New Justice World- Rebuilding the League
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Note: I apologize in advanced for the pacing of this chapter. Not sure why some bits go by so quickly, but I hope it all makes sense! Sigma did his best on this too.
A Taste of Destiny
-8 Years Ago-
Courtney Whitmore looked around at the familiar but strange place. The people walking by were wearing strange clothes and using strange electronic devices.
"Welcome to the 21st century," the man she was with, a time traveler named Rip Hunter, said. "This should be a good fit for you. Oh, look at that…" Rip Hunter said, looking at a TV screen in the window of a store. There was a news report on about some battle in Central-National. "Early days of The Flash. Interesting time this is. So much going on."
"History to you," Courtney said, having to smirk. "I guess this is where we depart?" Courtney didn't bother asking who the Flash was. She guessed she would find out soon enough.
"Yes. Good luck, Stargirl," Rip said, and then he was gone. Turning on his heel to head back to his time machine.
Courtney took a breath, knowing her future was forever changed, but paused looking at the TV. The news report had switched to speculation about who would be joining the Justice League. "Justice League?" Courtney asked under her breath, wondering if it was anything like her Justice Society back in the day. The day that was just yesterday to her. It was like an hour ago, really.
Her mind went to the other members of her Society at this. Rip had taken Captain Steel and Doctor Midnight to other times as well, so they could protect their pieces. Her mind went to the other members, specifically Amaya and Rex who had left the society before the adventure with Rip. Could they still be alive? She wasn't too far in the future. It was possible.
Courtney nodded to herself and turned around. She would see if she could find her old friends…
-Present Day/WatchTower-
It was early January when the Green Lanterns had returned – they didn't come back empty handed though. They came back with proof of all three of them being heroes and had even asked to be tested against members of the league. The strongest members of the league had done mock battles with them and had been impressed. Rae had put them up for a vote as a trio, meaning they were either all-in or all-out.
It had been an 8 to 1 vote. Frankie, of course, being the sole negative vote. Rae wasn't sure if he honestly wasn't impressed by them, or just wanted to go against his team mates. His attitude was getting worst and worst since Christmas with Rae helping Prime Earth. She had to remember that he was dead set against Earth hopping, and even with Gypsy in his life, who didn't mind world hopping, he still seemed to be against it. Or it could have been that other Cisco. Or just his attitude in general.
Now they were showing the three newbies Watchtower. Rae had left Clark at home with her aunt and uncle, and Krypto was at the Sanctuary so it was only humanoids of the League showing the Three J's about.
"This is impressive!" Jon said with a nod and a smile.
"Well, it's good to have Green Lanterns back on the team," Rae smiled. She couldn't stop. She was very happy with this new addition. She would not outright say it to her league but she had been pulling from them since the start hoping they would make it inot the league.
"Really good," Kara said, not having stopped smiling herself. Her wanting the lanterns in the league was not a secret to anyone.
"So, what happened to the jerk?" Sara asked, wondering about Guy Gardner. "Is he off this planet yet?"
"Well, the Corp was a little unsure about letting three newbies take control of the sector, but than an older Lantern named…. Oh, what was his name. it was weird…" Jessica started, looking to the other two for help with this.
"Ha-Pri," Jade added in.
"Ha-Pri?!" Kara asked, on sudden alert now. "He's alive?" Eyes turned to Kara as the Lanterns nodded, frowning at her shock and excitement on the one name. Kara smile grew larger. "He's Kryptonian. He saved me as a child." Kara had mentioned being saved by a Lantern as a child once. No one pushed her for the story though.
"So, he was the one…" Rae muttered, smirking to Kara now, remembering the story, clear as day. Kara had told her it in privet once, but had not mentioned a name. Rae gave a quick smile to. Ha had now given her Kara for the league in a way by saving her and had helped them with the Three Js. Maybe she had to put him down as a friend of the league.
"Well he defended us." Jon spoke up. "He said Earth was far more protected with the League. That we'd do well in this sector. And being able to get along with the League would be better for the sector than a person who could not."
"I thought we did not have a good reputation outside of Earth?" Rae now frowned, remembering Guy saying that now.
"Not as bad as Guy led you to believe. Some Lanterns are sour over John, Alan, and Hal's death but they know the League does good, despite that," Jessica said now. "Well Ha convinced them to let us have the sector and Guy got transferred. He threw a hissy fit about it."
"Deserves him right," Kara spoke, thinking of Ha-Pri now. "Hey, do you think I could…?" Her sentence was cut off by an alarm going off in the Watchtower.
"Seems your first day will not be uneventful," Dinah said to the three as Rae went to the computer. "Where are we needed?"
"Here!" Rae said with a shocked look on her face. "Watchtower is being attacked." She looked around at that, as if expecting invisible intruders to suddenly decloak around her. The computers scanners had picked up something and were on firing on what appeared to be empty space, but as Rae turned the camera on the screen, the shots were definitely hitting into something. There was a warped perspective from the firing.
"Rae?" Sara asked, looking at the monitor not sure what to do. She was a physical fighter. Space battles were not her things.
"Whoever you are," Rae had picked up a microphone and was speaking into it, "reveal yourself. You're outnumbered by the Justice League."
As if this was a cue, the large, chunky metallic ship appeared where the fire was being deflected, causing more confusion than it should.
"It was cloaked," M'Gann said, knowing ships well. She had been thinking about taking up ship building on Mars before the White Martians had revolted after all. She knew ships well.
"Well, a message is coming into the computer," Rae said bringing it up. "Might be a response…"
"Justice League," a man with combed back brown hair, a beard and a distressed look spoke into the communications system. "Stop your attack! I mean you no harm."
"Says the person who came up on us cloaked," Rae responded in agitation. "Who are you?"
"I'm Rip Hunter, a Time Master," Rip said. "And the fate of time itself depends on this." Rae paused as she heard the man, frowning at this response. Everything told her not to trust this man, but some little niggle said something else. Pressing a button on computers, the weapons powered down, surprising everyone.
"They are still armed," Rae responded. "I can start the attack any minute. Give me a reason not to."
"Courtney Whitmore," Rip said, and Rae raised an eyebrow.
"She's dead," Rae said.
"I know, I should have warned her when I dropped her off," Rip said. "I never figured she would join the League. The Reverse Flash killing the original league… it's fixed." He looked stressed at this, but Rae had no clue what he meant by this. "The minute she joined her days were numbered."
"Dropped her off?" Rae asked confused. "Fixed?"
"Go into your computers and look up the Justice Society of America. This will be all the proof you need," Rip said.
"Premo?" Rae turned to Frankie.
"You're kidding," Frankie sighed. "Why are we talking to him? We should shoot him out of the sky! We can't trust anything he says."
"Says you," Adam muttered as Rae looked to him instead.
"Atom," Rae ignored Frankie now. "Can you…?"
He nodded, avoiding looking to Frankie as he moved to the computers and typed in what was instructed. He pulled up a few files at this. "Okay… Justice Society of America, a government run group operating during World War 2 and for a while afterward before being discontinued when they never returned from a mission. Members include Captain Steel, Hourman, Obsidian, Doctor Midnight, Vixen, and… Stargirl."
"What?" Rae asked, hearing the last two names on Adam list. Adam brought a picture up to the screen.
"Their Vixen seems to be our Vixen… well former Vixen grandmother, but look at Stargirl." Rae said, looking at the picture. Standing in it was Courtney.
"Why?" Rae now asked Rip Hunter turning to the screen.
"That last mission of theirs, it was Captain Steel, Stargirl, Doctor Midnight, and myself," Rip said. "We found the Spear of Destiny."
"The what of Destiny?" Sara spoke up now, frowning at this. Time travel was not something she ever thought she would need to know. It seemed though they were getting into it now.
"Spear. It's had other names. The Holy Spear… The Holy Lance –"
"Lance?" Laurel couldn't help but smirk at this as Rip sighed on the screen and Sara playfully punched her sister's arm.
"This spear is able to rewrite history completely." Rip continued. "We couldn't destroy it, so I did the next best thing: I split it into four pieces and spread the Justice Society through history to guard them. Keeping one myself."
"And the problem?" Rae asked.
"Eve Baxter," Rip said. "A fellow Time Master. She was a friend and she has gone rogue. She used me, stole my piece, and found the location of the other three. When I got to the Wild West and to Captain Steel, he was dead and his piece gone. Same for Doctor Midnight, in the distance future but there is time here. The League's death being a fixed point has thrown her off. Even a rogue Time Master knows what interrupting that will do. She needs enough distance off the fixed point to find it. We must find it and guard it."
Kara walked over to Rae, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Do you trust him?" Kara asked her friend. The rest of the League was being quiet now, waiting for their leader to respond.
"I don't know," Rae admitted, giving Rip Hunter a look before turning to Kara. "But if he's telling the truth… Well it can't hurt to search Watchtower." Rae turned back to Rip Hunter as the decision was made. "What are we looking for?"
"A piece of wood. It would look like a broken piece of garbage really," Rip admitted. "She'd have it hidden somewhere safe."
"Miss. Martian, Wonder Girl, look around," Rae ordered, turning to the two. The pair nodded and started off at super speed, knowing the ship better than most of the other new members; having both lived there for a while after all. "Premo, portal into his ship with one of the Green Lanterns." Rae now ordered. Frankie was about to say something but one look from Rae cut him off.
"Giving me a baby sitter?" Rip asked, amused by the whole thing.
"I don't trust you," Rae said simply as Frankie opened a portal and he and Jon went through, appeared on Rip ship a second later. Rip didn't seem to complain. "Atom, keep scanning. Make sure another ship doesn't appear. Do not power down those guns in case. Canaries, join the search. Supergirl and the other two Green Lanterns, stay here just in case." Rae nodded at them as she put on her helmet to join the search of Watchtower.
In her ear, she heard people shouting out 'clear' as they searched rooms.
After a few minutes of blind searching, Rae stumbled as the space station started shaking. "Atom what's going on?"
"We're under attack," Atom said. "I can't find the ship to attack back."
"Aren't they cloaked like Rip was?" Rae pointed out.
"Unlike Rip, they keep moving!" Atom complained.
-New Justice-
"She must be far enough away from the Watchtower that your sensors cannot find her," Rip said moving in his ship. "Atom, if you connect your computers with my ship we might be able to find the ship."
"You cannot connect Watchtower computers with his ship! He could take complete control of our computers," Frankie said at this.
"I don't, and Watchtower could be destroyed," Atom stated from Watchtower. "Flash, we need a decision. Flash…? Damnit. The firing has damaged our systems. Communication is down. Supergirl it's your call."
Kara looked at the screen and then at Atom. Watchtower shook again and an alert about damaged was heard. "Connect it,' Kara said, seeing no other choice.
"No!" Frankie yelled, shooting out a vibration at Rip. The man, unprepared for it, fell hitting his head and was knocked out.
"What did you just do!?" Kara asked, seeing this on the screen, stunned and angry at Premo.
"Stopped a mistake!" Frankie said, crossing his arm and glaring at Kara from the screen.
"We can't connect without his help," Adam said, pushing buttons now. He had started the connection process but Rip needed to finish it on his end as well. "You're going to have to do it from there."
"This is from the future," Jon said, frowning and looking at the system, having no clue what anything meant. "I have no idea what I am doing."
"Maybe I can help?" a new, female voice said, and a holographic female head appeared, shocking Premo and Jon. "Connecting the ship to Watchtower's system." The hologram said.
"Connection complete," Adam cried, shocked, but wanting a look at that hologram. "And I got the ship. Firing." Adam set the Watchtower defense systems to fire at the new ship.
A moment later, the system picked up on something else. "Hey. The Zap tunnel is activating."
"How?" Kara asked, looking over at the zap tunnel. "We're all here."
"They're from the future," Jessica suggested, figuring people from the future would know more than them.
"With our systems damaged I cannot stop it," Adam said, as a zap tunnel opened and a woman with brown hair appeared from it. She was holding a green knife. Kara didn't think as she went toward the woman, only to collapse in vicinity of the green knife.
"Kryptonite…!" Kara whispered as the woman went for her, and she held up her hand. The knife sliced her hand, and then this woman – who they assumed was Eve Baxter – went to stab this time.
The knife was blocked by a green force field from Jessica as Jade used her ring and a green light, almost like a sword, appeared and she now went for the attack. Eve dodged the attack as Atom, who hadn't quite got his suit on, grabbed a part of it and shot at Eve.
Eve was hit and fell over, but was not knocked out. She took out a device, pushed a button and threw it. A gas erupted from the canister, causing those nearby to choke. By the time the fog it had created was cleared, Eve was gone.
"She's loose in Watchtower and our systems are damaged," Adam spluttered. "We cannot find her or warn the others."
"Green Lanterns, go," Kara said to the two girls in the room. She was still weakened from Kryptonite and the cut was just healing – they were the better ones to go stop Eve. "Atom and the other Green Lantern," Kara said as the two other Green Lanterns ran out. "Disable the other ship. Make sure she has no way out. Premo, you make a move and I will toss you out into open space."
Jon took what seemed to be the captain chair, still in Rip's ship. "Hey hologram-lady, does this have weapons?" Jon asked.
"Affirmative," the hologram said.
"This is so cool. I am like Captain Picard," Jon said with a smile on his face as the ship moved. Frankie didn't say anything, he was simply glowering at the whole situation.
-New Justice-
Rae wasn't concerned as the coms went down. She had figured they had taken damage and continued her search, unaware of the dangers now present in their very own base.
"Where do you hide something inside Watchtower?" Rae asked herself and then paused at the question. "I know where I wou… no? She wouldn't…"
Rae ran down to a bottom section which was set up almost a courtyard with high, white ceilings, exotic plants and even a very basic holographic filter around the whole place, to give it a feeling of being back on the planet – the only indication this place was in space were the four portholes, almost covered in ivy now, with the black void beyond. It was a hangout place for the League though, for them to relax and just to talk socially, away from the problems of everyday life.
There was very little in the way of decoration, allowing the plants to do the talking, but on one side, in pride of place, was a statue of her father. This statue had originally been on the Island, now called Home Base, but had been transferred here. Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman had created it when they had made the League, for their League to remember why it was created, what it was for. There was even an inscription on the base.
What she was looking at was the statue's helmet. It was held in the statue's hands. It was large. Much larger than the real one Rae currently wore on her own head. Still, she ran up the side of the statue and looked inside the helmet. Inside, was a small fragment of wood. Rae took with a grin. "Very smart Stargirl," Rae said, looking at the piece of wood now in her hand.
That was when she felt something sharp between her shoulder blades. She had not been paying attention around her, and slowly turning around she saw a woman there. One who hadn't been in Watchtower the last she checked. "Your anti-speed formula," the woman, who Rae could only assume was Eve, said as she now held the empty syringe. Rae began to feel instantly nauseous. "Wasn't supposed to be used against you for another few years, or months… Not sure when exactly, but it doesn't matter now. Your powers are down for at least a day."
Eve took the piece of wood as Rae now grabbed the nearest part of her father's statue to steady herself. "And you will watch as I get to rewrite time to my own liking," Eve said, taking other pieces out of her person. Rae put a hand on her head; she knew she had to fight, but this wasn't just a power drain – she felt off. And now Eve stood before her with a full spear, the broken pieces slotting together; apart from the end piece, the piece Rae had just found. Eve didn't seem to notice now as she flaunted her gain at Rae.
"Now Flash…! Wait. No… What?" Eve seemed to notice as the Spear didn't do anything, seeming in shocked as Rae picked herself up, Eve now glaring at the Spear. "Why is it not working? No…" Before Eve could say any more, two of the Green Lanterns came in, followed by Wonder Girl. The Green Lanterns weren't being taken this time by any device Eve had – they used their rings to hold her in a power grasp. Donna ran at her at super speeds and hit her hard, knocking her out and claiming the Spear from her grasp.
"Are you okay?" Donna now moved over to Rae, who shook her head. "Did she do something to you?"
"Same thing I did to the Reverse Flash… It will wear off," Rae said. "I'll be fine… soon." Rae put a hand on her head, the room now spinning. "Oh… Help me." Donna nodded moving to Rae and letting Rae lean on her.
-New Justice/Next Day-
"You seem to be better," Kara said, noticing Rae running around. After the events of the day before, Rae had just crashed, drained of her powers. She had called Cat Grant to claim she was sick and get a few days off but now she was running around, as good as new. "Seems that formula wore off." Kara added, happy for her friend.
"Yeah," Rae said, happy herself, not getting enough of her speed right now. Being without them had felt like being in another body – and not a friendly one. But, being born with the Speed Force, she assumed the Anti-Speed formula had worn off quicker than it should have.
"I don't get it," their visitor, Rip Hunter, said for what seemed to be the millionth time. Watchtower was having major repairs done by repair droids the League had, using Kryptonian technology originally supplied by Superman. Adam was working on updating the system, Frankie had been sent home and Eve Baxter was locked up in Rip ship they'd learned was called the Waverider.
Rae, Adam, Kara, and Rip were the only ones currently in Watchtower. The ones not at work, were at Home Base. It would take a while for Watchtower to be done repairing and until then, too many people inside a damaged space station was not a good idea.
"Can I see those?" Kara asked, looking at the four pieces of what just looked like broken pieces of wood again. "This was the one found here, right?'" Kara asked, lifting the piece up, only to have it crumble in her hands. "Oh cra – sorry, I must have used too much strength."
"You shouldn't have been able to do that," Rip said taking what remained of the piece. "This is just… it's wood… it's not the Spear…"
"A decoy," Rae said with a smirk. "Very smart, Stargirl." Rae was taking pride in her former team mate now.
"But where is the real one?" Rip asked, turning to Rae who shrugged. "You knew her while in the Justice League. What was she like?"
"A bit… well, a bit off," Rae said, making the others look at her. "Like she was out of place. Oh, she was nice enough, a good team mate. She was very close to Mari."
"Mari McCabe? Her former teammate's granddaughter?" Rip said, turning at that.
"Um… that is weird, now you mention it." Rae said thoughtfully. Without knowing about her Justice Society past, Rae had never thought Stargirl out of the ordinary, beyond being odd and a bit of a mentor to Vixen, but now it was out in the open, she couldn't let this slip through her net. "Think I should go pay a visit to Amaya Tyler. I have something of hers anyway." Rae picked up her helmet, put it on, and ran out, leaving a rather flabbergasted Rip Hunter.
-New Justice-
Amaya Tyler lived alone in her house. Getting on in years, she was still as sharp as ever however, but since Mari's death it had been lonely. Tantu her other granddaughter, had contacted her once, wanting to know if she should come home, but Amaya had told her to live her life and not worry about the old woman.
Now sitting, looking at a picture, was when there was a flash of light and a whipped-up wind and, standing in the room before Amaya, was The Flash. In the Flash's hand was a familiar necklace. "About time you returned that," Amaya said without bothering with introductions, pointing at the necklace.
"Not the reason I came here," Rae said, putting it down on a table in front of Amaya anyway. "Courtney Whitmore."
"Who?" Amaya said, trying not to show a reaction.
"Stargirl. I know she was a member of your Justice Society. Rip Hunter is looking for the Spear," Rae said, taking a seat. "The one we had was a fake." Amaya smirked to herself. "And you know that."
"You know Miss Garrick," Rae was taken aback at the reveal, but said nothing as Amaya continued, "you and I have a lot in common," Rae raised an eyebrow at that. "We are both the last surviving members of our team. Only unlike you, I left the team right before the event I thought they'd died in. Can you picture the guilt? The what ifs… What if I had been there? Would they be alive? Did I let my friends, my family, die?" She leaned forward in her seat to claim the necklace at this, but her expression remained downtrodden.
"You might be the only person on Earth able to understand that feeling." Amaya continued; Rae wiping a tear from her eyes. "Now picture one of your team mates you thought was dead knocking on your door about 50 years later. Only, they are the exact same age you last saw them." Rae momentarily thought of Superman knocking on her door before shaking her head, knowing that could never happen. "Because that's what happened to me."
-8 years ago-
"Mari, can you get that?" Amaya yelled, hearing the knocking as was in the kitchen.
"Yeah, grandma," Maria ran to the door and opened it to see the young blonde. "Can I help you?" Mari asked, leaning on the door. There was something familiar about this girl but Mari could not place it.
"Is Amaya Tyler here?" Courtney asked.
"Who's asking?" Mari asked, eyeing the girl now.
"You know, I think she has to see to believe," Courtney said making Mari raise an eyebrow.
"Mari, who is…?" Amaya was saying, coming into the room to pause as she saw Courtney. One of her hands clutched at her heart, while the other went to the hallway wall to balance herself in the shock.
"Amaya," Courtney said, with a smile, recognizing her friend even older. "You have changed…" Courtney walked into the house to the confusion of Mari.
"You're dead!" Amaya said, pulling herself together and putting a hand to Courtney's face, to make sure she was real.
"That's a long story," Courtney said with a smile. "My old friend."
-Present Day-
"That's when I learned the truth of what happened. My team, scattered through time, protecting pieces of an ancient and powerful artifact," Amaya said reaching for her cane. "It was Mari who had the idea to hide it in Justice League's headquarters. Protected by the world's heroes. She was new at the time. Was up for membership. She gave Courtney credit for helping her in some of her take downs, and Courtney showed off. Got into the League very fast."
"The one hidden in Watchtower was a fake," Rae repeated, interested in the story but also curious where the real one was.
"That was mine and Courtney's idea," Amaya said with a smirk. "With Courtney in the Justice League, we knew any time traveler would look there. We threw them off by creating an exact replica."
"Smart," Rae said. "So… The real one?"
"Patience, Flash." Amaya smirked as she held out her cane and Rae raised an eyebrow. "It's just a piece of wood. We glued some more wood to it. Painted it up. Added designs…" Amaya said, holding up the cane some more and Rae put her hand on it.
"You have been using part of the most powerful object in the world as a walking stick?" Rae asked as Amaya let go, letting Rae take the cane completely. Amaya smirked and Rae laughed. "You are awesome! And I owe you a new cane now." Rae stood up. "Amaya, I am sorry about Mari. And Courtney. I tried to save them."
"It's not your fault," Amaya said, now toying with the necklace Rae had returned. "Thank you for bringing this back. It belongs to Tantu now. If she ever wants it. Mari… she was the one who always wanted it. Tantu was not interested."
"Well, if she becomes Vixen tell her to look us up," Rae said, smiling before running out.
-New Justice-
Rae had brought the last piece to Home Base and called everyone to the Island. Kara then broke off the extra pieces of wood and then put the last piece with the other three. Before their eyes, the four pieces repaired themselves, like they had never been broken.
"What do we do with it?" Adam was the first to speak.
"It's no longer safe separated. Not with their protector's dead," Rip said, also at Home Base. "But together its dangerous too – far more dangerous than when separated."
Rae wasn't listening though as she looked at the Spear.
Something was calling her, as if from the distant past and the distant future, the possibilities themselves literally calling to her. With the Spear, she could bring them back. She didn't know how, or why, she knew this, but felt like the Spear was telling her itself. It could bring them back, undo their deaths, make Barry good… everything could be the way it should have been…
She could even have her real parents back…
"Don't listen to it," Rip said, breaking Rae out of her trance. "It's going to try to lure you to use it. You can't listen."
Rae dropped the Spear and then noticed Kara, Donna, Laurel, and M'Gann looking at it. "Clark can come back," Kara said and puppy Clark barked – Rae had run home and got him on request of Nora as it seemed Clark had gotten worried when Rae had not come home and had started to play up without his mistress.
"Uncle J'onn," M'Gann said quietly, tears in her eyes. "And my planet. Stop the White Martians."
"No!" Rae finally barked, the Spear still luring her to it, telling her to bring back everyone. Not just her League, but her father and her mother. To change Barry to good. It was all very tempting. "Time is not a play toy. This thing is too dangerous. Our past is what makes us. Please, you don't think I want to bring everyone back, but we can't! We have each other…. that's what we need."
"Well said," Rip said as the other blinked out of their own trance.
"How do we destroy it?" Rae turned to Rip.
"It's impossible," Rip said simply.
"We're the Justice League. We do the impossible," Rae smirked now, nodding at her League.
-New Justice-
It was a few hours later that the entire League was still stuck trying to destroy the Spear. Supergirl heat vision didn't work. Multiple attacks from different people didn't work, and even now they'd relocated to STAR Labs, nothing they had seemed to help.
"This is worse than a Horcrux!" Adam finally sighed after he tried using an experimental weapon on the thing.
"And how many of those have you destroyed?" A voice asked, and HR Wells appeared, a smirk on his face.
"Well, I haven't but the point I mean…" Adam started.
"Does STAR lab have explosives?" Rae cut in, not wanting to get into a discussion here – they had a task at hand. HR nodded at that though and Rae ran off and came back a moment later with some explosives.
"Had to search the entire place. Everyone back down." Rae set it on the Spear and everyone ran, Kara grabbing the stunned HR as the thing exploded with violence. It was lucky they were outside on the field.
"Damn it." Kara mumbled after a moment, seeing the Spear intact with her x-ray vision. "Still there…"
"I told you it was impossible to destroy," Rip sighed, seeing the tired League. "It's the most powerful object on Earth."
"This Earth," Frankie mumbled, earning a growl from Clark.
"Why is he here?" Kara asked, pointing at Frankie.
"My power," Frankie retorted.
"Fat lot of good that was against it," Kara grumbled.
"Same could be said for you," Frankie growled.
"Wait," Rae said holding out a hand to Clark – and Kara. "This Earth! Does it work on other Earths?"
"No," Rip said, eyes widening as he realized where Rae was going with this. "Only on this Earth. Useless on others – well they have their own Spears, I think. You know, I didn't even think of that."
"I got an even better idea," Rae said. "Premo, you said Earths were destroyed? What happened to them."
"Entire universe floating in space dead. No one can survive there," Frankie mumbled.
"Open a portal to one," Rae said, Frankie giving her a look but held out a hand. Rae lifted the Spear up and tossed it into the portal which Frankie closed behind it. "I wish I had thought about that an hour ago…"
"Maybe several hours ago," Rip added. It had taken them a few hours to realize this after all. Then again, he had never realized it himself.
Frankie mumbled something about 'worlds having to be separate' and then opened a portal and left, not even saying goodbye.
"I suppose everyone can go home," Rae said at this, shrugging to the other members who looked thankful as they started to leave, leaving puppy Clark, Rae and Kara with Rip and a confused HR, who had moved back to his portable lab out on the field, keeping an ear on the remaining League members as he mouthed something about 'parallel universes' with excitement. Clark jumped up to Rae, who held him.
"I better leave too." Rip ran a hand through his hair. "I have a rogue Time Master to bring to our High Council," Rip said. "You two made the right choice though by not bringing back the old Justice League. Their time is over."
The two looked at each other at this. "I know it hurts – and don't get me wrong, but the old League, they were heroes, some of Earths greatest. This new League you're building though – your more than heroes. You're Legends!" With that, Rip turned around. "Legends… I like that." He mumbled as he disappeared into his cloaked ship he had parked nearby. There was a roar as they both imagined the ship leaving, it remained cloaked so they couldn't actually see anything.
"Legends or not, our new League has a problem," Kara said finally, standing next to Rae.
"Premo," Rae said, petting her dog. "He's out of control."
"Disobeyed my direct order," Kara said. "He believes he knows better."
"The old League was right. He was not ready for this," Rae sighed. "And he's my problem – I'll take care of him." Rae bowed her head at this, contemplating the discussion she was going to have to have with Frankie. Kara brought her into a hug.
"We'll figure it out," Kara said and gave Clark a pet before moving off and flying away.
Post Chapter Note: I hope you enjoyed Rip Hunter's visit. I love him so had to include him and this worked nicely. Sorry again for the weird pacing of the story though. It came out… well, weird. The beginning was just hop right into a plot so it had a fast feel to it….. wasn't much to be done and in the end I think it was a good chapter.
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