Silver Arrows
- Just Us Two -
Part one
Roy had stuck around the penthouse longer than Jayde had expected him too. When the female archer wasn't with the rest of the team at the cave, she was with Roy. Whether they were taking down thugs in Star City, or rolling between the sheets of their bed, they were together. But today wasn't one of those days, today Jay was with the team fighting off Clayface.
The team's venture started in the sewers. But the monster seemed to easily avoid them and slipped out of the sewers. Fed up with the cat and mouse chase, Jayde called Roy in for reinforcements while the rest of the team tracked Clayface in the bioship.
Instead of linking up mentally with the rest of the team, Jayde and Roy used their old comm devices. Mostly because Roy was uncomfortable with having everyone else in his head.
It was hours later that they would find Clayface in an abandoned warehouse. The team, and Roy, had put up a good fight, but they knew virtually nothing about this monster. One by one they had been taken out, and the last thing Jayde saw before her head hit the concrete floor of the warehouse was a dark silhoutte swooping in through a broken window near the roof.
"Did he say what he wanted?" Roy asked as he and Jayde made their way to the Hall of Justice. They were meeting up with Captain Atom, who needed their help with a mission.
"No, just that he had a cold case that he wanted us to look into" the dark haired archer shook her head in response.
Minutes later the two heroes were sitting facing the large computer as Captain Atom brought up many different images. As she waited for the Captain to begin, Jayde couldn't help but remember the last time her and Roy were in this room together.
"This" Captain Atom started, pulling up an image of a man with short, cropped hair and an army uniform. "Is Captain Nathaniel Adams, United States Air Force. He was convicted in 1968 of murdering General Clement Lamar. Adams died in prison, but I have recieved a reliable tip that he had been framed." The elder hero paused before looking at the archers. "It would be appreciated if the two of you would investigate, prove his innocence, or reconfirm his guilt before reporting back to me."
"Why us? The League has plenty of members who could do this" Roy said, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Ignore him, we'll do it."
Hours later, Jayde was sitting in the office of General Wade Eiling, as he had been the Judge at Nathaniel Adams' court martial. From an outsiders perspective, the case seemed cut and dry, but as someone who had been trained to always look at a situation from different angles, Jayde knew better.
"So?" Roy asked when Jayde left the General's office and removed the blonde wig she had been wearing.
"There's more to this than meets the eye, that's for sure" she sighed. "I think we need to speak to Adams' lawyer."
"I thought so" Roy nodded. "So I did a little digging while you were in there."
"And?"
"We're going to Vegas"
"Leutenant Yarrow?"
"Nope" came the response of the old man at the table. "Retired the uniform, the title. Now it's just Mister Yarrow" he added before smiling at Jayde "But you can call me Henry. Hit me."
"Twenty Tow, bust" the black-jack dealer stated as he slapped down another card in front of Yarrow. "Sir, Ma'am, no one under twenty one is allowed in the casino." But he went ignored.
"You two must be the journalism students" Yarrow stated as he stood from his stool "C'mon, my lucks run out anyway. Let's find somewhere to talk."
"So you were Nathaniel Adams defense attorney, right?" Jayde asked as they sat at the buffet.
"His friend too" Yarrow nodded. "Served together in 'Nam, the only survivors of Hill 409."
"Mr. Yarrow, would you mind telling us about what had happened back then? The accusations against Captain Adams?" Roy asked.
"Nate worked Air Force intelligence" Yarrow started "He suspected a weapons smuggling ring and confided as much to General Lemar. Lemar claimed to have heard the same rumors and ordered Nate to take a squad to Hill 409..."
"Mr...um, Henry, could you tell us what Hill 409 was...you know, for our paper?" Jayde asked the old man.
"It was an ambush" was Yarrow's answer. "Nate saved my life, but the rest of his men weren't so lucky. After that Nate was convinced that Lemar was part of the smuggling ring and sent us into an ambush. I tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted on confronting Lemar. Only to black out moments later. Later Nate insisted that he had been drugged, and I believed him cuz there was no way the Nathaniel Adams I knew would ever murder a man in cold blood."
"So you took his defense" Roy nodded in understanding.
"So much good that did him" Yarrow scoffed. "The Prosecutor, Lieutenant Kevin Blankly, proved that Nate's service knife was the murder weapon. And the medical examiner, Major Shirley Mason, testified that there were no drugs in Nate's system. So the judge found Nate guilty and sentenced him to life in prison, and that's where he died."
Taking a deep drink of water, Yarrow paused for a slight moment as if paying a silent respect for his fallen friend. Alot of the information, Jayde and Roy had already figured out, due to their own connections. But they needed to not only keep their cover, but the heroes needed a first hand account of what had happened.
"The judge" Yarrow continued "Colonel Wade Eiling, he married Nate's widow and raised his two kids as his own. Tell me that doesn't' stink to high heaven."
"I fucking love zeta tubes" Jayde stated as she stepped out onto the street next to her boyfriend. "It would have taken us hours to get here from Vegas."
"So now what?" Roy asked, keeping his mind on the mission.
"Now" Jayde sighed. "Now we go and question the M.E. If Adams' was framed, then she would be the place to start. Considering she said that he wasn't drugged."
It only took them a few minutes to find the womans' apartment, and a few more to break in. But interrogating Shirley Mason was out of the question.
"Looks like our medical examiner needs a medical examiner" Roy joked as he shined a light on the dead woman's body. "She's got something in her hand. I don't want to disturb the crime scene but..."
"We need to see what it is" Jayde nodded, crouching down to get a better look "I'll try to move her as little as possible."
In the old woman's hand was a photograph that seemed to have been taken in the sixties. After a quick scan, Jayde and Roy were able to identify that the dead woman on the floor was, in fact, Major Shirley Mason. The other people in the picture would have to wait to be identified.
"This would be better if we had some help" Jayde complained as they arrived in Honolulu. Even with the software that they had, it would still take a while to run facial scans on each and every person in the picture. So while they waited, Jayde and Roy tracked down the children of Nathaniel Adams. Only this time, instead of surprising their targets, the two archers called ahead and managed to get the two, now adult, children of the late captain to speak with them.
"Thanks for agreeing to meet with us" Roy stated as he took a seat next to Jayde.
"I'm only here for my sister Peggy's sake" Randy stated. "Nate Adams is not a topic I'd ever choose to discuss."
"Randy, you're talking about our father" Peggy scolded as she punched her brother in the arm.
"Wade Eiling is our father, he raised us. Adams gave up any parental rights the day he betrayed our country and murdered his superior officer."
"Our mother never though he was guilty. And I don't believe it either" Peggy defended.
"I love you sis, but dad died in prison before you were born..."
"Hah! You just called him dad" the younger sister all but giggled.
There wasn't much information Jayde and Roy could get from Peggy and Randy. Both were so young at the time of Adams' death that they couldn't truly form an opinion of their own. Just one based off of hearsay.
So, instead of taking a zeta tube to their next location, the couple decided to get a hotel for the night while they waited for their facial recognition scans to be finished. And to enjoy some alone time.
AN: Second to last chapter of the day guys. For this story at least. For those of you who read my other stories, I will be binge posting my story In the End next, so be on the look out for that!
What did you guys think of this chapter? Hope you liked it, and stay tuned for the continuation.
Coming Up Next On Silver Arrows: The archers figure out the truth, we learn a little it about Jayde's weapons, and I don't wanna say much more and give it all away. So just go read it for your self lol
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