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Post by Romans Empire on Sept 26, 2006 19:54:57 GMT -5
"Well, at least the pressure is off my mate Floyd here, who has proven to not be such a dead shot after all." Boomerang sneered at Deadshot.
"Bang bang, Boomer butt." Deadshot said just before pulling the trigger and shooting Boomerang in the leg. Boomerang shot up out of his seat and fell to the floor screaming.
"Strewth! That bloody clacker shot me! He just shot me! I am going to kill you!" Boomerang lunged at Deadshot but was stopped by Rick Flagg.
"You had your shot. Now I took mine." Deadshot sat calmly in his chair.
"You went too far, Lawton!" Flagg said pointing his finger at him. “Someone get Captain big mouth out of here!” Captain Boomerang kept screaming as a couple of med-techs carried him out of the room.
“I will get you for this, Deadshot! No one makes Captain Boomerang out for a wanker and lives.”
“I've been living on borrowed time for quiet awhile. You get use to it.” Deadshot shrugged and shifted in his chair.
Captain Boomerang was one of the most hated and still most popular members of the Squad in the original series. I for one never really liked him, and decided early on that I didn’t want to use him at all in my book. As delicious as this scene turned out it was setup to get rid of old Boomer Butt so I wouldn’t have to deal with him ever again. Of course I changed my mind and brought him back but for the time being he was out of the way.
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Post by Romans Empire on Sept 26, 2006 19:56:01 GMT -5
“No more stunts, Lawton. Not while your living on my time.” Amanda said as the rest of the room slowly calmed back down. “Back to the topic at hand. Yes. Anyone who hasn't proven themself has an explosive implanted in them that can be remote detonated at anytime be either Flagg or Ben Turner. So play nice and do your part. Afterwards you might have the option of staying on with the Squad once your sentence has been served. Any other questions?” Bolt, Angle Man, and Killer Frost all shook their heads no. “Good. Rick, continue.”
“There has been recently activity that suggests that a group of terrorists called Onslaught have a weapon in their possession. They are planning to use this weapon against the United States. Our mission is to go into the country of Qurac, immobilize the weapon, and anyone that’s gets in the way. We will hit them before they have a chance to leave the country." Rick Flagg explained.
"What kind of weapon do they have?" Mitch Shelly asked.
"We have no solid intelligence to that." Ben replied. “But we have to assume its something pretty big if it has Washington in an uproar.”
"Why not send in the military?" Bolt asked.
"Because." Amanda stated. "Onslaught has been recently touted as patriots who helped President Marlo gain independence from Saudi Arabia. It would cause a international incident if it appeared that America was trying to disrupt that."
"Hard to believe the rest of the world thinks they are heroes." Nemesis said, pointing to the pictures of Onslaught that appeared on the digital screen in front of them.
"True. But the rest of the world is celebrating them along with Marlo." Amanda said.
"What do we do with Marlo?" Eve asked.
"Asses what his involvement is in this. Nothing more." Amanda stated, pointing to each person sitting in front of her.
"You will get your specific assignments as well as complete dossiers on the individuals in Onslaught on the plane ride over. We fly out within the hour." Rick said as everyone began to stand up and head out. "I don't like this." Rick said as he stood next to Waller and Ben Turner. "Not after the last mission. Any word from Shaw or Vixen?"
"No. We tried to contact them earlier. Nothing." Ben whispered, looking away from Flagg.
"That’s not a good sign. We shouldn't have left them behind like that." Rick said shaking his head.
"They are doing their job. You go and do yours! We will talk about your recent behavior when you get back" Amanda said before walking out of the room.
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Post by Romans Empire on Sept 26, 2006 19:58:52 GMT -5
Rustam was proud. He gazed inside the dark prison cell and smiled. Everything they have been planning was now coming to fruitation. Marlo was president and soon, very soon, America would face something it hadn't felt in a long time. America would feel defeat. Defeat that would come from the most unexpected place; from the hand of one of their own! The person inside the cell was unable to look up and see the man smiling right outside the door. Instead, they continued to struggle with the bonds that held them, unable to break free. They were unable to see the terrible destiny that lay before them!
I hated this scene but it was the only way I could think to let it be known that the weapon was a person.
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Post by Romans Empire on Sept 26, 2006 20:02:00 GMT -5
Thirty-five minutes after the mission’s team left, Amanda Waller was sitting in her office when she got the call from John Economos in operations.
“Amanda you need to come down here. Now!” He said nervously over the phone. “What is it? SS-1 is still in the air.”
“Just get down here.” He demanded before hanging up. That got Amanda’s attention. John was the warden at Belle Reve long before she came around. Now he had over taken the job of managing the operations crew for the Suicide Squad as well as remain the warden. She had known him long enough to know he didn’t get worked up easily. Something had him concerned. Amanda was standing in the communications room five minutes after she hung up the phone.
“The computer just started talking to us.” John nervously paced in front of the main computer terminal.
“What the hell is going on Flo?” Amanda asked the woman who was just sitting there, staring at a computer screen.
“It asked if someone was there.” She said timidly.
“What do you mean asked?” Amanda raised her eyebrows and glanced at John out of the corner of her eye. “Did the computer speak to you?”
Flo was unable to answer. Waller was her Aunt and she intimidated the hell out of Florence, so John spoke up. “Yes. A pop-up widow appeared with a message asking if was anyone there?” “Then I heard a digital voice over the loud speaker asking the same question.” Flo said quickly.
“So who is it?” Amanda said now sounding very agitated.
“I don’t know, but they asked for you!” John was getting just as agitated as Amanda.
“What? That’s ridiculous! Murph, you told me this is a proprietary security system. No one can hack into it, right?” She looked over at Daniel Murphy, head of security.
“Well that’s what we….” Murphy began to say before the voice over the load speaker made them all jump a little.
“Hello, Amanda. Nice to meet you.” The digitalized voice echoed around the room. It sounded like the old child’s toy Speak-n-Spell and it creeped Amanda out.
“Who the hell is this?” Amanda yelled as she looked around the room.
“I am a friend.” The voice replied. “Well more like an ally. And you would be wise to treat me as such.” The digital voice rubbed her the wrong way. She didn’t like not knowing whom she was speaking with. “You better give me one good reason why I don’t send a virus right through this line and rip you a new one.” She screamed at the computer.
“Mark Shaw, Mari Macabe, and Susan Linden are in trouble. They may even be dead by now.” The voice continued, ignoring her threat. Amanda let that sink in. This wasn’t some punk who was messing around in their system. This could potentially be a real threat.
“OK. What do you want us to do?”
“Good. Now you know I am serious. They’ve been following someone for almost a week now and that person is aware of their every move. You may have a leak on the inside of your organization.”
“How do we know you’re not the leak asshole?” Murphy yelled
“Why would I come to you now if not to help?”
“Ok, so start helping.” Amanda said calmly motioning for Murphy to calm down as well. She knew the next minute would be critical if she was going to get any useful information from this guy.
“The Squad is being set-up. You need to call them back from their mission.”
“ I can’t do that.” Amanda sighed.
“Well then you better start looking real hard for your leak. I will get back with you soon. If you need me before then, have Flo leave me a message on your main server. I will find it.”
“And if we do that who should we address you as?” Amanda said.
“You can call me Oracle.”
To be continued…
I believe that it's mostly common knowledge that Oracle from the wildly popular Birds of Prey series first appeared in Suicide Squad first. For those that don’t know this, I always like to point out that fact. Of course in the DC universe ex-Batgirl, Barbara Gordon is Oracle. What I thought would make this an exciting twist for anyone in the know is the fact that in the DC2 universe, Babs is still healthy and active as Batgirl over in the New Outsiders book.
So now there is the question…who is the DC2 Oracle? I had it all planned out but little did I know that my plans would fall threw leaving me to chock on my recent plot twist!
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