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Titans of Justice Unlimited Chapter 74 - “After-burn Part 1”
Written & Edited By: Power Guy
The Hall of Justice…
“Wow! Power Guy and the others have their hands full with that meteor storm headed towards Daxam!” exclaimed Zan as he and Jayna looked up at the Trouble Alert.
“Yeah but that will help take Green Lantern’s mind off of everything that’s happened recently,” hoped Jayna.
“We sure never had this much drama on the team the first time we were a part of the Super Friends,” recalled Zan.
Suddenly, the Trouble Alert started beeping with a new emergency.
“Great Exor! What is it, Zan?” asked Jayna as her brother read the report.
“It’s coming from downtown Metropolis! Zy-Kree has escaped from the Phantom Zone and is causing all sorts of havoc!”
“Zan!” called out Nucleus as he approached the Wonder Twins. “Send out a triple priority alert to all of the adult members! With most of the big guns in space, we’re going to need everyone who’s available. Zy-kree is a ruthless, cold-heated killer according to the notes that Superman made on him plus he’s been stuck in the Phantom Zone since Superman, Aquaman, and Green Lantern sent him back there years ago when you two were members of the first Super Friends team which tells me he’s got an axe to grind!”
Moments later, several of the Titans had assembled at the Hall ready for duty: the Arachnid, Elongated Lad, the Flash, Kid Comet, Nightvision, Powerstorm, Queen Bee, Starman, and Wonder Warrior.
“Thank you all for arriving so quickly,” Nucleus said, gratefully. “We don’t have any time to waste. Let’s pile into the teleport tubes….”
“We’re on it!” advised Zan, interrupting the tiny Titan.
“Not so fast kids,” requested the man otherwise known as Jason Hardwick. “There’s a reason I didn’t have you call in any of the Super Friends. This mission is too dangerous for you kids. Stay back here and monitor things on the trouble-alert. If we fall in battle, contact Power Guy or Wonder Man and ask them to send a few guys from the space team back to earth to stop Zy-Kree.”
“But…but…..” insisted the Twins in unison.
“No buts!” ordered Wonder Warrior. “As second in command of this team, I’d like to ask that you both respect the leadership’s decision to have you stay here. Like Nucleus said, this is going to be a dangerous ordeal and we can’t take the risk of losing one or the both of you in battle due to a careless mistake.”
The Wonder Twins slumped their shoulders and frowned but knew in their hearts that Wonder Warrior and Nucleus were right.
On the way to the teleport tubes, Nightvision whispered to Wonder Warrior, “Thank you. None of us need those two liabilities getting in the way today.”
***
Minutes later in downtown Metropolis….
The downtown area was filled with hysteria. Zy-kree had demolished two bridges, threw a skyscraper into the Indian Ocean, and set many of the streets afire with his heat-vision. The group of Titans were doing their best to try to stop him but were making little headway. Currently, Zy-Kree had both Starman and Wonder Warrior by their throats.
“I said bring me Superman!!!” bellowed the Kryptonian criminal as he threw Starman and Wonder Warrior towards the ground.
“I’ve got Spaceman!” the Arachnid said, scurrying to catch his best-friend.
“And I’ll get Wonder Warrior!” advised the Flash as she created a mini-tornado to cushion the prince of Themyscira’s fall.
Meanwhile the Arachnid had placed himself where he expected Starman to hit the ground. Within less than a second, Starman’s body slammed into his, knocking him over and sending the two of them rolling across the ground. Finally the duo stopped rolling with Starman on top of the Arachnid with his right armpit in his face.
A few seconds later, the Arachnid mumbled, “Dude…..you stink…”
“I just got my @$$ kicked by someone from Krypton. You try walking away from something like that smelling like a rose, jerk-face,” spat Starman as he picked himself up.
As the Arachnid shook off the daze he was in, he replied with, “I always smell good,”
“Then why haven’t you got your first kiss yet?” countered Starman as he took to the air to take another crack at Zy-kree.”
“Oh that was low……you are soooo gonna pay for that when this is over Spaceman,” vowed the Arachnid as he looked around for something to throw at Zy-Kree.
“We’re getting nowhere!” barked Nightvision. “Powerstorm - turn something into Kryptonite. We need to shut Zy-kree down NOW!”
“I can’t,” replied Powerstorm humbily.
“Why not??” demanded Nightvision.
“I’m half Kryptonian. Even though I don’t have the powers that come along with those genes, the Kryptonite would most likely kill me along with Zy-kree,” he said flying towards the criminal from his mother’s home-planet in hopes of coming up with another plan.
“Nucleus, we need to figure something out and fast,” Nightvision said, shooting a flare at Zy-kree. It hit him in the face, temporarily blinding him.
“Barring some Kryptonite or a red sun, I hate to say it but all we may be able to do is stall him until Power Guy gets back from space,” advised Nucleus.
Up above, as Zy-Kree was struggling to focus his eyes, Kid Comet had grabbed a hold of him telekinetically and threw him into the side of an abandoned building. He then used his telekinesis to cause the building to collapse on former exile to the Phantom Zone. “That should put him out for a few!” advised the man otherwise known as Dave Walker.
Much to Kid Comet and the others’ dismay, Zy-kree erupted from the rubble on top of him much sooner than expected.
“Fools! I cannot be stopped by the likes of you!” decreed Zy-Kree. “Bring me Superman! Bring me Aquaman! Bring me Green Lantern! Tell those cowards to come and face me!!!”
“Sorry, Zy-Kree but they’ve all retired. You’ll have to contend with us!” Nucleus said as he grew up to fifty feet and slammed his enormous fist into the Kryptonian villain, knocking him through a brick wall.
Seconds later, Zy-Kree came flying back through the hole he put in the wall, “Retired??? I must have been gone for decades,” he assumed, talking to himself.
“Over twenty years,” revealed Nucleus as he shrunk back down to normal height to avoid Zy-Kree slamming into him.
Zy-Kree slammed through another wall, further irritated by Nucleus’ quick wits. As he flew back through he screamed, “I’ve had it with your tricks, size-changing man!”
“Then why don’t you deal with me?” teased the Elongated Lad as he jumped off the top of a building and landed on Zy-Kree, wrapping his elongated-limbs around him, being sure to use his fingers to close Zy-Kree’s eyelids so that his heat-vision couldn’t get through.
Blinded and disoriented, Zy-Kree began to thrash around in mid-air.
“Someone think of something fast, I can’t hold him forever,” requested the stretchable hero.
“Release him!” came Nightvision’s voice over the Titans’ communicator system.
Following orders, Rick Dibny released the Kryptonian mad-man just as the Bat-wing came into view and launched two destructive missiles at Zy-Kree. The missiles hit their target point-blank, knocking him out of the sky.
As the smoke began to clear, it was revealed that Zy-Kree was not yet defeated, he started to pick himself up when he found the Queen Bee in front of him. He began to laugh wildly, “HAHAHAHA!!!! A woman dressed like an insect thinks she can stop me when two missiles couldn’t?? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!”
Queen Bee looked down coldly at him, “Hive - Swarm!” Instantly, dozens of the Queen Bee’s robotic bees surrounded Zy-kree and then covered his body. The bees all struck him with their stingers and although they could not pierce his skin, they released a powerful vibrational attack which played havoc with his nervous system.
Zy-kree collapsed to his knees and began screaming obscenities as many of the pain sensors in his brain began to go off at once.
Queen Bee just hovered over her foe and looked downward, “Its’ funny how many of you big, strong men take a look at me and think I’m some joke simply because I dress like a bee but in the end, you all end up kneeling before the Queen.”
Zy-Kree began swatting away at the bees and then released his heat-vision, incinerating many of them even if it meant slightly burning his own skin. He then looked at Queen Bee and said, “You have taught me the err of my ways woman but now I shall teach you the err of yours!”
As Zy-Kree reached for Queen Bee, he suddenly found himself under attack by the Flash, “Mind if I cut in big guy?” teased the female speedster as she punched him five hundred times within the coarse of thirty seconds. “Why is it that the Superman family are the only bunch of decent Kryptonians in the universe? The rest of you all seem to be a bunch of blood-thirsty dictators!”
It took Zy-Kree a few seconds to adjust his speed to near that of the Flash’s so he could counter attack. His arm snapped backwards into the Flash’s face, knocking her a half-mile away, “Because, foolish girl. We all have power and power equals supremacy!!! Those goody-goodys in the El family are a bunch of weak-willed cowards! They could have it all yet then chose to live amongst the rest of you. NOW BRING ME SUPERMAN!!!”
“Spaceman, what are we going to do? This guy means business,” asked the Arachnid as he and Starman approached Zy-Kree, in hopes of figuring out a way to stop him.”
“I don’t know but we could sure use a Kryptonian here on our side,” muttered Starman as he aimed his Cosmic Rod at the escapee from the Phantom Zone when all of a sudden the noise of a small sonic boom filled the air. The Arachnid turned around and saw a red and blue blur streaking towards them, “Now you’re gonna get it buddy. The main man is out of retirement and is on his way to kick your butt. Say hello to Super…………..GIRL?!?!?!” he gasped as the new arrival was revealed to be his former Titans West teammate.
Supergirl slammed into Zy-Kree, knocking him over and clobbering him relentlessly before he even knew what hit him. Rage and anger decorated her face. “I hear you’ve been asking for Superman all day. Will Superman 2.0 do???” she demanded, looking down at Zy-Kree’s bloody face.
***
Gotham City…
Atop of the Aparo Building, the Huntress looked down in disgust as Lance Luthor and his men took Scream Queen to his center for rehabilitation. “After all of that work I did to stop Scream Queen and now Luthor shows up claiming to be able to redeem her! I admire his sentiments but I think he has his work cut out for him. I wonder if he can really be trusted? Sure, he claims to want to polish up the Luthor name but still, he is Lex’s son,” she pondered to herself until she was interrupted by a familiar voice.”
“Hello Huntress.”
Helena Wayne turned to see that she was being addressed by none other than Sonic Boom who was accompanied by Dark Arrow. “Di Di! Robert! It’s good to see you both. What are you doing here?”
“Save the pleasantries Huntress,” spat Dark Arrow. “My sister here needs some help. Hopefully you won’t let her down this time.”
“Robert…” started the Huntress.
“Make it Dark Arrow - now and forever,” chided the son of Oliver and Dinah Queen.
The Huntress started to become a bit irritated with the way Dark Arrow was speaking to her, “Look, I’m sorry about my vote but you two know that like my father, I’ve sworn never to take a life. No matter what the circumstances are.”
“Even when the circumstances are your best friend having to watch her cousin raped and tortured by some sick s.o.b.?!?!?!” barked Dark Arrow, bearing his teeth and staring the Huntress down.
“Enough Rober,” ordered Sonic Boom. “I’m a big girl now and can take care of myself.”
Dark Arrow huffed and turned around, walking a ways away so that the two women could speak.
“Helena, I need something from you,” revealed Sonic Boom. “In light of everything that’s happened recently, I’d like to go back to Earth 2.”
“But Di Di, you were cleared. You have a clean slate!” insisted the Huntress, placing her hands on Sonic Boom’s shoulders. “There’s no need for this. You can rejoin the Titans and the Birds of Prey.”
“Power Guy and Oracle both know that I’m not coming back. You need to accept that too,” Sonic Boom said, sternly. “Now, do one of your former best friends one last favor and take me to Earth 2 please.”
“Di Di, come on now. We’re still friends. Don’t shut me out like this,” pleaded the daughter of the Batman and Catwoman, trying to get through to her long time friend.
“Helena, I really want to get past this,” frowned Sonic Boom. “I’m sorry but the wounds are still fresh. I need some time away from the Titans, the Birds, from…….everything. Will you please grant my request?”
A few minutes later after Sonic Boom had said good-bye to Dark Arrow, he watched as the Huntress opened the portal to Earth 2. Seconds later, the two women made their way through. Dark Arrow descended down to the ground via a rope arrow he had secured to the roof of the building. “Now where did I park the Arrow Car?” he asked himself.
“Hey handsome. Need a lift?” came a female’s voice.
Dark Arrow whipped around to see a woman, slightly hidden in the shadows. “Who are you? What do you want??” he asked, drawing his bow and a single arrow until he recognized, “Blackbird!”
“You remember me. I’m touched,” smirked the beautiful red-head. “I understand that after what the Titans did to your sister, you’re feeling a little hurt and betrayed….maybe even like an Outsider?”
TO BE CONTINUED
Written & Edited By: Power Guy
The Hall of Justice…
“Wow! Power Guy and the others have their hands full with that meteor storm headed towards Daxam!” exclaimed Zan as he and Jayna looked up at the Trouble Alert.
“Yeah but that will help take Green Lantern’s mind off of everything that’s happened recently,” hoped Jayna.
“We sure never had this much drama on the team the first time we were a part of the Super Friends,” recalled Zan.
Suddenly, the Trouble Alert started beeping with a new emergency.
“Great Exor! What is it, Zan?” asked Jayna as her brother read the report.
“It’s coming from downtown Metropolis! Zy-Kree has escaped from the Phantom Zone and is causing all sorts of havoc!”
“Zan!” called out Nucleus as he approached the Wonder Twins. “Send out a triple priority alert to all of the adult members! With most of the big guns in space, we’re going to need everyone who’s available. Zy-kree is a ruthless, cold-heated killer according to the notes that Superman made on him plus he’s been stuck in the Phantom Zone since Superman, Aquaman, and Green Lantern sent him back there years ago when you two were members of the first Super Friends team which tells me he’s got an axe to grind!”
Moments later, several of the Titans had assembled at the Hall ready for duty: the Arachnid, Elongated Lad, the Flash, Kid Comet, Nightvision, Powerstorm, Queen Bee, Starman, and Wonder Warrior.
“Thank you all for arriving so quickly,” Nucleus said, gratefully. “We don’t have any time to waste. Let’s pile into the teleport tubes….”
“We’re on it!” advised Zan, interrupting the tiny Titan.
“Not so fast kids,” requested the man otherwise known as Jason Hardwick. “There’s a reason I didn’t have you call in any of the Super Friends. This mission is too dangerous for you kids. Stay back here and monitor things on the trouble-alert. If we fall in battle, contact Power Guy or Wonder Man and ask them to send a few guys from the space team back to earth to stop Zy-Kree.”
“But…but…..” insisted the Twins in unison.
“No buts!” ordered Wonder Warrior. “As second in command of this team, I’d like to ask that you both respect the leadership’s decision to have you stay here. Like Nucleus said, this is going to be a dangerous ordeal and we can’t take the risk of losing one or the both of you in battle due to a careless mistake.”
The Wonder Twins slumped their shoulders and frowned but knew in their hearts that Wonder Warrior and Nucleus were right.
On the way to the teleport tubes, Nightvision whispered to Wonder Warrior, “Thank you. None of us need those two liabilities getting in the way today.”
***
Minutes later in downtown Metropolis….
The downtown area was filled with hysteria. Zy-kree had demolished two bridges, threw a skyscraper into the Indian Ocean, and set many of the streets afire with his heat-vision. The group of Titans were doing their best to try to stop him but were making little headway. Currently, Zy-Kree had both Starman and Wonder Warrior by their throats.
“I said bring me Superman!!!” bellowed the Kryptonian criminal as he threw Starman and Wonder Warrior towards the ground.
“I’ve got Spaceman!” the Arachnid said, scurrying to catch his best-friend.
“And I’ll get Wonder Warrior!” advised the Flash as she created a mini-tornado to cushion the prince of Themyscira’s fall.
Meanwhile the Arachnid had placed himself where he expected Starman to hit the ground. Within less than a second, Starman’s body slammed into his, knocking him over and sending the two of them rolling across the ground. Finally the duo stopped rolling with Starman on top of the Arachnid with his right armpit in his face.
A few seconds later, the Arachnid mumbled, “Dude…..you stink…”
“I just got my @$$ kicked by someone from Krypton. You try walking away from something like that smelling like a rose, jerk-face,” spat Starman as he picked himself up.
As the Arachnid shook off the daze he was in, he replied with, “I always smell good,”
“Then why haven’t you got your first kiss yet?” countered Starman as he took to the air to take another crack at Zy-kree.”
“Oh that was low……you are soooo gonna pay for that when this is over Spaceman,” vowed the Arachnid as he looked around for something to throw at Zy-Kree.
“We’re getting nowhere!” barked Nightvision. “Powerstorm - turn something into Kryptonite. We need to shut Zy-kree down NOW!”
“I can’t,” replied Powerstorm humbily.
“Why not??” demanded Nightvision.
“I’m half Kryptonian. Even though I don’t have the powers that come along with those genes, the Kryptonite would most likely kill me along with Zy-kree,” he said flying towards the criminal from his mother’s home-planet in hopes of coming up with another plan.
“Nucleus, we need to figure something out and fast,” Nightvision said, shooting a flare at Zy-kree. It hit him in the face, temporarily blinding him.
“Barring some Kryptonite or a red sun, I hate to say it but all we may be able to do is stall him until Power Guy gets back from space,” advised Nucleus.
Up above, as Zy-Kree was struggling to focus his eyes, Kid Comet had grabbed a hold of him telekinetically and threw him into the side of an abandoned building. He then used his telekinesis to cause the building to collapse on former exile to the Phantom Zone. “That should put him out for a few!” advised the man otherwise known as Dave Walker.
Much to Kid Comet and the others’ dismay, Zy-kree erupted from the rubble on top of him much sooner than expected.
“Fools! I cannot be stopped by the likes of you!” decreed Zy-Kree. “Bring me Superman! Bring me Aquaman! Bring me Green Lantern! Tell those cowards to come and face me!!!”
“Sorry, Zy-Kree but they’ve all retired. You’ll have to contend with us!” Nucleus said as he grew up to fifty feet and slammed his enormous fist into the Kryptonian villain, knocking him through a brick wall.
Seconds later, Zy-Kree came flying back through the hole he put in the wall, “Retired??? I must have been gone for decades,” he assumed, talking to himself.
“Over twenty years,” revealed Nucleus as he shrunk back down to normal height to avoid Zy-Kree slamming into him.
Zy-Kree slammed through another wall, further irritated by Nucleus’ quick wits. As he flew back through he screamed, “I’ve had it with your tricks, size-changing man!”
“Then why don’t you deal with me?” teased the Elongated Lad as he jumped off the top of a building and landed on Zy-Kree, wrapping his elongated-limbs around him, being sure to use his fingers to close Zy-Kree’s eyelids so that his heat-vision couldn’t get through.
Blinded and disoriented, Zy-Kree began to thrash around in mid-air.
“Someone think of something fast, I can’t hold him forever,” requested the stretchable hero.
“Release him!” came Nightvision’s voice over the Titans’ communicator system.
Following orders, Rick Dibny released the Kryptonian mad-man just as the Bat-wing came into view and launched two destructive missiles at Zy-Kree. The missiles hit their target point-blank, knocking him out of the sky.
As the smoke began to clear, it was revealed that Zy-Kree was not yet defeated, he started to pick himself up when he found the Queen Bee in front of him. He began to laugh wildly, “HAHAHAHA!!!! A woman dressed like an insect thinks she can stop me when two missiles couldn’t?? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!”
Queen Bee looked down coldly at him, “Hive - Swarm!” Instantly, dozens of the Queen Bee’s robotic bees surrounded Zy-kree and then covered his body. The bees all struck him with their stingers and although they could not pierce his skin, they released a powerful vibrational attack which played havoc with his nervous system.
Zy-kree collapsed to his knees and began screaming obscenities as many of the pain sensors in his brain began to go off at once.
Queen Bee just hovered over her foe and looked downward, “Its’ funny how many of you big, strong men take a look at me and think I’m some joke simply because I dress like a bee but in the end, you all end up kneeling before the Queen.”
Zy-Kree began swatting away at the bees and then released his heat-vision, incinerating many of them even if it meant slightly burning his own skin. He then looked at Queen Bee and said, “You have taught me the err of my ways woman but now I shall teach you the err of yours!”
As Zy-Kree reached for Queen Bee, he suddenly found himself under attack by the Flash, “Mind if I cut in big guy?” teased the female speedster as she punched him five hundred times within the coarse of thirty seconds. “Why is it that the Superman family are the only bunch of decent Kryptonians in the universe? The rest of you all seem to be a bunch of blood-thirsty dictators!”
It took Zy-Kree a few seconds to adjust his speed to near that of the Flash’s so he could counter attack. His arm snapped backwards into the Flash’s face, knocking her a half-mile away, “Because, foolish girl. We all have power and power equals supremacy!!! Those goody-goodys in the El family are a bunch of weak-willed cowards! They could have it all yet then chose to live amongst the rest of you. NOW BRING ME SUPERMAN!!!”
“Spaceman, what are we going to do? This guy means business,” asked the Arachnid as he and Starman approached Zy-Kree, in hopes of figuring out a way to stop him.”
“I don’t know but we could sure use a Kryptonian here on our side,” muttered Starman as he aimed his Cosmic Rod at the escapee from the Phantom Zone when all of a sudden the noise of a small sonic boom filled the air. The Arachnid turned around and saw a red and blue blur streaking towards them, “Now you’re gonna get it buddy. The main man is out of retirement and is on his way to kick your butt. Say hello to Super…………..GIRL?!?!?!” he gasped as the new arrival was revealed to be his former Titans West teammate.
Supergirl slammed into Zy-Kree, knocking him over and clobbering him relentlessly before he even knew what hit him. Rage and anger decorated her face. “I hear you’ve been asking for Superman all day. Will Superman 2.0 do???” she demanded, looking down at Zy-Kree’s bloody face.
***
Gotham City…
Atop of the Aparo Building, the Huntress looked down in disgust as Lance Luthor and his men took Scream Queen to his center for rehabilitation. “After all of that work I did to stop Scream Queen and now Luthor shows up claiming to be able to redeem her! I admire his sentiments but I think he has his work cut out for him. I wonder if he can really be trusted? Sure, he claims to want to polish up the Luthor name but still, he is Lex’s son,” she pondered to herself until she was interrupted by a familiar voice.”
“Hello Huntress.”
Helena Wayne turned to see that she was being addressed by none other than Sonic Boom who was accompanied by Dark Arrow. “Di Di! Robert! It’s good to see you both. What are you doing here?”
“Save the pleasantries Huntress,” spat Dark Arrow. “My sister here needs some help. Hopefully you won’t let her down this time.”
“Robert…” started the Huntress.
“Make it Dark Arrow - now and forever,” chided the son of Oliver and Dinah Queen.
The Huntress started to become a bit irritated with the way Dark Arrow was speaking to her, “Look, I’m sorry about my vote but you two know that like my father, I’ve sworn never to take a life. No matter what the circumstances are.”
“Even when the circumstances are your best friend having to watch her cousin raped and tortured by some sick s.o.b.?!?!?!” barked Dark Arrow, bearing his teeth and staring the Huntress down.
“Enough Rober,” ordered Sonic Boom. “I’m a big girl now and can take care of myself.”
Dark Arrow huffed and turned around, walking a ways away so that the two women could speak.
“Helena, I need something from you,” revealed Sonic Boom. “In light of everything that’s happened recently, I’d like to go back to Earth 2.”
“But Di Di, you were cleared. You have a clean slate!” insisted the Huntress, placing her hands on Sonic Boom’s shoulders. “There’s no need for this. You can rejoin the Titans and the Birds of Prey.”
“Power Guy and Oracle both know that I’m not coming back. You need to accept that too,” Sonic Boom said, sternly. “Now, do one of your former best friends one last favor and take me to Earth 2 please.”
“Di Di, come on now. We’re still friends. Don’t shut me out like this,” pleaded the daughter of the Batman and Catwoman, trying to get through to her long time friend.
“Helena, I really want to get past this,” frowned Sonic Boom. “I’m sorry but the wounds are still fresh. I need some time away from the Titans, the Birds, from…….everything. Will you please grant my request?”
A few minutes later after Sonic Boom had said good-bye to Dark Arrow, he watched as the Huntress opened the portal to Earth 2. Seconds later, the two women made their way through. Dark Arrow descended down to the ground via a rope arrow he had secured to the roof of the building. “Now where did I park the Arrow Car?” he asked himself.
“Hey handsome. Need a lift?” came a female’s voice.
Dark Arrow whipped around to see a woman, slightly hidden in the shadows. “Who are you? What do you want??” he asked, drawing his bow and a single arrow until he recognized, “Blackbird!”
“You remember me. I’m touched,” smirked the beautiful red-head. “I understand that after what the Titans did to your sister, you’re feeling a little hurt and betrayed….maybe even like an Outsider?”
TO BE CONTINUED