Legends Never Die
Chapter 1 "It's hard to say goodbye."
(Gotham Finical District – Present day)
The robot created by Toyman continued to lay waste to the buildings and cars in its way. The moment Batman and Robin landed an explosive nerf dart landed next to them knocking them both into the street. Circe smiled at this and watched as Joker and Harley Quinn jumped in the fun. Joker let out an evil laugh and tried to hit Batman with a gas grenade, but the dark knight was able to dodge it. After several minutes of stand still Circe decided to have a little fun. She waved her hands and the pavement formed three golems. They walked toward Batman trying to corner him. She watched as they where blown to pieces by his explosive batarangs. She smirked at how well prepared he was. If this was a different time, if he wasn't the princess' champion she would cast a spell of seduction on him, but he needed to suffer to make the princess suffer. So her she used her magic to force him to stand still while a golem beat mercilessly on him.
Robin watched the events and saw both Nightwing and Batgirl arrive. Even their presence did little to stop the group of super villains. He watched Bruce take the beating and did something he prayed his mentor would forgive him for this. He actived his communicator and switched the frequency to the Justice League's. The moment he heard a voice he began to tell them what was going on.
(New York – Diana's Apartment)
Diana had actived her communicator a moment before and check in with the Watchtower. She never expected to hear Tim, and she never expected to hear a call for help from Gotham. When he explained that Circe was there and she was helping Toyman, Joker, Harley Quinn, and Luthor she wasted no time. She quickly changed and called Kal and Kara for back up. The moment she arrived she watched the giant robot turning toward Bruce. A bright green blast was forming and she flew straight toward him. The moment she reached him the blast hit and englufed them both.
Superman arrived shortly after Diana and watched as his friends where hit by the giant robot. He started to fly toward it, and dodged a blast barely, but behind him Robin was in the direct line of fire. The boy wonder watched as Kara took the blast for him.
(Seaboard City – City Hall – November 1961)
The universal polarizer shot forward and blasted part of the city hall. Johnathan Briggs laughed as the police tried to stop him and only ended up getting sucked into a vortex created by the machine. He smiled as his machine began to cause the vortex to grow. Suddenly it began to change and the vortex started to reverse polarity. He stood there and watched as three beings suddenly appeared before them.
Diana stood slowly after landing. She looked at Bruce who had already stood up. Behind them Kara stood and dusted off her clothes.
"Where are we?" Kara asked.
"You are in the wrong place at the right time." Johnathan said as he aimed the universal polarizer toward Kara.
His finger began to whiten on the trigger, but a giant green hand reached around the polarizer and crushed it. Johnathan looked up at the Green Guardsman and shed the pack off of his back that had the power core for the polarizer. He jumped back and pulled out a net gun and shot it at the guards man. An aluminum net shot out and wrapped around the Green Guardsman. He turned to receive a fist in his face. The Dark Knight smirked and watched the industrialist struggle to get to his feet.
"Who are you?" Johnathan Briggs spat at Batman.
"I'm your worst nightmare." Batman answered as he looked at the industrialist.
A moment later Bruce was slammed against the wall of the Cityhall. He looked up to see a yellow version of the Green Guardsman. The new villain prepared to finish Bruce off before an angry Amazon Princess slammed into him. He recovered and created a cage to cover her. He watched as she burst through it.
"Ali any time now!" He shouted.
Diana felt something strange and turned to see her lasso take on a life of its own. It wrapped around her ankles and wrists. She fell to the ground and felt the lasso wrapping around her and tightening. She heard Kara threatening the woman casting the spell and then heard her slam into the ground next to her. The laughter from the three villains before something exploded. Within a few moments it was silent and Diana felt someone lifting her. A woman said a few explictives about her lasso before she finally loosened it around her ankles.
After a few moments Diana looked into the masked face of a woman who reminded her of Bruce. The woman had chocolate brown hair, Hazel eyes, and dressed in a skin tight black suit. She stood after helping her and looked at her friends.
"I take it that you three are heroes, but you made a mistake taking on the Deadly Five." The woman said.
She walked over and got the net off of the Green Guardsman. She narrowed her eyes at him.
"That was a rookie mistake." She said
The Green Guardsman looked at her and nodded. He stood slowly and heard the other two heroes getting closer. He turned to look at them. The only man among them seemed about as aloof as Nightshade herself. He watched as Nightshade held her watch up to her face and pressed the sides of it.
"Tom we have three guests." she said simply before she looked at the others.
She turned to the three new heroes and looked them over.
"Follow Green Guardsman and myself." She said simply.
Kara lifted into the air along with Diana. Green Guardsman formed a sphere around Batman and carried him to the Guild's headquarters. Ahead of them all Nightshade led the way. She landed outside of the Guild headquarters. Her fingers touched the watch and she stood still for a moment. The moment the others landed she turned toward them.
"I am going to want to know how you got here and why. For now all of us are going to go inside and those of you that need medical treatment will receive it." Nightshade said as she walked ahead of them.
Tom Turbine waved at Nightshade as she passed him. She nodded and continued into the main meeting room. Black Siren stood as Nightshade passed her and waited for the others to gather around the table.
"Can I get anyone anything?" Siren asked.
"You can sit down and stay for the meeting." Nightshade said with an obvious glare toward the blonde.
"A… I mean Nightshade please… I've said that I'm sorry… I really didn't know." Siren said as she hugged her arms around herself.
"It's my fault Siren. I stated a thousand times that no one inside of the Guild should date each other. I broke my own rule. But doesn't mean that I have forgiven him, or you. Instead I am being professional. I suggest that you do the same, and sit down for the damned meeting!" Nightshade hissed as she found her place as part of the original three founders.
(Metropolis – Jimmy's Comic shop.)
John Stewart looked at the older comics when he came across several issues of the Justice Guild. He smiled thinking of the heroes he met when they where transported to the Guild's universe. He opened the pages and looked the comic morphed in his hands. There standing inside of the Guild's headquarters was Bruce, Diana, and Kara. His eyes widened as he realized what was happening. He grabbed the box of Justice Guild comics and headed toward the front of the store.
"How much?!" He asked.
"Ummmm… Justice Guild… Justice Guild… three hundred dollars for the box. Sorry dude, but it's an old discontinued comic. That's the boss' price." The clerk said.
John dug out his wallet and looked inside. Groaning he pulled out his cash and counted. After counting and recounting he realized that he was sixteen dollars short.
"Come on, I've only got two hundred and eighty-four dollars." John said looking at the clerk.
"Tell you what. I'll sell you everything but the last issue in this box. Come back with the sixteen dollars and I'll give you to last comic." The clerk said.
John nodded and the clerk took the last comic out of the box. He handed the box to John. John then turned and walked outside. He contacted the Watchtower and had them transport him up. He looked at everyone as they where morning the loss of Batman, Wonder Woman, and Supergirl. He walked over to Clark who was blaming himself for the loss of their friends.
"I should have been faster. I should have been there sooner." Clark said as he leaned back.
"Clark they're not dead." John said as he threw the box down.
"What are you talking about? I was there John that damned Robot killed them before we stopped it. I watched my little cousin and my two friends disappear." Clark said as he looked at his own hands.
"Then look at this." John said as he held open the comic he was looking at earlier.
Clark looked up and was about to say something when he realized that Bruce, Diana, and Kara was in the comics.
"How in the hell?" Clark asked as he took the comic and looked at it.
"I'm not sure but they are in the Guild's world before the war. I bought what issues they had. Maybe we can figure out how they where transported to their universe… Oh no…" John said as he looked at the next issue.
"What's wrong John?" Clark asked.
"The deadly five… They bomb the Guild's headquarters in the next issue. That was the only issue that a hero died in. They kill off Nightshade. She managed to save everyone by disabling the main bomb, but was killed by the smaller one." John said as he held up the next issue.