REIGN OF KRYPTON #0.1
"Calm Before the Storm Part 1: Flash& GL"
Written by Ivan Krolo
*Editors Note 1: This story takes place after the current run on GL & Flash by CaptainTightpats12
*Editors Note 2: The lead up to this event has been built up to in the DC Prime: Superman tittle, reading it, though not mandatory, will help explain certain changes to various Kryptonian characters and backstory.
Central City, 12:36 CTD
"Oh my god! It's ssoooo booorrriinnggg!" Exclaims an annoyed Wally, while wearing his Kid Flash costume, as he races across the city streets with his uncle Barry, the Flash, running slightly ahead of him, and chuckles at his nephew's statement as they avoid everything from the cars to the civilians on their daily patrol.
"Trust me Kid, once the first couple months of excitement pass, you'll be begging for a nice and boring day like this one all the time." The two zigzag around a large group of vehicles waiting for the stop light to turn green.
"Oh c'mon boss, we're superheroes! There's no way this could ever not be exciting!"
Before Barry can respond to his partner, the radio inside his earpiece goes off. "All units please respond, a robbery is in progress at the Central City Main Bank, eye witness accounts suggest that the Rogues are the ones behind it, approach with extreme caution."
Barry turns to his nephew with a serious look on his face. "Looks like you'll be seeing some action today Kid."
Immediately the teens frown was replaced by a big pleased smile. "Yes!" He exclaims to while following his mentor to the bank, both increasing their speed to arrive there quicker. In a matter of seconds, they're close enough to the bank, and spot the Rogues running out of it with large bags of money towards a car.
"Looks like its Cold, Tricker, Mirror Master, Boomerang, and Heat wave this time." Says Barry as the two approach their foes while they're busy putting in the money from their heist into the getaway car.
"I'll dismantle the wheels so they can't get away, you keep them busy alright?"
"Got it!" He nods at his mentor, and splits off from him to take a separate route via another r street while Barry speeds up to take out the car. Noticing his foe from the driver's window, Cold scowls at him before opening the top hatch of the car, and firing on him from there while the Rogues put all the money in.
"You're not stopping us this time Flash!" He yells as his weapon freezes the ground in front of the car, forming a giant and ever growing wall of ice between the vehicle and the speedster.
"Colds not gonna stop firing that thing, guess its time to take a little detour." Barry thinks before vibrating through a nearby building left of the ice wall, and emerging through it a couple seconds later with a smirk on his face much to Colds annoyance.
"Now he can't freeze anything without trapping himself, and the others in that spot." Barry thinks before running at the annoyed Cold, he turns around to call the others to his aid only to see all of them minus Captain Boomerang knocked out by Kid Flash.
"Man you guys are really not on you A game today!" KF exclaims as he casually avoids the boomerangs tossed at him while Captain Boomerang snarls at him in anger. "You annoying little bugger! Stand still or I—"
Before he can finish his sentence, KF runs behind him and using his increased strength, performs a wedgie on him while he screams in pain much to Wally's amusement.
"Oh that's low mate!" He exclaims while kneeling on floor, and trying to ease the pain in his behind while Wally stands next to him with his hands on his hips with a smirk.
"Sorry dude, I always wanted to try it and you were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time." Knowing that Barry might berate him for playing around too much, Wally kicks Boomerang in the face, knocking him out too not drag the battle out.
Cold's left eye twitches in anger at the sight before he unleashes a yell of pure rage at the top of his lungs. "As if one of you wasn't bad enough, now there's this kid too! What's next, a Flash Girl?"
Wally rubs his chin while turning around to face Captain Cold. "A Flash Girl eh… I love it! She can be the Batgirl to my Robin!" At that, instant Flash himself appears next to his protégé with his arms crossed. "Hey chief, can we please have a Flash Gi—"
"No way, it's hard enough keeping track of you as is, having another one deal with, by the way *he turns to the disgruntled Cold* your tires are gone."
Gulping at the thought of things getting worse, Cold cautiously looks around the car and feels his heart sink upon noticing that the tires are indeed gone. "There are no words to describe how much I hate you guys right now."
Knowing he's pretty much lost at this point, Cold climbs on top of the car and points his gun at the two speedsters while putting the weapon at maximum power. "Might as well make my last stand a worth while oneAAAAGGGGHHH!"
Suddenly he finds himself floating several feet off the ground as green chains wrap around his body, causing him to drop his gun in the process. He tries break through them to no avail when he sees the one responsible for this descends from the sky.
"Green Lantern?! Oh c'mon! Why the hell are you here?"
"Just passing by to say hi to my buddy, now hold still *a large baseball bat construct forms from his ring with Hal smirking* cause I've always wanted to try this and I don't want you to ruin it for me!
Removing the chains from Cold, Hal swings the giant bat and sends the villain flying across the street and right into a dumpster as the police converge on the bank to deal with the situation.
"Does he always show off like that?" Asks Wally while Barry laughs at the sight.
"Pretty much, but you get used to it, especially if it's funny like this." He points to the police dragging a dazed Captain Cold out of the dumpster much to hero's amusement. Hal descends from the sky, landing next to the speedsters and performs a secret handshake of sorts with Barry.
"Flash my man! It's been a while since you and I cracked some bad guy skulls together!"
"Kinda hard when you're always off fighting aliens and traveling the universe Han Solo style." He retorts.
"Yeah, yeah, you can act all witty about if it if you want, but I bet you'd kill to go into outer space."
"You'd lose that bet, I'll keep my feet planted firmly here on Terra Nova thank you very much. Besides, id have to take this guy with me too *he points his thumb to Wally* and I'm not sure the universe is ready for him."
"You bet its not!" Exclaims a pleased Wally. "Those alien guys you hang out with would be in awe of my earthly awesomeness too much to do their jobs right!"
"So this is your partner I've been hearing about eh, name—"Hal extends his hand with Wally immediately grabbing it and shaking it at super speed excitedly.
"Green Lantern, I know! I've been dying to meet you ever since the boss here took me under his wing! Please tell me there's a kid GL or Green Nightlight I can have team ups with too!"
Hal merely rubs the back of his head, and chuckles. "Sorry Kid, no side kicks yet but if I get one you'll be the first to know, I promise."
Wally's smile vanishes as he stops shaking Hal's hand. "Oh… okay, man, why do I keep getting shafted of all the partners?"
The older hero's chuckle as Wally contemplates the reasoning for this only for it to be interrupted by Hal's ring glowing, which catches their attention. "Alert, alert! Extra dimensional activity detected in the planets stratosphere, threat level omega, code black!"
"Uhh, what does that mean?" Asks a worried Wally while Hal gets a serious look on his face.
"It means something from another dimension is breaking through into ours and it's gotta be some thing real bad if the rings going crazy like this."
Then a loud static noise is heard going off all over the place from police radios, to nearby phones and televisions with even the ring noticing it. Barry tries to turn the sound off his to prevent the noise in his ear to no avail when it stops.
The ring creates a small projection of what ever is responsible for it, revealing a middle-aged man with black hair, alien armor covering most of his body and a symbol resembling the one worn by Superman.
"Oh this can't be good…" States a nervous Wally while he and everyone else either watch or listen in on what's happening.
To be continued next issue with a special team up between Batman & Zatanna in the hours leading up to Reign!