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The Cadmus building's flames were being extinguished and sirens' loud screams only helped the teenagers find the Project Cadmus building.
"KF," Luna addressed. "Grab those scientists up there and get them down to safety." she pointed out the explosion from the window of the building where two scientists were falling.
"Don't order me around! God, why are you so..." Kid Flash just groaned in annoyance and ran up and quickly grabbed the scientists, placing them on top of the building, but struggling to keep going up to get himself on safe ground.
He fell a bit down to the window ledge and held on tightly as he started to run up to help himself in.
"So smooth." Robin joked as he and Aqualad joined Luna from afar.
"Does he always have to run ahead? We need a plan, we-" Aqualad cut off when he saw that Robin was no longer there. "Robin?"
"Over there." Luna pointed out before sighing at his echoing laugh. "That idiot." she followed quickly and used ninja skill to leap from the firetruck ladder to the wall to inside the window, where Robin and Kid Flash had already previously entered.
Aqualad soon followed after using water from the fire hose to rescue the scientists on the roof and to get to the window.
"Appreciate the help." Aqualad said lowly to the others once inside.
"You handled it! Besides, we're here to investigate." Robin blew off any insult and continued typing on the computer.
"You're such a computer gremlin, move." Luna shoved him out of the way, typing much quicker.
"Hey! Move it! I was just doing that!"
"Much too slowly, and the way you were hunched over the computer was making me sick."
Robin was about to protest to her insult when they heard the elevator "ding" and ran out of the room to find Aqualad staring at it.
"There was something in the..." he trailed off, walking towards it.
"Elevators should be locked down." Kid Flash mentioned.
Robin raced over and pressed the down button, waiting for the elevator to open while the others came up from behind and joined him.
"This is wrong." he said before accessing his glowing high tech computer on his glove. "Thought so. High speed express elevator, it doesn't belong in a two-story building!"
"Neither does what I saw." Aqualad replied, going over and forcing the elevator doors open, then looking down at the extreme distance to wherever the bottom was of the elevator shaft.
"That's why they need an express elevator." Robin pointed out, pulling out his grappling hook device and shooting it out to a secure place. He jumped out and soon began going down the shaft.
The other three looked at each other before one at a time, grabbing hold of the cable and sliding down after the boy wonder.
By the time Robin's rope ran out, he had only reached sub-level 26, and there was a million more below him. He swung over to the edge of the door to the sub-level and waited for the others to come down and do the same.
Robin sat down on the ledge and began hacking the doors to get access in. But by the time he was almost there, Luna had already succeeded using her own glove computer. The boy wonder began to feel his patience dropping for her right then.
Aqualad was able to force it open and they four of them found themselves in a strangely foggy room that seemed lit red.
"Welcome to Project Cadmus." Robin said with some disbelief as he looked around.
Kid Flash sped off in some direction to scout out the place only to stop and see giant gray monsters with strange markings coming through where he was standing. He gasped and rolled out of the way, sighing with relief when he didn't get squished into a puddle of pudding. He ran back over to the others as they stared in unspoken shock.
A strange tiny creature from on top of one of the giants snarled and glowed at them before looking ahead instead.
"No, nothing odd going on here." Aqualad commented with sarcasm, still staring at the creatures.
Robin finished unlocking one of the large metal doors for access in and they all filed in to make sure they weren't caught.
Robin turned and found himself staring again. "Okay, I'm officially whelmed."
Luna could say nothing. She was speechless at the sight (not that she spoke a ton anyway). The room had several glass cylinders glowing blue with electricity, containing bug-like creatures.
"This is how they hide their massive underground facility from the world!" Kid Flash realized, looking around. "The real Cadmus isn't on the grid! It generates its own power with these... things. Must be what they're bred for."
"Of course, even the name is a clue. A cadmus is a myth about creatures made form dragons' teeth sewn into the Earth." Aqualad realized.
"And this Cadmus creates new life, too!" Robin added, walking over to a computer. "Let's find out why."
He pulled a wire from his glove and plugged it into the computer, typing away for information.
"They call them 'genomorphs'." he told them. "Wow, look at the stats for these things! They're living weapons!"
"They're engineering an army." Luna pieced together. "But for whom? And who are they planning to fight?"
"Wait, there's something else." Robin pulled up a file. "Project Kr. Ugh, the file's triple encrypted, I can't-"
"Don't move!" a gruff voice called out.
Luna whipped around first to see Guardian run in with some genomorphs. "Wait," he stopped. "Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Luna?"
"Least he got your name right." Robin grinned at Kid Flash before turning back to the computer.
"I know you." Aqualad said. "Guardian, a hero."
"I know him, too." Luna put in.
"I do my best." Guardian replied to that.
"Then what are you doing here?" Kid Flash asked, stepping up.
"I think that's my question, you four. I'm chief of security, you're trespassing." he put his hands to his hips in authority. "We can call the Justice League, figure this out."
"You think The League's going to approve of you breeding weapons?" Kid Flash protested.
"Weapons? What are you- what have I-?" Guardian stopped and the genomorph creature on his shoulder glowed.
Luna saw this and started putting two and two together. "It has a telepathic connection with him, one that dominates. And nothing like what you're thinking, Flash."
"It's Kid Flash." he hissed, red at the fact that she knew of what he was thinking about.
"Take 'em down hard!" Guardian ordered the larger genomorphs. "No mercy!"
The creatures came after them but not before Robin threw a smoke bomb down and grappled up and out of the room. Kid Flash dodged the creatures and was trying to run out as well. Aqualad was on the way out, but Guardian tackled him and began fighting him. Luna charged and kicked him away.
"I'll take care of things here, get Kid Flash and get to Robin. Wherever the hell he's gone." she growled before going at Guardian again.
"Okay." Aqualad ran out with some hesitation.
She blasted Guardian a fair distance away with her ice powers and ran behind the two boys.
They found Robin in a hallway a ways away from where they previously were, working on the access pad to the elevator.
"Way to be a team player, Rob!" Kid Flash scowled as he came up beside him.
"Weren't you right behind me?" Robin joked lightly before the elevator doors opened.
They ran in while Aqualad and Luna were trying to catch up, the genomorphs hot on their tail. Luna turned and formed an ice wall more than 5 feet thick while Aqualad made a jump for the elevator.
"Luna! Hurry up!" Robin called, waving her over as the elevator doors were closing.
She looked back at them, then at the genomorphs burrowing through her wall. Realizing that there was no point, she turned and dove through the doors before they shut tightly. Luna stood up and took the time to catch her breath before looking up at the floor indicator in the elevator.
"We're going down?" she said, turning and narrowing her eyes at Robin.
"Dude, out is up!" Wally pointed out to him in a frustrated manner.
"Excuse me? Project Kr is down, on sub-level 52." Robin countered in a know-it-all tone.
"This... this is out of control." Aqualad walked between the two guys before turning to the whole group. "Perhaps, we should contact The League."
At first, it appeared that KF and Robin were giving it some thought, but that process was interrupted when the elevator "ding"-ed and they had arrived on sub-level 52.
The doors opened to reveal the strangest room any of them had ever laid eyes on, like a cave, but red and organic. Robin ran out first and Kid Flash shrugged. "We ARE already here." he told Aqualad before running out.
Aqualad sighed and turned to Luna. "Well?"
Luna gave him a blank look, then zipped out of the elevator. He felt a little irritated at her cold behavior, but followed.
"Which way." Aqualad said begrudgingly as he knelt beside them in hiding.
"Yeah, bizarre-looking hallway one or bizarre-looking hallway two?" Robin debated, looking at both pathways, even though their appearance was the same.
"Halt!" a strange voice ordered from one of the hallways.
A tall, imposing creature of alien-like features stepped out and with telepathic abilities, flung objects at them. They dodged them and ran into the hallway that the creature was not blocking.
They ran until they found another large metal door with a scientist coming out of it. Kid Flash got there first, accidentally tripping the lady before seeing the name on the door and how far the others were. He got up and quickly put a metal canister in to keep the door from closing all the way.
"Hurry!" he called,waving them over before going inside.
Robin and Luna swiftly followed after him but Aqualad briefly stopped by the door to kick the metal canister out so that it would close and their pursuers wouldn't catch them.
"I disabled the door." Robin told him after that. "We're safe."
"We're trapped." Aqualad corrected, frustrated with how far the situation had gone.
"Uh, guys? You're gonna wanna see this." KF called before pressing a button on the computer mantle in front of him.
The guys all looked with wide eyes and Luna stared with overloading emotional eyes, her expression still firm. Inside a metal pod with 3 small genomorphs was a younger looking version of Superman in a glowing white suit with the emblem on it. He appeared to be sleeping.
"Oh dang." Robin uttered.
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