Chapter Ten

The Empty City Revelation

Near two weeks had passed since the arrival of the Justice League members, Green Lantern, The Flash, and Supergirl, within the time frame of the past in which they found themselves in Smallville Kansas. They had been taken into a black hole unwillingly while battling several super villains of their own time when the tear was created and the hole had been formed. Along with them came Sinestro, a former Green Lantern to another planet in a distant galaxy who had turned rogue and then stripped of his Lantern powers from The Guardians, who had been lost to them after a second fight broke out upon the farm of Jonathan and Martha Kent between him and Supergirl.

With Sinestro fleeing from Smallville, the three superheroes found themselves at loss in several areas – one was the simple fact they had no idea how they were going to go about returning home to their own time, and the second was also the fact that they needed to take Sinestro back with them and toss him into jail, but of course they had no idea where he was at. It was only through reading a cop of the Daily Planet that the JLA members knew where to being searching for Sinestro and that was within the city of Metropolis. Leaving Supergirl, a.k.a Kara Zor-El of Krypton and cousin to the Man of Steel himself, The Green Lantern and The Flash headed off to track down Sinestro and bring him under their custody.

However, as it was stated earlier, it had been two weeks since the beginning of this whole event. Two weeks in which John Stewart (Green Lantern) and Wally West (The Flash) had been in Metropolis searching for signs of Sinestro and were coming to an unfortunately unsuccessful end.

Wally West sighed as he and John Stewart left a small coffee shop and stepped out into the afternoon air of Metropolis. They had been in this city for a near two weeks and yet no matter how many times he raced around the city as The Flash, Wally could not find a single trace of Sinestro that suggested he was still inside Metropolis. "So, what do we do now?" Wally asked as he looked over at John with a somewhat serious face that was a bit uncharacteristic for him.

"I'm not really sure. We have no idea where Sinestro could be, and we still don't have an idea on how we're going to get home either." Jon replied as he and the red head walked down the sidewalk towards the corner where a crosswalk and intersection were located.

"Not exactly the answer I was hoping to hear, but I guess it's the only one we have for the time being." Wally sighed while shoving his hands into the pockets of the fleece jacket that Jonathan Kent had given him before leaving Smallville. As they came to the corner and waited for the light to change in their favor, Wally just happened to glance down and over at the newspaper stand and near did a double take as something of black and white material caught his eye. "Hey John, I think we better hold off on crossing the street for a moment." He stated while then walking over to the newspaper stand and made a beeline straight for the day's edition of the Daily Planet.

John was slightly confused as to what was going on with Wally's actions, and yet at the same time he had a reluctance to follow him over but went along anyways. As soon as he got into a close enough distance to read the bold print running across as the front page news, John near stopped in his tracks and stared with a sort confused stupor. BIZZARE STRING OF ROBBERIES STEMING FROM METROPOLIS AND THROUGH SEVERAL OTHER CITIES HAVE POLICE BAFFELED. The two men exchanged looks with one another before quickly returning to the article under the large heading. A few moments of quick reading on Wally's part was all it took for the two make a discovery that would help them in their search.

"No way." Wally exclaimed while re-reading that one certain spot again. "Look at this John, Metropolis was hit first, then Coast City, Star City, Edge City, and now Gotham is starting to have these same times of robberies happening within it. John, these are all cities that Sinestro is familiar with from our own time." Wally near exclaimed and then after a quickly shot stern look from the black man at his side, he checked himself a moment before returning to the paper.

It seemed to be a good enough deduction at best, Sinestro was going from city to city, cities he was knew and was familiar with as a result of committing crimes and fighting with members of the JLA in these places, and was using them to hide in or seek out answers. Wait a moment, at this point in time Clark Kent is still a teenager. Then if what I'm thinking is right, then we have someone we can rely on from the JLA here and now for help. John's eyes were starting to become rather wide with this thought and then after blinking only once, he looked over at Wally with a new look of determination on his face. "We need to change." He stated in a monotone voice while then walking off towards what was a nearby alleyway.

With furrowed brow which clearly showed his confusion to all this, Wally folded up the paper and set it back on the stand and then caught up to his friend with only a few quick jogged steps enhanced of course by the inhuman speed of his. "Change? You mean into our superhero identities? Why?" he asked after receiving confirmation by way of nod of the head on John's part.

"We're headed to Gotham City."