Chapter Eleven: lock up
A/N: ME here! sorry for the long gap i had my graded unit work and exams for college to do... I PASSED ALL ROUND FIRST TRY! :). anyway this one was harder to write for the actually episode content segment so that element is rather short. i hope this chapter is worth the wait, be sure to leave constructive review and highlight any issues you have so i may look into fixing them for you or explain things you don't get. remember i do this partly for fun and partly to improve my writing so keep that in mind when looking over the quality of my work.
Anyways hope you enjoy :)
7:14 EDT Mount Justice September 9th 2010
"So what your saying is Luxanna Luthor, Lex Luthor's 'daughter' was there when you three went shopping months ago?" Batman clarified as Evelyn nodded while Amelia and Kara glared at the girl on the screen. "This is problematic."
"You telling us; she's not the daughter of your nemesis bats and through me she could figure out who kal is!" Kara roared in anger glaring at the batman shaking with rage; Evelyn had returned to tell them about her work in peace summit, they weren't happy about lux knowing their secret identities.
"What can we do about it guys seriously add it to the list of shit that's stack against us." Amelia said after moment exhaling as she did. She was right what could they do about it.
"Amelia is right the league will monitor the situation and devise appropriate measures to take; you'll be informed of any new developments." Batman said as he turned to leave the cave, the three of them exchanged looks behind his back.
"So where's Connor gone I thought he'd be here training with you two?" Evelyn asked looking between them both. Kara frowned as she thought back to the reason he gave her.
"Went to help a friend of Adrian's with something… training I think?" she responded shrugging as the three of them headed through to the lounge and collapsed on the couch looking bored.
"I'd of thought you and Kathy would be finally having that second date round about now?" Kara said as she got into a comfy spot on the couch.
"What you two are dating!" Amelia asked looking surprised as Evelyn glared at a guilty looking Kara.
"Sorry." She said pathetically; as Evelyn sighed pinching her nose.
"Yes we're dating." she said as Amelia surprised look changed to a small smile as she raised her can in the air.
"Well good for you two." she said making Evelyn smile at the words of support.
"Thanks Amelia, anyway she's doing bat clan stuff with Robin, we're meeting up for lunch at the zoo for date number two, and the flash is helping the maintenance work on speed demon's inertia field so I can't be ass'd to go on patrol by myself right now." She replied using the ring to take one of her special calorie smoothies out of the fridge and over to her.
"One of the most powerful objects in the universe and your using it to stay lazy." Amelia spoke up smiling at her as Eve shrugged planting both feet on the coffee table.
"Saving energy is important for me, six thousand calories a day if I use my superspeed, three thousand two hundred if not." Evelyn replied smirking at them; slurping on the drink as the three of them starred at the T.V blankly.
"That's why you never stop eating and why you put that disgusting stuff in your food right?" Amelia said looking over at her blanching at the memory of the time she drank one of kids drinks by mistake, she wasn't going to do that again.
"Hey we all can't get our powers from the sun and besides you get use to the taste." Evelyn replied before adding. "Eventually."
"Why don't we go do something together; I know!" Kara suddenly said jumping to her feet excitedly looking at them beaming. "we could do some interior decorating for the headquarters of the YJL."
4:20 EDT Gotham City September 9th 2010
"Come on Joe the bat is with the league and that means this is our a window of opportunity to roll with." The burly African American said reassuringly to his rather nervous friend who tried to strike up a lighter several times now. He jumped when he thought he heard the sounds of rotor-blades but sighed when it turned out to be nothing.
"Easy for you to say Lenny; the bats hasn't put you in full body cast before I'd rather take the Blackgate sentence than meet that guy again." He replied harshly before finally catching the flint and burning his finger and causing him to drop the lighter into a pile of garbage. He swore when it all caught light; he looked up at the sky along with the rest of black mask's men who stopped unloading the drugs and stared at the hovering bat shaped thing in the air, suddenly several objects fell from its underbelly, spewing black smoke as they did hitting the ground. There was dread filling sound of a cape swishing in the wind as a man cried out in pain to joe's left. He swear again shaking veined hands pulling out his glock and holding it trembling in that direction. A figure appeared from the smoke towering over the five foot four gangster. Dressed in black with a blood red bat on her chest and pale skin visible was batwoman. She seemed to radiate menace and violence as she cast her gaze over them all inciting utter terror in their hearts at her presence. Someone finally got courage together and raised his gun at her firing wildly causing the rest with the exception of Joe to open fire at her as she disappeared into the smoke.
"Where did she go?" lenny asked before a trio of batarangs flew through the air and disarmed three gangsters as figure leaped towards them from the mists behind, dressed in bright red, green and yellow; knocking them down as a cloud of black smoke obscured them from sight as a cackling filled the air. Turning at the sound of muffled screaming joe saw terry and Patrick gone with the wipe of a red and black cape from behind him.
"Fuck this shit!" he shouted as he ran down the dark alley away from the smoke and the gunfire of the remaining two thugs which died down pretty quickly; his eyes darting behind him for that bitch batwoman. All he saw was the smoke drifting in the alley space behind him; for one moment he allowed himself to think he got away before a roaring sound came from above as batwoman appeared in front of him upon a massive black glider floodlights blinding him as he drew his gun on her. The moment he did so a powerful force pulled the gun from him hand and he watched it stick to the surface of a bulge on the underside of the glider, sighing he placed his hands in the air.
"I give up." he said as he heard a figure land behind him grabbing his hands and cuffing him to the nearby fire escape; robin appeared walking over to batwoman and climbing aboard the glider waving at him as they left in a roar of engines. "At least I'm not in a body cast."
"Nice going with the smoke Batwoman, really puts the fear of bats in them." Robin complimented her from his spot currently holding on tight to her waist. While she might have magnetic seals in her soles robin didn't; apart of her worried what Eve would think if she saw them like this but she reasoned that she would understand the situation.
"I was hoping to drop in the middle of them first or maybe use the sonic bat caller to test it out." She replied as they cruised gotham in the Black Bat the name she gave her gliders or to be accurate the A12M3h combat glider. The (h) denounces it as the heavy version, the largest of her three types of gliders designed to hold two people as well as a vast array of equipment. Like the medium it has a stealth feature which used rotors to approach silently. The medium was really the same only it had four less hard points and carried only one. She had yet to try out the light version which would hopefully allow for her to carry it on missions.
"I don't know why they're all more afraid of you than me?" Robin asked as they made a Sharpe turn around a X-tech office building while Batwoman smirked at the question.
"Maybe because the most sinister thing about you is that evil cackle of yours… besides your wearing bright yellow, red and green… in gotham." She said enjoying the indignant sound he made as they headed towards the batwing entrance to the cave. It had really made her day when Bruce had official welcomed her to the bat clan with her own access card to the cave and section to work on her gear. Since she couldn't drive a car or fly a jet her gliders had been her only method of transport and that had evolved into her signature piece of equipment. They climbed off pulling their masks off as Alfred walked towards them a chocolate cake upon the silver platter. On read the words 'happy first solo patrol' batman had finally allowed robin to go on patrol without him as long as it was with Katharine or another member of the team.
"So you taking Evelyn out on a date today or what?" Dick asked smiling at the shocked look on Katharine's face. "I'm bats official protegee you think I wouldn't notice… you to seem happy together so you got my support."
"Thanks Dick." She said hugging him tightly; they both finished off the cake before heading off for a quick shower and to get some sleep before her date later on.
8:22 PDT Grant's Gym Star City September 9th 2010
Conner looked at the gym's entrance checking once again the written instructions given to him by Adrian, he had received a call from his best friend asking him if he'd train with his other friend a guy called Ricky Jones, for his up coming match. He opened the door with the key Adrian gave him and entered to the sound of someone punching one of the training bags. Ricky turned out to be a seventeen year old African American with height on par with Adrian, he's stance and focus also matched the brawler lending credit to Adrian's claim on him, he turned as Conner approached.
"So you must be Conner Kent." He asked smiling as he grabbed a towel and began wiping his forehead clean of sweat; Conner nodded to which his smile became a grin. "So you're the boy of steel, relax I won't abuse the trust Adrian's has in me."
"It's fine he told me you know, I'll use a little something to negate my superstrength, I'll still be tougher and stronger than a human though." Conner said activating the red solar band on her arm and changing into the gear.
"So hows he doing Emily's been getting worried and that's not good for her health?" Ricky asked as they got in the ring facing each other they both launched into a series of punches and blocks, Conner was surprised at the skill and ability Ricky had to endure and absorb his above human strength when he was red sunned.
"He's on the sidelines but he'll be better in time no need to worry." He replied as they duked it out.
'he's like Adrian he can handle the strength of meta, he's blocks are deflecting off the force of blows weakening them.' He thought as they went on like this for hours.
9:33 EDT Mount Justice September 9th 2010
"Hey why are you in the middle at the front?" Evelyn exclaimed in outrage looking at the middle stone carving of Super-girl; they had been using heat vision and lantern power to carve out their own giant statues for their teams original seven. "I am the leader after all."
"Hey we got to mirror the one in the Hall of Justice right and so I'm at the front." Kara responded as they admired their handy work.
"Hey my bust isn't that big!" Amelia yelled only to be silenced by the raised eyebrows she received. "There's more to me than mammary tissue you know."
"Girl you got the assets you don't need to be ashamed of them." Evelyn told her as Kara walked up placing an arm around her.
"Yeah don't worry we see the blunt, violent girl beneath the big tits." She said jokingly; it came as little surprises that she found herself being hammered into the wall at the other side of the room as Amelia lowered her raised fist. "Bad joke huh."
"Hold on Kathy's sent me a reply to my earlier message." Evelyn said looking down at her phone and smiling.
"Good news?" Amelia asked to which Evelyn nodded heading towards the Zeta beam Platform.
11:21 CDT Zoo central city September 9th 2010
"so the zoo… I guess the appropriate question would be to ask you what your favourite animal is then." Katharine asked as the pair of them walked through the Central City Zoo passed the penguins and otter enclosures. Evelyn thought about before answering.
"I like dogs I guess though I kinda like snakes too, you?" She answered before posing the question to her girlfriend who smiled.
"If we're going for two then it would be Cats and Lions." She responded glancing at the honey badger pen which was drawing a crowd in. "You know that thing is one of the scariest creatures in the animal kingdom."
"Discounting the Batman?" Evelyn asked smirking as Kathy laughed at her joke, they went like this taking photos by the enclosures, chatting away getting to now each other better before finally heading over for lunch.
"So I always wonder what career paths do science geniuses usually follow… NASA?" Katharine asked taking a long drink of her hot chocolate while Evelyn finished her third burger washing it down with her large coke.
"Easy I'm already taking the university course at the H.I.V.E for it right now; I'm going to be a forensic scientist like Barry." She told her getting a rather surprised look from her.
"Well that was surprising I always thought you'd work in big industry or cutting edge science; it's still a worthwhile career option, I mean I'll probably take over one of the family branches leave me more time for my 'personal work'." Katharine responded as they finished up their meal while rain started falling, Katharine looked gloomy at the sight of it.
"Don't like rain do you?" Evelyn said jokingly as she drained the last of her coke looking at her girlfriend smile sadly.
"Well sort of… I have hydrophobia: I'm afraid of drowning." She told her gaining a rather shocked look from Evelyn as she processed this information. "IT happened when I lived in Brussels, we were at a lake and I fell out of the boat, I thought I was going to die, everything went black and I couldn't breath. My dad resuscitated me and I didn't bathe for a month… after that I only took showers. It was the first thing I had to overcome in my training and it nearly broke me on day one."
"So are you over it or?" Evelyn asked sincerely now looking at her as she shook her head.
"I'm still afraid but I can swim and go into water, but I can't get rid of the underlying worry that something will go wrong I guess I'll have to live with it for every… you afraid of anything?" she asked after a few moments silence.
"Not being fast enough." Evelyn said quietly as they remained in silence for reminder of the rainfall.
"What to see this funny cat video Babs sent me?" Katharine asked showing her it on her phone, Evelyn smiled moving to be beside her resting her head on her shoulder as they watched the cats laughing their heads off at the furry antics.
11:23 PDT H.I.V.E campus Jump City September 10th 2010
"Jesus Christine why are you being so hostile towards me lately?" Garfield asked his sister as she worked away at her computer fed up with her behaviour lately.
"I'm trying to work on our project and you keep getting distracted by Alyssa I won't let you jeopardise my work." She spoke with a hint of venom in her voice as she did gaining a shocked look from her twin.
"you've become obsessed with the project, you don't socialise anymore, you barely seemed to register what happened to Victor when I told you… you've changed sis and not in a good way." He said before storming off unsure how to handle to situation, he had never seen her acting this way, it was beginning to frightening him.
"Hey Garfield what's up with you?" Evelyn asked coming out of the girls bathroom and seeing the look on his face; he took a deep breath before shaking his head.
"It's nothing just family stuff, so you coming to lunch with us or what?" he asked her seeing shake her head sadly.
"Got to go find Kathy a gift for her sixteenth birthday on the fifteenth; and I'm not too sure what to get her though." She replied fidgeting with her hands as she did.
"good luck with that." He said smiling before heading off.
'well I got Artemis a pendent with the picture of our first kiss in it… maybe a locket might be a good idea.' Eve thought as she headed out of the campus and climbing on to business bound for the city centre. She looked out at the city as she did noticing a nice jewellery shop. 'yeah maybe a nice necklace or locket would do.'
She left the bus and headed over to the shop not noticing the two people following her into the shop.
12:00 PDT Tri's Movie store Jump City September 10th 2010
Having had his fill of historically documentaries and surfing the web to gain an insight on this universe's culture, Darius had taken up on Natasha's suggestion to go buy some DvD's and quote 'stop asking me questions as I'm trying to build a hammer with the kinetic force of a nuke!' so here he was, a few hundred dollars richer and a trolley full of DvD's including 300, something he had been suggested to watch.
"Next customer please." The woman at the register said as he walked up depositing the large number of movies in front of her; she stared looking up at him. "Movie buff?"
"something like that." He replied smiling to which she blushed as she began processing his goods; it was then that he was drawn to the commotion at the till next to him. He saw a tall woman with jet black hair with a young girl with purple eyes and pale ashen coloured skin with the same black hair, she gave off a faintly and unwelcoming familiar aura to him.
"But it says here on the boxset the whole series at discount price for the day." She argued pointing to a label on the dvd box set, upon closer inspection he saw it was pretty pretty Pegasus season 1-4.
"I'm sorry but that deal ended at 12:00, you'll have to pay the addition forty dollars." He said as she looked down at her daughter who looked slightly upset.
"Its her birthday soon and this was supposed to be when we could afford it can't you give us a break just this once?" she pleaded as the guy looked genuinely sorry for her.
"I can't I'll lose my job." He began before darius slap two fifty dollar bills down looked at the startle woman and said simply.
"Keep it." Before taking his purchases and heading off ignoring her attempts to refuse him; once he was far enough away he looked back and was happy to see she had, reluctantly, accepted the money and the girl who looked much happy left the store with her mother. It was then that a commotion came from across the street at the jewellery store.
12:03 PDT Gem Kingdom jump city September 10th 2010
" well sister tuppence so any rocks that caught your eye?" the blonde male said as they walked around the shop glancing at the display cases holding thousands of dollars' worth of merchandise, they cased the place while the attendant was busy helping out a red haired customer looking at a rather well price gold locket which she proceeded to have engraved and waited by the desk for her purchase.
"I do believe my list is made brother Tommy if your ready." She replied as the pair moved forward to begin their robbery.
'I hope the locket's ok why must I always stress myself out when doing these things.' Evelyn thought waiting for the machine to finish the etching process when a muscular arm wrapped it's self around her neck as she was pressed against someone's chest when a familiar voice called out from directly behind her. 'tommy terror here of places.'
"No body move and no one gets hurt." He said in the familiar southern accent as Eve watched tuppence smash the cases grabbing the jewels as the alarms went off, once they had done piling their loot into a bag they turned still holding Evelyn by the throat as they moved outside as a number of police cars pulled up on them. "Well my dear looks like you'll be sticking with us a bit longer."
"Put the girl down now!" the police commanded pulling their guns on the pair who grinned bemused at the notion, Evelyn was worried as the only things those bullets would hurt would be her with the twins invulnerability and she had long resigned herself to never using her powers when it could comprise her and through that her family's secret identities.
'the hell I'm being the damsel in distress.' Eve thought reaching into her bag and grabbing the can of pepper spray before pulling it out and giving Tommy a good dose of it in the face. He cried out in rage loosing his grip to rub his eyes as she scrambled away only getting a glancing but still powerful blow to the side from Tuppence terror sending her flying into a parked car clutching her side in pain as the twins leaped away.
'the hell your getting away.' Evelyn thought clambering to her feet and taking a step before the pain flared up again and she clutched her side once more hissing in pain.
"Are you all right miss?" a female police officer said running over to her and practically dragging her to an ambulance where a male paramedic looked her over: he felt up the painful region before looking up at her.
"You have a broken rib and possible internal bruising I highly recommend you going to hospital." He said as she had no real choice but to nod before taking out her phone and dialling up Barry but no answer; so she tried Kara, she wasn't answering either leaving her with one more choice.
"What's up Eve?" came Amelia's voice from the phone as Evelyn sat in the back on ambulance looking at the paramedic and whispering into the mic.
"The terror twins are in jump city, I got held hostage but got injured getting away I'm in a ambulance heading to the hospital and I need someone to come here and handle them, I can't reach kara and Barry's so I can't contact the league leaving you the only one who can get here ASAP and with the muscle to handle them, you able to come?" she asked careful to keep her voice low enough that the paramedic won't hear her conversation.
"sure be there in twenty I'm getting the hang of super-sonic flight." Amelia responded hanging up as evelyn switched over to call her dad and let him know what was going on.
"Yes Eve something wrong?" he asked warmly.
"Yeah I got held up in a jewellery robbery and I'm in an ambulance on my to hospital right now paramedic suspects broken rib I call you when I get there I should be fine so there's no need to worry ok?" she said waiting on his response.
"I call your mother, she's in jump city visiting a friend anyway be careful out there kido your not the man of steel after all." He said hanging up as she looked in the direction of the fleeing twins.
'that may be true but i do have the 'full metal bitch' on my side.' She thought unable to stop herself smiling after hearing Amelia's nickname for herself after she beat the girl of steel in their last sparing match.
12:29PDT jump city airspace September 10th 2010
"now if I were a pair of inbred southern white trash where would I go?" Power-girl said from her position cruising above the city ignoring the impulse to scratch her blonde short haired wig that Kara had gotten her to help conceal her identity, she was lucky no one had gotten a decent photo or film of her yet or her cover would be blown. She heard the distinct sound of a superboy landing and smiled when she realised it was the twins. "heading out in the westside too bad for you Courtney's been making me really despite for a punching bag or two."
She tore through the sky at over mach one approaching the site scanning for the twins as she landed in the clearing where the cater was. It was a demolition site for an old building because there must be a large amount of lead in the surrounding debris.
"Looks like I'm doing it the old fashioned way." Power-girl said as she walked through the area ears pricked for sounds, she had been working on her super hearing and how to moderate it's range and frequency since the whole picking up radio frequencies in Atlantis. A sudden noise to her drew her attention as she rushed over towards it, passing by a brick wall. A loud cracking sound emitted from the debris to her right as a concrete block burst through it smashing her into the wall and through it as Tommy terror was revealed to be behind it swinging a thick metal beam at her; the impact reversed her direction while trapping the kinetic energy inside her body before sending her hurtling towards a clothesline from tuppence terror impacting power-girl's head and using the momentum to smash her into the ground, as tommy brought the metal beam down on her head.
"looks like you were right sis, them heroes did send a super after us." Tommy said dropping the beam as tuppence terror picked up power-girl restraining her as tommy beg pounding her in the gut, the shockwave breaking the nearby windows. "But you'll have to do better than that to beat the terror twins!"
He throw a punch at power-girl's head this time; she heard it before she saw it, a humming sound as a bronze coloured object collided with the back of tuppence's head with enough force to sending her body forward pushing power-girls head down and out of the path of the approaching fist which collided hard against the blonde's jaw. She let go of power-girl as she was sent flying back; while her brother was stunned by his action power-girl drove her own fist into his gut, and then a uppercut to his face, while he was recoiling she grabbed his shoulders and pulled him over her head leaning back as she did driving him face first into ground and kicked him towards his sister, his face ploughing a trench in the ground as he smashed her recovering figure into a wall.
"that better terror boy." Power-girl said smirking as walked over to the object stuck into the wall; she pulled it out and looked it over feeling it to be well balanced, it was a Spartan shield with a double set W in the middle. 'did I get saved by donna or Diana?' she thought as a deep voice sounded behind her.
"I'll have it back if you will." She turned to see the speaker to be a boy in his late teens with pale skin, and blue eyes visible through his full face helmet. He was over six feet in height and dressed like a patriotic hoplite, a double W set into his chest. Confused but not wanting to be rude Power-girl threw it disc like at him, he caught it casually without much effort as he raised his right hand and locked in place on the other wrist.
"Who the fuck are you suppose to be captain fucking America!" tuppence snarled as she and her brother advanced on them menacingly; the new person turned his head as he narrowed his gaze on the pair.
"I think Wonder Warrior would be appropriate as to who I am, and why i'm here... well to help take you two down of course." Wonder Warrior said as he slide into a fighting stance his shield raised in front of him concealing his other hand. The twins exchanged looks before tommy charged him while tuppence launched herself at power-girl. The heroine stood her ground until the last second sidestepping her blow and grabbing the outstretched fist. With a mighty pull she throw the villain into the support beam denting it before continually pounded her face into the steel column. Meanwhile Wonder warrior had knelt low when tommy reached him driving the shield into his legs and hurling him over head; his concealed hand darted out wrapping a silver rope around the meta's hand and swing it and him around and around in a circle.
"Incoming." He called out letting go as the blonde went flying towards power-girl who took a step to the side as he smashed into his sister breaking the column and causing the section of ceiling to collapsed on them. Wonder Warrior walked over to her stopping besides Power-girl who was smiling. "these guys ain't that good when it's a fair fight aren't they?"
"You're right about that." Power-girl replied smiling as they turned to face the emerging and now raging criminal twins. They grabbed chunks of debris and threw them at the heroes; power-girl punched the projectile causing it to explode while Wonder Warrior deflected it away with his shield. The twins suddenly tackled them having used it as a cover to get close to them. Wonder Warrior dodge and danced around tommy's wild blows, his eyes never leaving the southern's and seemed to bore into his skull until he threw a hard punch towards his head. In a flash of movement Wonder warrior caught the boys fist in his hand stopping it dead as the resulting shock wave creaked the nearby the wall.
"What? I can go toe to toe with superman how can yee stop meh punches like that?" he asked in shock as wonder warrior proceeded to twist his arm back in a display of utter raw power pushing the boy down into his feet.
"Because I have the strength of Atlas." He responded raising his other fist as the shield slide into a tear shaped form and brought it down hard into the boys face; he was hammered into the ground creating a crater by the force of the punch smashing every window in the vicinity and seemed unconscious. "Light weight."
Power-girl was currently in a boxing stance dodging the wild blows of Tuppence and giving her the one-two-cut sequence Adrian taught her. Dodge and punch to the shoulder of the attacking arm, duck wild counter strike and launch second punch to the ribs, back step preforming an uppercut into the jaw. The speed of the first and second punch always left them open to the uppercut when dealing with untrained brutes and he wasn't wrong in this case. A sound filled her ears and she smiled ducking low as the shield flew overhead smashing into tuppence's throat and knocking her off her feet.
"Spin time!" Power-girl roared with glee grabbing the girls feet and spinning her around and around, faster and faster until she threw her towards wonder warrior who drove her into the ground beside her brother with his fist. "Nice move but I could've taken them both on my own."
"That I have no doubts but I hate seeing two on one it's dishonourable… and besides it's been a while since I've last fought beside a great warrior such as myself and I must say you are truly deserving of your name power-girl." He said to her walking over and retrieving his shield; he didn't see the blush that filled her cheeks as she coughed looking away.
"Well you weren't bad yourself wonder warrior… its weird Donna and Diana never mentioned a male amazon?" she said quickly looking back at him as he turned to face her his shield folding away on his wrist.
"That's because they don't know I exist… unless you decide to tell them that is, till next we meet power-girl, I look forward to it." He said before turning and flying off in the same manner as wonder woman; it was weird but a part of her was also looking forward to their next meeting, she liked his style.
"No one would believe me if I told them about him." She muttered to herself retrieving the terror twins' unconscious forms and taking off with them.
13:04 PDT jump city general hospital September 10th 2010
"well you got lucky miss I've seen some of the injuries resulting from meta fights and let me tell you that you got off lightly." The doctor said as he finished wrapping the bindings to help her rib heal. "it should take a about week to heal properly so refrain from anything that might cause further damage to you injury."
"So things done doc can I go now?" Evelyn asked impatiently to get out and grab kathy's gift.
"Sorry but since your sixteen I need an adult to sign you out first." He replied as a familiar figure came into view at ward's door way.
"Well that's good timing since my mom's just arrived." Evelyn said pointing as Mary West came over looking concerned for her daughter, they had been civil to one another but still hadn't brought up the conversation from a few weeks back.
"I'm her mother is she ok doctor?" she asked with great concern evident on her face as the doctor explained away the situation a few minutes later and Evelyn was exiting the hospital heading towards the train station and home.
"I need to go grab something mom I'll be right back." She said disappearing leaving her mother with a confused look on her face; a few minutes later she was back with a wrapped up box which Mary eyed with curiosity.
"whats that you went and got?" she asked with interest to which Evelyn blushed a little before taking a deep breath and answering truthfully.
"it's the birthday gift for my teammate Katharine Kane its her sixteenth in a few days." She said noticing the surprised look on her mother's face.
"Which one is she the blonde or the red head?" she asked as they boarded the train bound for home; Evelyn took the seat opposite her winching at the pain from her ribs.
"the red head she's from gotham though I think you'd already know that." She said enjoying the smile that came to mary's face.
"I want you to take it easy with that injury ok I have enough issues with the upcoming baby that I don't want to have to worry about your safety as well." She replied as they sat in silence.
'might as well ask her about it.' Evelyn thought before thinking about how to broach the subject; she was surprised when it was her mother who spoke up first.
"I've had time to think things over this past few weeks and I'd like to start off by apologising for the way I reacted when you came out to us." She began gaining a wide eyed reaction from the teen who silent at the words. "I guess it was another clear cut fact that despite my every wish you are not the normal girl I wanted."
'what is that supposed to mean?' Evelyn thought suddenly getting rather confused and conflicting emotions in her mind as her mother went on.
"When I was girl the bond I had with my mom was something truly special; she was my best friend, the person I turned to for advice for my every problem. She seemed to have all the answers and that something I hoped to have with my own children one day." She spoke smiling at the memories they brought her; Evelyn was stunned at them, she hadn't had the opportunity to meet her grandmother since she died of cancer three years before she or wally had been born and had been a successful single mom. "then you came along not too long after she was gone and I thought I had this chance to forge a bond of my own with you, in that regard I failed miserable. I didn't have the answers for your problems, I wasn't as smart as you when you were seven let alone after that, we weren't the best friends I had hoped we'd be, always disagreeing on your clothing and how you dressed and acted. I realised that you preferred to keep your problems to yourself and was the kind of person to help out others like my own mother rather than ask others for it like I did, I felt unneeded and out of touch of what my own daughter was like and I guess this latest revelation puts that point in that we're never going to have the bond I wanted and I have to accepted you for who you are and not what I wanted you to be for me."
'I had no idea she felt this way along.' Evelyn thought shocked at her mothers confessions and the downcast look on her face at admitting her fears; in a instant Evelyn had wrapped her arms around the smaller woman's figure tightly burying her face into her shoulder.
"You are my best friend, who gets me out of bed in the morning, who made sure I was always looking my best for the world. You helped when I felt down, I could always rely on you to be there for me mom." She said hugging the woman tightly feeling the wave of emotions wash over her. After that they sat in silence but the tension that had existed before was gone and the evelyn felt that the bond they had was back again which was worth getting hurt by tommy terror any day. "Em well there's something else mom."
"What is it dear?" she asked frowning and looking at evelyn directly in her eyes; in spite of herself Evelyn couldn't help rubbing the back of her neck nervously.
"Well Kathy isn't just my teammate we've… been dating for weeks now, I was waiting for us to sort out a relationship first before telling you." She told the woman whose face shifted into a smile as she hugged her daughter once more.
"Why should I be surprised, so do I get to meet her then?" She asked causing a large smile to appear on Evelyn face as she nodded hugging her again. "I'll take that as a yes, why not have her over for dinner sometime with the family?"
"I'll ask her at the party." Evelyn replied rather happy with the way things had went today so far… well maybe not the rib breaking.
14:21 CDT Central City Beauty saloon September 15th 2010
"I really think you should have gone with the ruby Amon heels they really showed off your ankles Eve." Megan said from her position beside her as her hair was being done up; even though she could do it herself with her shapeshifting megan really wanted to do the whole beauty parlour experience, she had agreed to help Evelyn get the best look for kathy's sweet sixteenth. it's kind of funny when think about considering a guy should know better than anyone what looks are most attractive on a girl. But then Evelyn couldn't think about herself in that manner without blushing with embarrassment, no she really didn't like dresses all that much and the heels was abhorrent to her.
"Megan I walk like drunken peg legged pirate when I'm in heels; I really really don't like wearing them at all." She replied as the make up was finished being applied and she got a good look at the end result: all in all she looked good, nicely done up hair and a nice red dress waiting for her at home. They paid and left heading in the direction of the bioship which was acting as transport considering Evelyn was wasting the three hour work before even getting to the party by running.
"So how are things between you and Conner?" Evelyn asked smiling at the blush which erupted across the martian's face as she looked shocked and stammered horrible; Evelyn couldn't help but to burst out laughing at the sight wrapping a still tender arm around the girls shoulder, she hated waxing too, she looked into the girl's face grinning like the Cheshire cat.
"Jesus Megan you two keep pussyfooting around, just ask him out all already he'll say yes I promise you." Evelyn told her exasperatedly as she watched the girl rub the back of her head as they entered the alley where the bioship was stationed and entered it.
"Do you really think he'll say yes?" She asked smiling at the notion as she faced Evelyn who took the co-pilot's seat; evelyn smiled back at her warmily.
"What do you think Megan." She replied simply seeing the girl practical radiate with the idea; they took off home and after getting into their dresses, a ruby red dress which expose Evelyn's back and arms while trailing down to her ankles and megan's which was the same style only a nice lavender colour. Personal Evelyn had told her to go for green but she preferred the lavender one.
"Be back late Mom." Evelyn said as she hugged and kissed her parents goodbye; they smiled as Evelyn picked up her gift wrapped in sliver and gold paper.
"Have fun and tell Kathy happy birthday from us ok dear ." Mom replied before adding. "Also invite her to the family dinner; I'd like to get to know my daughters girlfriend."
"So you and batwoman then." Megan said once them returned to the bioship looking at Evelyn who smirked and nodded. "I guess that's why you too have been so close lately… so how is it going so far?"
"Two wonderful dates and hopefully a third one soon." Evelyn answered as they tore across the sky towards gotham city.
"It's a shame robin had patrol tonight with bats." Megan said after a while; Evelyn felt sorry for dick still not being able to tell the team about who he was.
"Maybe its for the best; Babs is a bit of a robin fangirl… so too is Bette according to Kathy." Evelyn told her as they approached the penthouse where Kathy lived, they landed in a dark parking lot next to it where two people waited on them. Kara was dressed in a sliver white dress which went down to her feet and exposed her back like with evelyn's new dress, she was wearing the brown haired wig and had a pair of contacts into to maintain appearances. Conner was dressed in a nice jet black suit and was staring at megan wide eyed, this resulted in Megan blushing madly, squirming and not meeting his eyes while Eve and Kara just grinned at one another.
"Megan…you…you look beautiful." He said in an uncharacteristic nervous voice which caused the martian to go redder than Abigail's hair as she looked at him beaming, he rubbed his head before receiving a nudge from Kara. "listen you know there's a county fair in smallville in few days… would you like to come with me as a-"
"OF COURSE!" she practically screamed before blushing and saying "I mean yes I'd love to go on a date with you to it."
"Great I'll get all the details sorted then." He said smiling as he offered a hand to lead Megan in towards the front door, still beaming she accepted it; Kara moved over beside Eve, her face set in triumph.
"Once again love is formed with my help!" she declared proudly as Evelyn scoffed at her.
"What was the first time? you making sure my date with Kathy was uninterrupted?" she replied seeing the kryptonian nod at her as them headed towards the elevator and headed up. they reached the front door and knocked. They were greeted by the sight of Mr Kane dressed in a nice suit who beamed when he saw Evelyn standing there.
"Come on in Kathy's over with Richard and Abigail." He told them pointed over to where Kathy wearing a beautiful black shimmering dress was talking with the always crimson attired billionaire and Wayne's ward. They dropped off the gifts seeing that Mia was standing next to Donna who looked comically uncomfortable in the matching emerald dresses and at the attention of the rich kids who would have been invited for politicking reasons, especially all the boys fawning over the pair of them. Another source of eye candy for the boys was Amelia wearing a rich red dress which showed off her curves very well. It was kinda of funny that Amelia was blessed with a voluptuous figure and yet hated the idea of people only seeing her sex appeal and not the person underneath; then again her mother was treated as a sex object and so her desires in a man was probably not for him to go for her based on her looks alone. Unfortunately today Adrian was having a health check-up and couldn't attend along with Kaldur who was helping Aquaman with an oil leak in the gulf.
"Happy birthday Kathy." Evelyn said walking up to her; they embraced before Kathy pulled her into a kiss gaining a rather shocked look from Barbara and from the other members of team but for Richard who winked at them.
"Might want to close that mouth before a ferret climbs in." Abigail said placing a manicured finger under Babs chin and pushing her mouth shut. "its nice to see young love in its different forms."
"So enjoying your sixteenth?" Evelyn asked smiling as she gestured to the filled place; Katharine gave her a sly smile in response.
"A lot more now that my girl's arrived." She said as both laughed, what proceeded was a fun night of seeing Robin completely fool the others as Richard Grayson. When it came to dancing Evelyn ended up tripping and falling on top of Kathy which resulted in them both bursting into uncontrolled laughter. As the night wore on the majority of guests left leaving the team and Katharine's closest personal friends who accompanied her to give her sister her private family party.
'They really do look identically.' Evelyn thought as Katharine sat beside her sister whispering in her ear and giving her a kiss on the forehead before retiring back home.
"By the way Kathy, me and my mom made up again… in fact she would like to meet you over dinner sometime." Evelyn told her in the car journey to which Katharine beamed wiping away her tears as she agreed to come to it.
18:22 EDT Mount Justice September 16th 2010
"It has been a major point of interest as to why four ice villains attacked at the same time back on the four of july. It seems that it wasn't just 'coincidence' since the villains 'icecle jr and mr freeze have both sent to Belle Reve ultra-maximum security prison… we want to know why." Batman informed the team as large looking over them all. "to that end we will be insert Super-boy and Miss Martian as the terror twins: Kid will monitor the situation with Red tornado from the bioship; find out the truth and stay safe."
"Why Megan and not me or Amelia?" Asked Kara annoyed at not being assigned the mission. "We've got super strength."
"Because you face is too recognisable Kara and Amelia is too big." Evelyn told them getting a confused look from Amelia.
"I'm the same height as Tuppence terror!" she yelled outrage; Evelyn rubbed her neck looking down as she spoke.
"I wasn't talking about your height." She said gesturing with her hands as if to cup her breasts; Amelia went crimson red and didn't say another word on the matter.
21:55 CDT route to Belle Reve Penitentiary September 16 2010
Conner and Megan were lead chained and collared to the prison bus where they were shoved into it hard by the guards; inside they could see the sight of three individuals, Icicle Jr, Mister Freeze… and Deula Dent, her face covered in cuts and scars normally hidden beneath her bright white face paint now bare for the world to see as she seemed less threatening without it and somewhat… pitifully. Then they remembered what she did to their friend and the pity died away in an instant.
"What the fuck you looking at ice boy." Deula spoke coldly towards Icicle Jr who looked at his feet quickly. They sat in silence for the whole journey to Belle Reve.
"Welcome to Belle Reve, some of you are new to the correctional institution." Waller said looking at Conner and Megan before glancing at Deula. "And some come from our esteemed co-workers at the Blackmoor female penatentiary… now hear this: I am the law of last resort, my name is Amanda Waller, I am the warden, not your mother friend or aunt and you are my prisoners."
"Those collars your wearing are designed to inhibit your specific powers and act as… deterrents to negative behaviour. No strength, no ice, no attitude." She said before pressing a button; the five of them immediately twisting under the electric shock produced, Deula's howls in particular seemed much more agonised than the rest. "I happened to have seen the capabilities of that torture device you used on that poor girl Miss Dent rest assured your collar can make the agonised cries of Miss Evelyn West look like a case of static shock in comparison… get them out of my sight."
'So hows it going you two?' Kid asked over the mind-link as the two were being lead to their cells.
"Well I'm celling with Deula Dent so no good there." Megan replied over the mind link.
"So I heard from a guard you got the harsher sentence for assaulting none other than Evie West… that girl's got no luck it seems." Deula said with small laugh, Megan felt her knuckles flex in anger over her words.
With Conner…
"So Tommy Boy got yourself a bird or what?" Icicle Jr asked from his spot on top bunk; Conner thought it over before responding.
"I may do what concern is it of yours?" he asked seeing him smile at him.
"I got a girl on the outside… come to think of she'll be pretty mad about me getting thrown in here, but I had my reasons." He said before they were taking out of their cell and introduced to general population. Both heroes were slightly unnerved to be surrounded by so many villains.
With Megan…
"First time in the slammer huh hillbilly jane… word of advice don't appear weak, I learned that the hard way." Deula said pointing to her mouth scaring, her eyes alight with fire as they passed by killer frost who was talking to Cheetah both women eyeing up the new meat.
With Conner…
"I'm had to do it Arty… No I'm not still trying to get my dad's attention this is a paid for job I swear Arty!" Icicle Jr was talking into his phone, before his call time was over, sighing he turned handing the phone out to Conner. "Your turn Tommy boy?"
"Ain't got no one on the outside worth talking too." Conner said simply watching Icicle Jr nod before placing the phone down. "So who's Arty she your bird you've been talking bout?"
"What… Oh yeah her names artemis Crock, we've been friends since we were kids, we both don't get on with our dads." He said not seeing the shocked look in Conner's eyes at hearing about one of their foe's dating this guy. "There's nothing I wouldn't do for her."
"Well well if it isn't my estranged son a bit young for the big leagues." Icicle Sr said approaching them flanked by Mammoth and Blockbuster, Conner noticed the tightening of Icicle Jr's fists as he smiled at his father.
"Hello dad long time no see." He said as Icicle Sr looked at Conner now; Jr gave him a look which said. 'you better go'. So he left heading over to free spot by the glass where tuppence was, while still listen in.
"So it seems tigress has a boyfriend and its icicle Jr of all people." Connor said over the mind link, this sent a wave of shock down Evelyn's spine as she felt a tinge of jealousy towards him despite her own growing hatred for the former lover.
'what concern of mine is it who this world's artemis is dating she's not my spitfire… but then neither is that Artemis either anymore.' She thought as the Connor went about discussing the planned breakout with Icicle Sr.
"So we fighting or what?" Kara asked from her spot in front of kid at the controls as she win her game of chess with Amelia who face planted the board at losing for the fifth time in a row. Kid had taken the two on as back up in case this thing deviated from wally's breakout.
"Hopefully it won't come to that." Kid told them returning to the monitor in front of them
22:00 CDT Belle Reve Penitentary September 16 2010
"Show time Tommy boy." Icicle jr said as the doors all opened up, he heard the collar deactivate and he ripped it off before sending a mental message to alert Kid and Megan to event. They ran over to meet up with Icicle Sr at the main door.
"Hows it going on the woman's side?" he asked without stopping; Connor held up his hands to sell the act.
'Megan hows it going your end?'he asked waiting for a response but was getting none; it was then that he and Mammoth both clutched their ears in pain as a high pithed noise inflicted immense pain in them.
With megan…
"Please I've got kids!" the guard pleaded as Killer frost advanced on her murder in her eyes.
"Leave her frost." Megan said threatening receiving confused looks from the other female prisoners; Killer frost's eyes narrowed as turned to look at her.
"Why do you care terror twin?" she asked suspicious; megan tried to think of an excuse as quickly as she could; she was surprised when Deula came to her rescue.
"The camera's are still working idiot and who do you think will be league priorities when we get out, besides you want to find out what prison guards do to those who kill their co-workers… I'd imagine it would worse than what your about to do to her." She said coldly as the other prisoners looked at frost now who growled but lowered her hand all the same; to maintain the act Megan picked the guard up and throw her into a cell hard enough to knock her out. It was then that the wall to the left began to creak as Cheetah fell to floor roaring in pain as she clutched her ears.
The wall exploded as a swarm of black clad figures bearing guns entered the room with a man in a black trench coat walking calmly behind them. he had blond hair cut short and blue eyes alight with excitement as she saw Deula walk towards him, he throw something at her, it turned out to be a top hat.
"Shall We my dear?" he asked holding out his hand as she smiled accepting it and leaving with him as the men held their guns on their inmates but left with him.
"What the fuck just happened?" Frost asked staring at Megan who shrugged before the inmates rushed to follow Deula out forgetting the plan and happily accepting this development in it.
With Kid Flash…
"This wasn't supposed to happen." She said as blasted a pair of female inmates while dodging Killer frosts blasts as many of the female inmates just picked a direction and ran as fast as they could. Power-girl was locked in a wrestling match with devastation and Super-girl was fighting the alien warrior Chroma who seemed to be able to match her blow for blow. Suddenly Red tornado began sucking out all the air in our area, the three crooks went down gasping for breath as we stood there unaffected by it.
"It would seem something went differently from what was expected." Red tornado said as they tied up the downed inmates and watched megan came over to them returning to her normal form dragging two more prisoners behind her.
"Some guy destroyed the walls and broke out Deula dent... i think he either works for or is in fact Mister Sinister." She said to the shocked surprise of the others, they headed into the prison to meet up with super-boy; super-girl melted a hole in the glass wall separating the male and female inmates leaving Red Tornado to guard hole the four girls moved to help connor Megan looking especially worried, the sight that meet them was one which caused them halt dead in their tracts staring dumbfounded at a heaving Connor laying amongst a pile of groaning unconscious criminals.
"Super-boy" Miss Martian cried running forward and embracing him as their lips met while Kara awed them. Kid looked around confused with the sight before her and looked at super-boy clearly expecting a explanation.
"When I couldn't get an answer on the mindlink and that crazy sound nearly split my ears; I decided to enact the plan on my own, so I tricked Icicle Jr, then I went to the warden's office dispatched the thugs and reactivated the collars and flooring the rest of the male inmates, finally I went back after taking down Icicle Jr and took down the remaining inmates." He finished taking a deep breath; the girls still stared in disbelief.
"Connor there was several strength based metas and three ice villains who could have taken you down with one hit… Diana and Black Canary would be proud." Kid said clapping him on the back as the returned to free the staff who looked puzzled at Connor until he pulled off the wig.
"Guess I have to thank you for this unauthorized mission… where are the rest of the female inmates?" Waller asked looking as the super trio begin bring in the downed female inmates from outside.
"Escaped when Mister Sinister broke you superman proof walls in under three minutes." Power-girl said coldly dropping Devastation on the floor in front of her, while Megan apologizes to the female guard she knocked out from before.
"Better out than in the ground." She said smiling as Megan sighed with relief.
"So who got away?" Super-girl asked dropping Chroma on the ground before them.
"A good three dozen meta villains and Cheetah too." Strange said looking at clipboard… are you sure about taking that government offer Amanda, we could sure use your leadership around about now." He said to her as she smiled strangely friendly placing a hand on Strange's shoulder.
"Thanks for support Hugo but I feel safe leaving Belle Reve in your care… besides I have a mission of my own." She said before leaving to arrange new collars to be issued to the inmates.
"Time for that date or what." Connor said walking over and kissing Megan as the heroes left for the bioship.
1:00 EDT Mount Justice September 17th 2010
"I will inform the league of the escaped criminals though many are simply in Belle Reve due to their meta human status the only real threat is Cheetah and I'm sure Wonder woman will make her a personal priority." Red Tornado said once they returned to the cave; Kid headed over to a control computer and revisited the footage of mister sinister breaking into belle Reve. The Camera's had no audio but she could see him opening his mouth and unleashing some supped up form of the canary cry which blasted those walls apart… it wouldn't be much of a increase to reach the frequency where the human brain cells burst at.
"Just who is this guy and what is he after?" she thought staring at the blonde face and the unsettling similarity he has to Dinah's appearance.
A/N: So there's chapter Eleven then... we get to see Conner and Megan finally get together and next time we'll see the county fair. we get to see more of Eve and Kathy's relationship develop as well as find out more about them both. the rift between Eve and mary is also starting to mend too. i thought it would be funny if Donna was at the party despite not knowing Kathy for that long; as well as that we get to see the first encounter of a hero with Darius or 'wonder warrior' he wanted to keep the double set W. Amelia would be right in that none would belief that she had help from a male amazon and since she doesn't know he came from another dimension. i wasn't trying to ripe off captain america with shield throwing to me its more of a disc thing that that greeks did in classical times.
we also got to see Raven again as well as the breaking down of Garfield and Christine's relationship too. Even if Evelyn is beginning to hate this worlds Artemis the wally in her will still get jealously over another dating her, if only faintly. now to why i'm shipping Artemis and Icicle Jr... well the simple reason is that it is Canon in the main comic verse as they even have a baby girl together Isabelle, besides they both have abusive fathers and loved their mothers, and Icicle is deeply in love with Artemis and protective of her going as far as to ensure she can safely give birth given how his own mother died in childbirth.
we also get to see the criminal known as Mister Sinister at last! i do wonder what project Waller might be moving on too.
Anyway remember to leave a review telling what you like, what you might think would improve the story or what you might like to see in it, and any constructive criticism too so i can fix problems or improve some aspects of the story. feel free to ask me question or to explain something you don't understand to the best of my ability, as well as to point out any inconsistency which might affect the story so i can see about fixing them.
Till next time Sincerely Greywolf41 Esquire!