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Clash of the Heroes

Chapter 4: Fated Meeting

Wally scowled, "How do you not know? I thought you're supposed to be like a genius or something."

Batman glared at Wally again then spoke up, "Hey you."

Scott looked up, holding Emma's head and shoulders in his arm. He didn't speak.

"Um," Wally attempted, "I really didn't mean to hurt you or her. I thought it was some kind of device you were just wearing so I was just going to remove it."

"Who are you?" Scott finally asked.

"I think I should be asking you who you are since you're on my property."

Scott finally started to look around and realized he had absolutely no idea where they were or how they had gotten there. He looked down at Emma. She had changed back to her normal form; obviously she could only hold the diamond skin as long as she was conscious, same as her telepathy ability. Her head was bleeding pretty badly and he didn't like that. Scott hoisted her into his arms and stood.

"How did you get here?"

Scott stared at the guy in the gray and black spandex suit wondering what his next move should be. Emma needed help and he didn't know where he was or what he should do.

"If you give her medical treatment I'll tell you."

Wally turned to look at Bruce as Scott repositioned Emma in his arms.

"Flash go take her upstairs, have Alfred tend to her wounds. And please guard her. Don't let her escape and don't leave her alone."

Flash appeared by Scott's side simultaneously as Batman stopped speaking. Scott took an involuntary step backwards, surprised by the quickness of this guy. He was just like Quicksilver and that left a slightly unpleasant taste in his mouth.

Flash held out his arms, "I'll take her. I promise I won't hurt her."

Scott shook his head, "No way, I'm not letting you take her anywhere alone. I'll take her. As long as I can see that she's fine I'll talk to you guys."

Batman and Scott stared each other down for what seemed an eternity then Batman motioned his head for Scott to give the girl to Flash. Scott reluctantly surrendered Emma into Wally's arms and then the Flash was gone.

Batman took a few steps forward, "Follow me upstairs. We'll talk and you can see your companion."

Scott hesitated for only a moment before he fell in step behind this man he had never previously met or seen. And for the strangest reason he felt nothing odd by it, he was absolutely content, something he had not felt since Jean's disappearance the year before.

._._._._.

Green Lantern looked down at his intercom watch meeting Hawkgirl's unpleasant scowl, "I thought I told you to get up here as soon as possible!"

John sighed deeply. Why did women not understand that you can't just snap your fingers and expect whatever you asked for or want to appear just like that? And Hawkgirl was definitely not just any woman. She was loud, bossy, demanding, and it was pretty hard to keep up with that. John couldn't just drop all his responsibilities and come at her beck and call.

"I understand there's a situation up there, but there's one down here too. I can't just ignore a problem right in front of my face, can I? I'll come as soon as possible. What about Batman and Wonder Woman?" John replied as he flew to the side, narrowly missing a side swipe by the fifty foot monster attacking.

"No one has come up here since we called you all."

"Well then I guess everyone is having some problems right now. Why don't you guys come down here? I'm sure it would be a lot easier for us."

"He's a teleporter, the second he's on the ground he'll be able to go anywhere he wants. We'll wait here for you, come soon," Hawkgirl explained.

"Got it," John replied and quickly turned the intercom off and gave his attention back to the enemy.

Where, why, and how all these crazy guys came from he had no idea but he knew it was his job to help them out. And by help them out, he meant beat the living daylights out of them. He raised his right hand aiming his Corps ring at the giant monster when he was smacked to the side with a swiping hand. He landed hard on his stomach and looked around in surprise. He hadn't even seen the monster attack him. That's what happens when you get sidetracked. John quickly regained his bearings and made a huge hammer like object and aimed at the monster. Unfortunately the monster was onto him at that moment and tried to smack him again. The Green Lantern quickly dodged and watched the people around start to run for cover. He had to make sure this stupid monster didn't hurt any of the civilians or there would be hell to pay, especially since this was Superman's home town. John materialized the hammer once again, which he directly smacked at the monster's head.

Finally making contact, the monster stumbled to the left knocking into the skyscraper. It smashed into the building hard and granite, glass, plasters, and whatever else went into constructing it tumbled downwards. John watched the rubble shoot down to the ground hoping all the people had been able to get away. No such luck, he saw a woman standing right underneath looking totally surprised. Not that the expression was a shock to him because people were always confused when they saw these terrible monsters or saw the Justice League battling; it just irked him that they never thought to move or run. This was not good. Green Lantern dove downward towards the woman.

._._._._.

Logan fell and landed straight on his face. He felt his nose crack and felt the blood start to gush from the new injury. The man groaned unpleasantly and started to get up just to be slammed back down into the concrete. He wiped at his face and gave whatever was on top of him a hard shove and heard a startled yelp as the person tumbled off of him.

"Bobby," Logan growled angrily.

Bobby looked wide eyed up at Logan as he stood, stuttering, "It wasn't me I swear!"

Logan glanced up just in time to see Storm falling, probably the way they just had. He jumped up slightly and caught the woman cradling her comfortably in his arms.

"Logan!" Bobby, still sitting on the ground, yelled panicky while point behind the older man.

Logan turned just in time to see a large truck turning the corner hurtling down the road straight towards them. He pushed Storm into his right arm, grabbed Bobby by the collar of his T-shirt and jumped over the metal side railing just avoiding the truck.

Unfortunately he hadn't looked where he jumped and the trio started to roll down the side of a steep cliff. It was rocky, hard, with a few small trees and roots sticking out. Logan lost hold of both his companions. At first he tried to grab a root but it easily pulled out and he scraped his hand on the sharp sides. The mutant let his steel claws out and dug them straight into the side of the rock which immediately stopped his venture downward.

Bobby tried to grab hold of a bush, then a root, even a tree branch but he was going too fast and all he managed to do was scratch his hands and not slow his momentum at all. It wasn't exactly the easiest of circumstances to try and use his ice ability when you were rolling down a cliff thirty miles per hour but he had just freed his hands from continuously tumbling under his body when he saw Storm rolling down a little above him. He shot the ice under her and was relieved to see it catch her and stop her descent down. Then a moment later he didn't feel the smack and pound of the rocks against his back, shoulders, and skull anymore. He'd never gone skydiving or bungee jumping, but he imagined it felt like this freefall experience that was occurring right now. Red flags started to go off in his head. Something wasn't right, he shifted his body and saw the Earth speeding up towards him, and then he encased his body in its usual sheet of ice when he was fighting or expecting an extremely harsh blow. The teenage boy put his arms out pouring the ice out of his hands in an attempt to lessen the impact. Unfortunately he hadn't had enough time to prepare and felt his head crack deafeningly against where it landed on the ground and that was the last thing he remembered.

A car containing two passengers screeched to a halt. The man's hands were clutched so tightly to the wheel that the knuckles were well past white. He slowly turned his head to the woman sitting next to him wondering if she had seen the same exact thing he had. The woman with equal stillness turned her head to her husband's, her eyes as wide as a deer's in headlights.

She gulped a few times making odd noises before she could put the coherent words together to speak correctly; "Did that boy just…?"

"Fall from the cliff? Yeah."

"And did he just…?"

"Turn into ice? Yeah."

"What should we do?"

The man fumbled with his seatbelt for a moment, "We need to go out there and make sure that he's ok."

He finally got the seatbelt unhooked and opened his car door. He hesitated for a moment but then got out and started to walk forward. The woman quickly followed suit and took a few quick steps to reach her husband then fell in step next to him.

The man kneeled down by the boy and saw he was no longer ice, but there was ice on the road all around him. He felt for the boy's pulse and found it thready and quick. The boy didn't seem to have any major wounds besides cuts and scrapes but he was definitely out cold, literarily.

"We should probably take him to the emergency room right away," the woman stated.

The man nodded and pulled the boy into his arms while the woman cradled his head to prevent any further injuries to the area. The couple hoisted the boy into their backseat and headed down the road towards the nearest hospital.

Logan looked around bewildered for a moment and then called out, "Bobby! Ororo!"

He heard nothing in reply and that made him nervous. The X-soldier, pulled out his left hand and placed it lower, then jabbed it into the bedside again. Then he pulled out the right hand, lowered it, and jabbed it into the rock side. He followed this rhythm for a few moments before he heard a groan. Wolverine glanced over his shoulder and saw Storm cradled in a bed of ice just below him. Logan moved the rest of the way down to the ice ledge and tentatively stepped on it. Seemed like it would hold for a little while longer, even though the day was hot and he could already see it starting to melt. Logan looked around for Bobby. Where was the kid?

"Bobby!" Logan yelled again. Still no answer. He was starting to get a little anxious. The kid could handle himself just fine, couldn't he? Logan looked up and saw nothing. He glanced down and noticed a sheet of ice on the road below and… was that a car stopped? Wolverine gauged the distance from where they were and the ground below. He couldn't make it without busting something and having to wait for it to heal. Then the car drove off. Logan turned his head towards the sky, so back up it was then? And then they'd have to go all the way around to get to the bottom. Not such great options.

Suddenly Storm started to stir. Logan leaned down on one knee and pulled her into a sitting position. She had some scratches but other than that there seemed to be no other injuries. Her eyes fluttered open slowly.

"Storm?"

She blinked, "What happened?"

Logan shrugged and let her go, "I have no idea how we got here or why but we need to get down from this spot, now."

Storm then started to take in her surroundings and realized they were on an ice ledge above a cliff; she stood a little wobbly. Winds started to blow lightly around them and two minutes later they were on the road below.

"Where's Bobby?" Storm wondered as she looked at the ice on the ground around them. Something then flashed in her eyes, "He didn't fall down here did he?"

Logan looked away, "I don't know… I think so. Everything happened so fast. One minute we were in the danger room the next minute we fell in the middle of a road and a truck was coming, I pushed us all to the side and it was all down hill from there."

"We've got to find him!" even as Storm said this Logan was already using his nose to sniff out the circumstances of the situation.

"Looks like a car picked him up."

"Where are they headed?"

"I don't know but we're going to find out, come on."

Logan started running down the road with Storm following close behind. They were going to find Bobby and make sure he was ok no matter what.