Secret had been waiting for quite a while after Red Tornado had told her not to come in. She floated gently above the floor listening as well as she could for Reddy's signal. Secret thought she heard a familiar voice coming from behind the door. A voice that sounded horrible. It brought her back to the past back to a time she didn't want to go to. Who was it? Who's voice was that?! She debated with herself whether or not to disobey Red Tornado when she heard the low alarm pierce through the air. She turned around but as she did a loud crash was heard from the examining room. OK that's it! Signal or no signal I'm going in there! Secret pushed the door open and started to rush into the room when a voice caused her to stop.


"Hey look there! That must be why they sounded the alarm! It's the mist girl!" a young man's voice said behind her. When she looked she saw three young men staring at her in a mixture between awe and fear. She panicked and made herself into a large smoke monster to scare them away.


"Leave me alone!!!" she yelled to them in a devilish voice. They cowered like frightened deer.


"Hey guys! I got it! I got the…" the obvious rookie's voice trailed off when he saw Secret in her monstrous form. She looked in his hand to see a containment tube she knew all too well from her stays at the D.E.O.


"NOOOO!!! NEVER AGAIN!!!" She attacked the confused agent and swiped a giant paw across his face. He screamed but it never hit him. Her hand passed right through him leaving the stench of sleeping gas in his nostrils. She did the same to the other young guards and they all fell into a deep sleep. Secret shrunk back down to her normal size and shook off the memories of her captive life in the D.E.O. "Oh no! I forgot about Red Tornado!" She quickly floated into the room (ignoring the doors by passing right through them). "Red Tornado, are you all righ-" she cut herself off when she saw the terrible sight. Superboy was standing on the edge of the room in front of a large whole in the wall. She could see him firing at guards and patients. Marina's head could be seen resting on the crook of his arm but at his feet water rushed towards the new opening. On the rushing water was a white case. At first she dismissed it and headed straight for Superboy when out of the corner of her eye she saw writing on the case. When she paid her full attention to the container she realized it read: "Warfare Research Remedies" in the corner of the case and in small print. She grabbed for the case when suddenly, the water it was riding on turned into a ferocious sea of choppy waves. It flew through the air, landed back into the water, and sunk under. Why is it doing that! She thought to herself when she saw that it wasn't just the waves moving it was the whole room. Debris and medical equipment fell into the water. An earthquake? But it was too late to concentrate on that as the white case came flying back up through the air right at Superboy's head. She used all her speed to catch the case before it smacked into the back of SB's head.


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Impulse had just come in ready to fight. But he didn't know who to fight. The D.E.O agents were toppling over, subjects were screaming and collapsing as the floor rumbled beneath their feet. He saw Arrowette falling to the ground, now ankle-deep with water. He ran right through the diseased water splashing it on anyone close to him.


"What's going on?!" He yelled over the rumbling and yelling being careful trying to keep his balance and catching the girls before they landed in the water.


"It's Superboy!" WonderGirl cried trying to regain her balance, "He's gone into the 2nd stage!" As if to demonstrate his madness, he fired his weapon wildly off in all directions and set off another burst of his famed tactical telekinesis through the floor knocking the heroes off their feet. Arrowette landed on Impulse's back and WonderGirl flew up before she hit the ground. "We can't get near him with that stupid gun shooting anyone who gets close and his TTK keeping us unbalanced."


"This looks like a job for…Impulse!!" Impulse zwipped off towards the super maniac and WonderGirl caught Arrowette since Impulse had neglected to make sure she was off his back before zooming off. The teenage speedster easily dodged the blasts and used the D.E.O. agents as stepping-stones when the rumbling came. He reached Superboy and was greeted by a blast right to his face. Of course Impulse was too quick for any gun and simply vibrated through the shot. SB, outraged by the fact that he couldn't hit Imp, started lashing out with kicks and punches towards the masked hero. He couldn't land a single shot. "Is that the best you've got?" Imp foolishly teased. Superboy just seemed to get angrier and angrier as his blows kept missing their annoying target. Fortunately though, this did buy time for some guards to get to their feet and run over to help. Impulse was getting sloppier. It took a punch to his face for him to realize this. He barely dodged it and the sting of Superboy's knuckle bruised his cheek. Bart finally started to get serious and fought back. The Metropolis Kid couldn't take the barrage of hits that Impulse was landing on him. It almost felt like the air around him was on fire from the quickness and severity of the blows. But then something quite favorable for Superboy happened. Impulse was getting slower.


"Imp! What's wrong?" WonderGirl called as she flew towards the scene. She would have come sooner had she not been previously detained by the flow of frightened patients. But Bart didn't really know. What he could tell is that it hurt but at the same time, he couldn't stop or else he'd be mutilated by SB. Unfortunately, Imp didn't have much of a choice. Kon-el took this opportunity to kick his foe to the floor. Impulse landed hard on his back. Bart struggled to get up to the horrible realization that he couldn't. It was as if his joints had been glued in one position. He looked up pitifully at Superboy who smiled evilly down at him. SB simply lifted his foot and slammed it down on his surprised teammate's head. Seeing this, WonderGirl hurried towards the two dueling teammates. She was feet away from the two, still holding Arrowette high above the agents who were being swamped by angry ex-patients, when she suddenly wavered.


"WonderGirl, are you OK?" Cissie called up to her struggling friend. WonderGirl couldn't stay aloft. Arrowette's answer came when her friend dropped to the floor in pain. Arrowette somehow managed to turn about, land on her feet, and catch Cassie in her arms. But WonderGirl wasn't easy to hold. She wriggled and rolled about in immense pain. "What's wrong Cass! Speak to me!" Cissie desperately whispered to her best friend.


"The….The PAIN!" she screamed out grabbing her head in utter agony. Cassie let out a long, loud tormented cry.


"Cassie! Cass stay with me! Please! You can beat this thing! I know it! PLEASE!!" Arrowette begged the agonized super heroine. Cassie gave a miserable look up to Arrowette as tears streamed down her cheeks. She suddenly fell unconscious in Cissie's arms. "CASSIE!!!!!!"