I look out the view port of Bioship running my right hand back and forth along the wall I lean my head against, 'I wonder how Harley will take the news that I put a hit out on the Joker?'
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Harley
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Just as I'm about to call Angel, Jade…Cheshire enters the Sirens with a strut, "Tell lover boy, that his contract on The Joker has been fulfilled…even the soul eradication…he was very specific you know…the Great One is rather impressed, he's not here is he? I wouldn't mind sneaking into a dark corner for him to fuck me cross eyed in again." Jade teases me but I can't form a response.
'It can't be that easy…it couldn't Bats would have…' My world spins and I find myself landing on my ass, my lungs and throat burning as I laugh my ass off.
'I…I need to see my Angel…'
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MC
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I find myself blinking as I fall to the ground, my perfectly good seat that I had on, Bioship, disappearing from underneath my butt along with the floor, grunting as I hit the hard blacktop parking lot of a power plant.
"Robin, are Tornadoes common in New England?!" Kaldur asks with urgency, lacing his voice but my misguided nephew is long gone.
Just as Kaldur is about to continue to call out to Robin I speak up, "No Kaldur they aren't, you guys handle the badie while I do damage control on the workers I'm sure some are injured." I stand up and break off from the team, M'Gann and Dick throw looks of worry towards me, M'Gann probably fearing for my safety while Dick is probably worried I'll indirectly kill someone.
Running towards the cries for help, I find myself sliding as my foot lands in a puddle of blood, looking down and to my right where there's a fallen girder and a little girl, with a large lunch box clutched to her chest, and another woman, the woman is looking at me a piece of steel through her leg.
"H-help, my dau-daughter…please…" I nod and kneel down, next to them I quickly rest my hand against the girl's ankle, a cursory check with my ability tells me she has a concussion a bad one and a blood clot forming in her brain alongside the cut on her forehead, I quickly solve those problems and slide her out from underneath the girder.
"Th-thank, you." The woman stutters and coughs, her eyes starting to dim.
"Nope, not happening, not letting her lose her Mom." I growl as I channel my power into her and stabilize her condition.
'Damnit, if I'm a demigod of DC shouldn't I have super strength?!' I curse in my mind and see Superboy flying towards me, I use my body to shield the little girl as Superboy's foot brushes my hair…I let out a sigh of relief.
Superboy is about to run by me, "Wait, Connor!" My shout of the unfamiliar name makes him slide and fall on his face he turns towards me snarling.
"Stop acting like a cute puppy after playing tug of rope, help me save this woman and her daughter!" I snarl right back, making Connor's face change to one of surprise.
"What? I'm not some fucking marry su motherfucker, now this is gonna take finesse you have to lift gently…" I tell Connor and he nods to me in understanding while staring at me, as he stands up walks over to me bends his knees, reaches down and grips the girder with both hands.
"Now?" Connor asks me and I nod to him and he slowly starts to lift the girder making the woman scream, blood splatters both I and Superboy as it pumps fresh from the artery, Superboy starts to panic he looks down at the woman and I can tell that he's about to drop the heavy piece of metal.
"Connor, I need you to keep calm, just breathe in through your nose and exhale from your mouth." I tell Connor in as gentle and as soothing of a voice as I can and see him relax as much as he can while his teammates and possible friends are fighting Mr…Twister, I think his name is.
"Good job Connor, you're doing great…see you're not just a weapon…you're a person, a hero and you're helping make sure this mother and daughter get to go home together tonight." I continue and Connor's cheeks grow a little rosy, and he looks away from me as the girder is fully off of the woman and I heal her completely and pull her towards me while Connor lifts the girder up and is about to throw it.
"Don't throw it Connor, use it as a tool, if you throw it he can redirect it back at you or one of the others." I quickly tell Connor and he grunts at me before running off, I throw the woman over my shoulders, and pick her daughter up off of the ground.
Every step is a labor in keeping my balance as I carry them towards the parking lot.
"Wha, what's happening?" The woman asks me just as I set her down behind a tree away from the parking lot and set her daughter down on her lap.
"Y-you, you saved us." The woman murmurs and looks at me like I'm some kinda hero.
"Stay here, until the sidekicks are done with the fight." I say to her gently and run back to the plant, finding the fight has moved further away from it.
Going back to the powerplant I help everyone that I can who is injured and or trapped inside, using a bottle style hydraulic jack and crow/breaker bar that I found on my way in on a tool cart.
Choking on the chemical smoke of a fire as I carry/drag out the last of the workers out of the building, assembling everyone near the edge of the woods where I left the woman and daughter finding them hugging a guy I found pinned underneath a vending machine in the break room.
"Alright, everyone form up! I need a headcount, tell me if there is anyone missing!" I holler to the assembled workers and the few family members that came to have lunch with them. The guy who was under the fridge must have been some kinda manager, because he went all border Collie on them and corralled them, getting them all in an orderly way.
"Thank you for saving, my wife, daughter, me…and everyone else." The guy says as he hugs me.
"Sure no problem, is everyone here and accounted for?" I ask him quickly getting out of the uncomfortable hug.
"Yes, yes everyone's alive and safe because of you!"
"Unlike those sidekicks." I hear someone grumbling but ignore it.
"Umm, these belong to the powerplant…" I say motioning with the crowbar the bottle Jack was left behind in favor of dragging a guy along behind me.
"Keep them, please…we get at least a dozen of those things a year." The man says as he waves me off, "Thanks it came in handy…I better go and check up on those kids…that robot thing seemed pretty dangerous." I grunt and start to walk off.
Turning around, "Can y'all keep quiet about me, please?!"
"Of course!" they almost all say the same thing at the same time, except for the little girl who is looking at me like I am Superman.
I get were the fight is just coming to an end, just in time to see Superboy smash the Ivo Android's head, "Well…I'm sure that was satisfying…but we should get the fuck outta here." I grumble and M'Gann flies over to me, her hands gently running over the areas where my clothes are burned.
"Y-you're okay…" M'Gann murmurs.
'Was she keeping an eye on me the whole time?' I wonder and notice Connor glaring at me and M'Gann with a complicated expression on his face.
"Yup, I'm unkillable." I reply to M'Gann with a smile, as Bioship flies over and hovers a couple feet above the ground, ramp opening up and forming stairs for us.
"We better get this..." Robin grumbles as he gestures to the Red Infiltrator and Ivo Android's remains, "And take them to the Cave, for the league to study." He finishes.
"I agree..." Kaldur says in a reserved tone as he inspects me... finding whatever he was looking for he nods to me and I feel like I've gotten his approval to be here... though it doesn't really matter to me.
Red Torando lands, "Red, stay away from those Android's, they could have a virus!" I quickly shout making the Android move over ten feet away from the Android and armor.
"Thank you for calling out your concerns, Medic." Red Tornado thanks me and I nod.
'God Damn I hate that codename."
"No problem Red." I grunt and walk over to Kid Flash who is surprisingly quiet as he sits on the ground, holding his left knee while the bone in his leg is sticking out of it.
Kneeling down next to the teen who tries to slide himself backwards, "Stay still Mustard Boy, this is going to hurt." I say to him and notice that Kaldur is standing behind Kid Flash keeping him from crawling away as I force his bones back into his leg, and use my ability to heal the break, while disintegrating bone splinters and fragments in his flesh.
"Th-thanks man, I still don't think you should be on the Team though you're a killer."
I roll my eyes at the teenage speedster.
"Kid, you do know all the Heros have blood on their hands right? Your friend behind you is a killer too in your eyes, yeah?"
"Kaldur isn't a killer... he's never taken anyone's life or hired assassins to do it!" Kid Flash practically snarls at me.
"Kaldur, would you like to slap this kid with the world isn't a cartoon where heros don't kill even by accident... escpecially when one of those heros is in his nation's military?!"
"Kid Flash, Wally...Medic is right I have killed in the name of my king and Atlantis..." Kaldur says and stiffens up waiting for his friend's hate filled report.
"Tell me Wally all the soldiers, and cops that see combat and kill criminals or enemy soldiers are they evil villains? I'm not going to say what I personally did wasn't evil, but if you really knew what kinda monster the Joker was...if you, if you were involved with someone that the Joker, tortured, raped and mutilated before then disposing of her in a dirty trash filled dumpster in an alley, in Gotham...to bleed out and die in agony, maybe you'd understand...why I hired the league of shadows to finally put that monster where he belongs." By the time I finish I'm growling and I have an urge to snap Wally's leg all over again, but I tamp down on that urge, as I stand up and walk away from the shocked speedster.
M'Gann flies over to me and rests her hand against my shoulder.
'Are you okay?' M'Gann asks me in my mind and unbidden images of waking up in the alley and finding Harley in the dumpster run through my mind.
M'Gann gasps like she feels my pain and anger, and proceeds to glomp me from behind, and I walk into Bioship with her on my back.
I don't notice everyone staring at me with complicated and shifting expressions as I walk away, if I had I probably would have noticed the guilty and considering look on his face, an expression matched by Wally.