Only one chapter left in my wonderful amazing Pulitzer prize winning story -- Dripping with sarcasm. Anyway, this chapter is an emotional roller coaster; tear jerking moments filled with sarcastic comments. Enjoy…

PS I don't own the rights to the song 'No Rain' by 'Blind Melon' although I wish I did it's such a good song, and I don't own Skittles, but I own Ira, Ethanial, Tomothy and Shittles.

Chapter 14

It's a Family Name

"Alright then," Superman stated, 'you know the plan then, and make sure you're out of here in fifteen minutes, or you're gone." With that he and J'onn flew down the hall to deal with Brainiac.

Brainiac that sick twisted robot, who not only feeds on planets knowledge but then destroys them, like they were pieces of paper to be crumpled up and thrown into a garbage can to see if he could get a basket.

"Okay, when we come to the next hallway you go left and I got right. Then you go to the other side of the ship and up two levels, you got that Lantern?" Batman asked as he ran along side his fellow Leaguer.

But John was silent. Even though he was flying he was barely paying attention.

"John!" Batman man screamed furiously.

"Ahh, What!" he yelled back, scared out of his wits.

"I just told you where to find your daughter and Hawkgirl, but you know it's not that important of information, so you know I think I'll keep it to myself." His voice gripped of sarcasm.

"Sorry man, it's just I'm a little nervous about seeing Ira, what if she doesn't believe me or something. I have so much to tell her and she has so much to tell me."

"Aww isn't that sweet. We'll you to can reminisce about that, while the ship crumbles to pieces and my wife IS IN LABOR!" he screamed.

They stopped when they arrived at the next hallway and Bruce retold the directions. They went their separate ways to save their children.

When John came to the door he was instructed to, he paused. He didn't know how to address the situation. But he had no time. He opened the lock with his ring and bounded inside.

The room was dark. There was no light whatsoever, not even the light from the hall helped, so he activated a glow around himself to brighten the room. In the eerie glow all he could see was a bed with a small figure on it.

Ira sat on the bed cradling her angel doll close to her. She stared at John and trembled.

"Ummm, we have to go now," he said in a calm voice. Ira never took her eyes off him, as he made his way closer to the bed. "Ira…"

"Who are you?" she asked quietly.

John gazed at his daughter. Her voice was angelic. She still sat on the bed, not moving an inch, but her head tilted when she didn't receive an answer.

"We have to go now Ira," he said strictly, but not too strictly as to frighten her.

"My Mommy said I'm not allowed to go with strangers."

This hurt John. His own daughter didn't know who he was. Here she was right in front of her but he didn't know how to tell her, so he did the first thing that came into his mind.

"I'm your dad," it shocked him almost as much as it shocked Ira. She looked at him, her eyes grew big, he asked her a question, "Did your mom tell you about me?"

"She just said that you had to go away for awhile but you would be back…Are you really my daddy?"

He looked her in the eye and nodded. She immediately got to her feet and ran over and hugged his legs.

John waited and then lifted her up and ran out into the hallway. HE then could finally see her features. His mouth almost hung open; she was almost an exact replica of her mother. Her gorgeous ginger coiled hair and her emerald jeweled eyes looked exactly like Shay's. But her skin was darker, he smiled, finally he added something to the mix.

Then he noticed them, he almost wanted to hit himself because it took so long for him to realize She had beautiful brownish-gray wings like her mother, but they were small to fit her body.

"You've got wings," John said finally.

Ira looked up at him from his shoulders where she was resting, "Yeah, but Ethanial says I'm a mutant because of them."

John looked at his daughter as he continued to fly, "Well Ethanial's a little poop head."

Ira laughed, this made John smile because her giggles were so tiny and cute.

"Ethanial also said that you left because of them, are my wings why you left daddy?" she asked him.

John didn't stop flying but he answered the best he could, "Daddy had to take care of something, it took awhile, but now it's over."

Ira smiled and placed her head back on her father's shoulder, then quickly lifted it up again when she remember, "Mommy's gonna be so happy to see you, and guess what?"

"What?" John asked as he turned a corner leading to that hall one which Shayera's room was.

"I'm going to have a little brother or little sister," Ira said smiling from ear to ear.

Now this made John stop, and Ira looked up at him inquisitively.

"Pardon me?" he asked calmly.

"I'm gonna have a little brother or sister. The robot man told mommy she was, umm… I forget the word but it started with a 'p'…"

"Pregnant?" John interrupted.

"Yeah, and Ethanial told me what it meant…"

"Did scary robot man mention any times, like weeks, months, days?" He asked lifting up his daughter to look at her eye level.

She smiled, "Yep he said two weeks."

John was about to say something when his communicator buzzed he answered it.

"John have you got Hawkgirl yet?" Bruce asked.

"Daddy, I want a little brother," he heard Ethanial whine.

"SHUT UP YOUR FATHER IS BUSY!" he heard Diana scream.

"No I'm just about there though," John answered as he kept flying.

"Oh good because you have four minutes!" Bruce screamed.

"Oh Shi…" John looked down at Ira, "Shittles taste the rainbow."

He knocked down the door to Shayera's room and Ira immediately flew from him.

"Ira!" Shay screamed as she scooped up her daughter in her cold arms. She then looked at Ira's face, "How did you get here?"

"Mommy, Daddy came," She smiled brightly as John entered the room.

Shay just gawked at him, she didn't know what else to do, she was about to say something when John interrupted her.

"Look I know we have a lot to talk about but we have about two minutes to get away from here."

Shay nodded and with her daughter in her arms she walked and stood beside him, "Get us three out of here."

"You mean us four," John corrected, she looked surprised at him and he clandestinely placed his hand on her stomach. She smiled and placed the hand that wasn't holding Ira onto of his.

"Flash?" Superman called

"All I can say is that my life is pretty plain, I like to watch the puddles gather rain…" Flash sat his head down on the controls groggily singing off key.

"FLASH!" Superman screamed.

"Yeah Big Guy?" he answered as he shot up.

"Get ready to take us out of here," he replied. Wally looked out the window and saw a big green bubble heading towards him and knew everything was going to be okay.

Once on the ship Bruce, Diana and J'onn went to the medical bay, Ira, Ethanial, Wally and Clark we're flying the Javelin 3.5 and John and Shay we talking in privacy.

"So I guess you know then?" she asked as she sat in on the couch, John was pacing before her.

"Yeah, my daughter told me about it," he said in a pissed off kind of voice.

"John how can you possibly be mad, we're all safe."

"Is it mine?" he asked abruptly as he stopped pacing.

"Is it mine?" she echoed, "Of course it's yours, what kind of question is that?"

"Well you are full of surprises, heck you got one in you right now."

"Cute John. What are you so angry about?"

"Were you going to tell me about this baby? Or were you going to hide it from me like you did Ira?" he asked angrily.

"Of course I would tell you…"

"Really? Just like you did with Ira? Damn Shay I missed everything. She doesn't even know anything about me! I know nothing about her except what Wally told me on the ride here," he ranted.

Shay faced the ground, "I was afraid to tell you, after what you said to me, I was afraid you'd do something drastic."

John sighed and took a seat beside Shay on the couch. He wrapped his strong arms around her and sighed.

"What are you going to do?" she asked.

He looked into her beautiful eyes, and then at her stomach. He once again put his strong warm hand on her stomach, and she once again smiled.

"How can I turn that down?" he asked and embraced Shay, "But," he added, "I promised the other Lanterns I'd make a trip back to Oa, for a meeting. I'll be back in a week."

Shay shook her head, "The baby isn't even born yet and you're already making excuses to go play some hoops with your buds," She said playfully.

Lantern laughed and got up of the couch and offered her a hand, which she accepted. He put his hand around her waist and held her close as they walked out the door and to the cockpit.

"Mommy, Daddy guess what?!" Ira asked as she ran from Wally and Ethanial.

"What?" John asked.

"I want a Pterodactyl for my Birthday."

"Wally what did I tell you about putting ideas into her head."

Ira ran back to Clark who was showing Ethanial how to pilot the Javelin 3.5.

Wally ran up and told them, "So Ira told me about the baby. Jeez Shay, you have sex once in more than five years and you get pregnant. Someone fertile."

Shay laughed hard, but then Wally interrupted with a statement, "This one is so going to be a boy. I just know it."

Shayera rolled her eyes but then John added, "yeah I think you're right Wally."

Ira looked up from her chair, "It's a girl," she said and then smiled.

Shay laughed, but was interrupted by Bruce how came into the room with the new addition to his family.

"This is Tomothy Bruce Wayne," he explained happily showing the child off.

"Wait a minute," Shay asked, "Isn't Ethanial's middle name Bruce?"

"Yes," Bruce answered and everyone stared at him, "What it's a family name?!"

I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Because it shall be your second last. But I know the question you all want to know the answer to, no not "What the hell are Shittles", but what about Shay's baby???!!!?!?!?!…