Author's Note:
Modulator/Modulating Device
MOUNT JUSTICE
JULY 20, 04:17 EDT
The room fills with silence as everyone's eyes are now currently on Conner with utter shock as they all look at his back with total disbelief, knowing that their friend could never or even attempt to kill a person. For the five years they have known Conner, they could never think of him purposefully killing someone, so to hear him say and with so much self-anger and self-hatred is jarring to them, to say the least. "Conner what do you mean?" Dinah asked still trying to rap her around his words. "What do you mean you're a killer?"
Conner sighs, knowing that just saying it to them wouldn't help them understand so he walks over to the door but looks over his shoulder when he sees that no of them have moved from where they were standing. "Follow me, please."
The heroes and heroines look at one another before following behind into their old therapy room, memories of past traumas playing in their heads and talking to Dinah about in order to move forward. Conner waves his hand and a second later a holo-computer appears in the center of the room as he approaches it and begins typing on it.
"We have projectors in our rooms?" Artemis asks with a little surprise and confused at the new discovery.
'That actually wouldn't be a bad idea.' Conner thinks to himself about future improvements to the Cave. "No. I built a projector that connects to the Cave Computer. But that's besides the point." Conner elaborates as he types on the holo-computer when he realizes that the group of five are still standing up. "Take a seat."
The group complies as they take a seat in the chairs. "Conner, why are we here the only ones here?" Artemis asks.
Conner stops typing and lets out a long sigh as he turns to his friends with a look of reflection on his face. "Because you're the only ones I can trust out of anyone else. What I'm about to show and tell you can't leave this room." He turns back to the computer and continues to type, but they can all hear the sincerity in his voice. "Only the five of you can know this. Not the League. Not the Team. No one else."
Conner starts the video and stands against the wall behind his friends. As they watch the video, they realize that it is the exact same one that the League and the Team saw earlier tonight but was later on in the video during the experiment. "Superboy, we have already seen this video at the Watchtower." Kaldur says as he continues to watch it.
Conner's face is unfazed by this comment while he keeps his eyes on the screen. "Not this one."
"Desmond! Override the emergency systems!" Guardian says while he tries to keep the blast shields from coming.
Desmond was using a computer, trying to hack it and open the doors. "I can't! When these systems were placed they could not be overridden!" Desmond keeps messing with the computer and tries something different. "But I can check to see what is happening through the cameras in the lab!"
Desmond brought up the live-feed from the laboratory's cameras on to the monitors and they all saw the repair crew still banging on the blast door. The room was falling apart around them with chunks of concrete falling from the walls and ceiling. Open wires and lights were surging while Superboy was glowing too bright to be seen by the cameras. As if out of nowhere all the cameras in the room blacked out and was replaced with the disembodied screams of the repair crew.
When the screams stop, the room is silent but that ended when Desmond bolts out of the room with a camera in hand. He ran down to the floor of the laboratory to be greeted by G-trolls still trying open the door. "Open the door."
Dubbilex stepped up to Desmond as the G-trolls pried open the door a little. "Desmond, I believe we should wait for the blast doors to come down on—"
"Open the door now!" Desmond yelled as the G-trolls finally open the door. When Desmond walked inside, the looked around at the devastation of the room. "Where did they go?"
"Desmond?" Dubbilex says as he stared at the wall the while Desmond looked at Superboy.
"Where did they go?!" Desmond yells as he continued to stare at him.
"Desmond!"
"What?!" Desmond yelled and turned to Dubbilex as he pointed at something. Desmond looked at it too and had a stunned look on his face as he brings the camera up to see it.
On the wall in front if the observation room was silhouettes of six people made from ash. The power of Superboy had disintegrated all the repair crew. "It seems subject's ability results in immediate disintegration when released. Further testing must be done to test power's limits."
Desmond was walking around with the camera, examining the room, when his communicator beeped in his ear. "Hello? The weapon has shown a new ability. If could do it again it could…but sir? This could be the way to make the weapon…I-I understand sir." Desmond lets go of his communicator. "Clean this up."
"What?" Dubbilex said as he turns to Desmond with surprise.
"Clean this place up. Leave no trace of this experiment." Desmond said as he walks out of the laboratory. "I have a meeting to attend to with our business partners."
"Desmond, you cannot be serious?" Dubbilex said to Desmond's retreating form.
"I am."
Desmond brought up the camera and turned it off.
"I hope that helped you understand." Conner says as he moves from the wall and turns the holo-computer off while the others sit in silence. "I'll give you a minute to let it sink in."
No one in the group dared to speak a word as they all look at Conner in either complete shock or in pity as they finally understand why he has been acting to aggressively in the past three hours. "Where did you find this?" Kaldur asks.
Hearing Kaldur's question, the others wonder the same question of how Conner had gotten his hands on the video they just watched. "It was sent to me from Lex Luthor." Conner retorts in a monotone voice.
"Luthor sent this to you!?" Dick says, not believing Conner would accept anything from Luthor after their last encounter. "Are you sure that it really came from Luthor? It could've just been someone who's trying to impersonating-"
"I traced the email back to the LexCorp building in Metropolis. More specifically, it came from the computer inside Lex's penthouse office." Conner counters. "Remember, now that you've seen this, no one else can know about this."
"How do we stop Batman from finding out about this?" Artemis asks.
"I'll deal with it." Conner states.
"Guys can you leave the room for a minute." Dinah asks the four other adults, needing to give Conner an evaluation right now after seeing the video.
The other four stand up and walk out of the room while Dinah stares at Conner, but he doesn't turn around to face her. "What?" Conner asks.
"How long have you had this?" Dinah asks.
"For about a month."
"Then what made you show us now?"
"I didn't want to believe it was true until..."
"Until you found the video you played at the Watchtower." Dinah says putting the pieces together.
"After watching the video, I found that the source material was incomplete, a full quarter of it had been missing." Conner explains, sighing as he continued on. "It wasn't until I analyzed the video sent to me that I found out it was the other part of it."
"Conner, are you okay?" Dinah asks with concern in her voice.
"Should I be?" Conner answers.
"Conner?"
Conner stops typing and lets out a long sigh, pinching the bridge of his nose as he walks to a chair, the only one opposite to the one Dinah is sitting in. "I don't know. I do not know what to feel. But I can show you what I felt, if you let me."
"Okay." Dinah says, giving Conner confirmation to go inside her mind.
Conner eyes glow red and red energy forms around them as he finds Dinah's conscious mind and allows her to enter into his mind as he thinks of the memories from the past. Before Dinah can even tell what is happening, she is bombarded with all these emotions from Conner, his pain, his anger, and his fear, seeing bits and pieces of his memories. When she leaves his mind, Conner looks over at Dinah and sees her eyes are red as if she was ready to cry after seeing what he experienced but pays it no mind. "Now do you understand. I don't know what to feel because...because there's too much to feel."
"Conner." Dinah says in a motherly tone.
"I need to tell you something." Conner says a lets out a long sigh. "When Luthor sent me the video, my mind relapsed certain memories from that day. I tried to make myself believe it wasn't real and bury it, but not a day goes by when those people and their screams don't haunt me." Conner says, closing his eyes as a tear streams from his eye.
Dinah stands from her chair and walks over to Conner as he looks up at her, wandering what she was about to say to him because that was how it usually ended up being after their talks. Before Conner can think of what she could possibly say to him, Dinah instead pulls him into a hug and Conner still for a moment before slowly hugging her back as he silently cries into her shoulder. "What happened at Cadmus wasn't your fault. What they were doing to you, experimenting on you, you couldn't have controlled what happened that day."
"It doesn't feel that way." Dinah pulls away from Conner and looks at him as he continues on. "How can I call myself a hero, knowing that people died because of me? How am I supposed to move on from my past?"
"Conner, look at me." Conner looks up at the only mother figure he has had and stares into her eyes. "You need to accept the past for what it is and what happened. Then you need to forgive yourself for something that was out of your control. Finally, you just need to let go of the emotions."
"You make it sound easy." Conner says.
"It's not, but it's the first step to peace." Dinah stands up and Conner follow suit as she keeps her eyes on him. "You'll get through this. With some help, I promise you'll get through this." Dinah promises, but the two are interrupted when Conner's communicator starts beeping. They look at each other before Conner gives her a smile and presses on it, answering the incoming call from whoever it was and hoping it didn't take too long so he could get back to his impromptu therapy session.
"Superboy," Batman voice comes through over the communicator. "return to the Watchtower for immediate briefing."
Dinah and Conner look at each other before Conner stands up and presses on his communicator, making his way to the Zeta Tubes with Dinah following behind him. "I'm on my way. Superboy, out." Conner acknowledges, walking into the mission room and over to the Zeta Tube, typing in the destination before looking over at Dinah as she stares at him in concern. "Listen, what we just talked about?"
"We can talk about this later. Okay?" Dinah assures him, squeezing his shoulder in understanding.
"Alright." Conner says as the Zeta Tube powers up and he walks into the light.
THE WATCHTOWER
JULY 20, 04:45 EDT
RECOGNIZED, SUPERBOY, B-0-4.
Conner walk out of the Zeta Tube and look as Black Lightning, Martian Manhunter, Batgirl, and the original Team members are all assembled in the mission room as they all turn to see their arrival.
"Thank you for arriving just in time." Batman says in front of the room as he uses the holo-computer to project pictures of the destroyed Intergang base. "On to the issue at hand. Intergang has been kidnapping metahumans for an unknown purpose. It's imperative that we learn for what reason. Which is why I asked you all to come in today." Batman uses a clicker and the screen transitions to say 'Project: Outsiders'. "I'm forming a team that will infiltrate Intergang and take them down from the inside. With our limited resources, this team will be small and will be cut off from the League and Young Justice."
"Who is on this team?" Kaldur asks, standing next to Barbara as he keeps his eyes on Batman. "I cannot believe that you alone would be able to it."
"That's why Black Lightning and Superboy will be leading the team with me..." Batman says while Conner look at him with subtle shock. "and I'll need you, Aqualad, to help coordinate leading the League and Young Justice with Superman in our absence. Can I trust you to do this?"
Kaldur looks unsure before he likes at Batman with a determined face. "Of course."
Batman nods his head as continues on with the explanation. "With Young Justice being a team of covert operations, Nightwing, Artemis, and Batgirl will be apart of the Outsiders." Dick, Artemis, and Barbara look at each other before looking and Batman and giving him a nod. "With joining the Outsiders, there is a chance that you may cross some lines you wouldn't with the League. This is why only the people in thus room can know about this team's existence. If this is not for you then you do not have to join. If there are no question? Nightwing, Tigress, and Batgirl, meet me in the training room. The rest of you can go home but you cannot tell anyone about this."
While the others leave are leaving our staying, Conner walks over to Bruce while he stands at the screen. "Superboy?"
"Batman, how are is this going to work?" Conner speaks up as he moves to the front. "Even with Dick, Artemis, and Barbara, the six of us won't be enough for this team."
"That is why I've found others who can help us." Batman responds. "Others heroes from across the world that could help us with this mission."
"New heroes?" The Kryptonian asks.
"Does it matter?" The Dark Knight question.
"No, just wondering. Anyone else?"
"Roy." Batman responds.
"No."
"Do you know which one?"
"Arsenal is a danger to anyone he comes around." Conner retorts, not giving Bruce a chance to justify his reasoning. "Trauma aside, I refuse to let him back into the fold if he won't change!"
"Is that all?" Batman asks.
"Yes."
"Good, because I need you to find those prototype suits we worked on."
"The ones we made last year? Their ready for use but I need to put the final touches on them." Conner says as he projects a computer of his own and works on code for a system update.
"You have five minutes." Batman says as he leaves for the training room.
"For what? It will only take a minute."
"To finish, get the prototypes, and meet me in the training room." Batman says as he leaves the room.
Conner speed-types on the computer, porting the final touches in. "A few more lines of code and…" Conner presses the a key and the code successfully uploads to these unknown prototypes. "now I just got to get the suits." He turns off the holo-computer and teleports out of the room.
In the training room, Bruce stands in front of Dick, Artemis, Barbara, and J'onn. "Are we waiting on someone?" Dick asks, looking around at the other heroes in the room.
"Yes, but I can begin until he arrives. As you know, being in espionage means working undercover operations." Bruce says as he projects a computer in the training room. "Your mission as you know, is to infiltrate Intergang and stop any possible meta-human trafficking."
"When we infiltrate Intergang you're gonna need gear for undercover work so they don't know it was any of us." A voice says from behind the group. The group looks behind them and sees Conner carry a case. "Perfect timing, I guess?"
"We were waiting on Superboy?" Artemis asks. "I didn't think he'd be going undercover."
"He isn't...but he's giving us some technology that could help." Bruce says, while Conner places the case on a bench. He opens it and reveals back holsters for their gear.
"Holsters?" Dick says.
"No, it's more than that." Conner says as he pulls out a V-shaped back holster that had two escrima sticks on each side. "Turn around."
Dick turns around and Conner places the holster on his back. The holster clicks as a suit starts to build around Dick from the holster. It finishes and Dick is covered in a new suit with metal chest, abdominal, shoulder, and leg plating with metal gauntlets. The suit also has blue accent lines along the chest, abdomen, arms, and legs. "Superboy, this is amazing."
"I know. I made it" Conner says.
"It's so light. What is this suit made of?"
"The suit is a cross between my own nanotechnology and New Genesis metal." Conner says, while pointing out the plating parts and the material under it. "The metal is virtually indestructible but is light and flexible. Allowing for maneuverability and speed. The material underneath has the tensile strength stronger than titanium but allows for better agility. It can deflect and even break blades but refrain from being stabbed by everyone."
"What else can it do?"
"The suit has built-in utility launcher on the gauntlets." Conner lifts up Dick's arm and shows the gauntlet. "Grapple, smoke pellets, tracers, sticky microphones and cameras, and tranquilizer darts." Conner lets go of his arm and walks around him. "The suit is also versatile and can adapt on its own to your environment."
"What about these?" Dick says as he pulls one of the escrima sticks out of the holster. "What can they do?"
Before Conner could say anything, the stick extends from the middle. "Well it can do that. Now take out the other one and slam the ends together."
Dick pulls out the other escrima stick and hesitantly slams the ends together. The sticks click together and the other ends extend as they turn into a staff. "A staff? Isn't this more Tim's thing?"
"Yeah, but if I recall you had a staff for a short time." Dick pulls the staff from the middle and they turn back into the escrima sticks. "And you can wear the holster under civilian clothes. The escrima sticks holster has Boom Tube technology in it so they can be hidden in civilian clothing."
"Nice." Dick says, looking down at himself in the suit.
"Before I forget…" Conner puts a small device behind Dick's ear. "This is a transmitter. Whatever you think, your suit does. For an example, think of a mask."
Dick does it and a moment later, the suit builds around his head, the suit creating a mask that goes around his mouth while exposing his ears, eyes, and hair. "The mask has a built-in modulator so don't worry about your voice."
"Is there anything is suit can't do?" Dick asks, still wearing the mask.
"Don't know. I haven't exactly field-tested it. But it's the best I can do." Conner says as he picks up two cases. "But I think the others will like the ones I made for them."
"Who else has one?"
"I have one for Artemis, Black Lightning, and myself. These things require a lot of time to make." Conner says, handing Artemis her own case.
"Before we go on any further I just have one question." Dick says, still admiring the new suit.
"What?"
"When do we start the mission?" He says.
METROPOLIS
JULY 20, 20:32 EDT
THREE YEARS LATER
"This is Team One. All teams, report in."
"Team Two in position."
"Team Three in position."
"All teams are in position. Alright guys, we were given an easy one tonight. Stop this Intergang operation before they can set up shop and search for metahumans."
"So what's the plan?"
"My team is going in and leading the assault. Team Three, I want you to be come in behind us and handle any that try to escape. Team Two, take out the lights and give them a little shake. It's our three year anniversary today so let's make it a special one. Everybody ready?"
"Ready."
"Ready."
"Then let's get to work."
In the warehouse Intergang members are moving around equipment and weapons. The operation is still being set up as the Commander of the operation watches.
"Sir?" A thug says as the Commander looks away from the working men and at the man.
"How long until everything's finished?" questions the Commander.
"Possibly another three hours sir." The thug says. The Commander back at the working men as they carry out their jobs.
"Good. Any metahuman sightings?"
"None so far sir. We're still searching but we'll—" The lights in the building flicker before exploding and leaving the entire building in darkness.
"What was that?"
"The fuse probably blew. I'll send someone to go check it out." The thug says trying to navigate the dark room. Before anyone can react, the building shakes and knocks the men of their feet. "Earthquake!"
"No…this is different!" The Commander yells to the soldier. "Everyone get ready! Something's coming!"
All of the Intergang thugs grab a weapon when they hear glass break and the room fills with gas. They hear the sound of glass shattering that is followed by the sounds of punches and screams. "Stay on guard!"
Suddenly, the loud noises cease and the thugs look around the room. The silence drags on, the thugs look around the room skittishly as if waiting for something to happen. The doors to the room bust open and the silhouette of a person is standing there. The thugs open fire into the void as their bullets deflect off the silhouette. It is not until the clicking of their guns that they realize they are out of bullets.
"My turn."
Red energy builds within the eyes of the silhouette as the same energy builds around it's hands. Before the thugs can react, a red force launches them backwards into the wall as it cracks from the force. The silhouette steps forward as it comes into the dim lights coming outside the building. As the silhouette steps into the light, it is wearing black combat boots, black fatigue pants with built-in knee pads, a charcoal grey long sleeve compression shirt with black accents on the chest and shoulders, and black fingerless knuckle-studded gloves. As the person's face came into view, it is a man wearing a mask with blue eyes and black hair.
The man turns his back to the unconscious thugs and presses on the communicator in his ear. "Superboy to all teams, the Commander's been incapacitated. Alert local authorities of this operation and let's head home."
Unknown to Superboy, the Commander is rousing as he pulls a gun out from the back of his pants and aims it at him. Before he could pull the trigger, an arrow flies out of the darkness and covers the Commander in foam. Conner turns back to the Commander and picks up the remains of the arrow. The shaft of the arrow is black with crimson fletching fins, making Conner smirk as he looks into the shadows and sees a silhouette standing to his right with a bow in hand.
'Thanks for the assist…' Conner says as the person steps out of the shadows. The person reveals themselves to be blonde female wearing a crimson cowl-like domino mask that exposes her long blonde hair in a pony tail. Her suit is tactical with long sleeves and exposed biceps. It has a red chest, abdomen, red shoulders, red starting at her waist and stopping above the knee, red covering her knee and ending at the ankle. The suit has silver accents around her shoulders and the red on her leg while the rest of it is black. There are gray bands on her ankles that connect to her shoes with a inner red band. She is wearing black gloves with red thumbs, a red rectangle on the back of her hands, and red bands on the wrists. What stands out about her suit is Artemis' insignia on her chest and shoulders are a lighter shade of red. '…Arrowette.'
'No problem.' She says through the mind-link, walking up to the Commander and punching him in the face, knocking him unconscious again. She walks or if the room with Conner into the rest of the building as others are standing over unconscious Intergang thugs. 'Are we done we here?'
'Not yet.' Conner says as he looks at the large computer in the middle of the room. Conner takes off his mouthplate as he looks at the man typing away on the computer. "Jeff!? Is it ready!?"
Black Lightning, in a suit similar to Dick's but without the black V-shaped holster on his back, looks across the room at Superboy and Arrowette. Since the start of the Outsiders, Jefferson had let his hair grow to the point that he has a full head of hair and a beard. "Give me a moment and I should have everything set up!"
Within the past few years, a lot has changed since the formation of the Outsiders. Within the years, Intergang activity has been popping up all over the world and across the galaxy. With the aid of other heroes across the globe, the Outsiders' main mission lately has been saving metahumans and stopping any Intergang operations from launching.
"Superboy!? I found something!"
Superboy walks over to the voice he hears as a man—well, more of a humanoid creature with four arms, holds a mother box in his hand. His skin is tinted red-orange color and his suit is white with a tinted shade of navy blue on his arms, shoulders, legs, and back.
"Another one?" Conner says as Forager hands it to him the mother box. "This is the seventh one in a row."
"How are they obtaining New Genesis technology?"
"We'll find out soon enough, Forager. I promise." Conner says, putting a hand on Forager's shoulder. Forager joined the Outsiders after the fourth mother box was discovered in Intergang's possession. After consulting with the Forever People, Vykin sent Forager to help figure out how mother boxes are being sent to Earth.
The room is scattered with Intergang thugs and a giant hole in the ceiling from where the two teams came in. While Jeff continues to work on the computer, now with Conner's help, a man and a woman are moving the unconscious thugs to the side of the room. "Do you think the hole in the roof is too big? I think I made it too big." The man says to the woman, looking at the hole in the ceiling. The man is wearing a suit that is primarily forest green on the arms, chest, outer thighs, and calves. The secondary color is black on the neck, shoulders, inner arms, lower torso, inner thighs, and feet with light green accents along the arms, lower torso, and legs. The man is wearing a forest green cowl that exposes his face and his ginger hair. He is Prince Brion Markov of Markovia, also known as Geo-Force.
"Sorekara shūsei suru." The woman says as she continues to move the thugs while Geo-Force stands around. The woman has black hear that is tied up in a ponytail, wearing a black suit with gray samurai-like armor on her chest, outer thighs, and back. She has silver armor on her shoulders with a large red circle in the middle and is wearing a white mask with a large red circle on the forehead of the mask. The woman has a red sash and black belt around her waist with a katana in it's scabbard on the left hip. This is Tatsu Yamashiro and with her sword, Soultaker, she is the hero Katana.
"Uh, can someone tell me what she said?" asks the Prince.
"She basically told you to fix it." Conner says, sighing while working on the computer with Jeff. "See, this is why you should've learned Japanese."
"I do know Japanese, it just isn't all that great." argues Brion in his defense.
Conner looks Brion straight in the eyes, his own eyes conveying how why this conversation is going on for as long as it has. "You know what, just fix the roof."
Brion glares at Conner before he turns his attention to the roof. He looks at the rubble on the floor and aims his hands at them. His hands glow red and the rubble floats off the ground and back into their positions in the ceiling. "Rex, are you still on the roof?" Brion says, looking up at the ceiling waiting for a response.
On the roof, a man is wearing a suit that is mostly purple with black accent lines on the neck, arms, chest, torso, waist, outer thighs, and below the knee. The entire arms and shoulders are bright orange and is neon pink from the sides of his lower torso to his lower outer thighs. This man is different from most because his skin is pure white and he has no hair, not even eyebrows. This man is Rex Mason, he was once known as the Element Man but now is known as Metamorpho. "I'm here."
"Is Kori still up there with you?"
Rex looks over his shoulder and sees Kori staring off into the distance. Kori's suit is the same one Conner gave to her two years ago, but the suit now has stealth tech that switches the purple with black. "Yeah…why?"
"I'm moving the broken roof back into position and I need her help to weld it back into place."
"Okay. Kori did you—" Before Rex could finish, Kori is already floating over the hole in the roof. "I'll take that as a yes."
While the pieces are in place, Kori's hand glow green as she uses her starbeam to weld the pieces together and to the roof. As she finishes, Kori lands on the fixed part of the roof and it holds perfectly together. "Brion, the roof has been fixed and is holding."
"Thank you Kori."
Back in the main room of the building, Conner and Jeff are still working on the computer when Conner's screen turns green. "Jeff, I'm in the system."
"I'm in too. We're ready." Jeff says, giving Conner a thumbs up.
Conner presses on his comm-link and looks up at the roof. "Kori, I need you stay on the roof just in case anyone else comes. Rex, I need you to come down here for a second."
"Alright, I'm coming. How much longer are we gonna be here?" Rex says as his voice comes through the comm-link.
"Just a little longer." Conner takes his hand off his comm-link and looks across the room at Arrowette. "Cissie!?"
Arrowette, also known by her real name, Cissie, walks over to Conner as he types away on the computer. "Yeah?"
"How about you head back to the Watchtower? We'll be up there in a minute." Conner says taking a moment to stop and glance at her out of the corner of his eye.
"Okay." Cissie says, not really caring until she thought over what Conner just said. "Wait…what are you about to do?"
You see, while some members of Young Justice help them from time to time, none of them know of the Outsiders' existence. With how dangerous and different they are from Young Justice, Batman did not want the younger heroes to know anything about the Outsiders.
Conner leans straight up and looks at her. "We'll wait for the police to get her. Besides…" Conner puts a hand on Cissie's shoulder as she looks at him. "Kaldur's about to send you on a mission with the others. So get going."
"Okay."
Cissie walks to the nearest door and leaves the building. Conner uses his superhuman hearing to make sure no one is nearby. "She's gone. Let's get to real work."
Back in the room with the Commander, Conner rips him out of the foam and pins him against the wall as Rex comes from behind and makes cement to stick the Commander to the wall behind him. Conner puts his hand on his shoulder as he looks him in the eye. "Do you know who we are?" The Commander says nothing as Conner's hand grips his shoulder. Before anyone can react, Conner pushes on the Commander's shoulder and cracks the wall behind him as he dislocates it. The Commander screams out in excruciating pain while Conner looks at him unfazed. "Do you know who we are?"
"Yes!" The Commander grunts out.
"Good. Now tell me something?" Conner says as he takes on his hand off the Commander's shoulder and turn his back to him. The Commander uses his other arm to reach the dislocated shoulder while wincing in pain. "Are there any metahumans here?"
The Commander says nothing, making Conner look over at Rex and nod at him as Rex's hand morphs into a sledgehammer head and hit the Commander in the foot with it. The Commander screams again as he tries to reach for his foot but Conner holds hid hands over the Commander's mouth while looking him in the eyes with a cold seriousness in them. "It's only dislocated so you'll be alright." Conner says as he looks back at Commander. "So I'll ask again. Are there any metahumans here?"
"No!" The Commander mutters out.
"Why did Intergang start the metahuman trafficking ring?" Conner asks the Commander. The Commander groans glaring at Conner through the pain he is receiving. "Rex, hit the other leg."
"No, no! Wait, wait!" The Commander yells in complete fear. "I-It started three years ago...when one of our business partners asked us to kidnap four kids that were metahumans. After that we started looking for metas on our own. We were selling them to whoever could buy them, starting a trade in the process with other traffickers. But then you guys started coming after us so we stopped looking for metas in the states. We heard metas were sprouting in Markovia so we moved their and started a new ring."
"You were selling to people, politicians, world leaders, even aliens." Conner says as he recalls the past three years. "But what you didn't expect is that we would be back."
"When you came back, Ugly decided that we couldn't stay in one place so he had us spread out across the world. But even then…" The Commander says as he looks around the room at the other Outsiders. "…that didn't stop you from coming back with more friends."
Conner walks up to the man and looks at him with his face a few centimetres away, hearing the man's heart rate increase rather drastically and smirks at his fear. "We have what we need. Team, let's move out."
"W-W-Wait! You're just gonna leave me here?!" The Commander says as his heart rate increases even more.
"Don't worry. The police are on their way otherwise this interrogation would have been longer." Conner states rather emotionless.
"W-Who are you people?" The Commander asks.
"Good question. The next time you see Ugly, tell him my exact words. We're not the Justice League and their team of sidekicks. We're the Outsiders. And when we find him he's going to wish that they'll protect him." Conner finishes. Before The Commander can ask another question, everything goes black as he his knocked unconscious.
The Outsiders have finally made themselves known to Intergang. What has happened in the three years since the Outsiders' formation? How many new Outsiders have joined in those three years? What will this mean for the future of Intergang's meta-trafficking ring? All of these will be revealed as the story continues.
Author's Note:
Thank you all for the wait, I hope you like the format of this. For those of you who have been reading since the beginning, let me know if you like it like this. If you want the entire book to be in this format, then I will go back and edit the other chapters to your liking. If you want me to continue writing like this and leave the others as they are, then I will continue from this point forward in this format. I will make a poll soon to see which one is wanted more but until then let me let see your answers down in the review section. I will see you all later and remember to favorite, follow, and review. For future reference, Brion's name is pronounced with a long 'e' sound for 'i' and a long 'o' sound for the obvious 'o'. Also, Tatsu's name is pronounced with a 's' sound for the 'ts'.
EDIT: As you have probably already seen, I have gone back and change every chapter to the new format so you're welcome.