As soon as we arrive at the fire, KF zooms ahead and saves two guys. But as soon as he's done, he looses his footing and trips, having to patch onto a windowsill.
"So smooth." Rob said.
"At least he saved those guys..?" I said, shrugging.
"Does he always run ahead? We need a plan, we-" Kaldur turns, only to see Rob's disappeared. We both look up to see him doing ninja moves to get into the building and get KF.
"Well...that's inconvenient." I muttered. Before we both looked at each other, nodded, and ran towards the building.
"We need to get those men on the roof to safety and get in the building." Kaldur said.
"Got it." I responded before whisking my hands through the air, creating a small hurricane before turning to my friend. "You may want to hold on."
Suddenly, Kaldur's arms hands grab my shoulders and I left us both into the air. I first stop at the two men.
"We're going to get you down, but you need to stay calm." Kaldur said before I began summoning a breeze to lift them and carry them to the ground. At first, they struggle but I manage to get them down safely.
"Done." I hummed before carrying Kaldur and myself into the building.
"Appreciate the help." Kaldur said sourly to KF and Robin as we stepped in. I halted my hurricane and began walking around the room, looking or something.
"You and Zephyr handled it. Besides, we're here to investigate." Rob said. "Poetic justice, remember."
I heard a strange sound, which Kaldur also seemed to recognise. We both found ourselves walking into the hallway, where I saw a humanoid-esk figure standing in an elevator, but only for a brief moment before the doors shut.
"There was something in the-" Kaldur begun but was cut off by KF. "Elevators should be locked down."
"This is wrong..." Robin hummed before check-in his wrist-computer. "Thought so. This is a high-speed, express elavator. It doesn't belong in a two-story building."
"Neither does what we saw." Kaldur said, before forcing the elevator doors open with his enhanced strength.
We all looked down the elevator shaft to find it to be more like a bottomless pit.
"And that's why they need an express elavator." Robin quipped.
"We're going down there, aren't we?" I asked, paranoid. Going down a dark, cramped elevator shaft wasnt exactly on my 'must do' list.
"Ladies first." Robin smirked. I bit my lip for a moment before sighing and summoning another breeze to take me down the shaft. I heard Robin use his grappling hook to create a rope down after me.
At sub-level 26, he stopped. Once realizing this, I did to.
"I'm at the end of my rope." The small boy explained before swinging to the nearest ledge. As Kaldur and KF also landed on the ledge, Robin began to bypass security. Once he gave to OK, Kaldur opened the doors to reveal a dark, red-tinted hallway.
"Welcome to Project Cadmus." Rob said.
"Anyone else feel like we shouldn't be here..." I muttered, fiddling with my braid.
Completely ignoring my worry, KF zoomed ahead.
"Kid, wait!" Kaldur exclaimed, but it was to late. Down the hallway, he fell and was almost crushed by...a herd of some sort of alien mammoth-things...
"No, nothing odd going on here..." Kaldur said sarcasticly.
I didnt know whether to be shocked at the creatures, or the fact that Kaldur just used sarcasm.
"There." I said once the herd had passed. A large, iron door stood on the other side of the hallway and we ran to it. Once Robin hacked into it, it opened.
Only to reveal a room full of electric blue canisters with creatures inside. There were litterally countless of these things.
"I...am officially whelmed." Rob said.
"What...is all this?" I asked.
"This is how they hide this underground facility from the world. They keep the real Cadmus off the grid by generating their own power with these...things. Must be what they're bred for." Wally said.
"Even the name is a clue. The Cadmus of myth created new life by sowwing dragon's teeth into the ground."
"This Cadmus creates new life too, let's find out why." Robin said as he went to a nearby computer. The other two followed him, but I stayed behind, staring at the creatures.
"I wonder if they known they're treated like slaves...poor guys." I said, placing my hand on one of the canisters.
"They're called Genomorphs." Robin said, and I snapped out of my thoughts and ran over to the group. "Look at the stats on these things! Telepathy, super strength, favor claws: these are living weapons."
"They're engineering an army...but for who?" KF asked mysteriously.
"Wait, there's something else. Project K.R...the files triple encrypted I cant-""Don't move!"
Robin was cut off by a voice that sounded weirdly similar to Roy's. We all turned to see a strong man with dark armour and gold helmet, followed by a small squadron of small Genomorphs.
"Wait; Robin, Aqualad, Zephyr, Kid Flash?" The man said, surprising me.
"At least he got your name right." Robin smirked as KF, Aqualad and I stood in front of Robin, who was still hacking.
"I know you: Guardian. You're a hero." Aqualad said.
"I try." The guy said, easing up...slightly.
"Then what are you doing here?" KF asked.
"I'm chief of security, you're trespassing. But we can call the Justice League, figure this out." Guardian said.
"No offense sir, but I doubt the league will approve of your company creating an army of genetically modified soldeir-slaves." I said, bitterly.
"Soldeir-slaves? What are you...what have I...ugh." Suddenly, Guardian clutched his head in pain. I was about to ask if he was alright, but then he straightened up.
"Take them down hard, no mercy." He yelled, and the Genomorphs attacked. I was about to say something in hopes of avoiding conflict, but before I could, Rob threw down a smoke bomb, causing me to fall back due to lack of vision.
Two Genomorphs went for me, but I managed to dodge by flipping into the air.
"You deserve better then to be slaves, I don't want to hurt you." I said, but the creatures seemed to ignore me and pounced at me again. Now I knew this wouldn't end peacefully, so I sliced a gust at them, sending them into a nearby wall.
"Zephyr, let's go!" I heard KF yell and I looked to see him and Kaldur running for an exit. I summoned a wind to fly me away.
"Where's Robin?" I asked.
"He ran when he threw the smoke bomb." Aqualad explained.
As the three of us made our way down the hall, we came to Robin who was hacking into the elavator.
"Way to be a team player Rob!" KF exclaimed.
"Weren't you right behind me?" Robin asked.
"Robin..." I said urgently as I saw Kaldur trying to outrun the Genomorphs, I sent a large gust of air to send a few back, but because of the large amount of them it didn't really do much.
Finally, the doors opened and Rob, KF and I ran in. Kaldur managed to tumble in just before the door closed.
Sighing, I rubbed my hands against my face and tried to calm my pounding heart.
"We're headed down?" Kaldur asked and I looked at the digital screen, which showed the increasing the numbers.
"Dude! Out is up!" KF exclaimed.
"Excuse me? Project K.R. is down, on sub-level 52." Robin said.
"This is out of control." Kaldur said, running the back of his neck.
"Maybe...we should call the League?" I asked quietly, playing with my braid nervously. The three boys looked down.
Suddenly, the doors opened to show a hallway that, instead of looking like a lab hall, looked more like the tubes inside of a living being, meant to pump blood. We all went into a crouch, but when nothing attacked, Robin ran off.
"We are already here..." KF said before running off as well. Kaldur looked over to me and I sighed.
"Come on, before those two get themselves killed." I said, and with that we ran where the two boys had gone.
When we caught up, they were waiting at a spilt in the halls.
"Which way?" Kaldur asked, sounding very put off.
"Ya, bizzare looking hallway 1, or bizzare looking hallway 2?" Robin quipped, not helping the mood.
"Halt!" A mystic voice said and we turned to see a Genomorph that looked very much like the thing Kaldur and I saw in the elavator.
Before any of us could say anything, the Genomorph telekinetically sent barrels at us, which exploded. In an act of desperation, we ran down the right hallway.
When we got to the end of the hallway, we were met by a metal door. A woman in a lab coat laid sprawled on the ground and KF was putting a metal canister in to door to keep it open.
"Hurry!" KF yelled as he stepped into the room the door was gaurding and we did. Rob was the first through the doors, followed by me, followed by Kaldur who kicked the canister, shutting the door.
"I disabled the door." Robin said. "We're safe."
"We're trapped." Kaldur said.
"Uh..guys? You'll wanna see this." KF said, and we talked towards him as he pushed a button on some sort of dashboard. Suddenly, lights turned, showing a glass chamber holding...
A young Superman?
"Big K, little R." Wally said as he walked forward. "The atomic symbol of Krypton."
"Is he...some sort of clone?" I guessed.
"Robin, hack." Kaldur said, and Robin automatically began doing so.
"Weapon designation: Superboy. A clone force grow in...sixteen weeks?!" Robin said, sounding surprised. "From DNA acquired from Superman."
"Stolenfrom Superman." Aqualad corrected.
"No way the big guy knows about this." Kid says.
"And these...creatures?" Kaldur said.
"They're called Genomorphs, Kaldur." I said, correcting him. I sympathized with the small animals, they probably had no choice but to do as they were told, but they were living beings, they should have freedom. Plus, they were kinda cute...
"Telepathic, force feeding him an education." Robin explained.
"And we can guess what else. They're creating a slave out of, well, Superman's son." KF said.
"Nowwe contact the league." Kaldur said, pressing the Atlantian insignia on his belt. I did the same with the Z symbol on mine. But, I got no response from my mentor.
"I'm...not getting any signal." I said.
"We're in too deep, litterally." KF said.
"We...we can't leave him here." I said, walking forward and placing my partially gloves hand on the glass container holding Superboy. "We have to let him free."
I looked back, to see the other two looking at Kaldur.
"Do it." The eldest of our quartet said.
Robin opened the containor, and Superboy began to come alive.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes.
"Are you alright?" I asked. "We're here to help yo-" I was cut off by Superboy attacking Kaldur, sending the both of them across the room, where Superboy began punching Kaldur.
That's not good
Immediately, KF, Rob and I ran to hold Superboy's arms away from Kaldur.
"We're not here to hurt you." I said, clutching the arm I shared with Robin.
"We're on your side." KF said, only to be met with Superboy's fist making him go flying into a wall.
"KF!" I exclaim, but Superboy punches me as well into a wall. As I try to stand back up, I fail as my vision gets more and more blurry. Before I know it, I blacked out