A/N Most people spend Christmas with family and friends. I am here writing fanfiction. Merry Christmas or whatever you celebrate this time of a year. By my calculation except this chapter there will be 6-8 more. Then I can take a break and properly plan the sequel.

The conmanw: May be. May be not

AnishKr: this chapter wasn't even a day old yet. I try to update every two-three days provided I have time. One chapter takes me anywhere between three and eight hours (usually it depends on how much research I need to do or how distracted I get with other things).

Gamelover41592: Batman is actually one of my favorite characters most of the time. Except two itterations: the Batman from Superman v Batman: Dawn of Justice and the Young Justice Batman. First one is just a very poorly done. The young Justice one is paranoic and has serious trust issues (see season 3). YJ batman was good in first season, but then they ruined him. I love the bat from Batman: TAS. I grew up on this cartoon and to this day it is still one of my favorite.

Wally found himself in the void. There was nothing but darkness. He could remember glimpses of events that occurred not so long ago. Him eating weird brownie, the pain of his organs slowly burning, then a moment of peace followed by more torture. He spent hours wriggling while his body was practically on fire. Most of it was the same. He didn't care to remember. But there were some moments he did remember. A beautiful blonde girl, standing close to his bed. Artemis! He opened his eyes, hoping to wake from this, but he woke in the very same void, only now he was wearing a hospital gown instead of his normal clothes.

"What are you willing to sacrifice? What would you give away to go back before this happen? To have it like it never was?" A dark and mysterious voice sounded.

"Who are you? Invading the minds of others is not cool dude." Wally asked, looking into the void. He tried to pinpoint the unknown person, but it came from all around him. He tried to move, but his body was not responding to his commands.

"Curious little brat, aren't you? My name is not important." The voice chuckled and image of Artemis appeared. She was sitting on a chair, frozen. About five feet behind her there was a gun pointed at the back of her head. There was no one holding it, but Wally could tell that it was about to fire. He wanted to rush there and save her, but his body was not working. A gunshot could be heard. He tapped into the speed force. Everything seemed to slow down, but he was unable to even lift a finger. "Ah. You do care about her. It's a shame you had no chance to explore the feelings you two shared before this."

Something in speedster's mind clicked. "Wait! This isn't real. It's all in my head." He started to concentrate, trying to wake up, but no matter what, he had no possibility.

"Yes. And no. This..." Wally could only guess that it referred to Artemis being shot. He was still holding onto the speed force like a life-line, trying to figure out a way to save her. "This might not be real. But it could. She is after all a heroine. This could happen every day. And you are powerless to save her."

"N-no! She is strong. She can protect herself. Besides, why would I even care?" He tried to bluff himself out, but it didn't work. Suddenly, a three-bladed necklace appeared on her neck.

"She made her choice. She wanted to save you, but what are you willing to do to save her?"

Wally wanted to protest, to stall, to reject this, but he couldn't one look at her face and he found it impossible. Kent Nelson's words sounded in his head. 'Find your own little spitfire, one who won't let you get away with nothin'.' He remembered how she scowled him about his actions, his stupidity. Another set of images appeared before his eyes. Her, sitting next to hospital bed on which he was, cursing his stupidity, crying. She was angry at him. Only now it hit him. She didn't hate him and did it to spite him. Maybe at first. But she really did it, because she cared about him and didn't want to see him hurt, which is exactly what she was seeing now. Wally West, Kid Flash, laying in bed unconscious and barely alive. The greatest torture for her. To hell with the consequences.

"Fine. What do you want?"

"What will you offer?" The voice spoke in amusement. Wally almost physically felt the triumph of whoever this was.

"Same thing she did. I know she made some deal with you." It was a wild guess, but his intuition gave him an idea.

"You are smarter than they give you credit for, Punk. Yes. She offered her service in exchange for your life." Mysterious person sounded amused.

"What!? You can't do that! I didn't agree to this!" Every muscle in his body received a jolt of energy as he tried to move to her at speed greater than ever before. The bullet was almost there. Necklace, now resting on her chest was shining with a bit of purple light.

"It's not yours to decide. She made her choice. What is yours?"

Wally did not have too much time to think. "I want to you to guarantee that she won't be hurt. She is to walk unharmed from this deal."

The chuckle turned into near-maniacal laughter, sending chills down KF's spine. This was good, because he actually felt it. "Fine." A ring with mars' symbol appeared in front of him. "As long as you wear this ring our deal is in power. You will follow my orders and in exchange she will be safe, protected and reciprocate your feelings. Take it off for too long and..." Suddenly necklace around Artemis' neck started to choke her. It wrapped around her neck and slowly led her to the death. In panic, Wally put on the ring. Immediately, it all stopped. He felt legs and hands work again. Without second thought, he dashed, tackling her before bullet passed near his head. They both stumbled down, but before either touched the ground (or whatever as they were in dark void), he woke up.

He felt Artemis holding his hand and he couldn't resist slightly squishing it, giving her signal that he is awake. He opened his eyes and looked at her. He noticed that she was indeed wearing the necklace, but decided to drop the matter for now.

"Hello there beautiful. Who are you waiting for?" He asked, still weakened from the whole ordeal. He felt small sparks of lightning jumping around his body. Speed-force was repairing the damage done to his body almost in an instant.

"You are awake!" She screamed and looked ready to jump and hug him, but stopped herself. This saddened him. He would want nothing more than to be in her embrace right now. This was a bit strange. Before this whole thing, he would only have eyes on M'gann, but now she was nothing but a distant memory. But he didn't care about it one bit. Only girl that mattered was Artemis now.

"Yes and I must say this is the best way to wake up: looking at beautiful girl holding my hand." Wally tried to get up, but she stopped him.

"Where do you think you are going? First you need to be properly checked up."

"Whatever you say sweetheart."

They looked in each other eyes and slightly melted. Neither realized that a man with red eyes clad in yellow version of Flash outfit observed them through camera. Said man crashed his coffee mug in anger. Ares just ruined everything he worked so hard to put in motion.

Jump City
October 5, 19:46

Percy was sitting in the main room with Zoe, watching the evening news. Right now the presenter was talking about large meteor rain that should be visible from most of the United States area. After their little stunt with the league of shadows they earned quite a fame. Captain Atom gave Wonder Woman some scolding over the fact she went on such dangerous mission without proper backup, but she in turn just handed him video from island surveillance cameras. His face when he saw how two young heroes dealt with everything while she sat back to observe was priceless. He welcomed them back to the team and gave them two days before they would go back. In the meantime information of Wally's miracle return to health got Percy into great mood.

"Do you think they will accept me?" Zoe suddenly asked.

"Why wouldn't they? You are smart, strong, brave and kick ass better than even me." He grinned, which earned him a gentle strike in the arm. Nothing strong enough to leave a mark, but he felt that. At least she doesn't send a jolts of lightning while doing that. Thalia really should work on controlling her powers.

"I am serious. You were vouched for by wonder woman herself after you trained with her. The best I can get is your word."

Percy chuckled and switched to another news channel. Images of her walking through the island full of shadows while sniping everything that moved appeared. "I think this will serve as enough of the invitation. You have nothing to worry about. Besides. You are like four thousands years old. Don't tell me you got stage-fright."

Her expression darkened. "No. It's just that... I am not sure I am cut for the team work."

"Said the lieutenant of the hunt who worked with group of man-hatting girls for at least as long as since the foundation of Rome." Percy was aware how stupid and grammatically wrong this sentence was just after it left his mind, but there was some twisted logic behind it.

"What? Why you used foundation of Rome as a reference point?" Zoe long gave up on trying to figure out his train of thoughts. He was the most ADHD demigod she met and she once encountered a daughter of Hermes on quadruple rissteretto. Not the best memories. She was so annoying and so fast...

"Well... Chiron told us that Heracles fought in the Troian war. Since after you were banished you lost your immortality and you look pretty beau... I meant young, so you joined hunt shortly after. The survivor of Troian war Aeneas was the founder of Rome, so by this account it must have been around this time. Give or take twenty years." He summarized in one breath. He was proud of recreating his train of thoughts, which was not always possible. There was this one time when teacher asked him about a entry in the book and he somehow got lost in thoughts and instead started to hum Harry Potter intro. The entry was about fall of Berlin Wall...

Zoe giggled at his logic. It was of course wrong, but she did not have a heart to tell him that. "Let's go with that. But still, my first years with the huntress weren't the greatest. I actually had hard time fitting in. Back at the garden my sisters and I weren't taught how to shoot a bow or hunt or sneak around or even sharpen arrows. While my Lady's blessing helped, I still had to learn this. Let's just say I wasn't a very fast learner." She scowled at Percy's chuckle, but decided to continue. "I didn't want to work with others and trained in every free moment. I preferred to act alone. I wanted to prove that I was actually worthy of the grace I received and make sure I didn't need to rely on anyone. It took me almost five years to warm up to the thought of not being alone. Other huntresses didn't help much. They thought I needed space so decided to give it to me. I was actually pretty bossy and irritating back then, can you imagine?" This joke earned a full out laugh from Percy. She just rolled her eyes.

"I... I think I can... Imagine alright..." He managed to say while giving a healthy laugh. He calmed himself after a bit. She wanted to continue, but he stopped her. "It doesn't matter. You changed. You grew up. You led the hunters through almost all the history. Look... If you really want to back up, then fine. We don't need to join them to help people. It's up to you. But they are our friends. Remember the evening after the battle with deadly plants? We had fun, right? They are great and will accept you with open arms. Just please don't castrate them?" He more asked than stated at the end.

"I will think about it. No promises. Just because I find you tolerable, doesn't mean they will all be the same." She said, but also gave him a heartwarming smile.

"Well, we will still live here. That is unless you prefer to move to the cave full time. Like I said this was supposed to be temporary."

"No needs. It grew on me. I like it here. Besides they don't have such a great TV." She said and turned her eyes on the screen. "See if there is any movie."

"Disney's Hecules is pl..." He didn't get to finish the sentence before silver arrow flew through holographic screen and bounced from now-reinforced window. They were pretty tough before, but had a pretty crucial flaw: sonic discharges crushed them. Now their new windows were made from some kryptonian weave that was supposedly almost indestructible. A gift from superman. "I take it's a no. Okay... Oh! There is Finding Nemo! Can we watch this one? Please!" Percy smiled at her and gave her baby seal face.

Zoe was still angry. Why out of every things different between two worlds Disney had to remain the same? It's like some multi-dimensional conspiracy trying to take over all worlds. She hated how they made Heracles into a hero. He was a monster who used others to achieve his goals. "Fine." She was still frowning while movie started. After it finished Percy somehow got his hands on sequel and they watched it too. Then there was another movie. Near the end she felt herself drifting away to the realm of Morpheus. She noticed Percy was already already asleep. He looked almost peaceful. She smiled at the small stream of drool forming at the corner of his mouth. He really did drool in his sleep.

Next day they yet again woke hugging each other. Strangely, Zoe found it quite comforting.

Alaska
October 6, 10:33

While most of meteors burned in the atmosphere, one particular managed to survive and crash in a frozen lake last night. Area was rarely populated, but one old man lived in close proximity. This man spent most of his days just fishing is said lake or, if previous day he had had a particularly good catch, he traveled to nearby town about two miles south to sell his catch.

Like usually, the Man walked to the lake, planning on cutting a hole in new place, but the whole icecap was gone, crushed. Guided by his curiosity, he walked closer to the body of water and noticed that many fish were tossed onto the sand. He peered a bit and noticed an eerie glow from the bottom of the lake. Something was in there. He tried to get a better look, but he slipped and fell into ice-cold water. His clothes immediately soaked in water and started to drag him down. His muscles were in shock and he lost control over his motor functions. Slowly, he descended in cold water. He could feel his consciousness slip away, but he fought and tried to stay awake, to figure something out. His vision was clouded, but before he passed out he noticed a colossal monster. The surprise was enough to take away last strips of control he had. His heart stopped from the cold and life escaped his body.

Whatever this creature was, it was big. Towering as high as 9 feet tall, this gray-skinned beast had large white spikes all over his body. Some formed protective shells around his limbs or more important areas. The only piece of clothing it was wearing were a pair of green shorts made of some heat-resistant material. His face was ugly and also covered in spikes forming something akin to human facial hair. His eyes were closed, but there was a little bit of red glow from under his eyelids. This was the ultimate creature, the perfect killer, the harbinger of end. This was Doomsday.

Mount Justice
October 6, 13:16

Percy and Zoe were training hand-to-hand combat in the holo-ring while waiting for others to finally come. It was Wednesday so the rest of their teammates were at school. M'gann probably already planned a welcome party, but since they didn't want to waste another day watching TV or fixing history books, both demi-gods decided to get there earlier and train.

Percy was now wearing a tank top and shorts. His belt was in camouflage mode, making it into simple cord around his waist. Demigod's naturally tanned muscles were now covered in sweat. Zoe was wearing T-shirt and leggins, showing much less skin. She was also pretty tired. Her hair was like always made into single long braid which she threw over her shoulder, but it was a bit messed from almost three hours of training now. Her two bracelets were shining, reflecting some of the light.

She threw a punch, aiming at Percy's mid-section, but he dodged with extreme agility, catching her wrist and doing a judo-flip. Mid-air huntress shifted her center of gravity and did a 180 flip, landing on her legs. She then did a swipe, trying to take advantage of her opponent's surprise, but demigod jumped over her leg and used this as an advantage to launch a hammerhead strike. She crossed her hands in front of her blocking the attack. She made sure to will her outfit not to appear. The moment his attack met with her block, Zoe pushed him away. She expected him to land on his back, but he instead did a somersault, landing on his hands and then with another back-flip he was back on his legs and in combat stance. This created some distance between them.

Both started to circle one another, taking their time to look for opening and catch their breath. Percy noticed that she putting too much weight to her left leg and decided to exploit it. He lunged at her. He faked the right hook and instead did kick into her weighted leg. To his surprise before the attack connected she shifted her balance and dodged the kick, at the same time punching him in the chest. He tried to block the strike, but doing so he put himself of balance. Even if the punch did not connect, the force was enough to send him tumbling onto the floor of holo-ring. A bright red 'DEFEAT' sign appeared over his head.

Zoe walked over to him and extended her hand, offering him help with standing up. He smiled and took it.

"That put us 8-8." She had a look of triumph on her face.

"Yes. That was a brilliant fight." Came Black Canary's voice. She watched them train from the very beginning, always giving them pointers. "Great deception at the end Huntress, but it was risky. If not executed perfectly, you would be the one to loose. Great tactic up until the end Neptune, but putting everything into one strike is risky." She smiled at them. "You are both expert martial artists. I haven't watched this good fights since Batman battled Lady Shiva." Black Canary was complementing them, causing Zoe to smile and Percy to get a bit uncomfortable.

"It can't be that good..." He tried to defend.

"You know there is such thing as too much modesty?" Zoe joked. Over past three weeks she and Percy became quick friends. The better she knew him, the more assured she was that he was nothing like other males she encountered. Loyal, modest, helpful, brave... He was nothing like Heracles. He was a hero in every meaning of this word. He was also honest, never hiding anything from her. It pained her that she couldn't do the same, but her Lady asked her not to tell anyone about their little talk. Artemis said she can't order her anything, but it was for the best right now. Percy few times asked her what happened when she used the pill of godly essence and she always had to lie about it. He was honest about everything so far. He even openly showed her his weakness when he told her about his arrival. She remembered how she hugged her after this, back in the mall. Then he did the same when she was breaking apart from all the pressure of... everything that happened. He didn't take advantage of her weakness, instead been there for her. He was a friend she really needed.

"Zoe? Zoe?!" She snapped out of her thoughts and noticed Percy waving his hand in front of her eyes. "Earth to Zoe Nightshade. I asked are you up for another round."

"Oh. Sorry. Got lost in my thoughts." She got a bit embarrassed, but it quickly passed. "I think this is enough for today for me." She gave him a smile. "But help yourself. I am sure this thing has some holographic robots to smash or something." She was surprised how easily it came to her to get a grasp on this world's technology.

"Yeah, but I don't know how to program them." He gave both women a sheepish smile.

"Then learn" She tossed and walked toward now fixed showers. She was already at the exit when an unfamiliar voice spoke.

Recognized: Artemis B0-6
Recognized: Kid Flash B0-3

"Hello people! Your favorite Wallman is back in the game! New! Improved! Better than ever!" A yellow blur was flying all over the cave now, like it was looking for something. Percy was chuckling at the confusion that appeared on Zoe's face. Finally, she had enough. When whoever that was about to pass next to her, she extended her hand and with inhuman reflex grabbed him by the neck and lifted in the air. "Oh! Hello beauty. What brings you here?" He was about to start flirting with her, which would probably end with castration, but image of Artemis appeared before his eyes.

"Try hitting on me and I will make you sing in soprano for the rest of your life boy."The last word sounded like it was the worst offense she could find.

"Whoa. Someone is on..." He wanted to joke, but suddenly he found himself without air.

"Think carefully what you want to say boy. I dare you. Give me a reason." Wally knew that Percy had a wolf stare that could give the 'patented batman stare' a run for his money, but this girl put them both to shame. He tried to gulp, but her hand was gripping his throat too tight.

"Zoe. Put him down. Guy just got out of hospital." Percy finally stopped laughing. Artemis had to sit down or risk falling down from the laughing.

"So he better watch out or I will send him back there faster than he can say 'flirt'." She looked him in the eyes. "Is that clear enough for you boy?"

Unable to speak he energetically nodded his head. She let him go and he fell on his butt with a loud Thud!, generating another wave of laughter from Percy and Artemis. When KF finally managed to stand up he made sure to keep his distance from the scary woman.

Percy walked to Wally and hugged him. "It's good to see you back on your feet." He let him go and his expression darkened. "Listen. I am really sorry for this mess I put you through... If it wasn't for me, you would never have..."

Wally cut him there. "What are you talking about man? It wasn't your fault. No one could prevent that..."

Percy was still in really bad mood. "I could. If I didn't rage and run away, I could collect my things and stop it. If I just accept being a god instead of running away I could..." He received a slap on his face. He saw Artemis standing in front of him.

"Ugh! Stop blaming yourself. It wasn't your fault. It wasn't Wally's fault. It wasn't nobody's fault...

Zoe chimed in. "Actually, I think that the last one was double negative, so you are saying it was someone's fault." She grinned, taking pleasure in catching her on mistake.

"You shut up." Artemis snapped and Zoe. She noticed that Percy was still gloomy and decided to get sweet revenge. "Instead of finding flaws in people speech you would do better job cheering up your boyfriend." The emerald-clad archer grinned at the two.

Both Percy and Zoe immediately forgot about everything and blushed deep red. He started to mumble something under his breath that nobody could decipher. She on the other hand once she got over initial embarrassment started to fume with anger. She remained silent, but inside her head there was a giant train of thoughts.

"How dare this... This... How dare she assume I would ever break my oath. I am sworn maiden, servant of... I am a huntress. How dare this little girl suggest that I am dating some Male? As if I would ever decide to date anyone." Even in her mind she was babbling incoherently. She couldn't even get grasp on her thoughts. "But on the other hand Percy is not like other males..." She caught herself actually thinking about it. "He is still a boy, but he is honorable, brave, loyal, humble, honest, handsome... WAIT WHAT AM I THINKING?!" She wanted to blame it on Eros or Aphrodite, but neither could do anything in this world. She was about to overheat from the rage and her mind started to boil. That had to be it. She could never fall for any Male. Not again. Never again... Right? "Sure Percy is a great friend and proved that he is different, but to fall for him? We know each other for what? Three weeks now. It can't happen that fast. Not possible..."

Percy finally managed to deal with his embarrassment and turned to Zoe, who was sending Artemis a death glare, but the girl was practically unfazed by it. Wally on the other hand looked like he wanted to cower behind whatever was closest (Artemis) and stay there until scary lady was gone. Demigod walked to Zoe and put a hand on her shoulder. This finally broke her train of thoughts, but she was still glaring daggers in the general direction where Artemis and Wally stood.

"If you ever even try to suggest such things again, I will..." She was about to threaten the other archer with some torture or death, but Percy stopped her.

"Zoe. Calm down okay? You are turning new shades of red and none of them are the ones you see at night." He joked, but nobody cached onto his idea. It did cause Zoe to break the eye contact and instead send him a confused look. "Shade. Night. Zoe Nightshade." Percy tried to explain, but it only earned him a hit in his arm. Like always, no mark left but it actually hurt.

"Now I need to finally get to the showers. If you excuse me." Zoe said nonchalantly and walked away.

"Talk about temper." Wally said once he thought she was far away to hear him, but to his surprise the huntress actually turned around and sent him a death glare.

"Want to add something, boy?" This caused Wally to whimper and run behind Artemis, who just rolled her eyes and stood there, ready to protect Kid Flash. Zoe just smiled and walked away, this time for real.

"Ugh. Where did you even find her Perce?" Artemis asked the remaining demigod. He laughed and pointed at the couch.

"Maybe let's sit. This is a long story."

They did as he suggested and listened when he described events that procured while the two young heroes stayed out of the business. They were both anxious when he told them who was Ares. Inside, they both made a connection between this and mysterious voice. Especially Wally once he heard about how god of war loves to overuse the word 'punk'. Neither could say anything. They didn't even talk about it between themselves. Artemis already had one big secret she kept from everyone. Now this... She didn't want to tell Wally. If he knew that she agreed to betray everyone he might have rejected her. He on the other hand already knew everything and was too conflicted about it to face her about it now. He wanted to wait at least until it he knew what to think about it. He couldn't really blame her. He made almost the very same deal. They both did it to save the other and now they had to deal with this Ares guy.

Percy skipped few details himself. There was no need for them to know what god of war showed him in visions or that Zoe came back butt naked. He had a hunch that if either of them ever found out, they would use it in argument against her and whoever did it would end up in hospital. Then Percy would probably join them. After he was done explaining what happened in the bank of Perez, he told them about his second encounter with Ares, back at Bayou Bartholomew.

"No way!" Wally laughed. "I call bullshit. Gathering the water from a mile radius? Earthquake magnitude 8.7? That kind of power could level whole cities."

"Besides nobody would believe you took down whole 'Injustice League' with one swipe of your hand." Artemis was also laughing.

"Well, since I came here, I keep getting stronger. I have no idea what is the limit of my powers and if there is even one..."

"That makes no sense. Wonder Woman is supposed to be a half-god and half-amazon. This would put her one above anyone. How can you topple that power?" Artemis was trying to reason.

"Well, I was always one of the strongest demigods back in my world. In here... I feel like I got power of all the oceans at my disposal." He smiled.

Wally frowned. "Yeah... Gods, 'power of the oceans', what next? Giant dogs?" Percy wanted to tell him about Mrs. O'Leary, but he continues to rant. "I can accept you are from an alternate dimension. I saw weirder things. But the whole 'demigod' business? That is just one. Big. Joke." He accented each word. "You can't expect us to suddenly believe that Greek Gods are the only real ones. Heck. Egyptian gods were there earlier. And what about Christian God? Are all the other religions just lies?" He was in his rant mode. Even if nobody noticed it, in his eyes appeared a speck of burnt red. Anger started to cloud his mind.

Percy just grinned at the outburst. He has seen worse. "Well... Funny story..." He paused trying to figure out best way to say it when Artemis interrupted.

"Wait! You are trying to tell us other gods exist too?" She wanted to say some more, but Percy started talking.

"Well it looks like it. I mean I met some of Egyptian gods and Annabeth told me that her cousin is Norse Demigod." He couldn't help but still sadden a little bit at the mention of Annabeth. "So yeah. There is that."

Wally was about to explode. "There is no such thing as magic. There is no such thing as Gods. If you ask me they are just some really powerful race of aliens with highly advanced tech that decided to play gods for some backwater planet."

Percy decided to relent and not get into heated argument on theology. "Maybe you are right, but it doesn't change the fact that people from my dimension tend to get little... Overpowered in this world. Just like kryptonians with the yellow sun." They both wanted to argue about it more, but at this very moment M'gann and Conner returned.

Alaska
October 6, 19:23

A group of government agents set up a perimeter around some random lake. They were slowly pumping out the water to safely move the rock. Nobody noticed a woman dressed in dark red clothes sitting on one of the trees. Lady Shiva pressed a button on her binoculars and sent the feed back to the Light.

"I tracked the supposed kryptonite meteorite, but it is not what we think. While there are some traces of said material in the close proximity, the object is unlike anything I've ever seen before." She zoomed at the beast to allow members of the Light get a better look. "This... Monster appears to still be alive and unharmed by the entrance into the atmosphere nor by the crash. Move to intercept?"

"Wait. Let the government do the hard work." In her ear sounded the voice of Vandal Savage. "It's not like we are in any hurry so why be rush?"

"As you wish." She sat still, awaiting the further development. When League of Shadows has been crushed she was one of the last free members. With Sportsmaster and Sensei taken out, it was up to Deathstroke and her to help Ra's Al Ghoul rebuild what was destroyed by this demigod. While Slade was now the newest enforcer for the light, she was trusted with training the other assassins. It didn't mean she couldn't do a field job once in a while. While Deathstroke was busy with tracking this traitor Cheshire, Vandal Savage asked her to investigate the crash of some meteor. Normally, the light wouldn't bother with something so trivial, but they were being stretched thin.

Undisclosed Location
October 6, 19:25

Once Lady Shiva finished her report, Vandal Savage turned to rest of the members. "What do you think?"

"I've never seen such thing..." Luthor took a close look at the zoomed image. "It is some kind of alien, but I have no idea..."

Brain created a three dimensional image of the scan Lady Shiva sent. "I analyzed it's visible physical build and I can tell few things about this species." He said with clear french accent. "This species is definitely predatory. His strong muscle and sharp claws suggest it is practically made to kill. The spikes and bone-like plating might indicate that he is not the strongest on the planet he comes from, but he adapted. This planet either has a surface made of grey rock or this creature doesn't bother with camouflage. The first one would be of course better for us." Queen Bee sent him questioning glare. Brain didn't bother to explain such thing. It was below his intellect so Lex had to do it for him.

"Milady. If a creature developed camouflage it means there are other, more dangerous predators hunts them. But if alien evolved beyond the camouflage, replacing it with let's say hardened skin and bone like protrusions, it would mean that this is the apex predator where he comes from."

"And if we take in account that he survive entering the atmosphere and the impact, we can safely assume the second option." Ra's voiced his opinion.

"So we take control over him. If our tech works on him, we might have just gotten a new powerful weapon." Queen Bee smiled maliciously.

"What with my Body? I am slowly loosing my grip on this world. It will take me years to return here. Years you might not have with this punk running around. You've seen what Poseidon's brat did to the shadows. He will take you all down if I do not stop this menace." Ares was fuming with anger. While he was forced to act from the shadows, barely anchored to this world Perseus enjoyed himself and triumphed over god's allies.

"If you ask me it would not have happened if we just let him be." Luthor voiced his opinion.

"And then what? He would at some point run into our plans. Elimination was the best course of action" Ra's Al ghoul countered.

"Only when done properly." Queen Bee chimed in, shutting the Demon's Head down.

"Enough. What is done is done. We have more pressing matters than shifting blames from one another." Vandal calmed everyone down.

"But it is so much fuuun..." Klarion moaned. "I mean look how much chaos this creates." He was smiling until his cat meowed. "Yeah Yeah. I remember. They are our Allies. No need to remind me about it every five minutes Teekl."

"Luthor. How long will it take you and Klarion to finish this little project of yours?" Manta asked.

"We already moved the prototype from Cadmus to more secure lab and started the final preparation. I am sure it will match your needs, oh great god of war." the last line caused burnt red flames to fire from the helmet.

"Do not mock me mortal. I have more power than you could ever imagine!"

Luthor wanted to say something, but Queen Bee stopped him. "Then I suggest Klarion and Lex get to work. I also have my own matters to attend. If it is all, then we should get going. The light finished their meeting and members that weren't present physically disconnected and returned to their own matters at hand.

"Soon my friend. You will get your revenge and I will rid the world of the plague known as Justice League. Then, you will have a chance to permanently anchor yourself to this world."

"Yes. I will be safe while my brethren at Olympus die slow and painful death." A creeping laugh could be heard from inside the helmet.

Teton County
October 10, 04:23

In some underground bunker Professor T.O. Morrow watched his assistant check on two red android while he worked on something himself. He was a Caucasian male with green eyes, black hair and a pencil mustache.

"When the prodigal son returned, his father saw him and had compassion and run and embraced him. For this, his son was lost and had been found. You are Prodigal son Tornado and I rejoice at your return. And thank you for making our little family reunion possible." He leaned back and placed away his tool. "Now, you must have many questions. None? Oh! I have forgotten. The voice box is off line. But your eyes and ears still function." He walked closer to the table. Red tornado looked him in the eyes. "As does the prodigious mind I built for you all those years ago." Professor leaned to be closer to his 'son' and continued. "And really, what else matters?"

He walked away, leaving Red Tornado in pieces on what could be called 'operation table'. Android's body was separated into different large parts. His chest was opened to reveal a glowing yellow core and his head, also separated from everything else, was detached and plugged into some system.

A/N I wish you all a merry Christmas! Sorry the chapter is yet again a bit shorter, but I am setting the stage for several action-packed ones. I dropped quite a lot of clues about my plans for the future so there is that.