Titans of Justice Unlimited Ch. 117 - “PARAGON OF THE FAMILY Part 3”
Written by: justicefreak
Edited & Maxi-micros by: Power Guy


Miami...The Wine and Food Festival…

As the waves receded back to the ocean it revealed the site of the Wine and Food Festival had become the graveyard of some of the most powerful heroes that had ever served the Titans of Justice and the Titans of Authority. Their cold dead bodies lay strewn about and sprawled across the lawn of the music venue sites.

In the middle of this horrific scene was one lone survivor. The Huntress was on her knees sobbing….”Why did this happen, it’s Knightvision and the death of the Bat-Family all over again”. She had been through been through so much and seen so much death in the last couple of years it just broke her have born witness this horrendous atrocity.





As she wept beside Robert Queen‘s lifeless corpse…a figure from behind reached out and placed his gentle hand oh her shoulder and spoke in a hushed voice, “I am truly sorry for your loss, perhaps I can offer some…”. The man’s sentence was cut short as a startled Huntress turned in terror.





When Helena looked up and her eyes locked with his, her terror gradually started to subside and gaze began to fill with hope. “You, you…you’re that man we met a short time ago that helped the Super Friends. Jonas, The Ankh.”

“Yes and perhaps I can offer some assistance and return some balance to the world after this fiasco that’s happened.”, uttered the Son of Fate and Gypsy.

“Pl…Please…any help is welcome…although I’m not sure what you could do now given the state of my friends.”, begged Huntress with very little hope. But hope that still remained.

The Ankh knelt down beside Dark Arrow and touched the red ankh birthmark upon his forehead. He centered himself and his hands began glowing with life renewing energies. He placed them over the body and concentrated. Soon Dark Arrow gasped for breath. And the Huntress let a timidly gleeful smile pass across her lips.

“Thank You.” acknowledged the Daughter of Batman and Catwoman. “Rob lie still you’ve been though a lot. Jonas, what of my other friends, I still fear there‘s no hope for some of them?”.

“I sense another life energy however it’s extremely faint”, whispered The Ankh.

“Where” demanded Huntress. Jonas pointed to the edge of the beach where Apotheosis had been dragged to by the current of the tidal wave.
“Oh God! He’s still alive. Quick Jonas if you can heal him, Apotheosis’ power can mimic yours and we just may have a chance to save everyone!”, pleaded Helena.

The Ankh made his way to Apotheosis and once again centered himself and used his life renewing energies to bring the son of the original Paragon back from the brink of death.

Jared Cochin sprang upright breathing in huge breaths of air and began to speak in exhausted gasps, “What happened?…Some crazy…woman…dead friends…”.





“No time to explain, Apotheosis you have to mimic the Ankh’s powers and help save the team!”, blurted out the Huntress.

“I’ll try.”, he said as an unfamiliar tingling sensation passed through his body. “Not quite sure how this power works. It seems mystical.”

“You are correct, my friend. You must center yourself and concentrate”, voiced the son of Gypsy.

As the Ankh brought life back to Starman and Green Lantern, Apotheosis struggled to help Sargona. “I can’t get this to work! I can’t help her!”

“Focus and center yourself, clear your mind. Take it to the happiest moment you’ve ever had in your life…the life energies are all about the purity of life one chooses to hold onto”, came the soothing voice of the of Jonas Reynolds.

Apotheosis fought to find the right moment in his mind when suddenly he though of the moment he first fell in love with The Mask. Suddenly his hands glowed with such tremendous energies that Sargona was alive within seconds.

“Quick maybe if both of us work on Storm Surge at the same time he can revive him as well”, shouted Apotheosis.

With much of Philip Curry’s skin and muscle melted from the bone it seemed hopeless to even attempt such a feat. Both men concentrated as hard as they could. Slowly the atoms of the Storm Surge’s tissues started to re-grow. The Ankh and Apotheosis started to feel drained of energy as they both had expended so much to help save the others. They both fought through the pain until the new muscle and skin started to form on the son of Aquaman. Finally his chest moved with the first signs of breath and the two saviors collapsed.

***

Days later at the IADC Rehabilitation Center…

The Huntress was involved in a conversation with Illumina who had been overseeing the care of injured team members.

“Helena they’ve all been through such trauma, but given time they should be fine. Daniel, Scott and Robert should be able to go home in a couple days as their wounds have almost healed” said the daughter of the female Dr. Light.





“What of Storm Surge and the others?” question the Huntress.

“Storm Surge is far from recovered and he’s been isolated in a special containment unit designed for his Atlantean physiology that with hopefully heal him at a more rapid pace. The Ankh seemingly vanished last night without a trace.“ commented Imako.

“Hmmm, where I do I know that routine from?“, Huntress stated with a bit of humor. “I was hoping I would be able to have a talk with him and learn a bit more about him. What of the others”.


"Sargona will have to take a couple of weeks off from talking and casting spells to make sure no permanent damage was done to her vocal cords.”, stated Illumina. “ As for Apotheosis, physically he’s fine. I’m slightly concerned about his mental state after what you’ve told me about this new Paragon being his cousin and that he hadn’t known Prometheus was his uncle.”

“Yes given what he’s heard and has to sort out I’d say we might want to keep a closer on eye on him”, agreed the Daughter of the Batman.

Just then a voice crackled through the Huntress’ communicator. “Helena I checked that satellite footage of the Festival you asked for” came the voice of Black Vulcan. “It seems that our new hooded foe Paragon actually survived as she was leaving the grounds later that evening after things went down. Unfortunately she disappeared from the radar shortly after that and no trace of her has turned up.”





“Thanks Celeste.” acknowledged the Huntress as she thought to herself. “I guess we’ll have to be on our toes now since there’s no knowing where this lunatic will strike at us next. I should tell Jared”. Huntress slipped out a window and disappeared into the shadows.

***

Epilogue:

Apotheosis Apartment…

“Jared are you okay? You seem a million miles away.” came the voice of The Mask.





“Huh…oh, yes, just lost in thought about what my cousin Cori dropped on me after all these years”, said Apotheosis. “It’s riled me up so much, I’ve never felt that kind of anger, it’s like it’s a thousand times more than I’ve ever felt being near her. And the crazy part is, I was savoring every second of it. Still I fear she may come after you if she even knows about you like she did my teammates”.

“No worries my love…if need be I’ll make sure she’s dead before she even hits our doorstep or perhaps we can do it together.” said The Mask erotically.

“I love when you talk sexy like that!” exclaimed Apotheosis as the couple embraced each other through the remainder of the night.


THE END!