Nick Chrisler
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS 10 THE NOT FAR FUTURE
Today, I woke up as usual. I had a bed head and I looked lousy, and felt lousy to. I got down stairs and star walked past me with a milk jug but instead of milk there was coffee inside. "Wow…" I started but I got coffee in the face. "Oowwwwww, star! My face!" I said clutching my face. "Oh, sorry" she said with concern. "Well, at least it got you up" red said with his legs crossed and on the table, reading the news paper. "Get me some alcohol now!" I said. Star hands me a bottle of beer but I shove it out of her hands. "Not beer! The alcohol in the medicine cabinet!" I said. "What beer in the medicine cabinet?" star asked. "The black bottle that says 'alcohol' on it!" I yelled. "I told her not to get the coffee in the milk jug, but she didn't listen" red said not looking up from the news paper. "I didn't think I was going to spill it on arsenal!" star yelled. "But you did" red said mockingly. Star slapped him out of his chair and onto the ground. "Say something again and I'll kick your ass!" star threatened. "Ok, geese" red said touching his face. He didn't have his helmet on. Then star handed me the alcohol and I dumped it on my face. It burned but disinfected it. "Looking good Rudolf the red faced reindeer" red said. That raised a fist and he backed off. "Thanks star, I needed that" I said. "Doesn't that burn?" red said. "No worse than a burned face" I said. Star whispered 'geese, I said I was sorry' to herself and red got the paper. "Were on the front page. You want to hear what it says?" red asks. "Sure" I say.
"Local gang called 'the outlaws' were seen by eye witnesses in china a week ago, but not before the huge battle taken there. No one knows how they got there and no one knows how they got out, but we are getting close to their secret identities. By: Nick Chrisler, nightly news paper" then it shows a picture of use together.
"What a load of crap!" star said. "Ya, there too stupid to find out our secret identities. And besides, stars clean because she's an alien. But me and arsenal are screwed" I said. "True, true. But still. We never posed like we were going out a wall before" star said. "I don't know, but you're still good looking in it unlike me. Am I really that fat?" red said. "Yes, your six pack is a lie" I said chuckling. "So, what do we rob now?" star asked. "That's a good question, a McDonalds?" red asked. "Sure, I could go for some fries" I said. "I could go for… everything there" star said. We laughed as we went to the elevator.
"Let's go the long way, I'm in no hurry" red said. "Speak for yourself I'm about to eat these seats" star said. "Here (I gave her some jerky) these will hold you until we get… what the?!" I said as a portal opened right in front of the jeep.
When I blinked we were in this desert. The jeep got stuck in a sand mountain. "Oh, come on!" red said stomping on the gas pedal. "You peace of shit MOVE!" red yelled, scaring star. "Come on. Let's get out of this thing" I said. We hoped out and red said "star, pull this out" "the jeep won't work" star said. "JUST DO IT!" red said. Star grabbed it with one hand and tugged it out of the sand. "Thanks, I'll take it from here" red said pulling out ropes from his trunk and tying them to the end of the jeep and pulling the jeep down this sand road. "Just leave it man" I said. "No" he said still pulling. "How long do you think you can pull that piece of junk through the desert?" I asked. "As long as it takes" red said still pulling. "Come on, just leave it" star said. 'First of all, I could use some support. And second of all, I've had this thing forever" red said. "All right, ill help" star said lifting it up with red still tied to it. "Hey! I'm still on the thing!" red yelled. "Oh, sorry" star said lowering it. "I thought you weren't literally tied to it" star defended. "Gee, that means a lot" red said untying himself. Star lifted it with one hand like before and carried it as we walked.
After 2 hours of walking and walking, we finally sat down against this sand hill. "You know what's the worst thing that's happened?" star asked. "Being stuck in a desert?" I asked. "No, I'm still hungry!" star said holding her stomach. I gave her the rest of my jerky and started climbing the sand hill. When I looked over the hill to my amazement there was a town/city in the sand. "Hey guys! I found a city!" I exclaimed. "Keep your paintys on Nancy, I just got done taking a leak" red said pulling his paints up. Star giggled and glided up beside me.
"Well, what should we do? Waltz right in?" star asked putting an arm on my shoulder. "Or we could steel there gas and bullets and speed away, just sayin'" red said climbing up the hill. "Ok, we don't want trouble right now. I got some cash so let's buy what we need and maybe some better clothes" I said observing our sand covered bodies. "Fine, but I'm still taking beer" red said with his arm crossed.
We walk down the road and the people are giving use the eye. Red flips them off and star kicks him in the ass. "Ok, sorry" red says rubbing his ass but the people are laughing too much to care. Red kicks a bar door open making it break and says "where's my devils cut?" "Shut up red" I say. "Or what? They'll kick my ass?" he says. "Yes, we will" we hear from the corner. Then the man looks up at us and blinks rapidly. "Am I drunker than a skunk or am I seein' what I think I'm seein'" he says. "I don't know, if I kick your head will you see better?" red says. "Yep, I'm not drunk as I thought I was or my illusions wouldn't talk back" he says putting on his helmet. Now red is shaking his head because we are looking at an older, taller, and more muscular red hood. "What the hell!" red screams. "Leave the language at the door wannabe" he says walking up to us. "Who's the wannabe? The only one I see is in front of me" red says. "Owe wow, you are me aren't ya you little shit" he says. The he chuckles deeply. "Are we in some time loop or whatever?" red asks. "Probably just went through a portal" older red says. "How did you know we went through a portal?" red asks. "Its happen to me from time to time, it sucks" red says. "Can you help use?" star asks. "Sure, but now I know I can't break time by seeing my past self" he says. "That's great and all but we need to get home" I say. "Catch" the bartender says throwing the devils cut at red and red catches it without looking. "I remember when I learned to do that" older red says walking out of the bar. We follow him down the road.
Eventually we get to this house just as bad as the rest of them from the outside. "Well, home sweet home" older says walking in. black bat is sitting on the couch watching television on this crappy TV. "Honey, I'm home" older red says. "Where's the bacon?" she asks still watching the old TV. The channels are black and white. "What, honey?" red says with a confused look on his face. Black bat looks over and says "were not keeping them" "I know I'm helping them get back to their time" older red says pouring two glasses of water and grabbing a bottle of mustard from the fridge. "Come and drink up" older red says. "Mustard! How'd you know I love the stuff?" star asks. "I used to be an outlaw right?" older red asks. "So, what's the situation with black cat?" red asks with a confused look on his face. "Married" older red says without looking up. Red passes out on the wooden floor. Older red laughs like it's the funniest thing in the world.
When we got some new clothes and some food, we went out to reds jeep. "Why don't you have the jeep?" red asks. "Blew up" older red says lighting a smoke. "What happened?!" red asks. "It was in the middle of a war, bombs were dropping like oversized raindrops. I tried to get out of there but when I got so near it I could touch it, it light up like Christmas" older red says getting in the driver's seat. "Oh and I forgot to mention. The outlaws are dead and buried. Arrow is doing some work trying to bring down Lex Luther, and star is working for him. This used to be los angelus until Luther rose to power and destroyed the very fabric of what we knew and loved. Eventually we were faced with a question. Do we join the 'government' or join the 'resistance'. Honestly, I didn't and still don't care about either. But star knew that Luther had her sister working for him so she gave in, and that just crumbled out partnership. Arrow joined the resistance but I chose a quiet life" older red explained. "But, what happened to the bat family?" red asks "don't bring them up, don't ask questions" older red explained smoking his cigar. "Where did ya get those cigars?" red asked. "I buy them from street urchins" older red said with a shrug. "Gross! What if they peed on them!" star asks. "Then I smoke them, cigars are hard to come by sweet heart" older red says. "Oh, I almost forgot!" older red says running out to his house. We follow him to his basement and he puts his hand on a scanner and says "I want to kill Justin Bieber" and a door opens and reveals an arsenal that can supply a small army. "Well, take your pick ladies" older red says. "Gee, thanks" red says with a look on his face. "THAT'S COOL!" star says. "Why are you yelling?" I ask star. "Oh sorry, that guy on the keys pressed Caps Lock. Stupid author" star says crossing her arms. We all looked at her with a confused looked on our faces and I grabbed a bow with RPG arrows and a sniper scope on the bow. "So, you're going hunger games?" red asked. "I guess" I say. Then I grab some grenades, a backpack and paint a skull with cross arrows instead of bones on the backpack. Then I fill it with bullets, grenades, water, and jerky. Red only got a bag and put cigarettes in it, or weed, I really don't care.
Once we get on the open road, everything went got quiet. Then older red, ill just call him scar, puts on new divide from linkin park and star sings along to it. This is the first time I heard her sing in the car. I mean, you can hear her sing downstairs when she takes a shower, but never in the car. "How did you do that?" I asked scar. "If your friends with someone long enough, you'll get to know them better. You'll get there" scar told me patting me on my shoulder. He doesn't know his strength because my shoulder felt like a sledge hammer slammed itself onto it. "Ow, sorry" he says with a confused kind of look on his face. "How long till we get to… where are we going?" "We are going to the one place I would love to watch burn like everything else, metropolis." Scar said with a stone cold face.
CHAPTER 2: DESERT STORM
"I always wanted to pop a cap in that guy's skull, why are we going there?" red asked. "Well, Luther has the only tech on the planet to get you back to your time" scar says. "What about Bruce?" red asks. Then scar stomps on the brakes and makes the truck's tiers squeal. "Get out" scar says. "But" star starts. "I said GET OUT NOW!" scar says pushing us out into the desert. "Meet you there" scar says before taking off. "Look what you did!" star says to red. "I'm sorry, I'm not psychic!" red yells back. "He told you to stop talking about batman, but you just couldn't keep quiet could you?" star asked. "Well, I guess not bitch!" red says kicking a small boulder about 1 or 2 feet high, making it roll. Star stomped the ground making a chunk of the earth fly up so she could laser blast it with her laser eyes. I was just standing there like a loner. "Come on love birds, just make up" I say. They both shoot me dirty looks and I back up with my hands raised. "Do you think this is funny?" star asked, her eyes glowing with green energy. "No, I was just…" I start. "No, you were just looking for something to comment on" star says looking angrier. "That's right, hit the bag a little, soften 'im up" red says, punching the air like a boxer. "Owe I'm sorry princess, did I make you say?" star says mocking me. "Ya, now hit him with the big guns" red says. "Your mom fells sorry for you, and I thought I act like a women!" star says. Red raises his hand and go's 'ooooohhhhhh' and says "1, 2, 3 and he's out!" then red and star high five each other. "Are we happy now?" I ask. "Yes, I am" star says punching my arm. Even though she didn't mean to, it felt worse than scar patting my shoulder. There was a purple bruise left over. And we start walking where scar went, following his tire tracks. "He really is your future self" I say. Red shoves me and we all laugh like idiots.
After a while we got really bored. So bored to the point that red and I wanted to see who can put a crack in stone. Why did I so that! We were so bored that we got star to be the referee. Don't ask me how we got her to do it, we just were that bored and we had nothing better to do beside die of dehydration. I broke my pinkie of all things and didn't make a dent in the stone. Red punched it and there was an imprint of his fist in the stone. Then he pulled out his switch blade and marked 'the red hood was here'. Then we walked away with red mocking me the whole time.
CHAPTER 3: LUTHORS CITY
So, after walking, and walking, AND WALKING! We finally got there. One thing led to another and star was carrying red, he says when he kicked the boulder he broke his toe, but I don't think that's why he wanted star to carry him if you catch my drift. When we saw the city's lights flicker, star dropped red as soon as she saw a building. "Hey! That was rude!" red says brushing dirt off himself. "What about your toe?" star asked red, which now was standing. "Owe… well… I guess it healed. He, he" red says. I laughed until I was rolling on the sand and star kicked me, which is like getting kicked by superman. As we walked into the city (I was limping) I see scars beat up truck outside this space-like bar. But before I even commented on it red was already waling in pulling his pistols out with fire in his eyes.
We ran after him into the bar but we were too late. Red and scar were fist fighting and breaking bottles, starting the whole bar to fight one another (I'm pretty sure they just did that for kicks). So star and I walked around the bar fight scene to the other end with no one there and ordered 2 bottles of whisky.
After about an hour of fighting we got a little tired of it, so star scared them all out except me, scar, red, and surprisingly, the bar tender.
"Why did you stop (grunt) (red punched scar) (#comma) the fight?" scar ask star. "Shut up, were still fighting" red says trying to put his switch blade through scars head. "Shut up and listen, we have to get out of here or the cops or whatever gets here. It's only a matter of time" I say. "Excellent point arrow" scar says kicking red off. Then we bolted out the back door leaving a thousand dollars on the counter top and a note that says 'don't tell the cops about us or you'll get a bullet through the head'.
As we walk down the streets of the city, I have to admit how incredible it looks. There are these billboards that are holograms; the streets have lights on the side of the side walk facing the street making it glow green, the buildings are cold and green, and the cars are all black. We don't exactly fit in, but no one cares who the next guy is. "So, this is metropolis" red says. "Yep, the city of devils. Believe it or not, but the good looking places are where the devil hangs out" scar says, taking a swig from the whisky we bought for him and red. "Star, go ahead and scan the area" scar says. "What! Are you crazy? I'll blow our cover!" star says. "No you won't. Taking your top off will blow our cover. Everyone has mutated DNA that makes them fly, so go ahead" scar says. I look up and notice at least 20, maybe 30 people hovering over use talking on their cells or whatever. So grudgingly, star goes up to scan.
Then in less than a minute star comes back down to ask, "What am I looking for?" "You are looking for a solid gold building with a giant L on it" scar says. "We're going to be here for a while right?" I ask red. "Ow, you have NO idea" red says.
After about half an hour of yelling, arguing, confusion, and everything else that makes you want to put a gun to your head, we finally find the building that scar was talking about, the house of Luther. "Ok, here's the plan, divide and defeat or whatever it is. GO!" scar says. "Wait, that doesn't give use a lot of info" I say. "Oh, I'll cause a distraction while you three go in and find a portal maker, this story has gone to long" scar says. Then before we can stop him he goes and starts shooting at the mansion yelling "death to that mother fucka!" then we all ran to this huge vent and crawled in.
"Aw, it smells like reds room!" star says, clutching her nose. "Hey! I don't wanna know what you talk about when I'm not around" red says. Star and I chuckled, and then we look for a light so we can get out. After a while of star complaining and pushing what I think are dust bunnies we finally get to a vent with a large machine that red tells us to go through. When we land the scientist don't notice at first, then after we knock out about 5 or 6 they pull out these rifles that shoot electricity. "Beat em' hard, beat em' fast and whatever you do don't get shocked!" red says pulling out his pistols. "LET'S BUST A CAP!"
Red says shooting at the scientist. "Star, I'll go start the portal…" I start. "Oh no you won't" I hear a cold voice say from behind me. Then the portal machine made contact with this green ray and it blew up like it wasn't even there. "What the…"red starts with a look of despair. "If you wanted to use my technology, you could have asked" Lex Luther says coming from the darkness. "You son of a &!*%!" red says. "Watch your mouth, you're in my house now Jason Todd" Lex says. "Do I look like a give a fuck?" red says holding his pistols up at him. "Go ahead. But ask yourself this, who can build you another portal home?" Lex says with a smirk. "He's right, don't do it red" I say. "Fine (lowers pistols), but don't think I won't kill you in a heartbeat" red says. "I wouldn't have it any other way" Lex says.
Well, for trespassing and just cause we time traveled, we got put in Lexes 'dungeon'. So all we do is look at mold and mushrooms growing under Lexes marvelous mansion. Star keeps trying to kill every guard she see's. Last night, I actually thought she was thinking of killing me in my sleep. I didn't sleep at all that night. You might think its funny, but if you think a hot warrior princess is thinking of killing you in your sleep, you tend to be on edge.
CHAPTER 4: THE GREAT ESCAPE
Now, even red is starting to go coco. I mean, he wasn't always right in the head, but now he keeps talking about some grotesque ways of how to kill Lex. It's really disturbing. "Come on out, you're…" I heard a guard say before star blasted him with her laser blast. "Come on, let's get the fuck out of here" red says pulling out a sharp piece of pipe that resembles a knife. I didn't want to argue so I went along with it. They were killing goons left and right. I was right, that basement do's do things to you. I might be the only sane one; then again, I was crouching holding my knees. Wait?! What the hell am I doing?! I got up and brushed the dirt off my knees. Then I look over at the massacre. There was blood and body parts every were! I got sick in the corner and every time I looked over thinking it would get less gross it just got worse. Red walked up to me, cleaning his knife with his shirt, but it wasn't doing any good because his shirt was soaked in blood. "Sorry you had to see that, I knew that you have a light stomach" red says. Lex walks in with a calm face, then fright and fear in his face. "Hey Lex, like what we did with the place?" red asked. Lex got sick all over the floor. "Owe my god! What in bloody hell is wrong with you?!" Lex asks. "Get us out of here NOW!" red orders.
"You're lucky I didn't haul your sorry asses to the electric chair!" Lex says, leading use to the portal. "Really? I didn't think you wanted anything to do with our existence" red says. "Whatever, I just want you out!" Lex says. Then I see older star fire and black fire! "Who are these wanna bees?" older star asks Luther. "These aren't copycats fire blast, these kids ran into a stray portal" Lex says. Wait a sec; I don't remember telling him anything about that! I grab reds pistol and shoot a fire extinguisher, blinding everyone. I grab star and red and jump through the window, falling 4 feet onto my shoulder and jumping up. "Arrow?! What the hell?!" red asks. "Ya, what's the deal?!" star asks me. "Look, did anyone of you tell him about the stray portal?" I ask. "No" they both say. "Well, who's the only one besides use who knows about the portal?" I ask. "You don't mean…" red starts. "Yes, he has scar" I say. "I was going to say he has mind reading powers, but in that case… holy crap!" red says. Star starts tearing up. "Do you think they hurt him?" star asks. "Probably, I don't know though. We need to hide for a little while until they stop and look for him" I say. They nod and we run. Finally, we find these bars and red kicks them off. Then we slide in and land on this type of mold. We wait for the troops march away and we hear behind use "well, its judgment day" and we turn around to find the one person we never expected to find.
CHAPTER 5: THE CRACK IN THE GLASS
"Is that, are you really..?"I ask. Older red arrow is sitting there with scar. "Yes, well… I'm not red arrow any more, my name is arsenal" arsenal says. "I thought of that name" I say. "Yes you did, you even went along with it for a while correct?" arsenal asks. "Ya, I think" I say. "That's not important. We need to make a plan" scar says. "Ya, what do you propose?" star asks. "First, we need to find a way to bring fear into the hearts of these people. Then, we strike at the authorities, proving they are weaker than use. Then finally, we kill Luther in public" scar says. "Really? Easier said than done" star says with a smirk. "Do you know how long I've been down in this hell eating things that would make your skin revolt and your tongue disappear? 6 years!" arsenal says with a tear in his eyes. "6 fucking years of doing nothing but starve to death! And you don't think I know what I'm talking about?! I know this plan is full proof, ok? Now this plan has some things I'll mention when the time comes, but for now, just trust me, I've been planning this for 8 years now, and I know this will work" arsenal says. We all nod and say "ok" before we look out the window, to see the bat symbol saying 'R.I.P.' in the center. You could see the hate in scars eyes. "He died with use around him, the bat family. He looked up at us with a smile. And then he just past, like he wasn't even there" scar says, "he was the only one who tried to save me, in my time of need he was there going as fast as he can, putting his own life in jeopardy. Just to get me to safety. Then joker blew up that ware house I was In, I was already beaten half to death by his crow bar before batman found me dead" red says. I never knew that about him before, and I thought I knew everything about him. "Well, now you know" red says climbing through the window.
When we reach the power station arsenal grabs scar and talks to him in private. Then scar gives him a thumbs up and runs to the control machine. "What was that about?" I ask arsenal. "You'll find out on the top of the daily planet" arsenal replies. "But…" I start. "No, you'll just have to wait and fight" arsenal says.
The daily planet became a museum dedicated to the 'suffering' Lex Luther endured trying to bring down the god superman. "Come on, no ones in at this hour. Now, what I have planed will be the first crack in Luther's huge glass castle. Then the others will bring down the castle to a large amount of broken glass" arsenal says as we enter the elevator. After about a minute we look through the dense glass at the top of the elevator to look at some shadows through the door we were approaching. "Damn, not now" arsenal says cutting the class silently. Then we climb onto the glass and wait for the two shadows to show themselves. They are death stroke and dead shot.
"Well, they were obviously here, you can tell by the heat signature" death stroke says. "Ya, but they might be around use anywhere, they could be on top of it, they could be under it, they could have just turned it on and hoped out" dead shot says. "Ya, but were getting paid a ton so let's at least look around before the others get to 'em first" death stroke says grabbing something from the ground. Reds knife! "So, this is the red hoods knife, he wouldn't leave it like this. He's here dead shot" death stroke says. Then arsenal jumps onto death stroke, kicking him to the ground. Dead shot try's to shoot him but arsenal is too quick. For who was trapped for 6 years under a mansion, he sure can move. Red, star and I jump down and tackle dead shot before he shot arsenal. Arsenal starts trading punches as we start knocking out dead shot. Then death stroke says to arsenal "do you think you can take him down in one night? Because if you do, I guess ignorance really is bliss" "well, I guess we just have to see" arsenal says right before he tosses death stroke over the building down to the streets below, only, we don't hear a crash and he vanished from the scene. "Will he come back?" I ask. "No, his mission is done. He knows when he's beat" arsenal says. Then the lights flicker slightly then come back on like normal. "Looks like scar did his job" arsenal says. "Come on" then he pulls us to the edge to observe Gotham, but all I saw was a shape of reds helmet with his eyes the only place the blackout didn't hit besides around the helmet shape.
CHAPTER 6: THE REVOLUTION
"Wow, is that…" red starts. "Well, it is call red hood and the outlaws. So I guess you're the symbol" arsenal says. "Well, I like it" star says putting her arm around red. Red laughed and did the same and I went "group hug!" and we chanted 'outlaws, outlaws, outlaws!'
We all meet up in a storage house on the docks. When we got there scar was waiting. "Well, plan 1 executed" scar says. "We know, good job" arsenal response. "Owe ya, after I got threw his army waiting for me, one of them gave me this letter" scar says. "Who was it?" arsenal says, cradling the letter in his hands. "I don't know, some ninja guy" scar says blowing a perfect smoke ring. "Well, what does it say?" I ask. "Here, look" arsenal says passing it to me.
Dear outlaws,
I am a friend you know but I must keep my identity a secret to protect myself. When I saw you, I knew I had to help. You will find me when the moments right. But by judging arsenal, probably at plan 2 or 3.
From: Mr. Mystery
"Well, that was… that took some time" star says with a confused look on her face. "This mystery person is apparently an 'ally', so let's keep an eye out for this dude, but I have a suspicion" arsenal says. "What?" I ask. "That's my thoughts your thinking of reading, watch it bub" arsenal warned me. "So dip sticks, what's plan numero 2?" red asks. "Plan 1 was just to show we exist. Plan 2 is to show we should be feared" arsenal says. "Ya, but for now, let's rest. I'll take first watch" scar insists. And before he even finishes his sentence we are all out like a light.
In the middle of the night something woke me up. I look around just to find 3 sleeping num skulls, and scar looking outside through a crack. I turn and star is whimpering, then she wakes to. "Hey, are you ok?" I whisper. "Uh… what? Oh ya, I'm ok I guess. Just a bad dream, that's all" star says. I look at her in my 'don't bullshit a bullshiter' look and she takes a deep breath and says "I dreamed you died, ok?" I stay silent because there is no response to that. "Hey, it was just a dream, right?" I ask. "Ya, I guess" star shrugged. As I go to turn around star grabs my arm and whispers "wait, hold me" and she falls asleep in my arms.
When we wake red, scar, and arsenal were staring at use. "Hey lovebirds" red says with a smile. "Hey red, where's your helmet?" star asks, still in my arms. When we both realize this we separate immediately. "Thanks" star says with her arms crossed. "No problem" I stutter, still cold from the freezing concrete we slept on. "Come on guys, we need to start plan 2" arsenal says. "What's the rush?" I ask. "After a night having 5 people who sent the city into chaos, I don't think they want to wait to find use for 'public' execution" arsenal says. "Let them go ahead and try" red says smoking some of scars cigarettes. "Hey you little snot! That's my cigs! Get your own" scar says to red. "Make me" red says running out the door, but almost instantly we hear red say "uh owe" and we bolt out armed and ready. We were completely surrounded by super villains, bounty hunters, ect. Red lifts up his pistol and says "the world's goanna lose some legends" then shoots rapidly, and as soon as the first shot was fired there was an atom bomb like frenzy. There were so many people around use I couldn't see a way out. Red was knocking out five people with one kick, star was blasting people left and right, scar was knocking out people with punches, and arsenal and I were using our bows for shooting, and for knocking out assassins. Finally, after about 2 or 3 minutes of fighting, we were surrounded in a circle. "Give up, 'outlaws'. We have you surrounded. You have absolutely no chance of escape" dead shot says. "Not just yet assassins" I hear from above. It was night wing with a red symbol. "Didn't he try to kill you in a crazy way?" I ask scar. "Look, I dis-honored the bat symbol, but that's water under the bridge" scar says. Then I see bat girl, bat woman, robin, red robin, and a batman in an all black suit with a red bat symbol. "Ready for war?" night wing asks the crowd of assassins. "You bet!" dead shot yells back. Then the bat family jumps down throwing baterangs and kicking heads. This was no contest, with the whole bat family on our side, they have no chance. And the grantee sticker on the package was the justice league (superman, wonder woman, cyborg, aqua man, and the flash) and the titans started coming down to. When it was all over, arsenal says "well, not how plan 2 was suppose to go, but I'm not picky" then we all hear clapping behind use and find Luther. "Somehow I knew you would beat my pawns" Luther says. "Luther, we're taking you out for good this time" arsenal says pointing at Luther. "Aw, you think you're up to my level? I assure you, that you're not fit enough to like the dirt from my boots" Luther scoffs. "Any other things you'd like to mention before I put a bullet in your head?" scar asks. "One more thing, come on out the Luther army!" Luther orders, still having his arms crossed behind his back.
Then green lantern, black fire, cat woman, an army of Lex-bots, and… fire blast?! (Future star fire, in case you're lost). Why is she here? I mean, I saw her earlier working for Lex, but I didn't think she would fight use. I thought she was the one who wrote the mystery letter. But that doesn't matter now. "No matter who you have on your team, we will still bring you to your knees. It's just one way, or the other" arsenal says, slipping his arrow onto the string. "Let's start, shall we?" Lex says. "GO!" arsenal says. And we all start running to Lexes 'army' with no intention of killing, but maybe crippling them or a coma or 2. I was blowing up Lex-bots with my bomb-arrows. Then I look over at the lightning storm starting. But the only things I see is dark clouds shooting lighting in warning at arsenal, fire blast, and scar standing in a triangle. Watching the rain showering down over use, the rain dripping from there stone cold faces. Then arsenal says "you know, this ends now" "yes" scar says. "Indeed" fire blast says. None of them look at each other in the eye, yet they couldn't fight each other, after all the stuff they went through. After all, they were us. "What are you doing blast?! I order you to kill these slobs!" Luther commands. "No" she says with glowing green eyes. Then black fire comes next to Luther and says to blast "oh, enough of this bullshit!" and fires a black kill blow, but instead of hitting blast, she shoots it at arsenal. "Well, not how I pictured my death" arsenal says falling. "NO!" blast yells catching arsenal. "It's going to be ok, arsenal" blast says. "Just call me arrow star" he says with a smirk, and in the blink of an eye, he's gone. Blast bursts out crying. But I look around and no one is fighting, no one is moving, not even the citizens. "Why did you have to be a soldier arrow" scar says with a tear in his eye. "Ha ha! Finally that bitch dies!" Luther says. Then star looks at him with such hatred, it would scare batman. "You think this is funny?" she asks him. "Yes I do…" Luther says before taking a bolt of death from black fire. "Shut up" black fire says.
When we look at the portal to our time, we don't look at each other. When we get back, I could only hope that things get back to normal. But deep down, we know that we can never be the same. Not now, not ever.