Last night TobyMac came to me and told me I owned Young Justice... but then I fell out of bed and it was just a dream!
Wednesday, November 15, 2011, 17:31
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS?" To say Artemis was pissed was an understatement. She was ready to castrate Kaldur with her arrows.
"We could not find him at the chemical factory by the Gotham River, only his gloves, boots, and utility belt," Aqualad informed.
"WELL FIND HIM ALREADY!" The archer shrieked, slapping the Atlantian before stalking off as best she could on crutches. Dare she say she was getting attached to him?
Kaldur shook his head. Everyone who had come by the Cave today had yelled at him. They were all a family and they had just lost one of the core members. Everyone was going to be hit hard by this- even the newbie Static. Even if the sixteen-year-old hero from Dakota City had been at it for two years.
Recognized: Kid Flash B03
Oh great. Kaldur had to deal with Wally yelling at him now, too.
Gordon Residence, Wednesday, November 15, 2011, 23:52
Babs Gordon held up the purple and yellow costume. Tonight, she would find out the mystery surrounding her friend Dick and his other friend Artemis- under the guise of the vigilante Batgirl. The crimefighter Artemis had been fairly badly injured, so Robin would need at least another partner to help him out.
Changing out of her jeans and shirt, she slipped on the costume. Looking at herself in the mirror, she smiled. She looked pretty good in the purple boots, lighter purple dress with black leggings and a yellow bat, dark –almost black –purple cape. Pulling the cowl over her head, she looked downright intimidating. Only the utility belt was missing. Picking it up off her bed, she slipped it on and fastened it with a click. Grabbing the grapple she had in one of the pouches, she swung out her window into the night.
Saturday, November 18, 2011, 00:13
Robin felt pain as the cast-iron pipe hit the side of his face again. His torturer enjoyed using hallucinogens, and the Boy Wonder had even had a hit of fear gas once.
The bald billionaire doing the torturing walked over to his table, setting down the pipe and picking up a hypodermic needle. Walking back over to his captive, he kneeled down to look the boy in the eyes.
"Well, do you know what this is?" Luthor paused a moment, raising the needle close to Robin's face before continuing. "It's a mixture of liquefied Joker gas and fear gas. I don't think it would be very pleasant to be injected in your system. Now, it doesn't have to be injected in you at all! Just agree to be our assassin, and you won't have to feel its affects!"
"Becermek sen! Yok!" The Boy Wonder hissed. He was getting worn down, though, and it was getting hard to remember how to cuss off Lex in Turkish.
Luthor placed a finger underneath Robin's chin; he raised the needle to the boy's neck while smirking. "They're not coming for you," he murmured to the shaking teen while plunging the hypodermic needle into the soft neck and emptying the contents into the hero's bloodstream.
Romani curses morphed into manic laughter and screams as Lex walked away, gloating already- thinking his victory sure to come over the Boy Wonder.
That was not going to happen if Batgirl had anything to say about it- and she would.
Tuesday, November 21, 2011, 11:45
Batgirl sat crouched on top of a Gotham skyscraper, looking out over the city. What with Thanksgiving break going on, she was supposed to be with her family, but she couldn't shake off a strong sense of foreboding. Something big was looming on the horizon- something that might change the world, and it all revolved around two major leagues.
Batgirl wasn't the only one with the foreboding feeling. In the living room of the apartment she shared with her mom, Artemis couldn't shake the sense of impending doom she had about Dick. She couldn't do anything about it right then, but when she got the chance there would be Hell to pay. Looking out her window, she thought she saw a person in a purple batsuit, but in a blink they were gone. Artemis shook her head and went back to talking with her mom.
Moving away from the apartment building, Batgirl patrolled for a while more, seeing if she might glimpse Robin, who had vanished. No one had seen him since the incident at Blüdhaven North with Hagai Kravitz, who had found a new job working for Wayne Enterprises.
Finding herself at the Gotham River Chemical Plant, the last place Robin had been seen, she looked around. Think clues, she thought to herself, looking around. There were scorch marks, rusty pieces of scrap metal, a discarded rebreather… She startled. A discarded rebreather?! Picking it up, Batgirl examined the black plastic device. There were signs of stress in the way of cracks, like somebody yanked it out of someone's mouth. Looking closer around the scene, she found a white rag. It had been thrown to the side, but Batgirl didn't dare touch it. This was a chemical plant- wait. A chemical plant. Chloroform was a chemical, which the costumed crime fighter knew. So, if the supposed kidnappers just tossed a chemical-drenched rag off to the side, no one would think twice about it outside a chemical factory. That or they were just absolutely sure they wouldn't get burned for it.
Holding on to the rebreather, Batgirl slipped into the night with a new mission burning in her mind.
Friday, November 24, 2011, 09:46
"Dad! I'm fine! I'm not doing drugs, or in a gang, or anything like that!" Babs was defending herself against the accusations of her father in light of her recent time-consuming activity of being Batgirl.
"I'm just worried about you. You are my only daughter, so it's only natural," her dad reasoned.
"Okay, fine. I've gotten involved in a new hobby, and it's a little time-consuming," the girl explained. "I'm fine!"
"It's not that I don't trust you, it's just that I'm worried! If you could tell me exactly what you're doing, then I wouldn't worry as much," Jim tried to reason with his daughter.
"I'm sorry dad, maybe someday, but not today. I'm just not ready to tell you yet, okay?" With that Babs slipped into her room, locking the door and beginning to slip into her Batgirl costume.
"Barbara Julia Gordon! You unlock that door right now!" Jim yelled angrily, but Batgirl was already gone through the window, grappling back to where the trail of clues led her. It was currently all the way in Denver, Colorado, and she had been using the planes to get there- finding out flights then hopping on and using her grapple to hold on with all her might for the three hours it took to get to the capitol of Colorado.
Finally reaching her destination, she resumed searching the city for more clues. She had four hours before she needed to catch her flight back to Gotham.
The Bright Sun Inn was looking promising- Lex Luthor was staying there, and he was working with his Bialyan associate Queen Bee on setting the Bialyan armies up with some strange new types of nerve gas.
Okay, just to clear stuff up, Julia is a middle name I made up for Babs. And I just felt like posting this because I have all the way up to chapter 29 finished, and I'm working on chapter 30. Here's the list of songs on my Rise in Revolution themes:
Stand- Rascal Flatts
What Faith Can Do- Kutless
Worn- Tenth Avenue North
We Won't Be Shaken- Building 429
This is War- 30 Seconds to Mars
Hero- Skillet
Rise- Skillet
Not Gonna Die- Skillet
Every Storm- Gary Allen
Life's a Dance- John Micheal Montgomery
How Do You Like Me Now?!- Toby Keith
Safe and Sound- Taylor Swift and the Civil Wars
Dark Days- Punch Brothers
Runaway- 3 Doors Down
Come Away to the Water- Maroon 5
Kingdom Come- the Civil Wars
Soldier Side- System of a Down
Iridescent- Linkin Park
It's Time- Imagine Dragons
Tiptoe- Imagine Dragons
Demons- Imagine Dragons
Welcome to the Black Parade- My Chemical Romance
The Business of Paper Stars- Hawthorne Heights
Citizen/Soldier- 3 Doors Down
Me Against the World- Simple Plan
Remember the Name- Fort Minor
It's My Life- Bon Jovi
Get Back Up- TobyMac
To The Sky- Owl City
Yea, these are all RiR themes! Whoot!