The worst part of the Black Lantern invasion was going to the funerals. There was a new cemetery opened just to bury the heroes who had been killed. They called it Valhalla. It was in Metropolis. Wallflower officially hated Metropolis.

Bunker and Beast Boy were both buried in Valhalla. Red Robin was in the middle of preparing to get what was left of Bunker's body sent back to his family when they sent a message to the Teen Titans. They were happy for Miguel to be buried with the other heroes, but they wanted to be able to come to the United States to attend the funeral. Batman took care of that in about two seconds.

The patch of land that the city had given to the Justice League had been a public park, and still technically was. Valhalla was right in the centre of the eight hundred and ninety-seven acres of greenery, surrounded by an iron fence but with a gate that during the day was open for anyone who wanted to pay their respects.

Bunker and Beast Boy were buried right next to each other. The funerals had been a few days apart, long enough for mourners to cover the temporary plastic marker on Bunker's grave with all sorts of things. Flowers mostly, but someone had left a folded rainbow flag at the end of his grave and there was a bunch of helium balloons that bobbed distractingly all throughout Beast Boy's funeral.

"There are people out there taking pictures," Wallflower muttered once the funeral was over.

"I know," Superboy grumbled. "Try to ignore them."

Wonder Girl glared at the people outside the fence who were aiming their cell phone cameras in their direction. The trees groaned in the wind. -Not Gar, not Gar…- they seemed to be saying.

Wallflower hated Metropolis.

Wonder Girl [red heart emoji][yellow heart emoji] (a)realWonderGirl

To all the people who took pictures at Bunker and Beast Boy's funerals, fuck off.

Delilah🌼🌈 (a)wildflowerbisexual

Sorry, no new art today. I've been to too many funerals this week.

Brookthebank (a)brookmaclay

Replying to (a)wildflowerbisexual

Take all the time you need, sweetie.

Delilah was pretty sure she should have been dead. She had been dying—she had definitely been dying— and then she wasn't. She didn't know how or why and none of her books were any help. In other situations like this (finding out she didn't have a soul was much more traumatic then she let on) she asked her teacher for help but the ghost witch hadn't shown up at the magic shop since before the Black Lanterns. So she was dealing with it using the rug method, as in sweep it all under the rug and save the existential crisis induced panic attacks for when she was safe at home.

Unhealthy? Probably, but it wasn't like their insurance would pay for her to see a therapist. No one in Finley could get good insurance. It came with living in gang territory.

Besides, they had bigger problems to deal with, like the sudden uptake in natural disasters. Wallflower hadn't expected to need to fly in a hurricane. In the past week she'd been in three, though she still hadn't flown. It was too risky to try to make the wind carry her inside the storm, so Superboy gave her a lift.

"All together now," Mera said. She, her students and other Atlantean volunteers siphoned water out of the hurricane's clouds. In the eye of the storm, Wallflower concentrated on slowing down the wind and equalizing the air pressure. The goal was to weaken the hurricane, if not make it dissipate entirely. They'd managed to completely get rid of the last two but that was back when they hadn't been tired from fighting two hurricanes.

"Wind speed is down about twenty percent," Wallflower reported. "Air pressure hasn't changed much."

"It doesn't feel like we're making a dent in the clouds," Aqualad said.

"They're a little thinner," Superboy said.

They could only manage the magic for a few more minutes. People dropped out as they felt they'd reached their limit and soon Mera and an elderly Atlantean man were the only ones left. By that time the clouds had cleared enough that Wallflower could see the ocean below though the gaps and they were moving slowly enough that she could have flown through them on her own if she weren't so tired. The storm wasn't gone, but there was a good chance of it dying out before it made landfall.

"That's enough," Mera said. "Good work, everyone. Get home safe."

Superboy and Wallflower dropped out of the storm above Aqualad's head. Aqualad raised his hand in what was barely a wave.

"I'm not carrying you too," Superboy said.

"Whatever. Let's go before I pass out," Aqualad said.

Superboy did end up fishing Aqualad out of the water when they got back to Titans Tower. The other boy seemed happy enough to stay floating next to the ship despite the ladder within easy reach.

"We'll go to debriefing," Wallflower signed once Aqualad was on deck. "Take a nap."

"Thanks," Aqualad signed with a yawn.

Red Robin had turned the living room into a command centre. In addition to the television there were a dozen holographic screens streaming news reports from around the world. In the middle of it was Red Robin, talking to Nightwing over a call that had the sound of sirens in the background while he worked on his computer.

"Hey," Superboy said. "The hurricane's taken care of."

"I saw." Red Robin gestured towards one of the holograms. "How many missing, Nightwing?"

"Not sure yet," Nightwing said. "Got to go, B's calling."

Red Robin said goodbye and ended the call.

"What happened?" Wallflower asked.

"Earthquakes in Gotham," Reb Robin said. "I'm trying to figure out if they were natural or not. We'll talk later."

Superboy and Wallflower exchanged a look of concern that Red Robin didn't miss but definitely ignored.

"Sure, Tim," Superboy said. "Let us know if there's anything we can do."

Sharing space with the Justice League Dark was something Cassie was sure she'd never get used to. The Silent Armour had been constantly freaked out since the team of demons and magic users (mostly magic users) stepped on board Titans Tower. Cassie was ninety percent sure it was reacting to Nightmare Nurse but Constantine gave her the creeps too, in a 'this man attracts too many demons' sort of way. Unfortunately, since she was one of the people on board who had been resurrected without a White Lantern ring, Cassie was spending a lot of time with the JLD.

So much time that she could map exactly how the current argument between Zatanna and Constantine was going to go.

"Are we going to go with ignoring them?" Cassie asked quietly.

Boston Brand, formerly known as Deadman, eyed the two magicians who were on the ex-boyfriend part of the argument. "Works for me."

They turned back to Raven, Delilah and Nightmare Nurse, who were discussing white light and souls over the documents that covered the kitchen counter.

"Celine and I managed to track down a few people who've been resurrected," Raven said. "Red Hood and Resurrection Man both used white light during the attacks but haven't been able to since."

"Well, there aren't any Black Lanterns anymore, so why would they need to?" Delilah frowned. "Red Hood died? That explains a lot."

Cassie was not going to ask when (not if) Delilah had met a guy on the Justice League's most wanted list or how Celine and Raven had gotten in contact with him. Some things were better not to know.

"Are we assuming that both of them have souls?" Nightmare Nurse asked.

Boston raised an eyebrow. "That is the standard human condition, isn't it? Heck, it's the standard inhuman condition."

Delilah's form flickered as she went invisible for a split second. That was something she'd started doing when she got nervous lately. Cassie wasn't sure if anyone else had noticed.

"Anyway, what do souls have to do with this?" Boston raised his hand to indicate the White Lantern ring on his finger.

The volume of Zatanna and Constantine's argument increased. That would be the betrayal part. A few more minutes and then they'd rejoin the group.

The sudden flash of white light caught everyone by surprise. Cassie didn't look away fast enough and had to blink away spots while bracing for something or someone to come flying at her. The first thing she saw when her vision was clear was that they were missing a person.

"Do Lantern rings have a teleportation function?" Delilah asked.

That would explain why Boston was gone.

Cassie sighed and got up from her seat. "I'm telling Red Robin."

Red Robin tracked Boston to Washington before Zatanna tried and failed to locate him with a spell. That wasn't a surprise. All of the magic-users had been complaining about magic not working on Boston. Zatanna had theorized that it had to do with the ring, but she wasn't going to let a little thing like alien technology stop her from doing her best to find her teammate.

"He's met up with Hawk and Dove," Red Robin said. "Looks like there was a bit of a fight but they're fine now."

Cassie looked at the screen that Red Robin had glanced at in time to see Hawk punching Boston through the window of a store. She winched. Yeah, that looked totally fine.

Red Robin clicked a button on his computer screen. When he spoke, Cassie could hear his voice being broadcasted through the hallways of the ship. That was new. She didn't know they had a PA system.

"Aquaman is requesting backup for wildfires threatening Coast City," Red Robin said. "Suit up."

There wasn't time to call Dove and let her know that they'd like their undead acrobat back in one piece. Celine stayed behind to man Red Robin's command centre and once Raven teleported them to California the rest of the Titans and JLD immediately split up to battle the fires (Aqualad, Superboy, Wallflower and Constantine) and evacuate civilians (everyone else). The sky was a sickly orange from the fire and smoke. There were multiple wildfires burning up and down the entire west coast but the ones bearing down on Coast City were moving fast. Getting people out took priority.

Wonder Girl was aware of the rest of the day in stills and flashes. Nightmare Nurse looked much less terrifying when she was healing a little girl's broken ankle. Kid Flash handed a kid off to Wonder Girl before running off to fix someone's car. She ran into Wonder Woman at one point but had no idea if either of them had said anything. At least it probably hadn't been awkward. Probably. By the time Red Robin told them that everyone in the path of the fires had been evacuated, Wonder Girl was exhausted.

"How are the fires?" Kid Flash asked.

There was a crackling sound over the comms. Wonder Girl didn't know if it was due to the fires or some other interference.

"Mostly handled," Superboy said. "Raven, Zatanna, if you're not too tired, magic seems to be working best."

"We're dumping water on fire, of course it's working," Constantine said.

"Where are you getting water from?" Wallflower demanded. "I can't take any more out of the air without causing sparks."

Aqualad muttered something that sounded like "tree".

"I can join you," Raven said. "Send me your location."

While Raven went to help with the fires, the rest of them moved further inland, away from the smoke. Wonder Girl sat on a bench and caught the bottle of water Red Robin threw at her with one hand.

"Is now a good time to tell you Deadman's disappeared again?" Celine asked.

Of course he had.

"There's also been an earthquake that caused a sinkhole in Seattle and a forest that grew in Gotham in the last two hours," Celine said.

Red Robin asked for more information on the earthquake. Wonder Girl quickly finished drinking her water. There was rescue work in their near future.

Wallflower managed to hold back the bone-wracking coughing fit until after she'd delivered the crying child she was carrying to a triage station. She blamed smoke inhalation when the medic who'd taken the child asked if she was okay and flew off before he could try to do anything. It was a total lie. They'd had respirator masks to stop them from breathing smoke while they put the fires in California out. The black gunk she was coughing up had nothing to do with smoke. At least between the soot and her black costume no one else had noticed.

"Who's coughing?" Kid Flash asked. "It sounds bad."

For one stupid second Wallflower thought about not saying anything. But only for a second, because she wasn't stupid.

"That would be me," Wallflower said. "Rob, anything on how many people are still missing?"

"Five that have been reported," Red Robin said.

"Superman says he counts twelve people," Superboy said.

Wallflower winched. "Rescues first, talking about my problems later."

The sinkhole had taken one and a half buildings down and was threatening the other half of a three storey apartment building. With thirty superheroes ranging from A-list to E-list and several teams of first responders it took less than an hour to dig all twelve people out of the rubble. There were a few major injuries but no one died on scene. At least, not that Wallflower was aware of. She didn't want to know.

The Teen Titans reconvened at Green Arrow's super-secret treetop base outside the city. White Canary led them there.

"This is supposed to be a secret base," Green Arrow complained.

White Canary rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

Kid Flash raided Green Arrow's pantry. While he was eating his third (thirteenth?) protein bar he asked Wallflower if she was sick or something. Wallflower shook her head but then started coughing practically on cue.

"Or something," Wallflower said. "You know how we thought the Black Lanterns were gone?"

There was a moment of total silence. The rest of the Titans looked at each other as if to check that they'd heard correctly.

"I don't like where this is going," Troia said.

Wallflower grimaced and tugged at her jacket collar, revealing the black veins creeping up her neck that she'd seen reflected in the mirror of an abandoned car. "Sorry."

"When did that start?" Superboy asked once the swearing had stopped.

Wallflower shrugged. She'd only noticed the veins a few hours ago but she'd been feeling off since before the fires.

Red Robin rubbed his forehead. He looked like he was regretting every decision in his life that had led up to this point. He also looked like he hadn't slept in three days, because he probably hadn't slept in three days. They needed to make a schedule for forcing Red Robin to sleep.

"Maybe this has to do with—" Wonder Girl said. She cut herself off when there was a bright flash of white light.

Boston appeared in the middle of Green Arrow's training room. Everyone who was sitting down jumped to their feet, except for Wallflower. She was a little busy recovering from the sudden feeling of being burned alive. She'd forgotten what white light did to the Black Lantern infected.

"Where have you been?" Wonder Girl asked.

Boston shook his head. "Mars? I can't—" His hands shook. His White Lantern ring was pointed at the floor and he seemed to be using all his strength to keep it like that.

Superboy helped Wallflower to her feet. "You okay?" he signed.

"No. Yes. No." Wallflower shrugged. She probably shouldn't have been in this much pain.

Boston let out a yell. The arm he was trying to keep down moved and his ring was pointed at Wallflower.

"Get out of here, kid!" Boston shouted. "I can't control it!"

Wallflower wasn't even able to blink before the ring sent out a blast of light. The light hit her head on and it felt like she should have been breathing fire as she screamed.

The next thing Wallflower was aware of was the green. Layers upon layers of leaves formed a canopy above her that blocked any sunlight, or maybe that was the clouds she could see through the rare gaps in the leaves. It was having more than enough light to see by despite the lack of sunlight that made Wallflower aware that she wasn't alone.

A fiery form with a white-hot House of El crest on its chest was standing to Wallflower's left. Judging by the cape-like flames, that was Superman. To her right, encased in the trunk of a tree, was a Lantern Power Battery that gave off soft white light. Superman and the Power Battery illuminated a Poison Ivy made of soil and vine plants, shimmering water wearing Martian Manhunter's cross belt, and a living tornado shaped like Hawkman. Boston was standing next to the Power Battery. There was a cut over his eyebrow that could be explained by Hawk having him by the throat. Dove managed to look as surprised as the rest of them despite the mask that completely covered her eyes.

Superman raised a hand to eye level and studied it. "I can feel fires and... the sun."

"Plants," Poison Ivy said. "The earth. It's all connected."

"As are the waters," Martian Manhunter added.

"And the air," Hawkman said.

Wallflower got to her feet and studied her own hands. She still had a human body but she felt something milling under her skin that was aching to be let out.

Hawk dropped Boston. "The hell is going on?"

Any possible answer was cut off by the ground shaking from heavy steps coming towards the Power Battery. Wallflower spun around and saw Swamp Thing towering over them, only it couldn't be Swamp Thing, because Swamp Thing had disappeared and hadn't been among the resurrected.

Also, Not-Swamp Thing had the Black Lantern symbol in the middle of its rotting chest.

"We know what we have to do," Martian Manhunter said.

The four elemental heroes (and villain) melted into their environment and in a blink they were attacking Not-Swamp Thing (aka the Dark Avatar) with full force.

Vines created by Poison Ivy wrapped around the Dark Avatar's head and pulled it back until its neck snapped. Its body was set on fire by Superman while Martian Manhunter tore off one of its legs with chains made of water. By flying around in a circle, Hawkman created a tornado that pulled the monster off balance and tore pieces of rotting, blackened plant life off of its body.

Of course, it put itself back together, seemingly without any inconvenience at all.

"Are you kidding me?" Wallflower complained.

"We have to keep it away from the Power Battery," Superman said. "That's all that matters."

The Dark Avatar charged at them. Wallflower raised her hands and called on fire. Instead, two blades of a silver substance (not solid, not liquid, not gas) shot out and cut off the Dark Avatar's arms. There wasn't any time to figure out what that was. Superman was right. The only thing that mattered was protecting the Power Battery.

Hawk and Dove jumped into the fight. Hawk had some pretty impressive talons but Dove was no slouch. Boston stood in front of the Power Battery as the last line of defence, but the Dark Avatar never got close.

Then the elementals turned into formless streams of their elements that circled around the four humans and the tree holding the White Lantern Power Battery before diving into the ground under the tree. Wallflower fell to her hands and knees as the silver element she'd been fighting with drained out of her, leaving her feeling hollow. The tree split open, releasing the Power Battery and firing the elementals, the silver element and a beam of white light at the Dark Avatar's face.

BOSTON BRAND, WE REQUIRE THE LAST PIECE.

Boston held out the hand that his White Lantern ring was on. "Go," he told the ring.

The ring flew off of his hand and joined with the beam of white light, giving it a final kick as it and the elementals entered the hollow eyes of the Dark Avatar. The Dark Avatar gave a wordless shriek that shook the trees. Hawk and Dove sank to the ground with looks of what Wallflower could only describe as awe on their faces.

The Dark Avatar changed. The rotting black vines turned to living green and then burning white. The symbol in the centre of its chest stretched out, marking it as a White Lantern instead of a Black Lantern.

ALEC HOLLAND OF EARTH, LIVE!

The resurrected Swamp Thing glowed with the white light of Life.

"Whoa," Boston said.

That was an understatement.

The light faded and Swamp Thing turned back into his regular green self, though he was still over fifty feet tall.

"Thank you all for your help," his voice rumbled. "Elementals, in the name of Life, I release you."

Swamp Thing shrank as the powers of the elements left him. Superman, Hawkman, Poison Ivy and Martian Manhunter reformed in front of him. All of them were back to normal.

"Does anyone else have a headache?" Hawkman asked.

Hawk and Wallflower raised their hands. Then they looked at each other and their hands went back down. No one else seemed to notice.

"Would someone explain what just happened?" Poison Ivy asked.

"Short version, the Earth was dying and now it isn't," Boston said.

Well, that explained all the natural disasters.

There was a yell. Then Wallflower was on her feet being hugged (not attacked) by Wonder Girl while Wonder Girl spoke too quickly for her to comprehend what she was saying. Wallflower hadn't known that they were at the friendship level that allowed for hugs. Over Wonder Girl's shoulder, she saw the rest of the Teen Titans and the JLD land near Swamp Thing.

"What happened?" Wallflower asked.

Wonder Girl drew back and signed, "You were gone for a week."

A week? Well, at least she'd already graduated.

"As lovely as this reunion is, I'd appreciate it if you heroes would get out of my park," Poison Ivy said dryly.

Hawkman immediately took flight. Superman stayed a moment longer to say something to Superboy and then he was gone too.

Boston turned to pick up the white Power Battery, only to find that it had vanished. "Typical," he grumbled.

Poison Ivy tapped her foot impatiently. The rest of them quickly decided that it would be better for their health to be anywhere else.