Chapter Fifteen
Wally West or better known as The Flash yawned and stretched in the metalic chair that was placed in front of the large round console of the Watch Tower's crows nest.
It was his turn to do the watch while Superman, Green Lantern and Hawkgirl went planet side for a small break, Batman and J'ohn were also planet side working on some ideas in the Dark Knight's lair. Wonder Womaan also had a day off visiting Capital City for a while to get in touch with her inner woman instead of the warrior she had been raised up to be.
This left Flash all alone up in the Watch Tower which orbitted around the some-what peaceful planet. He occasionally ran around the whole tower performing checks or to the prison wing to make sure the two deadly metahumans, Ebon and Hotstreak were still locked up nice and secure.
'I just can't believe it... but all of these wierd things going on...' Flash thought to himself and sighed before rubbing his temples to try and get rid of the oncoming headache. "Whatever happened to the simple life we use to have" He muttered outloud before an alarm sounded.
The Flash jumped out of his chair and looked across the panel for the source of the alarm, the Watch Tower's security systems had activated and moved to a more secure orbit. Having a hard time to finding out why the Watch Tower had suddenly acted this way, Wally opened a channel to the Bat Cave for help.
Dakota
Richie bit his lip to stop laughing, "Are you ok up there Shenice?" He asked looking up at Shebang who was holding onto the telegraph pole near the gas station for dear life.
"No I'm not ok Gear! Get me down from here!" Shebang called back down, she had discovered her new found power earlier that day but had only just got to the gas station a few short minutes ago.
Richie had only just finished cleaning up after his experiment blew up. He was covered in dust and in a desperate need of a shower, and a change of clothes. "Ok, give me a minute to get my blades" He yelled up and rushed back inside to change into his costume instead of the overalls he had put on.
Shenice sighed, "I'm not going anywhere!" She called back adjusting her grip on the telegraph pole.
Gear rushed back out and flew up, "Looks like we got a result about what the gas did to you! Thanks for saving me the time" He said with a grin. "Let's get you down" Gear said holding his hand out for Shenice to take.
Removing one hand from the telegraph pole shortly before the other one and slowly stretched them out, Shebang was able to grab Gear's hand.
"Ok, I gotcha! Now let go of the telegraph pole, I'm sure that they don't need finger indentions on it" Gear sid with a grin as he took Shebang's other hand in his.
"Now you got me can you get me down?" Shebang asked with a frown.
"Just relax will ya! I need you to relax and be able to focus on what your power feels like to help get terra firma back under your feet" Gear said looking at Shebang with a stern tone.
Shebang sighed and closed her eyes before trying to make herself relax, and find out what was causing her to fly not that she was enjoying it.
Soon looking inside of herself, Shebang was able to find a strange bubbly feeling inside of her, with much battle she was able to create a white orb to contain the bubbly mass.
Gear watched as Shebang glowed a pale yellow almost while colour before it soon disappeared inside of herself. "Now Shebang, keep that focus before you open your eyes and look down at the ground" He told Shebang in a calm voice letting go of her hands.
Shebang slowly opened her eyes and looked down to the ground slowly. Gear landed down in front of the gas station and watched as Shebang slowly floated down to the ground landing lightly on her feet. "There! That wasn't so hard was it?" He asked with a smile before disappearing inside.
Shebang glared at the young genius before following him inside the headquarters to see that it was all covered in a find coat of dust. "Experiment blow up?" She asked taking her mask off.
"Not exactly... still in the middle of clean up if you wouldn't mind helping" Richie said as he grabbed the small vaccum from the small cupboard.
Batcave
Gotham City
J'ohn accepted the cup of coffee from Alfred, Bruce's butler and long time family friend. "Thank you Alfred" He said polietly before turning back to watch Bruce, who was working hard at the large computer with his mask off for now.
"You're welcome Master J'onzz" Alfred simply said in his english accent before leaving the Batcave, heading back upstairs to the manor.
Bruce inwardly sighed as he leaned back in his chair and watched the computer pull up the files he had asked for. "There has to be something we are missing... but what?" He muttered, crossing his fingers together.
J'ohn looked over the files with his own eyes, "It is there, we just have to read through the reports again... what's that?" He asked with a small frown.
"It's a digital scan of Gear's diagram... he's been working on a similiar one to my own" Bruce said and pulled up the image, enlarging it on the large screen.
J'ohn looked over the image, he could see a few of the things were the same but others seemed odd on the young genius's design. "Some of the information here seems a little strange" He said with a confused tone.
Bruce looked over the information again more carefully, reading some of them with more caution. "It seems that he had help with a few of the gaps... but he had come to the same conclusion" He said and saw the communication icon light up.
"What has Wally done now?" Bruce muttered darkly, "Go watchtower" He answered the call.
Wally's masked face appeared on the screen, "Batman, we've got a big problem" He said with alarms going off in the background.
Dakota
Gear flew upto the clocktower and sat on the clockface, looking out at the skyline of the city. He had told Shebang to go and practise her new power and get some control of it.
He sighed deeply and heard Backpack climb from the wall next to him, down onto a spot next to him. Gear reached for the device around his neck and played with it, 'Things have changed... the smiles are gone, Mr H struggles to run the community center and Sharon is still seeing a therapist to help her with her depression' He thought to himself.
'I'm made the leader of our small group... just wish things would go back to the way they were before his death! These powers scare me' Gear thought removing his helmet before accepting the cloth mask from Backpack and slipped it on.
"What am I going to do? I can't stand this anymore..." Richie muttered resting his face in his hands.
Virgil watched from the distance, 'I'm so sorry Rich... I just want to be back here on earth too! I want to be alive again...' He thought with a sigh and brushed away the tears that formed in his eyes.
"That will keep the league busy! And I've sent our 'friends' out to Dakota to let them play while we go and free them" The doctor said as he loaded up a program on the computer.
"Yes Doctor" The dark caped man said witha small bow. "I will prepare the shuttle immediately" He added before leaving the room.
"Soon you will be reunited with him, then the real fun can begin" The doctor muttered and laughed as a countdown began on his computer.
Dakota Docks
"Where the hell did they all come from?" Shebang yelled down the shock vox as she dodged an attack from Carmandillo.
"How should I know? They just appeared out of nowhere!" Rubberband Man spoke up after jumping up off the roof to a fire escape on the side of the building, dodging a explosion caused by one of Puff's attacks hitting a dumpster.
"Yeah well try and tell them that we need our sleep too!" A grouchy voice spoke up before cracking up on the other two heroes.
"Gear! You ok there?" Rubberband Man called over the shock vox wondering what was going on over on the other side of the docks.
"Gear? Need a hand?" Shebang called over the same channel.
Static answered the two heroes.
"Come on Gear! Answer us!" Rubberband Man half yelled down the channel.
Once again the channel was filled with static.
"What the hell is going on?" Shebang asked as she grabbed Carmandillo, dragged him up in the air before spinning him around at a fast pace sending him flying across the dock.
"I have no idea! But I hope he's ok... I know how much he hates the docks.." Rubberband Man said as he hear another car blow up.
"Come out and play! I can do this all day heroes" Puff sneared.
"One down! One to go" Shebang said and joined Rubberband Man with a small grin.
To be continued..