Chapter 12: Cadmus Labs part 2
Wally was strapped into the pod by metal bands around his ankles and wrists. They sent electrical currents up his arms and legs. He seemed blurry and the heroes realized he was vibrating.
"Wally!" The Flash exclaimed.
Wally's head lolled and bent up, his eyes opening to reveal terrified, emerald, eyes. The Team, 2 time-travellers and Leaguers gasped... he was awake! Nightwing hacked the control pad and the electricity was turned off, the pod and the metal bands opened. Wally fell forward and The Flash caught him.
"B-Barry?" Wally stuttered "N-no way! Th-this c-can't be r-real!"
"Wally! It's really me! Your uncle! This is real!" said the older speedster "We're getting you outta here!"
Wally looked at him with miserable eyes. Dark Eagle bent down beside them and took something out of her utility-belt. Wally cringed.
"It's alright, Wally," the Black Mistress soothed.
"Who are you?" Wally asked.
"My name's Dark Eagle. Me and my Team came from the future to make sure you're found alive," she said.
She put the thing from her utility-belt to Wally's neck and pressed a button. There was a hissing noise and the green liquid inside disappeared. Wally groaned and stood up.
"Wally? Are you feeling okay?" The Flash asked his nephew.
"No... I ache and I feel like I'm having the worst hang-over of my life! And I've had a few," Wally replied, he rubbed the back of his head and looked at Dark Eagle "Thanks... um, Dark Eagle was it?"
"That's me," the Black Mistress said "That injection I just gave you has counteracted the effects of some of the experiments performed on you,"
"Now let's get you outta here, Wally," said Nightwing.
The heroes walked towards the door but an alarm went off!
"I thought Man Martian disabled the alarms!" Miss Martian shouted.
"He did!" Superwoman shouted.
The side-doors slid open and guards ran in, surrounding them with Apocalyptian weapons. Lex Luthor walked in, followed by Mercy who was dragging Man Martian by his cape.
"Pathetic," Luthor said.
Man Martian looked up wearily.
"All it took was a home-firework to creat the heat needed to take down your friend here," he gestured to the hybrid.
Dark Eagle slid her tonfa from her belt, holding the handles and spun them, she pressed a button on the handles and the tonfa sparked with electricity. Nightwing took out his escrima sticks.
"Little help here!" Superwoman thought to the outside squads.
Almost a whole second passed but when it did 3 blurs appeared. Both Kid Flashes came to a halt, Robin the Girl Wonder and Archeress slid off their backs. Speed Arrow came to a halt, notching an arrow and aiming at Luthor. Tigress slid off of Speed Arrow's back and pointed her cross-bow. Robin #5 took out her tessen and her signature flames flickered over the dark red frames.
"How do you set your tessen on fire, Robin?" K.F asked.
"Technology," answered the Girl Wonder "Super-powers," she thought.
"Well now," said Luthor.
Mercy threw Man Martian over to them. He wearily stood up, Miss Martian supported him.
"Let's be going now," said Luthor.
He and his guards walked out of the room. Mercy turned around to leave. She suddenly spun round and fired an energy ball at the ceiling. Miss Martian automatically reached out her hands to telekinetically catch the falling rocks but the weight pushed her onto her back. Man Martian looked up and the rocks that fell slid off an invisible shield made by the world's strongest telekinetic mind. Everyone huddled together. Man Martian started to sway where he stood, holding the sides of his head in pain. Miss Martian stood up and started to telekinetically help. A dome of stone soon covered them. The Martians stopped using their telekinesis as the dome supported itself. Man Martian fell back.
"M'att!" Speed Arrow exclaimed, catching his best friend.
Miss Martian telepathically started helping Man Martian regain his strength. There was a cracking noise and lights appeared. Everyone looked at the Bats, they had glow-sticks in their hands.
"Now what?" K.F asked "We speedsters can vibrate outta here, Miss Martian and Man Martian can density-shift out,"
"And I'm not strong enough to teleport everyone else," said Zatanna.
"And I can't teleport full stop!" added Dark Eagle "And this dome is self-supporting so Superboy and Superwoman can't punch their way out,"
"What we really need to do is get Wally outta here. K.F, Kid Flash can you vibrate him out?" Nightwing said.
"I don't need them to," said Wally "They increased my speed... I'm faster than The Flash now and I can vibrate outta here by myself,"
They all looked at him. They wondered how they could all escape.
"Artemis why are you still Tigress?" Wally spoke up.
"I rejoined the Team as Tigress. I feel ashamed to say it but after your supposed 'death' I needed some distance," Tigress said to her husband.
Wally took her hand and gave her a reassuring smile.
"So who are you guys?" he asked the time-travellers.
"I'm Speed Arrow, these are my protégés Kid Flash and Archeress," said the Fastest Archer Alive.
"As you know I'm Dark Eagle," said the Black Mistress "and this is Robin the Girl Wonder,"
"We're from nearly 30 years in the future and we came back in time to help find you," said K.F "And call me K.F to avoid confusion with Bart,"
"So you really did become the second Kid Flash?" said Wally "That's great Bart,"
"Thanks," said Kid Flash, beaming.
"If Man Martian would wake-up then he could use his cellularkinesis to make a doorway through the rocks before we run out of oxygen," said Kid Flash "Miss Martian, how's Man Martian doing?"
"Using that much brain power took it outta him," she said "H-he says he's to week to use cellularkinesis let alone telekinesis,"
Man Martian sat up and rubbed the back of his head.
"Youch, that hurt," he croaked, he unintentionally read Wally's mind "My name's Man Martian, Wally. It used to be Boy Martian but I'm now 25 not a teenager anymore,"
"Why'd you read my mind?" Wally asked.
"I've had my powers for 15 years! 15! And telepathy was my very first but I'm still getting the hang of it," the half-Martian said.
"When'd you join the Team?" Zatanna asked, becoming interested.
"I was 13. The stupid Martian Council tried to telepathically kill my mom because I'm half-Martian half-human... I sensed brain-activity and revived her... they let me return to Earth on the condition I became a super-hero,"
"The Martian Council is pretty harsh," said Miss Martian "What about you lot?"
"Meta-jean got enhanced by stress," said Speed Arrow "I was crap at hand-to-hand combat and Tigress caught me playing Darts with Dark Eagle so she taught me to shoot... I was 10-years-old,"
"Back then I was Robin the First Girl Wonder," said Dark Eagle "I was 10-years-old as well... Redbeak, this era's Robin, saw my agility and stamina and I became his protégé,"
"Me and my mom witnessed Speed Arrow trying to take down a gang. His bow and quiver got knocked out of his hands and he started relying on his super-speed," said Archeress "I saw a gangster coming up behind him, so I grabbed his bow and an arrow and fired. Knocked the guy out and now I'm here,"
This story was partially true. It did happen and Tigress had been there but it wasn't why she became Archeress, call that a family tradition.
"It was 7 months ago," said Speed Arrow.
"I made the mistake of going into an unauthorized room and boom! Explosion. 6 weeks in hospital. When I got out I discovered my super-speed and now I'm Kid Flash," said K.F.
There was silence for a few minutes and the heroes started feeling the effect of the lack of air.
"Why'd I even let you come out, into the field, with us, babe?" Speed Arrow said, his eyes fixed on Dark Eagle.
"What do you mean, Speedy?" the Black Mistress asked.
Speed Arrow gave her a look.
"I think I know what he means," said Zatanna "Something or rather someone that will happen in a few months?"
"Oh yeah," said Dark Eagle "I forgot I was a month along, can you believe that?"
"Okay, so our priorities are getting Wally, Dark Eagle, Robin, Archeress and both Kid Flashes outta here," said Nightwing.
"Nothing is more important than saving the lives of children and pregnant woman," said The Flash, in a week joking tone.
"No. We all have to make it outta here!" said Dark Eagle.
"Why?" said Tigress.
"Because..." Speed Arrow looked to Dark Eagle, who nodded "If you die we'll never be born,"
"WHAT!?" they shouted.
Then, to everyone's shock, Dark Eagle took her domino mask off. She had deep, sapphire, eyes... very familiar ones...
"My real name is Mary... Mary Grayson," she left out the 'West' part "In the future... Nightwing's my father... that's how I really met Redbeak, Dad introduced us when I found out he was Nightwing when I was 10,"
Everyone stared at Nightwing, who had gone pale. The question of 'Who's your mother?' on his mind (as well as on Zatanna's).
"That means the kid your carrying is..." he begun.
"... your grandchild," Dark Eagle said.
Speed Arrow reached up, flicked his hood off and took his mask off, revealing grey eyes.
"My name's William West, Will for short... I'm Wally's and Tigress's 4th kid," he said.
Archeress reached up and pulled her mask off, revealing delicate freckles she was bound to grow out of.
"And I'm their 5th, Isabelle Artemis West, Izzy for short," the young archer said.
Tigress looked at Robin #5.
"That's why there was an unexplainable awkwardness when you were at my house," she said to the Girl Wonder "because Izzy was seeing her 2 oldest brothers back when they were tiny," said Tigress and Robin #5 nodded.
"So who are you 4?" Wally asked the unexplained time-travellers.
"My name's M'att Th'hoo Miller... the half-human son of Martian Manhunter... I'm Miss M's cousin," Man Martian said, his domino mask disappearing.
"I'm Miranda Kent. Super-Ace is Cameron Kent," said Superwoman.
Robin #5 took off her mask.
"I'm Lauren Bennett," said the Girl Wonder "Nightwing's ward,"
"You know of a second Zatara... his first name is Giovanni and he's Zatanna's son," said Dark Eagle "If you guys die... we'll never be born,"
The group of heroes were quiet for a few more minutes... all definitely feeling the effect of the lack of oxygen. Finally Robin -Lauren- stood up.
"Laur? What are you doing?" Dark Eagle wheezed.
"I don't care if I have to explain this to the rest of the Future Team later," she said and flames flickered around her hands "I'm hoping I can melt us outta here before my fire eats the rest of the air,"
The Girl Wonder pressed her flaming hands against the rocks and they started glowing with heat. Man Martian got up and started using his cellularkinesis to move particles so she didn't have to melt as much. Zatanna started breathing heavily. Nightwing wrapped his arms around his girlfriend as the Magician wheezed into his shoulder. Soon Archeress and Wally started, followed by Tigress and both Kid Flashes. Superwoman, Superboy and The Flash stared as well as Dark Eagle. Miss Martian was as far away from the flames as possible but she eventually passed out. Speed Arrow wiped his forehead with his arm and started wheezing to. Soon Lauren started, followed by a weakening Man Martian.
"The heat," he wheezed "C'mon! I can sense we're almost done!"
"If that's true then everyone just hold on!" encouraged Dark Eagle.
Zatanna suddenly went limp in Nightwing's arms.
"Zee!" he shook her "C'mon! Stay with it!"
In the same order people started to wheeze, people started passing out, except Dark Eagle. She watched Man Martian collapse and her protégé push hard against the bubbling wall as the heat and lack of oxygen started to take its toll. Just as Lauren pushed through, Dark Eagle's vision became blurry, light, the figures of the Team and League as well as the rushing of air hit her... Dark Eagle passed out as well.
Longest chapter so far! Next chapter will probably be the last but after the story ends I'm gonna follow it but with some one-shots like I did last time. Please review! PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!