Episode Ten: Ethics? What Ethics?
It's only unethical if you get caught.
"I've got a new assignment for you." Tara told Ivy as she handed the redhead a file.
"But what about the Justice League?" Ivy asked.
Tara smirked. "Don't worry, this shouldn't take you very long to complete." Ivy opened the file.
"Stagg Enterprises?" she questioned in confusion.
"They've been working on something called Project Metamorpho. You and Violet are going to go in and sabotage it. The Project is the only thing keeping Stagg from going bankrupt." Tara explained.
"Another hostile takeover?" Ivy asked.
Tara just grinned, revealing pointed, fanglike, canines.
It was nighttime. Harpy was sitting on the roof of a Stagg Enterprises building. Violet, who was dressed in the outfit she wore when she helped the League up at the North Pole, was hacking Stagg's security system with a pocket size computer.
"How much longer is this going to take, Frost?" Harpy asked, using the codename Violet had been assigned.
"Hold on a moment and… done! Alarms are deactivated and cameras are on a loop." Frost answered happily.
Harpy and Frost entered the building through the stairwell door. They quickly headed for the lab. Frost immediately began hacking into the database on one of the labs computers.
"Okay, this is definitely the lab were they intend to test their mutagen. Wait…" Frost paused then began typing faster. "They already have tested it."
"On who?" Harpy asked, looking over her sisters shoulder.
"Rex Mason." Frost answered.
"Any way to reverse it?" Harpy questioned.
"No. It looks like they haven't put any effort whatsoever into reversing the effects." Frost replied.
"So how does this equipment work?" Harpy asked, leaving her sister's side and having a look around.
"Let's see. The subject is placed in the center and the tube is filled with"
"I don't see a tube." Harpy interrupted.
"It rises up out of the floor in order to ensure that only the subject is affected." Frost explained, then continued form where she was cut off.
"So the tube is filled with the mutagen in gas form and then an electrical current is introduced"
"Electricity?" Harpy interrupted again.
Frost sighed. "Yes the electricity is used to disrupt the molecules"
"I don't care about that, just point out the unit that produces the electric current so that I can rig it to malfunction." Harpy interjected.
Back on the roof Harpy was waiting for Frost to reset the security systems.
"Hey, there's something going on over there." Harpy stated directing her sisters attention to a nearby testing facility where there appeared to be a fight taking place.
Frost finished her hacking and looked up. "Yeah. Is that Green Lantern?" she asked as she put away her computer. Harpy's raptor like vision zeroed in on the scene.
"That's definitely Lantern. It looks like he's fighting Project Metamorpho." she stated.
Frost groaned. "We're going to have to go over there aren't we?" she whined.
"Yes. We're supposed to sabotage Project Metamorpho, all of it, and that guy over there is a part of it." Harpy replied.
"But I hate playing hero." Frost complained.
Harpy smirked. "Yeah, you make a much better villain." she stated before taking off. Frost glared after her before following.
When they arrived at the testing facility Frost made a wall of ice to separate Project Metamorpho from Green Lantern.
"Why are you attacking Green Lantern?" she asked the mutant formerly known as Rex Mason.
Mason began to answer. "He took her from me he"
"Where did you get your information?" Frost interrupted.
"Stagg showed me the pictures." Rex answered.
Frost rolled her eyes. "Project Metamorpho is the only thing keeping Stagg Enterprises from going under, he could have easily faked the pictures in order to get you to fight Green Lantern." she stated.
"If you don't believe you can ask the guy in the van taking pictures." Harpy added. Rex turned his attention to the van, ripping it open like a tin can, revealing Stagg and his henchman inside.
"You've gotten better at thermal sensing." Frost said to Harpy as G.L tried to convince Rex not to kill Stagg.
"Yeah, well, practice." Harpy responded. In the background Lantern had calmed Rex down and was using a piece of metal from the van to restrain Stagg and his lackey. Batman, Superman, J'onn, and Hawkgirl showed up. Harpy and Frost went and joined the group.
An explosion sounded behind them, fire now billowed out of the main building. Frost gave Harpy a flat look, Harpy just looked a little sheepish, not that anyone else noticed as they had gone to put the fire out.
Days later Ivy was having lunch with Tara. The black haired woman looked positively ecstatic.
"I take it that the takeover went well." Ivy said flatly, her chin resting on her hand as she picked at her salad.
Tara smiled, her pointed canines causing her to look more intimidating then happy. "And Stagg will be going to prison for crimes against humanity." she said before taking a bit of steak.
"Joy. Why do you insist on taking me to the most expensive restaurants in Gotham if you're not going to pay?" she asked.
"To remind you to pay your debt. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to listen to Hikari complain about how you haven't paid her?" Tara growled.
"You could pay it for me." Ivy suggested hopefully.
"I could." Tara stated thoughtfully, before breaking out into a devious grin. "But then I would own you."
Ivy gulped. "You know what never mind." she said.
Hope you enjoyed this short chapter. The next one is The Savage Time, so it will be awhile before it's out 'cause I have no idea what I'm going to do with it.
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