Well I've written five chapters so far because I got so much inspiration resently. Please don't hurt me for theis story. Chapter five is mean already, so wait till then before you pass too mcuh judgment.
For this story to make sense, (and this chapter), you may want to read the last chapter of Fight For Your Life. This is the sequel, hope you enjoy!
A team of Superheroes were gathered on each deck level of the Watch Tower looking out into an area of Space where a Time Vortex had opened not twenty minutes before. Green Lantern and a suited up Superman had both gone out to carefully investigate the portal and take readings of it.
"Anything?" John asked, AKA The Green green Lantern.
"I'm not getting much radiation or chemical reactions. It appears safe." Superman said.
John flew a little closer and looked in to the vortex. It was about twenty feet long and seemed to have ripped away the structure of space, almost like a tear in paper. The pair floated for a few minutes, waiting for news from Batman and J'ohn to tell them anything new about it.
Just as John was getting impatient, Batman suddenly came across the comm. link.
"Get away from it!" They heard. "Levels are increasing, it might open further."
The pair drifted back from it and the dial in Superman's hand started blipping, going off the chart.
"There's something coming through!" John shouted, watching a red object swirling in the white space and coming to the lip of the vortex. With a cracking sound the object was flung out into space and the vortex sucked back on itself till, with a pop it disappeared and John and Clark were left staring into another open bit of space, exactly the way it was meant to be.
"What is it?" Batman asked over the Comm. Link, leaning down to the screen to take a look at the object in space.
"It's…" John flew over to it and grabbed it in one hand, turning it around. "A chair." He said, not quite believing it himself.
"A Chair?" Superman asked, floating over to take a look.
"One of our chairs." J'ohn added, also looking at the screen where a better picture had come up.
It took a matter of minutes for John to pull the chair into the Watch Tower where several tests had quickly been run to check the safety. Members of the science team on the Watch Tower took pictures of the chair and then put it through a quarantine procedure in case of microorganisms that had attached themselves on the journey.
After all tests came back clear the chair was brought up to the control room where Shayera had said she had found a possible matching chair. Confused by this several of the heroes had joined the core team.
"You think its this chair?" Wonder Woman asked.
"Look at the shape, single leg, the arms and the symbol on the back, it has to be this one." Shayera insisted.
"We have so many of these in the meeting room though." Green Lantern added.
"With the cereal code 00916?" She said, raising an eyebrow.
"So, could it be from another time?" Flash asked.
"Might be." Superman agreed.
"We have come across this before." J'ohn added. Most of the Government already knew about the Justice Lords, as well as all staff and other Heroes on the Watch Tower.
J'ohn glided around the chair and inspected it. There were burn marks across the back and seat of the chair. He dragged it over and leaned it next to its matching chair so it could stand up. He turned and glanced out the window in front of it. They were on the central deck where the main controls for the ship were.
"We may never know where it came from, when or how it came here." J'ohn concluded, still staring out the window.
"Or how it got out of their Watch Tower?" Flash suggested, receiving nods from those around him.
The group descended into silence as they thought. It was quickly broken by Flash.
"I might know someone who can help." He said, looking up to the group watching.
"Yeah?" Green Lantern asked.
"I'll go talk to her." He said, walking off towards the main quarters. "Just let me get changed." Since everyone knew his identity up at the Watch Tower he tended to just change into his civilian attire and go down like that unless he was called off to an emergency as The Flash.
He dressed quickly in dark jeans, a black FCUK top and then grabbed Gabriel's coat. Since getting out of the Gladiator arena and getting out of the medical bay on the Tower he had taken to wearing the coat when he was Wally West. Few people had mentioned it, but he knew all had noticed it.
He quickly found himself at the teleporting room where he found Shayera and Green Lantern dressed in casual clothing. Raising and eyebrow at them and paused.
"We're coming with you." John explained, walking over to one of the teleporting platforms.
"I can manage on my own." He said, walking over to set in the destination.
"We're not doubting you. We just want to be there to explain things about what happened." Shayera told him.
Wally felt rage bubble up inside him and he whirled round on her. "You don't think I can explain it in technical terms?" he half shouted, his face flushed red.
"No!" Shayera cried. "We just want to be there, to meet her." She said, shocked at the outburst.
"Whatever." Wally muttered stepping onto the platform and waited for Shayera to join them.
They beamed an at the bottom of a block of flats. The street was quiet and darkening to night. Wally strolled over to one of the doors and instead of pressing a numbered button he pulled out a set of keys and opened the security door, motioning for Shayera and John to go first.
"Second floor." He said, indicating to the stairs on their left.
They limbed up in silence, the other two glancing back in worry at Wally. He slipped past them when they got onto the second floor and he led the way down a long corridor where he knocked on a door and let himself in. The other two stepped in after him.
"Phoenix?" he called out.
"Flash!" A young girl called, rushing forward.
"Hey Amanda." He greeted the girl, a grin set on his face as the girl hugged into his side and he patted her head.
"Hello Wally my dear." A middle aged woman stepped out of the kitchen and then bent to speak to Amanda. "Go ask Mrs Haillor if she'll look after you and the others tonight, I have some business with my friends here." She indicated to Shayera and John who both frowned. The Girl skipped past the pair at the door and went off down the corridor.
"The others are out playing with friends." The woman, Phoenix said, pulling Wally into a soft hug. "Its good to see you so soon." She said, sitting in a rocking chair and indicating to the sofa and single padded chair. Wally sat down with a thank you and Shayera and John slowly sat onto the sofa.
"How are you settling in?" Wally asked.
"Very well thank you. Gabriel would have loved it." Phoenix sighed, eying the coat Wally wore. "The other love it as well." She added.
"I guess you know why we're here." Wally stated.
"Yes I do. And I'm willing to help." She smiled. "Well lets not sit here." She said, standing up and heading for the door, she slouched over slightly with age, but her face still had a line of youth and her voice had a young tune to it.
Shayera found it hard to guess her age. Either she was old, but had held a line of youth, or she was young, and aged before her time. "Come on." John said, touching her arm and breaking her trail of thought.
The pair followed Phoenix and Wally outside the building and ordered for the four to be teleported up.
Well, how's that for a start?