I don't know why I say what's in the next chapter each time I update because I always end up changing my mind! Anyways, this is another chapter on the Suicide Squad, Jessica Cruz will appear again at some point in the story.


Deadshot POV

My stomach boils with anger as I lean against a corner of the cage I share with my fellow former members of the Suicide Squad. Most of them stand around the cell, silent as I am, with the exception of Harley and Boomerang, who are whispering silently to one another, no doubt plotting how to break free of A.R.G.U.S. It's not that I blame them for wanting to be free; the problem is that we stand no chance. After seeing what happened to Bronze Tiger, I am just reminded that Waller isn't messing around; it's exactly like old times. She's gonna play us like a violin and we're gonna be puppets on her strings.

Harley walks over to me and I feel the familiar lurch in my stomach that I used to get when she was around me. I guess casually having sex with a member of your team would do that to you. Up until I had met Harley, I hadn't been with any woman (besides my ex-wife) because I was too preoccupied with getting money for myself and my daughter. Harley and I met when Waller forced us into Task Force X. We hated what they were making us do and the chemistry was there. Before either of us knew it, we were constantly sleeping together until Harley learned that Poison Ivy and Joker's deaths were ordered by Waller. I saw how insane and broken she was and I decided to give her space.

"I'm gonna kill Waller," she whispers, pretending like she didn't remember what we did together.

"How do you suppose we do that?" I whisper back to her. "She'll blow us all to hell."

She sticks her tongue out at me and huffs. "It's an expression." As bitter as she is, I have to hand it to her, she's doing an amazing job of hiding it. "I can't believe she made us come back to do this. We've killed enough innocent people as it is. A long time ago, I would have enjoyed this, but I can't do it now. Not anymore."

"That's the trick," Slade interjects. "Living with the blood on your hands. Pulling the trigger is easy, but when you think about it, all the regret will turn itself on you. Living is much harder than killing. That's why I think of the prize instead."

"I have to side with Quinn and Boomerang," Black Spider says. "I want to see her dead, but we can't be brash about it."

"Floyd could kill her easily; all it would take would be a good ole shot between the eyes," Boomerang says.

"We can't risk that," Rose says. "As much as I want her dead, she undoubtedly has more detonators than just hers and Flag's. And I don't know how stupid you all would have to be to realize that this cell is probably tapped."

"Correct on both terms, Ms. Wilson." Waller has returned, like a ghost.

"You need to learn to knock lady," Harley quips, her voice tinged with anger.

"And don't you know that talking about others behind their backs is rude, Quinn?" Waller says, a snide grin on her face. "As entertained as I was listening to you criminals plot against me, your target has gone public." Waller holds out a tablet with a recording on it for us to see. A blonde girl is standing in a newsroom holding Penguin and Two-Face like ragdolls, with an emblem similar to Superman's on her chest. She calls herself Supergirl and asks for any metahumans in hiding to come to help her fight. She can't be much younger than Zoe.

"Waller are you kidding me?" I ask her, outraged. "You want us, a group of highly trained killers, to hunt a girl who's probably only sixteen or so years old?"

"No I don't want you to hunt her. I expect you to," she says remorselessly.

"Kill me now then Waller," I tell her, "because this is only a girl. She isn't doing anything wrong, yet you ask us to kill her. I know why Luthor wants her dead, but this is going too far."

"I know you're suicidal Floyd. You have been, even when you and Quinn were screwing each other," Waller says. I see Harley clench and unclench her fists in anger. "You lived for the sake of your daughter, and now she is the thing that will make you do this."

"Oi… Waller? Why the hell would his daughter want him to kill anybody?" Boomerang asks.

"Because she dies if Supergirl lives," Waller says.

"Zoe? What did you do to her?!" I yell, grabbing the bars of the cell before getting shocked back. My fellow members move closer to me, surprised by Waller's action.

"I have her kept somewhere you'll never find her. She's free once you kill Supergirl, and if you die… Well, so does she," Waller says.

"You really don't give a rat's ass do you?" KGBeast says.

"I'm willing to trade one girl's life for another," Waller says.

"An eye for an eye," Black Spider says. "You don't know when things have been taken too far, do you?"

"All I know is that I have an objective that I intend to fulfill," she answers. "Luthor wants her dead, and so do I. You're the ones we pardoned, don't make me send you back. We're asking for one easy kill. With all the synthetic Kryptonite weapons, this shouldn't even be a problem."

"It would be easy to do physically, but deep down, none of us are going to be able to live with killing a teenage girl," Rose says.

"Green Arrow and all his friends would be after us if we kill the Kryptonian," Cupid says.

"You're all killers. Aim the gun, pull the trigger. That's it," Waller says. "Luthor doesn't want the heat on actual military so you're going to be the ones to do it, and don't think I won't kill you all if you continue to refuse."

"We'll do it Waller," Slade says, "but this is it. Nothing else. I don't kill children, but I'll make the exception. Once Supergirl is dead, you remove the bombs from our heads and we never come back to this again."

"Fair enough," Waller says. "Do we have an agreement?"

We nod our heads in reluctance, and Waller lets us out of our cage. "We're going to get you all your weapons, and then we'll leave you in Gotham with Flag. After that it's up to you. Two weeks deadline, and don't even think of going rogue."

As we march to the armory where Waller has our new Kryptonite weapons, Harley walks close to me and whispers, "We're gonna kill her once she takes the bombs out right?"

"Definitely."


So the Suicide Squad is going to be a bigger part of this story than I originally thought; please review and tell me if this would be more suited as just being categorized under Justice League or if it should be under a Justice League/Suicide Squad crossover. There is definitely going to be a lot of conflict between Waller and the team, and there will be a fight between the Squad and Kara soon, with more metas to come.