Chapter 4
DP
It would be an understatement to say that Danny woke up the next morning feeling sore. He felt like a train had hit him actually. He got up and saw that Sam was already in the shower. Danny groggily got up and looked at himself in the mirror. His face wasn't hurt, but his chest and sides had some large brown bruises. Rebound…man I'm glad he's on MY side. Sam turned off the water and said, "Can you hand me the towel?" Danny gave her the towel, and when Sam came out she saw his bruises. "Oh my God, what happened?" Danny laughed a little and said, "I met the League's fighting instructor, an old guy called Rebound. His power is to take the force of your hits and send them back to you…with interest."
"Never heard of him," Sam said as Danny went in the shower, "He told me that's because he had to give up the superhero gig to take care of his family." "Uh-huh," Sam said as she got dressed, "So, have you gotten a chance to talk to Superman at all?" "Not really," Danny told her, "He's been busy with stuff according to the other Leaguers, and I've been busy getting acquainted with everything so we haven't had much time to talk." Danny got out of the shower and got dressed then saw Sam had already made breakfast, soy sausages with some blueberry pancakes and soy milk. After eating Sam said, "Your Dad called before you got out of the shower. He says he needs to talk to you, 'man to man'." "Seriously?" Danny asked. "Yep," Sam told him. Sam and Danny decided to take their car to Fenton Works.
When they got there they knocked and went in the house in time to avoid a waffle with a face. Danny sighed and froze it with an ice ray, then Sam took out her ectoblaster and the two of them helped Danny's parents slay their possessed breakfast. Once that last omelet was blasted Danny said, "Sheesh, I thought you were done experimenting with breakfast." "Sorry Danny, I mixed up the old batch of Ecto-Dejecto and my cooking spray and well, you see what happened," Maddie explained. "We never would have suspected anything if we hadn't stopped to make coffee," Jack then said. "Ugh, I can't imagine what ghost would taste like," Sam said, then gave Danny a small elbow to the ribs when he smirked at her. "Anyway, Sam told me you wanted to talk to me," Danny told his Dad.
"That's right I did, come on son, we have some men things to discuss," Jack told him, then Danny followed him to the Command Center. Jack looked out the window to Amity Park and said, "Who'd have thought that my son would be responsible for all of this." Jack then turned to him and said, "I'm so proud of you son. I don't think I can say it enough. You could have gone wrong, you could have turned out like Vlad, but you didn't, and here you are now, not just a superhero, but a member of the Justice League…" Danny rubbed the back of his head, wondering when his Dad would get to the point. "Yeah, but that's not why I called you up here Danny. I wanted to talk to you about your marriage," Jack said.
"I thought Sam's Mom was handling the wedding," Danny said. "No, I'm not talking about your wedding; you don't need me for that. I'm talking about what happens after the wedding, about how to keep your marriage alive," Jack said. Jack then sighed and took a seat, "I know that I've screwed up, a lot. There are some days I look back at how I raised you and Jazz and I think, 'I deserve a good kick in the butt'. But I do know how to stay married."
"This isn't gonna be advice about how to keep the 'spark' is it?" Danny asked, dreading the possibility. "No, none of that, there are some things a man has to figure out on his own. Danny, you love Sam, right? I mean you would do anything for her, you couldn't stand the thought of losing her, right?" Jack asked him. "Yeah," Danny said, seeing that his Dad was being serious. "Good, that's the first thing you need to know, how badly you want to keep your wife. But something else you need to know is; you are going to get into fights. Your Mother is a very strong woman Danny, she has her own opinions, and she doesn't hesitate to call me out on my mistakes, and believe me, I've made a lot of them. And I've done the same for her when she's made mistakes.
"Sam's a lot like her, if she knows she's right, she won't back down. You and she are going to argue about things, and that's only natural. But you need to ask yourself, are you brave enough to call her out on her mistakes, and are you man enough to admit when you're wrong and say that you're sorry? Danny, I won't lie, it's hard to do that it really is. But it is definitely worth it." "I'll remember that," Danny honestly said. With their 'man talk' concluded, the two went down to the living room.
JL
Shayera Hol and John Stewart, aka Hawkgirl and John Stewart, aka Green Lantern, sat on top of the Fisher Building and watched the sun rise over Detroit. "So, do you really think that those creatures are connected?" Shayera asked John. He shrugged his shoulders, "Who knows anymore. We've stopped so many invasions at this point that some days I don't even bother checking my fridge in case something jumps out of it. But in all likelihood, yeah, we're in for another invasion." "Diana said that the one she fought was hard enough to bruise her knuckles. The one Kal fought wasn't as tough, which could mean they're getting stronger," Shayera pointed out. "I'm not worried, it just means that we have to hit harder if they come for us," John said, making his ring glow. "Yeah, but what if they're too tough?" Shayera said. "Then we'll have to hope that there aren't too many of them," John told her. Right on cue a turquoise portal opened up a mile away.
"Of course," Green Lantern said as he powered up and formed a large bat. Two of the crystal like moose-crab creatures came out of the portal, only this time they looked like they were made out of ruby. Hawkgirl flew forward and slammed her mace on one, sending it plummeting to the ground as Green Lantern hit his high up in the air. Hawkgirl managed to reach the ground and hit the creature again, sending it skyward once more. A laser then blasted out of the creature's head, sending her flying back. The heroine came back into her senses in time to dodge three more laser blasts as the creature charged once again. Hawkgirl blocked the laser it was firing with her mace and then grabbed the creature's antler and used its own momentum against it to send it flying in the opposite direction.
Green Lantern created a large fist and pummeled the creature he was fighting. The creature then made a loud noise, making him clutch his ears, and allowing it to charge into him, sending him back and letting it hit him with five laser blasts in rapid succession. "JOHN!" Hawkgirl screamed as she flew up and hit the ruby-thing from below, sending it even higher. She then flew quickly and caught her unconscious lover. Green Lantern woke up and said, "Damn, Diana wasn't kidding!" "They're coming back!" Hawkgirl pointed out. The two heroes went after their respective opponents.
Green Lantern made a large bubble around him and flew right into the creature he was fighting, sending it closer to the turquoise portal. "Shayera, force it back into the portal!" Hwkgirl let her creature chase after her, dodging any lasers she could and deflecting the rest with her mace. She flew straight to the portal then made a quick 90 degree turn down. She watched as it disappeared into the portal it came from, followed by the other as Green Lantern bumped his strange opponent into the portal with his bubble. Before they could investigate further, the portal closed and John got on his ear-mic. "It's John and Shayera, two of those creatures just attacked us, we need to call a meeting now." With a flash of light, the heroes were out of Detroit and in the Watchtower.