Wow, a lot of Flash and Hawkgirl haters! I'm surprised, but hey it is kinda wrong in an age sort of way. Anywhoo, you're all wrong! Every single one of you! You should know by now I'm a hard core GL/HG Shipper, so give yourselves a big smile 'cause you know nothing's ever gonna happen with Flash, so you can relax and enjoy the easy read. Oh and I added a little more humor, because it was a pretty serious chapter, as was the pervious so I thought it was a big ol' 9 on the stress scale and needed to be taken down a notch.

Chapter 12
Two Weeks and Quite A Pickle

She flew threw the air at an incredible speed. The rage inside her was building, no matter how many Gordainian ships she brought down, she still brewed more anger. She was now barreling into them recklessly, uncaring about her outcome at all.

It had been two weeks since her run in with John. The two hadn't spoken since, but lucky for her everyone else on the league knew about it. So no matter where she went on this desolate piece of crap planet, someone was always trailing her to watch her back.

Another fuel to her anger fire was the fact that she should have been home with Ira a week ago. But the Gordainians chose to send reinforcements. So the battle stretched another week. Superman however promised her that the battle would be over in a couple of days because he doubted that the Gordainians would sent more troops, since most were already destroyed.

He also sweetened the deal by explaining that Shay would have to go home in two days anyway, since someone would have to watch the kids. Diana would be to far into her term to be able to assest the kids with anything. Shay of course knew fairly well that Diana could help, but should would rather not. Shay never voiced her opinion; it was after all a free ticket home.

She reminisced about all this, and still managed to send three Gordainian ships crashing to the ground. Wally was keeping a close eye on her from the ground. He'd never seen her so angry. She really needed to get away from John.

Wally's head turned toward the ground. He blamed himself solely for the event that had occurred two weeks ago. Superman warned him to keep an eye on her, to watch out for her, to keep Lantern away from her. He failed. No he didn't just fail, he failed miserably. He crashed and burned, no survivors.

"Look alive Flash," he heard Superman's voice over the com-link, "We've got a radar reading that says an enormous spacecraft is coming towards the planet. J'onn has a feeling that it's not exactly Gordainian."

"Gottcha Big Guy," Flash said none so out of the ordinary.

He began busying himself by tidying up all the spaceship wreckages, speeding around and throwing them all into one, big, neat pile.

"No one likes a dirty, war stricken planet," he mumbled to himself.

Shayera swung her strong arms and drilled her mace into the bottom of the last ship. It spiraled downwards, smoking from the bottom, and landed on the top of Flash's pile with a 'Crash'.

"Sure now you help."

She was about to come up with a sarcastic remark to shoot towards Wally with daggers, but a ship materialized in the horizon.

"Shay that's the ship Supes warned me about. He has reason to believe that it's not Gordainian, so take it with a little caution, okay?"

"I always, take everything with caution, Wally," she stressed.

"Sure and I always take my time."

She rolled her eyes, and focused on the problem in the distance. The ship was fairly larger than the ship they were using as shelter.

"So, how are we going to tackle this?" she asked him, still floating in the eerie orange sky.

"Well we don't know if it's on our side or not. For all we know it could be the intergalactic police checking on a disturbance.."

"Or a war that's been on for a month," Shay interrupted.

"Well, why don't we approach it slowly and see what it does?" Shay looked at him skeptically, "What like you have any better ideas?"

She didn't so they slowly walked to the area where the craft had appeared. Wally complaining all the way because of the pace. When they arrived Wally did the first thing that came to mind.

"Hey ship!" he yelled.

"Wally, what are you doing?" Shayera asked her hand on her forehead.

"Well we need to get it's attention, don't we?"

"Flash," Superman's voice came over his com-link once again, "I'll be at the site in five minutes, until then try holding out on doing anything stupid."

"I'm not making any promises."

He and Shayera turned their attention back to the mysterious ship. It hadn't moved, except now there was a strange yellow light.

Superman was flying over the sandy dunes of the lost planet, towards the puzzling aircraft. As he neared closer and closer he started to see more details on the ship. He was mortified when he realized who it belonged to. He was about three city blocks away.

He quickly activated his com-link and nerviously demanded, "Flash, Hawkgirl get out of there NOW!" but it was to late.

A yellow beam fired at the exact spot where Hawkgirl and Flash were standing. Sand covered everything, and neither could be found.

Superman arrived on scene five seconds to late and notified J'onn telepathically that they might need a medic. Using his x-ray vision he combed over the dunes swifty, until he located someone.

He blew the same away and uncovered Flash. Who seemed unharmed except for minor burns.

"Flash, are you okay," the man of steel asked conserned.

"Yeah but I'll be brushing sand out of my hair for weeks to come," he said removing his mask and shaking his hair.

"Where's Hawkgirl?" Superman asked relieved that flash was unharmed.

"Right before the beam hit, she got hit with another one, my guess is she's on the ship.." Wally pointed up but was surprised to find that the ship had all but disappeared. "Okay freaky."

"After it fired the blast, it disappeared from the atmosphere almost instantaneously," J'onn was explaining using a three dimentional, holographic diagram. "Sadly I didn't have enough time to scan the craft, so I have no idea where it went."

"But I do," Superman said gravely, "I recognized that ship, it belonged to the late Brainiac. But I thought he was destroyed the last time we faced him with Static."

"I think the bigger question is, what does he want with Hawkgirl?" J'onn wondered.

"Well we have to go get her, and soon, Wondy's gonna pop an no one can look after the kids," Wally warned.

Batman and Lantern walked in. Although neither Flash, nor Green Lantern showed it, they were both thinking strong thoughts about the other.

Superman explained to the missing League members what had occurred, and their solution.

"We need to go check out Brainiac's old headquarters. It's in a neighboring galaxies and shouldn't take too long to get to in the new ship," he explained.

"I have no problem going along but I'd like to check in on Diana first," Bruce told, as he went to the other room to make the phone call.

"He's gotten soft over the years," Flash observed.

"If it's alright with you Clark, I'm going to sit this one out. I really don't think you need me," Lantern clarified.

"Yes we do John, you are our sneak attack."

"John this is complete bullshit and you know it!" Wally started to scream, "You just don't want to go, because she has a daughter. But it didn't pass through your thick head once that she might be a decent mother? And have raised a decent child?"

"All I know is that kid is Katar's, not mine. I have no business with her anymore now Wally!" Lantern was screaming back as J'onn and Superman watched from the side, neither wanting to interrupt.

"Then you know nothing!" Flash was really starting to loose it.

"What are you talking about?" John said as he started to quiet down.

Wally walked towards him, "Did you ever think once you stupid, pompous, stubborn, sad bastard, that you might have been wrong?" his voice was normal now.

"You mean?" John asked choked up.

"She's you daughter John," Wally said placing a comforting hand on his shoulder, "That's what Shay was trying to tell you, but you wouldn't hear her out."

"All these years I had a daughter and none of you told me? I missed everything her first words, her first steps, her first hair cut, her first tooth... I missed her being born," his voice was cracking now. All he managed to say was, "I...I..Missed.t.t..the...ultrasounds..."

Wally looked upon John. He never looked more miserable in his life. He needed to do something, but in order to do that he needed Shay and Ira, but neither were here.

"I think the first thing we need to do is to get Shay back, because it sounds like you've got a lot to talk about," he suggested talking to John who nodded in agreement.

"I hate to break up this family moment, but we have a major problem," Batman said for once in his life sounding frightened.

"What is it Bruce?" Superman asked as everybody piled into the next room which Batman was making his phone called.

"I phoned Diana and I got no answer. I tried seven times and still got no answer."

"Maybe she's in the shower," Flash suggested and everyone glared at him, "What!?"

"So," Bruce continued, "I uploaded the security tapes from the Watchtower today on to our TV and look."

The tapes were played, it showed Diana, Ethanial, and Ira in the lounge. Diana satb on the couch watching TV, Ethanial was running around the room wild, and Ira was in the corner playing with her Angel doll. Flash looked over at John who had tears in his eyes for seeing his daughter. Suddenly a light sweep the area and all three disappeared. No windows, or objects were broken but Ira's angel doll was missing to.

"Wow that seems eerily familiar," Flash said sarcastically.

"Well we know how are perp is, everybody ready to go find him?" Superman asked.

"I'm prepared," J'onn announced.

"I'm ready," John declared.

"We've got to make this quick, Diana's due in a week, but she's full of surprises," Bruce explained.

"So we're not stopping for fast food on the way there then?" Wally asked and once again received only glares, "So that's a no, right?"

When Shay awoke she was sitting against a cold metal wall. She let out a shiver as she stood up and noticed her mace was gone. She looked left and noticed someone.

"Diana?! What are you doing here?" She asked as she ran over to the pregnant Amazoian.

"I could ask you the same question, but like me I doubt you'd have an answer" she explained as the Thanagarian helped her up.

"Where are the kids?" She asked nerviously.

"I have the kids," an all to recognizable voice said.

The lights shot up and Brainiac came down from a hole in the ceiling with the kids.

"Let go of me you crappy piece of technology," Ethanial was screamed as he kicked at Brainiac's legs.

"Ethanial! Language!" Diana screamed.

"Mommy!" Ira screamed as she broke hold from her capture and flew towards her mother, who caught her, and hugged her tightly.

"Let go of me" Ethanial screamed as he ripped his arm out of the robots hold and raced toward his mother.

"What do you want?" Shay demanded angrily.

"I have spent my life assimilating planets to learn and gorw to become the greatest mind in the universe."

"Yeah we know this part already," Shay said impatiently.

"Few planets have been spared due to the fact that they have outnumbered me, and have beat me in strength. As the years go on those numbers will become greater and I shall fail."

"What does this have to do with us?" Diana asked as she actually cradled Ethanial who was scared.

"I have tried to persuade your Superman to join me to added to my force, yet he refuses. His mind has been tainted by Earth, and emotions. Then a thought occurred to me, If one Justice League member is strong, two Justice League member's merged together should be invincible. Which is why I have the children. They are young enough that if I retrieve them now, they will easily forget you, and obey me."

"I'll never listen to you, you big piece of junk!" Ethanial screamed enraged.

"Yeah, and I'll never forget my mommy!" Ira screamed back.

"Wait," Diana said while still trying to wrap her head around the situation, "Then why are Hawkgirl and I here?"

"Well because you're pregnant of course," Brainiac enlightened.

"She's pregnant, I'm not. So what am I doing here?" Shayera asked.

"On the contrary Thanagarian, you are with child as well."

"That's impossible," She explained surprisedly back.

"No the scan I did on your body from the plan concludes that you are two weeks pregnant," Brainiac responded.

"But I never..." She stopped when she remembered her night with John, "Son of a Bitch." She almost whispered.

"Shayera! Language!" Diana yelled as she tired to cover Ethanial's ears.

"Mommy?" Ira questioned, "What does pregnant mean?"

"It mean's you're going to have a little brother or sister because your parents got tired of you," Ethanil enlightened.

"Ethanial is that why you think you're getting a sibling?" Ethanial nodded, "Sweetie, don't you want someone to play with? To boss around? That's why you're getting a brother."

"You got tired of me?" Ira asked.

"No, sweetheart not at all, I'll explain it to you when you're a little older."

"Except that you won't have the chance to because they'll be with me," Brainiac reminded. "Escaping wouldn't be such a good idea either, I'm one with this ship and I have weapons lacing all the floors, don't think for one minute that I would mind loosing one of them." And then disappeared threw the floor once again.

Diana and Shayera looked at each other, not knowing what to do or say.

"Well this is quite a pickle," Ira informed.

A little bit of change of heart for Ethanial, And a big story pile up. But hey this is probably my favorite chapter, due to the dramatic humor and all... Once I think of what happens I'll right Chapter 13... PS I'll right the Chapter 5 to my other story when this one is finished.