Joker's Ace 3 – "Supey's son"
I'm not so sure how long it took for us to reach Cadmus, but KF had ran ahead to save two of Cadmus's employees that were thrown out of the building due to an explosion. Running up to the burning building I heard one firefighter shout, "It's what's his name, Flash Boy!"
I Chuckled to myself as I watch Kid Flash almost slip down the side of the building and then cling to a window ledge to keep him from having his brilliant brains splatter all over the concrete.
"So smooth" Robin says sarcastically
"He should be called Kid Klutz instead of Kid Flash." I laughed lightly brushing my green bangs out of my pale face.
Looking up at Kid Flash, Aqualad asks, "Does he always have to run ahead? We need a plan. We need…" He paused as he noticed the boy wonder's absence, "Robin?"
"Hehehehehe!" Robin giggled as he climbed all the way up to the window that Kid Flash was dangling from and saved the ginger from his demise.
Glancing over at Aqualad one last time I followed Robin's example and use the fire ladder to get to the opened window, "Hey guys," I greeted as I landed semi-gracefully on the floor. KF was looking through filing cabinets while Robin was hacking the computer, "How's the hacking going?" I asked Robin vaguely viewing the screen, not that I could fully read everything, but I could make out some number codes and such.
"It's fine, I'm breaking through these firewalls but they have a lot of them. There must be something they want to keep secret."
"I'd bet," I leaned on Robin's shoulder to get a better view of the screen, "Batman's hunches usually prove right. And I wouldn't put it past these guys to increase security with this fire. The justice league could come and search the entire place, revealing Cadmus's Little secrets."
Entering the dark room from the window Aqualad says in an irritated voice, "I appreciate the help"
"You handled it" Robin said focusing on the computer monitor, but I saw a small smirk on his face. "Besides we're here to investigate. Poetic justice remember?"
Like robin I was focusing on the computer and I pointed to a window on the screen, "Try clicking on that one" I said, "You might find something there"
"Alright" Boy wonder said following my instructions.
I was about to explain further when Aqualad had left our sight and I heard the elevator doors close. Running after KF and Aqualad, Robin and I heard kid flash say, "The elevators should be locked down"
Rushing past us, Robin stood in front of the elevator doors and quickly said, "This is wrong" before looking down at his wrist and opening his holographic computer and scanning the lift. "Thought so" Robin said looking at his computer, "This is a high speed express elevator. It doesn't belong in a two story building."
"Neither does what I saw" walking up to the elevator doors Aqualad pulled them apart, revealing a long dark hall to no where's Ville.
"And that's why they need and express elevator" Robin said as he knelt near the ledge.
"No," I said sarcastically, "They just had it for shits and giggles." As much as I loved Robin, my sarcastic comments would sometimes… A lot of the times slip out. And this time it gave me three dirty looks from the superhero's beside me. Feeling their glares I look at each other them and raise my arms in surrender, "Sorry, sarcasm slips out sometimes."
After quickly accepting my apology Robin shot his grappling gun up onto the top of the elevator shaft and jumped down to the deep abyss. I quickly followed after him, not too worried about using the line to slow my fall, nor was I thinking about it when I jumped... "Ace!" Robin shouted as I was about to pass him on his line. He held his hand out for me to take which I greatfuly did, causing both of us jerk roughly as seeing as I was going at a higher speed than robin.
"Sorry about that" I chuckled nervously as Robin pulled me closer to him and allowed me a wrap my arms around his slim neck.
"It's fine, just think before you jump neck time."
"Will do Robin!" I smiled before wrapping my legs around the younger boy's waist so I had less chance of falling to my doom.
Not even a minute later we came to a stop.
"I'm at the end of my rope." Robin said, letting me jump over to the tiny edge near another set of elevator doors before he followed me himself. Then down came Aqualad and lastly kid Flash. Sitting down on the ledge Robin started to hack the Cadmus system again using his holographic computer, "By passing security... Go!"
With that Aqualad once again opened the elevator doors with his seemingly super strength and we walked onto sublevel 26 of Cadmus. "Welcome to hell" I said cheekily.
Looking around the dimmed hallway I noticed a streak of yellow and red out of the corner of my eyes and heard Aqualad shout, "Kid wait!"
Whipping my head towards where KF decided to run off to I saw these… almost gigantic gorilla, mammoth hybrid… things walking past our hallway. As the others and I joined Kid Flash I noticed there were small things on top of the goriloth as I named the gorilla mammoth love child.
"No" Aqualad said dryly, "Nothing odd going on down here." Finally the last goriloth past us and I felt Goosebumps cover my arms, telling me that something bad was gonna happen.
Robin opened a set of doors and all of our eyes widened in shock. Inside was a bunch of tubes filled with a bunch of huge glowing bug like creatures that gave off electric pulses
Giving the room another look over robin said, "Okay, I'm officially whelmed"
Walking through the room I found myself staring at the creatures in awe, despite the fact that I wasn't a huge fan of bugs I couldn't help but think that they were beautiful. But these were living things weren't they? They didn't deserve to be locked up like this, it was wrong… The boys were talking about Cadmus but I wasn't paying attention, instead I placed my hand on one of the tanks. 'Why… Why do I feel so sorry for these things? Like I had experienced what they had'
Suddenly, my vision flashed white and I was floating what seemed like a strange type of liquid. Why was I floating? Staring out at the worlds through half lidded eyes I saw a sickly white hand touch the tank I was in.
"Doc, thanks so much for doing this for me."
"It's not a problem. I'd do anything that could help bring down the batman"
"But of course, Batsy always ruins our fun; at least he always ruins mine."
What's going on? Why am I sealed here? Who are these people?!
"Ace!" a voice shouted bringing me back to reality. Whipping around, Aqualad stood in front of me a look of concern on his face, "Are you alright? You were out of it for a minute."
"I-I'm fine… I think" I placed a hand on my forehead confused on what I just saw.
Abruptly I heard a door open and a man shout; "Don't move!" growling could be heard as more of those things were here, "Wait… Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash?" The man glanced at me, "And unknown member…"
"I know you" Aqualad said quietly, "You're Guardian, a hero"
"I do my best" The man named Guardian said modestly
"Then what are you doing here?" KF asked confused on why a good guy would be in a place breeding weapons, not that I knew that little fact since I was spacing out.
"I'm chief of security, you're trespassing. But we can call the justice league and figure this out."
"You think the league's gonna approve of you breeding weapons?" Kid Flash shouted
"Weapons? What are you-" Guardian trailed off, "What have I?" Guardian shook his head and placed a hand on his temple, "My head" he said in slight pain, when out of nowhere Guardian raise his voice and shouted, "Take em down hard! No mercy!"
The weird things charged at Robin, Aqualad KF and I, "what are these things?!" I asked as Robin threw down a smoke bomb and I got tackled by the thing. "Get off of me!" I roared grabbing the things wrist and flinging it over my head and letting it smash into the wall. Running down the hall after Robin I saw yet another set of doors and the boy wonder hacking the system to get the doors open. Behind us was those creatures and they were catching up.
"Way to be a team player Rob!" Kid flash shouted angrily
"Weren't you right behind me?" Robin asked as the doors opened and we all ran inside. Aqualad who was the only person not in the elevator made a quick dive when the doors started to close.
"We're headed down?" Aqualad asked in confusion
"Dude, out is up!" Fid flash said pointing towards the surface
"Excuse me? Project Kr it's down, on sublevel 52"Robin informed everyone
Ignoring robin for a moment I asked, "You okay there sunshine?" in concern as Aqualad started passing back and forth
"This is getting out of control…" Aqualad muttered placing a hand on his head, "…Perhaps we should contact the league…"
Looking over at what floor we were on I saw it was finally on sublevel 52 and the doors opened. Everyone got in a fighting position, ready for enemy attack, but instead of enemy's we found a red hallway with odd lump looking things on the walls. "Okay before we go any further, what are those things we saw? Like the Goriloth and the creatures that attacked up with Guardian?"
Looking at me Robin raised an eyebrow, "Didn't you hear before? They're called Genomorphs, they're living weapons"
"So I've noticed…" I muttered before running down the hallway. At the end of the hall there was a fork in our path, "Which way do we go?"
"Your pick, bazar looking hallway one or bazar looking hallway two?"
"Hold!" a person yelled. Looking to wear the voice came from a, I guess you could say Genome stood there. It looked more human than the others we saw earlier, but it had a large set of horns on its forehead. The genome's Horn's glowed red and it raised two barrels of Oil, smashing them against the wall behind us, causing an explosion.
"I pick hallway two!" I shouted running away from the horned man thing
Quickly robin through a bird-a-rang which the genome easily stopped and everyone booked it down the hall as two more oil cans were thrown after us.
Running down the halls a set of doors were closing that were labeled Project Kr. Kid Flash being the person in front ran and grabbed a tank and shoved it between the doors, "Come on!" KF shouted as he jumped through the doors, quickly after Robin Aqualad and I jumped through the slim opening and Aqualad kicked the tank out when he saw Guardian and a horde of genomes running towards us.
On his computer Robin informed, "I disabled the door. We're safe"
"Ahh… Guys, you'll want to see this" Kid flash said as he pressed a button on the keypad in front of him. All of a sudden the room got a little brighter as a large tube was lit up.
"Woah…" I muttered with wide eyes. In front of me was a boy with Superman's 's' shield on his chest and the glass in front of the boy said Kr.
Kid flash walked over to the pod, "Big 'k' little 'r' the atomic symbol for krypton… Clone?" KF asked lightly
"Robin, hack" I ordered wanting to find out more about this… this Superboy.
"Weapon designated Superboy. A clone forced grown in… sixteen weeks!?" Robin shouted in shock, "From DNA acquired from Superman."
"Stolen from superman" Aqualad corrected
"No way the big guy knows about this."
"Seriously" I said not taking my eyes off of what I think you could appropriately call Soupy's son
"Solar suit allows him to absorb yellow sun radiation twenty-four seven"
"And these creature's" Aqualad asked, pointing to the genomorphs
"Genomorph gnomes… telepathic, force feeding him an education"
"And we can guess what else. Their making a slave out of… well, superman's son" Kid flash mumbled quietly
"Now we contact the league." Aqualad said as he touched the symbol on his belt while the others use their methods of communication
"No signal" Robin muttered
"We're in too deep, literally." KF said looking at all of us, "this is wrong…"
"We can't leave him like this" I said to the others
"Set him free" Aqualad looked at Robin, "Do it."
Robin turned on his holographic computer and opened the pod Superboy was in. As the pod opened steam emitted from it and at first The Superboy just laid there, but them his hand twitched and he clenched his fist. Above him his Genomorph's horns were glowing red and Superboy's eyes opened.
Within seconds Superboy launched himself at Aqualad, tackling the older boy to the ground. He then proceeded to Punch Aqualad multiple times in the face before Robin, KF and I reached Super boy and held him back
"Hold on soupy…" KF said holding the clones arm
"We're on your side!" Robin tried to reason, but the reasoning didn't work as Superboy punched Kid in the face. Sending him crashing through a glass pillar, "I don't want to do this!" Robin said as he let go of Superboy and pulled me off of his so I wouldn't inhale the puke green smoke. Robin tried to Taser soupy but that didn't work seeing as Superboy easily grabbed hold of the wires that were sending the Electricity and tugged robin forward, grabbing him by the front of his shirt and slamming him on the ground before Superboy stepped on poor Robin
"Robin!" I shouted running forwards reaching into my utility belt, grabbing my razor playing cards. I put a card between each of my fingers and threw them at our attacker.
My cards didn't really affect him, but they did put slices through his solar suite. "Enough!" Aqualad roared as he pushed himself off of the ground and slammed Superboy with his water bearers that were in the shape of a hammer. Superboy went flying and crashed against his opened pod
Running up next Robin I lifted his shoulder as he moaned in pain. Helping the boy up, I wrap him arm around my shoulder and bring him towards the wall so if Soupy, Aqualad and I went at it, he wouldn't get stepped on again.
"We are trying to help you!" Aqualad shouted trying to make the raging boy see reason, but again that reason didn't reach as Superboy lunged back at Aqualad, slamming him to the ground. The two began to fight and I could do nothing, I stared as Aqualad wrapped his arms around Superboy's and sent an electric shock. Superboy didn't like that and Jumped up, slamming Aqualad into the celling two times before he finally let go.
"Aqualad!" I shouted running towards Superboy and my final fallen comrade. Again I reached into my utility belt and grabbed a retractable metal baton. Rushing towards Superboy I try and hit him but he pulls the Baton forwards and clutches the front of him shirt, "Soupy…" I said just loud enough for the boy to hear, "We tried to help you. Free you even! The people who work here are cruel and only think of you as a thing!" Reaching out my shaky hand grasped Superboy's shirt, "We can help you, but you have to trust us!" Getting annoyed with me Superboy tightened his grip and threw me against a wall nearly knocking me out, but before my world fully went black I slurred out, "You have to trust me."