Titans East Chapter 67 – “All Good Things… Part 5”
Written by: Power Guy
Edited by: Marcus Mebes


The Hall of Justice…

The Huntress was trapped. After a lengthy pursuit, Black Manta had backed her into a corner. Unless she thought of something quick, she would be burned alive by the villain’s red-hot eye-beams. She frantically started to search through her utility-belt for a particular item.

“Now to finish the job my daughter started,” cackled the villain as his eyes began to glow. He paused for a minute. “Digging through your utility-belt? Your flimsy Batarangs won’t save you this time. Throw them and they’ll turn to ashes like you soon will. Good-bye Huntress!” he threatened as he fired his deadly blasts.

With lightning-fast speed, the Huntress pulled the item out of her belt that she was searching for: a reflective mirror. The searing beams impacted with the mirror but shot right back at Black Manta’s helmet, shattering the lenses and horribly scorching the villain’s face.

“Aaarrrrrrrrrrggggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!” he screamed. He quickly ripped off his helmet and clutched his burning face. Too late, he realized, that he was probably already disfigured from the fiery beams.

Though she had little pity for her assailant, she grabbed a near-by fire-extinguisher and sprayed Black Manta down with cooling water. Lucky for the villain, his helmet took the brunt of the blast.

“Okay Manta, now that you’re all cooled off, time to say good night!” she taunted, punching her prey in the face, knocking him out cold. The drenched villain dropped to the ground like a wet dishrag, unable to endure the pain of the punch on the burned skin of his face.

Several feet away, the Wonder Twins were engaged in battle with Minister Blizzard and False Face. Zan had turned into a storm cloud, taking on the former foe of Wonder Woman while Jayna had become and elephant and was locking tusks with False Face who had taken the same form.

“I don’t think we’re making much progress, Wonder-brother,” noted Jayna. “What do you say we swap dancing partners?”

“Good idea, super-sis,” agreed Zan as he drifted over False Face. “Shape of… freezing rain!” he said as he down-poured on the morphing villain, freezing him solid, rendering him inert.

Jayna quickly returned the favor and charged Minister Blizzard, “Your cold-front’s over, Frosty!”

Minister Blizzard became a bit panicked at Jayna’s large form advancing towards him. Without thinking clearly, he iced up the ground beneath her, causing her to lose her balance. She fell to the ground and started sliding towards him with fierce momentum. Her large head hit the Amazing Amazon’s former foe, causing him to fly into a near-by file cabinet. Suffering a concussion from the blow, the frigid villain was soon unconscious.

In the center of the room, the Cheetah was furious at Junjie Quick for spoiling his victory over the Wonder-family. “You are going to deeply regret pulling Woondah Man from my clutches, boy!” he said, with Priscilla back in control. He lunged for the speedster.

Before the Cheetah could blink however, Junjie raced out of the way. “You look like a man, yet talk like a woman. Are you taking those female hormone pills or something?” he mused as he punched the Cheetah in the back of the head. All of a sudden, someone returned the favor and punched Junjie ten times in various spots on his body. It was Kid Zoom and he was ready to play for keeps.

“Yeah, the cat-man’s a little freaky but you’ve got bigger problems to deal with,” taunted Kid Zoom. “I have to admit that I’m really happy you’re back, Junjie. Now, I’ll either make you twice as good of a hero or I’ll be able to kill you myself!” he said as his fists continued to fly.

Junjie had less than a moment to react. He quickly remembered several defensive martial arts moved he had learned while growing up.

The Cheetah had watched the two speedsters fighting for a few seconds. He then decided Kid Zoom should not have the honor of killing Junjie Quick. It was the Cheetah’s right to slaughter the crimson speedster for delaying him in killing the Wonder-men. “Back away Kid Zoom, if you know what’s good for you!” he directed as he jumped towards Junjie. Before he could land, someone grabbed his tail and yanked him backwards. The mysterious foe of the Cheetah threw him into a bookshelf half way across the room. Upon making contact with the bookshelf, it came tumbling down upon him along with the numerous books it was housing. From under the shelf, he heard an unfamiliar female voice teasing him.

“Ah, ah, ah Whiskers. It’s not nice to gang up on someone.”

In rage of anger, the Cheetah threw the bookshelf off of himself, ready to face his attacker. “Who dares???” he growled as he gazed at what appeared to be a young version of Donna Troy. “Wonder Girl? How did you get so young? Wait – don’t bother answering that as you soon won’t have a tongue!” he said as he leaped towards the young Amazon, ready to kill.

Wonder Girl put her arms up in front of her, ready to defend herself but lucky for her, the Cheetah was stopped in mid-flight by a protective invisible sphere surrounding her. He bounced off of the sphere, dazed and confused. “What trickery is this?!?!?!”

Wonder Warrior descended down in front of the Cheetah. He and the other Titans had started to come to, after Tala’s spell had faded. “It’s called Lansinar. I’m ashamed of you for not recognizing it.”

“Ridicule me, will you? That will be your undoing!” vowed the Cheetah, ready to strike. Before he could act, he was again stopped by being ensnared by Wonder Man’s magic-lasso.

“Wrong again, Cheetah,” retorted Wonder Man. “It’s the end of the line for you and your Legion of Doom,” he said, tightening his rope. “And just so you don’t try to escape, here’s a little something I owe you from our last battle!” He cold-clocked the Cheetah in the forehead.

“Nice T.K.O. cuz,” congratulated Wonder Warrior. He turned to the young Wonder Girl and recoiled in shock. “Mom?! Did the Legion de-age you or something?”

“Mom???” echoed a confused Wonder Girl. “Look buddy, I’m not into role-playing. I appreciate you saving my life, but I’m not going home with you tonight.”

Wonder Warrior started to panic. “Oh no! Dark Angel must have struck again!” he said, turning to his cousin, “Scott, do you still remember me???”

“Calm down man, I haven’t forgotten you,” Wonder Man said reassuring his cousin, “but I’m not sure what’s happened to your mom.”

“Okay, you can stop talking about me like I’m not here,” Wonder Girl said, putting her hands on her hips. “I’m not sure what you frat-boys are talking about. I’m obviously way younger than he is and I’ve never seen either one of you in my life!”

Up above, Green Lantern and Sinestro were locked in a power-ring duel. Green and yellow maces clashed together, each wielder refusing to let up. “It’s over Sinestro! You’re the last one standing. Give up and surrender your power-ring!”

“NEVER!” shouted a defiant Sinestro as his mace scored a direct hit on Green Lantern’s skull.

CRACK!

Green Lantern dropped to the ground with blood running down his face.

“Your end is near GREEN FOOL!” vowed Sinestro as his ring created a yellow sword. He raised the sword above his head, ready for the kill. All of a sudden, a green anvil dropped on Sinestro’s head, making him dazed and groggy. It was not Daniel Jordan’s doing however.

“Hold it, lobster-face. If you’re going to kill Green Lantern, you’re going to have to kill both of us,” Starman said, standing behind Sinestro with his power-ring glowing and pointed at Sinestro. “I’ve always wanted to clean your clock, Sinestro. Please… don’t surrender.”

As Sinestro became further enraged, the Arachnid jumped on his back. Mystical teeth sprouted from his costume which he dug into Sinestro’s back, releasing his Beetle’s Bite. “Yeah, and if you’re going to take on my main dude here, you’re going to have issues with me too!” the wielder of the Blue Beetle scarab threatened.

“Arachnid? Laughed the red-skinned alien. “What a foolish name. You are the weilder of the blue beetle scarab, and you call yourself an arachnid? Do you not even know the difference between a beetle and an arachnid, you oaf? Why… Eeeeiiiiiiii!!!” shrieked Sinestro as crippling pain ran through his body from the Arachnid’s bite. “Three against one, huh?” noticed Sinestro, panting. He quickly became angry and looked down at the son of Hal Jordan. “You got lucky today, Daniel Jordan. Celebrate while you can!” Sinestro flew off and used his power-ring to gather up Bizarro, Black Manta, Giganta, and Grodd. “We’re getting out of here!” he said, carrying the other villains towards the exit of the Hall of Justice.

“If you were planning on using the Hall of Doom to escape, you can forget it,” Celsius said, blocking the exit. “While you’ve been in here taking on the Titans of Justice, and failing miserably from what I see, I took the liberty of remodeling your Hall of Doom.”

“What have you done to our headquarters, foolish human?” demanded Grodd.

“Do you know what happens to hot metal when it’s super-cooled?” asked Celsius. “All your Hall of Doom is good for now is scrap-metal,” she said, smiling.

“And all that the five of you are good for is prison maintenance,” Power Guy said, his eyes glowing red, ready to strike with his heat-vision if need be. Behind him stood the entire team of the revived Titans of Justice along with the new Justice League, as well as Palomé’s small army.

“I don’t like being someone’s puppet,” commented Dark Arrow, aiming his bow and a single arrow at Grodd. “Go ahead. Give me one reason to put this arrowhead into your skull.”

“We may not have the Hall of Doom but we’re still getting out of here,” countered Grodd. “My time conveyer will do the job nicely,” he said as he switched on the device. “Hurry,” he commanded. “Through the portal!”

As the four other members of the Legion of Doom raced for the portal with Grodd right behind them, Junjie Quick grabbed the miniature time machine from Grodd’s hand and made a few minor adjustments at super-speed. Once finished, he called out, “Power Guy – make sure they all go through!” He then sped over to the Hall’s communication center.

“What have you done???” Grodd demanded angrily.

Power Guy wasted no time in following Junjie’s directions. He took in a deep breath and then blew it outwards in the direction of the villains, starting to push them through the portal.

“Atmosphere, help the big guy out,” directed Dark Arrow to his teammate.

Atmosphere made his way to the front of the crowd of heroes and let loose his wind powers.

“Palomé? Celsius? Care to lend a hand?” directed Wonder Man. Both the young man and the older woman nodded. Palomé released his soul-self, which further pushed the villains forward, while Celsius joined Atmosphere and Power Guy’s gusts of wind with her own pressurized steam blast. Between the four of them, the force of the air coming at the Legion of Doom was enough to even blow Bizarro and Sinestro through the portal. Within seconds, the villains were pushed through and the portal closed abruptly.

“Where did you send them Junjie?” Green Lantern asked, looking confused.

“Oh, I sent them back to the past where they came from… though they may not like the locale once they realize where they are. Nor the hosts that will be waiting to greet them,” answered the Singaporean Speedster with a devilish grin. “Let’s just say I sent a little message back into the past to some friends of ours”

“Ok, now that the villains are taken care of, first thing’s first. Where the heck have you guys been?” asked Kid Comet. “We all thought you died in that explosion at S.T.A.R. Labs.”

Nucleus was the first to speak, “It’s a really long, long story but here goes…”


To Be Continued

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Epilogue:

Twenty Five Years Ago…

The five members of the Legion of Doom fell through the time-portal. Grodd landed on top of Sinestro, who quickly became irritated.

“Get off of me you stupid ape!” ordred Sinestro. “This is all YOUR fault! We failed and now we have nothing to show for all of that time we spent in the future!”

Grodd picked himself off of Sinestro and noticed their surroundings. “Shut up you fool. Look around you, we didn’t go anywhere. We’re still in the Hall of Justice.”

“Yes, but you won’t be staying long,” came a familiar voice.

The members of the Legion of Doom turned to see Superman addressing them with the entire membership of the Super Friends standing behind him.







“We received a mysterious message telling us you would be dropping by right about now,” revealed Batman.

“And we couldn’t wait to arrange a little welcome home party for you,” added Wonder Woman, swirling her magic-lasso in the air.

Aquaman pointed at the group of villains, “Let’s get ’em!” he directed to his team, squinting his eyes.