Imra's Point of View
I was sitting in a coffee shop with Crystal when I got the alert. I'm kind of like her babysitter, as Caitlin needs someone to look after her when she's not in school, so naturally, I volunteered, and since then Crystal's become something of a younger sister to me. Anyway, Maxwell Lord had started to put his full plan into action. It started with the explosions that took place about four days ago now, but now he's not lurking in the shadows anymore. He's taken to the streets, claiming that the heroes almost killed him for no reason and that he's been in hiding, recovering, for the past two years. Which is apparently a believable cover story for being dead for a few months and then being resurrected to plot the end of the age of heroes as he's calling it.
It's honestly sad how easily people believe things that come out of the mouths of people who are famous and rich, so now much of the population has turned on us, although it does help that Kat is printing the right articles at CatCo. Anyway, back to the story. My phone dinged and the screen lit up with a message from Kara. 'Red Alert' was all it said.
"Crystal, we're going to have to cut this short," I said aloud. Crystal raised her eyebrows.
"What's going on?" she asked lowering her voice so that we'd have a lesser chance of being overheard.
"Red Alert," I told her simply. At that, she stood, smacked a few dollars down on the table, and pulled me out the door. We got back to S.T.A.R. Labs rather quickly, mostly because the coffee shop is about a five-minute walk from the labs. As we walked into the cortex Cisco shoved a box into my hands and ran out, dressed in full Vibe garb.
"Caitlin? What's going on?" I asked.
"Lord has launched a full frontal attack. We're swamped with aliens, metas, even some former League of Assassins members," she said dashing past, kicking off her normal heels as she did so and leaving them in the middle of the floor, I barely took note of the super suit she had draped over her arm.
"What can I do?" I asked.
"Suit up," she yelled from the hall. I opened the box to reveal a suit. It was black with gold accents. 'You've wanted a suit for a while. It's about time you have one. What do you think of the name Saturn Girl?' the note read in Cisco's messy handwriting. I ran and changed as quickly as I could in the bathroom. Then headed back to the cortex. Crystal was still standing in the middle of the room, her face blank, and eyes sad.
"You okay?" I asked her.
"No, but I will be when everyone comes back alive," she said.
"I'm not fully trained so I can't actually go out there, but I can try to be tech support since no one else is able to be," she brightly. Caitlin ran back into the room, now dressed in a super suit of her own, and holding a mask in her hand.
"Crys, don't leave the premises if anything happens let me know immediately and hide somewhere you won't be seen, got it," she said hugging Crystal tightly.
"Okay," Crystal said simply.
"I'll come back, I promise," Caitlin reassured her and with that Caitlin and I ran out the door, taking off as soon as we reached the sunlight.
Starling City
Oliver's Point of View
Yep, Starling City has been taken over too, really every city has been. Central, National, Metropolis, Detroit, even Coast City for some reason. Here in Starling City most of the enemies are former members of the League of Assassins, and I've gotta say I'm not a fan. At all.
I should tell you who was defending the city. Me, obviously, Isabelle, Jade, Laurel, Roy, Diggle, Nyssa, Thea, and Sara are all here, along with quite a few DEO and ARGUS agents. Honestly, I don't have much of an idea of what is going on, I'm just rolling with the punches, almost literally. Problem is there isn't much from me to say, nothing super interesting is happening on my end of things.
Veronica's Point of View
We were all in the apartment when it started. The first hint something was happening was the noise, then came the screaming of civilians, followed by the sounds of fighting. We all exchanged a look.
"So, looks like we're staying in tonight," Toni said jokingly, trying to lighten the mood, we knew that we had friends out there, on the streets, defending the city.
"I wish we could do something," Betty said sadly.
"Our friends are out there risking their lives and we're sitting around doing nothing."
"Technically, I could do something," Toni said hesitantly, she waved her hand through the air conjuring water.
"Toni, just because you have powers and a little bit of training doesn't mean that you can just run out onto the streets, if that was true then technically anyone could," Cheryl said, being the strong voice of reason per usual. Needless to say, we stayed home all night, worry churning and coursing through us all. Nyssa came by briefly to make sure we were all okay and made us promise that no matter what we did not leave our apartment. So we didn't because we aren't stupid enough to not listen to a voice of reason.
Isabelle's Point of View
Chaos. That's all I really and fully remember. Other than what I'm about to tell you.
I was fighting a person, I think they called themselves Ravager, I'm not sure. I ran a few feet away so that I could pull out my bo staff when Ravager pulled a gun and fired. Laurel, somehow, ended up in front of me taking the bullet instead. I quickly reacted and hit Ravager across the temple with the staff, knocking her out easily.
"Laurel, you idiot, what did you do that for?" I asked her. I kneeled down next to her, trying my best to stop the bleeding in her stomach. Now I'll be honest I don't like Laurel, but that doesn't mean I want her dead.
"I couldn't let her kill you," she said.
"Why? You don't even like me," I protested. She shook her head.
"That's not why. I couldn't care less about you, but you make Oliver happier, I couldn't let someone take that away, that island changed him, he needs all the happiness he can get," she gasped out. I sighed.
"Seriously, that's your reason. While I'm flattered, I don't know if I'll be able to get you out of this one. I can't teleport or apparate the pressure and quick change of location would kill you instantly. Did you take into account that he'll miss you and that'll make things worse" I asked her, Laurel closed her eyes.
"Just tell my parents and Sara I love them okay, that's all I ask," she said coughing. I quickly rolled her onto her side, not sure what else to do.
"Promise you'll do that please," she begged.
"I promise," I told her. Laurel just nodded and took a ragged breath, the ground and my suit were now slick with her blood.
"Is there anything else?" I asked her, trying to at least help a little bit.
"Tell them I'm sorry," she gasped out and drew one last shaky breath, eyes fluttering shut, and her body stilled. I let out a breath, got up, and moved her body into a now empty building so that it wouldn't be trampled in the battle.
"We're down one, Laurel's dead," I said into the comns.
"What happened?" Oliver asked.
"Not to speak ill of the dead, but she did something stupid, to say the least," I said, sighing. I didn't want to tell him, it just wasn't a good time, but I knew that I had too.
"Isabelle, what happened?" Oliver asked again.
"She jumped in front of a bullet. Saved my life honestly," I answered. I could tell this was a blow. Honestly, can you blame him? They've been friends since they were six and they dated for over a year and a half.
"Okay," he said simply, clearly holding back emotions, the loss hit him hard, as all losses do.
"I'm sorry. I should've tried to stop her," I tried. Oliver sighed, I could hear the eye roll.
"Isabelle, seriously, if she jumped in front of a bullet you couldn't have really done anything in the first place," he said.
Central City
Barry's Point of View
Things were just getting worse as time wore on. The enemies seemed to be multiplying, but that's partially due to the guy who has the ability to clone himself multiple times over. More and more enemies. About every half an hour a new group would show up and everyone was exhausted. It was clear that people had been working towards this plan for a very long time. The group of heroes, which Kat Grant has decided to call The Justice League, had the upper hand for a while, but the tides seemed to change every ten minutes or so.
I was fighting Dr. Light when it happened. I felt a crashing wave of horror crash over me, coming from Kara's end of the link.
'What's happened?' I asked her.
'I need you to come here, now.' was the only response I got. I stuck out a fist catching Dr. Light off guard and knocked her out, then raced over to Kara, who was on the ground. Standing over her was Iris, her entire body radiated a sickening green color. Her eyes were blank and dull, her arms hung limply at her sides, her hair hung in limp knots around her face. The sight was rather frightening, she was clearly still dead, but somehow was here and had Kryptonite coursing through her.
"Maxwell Lord reanimated her body and seems to have injected her with Kryptonite, to weaken Kryptonians in more than one way," Kara said weakly, struggling to her feet.
"That's sick, and I don't mean cool, I mean he's insane and sick," I said, anger coursing through me.
"How could he dare to do this to anyone?" I asked.
"He was far too evil even before he died, the Lazarus Pit just made things much worse. Lazarus Pits when used to be brought back from the dead or used frequently it causes bloodlust, among other unknown side effects," came Nyssa's voice from behind us. Kara and I both whirred around.
"Weren't you in Starling? How did you get here?" Kara asked her.
"Jade overheard your conversation and teleported me over," Nyssa answered.
"What are our options?" I asked her, knowing there couldn't be many.
"We could try to get through to her but since she was dead before it probably wouldn't do much except just kill her. The only other option is to just kill her, she's already dead, there's nothing we can do to change that at this point," Nyssa explained. Kara and I exchanged a look.
"Just get it over with," Kara said aloud.
"Okay," Nyssa said drawing her sword. Kara and I both turned our backs and lept back into action, trying to put the image out of our minds.
Crystal's Point of View
Turns out Tech Support doesn't really do much in a big battle. Which is honestly disappointing, because the fact I have nothing to do leaves me with nothing to distract me from the worry that was building inside of me. I was sitting in the med bay trying to stay out of sight in case anyone did break in. Right as I decided to get up and move things took a turn for the worse.
"I can't believe that they just left this place unguarded," a cold snarky voice said coolly. My eyes widened, I quickly pulled out my phone and sent a message to Caitlin's communication device. I summoned an icicle to my hand, my hair changed to bright white, and I knew my eyes had changed to a blue shade from the usual brown. I took a deep breath trying to keep calm, but that's when the person entered the cortex, he held a gun that seemed to have some sort of bluish white glow coming from it. His companions were a woman who looked like his sister and held a gold glowing gun, while the man held a weapon that seemed to look like a flamethrower.
The leader moved towards me. "Well what do we have here?" he asked standing over me.
"A little girl obviously," the woman answered.
"Leave her alone," Caitlin's voice called from the doorway, sword clutched in her hand, and the other outstretched, vines ready to attack.
"Make me," he said, aiming his gun at her. He aimed and fired. A stream of what seemed to be a white flame hit the vines which twisted to form a shield in front of Caitlin. I cowered back in the corner, wanting to help, but knowing that I didn't have the skill do anything without being killed or injured.
Caitlin twisted and spun, taking on all three of them at once, but she was growing weary rather quickly, her movements growing slower as she grew tired. One of them hit her across the face with their gun, the blow knocked her onto the floor, and left a gash on her left cheek. Not thinking straight, because fear had taken over my mind, I threw the icicle I had clutched in my hand. The icicle flew through the air and hit the man with the flamethrower in the head. He crumpled to the ground. I looked down at my hands fearfully, frightened by the fact that I had just knocked someone out.
I remember feeling the cold inside of me growing much stronger. In a way that it felt like was going to take control of me. I tried to fight it, as I wasn't sure what it would do to me, but everything went black.
Caitlin's Point of View
I watched as Crystal's eyes grew icier. Her eyes are usually brown, but turn dark blue when using her powers, but at that moment they changed again to a steely blue-grey, that seemed to spark with icy fractals. I struggled to my feet.
"Well, well, well, what is going on here?" she said, voice cold.
"Something tells me I'm not supposed to fight the plant lady over there and she seems to have been injured by you losers, did anyone tell you not to hit someone's sister?" Not Crystal snarled.
"Who are you?" the conscious guy asked, who looked strangely familiar.
"I'm Killer Frost, and the little voice in my head tells me that I'm supposed to deal with you, I'm also assuming that this one," she pointed at me.
"Is my sister, I plan to defend her, and win," she finished, icicles growing on her arms like swords. She struck, which knocked the man over easily and started towards the woman, who pulled the man to his feet, trying to support his weight.
"A little help here," she shouted and someone walked into the room. I felt waves of fear washing through the room, everything blurred, and I felt my head hit the floor.
Crystal's Point of View
I felt the fear wash over me and found that I didn't remember anything that had happened in the last at least ten minutes. Caitlin later told me, but as I came to I noticed her facing off against a blonde woman dressed in black leather, Psi I think she's called. The weird thing was she didn't seem to be Caitlin anymore. Her hair was a bright fiery red and her eyes had turned bright green and poisonous-looking.
"What?" I said aloud, confused. Vines broke through the floor forming a cocoon around the blonde.
"Poison Ivy," Caitlin said calmly.
"Huh?" I asked confused by this new development.
"I'm Poison Ivy child," she replied.
"What happened to Caitlin?" I asked her.
"She's in here, just dormant I guess is the word," Ivy replied tapping the side of her head.
"So, how does that work?" I asked, curious as to what was going on.
"The same way it works with you and Killer Frost," she replied.
"Who?" I asked.
"Oh, you don't know about that yet. You know I'll let you and Caitlin figure this out. Bonding and all that," Ivy said and her hair faded back to auburn, her eyes changing back to the normal cinnamon ish color.
National City
Lara's Point of View
I dodged the first knife and caught the second throwing it back at the enemy, it struck true killing them. I moved to take on yet another former League member, this one clearly not as trained as the last, disarmed them quickly and knocked them out.
"Zari," I shouted alerting her to the blast of fire headed towards her. She countered with a blast of air. She and the meta circled each other neither beating the other.
I spun on my heel and ran into the thick of the fight to help Becky, who had been surrounded by five League people. Drawing back my bowstring I fired two arrows at once. Which knocked two of them to the ground and I ran to engage the third.
Ava took on the fourth and Becky handled the last rather quickly.
Coast City
Ariana's Point of View
So there are wizards here, all former Death Eaters, though I'm not really sure why they decided to work with Maxwell Lord. I dodged a Killing Curse and shot back a stunning spell hitting the person straight in the face.
Then suddenly all of the opposing armies disappeared in a blinding flash of light, leaving Cat, Barry, Helena, Jesse, Bellatrix, and I just standing in the middle of the city.
Central City
Kara's Point of View
I was fighting, if I remember correctly, Livewire. Yes, again.
Anyway, I was fighting Livewire when it happened. There was a blinding white light and suddenly Barry and me were surrounded by an army.
"Caitlin, we need some help here. I think everyone is here now," I said into the comns.
"Okay, I'm on my way," she said.
"I'll try to get everyone else's attention." With a loud crack, the people that were originally in Coast City arrived and immediately got to work. Within minutes everyone had arrived at the scene. Problem was that along with allies arrived Maxwell Lord and Lillian Luthor both decked out in full Kryptonite emitting suits. Which immediately ruled out the possibility of all of the Kryptonians helping, leaving us to deal with the army. I eventually found myself working with Livewire instead of against her.
"Change of heart?" I asked her.
"Not really, just don't feel like spending any more time working with or for that cockroach," she replied as an ear-splitting scream sounded. I whirled around to find Silver Banshee. Her face was gaunt, having been dead since March, and her eyes were blank. I quickly engaged her and defeated her. Zari flew past me, using her totem to force the side of Lord's plane thing to crumble. She flew out a minute later carrying what looked like a box. Caitlin immediately took off after her.
The army itself fell rather quickly, crumbling at the hands of the newly formed Justice League. Livewire had now joined the fight against Lord, whose suit is beginning to fail. Lillian took off, clearly not wanting to be here in the first place. Ava was holding back Lord's legs, keeping him in place with water from her totem. As she held him back Livewire hit the suit over and over again with bolts of pure electricity. Eventually, the suit fell to pieces, Nyssa drove her sword through his heart, and he was dead once again. But let's be honest with ourselves, that might not last.
That was the end of the actual battle. We all headed back to our respective cities and the media had a field day. But let me tell you that the only accurate story was the one that Kat wrote and published, which is due to the fact that she was the only one who bothered to get an inside source, or in her case more than one.
Laurel's funeral was a week after the battle. Sara took it the hardest of anyone, but she has all of us to help her through it and a new adventure ahead.
