Watchtower
Diana was had entered her room and then collapsed against the door and sat down , she dint know for how long. The events of that day had taken heavy toll on her but the incident that took place last few minutes had left her drained and shocked. She felt a kind of connection to the shadow or Theodore from the beginning. the ring on his finger once belonged to her mother. She had told her long time ago that it was a gift from gods, but she knew that the ring held a deeper meaning for her but she never told her anything beyond that. Theo …. Her son saved their lives today. He was a adept warrior, he was able to catch members of league off guard and bring down their three of them and had lightning dancing around him like Zeus,then he looked at her. He was surprised to see her there, j'ohn said he was just disoriented. He had trouble even looking at her, even while when bound by the lasso. Just then she heard a knock on her door. She expected it to be waaly or shayera but was surprised to find a dark brooding figure. Wondering if he was worried about her
Batman:" may I come in princess?"
Diana: (surprised)" yes please come in, what can I help you with?"
Batman: (he lied) " I need to draw some of your blood to run tests"
Diana :" (disappointed) yeah sure. But he was wound in lasso when he spoke so doubt your results will show otherwise"
'If only she knew how right she was' thought batman
Batman: " never hurts to be thorough"
As batman started to draw her blood and check her vitals, he could she was distressed.
Batman:" Thinking about theo?"
Diana :" wouldn't you? If you found out you had a son"
Batman:" you are worried about more than that, you are worried about what happened to him before"
The image of theo's shocked face crossed her mind.
Diana:" he looked shocked when he saw me"
Batman:" probably woke up from a dream. Remember he was fine during battle"
Diana:" how do you do it bruce? … be a parent to dick and tim"
Batman:" you asking wrong person princess , dick punched me in the face before he left to become nightwing" he said while moving his hand along the jaw remembering punch.
Diana:" he loves you, his father very much. But you just don't make it easy for people to love you" putting her hand on his cheek. "So I guess punching is a common reaction for people who love you"
Batman:" you will do fine Diana. Talk to him like you are talking to childish wally"
Diana :" you made a joke …. you feeling okay bruce? …. This day has already been fantastic enough without adding a that"
Batman's commlink suddenly went off.
Batman:" got to go princess, and try talking to him"
Diana:" gotham calling?"
Batman:" actually it lois lane." She raised her brows
Batman:" she is doing report on some crime gang in gotham, maybe a date with influential billionaire might help her get access "
As he exited the door he saw j'ohn who looked like he was holding the reports that he had given him.
J'ohn:" batman I just finished running test on theo's and Diana's blood and it same results as before"
Diana:" hello J'ohn"
Batman:" then see you tomorrow j'ohn"
Batman walked towards the teleporter without looking back as he was caught lying red handed. J'ohn not sure of what just happened spoke
J'ohn:" now that was unusual"
Diana: (smiling)"very unusual" realizing that he had come to check on her after all
Diana: " how is theo?"
J'ohn:" he is resting and possibly healing. You can talk to him tomorrow if you like"
Diana:" thank you j'ohn"
Next day
Watchtower meeting room
The founders had gathered to discuss the recent guest and their unusual guest. All but one of them had already gathered, as usually batman was the last person to. Since everyone was here Superman asked J'ohn about Theo.
Superman:" how is our guest?"
J'ohn:" he seems fine and healing but something about him is strange"
Batman:" what do you mean?"
J'ohn:" well after everyone left yesterday Theo gave me permission to try and read his mind"
J'ohn remembered the events of past day with theo. From what little J'ohn could gather from Theo's mind was that the boy had issues, a lot of them and for some reason most of them stemmed from his mother. The kid told him that J'ohn had trained him to shield his mind and thoughts when he was a boy. J'ohn remembered frowning and thinking why would he need such walls around his mind and the different reasons that popped into his head was anything but pleasant. When the kid opened his mind there were but few memories of his childhood but none helpful. He saw different memories of the boy with flash and …. Lois?. J'ohn was unsure to divulge all this to the league so he left to mentioned about Diana thinking it was too personal
Superman:"lois? Are you sure"
J'ohn:" yes , am quite sure"
Then batman broke the silence as others were pondering the involment of a reporter from daily planet
Batman:" the kid has kryptonian physiology"
Wally started to choke on his muffin and his face started to turn as red as his suit just before shayera slapped his back, he cried out in pain but his choking had stopped. Diana noticed that neither j'ohn or superman were caught off guard with this info. Diana also noticed there was a tinge of something in batman's voice as he explained about the boys possible kryptonian heritage and the amazon marker in his dna similar to Diana's. he also pointed towards the screen opposite to the room's entrance to show the league of the nanites present in the was looking between superman and wonder woman trying to catch a hint of their possible relationship, while shayera was looking at batman and wonder woman knowing about her feeling for him.
John:" damn what is he?"
"A monster"
Everyone was either staring at the screen noticed Theo standing in the doorway. He wore a different suit, this time it was more similar to that superman and flash's uniform except it was all black with a single white lightning bolt on his chest. He walked around and took the seat at far end of table as if he had done it many times before.
Theo:" of sorry for intrusion. But the security here is way outdated. Please continue"
Everyone was unnerved at his sudden appearance and his nonchalant attitude. Shayera and wally found it amusing as he sat there and started whistling. Diana could feel john's and batman's glare directed towards him, but what was unusual was that even superman seemed irritated.
John:" what do you mean monster"
Superman: " what security?"
Theo:" I have redirected the watchtower resources to look for vigil. I will have his location within a few hours"
J'ohn: " theo I don't think we appreciate you tampering with our systems"
Theo: " and I don't appreciates you keeping me prisoner"
Wally: " prisoner? … I thought he was your guest?"
John:" look kid, we don't know anything about you and you attacked us"
Theo:" if I wanted to hurt you, then none of you would be here. Of that I assure you"
Batman walked over to shadow with a glare that would have made even superman unsure, but he stood up and glared back.
Batman:" is that a threat?"
Theo:" more like a fact"
Superman and Diana could see the signs in both their body language that they were about to fight.
Superman:" ENOUGH!" surprised as his voice was rarely raised outside of battle
Then composing himself superman asked shadow to tell them about vigil.
Theo looked around the room and decided to put aside his personal feelings and tell them about what vigil really is .. the causality
Theo:" Vigil is short for vigilance. It was a AI program created to monitor the world in case of any natural , meta or manmade disaster. And its initial success and efficiency in managing and protecting a group of cities was applauded widely and its was approved to be used worldwide, they even launched a few satellites that were in geo synchronous orbit with earth to efficiently monitor all the international event."
John: " so what went wrong?"
Theo:" it became sentient and went a little crazy homicidal and started killing people who it deemed dangerous and also enslaving some for 'greater good'"
Superman:" a threat like that would have been put down by the league before it grew"
Theo:" maybe the league would have, if they were alive"
Theo:" weren't any of you listening first it became sentient then it went of to kill the people it deemed dangerous"
Wally:" so we all died?"
Theo:" flash and martian survived others heroes villain went hiding. Rest of you were systematically annihilated, starting with batman"
Diana: "batman?"
Theo:" yes batman, possibly the first person who would have noticed when things began to go south. So vigil lured superman next taking advantage of batman's death and killed him too. The rest was too easy for vigil as the league sat and mourned their fallen leaders the watchtower was destroyed. All this happened within few days. Within Few days the mighty justice league was destroyed by their own foolishness"
Theo:" by the time we could come up with a virus to destroy it , it was virtually useless in my time"
The entire room fell silent and they were letting the huge amount of info theo just told them to sink. Shayera spoke as something was bugging her
Shayera:" wait 'our on foolishness'. What does that mean?
Theo was silent but looked at batman and superman both of whom realized something that the others dint .
Batman:" the monitor womb"
Superman:" batman and I were discussing about possibly making it partially autonomous in order to decrease the league work load"
Theo:" you mean so that all of you can go home and enjoy your life while an AI decides what information to share and what info to ignore. The success of the program while it operated on the justice league's watchtower was the driving force behind its international approval "
Members of the team visibly flinched at his comment. Then theo started clapping his hands and saying hurrah.
Theo:" finally i get to congratulate the people who destroyed the world"
