saHello, and welcome to the next chapter!
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LoamyCoffee; Yup, they very much can be! Hehe, maybe so~
hellspam; It truly is, there's gonna be quite a few things going on towards the end of season one. Yup, they're back in this chapter, and have some defining moments. Aah, we'll be saving that for next chapter, and there might be a few surprises next chapter as well. Yeah, they could do something like that.
ShadowUzumaki55; Yup, seems like this is what Rachael wanted, her army in one place, for her to be their 'salvation' or something akin to that. Yup, they've been saved, and Eliza, well, I wont spoil it, but something's gonna be going on with Eliza heading for Season Two. Ooh it is coming full circle for season one, but there's gonna be some more things happening during the other seasons that need to be resolved.
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Guest 2; Wow, that does seem awesome, thanks for the suggestions!
AlphaOmega; Yeah, they do have a good shot at doing it, don't they? Yeah, they finally rescued them, and indeed, we'll be finding more about Eliza going forward. Hehe, seems like Rachael could be a bit of a planner and made sure they'd be in one place for her to take them or something like that~ Yeah, he's accepted that part of him and together, they're going forward, and for now at least, have a good relationship with one another.
Guest 3; I'd have to watch the series fully first before deciding anything about it.
Guest 4; Funny you should mention it, because I've been reading the manga for the first time. Robin would be a cool choice, and yeah, he could be something like that as well. That would be cool as well.
Lightwave; They surely have yeah. Well, there was a reason, mostly because Rachael has a hold over them. Thanks! Glad you liked it! Yeah, they're gonna have a new turn in their relationship.
Neonlight01; Well, she's all loved up, so she can't see what is obvious. And he's been grooming her into his weapon basically. Probably, we'll have to wait and see. He is yeah, and he's coming to accept himself, all of himself as a whole, and not want to fight himself anymore. Thank you, I am glad you liked it~ He's going to have a few people helping him, and since they have a connection, it is going to be fun to say the least~
Guest 5; That sounds awesome, I actually love Misfits, it cracks me up.
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Rogue Air part two
Walking up the stony stairs, Matt moved swiftly. He didn't bother running, but he didn't move slowly either. He saw that several members of the League were looking at him curiously, wanting to see what was going on. Matt himself just hummed to himself, and just moved forward.
Seeing the large doors, he placed his hand out, sending out a shockwave of his powers, knocking the door off its hinges.
"Knock, knock."
Matt murmured as his blue and red eyes looked around happily. He saw several members of the League walking towards him. Matt just hummed as he moved forward, not showing a caring look within the world that he was in right now.
"Stop!"
One newer member Matt guessed moved forward, swinging his fist. Matt brought his head back, grabbed the fist, then punched the man in the face with his own fist, slipping his hand to the man's chest, sending out a shockwave of energy from his palm, blasting him across the room, hitting the back wall, knocking him out.
Matt looked around at the others.
"Anyone else want to stop me, or shall I just go?"
No one else attempted to make a move, and stood down. Matt moved forward, going through the hallowed halls. As he moved forward, he saw more and more people looking at him and the people that knew him, bowed to his coming.
"Welcome home sir."
"Is that really…?"
"Yes, that's Ra's famed true successor."
"Why's he back?"
"I don't know, don't be rude though, I heard he can snap a neck like it was nothing."
"I heard he took down an entire base by himself with only a single knife, and he didn't even kill anyone."
Moving to the main hall, he placed his hand outwards, slamming the doors open with his telekinesis, where he saw Ra's al Ghul, Nyssa, and Oliver. He was slightly surprised to see Oliver stood there, but he didn't care.
"My brother, you have returned." Nyssa spoke candidly, earnestly, and even with the hint of a smile. She moved forward, and gave him a hug, which he returned. "Why have you returned brother? Is it to kill Oliver Queen? I'd be for that."
Oliver frowned, but Matt waved gently, telepathically saying "Don't worry Oliver, I'm not here to take your place." which Oliver blinked rapidly at the thoughts entering his mind, he hadn't experienced something like that beforehand.
As soon as he saw Matt, Ra's dismissed Oliver completely, and moved towards Matt.
"My boy, you've returned home. I had waited for this day."
Matt smiled, moving forward.
"It is good to be back home." He spoke truthfully. "However, Ra's, I'm not home for good. Nor do I really want to get involved with what's going on with Oliver over there. However, I do think that I need your assistance with something, much bigger than myself, and a once in the lifetime event that's going to be going down."
"Hmmm, this is rather interesting. What have you gotten yourself into now?"
Matt smiled slowly, and moved to a side room. Thought Nyssa, and Ra's weren't on the best terms, they followed. Oliver tried to follow as well, but he was stopped when Ra's closed the door in his face, Oliver showing an annoyed face.
Once alone, Matt folded his arms, Nyssa noticing something wrong with his eyes.
"Brother? Your eyes, one is red and the other is blue. How did that happen?"
"Oh, long story short, conquered some personal demon's, and now I'm kinda bonded with said Demon, and with my Angel, I guess I'm a hybrid or something." Matt answered honestly, then looked at Nyssa. "Nyssa, I sense a great sadness within you, what's happened?"
Nyssa looked towards Ra's who raised his head without a care.
"...Nothing." She lied, Matt then hearing her thoughts. "How can I say that I've been tasked with marrying Oliver Queen? That, is one of the last things that I have ever wanted to do. It, isn't something that I want to admit either."
Matt understood, looking between the two of them.
"Well, okay. Either way, Rachael, has surfaced, and the little bitch has built an army."
Ra's felt intrigued, since he felt responsible for not killing her in the first place.
"Really now? If any skill she had, it was manipulating the weak, that was her only skill."
"Exactly, and she's got them wearing funky devices that allows them to blast light powers out. And also, we have Metahuman's that need to be moved, because if not, then they would die. Personally, I'm 50/50 on the evil ones, mostly because I'm 50/50 right now myself but everyone else is adamant, and I couldn't possibly have them all moved myself with the others, and there's only a few select people that have my trust, and you're one of them. So, maybe it would be out of term, and I expect that your answer might not be the one that I would hope. However, that's what I want, I wish for you to stand beside myself and help in this endeavour."
Ra's tossed his head up in the air, and walked around Matt, like he was a hawk. Nyssa watched on, standing beside Matt. Even before Ra's had made up his mind, Nyssa stood before Matt and showed a determined look.
"My brother, a chance to hurt Rachael, I would love this chance. To even show her forces that allowing her actions against the League, that she's done, isn't what we should strive to be, and now, if there's a chance, then I am content with all of this. I am also accountable, for ever letting her leave this League, and now the chance to hurt her, to kill her, I am all for it. My brother, tell me when and where, and I am there."
Matt gently smiled at Nyssa.
"Thanks Nyssa, you always are a great help."
Even though he said that, he sensed that there was a deeper emotion running through the air. He didn't question it though and silently read both of their minds, getting the details for himself without their knowledge.
Ra's who witnessed this, clicked his fingers at Nyssa.
"Nyssa, leave Matthew and I alone."
Nyssa looked defiant, but Matt nodded his head.
"It's alright Nyssa, don't worry about it."
Nyssa sharpened her eyes, but did as she was asked, and left them alone.
Once gone, Ra's inched closer.
"My boy, as of this time, you realize how difficult it is for me to honour that request."
"With Oliver Queen taking succession over the League, and you preparing for things, though I don't know what that is."
He lied, he didn't have a choice right now but to do what he needed to do.
"Not only that, but also, with Nyssa's marriage to Mr Queen. You see, Nyssa recently has been going behind my back, and betrayed me, and even tried to assassinate me. I, have been thinking of the best way to punish her, but then I thought about your own way of handling it, and decided that this, would be for the best."
Matt didn't exactly agree with that mentality, but he wasn't Ra's so he could somewhat understand.
"I see, Ra's. Marrying Oliver, well...you really want her to do that? Oliver is..."
"The new ruler of the League, if he goes in the path I've set." Ra's continued after speaking briefly. "If my original plan was to work, you my boy would be the ruler, especially with your new found powers. My dream, my ambition is for you to be the new ruler of the League. But because you decided not to, I chose Mr Queen, and Nyssa, has betrayed me. This, is the way that I need to do this my boy, I know what you are going to say, I know how special your kindness is. But this is what has to happen."
Matt felt sorry for Nyssa, he didn't want to have her be married to Oliver, knowing that she wouldn't like it. But there were little ways that he could actually stop it.
"I see, then Ra's about what's happening-"
"Yes, I understand my boy, but I also have something that I would like to request from yourself."
"Oh? What's that?"
Ra's took off his ring, placing it on Matt's finger. Matt looked down at the ring and then back up at Ra's himself.
"There, the rightful place the ring belongs."
"Ra's..."
Matt didn't know how to express it, he even felt Mentalist speaking to him about it, but he just didn't know what to say.
"I understand, you wont become the leader of the League, but in my heart of hearts, you've always been the chosen leader after myself. Even more than Mr Queen, you are the one that I have always acknowledged. But to call you Ibn al Ghul, is what I have decided since, that's how I've always seen you, my son."
"Son of the Demon..."
Ra's head moved upwards, acknowledging such things.
"Yes, that's exactly right my boy. Since you need help, I have decided that I shall help you, with the condition that you also aid me once more."
"Yes, what is this condition?"
Ra's was about to speak up, but he stopped himself, and hummed.
"Actually, just seeing you like this, growing and strong, is enough for me. I don't require your assistance, all I require is your support in my plans, and I shall do the same for you my boy, in dealing with all of this."
"O-Oh, okay. Sure, I don't mind at all."
Ra's smiled, patting Matt on the back.
"Then, before I prepare a plane-"
"Oh, we don't need a plane."
"You could, fly us all there?"
Matt smirked, shaking his head, and thrusted his hand to the side. From there, a teleporting barrier was opened up after a few seconds, surprising Ra's.
"That can get us there in a jiff, and right back as well. As long as there's only a few of us, can't teleport a mass of people, probably about four or something at most right now."
"I see, that's an interesting development." Ra's moved closer. "It seems to be a barrier of sorts. This, could teleport us, could it?"
"Something like that yeah. We can go and I can send you back here within a moments notice. Don't worry about the details now, I can handle that part."
"Then, I shall prepare the League to stay here and wait, and I will inform you on when I shall be ready. In the meantime, please relax, and look around. Do not worry, myself and Nyssa shall be enough, besides, I cannot send the whole League, there's still important duties to be done here."
"Of course, Nyssa and you shall be enough. But Ra's, about marrying Oliver...I know you think that it is the right kind of punishment, but Oliver's...well, I'd rather marry Nyssa than him, it just makes my skin crawl. They're so incompatible, it's clear that Oliver likes blondes, just look at that FeFe girl."
"Well, that's an idea...yes, if you married Nyssa, then that would be..."
Matt put his hands up, shaking his head.
"I was kidding, I'm not marrying Nyssa, I couldn't do that to her. Besides I've already got a future wife coming, so I'm looking forward to that. She's lost her love, and now doing this...I feel sorry for her, she's someone I truly do love because she's been close to me since we were young, and I know she tried to assassinate you, but Nyssa's a good person and she's skilled, she's only misguided right now, due to various things, from what I could gather. Honestly, it should be Nyssa that's named Ra's, in my humble opinion."
"And how do you know all this about Nyssa?"
"Did ya think I don't keep tabs on my family?"
Ra's allowed a very rare chuckle to escape his mouth.
"I see, that's how it is. Though I can't break off the marriage, if you married Nyssa, then this wouldn't be necessary. Then you would be Ibn al Ghul. My son."
"I suppose you're right...anyway, I'm gonna go and check on Nyssa."
Matt tilted his head to the side, chuckled awkwardly, and then moved away.
Matt walked out of the room, and saw Nyssa stood there uncomfortably with Oliver. He could feel the anger rolling off her, so he moved closer towards the young girl, and in a split second, embraced the young girl, and held her close.
"Don't worry about such things now, Nyssa. I know, and you know, you can always get a divorce and take like, half his money or something. And if he does anything bad to you, I can invade peoples dreams and turn them to nightmares."
"Divorce, I suppose you're right, it could work, and nightmares huh, that would be nice." Her eyes shot towards Oliver who looked right at her with a hard gaze. "Though to marry the brother of the woman that killed Sara, it makes me feel sick. In fact, I do not like it at all."
Matt looked to Oliver who looked back. Matt briefly communicated with him mentally, and nodded his head slowly, turning back to Nyssa.
"Ooh Nyssa, you're always going to be in my top favourite people, so even if you're married to Oliver, I'm always your brother, remember? I don't let anyone pick on my Nyssa."
Nyssa's face curled upwards.
"Yes, I shall always consider you my brother, brother."
Matt continued to hug her, and she did the same thing.
Caitlin walked into the S.T.A.R Labs, to see that Leonard Snart, and Lisa Snart, had entered the building, and were talking with the others. She didn't trust them right away, she couldn't in her good consciousness trust them. She was glad that Frankie had enough sense to not talk to them, and others as well. She also saw Bette looking pissed off with Lisa, like she was jealous or something of that nature.
"Please tell me this is a joke."
Caitlin sternly said, looking between the two of them.
Lisa moved around the desk, and inched closer.
"Oh, you were right, Lenny. She is very uptight.
"I am not uptight. You can't call me uptight." Caitlin said strongly. "B-Besides, if my boyfriend was here, he wouldn't let you call me that."
Lisa moved closer, like she was being inspecting the woman before her. Her eyes ran over Caitlin's face, and more specifically, her hair as well. She looked at that, and then smirked, Caitlin feeling suspicious.
"No, I take it back, you're not uptight. Seems like your, boyfriend saw to that, didn't he? Did he, loosen you up?"
Caitlin's face flew through different emotions, one being anger, and the other being bashful and other things. She then turned her head up, and sharpened her eyes at Lisa, Hartley fully understanding what was going on.
"J-Just keep your mouth shut. Leave me alone."
"Look, guys, we need their help if we're gonna pull this off."
Barry looked between all of them, seeing that there was a little, thing that was going on between them. Jean looked towards Barry, seeing that he was still in his costume, it didn't make sense to her why she was even wearing that.
"Why are you wearing your mask? Snart already knows who you are."
"And I promised I wouldn't tell anyone." Snart came into the conversation, turning to his sister. "That includes my sister."
Lisa showed a dark sneer on her lips, but also a hint of playful as well.
"Jerk."
"Trainwreck." He said slowly, then looked towards Joe, seeing his defiant face. "Don't look so surprised, Detective. I am a man of my word."
"That's a bit of a lie, isn't it?"
Everyone jumped at the voice, Matt came around the corner.
Caitlin was relieved to see him, she didn't know where he went.
His eyes went between Snart, and Lisa, and smiled at the pair.
"Hello again, it's been a while, Lisa."
Snart's eyes snapped at him angrily, while Lisa showed a slightly bashful look. Caitlin blinked rapidly at that, some jealously filling her body.
"My, oh my, blondie's back, is he?"
Matt nodded, moving closer.
"Nice to see you." His different coloured eyes went over the others. "Flash, seems like you've made a mistake, you've let an enemy into your playpen. For what reason, may I ask?"
Barry felt unnerved when Matt looked at him. His eyes just looked frightening honestly, he didn't like it at all.
"Because we need help, and Snart is one that can stop anyone that could help if something happens to us."
"God, you're such a pill aren't you?" Barry's eyes widened, Matt showing a slightly sheepish smile. "Sorry, still adjusting to all of this. Trying to find the right balance here." Matt's eyes went towards Snart, and Lisa, smiling. "I can hear you, speaking rather loudly in your heads, about how you're going to be able to get off with this, and make your little, Rogue's. You've done yourself a treat, you've saved yourself the time of getting rid of your fingerprints and such, that's a good move to make. But you can't fool me, I can hear your mind screaming into my own mind. Now, I suggest you leaving, before I throw you out."
Joe looked at Matt's eyes, having been told what happened by the others, Eliza being rather close to all of this, having told him and the others.
"S-So, he's really planning to betray us all?"
"Yes, Joe. He is. After all, he's a criminal, when he sees the best advantage, that's what he loves, and now, he is using it to his advantage. Right Snart?" Matt's eyes went towards him, showing a rather splendid smile. "Don't worry Joe, I'm not gonna hurt you, or control you either." Joe breathed out, Matt smiling and turned back to the young man and woman. "Now, please leave, before I become heavy handed, and you wouldn't like me to become heavy handed."
Snart began laughing, pulled out his gun and held it towards Matt. Matt seemed unfazed by it all.
"Well, this is a pickle, a mind reader. Damn it, the jigs up sis, we've got to go. Though this would be the perfect chance to get a head's up, Flash's done what I need him to do, that's the best thing we could hope for. Though maybe I should just kill you instead?"
Matt blinked as the others gasped, looking on worried.
"Am I supposed to be scared or something?"
"Confident, aren't you?"
Matt chuckled slightly, people beginning to see the difference between normal Matt, and this hybrid, Matt's eyes glowing red and blue.
"Very confident Snart. By the way, thanks for being so close."
From his eyes, a blast erupted forth. Leonard dodged to the side just in time before it hit him, shooting his ice right at Matt.
Matt placed his hand forward, blocking the ice. The ice wrapped around Matt's barrier, freezing it solid, but then Matt just thrusts his hands forward, breaking the ice.
Snart fell down to the ground from the shockwave of the blast, Matt then moving closer to his target, his eyes glowing red and blue. Moving closer, Lisa aimed her gun at Matt's head, having crossed the distance, but with one reversal, he grabbed the gun, and held her to the wall, she gasped when he did.
"Really? What you going to do? Gold me up? Show me some bling are we?" Lisa's eyes sharpened in on his own, but he didn't even seem to care, letting her go. "Now, leave, your services are no longer required. You got what you wanted Snart, you can leave now, and if you do it while being good boys and girls, you wont be punished. I'd take that if I was you people. Or, I could just mind control you and then that would be interesting, huh."
Snart stood up, Lisa going to his side.
Barry moved closer.
"Snart, why were you going to do that? I thought we had a deal? After everything, I thought that we had a deal here."
"Hmmmm, because I wanted to. As the multi-eyes here said, any chance, and I am going to take it. That's how it is. But you did me a favour, I'll do you a solid and leave. Next time, you owe me a favour again."
"How does that work?"
Barry demanded, but Snart just snickered.
"Because it does. Come on sis, lets get going."
Lisa pouted, but turned to Cisco.
"Too bad Cisco, I was hoping to have some more fun."
Bette's eyes narrowed in jealousy.
"Well, he doesn't need your fun, Golden Glider!"
Cisco looked at Bette, Bette showing a small smile.
"Cool name, I was just thinking that."
"But, I said it."
Lisa knew when she wasn't wanted, so she bowed her head, and made her way to the exit.
"We're seriously not letting them walk out of here, are we!?" Joe raised his gun, pointing it at them both. "Don't move, or I'll-"
"Shoot?"
Snart added, shooting his own gun at Joe, and Lisa shot her own gun at Cisco and Bette. Barry rushed towards Joe, using his speed to knock Joe out of the way, but received the blast of cold at the same time.
Matt raised a barrier to block the shot of Lisa, the gold substance, solidifying the barrier with the golden substance, and when Matt turned to deal with the enemy, they were already gone, so Matt clicked his fingers, breaking the golden stuff off the shield.
"Seems like we can't trust anyone for this."
Jean breathed out her annoyance, but Matt looked towards her gently.
"Don't worry dear sister, you shouldn't count out big bro just yet."
Jean didn't know what that meant, but Matt just smiled.
Caitlin moved closer to Matt, and hugged around his torso, he hugged her back.
"Where did you go? After our...passion, you just left."
"Sorry for the sudden disappearance, you looked adorable when you were sleeping and I didn't want to wake you up. So, I just slipped out of bed, sorry for leaving, I'll make it up to you later on." He breathed out, then looked at the others. "I'm sure everyone has questi-"
"Am I going to die!?" Cisco cried out, rushing Matt, but stopped when his eyes shot at him. "I-I mean, Mentalist, said that I was going to die...p-please combined Matt, please tell me, am I going to die? Is this thing going to kill me? Please..."
Even Hartley had to roll his eyes at this one, he didn't know what to say as a response.
Matt rolled his eyes.
"No, you're not going to die."
Cisco cried tears of relief.
"Ooh thank God for that..."
Bette patted his back gently, slowly, and tried his best to keep him calm.
"Either way, we've wasted enough time for that."
"Who did you call anyway?"
Matt smirked at Barry.
"I called Bruce Wayne, I heard he's a little batty~" Chuckling out, the others just looked at him, lost, so the boy sighed. "Alright, keep calm, I've got someone else here." Matt put his head back. "Please come inside~"
The others watched on as Ra's and Nyssa walked around the corner, Ronnie's finger going outwards.
"Y-You stay away from me!"
Ronnie accusingly pointed at Ra's who looked back without a care in the world.
"You, are still alive. That's, fascinating."
Ronnie looked towards Jean, who smiled weakly back.
"I don't know what to say to that, he's very scary."
"Don't say things like that..."
Ronnie wished that she did know what was going to happen. As the last time Ra's was around, he had his eyes on killing Ronnie. This time, he didn't know what was going to happen honestly, that's how it was.
"Nyssa, it's been a long time! You're actually here, I'm so happy to see you again!"
Jean cheered, looking towards Nyssa. Nyssa turned her gaze towards Jean, and smiled softly.
"Sister, it has been a long time as well, you've grown more beautiful."
Jean bashfully played with her hair and then hugged Nyssa who hugged her back, while Matt heard from Cisco's thoughts "Jean can even pull women." making Matt wish he didn't have that power at that moment.
Joe didn't really know what was going on, but Barry looked at them with widened eyes, he knew some of what was going on and knew what this was as well, it was a very scary presence in the world that they were in right now.
"N-No, wait...this can't be happening at all...y-you actually brought the head of the League of Assassins here, to...what exactly? What's going to happen now?"
Matt looked towards Barry quizzingly.
"You were going to have a criminal help you, I don't see the difference, besides I can trust in Ra's and Nyssa more than Snart or Lisa, they'll be able to help us out. They are trained assassins, and-"
"Trained what now?"
Joe demanded, but Matt waved his hand.
"It doesn't matter. Lets just say that they can help us out if something is to happen."
"So, that's where you went." Caitlin began, holding onto Matt gently. "You went to recruit Ra's al Ghul...makes sense really. Yeah, I can see why you did Matthew, that's pretty ingenious of you actually."
"Well, thank you my love. I do have some cool thoughts sometimes." He turned his eyes towards the others. "So, lets get on with this thing, we have things that we need to do, and I think that means, we can get ready and such for the fights ahead."
"He's right, clearly it is time for Rachael's life to depart this world, and I do believe we could deliver swift justice to them, for all of us."
Nyssa said it with a justice look in her eyes.
"So...nice to meet you head of a ninja clan…?"
Cisco bravely said, but Ra's just looked at him oddly.
"Are you speaking to me, young long haired one?"
Cisco backed away with a whine.
"So, Cisco, got a ride for us?"
Cisco nodded his head at Barry, and they followed him outside.
Getting outside, they saw a large truck, with several compartments together. Matt nodded his head, and he looked towards Cisco, who smiled weakly back, he didn't even know what he was going to do right now for all of this.
"This is cool. Where'd you get this?"
Barry asked, only for Cisco to wear a bright grin on his face.
"My uncle owns it. His company hauls frozen food cross country."
Hartley then moved closer, and came into the conversation.
"Okay, so with Cisco's assistance, I retrofitted the cooling system with the wheelchair's power source to create an energy damper."
"Which means what, exactly?"
Jean questioned carefully, Matt smirking as he answered himself.
"Basically, the back of this rig is being flooded with so much power that it's effectively creating a transient pulse strong enough to disrupt the Metahuman's powers, so we can get them to the airport and get them on a plane without them getting fresh on us."
Cisco pouted, as he was going to say that, guessing that Matt read his mind for him to be able to do something like that. Ronnie walked closer to the van, and ran his hand across it.
"Technically, we need somebody with a Class A commercial driver's license to drive this, though."
"I can drive it." Ra's spoke swiftly, surprising the others around. "What? I have a Class A CDL."
"You do?"
Ronnie was intrigued, but Ra's just narrowed his eyes.
"I've killed someone that had one at least, I'm sure, I can handle this beast myself."
Ronnie's eyes dropped down to the ground with fear.
Matt looked towards Caitlin and placed a hand on her face.
"While we're doing this, I've asked Stein and Ronnie to stay here, and watch over S.T.A.R Labs, and Eliza as well, since she's working on a program and her hacking skills so she can get into Rachael's swords tech, and shut it down in case something happens. And I'd like you to stay here as well, so if something does go wrong, you don't become hurt."
"Matthew, that's..."
"We all have a part to play here, and this is important too. I also need you to do something for me as well my love."
Caitlin tipped her head to the side.
"What Matthew?"
"Mason Bridges power, with his eyes shooting those paralyzing beams, we need some form of drug to ward that off, to fix us in case. I know you've been working on it, and Cisco's having getting ready for different people and aiding Eliza."
"Other words, you're benching me."
Matt chuckled, his fingers running across her cheek.
"Yeah, for now, I'm benching you. But for a good purpose. To protect you."
"Okay my love, for you, I will. But not when facing Rachael, hear me?"
"I know, everyone's got a role here, and this is yours. Don't worry about us, we've got Jean, myself, Barry, Ra's, Hartley, along with Joe going to transport them. Nyssa will stay here and help protect you guys with Frankie as well. This is for the best, we need to be prepared after all. Barry and I talked about it as we walked here, and thought this would be for the best."
Caitlin silently pressed her lips against his own lips, and held onto him.
"Be safe my love. Come back to me soon, and I'll have that drug ready."
"Thank you, my love. I'll be back soon. And then when I come back..." Matt whispered in her ear, her arms running across his back. "...how about that for us my love? Doesn't that sound good? Sounds good to me."
Caitlin couldn't agree more, and nodded her head.
"Love you."
"Love you too."
Caitlin and Matt pressed their lips against one another's again and again, entangling with one another's love. When breaking the kiss, the pair smiled at the other, and showed how much in love they really were with such a thing.
A small time later, while everyone was preparing for the fight ahead, Frankie looked on as Matt played with a pen. He floated it into the air, and looked childlike as he played with it. She didn't know if it was because of the fact he was doing that, or something else entirely, but he knew something was going on about that.
As she watched, Ra's al Ghul walked closer to her, and sat down beside her.
She gave him a small smile as he looked down at her.
"Hey, Ra's...can I call you that?"
"Call me what you wish, child. Since you're Matthew's child, I do not mind what you decide to call me."
"Then, Ra's, thank you for coming here and helping us."
"I'm helping my boy, I do not care about the Metahuman's. If they died or not, it wouldn't matter to me." Frankie expected an answer like that. But then he saw a look on Frankie's face. "What is wrong, child?"
Frankie's face fell down slightly.
"...Dad's benching me for this fight."
"I see, what did he say?"
"Well, he told me to stay here, and look after S.T.A.R Labs, so basically benching me."
Frankie's eyes fluttered sadly, but Ra's hand placed on the top of her head.
"No, I do not believe the word is 'benching' as how I see it, he's leaving this establishment in your capable hands. We can't leave it to that Ronald Raymond, he's...well, my feelings on him are complex, he reminds me too much of Mr Queen."
"I've noticed that too, I think they're cousins secretly."
Ra's showed a rare chuckle (at least what could be considered for Ra's).
"Yes, it wouldn't be out of the realms of impossibility." Frankie snickered. "However, back to the point before, he wouldn't say for you to look after this place if he didn't believe in your capabilities. He's asking you to watch over his woman, that Caitlin Snow, that idiot Ronald, that old scientist man, my own daughter, and that long haired man who seems to be spouting out references I do not understand."
"That's Cisco for you, he's like the King of it, any situation, he's got the reference, old and new." Frankie bequeathed Ra's with a smile. "Ra's...do you think Dad's really trusting me?"
"Yes, he believes in your capabilities, do not worry young Frankie. He wouldn't ask you if he didn't think you're capable."
"...Like you think Oliver's capable of being Ra's al Ghul?"
"Do you, not like Mr Queen?"
Frankie shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, he can be kind of douche like, but he's alright half the time."
Ra's allowed his head to rise ever so slightly.
"He's my only choice right now, even if he is, as you say, douche like. If my boy was remotely interested, then I would simply have Ra's al Ghul's title be passed onto him. However, I wont force anything onto that boy, he's already lived a life like that, I wont add to his suffering." Matt's ears perked, and he listened in while pretending not too. "No, my only choice left is Mr Queen, unless you want to take up the title dear Frankie?"
"M-Me? Ra's al Ghul? Well, I could always do with an army..."
"Haha, giving a teenager an army, the world would crumble."
Frankie giggled awkwardly.
"W-Well, even then...say, you know my Dad pretty well, right? It's just, you and he are...opposites, I find it hard to believe you'd actually even get on."
"Yes, I would say that...actually, truthfully, before I met him, I wouldn't of cared about his feelings. Even if he didn't want it, I'd have forced him to do it because, he is the most skilled, and he's been trained by me for years, and now, he's got superhuman powers. However, when I met that child, all those years ago, he looked up at me, and I saw...resolve."
"Resolve...?"
Ra's nodded, and continued, as Matt smiled slightly.
"Yes, the resolve to life, and to win. But, I also saw a pure heart. I, couldn't understand it, me and your father, we grew up, living a life where we went through hell, but while I was losing my humanity, he seemed to keep his intact. I knew when he first came to the League, he wouldn't be the typical League member, but his fighting skills, undeniable, he truly shined on the battlefield. I hadn't seen such talent in a long time, and we'd, talk at night. At first, as he was grieving his elder brother, we'd talk, and somehow, I found myself listening intently to this child's stories. I particularly like the one where he threatened to kill his father if he ever came near Jean or him again, that thrilled me. He challenged my existence, he was everything I wasn't. He was kind, he was a man with the skills to end a life, but never did, and yet, was so effective, and got the job done. He was my most skilled warrior, and it truly pains me that he doesn't wish to take the title. Though, in my eyes, even if Mr Queen takes the title, the true heir is Matthew Lee Stone. And to answer your question, we are different, but those differences, even with just him and his sister, which now extends to you, I have taken a liking to you all, and I wont allow any harm to come to you all. Something about that boy, gave me a change, I might even be called a hypocrite, but that's how I feel. Though I feel the same to others as normal. Even Nyssa. It's hard to explain and I will be departing this life soon, and I wouldn't want to bring pain onto the boy, but this is how it has to be."
"Ra's..."
"It is the way that this life has to work, dear child."
"No...knowing my Dad, he wont let you die."
Ra's gave a challenging stare to Frankie.
"I see, you think that's the case?"
"I know it is, he'll stop you from dying, and knowing Dad, he'll give you a new life, and make sure that somehow, the League would be satisfied that you're 'gone' but still alive as a different person. Wouldn't you, want that? If Oliver takes over, you could start anew, Dad could do that for you? He could place you anywhere in the world, with a new name, and everything, and he could even erase your memories if you'd like? I just...I kind of like you as well, so I want you to stay around. And I know Dad doesn't want you to die. He can make sure that there would be no worries from anyone else."
Listening to the young girls words, Ra's tilted his head.
"You're, my sons child...which in turn makes me your grandfather, by proxy, as I consider Matthew my child."
"G-Grandfather, I've never had one of them before..."
"Then, for this short time, you can think of me as such, though only because you are my sons child, if you weren't, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Though you interest me too, I see the same fighting spirit, I could have trained you to be just as great as your father is."
Frankie placed a hand on her slightly glowing face, and thought about what Ra's said.
However, just then, Matt shot up.
"Damn it!"
"Dad, what's wrong?"
Matt flew out the room before he could answer, so Frankie rushed after him.
By the time she made it, she saw that he was looking around the van and the place it was in.
"Dad, something wrong?"
"Hmmmm, I feel like Lenard Snart was here, but I don't know what he could have done."
Frankie looked around but couldn't see anyone.
"He's gone now, Dad. Maybe he was trying to attack us, but when you came, he ran off?"
Frankie suggested, Matt nodding his head.
"I suppose you're right. Damn guy can't even take no for an answer huh."
Frankie wholeheartedly agreed, but Matt felt complicated right now.
Though at that moment, his phone rang, so he looked down towards it, then answered it with a chuckle.
"Hey, FeFe what's happening?"
[Hey, Matt...yeah, sorry to call out of the blue, but there's some bad things going on here right now, and I am not sure I can handle it. I know you're kind of busy, but if we need help, could we call upon you?]
"Sure, tell me what's going on Fefe."
Matt looked towards Frankie who gave him a curious look. While he spoke to Felicity, Jean entered the room and walked closer.
Once he was done, he snickered.
"Sure, I can do that for you FeFe. Contact either me, or my sister Jean, you've got the number. If we don't hear from you in a few hours, we'll assume the worst, and come."
[Thank you, I mean it, I owe you one. And good luck with what you're doing.]
"Seems like you do. Yes, good luck to your gang as well. Goodbye." Matt put the phone down and chuckled as Jean and Frankie looked at him. "Yeah, seems like, something's going on with Team Arrow."
"What's that bro?"
Jean curiously asked, so Matt smiled.
"Well, seems FeFe and the rest are in a bit of a bind..."
He then went onto explain what's happening with them as the pair listened curiously.
Later on, everyone was getting ready for the fight. Ra's went into the truck, Hartley standing nearby. Matt landed on top of the truck, and looked overhead, while Joe, Bette and Jean went into a car that was nearby. Barry stood on and watched the people being gassed, and placed into the back of the truck.
Hartley went over the device in his hands, and quickly looked through it. Once seeing the 100 percent, he looked at the others.
"Dampeners are fully functional."
Barry inclined his head, looking at the others. He looked towards Matt, who nodded right back down towards him. They shared a small look, and then Barry got into a running position, ready to run as fast as they could.
"All right. I'll make sure the roads are clear. Do not stop for anything."
Barry ordered, while the dark half of Matt just made him roll his eyes.
"Let's move out." Matt called from the top of the truck, Hartley getting in said truck next to Ra's who gave him a curious look, frightening Hartley. "Let's go, Flash."
Nodding, Barry went running out first, and through the city, Joe went on his car next, and finally Matt felt the truck move by itself, or rather, Ra's was the one who did it.
Matt smiled, and looked on...however, he stopped when he felt Caitlin from behind, in the depo, and gave her a gentle smile.
"Don't worry Cait, I'll be back soon. I love you."
He telepathically communicated, making Caitlin smile, and think "I love you too." which he picked up thanks to his telepathy, then he saw Frankie, starting and finishing the same conversation with her as well, Matt smiling at the sight.
Driving through the city, Matt heard "Hey, we got traffic up ahead." from Joe, and Barry went to take care of it. He put out roadblocks, allowing the truck to drive without a worry in the world at all, and it made Matt smile that they came together like this.
He then placed a hand on his ear, contacting Hartley.
"How's our cargo doing?"
[All quiet so far.]
"Good, good."
Matt looked behind him at the truck, and felt, something off. He didn't know how or why, but he felt, off about something. Ra's hadn't done anything, he'd know. But when he thought of Snart, he felt like he could do something.
Matt watched on and on for any signs of trouble. But even then, he felt something off that was going on.
Once arriving, Ra's pulled into the area, and Matt hopped off the top of the truck, landing on the ground. Joe, Bette, and Jean got out of the car, and walked closer to the van, standing nearby Matt, Hartley doing the same thing.
"Ferris Air? I thought this place got shut down."
Joe spoke up, looking towards Barry for answers.
"It did. One of their test pilots disappeared."
"So what's the plan? I want to get this over with."
Joe defiantly said, Matt rolling his eyes due to his dark half interfering with his personality.
"It should be here any minute." Barry answered, looking towards Joe who didn't look pleased. "Look, Joe, I know you don't agree with this-"
"Save it, Barr. I just want to get it done."
Joe moved to the side, as Matt snickered "Look who's on his period~" making Ra's face curl upwards slightly, Jean biting her lower lip, and then Bette snickered slightly, Hartley humming to himself about all of this.
"Either way, I hope the plane arrives soon, I have a bad feeling about this."
Hartley expressed his concerns, and Matt could understand.
"We don't have to wait for long. Once this is done, I can get through all of this, and we can do this together. Though the inner Mentalist in me is saying that if Ronnie tries it on with Caitlin, I might not be so happy about it..."
Jean giggled awkwardly.
"I think that having them there is the best decision, we can't have everyone be hurt now. And we need to prepare for the bigger fight at hand and poor Professor, I think he might be going through an ordeal with everything going on, he might have a heart attack."
"Don't sound so blasé about that, he might actually have a heart attack."
Jean giggled at Bette, then Bette turned her head towards Matt.
She looked at his eyes, and he just looked normal as always.
"So, my boy, it seems you've moved up and up in this world. Even dealing with Metahuman's, to ship them off to Lian Yu, maybe I should send Nyssa there if she disobey's me again..."
"Ra's, about Nyssa. Don't be too harsh on her, she's dealing with a lot, and I know, she shouldn't have tried to assassinate you, she's just scared. Marrying Oliver, it must be a terrible time for her, considering she's not in love with him whatsoever."
Ra's nodded slowly.
"Always as kind hearted as you always where. Though in this truck, who has what abilities? Not that I have an interest in acquiring them, as I don't see the reason to, just in case, something where to happen."
"Ooh right, yeah. There's a guy that can control the weather, one can turn into gas, and someone can fire lasers from their eyes, and another one can use his powers to make people very angry, which is quite destructive. I think that's it. Yeah, that's it."
"I see, some formidable powers, though some seem, quite useless. Making people angry, that doesn't seem to be that good of a power. I would prefer your own powers my boy, even more than the speedster there, yours seems to be rather interesting."
"I like my powers anyway, when they aren't trying to kill me."
Matt snickered out, Ra's looking around carefully.
"Your ARGUS friends aren't very prompt."
Ra's statement was directed more at Barry than it was at the others. Matt looked around and he felt something wasn't right. He felt, something was approaching, but the distance was hard to tell what it was just yet.
"You're not wrong."
Matt murmured right back towards him, waiting for whatever was going to come by.
Meanwhile, back at S.T.A.R Labs, the others were waiting for the good news, while they were all making what they needed to make. Ronnie watched Caitlin make some antidote, or something of the effect, he wasn't truly sure what it was what she was working on. But she did know that she had to do something to keep herself busy.
"Don't worry about Matt, he's strong. I mean, I've seen that guy in action, he took down a freaking kung-fu master, while he had just recovered from giving you surgery and nearly being burned out for what had happened."
Caitlin looked towards Ronnie, and smiled gently.
"I know, Matthew is going to be okay. I just, feel a little worried, is all. But even then, I still know that I am going to be okay...I know he's going to be okay." Her eyes went towards Ronnie, and saw his expression. "So. What's going on with you and Jean? How is that anyway?"
"Aah yeah, Jean's great, she's awesome, funny. We have something, special. Like we once did."
"Ronnie..."
"I know, don't worry, you love Matt, and I love Jean, that's all there is too it. It's just, I'm glad that we are able to speak like this, after everything that happened. With you, and myself, just being able to be friends like this, it is always better than fighting, right?"
"Of course, I just need to get my boyfriend back now...wow, it's been a long journey this year...did you know, Matthew and I are going to be married?"
"He proposed to you!?"
Caitlin slapped herself in the head when he yelled that a little too loudly.
"N-No, he and I...well, one day I'd like him to yeah, but right now, no. But we have a good relationship with one another, I'm proud to be his girlfriend, and I'm glad you found Jean, you and her seem so tight together."
Ronnie slowly nodded his head.
"Yeah, we are. I do love her."
"Have you told her that yet?"
Ronnie showed a sheepish look to his face, and didn't know how to respond.
"Well, not in so many words. I'm just waiting for the perfect time."
"Well, don't wait too long, or you could end up like how myself and Matthew almost did. That, was a hard time to deal with honestly, but he still is here, with me, fighting with me, and comforting me, and I also protect him as well, that's how it is honestly."
Ronnie slowly nodded, as Frankie came into the labs. She looked between Ronnie and Caitlin, and then turned towards Caitlin.
"Eliza said she's close to getting the program for the sword that Rachael has, but she'll still need to be close to use it on the device that she's got. She said it was rather complicated, and hard to deploy, so she's going to have to be there...she seems to feel guilty, about what happened with Rachael, and I think she wants to atone for that, even though no one here blames her."
Caitlin placed a hand on her shoulder, and gently smiled towards her.
"Don't worry Frankie, Eliza is just worried is all. She's trying her best to keep it together. She had been kidnapped, so she had been through a lot."
Frankie smiled, but looked worried at the same time.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Even then, I'm ready to fight when we get to it. I know that I am going to fight with my Dad, and kick some butt, no way that I am going to lose to someone like Rachael, ever again. She's going to be beaten by me."
Caitlin smiled at the strength that she had inside of her.
"Frankie...I'm so proud of you, and your strength. But remember, you can't be hurt, we'll have to keep one another safe for now, alright? That's all we can do at this point."
Caitlin breathed out, making Frankie think about what she was saying and could understand what she meant as well.
"Yeah, you're right. Even then, I wished that we had gone together, since I'm worried Dad is going through something right now. Even with his Mentalist powers added onto his normal ones, doesn't make me stop worrying."
"Hehe, me neither sweetheart, I'm worried for your Dad and the others as well. Though all we can do fight now is fight and get what we want from the others. That's all we can do right now, we've got get everything ready, for when they come back, we're going to be attacked by Rachael, and that's never good...stupid woman, I really wish I had Metahuman powers, I'd freeze her right away."
"Why would you think that you'd have ice powers?"
Caitlin showed a daring smile.
"Because I'm Killer Frost, naturally."
Ronnie didn't know what that meant, but Frankie began giggling a little bit.
"It's true, she's Killer Frost."
Ronnie looked lost in all of this, he didn't even know what to think right now.
"What the heck is a Killer Frost exactly?"
"It's a Frost that kills. Hence Killer Frost."
Caitlin answered with a slight grin on her lips.
But, then alarms began going off. Caitlin, Ronnie, and Frankie rushed to the opening of the Cortex, seeing Cisco panicking a little bit. His eyes ran over the console, and saw that at the gates, there were some Metahuman's, and in this case, Rachael's Metahuman's.
Nyssa stood on by, looking between all of them, and then her eyes went towards the others around.
"Seems like the others thought true. That they would send Metahuman's here to fight us."
Nyssa breathed out, Eliza looking on with mystery in her eyes.
"I don't know if I like this, we can't fight all of them together."
"We can, do not worry scientist woman."
Nyssa calmed the young woman, even though she didn't feel much better right now, she felt terrible right now actually.
"Damn it, Fred is here, along with Hydro Hunter, and Top as well!"
Cisco announced with some fear, but Frankie already walked towards the door.
"Frankie, what are you doing?"
"Fighting, like my Dad would."
Nyssa raised her bow and arrow.
"Then I shall aid you as well, Frankie, daughter of my brother."
Stein looked towards Ronnie, who nodded his head.
"I'm ready when you are Ronald."
Ronnie showed a disapproving look.
"Don't call me that."
Even though saying that, they clasped hands together, and they merged. Going into the sky, they moved forward, and walked out as well. Caitlin watched as they walked out, knowing that right now, she might be more of a burden than anything so she hung back, and stayed with the others so they could get on with it.
Walking to the door, Frankie watched as the door was busted down, revealing a charging Fred already. She gasped, as Ronnie stood his hand out, firing off a volley of flames. However, Fred tanked all of the flames like they were nothing.
"Coming through slim!"
Fred roared out, so Frankie took to the air with her metal control over the clothing and such she had on, and so did Ronnie, avoiding the charging man. His body went towards Nyssa, as she shot arrows for his body.
But like Matt's power had done a while ago, the arrows bounced off him, surprising Nyssa a little bit.
"Nyssa!"
Frankie flew towards her, lifting her up, and avoided the charging Fred at the same time. Fred smashed into a wall, as Hydro Hunter shot a stream of water at Ronnie, knocking him down onto the ground.
"Heh, seems like that I have a little fun here to do. To fight against all of you is going to be fun. I wonder who's fluids I can drain first off, right?"
Hydro Hunter swirled his palms, and water danced around his palm. Ronnie got off the ground, flames in his hands, and shot them at Hydro Hunter, but he dodged to the side, and the water guy followed him with the water, a high powered stream of the water followed suit.
Since water of this calibre was hard to fight, Ronnie flew around the area, and avoided it the best he could.
At the same time, Nyssa landed on the ground, and Frankie said "I'll deal with Blob Aunt Nyssa, please fight Top!" before Frankie rushed towards Blob, throwing all of the metal things that were around, and Nyssa turned towards Top, who smiled out happily.
"Yes, it seems like this is bound to happen really. I face the weak Metahuman."
"Weak? What makes you think that I am weak exactly?"
Top countered, only for Nyssa to pull out her bow and arrow, aiming true at the enemy. Top was surprised, and then ran to the side. Nyssa followed her with the arrow, and shot one off at her. Top jumped, but the arrow scratched her arm, making her cry out.
"That's why you're weak. No fighting skills, and no ability to fight me either."
Nyssa walked forward, Top taking out a gun. Nyssa didn't even blink, Top shooting her gun at her. Nyssa cartwheeled to the side, avoiding the bullet, Top's eyes becoming more enraged by the second, and followed after her with the gun.
"Just stay still already! Don't run away from me!"
Top continued firing the bullets towards her, but Nyssa's agility was more than Top could handle.
"As I said, you're not going to be able to beat me like this. Even a mere gun cannot handle someone like myself."
Soon, she ran out of bullets, allowing Nyssa to take aim once again, firing the arrow right into Top's thigh, making her cry out. Nyssa moved closer towards Top, and hovered above her with an arrow pointed downwards.
Top looked up at her, and caught her eyes.
"Spin, spin, spin."
As soon as Top said that, Nyssa's world began moving around.
"W-What kind of witchcraft is this!?"
Nyssa staggered to the side, Top standing up, and punched Nyssa in the face. Nyssa felt even more dizzy as she span around, only for Top to move closer, grab Nyssa by the back of the head, and pulled her towards Top, punching her in the back.
"This is my supposedly lame Metahuman power. Now don't get in the way, and allow me to defeat you alright, alright? That's all we want to do now, that's all we can do now."
Nyssa spun for her, hearing her voice, swinging her arm out. Top cried out, and fell backwards, but avoided the punch. Nyssa's world still span, but Top didn't care, kicking Nyssa in the leg, bringing her downwards.
"You wont beat me forever witch."
Nyssa growled out, as Top stood up, and delivered a mediocre punch to the young woman's face. Nyssa spat out some blood from the punch, and her world continued to spin, as Top walked over to the side.
"That's what you think, is it?"
Nyssa heard her voice, standing up, and looked around carefully.
Top continued going around her, grabbing the arrow out of her thigh. She winced at the pain, but she still was able to move.
"You know, I'm kind of sick of being referred to as weak. Not only has that bastard blonde taken me out, but others in Rachael's group see me as weak, and I am no way weaker than anyone else there, I have amazing powers and I am sure that you will see that too."
Nyssa picked up her voice, slowly turning to her voice, and withdrew a dagger.
"Rachael is a loser, and you'll see that soon. You're on a losing team, and when she is defeated, as do not mistake yourself, she is going to be defeated, you will not be able to see past all of this, and you'll be the one on the chopping block. She's using you, and you'll soon see that."
Top's eyes became narrower with rage filling her being.
"Don't even say that! Rachael is going to take care of me, now that my Sam is...even then, I wont lose to anyone around here, you're all going to be the ones that end today. And I heard you were a member of some fancy hit squad, how cute is tha-" Nyssa found her with her voice, stabbing her in the shoulder. "Iyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Nyssa twisted the knife, then headbutted Top, all while dizzy, and then got on top of her, pinning her down to the ground. Despite her vision, she was able to make out the arrow in Tops hand, so she grabbed it, and threw it to the side, avoiding everything that was going on.
"You talk too much."
Nyssa slammed her palm into Top's face, and knocked her out. Nyssa still felt her world shaking though, so she stayed there, and waited for the others to finish.
As it happened, Ronnie flew around the wide open area, avoiding shots from Hydro Hunter.
"You wont escape me, you know?!"
Hydro Hunter was confident, shooting all over the place with his water. But Ronnie avoided them quite easily. The flames around his hands, shot towards Hydro Hunter. Ronnie thought the flames were going to work, but then Hydro Hunter erected a barrier of water around himself, cancelling it out all together.
"It's not working!"
Ronnie growled out, as he heard Martin's voice.
"Calm yourself Ronald, getting worked up isn't going to do anyone any good."
Hydro Hunter tightened his hands, and punched forward. The water around turned to fists, and slammed against Ronnie. It sent him towards the wall, in a spinning motion, but Ronnie twirled around, and his feet touched the wall.
"I have to defeat this guy, fast! I have to finish him off, before anything else happens! Everyone left me in charge here to protect everyone, if I can't do this much, then I wont be able to look at the others again!"
Ronnie bounced off the wall, and shot forward.
"Is this supposed to be the decider between us? If it is, then I am not going to lose to you! First you, then I'm coming for Matt!"
Hydro Hunter channelled water to the bottom of his feet, shooting upwards strongly. Like a jet, he slammed against Ronnie, who tried to move, but he was too fast, and Ronnie went into the air, smashing through the roof.
Ronnie felt pain ripple through him, but stopped mid-air, flames around his palms. Hydro Hunter flew onto the roof thanks to his water abilities, and stood on it, glaring menacingly upwards towards the flying fireman.
"So, what are you going to do huh? Are you going to really going to fight me again? My water beats your fire, so don't even try anything like that with me. You know something like that, don't you? I wont lose to you."
The enemy danced water in his palms, making sharp blades of them. Through the sky, he shot them towards Ronnie. Knowing that they could be damaging, he flew around the area, avoiding everyone of the blades, and sent his flames outwards, colliding with the water blades, and melted them out of existence.
However, he was fast with the flames, and Ronnie could hardly get out of the daggers. When one sliced his arm, he felt pain ripple through him, and he knew that he wouldn't be able to contain any of this anymore.
"Professor, I can't keep up with him, those blades are too fast!"
Ronnie yelled out angrily, condensing flames in his palm, and made it stronger than normal ones. The flames span around in his palm, then threw it at the enemy, Hydro Hunter was surprised by the speed.
"Damn it!"
Hydro Hunter dodged to the side, the flames blowing away part of the roof, and felt the entire roof shaking. Ronnie saw this chance to once more launch a flaming orb right towards the young water master.
"Try that!"
Ronnie cheered, but it was premature, as Hydro Hunter whipped his hand forward, dispelling the flames with the water around him. Then in the same movement, he sent the remaining water towards Ronnie.
"Aaha!"
Ronnie put all the flames he could into his hands, and shot away from the incoming water. But it followed after him. Ronnie flew all the way around the area, avoiding the bursts of water that he could.
Then, he came back around, and flew towards Hydro Hunter. Hydro Hunter just smirked at the sight, and dispelled his water, then reached out for Ronnie. Ronnie knew what he would be able to do, so he backed away, steadying himself in the air.
"Professor...what do I do…?"
Ronnie whispered, as Hydro Hunter just smirked, he seemed content with just watching what was going on.
"Ronald, I have an idea, get close to him."
"What would that do? Cisco told me that this guy can absorb moisture from close by. If he touches us, we're goners."
"Yes, I had heard this as well. However, during that time, he'll be weakened as well. Follow what I'm saying Ronald, we don't have time for this, we need to beat this guy, as you said, for Miss Stone's, and others sakes."
He went fast for Hydro Hunter, and extended his open palm, a burst of flames erupting from his hand. Hydro Hunter surrounded himself in water, blocking the flames, but cancelled it out at the same time.
Ronnie took this chance to punch him in the face, knocking him down towards the ground. Ronnie got above him, to blast him, but Hydro Hunter grabbed his hand, and began absorbing the moisture out of his body.
"W-What the hell…"
Ronnie's skin felt dryer than it should. He could feel his lips cracking and his skin becoming without moisture. It was a terrible feeling, and he felt like if this continued, then he was going to be killed by this kind of attack.
"That's right, you're going to be bone dry by the time I'm done with you. You made a mistake, you thought you could beat me from close by, but that's not going to get you anything honestly. You're weak, pathetic, and useless. You're going to die here, a nothing, and a nobody."
Ronnie thought about that and listened intently.
Everything he said, were something's that Ronnie worried about.
Ronnie's hand however gathered a lot of flames. The flames swirled, and ebbed around his fist, and Hydro Hunter looked on, and pulled his hand away, but Ronnie grabbed him with one of his hands, holding him closer, and closer.
"Try this!"
Ronnie slammed his fiery fist right into his man's chest, blowing him through the bottom of the roof, smashing against the ground. The flames he used, burned the man harshly, and it appeared all over his body.
Ronnie panted, looking down and smiled, seeing Hydro Hunter knocked out.
Meanwhile, Frankie was dealing with Fred, but she was having a hard time. Since he was a large man with super strength and other things that made him a rather tanky person, she of course had trouble dealing with him.
"Come on little girl, face me seriously!"
Frankie levitated a nearby vent, and thrusted it towards the young man, slamming against him. But the vent just bounced off him like nothing, and she charged towards her like she was someone that could be killed.
Frankie took to the sky, and flew outside. Since she needed more metal, she had to go somewhere. She looked around, as Fred picked up a car.
"Die!"
Fred threw the car at her, but Frankie controlled the car, and sent it right back at him. Slamming against his face, he was slightly pushed back, but not by enough, and grimaced at the sight, landing on the ground so she didn't waste her powers.
"I wont die, and I will defeat you, you wont win against me."
Frankie said it strongly, and stuck her hands outwards. Using her powers, she brought the cars close towards her, and allowed the metal to wrap around her. It made an armour around her, and she manipulated it so it would fit around herself.
"Ooh my, a little girl in armour huh? That's interesting, but it wont beat meeeeeeeeeeee!"
Fred charged for Frankie, and the girl did the same. Pulling her fist back, she crossed the distance, and Fred threw a punch at her. Using what her father had taught her, she avoided the punch, then delivered it right towards him, hitting him in the face.
The punch...didn't do much though.
Frankie looked on and saw that he held a slight cut on his face from the impact. But beyond that, not much happened at all. He didn't even flinch, and he grabbed her by the wrist, holding the young girl up by it.
"L-Let me go!"
She demanded, but Fred just laughed in her face, making Frankie's eyes turn a little wild.
"You think I'm going to let you go? Hah! Have at thee!"
She was launched away with a flick of his wrist, making Frankie cry out.
She slammed onto a concrete wall, but because she was cased in metal, she didn't receive the majority of the impact. Frankie grimaced through at the through, seeing that Fred was charging right for her again.
"Aaah!"
She jumped to the side, avoiding the charging man, but Fred turned his sights on her right again. She gasped, and went to avoid, but then suddenly, from the side, a powerful lightning shock came from the left hand side, hitting Fred right in the face.
"Aaah! W-What the hell is that!?"
Fred growled out, the lightning pushing against him.
Frankie looked to the lightning's source, and saw that it was Farooq right there, shooting the lightning. And Shawna was right beside him, holding a bomb, which she threw, and it teleported at the same time.
Appearing in front of Fred, the explosion caused Fred to be knocked back, his feet walking backwards, and he felt sick.
"Y-You're Mentalist's henchmen!"
Frankie accused, pointing right at them.
Shawna began giggling, nodding her head.
"That's right, we are...well, I'd prefer business partners."
"Why are you here?"
Shawna teleported herself, and Farooq to the side of her, giving her a jump.
"Because, Mentalist...combined Mentalist I guess, came and asked us to do it. Weird, but he said that we should protect you and Caitlin Snow at all costs. So that's what we're doing while he's doing whatever it is he's doing." She heard Fred growl. "So, how do we take this guy out then?"
"Erm, I remember when we fought him beforehand, his ability is to keep weighted to the ground. And he's strong, very durable. His stomach can pretty much tank most blasts. But we theorize that his head can't. So a good blast to the head could potentially stop him."
Frankie explained, so Shawna looked towards Farooq.
"Right, as Mentalist taught us. I'll teleport him up into the air, and weaken him, then you shock him. Aim for his head."
"Yeah, I know Peeks."
"Don't call me Peeks! Only Mentalist can call me that!"
She yelled out like a roaring tiger.
Then Fred rushed at them, so she gathered herself.
"Hey girl, think you could use your powers over metal to bind his hands for me? I need to at least grab him before I can teleport, and with a weight like that...well, he might be able to hit me before I can teleport?"
"Y-Yeah, sure, leave it to me."
They all scattered as the man came near them. Frankie unequipped the armour she made, and sent all the metal towards him. Like bullets, the metal bombarded Fred, his hands going upwards to block his face.
"Don't piss me off little girl!"
Growled Fred, moving forward. Frankie wrapped the metal around the man's wrists, and then dragged them downwards, while letting out a battle cry. Moving her arms, the man's arms followed, and caused them to be locked behind his back.
"Now! I can't hold him for long!"
Frankie cried out, so Shawna nodded, teleporting.
"Let's go for a ride."
Shawna placed a hand on his stomach, and teleported him into the air. Fred's eyes opened wider than they normally would be.
"Wait! S-Stop this right now!"
Yelled Fred, as Farooq charged his lightning. Fred shook his head, trying to break his arms out of the metal, but she stopped him, Frankie putting her all into this, and did her best for what she needed to do.
"I can't hold him forever!"
Frankie yelled, so Farooq nodded.
"Right, I've got it!"
Farooq shot the powerful lightning at Fred's head. Fred desperately tried getting out of it, any way that he could. But the lightning pierced his head, and shocked him right down to the brain. His eyes filled with the electricity that he had, and he couldn't stop either.
"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"
Fred's screams filled the night's air, and then smoke came out of his ears, and he fell to the ground, unconscious. Frankie smiled gently at the sight, and then looked at Shawna and Farooq, and smiled towards them. Shawna and Farooq just sighed out, they'd rather not do this, but they followed Mentalist, and were going to do as he asked, even if they didn't like it.
Back at the airfield, they were still waiting, none the wiser with what was going on at S.T.A.R Labs, and that's how it was. Though Matt still felt and had a bad feeling about many different things.
As they waited, suddenly, in the sky, Jean saw something.
"Look, there it is."
Jean beamed out, a plane in the sky.
"Thank God for that, now we can get rid of these Metahuman's."
Bette smiled at the sight, and was thankful to see such a thing.
But as they waited, Hartley's device began beeping. Hartley looked down, and saw that the containers weren't working in the way that they should be, he had to do something, but even then, he wasn't able to stop it.
"Uh-oh. Guys, guys, we have a problem. The damper's fluctuating. The rig's losing power. I don't know why."
Matt looked at the plane, and saw in the sky, that lightning was crackling.
"Wait, can you do something?"
"I'm trying."
Hartley answered Bette's doubts, but no matter what he tried, he knew that it wasn't working like it should. As they tried their best, Matt looked to the side, and used his psychic navigation to look beyond what he could usually see.
"Oh God, I should have known he wouldn't give up so easily. Great, he planned this from before, I knew I sensed him in the building before."
"What? What do you mean?"
Joe asked, only for the sound of motorcycles to fill the air. Matt then rolled his eyes, tightening his hands.
"Seems like Snart and his sister can't take no for an answer."
"Snart, he followed!?"
Barry angrily growled, only for lightning to fill the air. Jean looked up to see the sparks going around the plane that was incoming, making them all feel sick and disgusted, knowing what was going to happen next.
"Oh, God. Mardon."
Joe breathed out, Matt thrusting his hand outwards.
"Don't worry Joseph, I have this."
His energy shot forth, and made a barrier in front of the plane. The barrier and the lightning collided with one another, and though Mardon's lightning was strong, Matt was able to hold on and protect the plane, allowing it to be safe for the moment, but Matt waved his hands around in annoyance. However, another bolt of lightning came down and another, and another.
Not accounting for that, Matt's barrier broke, and the planes wing got hit.
"Damn it, I can't lift an entire plane with people inside."
Jean moved closer, and grabbed his hand.
"Use my power. I can use my power to make it lighter for you to lift, and you can use your power to guide it down to the ground. It's worth a try at least, if only to save those people."
"It's the best plan we've got my sister."
Matt nodded, and together, with their hands connected, Jean and Matt fired out a beam from their joint hands.
Hitting the plane with it, Jean used her powers over molecules to lessen the density of the plane, which in turn allowed Matt to lift the plane. Though her powers did lessen it, he still felt it being a bit heavy, so he did all he could, and pulled the plane to the far point of the tracks, while making sure that nothing knocked it off course.
Making sure it landed on the ground, Matt fell to his knees, and panted slightly.
"Damn, that was a little heavy, if I didn't have to worry about the people inside, could've just let it drop." Barry turned to him, rather shocked. "Don't look so shocked Barry, I can be a nice person too. Though the planes out of use, I never was a fan of the Lian Yu plan anyway, we've just got to take a risk by keeping them in the van for the moment and to make sure we can stop Eobard and his bitch Rachael."
Barry chuckled awkwardly, as the sound of lightning crackling from the truck, and the motorcycles pulled up, Snart, and Lisa pulled up, with a few men that held some chains and other blunt force weapons in their hands.
"Trip's cancelled!"
"Snart!"
Barry growled out, as Snart pulled out his gun.
"Didn't think I'd let this go, right? This is a good chance, I won't be losing them here to the North China Sea."
Barry tightened his eyes, just as Matt saw the doors of the van came off. Matt looked on to see Mardon and the others come out of the van. Mist held his eyes on Barry, Mark's eyes were on Matt, and a man with glowing eyes looked right at Hartley.
"Take your last breath!"
Mist turned into his namesake, and charged for Barry. Barry rushed towards the side, avoiding the mist, and then rushed outside, so the others wouldn't be interfered with. Mist made a large hand, thrusting it towards Barry.
Barry rushed to the left, avoiding the fist, then began moving his arms, rotating his arms like a propeller sending the wave of wind towards Mist, quelling him and making sure that he wouldn't be able to interfere.
"Bro, what do we do…?"
Jean looked on as the gang of Snart's moved closer.
Matt looked towards them, and then towards the Metahuman's coming.
"Right, Ra's, please go with Jean and Bette to fight the gang coming. Hartley, you take laser eyes there, I've got the weather dude. Joe, try and handle the emotions dude, just don't look into his eyes, that's all we can do now."
[On it!]
Everyone but Ra's said, but he complied and walked forward.
Ra's looked at all of the gang members moving closer and closer towards him, and turned his head to the side curiously.
"Are you, supposed to be threatening?"
The men began laughing at Ra's, but Ra's reached into his outfit, and pulled out a sword.
They all looked on at the man, as he walked forward.
"Well, for my boy, I suppose eliminating you people would be fine."
Moving swiftly, he jumped into the crowd he was in, and sliced to the left. Two men who were there, were cut down by Ra's sword, only for a man to have knuckle dusters on came from the right. Ra's dodged the fists rather easily, then send a punch to his face, knocking him backwards.
Swinging his sword, Ra's moved forward, and swung down. He tried to avoid it, but he couldn't in the end, receiving Ra's blade right to the chest, the sword slicing through the man's chest bone, and his ribs, not even looking the least bit bothered.
"Killing usually is below me, but I don't mind doing this for my boy."
He cut down one man, then turned the blade to the right, blocking a chain going for him. The chain wrapped around his sword, then he pulled forward, his elbow colliding with the man's face, Ra's foot then planting in his chest, forcing him down to the ground. Unforgivingly, Ra's thrusted the sword downwards, stabbing into his chest.
He scoffed at the sight before him.
"Come, humans."
Baiting them, they charged and Ra's just moved calmly, slaughtering them off with his superior skills.
"Well, looks like the Psyche is here. I've been told about you before, and I do want to fight a psychic, that sounds fun."
Mark raises his hand to the side, and clouds gather. From the sky, lightning appears, and shoots downwards at Matt. Matt turned, and used his psychic energy to clash with the lightning. Though the lightning was powerful, Matt managed to block the strike, then turned back to Mark once more.
"Well, fighting a Weather Witch might be fun."
"My name is Weather Wizard!"
Mark growled, rushing forward, and gathered ice in his hands.
He made a sphere of ice, launching it at Matt. Matt opened his arms, making a breach in front of him. The ice ball went into the breach, appearing behind Mark, and slammed into him, knocking him down to the ground.
"Oh, did I say Weather Witch? I meant, Weather Bitch."
Mark's eyes blazed, and he slammed his hand on the ground. A pillar of fire came for Matt, so he took to the air, avoiding the flames, then made a dagger of energy, launching right for the man himself before him.
Mark thrusted his hand forward, a wave of wind erupting, throwing the dagger off course. The wind continued going for Matt, so he placed his hands outwards, raising a barrier around himself, to block the winds.
"Time to dance, Weather Bitch. Force of nature, vs Force of unnatural, lets see who wins, shall we?"
Landing on the ground, once the winds stopped, Matt and Mark went to fight one another.
Bette rushed towards Lisa, wanting to take some kind of revenge on the young girl, but she pulled out her gun, shooting out a gold substance. Bette rolled to the side, avoiding the substance that attached to the ground.
"My, someone needs to create bling."
"No, I just like the look of gold. It suits me, no?"
Bette chuckled, equipping her gauntlets, and slammed her hands together.
"No, it really doesn't, and neither does that 1950's haircut."
Lisa's eyes burned with rage.
"You little bitch!"
Lisa pulled the trigger, shooting several blasts of the gold substance. Bette rushed around the area, avoiding the blasts of the gold. Coming from the left, Bette rolled to the right, only for Lisa to shoot her once more.
Bette rolled backwards, the gold hitting the ground. She then saw that another one came for her, so Bette quickly stuck out her palm. Just as the gold hit her palm, the gold activated her powers, and it exploded the gold, Lisa being rather impressed.
"Well, I've never seen something like that happen before, that's quite interesting to say the least."
Bette got off the ground, and smirked at her.
"Don't worry so much about that now Lisa, leave it to me now."
"Leave this to you? Like Cisco? Poor boy, can't even be touched by his girlfriend unless he wants to be exploded."
Bette cocked her head to the side.
"Hmmm, you do know that I can touch people without them exploding, right? It's just the palms of my hands that can't touch him, everything else works, rather well...wait, we're fighting over Cisco? What universe is this? Are we in Cisco's head?"
"Hmm, he's cute though."
Lisa smirked out, Bette couldn't deny that.
"Yeah, I suppose so. But he's mine, not yours."
Lisa began laughing a little bit at all of this going down.
"Ooh, that's cute hunny, I hope you believe that as well, lets hope you and he are going to be fun together. But, I don't think it is going to last. Being unable to give him a little...hand if you catch my drift."
Bette's eyes turned like thunder.
Tapping her palm, she thrusted it forwards towards her, and a small blast came outwards, the exploding ball heading for her.
Lisa shot the sphere down, but the gold exploded upon impact, knocking her backwards, Lisa went for a roll, as Bette smiled at the devices on her hands, allowing her to control her explosion powers, Lisa's eyes narrowing at the sight.
"Like it, Lisa?"
Bette tightened her hands, then thrusted her palms forward, shooting off two explosions near her. She let out a small cry, being flung backwards. She hit the ground rather hard, but she didn't get deterred, pulling out her gun, firing it at Bette.
"Like that, Bette?"
She smirked out, but Bette just dodged to the side, rushing forward, and moved closer. She sent her hands outwards, blasting towards her. Lisa cried out, running away from the blasts that kept coming for her body.
Jean walked closer to Snart, who tossed his head to the side.
"Well, well, well, aren't we a pretty girl?"
Snart somewhat flirted with her, Jean blinking.
"Well, thank you, I think."
Jean scratched her cheek, Snart rising his gun.
"I'm not one for killing women, so I wont do that. Though, I will have to stop you."
Jean tilted her head to the side curiously.
"Erm, do we have to fight? Can't we be friends instead?"
"Are you high by chance?"
Jean's eyes blazed with fury at that question, shaking her head with a dirty smirk on her face.
"No, but you're about to be high, in the sky, that's adorable, isn't it?"
Snart didn't know what she was talking about, but then she laid her fingers on the ground, and the ground around her began to move differently. Jean's powers spread out, and the ground around Snart began to move like water.
"W-What the hell is this!?"
"Justice!"
Jean sent a wave of wind right towards him, knocking him off his feet. He went backwards, slamming against the ground. Snart felt his body ripple in pain, but he got off the ground, and looked towards Jean, who smiled.
"Well, that's smarts."
"Hmmmm, next time you'll see I'm not just a damsel, am I right?"
Snart turned his head to the side.
"Very true, very true indeed. Now, can you handle this?"
Snart pointed his gun at Jean, releasing a cold beam from the gun. Jean thrusted her hand forward, but the winds that she sent, were frozen down to the core with his cold gun, making Jean growl a little bit in annoyance.
Jean then thrusts her hands downwards, taking to the sky. Snart followed her with his cold gun, mapping out a line on the roof of the ice, following after her. He whizzed around, when she landed on the ground, then slammed her hands on the ground.
From the powers she had, the earth around her shot forth towards him, breaking down. Snart shot the ground with his gun, freezing the incoming wave of destruction from Jean's powers, Jean surprised by such a thing.
"What's wrong sweetheart? You don't seem happy."
Jean tightened her eyes on him.
"Hmmm, that's a cute thing to say and Snart, we could have been friends, but that's not good either, is it~? Why are you doing this? Why can't you be a good guy too?"
Snart moved forward, cocking his gun. He stepped over the ice, and turned the gun towards her.
"Hmmm, is this where I tell you my sob story?"
"If you want too?"
Snart began laughing.
"No thanks."
Snart shot the gun forward, and it came for Jean, who took to the sky again, and flew around.
At the same time, Joe grabbed his gun, and ran to the side, avoiding blasts from the laser eyed man. Joe got behind a car, and as the laser eyes was about to shoot again, Hartley stuck out his hands, sending out a wave of sonic energy, knocking him over.
"I've got this one Joe, take care of the other one as Matthew suggested."
Hartley spoke up, Joe nodding his head, and did as he was asked. The laser eyed man, named Simmons turned to Hartley, shooting off his eye laser. Hartley jumped to the side, avoiding the blast, then sent his sonic attack at him.
Simmons rushed left, the wave hitting the truck and pushed it backwards. Hartley was surprised by his movement, but he didn't have time to enjoy, as Simmons blasted forward once more, Hartley matching it with his sonic wave.
""Aaaaah!""
The sonic wave and the plasma from the eye lasers, clashed together, creating a shockwave, that knocked both of them down. Hartley quickly stood up, and placed his hands out in front of him, sending out a sonic wave.
Simmons recovered, rolled to the side, and avoided the sonic wave, standing up, shooting out several blasts from his eyes. Hartley grimaced, moving from the left, and right, to avoid them all, but the last one clipped him on the shoulder, and knocked him down to the ground.
"Damn it, not used to using my powers just yet..."
Hartley let out a sigh, Joe standing up, to take the shot, but Roy focused his eyes on him, using his powers, and took over the man's functions.
Joe's anger raised, and he turned towards Matt, who was duelling against Weather Wizard. His gun turned to him, and Matt heard "Joe's gonna shoot Matthew!" from Hartley's mind, so he turned to Joe, and raised his hand, making a barrier, blocking the hail of bullets coming for him.
"Have some lightning you bastard!"
But in doing that, Mark saw his opportunity to send lightning at his chest, knocking him down onto his butt.
Matt felt the pain ripple through him, but he didn't stop, Joe rushing forward to try and tackle Matt.
Matt jumped to his feet, seeing Mark shooting a fireball at him. Quickly thinking, Matt thrusted his hand forward, and made a barrier, blocking the flames all together.
As he did that, Joe rushed at Matt while firing his gun. Matt rolled his eyes, and flew at Joe. Joe was surprised by that, Matt grabbing his hand, and pulled the gun out of his hand, and then from his eyes, controlling energy came out, and infected Joe.
Though Joe was affected by the anger, he couldn't disobey Matt's command either.
"Joe, go and capture Roy."
Joe's mind went blank, and like a robot, Joe walked across the battlefield, to go and capture Roy himself. Roy looked on with some fear, as Joe approached him, jumping into the van and tackled him to the ground.
"Have at thee bitch!"
Matt watched as he came closer with his hands having mini tornados. Matt's hands lit up with psychic fire, turning it towards him. Mark went to release the tornados at Matt, but Matt shot the fire forward first, setting alight the winds in his palms, burning Mark's hands, so he made water to put out the flames.
"Aaah...w-what the fuck is that…?"
"Ooh, call it psychic fire. In this mode, I have control over it. With other modes, it is hard to do, but like this, I can fight like this. It seems like a good deal for someone like me, don't you think so?"
Mark didn't like that for even a second, and he gathered winds around him. Around his body, the winds began to pick up, and surround him in a twisting motion.
Matt knew what he was trying to do, and he couldn't have it happen.
"Catch me if you can~"
Matt slowly allowed energy to wrap around him, then he disappeared towards the exit, but Mardon didn't see it and he shot forth a glare.
"Come out and face me, coward!"
Mark looked confused by what was going on, and looked around for Matt.
But when the he 'reappeared' a second or so later, the blonde actually being at the door, and had a hand on his forehead, casting an illusion briefly while leaving him completely vulnerable, Mardon's hand coated with lightning, turning towards the illusion.
"Die!"
He shot the lightning forward, and through it, thinking that he had shocked him…
But, it didn't.
As he was confused, Matt released a psychic blast from his mind, squarely hitting the man in the head, causing pain to erupt inside of his head, then Matt came from behind the corner, flying fast, and then made it to him, giving him a punch to the face, added onto with his telekinetic strength, knocking him down to the ground and sent him dizzy.
"How…?"
"Aah, I used my powers over the mind to give you the illusion of myself. Good thing I hid myself huh, in normal battles, this might not be able to work, but for this, it seems pretty good, and I managed to knock you down to the ground like this, isn't that pretty smart of me huh~?"
Mark could only look up at him with some fear in his eyes.
Bette slammed her fist into Lisa's face, knocking her down towards the ground. She let out a small cry, and then showed a sneer on her lips.
"It's over, Lisa. You're not worming your way out of this now."
Lisa reached for her gun, but Bette opened her palm to the left, a blast going off near Lisa's hand, Lisa retracting her hand with some fear. Bette showed a small smile on her lips, and then folded her arms.
But then, as they were, Bette heard "Look out Bette!" from Jean, turning to the right, and saw Snart shooting his gun at her. She cried, and forced herself left, narrowly avoiding the blast wave of the ice, allowing Lisa to pick up her gun.
Snart turned towards Bette, and shot his gun at her again. Bette didn't have time to move, as the ice wrapped around her body, her torso and froze her to the ground. Bette went to bang on the ice, Snart smirking slightly as he froze her hands to the ground so she couldn't use her powers.
"Never want to hurt my baby sisters beau's girlfriend. That's for her to decide."
Lisa and Snart turned towards Jean, and aimed their guns at her. Jean pulled her body downwards, and aimed her hands forward. At the same time, two blasts from the guns and two blasts from the young girl erupted forth.
However, from the blasts themselves, she saw that her winds were frozen, and the beam from Lisa's gun was coming for her. Jean let out a shrilling "Iyaaaaaaaaa!" from her mouth, Matt having heard her, shot his body forward.
"Jean!"
Matt, quickly swiped Mark's face with his foot, knocking him out, and then pushed Jean out of the way with his telekinesis, guiding her to the ground, but then Snart saw his opportunity, shooting the ice gun at him. Matt saw it at the last second, and the gun froze his body solid, and he landed on the ground.
"Matt! No!"
Jean went towards him, as Hartley faced off with Simmons.
"You're not going to win against me."
Said Simmons, shooting his eye lasers at Hartley. Hartley matched him blow for blow, looking around for anything that could be used. Hartley pulled backwards, then moved to the side, shooting a blast from his hands.
Simmons matched it with his eye lasers, cancelling one another out.
Hartley groaned at the sight, knowing that it would be difficult in doing this. So rather than fight, Hartley ran towards the other side of the van, and hid behind it. Using his powers, he tapped into the heightened hearing he had.
Though it still was a pain to use, Hartley still could use it to hear for other sounds which he was doing it now. Simmons moved around the side of the van, shooting his eye lasers at the van, going through the van, Hartley breathing out harshly.
"You're just denying the inevitable, you know?"
Hartley didn't say anything, putting his hands together, gathering the sonic waves in his hands.
When Simmons was close enough, Hartley came from behind the van, slamming both palms into his chest, knocking him backwards, slamming him against the wall with a powerful sonic blast, but that exhausted Hartley, he was still getting used to his powers. Simmons head slammed against the wall, knocking him out.
"Phew, done."
Hartley panted, breathing out his worries and distress.
Barry finally had stopped Mist. Mist returned to his normal form, and Barry then saw a gold blast coming for him. Barry dodged to the side with his superspeed, Lisa following him with her gun.
She then fired off a few more blasts, Barry managing to avoid all the blasts with his powers of speed. Then however, Snart shot his ice gun forward, which was dangerous to speedsters, knocking Barry off towards the ground and like he had done with Bette, froze him to the ground.
"Here we go Flash, this is where we end one another."
"Snart!"
Flash tried to escape, but he didn't care at all.
Roy got out of the van, with Snart smirking.
"Heh, didn't think I'd be saved by you."
"I just don't like that cop, is all." Roy turned towards the incoming Snart, gathering lightning, but Snart held up his gun. "How about we call tonight a tie?"
In his scheming like voice, Snart moved closer. Roy went to charge up his powers, but Lisa held her gun to his head.
"I'd power down if you don't want me to melt your face."
Roy did as she said, stopping his powers.
"Let's all go our separate ways. My name is Leonard Snart."
"I know who you are."
Roy growled out, Snart turning to him with a bewildered look.
"Always pleased to meet a fan. Just remember who it was made sure you didn't get thrown on that plane bound for nowhere. Though I would have liked Mark there, seems like he's going back into confinement."
"You're just letting me go?" Snart doesn't say anything, and just looks on, Roy giving him a questioning look. "What? Want a thank you?"
"Who doesn't like a thank you?"
Fighting back bile, Roy sighed in resignation.
"Thank you."
"You are so very welcome."
Roy went to leave the area, but Jean got in the way.
"I'm not letting you go."
"Yes, look into my..." Jean closed her eyes, confusing Roy. "Look into my eyes, I'll let out all that anger."
Jean didn't do as she was asked, and instead, concentrated on her powers.
Roy shrugged his shoulders, and walked closer with his fist aimed at her.
Jean went to her back, and pulled out a metal baton.
"Heh, well, this is cute, you can't fight, blind. Who do you think you are? You're such a Daredevil."
Jean scoffed, as she concentrated.
Once he was close enough, Jean swung her baton at him, and as if a truck had hit him, he was forced off his feet, and his head slammed into the van, knocking him down. Hartley, went towards him, and aimed his foot at the man, slamming it downwards, and knocked the man out all the same.
Jean opened her eyes, and grinned.
"That's what you get for underestimating me, I have been trained by an assassin you know? And, I can use my powers to feel the molecules of others around as well, even without the use of my eyes~ And sorry, Daredevil's taken hehe~"
Though Jean sung it out, she still saw her brother frozen, which frightened her.
As Jean along with Hartley dealt with Roy, Snart and Lisa go towards a motorcycle.
"You sabotaged the truck somehow, didn't you? Why did you let them escape?"
Snart paused, and looked towards Barry with a grin on his face.
"Because now they all owe me, but it seems only Mist got away, that's what you call him, right? And something tells me they'll be a lot more use to me as part of my rogues than rotting away in the North China sea. And as blondie said beforehand. What did you expect me to do? Not be what I am? I saw an opportunity to turn things to my advantage, and I did, I couldn't let this go, even after being kicked off, I have my ways and means and I found it fun to do this. Who you're really mad at is yourself. This is on you, Barry."
Barry looked around, seeing the others in peril, Matt was even frozen. He couldn't believe it, though he had beaten Mark, he still was frozen by Snart.
"Then why didn't you just kill me?"
"Well, I guess you owe me one now, too." Snart got onto his motorcycle, not caring about all the people Ra's just killed. "Good luck with all of this. I'm actually really excited to see how it all turns out."
Barry tried desperately to get out of the ice, but couldn't and Snart drove off.
Jean banged on the ice desperately for Matt, but she didn't do it hard, as she didn't want to shatter it.
"Bro, please...please come on, please come out now...please for the love of God, please..."
Jean shed a few tears...but, then she felt the ice becoming warmer and warmer, she didn't like that, and stepped back. It was a good thing that she did, as she saw that a blast erupting from the inside came out, shattering the ice, and Matt fell down to the ground, cold.
"Ooh, that's fucking cold...seems like my powers can be frozen though my nuclear power saved me it seems, that's interesting. Ooh, that means Killer Frost can tame me, naughty girl~"
"Ooh bro, thank you you're okay!"
Jean rasped out, moving closer and hugged him. He hugged her with one arm, as Simmons woke up. Slowly, he raised his head, and looked at Matt. Hartley had gone over to help Barry so he didn't see it either.
However, a blade went past Matt's head, stabbing into Simmons head, and killed him off.
"Geez! Ra's, don't scare me like that!"
Jean complained with a cute whine.
"Sorry dear, didn't mean to scare you."
Jean giggled awkwardly.
"It's okay~"
Ra's retracted his hand, and looked on at the young blonde, bending towards him.
"Remember my boy, sometimes killing is necessary, not everyone can be saved. I know of your kind heart, but remember, this is what has to happen sometimes, we have to kill for the ones that we grow to care about."
Matt took those words to heart, after everything that had happened. Sometimes, it was necessary to kill, and this time, he had to fight and kill, and he had his eyes set on Rachael, and what was going on with her as well.
He then looked at the two downed people.
"What are we going to do with them? With the plane out of order for the moment, what can we do?"
Jean wondered, so Matt looked at Hartley.
"Hartley, we needed the van and power dampeners fixed, five minutes ago. We'll just have to keep them in their until we can move them somewhere else."
"R-Right, Matthew, give me a hand."
He nodded his head, and slowly walked to the van, and took some of Hartley's intelligence so he could be of assistance.
As that happened, Eobard was making the final preparations for what the battle was going to come by. Walking around what appeared to be a laboratory, he was setting up what appeared to be medical equipment.
Just then, Rachael came into the labs with Caitlin in tow with her, holding her by her hair.
"Aah, get off me Rachael!"
Caitlin yelled with an annoyed growling sound.
Rachael smirked, moving closer to the young girl and licked her neck, Caitlin shivering.
"Don't worry sweetheart, I'm not allowed to kill you just yet. But it is going to be fun when we do kill you...but Eobard baby wont let me. How naughty, am I right bitch?"
Caitlin looked towards Eobard, and glared.
"Now, Dr Snow, there's no need to show such a face like that with me."
"What do you want from me?" Caitlin spat out dangerously. "I wont help you with anything."
"Now, now Dr Snow, don't be a bad girl. I'm not trying to be mean, and I'm not trying to be scary either. But Dr Snow, there is a very interesting thing that I need for you to accomplish this, and I need your certain, expertise in this."
Caitlin didn't know what he was talking about.
But, he stepped aside, and revealed…
"What the hell is that thing?"
End chapter!
So, that's the end of it for this time. Matt recruited Ra's and Nyssa, along with Felicity asking for some help, we'll see a bit more of that later. Frankie and Ra's surprisingly had a pretty nice conversation with one another. Hartley, Matt, Ra's Bette, and Barry won their fights and Jean stopped Rainbow Raider from leaving and Matt stopped Weather Wizard from leaving as well, putting a stop to Snart's plan, though Snart managed to get away by freezing Matt and the others. Even Frankie (with Mentalist's sidekicks help) Firestorm and even Nyssa won their fights as well, showing their capabilities.
And now Caitlin has been kidnapped by Rachael, showing that it was all a diversion, and now she's going to be doing something, but what that is, we'll have to wait until next week to find out! Though there's been several hints throughout the story hehe~ We're getting to the home stretch now with episode 22 ending next chapter on where something devastating is going to happen, we'll find out next time. Well, thank you for reading and see you next time.
