"Ok, I'm officially whelmed," the thirteen-year-old said when the doors of the room she was hacking finally opened.

The room was filled with creatures encased in glass pods. The creatures looked nothing like they have ever seen before, they all looked like they came from the same origin from the creatures from a while ago but definitely different.

The three of them walked into the room, shocked at what they were seeing. The creatures looked similar to a flying insect but this time it was bigger. What was weird though was that the creatures weren't moving at all and looked like they were all giving off electricity.

" This is how they hid this massive underground facility From the world," Kid Flash realized. "The real Cadmus isn't on the grid. It generates its own power with these things. Must be what they're bred for."

"Of course! Even the name is a clue," Aqualad supplied. "The Cadmus of myth created a new race by sowing dragons' Teeth into the earth."

"And this Cadmus creates new life too, let's find out why," Robin added as she knelt down and plugged her holo-glove into one of the machines.

"They call them 'genomorphs'," the hacker read as she quickly read the date that was being downloaded into her holo-glove. Better safe than sorry. "Whoa! Look at the stats on these things--superstrength, telepathy, razor claws. These are living weapons!"

'With creatures like these, they could throw the whole world into chaos,' the girl thought to herself. 'An unstoppable army that even the League will have a hard time to defeat, especially if these were produced in mass numbers.'

"They're engineering an army, but for who?" Kid Flash voiced her thoughts aloud as he stood by her side reading what was on her screen as well.

Suddenly a new folder appeared at the corner of her screen. "Wait. There's something else. Project Kr. Ugh! The file's triple-encrypted. I can't--"

She was suddenly cut off by a voice behind them.

"Don't move!"

The trio instantly turned to see a man in gold and gray armor and had a small genomorph like what they saw earlier on top of the large elephant-like creature. Five other genomorphs that looked like the adult version of the smaller one on the man's shoulder.

Both Kid Flash and Aqualad instinctively stepped in front of Robin to block her from view but it was fruitless since the man still saw the young girl who was still crouched on the ground. However, Robin was only able to see a glimpse of the man before the two covered her from view.

"Wait. Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash?" the man said realizing who the trespassers were.

"At least he got your name right," Robin smirked as she focused again on her holo-glove, she knew that both Aqualad and Kid Flash had here back right now and she was sure that if things would go wrong she could just eject her holo-glove and escape with the two easily.

"I know you," Aqualad said, finally realizing why the man looked familiar. "Guardian, a hero."

"I do my best," the man now known as Guardian shrugged off the compliment but Robin, on the other hand, tried to remember all that she could remember about him.

Jim Harper, a policeman that became a vigilante in Metropolis. Took up the alias Guardian and caught criminals and wanted to guard society. He was often blinded to his want to end fights in

a peaceful manner. Went missing a year ago.

"Then what are you doing here?" Kid Flash asked with anger in his tone. He couldn't believe that a hero like them was helping CADMUS breed creatures that can be used for mass destructions.

"I think that's my question, boys--" Robin coughed at this but was bluntly ignored. "I'm chief of security," the older hero informed. "You're trespassing, but we can call the Justice League, Figure this out."

"You think The League's gonna approve of you Breeding weapons?" Kid FLash mocked.

"Weapons? What are you--what have I--ugh. My head," Guardian groaned as the horns of the small genomorph's horn started to glow red. Robin quickly snuck her hand into her utility belt, grabbing onto one of her smoke bombs. Guardian's eyes seemed to fog and he stood up straight and serious once more. "Take them down hard! No mercy!" he ordered.

The five older genomorphs sprung into action and went to attack the younger heroes. Having expected this, Robin quickly threw a smoke bomb to the ground and ejected her holo-glove from the machine. She grabbed her extra grappling hook, she reminded herself that she better keep this one cause she didn't bring another extra grappling hook, and she quickly swung aimed it one of the second floors of the glass tubes and swung herself out of the cloud. She knew that Kid Flash would know the plan right now and keep the creatures busy for a while to give her time and then escape with Aqualad.

After making sure that she wasn't being followed by the creatures or Guardian, she quickly plugged into the elevator shaft and started hacking her way to bring an elevator to the floor they were on. She knew that the two, mainly Aqualad, would want to leave and contact the League but Project Kr was in this building and if they go out and tell the League, this whole place would probably be gone or at least Project Kr would be transferred and knowing that this place was creating living weapons enough to destroy a city, she couldn't let that happen.

As she was hacking the controls so that no one can override the elevator and so that the elevator would only lead them to sub-level 52, the floor Project Kr was at, she felt Kid Flash and

Aqualad join her, both on alert for their attackers.

"Way to be a team player, Rob!" Kid Flash joked, he really hated when she went full on ninja mode without telling him but also knowing that she was going to do that.

Knowing that he was going to forgive her later she only smirked. "Weren't you right behind me?" she mocked back.

The elevator finally came as Guardian and the genomorphs exits the room they were in and was about to chase them. The trio quickly runs in and the door closes right on time.

Kid Flash sighed in relief only to notice that the elevator they were on was going down.

"We're headed down?" Aqualad voiced out the redhead's thoughts as well when he also realized that they weren't going up.

"Dude, out is up," Kid Flash reminded his friend in case she forgot.

Robin rolled her eyes at the two. "Excuse me?" she asked, sass in her tone. "Project Kr? It's down on sub-level 52."

"This is out of control," Aqualad scratched the back of his head, contemplating what they should do with their new finding. "Perhaps--perhaps we should contact The League."

Both Kid Flash and Robin started to contemplate whether it was also wise to contact the League or at least their mentors. Robin placed her hands into her utility belt, grasping the cold-black communicator that would send a distress signal to the Batcave but before she could reply, the elevator dinged and opened up, making their arrival to sub-level 52 known the teens.

Right as the doors opened, they were ready to attack whoever can be in the hallway only to see that the hallways were completely empty. Quickly removing her hand out of her utility belt, Robin ran out the elevator first forgetting that she was about to contact her family.

"We are already here," Kid Flash said sheepishly to Aqualad and ran to follow the thirteen-year-old. Aqualad just sighed and followed the two other heroes. He saw them standing as the

hallway split into to.

"Which way?" Aqualad asked, turning to Robin.

"Yeah. Bizarre-looking hallway one Or bizarre-looking hallway two?" Robin asked sarcastically.

"Halt!" a voice shouted from the hallway to their left. The being who yelled at them reminded of Aqualad of the person he saw entering the elevator when they were still above. Down from the two horns and the red eyes, Aqualad was sure that this was the same being he earlier.

Said being's eyes glowed red and two of the containers was flown across the hallway to hit them. The three of them quickly dodged the containers which seemed to be explosive as it exploded behind them.

Robin quickly distracted the creature by drawing a birdarang from her utility belt and threw it at the creature. The creature suddenly lifted an arm to use his telekinesis to stop the birdarang mid-air before it could hit him. But that was all the time the Girl Wonder needed to distract him and run to the other hallway with Kid Flash and Aqualad doing the same.

The creature quickly threw another two containers down the hallway the heroes ran to only for it to come up short. When the smoke from the explosions died down, he saw that the group was already gone. Instead of running to chase them down, he stood there and waited for the elevator to open and Guardian accompanied with two genomorphs run out of the elevator.

"They are headed for project Kr!" he told the supposed-to-be hero. The male quickly acknowledged him and ran to the right hallway, following the three heroes.

Meanwhile, Kid Flash was running ahead, scouting in case but as he turned a sharp left, he barely had time to notice that a female scientist walked out of a huge safe-like-room. He quickly tried to stop his inertia, digging his legs to the ground in hopes to stop himself into crashing into the scientist but in the end, he managed to slip under her, knocking her off the ground.

He quickly turned himself over the ground and was ready to help the scientist he knocked down but the sound of the doors closing behind him made him turn and see that the doors that were siding close had a sign– 'Project Kr'. He turned again at the sound of running footsteps but only to see both Robin and Aqualad catching up to him.

Thinking quickly, Kid Flash saw the long metal containers to his left and carrying one of them and sticking in between the closing doors, giving the other two more times to make it in.

"Hurry!" he yelled before quickly running in with Robin and Aqualad quickly following in.

As Aqualad was last to enter, he saw Guardian with the two genomorphs appearing at the end of the hallway. He quickly kicked the container holding the door open and making the doors shut completely.

"I disabled the door, we're safe," Robin informed them from one of the computers in the room.

Aqualad quickly surveyed the room and quickly realized that there was no other door which meant that there was also no other way out. "We're trapped."

Before the two can get into an argument, Kid Flash, who was looking around the room they were stuck in, came to realize what Project Kr stood for.

"Uh, guys? You'll want to see this," his eyes wide and unbelieving at what he was seeing.

Robin and Aqualad both exchanged quick glances before walking to see what the speedster was telling them to look at.

There in the center of the room was a teenage boy inside a cylindrical glass tube like those things that can be seen in those sci-fi movies. The boy was wearing a full white bodysuit with the logo of Superman on his chest but without the gold. That wasn't the only thing that shocked but it was also the fact that the boy looked strikingly like a younger version of the famous superhero.

Kid Flash walked around the computer in front of him to get a better look at what– or better yet who was in the tube.

Engraved on the glass encasing the boy was two words– Kr.

"Big "k," little "r," the atomic symbol for Krypton!" Kid Flash realized aloud. He turned to Robin, expecting her to already be doing what she did best. "Clone?"

Robin, who was staring at the boy in shock, quickly snapped out of it and plugged her holo-glove into the computer in front of her and though she didn't say it aloud, she started to download the files as well.

"Weapon designation Superboy, a clone force-grown in 16 weeks? From DNA acquired from Superman-"

"Stolen from Superman," Aqualad corrected.

"No way the big guy knows about this," Kid Flash agreed. There was no way that Superman would allow this faith to come to anybody, not even a clone.

Robin was quickly reading through the files when she saw why the pure white get up. "Solar suit allows him to absorb yellow sun Radiation 24/7."

"And these creatures?" Aqualad questioned pointing to the three small genomorphs sitting on a small pedestal in the tube with the clone.

"Genomorph gnomes, telepathic, force-feeding him an education," Robin read from the files. She quickly saved some notes she had to her brain for future reference. If these creatures had the ability to force-feed, who knows if they can do anything worse like erase or change memories.

"And we can guess what else. They're making a slave out of, well, Superman's son," Kid Flash said, looking over the clone.

"Now we contact the League," Aqualad finalized with no room for argument but it wasn't needed since Kid Flash and Robin agreed with him whole-heartedly. They all went to contact their mentors by their own communications device only to realize that they weren't getting any signal of sorts.

"No signal," Robin said aloud. It was very rare that her comms had no signal, the only chances were that this place had machines that jams the signals to stay off the radar. They were facing someone who wasn't new to these kinds of things. The thirteen-year-old started to doubt whether or not she should have given the idea of going here in the first place.

"We're too deep, literally," Kid Flash tried to lighten the mood knowing full well what his best friend was thinking. When he saw her lips turn up a bit, he wanted to air punch in joy. Wally - 1, Unknown villain - ... maybe more than one but that doesn't matter right now.

Kid Flash saw the look that Aqualad gave him and quickly turned to look at the clone once more. "This is wrong."

"We can't leave him like this," Robin agreed with him. "Plus he kinda looks cute."

Kid Flash turned to her, confused. She only shrugged back and let out a sheepish smile. "What? I didn't say he's my type. I bet a lot of girls in my school would go fawning over him."

Kid Flash nodded but was still weirded out by what the Girl Wonder said.

Aqualad, who was contemplating what to do, turned to look at said Girl Wonder. "Set him free."

Quickly following what he said, she pulled up the controls and just like that, the glass encasing opened. But before they could comprehend what was going on, the genomorphs' horns grew red and the clone's eyes snapped open.

Aqualad, who saw all this, was suddenly on edge. None of them were able to react in time before the clone threw himself at Aqualad. The clone started to punch the Atlantean in the face while the hero couldn't push the clone off him.

Finally wrapping their heads around what just happened, Kid Flash and Robin went to help their fellow protege with Kid Flash holding the clone's hands back and Robin covering the clone's eyes.

"Whoa! Hang on Supey! We're on your side!" Kid Flash yelled, using all his might to hold they super's hand back. But without warning, the clone withdrew the arm that Kid Flash was holding and quickly punched the speedster straight in the face, sending him flying and landing harshly on the ground, unconscious.

After seeing her best friend knocked out, Robin quickly drew out a vile of knock out gas and planted it on the clone's throat, knowing that it would only distract him but that was all the time Aqualad needed to get his bearings and kick the super straight in the chest and thanks to his Atlantean strength, send the clone flying and landing on the ground a few feet away.

Quickly drawing out her taser gun, Robin aimed it at the clone while he was busy coughing from the smoke of working it should have, it had no effect to the clone at all meaning that he was more Kryptonian than she thought he was. Before she could let the taser gun go, the clone quickly took hold of the wire of the taser gun and pulled, pulling Robin towards him.

The Girl Wonder screamed in shock and was quickly thrown to the ground. Before she could get up though, the clone planted his foot on her chest making her scream in pain and making it hard for her to breath. She definitely felt a few of her ribs crack under the pressure.

Aqualad, who was struggling to get past the headache of being tackled to the ground, realized what the clone was doing and quickly ran to help. Getting his water bearers, he made it form into a huge hammer and swung with all his strength to get the clone off the younger girl. When the clone landed harshly on his pod, the Atlantean quickly went to help Robin who was gasping in pain and promptly passed out.

Now angered, Aqualad stood up to face the clone.

"We are trying to help you!" he tried to reason only to have to clone try to punch him. He quickly moved to the side and tackled the clone. Before he can punch the clone in the face, said clone blocked the punch and kicked the Atlantean off him. They both started sparring with Aqualad trying to electrocute the clone to no avail. Using his powers, the clone jumped all the way to the ceiling, making Aqualad hit his head once more, successfully knocking him out.

The clone stared at the fallen heroes in the room until the doors opened and a scientist known as Dr. Desmond entered the room and placed his hand on the clone's shoulder.

"Atta boy."