Change in power (Justice League)

[Deleted]

Diana appeared in the teleported room she had heard what was going on what J’onn was trying to do and she didn’t like it. Sure teams worked together at times but they weren’t that friendly towards each other. They still had their secrets just incase something happened with the other team they could bring them down. She told her husband that she had to go back even though Bruce didn’t like the idea she told him that she couldn’t let J’onn ruin this team that they worked so hard to create. And just because she was pregnant didn’t mean she couldn’t run a team she wasn’t that far along something else she pointed out to Bruce when he brought it up trying to keep her from going.

Diana left the room and walked down the hall towards the elevator stopping she hit the button the doors slid open and she walked in and hit the button to take her to the war room. It took a few moments before the doors opened up letting her out. She walked out heading down the hall to the room once she was there she put a call out to what was left of the team. She wanted them here for this even if they had to put more then one person in charge she was fine with that as long as it wasn’t just J’onn calling the shots. When the call went out she walked over and took a seat at the head of the table and waited for the others to show up.

[john]

J'onn was coming back from The Avengers underground base after talking with Tony Stark and touring the place with him. J'onn knew that even though both the league and avengers were different, both want to protect the planet earth. Each Avenger he met had there flaws and troubled past but that didn't matter, the past was the past. What matter's now is the next phase of taking the world back from the doomsday clones. Then suddenly he got a signal from the watchtower and J'onn knew it had to be a member but who was it.

Arriving at the watchtower J'onn landed his spaceship inside before he got out. Walking past many people he went to the room where the members of The Justice League meet. He went inside he smiled and saw Wonder Woman. "Hello there Diana, it's good to see you", he told the amazon as he went inside and sat down. "I've been trying to get in contact with you for the past couple of days. But I am glad to see you here, we have a lot to talk about" he said. "How is Bruce doing? I take it he's been busy" he told her and knew Batman well since the first time he met him.

[superboy]

Conner hadn’t been in the best mood since he had seen his father figure and the man that he had respected the most slain down in front of him. The fact that Clark had died was something that had hurt a lot of people but to Conner it had almost been everything. The fact that Superman had been the man that he had made from sure there was some Luthor in there also but it was the legendary Kryptonian hero that he had wanted to be like he had strived to be like the man who wore red and blue; yet after the death of said hero he had not wanted to wear those colours because of the fact that he wouldn’t dare try and disgrace the legacy that the other man had made. The fact that he also didn’t want to upset Lois with doing it was something that had stopped him even considering it.

When Diana had contacted him about the Justice League he had been adamant that he didn’t want to be pitied because of what had happened to Clark but she had assured him that it wasn’t the case the fact that they wanted him because of the fact that he could have been an asset and done something good that had been all it had taken he had tried to convince Lois that the black costume was the one that he wanted to wear to the meeting even though she had pretty much tried to force the Superman suit on him, simply because she might have been the closest thing that he had to a mother but he could never replace Superman.

Arriving at the satellite he walked in with the confidence that he had wanting them to accept him. “Hello?” he said his voice was a lot deeper than the last time they would have heard it.

[john]

J’onn heard the voice of one hero he’s known and looked, seeing Connor. “Ah yes Superboy, come in and take a seat”, he told the man. J’onn has respect for Superboy and what he’s been able to do. Being in the shadow of a well know iconic superhero can be hard. When Superman died, J’onn could tell that it hurt Connor inside. He could even remember the times when he would walk by, seeing Superman and Connor go at it from time to time, based upon events or others. The Martian Man hunter knew there wouldn’t be another Superman, but coming to the Justice League is the right thing, that’s what Clark would want.

“Were just waiting for the others to arrive”, he said to Connor. J’onn knew that now Wonder Woman and Connor were here, with members of the Justice League coming, they needed to discuss a few things. He knew he would share his experiences visiting the underground base of the Avengers and what they do. Then going to visit the X-Men in the next couple of days. Avengers, X-Men, and other heroes are all alies. They do have there differences but the common goal is to take back Earth. J’onn couldn’t stand another planet being destroyed by those were did not trust the superheroes.

[arrow]

Green Arrow was in the gym with his sons training at the watchtower practicing on there shooting arrows. Dinah was somewhere else in the watchtower since they live there now due to the clone invasion. He gave the boys some good lessons on how to hold there arrows and how to shoot them. They’ve been improving very well and Ollie knew that when they grow up, they’ll represent the arrow legacy well. He and Dinah were proud of there kiddo’s also knowing that they’ll be good and responsible adults. Suddenly he got the call from the Justice League to come to the conference room for a meeting. “Hey you guys, continue until I get back. Then we’ll have some pizza or something”, he told them as they nod there heads and smile. Ollie left the gym and went to the conference room wearing his attire.

Once he reached the room, Ollie walked in seeing J’onn, Wonder Woman and Connor. “Hey guys, heard there’s a meeting today here at the watchtower”, he told them as he greeted them, then giving Diana a hug. It’s been sometime since he’s seen her but heard about Wonder Woman and Batman hooking up. Ollie knew that Batman at times was too shy or reluctant of being in a relationship with another woman. It was due to trust, which caused problems for Bruce. Ollie was happy to see that Diana made Bruce feel complete. Dinah did the same thing to the Green Arrow and Ollie never regretted being with this beautiful creature. Ollie took his seat at the table as he got himself comfortable, waiting for other members to show up. Ollie knew this meeting had to do with the clones by the looks of it, including an update on how things are going.

[Deleted]

It didn’t take as long as she had thought it would for people to start showing up J’onn was first followed by Conner. “I’ve been busy getting married and having a honeymoon that’s why you couldn’t get a hold of me.” she rested her hands on the table in font of her “He’s been…very busy doing a number of things.” A lot of it was with her they both been working together to keep the people that were living in his Manson fed and made sure they had other needed things. When they weren’t doing that they were spending a lot of time together.

Diana looked over when Ollie walked and over to her giving her a hug she hugged him back awkwardly she hadn’t been expecting that. “Something like that yes. I’ve decided to come back full time to run the team. Clark, Bruce, and myself were the one’s to do it. With Clark gone and Bruce retired I thought I should step up instead of avoiding it. Someone who’s been here since the beginning should be running this team leading it into a better tomorrow.” Diana was more then able to do it she had the leadership skills the only problem will be months later when she’s to pregnant to be able to lead the team but by then she’d find someone else to stand in until she was well enough to be able to come back and lead.

[john]

As The Martian Man hunter listened to Diana, he amired her strength to move forward. She's happy with Bruce and knew they would make a good team, even a good couple. Even she wanted to head the Justice League since she has the experience, but also founded it which J’onn was confused. He also founded the Justice League as well just in case Diana forgot. J’onn was concerned but he knew Diana, a strong woman, a strong amazon that can do anything she wants, but the pregnancy is what made J’onn worried. J’onn cleared his throat since he’s now the first person to speak. He looked over at Ollie and Connor who waited.

“Well if you would like to come back here to the league and be apart of it, then by all means it’s fine by me” J’onn said. “It’s been hectic around here lately but things seem to be going back to normal. For the past couple of days, myself and other members of the Justice League have been looking for others and found some. I also visited the Avengers base and meeting with Tony Stark a few days ago. He and the others are on our side, they want to get world back to normal. They’re also working on ways to defeat the clones which is why I wanted to bring it up in this meeting…..The Phantom Zone Projector” he told them.

“Now some of us don’t know what it is..so I will explain. The Phantom Zone can be used to transport prisoners and objects to and from the Phantom Zone, an interdimensional realm outside the normal space/time continuum which is a barren and insubstantial null area absent of any physical material. The crew and I found it yesterday on our satellite. With upgrading and testing, we could use it to defeat the clones” J’onn explained. “If there is any objection to that, now would be the time to discuss” he said as J’onn waited for the others to speak.

[superboy]

Conner had to reign his temper in when he was called Superboy, when he had talked to Diana he had talked of his need to distance himself from the legend of what was superman. Not that he didn’t love Clark and see him as family it was more the fact that he wanted to prove himself to be the hero that he could be. He knew that Diana knew that but he doubted that the others would get over the fact that he had been the clone of the legendary blue and red blur just like he doubted Nightwing would ever step out of Bruce Wayne’s shadow. “It is Krypton Man now.” He said not sitting that far away from Diana.

As Diana talked of taking back control of the team he nodded at that, it made sense the big three as they had been called had formed the team so the fact that there was a chance of the team without one of them leading it was something that Conner didn’t get and he doubted that he would get if he was being completely honest. When Jonn talked of the fact that he had been working with the avengers Conner was confused, they had been a team on their own for years and yet whilst the team had been apart, Jon had been working with another team yet he was acting like he was leading the meeting; it was when he mentioned the phantom zone that Conner lost it.

“I am sorry; I don’t want to speak out of turn but you have lost your ever loving Martian mind right?” he said “I mean you do know the risk that you are taking by having anything to do with the phantom zone and what could come out of there, even Superman couldn’t fight those things back on his own some times, there is no way we should go near there what happens if something worse gets out that could screw us over even more; also the projector is in my possession so I would like to see how you where going to do this.”

[john]

To The Martian Manhunter, it was no surprise that Connor or Krypton Man as he would like to be called now, objected to this. Yes, the Phantom Zone wasn't perfect, and it's been a long time since it's been used. There is always time to test it out and see how it works. J'onn wasn't no fool, he knew the consequences if it went wrong. Even when Krypton Man spoke, J'onn using his mind reading abilities found out that Connor was thinking that J'onn was working with other teams besides the league. Now that rubbed J'onn the wrong way, it wasn't true. J'onn had no intentions of joining other teams but reaching across the isle and working together to defeat the doomsday clones, that is J'onn's intention.

J'onn heard the young hero and once he was J'onn nodded his head, not upset and not stressed out. "Well I am glad you said all of that...Krypton Man" he said to the young man. "That's why I said BEFORE that I think we should at least test it out first and see how it goes. Nothing is perfect and this will take some time to master it. Abusing the Phantom Zone isn't the right way to do it but using aganist the clones is...in my view....is one of the best ways. When they are defeated or don't have enough power, we can use it to send them to the zone where they wouldn't cause no harm" he explained to the rest of them. Since he also read Connor's mind, I think it's time that he let the league lets him know where he stands.

"Also I would like to say this....just to get it out in the open" he said and cleared. "For anyone who thinks that I am working with the X-Men, The Avengers or any other faction....is clearly mistaken. All I was doing was visiting the the other teams and talking to them about there solutions on to defeat the clones" he told them all. "I have been loyal to the Justice League since the first day I was brought in and I am greatful that I have been given the oppurtunites to...show case my talents. We are in a new stage....a new era where we are not just the only group of heroes in the world. We do need a outline of where we start to take back the cities but most importantly focus on the weakness of the clones" he said to the rest them.

[arrow]

The Green Arrow sat back in his chair, listening to the other members of the Justice League speak. Diana did have some good pointers, she was here in the beginning with Superman and Batman, but what about Flash, and even J'onn himself. Weren't there seven members of the Justice League to begin with, making them the core leaders? All of them should be leading, not just one person. Then there were ideas of using the projector of the Phantom Zone on the clones when the time comes. Ollie was skeptical of this as he listened to Connor. The boy had a lot of stubborness, more than Roy or any one of Ollie's children. He did give him credit, at least Krypton Man was starting to stand out more and speaking his mind.

After earing J'onn, his turn was next as he leaned forward. "Well...since you two are done I guess it's my turn" he said to them. "Using the Phantom Zone to defeat the clones is one way but there are risks when it comes to that. Testing the projector and see how it works can be a start if we decide to use it on the clones", he told them as he looked at Diana. "And Wonder Woman, you leading the team is fine.I understand where you're coming from. I have no objections to it ", he said to her. "But I think we need to know what we do next. I agree with J'onn to outline the cities and pick good ones to take back from the clones. I think maybe we should spread the league out into teams and send them to one city, then the next", he said telling his ideas to the others.

[Deleted]

Diana frowned before looking at J’onn “I never left the team I took a break from it to deal with things. I’ve always been apart of this team and I know you’re a founding member but right now I’m starting to question you status on it now.” She didn’t like that J’onn was acting like he was leading this meeting she was the one who called it. “Absolutely not! We’re not using the Phantom Zone, It’s far to dangerous you can’t master something like that! On top of that if the ghosts of the Phantom Zone got out again Kara is missing or dead we have no way of stopping them.” The young girl was the only one who had the sunstones to kill them within her. She was getting more angry by the second the more and more he talked she then turned her glare on Ollie “What team would that be Ollie? What’s left of this team is here in this room right now. We’re not doing any good if we split up.”

No matter what was said J’onn wasn’t changing his mind about the Phantom Zone. “Computer activate protocol 3B2N1 lock.” “Confirm.” came the robotic voice replied locking out anyone from getting into any of the files with out going through the princess first. Diana then stood “I didn’t want to do this but you left me with no choice J’onn effected immediately I’m taking control of this team. All plans for this team go through me first and if I find out anyone taken the Phantom Zone projected you will be caught locked up and you wont be freed ever. Is that clear?” she looked at all of them daring any of them to try it. “If anyone has a problem with it speak now and if it’s to use the Phantom Zone save it nothing you say will change my mind.” her eyes stopped on J’onn he was the one who seemed to have the most problem with this.

(Since some people can't follow a posting order I'm putting one in place if you break it you will be removed from the thread.

Diana
J'onn
Conner
Ollie)

[john]

The look on Diana's face says it all, she was POed but for what reason? Is it because of J'onn reacing out to other teams to see what solutions they came up with? Trying to find a way to overthrown the clones? J'onn understood the concerns about using the projector so Diana and Connor made there points. But what J'onn could also read from this was that he couldn't be trusted which shocked the martian manhunter. It was not from everyone but some people. J'onn felt offended a bit but never showed any anger on his face or anything different. Like always, he's cool, calm, and collected ; always showing that cooler heads can prevail in something like this. Once Diana was done talking, J'onn looked at her straight in the eyes.

"Wonder Woman" he started to say. "If we can't use the projector to defeat the clones....I understand and I will respect your decision since you are now the leader of the Justice League" he said, still looking at her in the eyes and letting her know that he can trust her. J'onn wouldn't go off and do anything stupid, he knew better. It would be that J'onn had a problem with all that has just happend but didn't. J'onn knew this decision was final but like before, the martian manhunter will respect the decision. "Since we won't use the projector....what will happen next?" he said asked Diana.

[superboy]

Conner was majorly pissed off about the idea to use the phantom zone, the amount of evil that resided that was enormous and the fact that he wanted to open it was both dangerous and stupid something that he wouldn’t normally associate with the Martian manhunter, it was almost as if someone had been pulling the man’s strings in making that decision he wouldn’t have thought that Jonn would have wanted to open the zone. Hell he didn’t want to open it and he wouldn’t see a reason where Diana would want to either because of the fact that it was too much of a risk.

As Diana took control of the league he couldn’t help but give her a small smile she had just asserted the authority that she had and it was something that arguably could have been said should have happened earlier in the meeting than this, if she was leading the meeting then that was all fine and good yet it had looked like Jonn had attempted to take it himself. Conner didn’t want to see the team arguing yet it seemed that some couldn’t work together, standing he kicked his chair away from himself, it collided with the wall with a sickening crack as the chair broke into two.

“Sure let’s argue amongst ourselves because that is what we need in a war, for our side to not even get on.” He said “we have been able to work out more about these clones than we had the first time that we fought them.” His mind drifted to his mentor and template he had fought valiantly and had gone down in a blaze of glory, yet it had meant that Conner knew which of his powers would work against the clones and what wouldn’t. “We need to plan not agree to the first idea that comes about, we need to work out what could be seen as working and what wouldn’t; right now Kara is missing I am the only Kryptonian so I can say with finality the phantom zone projector is 100% off of the table.”

[arrow]

The Green Arrow listened to all sides but Diana....was blowing her top off WAY too much. Ollie thought that she was overreacting too much from what J'onn is trying to do and that's help. The Phantom Zone may not have been the best idea but do Connor and Diana really know what they were talking about? The two had there right to be worried and concern about the effects but maybe everyone could work together to fix the projector, using it for the right reasons to transport doomsday clones into the projector...that's it. Once everyone was done whinning and complainning, Ollie cleared his thoat before he looked at everyone else. Thank god he and J'onn are not the ones losing there cool like Connor did minutes ago. Though give the kid some props, at least he's stepping up, something that Superman can be proud of. If only The Man of Steel or Batman were leading the team we wouldn't be in so disfuction right now.

"Okay okay.....guys....may I say something?", he said and asked. "Looks let's just all chill out and relax .....were getting too worked up and we NEED to focus", he said. The Green Arrow always saw things fair and balance and like before again, he's not the one losing his cool like Connor and Diana. Sometimes people really couldn't see through others ideas as good ones, basically to work on. The look on Diana's face was fierce but Ollie wasn't afraid of the amazon, didn't really fear her but she's the boss. "Ok.....we can't use the projector, I am fine with that. Like Connor said, we need a plan and it should be one aganist the doomsday clones. Focus on there weakness which could work", he suggested and only the royal queen could make the decisions, so Ollie listened and looked at Diana. Wonder Woman was trying to be a leader and Ollie had no doubt in that, but sometimes she needs a chill pill and all.

[Deleted]

Vic had indeed kept up with the usual channels, though he had been off the radar for sometime now. That was fine, He was needed else where. Though the faceless vigilante could not resist the meeting. It had been quite the easy feat. Arrive on the satellite before everyone else, and hide. Or rather hide in plain sight. It seemed that no one had noticed that he had even returned or they just didn't give a damn. Either way it was of no consequence to him. The Question leisurely strolled about the watch tower, having let the others arrive. For a moment or two, or rather the entire length of the rather heated debate turned soured. He heard the protests of Ideas, the rather dictatorship approach to deciding who was going to lead what was left of them. For the most part, it disgusted him. Seeing how they were without Bruce, without Kal here to keep all of them from turning cut throat.

He let out a rather exasperated sigh, as he continued to listen to them from the outside of the doors. Leaned against the wall. He did not want to admit it, but the league was falling apart. For the most part, Vic had been fine with how J'onn was leading them before Diana's little tantrum. He was perfectly fine with all that had been going on during his absence. The world had gone to hell and back. It was almost as though, all of his worst fears had been made into light. All the consipracy theories that he kept track of came to be. It was one of those. I told you so moments. One that he never wanted to say.

Vic pulled his fedora from his head for a moment and ran gloved fingers through his chemically altered black locks before replacing the black hat back where it belonged on his faceless head. No one had heard from the people that he held close. It was like they were gone. Probably were dead.

He took a moment before entering the room rather late. Not saying a word, his faceless visage, blank. Unreadable Like it should be. He did not bother taking a seat, Just leaned against the wall. From what it seemed, Ollie, was better fit to lead this team.