New Justice: Trials of the League
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All's Wells that Ends Well.
"Rae?" Adam Grant-Foster called, coming up to Rae who was busy cooking. Cat Grant had friends coming over for dinner and she wanted Rae to cook a pork loin. Rae had got the pork in the oven a while ago and was just checking on it as she was making potatoes, vegetables, and gravy. She also had to make appetizers and the desert.
"Adam," Rae said with a smile to the man. "What are you doing here?"
"Mom asked me to come for dinner. Besides, this is mom's best friend and me and her son are close," Adam said. "You know… I met a girl." Rae raised her head at that. "We've been on a few dates."
"Congrats," Rae said, still distracted by her cooking, knowing the guests would be here soon. Rae finished the appetizers she had made, placing them on a serving tray.
"So tomorrow I invited her to my apartment for a home cooked dinner," Adam continued.
"You can't cook," Rae pointed out, getting it right away and seeing Adam's face.
"Yeah… so if you could make something in the morning I can…?"
"No," Rae said right away. "Sorry Adam, but I'm not helping you trick a girl into sleeping with you. Not even for a friend." Rae knew where this was going and gave Adam a smirk. They might be friends but she had some morals.
"You work for me," Adam said, confused now.
"No, I work for your parents," Rae corrected, taking out the last of the appetizers. She had made multiple different openers, not knowing what these guests would like.
"Mom!" Adam yelled, and Cat Grant walked into the kitchen. "Rae won't make me a meal for tomorrow."
"He wants to use my cooking to impress his new girl," Rae said simply.
"I will have Rae make you something," Cat said, and Adam looked smug at that. "If you call your girl now and tell her the meal will be prepared by your parent's chef." Adam's smug look disappeared, and Rae had to smirk to herself now. She knew Cat Grant well enough to know she would say that. "If you don't want your girlfriend to know you can't cook, I suggest making pasta."
The doorbell rang and Cat smiled as she went to answer the door. Rae went to bring the appetizers out, Adam taking a tray himself to help her. Rae smiled at that. "PB," Cat said to the guest.
"Pat," a familiar voice said and Rae nearly tripped. Putting the trays down, she turned around to see Harriet Wells, commonly knowns as HP, coming in with HR, Tracey and Jess.
Jess's eyes met Rae, the two staring at each other for a moment. "Seems a young lady caught Jess' eyes," HR said after greeting Cat and putting an arm around his nephew.
"Who? Rachel?" Annie said, coming down the stairs with a laugh. "Sorry, she has a girlfriend."
"This would be my chef, Rain," Cat introduced. "Rain, this is HP Wells, her son Jess, her brother HR, and HR's girlfriend Tracey."
"Rachel to Rain?" HP said, thinking that was a pretty big difference. "Come on Pat."
"I go by Rae," Rae said, to make it clear where Rain came from. "And dinner. Yes, it will be done in a half hour…ish. Appetizers on the counter." Rae backed into the kitchen to finish up the dinner.
"You work for Cat Grant?" She heard Jess as she turned from the oven to see him standing there. He must have excused himself to come into the kitchen
"Everyone in this world knows I work for Cat Grant," Rae whispered, thinking to the video of her throwing a pie at Frankie. She had mentioned working for Cat in it. "What about you?"
"My mom and Cat have been best friends for a long time. Cat is my godmother," Jess said. "So… what's the protocol here?" Being the newest member of the League, he did not know what to do when bumping into a member in their normal lives. "Do we say we know each other?"
"Unless you can figure out an excuse, no," Rae whispered. "Just act normal."
"Jess!" Adam yelled out, coming in putting an arm around his friend. The two must have known each other for their entire lives by this friendly gesture. "Aunt Annie was serious. She has a girlfriend – I should know, she figured out she was in love with a girl when kissing me." Rae stuck her tongue out at Adam playfully, who smirked back.
"I was just asking about dinner," Jess said quickly, giving Rae a look before returning to the living room.
A half hour later and the group was sitting around the table and Rae was putting the food out.
"You know Cat, I got to thank your paper for the good review of my newest book," HR said, and Rae rolled her eyes, trying not to let it show. The book was about the death of the old Justice League and the beginning of the new one, but HR had of course added himself into it as pivotal character.
"Well, no thanks are necessary. If the book had been bad we would have put a bad review out," Cat told HR.
"Is there any gravy?" Tracey asked Rae, almost missing that the question was directed at her.
"Yes, I just got to go back and grab it," Rae said, heading into the kitchen.
"Does she look familiar to you?" Tracey asked, turning to HR.
"No," HR said shrugging. "But Cat, maybe you would be interested in being the first at seeing STAR's latest invention? It was created by Jess here." HR slapped Jess on the back. "I brought the chip with me." HR took out a little computer chip. "We can connect your computer to our MIA and you can be the first to see our new A.I."
"Oh, I'm very interested," Cat said, as HR put the chip on the table.
"After dinner, you two," HP said as Rae appeared with the gravy boat and then excused herself to the kitchen to eat her own dinner.
It was quiet in the room as the group continued to eat and make small talk, but at the screams Rae came running in.
Savitar was there, and he was holding onto HR and Tracey. His eyes moved up and looked right at Rae. "Your trap makers are mine!" Savitar said, his voice deep, and then Savitar was gone, taking HR and Tracey with him.
"Why is it always us?" Joel complained, having stood up at the speedster running in.
"At least this time it wasn't one of the kids," Annie stated, making Joel give her a look.
"STAR works with the Justice League," Jess said right away, trying not to show concern for his kidnapped uncle and his girlfriend. "I'll see if he has a way to contact them."
"I'll go with you," Rae said, using Jess's excuse. "Two heads are better than one. Come on."
Rae and Jess were out before the group could say anything, Clark jumping up from his spot to follow his mistress out. Carter smirked though. He had known Jess was a meta human – he had a softer glow than Rae. He was going to tell Rae, but it seemed she knew.
"Adam, watch the kids," Cat said and Adam took hold of the two. "I'll contact the Flash in another way."
"I'll help," Annie said, used to this.
HP got up to follow the pair. "I don't think you'll have to do that," HP whispered to the two with a knowing look in her eyes. Her son had not told her he was Angel, but HP knew her boy well enough.
"We've got to keep up appearances," Cat whispered back with a smirk.
-New Justice-
"Who was that?" Jess asked as the three finally got to Watchtower, all now in their outfits and then to the nearest zap tunnel.
"Savitar," Rae said, fearfully. The last time she had confronted Savitar she had been beaten to near-death. This time though she would prepare better. She would have her League behind her. Rae was already sending out an emergency alert to the entire League.
"That answers literally nothing," Jess pointed out, annoyed.
"He's a super-fast speedster who nearly killed me last time I faced him," Rae said, annoyed herself with the lack of information she had. "And besides rumors and myths, that's all the information I have."
"Savitar is back," Red Tornado said, coming through the zap tunnel with Donna and M'Gann.
"Why did he take my uncle and Tracey?" Jess asked. "Why did he call them your trap makers?"
"I don't know. Nothing Savitar says or does make sense. It's like he's commenting on things that have not happened," Rae groaned and then paused herself, her mind turning. "…yet." Rae added in a whisper to herself. No one noticed Rae mumbling as more members of the League started to fill the room; Kara came in with Krypto besides her and Beppo on her back.
Rae resisted a smile at the trouble-making monkey. He came on missions every once in a while, and was always a pain in the ass. "So what's going on?" Kara asked, and Rae noticed the entire League had filled into Watchtower – the League was getting big enough that there wasn't as much empty room as there use to be. It made Rae smile, seeing how much her League had grown, but she resisted that smile as well. It was time for serious leader of the Justice League, Flash.
"Savitar has taken HR Wells and his girlfriend Tracey," Rae informed everyone, noticing Jess was already at the computer searching. "So, use all the resources we have to find them. Try to track the speed force." They had tried that for Savitar before and it had not worked, but maybe it would now. "Scans, anything. We need to find HR Wells."
"Well that's a twist. You usually try to avoid him," Dinah commented.
Rae turned to Jess at that, who had looked up at the comment. It was true Rae tended to try to avoid HR Wells; while the man was brilliant and helpful, especially since STAR Labs had released the metamorphosis, his general personally tended to push wrong buttons for Rae, which lead to her trying to avoid contact when not necessary.
"Oh, don't worry," Jess said before Rae could explain, seeing the look in her eyes. "I get it. He's my uncle and I love him but he's annoying as hell. I thought about killing him once or twice." Jesse gave a smirk that showed it was a joke and Rae had to smirk herself as everyone got to work, trying to locate their kidnapped allies.
-New Justice-
HR and Tracey stepped back when the man released them., looking at the impressive armor and the blue glow. "You helped her!" Savitar said. "You made the trap for her."
"What?" Tracey asked, giving HR a look.
"Don't deny it!" Savitar said getting closer to them. "You know what your trap did. I was inside it for thousands of Earth years – for the speed force it was millions, maybe billions. The speed force keeping me alive and sane, not allowing me to die. I can't leave it. This suit is the only thing keeping my body whole." Savitar was clearly in a rant, his anger showing even without being able to see his face. "You did it for her. You'll do it for me."
"What?" Tracy asked as Savitar took a step back and HR took her hand.
"You will make me the trap to use on the Flash," Savitar said. "And then you will figure out how to fix me, how to let me out of the suit."
"We won't…"
"We will," HR said, giving Tracey a look now. "Just don't hurt us." Savitar gave them a glare. "We need some supplies."
"Don't move." Savitar stated after HP listed some objects. "I'll be back," he ran out. They heard a click and knew they were locked in the room.
"What are you doing?" Tracey asked. Nothing HR said they needed could be used to make any type of trap for a speedster. Besides, Tracey would not make a trap for the Flash to save her life.
"Hoping he was dumb enough not to realize what I was doing," HR said, taking the chip out of his pocket and Tracey smiled. HR had asked for equipment they could use to connect MIA to. MIA would then be able to alert Jess where they were and Jess maybe could get word to the Flash. It was brilliant.
"There's a reason I love to you," Tracey said, kissing HR but just then Savitar returned with the objects. They had work to do.
-New Justice-
Adam, Winn, and Jess were busy at the computers doing everything they could. Red Tornado gave ideas and Rae and Kara were ready to go out and search the city manually when Jess stopped them. "It's MIA," Jess said, taking out his cellphone.
Jess had been busy making two new MIAs for Watchtower and Home Base. "My MIA at STAR. She's been connected to a new device," Jess said. "Uncle HR… he had the chip. We were going to show it to Cat Grant. All I have to do is push accept and we have their location."
"Good HR. He might be nuts, but the man is brilliant," Rae said as Jess pushed accept button with a smile, getting the location and putting it up on the screen for the group. "Seems to be an old boathouse."
"So, what's the plan?" Aqualad asked.
"Let me guess. You go in as a distraction and we get the two hostages?" Sara said, thinking they were going to do the same thing they did with Barry when he took Adam last year.
"No," Rae said with a head shake. "No, this is different. Barry was predictable. I knew I was able to provoke him, get him away. Savitar is not so easy." Rae's mind was turning but Savitar's motives, his reasoning, was unknown. Trying to push Savitar the way she did Barry was not an option. "Okay… so Savitar takes Paranormal Rach thinking she's me… for revenge. Then he goes to the Sanctuary, apparently still looking for me. Then he disappears only to reappear taking HR and Tracey while I stood there. He could have taken me. He wants them. Which means I am not getting him away from them so easily. No, the plan here is different."
Rae was looking at the screen as she talked, but she turned to face the group now. "The ocean is right there. So Aquas, you'll have plenty of water. All of you will go in. Give Savitar your strongest attacks. I'll grab HR and Tracey and get them to safety."
"You're the only one who will be able to match his speed," Kara said, wondering if Rae was afraid. Savitar had given her the best beaten of her career, after all. "Shouldn't you fight him? I can grab the two almost as fast as you."
"Almost is not good enough. They need to get away from there fast. It makes sense for me get them. I just need a cover," Rae said, knowing what Kara's thought was. Savitar did give her some pause. He was faster than her, she knew that. But she would face him again when she absolutely had to. "We don't need to match him for now. We need to get them. Once I get the two, you all get out yourself – as fast as you can." Rae took a breath. "Stopwatch, stay here, keep an eye on everyone from above and make sure HR's position does not move. Sara, you too. Be our eye in the sky, and in case something goes wrong you can come up with a new plan, better than me."
"Translation: my power does not work on speedsters and Sara has no power, so she does not want us getting killed," Winn said, having expected that.
"Everyone else. Let's go," Rae said, ignoring Winn's comment and putting on her helmet as Winn opened a zap tunnel and the League started to go, leaving only Winn and Sara behind.
"So, want to play cards?" Winn asked, turning to Sara.
"Keep an eye on the League," Sara said, turning to the computer. Powerless or not, she would keep an eye on the League, just in case they needed some help from above.
-New Justice-
Kara used x-ray vision to see into the boathouse. Beppo, Krypto, and Flash Pup were flying next to her – Rae had told Flash Pup to stick with them. HR and Tracey looked to be building some type of device as Savitar took watch nearby.
"I'm in," Adam said having gotten in first by shrinking now. The league all getting into positions. Kara could see other members of the league going near the front door.
"We're in," Aqualad's voice added, he and Selena having swam underneath to get in through the underwater access, both staying below the water but able to see above.
"Okay now!" Rae said.
Inside the boathouse HR and Tracey were stalling until help could arrive, already having installed MIA.
"This is…" Before Savitar could finish, a jet of water came at him, nearly knocking him over. Atom grew, large firing his weapon. Kara broke open the front door, the other Kryptonians by her side, all using freeze breath. Behind her came Jess with his electricity, Caitlin with her fire, and the rest of the League all with attacks of their own.
Before HR and Tracey could move back they were grabbed. Rae ran them fast to Central's police station, leaving them by Joe's desk. "Detective," Rae said, giving a smirk to the man. Pausing for a second to catch her breath. Carrying two full grown adults wasn't easy after all. "White Canary, please tell me the League are out."
"Can't," White Canary said. "Savitar has them trapped. Both Black and Gray are injured – not badly, but they need help." Rae could hear the panic in Sara's voice and Rae herself was worried for her League. If Savitar could nearly beat her to death, what could he do with League members who weren't speedsters?
"I'm on my way back," Rae yelled, running back to the boathouse and leaving the two scientists with Joe.
….
Kara was yelling out orders, trying to get people away but Savitar had effectively locked them in, running around so fast none of them could escape.
"Red, blow off the roof!" Kara shouted. "Anyone who can fly, start taking people away." Red Tornado used his wind to knock off the top of the building, some walls caving in with the structure compromised, as Donna, M'Gann, and Red started grabbing people. Jess put his arms around Caitlin just as Rae ran back in, charging at Savitar.
The hit slowed them, down the two stood to look at each other. "I will…!" Before Savitar could finished, Beppo jumped on his back and hit into him, some type of electricity coming from where Beppo had hit – at least that's what it looked like, but Rae's goggles were giving readings off the chart.
Savitar screamed, grabbing the monkey off him and throwing him hard. Kara caught him in her arms. The monkey was unconscious and clearly injured. Savitar still had the electricity surrounding him now and he ran out fast. He was clearly injured, somehow by whatever Beppo had done to him.
"Good monkey," Rae said suddenly shocked and taking a breath. "I don't know what you did, but good monkey." Rae turned around to the members of the League still there. "Let's go."
-New Justice-
Back at Watchtower Rae came up behind Kara. She had sun lamps on Beppo – the monkey was still unconscious. "I'm sorry," Rae said, feeling guilty. Beppo might be a pain in the ass to Kara, but Rae knew Kara loved that monkey. She loved all her animals. Besides, Rae liked him too. Krypto and Clark were at the foot of the bed, taking in some sunlight too; neither injured but they enjoyed it. "I should have fought him alone and had you take…"
"No," Kara said immediately, knowing Rae was taking it on herself. "I might have questioned this before but this was the right call. Any other way and you might be on one of these beds again. Besides, you got HR and Tracey safely away and everyone is okay. Beppo will wake up. He might have to stay here for a while to heal but he'll be fine. Besides, he discovered something. Savitar has a weakness, although I'm not sure what it is."
"We can have Red Tornado watch Beppo when you go back to the Sanctuary," Rae said with a small smile and Kara leaned in to kiss her.
Caitlin was checking over the injures the rest of the League had; everyone had gotten out without a major injury. "You know, I should do monthly check ups," Caitlin commented as she looked over Laurel. "Rae, I can make a schedule? You can order people…"
"No," Rae commented, shaking her head. "If you want to do checkups you got to get them to come in on your own. And I got to go somewhere." Rae kissed Kara. "I'll check back on Beppo when I am done. You can go home. Clark, come." Rae and Clark left.
"It was just a thought…" Caitlin muttered, more to herself, wanting the League to be in top health, her medical profession taking key priority here.
"I'll have words with the others, see if they can volunteer," Winn pointed out nearby to Caitlin, who smiled at him.
-New Justice-
Rae knocked on the door and Cat Grant answered.
"Rain," Cat said. "It's kind of late… and don't you have a key?" It was dark outside.
"I just wanted to make sure everyone was okay – besides I left my bag here and it has my keys. My aunt and uncle aren't home," Rae said. It was a lie; she had left her bag here yes, but Henry and Nora were home and besides she could have gotten into her house without keys anyway. She could have gotten the bag tomorrow, but she just wanted to check on everyone.
Cat stepped aside, letting Rae in. Rae went to the kitchen to grabbed her bag. "The kids are in bed," Cat informed Rae and Rae noticed Annie was still hanging about with Joel on the couch. Both looked up at Rae. "Everyone is okay, but a little shaken up."
"This is third time something like this happened to you," Rae said. "It's like a bad luck charm is in this house… and maybe that bad luck should leave." Rae knew it was her. She had brought all the trouble into the Grant/Foster home; it was accidental, but she thought maybe she should back out. Quit the job she loved to keep people she liked safe.
"There's nothing to leave," Annie said. "It's not bad luck. It's just unfortunate. No one could have predicted these events happening and it's no one fault."
"Could be someone fault," Rae commented, knowing it was hers.
"If I had Supergirl, Wonder Girl, or even the Flash working in here," Cat Grant said, "and these events happened because people were coming after them, it would not be their fault. No one could predict it, and I would not let them leave." Cat gave her sister a smile and Annie a smirk.
Rae raised an eyebrow. Cat Grant couldn't possibly know who she was… could she? "Whoa, look outside," Joel said distracting Rae from the thought, and Clark ran to the window and barked up at the sky. Rae went to see as well and the others crowded around. Shining in the night sky over in the Central part of the city, over STAR labs, was her lightning bolt symbol.
"Just like they used to use in Gotham," Annie commented. "To get Batman."
"This is a first," Cat said, surprised. "What is HR doing?"
"Trying to get the Flash's attention, I assume," Joel said.
"Yeah, well she's going to be annoyed," Rae said, stepping back and indeed, already annoyed. Clark continued to bark though. "I got to go. Clark, come." Rae took steps back as Clark gave one last bark and followed Rae to the front door.
"Rain, we'll see you tomorrow," Cat said, slightly forcefully.
"I might be a little late," Rae said, deciding on something right then. "But you'll see me before lunch." Rae left the apartment at that.
"So then, the Flash is feeling some guilt," Annie said once Rae was gone. "Think she's going to quit?"
"I won't let her," Cat said to her sister. "You think I am letting the Flash walk out of my employment so easily?"
"What are you talking about?" Joel asked, confused looking at the two sisters.
"Honey, there are many reasons I love you, but your observations skills are not one of them," Cat said with a smirk. "Rae is the Flash."
"No she's not," Joel said, shaking his head.
"She's the same age and has the same look as the Flash," Annie commented.
"Her parents both died when she was young, and her father died on the same day as the Flash," Cat said, having looked it up. "In a very suspicious story of a car accident when as far as I can tell he did not own a car. He didn't even have a valid license. She also took Flash Day off."
"And when that speedster took HR and Tracey he looked right at Rae when he mentioned about trap makers," Annie pointed out, making Joel's mouth open wide and the two sisters laughed, sharing a look.
-New Justice-
"When did I become Batman?" Rae said, appearing on the roof of STAR Labs in front of HR and Tracey. She was annoyed at the light still shining in the sky and Clark growled, getting her annoyance.
"I am pretty sure that happened when the Reverse Flash killed the entire League," HR pointed out, not seeming to get what Rae meant.
"She means the light," Tracey said, turning off the light. "Sorry. It was the only way we could get your attention. We have some information we need to pass to you." Rae raised an eyebrow, waiting for Tracey to continue. "When that speedster…"
"Savitar," Rae added for Tracy, who nodded.
"Yes. When he had us, he said some things. Some strange things. He told us we made a trap for you for him… inside the speed force," Rae raised an eyebrow. A trap inside the speed force? That was a new one. "It's something we clearly have not done."
"I'm working on that," Rae said, having thought Savitar must be commenting on future events. She just could not figure out why Savitar thought she knew. There was something off. Something she could not piece together.
"Well, he said he was in the speed force so long and could not leave," Tracey added.
"He clearly left," Rae stated.
"He can't leave his suit," HR said. "It's keeping him alive somehow."
"Okay. Thank you," Rae said, her mind racing. She had to pass this information onto her League geeks. "Are you two going to be okay?" Rae was suddenly concerned for HR and Tracey. Savitar might come back for them. Did she need to put them somewhere? To protect them.
"We're going to go away for a bit," HR said. "I booked us tickets for a while, far away – under alter-ego names. We're leaving HP in charge here, as the business is half hers, after all."
"Good idea," Rae said with a nod. "I will let her know when it's safe for you to come back." Rae ran off with Clark at that, leaving the two lovers alone on STAR Labs' roof.
-New Justice-
The next morning Rae woke up to a hand poking her in the face. She was uncomfortable, sprawled on a chair and opened her eyes to see Beppo had moved to on top of her and was poking her. Clark gave a bark at that but curled back on the bed he was at.
"I see you're better," Rae moaned, putting a hand on Beppo's back.
"Did you stay here all night?" Rae heard a voice and looked up to see Kara had arrived.
"Yeah," Rae said, sitting up and hugging Beppo to her. "I figured I would stay. Make sure Beppo was okay."
"You didn't have to do that," Kara said, sitting on the chair next to Rae but smiled anyway. "And you could have used one of the beds." Rae giggled. She had fallen asleep on the chair accidentally and her neck was sore. She put a hand on it to massage it.
Kara giggled, kissing Rae cheek and putting her on hand on Rae's sore neck, being careful not to use too much strength so as not to hurt Rae. "Come back to the Sanctuary and I will give you a good rub down," Kara whispered.
"Sounds perfect," Rae whispered with a smile. "But I have to go to work." Kara pouted. "I'll take you up on that offer tonight though."
"You're on," Kara said as Rae gave Beppo over to his owner and got up. "By the way, what are the nerds going off about?"
"HR and Tracey gave us some interesting information," Rae said, the boys having still been in the space station when she arrived back here, so she had given it to them. They had decided to go over all information Rae goggles and other devices had picked up during the battle with Savitar, to see if they could use this weakness. "See you tonight. Clark, come."
Clark barked and followed his mistress out as Kara smiled hugging Beppo.
"She watched you all night," Kara said to the monkey. "I don't know many other people who would do that." Kara herself wanted to be there, but she had to go back to the Sanctuary to take care of some other animals. Kara smiled as she looked over her monkey before heading to a Zap Tunnel, bringing him back to the Sanctuary.
Post Chapter Note: Another chapter down. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Any clues as to who Savitar is yet…?
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