Disclaimer: I do not own Static Shock or the Justice League.

All thoughts are typed in italics. All news reports look like *this*.

This is my own version of Static Shock Season five.


Season Five, Episode One:

The Return of the Shadow

It was almost dawn when a man, who could only be described as a living shadow, pulled himself out of the water by the docks. He was exhausted, battered, and bruised. Nonetheless his spirits were high as he looked down at his hands and chuckled to himself, noticing they were once again black. Fading into the shadows he said aloud, "I'll get you for this hero."


Hawkins household:

Virgil rolled over and looked at his clock. 10:00. Aw man, good thing it's Saturday, otherwise I would have missed school. He got dressed and then went downstairs for breakfast.

"Hey Pops."

"Good morning son," Robert Hawkins replied, as his son sat down for breakfast.

"Sharon home?" Virgil questioned.

"No."

"Guess this is safe to eat than," Virgil joked.

"Virgil!" His father said, warningly

"Sorry Pops, what's up?" He asked, noticing his father was reading the newspaper.

"Nothing interesting son. I do want to ask you though, what happened last night, you seemed pretty tired."

"Ebon stole some Big Bang gas and went down to the docks, Richie and I followed to try and stop them. The gas went off so Richie and I got our powers back, but Hotstreak and Ebon fused together. Luckily we were able to beat them and the ship sank to the bottom of the lake. It was no big deal."

"Did anyone else get infected?"

"No, all of the old Bang Babies weren't on the ship when it happened because they were looking for Hotstreak. Just Rich, Ebon, Hotstreak, and I were re-infected. Luckily the gas didn't spread off the ship." Virgil stated, getting up and putting his plate in the sink.

"So does this mean you two are going to continue being superheroes?"

"Yeah, Richie is going to make us a little cure for the cure incase Dr. Todd tries to spread it throughout the city again, and because it's still lingering. Anyways I'm going to go meet Richie so we work on it, OK Pops?"

"I suppose," Mr. Hawkins replied with a sigh. I still don't like the idea of those two going out and facing danger every day. At least there are no more Bang Babies to deal with.


Abandoned Gas Station of Solitude:

"Hey Rich what's up?" Virgil questioned.

"Nothing much, just working on our little cure for the cure," came the reply.

"I'm going to go on patrol, wanna come?"

"Na, I'll just finish this and have it ready when you come back."

"Deal, see ya later bro."


Abandoned Gas Station of Solitude:

Three hours later

"I'm back Rich," Static stated, taking of his mask.

"How did it go?" Richie asked.

"Not much activity now that the bang babies are gone, stopped a robbery, caught a purse thief, restarted a broken down car stopped on the train tracks, overall, nothing big. I noticed that my powers are slipping away again though."

"Yeah, the cure is still in the air, luckily I'm done, so we won't have to worry about that anymore," Richie said turning around with a syringe in his hand.

"Aw, man, why do you have to use needles?" Virgil complained, now in his street clothes.

"Do you want to stay Static or not? C'mon I already injected myself, I can feel it workin' V."

"Fine," Virgil sighed, "Let's get this over with already."


Dakota Union High School:

Lunch – Two days later

"Yo Rich, what's up?" Virgil asked.

"Nothing much V. That little antidote I cooked up appears to be working though, brain capacity at 100%," Richie added, whispering so they couldn't be overheard.

"Me too, Pops had me fix the toaster yesterday."

"So he knows we're going to continue as superheroes?"

"Yeah, doesn't seem too happy about it but he hasn't said any thing yet."

"What about Sharon?"

"She's still on my case about not doing chores, but Pops knowing sure helps out a lot."

"Hey guys what with the low voices?" questioned one of the two girls walking over to their table.

"Nothing much," Virgil replied jokingly, "Just planning on how to take over the world."

"Cut it out Virg," replied the other girl.

"Sorry Daisy, I guess someone can't take a joke," He said to Richie.

"Didn't you hear what happened Virgil?" Frieda interrupted, sitting down next to Richie as Daisy sat down next to Virgil and across from her.

Richie perked up. "No, why what happened?" He hadn't been able to watch the news last night and wondered if something had happened. Both Virgil and him had stayed up late to write the English paper due that day after a long day of patrolling and both of them went to bed tired.

"Ebon showed up."

"What?!?" Both Virgil and Richie exclaimed. "I thought all the Bang Babies were gone for good after that cure got released," Virgil added.

"But didn't you know, Ebon's not the only one running around still. Both Static and Gear managed to escape the affects of the cure."

"Really?" Richie replied, feigning surprise. "Well, at least there is some good news."

"So what did Ebon do?" Virgil asked.

"He showed up at the police station looking for Static, told them to ask Static to meet him at the docks tonight, or someone is going to get hurt. From the news footage, it looked like he meant business."

Virgil and Richie share a concerned look.


The Docks:

Monday Night

"Show yourself Ebon," Static demanded.

"Well, well, well, if it isn't my two least favorite heroes," came a voice from the shadows.

Gear grabbed one of his newly invented Zap Caps. This was similar to his first invention but instead of holding electricity it help light. Like a glow in the dark toy all you had to do was leave it out in the light. However, the light was far brighter than a mere glow in the dark toy. Flinging it near where he had heard Ebon's voice he and Static covered their eyes. They heard Ebon yell in pain.

"It's going to take more than that to stop me heroes!" Ebon exclaimed.

"How about this?" Static joked, throwing a nova burst at Ebon.

Ebon dodged and then stretched out a long arm knocking Gear unconscious against a wall.

"Hey!" Static said, preparing another nova burst.

"I came prepared hero," claimed Ebon, dumping a bucket of water on Static. Static shorted out quickly and fell to the ground. Ebon was beginning to reach for him when Static grabbed a lamppost and absorbed its energy, enough to get him in the air again.

"You should know better than that by now Ebon," Static taunted as Ebon let out a frustrated growl. Static prepared a third nova burst, this time managing to hit Ebon with it. As Ebon let out another yell of pain Static grabbed another lamppost to add its energy to his reservoir. "Hope you like my new trick Ebon, I've been practicing." He then created what would normally be a force field/shield, but this time it was around Ebon, preventing him from escaping. He flew down to Gear who was just getting up. "You OK bro?" He asked.

"Yeah, I'll be alright. I see you've already caught Ebon though."

"Yeah, better call in the cops so they can take him away."

"Backpack's already on it."

And with that the two heroes flew away into the night.


I hope you liked it, this was my first fanfic. If you see any errors, think the episodes should be longer or shorter, or that someone is out of character, let me know.

Next episode is The Spider and the Bat Part 1, any guesses?

R&R