Chapter 2

A huge bank. People were busy depositing their money, or withdrawing it from ATMs for expenditure. Amidst the people, there stopped a truck. Got down were two robbers, dressed in black, wearing a black mask over their face, holding a gun in their hands and a bag in the other.

They were successful in their plan – going into the bank, closing the entrance door, shooting their gun to the ceiling, making everyone kneel down, pointing the gun to the manager, being headed to the money lockers, being shown cuboids of money, looting all the notes, headingout, getting back into the truck, escaping.

"That was too damn easy!" said one of the robbers.

"Yes!" said the other, "This calls for a celebration!"

"Let's get down"

When both of them got down, they prepared to enter their house. Instead, they found themselves in the police headquarters of Central City. Surrounding them were a group of police officers, in their FBI coats.

They looked at each other, exchanging confused looks.

"How the hell did we get here?" said one of them.

"Like this" said an unknown voice.

They saw to their right where there was a man in a red suit, and red helmet, with a lightning symbol on his chest. Leaning to the wall, staring at them, he looked satisfied with his job.

"Who are you?" asked the robber.

"Damn, you don't know me?" said he. "I'm The Flash, the fastest man alive!"

"So, you mean to say that before we even got down from the truck, you brought us here in a second?" asked the other one.

"Exactly" he said.

The civilian identity of The Flash was Barry Allen. In fact, he was the fastest man alive, thanks to a lightning that had struck him, with whose repercussion he could move at superhuman speeds, even at speeds which are not visible to the naked eye.

Barry was a police officer who worked for the Central City FBI Department, who solved many of the city crimes under his secret identity. His father, Henry Allen was put under bars when the former was ten, suspected for murdering his own wife. Barry's only wish in life was to bring justice to his father and get him out of prison.

Barry was back home. He was so tired, and felt his day was over. He quickly took a refreshing shower, dressed himself up and arrived in the drawing room. He wished to prepare spaghetti for himself for dinner, and he did so, so fast, that it was prepared in five minutes.

Amidst his dinner came a voice. The voice of water flowing down a waterfall. Barry looked towards his left, when he heard the special mobile given to him by Bruce Wayne ring. In a second, he got up from his seat, took the device in his hands and sat back in the couch.

"Hello, Barry Allen here" said he.

"Hello" said the voice of Clark Kent. "Barry, can you come to our location tomorrow?"

"Umm, sorry Mr. Kent. I'm afraid that tomorrow I have seventeen operations to be a part of" said Barry.

"Well, I'm too afraid that there would be just five members of the Justice League"

"Damn! When should I come?"

"Ten in the morning, sharp!"

An unenthusiastic Barry ate the rest of his spaghetti and went to sleep.

The scene then cut to a dark laboratory. There entered a person wearing a black coat and carrying a laptop in his hands. He was named Silas Stone, the intelligent scientist. He was the head of S.T.A.R Labs of his locality. The Scientific and Technological Advanced Research Laboratories dealt with research technologies to ensure justice nationwide.

Silas Stone entered the lab; it was nine in the night. He went inside, to his room. There he found a man sitting before him. He was covered completely in silver.

"Victor, it's time to do the job now" said Silas.

"Well, I've done it already" came the reply.

The man turned to face Silas. He did not bear any of his body parts, save the right side of his head. The rest of his body parts were lost in a failed scientific experiment. When Victor was cybernetically reconstructed, he woke up to find himself turned into a techno-organic being enhanced by reactive, adaptive biomimetic alien technology.

At first, Victor Stone was too shy to be a part of society. When encouraged by his father, he was a member of the Justice League, who saved the world from getting destroyed. This had caused him to explore his powers and help his father in operations which he carried out in S.T.A.R Labs.

"As I remember, I've told you not to do anything without me" said Silas, pointing a finger towards Victor.

"You use me as your computer, dad. I was thinking as to why a computer can't work by itself"

"Victor, what if you have done a mistake?"

"Well, if you doubt me," said Victor and narrowed his eyes for a while. "I've opened your mail, check the message from the director"

Silas checked his laptop. Victor had the ability to hack technology, as part of him was computer. The Gmail was opened, and he checked the message from the S.T.A.R Labs director.

Then, Victor felt processing. He went through his screens, and found a message sent to him by Clark Kent, addressing him to come to their location at ten the next morning. Victor was always excited to go, and so was this time.

The next morning, ten o'clock arrived. The Cyborg had arrived at the secret warehouse, where the Justice League operated. It was located exactly adjacent to Metropolis, Gotham and Central City. Before Victor could go inside, he was joined by a red streak that came and stood beside him. It was Barry Allen in his silica -based quartz sand fabric suit.

"Hi, Victor" said Barry.

"Hi, Barry" said Victor.

Together both of them went inside, which was completely empty, except for wooden cartons all over. They knew where to go. There was a huge gas cylinder in the centre. They went towards it and pressed a red button on it. It showed a number pad.

"You remember the password?" asked Barry.

"I don't need to" said Victor, looking at Barry, as immediately, the number pad disappeared and there appeared an elevator. "Let's go?"

Barry, afraid that Victor would again lock the number pad, stepped inside first. Victor followed them. Together they both were going down. On waiting for two minutes, they were before a secret room. The electric door opened, and they were in the secret headquarters of the Justice League.

"Two minutes late, both of you" said Clark Kent, in his Kryptonian suit.

"It's okay, Clark" said Bruce Wayne, who was also sitting there, in his vigilante form.

Apart from them, near the table, were Diana Prince, in her Amazon suit; and Arthur Curry, in his Atlantean suit. Now, they were joined by Barry Allen, in his red suit, and Victor Stone. The Justice League was complete now.

"Well, what's it, Superman?" said Barry, "which made me wake five minutes past eleven and come here immediately?"

"It's a very important thing" said Clark. "First I want you all to be seated"

Barry sat down and so did Victor.

"Now, I want to tell you both about what happened last night" said Clark.

"Arthur, Diana and I were fighting a group of thugs in a house. I had found that there was a bomb in the house, so I located it and managed to take on the roof and then was directing it upward with my eyes, when it was almost about to be out of danger, one of the thugs distracted my sight, which made the bomb to get into one of the buildings over there, and exploded"

Arthur and Diana, who were aware of the incident, were completely normal. But, Bruce, Barry and Victor were completely awestruck, as they wondered how many lives of innocents were taken by the explosion.

"So, what happened next?" asked Bruce.

"What, six floors were damaged and approximately thirty people lost their lives" said Diana.

"That is hurting" said Barry.

Everyone remained in silence for a minute.

"Okay, I've got to go" said Barry, getting up from his seat. Before he could use his speed, Clark flew towards him in his superflight speed, and caught hold of him.

"Now is when the real talk begins" said Clark.

"What is it?" said Barry, freeing himself from Clark and sitting in his seat.

"Diana, Arthur and I have decided to wipe out the entire negative people in the world" said Clark.

"That's a good decision" said Bruce. "We will travel throughout the world covering every location and corner of the world"

"You're thinking that way, Wayne" said Clark. "We've decided to create a machine which could wipe out all the bad people in the world"

"Machine? How?" said Victor.

"We will create it and it will be successful" said Arthur.

"But, it can have a harmful effect on the innocent ones" said Bruce.

"Whatever happens, the bad will not exist" said Diana.

"Listen, Diana. You're not getting my point. Every person has negative thoughts running in his mind. Don't you think it will affect even the good ones?" said Bruce.

"Let that happen!" said Diana. "Nobody is going to risk their lives for the evil now"

"I won't let that happen" said Bruce. "I wish you'd be dead before you guys even create the thing"

Diana kept her arms together, which released an orange beam of light towards Bruce. It him in the stomach and caused him to hit a desk nearby. Bruce got up with not much ease.

"I'll be the first one to destroy the machine when you create it" said Bruce. "As if you guys can create one" he said, leaving the place.

"Anyone on our side?" said Clark.

Barry and Victor followed Bruce Wayne.