Chapter 92: Side Story: Ambush!
Cadmus Labs
An explosion sends two scientists out of the building but unexpectedly someone comes to rescue them. It's the Kid Flash and he throws them both to the firefighter outside.
"Hey! It's the Flash Boy! Good Job Kiddo!"
"It's not Flash Boy but Kid Flash!" Kid Flash is upset because people always mistake his nickname.
Teenagers with black skin approach the firefighter. "Allow me to borrow this." Aqualad Tattoo lit up pulled the water from the hose and created a water pillar, Robin went through the window to put down Kid Flash and the scientists.
"I want to investigate something first, you guys wait here," Robin tells his team members and he disappears from their sight.
"Mmm! Why is he not inviting me? Waiting is boring, I want some action." Ruby pouted because her senior left her.
Emilia and Artemis check the condition of the scientist, they can see one the scientist's skin is burned because of the explosion.
"He gets wounds from the explosion, we need a medic," Artemis said after checking them.
"Ugh... It's so damn hurt."
"Let me help him." Emilia's put her hand close to the scientist's wound. "Intermediate Healing Magic." The skin of scientists who get burned is slowly healing surprising everyone. "How are you feeling? If it still hurts let me know, okay?" She smiles beautifully making the most of the man sinking to her on the spot.
'She is... Angel.'
"You male are stupid and care to explain what you do before?" Artemis is interested in Emilia's superpower, to think she can heal such a wound in a short time.
"Is that perhaps magic?" Aqualad does not expect someone in this group to be capable of healing magic.
"You are right Aqualad-kun, I hope my ability can be useful to help my friend and others" Emilia answered his question.
Everyone in the group can tell Emilia is a good person and will be pleased to have her as part of this team, after making sure everything is fine the group goes inside the building.
"Quad Shadow." Robin teleports back to the group using his weapon ability, with this skill he can create four phantoms and travel to a place or people he marked with his phantom.
"!" Everyone in the group except Ruby and Emilia holds their battle stance because think it's the enemy who ambushes them.
"Robin!"
"Welcome back Robin-kun."
"What the?! Damn, You shocking us man! I never knew you could do something like that?" Kid Flash is surprised like others when knowing Robin has superpowers too.
"What you found?" Aqualad waiting for his report.
"The story is long more importantly, I found something suspicious inside the building." From Gadget in his hand screen pops up showing the structure of the building. "There is a high-speed elevator and it shouldn't exist in a building this small." Robin walked to the suspicious door and opened it, showing a long tunnel to the underground.
"You truly handle it by yourself but it's spare us the problem," Aqualad said.
"I guess Batman was right to suspect this place," Artemis commented before Robin stabbed the floor with his sword. "What do you want to do now?" She sees the Batman Junior want to perform something odd again.
"Get closer to me, Let's not waste time," Robin said to his team and they did as he ordered. The Shadow below Robin engulfed all of them and teleported the group to their destination.
They now arrived at a door that had 'SL-26'.
"Wow! What is that ability, Robin? You are amazing!" Ruby has sparkling eyes and asks her senior about his ability that able to teleport the group.
"I agree with Rose-chan, you have incredible ability Robin-kun." Emilia praised him too.
"What... the... fuck?!" Artemis was once again surprised at Robin's ability, what she heard this guy was a normal human like her. 'Is he meta-human too? Where did he get this kind of power?'
Kid Flash tapped Robin's shoulder. "Okay... I admit that is kinda of amazing too but don't think only with that you can defeat me as the most popular guy here!"
"You annoying like that dunce, give me space." Robin typed on his computer, and after a moment he smiled.
"Alright, security's cleared." Aqualad pried open the door and walked into the hall. "Well, this is 'Project Cadmus'." He said before Kid Flash and Ruby sped ahead. "Kid, Rose, wait!" Aqualad whispered loudly before Kid Flash and Ruby ran into a herd of giant mammoth-looking aliens.
The others caught up and saw a smaller alien on one's head with horns that glowed for a moment.
"Puck... Sorry to interrupt your sleep but we need your help." Emilia speaks to the glintstone on her neck and the small creature like a cat coming out from the gem.
"Sure Lia. Hm... Where are we now? Are we not in our---." Puck sees his daughter cross her fingers and tells him to not continue the word because according to Robin it's not the right time to expose they are from another world. 'I see... But let me be judge, are they trustworthy enough to be friends of my Lia?'
"Yeah. Nothing strange here."
The aliens left down the hall before the teens went to a closed door, and picked the lock. When they walked inside, they saw a bunch of tubes with insect-looking aliens generating electricity. "This must be how this is off-grid. They make their electricity." Artemis commented before Robin hooked up to a computer.
"They're called Genomorphs. Telepathic. Steel strong claws. Super-strength. These things are weapons." Artemis looked to the screen in thought.
"But why are they making them... Or what it is for?"
Robin pulled another page up. "There's also a project Kr., and WG, but they're triple-encrypted." Suddenly a male's voice spoke up.
"Halt!" Looking back, they saw a tall muscular man. He's wearing a dark blue jumpsuit with a golden helmet and golden shoulder and wrist pads with a shield. A bunch of Xenomorphs surrounded him.
This is Guardian.
To be continued...