Chapter Nine: Bereft
A/N: so me back again this one feels less than my normal chapters are so sorry if it feels smaller in detail.
Sand0921: Eve wouldn't have had the time to access the flash notes since it was that same year that Barry married Iris and she hadn't made her preparations for becoming kid flash yet: funding, equipment, lab, place to make the suit, make sure the notes were copied properly so as not to be a substandard flash...besides the world needed robin and there was a chance her interfering could have drastic effects on the timeline.
New A/N: me again working on adding some additional content for three points of view: Victor, Christine and an another one to help set in some plot points. Don't forget to review!
anyway enjoy!
13:21 EDT Daisy's Den café Gotham city September 1st 2010
"So ideas for date number two, what do people do on the second date anyway: we've done the day out, the romance movie… the kiss what do we do on the second date now?" Kathy asked as the rain poured outside in the typical grim image of gotham city; Eve took a long drink of her coffee as she shrugged trying to think of what to do next herself.
"We could do the kissing again... or right now?" Eve said smiling slyly as she remembered the feeling it had given her, something she hadn't felt in a long time. Kathy brightened up at that notion before moving along the wide sitting of the booth next her and leaned into meet her lips wrapping their arms around one another as they remained like that for several moments before a flash went off and they broke up looking at the source startled.
"Sorry forgot about the flash." Kara said looking guilty holding the camera in her hands as she looked at the angry red heads before sliding into the vacant spot on the large seat. "So hows the planning for date number two going?"
"Why are you here Kara and why do you have a camera?" Kathy spoke in a dangerously low voice the happy eyes replaced by the bat glare that she had been able to develop so well; the blonde laughed nervously as she moved to hide the camera, Evelyn was faster and had it in her hands before the girl could blink.
"Why are there photos of us in this Kara?" Evelyn asked looking at her hurt at the invasion of privacy.
"Ok I was original going along to make sure you date went fine the first time; I'll have you know I stopped several crimes in the vicinity of you date back in Central city no thanks required there." She began trying to look outraged at them; they shared a look before looking back at her. "And I was getting some photos for a album of the team romances you know… look Conner and Megan clearly like each other only Conner doesn't do interactions well enough for something like a love connection just yet and I thought if I got some of you two it might help him tell her his feelings, besides I will admit it was for teasing purposes too but I never meant to seem invasive or stalkerious I swear."
"So you tell anyone else about our budding relationship?" Evelyn asked the blonde passing her back the camera and realising that the first date had gone a bit too well in regards to no hero summons from the police.
"Nope that wouldn't be right for me to do." She said clearly relieved they weren't going ballistic on her . "So how is it going so far then love birds?"
"Well enough without you needing to involve yourself Kara now if you would mind." Kathy said before leaning over to Eve smiling again as they locked lips together and ignored the girl who sighed and left.
"Finally we can get some peace and-" Evelyn began speaking in the moments between their lips meeting when another voice sounded startling them again.
"Kathy!" a blonde girl with blue eyes wearing a black coat and was looking at them shocked. "Ops sorry Kathy."
"bad timing Bette really bad timing." Kathy said as bette sat down across from them looking genuinely sorry for interrupting their kissing. "Eve this is my cousin Mary Elizabeth Kane or just Bette for short. Bette this is my girlfriend Evelyn West and this is some really good kissing your interrupting."
"Sorry guys I just wanted to get out of the rain you know I didn't know you two would be here." She said as she turned to order a hot chocolate as the mood was ruined entirely this time and the returned to there original seats. "So Evelyn where about do you live exactly I haven't seen you around here before?"
"I live in Central city but I ran into Kathy when I came here a few weeks back and well I guess you can say we share similar interests you know." Evelyn said smiling as she finished her coffee off; Bette looked at her with interest as she spoke.
"So where do you got to school I thought central city already went back you know?" she asked trying to be friendly.
"I go to the Higher Institute of Varied Education in Jump City we start back on the eighth." She said as the girl then proceeded to ask about the place if everyone there was really as smart as they say.
13:22 PDT Star city childern's hospital September 1st 2010
"Explain why I need to tag along again?" Roy grumbled as he Ollie, Mia, Dinah, Adrian carrying a bag of parcels and Conner were walking into the hospital.
"Because your going to make a little girl very happy on her birthday Roy." Mia said dangerously to him and he shut up as they walked in; Adrian stopped to talk to the lady at the desk before they headed up to the long term care unit and headed to room 321 which read.
Emily Victoria Hollow
"You up yet birthday girl?" Adrian spoke as he knocked on the door as a young girls voice replied; he gave them a look before opening the door and walking in; it was a large room with a hospital bed neat and made a T.V on the wall and bookshelf beside the door to bathroom.
"Big Bro!" a happy yell sounded from the small girl in a wheelchair who got up carefully as not to pull out her IV and who got lifted off her feet by hug she got from Adrian; they all came in and closed the door Roy and Conner nervous and uncomfortable in the situation they were in. she was about 4 feet 4 in height with thin limbs bright blue eyes and was bald wearing a medical gown on with balloons tied to her bed with the number nine on them. "Wow are they the friends you were talking about?"
"Yep the guy with stupid goatee is Ollie, the pretty lady is Dinah, the other pretty lady is Mia, that there is Conner and the grouch in the corner is Roy." Adrian said smiling at Ollie's outrage at the attack on his beloved goatee while Roy grumble at being called a grouch. "And they all got you presents along with my other friends who couldn't come due to the visitor limit."
"Yeah present!" she said happily as they got the gifts from the bag and took turns to give it too her happy face.
"Here from those who couldn't be here today." Adrian handing out those gifts first. "From Amelia an actually moon rock and Kara a rendering of the statue of liberty as you, from Kaldur a few things from beneath the wave, from Kathy a bonsai plant, from megan some of her famous home made cookies, from robin a lullaby box, from Evelyn a big box of crystal fairy cakes."
"Here you go Kiddo." Ollie said giving her a nice sapphire necklace which she stared at wide eyed grinning madly; before hugging him and pull on goatee getting an undignified squeal out of the hero which made them all laugh.
"Here you are Emily." Mia said handing her a personal dvd player and a treasure trove of movies hugging the girl warmly.
"Here you go sweety." Dinah said giving her a beautifully golden bracelet before hugging her too.
"Em here you go kid." Conner said awkwardly giving her some of the Kents home baking including a cake for her; she gave him a kiss on check as she hugged him, causing a strange feeling to fill his body.
"Here since I don't need it… happy birthday Emily." Roy said handing her a box with a resized speedy outfit to her size complete with hat and quiver too; she kissed him on the lips causing him to turn the colour of his hair as Dinah offered to help her change into.
"How do I look?" she chimed happily a few minutes later wearing the outfit as they all smiled at her, next came the group photo and finally the personal nurse to look after her while they took her out to eat.
14:21 PDT Natasha's workshop Jump City September 1st 2010
"So Darius I gotta ask why were you and those things in the same place when you arrived here?" Natasha asked looking up from her work place on building the micro generator based on the designs of one of the stumpunk plasma guns built from her data by some sort of genius; she planned to incorporate the weapon system into the suit along with making a plasma generator for the suits power needs.
"I was strand after a battle on a deamonic plane ruled by the deamon lord Aragoth where I battled the deamon hordes for eternity… until the maalstorm ripped me and those beasts from the plane and landed me here in this dimension; something I am greatful for immensely I can tell you." The Amazonian replied holding the heavy arm while worked on it since the clamp was wrecked and unusable for her needs. "So how long do you think the paper trail on my identity will last before Batman finds the faults in it?"
"He is the worlds greatest detective so you better make up your mind on what your going to do?" Natasha said looking at him as she fixed the wiring that had tangled up.
"I don't know how I would be received by the amazons of this world… would they embrace or hunt me down as some sort of slight upon their name, which it is I cannot say." the 6 foot 4 Hero said as they worked away.
"If Evelyn is kid flash then why didn't she save Victor from Duela when they were both captured?" Natasha said looking at him voicing the thought that had been on her mind lately; he smiled sadly before placing his free hand her shoulder.
"For the same reason she didn't save herself I suppose; she would have revealed that she was kid flash, probably revealed the flash and put all her friends in danger as well as force them both to retire and leave central city without it's defenders but tell me this: do you think she would have done nothing to try and save him from that fate?" he told her as she shook her head after a few moments pause before getting back to work on the suit.
"So this hammer when will it be finish?" Darius asked her as she worked away on the arm.
"When its done I am doing this pretty much by my self need I remind you." She growled as she tried to concentrate on what she was doing.
14:44 PDT coastal point near jump city september 1st 2010
"so why are we out here Garfield?" Alyssa asked looking over the guard railing by the cliff edge, the sound of something clunky being taken out of Garfield's rucksack behind her as she then heard him suit up into something but trusted her boyfriend when he asked her to keep her eyes on the sea.
"Because i am going to show you one of the few skills my father passed on to me before... well then how do i look?" he asked as she turned and gasped; he was suited up in a black body suit with tubes snaking across it leading to his large guantlet and large metal shell on his back and a large visored helmet shaped like a insects head, he held up a second suit with a clear visored helmet in the other hand. "you know how you always wanted to do hang gliding... well i can one better."
"Garfield thats the firefly's suit where did you get... oh he was your dad wasn't he?" Alyssa trailed off seeing him nodded slowly placing the gear on the ground and taking off the helmet.
"He was a test pilot for the jetpack project and this is the upgraded version of his prototype he wore during... those days, i may have hated the man he became but in the beginning he loved to fly and i love it too. don't worry its safe i worked out the safety features and the suit can handle your extra weight fine... not saying you fat or anything Alyssa so want to go flying with me?"
"Garfield you have a rocket strapped to your back that crazy you know." she told him worried as he smiled softly at her; before placing the helmet on and running towards the edge, she screamed as he jumped over before the shell opened and a roaring sound could be heard as a blue flame appeared behind him as he shoot forward in the air. she watched opened mouthed as he did loops and skimmed the water before heading straight towards her and hovering before landing in front of her face.
"actually its a compact jet engine, the suit is designed for the rigors of the g-force, helmet keeps ear, eyes and lungs safe while oxygen tanks supply enough to keep you fine and dandy... want to have a go trust me its safe Alyssa i wouldn't do anything to hurt you." he told her as she mulled it over in her mind: on one side he was acting stupid ass crazy and on the other it looked amazing and she was a rather gutsy girl.
"if i die i'll kill you." she said grabbing the suit and putting it on enjoying the smile on her boyfriends face as he helped her suit up properly before strapping her to him and activating the engine. her scream was lost in the roar of take off as they shoot up in the air, she did as told and kept her legs and arms together at all times as they dipped and skimmed over the water before turning up sharply racing into the clouds. a good two hours later they landed and she had to wait a full five minutes for her adrenaline rush to settle before bombarding him with all sorts of questions about it before being silenced with a kiss.
"I'll glad you had fun now lets get something to eat and no i can't fly us to jump city unless you want an F-55 to shoot us down." he said as he stripped back to his normal clothes as they returned to the local town to wait on the bus back to the city.
15:11 PDT Star Lab's Jump City september 1st 2010
{ You are still distressed Victor Stone do you require medical attention or psychiatric treatment?} the motherbox asked him as she was opt to do when ever his condition strikes him hard; he had remained in his new accommodations here and was trying to cope with what he had become.
"Victor?" he looked up as he watched his mother come in to room looking nervous taking tentative steps towards. "Well you let me talk to you now?"
"Why mom? why do this to me?" he asked pleadingly looking at his hands as a data list ran down his vision.
"You don't know this Victor but me and your father had attempted to have a child two times before you and one ended in a miscarriage and another in a stillbirth." She told him sitting down beside him as he turned to face her shocked at the news. "We didn't just modify your mind in the womb... we enhanced your body so would survive and live victor because i couldn't handle the loss of another child."
"And then we got the call from the hospital and heard what happened to you." she went on talking as she held his hand tightly looking him striaght in the eye. "we brought you here and tried to get the various artifacts and prototype cybernetics to graft to your body to save your life... it took motherbox in the end to merge you and the parts together in order to successfully accept the cybernetics and to save your life... we love you victor so much and we couldn't risk losing you too."
"I can never have a normal live now can i? i can't go back to the H.I.V.E, i can't let the others see what i have become... a mockery of man and machine some sort of cyborg creation why let this go on any longer." he said as she gasped and grabbed hold of him tightly hugging her body to his frame.
"Please victor i know its hard but don't give up on live yet... you don't know what live has in store for you... you could yet come to terms with it victor but i beg of you don't talk or think along those line please." his mother begged him holding on to his metal shell with a vice like grip as he looked at ashamed of what he made his own mother go through right now.
15:12 EDT Gotham city september 1st 2010
'focus girl your closer to reaching it, soon the joyful flame will never hurt me with its touch again and i will reach that blissful state forever.' Christine thought as she worked on her 'addition' to their project namely incorporating the genes into a human's body and transforming all the cells within it.
00:16 EEST Bialya September 4th 2010
"Wow I feel like utter shit right now?" Batwoman said as she propped herself onto her knees and looked around her as she clutched her aching head; she was shock to see a desert environment considering she had been in Taipei last she checked. "Huh so its another of dad's surprise survival tests, in full costume no less guess this must be the Gobi."
She got to her feet before pulling out a compass from her utility belt and heading northwards once she had determined it's direction before setting off her cape fluttering in the cold night wind.
'so he must have drugged me this time since my head feels like it's been fired out of a cannon.' She thought as she trundled on through the sand and dirt until a black object was visible on the ground at the mouth of a rocky valley with a shack visible beyond it. Curious she approached stealthy until she realised who the shape was and broke into a full run to her side.
'what's Eve doing out her?' she thought as she looked at the unconscious speedster wearing some sort of black version of her traditional friction suit which was a lot more skin tight than before, she couldn't help but notice how it showed of her curves pretty well, a groan brought Kathy's mind off such thoughts and back on the welfare of the girl in front of her; she pulled her arm over her shoulder and supported her as she carried her over to the shack which after a quick recon was discovered to be abandoned and free for her to rest them both there.
"Well I get the feeling we don't want anyone to find us so no campfire then I'm afraid." Kathy said to the unconscious girl as she slumbered on the floor while she set up a clean spot on the ground and laid her cape on it before she moved the girl over too it; she lay next to her and checked her computer keeping it's signal concealed as she didn't know if they were in a safe place or not as she checked the calander feature.
'Well I wonder what happened in those missing six months she thought staring down at the date 4th of september.' Before deciding to get some shut eye and waiting for Eve to wake up before playing twenty questions with her.
8:10 EEST Bialya September 4th 2010
"Ouch my head hurts." Power-girl said looking around her confused at her current location in the middle of a desert at night; she looked around frantically before smiling very widely as she realised she was out of the pods and the labs. "I must have escaped somehow, I'm lost in the desert but hey that's still way better than where I was before."
Suddenly she heard groaning coming off from her immediate left, cautiously she edged over wondering why she was wearing a short skirt, blue boots, a blue cape and a white skin tight costume which had a blue shield with a PG in the middle on her abdomen she walked over and peered over the rocks to see an African American boy wearing a skin tight black costume groaning on the ground in distress.
'Sucks to be him right now.' She thought before turning to head off to try and find someone who could help her before she remembered the things she had went through during the tests and the experiments.
"if you slow me down I ditching you mate got to look out for number one here." She said with a sigh heading back and slinging him over her shoulder shocked that she barely registered his weight on her body as if he was feather light before picking a direction and heading off in it carrying the groaning boy and enjoying her new found freedom from that monster Dr Anderson.
"woe serious case of vertigo here." Speedy said before she puked her guts up over a rock retching hard, she wiped her mouth with a red gloved hand glancing down at a puke drenched bow before groaning frustratedly and picking it trying to shake off as much of the upchuck as possible before suddenly hearing foot steps behind her and turned pulling an arrow and notching it with perfect precision, something which wasn't right as she had only been training with a bow for four months now. The figure was a large man in a black combat suit with his face hidden behind a mask with his arms folded.
"You gonna shot me Mia?" he said taking off his mask revealing the underground fighter Adrian hollow.
"Adrian what are you dressed as?" she said lowering her bow away from her friend as he walked forward replacing the mask and looking around at their surroundings.
"I could ask the same of you Mia, I thought Green Arrow told you not to take up the hero life?" he countered to her gesturing to her bright red outfit clearly a copy of the speedy uniform; she blushed looking down at it before both received flash backs of fighting an android with Black Canary and Green Arrow. "Wow so we worked with Black Canary and Green Arrow."
"But what happened to the original speedy?" she asked as they headed off trying to find some town or something to tell them where they were.
12:02EEST Bailya September 1 2010
The first thing robin noticed when he came to on the rock ledge he was currently laying on was the figure of a very hot blonde girl laying beside him dressed as supergirl the man of steels younger cousin only in a red and black coloration.
"Ok then not quite sure whats going here but I'm going to find out." He said checking his holo-com and gasping when he saw his location and the date. "why am I in bialya and what happened to March?"
"Where am i?" a female voice sounded next to him as the girl got to her knees rubbing her head groaning before looking at him opened eyed. "Hey aren't you batman's kid; Robin or something."
"Yeah I'm guessing your supergirl?" Robin asked helping her to her feet as she nodded looking around the place confused. "As to the where we both are we're in Bialya."
"Bialya but that makes no sense Kal- I mean superman said I wasn't to go here as it was under the bad guys control." Supergirl said looking around again before turning to the boy hero. "Need a lift back to the states?"
Robin was about to nod when a flash back hit him.
'Remember maintain radio silence at all times and Kid make sure you get your team out safely.' Batman was telling them in front of a large screen.
"Wait I remember something about batman telling us to kept radio silence and I think we were a team lead by Kid… Kid Flash we've got to find her." Robin said worried now about him friend.
"Kid Flash that's the speedster girl from central city right?" Supergirl asked looking at the worried boy who nodded before grabbing him under the arms and lifting him up. "Well I always wanted to meet a fellow teen heroine lets pick her up and see if anyone else was on this hero team of ours."
"Wow why do I feel like shit?" Kid said as she pushed herself up as she felt her head pound like a drum, she heard a low moan beside her and looked over to see a girl dressed in a black suit with a red bat symbol on it laying asleep beside her body: the girl seemed to woken by Kid's words as got to her feet while kid jumped into a fighting stance as she recognised her surroundings.
'this is the same shack me and Artemis were hold up in bialya after having our memories wiped.. wait if I here and this girl is here then where's artemis?' Kid flash thought rather scared for her old lover now.
"It's ok Evelyn it's me Kathy Kane." The batwoman said removing her cowl and exposing the familiar pale face and bright green eyes. "Listen I'm not sure whats going on since its September and I've lost the last six months of memories."
"Same here Kathy so where are we then and why are you dressed as batman?" Kid asked looking at the girl who was blushing slightly now as she placed the cowl back on her; it made her looking intimidating and actually bat-like, Kathy explained her reasoning's to becoming batwoman.
"So what now can you run us to the Quarc border?" Batwoman asked reattaching her cape as Evelyn eat her energy bar. "Can I have so please?"
"Sure." Kid said breaking off a small section before handing it off to her; looking a bit cross at the tiny bite so throw it into her mouth and chewed grimacing before swallowing it hard. "four thousand calories packed into a small bar does not taste good I can tell you."
"It'll keep me going for now." She said smiling; kid opened her mouth to reply when they heard the sound of something shrieking through the air, faster than the wind batwoman found herself in kid's arms being sped away from the shack which exploded as a pair of sovereign MBT tanks appeared on the horizon along with a Humvee which's 50 calibre gun opened fired on them. Taking careful aim she threw her batarang which hit the vehicle's right wheel exploding a few moments later and causing the Humvee to cartwheel through the air landing in a broken heap a few meters away.
"Don't think those will work on the tanks Kate lets get out of here." Kid said speeding away from the tanks which were taking pot shoots at them; they went on for a few more moments when a person landed directly in front of them causing kid to veer suddenly losing her footing and hitting a rock with a pain groan. "That really hurt a lot."
"Who the hell is that guy?" Batwoman said looking at the shirtless figure of Conner roaring as Kathy formed a bostaff and fight him as best she could; ducking under his wild lunges before launching a number of strikes at the nerve clusters but despairingly she noticed that they were not having any affect at all on the boy. They were suddenly blown apart by a HE shell from the tanks which blasted Kathy into a boulder and sent superboy raging into the tanks as he chased the fleeing soldiers into the distance; groaning Kathy crawled over to Kid helping the dazed speedster to her feet they both headed in the opposite direction from the boy destroyer. "Well he at least got the bialyan republican army off our backs."
With a groan they both lost their footing and fell down a large stand dune resting at the bottom groaning from they aching bruises; they both heard the sound of jet engines and looked up wearily to see a pair of devastator modal UMV assault drones bearing down on their position.
"I spoke too soon." Batwoman said as they both dodged the incoming cannon firing from the drone, Kathy rolling deploying chaff from her smoke pellets and Kid preforming some pretty amazing acrobatic feats at high speed jump and cartwheeling around the bullet storm; Batwoman drew a batarang and prepared to throw it but at the last moment a voice sounded in her head throwing her aim off.
"Don't worry I'm almost there!" the cheery but somewhat familiar voice said in her head.
"Did you just her a girls voice in your mind?" Batwoman asked her speedy companion looking at her freaked out by it.
"Can't say I have no but let's deal with the immediate danger of drones first." Kid told her but even as she said it they saw a green girl fly behind the drones and somehow force them to collide into each other destroying them both before landing in front of them smiling. "Thanks for the save… is that you j'onn is the gender switch a martian thing?"
"You know my uncle jo'nn; hello megan you Kid Flash Eve and your Batwoman Kathy." The martian girl said looking at them both smiling; Kathy and Eve exchanged looks before turning back to the girl. "We're teammates friends, I made you cookies… you both lost your memories too right?"
"Seems that way Megan was it so what's our play now?" Kid asked the martian who looked at the smoke in the distance before turning back to face them.
"We need to find the others supergirl, robin, power-girl, wildcat, Aqualad, superboy and Speedy." She said causing Kid's eyes to go wide at the list of names she gave them.
'I thought super-girl might join the team but who the hell are power-girl, wildcat and why did speedy stay with the team.' She thought to herself as them traveled.
"Well I have this position listed on my map so why not start here then?" Batwoman said showing them the position of their drop zone; them headed off towards it and hopefully some of the others.
"So I'm wondering if you were in the experiments along with me or what I mean you're the right age for it." Amelia said as they walked looking around for a town or hell even those tumbleweeds from mom's old westerns she used to watch with her. "Not much of a talk well your not contributing much to this relationship are you mister gill boy."
'Don't worry mom I coming home and we can be a family again.' Her thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of two people heading towards them; unsure about their disposition towards her, Amelia hide her and the still unconscious boy behind a rock as she saw a weird pair of individuals came in to view. One was tall and dressed in a black combat jumpsuit while the girl was blonde had a bright red costume and was holding a red bow with a quiver on her back. Somehow the strong smell of vomit reached Amelia nose as she watched the two pass her position talking about one called green arrow and black canary; it was at that point that Amelia remembered that Green Arrow was a vilgante hero of sorts like that bat guy from gotham or the superman of metropolis.
"Hey are you guys heroes by another chance?" She said taking a chance and walking out from behind cover the unconscious boy over her shoulder as she watched the pair wipe around taking a fighting stance the girl notching an arrow and leveling it at her head with perfect precision.
"Who are you and why do you have Aqualad what did you do to him?" the girl asked alarmed at the boy she was carrying.
"Hey I found him alone in the desert ok and I carried him since before sun rise alright beside you guys wouldn't happen to know where we are or how I can get to New York city do you?" Amelia asked them getting a bit angry when they muttered about being a long way away from New York city.
"Sorry we've got no idea where we are, hell we think we're with Green Arrow and Black Canary but our memories of the last six month are gone what about you.?" They told her causing her to frown at their words.
"Depends is it march or would it be September?" she said as they talked away.
19:21 EEST Bialyan desert September 4th 2010
"Well we're almost at the coordinate site there's a scanner there… with at least thirty bialyan republican special forces soldiers hiding in the sand around it." Super-girl said as she dropped robin off a short way off, the pair then proceeded to advance cautiously before launching into the attack as the soldiers emerged in their counter-ambush it didn't last long. "well so much for Bialya's elite soldiers."
"there's a location marked a click in Qurac and another one a click in the west of us but nothing much else-" Robin began explaining to the kryptonian girl before she held her hand up hearing something approaching at high speeds.
"somethings coming fast, really fast even by my standards." She warned the boy who smiled before turning to face the direction of the approaching dust cloud.
"It's ok she's a friendly." He said as the dust storm turned into a black clad girl with red hair carrying another red head girl wearing a black suit and cape with something wrapped around the speedster waist as she panted heavily.
"Ok Megan maybe work on your density shifting because I don't normally carry the weight of two teenage girls at the same time." She gasped out as the thing turned into a green skinned girl who was floating.
"Super-girl, robin you guys are ok have you seen the others?" the martian girl asked them watching their puzzled glances at each other before robin turned to kid looked confused especially when he saw the bat symbol on the other girls chest.
"Kid what's going on here?" he asked as the red head took a long swig of her flask before turning to face him.
"short version we're a hero team of sorts with a large team roster and a memory loss of the last six months." She explained as robin nodded agreeing with her statement before turning to the martian girl again.
"wait how do you remember us, I haven't meet any of you but for kid more than six months ago?" he asked her suspiciously as she hit her head.
"hello megan I can fix our memories… I'd need to go through your thoughts to do it guys?" she said looking at them all; robin noticed kid flash shuffle uncomfortably before voicing a concern he had.
"as long as it's only team stuff and nothing private, only visual memories and only six months I go to great lengths to maintain my privacy you know." She said surprising robin wondering just what she wanted to keep secret.
'hey this is one of my closest friends I have no right to invade her private thoughts.' He thought before speaking up to the rest.
"so if you took only what you need would it restore the rest of our memories in kind of knock on effect?" he asked her to which she nodded saying she was pretty sure that's what would happen. They joined hands before finding themselves inside megan's mindscape before she began a selective search through their memories piecing together an image of several of their missions and the batman's briefing.
"So Kid got a theory on what might have caused our memory loss?" Robin asked their leader sure that she would have at least one theory buzzing around her head.
"a pretty good one… another more powerful telepath." She said gaining wide eyes from the rest before going on. "with our minds connected with the link he or she would get us all by attacking just one of us… since superboy running on instinct and might have been captured by the bialyan's I think its best if me, robin, Batwoman and Miss Martian rescue him and complete the mission."
"What about me he's my cousin kid and you could use the muscle?" Super-girl argued concerned about her family before kid walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"Because while I have super speed I don't have super sense kara; you need to find the others because Aqualad won't survive long in this environment and both speedy and wildcat won't remember their heroes… power-girl won't know how to control her powers either." She told the girl watching her sigh before nodding and setting off to locate the others. "no coms no mind link, robin batwoman I hope you too know sigh language or military commands?"
"Bats taught me both." Robin said smiling.
"Army girl remember what about Miss Martian?" Batwoman said looking at the girl who was staring off to the east.
"She'll lock the telepath in a mind battle and leave his body open to attack while we free superboy." She told them the plan before they all set off to free they're comrade, when they arrived at the site they could here thunder off in the distance.
"Miss martian will enter and quickly restore superboy's mind before locking down the telepath." Kid told them before signalling for Miss Martian to advance, she nodded before turning transparent and heading towards the tent. With military hand gesture's kid designated patrol targets for the other two to hand while she headed for the third; once she was within a few feet of them she went super fast as she planted shock pads on their necks and activated them rendering the three men unconscious. A suddenly commotion came from the tent as the sound of sphere and superboy pounding the guards before Psimon's groaning figure came flying out of the tent followed by a shirtless superboy, miss martian and sphere rolling along on either side of him.
"that'll teach you to mess with my head you light weight." He said looking down at him before smiling when he saw the other three standing there, the smile died as he heard the thunderstorm continuing again before turing to look at Kid wide eyed. "Kid super-girl and the others are in trouble?"
"How do you know super-boy?" Kid flash asked concerned now as she watched he stare off to the north west.
"because that's not thunder, I can hear super-girl and power-girl their fighting someone and kid… they're losing." He said looking at her scared now; how could two kryptonian's be losing a fight.
"Alright the rest of you get to the bioship and head to towards the others I want you ready to leave at a moments notice." Kid said finishing off her energy bar and washing it down with her flask before lowering her goggles and pulling on her lower face cover and speeding off towards the distance sounds of battle.
"Great that will take too long to reach it on foot." Robin muttered before the sphere began beeping loudly and turned into the super-cycle in front of them.
"I think I made a friend." Superboy said with a smile as they piled into the super-cycle and headed towards the bioship at high speeds.
Earlier with super-girl…
Super-girl had been searching for around a hour now and she was getting pretty worried for her friends.
'come on Kara your friends are depending on you to get the others to safety.' She thought as she suddenly picked up on someones voice she beamed when she recognised Amelia's voice and sped off in that direction at her max speed. 'there they all are!'
"Guys it me!" she practical squealed in delight landing in front of them and scaring the crap out of them as Amelia dropped Kaldur onto the ground and speedy pulled an arrow on her.
"Super-girl and why does it seem like she personal knows us?" Wildcat said looking at the others; super-girl hit her head imitating her martian friend as she remembered the memory loss.
"Listen guys we're all part of a super hero team; your power-girl, Aqualad, speedy II and Wildcat II and others are Robin, Kid Flash, me, Miss Martian, Superboy and Batwoman." Super-girl explained to them gaining raised eyebrows from them before going on. "Mia, Adrian and Amelia you've all lost your memories we suspect another telepath is responsible anyway I'm to take you guys to the bioship while the others rescue superboy."
It happened so fast that super-girl couldn't react to it properly; a sudden sound reached her ears as she felt a presence behind her and as she half turned to face it a fist collided with her head with enough force to send her flying over four hundred meters away skimming off the ground as she went before she could recover her poise. Once she stopped and looked back she was shocked by the sight that meet her eyes: a man taller than wildcat in a jet black full body armour stood there, his full face helmet had a red visor over his eyes and on his chest was a glowing red shield with a pair of S's set in the middle of it. He casually backhanded Wildcat into Speedy knocking both out before Power-girl threw a novice punch at him, he grabbed it with easy and swung her overhead and smashed her head first into the ground before curb stomping her head repeatedly. Angry super-girl speeded towards him letting loss a pair of heat beams towards him as soon as she was almost on top of him, he turned like lightening to face her, his visor dropping as a thick pair of crimson beams speared towards her; they're beams meet as he turned slightly to avoid her incoming fist with the distance between their heads reaching inches apart when he suddenly drove his head forward still maintaining the heat beams and head-butted her with enough force to launch her into the ground hard before following up by taking power-girl by the feet with both hands and using her as a club to smash into the dazed kryptonian girl letting go of her and sending them both flying towards a large rock formation which they smashed into hard.
"He's strong, too strong his every hit seems harder, he's seems to be slightly faster too; fuck even his heat vision seems bigger how is that possible just who the hell is he?" Super-girl groaned helping power-girl to her feet as both girls took to the skys albeit with power-girl failing around a little as she tried to get a hang of flying again.
"A pity Psimon wiped the rejects mind it took what little challenge she had away… although I expected more from you Super-girl you seem to have regained your memories and yet I feel like you're not taking me seriously." The unknown Kryptonian said hovering in front of them his arms crossed as he looked between them. "perhaps I should kill the bugs back there to motivate you into fight?"
"Don't you fucking touch them you bastard!" super-girl roared loosing another pair of heat beams racing towards him before shutting them off at the last second and ducking under his bigger beams upper cutting him in the chin and sending him high into the sky. "Guess you didn't know heat beams reduces your peripheral vision and yours a bigger so your blind spot is too."
"I'll remember that Super-girl." He replied as he came down on her hard with both feet before she could dodge rocketing her to the earth while power-girl used this chance to actually land a series of wild punches to his head staggering him in the air before he blasted her down into super-girls rising body with his heat vision. "you don't stand a chance against the finished product reject; power-girl please you don't have all the power while I do… me the true the success of project apotheosis: me who has become a god amongst mere mortals."
He cannonballed into the girls pinning Super-girl with his heat vision as she kept her arms raised to block the two heat rays and stomping hard on power-girls chest gaining cries of genuine pain from her with every word.
"Me with the power to destroy entire nation's armies and level cities single handily: behold the power of a true super soldier." He said mockingly before a series of six purple blurs smashed into him seconds apart sending him skimming until he hit a rock formation over a kilometre away.
"Time to get out of dodge I think you two." A voice said from in front of them as they looked up to see Kid Flash wearing a purple version of her friction suit with a star symbol in the middle with a lightening bolt at its centre as purple glow around her and a purple ring on her finger. "Questions later lets grab the others and get to the bioship now before that super soldier guy comes back."
They nodded and the three of them zoomed at super sonic speeds grabbing Aqualad, Wildcat and Speedys unconscious bodies before heading towards the Bioships position. A pair of heat beams lancing through the space around them alerted them to the return of supersoldier as super-girl and Kid Flash who was flying beside them turned and returned fire with heat vision and purple energy blasts.
"He's persistant isn't he?" Kid yelled as they manuvered to avoid the heat rays from cutting them in half as they heard the sound of the bioship reaching their position; suddenly the kryptonian stopped and turning around and heading off in the opposite direction. "Well I wasn't expecting him to give up like that."
They entered the ship as the others stared as kid powered down the ring returning to the normal suit before switching off the stealth mode and strapping the three unconscious members to the gurney's megan had produced.
"Kara check for internal wounds Adrian's breathing seems off." Evelyn said before moving on to check on Speedy and finally onto Kaldur who she hooked up to an IV drip to re-hydrate him.
"He's ribs are broken… all of them he's lucky nothing got punctured or cut or he would have died from internal bleeding." Kara said looking at him before turning to face Evelyn. "Mind explaining why you're suddenly a purple version of the lanterns Kid."
"It's a long story and we're better off waiting until we're back at the cave now mind telling me who was the guy packing kryptonian powers and handing your asses to you both." Evelyn replied looking at them as they entered Qurac airspace and safety.
"Don't really know much apart from the fact he thinks he's a god, called Amelia a reject and that he was the true success of project Apotheosis and seemed stronger than me in almost all my power and abilities including heat beams." Kara said seeing the blood drain from the others faces as she suddenly noticed sphere back in her sphere form resting beside Conner as Megan fixed Amelia's memories while Robin piloted the bioship for her. "What's that thing?"
"My new friend he's got some tricks up his selves I can tell you." Conner said with a smile as they headed homeward.
"Get me a link to the cave we've got an urgent development to tell the league." Evelyn said as bioship formed a communication station which she began operating.
"Team to cave come in over." She said as the com link was establishing itself with the leagues com satellite.
"batman here report mission status." Batman said through the com.
"we discovered pismon investigating some sort of sentient alien artifact which we recovered but we had some major problems, Wildcat needs immediate medical attention for broken ribs, speedy's unconscious and Aqualad is suffering from extreme dehydration… batman the biaylan's have a kryptonian on their side.. a krypto-human and he seems stronger than super-girl over." She told him hearing a heavy silence on the other side for a few minutes before.
"get the cave ASAP, medical facilities will be prepped and league leaders will be present for a full debrief upon arrive over." Batman finished terminating the transmission as the looked among each other.
3:12 EDT Mount Justice September 5th 2010
As soon as the team touched down Aqualad, Speedy and Wildcat were raced out of the bioship and in the med bay by Aquaman, Green Arrow and Black Canary while the others were escorted by Red tornado and Batman to the debriefing room which was occupied by Wonder woman, Superman, Hal Jordan, Flash, Martian Manhunter and Captain Atom who all looked grim.
"Evelyn can you provide any visual data on the target?" Batman inquired as she nodded powering the ring and forming a large screen of the scene when she arrived as the two girls were getting whaled on by the supersoldier.
"Hera help us." Diana muttered as superman gasped as his cousin was been brutally blasted by villains heat vision while Amelia was being pounded into the ground mercilessly by him.
"Talk now." Batman said looking at them all bat glare engaged.
"I believe our early assessment that Amelia was the only survivor of project Apothoesis was wrong… I think she was the only surviving defective subject and this was the real finished goal but how he's stronger than a normal kryptonian I don't know, I've read through some of the project data and its in a really devious code I can't begin to break and the science is difficult for me understand pretty ground breaking stuff but there's stuff missing almost like the guy didn't want someone stealing his work." Evelyn told them as they explained the mission and finding the sphere which the lanterns said was safe and since it helped the team they were allowed to retain custody of it.
"So Kid care to explain why you've got the power ring to us now?" Robin asked once the team cornered after the leaguers left to discuss the issue of the krypto-human. Sighing and knowing this would happen she gave the team the edited version of her induction to the star sapphire corps and how she had been training with Guy Gardener in the mornings on free days.
"So do we call you Kid Flash or Kid Lantern or Star flash or Kid Sapphire or?" Robin said grinning at her as she sighed and glared at him menacingly.
"Just Kid Flash thanks." She said as they waited in the lounge to hear on how the others were doing and to hopefully see them make a full recovery; they all turned to see Black Canary looking rather pale before smiling softly when she noticed them looking at her.
"They all be fine, speedy's regained consciousness and J'onn has already restored her memories, Ollie took her home and Kaldur is just sleeping it off now that he has been rehydrated it's a miracle he survived for as long as he did… Adrian will also be fine but he'll be in bed for at least a week and three more before he's clear for activity duty or even training he's sleeping it off too given how doctor lee had to bind his ribs in place." She told them as they all sighed in relief glad that nobody was going to be crippled by their injuries. "Batman has made a point that you need to be trained to survive combat with hostile kryptonian's now and also to work on equipping yourselves with anti-kryptonian weaponry now."
"I can't believe I got my ass handed to me by that guy; Amelia had lost her memories and so didn't know how to fight or control her abilities but what was my excuse?" Kara said holding a pillow to her chest tightly once Dinah had returned to watch over her protogee, Robin placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder along with Conner who sat down beside and gave her a tight hug surprising everyone there with the more advance display of emotion.
"Because you've never had a serious fight with Kal Kara, you've trained with him but you've never once had any notion of how you would effectively combat another one of your kind… Supersoldier was created to kill kal and you and so would have been trained to fight you plus he might have been enhanced like Eve suggested so your not to blame at all." He said trying to comfort her as she started crying now.
"Adrian had all his ribs broken in a single hit Kon-El he could have died and I can't help but feel like it was my fault it happened." She said through tears; Evelyn walked over to kneel down in front of her holding her hands with her own.
"If its anyone's fault it would be mine Kara, I'm the leader and I sent you on your own because I thought you could handle anything you came across and that decision nearly cost us dearly… I won't do that again I can promise you. Until then I suggest we ask Diana if she can show you three a few amazon fighting moves to beat that guy's raw power with skill should you ever meet again… I won't fail my team again." Evelyn said to them all standing up and heading out towards the zeta beams.
"Eve where are you going?" Kathy called after her as she walked.
"To build some anti-kryptonian weapons to keep my friends safe should we every meet this son of a bitch in the future." She replied determined as she disappeared from view.
3:33 EEST light secret base Bialyan desert September 5th 2010
"Your orders were to retrieve the girl Eric not combat the super-girl and nearly kill her teammates." L-6 said crossly as the krypto-human raised an eyebrow at him board and uncaring of words.
"I engaged the kryptonian to see if I was stronger than her and I found that I was what I wasn't expecting was a speedster with a power ring you forget to mention that development L-8?" he spoke to the member with the hatred of the flash family who chuckled softly.
"Where I come from Kid flash is a boy and isn't near her level of intelligence so forgive me for that mistake… still you are to be commended for facing two kryptonians at once Supersoldier." He said with mirth as the krypto-human tightened his fists as he growled his reply.
"I was fighting one kryptonian and one who was tantamount to a new born child I don't take credit for things I haven't achieved besides I'd like to see the boy scout sweat now he knows I'm out there." He replied smiling sadistically at the end.
"it would be better if there were more of you; care to remind us when you felt the need to relieve the good doctor of his spinal column?" L-2 asked now as Eric felt rage fill his system at the memory of that man.
"He treated me as a rat to be made into a weapon… I showed him and all of you I was something much more than that and I was smart enough to increase my value and exact my revenge at the same time." He said turning to leave feeling one of the headaches coming on.
"then you best retrieve the girl for our lab research then why don't you." L-1 said threateningly as he left.
"next time I won't hold back on her you can be sure of that." He told them leaving the room as the computer screens whited out.
4:00 PDT Jump city September 5th 2010
"So if i help you form a bridge here you'll give me a city to rule as a king as well as power and immortality?" the medium asked smiling greedily at the spirit in front of him.
"yes boy if you help me bridge the gap and conquer this world then i will reward you with those boons... once you accept my essence you will have the power to charm those pitiful human minds and form the cult needed to achieve my goals." the shade of Aragoth spoke to the mortal before him; he had been defeated before when he launched his invasion only instead of his hordes to pour out of the gate he found ten thousand amazon warriors leading the charge with hundreds of heroes and villains behind them to deny him his conquest. then that fool Darius had remained trapped only to prevent all of his attempts to reopen gates... now that the bleed storm had opened a portal here he could use the residual energy link to open it in to another gate and launch the invasion anew.
A/N: So there is chapter Nine guys, it felt a lot more bare to the bones but perhaps that because of the large amount of content in the last chapter anyway analysis time.
So super soldier makes his appearance as an arrogant krypto-human with the power to back up his bluster, i didn't want him to come off as being unrealistic when he was fighting the girls, he's stronger but theirs a reason for that, he had surprise on his side and he's trained to fight the supers they haven't all this i think justifies the girls having the trouble fighting this time something they'll change should they meet him in the future.
New A/N: Victor is going through the identity issues he had in the comics and which was referenced in the teen titans go crossover which was a main character point he had as he struggled with his humanity and how he could live like this.
Amazon's as seen in the Justice league sesries have been shown not to like men a lot and if you were a consertive amazon and you heard about a male amazon how would you react plus Darius is out of his comfort zone in this world as in his history followed a more matriarchal route in compared to our history's more patriarchal one.
As far as i know the only ways to properly combat a kryptonian are telepathy (mind fuck is still a mind fuck regardless of how pyhsical strong you are), magic, kryptonite, red solar rays and new god technology.
As normal i encourage you all to leave a review saying what you like, what mistakes you notice, what you might like to see in the story, any questions you may have or any constructive criticism you have. i wondering if this one was ok because something about it feels off but i don't know what.
till next till dear reader sincerely Graywolf41 esquire.