Exam based delays due to studying will be a problem for the rest of the month.

Bestrest: if you don't finish the reviews I can't answer them. Though I have the oddest feeling you might just enjoy the ending here. I predict you will make a request for the new character to be used.

Timewalker: Because it is there base and everyone there is either mind controlled or their allies

Dark: Glad you caught that. Yes, the Martian Symbiotes have landed!

Guest: I fixed that, and the Endless Research facility deals with guys like Dream of the Endless. He popped up in one of Robin's sections. Seven embodiments of forces of nature, such as Death of the Endless, Dream of the Endless and Desire of the Endless. They are Vertigo properties, which are owned by DC. Death herself recently popped up to hang with Lex pre New 52. The clones were in the 'failed clone area' for a reason. Every clone there is like Match, heavily unstable. As for Fem Superman...the Light was testing new ideas out.

61394: That is the idea of the Light wanting to figure out why people become gay or bisexual. Perhaps Vandal wants to get Scandal Savage straight? Who knows, at least one of the Light is probably a homophobe. Brain is somewhat in the closet, Klarion doesn't care and Lex doesn't see it as an issue. So, one of the remaining four is and would want a way to 'fix' all LGBT people on earth.

Hardhitter: I do Percy Jackson too. I have several up now a days.

Now lets continue this

Level 51

Level 51 lacked the organic appearance of Project Kr, instead it was mainly filled with four huge tanks.

One tank was filled with plants, another with glowing red energy forms of animals, (Beast Boy oddly turned red when he got near it) a third with grayish mold covering its surface, and the fourth...

The fourth was filled with pure decay. So hideous it was nearly indescribable Covering this horror filled tank were hundreds of glowing bold letters.

Concentrated Rot Energy DO NOT OPEN UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! POTENTIAL APOCALYPSE MATERIAL

Reading this, Iceman began to walk away from the fourth tank very slowly. Wolf whimpered in fright, a behavior the old dog rarely did.

"What is all this stuff?" Superboy asked.

"Its part of the natural order of things" Raven said with a notable note of horror in her voice. "The Light...shouldn't even touch it. Their caution...is very well advised"

"Or else, an apocalypse" Iceman muttered.

"Kurt...get these things OUT of here. This place needs to be destroyed, but not at the cost of an apocalypse" Superboy said solemnly.

"How exactly is moldy cheese exactly supposed to destroy us all?" Static said dryly.

With perfect seriousness, Superboy replied "The same way that I've met telepathic gorillas, fought living mud, recruited an annoying time traveler and somehow don't have any genes from my human gene donor...some things just don't ever make sense"

Level 4

Phasing down after taking as many Atlantean artifacts as they could move (Oh, the wonders of Martian Weaving, shapeshifting and expanding bags), Dust's team found themselves in a purple hued room filled with various objects that hummed with magic, though none of them could really sense it.

A golden pendant with an eye, a levitating cloak, various magical tomes, wands, swords and orbs, a crimson gem, a dial and a evil looking multi colored vest.

"What is all this, a magic show reject dump?" Ben complained as Dust sighed.

"Ben...ever figure that all of these things could be potentially dangerous? Or perhaps equal in power to your watch?"

"Hey, my watch is so much cooler than any..." he quickly looked over the gem "Gem of Cytorrak that bestows the power of the Juggernaut...oh that is so scary...I could be a powerful juggler!" Ben said sarcastically.

"A Juggernaut means your unstoppable Ben, not a Juggler" Kitty deadpanned.

"Really?"

"I have no idea, I'd hate to find out...so Hisako..."

"On it" The armor producer formed her psionic projection of a battle suit around herself and very carefully picked up the potentially dangerous gem.

"YOUR NOT WORTHY OF THE POWER OF CYTTORAK, RULER OF THE CRIMSON COSMOS! BRING ME A BEING OF DESTRUCTION..." an evil voice began to demand from the gem, which was now glowing a deeper blood red before they dropped it into their bag.

"Okay...so its not all that lame..." Ben said weakly

'Do not trifle with magic' Raven telepathically spoke 'Magic can come out in backwards speech, latin, constant chanting...its flexible and always finding ways to destroy you'

Level 49

After going through a level dominated by research on a giant hologram of a fire bird, a room filled with Green Lantern lamps tied to computers seemed far more...important.

I mean, how dangerous could a little fire bird be, anyway?

"Are they trying to figure out what makes Green Lantern Power rings or something?"

"Aren't they made of willpower and all that self help book crud?" Spiderman quipped.

"And...since when did they come in blue?" Static blinked.

"Blue..." Megan trailed off as she saw it.

A single lantern, much like the green lantern personal batteries, but it glowed blue.

And just being around it was...positive power incarnate to all...

But Raven, who seemed ill.

"Urg...what is that..." she managed to wheeze out

"Goodness incarnate...its like a hundred hugs from mom" Beast Boy said in a vaguely drunk voice.

"Its like eating all the candy at Easter and feeling like you can RUN FOR KILOMETERS!" Pixie's voice got higher and higher as she spoke, drunk on hope as well.

"...Grab the lanterns before all this Hope and Joy makes me hurl" Raven deadpanned.

Level 12

After finding little of interest, bar research papers about various subjects, a vile of something called Sublime and a lot of clocks, team Wolverine Daughters found themselves in a large room, filled with tanks made of magnifying glass, filled with microscopic nanites.

The nanites were glowing blue spheres with various metal appendages sticking out of them. They were moving around in a similar matter to atoms or electrons, humming and orbiting around larger, gray nanites.

"What are these...nanites...I am pronouncing it correctly am I not?" Dust inquired as Kitty began accessing the files.

"Yes...and they appear to be some sort of...attempt at curing disease and improving humanity" she began "They are also an attempt to create a safer and more controllable mutagen"

"And let me guess...they have some horrible side effect that keeps them from using it." Jubilee deadpanned

"...The nanites were apparently designed by a young scientist named Ceaser Salazar...who was one of the people to die at Pepsi Center due to the Mutagen and Sentinel attack. Because they were not finished, the Light's attempts at adding them to people caused 99% death and it also apparently deactivated starro tech..."

"Isn't that what we're looking for?" Ben asked absently. "A starro tech cure"

"99 percent death...yeah no I'll wait for an alternate method" Jubilee said in a sardonic tone.

"99...does that mean someone..." Hisako pointed out just as a soft groan was heard.

Going around a few machine created corners, they found where the moan had come from.

"Oh Allah" Dust murmured.

In a similar containment field, bound by electrical bindings and his hands lifted away from the machine surface, a young boy was restrained.

He was dressed in a red and orange jacket with brown pants. He appeared to be Hispanic with spiky black hair.

"I take it he's the one percent" Laura said weakly as Kitty walked up to the boy and phased her hand through the field generators.

They deactivated at once, causing the boy to drop to the floor.

"Ow..." the fallen boy rubbed his backside "That hurt..." he then got a look around.

"Where am I?"

"Do you remember anything?" Dust pressed as the boy frowned.

"No...last thing I remember is a guy in a hockey mask breaking into my house down in Austin...he didn't have a chainsaw though"

At Dust's confused look, Laura sent her a mental comment about a movie involving texans and chainsaws.

"After that...I woke up here...names Rex by the way. Rex Salazar"

"My name is..."

"Nanite subject Omega-1 has escaped" a computerized voice began to monotone, interupting Hisako

"I thought you shut that thing off!" Laura yelled as she unsheathed her claws.

"I shut off his restraints! I have no idea what computer is causing..."

"Nanite subject Ome..." the computer suddenly shut itself off.

All eyes turned to Rex, who had placed his hand on the nearest computer, which was currently glowing with blue tech lines.

"Did I just do that...?" Rex asked in confusion.

"Your some sort of technopath..." Kitty said in amazement.

"Really?" Rex looked at his hands in awe.

"Maybe that's why you survived those nanites...you can control them." Hiskao mused.

Rex looked at his hands in amazement "I have super powers...I wonder what else I can do with them?"

"Can you use machines to grow giant fists!?" Ben asked out of nowhere.

Rex tried, and while his hand seemed to briefly grow little bits of orange metal on it, nothing happened "Got nothing?"

"A giant sword!?"

He tried it again"No"

"...A jetpack?"

"Look amigo, who do you think I am? Some super weapon X or something like that? Now, mind telling me your names?"

Level 43

After dealing with floors involving searching for some guy named Morpheus and some girl named Death who was rather pretty, a large area dedicated to mythologies, a bunch of notes that Rocket recognized from the Belle Reeve incursion, a giant reactor of some sort of radioactive energy, and a floor filled with canisters of mutagen, they had finally arrived at the clone storage area, a floor below from where the light had tried to clone the original three sidekicks of the team.

The clone storage area was a much more expansive facility than floor 52's storage. Rows and rows of cold storage tanks held identical copies to dozens of heroes. Clones of Zatarra, Green Arrow, Roy, Batman, Flash, Aquaman, Plastic Man, Poison Ivy, Icicle Junior and dozens of others lined the hall.

"Do we move them all..." Spiderman asked in utter wonder as Caitlin noticed one clone tank that looked like it had been in the process of being moved, but was left abandoned, probably when the staff went to go and deal with the defective clone.

The clone's designation- Black Canary 16. The clone was a teenage version of Black Canary, dressed in a simpler version of Superboy's solar suit, though with BC in the middle as oppose to the symbol of the House of El.

A clipboard was on the clone's tank, which Caitlin grabbed and examined.

Black Canary Clone Sixteen is to be removed to the holding area. Failure due to clone rejecting implanting of memories of Black Canary original. Clone may also suffer from Project KR aging inefficiency.

It was dated to this morning.

Spiderman froze, sensing something...

As one of the cloned Poison Ivy's opened its eyes, as did the other clones, bar Black Canary 16.

Look, I guess you guys probably think I'm crazy. All of you hate Ben, and here I got put in a character who is Ben's equal in many ways? However, Rex is my secret weapon for turning Ben from Scrappy to at least slightly popular scrappy. After all, he's actually one of the few characters who I know exactly what I'm going to do with.