Chapter 2

The Experiment

It was night, maybe around 10:00. Raven and starfire had told the others what they had seen and the exact whereabouts of the young girl they saw. The whole team was stationed in the front of the lab, hiding behind ridges of rock. The building was huge, at least five stories tall. Robin waved his hand at the others, signaling for them to move out. Starfire shot the two guards with her starbolts and knocked them unconcious. They walked in the entrance with no problem. They walked along a narrow white hallway that had no doors on either sides.

"Dude," Beast Boy said quietly. "This place is huge, how are we ever going to find where that little girl is be- " Robin had stopped.

"Ow! What did you-''

"Dead end..."

"What do you mean: 'dead end'!"Cyborg said. ''There aren't any doors in this stupid building?'' Raven walked up to the end of the hallway and examined the wall. She pointed to something. They all looked at it very close. Etched in the wall was: Experiment 01.

Raven put both hands on the door and pushed. The door slid up and revealed a very large room. It seemed at least 50 feet tall.

"You mean to tell me that thereis only one room in-'' Cyborg stopped talking when he saw what was in the room. It was filled with computers and odd machined that were measuring some kind of pulsations. What made them all freeze was what was in the middle of the room. A thirty-foot tall glass diamond that was filled with blue water was suspended about twenty feet from the ceiling. It was roughly ten feet wide. The base of the diamond was surrounded by computers and more machines with huge wires that connected with the other computers and machines that were stationed around the room. Inside the glass diamond hung a very skinny girl that looked like she was about sixteen.

She wore a golden colored metal tank-top-thing that only covered her chest and upper back. And skin-tight pants that went up underneath the metal shirt. Sharp metal shoulder pads were also attached to it. Her arms were held up by something black, that vaguely resembled Cyborg's sonic cannon, that covered her wrists and hands. Her legs were floating freely. The wires hooked up to the odd machines and computers that were around the base of the diamond. Large white wings were on her back and were held up by thin wires that went inside of her. Around her neck was a thick, leather collar. Her head and hair floated and drifted in the water. Her light brown hair was short and went only to her chin, maybe a bit longer. A metal strip covered her eyes and the bridge of her nose. Her mouth was slightly open. She seemed to be unconcious.

They all stepped in the room and got closer to the girl. Robin walked up to the computer thet was directly in front of the girl and messed with it. He brought up a file and scrolled through it.

''The girl's name is Reika. '' He said ''She is the first in the line of many of the Hanson Experiments. Experiments in which are tested on humans to see if a man-made humanoid can be created and function properly.'' Everyone exept Robin gasped. "The tests they perform are horrible. It says that this one was given a dangerous chemical that was injected into her that made her skin invulnarable to any thing. . . Fire, bullets, swords, knives, and acid. It doesn't say how she got the wings though. . ." He scrolled through the rest of the file.

While the others watched Robin, Raven walked to the front of the diamond, without anyone noticing, and placed her hand on the glass. She heard a voice echo inside her head: . . I am in so much pain. . o much pain. . You have to . . ave to..Release. . lease. . . . The seal. . . eal. . .

"HEY,'' A voice shouted," What are you kids doing in here?" He held up a walkie-talkie and said: "Security Breach. . I repeat, SECURITY BREACH! Eleven armored guards walked in and started firing at the team. "NOOOOOOOOOO! You idiots! Do you know how much data is on those computers? And you might harm the experiment! Hand-to-hand!" They stopped firing and started fighting and were quickely defeated. The man with the walkie-talkie came running at them. Raven used her powers and flung him across the room and hit a large machined under the diamond. Electricity cracked all around the room. Reika opened her pupilless blue eyes, but since her eyes were covered by the visor, no one noticed. The glass diamond shattered and the blue water rushed out onto the floor. The machines all shut down from the water.

Reika still hung there by her shackles. More men came in and were about to attack the team when suddenly, they stopped and looked up at Reika. She arched her back, tilted her head up, and opened her mouth. She let out a soft moan.

The man with the walkie-talkie stood up and was speechless.

"Zero-one. . . . i-is. . awake?" He said. Reika opened her mouth much wider and let out an ear-shattering scream. But, yet it was not a real scream. They could not hear it with their ears. It was like she was screaming inside each of their heads. She rapidly flapped her wings untill all the wires were ripped out. She continued screaming and thrashing until the shackles came loose. Bright, yellow auras surrounded

her fists as she held them out. She started firing them like a gun. She flew until she felt a wall. She backed up and shot at the wall. When the smoke cleared, Reika flew out of the building and in to the cold night.