Bright helicopter lights flooded the small amount of grass left exposed around Mount Justice. The rest of the surrounding property was occupied by the oncoming attackers. Irey stood in front and center having just emerged from the collapsing cave. She was greeted by an ambush. They all aimed their weapons as soon as they noticed the brightly colored uniform.
She stood completely still, her green eyes darting around looking for a place to run or a point of weakness she could take advantage of. Suddenly there was an explosion. Nightwing, Tigress, Flash, Black Canary, Miss Martian, Superboy and an assortment of other Leaguers landed in and began attacking. The ambush took the standing offenders by surprise. With this distraction, Irey sped off into the action, which had become a sea of fire and yelling.
Meanwhile, the remaining members of the team were still inside the cave. "Guys-guys! I can hear the League, they're here!" Colin said using his super hearing.
"Then let's get out of here!" Milagro shouted. Colin flew up and pushed the wall back out of their way. "why didn't you do that like 10 minutes ago?" Jai grumbled. Colin sighed and flew out, the rest of the team behind him.
Jai ran out of the mission room to find a computer. He quickly stumbled upon the Command Room. A room Dick and Babs had only referenced. It was the central room for all the mainframes and security systems. Thinking quickly, Jai (like all legendary team members) disobeyed protocol and specific instructions to stay out and hacked the password protected room. Once inside Jai took in the sight of the latest Justice League Technology. Pushing his dark hair out of his eyes, he scanned searching for a way to make his non-meta self, useful. He soon spotted something he could work with. Logging on and quickly guessing Nightwing's password, Jai was able to turn on several cameras outside the cave. Including a camera all the way up on the Watchtower, that was set to show the entire mountain. Bringing up as many angles of the cave up on the monitors. Jai tapped his comm, concealed inside his ear
"Jai to League and Team," He said simply. "Little busy turtle." Came Irey's reply. She was, in fact busy. She was literally running circles around some men who had given up trying to take her hostage and began open fire upon the teen.
"What is it, little man?" Nightwing asked, disregarding Iris' comment and rather began helping her efforts in fighting the armed goons.
"I got angles up on the cave. Oh, Ma you got two bozos trying to your left." Jai warned to his mother, zooming in on two attackers. Tigress turned and saw the two attempting to sneak up on her. "Thanks," She said appreciatively.
"You little...Colored me impressed...In the Command Room huh. Kudos." Dick said in between punches, and in near disbelief that Jai thought of such a plan, and figured out the means to carry it out. "Thanks." Jai said typing in some codes to see if there were in any secret defensive systems in the mountain he could utilize while he was at it.
"I really think we can do this," He added. As if he spoke too soon there was a bang and then a loud clang. The Command Room door had been smashed in with a battering ram and several army goons stood at it.
"Shit!" Jai yelled, he quickly typed in codes to shut down any classified information. "Put your hands where I can see them!" One of the large men ordered two more aiming guns. The room was narrow, making it hard for Jai to even see them through the path reflections of screens and monitors. He continued anyway, he needed to make sure they couldn't get into anything. Locking in the two layers of encryption in record time, one of the men fired the gun. He jumped, it startled him.
"Woah! I stopped don't shoot!" He yelled in pure fear. These soldiers were completely unpredictable at this point.
"Stand! Put your hands up!" The one in charge shouted. Jai quickly stood with his hands raised defensively. Breathing heavily, any plan to try to fight them was scrapped...he was corned. "Miss M?" Jai said mentally. "Jai? What is it? What's wrong?" His Martian aunt quickly picked up the fear in his tone. "I've…" Jai's thought was cut off, the invaders that had somehow got inside the cave were cuffing and pushing Jai out of the command room.
"Jai!" M'Gann called out mentally. The Martian quickly relayed the message the rest of the League. Elsewhere, Wally sat bored out his mind in the bioship, which sat in camouflage mode out of the way of the action but close enough that M'Gann could summon it, should the need arise. Wally heard the news of his son being taken and instantly stood. "I got him." Came Superboy's voice over the mental link, despite it sounding like he was in the middle of something.
"No! I got it!" Wally called out to the rest. There was a moment of silence before Dick spoke "Wally. No offense but you know we're not sure how or if the Speed Force messed with your speed…."
"I can do it. He's my son. We're wasting time…." Wally replied over the link. Despite not getting any formal approval he was already lowering the bioship to the ground. Star Labs had run tests and nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Dr. Thompson only suggested he take it easy for a while. Wally hadn't actually used his speed in full-force for a long distance since his return. But Wally knew one thing...his son (whom he had just met) was in danger and it was up to him to help. As the ship was close enough to the ground, the ex KF opened a hatch and jumped through it. He was definitely rusty but stretched a little, and then went for it.
Nothing about having super speed had changed. The wind in your face, the feeling as though you were gliding or almost flying through the air and were invincible. Everything looking like it was moving in absolute slow motion. Wally was a streak of colors once again Artemis caught a glimpse of him speeding towards the large hole in the side of the cave and almost missed it. For a moment, she didn't think it was Wally. He was faster. Much faster. A trail of electricity followed him as he was soon gone into the cave.
Once inside, Wally sped straight through and over the wreckage in the Mission Room. "Jai?" Wally called over the mental link. He then heard a commotion, reacting quickly, Wally was suddenly aware of much faster he had become.
"Dad…?" Jai asked hesitantly over the mental link. He wasn't quite sure he had heard correctly, but at this point he'd take any help he could get. Getting held at gunpoint wasn't exactly in an Ops Manager job description. Wally sped around the corner and was sent almost full force into the small squad that had captured his son. Skidding past them there was then a fire of guns. Dodging quickly, Wally sped in fearlessly scooping up Jai. Closing his eyes Jai feared the worst, but when he opened them he was in his father's arms and speeding back out of the cave. "Got him!" Wally said triumphantly to his comrades over the link.
Surprised by this Artemis responded, "Wally be careful...the raid's gotten worse…" The uneasiness in her voice was enough to set Jai off but his speedster was so caught up in his victory he underestimated what was now waiting outside; the reinforcements. The moment Wally emerged from the Cave the attackers shot a taser into his side. The force launched Jai out of his arms and went skidding to a stop on the ground next to his father.
"JAI!" Artemis screamed. She quickly kicked her current opponent down in a rage and the downfall only snowballed from there. The protective mother ran as fast as she could but they were already taking him along with Wally into custody. They noticed Tigress' distraction and fired a taser into her back "ARRG" She fell hard, twitching. The tasers were made to stop metas.
Iris looked over at the sight of her mother, the strongest woman she knew being taken away and her heart sank. And then immediately Impulse noticed all the League's forces were failing. Nightwing picked up on the failures as well and ran up and grabbed Irey, throwing her over his shoulder and pulling her into a retreat. Superman called from his comm to the rest of the Leaguer's on-site ordering everyone retreats.
"Nightwing no! They have mom!" Impulse protested nearly in tears. Robin awaited the two, he looked relieved to see her unharmed. "Rob watch Irey, I'll go see what I can do about hostages." Robin nodding agreement and when he turned his head to see Irey she was speeding off in the opposite direction.
"IMPULSE, NO!" Robin practically was screaming as Impulse sped out of the Mount Justice, past him, and past the small hideout the remaining members of the League sat idly waiting. She was going faster than she'd ever gone before. The sound of rapid gunfire and explosions mixed with yelling, toppled and the sounds of a swarm of military helicopters, which were only getting lower and closer, consumed the entire parameters of Mount Justice. Irey zipped towards her family and she could just see them being pulled into the farthest military vehicle all three on their backs unconscious. The speedster forcefully bolted through the minefield, zig-zagging and dashing through and around the valley of attackers.
It was a lost battle. They were outnumbered. It was all down to Impulse, Robin, Nightwing, Flash, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and a few assorted team members. Even their strategic retreat was failing.
The sound of electricity was heard and sparks and guns became so overwhelming Damian had to cover his head with his cape for a moment. When he looked up he could see something he didn't believe to be possible. A tall yellow figure vibrating faster that he had ever seen a speedster move. This thing was darting around Irey in what looked like a speedster-showdown of sorts.
"No way…." Damian heard the Flash say. "Zoom?!" the scarlet speedster asked louder. Damian turned his attention back to this Zoom character, just in time to see it launch itself towards Irey. He watched bewildered as the two seemed to be evenly matched. Impulse defensively dodged every attack thrown at her, in a standoff of speed.
But then something changed. It appeared as though this 'Zoom' was accelerating, if that was even possible. Like he was now commanding the electricity and controlling an unseen force. In a millisecond, the Zoom launched itself at Irey one last time and hit her. Smack. Straight down, full-force. Irey fell and was lying flat on her stomach, her arms and limbs sprawled out.
"IMPULSE?!" The Flash called out to his long-time sidekick. Before Bart could do anything Zoom began running around Irey who only showed a small sign of movement since falling. Zoom circled her. Faster, and faster and faster. He created a twister. A huge twister of lightning all by itself. Damian could barely hear as Bart said something fast about the the cyclone eliminating all oxygen inside of the epicenter and henceforth, that meant in short, Zoom was basically strangling Irey. And the Flash was off too. He bolted forward past his team into the battlefield that had been created outside the base.
The Flash ran straight towards the small twister and began attempting to stop it. He ran in the opposite direction, to no avail, the Flash sped himself into Zoom. Forcing his mass into the mysterious entity, hoping to get him away from his sidekick.
All Damian could see was the flashing and mess of colors; a battle of red and yellow. He felt helpless. He wanted to run in and do something but the little voice in his head told him that it would only make this whole ordeal worse.
The next thing anyone knew Zoom was pulled away from Impulse with the Flash atop of him. There was more spinning and Bart was launched back away towards the rest of the group. Looking back over at Zoom he made his way back to Irey and Damian could tell by the way he approached her, the sick bastard was smirking, pleased with his victory. He bent down and examined the knocked-out hero before picking her up, and carelessly flinging her over his shoulder and making his way to the one of the military trucks.
"GET YOUR GODDAMN DIRTY HANDS OFF HER YOU SAVAGE" Robin shouted only to be grabbed by Nightwing to prevent him from going after Zoom. Superman collected the Flash. "Retreat." The Man-of-Steel said a bit more forcefully than the first time he said it, 10 minutes ago. "LET ME GO. CO WARDS" Robin yelled again.
The remaining few stealthily made their way to the secret entrance to the secret tunnels in and around the Cave "She'll be okay Robin." Dick said his eyes narrowed.
"I hope so…" he muttered under his breath as they all disappeared together.