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Posted: 9/9/13
Drops of Jupiter
"Tell me, did you sail across the sun, did you make it to the Milky Way to see the lights all faded and that heaven is overrated. Tell me did you fall for a shooting scar, one without a permanent scar and did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there" Rachel sung, softly, as she pulled a second wrist guard and glove on. She wasn't even that aware she was singing in the first place
"Seriously Berry, why are you singing?" Santana snapped. She was the only one with nothing to do, all the others were getting ready and the plan had been decided so all she had to do was stand there and grow impatient
"It calms me" The shortest girl surprised them all by snapping back. She'd been a little tranquil haven of trailing thoughts and mindless singing when Santana had bought reality crashing back down. And reminded Rachel she wasn't alone, there were 5 others around her. They had lost their shyness lately when they started using the changing area in the Batcave all together. If they thought about it, it was just like communal changing for gym class... kinda
"Don't listen to Santana, she's just jealous she can't sing like you" Quinn said as she pulled her second boot on. It wasn't something you'd think about when you saw a super hero fighting crime, but unless you had super speed and hadn't decided to conserve your energy changing into a super hero outfit took its time.
"Oh yeah" Santana glared at the short haired blonde. What would they know of her singing skills? Since the loss of Jason she had got all her memories back... the thought of Jason suddenly made her more anxious, she was going into this thing without her guide and the actual Firestorm had only spoken to her that once in her sleep.
"I love hearing you sing" Quinn told her girlfriend, opposite her, affectionately
"You do?" the shortest girl's eyes beamed a smile with her lips.
Quinn cross the short distance so she could hold her girl "You know I do" she said softly
Rachel looked up at Quinn as they held one another and continued to sing "Tell me did the wind sweep you off your feet, did you finally get the chance to dance along the light of day, and head back to the Milky Way. Tell me, did Venus blow your mind, was it everything you wanted to find, and did you miss me while you were looking for yourself out there"
"You know I missed you" Quinn was telling her how it was again
"I'd miss you too... if you see what I mean" Rachel tried to explain with a chuckle. Brittany smiled at them from her seat on the bench, she was fully kitted out in her Night Sabre outfit. Even Kate and Renee were trying to hide small smiles. All this chaos and these two could still just be love sick teens.
"Yeah I got it" Quinn grinned, of course she understood Rachel and everything she said. It was her duty as the girlfriend after all.
"I can't remember much else from that song, only the choruses" Rachel chuckled shyly
"Oh really?" Quinn quirked a surprised eyebrow. It wasn't like Rachel to not commit to knowing and learning a whole song
"Yeah, I just had it stuck in my head... made me think of you and the other day" Rachel played with a lock of Quinn's short hair
"What about me?" The blonde furrowed her brow as she searched Rachel's eyes.
"We've come a long way in such a short amount of time" she shrugged in Quinn's embrace "One minute I'm living in Brooklyn and then I'm in Metropolis crushing on Bloodstar and my best friend, who turn out to be the same person. And then I find out I've been hidden all my life, from even myself. And you're flying into space and we're fighting side by side and..." her expression dropped for an unsure moment "of course I'm scared for what happens to us next but I'm just... so, so happy that I'll be by your side"
"You two are so soft and... yuck" Santana interrupted again, in case these two started making out or something, then she really would feel sick.
Quinn had to tear her gaze away from her girl friend to glare at the Latina "Oh yeah, what about you and Britt?"
"We're hot" Brittany explained blankly but from what they knew of this girl, hidden under her half mask there was some teasing going on there.
"Yeah what Britt said" Santana agreed. Though she was partly annoyed that she hadn't come up with that one "Nice tiara Berry" there that would fix everything.
Rachel pulled away from Quinn and reached up to touch the metal band on her head "Maybe I shouldn't wear it, I mean it doesn't do anything"
"No Rachel, keep it, it's part of your identity" Quinn hushed her. She knew Rachel wanted to wear it, it was part of the ensemble her mothers had given her, so she wanted Rachel to wear it too "Like this emblem on my chest... or the star on my cape" she pointed out "So keep it on"
"I just realised we've both got stars, mine on the tiara and well your cape" "You are my star though" she tried to sound sweet but she felt more like she'd mucked those words up in the way she faltered. She ducked her head suddenly shy again as she remembered they were surrounded
Quinn didn't care though, she only cared about Rachel's confidence right now. The girl used to be full of it, but that was different that was confidence for a Broadway stage, this was life and death and not necessarily just for them "Well you are my bright and shining guiding star, Miss Berry"
Rachel went to argue "No you-"
"Oh will you two shut up already" strike three for Santana, she'd truly had enough. You have to remember time was moving slower for her as she had nothing to occupy her mind, just these two being all gooey and Santana Lopez wasn't gooey, well not in public.
"Why getting nervous San?" Quinn sighed
"No just anxious, I wanna go and torch some ass" she grumbled and actually sued some honesty. She couldn't have been the only one feeling like this.
"We're all ready" Kate announced, actually putting Santana at ease "Let's go over the plans again before we leave" she suggested before she left the changing cave pocket/room, expecting the others to automatically follow her. The gathered in the main section of the cave and where the floor plans and satellite pictures of the Ace Chemical Processing Plant "Right, there are many entrances, all of which they will be expecting, except maybe these 4" she reminded them of the four places they discussed before by pointing to the places on the maps with a gloved hand "We will take 3 of them in our pairs. Rachel and Quinn take the roof, by the floor plans there is an emergency roof hatch right here" they noted the vague outline of the hatch mentioned "it will lead you to the internal fire escape so you will have immediate access down to the main plant floor"
"Right, we've got that" Quinn nodded, it would be simple enough.
"Santana and Brittany, here on the opposite side of the building, the external fire escape leading to the back offices" Kate pointed too where they'd need to go. The two girls just nodded. "And Renee and I will take the back, the delivery entrance"
"How are we getting there?" Santana asked
"Renee will ride Pillion with me, Rachel with Brittany" Kate instructed. They were going by motor bike then
"Wait a sec, what about me" The Latina asked, why wasn't she getting to ride pillion with her girlfriend?
"You can fly Santana" Renne pointed out. The brunette woman hadn't put her mask or fedora on yet. It was the best disguise anyone could ask for but it did restrict breathing just a little
"Yeah but only when I'm all soop'd up. I'll be like a human flare, they'll see us coming. A motorbike could be anybody" she reasoned.
Quinn stepped forward, well not really or she would have walked into a table, but she spoke up "I'll carry Rachel, and cranky pants can ride pillion with Britt"
"Quinn, that's not fair, I'll slow you down" Rachel muttered
Quinn had to laugh at that one, she was a hundred times faster than a motor bike and super strong "How will you slow me down?" she nudged her in the side, then leant closer to her ear to mutter "It's okay Rachel, I want to. Then we can spend a few more minutes alone" she admitted "Okay?"
"Okay" The brunette nodded
"Any replies?" Renee then asked into the silence
Kate answered reluctantly with a shake of the head "No" she'd sent out messages, requesting assistance to all who she knew could get there in time and had no replies. They must have all been busy, even Batman, he was a pretty busy guy though.
"Is it time then?" Brittany asked. The two women looked to one another then the time on the screen to their side and then back to the teens "We'll head out in 7 minutes"
With those words they dissipated from the table, finding something to occupy their minds for a few minutes.
Rachel was left to her thoughts for a moment, and they travelled deep. This was all her fault, somehow it was her fault so if one of them got hurt it would be on her shoulders. She wasn't sure where Finn's rage and power thirst had grown from but she felt she might have triggered it. if she had dated him he would have been distracted... but she didn't want to date him, she wanted Quinn, she'd always want Quinn, she was pretty sure of that
"You ready Captain America?" Santana asked cautiously, noticing the distracted look on her face
Rachel just worried her brow for a different reason. She knew Santana was "I'm afraid I don't understand your reference"
"It's about your shield, Captain America is a comic book Hero with a shield with a star on it" Quinn explained. Rachel just peered down at her shield. One half showed a fierce hawk, it's talons stretched out ready to grab its prey, the other half depicted detailed a battle scene, many Amazon warriors fighting some sort of monsters. To separate the two embossed pictures a Lightning bolt shaped band of metal sliced across the shield.
"I thought you didn't know anything about those Marvel Comic books Santana" Renee teased from not far beyond the girls
"I-I don't" Santana folded her arms defensively, it was needed after that stutter "I've never read comic books" unfortunately her new found memories were reminding her of the stash in her room back in her family house... she'd need to go back there and see them, the family that is, one day.
...
"That was too easy" Kara muttered to Cassie when the beach was clear. The blood of the demons stained the sand and dyed the sea. There were no Amazon losses though, not here anyway, there were a few injured who were being carried back by the healthy to the citadel centre where they could get the help they needed.
Cassie nodded in agreement as she reeled in her lariat. "We should head back, find Diana and Shayera. I have a bad feeling about all of this" the pair took off and headed back to where they had left the two woman fighting by their Queen. The casualties were being brought in from all over the island, the fight it seemed was over.
...
They parked the bikes two blocks away and hid them under a tarp in an alley. The completed the rest of the journey on foot, using the shadows of the buildings and the back alleys the best they could so no one saw them. Luckily the area was pretty much abandoned. Not many people wanted to live near the Ace Chemical Processing Plant, the place where the joke had supposedly been born.
Apart from a few kids thinking they were some great street gang hanging around in the surrounding derelict buildings and the odd patrol car circling the area, the area was mostly empty. As they rounded the corner they found themselves standing across the road from the gates to the old plant, the building stood intimidating behind the old rusty iron bars, still and quiet. But there would be fireworks tonight in the chemical plant, tonight it would come alive.
"Right, here is where we split" Batwoman announced as she looked to the others, the teens all nodded, The Question remained silent. With that they all stepped forward, crossing the silent and pothole field. When they got the other side, Batwoman pulled out one of her many gadgets and clipped the rust chain link fence next to the iron gates. She and The Question pulled the fence apart to let the two girl in, even if Super Star could have just flown over, she didn't need a comment form Santana about being a show off. Once they were the other side of the fence "We all know where we're going, we meet inside" Batwoman finally said before breaking from the group, running silently across the old parking lot. The Question took off after her leaving the four teens to their own devices.
"So we gotta climb how high?" Santana asked, well grumbled really, as the four looked up at the hollow building
"Are you going to moan about everything?"
"Talking is distracting her she's just scared"
"Anxious" Santana corrected, thought she wasn't sure if that sounded that much better.
"Why don't I just fly us all up there?"
"No way Super Q, you're not carrying me"
"Oh come on, this way we all get to the roof nice and quickly and you don't have to go all jack-o-lantern on us, you get?"
"Please don't speak like that again, it makes you sound stupid Qu- I mean Super Star"
"Okay, Rae" "Come on then, if you don't want a lift I guess we're walking"
"Fine, we'll do this your way" Santana conceded "You better take me first though" she spoke a little cryptically, Super Star understood though. she went over to pick the girl up the way she had carried Rachel here, Bridal style, but Santana stepped away "Just take my arm" she wasn't going to be carried like that
"Fine" she sighed and grabbed Santana's forearm. She then took off, softly so she didn't yank Santana's arm out of her socket. She then left Santana there alone, that's why Santana went first, she wasn't afraid of being left alone but the idea of Night Sabre being left alone in this place, training, or no training, it scared her. Super Star had to make the hard decision of who to carry next, but it had to be Night Sabre, who wasn't that bothered about being carried bridal style. She then retrieved Rachel, carrying her like she did before, and bought her back up to the flat roof. When she landed Rachel rewarded her with a short kiss, she then lovingly bought Super Star's hood up over her head for her, knowing that's what she would do once they were on location.
"It's so dark I can't see a thing in there" they heard Santana comment. The pair still holding one another looked over to see Night Sabre and Santana looking down through a skylight. They quickly joined them to see the same thing. They could barely make out anything inside, they had no clue what actually waited inside for them.
They all did have to silently ask themselves, what made them come tonight.
"Okay, your entrance is just one level down that fire escape" Super Star reminded them. What if Batwoman and The Question arrived and they weren't there yet... then again she'd shaved time off their ascent by flying them to the roof "Ours is that roof hatch" she pointed then in the opposite direction. "See you on the other side" she said finally before starting to head away, Rachel following
"Super Q" Super Star faltered when she heard Santana's voice, she looked back with Rachel to the other pair of girls "You two be careful and shit... wouldn't want that pretty face of yours to get all messed up Q, you don't have much else going for you"
"Thanks S" she actually smiled at the half caring insult "You two be careful too"
"Take care Rae, Super Star" Night Sabre smiled beneath her eye mask "We'll see you soon" she felt sure of that in a bad way but spoke with her usual optimism. Rachel just nodded and smiled bravely. The girl usually full of words was absent of them now.
With that they separated, going to their chosen entrances to their supposed deaths
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Batwoman and The Question had been able to break in easily through a side door at the delivery and pick up station out back. It was so dark even the night vision Batwoman was using to lead them through felt like it was having trouble, it wasn't really, that's not how infra red works, It just felt that dark in there...
They made their way along the small delivery warehouse floor as they searched for the door to the main factory floor. Suddenly Batwoman's eyes burned as the room lit up, even Renee flinched as all the lights came on. Then before they could react the ground fell out from beneath them...
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In one of the offices overlooking the chemical plant floor Santana and Night Sabre had made a silent and cautious entrance... well that was after Night Sabre had kicked in the door, scaring Santana a little with her strength and making her cringe at the noise. Once they were safely inside the lights switched on blinding them at the sudden contrast from dark to light, and the office floor fell open like a trap door letting them tumble with the object in the room.
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Rachel and Super Star had made a more successfully silent entrance as Quinn had been able to ease it open slowly without too much noise using all her brute power. They tip toed along the high up metal walkway, Rachel leading so Super Star could look out for her better, when the floor lights turned on and the walkway dropped from beneath their feet.
...
"You think it was a decoy?" Diana asked her mother when she made the suggestion. The battle was won, the portals the demons came from had closed. The healthy still standing amazons where either helping their injured sisters or waiting in case there was a second attack
"Yes, look my people are injured but none dead, that army had no hopes of defeating us, but in the panic I requested you home. I fear I have put my granddaughter in danger" Hippolyta confessed her guilt.
"Mother" Diana looked to the worried older woman with sympathy yet sudden worry too.
"I'm sorry my child" she actually bowed her head. Diana stepped up fearlessly to her queen and placed a hand on her shoulder as if to comfort her.
"We should go" She muttered, she wasn't disappointed, this was her home land after all and there was a threat. They just may have made a mistake and Rachel may have been in trouble but there was no guarantee the worst had happened, everything could be fine... right? The princess then looked back to her wife "Shayera, get the jet ready, I shall be there soon" Hawkgirl nodded and flew away immediately, picking up dust with her wings in her haste.
"If I may, Queen Hippolyta" Artemis stepped forward, wishing to put forward an idea.
"Of course Artemis" The Queen nodded "Athena?" the goddess of wisdom appeared in a flash of light from behind the other woman.
"You forgot me Hippolyta" another voice presented itself behind the Queen. She and her daughter turned to be met with the beautiful face of the goddess who saved the amazons from slavery and gave them Themyscira as a sanctity, a sanctity that had just been attacked.
"Aphrodite. May I ask what has earned us your presence?" The Queen asked her betters, cautiously.
"The battle, they were here to fight with us" Artemis informed her Queen, though she herself was no normal Amazon, she had become one by living with them, but she was something more.
"But it was over before we got here" Aphrodite explained as she stepped up next to the Queen, only slightly surprised that after all the fighting she had seen the queen doing from afar that she wasn't dishevelled, she had kept perfect grace.
"Diana" Shayera called out. They looked to the sky to see Hawkgirl swoop over the palace building and down into the courtyard "Diana" she gasped. The battle had tired her, but her panic had exhausted her further. She landed in front of her wife hastily, nearly falling over again as she did.
"Shayera what is it?" Diana asked as she grasped the woman's shoulders
"The Jet, it has been sabotaged" just as she was trying to explain, Supergirl and Wonder Girl joined the gathering of Amazons, Goddesses and the Thangarian. "I can fix it, but we won't be able to leave soon"
"O-Okay" Diana nodded shakily "Try to fix it please"
"We'll help" Cassie volunteered herself and her girlfriend, though Kara wasn't sure what she could do to help, she wasn't an engineer... but she could lift things
"Okay, I think a piece of the engine has been detached, its probably been thrown somewhere, Kara you can use your x-ray vision" okay so that was how Kara could help
"Okay" the three flew away again, Shayera tearing herself from Diana without thinking of the panic the Amazon would be feeling about the delay in returning home, she was too preoccupied in getting the jet fixed so they could get back, well back faster than if they flew by themselves.
Kara did think she could make it quite easily, flying halfway round the world, if she pushed herself she could get there in seconds but she'd be exhausted and unable to recharge as it was night time in Gotham City. Also she wasn't sure where Quinn was right now.
"As I was saying Queen Hippolyta, we could contact Rachel" Artemis finally put her thought forward
"You can?" Diana asked surprised.
"Yes. I can see where she is right now" Artemis planted the point of her claymore into the ground, simply to steady it as she kept both hands on the hilt. She then bowed her head and closed her eyes. Then the mental search began for the goddess as she tried to find the young Amazon Princess
"Battle meditation, I haven't seen this being used in a long time" Aphrodite commented. The Queen always felt nervous round this deity, she was their creator and protector, and she also had the ability to distract anyone with her beauty. Hippolyta wasn't one to let her mind wander, she was a strong and focused leader to her amazons but she did wander how one face could be the epitome of beauty to everyone who laid eyes on her. Words from the red head warrior got her back to what was most important right now.
"I see Rachel, she is with 5 others" Artemis was no longer in her human disguise, her concentration required the sacrifice. No one was deterred by her changed appearance, I mean hell the antlers were weird. "They are in a... those places the humans use to refine things... chemicals. In that city where your bat friend lurks" she did not look up or open her eyes but obviously that comment was for.
"Let me join you" Athena, goddess of wisdom, said. She took up a similar, though weapon-less, stance next to Artemis "We will guide Rachel if she needs it"
Diana didn't believe Rachel needed any extra help, anything to give her an upper hand, but everyone could do with some help, and she wasn't there to help her and Shayera's baby girl. So she'd accept all the help she could to assist her daughter and keep her safe until she got there
...
Rachel waited for the ground to hit her feet but it didn't come. Instead she had two strong arms wrapped round her middle. She opened her eyes to obviously find Super Star staring back at her with worry. Rachel then looked down to see they were only a foot above an old chemical basin, it was empty but it had some nasty looking metal things waiting to at least slow a super down, or kill a human, her eyes bugged as she looked back to her girlfriend "That's was close"
"Too close" Quinn breathed as she swept them over to a piece of floor she hoped would be more secure. She eased their weight onto it in case this one broke beneath them too. It was solid concrete though, it was safe. They looked around the floor space, it was tangled with other metal walkways and machined and other chemical basins, some covered with tarps others left open, hollow, and alone. The lights above them also didn't compete with the one in the corner "HellFire's here" Super Star muttered as she released her hold on her girlfriend
They watched as from a dusty corner of the room, beneath he offices Hellfire Emerged, floating through the air cradling Night Sabre who looked fine "The floor just feel out, what the hell out"
"We were up there" Super Star pointed up and behind them, "the grating just fell" they could see a section of the walkway was still hanging down where it had just released like a trap door from one end.
"The floor in the office opened up the same way" the double voice coming from the fiery girl was kinda freaky but it didn't put Nigh Sabre off, not at all, she still looked to her girlfriend with affection. "Luckily I changed and grabbed Night Sabre before-"
"Kurt?" Super Star had been so distracted talking to HellFire she hadn't seen Rachel freeze next to her, she hadn't noticed much else until Rachel had spoken that one word. She looked to where Rachel was looking to find the boy in question tied to a chair on the same raised concrete platform she and the three other girls were gathered on.
The boy just kept looking at the four, frozen too. He then snapped into action and began struggling in his seat, his voice was muffled by the duct tape as he screamed at them to help him. Rachel walked closer, entranced but not hurried, something didn't feel right
"You know that guy?" Hellfire asked the distracted shorter Brunette. No one was making a sudden movement just yet though
"Yeah, we went to school with him" Super Star answered for the other girl
"Should we help him?" Night Sabre asked, willing to do it herself. They started to creep forward with Rachel, looking around and checking the floor waiting for another trap to spring, there seemed to be nothing though as they got closer and closer to the terrified boy.
As Rachel got closer she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her, the boy something about Kurt he looked different for just a second, and then some words were whispered harshly inside her head "Rachel, it's not who you think it is!" The she saw it, through the disguise as the tape disappeared and the rope fell away on its own accord
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"Whoa" The Question breathed as she looked up above her, her girlfriend had grabbed her arm just as they fell and the pair were both suspended by one grapple hook, hooked onto the broken floor above them. They were now in spot light in the a partially lit tunnel so Batwoman was still blind thanks to the night vision she'd equipped in her mask, and with both hands occupied she couldn't switch it off
"I'm blind" she let the other woman know, her voice strained a little as her insides felt like her rib cage was trying to stretch.
"Right" time for some action. The Question looked down to see how far the ground was... maybe 5 or 6 feet "It's okay drop me"
"Are you sure?" Batwoman checked. Unfortunately the emergency grapple was at it's limit already, if the wire was any longer she wouldn't be able to store it inside her spined wrist guard.
"Yes just drop me" The brunette woman said more forcefully... she could see her hat she'd lost in the fall on the tunnel floor and she wanted it back.
"Okay" was the brief warning she received before her girlfriend released her arm. Now with one hand free she could switch off the night vision and see how far she had to drop herself. Both woman were quickly on the ground after that, dusting themselves and checking the other was okay.
They were disturbed by slow sinister applause coming from the shadows. They both gasped and looked towards where the echoing clapping was coming from to see Alice step forth from her shadowy hiding place "I have to say that was an impressive save" she half complimented
"How are you my sister?" Batwoman asked casually, not holding back, showing her biggest card already, she knew who this woman was and she knew what she had to do, Beth, or Alice couldn't use any shock tactics on her
"You figured it out, well done" the heavily made up woman didn't feel the need to applause that one as she strolled up and stood next to the spot light, making it a little uncomfortable and hazy to watch her so carefully.
"Wasn't that hard, I had some of your blood" Batwoman reminded her "How's the leg by the way?"
"Much better, no thanks to you" the villainous woman snarled "You really slowed me down with that move"
Renee watched around them, her ears concentrating on anything, she heard footsteps, padding footsteps not hollow ones like when shoes hit different surfaces, more like bare feet footsteps behind them. She glanced over her shoulder to see things moving in her and Batwoman's long shadows.
"Well you were trying to kill me" Batwoman explained unnecessarily.
"Um Batwoman" The Question tried to interrupt but the red head woman just shrugged her girlfriend hand on the shoulder away. The Question then noticed her girlfriend was slowly trailing her won hand behind her and to her belt
"Still am dear sister" Alice chuckled evilly.
"I wouldn't expect any less" Batwoman was stalling, The Question realised that now, there was a plan, she just wasn't in on it yet
"I see you've done so well for yourself dear sister"
"Checking up on me, have you Beth?" Batwoman scoffed, though deep down she wanted to know how it had been so easy for this other woman to find out so much about her
"It's Alice now" she sneered "But I see you have daddies mansion, two plentiful careers and Renee Montoya as your devoted girlfriend. Isn't that right, Question?"
"Who we are means nothing right now Alice, we will not hesitate, we will stop you" The Question warned, she would not let Kate falter if she was taken hostage, though she know she'd falter if Kate was the hostage instead. And they would not hesitate because she was Kate's sister, even if Kate really wanted to hold onto the other woman, to get her sibling back.
"It's not me you need to stop" was all the sinister woman had to say to that "Come on Kate, a game of tag just like old times, you're it" Alice growled before darting away, beyond the shining spot light and back up the tunnel. The were-beasties behind them grew louder, their footsteps heavier as they closed in. Batwoman flung a Batarang at the spot light, extinguishing it and plunging the tunnel back into darkness. Batwoman activated her night vision again and grabbed The Questions wrist. In the confusion and darkness she dragged her girlfriend after Beth.
When they reached the door at the end it lead in two lit directions, meaning time to switch the night vision off again, one way led to another long corridor which they could see Beth just coming to the end of and disappearing round a corner, and the other way led to a stair case, leading up to the chemical plant, assumedly.
"You go that way" Batwoman breathed as she pointed to the stair case and then headed in the other direction after her sister.
"Batwoman wait!" The Question called after her
"No. You go help the girls, I've got this" she called back, hr voice fading as she got further away
"Oh no you don't" The Question mumbled behind her mask. The last time Batwoman ran off like that after Alice, she nearly lost her life, Renee wouldn't let that happen again.
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The ropes flung themselves off of 'Kurt' and flew forward to try and tangle Rachel. The girl let out a short shriek but unsheathed her sword in time to cut at them in half as they landed against the sword, but that didn't 'kill' them, it just made more of them. Super Star dove forward to push Rachel away as the ropes tried to grab her like snakes. She saved Rachel but sacrificed herself to them as the wrapped round her limbs and torso in any way they could.
"Quinn" Rachel shrieked from where she laid flat on her front. Superstar scrambled and fought them, they weren't enough to hurt her... not much anyway. She looked to the boy she had mistaken for Kurt and glared at him, right into his snake eyes. She scrambled to get herself off the floor "Who are you?"
"I'm so surprised you recognised me at all, you spent to long with that... loser" his voice sounded like Kurt's just for that last word "Good to see you again Rachel"
"I don't understand"
"Hold still Q, I'll burn them away" Superstars eyes widened as HellFire stepped over her, she didn't want to find out if she'd actually be unscathed by this beings fire but the ropes wouldn't even let her stand.
"Oh, I am sorry" Klarion interrupted. He snapped his fingers and the ropes stopped fighting, they became just rope again and Super Star was able to brush them off and stand up again "That was just a mere party trick" he just had to note that in case they thought he'd make this easy. He then looked back to the young Amazon "You see-"
He was cut off by the noise of the ropes burning as Super Star lit them with her heat vision. No way those things would be attacking her again.
"As I was saying, I am like your creator Rachel, without me you would not be who you are today" he laughed sneakily
"You're the one who kidnapped me?" Rachel asked. At that moment they felt the ground start to rumble and shake. He nodded with a smirk to answer her question. She angrily clanged her sword against her shield, fiercely, to show she wasn't to be messed with, not anymore anyway. "You took me from my home. So I will take your life" she spat between clenched teeth
"Oh no, you won't" he said so confidently "You'll have to get past these first" as his sentence finished the growing rumble in the ground exploded as demons and were-beasts flooded in through all the doors and a couple of grates in the floor. "and none of you are leaving here alive" he added finally before the ceiling came crashing in, showering the room with glass and dust.
When it cleared the four teens were met with an ugly sight of twisted mutation. He stood tall, his hair was fire like HellFire's, one side of his face still scarred from burns while his eyes themselves glowed red. He wore a black skin tight suit like a Super and over that some armour plates on his back chest and lower half like an Amazon, leaving his big muscular arms free. He wore knuckle dusters on each hand too "Did you miss me?" and his voice burned like the fire and rage within him
"Holy shit, he got taller" Super Star commented as she looked up at him, he'd grown maybe 3 or more feet, that wasn't even human anymore, he barely even looked like Finn anymore, it was the scarring that gave him away.
Before she could dwell on that too much loner she was hit in the chest by his own eye heat vision beam, it sent her flying backward and through the concrete wall and into the reception. He chuckled deeply at that.
He barely had time to enjoy it though, and the teen heroes barely had time to worry as they all watched the hole in the wall and saw Super Star reappear, hovering in the gap "Okay, lets end this thing" she growled before she shot forward. She raised her fist putting all her weight into it as she punched him sharply in the head. He flinched but barely moved.
That action though was enough to trigger everyone else into a frenzied fight. The demons and were-creatures all started forward to the three girls remaining on the square concrete platform. Rachel turned to resume what Klarion had started only he was gone, he'd slunk away like he usually did, he was never one to get his hands dirty.
Back, 8 or 9, maybe 10, feet in the air Super Star was still throwing punches that only went absorbed by the super mutated boys head. He chuckled deeply again, his voice almost taking that double effect Santana's did when she became what she called HellFire, but not quite, as if the Firestorm didn't want to be part of Finn like that.
He managed to swing a huge fisted punch at Super Star, knocking her flying with his knuckle dusters and making her feel suddenly weaker. She landed not far from Rachel, when the brunette saw her love land next to her she threw a demon back and stabbed a second to free herself from them and rush to the blondes side.
"I'm okay" Super Star muttered as she sat up "His knuckle dusters" Rachel was still trying to fight creatures away from her and help Quinn, it was a difficult task
"What is it Quinn?" Rachel forwent using the hero names like they were supposed to, well she still didn't have one so it felt kinda redundant if they were still going to call her Rachel, especially here when everyone knew who everyone was.
"The knuckle dusters" she could see it now, as he approached "They have kryptonite in them" Rachel gasped and immediately looked up at the giant boy. She clenched her teeth before charging forward like a true Amazon. She saw it as her duty to be the Kryptonite disposal person on the team and she still held herself accountable for this mess, that Klarion had just confirmed her fears. "Rachel wait" but the girl was gone, swiping at him and blocking his punches and blasts of heat vision better than Super Star imagined Rachel ever could.
Super Star raised a fist for a were-lizard to run onto, sufficiently breaking its jaw. But back to her thoughts of Rachel though, she didn't want the princess going alone even if she couldn't get near him. so she needed the next best thing.
She fought to the other edge of the platform where Hell Fire and Nigh Sabre were showing just how you could still work together even if you were total opposites "Hell Fire, if I stay with Night Sabre will you please help Rachel"
"Why can't you do it?" she growled as she turned a were-wolf into a hot dog using pure fire power
"His brass knuckles have kryptonite in them" she pleaded as she caught a demon about to attack Night Sabre from behind and ripped the evil entity in half. The demons may have bled, may have breathed, but they were conjured creatures and not defenceless.
"And here I was thinking he thought he was some pimp with those green jewelled brass knuckles" HellFire chuckled deeply. She slammed another demon on top of the head with the side of her fist, knocking it out before taking off to help the shortest of their team.
As HellFire closed in on the distracted boy monster Rachel was keeping him busy with her fierce sword swinging and shield battering. Talk about David and Goliath. She sliced at his hands trying to use her indestructible blade to release those brass knuckle. Deep inside her head she swore she could hear someone, possibly two people giving her advice. As she hooked her shield onto his fist behind the knuckle dusters and tried to use her sword to lever and break them off his hand before he could move away she just saw his other fist flying towards her head. She went to pull her shield away and use it to protect her head but she could tell she'd be too late.
As his fist closed in on her head, her short life flashed before her eyes
She saw a moment where she was a baby, a moment she couldn't possibly remember but right here right now she was remembering it. A moment of her as a baby being held by the mother she knew less about, the one the public knew as Hawkgirl "Sleep well my little sparrow" was whispered to her.
The next flash in her mind was of the men who raised her, a happy time when she was young, of them all at the park, before things turned sour for them.
The next images were more familiar, all with Quinn, meeting her, sitting next to her in class, falling for the mysterious fellow student and the mysterious hero. Their first kiss that made her still tingle at the thought, and then tonight, flying here cradled in her girl friends arms
And then a noise like a great gong being struck rung in her ears bring her back to reality, and Finn was yelling in pain. She then realised the supposed useless tiara had transformed to a protective Amazon helmet around her head. It had perfectly absorbed Finn's punch and shattered the brass knuckles
"Nice one Berry" HellFire yelled from above her, jerking her even further from her stunned state. The fiery girl then swooped forward and delivered her own fierce punch to the other set of knuckle dusters on the distracted giants hand shattering that set two. She commanded Rachel to "Step back" and she did as she was told, so HellFire could incinerate the shards of Kryptonite and make the area safe- well safer for Super Star.
"You bitches" Finn growled, fianlly back now that he'd shaken off the pain in his hand. He copied as HellFire had done and raised his hands and let the fire stream out of them toward both her and Rachel. Rachel just rased her sheild to deflect the fire as mush she could
"Oh shit" HellFire breathed before twirly through the air to aoid one stream of fire the boy was throwing. She flew lower tot he floor and the idiot still tried to aim the stream at her. But he only ended up killing his own allys in the prcoess by missing his intended target and flaming demons and were-beasties in the process. HellFire then swooped down and collected Rachel, takign her away from the angry
He then growled in anger again and started charging towards the group of girls "Super Star, you ready?" Hellfire asked as she dropped Rachel down next to Night sabre. The blonde in question looked to the rapidly approachign boy then back to the fiery girl and nodded quickly. "Lets get hima way from our girls" HellFire instructed. Tactically they were the strongest in the four as they could fly and they were strong, so they could attack from all sides. The pair shot forward, all fist raised to meet Finns chest at the same time. It didn't have the desired effect.
The pair conttnued their assult using eveything they had, fire, super breath, heat vision, brute stength, all that just to push him back and away from the other two girls.
Nigth Sabre and Rachel fought back to back fiercely. They blocked for one another, killed for one another as they turned perfectly. Each moved assited or was assited by the other girl. These pesky creatures had no chace at Night Sabres rattan or Rachel's sword.
Back with the other two who continued to circle and attack Finn, they started talking "He's too strong, I bet even if all four of us were hitting him, he wouldn't go down" Super star was feeling tired, maybe it was the effects from the Kryptonite earlier or Finn's tainted blood or possibly something else. It was quite clear where he'd got his powers. If she wanted to use her x-ray vision she was sure she'd find some sort of injection marks somewhere on his body. But she didn't particularly want to see that.
"His DNA must be a mess, god know what he did to it" Santana the scientist within the HellFire spoke for a moment "He must have mutated and altered it so much" they spoke as if the boy wasn't there, he just kept swiping at them and missing, they were merely trying to tire him out right now until they came up with a plan "It would have to be so altered... otherwise, well for starts he'd be a girl of some sort right now. He must have taken and altered the strands that hold our unusual gifts. And they would have been injected with something, maybe with his own blood to disguise the foreign genetic information, otherwise his body would have rejected it"
"Unless our Powerful genes simply over took and attached themselves to his existing DNA, and it couldn't be fought" Super Star suggested. Her expertise was normally maths but science wasn't foreign to her and neither was projecting theories.
"Either way, I don't believe he'll last, give it a few years he'll be a contaminated mess"
"We don't have a few years though, we need to take him down now" Super Star unnecessarily pointed out
"What if-" she was cut off as she flew straight into Finn's elbow and dropped to the floor "Bastard" she growled
"You okay?" Super Star stopped next to her ready to help her kind of friend out. She was about to offer a hand when she looked up to see Finn's heavy fist coming her way, she caught it in one of her own palms and shoved him away. She was only punished for avoiding the hit and protecting HellFire by a flare of fire surrounding her. It faded quickly again but she realised HellFire had carried her away, not that Finn had eased up on the punishment "Thanks"
"Don't worry about it" HellFire muttered as they landed on a grating high above Finn
"You were saying?" Super Star prompted
"That..." she trailed off as she looked below them. Of course he could fly, they both sighed internally. Finn was heading toward them, by flying, a smirk on his scarred face.
"Oh for god sake" Super Star groaned as the boy slowly closed in. of course he hadn't just dropped down from the ceiling earlier he had flown down, they just hadn't noticed because of all the debris when he arrived.
"We need to find his lab and make a reverse serum to undo what he's done" HellFire rambled out best she could "Do you think Rachel could hold him back?"
"I can" Super Star reassured her
"No I need you to help me find the lab, you've got x-ray vision" HellFire explained
Finn was closing in, she had to think quickly. Maybe if they found the lab quickly they'd be back quickly too. Super Stars eyes landed on the open drainage grates where some of the creatures had entered. The old chemical plant used fresh water to cool the system, the uncontaminated water was then sent down to the sewer system. She scanned the floor, seeing the water tunnels that would lead to the sewers... there were demons there, why would they wait there? ... Unless.
"I think I know where to start looking" Super Star told her companion "Let's take this guy to the floor, then follow me"
HellFire just nodded for once. Together the two girls dropped of the platform and collided with Finn, they used all their strength to push him all the way to the floor, crushing a few creatures in the process
"Rachel, can you hold him?" Superstar yelled as they stayed above a stunned Finn, holding him down
"Yeah, I can take him" Rachel called back as she headed straight over to them, ready to Keep Finn distracted again. So far she'd done the best at hurting him so far anyway.
"Night sabre, stay safe" Hellfire called over to her girlfriend.
Nigh Sabre fractured the skull of another demon before looking back to her sweet and fiery girlfriend "I got this" she yelled back before turning away to lay into another creature.
"You ready?" Super Star checked with the Latina girl one last time.
"Lead the way Super Q" HellFire nodded. They read each other perfectly and released at the same time, just in time for Rachel to attack before Finn could even stand. She sliced as he raised his arm but her indestructible blade sliced through his skin. He cried out in pain and used his other arm to knock Rachel back. "Come on Q" HellFire prompted as Quinn was just watching in horror. When she saw her little brunette get back up seemingly unharmed and charge back in to fight she felt she could now force herself to leave. That didn't mean the turning in her stomach was going to stop though
"Keep up" she warned before she crashed through the floor and flew down through the tunnel in search of Finn's base and his lab. HellFire gave her distracted girlfriend one last look of worry before flying down into the old water way to catch up with Super Star... she was going to need some light down there after all and who better that someone who's hair was fire.
...Will Hellfire and Superstar find the Lab in time? Will Rachel and Night Sabre be able to hold back the hoards and distract Finn long enough? Will The Question and Batwoman be able to defeat and keep Kate's sister? Will reinforcements arrive? And will Rachel actually get a hero name? Tune in next week to find out!
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