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Posted by Vixen on 6/26/2008, 3:16 am
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God she’s fast, Her left fist swings forward with speed and strength, my arm raises in front of me blocking the attack. That’s when I feel it, the heel of a foot slamming hard in to my ribs. The force of the attack sends me backwards, my head feels heavy and my vision blurry, yet still I make out her frame as she continues the battle, charging forward straight towards my position.
“ELEPHANT”
I dig in my heels, make myself heavy and brace for her attack, but once again she surprises me. She adapts to my powers and attacks in a new way. I hear the intake of breath and then my world spins. Her sonic scream deafens me, forcing my hands to cover my ears to offer what little protection they can. My inner ear is shot and with it my balance. I watch her throat as she screams raw. She’s giving it all she has. The strength of her shock waves begins to move me, slowly at first but I feel my balance begin to fail me, and without dropping my hands that still cover my ears, their seems to be no way to protect myself from the canary’s cry.
“Spitting cobra”
Suddenly me ears go deaf, her cry becomes something I can fight, like being caught in a storm.
I release spray after spray of venom, she’s swift and dodges the attacks. Still the fact that I have her on the move is more than what I had a few minutes ago.
That’s when I lose it, I don’t even remember screaming all of the animal’s names. I shift my strength and power multiple times. To many for Dinah to keep up with, I punch, kick, bite, scrape and claw until eventually her defences break and she falls.
“End video”
I lean back further in my chair, staring at the final frames of my battle with the Black Canary,
“Do you mind telling me just what the hell all of this is about?”
I turn, trying hard to look at Ollie’s face, but despite all my powers I fail to have the strength to look him in the eye.
“I…” my words disappear, fading in to the void that seems to sit between the Green Arrow and myself.
“Mari for gods sake look at me, you nearly killed her in there”
“She’s a big girl Ollie, she can take care of herself. Besides she’s one of the best hand to hand fighters in the league, and I went into the arena with unhealed injuries so don’t make out like this was all my fault”
“Wasn’t it? Because as I recall it was you who got all green with jealousy and started threatening people, she was just more than happy to accept your stupid challenge”
“You don’t get it do you”
“Get what”
“How you hurt me”
“Hurt you”
“Yes hurt me Ollie, there I was, at your apartment, I saw the damage left by the OMAC’s I could smell their blood all over your apartment. Could see the outline of the battle. One of those things could take anyone of us out and yet there had to be at least four or more dead in that room of yours. Then for a full week, theirs nothing and my hope of finding you faded to anger. I wanted to hurt them OMAC’s as much as they had hurt me”
“That doesn’t mean you can go round hurting people, least of all Dinah”
“It’s not her I wanted to kill in that arena, it was you”
“What”
“How could you do it Ollie, how could you leave me like that, I thought you where dead. I started a whole self destructive revenge thing and all along you and Bruce where hanging out together like a couple of rich kids”
“Hey Batman was the logical choice, he helped create them damn thing’s so yeah I went to him before you. Ok so maybe I should have dropped you a line, but the truth is those OMAC’s only came after me to get at you. You and Beetle had been taken these things down for months and they got clever, they throw you right of your game by trying to take me down.”
“You can’t even say it can you”
“Say what”
“That your sorry, that you’re happy to see me, instead you have kept your distance. Pushed me away and ran straight back to her. So you know what Ollie, she deserved that ass kicking and you have the same thing coming as well”
I get up from my chair and wince a little, my ribs still sore from my battle with Dinah. I turn and leave the room, I take the opportunity to take a final look at Ollie’s face, he looks older somehow. Hell I bet we all do, this whole situation seems to have us facing one crisis after another.
“Goodbye Ollie”
The doors slam shut; I barely here his whisper “I’m sorry” but I force back the tears. I head straight back for my room, laying down on my bed I close my eyes, trying hard to think of a reason why the hell I should stay in the league. Feels like that without the heavy hitters such as Diana and Superman, that we can’t even make a difference in the world.
Suddenly my silence is interrupted, alarms go crazy ringing hard throughout my room, red lights swirl and flash. I run over to the console and start trying to find out what the hell is going on, that’s when I feel his fingers trickle into my brain, like cold water.
“We have a situation, the Rhino has freed an entire Zoo, the animals are panicking and causing major damage to the surrounding area, civilians have taken to their houses but already some people have fired arms. Its only a matter of time before someone gets hurt” J’onn’s presence leaves my mind.
In minutes we are there, myself, Green Arrow and Black Canary. Neither of us speaks. Instead we focus on the mission. As the small jet takes flight I think about what we are facing and once more long for the battle and god help anyone if those animals are hurt.
TBC…by Songbird
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