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"That was fun." Kara grinned, as they lurched across the landing field. It wasn't just the three of them, but there was a full dozen, all in the same condition more or less.
"Didn't I tell you?" Shayera asked. "Starting a bar fight here, is a wonderful way to make new friends." She laughed.
"Sounds like battle field alliances to me." Diana grinned. She and the man that had insulted Shayera to start the fight were leaning one one another. Kara had one end of the large green alien that had destroyed her Nachos. One of his friends had the other. She apologized for doing so much damage, but said friend simply replied that he'd heal.
"Those are the best kind." Shayera grinned. "You never know what's going to happen." She laughed again, and Kara joined in. A few of the aliens chuckled as well. They separated shortly after, the girls returning to the Orcane. "So where shall we go next?" Shayera asked.
"Home?" Diana suggested with a laugh.
"Let's see that map again." Kara grinned. "How about here." She pointed out a system which expanded, and then touched the second planet.
"Isn't that a touch close to the sun?" Shayera asked.
"No, the planet's axis always faces the sun. So the dark side only rotates around. The sun face is more or less totally molten. We'll jump in on it's shadow." Ory grinned.
"Let's go then." Shayera laughed. The ship lurched again, jumping across empty space. Diana leaned over a bucket, heaving up everything she'd drank, while Shayera watched the scenery. Kara found that it was much easier to take the ride the second time, than it was the first time. She sighed, as the ship slowed. "Kara, how did you know about this planet? And for that matter, what is this planet?"
"The name of the place, is Sedos Prime. Even being the second planet from the sun. It's the largest mall in the galaxy. I figured we could go shopping. Adam mentioned that I could use his account." Kara shrugged. Diana moaned from the back of the ship.
"Don't worry, we'll stop soon." Ory chuckled. "And he didn't mention to me about his account, I need to check with him." She shrugged.
"He might have forgotten." Shayera pointed out at Kara's nasty look.
"Put me through." Kara grunted. The air before them shimmered, as a holographic display came into being. Adam was laying sprawled on the couch, snoring. "Adam!" She snapped. He toppled to the ground startled.
"Yes, sweet cakes." He replied calmly, brushing his shirt off. "What can I do for you."
"Tell your girlfriend to let us use your account." Kara snapped. Ory shifted to standing beside her.
"Tell your girlfriend, that you never said anything to me. I can't do what I wasn't asked." Ory growled, hackles raised.
Adam rubbed his head a moment before answering. "Ory, give them access to the account, seventy five hundred ounce cut point. Kara, I'm terribly sorry that I forgot to mention it, I got caught up in other things, and totally forgot. Can you ever forgive me?" Kara stared a moment more, then nodded.
"Of course I can." She grinned. "Sorry to interrupt your nap." She waved and the communication window cut out.
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"I still feel something is going wrong." Lantern muttered, as he and the caped crusader floated under the surface of the water, waiting for the drug runners to arrive for the meeting. This was very much not a lantern plan, he thought to himself.
"So do I, but none of the Javelins are free, and that ship is too fast for you to catch. Adam is the only one that can even find it in any case." Batman replied. "I'd still like to know where it came from." He added in an after thought.
"Me too." Lantern muttered again, then was disrupted as one of the two boats they had been waiting for arrived. A few moments later, the second one showed and they bumped together. "Shall we crash the party? Or just sink them?" Lantern asked with a wry grin. Batman smiled. The difference in him was interesting. With Shayera, and without. With he was a complete human being, including a sense of humor. Without, he was like a robot, a very angry robot.
"Sink them." Batman nodded. Lantern laughed, and energy slithered upwards, then snapped through the keel of each boat, letting in the ocean. It was revealed a moment later that the insides of the boats were air tight, when decking splattered the water, preceded by a popping noise, when the water pressure, and the air pressure inside blew the decks off. At that cue Lantern lifted them both from the water, dropping Batman to the deck of one boat, while landing on the other himself. Machine gun fire met him as he landed, but the rounds deflected off his shield and pinged off the surface of the water. Ignoring the more complicated methods of dealing with the drug runners, he charged forwards and started swinging. It wasn't wild, uncontrolled swinging, but the quick, hard jabs of an experienced fighter. The first went down in two blows, but the second dropped his gun, and fought back.
At the same time, Batman found himself facing a half dozen well armed thugs. Batarangs flew, but random gunfire knocked them out of the air. A tear gas grenade met the same fate. Batman grunted, and kicked over a pile of crates, dropping them down on the closest pair of thugs, then dove and rolled behind another pile. He didn't stop though, as gunfire ripped through the crates. He came to his feet, and fired his grappling hook into the pilots cabin, and tossed the end. It swung out, and wrapped around another pair, then he dove to the side, as more fire swept past his feet. An explosion off the starboard caught his attention, just long enough for a pair of bullets to catch up to him. They tore across the surface of his arm, painful, but only grazing wounds. A moment later, a green energy orb whipped around, swung like a giant wrecking ball, swept the last two criminals up, and then came back, picking up the last of them. Lantern landed a moment later.
"You alright?" He asked, with a grin on his face.
"Fine." Batman answered. "Let's drop these off, and convince Adam." A second bubble wrapped around him, and the pair, with villains in tow, lifted off towards the police station.
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Let me put it this way. I value being alone with myself. Very much. Having myself drop in on me? That's not what I'm talking about. I really hate it when myself talks back to me.
"I don't know why you're here, I don't have any problems that need resolution, and I'm not dying. Not anytime soon unless I annoy Kara." I commented to literally, myself. It was like staring directly into a mirror. The only difference was, that he wasn't alone. Two young women, a red head, and a raven haired babe stood behind him, both looking around at the house. Adam2 snorted.
"What's that got to do with anything?" He asked, rhetorically. "I'm here to deliver a message." He grunted.
"And that message would be?" I asked quietly. "Freckles, leave them alone." I laughed at the cat. The red head grinned.
"Oh, he's alright." She laughed. Adam2 rolled his eyes.
"The message is simple: Go and make at least the attempt to save them. I don't know what it's talking about, so don't ask me. Now, if you'll excuse us, we have a party to get to." Light flashed in the air, and they were gone. Mr. Freckles looked around, and glared at me.
"Don't look at me, I didn't do it." I shrugged, rising. "Stay out of the kitchen this time. If I have to clean it up again, we're eating roast cat." I grunted. He gave me that lazy cat routine, and pretended to fall asleep. I stepped into the bedroom, and began to hunt for my clothes. If I was supposed to save them, they'd not appreciate me showing up in my underwear. Well... Kara might, but Diana and Shayera would probably not. Fifteen minutes later, Batman, and Green Lantern were standing outside my door.
"What do you want?" Batman asked, in his usual blunt manner.
"You still want to go save the girls?" I asked, knowing before I asked what the answer was. A pair of nods confirmed the answer. "Then let's go. Addy!" The five-hundred fifty foot long torpedo shaped ship, including it's long triangular cockpit spike, decloaked above our heads. The entire aircraft landed, and the air lock slid open as we approached.
"What is that thing?" Lantern asked.
"The Adamantium, my personal star craft." We entered the ship. A hologram flickered up before us. "Hello Addy, are we hot?" The blond woman nodded, and smiled. "Good, track down the Orcane. Full speed ahead."
"Locking onto the SSD trail." She replied. The ship rose into the air, and outside, the air rippled, as it vanished.
"How can this thing track them down?" Lantern asked. "As fast as they were going, I don't see how it's possible."
"The SSD's leave a peculiar radiation trail. More correctly, there is none where an SSD has been through recently. I can sense that. Hang on." Addy grunted. The ship heaved, and space bent, then snapped back to normal. The planet we were orbiting, was not earth. Except for a large ocean, it was completely black, not surprising since it was daytime, so there were no lights visible. "There seems to be multiple trails leading away from the planet. All SSD's, I can't find which is theirs."
"Sounds to me like it needs a detective's touch." Batman smiled. Lantern lifted his arm.
"Wait, Addy, take us down. You should conserve your ring, incase we need it to save the girls." I cautioned Lantern, as the ship descended gracefully through the atmosphere.
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The sphere, was not graceful anymore. Four legs, and two arms pulled it frantically along, as the security drone pursued it relentlessly through the ventilation system. The tazer launched again, and the sphere flattened against the wall, the tazer missed. The second tazer didn't. The electricity coursed through the circuits, provoking smoke, which the exhaust fans drew away, and then the sphere dropped to the deck. A white alert flickered through the various systems, alerting J'onn.
"A spy robot, neutralized?" He muttered. "Atom. There's a spy of some type in the ventilation, could you retrieve it, please?"
"One moment." Came the reply. "Found it, shouldn't take long." The sound cut out. Five minutes later, he was hiking through the vent system, following a security drone, the path was clear, and he found the robot waiting for him. The drones pulled away, and he sighed, then shrunk the wreckage of the robot, then followed the drones to the nearest vent. Which, to his misfortune, was the ladies room.
"What are you doing in here?!" A scream issued out of the room. As Palmer stumbled out, Green Arrow burst into a gale of laughter.
"Oh, shut up." Palmer muttered, walking away.
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"This is absolutely delicious." Alexia complimented Wally.
"Why thank you. The owner's a friend of mine." He smiled. "So, you're enjoying yourself?" He queried.
"Yes, I am why do you ask?" She inquired, taking a bite of egg roll.
"Just wondering, if you might consider doing it again some time?" He asked, without stopping to consider what he was saying.
"I'll have to think about it." His face fell. "Thought about it. Yes." She grinned, and finished the egg roll. He laughed. "So, shall we pay for the food, and take a walk?" She asked, rising from the table.
"Of course." He smiled, and walked towards the counter. At the same moment, the door burst open. Gunfire hit the wall. Three armed women, dressed in military camouflage came in, and were met by the strangest sight. A pair of almost matching super heroes. One red, the other orange. Gunfire danced across the floor and up the ceiling following the two blurs, the rounds tracking around until they shot each other. Even wearing vests the simple force of the rounds knocked them back, and two extended arms slammed into them. The third gunner dropped down and stuck one leg out to her right, and the butt of her rifle to the left. Flash leapt over the rifle, but Dancer's feet caught the leg, and she rolled against the wall. The rifle came up, and fired two shots, all it got off before Flash knocked the rifle out of her hands. A second later he hit the floor, bleeding from his left leg, and the right side of his stomach. Dancer lunged up from the ground, and slammed into the woman on the ground, speed generating force in her blow, and knocking the woman out in a single blow. She bounced back off the ground, and snatched Flash from the floor, then bolted out the door. She'd seen the hospital on the way in, and knew right where it was. She stopped right inside the emergency room doors, in the face of a doctor.
"He's been shot." She snapped, he stared at her, and she realized she was speaking Russian. Composing her thoughts for just a second she repeated it, in english this time. "He's been shot."
"Alright, follow me." The doctor nodded and headed down the hall, Dancer followed.
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"NO!" The man in the trenchcoat hissed, knowing his robot was destroyed. As the wind catches his hat, and blows it off his head, it's easy to see why he can tell. Silver and gold circuitry run along the right side of his head, sticking in and out of it, wires running down into his hair, and down the back of his trenchcoat. He snatched the hat out of the air, with unnatural reflexes, for a human, and slipped it back on his head. Standing on the roof top, he was invisible to the ground, and he had his own radar to tell where and when helicopters, and other, less convenient things that flew, such as superheroes were. He lifted into the air again, a slight hum coming from his body, as he forced gravity to loosen it's hold on his body. The window's molecules changed position, forming into a door, as he passed into his office, then slid gracefully, and smoothly back into position as he passed into the room. He settled into his chair, as the door opened, and Lex Luthor walked in.
"So, how goes the waste recycling program?" He asked cheerfully.
"Exceedingly well Mr. Luthor." He replied, equally cheerfully, much as the man grated on his stretched nerves. Oh, how he wished he could simply snap the man's neck, and toss the body in the nearest garbage compactor. "We've begun tests on nuclear waste materials, just today."
"Today?" Luthor asked, raising an eyebrow. "Excellent, that's a full week ahead of schedule. How go your personal pursuits?" He asked.
"Not nearly so well. One of my spy bots was stolen on it's way to delivery, and destroyed. I never received any data." He shrugged.
"I'm terribly sorry Mr. Ornota. Please, continue to use any spare resources you need." Luthor turned, and walked to the door. "Pray tell, where was it last?"
"Aboard the Justice League Watchtower." Ornota replied. Lex blinked and walked out the door. "Nosy SOB." Ornota snarled.
"Stupid fool." Luthor swore, and bolted for his office.
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"J'onn. In coming call, from Lex Luthor?" Superman stared surprised. "On screen." The display panel in front of them flickered as it changed to the incoming call.
"I'm sorry to bother you." He muttered. "But there appears to be a minor problem. Someone stole a small robot we were building, and seems to have loosed it in your watch tower. It was destroyed, but I wanted to make sure you knew it was not me." He seemed vehement.
"Relax Lex, we didn't suspect you anyway. We'll have it returned shortly." Superman assured him. Lex sighed.
"Thank you." The call cut off.
"That was." Superman stopped, unsure of what to say.
"Unexpected." J'onn finished.
"Totally." Superman nodded.