Chapter 3: Life in a lab part 2
Super boy came crashing back through. Rather who Hybrid thought was super boy. The new boy looked similar but his hair was different. Even his facial features were slightly different and he appeared to be a little bit older than the other one. Considering his height which was slightly taller than Hybrids own.
What mainly gave it away though was the different outfit. His still had a Superman logo. It was skin tight but it had black pants and a blue long sleeve shirt with more black on top. It also had black, white, and red tailor lines with black gloves.
Boom! Superboy 2's fist slammed into Hybrids face. He smashed into the now collapsing back wall. Tile fell to the floor and the lights flickered as Hybrid stood back up.
"Ok I'm starting to get a little sick of this!"
Taking a deep breath and looking up then back down at the new Superboy. Beside him the other superboy from earlier stood. Hybrids eyes narrowed and began to feel hot. A red glow shined from them but before they could fire he charged.
Hybrid moved fast enough to blur. Superboy 2 flew out the way while Superboy 1 charged right at him. In a flash Hybrid grabbed him by the face. He dashed at high speed into the cave hallway and slammed Superboy 1 into the opposing wall.
Then Hybrid landed a quick flurry of blows. His super hearing alerted him to something behind him. He dogged instinctively as it sounded like nothing he had ever heard before. A crimson red laser blasted into Superboy 1. Hybrid span around he realized that Superboy 2 hadn't stopped firing his heat vision. He ran down a hallway to his right as the lazors chased him down the red cave wallsz
Dipping, ducking, and dogging the beam Hybrid soon found an opportunity to grab a large rock from the wall. With a spin and jump he tossed it towards the floating Superboy's head. The rubble distracted him long enough for Hybrid to charge and leap. Grabbing him by the legs he slammed him down to the ground. Then Hybrid pummeled him with more high speed fists. Super boy 1 came back in with another tackle. Hybrid crashed into the granite floor with super boy over him however got his feet under super boys torso and pushed. Superboy crashed into the ceiling and fell back down leaving a man shaped crater in the roof.
Hybrid jumped up accidently tackling Superboy back into the roof with his head. Landing back down he grabbed Superboys leg. He ran back at the other Superboy with his fellow clone in tow. Super boy 2 blasted more heat vision in quick bursts at Hybrid. Hybrid swung the clone like a bat to hit the blasts away before swinging him into Super boy two.
Hitting him into the ceiling he swung Superboy 1 back down into the ground. Then grabbed him by both legs agin and pulled him into a suplex. Flipping around he suplexed him one more time and the let him go.
The clone slumped to the floor. Hybrid looked up breathing a little hard. He was tired of being caught in a 2v1 against two half definitely. If he was going to do this and judging by the sounds of super boy 2 coming back and super boy 1 getting back up and groaning. He was definitely still doing this whether he liked it or not. He needed a teammate and hiding by the fact he was in Cadmus he had just the idea as to who.
It took him a few minutes to find the elevator. Eventually Hybrid managed to do so even while both super boys were chasing him. At this point he was just avoiding the fight in order to get to the elevator.
Running down the hallway Hybrid spotted it. Superboy 1 was in hot pursuit. Catching up to Hybrid he leaped at him only for Hybrid to anticipate the leap and jump over him. With a push from above Super boy 1 or project Kr as Hybrid had recognized at this point was sent crashing into floor.
Running over him he dashed to the elevator. Pressing a button the elevator door opened. He was surprised that it did. He would have thought that they would've locked it down by now. In fact now that he thought about it not even an alarm had gone off yet.
Meanwhile Superboy 2 entered the cave hall flying. He turned and saw Kr getting up while the elevator door closed. He raced as fast as he could indoors but it wasn't enough as the door closed in his face.
*** Hybrid POV ***
As the door closed in front of me and dented with force I breathed a sigh of relief.
'I already pressed the button for floor 52 so this won't take long but I will need to buy some more time. If things worked out as I hope. I'll have the fire power to put both super-boys down for now. Then I can get some answers. I'm clearly in Cadmus but it's not clear which one. Perhaps it's a fusion? After all that was clearly Conner from the young justice show. The problem is whoever the other one is. He appears to be the version of Superboy from the comics. The one with glasses it looks like he's got a good handle on flying it's his lazed vision that he has poor control of.'
"Hmm" I frown then realized that I had just gotten in the elevator. I hadn't even checked it for bugs or cameras. Sure I was used to not talking out loud even when I was alone but still. If I had been speaking aloud and anything picked that up that would be a headache. Thinking of headaches let's save myself one and make sure nobody ever finds out I'm reincarnated.
The elevator stopped with a ding and the door opened. Walking out it was a pretty straight path towards the project Kr door. I quickly jogged over and prayed it open. Then I walked forward the grey tile was cool on my feat but not too cold. In fact now that I focused on it the whole was a little chilly especially by the pods. Luckily it didn't bother me at all. In fact my new enhanced senses were what let me know.
'Now if I remember correctly it was the right most wall'
I walked towards the right wall. Putting my ear against it I could hear the hum of electricity and an air flow. Stepping back I got into a boxing stance. It had been a while since I fought anyone so I was rusty. But to be fair the last time I fought was before I died so can you really blame me?
Now that I think about it I wonder how my dogs and puppies were? I'll miss them although they should be fine I gave them to my children after all. Now that I think about it there should be plenty of suitable replacement pets anyway.
I clenched my fist with more strength than ever before. With a single swift swing I blew the entire wall down revealing another lab. Walking through the hole into the new area I found this part of the lab even colder. Still I was fine no shivering no chattering teeth. But that didn't matter I have one goal here.
Walking to the back I passed several more clones. Some looked more familiar than others but all of them deformed. All except for one the one in the middle at the back.
The pod was frosted over and the panel below was covered in a small layer of snow. Swiping it off I clicked a blue button. Steam emitted from the pod as it came open. Within it was another clone identical to Conner. Match a full blooded clone of Superman but due to the complexity of Kryptonian dna he was nothing but a mindless monster attacking all in sight.
Luckily for me I'm part martial and controlling the mind of a wild beast should be easy for me. Sure I may be a beginner but if I can force a genomorph out then I can at least break in. So reaching out my hand before he could wake up I focused on his mind.
With what felt like gravity falling out from beneath me everything went black. It was the strangest of experiences and it took me a while to realize I was within Match's mind. There were floating shards around me and within each were scattered ideas. It took me time precious time which I did not have so I worked to the best of my efficiency.
Yet I was inexperienced however I managed to cobble together some semblance of sanity within. I was then able to place in a command above it all.
"OBEY ME!" I said both within and outside his mind in the real world.
When I exited his brain and opened my eyes. His own met main and within his black sclera and green irises I saw some form of recognition. As I backed away from him and he stepped out his pod he stared at me. I then gave him my first command.
"Kneel!" Luckily for me he did exactly that.
He was on one knee looking down eyes closed. Before I could do anything else I heard bang. Turning around three figures stood in the crater where I was before. They didn't use the elevator however just breaking through the ceiling.
The two Super-boys were still there but now a new girl. She had a short blonde hair and white long sleeve one piece and white gloves. She also had a golden belt and her shirt had a round window in it. She looked older than the other two boys but not a full adult yet.
"Just great! sigh! I go all this way to get a teammate and make it a fair 2V2! But you guys just go and get another teammate! How unfair of you."
At this point the lights started to flash red and a loud alarm sounded off. I knew who this was which only confused me more. Clearly I wasn't in any timeline I knew off because I was starring at Galatea.
It was then I came to a conclusion that I knew practically nothing about this place. For all I know a transformer might come crashing out the sky. Still at least I knew that some dc characters were here. Mainly that the existence of all these characters and me implies that super man exists at least.
"Genomorph hybrid stand down and return to your pod!" Galatea said stepping forward standing between the two Super-boys.
I was rather surprised at the fact that unlike the other to she actually spoke a whole sentence.
"Now why would I do that? So I can just get put to sleep and never wake up again?"
She growled "That's not my problem! Now go back to your pod or we'll take you down!"
"Oh really?!" I said "Well, they IIIII see it all I have to do is win a 2 V 3 right?!" I smiled which seemed piss her off even more than before.
'I liked that it was funny, hilarious even. In fact if we keep meeting in future I think I'll provoking her on purpose. It'll be quite the laughing matter haha.'
"Fine then let's do this hard way. Take him down hard boys!" The one in white growled.
The other in blue and black just flew up into the air. and soared towards us. He was still silent and expressionless.
"Major pause on that one!" I laughed 😂. "Anyways Match if you'd be a dear." I snapped my fingers.
He charged meeting them in the middle. He collided with the Superboy in white slamming him into the wall. Although Match was still young and didn't have full coherence so he could only speak basic words. He was still fully Kryptonian and was stronger than his halfbreed lookalike.
"Knock him out for me I'll take on the other two. Pause haha." I laughed behind him.
Turning towards the other two Super powered warriors who swerved around match. They both flew toward me firsts raised for a punch. I hadn't figured out how to fly yet but I did figure out how to doge pretty well during all this fighting.
I dodged backwards while the two crashed into the ground. Dashing backwards I readied into a fighting stance. In my past life I had studied many martial arts so I was pretty good at fighting. On top of that it felt like this new body of mine was tailored for fighting. I could almost feel my blood pumping with excitement and anticipation for the coming battle. Maybe I was? Was that my Saiyan DNA acting up for the first time? If that was true this fight may be harder than I'm expecting it to be.
'Hearing that mom would be heart broken. Oh well? I didn't know her that well anyway.'
They came at me fast and hard (Pause!) in a flurry of blows. Each I tried to block, doge, or divert with force. Galatea on my right and Super left. She jabbed right I'd dodged. He jabbed left I batted it away. I kicked her stomach but not before she could block. She tried to grab my leg but I pulled back too fast. It knocked her back far enough to crash into another one of the pods. It exploded in a crash of glass and fire. The resounding explosion blew up some of the other pods on that side of the room shacking the building and sending glass everywhere.
Meanwhile Super boy kept on fighting. Dogging right to avoid a tackle from Superboy. I threw a right hook into the back of his skull. Then I grabbed his hair and turned him around to knee him in the face. Suddenly I felt a swooshing in the air behind me. Turning around I saw Galatea had gotten up. Looking at me with eyes of fury they lighted up red. Before she could fire of her laser vision I dragged Superboy 2 in front of me. Taking the beam to the face and chest he flew off into Matches previous pod. Blowing it up and shook the room once again.
Weaving more beams of red energy I dashed towards her. Jumping off the ground I landed behind her. She whipped around in a blue of motion she attacked.
Lashing out with hooked I ducked the blow while I went low. Going for a tackle I was meet by Galatea's flying knee hitting me in the face. She combos it into an upward kick hitting me into the air.
That particular blow made my chin hurt. I could almost feel my brain hitting the back of my skull. Soaring up she grabbed me by the legs spun me around in a loop and threw me into the ground. Leaping on me and hitting me with a flurry blows at super speed. I put my guard up trying to block and move left and right to doge as many as I could. A few seconds later Super boy 2 came and joined her. I had to turtle up but it was starting to get more and more painful to black both of them.
Mainly the problem was the lack of opportunity to fight back and lack of space to move. It made me angry more angry than I should be. In fact the anger felt like a fire in my eyes in my chest and mainly in my eyes. I closed them as they started to heat up. Only for me to abruptly open them and blast out he largest blast of heat vision I ever had seen since my arrival in the world.
"Aack!"
"Ugh!"
The two of them flew back with a yell and crashed into the ceiling. Before they could fall back into the ground I flew up. Grabbing them like Broly I dragged them through roof by the head. As their faces crashed through lights, panel, and ice I roared. It was primal growl like the beast in my soul was trying to come out.
I threw to them ground with a loud bang. They he crashed into a head of metal and glass. The landing caused a crater where the pile once was. The building shook once again as parts of the ceiling fell to the ground. It was then I realized I was emitting more and more heat. With each passing moment my body grew brighter and brighter. I started to shine heat vision red.
My eyes still glowed and the fire in my chest grew hot. Ice melted around me as my whole body grew hotter. The ice of the room melted around me and dripped from the roof along side the shredded metal and rock. I didn't know what was happening but right now I had more pressing matters. I fired a beam from my eyes with just as last time much energy lighting up the whole room.
The blast hit booth of them and when they emerged from the blazing red light they appeared okay. Steam and smoke covered the floor where they once stood. I waited slowly getting closer. When the steam had cleared I saw the two of them. Superboy had passed out while Galatea was still awake. My light faded with the blast light and heat. Both were bruised and burnt slightly. Galatea got up her body was more exposed now. Her outfit had been torn and burned slightly by the beam.
"You just don't go down do you?" I said whilst floating down.
"And give up too you? No way! You're going down nobody stops me from completing my mission!" She said there was anger in her voice but she also had a smile on her face.
I landed we faced off eye to eye waiting for something. Some invisible force to start to battle. I stared the right in the eyes. Her eyes were a pale blue bordering green. They were filled with a fierce will to win a determination only seen in fighters. Suddenly everything seemed to slow down. The red lights stopped flashing as fast. The rocks and ice from roof slowed in midair. His mind and perception had sped up to sonic speeds. Everything around me looked like it was in super slow motion. However Galatea herself seemed to remain at full speed.
Then there was a small shard of ice that fell between us slowly. I grit my teeth and fists. My muscles flexed waiting anticipating the start of our final showdown. The fire in my veins seemed to rise again filling my whole body. There was steam omitting from my body and my eyes turned red burning with energy. She did the same her eyes turning bright with blood red light.
The shard of touched the floor. The moment it did we sailed at each other through the air. Blasting heat vision directly into each other's eyes. Charging forward our fists met. We smashed punch against punch each blow making shockwaves. Each crashing hard enough to rock the room the ceiling started to collapse. The pods few away and metal panels, melted ice, broken lights, steam, and smoke all went flying.
Fighting her head on hurt my hands. In fact us punching our fists against each other's made them bruised. Meanwhile the beam struggle between our eyes stayed at a stand still. Eventually I over came her and landed a sonic fist on her face. Then another and another still she didn't quit. She was stubborn refusing to look away from our beam clash which she was now loosing. She soon managed to land a few hits on me as well. From there we just hit each other in face as repeatedly.
For what seemed like a hour but in reality was just a minute we hit each other. The blows were so fast and strong that everything seemed to stand still of be vaporized by the aftermath. Each blow landed harder than the last. Jab was met by jab hook by hook uppercut by uppercut. Finally counter straight met counter straight.
Her eyes closed and she flew back hard into the floor. The crater was massive I thought it might fall to the level below us. However when the dust settled I realized something. The rocks that had been falling from the ceiling had stopped in mid air. Not because I was moving so fast but rather something or someone was holding them.
"I believe that is enough." A man's voice rang out through the room.
Wiping my head around I saw a man. One who I never thought I would see here. In fact although I recognized his appearance I couldn't even remember his name.
Still one thing was clear I was facing I threat I definitely wasn't ready for yet. The man was no human or clone Kryptonian. The man before me whose eyes blazed red was something entirely different.
[ P.S I'll be going back writing my Batman fic I think I'll alternate every two weeks or two chapters. Anyway make sure to leave a comment on who you think it is. I bet you won't guess correctly.]