Post by jay on Apr 1, 2013 22:53:19 GMT -5
Ultimate Flash Issue #4
"Unlikely Heroes"
"Unlikely Heroes"
"Mr. Jesse"
"Yes?" James Jesse looked up from his desk inside of his office at the top of GG Worldwide in Central City. His assistant, a rather portly man stood at the office door. "What is it Harold?"
"We got a report. Weather Wizard attacked the Diamond Exchange..."
"Uh-huh. So...What does that have to do with me?"
"Sir. You might want to tune into GGN."
"I own the damn thing why do I need to tune into..." James, although as The Trickster, enjoyed games he hated being lead around as a boss. He cut on the large television inside of the office and saw live coverage of his fellow Rogues escaping custody. This was on repeat as another live feed showed something else. A red blur going through a building and suddenly the building exploded. "What the hell is that?"
"We don't know sir. That's why I came up here. We've got the only live feed on this thing, and we don't know what to run with it." Harold said confused as he tried to stammer out what the problem was. James' brain was all ready working into overdrive as his bluetooth in his ear came to life.
"Incoming call from Digger."
"Crap on a cracker." Jesse says answering the phone. "Digger. It's not a good time."
"Don't you dare fucking hang up on me! We got a situation!"
"So do I. You know running a news network among other things and there is this thing..."
"I know the damn thing! It's heading for the hospital!" Jesse's face turned a white. "We need you here as soon as possible!"
"I can't do that."
"You're fucking useless Jesse." The phone hung up on the other end.
"Mr. James. What do you want to do?" Harold asked as Jesse walked past him. How dare Digger say he was useless. He was the one who kept the media off of their crimes. He was the one who always kept them one step ahead on communications. He was...he was the spin doctor.
"Get me to the news studio asap. I'm going to supervise this myself!"
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"Thanks for picking me up."
"Not a problem Leo. You were in no condition to drive yourself to the hospital to check on this professor friend of yours." Mick Rory said as he lite a cigarette and rolled down the window as he drove his black GTO through the streets of Central City. In the passenger seat was Leonard Snart and in the backseat was Roscoe Dillon.
"Sorry babe. Something came up.?said Roscoe as he called his girl of the evening. "Aww. Baby don't be like that."
"OH ROSCOE!" Mick yelled. "You have such a way with your hands."
"No baby. That wasn't another woman. Well I dunno. Mick is kinda girly."
"Psh, You'd be lucky to have a chick as awesome as me if I was one."
"You two need some serious therapy..."
Suddenly there was a sound of an explosion. The shockwave actually moved the car. For a moment all three men braced for impact as the car almost hit a street light. The skidded to a stop.
"Well...That was fun." Leonard said getting out of the car and rubbing his head. He saw blood on his fingers. He had hit the side of the car. Mick got out of the car and checked it.
"Well no real damage. What was that?"
"Good to see your concern about us is less than your damn car Mick."
"You're breathing. This is my baby." He said smiling as Roscoe finally got out of the backseat. "You all right?"
"My phone's broke but other than that..."
Leonard's phone went off. He quickly pulled it out and answered.
"Yeah? Ross and Mick are here. What? What do you mean a blur?"
"What's going on?"asked Roscoe as he checked himself for any injuries. Leonard's face got pale as he nodded.
"You stop that thing. We'll go protect the hospital." He hung up the phone and started dialing a number.
"Protect what?" Mick asked still checking out his car.
"Something is heading towards Central City Memorial. It goes through solid objects and blows them up upon doing so. It's heading straight for the hospital. We're stopping it."
"That's not really our thing Leo." Roscoe said before Leonard shot him a look. He knew the argument was over. Mick hoped back in the car.
"Well let's go."
"Head towards the warehouse on Fox Street. I've got our backup gear stored there. I just took down the security." Leonard said as they all got back into the car.
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"Jesse isn't coming?" Weather Wizard said as they readied the systems to fire on the red blur. "What about the others? We can't take that thing out by ourselves."
"Mal says go fuck yourselves." said Mirror Master as he looks over the ships scanner to see where the red blur was heading. "I swear to God if it wasn't for his family I'd fucking kill that kid."
"Top, Cold, and Heatwave are heading to the hospital in case we fail." Captain Boomerang says heading around the block to get a better firing position. "For right now we are on our own for now mates."
"What do you want us to do?"Mirror Master says checking his power packs for the huge version of his reflection pistol.
"Let's go be heroes boys!" Boomer activated the targeting sensor and opened fire. Mirror Master started to laugh as Weather Wizard said a silent prayer.
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"I have to slow down." Barry thought to himself. "I can't keep up this pace, but I feel like I have to go this direction. I need to reach my goal, but what is over there?"
Suddenly he hears a loud roar as a plane comes out of a cloaking disguise. Weapon areas on the wings open up and suddenly from out of them come thousands of tiny angled bits of metal.
"Boomerangs?"Barry thinks as he keeps moving. One of them goes past him and he doesn't think anything of it until it blows up next to him. He falls forward for a moment, but keeps moving. More and more of them start exploding around him. "What the hell? I've got to. Wait. I've got it!"
Barry quickly started to slide and dodge the boomerangs increasing and decreasing his speed so that they would either explode in front of him or after him. Suddenly one that went past him zoomed back into the corner of his eye. He narrowly avoided it as it exploded right behind him sending his speeding form into the air. He saw the ship. He started heading right for it. If he was going to go through something he might as well go through what was attacking him.
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"It's changing course and heading right towards us!" Weather Wizard yelled as he hit the ramp button. He was getting out of there before that thing turned the ship into a bomb! He leaps out activating the wind function of his wand and starts flying. Mirror Master was right behind. Mirror Master tucks and rolls onto the ground and comes up with the giant reflection pistol. The red blur hit the cockpit as Captain Boomerang tossed one of his boomerangs towards the front window. He hit the eject button and skyrocketed through the roof of the ship just as the blur hit it. He flew upwards, hanging on for dear life. The blur got knocked back but the damage was done. The Rogues just lost their ship, but was it enough to stop the blur.
"Ow!" Barry thought as he landed looking up at the wreckage. The ship had exploded but something had slammed hard into his face, or at least what he assumed was his face. He immediately stood up and started to run towards what was pulling him again until someone stood in his way. A figure in armor with a large gun pointed at him. He turned and saw another and another and another.
"Hi! Time to die!" The figures all said in unison as they fired at Barry. Barry tried to dodge all the shots but only one of them hit him. It was from behind. The blast of energy sent Barry flying back into the street. He looked up just in time to see a flying figure come at him and blast him with electricity! Barry let out a scream but was immediately up again. He tried to run, but the pain was getting to him. Suddenly he had a thought as he started to spin his body. Faster and faster and faster he went until he started to change the wind currents. The air around him made it hard for the attackers to shoot him as he suddenly stopped and the "tornado" he created went loose. They fired at the tornado and Barry started to run again. He heard something whoosh near his ears and he moved his head just in time to see boomerangs. They exploded sending Barry back down to the ground.
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At the GG Worldwide Newsroom they were getting a live feed of the events as they unfolded. Seeing the red blur's massacre through the city and suddenly they saw The Rogues engage it in combat. The news anchor, Steven Moore, was baffled at what was happening live. James Jesse walked into the control room to the teleprompter control and started to write up a slew of words the second he saw what was happening.
"Ladies and gentlemen." Steve said as the he followed the words with his eyes. "It seems that this thing that is rampaging through the city is being stopped not by the police, but by the costumed criminal group known as "The Rogues". This reporter is baffled at this turn of events, but at this point we can only hope that these unlikely defenders can stop this thing. With no metahuman protectors close enough to Central and Keystone City. It looks like they have become our unlikely heroes."
James Jesse smiled to himself. How useless was he now.