"AHHHHHHHH! I can't take this anymore!" Bart yelled again and glared at the back of Robin's head. Robin sighed and turned around.
"I'm sorry Bart, but things aren't looking good right now. I haven't gotten a response from Red Tornado yet. I have no idea what's going on out there. I know you're in a lot of pain and I don't know how to help you. All I can say for now is just don't move." He turned back to the shattered computer screens. Robin thought a minute. He'd all ready sent half the team and Red Tornado to the D.E.O with no clue on what's going on there. "Bart, I'm going to have to go there."
"I thought you weren't gonna. Isn't there a chance that someone else could get the disease we all have? That's why I'm not going, right?" Bart asked. Robin turned to him and raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah. I thought you weren't listening but I have to go. I don't know what's going on there. If they're in trouble…we won't know about it. I'm going to have to take a risk on this one. I want you to stay here."
"How can you ask me to stay here!" Bart exclaimed waving his arms, "What if you get in trouble? I'll miss all the action! Not to mention, what if I'm here and doing nothing and I suddenly break out in a seizure or something. Then no one will be here to help me!"
"First off Bart, you won't have a seizure. Secondly, if I did take you, you might go into stage 4. Then you'd only get hurt. It's better to keep you here where it's safe." Robin replied slipping a few things in his utility belt just in case. Bart frowned knowing that Robin was right. He didn't like it though. Bart fiddled with the mask in his hands watching Robin getting ready to go into battle. Robin turned to Bart and handed him a little radio, "In case I get in trouble, I'll use this to contact you. Speak into this mic here while holding down this button marked 'talk'." He pointed the buttons and directed his teammate on how to use them. "Okay, and if you are having any problems, just contact me."
"Hey, Rob?" Bart asked looking up from the radio he was given.
"Yeah?"
"What if you don't come back?"
"Well…" Rob suddenly paused. What if I don't come back? What if I don't make it there? What about the team—No, I can't think about that now. "Trust me, that's not a possibility." He said with an air of confidence. Robin held up his hand as a kind of "good-bye" and left.
"Gotcha!" An agent cried grasping on to the foot of a subject that could've easily been mistaken for a wookie. The terrified "wookie" cried out in fear making a sound similar to that of a frightened bear cub.
"I don't think so!" A voice came from behind the agent. As he turned around he was greeted by a punch in the face that sent him sailing across the room. The "wookie" looked up at his savior to see a girl standing with a black wig on her head, blue goggles over her eyes, red pants, kneepads, and a leather jacket covering a black tee with the letters "W" and "G" on it. He didn't know who she was, but he was grateful. She was about to say something to him when another subject cried out for help. The "wookie" looked with admiring eyes as the hero quickly raced to save another distressed subject.
"I coulda swore I already freed half of these guys last time I was here!" WonderGirl complained as she knocked another agent clean out. The slimy, green subject he was attacking seemed to want to thank Cassie with a big hug. It outstretched its loving tentacles toward her. "No offense but I think I'll pass."
"The D.E.O probably recaptured them." Arrowette yelled over the screams and alarms. She aimed her net-arrow carefully and shot it at three guards ganging up on an escapee. "Yes!" She cried pleased with her work.
WonderGirl noticed that even though Arrowette and her were doing an incredible job of butt-kicking, the escapees had no where to go. The guards were blocking most of the exits and trying to close them off manually. The room had a few broken windows via Red Tornado, but otherwise it was a huge cage. Well, something had to be done about that.
"It's this way…I think." Secret said turning down a corridor. "They usually studied me in my own…cell." She almost whispered a little painfully. The D.E.O building brought a lot of painful memories for Secret. She choked them back and continued on. "Uh…what do you think Red Tornado?"
John was slowly following Secret mapping down the blueprint of the building as they went along. He made sure to download the path exactly when Secret asked him. "This would be my first time here. I am not clear on the location of the laboratory."
"Oh." Secret said plainly and they turned another corridor. "Here!" Secret excitedly yelled. She moved ahead and hovered in front of overly white double doors. A small window was cut near the top of the door. Secret peered in to find the setup all too familiar. High-tech medical equipment lined the walls with a large metal table in the center. Secret shuddered and backed away from it. Red Tornado saw Secret's obvious reluctance to enter the room.
"Secret, you do not have to enter if it is too upsetting." Reddy comforted looking at the double doors.
"No, no…it's okay. I can do this." She gathered up her courage and opened the doors. Secret took a deep breath and glided in. The smell, the sight, the feeling was almost overwhelming. It was as if she was re-entering a nightmare. She pushed past her feelings knowing that this was something she had to do.
Reddy took a look around at all the equipment that not even he himself had seen. Above the metal table were a collection of lights and probes with metal arms and tools. Even above that there were what appeared to be windows. Red Tornado made his way up to get a closer look. He found that the windows were linked to an observation area. It was set up as if it were a Med school! Red Tornado hovered back down to the ground.
"Secret, I do not think this is the laboratory. I believe this is an examining room."
"I...I know. The examining room connects to the laboratory." Secret shuddered, "Uh…I think the laboratory is through that door." She started to move closer to an ominous looking metal door when Red Tornado stopped her.
"Why don't I go in there. I'll go in and you tell me if anyone enters." Red turned toward the door and walked over to it. Secret didn't argue and was happy that Red Tornado volunteered to go in there. She didn't want to find out what was in there.
Red Tornado opened the large metal door when a loud rumbling came from above
