Chapter 4: Project Kr and Project Mithril?.
The Cadmus building is small and the fire even smaller.
Some scientists seem trapped on the top floor and frantically waving the firefighters below.
Suddenly, a second explosion rocked the building, sending the trapped scientist darting out the window.
A fleeting patch of yellow and red came out of nowhere and caught one of the falling scientists, the remains were rescued by a pair of flying blondes.
"Hey look!" He called a firefighter from the fire department.
"We're in luck, it's Supergirl, Wonder Girl and Flash Boy!" One of the firefighters said relieved to be receiving super-help.
"Kid Flash!. Why is it so hard?" Asked the slightly sad Kid Flash to be the world's least known hero, clearly he's exaggerating.
"Come to think of it, there are so many reasons, a lot of people are not good with English, your name is not very unique or original, plus most of the hero names contain Man, Woman, Boy, Girl.
Especially the super speed makes it difficult for you to photograph or record your image, it is no surprise that the media does not talk much about you, preferring heroes that can be photographed and filmed. "Explained a female voice, with a strange accent, which comes from behind Kid Flash.
"You look like Sherlock Holmes." A female voice with a French accent said.
"How did you get here so fast?" Kid Flash said, turning to see Lady Mystery, Albedo and the Batmobile needing a fresh coat of paint.
'The madwoman in armor stole the Batman! Where is Robin? ' Kid Flash thought, looking for his friend dressed in red.
Looking through the window I saw Gray, Robin and Acqualad. All three look shaken, with slightly green faces, ready to throw up.
"Batman needs a new safety system for his car. While Gray, Robin and Acqualad need a stronger stomach they can barely handle any speed." Lady Mystery said, mocking her three passengers, who did. they are promised never to let False Valkyria lead me again, never, never, NEVER again!
"You're the second worst driver I've ever known, only my beating brother. That's the only reason I'm not like the rest here." Albedo said, used to much worse driving than Lady Mystery.
'Do you consider me the worst driver you have ever met? This explains why he insists on driving for me when a vehicle is needed. ' Lady Mystery thought, before running into the burning building to rescue the scientists along with Albedo.
" You look fine ?" He asked Kid Flash, helping Gray, Robin and Aqualad get out of Batman.
"The teacher is a devil behind the wheel." Gray said, perhaps traumatized by driving the half-vampire disguised as a witch.
"In the name of Neptune, I thought I was dying in that car." Acqualad said, not too sure if he's alive, dead or something in between.
"I'd rather fight Joker than go back to this wreck." Robin said, trying not to throw up.
"I'm going to help the girls put out the fire. You take a minute to settle down." Kid Flash said, leaving the victims of Lady Mystery's guide to get back on their feet.
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In less than five minutes, all men and women of science were saved by the young heroes.
"We managed the fire and saved the civilians, I say we did a good job." Albedo said, smiling, Demi-Servant loves her heroin job very much, helping people always fills her with happiness.
"Albedo we haven't finished the job, we just started. Gray did you raise the Bounded Field?" Lady Mystery asked, looking towards her pupil who is setting up Bounded Field via a set of Runes.
"Un Bounded ... what?" Kid Flash asked, not understanding a horn of what Lady Mystery and Gray is saying or doing.
"A Bounded Field is a topographic type of Magecraft that consists of knitting a web of magical energy and spreading it over a basic area, such as a piece of land or a building, to create a mystical boundary line that separates the inside from the 'external." Albedo explained, reciting the information Alex learned.
"Okay ... what good is this force field, the fire has been put out." Wonder Woman asked, the Amazon doesn't see how this magical field can help them.
"Now, without witnesses and a Bounded Field that keeps any nosy out there, we can investigate in peace, it's doing Aqualad's poetic justice." Lady Mystery said, wanting to work without being bothered by strangers, reporters or something.
Lady Mystery without wasting time with other chatter approached a terminal, starting to look for information.
"Until I finish hacking, I recommend looking for a secret entrance or documents on illegal actions." He advised Lady Mystery, not wanting anyone but Gray to watch her every move.
Especially when he wants to download his AI, Metatron, into Cadmus 'line to have a foothold to penetrate every system and download every bit of information from Cadmus' computers.
"Gray and I, we stay in the computer room. Albedo and Supergirl go to the rest of the ground floor, Acqualad and Wonder Girl inspect the first floor. Robin and Kid Flash the third floor is all yours. Whoever finds something calls the rest." Lady Mystery said, taking the lead and sending the heroes to investigate every corner of Cadmus.
So the unnamed team of teen superheroes split up to look for clues, as if they were the Scooby-Doo gang.
"Gray, keep an eye on the door, if the heroes or anyone else approaches stop or hold them, until I finish work." Lady Mystery said, manifesting a holographic globe representing the Metatron AI, infiltrating systems Cadmus computer scientists.
"Yes, teach." Gray said, standing in front of the door in a fighting stance, hoping you won't have to fight anyone, especially the young heroes you just met.
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A few minutes later.
"I found something!" Supergirl yelled, using her super lungs to announce the rest of the group that she had found something.
Quick as lightning, Lady Mystery, Gray, Acqualad, Wonder Girl, Robin and Kid Flash have arrived in front of the two blonde heroines who are staring at the closed elevator.
"Girls, what have you found out?" Wonder Girl asked, slightly anxious to find some action.
"There was something in the elevator, something alien with horns," Albedo said, trying to remember the creature he saw.
"A humanoid, dressed in white, with large shiny horns appeared in the elevator." Supergirl said, making a more accurate description of the creature.
"The lift should be blocked," Acqualad commented.
"Before proceeding, Lady Mystery, did you find anything on Cadmus' computers?" Robin asked the girl dressed in Valkyria-like armor.
"The teacher made several interesting discoveries about Cadmus." Gray replied.
"With limited time I haven't found when I had hoped, but I have found several interesting facts.
One, Lex Luthor, secretly funds Cadmus, with a sum large enough to feed and pay the bills for the entire city.
Two, when they built the building, had a constant influx of consumables, too large for a research facility of this size.
Three, all of the elevators installed in this building, are a model of high-speed rapid elevators, which does not belong to a two-story building.
I bet my NIVIS-001 armor, that there is some kind of secret passage in the elevator or an underground facility full of anti-superman experiments. "Lady Mystery recounted, explaining her theory on what Cadmus is.
"Aren't you exaggerating a bit?" Robin said, convinced that Lady Mystery is exaggerating her imagination a bit.
"In my opinion Lady Mystery may be right. Lex Luthor is obsessed with Superman, and has the resources to build a structure dedicated to his nemesis. Only the Almighty can know what's going on in that sick head." Albedo said, supporting the Lady Mystery theory.
'It wouldn't be the first time I've entered an evil man's underground laboratory. They must be popular if so many Magus build entire temples underground. ' Albedo thought, reluctantly remembering a lot of places that are not suitable for people who are afraid of zombies, insects, evil spirits etc.
"The only way to see if I'm right or not is to go down.
Once we enter a crazy science lab hell, I can say I was right. "Lady Mystery said, sure she is right. Her instinct and experience screams at him that it will be a hell of a night."
The vampire disguised as Witch-Valkyria approaches the elevator, ready to open it by force.
"I bet $ 100, we'll find something shady. But not your crazy research facility." Kid Flash said, confident enough to make a bet.
"Kid Flash, you should quit, if it comes to betting the teacher is unbeatable, if it comes to gambling or taking risks never lost." He warned Gray, not wanting to later see Kid Flash defeated and humiliated after losing a bet against his teacher.
"Gray don't break my fun, if Kid Flash wants to lose his savings and dignity let him." Lady Mystery said, creating an ice sword in her hand, then starts hitting the elevator door, with the ice blades.
"Time to see who is right, the smartest woman in the world or the fastest kid in the world," Lady Mystery said, delivering the last bang on the elevator door.
The metal crumpled like paper against his assault, the doors rolled back, falling into the abyss.
Robin walked up behind him and peered into the dark and seemingly bottomless pit.
"I guess that's why they need an express lift." Robin said, looking at how deep the place is.
"Gray, keep close, flying has never been my strong point. Disc de z ăpadă." Lady Mystery said, taking Gray by the hand and pulling her close to herself. Then she threw herself into the pit ...
The heroes panicked for a second, but they quickly calmed down.
Lady Mystery and Gray have not fallen or plunged to a bad death, instead they are flying in mid-air.
Technically, Gray and Lady Mystery are located above a magic circle in the form of a snowflake, which he is seeing used as a kind of platform to simulate flight.
"Come or stand there," Lady Mystery said, ordering the magic circle / platform to slowly lower.
"Come on," Robin said as he fired a grapple line on the roof.
He jumped into the darkness as Aqualad and Kid Flash grabbed the rope and slid behind him.
In the meantime Supergirl and Wonder Girl have decided to fly, the last daughter of Krypton, remembering that Albedo cannot fly, decided to give him a lift.
As the heroes go lower and lower, Lady Mystery raises her head to see what the rest of the group are doing.
Unfortunately or fortunately Lady Mystery's position there allowed for a display of Supergirl's miniskirt and panties.
Lady Mystery / Mystic at that moment thought: 'Cú Chulainn with good reason I am a lucky bastard ...'
"Teacher you are the worst." Commented Gray, catching his teacher in the act, peeking is not nice.
'and cursed for having problems with women, later I have to talk to Gray, if the girls find out what I did ... there will be consequences ...' Lady Mystery has finished her train of thought, imagining explosive fits of jealousy or attempts at Supergirl's life.
"Don't be hypocritical, you look at the Krypton view too." Lady Mystery said, acknowledging that Gray also looked at the view.
The last Pendragon said nothing, just blushes with embarrassment and looks away.
"What are you saying down there?" Supergirl asked, managing to hear some murmurs and the word krypton.
"Nothing important, the teacher and I are talking about how magic can bypass the invincibility of the Kryptonians." Gray replied, making up a credible lie in his place.
Supergirl raises an eyebrow, deciding to take Gray's word and keep flying low, unaware of the spectacle she is offering.
One day Wally will find out what happened here and will curse himself for not looking up.
"Good disciple, you have taken to heart one of my most precious teachings: Do not anger a woman, especially a superhuman woman capable of mass destruction." Said Lady Mystery, proud of her disciple who is learning the tricks of mastery.
Contemporane, Robin observes the floors they are passing, each of them marked with respective sub-levels.
At secondary level 26, Lady Mystery notices that Robin's rope has run out.
'My platform cannot carry more than two people, Wonder Girl and Supergirl cannot carry Acqualad, Robin and Kid Flash. We seem to stop at level 26. ' Lady Mystery thought by ordering the platform to stop.
"Open sesame. Ventus Blade!" Lady Mystery said, using magic to shoot a wind sword to throw the door open.
"Isn't that a little too brutal?" Gray asked, not too sure that a magical attack is a good way to get inside the dungeon of one or more mad scientists.
"My wind is silent, invisible and deadly, plus I KO'd the security systems minutes ago." Lady Mystery said, explaining that there is no reason to get it.
"Ladies, Gentlemen and Kid Idiot, welcome to the real Cadmus." Lady Mystery announced, walking through the door with Gray.
Lady Mystery has left her platform active to help non-flying squad members enter without risk of falling.
Within seconds Robin, Acqualad and Kid Flash joined the two fighting wizards.
"Where are the girls?" Aqualad asked.
"Behind you," Wonder Girl replied, entering the corridor, followed by Supergirl, who is carrying Albedo in her arms.
"Supergirl, thanks for the help, but please can you put me down." Albedo asked politely, wanting to have the floor under his feet. Maybe due to having medieval Heroic Spirits inside him or a mental thing, but Albedo prefers to avoid flying.
"We're all here, we can find out what Cadmus is hiding." Kid Flash said, running forward, leaving streaks of color behind.
"Wait!" Aqualad hissed, but Kid Flash ignored him.
The Atlantis slapped itself across the forehead as they ran after the speedster.
"Gray remind me, once we get home I have to make a leash for Kid Flash." Anastasia muttered and everyone else nodded.
Just as Kid Flash turned a corner, he screamed. In front of him are huge behemoths, giant quadrupeds marching along the corridors with tiny little creatures on their backs.
Kid Flash slid under them, moving too fast to stop completely. He quickly unrolled from under the others as the others joined him.
They took a moment to watch the beast parade.
"No. There's nothing strange here." Acqualad said with sarcasm.
"Kid Flash, you owe me $ 100." Lady Mystery said, recalling the bet with Kid Flash.
"Secret underground facility, it exists, but no anti-superman weapon. Double or nothing!" Kid Flash said, not wanting to give his savings to Lady Mystery.
"Kid Flash, if you keep it up it won't go well, this goes for gambling and running front without thinking." Albedo said, trying to help Kid Flash, with some advice.
"Agree with Albedo." Gray said, going along the same lines as Albedo.
The parade of monsters finally passed, allowing the heroes to see a large door across the hall.
"Kid Flash, try not to run ahead of us without thinking. Until we know more, subtlety is the way to go." Lady Mystery said, not wanting to fight every inch because of an idiot unable to remain unnoticed.
The doors open, inside are thousands of brilliant creatures located in pipes stacked from the ceiling, all crackling with electricity.
"This is how they hide a massive underground structure from the world," Wonder Woman said, making a clever observation.
"The real Cadmus isn't on the grid! Generate your own power using these ... things! It has to be what they bred them for or something." Supergirl said, giving a rough guess.
"Certainly. Even the name is a clue: the cadmus of the myth created an army by sowing dragon's teeth into the earth." Acqualad said.
"And this Cadmus also creates a new life," said Robin.
"Honestly these creatures remind me more of homunculus, instead of the familiars created with magic, dragon teeth. But the analogy works pretty well." Lady Mystery said, comparing Cadmus' creatures to a specialized set of homunculi.
'Maybe I should attack Cadmus with a small army of Dragon Tooth Warriors, it would not be ironic the creatures killed by the monsters that inspired the name of this place.' Lady Mystery thought, making a serious thought of later creating a legion of Dragon Tooth Warriors to loot the place once the heroes are gone.
"Lady Mystery, can you find anything about these creatures?" Asked Acqualad, they point to a nearby terminal, hoping the witch in armor can do her magic hacking number.
"Got it, time for hacking. Hacking reality: Code veritatis!" Lady Mystery said, starting her magic. A small magic circle appeared in front of his hand, from here came tentacles of runes and numbers, which enter the computer.
"Acqualad, I remind you that I too am a great hacker." Robin said, not liking that Acqualad chose someone else to rummage through Cadmus' computers.
"Maybe you mean, I'm a little hacker, you're small enough for a 12-year-old." Lady Mystery said, quitting work and addressing the wonder boy directly.
"Tall or not, I remain a more skilled hacker than you." Robin said, ignoring the comment about his short stature, preferring to focus on hacking skills, sure he is the best.
"Unlikely, when you asked why you were not chosen to break into the system, I have already finished and started copying the data." Lady Mystery said, showing a small holographic screen chock full of information about the creatures.
"Teach, you've won, can you tell us something about creatures?" Gray asked, nipping a possible fight between the shortest guy and the tallest young woman in the bunch in the bud.
"With pleasure, the creatures are identified as is Genormorps Beta, first generation bioweapons of the Genesis Alter project.
There are several subspecies at the moment, each with their own set of abilities such as: Super strength, super speed, super agility, poisonous bone claws, paralyzed gas, telekinesis, breathed fire, breathed ice, invisibility, limited mind control ... bad sign. " Lady Mystery said, listing various abilities of some subspecies created by Cadmus.
"Living weapons!" Albedo exclaimed in horror, seeing no other purpose for these creatures.
"They are planning an army. But for whom?" Kid Flash asked.
"So many powers, how did they manage to create them?" Wonder Woman asked, unable to imagine how they created such a varied set of creatures.
"The Genesis Alter project was born when the command of Cadmus was held by a new director who revolutionized everything.
They are planning a second generation, Genormorps Delta, with combined powers, reproductive abilities, healing factor and hive mind. "Lady Mystery said, reading a few lines from Cadmus' most recent reports.
"Nothing good can happen if someone like Lex Luthor gets such an army." Supergirl said, knowing that Metropolis will most likely be ravaged by this army in order to injure her cousin and herself.
"At least it doesn't get worse." Kid Flash said, pretty sure Cadmus couldn't create anything worse than an army of monsters.
"You're wrong, Genesis Alter is Cadmus' oldest project, but it's not the director's priority.
There are three side projects:
Sister, Orange and CC, the latter are linked and covering human experimentation ... all these three projects and moved to another facility a few days ago.
The only two priority projects of the entire structure are on floor 52, they are called Mithril and ... În numele Domnului (in the name of God) Project Kr. "Lady Mystery said, in a tone of mock amazement. She already knew that the likelihood of some kind of anti-Superman project is realistic, given that Lex Luthor funded all of this.
"Big K, little r?" Supergirl asked looking at Lady Mystery, Supergirl looking nervous as she stares at her.
" What does it mean ?" Albedo asked not knowing the meaning of the letters Kr.
"Albedo think about it, what could an illegal genetics lab doing biological weapons do if they call a highly encrypted project with the atomic symbol of Krypton?" Lady Mystery said enjoying the dawned look of understanding in their faces.
"They make kryptonain biological weapons, right?" Supergirl said she was shaking with rage.
Lady Mystery can understand what Supergirl feels or thinks, she is the last living kryptonain girl and one of only two left in the universe. It must hurt her to know that someone could have used hers and her cousin's DNA to make weapons.
"Stop, intruders." An unfamiliar voice said that doesn't sound too friendly.
The group of heroes turned and saw Guardian approaching with some creatures in tow.
'We've been caught, with brainwashed monsters talking is useless. The only practical option is violence. ' Lady Mystery thought, pondering how to proceed.
Lady Mystery points both arms at the Guardian group, shouting "Attack! ICE STORM!"
A great magic circle appeared before Lady Mystery, before anyone could act, a gust of wind was ejected violently from the magic circle.
The small cyclone launched by Lady Mystery traveled the corridor horizontally, fully investing Guardian and his subordinates of artificial origin.
The spell caused enemies to be hurled to every possible surface, Guardian reached the end of the corridor, while the rest of the troops were sent to the ceiling, walls or crushed to the ground.
Then the magical arctic wind began to cover its victims in a thin layer of hyper-dense ice.
The group of young heroes were slightly surprised and petrified to see how the armored witch KO'd an entire pluto of monsters with one hit, as well as bringing the North Pole and Russian winter into the corridors of Cadmus.
"We have been discovered, we need to move fast!" She ordered Lady Mystery, taking her colleagues back to the real world.
"Teacher, enemy reinforcements!" Gray yelled, pointing to the other side of the corridor which is chock full of various creatures.
"They are terribly efficient." Albedo commented, surprised to see that in less than thirty seconds a second security group had already arrived.
"Reinforcements are coming!. Robin, smoke bombs!" Lady Mystery ordered, seeing that enemy reinforcements were coming, very large and numerous reinforcements.
Immediately, Robin threw a smoke bomb, enveloping the area before he used his grapple to escape. While the rest took off or raced at great speed.
The red lights began to flash and an alarm sounded.
The group of heroes run or fly down the corridor to the elevator.
While Lady Mystery is working on her bracelet, it shows a keyboard and a small holographic screen, which looks like some kind of Omni-tool from the Mass Effect series.
"Way to be team players, guys!" Kid Flash shouted as he reunited with the group of teenage heroes.
"Weren't you right behind us?" Wonder Girl asked.
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, we are all present." Lady Mystery said checking if everyone is present.
"Let's talk less, let's run more!" Albedo said not wanting to be picked up and dissected by mad scientists.
The elevator doors opened and they quickly jumped inside.
Aqualad rolled just as the doors closed behind them.
While everyone taking a break to catch their breath.
Kid Flash glanced at the numbers at the top of the elevator doors.
"Are we going down? Dude! It's high outside!" Kid Flash said not too happy with that fact.
"Yes, but our target is Sub-level 52." Lady Mystery announced.
"Why is this so important? We got the information, let's get out of here, tell the Justice League what we know, and come back with backup." Albedo said, not wanting to face an army of living weapons and risk the lives of his comrades for an already completed mission.
"It's not that simple, we need to check level 52 and see what they're doing. They've already moved three out of five priority projects, it's very likely they know the Justice League is investigating them.
If it weren't for the fire, surely when the Justice League investigated everything would have been buried and hidden.
The husks that Cadmus move Project Kr and Project Mithril before the Justice League gets here is incredibly high. "Lady Mystery said making a compelling case for the team, except for Supergirl who surely would have gone there to find out about Project Kr. .
"Plus we can't leave even if we wanted to." She declared Lady Mystery, showing a 3D holographic map of Cadmus in purple.
" What do you mean ?" Kid Flash asked, looking at the holographic map which is slowly turning red.
"The new direct of Cadmus is definitely a genius, cautious and paranoid. Once the alarm is activated the whole structure is sealed, completely closed from the outside world, plus there is an invisible force field surrounding the Surface cadmus. "Lady Mystery said, showing the information she received from her viruses.
"The only way we can use the elevators here and move through the floors is my computer viruses slowing down the locking system." Lady Mystery said, indicating that the upper floors are completely red, that is, sealed and blocked.
While the lower floors are mostly free.
"Inside Cadmus has just become a dungeon!" Albedo said, comparing the place to a mythical dungeon full of monsters.
"Good analogy again, Albedo." He complimented Lady Mystery, liking this treatise of the heroine of Paris.
"In the name of Zeus, who do we have to beat to get out of here!" Asked Wonder Girl, slightly whipped for not having been able to fight head-on against the enemy instead of the right path of the Amazons, she ran away and hides.
"You want a plan, Amazon, here's a plan. This band of warriors under the command of the witch-valkyrea from the north, will go to the top floor of this dungeon.
He will either defeat or recruit the last two bosses, then go to the intermediate floors to destroy the energetic reactor, causing the barrier to be destroyed. Finally we punch our way to the surface and return to the guild, House Justice. "Lady Mystery explained her plan using thermals from a medieval fantasy game, but everyone more or less figured out what to do.
Going to the 52nd floor, where Cadmus' priority projects are, will get them to their side if they can, gaining new allies.
If that doesn't work, they'll take down two enemies before they can be ready to fight them.
Then they will put an end to the energetic reactor. Causing disorder and breaking down the force field.
Once all this can go back to the Justice League is tell their findings.
"I like your simple and effective plan." Wonder Girl said, clenching her fists, ready for a good fight.
The elevator doors opened, revealing a long, eerie, dimly lit corridor covered in some kind of flesh-like material.
"Let's go and conquer this floor." Lady Mystery said, exiting the elevator followed by the rest of the young heroes.
"What the hell is going on here?" Supergirl cried staring at the walls in disgust.
Kid Flash led the way by moving as fast as he can without leaving the others behind.
Supergirl, Wonder Girl flew after Kid Flash, followed by Robin, leaving Aqualad, Albedo, Gray and Lady Mystery behind.
"They are too energetic for my taste," commented Lady Mystery, not liking that half of the team ran in front without using their heads.
"Well, we're already here," Aqualad said shrugging and running after the others leaving Albedo, Gray and Lady Mystery to sigh and chasing them too.
"Being older than this won't be an easy task, because immature babies can't be any more like Gray." She declared Lady Mystery, playing like an old woman who doesn't support children or a mother / teacher who wonders why the rest of her children can't be like her favorite child.
"The task of the elderly is to look after the little ones, the children will be children, one day they will grow old like us." Albedo said, showing his maturity again.
"Teach, Lady Albedo, do you want to be hard you are barely twenty, isn't it too early to consider yourself old?" Gray said, trying to lighten the mood, but he accomplished the opposite.
The only adults on this team realized that in one way or another they called themselves old, a shiver ran through their bones.
"We are not old ladies! Albedo let's show the empty heads that we are the strongest!" Lady Mystery said, running towards the rest of the team, chased by Albedo, who wants to prove the same thing.
"Did I do something good or bad?" Gray wondered not too sure what just happened. But not a good feeling of what's to come.
However, Gray also joined Cadmus' ride in the carnal corridors.
The young heroes ran until they came across a crossroads in the paths.
"Which way are we going? A weird corridor or a weird corridor?" Robin asked as the rest of the team watch Lady Mystery.
"Nice to see you remember who among us owns the map of this dungeon. Let's go left, but this time no senseless juvenile act." Lady Mystery said, walking through the creepy room. While the others followed suit when suddenly a tall, thin Genomorph saw them from the second corridor, they did not go to choose and cause the team to start running towards a metal door called "Priority".
Just then the elevator opened revealing an angry scientist and a troop of genomorphs unloading and waving in the hall.
"As Deputy Director of Cadmus, you plan to capture prisoners dead or alive." He ordered Cadmus' second largest authority.
Kid Flash was the first to reach the armored door. While the others are still slightly behind and the door is closing quickly, so Kid Flash thought of quickly grabbing a small tank of some kind and locking it in the door stopping it for a few seconds, long enough for the group to get past.
Just as the Genomorphs were approaching to enter, Aqualad kicked the tank and closed the door in front of them.
This time Robin was the tech wizard, wirelessly hacking the door lock system and disabled it with a loud echoing noise.
"I've disabled the door, we're safe." Robin announced, shutting down his gadget.
"What do we do now, that we are trapped?" Wonder Girl asked.
A moment of attention! "Lady Mystery said, drawing everyone's attention.
"Domnilor și doamnelor (Ladies and Gentlemen) and Kid Flash, I present to you two of Cadmus ' most secret projects, Projects Kr and Mithril!" Anastasia said, pressing a few buttons on the display before her and the room lights up.
Revealing one of the most disturbing and grandiose scenes (for a mad magus / scientist) that our heroes will see in their life.
The place the young superheroes find themselves in is a giant chamber, a structure that looks like something out of a science fiction movie.
The walls, like the floor and ceiling, are no longer made of that strange, flesh-like material, but of metal ... metal covered with dried blood that form mysterious inscriptions.
The room is circular, in the center of the room above a metal pedestal surrounded by various machines there is a huge glass pod that contains something.
But that's not the disturbing thing. The rest of the room is littered with several smaller pods filled with a dirty yellowish substance.
Besides the mysterious liquid inside, there are also human beings ... horribly deformed humans.
Their bodies are pierced by multiple metal pipes that seem to be wringing something out of their bodies.
Above each pod are black / purple crystals that emit a ghostly and cursed aura.
"This place is creepy." Kid Flash said, saying what everyone thinks.
"For once you're right Flash Boy." Lady Mystery said, walking towards the center of the room.
'Teacher, what do you want to do?' Asked Gray, who is shaking with fear, it's no surprise.
Gray being a shaman her body is sensitive to spiritual energy, and the energy of this place is not very convoluted.
'This place looks like the laboratory of a heretic magus. But it doesn't scare me, this indescribable feeling scares me.
Since setting foot here, I've been drawn to something or someone Cadmus created.
Why do I feel this? 'Anastasia / Alex thought, going straight into the eye of the room.
"Answers, I'm looking for an answer to a mysterious damn." Lady Mystery answered Gray's question in a deadly serious tone.
The group of young heroes arrived at the center of the room and found two special pods.
The first glass pod is slightly less advanced than the others and appears to be man-made instead of a creepy alien.
This pod is positioned a few meters from the central pod and protrudes like a sore eye.
Inside the first pod is a young man of about sixteen, who looks like the spitting image of Superman.
Wearing a white jumpsuit, he lay leaning against a table with three G-Gnomes surrounding him.
Most intriguing, however, was the red 'S' emblazoned on the chest.
In the main pod that appears to be Cadmus's stamina piece and the reason for Lady Mystery's weird indescribable feeling.
Inside the more advanced pod, covered with machinery and tubes that connect to the rest of the smaller pods, filled with a reddish substance is Project Mithril.
A naked girl of about 10 or 12 years, with very long white hair.
Lady Mystery froze for a moment watching the child.
Its height is 144cm, its three dimensions are 64-50-64.
Being without clothes, he allows to see several factors that expose his non-human nature.
His skin is gray or better said his skin looks silver in color.
His whole body, every corner of it, is covered with tattoos that resemble a magic circle combined with computer circuits.
The left eye is closed, sealed with some seams or metal strings, as well as having a rhomboid tattoo.
His ears are slightly longer and pointed longer than a normal human, reminiscent of a half-elf.
Her left arm isn't there, she was probably born without her left arm.
He misses the navel, which he subtly says was not born in a traditional way, but created inside the pod.
But the most disturbing thing about this little girl is the great resemblance to the true form of Lady Mystery.
The little girl looks like a miniature copy of Anastasia / Alex, no matter if she is in her male or female form, the girl passes by as her daughter is.
The baby's mouth is covered with an oxygen mask, because its pod is filled with different substances.
From his back and ribs protrude dozens of tubes connected to machinery that in their face are connected to deformed humans.
Attached to his neck are fine threads that appear to transmit information to his brain.
'One thing I hate about this female form is that it doesn't allow me to use my clairvoyance. I can't collect information with just a glance. ' Anastasia thought, starting to look for information the old way.
"Are they homunculi or clones?" Gray asked, recalling several similarities between this place with Paracelsus's laboratory and its products.
"There are not many differences between homunculi and clones, especially in this case, I believe she is a clone and also a homunculus." Lady Mystery explained, keeping a calm appearance on the surface, but inside she's boiling with anger.
'They cloned me or cloned me, it doesn't matter. The amount is who and why made a reply to me. ' She thought Lady Mystery, looking in her mind who among her enemies can do such a thing.
Anastasia touches the computer terminals and starts looking for answers.
Lady Mystery is not the only one angry, but the only one who hides her anger.
While Supergirl and Albedo are clearly expressing how they feel.
"Lady Mystery, hack" ordered Supergirl with red and shiny eyes, close to firing thermal lasers from her eyes.
"Je me fiche de comment vous le faites, je veux toutes les informations possibles sur vous (I don't care how she does it, I want every shred of information about her)." She ordered Albedo in French, which means she is furious at the most level.
Interesting family trait, Albedo and Mystic (Alex Vier Brunestud) start talking in their paterals when they are over the edge of anger.
"I already work on it and don't give me orders, I give them orders, I don't receive them!" Lady Mystery said, trying to keep her cool but failing for a moment.
Angry or not, Lady Mystery quickly bypassed the security of the computer terminal and read aloud.
"Kr project.
Weapon Designation: Superboy, cloned from a Superman champion in just sixteen weeks. The yellow solar dress allows him to absorb the solar radiation of the sun 24/7. "He read Anastasia aloud, telling the superficial information, sincerely Superboy doesn't care much, his entire attention is focused on the little girl .
"Mithril project.
Weapon designation: Zauber, female clone from several Mystic champions, successfully created a few months. Zauber was kept alive and perfected, using data from Orange Projects and CC. "Officially Lady Mystery stopped reading and clenched her fists.
In reality Lady Mystery does not want to divulge more information than it should to the heroes.
The parent of the child used the Advanced Reinforcement on the eyes and the brain to be able to read all the information in seconds, without being discovered by others.
'Zauber is the centerpiece of Arcanotek, the greatest union of advanced science and ancient magic in the world ...
Created using DNA samples collected separately at long intervals of time between them ...
Each sample differs from the other due to the unstable and changing nature of the donor / genetic parent ...
The spiritual alterations and the sacrifice of 10,000 Magus, allowed the creation of a hybrid of four races:
- Meta-human (Evolved Human).
- Extradimensional Entity (Servant).
- Vampire (Apostole Morto).
- Vampire of extraterrestrial origin (True Ancestor) ...
Combat programming in progress, the result will be a perfect emotionless soldier ...
Expedition to sister facility Fenix for phase two, creating a fake ... Ultimate ONE! 'Lady Mystery would have read on to understand what kind of crazy and dangerous project Cadmus is creating.
But two extremely powerful and attractive blondes have lost their temper.
"How dare they! How dare you raise someone for the sole purpose of being a disposable tool!" Albedo shouted, imagining the worst for his niece (?) If she stays here in this place full of mad scientists.
"Easy, Albedo, if I didn't know, I'd say you were taking it personally." Kid Flash said, forgetting who Albedo is related to.
"It's personal to me!" Two blondes said the cousins were cloned.
"How dare they do it to him, to my cousin / surrogate brother, we are living beings not something to experiment on like animals!" Supergirl and Albedo shouted at the same time in a rage like never before.
Each going towards the pod that contains the relative cloned relative.
Acqualad, Robin and Kid Flash rushed in front of them trying to stop them.
Wonder Woman, Lady Mystery and Gray have remained aloof, the former wanting to leave Supergirl and Albedo to take care of their new family members.
The second is often a year surrounded by superhuman women and learned, never ever turn against an angry woman unless willing to regenerate factor or suicidal wishes.
Finally, Gray decided to stay by her teacher's side, feeling like a fish out of water, all of this is new to her.
In less than a second the three males of the team were easily thrown into the air with a slap, a kick and a blow of the staff.
When Superman's cousin reached the pod, Supergirl, tore the door off while holding it in her hands.
When Mystic's surrogate sister reached the pod. Albedo took his staff and hit the pod, letting out all the fluids.
In an instant, Zauber and Superboy opened their eyes. In less than ten seconds, hell came to earth.
" Remove !" Zauber shouted his first words, his tattoos started to glow, a wave of energy exploded from his body, destroying his pod.
Followed by a shower of sword, countless swords ...
Go on ...