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Chapter 17: Scouting
Location: Watchtower-Monitor Room
"Superman, Question, Doctor Fate, Vigilante, remember this is merely an experiment. We need to find out if they're up to something," J'onn said.
"Copy that...so you really just want us to fly up there," Question said through the intercom.
"They're sitting ducks up there," Shayera said.
"The ship has just been sitting there for four hours...we need an idea of what to expect," John said.
"So you offer them up like lambs to the slaughter," Shayera said.
"It's a strategy...I thought, you would understand that," Diana said, giving her a hard look.
"Okay, we're going in," Superman said, and they watched as the Javelin got closer and closer to the Thanagarian ship.
"Is anybody home," Vigilante's voice came through the radio. Then there was a flash of red light and the Javelin was gone.
"What the heck just happened," Flash yelled, as J'onn typed things into the computer.
"That wasn't any Thanagarian weapon I know of," Shayera said.
"Because it wasn't a weapon...it was a transporter," J'onn said, and then tried to contact the Javelin.
"Superman, this is Watchtower. Do you hear me?...Superman, do you hear me?... Superman, Question, Doctor Fate, Vigilante, can anyone answer me," J'onn said, and then a beeping was hear.
"What's that," Flask asked.
"The Javelin's tracking system was activated," J'onn said, and started typing on the computer. After a few minutes, he stopped typing.
"Found them," J'onn said.
"Where?" John asked.
"Antarctica," J'onn said.
"Now, what," Flash asked, looking around the room.
"We get our friends back," John said.
~JUSTICE LEAGUE~
Location: Helicopters in route to undisclosed location
"I can't tell you how glad I'll be, when they come to rescue you," A blond in a red suit said.
"What do you all want," Superman asked turning to the sound of her voice since he had a guard over his eyes keeping him from using his laser vision and a pair of kryptonite cuff blocking his powers.
"To destroy the heart of mighty Justice League...To final have our day in spot light...To destroy ones who can stand in our way," The blond said, "But before that we're gonna have some fun."
"What," Superman said.
"You see we're not going to be the ones to destroy them...you all are doing that for us," the woman said.
"Whatever they're planning will stop you," Superman said.
"That's why we're not giving them the chance to plan," the woman said.
~JUSTICE LEAGUE~
Location: Flight 1032 Barcelona, Spain to Raleigh, North Caroline US
The plane had left long before the ships had been spotted, and now was stuck flying with no defenses to the spaceship. But the only ones worried about that was the crew. The passages were ignorant to all of that. Or at least they were until the cabin shook. And then the cabin jolted. Everyone tensed, and a little boy he clenches his mother's hand. The cabin shook and rocked, and when a woman looked out the window and screamed.
Over the plane was a spacecraft that was ramming and firing the plane. The cabin dipped sharply to the right after a shot to the engine on the wing. Passengers were screaming as all the unrestrained personal belongings fly across the aircraft.
The oxygen masks deploy from the overhead compartments. A prerecorded message blares over the P.A., "Fasten seat belts...put on oxygen masks..."
The mother's hands trembled as she reached for the oxygen masks and places them over hers and her son faces.
The plane is on its side, losing altitude and going into a slow, sick spin. The engines grind and whir, as if the craft were in the midst of a last-ditch effort to regain stability; the sounds deafening over the passengers' cruelly hopeless screams.
Then a devastating explosion roars across the cabin, blasting a five-foot hole in the fuselage. Dead passengers sit lifeless in their seats.
Every unrestrained object on board flies to the hole and through the fire; paper, books, luggage, pillows. Mother and son hold desperately to each other in terror, before they are pulled into the sky.
A building whine crescendos before a second explosion rips across plane, and then silence.
~JUSTICE LEAGUE~
Location: Watchtower-Conference Room #2
"They blew up a freaking plane, man," Flash yells.
"We need to move now…before more lives are lost," Diana said.
"We need a plan," Shayera said.
"Diana's right…a swift attack doesn't leave time for a counterattack," John said.
"And what if we're not the action but the reaction," Batman said.
"Will another plane full of civilians make the decision easier for you," Diana asked, and Batman snapped the armrest of his chair.
"Low punch," Flash said, breaking the silence that had briefly fallen.
"This is not a time for games…We need to act," Diana said.
"What would you have us do," Batman asked, and Shyer could see his control straining.
"Protect those who need protecting from theses monsters," Diana said, and cut her eyes to Shayera. Shayera knew from her eyes, that she was not be of the ones Diana would be protecting.
Author's Note:
Was told that the original story was boring and had no shocking points. Plus I was on a horror movie binge last with my friends as a pre-midterms movie night. Which is why there was an upload explosion from me.
Shout out to dragonscales00 for reviewing almost every chapter I think.
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