Under Yellowstone secret lab
In a lab completely isolated from those around them, a scientist speaks to two familiar robots; Red Torpedo and Red Inferno. A scientist's voice speaks up from the centre of the lab.
"When the prodigal son returned, his father saw him," a dirty blonde with green eyes shines a light into Red Torpedo's eye as someone else continues to speak.
"And had compassion and ran and embraced him." The man speaking is a raven, greying, in a lab coat.
"For this, his son was lost, and was found." He leverages something smoothly mechanical that makes his green eyes go maniac.
"You are the prodigal son, Tornado and I rejoice at your return" a cylinder releases pressure as he stops leaning over his work table, setting his tool aside.
"And thank you for making our little family reunion possible." Something small, black replaces his tool; he points it at the table with his right hand, and it makes a light buzzing noise as he turns it on.
"Now you must have many questions." he answers himself. "No?" he covers his mouth, not in compassion but dramatism.
"Oh! How could I forget? Your voice box is offline. But your eyes and ears function perfectly," behind Tornado's black lens his camera moves to follow the movement of the approaching man.
"As does the prodigious mind I built for you all those years ago" Finally, he crouches down to be level with Tornado's face, leaning on the table that Tornado is sitting on.
"And really, what else matters?" Or rather the one Tornado's body is splayed out on. His head is tied to two wires that keep it on the "pillow" of the table; only two wires continue down to his neck, his chest plate open to reveal his golden core, steel rib cage, and spine. His pelvis and legs are still together but are fully separated from his core. Both shoulder sockets have a few wires splaying from them while one of his arms hangs from a claw.
Mount Justice
"Pineapple juice?" Captain Marvel offers a glass with a paper umbrella to a relaxing Wally. His right arm now casted, as he sits in a reclining chair and all his technology right at his elbow.
"Ahh! Just what the doctor ordered." the speedster says appreciatively after a long drink.
"How's the arm doing, Wally?" the Captain asks curiously.
"Well, nothing wrong that nachos can't cure." Wally isn't subtle in his motives, leaning back on his chair as the sounds of his teammates practising can be heard from the centre of the room.
"Nachos?" Captain Marvel takes a moment to process what Wally is not quite asking for before taking off.
"Oh! I'll go get you some." The good captain flies by as Robin is hit and lands on his back before rolling with the force of the throw that gains his opponent 5pts as he groans.
Artemis smirks as she jogs towards the Bird, though not making it clear if she's still fighting or going to help him get up.
Behind her, Kaldur and M'gann are in far closer combat. She throws a low punch towards Kaldur's side that he blocks with his forearm for 2pts, stepping forward to throw another at his face that he uses an open hand to knock his wrist out of the way for 2pts more. He spins to try and get a front kick in, though M'gann blocks with a knife-hand to his ankle for 2pts back.
Superboy goes of a grip on Michael wearing the Skirmisher suit, getting a headlock, but Skirmisher elbows the clone stomach, getting a grunt from the hit as Superboy loses his grip a little with Skirmisher taking advantage, throwing the clone over his shoulder,
Superboy lands on the ground for 5pts, as Superboy quickly jumps up and gets into a stance Canary taught him, Superboy waits for Skirmisher. Skirmisher, seeing the clone wait, went for a hit, going forward as he ducks under a right swing from Superboy and hits it with his other arm for 2pts. Blocking the blow and stopping the fist. Both look at each other as Skirmisher uses his other arm to hit Superboy's side, punching and punching again, gaining 2pts every hit. Superboy had enough as he broke off the hold as the both got ready for the next round.
"Good work everyone." Black Canary speaks up, calm even though two of the teens are still fighting over her.
"In fact, it's been a very productive week." Canary said everyone made their way to the centre of the training ring and Aqua and M'gann followed the others as they stopped when they saw Artemis standing calmly, looking at Wally.
"Yeah, for everyone except Kid Malingerer." the archer taunts the speedster, Wally finishes his drink of juice, glaring at the blonde.
"Hey, arm broken in combat against the Injustice League here." he waves off the cast to prove his point.
"Then why are you here then?" Skirmisher asked, Michael seemed annoyed that Wally only here for the superpowered bitch taking to his every whim, there are better things to do then sitting on your ass.
While Michael could use the Medkit on him, it doesn't fix the bone fully, it heals the muscles and stops the bleeding. But healing the injury incorrectly would lead to a worst injury later.
Plus he's unsure about the effects Medkits have on speedsters.
Black Canary chuckles at the teenage interaction.
"I've really enjoyed being your, uh," she tries to find the word to describe it.
"Den mother this week." Canary said, everyone still feeling the sting of betrayal. Superboy narrows his eyes in anger at the mention of Red Tornado with the others looking down or sad.
Michael is more frustrated about XCOM search in finding Thomas O. Morrow, they tried searching for Jim Lockhart AKA the hero version Red Torpedo in Windward Home, but couldn't find him. Turns out he left with a young Morrow, or so the description the nurse said.
Then there was a report of a grave robbing in one Danette Reilly, the original Firebrand.
Michael figures the android Morrow went to get the original androids for reprogramming, easier to recycle then build something from the ground up.
So Michael went looking though the Black Market, certain parts are needed and are illegal in many parts of the world. If XCOM could track the parts needed they could find the location of T. Morrow.
However, it's easier said than done, while they discover a lot of resources that will be useful, the hardest to get is information and the locations of the buyers are almost harder than finding EXALT.
Recognize: Zatara; 1-1
Everyone in the room turns to the man in the suit and top hat with a cane standing in the Zeta Tube as he moves outside it and then uses a HoloScreen without a word to them.
Access Granted:
Zatanna Zatara; A-0-3,
Authorization:
Zatara; 1-1.
The Zeta Tube lights up again and Zatara steps up.
"Zatanna, this is the Team. Team, my daughter, Zatanna." Zatara introduces his daughter who looks very much like her father with the dark black hair that falls over her shoulder and is parted on the left side, and skin tone. The only difference being her baby blue eyes, and that she's wearing a school uniform.
M'gann flies over to the clearly nervous girl, landing easily.
"Hi I'm-" "Robin!" The Boy Wonder cuts her off with a bout of vibrancy and a wave, then clears his throat as he steps up.
"I mean, I'm Robin. Ah, she's Megan, uh and that's Wally, Artemis, Michael and Conner." Everyone gives her a smile, even Michael nodding to her.
"Welcome to the Cave." Kaldur offers.
"Uh, thanks." Zatanna says quietly, looking over at her dad.
"So, uh, you- you are joining the Team?" Robin stutters, Michael had a small smirk to himself.
"Eh, now let's not get ahead of ourselves." Zatara speaks up, his voice shakes a little as steps closer to his daughter again.
"This is strictly a visit." Zatara said, turning to Canary.
"Though I am sorry we missed the Training. It's something from which Zatanna could benefit." Zatara talks to Canary about his daughter training while M'gann looks curiously at the Team.
"Do the rest of you guys get the impression we're still on probation with Zatara?" she asks telepathically. Robin faces her instantly as does Zatanna, making it hard to tell if M'gann accidentally included her in the Link.
"Not just Zatara. I mean, why is Marvel still hangin' around?" Conner asks his annoyance coming through in waves.
"Because we like having him around." Wally pipes up in the Captain's defence.
"You like having him around 'cause he waits on your hand and foot." Artemis turns on the ginger.
"And your point is?" Wally drags, as Michael signs.
"The point is more people are here to keep an eye on us" Michael rolled his eyes at the supervision, he the leader of a world-wide military, a resistance and new government, like he needs supervision, no matter what Central said.
"It almost makes one nostalgic for Red Tornado's tenure as our supervisor." Kaldur says.
"Yeah, at least he trusted us." Robin lets a sarcastic half chuckle through the link.
"If you ignore the fact we shouldn't have trusted him." Conner snarls, seeming to forget that while he can't be heard his very obvious hand gestures can be seen, something that annoys Zatanna, which only Michael notices.
"He was a traitor. That machine nearly got M- all of us killed!" Conner complains, Michael rolls his eyes, of course M'gann was in danger but everyone else was just fine.
"Are you guys having a psychic conversation?" Zatanna asks, catching the entire room's attention.
"Cause I can't decide if that's cool or, uh, really rude." Zatanna said, Michael let out a breath.
"Sorry about that, it was rather rude to ignore you, were talking about an issue that been bothering us" Michael apologised to her, Conner can either feel the adult's expectant looks or something else tips him off since he raises an eyebrow but doesn't even look at the two of them.
"Alright fine we were talking about Tornado. It's been weeks since his attack and the League hasn't told us anything." Conner turns to them about Tornado.
"The League is searching for Tornado as well as the other Androids that invaded the Cave and their creator, T.O. Morrow." Canary says strongly.
"Batman's made tracking them down our highest priority." Canary continues Robin steps forward.
"But you've found none of the above." Robin objects to their efforts.
"Not yet, but Tornado is Justice League. The Team is not to pursue this." Canary strongly said, you could hear the hidden threat in her tone.
"Why don't you all take Zatanna on a, uh…" he trails off not seeing her. "a t-tour of the Cave?"
Everyone looks around and turns towards Wolf as he snuffles in his sleep. Seeing Zatanna leaning into his side and petting him.
Wolf gets up from almost completely asleep as Captain Marvel walks in with nachos.
"Huh, you're giving a tour? Cool!" Captain Marvel is excited for this as Wolf comes to him with his tail wagging.
Conner steps up to the hero, who is petting a staring Wolf.
"Actually, I was hoping you'd take Wolf outside. He needs the exercise. Uh, we'll join you in a few." Conner said, noting wanting the adult to follow them.
"Sure, sure. I- I can do that. Come on, Wolf." Marvel says brightly, taking off towards the back door of the Cave with the enhanced canine.
"Wh- wha- wha- My nachos?" Wally whines. Conner grabs the front of his shirt and drags the speedster along.
The Team and Zatanna walk into the living/kitchen area of the Mountain, not a word being shared between them.
The younger girl jogs up to Robin's side in completely different clothes surprising him.
"When did you… How did you…?" Robin tries but Zatanna speaks up before he can form a full sentence.
"We're not really taking a tour, are we?" Zatanna figures out the obvious. The Team stops and Conner turns towards her.
"No. We're hunting down that robot." Conner said, looking at his leader.
"Yes, we are." Kaldur agrees with him
"Oo, wow. Out loud and everything." Zatanna muses, looking at all of them.
"What about New Girl?" Artemis asks the Boy Wonder even though they're speaking aloud and Zatanna can hear.
"I'm sure she won't tell." Robin defends quickly, Zatanna turns to Robin, a coy smile on her lip
"I can't tell. Not if you kidnap me." Zatanna said, Michael raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, she's going to fit in great." Artemis smirks appreciatively, Michael quickly walks to her.
"You know it's dangerous, can't bring a civilian in this," Michael said, not willing to let a civilian be put in danger.
While he knows she can use magic and her father is a Leaguer, that fact he keeps a close eye on her shows how over protective he is, for what reason he doesn't know, Zatanna smirks.
"Don't worry; I got a few tricks up my sleeve" Zatanna holds her hand out, as a card appears in her hand, surprising everyone.
Michael takes the card, seeing the queen of diamonds before looking at her.
He let her come; it might pay to see magic up close.
LINE
The camouflaged BioShip flies over the heavily wooded area outside Mount Justice where Captain Marvel stands holding a tree log and Wolf is eating the nachos.
With a smile, the Hero throws the log far away
"Fetch," he tells Wolf, who is still eating.
"C'mon! Fetch." he tries, Wolf ignores him.
"Please?" he said desperate but the Wolf didn't bother, just ate the food.
While the team fly inside the BioShip as it continues to get away from the Mountain when suddenly a beep goes through the Ship and Dinah's voice comes through the comm set.
"M'gann, the BioShip wasn't authorised for departure." Canary calls out.
"We're kidnapping Zatanna!" M'gann says brightly then realises. "To, uh, show her Happy Harbor. Be back soon!"
"Uh, Roger that. Have fun." Canary says as she watches their trajectory on a HoloScreen.
"I did not authorise permission to-" Zatara starts.
"They're good kids, Giovanni." Dinah assures as she turns off the HoloScreen with the BioShip's location on it, turning back towards the Cave.
"Trustworthy kids. Don't worry" Dinah said convincingly, but Zatara watches her with an unconvinced look and Dinah looks concerned that she could very well be wrong.
Meanwhile the Bioshop flies into random directions, not sure where they're going.
"Where are we going?" Robin demands. "Batman is the world's greatest detective. He's searched for Tornado and Morrow in every logical place. If we're gonna do better, we need an illogical solution. A- a truly dumb idea." he had glanced over his shoulder and saw Kid Flash who was the cause for his stutter, but now has a proud smirk on his face.
Kid pouts a little at his friend's blatant quasi-insult, only to find that the entire Team and Zatanna are looking his way.
"As a matter of fact…" he says with a confident tone
Skirmisher groans in his helmet, if you're out of bright ideas look for any stupid ideas.
LINE
In the Cave Morrow is still working on Tornado while the dirty blonde walks in front of the other two androids. Using a small pen laser to turn Red Inferno and Red Torpedo back online.
Their eyes glowing red.
"Look," Morrow caught the scientist's attention with that broad of a word. He looks over his shoulder to see that Tornado is almost completely back together on the table.
"Your brother and sister are back online." Morrow said, continuing with the last few wires running around Tornado's body.
"We'll have you up and running too. Maybe even turn your voice box back on as soon as I'm done copying and downloading your memory files." he grabs his computer chair, spinning it around and sitting in it by Tornado's side.
"In the meantime, I'll tell you a story." Morrow said to pass the time.
Coils spark and light up the lab as the colour washes out of the scene leaving it dreary, bleak, and old where the shadows of a man are on the more expansive equipment in the room, but there is also another figure on a table like Tornado's in front of him.
"Once upon a time, a brilliant scientist decided to build his own superhero to infiltrate and destroy the Justice Society of America. His first creation was…" a man stands on the rocky shores with waves splashing up at him, the moon at his back.
"Red Torpedo, Hero of the ocean deep, a machine programmed to think he was a man." Torpedo's robotic form flashes with the image of a pale ginger in a red suit and mask-wearing form.
"Unfortunately, that programming was crude." Torpedo's human form sits on the same cliffed shore, watching the sea splash up at him.
"Torpedo never quite fit in. Your eldest brother was a failure." Morrow spoke with shame.
The scene returns to the lab, a new silhouette on the table before Morrow's.
"But the scientist believed in his plan and began again." before the tall spireing tower and below monorail tracks, among the walkers of the 1939 New York World's Fair, surrounded by towering statues.
"Your sister debuted as Firebrand," a woman with hair falling down her back, mask in place despite her otherwise street-ready clothes as she tossed a fireball between her open palms.
"A much loved and admired heroine.' She creates a small arc with her fire as people look on. Including one man with a three-point lightning bolt travelling up his shirt with a round helmet sporting only small wings on the sides.
Someone screams, and as people run away, a man wearing a full-body costume and a mask with a laser gun aims at the heroine, hitting her in the side.
"If only she hadn't been so darn heroic. Yet our intrepid scientist would not quit and this time," a flash cuts off the scene this time splitting to a press conference where cameras flashes continue to go off showing the members of the JSA, Sandman, Green Lantern, Doctor Fate, Flash, and Hourman welcoming Red Tornado into their ranks.
"Android would know he was an android." Morrow spoke with pride. The official picture is captured.
"The new approach worked. Red Tornado," another picture was captured.
"The robot hero was inducted into the Justice Society. The scientist believed he had triumphed."
As the last picture of just Tornado's face is taken T. O. Morrow's voice goes sour.
"But Tornado's original heroic programming and Pinocchio-like desire to become more human-caused him to betray his creator, his father." he snarls at the still silent hero. Morrow steps up beside the dirty blonde by Torpedo and Inferno.
"Still the scientist refuses to give up," Morrow said, looking at his android before looking up at his two new projects.
No one notices the flicker of light appearing around the corners.
LINE
Belle Reve
"Warden Strange owed us a favour for stopping last month's prison break." Miss M informs everyone. "He's given us five minutes with you." Miss M said to Ivo, the team plus Zatanna in the room.
"Spill Ivo." Superboy snarls.
"How do we find T. O. Morrow and his Reds?" Superboy threatens but Ivo doesn't seem intimidated.
"Now, why in the world would I know how to find Morrow?" Ivo questions lazily as he leans back in his chair.
"Because, and a truly dumb idea," KF is clearly at least a little salty about the Team idea that he's an idiot.
"You're Morrow's biggest competitor in the evil android game." Kid explains which makes weird sense to Skirmisher, Morrow had a rival, they know one another and both have egos to prevent them from working together.
Zatanna watches from the back of the group since she is the only one still in civilian clothes.
"Who better to keep track of what he's up to, and where?" Kid offers, even Ivo doesn't turn down the idea.
"Ah. I see your point. So, let me rephrase." he leans forward and looks Miss M in the eyes.
"Why in the world would I tell you how to find Marrow?" Ivo asked them.
"He knows." Aqualad decides, and then turns to Miss M.
"Do what you must." Aqualad orders her, then her eyes snap open and they're glowing green.
"Oh, please. As if I've never faced a telepath before." he chuckles, as Skirmisher slammed his fist on the table, making everyone jump and Zatanna stopped what she was going.
"Enough of this, tell me what you know, now" Skirmisher grows in his distorted voice, Ivo just chuckles at this hero's bravo.
"Or what hero, you'll yell at me more" Ivo said with mirth as the Skirmisher stared at him through his helmet.
"Get out" Skirmisher said to them, they looked at him.
"Skirmisher" Aqualad asked, but Skirmisher didn't stop.
"Get out, I will get the information, now leave" Skirmisher ordered, the others looked at one another, unsure
"What are you?" Kid was about to ask but Robin stops him, he shakes his head as he and Aqualad lead everyone out.
"What are you going to do, beat me? In front of the camera?" Ivo points out, the camera in the room, Skirmisher can see Ivo is afraid of pain.
"No, I have something far worse" Skirmisher said, going forward, Ivo tries to jump but Skirmisher grabs him, grabbing the hand cuffs and locking him on the chair.
"What are you doing, what are you doing!?" Ivo, now afraid of what his monster is doing, Skirmisher pulls out headphones from his pocket.
"Headphones?" Ivo confused now, what is his hero doing?
"You'll see" Skirmisher puts the headphones on him, strapping it tight as Ivo looks confused at what is happening.
"Tell me what you know and it will stop" Skirmishers said as he pressed a button on his wrist gauntlet.
Ivo stops when he hears a song, the most awful song with an untalented singing voice, he thinks the song is the final countdown but the moaning, the groaning. The screeching Ohhh GODDD.
"AHHHHHHHHH MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP, MORROW'S IN UNDERGROUND BASE BENEATH YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, 100 METRES SOUTH OF OLD FAITHFUL, PLEASE STOP AHHHHHHH" Ivo yelled in pain and horror as Skirmisher stops the music.
"Thank you" Skirmisher nods, taking the headphones and walking out leaving a relieved and tired Ivo.
"heeee heeee haaaaaaa" Ivo starts to cry, that song was so terrible he couldn't take it.
Dr Strange watches the whole exchange over the monitors, his eyebrows raising a brow in shock at Ivo crying in pain as he rats the other man out, what did that hero do to him? Strange is afraid to know as he watches the hero leave.
While the team was out, Superboy glared at Aqua and Robin.
"Why did you lead us out?" Superboy snarls at them but Aqualad holds up his hand to calm him down.
"Skirmisher has more experience with this work than any of us, I'm certain he will get the information" Aqualad said, putting faith in his friend, if he works as black ops for the government then he must have experience in these affairs.
Superboy was about to say more, but stops at he starts to hear something, he has a terrified look on his face as he face the door
"You sure we should leave him in there" Miss M said, unsure with what Skirmisher is doing.
"I could have gotten the truth out of him," Zatanna said, getting Artemis' attention.
"Really how?" Artemis asked, Zatanna was about to explain but they all heard a scream.
"AHHHHHHHHH MAKE IT STOP MAKE IT STOP, MORROW'S IN UNDERGROUND BASE BENEATH YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, 100 METRES SOUTH OF OLD FAITHFUL, PLEASE STOP AHHHHHH" they hear Ivo screamed out, as they look at the door opening revealing Skirmisher walking out.
"We have our location, let's go" Skirmisher said, the entire team stunned at what he did, they turned to see a crying Ivo, Robin asked the question.
"How did you..?" Robin tried to ask, as Skirmisher turned his head, the red eye glowing.
"We have ways" Skirmisher said, continuing to walk, Kid looked confused.
"What did he do to him?" Kid asked, never seeing a villain put to tears like this.
"Trust me, you don't want to know," Superboy said, looking terrified at what he heard as he followed Skirmisher with the others following behind with uneasy looks at the leading hero.
LINE
Morrow punches out numbers on his keypad.
"Download complete." Morrow said, he then engages the crane above him, lowering down a large table near the ceiling of his lab.
Two humanoid bodies are covered with a white cloth, Morrow removes the crane as he steps up to the table.
"Time for the upload." Morrow said, he yanks the sheet off.
Now Red Tornado stands beside Torpedo and Inferno.
"But first, introductions." Morrow says, now looking over the fourth and fifth android.
"Red Tornado, Red Torpedo, Red Inferno. I like that name so much better than Firebrand. Meet your baby siblings…"
One android is a darker red than even Torpedo, but with red hot lines running across the outside of his body and a glowing hot Triangle with a circle on the inside of it on his chest. His face has narrower red eye slots and a red line that makes it look like he has a mouth turned into a perpetual frown, and his same icon on the centre of his forehead.
"Red Volcano…." Morrow shows them,
The other android was female with red darker than Inferno, with a similar body but built more flexible and denser compare to her older sister, yellow lightning bolt line is across her body from the top of her head, all the way around the body, her face is similar to Red Inferno but more softer, an icon of a lightning bolt in the centre of her body.
(Picture of either Red Inferno or Female Red Tornado but with lightning bolt painted on her and built more flexible)
"And Red Electro" Morrow spoke with pride at the new androids he built. Morrow plugs in a cable to the table from the console behind him.
"These Reds won't bother infiltrating the heroes. They'll simply destroy them," he turns to his console and starts typing out commands.
"With the help of your memories. Finally, the scientist has built the androids that transcends the need to be human.`` The remote beside him beeps and he picks it up, turning to Volcano and Electro.
"No more Pinocchios." He hit the button in the remote and the eyes of the androids started up, Volcano glowed red while Electro glowed yellow, both started to let out a buzz in the room.
Volcano sits up, then moves to standing and walks towards Morrow, towering over the man. Then grabbing his hand with the remote with enough strength to break the technology, he holds the man off the ground by the wrist.
"Hello, father." Volcano greeted then grabbed his other wrist.
"Son, you're hurting me." Morrow winces at the harsh hold.
"Yes, but pain is so human," Volcano pulls on Morrow's wrists. "And per your programming, I've transcended any concern for humans." Yanking his arms off, causing the sockets to spark as the droid falls to the ground, face still showing pain, but no longer moving.
"No more Pinocchios." Volcano said looking down on the android believing it human, hypocrite.
Red Electro stands up straight, her head turning around, looking all over the place in random directions, something Volcano notices looking at his sister.
Red Volcano turns to her, lightly taps her turning head, stopping her head's movement.
"It seems your too energetic sister" Volcano said, seeing his sister stop her head spinning by holding it in her hands.
"Forgive me brother; the programing is trying to connect to my CPU" Red Electro apologised in an electro young female voice.
"It is a new design sister, from memory father created with an improved framework from 10 years ago" Volcano said, and has all the memory not just from Tornado but from Marrow as well.
"Well I goanna need new parts, cause this need work" Electro pats on a few parts on her neck as she moves it around,
Volcano turns as he zeroes in on the tear in the corner of the android's eyes, showing just how humanoid its creator was. Volcano looks down at the still sparking arms in his hands to the rest of the body.
"His son was lost. Son was lost. Son was-" broken Morrow mutters but Volcano stomps on the face of the fallen android, then turns to the other four.
"Did you know father was an android?" Volcano asked them.
"Don't think even father knew he was an android, was his programming always so full of flaws" Electro comments but none of the others respond.
"Are your voice boxes disabled? Or is it another flaw in our father's programming?" Electro asked her older siblings, Volcano looked around.
"Where's Stikk?" Volcano demands, throwing the arms to the floor. Looking over his shoulder at the crumpled body.
"Father, you were right. Humans are annoying." Volcano agrees as Electro looks at him.
"Can he at least fix his part in my neck, it doesn't fit right" Electro complains as Volcano sees his sister twitching for some reason.
"Will get the human to fix you dear sister, without any flaws, I'll make sure of that" Volcano promised her as he looked at the computer with his sister following.
LINE
What the android didn't know was Brom Stikks is making a run for it, he was aware that Morrow was an android replica programming with a disdain for humans and human-like emotions. Stikks knows Red Volcano would kill him if they catch him.
He was more worried about the new Red Electro, a completely new android after watching the footage of Red Inferno combat data. Android Morrow wanted to fix the flaws Red Inferno had, but when he saw the little robot the hero Skirmisher fought with Morrow was curious.
After hacking Tornado they got all parts of the red family plus the drone the hero had, when they saw the drone they were both amazed at the electricity and magnetic technology, they tried to access its data but it was erased. Morrow was determined as he worked to build both Volcano and Electro.
But lately Stikks notice noises in the cave there were hiding in, while he only thought it was rats he got more uneasy as he kept working for Morrow, even when voicing his concerns Morrow still won't listen due to the programing giving him ego.
Stikks starts to leave when Morrow's powers the new androids, knowing it his chance to leave as he ran through the halls.
TWWIWWWWW
Stikks stops, hearing a strange sound, maybe the androids have found him. He quickly moves back the corridors, trying to move quickly down the halls in order to escape.
SKKKKKKKKK
A screech behind him scared him; he fell down as he turned around scared. A mysterious mechanical alien taking on the appearance of a human female with completely golden skin, with a featureless face save for a pair of glowing, white eyes, and a black, smoke-like substance flowing out of its head resembling hair. Its body is in a state of continuous flux, constantly appearing and disappearing on the spot, and sometimes creating short-lived, translucent after-images of itself beside it. This being appeared before him.
(Codex)
SKKKKKKRKRRRRRR
"AHHHHHHH" Stikks tries to run back, the mechanical golden woman starts appearing all around him, scaring him as he tries to escape, but the woman grabs him by the neck, lifting him up.
"Ahhhh stop, pleaseeee.." Stikks tries to get out of the grip, but his hands keep going through the woman, resorting to begging before he falls unconscious in the woman's hands. The woman carries the man away to a safe location for later.
This Codex was SP-5, the gremlin was first aware of it abilities of a codex after a few months of talking to Sphere and LookOut, she was working on her abilities for a while and was going to show the Commander.
But the Reds came and attacked, while she helped out she noticed something when she Hacked into Red Inferno, she found out they were being controlled and doing though the data saw what they were planning with Red Tornado and their new objective, herself.
So she pretended to be damaged and captured, when they brought her to the secret base she Clone herself, created a Codex a fair distance away so no one would know, SP-5 used the Cole Protocol to prevent Morrow from getting any information on XCOM. While she steals everything from them, plans, data, and schematics on how to create and maintain all the Reds.
While they tinker with her Gremlin and put it in a new body she was looking around, gathering information while they were looking and uploading her with different memories, while causing a few distractions here and there.
While Morrow doesn't notice her, SP-5 notices the only living person here notices her little noises, she saw Morrow create a new body for her Gremlin and put the drone head on it with her other parts.
She saw the programs Morrows uploaded into it but she also noticed that Red Electro isn't fully functional, which means Morrow didn't program it to fit a Codex brain, which means SP-5 will become whole again.
LINE
In camouflage mode, the BioShip flies over the empty space.
"Block out all external communications." Kaldur commands.
"Soon, Canary and Zatara, Batman too I imagine, will know of our… visit with Professor Ivo. We don't have much time" Kaldur said to them as they looked at each other rather than at Michael.
"So what was that back there?" Kid asked him, Superboy looks perturbed at what he heard, Michael shrugs.
"Just played him some music, guess he didn't like it" Michael explained to them, which got weird looks from everyone except Superboy.
"Really that's your interrogation technique?" Robin said, Michael shrugs at them, Ban's music is unbearable to anyone.
"It works and he is not hurt, but that's not important now," Michael said, looking over at the only non-member of the team, everyone looking at her.
"Look," Robin chuckles trying to start the conversation.
"I'm trying to be nonchalant here." Robin tries to say.
"Why? Be as chalant as you like." Zatanna asks, Robin cracks a smile.
"Then explain how your powers work exactly, I'm aware your magic is similar to Zatara" Michael asked, remembering seeing the show of Zatara, while he was like every magic show you see on the web, Michael aware every time Zatara speaks backwards he can do anything he wants.
"My dad, yes, basically I say anything backward and with a little magic it happens" Zatanna smiles but Kid frowns.
"Yeah right, more magic mumbo jumbo" Kid said as Zatanna smiles.
"Nrut Mrofinu otni sserd" Suddenly Kid Flash's suit turns into a pretty pink dress.
"Hey….. What the….. How did you…." Kid looked at himself in shock at the dress he was wearing as everyone laughed at the boy in a dress.
"Hey stop laughing, please give my cool suit back" Kid said embarrassed as Zatanna smiles at the nonbeliever.
"Nruter ot lanigiro mrofin" Then Wally the pretty is back to Kid Flash, as he sign in relief.
"I think we're got the idea but what is the limit of your powers?" Artemis asked her after the brief bit of humour.
"Could you teleport us to Tornado or Morrow to a cell or force his bots to surrender?" Artemis asked, seeing how powerful she really is with words is the limit.
"Or create peace on Earth for all time?" Zatanna returns the question back.
"Zatara couldn't even do all that and I'm nowhere near on my dad's level." Zatanna turns very serious as she looks directly at Artemis.
"I need to know a spell's core, or else have time to prep it. Plus, all magic requires energy which usually has to come from within. I can't just make the impossible happen at will" Zatanna explains her limits and the limits of magic.
"What's our ETA to Yellowstone?" Conner demands them, getting over his issue with Ban's music.
"I'm way past ready to stuff Tornado into a trash compactor." Conner ready for the fight.
"Are you so certain he betrayed us?" Kaldur asks calmly.
"Aren't you?!" Conner snarls at him.
"I am not convinced." Kaldur admits.
"And even so, that makes him a victim of his creator's programming. Certainly, he deserves the chance to prove he's more than the weapon others designed him to be." Kaldur said to him.
Conner closes his eyes as he turns back towards the front of the BioShip, when he opens his eyes the rage is gone.
"Keep that energy Conner, while Tornado may be reprogrammed, Morrow isn't" Michael said, glaring forward at the mission.
LINE
"Listen to me, my brothers, my sisters. I have been downloaded with all your memories. Father's too." Red Volcano says to them.
"Oh, he left out the bit about him being an android but he reveals his plan." Volcano walks towards the other three who still stand near the table he was on as Red Electro follows to his side, moving her metal arm.
She wasn't feeling right for some reason.
"His dream for our destiny." Volcano declared, he uses a remote that brings up an image of Yellowstone on one of the HoloScreens.
"There is a semi-dormant supervolcano beneath Yellowstone." The image spins around the semi-dormant volcano, before digitally slicing the mountain in half to show the vent and the magma beneath it.
"Father gave me the power to activate it in three stages." Volcano presents the plan of Morrow.
The screen shows off the stages.
Stage 1: Eruption
The volcano on-screen erupts violently.
Stage 2: Expansion
The smoke continues to spew from the volcano.
The image zooms out, now showing the entire continental US as the plume continues to rise over Yellowstone before it explodes into white.
Stage 3: Destruction
"The eruption will decimate the planet, kill millions," Volcano says almost gleefully.
"And trap the rest under an impenetrable cloud of ash." he looks at his twin sister,
"That's where you come in sister" Volcano said but Electro uses her hand to stop him.
"I know the plan brother, Father gave me the same memoires too, when you create the cloud of ash I use father's gifts to create a never ending storm" Electro said, as the image shows lightning storms, blizzards and other bad weather causing havoc to the world.
"Excellent" Volcano said with pride before turning to the other older Reds.
"While Humanity struggles to survive, we five will build a Red army to make this Earth a Red Planet."
The screen is fully zoomed out as the globe gets tinges with red as it takes over the sphere red humanoid shapes cover it.
They turn to the phone beeping.
"Ivo to Morrow. Thomas, are you there?" Ivo calls through the line.
Red Volcano turns to the phone.
"I'm here, Anthony. What do you want?" Volcano speaks with Morrow's voice through the line.
The Belle Reve convict sits in Strange's office, looking very nervous and ashamed with tears in his eyes until he speaks again this time with some confidence after wiping his tears.
"Reluctantly, to warn you. The children and that Skirmisher bastard have learned your location." Ivo seething but keeping it barely out his voice unless he refers to the Team directly.
"I do not believe they told their elders and betters." Ivo speaks through the phone.
Red Volcano stands over the phone, clearly, the one Ivo's been talking to.
"But they are on their way, and I came up with Skirmisher first" Ivo finishes, Electro comes to the phone. Ivo and Morrow both had a run in with Skirmisher and both argue which one gave him the name first.
The ego of these two.
"Perfect, but I believe I gave him the name he now uses" Red Electro also using Morrow's voice as Red Volcano looks at Red Tornado.
LINE
Yellowstone National Park;
Old Faithful creates a geyser as the camouflaged BioShip flies past it and lands in the trees. Aqualad is already standing when it touches down.
"Stealth Mode." Aqualad hits his belt buckle, the red turns to black.
With a smile, Kid Flash taps his emblem with his cast. Artemis hits the centre of her Arrow. The green of her costume darkens to the colour of pine trees during the night while the bright green arrow is now a pale grey.
Zatanna watches the transformation with intrigue.
M'gann's clothes darken to a fully black bodysuit, only the red X and the blue cape remaining.
Skirmisher colour started to change naturally, like a chameleon, the red and white now turns black and grey.
Zatanna opens the door and Aqualad approaches her.
"I recommend you stay behind." Aqualad said to her.
"Is that an order?" Zatanna asks quickly.
"No." Kaldur assures her quickly. "You must do as you see fit."
"Good." The girl begins her chant and guides the bright blue magic smoke up her body.
"Emit to yrt eht wen kool!" Now she is wearing a white button-up with an equally white bowtie, a pale-yellow vest under a black twin-tailed suit coat, and white gloves all reminiscent of her father's costume, only she wearing silver tights, black short shorts, and shin-high boots that make the look her own.
Inside the hidden base Red Volcano watches the Team though the cameras make their way through the trees on a monitor. He turns to Tornado.
"Prove yourself a loyal Red, brother. Kill them for us." Volcano orders him; Tornado looks up at the screen.
LINE
Robin and Aqualad approach a tall tree closest to the open field area.
Robin pulls up his HoloGlove, looking over the map.
"Ivo's right. Something's down there." Robin noted seeing something on the map, Aqualad leads the charge, the rest of the Team following him, only to be stopped by harsh blowing winds that knock everyone off their feet.
Superboy squints through the dust kicked up, his eyes going wide when he sees Red Tornado above them.
Tornado uncrosses his arms creating a huge red twister, a second pops up next to it, and it continues until the Team is trapped between an ex-League level Hero and seven tornadoes.
"Why, Tornado? Why are you doing this?" Miss M shouts over the wind,
His arms are once again crossed over his chest as more tornadoes crop up between him and the Team.
"Message received?" Miss Martian links the Team. Superboy nods before turning back to Tornado.
"Who cares why? Nail him!" Superboy charges forward.
Aqualad hesitates a moment before continuing.
The other four Reds watch from the Lab, the feed is good enough quality to hear Aqualad call out
"Superboy, maneuver seven!" His boots drag as he spins into a quick stop, his fingers threading together, landing in a solid horse stance and waiting until the Atlantean's barefoot lands in his hands before he shoots him high to the air with a battle cry from both of them.
Tornado looks like he's not going to move as Aqualad pulls back his fist, and then suddenly he moves just enough for Aqualad's eyes to go wide before he is hit in the face by Tornado's punch.
Superboy gets taken out as the two of them crash together.
Artemis steps up with her bow in hand, grabbing three arrows that she shoots at Tornado, with Skirmisher aiming his Kal-7 Bullpup beside her, shooting a few rounds. Robin comes behind them to back them up if needed.
The arrows nearly make it to Tornado, before he stops them dead and he blows away the bullets, and then pulls the arrows into the tornado keeping him in the air. With no warning, they're shot back at the three.
"Look out!" Robin tries to warn them but neither can get out of the way before they explode upon contact with the Earth.
"That does it, Red." Kid stands up from his crotch.
"You're not the only spin doctor around here." Kid spins and creates his own twister due to the speed of his whirling. Miss Martian tries to take advantage of Tornado's distraction, coming at him from high and behind.
Just as she goes to throw a punch at Tornado, he turns over his shoulder, avoiding her hit and grabbing her wrist. Throwing her into Wally, causing both of them to hit the ground hard.
Zatanna is the only one left standing.
"Etaerc a… a… dleihs dnuora ym-" her stuttered spell is cut off by Tornado's hand around her neck.
He once again says nothing, before dropping her to the ground.
Only then do all the other tornadoes disappear, while he remains high off the ground above them.
Volcano comes up behind him.
"Quite a performance, brother." Red Volcano said, a rock that is rising behind him continuing to grow.
"But we both know that's all it was." Off to the side, two words PLAY DEAD.
"I have all your memories, Tornado, plus a next-gen processor. I know your next move before you do." Volcano continues.
His arms shootout and the pieces of Earth that Tornado's instructions were on break away as Volcano raises it behind him. The Team slowly sits up, watching.
"Blowing a message into the sand?" He scoffs at them and the message shatters and falls towards the Team with one move.
Aqualad forms swords with his WaterBearers slicing the rocks, Skirmisher dodges the rocks, Superboy jumps at the pieces and Miss Martian uses her telekinesis to keep the other members safe. But some still make it though and they have to scatter.
"Zatanna?" Robin asks though the mind-link since he had to dodge and she had yelped from beside him as the bolder crashed.
"I'm good," Zatanna assures, standing up and looking at Tornado flying away.
"But Red Tornado's getting away." Zatanna says, watching the fleeing android.
"Is he abandoning us?!" Artemis asks incredulously as she knocks another arrow.
"I don't believe that." Miss Martian defends him, as Skirmisher runs to the android on the pillar.
"Focus on the metal dildo here" Skirmisher said, aiming his gun at the bulky robot. KF runs up Volcano's pillar.
"You stand no chance against me humans!" Volcano snarls as he hits Kid in the side with a harsh punch.
"We're not human!" Superboy and Miss M shout, M'gann using her power to keep Superboy in the air as she flies towards the villain.
But lightning hits both Superboy and Miss Martian, they scream in pain as they both fall from the ground, Superboy recovers quickly to catch Miss M.
"Don't be rude brother, the proper term would be-"another voice called out as the team looks to see a Female Android with lighting surrounding her.
"Meatbags," the red woman said, floating next to the big one.
"Apologies sister, that's a more appropriate term" Volcano sending to two huge hands of Earth rise up and clap together over the Alien members of the Team,
"Brother how can you forget to introduce yourself" the red woman said turning to the organics.
"I was caught in the moment sister" The red man said, trying to wave her off.
"Forgive my brother, he was programmed to be vulgar, I'm Red Electro, he Red Volcano" Red Electro introduced themselves, Volcano looked at her.
"Why bother telling them sister" Volcano asked, He swipes his right hand down and the Earth shatters. Dropping Aqualad and Artemis into a hole, they both scream as they fall.
Artemis is quick to use an arrow with a line to catch herself, swing over, and catch the leader before getting them out of the rift before it would've crushed them.
"It's only polite, father programs me with manners after all," Electro said, hovering down as she faced the team.
Skirmisher looks at both androids, Red Volcano is an improvement on both Tornado and Torpedo physically, same with Electro compared to Inferno. Stronger design and tougher bodies, volcano control earth and even convert it to lava, while Electro must have better control of lighting then Twister.
Skirmisher might need to use that new weapon he was carrying on his back, saving it for Tornado but Volcano is a bigger threat since they are near the biggest active superVolcano now.
Robin uses the new ridge as a jumping-off point before he throws a disk at Volcano.
He catches it, expecting it, but it still explodes. Yet, as the smoke clears, he is unharmed
"Tornado's memory files and my superior processing speed allow me to anticipate your every move." though steadily getting annoyed at their attempts.
"Ekoms emoceb a dlofdnilb!" Zatanna incants. The deep black smoke around Volcano covers his eyes, Robin touches down and comes up to Zatanna's side.
"Tornado never knew my moves." she says proudly.
"And I bet you've got some good ones." Robin's eyes go wide as he realises what he said, then looks to the slightly annoyed Zatanna.
"Whoa. Sorry, that may have come to Wally." Robin realise the sexual innuendos.
"I don't mind." She chuckles, screaming in pain as lightning hits her.
"Zatanna ahhhh" Robin cries as well, lighting hitting him too.
"But I do," Electro said, electrocuting them both.
Volcano's eyes glow even brighter as the machinery inside him whirs into a new gear. As he shoots almost laser-like beams into the sky the super Volcano behind him erupts.
LINE
The lab around Tornado, Inferno, and Torpedo shakes.
"We must stop them." Tornado says strongly, though not through his own voice but rather due to the machine he's attached himself to.
"Why?" Inferno asks him.
"One we believe we lived. Now there is only Red Inferno and Red Torpedo. Why should we help save humanity when we are no longer human?" Inferno asked what the point of it was.
"The premise of your question is flawed. You were never human, but you were heroes." Tornado tours to her.
The other two turn to each other.
Shhhhshhhhh
The three turn to see a glowing woman with a robotic head staring at the screen before them.
"What are you?" Red Torpedo asks, the first time seeing this android, but the woman doesn't answer, pressing the button to focus on Skirmisher.
"She has the same head as Red Electro," Red Inferno said, remembering seeing the drone and Morrow putting it in the body.
The woman stares closer at the image of Skirmisher avoiding lava and electricity around him.
"SKKKKKKKKS" The woman screeched and teleported in a purple light out of the android's sight.
LINE
The magma flows down the mountain, encroaching on the Team as they continue to try and fight Red Volcano and Red Electro.
Volcano launches two small, partially molten rocks and Electro fires a lightning bolt, both heading to Kid Flash. He uses one of Volcano's old spires to jump out of the way and flip to the level below before skidding to a stop.
"He's activating a Stage Two Eruption. It gets to Stage Three, kiss the hemisphere goodbye." Kid Flash thinks through the link, Skirmisher narrows his eyes though his helmet.
"We need to take out Volcano quickly, we can't use the same moves if they have Tornado's memories" Skirmisher said as he pulls out the H-Discharger V3, a lighting gun with an EMP on the setting.
(Metal Gear D-Walker H-Discharger V2 but handheld and about rocket launcher size)
Aqua looks at Skirmisher, then at the two androids,
"Do you have a plan?" Aqualad asks Skirmisher, Skirmisher raises an eyebrow but doesn't question it, they're desperate.
"I have an idea" Skirmisher said, as he quickly gave the team the plan while putting two bombs together.
The team quickly gather together as Skirmisher gave them his plan.
"Got it?" Skirmisher asked, everyone nodded, Aqualad jumped beside Skirmisher.
"Maneuver 14" Aqualad commands as everyone separates, Zatanna and Kid Flash behind.
"Ekoms dna srorrim. Etaerc Dik Hsalf snoisulli!" Zatanna encants, one hand on the crouching Kid's shoulder. The smoke from the lava turns into copies of KF, all of them take off within moments.
"I- I use a scaled-down version when I want to sneak out of the house." she says brightly, before running as well.
Volcano and Electro look at the team running around, both start throwing rocks and lighting around as the team avoids the attacks.
Volcano looks to see Robin running with a bomb, with Skirmisher running the opposite, he knows the maneuver 14.
Volcano throws a few Magna rocks at Robin, but an electric shock hits him.
"Ahhhh" Volcano looks to see Skirmisher holding an electric gun at him.
"Irritating meatbag" Volcano shifts the ground around Skirmisher, making him stumble, as Skirmisher gets up from the ground and runs using Grapple to get over the rocky terroir, Volcano aims for Skirmisher with more lava.
But the little earth under him exploded, Volcano stepped on the broken rock and fell down, looking across he saw Artemis shooting arrows under him. Volcano lands on the ground as he lifts rocks up to block the arrows before throwing them at her.
"Artemis, you and I will overwatch Volcano, keep him off balance" Skirmisher said, telling her the plan in her head, as she pulls another arrow ready for the plan.
Volcano looks to find Robin but feels bullets hitting him, turning to see Skirmisher shooting him, holding his arm out to block the bullets as it affects his programing.
"Your weapons are too weak, you're only a minor annoyance" Volcano said, slamming his arm on the ground, smashing the ground and creating an earthquake.
Skirmisher, Artemis and Robin who got behind Volcano have stumbled as Volcano turns to grab wonder boy by his clothes.
"I told you, I've have Tornado memory, I know all your tactics and planning" Volcano grab Robin wrist to find the bomb.
"A cunning plan, but not cunning enough" Volcano turns open the wrist to grab the bomb, the bomb looks like a fusion of Claymore and EMP Bomb.
But the bomb turns to smoke then into a rock.
"WHAT?!" Volcano looks at the bomb turn into a rock, as Robin laughs.
"Hahahaha was that too obvious" Robin quipped as he teleported away from Volcano's grip.
"Aqualad will call out maneuver 14, one Tornado knows, he will try to shoot you but you won't carry the bomb" Skirmishers grabs a rock real quick, and grabs two grenades.
"Zatanna, fuse these two together and make an illusion" Skirmisher asked, Zatanna nods.
"Owt bmob esuf dna kcor ypoc eht kool" Zatanna chanted, the two grenades fused and the rock now looks like the fused grenades.
"Kid carry the real bomb while Volcano focuses on Robin when we gets him close" Skirmisher handing the fake and real bomb to Robin and Kid flash respectively.
Volcano growls but feels something scratched to his back, turning to see Kid Flash grinning.
"Tag, your it" Kid Flash runs away, Artemis and Skirmishers Dual Strike Volcano,
BLAAAAAAAAAAA
Creating a Volatile Mix that sends him flying in the lava.
LINE
Meanwhile Red Electro was shocking the other Kid flash illusions.
"Your plan will not work, Volcano will kill Robin before he delivers your bomb" Electro said, aware of the plan from the memories of Tornado and how they normal use Robin to deliver the bomb while the team distract the villain.
"ekoms revoc eht diordna" Zatanna chanted, the smoke from the lava now a smoke screen to Electro.
"That only work on humans, stupid meatbags" Electro installed, as she uses her lighting to destroy rocks being thrown at her as the smoke cover the android.
"While we deal with Volcano, you deal with Electro" Skirmisher spits the team to deal with the android.
"Zatanna blind Electro while Miss M throw everything at her" Skirmisher said both girls nod to the plan,
A camouflage Martian telekinesis more rocks at the lighting android, while Superboy and Aqualad both jump at Red Electro.
"Hit her with everything" Aqua called out, Electro shoots electricity at Aqualad, knocking him back.
"AHHhhhhh" Superboy yells getting the jump on Electro but the android send creates a field of lighting, blocking the attack and shocking him at the same time.
"Not good enough" Electro said, kicking Superboy while camo Miss M goes under Electro and telepathy pulls her down.
Electro felt her body pull down; Electro turns to see the camouflage Martian and aims for her.
But Aqualad jumps her with his Water Hammer, surprising her.
"With Electro blind, create another illusion of Aqualad, both Super and the fake will jump her, then Miss M pulls her down when the real you hits her with full power" Skirmisher explained, in the battle smoke covers the android as Zatanna touches Aqualad head.
"Ekoms emaceb dalauqa noisulli" Zatanna chanted creating other illusions of Aqualad as it charges at the android.
Aqualad using his water magic to smash the android with all his might, Electro slams down the ground feeling the water affect her badly as Superboy charges her with a fist, punching her in the head and launching her into the mountain.
"Yeah we're winning" Kid Flash grins, but he spoke too soon as a vent under team A burst with air, debris, and magma.
"Ahhhh" Sending them all back from the ground, Red Volcano came out of the lava menacingly with damage to his chest as he pushed the ground under them, launching them all back.
Lighting discharged out of the mountain, as Red Electro travels faster than lighting itself, Electro kicks Superboy with full force, sending him back as she teleports to Aqualad side, kicking him as well.
Aqua grunt from the impact as he landed into Superboy, Electro with a dent in her head and chest sends two lightning bolts at Miss M and Zatanna as they both get knocked back by the lighting.
Team A gets up from the impact as they land near Team B, they all get up with a few bruises.
"A valiant effort, creating a new plan instantly, but you're too late" Volcano said, lava started to gather with Electro gathering electricity out of her hand.
"Time to die, meatbags" Electro said, the clouds gathering from the smoke as lighting started to dance around the team.
"Get ready" Skirmisher aims his gun at them, as the team sucks it up and gets ready for round two.
But a purple sphere of energy appeared over the androids, the android stopped, as the ground stopped shaking and the clouds stopped shooting lightning.
"What the? This is impossible" Volcano said, not able to control the earth anymore, but Electro starts to twitch.
"Brother, something wrong? ….Shouldn't 't be here…..This isn'ttt rightttt" Red Electro head and body started to move and twitch as Volcano looks at his sister.
"Sister what's wrong?" Volcano asked with concern in his voice.
"Nice one" Robin said, seeing the purple psionic around the android and thought it was Skirmisher.
"That wasn't me" Skirmisher said, turning to see but stopped in shock.
NO fucken way a CODEX!
Everyone turns to see the Codex with her arms out, as they look confused.
"Who or what is that?" Zatanna asked them.
"No idea," Kid said, looking at the robot with a hard-light body.
"It seems to be on our side" Aqualad said, seeing the Codex fighting the androids.
"No fucken way" Skirmisher said, see an all too familiar enemy here.
"You know her Michael" Miss M asked, but Skirmisher is too shocked to say anything.
The Codex seeing the androids confused and saw her new body still confused with the psionic energy around her, Codex's are naturally aware of their abilities but the body Red Electro has is affecting her body without the original memories.
The Codex Teleport in front of Red Electro, has the android look at the Codex with a turn to a head, like the android recognizes her.
"Whoooo arrrre youuu?" Red Electro asked, but Codex grabbed the android, as everyone watched the Codex and the android begin to fuse; both robots glowed as they became one.
Now Red Electro appears good as new as she starts to teleport in a dispatch area in a mix of psionic, data and electricity.
"What the fucks doing on?" Artemis asked the big question.
Everyone watches as the flying android lands on the ground, Red Volcano looks confused at his sister.
"Sister…? What happened to you?" Volcano asked concern in his voice, Red Electro turned, blasting Volcano with a powerful lighting blast, sending him flying in the lava again.
"Who's side is she on?" Zatanna asked, everyone not sure what to do. Red Electro turns to them, and then Teleports in front of them, making them flinch.
Red Electro appears before Skirmisher, as he stares at her with a gun up, the android doesn't do much but stare at Skirmisher.
"Commander, I'm so happy you came back for me" Red Electro Teleports again, hugging the commander in surprise.
"Commander?" Robin asked them, they looked confused as well.
"This is too weird," Kid said.
"Does this normally happen?" Zatanna asked the team.
"No it does not" Aqua said as Miss M went to Michael.
"Michael, what's going on?" Miss M asked, Skirmisher turned his head to look at them.
"I'm not sure…." Skirmisher looks at the android hugging him, not sure as he looks at the red android, getting a familiar feeling he pets the top of the android.
The android let out a familiar noise, a noise Michael recognised.
"SP-5!" Skirmisher shouted out, to the team minus Zatanna's shock.
"That's your drone" The team shouted,
"But how?" Superboy asked but they stopped seeing Volcano step out of the lava.
"No time for question, we still have my brother to deal with" Red Electro said as Red Volcano stepped forward.
"What are you doing sister, you're hugging the meatbag, you're going against father's plan" Red Volcano eyes flash red with rage and betrayal but Electro stands her ground.
"Morrow may be my father, but my mother is Lily Shen, I am SP-5, GRELIN of the Commander, and I never go against my friends" , Red Electro announced, Volcano growling with anger.
"I'm doing to destroy you and rebuild back as you were supposed to be" Volcano threat as the Psionic Rift became to glow.
"Not if I do you first" Electro taunted as Psionic Rift exploded, sending him back, as Volcano got ready to destroy them.
Suddenly water bursts up on Aqualad's right, morphing in a stream that hits Red Volcano in the chest and knocks him into the lava behind him, again.
"Nice hit!" Robin tells Aqualad, but he isn't looking at the youngest.
"The hit was not mine. Look!" Aqualad points at Red Torpedo stand resolute, rising up on another pillar of water, sending two smaller streams at a still partially submerged Red Volcano. Covering the area in steam due to the temperature difference.
From it raises a stone pillar, Volcano lying on top.
Red Tornado flies in and takes out the pillar, dropping Red Volcano back into the magma.
The Team can only watch in stunned silence.
Fireballs rain down Red Volcano as he surfaces again. Red Inferno continues to use them until she gets close enough to physically hit Red Volcano.
She doesn't hesitate to get into the waist-high magma, Red Volcano has a crushing grip on her hands, yet she pushes against him.
"Sister, brother, stop!" Red Volcano shouts, Volcano uses his powers to try and push them off.
But don't forget Red Electro as she summons the Codex's Plasma Weapon.
PLLLLLLLL
PLLLLLL
Shooting plasma fire at the Volcano as his chest burst from the weapon, stopping his escape.
Like a rocket, Red Torpedo hits Red Volcano in the chest, taking all three of them into the magma fully.
The two lighter Reds hold him down by the neck and the left arm despite how they're already melting. Red Tornado flies silently over the lava, using his tornado as a buffer before he stands on Red Volcano's chest.
Now all of them are melting away with the heat.
"Father would be so disappointed, goodbye my sister" Red Volcano says before his eyes glow brightly one more time and the machinery within him whirs low.
Electro flies over, grabbing Red by the cape and pulling him from the lava.
Yet the Volcano in front of the Team continues to rumble and grow.
"Tornado, listen, we're on the verge of a Stage Three SuperVolcano Eruption. There's no turning back from that. We need to vent pressure, fast." Kid Flash quickly said, Red says nothing to him.
"But the ash cloud will bring on a worldwide Nuclear Winter unless you divert it." Red Tornado nods. "Triangulate around the pressure locus." Kid tells the Boy Wonder.
"Right." Robin types on his HoloGlove.
"There, there, and there." he says as he finds the three spots.
Without a word, and barely a glance between them Artemis shoots her arrow to the Volcano, it breaks into three and they explode on contact.
Red Tornado's legs spark a little before he gets his signature tornado under him and he flies off past the ash cloud.
His eyes glow red as he snaps his arms out, creating a gigantic tornado that pulls the ash cloud up and through the outer atmosphere.
KF watches as the magma cools.
"Yes!" Though the sound of whirring grabs his attention instantly.
Red Tornado got faulty when flying but Red Electro caught him and slowly landed him on the ground and the Team rushed over to him, but he can see the hand that was above the surface of the lava crumble away.
LINE
The Team is inside Morrow's lab, everyone but Superboy crowded around Tornado.
Red Electro is seen working on fixing Tornado.
"That should fix your voice box at least" Electro said to him.
"Yes. I can speak again." Tornado confirms, his faceplate coming back down, but his legs are still missing.
"You were willing to sacrifice yourself to save the planet." Kaldur says, stepping up.
"The planet would have survived. It was Humanity that was saved." Tornado turns towards them. "Though not by me." Kaldur places a hand on the Leaguer's shoulder.
"My sister and brother were the true heroes on this day." Tornado said, as Electro nodded.
"Despite finding out there androids they still did the right thing" Electro said, now working on Tornado's broken legs.
"My point is this… you were never the Mole, never a traitor." Kaldur says, Michael raised an eyebrow on that.
"No, I left to protect you from further attack and to find my creator, Morrow." Tornado reveals, but Michael looks confused.
"Why did you take SP-5 then?" Michael asked him. If he wasn't hacked, then why?
"Morrow would have reprogrammed me if he found out his hack didn't work, one command was taking your drone" Red Tornado said looking at his new sister.
"Never could imagine she could be a hero," Red Tornado said to her.
"Oh stop you'll make me blush" Red Electro said, as she tried to fix her brother.
"Cool." KF is looking through stuff.
"Souvenir." KF holds up a large red hand.
Robin is looking through another container, finding a leg that he shows to KF grinning.
"Reddy, we can rebuild you better than you were before." Robin said to the android.
"I do not believe I should be repaired." Red Tornado said,
"Too late for that brother" Electro said, already fixing him, Conner glances over his shoulder, finally facing Tornado.
"Why did you volunteer to become our Den Mother in the first place?" it's one thing that doesn't make sense to the clone.
"I was the pragmatic choice." Tornado says bluntly.
"I do not require sleep. I have no secret identity or second life to live." Tornado explains the logic behind it. It clicks for KF first.
"But you do have advanced AI Programming designed to learn, adapt, and evolve." Kid said playing with the souvenir.
"Hello Megan! You wanted to become more human." M'gann knocks herself in the head.
"And you couldn't do that with the League. They're stiff." Artemis realises.
"You're sure not going to learn emotion from Batman. Trust me." Robin chuckles.
"Then the cave was not a proving ground only for us… but for you as well." Kaldur turns back to Tornado.
"Pretty proactive for an AI" Michael can't help but say.
"I do not know if those statements are accurate," Tornado admits.
"But perhaps they are true. And if I understand the term correctly, I believe I have come to… care about you all" Tornado admits to the team.
"See? Practically a meatbag already." Conner says slowly.
"Don't say that, we'll make a killer robot out of him soon," Red Electro said to him, as everyone looked at her.
"That was my humour, did it work?" Red Electro said, as the team smiled at her while some chuckled.
"Which reminds me." Tornado says.
LINE
Red Tornado walks to Morrow, looking properly aged to have been creating Heroes in the 1930s, wheezes under the oxygen mask.
"You were evil, but you are still my father. I will care for you. It is the human thing to do." Tornado said to him, reaching for his hand.
Next the camouflaged BioShip takes off into the night sky, heading back to Mount Justice.
Robin leans forward, touching Zatanna's shoulder.
"So, good kidnapping?" Robin asks.
"Actually, yeah." she smiles as she turns back towards him.
"Best ever." Zatanna said
"First of many, I hope." Robin chuckles.
"If my dad doesn't ground me for life." Zatanna turns back to the front, worried.
Mount Justice
"She's grounded for life!" Zatara shouts. "
"'they're good kids, Giovanni', 'Don't worry, Giovanni'." Zatara copies Canary's words right back to her.
"She's never joining this team!" Zatara said in an angry dad voice.
His rant is cut off as Captain Marvel walks back into the Mountain, both he and Wolf are soaked.
"Um, are they coming out to play or what?" Marvel asked, the wolf howled at them.
LINE
Michael sits at the back of the bioship with Red Electro, using his Psionic to ensure no one's listens to them.
"Surprised this happened SP-5…..do I still call you that?" Michael asked, not sure what to call her, but Red Electro shrugs.
"Call me whatever you want Commander, I'm so happy to be back" Red Electro said in excitement as Michael smiled but looked at her.
"So you could turn into a codex before this?" Michael asked, wondering if this was before or after the kidnapping.
"Before, I wanted to surprise you but the attack happened" Red Electro said,
"Why didn't you escape when you had the chance?" Michael asked her.
"It was the only way to follow my programs, prevent XCOM data thief and steal from the bastards that tired" Red Electro said as Michael chuckles.
"Lily Shen you're a god send" Michael said, remembering his friend as Red Electro slapped her head.
"Oh, I almost forgot, I have a present for you" Red Electro said, Teleporting away, as Michael looks around, Red Electro returns with an unconscious tied up man.
"Commander, this is Bromwell Stikk, apprentice of T.O Morrow '' Red Electro presented the unconscious man as Michael looked interested.
"I also copied all the data I could get" Red Electro stated as he starts displaying all kinds of data, from Mister Twister armour, to how to rebuild all the Red family at once.
Michael is amazed at the data and the science as he smiles proudly at Red Electro.
"It's good to have you back SP-5, no Red Electro" Michael called her as Red Electro looks at her Commander, her face doesn't leave an expression but Michael can feel her psionic emotions as she hugs him.
Michael hugs her back, happy to have the one thing from his dear friend back now.