"Damage Done" Part Two
Previously, Grant recieved word that the experiment that he was apart of when he was younger was active again. He headed to Atlanta with Cameron in tow and the two soon ran into trouble. Cameron and Grant were captured and met Trevor, Grant's cloned little brother, who had been dubbed 'Project Telemachus 2' Now all 3 are in danger from Vandal Savage and his deadly project... The guards had brought the unconscious Cameron to a nearby lake and were preparing to shoot him before tossing him in. "How should we do this?" the first soldier asked. "Let's just shoot his legs and toss him in," the second soldier replied. "He'll sink like a stone." "But what if he manages to stay afloat?" the first soldier asked. "Shouldn't we just shoot both his arms and legs?" "Yeah, but it'd just be wasting bullets and I don't want the wasted ammo coming out of my paycheck," the second soldier replied. "Well, we could always just shoot him in the spine and paralyze him," the first soldier said. "Yeah, but what if you miss and like, hit his liver or something?" the second soldier asked. "Would he still be able to swim with a pierced liver?" While the two soldiers were arguing, Cameron was waking up. Taking advantage of the soldiers not looking down toward him, he got up and snuck away, grabbing a nearby tree branch. He swung it and knocked the two into the lake, kicking their guns onto the other side of the dock and into the water. Cameron started running back towards the Symbolix lab. Luckily the soldiers had left the keys in the van and a map leading back to the place. He concentrated as his gold and blue uniform morphed around his body before he headed back to rescue Grant and Trevor. "What do you mean he's my brother?" Damage asked. "My mother died after I was born, thanks to Vandal Savage." "When we begun the work on splicing your DNA with that of the Justice Society and a few of the Justice League members, we used some of your genes to create a new test subject. We cloned Trevor here a few years later, although his powers can't be compared to yours," Griffen explained. "You cloned me!?" Damage shouted. "Only as a backup, should you be killed or develop a free will of your own," Griffen said. "Obviously we were right in doing so." "You're all fucking mad," Damage replied. "As soon I get out of here, I'm taking all of you down." "Don't waste your strength," Griffen said. "You'll never break out of that chamber, it's equipped to contain meta-humans of even Superman's level of power. Even though you haven't exhibited the powers of any of the metas whose DNA is within you, you still have their combined weakness, which is lining the walls." Damage struggled as Griffen left the lab to collect more tools for the upcoming experiments to extract Damage's DNA. When she left, Trevor dragged himself to Damage's chamber. He left a small trail of blood from where his leg was twisted and bleeding. "Are you really him?" Trevor asked. "I guess so," Grant said as he kneeled down to look at Trevor. "I wish we could have met under better circumstances." "Your friend, Cameron, do you think he's still alive?" Trevor asked. "He's a tough kid," Grant said, "but I wouldn't count on him getting us out of here." Cameron picked up the CB radio in the van and was trying to patch through to any of the Titan's frequencies. "Hello, Teen Titans, can you hear me?" Cameron asked. Bart and Cody were lying on the couch after dinner, just relaxing in each other's arms. Bart didn't even care that his nice suit was getting wrinkled as Cody's head lay on his shoulder. "I love you," Cody whispered as looked up at Bart. "I love you, too," Bart replied as his communicator started beeping. "You should probably answer that," Cody said as he looked up at Bart. "It's just Cameron," Bart said as he recognized the code. "He probably just wants someone to play video games with. I told you, you're my top priority tonight." Cody smiled as he kissed Bart. "So, what do we now?" "Well, its Saturday night," Bart replied, "and there's something the two of us have never done together. Something that will show our love for each other." "Bart, I don't know if I'm ready," Cody replied. "I mean, I know we keep talking about...our first time. But it just makes me nervous. What I mess up? What if I embarrass myself?" "Trust me," Bart said with a smile as he sat up. "I'll be there to guide you the whole way. So, are you up for it?" "Sure," Cody said as Bart sat up and took him in his arms and sped out the door, finally arriving in Europe minutes later. "The ultimate video arcade," Bart told him as they looked at the large building. "Once we enter, we may never come out." "Let's go for it," Cody said as he saw Bart was already gone. He sighed and followed him in. Smallville, Kansas "A... date?" Connor asked as Cassie Sandsmark, his ex-girlfriend, stood in his bedroom. "You never mentioned..." "We met at the bonfire," Cassie told him. "I was looking for whoever puts drugs in Tim's beer when I saw a guy on the beach. We started talking and...we saw we had a lot of things in common, so he asked me out." "Oh," Connor told her. "Well, I'm glad you found someone you can relate to. I'm sort of seeing someone now, too." "Shauna, right?" Cassie asked as she saw a picture of Connor and his best friend Kenny that was taken at the County Fair. "Bart told me about her." "Yeah," Connor said. "She's a great girl." The two stood there in an awkward silence for a few moments before Cassie looked at her watch. "I...I should get going," Cassie said as she headed for the door. "I'll see you around." "Yeah," Connor said as he watched her leave. "See you." Connor's communicator started beeping. He saw it was from Cameron. "Probably wants me to go karaoke clubbing with him again," Connor said as he shut it off. The Symbolix Lab "This chamber's draining my power," Grant said as he looked down at Trevor. "I guess this is where it all ends." "No, it's not," Trevor said as he put his hand on the glass. "Stand back." Trevor used his powers to implode the glass, shattering it. Grant stepped out of the chamber, amazed at his brother's power. "Thanks, bro," Damage said as he picked Trevor up. "Let's get out of here." "Wait," Trevor said. "You can't break the glass. We'll go out my way. Put me near the floor." Trevor put his hands on the floor, causing it to rumble as the floor gave way and the two fell into the lab below. "Your power is to blow stuff up, too?" Damage asked. "Kind of," Trevor replied. "Where your power is to exert energy to cause explosions, mine is to insert energy to make things implode." "Cool," Damage said. "I could definitely use you when Cameron starts singing with the radio." Omni was preparing to enter the Symbolix building when the alarms started going off and a group of armed soldiers started coming out to greet him. Omni just stood there and started counting them. "12 to 1," Omni said to himself, feeling Grant and Trevor's powers nearby. "Feel sorry for them." "Why weren't the floors reinforced?" Griffen shouted as she saw Trevor and Damage escape their cell. "We figured the kid's leg was broken," one of the guards said. "We didn't think that-" Griffen pulled out a gun and shot him. "Get them back! And this time break both of their backs!" Damage was leading his brother toward the exit when the guards started filing in. "Oh, good," Damage said as he lowered his brother to the ground. "Ten to one. My favorite odds." Meanwhile, a trail of unconscious soldiers was lining the halls as Omni rushed down the corridor. He reached the lab and saw Damage had taken out nine of the soldiers and had the tenth in a headlock. "Can we get out of here?" Omni asked. "Take Trevor," Damage said. "I want to take this place out for good." "There is no escape," Griffen said as she held a gun towards them. "Vandal Savage has come to far to let his experiments fail." Omni's hand created an energy spike from Damage's powers. He tossed it, knocking the gun from her hand as Damage grabbed the doctor. "Evacuate your men," Damage said. "This building is condemned." "You plan on destroying the building?" Vandal Savage asked as he stood in the doorway, his form covered by darkness. "I thought you knew me better than that, Grant." "Get my brother out of here," Damage shouted toward Omni. "Now!" Omni helped Trevor go the other way as Damage approached Savage. "This ends tonight." "For once I agree," Savage said. "After all you've been through, I think you really want it all to end." Savage pressed a button on a remote control behind his back as Damage's mind was flooded with memories of abuse he endured at the hands of his foster father. Damage fell to his knees as Savage kicked him to the ground. "Poor Grant," Savage said. "So much power, yet he couldn't protect himself from his own father." Savage kicked him in the stomach. "This experiment has failed. It's time to terminate." "We've gotta go back in for him," Trevor said as Omni carried him down the hall. "I can't leave him." "You stay here," Omni said. "I'll get him." "No," Trevor said as he put his hands on Omni's shoulders. Moments later, the Titan was yelling in pain and passed out, his body smoking as he laid on the ground. "Sorry, but I've got to do this." "Now we reach the end of our journey," Savage said as he pulled out a gun. "Such a shame." "No!" Trevor said as he lunged for Savage, putting his arm around the man's neck, flooding him with power. "Grant, get out of here!" Grant was laying on the ground, too lost in his memories. "Grant, those memories aren't real!" Trevor shouted. "Savage had them implanted in you to keep you in line! You were never abused!" "Never... abused?" Damage asked as he started to snap out of it. "Fool!" Savage said as he grabbed Trevor and tossed him into the wall and aimed his gun. Damage shoved him just as he pulled the trigger and started punching. "You son of a bitch!" Damage shouted. "How could you do that to me?!?" "Because you are nothing more than an experiment," Savage said. "A guinea pig. A common rat." Before Damage could land another blow, he looked over and saw Trevor sitting against the wall, his grey shirt growing dark red by the second. Savage's gun had hit its mark. "No!" Damage shouted as he ran to his brother, giving Savage the chance to escape. "If by chance the two of you do survive, then know this: We will meet again." Savage said as he escaped through a tunnel that closed itself off. "Trevor?" Damage asked as he held Trevor. "Come on, bro, don't do this to me. Don't leave me!" Just then, an explosion rocked the lab. Outside, Omni was waking up just in time to see the entire building explode in a fiery ball. "Oh, no," Onmi said. "Damage! Trevor!" Before he could stand, he saw Damage walking out, his brother in his arms. "We need to get to a hospital...." Shortly, at Manchester General Hospital "He's in very critical condition," Dr. Jones said. "The next few hours are extremely crucial." "Can I see him?" Grant asked. "Yes, but just for a minute," the doctor said. "I've been trying to call the others, but I'm not getting any answer," Omni told him. "I'll keep trying." "You do that," Grant said as he paused briefly. "Cam? Thanks...for everything. You saved my life tonight. I won't forget that." "Hey, what are friends for?" Cam asked as Grant smiled a little, realizing that Cam wasn't so bad after all. "I'll be out here if you need me." Grant walked into the room, where his brother was laying there, hooked up to several IVs and monitors. "Trevor?" Grant grabbed a chair and sat down next to the bed. "I know we just met, but I feel like I've known you forever. I swear that when you get out of here, I'm taking you home with me and we'll be like a real family. Just you and me." Grant squeezed his brother's hand as Trevor slowly opened his eyes. "Grant..." "I'm here, Trev," Grant said. "I'm not leaving you." Trevor closed his eyes as a long beep started to come from the heart monitor. "Trevor?" Grant asked. "What's going on?" Doctors started filing into the room as Grant was shoved out. "What's going on!?" Two minutes later, Grant looked back into the room, just in time to see the doctors talking with each other. Trevor had just slipped into a very deep coma, one which he was likely to ever wake from. Today was Trevor's 14th birthday, and it was very unlikely he'd ever wake to see his 15th... An abandoned military base a hundred miles outside of New Orleans "The loss of Trevor and Grant was my fault," Dr. Griffen said as she walked alongside Vandal Savage down a darkened hallway. I accept full responsibility." "Grant will come home to us someday," Savage assured her. "As for Trevor...he was weak. He was expendable." Savage entered his code into a pad outside of a large metal door as it started to slide open. "And you know what they say, doctor," Savage said as they entered the room. "If at first you don't succeed..." The room lit up as a teenage boy who looked like Grant, only with jet black hair and facial features similar to Savage, floated in a large glass tube. "Try, try, again..." The End... Previous Issue | Next Issue |
