Vlatvastok, Vlativa
September 20, 2019
8:40
Beast Boy and Bella ran through the halls of the catacombs, searching for the other prisoners. With several League of Assassins foot soldiers following them. Every so often Bella would stop, turn around and flash her light into the soldiers's eyes. The villains would stop and she'd hop back onto Gar's horseback and shine her light in front of them acting as his headlights.
They came down to a corner and hung a tight right, ramming themselves into the wall. With groans and grunts the pair tumbled on their asses and onto the ground. Gar wiped a scar on his forehead after morphing back to human form. He stood back up and ran a few feet over to Isobella and grabbed her arm.
"Bella you good?" Gar asked, helping the girl back to her feet as she rubbed a fresh bruise on the side of her face. She gave a small nod, Gar gave her a smirk.
Their smiles went away when they heard Devastation's cackling voice right in front of them. The two teens stared down the brutish woman, with anger filled eyes.
"You won't be," Devastation chuckled with an evil grin. Devastation cracked her knuckles, "Talon, Halocaust, kill them!"
Halocaust smirked and his hand glew bright orange. Illuminating the room in fiery light. Damian sighed and shrugged, he reached to his hip and pulled his short blade from its scabbard.
Beast Boy let out an animalistic growl, his green eyes turned black as his pupils expanded. He transformed into a jaguar and stood ready to pounce in front of Bella. His eyes slowly moved between Halocaust, Talon and Devastation as if he couldn't choose his prey.
Down the hall several yards away Perdita and Courtney sat in their cell, both nearly asleep until they heard the loud roar of a predatory cat and Talon screaming that he'll kill the Beast Boy.
"Garfield?" Perdita gasped. She exchanged glances with Courtney and looked across the hallway at Nate who was now standing at the very edge of his cell, his head poking through the bars.
He gave her a nod. To which Perdita gave him a thumbs up.
"Hey!" Nate called out to the Terror Twins. Tommy turned around, "You really gonna let the rookie get a win like that."
"Like what," Tommy asked. Nate laughed.
"Killing the leader of The Outsiders," Nate mocked the fellow southern boy. "How bout you tutts?"
"Surely if the two of you were out there instead Devastation wouldn't be going through so much trouble trying to kill him." Courtney sneered in the shadows of her cell.
Tommy and Tuppence both gave each other a knowing look. Obviously these guys were trying to escape, but they weren't going nowhere. So the twins ran off into the distance off to the battle ahead.
"What now?" Perdita asked. Nate shook his head.
"Queen you underestimate," Nate said coyly, "My power."
Perdita saw a small blade in Nate's hand, and saw one of the foot soldiers who remained had his dagger missing from the sheath on his back.
Nate sighed and put the blade underhand on his side, and smirked. He then went to his knees then on his butt and started howling.
"Are you fuckers ever gonna feed us?" He screamed like a little baby. The same guard who indeed have a sandwich for himself glared at Nate and put the food on the desk and walked over to Nate's cell.
"Kid I'm not paid enough to feed scum like you," The guard snarled, he pulled out a key and put it in the cell door and then pulled the bo staff off his back. He opened the cell door and prepped a backswing only for Nate to shoot up and stab him in the armpit.
Nate then grabbed the belt strap on his chest and pulled the guard forward while raising his leg up and ramming his knee into the guard's stomach. He then threw the guy on the floor and stepped on his fingers, probably breaking a few. He reached down and took the collar controler from him and ran out of the cell occupied only by the guard.
"Peace out homie!" Nate chuckled slamming it shut and locking it. He shut off his collar and vibrated his body, the collar fell to the ground. Nate unlocked Perdita's and Courtney's cell and tossed Court the key.
"You guys go find the other prisoners," He said putting his mask on.
"You're going to go fight them Nathaniel?" Perdita asked.
"Well I certainly don't want you fellas doing it in my superpowered place," Nate said sternly with an uncharacteristic frown.
Courtney rolled her crystalline eyes and shrugged in exasperation. Whatever, she thought. Get yourself killed kid.
"Then go," Courtney said. Nate gave her a nod and ran off after the Terror Twins.
Nate ran up behind Tuppence and jumpped onto her back and grabbed her bangs, she was growing her hair back out. Bad call, Nate thought about it. She had been discussing it with the guards earlier that she felt less attractive with the quote on quote ''dyke cut''.
With her hair in his hands Nate flung himself backwards and pulled her over. He ran out from under the titan of a young woman. Tommy turned around when her heard his sister grunt in pain.
"Stupid kid!" Tommy shouted, lunging forward with a fist ready to smash Nate into the wall. Nate moved out of the way and under Tommy's legs.
"Sayonara Senior!" Nate said running off in Beast Boy's direction, he snuck up on Talon who was singing at Isobella's head with a short sword. Nate rammed his shoulder into Damian's back.
Damian turned around at glared at the young speedster. He let out a prepubescent scream and raised his blade high above his head. He swung down at Nate who moved out of the way and laughed. Damian growled and jumped back.
"Done already?" Nate asked mockingly, he then tried to run after Damian only to realize Hulacaust melted his boots to the ground. Nate sighed and rolled his eyes, "Great."
"Yeah it is," A raspier version of Bart's voice sounded through the halls as a streak of black, blue and green ran passed the three metahuman teens; Bella, Gar and Nate, strapping inhibitor collars around their necks.
Interia stood triumphantly above a knocked out Beast Boy and clapped his hands.
"Guess Lord Vertigo won't be needing you three after all," Inertia cackled, "Take then to his throne, Red will take care of em."
Devastation picked Beast Boy up and carried him away, while Nate and Bella were escorted out by Talon and Halucaust. The Twins, and Inertia followed behind.
Ravager stayed behind and stared off into the tunnel. Rose sighed, she looked at the ground where Nate's goggles fell and picked them up. She pulled her mask off to reveal her gorgeous grey eyes, high cheekbones, perfect and small nose as well as her dark brown eyebrows and roots where she dyed her hair white to look more like her father.
Deathstroke.
Her reflection was shown in the goggles glass. She bit her lip then looked down the corridor that Nate and the Twins came down from. She pocketed the goggles and put her mask over the top of her head and eyes.
"Ravager to Nightwing," She whispered into a bat shaped communications device, "If your team's coming, now's the time."
She then ran off in the opposite direction of her team, towards Courtney and Predita. As well as the other prisoners.
June 14, 2019 Three months earlier…
"I don't approve," Artemis said in exasperation, as Dick suited Rose up with a similar suit to her older brother Grant Wilson. They met her during the Thanagarian attack when Deathstroke used her to lue Orphan and Kid Flash into a trap. One Bart and Cas almost didn't escape.
"Don't worry," Rose said, "Who else can get closer to The Light than one of its members daughter?"
Artemis shook her head and gave her a BatComm.
"Someone who's lived their life," Artemis argued, "I know you want to help out after what happened to Joey but there are other ways."
"Plus we've tried the whole secret agent thing," Bart added, "Barely worked."
"Except this time we will all know that she's even there," Dick protested, "Plus Rosaline volunteered."
Rose picked up the half cowl and stared at it held in between her hands. She took in a deep breath and exhaled. She put it on and put the BatComm in a secret pocket in her left glove.
"Well time to get dad's attention," She said, pulling out her twin katanas.
"Rose I hope you know what you are getting yourself into," Atremis said, "Because revenge won't bring Joey back."
"I know," Rose said with a smirk, "But dad will learn not to use his kids as lab experiments again."
Present Day…
Cave Justice, Boston
"Artemis, get in here!" Dick shouted, Artemis walked into Dick's now former office and sighed. In the room was Barbra and Steph with Dick at the desk with his BatComm on the table.
"What is it?" She asked.
*Barbara, Stephanie, Dick, Artemis, I got myself transferred to Vlativa and Gar, Nate and all the metateens are here.* Rose said with urgency, she sounded out of breath, *Claygirl has been posing as Queen Perdita and Vertigo runs a puppet kingdom*
"Is Perdita safe?" Artemis asked.
*Not sure, last I heard Nathaniel Green and Courtney Whitmore broke her out, Nate is now going to be executed alongside Gar, and a third girl who was involved in the escape attempt named Isobella. I can't find Perdita, Courtney and the meta teens anywhere.*
"Dammit," Dick mumbled, "Find them and get them as far away from the castle and as discreetly as possible!"
Blaster fire was heard from the comm as well as Grid's voice shouting that he found a traitor.
"Hang tight Ravager," Artemis said, "We are on our way."
*Better be soon, I can't take them all myself and I think good ol' daddy's on his way,* Rose said before the broadcast cut off.
After a moment of silence Artemis reached over the table and slapped Dick.
"I told you," Artemis shouted, "They'd find her out, Barbara give Stephanie the suitcase, I'll get the team ready."
Steph watched as Artemis left with a slam of the door behind her. A perplexed looked washed over her face as Barbara place a black and purple suitcase with a yellow bat emblem on the table in front of her.
"Stephanie Brown, it took some thought but I know what must become of this suit," Babs said softly, she reached over and unlatched it. Stephanie opened it an gasped, "Batgirl needs to comeback to lead The Team now."
Out in the hanger the entire Team waited for Dick and Stephanie to enter. Bart stood with the other Outsiders, tapping his foot impatiently waiting, Cissie stepped on his foot and he started to tap the other.
Tim was working on his bike's engine for the upteenth time in the past ten minutes. As Cassandra put a sword and shield on her back as well as tying up her lasso on her waist.
Cain sat on the bioship's wing sharpening her blades and surprisingly Geo Force was their in a new suit even more impatient than Bart.
Nightwing came in first and sat on the ground next to his brother and started fidgeting with a wrench. Till Tim needed that one.
After a moment Batgirl, wearing a new sleek black costume with purple and yellow highlights walked in. Her blonde hair draped on her back and a bo staff in her left hand.
"Stephanie?" Tim muttered to which she nodded.
"I'm sure Nightwing and Tigress filled you all in, we don't have much if any time," Stephanie said, "The Outsider's, who will act as Alpha, will head out to the castle front and make a scene and expose Claygirl and Vertigo as the false rulers, the rest of the team will be split between Beta and Charlie."
"I'll lead Team Charlie down to the lower levels to retrieve Ravager, Perdita, and the prisoners." Dick said.
"Beta and I will free Beast Boy and Nathan as well as a third girl who is to be executed, we might end up getting on news footage just as much as Alpha, so beware if you volunteer to my squad." Stephanie said, "The Light's gone too far this time, Ravager's also told us that soon Zoom will return with the spear of destiny in Vlativa."
"He needs twenty innocent souls and a young pure of heart soul to use the spear," Connor Hawke said, "There are only twenty metateens captive, we have to assume that when he returns he'll have another captive."
"Speedy's got a point," Bart said, "What if Thawne is there when we get there?"
"That's why I'm coming," Barry Allen said behind Batgirl with a wide beaming smile.
"Okay, The Outsiders, and Flash you'll load up on the Javelin, the rest of us will pile into the Bioship and Supercycle." Tigress said, "And yes Kon, I'll take care of Sphere!"
With that everyone started to file up into the three squads. The Outsiders minus Terra and Robin, lead by Superboy, plus Flash boarded the Javelin. Beta, lead by Batgirl had Raven, Orphan, Blue Beetle, Tigress, Thirteen, and Arsenal loaded up on the Supercycle.
Charlie Squad, loaded up on the bioship, Nightwing at the helm. With Speedy, Geo Force, Halo, Terra and Robin.
Rao System, Milky Way Galaxy
Planet Krypton…
1976, during the planets destruction
Under the hot, red sun the Kryptonian police had no chance in stopping Thawne from setting an MFD to blow the planet to smithereens. He had only an hour before everything in this system died.
"Mani, Validus, and Persuader the three of you take the pod in our ship to Constantinople, take the spear." Thanwe ordered and the three villains loaded onto the escape pod and vanished into the timestream.
"What do the three of us do here?" Tharrok asked skeptically.
"I was to ask the same question," Komand'r sneered.
Thawne snickered under his breath.
"To use the spear innocent soul must be fed upon, my allie have supplied them," Thawne explained, "But also a heart of purity, true compassion and love."
"Kinda oxymoronic," Tharrok mused with laugh.
"Indeed, and who is more pure than Superman, or just one of his family line," Thawne asked.
"I don't even know what a Superman is," Komand'r snarled.
"The answer is no one," Thawne sneered, "Now the two of you stay here with the ship, I'll take what and whom I need from the House of El."
And in a blur of golden yellow and red Thawne ran off into the south. He came up to a large farm and watched as a pod was jettisoned into space. Just in time, he thought. He ran into the house and broke the guard's neck before she knew he was there.
He looked around. Where would Jor El, Zor El and their be evacing their children. The terrace he thought. So he ran for the terrace, killing every guard and house worker as he came up to the roof and balcony.
"Father?" A young girl, no older than fifteen cried as she started to enter a larger pod. She pointed at Thawne with terror in her eyes.
Thawne grinned as two guards ran forwards at him with electro spears that crackled with blue lightning. He grabbed one spear and pulled the man forwards and vibrated his hand through the woman's face. Ripping her brains apart.
"Alaia!" The second guard shouted, swinging his spear at Thawne head. Thawne vibrated and the spear passed through giving him no damage. He gave an evil grin and ran forwards with a dagger and stabbed the guard in the eye and then broke his neck.
Now for the wives. He ran forward and kicked both of them in the chest, knocking them to the ground. Lara tripped on her robes and fell to her death below the balcony.
He then took Alura and rammed his fist through her chest and threw her off. Jor El and Zor El both ran for him as the young girl tried to get out of the pod her father and uncle strapped her into.
"Uncle Jor El!" She shouted as she saw Zoom break Jor El's neck in two. He then kicked Zor El in the chest and then in the groin and pinned him to the ground.
"You're daughter will be the greatest hero of all time," Zoom said with a smirk, "She ensure the victory of me and my master."
Zor El groaned in agony as his vision faded in and out. The skies started to become red over their heads.
"Kara, don't hurt Kara," Zor El's last breaths came from his lips with slow desperation as Thawne swirled a dagger inside of the man's heart.
"Father!" Kara shouted as Thawne grabbed her arm and punched her jaw, knocking the girl out cold. He slung her over his back and ran back to the Darkrider.