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Batman and Green Lantern were silent. Shayera tried to calm down, as far as she knew she hadn't seen a live Gordanian since she came to earth almost eight years ago. This wasn't the time to start seeing them again. Finally Green Lantern broke the silence.
"That doesn't make any sense. Why would there be Gordanian markings here? According to Carter there were only Thanagarians on earth and all of those artifacts were confined to Egypt." Shayera nodded then took a deep breath.
"It's not an artifact." All three of the people in Carter's office looked at her confused and waiting for an answer, but as Batman looked at the panel in his hand, he knew what was coming. "That's new technology…at the most it's only one or two years old possibly three…but it could have been on earth only for a couple years."
"Or a couple weeks, the technology may be that new but it could have been placed on earth any time in the past couple years…even recently." Batman added.
"So your saying that there could be Gordanians on earth right now?" John asked Batman and Shayera.
"Possibly, but the message on the panel may give us some kind of clue. What did it say Shayera?" Shayera looked at Batman with her usual mask of fake emotions. Though she didn't show it she was scared but most of all worried.
"That's what I'm worried about…It says," She closed her eyes trying to hide the fear in them. Only a couple seconds later when she felt as though it couldn't be seen, she opened her eyes. "Beware the end of all you know."
/JL\
Green Lantern and Shayera Hol followed the Batmobile by air towards Midway Cities main park where Hannah had told them the Gordanian message had been found.
Gordanians were one thing that Shayera couldn't stand. As she flew she stared at the ground and remembered all her encounters with them. She remembered how they had invaded her world over and over again using every chance they got to terrorize her people. They killed men, women, and children leaving blood in the streets. She remembered the devastation she saw when she once came upon a Gordanian massacre. She looked down at the people going to an early day at work. There were young and old couples holding hands, and mothers with their baby cribs. She remembered Hro, when she had helped him escape from the Gordanian prison…the look on his face made her heart break. She turned her head and looked at John who was flying beside her. As she looked at him worried determined face, she thought about all the things the Gordanian's would do to these people how they would put them in their prisons and massacre their cities. As she thought about this she thought about how John's face would look if he was ever put into a Gordanian prison. She shivered and shook it off. She hated Gordanian's. The last thing that kept running through her head was the look on her mother's face every time she brought up……no, she wouldn't go there. She wrapped her arms around herself and tried her hardest to focus. She shook her head. She wouldn't let them do those things to Earth, no matter what she had to do, she wouldn't let them.
"Shayera?" She turned her head to see John still flying beside her. "Are you alright?" She silently nodded, but didn't turn to show her face. Why is he interested in what I'm feeling anyway? She was about to make a comment about it when Batman's voice interrupted their thoughts.
"You need to land near the middle of the park…and be careful my readings say that the tremors are most strong in this area." His voice came strong and clear from the com. links in their ears. Both John and Shayera responded with an "Okay." and headed downward towards the middle of the large grassy field.
As soon as they landed Batman came over to join them. His long black cape dragged against the ground but never made a sound. In his hand he carried a small portable seismograph, invented by Wayne Tech. of course. As he stood next to them he moved the device around determining where the tremors were coming from.
Green Lantern took a whiff of the air expecting to smell the fresh morning air but instead only got an ugly, rotten smell. "What's that smell, it's horrible?"
"Trash, I would expect. Just because Midway City passed a new recycling law doesn't mean everyone's going to follow it. We should be concentrating on this right now." Batman commented and John nodded.
"Hannah said that the place where Carter found the message is marked with a circle of rocks behind a small bush." Green Lantern reminded them as they continued to look around for any sign of a clue. Shayera poke around with her mace for a minute when she spotted a small rounded shape bush, just curved the right way to block the space behind it. She walked over and pushed the bush to the side, revealing a circle of rocks with a dug up spot in the middle.
"I found it. It's over here." Shayera called to the other two and they soon were standing beside her. She leaned over to examine the whole. "It doesn't look to deep, which means it hadn't been here long enough for it to be deep in the ground."
"What does the seismograph say Batman?" Green Lantern asked after he had a look at the whole. Batman walked over to the whole holding the seismograph in his hand, he then turned to face the right and shook his head.
"The source emanating the tremors seems to be only a couple feet away and spreads out in a circle ahead of us. The center of the circle is the exact point where the tremors coming from Midway begin."
"Well, then I guess we should see exactly what's hidden here under the dirt." Green Lantern started to make a green shovel.
At that exact moment Shayera finally recognized the scent. That's not trash…and that's not dirt either!
"John don't-" It was too late the tip of the green shovel of light from the Green Lantern's ring touched the soft dirt. "Everyone get down!" Were the last words Shayera was able to shout out before a large explosion went off throwing the three heroes back.
/JL\
"Shayera?….Shayera!" She groaned and opened her eyes to see John and Batman standing over her.
"Shayera, are you alright?" John asked with a worried expression on his face. She nodded then sat up slowly and shook the fog out of her mind.
"I'm fine. Besides I should be the one asking if your alright, you were nearest to the explosion." She replied curtly.
"Well thanks to you I was able to put a shield up in time, and Batman had his fire proof cape. I was worried, you didn't have anything to protect you from the blast." He replied to her response.
Worried? "Well I'm fine and you?" She asked turning her head towards Batman, he gave a nod in response.
"What was that?" He asked trying to anticipate her answer. She walked up to where Green Lantern had attempted to dig. Shayera crouched down beside the dirt and took one whiff of the area, she soon closed her eyes and turned her head away from the putrid smell.
"Glythophorbic-othem." She replied to them as she turned around to face her comrades. Both of them just stared at her with an eyebrow raised in apprehension waiting for her to explain. She let out an exasperated sigh. "It's an element found and developed on Gordan. The Gordanians normally use it to protect or hide something they don't want anyone to find, but being it lets off too strong of an odor. They are able to lessen the odor enough so that it wouldn't be too easily spotted, but it still smells horrible. It's sensitive to anything but their skin and a few of their planet's own minerals. The one good thing about it though is that it only works together in pockets."
"Pockets? So, there could be regular dirt mixed in with it?" John replied. Shayera nodded.
"That's the only way it wouldn't react to the Earth's dirt."
"Then there is a possible way through it." Batman stated examining the ground.
"Yes…" She sniffed the air again. "But it would be almost impossible."
"Why do you say that?" John asked looked up from the dirt.
"Because, by the smell of it…There's about 400 tons of Glythophorbic-othem right here." All three of them turned to look towards the area where they had first encountered the stuff.
"We need to mark the area. I'm guessing that the seismic circle I detected early could be the area of the element." Batman said as he pulled out the seismograph. "You two will have to mark out the area as I tell it to you." They nodded and soon begun their work.
/JL\
The circle they had just marked out with a small ditch and police tape was about two elephants wide and estimated to be about two elephants deep. Batman looked to the sky the sun was getting brighter, he told the others that he was going to put together a meeting for tonight and left in a rush.
"I'll tell the police commissioner of Midway City about this spot and make sure he keeps the people away from it." Green Lantern told Shayera as they stood at the edge of the circle examining it.
"What I'm wondering is why no one ever stepped on it before we found it."
"Why would they? With this smell who would want to relax at the park." Shayera only gave a "Mm hmm." and crouched next to the ring to take a closer look. She reached her hand over the area as if to touch it.
"What are you doing?!" John grabbed her hand and pulled it back.
"Calm down, John, I won't touch it…not without armor anyway." She said with a smirk.
"Are you crazy you would get blown to pieces!"
"Not with Nth armor I won't. Nth metal is one of the few things that won't make this stuff go off." His face relaxed and his expression turned ot one of apprehension.
"So, you wouldn't get hurt if you had your armor on."
"No, I didn't say that. I said I wouldn't set it off. This stuff reacts to Nth metal differently. It melts the metal like it was acid." He nodded with his eyebrow raised.
"So you would be crazy enough to try and fine the dirt pockets while risking the chance that you would get fried?" She quietly sighed then turned back towards the ring of death.
"I would risk anything to stop whatever Gordanian plot is hidden under that dirt."
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