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The Watchtower seemed a bit tense. All Justice League members received a ping for a meeting, with most if not the majority having no idea what the meeting was even about. Everyone was simply sat at the table, waiting for the arrival of the big 3 in order to finally commence the meeting they were all called there for. While waiting, one of the Flashes bounced his leg and tapped his fingers on the table at a rapid speed much to everyone’s annoyance, Captain Marvel was lightly humming to himself not really taking the entire thing as seriously as everyone else, and Plastic man had fallen asleep while waiting. Then, just as some idle chit-chat between some members had begun, the doors swung open and in walked Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.
“Let us commence our meeting,” The Bat stated while taking his seat at the head of the table, Superman and Wonder Woman both sitting at his sides. “We called everyone here because of a precendent issue we've been made aware of. I'm sure most of you have already heard reports of creature sightings all across the United States.”
Just then holograms of pictures, some blurred and some more clear, popped up and many league members took a look.
“A large red figure spotted in Coast City, an orange beast running wild in Keystone, a fish man lurking around the harbors of Gotham, a walking mummy seen on rooftops in Metropolis, and many more.” Wonder Woman stated to the room.
“At first we were unsure if these appearances and creatures were even connected to one another, but then we noticed that all the creatures in question have the same device located somewhere on their bodies,” Superman stated to the room as a blurred picture of the device in question popped up for all to see. The image showed what looked like a disk of some kind with an hourglass like symbol on it. “We’d like to ask that everyone please keep an eye out for anything strange that you might notice within your own respective cities. We don’t know if these creatures are dangerous or hostile at the moment, and we’re unsure where they even came from.”
With that, the initial briefing of the meeting was over. A couple members trickled out immediately after the meeting was over to head back to their respective cities through the zeta tubes, while others stayed in the meeting hall still looking over the photos discussing possibilities.
“You think these creatures might be Cadmus experiments that got out into the world?” asked one of the Green Lanterns.
“Not sure, if they were from Cadmus then how’d some end up all the way on the other side of the states in Star City,” stated Black Lightning.
“Do you think there’s a possibility that these sightings are just meta kids running rampant?” proposed Black Canary.
“It’s a possibility, but we won’t know anything for sure until we can apprehend one and see for ourselves,” stated Aquaman.
“In any case, if these sightings are happening all over the United States, then everyone must be made aware and be on the lookout for these creatures, including other teams not present here,” Stated the Martian Manhunter as he looked at the photos.
“Perhaps they might be some type of magical monsters summoned by someone to cause havoc?” Hawkgirl suggested.
“I’m not so sure, they don’t look mystical in origin at all, and they’re unlike any creatures I’ve ever seen before,” Stated Zatanna.
After a couple more minutes of discussions, speculations, and debates between members, most everyone decided to call it a day and went home. However it would not be long before more sightings of mysterious creatures would reach the League.
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Over in Jump City near Titans Tower, Garfield and Raven were taking a break from their patrol and decided to get some pizza at the nearest spot available.
“Hey I need to use the bathroom real quick, can you order a vegan pizza for me please,” the green teen stated to raven while tossing her a 20 and making his way to the toilets.
“Fine, but don’t take too long,” The girl responded while making her way to get in line.
After a couple minutes of waiting, Raven placed Garfield’s order like he had asked while also getting herself a small personal pepperoni. She then went out to the restaurant's deck to wait until her name was called for their order.
She proceeded to brush off a seat and sit down at a nice table. “How long is he gonna take? I feel like I’m always waiting forever for him,” Raven stated to herself as she began to pull a book out of her robe to read.
However, just as she began her resting and reading, she soon noticed a shadow pass over her where she was sitting. Upon looking up she saw a giant blur of green fly by in the sky.
“Beast Boy?” The girl stated as she put down her book and quickly flew up from her seat, following after the blur.
She chased the green teen for a couple blocks before she was finally able to catch up to him and ask him what was going on, “Beast Boy what happened, did we get a distress call-”
However once Raven finally caught up and was actually face to face with the green blur though, she soon saw for herself that this wasn’t Garfield at all. The creature then looked at her with what appeared to be confusion, “Sorry, but I think you got the wrong person,” the bug-like creature said to her in a horrible raspy voice.
Without hesitation Raven immediately got ready for battle, “Azarath Metrion Zinthos!”
“Woah! You’re really one to shoot first and ask questions later huh?” the bug had yelled out as it proceeded to dodge the magic blast she shot out.
Raven continued on with her assault, shooting out beams and blasts of magic one after the other trying to hit the flying bug. All the while the insect in question dodged each blast as gracefully as it could. Dodging was almost second nature to the creature, probably helped by its four eyes which allowed for 360 vision and better maneuvering.
Seeing no fruitful results however, Raven shifted her attack method and instead attempted to trap the monster, “Azarath Metrion Zinthos!”
Soon Raven was now summoning magically constructed walls in an attempt to now capture the creature. This change of tactics was definitely more effective as now the bug was having to dodge tons of newly forming constructs.
This went on for a couple more minutes before the bug stated, “Alright, this started out fun, but now this is just getting tiring.” The creature continued to dodge and weave then spoke again, “luckily for me too, I think I know the perfect way to get you to leave me alone.”
Within an instant the insect changed its trajectory and immediately started flying straight towards Raven herself. Raven responded by placing a wall in front of her to try and counter whatever plan the monster came up with, however the bug quickly flew around the wall predicting her to cast one. It then proceeded to shoot out a weird green gunk from its eye sockets which flew forwards and stuck to Raven's mouth. Immediately Raven tried to rip and peel the gunk off of her face, but it seemed to be stuck on tight like glue.
“I’ve dealt with my fair share of magic users before, and so long as you can’t say your spells you can’t do anything to chase me right?” said the bug as it then started to make its retreat, “See you later loser!”
Raven wanted to follow in order to continue the fight and capture the creature, however in her current state she would be unable to do anything until she removed the thing blocking her mouth.
She proceeded to instead fly back down to the pizza shop she and Beast Boy were initially at to reconvene. Upon landing she then ran into Garfield standing around outside waiting for her.
“Raven, where’d you run off to? I come back from the bathroom to you nowhere in sight,” Beast Boy stated while holding their two freshly hot pizzas, “also what happened to your face?”
Raven didn’t answer, but just gave Beast Boy a glare that basically read, “I don’t want to talk about it.”
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The next day, over in Dakota city a similar thing happened to Static while he was out on a patrol of his own. However, instead of a giant flying green bug, he was now in battle with a humanoid crystal being.
“You know, I don’t think I’ve ever seen you around these parts before,” Virgil questioned the Diamond body as he shot out electrical currents at it.
“Yeah, well you know just passing through and doing a bit of touring,” the creature responded as it punched into the ground and created a diamond shield for itself.
“Well mind not messing with the infrastructure? Don’t think the city’s gonna be too happy about having to repave these roads and remove those crystals of yours.”
“Hey, you’re the one who’s shooting out electricity towards me.”
“Sorry about that man, but this would just be a whole lot easier if you came in quietly.”
“Yeah, well that ain’t happening,” the creature stated as it punched its fist into the ground once more causing more crystal-like spikes to emerge from the ground, creating a dangerous battlefield.
“Hey watch it man.”
“Sorry, but you’re being really persistent and I’ve got places I need to be.”
“Let me try and end this quickly for you then,” Static then used his electro-kinesis to try and grab multiple metallic objects around him in order to throw at the creature before him.
At first Static only threw small metal objects at the creature, along the lines of small metal cans that were just lying in the street. However once he noticed they were only causing a slight annoyance to the crystal man, Static then tried throwing a nearby sewer cover at the man. With all his force he launched the manhole cover at the creature standing before him and it actually seemed to stun him a bit and crack some of thr crystals on his forearms.
“Yes! Looks like you’re not as indestructible as you thought.”
“That’s what you think,” the man of crystal stated as it regenerated over the cracked crystals with brand new rock, “the only thing you accomplished is making me more ticked off.”
Just then the creature punched into the ground one more time and the crystal-like spikes quickly and suddenly emerged from the ground and entrapped Static Shock in a crystalline prison.
“That should hold you for a while,” the crystal being stated while leaving Static trapped. Static then tried for a couple minutes to attempt to break through the solid crystal prison he was trapped in, but quickly gave up after his fists and powers seemed to do nothing.
“Man, Jaime’s really not gonna let me live this one down if he hears about it.”
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Some days later, Star City had its own strange encounter. What looked like a flaming meteor soaring through the skies like a plane above the city had immediately called the attention of the local heroes there.
“How the hell are we supposed to stop a flying ball of fire in the sky?” Questioned Red Arrow.
“You ask as if the answer’s gonna be different from what we usually do,” Green Arrow retorted back as he searched for the right tool in his quiver.
“Why do I even bother with the questions?” Red said to himself in a semi-defeated tone.
When Oliver finally found the right arrow for the job, he pulled his bow string taught and steadied his aim. With a single exhale he freed the arrow from his bow and shot it at the ball of fire making direct contact. Upon doing so the arrow released a compound that proceeded to quickly extinguish the fire and send the now cooled rock falling.
“Yes!”
The duo then ran over to where the giant rock had just landed, finding instead an igneous man wiping off extinguisher agent from his body.
“Dude, that is so not cool,” The being stated to the two heroes as it reignited its entire body with a burst of fire, turning the igneous rock into molten magma.
“Looks like we got a fight on our hands Ollie,” Roy stated, getting an arrow from his quiver and shooting it at the man.
“Nice try, but I’m not here to fight,” stated the man of magma as he caught the arrow and melted it in his arms.
“Well, then you wouldn’t mind answering a couple questions” Oliver stated as he readied an arrow alongside Roy.
“Sorry, but I’m not trying to stay around for long either,” The molten man said as he proceeded to create a mini solar flare and use it almost like a flashbang in order to get away.
When the two heroes eyes had recovered, all they saw were burn marks on the ground and looking up, a trail of fire as the man of molten rock left their city
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The next night over in Gotham, while on a lookout for The Mad Hatter, the duo Batgirls instead spotted a large figure slinking around in the alleyways.
“You think it might be Grundy or Killer Croc?” Stephanie questioned her partner. However when she turned to get an answer, Cass was already gone and descending upon their suspect.
The all Black Batgirl landed a clean kick to the back of the large creature's head causing it to recoil, but as he turned around it was neither Grundy nor Killer Croc. Instead it was some Frankenstein like monster with tesla coils on its back and electricity buzzing around it.
“Hey, what’s the big idea here,” the Large figure stated, turning around to see the two vigilante girls as Steph descended as well to stand beside her fellow Batgirl.
“I take the legs you go for the head,” Steph whispered to her partner. Within a second the purple Batgirl threw a smoke pellet at the creature, immediately cutting off its vision. Steph then tried to go for the creature's legs like had she planned, but he was much too heavy and strong to be thrown off balance. Cass in return tried going for the head again with another kick, but was caught this time and tossed away by the man.
Then, as Steph quickly helped her teammate up, both the Batgirls suddenly heard the crackling of electricity start. Both Cassandra and Stephanie dodged out of the way of the lighting bolt, and Steph proceeded to climb up on a nearby fire escape in order to try and ping the cave. However when Stephanie tried to reach the cave, all she heard in her ear was static.
“Batgirl I can’t reach Oracle or the cave, I think this guy’s mucking up our comms somehow,” Steph called out as she was getting ready to jump back into action.
“You know, I think the two of you ladies missed the cosplay convention,” The monster stated while shooting out electricity from the two tesla coils on its back to keep the two vigilantes away.
“Says the guy who looks exactly like Frankenstein,” Steph retorted back.
Just then Cass threw a batarang that sliced the monster’s arm, leaving a pretty decently sized gash and causing the creature to let out a small scream of pain. The monster quickly shot electricity back at Cass who dodged the electric volley and got up on some high ground herself. The creature proceeded to cover his wound, and you could hear the sound of his flesh working to mend itself back together, leaving a new scar in its place.
“That hurt,” the monster let out as he proceeded to toss a garbage lid at Cass, hitting her in the side and making her collide into the wall.
Stephanie immediately went to help her up, but the creature took its opportunity to shoot a small bolt of electricity at her, knocking her down as well.
“Sorry to rough you both up so much, but just remember that you started it first,” The Monster said to the two vigilantes as he made his escape.
Stephanie was the first to get up despite being in some pain and went over to her partner.
“Come on, we can’t stay here for too long, let’s get back to the cave and report this to Batman,” Steph stated as she helped Cass up from the ground.
Cass didn’t say a word and instead just gave Steph a look, a look that Steph was all too familiar with.
“Come on, don’t give me puppy dog eyes.” Despite wearing a mask, Stephanie could always tell whenever Cass was making that face. “I know you don’t like letting them get away, but hey how about when we get back, we can play some video games together to cheer you up!” The purple Batgirl stated as she wrapped her arm around the other Batgirl’s shoulder and they walked out of the alleyway.
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Over in Central City, Barry was grabbing a chilli dog at a nearby hot dog cart. with all the running around the city he does, his metabolism burns through calories way too fast, so snacking on the job was something he had basically worked into his schedule. He was about to dig in when he suddenly heard the sound of screeching tires not too far away, so he quickly engulfed his snack and ran off to see the source of the noise
Barry only had to run a few blocks until he saw what looked like a heavily modded out car speeding down the streets of Central City. He quickly gave chase and within seconds he was right alongside the driver side window hoping to talk to whoever was recklessly driving this vehicle, but instead found no one at the wheel. However, just as Barry thought the car was probably empty and must be just out of control, he noticed that the wheel was turning on its own, and soon a voice made its way from the car's speaker.
“Sorry buddy, I’m not in the mood for a race right now, but if it’s a race you want it’s a race you’ll get,” The vehicle spoke as the exhaust pipes blared and burst out flames. Within a second the car had sped up tremendously and flew down the street.
Unlucky for whoever was controlling the vehicle though, they just picked a race with one of the fastest men alive. Barry took a deep breath and sped up after the vehicle keeping perfect pace. Barry chased the car for miles and minutes, and no matter how much the vehicle tried its best to shake him, the Flash was always close behind. However in the middle of the chase, a strange beeping noise started coming from the car and Barry immediately feared a bomb. Within an instant the car sped up insanely fast, so much so that The Flash had to actually catch up for a slight second as he was caught off guard now thinking about needing to get that bomb out and away from the city. The car then made a quick sudden turn down an alleyway that Barry had ran past, thinking the car still planned to go straight. Then, just as Flash was about to immediately turn back, there was then a sudden big green flash and a loud sound.
“No!” Barry yelled out as he immediately ran back and into the alleyway to see the damage, but there was none. That green flash and sound wasn’t a bomb, and not only that, but the car was abandoned and no longer had all its modifications. However, despite the car being abandoned, the alleyway was not and soon Flash took notice of a little kid sitting upside down and dazed in a pile of trash bags
“Hey kid, are you alright? What happened?” the Flash asked as he helped the kid up and straightened out his clothes.
“Yeah… I-I was just walking through when all of a sudden this car came speeding down to a halt. It scared me so much I jumped back and landed in those trash bags.”
“Well I’m just glad you're alright kid, you don’t have any scrapes or cuts on you, right?”
“No, I’m fine.”
“Well that’s good to hear, do you need me to walk you home? It’s getting pretty late and your parents are probably worried sick about you.”
The kid paused for a second, “No, it’s ok. My parents live really close by, I couldn’t bother you for that.”
“Are you sure?” The Flash asked once more, wanting to make sure the kid stayed alright as despite not being hurt, the kid still looked in pretty bad shape.
“Yeah, it’s fine. Thank you for the help though, Mister.”
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With that the kid walked out of the alleyway on his own, leaving The Flash still inside as he wondered where the thing he was chasing suddenly vanished off to. However once the kid had walked away a couple blocks and he knew he was by himself, he relaxed and let out a sigh of relief.
“That was way too close this time, and he was way faster than I thought he'd be. I’ll need to wait for the recharge to finish before I can move again,” The kid spoke to himself while looking at the glowing red device on his wrist.