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Interlude (2)

The exchange location was set in the docks of Metropolis, United States.

Vandal Savage walked out of the portal with a cruel grin, confident he had made enough preparations to come out of the coming 'negotiations' on top. He had his men hidden around the location for ambush, before hand, and only took Wotan with him.

As expected the annoying sorcerer wasn't too pleased to act as his body guard, even though Savage promised him part of the yield. Savage missed Gundra; he wouldn't need Wotan if she was here. But she's currently locked up by the Americans and there's nothing he could do about it for now.

He walked to the agreed position in the middle of a set of containers. He only waited for over a minute before the speedstar arrived. There was a blur of yellow then the man was standing opposite him in the yellow version of the Flash costume.

"You are late," Savage said.

Eobard Thawne glanced at his watch and shrugged. "I was occupied, do you have the amulet?"

"Here," Savage held up the round artifact dangling from the chain. "And you?"

"You mean the time machine?"

It happened so sudden. The speedstar blurred and the next moment he was standing there holding the amulet. Vandal Savage hadn't even known the moment it was taking from him. Savage paused for a moment then grinned. "Are you planning on double crossing me time traveler?"

"It's unfortunate," Eobard Thawne shrugged with an easy smile. He looked at his watch again. "Oh I must be off. By the way what held me up a moment ago was cleaning up the men you placed on ambush,"

With that he zipped away with a flash of yellow. Wotan had wanted to attack him, but he couldn't do it in time. At last he lowered his hands with a grunt. "I hate speedstars!"

Vandal Savage totally agreed with the sorcerer. However unlike Wotan he didn't feel defeated. After all he didn't lose anything, that amulet Eobard Thawne just took was a fake.

The time traveler had underestimated me! Savage grinned.

xxx

Diana flew over the city of Gotham looking for a certain person.

She specifically came at night when there's a chance he'd be patrolling. She wasn't really hopeful though. Others have tried and came back empty after all.

And yet a feeling told her she'd find him as usual, as if the gods themselves led her to him. Not that Diana will just fly heedlessly through the city with no plan in mind while hoping for divine intervention though.

The gods help those who help themselves after all. It's why people have free will and are responsible for their actions. Thinking of that she swerved in the air and headed towards a particular direction.

She wanted to see someone first. That's the main reason she came so late in the night when he'll be back from work.

The place Wonder Woman came to was an apartment building. That's the information the government gave her. She didn't bother with the door and flew to the window directly, rapping on it twice, she called, "open up Jim,"

"Wonder Woman?" A handsome dark haired man opened the window and stuck his head out with a scowl on his face. "What do you want?"

Wonder Woman just smiled. "Fly with me,"

"I am not in the mood for your pranks!"

"This is no prank Jim, come on."

Jim Corrigan, the Spectre, gave the woman a grim look.

xxx

Alcatraz prison is an island prison known for housing super-powered prisoners. This prison is surrounded with high walls, well trained guards and the latest technology to make it literally unbreakable.

However a few prisoners were broken out of this facility less than a month ago after they were just brought here. So now with the recent prisoners shipped here, the guards were in high alert for days, expecting another attack, yet nothing happened.

Just as they were beginning to relax though, the worse came.

"It's an attack!!!!"

Alarms blared, officers screamed orders, guards moved around taking positions; If one didn't know they'll assume this is war... Well they will probably be right.

Despite the quick response from the defense, the attackers soon blasted a hole in the wall and poured in. Two of them held guns that spewed fire and ice respectively, a woman in white costume wielded double poles and the Negro woman fought barehanded, but it was obvious she had super strength. If that wasn't enough a man burning in flames flew over the wall throwing blasts of flames at the guards.

It was an instance rout.

In no time the attackers moved further into the prison taking out every guard on their way. The strange thing though was that these attackers didn't kill even one of the guards, all they did was knock them out.

"We are in," The blond woman placed a hand on her ear and said.

"Good, you search the cells for him,"

"Why are we doing this again?" A man said shooting flames at an approaching guard with his gun. The flame didn't burn the guard but blasted him away, knocked out but unharmed.

"Because is our job to protect the timeline Mr Rory," the reply came from the com's.

"That sounds like the time masters job. We are legends, we should be dealing with bigger threats,"

"That's interesting, I thought you said you had enough and wanted a vacation?"

"You call this a vacation?!"

The attacker's chatted with each other as they moved deeper into the prison. Soon they were at the cell block, they became serious and started searching for their target based on the picture they saw in their ship.

The prisoners clamored to be released but the attackers ignored them as they conducted their search. Soon they found their target; A middle aged man with balding brownish hair.

One of the attackers, the one with the cold gun, took the target out with a special device intended for such purpose. The device looked like a gun but it instead flashes light at the target making him unconscious.

"This dude is the Sportsmaster?" Mr Rory watched the feeble man that thudded to the ground skeptically. He couldn't connect him to the fierce villain he knew.

Back in the ship they took him straight to his cell ready to ship him back to his original timeline. In the neighboring cells were two unconscious villains too. Just like the Sportsmaster they were brought here by Per Degaton and weren't returned to their timeline due to various reasons.

So these people came to restore the timeline.

Soon the time ship soared in the sky and vanished to another timeline.

xxx

"So why are you here?" Spectre asked. He and Wonder Woman were flying over the city at a languid pace.

Diana looked down, her hair stirring hypnotically in the wind. "I need to find Greek,"

"Why do you think I know where he's?"

"I was told you two had a fight and then later cooperated with each other. I know you'll keep an eye on him. I know you know everything you can about him at this point. Where is he?"

The Spectre, even among powerful mystery men is at the top of the food chain. Not only because of his strength, but also his wide array of cosmic level powers; one of them is the power that could make him literally omnipotent for a time. Of course there are some limits but with that he could use it for surveillance easily.

Spectre was silent for some time before speaking. "Yes I know where he's,"

He changed direction and flew faster. Diana quickly maneuvered and followed. Like that they crossed a river and came into the shabbier part of the city.

After flying for sometime, Spectre stopped at last. Diana naturally came to a stop beside him and looked down at the street. The snow carpeted the street. Despite it being late some people still hovered around so she assumed them to be homeless people.

However two of them didn't fit in that mold. They were standing before a bonfire drum like many others but they had a different air about them. One was an African American man neatly dressed in jeans and black coat. His hair was cut in a crew cut so he'd had a hair cut since the last time she saw him.

He looked to be in his late thirties or Early forties. Seeing that he looked in his prime but has a few greys in his beard and hair.

This man had a gentle air about him, yet it could turn menacing at any moment. This man is James Greek, the man that shook the world in just a short amount of time, a man you can never read or know the limit of.

This man was just warming his hands like everybody else.

Beside him was a slender woman in black coat and hat which her blond hair cascade from beneath. They just stood silently next to each other but you could sense their companionship.

This woman must be the Black Canary, Diana thought. Good I can recruit them both.

The two finally noticed Diana and Spectre when the homeless people started muttering to themselves. James looked up with that assured yet intense gaze of his and their gaze met.

Diana smiled at him, he paused then smiled back.

"You are surprisingly an easy man to find Greek," Diana said as she floated over.

Greek glanced at the Spectre, then ignoring him, gestured at the fire to her. And so Diana held up her hands above the flame, pretending to care about some warmth. "That's because I was not trying to avoid you," He said softly.

Diana noticed the curious look Black Canary was giving her and smiled at the woman. "The Black Canary right?"

"Yeah... You look taller in person,"

"I get that a lot,"

"Um like you are here for Greek, I should leave,"

"No don't," Diana said placing a hand on the blond superheroine's shoulder. "I came here for both of you,"

Black Canary looked sceptical. "What would you want with me?"

"I want to offer you two the opportunity of joining the All Star Squadron,"

xxx

Vandal Savage walked towards the holographic screen in the middle of the room. Like last time the speedstar was already waiting for him. "So the amulet I snatched was a fake huh?" Eobard Thawne said.

Savage grinned. "Why don't we negotiate again, this time no tricks,"

"Good idea, but you were also scheming against me,"

"It is all in the past, let's pretend it never happened. You still want the amulet and I still want the time machine,"

"Unfortunately that won't be possible," the speedstar said, making Savage to raise an eyebrow. He continued. "I don't have the time machine, I never did. That's also the reason I opted to double cross you,"

"Then how did you come here?"

"I cannot tell you. However we can still make this deal if I offer you something you might like?"

Savage paused. "Like what?"

"Like hired muscle. I can accept a few tasks from you in exchange for that. Is they someone you want to kill? Something you want steal?"

"That's tempting," Savage finally said. "But I only want a time machine. Contact me when you have it!"

Like that he hung up.

Left in the darkness and silence, the immortal fell in thought. Wondering how to proceed. His plan to kill the time traveler and get everything for himself was still going smoothly.

CHAPTER ENDS

AND THAT'S IT FOR THE INTERLUDE. THE NEXT CHAPTER WE'LL CONTINUE IN GREEK'S POV.

So about Greek making planes for the air force? Great idea! It fits the story so well and it's something Greek would do.

It also gives us something to play with. Okay mate, we'll take it. LOL

I know this is totally unrelated but I feel like venting. So we lost the league and those sorry lots won the FA cup. Talk of despair. Well, I guess fortune is bitch sometimes, but am left wondering where things went wrong.

Anyhow, I have a rough plan of where this fanfic is headed so as far as it doesn't affect my grand plan, I am willing to accept any suggestions.

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