Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2015 2:39:41 GMT -5
Titans of Justice Unlimited #60: “You Can Go Home Again Part 10”
Writer: Whirlpool
Editor: Power Guy
Metropolis: The Hall of Justice…
Green Lantern ran out of the Hall of Justice, using his ring to change into his Green Lantern uniform.
“I can’t believe this is happening,” Sargona whispered, following her would be husband outside.
“Honey! Wait, what is going on here?” Sargon asked, as he and Zatanna ran up to their tearful daughter.
“Daddy…mom…the wedding’s off, and I have to…I have to go, now…” Sargona hugged her mother and father, knowing that she might not see them again. “I love you both. Please don’t worry about me.”
Sargona left the Hall, as the wedding party looked on, totally perplexed.
“What the hell do you think you just did, Robert!” Elongated Lad shouted, as Jemstone and Black Vulcan ran after Sargona. “You ruined Daniel’s wedding!”
“Shut up, whoever you are!” Dark Arrow replied, pushing him out of the way. “I have more important things to worry about!”
“It’s Rick. My name is Rick!” the son of Elongated Man repeated. “Why doesn’t anybody remember my name?”
“Come on, dude,” Whirlpool sighed, dragging the boy out with him, “We‘ll get to the bottom of this.”
Outside, Green Lantern and Sargona were already arguing.
“What do you mean you don’t know how to find them? You ruin our wedding for this? You don’t even know what to do!”
“Sargona, calm down! For goodness sake, I’ll find a way to to get to Earth 2! I can find a way for us to find…”
“Oh don’t say her name,” Sargona spat, turning her back on Daniel.
“GL, maybe we should just, go back inside?” Jemstone suggested, “I feel like something’s up too, but we have no way of finding out what.”
“There has got to be a way,” Celeste Pierce thought aloud. She had quickly changed into her Black Vulcan costume and was walking up and down the pathway in deep thought. “They split us up somehow, so there must be a way that we can get back together, right? But, what is it?”
The assembled group of Titans thought to themselves for several moments. Sargona sat on the low brick wall surrounding the Hall, Jemstone wrapping an arm around her comfortingly. Green Lantern and Dark Arrow listened once more to what Wonder Woman had found out about The Wizard. Whirlpool, Super Lad and Elongated Lad tried to understand what the older superheroes were talking about, when Flash jumped up, surprising everyone.
“I’ve got it!” She shouted, running up to Green Lantern. “The Cosmic Treadmill! It’s locked away in my basement, I completely forgot! It can be used to travel between Earths - we can get to whatever earth Power Guy is on and get them back in time for dinner!”
Green Lanterns face widened as he grinned ecstatically. “Good thinking Flash! Lead the way!” he laughed.
“So we can find DiDi?” Dark Arrow asked hopefully, as Sargona looked up. “We can find DiDi! Yes!” Dark Arrow exclaimed, hugging Flash tightly.
“Okay…you can let me go, like, now!” Flash warned, pushing him off of her.
“There’s only one problem with that plan.”
Everybody spun around to look at Wonder Woman. She looked remorseful.
“Sorry to put a downer on this, but, The Cosmic Treadmill was broken in the first Crisis. I’m sorry but it won’t work.”
“C-Can’t it be fixed?” Sargona asked, walking forward. “I want to see Power Guy again,” she remarked, glaring at Green Lantern.
“It would probably take some work…we’re going to need some great effort to fix that mess,” Wonder Woman explained, “but I think we can pull it off if we try.”
“It would most likely be unsafe even if we did fix it,” Flash remarked, “I’m betting only three of four of us could travel through without wearing the antique out. One of them will have to be me - I‘m the only one whose fast enough to power it.”
“I’m going with you, Dan,” Dark Arrow demanded, “DiDi is my sister.”
“Then it’s settled. Us four will go. Come on, we haven’t got time to waste,” Green Lantern said, creating a power bubble for Flash and Dark Arrow to ride in.
Suddenly, everybody’s communicators beeped.
“What is it?” Super Lad asked, as Flash opened her communicator and deciphered the message.”
“Damnit! My Rogues are on the loose again! They’ve taken the Mayor of Central City hostage! There’s six of them there! Just what we need right now…”
“The Rogues? Everybody knows they weren’t so tough!” Super Lad mocked, “We’ll take them down, no sweat!”
“Not these guys,” Flash breathed, pocketing her communicator. “They’re a lot more powerful and ruthless than my dad’s Rogues. They mean business. It’s gonna take more than four of us to stand a chance…”
“Looks like we’re all going then…” Black Vulcan concluded, entering Green Lanterns bubble.
“Very well,” Sargona agreed, unraveling her flying carpet. “Let‘s go!”
***
Central City…
“There they are.”
The Titans of Justice were on the rooftop of the Mayor’s office building, watching the Rogues lead the Mayor out triumphantly. SWAT cars surrounded them, all guns aiming on them.
“Don’t make a move, or else the Mayor gets it!” One of the Rogues shouted. He was the oldest out of the group, and his hands were around the Mayor’s neck. He was wearing a green and black costume with goggles and nicely combed blond hair.
“That’s Inertia. The monster who killed Bart Allen all those years ago. Somehow, he’s escaped prison.” Flash explained, bitterly. “Around him is his little posse. Many a time I’ve had trouble fighting them off. He there in front is Boomerang. He’s the son of the second Captain Boomerang. The woman in the green and yellow suit is the Weather Witch. Some Weather Wizard fanatic who mysteriously got a hold of his Weather Wand the day he was murdered. The clone behind the mayor is The Trick, he’s annoying but not exactly evil. He’s more in it for the thrills and the money than anything else. The girl in the green and orange outfit is Mirror Mistress. She’s one of the most dangerous ones…I wouldn’t underestimate her. And finally, Captain Cold II, son of the original. Watch out for him - he’s not afraid to kill.”
“Great, a bunch of psychos…” Super Lad said, “when do we get to put them in prison?”
“I say….right about now!” Jemstone cried, jumping down the rooftop. Gracefully, she flew into Weather Witch, tackling her to the ground. “Your little stunt ends now, witch!”
“Jemstone!” Black Vulcan shouted a little too loud. The Rogues looked up to see the League of Titans above them.
“Looks like the stealth way is out the window,” Whirlpool remarked, leaping off the building. Halfway down, he shot two steams of water out of his palms, propelling him in the air and shooting Captain Cold away from the Mayor. “Let me take the icy one!”
“I’ve got first dibs on The Trick!” Elongated Lad cried, as the group all jumped into battle. “I could teach him a joke or two!” he said, sarcastically.
“The League of Titans! I should have known you wouldn’t be too far away!” Inertia growled, running from the scene, followed closely by Flash.
“You should have learnt by now, Inertia,” Flash lectured, running head to head with him, “Crime. Doesn’t. Pay!” Flash tripped Inertia into a lamppost, appearing to knock him out.
“That seemed to easy…” Flash thought, approaching him slowly. Suddenly, he jumped up and ran forward and punched the red-haired speedster in the jaw, sending her flying backwards into a phone booth.
“The fight starts now, Flash! I’ll kill you just like I killed the speedy little bugger before you!”
***
“Get off of me, you freak!” Weather Witch shouted, kicking Jemstone away. She held up her wand and shouted “Lightning!”
Jemstone gasped as lightning appeared around her.
“Not so fast!” Black Vulcan jumped in front of Jemstone. “You’re forgetting about me!” Black Vulcan conducted the electricity into her fingertips, and directed it back at Weather Witch. They hit her hard in the chest, but the blonde bombshell didn’t seem to be hurt at all.
“W-What?!?” Black Vulcan exclaimed, as Jemstone stood up.
“My costume is made of rubber, fool! You think electricity can hurt me? Never underestimate the WEATHER WITCH! STORMS!”
Black Vulcan and Jemstone screamed as a mini tornado pushed them into a building. Black Vulcan groaned as her eyes closed.
“Vulcan!” Jemstone screamed. “That’s it! You’re going down, Weather Witch!” Jemstone fired six energy bolts at the villain, knocking her back a few feet. Before she could recover, Jemstone hit her with another three energy bolts, effectively knocking her out.
“Hmmph….you’re weren’t as tough as I thought you’d be,” Jemstone smirked, as Weather Witch laid motionless. “Now, to help Black Vulcan…”
***
“Take this, Super Lad!” Boomerang chortled, throwing a silver boomerang at the Kryptonian. The boy shielded his eyes as the boomerang exploded around him.
“Haha! Is that all you got?” Super Lad grinned, flying from the explosion and upper-cutting the Australian into a car.
Boomerang picked himself up and readjusted his coat. “Wow, that actually hurt.” he said, staring the boy up and down, “by the way, how did you get that physique? I love your biceps…” complimented Boomerang, looking into the boys eyes. “Are you over 18?”
Superlad was froze still. “Wait…what…did you ju-just…huh…uhh….”
Whirlpool ran past Superlad, and hit Boomerang with a hot jet of water. “What’s up Super Lad?” he asked, directing an open fire hydrant at the villain. “Got an admirer?” he joked.
“Uhh…he..he came onto me! I swear it!” Superlad shouted, “He complimented my biceps!”
“And why not? They are pretty big,” Whirlpool laughed. He loved messing around with his best friend.
“Ew, fish boy! Stay away from me, alright! That’s disgusting, just…no!”
Superlad flew off, pummeling Captain Cold into oblivion. Whirlpool laughed to himself as he went to aid the Mayor.
***
“This is tiresome,” Sargona murmured, as she and Dark Arrow looked around for any sign of the Mirror Mistress.
“Just keep your eye on the mirrors…there!” Dark Arrow fired an arrow at a mirror in a shop window display. Mirror Mistress scowled as her hiding place was uncovered.
Sargona scowled, “that’s it, girl, I’m sick and tired of your little mirror games -”
“Really? I’m not!” the Mistress laughed, grabbing a gun from her pocket. “Now stand tight! I don’t want you to get dissected on your way to Mirror Land!”
Sargona screamed as she was hit with a strange looking bullet. Mirror Mistreess grabbed a small mirror from her pocket and aimed it at the mystic. Sargona appeared in the mirror, trapped. “Dark Arrow, get me out of here!”
Robert Queen aimed an arrow at the mirror she was trapped in.
“I wouldn’t do that, if I were you!” Mirror Mistress cackled, disappearing suddenly. She appeared again in a cracked mirror in a garbage dump. “One crack on this mirror and Sargona is cracked aswell!”
Dark Arrow jumped as the mirror manipulator flew out of the mirror and landed on his back, scratching his neck with her sharp fingernails.
“Argh!” He shouted, as she kicked him away and aimed her mirror gun at him.
“Too bad for you too!” She laughed, firing her gun at the injured archer.
Wonder Woman flew past Mirror Mistress to defend Dark Arrow. Using her silver bracelets she deflected the bullet, firing it back past the villainess. The bullet hit Sargona’s mirror, setting her free.
“Thanks, princess!” Sargona thanked, punching Mirror Mistress in the face angrily, knocking her out. “That felt so good…I’ve been waiting to punch someone the whole day.”
***
“Stay here, Mayor,” Whirlpool instructed, after leading him back into his office. “I’ll protect you from the Rogues.” The door to the large office was kicked down, and two of the Rogues made their entrance.
“You can’t hide from us forever, Lawson!” Captain Cold II shouted at the Mayor. The Trick ran forward, but Whirlpool stood in his way.
“Stand back, Trick. Unless you want to get hurt.”
“Sorry, Aqualad, but that’s not on the agenda today!”
Trick wrapped his hand around the teen heartthrob’s head, electrocuting his whole body. Whirlpool screamed as it reacted with the water on his costume, making him fall down instantly.
“Not very good now, are we? Now then, Mr. Lawson. How about that million dollars we asked for?”
“Elongated Lad, to the rescue!” Elongated Lad jumped into the room, wrapping his arms around the Trick.
“Not today, you Joker wannabe!” Elongated Lad laughed, stretching his leg and kicking the Trick in the stomach. He stretched his neck forward and head butted the clown, taking him out.
“You forgot about me, you glorified elastic band!” Captain Cold fired a beam from his ice gun, freezing the boys legs and body. “How far can you stretch now? Not far, I should think!”
Elongated Lad tried to un-stretch his body but it was no use. He was stuck in the ice and he couldn’t take on one of the deadliest Rogues with just his head!
“Finally, we’re rid of the annoying little brats! It’s just you and me now, Mister Mayor. Now hand over the cash, or you and your family pay the price!”
The Mayor screamed, tears running down his cheeks.
“Okay, okay, I’ll get you the money! Just please don’t hurt my children! Please!”
“I’ll think about it!” Captain Cold II laughed, dragging him by the neck to his telephone. “Phone the bank and get the money moved into my account - NOW!”
Suddenly, Captain Cold was flung aside by a giant green fist.
“What?” gasped the arctic-themed villain.
Green Lantern and Flash stood in the doorway.
“Game’s over, Cap’n,” Flash remarked bluntly. She threw an unconscious Inertia to the floor. “Your boss is out of it.” Captain Cold gasped as his employer drooled from the mouth. “Now I suggest you surrender before I do to you what I just got done doing to Inertia here.”
“No way am I going back to prison! I’m out of here!” Captain Cold ran for the window, but was stopped by Whirlpool and Elongated Lad.
“You’re going nowhere, Cold.” Whirlpool laughed, as the rest of the Titans flew in from the windows and surrounded the villain. He frowned as he noticedMirror Mistress, Weather Witch and Boomerang were also defeated.
***
Central City, the West Residence
“Here we are.” Flash led the group into her basement, showing them the broken Cosmic Treadmill.
“It’s in bad condition…” Wonder Woman frowned, inspecting the mess of wires and metal.
“Ok…step out of the way, folks…” Green Lantern and Sargona walked forward, followed by Flash.
“Let’s do this!” Green Lantern shouted, firing a green blast from his ring around the Cosmic Treadmill. Sargona concentrated her full power on the broken earth-travel device, and Flash ran around the whole thing at super-speed, rebuilding the damaged equipment.
After five minutes of hard work, the Cosmic Treadmill was seemingly as good as new.
“That’s it…it’s fixed.” Flash said, as Green Lantern stood on it.
“You sure you want to do this, Sargona?” she asked.
“Yes.” Sargona replied, looking at Green Lantern. “Let’s go find Power Guy and the others.”
Sargona walked on behind Green Lantern, followed by Dark Arrow and Flash.
“3...2...1...RUN!”
The other Titans watched in awe as the quarter ran along the treadmill as fast as they could. A white light shot from the front of the Cosmic Treadmill, growing bigger as they picked up speed. Soon, the light brightened the whole room, and Green Lantern and Sargona were the first to vanish.
“Flash, what’s happening to them?” Dark Arrow bellowed over the sound of the treadmill.
“It’s working! Just follow them through!”
Dark Arrow ran through, shouting as he traveled through the white light.
“Goodbye, friends!” Flash shouted as she the white light enveloped her. “Look after Central City for me!”
Whirlpool saluted and Wonder Woman waved as Flash disappeared, and the white light grew smaller and smaller. Soon it disappeared, and the treadmill stopped whirring.
“Good luck,” Elongated Lad whispered. Though he knew this was the right thing to do, he couldn’t help but dread over the fate of his parents once reality was restored back to normal. He had heard whispers among the team about what Dr. Light would do to his mother on New Earth and it was tearing him up even more so than the fact that he would not exist once the multiverse was restored to it’s former state. He kept telling himself this was simply “the right thing to do.”
Then suddenly, the white light reappeared as did the Flash and the three other Titans. The Cosmic Treadmill exploded hurling the four Titans across the room. Wonder Woman used her super-speed to catch both Sargona and Dark Arrow as they were the most fragile of the flying Titans while Green Lantern used his ring to stop himself in mid-air and the Flash slowed her motion by moving both of her arms in a circular motion to create two mini cyclones.
As the Flash shook off the after-affects of the explosion, she complained, “I guess the treadmill was more damaged than I thought. I’m going to have to try and find my dad. He’s the only one who really knows how the dumb thing works.”
“But didn’t you say earlier that he’s vacationing in Hawaii?” asked Black Vulcan.
“Yes and I forgot the name of the resort that he’s at which is only going to make the search take that much longer,” griped the Flash.
Just then, Nucleus, Knight-Bat, Argos, and the other Titans who had been battling the Female Furies walked in the room along with Wonder Warrior and the other Titans who preferred the new reality, right behind them.
“You’re back already? Were you able to make contact with the others?” asked Nucleus.
“No, the Cosmic Treadmill malfunctioned,” explained the Flash. “We had just started to phase out of this universe and it backfired on us and then blew up.”
“Then I guess we’re off to stinkin’ Hawaii,” grumbled Super Lad.
“That will not be necessary,” came a mysterious voice. “I can reunite you with your lost friends.”
The large group of heroes turned around and were in complete shock to see who was offering to help them.
Wonder Woman was the first to speak, “Great Hera! It can‘t be!! Harbinger!!!”
“Yes, it can Donna Long,” countered the former herald of the Monitor. “With the Wizard resetting the time/space continuum, I no longer succumbed to the army of Doomsdays on your enchanted island. Enough about me though. I will need your assistance in setting things right before the inevitable occurs. Will you help me?”
TO BE CONTINUED...
Writer: Whirlpool
Editor: Power Guy
Metropolis: The Hall of Justice…
Green Lantern ran out of the Hall of Justice, using his ring to change into his Green Lantern uniform.
“I can’t believe this is happening,” Sargona whispered, following her would be husband outside.
“Honey! Wait, what is going on here?” Sargon asked, as he and Zatanna ran up to their tearful daughter.
“Daddy…mom…the wedding’s off, and I have to…I have to go, now…” Sargona hugged her mother and father, knowing that she might not see them again. “I love you both. Please don’t worry about me.”
Sargona left the Hall, as the wedding party looked on, totally perplexed.
“What the hell do you think you just did, Robert!” Elongated Lad shouted, as Jemstone and Black Vulcan ran after Sargona. “You ruined Daniel’s wedding!”
“Shut up, whoever you are!” Dark Arrow replied, pushing him out of the way. “I have more important things to worry about!”
“It’s Rick. My name is Rick!” the son of Elongated Man repeated. “Why doesn’t anybody remember my name?”
“Come on, dude,” Whirlpool sighed, dragging the boy out with him, “We‘ll get to the bottom of this.”
Outside, Green Lantern and Sargona were already arguing.
“What do you mean you don’t know how to find them? You ruin our wedding for this? You don’t even know what to do!”
“Sargona, calm down! For goodness sake, I’ll find a way to to get to Earth 2! I can find a way for us to find…”
“Oh don’t say her name,” Sargona spat, turning her back on Daniel.
“GL, maybe we should just, go back inside?” Jemstone suggested, “I feel like something’s up too, but we have no way of finding out what.”
“There has got to be a way,” Celeste Pierce thought aloud. She had quickly changed into her Black Vulcan costume and was walking up and down the pathway in deep thought. “They split us up somehow, so there must be a way that we can get back together, right? But, what is it?”
The assembled group of Titans thought to themselves for several moments. Sargona sat on the low brick wall surrounding the Hall, Jemstone wrapping an arm around her comfortingly. Green Lantern and Dark Arrow listened once more to what Wonder Woman had found out about The Wizard. Whirlpool, Super Lad and Elongated Lad tried to understand what the older superheroes were talking about, when Flash jumped up, surprising everyone.
“I’ve got it!” She shouted, running up to Green Lantern. “The Cosmic Treadmill! It’s locked away in my basement, I completely forgot! It can be used to travel between Earths - we can get to whatever earth Power Guy is on and get them back in time for dinner!”
Green Lanterns face widened as he grinned ecstatically. “Good thinking Flash! Lead the way!” he laughed.
“So we can find DiDi?” Dark Arrow asked hopefully, as Sargona looked up. “We can find DiDi! Yes!” Dark Arrow exclaimed, hugging Flash tightly.
“Okay…you can let me go, like, now!” Flash warned, pushing him off of her.
“There’s only one problem with that plan.”
Everybody spun around to look at Wonder Woman. She looked remorseful.
“Sorry to put a downer on this, but, The Cosmic Treadmill was broken in the first Crisis. I’m sorry but it won’t work.”
“C-Can’t it be fixed?” Sargona asked, walking forward. “I want to see Power Guy again,” she remarked, glaring at Green Lantern.
“It would probably take some work…we’re going to need some great effort to fix that mess,” Wonder Woman explained, “but I think we can pull it off if we try.”
“It would most likely be unsafe even if we did fix it,” Flash remarked, “I’m betting only three of four of us could travel through without wearing the antique out. One of them will have to be me - I‘m the only one whose fast enough to power it.”
“I’m going with you, Dan,” Dark Arrow demanded, “DiDi is my sister.”
“Then it’s settled. Us four will go. Come on, we haven’t got time to waste,” Green Lantern said, creating a power bubble for Flash and Dark Arrow to ride in.
Suddenly, everybody’s communicators beeped.
“What is it?” Super Lad asked, as Flash opened her communicator and deciphered the message.”
“Damnit! My Rogues are on the loose again! They’ve taken the Mayor of Central City hostage! There’s six of them there! Just what we need right now…”
“The Rogues? Everybody knows they weren’t so tough!” Super Lad mocked, “We’ll take them down, no sweat!”
“Not these guys,” Flash breathed, pocketing her communicator. “They’re a lot more powerful and ruthless than my dad’s Rogues. They mean business. It’s gonna take more than four of us to stand a chance…”
“Looks like we’re all going then…” Black Vulcan concluded, entering Green Lanterns bubble.
“Very well,” Sargona agreed, unraveling her flying carpet. “Let‘s go!”
***
Central City…
“There they are.”
The Titans of Justice were on the rooftop of the Mayor’s office building, watching the Rogues lead the Mayor out triumphantly. SWAT cars surrounded them, all guns aiming on them.
“Don’t make a move, or else the Mayor gets it!” One of the Rogues shouted. He was the oldest out of the group, and his hands were around the Mayor’s neck. He was wearing a green and black costume with goggles and nicely combed blond hair.
“That’s Inertia. The monster who killed Bart Allen all those years ago. Somehow, he’s escaped prison.” Flash explained, bitterly. “Around him is his little posse. Many a time I’ve had trouble fighting them off. He there in front is Boomerang. He’s the son of the second Captain Boomerang. The woman in the green and yellow suit is the Weather Witch. Some Weather Wizard fanatic who mysteriously got a hold of his Weather Wand the day he was murdered. The clone behind the mayor is The Trick, he’s annoying but not exactly evil. He’s more in it for the thrills and the money than anything else. The girl in the green and orange outfit is Mirror Mistress. She’s one of the most dangerous ones…I wouldn’t underestimate her. And finally, Captain Cold II, son of the original. Watch out for him - he’s not afraid to kill.”
“Great, a bunch of psychos…” Super Lad said, “when do we get to put them in prison?”
“I say….right about now!” Jemstone cried, jumping down the rooftop. Gracefully, she flew into Weather Witch, tackling her to the ground. “Your little stunt ends now, witch!”
“Jemstone!” Black Vulcan shouted a little too loud. The Rogues looked up to see the League of Titans above them.
“Looks like the stealth way is out the window,” Whirlpool remarked, leaping off the building. Halfway down, he shot two steams of water out of his palms, propelling him in the air and shooting Captain Cold away from the Mayor. “Let me take the icy one!”
“I’ve got first dibs on The Trick!” Elongated Lad cried, as the group all jumped into battle. “I could teach him a joke or two!” he said, sarcastically.
“The League of Titans! I should have known you wouldn’t be too far away!” Inertia growled, running from the scene, followed closely by Flash.
“You should have learnt by now, Inertia,” Flash lectured, running head to head with him, “Crime. Doesn’t. Pay!” Flash tripped Inertia into a lamppost, appearing to knock him out.
“That seemed to easy…” Flash thought, approaching him slowly. Suddenly, he jumped up and ran forward and punched the red-haired speedster in the jaw, sending her flying backwards into a phone booth.
“The fight starts now, Flash! I’ll kill you just like I killed the speedy little bugger before you!”
***
“Get off of me, you freak!” Weather Witch shouted, kicking Jemstone away. She held up her wand and shouted “Lightning!”
Jemstone gasped as lightning appeared around her.
“Not so fast!” Black Vulcan jumped in front of Jemstone. “You’re forgetting about me!” Black Vulcan conducted the electricity into her fingertips, and directed it back at Weather Witch. They hit her hard in the chest, but the blonde bombshell didn’t seem to be hurt at all.
“W-What?!?” Black Vulcan exclaimed, as Jemstone stood up.
“My costume is made of rubber, fool! You think electricity can hurt me? Never underestimate the WEATHER WITCH! STORMS!”
Black Vulcan and Jemstone screamed as a mini tornado pushed them into a building. Black Vulcan groaned as her eyes closed.
“Vulcan!” Jemstone screamed. “That’s it! You’re going down, Weather Witch!” Jemstone fired six energy bolts at the villain, knocking her back a few feet. Before she could recover, Jemstone hit her with another three energy bolts, effectively knocking her out.
“Hmmph….you’re weren’t as tough as I thought you’d be,” Jemstone smirked, as Weather Witch laid motionless. “Now, to help Black Vulcan…”
***
“Take this, Super Lad!” Boomerang chortled, throwing a silver boomerang at the Kryptonian. The boy shielded his eyes as the boomerang exploded around him.
“Haha! Is that all you got?” Super Lad grinned, flying from the explosion and upper-cutting the Australian into a car.
Boomerang picked himself up and readjusted his coat. “Wow, that actually hurt.” he said, staring the boy up and down, “by the way, how did you get that physique? I love your biceps…” complimented Boomerang, looking into the boys eyes. “Are you over 18?”
Superlad was froze still. “Wait…what…did you ju-just…huh…uhh….”
Whirlpool ran past Superlad, and hit Boomerang with a hot jet of water. “What’s up Super Lad?” he asked, directing an open fire hydrant at the villain. “Got an admirer?” he joked.
“Uhh…he..he came onto me! I swear it!” Superlad shouted, “He complimented my biceps!”
“And why not? They are pretty big,” Whirlpool laughed. He loved messing around with his best friend.
“Ew, fish boy! Stay away from me, alright! That’s disgusting, just…no!”
Superlad flew off, pummeling Captain Cold into oblivion. Whirlpool laughed to himself as he went to aid the Mayor.
***
“This is tiresome,” Sargona murmured, as she and Dark Arrow looked around for any sign of the Mirror Mistress.
“Just keep your eye on the mirrors…there!” Dark Arrow fired an arrow at a mirror in a shop window display. Mirror Mistress scowled as her hiding place was uncovered.
Sargona scowled, “that’s it, girl, I’m sick and tired of your little mirror games -”
“Really? I’m not!” the Mistress laughed, grabbing a gun from her pocket. “Now stand tight! I don’t want you to get dissected on your way to Mirror Land!”
Sargona screamed as she was hit with a strange looking bullet. Mirror Mistreess grabbed a small mirror from her pocket and aimed it at the mystic. Sargona appeared in the mirror, trapped. “Dark Arrow, get me out of here!”
Robert Queen aimed an arrow at the mirror she was trapped in.
“I wouldn’t do that, if I were you!” Mirror Mistress cackled, disappearing suddenly. She appeared again in a cracked mirror in a garbage dump. “One crack on this mirror and Sargona is cracked aswell!”
Dark Arrow jumped as the mirror manipulator flew out of the mirror and landed on his back, scratching his neck with her sharp fingernails.
“Argh!” He shouted, as she kicked him away and aimed her mirror gun at him.
“Too bad for you too!” She laughed, firing her gun at the injured archer.
Wonder Woman flew past Mirror Mistress to defend Dark Arrow. Using her silver bracelets she deflected the bullet, firing it back past the villainess. The bullet hit Sargona’s mirror, setting her free.
“Thanks, princess!” Sargona thanked, punching Mirror Mistress in the face angrily, knocking her out. “That felt so good…I’ve been waiting to punch someone the whole day.”
***
“Stay here, Mayor,” Whirlpool instructed, after leading him back into his office. “I’ll protect you from the Rogues.” The door to the large office was kicked down, and two of the Rogues made their entrance.
“You can’t hide from us forever, Lawson!” Captain Cold II shouted at the Mayor. The Trick ran forward, but Whirlpool stood in his way.
“Stand back, Trick. Unless you want to get hurt.”
“Sorry, Aqualad, but that’s not on the agenda today!”
Trick wrapped his hand around the teen heartthrob’s head, electrocuting his whole body. Whirlpool screamed as it reacted with the water on his costume, making him fall down instantly.
“Not very good now, are we? Now then, Mr. Lawson. How about that million dollars we asked for?”
“Elongated Lad, to the rescue!” Elongated Lad jumped into the room, wrapping his arms around the Trick.
“Not today, you Joker wannabe!” Elongated Lad laughed, stretching his leg and kicking the Trick in the stomach. He stretched his neck forward and head butted the clown, taking him out.
“You forgot about me, you glorified elastic band!” Captain Cold fired a beam from his ice gun, freezing the boys legs and body. “How far can you stretch now? Not far, I should think!”
Elongated Lad tried to un-stretch his body but it was no use. He was stuck in the ice and he couldn’t take on one of the deadliest Rogues with just his head!
“Finally, we’re rid of the annoying little brats! It’s just you and me now, Mister Mayor. Now hand over the cash, or you and your family pay the price!”
The Mayor screamed, tears running down his cheeks.
“Okay, okay, I’ll get you the money! Just please don’t hurt my children! Please!”
“I’ll think about it!” Captain Cold II laughed, dragging him by the neck to his telephone. “Phone the bank and get the money moved into my account - NOW!”
Suddenly, Captain Cold was flung aside by a giant green fist.
“What?” gasped the arctic-themed villain.
Green Lantern and Flash stood in the doorway.
“Game’s over, Cap’n,” Flash remarked bluntly. She threw an unconscious Inertia to the floor. “Your boss is out of it.” Captain Cold gasped as his employer drooled from the mouth. “Now I suggest you surrender before I do to you what I just got done doing to Inertia here.”
“No way am I going back to prison! I’m out of here!” Captain Cold ran for the window, but was stopped by Whirlpool and Elongated Lad.
“You’re going nowhere, Cold.” Whirlpool laughed, as the rest of the Titans flew in from the windows and surrounded the villain. He frowned as he noticedMirror Mistress, Weather Witch and Boomerang were also defeated.
***
Central City, the West Residence
“Here we are.” Flash led the group into her basement, showing them the broken Cosmic Treadmill.
“It’s in bad condition…” Wonder Woman frowned, inspecting the mess of wires and metal.
“Ok…step out of the way, folks…” Green Lantern and Sargona walked forward, followed by Flash.
“Let’s do this!” Green Lantern shouted, firing a green blast from his ring around the Cosmic Treadmill. Sargona concentrated her full power on the broken earth-travel device, and Flash ran around the whole thing at super-speed, rebuilding the damaged equipment.
After five minutes of hard work, the Cosmic Treadmill was seemingly as good as new.
“That’s it…it’s fixed.” Flash said, as Green Lantern stood on it.
“You sure you want to do this, Sargona?” she asked.
“Yes.” Sargona replied, looking at Green Lantern. “Let’s go find Power Guy and the others.”
Sargona walked on behind Green Lantern, followed by Dark Arrow and Flash.
“3...2...1...RUN!”
The other Titans watched in awe as the quarter ran along the treadmill as fast as they could. A white light shot from the front of the Cosmic Treadmill, growing bigger as they picked up speed. Soon, the light brightened the whole room, and Green Lantern and Sargona were the first to vanish.
“Flash, what’s happening to them?” Dark Arrow bellowed over the sound of the treadmill.
“It’s working! Just follow them through!”
Dark Arrow ran through, shouting as he traveled through the white light.
“Goodbye, friends!” Flash shouted as she the white light enveloped her. “Look after Central City for me!”
Whirlpool saluted and Wonder Woman waved as Flash disappeared, and the white light grew smaller and smaller. Soon it disappeared, and the treadmill stopped whirring.
“Good luck,” Elongated Lad whispered. Though he knew this was the right thing to do, he couldn’t help but dread over the fate of his parents once reality was restored back to normal. He had heard whispers among the team about what Dr. Light would do to his mother on New Earth and it was tearing him up even more so than the fact that he would not exist once the multiverse was restored to it’s former state. He kept telling himself this was simply “the right thing to do.”
Then suddenly, the white light reappeared as did the Flash and the three other Titans. The Cosmic Treadmill exploded hurling the four Titans across the room. Wonder Woman used her super-speed to catch both Sargona and Dark Arrow as they were the most fragile of the flying Titans while Green Lantern used his ring to stop himself in mid-air and the Flash slowed her motion by moving both of her arms in a circular motion to create two mini cyclones.
As the Flash shook off the after-affects of the explosion, she complained, “I guess the treadmill was more damaged than I thought. I’m going to have to try and find my dad. He’s the only one who really knows how the dumb thing works.”
“But didn’t you say earlier that he’s vacationing in Hawaii?” asked Black Vulcan.
“Yes and I forgot the name of the resort that he’s at which is only going to make the search take that much longer,” griped the Flash.
Just then, Nucleus, Knight-Bat, Argos, and the other Titans who had been battling the Female Furies walked in the room along with Wonder Warrior and the other Titans who preferred the new reality, right behind them.
“You’re back already? Were you able to make contact with the others?” asked Nucleus.
“No, the Cosmic Treadmill malfunctioned,” explained the Flash. “We had just started to phase out of this universe and it backfired on us and then blew up.”
“Then I guess we’re off to stinkin’ Hawaii,” grumbled Super Lad.
“That will not be necessary,” came a mysterious voice. “I can reunite you with your lost friends.”
The large group of heroes turned around and were in complete shock to see who was offering to help them.
Wonder Woman was the first to speak, “Great Hera! It can‘t be!! Harbinger!!!”
“Yes, it can Donna Long,” countered the former herald of the Monitor. “With the Wizard resetting the time/space continuum, I no longer succumbed to the army of Doomsdays on your enchanted island. Enough about me though. I will need your assistance in setting things right before the inevitable occurs. Will you help me?”
TO BE CONTINUED...