I Promise, I'll Be Good
DISCLAIMER – AS ALWAYS I DO NOT…I REPEAT I DO NOT OWN SUICIDE SQUAD.
Chapter Four
After the tense exchange between Rick and Deadshot a deathly silence was cast over the remaining occupants of the chopper, well it was until the aircraft began to plummet from the sky with a sea of screams. The helicopter hit the ground before rolling over a good four or five times causing the squad to be thrown around like rag dolls in a clothes dryer.
Lena found herself sprawled on top of Killer Croc who didn't even flinch at the extra weight, she was quickly pulled off by her brother.
"Sorry Waylon, did I hurt ya?" Lena called back over her shoulder as she was escorted or rather pushed from the sparking chopper, Croc shook his head before pulling himself out of the wreckage.
"We're okay, we're okay assets are undamaged." Rick spoke into his communication device, once everyone was out they began to move towards an unknown target, Lena wandered along towards the back of the group not really wanting to talk with anyone. She would rather watch people than have to take part in conversation, social situations in general made her feel antsy and uncomfortable.
Lena watched the exchange between slipknot and Harkness with little interest as they gave off similar energies which made her all the more suspicious of the pair. She had quickly written the two off as being a low level threat as they were more destructive to themselves than others. Lena soon turned her attention elsewhere instead focusing on an intriguing meta human.
"What's it like?" Lena questioned innocently.
"What's what like?" Diablo looked over towards her slightly confused.
"Knowing your body doesn't really belong to you?" She stated in a matter of fact manner.
"How did you know that?" Diablo looked at her in disbelief as Lena skipped off into the distance. Lena's 'gifts' gave her the ability to manipulate people's minds to see what they really were and to see what they really thought. She could sense the vibes that people gave off, a side effect of this 'gift' however was the voices that plagued her every thought.
Lena however had the misfortune of skipping into the wrong person, a machine gun was soon trained on her.
"Are you idiots incapable of looking where you're going?" Rick hissed at her before realising who it was.
"Ricky, you're being a real jackass." Lena whispered before skipping ahead to join Harley and Deadshot.
"Hey Birdie, watcha doin'?" Harley swung her arm around the younger woman's shoulders.
"Just tryin' to ya know not die." Lena spoke softly, all this talking was starting to make her throat dry, Deadshot glanced over at the pair of deranged women cocking an eyebrow.
"He's kinda scary." Lena whispered to Harley, Floyd Lawton was one of the few members of the squad the squad to be a threat, I mean who wouldn't consider an expert marksman as a threat?
"He's a teddy bear really." Harley whispered back before giving Deadshot a crazy smile.
Lena held back for a little while deciding to walk on her own to contemplate everything that had gone on in the past few hours. The group were soon ordered to halt a voice came over Flag's comms system,
"I'm on my way." Flag replied back to whoever was on the other end.
"Amanda we have hostiles up ahead." Colonel Flag was now addressing their esteemed leader.
"Flag, get out of there, we're not here to fight them we know that doesn't work." Waller almost pleaded with the colonel.
"Copy that, we're diverting, bump out second squad two blocks east, we'll pass through you, continue north." Flag gave out commands to his next in charge.
The squad watched the exchange with interest from a few hundred yards back as the soldiers seemed to split off into several different directions.
"Hey, I like the odds, mate. You just say the word." Harkness spoke up looking over at Lawton.
"Yeah." Was the response that followed from both Lena and Harley.
"Come on." Harley goaded him further.
"Yeah hold that thought." Deadshot walked off to assess the so called 'hostiles' and it was evident that he didn't like whatever it was that he saw.
The rest of the squad stood back watching the exchange of words.
"Birdy, a little help." Harley nudged the younger woman, Lena nodded in response as she closed her eyes and focused on the far away conversation.
"The hell are they?"
"You cut and run, I'll blow your head off. Hit them."
With those words bullets began to fly as the 'hostiles' were jumping over obstacles with ease, as soon as the bullets were fired the rest of the squad began to prepare themselves for the impending battle.
"Think I can get a sip?" Lena out of the corner of her eye saw Boomerang pull open a can of beer, she spoke loudly over the barrage of bullets as he handed her the can without protest.
Harley was the second of the squad to engage in the battle firing her love/hate revolver in an impressive fashion, not missing her mark. Lena took a deep breath before jogging toward the action before firing her own gun of choice, a sawn of Beretta shotgun that had been nicknamed Betty. Killer croc however resorted to using his brutish strength to take down the hostiles which Lena was quite impressed with.
She however soon found herself quickly outnumbered and had all four limbs pinned to a cold brick wall moments from death. None other than Captain Boomerang came to her rescue slicing away at the humanoid creatures with several steel boomerangs.
"Thanks, think you can teach me how to use one of those things sometimes?" She gestured to the objects of interest.
"Sure thing Darl." Harkness was intrigued by her response; he had very few people ever ask him to teach them anything. Lena leaned up on her tip toes placing a kiss on the cheek of the oblivious Australian before skipping off to re-join the battle. She stowed her shotgun in a holster on her hip before bring out her spiked club, Lena began swinging it wildly at the hostile beings.
"Get off me." Rick flailed around as four of the creatures grabbed at him dragging him along the floor into the distance. Deadshot glanced over his shoulder to catch the commotion in action, if his life wasn't in Colonel Flag's hands he wouldn't have cared but Flag did and it was different.
"Get off me you son of a bitch." Rick still continued to struggle out of the creature's grip to no avail as they continued to drag him along the wet asphalt. Other than Deadshot the rest of the squad had yet to notice, too embroiled in their own battles.
Harley was the next to notice as a mischievous smile tugged at her lips.
"Good Riddance." She spoke loudly enough for Deadshot to hear.
"Harley! He dies we die." Deadshot yelled out over the concrete battlefield, growling Harley stood and stalked over to where the colonel was being dragged.
She violently swung her bat at the creatures, the bat as called 'Good Night' for obvious reasons, landing blows left, right and centre. Harley grunted in annoyance as she offered her hand to help the Colonel up.
"Thanks,"
"Shut up." Harley spat out as she walked away eager to re-join the battle living Rick more than a little dazed.
The creatures just kept coming, unrelenting in their assault, Lena sighed softly as she wiped at the blood from her split lip stopping just in time to shoot a nearby hostile. Deadshot seemed to tackle most of the stragglers single handedly, the other soldiers seemed shock but what would you expect from someone who had been cooped up in a jail cell for nine months? you would expect them to have a little pent up anger.
Lena found Harkness and held out the pink unicorn she had found earlier in the day knowing it belonged to him.
"I'm sorry I took her, I think she enjoyed the adventure though."
"You're a good girl." She gave him a small smile before skipping off to find Harley but not before her run in with her brother, his hand reaching out to touch her lip. Lena slapped his hand away.
"This isn't terrorists is it big brother…it's her…it's June." Lena whispered softly looking into her older brother's eyes searching for any hint as to whether what she had said was right.
"No, it's not just keep moving." Rick walked off leaving Lena standing alone.
"Lena, don't fraternise with the enemy, Johnny won't be happy if you've gone all goody goody on him." Harley rested her chin on one of the younger woman's shoulders.
"I know it hurts Birdy, hurts me too being away from Mistah J." Harley carried on having not picked up on the situation at hand.
The rest of the squad now gathered around Rick all demanding answers as to that the 'hostiles' were.
"I don't know."
"That is bullshit, that things wearing a $3000 watch is that thing a person?" Deadshot piped up.
"It was, now it's not." Rick and Deadshot continued their little power struggle, Rick turned instead to take his aggression out on Digger.
"Hey, don't we've got a job to do." Rick was finally feeling just a little intimidated as Croc stalked over to the pair snarling, Lena pushed her way in between the three pushing Rick away.
"Enough just stop." Her voice may have been quiet but they listened and dispersed.
Lena could hear her brother communicating with Waller, it came to light that the other squad had been lost and they were now the only ones left in the city. They continued to move through the city but not before causing a little trouble themselves, both Lena and Harley had taken a shine to a designer window display with a nod of their heads they swung their bats in unison shattering the thick pane of glass.
"What the hell is wrong with you people?" Rick seemed exasperated by their actions but he didn't seem surprised anymore, both of the women lent through the shattered window plucking the items that they had wanted. Before being in Belle Reve both Lena and Harley were the princess and Queen of Gotham respectively so anything they wanted they had been given no questions asked. The spoilt women are the worst but what about crazy spoilt women?
"we're bad guys…it's what we do." Harley really didn't like being questioned about her actions repeatedly and it showed.
Lena watched in the distance as Floyd stood in front of one of the window displays, she walked up to him slowly so as not to startle him.
"She loves you, ya know." Speaking softly resting a hand on his arm, he nodded before walking off. Lena noted how everyone around her came from dysfunctional families not one of them ever having had a normal relationship either, not even her brother.
"The body's we need are in that building, we get them out and Helos will extract us once we're done." Rick spoke in his authoritative tone before everyone cautiously approached the tower weapons raised. It was obvious that no one wanted to waste time especially Deadshot who bypassed the overly cautious soldiers ignoring their calls to 'fall back' pushing on a glass door which instead shattered into a million pieces.
The lobby of the building seemed completely empty, the security desk still had the CCTV screens running showing that the rest of the building was just as empty.
"Looks like we have a spot of luck, eh. Be a walk in the park, easy peasy"
"Nope…this is too easy, they've gotta be somewhere." Lena looked over to Captain Boomerang.
"Don't make me shoot you." Deadshot looked completely serious in his threat. Digger Harkness was one of those lovable rogues that you didn't quite know whether you wanted to punch or hug them.
Both Lena and Harley had slipped away instead choosing to take two elevators that had, had the glass smashed away.
"God damn it, Girls!" upon seeing the women in their respective elevators the rest of the squad ran to catch them. Before Lena could blink a creature or former human came crashing through the ceiling.
"Oh shit." Lena managed to pull out her gun but not before landing a few well-placed punches, with a bang the creatures head was blown to pieces. Not long after the first thing appeared another appeared in its place, it held Lena by her throat dangling her a foot off the floor, her gun dropping to the ground as she grabbed at the creature's hands. she had to think quickly as to what she could do to get herself free, kicking her legs she managed to use enough force to get the creature off of her. She hadn't just succeeded in pushing it off of herself she had somehow pushed it off of the elevator all together.
Lena rubbed her neck gingerly as the elevator dinged, the rest of the squad stood between the two elevators looking ready for battle. Both Lena and Harley stepped out of the different elevators, waving as they did.
"Hey guys." Speaking in unison as they often did. The men all stood gobsmacked while Katana smirked almost proud of the two women's ability to defend themselves.
"Come on. Let's go." Harley turns to the rest of the group before walking off again.
Everyone cautiously carries on forward the soldiers sweeping the various floors when Waller's voice was heard over Rick's comms system letting him know that they were surrounded by the former humans.
"I don't like this, flag."
"I don't like it either." Deadshot voiced his concerns to flag who only mirrored them.
"pussy."
"I will knock your ass out; I do not care that you're a girl" Harley put in her two cents before Lawton shut her down.
Lena looked over to Croc who stood looking up at the ceiling as if he could sense that, that was where the creatures were hiding or rather how they were making their way through the not so abandoned building. Within seconds the former humans had crashed through the ceiling tiles, guns were firing in all directions, everyone soon embroiled in their own battles again.
Lena had taken to using her spiked club because she didn't want to waste her bullets, she noticed the creatures again going after her brother yet again. Every time Lena tried to see into their minds it just threw out images of a woman dancing, she knew that the woman had to be Enchantress otherwise known as Dr June Moone.
"They're going after Flag again, circle him." Deadshot shouted out over the chaos as the rest of the squad followed his actions.
"Let me fight." Flag shouted out in frustration as they pushed him back within the circle.
"You die, we die." Deadshot reasoned with him having finally shot the last of the creatures.
"Harls, can you get this out?" Lena held out her arm which had a jagged shard of glass stuck in it.
"Don't that hurt?" one of the soldiers looked at the wound on her arm and Lena just shuck her head.
"Sure thing Birdy, ya ready?" Harley spoke softly,
"Wait you can't just pull it out." Rick inspected his sisters arm before she pulled it away.
"I didn't ask for your help Ricky." Lena spat out before walking away, instead pulling out the glass from her own arm without so much as a flinch, ripping her shirt to use as a bandage.
"Anybody else feel like them two are related somehow?" Deadshot nodded towards both Lena and Rick."
"Yeah...he's her brother stupid." Harley poked deadshot's arm causing him to glare at the younger woman.
"Nah…Nah, I don't buy it." Floyd still refuting Harley's that the Colonel and Lena were even related.
"Can't you see it?" Harley cocked her head to the side, she'd been able to see their likeness since she first set eyes on Rick. Her Birdie had never spoken of her family to her but she knew Lena had mentioned an older brother to Johnny.
"I see it." Croc muttered and Harley smiled glad that somebody saw the likeness between the two.
"Where you been brother?" Deadshot confronted Diablo about his noticeable absence.
"This ain't my fight." Diablo was quick to respond.
"You know what? You don't stand for shit you ain't about shit." Deadshot raised his voice, it was obvious to Lena what he was trying to do.
"Don't touch me, man." Diablo began to retaliate.
"Don't touch you? What you gonna do?
"Don't touch me." Diablo's voice was beginning to get even louder,
"I'm touching you, I'm touching you." Deadshot continued poking at Diablo.
"Do something, do something."
"Don't touch me, you wanna see something?"
"Oh yeah, I wanna see..."
"You wanna see something?"
"Yes I wanna see something." Deadshot could see that he had finally pushed Diablo far enough.
Everyone stood in awe of what they had just seen, the power that came from one single human or rather meta-human. The remaining creatures who stood on the crossovers hurtled towards the ground below in flames the crossovers themselves having been turned to ashes.
"I was just trying to get you there, Phil Jackson, we good right?" Deadshot raised his hands in surrender. Both Lena and Harley ran up to Diablo and kissed each of his cheeks.
"I knew you'd come through." Harley smiled before skipping off, Lena smiled.
"Now you've accepted it, you'll feel better." Lena giggled before holding her arm out for the nearby soldier to rewrap her bandage.
"That shit crazy." Deadshot hadn't been one to be in the company of Meta-Humans.
The group quickly moved on, a loud bang emanated the halls as a hole was blown through to the staircase. They couldn't exactly crossover the bridges anymore. The squad began climbing the stairs up towards the supposed target, Harley paused looking down at the ground.
"I gotta work on my cardio." Harley spoke softly.
"I'm sure J will help you with that." as Lena hung over the bannister above before carrying on, she carefully watched the exchange between Harley and Deadshot, she felt concerned over how Harley was acting knowing how reckless she could be without her other half.
They continued their journey up what seemed like never ending steps until finally they reached their destination.
"Wait here, please. I don't wanna give this dude a heart attack. Okay?" Flag held his arm up at Lena, Harley and Deadshot at if they were dogs.
"He's embarrassed of us." Harley made fun of flag.
"I wouldn't say embarrassed more like disgusted but least he said please." Lena shrugged her shoulders.
"Hey, flag, this dude better cure cancer after all this shit." Deadshot being deadly serious as always. Lena looked at her brother dead in the eyes 'I know it's Waller in that room.' She communicated to telepathically.
End of Chapter Four
Shit this was a long one like 6 pages long, technically that means 3162 words for you.
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Now with regards to an upload schedule, I will be posting chapter every other Monday (yes I know it's Tuesday today) and the alternate Mondays you will get a chapter of Gods and Monster my prequel of this fic if you're interested.
once again thank you.