Aqualad regained his composure back, although wary of what on earth is going on. They just found a dead body of a man they had just seen and he as sure that man was not the one that had captured him and Robin.
So who on earth is the one in the glass casket? Or the one that had captured them? Twin…or clone perhaps? If so, what happened to the man originally? Murder? Suicide? Natural death?
Where was Robin when you needed him to find out who the man really is? He was much better at deducting. Detective after all.
Aqualad brought his hands up to massage his temples. He let out an aggravating sigh. "This has gotten even more troublesome." He mumbled out.
Zatanna shook her head, although in a way she was agreeing with him. "Well, what's more important now is finding the others, quick." She flexed her hands. "My magic is finally back."
"What of the man?"
Zatanna smiled and took out the device similar to what Robin had given them earlier. She pressed a few buttons, and went around and positioned the device somewhere hidden. She pressed another button and something shot out of it, hearing a slight plink!
"There, tracker placed. The signal should be sent to Batman and he'll come across it soon." She tucks the device away in her jacket. "Now let's go."
"It should be best to bind the person here before he awakens." He reminded her. She nodded.
"dnib sih smra dna sgel rehtegot!" She said quietly, happy to see her magic recover. The unconscious man's limbs were instantly tied together. She thought for a moment. "laes sih htuom!" His mouth was instantly gagged. "Now let's get—." Zatanna was cut off by a faint BOOM.
They look at each other questioningly. Whatever that was, it didn't sound good.
"That was the second explosion I have heard."
"Check it out?" she stated.
"KidFlash would hopefully be down this way as well." He said. They nodded and ran off.
~0o0o0o0o0o0~
Superboy groaned. Whatever that bastard had injected him with seriously gave him one hell of a headache. He didn't bother opening his eyes, knowing that the blinding light would strike him in the eyes. He tried to reach up to caress his head, but found both of his arms being held down. He sighed and focused on his hearing, listening to anything close to him.
Aside from all the painful moans from the animals, it was mostly quiet. A few hums from various machines but that was it. The other's might be further away…or rather he was the one further away….same difference.
Superboy sighed once more, and slowly gathered his strength and easily broke out of the bonds. He felt several needles that managed to scratch him, but other than that he felt fine, weak, but fine. He let out a "Hmph" in a somewhat triumphed manner. He looked around, seeing the large wall cage of animals. All of them were mixed species of primates, most were Apes and chimpanzees.
"Monkeys…" he said under his breath. His hate for them sort of diminished when he noticed their pain…their lifeless eyes as they just sat and lie there.
He went over to the cage and kneeled beside them. He set his hands on the bars of the cage, and with one hard pull, yanked it completely off the wall. Since he was there, he might at as well help the poor things.
All of them looked at him, huddling up to each other in fear of another experiment. He noticed a small capuchin monkey with a missing left arm, and a missing right leg. The small monkey wailed for its mother, but Superboy clearly knows that his mother was long gone since it was the only one of its kind in there.
He slowly went over and carefully crouched beside the little one, who was all but wailing even more. He observed the somewhat large collar and carefully broke it off of it.
The baby capuchin monkey tilted its head and looked at the strange creature oddly, letting out its small cry. Superboy smirked at it before he quickly dealt with all the other collars on the animals. Some didn't fight when the strange thing came and took the hellish collar off of them, while the others got tense and glared at him.
"That's the last of you." He said as he tore the last collar off. Superboy looked around, seeing the animals scratch at their necks. He looked around the room, using his x-ray vision. He saw people moving, but in other areas of the floor.
He glanced up and looked on further, recognizing a body on a table, squirming. He then saw an even tinier body flying around her. "Artemis." He whispered out. He got up onto the table, ready to leap through the ceiling.
"Hey you! What the hell did you do!" someone came in the room. He had the signature white coat on. "Guards!" the man yelled. Moments later, guards swarmed into the room. "You guys take 'em down and subdue the animals!"
"Not when I'm here you're not." Superboy growled. He leaped and charged forward and began knocking the guards out. Whatever that was still in his systems, he was a bit weaker than usual.
Being in his state, several punches rattled his head. A guard beside him went towards him and swung his leg under Superboy's feet, knocking him down.
He was about to get up, if not for a seriously oversized Taser pole thing pointing at him. The guard smirked and shoved it to his shoulder, electrocuting him. Superboy yelled out in pain.
"We laced the drug with kryptonite. Just enough to make ya week." One of the guards said.
Superboy growled. Yes, he could feel it practically swimming through his blood…but he also knew another thing.
It was wearing out. That small dose is wearing out. Question is…how long?
Being distracted by his own thoughts, he heard a click around his neck. He quickly reached up to feel a steel collar secured around him.
A lot similar to the ones he tore off the primates a while ago.
He wiped the surprise look off his face and tried to break it off.
"Nice try kid. Don't cause us any trouble and just get back on the table."
Superboy growled. He quickly swooped his leg around and knocked over several surprised guards. He leaped up and over one of the guards Taser, thus kicking him in the face.
"Little punk!" one of them yelled as he charged towards him. Superboy ducked and elbowed him in the gut. Another guard managed to get Superboy in the gut.
Superboy winced in pain, giving the enemy a second upper hand to hold him. The guard in front of him shocked him over and over again. The guards let the boy fall to the ground.
The guards turned and laughed, finally engaging the primates. They stopped suddenly, turning into a large gorilla face. They looked behind the gorilla and saw everyone else was knocked out.
"Aw—shit!" one of them yelled as he brought his taser up to strike it. The gorilla easily stopped the small thing and snapped it in half. The large beast let out a huge roar.
A huge roar that snapped all the animals out of their thoughts and began to attack.
As the guards were under attack, the large gorilla calmly walked over to the smaller figure. The beast gently lifted human with two of its large fingers and cradled it in his arms.
The little one in his arms had saved them all and broke them out of their damnation and for that he was eternally grateful. He couldn't just sit there and watch his savior get hurt by these monsters.
From behind, he could feel the tiniest of them manage to hop climb up and landing onto the human's stomach. Anger still bubbled from him every time he saw the youngest condition. No arm, no leg. He can no longer survive in the outside world.
So many experiments were conducted on all of them, many unsuccessful, and others, proven successful. To a point where most can literally understand the so called 'human language'.
Over time, his own brain grew more and more. As the monsters before him were too incline on the other little ones, they didn't bother much for him all the time. Mostly cause the over largeness of his body due to experiments had intimidated them much.
He had remembered the boy looking up, squinting. Had he wanted to go up? He was glaring at the ceiling fairly long. The gorilla looked over to the monsters. More had seemed to swarm in. He ordered his fellow family to follow him. Clearly the doorway was a no. So there was only one other way.
Up.
He covered his arms, so that the human and the little one wouldn't get hurt. His family members had jumped on up after him, jumping from broken metal to broken metal, tearing wires along the way. As soon as they broke through into a different floor, he noticed what he was looking so intense at.
It was one of its own, probably. It was strapped to the table as he was. There was a small flying bug going around it, trying to find something to get her out of the thing. Their eyes widened in shock at the scene before them. They both looked at the gorilla, their friend in hand, as well as a lot of other monkeys coming in afterwards.
"Superboy!" Artemis yelled. She struggled in her bonds more. She heard the oversized gorilla order a command. Several of the larger monkeys jumped over and tore the bonds off her and pulled the needles away. She sat up, confused. "Uh—thank you?" she hopped out of the table.
"Gurl am I glad they showed up. Tiny thing like me can't do a thing." She flailed her hands.
Artemis turned towards the gorilla. She saw a small tiny monkey curled up in the crane of Superboy's neck. She let out a muffled laugh. "The irony."
The gorilla huffed and set the human down. It gently tore off the collar of the human's neck. The girl slowly walked over to her companion and gently nudged him awake.
"Superboy….hey supey!" she nudged a bit harder. "Sorry, but no time for sleeping. You need to be awake." She slapped him across the cheek, which somehow managed to leave a red hand imprint.
Well, it managed to get him up.
Superboy jerked up. "Ow." He lifted a hand to his cheek, then soon to his abdomen area. "Augh, hurts, everywhere."
"They must've laced the drug with kryptonite." Artemis said. "You should be thankful for your new friends that saved you." She smirked over to them. Superboy look over, seeing the large family of primates. He then heard a small cry from his lap. He looked down to see the capuchin monkey from before. He glanced up the gorilla.
"Thanks." He said to it. The gorilla nodded.
"You can understand us?" Artemis asked. The gorilla nodded in reply.
"I'm sorry, but enough chit-chat. We gotta get outta here." Bumblebee suggested. They nodded.
Artemis reached into her pocket, which surprisingly still has that weird device Robin had given them. She pressed a button that brought up the map. "So, we're almost near the top floor. Aqualad is going towards KF." She paused. "Where the hell is Robin?"
"He isn't on there?" Superboy asked. She shook her head. She brought her hand to her ears.
"Artemis to Robin, are you there?" she asked, hopeful he would answer. She let out a harsh sigh as she heard nothing. "Artemis to Aqualad, are you there?"
"-Affirmative Artemis, where is your location?" the voice sighed, relieved to hear his teammate.
"Very top floor. Robin is off our grid, he's not showing up on the map and he isn't answering his comm. link either."
"Continue to search on up. I believe this facility has more than it lets on. Zatanna is here with me. We will search for Kid Flash and catch up with you soon."
"Alright." She brought her hand down.
"Well?" Bumble bee asked.
"We go up. Aqualad thinks there's more than meets the eye."
"With what I've seen, I'm not surprised." Superboy said. "Come on." He shifted the small monkey so that is wraps its tail around his neck and clings to either side. They nodded and ran on out.
~0o0o0o0o0o0~
"So they're alright?" Zatanna asked. Aqualad nodded.
"They will go on and search on the higher levels while we find Kid Flash." He said. They ran and turned the corner.
"The latch here should lead to the stairwells. Luckily, they didn't take you all the way down from where I was. It has about 20 levels underground." She said.
"How did you manage to get up so quickly?"
"Elevator." She smirked. "I'm not going to go up 20 levels of stairs, no way." She glanced at the map. "Kid Flash is about 4 levels up, so taking the stairs should be fine." She opened the door and chanted a spell. "ekat su ot eht htruof level!" a golden platform shined below Zatanna and Aqualad.
"Elevator." Aqualad smirked. "Useful." He glanced up, seeing their destination point.
They opened the door and followed the map.
"There." Aqualad pointed towards the smoke. They entered the room, seeing scattered bits of metal everywhere.
"Arrgh…" they heard a moan.
"Kid Flash, are you there?" Aqualad asked. He heard some coughing due to the smoke.
"H-here…" a shadow that belonged to KF's got up slowly, and emerged from the smoke, albeit limping. "Never trying that again…" he rubbed the back of his head. He noticed Zatanna—and her shocked face. "Uhh—what're you starin at…?"
"…Ears…" she managed to say. He went up and touched his ears. Nothing wrong.
"She means…your…other…ones…" Aqualad said.
What?
He reached around his ears and then the top of his head. That's when he realized what they were staring at. He had ears on the top of his head. He yanked them, but hissed in response.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow." He cradled his ears. "They're not coming off!" Wally exclaimed. He felt something brush his elbow. He glanced down to see a tail, with the color of his hair, swaying. "I have a tail….a tail…A TAIL?!" he ran towards the window, seeing his reflection and gasped. "WHY THE HELL AM I A CAT?!"
Zatanna and Aqualad looked at each other.
"We came too late." Aqualad said.
Sooooo—here I am! Here is an update. Don't murder me.
Guess which species Wally is. Preeeetty obvious. -_-
I'm so creative… ;w;
I'm posting this now for you guys. I'll go back and look over it and see if i made any mistakes, but yea...
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