The team of young heroes arrived at Project Cadmus in time for an explosion to knock two scientists out of a top story window. Kid Flash ran up the building and caught them before they fell to their deaths, throwing them up on the roof before he lost traction, and had to grab onto the ledge of the open window.
"So smooth." Robin said, watching Kid Flash struggle.
"Does he always have to run ahead? We need a plan, we -" Aqualad said, before realizing Robin had disappeared. "Robin?" He looked around unable to find him.
His attention was drawn to Robin laughing as he swung above them onto a fire truck, and into the window of the lab, pulling Kid Flash up.
"What a team we've all made so far." She said.
"Indeed." Aqualad said, running ahead.
"I'll put out the fire." She said.
"Affirmative, I'll grant the men on the roof safe passage down." He said.
When she flew up to the roof she stretched her arms out in front of her and concentrated on willing the fire to her. It slowly started to become part of her own fire, and she made her way in the same way the others had went.
"Nope, I love working on my own. Thanks, you guys." She said, glaring at Robin and Kid Flash.
"You handled it, besides, we're here to investigate. Poetic justice, remember?" Robin said, typing away on one of the computers.
She started looking through the filing cabinets with Kid Flash.
"Have you found anything yet?" She said.
"Not really, just a few experiments, some are marked classified. It might be something but I'm not sure yet." Kid Flash said.
They were searching for a few moments longer before they heard Aqualad say something about someone being in the elevator.
"Elevators should be locked down." Kid Flash said.
Robin went ahead and pressed the button to see if it would work.
"This is wrong." Robin said, pulling up his scanner. "Thought so, this is a high speed express elevator. It doesn't belong in a two story building."
"Neither does what I saw." Aqualad said, before prying the doors open with his bare hands.
"Man, someone's been eating their Wheaties." She said, earning a playful elbow to the ribs from Kid Flash.
They all walked over to see that the elevator shaft went down several levels.
"And that's why they need an express elevator." Robin said, crouching between the doors.
One by one the group carefully made their way down the elevator shaft by way of one of Robin's grappling hooks, until they had to stop at a door that read 'SL 26'. Aqualad pried open the doors once more revealing a long, dimly lit hallway.
"Welcome to Project Cadmus." Robin said.
"It looks like an alien horror movie down here." She said.
Kid Flash started speeding down the hall.
"Wait!" Aqualad called after him in a loud whisper.
When Kid Flash reached the end of the hallway he stopped before falling backwards. There was a small herd of gray, mammoth sized, elephant-like creatures stomping their way through. He had rolled out of the way in time for him not to get crushed.
"No, nothing odd going on here." Aqualad said sarcastically.
"That was freaking bananas!" She exclaimed, as the creatures finished passing.
"No kidding." Robin said.
"Okay, I'm officially whelmed." Robin said.
They had just opened a door where there were pods reaching a very tall ceiling filled with electricity producing creatures, not unlike the ones they had seen earlier.
"This is how they hide this massive underground facility from the world. The real Cadmus isn't on the grid! It generates its own power with these things. Must be what they're bred for." Kid Flash said, walking down the hall.
She walked closer to the chambers putting her hands over her eyes to shield them from the bright lights the creatures were emitting.
"I wonder if they feel anything." She said.
One of the creatures seemed to react to her presence by slamming its leg against the glass, making her jump.
"Holy hell!" She exclaimed, grabbing her chest.
"What did you do?" Aqualad called back to her.
"I didn't do anything! It just kicked the glass out of nowhere!" She responded, running back over to the group. "I really hope these pods don't start randomly opening up. There's way too many for us to handle.
"They call them, Genomorphs." Robin said, looking through the files. "Whoa, look at the stats on these things! Super strength, telepathy, razor claws! These are living weapons." He exclaimed.
"They're engineering an army. But for who?" Kid Flash said.
"Wait, there's something else, Project Kr. Ugh. The files' triple encrypted, I can't - " Robin said, before being cut off.
"Don't move!" a gruff voice called.
A man in gold and silver armor accompanied by many other Genomorphs entered the room before stopping.
"Wait, Robin, Aqualad, Red Alchemist, Kid Flash?" He said.
"I know you. Guardian, a hero." Aqualad said.
"What is a guy like you doing down here?" She said.
"I think that's my question to ask. I'm chief of security, you're trespassing. But we can call the Justice League, figure this out." Guardian said.
"You think the league is going to approve of you breeding weapons?" Kid Flash said.
Guardian was going to say something before he put his hand on his helmet, he seemed to be having an episode of sorts before he regained his composure.
"Take 'em down, hard! No mercy!" He said, commanding the Genomorphs.
As the Genomorphs came their way she caught one in mid-air before it could tackle her to the ground, and spun around in circles using it to hit the others that got close enough. Aqualad was trying to throw one off of him that jumped on his back, before Guardian charged at him, knocking him into one of the wall panels. Aqualad got up and started brawling with him; they seemed to be at a stalemate before he activated his electrokinetic abilities, and pushed Guardian back. The others ran out when they saw the opportunity to do so. They kept running until they saw Robin at the end of a hallway trying to open a door and skidded to a halt.
"Way to be a team player, Rob!" Kid Flash exclaimed sarcastically.
"Weren't you right behind me?" Robin said, feigning innocence.
Robin got the door open and the four of them ran inside the elevator. Genomorphs could be heard slamming against the outside of the doors.
"That was way too close. At this point I don't really care if this make me sound like a wuss, those things are scary." She said, holding her leg.
"Are you alright?" Aqualad said.
"Yeah, one just scratched me." She said, moving her hand to reveal four medium sized claw marks of her leg "I'll be fine in a moment."
She activated her healing and one by one the claw marks closed up as small flames shot out of her leg; Aqualad backed off slightly.
"Whoa! Are you fire on the inside?! That's awesome!" Kid Flash exclaimed, beaming at her.
"Thanks, I guess. But, no, that's just what happens when I heal." She said, wiping the blood on her glove off on the side of her uniform.
"We're heading down?" Aqualad said, noticing the elevator number getting higher.
"Dude, out is up!" Kid Flash said to Robin.
"Excuse me? Project Kr. It's down on sub-level 52." Robin said.
She got between the two of them to stop any fighting that could occur.
"This is out of control." Aqualad said, rubbing the back of his head. "Perhaps- perhaps we should contact the league." He looked back at the group.
The elevator reached sub-level 52 and the doors opened to reveal a room that looked like it was made of living inner tissue.
"Okay, this is easily worse than sub-level 26. At least those walls were solid. It looks like those things could start popping out of the walls at any moment." She said.
"WHAT?!" Kid Flash and Aqualad exclaimed in unison.
"Relax, I don't think that'll be happening. The files didn't say anything about the creatures being capable of "intangibility." Robin said.
"What was that?" She said.
"What was what?" He feigned innocence, smirking at her.
"...You really want to do this now?" She said, glaring down at him.
"Let's go!" He said, running out of the elevator excitedly.
"We are already here." Kid Flash said, following after him.
She and Aqualad sighed in unison.
"Ladies first?" Aqualad said, motioning for her to go before him.
"I might as well." She said, sounding defeated.
They all ran before ducking near some equipment and seeing two hall entrances.
"Which way?" Aqualad said, addressing Robin.
"Yeah, bizarre looking hallway one, or bizarre looking hallway two?" Robin said.
"Hold!" a voice called.
A humanoid looking Genomorph rounded the corner before using its telekinesis to throw drums at the wall behind the group, making them explode. Robin threw a birdarang in its direction which it stopped using its telekinesis before throwing more drums in the groups direction. They ran in the opposite direction before they could be attacked again. Kid Flash rounded a corner too fast and ended up knocking a woman to the ground. A door marked 'Project Kr' was beginning to close, Kid Flash put a tank in between it to keep it from closing all the way.
"Hurry!" Kid Flash called to the rest of the group.
One by one they all jumped to the other side of the door, Aqualad kicked the tank out once he saw the Genomorphs had caught up.
"I disabled the door, we're safe." Robin said.
"We're trapped." Aqualad said.
"Uh, guys? You'll want to see this." Kid Flash said.
He pushed a button that made the chamber in front of them light up.
"Whoa!" Robin said, otherwise speechless like the rest of the group.
The chamber had a person inside and was marked with a 'Kr' on the front.