Chapter 1: Bangkok

Several thuds echoed off the walls in a massive building. The thuds continued, the source of the noise was coming from a young man punching a heavy bag. He had his chin tucked in, so his eyes were pointed toward the middle of the bag.

Dark hair hung down to nearly meet his brown eyes, and a black T-shirt sticking to his chest and back. After another solid blow, his knuckles tore open causing him to grimace. With his other hand; he punched the bag, sending the bag flying backward. As the bag flew backward from the impact, the chain giggled against the ceiling.

The bag flew back toward him, so he jumped backward; effectively dodging it.

"Hard at work, I see." Said a deep coming from behind him.

The young man turned to see a cloaked figure with an iconic bat plastered on his chest. The Batman looked at him through his cowl, and the man felt like a little kid once again, being scolded by his parents.

"There a problem, sir?" He asked.

"Superman is about to give a speech. I suggest you attend."

"So I didn't do anything wrong?"

"I don't know, did you?"

He shook his head.

"You know you're supposed to wrap your knuckles, Bangkok."

"Yeah, I know..." Bangkok examined his bloody knuckles. "It's worse than I thought it was." He reached into his pocket, and he pulled out some white bandages. He carefully wrapped it around his hand, and he looked back up, to see he was alone in the room. The Caped Crusader had left the room while he was bandaging his wound.

Bangkok walked out of the room, and down a long hallway to a big building filled a large array of heroes, of all sizes and colors. He looked up to see a man standing above everyone else on a platform, with an unmistakable pentagon with an S on his chest.

"Each of you brings something different to the table." Superman began. "Strength, speed, stealth, whatever. We are all equal in at least one way. Each of us is willing to make the sacrifices a hero is willing to make. Even the ultimate one." He paused. "But sense there are so many of us, we have a chance to do more than put out fires, both literally and figuratively. We can be proactive. We can do some real good in the world. But we're going to have to be organized." He gestured above him to the right. "J'onn will be up here, keeping an eye on everyone. He'll be the one to decide who's going where and when."

J'onn J'onzz smiled at the crowd, but no one paid him much mind.

"I know a lot of you are used to making those decisions for yourself. But from now on, we have to be more coordinated than that. We can't be cowboys anymore." He smiled. "Or cowgirls."


Bangkok was sitting a small lunch table, eating yogurt with a plastic spoon.

"Hey, kid." A hand landed on his shoulder.

He turned to see Green Lantern standing there. "You should come with us. I could use someone like you."

"What are you doing, sir?"

"Radiation control. But the radiation spot is moving, so it could possibly be a radioactive creature that we need to stop."

"And that's where I come in." He nodded. "I need to get a few things, and then I'll be ready."

Bangkok threw the rest of the yogurt away, and he ran to his room. He grabbed a leather jacket, and swung it over his shoulder. He put a pair of golden sunglasses on his face, stuffed a phone with headphones in his pocket, and he grabbed a pair of leather gloves. He ran back to Green Lantern, who was standing with a young woman around Bangkok's age, and a barrel-chested man covered from head to toe.

"Any of you been to Chiang Mai?" Lantern asked.

"It's on the state department's no travel list." Captain Atom said. "It's a class three felony for American Citizens to go there."

Bangkok sighed. "So that's what I'm here for? I'm going to be a translator?"

"You do speak Thai, don't you?"

"Yeah, I lived there until I was twelve." He groaned again. "I don't like translating. It's like trying to ride a bike and walk at the same time."

Suddenly, an archer in green ran up behind them. "You aren't going to leave me up here on Mount Olympus, are you?"

"You can go back the way you came." Lantern answered.

"No one's playing pinball with my molecules again."

"Alright, we can drop you off after we're done."


As the group got into the airplane, Bangkok took his phone from his pocket, and he put his earphones in.

Before he could turn any music on, Supergirl nudged him. He took the earphones out. "So what can you do?" She asked.

"Any damage done on me, I can turn that into power, and add it to my strength." He lifted his bandaged hand to eye level. Some blood soaked through the bandage. "Say my normal strength... I could punch with a hundred pounds of force. With this hand wound, I could punch a hundred twenty five pounds of force." He punched at the air, then he turned to her. "And you have all the same powers as Superman, right?"

"Yeah. What's your name?"

"Narai Chao. Most people call me Bangkok, because that's where I'm from."

"That's in... China, right?"

"Close. Thailand, which is where we're headed now. What is your name?"

"Kara. Kara or Supergirl."

Narai nodded. "Kara it is, then. Who's the big guy?"

"Captain Atom. The archer is Green Arrow, and the last guy's Green Lantern."

"John Stewart." He called from the cockpit.


A few hours later, they landed. John, Captain Atom, Kara, and Narai got off the plane. Narai had his gloves on, and his leather jacket. He lifted his sunglasses, and examined the horizon seeing half of a forest burned down.

"Looks like we missed the party." Supergirl commented.

"We'll do reconnaissance. If you see anything, don't try to engage."

The group walked forward, toward the burnt forest. Just then, something caught Bangkok's eye. he turned to see a solider standing there with a rocket in his hand. "Lantern!" He swiftly stepped behind Supergirl, as the Green Lantern made a forcefield, which the Thai soldiers started shooting at.

"Thanks for using me as a shield." Kara rolled her eyes.

"Hey, you're the one who's bulletproof. I'm just some guy that can punch things. Then he can break his knuckles and punch things harder." He cleared his throat, and started yelling in a language none of them could understand. Eventually, the soldiers stopped firing, and several of them came down to the heroes' level. After hearing the sound of gunfire, Green Arrow ran to the others.

One of the Thai soldiers started speaking.

"My apologizes for the fireworks." Bangkok translated. The man spoke again. "Colonel Kim here was a farmer before the revolution. He doesn't know who you are. I am General Kwan." The man spoke again. "I am most flattered that the Justice League has honored us with their presence." Bangkok put his own commentary in; "He sounds like he's being sarcastic." The man spoke again. "But why are you here?"

"You had some kind of nuclear accident." Green Lantern said. Bangkok translated.

The man spoke once again. "A minor problem. Fully under control." Bangkok clenched his jaw, and he pointed to the forest, and he started talking in Thai once again. The man responded, then walked away.

"What was that last part?" Supergirl asked.

"He said how much of a tool he is, and how we should leave." Narai pushed up his sunglasses.


Narai was sleeping in his chair, when Supergirl shook him awake. "Hmm?" He took off his sunglasses, and looked around. "Are we under attack?"

"No, Green Arrow left... we need to go find him."

He ran his fingers through his hair. "Let's go, then."


Bangkok was looking around, and he found some freshly burnt forest. He could tell, because it was still smoking. He looked around, and he saw a large fire off in the distance. And it was moving like a sentient being. He gestured to the fire, and Supergirl nodded. "Yeah, I see it. Let's go." She lifted him up from the armpits, and flew toward the beast.

"This goes against everything my mother taught me while I was a kid." He told her.

Quickly, they found the monster who was massive with a skull of fire and blood red armor around his entire body. Punching the monster in the ankle area, Bangkok thought he could knock the beast over. The beast stomped at him, but he jumped backward.

The monster blasted a flaming beam at him, but Supergirl flew him out of the way at the last second. "My attacks aren't going to work against him, so we'll need to try something else." He said.

The beast, distracted with Captain Atom, swatted at the air. Atom was hit by the third swing, and it knocked him to the ground.

"I gotta go help him!" Supergirl flew over to him.

Bangkok turned to see Green Lantern using his energy to create a bridge so people could cross without falling down into a river that was about a hundred feet beneath them.

"Looks like it's just you and me, kid." Green Arrow said, stringing an arrow and firing at the beast. It aimed it's hand at the two of them, but then Supergirl flew into him with several punches to the head. The monster swatted her out the air just like Atom.

The monster decided to go for some low hanging fruit, and blasted Green Lantern out of the air.

"Crap!" Bangkok ran over to Green Lantern and lifted him up into the air. He bit into his lip as hard as he could, and blood ran from his mouth. He ran back to the ship, while avoiding getting stomped by the monster.

`Lying in a bed, was Green Lantern covered in wounds, and his costume torn across his chest and his right arm.

"Good thinking getting him back here." Captain Atom said. "But the giant monster got away, thanks to Arrow." He turned to the archer. "If you hadn't went off on your own, we could have been more prepared for this."

Bangkok rolled his eyes. "Come on, Kara. Let's go take that beast down. I bit my lip really hard a minute ago so I could put more power into my legs, so I could run faster. So I can use that in my fists as well. I don't know what I'll do, but I need to do something."

"The man you spoke to must know something. Find him, and figure out how to stop that beast."


Finding several men in hazmat suits, Bangkok began to question them. The man shook his head. Narai growled, and pressed his fingers into the man's chest, hissing profanities in Thai. After threatening to kill him and feed his corpse to a pack of wild dogs, the man told him what to do.

"There are metal rods over there." Bangkok pointed to a crate. "Those things are what we need to defeat it- we need to stick one in the hole it has in it's chest."


Green Arrow and Bangkok had to run to keep up with Supergirl and Captain Atom flying. Once they were reasonably close, they all stopped.

"Supergirl and I will go right up to him. You contact the league if things goes wrong." Atom said.

Arrow and Atom shook hands, as Atom charged the beast. Bangkok watched as Atom was knocked from the air, and then the monster blasted him with the radiation attack.

"Son of a..." Narai shook his head. "What do we do, Arrow?" Just then, Atom flew up into the air. "He's still-" Then he flew even higher, too high for any of them to see, and he exploded. Narai ran over and grabbed the rods that Atom dropped. Green Arrow grabbed several for himself as well.

The archer fired at the beast's chest, only missing by inches, an the monster fired a beam at him. Narai hurled a pole at it, missed by several yards, and the beast turned to him. Narai turned and fled, as the monster blasted energy at him. The young man managed to avoid the blast, and he hid behind a tree. He was breathing incredibly heavily.

He fell to the ground. "Is this it?" He mumbled. He lifted his fingers to his ear to contact the Justice League. Then he remembered he had his earbuds in, so he took out his communicator. He turned around the tree to see the monster was walking away from him. He sighed of relief. "What do I do...? I can't just sit here..."

He watched as Green Arrow shot the monster in the chest with a beam tied to an arrow, and then Supergirl flew into it with a punch knocking it to the ground. The beast's flames went out.


Supergirl was standing in front of Captain Atom's room, where they were healing him. Bangkok was standing next to her. "I was utterly useless out there." He looked at his wounded hand, and clenched his fist.

"Don't say that, you carried John away after he was injured. You translated for us, and you distracted the monster while Green Arrow readied for another shot."

"Yeah, things that anyone else could have done at least a hundred times better." He turned his back to her. "Well, I'm going to go lick my wounds. See ya later, Supergirl."

"Come on, Bangkok... don't be like that."

He turned and smiled at her. "Don't worry, I'll just need to train twice as hard so I'm not garbage for our next mission." He offered her a handshake, and she took it.


Notes: I hope you enjoyed this story, I randomly came up with the idea while playing an online game called DC Universe Online. I looked up Chiang Mai, and it is actually a city in Thailand. I created Bangkok before I knew that, so it was just worked out. If you are unfamiliar with my other work, I am a big fan of anime and I might take some inspiration from that.