Scorpion Warrior
Chapter 39
It's 25 years into the future. Jake Smith, the original Scorpion Warrior, has been dead since that time, leaving his 25 year old daughter, Taylor Smith, with her mother. Taylor was watching some old home movies of herself at certain events of her childhood. Her mother kept the identity of her father being a superhero from her since long after his death. All her life, she's felt different from all her childhood friends, and she's known it, but she's never known why. Her mother told her that Jake died in a car accident. She watched the news story of the death of Scorpio. Scorpio was fighting a dimension jumper. Even with the help of his spider sense, the dimension jumper still had the upper hand. The dimension jumper eventually used his power and warped a car between dimension holes until it gained plenty of momentum. Then, since Jake was already worn out as it was, he couldn't dive out of the way and was crushed between the car and a wall. He had just enough energy to push the car out of the way in one last ditch effort to win. "NO! How is this possible?" The jumper called out. "That car was going at least 200 miles per hour in a 20 mile street! There's no way anybody could've survived that!" The jumper looked scared. He opened another portal in an attempt to run away from the fight. "Who… who are you…?" Jake removed his mask and revealed his identity to the world. At that point, Taylor's mom walked into the room. "I am Jake Smith! I am Scorpio!" His breathing started to become shallow. The jumper was halfway through the portal when Jake snagged him with a web and pulled him back out. "Where do you think you're going, Mister Magician?" Jake yanked the jumper out of his portal "What are you going to do to me? Kill me?" The jumper asked as Jake's eyes started to glow red. Jake, then grinned and fired the eye beams into his eyes, killing him instantly. Then he set his sights on the technology the jumper used to warp between dimensions. Lines of blood dripped down his lip as more blood fell down his face like it was a waterfall. Then he fell down to the side. Dead.
It's 25 years into the future. Taylor Smith has just witnessed her father reveal his identity as Scorpio. "Taylor…" Taylor turned around to see her mother standing there. "Taylor… you weren't supposed to see that." Her mother said. "What do you mean? That my father didn't really die in a car accident? That he was really a superhero?" Taylor concentrated for a second and started to hover. "So, I can fly…" There was quite a bit of a disappointed look on Taylor's face. "If I told you your father was a superhero, you would've done something that might've gotten yourself hurt. Trust me, he was the same way when he found out about your grandfather." Taylor's mother hung her head after she realized what she said. "Grandpa's a superhero too?" "No, he just has powers… he's a Kryptonian just like Superman." "I knew I was special… but I didn't think it would be like this…" Then Taylor flew out of the house.
Some time later, Taylor had just left the cemetery and her super hearing kicked in. She heard a bunch of sirens that sounded like those of a fire engine. Coincidentally, a few fire engines just so happened to drive by. "Well, my dad revealed his identity. No point in keeping mine." Taylor mumbled to herself as she lifted off the ground. She followed the fire engines and came upon an apartment building that was on fire. "Oh… that's not good." She darted into one of the apartments and flew out with a resident, and was just about to rinse and repeat, but was tackled to the ground by an all-too-familiar-for-comfort face: Jake Smith. "DADDY?" Taylor shouted in shock once she caught her second wind. "What's going on?" Jake wound a fist back and sent a jab straight into Taylor's face, giving her a nosebleed. "Daddy… wh… what's going on?" She dodged another blow and flipped around, catching her father in a headlock. "That's why mom never told me about you." Jake flew them up into the air then slammed them down with her taking the brunt of the force.
Jake stood over his fallen foe, his eyes glowing red, when a few orbs dropped to his feet and exploded, releasing a bit of gas that completely blinded him. A mysterious figure cloaked in black from head to toe, with a bat on the chest that looks like it's about to flap, flew down and landed between Jake and Taylor. "Go! Get out of here!" The figure launched an uppercut to Jake's jaw, then jumped and did a flying kick, launching him 50 feet away. "I don't think I can Batman…" Taylor said, weakened after her own father's assault on her face. Batman was slammed into the ground close by Taylor. "Warhawk, gonna need your help…" … "Well finish what you're doing. She needs your help." He used his jet boots to push himself out of the way of Jake's path. "Well… get off your date." He front flipped over Jake as he attempted to punch Batman. He then kicked Jake with help from his jet boots. "Look, I'll make it up to you later. I have to deal with Jake right now!" … "She's too weak." … "Yes! He's back again! Now get over here!" Jake flew over to a fire hydrant and kicked it off, redirecting the geyser right into Batman and pushing him righting into another building. "Daddy…" Was the last word out of Taylor's mouth before she passed out.
Warhawk finally arrived and picked up Taylor and flew her towards a hospital. Batman then launched a batarang towards Jake. It exploded and froze him in a hard-to-crack gel, then flew off after Warhawk and Taylor. "Batman…?" Taylor finally woke up a few minutes later. "Hey Taylor. Sorry about… about your dad and all…" Batman didn't know what to say. "He died before I was born." Taylor replied with forgiveness in her voice. "I guess that's why my mom didn't want me knowing about him." Taylor hovered out of Warhawk's arms, and they all stopped midflight. "He was brought back to life after he died by Ra's Al Ghul. He was turned into a mindless zombie though. Not common by Ra's's MO." Taylor completely ignored Batman and had a pained look on her face. "He needs to be destroyed…" "Taylor?" Batman and Warhawk said at the same time. "We can't save him, can we? So the only other option is to kill him." Batman's eyes went wide at what Taylor said, "But… but he's your father." "No… you said it yourself Terry. He's a mindless zombie."
Batman had a thought. "Hold on a second Taylor. We can save him." Taylor looked concerned. "After Jake beat down the dimension jumper 25 years ago, the original Batman came and took his warp technology. It should be stored somewhere in the batcave." Half an hour later, they made their way to the batcave. Warhawk wanted to go back to his date, but Bruce Wayne's time machine needed at least three people. When they got in, Bruce started chastising Terry for bringing Taylor there. "Relax, she's 'his' daughter." Terry explained his plan to Bruce. "You realize, if this succeeds, it'll change the course of history." Bruce said to Taylor. She nodded without a second thought and Terry and Warhawk activated the time machine. Taylor flew through the portal.
And ended up intercepting the car that originally crushed Jake, though it looked like they were both crushed. Taylor, however, was killed instantly, while Jake remained unharmed. "Now… where were we?" Jake said to the jumper. The jumper tried to escape through a portal, but Jake snagged the jumper with a web and pulled him back out. "W-w-what are you gonna do…?" The jumper asked Jake, scared for his life. Jake used his heat vision and fried the jumper's circuitry. "I'm Scorpio!" The jumper was then placed under arrest by Batman and the jumper circuitry was confiscated by him.