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Chapter Six: Seriously, where is he?


"I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman!"

Homer Simpson


Ivy woke up to the sound of her phone ringing. She picked it up. "Hello." she said.

It was Tara. "We've got a problem." she stated.

"What do you mean?" Ivy asked in a worried tone.

"You didn't destroy the key before Hades escaped." Tara growled.

"We sent him back to the pit. What's the problem?" Ivy snapped back, even though she did have an idea of what was wrong.

"You should have destroyed the key as soon as you realized what it was for." Tara responded.

"If I had done that then the Amazons would still be petrified." Ivy stated despairingly.

"It doesn't matter. If I had told the council about this, you'd be on trial right now." Tara stated.

"But I didn't do anything wr… you didn't tell the council?"

"I don't like them. They don't like you. I like you. Therefore, I had no reason to tell them. The next time you fail to destroy a ancient artifact before it releases a heretic god, don't report it."


The next day Harpy woke u to the sound of her communicator beeping. "Hello." she answered with a yawn.

It was Batman. "Your needed at the Watchtower." he stated.

"You sure? It'll be a few more days before I can fight." Harpy said.

"That's fine. You just need to be on monitor duty while Green Lantern and Hawkgirl search for Superman and J'onn." Batman said.

"…I'm not even going to ask." Harpy sighed.


About a week later, Harpy was outside the Central City police station, waiting for Green Lantern to bail Flash out of jail.

"Thanks for sticking up for me in there." Flash said as he and Lantern walked out. Lantern slapped him upside the head.

"What were you thinking?" G.L growled.

"I wasn't thinking anything!" Flash exclaimed.

"That much is obvious." Harpy stated.

"Hey, if I wanted the third degree I could have stayed in there. Like I told them I don't remember." Flash said.

"Alright, let's start with the last thing you do remember." Lantern suggested.

"Let's see…" Flash began "after I caught the gorilla he told me"

"The gorilla talked to you?" Lantern interrupted.

"Yeah, right after I stopped his car." Flash said.

Harpy stared at him. "Can you see the talking gorilla right now Flash? Is he here with us?" she asked.

"Hey! We all have a Martian's number on our speed dial. I think I deserve the benefit of a doubt!" the speedster protested.

"Let's check it out…together this time." Lantern said.


The three heroes arrived at the park were the police were still searching for the gorilla. They began searching.

"Wait, I've got something." Lantern said when his ring picked up a trail. The trail led to a tunnel.

When they inspected the tunnel they found a gray gorilla. The gorilla let out a loud yell. Lantern blasted it with his ring and the gorilla ended up outside the tunnel.

"Was that really necessary?" the gorilla asked.

"Okay. So he can talk. Who are you?" G.L asked the gorilla.

"My name is Solovar. I'm Chief of Security for Gorilla City." the gorilla, Solovar stated.

The three heroes exchanged a look. "Gorilla City? You've got to be kidding." said Flash.

"I assure you, this is no laughing matter." Solovar said grimly.

"Go on." Lantern urged.

"Safely hidden from humanity, we apes have lived in peace for thousands of years. Until the black day when a power mad genius named Grodd tried to conquer our city with advanced mind control technology. We were able to thwart his evil plot, but we couldn't prevent his escape. It wasn't until later that we discovered that he had also stolen our city's security plans. He's sworn revenge on everyone in Gorilla City." Solovar explained.

"So that's why you're here?" Flash questioned.

"Yes. To stop him from carrying out his threats." Solovar stated.

"A mind control device could explain the isotope thefts… and Flash's crossover to the dark side." Harpy hypothesized.

"He need those isotopes to power his devices." Solovar explained.

"So where is he?" Flash inquired.

Solovar walked over to a bush that turned out to be a scooter hidden by a holographic field. A compartment opened on scooter and Solovar pulled out a gold case.

"My investigation showed that Grodd had been carrying on an e-mail correspondence with a local scientist. Dr. Sarah Corwin" As he spoke Solovar pulled some papers out of the case and handed them to Green Lantern. Flash and Harpy leaned in to get a look.

"I knew there was there was something weird about that lady." Flash commented.

"We had better call the others." Green Lantern declared.

"Why? You think we can't handle one dumb old gorilla?" Flash said better adding "No offense." directed at Solovar. "It'll be a piece of cake." he finished before speeding off.

"Flash! Hold on!" Harpy exclaimed as she followed him.


When Harpy arrived, Flash had just been knocked onto a table by a punch from a large black gorilla that Harpy assumed was Grodd. Harpy remained hidden in the shadows of the doorway watching Grodd and Dr. Corwin. Grodd put on a strange helmet. Seconds later, Green Lantern and Solovar busted in, creating a hole in the wall.

"So much for subtlety." Harpy muttered as she stepped out of her hiding spot.

"Solovar, you were a fool to come here." Grodd stated.

"You can't control us while were wearing these." Solovar said, gesturing toward metal headbands that both he and G.L were wearing.

"Actually, I wasn't thinking of controlling you." Grodd said right before a red circle on his helmet glowed.

"Ah, crap." Harpy thought to herself. She felt something shove it's way into her mind. She vaguely registered the fact that Flash was now attacking Green Lantern and Solovar right as her world went black.


Harpy was standing in darkness. Well, it wasn't darkness, so much as it was an absence of… anything really. No light, no objects, nothing but an annoying voice that kept saying "Destroy them." A command to which Harpy would respond "No."

"Destroy them."

"No."

"Destroy them."

"Destroy who?"

"Destroy Green Lantern and Solovar."

"No way am I doing that."

Outside of Harpy's mind, for that's where she was even if she wasn't aware of it, it appeared that she had just zoned out almost as soon as Grodd had initiated is mind control. And while Harpy's blank stare was rather creepy, it was better the Flash's relentless attack.


When Harpy came out of her trance like state, she was aware that she had something on her head. She blinked.

"What happened?" she asked.

"You and Flash were under Grodd's mind control. Flash began attacking us, and you just zoned out." Green Lantern answered.

"Oh. That makes sense." Harpy commented.

G.L, Flash, and Solovar gave her odd looks.

"Grodd originally developed his mind control to work on the residents of Gorilla City, right? Primates. Despite how I look, my mind is more avian than simian. He was able to put me in a trance, but Grodd couldn't get me to do anything for him." She explained.

"Alright, now we need to get some back up." Green Lantern stated. He tried his communicator. It didn't work, nor did Flash or Harpy's communicator. The reason for this was the energy shield that covered the city. Lantern tried to shut down the generator the produced the shield, but the generator itself was shielded. With no other option, the four went to find Grodd.


The city was silent. The streets were completely empty.

"This is really creepy." Harpy commented.

"Yeah. Usually when a city looks his empty, flesh eating zombies are involved." said Flash.

"You watch to many movies." Green Lantern retorted.

Solovar silenced them. "Listen."

There was the sound of many voices in the distance.

"Maybe you don't watch enough." Flash said to G.L.


They found a large crowd of people gathered in front of a building that had a video screen. In front of the crowd was Grodd. His face was on the video screen.

The people that had gathered were all cheering his name.

"We're to late, they're already under his control." Solovar stated.

"Uh, how many more of these things do you got?" Flash asked while gesturing to his headband.

"One." Solovar answered.

"Can you make more?" Harpy asked.

"Not without returning to Gorilla city." Solovar responded.

"Yeah, we're screwed." Harpy deadpanned.


The four worked they're way into the crowd as Grodd silenced the masses and began to speak.

"People of Central City, the age of hairless, simple minded humanity is over. Today a new age dawns. Today, Grodd rules." The crowd began cheering.

"Humans are slow, ugly, immoral, and have an unpleasant body odor."

"Hey! Who you calling slow!" Flash yelled.

"Flash, don't heckle the super-villain." Green Lantern reprimanded.

The speedster ignored him and continued. "We don't have to listen to this."

"Flash. Shut up." Harpy growled.

"Humans are inferior creatures, fit only to serve at my whim. But after Gorilla City falls, you will be the paving stones on which I will build my new empire." Grodd declared.

"Hey monkey boy! Why don't you go climb a skyscraper." Flash shouted.

"Intruders! Destroy them!" Grodd ordered the crowd.

"I always knew I would die because of stupidity, I just thought it would be my own." Harpy commented as the crowd closed in.

"We need some breathing room." Green Lantern said before he flew up and used his ring to create a ditch around Flash and Solovar.

"Make yourselves scarce. I'm going after Grodd." He stated before flying off.

Harpy flew up and began lobbing fireballs at the crowd. Not to hit them, just to get them to back off. Solovar was doing the same, only with a gun. Two girls, a blond a brunet, managed to climb up to where Flash and Solovar were.

"Hey ladies. Remember me? I saved your lives this morning." Flash said.

"Flash, they're under mind control. You can't reason with them." Harpy stated before she got distracted by movement she saw out of the corner of her eye.

"Hey Lantern! Guys with rocket launchers, right behind you!" she warned.

G.L managed to make a shield right before the rockets hit.

"Would you excuse me?" Flash said to Solovar. He ran over to the men with rocket launchers, took one of the rockets, and put it in backwards.

"I'd run if I were you." he told the men. And so then did, getting out of range just before the rocket exploded.

Flash ran back over to Solovar. "We can't hold them off for much longer." the gorilla stated.

"How much do you weigh?" Flash asked.

"About four hundred of your pounds. Why do you" Solovar was cut off by Flash picking him up and speeding him over to an alley.

Harpy and Green Lantern followed them. Harpy slapped Flash over the back of the head as soon as she landed. "Ow!" Flash exclaimed.

Harpy glared at him. "When we get out of this, I'm making you sit through Batman's "Why we don't tick off the villain who has a clear advantage over us" lecture, and then I'm punching you in the face!" she growled.

"Grodd got away." Green Lantern stated, clearly ignoring his teammates, "if he used his rocket bike, I can use my ring to pick up his trail."


Grodd had used the rocket bike, and the trail led to a military base.

"Halt, in the name of Grodd!" a guard shouted as soon as the heroes arrived. He began shooting. Solovar took the gun from him, then knocked him out.

"Hurry. Before Grodd finds out we're here." He stated. An alarm went off.

"Something tells me he already knows." Flash said.

Harpy shook her head. "That's a launch alert." she said.

Four missiles took off seconds later. Harpy and Green Lantern flew after them.

"We'll go after the missiles, you stop Grodd." Lantern shouted to Flash and Solovar.

They caught up to the missiles over the ocean. Harpy knocked out the propulsion system of one, causing it to fall into the sea. Green Lantern used his ring to make a hole in another missile, allowing him to rip out some wire that caused it to explode in midair. Unfortunately he got hit by some debris that knocked him out and sent him falling to the earth. Harpy dove after him, allowing the other two missiles to continue on their way to gorilla city.

Harpy caught G.L before he hit the ground. "Come on. I need you awake." she muttered.

Lantern woke up moments later and he and Harpy began flying after the missiles again.

"No, we're to late." Lantern said once he saw that the missiles were close to striking their target.

Hawkgirl, J'onn, and Wonder Woman flew out of the city and toward the missiles. J'onn phased through one and came out holding the detonator. The missile hit the ground, but didn't explode.

Hawkgirl hit the other missile with her mace. It broke into two sections. Hawkgirl hit one of them with her mace, making it blow up, but the other was falling right toward the city.

Wonder Woman managed to fly in front of it and tried to slow it down. It went through a building before getting close enough to the ground to enable Diana to get some footing. Diana managed to slow the missile enough that the back end hit the ground, breaking the missile in half, again. Momentum caused the front end of the missile to keep moving, taking the Amazon princess with it. When it finally came to a stop, Diana had disappeared underneath it, apparently crushed.

Batman rushed forward and began trying to dig her out as a crowd gathered. Harpy grabbed a hold of what was left of the missile. She had barely begun lifting it when it was tossed to the side by Diana, who didn't appear to have a scratch on her.

"The fates were kind today, your city is safe." Diana said to the crowd as soon as she, Batman, and Harpy were out of the crater. The crowd began cheering. Diana noticed Batman's dirt covered gloves, even tough he tried to hid them, and kissed him on the cheek.


Harpy found out from Batman that the reason, he, Hawkgirl, J'onn, and Wonder Woman were in Gorilla City was because Batman had traced an energy signature that was the same as the one that had caused Central City to disappear.

Grodd had had his brain fried because Flash had rewired his mind control helmet and was now being kept in a cage in Gorilla City. As the Heroes were walking away from the cage Harpy remembered something. She turned to Batman

"When it was obvious that Grodd had the entire population of Central City under his control, Flash drew attention to himself, thus causing Grodd to order the civilians to attack us." she said.

Batman glared at Flash.


I noticed something about episode fifteen. If you pause it at the scene were you first she the crowd gathered, there are three gorillas shown on the left side near some trees. They don't show up later in the episode. It's weird.

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