Professor Zoom and the WRONG Impulse
By: Reina Grayson and Malaizjan De Jesus
Chapter Four
They finally had the location of Zoom's hideout and Eclipse and Shock were staying out of sight until reinforcements arrived. They had been relayed the plan so they called it in and soon enough Bart, Wally and Brian made it to their location.
"Alright, so you guys know the plan, be careful in there, kids." Wally said.
Brian, Luna and VJ nodded then headed off into the warehouse while the older speedsters waited for the right moment.
Five Minutes Later
Beta squad (Eclipse, Shock and Kid Flash) mentally signaled that they were ready and Wally took off to get Zoom's attention.
Inside the warehouse
Zoom's security system kicked on as a blur went past one of the cameras. "So, they're finally playing their hand."
"FINALLY." Speed Racer said; ready to take out the heroic speedsters once and for all.
"You stay with the kids; I'll track this one down." Zoom said.
Wes looked worried as Iesha was sleeping next to him. She was hungry but fell asleep when she didn't have the energy to stay awake.
Wally zipped around the area, waiting on Zoom to show up.
Suddenly a blur came up beside him and Wally could see its face. "So, picking on little kids now, that's low, even for you."
"And I was wondering if you were coming at all."
"You're gone this time Zoom!" Wally threw a speed punch.
The pair then threw speed-heightened attacks as they ran nonstop.
"Oh please...I was really after Bart...but your brats will do nicely."
"You're not touching my girl!" Wally was pissed off already.
Zoom smiled, he knew he could piss Wally off, and now was time for the next phase. "I offered her plenty of food, but she never ate...not much of a speedster."
"You're a lying piece of trash Zoom!" Wally tried tripping up the villain but he jumped up to avoid the trip up.
"She instead gave it to the boy...I'm actually curious about your younger son."
Wally knew that Wes must've played it off that he was a speedster too. So he continued.
"Ie is Wes' older sister, she'd take care of him before herself."
"Ah...so you and the archer girl have been busy..." Zoom tried to nail gut punches but Wally blocked them all.
"I've had it with you going after my uncle and now the rest of my family...you're going down once and for all, Zoom."
"Then show me, boy," Zoom taunted.
The villainous speedster then sped up and got in front of Wally.
Back inside the warehouse, Speed Racer was getting impatient.
"I hate waiting," Speed Racer mumbled.
"You know daddy's going to get you good." Wes said, hiding his true parentage.
"Yeah right. What's your momma going to do, shoot me with an arrow?!" he taunted.
"And kick your butt." Wes remarked.
Noises within the warehouse caught Speed Racer's attention and he walked over to the area they came from.
While Eclipse and Shock watched the situation until help arrived, they had split up. Shock was watching Speed Racer from behind some crates...but what he didn't expect was that when he lightly bumped one the contents jingled.
Shock stayed absolutely still in hopes that Speed Racer just gave up and headed back over toward the cage.
Wesley Kent watched as something nearly invisible came toward the cage. He nearly missed it but it was moving slowly and he knew what it was.
More importantly, he knew WHO it was.
"Sis?" Wes mentally called out.
'Yeah. I'm here.' Luna Kent reached out to the cage bars.
'Don't !' He cried mentally.
Luna paused.
'I think it's still electrified.'
Luna slowly backed away as Speed Racer turned away from where Shock was hiding.
As Speed Racer went back to the cage, a yellow blur tripped him up and he ended up on his back.
"Mess with my family, will you." The blur said as it stopped moving.
"Wait-KID FLASH?!" Speed Racer was laughing his head off.
Brian was mad.
"So you lost the coin toss huh? This'll be SO easy."
Brian watched as Speed Racer rushed him at full speed. Brian nailed a punch to the gut that threw Speed Racer back quite a bit.
Speed Racer was mad. He heaved through the pain and created a speed tornado, launching crates at Brian, who just moved out of the way.
"And you call yourself a speedster..." Brian said as Speed Racer kept trying to hit him.
"You're no speedster yourself!"
"At least I was BORN with my powers..." Brian said, his voice showing his contempt for this wannabe.
Speed Racer then ran at him just as the last few crates were launched. As Brian moved to dodge, Speed Racer caught him around the waist and plowed him through a stack of crates.
The sound of the crates falling from their stacked position was enough to wake up little Iesha, and when she saw her brother getting pounded on, she wanted to help.
"Ie, rest. You're too weak."
"I want to help Brian..." Iesha said as she tried to stand up, but her weakened body wouldn't allow it.
"You need to eat..." Wesley whispered to her.
"Meanie Zoom." Iesha said as she pouted.
As Speed Racer got up, he saw that Brian was still moving so he marched over to the cage and reached between the bars to grab Iesha.
"AHHHHHHH." Iesha cried out.
Wes didn't even think about it. He bit Speed Racer's arm….hard.
"AAAAAHHH! YOU SON OF A-!" Speed Racer backhanded Wes away.
"Leave him alone!" Iesha weakly cried out as she TRIED to speed away from Speed Racer.
Luna reached out with her mind and grabbed Speed Racer telekinetically. She tossed him away from the toddlers as Shock caught him in an electrical net.
"KF! GO!" Eclipse cried.
Brian ran to the cage lock and vibrated the lock with his hand until it broke away, and the door swung open.
Iesha moved to her brother but she fell.
Brian scooped her up into his arms and went into his arm storage compartments fishing out an energy bar for his sister.
She weakly smiled as she accepted it. "So paying me back for saving you?"
"Yeah."
Iesha tore that wrapper open in the first second. The 2nd second, she chewed it. By the 3rd second, it was gone. A small rush of energy came to her. And Iesha hugged her brother as tightly as she could, tears falling.
"Hey, you're alright now." Brian said as he hugged her back.
Luna checked on her little brother as Shock launched Speed Racer out of the building after he was done electrocuting him.
"I was scared, Bri."
"I know, sis; but Wes protected you...didn't he?" Brian asked.
"Yeah...Wes!" Iesha tore away from her older brother and went to Wesley and Luna.
Wesley was still out.
"Luna...is he ok?"
"Yeah. He hit his head."
Iesha was mad...she wanted to hurt Speed Racer. She then lay down next to him, and held his hand.
"Bart was right." Brian whispered with a smile.
"Yeah..." Luna whispered.
"We need to move! Flash can only hold Zoom for so long." Shock said urgently.
"Kid Flash to Watchtower."
"Gear here."
"Five for transport to the Med Bay. Need an IV for a speedster and an MRI for a Martian." Brian relayed.
"Message received."
Gear then locked onto the five of them and made a Boom Tube.
Luna picked up her brother and Brian his sister, but Iesha would NOT let go of Wes' hand so Luna and Brian walked side by side.
Shock picked up the rear as they left the building.
While Luna, VJ and Brian were saving the kids, Wally was keeping Zoom busy, but he was taking quite a beating.
"You've NEVER been a match for me, and as soon as my grandson arrives, I'll kill you to set an example." Zoom said as he and Wally stopped running.
"Bart's a good kid, and he'll never work with you just because you hurt his family. That will only STRENGTHEN his will to be a hero." Wally remarked, but his speed was still slower than that of Barry and Bart, but he was still a hero.
Wally swung at Zoom and he dodged it, but the kick got the evil speedster in the neck, sending him back.
"Still so strong...and yet you're the slowest of ALL us speedsters."
Wally waited for Zoom to make the next move, which he did and Wally almost missed it. He caught both fists and pushed back. He was so happy that he had trained in hand to hand with Dick and Roy and learned to catch speedster-style fighting from Conner.
Zoom was surprised. "How..."
Wally refused to respond, keeping a lid on his rage. He and Zoom continued the hand to hand; and Wally's focus had Zoom reeling back.
"Awww, not going to talk since I kidnapped your kids?"
"I want them back," Wally told him in a tight voice and kicked Zoom in the head.
"Then Bart has to surrender to me." Zoom said.
"Not going to happen!" a new voice said.
Bart took out his grandfather's legs from behind and skidded to a stop next to Wally. "Not bad cuz."
"I've still got it." Wally said with a smile.
"You two are DEAD!" Zoom yelled, frustrated as he ran at the pair.
Wally and Bart split and Zoom went right between them, then they took off, and their plan was working.
The two speedsters then changed direction and as Zoom turned around, Wally and Bart gave him a double fist to the gut and he was stopped in his tracks.
As they reached the 'desert' area in the midwestern states of the USA, Wally and Bart were in line and Zoom was closing in. Wally turned and the heroic speedsters started running in a large circle and the result of repeating the circle was burrowing a hole into the ground. Once the three speedsters were encased by the trench, Wally and Bart started to vibrate their molecules and turn the dense sandy walls into glass.
Zoom didn't see the two stop and once he was coming back around, Wally and Bart tripped him...at HIGH VELOCITY. Zoom was skidding around on the glass walls and came to a halt right in front of them. He realized that he was stuck in a tight area, and not even his speed would get him out, so he'd have to result to speed hand to hand combat. He punched at Wally but he moved so fast, attacking him with moves that even the original Batman would be proud to see. Zoom had no idea what was going on and Bart was taking advantage of his grandfather's disorientation.
It was thanks to Dick's training that Bart knew the 'chi' points that would stop some parts of Zooms body...or any body for that matter so he took to taking out Zoom's legs using that.
Zoom was angry that these two were taking him out. "Your little Impulse is MINE, Flash! I'll make sure she's like me."
"She won't change, she's a hero through and through...besides, she's got her mother's stubbornness, you'll NEVER break her." Wally said.
Zoom grinned. "I already did."
"What did you do to her!" Bart harshly asked.
Zoom spit out blood. "Poison..."
Wally's eyes widened in rage.
"Only way she'll survive is to join me….only THEN will I give her the antidote."
Wally sped punched him 10 times in the face.
Zoom was knocked out, and Wally's rage was almost uncontainable.
"It's alright, Wally, we'll get it out of her…I promise." Bart said.
"Let's get him to Watchtower so we can keep an eye on him." Wally said, and with that he grabbed Zoom's right leg then Bart grabbed his left.
"Make a wish?" Bart playfully questioned.
"Oh yea, but let's wait till M'gann gets the antidote formula out of his mind."
"Alright." Bart replied.
Wally activated a boom tube and the two heroes drug the unconscious villain through it.
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Watchtower
The teens arrived and were holding the kids. Some heroes wanted to go 'awww' at the fact that Iesha West and Wes Kent were holding hands. Others wanted to know EXACTLY what happened since they saw Wes' eyes were closed and Iesha's were not.
"What about Speed Racer?" Nightwing II asked.
"Zapped him good, his tech is fried for now." Shock said as the boom tube closed behind him.
"Good...and Zoom?"
"Dad's still fighting him...I hope." Iesha said, never releasing Wes' hand or taking her eyes off of him.
Jason looked to Dick and gave him a look that only a Bat could.
"Ok-"
Artemis and M'gann came running into the area. "Ie!" Artemis cried as both women ran to the kids. Artemis hugged her daughter for all that she was worth. Iesha never let go of Wes' hand and M'gann probed her son's mind.
"Smart move, Wes." M'gann said out loud.
"What? What did double m do?" Jason asked.
"He made Zoom think that he was Iesha's little brother."
The room got quiet. Wesley had done that?!
"We told you guys he was powerful." Conner said; pride lacing his voice in his youngest son.
"And that saved Iesha. Wesley...wake up son..." M'gann coaxed gently.
His eyes opened slowly and when he saw the woman in front of him, Wesley smiled.
"Hi mom."
"Wes, you're alright!" Iesha cried out. Iesha then hugged him, smiling so happily.
"You eat yet?" he asked.
"No."
"Eat. Aunt Artemis, she hasn't eaten in over 14 hours. The food he gave us was laced with some kind of poison." Wesley explained.
"I had a little food that Bri gave me, but I'm still SUPER hungry."
Artemis nodded and pulled out 2 energy bars. Iesha took both and ate then in 3 seconds.
"Ok...Stay with Wes," M'gann said. "We'll get some food for you."
"Cool! M'gann's cooking!" Iesha cried happily. Iesha's smile could have rivaled Joker's right now. She turned to Wes and a question was seen in her eyes.
Wesley nodded. "I was able to filter out the liquid. But you wouldn't have. It was made for speedsters. That's why I didn't want you to eat the food after I found out."
"That was one...but are you okay, Speed Racer hit you hard." Iesha stated.
"Yeah. I'm tough. Just like my dad."
"I guess it's true...ALL Kryptonians have very hard heads." Conner said with a laugh in his voice.
Wesley just smiled proudly.
Just then a small stampede could be heard coming toward the room
"Oh oh..."
"WES...IESHA; you're alright!" One small voice said.
"Hi Rini," both said.
"Did either of you get a good hit in on them?" A little blonde boy asked.
"I bit Speed Racer's arm, but seriously, you've been handing around your uncle too much, Jason."
Jason smiled.
Delta team was around Luna and Brian in a heartbeat, and since Wes as awake, the two members of Alpha put their siblings down.
"So...where's this Zoom? I want to meet him," Rodney asked Wesley.
"Right now he's fighting Uncle Wally; but I'm sure Bart's in the plan as well." Wes remarked.
Kara hugged her brother happily, being careful not to crush him.
Reiena hugged Iesha, but Iesha was sniffing her. "Ie!"
"You had peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches AND you left none for me!" Iesha pouted.
"Sorry," Reiena said sheepishly.
M'gann then returned. "The food's ready."
Iesha ran for the cafeteria. Wesley laughed.
Five Minutes Later
Dick was pacing while Jason kept cocking his gun and both of them were becoming impatient on waiting for Wally and Bart.
It was just then that a boom tube opened and the two speedsters came walking through.
Jason bust out laughing seeing how the unconscious Zoom was returned.
"Damn guys, a little roughed up huh?" Jason asked after he caught his breath.
"Still need to make a wish," Wally told Jason and Dick laughed.
Conner came and grabbed Zoom from the speedsters before they went through with the wish thing and took him to a cell.
"Conner, that's not fair!" Bart half-heartedly protested.
"I think you guys did a good enough job." Conner said with a smile. "Besides, I need MY time with him."
"I want to watch!" Bart yelled and sped off after Superboy.
"Where's M'gann?" Wally asked. "Zoom told us he poisoned my girl."
"No need to worry." M'gann said as she came into the room.
"Why?"
"Wes ate the poison instead of Iesha." Dick remarked with a smile.
Wally sighed in relief.
"Wes overheard him and made sure she didn't touch the food. The poison was designed for a speedster so he was able to filter it out." M'gann explained.
"He really does care about her." Wally said.
"I think that a wedding wasn't far off the mark." M'gann smiled.
It was just then that a familiar woosh was heard and Wally braced himself.
Iesha and Wesley entered the room at that moment and Iesha ran to her dad, feeling much better after eating.
"DADDYDADDYDADDY!"
"Ie...easy, calm down!" Wally warned her happily.
"Did you get him, Uncle Wally?"
"I did, Wesley. And thank you. How'd you convince Zoom that you were my kid?"
"He did what?!" M'gann cried. "Wes?"
"Zoom never knew I was in his mind." Wes said, shrinking back a bit at his mother's voice.
"Wes...you know you're not allowed to do that without me around. However...you did it to protect Iesha. So I'm not mad. But you're powers are evolving and you might someday surpass me," M'gann said with pride.
"Like you surpassed Uncle J'onn?" Wes asked.
"Yes."
Dick and Wally said nothing so the mother and son could talk.
"Mom?"
"Yes Wesley?"
"I think...I can hear adults now. Not just Delta squad or you, dad, Luna and Kevin. Is that bad?"
"No sweetheart, that's a good sign." M'gann said as she picked up Wes.
"Really?"
"Your powers came forth at such an early age, and you needed to grow into them. Soon enough you will learn to fully understand adults." M'gann said.
"I hope so too."
"You'll do Uncle J'onn's mantle proud, Wesley, as well as lead Delta like a natural."
"Wesley? I want you to know something." Wally spoke up. "Can I?" he asked M'gann.
M'gann let her son down and he levitated to Wally.
"Ok...you have my permission, Wes."
"For what?" he asked confused.
"To date Iesha."
"Ew! She's got kooties!" Wesley cried.
The adults then laughed.
"Now you think that, but trust me, your true feelings will find their way to your heart." Wally said with a smile.
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Rini's Home; Three Hours Later
After the ordeal was over with, Rini remembered something.
"Mommy, I want to ask you something…serious." Rini said in her soft voice.
"What is it, sweetie?" Meygan asked her first daughter.
"Can we adopt a white tiger cub?"
Meygan didn't know what to say, what gave her little girl this idea.
"Terry and Dana took me to the zoo for an event so I wouldn't tell you and daddy what happened to Wes and Iesha."
"I see, and you connected with this white tiger cub?"
"Yes, her name is Kiko and she's SOOO nice."
"I'll have to talk to your father about this. You don't want to bring her home…do you?"
"No, she doesn't want to leave her family, she's just 2 months old."
"Okay, well let's talk to daddy and we'll see."
Two Days Later
Kevin, Meygan, Rini and Reilie arrived at the Gotham Zoo.
"Hello, can I help you?" The zoo keeper asked.
"Is Erica working today?" Rini asked.
"She sure is sweetie; let's go to the tiger area." The zoo keeper answered.
It wasn't long before they arrived and Rini smiled as the zoo keeper went over to talk to Erica. Soon enough, Erica walked over to the family and bent down to Rini.
"I remember you; are you here to see Kiko?"
"Actually, we were wondering if we could adopt Kiko and come visit whenever we can." Meygan answered.
"You really bonded with her didn't you?" Erica said as she looked from Meygan to Rini.
"Yes." Rini said with a smile.
"Well we do have a program that allows that. Seeing as you were so cute with Kiko, and she really liked you, I will sign off on this."
"Can we adopt two cubs?" Kevin asked.
"One for each girl, sure that's not problem."
Three Hours Later
'HI KIKO.' Rini mentally said as the family was lead to the tiger cubs.
'RINI!'
'We did it; my family adopted you and your sister.' Rini said.
'Oh wow, thank you.'
'We'll come whenever we can.'
'Okay, I want to be petted, talk to Erica.'
"Erica….can we pet our tiger cubs?" Rini asked.
"Sure; you can show your parents and sister where the petting zoo area is…right?"
Rini smiled and took off with Meygan, Kevin and Reilie not far behind. Once they arrived, Rini was bouncing with excitement and soon enough Erica came out with Kiko and another little white tiger cub and set them down in the area.
Once the cubs were walking around and adapted to the petting zoo field, Erica let the girls in and they went over to their pets.
Two Hours Later
"Alright girls, we have to get home, your grandparents are expecting us for dinner." Meygan said.
"Bye Kiko." Rini said as she headed for her parents."
"So, Reilie have you named Kiko's sister yet?"
"Trinity."
Meygan and Kevin knew there was a reason, which had tears coming to Meygan's eyes, but they didn't say it out loud.
"That's a wonderful name, I'm sure she likes it."
With that, the family headed out.
'I like my name, Erica; and I'm honoring Reilie's family by taking it.' Trinity said to the young Martian in hiding.
'Alright, Trinity it is.' Erica said back mentally.
'Are you planning to tell then who you are?' Felicia asked.
'Someday. Right now, I'm happy just to know that they live.'