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Titans of Justice Unlimited Chapter 79 - “Future Fixation Part 2”
Written & edited by: Power Guy
Special Thanks to Christophe for the initial concept of this story.
The underground bunker below the former Metrotower…
The Arachnid and the other futurists panicked when they saw who was standing in front of them, Wonder Warrior was the first to speak, “Oh no, they’ve found us!”
“That’s right we’ve found you….and you’re not getting away this time,” said a man dressed in a similar costume to Red Robin as in the blink of an eyes, he pulled a device out of his utility-belt and shot a stream of liquid nitrogen at the former Titans West, there-by immobilizing them.
“Nice work, Nightmare,” congratulated a girl dressed similar to Supergirl.
“Suprema’s right, she and didn’t even have to move a muscle,” commented a man dressed in the costume Wonder Man wore on Earth 2. “Taking them by surprise really paid off.”
“I say, we enact judgment upon them immediately, Mr. Wonderful,” suggested a man wearing a Green Lantern insignia. “Their list of abominations is a mile long and it’s about time they face the bludgeon divine.”
“Wait….” called out Mr. Wonderful. “Every man deserves a dying request……I’d like to hear theirs.”
“Fair enough,” agreed Nightmare as he pulled another device from his belt, going around and spraying each of his captives’ mouths with it which unthawed their lips and jaws just enough to speak.
“We’d like to hear your dying requests,” Suprema said, eyes glowing bright from her heat-vision.
“H..how did..d…d you find us? You sh….should have never came to be when Nuc..c…..cleus brought Power Guy back?” asked Queen Bee.
“We probably would have been erased from existence if we weren’t already in the time-stream looking for you,” informed Nightmare. “So you can thank yourselves for coming back to the past. Thanks to you, we still exist. Anything else before you meet your maker?” asked Nightmare. “Apostle, I don’t want a mess here. Make sure your power-ring cleans up every drop of blood and bit of d.n.a. so no-one else knows what happened here.”
“So does that mean I can vibrate my fingers through this b!%#^’s skull?” asked a woman wearing a Flash insignia on her chest as she raised her hands on both sides of Queen Bee’s head.
“Of course, Dark Flash. By all means,….” Nightmare smiled with sick delight.
“Any last words, losers?” smirked Mr. Wonderful, hands on his hips.
“Yeah….’ said the mysertious fifth Titan, “Eat my shorts!!!” he screamed as his fists burst into flames unthawing himself. Without hesitation, he released a stream of flames on his teammates, releasing them from Nightmare’s trap.
“We’re free!” the Arachnid cried out jubilantly.
“Nice work…Ceridian!” congratulated Wonder Warrior. “I’ve got my cousin!” he said as a giant block of Lansinar slammed into Mr. Wonderful, knocking him through the wall behind him.
“I’ve got to take out Dark Flash before she kills us all before we take our next breath,” Kid Comet said as he concentrated his mental energies on the blood thirsty speedster.
“Not so fast, Kid Comet. I’m going to……………to……………..to,” Dark Flash began to threaten, racing towards the telepath until she couldn’t tell up from down and ran into a nearby table, thus knocking the wind out of herself.
Meanwhile, the Apostle had taken to air and was chasing the Arachnid with a giant green spiked fly-swatter. “Stand still you arrogant little insect!”
“Nyah….nyah! You can’t catch me, baldy!” the Arachnid said running for his very life. Suddenly the fly swatter came down, missing the Arachnid by a half-inch. “Yikes……guess I better not get too cocky.” He quickly jumped into the air and landed on the Apostle’s back. “Hi there…” the bug-themed hero smirked under his mask. “I realize this might be a little inappropriate but tough times call for drastic measures,” he said as two large insect-like teeth sprouted from the sides of his mask. He quick sank them into the Apostle’s neck,” releasing the energies of his alien scarab into his opponent. “You and I both know how much your ring likes my scarab,” he teased as the Apostle’s body began to jerk violently, causing him to plummet to the ground. Before the duo crashed, the Arachnid jumped off the Apostle’s body and landed safely on the ground.
Several feet away, Nightmare was facing off against Ceridian. “You made a BIG mistake siding with these outlaws….” he threatened.
“Really? It looks like we’ve got the battle half won already so you tell me who’s made the mistake,” countered Ceridian as he sent a barrage of flames at Nightmare.
The dark avenger quickly pulled his nitrogen device from his belt, using it to snuff out the flames before they could reach him.
Becoming a bit alarmed, Ceridian ceased his flame attack and appeared to be standing completely still.
“Smart move…giving up. I’ll make sure you have a quick, almost painless death,” Nightmare said as he progressed towards his enemy until he soon found himself extremely warm and sweating. He began to feel dizzy and lightheaded. His vision began to blur and his mouth became bone dry. “Wh..what are y…..y..you doing to me?” he demanded as started to lose consciousness.
“It ‘s simple really,” pointed out the prince of Atlantis, “I not only control fire but heat itself. I raised the temperature around you to nearly one hundred and seventy-five degrees. You’re now nearly completely dehydrated,” he smiled as his enemy passed out. “Stick that in your utility-belt, loser!”
“It doesn’t matter!” screamed Suprema. “I’ll kill you all by myself” she said as blazing beams shot from her eyes. One of them nicked Ceridian’s shoulder, burning it.
“Aww…crap. We should have taken her out first,” mumbled the Arachnid, not exactly sure of what to do.
“Hey, where’s Latavia,” Wonder Warrior said while flying through the air trying to dodge Suprema’s heat-vision.
Suddenly, Suprema’s screamed in agony as she dropped to the ground like a sack full of bricks.
“There’s Latavia!” shouted Kid Comet as he pointed as Suprema’s head.
Seconds later, the bee-themed heroine came flying out. “The Kryptonian anatomy is quite different in some parts than a human‘s. It took me a while to find the neural sensors in her body. “Never the less, I just bought us ten minutes. Let’s get out of her while we still can!”
Immediately, the Titans West raced out of the bunker and took to the air with Kid Comet carrying Ceridian with his telekinesis.
“Now where are we gonna go?” asked a worried Arachnid. “Those guys can find us just about anywhere between Nightmare’s detective skills and the Apostle’s ring.”
“I have a contingency plan in place,” revealed Wonder Warrior. “Let’s just hope it works,” he said as the team flew eastward.
***
The Hall of Justice…
Inside of Starman and the Arachnid’s living quarters, Scott Stone was busy ransacking the room. He had spent the last hour going through all of the Arachnid’s personal belonging and destroying them. Clothes had been torn, Cds were snapped in half, his action figure collection had been incinerated(except for a few figures from the Justice League Unlimited line that Scott didn’t have which he kept for himself), and picture-frames had been smashed. Finally, he picked up the Arachnid’s television set and raised it over his head, “That little son of a…”
Suddenly, the door swung open, “Scott! What the hell are you doing???” demanded Jemstone. Wonder Man was standing right behind her looking at the trashed room in shock.
“What does it look like I’m doing, Jerrica?” barked Starman. “I’m destroying all of that little b@st@rd’s things! He’s been playing me for the last few years.”
“Scott, put the TV down!” ordered Jemstone.
“Sure thing,” Starman said with a scowl as he threw the television set into a wall although before it could impact, Wonder Man raced in front of it and caught it without it being harmed.
“Seriously, Scott. You need to calm down,” suggested Wonder Man as he set the TV down. “I know how you’re feeling right now.”
“Do you??? DO YOU?!?!?!” Starman said getting in Wonder Man’s face. “All of my life, I’ve pretty much been a loner besides my grandmother. My family was nowhere to be found, I didn’t have many friends in school, and I’ve never had a girlfriend more than six months! Finally, the Arachnid came along and I thought I finally found someone I could trust and depend on and what happens?!?!?! It turns out he’s been a double-agent the whole time!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Are you forgetting that Wonder Warrior is my cousin?” Scott Trevor stated firmly. “This situation is hitting close to home for quite a few of us. Imagine how Nucleus feels……..he and Queen Bee were a couple.”
“It’s………..it’s just that everything seems to be %(#&ed-up lately,” complained Starman. “First we loose several of our team in the Crisis, then creepy, old Dr. Light gets a new lease on life and kidnaps half the girls on the team, rapes Trickshot and sends her off to a mental ward. Then Supergirl comes back with the worst attitude you can imagine only to find out the reason for her mood swing was due to Wonder Warrior sending her a piece of Kryptonite over a year ago!!! The world depends on us every day and we can’t even take care of our own people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Wonder Man and Jemstone both stood silent, not really knowing the right words for the moment. Everyone in the room was hurting over the apparent Titans West’s betrayal. Suddenly, Starman grabbed his jacket and put it on.
“Scott, where are you going?” asked Jemstone as she grasped his shoulder.
“I need to get away for a while,” frowned the cosmic avenger. “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be fine. Scott, you take care of this beautiful lady of yours.”
“You can count on that,” Wonder Man replied with regret over Starman’s departure.
A few minutes later, Jemstone looked at Wonder Man with tears in her eyes, “I feel so bad right now…”
“Honey…I know we’re all upset but we’ll get to the bottom of this,” replied Wonder Man, trying to comfort the pop princess.
“It’s just that so many people are suffering or miserable right now and I’m so happy and excited about our wedding. I just feel a little guilty.”
“And don’t you stop being happy about our wedding. Even though many of our friends are in a bad place right now, they would want you to enjoy your special moment.”
As the couple embraced, a knock came on the open door to Starman and the Arachnid’s quarters. Wonder Man turned and saw Phantom Lady standing in the doorway. “Hello Sandra.”
“Hi Scott…..Jerrica, any idea where my nephew is? Power Guy told me about the Arachnid and the others,” explained the World War II heroine.
“He took off,” revealed Wonder Man. “As you can imagine, he’s a little upset right now. He feels totally alone.”
“I should have been here an hour ago,” Phantom Lady said in regret, biting her lower lip. “I’ve been busy over the last week helping Stellar take down the new Shade and now I’ve let Scott down when he needs me the most.”
“Sandra, don’t beat yourself up. You didn’t know this was going to happen,” Jemstone said softly.
Phantom Lady turned around and crossed her arms. She was feeling like a failure at the moment, “It’s just that Scott and I only recently found each other. With his grandmother having passed and his father out in space, I’m the only family he has here on Earth.”
“I know Sandra but you can’t be everywhere at once,” pointed out Wonder Man.
“I know but I should be where it counts…….” Phantom Lady said as she walked out of the room.
***
A small cemetery outside of Baton Rouge, LA…
As the Titans West made their way through the cemetary, Cerdian finally asked the question that had been eating away at him for the last hour, “Ok, is someone going to tell me why Green Lantern and the others just tried to kill us?”
“That wasn’t Green Lantern……..at least not the one you know of,” Kid Comet said, looking more serious than he ever had. Usually the futuristic telepathy was very care-free and easy-going but since the arrival of the Apostle and the others, he was a bit on edge. “Those five people we just faced off against are from five years in the future, a seemingly alternate future at this point. They are what would have came to be if an event in recent history had not been changed.”
“What event are you talking about?” Ceridian asked, completely confused.
“During the Crisis that we just experienced, Power Guy was killed in battle,” began the man otherwise known as Dave Walker. “But in the midst of the temporal chaos, Nucleus brought Power Guy back to life. In our future, Power Guy stayed dead which lead to a ripple effect which sparked several horrifying events that lead Supergirl, Green Lantern, Nightvision, Wonder Man, and the Flash to take a turn down a dark path. I’m sure you heard about the team’s recent ordeal with Dr. Light? Well, if Power Guy had remained dead, Dr. Light would have hospitalized both Wonder Man and Green Lantern in our initial battle allowing him to rape and kill all of the female Titans he had captured before we could find him and bring him to justice. Wonder Man, Green Lantern, Supergirl, Nightvision, and the Flash took all of the deaths the hardest. From here on out is when our five friends would take their turn down their dark path. The Titans of Justice would have been disbanded and the five of them would have formed a new group called the Titans of Vengeance. The Titans of Vengeance would take a hardcore stance against super-villains, killing many of them to finally put an end to the chaos and destruction they were known for causing. In fact, Nightvision would have been the one to kill Dr. Light as payback for him raping and killing the Huntress. Many of our teammates would stand up towards the Titans of Vengeance but they were no match for their combined power and new-found ruthlessness. Any and all resisting heroes were captured and placed in a sort of concentration camp in Khandaq. While Black Adam did not join the Titans of Vengeance, he felt that some form of cooperation with them would keep him on their good side.”
“Dude, that sounds totally twisted!” remarked Ceridan. “What can we do to put the smack-down on them?”
“There’s only one way to stop them,” advised the Queen Bee. “We’ve got to send them back to the future. Once they get there, they will cease to exist with the altered time-stream.
Meanwhile the Arachnid had a different question on his mind, “Ok, Chris, mind telling me why you’ve decided to pay your respects to Palome’ at a time like this?” questioned the Arachnid, looking down at his former colleague’s grave.
“I’m not here to pay my respects……well, not really,” Wonder Warrior answered nonchalantly. “I’m putting our contingency plan into place.”
“Our?” repeated the Arachnid.
“Mine and Palome’s…” Wonder Warrior said, cryptically as he bent down on the ground and traced some symbols into it.
“What is he doing?” Ceridian whispered to the Arachnid.
“You mean BESIDES creeping us all out?” answered the Arachnid.
Once Wonder Warrior was done tracing the symbols into the ground, he pulled a small sack from his pocket. He then sprinkled what appeared to be a sparkly, almost glowing, dust all over the symbols he had just drawn.
“Where did that stuff come from?” questioned the Arachnid.
“Azarath.” replied Wonder Warrior.
Suddenly light shot out of the ground, stunning all of the assembled Titans West. Jaws dropped and eyes opened wide as the light seemed to come together in a familiar form…
“Palome’!!!” gasped the Arachnid in total shock.
TO BE CONTINUED
Written & edited by: Power Guy
Special Thanks to Christophe for the initial concept of this story.
The underground bunker below the former Metrotower…
The Arachnid and the other futurists panicked when they saw who was standing in front of them, Wonder Warrior was the first to speak, “Oh no, they’ve found us!”
“That’s right we’ve found you….and you’re not getting away this time,” said a man dressed in a similar costume to Red Robin as in the blink of an eyes, he pulled a device out of his utility-belt and shot a stream of liquid nitrogen at the former Titans West, there-by immobilizing them.
“Nice work, Nightmare,” congratulated a girl dressed similar to Supergirl.
“Suprema’s right, she and didn’t even have to move a muscle,” commented a man dressed in the costume Wonder Man wore on Earth 2. “Taking them by surprise really paid off.”
“I say, we enact judgment upon them immediately, Mr. Wonderful,” suggested a man wearing a Green Lantern insignia. “Their list of abominations is a mile long and it’s about time they face the bludgeon divine.”
“Wait….” called out Mr. Wonderful. “Every man deserves a dying request……I’d like to hear theirs.”
“Fair enough,” agreed Nightmare as he pulled another device from his belt, going around and spraying each of his captives’ mouths with it which unthawed their lips and jaws just enough to speak.
“We’d like to hear your dying requests,” Suprema said, eyes glowing bright from her heat-vision.
“H..how did..d…d you find us? You sh….should have never came to be when Nuc..c…..cleus brought Power Guy back?” asked Queen Bee.
“We probably would have been erased from existence if we weren’t already in the time-stream looking for you,” informed Nightmare. “So you can thank yourselves for coming back to the past. Thanks to you, we still exist. Anything else before you meet your maker?” asked Nightmare. “Apostle, I don’t want a mess here. Make sure your power-ring cleans up every drop of blood and bit of d.n.a. so no-one else knows what happened here.”
“So does that mean I can vibrate my fingers through this b!%#^’s skull?” asked a woman wearing a Flash insignia on her chest as she raised her hands on both sides of Queen Bee’s head.
“Of course, Dark Flash. By all means,….” Nightmare smiled with sick delight.
“Any last words, losers?” smirked Mr. Wonderful, hands on his hips.
“Yeah….’ said the mysertious fifth Titan, “Eat my shorts!!!” he screamed as his fists burst into flames unthawing himself. Without hesitation, he released a stream of flames on his teammates, releasing them from Nightmare’s trap.
“We’re free!” the Arachnid cried out jubilantly.
“Nice work…Ceridian!” congratulated Wonder Warrior. “I’ve got my cousin!” he said as a giant block of Lansinar slammed into Mr. Wonderful, knocking him through the wall behind him.
“I’ve got to take out Dark Flash before she kills us all before we take our next breath,” Kid Comet said as he concentrated his mental energies on the blood thirsty speedster.
“Not so fast, Kid Comet. I’m going to……………to……………..to,” Dark Flash began to threaten, racing towards the telepath until she couldn’t tell up from down and ran into a nearby table, thus knocking the wind out of herself.
Meanwhile, the Apostle had taken to air and was chasing the Arachnid with a giant green spiked fly-swatter. “Stand still you arrogant little insect!”
“Nyah….nyah! You can’t catch me, baldy!” the Arachnid said running for his very life. Suddenly the fly swatter came down, missing the Arachnid by a half-inch. “Yikes……guess I better not get too cocky.” He quickly jumped into the air and landed on the Apostle’s back. “Hi there…” the bug-themed hero smirked under his mask. “I realize this might be a little inappropriate but tough times call for drastic measures,” he said as two large insect-like teeth sprouted from the sides of his mask. He quick sank them into the Apostle’s neck,” releasing the energies of his alien scarab into his opponent. “You and I both know how much your ring likes my scarab,” he teased as the Apostle’s body began to jerk violently, causing him to plummet to the ground. Before the duo crashed, the Arachnid jumped off the Apostle’s body and landed safely on the ground.
Several feet away, Nightmare was facing off against Ceridian. “You made a BIG mistake siding with these outlaws….” he threatened.
“Really? It looks like we’ve got the battle half won already so you tell me who’s made the mistake,” countered Ceridian as he sent a barrage of flames at Nightmare.
The dark avenger quickly pulled his nitrogen device from his belt, using it to snuff out the flames before they could reach him.
Becoming a bit alarmed, Ceridian ceased his flame attack and appeared to be standing completely still.
“Smart move…giving up. I’ll make sure you have a quick, almost painless death,” Nightmare said as he progressed towards his enemy until he soon found himself extremely warm and sweating. He began to feel dizzy and lightheaded. His vision began to blur and his mouth became bone dry. “Wh..what are y…..y..you doing to me?” he demanded as started to lose consciousness.
“It ‘s simple really,” pointed out the prince of Atlantis, “I not only control fire but heat itself. I raised the temperature around you to nearly one hundred and seventy-five degrees. You’re now nearly completely dehydrated,” he smiled as his enemy passed out. “Stick that in your utility-belt, loser!”
“It doesn’t matter!” screamed Suprema. “I’ll kill you all by myself” she said as blazing beams shot from her eyes. One of them nicked Ceridian’s shoulder, burning it.
“Aww…crap. We should have taken her out first,” mumbled the Arachnid, not exactly sure of what to do.
“Hey, where’s Latavia,” Wonder Warrior said while flying through the air trying to dodge Suprema’s heat-vision.
Suddenly, Suprema’s screamed in agony as she dropped to the ground like a sack full of bricks.
“There’s Latavia!” shouted Kid Comet as he pointed as Suprema’s head.
Seconds later, the bee-themed heroine came flying out. “The Kryptonian anatomy is quite different in some parts than a human‘s. It took me a while to find the neural sensors in her body. “Never the less, I just bought us ten minutes. Let’s get out of her while we still can!”
Immediately, the Titans West raced out of the bunker and took to the air with Kid Comet carrying Ceridian with his telekinesis.
“Now where are we gonna go?” asked a worried Arachnid. “Those guys can find us just about anywhere between Nightmare’s detective skills and the Apostle’s ring.”
“I have a contingency plan in place,” revealed Wonder Warrior. “Let’s just hope it works,” he said as the team flew eastward.
***
The Hall of Justice…
Inside of Starman and the Arachnid’s living quarters, Scott Stone was busy ransacking the room. He had spent the last hour going through all of the Arachnid’s personal belonging and destroying them. Clothes had been torn, Cds were snapped in half, his action figure collection had been incinerated(except for a few figures from the Justice League Unlimited line that Scott didn’t have which he kept for himself), and picture-frames had been smashed. Finally, he picked up the Arachnid’s television set and raised it over his head, “That little son of a…”
Suddenly, the door swung open, “Scott! What the hell are you doing???” demanded Jemstone. Wonder Man was standing right behind her looking at the trashed room in shock.
“What does it look like I’m doing, Jerrica?” barked Starman. “I’m destroying all of that little b@st@rd’s things! He’s been playing me for the last few years.”
“Scott, put the TV down!” ordered Jemstone.
“Sure thing,” Starman said with a scowl as he threw the television set into a wall although before it could impact, Wonder Man raced in front of it and caught it without it being harmed.
“Seriously, Scott. You need to calm down,” suggested Wonder Man as he set the TV down. “I know how you’re feeling right now.”
“Do you??? DO YOU?!?!?!” Starman said getting in Wonder Man’s face. “All of my life, I’ve pretty much been a loner besides my grandmother. My family was nowhere to be found, I didn’t have many friends in school, and I’ve never had a girlfriend more than six months! Finally, the Arachnid came along and I thought I finally found someone I could trust and depend on and what happens?!?!?! It turns out he’s been a double-agent the whole time!!!!!!!!!!!”
“Are you forgetting that Wonder Warrior is my cousin?” Scott Trevor stated firmly. “This situation is hitting close to home for quite a few of us. Imagine how Nucleus feels……..he and Queen Bee were a couple.”
“It’s………..it’s just that everything seems to be %(#&ed-up lately,” complained Starman. “First we loose several of our team in the Crisis, then creepy, old Dr. Light gets a new lease on life and kidnaps half the girls on the team, rapes Trickshot and sends her off to a mental ward. Then Supergirl comes back with the worst attitude you can imagine only to find out the reason for her mood swing was due to Wonder Warrior sending her a piece of Kryptonite over a year ago!!! The world depends on us every day and we can’t even take care of our own people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
Wonder Man and Jemstone both stood silent, not really knowing the right words for the moment. Everyone in the room was hurting over the apparent Titans West’s betrayal. Suddenly, Starman grabbed his jacket and put it on.
“Scott, where are you going?” asked Jemstone as she grasped his shoulder.
“I need to get away for a while,” frowned the cosmic avenger. “Don’t worry about me. I’ll be fine. Scott, you take care of this beautiful lady of yours.”
“You can count on that,” Wonder Man replied with regret over Starman’s departure.
A few minutes later, Jemstone looked at Wonder Man with tears in her eyes, “I feel so bad right now…”
“Honey…I know we’re all upset but we’ll get to the bottom of this,” replied Wonder Man, trying to comfort the pop princess.
“It’s just that so many people are suffering or miserable right now and I’m so happy and excited about our wedding. I just feel a little guilty.”
“And don’t you stop being happy about our wedding. Even though many of our friends are in a bad place right now, they would want you to enjoy your special moment.”
As the couple embraced, a knock came on the open door to Starman and the Arachnid’s quarters. Wonder Man turned and saw Phantom Lady standing in the doorway. “Hello Sandra.”
“Hi Scott…..Jerrica, any idea where my nephew is? Power Guy told me about the Arachnid and the others,” explained the World War II heroine.
“He took off,” revealed Wonder Man. “As you can imagine, he’s a little upset right now. He feels totally alone.”
“I should have been here an hour ago,” Phantom Lady said in regret, biting her lower lip. “I’ve been busy over the last week helping Stellar take down the new Shade and now I’ve let Scott down when he needs me the most.”
“Sandra, don’t beat yourself up. You didn’t know this was going to happen,” Jemstone said softly.
Phantom Lady turned around and crossed her arms. She was feeling like a failure at the moment, “It’s just that Scott and I only recently found each other. With his grandmother having passed and his father out in space, I’m the only family he has here on Earth.”
“I know Sandra but you can’t be everywhere at once,” pointed out Wonder Man.
“I know but I should be where it counts…….” Phantom Lady said as she walked out of the room.
***
A small cemetery outside of Baton Rouge, LA…
As the Titans West made their way through the cemetary, Cerdian finally asked the question that had been eating away at him for the last hour, “Ok, is someone going to tell me why Green Lantern and the others just tried to kill us?”
“That wasn’t Green Lantern……..at least not the one you know of,” Kid Comet said, looking more serious than he ever had. Usually the futuristic telepathy was very care-free and easy-going but since the arrival of the Apostle and the others, he was a bit on edge. “Those five people we just faced off against are from five years in the future, a seemingly alternate future at this point. They are what would have came to be if an event in recent history had not been changed.”
“What event are you talking about?” Ceridian asked, completely confused.
“During the Crisis that we just experienced, Power Guy was killed in battle,” began the man otherwise known as Dave Walker. “But in the midst of the temporal chaos, Nucleus brought Power Guy back to life. In our future, Power Guy stayed dead which lead to a ripple effect which sparked several horrifying events that lead Supergirl, Green Lantern, Nightvision, Wonder Man, and the Flash to take a turn down a dark path. I’m sure you heard about the team’s recent ordeal with Dr. Light? Well, if Power Guy had remained dead, Dr. Light would have hospitalized both Wonder Man and Green Lantern in our initial battle allowing him to rape and kill all of the female Titans he had captured before we could find him and bring him to justice. Wonder Man, Green Lantern, Supergirl, Nightvision, and the Flash took all of the deaths the hardest. From here on out is when our five friends would take their turn down their dark path. The Titans of Justice would have been disbanded and the five of them would have formed a new group called the Titans of Vengeance. The Titans of Vengeance would take a hardcore stance against super-villains, killing many of them to finally put an end to the chaos and destruction they were known for causing. In fact, Nightvision would have been the one to kill Dr. Light as payback for him raping and killing the Huntress. Many of our teammates would stand up towards the Titans of Vengeance but they were no match for their combined power and new-found ruthlessness. Any and all resisting heroes were captured and placed in a sort of concentration camp in Khandaq. While Black Adam did not join the Titans of Vengeance, he felt that some form of cooperation with them would keep him on their good side.”
“Dude, that sounds totally twisted!” remarked Ceridan. “What can we do to put the smack-down on them?”
“There’s only one way to stop them,” advised the Queen Bee. “We’ve got to send them back to the future. Once they get there, they will cease to exist with the altered time-stream.
Meanwhile the Arachnid had a different question on his mind, “Ok, Chris, mind telling me why you’ve decided to pay your respects to Palome’ at a time like this?” questioned the Arachnid, looking down at his former colleague’s grave.
“I’m not here to pay my respects……well, not really,” Wonder Warrior answered nonchalantly. “I’m putting our contingency plan into place.”
“Our?” repeated the Arachnid.
“Mine and Palome’s…” Wonder Warrior said, cryptically as he bent down on the ground and traced some symbols into it.
“What is he doing?” Ceridian whispered to the Arachnid.
“You mean BESIDES creeping us all out?” answered the Arachnid.
Once Wonder Warrior was done tracing the symbols into the ground, he pulled a small sack from his pocket. He then sprinkled what appeared to be a sparkly, almost glowing, dust all over the symbols he had just drawn.
“Where did that stuff come from?” questioned the Arachnid.
“Azarath.” replied Wonder Warrior.
Suddenly light shot out of the ground, stunning all of the assembled Titans West. Jaws dropped and eyes opened wide as the light seemed to come together in a familiar form…
“Palome’!!!” gasped the Arachnid in total shock.
TO BE CONTINUED