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The most dangerous people in the world are always the ones who have no criminal background and yet they hide their true selves and pull of feats that could shake the world.
John could do just that.
On the surface he was a ordinary man, he had short black hair, black eyes, barely 6 ft and he lived in an apartment with his cat.
But nobody realised that he made it talk.
"Everyday, the same thing," said, the cat, seeing the giant deluxe computer.
"Immortal beings become mortal when unmasked," he said, "But who know it would be so easy to unmask heroes, sidekicks? Superboy doesn't even try, he just swaps out his t-shirt or wears a jacket over it. Conner Kent. Hmm" he stroked the cat.
He had Conner data in front of him including which school he goes to.
"And then there is Robin," he said, playing a clip of Robin from a news crew. "He's good but he relys on that mask and shades too much. His downfall was not changing his voice. I got a match immediately. Dick Grayson"
There was one of the many clips of Dick on tv, appearing on the screen, slap a mask on him and there was no doubt that he was robin.
"Let's see Miss Martian," he said. "All she did was change her skin. " before her human identity appeared. "Megan Moorse. They really do sound the same."
There was a clip of her shouting as she cheerleaded.
"Aqualad, he just wears regular clothes," he said. "Jackson Hyde but he doesn't use it much"
And the he said. "Kid Flash is Wally T West, a high schooler."
He had figured out all their identities but what really helped was this.
He pulled up a photo of all five of them together in civilian clothes.
He figured out Robins identity and the rest just slid into place.
Artemis didn't even try bothering with a hero's name.
"Now what to do with this information?" He said. "Do I hack into all the city's they live in and broadcast this information live, effectively ruining their lives and those closest to them? Give this information to all the villains so they can manhunt them. Or do I do something else with it?"
It was shocking how nobody had figured this out.
Those from the Justice Leagues were so much more better at keeping their identities hidden then these kids.
The only one out of the group that posed a Challenge was Kid Flash, his civilian self never spoke on live tv like Dick did.
But he found all of them together in a camera footage which helped him unmask him.
But a major concern of his was, was how tied in the tv networks were with Wayne industries.
Anything that remotely had the image of Dick Grayson in it, gets picked up immediately and judged before being allowed to broadcast.
This was why there was nothing but positivity when the teens face aired.
He would have to hack into Wayne industries to get all the identities passed them and that would set off an alarm.
"Man, I hate billion dollar companies," he said.
And when he looked into it more, he kept seeing Lex Luther prop up.
This man knew these teens identities and had been keeping them.
"What a mess," he said. "These kids are protected. I'm only one man"
And yet, he couldn't do nothing about this.
Perhaps, he better keep watching, a superhero is the most vulnerable on a mission.
He had no idea that he existed because Bart Allan wanted to change the future.
The raptured caused him to be born.
Every time somebody breaks the laws of time, something terrible is born.
And his eyes immediately went to the new Flash that suddenly appeared.
His interest was peaked when this boy solved poisoning that shouldn't be curable currently when the boy thought nobody was looking but a camera survived to look.
Somebody from the future?
That meant some big event was apparently going down, he wanted to prevent.
Could it be, a hero does in this event?
His mind wirls and they begin to focus on the flash that wasn't as fast as Impulse or The Flash.
Kid Flash.
Out of the flashes, he was the one who was most likely to die in a scenario where he had to be as fast as The Flash or Impulse.
He saw the Reach and never touched the energy drink, instead he analysed it and found that the innocent looking beverage was filled with lies.
The effects targeted his ability to have children, it would be seen in the next generation and the generation after that.
The more he drank, the worst it got.
When the atmosphere began to change after the Reach left, he know what they left behind was serious, the Flash was the only one to do it.
He figured it out before even Lex Luther did.
This was the highest time, somebody had the possibility of dying.
But this thing...
"I can captured Kid Flash with this," he said, it was a hunch but if Kid flash joins in and his speed isn't enough, causing him to go into the speed force, he can snatch him when he enters and nobody would be the wiser.
He had hours to find a way to download Kid Flash, but he was at his best when he's in a hurry.
He worked as an engineer so he had the necessary equipment to do it and nobody would ask questions if he did it in small parts, he built a chamber in which he dreamed to trap a superhero within it.
You can get away with a lot when people think your a normal person and you aren't working for a big company or secret lab.
He sent out a small drone, so tiny that it could be an air particle before it headed to the north pole.
He witnesses it all and knew immediately that the Flash and Impulse wasn't enough to stop it.
They needed another one and Wally soon joined into the fray.
His hypothesis was right, and Wally soon proved his speed was good enough but at a cost.
When that strike hit the now adult, he activated the machine.
It was so easy to latch onto Kid Flash energy while everybody was looking shocked at what was happening.
The man disappeared and the day was saved.
Wally was pronounced dead at the scene and John looked at his chamber with glee and began to fill it with sleeping gas.
Kid Flash began to show up in this chamber and his eyes were wide with shock when he realised he had been captured but he didn't get to think much because the sleeping gas got to him.
When the man was soundly asleep, he then blocked all transmitter from his suit and destroyed it, by burning it in his fireplace.
Now, what to do?
Should he use him to collect the others?
"It's always shocking how smart you are," said, the cat.
"Yes, that's why the world must never know how smart I am," he said. "Geniuses get on the news and get high positions with high publicity. The league would be watching me 24-7 and kidnapping will always be on the table"
Geniuses, had a very tough world and being perceived as normal, is lot better.
He then took Wally out again, and this time put a helmet on him.
All his memories began to appear on screen in folder formats.
With everybody thinking he's dead, he had all the time in the world to mess with his mind.
"Me and you are going to spend a lot of time together," he said, looking down at the man who was unconscious now due to the helmet.
He went to the computer and began to look through his memories.
"Oh, he's not going to need this, anymore." he said, dragging a folder that said 'memories with Artemis' and putting it a digital trash bin. "This software took me 6 months to develop and its made it so easy to rewrite a person"
This software did what a telepathy could do when mad so it was quite shocking.
He clicked on his name and began to backspace and type in...
He didn't know.
"Any suggestions for our new servant superhero?" He said to his cat.
"How about 'Vortex'?" Said his cat. "And his civilian name Richard Castlin. I'm just thinking"
"Great thought," he said as he input it in and played with everything as if he was creating a game character.
You would think this process would take an hour but in truth in took several days, messing with a person head was not an easy task.
He had to make sure he could function on his own if he was ever outside as a civilian and that he didn't suddenly have a 'I must find answers to blanks in my memory' moment.
Wally was strong-willed and was especially fighting it when he finished with the changes and downloaded it back into his head.
But he was in no such hurry and instead went onto designing him a new costume having destroying his old one.
Thinking about the costume that had a tracker and a transmitter embedded inside made him want to get rid of it again.
So while Wally was fighting it without any food in his stomach, he was ordering Chinese and going to work.
You would have never guessed he had a trapped superhero in his basement when you saw him come in, which made it that much scarier.
After two months, he came home to see the download was complete and that once incredibly fit Wally West had become bones and skin due to lack of food.
It was easy to start tweaking Wally at this point since he couldn't even protest.
John then took a cup of water and a slice of bread and went down to his basement, he didn't wake Wally up but he opened his mouth, poured the water into it and it went in smoothly down his throat before cutting the slice of bread up and putting it into his mouth, the Siliva did the work for him.
He kept on feeding him, morning, afternoon and night, bread and water so that be can get back to a more acceptable weight.
And then after a month of this, he finally woke him and Wally's hands shot up, the instant cook beef went across his nose.
He grabbed it and John watch him devour it all, even licking the whole bowl clean, before going to the bowl filled with grapes, the bowl filled with pasta, the bowl filled with bread finally going to bowl filled with chicken.
30 dollars worth of food was gone just like that, in a single sitting.
"Vortex," he said through a voice changer.
The man responded to the name and turned to find it was a man dressed in black with a mask and lab coat.
"Yes, Master?" He said.
And he know he had done it.
"I have a mission for you to do in an hour," said John. "Completing this will prove that you are of use to me and I didn't waste resources raising you"
"Yes, Master," he said, before he was presented with a costume that would make the likes of Batman green with envy because of the tech, the costume even turned his hair white and longer.
"In this costume is tech that will make sure the Justice League or their sidekicks don't plant a bug on you or read you mind," said John. "Let's just say if somebody does try to read your mind, there are going to get a very nasty headache"
Vortex put it on and received his mission and a quick rundown on how to completely get a way using his speed.
"You target is a jewellery store." Said, John. "In a world filled with heroes. Take a handfull of jewellery and then come straight back."
Vortex activated his helmet and through a heavily changed voice, said. "Yes, master" and then a vortex opened behind him.
He ran through it.
#Gothem City#
He found himself in a city well known for its high crime rate, he surely won't stand out here in a city were there is a bank robbery every day and people were getting mugged left and right.
Iconic villains like the Joker and Penguin came from this city, after all.
He then sped to the nearest Jewellery store, and entered before anybody truly noticed him, he took his sweet time when he was moving faster than everybody else and took diamonds, watchers and earrings that had expensive price tags, put in into his pocket before he sped out, took sandwich bags, dark marker, cardboard, scissors and celtape from a nearby shop.
He then put all Jewellery in the shop, including the jewellery in the back, in tiny sandwich bags, put a sign that said 'free real jewellery. I don't need it so first came first serve-Vortex', taped it over and then proceeded to put the bags in obvious places normal people can find them, including a preschool and a normal school.
When time did catch up with his actions, there was a huge uproar in the city, as one jewellery store found themselves cleaned out and people were finding expensive real jewellery nearby.
Well, who wouldn't grab free stuff?
"Holy cow!" Said a woman who saw the diamond ring suddenly placed in front of her, she took it and saw a nice ring and necklace that sparkled inside.
You can only imagine the large villain half of the city reaction when they saw the jewellery they could tell was real from a single glance.
"Oh, my. How did they know I was looking to get a new ring?" Said Harley Quinn, as she slipped a huge red sapphire ring onto her finger, while she went 'clothes shopping'.
And now imagine the heroes side finding this jewellery before them, as the store called the police.
Vortex went through a vortex back to his masters lab and presented to him a fist full of jewellery.
"Very good Vortex," said John taking the jewellery. "You have proven to be useful after all"
And now his pet Superhero was on the Hero's and Villains radar.
And scene!
Next chapter, Batman reviews the footage from the city and alerts the Justice league of an another speedster. Meanwhile, John gives his pet superhero an official identity as a home designer. Review/ fav and follow!