OOC: I do not own Hawkgirl, Red Skull, or anything else. Just story and OC's.
Norwegian Sea. 2044. LexCorp ship.
Julius Luthor was on the ship railing, looking out to the sea. He been out here for a week, and yet no luck. She has to be. You may ask, who is she? Well...Shayera Hol. Hawkgirl.
You see, years back, a unknown terrorist organization call Hydra came out of no where and attack major cities around the world. They even attack Atlantis, and the Watchtower with ships of they own. Even now, the world knew very little about Hydra. What they did know was Hydra was some kind special weapons group in Nazi Germany. It's leader was a man name Johann Schmidt, better know as 'Red Skull.' Skull was Hitler right hand man. He wreak havoc throughout Europe in the early stages of the war. Espionage. Sabotage. Takeovers and lootings of many cities and towns. Eradication of the entire population of such communities. That was all Schmidt. It was then that Hydra was born to make new and powerful weapons to win the war, failing that, to destroy it. They made some bad stuff, but never in the numbers Germany needed. When the war was over, Red Skull and Hydra had turn into thin air. Till years later, they attack the whole world.
The attacks was hard, and fast. DC. London. New York. Moscow. Paris. Metropolis. Gotham. Them, and more was attack in Hydra blitzkrieg. They also hit Atlantis, and the Watchtower. The battle was long, and hard, but the heroes, and world fought back. Pushing the organization back, the last battle of the 'Hydra War' was the Justice League/NATO attack on Hydra main base, a island castle in the Norwegian Sea.
The Justice League/NATO task force was the largest invasion force since Operation Barbarossa, or D-Day. Hydra must have had the island since the end of World War 2, because it was one of the most fortified places in the world. The binary fusion cannon was destroy in the fight for the Watchtower, so they could not use that. The heroes and soliders fought they way from the beaches to the castle, in which they fought the robots of Baron Zemo. Dr. Heinrich Zemo, whose reddish-pink hood made Julius laugh, was one of the top scientists in the Nazi Party, and a founding member of Hydra. Zemo fought the heroes in the Iron Cross, a walking tank. It was Shayera, Batman, and Green Lantern that beat him. When drag out of the bot, Zemo show them Hydra true plan. To launch a super ICBM at DC, that would destroy the East Coast of the USA.
The heroes, with this news, made a suicidal run to Red Skull command center to stop him, but they was too late. Red Skull launch the ICBM, but not before Shayera got on it. No one knows what happen, but somehow, Hawkgirl destroy the ICBM before it got to the US. With that, both Skull, and Zemo turn into thin air, and Hydra was no more. The world celebrated, but also mourn. Mourn not only the lives lost in the Hydra War, but for the lost of Hawkgirl. If not for her Sacrifice...they would be no East Coast.
Many had believe that she was vaporize in the bast, but many, like Batman, and John Stewart believe she was alive. They was a ton of search and rescues for her right after the battle, but not a thing of her was found. In the end, only Stewart kept on looking for her in the years to come till even he stop.
That's why Julius was here. To find her. He believe she had made it in someway, and it was up to him to find her. You may know from his last name he was a Luthor. He was Lex Luthor son. You see, Lex came back to Earth right before the Hydra War started. He play a key role in war on the sides of the heroes. He told no one of what happen to Darkseid, or how he came back. Only after the war was over, and the funeral that Lex had gone back to the role of the supervillain. Somethings never change, sadly. As for how Julius was born, Lex knew even he would die, so he found a woman, gave her a ton of money to have his baby, and that's how he was born.
As he look out at the sea, Mercy came up to him. "Mr Luthor. We have finish searching this area. May we go to the look search area?" She ask. "Hmm? Oh. yes, thank you Mercy. He said to the android. Yes, this was not the real Mercy Graves. The real one had die right after he was born. Mercy death hurt Lex, so he built a android of Mercy Graves. The android look just like the real one, and as loyal to Julius as the real one was to Lex.
He walks around the railing, thinking on the real reason he was here. To be a hero. For years, people talk behind his back, or even in his face, that it was only a matter of time before he follow in his dad footsteps and become a supervillain, just like Lex. How he hated it! He may be Lex son, but he would nit follow the same path of father. He wanted to do good! To help people, not to rule over them, like his father, or form a new Injustice Gang, or Legion of Doom. He always got into fights over it at school. Lex would say he should have fought harder, or he should have hit first. It was a good thing Mercy was they when a lot of the fights happen.
He and Mercy got to the bridge. "Any luck, captain?" He ask. The captain, a French vet of the Hydra War and a good man, turn to him. ""Non, M. Luthor. We have are yet to find anything of the faucon." Julius nod and looks at some maps of the search areas. Where could she be? The waters was cold enough to preserved the body. He looks out the widow, and sees a large ice-burg. He suddenly get a feeling. The feeling. What was it? Can it be? "Captain, can we get near that ice-burg?" "Yes, monsieur. Be right over they." The ship got right next to it. The feeling got even stronger. Mercy look at Julius as he got his gear on to go on the ice-burg. "Never better." He said as he smiles.
He, Mercy, and the other members of the team get on the ice-burg. "Mercy. What do you see?" he ask the android as she scan it. "I see...wait. I found something. Near the central. A body. Female. Thanagarian." As soon as Mercy said 'Thanagarian' Julius rush to the place. He brush away the snow and he sees a body. The body of Shayera Hol.
" We found her! I say again, we found her!"