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Posted by Blue Beetle
on 8/21/2008, 7:15 pm, in reply to "Quiet Move Conclusion: Ply"
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As the light fades I find myself on the cold still of the satellite, called Brother Eye. I wish I was back in the Time Sphere; at least there was color there. I feel it in the pit of my stomach; it rises and burns my throat as it comes out of my mouth.
"You OK?" Supernova stands with Skeets hovering close by. Skeets must be tethered to Booster's temporal signature. Ray would understand all of this, Time Travel hurts my head.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. You know where the main control room of this place is?" Our boots make a steady rasp against the cold metal floor.
"The schematics that Dr. Hunter provided indicate that it is this way." Skeets turns on a set of lights, Supernova and I follow. We walk in silence both of us knowing that we're the only hope of stopping this thing and its army of OMACs.
"Intruders10100101110" The voice is as cold as Sasha and Max's had been.
"I think it found Waldo." Large wires fly out of the vents near us, stabbing at the air, at us. Supernova hovers off of the ground, golden light emitting from his wrists. I parry as many of the attacks that I can before grabbing a hold of my BB Gun. I turn on the EMP setting and fire at the tendrils that creep towards me.
"Follow me Kord; this suit handles like a dream. I'll clear us a path." Supernova soars past me, firing more blasts from his wrists. The wires fall to the ground like dried up vines. Show off. It takes me a few strides to notice the disk that Rip had given me, it shimmers looks like I got hit. I'm sorry Melody.
The control room is big; I almost trip as I come to a complete stop. It's definitely bigger then any of the Embassies or the Bat-Cave and Bugs nest combined. Thousands of panels play the events happening on Earth, I watch as heroes and villains fight the force but the sheer numbers and abilities of their opponents are proving to be too much. Firing a blast from his chest the entrance behind us crumbles cutting off any more security measures from coming in.
"That should buy us some time, go!" He barks, for all of his bravado I can almost sense a hint of fear in his voice.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE DOING?" It's speaking to us; the monitors shimmer with static as a large eye lies against a red background.
"Yeah, stopping you from culling a planet." I plug in the flash drive; the virus is going to take a minute to up load into the systems. I begin to type on a nearby computer program; I might be able to speed things along if I can take out a few of this things firewalls.
"YOU STOP A CHANCE FOR EONS OF PEACE; YOU STOP A CHANCE TO BALANCE THE SCALES." It's the same argument that Max used earlier. I think I know who was writing the script. I reach for my BB Gun and fire a EMP blast at the screens, the image of the eye fades as they short and explode, sparks begin fly everywhere. I'm done listening.
"Would you like to a play a game?" I chuckle at my own joke, I don't think Supernova gets it. If I can get Brother Eye stuck in a logic loop that should allow enough time for the virus to upload successfully.
"Skeets how much is uploaded?" We can hear the countermeasures against the wall of rubble we had used to seal ourselves in. I begin to enter an encryption of my own, this thing is going to everything it can to save itself.
"75% sir." Good almost there. I walk towards Supernova; Michael’s standing at attention ready for whatever may come next. He sees the shorted disks that hang on my belt.
"You tell her, that...." I try to find the right words, knowing Michael he'll probably just screw it up anyway.
"No, you're going to tell her." I wish I could see the expression underneath his mask.
"The virus has been downloaded." Skeets barely gets the chance to finish before the explosions start, the entire satellite begins to shake, as the phase shift tears it apart molecule by molecule. He grabs my hand before I can hit the disk sending him home and leaving me to make sure that the job is finished.
I feel his cape wrap around us as everything fades away, into blackness, into nothing. I'm not sure the disk can bring the two of us back, he should have saved himself, why didn't he? The empty black, I've been hear before this is what death felt like.
"You're alive!" Her scream echoes off of the enclosed Time Sphere. Guess Heaven is a lot more like life then I thought. Looking around I except clouds and angles dressed like Victoria Secret's catalog. Instead I see Supernova, Rip Hunter, Skeets and Melody. I hear heaven is overrated anyway.
I stand up Supernova next me, his cape had acted like an envelop bringing the both of us back here. Maybe I should get myself a cape. Have to give Michael some credit for thinking on his feet, guess I've rubbed off on him.
She wraps her arms around my neck; I take mine and wrap them around her waist. The Time Sphere floats in space, we watch as the Brother Eye satellite explodes atom by atom. It's over, the OMAC's are done, and Max is done. I guess this is what winning one feels like.
"I love you Ted Kord." She smiles her teeth twinkling like the stars that surround us.
"I love you Melody Case."
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