The boomerang went flying out, past us and over to the center where we were going to be fighting that witch and all that she had in her arsenal. We were standing at the end behind one of the brick buildings as Boomerang checked his phone. He could see where he launched his weapon since it had a camera, and we all looked at the view of what seemed to be some kind of wielding magic that was floating up into the sky, very powerful and massive within that station a bit farther away now.

I saw the witch, conducting the powers there in the middle and some kind of massive magic being stirred and moved by her fingers without the physical contact. I was watching it carefully, wondering if it was something I could really do. She seemed powerful enough, with the kind of magic I've never seen before. There was something else to the side, standing near here that almost had the stature of a thick brick wall but was booming of energy. An accomplice maybe? Another thing that we were going to have to fight after all.

"We think that thing's a weapon," Flag explained as he looked at the image, "Here. Lower." Boomerang lowered the came shot at the middle area. seeing the massive magic and energy at the top of what seemed to be stairs and the witch there right in the middle of it. The massive brick wall of a being saw our camera, whipping out a vine of black magic at us to stop the view.

The image went static, Boomerang lowering the phone there since we couldn't get a clear shot.

"We gotta take out the big one," Deadshot said to him, Flag thinking to himself as he was trying to conduct a plan in his head on how we were going to do this.

"I left a big ass demo charge down there in that subway. THere's a flooded tunnel, leads right underneath that building. SEAL's, thy can cover the charge, sim underneath that things feet. We get in its face and distract the hell out of that son of a bitch. So the swimmers can blow the bomb. That's how we take it out." He explained, having me think that it was a good enough plan. Distract the big guy, get him in the right spot, and kill him off to get to the witch. I looked from Flag over to Chato and Harley, both of whom were out of the way a bit now as we were talking about the plan. It could work, if nothing goes wrong and we were all on the same page, it could really work in our favor.

But there was still that line that I was about to cross: me being the one who was going to take on the witch.


We were sitting to the side of the flooded subway tunnel entrance, Croc already getting ready with the SEAL's that were going to go underwater and get the bomb ready for our plan. I was sitting in silence there behind chat, who was at the stopped escalator stairs. The others were leaning against the wall, getting their own expos ready and prepped. I could hear Katana at the front of the small hallway we were in, talking to her Katana in a hushed sound like she was afraid. But I could hear what she was saying.

"My dear husband. If I die in battle, we will finally be together."

"The man who killed her husband used that sword. His souls trapped inside of it. She talks to him," Flag informed the group quietly now as he was watching her. I looked too, past Chato's head as she was mourning into her sword.

"Hey. Well, you know what they say about the crazy ones." Boomerang voiced from his spot next to Flag, knives in his hand and his eyes looking off across from him. It was when Harley perked up, looking at him.

"Huh?" She asked. Deadshot and Boomerang chuckled a bit silently as I looked back at Chato, seeing him watch me as I was stopping my fingers against my leg there in a rapid pace.

"You're nervous," he voiced, having me gaze at him in confusion.

"I'm not," I countered.

"Are too. You always tap your leg like that when you get nervous, I remember," He explained as he sat with his arms resting on his knees and his eyes were on me, a small smirk on his lips, "I liked that about you."

"What? Me being nervous?" I asked him, thinking that it was silly. He shook his head slowly now as he stood up there and was face to face with me, yet I was a bit smaller since I was a step lower from the escalator.

"Naw, you being yourself," I was quiet when he said that to me, a somber look on his face as he licked his lips and looked down for a moment before looking back up again.

"What I said before, about us starting all over again, you still want to do that, right?" He asked me, hesitating when he was saying that to me. I nodded my head at him as I slowly placed my hands on my hips.

"Of course I do, why would I change my mind?" I asked him, not understand where he was coming from. He shifted with his feet, already seeming uneasy about it now as he spoke once again with a nervousness tone to his voice.

"You heard what I did to my family back there, Marley. It made me a monster, and I'm not gonna wanna do that to anyone again. If I do that to do—" He was rambling about what he's done and what he thought he was going to do, but I stopped him my placing my hand there on his chest, feeling his heartbeat under my fingertips and feeling how fast his heart was going from just talking to me.

"Let me be clear to you, Chato Santana, when I say that you are not a monster. I know for a fact you're not," I explained to him boldly between the both of us. It didn't matter that he looked the part with his tattooed face or how he would stare, I knew him better than that.

"How would you?" He asked softly, still not getting it as I peered at him with my own eyes. I fanned my fingers there on his chest, feeling the heart there and keeping it there for him to feel.

"Because you're still the little boy that ran into my life with a candy bar in his hand," I explained carefully, "You're still my best friend and that stood by me when I felt alone. You're good, you just got lost along the way," I wanted him to know that just in case something does happen to either one of us and we couldn't say it to each other then. But there was still the small thing of me wanting to tell him that I loved him, yet that thought was still vague and not set in stone just yet at least to me.

"Let's do this," Flag said to the group, moving from his spot there and getting his gun ready in his hand, the others were moving too since it was time to get this job done once and for all. Chato breathed out from looking at me, finally looking away from me and climbing up the stairs to pass Boomerang and walk out. I stayed for a moment now, thinking about it in my head if that was the right thing that I did to him, tell him how I felt without saying the actual sentence in my head. Did Jacob know that this would happen to me, to the both of us? I thought he did as I climbed the steps now, seeing Boomerang still there by his spot and he was watching me there with hesitance on his face.

"You alright, luv?" He asked me, having me nod my head at him now.

"Yeah, yeah I'm good," I answered, but he looked unconvinced.

"You know you should have kissed him and just got it over it," I looked at him almost in shock there when he said that, seeing him grin as he walked away with me asking him what was going on. But then it clicked: he knew. God, were Chato and me that obvious in front of the others. We might have which gave off a small hint of embarrassment.

Great, that was not how I wanted this whole thing to end.


The subways itself was dark, splattered of dark masses from the witch or the beings were all over the place. It was eery and quiet, beyond quiet and the debris was everywhere was we were walking. We stayed close and walked in the middle of the subway platform, keeping our guard up and looking around to see the bodies there on the floor, scattered amongst the bullet shells that too were seen as useless. Even some of the black stuff was hanging from the ceiling, some it in midair like it was frozen in time.

Needless to say, it scared me.

I walked behind Chato, seeing him look around too as well as the others. The uneasiness was in all of them now, not just me, so that felt a wee bit reassuring. Some of those bodies were chopped in half, being shoved into the wall from the back mass and it was making me feel a twinge down my spine from how it looked there. I realized that they were soldiers, the ones that we lost some time before and it was making me rethink this whole thing again now as we were still walking.

We finally turned a corner where we were getting ready to go up some stairs, having me see that it was near the subway main terminal. Flag had his gun out as well as Deadshot with his wrist gun. Chato walked up to them now as I grabbed both of my pistols there in my hand.

"You gonna fight with us?" Deadshot asked Chato.

"What if I lose control?" Chato asked him back in worry.

"Then maybe we'll have a chance," Deadshot answered, not in a sarcastic way but in confidence as we were going up the stairs to the top, healing the ominous sounds of the magic there. Everything was glowing blue and almost in a hypnotics way now as we were at the terminal, about to go into the fight there as I could feel the sense of darkness around me, almost like it was a blanket that was trying to cover me up for good.

Flag went in first, we were following him along the rows of columns there as he then motioned for us to hide behind each of them. Flag and Deadshot were at one, Harley and Chato at the second one,

Boomerang and Katana at the third and I became the solo one at the end. WE were all watching it there, wondering how we were going to go along with our plan. It was daunting to see it in front of us instead of behind a camera screen.

"Hey, everyone can see this trip magic stuff, right?" Harley asked the group in hesitance as she had a pistol near her head, loaded and ready.

"Yeah, why?" Deadshot replied to her now with his own question.

"I'm off my meds," Harley answered as I was rolling my shoulders there to get my wings ready, but not bringing them out yet. I didn't want to give myself away just yet with all of this happening in front of me.

"That's your old lady, huh?" Deadshot asked Flag under his breath.

"Yeah."

"Well, you need to handle this shit, all right? Get up there, smack on her ass, tell her: 'knock this shit off'." Deadshot informed him, though Flag still looked unsure.

"I do not think that'd be wise," Flag said truthfully, "I'm gonna draw out the big one. My boys will detonate the bomb underneath him." We were still going on with the plan, having me say a quick pray not only to myself but to Jacob, in hopes hat I was doing the right thing at the right time.

God, please spare them. I don't know what will happen to me, but let Chato have a good life.

"I've been waiting for you all night. Step out of the shadows, I won't bite."

I could really tell that it was some kind of dark magic in how she sounded and in how I was feeling it down to my core. Something inside of me was now screaming at me that I was in a dark place, my Angel side was wanting me to be careful and not let my guard down. I shot a look down the line at the group, Chato shaking his head at the others in wanting now since he could tell this was a bad choice. But of course, Harley shrugged her shoulders and started walking over there and Deadshot scooped her over to be stuffed between himself and Flag.

"Why are you here? Because the soldier led you? And all for Waller? Why do you serve those who cage you? I am your ally. And I know what you want. Exactly what you want." She was saying something in my head that was making me loose my consciousness like I was dreaming but I was still there. I could remember it all there, within my head now as things were going to black.


I was standing outside on a balcony somewhere near the ocean. Breathing in the ocean air and I could feel the wind scoping through my hair there as I was watching the waves roll in and out, in and out now. Nothing was dark, nothing was bare and raw as I could hear someone walking behind me and over to stand next to me, a hand moving over to rest on my hip and I leaned against the body there. The body warmth that I was feeling already made a smile as I was watching the ocean go through the motions there.

"Glad we came out here," I said to him as I was feeling the warmth all over me, hearing him hum in agreement there as I looked up. I saw his smooth face, tan and warm under the sun and how big his own smile was. I saw him look over at me with his bright warm eyes and I felt my own heart melt. There were no tattoos there on his face, or anywhere there on his body as he held me a big closer.

"It'll just be you and me, always." He reminded me as he leaned in to kiss me there. I was about to kiss him there on the balcony of some him when something inside of my head warning me, yelling at me. It sounded so desperate and almost unreal as I could hear it again.

Jacob's voice.

Wake up! Wake up!


I woke up within a deep breath, having me move away from the column and I was back there at the terminal. It scared me to think that it felt so real to me that I almost lost myself to the witch, it had to be the witch. I looked at the others, seeing that most of them, if not all of them, were still in the trance that the witch was doing to them. It scared me that she was doing this tot them, but now I was the one that broke the trance as I knew that I had to be the one to stop the witch.

I moved out of the way of the darkness and hiding there as I walked over to the middle of the terminal there, seeing the witch there and she finally saw me as I stood there, alone. I was making an insanely dumb idea there, no squad behind me and no real sense as to what I was going to do.

"I thought I sensed an Angel amongst the demons," The witch said in her sultry but demonic tone of a voice, "A strong mind like yours will be able to see what I give you."

"Leave them alone," I warned her, seeing her grin at me as I stood my ground and not moved an inch.

"Are you going to protect those mere metahumans? Who are they to you, an Angel?" She asked me now, trying to play with my mind there.

"They are my friends, demon." I wanted her, seeing her flare up a bit from the word I used on her now. Was it that I hit a nerve with her now as she was about to use something one me there, throwing out an arm at me and something flying out like a vine there. It hit me hard in the chest, in which I flew back a bit and my feet were scraping on the floor since I was trying to hold my ground there. I stopped when the vines were brought back to her, eyeing her with a small smile as I could feel a good amount of blood on my face from the assault trickling down my face there. But I felt no pain, not with her at least.

"You call that a punch, bitch?" I asked her in a booming tone now, hearing her almost growl at me as a voice run out there from back at the columns.

"I can't change what I did, and neither can you!"

It was Chato, coming out from his trance as I walked back over to the witch and I grabbed one of the pistols there in my holster and I aimed it right at her, not backing down a bit now since I was feeling more confident in this fight. We so close to ending this, and I didn't want some witch to take these people from me.

"Let them go, or so help me by God and the Angel themselves, I will personally make you pay for hurting them," I promised her as I aimed at her between the eyes. I felt like the Angels were going to be on my side there when I said that, and I wanted to make sure that I was going to be good on my word. I was not afraid of her, nor was I ever going to be since I knew we still had a plan. Footsteps were behind me, but I said there with my pistol still at her head now as she was looking at the others, no other dealing with me.

"How long have you been able to see?" She asked some who walked up to stand next to me. I could see him out of the corner of my eye: Chato. And he looked beyond pissed.

"My whole life. You can't have them, and you can't have her," He warned the watch now as he pointed at me, "These are my people right here." The others were standing with Chato and me now as I was standing so still, the blood from my head going down my cheek and along my jawline as the witch spoke once more.

"But is it our time. The sun is setting and the magic rises. The metahumans are a sign of change," She said to the group now, trying to convince them.

"Lady, you are EVIL!" Deadshot said to her in his booming voice as he too pointed at her now with anger in his own eyes. She the then spoke in some kind of dead language, though I understood it sounded so foreign to me than anything else I heard in the past.

"Brother. Make them bow to me,"

We all looked to see who she was talking to, the big one that we were targeting before now as he was walking to us from the other side of the terminal, behind the columns. He was mean, he was vicious, and he was going to be one hell of a fight.

"Oh, wow!" Deadshot said under his breath.

"Uh oh," Harley said in a low manner., Katana having her sword ready and out in front of her.

"Who's this?!" Boomerang asked in a panic. The being was stalking down the steps now over to us as I felt the panic sinking amongst all of us.

"It's gonna be bad!" Flag warned.

"We should run," Deadshot added. Flag fired for one a few seconds before vines came out of the big one's hands and we all ducked from the damage. It struck the steps behind us. Chato and I fell to our knees, covering our heads now as Deadshot and Flag ran over to hide behind a statue, the being shooting out some of its magic at them. He struck at Katana and Boomerang who were hiding as well behind their own statue.

"GQ, come in. WE're in position," Flag said to his Comm as I shot up and shot at the being a few times, seeing him throw out his magic at me. I rolled my shoulders back in time for my wings to sprawl out ad I shot up in the air before the magic could hit me, hovering in the air for him to see as a moving target.

He tried to hit me a few times, but I was moving faster though they were becoming close calls than anything. Boomerang even tried to hit him with one of his boomerang that had an explosive, but it didn't work.

"We gotta get him in that corner. That's where the bomb will be," Flag explained as I looked to where he was pointing, a bit far away but close enough as I was still shooting at him and trying to find a good spot. He was getting agitated with me, the big one was now reached out to grasp me but I was avoiding him, almost like I was spinning him around in circles.

"I'll do it! I'll get him there!" Chato explained to Flag as I grabbed my dagger and launched myself over at his arm, digging the dagger in there and trying to twist to get him to yell out in pain. The armor on that thing was harder than I thought. He shoved me to the side, having me fly off of him now and hit the column behind me hard and fall to the floor, crumbled up as he was about to hit Boomerang who was pinned down by seats. Katana threw up her sword to chop off his hand, which fell to the floor and he grew one more arm back. Great, someone whom we can't kill easily.

"I lost one family. I ain't gonna lose another one," Chato said to Deadshot as I got up from the ground, eyeing the Big One there as my dagger was still stuck in his arm like he didn't feel it at all.

"Look, think it through.." Deadshot tried to tell him.

"I got this. Let me show you what I really am." Chato replied, then moving over to where the begin was that was about to strike me down. I looked at Chato, about to panic since he was going to do something stupid there as he threw up his hands and shouted, "Over here!"

Flames were engulfing the being, and he was struggling to look past them as Chato was giving him everything he had within him. I stood there to the side, watching the both of them and then looking over at Chato to see if he was okay. He was afraid of them, of having this power that would make him lose control over himself or others. But I saw the true nature of his ability there, how he was handling ti so well and using it to protect us there.

Suddenly, the big being kicked Chato hard in the chest and he flew back over to where one of the offices was above the steps he crashed into it, having me look over in panic. I thought he was dead.

"NO!" I screamed, looking back at the being with Deadshot, Boomerang, and Harley all charming him now with me. Deadshot was kicked down, Harley and Boomerang were swept to the side and it felt me. I had no choice but to try and get him down myself now as he was facing me, almost in flames himself as he was hovering me. I didn't care, he almost killed Chato in front of me and that tipped me over the edge.

"Get me!" I screamed, seeing him about to drive his fist down at me. I knew that if someone was going to die from this, it had to be me. I had the destiny to protect these people and this was going to be it, no matter if I was ready to die or not. I had to be ready, and I only hoped that the others would be fine with me.

A roar burst through behind me where Chato crashed, the big one stopped and looked up. The look on his face showed uneasiness as I looked over too, seeing someone else that was no Chato, or something else. It was just as large at this baddie but engulfed in flames and the form as almost like a skeleton god with a headdress and a mean look on his face. I was entranced by it, and for a second I had no idea who or what it was.

But it was now making sense. El Diablo.

They were fighting each other as my wings were folded back in. It was not Chato being the only one who could do any real damage to the big one there as we were all watching in awe, seeing one swing at the other and the other swinging back. They were sparring at each other, almost making me see the Chato getting the upper hand and become more powerfulI ever picture for him. He was pushing the being over to the one spot where we knew the bomb was going to go off, and I had hope that this was going to be it. That we were going to win.

But of course, that wasn't the case.

Chato fell to the floor, the big one had his hadn't around his neck as his demon form was now gone and be was back to his human form again, so small in front of the thing. He was not going to make it, and I was about to start something to get him away from the thing before he was murdered. I didn't want this for him, I came too close for Chato to be taken from me now.

"Diablo, get clear! Get out of there!" Flag warned him as Chato looked over at the group now, his eyes still had the fire in them.

"Blow it!" He commanded Flag, all of us were looking at him now. Was he really going to do it? Flag even looked at Deadshot to have him tell him what to do it. Deadshot licked his lips. Jacob was talking to me again now, the voice in the back of my head.

Save him…save him….

"Blow it," He said to him now, Flag almost looking like he was punched in the chest from what he was feeling as I shook my head. No, no this can't be right. It was supposed to be me there, dying at his hands.

"Now, GQ now," Flag said to his comm.

"NO!" Harley protested.

"Everybody down!" Flag yelled, the rest of the group was ducking, but I was staying still. I

"Now you're screwed," Chato said to the being in Spanish and in a growl. had to think, knowing that what I was about to do was both stupid and almost suicidal. But I wasn't going to go on with this life knowing that he should have been with me. So I did the stupid thing and ran over to Chato, sliding on my knees to stand behind him now and press my hands there on the being's hands that were around Chato's neck.

"Marley! Get out of here!" He said to me now as I glared at the being there. I wasn't going to let him win, nor was I going to let Chato be alone there with his death.

"I'm mean to save you, and I will," I said to him as I then spoke to the big one then in Hebrew, the one langue that was given to me the moment I had my wings,

"Goodbye."

The ground shook and things were exploding from underneath us, my wings sprouting out from behind me and wrapping around both Chato and myself as we were shaken by the explosion beneath us. I could feel the rifle hitting us heard as we sunk down, down and down low to the ground of the hole there and the noise shaking us to the core. I clung onto Chato, feeling him shake and he clung onto me. I thought we were going to die there, but at least we were going to die in each other's arms.

How romantic.