To the fans
I understand that Wolverine can be quite awesome, and his death was quick (And canonly possible, I consulted a forum discussing ways to kill him. Burning his flesh to a point there isn't a single cell left was one of them, and that was how Ult Wolverine died). It was always planned for him to die, it gives his daughters reason to fight and, quite frankly, the team itself is to be young. Wolverine is at least 30 here, and if he was there he'd be leader. Superboy is to be the leader, and thus I removed the Hypotenuse, Wolverine.
Wolverine is also a character who suffers from writers who vary in his regenerative abilities immensely. You have X-Men evolution where Wolveine takes a while to recover from falling off an Airplane, and you have comics where he can regrow his flesh after being hit with a nuke. Here I applied a bit of balance, he can regrow limbs but he can not regenerate that much damage.
But, with that major point down..the other points
Bestrest: maybe
timewalker: Dust might get paired up if a pairing strikes me.
Guest: They picked it up via the mental link, and I plan to change that
13 souls: Your see...
Cadmus labs, Washington D.C, a day later, sub level 1
"Did we really loose Red Tornado? We have suffered a great loss" The dark skinned Amanda Spence mused while looking over a clipboard "Our loss of Black Canary 1 is unfortunate, but we have 15 Black Canaries in storage at various stages of growth. His power in creating wind has not been managed to be reconstructed by you, Professor Ivo"
"The robot caused its own destruction when he rebelled early on" the short, red and graying man muttered "Whatever Morrow did with his robots is probably something so...basic I haven't considered it. Its not like he stole it from aliens or anything that ridiculous"
"No matter...the bone samples may be resisting all our attempts to drill a sample and mildly toxic to those in contact with it, but we will manage to extract their properties for killing Starro Tech, and find a cure for it" Spence mused as the duo walked away...just seconds before Kitty phased down through the ceiling, with Jubilee, Armor and Laura (She really needed a code name) holding onto her somehow.
Through the cracks in the building, Dust flowed through, reforming herself physically after a ghost like being phased through the wall, before a green flash of energy (Masked by Dust's storm) and the retreat of said storm revealing Ben.
'We're inside' Dust thought out loud.
'Superboy asked me to say this...but I've hacked the motion sensors' Static snarked.
'Good' Superboy replied to them all. 'Nightcrawler will bring the rest of us in to cause a diversion. Recover Logan's body, and retrieve any data or items of value. Then, its time we remind the light that we're here...and destroy Cadmus'
'Hey, why can't I cause the diversion?' Ben whined. 'That involves blowing things up!'
'Because in the worse case scenario, we need someone with raw power on this team. It was either you or Megan, and its more than likely they added anti phase shifting tech to Cadmus since our last visit here. You and Kitty do something...different then density shift.'
'Fine...' he walked on ahead as Dust sighed.
In the West or the Middle East, little boys were the same.
Level 52
With a Bamf, Superboy, Miss Martian, Caitlin, Wolf, Rocket, Static, Spiderman, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Pixie, Raven, Iceman and Beast Boy poofed down into the very bottom of Cadmus, guided by the memories of Superboy from this 'hell'.
The still deactivate Red Tornado had been returned to base, where Impulse was currently checking him over and building a new body.
With no cure at the moment, a new body was the best for Red.
"Whoa...this place looks like something from my father's realm..." Raven deadpanned as Nightcrawler gave her a look.
"Who exactly is your father?"
"...You don't want to know"
"Can't be worse than having Lex Luthor donate his DNA" Superboy joked as Nightcrawler gave him a look.
"Sorry...that wasn't a jab at same sex couples, that was a jab at him being a very unpleasant man" Nightcrawler turned away, shaking his head
Note to self, no Momma Lex jokes around Nightcrawler.
"Believe me, Lex Luthor is Mother Teresa compared to my father"
"Erm...parent politics aside" Spiderman snarked "Aren't we here to cause a distraction?"
"Our last visit here showed the Genomes had been removed, though if that was to another location or to death I have no idea. So the only opposition we should get from this place are Light minions, and maybe more clones...and if one is looking for distractions in Cadmus..."
Superboy pointed at a poorly replaced 'flesh' wall, which Caitlin immediately took as, rip if off. Growing to her battle form, Caitlin ripped the hinges off the door, revealing the cold storage where Match and Speedy 1 were stored.
"The mentally unstable clones the Light haven't let out yet are always the best place to go"
As the team entered, everyone but Iceman began to shiver, as Superboy had a far too sinister grin as he saw the hundreds of glowing red buttons.
"Raven if you would" Raven nodded as she closed her eyes, her body glowing with a black shadow as a huge raven of darkness flew up from her as it broke up into multiple bolts of darkness, causing each of the red buttons to be coated in shadow.
Then she mentally pressed them down.
Steam filled the room as hundreds of frozen containers began to open, revealing a couple hundred Superboy's. Mixed among them were clones of Icon, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Batman clones injected with mutagen and other 'failed trials'.
'Lets get out of here...' Nightcrawler bamfed them up a level as the clones got to see their surroundings...
And promptly attacked each other.
Level 2
"WHAT! THE REJECT CLONES BROKE OUT!?" A french accented Gorilla, Monsieur Mallah (Who had been given genetic manipulation as to talk by Brain), snarled in rage as dozens of metahumans stationed at Cadmus because their powers 'were not battle decent' or better suited for research.
"I told you we should have updated the security system" A frog like man snarked, sticking his tongue out to grab a cockroach that had just managed to sneak its way into the building.
"BE SILENT TOAD!" Mallah snarled "Get Numerous, Penance and Copperhead. We're going down there to calm down the rubbish, after I find out why the 'super genius' didn't keep them on a tighter reach...or make a better computer security system!"
Mallah directed this glare at a blue dressed man who was currently programming four separate computer systems at once, his plastic like body stretched with a limb working each complex program, with the head of a pre maturing gray teenager with dark hair and pale skin in the middle.
"I would have, Light High Minion, however I was also assigned to complete the Starro Tech cancellation kill switch, which I finished approximately 2 minutes, 17 seconds and 1 nano second prior to your tirade, as well as designs for carbon dioxide nuclear power generation, the genetic requirements from converting the sperm cells of Superman into egg cells compatible with human woman or possibly the creation of a female Superman clone with stability, determining 23 designs for Vibranium based armor, a portal to identified separate realms of existence most magic can not reach, such as the Negative Zone, Gemworld, Olympus and Asgard, dissect the two colors of the emotional spectrum of light we have in possession and determine the correct length of a golf club required for Light Lord Lex Luthor to meet par at that Golf course while designing it, all of these assignments are ahead of upgrading the firewall to avoid hackers"
"Bah" Mallah snarled "Your coming too, Plastic Boy"
"Mister Fantastic, and I am very busy, my twelfth level intellect..."
"WHATEVER! Unlike all of you, I have free will and know that the base avoiding collapse is more important than Luthor's golf swing! Your coming with me! Activate the secret weapon as well...it will be needed in dealing with those things"
As the blue man left with the ape and the hopping man, the group bar Dust shifted through the wall via her power as Dust reformed from the corner.
"Looks like the distraction is in...now lets see where the good stuff is" Kitty smirked as she took out a PDA and an power cord as she began to hack the system a la Robin.
"I really need to figure out how to use those things" Dust mused.
"Where did you even learn to hack computer systems?" Armor questioned Kitty in some due wonder...and slight feeling of disturbance.
"Internet" Kitty quipped as the PDA pinged "Got it" she had pulled up the official map of Cadmus as used by employees.
Level 1 Staff Offices
Level 2 Head Staff Offices
Level 3 Atlantean Artifact storage and study facility
Level 4 Magic Artifact storage and study facility
Level 5 Mutagen tracking facility
Level 6 Sublime study facility
Level 7 Space study facility
Level 8 Time study facility
Level 9 Anti-Sentinel think tank
Level 10 Warp Space study facility
Level 11 Starro Tech improvement facility
Level 12 Nanite creation and research facility
Level 13 Project Blockbuster, Kobra Venom production
Level 14 New Metal study area
Level 15 Power Generation area
Level 16 Negative Zone study facility
Level 17 Gemworld Study facility
Level 18 Magic study facility
Level 19 Anti-Global Warming think tank
Level 20 Flying battle ship design think tank
Level 21 Telepathic user to user tech creation facility
Level 22 Immortality Formula creation facility
Level 23 Lazarus Pit improvement facility
Level 24 Cancer cure creation facility
Level 25 Zeta beam research facility
Level 26 Manhunter re-purposing facility
Level 27 Kandor storage area
Level 28 'New Krypton' think tank
Level 29 Methods to break the Young Heroes Wills think tank
Level 30 Watcher Watch facility
Level 31 Advanced Cyborg Creation Facility
Level 32 Sexual Identity Evolution study facility
Level 33 Invisible Jet reverse Engineering facility
Level 34 Secret Weapon storage area
Level 35 History Revision Committee
Level 36 Demon stopper think tank
Level 37 Space mapping Facility
Level 38 Alien Study Facility
Level 39 Nova force harvesting facility
Level 40 Source Wall study facility
Level 41 Omega Force study facility
Level 42 Cloning area
Level 43 Clone Storage Facility
Level 44 Metagene research facility
Level 45 Gamma Radiation study Facility
Level 46 Different Universe Study facility
Level 47 Mythology study facility
Level 48 Endless Research facility
Level 49 Emotion spectrum study facility
Level 50 Phoenix Force study and capture facility
Level 51 Red, Green, Gray and Rot research facility
Level 52 Faulty clone storage
"...We're going to need a few shopping carts for this" Jubilee said in a voice that waterfalled sarcasm.
Meanwhile, Colorado
"Is this the right arm linking bolt, or the right leg?" Impulse sped around Red Tornado, pulling parts around as he reassembled the being...hoping he didn't mess up the rebuilding process...
When he suddenly felt a telepathic grip on his mind.
'Relax young speedster, I come not as a enemy' a calming voice as a...hideous white monster rose up from the ground via phase shifting.
"Wait...I know you, your Megan's brother...Wlky...Wlkre..."
"I will save you the trouble, you can call me by an Human word..." he reformed himself into a vaguely humanoid shape, but as he was not as obsessed with humans as Megan, it wasn't quite accurate.
His skin was still White Martian white, his face wasn't structured in a human manner, and a tail, probably an attempt at hair, fell down from his head.
"You can call me, Walker"
However, neither noticed several slinking creature made of some sort of living ooze slither out of the burnt bio-ship that lay, burnt outside the waterfall.