Ahhh that sweet, sweet moment when we finally enter movie territory. Enjoy!
Hope Isn't Getting Us Anywhere
Third Person POV
Amanda Waller could accurately be described as the teacher who scared you shitless, who made you dread going to school every morning. If that teacher toted a gun everywhere and had the means to make your death look like an incident that is. The point is, is that no one ever wanted to fuck with Amanda Waller.
Don't let her rough exterior fool you though, underneath it all was a woman who had to fight both racism and sexism to get to the top of her game, and yet she still had the fear of rejection that could come from the people that she was meeting with tonight.
The world had been fucked since The Man of Steel showed that he really wasn't invincible, even across the pond Gotham was feeling the repercussions, and Waller thought that she had the solution to fix what hadn't even come yet.
She was meeting her fellow superiors in a private restaurant, the kind that only big money could buy, to tell them of her plan.
"It's taken some work...but I finally have them. The worst of the worst from all over the world." Waller said with a smile.
"It's rumored Amanda that some of them have...abilities."
"Oh well the rumors are right, and some of them are as human as you and me, yet somehow they're even more dangerous. You know what the problem with a metahuman is? The human part, we got lucky with Superman, he was on our side, the next one might not be."
The problem with humanity is its inability to understand what being human is.
"What you're proposing is dangerous Amanda, you won't have full control in situations like these." The man to her left said while calling over a waiter to refill his glass of bourbon.
"Oh I'll have full control, now sit back and listen, because it's one hell of a ride."
The men listened in intrigue as Waller went through the names of Deadshot, one of the best marksmen in the country, who's only weakness was loving someone a little too much. Diablo, a man with an ability that got the better of him. Killer Croc, a man who was more animal than man due to society being an asshole. Boomerang, a mouthy aussie who got a bit too cocky for his own good. Dr Moone, a poor possesed girl, who ended up being a really bad archeologist, and Harley Quinn, who doesn't show much weakness, but who just was in a bad place at a bad time and suffered lasting repercussions.
"Lastly, Scarlett Korin, real name Sarala Lane, goes by Scar. We first learned about Scar when she was imprisoned in Arkham Asylum by the Batman after she robbed Bruce Waynes' Manor"
"No offence Waller but this is the second thief you've put in this line up, is there anything else she can do? Or should we just start taking random people out of the lineup at blackgate as well?" He was sarcastic, he didn't take this idea as seriously as Amanda did. He couldn't understand that this was years in the making.
"I was getting to that Richards. Ms Korin is more than just some thief in line up. She's stolen from every major crime boss in Gotham city and lived to tell the tale about it until she was locked up in Arkham where she was neighbors with none other than the Joker himself. She was Harley Quinn's patient along with him as well. Rumor has it that her and the Joker have been working together since she escaped. Aside from her tech skills she has also been trained under the secret society known as the League of Shadows."
"If it's so secret how do you know about Amanda?"
"We apprehended one of their members when they were attempting to steal top secret files from one of our facilities, he put up a hell of a fight as well. He wasn't willing to talk so we had to employ some means of extracting truth that have been in the works for a while, the man sang like a canary. Told us that he was sent there by the League for two reasons, to collect the files and to bring in Sarala Lane. She apparently betrayed and left the League about three years ago and her arrest was the signal flare they had been waiting for."
"What can she do though Amanda?" That was a loaded question.
"Let me ask you a question, do you think the Joker, the man who's notorious for doing everything on his own, would work with someone who wasn't good at what she does?"
"How dangerous is she?"
"Let's just say that she may be last on this list but when it comes to her threat level I would place her right below Enchantress, do not underestimate her."
"Isn't she just some jumped up assassin Waller? We have a million of those waiting in special ops, she wouldn't have gotten arrested by Batman if she was as good as you say."
Those with similar training tend to be the most dangerous to one another.
"She was next in line to lead the League of Shadows, Anderson. She is not meant to be taken lightly...not to mention that she has the skills to break into every single one of our servers in the blink of an eye, we're lucky she hasn't had the desire to."
"Where is she now?"
Where she's always been.
"In Gotham still, we've been tracking her down ever since she escaped Arkham. She's gone dark a few times but we know exactly where she's staying now."
"Tell me, do you really expect her, or hell any of them to easily comply?"
"Don't make the mistake of underestimating me Anderson." Too many people have done that in the past.
The dinner was concluded with Wallers' plan being allowed to be brought into the board that would pass it along to the next level. After that, well who knows, maybe a group of bad guys could do some actual good.