New Justice: Trials of the League
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Note: so this chapter is being posted Tuesday May 22nd because a year ago today was when I posted A World New World. This is New Justice anniversary and while this chapter was not written to be an anniversary chapter I think it works well as one. As with my Karry Anniversaries I will be doing facts on the Facebook page so if you have not liked it yet please go like it and join us for Anniversary fun.
Breacher Madness
Rae had put the mac and cheese on the table for Carter, Dawn, and Annie. Meanwhile, Cat Grant and Joel came down the stairs both dressed up.
"You look nice," Rae told her boss looking over them. Cat and Joel had a function that night.
"Thank you, Rain," Cat said, turning her head to her sister. "You'll be okay with the kids?" Cat had never been worried about leaving Annie with kids, but since Carter went blind she had been a little overprotective; coming home early when she knew Rae was the only one there with them and babying Carter a little too much. Rae knew Carter was getting annoyed with it and Carter preferred it when it was only her around – since Carter could, in a way, see Rae, it made things easier.
"Yeah, we'll be fine," Annie said with a wave at her sister. "We're going to have game night." At that moment Annie eyes turned to Rae. "Rachel, you are more than welcome to join."
"Yeah, Rae," Carter said, a smile appearing on his face at the suggestion. "Stay."
Before Rae could answer there was an intense and repetitive knocking at the door. "Who is that?" Joel asked before opening and pushing pass him ran in Frankie.
"Rae!" Frankie said, dropping to his knees and hugging Rae by the stomach. Rae was bit startled at the turn of events, raising her hands in the air. "Save me!"
"Frankie?" Rae asked, stunned and unsure sure what was going on.
"Save me," Frankie repeated the line, fearfully.
"Save you from what? Who have you pissed off now?" Rae asked, half as a joke. Rae noticed Frankie had a large bag over his shoulder.
"Gypsy's dad," Frankie said, and Rae blinked as Frankie removed himself from Rae, stood and stepped back. She had not expected that answer at all, and it took a moment for her to realize it. "He's big and scary and just like me and Gypsy. A bounty hunter. And he said he's hunting me for 24 hours I need to avoid him. I just barely got here!"
"Wait, your new girlfriend's father hates you and you go to your ex who threw a pie in your face to protect you?" Annie said, seeming confused as both Frankie and Rae groaned.
"That stupid video," Rae mumbled. It seemed one pie throw was going to haunt Rae and Frankie forever.
"That's not the point," Frankie said, and even Rae, didn't want to get into any debate, since he and Rae had fixed their friendship and since he needed her to protect him. "But please, Rae."
"Okay, come on," Rae said, putting a hand on Frankie's back as she grabbed her own stuff. "Sorry, I can't stay, Carter," she told the boy, who looked sad now as she addressed the adults. "Goodbye. Have a good night everyone." With that, she and Frankie left the Foster-Grant home and got on the elevator. "And you're not just escaping from him, why?"
"He'll know if I leave this planet or use my powers," Frankie said. "I told you, he's just like me and Gypsy. He'll know if I use my powers and know where I am." Rae nodded, understanding. Gypsy had inherited her powers from her father, just like Rae had. "If I could get to a zap tunnel and go to Home Base, I think I will be fine since neither of us are supposed to use our powers, but…"
"You're no longer allowed to use the zap tunnels," Rae finished the sentence for Frankie; after leaving the League, Frankie's codes had been disconnected from the Zap Tunnel system, but it wasn't like he'd have needed it with his powers. "Well, the nearest zap tunnel is not that close." Frankie gave Rae a look. "But I'll hide you at Home Base."
"Thank you," Frankie said, hugging Rae as they exited the elevator.
When they got out the building though, Frankie took a step back, fear in his eyes as Rae looked to the large man with a mess of hair, glaring at the pair. "Found you," his voice was deep and he had a knife in his hand.
"Whoa!" Rae said, stepping between Frankie and the man. Maybe she could talk him down. "Look um… Do you have a name?"
"Breacher," he growled.
"Breacher? Nice," Rae said with a nod. "Look, I get Frankie can be an ass. Trust me on that, but Frankie and Gypsy are good together. Isn't it just important they are happy?"
"I know you," Breacher said, pausing. "You're the one he cheated on. You're defending him."
"Well, the end of our relationship and the start of his and Gypsy was not perfect, but Frankie is a good guy," Rae said this, and meant it. "He's always had my back."
"Well then, I'll hunt both of you," Breacher said.
"Wait, what?" Rae asked confused as Breacher came at them.
Frankie took something out of his bag and threw it in front of Breacher, it emitting smoke. Frankie took Rae's hand and the two were running at a human speed down the block. "Nice try," Frankie said as they ran. "Good thing I came prepared, but I think I got an idea."
The pair went in a nearby alley between two buildings and Frankie took out a device and put it on the wall. Pushing a button, a hologram of him appeared. "Ah, got the trap?" Rae asked. They had done something similar before, long ago when she had entered the Justice League. Trapping a tricky meta human in a trap using a hologram when they thought they had gotten the Flash.
Frankie tossed two devices to Rae who set it up as Frankie set up the other two on the floor. "Hide," Frankie said, the two hiding behind a dumpster.
Just in time as Breacher came into the alley to see the Frankie hologram standing there. "Your little ex leave you?" Breacher growled, walking forward towards the hologram, only to walk right through him. Frankie pushed a button and the devices Rae and Frankie set up activated, putting a blue shield like force field around Breacher.
"Guess who has a cool hologram," Frankie said, moving out from behind the dumpster. "This guy!" Frankie pointed at himself with a smirk on his face. "And now we're going to escape. The battery on that will wear off in an hour or two, but by that time you won't be able to find me."
"I am a master bounty hunter," Breacher said. "You think this can hold me?"
Breacher took out another knife from his belt and put it through the force field, the blade unaffected as he literally started to cut through the force field.
"Crap…" Rae moaned, not sure if she was impressed or scared. "Up the fire escape!" Rae started climbing up the fire escape of the building, followed by Frankie.
It was only a few seconds later that they could hear Breacher climbing after them. Frankie looked down and accidentally knocked a nearby paint can over. The can was open and hit right into Breacher. He took it off, clearly angry and Rae and Frankie chuckled. It was pink paint so Breacher now had pink paint covering his hair and face and dripping onto his outfit.
He was wiping the paint out of his eyes with his hand as Rae and Frankie continued to climb, getting to the roof. "Great, what do we do now?" Frankie asked, looking around the roof. They were trapped.
"I got a question," Rae said, a thought coming to her as Frankie freaked out. "I get why we're not using your power. Is there any reason why we're not using mine?"
Frankie stopped running around the roof and gave Rae a look clearly stunned and dumbfounded. That was when Breacher reached the roof, covered in pink and angry. "Okay, this is…"
"No, reason," Frankie said, cutting Breacher off and looking at Rae. "Go now!" The words seemed to confuse Breacher but Rae understood. Rae grabbed Frankie and ran off down the side of the building, leaving Breacher behind as she headed for the nearest zap tunnel.
Breacher stood on the roof, eyes narrowed as he followed her speed trail with his eyes. "Speedster," he groaned, angry.
-New Justice-
Donna and Selena were sitting in chairs in Home Base, chatting happily about their new jobs. Donna and Selena had formed a strong friendship since Selena had joined the League, and got on better than Donna had with M'Gann, in fact. "Modeling seems easy, but it's not," Donna said as she talked. "Well, not completely. It's fun though. I'm thinking of getting my own apartment. I'm making good money now, and I got myself a human identity. So… the aquarium. How did training go?"
"I know about fish," Selena said with a smirk. "I hate seeing them in tanks and not free, but at the same time they are also taken care of really well. None have to worry about being eaten. They're well fed, and they seem happy. I can talk to fish you know. None of them want to leave."
Donna chuckled. "And me and Kaldur are very happy together," Selena gave a smirk.
"Yeah," M'Gann mumbled, being in the room. She still did not have a job or a human life. She was sad her only friend was thinking of moving away from Home Base as she'd thought the two of them would be here together for a long while. It made her realize she needed to start thinking of her own, human life and what she would do. It was kind of hard, since the thing she liked the most was the space ships in Watchtower. Since discovering them, she had spent a while going over each one. Learning them.
Before the three could say anything more, they heard the noise of an incoming zap tunnel. They went to the main room where Adam, Winn, and Jess were at the computers and saw Rae and Frankie coming out. The two looked at each other and then started to laugh. "The pink paint!" Frankie said.
"And the knife," Rae said. "I swear that was the scariest man I have ever seen." The two laughed harder at that.
"I can now see why they were once mated," M'Gann said, never having seen the two looking so happy with each other before. The smiles on their face seemed odd though to the people in the room who knew Frankie, who had seen Rae and Frankie fight with each other every day. Who had seen the end of their relationship.
"I thought you three were working in Watchtower?" Rae said noticing Adam, Winn, and Jess there.
"We thought a change in location might help," Adam said, eyeing Frankie.
"Frankie," Winn said. "Mind giving a hand?" Adam gave Winn a look at that, confused. "He knows Rae's power better than any of us. Maybe he can give us the breakthrough we need." Winn defended, but Winn also liked Frankie. The two had worked well together at CatCo before Frankie had quit.
"Okay, what's going on?" Frankie asked, taking a step forward. He was stuck here anyway until morning when Breacher's time was up, anyway. "And who's this?" Frankie pointed at Jess.
"Jess," Jess said. "And I'm a member of the League. Who are you?"
"Frankie, former member of the League," Frankie said. "Catch me up." Winn held out his hand and Frankie took it. One thing he missed about CatCo was working with Winn.
"Who's hungry?" Rae asked, noticing the kitchen. Home Base was a little bit dated, but it had an amazing kitchen. She remembered fondly when she went to the past and Mon had been trying to cook a meal, just making a mess. She had never actually cooked in this kitchen. She had in Watchtower, which while was up to date, was smaller. Being in space didn't help for water reserves, after all. "Hey, that's a pizza oven." Rae went to the oven on the side. "I'm surprised Ronnie never wanted me to cook pizza for him here." Rae smiled, remembering Ronnie and his pizza obsession. "I'm making pizza." Rae said after inspecting the oven and smirking. Cooking food made her happy and using a pizza oven which she had never used before was something interesting.
"I'm in," Donna said.
"Sausage!" Adam yelled out.
"Peppers," Winn called out.
"You know, I like mushrooms and pepperoni," Frankie called out.
"Dairy free cheese?" Jess spoke up, Rae pausing to look at him. "I can't have dairy…" he added, a little more humbly.
"Okay… Donna and M'Gann I need a lot of pizza dough and toppings," Rae said, making out a list. "Soda, drinks. Some dairy-free cheese and some normal cheese. Enough to feed the entire League because I'm sending a message out to everyone. We're having a Justice League pizza night," Rae wrote out a long list on two pieces of note paper. "Go to Watchtower first. In a draw in the main room is a black credit card. Use that. Its Justice League's card. Don't worry about costs; it's connected to an account with billions. The pin is written down with it, so memorize it before you use it."
"What?" All four boys turned from the board to look at that.
"Bruce, Oliver, and several other people with money set it up," Rae said, waving it off, not sure exactly what their smart investors had done. All she knew was that they had enough to last for a very long time and they kept gaining more somehow. The card hadn't been used since the old Justice League died though, but the account was obviously still active. "How else do you think we pay for all this? Now go, you two." M'Gann and Donna gave each other a smirk before running out.
"Selena, contact the League tell them pizza party at Home Base. Tell Kara to bring Clark with her and Chris," Rae said. Clark had been sound asleep, snuggled with his siblings when Rae had gotten up for work at Kara's that morning, so she had left the dog sleeping soundly before going to work. Now she missed her puppy, who was usually always by her side. "Oh, and Plus and Minus as well. They have been training hard and doing good lately. I'll send them a text." Rae sent them a quick message, giving the two a zap tunnel code to use to get there.
Rae didn't have to save Plus and Minus from their mistakes quite as much as she used to. They were really starting to develop as heroes.
Rae then went to play with the pizza oven to see how to work with it and then started taking stuff out of the refrigerator. They had enough to make a quick salad, and then she tossed prepared dough rolls that were in the refrigerator in the normal oven – not the way she normally liked to make rolls, but no time to make them from scratch.
She then started to work on her pizza sauce recipe from the ingredients they had in the kitchen. It wasn't long before people started to arrive. "Why are we having a pizza party?" Dinah asked, the three Canary showing up together.
"And what's he doing here?" Sara commented, looking at Frankie in surprise.
"Because the League has never had a real party together," Rae said, remembering when she went to the past. How the old League had went to eat together. They still had not done that. "We're a family. We should spend some time together that's not us fighting an evil doer or planning. Frankie's here to help." She decided not to go into detail on Breacher.
"I think that's a great idea," Laurel stated, having little Arthur with her. "And Arthur wants extra cheese." Arthur gave a huge smile.
"Extra cheese, I got it," Rae said as the zap tunnel opened, and Kara came in with Chris and the dogs. Clark ran up to Rae, happy to see her as Rae gave her dog a pet and more League members started to pack into Home Base. "Now all we need is…" Donna and M'Gann came in with more bags than the two should be able to carry. "You were fast! Good."
Rae ran, grabbing the bag and taking out the dough. "If anyone wants to help, you can roll out the dough and put sauce on," Rae said, and the League started to help with the dough. Rae, of course, being the fastest, and getting the first pizza into the pizza oven.
The entire League was there and helping, besides the four nerds working on the mystery of Savitar's suit still and Red Tornado, who had not shown up since he didn't eat, being an android. The three Js had started a food fight with the sauce and cheese when Plus and Minus came running in through a zap, completely dressed in their outfits. The two looked at the League in confusion.
"Use this code to come to Home Base for a pizza party actually meant pizza party?" Walter West asked, confused.
"Yes," Rae said as the League stopped throwing food at each other. "What did you think?"
"That… you… we…." Walter seemed lost for words.
"Doesn't matter. I like onions," Julia West said, seeming more than happy that they were invited to a Justice League pizza party.
"I like chicken," Walter said. "And at least we don't have to be with Wally and Tally."
"Something wrong there?" Rae asked, finding the comment unusual.
"Tally is… I don't know," Julia said, clearly not liking her brother's girlfriend. "And Wally has been acting differently lately." Julia bit her lip, clearly not wanting to get into it more.
"We have one made with buffalo chicken," Rae said, deciding not to push on the topic but stored the information in her brain. "As for onions, there's one more pizza dough, unmade. You two share it, half what Julia wants, half for Walter. I made a lot of toppings. Just put what you want on." Rae pointed at the counter which had bowels of toppings ready to be used.
"Just not more shrimp," Sara said, giving the Aquas a look.
"We're from Atlantis," Aqualad said. "We like fish."
"You talk to fish and you eat them too?" Sara added.
"You raise cows, sheep and chickens and you eat them," Selena winked.
"Fair point," Sara raised her hands in surrender at that.
"You might have made too many pizzas," Laurel now added, looking at all the pizzas. Some were done and on the dinner table, some in the oven, and some were waiting to be cooked.
"Well, I have to eat 10 thousand calories a day. Kryptonians with their powers on can eat a lot, and so do Amazonians and Martians," Rae was saying. "I think this is just enough. Kara, can you grab those rolls out of the oven?" Rae pointed at the normal oven that was just behind Kara. She had put more rolls and the ones she made earlier were already on the table.
"Sure thing," Kara said, smiling at her girlfriend as she opened the oven and took the rolls out of the oven with her bare hands, causing several people to jump. "What?" Kara seemed confused as Rae laughed.
"Invincible hands," Caitlin commented as the group laughed. For some reason they didn't get nervous when Kara took bullets, but something so normal as taking something out of the hot oven made them jump. Maybe it was because she looked like Kara Lane instead of Supergirl.
Soon all the pizzas were done, and everything was on the large table.
"Boys!" Rae yelled at the four nerdy. "Food. Eat, then back to Savitar." Rae wanted them to crack the puzzle of how to defeat the mad speedster, but food was important. This was important.
Frankie came over and took the seat, then realized it was next to Kara. "Oh, erm… Hi," Frankie said with an awkward smile as Kara gave him a look. "Looking good."
"Move," Kara said, strictly, not wanting to make small talk with the man, not even sure why he was here.
"Kara, he's my friend," Rae said, coming up behind them and putting an arm around Kara. "Let's leave the past in the past. And Frankie... move." Rae said, making Frankie blink. "I'm sitting there. Chris is on the other side." Chris had already taken his seat next to Kara and had a slice of pizza in his hand. He turned at his name and waved.
Frankie sighed as he moved aside, letting Rae take the seat next to her girlfriend. "The white pizza is mine," Rae said, having made one pizza with ricotta and mozzarella for herself. Jon passed over the pizza to her, and people spent a few minutes passing around pizza and eating.
As they started to get into a party mood, a breach opened by the table.
"Oh no," Frankie moaned as Breacher stepped out. He turned to Caitlin. "I might need you in a minute to save my life." Caitlin, who had a slice of pizza in her hands, gave him a confused look as Breacher moved forward.
"You…!" Breacher started, but before he could finish another portal opened and out came Gypsy.
"Dad, that's enough!" Gypsy yelled, finally having decided to stand up to her father. "Frankie is my boyfriend and I love him, so you will not hurt him and if you do, I will never speak to you again."
"But he's not good enough for you," Breacher said, turning to his daughter.
"According to you, no one is good enough for me," Gypsy complained.
Rae whistled making them both turn to her. "Let me settle this. You," Rae pointed at Gypsy's father. "Frankie is a friend of the League and protected. If you want to harm him, you have to go through all of us." Rae circled her hand around the table and everyone turned to look at him. "And now both of you," Rae pointed at Gypsy, "…sit down and join us for pizza. We've got everything." Gypsy smiled, sitting down to get a slice.
"I'm not…" Breacher started but paused. Both Rae and Gypsy gave him a look, along with the rest of the League. Krypto and Clark turned growling, lighting up their eyes at the intruder. "Fine, if he's what you want… Fine." A portal opened and Breacher was gone.
Rae sat down again and gave Frankie a smile. Frankie mouthed 'thank you' and Rae nodded. "I got your back," Rae said, going for her pizza, but paused to look around the table at everyone eating. Her League and her family, chatting and smiling with each other. Krypto and Clark begging the people with meat toppings to toss some meat to them and Donna grabbing some unused pepperoni that was on the table to toss to them. Rae was happy. She was happy here with her family.
Kara put a hand on Rae's shoulder. "You okay?" Kara asked, noticing Rae was not eating.
"Great," Rae said with a smile. "Just very happy to have all of you." Rae smiled as she kissed Kara then went back to her pizza.
-New Justice-
Later that night, after the entire League had left, Frankie, Adam, Winn, and Jess were still working. They had been able to solve what the suit was doing and the weak point Beppo had discovered, but how to disable the suit was another matter altogether.
"Anyone who tries to take advantage of this weak point, they get electrocuted like Beppo," Adam said after the about fiftieth simulation of how to get rid of Savitar.
"What about Rae phrasing into the suit and knocking Savitar out?" Winn suggested. "She did that once a couple years ago."
"Seven years ago," Frankie said. "Not long before she joined the League and it was my idea." Frankie had a smirk on his face on that one. "But won't work. The suit literally has speed force energy running through it. Rae can't phrase through that."
"It's just energy," Jess said. "We should be able to make a device to counteract and eliminate the energy. Therefore, disabling the suit."
"But we have nothing to test it on though," Winn said. "We can't test it on Rae for fear of, well, killing her."
"You know I never realized this before," Frankie said, staring at the energy readings. "But Rae's helmet has the same energy reading."
Adam and Winn shot up, giving Frankie a look and then the readings. "You're right," Adam said, leaving the room and coming back with the helmet in his hand.
"Where did you get that?" Frankie asked.
"It's her extra," Winn said, and saw Francie confusion. "She made a time remnant. Long story… let's see." Winn took the baby from Adam and tested it out. "It is the speed force energy. This helmet is solid speed force!"
"His journal… it said, 'I made the outfit'. He must have made it from the speed force," Frankie said, always having wondered how Jay made the outfit. "We got a test subject. Let's go."
For the next hour or so the group tested out different ways to cancel out the energy. Finally, one thing they did worked, and the helmet unraveled itself, completely disappearing. "We got it!" Frankie said. "Now all you need to do is make a device… Place it on the weak spot and no more Savitar."
"Um…. Guys…? Is Rae going to be pissed we destroyed her extra helmet?" Winn pointed out, making everyone look at each other, suddenly getting worried, "Frankie, maybe you can break the news to her?"
"Oh no," Frankie said shaking his head.
"You got Rae to forgive you after cheating on her," Adam said. "Clearly your biggest super power is some type of magic over her."
Frankie looked around and then laughed. "Oh no, you're on your own," Frankie said shaking his head and a portal opened. "Bye, boys." Frankie left the three behind, who looked at each other and sighed.
Post Chapter Note: Okay, so not the longest chapter but a nice filler and really did work nicely as an anniversary. Next chapter is very special.
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