Hello, everyone! It's me, SuperHeroTimeFan, back with another chapter. I would like to thank Flaming Dragon for his continued support on my story as well as Logan GC's. We need more supporters like him, always backing us up. Please try to make other spin-off stories for Logan GC and me so that his story will become a success. Also, be sure to watch my New Destiny videos on YouTube as well as my fan art on DeviantArt. Chapter 10's going to be good, I can tell you, because it's the first mission chapter I've written. Now, with that being said, here's Chapter 10.
Chapter 10: Furies
Howland Island November 8th 1316 hours
A Hercules cargo plane flies over Howland Island. Two figures jump down with parachutes. They're revealed to be Shimmer and Cheshire.
As Cheshire and Shimmer flew down to the island and landed, Jade placed her mask on as the two headed toward their rendezvous point. After a half hour of walking, they came across a large pillar. A secret door opened up as they entered. They walked down the spiral staircase and when they reached the bottom, there were a series of candles lit.
Just then, the candles went out. The two girls looked to see who extinguished the candles. "About time you got here. I was starting to think this meeting was going to be a bogus." Cheshire and Shimmer looked up to see a girl in an aqua colored suit and black pants. Her shirt had a symbol depicting an icicle. "Killer Frost." Shimmer acknowledged. "Yeah, it's me. Haven't seen you since Belle Reve. Now why am I here anyway?" she asked impatiently. "I was about to ask the same." Came a voice from the shadows. There stood another girl, a young girl with the appearance of a cheetah, but with a black vest and black leggings. "Minerva, it's been a while." Cheshire welcomed. "So, who called us here for crying out loud?" another voice came. There stood a girl with blond hair, wearing a white jumpsuit and silver gloves. "Galatea." Killer Frost said in disgust. "I'm stuck with you losers? Great." Another voice came out. This girl was dressed in a sleeveless green shirt with a white skirt and red torn jeans. Her hair was purple with a red streak. "Circe, you look… nice." Cheetah complimented to the Goth girl.
"Any reason I was called to this meeting?" another girl asked. There was a girl with pale blue skin and white hair, wearing a dark blue jumpsuit with a torn lightning symbol down the center of her top. "Hello Livewire." Everyone drawled annoyingly. Another girl came out, with pink hair and in a purple and violet suit. The mask was the same color. "Welcome home, Saturn Sapphire." Shimmer greeted. Circe was still impatient. "Who called us here anyway?" she asked tirelessly. Just then, they heard a voice. "I did."
Everyone turned to see who said that. Then, from the shadows, came a girl with silver hair and a cloth mask, the right half colored orange and the left colored black, with her eye only appearing on the orange side. She had two katanas at her side as well as a Walther P-38 gun and her suit was similar to Deathstroke's, only with a more feminine build. Her black and gold armor glimmered in the dark. "Rose? Rose Wilson?" Cheshire asked in disbelief. "I'm surprised, Jade Nguyen. I thought you'd remember your childhood friend by now." Rose said sadistically and sarcastically. "And my name is now Ravager." She added on. "What happened to your eye?" Circe asked curiously. "I stabbed it." She gorily replied back. Everyone groaned with disgust. "You're all here because Daddy Deathstroke's imprisoned on Stryker's Island. I need a team who can take down the sidekicks who defeated my father in one fell swoop, a team who can spill some blood, as well as free my father" She explained to the girls. "Sounds painful, excruciating, gory and violent." Galatea pointed out. "We're in." Livewire said murderously. "Here's the boy with the bounty bigger than his head." Rose gestured to a screen with footage of Starkiller as the girls watched him fight. "He took down my father. He's the one we'll ravage!" she explained to them in an insane, murderous voice. All the girls smirked with the same expression before extinguishing every candle with the snap of her fingers. They were about to get away with murder.
Central City November 8th 2338 hours
Wally had let go of his sympathy for Galen and now hated him once again. In the garage, he was trying to build his own lightsaber using the photo of the lightsaber schematics he took in Galen's room. He had no special crystals with him, he couldn't steal one of Galen's because suspicion would arouse and the last thing the Team needed was more discomfort in the Team. Being a great scientist, he was able to build a lightsaber with ease. There was a massive snowstorm coming to the US and he needed to have enough power to build this weapon. He was almost done as he read the last instructions. "When the activator is placed on the hilt, fasten…" he had a difficulty reading because the lights wouldn't stop flickering on and off. Wally fastened the activator on, but he didn't get a chance to test it out.
All of a sudden, the lights went out. "Wally! Did you use up the power?" his mother called from upstairs. "No! That wasn't me!" he yelled back. "I'll be coming down there, Wally!" his Uncle Barry yelled back down. "Got it!" he loudly replied back. Just then, a surge of lightning flashed at the light bulb. "What the–?" he screamed. Another surge of lightning hit him in the head, knocking him out unconscious. Livewire appeared out of the socket and cackled. "Flash Junior, you just helped out the Furies a lot!" she said into his ear. She disappeared back into the socket as the lights went back on. Barry Allen blurred beside Wally and gasped at the sight of the electrocuted boy. "Wally? Wally, what happened?" he yelled frantically. It was his fault for putting Wally into a coma and putting him into the hospital in the first place and he didn't want him to die this time. Wally regained consciousness as he looked to Barry. "What happened?" Wally asked his uncle. "Something electrocuted you." He explained. Wally scratched his head and then looked to the lightsaber. "I did it! The lightsaber's complete!" he wailed excitedly. The older Flash looked to his nephew both happy and worried.
Howland Island November 9th 0 hours
Livewire returned with the stolen schematics for lightsaber construction. "I got it." She told the Furies. Rose looked at them carefully and then, after one and a half minutes, she looked to the rest of her Team. "Cheshire, bring me crystals and Nth metal from Star Labs. Galatea, I'll need parts and tools from T.O Morrow's lab." They both nodded as they left. "We're about to get on equal footing." Ravager quipped as she continued to look at the schematics.
Mount Justice November 9th 1559 hours
Aqualad, Black Canary, Green Arrow and Flash all waited for the Team to enter the Cave. All in groups, coming from school, entered as they looked to the older heroes. "It's about time we started training." Dinah told them. "Agreed." Aqualad said in agreement. Connor stepped up. "Who'll be fighting who?" he asked. "Actually, with everything Galen's been teaching and performing, we'll let him be today's instructor." Green Arrow replied to the Team. Galen looked in surprise. "What? Why?" he asked in confusion. "Because, you have abilities highly more skilled than us. You deserve to be the instructor for today." Flash explained to him. Everyone looked to Galen, waiting for his answer. Galen looked at everyone's faces, all telling him to do it. "Alright. I'll do it." He finally said. Everyone gave him a positive compliment, wishing him the best of luck. Strangely to Galen and Artemis, even Wally was acting generous.
Galen split the Team into different training lessons: Aqualad and Artemis for swordsmanship and target practice, Zatanna and Miss Martian for supernatural combat, and Kid Flash and Superboy against Robin for situations a non-powered hero might face against powerhouses and superhuman beings. Galen, as well as Black Canary and the other two Leaguers, watched the training, impressed with how Galen decided to have them all train. Artemis and Kaldur were doing considerably well against the Training Remote as well as their saber techniques. Artemis back flipped several times before deactivating her lightsaber and putting it into arrow mode. She then used it to hit the target while in a perfect split. Kaldur was a swell deflector, as he was able to deflect every shot. Artemis reactivated her lightsaber and whipped out her crossbow, starting to duel the Atlantean once again. Galen then looked to Zatanna and M'gann. Over time, he taught them how to perform stronger telekinetic and supernatural attacks. Robin, on the other hand, was a natural at fighting without powers. Connor might have severely beaten him when they first met, but now he was able to counter all of his moves by using his own strength against him. He even used Connor as a human shield against Wally when trying a human-cannonball against him.
Galen took notice to Wally's backpack. He saw a shining object coming out from it. "Wally." He said, urging the speedster to walk to him. He is so not the boss of me! He thought to himself angrily. "Yes?" he asked innocently. Galen then used the Force to grab the lightsaber. "Did you build this?" he asked curiously. "Yes." He repeated once again after gulping. Galen took a glance at the lightsaber and nodded. "Impressive, most impressive." He told him. Artemis deactivated her lightsaber once again and walked over. "How did you know how to build this?" he asked more sternly this time. Wally began to stutter. "Why?" he asked with his voice cracking up. Galen used the Force to pull it apart carefully. "The emitter's inversed, the focusing crystal is unbalanced, there's no crystal to begin with, and the wires are connected incorrectly." He scolded. "What?" Wally asked in disbelief. "If you activate this in battle, it will explode on activation itself." He added on.
"Galen's right, it would. How did you know how to build it anyway?" Artemis asked suspiciously. Wally's eyes glared from here to there and everywhere. "You will tell us how you learned to do this." Galen ordered, waving his arm. "I will tell you I learned to do this." Wally repeated. Galen sighed. "How?" he asked impatiently. "I took a picture of the schematics and learned how to build a lightsaber from it." He said quickly. Everyone stopped training as they walked over to Kid Flash. "What just happened?" he asked in confusion. "You just told us how you stole plans from Galen." Artemis scolded him. He gasped. Just then, Batman's voice echoed around the Cave. "Team, report for mission briefing." He ordered loudly. Everyone headed to the briefing room as Wally snatched back his lightsaber.
Everyone got into uniform and waited for Batman to brief them on their mission. "Star Labs and T.O Morrow's lab has been robbed." He told the Team. "Who did it, the Shadows?" the young Ward asked his mentor. "We are unsure at the time. We were able to get these shots. Courtesy of the Daily Planet." He explained again. He then pulled up footage of Cheshire bombing a safe. "Cheshire!" Artemis spat out. They saw her confiscating two large bags. "What's in them?" Galen asked curiously. Robin placed an infrared scanner on the cameras. "Nth metal and some multicolored quartz crystals." He replied back. "What's Nth metal?" the Force-user asked the Team. "Precious metal used by almost all members of the League." Kaldur responded. "Used for utility belts, arrows, any weapon." Artemis finished up.
"The stolen quartz crystals came from Oklahoma. What does the League need them for?" Connor asked as well. "That's disclosed information." Batman replied. "The one who robbed T.O Morrow's, we are unsure of her alliance." He added on. More footage showed Galatea stealing every piece of metal from the laboratory. "That's… Galatea!" M'gann exclaimed in shock. "Who?" Connor and Galen asked. "Her DNA's from Supergirl, made by Cadmus." Green Arrow detailed to them. "There's a Supergirl?" Connor asked in disbelief. "Why isn't she on the Team?" he asked further on. "Because she vanished over three years ago." Batman replied, before continuing with the task at hand.
"Two Apache helicopters were seen carrying them to the Bermuda Triangle islands." Flash added on. "What have they found?" Zatanna asked curiously. "An elderly woman and a plane, but nothing else." Batman answered. "Ha! Told ya she isn't dead!" Robin quipped to the Team. "Who?" Galen asked tirelessly. He was starting to get annoyed of asking the same question. "Amelia Earhart." Black Canary responded. She was sounding impressed by the discovery. "Your mission is to find out what it is the two are rendezvousing at and what their purpose it." Batman concluded. "Right!" they all said before leaving to the Hangar bay.
As the Bioship took off, Batman left to the Watchtower. As soon as he left, Flash turned his attention to the other heroes. "Wally was up last night, building a lightsaber. I don't even know where he got the instructions on how to build one." He told everyone. "I've noticed he hasn't been at ease since Galen arrived." Green Arrow added on. "Something's not right with them." Black Canary finished up. All agreed to keep a closer eye on those two.
Howland Island November 9th 1637 hours
As the Team was preparing themselves to fight, Galen pulled Wally's lightsaber away from him. "Hey!" he yelled frustratingly. Galen took it apart and reassembled it. "It now has a crystal for the blade and everything is properly in place." He explained to the speedster. Artemis motioned for Galen to come over to him. "What is it?" he asked her. "Two days from now, it will be Wally's birthday." She whispered. Zatanna was drinking a water bottle and listening in on the conversation. None of them seemed to mind. "Right. What's a birthday?" Galen asked. The youthful magician immediately spit out the water and gasped. "You don't know what a birthday is?" she asked horrendously. Robin came over to listen as he was drinking from his own water bottle. "No, is it important?" he replied. Robin spat out his water the same way his beloved girl did so. It was no longer a private conversation as everyone listened for an answer. Connor and Wally looked as they both were drinking orange soda. "It's the day to celebrate when you were born." M'gann explained to him. "I don't remember when I was born." Galen answered back. Wally and Connor both spat out their drinks at each other. "We should probably stop drinking." Robin told the Team. Just as Artemis was about to explain, they landed. "Stealth mode." Aqualad ordered his team as his, Kid Flash's, Miss Martian's, Artemis' and Starkiller's suits became darker. They all saw the footprints of Cheshire and Galatea. "M'gann, link us up." Kaldur ordered. Everyone was soon telepathically linked together. They all followed the tracks and came across three pillars. "Detecting abnormal anomalies inside the middle." Robin alerted the Team. Starkiller activated his lightsaber and cut a hole through the rock. They were about to go in until everything around them turned white. "Not now!" Starkiller thought to himself as he fell to the ground with his hands on his head. Everyone yelled as another memory entered Galen's mind.
The Team saw Starkiller with a red lightsaber and lighter clothes. "What is this place?" Artemis asked anxiously. "I think it's one of Galen's memories." M'gann replied. "Stay alert. The enemy might be trying to fool us." Kaldur warned the Team. "Proof that this isn't an ambush: Galen's there and not here!" Robin spat back to the leader. "Also, we can physically speak and not think." He added on. They all watched as Starkiller walked up to an alien woman with ripped clothing. She was meditating until Galen walked behind her. She opened her eyes and sensed Starkiller arriving. "Vader's assassin, welcome to the Ancient Abyss. A place of sacrifice since time immemorial." She greeted, standing to turn around and activating her blue lightsaber. "Are you prepared to meet your fate?" Shaak Ti asked him. Starkiller growled as he lunged toward her, in which she lunged toward him. The rest of the battle could not be seen as the memory ended.
The Team looked around to see that they were back. Artemis helped Galen get back up on his feet. "What was that?" she asked out loud. "I don't know." Galen responded as he shook his head. "That definitely wasn't a Martian, or any kind of species known." M'gann pointed out telepathically. "Who's Vader?" the Boy Wonder asked. "Are you with the Shadows?" Wally additionally asked. "Enough! We should be cautious. Keep going." Kaldur told everyone. They all nodded as they went down.
When they got down there, they say candles lit up. Cheshire's mask was seen moving through the shadows. "There!" Artemis alerted the Team. Galen Force-pulled her towards them. Everyone was surprised and confused to see that it was just the mask and not Cheshire. Galen then turned the mask around to see a ticking bomb attached to the back of it. "Run!" Galen told them as they all ran out the door. The bomb exploded as the pillar disappeared as well. Everyone was caught in the blast radius and fell. They all got back onto their feet. "It was a trap!" Zatanna said angrily. Just then, Connor looked up. He could see a girl in a white suit watching over them. "Guys, I think that's Galatea." He informed the Team. They all looked up to see her. Knowing that her cover was blown, Galatea flew away. What she failed to notice was that Robin threw a tracker on her. "She'll notice it soon. We have to hurry." Grayson told everyone. They all nodded in agreement as they all took off in the Bioship.
Santa Prisca November 9th 1916 hours
As the Bioship hovered over Santa Prisca, Connor groaned. "This place again? Marvelous." He said sarcastically. "There's been a connection between the robberies." Robin told the Team. "Cheshire was robbing metal parts and crystals." Artemis pointed out. "And Galatea was stealing circuit boards, switches and other metal parts, mostly for an electronic device." Wally added on. "They're trying to build lightsabers." M'gann included. "But how could they do that without correct schematics?" Galen asked. Wally hit himself in the head. "Duh! Hello, Wally!" he said out loud. Everyone looked to him. "When I was trying to build it, some electrical lightning surge attacked me! Whoever did that stole my schematics photo!" he concluded to the Team. "The recent breakout was at Belle Reve. Three super villainesses escaped: Killer Frost, Shimmer and Livewire." Robin added on. "Livewire? Didn't Superman take her down at the Hoover Dam?" Connor asked. "She was sent there three days after you and M'gann were sent there for investigations." Kaldur explained to him. "Girls are getting together in a planned-out attack against us. We need to find who's behind their operations." Zatanna concluded. Everyone nodded and went into stealth mode. They were already telepathically linked up.
The Team all entered the warehouse at once and waited for the attackers. All of a sudden, the door closed shut behind them. "It's a trap!" Zatanna said. "Yes, it is. Welcome to the masquerade." A voice came out, greeting them sadistically. As the lights turned on, there were female Shadow assassins as well as Killer Frost, Shimmer, Cheetah, Galatea, Saturn Sapphire, Cheshire, Circe and Livewire surrounding them. "I'm glad you could make it, sidekick scum." The same voice called out. They all turned to the balcony, where Ravager stood. "Ravager." Kaldur said, trying to intimidate her.
"Meet the Furies, Team." She said to the kids. "What were the robberies for?" Robin demanded. "They were to get your attention. It makes sense, doesn't it?" Rose answered back. She jumped down in front of Galen. "You're the powerhouse who took down my father." She said angrily to Galen, caressing his hair. Artemis tensed at the sight of this. "You're the one I wanted, after all." She claimed angrily. She punched him in the face as she stepped back after. She revealed a torch-shaped hilt. "I've always wanted to use this kind of weapon against you." She stated sadistically. Galen unsheathed his own hilt. "You dare challenge these swords?" he demanded. Artemis knew that when he meant "swords", he meant her lightsaber as well. She pulled out her hilt, much to Galen's approval. "Who wouldn't?" Ravager quipped back. The two teams stared each other down. Just then, Ravager activated her lightsaber. The golden blade glowed as she raised it into the air.
"Kill them all!" she ordered. Galen activated his lightsaber as well. Artemis did too. They all charged at each other, starting the fight. Robin was fighting Shimmer for the second time in the same place. They were both evenly matched, which was annoying them. Aqualad and Killer Frost continuously sent aqua barrages at each other, neither backing down. Kid Flash started taking down assassins quickly, but was punched by Cheetah at his speed. "Meow!" she said, glancing down at him. Wally quickly got up and they started fighting at light speed. Their punches and kicks were all a blur as Superboy and Galatea started punching stars out of each other. They both punched at once, only for them to hurt their fists. Galatea flew up. "You may be strong as rocks, but I'm as quick as air!" she taunted at him. Connor angrily jumped up at her, sending her to the ground. Connor was about to send a finishing punch at her, but she used heat-vision on his eyes. He groaned in pain. Galatea was about to use the same finishing punch on him, until he kicked her between her legs. Angrily, the two resumed their fistfight. Miss Martian was telekinetically sending assassins flying across the room. Saturn Sapphire blasted at her, making her fly the same way the assassins were. "Get up, Martian Filth!" she demanded. M'gann grabbed one of the assassin's swords and ran toward her. Saturn Sapphire countered by making her own swords. The two entered a sword fight, neither of them getting hit. Miss Martian then levitated her into the air and slammed her against the ground.
Artemis shot arrows at Cheshire, who countered with her own shurikens. Cheshire charged at Artemis with twin katanas, but Artemis sliced the blades with her lightsaber. She then swatted her away as she extended her lightsaber into a pike. She then ran over to Galen, fighting Ravager.
Zatanna and Circe circled each other, glaring angrily at one another. "You're the one who defeated my brother, Klarion." She said angrily. "Courtesy of Dr. Fate." She spat back. "I never liked you since we were in our childhood, witch!" she cursed at her. Circe growled and sent a swarm of swords at Zatanna. Zatanna countered by sending a return swarm back at her. As Circe picked up one of the swords, Zatanna pulled out her wand and they both clashed. "Now, I'll kill you the same way I killed your filthy mother, Sindella!" Zatanna smirked as she incanted a spell to make her wand into a sword. Their fierce battle was on.
Galen and Ravager continued to clash blades. Ravager struck low, but Galen sensed the attack and fought back with an Ataru strike. Furious, Rose took out her gun and tried to shoot Galen, but he used Shien techniques to slice the bullets. He then used the Force to pull the gun toward him and slice it as well. Gold and Blue blades clashed in a flurry. "No wonder you were able to defeat Father. You won't find me so easy to defeat!" she quipped. She then used a lower kick to knock him to the ground. As she was about to bring her blade onto his body, Artemis jumped in. "Why don't you fight someone who can trim your petals, Rosie!" she quipped at her. Ravager attacked Artemis, but Artemis was using Shien techniques as well. Galen got up and tried to strike her, but she blocked it. He then used Juyo attacks on her, putting her on the defensive. Ravager had Galen in a saber lock. Artemis then used this opportunity to disarm her. Rose saw her attack and jumped. She then slammed her hilt onto Kid Flash's head, resulting in Cheetah tripping into a wall and falling unconscious and Wally's lightsaber coming out of his hand. She grabbed his blade and her two golden blades hummed to life. Artemis stood by Galen in a Soresu position.
"Now, we take her on together." He told her. She nodded as Ravager charged towards them. Galen struck at her knee, which Ravager blocked. Artemis slammed her blade onto Rose's shoulder, but she blocked that as well. "Remember that Tandem technique I taught you?" Galen asked Artemis. "But you said–" she started, but Galen cut her off. "This is the right time!" Galen stated. As Ravager charged at them, they both started using the same defense techniques in perfect sync. Ravager angrily attacked and thrust, but she was no match for the Tandem fighters. Galen disarmed her of Wally's lightsaber without breaking it and grabbed her now two-handed gripped lightsaber. Artemis used this opportunity to disarm her. She did so, literally, as she cut off her hands. Ravager shrieked as Galen kicked her to the ground. "Back away, Starkiller!" Livewire demanded, as she lunged lightning at him. Galen deflected the lightning and then attacked her with his own lightning, knocking her out cold. Rose tried to attack with her broken lightsaber in her left hand. Wally looked up. "What happens if it's built incorrectly again?" he asked Galen. "Of course!" Galen said, realizing what he meant. He imbalanced the crystals inside the lightsaber as Rose activated it. All of a sudden, without warning, before she could reach Galen, the lightsaber exploded on her, knocking her out cold as well. Galen grabbed her lightsaber. "It's over." He told her.
Galen looked to all the defeated assassins. The Team took everyone down. Cheshire got up and ran towards Rose. "You win this time, sidekicks but you won't get us. Every girl for herself." She said to the Team as she threw a smoke grenade to the floor. When the smoke cleared, she and Ravager disappeared. Wally got his lightsaber and looked at everything left from the battle. "Cool! Two souvenirs in one day!" he said excitedly. He grabbed Rose's hand, much to everyone's disgust, the Saturn Sapphire ring and Rose's lightsaber.
Mount Justice November 9th 2016 hours
Superman, Dr. Fate and Jon Stewart took away the female assassins and cooperators to Belle Reve as Batman was being briefed on the success of the mission. "Deathstroke's daughter, Rose Wilson, was behind the robberies." Galen explained to the Dark Knight. "She built this." Wally said, giving Batman Rose's lightsaber hilt. "It's a sloppy design, but she made it work." Artemis added on. "Good work, everyone. These girls will be taken into League custody for interrogation, and then put in Belle Reve." He informed them. They all smiled, especially Artemis. "That was your first lightsaber experience in actual combat." Galen told her. "Great job!" he complimented. She smiled even more and hugged him. Then, she kissed him on the cheek. They all then took off back home.
Wow, this had to be the longest chapter I've written. Thank you all for reviewing and reading. I hope you find this chapter good. It will coincide with Logan GC's A New Destiny. His new chapter will be out somewhere tonight. In the meantime, this is SuperHeroTimeFan signing off. Have a nice day and a happy upcoming holiday!