Los Angeles, California, April 9, 2036, 3:56 PM
"Can't." Brendon said hanging up the call with Kat, as he dodged a punch from Dee Dee as Abby threw the twin at her, the pair merged back and wiped blood from her lip.
"Sorry we had to run into you like this girl." Abby said, grinning at Dee Dee. Brendon shrugged.
"At a Safeway no less," Brendon said, Dee Dee rolled her eyes and glanced at the sign on the grocery store. FRY'S not Safeway. Dumbass.
"Sweetie, this is FRY'S," Abby said, Brendon glanced at the sign and sighed, 'Whatever' he whispered. Then a knife flew passed his eyes. He jolted his head towards his left and grinned at Dee Dee who split into yet two more twins. Four on two. Since when was she a quadruplet? He then exchanged glances with Abigail and nodded at her.
Abby opened a portal underneath two of the Dee Dees. Brendon dashed towards the remaining two as a portal opened where he once stood and the missing two fell down in front of Abby who kicked one in the pelvis, the second tacked Cosmo and pulled a knife out of her boot. She held the weapon in two hands raised it over her head and thrusted downwards on Abby, who caught her arms in her hands holding the knife about an eighth on and inch from her chest. The two growled at each other as they both struggled with the blade in between them.
Brendon roundhouse kicked one of his Dee Dees, sending her into the bed of a Toyota Tundra, the second one punched him in the face, sweep kicked him and while he was down on his knees kneed him in the mouth, knocking out one of his two front teeth. He reversed barrel rolled and stood back up, wiping blood from his lip onto his wrist and smirked. He vibrated his hands, lighning formed around them, crackling in sparks of white. He then raised his arms over his head and threw them down to the floor, lightning bolts flying off his forearms striking Dee Dee down. She evaporated, it was one of the clones. He ran to the truck and saw no Dee Dee, another clone. He looked over to Abby struggling with the last remaining Dee Dee.
"You're boyfriend's probably left, why would he be with someone so weak," Dee Dee taunted, Abby growled and kicked her leg up into Dee Dee's stomach, flipping her over, the knife flew to the side. Abby stood up and kicked it away before Dee Dee could get to it. Then a streak of red and silver ran up behind Dee Dee and struck her down with an elbow to the crane of her neck. Abby rolled her eyes as Brendon stood there feeling good about himself for saving his dandle not so much in distress.
Dee Dee giggled to herself on the floor, Brendon crouched down to her, she had ear plugs in her ears, he raised an eyebrow. Then suddenly his head throbbed, he crashed to the floor holding the sides of his head hands over his ears screaming in pain. Abby pulled the whip from her belt then a kid in a suit with the colors a reverse of Kid Flash's punched her in the face and then roundhouse kicked her in the chest. She fell to the floor and held her stomach, groaning in pain as a collar was locked around her neck. Brendon tried to stand up and get to her then a boy in a crimson body suit with the device the soundwaves strapped to a choker on his neck put a collar around his neck and set it to electrocute.
Once the two heroes were collapsed on the floor Dee Dee stood up and smiled at Kid Zoom and Cardinal.
"Took you long enough," She said, Kid Zoom shrugged, he looked down on the two meta human teens and grinned. He kicked his feet at a few pebbles, sending them flying at Brendon's face. Brendon turned his eyes up to Zoom and glared. He tried to hide the quiver of his lip and and bit his tongue for he didn't trust himself not to say something that would piss him off.
Cardinal took notice of the sour look on Rush's face and squatted down in front of him, he ran a hand through Brendon's auburn hair and grabbed him by the scalp. He lifted Rush's head and then slammed it to the ground, the speedster winced and shut his blue eyes in pain not making a noise. Cardinal clicked his teeth and laughed slightly shaking his head left and right slowly. He stood back up, crossed his arms across his chest and raised an eyebrow at Dee Dee who threw a pair of keys at him and pointed to the black SUV she came in.
"Load them up into the back," She commanded as she pulled out her communicator. She flipped a button and spoke briskly into it, "Rumbler, I got two down, wait Ace got three, well he had a larger group, yes I'm well aware of my power set and ability to clone myself." Rumbler hung up on her after commanding her back to base. Dee Dee then strolled to the Chevy Tahoe she rode in on and that the boys had finished loading two prisoners onto.
Lagos, Nigeria, April 9, 2036, 4;45 PM
"Lord Savage," A young lanky man said to a resting Vandal Savage whom was sitting on a large throne. The cowl of the original Batman lay on a mannequin head on the arm rest, he wore a tattered red cape that on the back once had a gold sing of the house of El. On the other arm rest was the helm of one of the hawks. Hawkwoman to be precise. He lay his hands on the cowl and helmet. A shattered sword with a hawk on the hilt hung from the wall, as one of his favorite mementos from Themyscira. On the opposing wall was a green and brown painted bow, and quiver. Lastly, he wore a totem around his neck, plucked from the corpse of one such Mari Jiwe McCabe. He opened his eyes slowly, to gaze at his trophies then glared down at the skinny man.
"Yes," Vandal addressed his underling, who stood up straight and huffed air into his small chest to appear larger than what he really is. He pressed his eyebrows together and cleared his throat and spoke in a squeaky voice that made Vandal cringe at its very presence.
"Master, we've apprehended, Nightshade, Speedy, Marine, Kid Martian, Rush, Cosmo, and Surge, along with the Batgirl and Impulse," He said, "but they are not our largest catch of the day, while picking through groups of the Teen Titans we found her," as he finished two large men in all black, who both wore black masks covering their whole faces lugged her into the room in between them. Each man held an arm, the girl's black hair covered her face, slivers of krypotinite lay in her wrists, on bracelets they forced her to wear. They threw her down to the ground in front of Vandal and she stood up, the hair fell off her face and her blue eyes flashed at Savage with pure fiery hate. Blood trailed from her lip to her chin, her left eye was bloodshot and her hair was stained from a wound on her scalp.
"I see Metallo beat you this time Supergirl," Vandal said, Ellie growled at him, the men again grabbed her and pushed her close to Vandal. He held her chin in between his thumb and forefinger. She jostled her head and spit at him, the man on her left slammed the butt of his rifle into her face.
"Kiss my cl-" She started she was interrupted by her own agonizing scream as the second man activated the taser on the inhibitor collar around her neck. Ellie tumbled to the floor as she wailed in pain from the 2,00 volts of electricy now running through her. Eating away at her flesh on her neck, charring it leaving the smell if burn to linger in the air.
"Take her, to follow me," Vandal said, he stood from his chair and slowly walked to the room behind it, the doors opened. The men forced Ellie in the way of the double door. She cursed them in Kryptonian under her breath. Vandal guided them inside the large room. On the left side were two tables, and many machines, but on the right is what made Ellie's stomach turn. There were three large tubes in one Doomsday's remains lay, in a second was Darksied's decaying corpse, and in the third was one of Brainiac's many bodies. Ellie's mouth hung to the floor in disgust, Vandal turned her to face him, and gestured to a table, her size.
"What the hell is this pet cemetery shit," She said, Vandal grinned. He placed a hand on her back and walked her to the table. He forcefully pushed her onto it and strapped her down. She tried to break loose and he laughed at her mockingly. She grunted and groaned as she jolted herself on the table.
"Don't worry young girl, see I'm going to use the powers of all of you for the betterment of Earth, my light couldn't get the job done." He calmly said, to faux reassure her. She rolled her crystalline blue eyes and spit on his face. He wiped it off without reacting violently.
"You're perverse Savage," Ellie snarled, he grinned and turned away folding his hands behind his back and chuckled.
"Maybe, but soon I'll be god," He said leaving the room, once the doors shut behind him the lights flickered off and Ellie screamed.
"Savage, you son of a bitch, you'll never be a god, not while I'm alive!"
Gotham City, April 9, 2036
He sat alone, next to the grave. His green eyes wet of tears, and auburn hair covering his face as he quietly spoke to his friend. Not expecting an answer, he had that already, in the palms of his hands. A small book. His voice cracked with each word he croaked, he trembled in the pouring rain.
"Hey Dylan," the note said, "I know I haven't been so kind lately. I'm sorry, sorry for how I've acted and how I have hurt you. I just want to say, I'm a coward. I'm not deserving of forgiveness, or love. And, I well love you, always have, I've run from that, and I've drowned myself in a sea of denial. If I'm being honest, I only outed Bryce as a villain because I wanted to two of you to break up, I wanted to influence it. Dylan Richard West, you're my light, and I've lost you forever, so if you ever find this just know all I will ever want is for you to be happy, and I hate mysellf for crating so much turmoil in your life. Love Terry,"
Dylan sat there, tapping the book on his knee, intensively staring at Terry's gravestone. 'Terence McGinnus' too young. Too young, they are all too young for this. The amount of kids the Justice League has let die in their name is so big it cannot be counted on two hands. Just as Brother Blood had said, Jason, Tula, Wally, Damian, Sara, Wallace, and so many more. When does it end? Does it end?
"Dylan," Hanna said quietly behind him, he looked up. Her brown hair was tied back in a pony tail, she wore a red Big Belly Burger tee and straight blue jeans with black converse, on top of it all was a black leather jacket which she had shoved her shivering hands into. She crouched down to Dylan and rested her head on the back of his shoulder. He payed no mind, she spoke softley and clearly.
"We need to go, half the team's been abducted," She said, Dylan raised a brow and then rested his forehead on the headstone and choked out a loud cry, he couldn't take it anymore. He sobbed, this life was once all he wanted but it had left him broken and his closest friend dead. Now his friends have been captured, that was the last straw. He cried a few last times and slowly stood up. He wiped his tears and sniffed loudly, Hanna put a hand on his shoulder, he didn't even look at her as he furrowed his brow and scowled. He then cleared his throat and finally spoke clearly.
"Then let's go," He said, clenching a fist.
Short chapter I know, I just want to show what I already have jotted down... Not much but enough to say shits getting real.
