Chapter Twenty Five: Possessed Part One.
Business moved along at a brisk pace as usual as Harry and Kara returned from their trip from the other side of the galaxy. Both of them took their time as they arrived back to the Luthorcorp facility.
"So….we knew that we were having this wrap up meeting with Tess when we got back, I'm sure she wants to know about what we were up to," Kara informed Harry and the emerald eyed sorcerer responded with a brief nod.
"Hey, Harry, Kara."
Diana turned up to meet them outside of the LuthorCorp, but she was not the only one who went into town. Standing next to her was a young Amazon about seventeen years old or so, although she looked like she was in her early twenties. She had dark black hair, along with a black top, and tight black pants that stretched over her ass.
"Hey, Diana, Donna," Harry remarked before he turned his attention to young Donna Troy, with a smile crossing his face. "Didn't expect to see you pop up this soon."
Donna crossed her arms with a smile of her own. "Yes, mother decided that I was due for a trip off of the island and I'm going to take advantage of the chance for freedom."
"Donna has a chance to experience education on Man's World, and I hope that she will take her studies seriously," Diana commented before she placed her hands on her hips and surveyed her sister.
Donna rolled her eyes towards the direction of her older sister before she sighed.
"Sometimes, it's like I have two mothers, I swear, Diana, you're such a wet blanket sometimes," Donna commented but there was a smile on her face despite this.
"Mother would skin us both alive if she found out that you had been goofing off and not taking advantage of a unique cultural opportunity," Diana commented before she eyed Donna and the dark haired Amazon's head inclined slightly as she smiled, in spite of the situation. She had to agree that was true. "But your classes start today, I'm going to take you off to meet Doctor Sandsmark right now. Her daughter is in the class, she's around your age, so you should have someone that can help you out find your way around if you get lost."
Donna rolled her eyes and placed her hands on the side of her face. It was almost like Diana thought that she was stumbling around and walking into walls for half of her life. The raven haired Amazon princess allowed her sister to take her by the hand.
You sure you can handle things? I'm going to see Donna off," Diana asked Harry and Kara.
Kara nodded as she watched them step away. "No problem, no problem at all, just do what you have to do. Harry and I will still be here when you get back. Besides, I can handle kicking the ass of anyone who messes with Harry."
"Fair enough," Diana commented with a smile barely passing her face.
"Bye, Donna, have fun," Kara commented to her.
"Yeah, see you later," Harry remarked but Donna stopped and smiled.
"Oh, I will be seeing you later, remember I turn eighteen in three weeks," Donna told Harry with a grin and with that statement Diana gave her sister a reprimanding look.
Kara smiled with a knowing expression that danced through her eyes as she folded her arms over and eyed Harry.
'Boy, isn't she the epitome of subtly,' Kara thought to Harry as there was a few seconds before they turned around and made their way inside for the meeting..
Indy was sitting in her office working on something quietly. Her head arched up as she saw Harry and Kara turn up and a smile bloomed across her face.
"Miss Mercer is waiting for you in her third floor office," Indy informed them as Kara and Harry smiled at her.
"Thanks, Indy, you're one of a kind," Harry remarked and the young tech girl smirked slightly.
Indy returned to her work and faced away from Harry and Kara, leaving them to make their way up to the elevator.
"I wonder what Tess wanted to talk to us about now," Harry commented as he added with a careful smile. "If talking is all she wants to do, that is."
As they reached the office door the emerald eyed wizard raised a hand and began to knock quietly.
Before long, the elevator made it to the floor of the Luthorcorp facility that Tess's office was on. Harry and Kara made their way from the elevator as they floated down the hallway.
As they reached the office door the emerald eyed wizard raised a hand and began to knock quietly.
"Come in," Tess told him in an encouraging tone of voice and sure enough Harry opened the door to allow himself entry.
Harry opened the door and saw Tess sitting on the edge of her desk. She was wearing a black jacket along with a green blouse that matched Harry's eyes. The short skirt was enough to show her legs but enough to maintain some semblance of modesty. The stockings that covered her legs ended just a bit below her upper thigh and her shoes dangled from her feet as she shifted herself on the edge of her desk, a knowing smile flickering on her face.
As Tess shifted, Harry watched her with a smile as he saw a hint of the lacy green panties that she wore.
"The last two weeks, I'm sure they were interesting," Tess commented as she invited Harry and Kara to sit down. "As you know….our deal with Wayne is reaching the final stages. And despite the slight hiccup, our deal with Ferris is also a go."
"Two big deals, a big profit," Kara commented with a wide smile. "This quarter is looking to be a profitable one."
"Yes for Luthorcorp and Shining Light Incorporated," Tess agreed as she was in a pretty good mood. She was optimistic that their combined empire would grow. "I'm looking forward to seeing how much we can do in the future."
"Hopefully that's going to keep the shareholders off of our backs," Harry commented as he reached toward and Tess took the hand of her bonded.
"If they only understood what we're doing, changing the world, one step at a time," Tess commented, a wide grin crossing her face as she thought about everything. "The Kandorians…well I think that many of them are loyal to you or at least not blindly following Zod."
"I think that this has been an entirely productive quarter all things considered," Harry commented to Tess and the redhead fixed her expression on him as her bright eyes grew brighter.
"I know it has been, which means it's time for a celebration," Tess remarked as Harry got up as he placed his hands down to rest upon her stocking clad legs and looked at her with a simmering gaze.
"Celebration, so what do you have in mind, Miss Mercer?" Harry asked her and Tess smiled back at him.
"I think we both know," Tess commented as she kicked her shoes off to reveal her stocking clad feet. She placed the ball of her heel on the crotch of his pants and began to rub him up and down with the bottom of her foot, in slow and sensual circles.
Harry smiled as he placed his hands on her thighs and leaned forward. With another swift motion he pressed his lips onto hers with a searing kiss that deepened as their lust grew. His hand worked its way up her skirt and started to fiddle with her.
Smut/Lemon Begins.
-PROFILE-
Smut/Lemon Ends.
Indy laid on the desk, as her eyes flushed over from the sensations that she was feeling and Harry smiled at how she looked after he was done with her.
"I think we crashed her brain," Kara commented with a smile and Harry laughed at this statement.
As Harry and Kara returned to the Shining Light Foundation they spotted Claire standing there, waiting for them in the front lobby.
"Mom, Dad, you're back!" Claire stated in an excited voice as she stepped forward and joined them. The redhead pryokinetic smiled at her parents.
"Hey, Claire, sorry….sorry that we were gone so long," Kara remarked.
Claire waved her hand, it showed her maturity that she was able to shrug things off to this extent. Then again, being thirteen years old, she was not prone to getting upset about her parents long absences like when she was ten. Like most teenagers, while she did love her parents, she would like her space.
"It's alright, you've….you have things to do," Claire commented in a bright tone of voice with a wide grin passing over her face. "So….how are you doing?"
"We're doing fine, we're doing more than fine," Harry remarked to her and Claire smiled back at him as she stood up straighter.
"That's good," Claire offered but she did not want to think too much about the exploits that her parents might have gotten up to. "It must be interesting to go halfway across the universe."
Kara smiled at her daughter. "Well we met some interesting people."
Claire nodded, she would have to agree about that. Chloe turned up at the lobby, as Claire smiled and waved as she scurried off in the other direction. The smaller blonde turned towards Kara and Harry before she addressed them properly.
"So, how was Oa?" Chloe asked to Harry and Kara.
"It was fun," Harry told Chloe as the three walked forward to make their rounds. "And it's nice to be able to be gone for almost two weeks and find out world hasn't fallen apart in your absence."
Chloe nodded before she quickened her strides down the hallway.
"The Kandorians….well they've been quiet, although a good chunk of the army has switched their allegiances," Chloe remarked as she paused and smiled. "In other words, they are deciding to kneel before Harry Potter, as opposed to kneel before Zod."
Kara and Harry exchange a knowing smile.
"They wouldn't all happen to be female, would they?" Kara asked, with a triumphant smirk across her face.
"Yes, they would be," Chloe agreed as she opened the door leading into the top secret research area that only a few people knew about. "And that leaves all of the men to kneel before Zod."
Chloe stopped before she started to laugh.
"You know, that sounded a lot cleaner in my head," Chloe commented to him and Harry's face widened into a smile.
"Most things like that do," Harry told her as he turned his attention to another matter and saw the scanner that was active before him.
The Book of RAO was underneath the scanner and it was slow going as he started the scan before he left. However, a smile crossed his face as he saw that it only had less than one percent to go.
"We'll finally be able to figure out what it does," Kara commented as she locked her eyes onto it.
"I've been wondering as well."
Alura popped up and Kara spun around to greet her mother with a smile. She hugged Kara in response and then she moved around, to give Harry a tight hug as well. Then she leaned forward and pressed her lips on the lips of her bonded.
"And Harry gets a better greeting than I do," Kara commented with a pout that crossed her lips and Alura turned towards her with a smile.
"My apologies," Alura commented before she wrapped her arms around her daughter and gave her a smoldering, not to mention long kiss on the lips.
Kara and Alura exchanged a passionate greeting as Harry watched them, as did Chloe.
"Well…."
"No take your time," Harry commented as he watched them make out rather lustfully but a ding brought his attention back down to business.
The Shining Light Foundation computer popped up a number of holographic screens each relying a series of formulaic calculations, flashing in green light. Harry's eyes flickered back, and forth as he studied the calculations. Alura, Kara, and Chloe all watched it as well before the smallest blonde broke the silence.
"Well, that's interesting," Chloe remarked as she read over the formula. "If I'm reading this right….this thing sends the Kandorians off of the planet."
"I'm even more interested now," Harry commented as he narrowed his eyes at the glowing formula. He scanned through it again once more in order to be perfectly certain about his calculations. "It was designated to send them to a populated planet on the far reaches of the universe, something that humanity does not know exists, a kind of New Krypton."
Kara read the formula as well but Alura picked up something that neither of the other three had noticed.
"This formula, it doesn't just send all the clones off the planet, it sends everyone of Kryptonian descent off of the planet," Alura commented to them and that made things rather intriguing.
'Harry, there's a bit of a problem, if you're not busy,' Raya thought through the link and Harry stood up.
'What did Clark do now?' Harry asked her, tension reigning through his voice.
'Not Clark this time, it's Lana,' Raya stated as she thought it was prudent to elaborate. 'She's starting to claim that she's someone named Boston Brand.'
'Hold tight,' Harry thought to her.
Harry, Kara, and Chloe locked hands.
'Karen where are you?' Kara thought to her older counterpart through the bond link.
'I'm on the other side of the world,' Karen thought as she decided to inform them about what she was up to. 'I'm following up on an undesirable report.'
'Okay, fair enough, join us when we can, we've got something…interesting,' Harry thought as they popped over to the Kent Farm.
Alicia was quick to let them in as they appeared outside the door.
"At first I thought Lana went nuts but I'm not sure," Alicia commented as Lana turned towards Harry and Kara, before a relieved smile spread across her face.
"No, I'm just borrowing her body, she seemed to be the easiest one to possess," Lana commented as she turned to Harry and Kara and look of relief fluttered through her eyes. "And it's about time you two showed up, I swear that you guys should have a Facebook page or something."
Harry was not going to lie, hearing a thick Boston accent coming out of Lana Lang's mouth was something that amused him greatly.
"Just who are you anyway?" Harry asked as he placed a hand on his hip.
"Right, right, always been bad at introductions, oh Harry the Herald," Lana commented. "Ya see, my name was Boston Brand, although I ain't much of anything anymore on the account of being dead."
She smirked a very un-Lana like smirk that was quite frankly unsettling to Harry.
"They used to call me Deadman at the circus, fitting but I was without fear until my rope broke and I landed with a splat, messy thing, didn't have any super powers until after I died," Lana commented. "Ain't gonna lie, it was a shock where I was sent back to solve my own murder."
"So that's why you're here," Harry commented to Boston Brand.
"Not entirely, the powers that be, they gave me an errand to tell you that….well things are going to get screwed up pretty nicely," Lana stated as her hand cupped her chin as she thought. "The powers that be….you know them."
"Yes," Harry commented dryly.
"Well they're in the process of choosing the new person to be Death, any day now," Lana commented.
'More like any eternity now, as long as it's taken,' Karen thought through the bond link. 'Right outside of Metropolis, I'll be there….FUCK!'
'Karen what is it?' Kara thought.
"And they're here to tell you that some Ghoul guy is going to steal a mystic set of scrolls that will break the seal of his mortality and make him immortal, thus forever upsetting the balance," Lana commented. "Pretty freaky stuff, it's a good thing that I'm dead."
Harry felt a sense of foreboding wash over him but as it turned out, things were just about to get far worse.
'Well, I've run into our old friends the League of Shadows,' Karen thought and then she added as an afterthought. 'And Lois and Clark got sucked into it...of course they would. And they're after something big, the League of Shadows that is, not Lois and Clark.'
Harry thought in a dry voice before he offered her one final statement. 'It wouldn't happen to be a set of scrolls.'
'Yes, how did you….' Karen thought before she trailed off. 'Oh I get it.'
'Stick tight,' Harry thought and Kara followed him as they sped off.
It was an unconfirmed fact that Clark Kent's middle name was in fact "trouble magnet." At least that's was the theory that was running through Lois's mind presently. The fact of the matter was the reporter could not believe that Clark had stumbled into it once more.
Of course, considering her own luck, and her own ability to get into trouble Lois was the last person in the world who should be talking about people getting other people into trouble but her point still stood firmly. So she really wasn't that shocked to find herself in the thick of it once again. The dark haired reporter was determined to make a lasting impression.
'Ninjas, it would have to be ninjas, and it would have to be these ninjas,' Lois thought as she used her X-Ray vision to peer through the wall to get a better look of what she was up against.
By some miracle, Clark did not rush head on into trouble straight away without scoping out his surroundings first. That was a point that Lois thanked her lucky stars for since time and time again since around the time she'd first met him in fact, Clark more or less ran headlong into trouble with no concern for his own safety, or that of the people around him. The brunette woman considered that could be what was wrong with him, Clark had no sense of his own safety.
Of course once again Lois was one to talk.
"Clark, Smallville, I know…." Lois started as she trailed off and saw Clark slip off into the next room.
'Learn to keep your big trap shut next time, Lane,' Lois thought to herself as she prepared to do damage control if Clark did something exceedingly stupid.
The ninjas surrounded Lois but she super sped out of the way and confused them.
Clark meanwhile had one of them hung out over a rail as she made her way up the steps.
"What are you doing here?" Clark demanded as he dangled the ninja and acted as if he was going to drop him.
"The great Ra's Al Ghul will not approve of this interference, Star Child," the ninja stated as he bit down on a capsule in his teeth and he slid out of Clark's grip.
His body was limp and he was dead before he hit the floor.
Lois dodged the sword that tried to impale her. She super sped around her opponent and reflected her heat vision off two of the swords, so when they bounced off of each other. The shattering of super-heated metal echoed and the dark haired woman rushed them.
There was a large individual who grabbed Lois from behind and threw her back. Clark tried to attack him but he was outgunned as well and tossed through a nearby wall.
Clark was pissed, as he pulled himself up, these guys again, he could have sworn that they had enough the last time around.
The blonde blur that showed up knocked one of the Assassins in the mouth. The large assassin was cut down like a big redwood tree.
Harry was into the battle as quick as he could move. He cycled around his enemies and picked up a heavy pace. His magic bound the enemies and caused them to topple as they were piled up immediately.
'You know these guys are really getting long in the tooth,' Harry thought as he dodged the mystic blade that was thrown at him. 'And they're packing some magical artifacts, so be careful.'
'I'm always careful,' Kara protested as she dodged the throwing stars and used her heat vision to fire them back at her enemy.
Raya popped up and sent her enemies flying backwards with a concussive punch and they flew back against the wall. She locked eyes with Karen with a smile and three Kryptonian blondes locked onto them with heat vision.
The heat vision caused several boards to weaken and a large piece of scaffolding to drop on their assassins. Kara was boosted into the air but suddenly smoke filled in the air and it caused the blonde to stagger around.
"Again, should have seen that one coming," Lois managed as Lana showed up there. "Well you're late."
"Hey, hey, I'm not going to take any lip like that from a dame," Lana commented in a Bostonian drawl.
Lois's eyes snapped over towards Lana in a surprised expression.
"Well are we just going to just stand there and twiddle or are we going to get these guys?" Lana asked and Lois's confusion heightened along with Clark's.
Lois turned to Harry and there was only one word that she had to him. "Explain."
"Why do I always have to be the one to explain?" Harry protested and Lois placed her hands on her side before staring back at him.
"Because, you're the one who always has a good idea why the insanity we have to deal with happens," Lois remarked and Harry turned towards her, opening his mouth before snapping it shut.
"Point well taken," Harry commented before he finally got over his shock. "Okay, Lana is possessed by a dead circus acrobat that is trying to solve his own murder and he's also being used as messenger pigeon by the powers that be."
Lois blinked and her mouth hung open agap. "O-kay."
"You don't believe me, do you?" Harry asked her and Lois shook her head.
"No I believe you it's just….wow, just….yeah," Lois remarked, she had nothing more to say other than that.
"Yes, Lois, that is indeed, wow," Harry commented as he placed a hand on his hips before he peered out. "Also, we're going….well our old friend Ra's Al Ghul is at it again."
"Impossible, I saw him die," Clark commented and Kara turned towards him.
Words failed her but only for a second.
"Don't be naïve, Kal."
"Yeah, Smallville, don't be naïve," Lois repeated as it hit her that the ninjas vanished. "Well they did the go ninja, go ninja, go thing, and boogied on out the door."
Harry shook his head.
"Lois, you ought to know by now that I can pinpoint the general area their in with the right tracking spells," Harry remarked as he turned his head around, before a smile crossed over his face as he realized it. "They won't get far."
That was one point that Harry was willing to promise to the end of time, he was going to get to the scrolls, wherever they were, before Ra's did. Although these scrolls of vague mystical properties always served to be more trouble than they were worth. The emerald eyed sorcerer lead the way.
The three Heralds of Death lead the charge.
"Don't worry, when I'm done, you'll have Miss Lang back," Lana remarked with a grin passing her face, as if trying to reassure Clark.
"We better," Clark offered, he was not in the mood to deal with something like this.
Talia looked over the map that her men recovered or at least half of one. She turned to the members of the League of Shadows, all of them who inclined their heads and watched her.
"I'm very disappointed in you all," Talia remarked to them in a brisk voice, in a tone that left no room whatsoever to any kind of argument. She was not too happy with the performance, as it was not one of their crowning moments. "You had one mission and you blew it. My father will displeased with your performance."
Cheshire watched briskly in the shadows, picking her spots.
"It seems like the time of the great Ra's Al Ghul might be at an end," one of the assassins stated, speaking up.
"You will mind your tongue or I will remove it," Talia stated sharply as she glared at them. "The final piece of the puzzle is in Gotham City, if we find that, we find the scrolls."
They traveled for several hours but they were used to taking unconventional paths to get what they needed to get done, done. There was an echoing sound that resounded around them. The dark haired woman pressed her ear to the edge of the door.
"What if we run into Batman?" Cheshire asked Talia in a calm voice.
"If we run into him, then we'll deal with him," Talia commented curtly as she kept walking, eyes focused forwards.
"The rumors are that the two of you have a past," Cheshire commented in a swift voice and Talia's eyes turned towards the younger girl.
"Jade, the past is just that, in the past, don't forget that," Talia informed her and Cheshire bowed her head towards her superior. "You take this team and scout the area ahead; I'll double back with the rest."
"It will be done," Cheshire stated as she placed her hand on her chin.
The assassins pushed themselves forward and made their way nervously up from the basement along a winding set of staircases. They moved through several sets of sewers as quick as their legs allowed them.
The assassins pushed themselves forward and walked forward nervously up from the basement to a winding set of staircases. They moved through several sets of sewers as quick as their legs could follow them.
"Yeah that was kind of predictable, wasn't it?"
Kara crossed her arms and Cheshire's face twisted into a grimace beneath her mask and she cracked her fists.
"Take her down," Cheshire stated, she was sick and tired of this one.
Kara dodged the attacks of one of the ninjas that rushed forwards and the blonde flowed around a second assailant. She grabbed one of the assassins by their head, and hurled him at the other. Both ninjas went flying as they smacked into each other.
"Okay, mark this down, I'm over these guys," Lois remarked as she drove two of them into a wall at super-speed but then a dart impacted into the back of her neck. The woman was surprised that this affected her.
Harry blocked a dagger and caused it to levitate in a circular motion so could analyze it carefully taking everything about it's make into account.
"They've treated these things with the modified Kryptonian, which means the Kandorians are supplying them with something," Harry remarked as Clark rushed in and knocked one of the assassins back against the wall.
Clark peered over his shoulder to get a better look at everything and dodged the sword that was stabbed towards him.
"Figure you'd need some back up," Alicia commented as she closed her eyes.
Clark felt a sense of dread coming through him, last time Alicia was….
Any thought was interrupted as Alicia teleported out of the way just as two assassins tried to stab her from either side and thus they stabbed each other.
Clark raised his eyebrow but then he shook his head in order to clear his thoughts. Any doubts that he had about Alicia's capabilities were all gone.
The truth was Harry had been working with Alicia on how to better utilize her powers in an offensive manner and she was going to take these lessons to heart. The teleporter popped to one side and took out even more enemies with swift precision.
She was really mowing her way through the minions and she could hardly wait to take on more.
"You know, we really need to stop meeting like this," Cheshire informed Harry dryly as she ducked and rolled, dodging his attack. The two circled each other and she threw a knife at him but Harry transfigured it into a rubber chicken. "People are starting to talk."
Cheshire pulled out two daggers and flung them towards Harry. With a flick of his wrist, he turned them into paper airplanes and they harmlessly fly around him on the breeze in Clark's direction.
"Wait for it," Cheshire commented as she clicked the detonator in her glove.
The explosion caused green dust to billow out into the air and Clark spun away from it, his eyes watering. Harry waved his hand, causing the dust to disappear before he too was effected.
Clark's eyes were swollen.
"I thought that we had this stupid problem fixed," Clark offered as he swung his arms around erratically in the air.
One of the Assassins tried to take him down but a swooping figure popped in. With a swift motion, the assassin was taken out and put out of the fight.
More crept towards their enemies but a pair of baterangs flew into the battle.
"You should know by now that no cure is foolproof," Batman remarked as he flung an ice pellet at one of the larger assassins.
"Figures I'd get something like that from Mister Sunshine and Roses over there," Clark offered but Lois staggered around as Kara administered something to her.
"Don't worry, I have an antidote if you get infected, although it doesn't stop further infection if you get hit again," Kara informed them.
"Right that's good," Lois offered, she felt as good as new as she hoisted her head up.
Batman swung around and engaged the League of Assassin's in battle. His punches knocked them around, from one side to the other. The World's Greatest Detective continued to push himself to the peak of his performance and wrapped his grapnel around them.
He sprung forwards to continue the fight, but he was knocked down hard from behind.
"We meet again, Batman," Bane offered but this time, the tubes feeding him were better protected them they were last time.
"Bane," Batman offered as he pushed himself up, but threw a flash bang and that caused Bane's vision to become impaired.
He rubbed his eyes, screaming out in frustration as the World's Greatest Detective shuffled back for a brief moment and circled around him. The Dark Knight pummeled Bane with punch after punch, rocking him.
Bane grabbed Batman.
The assassins dropped down with a series of super powerful punches and Clark sped forward, before saving Batman from being broken.
"Put me down, I had him," Batman offered and sure enough, Bane grabbed Clark around the throat.
"You're persistent," Bane offered as he throttled Clark and began to choke him into unconsciousness but just as Kara was going to swoop in to save Clark, an arrow was shot into the battle.
The arrow stuck in Bane's tube and electrified him. The monstrous mountain of a man staggered back as his eyes rolled into the back of his head but he shook off the assault.
Kara rocked him back with a huge kick before Harry flicked his wrist and unplugged the tube.
Bane screamed as he lost his lifeline to his precious stream of venom. He staggered around, breathing rather heavily as his heart thumped against his chest hard, in a thunderous drumbeat.
The assassins were taken down by a barrage of arrows that fired into their chests. Shot after shot connected with them and once again something activated an electrified pulse that stunned them.
They collapsed to the ground with a loud crash in every increasing numbers as the volley of shoots continued to rain into their ranks.
Harry watched as a figure dressed in green appeared and kept firing the arrows at them. He was too busy to really follow up on this for now.
"Retreat," Cheshire remarked as she saw the person in the shadows and she rushed off.
"Well, looks like Oliver is on the ball tonight," Lois remarked but then she paused as she got a better look. "Wait a minute….that's not Oliver!"
There were a few fundamental differences about this archer. The archer was blonde and dressed in green like Oliver Queen, but the big difference was that this archer was a female.
Harry, Kara, and Karen saw that she escaped but they wondered what her connection was and why Cheshire told the Assassins to stand down after she showed up.
"The technology is in my grasp."
That statement was given, crisp and cold by Major Dru-Zod as he sat in the underground bunker with the Kandorian army or the remnants of them. His plans had not come to fruition over the past few months.
It all started out well, his plans continued to escalate, at least until the moment where he brought Harry Potter in. He thought that Potter was no trouble at all, a foolish child with ideals, hopes, and dreams.
Zod could not even begin to fathom how much he was mistaken.
"They are gone," Zod remarked as he leaned back on the chair and kept his expression rather cold and frigid. He could not believe that they disappeared.
Many of his supposed loyal soldiers disappeared into the night without a trace. The Kandorian placed a hand to his chin as he pondered this, it all started after he invited Harry Potter into his confidence and Potter was rather callous.
Potter stabbed Zod in the back, offering the ultimate betrayal and that was not something that the Major could forgive. As young as he was, he already saw much, much about the brutality that his fellow people could perform on each other.
He would not forgive this and he would not forget. There was technology that could be in his grasp, all he had to do was grab onto it.
"Get ready, the League of Shadows have no idea what they've stumbled upon now," Zod commented to two of his guards who nodded. "While they are chasing fables, I'm after science and I'm after something that will help us with our plans to take control of our birthright."
"Many have left you, Major Zod," one of the men stated bravely.
For a second the man thought that he spoken too far out of turn for Zod rose to his feet and faced the man, an intense gaze flickering through his eyes. The Major closed upon this young soldier who swallowed the lump that was present in his throat.
"They have betrayed me yes, but they will pay for that," Zod offered as his glare became really nasty. It did cut him. Betrayal was not something that he took well.
Betrayal was not something that he would forgive.
They would all suffer for their treason.
"I will find the one who exposed us to Ra's Al Ghul and make them pay," Zod commented as he turned to all of the Kandorians. "My brothers, I do hope that the traitor is not brazen enough to look me in the eye and think that they can get away with what they've done. No, they will not….they will not be able to get away with such an action."
Zod was given them the opportunity to confess to their crimes and he watched them, the nerves shot through the minds of all of them. He could almost feel them.
"If you refuse to confess now, then the end will be more drawn out and undesirable later," Zod offered them.
There was no words, which made Zod either think that the person who betrayed him was a fool and still dared to look him in the eye or had been among those who betrayers that fled.
"Perhaps it was the son of Jor-El," one of the soldiers stated bravely.
"Yes, Jor-El betrayed us, why wouldn't his spawn by any different?"
Zod smiled, they were fools. "Kal-El does not have the stomach for betrayal."
There were no more words other than that from Zod, he said his piece and now it was time for him to move on and forward for the final part of his siege.
All would kneel before Zod.
Alexandra Potter waited as she heard word that there were two parties after the same set of scrolls but for two entirely different reasons. And as always, her male counterpart was in the center of the chaos. She would curse his luck, had she not known better. The dark haired witch's face spread into a wide and expressive grin as she turned towards the group that walked behind her.
"Is it time yet?" a young blonde stated, with blue eyes. Her name was Astoria Greengrass and her eyes locked onto Alex's.
"It's nearing that time where what has been laid down within the covenant will come to pass," Alex commented in a cryptic voice.
"This Covenant…." Hermione started but Alex turned towards her with a look that told her to not speak of this out loud. "I know, I know."
"We thought it to be a myth for all of those years," Daphne remarked as she placed her hands on her hips and a smile crossed over her face.
"Myths, there is nothing but truth within these myths and our agent who went under deep cover knows that Zod is making his move," a fourth figure stated in the shadows. "Do not overestimate this situation, if Zod and Ra's Al Ghul go to war, it will not be a pleasant outcome."
"I know," Alex offered, there was not a statement that was more direct and to the point. Her hands placed on her "It would be a foolish hope to assume that they would do our work for us and take the other out. And I'm not going to be that idealistic."
Alex refused to be drawn by this foolish thought.
"So we wait," Daphne offered.
"Yes, we wait," Alex remarked before she turned to Hermione. "You know what your mission is."
"Yes," Hermione offered, although she was not too pleased with what she had to do. That was the perils of having drawn the short straw.
"What if they grab the scrolls before we do?" another voice asked from the shadows.
"They won't."
Clara turned up or rather she had been there the entire time. Standing next to her was Alison Riddle and the two of them stepped forward.
"Harry will reach the scrolls first, he's got all of the pieces, even though he hasn't put them together," Alison offered before she paused and added. "And he knows what the Book of RAO does."
"So why doesn't he do it and banish Zod and his army?" Astoria asked in frustration. "He has the power."
"Harry Potter always is one with a flair for the dramatics," Daphne offered, rolling her eyes, although there was an expression of fondness crossing through her face.
"He does," Hermione agreed, she was not going to disagree with this point at all but she worried about what might happen next.
Alex knew that Harry knew it as well, if he used the Book of RAO, he would banish much more than those who came out of the orb to a new world. She wondered if he delayed because he was trying to find a way to salvage what could not salvaged.
"All of the players are in position."
Tonks turned up now to join the rest of the group, to join Hermione, Daphne, Astoria, Alison, Clara, Alex, and the two mysterious hooded females that did not seem inclined to reveal themselves for the world to see.
"The Sisterhood is ready, let's save the world," Alex remarked in a firm voice.
To Be Continued in Part Two.