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Posted by Donna Troy
on 8/4/2009, 6:14 pm
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“Get him contained now”
“I’m trying, but this guy is fast”
“Don’t give me excuses, just do it”
He barks his orders like the leader we all knew he was born to play, his code name is Nightwing, but to me, I know him As Dick Grayson. Right now both Dick; Vixen and myself are on a field mission. J’onzz report was simple, Captain Boomerang was holding up a bank down town. After transporting to the location we arrived to find a trap. Boomerang boy was not working alone, instead he had brought along the female fatales known as Double Dare, unlike captain Boomerang, despite having no real powers, their amazing acrobatics and martial art skills make them nearly as hard to hit as Grayson.
“Ok Troy, take down Boomerang, Vixen how about you and me team up and take down the gruesome twosome”
“Sounds like a plan to meet, RHINO”
I watch the battlefield unfold before me and see the smile spread across Vixens face as she charges down the two deadly assassin acrobats. Ahead of me I see my would be assailant, strange, I feel his eyes lock on mine and for a brief moment I sense that something is not as it appears to be. All nerves of the gut are replaced with the fire of the belly as like a warrior born I set pace towards victory. Grayson briefed us all on Boomerang before transporting down, like the original his primary weapon of choice is the boomerang, crafted from one of the strongest steal polymers devised, capable of cutting through normal metal like a hot knife through butter. But weapons are not what makes Owen dangerous, its his ability to access the speed force, either that or he meta genes, either way he is capable of bursts of super speed and that makes him dangerous.
I see him charge towards me, with a whip of his hand he lets go, releasing a metallic weapon of death. Despite my own gifts and abilities I barely manage to raise my hands in time, I register the impact against my bracelets and hear the sound of clashing metal.
Suddenly I take a sharp breath as pain courses through my ribs, I recognise Owens attack and understand he is utilising his speed to augment his attempt at facing an Amazon in a fistfight. A second blow soon strikes followed quickly by a third and finally a kick to the back of my knee, the final strike forces me to fall, one knee now supports me, and inside a rage consumes me.
“Stand and fight”
“Says the woman that can’t stand, theirs a joke in there somewhere am I right?”
I look up and see the young boy standing directly in front of me, and like Vixen before when she knew she was about to charge head forth towards battle, a small smile spreads across my face. Despite the pain that curses through me as I force my bones to betray their need for rest, I push forward with all the strength I have, taking flight with both fists held before me. I strike Owen square in the chest, I hear him try and cry as the air is forced out of his lungs, below I’m able to see his feet try and call upon his ability to generate speed, only to fail through inability to gain traction. His final attempt at escaping comes from a simple plea, one I am unable to even hear over the sound of my own battle cry. We strike a nearby wall; it buckles under my strength, collapsing like a castle under siege.
“TROY?”
I hear Grayson’s cries of concern, but he needn’t have worried, I break free from the rumble with one hand, in the other I support and carry the body of Owen Mercer.
“Don’t worry you two I have things under control, what about the psycho twins”
“Dispatched, Vixen took them down like skittles, guess we can call this one a wrap, Grayson to Watchtower and transport a containment team we’re ready to return home”
“Not so fast we have a breaking development approximately seventeen miles south east of your current location”
“Ok not a problem, have police come and pick up the bad guys, then transport us to the area in question”
“Unable to comply, a build up of energy in the localised area is preventing us from using sensors, a site to site transport would be ill-advised”
“No problem, we’re going to do this the old fashion way, Vixen get in gear, Troy I need an air lift now”
I drop Owens body and prepare to once more take flight, but as I look into Dick’s eyes I see a familiar blanks tare and once more the feeling of a secondary presence clouds my senses. I see Grayson’s body burst into flames, and slowly the world around me falls apart, replaced with the vision of fire and caves and the smell of sulphur and brimstone. Remarkably I’m not scared, for I have been here before and met the man that now sits before me, his body coated in thick armour black like the night sky, his hair is just as dark and long, his body that of a god.
“Hades”
“Donna Troy, how nice of you to come visit it me at my home”
“Drop the act, why have you brought me here”
“Directness, I appreciate that, in fact I respect it”
“Don’t toy with me, my friends and I where on our way to give vital assistance, it is imperative that I return back to where I cam immediately”
“How long you have walked amongst mortals my child, time is relative here, and I assure you that I will return you exactly where I found you. But the battle you and your friends are racing towards is the wrong place your heads should be facing”
“Cryptic clues was more Diana’s specialty, you said you respected directness, so cut to the chase”
“Indeed, a battle is coming one that will send countless new slaves to fill up my numbers, but the power involved could cause a unbalance shift in the world of gods and mortals. I am assigning you the task of restoring that balance”
“Me, a champion of Ares, I thought you had already chosen your champion, the young Cassie”
“Ah yes, young and impudent she was, unable to fathom the gifts I gave her, in the end she failed me and she would have failed this task I now set you”
“I will not work for you Hades”
“This is a task bestowed to you from the gods, rest assured it is not only me that is concerned”
“The other gods would have approached Hippolyta by now”
“Not unless they wanted to keep their hands clean, you want proof, fine here it is”
I stand in awe as with a golden spark of electricity, a simple golden lasso is placed upon my hands.
“Is this?”
“a lasso of the gods yes, the same one I gave to Cassie.”
“How is this proof”
“Simple child, it responds to anger and rage, Hephaestus made sure of that, as was my half of the energy used to create it”
“I still fail to see how this is proof that the other gods are involved”
“Simple, the other half of the power was that of Zeus, which is why it channels his own lightning”
“Zeus, I refuse to believe he would be invol…”
Do not be so naive, he has trifled in mortal affairs since the dawn of time and I can assure you young titan, he is not half as noble as history would play him out to be. Now believe what you will but you have been chosen weather you would wish it or not, now all I ask is that you be ready, I will guide you when I can, but in the end it will be down to you and you alone, now go”
I go to say something in response as the god points his finger at me, but once more my sense blur and I appear back where I was before, flying towards Grayson, I reach out and grab hold oh him, below me I see Vixen running with all the speed of the cheetah she now harnesses.
“Hey, you ok here, you seem to be gripping me a little hard”
“Sorry, guess I don’t know my own strength” I release my grip slightly creating a finger hold more simple for locking fingers.
“Erm Donna”
“What is it now Dick”
“Since when did you carry a lasso?”
“What” I nearly let of go of my grip on Grayson as I look down towards my belt, there crackling with energy I see the Lasso and realise everything I felt and saw was the truth, now all I can think about as I fly above the city streets towards my next mission, is what evil could be so dangerous that the gods themselves fear for the waking world.
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