After a night time of chatter, eating and stories the group felt more comfortable with each other.
The Sergeant, although a leading man was soft at heart and good for a hearty joke that lightened any situation. Fulton was a well-educated man, standing tall and proud, but deep with in his eyes was a power that showed he was strong, physically and mentally, despite his well-dressed appearance.
Anyanka fooled all by looking young and often acting young by clinging to Carlen like a little sister, but she could surprise you with her knowledge and wisdom.
Carlen was the one who acted like an animal, short tempered and crafty, a strength that showed true but a past that she held close to her heart and claws.
Wally too surprised the group, both the team and the Leaguers, as both saw a new and old side to Wally. He could be arrogant and cocky when he wanted to be; yet there was a stealth and darkness that had grown since they had last met. It shocked Diana to see Wally freer with what he was, but shy away when he read her thoughts on the matter.
It was by early morning that The Sergeant just about ordered them to train. Carlen, Anyanka and Wally just groaned and stood up with protest and moans.
Fulton shook his head and stood up after them. "What training do you have?" he heard The Sergeant ask.
"Simulation rooms." Diana answered. The Sergeants face lit up. "I'll go set it up for you." She said, hurrying ahead.
"You better not put it on hard!" Wally shouted after her.
When they got there Wally groaned even louder. "I'm curious as to what your team can manage." Diana answered.
Wally led the way into the room and waited for the program to load. Once it was set they found themselves in a city setting.
Wally instantly set up his senses and listened out for anything. The team switched into position and waited patiently. Wally made one hand signal and the message was relayed by telekinetic powers.
In a flash Wally had leapt up and kicked a large wolf from the air; he landed calmly in the center of his team, who took up position around him. When the next wolf attacked an even larger werewolf slashed it aside, standing where The Sergeant had stood.
Carlen followed his led and changed to a smaller wolf while Fulton created a wall of dirt before him. Anyanka simply created a magic wall that stopped the wolves.
"What's our mission?" Wally asked out loud. "And do they have to be living at the end?"
"Mission: find the exit." John paused on the comm. Link. "And your option."
"Good." Wally muttered. "Wipe out!" he shouted, his team did as they were told.
The Sergeant threw himself down on the lead wolf and killed it instantly; Carlen took out the next male of the pack. Fulton created a whorl wind of fire to destroy those before him, while Anyanka sent a shock wave, which killed many more. Wally just jumped into the crowd before the exit to the ally. He pulled out his blades and the blood ran through the street.
At the end they stepped back and surveyed the damage. "Nasty." Wally muttered, wiping the blood from his blades onto the fur of the dead creature before him.
They walked as a group out into the darkened street, very little light crossing into the city. The odd street light was flickering along the road, they stood under one light and Wally sent Carlen up to scout for an exit.
She changed to a small hawk and swept up to the sky, hanging there as a shadow she hovered, dropped, hovered dropped and then hovered one last time. With a hawk shriek she fluttered down beside Wally and changed to a human.
"That way." She pointed past Anyanka and down one of the darker streets.
"Lets go." Wally said, his eyes red and glowing as they approached the shadows.
Those watching the fight from outside the simulation were nodding away, commenting on each power and tactic. Diana herself noted the glowing eyes just as Wally dropped his sunglasses to hide his only give a way to anyone in the dark.
They carried on up the street but soon came to a blockade where one of the tall skyscrapers had fallen, blocking their path.
"We'll be wasting time if we go back." Fulton said.
"It's just on the other side." Carlen said.
"We can't go down." Wally said, indicating to the building on their left and right that would force them to go right the way around, almost double backing on themselves. He sighed and looked around, his eyes shifting left and right beneath the glasses.
He stopped and then slowly approached the building in his path; too unstable to jump over and hold all their weight, they couldn't dig under it, and he couldn't risk them going back in case they were forced to face something else.
He laid a hand over the unbroken glass of one window about chest height. He stroked the glass, withdrew his hand, made a fist and broke the glass.
"Lets go." He ordered, jumping in.
Carlen changed to a tiger and jumped in after him, The Sergeant, still in werewolf form leapt in after her and Fulton scrambled after him. Anyanka took point behind to watch their backs; then she too jumped up and in.
Wally walked through what was once an office and moved to the door, stepping over furniture. He grasped the door and was almost knocked out by it when it tried to drop back down with gravity.
He pushed it open full and stood under it, holding it above his head for the others to step through.
"This is weird, with everything on its side." He muttered.
'You're telling me.' The Sergeant told him mentally, going on all fours so as to get through. He then stood up to his full height and watch Carlen, back in her human form follow through.
When everyone was out they crossed in the corridor, into another office. The Sergeant breaking down one wall so they could go across.
This carried on for a few minutes until they came to the end window. "About time." Carlen muttered, staring through the window at the green square on the ground outside that indicated the exit.
Just as Wally was about to break the glass he stopped and turned back to the office door that had dropped back down. Anyanka also turned and froze at the sound of scratching that was coming down the corridor on the other side of the door.
"Go." Wally hissed, nudging Anyanka to faze through the glass with the others.
She grabbed his wrist, gathered the others and fazed them all out; hoping what ever was in that corridor wouldn't hear them.
They slowly back towards the exit and were inches from it when the top, or side of the building exploded into the air and a large creature with claws, easily tripling Carlen's landed on top.
"Run!" Wally shouted.
They broke away to the exit but stopped when it disappeared.
"Where is it?" Wally shouted, turning back to the fast approaching creature.
"I'll find it!" Carlen shouted back leaping up and turning to a hawk that rose higher and higher. It was then that the creature changed course and leapt up after Carlen.
Wally shouted at her mentally and she swerved to the left just in time for the creature to pass her, however it was on its way down when it caught her wing and dropped her to the ground.
The Sergeant charged forward and head butted the creature, standing on his hind legs over the fallen body of a hawk he growled at the creature.
Wally shot forward and grabbed Carlen and shoved The Sergeant out of the way as the creature rushed back at him, claws swiping the space they had stood in not one second ago.
Fulton levitated some earth and sent it into the creature, buying them more time to move away. Carlen fluttered out of Wally's hands and changed to a human beside him.
"Any thoughts?" she asked.
"See anything?" Wally asked back, pushing her behind him and moving backward away from the creature, The Sergeant beside him.
"Green light behind those buildings." She pointed to a set of standing sky scrappers to their left.
"I've an idea." Fulton shouted, running up beside them with Anyanka behind him.
He told them mentally what to do and the team quickly nodded. "Lets go." Fulton said.
Anyanka turned to a black shadow that surrounded Wally, the wolf Sergeant and Fulton and moved them back the way they had come, as she only knew what was back there and not what was across the other buildings.
Carlen stood, left alone, facing the creature. She flexed her silver claws and met the stare of the creature.
It jumped at her and she leapt up and over it. Running at the building to her left she charged at it, jumped up and planted her claws into it, moving as fast as she could she scaled the building, her claws easily holding her weight.
The creature ran up after her, but when it tried to jump at her she changed to a bird and flew up to one of the shattered windows.
She landed, changed back and glanced over the edge to see the creature a few floors below, hurrying to catch up. She took off for the door and burst through into a narrow corridor.
Pausing to look down each end she ran to the left and searched for an exit to the offices. She came to the entrance sign and flew out into a wider corridor. Hoping she was right she ran along the wider corridor, turning right she charged up to another set of private offices.
She turned into another corridor and ran into one of the offices, across into another one and through to what she hoped was the last door. She grabbed the handle, but the door wouldn't open.
She gasped and tried the door again. Again it remained closed; she stepped back, listening for the sounds of the creature. Its patter of feet sounded closer.
She flexed her claws and took a swipe at the door, spun around on one leg and kicked the door; it splintered along the cuts in the wood.
She ran over the remains and took in the room. 'I'm coming!' she shouted out mentally, charging across the room and at the windows. Stepping up on the main desk she stepped off it and into the window, arms over her face.
She crashed through the window and free feel, her arms flailing out to her side, her head dipping forward. She curled up on herself and turned in mid-air, righting herself so she was falling on her stomach and then changed to a hawk. She dropped a few more feet and then swooped back up and away from the building.
The creature reached the office when the foundations of the building shook and rocked.
Wally and The Sergeant punched at the two corners of the structure, cracking the two main support beams.
Fulton pounded earth into the center of the building and it wobbled even more. Anyanka finished it off with a shockwave into the ground that broke the structure, forcing it to collapse in on itself.
They all ran back from the falling building and watched as it fell to rubble. Carlen dropped in beside them and smiled at the pile of dust.
"That worked." She sighed, and then turned to the green circle behind her. "Lets go." She said, walking to it.
The other followed behind and once all were on the circle the destruction faded away so only a large bare metal room was left around them. They turned to see the League waiting in the doorway applauding them.
Diana, John and Shayera stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a few of the other heroes and applauded for a breath taking show.
"You all work so well together." Diana said, stepping aside for them to pass into the hallway.
Carlen smiled and slowly slid down the wall in the corridor. Wally chuckled quietly and sat down next to her.
"Lets not do that again." She muttered onto her legs, her forehead resting on her knees. Wally grinned and pulled her into a rough hug, making her laugh as she over balanced into him.
"You did good." He said. "Very good." He assured her. "You've all done very well." He told them all.
His team smiled at each other. The Sergeant (now back to human form) reached out a hand for Carlen who took it, and pulled her to her feet.
He put one arm around her and waited for the others to collect themselves and then they all headed for their collective room.
Diana, John and Shayera joined them and they talked together for a good hour when J'ohn walked in.
"I just watched the play backs." J'ohn told them. "I must say you worked brilliantly on such a hard level."
The team started laughing and Anyanka pulled up a chair for J'ohn without moving from her own seat. J'ohn took it gratefully and the chatter continued, this time moving onto powers.
"So Anyanka." John started. "That was some impressive powers you have."
"They took a long time to perfect." She said. "But its only telekinesis and it can be limited." She said.
"As well as magic." Carlen added for her.
"Limited." She said.
"Carlen? How strong are those…nails?" Diana asked, not sure as to what to call them.
"Claws? Nails?" she said. "They can break through wood and puncture metal, but not break through it completely."
"That climbing up the wall, must have taken some practise." J'ohn asked.
"A lot." She said, sending a glare to The Sergeant, who grinned back sheepishly.
Once again the group spent the morning talking, J'ohn with Anyanka, John with The Sergeant, Diana with Fulton and Shayera with Carlen. Wally sat watching them for a while until he was sure they were interacting truthfully and not just acting for him.
He stood quietly, and using his stealth, left without anyone noticing. As he wondered down the corridor, noting the people changing their shifts, arriving and leaving, he found his way back to the control center and gazed around.
"Anything you need Wally?" he turned to Superman.
"To show you your team." Wally answered quietly, leading the way to one of the control panels and loading up the camera to their room. "I see you can all still work together."
Superman saw the core League talking with each of Wally's team, and with each other. They were laughing, discussing past fights, fighting moves and lives. He smiled quietly to himself.
"Come join us." He said. "And bats if we can get him." Wally laughed.
"Maybe to talk business with Fulton." Superman suggested.
"Good enough." Wally replied back. "Good enough."
Well hope you like it. Sorry it's slow, but I'm tryingto get some fight scenes in where you learn a bit more about each character.
Hope your all liking it.