Chapter 2- Timberwolf part 1
On a distant planet from earth the forests were filled with darkness and sounds of the wild as an older man with glasses and short grey hair wandered through them with a tracking device in his hand, in search of something, to his left and right were robots to keep him safe. The Robots advanced on the bushes as they heard something, but he put his hand up to stop them.
"Show yourself!" he ordered and a rustle was heard then a growl, a wolf like creature sped out of bushes and towards the man. Not knowing where the beast was, the creature took the robots down with just tearing through them with sharp claws.
The man quickly ran off into the forest to escape the beast, as he ran past a cliff where the wolf creature was on top it, it howled at the three moons then jumped down after him.
In the middle of space, a large glorphax was floating near a asteroid.
"Those are ships inside that thing!" Superman stated as he and Lightning lad flew over to the beast.
"Yeah... a glorphax will eat anything." Lightning lad replied "Anything I need to…"
"Watch and learn Superman, watch and learn." Lightning lad smirked as he interrupted and flew off towards the monster. He charged up an attack then fired it at the monster, only to have it bounce back and miss them both by just an inch.
"That... worked well." Superman commented on his pitiful attempt.
"Haven't you two gotten rid of that thing yet?" Saturn girl asked through the com link from the ship "We've got it right where we want it Saturn girl." Lightning lad replied as a tentacle wrapped around him and pulled him out of sight on the screen from the ship, she put her head in her hand "should I go out and help them?" she wondered, suddenly the alarm went off in the ship. Shadow Crawler the newest member of the legion got up off her seat with a confused look on her face.
"What's going on?" Bouncing Boy asked
"We're receiving a transmission on the Emergency channel. Look" Brainy explained as he pushed a button on the control panel. On the screen the elderly man appeared.
"Legion of Superheroes, this is Mar Lando of Rhall; your immediate assistance is needed." He explained as a crash was heard "please." He pleaded then the screen fuzzed out.
"that crash in the background didn't seem good" Shadow Crawler said with concern lacing her voice.
"Yeah I agree. We better get there as soon as we can. Shadow can you tell those two to get up here, just push that green button" Brainy said. Shadow nodded and pressed the button.
Outside Lightning lad was being pulled around by the tentacle
"Guys! Brainy said to forget globby and get back inside, we have a new mission." she informed them from the ship as Lightning lad fired an electrical beam at the tentacle and Superman pulled it off him.
"What about this Mission? We can't just leave this thing out here." Superman replied. As Lightning lad flew off back to the ship he turned and watched Superman tie the tentacles together and spin the creature round before he launched it further into space. He then flew to the ship
"You could have just done that in the first place you know." Lightning lad said as he flew by.
"I was watching and learning." Superman joked earning a glare from Lightning lad.
Inside the ship, Shadow Crawler was staring out the window. This was the first time that she had really seen space itself, and she found it very beautiful seeing all the stars. She moved away to see what Saturn girl was doing, until Brainy's long neck was stretched from one side of the room to the other blocking her path. "Whoa" she cried silently.
She noticed that Brainy stretched his neck to go behind Bouncing boy. "Can I help you?" Bouncing Boy asked annoyed by his presence. "You're flying without the auto compensator. I specifically designed that sub-system to assist you." he explained and stretched his arm over.
"No offence Brainiac 5, but when I fly a ship I actually want to fly it, not baby-sit a console." He snapped while Brainy tried to push a button "hey what are you doing?" Bouncing boy asked and tried to push his arm away, causing Brainy to hit the wrong button. "Uh oh"
The ship then started to shake causing everyone to fall over, Lightning lad caught Saturn Girl, Superman flew away, while Brainy, Bouncing boy, and Shadow all tumbled into the wall. Shadow shakingly stood up but then the ship then moved again, causing them all except for Lightning lad to tumble over on one another. Shadow sat up and shook her head "that really hurt" she mumbled.
"Bet that was the most highlighted moment of your life heh?" Lightning lad teased her which earned a dark glare from the shadow girl.
"That felt like we hit something" Saturn girl said getting up. Brainy lifted his still extended head up "Technically we did, the Planet Rhall. We've just entered the atmosphere" he replied as the ship started beeping, the sign WARNING appeared on the screen in red. Bouncing Boy rushed over to the control panel.
"Stabilizers offline, atmospheric thrusters at 20, this is gonna be a rough one." He said urgently as the ship crashed into a rock then made a crash landing into the ground.
Once they crashed everyone stood outside of the ship. "It could be worse." Superman said looking at the ship which was half way in the ground. "How? We're grounded." Bouncing Boy asked "Well, we could've disintegrated upon re-entry." Brainy answered. "Hate to spoil your feel good moment, we this is a rescue mission remember?" Lightning lad reminded them.
Shadow was the last to appear off the ship, her scythe held in her hand. Brainy looked over to her "i don't think you need that at that at the moment Shadow Crawler. Why don't you put it away back in the ship" he suggested.
She shook her head and pressed a small button on the staff. The scythe shrunk into a small pole and she slid it up her sleeve "I don't like to leave it around" she said.
Brainy shrugged "that's fine. I assume you know how to use the flight ring by the way" he asked. She shook her head again "uh uh, but i can jump in the tree's and follow you guys like Bouncy" she said with a small smile.
Lightning lad took off as the others followed. Saturn girl then sensed voices. she stopped and looked toward the forest then turned around looking a bit nervous "what's wrong?" Shadow asked. Saturn girl smiled at her new friend "it's nothing. Will you be able to keep up with us?" she asked. Shadow nodded and jumped away in the trees. Saturn girl took one last look around and flew off. She caught up with the others in the sky.
Lightning lad pressed his com link "Hey Shadow. You Ok down there?" he asked. Shadow appeared next to him "i'm good" she said, making him jump as she went back down into the trees and back up again.
"that's some hight that you can jump" Superman said. Shadow smiled slightly as she fell back down and jumped back up again with Bouncing boy.
"My ex-ray vision is picking up lots of stuff moving around down there but nothing remotely human." Superman alerted as he scanned the area below. "Rhall is known for it's abundance of wildlife, most you would classify as, unfriendly. Aside from Dr Lando's research station little else is here." Brainy explained.
"What about you Saturn girl, sensing anything?" Superman asked her. "Everything... and nothing, there's just too much noise, but back at the ship I'm pretty sure something was watching us." She answered looking back.
"Ok now you're creeping me out." Bouncing Boy commented.
"Bingo." Superman shouted while everyone except Shadow gave him a strange look "that means I found it." he informed them and pointed down. So they all followed him and ended up at a large building type thing.
"It seems pretty quiet." Lightning lad stated, as they looked around bright light shone. Shadow shielded her eyes. The one thing she hated most was bright lights.
"Don't be deceived, these woods are more dangerous than you can possibly imagine." the elderly man explained walking towards them.
"Dr Lando I presume?" Brainiac 5 asked as he shook his hand. "Yes, yes. Come inside quickly. It may be safe for the legion, but an old man like me doesn't stand a chance out here." He stated and walked back inside while they followed.
"My repair facilities are at your disposal, I only ask one thing in return." He stated
"Of course, we can take you anywhere you need to go." Superman smiled at him.
"Oh I can't leave Rhall, my work is here, that's why I called for help, what I need is for you to make it safe." He explained to them. "Safe... From what?" Saturn girl asked
"A creature... out there, this creature it's destroyed everything dear to me; my research, my team... my son." He said forlornly and shown them a picture of him "that's Brin, remarkable young man. Takes after his father, don't you think? He had so much potential, but now I want it caught, and I want it brought back to Me." he explained.
"Don't worry, we'll find your creature." Superman assured him.
"And I'll make sure it will never harm anyone again." Lightning lad smiled but Saturn girl looked uncertainly at the man. Shadow also felt uncertain about him. Being allied with the shadows gave her the advantage to know a little about people. His shadow gave a bad vibe, so he was hiding something. Something that he didn't want her or the others to know.
In the hanger Bouncing Boy and Brainy worked on the ship.
"You can't substitute a plasma conduit for an injector port Bouncing Boy; it's not in the schematics." Brainy stated as he unscrewed one of the screws in a panel on the ship.
"Brainy, it's called improvising, you should try it sometime." He replied smirking up at him. Brainy just looked at him blankly. "A twelfth level intellect has no need for improvisation." He responded
"Fine, if you're so smart... fix it yourself." Bouncing Boy snapped and walked off as Brainy unscrewed another screw. "Where are you going?" he asked looking at him.
"Anywhere you're not." He replied heading out the door.
"Dr Lando asked us to confine ourselves to the hanger, he insisted!" brainy exclaimed
"So I'm improvising!" he yelled back and walked off as the doors closed
"Was it something I said?" he asked himself.
In the deep forest Saturn girl Lightning lad, Superman and Shadow crawler were looking for the creature. Shadow was walking on the ground while the others floated.
"You're awfully quiet Saturn girl, not scared are ya?" Lightning lad asked smirking back at her while she quickly snapped back "I'm fine!"
The three looked back at her while she sighed, "Sorry, its just this place. You remember when I said I couldn't sense anything? well, that's not exactly true... I keep getting an impression, sounds really, It's as if hundreds of life forms are calling out for help." she explained 'something's going on here, something bad"
They boys took a moment to think. Shadow suddenly froze on the spot "what's wrong?" Lightning lad asked her. They then heard a sound like electricity,
"Hey check it out." Lightning lad said and picked up a robot part "robot parts... wonder if our creature did this." He wondered while Superman heard something.
"I have a feeling we're about to find out." Superman replied as tons of robots surrounded them.
"Not scared are you?" Saturn girl asked as Lightning lad shot one. Superman punched a few as Lightning lad fired at more but it bounced off and they swung for him but missed and cut through a tree, only to have it fall down on top of them.
A few surrounded Shadow. She raised her arms and transformed the shadows into claws on her hands. She swiped at them taking their heads off. One came up behind her and hit her on the head, knocking her out.
Saturn girl flew over to her but then was surrounded completely, they jumped at her but stopped in mid air as her eyes shone they were blasted away. She fell to the floor unconscious next to Shadow Crawler. As more advanced on them, a howl was heard and the creature jumped from an unknown place and destroyed two of the robots then roared at the others making them back off. As the other two flew towards the girls Lightning lad arrived first to find them gone.
"Saturn girl! Shadow Crawler!" Superman called out as he caught up to Lightning Lad "Their gone." He replied to him.