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"First off, you're probably wondering why, or rather how I'm still alive. How exactly did I survive being stabbed in the heart? That is a simple answer. I was born with Congenital insensitivity to pain, rather simply known as CIP, meaning I don't feel pain. I'm also unfortunate enough to have dextrocardia. A condition where the heart is positioned on the right side of the chest instead of its normal spot on the left side. Which in turn has given me the appearance of being incredibly lucky in the past. I've survived multiple encounters before where I was shot in the heart and was able to walk and disarm my opponent. The look on their faces when they see me still standing is always hilarious. Learning how to fake pain has made me a pretty decent actor as well, to the point that I always think of myself as putting on a show. Every day, all day. All of my life I've acted as if I was in pain, when the pain should occur, when I was not. The only times I seem to feel anything is when I'm caught up in a fire and start coughing up my lungs because smoke... whether I feel it or not, it's still doing damage to my lungs. And long falls... I generally survive them because my body doesn't tense up from the pain and I'm usually able to walk away unscathed. Even being stabbed in the heart... no pain, just a few stitches, a few needles, and god knows what else they did to me." She shrugged.
"Sorry about that by the way. I had to play my part you see. Much of this I will explain later. Anyways, it was because of these conditions that a variety of other tests were run on me, and possibly as to the reason why I was so successful as a child soldier running around and popping off shots at fully armored soldiers. But that is in itself a whole different discussion."
The men in the room watched the video with such intent, devouring the knowledge she was contributing to them. Their eyes all being on the screen before them. Neither of the three of them said a word as the video continued. It would seem that Sariel did indeed have a lot to say before they could delve deeply into the other file.
"The thing is, I'm just one of the things the ben Elohim created. The camp that was set up for a variety of experiments on child soldiers was funded by, you guessed it, the ben Elohim. Crazy right? But in reality, not so crazy. They got their dirty fingers in everything. But they suppose they have the right because they are the "righteous" keepers of the Legacy. As you know it's an absorbent amount of wealth. But it's more than that, that much you should know by now. It's knowledge, for whoever wields the knowledge holds the power. In this folder here you will find the portion of the Legacy in which the ben Elohim had entrusted to the Society. What is involved may sound absurd. But considering all that you have seen thus far Robin, you should question if the normalcy of the world is the part that is crazy. And ask yourself what is really out there and what is this world truly capable of producing. Ha! Now I sound like Slade." She smiled then, perhaps remembering all of their time together. However, the smile soon faded as she proceeded with the rest of the video.
"What's in this folder is information on genetics, how to make meta-humans, basic human structure, and how to develop beyond what we know is human. And not just the regular type of meta-humans like the ones you run into in all those supervillain rings. Evidently, every meta-human in the entirety of our history owes the ben Elohim for being a meta-human, all genetic mutations were developed by the ben Elohim and then sold to a variety of governments. But of course, they would never let any country or government have the good stuff. This is why any kind of meta-human the ben Elohim throws at you, they're very different and kinda creepy, to be honest, from any other. Because at this point we're talking about genetically enhanced beings that you can only classify as a Vampire, and you saw it, she can wield blood like a weapon. Aurora herself was involved in World War II, so she's old but doesn't look it. I've never seen her drink blood but she can smell and sense it." She chuckled. "Bizzare right? Their tricks of the trade involve vampire like beings, immortality, occult... things that I can't describe. It's like a lot of lost knowledge involved in some dark shit that's like a big secret of theirs. Hell, they even have a key to time travel. And probably some sort of dimensional travel as well, I'm sure you've seen the girl Endora and the big red guy Athrilius. And yes he's a full on demon." Robin frowned at the mention of the Demon.
"Hell, one of their biggest abilities is to see and travel through time and changing events..." She sighed then. "Back to that time travel thing. Which is why everything ends up going their way. Which comes back full circle and is one of the reasons I'm here and not there. Remember that a portion of the Legacy, a portion of which they shared with the Society is here, and a portion of that is essentially the instructions to gain the ability to see through events, shift through history itself. Along with the ability to Hop through time and to control events. They wanted it back. So to do that they wanted a younger member of the Justice League to betray them, to betray the League, their puppets. It was all to gain access to the Legacy itself. If someone such as yourself were to side with anyone in the Society it would make it easier for them to track down the Legacy. They had to work it around the hard way because their time-shifting abilities were limited. They were missing keys, keys which you now have. However, there is a bit of a problem. They now have me. Due to the whole CIP thing, you know the not able to feel pain thing, when I was a child they inserted millions of these tiny microprobes in me as a test, this microprobes held within them their knowledge and key to time travel. If anyone can experience hurdling themselves through time it would have to be someone who couldn't feel pain to give them the best results. And you know, kids are expendable. But in the end, it worked. It gives me this insane ability to shift in and out of time in history, to see events as they once unfolded in the past and a bit beyond.
"However, only periods of time that are not so far from my own are accessible to me, so no traveling to the French Revolution for me. So honestly I don't do it often, I generally only do it for brief moments when I look into the future to see different outcomes, or when I travel a few years back in the past to try and undo something I had done. But the real problem that they don't like is that I created a paradox the last time I did it, but that was part of the plan. It didn't make them too happy, unfortunately." She smiled then and for a moment it felt as if the warmth in her eyes met Robins. "And that is why they insist on keeping me close ever since they "saved" me."
Robin paused the video and looked at his two other companions. Asif was a bit stunned. "Did she just say she was a time traveler?" Robin shrugged and looked at Slade. "Thoughts?" In all honesty, none of them were expecting this. Unexpected, is what he wanted to say. "It seems like she can shift through some sort of time stream and see events, possibly even jump through time?"
"I never knew this about her." Asif was a little shaken by the knowledge. "I mean, even if she told us back then I'd doubt I'd even believe her. This is all... insane. Sariel may not even be from our timeline."
"You heard what she said, she's a good actor, one would have to be when they have to act out pain to appear normal." Robin frowned at the thought. It must have been difficult to learn how to act something out that you didn't know or never experienced before. She must have watched and mimicked others around her and she did it so often that it became believable.
"So far," Slade was leaning over on the chair with his head resting on his clasped hands. "She's mentioned she can only travel to periods of time not too far from her own, does that mean her current position or the time she was born in? If she is unable to travel to wherever she wants then her power, or her ability to contain them, must not be strong enough to hold her in one place, or rather in one time. I would imagine if she were to travel, it would be more likely that she travels for moments at a time. So I doubt she's from a distant future. Seems like she uses this ability to more or less peer into the future, if that was the intended use the ben Elohim had for her, then it's no wonder they keep her close now. It is alarming, but after encountering the other team members-"
"You think they always intended for her to be a member." Slade looked to his apprentice and nodded. "She's very talented, her skills are beyond her age. Much like yourself Robin. But she's been a killer since a very young age. But somewhere along the way, she got out." Robin then looked to Asif then. "The elusive "him" and the promise she mentioned."
"Him?" Slade raised a brow and Robin nodded in response. "She mentioned a promise to someone in Lex's building when I get stuck in that office, I put it in my report." Robin shrugged and Slade acknowledged that he indeed had mentioned Sariel. But the specifics were jumbled in with everything else that had been going on for the past few days. "Let's finish the recording." The mastermind looked to the screen wanting Robin to unpause the video. Robin looked to Asif and back to his master and nodded. His fingers clicked the mouse allowing Sariel's voice to fill the room once again.
"I know this all sounds strange, I'm sorry to drop all of this on you. But I suppose I have high expectations of you to figure it all out, you've always been so smart. There isn't much time left. You may think I can start this over and over again because of the whole time travel thing, but that's not how it works. I can make it only work at certain times and only travel to periods not far from my own. But my ability to see the future and shift through possibilities is something I can do frequently. The paradox I created is unraveling. We got one shot to take the ben Elohim down. It needs to count, so let's make it worth it." She smiled then. "If you make it far enough I'll let you in on my biggest secret. But for now, this is goodbye. Make sure you look into every article within that secondary folder. There is a lot. Jillian held onto it for years, she defended it with her life. Please, she didn't die for nothing or no reason. She died for this, she knew I had it, she knew that for the plan to work, for me to be able to give it to you, she would have to die. She never meant to betray anyone of you. In fact, you can blame me, I put her up to it, even though she agreed." She looked down and away from the camera that was filming her, her eyes looked away from the screen and he could see the hints of tears in her eyes. "Please don't let her death be in vain. Goodbye." And with that, the video stopped.
For a moment the three of them were silent. Until Asif broke the silence with a staggering question of "What the fuck do we do with this?" Robin looked at his friend and found him slumped in his chair, he looked absolutely defeated.
"We use it." Robin clicked out of the video and opened up the folder containing Jillian's portion of the Legacy that she died for only a few nights ago. When he clicked on it another window popped up and within it held hundreds of other folders. All of them dated and labeled for everything from genetic human mutation failures to their eventual success, occult history, witchcraft trials, goddamn religious cults, government, politics, arms manufacturers, weapon trafficking, and names of presidents. It just went on and on. Information was their power, knowledge of things that he couldn't explain. When he briefly looked at a more occult based folder he thought of Raven and wondered what she would think if she was granted this kind of knowledge. "We're going to need a team to go through this."
"And we have one of the best, I'll get someone on it tomorrow." Slade stood up, it wasn't necessarily too late, but it was late enough that he didn't think it best for Robin to start working on something now. He knew the boy too well, once he got to work on something he wouldn't stop "I think it's best we all rest up for the remainder of the evening. And tomorrow we can tackle this with fresh minds." He could see the glare that Robin had shot him. But the man wasn't going to back down. "And I mean it, Robin." The boy let his shoulders sag a bit, he was probably hoping to sit up all night and review each and every folder.
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"Any word?" Starfire asked as she flew into the room. She had recently regained her ability of flight, it was almost like she had a new resolve. A spark of determination. Raven was glad to see her friend doing better, but it was unfortunate that she didn't have anything relevant in terms of updates for her teammate. The goth look up from her book and shook her head. "Nothing yet." The team was on standby until they received new orders from Batman himself. And they were now all in a base used by the League in Metropolis and quite frankly they were a little bit frustrated and overall, bored.
She sighed a little and Raven placed a hand on her shoulder. "We don't know when we will be on the move next, maybe you should get some rest." The princess looked to Raven and shook her head. "I have tried, but after the reporting of the news on the TV, I cannot rest. I feel as if something bad is going to happen at any moment." Raven frowned and felt like she had to agree. It was mere hours ago, but what Lex Luthor had done would damage the Superhero community for many more years to come. False or not, people would believe anything. She had witnessed many times how quickly people can turn on the very heroes that shelter them from annihilation. Although she was certain in a way they would be able to fix this. A lot of these accusations must be false. Hero's were meant to help people, not harm them. Helping people was the whole reason why she joined the Titans in the first place. To help as many as she could before her demonic father could have his way with the world. An event that was thankfully thwarted.
"Do you mind friend Raven, if I just stay here?" Raven shrugged, it was a standard signal from her that meant she generally didn't mind or care what others did around her. "If you want." The princess smiled and took a seat by her friend. "Do you have any good book suggestions?"
"Honestly, not here. All they have is magazines and recipe books." It was then that Starfire noticed what Raven was reading, a cookbook. "Have you taken an interest in cooking friend Raven? I can teach you how to cook and prepare blorthquark." Raven just frowned at her friend. "I think I'll pass." Starfire just giggled at her response and Raven had to admit. She had missed that laugh.
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