Chapter Thirty-Five: Vengeance Part Two
Five of the deadliest criminals in the world stood outside of Lois Lane's apartment. Even if, by some change, Supergirl's not present, they feel some serious damage could be done by wrecking the apartment. The apartment cracks slightly with glass spraying everywhere. Toyman climbs out of the tank to take a more direct hit with a miniature cannon hanging from his hands.
"I know you're in there, Supergirl!" Toyman sings at the top of his lungs, swinging his arms back and forth with the miniature cannon hanging from it. "Come out and play!"
No sign of Supergirl just yet which makes Toyman frown. The smell of burning rubble passes through the air with Toyman clicking and firing the cannon. Another window bites the dust from the heavy impact of the cannon just slamming into it.
Parasite stands off to the side. He uses his super breath to cause a scene while also keeping a wide distance away from Metallo. The taste of power fades and he needs even more now. Parasite's entire body shakes from withdrawal symptoms.
"Oh, she'll come out eventually," Metallo comments with the most sadistic glint in his eyes. "Only if we put enough people in danger, she'll come out. She can't help herself, being the hero she is."
Toyman stamps his feet on the ground and almost hurls the cannon up against the wall. His shaking hands return the cannon to his hand.
"I want my revenge! I want to make her suffer. She's going to pay!"
"Patience," Metallo replies with a roll of his eyes at Toyman.
"I'm going to play with her and it's going to be great when I finish her off," Toyman states in one of the more sadistic tones possible.
Lashina waits at the side of the building with the whip cracking. "We should finish her off. We shouldn't waste time playing with her. Once we have the advantage, we should pounce on her."
Supergirl was responsible for banishing Lashina to this primitive mud-ball and forcing her to team up with these people. She's not in the best mind frame to deal with them. She wants to rip Supergirl apart. Teaming with these four are the only way to get her hands on him. Granny threw her out after the last time she's fought.
'Granny's an old bag anyway, always comparing you to Barda,' Lashiina thinks with fire in her eyes."
"You're no fun!" Toyman pouts, clicking another barrel and bombarding the side of the building. People inside of the building scream in terror. Toyman doesn't do anything other than crack into one of the more obvious smiles.
"Just let me get in there!" Livewire shouts. "Just a few minutes alone and I'll have Supergirl screaming for terror!"
"Wait, she'll be coming out soon," Metallo comments with a slight roll of his eyes. "Then all of you can have your fun, as dubious as it might be!"
"I'm tired of waiting!" Livewire yells with sparks flying from the tips of her hands. "I know you're in there Supergirl! I want you to come out here! Come on, baby, get your cute little ass out here so I can smoke it!"
Livewire's fingertips crackle with energy and she aims it at the edge of the building. The energy jolts out and connects with a wall before bombarding back against Livewire at an insanely fast speed. Livewire flips head over heels and smashes down onto the ground with a sudden impact.
"What the hell was that?" Livewire demands. "Did anyone get the number of the truck that just mowed me down?"
Parasite sniffs it out in the air. Pure power excites the criminal. He gets pretty close to reaching forward and grabbing onto it.
"I see it!" Parasite growls. "I feel it. It has power! I must have it. I must have the power!
"No, you don't need the power!" Toyman yells. "You fool! Don't you see it! They're trying to lure you into a trap!"
"Mine!" Parasite howls at the top of his lungs. "I must have the power!"
The leech grabs what he thinks is power in the air. Someone blocks his attack and overcharges him before dropping him to the ground. Both Livewire and Parasite lay down on the ground. The other three members of the Supergirl Revenge Squad back off.
And speaking of Supergirl, she drops down onto the ground. An intense look goes across her face. Lashina turns herself to Supergirl and draws a tongue against her lips, licking it when coming across her prey.
"Finally!" Lashina yells when coming face to face with the Girl of Steel. "I've been waiting for you for a long time. It's going to be payback! You know how long I've been waiting for payback!"
Lashina cracks her whip into the battle and wraps it around Supergirl's wrist. Supergirl breaks out of the attack and avoids two more crack whips. Her deep breathing comes with even more prominence as the deadly game of ducking and dodging Lashina's attacks kicks up to an entirely new level. Supergirl backs up a little bit and avoids Lashina from almost taking her head off.
A beam of green Kryptonite fires out of nowhere and comes close to connecting to Supergirl's chest. Supergirl backs off and Metallo keeps firing at her. She dodges two more Kryptonite vision blasts. Lashina's eyes bug out when she nudges Metallo off to the side.
"Get out of my way!"
"No!" Metallo replies in the sternest voice. "I have her. You're just the one who is getting in my way. I'm going to crush her underneath my foot where she belongs."
Another force flips Metallo over to the ground. The Dragon flashes in and punches him through the chest. The Kryptonite heart disengages and falls to the ground from the solid impact. Alia retracts her hand and then blocks Lashina's next attempt for an attack.
'I've found what Toyman is using,' Alia projects to Kara. 'And I'm in the process of disabling the runes…and no, I don't have any idea how he got his hands on magical runes which can be used to disable it.'
'That's a surprise,' Kara thinks.
A figure dressed in red and yellow with a mask swoops down and knocks Lashina down on the ground. Lashina growls and rushes towards the figure. Lashina charges the figure, with the figure blocking the punch and coming back with multiple punches of her own.
Even with the mask, it was very obvious who was underneath it.
"Thanks for the help um….." Kara states to the younger Kara.
"You can call me Flamebird," Kara Danvers replies with a smile. "Oh, it looks like Sparky is still up and wants to dance."
Alia opens a portal and the three of them pass through. Parasite and Livewire finally rise to their feet. Toyman howls at the top of his lungs when he realizes they've escaped.
Supergirl, Flamebird, and the Dragon appear in a tunnel deep underneath Metropolis. They should be fine, at least until the moment they were tracked down. They did a fine job in destabilizing the force of the criminals. They pretty much have to keep it up.
Lois Lane stands at the end of the tunnel and flashes one of those smiles towards the other parties at the tunnels. Dirt and grime along with some sweat cakes Lois's face, but overall, she could be a whole lot worse off than she really is.
"Yeah, I got out of it fine, for what it's worth," Lois comments when putting her hands up against her knees and shaking her head.
Footsteps came down the tunnel. Alia's eyes flash over and she relaxes the instant it's obvious it's only Alex Danvers coming down the tunnel. Flamebird tenses up a little bit at the presence of her sister arriving. Kara puts a hand on her younger counterpart's shoulder.
"I heard what happened."
A sigh passes through Alia's body. She cringes at all of the failed attempts to get through to the heroes. Alex's presence and the presence of a few other agents of the DEO further down the tunnel indicate the plan works somehow.
"Good, one of my efforts to get through worked," Alia comments. "I was worried for a minute that nothing I was going to work."
"They pull this attack when most of the other heroines are distracted or unreachable?" Lois asks. "Maybe, it's me entering the realm of conspiracy theory, or something, but I can't be the only one who finds this kind of odd, doesn't it?"
"No, you're not the only one," Kara comments.
"We should get you out of here, Ms. Lane," Alia replies. "You're a target."
Lois raises her eyebrow and looks at the DEO agent. Alex refuses to back down or blink from the look from the older woman.
"I'm always a target," Lois replies. "It comes with the job, kid."
Alex answers with a brisk shake of her head, not knowing what else to comment. She only pops her fingers up against the side of her head. "Yeah, be that as it may, we should get you out of here as soon as possible. You could be a sitting duck down here for Toyman and his crew."
The reporter answers with a shrug. Not really the time to argue, and it would give Supergirl and the Dragon one less distraction. Lois mentally wishes them the best of luck.
"Yeah, sounds good."
A small squad of DEO agents escort Lois down the tunnel and to her apparent safety. It's not the first time Lois has to be escorted away by government people. The smell of the tunnels underneath Metropolis leaves her. Not the worst sewers Lois ever has the pleasure of traveling in, but she thinks it to be no picnic either.
Finally, two sisters come face to face with each other. Alex opens her mouth for a second. Sensing the danger, Flamebird cuts her off at the pass.
"Oh come on, you shouldn't be so surprised!" Kara exclaims. "You knew it was going to happen sooner or later, me putting on this costume. And it's a good thing I did as well.
Alex sighs, "Yeah…well, we might have to have a talk about this later on."
'Yeah, I can only imagine how well your talk is going to go,' Kara thinks. 'And by talk, you mean some kind of lecture about me overstepping my boundaries. Turns out I'm pretty well trained. I might be able to kick your ass without powers.'
That particular conversation stalls for the moment with Alex turning her attention completely and one hundred percent to Alia. She holds a device in her hand and puts it into the palm of Alia's hand.
"We have developed a device which we can in theory track Livewire's energy," Alex comments to them. "I hope you can find a way to put it to some kind of good use."
To be fair, a huge discharge of energy as large as Livewire's should not be too difficult to track.
"Yeah, I will," Alia replies.
"We've also nabbed Metallo before he could rejoin the rest of his squad. The other four left, but hopefully, he knows something and that he can help us."
Alex contacts the people on top to see what they were doing with Corben. She pushes a couple of buttons on the radio and adjusts the frequency. A loud hiss comes from the radio. Alex slams her fist into the edge of the radio to try and get some kind of answer.
No luck, and Alex stops short from hurling the radio down the way.
"Damn it!" Alex yells. "I lost contact…guess we're on our own."
The Supergirl Revenge Squad stood one party short. Parasite leans against the wall. Livewire bounces up and down. Toyman sits down to repair a few of the toys which were broken in the scuffle of the DEO. The sparks coming from the object in question makes Toyman gnash his teeth together in evident frustration.
The former female Fury, Lashina, sweeps her feet against the ground. She places a firm hand on the shoulder of Toyman and forces the sadistic inventor to look her square in the eye.
"This team has a severe lack of issues in being organized. There are certain members of this team who are not properly pulling their weight in fact."
Toyman's beady little eyes flash from the other end of the mask. He stares Lashina down something fierce from the other side of the mask.
"Yes, we could have handled the situation with Supergirl better," Toyman agrees while rubbing the bridge of his nose. He takes in another couple of deep breaths.
"Handling it better is an understatement to end all understatements!" Lashina snaps in pure rage. "We were going well until she decides to jump in there and make a spectacle out of anything."
Livewire turns her attention to Lashina. The two women lock eye to eye with each other. Sparks swim from around the tip of Livewire's hand. She crosses the room and almost gets into Lashina's face. Lashina steps back to give some room. Tension swims through the air.
"Are you talking about me?"
"Yes, who else I am talking about?" Lashina asks. "If it wasn't for you, I would have been able to nab Supergirl and we would be completely home free. You being an arrogant bitch screwed all over us over."
The former radio personality grows more defensive by the moment and her eyes almost flare with outrage. She wants nothing better than to wrap her hands around Lashina's throat. "You have a problem with me? Maybe we should have it out now bitch!"
The warrior woman's blood boiled at this simple woman daring to channel her.
"You don't have the discipline to take me down," Lashina replies with a slight smile passing over her face. "I'm one of Granny Goodness's strongest, most dangerous, most deadly…"
"You were," Livewire comments. "Because if you were anything, then you wouldn't be here, having this conversation, would we?"
Lashina and Livewire square off for battle. Parasite watches from the edge of the room with a big grin on his face which grows with every passing second.
"ENOUGH!" Toyman yells.
For one brief second, Livewire and Lashina keep their eyes locked onto each other. Nothing happens between the two of them. Toyman puts a force field in between the two of them and forces them to step back and cool their nerves down before nastier heads prevail.
"Can the two of you conduct yourselves in a mature and professional manner?" Toyman asks.
Lashina and Livewire answer with a nasty double glare at each other. Neither backed down from the other. Toyman keeps his finger on the force field button and does not once let it go. Parasite keeps out of the confrontation, a smart man if there ever was one.
"I can behave if she can!" Lashina yells.
The implication that Lashina thinks she was better in any way to Livewire really grinds the woman's gears.
"Well, if she can behave herself, I guess I can," Livewire replies.
Both relaxed their stances. The tension passes and the moment Toyman feels they can play without him intervening, he releases the force field button.
"Good enough for now," Toyman says. "You two women better behave yourselves or the next stop is a time out. Do you understand me?"
The criminal moves over to the map of Metropolis. Several "X" marks litter the map at the spots where he perceives would cause the most damage. He surveys the remaining members of his Supergirl Revenge Squad. A very powerful and able component of the plan stands away from them.
"We're down one man, but that doesn't matter. We're going to take down Supergirl once and for all. No matter who gets in our way, this time, we're going to make sure she doesn't live to see another day. I would have much rather taken down Superwoman, but given we can't, we're going to have to deal with this part of the plan."
They all nod in confirmation and understand the plan. They need only one more crack to take down Supergirl. Toyman points out the position on the map where he wants them to go.
"Here's what I want you to do."
Several people scream out loud from Toyman's rampage through downtown Metropolis. He rides on the top of the head of a giant toy dinosaur. The dinosaur shoots laser blasts out into the open and forces the attackers back a couple of inches. The civilians of Metropolis all shriek and run into the distance.
Two blurs come out to scoop the civilians off of the ground. Supergirl and Flamebird lift the civilians off of the ground. They all cheer. Just in time to allow Supergirl to jump in front of a blast of lightning. She takes a deep breath and drops down to one knee.
"Of course, they would lead us here out in the open!" Flamebird yells.
Lashina pops out and sends a whip at Flamebird. Flamebird dodges the attack. She sees Alex out of the corner of her eye. Alex activates a grenade and rolls it down onto the ground. The explosion rocks them all back and causes them to all run for cover.
"Keep your eyes open and your head up. You're dealing with some very dangerous people here."
The younger Danvers sister rolls her eyes at the older one. A couple of seconds pass before Kara takes a deep breath. "Yeah, yeah, I know."
The Dragon pops up and catches two of the miniature toy soldiers which serve as a handy little attack force on the ground. The toy soldiers point their weapons at the Dragon and start popping off at her. The miniature rockets burn out in mid-air before they touch the Dragon.
Livewire pops up and shoots her lightning down to the ground. The Dragon flashes out of the way and pops up onto the rooftop to take a couple of deep breaths. Livewire fires another bolt of lightning. The Dragon evades the attack to come down onto the ground.
"Well, well, the gang's all here!" Livewire cheers at the top of her lungs. "That's good, because the heroes who stand together, fry together."
"Just make sure you don't screw it up this time," Lashina said.
"I'm not going to screw it up! You better make sure you don't screw it up. You're the one who is the screw-up! Not me! I'm not the screw-up! Do you hear me, I'm not the screw-up!"
The two women almost bump into each other when their attacks come close to going together. Alia watches the interplay and the body language between the two of them.
'Huh, that's interesting.'
Lashina's whip wraps around Alia's waist. She closes her eyes and sends a backfire through the whip. Lashina flies head over heels and slams her backside on the ground. The breath is knocked out of her the second she slams onto the ground.
"You know, Livewire, Lashina got closer to getting me that time than you ever did," the Dragon replies.
"WHAT?" Livewire asks. "I'll show that bitch what it's all about! I'll show that bitch how much power I really have. I'm going to fry your smug little ass, Dragon Girl!"
That did a pretty good job in setting Livewire off. Livewire's bolts of lightning fly everywhere. One of them disable the army of toy robots and another nail the robot Toyman is standing on. He jumps down onto the ground to avoid being obliterated by the constant attacks.
"STAY STILL SO I CAN FRY YOU!" Livewire howls at the top of her lungs.
Ala keeps bouncing around with repeated attacks. Livewire grows madder. Each repeated miss only angers the woman even more She unloads the lightning on Alia. Alia pops out of the way and lands down onto the ground. Livewire looks to be seconds away from shorting out which was exactly what Alia wants.
"How about no?" Alia asks.
The arch of lightning flies up into the ground and almost connects against Alia. Alia evades it at the last second and comes out in front of Lashina. Flamebird catches the Dragon's eye and gets completely out of the way before the attack occurs.
The mad woman fires one more blast of lightning at Alia. Alia dodges the attack and Lashina screams when her whip conducts a blast of lightning.
"YOU CLUMSY BITCH!"
Alia whips her hand against the ground and causes a burst of water to come up from the ground. Livewire shorts out and drops down to the ground. She steps back with a smile on her face.
Parasite grabs towards Flamebird and Supergirl. The two zip out of the way to cause Parasite to step on a mine on the ground. The mine explodes and traps Parasite in a cage on the ground. Parasite howls in agony and slams his hands repeatedly against the edge of the cage. Frustration grows the further he pounds on the cage in an attempt to break out of it.
Three out of the four drop down to the ground. Alia's eyes avert and notice that the remaining member of the Superwoman/Supergirl Revenge Squad has left on the back of an even larger Toy Robot.
'There goes Toyman. I'm going to make sure to get him. I'll leave you girls to leave up.'
'Of course,' Supergirl replies in good nature. 'Leave us with all of the fun stuff to do.'
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"They couldn't play with others!" Toyman yells. "I should have known they couldn't play well with others. And now…oh now….oh my this is awful…I should have know…I should have known how well none of them would play with others!"
The toy robot explodes and launches Toyman out of the back of it. Toyman flies to the ground and lands hard on his face. He rolls over onto the ground and starts to cough.
The hooded figure drops down on the edge of the ground. Toyman stares at the figure. Blood drips down his face and stains the ground. The demented eyes of the Dragon stare down from Toyman at the other end of the mask. Toyman stares at this figure who leers down at him through dead looking green eyes.
"NO!" Toyman howls at the top of his lungs. "I'm so sick and tired of you interfering on my playtime. It's not fair! It's not fair…it's not…."
A large blade impales Toyman across the chest with extreme prejudice. Toyman can't even draw in a deep breath. The Hooded Dragon holds onto Toyman's head and twists it like a bottle cap to snap it. The sound of a cracking neck secures the criminal's sudden death.
A second Hooded Dragon drops down to face the Hooded Dragon. The very obvious signs of a murder flashes before her eyes as Alia looks over to her doppelganger in numb shock. A storm kicks up. Lightning flashes in the background followed by the sounds of thunder.
"You," Alia murmurs to the doppelganger.
The hood pops off to reveal an exact double of Alia. The only difference was she was a few years younger and those green eyes were not full of life. They showcase nothing other than death and despair.
"You stole my life."
A flash of light follows the blade coming just a centimeter from striking Alia straight through into her heart.
To Be Continued on January 2nd, 2018.