was and he tapped it.
"No signal," Claw said. His omnitrix had stopped but now Gwen spoke up. "It would be advisable to transform into the Martian form Ghost and observe, the clone will probably retaliate." Claw did so and went into the ceiling of the room to watch, going intangible and invisible. He was thankfully lucky for the unlimited time limit.
"We're in too deep," Kid Flash said. "On all accounts." He turned around and looked for Claw. "And Claw ditched us, great."
….
Outside the door a small army of Genomorphs waited with Guardian. Desmond came up with Dubbilex. "They're still in there? With the weapon?"
"We can't get the door open," Guardian responded.
"Use your telekinesis," the scientist raged at Dubbilex.
"I have tried. To no avail." The Genomorph closed his eyes.
"Useless!" raged Desmond. "This is a debacle. Get some G-Trolls here to muscle their way in."
"Already on their way," Guardian replied.
"You realize once we get in there, they cannot leave."
"Doc." Guardian gave Desmond a look. "These aren't your typical meddling kids, you don't want to get on the wrong side of the Justice League."
"Better than getting on the wrong side of the Cadmus Board of Directors," Desmond replied. "Believe me." He noticed the G-Gnome on Guardians shoulder and got an idea. "Contact the G-Gnomes inside Kr."
The G-Gnome nodded and its horns began to glow.
…
"This is wrong," Kid Flash said. "And Claw is missing."
"We can't leave him like this," Robin turned to Aqualad.
Aqualad stroked his chin and reached a decision. "Set him free, now!"
Robin nodded and unlocked the pod. The walls retracted into the ceiling and the floor. For a moment the clone didn't move then his hands twitched and his eyes fluttered open to look at the group.
Aqualad narrowed his eyes.
They are so screwed, Claw thought. Should I help them? There was a pause then his Gwen responded back in his head.
"No. Watch and observe them save them."
Superboy face went into a snarl and he leapt forward slamming into Aqualad and slamming the Atlantean into the ground, he began to repeatedly punch him until Robin and Kid Flash came and tried to stop him.
"What are you doing?" the speedster yelled before Superboy grabbed him roughly and slammed him into the wall violently until the speedster was knocked out.
"We're on your side!" Robin said. "I don't want to do this!" He slammed some gas into Superboy's face then Aqualad kicked the clone away. Man, I really could use Claw here and some kryptonite.
Robin fired some tasers at Superboy but the clone grabbed the tasers and ripped them forcing the Boy Wonder towards him. Superboy slammed Robin to the ground and stomped on him hard. "ENOUGH!" Aqualad shouted as he quickly got to his feet and ran at Superboy slamming his water hammers at the clone and throwing him away.
We have to help! Claw thought. They were being hammered.
Another voice tried to make contact with him, Hide and observe.
Aqualad began helping Robin up but the boy collapsed grunting. Kaldur got to his feet and faced the Kryptonian. "We are trying to help you." Superboy snarled then leapt forward and began to exchange blows with him. Aqualad dodged the first few then Superboy slammed him into a wall. Kaldur kept going and tried to shock Superboy, the clone screamed and jumped up slamming Aqualad's back into the ceiling before landing twisting out of Aqualad's grip beginning to exchange a flurry of punches which knocked him out.
Gwen! Claw thought. Do I?
"No," Gwen responded. "Find out what they plan to do then step in maybe Superboy can be convinced to our side. Besides Robin will probably escape when he wakes up."
Humph. Fine. But they better not die.
….
Desmond was silently counting the seconds till the G-Trolls until the two was violently thrust open by a pair of hands. He smiled to himself and walked in seeing the three unconscious bodies. He saw that Claw vanished but he ignored and believed that the teen had disappeared due to his device. Pity he wanted to get a hand on it even though he doubted he would have been able to do anything considering it had some sort of self-destruct sequence on it. But three heroes were enough.
"Attaboy," he said as he turned back and smiled at Superboy.