Chapter 15: Endgame part 2
The Bio-ship hovered by the LexCorp building. Luthor was in his penthouse office with Mercy.
"Do we go in the stealth way or do we go in my way?" Superboy asked.
"Your way, Superboy," said Man Martian.
Luthor watched the count-down on his computer screen. His eyes widened as it went to static.
"Mercy. Time for us to go," said Luthor.
He stood up and walked around the desk. Suddenly Superboy smashed through the window and both Miss Martian and Man Martian came out of camouflage mode beside him.
"Conner! Megan..." said Luthor "What brings you here?"
"You do..." hissed Miss Martian.
She put her fingers to her head and her eyes glowed green.
Luthor suddenly lost his expression and stood in silence. Mercy fired an energy bolt at Miss M. Superboy jumped in the way of it. Man Martian delved into Mercy's mind and easily erased her memory of who the Team and League were. Mercy collapsed as Man Martian sent her into a telepathically induced sleep. Guards ran into the room, the aiming lasers of their arsenal pointing at the 3 heroes. Miss Martian blinked and her eyes returned to normal. Luthor lent against his desk.
"I may not remember who you are! But I can still hurt Project Kr!" Luthor spat.
He pressed a button on his desk and a panel slid away. It revealed a H-U-G-E hunk of Kryptonite! The glow hit Superboy and he collapsed.
"Superboy!" cried Miss Martian.
Man Martian's eyes glowed red and the panel slid back into place and, by using cellularkinesis, it sealed up tight. Dark circles had appeared around Superboy's eyes.
"We need to get him to the Watchtower med-bay!" said Man Martian.
Doublex's warning rang through Superboy's head as he passed out...
Beware the Kryptonite.
Conner woke-up groggily.
"He's awake!" said someone.
Conner opened his eyes and looked around. The Team and Future Team plus Rocket and Zatanna was there. Superman sat on the bed, next to him.
"How are you feeling, Conno?" he asked.
"W-weird," said Conner.
"Okay. There's something I need to tell you guys," said Miranda.
"What is it?" M'gann asked.
"Conner's started to age... physically speaking," said Miranda.
"What? That's not possible," said Conner "I was force grown. A side-affect was that I don't physically age,"
"Conner... your reaction to Kryptonite isn't exactly like Clark's," said Miranda "Your reaction is different because of your human DNA,"
"So... Conner can age now?" said Garfield.
"Very slowly, yes," said Miranda "Practically Martian rate,"
"And we should believe you because...?" asked Wally, sceptically.
"Like I said... my name is Miranda Kent," said Miranda "And in the future me and my brother, Cameron Kent, are Conner's kids!"
The Team and Leaguers stared at her and the rest of the Future Team. They all shrugged.
"Well..." said Will "Wally's found, Conner can now age. I think we've completed our mission, don't you?"
"Definitely," said Izzy.
"Yep," said Lauren.
"Duh," said Miranda.
"Of course," said M'att.
"And it was crash! Totally crash!" said Jared.
"I agree with K.F," said Mary "It was pretty asterous!"
"Did she just say 'asterous'?" asked Wally.
And everyone laughed.
A time-vortex opened up in the briefing room of the Watchtower.
"When, exactly, do we get to see you again?" Zatanna asked.
"Your son is born when you're 26," said Mary.
The Future Team put their masks back on and Will put his hood up.
"What about you, Mary? When are you born?" asked Nightwing.
"When you and you're wife are 23," said the Black Mistress.
"How do we know we won't change anything about the future? We might accidentally break-up with your parent without realizing," said Rocket.
"Just get on with your lives as if you don't know anything about the future," said Speed Arrow.
"But still..." said Nightwing.
"Dude, for all you know Giovanni, as in Zatanna's son, could be my little brother," said Dark Eagle.
"Oh... okay," said Nightwing.
Zatanna took her boyfriend's hand and they smiled at each other. Wally looked at them, one eyebrow raised, then it hit him.
"You 2 are back together?!" he exclaimed.
They both smiled and nodded.
"About time," said Wally "Anyone else back with their ex?"
Conner, M'gann, Kaldur and Raquel raised their hands.
"Whoa. You're presumed dead for one month and you miss a lot," said Wally.
"Kaldur? Raquel? You guys to?" said Conner "Since when?"
Raquel took Kaldur's hand and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Since a few hours ago," said Raquel, happily (she was never this happy when she was with her ex-fiancé).
"We better go," said Robin #5.
"And Nightwing," said K.F "remember in 3 decades to punch Wally in the ribs during that transmission,"
"Oh, like I'd ever forget to punch Wally," said Nightwing and everyone laughed.
"See ya!" the Future Team said.
They waved, Speed Arrow and Dark Eagle took each others hand, and they walked back to the future.
The Team looked at one another.
"Um... Nightwing?" said Static.
"What is it, Virgil?" Nightwing asked.
"Your first name is seriously Dick?" said Static.
"And yours is Tim?" said La'gann to the Boy Wonder.
Both Bats slightly blushed and their girlfriends laughed.
...THE FUTURE...
The time-vortex closed up behind the heroes as they returned home. Dark Eagle and Robin were instantly pulled into a hug by their brother, father and mother (Zatanna was there for support). Speed Arrow, Archeress and Kid Flash were pulled into hugs by Tigress and The Flash. Man Martian and Superwoman was hugged by Miss Martian, Infinite Martian (B'enn Kent), Mini Martian (J'ill Kent), Superman (Conner Kent) and Super-Ace (Cameron Kent). Everyone was beaten up from the super-villain attack.
"What was it like in the past?" an 8-year-old boy said.
He was black with messy brown hair (like Rocket's). He wore a black, short-sleeved, t-shirt. A dark grey, army jacket. Black, cargo, shorts. Black Nike trainers and black lensed, sports shades. Around his waist was a clunky, red, belt.
"Jet-Stream, calm down," said Rocket.
"Sorry, Mom," said Jet-Stream, he took his shades off and blinked his seaweed-green eyes.
"It's okay, Dante," said Rocket, picking the short 8-year-old up and balancing him on her hip.
"That mission was totally crash!" said Kid Flash.
"Kids and their slang," said Nightwing.
"Says the guy who came up with 'asterous'," said Tigress and everyone laughed.
The end! I'll be doing the follow-up stories soon, don't worry. I hope you liked the story! PLEASE REVIEW!