Yes, I know, too many fics going at once. I just get too many ideas. I might have got some of the information on backgrounds, etc.. wrong, so if I have, review and tell me(kills two birds with one stone!). Please don't flame it, constructive criticism is welcome. This has nothing to do with the 'Flash is going to die!' thing.
Prologue
Lex Luthor sat at his desk, waiting for his computer to complete some research.
The last few weeks had been god-awful. He was out of the President's good books, plus half the country hated him... And then there was the Justice League, that was, as it always had been, a threat that was quite literally hanging over his head.
His computer beeped. He sat forward and typed something in. The faces of the seven leaders of the Justice League flashed up on the screen. Masked faces and next to them... Photos of normal people. Their alter egos.
Luthor smiled, and moved the mouse to click on one of the pairs of photos. An identity page appeared on the screen. Superman's. Luthor scanned the page, his eyes flitting quickly from line to line. No use. The boy scout had no family, adoptive or real, that he could exploit. His adoptive parents lived in another country, unspecified on the report. Apart from them, there was only Supergirl who could be counted as family, and she was almost as dangerous as her cousin!
Batman. Alias Bruce Wayne. Luthor swore under his breath. Bruce Wayne was one of the few people with more influence than Luthor himself. Parents murdered, no family left. Dead end.
Wonder Woman. Real name Diana, hailing from an Amazon world that was a little beyond Luthor's reach. Her only family was her mother, the Queen of this world. No use at all.
The Martian Manhunter. J'onn J'onnz. Last survivor of Mars. Luthor laughed bitterly. You'd have to assume that he hadn't got any family left.
Green Lantern. Former Marines officer, John Stewart. Interesting. Maybe... No, another dead end. No record of family, and the Green Lantern Corps weren't exactly what you'd call vulnerable.
Shayera Hol, formerly Hawkgirl. Former inhabitant of the planet Thanagar. She had family all right, they just didn't care what the hell happened to her! God dammit, were these people invulnerable?
Last one, Flash. Wally West, one of the three founders coming from Earth... Luthor's breath caught. A sister. He clicked on the link. Lynn West. Sixteen years old, five years younger than the Flash. Lives alone in an apartment in New York.
Luthor smiled. The League did have one weakness, and they were about to find out about it.
He picked up his phone. Time to call a meeting of Cadmus.