Broken Mirror -- A Justice League Story by BillA1
Copyright August 2007
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EPILOGUE
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The day after his confrontation with Shayera in her room, John called a meeting of the other five, without Shayera's knowledge, and demanded that her level of authorization to access any and every League facility and space be set to the same level as the other six. He also wanted security procedures changed so it would take access codes from at least two of the seven to open the private quarters of any of the original members. At the same meeting, Batman insisted a seventh chair be added to the tribunal room. There were no dissenting votes on any of these matters.
Shayera would never forget Carter's loyalty to her during this period. And in the end, she became very proud of the hero he would turn out to be. She made a point of working with him to develop his aerial fighting skills. This training paid off when Carter and Batman took down the super-villain, the Matter Master, after he'd trapped the rest of the League in a hyper-space dimension.
Sadly, Shayera would have to read about this event in the League archives since it would happen thirteen months after she and John Stewart were thrown forward in time by the Toyman and presumed dead. Over coffee, she would later tell Merina, her son Rex's mate, that it was Carter's unrequited and overt love and steadfast belief in her that helped her the most during a very difficult time in her life when she was unable to see that there were others that cared for her as well.
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Dennis Cuvier would continue to work with Dorian on DNA splicing technology for the Government. He never stood trial for his complicity in the thefts. And he never told Kimberly that he was the one who tipped off Waller, who passed the information to Batman, as to her plans the night she was captured. Cuvier and Dorian's work broke new ground when they developed the nanotech solution that allowed for the overwriting of reproductive DNA.
Amanda Waller would later use Cuvier as her point of contact to provide her with the technology for Project Batman Beyond. It would be Cuvier who would actually inject Warren McGinnis with the nanotech technology that would replace Warren's DNA with that of Bruce Wayne. The technology proved successful with the birth of Terry McGinnis.
Cuvier would later marry and have a son named Abel who would inherit his father's notes and science skills. Abel Cuvier would later open the Chimera Institute, which created the teen fad of splicing -- the mixing of animal and human DNA. When District Attorney, Sam Young and his wife, Police Commissioner, Barbara Gordon, launched a campaign to halt the fad, Abel Cuvier attempted to have the couple assassinated. The assassination was prevented by Batman (Terry McGinnis) using the same antidote Bruce Wayne had use on Kimberly Ventris years before.
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Kimberly Ventris was found guilty of grand larceny and attempted murder. She was sentenced to ten years in the Metropolis Women's Detention Center. She spent one year in psychiatric care before being placed in the general prison population to serve the remainder of her sentence.
Bruce Wayne testified at her first parole hearing and she was released contingent upon her accepting a position at Wayne Labs. Kimberly accepted and she assisted that organization in the discovery of twelve patentable technologies over the next twenty years. One of the technologies she would work on would be an improvement to Doctor Abner Carrows' invisible electrified plastic, which her father had stolen decades before. Her improvement would allow for the weaving of the electrified plastic into metal threads, which Bruce Wayne would adapt and use in the Batsuit that would later be worn by Terry McGinnis.
Kimberly Ventris never married and died at the age of fifty-two. She never forgave the Thanagarians for the death of her mother.
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