"Self-destruct will commence in three minutes."
Superboy screamed in rage as he let loose all of his frustration from the past few days onto a steel bulkhead.
"Lock's busted" he reported a few seconds later.
"Then move!" Aqualad shouted as he channeled water out of a pipe he'd busted. The liquid poured into the crack between the two sides and began to push them apart as M'gann pulled with the full force of her telekinesis. Superboy grabbed onto the edge and pulled as well. Wolf barked in encouragement.
These bulkheads were meant to contain someone on the power level of Superman, and they were really well designed. Even with three super-powered teens acting on it, they could barely budge the thing.
"Uh, Tornado?" Superboy grunted. "Any luck?"
"The virus is interfering with my systems, but I believe that I will be able to override the self-destruct within two minutes" Red Tornado replied from his access point on the other side of the room. The android jerked suddenly with a disconcerting zap noise.
"Perhaps three minutes" he corrected.
"Self-destruct will commence in two minutes, thirty seconds."
"We've got two and a half minutes before the bomb goes off!" Rocket shouted as she, Red Arrow and Black Canary dashed down another hallway into the kitchen area.
"It's not a bomb per se" Canary replied. "I mean, it's not meant to blow up the mountain or anything."
"Then. What. Does. It. DO?" Red Arrow shouted, the stress of being repeatedly betrayed clearly taking a toll on his sense of subtly.
"The self-destruct's supposed to wipe out any evidence that the League was ever here," said Black Canary "as well as anything left behind which might compromise our identities. I didn't even know it was still operational, since it's been so long since the League used the Cave." She reached the next door, only to find it locked.
"Wipe out how, exactly?" the archer asked.
"Shaped charges installed throughout the upper parts of the mountain, designed to trigger a cave-in." Canary spun around and landed a solid kick on the door, which did absolutely nothing other than break the heel on her shoe. Canary swore under her breath. Batman just had to insist on the reinforced titanium hinges on all the doors, didn't he? All of which had closed and locked automatically as part of the false intruder alarm. Normally they'd be able to get the computer to open the doors for them, providing an advantage over the hypothetical intruders, but the virus was making the computer... uncooperative.
"So it is a bomb" Rocket said as Canary looked around for another way through.
"It's not a bomb!" shouted Canary as she jumped onto the counter and pulled off the grating the air vent directly above them. Reaching up to grab the edge proved to be a mistake, however, as a low-voltage electrical current zapped her hand. Another one of Batman's paranoid security measures reactivated. While most of the security had been shut down when the Cave was first abandoned, the attack by Red Inferno and Red Torpedo had revealed Mt. Justice's vulnerability to attack, hence all the reactivated features, which where being so helpful to the Team at the moment.
"Don't suppose either of you know how to move through an electrically charged metal tube without getting zapped, do you?" she asked. Red Arrow and Rocket looked at each other.
"Self-destruct will commence in two minutes."
"I'll take that as a no" Canary muttered. She looked around again. Desperate times call for desperate measures...
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Worst Case Scenario
FanfictionThe Light has had enough of the Team's meddling in their affairs. It is time that these sidekicks be removed from the board once and for all, by any means available and by any means necessary. It is time for Operation Guillotine. There will be no me...
