Alright. Back with another chapter.
This one will feature some action, and we'll get to see the rest of Godspeed's Rogues.
Let's get to it.
Green Hal37: I may have addressed this already, but if I didn't, I'll clarify it here. In this timeline, Pietro never came out of his coma and eventually died. In this timeline, Nora and Stephen have not yet gone back in time to take Pietro into the Speed Force. The end of this story will basically end with a recap of the epilogue of Crisis on Earth-99, showing the twins going back to take Pietro into the Speed Force, if that makes sense. As for where the Avengers are right now, well, you'll find out where they are later on.
Chapter 6- Rogues Attack
It's a calm night in Central City. At a Mercury Labs storage site, two guards are making their rounds.
"Hey, Brad. How're the kids?" one of the guards asks.
"Pretty good. Gonna try and take 'em camping over the weekend," the other guard replies.
As they pass by a door leading outside, they suddenly hear a knocking sound, though not like someone knocking with their fist. They stop and look at the door, then at each other.
"What was that?" the first guard asks.
The second guard shrugs. Suddenly, an explosion blows the door off its hinges. The guards pulls out their guns as one presses his alarm button. But, before they can react, a razor sharp boomerang flies through the open and cuts across the neck of the first guard before curving around and cutting the neck of the second. The two drop dead.
As the smoke from the explosive charge clears, Fred Myers and Grant Wilson walk into the storage facility.
"Sorry, boys. But we need something here. Can't risk you getting in our way," Myers says with a smirk.
"Alright. Let's find that thing and get out of here," Grant says, and the two move further into the warehouse.
(Flash lair)
An alarm suddenly starts blaring, disrupting a group discussion among the New Avengers. In a split second, William is at the computer, typing. A second later, he calls, "Break in at a Mercury Labs warehouse. I'm trying to pull up security cam footage."
A few moments later, footage from one of the security cameras comes up on screen, and shows the door being blown off its hinges, and Myers killing the two guards before entering with Grant.
"S***! It's Boomerang and Deathstroke!" William cries out.
Nora reacts instinctively, "Stephen, go take care of them!"
Stephen is about to take off when another alarm sounds. William types a few keys, then cries, "Break in at Stagg Industries! Pulling up security camera footage!"
A second later, another security cam feed comes up, showing a woman entering Stagg Industries and blasting two guards with lightning.
"Weather Witch?!" Nora exclaims in exasperation.
She quickly recomposes herself, however, and looks at Stephen. "New plan. You take John and Zoe to the Mercury Labs warehouse, then you go to Stagg and stop Weather Witch. Jenna and I will stay here in case Godspeed shows up."
Stephen nods. Zoe and John race to don their uniforms and grab their weapons. As soon as they are ready, Stephen grabs them and races off.
(Mercury Labs warehouse)
Myers and Grant are looking through the containers resting on the shelves in front of them. "Ugh. Where is it?" Grant mutters angrily.
"Found it!" Myers calls, and Grant runs around the shelves to him.
As soon as she sees it, Grant grins. "Alright. Let's get it out of here."
Suddenly, they hear the sound of a speedster in the next room. Instantly, they perk up. They look at each other, knowing it's likely not Godspeed. So, Myers pulls out his boomerangs, and Grant draws a sword. Then, the two walk into the next room.
Sure enough, it wasn't Godspeed they heard. Rather, John and Zoe are standing there, weapons at the ready.
"Well, well, well. If ain't Green Arrow Jr.," Grant says mockingly. He then looks at Zoe before saying, "Can't say I recognize you, though."
"I'm the Black Canary!" Zoe says firmly.
"Ahh. A new one. Nice. I like a challenge," Grant says with a smirk, turning his sword in his hand a bit.
"If you leave now, maybe we'll let you walk out of here," John says.
"Oh, you know us better than that," Myers says right before he throws his boomerangs.
(Stagg Industries)
Evelyn Jackam smiles as she enters the storage area, beginning to search through the various chemical containers.
"Oh, where are you?" she says in a sing-songy voice.
Suddenly, she hears the sound of a speedster running behind her. She smirks and turns to see Stephen standing behind her.
"Well, well. The Silver Flash. I've been waiting for a chance to take you on," Evelyn responds.
"Well, I'm sorry, but you're going to lose," Stephen responds.
"Oh, am I?" Evelyn says as lightning begins to spark from her hands. She smirks before letting loose with a blast of lightning.
(Mercury Labs warehouse)
John ducks under Myer's boomerangs again, firing off an arrow. Myers blocks it with another boomerang, then quickly stows it away to grab his returning boomerangs. He rushes at John, boomerangs in hand, as John twirls his bow a bit, ready for him.
Yards away, Grant easily blocks a blow from one of Zoe's batons with his sword. He then forces her back and slashes downwards towards her head. Zoe brings her batons upwards in an X-shape, catching the blade between the two.
Grant grins evilly as he pushes down, forcing Zoe down onto one knee as she tries to hold the sword back.
"You're nowhere near as strong as me," Grant says.
"I don't need to be," Zoe says before she ducks away to the side, striking Grant across the head as he stumbles.
"Should've put your mask back on," she says as she swings at him again. However, he blocks it just in the nick of time before throwing a punch at her, catching her in the stomach and knocking her on her back.
Meanwhile, Myers and John are exchanging blows, both moving fluidly between striking and blocking. That is, until Myers manages to catch John with a blow across the upper arm with one of his boomerangs, opening a gash in his arm. Before John can recover, Myers manages to use his boomerangs to twist John's bow out of his grip. Smirking, Myers then grabs John by the arm, before twisting around and letting go of John sending him head-first into a pole, knocking John out instantly. Myers stands over him triumphantly before turning to Grant, who has managed to nick Zoe several times with sword. As Myers watches, Grant delivers a blow so powerful it knocks one of Zoe's batons right out of her hand. He then kicks her so hard so stumbles back into a wall of stacked cans, which collapse on top of her, knocking her out as well.
The two Rogues stand there for a moment before they face each other and Grant says, "Let's get out of here." Myers nods, and they grab the chemicals they came for before they retreat.
(Stagg Industries)
Stephen dashes out of the way of yet another lightning bolt before speeding towards Evelyn. She responds by drawing in more lightning to create a web of electricity around her.
Stephen swerves aside to avoid the dome of electricity, before spotting something hanging on the ceiling almost right over Evelyn. He races up the wall and onto the ceiling, undoing the chain and allowing the motor to fall. Seeing it coming, Evelyn quickly dodges out of the way.
Stephen races back down to the ground and gathers up a lightning bolt. He slows down and throws it at Evelyn, but she counters with a lightning bolt of her own. The two meet, causing a blast that knocks the two flying.
Stephen recovers first and races at Evelyn, delivering a speed punch that knocks her into the air. However, she summons the wind to slow her down and boost her, leaving her hovering several feet in the air. She then smirks before the winds begin to swirl between them, slowly forming a twister.
Stephen stares at the forming twister for a moment before he begins running in circles around the base of it, trying to unravel it.
It doesn't take him too long to do so. But, right as the twister dissipates, before Stephen can turn towards Evelyn, he suddenly feels himself bombarded by hailstones the size of baseballs. The onslaught of the ice is painful enough Stephen can't even react properly. After a few moments of this, a massive lightning bolt hits Stephen, knocking him flying into a wall, where he collapses unconscious.
Evelyn smirks. "Well, at that time training with Godspeed paid off," she says under her breath before she uses her powers over the wind to summon the chemical she came for, and she flies out with it.
(Flash lair)
"John? Zoe? Stephen? Anybody, come in!" William calls over comms, but he gets no response. He repeats his call a few times, but still no answer.
Nora and Jenna are both standing behind William, feeling very concerned. Finally, Nora says, "I'm gone," right before she races out of the lair.
Racing at full speed, it doesn't take too long to get to the Mercury Labs warehouse. When she gets there, all she finds is Zoe and John, both unconscious and bleeding.
"S***! Zoe and John are unconscious, and Myers and Wilson are gone!" Nora responds. She quickly picks up Zoe and runs her back to the lair, dropping her off before returning for John.
Once Nora has got both of them in the lair, she says to William and Jenna, who are already busy attending to John and Zoe's wounds, "I'm going to go find my brother," before racing off towards the Stagg Industries building.
It doesn't take her too long to reach the building. As soon as she enters the right room, she sees her brother slumped against the wall. "Stephen!" she cries as she races over to her brother.
Kneeling in front of him, she shakes his shoulders bit. This rouses Stephen, and he looks up at Nora. It takes him a moment to ground himself before his eyes focus, and he says, "Nora. She got away."
"I know. But as long as you're safe, then we can deal with that," she says.
Stephen nods a bit. Nora helps him back to his feet, and once Stephen is steady, they race back towards the lair.
When they get back, they find Jenna still tending to Zoe, while William is at the computers, looking alarmed.
"What is it now?" Nora asks.
"There was another robbery. This time it was Godspeed himself. He stole something from a lab at CCU. It's some kind of molecular stabilizer. I think it's meant to work with the other things Godspeed and his crew have stolen. I'm trying to figure out what they could be used for. Do you two want to tend to John while I work on this?" William asks.
Nora nods and heads over to John. He's mostly okay, but Nora puts on a better bandage and starts running an X-Ray on John's wrist, which looks like it could be broken or sprained due to some swelling.
It doesn't take too long before they have John and Zoe bandaged up. Nora takes a final look over them, and says, "They should be okay. They just need some rest and they should be fine."
"Son of a *****!" Nora, Stephen, and Jenna all jump at William's exclamation.
Nora looks at William in confusion. "Usually the news that someone is gonna be okay is greeted by happiness, not swearing."
William whirls around to look at them. "Not that. I was cursing about this!" he exclaims as he gestures towards the screen, which is displaying a diagram of a chemical bond.
"What is that?" Nora asks.
"Something clicked when I looked at everything that's been stolen. I thought it could be used together to form an extracellular matrix. So I put it all together with a program I have on here. And I got a match," he says, his face a little pale.
"Which is what?" Stephen asks.
"Velocity-9," William responds, and both Zoe and Stephen pale.
"What's Velocity-9?" Jenna asks.
"It's a speed enhancement drug. There's an exhibit about it in the Flash Museum. It seriously boosts a speedster's speed, but can cause cellular degeneration," Nora explains.
"Yeah, except, with all the chemicals he stole, plus the stabilizer he stole just earlier, he can make V-9 that will last forever, and won't have that same cellular degeneration side effect," William says.
Both Nora and Stephen look at each other, their faces pale. They now know that they are in deep trouble.
I'll end there.
I hope you liked this chapter. I know it could've been better, but I'm kind of exhausted from everything that's been going the last week, so I feel like I wasn't able to be as creative as I could've been. Next chapter should hopefully be better.
Also, as for who plays the Rogues, I imagine Grant Wilson to just be the same guy that played him on Legends of Tomorrow, Fred Myers is played by Joel Edgerton, and Evelyn played by Camila Mendes.
Also, just wanted to remind you about my Descendants-Avengers fanfic Avengers of Auradon. And a new one I have up, a Descendants-Arrow crossover called Descendants: Clash of Titans. I would love it if you would go check them both out. I'm really excited for these stories.
Alright. Until next time, please review and stay tuned.