Metropolis

Holly kept her mouth shut,focusing on the magic sparks healing various minor injuries covering her body. She slowly drew her handgun,and aimed it at the man's torso,while she flicked the setting up another notch. He's too dangerous...Gonna have to mind-wipe him later...
 
The scientist then looked at artemis and the large butler.


"I would like to discuss one other matter. Superman has created devices that render gods, powerless. But i do believe that he has his hands full." The scientist said as he looked past the two men and towards superman.


~~~~~~


The scientist still held out the jump suit for Alex and did not seem to budge from the scornful tone that he had given.


"This is the first part of your training. Following directions. Now put it on." Superman said in a demanding tone.


"No capes, no tights, no offense. But i am NOT going to wear that." Alex replied as he tilted his head towards superman.


Taking a step back from superman and the scientist holding the cape'd supersuit, Alex sighed deeply as to how goofy he would look if he seriously put that on. As he looked down at his own tattered clothing, he soon realized he did not have a whole lot of options. Moving his hands around a little bit and throwing the idea through his head for a few minutes, he came up with a solution.


"All right, I will wear it with one condition." Alex said as he looked at superman.


"This is going to be good. Ok, what do you got?" Superman replied with his arms crossed his chest.


"I will wear it so long as i wear normal clothes over the suit." Alex said as he smirked a little.


Bringing up one of his hands and placing it upon his chin, Superman pondered this new request. Out of all the superheroes that they have gotten, he was the first to actually think like him. But would it really be appropriate to let a new guy set the rules? Nope. Shaking his head, Superman took a deep breath.


"Let me tell you something. I will let you do that so long as you can beat me in a fist fight. No holds bar, winner takes all match. You beat me, I will let you wear the suit under your clothes, But if i win, You have to wear that suit and endure the torment of my training." Superman replied as he smiled a big smile right back at Alex.


Listening to the man of steel's side of the bargain made Alex lose all hope in winning. Shaking his head and taking a deep breath, Alex then looked up and nodded.


"All right, you got yourself a deal." Alex replied.
 
Wiping foam from her face, Gear looked at the men with the extinguishers before sighing. "Not needed." She muttered before cracking her knuckles and rolling her neck. Flicking her hand up once again, a tiny flame appeared, completely controlled. "Am I good now?"


The voice box crackled back into life. "We'd like to get you checked out for burns. And we'll have you try another test." As she was escorted from the tube, Gear noted how dark the glass had gotten, a lot of smoke had just poured into it. It was at that moment, she realized exactly what she could do with this power. As she started laughing, some one else joined in.


That laugh, it froze Gear in place. That insane, psychotic laugh that could send chills down your spine and make your worst night mare seem pleasant. As the guards moved away, a person she both idolized and feared stepped forward from around the corner. Pale white skin, scarred smile, dark green hair, purple suit, cane.


The Joker.
 
Boots came clacking, and guns clicking. Two soldiers held firmly to the target as she wiggled and writhed under the strain of their grasp. Moans and stress can from the target as she tired to escape, not understanding why her powers would not work. Behind them followed nearly 10 more soldiers, all decked out in armor and weapons.


One ran up in front, saluting the head scientist in charge. The men behind came and half circled the lead man, the saluting man and the target. The target dropped to the ground with a thud, puffing in displeasure at the way she was being treated.


All the guards took step and brought their guns up, clicking in place as aim was pointed at the girls head. The man saluting put his hand down and spoke loudly and securely, letting everyone in the room know what they had done.


“Sir! Target Captured Sir!”


The head scientist leaned over to look at the young girl, bathed in a crimson red hoody and her freckles gawking angerly back at him.


“Leave me alone you scum! I told you I didn’t want to come here! Just leave me alone!”


She could not understand why her powers would not work. Feeling alone and thrown in the light, her legs came up to her chest as her arms wrapped around. She would not cry though, not in front of these bafoons. She would get even. Somehow.


 
Like a naked body lain to the mercy of the sea, awash in the the deepest reds and sobered blues, in the sea of creation floating as a bottle, bobbing as a lost note out in the maelstrom of the Poseidon's wicked realm. Around him were all manner of beasts and fiends, every death and every life, every come and every go, and for a split second, for the slightest of all times he was everywhere and everything, he passed through neither here nor there, he was the else-man from afar, his breath kissing the face of life, his hands in those of death his father was time and his mother the lust for travel, and they had loved him well. A weak arm reached out to touch the stars themselves, to hold their awesome strength as his own, but time was short, far far too short, and just as he had reached out to know the face of God, he was again a mortal man, displaced along time and space, returned from a far off time and far off world to an earth he did not know. His mind was clear, not a thought in it, only bliss, but it was to fade and with it came knowing.


He was fifty, maybe sixty years off from his own day and age, in a place he had never been, some compound, military probably. He had hidden himself as best he could, Robert had always avoided the near future, the far past and far to come were the lofty domains of his habitation, however he had heard word from the yet-to-be that there were answers here. So he hid himself, in bushes, behind buildings, in warehouses, wherever he needed to not be seen as the first of the mutants and empowered nobodies were chauffeured into the complex.


And then time passed.
 
Saluting back at the man, the scientist nodded.


"Good. Do you know of what her power is?" The scientist asked.


~~~~


Alex standing back, about 40 or so yards from the newly entered group, couldn't clearly make out what the men were discussing, but he could hear them. Turning around and seeing the group of men all huddled around a little girl made Alex a little angry. They could treat him like that, but he WILL not allow the men to treat someone else like that. Taking a step away from superman and towards the small person clad in red, Alex took a deep breath. As he took a deep breath, he blinked and when his eyes opened, superman was standing right in front of him.


"And where is it, you think you are going?" Superman asked as he stared down at Alex.


"I am going to go over there and tell those men to stop being mean to that person!" Alex roared as he threw a couple of punches towards Superman.
 
Time passed and Talon looked up from the ‘roof’, a sigh pressing through her chaffed lips which she didn’t bother licking. The weight effect hadn’t worn off and it seemed like the people entering the room weren’t noticing her. It was alright with her though, as her birds’ eye view gave her a chance to see their proceedings.


One of the new entrants happened to be Scarlett, who now had red feathered wings sprouted from her back. Rolling to get a better view, she barely noticed the slight increase in weight which made her ‘float’. Instead she decided to look around the room; there was now a kid by the doorway that seemed to be fighting the scientists with the help of a looming body-figure. And Superman wasn't fighting the man he dragged in, instead he held him back from helping the last character in the room...


A little girl in red, who sat by the entrance to the area, a group of guards surrounding her for a reason Talon couldn’t see. The scientists seemed to be dealing with a lot, so she couldn’t really blame them for not noticing her disappearance.


Clenching her eyes shut as they dried, she turned away from the wind and slowly opened them.


Yellow.


Although the leaf was still a length away, she could reach it if she stretched…and that’s exactly what she did. Spanning out until her finger tips touched the stem, she made it fly away into the wind’s inferno. She cursed, pushing herself away from the ceiling as she tried to grab it, only to fall after it at a high velocity.


Too used to catching herself already, she flipped in the air and landed on a widened stance, cringing as the ground quaked beneath her. With a quick glance around, she lifted her feet from the small holes; not bothering to meet eyes with any of the occupants of the room


Talon already knew she had caused a mini-quake with the force, and was non-too proud of it.
 
Still sitting there with her arms across her knees. It was inconceivable as to why they would drag her from her home just to be harassed by some thick skulled scientist. But to her surprise across behind the scientist was no one other than the one and only "Super Man" Her eyes widened as the red and blue pattern sunk into her mind. Even somehow her mind seemed to leap in excitement. Though this was halted when the ground shook and drew her attention back to the other side. She couldn't make anything through the pointed guns, but she was sure it came from that direction.


A sigh escaped.
 
The ground shook and the can that Scarlett hadn't even been able to shake a little bit suddenly danced around on the plank that it was sitting on and fell off. If she hadn't felt the ground shake as well she would have been excited to have finally reached the can with her powers.


Glancing around it looked like one of the other supers were responsible for the small quake. She didn't recognize the girl at first but after staring at her for a moment she realized that it was Talon. She didn't know what Talon's powers were, just that she'd busted a chair just by sitting in it and now she'd caused a mini-earthquake. Maybe she was just really heavy?


Curiosity got the best of her, and Scarlett had already started to make her way over to Talon. But before she could get very far a soldier stepped into her path. She froze in her tracks and tried to assure the man that she wasn't going to cause any problems "I'm just-"


"Please, you should focus on your training." one of the scientists interrupted "You can't interrupt the others during their training."


She still wanted to go over and see Talon, but for now she figured she should do what she was told. They couldn't train all night after all, could they? Eventually they would have a break, or get to go to bed, then maybe she would be able to talk to Talon, and Eve if she could find her. Looking around there was no sign of her friend, there must have been another training area.


This was the first time she had really taken the time to look around the room and see who was there. There were probably more scientists and soldiers than supers, but she supposed that made sense. Superboy was here with Superman, the kid that had the headache earlier and the walking mountain, a girl in a red hood, and of course Talon.


It seemed like an interesting bunch, and she would have liked to be able to wander around and at least introduce herself to the others. Instead she turned around and followed the scientist back to her mark on the ground. It didn't seem like she was getting any closer to knocking the cans over, it was a little discouraging. She would get the hang of it eventually though... hopefully.
 
As he laughed, he clicked his cane against the floor and Gear shivered. Grinning insanely at her, the Joker moved forward, circled her, before pulling her chin up with his thumb and forefinger. Forcing her to turn her head, before letting go.


"Darling, Lovely, you look magnificent. Why don't you look a little less scared and cheer up a bit because our show is going to start very soon, and if my assistant looks all glum, then it's not going to be any fun." He said, before smacking her lightly on the side of her face.


As he started walking, Gear looked confused, it wasn't until he looked back a bit annoyed she got she was suppose to follow him. Walking to his left, the guards filed in behind, keeping their distance while their guns trailed them. As the joker spoke, telling her, not asking, that he was going to teach her and if she didn't go with what he said he was going to pour acid down her throat, Gear just had to laugh.


It was so perfectly insane that this would happen. Pausing in her walk, her laughing made a doctor who had stopped nearby nearly piss himself with how creepy it sounded. As she stopped, she looked him right in the eye, a finger flicking up full of fire, and mouthed, Try it.
 
Artemis wasn't worried. "Gods aren't superhuman. Besides,my earlier point remains;no one knows how to deal with the sudden growth in superhuman activity,nor does anyone,nor have they at any time,been able to reliably strip someone of their transhuman abilities. So,are we quite done arguing? I'm growing bored with out thinking you so handily."


~~~


Holly taken further aim with her weapon,a platnium pistol,as her helmet began to move on its own,moving behind the trash can Holly was on. Her magic was almost dry,and hoped this man didn't try anything too drastic.
 
"That would mean getting through me." Superman replied to Alex.


"Shut it! I am not going to deal with you right now!" Alex roared back at Superman.


Throwing punches at Superman's chest sent thunderous roars throughout the military training grounds. As the punches connected with Superman, he raised his hand and caught the last punch. AS the punch was caught, it went all the items around them flying back 10 feet.


"Oh, but you are going to deal with me." Superman replied to Alex as he threw a strong punch right into Alex's gut.


As the punch connected, it sent Alex flying back and almost hitting Scarlett. Missing Scarlett by a foot, the wind was violent enough that she would feel it even though she was not able to see him fly by.
 
Before she could get much training done, Scarlett's attention was grabbed again. She turned to see the Superboy throwing punches at Superman. She could hear his fists making contact with Superman's chest even from where she was. One of the scientists called her name, she was sure they wanted her to ignore what was going on and get back to work, but before she knew it a huge gust of wind blew past her and when she looked back over at Superman, Superboy was gone.


Her eyes adverted to the direction that the wind had been blowing and saw Superboy on the ground. And before anyone could stop her she was running to the stranger's side and once there she knelt beside him "Are you alright?" she asked almost automatically, placing a hand gently on his shoulder. Actually, it had been completely automatic, but it was still a valid question. This guy didn't seem like someone who would get hurt too easily but it had been Superman that had sent him across the room.


Just like with Talon her first instinct was to help, and just like with Talon she didn't stop to think that maybe her help was unwanted. She had heard the scientists shouting at her, but she ignored them. She was sure they would get to her quickly though and drag her away, back to training.
 
As he forced himself to sit up, he felt the punch just echo through out his whole body. The force of the punch was enough to smash through a boulder, and it felt as if he was just smashed by that boulder. Felling the girl put a hand upon his shoulder made him sneer in pain.


"Get your hand off me. And you better get out of the way." Alex demanded towards the girl.


Forcing himself to get to his feet, Alex stared at Superman. Superman laughed as he seen Alex's condition.


"You still think that you are going to win this? You should just give in and stop risking your self damage and the safety of this place." Superman shouted across to Alex.


"You better shut your trap old man!" Alex grumbled a little above a whisper.


Smirking at what he just heard, Superman crouched down like he was about to sprint. As he took off, he cracked the ground under his feet before vanishing. As Alex seen Superman crouch down, Alex moved away from Scarlett so she would not be caught in any form of crossfire.


I need to get h..... Alex was in the middle of a thought when he was hit by a speeding bullet train.


"Agggghh!" Escaped his mouth as he and Superman rocketed back through the training grounds and approached the large metal wall in the back.


I need to keep my distance till i can figure his style out! Got it! Alex yelled at himself in his head.


Alex smiled before stomping his feet firmly in the ground and using the momentum from Superman to preform a suplex. Midway through the suplex, Alex twisted on the ball of his heel and got a little distance between them two. Getting a good stance, Alex used his open hand and made a fist before thrusting it towards Superman's gut. As the fist collided with Superman, it sent them both flying in opposite directions. Superman collided with the wall and Alex flipped head over heels and rooled until he came to a stop at Scarlett's feet. Looking up at Scarlett, Alex spoke up to her.


"Did i get him?" Alex asked her so he did not have to look at superman getting up and shrugging off the attack like nothing happened.


~~~~~~~


The scientist just looked at Artemis in a slight disgust.


This kid just does not understand the collection of gadgetry that the justice league has. The scientist thought.


"Well, lets get to the basics, What is your super power? From that, i will contact someone that should be able to help you with your newly found 'talents'." The scientist asked as he made the quotes with his fingers.


Looking down at his clipboard, he grabbed a pin out of his shirt pocket and awaited the response.
 
Scarlett hesitantly withdrew her hand when she was told. His tone was demanding and after seeing him battle it out with Superman, and last for more than a couple of seconds, she was inclined to listen to him. She had been planning on helping him up but before she had the chance he was up and she got to her feet as well.


It was all happening so fast, she looked over at Superman and before she could even react he was gone. She panicked at first, Superboy was right next to her and she was nearly as durable as he seemed to be, but when she looked to her side he had already moved away. Superman collided with Superboy but kept moving, pushing the kid back as if he were a train.


She could hear her named being called, the scientists were trying to convince her to get out of the middle of the the battlefield. They probably would have come and taken her back by force if they weren't afraid for their own safety. She ignored them though. She was a little afraid, but Superman wouldn't hurt her... would he? Not on purpose anyway, she was sure he wasn't that much of a ****.


She glanced away for just a second and when she looked back Superman smashed into a wall and Superboy came rolling her way. He came to a stop right by her feet and she looked down at him.


'Did I get him?' he asked.


Scarlett looked back over to Superman and he was already getting up and dusting himself off. "Yeah," she told him "but he didn't stay down very long." She walked around to stand by his legs and held out a hand to help him up. It put her between him and Superman so it would hopefully give him some time to get to his feet and prepare himself for Superman again. She didn't know why she was butting in, but she was. She wanted to help Superboy.


"You should get back on your feet."
 
A couple minutes later, The Joker and Gear where going eye for eye. Two explosive personalities clashing in a very deadly little dance. As they crashed through the door into the hall, leaving guards circling them, but not getting close to break them up, one leaving a variety of throwing cards, mini bombs, and knife marks all over, the other mini fires trailing them like clockwork.


"You dirty son of a-" A fist connected with the jaw, shutting it up, before another set of mini explosions went up, and fire being whipped at the larger of the two clown like people.
 
Artemis allowed an inward smile of triumph,but his face shown no sign of this smugness. Artemis replied curtly, "Technomancy,Technokenisis,and suspect of Teleportation. Anything else,good doctor?"
 
“What the hell?” Talon questioned,


Noise rumbled through the echo-y stadium, loud counters that seemed to go off in a wild succession. Darting her eyes about the room once again, she spotted Superman fighting with the man he had dragged in; or, standing in the way of each punch until he caught the last one. Then, surprisingly, he directed his own punch towards the strangers gut and sent him flying across the room.


Did her eyes deceive her?


She was pretty sure she just witnessed Superman killing one of the younger supers, and didn’t care in the least bit. Surprise marred her feature as she turned and noticed that he had survived the punch, and Scarlett was helping him get up. After he shooed her friend away, the two heroes fought mere feet away, before superman took off for him.


The fight was hard to follow, but next thing she knew Scarlett was standing in the middle of it again and she had to frown at her friend’s idiocy.


“Scarlett?” she called,


She realized she didn’t have much to say that she would listen to, so finished off her question lamely.


“Is he okay?”
 
"Ok, ok. Good. Anything else you have in that little bag of tricks, you are calling a body?" The scientist replied as he had to just laugh a little.


Jotting down a couple of notes down on the piece of paper, the scientist sat down in his chair before pushing himself towards his desk and his phone. Punching in a few numbers on the phone, the scientist soon brought the phone up to his ear and awaited confirmation on the other line.


"Yes good sir. I need to speak with one of your management up there." The scientist said as he awaited the response.


Nodding his head, the scientist continued to write numerical patterns and equations on the paper that lay upon his desk.


"Uh yea, hello. I am going to need you to please send down Kurt Wagner from your sanctuary. He has a new trainee with us." The scientist replied as he looked over his shoulder at Artemis.
 
Artemis quirked an eyebrow. "Nothing you didn't already fall victim to. Butler,however...Let's not go there." At mention of the name,Kurt Wagner,Artemis was intrigued. "Kurt Wagner? I assume he has a pseudonym,which we may know better. Care to share,doctor?"


Butler,meanwhile,felt his "Soldier's Sense" buzzing like a hive of frenzied hornets in the base of his skull. The name,Kurt Wagner,made him nervous,though he didn't know why. But Butler always trusted his intuition,and slid a hand inside his suit jacket,gripping the handle for the Neutrino he stolen from the LEP so many years ago,just in case.
 
With the rumble that had been created by superman and super boy the guards turned their attention not sure who needed to actually be guarded. The superhero or this little girl in red. Surely something was mistaken here. Taking adventage of the moment, lil’ red teleported in a flicker to the first guard and kicked him right in the family jewels.


He went down without a seconds notice and before anyone else could she teleported about 8 more times and punched, chucked and kicked every last guard in their precious man tools. All fell down and as the scientist went to raise what she thought was an alarm, she flickered once more, leaving behind her little poof of white mist, aiming for the scientist. Sadly, she was met with a tazer to the forehead. With a click it shocked the hell out of her.


“DFASDFSADFSDFSVCSRFADSFA” would be the equivalent of the girl trying to scream obscenities at him but all that came out was gibberish. The world went black and as she fell to the ground, the scientist grabbed her.


“Would someone please come deal with this brat?” He asked. Not sure if anyone would respond. “Tie her up, tape her up, put her in a cell, I don’t care. Actually? Why is she even here? Who told her about this place?”


Shrugging he continued to hold her while getting back to his work and waiting for someone to do something.
 
Hitting the wall, Gear found herself pinned there, a cane pressed against her throat, the Joker sneering at her while the guards just looked at them in stunned silence. In the empty half hallway of pyro powers, these two people had literally destroyed everything there.


"Now, we can do this the easy way, love. You can shut your mouth and listen real close. Or I'm going to kill you." Gear, growled before kicking out with her leg straight in between his legs. He dropped his cane and gasped a bit. Evil or not, he wasn't a super, they where still an easy target.


"You got guts girl...." He said, "I like that...."
 
"What's the point. Anything that i do is not ever going to topple that man! I mean, look at it. threw everything into that punch, and he shrugged it off like nothing happened." Alex replied to Scarlett as he continued to lay upon his back.


What can i do that will even slow him down? I wonder, if maybe i try something outside the realm of super hero, if i can find an opening? Alex thought as he smiled and reached for Scarlett's hand.
 
Scarlett's eyes found there way to Talon when she heard the girl's voice. She'd only talked to her for a few minutes, but it had still been familiar enough for her to recognize it. She glanced down at Superboy and didn't see any obvious injuries, despite being thrown around by Superman "I... think so." she wasn't totally confident in her assessment, considering what she had just seen, but maybe it was just something she was gong to have to get used to, being a super and all.


Superboy sounded like he was giving up, and while Scarlett didn't think having it out with Superman was a good idea, she couldn't help but want to raise his spirits. "Don't be such a downer. You smashed Superman into that wall. I'm pretty impressed." she told him, happily grabbing onto his hand and helping him to his feet. She wasn't all that strong, but she leaned back and let her weight tug him up.


"Besides, you're new at this. That's why you're here, isn't it? You might not be there yet, but who knows what you might be able to do in the future?" she smiled softly at him. This wasn't really the time for a pep talk. She could still feel the tension in the room and she was right in the middle of the two that were causing it. She was just hoping she was right and that she could use her innocence in the situation as something like a barrier. Of course, she was sort of on Superboy's side, he was the one she was helping up after all.
 
Talon felt a shiver creep up her back and eyed the room more thoroughly as Scarlett told her of the man’s condition. Although she didn’t know the man, the news was met with relief; probably from the fact that superman hadn’t killed him. Which she still didn’t understand…


Wasn’t superman supposed to be a hero? Not attacking civilians or supers at random? It didn’t sit well with her and she wanted to help Scarlett and the new boy-wonder out. Taking a step towards superman, right behind Scarlett, she felt her questions boil to the surface.


“Aren’t you supposed to be helping us!? Not attacking us?” She yelled at him,


With the slight raise of voice, the sounds of the room finally made it to her ears. Scientists were still trying to make them go back to their training post and in the hallways a ruckus had seemed to form. Not to mention how little red escaped from her guards the moment she looked away, but it seemed like the lot of them were down for the count.


Talon snapped back to the situation in front of her, eyes trained on the anti-hero,


“Don’t worry Scarlett, I got your back” she noted, quietly enough for the two behind her to hear.
 
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