5 Times You Saved the Justice League + the 1 Time They Saved You (Part 6- They Save You)
(Quick Note: This is the last and 6th post of this series, so I recommend you read the previous posts on my blog before reading this one. Although this is the Justice League 2001 member formation, Martian Manhunter, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman could be any iterations you want to imagine. Green Lantern is John Stewart [he needs more fics], Hawkgirl is Shayera Hol, Flash is Wally West [although I forgot to write him in]. Enjoy!)
Sticky. Sticky is what Y/n felt right now and she hasn’t even eaten a copious amount of cotton candy yet. Every time she lifted her foot she could feel the gum that lodged itself in the grooves of her shoe. Her fingers absentmindedly rubbed the stitching woven on the handle of her purse. She could see beads of sweat roll down the necks of people walking past her. In a few minutes she’ll probably be just as sweaty as the suffocating crowd around her. She could feel a sweat bead threatening to roll down her temple.
🌸Y/n [Hey, Nota I’m by the cotton candy stand😋]
After an embarrassingly long amount of time, Y/n was on a first date. She finally took the plunge and downloaded a dating app. Although most of her friends gave express warnings that the current dating pool had extremely shallow waters. As much as she believed her friends, she felt as though she should still try. After the odd life and death experiences she’s had in the last few months, going on a first date didn’t seem so harrowing. If she could fight off a mini robot militia then surely she can handle a bad date. Maybe she was gaslighting herself again.
“Y/n?” A melodic voice questioned behind her. Y/n turned around to face the voice of her date. He was taller than Y/n, he wore a red shirt and tan pants. Nota was handsomer in person than any of his pics on his Magic profile.
“Yeah, Nota right?” Y/n smiled brightly at the man before her and accepted his outstretched hand. They quickly shook hands and Y/n desperately hoped that her hand wasn’t sweaty or gross. “Um, do you want some cotton candy?” God Y/n felt so awkward and so out of practice. Y/n was already exchanging money with the vendor before Nota could answer her question.
"I'm good, any attractions you wanna see first?” Nota really had a charming smile. There was something very mischievous about how the corner of lips curved up.
“No, I was just thinking we’d walk around until we find something interesting” Y/n tore off a piece of her blue cotton candy and popped it in her mouth.
“Sounds like a plan to me” Nota chuckled to himself.
The evening was nice. Y/n felt like there was some actual chemistry between them. Almost magical. He knew how to keep the conversation going without overpowering it. He didn’t go on any random tangents or self serving tirades. They walked around the carnival playing games, mostly losing them. They also giggled at the obvious knock off Hello Kitty plushies, they looked more like Goodbye Cat with how crooked and lopsided some of them were. Maybe Y/n was going to be one of those crazily lucky people who found their soulmate on the first date. Y/n definitely wasn’t feeling a soulmate connection but she was sure that she wanted to pursue this further.
“Let’s go on the ferris wheel” Nota pointed towards the huge ferris wheel that was in the near distance. Y/n internally giggled it was a little cliche to end the night at a fair with a ferris wheel ride. Although cliches are cliches for a reason. Y/n softly smiled and nodded her head. Y/n felt like she was in high school again with how giddy she felt. What no romantic attention will do to a deprived woman. It was a beautiful clear night out, even with the city light pollution the stars were gracefully shining.
“Ladies first” Nota held the ferris car wheel door for Y/n to enter. Y/n almost skipped into the amusement car. Her smile faltered when the car creaked under her weight. She’s just watched too many disaster movies, she needs to get out of her head. Y/n was snapped back into reality when the car door was slammed shut by the ride operator. Y/n mustered a weary smile to her ride companion.
“Scared of heights?” Nota asked his date as he placed a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
“Not necessarily. I’m definitely scared of this thing falling apart though” Y/n gave an awkward chuckle as she tightly gripped the side of the car door. The Ferris wheel car was slowly rocking back and forth as it rose higher in the air.
“If I had known, I wouldn’t have-”
“No, it’s fine. I think it was just a bad idea to watch every single final destination movie last year” Gave another awkward giggle as she shyly looked away from her date.
Fingers were suddenly grasping Y/n’s chin. The fingers turned her head towards her fellow passenger. Nota tilted her head up, forcing Y/n to make eye contact with him. Nota was a beautiful man and Y/n somehow just noticed that he had gorgeous eyeballs. Gorgeous eyeballs that glowed? Gorgeous eyeballs that started to glow blue. Nota didn’t have blue eyes. Y/n gasped.
“You will calm down” Nota stated as if that would actually calm Y/n in this situation. And…. it did? She wanted to panic but right now she felt the calmest she has ever been in her life. Nota placed his other hand on Y/n’s knee as he leaned in. His lips were soft but his kiss was demanding and firm. This all felt off but Y/n couldn’t fight back, she didn’t fight back. She was calm.
“Thank you sweetheart. I’ve been wanting to do that since I saw you” Nota smiled almost devilishly.
“Too bad we’ll never see each other again” Nota flippantly shrugged his shoulders. Y/n knows that should run a chill down her back but it just doesn’t. The ferris wheel came to an almost abrupt stop. Their car had finally made it to the top.
“Oop this is our stop!” Nota clapped his hands and stood up. He placed his hand palm up and wiggled his fingers. Y/n felt the sudden urge to stand up and take his hand.
“Thank you darling, now stand here” Nota pointed to the seat they were just sitting on.
“Come on don’t be shy, a little closer to the edge” Nota patted the back of Y/n’s knees as she stepped closer to the car wall. Y/n’s toes bumped into the wall of the ferris car.
“Why am I doing this?” Y/n lazily looked down and back at the man holding her hand.
“Oh you’re my insurance” Nota stated plainly as he rolled his head side to side. He let go of Y/n’s hand as he started to stretch in the car. Every major movement of his caused the car to rock back and forth while creaking.
“Ah it’s such a beautiful night. I hope you don’t have to die” Nota cheerfully sighed. This really can’t be good. Maybe it is a good thing that Y/n isn’t able to panic. That would probably make her last few moments a lot worse. If Y/n could gasp she would. As she looked around the other people on the ferris wheel were also standing up in similar positions as her. Everyone was standing on the seat and respectively facing the outside of their car door. This was like a suicidal flash mob.
BEEP! BEEP!
BEEP! BEEP!
Red flashed from Nota’s pocket.
“Oh it’s about time” Nota sighed as he fished a loud red flashing device from his pocket. He pressed a few buttons on it and slid out a small device. He took the small device and flung it out in front of him. The device unfolded several propellers and began hovering in front of them. It looked like a mini green helicopter. A bright light suddenly appeared from the device like the spotlight from a police helicopter. It beamed directly into Y/n’s face which caused her to wince. Thankfully, the mini helicopter floated backwards and adjusted the light.
*Meanwhile at Acme Chemical in Gotham City*
“What’s your angle Luthor? Acme seems a little small fry for a guy like you” Batman’s voice had a calm demeaning tone as he dodged a flurry of attacks from Mercy Graves.
“You’re right Batman” Was all Luthor said as he continued to furiously type on the console that was above Batman. Wonder Woman had a hold of Rampage’s ankle and was currently spinning like a Beyblade. At max speed, Wonder Woman let go and Rampage flew through the wall.
Solomon Grundy held Superman tightly in both of his fists and started to squeeze the man of steel hard. Superman’s eyes glowed red as his heat vision burned Grundy’s hands. The pain made Grundy let go of Superman, which Superman followed up with an uppercut.
“Wonder Woman” Batman called out as he swept a leg under Graves. To people who didn’t know Batman, the statement sounded like he was plainly saying her name. To those who knew Batman, it was a statement that said a lot. It was him telling her to apprehend Luthor and quickly. That Batman and Superman could handle this, that she should go ahead and stop whatever Luthor was planning.
“On it!” Wonder Woman shouted as she flew upwards towards Lex Luthor. Luthor was on the very top level of the 15 story Acme building. Superman was fighting Grundy on the bottom level. Batman was fighting Mercy a few levels above them. Wonder Woman had thrown Rampage out of the building a level above Batman.
This section of the building they were fighting in was tall and circular, with catwalks criss crossing over each other. The Amazing Amazon weaved around every walk way as she flew up. Her skilled fingers quickly grasped her lasso of truth. The star spangled hero whirled her lasso around for a few moments before tossing it at Lex Luthor. The lasso speedily ensnared its prey. The magical ropes layered over the villain, rendering the villain’s arms useless at his sides. Wonder Woman landed on the floor and yanked Luthor towards her. She roughly spinned him around to face her.
“What are you planning foul fiend?” The very annoyed amazon barked in his face. She became even more annoyed when a smug smile climbed on to Luthor’s face.
“Something that does not concern the likes of you” Lex confidently stated as he raised an eyebrow. Wonder Woman simply responded by quickly raising a wrist towards his face, causing him to whimper and flinch.
“I am in no mood for games wizard” Wonder Woman’s perfectly shaped black eyebrows furrowed and her jaw clicked.
“I see but I would advise that you do not harm me” Luthor’s smug smile appeared again. He snapped his fingers and a bright light appeared behind him. Luthor had left one of his devices on the console behind him. It was some sort of hologram projector. A big static rectangular hologram formed. An actual picture began forming on the hologram. The static faded in and out, at first it was hard to tell what was going on the screen. Wonder Woman’s eyes widened and her lips parted.
“Batman, Superman. Up here. Now!” Her voice was deep, loud, and her words were short. Her teammates knew that when Wonder Woman spoke like this, it was extremely serious.
Sensing the urgency Superman clasped both of his hands together and raised them above his head while swiftly flying upwards. On the downswing, Superman aimed for Grundy’s head and delivered a devastating blow. For extra good measure, he quickly used his ice breath over Grundy to keep him down. Grundy would never stay down but this should buy them enough time to sort this situation out.
When Mercy threw another punch towards the Dark Knight, he used the moment to grab her arm and toss her over his shoulder. She landed against a console, the electronics shocked her and knocked her out. Batman then swiftly raised his arm. The Kryptonian swiftly flew up and grasped Batman’s arm. He flew them up there faster than Batman’s grapnel hook ever could. Once there Superman let go of Batman’s arm once they were safely over the ground.
“Luthor! Can you hear me?” A man asked on what seemed to be a ferris wheel.
“I can. We have the company of the do gooders” Luthor turned his head as best as he could to face the screen. Wonder Woman was gracious enough to whip him around to face the screen. “Oh good, how many people do you have?”
“Mmmm everyone that’s on this ferris wheel and the operator. So about…. 40? I could get more easily” The ferris wheel man’s tone was so flippant.
“Good I-”
“Cut to the chase Luthor. What are you playing at?” Superman stomped closer to his arch nemesis.
“I was just getting to that. You are always so impatient” Luthor smiled up at the fuming hero. “My dear friend Hypnota currently has these people hostage” On que, the camera zoomed out to show more than Hypnota. Wonder Woman and Superman’s eyes widened at seeing a familiar face. Of course, Batman would never admit it but he was also surprised.
“Let them go” Superman grabbed the front of Luthor’s armor and pointed his other hand at the screen.
“Superman. You know that I can’t do that. It’s not in my hands” Lex always has this smug condescending tone to his voice. “I promised Hypnota a lot of money. And when I mean a lot, well you know I’m not flippant with my words.” Luthor gave a dark chuckle. “I promised him this money only if I’m able to finish what I need to do. If I don’t…. Bodies will start to drop” His voice deviously dropped.
“And I’ll start with this cute one” Hypnota climbed on the ferris wheel seat behind Y/n. He stood behind Y/n and snaked an arm around her waist while leaning over her shoulder. Hypnota rested his chin on her shoulder and gave a dry kiss on the underside of her cheek. Y/n’s face was blank, emotionless. It was like she was in some sort of fog state. “I really don’t want to have to kill her” Hypnota gave a fake whine and pushed his lip out in a pout.
“What do you want Luthor?” Superman spat at the man below him.
“I simply want to just finish what I need to do here”
“And what is that?” Wonder Woman raised an eyebrow and squeezed Luthor’s shoulder. The pain caused him to wince.
“That’s information that you don’t need to know” Luthor grunted out.
“No deal Luthor” Superman stepped back and crossed his arms.
“You heard him Hypnota. Start dropping people!” Lex shouted at the screen. Hypnota gave a half hearted salute and his lips touched Y/n’s ear.
“Think of what you love and step off honey” Hypnota whispered in her ear before giving her butt a little pat.
Images of friends and family immediately flooded Y/n’s mind. Her favorite past pets, food, shows, games, everything that she ever loved suddenly came to the forefront. Wonder Woman, Batman, and Superman quickly flashed before her eyes. She couldn’t exactly take the time to delve into whatever that meant. Her foot was hovering over the grand expanse of nothing. Directly below them was the ground, no water, no haystacks, nothing to magically brace her fall. Guess she should be grateful that she got captured by Hypnota and not some other villain, or else she would have to truly experience this horror. Y/n closed her eyes and fully stepped off. She had an internal chuckle, at least the Ferris wheel didn’t fall apart in a spectacular Final Destination type of way. Y/n couldn’t tell you how long she was falling. It honestly felt like only a few seconds but she suddenly stopped. Maybe this is what death felt like. Instant.
“I got you” A deep authoritative voice echoed above her. Y/n opened her eyes and she was met with bright green energy all around her. It was almost hard to see outside of it. The owner of the voice floated into view. It was Green Lantern.
“I’d like to see you catch all of them” Hypnota huffed as his hands began to glow blue. Every person on the ferris wheel, eyes’ glowed as they stepped off of the attraction. Green Lantern created a large net to catch the rest of the hypnotized hostages.
“You’re going to have to do better than that” Green Lantern confidently smirked as he gently laid the net on the ground.
“Oh don’t worry I will” Hypnota chuckled as his eyes and hands glowed blue. He shot blue rays towards Green Lantern. Although, nothing seemed to take effect.
“You think your little Vegas routine is going to affect me?” The ring powered hero raised his eyebrow.
“Damn. Cheetah!” Hypnota shouted. Cheetah suddenly appeared. She quickly jumped and climbed to the top of the ferris wheel. As soon as she reached the top she launched herself at Green Lantern. She was so quick, he barely had time to register that she was coming for him. Thankfully, a familiar mace smashed her directly in the face. Cheetah’s limp body flew directly into the ground, sending a large dust cloud upwards.
“Thank you, Hawkgirl” The green hero sighed and gave his comrade a smile.
“Any time” Nodded at the ring bearing hero.
“Hawkgirl watch out!” Lantern shouted as soon as he saw Hypnota’s blue rays firing towards Hawkgirl’s direction. She swiftly flapped her wings to move her backwards.
“ARGH!” Hypnota suddenly doubled over in pain. He held his head in his hands. A large green non-human figure suddenly phased into existence behind him.
“It’s time to take your own medicine” The martian held on to the magician’s head until he passed out. Hawkgirl raised a hand to ear.
“We’re secure over here. Status?’ The feathered member’s eyes roamed over the whole crowd of the carnival. With her eyesight nothing could escape her. She was smaller than Y/n imagined, maybe it was the wings or helmet that made her look taller. From Hawkgirl’s nod to her two comrades, there was good news from whoever she contacted.
“What? How?” Luthor uttered in disbelief. Batman wordlessly lifted his wrist. He had texted the other members the situation while everybody else was distracted. Luthor’s thick eyebrows immediately pulled into a flat frown.
“Next time Luthor. Don’t get a failed magician to help you out” Batman stepped forward before delivering a blow that knocked Luthor out.
“I can’t believe that she’s there” Superman muttered.
“Are you okay ma’am?” The green energy was gone and she was on the ground. She was in the arms of the Martian. He was the one who asked if she was okay.
“I feel a little… Groggy? Kinda like I want to barf to be honest” Y/n grumbled as she touched her head. It was an odd, almost lethargic feeling. Like that feeling when you wake up sick and you don’t know what day it is type of feeling. The alien gently placed two fingers on Y/n’s forehead.
And that was the last thing Y/n remembered. Seeing those two fingers coming towards her head while Green Lantern and Hawkgirl stood to the side. As soon as she could form another though Y/n shot up.
She shot up in her bed? She was home. Her head was a little groggy but a way better feeling than she last remembered.
“What the hell?” Y/n whispered to herself. Maybe she had a very vivid dream. She peeled back the blanket and looked down. She was in the same clothes that she had gone on that date in. A large confused sigh left her lips. She quickly grabbed her phone to search for any news about what happened. Nothing regarding Luthor or Hypnota popped up that was recent. Y/n swung her legs around the edge of the bed and leaned forward. Her head was in her hands. Another huge sigh left her lips. She looked at her phone for the time.
“OH MY GOD?” It was two days later. Oh my god, she lost two whole days? She immediately shot up in a panic. Her feet began to pace back and forth as she frantically searched her text messages. She was about to text her boss Mr. Rogers about to ask for forgiveness for missing two whole days of work.
“What?” The word breathlessly floated out of her mouth.
🌸Y/n [Mr. Rogers I am feeling terrible. I will not be able to come in for a few days. I’m so sorry]
👴🏾Mr. Rogers [ No problem. Y/n take care of your health. Please keep me updated. Mr. Rogers]
She flipped through several other text messages she had with other people and she had supposedly texted some excuse to them. Damn she was crazy thirsty. Y/n power walked to her fridge. Her hand grasped the handle but the paper stuck to the front of her fridge prevented her from opening it. She definitely didn’t put that there.
The paper read (We are sorry to drop you off like this. Enjoy the food sister and regain your strength. We will see you soon.) The language and beautiful handwriting was a dead giveaway to who wrote it. Y/n’s neck and eyebrow twitched in confusion. Enjoy the food? Y/n opened the fridge to see her previously embarrassingly empty fridge packed to the brim with food. High quality stuff too. It was all a little overwhelming. It was so much she had a hard time finding her water filter pitcher. The cool water sliding down her throat felt so heavenly. She stood there in her kitchen just astonished.
This shit is so crazy, she’ll probably become a Justice League member at this point. Y/n giggles to herself. Her as a Justice League member? Now that’s true comedy. Who would she be? Average Woman? Yeah that really rolls off the tongue. Not much she could do for the league besides maybe be their tailor. Or maybe the comic relief. Y/n sips her water as her eyes gaze over the note again.
“We will see you soon huh? At this point I don’t doubt it” Y/n muttered to herself. As much as Y/n has tried to deny it these past few weeks. Her life seems to be tied to this group of heroes. “God what did I get myself into?” Whispered to herself as she hungrily delved into the copious amount of new snacks in her cabinets.
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