Suicide mission
I do not own any character mentioned, they are owned by DC. I only own Sarah/Suicidal who is my original character.
This story takes place in the animated Justice League Unlimited universe and features my own original character.
Two days since Suicidal appeared in the watchtower sent by Lex Luthor, she was now about to go on her first assignment with the league. She stood in her powered form with the other members of the JLA for mission briefing. Superman opened the floor "We where able to trace Luthor's wherabouts from the teleportation bay and it appears he has managed to take over a missile holding facility. We couldn't get much from satellite images but it appears to be evacuated for the most part".
The martian then took over "Three of our senior members will be leading the charge and they are Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and The Flash. Supergirl and Suicidal, you will be joining them. Report to teleportation bay in 2 hours".
As Suicidal prepared to leave Batman called her over to meet in private. "Suicidal, there may be a chance of you depowering in battle. That will make you a liability" Batman said. Suicidal responded with "If anything happens to me I don't care, I just want the team to be ok". After a brief pause Batman replied to her "If you want to get yourself killed then leave the watchtower now and never come back. But I'm not taking any chances so you will take this and you will use it if you have to". Batman handed her a device the size of her palm which she took looking confused. "If you do power out I need you to place this on your shoulder. It will send a signal to your body triggering a danger response like when you where falling and it will bring you to strength". "Thank you Batman" she replied as she walked off to the teleportation bay.
Lex Luthor was locked in a focus as he was going through the controls of the missile silo and preparing a ransom broadcast to the united nations. A purple haired sorceress approached him desperately and said "Luthor I sense the Justice League here. What are we going to do".
Luthor replied calmly "What do you think we're going to do, roll out the red carpet for them? Tala take Giganta, Killer Frost, Grundy and Cheetah and stop them. Sinestro and Grodd you stay with me".
As the five justice leaguers appeared they were greeted by Lex Luthors minions. Flash charged at Killer Frost but her powers of cold made the ground around her freeze causing the scarlet speedster to trip over flying in motion. Supergirl was caught in mid air by a magic blast from Tala that brought her off guard while Green Lantern shielded himself from Giganta's barrage. Meanwhile Wonder Woman was fending off the deadly Cheetah who pounced on her ferociously, as Suicidal ran to her aid she was caught from behind in the crushing grip of Solomon Grundy. The undead behemoth held Suicidal hard and she could not match anywhere near his strength, but she managed to get one arm free, raking her nails into his fist until he let go. As the zombie giant dropped her Suicidal came at him throwing kicks and punches but it didn't do much help against Grundy as he grabbed her by the hair and repeatedly slammed her into the ground. Seeing how the red head was still in one piece he then held her on the ground with one arm while pounding her with his fist leaving her a helpless target.
In the midst of battle Green Lantern managed to land a giant boxing glove into Giganta that sent her stumbling back, but not out of the fight. "We have to work as a team here. Those who can, switch dance partners" he said in a desperate cry. Supergirl being helpless against Tala's sorcery landed right in front of Killer Frost giving Flash a chance to go for Tala. While Tala tried conjuring up a spell against the red speedster, Flash kept hitting her too fast for her to complete her magic as he ran around creating a tornado that sent Tala flying then landing unconscious. While Green Lantern managed to get a few hits on Giganta, Supergirl stood in front of Killer Frost and gave her an ultimatum "there's only one way this can go. Do you give up". Killer frost sneered back and unleashed her full freezing fury at the blonde superhero. All Killer Frost could see was steam coming off Supergirl, and as the mist cleared up there stood her opponent with eyes glowing red. Killer Frost did not know what to do as she preceeded to step back while Supergirl approached her and said "Don't say I didn't warn you" and delivered a slap across Killer Frost's face put her down for the count.
Wonder Woman fended of Cheetah's attacks gaining enough distance to ensnare Cheetah with her lasso then pulling her in delivering a hook to her head and a crushing knee to her face. "Cheetah's down" Wonder Woman yelled out looking over to their newest recruit who was struggling. Suicidal lay helplessly in pain, the force of Grundy's blows left a crater around her. As Grundy was about to bring down another earth shaking blow Wonder Woman flew at him sending him off balance. Suicidal stumbled up seeing stars and saw Wonder Woman who managed to hold her own against Grundy deflecting his strikes with her bracelets. Wonder Woman than flew out of his reach momentarily and dived at him fists first putting him down. "Wonder Woman you saved me, I really really owe you this time" Suicidal said in admiration. Wonder Woman replied "We're Justice League, it's what we do. That last attack won't keep him down for long. Me, Lantern and Kara will hold off Grundy and Giganta. You and Flash go for Luthor". Flash appeared within seconds and said to Suicidal "Someone call for a ride? Grab on I'm gonna go fast, keep all hands inside the ride at all times". He took her by the hand and ran off in a blur so fast Suicidal was airborne, but her invulnerability ensured the supersonic speed wouldn't phase her.
Grodd was getting nervous as his long time nemesis the Flash was making his way toward them. In a panic he said "Luthor, Luthor they're coming for us and we're not even close to finishing". Luthor replied in an agitated manner "You think I would let them ruin our plans you stupid monkey! Sinestro, please ensure they don't make it here". "With pleasure" replied the yellow lantern and flew off.
As the Flash streaked on with Suicidal in hand, he stopped suddenly just short of a yellow energy wall and said "Uh oh this won't be pretty". Suicidal looked in fascination, this purple man seemed like he had the same powers as John Stewart but yellow. She had proven to resist the green lanterns energy before but maybe the yellow energy was stronger, and this time she wasn't at her strongest after receiving a beatdown from Grundy. Sinestro withdrew the yellow wall into a protective sphere around himself and then shot out a giant flyswatter descending on the heroes. "Go I need to know if I can handle this" Suicidal said to Flash who made off reluctantly. As the giant construct fell on her, Suicidal held up her arms protectively. She took the impact barely any feeling. This enraged Sinestro who then created another construct only this one in the shape of an anvil and chased flash around with the flyswatter while trying to land a decent hit on the girl. Speed was not Suicidal's strong point but she was just fast and agile enough to avoid the hit, but she could not keep this up for too much longer she would tire eventually. As Flash ran past Suicidal in spurts he told her his plan. He would set up a distraction while Suicidal takes the offensive. As Flash ran from the enormous flyswatter he made his way towards Sinestro's sphere, and proceeded to rapidly run on the spot, then ran off sending a cloud of smoke and debris at the villain. Sinestro then took the defense calling off his two constructs then forming protruding spikes from his forcefield and raised a yellow fortress like wall while debris clouded his vision.
Flash ran back to Suicidal. "Milady, care to show of what it is you do best" he said to her. "With pleasure" Suicidal replied and ran at the fortress breaking through the yellow energy. As she broke through she drew Sinestro's attention and from the spiked sphere he shot out three barbwire like chains wrapping around her. Suicidal was stopped for a moment but managed to break one of the chains, then following with the other two as they disappeared. Finally she came up inches from Sinestro who expanded his protective bubble only for the spikes to break like toothpics against Suicidal as she made her way through the sphere, shattering it to bits leaving an exposed Sinestro. He held out his ring point blank and threatened "I'll blast you, believe me I'll do it" but she fearlessly grabbed him by his shirt and threw him against the wall thinking him down for the count. As the two heroes were about to walk off a yellow energy sword flew at suicidal from the back, breaking into pieces against her indestructble skin much to Sinestro's dismay. Before she could make a step her teammate rushed forward delivering a super fast uppercut to sinestro followed by countled left and right jabs within seconds, as Flash stepped away leaving a passed out Sinestro. Suicidal thanked her teammate as they continued on.
Finally Suicidal and Flash stood in front of Lex Luthor and Grodd as Luthor turned angrilly yelling "Damn that purple freak, he failed me". Grodd snarled and growled at Flash ready to jump at him while Lex held him at bay as he turned to Suicidal and continued "but that's not the first time this week someone's failed me". Suicidal screamed back "you filthy rotten scum. You kidnap me, brainwash me and send me as a weapon to kill Superman. I will have you for this". Lex Luthor gave her a still look and replied "Did you honestly think I wasn't prepared for the chance of you failing. I always come out on top" as he finished he pulled a lever sending an electric current through the floor paralyzing the Flash making him collapse while Suicidal barely felt a thing". "FLASH"! she screamed kneeling over her comrade. Grodd lifting a finger to his head and sent out a psionic blast at Suicidal, that she felt hard, then again from a second blast but she was still determined to stand and fight. The Gorilla noticed "amazing, one of those could floor a normal person but she still stands". Luthor replied "You're quiet the fighter my dear Suicidal, but now more than ever does the name befit you" he pulled out a remote lever and pressed a switch then finished "it's been a pleasure". Suicidal suddenly felt a sharp pain throughout her body as she had started to revert back to her normal form. Normally she turns back with ease but this was not natural as she doubled over convulsing. Her body began to whither, her long red hair fell out around her leaving only her short black hair, as she lay on the ground shaking, weak and helpless watching on as Luthor and Grodd continued preparing the rockets and getting ready to broadcast their threat around the world
Finally she stopped shaking but her head was throbbing and her stomach felt like there was an earthquake inside her. She wanted to die but rememberd the startup device that Batman gave her. As she took it out of her belt pocket, she looked over at the Flash lying completely out cold. She thought about the hero that lay there and thoughts poured in of the Justice League, how they took her in as one of their own even after she attacked them. "I don't deserve a second chance" she thought to herself as she krept up to the Flash putting the device over his left shoulder and activating it. A surge of adrenaline shot through his body as he started to awaken getting back his strength. Sarah knew that he would need a minute to get his full strength back or else he'd get killed so she made her way up and slowly towards the villains. Grodd was a beast and could take her with a flick of his finger. Luthor on the other hand, evil as he was is still a human. She made her way towards him and jumped on him from the back distracting both villains while she tried pulling him down. Unfortunately not only was she in her weak form but after what Luthor did she had no strength left and Luthor shook her off. Grodd came up to her looking down with a menacing snarl saying "good riddance" as he lifted his foot ready to crush the girl.
As he prepared to stomp on her a red blur flew past knocking him off balance. "FLASH" Grodd yelled out, "I will destroy you". The Flash looked back at him with rage. There was no time for jokes after what they did to Sarah and Flash proceeded running back and forth around the humungus ape throwing a non stop barrage of punches at him until he finally put Grodd down. Luthor pulled out a gun aimed at the barely conscious Sarah, then he looked at Flash and threatened him "You stay back or I will blow her brains out". Flash was fast and he could probably disarm Luthor but he was not going to take the chance. He said to Luthor "listen baldy. You go, you run now but if you so much as think of pulling the trigger, you'll find out just what the fastest man alive can do to you". Luthor backed off slowly then proceeded to run. Flash wanted nothing more than to take him down but he had a wounded teammate to attend to. As he held up the scraggy disheveled woman she looked at him and said "no more wisecracks eh. Don't blame you, I know how ugly I am as a skinny regular girl". The Flash replied "Don't be stupid. It's your actions that make you the most beautfiul person there is, and right now I would not want to look at anyone else". Sarah smiled as she collapsed in his arms.
Flash called in to Wonder Woman "I hope you guys are doing alright. I need one of you flyers here asap" and proceeded to walk back holding Sarah in his arms as Green Lantern approached. As Green Lantern saw them he exclaimed "What happened here, is she alright" as he put a protective bubble around her and carried her out. Flash made his way back to the four teammates seeing that they won but Giganta and Grundy put up a fight, even Supergirl and Wonderwoman were bruised and puffed out. All eyes where on the fragile girl Flash was holding as the teleporter picked them up.
Sarah woke up in the watchtower sick bay. After the standard procedure and health checks she finally checked out good and healthy as ever but she didn't want to go as Sarah, she wanted to go as Suicidal. She requested an adrenaline shot from the nurse that turned her into the tall statuesque red head that they all knew her for. As she entered the cafetria those who were there greeted her with an applause welcoming Sarah to the league. As she sat down Green Arrow and Black canary approached her with hugs and kisses. "Well I hear you did well out there girl. They say you're one tough cookie" said Green Arrow. Suicidal blushed replying "well I didn't do good enough if I woke up in the hospital". Black Canary said "Flash says you saved his life and you took out Sinestro". Green Arrow followed her "yeah you're pretty resiliant, maybe I can use you for some target practice eh. So what's next"? "I think I just want to go home, hope I can still go back to my job and have some rest" she replied.
Suicidal said her goodbyes to her fellow justice league teammates and the staff before heading to say goodbye to the senior members. Batman gave her an eye to eye look taking them back to her mention of not wanting to live, now knowing it won't happen again. J'onn said goodbye to her and told her that he would keep her past a secret between the two of them alone. Hawkgirl told her that she hopes to fight side by side with her next time. Green Lantern told Suicidal about how well she did and he was happy to be on the same side this time on. Suicidal then came up to Superman and told him "Thank you so much for showing me kindness and helping me train. And above all I thank you for your forgiveness". He replied with a smile "Don't worry, that's what family's for". She then approached the Amazon and said to her "Thank you for being such a wonderful friend and mentor. I will see you soon". "I bid you well, my sister" Wonder Woman replied. Finally Suicidal made her way to the Flash expecting some whitty banter but he stood emotionless. Both lost for words she threw herself at him with a big hug and a wet sloppy kiss". Flash then replied with a massive grin "Well now that we've got past the awkward silence, welcome to the league. Hope to see you soon".
As Suicidal went back to the teleportation deck J'onn typed in her co-ordinates as she dissapeared saying goodbye...
Meanwhile Zatanna felt something odd that her supernatural senses picked up, but she couldn't tell what it was. She ran to the main area of the watchtower in panic but then regaining her senses teleported to the main dock in a puff of purple smoke. "What is it Zatanna" asked Superman looking at the confused looking magician. "I don't know. But it's something" She replied.
Suicidal appeared back on Earth but as she looked around this wasn't her city, this did not look like where she was from at all. As she took in her surroundings she looked up in shock to see a man in red and blue swinging on a rope from a skyscraper in front of her. As she continued to stumble around in confusion she found a newspaper and reading the headline she uttered "Who are the Avengers... where am I"?
...Suicidal will return in The Avengers.