Chapter 4

Tentacle

Once he reached to B5 floor, he peeked at the surrounding area of this floor but it didn't help him much because it was too dark and the only source of light was came from the lift only which made him doubt about how special of this floor and why everything seemed to be very quiet even there was some emergency situation happened.

He turned on the night vision on his mask and made his way out of the lift slowly before it was closed quietly which made everything was melt into darkness.

Nightwing pulled out one of his Eskrima sticks on his right hand and gripped it tightly. He had tried to opened the blueprint of this floor but it was futile because the computer that he had hacked before coming to this floor didn't have any information about this floor which made him feel more suspected about this place that it might conduct a similar experiment like CADMUS. He started to recall all memories about it and felt shiver run into his spine a little that he remembered how those scientist created a small army of alien, cloned his friend and him before they disposed them but luckily, they got a help from Superboy and escaped from that place including, proved himself to Batman and Justice leagues that he and his team were readied.

All right, time to focus on the job...

He blinked his eyes a little to focus his mind on searching and walked slowly as his back against walls. Suddenly he heard the footstep from the corner ahead of him which made him crotch down to avoid himself from being detected. He saw that it was the same guard with electric baton and he was walking slowly as if he was looking for something.

" All unit in B5, do you read me?" He said into radio as he kept walking. However, all he got was the silence and the beeping sound from another radio in the line which frightened him more than before.

" H...Hel...Hello?" His voice was shaking as if he was in very cold water.

Nightwing kept his eyes on that guards without making a move from his place to see what that guard would do. Suddenly, the large tentacle came from the nowhere and pulled that guard into the black hole which had some strange letters around it. The guard screamed loudly with fear as he tried to take out his gun from the holster at his thigh and shot it crazily until the clip of his handgun was empty. Then, he tried to pick his electric baton but there was another one came out and threw that baton away before it wrapped itself around the man torso.

Nightwing rushed to that man and tried to pull him out but the large tentacle seemed to be stronger than him because his strength didn't help him slow that thing down or untangled that man from it. He gasped when he felt there was another tentacles came from behind and hung him upside down in the air.

" HELP ME!" The guard screamed as he struggled to loose himself from it before it dragged him into the black portal successfully and vanished itself into the wall completely without a trace.

The giant dark tentacle that had suspended him in the air released its grip from his ankle and slowly retreated itself to another portal where it came from before the portal vanished just like the previous one.

Now that's an answer why everyone's gone and why there wasn't any trace of fighting at all...

Nightwing thought and continued to look for archives of this floor but he stopped when he saw metallic automatic door written ' Project Chaos' and next to the door was a small computer. Nightwing took his hidden USB in his gloves to hack it. Once the hologram monitor appeared ' Access Granted', the door was opened before he walked into darkness. Suddenly, the automatic light illuminated the room but what he saw was a real bombshell.

In the room, there was hi-tech equipment for experiment which he didn't wish to know what they used for but he bet that they had something to do with the gigantic cocoon that had a shape looked like a human inside the protective chamber. However, the cocoon seemed to be ready for hatching with something inside by coincidence.

Nightwing lifted his Batarangs, readying to defend himself when that thing came out but the curiosity held him to watch it. What is ' Project Chaos?'

However after he saw the creature that came out from that cocoon, he was regretted for his choice.

In the spray of fluids, a figure arched quite violently out of cocoon's shell with its birth. Its appearance horrified him than he could imagine because it was far beyond to recognize it as a something was once a human.

The left eye was bulged out completely from its socket, hanging by the ligament that attached the eye to the socket while the right one was still in the socket but the size was larger than normal which almost had a same size like baseball. Its upper torso was too skinny to see the outline of ribcage. The skin was white pale with some some dark purple substance cover some parts of its. However, it seemed that once the monster dragged the rest of its body out of the cocoon. The dark purple substance started to cover its body and formed like a diving suit before it screeched loudly.

Nightwing threw explosive Batarangs at the middle of its torso, both of its upper arms, and its head which did a lot of damage on it. That monster screeched in pain as it melted into a small pool of dark purple slim with a smoke from being blasted by his weapon. Nightwing walked into and use one of his Eskrima sticks to touch it but nothing happened. He raised his brows with awe before he decided to take a small sample of it from his stick by pouring that liquid into the small vial before he walked to the computer near the pod.

Once he plugged his hidden USB port from his wrist computer to the computer , he started hacking into system to break firewalls. When he succeeded it, he scanned all database on the computer and downloaded them into his holo computer. While waiting for completely downloading, he saw the folder called ' Project Chaos'. He clicked it and saw that it showed all data about each types of creatures that had been created in this project. However, he decided to look over them later.

Just then, Nightwing's earpiece came to life with Batman's voice. " Nightwing, where are you?"

" In some lab written ' Project Chaos' in B5 floor."

" Stay put. I'll be there." Batman said with his usual stoic tone. Nightwing rolled his eyes. He wasn't nine-years-old boy who had to be behaved.

" Don't wandering off." Batman said as if he knew what Nightwing would do. Once he finished downloading, he decided to check on the dark purple liquid but it was gone as if there was nothing happened only the cocoon that was left here.

I saw that substance was completely blasted. It can't move, right?

Suddenly, Nightwing the presence of something behind him that readied to attack him. He dodged it by rolling himself over to the other side the metal table. He turned his head swiftly where he used to stand and saw dark purple slim that had just failed in striking him crawling on the wall like a lizard and moved to another metallic door behind the chamber.

" What was that?" Nightwing turned around and saw Batman stood as his eyes focused on the slim which were trying to slip in the hole between that door.

" I don't know. It seemed like to play rough with me."

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Cliffhanger!, my friend XD Please R&R

By the way, I would change the name of this story after this chapter. It's called ' Morana'. In my future chapter would reveal why I used this name.

Stay tuned, everyone!