Chapter Three: A Cataclysmic Situation
Beast Boy had shifted into a horse. A cheetah would be faster, but would over tax his muscles and if he ran for too long that could be fatal.
"Mary." Gear shouted over the communicator. "I just got confirmation of their position. Patching through."
Mary suddenly heard the same southern voice Beast Boy had heard minutes earlier. He sounded even more frantic than before.
"Oh no, it's getting worse, worse by the minute we're down here in the division in fifth street, someone send for back up!"
Mary accelerated, grabbing Beast Boy by his mane. Instantly he shifted into a grass snake and curled around her wrist. They were gone in a white blur.
When they arrived at Fifth Street they found a scene of utter devastation. Cars had been overturned, and Beast Boy's blood ran cold to see a car had been lodged in an office building. About seven stories up.
"Bruce, we've found her."
Batman was instantly at the Martian's side. "Where?"
"We're getting a lock on her now. Your paranoia has paid off."
Bruce nodded, silently thanking himself for attaching several tracers to every member of the League. It was in their membership card, and each one of the original seven had three more in various parts of their costume, including one in the heel of Wally's shoe, which Batman was fairly sure the speedster didn't know about.
Batman raised an eyebrow at her location. "Massachusetts?"
A SWAT van rounded the corner, but before it had stopped moving, Beast Boy saw a lithe figure land on top of it, and tear the roof off like it was paper. Mary wasted no time in barrelling into this attacker, but gasped when she recognised them.
"Wonder Woman?"
Her only response was a blow to the jaw, which sent the young heroine flying. Beast Boy caught her as a gorilla. Shifting back to a human form, he looked directly at their attacker and opened his communication channel.
"Gear, you seeing this?"
"…Holy shit."
"…Holy shit." Gear slumped back in his chair for a second.
"Gear I need you to" Beast Boy shifted, and his screen went black. "Prep Arrowette and Static. Tell them to" Another shift, this time for longer. "get their asses down here now."
Gear pressed a button and immediately the base was filled with yellow pulses of light. Moments later Static and Arrowette rushed into the room.
"Wassamatter? Logan and Mary run into trouble on their date?"
Arrowette raised her eyebrows. "They're on a date?"
"Not the time, and yes, they ran into trouble." Gear played them the video file.
"Oh fuck." Surprisingly, it was Arrowette who spoke first.
Static looked sidelong at her. "I was gonna say that."
Gear was losing his patience. "Are you two still here?"
"Nope." With that Static grabbed Arrowette's wrist and ran out of the room.
"This just in, there are reports that founding Justice League member Wonder Woman has gone haywire, and has begun attacking Star City. We go live to reporter James Howlett, on the scene."
"HOLY SHIT!" The reporter cried, as a green elephant was sent hurtling through the air towards him. Midway, it turned into a sparrow, and avoided colliding with him. Turning, it flew back into battle without hesitation. Composing himself, the reporter turned to the camera.
"This is James Howlett, live from Star City, where Wonder Woman has engaged in combat with members of the local superhero team the Young Justice. While the young heroes are fighting valiantly, it is clear that they cannot win alone."
The common room of Titans Tower was silent, every eye trained on the TV screen.
"What are you doing?" Arrowette asked as Static fished around in his pockets.
"Aha! Got it." He threw what he had found on the ground, and midway there sent a pulse of energy into it. It unfurled into a metal disc, only slightly larger than a bin lid. He stood on it, and extended his hand.
"You have got to be kidding me."
Static scowled. "Name a faster way to get there."
"There's no room."
"We'll make room, now come on." With that, he grabbed her wrist and pulled her onto the disc, and took off.
"You're insane!" Arrowette screamed as she found herself in much closer proximity than she was used to.
"So they say! Now hang on!"
They flew on, a symphony of exhilarated laughter and horrified screams.
Beast Boy jumped on Wonder Woman's back, grabbing her wrist as a gorilla, intending to stop her laying a blow on the fallen Mary Marvel. He ended up being dragged along as well, but his presence threw Wonder Woman enough to allow Mary to get out of the way. This thought almost consoled him as he ended up with his face mashed into the tarmac.
"Beast Boy, get out of the way!" Beast Boy eagerly complied, shifting into a rat and scampering out of the way, as Mary streaked past him and punched Wonder Woman in the jaw. This dazed her for a second, and she staggered back, an advantage Mary was quick to press. She landed several more blows before one hit Wonder Woman's bracer.
Beast Boy jumped in as Mary went sailing past his ear, and swiped at Wonder Woman as a bear. He hadn't expected her to catch his paw, and he looked at her with a mixture of fear and dread, and suddenly screamed in pain when she wrenched his arm.
It came off at the shoulder.
Starfire gasped in horror as Beast Boy collapsed to the ground, clutching at where his arm used to be. Kneeling in front of the Amazon princess. Suddenly the alarm went off, bathing the room in red light.
No one moved.
