Last Night Chapter 12
'End of an Age'
(Gotham – burrows – Rooftop near Galatea and Dick)
Before Dick could blink the form moved toward Galatea and hit her with a haymaker. The force of the punch floored her and he began to move forward only to feel eerily familiar hands on his waist. The hands pulled him back against a slender form almost like that of Galatea herself.
"This one's cute. Can I keep him?" The other being asked.
"Father said to destroy all of the league." The not Superman answered.
"Pity… I would have liked to smell like she does, and see what it's like." The girl said as she ripped Dick's belt from his waist and dropped him from the top of the building.
"You're just dropping him?" The not Superman asked as he tried to hit Galatea again only to miss her.
"No I'm playing." The girl answered as she leapt down after him and caught him back the back of the suit. She was about to haul him up, but he quickly got out of the top of his uniform and hit the ground.
"Damn it! My plaything is gone!" She said as she huffed in the air.
The clone didn't hear Galatea get away from her brother and within seconds she was falling to the ground after being hit in the back of the head.
"Don't lay another finger on my man!" Galatea shouted before she used her X-Ray vision to see where Dick was hiding.
She spotted Dick and quickly made her way toward him. She saw him standing beside the door and he quietly pointed toward the window. She looked and she could see the being outside floating there.
"We don't have time to hunt them down." The male said.
"I want my toy!" The girl shouted.
"We'll come back to claim it, but for now we need to find more of the Justice League." The male said before the sound of them both leaving could be heard.
"I don't think that they have a lot of your powers." Dick said as he looked at her.
Galatea stood there for a few minutes. She placed a finger to her lips as she looked in several directions and then she let out a small sigh.
"I wanted to make sure that they were really gone, but you're right. They don't seem to have my hearing or X-Ray vision. It's almost like they are imperfect copies." She said before she looked at Dick.
"That bitch hurt you." She growled the statement as she saw a fractured rib.
"I'll survive." He said before he looked toward the window.
"Should we report this to the League?" She asked.
"It would be a good idea. I'm sure that Bruce already knows about them, but any extra information we can give will help." Dick said before he called for a transport.
(Watchtower – Meeting Room)
Galatea looked at Bruce as he finished taking down the notes of everything she and Dick had just told him. The two beings where able to fly, had super strength, but they didn't have X-Ray vision and neither of them seemed to have super hearing. That alone gave them two advantages to fighting them.
"Once they were unable to find you they left?" Bruce asked.
"The male one said they needed to find more members of the League. He said their father ordered them to do this. The first thought I had was of Cadmus, but they would have copied everything from Superman. This was someone who had the technology, but not the mapping that Cadmus had for Kryptonian DNA." Galatea said as she looked at the table.
"How strong were they compared to you?" Bruce asked.
"They were easily as strong as I am, but not very good at fighting. It seemed like they just relied on their strength." She said.
"From this point on the entire league is on call. Did either of you manage to get a sample?" Bruce asked.
Galatea shook her head, but Dick produced a single blond hair.
"When she went to grab at me the second time one of them fell off of her head." Dick said.
Bruce smirked and took the hair.
"This should tell us exactly what we are against. In the meantime we need to prepare. Dick head to the cave. Inside of the vault is Luthor's Kryptonite radiation emitter. If they are part Kryptonian it might be the best way to stop them." Bruce said before he turned and left.
(Las Vegas – Welcome to Las Vegas Sign)
Lara pulled the car up the sign and looked around it. For a moment she didn't see anyone and then a short blond headed woman appeared. The woman walked toward her and motioned for her to come to her.
"Are you Andrew's sister?" Lara asked.
The woman nodded and held her finger to her lips. Lara nodded and followed her to the other side of the sign where an older vehicle was waiting. Lara looked at the old mode of transportation and climbed into it. She looked in the seat and tears began to flow down her cheeks as she looked at the seven month hold sleeping in a car seat.
"Zur… I thought that I would never see him again." Lara said as she softly touched his cheeks.
The woman smiled and started the old truck. She put it in reverse and soon the two of them headed toward an old back road and by passed Las Vegas completely. As they drove the woman pulled a bottle of water out of a sack that rested under Lara's legs and handed it to her. The Kryptonian opened it and took a drink. Soon that drink was followed by another.
"Andrew risked a lot to get him out. Most likely he gave his life to get you out." The woman finally said.
"They would have killed him?" Lara asked.
"Men like Diggler wouldn't hesitate a second to kill someone like Andrew. I love my brother, but I knew him going to work for the military was a mistake. I tried to warn him." The woman said before she made a sharp turn and the old truck headed toward what appeared to be hidden mountains. She drove a little further and turned unto a road which was little more than ruts. The old truck drove along quietly for a few minutes before the woman pulled under an overhang of rock and shut the truck off.
"This is a back way into Perfection Valley Nevada. The people here are good, and we don't look for trouble. You're welcome to stay with me and my family for as long as you want." Andrew's sister said.
"What is your name?" Lara asked.
"Nichole Vale. Well that's my married name. It was Nichole Thompson, but I like the vale better. I do wonder if my sister in law Vicki is still visiting. She can be a nosey pain in the ass." Nichole said as she lead Lara down a series of natural steps until they came out on the other side of the mountain. It didn't take long, and when Lara looked around she saw a few houses, a large building, and what looked like another large building being built.
(Watchtower – monitoring room)
Wally looked at the monitors for a moment before one of the monitors began to blink. He pressed the button for it and a small sentence appeared.
"Press play." It said.
He followed the instructions and looked at what appeared to be an old gas station in the middle of nowhere. Suddenly the video blacked and then he looked into a room where men and women was screaming in agony as various scientist poked, prodded, and experimented on them. In the back ground was a man screaming to ignore the specimens and get the data damn it. Wall looked as the camera blacked out again and a friendly, but sad man looked into it.
"These people…. They've done nothing wrong. Their only crime is being in the wrong place at the wrong time. They are like Superman. They are refugees from his home world, and Director Dirk Diggler has been experimenting on them for the last two months. I've managed to help a child escape, but I know that eventually I am going to be found out. This video has the exact directions here. Please… Please I'm sending this information to you so that you can help them." The man pleaded before the video shut off.
Wall reached over and pressed the alert for the inner council. He knew that they needed to see this.
