Premier Building, Hollywood CA
July 10, 2020
11:24 PM
Jaime sat on the couch in The Hub's living room, his face illuminated to bright reds, blues and flashes of yellow, white and green as he flipped through the channels on the TV.
The monotony of the tiresome late night shows was starting to get on his nerves. Flipping from Food Network, to CNN to Fox News was getting annoying. The only channel he stayed on for more than five seconds was Nick, but on to see if George Lopez was on yet, it was not. And he was not in the mood for reruns of F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
"What are you doing up?" Amaya asked from behind him, holding a bag of Turbos Flamas.
"Why are you up?" He retorted smugly with a small smirk.
'Jaime Reyes, is the Breacher trying to interrogate you, I could immobilize her.'
"Not necessary Scarab," Jaime groaned.
Amaya chuckled and walked around the couch and sat beside her friend and handed him the bag of chips, he took a few and held them in his hand eating one.
"Wanted a snack," Amaya said, "La escuela de verano hace que una niña tenga hambre cuando tiene un ensayo."
"¿Cómo es la escuela de verano de todos modos?" Jaime asked.
"Well I am regretting failing English last semester," Amaya said, eating a chip and almost choking on it when she started to laugh. Causing Jaime to burst into laughter, trying to keep quiet as to not wake anyone else in The Hub.
"You never answered the question hermano," Amaya said.
"Fine," Jaime huffed rolling his eyes, "It's Traci."
"I thought you guys were doing alright?"
"We are," Jaime sighed, "Mostly, kinda hard to have problems in a relationship you never see each other ya know?"
Amaya nodded and clicked her tongue, "That's why me and Beatrice broke up."
"I dunno if me and Traci are that point," Jaime moaned, "I just know my best friend went off to the future with Brainiac and those dudes to be Impulse again, the Flash of the Future."
Jaime swung his arms out to his sides in the air and let out a huge puff of air and slumped in his seat before continuing.
"And then my girlfriend, my beautiful, amazing girlfriend dedicates all her time to the team, which I obviously respect, taking out the remains of The Light."
"Dejándote solo todo el tiempo?" Amaya asked.
"More than lonely!" Jaime groaned, "Empty even, like the most important person to me is out of my reach."
Omaha, Nebraska
July 10, 2020
11:34 PM
Grant woke up, his vision was blurry and a sound like a high pitched whistle rang through his head.
He slowly rose back up to his feet, rubbing his throbbing head and groaning. He took a look around his kitchen to see that his little sister had gone.
Grabbing his favorite coffee mug he poured a glass and walked over to the desktop, which he found to be on. As well as open to his file on Isobella Chen.
"Ah fuck,"
"Why do I have to knock on the door?" Nate asked, Rose and the others all glared at the boy whose face seemed to be genuinely confused.
"Because you are the only one here who she's formally met," Tim said, "Other than Damian and Rose who put her in a dungeon, I don't know if she holds a grudge."
Nate rolled his eyes and sighed. Now out of his Kid Flash uniform and wearing his usual blue jacket, black shirt and faded jeans. He put a Los Angeles Angels hat on backwards and walked up the concrete path to Bella's front door.
He looked back to see the team had already gotten into Tim's Lamborghini Urus. He rolled his eyes and turned back to the door. He knocked on it twice softly and sighed. Shoving his cold hands into his jacket pockets.
The door opened and a young Tiwanneese girl opened the door, she was about the same age as Nate. Fifteen.
"Nate?" Bella questioned with a shocked look upon her face, "Why are you here, and how do you know where I live?"
Nate chuckled and smirked, nodding his head to the side slightly.
"Kind of a long story ayu, tell you in the Lambo?" He said, pointing over his shoulder at the Lamborghini SUV.
"You know I'm not Japanese right?" Bella asked.
"But you speak the language, right?" He asked. Bella smiled and punched him softly in the arm and walked past him and closing the door behind her.
"You're pretty cute too Nate," She said with a smirk, "For a white guy."
Nate smiled and nodded behind her, made sure her front door was locked then ran to the car.
"So they want me dead." Bella sighed, placing her hands in her lap and sighing. Nate smiled at her and wrapped an arm around her and rubbed her shoulder.
Tanya out of the corner of her eye groaned under her breath at him and rolled her eyes. She rested her elbow on the arm bar, and put her jaw in her hand, watching the freeway traffic next to them.
In the front seat Tim looked back in the mirror and sighed.
"Anyone wanna listen to some Taylor Swift?" He asked, "Demi Lovato?"
"No one does, you're a hipster Timothy," Daiman snickered beside him in the front passenger seat.
In the hatchback Rose rolled her eyes.
"Except for the fact that they are both popular artists," Rose rumbled, "Like you'd know anything about music."
"How about BTS," Tanya suggested, giving a sly glance at Nate who seemed to be visibly disgusted by that.
"Nah," He said, "That's gay, turn on some Rascal Flatts?"
Rose crept up from the back and smacked on the back of the head with a handbag.
"Bad boy," She growled.
Nate turned his head with a slack jaw and offended eyes. Rose layed back down in the back and chuckled to herself.
"Give me the Aux Tim!" Bella said, Tim handed her the cord backhandedly.
Then after a moment of silence or two, Lil Uzi Vert started playing, everyone but Damian was satisfied. He had never heard the album Eternal Atake.
"Um, what is this?"
Cave Justice, Boston, MA
July 10, 2020
11:43 PM
*Breacher, B34, Blue Beetle, B22*
Jaime and Amaya walked into the cave from the Zeta Tube. Amaya made a Beeline to the kitchen while Jaime sighed and walked to the living room where Traci and the others were watching American Sniper while waiting for the others to get back to the cave.
"Hey guys," He said, the others turned around, surprised that Jaime came to the cave.
"Jaime, what are you doing here?" Traci asked, Jaime smiled at her and leaped over the couch and sat beside her, pushing Connor off the couch.
"Sorry Hawke," Jaime chuckled, he turned his attention back to Traci, "I came to see what my girl's doing this evening."
Traci nodded and leaned onto Jaime's shoulder as he wrapped an arm around her.
"Waiting for Tim and the others to get back," She answered.
Amaya then walked into the room with a Fiesta Size bag of Takis. She was nearly elbow deep into the bag and then she ran into the living room and sat down next to Connor and leaned the back of her head on his shoulder and put the bag between them.
"Those are mine," Connor said.
"And you like to share Connie," Amaya chuckled.
Jaime laughed, if Amaya wasn't gay, she and Connor would be kinda cute together.
"How long till the team gets back?" Jaime asked.
"Tim called ten minutes ago, that they picked Isobella up and they're coming back to the cave," Stephanie said, "Now shut up I am actually watching this."
She gestured to the television. American Sniper, this was the third night in a row Stephanie had watched this movie.
*Red Robin, B21, Power Girl, B37, Kid Flash, B36, Ravager, B35, Robin, B38*
The team came in from the Zeta Tube, Tim lingered by the computer and typed in a new authorization code.
*Access, Isobella Chen, A52*
Bella walked into the cave and was awestruck. It wasn't like how she thought. It was bigger, carved out of the entire mountain. Metal Beams and platforms rose high above her head, levels full of rooms for the team, infirmary, gym, library and the war room.
Before her was the mission room, the kitchen, hanger and the living room. She caught a glimpse of the Bioship lying dormant in the hanger, next to a Javelin and several cars and motorcycles.
She followed Tanya and Nate into the living room, it was like a mansion sized room. Three identical, black, leather couches lined the three walls in front of the television, a massive Superman rug lay on the ground under their feet.
Next to the TV was a desk with an Imac that Kara was playing games on. She glanced at the couch directly in front of the TV, Jaime and Traci were cuddling there, on the floor in front of it was Connor and Amaya fighting over a bag of Takis.
Stephanie, Brion and Tara all sat on the couch next to the door and on the left of the TV. The one across from them became home to Tanya and Nate as they entered.
"Jesus," Bella whispered.
"I know, the cave's kinda underwhelming." Nate said, Tanya smacked him on the back of the head.
"Take a seat Bell," Stephanie said gesturing her arms around the room, "I think we have enough room despite what KId Mouth says."
Isobella smirked and sat next to Nate, grabbing his bag of Chex Mix from his lap and taking a handful, and chopping it down.
Sometime later the team, and Bella all sat in the war room around the large round table. Bella sat between Kid Flash and Robin, the only vacant seat at the table.
"Steph I'm not sure I like this plan," Tim said, giving Stephanie a skeptical look.
"Look, Grant's our only way to The H.I.V.E." Stephanie said, "And it's not like we can just lock him up and start asking questions."
"But using her as bait?" Tim said, "He's the third most deadly assassin on the planet, forgive me if I'm not sure we can protect her for long enough till the cops arrive on the scene to arrest him."
"How about we ask the bait," Traci suggested, "How do you feel about this Bella?"
Bella nodded and sighed, she looked across the table at Traci and smiled.
"Let's get that son of a bitch." She responded.