Chapter 2 - Games you play on road trips.

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Anyone looking above the skies of America could see a team of superheroes flying through the skies towards the west.

Leading the charge was a star-spangled heroine, her hair whipping in the wind, held back by a headband with a red star in the centre. Following her, was a man in blue tights with a red cape, with the S on his chest for his name. beside him was another star-spangled heroine with blonde hair trailing behind her, complete with a young man in an MMA elite hoodie and blue jeans surfing the skies on her back with his curly raven hair whipping behind him. behind them, a leather trenchcoat with a hood whipped in the wind, with boots powering him, making him appear as a super saiyan, and behind that, was a batcopter.

They flew through the skies towards Area 51 in Nevada, a place 4 of them had travelled to only a week previous.

"Say Cassie..." Steve started a conversation with his human surfboard "...You do MMA?"

"I was a champion for a while." Wonder girl replied "...I beat Alexis Ramsey for the title back in 2021."

Wonder girl was 22 at the time, and if the year was 2038, that made her almost 40...almost too old to be called Wonder Girl, but the Wonder Woman title was already taken.

"I was hoping to get into MMA sometime." Steve commented.

"You should! Learn how to fight and learn how to beat up punks." Wonder Girl smiled.

Meanwhile, The Coat was soaring in circles and singing to himself.

"Has he lost his mind? Can he see or is he blind? Can he walk at all? Or if he moves will he fall?" The Coat sang the "Iron Man" song by Black sabbath, referring to the fact he was flying like that other superhero by the name.

"Kenny, can't you sing some other song? I hate that Batman-knockoff." Wonder Woman complained to Kenny in the background.

"Oh, sorry!" Kenny changed the tune to another classic.

"Dragon, dragon, rock the dragon..."

"Not that one, either!" Superman blurted out "People keep telling me that I would lose against him...and I wouldn't!"

"No, you're right, Superman. You would beat him..." The Coat snickered but considering the wind was whipping against their faces, Superman didn't hear the snicker.

Wonder Woman began to sing for fun.

"I'm tossing, turning, cold and burning, wanting, knowing, I could be holding you..."

"Hey, I know that song." The Coat smirked. Wonder Woman kept on singing her heart out.

"I could be loving you, yet I don't, I end up wanting to pick up the phone, I'm always going where I don't belong, and there's nothin' can keep me away, from an all night, nothin' can keep me away, cause it feels like, nothin' can keep me away...from an all-night soooooong..."

"You sure sing great, Diana." The Coat replied. "I just can't remember who the singer was...But you probably put her to shame."

"You can't remember the singer? Don't you ever get the feeling that the answer is just floating right in front of ya?" Wonder Woman began coasting in front of The Coat and smiling at him.

"Sometimes." Replied the Coat, before he began singing again.

"Well she sneaks around the world, from Kiev to Carolina, she's a sticky-fingered filcher, from Berlin down to Belize..."

"Y'know I dressed up as her for my kids first halloween trick or treating." Wonder Woman remembered back to when she first brought her kids out on halloween night.

"That must've been fun." Wonder Girl got up close into the conversation "I used to play that game all the time in elementary school."

"I had the old one that you played on a floppy disk." The Coat added "Y'had to answer a trivia question to rank up at A.C.M.E. Of course, this was before the internet, so I always had to ask my mom for the encyclopedia so I could figure out what the capital of Vermont was."

"Montipelier." Wonder Girl quickly replied.

"That's right!" Wonder Woman came into the conversation "Now do you know the capital of Washington state?" She asked.

"Oh, That's easy, that's Olympia." Replied the Coat, who lived so close to it he knew it.

"Ok, give me one." Replied Wonder Woman.

"What's the capital of Arizona?" asked The Coat

"Phoenix." Replied Wonder Woman.

"Somehow I knew you'd get that one." Superman came into the conversation.

"OK then, what's the capital of Canada?" asked The Coat.

"Toronto." Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl replied at the same time.

The Coat did an imitation buzzer sound to signify they were wrong.

"Nope...Superman, Steve? Any guesses?"

"Ottawa." Steve replied.

"Ding-ding-ding-ding! You're right! And you know what you win?" asked The Coat.

"What?" asked Steve.

"The satisfaction of knowing that watching the magic school bus works." The Coat smiled.

"I don't know that show." Steve replied.

"Then my friend, you truly are missing out." The coat powered up his jets and flew around with joy.

"Ok then, coat...let me give you a good one." Steve prepared a question.

"Hit me." The coat replied.

"What's the capital city of Burundi?" asked Steve, knowing a question like that would stump a high school drop-out like The Coat.

"Oh shoot...that's a toughie." The Coat didn't know.

"Give up?" asked Steve.

"Yeah..what is it?" The coat admitted defeat.

"Bujumbura." Wonder Woman and Superman replied together.

"We had that on Jeopardy last night." Wonder Woman added.

"Oh, I love jeopardy...it just hasn't been the same since Alex Trebek passed away how many years ago though." The Coat replied. He remembered Jeopardy from his childhood and by the 20's, Alex trebek had retired, and then passed on sometime later.

"Hey, I can see the spot from here." Superman looked down at the location of Area 51, and Wonder Woman saw it right after.

"Then that's our destination. Let's go." Wonder Woman began descending downward with her team in pursuit.

"Look at all the smoke! what happened?" Steve spoke up.

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The Area 51 facility was beginning to reek of bodies, and the amazons found it smart to begin burning the corpses.

The sights of the black smoke could be seen for miles in the bright blue, hot desert sky. And that was the current destination for Wonder Woman's team of heroes.

"OK, Scramble and pick one to fight." Wonder Woman ordered the team "And don't get yourself killed. You need help, call out for it."

Then, the descent towards the ground began and the team took the 4 amazons that were assigned to burning bodies by surprise!

Superman charged at one Amazon and powerbombed her, but she got back up to fight. The Coat tackled another while using his bat-rocket boots and fought against her, throwing fists and rolling around like 2 cats in a vicious fight. Wonder Woman grabbed another and began to wrestle her around, and handling her like she was a punching bag. Wonder Girl grabbed the last one and had Steve back her up.

The Batcopter Landed, and Batman and Darkwing exited to join the fray, along with 4 other amazons coming to fight.

Wonder Woman and Superman quickly finished off their respective opponents by slamming them into the hard ground, and then took on one each, while Batman and Darkwing traded blows with the other 2.

The Coat eventually used his Mind control power on the amazon he was fighting, and began to rule her mind.

"You're a complete disgrace, Lucia!" Kenny yelled out as he mindread the amazon and found out her name. "Where is your Amazon pride?"

He then got her to attack the amazon that was fighting against Cassandra, and pulled her off to throw her towards the burning fire. That particular amazon had no idea why her sister had attacked her, and she attacked her back and the 2 began fighting amongst themselves until The Coat let go of his psionic grip on her, and Steve began to attack that second amazon and throw down with her.

Batman had began throwing punches at his amazon adversary, and was getting a mouthful of her fist at the same time, due to his age and the fact he couldn't fight as well as he once did. Darkwing was younger but still much quicker, and could match speeds with the amazon he was fighting.

Wonder Woman picked up her opponent, and threw her at the area 51 fence, and she slammed through it, simularly to the force of a sledgehammer going through a cinder block.

Batman was beginning to figure out his amazon opponent's strategy, and could block the shots with his wrists. He really didn't like hurting a woman, but this was an amazon who was dead set on tearing his head off. Then, the Psionic power of the Coat overtook that amazon's mind, and the coat made her run away into the wall, and knocked herself out. But being that The coat had overused his psionic powers...he began to feel sick, and had to go behind the fire to vomit.

Eventually, the whole team had their amazon opponents beat, and the last one to go down was Steve's opponent, but he finished her off with a haymaker.

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