To the Other Side
By TimeAndLife21
A spaceship was floating through space without any know destination. The ship was dented and such from space debris and passing comets, but it still held. The ship seemed empty. Wires were exposed and sparking, but they still held tight to the ship's integrity. The Cabin at the front of the ship was empty. There was no one flying as it was on autopilot. To the left of the cabin, there were three chambers; cryogenic chambers to be exact. Each held a woman clad in costume.
In the middle was a woman with long black hair tied in a tight ponytail to the nape of her neck, wearing a black fedora and a mask over her eyes. Her suit comprised of black material and black high heels. Her cape was black with deep red linings. A regular human.
Name: Selen Trinity. Alias: Nightwatcher.
To the left was a woman in white and silver costume. Her platinum blond hair was up in a high ponytail in soft waves. A silver mask was covering her eyes. A petite woman of 5'6 and the fastest woman alive.
Name: Silvia Quick. Alias: Quicksilver.
To the far right of the two chambers was a more interesting woman. She wasn't human. Her green skin is what gave her away and black rings around her eye sockets. She has red hair pileated into a braid. She was wearing a blue skintight one piece with a red 'x' on the front of her suit. A Martian was her race.
Name: Sav'ra K'ozz. Alias: Savera Knots; Shift.
Caution: Black hole approaching. Activating Security Measures.
The computer systems activated a shield that would protect the ship and its passengers from the black hole. Activating the systems, the ship tried to veer off course from the black hole ahead. Unfortunately, the gravitational pull was too strong.
Activating Counter-Measures. Cryogenic chamber number one: Canceling…
Nightwatcher's chamber was in the process of canceling the freezing generator. At this point, the ship entered the black hole, it was sent flying through space and dimensions. Alarms went off. Signaling that the ship's integrity was in danger of falling apart.
Warning! Warning! Anti-gravity shields down. Warning!
The dimensional pull was about to end, the black hole spat out the ship at alarming speeds. The cosmic tunnel around the ship started to spark and hit the ship, leaving it unharmed, but the residents inside on the other hand, they were changing without their knowing. The ships navigational systems were searching for a planet to land safely and soundly. Flying past planets and stars the ships speed has been increasing. It was becoming too dangerous for the ship.
Cryogenic Process: Nightwatcher…ending in 3…2…1…
In the middle chamber, Nightwatcher's eyes snapped open and she took a deep breath of air. She coughed as she took in air to her lungs. She could see the red warning lights outside her chamber. Her mind was fuzzy after she woke up. Then the memories were surging back into her mind.
"Nightwatcher! Get into the ship with Shift and Quicksilver! We need to get most of you out of here!" said a man with dark brown hair wearing a suit with an 'S' engraved on his chest.
"I'm not leaving you guys here! WE are not leaving you! We are Justice League, Superman! We still have time to stop the bombs!" The black clad woman shouted as she manned the controls of the Watchtower orbiting the planet Earth.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and she turned around to see him.
"We have time! Quicksilver…" She started to say.
"Not even Quicksilver could stop the bombs in time, Nightwatcher! Get to the ship. NOW!" He said as he dragged her over to the launching bays.
She saw the Martian and the speedster also arguing that they should stay and fight.
"I don't give a damn! My family's down there! I will even go faster than the speed of light to stop those bombs!" She shouted as she tried to shake off the supers that were pushing her into the ship.
Shift looked over at Nightwatcher with look of worry and maybe even anger.
"We must leave Selene. We don't have a choice." Sav'ra spoke as she entered the ship.
Nightwatcher looked at Superman one last time as well as her teammates that have been loading the ships.
"We don't have enough ships to get everyone out. We need to get those who can get out of here NOW." He said sternly.
Nightwatcher closed her eyes tightly. She could hear Quicksilver's crying about wanting to go back to Earth to be with her family. But she also heard the computer's warnings.
"Warning. Explosion imminent. Countdown in 30 minutes." The computer warned.
"Go Nightwatcher. Go with Shift and Quicksilver." Superman said as he left her, flying away from her.
She gritted her teeth and started to cry a final goodbye to her friend.
"Nightwatcher!" She could hear Shift behind her shout.
She turned around and ran to the ship that would take them away. The bay door shut and they were at the front of the ship.
"This isn't fair! We can stop those bombs…right?" Quicksilver said as she blurred up to Nightwatcher with pleading eyes.
Nightwatcher had to look away and looked outside the multi-glass barrier to her world. She felt despair. She felt small and weak. An alien criminal named 'Ilias' came to her world and screwed up everything. Stealing from big companies and starting wars in countries that had low crime rates that suddenly skyrocketed. The League thought that this wasn't unusual…until the word of bombs spread across the world. Turned out that there were thousands of bombs buried close to the molten lava under the Earth's surface. The League never stood a chance.
"This isn't fair…we're superheroes…we save the world. Not let it go to ruins." Quicksilver cried.
Nightwatcher looked back and her heart broke at the sight of Quicksilver. The normally bubbly speedster was crying her heart out. She still had family at home, her grandmother, her mother, and her little brothers; why should she live when they are going to die in less than thirty minutes?
"I'm not staying here." She stated as she got up quickly, but Nightwatcher from behind her, knocked her out before she took a step foreword.
"Forgive me Quicksilver." She said as she placed the young woman into a cryogenic chamber and entered in a code.
The chamber filled up and Quicksilver was under stasis.
She then felt something on her cheeks. She lifted a bare hand on her left side of her face and she looked at the same hand. She was crying tears…something that she never had done since her father's death when she was 16. Yes, she felt grief when she lost her close friends and other family members…but crying visibly? This was something foreign to her. Then she thought back to her maid back home on Earth. Janis has been her family maid since before she was born.
"Shift. I'll take over from here. You go into cryogenics. I can fly this out of here." She said to the green-skinned Martian woman.
The martian seemed reluctant to let Nightwatcher to fly the ship, but allowed it.
"Good luck." She said as she punched in her own code and stepped inside her chamber.
Nightwatcher turned on the engine and flew out of the bay. There were many ships behind her that were following. She turned on a communication system and called her maid. The line rang for about a couple of seconds before she heard Janis pick up.
"Lady Trinity?" She heard the voice of the woman who practically raised her when her father wasn't around. She cried. Oh, how she cried.
"Janis…I'm sorry…not even the Nightwatcher could stop this. If I could I'd…" She started to say.
"Lady Trinity, I have seen you grow into a marvelous woman and hero…I have to say that I am grateful to have been in your service." She heard the elderly woman's voice coming through the speaker.
"Janis…I wish…I wish I could take you with me." She said crying.
"Lady Trinity…Selene…I have grown old. I knew I would die sometime, but you have much more to live for." She said.
There was clanking in the background. Janis was most likely making her last cup of tea.
"What good is living if there is no home to go to?" She said as she looked back on last time at Earth.
"There is always a home to go to. You are Nightwatcher, Lady Trinity. There must always be a Dark Knight to protect the innocent. Selene…do an old woman a favor and keep living. I'll see you again…one way or another." Janis said finally.
"Goodbye Lady Trinity…Selene. Your father and mother would be proud." She said after a few moments of silence.
"Janis…Thank you…for everything."
The line went dead and everything went silent. Nightwatcher turned on the generator and sent the ship into lightspeed. She could see the other ships do the same…but they disappeared before her eyes. After what seemed like hours she stopped the ship and placed it into autopilot. The tears were still streaming as she entered the code for her chamber. She entered the chamber and she felt her body go under. Everything in her system shut down and she felt into the dark.
She took a deep breath before she rammed herself against the door of her chamber. Her muscles and body ached at the sudden movement, but she ignored the pain. The door of the chamber groaned at the sudden movements of its resident before it gave way, sending Nightwatcher to the ground. She gave a huff of breath masking the pain that radiated through her body. She forced her aching body to get up and man the controls. The ship was reaching dangerous speeds and she had to slow the ship down before they crash on some sort of god-forsaken planet.
"A-AIS…search for any…any nearby planet." She croaked out.
Who knows how long her throat has been misused since she froze herself.
Searching…searching…searching…
Nightwatcher's mind was still a little blurred, but she shook her head to clear it. She looked outside the glass and stars and planets passed her by, the ship was going too fast, at this rate, the ship will be torn apart before it can find a planet. She had to wake up the others. She had to search her mind to remember the pass codes for their chambers, and placed them in.
Chamber 2 and 3 canceled…initiating thawing process.
Planet Found…activating autopilot navigational systems…Warning! Booster jets low.
Not good. If the booster jets were losing power that only means that the trio of girls would die out here in space. Nightwatcher would not let that happen.
"AIS, reroute power to generators, cut off the booster jets until we reach our destination." She commanded.
She kept hitting keys to reroute power to places where it hasn't been used in a while. She needed to save energy to that the ship could enter a planets atmosphere without burning up. She could feel a presence wake up. She looked behind her and saw nothing but then…
Cryogenic Process: Shift…ending in 3…2…1…
The Lady Martian phased out of her chamber and she didn't seem to feel any of the effects of coming out of cryogenic freezing.
"Nice to see you are awake Sav'ra." Nightwatcher said as she grimaced as pain went through her hands.
She had to sit down in a chair hugged herself.
"You awoke first…I should have awoken instead Nightwatcher." The Martian woman spoke.
Nightwatcher chuckled. "You can scold me when we actually survive. I can't slow down the ship, and it found a planet to land on…if we can survive re-entry." She said as she got up.
Her stomach rumbled…. why would she be hungry at a time like this?
"Sav'ra, how soon will we be able to get to this planet?" She asked as she went over to Quicksilver's chamber.
"According to the calculations, we will be arriving in 10 minutes." Sav'ra said was she looked over at the computers.
"Ten? We better prepare ourselves." Nightwatcher said as she walked over to Quicksilver's chamber.
Cryogenic Process: Quicksilver…3…2…1…
Nightwing barely stepped aside before the chamber door flew off. A white blur ran out and punched Nightwatcher in the face and she went flying back, crashing into the wall behind her.
"HOW COULD YOU!?" Quicksilver's face was contorted in anger.
"I wanted to STAY Nightwatcher! How…could you?" She fell to her knees.
Nightwatcher knew that Quicksilver won't forgive her…but she didn't have a choice.
"Silvia…" Nightwatcher struggled to her feet and kneeled next to her friend.
"Listen to me…we keep living…we made a promise to keep living." Nightwatcher said as she awkwardly hugged her.
Quicksilver shuddered and Nightwatcher knew that she wouldn't be too mad for long, but she would grieve for her family. Who knows how long that would be?
"We are approaching the planet now…Prepare yourselves." Shift said as the warning alarms sounded throughout the ship.
Nightwatcher felt Quicksilver stiffen and take a deep breath. She got up and sat down in a chair and buckled herself in. Nightwatcher did the same.
"Is that what I think it is?" Quicksilver said as they approached the planet.
Nightwatcher was surprised as well. The planet that they are heading to…looks just likes theirs.
Warning! Warning! Ship speed increasing. Entering atmosphere countermeasures.
"CRAP! SHIFT!" Quicksilver shouted as they passed the moon and at alarming speeds they entered the atmosphere.
Shift was manning the controls as best she could. "Ais! Reroute all power to shields!" Shift commanded.
The shields went up and the front was starting to get hotter and hotter. The ship was groaning and shaking. Alarms sounded and red warning lights flashed everywhere. They were passing the stratosphere and the clouds. Nightwatcher could hear the ships starting to break.
"We're not gonna make it!" Quicksilver shouted as she clutched her arm rests.
Nightwatcher started to press buttons to slow down the ship enough so that they wouldn't turn to ashes.
"Hold on!" Nightwatcher shouted as the trio braced themselves.
The ship crashed hard onto land, skidding across the ground, metal was tearing off the ship and wires were flailing everywhere. The trio screamed in surprise as they crashed into a large rock. The trio of girls was in compromising positions. Nightwatcher was on top of Quicksilver straddling her and Shift was on top of Nightwatcher spread eagle.
"Um…Selene…as much as I think you are hot…you are heavy…" Quicksilver moaned.
"Shut up Silvia…Sav'ra, get off." She muttered.
Sav'ra floated off of Nightwatcher and she got off of Quicksilver.
"Where are we?" Quicksilver asked as she stood up and looked out the glass.
"I'm going outside, you two stay here okay?" Nightwatcher said as she placed on her fedora.
She opened the bay doors and walked outside. The heat hit her like a wave. The sun was shining so brightly it was hurting her eyes. As she stepped down from the ship, her eyes adjusted to the brightness. Observing the landscape and seeing trees and tall grass…and by the looks of giraffes and zebras in the distance… she figured they were in Africa. She fell to her knees as weakness came over her. She gave a breathy laugh as she smiled. They were alive. They were well and truly alive.
"Whoa…where are we?" She could hear Quicksilver behind her.
"It would seem that we are on earth… I believe that we must've…gone to a different dimension." Shift said as she too, observed her surroundings.
Silence fell on the women. "So…it wasn't a dream…" Quicksilver murmured.
Nightwatcher took a deep breath and heaved a big sigh. "We didn't have a choice…we are here…alive…that's all that matters."
"No…we left everything behind Selene…my family…your maid…her world…we lost everything." Quicksilver said as she gestured to her and Sav'ra.
Sav'ra, being the logical one, spoke after the silence.
"We need to get to a safer place. But we can't leave the ship here." She said, as she over looked the ruined ship.
Smoke was pouring out everywhere. "We need to change our clothing. Did you guys remember to pack what you needed?" Nightwatcher asked as she got up and walked back into the ship.
"Yeah…well I managed to anyways." Quicksilver said.
Nightwatcher went to the lesser-damaged part of the ship and opened up a door. There were three shelves in front of her. They held large duffle bags. She took the top one that held her stuff in it. She placed it onto the ground and opened it up.
There were only a few things she took with her. Such as a 500 yottabyte flash drive that she created many years beforehand should anything ever happen to her. Everything from her previous life is now in that flash drive. Her money was also on it. She was prepared definitely. She also had two spare changes of clothing as well as underwear. She had 4 picture frames in the duffle as well. One was of her where she was born with her parents in the hospital room; her father was an American, her mother was Japanese. The smiling couple was beaming at the camera as if nothing around them mattered. The next was her and her mother and father, when she was eight years old in front of the family fireplace, before her mother died of brain cancer five months later after the picture was taken. The third picture was of her and her father when she was going out to a father/daughter party for her father's company. She was wearing a silk blue halter gown and dangling crystal earrings, black hair pulled up in an elaborate braided bun and her father, with greying temples and bright green eyes, stood closely to her with his arm around her waist. Both father and daughter smiled into the camera. The last picture was of her and her maid. She was sitting on an elaborate throne-like chair and her elderly maid was standing right beside her. She was 21 in this picture, her father absent.
She heaved a sigh again and looked at the treasure that she managed to take with her. Her father's smoking pipe that had wolf engravings on it, her mother's silver pocketwatch that had a multi-tailed fox on the front, and her maid's gold and onyx family bracelet. She had her parent's rings. Her father's ring was tungsten with a silver band in the middle; her mother's was a silver ring with a sapphire gem in the middle flanked by two emeralds. The last treasure was the most precious; a hand-stitched plush toy made by her mother. It was a bat. It was worn by time, but it still held strong. The blue eyes were dulled and the ears were a bit tattered. She cradled it to her chest and let a few tears leak from her eyes.
"So I was wrong…The Wolf of the Dark does have emotions. I guess you were not as creepy and scary as I thought." She heard Quicksilver behind her.
She looked behind her, tears still flowing.
Quciksilver also got her stuff. It was on the bottom shelf. "I managed to grab my photo album and stuffed it to capacity of my family. And it looks like I'm not the only one with mementos." She said as she sat next to Nightwatcher.
"Is that a bat? I knew your family was strange." She chuckled.
Nightwatcher had to chuckle. "My mother made it for me after I was born. Batsy, and don't mention this to anyone, I will hurt you, was the one of two things that I trusted in the dark when I was a child. Nothing else." She said as she placed it back in the dufflebag and took out the change of clothes.
"What was the other thing?" Quicksilver asked.
"That is something that you will have to wait for. I'm not telling." Nightwatcher said as she took off her suit right then and there.
"Get your civilian clothes on. We need to get out and destroy this ship after we leave." She said as she put on her blue jeans and a white t-shirt.
"Why?" Quicksilver asked.
"We don't want attention drawn to us. The sooner we get going the sooner we can leave no trace that we have ever been here." Shift said as she walked into the ship.
"Exactly. Let's move." Night watcher said as she took off her mask and fedora.
Selene Trinity took after her mother. She was slender and toned from years of training; she had her father's sharper features, but her mother's face still shown through. Her almond shaped blue-green eyes shone through and her alabaster skin complemented the fact. She placed her suit, mask and fedora in her duffle, and zipped it back up.
"Shift, can you tell what year it is?" She asked as she looked back to Shift, who took the form of a younger human woman. She shifted into an olive skinned Italian woman with light brown hair in a braid, wearing khaki shorts, safari boots and a blue t-shirt. Her eyes also changed color to light reddish brown. Selene couldn't help but smile at the martian woman. She was still learning the ways of humans, despite the many years she had been on earth. Quicksilver then came out with two duffle bags; one of them was Shift's.
"I checked the computers…. the date is 2007 of May 24th." She said.
This confused Nightwatcher. "What? That's impossible." She said overlooking the computers...today was the day that her world was destroyed.
"Selene…I am inclined to believe that we have landed on the same earth…in a different dimension." She said with little emotion.
"Wait…a different dimension? You mean we are stuck here?" Quicksilver said fiddling with her denim vest.
Selene turned to the platinum blond haired woman. She was now wearing short shorts; yellow chuck taylors, and a red shirt with a thick strip of gold lightening going down diagonally on the front. She was wearing a demin vest over the shirt. Her hair that was usually up in a high ponytail was now let free to her shoulder blades.
"I can't belive we are doing this again…dimension hopping the worlds again…" She said as she gave the second duffle bag to the Martian.
"It isn't anything we haven't tackled before…this time though…we are not going back home." She said as she turned back to the two women.
"Silvia, how fast can you dismantle and destroy this ship?" Selene asked.
"It shouldn't take me too long. Why?" She asked with a confused face.
"We need to destroy any evidence that we are leaving here. We can't let this world know of our presence." Sav'ra spoke.
Silvia nodded and tossed her duffle to Selene.
"Leave it to me." She smiled as she popped her knuckles.
In a blur, she managed to tear apart the ship to its wires.
"What next?" She asked. "Gather all the red and green wires and get me the clock from the cock pit." Selene asked.
In another blur, Silvia gathered all the wires and the clock needed. She held the wires in on hand and the clock in the other.
"What are you doing with this?" She asked. Selene took the wires and clock from her and started to put something together.
"Uh…what's she making?" Silvia asked Sav'ra.
"A bomb…these wires are connected to the power source of the ship…it'll blow up in about…10 minutes." Selene smirked to herself.
Silvia's jaw dropped. "ARE YOU CRAZY?" She shouted.
"Nope. Now let's go! We have ten minutes." Selene spoke as she grabbed her duffle back and ran. Sav'ra and Silvia was right behind grabbing their bags and tailed out of there.
"You seriously think that blowing it up will do us some good?" Silvia asked, not breaking a sweat in the hot African sun.
"If we are to stay here on this new world, we must destroy out tracks. We cannot risk being found." Sav'ra said.
"Great, being in an alternate dimension just sucks even more." Silvia frowned.
"At least we are safe. We'll discuss things more once we reach a village." Selene said.
"Hopefully we may be able to live normal lives…maybe." She silently thought.
Little did the trio know, they were not the only heroes on this world.
The explosion sounded behind them, but they never looked back.
Five Hours Later…
The Dark Knight was searching around the demolished area with the Justice League. They have received an emergency call from Africa about something crashing in the savannah. Turned out, they were right. What ever blew up here, someone didn't want to be found. There were pieces of metal everywhere, but none large enough to take samples of and examine. The Caped Crusader growled at the sight. A red blur ran up to him. The Flash.
"Heya, Bats! So…anything you can find?" He asked with a happy tone.
"No. What ever crashed here is long gone." He said.
"Wow…so what? Invaders? Besides J'onn I mean." Flash joked.
"Very Funny, Flash." The Martian Manhunter spoke right behind him.
Flash nearly jumped at the sudden appearance.
"Dang it…freaking aliens." He muttered.
The other members of the League showed up as well; Shayera the Hawkwoman, John Stewart the Green Lantern, Princess Diana the Wonder Woman, and the last member, Clark Kent – Superman.
"I don't see anything within miles of this place. Whoever or whatever crashed here is long gone." John said as he crossed his arms.
"We can only hope that it's no threat." Superman said floating in the air.
"We won't know unless we try to find out. Unfortunately, there is nothing here for us to salvage. That is why they destroyed the tracks they left." Hawkwoman said with a frown.
"So, you guys this that this is where a ship crashed?" Flash asked.
"It wouldn't surprise me." John said.
"I'll have some people scour the area more. If anything comes up, I'll know about it." Batman said as he walked to the Bat wing.
"Okay…see ya bats!" Flash smiled.
Batman didn't like this. Someone crashed onto this world; they may have survived and destroyed the evidence. He will find out.
Sooner or later.
TAL21: HELLO WORLD! I know what you are thinking...TAl...what are you doing? Tal...STAHP! :Readers are hating': XD Okay this has basically been in my head for the past couple of weeks so i figure to put it up. The only problem is...i will only update this story maybe once time a month... maybe two times if i'm lucky. Since i have watched the Justice League series, I hacked into my comic book/cartoon fangirl-isms again and this popped out. XD The Batman, Flash, and Martian Manhunter have been my favorite heroes of the DC world. So i hoped you guys could give this a chance. Let me know if this interests you or not. Now if you will excuse me, i will be taking my week long hiatus. Those that have me on their watch list, Get ready for a new chapter for my Transformers stories: Silver Heart and Speed Demons. They will be coming next week! :D See you then! :D REVIEWS ARE WELCOME AND I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU! :D
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