A/N:so here is my first chapter in the Kid Flash Reborn story, don't forget to check the addition to the prologue, anyway i hope people like the story, i'll say it here and now that is story will deviate away from the main storyline at some points, this is to account for new OC members of the team such as super-girl. some pre-existing missions will be altered to account for the new strength level of the teams. anyway hope you enjoy!
13:00 CDT Central city July 4th 2010
Today was the day it all started. She was currently running rings around captain cold, literally, before deciding she had her fill of mocking the Ice villain. Since becoming kid flash she had reverted back to her old habit of trash talking the villains'. Something Barry enjoyed as it let him see his niece acting like a normal fifteen year old kid for once.
"Cap I thought we understood each other's purpose in life." She said will circling the enraged super villain. 'You commit crimes; while i stop you in your tracks."
She split off snatching the cold gun off the man, before turning on him and encasing him in a block of ice, Flash gave her a look of disapproval, at the act.
"What? He's wrapped up warm, besides the CCPD is equipped with heater units to deal with the people he freezes; I just thought it would cosmic justice if he get to experience it for himself." she said bemused, causing Barry to smile despite himself. "Time to go after all todays the day." seeing Barry's smile falter, he clearly wasn't happy what was going to happen at hall, he knew how independent she was.
"Well lets go, we've got an hour to travel over a hundred miles." He said the challenge left unsaid, she rolled her eyes, as she lowered the goggles down over her eyes.
"Let's see who's the faster one after all." She said smiling as she raised the mouth cover of her mask as she looked over at her uncle before they disappeared in blur of movement.
14:00 EDT hall of justice Washington D.C
"You know for being the fastest pair alive, the flashes rarely reach a meeting on time." Green arrow said arms crossed looking at his watch as they waited on the two speedsters; he didn't need to wait long, as two streaks red and yellow were neck and neck before the red one pulled ahead stopping right next to the archer who raised an eyebrow at him.
"About time flash! What got side track trying to see which of the two of you could go the fastest again." He said, as the second streak materialised into the form of kid flash, her chest heaving as she grabbed a small flask from her side and took a sip. 'How can they drink that stuff?' He thought, shudder at the memory of the horrific taste of the super electrolyte drink the flashes needed to maintain their bodies in the field.
After she had put away the flask Kid Flash noticed a rather attractive blonde Girl, about sixteen with sparkling blue eyes wearing a blue skin tight shirt revealing her midriff, and a blue skirt along with a red cape and shoes, with an S shield on her chest glided over to her along with the other sidekicks following suit. It had come as a big shock to her when she first saw the 'Maiden of Might' in metropolis duking it out alongside superman, which had been one of the more noticeable differences from her old life's world to this one; she had appeared about one year after she started being Kid Flash. 'Wonder what will happen when she meets Conner?' She thought as she lifted her goggles and nodded at the group.
"It's nice to see that I'm not the only girl here." Super girl said with a smile, shaking Kid Flash's hand firmly.
'if only you knew the truth of it sister.' She thought to herself smirking as she returned the greeting.
"It's nice to meet final meet the 'maiden of might', I've seen your handy work on the news… the way you took down toy master very creative." Kid Flash said, before turning to see robin come over grinning widely.
"So you've guys got held up with an ice villain as well." He said flashing his signature mischievous grin 'typical Robin still as childish as ever.' she thought turning to face the boy wonder.
"Maybe they thought a snow storm would ruin our special day." She returned, smiling as robins smirk, she then noticed red arrow…err speedy… give her a nod of respect, before seeing Aqualad walk over to him, smiling he lowered his head in greeting.
"It's nice to see you again Kid Flash; this must first time we've all been together in the same place at the same time." He said at that point batman called for their attention and led them towards the Hall, past the crowds of tourist. 'Here we go again.'
"This is all rather overwhelming isn't it?" Kid Flash said hearing robin mutter about no one being just whelmed.
"Look its Batman and Robin!" One excited girl shouted, while another said, "And Flash and Flash junior!"
"She not called flash junior, she's speedy." another girl said as a matter of fact.
"Speedy's green arrow's sidekick, she's the She-Flash." Another person said which caused Kid Flash to face palm groaning as she heard robin's chuckle from behind her.
"Kid Flash, what about is it about it which makes it so hard for people to remember." She muttered under her breath, before looking up and seeing the smile on Super-girl's face. 'Damn kryptonain hearing.'
"Look it's super girl and super man!" came the voices of young kids dressed up as the pair, 'Of course the girls would dress up as super-girl, only been around for a year.' She noticed the three late teens in question before watching another girl come over and join them only this time, dressed as robin.
'Come on I'm the only other girl here for Christ sake why am I so unpopular compared to those two, it's just like last time!' she thought. it had also been a sore spot that when she had been wally, he was the least popular of the sidekicks and it seemed to be the same this time for her, I mean robin could jump around and thrown things, she could almost reach the speed of light and vibrate through solid mass.
they were about to receive the tour with Martian manhunter and red tornado which was just as s remembered it, almost twenty-one years ago but with superman and super-girl attending this time, it was a strange thought that she was technical thirty-six years old, thought she never progressed beyond the mental stage of a young adult as wally, still it was nothing compared to a Martians life span, it was still an odd feeling to have when you have the body of a fifteen year old, less than half your technical age.
"Robin, Speedy, Kid Flash Aqualad, Super-girl welcome to the hall of Justice." the Martian told them warmly; they grinned at each other excitedly as they walked into the entrance way. they stared up at the giant bronze figures of the original seven heroes. "you have unlimited access to our training facilities, gym and full stocked galley. and of course the library as well."
She looked up as they entered the library and the end of the tour.
"Make yourselves at home." Barry said, as the robin, Aqualad and super-girl sat down in the seats, she went over to the books, and began speed reading. Due to spending her entire childhood reading advance books she picked up the ability to quickly understand the content of the page and combined with super speed she could read a book in short time, only needing to reread once or twice later for any missed content, Half way into the book 'the legend of Solomon Grundy volume I', Speedy spoke up, 'Show time.' She thought, closing the book and looking up.
"You promised us a real tour, not some glorified backstage pass!" he yelled glaring at the mentors. Causing the other sidekicks to look at him then to their respective mentors, she saw flash glance at her nervously.
"Calm down son it's a first step." Aquaman said crossing his arms. "You have been given access, few others have."
Speedy just pointed to window wordlessly, he's point made, "Who cares which side of the glass we're on!"
GA went on to try and calm him down but it didn't work.
"I want some respect, not to be treated as a sidekick." He spat out, looking at the rest of them. The others looked confused while she just shrugged at him.
"You're kidding, right?" speedy said, looking at them, "Today was supposed to be the day! Our first step on the road to becoming full-fledged members of the justice league."
"Isn't that what this is?" super-girl said looking at him frowning confused with him, "You know, with a tour of the HQ." 'Here it comes.' Thought Kid Flash
"But this isn't even their actual HQ, it's just a front for tourists and pit stop before taking a zeta beam up to the real HQ the watch tower." he ranted pausing Kid Flash cut him off before he could continue.
"Let me guess; it's a space station in the earth's orbit." She finished returning the book to its spot before turning to face them. Batman glared at both Green Arrow and Flash.
"Don't look at me, I didn't tell her; she's a genius she probably figured it out." Barry said, unable to meet the bats gaze, who then turned to Green Arrow.
"I thought we could make an exception this once.' He said grinning weakly, before folding under the look batman gave him. 'Or not."
"Stand down son, you not helping case." Aquaman started before speedy cut him off, with a snarl of rage.
"Or what, you'll send me to my room, I'm not your son, I'm not even his, but I thought I was his partner!' he pointed to Green Arrow, before looking at the rest of the sidekicks, who were silent in this exchange. 'Looks like they're right about you four, you're not ready."
"I won't take this anymore!' speed said, throwing his hat down, 'I'm out of here, if you won't trust me than I'll do it by myself!" before he stormed out, Green Arrow moved to go after him but superman stopped him with a hand on the shoulder. The remaining mentors looked guilty (Except bats who was batman), Barry went over to Kid Flash and opened his mouth to say something, unfortunately Kid Flash would never know as at that moment Black Canary came on screen above them all, drawing everyone's attention.
{Black Canary to justice league, there's a fire broken out at the Cadmus project facility.} The image of the blonde heroine said, as batman turned to face superman.
"I've had my suspensions about Cadmus, this seems like the perfect time to-" but he was cut off again by the image of Zatara, came up next to her.
{Zatara to justice league the sorcerer Wotan is using the amulet of Atem to blot out the sun, requesting full League response.} Came the urgent voice of the magician, it felt good for her to see him again after so long… she would do everything in her power to change his fate; for Zatanna's sake.
{The local authorities can handle it, it's just a small fire, Black Canary out.} She disappeared, as batman sent a message for all leaguers to respond to Zatara location, Barry turned to face her with a sorry look on his face.
"The four of you stay here, till we get back." Batman said, looking at them.
"Why?" robin spoke up, looking angry, before superman gave the Boy Scout routine,
"Because it's a critical league mission requiring a full league response and you are not yet trained to handle a mission of that caliber; don't worry one day after you've been properly trained you'll be ready for it." 'Too bad you couldn't be like that with SB.' She thought, watching the three other sidekicks look down at this put down of their abilities.
"We'll talk when I get back Kid." Barry said not meeting her gaze, before speeding off.
Recognized: Superman 0-1, Batman 0-2, Aquaman 0-6, flash 0-4, Martian Manhunter 0-7, red tornado 1-6
With that the five of them were left along, the silence didn't last long. Super-girl let out a groan of frustration.
"And here was I thinking that my cousin trusted me unconditionally, but no he lied to me about this all." She put her head in her hands, robin looked pissed that bats didn't trust his abilities, to be fair he was right, Kid Flash didn't think even she could have handled that mission from what she had seen in the records of it, let along any of them at this point in their lives. He knew from the records that superman nearly died from that mission.
"My king… my partner, I thought he trusted me." Aqualad said, looking betrayed.
"Trust, they don't even trust us with the basics, like the knowledge of their space HQ." robin said angrily, before turning to face Kid Flash who was reading the book again. "How come you're not pissed, I heard how you gave flash an ultimatum when he refused to let you be a hero?"
"Because the chances of all of us returning from a mission requiring a full league response alive; are the same as batman suddenly deciding to start a career in break-dancing." She said looking at them all, "if the problems that big that they need the entire league with them then imagine how dangerous it must be, if that amulet can blot out the sun, what else you think it could do? And while super-girl is bullet proof, she isn't magic proof, none of us have any resistance to that stuff." this got them thinking and soon they realised the truth of her words.
"We're just entering the big leagues we have only met and fought beside each other a few times before, they can't rely on kids with something as important as the world's safety, or afford to be distracted worrying about our safety for that matter." She said walking over to the computer and commencing a high speed hack, her fingers a blur of colour.
"What are you doing?" super girl asked gliding over, her arms folded giving her a confused look.
"Finding out what Cadmus is." She replied although she already knew the answer's she was seeking, finishing her hack in under a minute.
"But batman said we were to stay put." Aqualad said, looking confused. "You said it yourself; we're not ready for the safety of world."
"Which is why we need to show them what we can accomplish on our own, besides it's a small fire, not a world threatening disaster, if the local authorities can handle it then why can't we?" she finished bringing up the league files on it all.
"How did you do that?" Robin asked impressed, she folded her arms, smirking beneath the mask.
"Same way I found out about the watch tower; because I'm a genius… so who's coming?" she asked, to which robin grinned nodding his approval.
"Count me in sister." super girl said slamming her fist into her open palm, Aqua lad, chuckled slightly.
"Solve their case before them" Aqualad said "Poetic justice, with that we're a team with a mission at hand."
'And people said I couldn't lead.' Kid Flash thought as she picked up robin in her arms, causing the boy wonder to blush.
"Aren't you being a bit forward KF." He said, trying not to look at the padded area where her breasts were.
"It will be faster if we go supersonic, you up for it Super-girl?" she looked at the blonde bombshell who grinned and grabbed Aqualad around the waist.
'And I get to embarrass robin too win-win.' She thought as she sped away, robin clinging on to her for dear life as she broke the sound barrier in a second.
They arrived in time to see two scientists fall from the window, screaming as they fell. KF, dumped Robin who proceeded to hurl in the bushes, as she ran forward turning into a yellow streak, she fully entered the speed-force state, where her perception of the world speed up to incredibly lengths, she grabbed the two scientists, before pivoting her foot and ran down the side the building stopping next to the firemen.
"Thanks Kid flash, we owe you one." The man said, panting, at least they got the name right this time, it was then that she turned and sped up the wall and into the open window, as robin joined her along with super-girl and Aqualad moments later.
"What kept you three?" she asked engaging her night vision feature in the goggles, and turning to begin hacking the computer.
"Not all of us are able to cruise comfortably at the speed of sound you know." Robin, replied looking a bit pale, as they worked, suddenly super-girl call for their attention.
"That's weird you seem to be the only person who's ever been sick when I've carried them at high speed." She said playfully watching him blush slightly and mutter something which caused Super-girl burst out laughing… which stopped as her face turned deathly serious.
"Guys I saw something that didn't look right in the elevator." Super-Girl said, as they all moved over to look at it.
"That should be on lock down… come to think of it that's an express elevator which shouldn't be in a two story building." Robin reported working on his holo-computer; Super-Girl pried the doors open and whistled.
"Perhaps because it's more than two stories down." She said, as robin fired his grappling hook and rippled down, with kid flash and Aqualad behind him, super-girl flew down after them, they stopped when they reached floor twenty-six.
"I'll scout ahead." Kid Flash said, as she vibrated through the door, she then tap twice for all clear, and watched super-girl pried the doors apart, letting the other three in.
"Let's go" said Robin and they moved forward at a steady pace, stopping when they reached G-trolls, Kid Flash had no desire to be back under one of those things if she could help it.
"What the fuck." Was all super-girl had said, as the hulking creatures marched on by.
"Batman's paranoia paid off once again." Robin said, speaking the well-known truth about his mentor.
"Nothing wrong here at all." Aqualad said voice dripping with sarcasm. Once that was done they moved on, coming across a door that robin set about hacking into, while he was doing that Kid Flash opened up her own holo-com and prepared a message for the flash.
"What are you doing KF?" asked Super-girl curiously, looking over her shoulder.
"Preparing a message to be sent in two hours to flash, if the connection to the file is cut; gotta be prepared in case anything bad happens." She replied, priming her settings just as robin opened the door.
"Wow, and just when I thought I was getting use to earth." Super-girl said walking in, with rest of them. The vast rows of pods containing the genomorphs.
"They're off the grid, because they can generate their own power." Kid Flash said, looking over the place as robin reached the terminal, and began hacking it.
"Like the Cadmus of myth, making new life by sewing dragon's teeth into the earth." Said Aqualad staring at the electric currents riding along the genomorphs body.
"They breeding weapons, called 'genomorphs' look at the stats for these things, electrokinesis, telepathy, super strength, razor claws. Hold on there's two projects down sub level 52 one called Kr, the other is called apotheosis but I can't hack into it from this terminal."
"Big K, little r?" Asked Kid Flash looking at him, he nodded; she turned to face Super-girl, who looked nervous at her staring at her.
"What?" she said 'Can't help but act the part.' Kid Flash thought as she put her plan into effect as she pulled up her message to flash.
"I was wrong." She said, as the other three looked at each other.
"What are you adding to the message?" asked Aqualad; she looked up goggles down staring at all three of them.
"Code Alpha, basically means FUBAR situation, think about it, what could an illegal genetics lab which is making bioweapons be doing if they call a highly encrypted project by the atomic symbol for krypton?" she told them, enjoying the dawning look of understanding in their faces.
"They making kryptonain bioweapons aren't they?" Super-girl said shaking with rage, Kid Flash could understand, she was the last living kryptonain girl and one of only two left in the universe, it must hurt for her to hear that someone might be using hers and her cousin's DNA to make weapons.
"Halt, intruders." They turned to see Guardian approaching with his G-elves in tow, in no mood to waste time, Kid Flash decided to act first, and feel sorry for guardian later.
"Take them down hard!" she called as the heroes launched themselves into the fight, super-girl literally throw herself at Guardian roaring with rage, 'remind me never to piss her off… I thought Connor was bad!' she thought watching as she cannonballed him into a wall, cracking it and knocking him out, while Kid Flash suddenly speeded forward delivering shock punches, her fists crackling with electric energy as she knocked the g-elves flying and smashing into walls and pods, Aqualad used his water bearers to form a mace and smash a group of genomorphs back shattering several of the pods and causing them to be electrocuted whilst dodging the slashing attacks of several others. meanwhile robin was tossing his birdarangs with reckless abandonment, causing explosions all around him before leaping forward his bostaff dancing amongst his foe with lightening precision, striking nerves and hitting pressure points when the smoke cleared he was surrounded by over half a dozen incapacitated genomorphs.
"Make for the exit!" She shouted after they had neutralized the enemy force, she didn't want to be caught by another patrol group and so she turned robin who was still hacking the file with holo-pad, as Super-girl who was currently playing bowling with one unlucky g-elf, tossed the creature at a group of them scoring a strike before calling for Aqualad to follow as she flew after her.
"We gotta check out level 52, and see what they're doing in case they move it before the league gets here." Robin said, making a compelling case for something both she and Super-girl were no doubt going to do anyway.
Once they hit the elevator they went down, checking her com, Kid Flash found her message had been sent, how long it would take for the league to respond, that she had no idea, she held her faith on someone who held both the titles for fastest man alive and also 'the late Barry Allen'.
"What the hell is going on here?" Super-girl said staring at the walls in disgust; Kid Flash led the way moving quickly as she could without leaving the others behind. Until something hit her in the face, it was metal box thrown by 'long horns' or whatever his name was. After a few minutes of battle they realised that they couldn't get near the guy as he had a seeming unlimited supply of exploding canisters to lob at them and simply detonate in front of them, so she told them to ignore him and they went down the second hallway which she remembered lead to Conner and project Kr.
"I'm going on ahead." She said, as they fled the battle when they heard the sound of more of those things coming.
'Got to keep that door from closing.' She thought as she knocked down the scientist who got in her way, she grabbed the metal box from before and wedged it in tight, she waved the rest of them over as they went through the door and into project Kr.
"Sometimes I hate it when I'm right." She said aloud as they all turned to see the form of super-boy, both Aqualad and Robin looked shocked as he began reading out the files he finished hacking, while Super-girl's entire body seemed shake from utter rage.
"Weapon designation: Super boy, cloned from superman sample in just sixteen weeks. Yellow solar suit lets him absorb yellow solar radiation twenty-four/seven." He said as Kid Flash watched the pain it caused Super-girl, to see her people being turned into weapons, she imagined being teleported to another planet and experimented on to produce speed-force warriors. 'Wrong it's just so wrong.'
"It's not right, science shouldn't be used for this," Kid Flash said turning to face them, "the league has to know superman is perhaps the strongest of the league imagine what you could do with ten of him."
"How dare they do this to him, to my cousin, we're living beings not something to be experimented on like animals!" she raged, walking over to pod, Kid Flash rushed forward and called out stop her but when she reached super-girl she had already ripped the door off holding it in her hands, super-boy looked at her, before jumping forward and tackled her send her crashing into a wall as he continued to pound her into the wall… unfortunately Kid Flash had been behind her and while she could recover from some things easily, being crushed against a wall by a raging kryptonain and have him continually pound said pod door and a kryptonain girl into you wasn't one of them, she was knocked unconscious after the fourth blow.
'Wake up time is of the essence.' The familiar voice of long horns sounded in her mind.
"What happened?" she said groggily, feeling pain erupt all over her body, as she looked up to see super boy, and what looked like concern in his eyes, before it was gone.
"Oh thank rao, I thought I killed you when I was crushed against the wall, you know you not having superhuman endurance and everything." Said super-girl clearly unaware that she did have superhuman endurance; just not super dense skin or muscles, as she looked back to her cousin's clone with a reassuring smile.
"See she's ok, it's not too late for you to help us, I'm mean we're family right, I hit superman when I first saw him so no issue there." She said with a warm and friendly voice.
'So it seems she taking over from Aqualad in convincing him to help us... makes sense.' Kid Flash thought as she, looked to see robin busy picking the lock, while Aqualad was starting to come around, 'what kept him under.'
"It is good to see you still alive Kid flash we thought you killed during the fight." He said relief flooding into his voice.
"Just really, really sore all over; reminds me of the time I got wailed on by the Marauder man that had hurt, but I'll heal in a few hours." she said, the speed-force experiment granted them faster regeneration rates which is why they've survived killing blows simply from the cells healing fast enough to stay alive.
"So then Super-boy you got a name." She asked looking at him, he shook his head. "How about a purpose then, do you know what you were born to do."
"I am the super-boy, a clone of superman, I was created to replace him should he perish, or to destroy him should he turn from the light." He recited, Evelyn feel the rage radiating from super-girl.
"No you weren't" Kid Flash said simply, causing super-boy to look at her in confusion. "You were born into this world, and your purpose is whatever you want it to be… I don't believe you wanted to hurt us when we set you free earlier, I believe this g-gnomes have been feeding you information, telepathically perhaps. If that's true then they could also control your actions, then when you attacks us it wasn't your fault."
There was a pause before-
"What… if it wasn't my actions." He asked confused, looking at them.
"Then we'd have no ill will against you, you wish to be like superman that is a noble ambition; he is after all kind, brave and good to a fault." She continued, knowing full well robin was picking his lock.
"She right, you may have been made in a lab, but you're still kryptonain, my people are your people, my family is your family." She said in warm voice. "You shouldn't be locked up in place like this, set us free and we can show you the world… have you even seen the sun?" he shook his head.
"Well since its night you'll have to settle for the moon, but we can introduce to superman… I mean super girl's his younger cousin which makes her your cousin." Evelyn said which caused super girl to scowl.
"He's technically my younger cousin me being fifteen when he was born." She grumbled, this drew silence from the rest of them. 'And I thought I was old.' Kid Flash thought, as she opened her mouth to continue until Desmond came in with Guardian and the female scientist.
"What is the weapon doing here?" He said outraged turning to face Guardian.
"I was just letting him stretch his legs, there's no harm in that is there." Guardian said clearly under his own control. "Get the weapon back, to its pod now." He yelled at Guardian ignoring his words; at this action both Kid Flash and Super-girl felt anger well up inside them, for different reasons.
"He's not an 'It' he's a living being." They both yelled, one for her lifelong friend, the other for someone she considered her family. At this point an idea came to Kid flash and she vibrated through the restraints, suddenly everything came to a stop as her body moved at such a high speed she darted forward and began knocking out every g-gnome in the room before throw them into an empty pod before sealing it in cryostasis, this action surprised Desmond who wasn't able to get a command off to his g-gnome before it had been neutralised.
'Hold on Kid Flash, there is another you have to save, one who's torment I can no longer abide with a clear conscious.' It took her a moment to realise it was long horns talking to her telepathically again, and suddenly a stream of information in the form of images and memories filled her head causing her features to contort in rage as she felt the fear and pain they contained fill her mind,
'How can anyone do that to children… oh my god so many died so much pain and suffering.' She thought as raged built up in her heart. The stakes were higher than she thought and she realised just how different things truly were than she had previously thought they were in this world or dimension or whatever this was.
She looked up to see super boy, knock Desmond aside, clearly he had enough of people messing with his thoughts, as he began freeing the other sidekicks, Aqualad came over to her as the two supers ripped the door open.
"Can you walk kid?" he asked looking down at her, she nodded her head, chest heaving rapidly as she felt anger over the things she was shown burn brightly as she looked at Desmond.
"Super-girl come with me." She said before running through the ruined door and down the left corridor, stopping when she came across a massive door which read.
Project Apotheosis
"What's in there?" Super-girl asked from behind her, she turned to face blonde heroine who looked at the door.
"Something far worse than project Kr… open it up." she replied, watching the girl tear the door open, before gasping at what she saw.
They came face to face with a sixteen year old girl in a pod, with light brown hair wearing a solar suit like the one that super boy had. Kid Flash rushed over to the terminal hacking it and downloading the entire contents to her com unit, before opening the pod and walking over to get the girl and get out of this dark place, as cold mist poured along the floor.
"What's going on here, she's not a clone of me; just who is she?" Super-girl asked confused staring at the unknown girl.
Suddenly the girl's eyes opened revealing two grey orbs and she grabbed Kid Flash by the throat, glaring at her as she lifted her off the ground with ease; Kid Flash gestured with a hand for super-girl to stay where she was.
"Who are you, someone new to experiment on me some more?" She snarled rage and pain evident in her voice as well as a tinge of fear.
"I'm here… to get you out… Amelia… to get you help… let me go… you don't know how… to manage your new powers." She gasped out; looking at the girl eyes and holding her gaze, Amelia suddenly clutched her head, releasing Kid Flash, as she started crying.
"Pain, for so long all I could feel was pain, Anderson…I'll kill him for what he did to me." She said walking forward before collapsing again with a cry of pain as she grabbed her head. Kid Flash went over and picked her up before, turning to face super-girl.
"They tried to rewrite people's DNA, to turn them into kryptonians; They used children aged before puberty started." She said, checking the girl's pulse, before turning to face super-girl. "Out of the one thousand test subjects they had, only she survived."
Super-girl looked horrified, before they began speeding down the hall towards the elevator catching up with the others who had cleared away the genomorphs and who turned to stare at them.
"Who's she, another clone?" Asked robin as Kid Flash handed Amelia over to super-girl, who looked equally confused.
"Worse Cadmus's first attempt at making kryptonain weapons, only they first tried by turning ordinary people into them by slowly rewriting their DNA with salvaged alien tech from some place called Apokolips, 1000 child test subjects and she's all that left." She said the others looked horrified at this.
"Let's get the hell out of here; she needs medical and scientific attention. Who knows what's going in her body right now." Kid Flash told them gravely, she remembered the monster that had been match; they moved into the elevator and found out how SB couldn't fly.
"Superman can fly, why can't i?" he muttered, confused.
"Now's not the best time to pause on think on things, besides you could probably leap buildings with a jump like that." Robin, said, as they climbed up the rope, Amelia being carried in Super-girls hands. They made their way through Cadmus until they reached the grid.
They were moving in the vent… that was awkward for Kid Flash as she had super-girl in front of her and beneath her skirt there wasn't much left to the imagination.
'I've never tried harder not to look up in my life.' She thought as ended up bumping into super-girls rear anyway.
"What was that?" said the two kryptonain hearing distance scratching.
"They're in the vents…move…NOW" Kid Flash said forcefully, as they began moving more quickly now. Eventually they made it out; robin ran over to a section of wall and began hacking the interface.
"I hacked the motion sensors, we're all most there." He said as they moved into a wide corridor, it was then that Amelia collapsed again clutching her head groaning tears starting to run down her face.
"Not the best time for a nap my friend." Aqualad said as he picked up the human lab rat and throwing her over his shoulder and ran over to join the others.
"What's up with her Kid?" robin asked concerned as they began to run down the corridor, led by super-boy and super-girl who battered anything stupid enough to place itself in the path of two pissed off kryptonians.
"Genetic rejection perhaps, either way she gets headaches and is in a lot of pain, we need to get her to the league ASAP." Kid Flash said as they powered through the genomorphs blocking them, eventually they reached the shut door, and meet long-horns or Dubbilex, who proceeded tell them the truth and gave SB his choice.
"I choose freedom." He said softly, before there was an explosion and they were all thrown back, Kid Flash turned to see guardian being thrown into Dubbilex by a blockbustered Desmond, the heroes were disgusted to see his skin falling off him as he walked towards them.
"What the hell is that thing?" Asked Super-girl as they got into their battle stances, as the creature began advancing slowly towards them.
"That I believe that was Dr Desmond." Kid Flash told them causing both super boy and girl to charge towards him; he in return grappled both before throwing them through the ceiling and up into Cadmus's lobby.
"Well that's one way to make an exit." Robin said, as he grappling hooked after them. Aqualad lowered Amelia next to the unconscious form of guardian and looked at Kid.
"Shall we join them?" he said, as she nodded and ran over to him, who then used his water bearers to carry them both up to the battleground. The two supers were pounding away at the creature, but it was tanking through it as it smashed the pair away, Kid ran forward delivering a series of rapid shock punches, eliciting roars of pain and anger from the behemoth, as he clutched and grasped for her. Good luck with that you psychotic bastard.' She thought smugly… evidently he was as she felt a powerful grip on her long hair and felt a sharp tug as she was thrown into a wall… right before blockbuster body rammed her. She fell down into a crumpled heap.
Robin swing in and snatched her before blockbuster could ground pound her to jelly.
"Awww." She groaned, as she felt her broken bones begin to heal, 'no better time to try focused accelerated healing.' She thought as she tried to consciously enhance her body's healing ability at the cost of burning up her energy supply… so far little progress, she began to feel dizzy. 'Shit used up too much energy, I'm going…to…pass out.' She thought as her vision blurred and blackened.
"What happened?" Kid flash said as she woke with a start, looking around, she that she was in the lobby of Cadmus, next to the unconscious form of robin and Aqualad who had a black eye, looking up she saw a battered super girl and boy along with a raging Amelia who seemed to have recovered enough to start pounding the living crap of Blockbuster, 'Damn that girls a powerhouse of rage now.' She thought smiling.
She still felt tired, and so took a long swig from her flask, it wasn't pleasant but it did what it needed to do. She saw the building begin to collapse due to the slugfest of heavy hitters smashing into everything; she turned grabbing the unconscious clone and sped out of the building coming back for both Aqualad and robin, as it collapsed behind her.
She laid robin down gently before looking over at the rubble that was Cadmus's upper levels. Then she saw her friends emerge from beneath the ruined holding carrying a tried out Amelia between the two of them.
"Way to go super boy, girl, and you too Amelia." she said walking over to them, they three of them exchanged looks before replying.
"We couldn't have done it without some help." Super-girl said patting Amelia on the back as she smiled at them shyly. Kid Flash then turned to look at blockbuster and shook her head. 'How could anyone do that to their self, he must have been that afraid of the light.' She thought pitting the evil man, there was the sound of groaning as robin and Aqualad woke up.
"See the night's sky, might not give you super powers but it's still nice to look at." She said to super boy, continuing their conversation from earlier. It was then that his eyes opened wide as the form of superman descended from above. "See even the welcoming committee is here" she added as the rest of league arrived she locked gazes with Barry and pointed an accusing finger at him, catching him by surprise, as he lamely pointed to himself as she nodded angrily.
"YOU! About bloody time too, how it is an electronic message is faster than you the man who can almost touch the speed of light." She said glaring at Flash, who despite the situation couldn't help but look guilty at taking this long to respond to her SOS.
"Is that what I think it is?" said Batman looking at super boy, while Superman just stared before looking away. She saw Super-girl move as if to intervene, but she stopped her.
"Give him time, he'll come around… and if not bash his head in with a kryptonite crowbar till he does." She said both to super boy to reassure him and to calm down super-girl ; who smirked at the suggestion. Kid Flash didn't want her to risk ruining the team's formation by starting a fight with superman right now.
"Who's the girl in the solar suit?" Flash asked looking at Amelia who was sitting with her back against a broken block of concrete, clutching her head and whimpering again.
"I guess the most accurate term would be a krypto-human, its all on this data device but the the short version is this; bad guys altered pre-pubescent children DNA into kryptonian DNA to make weapons and out of a thousand subjects she's all that is alive, and she is in constant pain." Kid told them grimly before going to to tell them everything else that happened while half the league looked angry at what had been done to Amelia under their very noses, superman said he would take her for some tests and left no doubt that he was glad for the excuse to leave the situation, next batman prepared to give them the lecture.
"What you did here was foolish; you disobeyed orders and risked your own lives in the process." Batman said, looking at them all. "This will not happen again."
"To be fair, we didn't leave DC and you never stated whether it was the hall or city we were to stay in, secondly we were heading to stop a simple fire which we're all done countless times before and thirdly when it got dangerous we sent you a message telling you such. And fourthly we will do it again and again, so you can either let us work with you or you can forbid us and we'll do it anyway." She said, looking at all the leaguers as she did, Barry face palmed as she used the same argument as before, which to be far worked.
"She right we did good this night as a team and we could do more good working together!" Aqualad said defiantly stepping forward, this shocked Aquaman who pointed at him.
"Stand down Aqualad." He was shocked when he refused, as he moved to stand next to Kid Flash, super girl did the same along with Robin and Super boy.
"We won't back down." Said super-girl, eyes flashing dangerously red.
"It's simple either they join the program or get out of our way." He said glaring angrily at batman, which super-girl mirrored.
"Give me three days." Batman said simply, as he turned to leave, with robin jumping to like a trained dog. Super boy went to stay at the hall of justice with super-girl who insisted on it so she could teach him some Kryptonian culture, Aqualad headed home with Aquaman, while the flashes head back home to Central City.
"I'm sorry Eve; I should have been there sooner." He said once they were halfway home, his voice full of shame.
"It's ok it worked out in the end, besides I'm too tired to give you a lecture." She said yawning, as they reached central city at about three in morning , she insisted they stop for food along the way, and she had a lot of burgers to eat. Before she was finally in the comfort of her own bed, out of ripped friction suit, and currently finishing her third glass of milk.
'This clearly isn't the same universe I was in before, there's too many new things, super-girl, Amelia, what else is new.' She often thought of how she came here, to what she now assumed was a parallel dimension rather than simply going back in time, but if that was true then what else might be different and would she be able to change her friends fates.
Location Unknown…
"So they have found the weapon and subject 626, as well uncovered some of the late Dr Andersons work on genetic alteration." One voice said
"It matters not; they have no idea about the scope of his work… not to mention they only find an impure product, what concern does the loss of the girl have, when they still remain ignorant of our true creation of the project… our super soldier." Another voice stated proudly.
"All is well for they are yet blind to the light." Said another deeper voice.
08:04 EDT mount justice July 8th 2010
Recognised B0-3: Kid Flash
The computerised voice said, as Evelyn walked into the cave, she was dressed in civvies with her hair let down, she saw the other standing to the side, super-girl wearing jeans with a blue t-shirt with gold shield on it along with a black jacket. She was happy to see the nervous face of Amelia, wearing the same clothes as SG, no doubt having nothing else to wear; she smiled brightly when she saw Evelyn walk over to them.
"Good to see you looking better Amelia." She said, smiling, as she greeted the rest of them, as various leaguers moved around the place.
"Yeah, superman managed to do something with a large machine and the pains gone, the headaches are rarer too and only slightly annoying to me now." She said smiling back at her, it was then that batman came forward and things became serious.
"Since you all insist on remaining as a team then you'll do it on league terms." Batman was explaining, looking over them with the glare, as he did. "Red tornado has volunteered to be your resident supervisor, and black canary is in charge of training, while I will be the one to deploy you on mission."
"Real missions?" boy wonder asked arms folded.
"Yes, but covert ones." The batman told them
"The league will still handle the obvious stuff, there's a reason we have these bull's-eyes on our chests." Barry explained, looking directly at his niece as he did.
"But Cadmus has shown us that the bad guys are getting smarter," informed Aquaman, "the league needs a team that operate on sly, someone the bad guys won't be expecting."
"The seven of you will be that team." Batman finished causing robin to look at him in confusion.
"Would do you mean seven of us?" he asked, to which batman pointed behind them.
"This is the Martian manhunter's niece miss Martian." He said pointing at the shorter red hair female Martian standing beside MMh.
"Hi." She said timidly waving at them.
"Welcome to the team, I'm Kid Flash." Evelyn said walking over to her and offering her hand. "This is robin, Aqualad, Super-girl, Amelia Starr and other one over there brooding is Super-boy." She added as each of them walked over to greet her.
"I like your shirt." Miss Maritain said cheeks darkening, to super boy as her shirt turned black.
"Today is the day." Aqualad said to his new team members smiling.
19:00 CDT July 9th Central City 2010
Selena Gonzalez the CEO of Farano Enterprises was currently pulling off the dreaded 'All-nighters' that all office workers hated so much. She had to appease the monsters that was her board of directors on the scandal that was Cadmus and it's apparent illegal activities to which her company was connected in some way; she sighed deeply rubbing her forehead felling a migraine coming on between her shareholders, the FBI and gods know who else she wished someone would just put her out of her misery. There was a sudden gust of wind and she stood up.
'I knew I should have closed that window.' She thought standing up and walking over towards her office window. She only managed two steps before something grabbed her and her vision blurred; she saw images of her office, stairs of strange distorted people and finally felt cold night air on her skin. She looked up to see none other than Kid Flash, protegee to the hero of Central city the flash wearing a midnight black version of her normal yellow suit.
"Here we are at our destination one hundred miles from central city." She said as they stopped in the middle of no-where.
"What the hell! You just kidnapped me; I'm calling the police." She shouted taking out her phone; a hand grabbed it from her and crushed it to dust. Turning she found herself face to face with the maiden of might; super-girl, also dressed in black, with a dark skinned boy she recognized as Aqualad.
"That wouldn't be wise Miss Gonzalez." She said crossing her arms, she felt a shadow next to her; turning she jumped at the sight of Robin merely inches from her, a holo-screen open from his wrist.
"You should really thank Kid Flash she got you out just in the nick of time." He said showing the video of her secret office camera, it displayed herself at the window before a black blur grabbed her and phased through her right wall just as her office door burst open and a hooded figure in robes bearing a wicked looking scythe stood there. "Another second and you'd be face to face with the grim reaper and she's not someone you want to meet; so guys are we whelmed or what."
"Indeed the mission has been a success, the target has been extracted and with this footage we can have batman arrange protection for you." Aqualad said looking at her. She was staring at the screen at how close she had just come to meeting her death.
"I…i… Thank you all so much." She broke down into tears as began hugging them each in turn.
"Unuh you're welcome I guess." Super-girl said, clearly not expecting this. "Come on I'm to handle you're next stage of your journey." She said picking her up and flying off.
"Nice planning KF, it's a good thing you saw that pattern with the CEO deaths or she wouldn't have made it to midnight." Robin praised her as Aqualad agreed; she bid them good night and headed back home.
'One down, so I can change the fates; I can save them and I will.' She thought determinedly.
A/N: so this chapter one, So to cap off Kid flash meets up with Super-girl, Robin and Aqualad and proceeds to rescue not one kryptonian lab rat but two. thus the team is seven strong (remind you of another seven member founding group.) i will refrain from adding anyone new to the team till Arty shows up so the bioship doesn't get to crowded.
I'd understand if people are wondering why there are completely new characters in this, but i have come to create several side arcs for this parallel young justice earth-2, which should fit in the unused dates between canon missions. I decided to try and make the most of this story so that Kid Flash is only Half sure about whats happening next and so she can still be surprised for better or for worse.
Please leave a review( constructive only, although praise is nice too:) i'm sorry if this author note seems a bit unfocused i'm really tired when i wrote it so there.
Sincerely Greywolf41 Esquire