"He's what?' M'gann said aloud in the air. She covered her mouth. "Oops, I mean he's what?"
"You heard me; he got caught and got thrown in a cage. But listen to this, each room are color coordinated. He's in stealth mode so he got thrown in with all the other black and dark gray colored animals." Artemis said.
"And he's stuck that way too. The guards shorted the suit's ability to switch back and forth."
"Great. What more trouble can he attract—"
"Artemis?"
"Are you kidding me!"
"Whats going on?"
"They just strapped him to a table."
"Superboy are you listening to what they're saying in the room Kidflash is in?" M'gann asked Superboy.
"I am. They're arguing over which injection set to give him?" Superboy finished, looking at Artemis worriedly.
"Set?" Artemis thought worriedly.
"I can come in and help you if you need me down there." M'gann suggested.
"No, we need someone to keep a look out on the outside. Superboy and I can handle this. You keep an eye for the backup."
"Got it."
Artemis crawled towards the window to get a better view of the room, careful to not get caught.
"They're about to go and prepare for the injection." Superboy turned to Artemis. "We can use this time to get in and get him out."
Artemis went towards the door and noticed an odd feature.
"Where the hell is the door knob?" She cursed under her breath. She examined the door to see a small circular metal face. She pressed down and looked in the hole to see patterns.
"You had that bag of keys, if big boy over there is Superman's clone he can use his X-ray to find which lock pattern's match the key can't he?" Bumble bee suggested quietly.
Artemis turned towards Superboy. "Can you?"
The boy shrugged. "I can try?" He studied the lock closely. As his X-ray vision switched on, he studied the lock patterns. He looked down at the bag next to Artemis. He zipped it open and tried to find a match. As he dug around the many keys, he finally found one that's similar to the patterns of the door lock. He took it and stuck it in the electronic hole of the door. He grabbed the circular key and pushed it in further till the strap is only hanging down. A click was heard from the door.
"That's one hell of a weird key." Bumble bee said.
"Come'on let's get Kid mouth and get outta here" Artemis suggested quickly.
The two carefully crawled into the room, with Bumble Bee resting atop of Artemis's head.
"Come now, you think we're really that idiotic as to not notice your presence?" a voice from across the room was heard. The man grinned and turned off the chameleon feature on his suit.
"Haha! The bitch was too inclined on saving her boyfriend she didn't even notice us! Not that she could in the first place since we're invisible. But the super brat could of sensed us with his infrared vision of his!" another voice from the corner was heard. This one also turned off the chameleon feature on his suit.
The both of them appeared to be fairly young. No older than Roy by a couple of years. The one from across the room had calm features. He had long raven hair that was held in a loose pony tail that hung in the front around his left shoulder. He had two pistol like weapons with knives attached to them on both of his sides. He was wearing a skin tight black suit. Three silver stripes were on both of his arms. He had shoulder guards that blended in with his suit. He had a silver belt with pouches. Silver stripes came midway on the side of his thighs and another pair on his lower legs. He has simple boots that blended in as well.
The peppier one in the far corner had the same suit on, though he had a staff with a blade at each end. The stripes on his suit were replaced with claw-mark like patterns. He had short curly black hair that was held back with a plastic zigzag combed, black hairband.
"He-He's not my boyfriend!" she blushed.
"Release our friend, now." Superboy demanded.
"Now, why would we go and do that?" the long haired one spoke. He walked over to the unconscious Kidflash and ran his hand through Kidflash's hair. "Little Red here hasn't gotten his special present yet." he grinned, looking down at him.
'This ain't going to turn out too pretty. Hiding right now seems best.' Bumble bee thought to herself as she hid in Artemis's hair.
From the corner, Superboy could hear from the enemy's comm. link.
"The injection set have been prepped, ready whenever."
The man grinned wildly. He pressed into his ear.
"Prepare two more sets, we got company!" he said happily.
"What makes you think you're gonna get us?" Artemis said point her arrows at the both of them. Mostly towards the calm one.
"Because we already have." The calm one simply said. He disappeared before everyone and swiftly knocked Artemis unconscious with the butt of his gun. He dodged Superboy's mad rage swing.
"ARRRGHH!" the boy yelled, furious at the young man's actions.
"Hah! Somebody's a bit touchy!" the peppy one laughed.
Superboy felt a pinch on his neck. He slapped the area on his neck, feeling half a needle sticking out and snapped at where the direction came from and punched the air. He knew he hit something…or someone. His vision started to get blurry on him.
"Wha-what did you do?" Superboy growled.
"We injected you with something for a big boy like you to sleep. I'm surprised it actually broke through your skin, considering you're Superman's clone in all. I guess something went wrong." The young man chuckled, mocking Superboy.
Superboy growled, but soon found his strength weakening. It felt…weird. He feels a stream of fluid flowing throughout his body that strangely made him…sleepy. It didn't take long for Superboy to fall asleep.
"I was expecting a fight, but I guess not." The calm one said disappointingly.
"Sleepy, sleepy boy!" the other one said.
The calm one sighed, but chuckled shortly after. "Come on, strap her to the table and help me with this one."
Robin panted. How long can he keep this up? He can't see them and they just keep on coming. He looked over at Aqualad who seemed to be doing fine. Robin's vision started to get blurry. He tried to blink them away. He didn't learn at first that blinking away things won't make anything better. His vision was swarmed by his little friend 'Dots.'
Great seeing you again! Not.
Robin scowled. Aqualad noticed a few revealed guards advancing on Robin, who at the moment doesn't seem to notice them. His face seemed feverish. Aqualad used his hydrokenisis and water whipped the guards down. He ran to Robin.
"Robin, are you…alright?"
"Y-yea. Not feeling all the aster right now, but totally fine." Robin tried to shake him off. He didn't want to slow the team down cause he didn't feel well.
Aqualad looked at the boy's face. He studied sickness of the surface world. Flushed face, beading sweat. He quickly felt the boy's forehead. The Atlantanean's expression hardened.
"You're running a fever."
The boy swatted his hand away. "I'm fine! I can handle myself."
"So you noticed the two guards behind us?"
"Wha—"
Aqualad swiftly swung his foot above the boy's head and knocked them out.
"The fever is affecting your performance. Why did you not mention this to any of us earlier?"
"We can talk about this la—WATCH OUT!" Robin exclaimed as he saw one hidden guard coming up behind Aqualad. He pushed him out of the way and threw an electric batarangs at the guard's vest. Upon impact, it shocked the man unconscious and shorted out his equipment. Robin a bit weary was caught off guard by another pursuer and punched the little bird right in the head. Robin didn't need another hit for him to fall unconscious.
"Robin!" the Atlantean yelled.
"Ah, ah, ah! I wouldn't move if I were you, little one." The Russian man spoke.
Aqualad halted, seeing the man pick Robin up and slinging him over his shoulder. Aqualad clenched his fists.
"What do you want." He asked.
The man laughed out loud. "What do I want? It's a simple thing to figure out."
Aqualad roared out in pain as he was electrocuted by three guards. One of them punched the boy in the temple with his metal plated gloves. He fell to the floor on all fours, trying to regain his composure. He glanced up at the man walking towards him.
"I want new test subjects." He sneered, grinning. The man gave him a kick to the head and the boy was down. He grabbed Aqualad by the collar of his uniform and dragged him away.