Harley stood over her defeated foes, the rush of the kill still flowing through her veins. Her thoughts went back to focusing on the task at hand. The city was in chaos and there was no Mista J to enjoy it with her. She couldn’t let such a beautiful event go by without her lovely Joker’s participation.
That’s when she heard a little giggle. Harley turned and smiled, expecting to come face to face with her puddin. Instead her expression was wrecked with confusion. There stood a teen girl, wearing an apron, with a pie and smile. She looked like she could have been the Joker’s daughter.
She giggled, “Hi, Jester lady, I brought you somethin to keep up your strength through all this fighting. Hope you like it.”
“Thanks, short stuff, but I’m looking for some one who isn’t some pop tart knock off. Looking for the genuine article. Da real deal.” Harley was slowly walking away, lifting her hammer over her shoulder.
“Well maybe I can help you find this guy. Its awful dangerous to go alone in the city, especially right now, Jester Lady…”
“Fine. Tag along, not like I can stop ya. What’s your name squirt?”
“People call me Missy J. You?”
“Ha, funny name, call me Harley, Harley Quinn. Come on kid, let me show you the lights.” Missy J followed Harley into downtown Gotham.
**
John and Hally were laying in bed when the television switched from their normal programing to breaking news.
“Reports of massive violence and anarchy are coming out of Gotham. Multiple super humans have taken to the streets, causing destruction in their path. There are confusing reports of organized crime or super human terrorism within the city. The police are actively combating the situation alongside the local vigilantes, but it may not be enough. The governor as called for a state of emergency and the National Guard is starting to mobilize…”
“Aw hell…” John swore under his breath.
“It sounds real bad out there Johnny.” Hally said, concerned.
“Yeah, I… I got to go…” John grabbed his ring and brought to life his Green Lantern uniform.
“John…” the Green Lantern looked back at Hally, “Come back to me… come back to us…” Hally rubbed her belly.
“I promise baby, I… I just need to help Dick save his city.” John flew off, leaving Hally in a situation she never before experienced: being home alone wondering what will happen to her man…
**
John was correct in needing to fly off to Gotham. The situation was slowly going from bad to worse. Nightwing was caught between a rock and a hard place.
Dick jumped out from an explosion. Hail fire of bullets and ice beams shot out from the building he was in. Pouring out of the madness was KGBeast, Mr. Freeze, and Killer Croc. Nightwing was hurt, tired, and had no back up.
“End of the line, little bird.” KGBeast pointed his machine gun at Dick.
“No, it would be better to preserve him in ice as a moment to the failure of the Bat.” Mr. Freeze pushed KGBeast aside.
“I was thinking of just eating him.” The other villains looked at Croc, “What, I’m hungry.”
Dick was reaching for a devise in his belt; something that could end the fight quick, but Freeze was faster on the draw. Dick’s hand felt cold, “Too slow, Nightwing, this is your end. One way or another.”
The villains prepared for a final blow. Nigthwing got ready to leap out of the way. But no one was able to get what they wanted. A blinding flash of light took control of the situation. The villains were disarmed. Croc was hit with a barrage of punches. In the confusion Croc thought KGBeast was beginning to attack him. Thus Croc charged the Russian hit man. As the two fought, Mr. Freeze was sucked into and tossed out of a whirled wind of tornado like power. Dick sat there in a confused daze of shock and awe. He was swept up and brought to a nearby roof where he was able to finally meet who had saved him.
“What the… Flash?”
He wasn’t wrong. Standing before him was a tall, slender, woman in the Flash’s uniform. She smiled, “Your right… and wrong at the same time.” She removed her mask to show him her face.
“Bridget?”
It was Bridget Allen, but with short bob cut blonde hair, and an older face. “From another time but yes, its me…”
“Have you finally come to your senses, have the Justice League arrived to help?”
“That won’t happen until another decade from now…”
“A decade?”
Flash put back on her mask, helped heal Dick’s wounds, “I come from a future where the Justice League had failed you, Dick. Neither you nor Caitlyn were able to rarely the teen girls together in time. They were too self-centered, too one minded. And Gotham paid the price…”
“The hell are you trying to say?”
“I’m telling you that Gotham will become a No Man’s Land until fifteen years from now, until after the Atlantis wars…”
“Atlantis Wars?”
“It doesn’t matter. You just need to get everyone off the Watchtower, before…”
“Slow down, start from the beginning.” Dick pleaded.
Flash sighed, “Tonight will end with Black Manta gaining access to Atlantis’ armory. He will shoot a missile that kills half of the world’s heroes on the Watchtower. Manta will explain to Ocean Master what has happened to the League. Ocean Master will have Black Manta become his secretary of war, Alison as his sex slave, and he will become King of Atlantis. He will declare war on the surface, beginning the decade long Atlantis War. The surface wins, unties in fact, but at great cost of life. Including my wife…”
Dick stands somber, allowing a few tears to escape Bridget’s eyes, “That’s when I took up the red suit again. I had to go back, stop Manta from starting the Atlantis War. Too many lives were lost. And I knew I had to start by saving you…”
“Saving me?”
“You were supposed to die tonight, Dick, now…”
Dick shook his head in disbelief, “It couldn’t have ended, not like that.”
“It took the strength of Hal Stewart to finally stop Ocean Master. President Jackson Stewart rewarded his brother the medal of honor.” Flash answered.
“Stewart?” Dick questioned, recognizing the name.
“The sons of Halley and John Stewart will become great men. One the greatest Green Lantern to ever live the other the president of the United States who led the world to victory against Atlantis…”
“But what about Caitlyn, Claire, the others…”
“Really Dick…”
“It can be quick…”
“Caitlyn was able to get OMAC to help fund the relief effort, rebuild her city.”
“OMAC?”
“Its what she renames the company after the merger between Wayne Industries and LexCorp. They get a lot of funds from the JLA Teens, the band Cy and Missy J help form. They’re a smash hit. Claire becomes a street whore, mostly to piss off Lois. Don’t ask about Diana, she goes missing around the beginning of the war. Haven’t seen her since. Now we got to get going, lives are at stake Dick.”
“I’ll make the call. Run us over to where Alison is. Gather a team. Shut Manta down as fast as possible.”
“Now you’re talking.” Flash grabbed Nightwing and the zoomed off into the night…
Fri Mar 25 20:47:27 2016
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