Part 15
"Dinah! What are you doing?" exclaimed Mia. She couldn't believe that Dinah had gone behind their backs and warned the others that they were coming to stop them.
"What am I doing?" exclaimed Dinah. "I think it's pretty clear what I'm doing. I'm bringing criminals to justice." She was sick and tired of these criminals time and time again getting out of prison only to be put right back in after they committed yet again another crime. Enough was enough. Too many people have died. Something had to be done. They could not allow more innocent people to die at the hands of theses. "I'm standing here with my friends. Our team members, our leader!" She locked her eyes hard on Oliver. "That was something you used to understand. Now look at you standing with the same murderous freaks you helped put away," she announced disgusted that Oliver of all people was the one standing in their way.
"Don't you do all high and mighty to me about justice. This has nothing to do with justice and you know it!" exclaimed Oliver. What they were planning on doing had very little to do with justice. This was something else. Something darker and more deadly. This was vengeance. This was fear. This was wrong. Oliver approached Clark, he knew his friends heart was in the right place. He knew Clark was trying to prevent another Metropolis and felt the only way to do that was to take the law into his own hands. "Clark, please... Deep down you know this is wrong. Whatever happened to finding the good even in the darkest of souls?"
"Finding the good," exclaimed Andrea almost mockingly as she stepped forward her eyes narrowing in on Oliver. "That's got to be the biggest load of crap I've heard all day, if you think you can find even a sliver of good in these monsters then you're in the wrong line of work," she proclaimed. "Maybe you should go back to stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, Robin Hood!"
"Shut up! I wasn't talking to you," exclaimed Oliver not likening her tone. "I know you're the one who talked him into this. Clark would have have never thought of this on his own." He got into Andrea's face staring into her dark brown eyes. "What he wouldn't be your little lapdog all those years ago, so then you go to him when he vulnerable and plant ides in his head." Oliver continued to stare into her. He didn't like her one bit and for good reason. "You swoop on in, say you're coming to his rescue and want to help, but really you just want to get into his pants and become the super powered couple, taking the law and everything into your own hands?" Oliver wanted something more than to rip her apart and if it weren't for her have super powers he probably would have. "You think you can replace her!" he exclaimed loudly. He got right into her face his hot breath breathing into her. "You'll never be even half the woman she was."
"Oliver that's enough!" exclaimed Clark as he shoved Oliver away from Andrea knocking him to the ground. He was not about to let Oliver talk to their newest member that way. Andrea deserved the same respect as everyone else.
Oliver unharmed from the shove quickly got to his feet and faced Clark once again. "Clark what the hell are you doing? This isn't you. This isn't how you work." He eyed Andrea angrily. "She kills her enemies."
"I thought this is what you wanted? When we first meant you're the one who got on my case that I wasn't doing enough, now you're saying I'm doing too much?" exclaimed Clark angrily. How dare Oliver get on his case when he was the one who had always asked him why Lex was still breathing Now he's angry that he has taken a more proactive role in stopping crime and violence and allowed a hero that has actually killed those who have harmed others onto their team."You think these murderers, these monsters deserve a second chance?" He looked Oliver hard in the eyes. "You think good still exist in them?"
"It doesn't matter what I think," Oliver sighed heavily. It was never a question of whether he thought any of them deserved mercy, another chance. "But you were the one that taught me to never give up on anyone, no matter who they are, no matter what they've done. That good exist in us all. To never give up hoping, because he when at our worst everyone deserves their chance at redemption." He had to get through to him. He had to make him see again. He needed his old friend back. "You saved me Clark. You brought me out of the darkness..."
"Not everyone is worth saving," answered Clark with a faint smile. "I was a fool to think otherwise and I paid for it." What he loved most in the world had been taken from him all because he was naive to believe that people could change. "I wont make that mistake again."
"Clark..." Oliver painfully tried to think of what he could say to get through to him, but what else could he say. Clark blamed himself for what happened in Metropolis, he blamed himself for Lois and the babies death. He's been blaming himself for years for things he deemed himself responsible for, things that had been the result of choices he had made and for things that had been out of his control. Now he was looking for a way to control everything and everyone. It was the only way he saw how he could keep everyone safe. Keep earth from becoming another Krypton.
"Oliver," Clark sighed heavily he knew Oliver was only trying to look out for him, but no matter how good of a friend Oliver is. He could never begin to understand what it feels like to be him. To have these powers and never feel in control. To have people die on his watch and always have people questioning why he didn't save their loved ones? It took having to lose Metropolis, Lois and his unborn child, for him to know just what their pain was. And he vowed that he would never let that happen again. "I'm not going to tell you to step aside. You were never one to take orders well, but you're not going to stop us from doing this."
"Clark you've faced a devastating loss. You're hurting. You're in pain. And the last place you should be right now is here," said Oliver. "You shouldn't be in here with them."
"Oh come now, Mr. Queen," exclaimed a voice locked in one of the cells. Both Oliver and Clark turned their head towards a cell that was holding former district attorney Ray Sacks who had been locked up on Strykers Island for almost ten years after his second attempt on Lois Lanes life. "Mr. Kent, has every right to be here, since he is now one of us," he smirked that evil cunning grin of his. "I wonder how Mrs. Lane would feel knowing her hero has blood on his hands." Sacks kept his taunting eyes locked on Clark. "It a shame you killed Schott, I would have loved to thank him, Lane had been a thorn in my ass for a long time." Then he widen his eyes as his grin grew bigger.. "...Or should I be thanking you? You were the one who killed her, right?" He didn't have to be a physic to know the truth. He could see it written all over Clarks face.
"SHUT UP! You piece of shit!" exclaimed Oliver.
"You see before Schotts was released he told me his plans for you. Said it would take some time, but that you would pay." Sacks knew he was pushing the right buttons. He knew he could make Superman aka Clark Kent brake.. "Soon the world will know I was right about you. That you're just as much a monster as those you have captured."
"Cyborg," exclaimed Andrea having heard enough out of Ray Sacks for one day. "Are you patched in?"
"Yeah, I have full control of Strykers Island," Cyborg annouched.
"Open door, number eighty-three," exclaimed Andrea.
"With pleasure!" answered Cyborg who back as a high school student remembered Ray Sacks dirty tactics and wanted nothing more than for this man to pay for every dirty deals he had ever made.
Within seconds Ray Sack prison door open, "You going to kill me?" Ray Sacks taunted at Clark. "We both know I would have killed her hadn't you come to her rescue, especially that second time. I would have made sure no trace of her body would ever had been found."
Clark's eyes glowed brightly as he stepped forward locking his eyes with the man who had tried to kill Lois. He wanted nothing more than to see him dead. He wanted to rip him apart and watch him burn. He wanted to hear him beg for mercy. 'Come one kill me' he heard Sacks say over and over.
"We'll be in touch," Clark hissed as a devious smile crept onto his face. Then a blur of red and yellow zipped on by swooping Sacks up and disappeared in a bleak of an eye.
What the hell? Oliver eyes widen. Then he knew what had happened. "Impulse!" He turned to Clark. "Where is he taking him?" exclaimed Oliver.
"Does it matter?" exclaimed Clark as he turned to face Oliver.
"What the hell do you plan on doing with him Clark?" exclaimed Oliver. "Sacks has no superpowers. He's a harmless."
"That didn't stop him from trying to kill Lois or the dirty deals he made, the people he blackmailed."
"So it's about vengeance?" There was no other reason Clark could have for wanting to move Sacks to another location. Sacks was personal to Clark. He wanted to make him pay for what he had tried to do to Lois. "
"It's justice!" Clark turned to Cyborg. "Open cell eighty-six,"
"What's going on?" exclaimed the criminal. "Where''d he go." His eyes then fell onto Cyborgs who was looking right at him. "No, I'm happy here. I promise I'll be good." Within second his cell door open and he was gone in a blink of an eye.
"Where are you taking them?" Oliver demanded as he turned to Clark once again.
"A secure facility, far away where they wont be able to hurt anyone again," Clark annouched. "That's all you need to know." Clark looked to Cyborg. "Ready the next door Cyborg."
"Tinman, no more doors," exclaimed Oliver as he locked his eyes onto Victor Stones. "This is your only warning!"
"Sorry, Ollie no can do," answered Victor. "I'll admit I was skeptic at first, but this is the right call. Most of these criminals are too much for ordinary law enforcement to handle." Cyborg once again tapped into the door security and was about to open the next door when he feel to his knees feel a surge of electric energy burst around him.
"Cyborg," Dinah, Clark, and Andrea cried.
"Virus..." groaned Cyborg weakly as he lay on the ground with Dinah and Andrea kneeling beside him.
"What did you do to him!" Clark angrily shouted.
"Oliver what the hell is wrong with with!" cried Dinah.
"That's enough," cried Mia afraid things were getting way to out of control. Someone needed to be the voice of reason and seeing as how everyone was at odds with each other she was the only one to do it. "Let's just all calm down." The last thing they needed right now was to be getting at each other throats.
Outside Strykers Island
"You will regret this," hissed Vordigan as Kara shoved him through the gates towards the prison. "You have no idea who I work for?"
"If you're talking about you little kidnap for hire on Oliver Queens family, I already know," answered Kara not impressed as she shoved him forward once again. "And if the government was still so interested in you, then I don't think I would have found you hiding in the sewers." She opened the front door of the prison and pushed Vordigan forward. "No, I think since you failed to acquire what they wanted that they have no more use for you."
"If you think these walls will hold me, think again," he exclaimed. "I will be free and when I do, I will hunt done every last one of you."
"Keep dreaming," exclaimed Kara not at all concerned, by Vordigan threats whose hands were bound together in chains.
"Seriously another one," exclaimed the officer who said at the front desk of the prison entrance. "Are you guys having a meeting here or something?" First Green Arrow and Speedy had shown up, then Superman, Cyborg, Impulse, Black Canary and Angel of Vengeance had arrived. Now Superwoman, Supermans cousin had arrived.
"Another what?" asked Kara having no idea what the officer was talking about. Clark had mention nothing about coming here tonight. And no word about any meeting either.
"This place is full of Superhero's tonight." He pointed to the security footage on his computer. "Look!"
Kara couldn't believe her eyes. Cyborg was down and it look to be everyone was in a heated argument. What the hell was going on? What reason could Clark possible have for being here? She then noticed that some of the prison cell door were opened, but they were empty. And she knew for a fact that those should not be empty. Where were the prisoners? "What have you done Clark..."
"...Hmmm, I'm sense trouble among the ranks," he grinned as he eyed Kara. "I guess you've been demoted since the Avenging Angel has arrived."
"Shut the hell up!" exclaimed Kara. She eyed the officer she had to see what was going on. "I'll be back. Look after him!"
The officer could say nothing, but watch as Kara sped off. His eyes then locked onto Vordigan. "And you are?" he asked.
"Someone you wish you never crossed paths with," Vordigan hissed. Then with in moment Vordigan was free of his chains having picked the lock the moment Superwoman had run off to her comrades. He then grabbed a newly sharpened pencil from the officers desk and stab him right in the neck. Vordigan watched as the man struggled and gasped for air, as blood drained out of his throat until he fell to the ground unmoving. "Pitiful!" He then stat down in front of the computers. "Now let's see, where are they keeping you my friend." A wide grin appeared on his face when he found what he was looking for. "There." He then tapped into the cells intercom. "It's me. It's time. Kill anyone that gets in your way, even if you have to take the whole building down with you." He then leaned back against his chair satisfied.
Strykers Island
"Are you all right?" Dinah asked Victor concerned for his safety.
"It's impossible," Victor groaned as he got back to his feet. "I just upgraded my firewalls." He has weekly upgrades and security checks on his system to make sure that nothing can corrupt his system making him unstable. "They're completely impenetrable." There was no possible way anyone could break through his security. ….Unless. Victors eyes widened as he comforted Oliver. "You bastard!" he angrily exclaimed. "You uploaded this virus the day you recruited me!" He couldn't believe he hadn't known or that Oliver would have stooped so low to have down this to him.
"It was nothing personal," Oliver explained. "But I needed a plan in case you ever turned Terminator."Oliver had implanted a contingency plan into Victor system in case any outside threat ever found a way to take control of him or if Victor himself went off the reservation and need to be stopped. He never thought the day would come when he would have to actually put that plan into motion.
"You want Terminator," exclaimed Victor. "I'll show you Terminator!" Victor was about to punch Oliver smack in the face until Kara super sped between them and latched onto Victors fist.
"Someone want to tell me what the hell is going on here!" she exclaimed.
"You're here with them too?" exclaimed Oliver. Though he shouldn't be surprised Kara was Clark cousin. It seemed only the full human members of the team were the only ones that could see this was all wrong. "That's just perfect..."
"No. I didn't even know this was going on," Kara answered. "I was admitting someone when I saw what was going on the security screens."
"Who?" asked Victor.
"My fellow Marionette Ventures and residence of Strykers Island, this is Dark Archer, with Toyman untimely demise I have promoted myself as the new leader..."
"Vordigan..." gasped Clark.
"You didn't lock him in a cell!" exclaimed Oliver.
"His hands were chained and I had the key," exclaimed Kara.
"And you think something like that would stop him from getting free?" exclaimed Oliver. He couldn't believe how stupid Kara could have been.
"Superman murdered our leader Toyman. Now it looks like he want to take you all away. I'm letting you out and those of you that kill Superman will have a chance at becoming second in command of the Marionette Ventures, that will now be known as the Legion of Doom. Oh and don't worry I'm sending you some help, The Legion of Dooms very own..."
The whole room began to shack causing the walls, ceiling and floor to crack. Everyone hearts began racing of what it would be.
"What the hell was that?" exclaimed Mia looking around.
"He turned off the dampers in the basement," answered Oliver.
Clarks eyes widened as he turned to Oliver his face horrified "...But that mean."
"Ah shit..." exclaimed Oliver knowing exactly what Clark was talking about.
Within seconds an area in the floor began to cave in and out popped Solomon Grundy, once known Cyrus Gold a wealthy man, who had died, but then due to his grave being exposed to meteor rocks was brought back from the dead. Or more so a dead undead being that wrecked having searching for the one who murderer ed them, but kill anyone that crossed their path. Clark and Oliver have faced off with him once before and it took everything they had to bring him down. There was no way to make him dead again and no matter how many times they destroyed his body, it always managed to regenerate and he was just as dangerous as ever.
All the hero admittedly feel into fighting positions ready to take down the monstrous beast. Clark and Kara flew up and began shooting their heat vision, while Cyborg used his heat vision and super strength on the ground. Oliver began shooting his shock arrows at Grundy hoping to weaken him, while Black Canary tried to burst his ears. But nothing they did seemed to even lay a dent on Grundy who just waked them all away. Then he latched on Dinah
"No!" cried Oliver trying to get to his feet and run towards her.
"Died...on a...Saturday!" exclaimed Grundy as he dropped back down into his hole taking Dinah with him.
"Black Canary!" cried Mia as she and the others went after her.
"Buried on a Sunday..." Grundy voice could be heard.
TO BE CONTINUED