Chapter 1: Hero mode
Stormbolt Narration
After I graduated from Gotham high, I decided to head for the police academy to become a cop. And that had to be one of the dumbest mistakes I've made in my entire life, by far. When one of the head honcho of cadets has power over anyone else who's the son of a precient captain and beats the crap out of you, you decide to get even as best you can. Images of Black mixed with Irish Ethan Louis from graduating at Gotham high, to intending college for a forsenics analyist and a cadet in Gotham City police academy. That head honcho cadet was Winston Pike, son of 16th Precient captain Gavin Pike. Both of them corrupt. Well, that's what I did when I thought of stealing his car as a little prank. But once you're caught by police or worse Batman, the rich boy can have you threw into prison for life. One in particular, Arkham asylum. Fortunately, I was given a chance to be free by taking part of an experiment to create a crime fighter for the police, with it being not having to relay on Batman. But that all change when the experiment went wrong, giving me super powers in the process. Image of Ethan being greeted by a caucasian middle aged man in his fifties wearing a lab coat. The man in charge of Project: Stormwalker was Dr. Robert Kessler, lead head of the experiment died in the accident. The guy saw me differently. He knew I wasn't like anyone else in that hellhole of an asylum, he pretty much saw me as the saniest person in Arkham. Long story short, I got pardoned for a false charge after the police captain and his son were killed by the Joker. In their case, Karma's a bitch.
And to be honest, I was in Bludhaven but moved after my mother had died when I was just eight years old in a fire. My dad passed away five years later, which had me being raised by a foster family since no one would take me in. My foster mother was a dancer ballerina who volunteered in plays, while my foster father working computer maintenance for a national bank. I had a foster sister name Elizabeth when I was fifteen, but I call her 'Izzy' because of the nick name her friends would give her. Now, I'm living with living my best friend in Chinatown at Coast City. I can't go to Bludhaven because it was destroyed by a chemical creature of some kind. Metropolis was my other option, but I don't want to go back to Gotham after the crap that's going on in there. So, I'm staying at an apartment with a friend of mine name Hector Mendez. Image of a Native-American twenty year old with a short goatee on his chin mixed with Latino descent high fiving Ethan. Next image show Hector performing martial art fighting styles with aura circling around his body. And the truth is he has some mystical Kung Fu powers. Long story short, he was being mentored by these monks from the himayalas but ran off with this guild of assassins because of what happened with his father being murdered while on parole. Along with a group of bandits that had invaded the monstary. There were no survivors. Images show Hector leaving the destroyed monstary, now fighting alongside the League of Assassins guild and against their enemies. Another image reveal Hector throwing down a demon's head logo off the sleath of his sword, leaving the guild permeantely. But somewhere along the line, he decided to cut ties with them after they tried to destroy Gotham with his mom and four sisters still in there. So now, I'm living at his place while I look for a sign to lead me down the right direction. Since we met, we took down some villains like Electocutioner, Volcana, Atomic Skull, Blockbuster and Dr. Polaris. We even held our own against the Thangarian invasion. His alter ego is Grey Spirit, the Mystic Kung Fu master. My name is Ethan Louis, and I am Stormbolt. The Man of Thunder.
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Chinatown, Coast City 6:48 p.m.
"Ethan, hurry up. The Sharks are down by the fourth quarter!" Hector exclaimed, while Ethan was in the kitchen
"Tell me they're winning!" Ethan yelled out from the kitchen
Hector grinned at the score between the Coast City Sharks and Central City Cougars. "If you mean the Central City Cougars, then yes they are winning."
"What?!" Ethan ran out of the kitchen, holding a bag of chips and a soda can from the fridge as he sat on the couch with Hector. "Oh, man." he sighed
"Coast City 37, Central City 42. Cougars win." Hector take a sip of cola
"Not by a long shot, my friend." Ethan said as the wide receiver of the Coast City Sharks was now the 10th, the 20th, all down close to the touchdown. "Almost there, Almost-" the wide receive made it at the end, getting a touchdown. "Yeah! What'd I tell you? Touchdown!"
"Except it's a tie." Hector stated as the score was now 42 to 42 at the end of the fourth quarter. "We'll see who wins next season."
"That remains me..." Hector stood up from the couch. "It's your turn to go on patrol. I'm gonna head out to the store. We need more food."
"Bring some chips while you're that!" Ethan yelled, heading to his room to put on his Stormbolt costume
Ethan donned a sleeveless black bodysuit with blue insets that went on his chest, showing a yellow thunderbolt logo on his chest before putting on a mask that covered his mouth, nose and cheek except the eyes. He grabbed a pair of tinted yellow goggles, putting them on as a hud apppeared once he equipped it on his face with bio-metrics sinking in his face thanks to him and Barbara Gordon. He took a black He leaped out the window and forming on an ice slide to travel through Coast city on his patrol. Meanwhile, Hector was putting on his costume in a mid sleeve black ninja garb with a grey mask that had white lenses as his cheekbones and jaw was covered exposing his hair, nose and mouth. A white Yin Yang emblem attached to his slate grey shoulder pad. He grabbed a pair of nunchucks and equipped them in his holster. He ran out the apartment with superhuman speed and agility while Ethan flew through Coast City.
Stormbolt looked left and right while patrolling the city since both him and Grey Spirit do the same during the day. "No crime or anything so far..." he smirked in relief but suddenly, his smile faded away when he heard screaming coming two blocks ahead. "Wonder what's this all about."
Ethan flew over to see a crowd of people fleeing away in terror. The cause seem to be a was Weather wizard and Dr. Polaris as they were using their powers to cause everyone panicking. Ethan spotted Hector on top of a nearby rooftop, with remaining undetected from the three criminals. Hector quickly struck his aura powered fist across Dr. Polaris, sending him flying while Ethan froze the wand the Weather wizard had in his hand along with Dr. Polaris' hands together. Suddenly, a 6 foot tall with cybernetics grafted into his body along with genetic modification. He was wearing a mask that had red double V shaped lenses, his armor black and a green plate on his chest as his hands charging with energy. He fired out laser beam from his visor at Stormbolt and Grey Spirit as they manuevered from the blast, with Ethan catching a glimpse of an imprint on the foe's elbow saying Elite.
Stormbolt charged in with electric fists charging at the mysterious enemy, only to be sent flying straight into a jewelry store. Grey Spirit however charged with caution as he dodged a left hook from the mysterious villain, deliever a blow to the chest with a palm strike. He sent a barrage of aura projected fists straight across the face and torso section of the enemy he was facing. The mysterious villain grabbed Grey Spirit's fist, slowly crushing it as he grunted in pain. Luckily, Stormbolt struck the villain with an ice hammer sending him flying back. The mysterious enemy they were facing landed on a car, with the car alarm blaring until the unknown enemy slammed the car to shut the alarm off. Stormbolt and Grey surrounded the mysterious person two-to-one as the unknown confronter stood up from the sedan, staring at Stormbolt and Grey Spirit with his visor.
The elite charged at Stormbolt, tackling him toward a nearby restaurant. The people looked in shock, seeing the two fight against each other. The elite fired a beam at a mother and her son as Stormbolt quickly flew, saving them from the blast. Stormbolt conjured water to form a shield leaving the elite firing his beams at the water shift wall, leading to the unknown attacker to be sent flying back outside by Grey Spirit. The elite opened fire on Grey Spirit, who in return dodge the blasts as his body glowed with aura. He leaped forward, sending a high kick across Elite's chest as he was sent flying straight at a deserted police cruiser.
"Okay silent and mysterious, start talking. Who are you?" Stormbolt questioned with the mysterious man staring at him, then at Grey Spirit. "Hey." the mysterious man stared at Stormbolt. "Can you talk or what?"
Grey Spirit folded his arms together staring at their downed opponent. "Looks like our attacker is the silent type it seems?" he stated to Stormbolt as they turn to the mysterious man, only to see he was gone from their sight
"Well, that sucks." Stormbolt groused as him and Grey Spirit turned around to see Weather wizard and Dr. Polaris were trying to escape.
Then all of a sudden, a red blur went past Ethan and Hector, sending Weather wizard flying back and grabbing Dr. Polaris in the process. The red blur stopped finally revealing itself. A man in a red suit with a yellow lightning bolt on his chest covered by a white circle. The Flash had arrived in Coast city, leaving both Ethan and Hector to glance at each other then back at Flash.
"You two the new guys, huh? Nice work."
"What are you talking about, man? We're known in Coast City," Stormbolt pointed his thumb at Hector. "Grey Spirit's known a little in Central City. Well, a lot actually."
"Huh. You two in the league?" Flash asked smirking
"Well we prefer that-" Flash cut him off
"Beam us for pick-up, J'onn." he said as the three were teleported away
Watch Tower, Justice League HQ
Stormbolt paused before he could say anything else, noticing his surroundings as Green Dragon stumbled on his knees a bit. Flash however wasn't phased since as though he's used to be being teleported. They saw others like Steele, Ethan saw Nightwing who he teamed up with once, Atom Smasher along with Vilgante and Shining Knight. They were countless heroes like Dr. Fate, Aquaman, Etrigan, Wildcat, Green Hawk and Dove. They also saw beauties like Fire, Ice, Zatanna in her hot magician's outfit with fishnet stockings, Black Canary in her blue jacket one piece in the same fishnet stockings outfit and Huntress' attractive costume which had both of them practically drooling. Hector had his eyes on a woman in his age that looked exactly like Wonder woman. Blue eyes and long black shoulder length hair wearing a red costume with yellow stars on her torso and legs, along with a lasso and silver bracers. Ethan spotted Supergirl flying, getting a view of her flying wearing the same white t-shirt with the superman symbol that exposed her midriff and blue mini skirt along with white gloves and red boots. Her blonde hair and blue eyes fell at Ethan's for a short second before she flew away. Ethan and Hector could hardly believe it but here they were. They were now at the headquarters of the Justice League.
"Whoa." they said in unison
"Welcome." a tall green skinned man with orange eyes and pronounced eyebrows wearing a black suit, red cross belt harness and a blue cape. "I am J'onn Jonzz, the Martian Manhunter."
"Nice to meet you." Grey Spirit shook his hand
"Hey." Stormbolt shook his hand as well. "So this is the Watch tower? It's..."
"Impressive." Grey Spirit finished staring in awe. "I mean, wow. How did you guys mention to get all of this?"
"I get the feeling that Wayne industries and Star labs have a hand at this." Stormbolt stated hinting at a certain bat figure to lurk behind him at any moment. "So, why exactly are we brought here anyway?"
"To play your path." said a voice from behind Stormbolt and Grey Spirit as they turned around and saw the Justice League
Stormbolt folded his arms, smirking under his mask. "Bats, still broody as ever I see." seeing the dark knight giving off a bat glare. "And there's the famous bat stare. How you been?"
"Stormbolt." he glanced at Grey Spirit. "Who is this?"
"Grey Spirit." Hector took a step back, a bit unease due to the dark knight's prescene. "Now, I'm feeling a bad vibe all of a sudden." he muttered
"Wait, wait. You mean to tell us that we're in the league?"
"Not yet." Wonder woman stated
"There are tests before you become members of the league." Superman said
"So..." Ethan cracked his neck, while Hector cracked his knuckles. "When do we start?"
"Right now." Flash said as the Justice League escorted to where they would have their tests in order to become official members of the Justice League
