Thanks for the reviews; it's giving me a real confidence booster. QK (I think that's what you put down, dam small print on computers!) Death is female, although I didn't put her in for long. Jill, of course I wouldn't go to far with him (how far is too far)! ;). Thanks again...let continue!
John flew round the city for a good half hour trying to track where the horses went. He growled, as he turned round again.
"Give it up John! You can't track them, they took to the sky, and you can't track what can't be seen!" Shayera tried to reason with him.
"Then why are you still here!" he raged back to her. "I didn't hear anyone ask for your help."
"I did!" Batman appeared on the top of a building beside the fighting pair. "I think I've found a cure, it's from an old planet nearby. We can give Flash the cure and then we'll find them!" He looked between the two and walked over to the bat space mobile that had silently appeared behind him.
John turned to leave but found Shayera holding his arm. "Please John! I love you...so much it hurts! I had no choice; I thought you had really attacked them...I don't know why? Please! I..."
John turned away and shook his arm free, cutting her off. "Don't...I don't love you!" he said defiantly then flew off after the bat mobile. Shayera stared at the ground as the tears brimmed and fell. She fought so hard to suppress the sobs, but they too came, burying her head in her hands she howled in pain.
She must have been there all of ten seconds till she felt someone lift her head and hug her, she returned the hug and cried into the long black hair, sobbing her pain to her old friend.
"He'll come round eventually." Diana muttered behind Shayera's head. "You still have Flash, J'ohn and I...Hawk Girl!" Through out the few hours with her old friends and teammates only Flash had ever called her Hawk Girl, or well Wings, which still meant the same.
She allowed a small smile to touch her lips as she pulled away. "Thank you." She croaked. Diana just smiled and the two set off after John.
Superman smiled behind them, we can trust her now. After Flash's outburst after they kicked her off the team everyone had felt a little guilty. She was only doing it because she thought Earth would be attacked...because she didn't want her friends to be hurt.
He flew off after them thinking about how long it would take John to heal emotionally.
"He's pushing everyone away!" he said to himself. He recalled four days after Hawk Girl left when Wally had tried to talk with John. John hit Wally and then threw him out of the room; Flash had never been alone in the same room as John for a good week or so. He feared that he was pushing away the brother he had made.
John flew out into space, his vision blurred slightly as he saw the Watch Tower. He rubbed a hand over his eyes and glanced back at the Watch Tower, looking to the Infirmary window. He had been too angry with Flash, especially after he tried to defend Shayera.
His gasped as he made out the wreckage that was flying outside of the tower. Someone had broken one of the windows, quickly counting the windows he stopped dead. The Infirmary window.
"No!" he whispered in fear.
Superman and the others came up behind him and also stopped as Batman turned his ship round and watched them.
"What's wrong?" they heard over the intercoms in their ears.
"No!" John cried, racing as fast as he could to the bay doors.
"John..." Superman looked to the window and stopped. "Flash!" he cried, also racing after him. The other three quickly saw the destruction and followed.
The doors opened and everyone skidded inside. Batman landed and waited for the doors to close before he could get out, then he too raced after them.
John slammed into the door and pushed the button for it to open, he charged in as he saw J'ohn on the floor. He gently touched the Martians shoulder and then rolled him carefully on his back.
"J'ohn? Can you hear me?" there was no movement except for the steady rising and falling of his chests. He lifted him up and laid him out on one of the beds, then set about stemming the flow of blood from his head.
He glanced round at the destruction as the others stumbled into the room. He looked at the shutter that had come down and noticed a dent in the metal. He dared a glance at the bed Wally had been in and finally accepted the fact that someone had captured his friend. His Brother.
Batman strode into the room and immediately set about checking J'ohn vitals and bandaging his head.
"Someone propped the shutter to get Wally out." He observed. The others were looking carefully round at the wreckage for some sign as to where they took Flash. "That was only a distraction, Pestilence draws us out, Death sets off the power plant while the other two get Flash." Batman shook his head.
"What's this?" Hawk Girl stooped and picked up a bit of paper that was on Flash's bed. John plucked it out of her hand and opened it.
"Wait for us to call, we have so much to arrange. You try and find us before we contact you and we kill speedy!" He read, his mouth growing increasingly dry.
There was a sudden grown from behind them causing them to group round the bed.
J'ohn finally opened his eyes and slowly sat up with a slight warning from his friends to be careful. He looked around the room and noticed Flash was missing and that many of the tables were outside of the window.
"J'ohn...What happened?" Superman asked carefully.
J'ohn rubbed his head and tried to recall what happened. "A figure...Plague I think. A lamp coming down." J'ohn shook his head carefully.
"Don't strain yourself." Diana warned.
"So all we know is who took Wally. We don't even know where they'll go; they've been all over the place. We can't even pin point a city they would go to." John raged, throwing his arms in the air.
"Don't be a drama queen...king." Hawk Girl said. "We'll find him, they have to slip up, and we just have to wait for them to call. There might be some clue when they contact us." She explained, the others nodding with her.
They slowly made their way down to the monitor room to wait. They settled themselves around the main screen and waited in silence.
"He's strong, he's always pulled threw." Diana said, staring into space.
"Yeah. Do you remember that crystal?" Superman asked causing everyone to laugh at the memory of him waking up.
There was a sudden crackling on the screen and an image came into focus.
He was still in darkness yet could here many conversations beyond it. He finally found a slip of light as his eyes opened. Raising his head slightly his vision cleared. A table stood in the middle of a concrete floored warehouse. Four chairs were placed on each side and four people sat about it.
One sat on the chair backwards with his chin on the back. Another sat on the chair properly but had his booted feet up on the table. One of the other men wan sitting on the table with his feet on a chair and a woman sat on the back of last chair with her feet on the seat.
He glanced up, his head throbbing horribly. He went to hold it but found his arms hanging above him, he glance down and noticed his toes were an inch off the floor, glancing back at the ceiling he noticed a blue light directly above him.
"Ah! Awake at last." Flash gritted his teeth at the pain running down his back as he looked back at the table. "That would be the disease." The woman explained as Flash screwed up his eyes at the increasing pain. "Or it could be the strain from your weight." She laughed.
"Who are you?" Flash gasped.
"Death." She explained, "And this is Plague, you should know him well." She added as she pointed to the man who was sitting backwards on the chair. The man grinned at the hanging Flash. "Pestilence." She pointed to the man with his feet up. "And finally Famine." The tanned man nodded as he hopped off the table.
"Shall we Sis?" Plague asked as he too stood up.
"Indeed!" She answered with a sly grin.
"Great..." Flash gasped. "A family deal!" He joked.
"How much do you know?" Death asked stepping up to Flash, he noticed how light her eyes were, there was a slight blue tinge that stood out as she shifted her gaze.
"From what I could hear, you guys are old." He recalled the times when he could here Batman and the others talking, even when he looked unconscious. She merely smiled and laughed softly.
"No. You see my family, we started with the first. I don't know how far back? But each member had separate children with ordinary people on different planets. However our gene is always stronger, so we continue down the line. Until Female Famine and Plague fell in love; they had twins. Finally Female Death and Pestilence later had their own twins.
Their parents eventually died in the line of work...funny we always die in our twenties." She paused and gazed off to the side. "Anyway, the twins met up and one of each fell in love with the other twin so they had one child each, but they died before anymore children were born. So at the time it looked like the Apocalypse team had died out, but those two fell in love and we were born. Plague first, Famine and Pestilence were twins and finally me!" She finished, watching Flash's expression.
"So your parents were cousins?" Flash began laughing through his pain he continued. Death pulled a sour expression and huffed, reaching for her belt.
"Shut it!" She grinned as Flash stopped and looked at the curved zigzag blade at his throat. He held his breath until she removed the grin and walked away, finally letting it out with a whoosh. "Ready?" she asked her brothers, each nodding and stepping away from a camera.
Someone moved behind the Camera and a red light flashed on at the top. Death straightened out her top and looked at the screen to the left as a picture of the Justice League appeared. She looked back at the camera and started.
"Hello Justice League, listen closely, your friends life is at stake after all!" She laughed as they turned to look at her with grime and angry faces.
Sorry to leave it here, but will have the next chapter up in a few hours! Please review and tell me if this isn't working, I coming to a harder point no! Thanks!!!