CyberTech Worlds Clash

by Night Raydes

In a changing world of mutants, superheroes, and magic, Harry built his empire, and finds a sister he never knew he had, and then universes from across the multiverse start converging into one, and whatever destiny was shared by Harry and his sister became so much more, with alternate reality siblings, and heroes from multiple different Earths, can they stop the coming invasion?

68. The Priestess Sees Red

CyberTech Worlds Clash

Chapter 68

The Priestess Sees Red

It was the following week, after the fight with Doomsday back on one of those new Earths, and though, a little guilty about the trouble she caused, Bella had milked all the pampering she could to get out of going outside or fighting again, but she knew, she had to protect those who couldn't protect themselves.

"I… I don't know whether I can…" Bella said timidly as she had been terribly concerned, especially with her new friend's well being, as Bella didn't want to get her friends hurt if she failed them.

Bella stood in a pair of jeans and a white tee shirt, bare footed. She would have stayed in her PJ's if Kara hadn't dressed her. Though, Bella was a little concerned that her best friend was weird, and giggled a little too much, as she obviously enjoyed dressing her up like a doll, and had flashbacks of Alice's love for fashion and things like that, but surprisingly, she kind of missed Alice's pushiness. Though, Kara was somewhat less forceful over the whole ordeal, and had that smoking hot older boyfriend she was madly in love with anyway, but it was amusing to be less than helpful; sometimes, as a little fun flirtiness and teasing both ways surprisingly made her happy.

However, now she had never felt so bad either, as everything was crashing down around her, and she had just finished her high school exams, and would start university soon, and they expected her to learn all her powers, and about all of this new worlds, fusing stuff, and hope they could broker agreements across realities to stop potential wars.

Kara and the others wanted her to get out of bed and stop moping, and she supposed it might take her mind off everything going on around her. So, they brought her to the training ground under their new home in Domino that Batgirl and Oracle had set up. It was massive and reinforced with titanium plates, and had everything they would need and then some, with CyberTech, Stark, Star Labs, and even Wayne Tech branded equipment that she heard wasn't even on the market yet, so they had a lot of pull to get their hands on it.

The training ground had lots of tools and equipment for training with soft mat-floors, and exercise machines, and even a huge wall monitor that was more like a cinema screen than anything else was. It also housed a giant pool bigger than anything she had ever seen before that supposedly led out underwater into the huge lake the city was surrounding, that lead out to the lagoon and sea. It was amazing that they could build all of that without no one knowing, and that was without any magical heroes help, so it was with awe and wonder as she heard Holly's new house was built in a week without no one noticing.

"Please, Bella, I'm sure you're quite capable, especially after the incident with Doomsday and Slade," Barbara Gordon, otherwise known as Oracle said from where she sat in her wheelchair.

Bella grimaced as she had heard after the facts that it was a psycho ninja guy who wanted to capture Supergirl, and now she was on his list of kidnap victims too. It was lucky that Harry Avalon turned up and saved them. He sounded like a nice guy, and the first time she met him, while not unconscious, was when he turned up the day before, and saw her in her jammies, still moping around the Birds Nest, and it was a million times embarrassing, but he didn't criticise her for it or anything, and funnily, she might have fought harder to stay in bed if he hadn't spoken with her.

"The universes turn for us," he had said, "only because we perceive their existence," he had finished with a huge grin. "So, stop worrying your friends and get back out there, and check out all the universe's have to offer you." Bella still wasn't quite sure what he meant, but it did make her more thoughtful of her new friend's needs, and they needed for Bella to stop being such a baby and get back out into the world, so that next time she wouldn't feel so helpless.

Though, it didn't help matters that a bunch of aliens called the Reach were secretly trying to conquer the earth, according to a little research into them from huge alien databases, and they were too stupid to realise that the Earth's were not only onto them, but were actively stealing from them – two could play at the conquering game, apparently. Everyone suspected the Reach had something to do with the convergence at first, but they were too blinded by their own desires that they couldn't see anything beyond their own greed and self-satisfaction.

Apparently, they weren't very bright for intergalactic invaders, and didn't even know that the Earth's all had a treaty, and alliance agreement with the Green Lantern Corps, sorted out recently by the MPF's ESF (Earth Star Forces) ambassadors. The Reach were being played, and as far as anyone knew, they had no idea, as they would have left if they knew what was going on, and that weird drink of theirs they were trying to release was getting held up by red tape left right and centre while CyberTech, Wayne Tech, and Stark Enterprises were secretly stealing their technology, and apparently, quite a lot of it wasn't even useful as the Earth's between them had more advanced technology.

Bella frowned. The only reason she knew any of this was because she was best friends with Supergirl, and she was ridiculously trustworthy, as despite her trusting kindness, Kara was a rather good judge of character, and it was Bella's best friend duty, and honour to hear her friend vent, and talk about her life. Bella enjoyed being that for Kara, and of course Kara listened to her in return; it was nice. She loved her friend to bits, and knew with this, short of death, Kara was never leaving her, but she really didn't think that Kara bragging to her that Harry had agreed to give her 'more', as in sex or sleeping together on her eighteenth birthday that was coming up, as they had only apparently fooled around a 'little', though even telling her about that was too much information, and thankfully Harry had super strength because of his tech, as that could be very harmful otherwise, both ways around, but she was happy for her friend getting what she wants.

"You'll have to learn to control your powers whether you want to or not," Oracle said from her chair, knocking Bella out of her embarrassing thoughts, "and right now you still remember how they feel… leave it too long and it will only get harder," she said frowning as Bella snorted a laugh, which caused Kara to laugh too, and she realised the innuendos in what she said and smiled while rolling her eyes. "Grow up ladies," she said before taking a breath and continuing back where she got interrupted. "Anyway, Bella, back to the matter at hand. You can do this. It isn't always about us, and I'm not talking about anything naughty, but we have power whereas others don't, and we can use that power, no matter what it is to help people.

"Bella, the way I get over the bad, I sometimes do to protect people, is to make amends…! Well, I helped people and used everything I could to do that. Still, look at me," she laughed a little, as the girls got over their silliness, and thankfully Cassandra didn't look like she got it, and didn't look like she was going to ask any embarrassing questions, as she could talk about rude things fine with her girl friends, and girls nearer her age, by trying to explain birds and bees' stuff to a thirteen-year-old girl was so embarrassing, that she thanked Seraph a million times (metaphorically) for dealing with that for them. "I've been paralysed doing this, and I'm still here. I may not be able to fight alongside any of you in person, but I can be your eyes and ears, and your teacher and advisor if only you let me. I've been doing this a lot longer than anyone of you."

It was only Supergirl, Oracle, and Batgirl with her, as Bella looked away and in a flash of yellow, she was wearing her Yellow Lantern uniform, drawing at the least familiar of her capable powers. It was easy to be afraid, and it was what she got more often than green when she tried in the safety of her room, alone when Kara wasn't with her. They sometimes watched Blu-rays, or Bella would try to get Cassandra to understand something new to her, which was kind of funny sometimes, but Bella never laughed at her, which was one high reason that Batgirl liked Bella most out of the other few girls, as she treated her more like a little sister, like Lyra did, which was why they were two of the only people to get away with being so pushy, as she enjoyed having loving Big Sisters.

Bella's eyes were covered, but they could see she was scared and unsure. "I was kind of hoping for Green Bella," Supergirl said but she smiled anyway. "But you know what; I think yellow looks really cute too."

Bella's cheeks streaked scarlet as she looked up as her best friend was giving her a gentle smile. "T-thanks I guess… but…" she said frowning as she looked over her arms covered with a soft yellow glow. "Aren't Yellow Lantern's evil or something… that yellow girl was… not very nice even if she isn't on that Sinestro guys side anymore."

"That doesn't have to be… and I don't think Misty is all that bad, just a little messed up, and it will take good, strong friendships to help see her through," Oracle said with a shrug. "I'm sure that perhaps with Vita around that Misty and Lindsey will both behave themselves while on earth, maybe… maybe we'll get two extra heroes," she said with a kind smile that held plenty of hope and faith. "The yellow power is fear… you're afraid now aren't you, which is why you're like that and not in green? – but fear is healthy. Fear helps us grow and survive. Fear sees that we can see a threat and either run from it, or defend ourselves… but you will, can overcome your fear, Bella."

"T-then how do I become a Green Lantern again?" she asked nervously. "And-and what about other Lanterns… will I turn into them too? The Red Lantern apparently has anger management issues, so what if I get angry, will I turn into a Red Lantern?" she asked as she thought about that flash of red, she tried to ignore when Gizmo pissed her off.

"I honestly don't know," Oracle said with a thoughtful frown. "But it's possible since we do know all the spectrums are interlinked in some form, so with one, maybe you have them all to learn. Your meta-gene, or your worlds equivalent, at least was imbalanced and managed to absorb the green light of will and whatever that white light was, so its highly likely since you became a yellow lantern without absorbing that coloured lantern too..."

"Oh," Bella replied, downcast wondering whether she would turn blue for feeling so blue about that, looking down before looking back up at her teacher, "meta-gene…?" she asked in confusion as she thought she heard that mentioned a few times before.

"Yeah," Kara said as she cut in. "I hear that some humans, on this world at least, but possibly yours too, or something like it, since this happened… have this super-survival gene in their DNA, which forces you to evolve under certain conditions. It's probably what happened to you, like other humans too, and because of the Green Lantern power you gained the ability to naturally create the Green Light of Will, right Barbara?"

"That's correct, and because of… the incident," she agreed, "you gained the second power, or you already had it, and just absorbed enough of the power to save half of the town being destroyed, and that showed you a glimpse of this… silver light… predictions seem to all agree that it may have been the White Light of Life," she said with a sad smile while Bella's eyes widened as she knew of all the possible spectrums, and there were two that had no Corps, because no one knew whether they had batteries, let alone where they might be or how to make them, as they were just concepts that seemed impossible.

"Life… and Death," Bella muttered with a whimper, feeling afraid, because if that silver lantern was the power of life, and she had that power, then she would have its polar opposite too.

"Yes, Bella," Barbara said gently. "Yes… but they are a natural thing, Bella, do not fear them too much sweetie. You have now gained the yellow light of fear, and there is nothing wrong with fear, everyone feels it, even me, especially when I see my girls out fighting super villains, and I can't join you in the fight, but just sit and watch, and I love you all, so much, like a Big Sister watching her brave girls doing amazing and brave things while… I just…"

"It's okay, Barbara," she said with what she hoped was a brave smile. "I'm good now… anyway, my life can't get anymore…"

"Don't say it…!" the three of them called out.

"…messed up…"

However, with that moment, the elevator door to the side opened and out swaggered a woman wearing purple with crown like eye mask and a cape with crossbows on her thighs as she dragged out a woman in tight leather with pointed ears and yellow goggles, giving a new meaning to the word catsuit.

After them came a snickering teenage girl. She was wearing a purple top, that was tight to her tits, with a black bat across her chest in the shame of an M, and a short denim skirt, and black three-quarter elasticated trousers. She wore a yellow belt around her waist with many pockets, and black skin-tight gloves on her hands. Then she was wearing some black and white converse 'boots', and a black cape with yellow lining to just below her butt, and finally a black mask around her eyes. She was a red head, with her hair hanging to just below her shoulder blades, loose, and had deep blue eyes.

She was pushing a reluctant girl out of the elevator with her before the doors closed behind them, and she gave her friend a smug and victorious smirk. However, she pouted in return and folded her arms under her chest.

She had short brown hair with some tails of hair down over her ears, and blue eyes with freckles dotted under her eyes and over her nose. She was wearing a yellow rubber style sleeveless top with aqua blue around the seams, which left her stomach bare. She had on some yellow rubber style bikini bottoms with a green wrap skirt around her waist and yellow material 'gauntlets' over her forearms, and ending over the back of her hands, and bare feet and beautifully smooth bare legs.

"Augh, Misfit is the right name for you," the brown-haired girl whined after a moment as she realised her pouting was going to be useless. "Why did you drag me here? I don't need to change teams or anything. I was okay with Young Justice, and we all know the Birds will probably let guys in anyway, so don't say something corny about an all-girls team being amazing. My potential love life sucks enough as it is, and there aren't even any guys, and most of the girls are either taken, or too old for me, so don't even suggest it. I know your fantasies involve molesting Oracle while dressed in her old Batgirl costume, but we're not all weirdoes like you."

"Tula, seriously mean," she said pouting, and glaring at the woman in purple. "Have you been consorting with my friends behind my back, and teaching them I'm weird?"

"Charlotte, please," Barbara said pleasingly.

"Yeah, we don't need to be told you're weird," Tula said while rolling her eyes.

"Anyway, Tula, my darling friend, you just happened to be nearby and magical-ish…" she replied sheepishly. "I'm bored with being the only magical Bird. Plus, haven't you noticed how the League and Young Justice don't seem to care about the little things anymore, and I didn't want to move to join the Titans… though, that Mana girl is adorable… no wonder she has most of her girl friends fawning over her," she said while they all rolled their eyes except for Batgirl who surprisingly nodded in agreement. "Anyway, I want to get out there and do some real good for a change. I'm tired of nothing but fighting other heroes' villains, and no to the Titans again, but this time, because Tim's a dick."

"See, this is what happens when you say those words," Barbara said with a sigh while Supergirl and Batgirl nodded sagely.

"Sorry," Bella said sheepishly, as the newcomers looked over to them.

"So, this is the Priestess that Stargirl told me about…" the woman in purple said with a wide grin. "Wow girl, you're really working that yellow look… I'm Huntress, the black-haired pussy… cat," she said stretching that out with a smirk while the leather clad woman groaned, "is Catwoman… former villainess, and now, awesome member of the Birds of Prey, thankfully since Cannery is stuck on another Earth, we were short an experienced member, and the kids… well they're not much younger than you are. Tula, she's from Atlantis, goes by the name Aquagirl, and Misfit is our only magician, and too huge a fan of the original Batgirl, the Oracle herself, and can teleport… only herself unfortunately."

"I call it bouncing," Misfit said sheepishly. "I have other cool magical tricks too, but I'm still learning, and my magic isn't the same as those magical guys who wave wands and stuff, so I can't really go and learn from them, unfortunately, as magical school sounds awesome."

"Umm… nice to meet you…" Bella replied uncertainly, but at least she could let her troubles leave for a while. "Err… I'm Bell… um… I mean…" she looked herself over in thought. "Yellow… umm… Girl…?" she asked while they all laughed at her.

"Nah… you need something better than that," Misfit suggested while rolling her eyes. "Don't you already have a name…? Spectrum or something?"

"Yes, but don't I need a name for each colour?" Bella suggested thoughtful while they all shrugged. "M-maybe I could be Yellow Arrow?" she suggested as she created a yellow glowing bow in her right hand. She pulled back the 'string' and an arrow materialised before she aimed at a target board and blew it up. However, that had surprised her as she was showing off a little for her potential new friends. "Wow, I actually hit it," she said, amazed with her lack of klutziness.

"Isn't the arrow thing taken…?" asked Misfit in amusement. "You should just stick to the glowing energy theme you've got going on, and I love the Spectrum Priestess name more anyway, more noble, and Spectrum for short, is just on the noise and untaken, as far as I know. There are so many superheroes in the convergence that it is getting really difficult in the name department."

"Don't worry Bella, I'll always be here for you," Supergirl said with a smile and taking Bella's hand as the bow faded away. "Spectrum is an awesome name for you, girl, and I can just tell you'll be an awesome hero."

"Well, okay, but if I'm going to be on this new team, I'm claiming the pool!" Tula interrupted as Supergirl had pulled Bella into her arms and she was feeling uncomfortable with just watching them hug. She didn't… and would never know how to comfort someone who did what she did when she got her powers, made worst with the convergences, and the Doomsday mess. She felt bad for her, but she just didn't know what she could do, and it made matters even worse that she didn't know her yet. Though, looking, maybe plenty of warm and friendly hugs were in order for when they had gotten to know each other better?

"Well, I'm claiming the target zone before Spectrum breaks it all," Huntress said with a smirk. "Here kitty-kitty-kitty, you coming…?" she asked making pursing sounds, and Catwoman sighed as the others held back their mirth.

"No," she replied while pretending she wasn't annoyed that she had to fight back her laugh. "I have a date planned with a certain, Bat. I'm going to be late for it if I don't hurry because of you. So where are the transporter tubes?"

"We don't have any," Barbara said with a grin at the look on the cat's face. "I asked Batman for some, but he said and I quote. 'You wanted to start your own team of girls alone without our help so you won't need anything like that, will you?' He helped set us up with the Nest and everything, but the rest he said we have to get sorted and fund ourselves, and I only head Wayne Tech here, so my salary doesn't cut it, as it's not that large. I was too stubborn that I had to agree with him because he was being an unreasonable dick. We have other potential resources that might help us, like Star Labs, or Stark or… I would say Queen, but they're not as big, and haven't set up across worlds as well yet. I'll get those zeta tubes eventually, but not right now."

"Why couldn't we just… you know…" Bella said blushing as they looked to her. "Buy some t-teleporting things…?" she finished off her suggestion. "Are they really that expensive?"

"Yes, they are," she answered with a shrug. "Also, we would have to buy them off the League, or another species off-world, or I heard a little rumour about CyberTech and them trying to streamline instant transportation, using magic and science, and they've even coined the name HexTek, which seems to be catching on, on all the worlds where magic is open to the world, and ours too, but we don't need anything like that any time soon, anyway, as we want to be more close to the ground, and try being more grounded, and personal where we can get away with it."

"Okay, sorry," she replied timidly, kind of confused as all of the advanced technology of all these other worlds went way over her head.

Bella had a flipping smartphone that was roughly thirty years more advanced than the best of her world, and it used holograms to such a degree that she could create up to eighty-inch holographic screens to watch TV or films in 8K, and her world had just started getting used to flat screen HD TVs. Though, from what she could see, launched technology was a little inconsistent, as they were leaping the worlds forward rather quickly.

However, Bella's world would also have to deal with that too, as she knew that Star Labs, which was now apart of CyberTech had set up a research facility on her world, and CyberTech had bought out several small companies that didn't exist on any of the other worlds and combined them into CyberTech, and they were slowly moving into the market, making patents and copyrights, and she was sure a few other companies must have been doing the same to protect their properties from theft.

"Hey, it's okay," Catwoman was quick to say as she glared at Huntress, and Bella had to remember to pay more attention as she almost jumped as the woman replied, but Bella couldn't help it with everything being so overwhelming. "It's her fault I'm going to have to cancel my date," she said while the other woman looked smug as they watched Catwoman dial out on her phone and move away to talk.

"Come on Bat-babe, you want to come get a work out with me?" Huntress suggested, but all she got was a nod as the Batgirl followed her over to the target section of the training grounds.

"Hey Kara, maybe the three of us should leave Oracle and… Spectrum alone for a bit," Misfit said after a moment of pouting as she looked over the wheelchair bound woman and half licked her lips before stopping herself. "I mean, it might be easier if we're not in the way… you know; meditation and stuff. You can tell us the story of how you met her?"

Kara pulled out of the hug with her friend, and looked to her. "Go ahead, Kara," Bella said to her smiling. "We can all hang out more later, okay…?"

She nodded with a smile of her own. "Okay…" she agreed leaving her with Barbara. "So, this naked glowing green girl fell from the sky…" she began while she and the other two girls burst out into giggles.

Bella was blushing brightly as she watched them head out of earshot. "I'm never going to live that down…"

"Afraid not," Barbara replied with a smile. "But you have a great friend in Kara. She really cares about you… a friendship like that should be cherished… believe it or not but Huntress, Black Canary, you haven't met her yet, and I… and to a more recent extent, Catwoman, are really quite close. They're here because I asked them to join the team. I think Huntress doesn't like Batman much, as their ideas are always clashing, and she may have a little girl-crush on Catwoman herself, as they are both kinda anti-heroes, and kind of areshole sometime, and overly flirty…"

Bella was still blushing a little as she looked to her new mentor with a soft smile. "I… I had someone I thought was a really great friend. I was dating her… 'brother', but he left me and she went, too… their whole 'family' went. I wouldn't have been in those woods and met John if he hadn't left me. Before… I don't know, I might have thanked him, but now… I don't know what to think. I might vaporize the stupid undead jerk!"

"You were dating a vampire!?" a few surprised voices brought her out of her self-musing as she realised what she said, and how loud she had said it as they were quick to come nearer to hear about this juicy gossip, as she was pretty sure only Kara knew before then.

"Umm… no…" she tried but it sounded lame, so she continued with a resigned sigh. "I dated a… 'vegetarian' vampire," she said using air quotes, "They fed on animals, but… looking back on the whole thing I kind of wish I could have been with his sister," she said while slumping her shoulders in defeat. She gave a sheepish smile as she looked to them with red cheeks. "Jerk said he loved me but wouldn't bite me, what kind of love is that, the…?" she trailed off unsure what to say.

"Prick," Catwoman startled her from behind. "I mean seriously… who does this jerk think he is, playing with a girl's heart like that…"

Huntress interrupted with a fake cough. "Bruce," she said with another cough. "Batman…?!" she finished off smirking before turning to a confused Bella. "Hey, we all fall for the wrong sort at least once, and wish we just seduced the sister instead, and at least got our kitties licked by the girl who knows what girls want," she added laughingly as her eyes flicked to Catwoman, and though there were some blushes, they all collectively groaned at the lame joke or pun, or whatever she was going for.

"I didn't think people even knew about vampires," Bella replied looking baffled and trying to ignore the picture she now had of her and Alice enjoying themselves without any male within a thousand miles, they could do it on Mars with her new powers, or better yet, Pluto since she wasn't sure Mars didn't still have evil white Martians, and wasn't sure they were actually evil but rather pissed off at their green cousins, and was glad that on Earth, in the West at least, races were equal under the law, and most people were happy with that.

"Wait… are my vampires and your vampires even the same?" Bella asked in confused curiosity.

"I don't know," said Barbara with a shrug. "They might be different on your world since you don't have mage; the mysticism could be completely different with different rules. We try to hunt them down… well, those that hunt and murder humans, as not all of them do. After all, we may be their menu; just like a gazelle, we can kill the lion too. We keep things like that on the down low so people don't panic, and form mobs that might as well be in the vampires' kitchen. Though, with magic becoming so much more open, things like that will become public knowledge, and vampires will have to change or starve to death, as people could potentially buy magic, or magical-science to protect themselves in the future."

"Oh… that's good then, but Alice doesn't eat people, and never has, nor has Carlisle, their pretend dad…" she replied thoughtfully. "Carlisle is actually a really good doctor, and takes care of people," she said to their surprise. "I'm not sure whether his wife has ever lost control when she was young, but she's so kind I can't bring myself to believe her capable… but still, they left me…" she said sadly. "Anyway, did you know they're supposed to have some kind of vampire royalty in Italy… or maybe that's just my Italy? Though, they honestly sound more like the Vampire Mafia?"

"I see," answered Barbara in thought, and surprise. "Do you know where they're located?"

"Oh," Bella said not really thinking much on it, but let her mind think back. "Yeah, they umm… call themselves the Volturi, and they're based in… umm… a place called Volterra I think. They really don't sound very nice. I think they have some members with some pretty horrible psychic powers, as some vampires gain powers after their turning. I think Carlisle said that the vampiric virus amplifies what you already have, so I guess they all had this meta-gene or something, or whatever my worlds equivalent is. He… I mean my ex-boyfriend is a telepath, but he can't turn it off, and he's a bit of a melodramatic prick with self-loathing issues about being undead, even though he has apparently only ever fed on killers and other scum like that before finally staving off humans. I was the only mind he couldn't read, so maybe he just wanted a girlfriend with a blank mind or something… I guess the quite would be welcomed?"

"Maybe you have a natural mental shield," Oracle suggested in thought as she made a mental note of the vampires' hometown.

Bella shrugged and wouldn't realise that she signed the death warrants for most of the Volturi for a few days, but when she realised that they could travel to her world to get them, she would find that she couldn't find it in her to care. Many other vampires were easy pickings after that, as the Volturi kept very good records of those they knew about, and they hadn't even encrypted the files they were that arrogant in their superiority.

Apparently, they had found a Day Walker from Harry Avalon's world. A vampire of a different sorts who built a small team of hunter's immune to vampiric venom from both worlds, and headed to Bella's world to slay the vampires, and managed to capture a couple to study their powers. Thankfully, they had word that they could kill any red eyed vampire not willing to submit, but golden eyed vampires could go freed, but they hadn't found Alice, as Bella was touched that the team had been given authorisation to find her and bring her to Bella if she wanted, especially as a clairvoyant vampire hunter would have been ideal, otherwise she could be let on her way.

It was a few days later when rage clouded the sky, and it could have been another normal day of boring villainy school at H.I.V.E Academy for Jinx but no. She dived out of the way as an onslaught, as red blasts smashed down, and into the school's courtyard, blowing up a fountain, and spraying her with water. The gardens were torn up, and other supervillains in training were running around screaming in terror.

It was quite ironic that someone here had obviously pissed off the wrong sort of person, and Jinx hoped it wasn't her, but was pretty sure it was. She nearly lost her head as a huge red beam cut across a standalone tower in the courtyard that housed a large clock cutting it in half, shattering the clock head, and ringing the monster bell inside. The large black hand sliced into the ground where Jinx's head had been moments ago, and rolling three times further away, half the bell crashed down next, melted gold zigzagging where it had been cut in half.

Jinx didn't like to admit it, even to herself, but for once in a long time, she was actually afraid of being killed. The thing with being the bad guy was, the other bad guys tended to not go out of their way to attack you, unless you did something that upset the very thin morals some of them had, or got in their way, and the superheroes had a moral code not to rough you up too much or kill you.

However, piss off the wrong sort and boom; you have a dilemma, which might not be solved by begging or fighting, especially if you were up against one of the seriously overpowered beings. After all, the Titans were always foiling their plans so they were not unbeatable. This left Jinx with a big problem, and that was, 'how was she going to run away when it was obvious that whoever this was wasn't going to let anyone escape, least of all, her?

Jinx could have escaped if she were inside – well, probably. There were plenty of escape routes out of the school, but just looking at the damage, she wouldn't have been surprised if most, if not all of the escape routes had collapsed. It never seemed all that fair when your attacker could fly and you couldn't, especially with the rain of firepower flying down at them. But then she was a supper villain so unfair advantages were something she enjoyed when it was in her favour.

She moved quickly as the rest of the clock and tower smashed into the ground behind her. She ran to get clear of the brick dust cloud so she could hopefully see what was coming next, and she still had a ringing in her ears from the bell. It didn't help when the attacker was using the sun to keep them from seeing who it was, or what they looked like, or more importantly, what they were doing.

Jump, dodge, and flip, augh. She internally groaned as she caught one of her baggy sleeves on some debris tearing it. It wasn't as fun being attacked as attacking. She was breathing heavily as she landed awkwardly, twisting her ankle, she went down with a cry of pain.

However, while holding her ankle her eyes widened as a huge shadow came over her, looking up a giant red energy drill shot down from the sky heading straight at her, and all she could do was close her eyes and wait for death. Jinx wouldn't even think about the fact she had just wet herself. If she didn't think it, it never happened right?

Then there was a huge explosion, but she felt fine, sitting on her butt, her eyes opened, and she checked herself over, shocked. She looked up, eyes widening further to see a tan girl in black leather and twin claws coming from each hand as she stood, her right arm swung forward, and red energy dissipating off her claws while she was burnt up and smouldering, but as the girl collapsed limply, Jinx moved.

"E-Ex-Twenty-Three!" Jinx whimpered, forgetting her humiliation, scurrying to the girl, on her knees and barely catching the surprisingly heavy girl in her arms, as she made it a point to learn the new Titans name.

Jinx pulled the girl tightly into her arms not caring how heavy she was, as those dark eyes fluttered closed, and Jinx was surprised to see the burnt flesh carefully smoothing out and regenerating. Jinx had thought that Ex's powers were just strength and claws, but no, her power was self-healing by the look of things.

"Why would you do that, stupid," Jinx muttered hating that she felt guilty and thankful, for a stupid hero for once. "She reached out and touched the back of one of the claws with her fingertips in curiosity, and realised why the girl felt so heavy, as she realised the girl must have had a metal skeleton.

Jinx looked up from Ex, to see the orange skinned red haired beauty, Starfire standing protectively with her other teammates, Robin, dressed in red and green, Cyborg, half machine, half teen, the green boy, Beast Boy, a girl in a brown coat and ruby goggles on her forehead, Jubilee.

Robin stood in the lead, squinting up, he pointed, after looking to see Ex was in fact healing, as he was worried for a moment.

"Titans, go!"

And 'go' they did.

Starfire flew up throwing green energy bolts, (starbolts) up at the person hiding in the sunlight. However, a bright red energy shield sprung up taking all the hits. Cyborgs right hand and arm turned into a sonic canon but even that just hit the shield, along with Jubilee's rainbow lightning.

Then the shield flashed away and moments later Jinx heard a mechanical whirling, and then a hailstorm of firing red bullets shot down from the sky. The Titans dodged and jumped out of the way and Jinx took hold of Ex, under her arms and started dragging her out of harm's way with a lot of effort. She owed her, her life, and she wouldn't back out of that, so even ignored her own pain, as she did have some honour left in her.

Jinx hid with Ex behind some huge chunks of rubble wondering where the rest of the H.I.V.E was, and why they were not trying to defend the school. Though, a part of her wondered whether they had been crushed or something, a bigger part knew that they had probably managed to run away, they always did; it was why H.I.V.E still existed.

The Titans scattered and hid in hopefully safe locations. Robin looked over to where Jinx had hidden with Ex, his eyes narrowed for a moment when he saw something, he had never seen from her before. Jinx was scared, but then looking up, who could blame her? This wasn't some random super villain attacking to prove a point or anything. This powerful being was aiming to maim and kill, and it seemed Jinx had poked the wrong bear.

They didn't even know who or what they were dealing with yet, but knew it wasn't the Red Lantern, as they knew where she was, and apparently, her girlfriend was Holly Avalon, and neither had ever met many people on Earth to have made any real enemies to go after. They waited with bated breath when suddenly they heard a huge crash and Robin looked round to see dust settling over the ground slowly un-obscuring their target… or were they the targets.

It came as a shock when he realised it was a girl standing in a pit of broken concrete spider webbed, fissured. She wasn't very tall and had short brown hair in a messy long on top style with two braids long down the right side of her face to her shoulder, tied in red, making that side of her hair look short. Her eyes were bright crimson and glowing with rage and hate.

Her suit was tight and formfitting, functional. It was red cased like plastic around her chest, crotch, hands, wrists, and boots, while the black was more form hugging, looking like a rubber spandex around the rest of her, up to her neck, sliding perfectly with her shape, and fitting with the outline of her lean muscles.

She had that same red plastic like metallic implants around her eyes in a half circle pointing in with gaps towards her small nose. However, up over her mouth attached and halfway up her nose was covered like a ninja might have in red, and a black circle in the centre with white circle with curved horns, the same as on her chest.

Her eyes weren't cold or cool, but full of a rage that the Titan's hadn't seen before, a girl lost to her anger. She clenched her gloved fists as she walked forward, but not towards the Titan, towards Jinx. They realised without any possible doubt that it was the pink haired super villainess that had pissed this new Red Lantern off like nothing they had ever thought possible.

"Stay back!" Robin cried out as he threw several Birdarangs. However, her eyes lit up and each one blew up in mid-flight with just a look. "W-what do you want Red Lantern?" he demanded as he withdrew his silver bow staff and it extended to full length while his team got ready.

Beast Boy transformed into a tyrannosaurus while Cyborg came out of cover, his sonic cannon at the ready, and the Starfire; her eyes lit up green with bolts around her fists, and Jubilee with her with rainbow lightning buzzing on her fists, as she looked concerned, and wished the rest of her team were with them.

They were surprised when the Lantern pointed straight at Jinx, just able to see her poking her head out from behind her hiding place. "I'll take Jinx, and I'll leave you alone!" she hissed out, her voice full of hate, promising pain, modulated by her mask. However, it was obvious that she was struggling to hold herself back, her eyes flicking from the Titan's to her target and back again.

"Sorry, no can do!" Robin said shaking his head. "I don't care what she's done to you, you're coming in!"

"NO!" she screamed waving out her right hand, she blasted out a wave of red light and smashed all of the Titans, dinosaur included down and into the highly damaged building.

The Red Lantern turned from them to the pink haired Jinx. She gulped as she carefully put Ex down and moved from her, trying to get away. However, the moment she turned was the moment crimson shackles attached to her wrists and ankles, with spikes in the floor, keeping her put, on tiptoes, stretched further than she thought possible. She had only struggled for a moment as she realised it was a useless attempt at futility.

She was soon face to face with this glowing red girl. "P-please… I don't even know you, so umm… if it was something someone, I know did I'll point to where they are!" she cried out, fast, whimpering as the Red Lantern was now in her face.

"Where is Supergirl!?" she demanded in a hiss that crawled into Jinx's spine and laid another dose of urine in her underwear, and this time enough to flow down her leggings and out, staining them, and leaking to her boots and then to the floor. She could barely stand and might have fallen if the Red Lantern's power wasn't holding her up on her tiptoes, her knees buckling and shaking.

"I-I-I d-don't know," she whimpered out, shaking as the Lantern looked down at the pee leaking out before back up, but not showing any sign that she cared about that.

"You and Gizmo tried to capture her!" she retorted, moving closer, their faces near touching, and Jinx's eyes widened slightly when she realised who this girl was. "Who wanted Supergirl captured?" she demanded, enraged. Her voice was like the cold of space, only more so, more placid.

"I-I don't know… it was j-just a job!" she said shivering as if the coldness of Red Lantern's voice was physically freezing her from the inside out.

"Where is Deathstroke?! Who is he working with?!" she asked instead, her right hand softly touching Jinx's waist, sliding up her side, over her small chest, causing her to grimace as the Red Lantern squeezed her her body, digging her fingers in, and crushing her small tits much too hard before those hands moved further, around her neck and to stroke her face, nonchalant, fingers and thumb combing over her lips in what would have been considered gentle here. However, with each movement the pink haired villainess flinched more. "Tell me, where is Supergirl!?" she demanded enraged, pulling her hand back.

Crack; she backhanded her. Jinx burst into tears, crying and whimpering as blood spilt from her lips. "Who took, SUPERGIRL!" she demanded, sparks of red light burst up from her legs to her eyes giving more emphasis to her point.

"I-I don't know," she cried out, tears pouring down her cheeks, blood down her chin as a huge bruise was forming over the right side of her mouth, and snot was coming from her nose. "B-but it w-was something to-to do with the Reach, or s-something, we were hired b-by Deathstroke to capture her, t-that's all I know, please!"

"Slade!" she muttered before capturing hold of the other name given, "the Reach?" she asked, her anger just increasing while Jinx nodded frantically, bawling her eyes out, paler than she had ever been, and though deep down the Red Lantern felt guilt and pity, her anger squished that. "No, that's not it… they wouldn't have use for a Kryptonian, and they're fucking morons, too stupid to see we're stealing their tech, and planning on conquering them… and they want metas! Now tell me the truth-!"

"Please, t-that's all I know, please!" she begged, as she whimpered, and a little impressed that Earth knew the Reach were areshole, and she was slurring her words, as her bruise formed bigger, and her mouth swelled. "D-Deathstroke a-and his partners aren't with the Reach… t-they're p-playing them too, but t-the Reach l-likely know m-more than they would a-admit on that, as they would kn-know to be wary of them. Gizmo said he figured t-t-that Deathstroke has teamed up with some others to betray t-the Reach, and is using them to put down the heroes, so they can take over! T-there's more, s-something about Lex Luthor sponsoring a government agency that his father helped start, something called Cadmus… that's who supposedly paid us!"

"Luthor!" she muttered to herself with a growl to her voice and narrowed eyes. The Red Lantern just shook her head and concentrated her sight back onto Jinx coolly, making the girl quiver. "Why should I believe you-?"

Jinx's binds disappeared and dropped her as some blades swiped at the lantern, and she let Jinx drop and dodged back. Ex-23 was shaking off the last of her headache from the attack she took when she looked to Jinx, mouth near open to see the girl a boneless heap sobbing on the floor. She had never known the bad girls could be so normal to fear when a bigger bad chooses to use her as a chew toy.

However, Ex turned to see the Lantern girl standing to the side, glaring at her, and then shoot up, into the sky with several sonic booms and red circles shooting out from her with each one as she left. The Red Lantern had likely gotten all the information she was likely to get, as Jinx didn't seem to know anymore, and not all of that seemed to be confirmed. Therefore, Ex turned back to Jinx unsure about what she should or could do with her, as she had never had such a problem before, as she was certain her new mother, Lily would have dealt with this sort of thing before, but she had to be brave.

Ex had never come across a moment in time where she could feel bad for the villain like this. Jinx had finally met another teen that had terrified and tormented her, treat her like dirt to get what she wanted, so now what? Ex couldn't know as she walked over and knelt by her. She tried not to grimace as she smelt the urine, and it smelt as if Jinx had vacated all of her bowels too. Then to top this off it seemed as if Supergirl had been kidnapped by Deathstroke, which would piss off someone even more dangerous.

Her boss was going to be extremely pissed when he found out, and she was pretty sure the Reach's usefulness had reached its conclusion, so if they had a hand in Supergirl's kidnapping, and anyone hurt her; they would beg for the Red Lantern to hurt them over what he would do.

Jinx didn't have a very nice smell at that moment, but Ex couldn't just move away now she was that close. Lily and her team had helped her become a much better person, so maybe this would be Jinx's wake up call, and she could be helped. She reached out and the shaking girl looked up, flinching at her touch, with her eyes like rivers before she was tackled; the super villainess holding onto her around her waist crying, sobbing and whimpering, and shaking uncontrollably, as she buried her face into Ex's chest.

Ex relaxed to kneel with her legs open wider to get more comfortable, though the crying teen villain was making her uncomfortable. She didn't normally deal with distraught girls, that was probably Starfire's place when it came to her new position as a Titan, and after talking with Mother Lily, she was told it was an opportunity for growth, so she would do what she could. Therefore, she wrapped her arms around the girl and pulled her tighter into her embrace not caring about the dampness she felt on her thighs as Jinx practically sat on her lap.

Jinx buried her face deeper into Ex's soft breasts, taking comfort in the softness and warmth, and couldn't stop crying or shivering. Ex resorted to stroking her hair as one side had come undone and loose, rocking her gently, just like Starfire might do, but she didn't know how to try to calm someone with words. She had never been good with words, but she did feel pain in her heart, and she wanted to comfort this girl, and maybe change her elegance, like hers was. It proved that even the bad girl could do good, and change her wicked ways.

"Oh, snap!" Beast Boy had actually made her jump when he and the team got back, the lot of them staring at a traumatised super villainess in shock, or maybe that was because Ex, the Princess of Cold Anger, was comforting her.

Then 'he' crashed down in black and red armour, wings outstretched with engine lit in crimson.

"Where did Bella go?" Harry demanded in a modulated voice. "Did she find out where they took Supergirl?"

They all gave him a look, and quivered in fear even without seeing his expression they knew that if he had the red ring, they would likely be dead already.

"She's been through here already," Harry said coldly. "Well… listen, long story short, Supergirl got snatched by someone, and now Spectrum, the girl you just met, one of the new Birds of Prey got super pissed, and started blowing up anyone in her way of getting her back?!

"You, speak!" Harry added pointing to Robin.

"So, she's supposed to be a hero?" Cyborg interrupted dubiously.

He groaned in annoyance, but nodded his head. "Yes. As I said, she's a Bird of Prey… she's not normally sporting the red look, but green or yellow. So… hn," he said looking around. "She singlehandedly destroyed H.I.V.E," he said, and sounded like he might have possibly been impressed, but he was too pissed off to say more on that.

"M-Mr. Avalon…!" Robin said uncertainly. "We have to find her… who else is searching?"

"Me, Impulse, a few Titans we bumped into, the Flash, and some Leaguers, young and… regular, and the Birds," he counted off with a growl. "But we can't spare too many with guarding The Warworld that we took from that dipshit, and finding where that dipshit is hiding, and the ridiculousness with the Reach."

"I don't think the Reach will be much of a problem soon," Ex said nonchalant while not looking from Jinx. They all looked to her and she could sense their stares. "Jinx told the Red Lantern that Supergirl's kidnap had something to do with the Reach. Though, the Red Lantern didn't seem to believe that the Reach would have use for a kryptonian, or that they were a threat in any way shape or form, Jinx also mentioned Luthor, Deathstroke, and Cadmus. Do you think that will stop her tearing the Reach apart just to make sure?"

"Is that good or bad?" Cyborg asked, curious and confused. They all stared at him, except Ex. "Hey, you were wondering that too, right? We have to get rid of them at some point. Anyway, she won't be able to find them. That ship of the ambassadors doesn't hang around above that building all the time, does it?"

"Good point, but…" Robin looked up. "Ex, which way did she go?" he asked looking back at her.

"Straight up," she answered.

"She's going to the Warworld," Robin said causing grimaces. "But why go there, only our teams are there-...?" he asked but it was someone else who answered flying in.

"Maybe not," Stargirl said as she landed with them. "Umm… Oracle might have mentioned that with the Warworld being so huge that it could be possible for the Reach to hide out in another section. She said that could be where Black Beetle keeps hiding while not causing us trouble. The Reach would want a strong player there in case we found out and attacked, and they don't know we hacked its master key and have full control, but we do know that for many sections, security is malfunctioning...?"

"… they'll be waiting to strike us?!"

"That is not good," Robin said in thought.

"Just let her beat him," Beast Boy said reasonably. "I mean if he's there, right? She could beat him, couldn't she?"

"I don't know," Stargirl answered worried about her friend, but looking to Crimson, she shivered. "We have to zeta up there, and save her anyway. If she can't beat him, Mr. Avalon most certainly can."

Robin growled. "She just, ah, forget about it… okay, Ex, umm… stay here and, umm… take her home," he said grimacing at how wrong that sounded as he looked over Ex-23 and Jinx sobbing in her arms. "The rest of us will have to zeta up to the Warworld and save Red, or stop her from going too far. Damn, now I'm confused, but Mr. Avalon will then be able to destroy Black Beetle, if need be, as I'm sure we can all now turn on the Reach."

"We have everything they have that we want," Harry said coldly.

"You never know, we might get lucky and this whole mess with the Reach will be over by tomorrow," Beast Boy said unconvincingly as he tapped his green glowing Focus "Watch Tower, we're heading to a zeta location, we need to get to the Warworld ASAP. Spectrum is possibly gunning for Black Beatle and thinks he's there… okay, we're on it," he said smirking. "Follow me," he said, groaning.

However, they left Ex and Jinx alone. The anti-heroine wasn't too sure what she should do now, and a part of her would much rather be going into space to fight than here, doing something so far out of her comfort zone. Though, she doubted she could pry Jinx off her with a laser drill, and she wanted to make Lily proud of her.

Ex sighed as she picked up the villainess, and cradled her in her arms before taking her home. It didn't take too long as she exited the elevator into the lounge kitchen area holding her new prize in the form of a distraught super villain. The place looked like it needed a lot of work to clean it, like a storm hit it or something, but then with slob roommates like hers that storm could have hit. It was much warmer now, and there wouldn't be anyone stupid enough to try to investigate them.

Now she just needed to take off Jinx's clothes and dump her in a shower before destroying said clothes and never speaking of this again, or thinking about it if she could help it. She saw that none of her friends even gave a moment's thought about helping her. So that Spectrum Priestess girl was going to fight Black Beatle. She couldn't be in any more trouble than she was.

Well, okay, so Ex knew that she wasn't in THAT much trouble, but this was seriously messed up. She shook her head clear and looked down at the pink haired teen while she continued shivering in her arms.

This was not the sort of thing any self-respectable superhero should have to deal with, but Ex helped Jinx stand anyway, though Jinx did little to stay standing. Ex had to actually half carry her to get her down the hall, through her room into the bathroom, which adjourned to an unused room she could put Jinx in after washing her so she could keep her eyes on her.

Ex closed the door and placed the girl on the floor. She didn't want to let go but Ex pried her off anyway and started the shower-bath, checking the temperature before turning to Jinx as she continued sobbing, leaning up against the tile wall, shivering, slumped and totally broken and defeated. Jinx had been defeated many times before, but nobody had gone so far before, as to break her.

"Okay, remove your clothes and get in the shower," Ex said to the girl but that did nothing, as she wasn't completely home. "I do not want to undress you myself, so I would rather you do this. You need to get cleaned immediately, understand?" she asked, her voice soft, trying to be soothing.

Ex sighed, as Jinx didn't even seem to have heard her. She took a quick breath before she pulled off her jacket, hanging it up on some pegs before kneeling with Jinx and started pulling the girls filthy clothes off her, and throwing them into the trash can. The pink haired villainess didn't resist, and let her do it until Ex had removed everything but her panties, which were soaked through and stained both sides.

It was quite gross, and difficult to get them off her without getting anything on her. However, Ex had managed to get them off her, not without a little smudging on her hands, which she ignored for now as the offending panties went in the trash, and Ex made a promise to throw them or burn them, first chance she got.

Ex struggled a little to get the naked girl into the shower, but at least her shaking had slowed down and she was actively standing as the warm water cascaded down her slender body, over her small breasts and down to her toes. Her crying had lessened to mere sniffles and whimpers, but she just stood, and didn't even try to wash herself.

The ex-assassin turned heroine groaned in annoyance as she pulled off her gloves and boots. She would rather not shower with her, but didn't want to get soaked through, or filthy. She followed up by pulling off her belt, top, and trousers. She at least took some satisfaction that she had somewhat larger breasts, and a more muscular figure, though that was not to say, Jinx wasn't pretty too, but it was apparently a contest between girls, but she didn't quite get it.

Shaking away those thoughts, Ex nonchalantly stepped into the shower in front of Jinx, facing her. After all, they were both girls and had the same things – so she was a bit of an unsocial mutant, and Jinx was a meta-human villainess, it still counted.

Jinx's eyes didn't explore much, but rather looked sad and afraid, like a kitten someone had left out in the rain sitting on the outside windowsill begging to get back in with just its eyes, and little whimpers escaping her lips.

Ex reached the wash rack on the wall above the bath and took a washcloth. It would have to go after this, but it was due to be replaced soon anyway. Therefore, she moved a little closer and turned Jinx around to wipe away the mess from her small rear. She was gentle and caring, probably too much for her, but she felt so much empathy and pity for Jinx, so she couldn't be her normal self.

Ex tried not to think about the bits of mess that touched her hands, or feet when it swirled down to the large tub, through her toes and down the drain. She rinsed the cloth off a few times before she was satisfied that Jinx was completely clean. Then the cloth ended up in the bin.

Sighing, Ex washed Jinx's hands, and feet with the shower spray before opening the cabinet and grabbing a brand-new washcloth from the half-finished pack before finishing on Jinx's rear, back, and legs with some shower gel. Jinx was actually leaning into her touch as she held the villainess with her bare hands while washing her with the other.

Ex then turned the girl around to face her, pulling out her one remaining hair bands and throwing it into the sink, her pink hair looked nice hanging to her shoulders. She then went on to get her sponge and switched it in, trading out the cloth before washing Jinx's tearstained cheeks, blood from her chin and lips, and washed over her eyelids as she seems to be all cried out and emotionless, and if it weren't for her pink-eyes, Ex might have thought the girl had lost all her feelings.

Washing Jinx's small tits made Ex feel a little weird, and her tummy squirmed while doing it, as she was using her naked hands, but she wasn't sure whether that was good or bad. However, she had to get her cleaned up no matter, and cleaned up she would be. Then she moved to the pink haired girls' tummy, pink fuzzed crotch, soft, smooth legs, and feet.

It seemed like a miracle when Ex finally finished washing the Jinx's hair and rinsed out the soap that she got to clean herself up. Jinx just stood, watching her; her sad pink eyes flowing every move her hands and sponge made until she had finished.

Ex tried to give a reassuring smile, but smiles weren't really her thing, as she climbed out of the tub, turning the shower off, dripping water on the floor as she grabbed one of the large blue fluffy towels on the rack and wrapped it around herself before grabbing another and opening it, hoping Jinx would climb out herself.

Thankfully she did, straight into the towel, leaning into Ex as she wrapped her in it. The heroine then led her into the spare room where it housed a bed, TV, draws, and wardrobe. It took her a moment to pull back the covers, place the pink haired girl in, and tuck her under the covers with the promise to find her clothes when she woke up before closing the blinds to block out the light.

"Ex," the voice was barely a whispered whimper, and Ex stopped to look at Jinx, surprised before she had even reached the bathroom door to return to her room. "P-please don't leave me alone."

"I'm just going back to my-," she sighed as Jinx just had this – look that begged her, pleaded and promised anything and everything, that was how desperate she looked. "Very well," she agreed cursing Starfire for rubbing off on her somehow with that super niceness, even though Ex had already grown to love the alien girl and let her hug her whenever she wanted, as she got comfortable enough with the bubbly girl.

So, Ex walked over to Jinx, intent to sit on the floor next to the bed and meditate when Jinx pulled the covers back to give her room. Ex made the choice before she realised it, and again she cursed Starfire as she slid in lying next to Jinx, and within a second Jinx was on her side resting her head on Ex's tits, snuggled up tightly with her and Ex was stuck.

Jinx sighed in relief as she breathed Ex in. "T-thank you for saving me, Ex… I'm s-sorry," she whispered as her breathing evened out and she was out like a light, exhausted.

Ex wanted to sigh again, but if anything, it would be content. She was quite comfortable, and was soon in dreamland too. She figured that if she kept Jinx for herself, she could turn her into a superhero too, just like Lily turned her, showing her the greater picture, so she cuddled her new friend and hopped she could save her.

It had only been a few hours ago. They had just been hanging out together, flying, giggling and having fun, just two days after Kara's eighteenth birthday party, and she was still bragging about her first time doing it, and going all the way with her boyfriend, and how amazing Harry was, and big, and powerful, and how good she felt, and, Bella couldn't blush any further, even if her friend brought out pictures, as her friend whispered these things, and was a little too graphic, but they were both giggling up an embarrassed storm.

They had captured a few muggers, and petty criminals, and a few small fry school kids, giving the latter a lecture on right and wrong when the blasts of energy shot them down.

Bella woke up seeing red as her best friend was missing. Kara was gone. She had been kidnaped, or superhero-napped. Bella couldn't control her anger, her fury, and her rage. They had taken HER best friend, Supergirl! NOBODY should ever touch HER best friend without her permission! She had lost so much already. She would make them pay! She would get Supergirl back, and she would teach them to NEVER go after HER loved ones EVER again, or face her wrath!

Supergirl was her best friend, and facing her wrath would be better than facing Harry Avalon; Supergirl's boyfriend, as he wouldn't be as nice as her.

Huntress and Catwoman turned up and didn't know what hit them as they were engulfed in her crimson light. Spectrum wasn't to be stopped, no matter that it was her friends or allies. Spectrum knew who wanted to capture HER best friend. However, she didn't know how to find 'that' man, she DID know how to find others!

Bella's eyes flickered open as she floated above the planet, glowing red she glared at the huge silver-metal moon that hung in a high orbit from the Earth. Her crimson eyes were cold even if she did feel guilty about the way she treated Jinx. She couldn't stop herself, and knew she had to find Supergirl quickly. She continued ignoring Nightwing as he continually tried begging her to stop; promising that the League would help find Supergirl, and that she wasn't alone, but she had lost sense and reason. She knew he wasn't lying. She knew that he wanted to rescue Supergirl just as much as her, but she couldn't see through the red of her hatred for the thing that took HER best friend.

She tried to calm down, she tried to stop and go back, but she couldn't, she wouldn't now, she needed to get her best friend back. It was her fault, and no matter what she would get her best friend back, she had too. She wouldn't lose a friend ever again, and now she had the power to make sure she never had to lose anyone ever no matter what spectrum of power she had to utilise. It wasn't as if that Lindsey girl was completely insane with her rage, so maybe she could control her power, eventually.

She had been a member of the Birds of Prey for quite a few months now. She had grown close to all of the other heroines, but Kara would always hold that close place in her heart, and she would do anything, everything in her power to get her back, safe and unharmed because if she wasn't. If someone hurt Kara, she would kill them, if Harry Avalon hadn't beaten her to the punch.

The red had just happened. She had been powerless. They had been attacked, faster than she knew possible, and she woke up to find Supergirl missing, and then she saw it, just a flake, just the green fragment was unmistakable. It was kryptonite. She remembered those months back when H.I.V.E members had tried kidnapping her blonde friend, and just lost it.

Bella had felt most of her control slipping away as she gave way for her fury. Catwoman and Huntress had the misfortune to witness her new and dangerous power: The Power of Rage. She had beaten them both before they realised, she had become their enemy. She felt bad about hurting them, as they only wanted to help, but she couldn't help herself.

Looking out to the Warworld, she felt hot tears sting her red eyes, flecks of tears drifting away, freezing over into small icicles. She shook her head, picturing the beautiful face of her friend to steady her rage's resolve. She had come this far already, there was no need to go back until she had done what she had come to do.

She started a few seconds later when she heard voices in her head again. They were radio transmissions again. It came from the lantern 'rings' previous 'power'. She also just knew lots of stuff about the universe, not to mention all of the other languages. She ignored the voice of Nightwing as he kept trying to 'call' her, and paused for a moment as Harry tried reaching out before brushing that aside too. They were very persistent; she would afford them that. Her eyes narrowed in annoyance as she scrambled her signal, cutting them off.

She couldn't think straight enough to listen to him or anyone for any reason, and her heart felt like it was in a vice within a jackhammer, shattering within her ribs. She felt confused and disorientated, her goal obscured before she took a few deep breaths of fake air, eyes locked on the Warworld. She couldn't let herself falter just yet.

The Crimson Priestess sneered at the giant metal moon and blast forward, creating a red ripple of power as she headed to the artificial world. Supergirl had been gone for two days already and she didn't want to leave her at the hands of anyone, but if it was the Reach, which she still doubted, she was going to tear them apart, and put those morons in their place as they still didn't know that they were at the Earths mercy, no one else's, not the Green Lanterns, and certainly not their own, as the Green Lanterns were on the Earths side.

It took only moments before Bella smashed through the metal and straight down crashing through a few floors, bulkhead door things closing over her 'entrance' with some kind of liquid metal, as the air started blasting out, sealing her within as the automated systems began to repair the ship thing. She just kept going, tearing holes through corridors until she crashed down in a crouch in a huge chamber causing what looked like a battle she was interrupting to pause.

Her glowing red eyes scanned the scene from some teen heroes, Black Beetle, and this ugly green man thing alien she had never seen before. She turned from the teens and alien. Her cold eyes on Black Beetle as he and the green, guy thing moved apart, eying her warily. They were both cautious as they knew that a Red Lantern was reportedly on earth, and this one wasn't her.

She let her eyes scan over the teens one last time, and when she couldn't see her 'target' free and safe she pointed to the 'beetle'-armoured man. "Where is Supergirl?" she demanded, holding back from just flying at him with a red bomb construct.

He looked to her with a sneer. "I don't know what you're talking about girl, but don't presume that you can scare me just because you're a Red Lantern!"

"Then, we don't have anything to talk about until you've changed your tune, bitch," she said with a cruel grin, she shot at him, and before he realised what was happening, she was punching him with red robot-like 'gloves', smashing him into a wall.

"Whoa," Superboy muttered. "That's one pissed off girl," he said, wincing, as she was blast back by a sonic arm gun cannon thing, crashing into one of the huge suspension tubes scattering the room where he and his friends had been trapped until the former Speedy, Roy and the crew of new metas he conned into helping him out, set them free.

However, the Red Lantern had pulled herself up, constructing a huge Railgun in her right hand, around her arm, and connected to her right shoulder with a targeting scouter over her right eye, she supported it with her left arm, and she grinned in vindictiveness. It sparked with red lantern energy like electricity before it fired. It made a huge boom as a stream of red light shot forward, capturing the beetle, slamming him into the wall again with an explosion and shaking the 'planet' to its core.

"I think that is an understatement, man," one of the new metas said. "Maybe we should count this as a blessing, you never know, she might beat him."

Roy, the former Speedy stepped up, watching. "We should get out of here while we can. Let the Red Lantern and Black Beetle fight it out."

"We can't just leave her," Superboy said, glaring at his fellow 'hero' as he had learnt a lot about what it was to be a true hero in his short life and running out on friends was not being very hero-like. "She's a part of Supergirl's team. If she's, here, you heard her. It sounds like they've taken my... umm... aunt?" he said, not sure whether that was the right word. He wasn't sure since he was a clone of Superman's, well kind of, and if they were cousins, or brother and sister-ish, then that made her his aunt if Superman was his father, or something confusing like that.

"I think it's more like second cousin or something," commented a dark-skinned girl with puffed up black hair. "But right now, it looks like Black Beetle had some friends here," she said gesturing to the guards in weird uniforms with faces covered with helmets as they charged through a large door.

The former Speedy, now Artillery growled in anger. "We could have gotten out if you weren't such-," he trailed to a stop as that green alien crashed to the ground with red blood bursting from his lips, as he seemed to have tried sneaking away, but standing in the doorway was a man dressed in a crimson and black suit with rage bubbling in his eyes that put Bella's to shame, but he was in full control.

Harry Avalon was wearing a black top flush to his body and around his neck with twin red strips of some kind of metal flush around his neck with a soft glow. He wore crimson trousers made out of something that looked like a metal material somehow. The trousers fit perfectly to Harry's powerful legs and down to black boots that look slimline and metal and components softly glowed. Harry wore a black belt around his waist with twin strips of red leading around his waist to a CT cog buckle in that same red

Harry wore a red coat that flowed down to his ankles out and back out of the same material as his trousers and seemed to have a mind of its own. The coat was buckled from his waist up with an opening halfway up his chest with a black shirt with collar underneath and a crimson tie, fitting with metal components. The buckles had that same CT logo but they were in black, and those same black straps and buckles held around his sleeves. The coat carried thin metal lines that likely followed the white marks on his skin. He wore skin tight black gloves with red CT logo in metal on the backs, and his eyes had paled dramatically and seemed to have lines of that strange red colour in tiny patterns like circuitry rolling around his iris's and pupils. Harry's hair was still black, maybe even darker as it had flared up and out and maybe gotten a little longer, or it was just the new style.

"That little bastard tried thinking he could get away," he said before his eyes widened as he looked at Superboy and team. "They said you were dead, but we knew otherwise, and been looking. I'm glad to see you guys are okay, but let's talk about that later," he said as the Red Lantern had captured the Black Beetle with huge and ironic beetle like pincers and used him to smash up more tanks while the Titans, minus Ex arrived with Starfire throwing her green starbolts, knocking over the Reach shoulders.

"You stupid girl-!" Black Beetle roared out as he pulled himself painfully to his feet. "How the hell are you this strong? You use so much power, and your ring just keeps on go-in'-," he paused as she wiggled her fingers, flipping him the bird, and realisation of who he was fighting dawned as he grit his teeth in anger.

"I'm a meta you fool!" she said laughing coldly as she floated before him. "I create my own power," she said as he whipped blood from his mouth glaring harder than before. "So now, little beetle, tell me who has Supergirl or I'll fucking slaughter you and all of these filthy alien invaders!"

"Not going to happen, girly," he said chuckling in mock, when she made a simple gesture and a wave of red-light blast him flying where Starfire took advantage as he came her way and punched him in the back of the head where he went down, out cold for a moment.

However, that didn't stop Bella as she floated forward watching as it took the beetle a few moments to come too. The battle was once again quiet as the Reach minions stopped as they saw their boss down. He groaned; rubbing his head before he was clamped to the ground, struggling, but he was too weak, too tired to resist Bella's power any further.

"Bitch," he hissed quietly as his struggles were in vain as his arms and legs were in 'chains'. "The Reach will conquer your world, and you will be my slave-."

He stopped as a huge red sword was at his throat, held firm in her right hand. He tried not to show fear, but she could smell it as she was grinning from ear to ear, and though it never reached her rage-full eyes, and she wore a mask over her mouth they could see it for a moment as her red lantern armour flashed yellow and was replaced by her yellow uniform. Her sword and chains were now in a yellow construct, but that didn't mean she had woken from anything, but now relished in his fear.

"Where is Supergirl," she said quietly, but her words were loaded with malice, and sounded as if she roared them, and Harry just stood in the doorway while his companions watched, concerned he would have to interfere. Bella was the only one not to notice the flash of orange light like a stream of electric around her, as she longed for her new best friend, and hated the thought of someone hurting her. "And just remember. If the words are 'I don't know' I'll take your fucking head!" she said, smiling as the blade cut into his armoured neck, and he could almost feel it on his flesh.

"If anyone took her it would be Luthor, or," he shuddered as he looked into her glowing yellow 'eyes' and he knew this hero wasn't bluffing, and she was close to killing him, so if he miscalculated for even a moment, she would take his head, and only then would he worry about Harry Avalon. He wasn't blind by his own greed enough to not know the danger a person could pose when they were desperate, and hopeless love could make a freakish girl like her go beyond desperation, and he dread what Avalon would and could do. "He works with some people – Deathstroke - Savage – people that have been waiting. We know they were waiting to betray us to take control for themselves. They're the people that sanctioned Superboy's creation, and his counterpart," he said looking to Artillery only with his eyes as one false move could remove his head.

"Where can we find them?" Robin demanded as he stepped up, his expression cold, but he kept cautious of Spectrum, and wondered why Avalon was just standing to the side and watching, as he was likely the most powerful in the room. However, he was thankful Spectrum had calmed enough to change out of red. "Sorry to say but we don't have any control of her so unless you want that sword to take your head, you'll speak up!"

"There's a hidden base," he said quickly rolling his eyes as he honestly saw no reason not to tell them, and with the sword to his throat, he saw reason to tattle on Luthor and cohorts. "It's somewhere just outside of Metropolis, but don't ask me where exactly, we didn't really care too much about what they got up to, but maybe we should have! Those bastards wanted to capture this one too-!" he said gesturing Spectrum with his eyes. "We were looking into it. The one who could control all of the spectrums. They wanted us to capture her, but we chose not to, yet at least, because unlike where we got rid of Superman and the others off-world, so we didn't violate the Guardians protection of them, we didn't know whether they would consider her protected too, not to mention starting anything with Sinestro or Atrocitus, if they had any interest in her!"

"Maybe you should have just left my world alone!" the Yellow Lantern said trying to restrain herself, as she wanted to smack him repeatedly. "You're going to leave my world and never come back because if you do, I'm going to personally rip that armour from your body before placing you in jail for the rest of your life!"

Spectrum then threw Black Beetle away from her while her sword burst away. He climbed to his feet, groaning and rubbing his sore neck. Then with one last glare, he looked to be about to flee before he paused, frozen, as Harry Avalon was behind him, with his right fingers shattered through the back of the armour, crushing metal as they closed, and lines of data flowed as the black armour flowed away and back into a beetle shaped palm sized device Avalon pulled away from the mans neck, leaving the black coloured man, naked apart from some underwear, and he reminded Harry of an actual sketch of a shadow.

"You're not leaving with this," Harry said coolly as the former Black Beetle turned in horror to see Harry holding the black alien device. "You're also under arrest, for all of the crimes you have committed against peaceful and primitive races. The Reach's enslaved forces shall be given asylum, and deprogrammed, and you are over."

"No, you shall see we have the power, Avalon!" he retorted but without his armour, he seemed less than frightening.

"We've been stealing your tech since you got here thinking we were morons," Harry said with a wicked grin while the former beetle looked sick. "Though, honestly, we're surprisingly more technologically advanced," he laughed humourlessly while the black alien looked horrified. "Rule number one… don't trust aliens who turn up on your world offering candy. I hope you enjoy the rest of your pathetic life in the Zone Super Prison," he finished and enjoyed the whimper he saw from the man. "Maybe I'll put in a good word to look out for you if your information turns out solid, and if you testify against the Reach, maybe you might see freedom someday."

"No!" he whimpered falling to his knees as cuffs were snapped on his wrists, as Harry threw the Beetle Scarab to Robin.

"It's yours, if you want it," he said to the surprised boy. "I patched out all the bullshit, especially the crap that was making the AI a little on the douche bag side, after having studied the Blue Beetle armour, and having created an update patch for it. I prepared for the time I got my hands on this bitch," he said forcing the man to his feet cuffed while he looked horrified.

Robin just stared at the scarab in his hands looking uncertain, as he realised he could finally have an actual super power, and he wasn't sure whether he should use it, or return it for Harry Avalon to find someone else who might be worthy.

to be continued…