Chapter Seven: A meeting of fates
A/N: me here, been working away. this chapter had some difficulties writing considering it relied on wally not believing in magic. this cut down dialogue. if you've got anything your unsure about tell me in a review or PM, and i'll try to explain it to you.
EmotionalBlue- a big thanks for the review, its nice to know people like your work, i'll try to include more of guys in the fight in the next chapter, the denial episode doesn't have much fight scenes involving the other members of the team in it.
New A/N: remember to check my profile page for chapter progress and any announcements i have on them, here you'll at least see how many words are each chapter and how many are in the currently in progress one.
Anyway hope you enjoy:)
2:40 Earth Equivalent Zamaron sector 1416 August 9th 2010
Evelyn heard a cracking sound as a bright purple light flashed before here; she collapsed to the ground groaning softly, after a few moments she placed her hands on the ground and pushed herself to her feet. As she stood up looking around to see where she was and was shocked by what she saw: a purple landscape with purple crystals everywhere and then she realised she was in a balcony of some sort of monastery like palace. She looked into the sky and felt her heart race, 'I'm on an alien world… holy shit how I'm I able to breath?"
"As long as you are protected by the violet light you are able to walk in our atmosphere child." Evelyn turned to Tela Sharva who apparently knew what she was thinking as she stood there smiling at her.
"You kidnapped me, why I thought you said you were going to help me?" Evelyn shouted her hands balling into fists as she glared at the alien; she was in effect completely powerless now, as while no living thing could catch her with exception of another speedster, Evelyn couldn't get away since this whole planet was theirs and she had no means of getting home.
"Because I told her too Evelyn West of Earth… come with me please." She turned to see a tall woman with grey-blue skin, purple eyes and long black hair ; not having much choice Evelyn followed the aliens into the palace.
"I am Queen Aga'po leader of the Zamarons the founders of the star sapphire corps and this is our battery home world of Zamaron." Aga'po said as they walked from the balcony into a long hallway. "Here we house the central battery containing the Star Sapphire the conduit for the violet light."
"What does the colour purple have to do with love anyway?" Evelyn asked as they walked on, she received a raised eyebrow in response.
"What do you mean?" she asked looking at her intently as Evelyn gave her reply.
"Well it just a wavelength of light in the visible electromagnetic spectrum along with green, yellow, red, orange, indigo and blue." Evelyn responded seeing the Zamaron smile at her as one would to an ignorant child who did something funny.
"The violet light is more than just a frequency of light; it is also present in another spectrum: the emotional electromagnetic spectrum which contains the seven emotional aspects of life and they are the most powerful sources of energy in creation. The colour is a conduit for it and is why sentient creatures find certain links to the emotion through its colour… it is funny seeing as you yourself are a conduit to different source of energy of almost equal magnitude to the emotional spectrum."
"What do you mean by that?" Evelyn asked her turn to be confused by her question.
"Like how our rings are able to access the energy of the violet light of love as a conduit for it, so too does your body do the same for the speedforce an energy source of speed to which one can draw kinetic energy from." She said pausing to look at the surprised look on Eve's face. 'So that's where the kinetic energy for my speed comes from… this kidnapping might bear useful returns.' She thought as they moved on.
They walked past numerous other aliens who stared at her curiously, they were all women at least as far as she could determine, and all were Star Sapphires. Eventually they reached a large door which opened into a chamber contain a pedestal with a purple lantern and a purple ring on it.
"Now to the reason for Tela bringing you here child: We have sensed the power of your love for your friends and for your family, such power will benefit the Star Sapphire cause… especially with the weakening of the Green lanterns by the Sinestro Corps in the Sinestro war and the horrors unleashed by the newly founded Red lantern corps it is critical that we recuit powerful members to our corps, Now that there is a Blue Lantern on earth to stand with the three Green lanterns it is clear that the planet holds significant value, you are the perfect candidate to represent our Corps on earth and show that our corps is a force for good in the world as you possess a strong amount of love in your heart as well as having a working relationship with the green lanterns of your 'Justice League International'. To wield the powers of a violet Lantern and a speedster; you will have no issue in keeping your friends safe from harm now." The Zamaron said to Evelyn who's stared at her wide eyed as she spoke.
"You want me to be a Lantern… a ring slinging violet Lantern, I'm faltered really but I think my friends might ask me where I got a purple power ring from and might lead to awkward questions, besides I'm a speedster not a lantern, I run not sling." Evelyn said raising her hands pointing to her lightning bolt on her chest to emphasis her point, no soon had she done that then the purple ring had gone flying over to her hand and slide on to her ring finger. She felt a purple wave wash over her friction suit as the whole thing turned purple and the lightning bolt was encased in the centre of the Star Sapphire lantern symbol.
"Clearly the ring doesn't think you can't be a conduit for both… in any case whether you accept your place in our ranks or not the ring has made its choice, you are chosen to wields its power and I have no doubt that you will use that power wisely. Now then should you do decide use the ring it will need recharging after exactly seven standard earth days of use, simply place the ring in lantern like so." She said as Evelyn felt the ring pull her towards the Lantern and stuck to the hole in the middle. "And recite the Crop's Oath."
"Which would be?" Evelyn asked before a strange sensation entered her mind and she began to speak loudly. "For hearts long lost and full of fright, For those alone in blackest night, Accept our ring and join our fight, Love conquers all-With violet light!"
"We shall return you to your place of solace on earth, should you wish to contact us again simply speak into the ring till that time comes consider this farewell sister." She said before a bright light engulfed Evelyn who disappeared in flash of purple light.
"Was it wise to give up such a strong warrior of love my Queen?" Tela Sharva asked the Zamaron boldly.
"It would have not done our cause any good to have created resent of us in her heart and she will gradually come to rely on the ring's power, besides just being in proximity to the ring will slowly open her heart to love and to eventually embracing our way of thinking and bring her into our power willingly." She said smiling brightly at the new addition to their ranks. 'Perhaps this one will be the one strong enough to bear our greatest and most terrible of powers, perhaps she can hold the predator.'
3:34 PDT the conduit Jump City August 9th 2010
Evelyn appeared inside her secret base in jump city, where she immediately ran down to the storage space and over to a large safe, she placed the lantern in the empty space, before deciding at the last moment to keep the ring on her in case someone broke in and to prevent them making off with the set.
"Better get home and before Mom and Dad realise I'm not home yet… me a lantern, what a day it's been." She said to herself as she rushed to the Zeta beam platform in Jump City and headed home reaching her bed at about four in the morning. She drifted off into a very confused dream, but it was laced with warm memories of good times, the ring glowed purple in its sealed box in the drawer it was hidden in.
10:20 PDT the conduit Jump City August 10th 2010
"Hal made this look so easy when he did it." Evelyn said as she stood in the pipe sweat pouring down her face as the modified air cannon fired another high velocity ball at her purple shield which began to crack before she willed it to fix itself. She had decided to learn the basics of the ring in case she every needed to use it and she had racked her brains for every kilowog story she had heard from Hal or John, as well as from her own askings about ring function. She thought she'd start off with something basic like shield forming, it was harder then she thought and her idea that her knowledge on speed constructs could be transferred to ring slinging was shattered when she realised she need to think of a strong experience of love to power her constructs before she could will them into shape, since with her speed constucts she just needed to be running really fast to manage it.
"Now I know how harry felt with his white stag thing." She said as she collapsed from exhaustion an hour later after the 700 mph ball finally shattered her construct. She took a half hour break before trying some flying tests, this was easy as running for her and she found her could energize her ring with her speed energy to supercharge her flying speed, though it wasn't anywhere near her running speed when she flew through the collider.
'so this is what it feels like to fly, it'd liberating… I could go into space with this thing.' She thought smiling at the idea of heading into orbit, she reminded herself that this was training only, she wasn't keen on really on a powerful weapon giving to her by people who kidnapped her even if they did let her go afterwards.
She tried the energy blasts and found them to be of average power in her own opinion, but without a kilowog of her own to hurl abuse at her since she had no comparable source. By the end of the series of tests she was thoroughly exhausted.
'No surprise it took Hal six months of full time training under the infamous Kilowog to be ready to be green lantern, I doubt after one day I could be a star sapphire… that's their game, they want me to go to them for help in learning to use the ring… not that I have much intent on using it for anything less than life or death situations... Kid Lantern it's kinda catchy but I'd rather put my faith in my speed rather in love which has hurt me greatly before' Evelyn thought as she recharged the Ring, the Oath didn't have the hero factor like that of the Green Lantern Oath. She would slip the ring into its pouch on her Utility belt when she finished the day's training, she was worried the ring might have some feature which would affect her mind and addict her to using it… she wanted to ask Hal about them but then it would be suspicious if She knew about an intergalactic corps of power ring wielding women… Maybe she should slip it in a conversation or something.
"I wonder what emotions the other colours represent… red is rage or anger that's obvious, maybe's blue kindness or something… what the hell is the Sinestro corps, if only I could access a archive on it or-" Evelyn said spoke to herself drinking an energy drink when the ring glowed bright at her words; a large purple construct in the shape of a computer screen appeared.
[Accessing Zamaron archive- please input topic of interest?] A female voice said from the thing.
'Ok I guess the corps does have a database or something like that.' Evelyn thought before she realised she had access to intergalactic information.
"Eh identify other colour corps and their emotion." Evelyn said slowly unsure how to word it.
[Processing request, archive topics related to request: Green Lantern Corps of Oa, Red Lantern Corps, Sinestro Corps, Blue Lantern Corps, Star Sapphire Corps, Would you like to know more?]
"Access green lantern corps data." Evelyn said looking amazed at the number of corps out there.
[Founded eons ago by the guardians of universe males of the zamaron species, most well-established of the Corps and with the largest numbers, acts as an intergalactic police force with the universe split up into 3600 with each sector having two Green Lanterns assigned to them, an exception is noted to sector 2814 system sol planet earth which currently has three green lanterns assigned to it along with one Blue Lantern and one Star Sapphire, their emotional spectrum colour is green; the colour of will and it's ring's selected candidates with great personal willpower, currently in a corps war with the Sinestro corps which is led by Sinestro a former Green lantern and first yellow lantern. Would you like to learn more in depth?]
"I'm guessing that was the abstract of the data with current updates added, Access Sinestro Corps." She responded looking curiously.
[Founded by the rogue green lantern Sinestro, it uses the yellow emotion of fear, which green energy rings won't work around or have difficulty affecting the colour yellow. Currently in a corps war with the green lantern corps, no yellow lanterns assigned to sector 2814. Would you like to Know more?]
"Access Red Lantern Corps." Evelyn said moving on to the other one the queen had said was bad.
[Founded by Atrocitus one of five survivors of the massacre of the sector 666 by the manhunters, it uses the red emotion of rage the direct opposite of the violet light of love in relation to position on the spectrum and in it's emotion. Being on the end it has a vast amount of power but also can exert a great amount of influence over its wielder, it is the polar opposite to the Star Sapphire corps and currently have no red lantern or Berserkers in sector 2814. Would you like to learn more?]
"Access information on red lantern corps berserkers." She inquired.
[Berserkers are the human English translation of the name given to non-lantern soldiers of the red lantern corps armed with weapons powered by red light they act as shock troopers to support the red lantern forces. Would you like to know more?]
"Access Blue lantern corps." Evelyn said as she remembered that violet was also on the end on the spectrum and wondered if that meant it too could influence her.
[Founded by the exiled guardians Ganthet and Sayd after their banishment from the green lantern corps they use the emotional colour of hope, the capabilities of the lantern corps is not yet known, Would you like to Know more?]
"Access Star Sapphire corps." Evelyn said determined to find out more about the people who gave her the ring.
[Founded by the Zamarons who discovered the star sapphire, the corps is tasked with policing the universe and bringing order and love to it, members chosen are those with strong feelings of love and have experience a great loss of love or have been spurned by love, it's organisation is based off that of the Green lanterns with two members assigned to each sector, with special exceptions for certain locations and a unlimited number assigned to the battery world of Zamaron. Would you like to Know more?]
"Access Star sapphire of sector 2814." Evelyn asked wondering why it kept mentioning sector 2814.
[Star sapphires assigned to sector are trainees Kalana T'Shvi Star sapphire 3007 and Tel'shanu Mon'kaigh Star Sapphire 297 currently undergoing basic training and additional Evelyn West Star Sapphire 2882 special assignment to the world Earth of the Sol system. Would you like to know more?]
"Access information on star Sapphire 2882."Evelyn said crossly now as her name was plastered on the galactic internet stating she was associated to them even though she had declined to join them, perhaps she should bring this to one of two lanterns of the league, more likely to Hal who was a good friend through uncle Barry, she had no ill will to john but he wasn't as approachable as Hal was.
[Star Sapphire of Earth sol System sector 2814,Evelyn West further information is classified by member's request. Would you like to know more?]
"No close Archieve or whatever." Evelyn said looking down at the power ring, Wally had always wanted one. He said he could be Kid Lantern both a speedster and a ring slinger, well now he had it and she didn't want it, she recharged the ring and sealed the Lantern in the safe, before sliding the ring into the special compartment in her utility belt.
17:34 PDT café downtown Jump City August 10th 2010
"Hey Eve how's are things going?" Natasha asked looking up from phone as both Alyssa and Garfield currently had their faces glued to one another in a rather deep kiss. " Hey Romeo and Juliette take breather and say hi to Eve will yeah."
"Oh hey Eve sorry about that." Alyssa said, her lipstick smudged as she smiled turning to face her, as Garfield tried to wipe away the lipstick on his face with a napkin.
"Nice to see you two have stopped fighting, how's Christine doing?" Evelyn asked sitting down and giving her order to the Waitress, she saw his face fall slightly.
"She's better, she's been working on some addition to our project and has been letting me handle the practical elements of it, not that I'm complaining." He told her as they ate their lunch, Evelyn was worried that her friend might be going through some problems, she had lost one friend so didn't want to lose another.
"So you've been working on some private project again?" Alyssa asked her as she took a bite out of her burger.
"You can say that since our project got terminated, what about you Natasha still working on that suit thing." She asked looking at the girl who nodded.
"It's more of a hobby now, I like to tinker besides it gets my mind off of problems you know, I haven't been able to call or see victor at all." She told them looking concerned again.
"You don't think he'll drop out of school do you?" Garfield asked them as they glanced between each other.
"We'll have to wait and see." Evelyn said as she ate her food.
20:21 PDT H.I.V.E secret lower levels Jump City August 10th 2010
Sebastian blood a.k.a Brother Blood sat in his secret office looking through the progress of the projects, with the plasma generator work suspended he had lost one of the promising assets the H.I.V.E supplied him thought he had now gained access keys to rest, he was irritated that he couldn't determine who in the H.I.V.E had made the weapons.
"it would be so easy to blackmail them into providing the light with their expertise, well the gene splicing is proceeding well, it was surprising how well the young Langstrum girl was doing at working through Anderson s notes we've been feeding her. Once we achieve animal human splicing we can move on to trying non-terrestrial species; the information so far has been to your liking L-6?" he said smiling at the figures in white.
"Certainly L-9 though keep watch for any further interference from this monsieur sinister." L-6 warned him as the computer screens all cut out. He had seen the raw abilities of the super soldier and with his armour finished the heroes will have trouble implementing any counter-measures for fighting a kryptonain, that's assuming them had any right now.
'to think someone of his mindset with the full powers of superman… how she has him obeying her commands is surprising.' He thought returning to his work.
7:10 CDT West residence Central City August 14th 2010
"Evelyn your friends from 'the club' are here." Mary West called up to her daughter who came down dressed in a pair of blue skinny jeans, a black Darwin fish t-shirt and her hair in a ponytail wearing her Flash ring on her left hand and her Star sapphire ring on the right, she found that since having the ring in close proximity to her she hadn't had a nightmare once, it was something she found useful and even though she worried the ring was trying to alter her mind, she didn't want to wake up screaming covered in sweat every time Artemis drowned her in her sleep. She opened the door to see a large group of people standing there. Kara, Amelia, Katharine, Megan in human form and Mia all dressed in Civies.
"Hey guys… girls' day out I'll grab my coat." She said knowing what Kara was going to say and cutting to the chase, a few minutes later and they were heading towards the Zeta beams near Eve's house.
"So there a reason for this or what." Eve asked they entered the alley where the Zeta beam platform was kept.
"Well even though we wouldn't normally need a reason for a girls day out, this one is to welcome our two new members Speedy and Batwoman to the team!" Kara said placing an arm around each of the mentioned girl's necks. "And that means a shopping spree in Washington D.C, the works, shopping hair and beauty care, lunch you'll like that bit Eve… it will be fun, we have to outdo the boys they're having a guy's day to welcome Wildcat in now that his arm is fixed."
'Great make overs and shopping… I still don't see the attraction but I'm willing to try it out.' She thought mental preparing to do things Wally would never do, namely get a makeover, her hair done and who knows what else.
8:03 EDT the mall Washington D.C August 11th 2010
"So where to first guys shopping or make over?" Kara asked as they're group entered the large shopping space, given they're track record it was better to go here than Central city mall.
"Make over." Both Mia and Kathy said smiling as they turned and headed off towards the beauty salon. They entered the place and Evelyn felt herself becoming very uncomfortable with the situation, maybe Kara saw it or perhaps it was her plan from the start because she announced to their group a little change in things.
"Instead of us choosing our own makeovers why don't we each chose one another's makeover… I'll do Mia, Amelia can do Eve, Eve can do Kathy, Kathy can do me and Mia can do Megan who will do Amelia."
The others seemed to mull it over before agreeing as they went through picking each other's make overs. 'It's much easy to pick another girl's make over than to do my own, why is it that I get so nervous when doing things like this.' Evelyn thought as she looked through the styles before finding one she thought would work for the red head. A few minutes later and they were all seated in chairs while their hair was being done, nails were being painted, faces having facial's applied and feet placed in tubes with tiny nibbler fish working away.
"Anyone else got a craving for sushi?" Eve said to the other even though she couldn't see their reactions due to being unable to move her head. They voiced they response from just 'no' to 'why do you always think about food' Eventually the hair and nails were done and it moved over to applying the make over to the face and toe nails, before she knew it the whole process was over and she was seeing the results in the mirror; she was surprised to have actually rather enjoyed the process, the tickling of fish, smooth feeling of the face mask she could actually see herself doing this again.
'Took almost sixteen years for you to start enjoying girly things… I wonder if this is like Stockholm syndrome only with with different universes?' she had to admit she liked what Amelia had picked for her; she had light blue nails, her face was smooth as marble with a slight paleness to it which worked well with how her hair shined now like polished copper and was slick and silky to the touch. She had eye shadow lightly applied to make her eyes more prominent and bright red lip stick. Overall she liked how she looked, and she had to admit it was a nice feeling to be pampered this was something most guys didn't do beyond basic hygiene, there were those who went further into beauty care but wally wasn't one of those guys and it had transferred to his… her life.
'Why should I feel awkward to do this, I shouldn't when i giggle and I wear revealing clothes, I guess I'm not quite rid of Wally's personality as I thought I was, well today I'm on a girls day out and I'll do girly things.' She thought as the others began admiring themselves before they all headed back out the salon.
"Where to now?" Evelyn asked slipping the flash ring and the Star Sapphire ring back on her fingers; Kara smiled before gesturing to mall at large.
"Shopping!" She said happily as they headed off to nearest clothes shop, they girls immediately began looking for clothes and began talking amongst each other about them, Evelyn began browsing unaware that the ring was glowing faintly on her finger.
'This looks nice.' She thought taking out a black and purple T-shirt which exposed the midriff, taking it and trying it on Evelyn found she looked good into, since she had a heightened metabolism she couldn't gain weight or get drunk; this meant her abdomen was lightly toned with muscles from her training and her crime-fighting work.
"Nice pick Eve though I think that might look better on me." Kara said wearing a light blue blouse while Mia looked over the pink strap t-shirt she was trying on beside her.
"Too bad I got to it first." Eve said smiling before buying it and changing into it , they left the store with a large number of purchases which Evelyn had taken part in buying clothes to show off her smooth skin and feminine physique, she was rather getting caught up in the shopping and began to feel like just another girl hanging out with her friends at the mall.
'Maybe it's like that article on social responses; you hear a joke that you don't find funny but when you hear it with your friends you all laugh with genuine laughter, I mean we are social creatures after all.' She thought as she moved onto lunch before hitting the sights in D.C, posing in front of Lincoln, the Washington monument, hitting the art gallery s, bowling which was fun ; pretty much doing what we wanted to do.
17:40 EDT Mount justice mountainside grotto August 11th 2010
"Woe you work fast when you want to Kara." Evelyn said as walked over to the little bench set against the mountain where the other girls had left their clothing, they were at the grotto which had been expanded and looked a lot better than before. The girls of the team had decided to have a sleepover at the cave since Conner was staying with Kent's tonight with the guys to play poker and stuff. She changed into her swim suit and slipped into the large steaming pool and sighed at the soothing sensations of the warm water on her skin.
"Today was fun, we should do that more often." Evelyn said as she laid back onto the flat wall where the stone seat had been carved into the pool edge by heat vision. Kara gave her coy smile as she was carefully to keep her hair out of the water.
"Never thought I'd hear those words coming out of your mouth Eve, guess there really is a girly girl inside that tomboy." She responded getting a few laughs from the others as Kathy placed her hands behind her head and lounged on her spot. 'never thought the same too.' she thought to herself.
"I can't express how much I've missed hot baths, nothing but lukewarm showers for the past two years almost, so Mia how's school going for you, you managing to cope with juggling both lives well enough?" Kathy asked voice practically purring with pleasure as Mia nodded to her question.
"Canary, Adrian and Ollie have been helping me catch up on my missed years of education, thanks Megan." She told them as Megan passed her over a smoothie with her telekinetic powers.
"I don't mean to be rude or anything but I remember you telling Roy that you were positive for something, is it life threatening?" Amelia asked with great tact, looking at the blonde with concern, she smiled sadly before looking at all their curious and concerned faces.
"I suppose you all have a right to know, especially Katharine and Evelyn considering you two are the only ones in danger apart from robin and Adrian. I'm HIV positive as of a month ago when I found out, so you two can't get any of my bodily fluids in your bodies under any situation, even if it means me dying I can't live with risking you contracting it from me." She said as the girls looked at her with horrified looks, she wasn't wrong there, as only Katharine and Evelyn out of the girls on the team had a human immune system she could infect, the others had alien immune systems and so were safe from the disease.
"How did you get it if I might ask?" Megan asked placing a hand on the girl's shoulder as she turned to face her.
"I used to be prostitute, till Roy and Green Arrow got me out of the life, I don't like talking about it." She said as both Eve and Megan who were on either side of her leaned over and hugged her tightly.
"Don't worry well help you find a cure if we can, I mean we're freaking super-heroes right." Amelia said looking over at her solemnly, Mia just smiled sadly at her before responding.
"There are somethings the league just can't stop and this is one of them." She said grimly as the atmosphere soured after that revelation.
"Come on guys time for Dinner, who wants pot roast?" Megan said as they all clambered out and headed in for something to eat. After dinner they gathered around the living room one massive cover draped along the floor as they all were dressed in their night wear which turned out to be t-shirts and shorts, which had the unintended effect of emphasizing the noticeable difference in their bust sizes between them which actually made Amelia blush considering hers was unmistakable bigger than Kara who's was next in line and were big themselves.
"Seriously Amelia you didn't just stick two melons under you Shirt." Kathy said as they laughed at the crimsoned faced girl, but it was only teasing her.
"I can't help it if they grew that big… besides they kept the bad guys attention on them and not on my incoming fist." She said causing the collection of girls to burst out laughing. "It's true if they don't see me as dangerous and only as eye candy and why should I pass by the opportunity to give them a beat down."
"Whatever you say Amelia so how about we play a game of truth or dare." Kara said placing a bottle down table as they gathered around it, looking at each other some like Megan and Evelyn were slightly nervous at it, others mainly Kara were enjoying the situation. She spun the bottle which went around and around for at least a full minute before stopping at Evelyn.
"Shit." She said as they girl burst into giggling fits at her response.
"Ok truth or dare?" Kara Asked looking Eve in the eye who shrugged before replying
"Truth." She said trying to act nonchalantly, but feeling her heart race a bit.
"Who was your first proper crush, someone you really wanted to kiss and what you liked about them?" Mia asked as the blue arrow for truth faced her, while the red for dare faced Megan; Evelyn thought this through before answering.
"I guess it would Isabella Santiago." Evelyn told her getting a surprised look from Mia and Kathy.
"So you play for the other team then, so what about this Isabella Santiago did you like?" she responded causing Eve to blush as she answered.
"She had beauty Hazel eyes and she was easy to get along with in sporting and swimming lessons… and she had nice rack." Evelyn added on at the end looking down as she turned crimson as she said it.
"Guessing changing with her next to you must have been awkward?" Mia said smirking as Eve rubbed the back of her head.
"Yeah she had the locker right above mine, it didn't help that she would always talk to me when we were changing, so I get to spin the bottle right?" Evelyn said drawing the conversation away from Isabella Santiago and her bountiful bosom, Eve spun the bottle watching it slow down before landing in front of Mia who looked at less smug now it was her turn.
"Truth or dare?" Kara asked her smiling evilly.
"Dare." She said boldly as the girls looked at each other wickedly, since it landed on Kara to choose the dare she walked over to the TV and switched on… a karaoke machine, Mia blanched at the sight of it.
"Hope you like singing because you're doing a track… from this." Kara said holding up a CD with the words Metal songs track list on it, she selected the song called 'Indestructible by disturbed before handing a mike to Mia. The results were pretty funny as the girl tried to sing along to the blaring instrumental with the actual singer virtual mute, they were all doubled up with laughter after it was done.
"I gotta ask why metal Kara?" Amelia asked wiping the tears from her eyes, looking at Blonde who had a video camera in hand causing Mia to cry out in protest demanding censorship.
"It would make the dares funnier along with the other stuff I've got… and it all goes on camera guys so feel free to speak some more truths." She said smiling at their scared expressions. This time the bottle landed on Kathy who steeled herself before looking at Megan.
"Truth." She said before Kara could ask her choice, Megan thought it over before asking.
"You know your dad made you train hard and that you nearly quit multiply times, what was the worst thing you had to do?" Megan asked causing the Red head to think it over before replying.
"I had to do a long tracking exercise near the start of my training and I drink up over a third of my water for the week in four hours… I had to drink my own pee for the last day of it." She said receiving looks of disgust from the girls.
"How did it taste?" Amelia asked looking at amazed and revolted.
"Quite nice considering I also had tried drinking my own sweat squeezed from my clothes." She replied shaking her head at memory.
"That doesn't sound quite as bad." Megan said innocently.
"Unless you attribute the fact the sweat mostly collects in the back of your underwear which i wore for seven days without washing." She said getting more revolted looks from the girls.
"You are pretty tough aren't you?" Eve said to which Kathy replied.
"Oorah." She said smiling, the bottle landed on Amelia this time who looked Evelyn in the eye as she spoke.
"Dare." She said getting rousing cheers from the others; unfortunately it had landed back on Kara for that.
"You have to kiss with tongue Evelyn." She said smiling as Evelyn looked at her shocked about to speak when the other girl grabbed her and rammed her tongue down her throat as Evelyn felt her heart beat go up sharply, 'This feels nice and wrong at the same time.' She thought as it ended and Amelia washed out her mouth with mouth wash before looking at Evelyn apologetically.
"No offence Eve I'm sure you've got a great mouth; but the thought of having another girl's saliva in my mouth isn't cool with me." She said as Eve looked at her slightly hurt.
"Nice way to treat my first kiss." She said sourly as Kara looked a bit guilty, 'maybe I should have checked with eve first it can be pretty hurtfully to have your first kiss have that reaction.' She thought to herself as the bottle finally landed on Megan.
"Truth." She said looking nervous.
"What is your biggest fear?" Kathy said looking at her.
"Being alone and rejected." She said downcast, they all turned to face Kara being the only one yet have one, she span the bottle as it landed with the red side facing her.
"I'm guessing you guys are taking that as a 'I must do a dare' she said they all nodded, "Bring it on I can handle anything you got to give."
The girls mind-linked to talk it over before they all glanced at Amelia before looking unsure, until finally turning to face her.
"I'm not sure about it Kara." Evelyn said
"Come on I can do it no problem." She said with gusto
"Prank call the batman." Evelyn said glancing at Amelia; who smirked at the girl's shocked reaction.
"What! I made you kiss Evelyn and you had to sing to heavy metal; why do I need to sign my own death warrant!" she argued, the girls looked amongst each other, clearly they didn't think it was a good idea either, but Amelia was pissed she had lost her first kiss as well as Evelyn's first kiss to Kara's little daring game.
"are you refusing to do the dare." She said smugly; Kara sighed walking over to the kitchen and grabbing robin's spare communicator a few minutes later she came back to see Amelia with the camera in hand. She grimaced as she took Kathy's Voice Modulator and activated the communicator , while the other girls looked at her holding their breaths before she made the call.
"Robin?" the voice of the dark knight sounded on the other side.
"Who we are is not important, who we have is, if you ever wish to see you precious boy wonder, then you had better hang up the cowl and the cape for good." Kara said voice coming out as a deep gravelly tone.
"Have you harmed him" Batman said enraged as the other girls began desperately trying to hid their laughter.
"No but I'm surprised who was beneath the mask… and who you are bats." Kara said as they snorted behind their hands.
"Well you have gone too far, since my identity is at stake you will not face the batman… but your own demise, I will find, oh yes I will find you and when i do I will kill you this I promise." Batman replied with utter conviction, the girls stopped laughing looking at the Kara shocked at the change, Kara turned white looking scared now.
"Hey girls next time you want prank call someone might want to make sure your 'hostage' isn't sitting next to him." Robin's voice sounded from the communicator causing the girls to burst into laughter at Kara who got counter pranked.
"Let's just watch a movie or two, seriously this is getting out of hand before we end up going too far with this truth or dare stuff." Evelyn said gaining nods of agreement from the others.
They slide under the covers as they lay there next to one another watching a host of movies stretching from mean girls to titanic in which they all cried at the end, to finishing it off with Alien in which they all screamed as Ripley battled the monster.
"Ok guys let's not watch an alien horror movie when we're all sleeping in a large eerie cav-" Amelia said moving from her spot before turning to look past them in horror. They froze as long stands of mucus dripped down in front of them as Kara, Mia, Kathy and Eve all turned to see a Xenomorph crouched over them it's long black tail swinging, it pounced at them cause them to recoil screaming as, it turned into Megan who burst into laughter along with Amelia who doubled up as she laughed, a camera in hand.
"Wait till the guys see this, its priceless." She said as they four of them glared at her evilly before throwing whatever was at hand at her, eventually they switched the lights off and went to sleep.
19:39 EDT Mount Justice August 19th 2010
Most of the team was gathered in the training room with their three new members: Amelia was in her room with Mia talking about something related to her mom and sister, Kara was watching Wildcat and super boy training with one another… they were both shirtless and getting a good work out, Kaldur was nursing his wounds having been beaten already by the kryptonain boy.
"Kaldur's nice strong handsome, he'd probably make a good boyfriend if you asked him out?" Kathy said to Megan as they sat watching the two boys training heavily, Evelyn was sitting in a corner doing some early work to get her back into the mind set for regular classes at the H.I.V.E.
"He's like a big brother to me, although you know who would make the cutest couple, you and Robin." She said gaining a raised eyebrow in response to statement. "He's childish, your serious you totally balance each other out."
"Trust me when I say this I'm not his type." She said smiling looking over at a certain Red headed speedster noticing the way her hair seems to shimmer as it ripples when she moves her head, the sleep over had shown her a few things, primarily both Kara and Amelia could be bitches when they wanted too, but also that she and eve had more in common than the colour of their hair. The red head in question was drinking a cup of coffee as she worked away on the metal table she had brought through to work on.
Neither girl noticed the wide grin that appeared on Kara's face as she saw the way Kathy looked at Eve and realised she had a new couple to bring together.
They watched Super boy knock Wildcat to ground, but he used the momentum to spin around placing a strong hand on the ground using it to swing his legs to sweep super boys from under him.
"Fail: Super boy" the program called out as Wildcat helped him to his feet.
"Not bad but remember Canary didn't teach me everything I know and I could pretty well fight before I met her." He said handing the boy a towel and a bottle of water,the pair had grown to be good friends since over their sparing sessions, Amelia had taken to the training well making up for the lack of certain powers with improved fighting abilities . They heard a mechanical grinding sound as the doors leading to Red Tornado's apartment; the red wind controlling robot came gliding down from above as the collected teens turned to face him.
"You got a mission for us RT?" Conner asked jovially as he dried himself off with the towel, Conner had changed a lot since getting to know the Kents, while superman and him were going at it slow, having both his 'grandparents' and his cousin work the man of steel was helping him handle his anger a lot..
"Mission Assignments are the batman's prerogative." Red Tornado responded.
"Yeah but with Boy Blunder away with Batsy we're stuck here pounding the crap out of each other, I always thought that was the bad guys job." Kara said turning to Amelia as she and Mia came in from the passage leading to living quarters.
"But you do look like you're going somewhere." Katharine said folding her arms eyes set in the glare.
"If we can be of any assistance to you all you need to do is ask." Kaldur said diplomatically walking over to the Robot.
"This is Kent Nelson, a close friend of mine… he is 106 years old." Red Tornado said pulling up an image of Kent, Evelyn looked up at old man and felt sorrow at what was to come, she knew he wanted to die though and she wasn't going to change that, he wanted to be reunited with Inza and frankly Evelyn could understand the feeling deeply.
"Guy doesn't look a day over ninety." Adrian said with a smirk as the nine of them waited for Red Tornado to go on.
"He has been missing for twenty-three days now, Kent was a charter member of the Justice Society of America, a precursor to your mentors Justice League International, it was also an organization I belonged to for it's duration… I don't get to see the old crowd anymore but it doesn't stop my concerns when things like this occur."
"Who was he on the JSA." Mia asked with interest looking over at Adrian, Evelyn remembered that both Adrian's hero name as well as that of black canary his mentor was originally used by heroes in the Justice Society of America.
"He was the mystic Doctor Fate, what you would term a 'powerhouse' of the society." Tornado replied showing the image of the helmeted lord of Order.
"Of course he was earth's sorcerer supreme." Kaldur said with reverence, of one magic user to another.
"He may just be on one of his… walkabouts but Kent is caretaker to the helmet of fate the source of the doctor's mystic might, and it is unwise to leave such power unguarded." Red Tornado said
"He is like the great sorcerer priests and priestesses on mars I would be honoured to find him." Megan said with pride.
"Looks like we've got a mission guys suit up we leave in five." Evelyn said tidying away her work and accepting the key from Red Tornado before heading toward the Bioship.
"Hey guys how did the sleepover go?" Conner asked causing the girls to look amongst themselves smiling.
"we had a great time." They all replied smilingly.
20:22 EDT Tower of Fate location Salem August 19th 2010
"I'll never tell you, you'll just have to kill me." Kent Nelson spat at the fake wizard Abra Kadabra who tortured the old man while a young boy in a suit with horn like hair clapped and cheered.
"Do it again make him squeal." He said in glee.
it was at that point that mister Teekl arrived gaining the attention of the boy. They walked out into the entrance way of the old theater, shielded they watched the heroes disembark.
"These are the coordinates Red Tornado sent us?" Miss Martian said as they eight teen heroes disembarked from the Bioship before scouting around for a way in.
"Nothing are you sure it'a here?" Super-girl said as she and Power-girl returned from their scouting run, Kid Flash walked forward before inserting the key into the air and turning it, a door materialized in front of her.
"How did you do that?" Wildcat asked looking at her amazed, she smiled at him as she opened the door.
"Magic." She said before walking in with the others as the hologram appeared in front of them.
"Greetings, you have entered with a key but the tower doesn't recognise you; state you names and reason for being here?" the hologram said.
"We are true believers come to learn the magical arts here at Hogwarts tower." Power-girl said in a voice dripping with sarcasm; the hologram disappeared as the floor opened up beneath them causing them all to fall in, two sets of chains dropping on Super-girl and Power-girl who both fell like rocks towards a lava pit at the bottom.
"Can't the old coot tell when I'm being sarcastic?" She shouted as both she and Super-girl plunged into lava below.
"Power-girl! Super-girl!" Speedy cried as fired a rope arrow into wall grabbing Kid Flash as she did, Aqualad was grabbed by Wildcat who's metal claws were extended and embedded into the wall and Megan was held by Batwoman who had fired a grappling hook into the wall, Super boy slide to the bottom, his feet dipping into the lava.
"Those were my favourite boots!" he said in pain as reached into the Lava and throw something into the air; it was super girl, before reaching into it up to his arm and pulling Power-girl out by the hair. "Miss Martian your up!"
"Got it!" she said using her powers to hold Super-girl in the air, there was ceiling above them now meaning they couldn't escape, Super-girl growled at Power-girl.
"Next time try not piss off the all powerful magic hologram PG!" she shouted angrily, both girls capes had been burned but their bio-invulnerability field extended to their skin tight clothes… the same could not be said of Connor's jumpsuit which the bottom parts burned off along with the sleeve of the right arm too.
"MM I'll falling again!" Super-girl screamed as she began to fail downwards; Miss Martian was sweating heavily now, Aqualad too.
"Miss Martian's and my physiology are susceptible to extreme heat, we won't survive much more of this." Aqualad said rubbing his forehead.
"Hello megan! We didn't answer his question, Em Hello Mr Hologram, we're Friends of Red tornado he sent us to check on Kent Nelsion and the Helmet, he was worried about his friend." She said quickly, the chains preventing the two girls from flying disappeared as a floor appeared covering the lava pit. They all dropped down before Super boy slugged Power girl hard on the face sending her crashing into the wall.
"What the fuck was that for Super boy!" she swear at him getting in his face as she rubbed her jaw.
"For wrecking my favorite boots and nearly getting Miss Martian and everyone else killed, stop blurting out everything that comes into your mind before you get somebody who isn't invulnerable killed!" Super boy roared into her face pointing to the human element of the team and the two extremely weak members recovering on the floor, She looked at them ashamed of what she had done.
"I'm so sorry guys, I won't do it again." She said seriously, Super boy was inches from her face now.
"You better not!" he said before going over to tend to and check on Miss Martian.
"Don't take it personal Power girl, he really loved those boots is all." Kid Flash told her as she walked over to the trap door, and placed a hand on it.
"Hey kid there's lava under that!" Batwoman rushed over to her; she shook her head.
"When dealing with Magic you'll find little solace in logic." She told her before pulling it over and revealing the winter landscape as she and Batwoman hoped into it first, followed by the rest of them.
"Welcome to Narnia, if anyone sees a lamp post let me know." Wildcat said as he supported Aqualad on his shoulder, those of the team who understood the reference laughed.
"Well you seem to handling this rather well for someone who's entire world seems to revolve around science." Batwoman said walking ahead with Kid as they approached the region with the cane.
"I'm leading a team with an atlantean, a clone, two alien, a genetically rewritten girl, and bunch of people dressed in costumes; frankly I opening to anything at this point." She replied looking at the girl as they pair spotted the cane, they both walked forward to examine it, they both grabbed it at the same time and disappeared.
"Kid, Batwoman!" Speedy and Miss Martian Roared rushing forward; the two landed in front of an elevator in a crazy looking stair room, they looked down to see an old man, and two people radiating evil.
"Abra!" Kid snarled as Kent summoned the cane before flying over to them and pulling them into the Elevator.
"I'm Kent Nelson by the way." He introduced himself smiling at the girls.
"Evelyn West, I'm Kid flash and that's Katharine Kane, Batwoman." Kid told him as they shook his hand.
"Well we're up against a powerfully mystic foe in the boy with the cat, he's a lord of Chaos; the ultimate enemy to a lord of Order like Doctor Fate." Kent told them causing Kathy's eye to rise.
"So you're a lord of order are you?" she asked skeptically, he chuckled waving his hand at her.
"Me no I'm just some old coat who fate used to wear, until my beloved Inza showed me that there was more to life than the helmet." He told them, flicking open his pocket watch and showing the picture and smiling beautiful woman, "Ah she was a real pistol that Inza, any who Klarion is after helmet, and if he gets his sticky mitts on it then he'll turn is world into his own private playground of pandemonium."
"Don't worry the YJL won't let that happen." Kid told him, gaining a confused look from Batwoman.
"The what?" she asked as Kid smiled at her.
"Young Justice League YJL, why can't our team get its own name." she explained as the elevator doors opened. They exited into a large room with a staircase leading to a bell, a door opened in the ceiling and Wildcat and Super-boy came rolling out followed by Power-girl and super girl, then lastly Aqualad, Speedy and Miss Martian.
"Friends of yours?" Kent asked as a portal opened and Abra and Klarion entered; Kent, Batwoman and Kid Flash rushed towards the bell as the others engaged Abra, Klarion fired a magic blast which hit Kid as she entered the bell. They appeared upon the roof with the Helmet, Kid went flying and hit the wall at the only side laying in crumpled heap.
"Kid!" Batwoman cried as she rushed over to her friend while Kent headed towards the helmet, she checked the red head's pulse and found her unconscious. Kent suddenly groaned in pain as she turned to see the witch boy standing there; Kent spoke some sort of incantation before a golden dome appeared around the three of them and the helmet.
"I guess my age is finally catching up with me." He joked as collapsed onto the ground with batwoman at his side in second, the witch boy was hurling sinister red energy bolts and dark red magical constructs at them. "The dome will give you the time you need to do it; I'm coming Inza…my love."
"What do I need to do." She asked scared as the old man slumped in her arms the pocket watch falling to the ground with a clatter; she turned to look at Kid as if for guidance before seeming her unconscious form, she turned to see the helmet as red claws pierced the dome.
"Hey Bat brat if you put that helmet on you might never get it off again." The witch boy warned her as the dome cracked and buckled beneath his power; she glared at him before donning the helmet.
She found herself in a void like limbo, no sight or smell or sound just void.
"Looks like you got it on in time." A familiar voice sounded from behind her, she whirled around to see Kent Nelson standing there smiling at her.
"You're dead… I'm I dead, is place limbo because I'm…" she couldn't say the words, he just smiled at her reassuringly.
"No your not dead and if you were It wouldn't matter if you love a boy or girl, the afterlife is the afterlife; no your in the helmet, my soul got sucked in with you, probably because of all those years i played host to its master Nabu the real doctor fate, one of those lords of order I was telling you about, he's controlling your body right now… want to have a look?" he told her pointing to a mirror like portal showing what Doctor fate or Nabu could see.
"Ouch what happened?" Kid said as she moved slowly grabbing her sore head as she lay against the stone wall behind her; she looked up to see a helmeted woman flying around doing battle with Klarion. 'Kathy she put the helmet on.' Kid thought as she watched the two lords do battle.
"Kid we need help Abra has AKW on him, we need doctor fate now!" Megan's voice sounded on the link, Kid groaned when she heard that Abra had Anti-Kryptonian Weaponry or AKW, add that to his future tech and the rest of the team won't have a chance against him.
"Give up Nabu Order went out of fashion in the 20th century!" Klarion shouted hurling red balls of magic at him, he created an Ankh shield in front of him, as he retorted.
"This battle is pointless," came the duel voices of Nabu and Batwoman. "You sought to claim the helmet before it gained a host and you failed in that task!"
"Shut you old fart!" Klarion yelled summoning two pillars of stone which crushed the lord of Order between them, only for a golden ankh to appear as it exploded freeing fate.
"Brat!" he screamed as he fired a golden bolt of energy in the form of an ankh towards the witch boy who phased out of the spot before reforming behind him… right as the speed Construct collided with him sending him flying into the wall, Kid grinned at sight before a large form pounced on her, the cat was now roughly the size of a rhino as tried to maul her.
"Get her mister teekl!" he incited the familiar as fate blasted it off of her.
"It is difficult for beings such as ourselves to remain bound to the physical plane… only the sisters Misfortune and Lady Destiny are powerful enough to achieve such feats." Fate said as they continued they battle. "I am bound by the helmet to a human host… but it seems you prefer more familiar methods."
He suddenly unleashed his full power on the cat which was too large to dodge the attack, it was blasted away reverting to it's original form as it seemed to fade as Klarion did as well.
"that was a low blow Nabu!" the lord of chaos said before grabbing his familiar and departing from the tower.
"Batwoman… Kathy?" Kid said nervously as she approached the stationary figure, 'Please let her go.' She thought.
"Why hasn't he let me regain my body yet?" Batwoman asked Kent confused.
"Because he has no intention of doing so." The helmet appeared causing Kathy to look fearfully, before staring at kent.
"He can't do that, I wouldn't have donned the helmet if I knew he wouldn't let me go." She told him as he glared at the helmet.
"She right Nabu, you must have a willing host not one ignorant of price, she's only a child yet to begin to live her life or find love." He told the lord of order.
"the world needs doctor fate, and I don't appreciate being locked away from the world ignorant and useless." He argued to them.
"Your right but not at the cost of Batwoman, listen Nabu if you release me then I will take you to th cave there you will be kept and when a time of crisis arises that requires you one of the team will don the helmet, but you have to release them immediately after the crisis is over." Batwoman offered the being.
"And what if the others do not agree to the pact?" he asked her causing her to feel hopefully.
"If they don't then I'll be the one to don it each time, besides I'm sure they'll be okay as long as you will return to them their body." She said as Kent added his own argument.
"I'll stay here and keep you company until a willing and knowing host is readily to take you on in a more permanent capacity." The spirit said.
"But what about Inza?" Batwoman said shocked at his words.
"oh its okay so what if I spend a few millennia here before ascending, that's the beauty of eternity it's eternal." He said smiling as fate spoke up.
"the terms are acceptable." He said causing Batwoman to sigh with relief.
"a word of advice kid, when you find that special person let them know how you feel, lest you let your chance for love pass you by." He said as a blinding light obscured her vision.
"Kathy are you okay?" Kid was looking at her concerned, she smiled as she nodded holding the helmet.
"I've got something to tell the team… I might have made a deal with a lord of order." She said as she handed the helmet to kid before walking over and returning the watch to his body and picking him up carefully. The two returned to the portal to the bell and found the team standing next to a naked and unconscious Abra Kadabra, they looked shocked at the body, Kathy explained her deal and ehile the team were amazed that Nabu had initial refused to return her body to her, they eventually agreed to the terms as long as they were only to be temporarily hosts.
2:44 EDT Mount Justice August 20th 2010
"And that is the deal Batwoman made with Nabu." Evelyn finished her debrief to gathered leaguers, Red tornado looked down at the body which had been placed on a stretcher with his eyes closed and his hands around his cane.
"I'll have arrangements made with Rikkers to have Blaine released for the duration of the funeral." Batman said surprising the rest.
"Is that wise would he not see your secret identities?" Evelyn said shocked to hear that Kent had a relative and that he was in prison.
"Blaine already knows most of the league, he grew up with Canary besides he has honor, he pleaded guilty to his crime and accepted his punishment, he made mistakes and is facing them with dignity." Red Tornado informed them still looking down the body. "rest in peace my old friend."
The team broke up, Mia and Adrian to head home with Green Arrow and Black Canary, Kaldur to his residence while away from home, Amelia, Megan and Conner to their rooms and Kara to her apartment with her cousin. Evelyn headed over to the trophy room and watched as Kathy placed the helmet beside the duel masks of tigress and Cheshire.
"So how you holding up?" she asked as the girl turned to face her.
"Its not the first time I've seen death and nor will it be the last." She said sadly walking over to her.
"It is a part of life, but you shouldn't let it stop you from living." Evelyn told her before heading to the Zeta beams.
"See you tomorrow Kathy." She called to her over her shoulder.
"Yeah see you then." She called after her before remembering what Kent had told her.
"I'll just have to make sure I don't miss my chance." She thought heading homewards herself.
A/N: So what do you think, Evelyn fits the criteria to be selected by the ring and since earth is important in it's position the corps would try get a member from there, since i'm still out on carol who might get one later on, Eve is the best choice as she is tied to the league through association and by family which would benefit the Corps's relations with them. She'd only use the ring if she had no other choice and so only used it to get a basic understanding of its workings since ring slinging requires a period of training, since they have guardians i'd imagine the star sapphires to have a database to research through. i'm going for a more green lantern animated series for the red lanterns since it gives foot soldiers and construct using lanterns, the ring will be affecting her, opening her heart to love things more. since they're immortal beings with long history i'm sure they would know about the speed force even if its only that it exists
the team now stands at a rather large ten for the time, plus now they have a deal with Nabu which should save Zatara... assuming Nabu keeps his word. from a biological point of view Mia is only dangerous to anyone with a human immune system, so in my belief Aqualad, Superboy and Amelia are safe as they have alien and atlantean DNA in them, and Kara and Megan are completely unaffected by it.
I wonder whether you guys would think Evelyn would keep the ring a secret or if she would come to Hal Jordan about it, leave you thoughts in a review. i also believe that superboy would be a much less aggressive person by this point as he has a lot of family figures, Kara, the team and the Kents. after this year the team might need to form the squads with these numbers. onto Conner again by my understanding he has super strength and durability, and super visions too, since he never used the arctic breath i assume he doesn't have it,and with the clothes being destroyed so too does bio-invulnerability appear to be absent from his power list.
So leave a review with what you liked, what you might like to see in it, i'll put good consideration into it, and if you have any constructive criticism too. till next time!
Sincerely Greywolf41 Esquire!