Titans of Justice Chapter 5 - “Deja Vu Times Two Part 5”
Written by: Power Guy
Edited by: Power Guy


The Hall of Doom...

A few minutes ago, Nightvision and the Huntress had infiltrated the Hall of Doom in hopes of finding proof that the Legion of Hope had not abandoned their villainous ways. They began sifting through the Legion’s records until they were discovered by the second generation Riddler.

“Nightvision!! Huntress!!!” gasped the clue-obsessed son of Edward Nigma.





The Huntress leapt over to the Riddler and slapped him across the face. “Riddler, you sicken me! It’s me, Scream Queen! The Toyman and I were testing my new fear-gas in here and you must have inhaled some of it when you walked in. It’s obvious that you’re scared of the Dynamic Duo, you spineless worm! Get out of my face or I swear I’ll go tell Luthor immediately and see that you’re thrown out of the Legion before you can blink!”





<GULP> “O....o........ok,” whimpered the Riddler, as he began to doubt his own eyes. “I’m sorry! Please don’t tell anyone about this!”

“GET OUT!!!!” screeched the Huntress.

The Riddler quickly followed his orders and scampered back to his room, wetting his shorts in the process.

“Nice save,” complimented Nightvision.





“You would have thought of something if I hadn’t,” smiled the Huntress to the man she considered a brother.

The Huntress and Nightvision continued to read through papers and scan through video recordings for almost twenty minutes until Nightvision’s eyes widened quite a bit at what he had just discovered...

***

The next day at the United Nations building in New York...

Kitty Colbert was leading the assembly of the different delegates from across the world. “Today, we are gathered here to thank the Legion of Hope for their valiant efforts in saving the Earth time and time again.” Though she put on a smiley face, Kitty hated the idea of appointing the Legion as Earths’ official protectors as her gut feeling was telling her something wasn’t right. Not only that, but she believed in the Titans of Justice and felt they were better suited for the position. Unfortunately, Amanda Waller had tremendous pull with the other nations of the globe and leveraged everything to swing things in the Legion’s favor.

The Legion of Hope stood smug and confident as Kitty continued the ceremony. “Nearly every nation in the world has sent a representative here today to give their thanks and place their trust in you as their new official protectors....”

Just then, the video monitor behind Kitty was turned on by remote control. Soon a DVD started playing showcasing the Legion of Hope. As the seconds ticked by, the Legion’s world was turned upside down. The video showed that Legion had instigated or orchestrated nearly every catastrophe they had diverted from the subway crash in Paris, to the snagged blimp in Metropolis to the nuclear missile crisis over Russia and most shockingly, the video showed that it was the Legion who had enabled the Syndicate of Terror to take over the world a short year ago. There was no denying what the video had shown, the villains were essentially caught red-handed.

“Nooooooooo.....” Lance Luthor gasped in horror. “This can’t be happening.....”





“Let’s get out of here!” suggested the Cheetah, turning towards one of the doorways that lead out of the assembly room.





Suddenly, the Cheetah heard a familiar voice.

“You’re going nowhere,” Olympia said firmly as her silver lasso ensnared the grandson of Priscilla Rich.





The Legion of Hope looked in the direction of where the lasso had been thrown only to see their worst enemies, the Titans of Justice.

“It’s finally over, Luthor,” promised Power Guy. “You and your Legion of Doom have finally been exposed to the world. Don’t think you’re getting away with what you’ve done.”

Suddenly, Sonic Boom appeared on the video screen, “Power Guy’s right. Even if you get past the thirteen Titans in there, the rest of the team and I are waiting for you outside. Trust me when I say you WON’T get past us.”





The thirteen super-villains braced themselves as Power Guy, Nightvision, the Huntress, Olympia, Whirlpool, Blue Lantern, the Flash, Ms. Mars, Hawk Warrior, Argos, Black Vulcan II, Nucleus, and Sargona surrounded them.

“Well, since we have nothing to lose, let’s tear them apart!” ordered Luthor. The new Legion of Doom followed his command and attacked the small fraction of the Titans of Justice.

As the heroes and villains began sizing each other up, conversation sparked.

“I’ve got first dibs on the Sting Ray!” declared Sargona.





Whirlpool quickly leapt in front of the raven-haired sorceress and stopped her, “Not this time. She was in my rogues’ gallery first. Go cover Bizarbara so Power Guy can nab Luthor.”





“Only for you, Swirly...” smirked the wielder of the Ruby of Life.

A few seconds later, Bizarbara found herself bombarded with a stream of books under the control of Sargona’s ruby. The backwards duplicate of Power Guy instantly became annoyed and smashed book after book as they shot towards her. “Bizarbara is going to be very, very nice to stupid ruby girl!”





“Oh heavens, I guess you mean business,” Sargona said, sarcastically right before she uttered one of her almost-famous backwards enchantments, “skoob emoceb uelb etinotpyrk!”

With the books changed to Bizarbara’s one weakness, she soon plummeted to the ground in pure agony.

A few feet away, Whirlpool was doing his best to keep his promise to Sargona and neutralize the Sting Ray. “How many times do I have to put you away before you stop all of this crazyness?” he asked.

“I’m not going to stop until you and all of your damnable friends are resting in Davy Jones’ locker!” spat a defiant Sting Ray as she fired several of her poison darts at the son of Tempest.

Whirlpool’s Atlantean muscles allowed him to dodge the deadly attack in the nick of time. He then retaliated by lifting the daughter of Black Manta into the air and throwing her into the wall behind her. As her body slammed into the wall, she hit her head quite hard, causing her to become unconcious.

Across the room, Argos and Solomon Grundy were facing off. Both were immensely strong and angry.

“Solomon Grundy take care of Titans of Justice!” growled the marshland monster as he lifted a large table into the air, bent on crushing the son of Orion with it.





“Not on your best day, monster!” countered Argos as he delivered a quick blow to Grundy’s face, forcing him to drop the table. Argos caught the table in mid-fall and slammed it down on top of Grundy’s head, making a hole in it just big enough to immobilize the hulking brute. The former foe of the Golden Age Green Lantern struggled to get free of his bonds until he was hit with a full-power blast of the Astro Force, causing him to collapse.




Up in the rafters above, Knightvision and the Huntress were both stalking their prey. The new Riddler and Scream Queen were spooked by the fact that they couldn’t see those that were hunting them.

“I don’t see them Scream Queen,” the Riddler said in a bit of a panic.

“Oh stop your sniveling, you coward!” ordered the daughter of the Scarecrow. “They’ll show themselves soon enough and when they do, I’ll slit them from mouth to groin with my scythe!” She then began looking all around, ready to make good on her threat until a Bat-rope whipped around her deadly weapon, yanking it from her hand. “My scythe!” screamed the mistress of fear.





“Trust me, you won’t be needing it where you’re going!” came the voice of the Huntress.

Immediately, a similar event happened to the Riddler. His distortion-cane was ripped from his fingers by Knightvision’s Bat-rope.

“Oh no! We’re defenseless!” shrieked the son of Edward Nigma.

“Will you SHUT UP!!!” barked Scream Queen, losing her temper

“How about you both settle down,” advised Knightvision as he dropped a tear-gas bomb in between the two villains causing them to loose their focus.

The Huntress and Knightvision dropped down from the rafters, gas-masks on their face. It didn’t take long before a series of punches flew, taking out both of the super-villains before they saw what was coming.

Up in the air, Blue Lantern was in a heated confrontation with his old adversary, Sultana.

“Where are the liars?!?!?!” demanded the daughter of Sinestro.





“What are you talking about?” asked Blue Lantern as a beam from his ring collided with another beam from Sultana’s crystal.





“The LIARS! Starman and Jemstone! A year and half ago, they swore to me that you were dead!” screeched the alien villainess. “I told them they would pay if I found out that they deceived me. Now that your team has exposed us, I have no need to hide my vengeance!”

“You’re not hurting them or anyone else today, Sultanan,” Blue Lantern said sternly as he channeled his hope through his ring creating an even more powerful blast which overcame Sultana’s beam, knocking her from the sky. The daughter of Sinestro began falling to her death until a giant blue cushion padded her impact but before she could get on her feet, blue iron chains locked her wrists and ankles together.

“RELEASE ME!” demanded Sultanan, angrily.

“Not until you truly see the light,” declined the blue emissary of hope.

Lance Luthor looked around, completely disappointed as each and every one of his lackeys fell before the Titans of Justice. he was doing his best to keep Power Guy at bay with a kryptonite laser but the modern-age man of steel was closing in on him. Before he knew it, his ray-gun was a slab of molten metal laying on the floor thanks to Power Guy’s heat-vision. “ARGHHHHHH!!!” Lance screamed as his hand burned.

“No more guns. No more tricks. It’s the end of the line, Luthor,” declared Power Guy as he lifted up his adversary by the shirt. “And to think I almost believed that you and your band of merry little elves were playing it straight. With your genius, you could have done so much to help the world but just like your father, all you did was try to control it. Your going straight to Blackgate and if I’m right, they’re going to throw the book at you!”

“Not this time, Power Guy!” Luthor said pulling a small square device out of his pocket. He immediately pressed a button on it and the entire Legion of Doom began to dematerialize. “Hahahaha!!! You thought this was the end but actually, it’s only the beginning!” vowed the son of Lex Luthor as he and his teammates were transported into the Hall of Doom which was miles away.

“NO!!! They’re getting away!” shouted Sargona.

“Easy girl,” Black Vulcan said as she began rubbing the raven-haired beauty’s shoulders. “We’ve shown the world their true colors. They’ve lost this round.”





“And we’ll catch up with them soon enough,” smiled the Flash.





“The Flash is right,” agreed Blue Lantern. “They can run all they want but we’ll find them and when we do, we’ll bring them to justice. At least now the world knows who their real heroes are.”

As the heroes took a few breaths and composed themselves, Amanda Waller barged into the room. “I wouldn’t be so sure of that!” spat the angry president. “Just because the Legion of Hope won’t be defending the world any longer, that doesn’t mean I’m going to let your team continue on. I’m putting the activity ban back on your group. The United Nations doesn’t need you any longer so there’s no-one to veto my decision!”





“Oh really?” questioned Knightvision as he turned towards one of the doors in the room and yelled, “You can come in now, sir.”

Amanda Waller just about fainted when she saw who Knightvision was talking to: President Barack Obama.

“Sweet Jesus! It can’t be!” shouted Waller in total shock.

Knightvision turned and stared into Waller’s eyes, “For over a year every single member of the Titans of Justice has spent time on a search and rescue mission in the area where President Obama’s plane went down and guess who we found on a small deserted island earlier this morning?”


Obama walked up to Waller with an angry scowl on his face, “I know what you’ve been doing while I’ve been away Ms. Waller and I’m very disappointed in you.”

“But s...s.....sir, I was only trying to....”

“Save it for my office. We’ll be leaving for Washington immediately and once we’re there, you can talk all you want before we discuss the repercussions of your actions,” continued President Obama.

As the two government officials exited the room, many members of the Titans of Justice looked at each other with smiles on their faces.

Obama quickly shot back into the room, “Oh and Titans, you have my full permission to reform. In fact, I’d like to to disperse yourselves a bit. Maybe two teams? Oh and you also have my vote for being the official protectors of the Earth. Kitty will be making the arrangements for you soon. You’ll have similar responsibilities and privileges to the Global Guardians,” he smiled right before he left the room again.

“Two teams, huh?” repeated Starman as he looked directly at Power Guy.





“Yeah, I guess we’d better figure out who’s going where,” smiled Power Guy.


***Be here next chapter to find out who makes which team plus there are a few surprises in store!