New Justice: Trial of the League
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Note/Warning: So I usually stay out of politics in my stories and while this isn't too political, it is the closest chapter we have that gets into that sort of thing.
Note 2 (IMPORTANT): A Sunday update... Yes, you might be confused. As some may or may not know, I have been looking for a full-time job, and yes while I have been looking for a while I have also been thinking that if I got a full time job I needed to move my FanFiction updates to Sunday anyway; so, I asked the Facebook page if I should just move it now anyway, and they agreed that Sunday was the better option. So, from now on New Justice and Karry will both update on Sundays instead of Monday (individually, not together. I never plan on updating both at the same time!). Besides, it's kind of poetic too since I only chose Monday originally as Monday was the day Supergirl aired and now Supergirl has moved to Sunday, this can as well.
Code Dominate
-Early October-
It was stupidly early in the morning when Rae zipped up the bag, throwing it over her shoulder as she walked out of her room in a dress she had borrowed from Aunt Nora. It was one Nora had worn when she was younger and no longer fit but Rae had loved it so Nora had given it over. It was blue with a simple-yet-elegant design.
"You look beautiful," Nora said, smiling.
"I can't believe you and Kara are using you-know-what to have a weekend in France together," Henry said. He had to do a double-take when Rae had told them she and Kara were 'just' having a weekend in France – she had explained then they were using their powers to get back and forth, avoiding air fare and everything. Henry couldn't express that now, since Ryan and Richie were in the room and didn't know Rae's secret. The two were still with Henry and Nora, even though other foster children had come and gone – the two Allens loved having these two and Rae was wondering if Henry and Nora were thinking of just officially adopting them anyway.
"Well I have weekends off, Kara managed to get the Sanctuary to run without her, and Chris is doing something with friends," Rae said, happy Chris had found normal friends at his school – it meant Chris was more than willing to go out with friends now while Rae and Kara had some alone time. He was more comfortable in his life, the clone really growing up into a man; and his superhero counterpart was doing well also – Kara had let Chris take on some minor crimes on his own. "It's morning in France right now so we're going to get there early. We're only going over-night."
"Have fun," Nora said, kissing Rae head as Rae's communicator binged.
"Damnit," Rae mumbled. "Emergency. Me and Kara need to go to Watchtower anyway. See you soon."
…
Rae met Kara at the Zap Tunnel, as she was waiting for her. Both had left their dogs at the Sanctuary, telling Chris to take care of them. Rae had given Clark a kiss before leaving to pack. The two then went to Watchtower.
"What's the emergency you could not call White Canary for?" Rae complained as she entered, annoyed. The two had sent all alerts Sara's way for this weekend.
"Um…" Adam said, pointing at a screen and Rae saw military officers from various nations on the screen. Rae immediately started vibrating her body so they could not see her face, while Kara, who did not wear a mask, stepped back out of Samuel Lane's view.
"What are military officers doing on my screen?" Rae asked.
"Code Dominate got activated," Adam answered, simply – years ago when the alien Dominators tried to destroy Earth, every country had tried their own way to stop them, but nearly destroyed the Earth themselves too. In the end, the Justice League had stopped the invasion and the countries plans from destroying each other too. After that, Code Dominate became a way for Earth to unite under the Justice League in times of extreme danger. The code when activated the leader of the Justice League, Rae currently, was made the President of Earth with all important codes and all worlds armies under her command.
"That's impossible," Rae responded to the Code Dominate activation. "I have to activate with a handprint, eye scan, and voice command under voice recognition. Then Supergirl and White Canary have to agree."
"Well, it seems the system was hacked," Winn said.
"Our systems were hacked?" Kara asked, concerned. The Justice League system had information about all of them in it.
"No," Jess said, the three nerds having been inside Watchtower. "Their system was hacked." Rae blinked, looking at Kara confused.
"Someone, somehow, hacked all the worlds' computers at the same time and tricked the computers into thinking you three activated Code Dominate. Might have been an accident as they were looking for something else," Adam explained, nodding toward the screen of military. He wasn't sure why anyone would want to purposely activate Code Dominate.
"Someone hacked the computers of all the worlds governments," Rae said, this being more unnerving than just the Justice League system, and the three nerds nodded. "Okay, I'm impressed." Rae smirked at that as the generals on screen cleared their throats. "Okay. I assumed all military are still on friendly grounds?" All the generals confirmed their troops were still where they belonged. "Then I will release control back to the world leaders with no delay. My one command as President of Earth is to get better fire walls." Rae went to the computers and pushed the correct buttons to end the code. The generals disappearing as she did. "Nerds figure out who did that and why."
"And call Sara," Kara added. "We have plans." Kara smirked as she held out a hand to Rae and the two were off.
-New Justice-
Wally West was no longer Wally West.
He had spent months in Nanda Parbat, training under Talia and her father, the Demons Head, Ra's Al Gaul. Her sister sometimes helped too, but Nyssa seemed to avoid him. He had had been forced to take their herbal remedies, drugs that had twisted his brain and personality. He was no longer the boy who had left Central-National.
"Wally," Talia said, coming up to the man. "You're ready for your final test?"
"Final test?" Wally asked, smiling.
"Before you can officially join the League and take your new name, you need to have one final test. You need to kill someone. Someone of our choosing. We will bring the person here," Talia said. "Are you ready?"
"Yes," Wally said with no hesitation.
"I will be bringing them back here," Talia said, kissing him. "I need to see my father." With that, Talia left, going to where her father was.
"Are you sure his ready?" Ra's asked.
"Yes," Talia said with a nod and a smirk as she did. Proud of herself, of what she had accomplished.
"Who will you get?" Ra's asked, wondering where his daughter was going. "Someone from his family? Or Rae's family? Her aunt or uncle…. those foster kids. Someone inside the Justice League?"
"You ask too many questions, Father. I am sure he would do it if we asked, though, especially one of the twins, but we strike that close to Rae and she will react," Talia said. "She will tear apart Earth itself until she gets revenge. No, we need someone close to her, but not that close. The new members of the Justice League. The one in Gotham."
"Black Arrow," Ra's said.
"He has a sidekick. A Yellow Arrow," Talia said. "It's perfect: close to the League and Rae that it will hurt her – test Wally's willingness to hurt her – but not so close she will go on a war path and destroy our future plans."
"Head to Gotham. Collect the Yellow Arrow," Ra's said, approving of his daughter's plans. "Take some reinforcements." Talia nodded and left her father side.
"Nyssa," Ra's said after a moment, "are you going to remain in the shadows?"
"I am an assassin," Nyssa said, stepping forward into the light. "Father, is this really necessary? When we made the deal with the Justice League we said we would not attack them as long as they did not attack us."
"As long as they proved just as good as the old League," Ra's corrected.
"But it's what they have done. The people they have… It's been proven," Nyssa said.
"Not to my standards," Ra's stated. "And by testing the Justice League, it is not your problem. So speak, my daughter. What is really on your mind?"
Nyssa took a breath. "The boy is innocent. He did not ask for this, for this life. You took him. You took the life he was going to have just because he is the Flash's friend. He does not deserve this. You're playing with fire here, father. What do you think the Flash will do when she realizes what you have done to her oldest friend? You think she will laugh off a test of her League?"
"You worry too much, my child. I have it all planned," Ra's said. "Besides, are you sure you are really not upset over the girl you still hold a candle for finding someone new?"
"I'm sorry?" Nyssa asked, surprised at the change in subject.
"Black Arrow and White Canary have been seen together plenty of times since he joined the League a few weeks ago," Ra's said, going and taking out some pictures. "Our spies see everything… even the pair embracing." Ra's stated, his eyes narrowing for his daughter's reaction, but she remained unreadable. "If you want, you can go to Gotham with your sister… show this Black Arrow a thing or two? Not kill… yet."
"No," Nyssa said, shaking her head. "Sara deserves to be happy." Her father though, did not realize this was the first time Nyssa had referred to Sara by her real name and not her Assassin name. Nyssa backed out of the room though, a tear in her eye.
-New Justice-
Kara and Rae had spent the day exploring Paris; Kara had set things up in advance and managed to get them into the Louvre and onto the Eiffel Tower. They had an amazing dinner at a French restaurant and it was now night as they retreated to their hotel room – a large room in a nice hotel near the Eiffel Tower. And that was when their communicators binged.
"Ignore it," Kara mumbled, kissing Rae some more – and Rae was more than willing to ignore it, kissing Kara back. Both had some of their clothes on the floor, and were continuing when the communicator sounded again, and didn't stop.
"Oh Rao, okay answer it." Kara was, clearly annoyed as was Rae.
"Do I baby the League too much?" Rae asked, wondering if she had made the League too reliant on her being the leader, not leaving them in charge enough.
"Perhaps you could back off once in a while… with me," Kara smirked as Rae grabbed the communicator to see the message.
"You got to be kidding me," Rae groaned.
"What?" Kara asked.
"I have a hacker to kill…" Rae said running up and into her outfit, more annoyed than before. Kara got up, putting on her Supergirl outfit as well, both having taken it as they retreated to head to Watchtower.
….
"Really?" Rae asked when she entered base, seeing the generals on screen again. The three nerds were around as well as Sara and Thomas. "How? Just… how?"
"This hacker is good," Adam said. "And it seems activating Code Dominate was his objective."
"How do you know it's a boy?" Sara was the one to ask with a smirk, and the three nerds turned to her.
"Boy or girl, this hacker is getting on my last nerve," Rae said, and Kara put a hand on her shoulder.
"This isn't the best use of our time too, Flash," General Lane spoke on the screen, clearly annoyed too as Rae ignored him.
"How did finding them go?" Rae looked to her nerds.
"Um…" Winn said. "Well he…. The hacker, that is... We…"
"They got nothing," Sara said, as Kara took a seat.
"We can't do it from here. But we might be able to track them from a computer the hacker hacked into while it's under attack," Adam said, Rae blinking at this sentence as he laid out the plan.
"I'll turn off Code Dominate." Rae stated after a moment. "Get to Washington DC, to the system there. You can trace this hacker when the hacker does this again," Rae said, and Adam was up and opening a zap tunnel. "You two also, nerds..."
"Well, all three of us in Washington DC would be pointless. We have more of a chance of getting the location with all three of us at different computers who are all under attack," Winn spoke. "Three people trying at three locations means tripling the chances of finding the hacker."
"Pick a country, any country," Rae said.
"I always wanted to see China," Winn said with a hopeful smile.
"Docking bay. There are several ships. Program the location and it will fly you," Rae said lazily, and Winn ran off.
"We will be waiting," the Chinese General said with a nod.
"You," Rae said pointing at her last nerd.
"Um…well… Britain… I guess?" Jess said, seeming unsure.
"Go," Rae said, and Jess ran off to the docking bay as well to get a ship.
"We have our night to get back to," Rae said, giving Kara a smile. The two ignoring comments from Generals on the screen though; the two had to returning to their hotel room in Paris. Rae had ended Code Dominate.
-New Justice-
Mia Dearden walked the streets of Gotham in her vigilante outfit. Thomas had told her he was off with the League today, so she was taking it upon herself to be Gotham's vigilante. It hurt a bit, knowing she had been rejected by the League, but she would continue working though, continue improving. One day she would be in the League.
"Yellow Arrow?" A woman said, and Mia paused to look into the alley, frowning at the young woman her age. "Please… Come here for a minute. I need some help."
"Okay," Mia said concerned but walked closer. "What do you need?"
"You," the woman said, and Mia was shocked as more people appeared, blocking off the entrance to the alley. The woman went to attack, but Mia put out her fist to stop it.
Mia wasn't good at hand to hand combat – she knew that was one of her biggest weakness – and she was easily over power. As she was on the floor, she reached for an arrow, planning on using it but the woman who attacked her grabbed her bow before she could use it. Then Mia felt a pain and blackness.
"Too easy," Talia muttered, looking over the bow as one of the extras took the arrow and the other picked up Mia. "Let's get her back. See if my boy can kill her." Talia had a smile as they League of Assassins left.
-New Justice-
Rae smiled as Kara walked back into the room. The two had packed their bags.
"On the bright side we were only staying overnight anyway – and I think we had a good night," Kara said with a smirk.
"Oh yes," Rae said, putting her arms around Kara and kissing her. "One of these days we will do a long-week vacation where I will give over complete control of everything to Sara for the week. I do have those vacation days in my back pocket from Ms. Grant."
"I like the sound of that," Kara said, going to kiss Rae when their cellphone rang. "Is it…?" Kara asked, and Rae nodded. "It's like 7 in the morning in the United States at the latest. Where is this person located?"
"Starling," Rae said. "The nerds did it. Take my stuff. I'm going to head right to Starling and take care of our hacker by myself. You undo Code Dominate." Rae had told Kara how to end the code the night previously. Kara gave a nod, taking the bag and Rae was in her outfit and out as fast as possible.
….
Rae and Kara had a ship of their own which took them back to the United States faster than flying or running over oceans, and one back on home soil, Rae went directly to Starling, to the location the nerds gave.
It was a normal-looking apartment, nothing out of the ordinary, with one woman inside. A blonde, attractive, and wearing glasses. But Rae didn't take this in as she sped into the room and pried the woman away from her computer, startling her.
"Game's over, lady. Who exactly are you?" Rae demanded, glaring at the girl. "And why are you activating Code Dominate."
"You… I…." the girl started. "You figured it was me?" Rae didn't, answer almost feeling like taking off her goggles so this woman could see her eyes, to see how angry she was. "My name… is Felicity. Felicity Smoak. I am just trying to save the world."
"What?" Rae asked, this not making sense as the words alone calmed her; she took a seat in the chair. This Felicity didn't seem like an evil mastermind.
"The world," Felicity said, a bit more confidently now the Flash wasn't breathing down her neck. "Look around. The Middle East is a disaster zone, Israel in constant threat… there's wars everywhere. Not to mention crazy dictators making nuclear weapons. I look at it and I feel hopeless. Then… then the Nazis came and Code Dominate was revealed to the world. The world united under one person: Under the Flash. It seemed… perfect. I figured out how to activate it because under you, there can be peace."
Rae put her head in her hands and sighed, knowing what this Felicity saw.
"That's not how it works," Rae said quietly. "Code Dominate exists purely because the world cannot unite under one ruler."
"Krypton, Daxam, other alien worlds have. Why not Earth?" Felicity asked.
"You don't know their histories. Long ago, Krypton and Daxam were a lot like us," Rae looked up as she said this. "All alien worlds were, in fact. Through time they figured out how to unite and it was not an overnight thing. It won't be here any time soon," Rae took a breath. "And when and if it does, it's not going to be under me. I'm not leading the world. Your intentions were pure, but your actions were not."
Felicity sighed and then nodded. The words Rae said clearly getting to her. "I made a mistake," Felicity said. "What…"
"Flash." Rae heard Kara's voice over the coms. "Code Dominate was just started again."
"Did you put back on Code Dominate?" Rae asked, steeling again, shocked.
"No," Felicity said pointing at the computer and Rae looked, but she didn't know what she was looking for.
"Are you working with anyone?" Rae asked, realizing Felicity had not done this.
"No," Felicity shook her head.
"Nerds, this is not the same hacker. Can you track it?" Rae asked.
"You're not going to like the answer," it was Adam's voice. He still in Washington DC. "Someone in Iraq started the code."
"Iraq?" Rae paused, shocked. This had just gotten big. "Everyone – get to Home Base; I'm bringing an extra nerd with me." Felicity turned at that, not hearing the other side of the conversation, but Rae had already grabbed hold of her, running for the zap tunnel.
When they got to Home Base, Kara was there with the dogs and Chris in his Superboy outfit, the man rubbing his eyes. Clark jumped at Rae, happy to see his mistress. Sara, Thomas, and Dinah were there but Laurel had to be at home with Arthur. Donna, M'Gann, and Caitlin were also present, Adam not far behind and Winn and Jess came in, both having access to a ship which was longer than the zap tunnels but still fast. There was no sign of Tim though.
The Generals had been transferred to the screens here.
"Okay, Iraq means terrorism," Rae said, it being an easy deduction. "But why would a terrorist cell want me in charge of the Earth?"
"Whatever it is, it's bad. Return control," Samuel Lane said.
"They'll just redo Code Dominate – probably faster than Felicity did," Rae said, rolling her eyes at the General and ignoring Felicity's awe at being in the presence of so many heroes. Rae knew General Lane was Lois Lane's father, who never approved of Lois taking in Kara, so maybe this was a reason the man annoyed Rae so much.
"What benefit does this give them?" Sara asked this. "Code Dominate redirects all nuclear codes and military codes to you. What does that give them?"
"Not that," Felicity added. "The borders. There are no borders."
"She's right," Rae realized, nodding. "Under Code Dominate the Earth is run under one leader: me. All borders are nonexistent. For normal borders, security is integrated into normal armies to take care of the world threat… you didn't take the border security off their post, did you?" Rae turned to the military leaders at that.
"It's automatic," General Lane supplied. "When Code Dominate gets activated they are taken off."
"Get them back. Get your normal militaries there. Protect your boarders and that's an order," Rae called, and the military leaders went for their phones immediately, to make their orders. "Okay what countries are big terrorist spots?"
"Israel," Jess was the one to suggest. "And they have tight border security there when not under Code Dominate. Could be a target."
"Red Tornado is in Watchtower. I can go grab him and we can head to Israel. Small country," Winn suggested, and Rae gave a nod. With that, Winn was off.
"Britain, France, Italy, all the European countries would be big targets," Caitlin said added.
"Wild Fire, Angel, Wonder Girl, and Miss. Martian head to Europe, Britain should be okay being an island of its own, but one of you get there just in case," Rae ordered, wanting to keep White Canary and Supergirl with her so not yet sending them out. As the four left, Rae turned to the two leaders. "No one mentioned the biggest target."
"Right here," Sara agreed with a nod. This was why she kept them here. The United States would be one of the biggest targets, it had been before.
"We are a Superpower," Rae agreed.
"White Canary take Black Arrow; Gray, go and tell Robin to meet you. Head to the Canadian Border," Rae said, making note of Robin's absence still, and Sara and Dinah nodded as that group left. "Send the Aquas and Red Arrow a message. Get them to the Mexican border." Rae added as Kara sent the message out. "There's got to be a target. Somewhere along the borders."
Felicity was at the computers. "How about the President of the United States?" Felicity asked, making Rae pause and turn. "The President is doing a rally on the Southern Border today. In a half hour actually."
"At 9 in the morning? Do Presidents ever sleep…?" Rae said remembering meeting the President when she had finally gotten the award. "General Lane was the President's rally cancelled – and have the First Family been put under normal Code Dominate security?"
"We told him to ignore it," Lane said, and Rae had to roll her eyes. The one thing that was ignored. "But they still have their secret service."
"But normal security, police are all off," Rae said.
"Snipper could get through," Kara added as Felicity brought up an aerial view of the location the rally was going to be. "But there's not really a good area."
"What about a bomb?" Chris was the one to ask. He had been practically sleeping on a chair.
"It would have had to be set up early," Kara said. "Not enough time now to set it up."
"Unless it's a suicide bomber," Rae though, making everyone blink. "Okay Supergirl, we and the dogs need to get to the rally. Superboy, keep an eye on our extra nerd here." Felicity turned to look at that that, but Rae, Kara, Clark, and Krypto were already gone.
"Welcome to the nerd club," Chris told to Felicity as he laid back sleepily.
…
By the time Rae and Kara got to the rally, thousands of people were there – some already inside the stadium. There was also a group of protestors outside.
"Flash, General Lane was not able to get through to get the President," Chris' voice said. "They'll be out there in ten minutes."
"Supergirl, keep an eye out. Keep on the President," Rae said, running through the crowd fast to check everyone – even at super speed through it was a hard job and depending on how powerful an explosive was, he or she could be anywhere. Then again, this could even be the wrong place.
Ten minutes passed quickly as the President came on stage; Rae noticed a shifty-looking man nearby the President as everything suddenly slowed down – she saw the man reach for a button, unnoticed by anyone else, and that was when Rae moved, going so fast that the entire world around her was frozen. Kara and the dogs had already got to the President, so Rae went over to the crowd around the slowly exploding man. She started taking people away running them out at super speeds she didn't normally tap into.
Once she figured enough people were away from danger, she stood on the stage next to the President, behind Kara and let time around her go back to normal. Taking deep breath as she heard the explosion complete; Kara taking the blast to protect the President, along with the dogs. Looking up, Rae was sure she had got enough people away, but she held out her hand to the shocked President, asking for the microphone.
He gave it over.
"Anyone need to be rushed to a hospital? Raise your hand," Rae said in the microphone. There was shock still, some mumbling and a general ringing even in her ears, but everyone seemed fine, and while some people did get injured, Rae had gotten enough away there was nothing serious.
"Are you okay?" Kara asked Rae, and Rae gave a nod.
"You know, maybe I should give you another award," the President said, recovering himself and taking back the mic. "And you know, I think Supergirl deserves one. What do you all think? Does Supergirl deserves an award?" A confused cheer came from this question and Kara smiled. Rae laugh as she kissed Kara's cheek.
….
Rae and Kara went back to Home Base where, slowly, everyone was returning. The Generals were still on the screen.
"Well you saved the American President, Madam Earth President," General Lane said with a salute that Rae lazily returned. "And the Justice League has also stopped several other planned terrorist attacks." Rae smiled at her League. She would have to hear what else had gone on, but the President was attacked and that had been her priority.
"And we managed to get a location of who hacked the system," Adam said.
"Yes, with this information we can take down a terrorist cell," Lane said, seeming to be happy. "Now all we need is that little hacker transferred to our custody and Code Dominate turned off."
Rae paused at this, noticing Felicity seemed nervous – this must have been talked about before she came but Rae had a feeling she didn't want to hand over Felicity so quickly.
"Actually, as President of Earth," Rae spoke up. "I declare there will be no charges against Felicity here. So long as," Rae held up a finger, seeing Lane's mouth about to open, "she fixes the Code Dominate system to make sure no one can hack it again and only me, White Canary, and Supergirl can activate the code. Think you can do that?"
"Yes," Felicity said, nodding and more than happy to fix the system.
Rae gave the Generals a look, daring them to defy her, but they all nodded, going to put the deal in their system. Rae smiled as she ended Code Dominate.
"Flash!" Felicity said before Rae could turn and go. Rae turned to her though. "Thank you. If there's ever anything I can do for you...?" Felicity took out a card.
"It's fin…" Rae stopped as she looked at the card. "DJ Smoak? You're a DJ?" Felicity nodded. "A DJ hacked the worlds computers?" Rae actually laughed at this. "Okay, I am still impressed. Even though you ruined mine and Supergirl's special weekend. Okay, everyone can go home. Canaries, bring Felicity home, would you?" Sara and Dinah nodded as everyone was off.
-New Justice-
Wally walked into the training room to see a woman, dressed in a vigilante outfit, standing there, looking like she had just defended herself against several attackers. She had woken up fighting and was ready to take on more.
"Who is she?" Wally asked Talia.
"The Yellow Arrow," Talia replied. "Sidekick to Black Arrow, a new member of the Justice League. She's a friend of theirs. A friend of Rae's."
"Indeed?" Wally asked, eyebrow raised.
"Do you want to back out?" Talia challenged.
"No," Wally said, taking the knife Talia held out and going into the room. He looked the Yellow Arrow up and down as she paused, frowning at him.
Mia was not tied though and knowing she was in danger, she intended to fight. She had no weapons though, and Wally easily dodged her attack and twisted her arm so far back they heard a crack as Mia yelled out. Wally tossed her onto the floor.
"Why?" Mia asked, looking up. She did not understand this. She didn't know why they had attacked her personally. She had done nothing – not even knowing where she was or who had taken her.
"Just… because," Wally said as he moved fast and slit Mia's throat. Blood poured out of it as she collapsed, dead.
"Very good," Ra's said, walking into the room. Wally gave a nod black. "You passed the test. We will have an official naming ceremony tomorrow. Leave us." Wally smiled as he and all, but Ra's and his two daughters left.
"You did well with him, Talia," Ra's stated to his eldest.
"See sister. That is how you seduce and manipulate a person," Talia said with a smirk.
"I never tried to seduce Sara. I loved her. Unlike you with Wally," Nyssa stated, knowing her sister had no real feelings for the man.
"Enough," Ra's said lazily, knowing his daughter's sibling rivalry went far. Talia was decades older than her sister, after all.
"What do we do with the body?" Nyssa now asked.
"I say return it to Gotham. A public area," Talia said, glancing at Mia's corpse. "Let the Justice League sweat." Ra's gave a nod, approving of his daughter's plan and ordering to take the body back to Gotham and leave it somewhere public.
With that, Talia walked off to find Wally.
"Something you wanted Nyssa?" Ra's asked as Nyssa stayed in her place.
"The Justice League saved the President's life today. She stopped several terrorist attacks all over the world and helped take down a terrorist cell," Nyssa said.
"Impressive," Ra's said.
"Father, I beg you," Nyssa tried. "Let's stop this now. We can still put Wally back. Undo what we did. We already killed someone close to them. It's almost gone too far to go back."
"My plan will continue," Ra's said firmly. "And this is the last I want to hear of this." Nyssa gave a nod as she walked off, knowing her father wanted her gone.
-New Justice-
The next day Rae woke up and went down the stairs. She was at her Aunt and Uncle's place for once, not at Kara's. She was surprised to see nearly all the West clan there – everyone but Wally.
"I didn't oversleep, did I?" Rae asked, rubbing her eyes as she did, surprised at the gathering.
"There's a wedding disaster!" Iris replied, not answering Rae and Rae paused at this. The last time she had walked down those stairs and the Wests were talking about a wedding was inside Flashpoint; for a second, she feared she was back there, but she saw Clark happily eating and Richie and Ryan making a mess. Nora took them out of the kitchen to clean them up.
"Oh, your wedding," Rae said, relieved and making people look at her. "Flashpoint flashback." That just made them more confused. "I'm jetlagged. What's up?"
"The DJ, we lined him up a while ago, but he canceled. We can't find another one for Christmas day," Iris said, seeming to be having a fit and a panic attack.
"Christmas wedding," Rae almost rolled her eyes at this reminder, but remained friendly as her tired mind caught up with events. "Actually, consider this a happy coincidence," Rae confused them by running up the stairs, returning with a card in her hand before they could say anything. She held out her other hand to Iris.
"Cellphone please?" Iris handed over her cellphone and watched Rae dial a number. Rae waited a moment for Felicity to say hello. She vibrated her vocal cords as she said "DJ Smoak? This is the Flash." The West were shocked this other person didn't know her for her human identity. "Remember how you said you owed me one?"
"That was yesterday," Felicity said. "So yes."
"Cancel your plans for Christmas day," Rae replied.
"I'm actually Jewish," Felicity said simply.
"Oh. Good, because I need you to DJ a wedding," Rae said.
"Okay, Central-National… kind of far," Felicity said. "Is it you and Supergirl?"
"No, and I will take care of transport," Rae said. "I'll hand you off to the bride now." Rae handed the phone to a shocked Iris.
"Erm… Hi?" Iris said, unsure.
"Give me all the details," Felicity stated.
"I need to know how much first," Iris asked.
"Oh, this is a favor for the Flash who just saved me from life in jail. It's free," Felicity chuckled; Iris seemed stunned as Rae gave a smile, but her communicator went off.
Looking at it, she too was stunned.
"Plus, Minus, come," Rae said quietly so as not to disturb the phone call. "I might need some help with crowd control..." The West Twins blinked and frowned, but were not going to second-guess Rae letting them come on a mission.
Rae grabbed Clark to put him in his outfit as Walter and Julia went to get changed. The group moved out and used the nearest Zap Tunnel to get to Gotham. Walter and Julia wanted to see the Batcave, but Rae rushed them through.
Black Arrow was at the scene already and police were trying to get people back.
"Plus, Minus," Rae said. "Help the police make sure no one gets near here. You too, Flash Pup." Clark barked as he followed Walter and Julia, making sure the large crowd did not come through. "Black Arrow, what happened?"
"I don't know," Thomas said, shocked. "She was found this morning laid out here. Her throat is slit."
"Got in over her head?" Rae asked, bending down. She was no doctor though – Kara and Caitlin would have to look over the body.
"Seems more ritualistic," Thomas said quietly. "Like someone targeted her to be killed."
"Who would target a friend of yours?" Rae asked. She had got the impression that Thomas did not really care much for Mia since joining the League and Rae had never even met the girl. Thomas gave a shrug, unsure. "Plus, Minus, Flash Pup." Rae called, and all came up at this. "Flash Pup take the body. Plus, Minus, go with Flash pup. We need to get this to the Hall of Justice. Think you can do that?"
"Yes," the two said right away. Clark bit into the body and flew up, careful with how he treated the deceased. Walter took his sister's hand and the three were off.
"I need to deal with the media…" Rae sighed, looking over to the crowd. Going up to them, questioned were yelled out as cameras and phones were pointed her way.
"As far as we know," Rae finally managed to reply, "Yellow Arrow got in over her head and was killed. She is not a member of the Justice League, so this is not an attack on the Justice League – we know for a fact it was not the Reverse Flash or Savitar. They have been dealt with." Rae had heard those questioned being asked and wanted to put a stop to it; making people panic over those two would not be good. "That's all I have to say." Rae ran off as questions were still being yelled.
-New Justice-
They were in the largest room of Nanda Parbat, the initiation room, and all the available League members were gathered for the ceremony. Wally had come up to Ra's, bending down.
"You have passed all tests," Ra's said, "and have officially joined the League of Assassins. As such your old name is gone…. You are Wally West is no more. From now on you will be Sah-Vi-Tah."
The members of the League assembled started clapping as the newly named Sah-Vi-Tah stood.
"Congratulations Sah," Talia, said kissing his cheek.
"Thank you," Sah replied, a twisted smirk on his face.
Post Chapter Note: Things are coming full-circle people. And see? I can be nice to Felicity. Actually, the idea of her being a DJ came from a review – not a nice review though as they were throwing shade over me killing Felicity in Karry Universe and weren't a good speller as whatever they were saying I couldn't figure out, but it seemed to be Disc Jockey. Obviously an autocorrect but it made me laugh and then it worked out for New Justice. So there you have it.
Now, why Mia Dreaden died… obviously I did not have plans to honestly use this character. One of you reviewers suggested her to me. The plan was for her to be Thomas' sidekick. But she didn't really click with me, I didn't warm to her from the start, and I need someone close to the League but not too close to be killed. She was perfect after Thomas got into the League, so Mia was out. And no, neither me or Sigma plan to use her on other worlds that we know of, so the only known Mia in the Millma Verse is now dead.
Anyway, please review.
Karry Master OUT!