Chapter 7 New Ally
Gotham City 10:00 pm EST
A black Cadillac sped down the street, trying to ditch an unknown chaser.
"Hurry! He's gaining on us!" The first goon, dressed in a black turtleneck, dark grey cargo pants, and black combat boots, shouted to the driver. Artemis was sitting next to him, with her hands tied behind her back. Duck tape covered her mouth, and her legs were tied together. A second goon, who held a Tommy gun, sat on the other side of her, wearing a pixie cap, navy blue pants, a dark grey turtleneck, and black combat boots. A third and final goon sat in the passengers seat, wearing a black ski-mask, a navy blue turtleneck, dark grey cargo pants, and black combat boots. Now the first goon was thin, but looked healthy enough. The second goon looked stronger, like he was the muscle. The third goon was somewhere in between, and looked like a lieutenant. He had a gruff, military manner about him. And then there was the driver. None other than Aaron Haverage. Artemis eyes widened.
Suddenly, a large, trans-green roadblock landed in front the car. Artemis' scared expression turned into a smirk. The group heard a muffled "You are so dead" and gulped.
The construct's owner then floated down in front of the car. He looked about Wally's age, with spiky black hair. His uniform was mostly black, with a white, upside-down triangle at the top, and a green lantern symbol in the middle. His gloves were white, and his boots were green. On his face was a domino mask, with the "eyebrows" raised. The Green Lantern smirked.
"Hi there!" He said. The goon in the passenger seat put his hand and head out the window and started shooting at the hero. The Lantern flew out of the way, the roadblock returning to his ring. The car drove off once again. Haverage said, "Good work Crosby."
Crosby nodded in response. The car jerked as it was picked up from behind. Holding the car in the air, Green Lantern smirked at himself. He flew around to the front of the car and began to speak.
"Now then. Are you guys gonna come quietly?" Fat chance. Everyone rushed out the car, which thankfully wasn't high up, and landed on the street. Goon Two was holding Artemis. Goon One attempted to run, but was punched in the back by a construct. He went straight through the front window of a flower shop. Goon Two threw Artemis to the ground, picked up his Tommy gun, and fired at the Green Lantern. GL made a fist with his ring, and sent it flying at the goon. Goon Two was hit hard, And fell backwards with a thud.
Crosby and Haverage then dashed towards the escaping Artemis. Haverage managed to catch the girl, and drug her with chloroform. As Artemis fell limp in his arms, he yelled to Crosby, "Come on!" and dragged her off. The Lantern yelled, "NO!" and proceeded to knock out Crosby, and corner Haverage. Haverage then threw a smoke pellet at the Lantern. As the smoke rose, Green Lantern starting gagging. He dropped to his knees, and everything went dark.
He woke up in some sort of cave. He sat up from the bed he was apparently on, and looked around.
"Um, where the heck am I?" He asked more to himself than anyone else, because he was the only one in the room. Or so he thought.
"You're at Mount Justice." A dark figure moved towards him. Batman. "Welcome Mister Rayner."
"Um, excuse me? First, how did I get here? And second, how do you know my name?" Kyle asked confused.
"First, I brought you here. I found you passed out in an alleyway near one of our Zeta Tubes. And second, I'm Batman." Batman answered. "I've been monitoring you for sometime now. You could be a great edition to our special Team."
"I don't want to join the Justice League. No offense, but I work better alone." Kyle replied.
"Sure you do." Batman walked closer towards Kyle until he was right in front of him.
"You let a criminal get away tonight."
"But I did bag three of- wait, you were WATCHING me!?" Kyle's eyes went wide with shock. "You could've stopped him!"
"The girl that was in 'trouble' is part of an undercover investigation initiated by the Justice League. She's part of our special Team. She can handle herself" Batman said, nonchalantly. "Besides, I waned to see how you work. Either way, we need you." He presented his hand. "What do you say?"
Kyle shook Batman's hand. "Okay, but only as a reserve. I don't want to be a full time member of any team. Just to be clear."
Batman nodded. "You're coming back to the Batcave with me. I'm going to debrief you on the Team's current mission."
"And 'The Team' is?" Kyle asked.
"You'll find out soon enough."
Zatanna's psyche unknown time and time zone
That laugh. Zatanna hated that laugh. She loathed that laugh. That mocking, maniacal, scarily joyful laugh. The laugh of a villain that, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't defeat. Zatanna had lost the helmet by now, and had obtained a utility belt somehow. The problem was, she couldn't use it. Her birdirangs, bolas, and tasers kept missing. She couldn't fight hand to hand with him, she couldn't even kick him. So whenever Scarecrow laughed, she wanted to kill him so bad it was villainous.
What made it worse, was whenever she missed him, he'd hit her. Twice. She couldn't ward him off. She down to her last birdirang. Fortunately for her, it could explode. She primed the detonator, and flung at Scarecrow. When it was close enough, it exploded, knocking Crane out. The utility belt disappeared, and was replaced with a bow and a quiver housing several arrows. Crud. Zatanna sighed, she had seen Artemis use these before. Should be a piece of cake. Should be. She missed every four out of five shots. But when she did hit, she hit hard. Notching a Boxing Glove Arrow in her bow, Zee waited for Scarecrow to dash at her. Instead, he vanished. When Zee lowered the bow in shock, she grabbed from behind. Kicking and screaming, Zee could feel everything turning black.
She woke up, gasping for air. She looked around, and remembered where she was. Zatanna silently cried, wanting for this ordeal to be over.
Wayne Manor 1:00 am EST
Robin was in his room, on his laptop, doing more research. Both Bruce and Alfred had ordered him to bed already, but Robin couldn't sleep. His research was important. He had to complete the mission. To him, it was taking too long. He couldn't let himself relax. He wanted to be sure the girls were safe. And that couldn't happen until The Team rescued them. Robin looked at the clock. It read 1:00 am. Robin sighed, and finally decided to get some rest. But even in his dreams, he would keep on searching for his teammates.
"Don't worry Zee," He mumbled. "I haven't given up. Not yet."
North Gotham Clinic building 1:00 am EST
Sportsmaster was beating the snot out of Haverage.
"MY DAUGHTER!? Are you INSANE!?" He shouted. Scarecrow had already strapped Artemis into a bed, and had hooked her up to a machine that was "feeding" her fear gas. Sportsmaster whipped his head towards Scarecrow so fast his neck could've snapped.
"If you want me to go along with this, you have to double my payment."
"Money, money! Always money! Don't we ever want anything else? I think that requires, psychiatric study." Scarecrow said.
"You are not coming anywhere near my brain." Secret Soldier said.
"Shut up!" Sportsmaster said to his partner. He then walked up to Scarecrow. "Double my pay, or else next time Ra's assigns us a mission regarding you, we won't be protecting you," He leaned closer towards Scarecrow. "We'll be killing you."
"Point made. I will rearrange the payments. But, my missions for you continue. Haverage," The man looked up. "Tell your men to hunt down the Team, and bring them to me!"
"Yes sir."
A/N: Hello! So here's the Team's new friend! Now I don't know a LOT about Kyle, so I made it that he lives in Gotham, and is Wally's age. No biggie I hope. You won't see him get debriefed by the Batman, but he will help the Team kick some butt! Also, the Team won't get captured(the whole Team at least), but they will face some danger from Haverage's(or perhaps Scarecrow's) goons. Either way, Read and Review! Until next time!