The Super-Cycle crashed right through the walls of the D.E.O, growling. Robin groaned. "Cycle, did we really have to break another wall?" Robin looked around to see the entire room was nearly falling apart! Every wall had at least one hole in it. This room could collapse at any moment! Everyone seemed too preoccupied by falling, fleeing, and Superboy to realize it. Wait a second…Superboy?!! Robin quickly looked to see Superboy finishing off Impulse.
Superboy looked up. A cruel smile forming on his face while Imp lay unconscious on the ground. Impulse? No! Robin thought staring down at him.
"Super-Cycle, don't land. He's using his ttk to keep everyone off balance." Robin spotted Cissie out of the corner of his eye. "There!" He cried turning toward Cissie, "Get Arrowette outta there!" The Super-Cycle vroomed and dived straight down to Cissie. As they gradually got closer to Arrowette, Robin noticed Cassie lying in her arms. WonderGirl too? The Cycle hovered slightly above Cissie and she held the unconscious WonderGirl up to Robin. "What happened?" He asked carefully bringing her in.
"She…she just started to scream. It's her head, the 2nd phase." Arrowette whispered sadly. Just then, the Cycle began the shake and whimper. The guards and subjects were trying to get into the cycle for safety.
"Cycle take us up!" Robin commanded and the cycle did so obediently.
"What about the subjects?!" Arrowette cried.
"WonderGirl's gonna wake up and be more dangerous than ever. If we have a bunch of innocent people in here, they're gonna get hurt. Not to mention, we couldn't possibly carry that many people. I'm sorry but we need to get WonderGirl away from these people and stop Superboy."
Marina's eyelids fluttered and she opened her eyes. Someone was holding her but she couldn't make out who. Her head pounded and there was a horribly loud sound like a laser or something. Marina rubbed her eyes and looked up to see Superboy. Thank goodness, it's only Superboy, I thought for sure that Lutwidge…wait a second… Marina looked carefully at him to see he was concentrating on something. She saw everyone around the room falling and the walls were shaking and cracking. Is he…is he doing this? She wondered. Marina wasn't sure what was going on but she was pretty sure that it was Superboy causing the damage. There was only one way to find out.
Marina blasted a stream of water into Superboy's face stopping his concentration and leaving him a bit confused. The earthquake stopped for just a moment but continued right after. She slid out of his grasp and got into a fighting stance.
"Are you doing this, Superboy?" She asked. He only smiled and focused a ttk blast straight at her. She dodged just as the blast went straight past her feet and smashed into a wall. SB looked slightly angry and fired another blast at her. She barely dodged again as the blast flew past her and nearly zapped a group of guards. Superboy got more frustrated. He had only been using a quarter of his power on her keeping most of his concern on the guards and patients. He thought this would be over easily. But his patience was wearing thin and he wasn't going to deal with another one-on-one battle. The floor shook harder beneath them splitting the ground in two! The tile split and cracked breaking apart. The very earth pulled apart beneath Marina's feet! Marina slipped and fell backwards into the cavern.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!" She screamed toppling head over heels when Secret plunged straight down to catch her. Secret grabbed her quickly and pulled up to the top. "Thanks Secret!" Marina smiled gratefully and turned back to Superboy.
Carelessly thinking Marina had died, SB had turned away and began splitting the earth further apart hoping a few innocent people may just drop inside. Secret and Marina nodded to one another and went for him. Marina blasted Superboy up against the inside of the lab walls holding him fast and stopping his chaos. Secret zoomed ahead turning herself into sleeping gas and knocking Superboy unconscious.
Robin turned back to WonderGirl. She lay helpless on the floor of the Super-Cycle. Agent Johnson cowered as far away as he could be from her. He narrowed his eyes. "Okay this is what we have to do—" before Robin could finish, he heard the rumbling stop. He looked down below to see SB sprawled on his back. "What the—" Impulse was still unconscious but Marina was standing, fully awake, over Superboy angrily.
Apparently, while Robin had rescued Arrowette and Cassie, Marina had woken up, saw what was going on, and put an end to Superboy's madness... somehow. She stood above him her eyes narrowed when she heard another low rumble. Marina quickly looked back down at Superboy. But he was sleeping like a baby.
"The place is gonna blow!" Someone cried. Of course it wasn't going to blow, but the room would most certainly collapse. People started panicking pushing through to get out of the room into the fresh night's air. Patients and guards collided and meshed together till you couldn't tell who was who.
Red Tornado the whole time had been getting subjects to safety carrying as many at a time. But, his efforts seemed to be pointless, there were too many to all be saved. There was no way they could get everyone out of there in time.
"Robin, we can't possibly get them all out of here! What are we going to do?" Arrowette cried to him. Robin didn't have much time to speak, large chunks of the ceiling came crashing down. People screamed and almost trampled one another.
"Marina! The ceiling!" Robin yelled out.
Marina took action. She made a jet of water blast up to the ceiling trying to hold it together. She created another and another trying in desperation to keep it from falling on everyone. Gotta…save these people… she thought straining to keep the ceiling from collapsing.
"Secret! Help Marina!" Robin cried. Secret obediently did so. She created a smoke blanket just below the ceiling to try to hold it up. Or at least buy everyone enough time to get out of there.
"Arrowette," he said turning to her, "see if you can calm those people down. With Secret and Marina holding up the ceiling they should be able to get out of here safely. " Arrowette nodded and the Cycle set her down gently. "Red Tornado," Robin called, "this place is gonna cave in, get Impulse and Superboy out of here." Red Tornado dove down and scooped both Impulse and Superboy up.
Robin flew down to help Arrowette calm the crowd down. The sharp pain in his foot distracted him for a moment. His wound from the glass shard had yet to heal. But, Robin couldn't think about that now. Not with all these lives on his hands.
Arrowette was doing a surprisingly good job of calming the crowd down and getting them out. Some agents of the D.E.O sneered at her while they exited. Someone should be out there making sure they don't recapture the subjects. Robin thought to himself. Before he could open his mouth, he heard Agent Johnson snivel in the corner.
"What happens to me?" Agent Johnson was huddled up in the corner unaware of the recent events. He had been silently hoping that he could just disappear. But, now he dreaded being alone. He was afraid of what might happen to him if he were alone.
Robin turned angrily to Johnson, his opaque eyes glaring straight into his. Robin looked past him to see WonderGirl lying in the Super-Cycle. She looked almost peaceful there, her black hair spread across the floor. But Robin knew that if she woke up, everyone would be endangered. He couldn't just have the Super-Cycle take her away, could he? No. They needed the Super-Cycle here to help them with all the escapees. If worse came to worse, the Cycle would have to help Secret and Marina hold up the ceiling. Secret couldn't stay in solid form for too much longer. Superboy could—no he was unconscious. Impulse—unconscious. There was always—no Robin wasn't even allowed to drive that. As doors seemed to shut all around him in his mind, he saw Johnson. Could Johnson possible help him? Could Johnson keep track of WonderGirl? No he couldn't possibly, he's the enemy and would turn on Robin in a second. But what choice did he have? He grabbed Johnson harshly. If he was going to put his teammate in the hands of the enemy, he better make sure Johnson knew where his place was.
"Listen up, Johnson." Robin growled in an almost inhuman tone, "we're in the middle of a crisis here. That ceiling could collapse at any minute. I need to get these people out of here now. What's going to happen, is you're going to watch over her." He pointed a finger toward WonderGirl, "If she starts to wake up, use this." Robin took some sleeping gas spray out of his belt, "She needs to be kept unconscious. And you use this to keep her that way. Understand?" Johnson slowly nodded his head. He shivered as he shakily held the spray in his hand. Robin turned and headed off to help Arrowette and break up the fights. He turned around looking back at Johnson. His dark cape gently followed his motion. Robin spoke with such a dark voice that the Cycle began to whimper "She better be here when I get back." He burned through Johnson with his ominous glare, turned, and leapt off.
