Chapter 3
Beowulf stood in the main meeting hall of the Justicars home base in Zion looking around the table centered in the middle at the team members he was able to round up for the journey. Curantly there are 37 members of the Justicars with Maverick as the leader and Beowulf as second. He used to be leader, but when he became a cosmo knight he had Maverick take over as it was looked down upon for a cosmo knight to have a leadership role. Out of the 37 members; he was able to round up 17 of them. The rest were on missions or with the X-Knights helping Arzno with a rather large vampire problem. Even out of 17 members, he didn't usually want to take so many but he didn't know how bad it might be at Calgory. If it was too bad, he might have to send for the rest and maybe even have Steve bring the X-Knights.
Anyway, he hoped he had enough to work with here. Maverick was standing next to him about to address the assembled team. Besides Maverick and Beowulf, sitting around the table were: Exe- a very powerful super psychic created at the Coalition States Lone Star complex, Shift- Beowulf's former girlfriend and shifter, Aurora- Beowulf's currant girlfriend and extremly strong, durrable, and she could fly, Term- A reprogramed terminator someone had built in the past after watching the Terminator movies too much. Tea- a tattoo warrior who escaped from Atlantis. Lady Nightstar- Maverick's girlfriend and the person who trained him. Mac- a grackletooth operator. Lady Quick- Maverick's apprentice and quick flex alien. Tank- One of Beowulf's best friends and a full conversion cyborg. Siefer- an ex-coalition wilderness scout. Dan- another of Beowulf's best friends who also has one of the extremly rare guyver symbiots. Sarah- a hatchling royal frilled dragon and Dan's girlfriend (strange relationship). Jeanie- a rogue dog boy (girl). Slasher- a velociraptor dinobot who wouldn't leave the group alone until they let him join. Paladin- a mutant from the coaltion burbs who could turn into living steel (The X-Knights have someone who can do that too, must be a popular power), and Dr. Kany Betish a wolfen doctor that just joined the group a few months ago.
After going through the line up Maverick told the group what the mission was and asked for volunteers. All hands were raised except Term who just bellowed an affirmative. They were still working on teaching him human non-verbal acknowledgment. After the meeting, as everyone was going to get supplies and equipement a loud bellowing of "ME, GRIMLOCK WANT GO TOO" sounded through the room.
"Damn", said Maverick.
"I know" Beowulf replied. "I was hoping we could avoid him."
