Chapter 4
The Big Red Girl Scout
It has been more than 24 hours since the last incident in the United States involving their Mister X. The frequent killings of lobbyists, government officials, and many more, destruction of many research facilities, and the hacking of many government and bank accounts of many organizations, left a major demoralizing effect on all superheroes since May of this year. Olympia Hill, aka Majestia, haven't experienced anything like it in her 77 years of being a superhero. The constant nighttime pressure left her fellow superheroes lacking sleep, food, water, and even free time. Not to mention, maintaining order so something doesn't spiral out of control, repairing the damage done, disposing dead bodies, and recovering the documents and money that was stripped from the accounts became a full-time job. At least, these 24 hours gave the superheroes who happened to picked up some shifts on who's going out to do work, a lucky break to rest up for the next potential night of horror and despair.
As such, Majestia decided to visit some of her friends at the watchtower, the space station headquarters of the Justice League. Her friends in the Justice League happened to be Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Majestia have a good history between the three, as she looked up to Princess Diana of Themyscira as a big sister, and be like a big sister to the Man of Steel. But the funny thing is, she is not a Kryptonian or an Amazon. She is from Tei Tenga, a desert planet littered with the fossils of long extinct giant animals. Despite being from a different place compared to Superman and Wonder Woman, Majestia's determination and kindhearted nature won Diana over. And with similar powers to Clark, she became an awesome role-model for Superman.
As she approached, Superman and Wonder Woman greeted Majestia.
"We have received word from Amanda Waller that our Mister X has been sighted in Paris." Superman updated his friend on the current events.
"That's a relief, I'm just having enough with having to deal with the nightly hell." Majestia responded in relief.
"I'm excited with catching Mister X as well, but Amanda Waller is not a person to be skipping briefing on right now." Diana reminded Olympia as they entered the space station and headed to the briefing room that was hastily set up. Waiting in the briefing room, is Amanda Waller.
The history with Amanda Waller and superheroes is clearly complicated. Amanda is a ruthless, high-ranking government official of the United States, who uses guile, political connections, and intimidation to achieve her goals. Naturally, it causes conflict with superheroes with good intentions. Sometimes, her guile and political connections are useful for superheroes as well. As of today, it is the case for the latter.
"Every one here?"
A quick head count accounted 56 members of the Justice League, plus Majestia. With the head count done in short order, Amanda starts her briefing
"You all know me, and why I'm here. Some of you may have seen the news going on in Paris, but for those who aren't in the loop, I'm updating you on current events starting now. From amateur footage and news reports, our Mister X has been spotted in the city. Add to that, monsters have attacked the french capital itself. Along with amateur footage and news reports, eyewitness reports from the Collège Françoise Dupont suggested that a teenage boy had turned into one of these monsters. The boy's name is Ivan Bruel, and how he turned into one of the reported monsters remains unknown."
It was during the briefing is when Majestia notice Clark and Diana being nervous all a sudden, almost as if they saw the devil in all of footage of Mister X shown by Amanda.
"Our job is is to find out how Ivan turned into one the monsters, and not to mention, capture our Mister X. Mayor André Bourgeois will provide some rooms at the Le Grand Paris for everyone that needs to rest up. If you have any questions you need to ask, ask them right now. I may not be available in our time at the french capital."
As the briefing ended, a sense of dread filled the minds of both Superman and Wonder Woman. Majestia had to get help from Batman in order to snap both of them out of their trance to see if their okay.
"Clark, Diana, you were off. You know him?" Batman asked the two.
"This guy, killed 2,000 Kryptonians and Amazonians single-handedly in one battle. This demon, is the most powerful Night Sentinel who ever lived." Diana tells her crush, all in shock and horror.
The Night Sentinels, Majestia and Batman heard all the stories of the people of Argent D'Nur, proud warriors whose empire spanned multiple dimensions, lasting 167 million years. Long thought to be extinct, they never expected Mister X to be one. From Diana's words, both Majestia and Batman realized they're going to be in an uphill battle in Paris.
In the mourning in Paris, Alya and Marinette are having their coffee in order to stay up and focused. At the same time, the news is on, covering on who the mysterious man in green is. The superheroes from abroad being deployed to their home isn't helping either, as they took a while to evict the Duke Brothers from Paris, coming from Tom and Sabine's memory compared to the guy in green's less than an hour to fight and kill these demons. To top it all off, he did it without laying a harmful finger on any innocent people, albeit with some property damage. Alya and Marinette strongly disagrees with the latter's parents, as they think that this Doom Slayer is a very dangerous individual and a nigh-unstoppable monster who can easily kill everything on this planet if given a very good reason to do so. It was this worry from his daughter that Tom decided to comfort her.
"Listen, I know how upsetting and scary this is, but don't worry, sweetie; we've got three superheroes looking out for Paris, and the best way of helping them is to show them that we're not scared, because we trust them."
"But what if they fail?"
"Then I'd come and save you. (holds baguette as a sword) Super Baker to the rescue!" Tom tells his daughter, cheering her up.
"Thanks, Super Dad!" as Marinette giggles and reaches up to give her Super Dad a peck on the cheek.
As for Adrian and Emilie, they stayed over at Tom and Sabine's place for the night. Adrien is concerned for his father last night, and that "board meeting" is only the tip of the iceberg for what is going on with him. The only thing he can do for now is to stay with his cousin and her friend to make sure she stays safe during this time as another akuma could stir things up again like yesterday.
Meanwhile, the Doom Slayer is taking a stroll as part of his patrol, undetected by the populace of Paris, security cameras, infrared, ultraviolet, radar, and everything else in the electromagnetic spectrum. So far, he haven't notice any demonic activity or anything from Hawk Moth. What he did notice though, is a sudden appearance of superheroes from the United States and from the Justice League. As such, the Doom Slayer decided to investigate where they headed. As he trailed a certain blond haired, tall woman wearing a red sleaveless vest with a coattail with a blue suit underneath and red knee-high boots, Doom Slayer noticed several superheroes outside at the mayor's hotel, all super tired with him running rings around them constantly.
'Hmm, I guess I've hammered the living hell out of their morale overall. Coming from the fact that most of the superheroes came from one of the most entitled nations on the planet isn't helping the matter either. Not that it would matter to them as they do not concern me and none know why I'm here to begin with.' the Slayer thought to himself with all the superheroes completely oblivious to his presence, as he enters the Le Grand Paris. Not only he hit the United States hard, he also hit every nation who has the money and influence on the world stage.
His strategy is to clean out Hawk Moth's influence on this planet, killing those connected to him, destroying places affiliated to him, and defunding those aligned by the Dark Lord who use their money for bad causes. It wasn't an easy task, as Hawk Moth's influence is like an octopus. As he try to take one tentacle off, the octopus' other arms still latch on while the tentacle that was off, reattaches itself to Earth. The Doom Slayer wasn't deterred though, as he fought Hawk Moth numerous times through determination and sheer will, something no superhero has on him. And it is the same as today as well as it will be tomorrow, as he listens to the conversations inside.
Inside the lobby, Batman and Majestia are discussing plans on how to deal with what is going on as all a sudden, Knightowl and Sparrow arrived on the scene. Immediately, Knightowl has Majestia's undivided attention.
"Ah yes, the world's worst detective, along with the Big Red Girl Scout, the fellow quitter of the ranks." as Knightowl mocks the two.
"Coming from an entitled individual with no safety standards and having a bad influence, it fits you a lot better than me." Batman fired back.
"Save the flattery, I don't work with boys who lost their mommy and daddy. Along with those who quit what is now considered, my organization." Knightowl tells the Dark Knight before looking at Majestia.
Batman internally fumed at this egotistic jerk who shouldn't have every right to mock everyone who failed this so-called superhero. In fact, Knightowl is one of the reasons why Majestia is a freelance superhero right now, along as being a part-time member of the Justice League. Knowing Majestia, she has been nothing but helpful when it comes to helping him clean up Gotham City. Knightowl is known to be a very atrocious influence in the United Heroez organization. Not to mention, Knightowl abused Sparrow for even the smallest failures. Majestia and Batman himself can't help but feel bad for the poor soul who is currently Sparrow.
"Look, my time is very valuable, so, I'll keep this short. You might be a big shot at the world stage, but deep down, you and your friends are nothing but vigilantes who don't give a flying fuck about the international laws around here. And for the last four months, all of the Justice League proved that to me. So does the international governing body, so why don't you two losers get out of the way." Knightowl tells the two superheroes before heading out to the crime scene.
With Superman and Wonder Woman being very hesitant to go outside of the hotel and everyone else being too exhausted to move even a finger of their body, Batman and Majestia decided to take it up to themselves to go to the crime scene and find out what happened. The conversation between Batman, Majestia, and Knightowl caught Doom Slayer's attention, as he exits the lobby of the hotel, trailing the two tired superheroes with interest.
