Vlatavastok, Vltava
August 15, 2019
9:18 PM
"Comfortable?" Vertigo snickered, he sat on a stool in front of a cell in the dungeons underneath the palace. He had a cigar in one hand and a dagger in the other.
Inside the cell was Perdita, she lied on the floor as there was no bed, counter or concrete slab for her to rest on. Her forehead had multiple scabs and blood dripped from her lips.
The girl looked up at her uncle with an unforgiving glare. Her blue eyes were icy and fiery at the same time. She wanted to pounce, grab hold of the bars and shake them about. She would if Vertigo's pet, Claygirl wasn't standing there.
"Uncle, you've held me in here for months," She said, "Let me out or just kill me."
"Not yet my dear," He sneered at her, "Soon enough Beast Boy will find out that Claygirl here has been posing as you, and then and only then will I have my revenge."
Perdita groaned and buried her face into the ground. She sighed and closed her eyes. Her covered her ears but could still hear her uncle's maniacal laughter.
"Claygirl it's time for another show," He ordered his lakey.
Outside the palace hundreds of civilians gathered, protesting the ban on metahumans in the country. In the past months metahumans had their rights slowly taken one by one, now to the point where if someone was to be discovered as a meta they were immediately detained and never seen again.
Vertigo stayed behind the door, unseen to the crowds and Claygirl, now disguised as Predita walked up to the podium. She wrapped her hands around the sides of the podium and grinned.
Her darkwear contacts lit up, only changing the blue of her eyes slightly on her display was a manuscript written by Vertigo.
"Citizens of my beloved Vlatava, I know you are weary of the metahuman threat. We have no banned them outright, merely protecting you. There is no need to be concerned, all will be made right again."
Cave Justice, Boston, Masetcuttsets
August 15, 2019
9:25 PM
"That isn't Predita," Gar yelled, throwing the remote at the TV. He stood up and breathed heavily. His shoulders raising and lowering with every breath.
"Gar, I think you should calm down," Virgil said, "And replace the TV screen you just faucked up."
Gar rolled his eyes and leapt over the couch. He stormed out of the room with each step loudly banging on the floor. He passed by Tigress who smiled at him which he responded with a flipped bird.
"What crawled up his ass?" Artemis asked the teens in the room who pointed at the TV, which half of showed the image of Predita. Atremis clenched her jaw and looked back at Gar who entered the Zeta tube.
She turned back to Virgil and Ed she smiled and nodded her head. She walked around the couch and took a seat on the floor. She looked over at Virgil who now was watching Cassandra Cain enter the room. She snorted with a shake of her head.
"Dude, just be honest with her," Artemis recommended. To which Virgil immediately protested.
"What," He asked, "I have know idea what you are talking about."
Ed could barely hold in his laughter, always taking amusement at Virgil's crystal clear feelings for Cassandra. Virgil glared at him which only made Ed's howls of laughter even louder.
*Artemis, Lightning needs you up on the Watchtower asap* The voice of Zatanna rang through Artemis's commlink. She got up and walked to the zeta tube which she entered with it calling out her name.
*Tigress, B05*
The Hub, Hollywood CA
August 20, 2019
5:55 PM
"Settled in kid?" Barry asked, walking into the Hub's living room He smiled at Nathaniel who was watching Survivor with Cassie. The boy nodded and hardly acknoledged Barry who laughed to himself.
Dick, from the other side of the room gave the two a quick glance. This exact scene reminded him of the days of the old team. One night, when Wally decided to move into the cave after his graduation Barry came in the room and had the same exchange with the young man.
Dick never said anything, but he noticed that many times Barry would treat Nate the way he did Wally. Nate wasn't even his protege or related to him. Just a boy Barry asked Gar to let live in the Hub.
"Barry," Dick said, standing up and walking over to the speedster.
"What's up kid?" Barry asked with a smirk. Dicked sighed. He looked at Nate then back at Barry.
"You know he's not Wally," Dick said.
"Dick, I know he's not Wally," A puzzled look came over Barry's face. He raised an eyebrow and looked away from Dick.
Dick's eyes were tired, red and watery. Barry nodded. He put a hand on the former boy wonder's shoulder and smiled.
"Son, I know, I miss Wally too," Barry said, "I'm not replacing him if tha-"
*Kid Flash, B23* Bart ran into the room in his Kid Flash uniform. His visor was shattered and shards of glass stuck in his face. Large tears and holes were scattered all over his body.
"Bart! What happened!" Cassie shouted. She jumped over the back of the couch and ran to him. She wrapped on of his arms around her shoulders and guided him to the couch and laid him down.
Bart groaned, Cass motioned Nate to get some ice and Nate left the room. Cassie pulled Bart's cowl off and brushed the hair off his face.
"Vertigo, he ambushed Fire and Ice," Bart coughed, "I went to help them and then Inertia kinda roughed me up no biggie."
Nate walked back in with some towled and ice packs. He handed them to Cassie who wiped the blood off Bart's face.
"Hey," Nate said, "What's that in your leg?"
Bart looked down at his knee to see a huge shard of metal jabbed into him. He cringed.
"Guess I was on such an adrenaline high I didn't notice Ravager dentnating the truck," Bart said, "Oh yeah, all the Amazo parts are all destroyed by the way."
Berlin, Germany
April 30, 1945
8:41 PM
Wally chased after Thawne over a bridge, he jumped up and tackled the Reverse Flash down into the road under the bridge. Wally tumbled and regained his footing at the same exact time as Thawne.
"Not bad kid," Thawne chuckled, he crossed his arms and grinned mockingly at Wally. He put a heavy emphasis on the word kid.
"Why do you want the spear Thawne?" Wally demanded to know.
"I don't personally have a need for it, in fact I don't think it will even work for Vandal when I hand it to him. Only the pure of heart can wield its power." Thawne said.
"Sorry, you're not going to test that theory, you're ending up in a science cell," Wally sneered. He dashed forward, throwing his fist by Thawne face. Thawne grabbed Wally's arm and pulled the young man forward and jabbed Wally in the stomach with his knee.
Wally stumbled back and held his abdomen. Thawne smirked, he ran away back towards the rest of the Legion and his lackeys.
Starboy ducked under Presueder's axe, the large weapon slashed through a pillar of a building and sent the terrace crumbling down. Thom somersaulted behind the brute and waved his hands at him.
Presueder's axe became five times as heavy almost instantly. Thom smirked, he stood up and kicked Persuader, who struggled to get his weapon off of the ground, in the face. Persuader then grabbed Thom's leg and threw him in the air.
"Starboy!" Saturn Girl shouted, she used her telekinesis to stop him from flying away.
"Thanks Saturn Girl!" Starboy said, he then dropped down onto the building's roof.
Irma smiled, she didn't see Tharrok swing a fist into her face. When his metal knuckles collided with her cheek her mouth spat open with a back tooth flying out.
Irma collapsed to the ground and groaned in pain. Tharrok cackled, he transformed his arm into a mace and raised it high above his head.
"Shouldn't let your guard down kike," Tharrok snickered, he swung the weapon down towards her face, which she used a telekenetic force field to block. The recoil sent Tharrok's arm back up. He growled loudly and turned his arm into his Ion cannon.
He aimed at her, charging the weapon up. The barrel glew purple and Irma's eyes reflected the canon of doom's light.
Tharrok's grin returned when he saw her fear then he fired. But not at her, his arm was suddenly moved up into the air by Wally West.
Wally's eyes were filled with fire and lightning. He held Tharrok's arm pointed at the sky as the purple beam of energy fired towards the stars.
Tharrok rammed his head forwards. Wally moved out of the way and Tharrok stumbled forwards. Wally then elbowed the cyborg in the back of the neck.
"West!" Thawne yelled, he tackled Wally to the ground and punched him over and over in the face. Wally shoved his palm in Thawne jaw and tried to push him off. He kneed him in the crotch and then headbutted him.
Thawne stood up and then fell on his back. Wally got back up to his feet and looked over to the Darkrider. Thawne time ship.
He saw Booster running towards it. The hell's that kid doing?
Micheal told his droid, Skeets to hack the Darkrider's landing hatch.
"Sorry kid," Mano mocked the boy, "You might open her up but you're not getting inside."
"Skeets, you know what you're looking for get it." Micheal told the droid that flew into the ship. Mano went to chase it, but was cut off by a blast of plasma in front of him coming from Booster's arm.
"I'll tear that armor apart," Mano snarled, his hands glowed green and dripped acid. He claw punched at Booster's chest. It singed the blue star on Booster's chest plate.
Mike swung a right hook at Mano, his wrist was caught by the villain and twisted around. Mike yelped in pain, Mano threw his arm down and head butted the boy.
The visor over Mcheal's eyes shattered, glass fell around him and he fell backwards. He crashed onto his back and scooted backwards away from Mano who cackled like a madman.
Mano grabbed Mike's ankle, one of the few areas on Mike's suit that wasn't covered in titanium. He burned through the kevlar and started to slowly burn through Mike's flesh.
Micheal screamed as loud as his lungs would allow him to.
Mano let go of the boy when a lasterbolt ricochet off of hull of the timeshipe. He turned around and scowled at Brainiac 5, who held a laser blaster in one hand and a second in the other.
"You kids are getting very annoying," Mano said. He pressed a button on his left glove and a turret of the Darkrider started to whir and rotate. The cannons aimed at Brainiac and fired immediately.
Brainy leaped out of the way. The turret followed him and kept firing at him. He fired his blasters at Mano who controlled the cannons while laughing like a hyena. He unloaded his blaster bolts, not hitting Mano even once as he tried to evade the laser blasts that were leaving craters in the pavement around him.
Once out of ammo he threw his guns to the ground and ran for Mano reeling in a punch. Mano rolled his eyes and grabbed Brainiac's fist. He melted the glove off of his hand and then the flesh off of Brainiac's fist.
Brainiac screamed in pain, he started to collapse to his knees. Mano wouldn't let him fall yet. He then tightened his grip on the boy's hand and the green acid became yellow, burning through bone.
He let go of Brainiac and let the boy fall to the ground. Brainiac held onto his wrist and mangled hand, still screaming bloody hell. Tears flowed from his eyes in constant streams as he held onto his hand.
Or what was left of it.