After All This Time
Chapter One: In The Now
With one powerful backhand from a large bronze statue, or to be more specific, Superman's statue that was positioned in the Metropolitan Park, Batman is sent flying nearly a mile across the street and into a large pine tree. But a moment before Terry's body collides into the tree, Kai-Ro, manages to catch Batman with a large green baseball mitt. Kai-Ro glances down at his team-mate, and quickly analyzing if there were any threatening injuries sustained from the backhand. Seeing Terry move easily assured him that his comrade was ok for the most part.
"Thanks,"Batman shouts out to Kai-Ro as he jumps down then rushes back to help fend off the bronze man of steel.
Kai-Ro, the young Green Lantern nods his bald head in response then quickly forms a giant green hand that catches bus that was thrown at him. The people inside the bus were screaming, but stopped as soon as Kai-Ro positioned the bus a safe distance from the chaos, allowing the passengers to quickly escape as far as possible from the little warzone.
"Aquagirl,"Terry shouts, indicating her turn to help take out the statue tyrant.
"On it," Marina announces as she jumps up onto the statue's back. She wraps her legs around its waist and rolls her arms upward toward the direction of the statue's head. The water from the pier comes rolling in and douses the statue just as it swats Marina away.
Marina falls back but is caught by Warhawk and held in a bridal position while the statue itself is pushed back forcefully into one of the warehouses near the pier. His long metal wings spread out and flapping as he carries his teammate within his arms. He looks to her, his expression somewhat unreadable because of the metal mask. "Are you alright," he inquires, the tone of his voice obviously laced with concern.
Marina held onto him tightly, but smiled at him. "Yeah, I'm ok. Thanks for the catch."
Descending, Warhawk gently sets Aquagirl down on the ground. "Don't mention it," he replies then looks in the direction of the warehouses where the bronze superman is. He saw his other teammates rush towards the metal superman who was slowly standing back up on his feet. He looked down at Marina who is also observing the same scene. "Time to finish him off," he says as he pulls out his
Meanwhile, Terry pulls out a batarang from his utility belt and flings it at the statue. The Bronze superman catches it in in his left hand then turns his head and grins devilishly at Batman. However, Terry just smirks back at him as electricity immediately spreads across his body just as Kai-Ro pins him down with the power of his Green Lantern ring. Five inch bright green chains form all over the bronze superman whose metal body, along with the pool of water created by Marina went rigid when his body was electrocuted by the batarang. In a matter of seconds, the bronze superman went limp which prompted Kai-Ro to create a large drill in the back of the bronze superman. Once Kai-Ro was done drilling, the green drill dissipated and he moved back while still keeping the statue pinned.
Cautiously, Batman walked over to the big statue and dug his hand inside the hole – plucking out a small man dressed in a blue and green patterned body suit. He was no bigger than a thumb, but he thrashed around wildly while cursing angrily. Obviously no one in the group cared, just as long as he was finally apprehended. Batman then held him up, allowing Kai-Ro to form a bright green mini jail cell in which Terry put the little man in.
Marina walked over to the Neo Knight then bends down a little to look at the man. "For a little guy, he was a big pain in the butt," Marina lightly taps the mini jail cell.
"No kidding," Warhawk adds as he stands next to Marina with his arms crossed over his chest while looking at the miniature man.
Kai-Ro lifted the make-shift cage up to his level as he looks at the miniature criminal. "I will make sure that your sentence is humane," Kai-Ro tells him, only to be flipped off by the criminal. But Kai-Ro doesn't bat an eyelash as he flies off into the night and likely to the police station to turn in the criminal.
"All in all, no one was killed and collateral damage was kept at a minimum. So, I'll call that a good night –"Terry began as he started to walk away, but Marina caught his arm.
"Look, Warhawk and I have been thinking…Maybe…Maybe you should go see her. You told us that it's been fourteen years and –"
Batman had his back turned to her, but he looked over his shoulder, giving her the signature Bat glare that was started by Bruce Wayne before he died a year ago. Thanks to Amanda Waller, the current Batman learned that Bruce was his genetic father. Suffice to say, Terry was highly upset by this revelation because he was treated as an experiment by Cadmus. He thought his whole life was a lie all to continue the legacy of Batman. And the man who raised him, Warren McGinnis, was not related to him by blood.
Oh, Terry felt used…Like he was just a clone whose life was already decided before he was conceived. Which, in all actuality, he was justified for such feelings. But over time, Terry let it go after almost a year ago and nearly getting killed for being so angry about it. For a long time, he was bitter and even hated Bruce for it, thinking the old man had lied to him. But he made amends with the old man before Bruce finally passed away last year, one late autumn night.
Marina held her hands up defensively. "Sorry, I just thought that you..." she sighs, knowing that bringing up his past was probably too much; probably too painful for him to talk about. Thus, she stopped talking and broke eye contact with him.
Terry looked away from her without saying another word. His scarlet wings ejected for flight as he ignited his rocket boots. In a matter of seconds, he took off into the night, leaving his teammates to question his mental welfare.
~La Fin~
A/N: Random story idea….Or maybe my version of the epilogue. ^_~ jtdarkman….I'm baaaaacccck~