Are you guys ready for the final installment of "How It All Started"? Here you go!


Wed, July 19th, 2056

A couple of days later White Wolf was finally able to go home. Her friends had visited her so much that it almost seemed like she was back at HQ, but she was glad that she would be able to get out of the hospital.

“After a blood test to make sure that you’re truly all right,” the doctor had said.

So White Wolf sat in her room waiting for the results. Grey Wolf, Wolf Woman, and Atomic Teen (who had all come to visit her) sat with her.

The doctor walked into the room, “The test shows that you’re going to be all right, White Wolf. But there is something weird in your blood that isn’t dangerous; we think that it’s from the fusion beam.”

“And you don’t know what it is?” White Wolf asked.

“No, we don’t.”

“Well, since it isn’t dangerous, can I go home?”

“Yes, you may,” the doctor answered.

“Thanks,” White Wolf said standing up. The others all stood up too, and they all went to TTHQ.

Once they got there, everyone welcomed White Wolf back. “I can’t stay long, guys,” she said, “I need to get back home to show my parents that I’m all right.”

“Okay,” Rottweiler said, “But first, would you like to come watch some of a sparring match? Right now it’s between Robin and Beastboy, Batgirl’s going to fight the winner.”

“Okay,” she said, “I guess that I can stay for a little while.” White Wolf and a bunch of others walked to the simulator and watched the fight on the screen. The cool part of the simulator was that while in combat inside you don’t really get hurt or die. It seems and feels like you do, but once the simulation is over the pain goes away.

Beastboy was in the form of a tiger, lunging and clawing at Robin, who was using his acrobatic abilities to keep away. After a minute of this, Robin’s strategy changed to offensive. Keeping behind Beastboy as much as he could so as to avoid the claws, Robin attacked with his bo-staff and kicks.

Beastboy changed into a gorilla and swung his enormous arms at Robin, one swing connected with Robin’s chest, knocking him to the ground. Robin laid there for a little bit, and then rolled out of the way just as Beastboy brought his fist down where his body would have been.

Robin jumped to his feet and kicked Beastboy hard in the head. The massive gorilla fell back a few steps and before he could fully recover, Robin kicked him again, sending him crashing into the wall and then to the ground.

“Simulation over, simulation over, simulation-”

Beastboy stood up and placed a hand on his head, “Hey, it works! My head doesn’t hurt anymore!”

“That’s the idea,” White Wolf said walking up to them.

“White Wolf!” Beastboy exclaimed.

“You’re out of the hospital!” Robin said.

“Yep, and apart from this cast on my arm I’m as good as new.”

“But the simulator wall isn’t.” Wolf Woman said, standing near the wall that Beastboy had crashed into. It had a huge crack in it.

White Wolf walked over to it. “It doesn’t look all that bad; we can fix this in about an hour.” White Wolf ran her good hand over the crack. “I’ll go get some tools to fix it,” she said, turning around.

“White Wolf!” Robin exclaimed.

“What?”

“Look at where the crack was!”

“Was?” White Wolf turned around and looked at the wall. The crack was gone. “What happened?”

“You ran your hand over it and the crack was gone!” Beastboy said.

White Wolf looked at her hand, “Huh?” Her mind raced back to when the spoon got stuck to her bowl. “Get me two small, unimportant things,” she said.

Beastboy ran out of the simulator and came back with two pens. He handed them to White Wolf.

She grabbed them both in one hand and closed her fingers over them. When she opened her hand the two pens were stuck together.

“The pens have been fused together!” Wolf Woman exclaimed, “but how?”

“It must be from the fusion beam.” White Wolf said, “The doctor said that there was still something weird in my blood. That must be what enables me to do this!”

“Wow!” Robin said.

“Cool!” Beastboy said.

White Wolf looked at the pens in her hand, and then looked at her broken wrist thoughtfully. She took off the cast and grabbed her wrist.

All of the others watched her silently. Then, after almost a minute, White Wolf let go of her wrist and bent it. No pain shot through her body. “It’s healed!”

“Really?” Wolf Woman asked excitedly.

“Yes, the broken bones in my wrist have been fused back together!” White Wolf said.

“This is so cool,” said Wolf Woman, “You have fusion power!”

White Wolf laughed, “I can’t believe it!”

“That’s so amazing!” Robin agreed.

“So it’s totally healed?” Beastboy asked.

“Yes, I think so. But I’ll wait a day or two before using it again fully, just to be safe.”

“Good idea.” Robin said.

“Until then, I have to show everyone!” White Wolf ran out of the room.

“You don’t think she’s excited, do you?” Beastboy asked.

“Nah.”

“What makes you think that?”

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Julia and Cassandra walked into their church. Raven, dressed in normal clothes, walked beside Julia. Julia had introduced her to Cassie a few hours before and they had invited Raven to their Youth Group. At first, Raven had resisted. If she went she might have blown Julia’s identity, plus she complained that she wouldn’t know anyone there. Julia quickly pointed out that there were at least seven other Heroes that went there. And once Raven put on some normal clothes she didn’t look very different at all. So she consented.

Cassie went off in the direction of some of her friends, while Julia and Raven looked around for their friends. They found Barbara and William and joined in their conversation. Soon, other friends came and joined them, some were Heroes, and some weren’t. But no matter who they were, they welcomed Raven to the Youth Group.

Later, after Youth Group, Raven and Julia talked alone a bit.

“So,” Julia said, “How did you like Youth Group?”

“It was great! Thank-you for inviting me!”

“What did you like best?”

“Well, the mixer game was fun, and it helped me to meet a few new people.”

“Would you like to come again next week? It would be a big help as you’re getting started as a Christian.”

“Yes, I’d like that a lot.”

“Great!”

“Come on, Julia!” Cassie came up from behind them, “Dad’s here, we need to go.”

“Okay. Bye, Raven!”

“Yeah, bye. It was good to meet you!” Cassie said.

“It was good to meet you too. I’ll see you both later!”

Julia and Cassie walked outside towards the car. As she walked, Julia prayed silently.

“Thank-you God for helping me to witness to her! I’m so glad that she accepted You as her Savior! And that she’s going to keep coming to Youth Group!

“Also, thank-you for helping Janelle to get better. Please help her to use her new gift for you. Please help William’s leg to fully heal. He looked fine today, but he ran a little slow during the game. So please help it to heal the rest of the way.

“I love You. Amen.”

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“Are we all in agreement as to what must be done to counteract our foes?”

All of the Super-Villains in the room nodded.

“Good.” Lex Luthor said, “We will call ourselves the new Legion of Doom, after the first group of Villains to ever work together. With every single Villain on earth here, we will be unstoppable.”

The rest of the Villains cheered.

“But first we must get rid of the new Super Friends. And I have the perfect plan to do so!

He continued, “They have made a huge error by creating the C.F.M.C., for once we get our hands on it, we will be able to destroy them all!”

Once again, all Villains cheered.

“To help me in leading this life-mission, I give you my second-in-command: Leo the Lion!”

Leo went up to the front and said, “My master has told me that we’ve lost Raven. She has fully joined the other side in accepting Christianity,” he spat out the last word. “But thanks to my master’s controlling her for a short amount of time, we have enough money to get us started out. And don’t worry about this minor set-back; my master still has plans for her; he’s just waiting for the right moment.”

At this all of the Villains yelled out a battle cry. Then Leo yelled at the top of his lungs, “We will destroy them!”


"Tune in" next week for the first chapter of my next story in the Wolf Woman series, "The C.F.M.C."


~Wolf Woman, over and out!

“We’re here,” Raven said.

Julia stopped at the steps of the huge building. The rest of the city had looked very modern, but the temple looked like something out of Ancient Greece!

Raven started walking up the steps, and then she noticed that Julia wasn’t following. “Are you coming?”

Julia took a deep breath and said, “Yes.”

The two girls walked up the steps and into the main room of the temple. Once they got to the top, Julia saw alters all around the room, some with fresh blood on them. She also saw people kneeling in front of the alters, some looked like they were in a trance.

Raven walked right past everything straight to the back of the room. Julia stayed with her, half grateful that she didn’t have time for a closer look at the happenings there.

When they got to the back of the room, Raven stopped and looked at a man who was in about his late thirties. His hood was off and Julia could see what looked like a crown on his head. Raven kneeled before him, but Julia only nodded politely.

The man looked straight at Raven, “Raven, you’ve returned. I thought you were gone for good,” he said with little emotion. Then he looked at Julia, showing little surprise at her brightness, “But who is this rude, bright earth-dweller? Does she not know that there are penalties for not kneeling before the king?”

Raven spoke slowly, “I apologize, my king. She is new here, and doesn’t know our customs.”

He looked over Julia again, “And does the earth-dweller have a name?” his question directed at Julia.

Julia heard Raven’s voice inside her head, “Don’t tell him your real name. Tell him Wolf Woman, nothing more.”

“I am Wolf Woman, a friend of Raven’s,” she answered him.

“I see.” he said, “And do all earth-dwellers glow with this accursed brightness?” this question was directed at Raven.

“I don’t know,” she replied, “She never did before she came here. Maybe all humans glow when they are here, or maybe she’s different in some way. I don’t know.”

“Hmm,” he thought aloud, “maybe there’s a spiritual difference in her. For when a spirit is in us we glow black, but maybe earth-dwellers glow white?”

Julia seemed to grow taller and her brightness grew. Words came to her and flowed through her mouth, though they were not her own, “You are right when you say that, O king. Right in that the One who is in me is different from those who are in you. I, alone, am the same as you, all who are on this planet, my own, and everywhere else. But I am not alone, I have the power of the Holy Spirit living in me, and He is more powerful than any spirit that you serve here. He is not dark, but shines the purest white!

“If I had come here once, long ago, I would have been as dark as you are here. But my darkness has been washed away by the blood of Jesus Christ, making me white as snow!”

At the name of Jesus, the ground underneath them shook, and all alters in the temple cracked.

“Thus says the Lord, whom I serve, ‘cast away your idols, turn away from your lives of sin, for the Kingdom of Heaven is near and coming soon.’”

Julia’s brightness faded to what it had been before, and she seemed to become her normal height.

The king’s eyes were wide with fear; even Raven had backed away at the force of what she had said.

After a minute of silence, the king stood, “Raven, what have you done bringing this girl here? She has a dangerous spirit in her, she will destroy us all!” the king reached over and grabbed his sword. He walked over to Julia, who stood unflinching. He raised his sword high and swung it at Julia’s neck.

The king looked at her in shock, Julia still stood there, unmoved and unhurt; and the sword was broken in two. A black energy field surrounded the whole right side of her body. Both Julia and the king looked over at Raven, who then took away the energy field she’d made. “What do you mean, ‘a dangerous spirit’? All your life you’ve been trying to get in contact with the spirit world, and then someone comes who speaks on behalf of a Spirit. And then you try to kill her?”

Again he yelled, “The spirit in her is dangerous, she will destroy us!” He looked straight at Julia and his black energy flowed from him towards her. Raven got in front of Julia and blocked the attack with her energy, “Give it up,” she said through clenched teeth, “You know I’m much stronger than you!”

He pulled back his attack and yelled, “Raven, you have been corrupted by her, but I know that you can and will come to your senses. Take her away, back to her world. If you come back, you might be accepted, but she will not be. Do you understand?”

“Yes,” she glared at him, “I do.”

Raven grabbed Julia’s hand and they walked out of the temple. Rain poured down, but they continued walking until they were out of the city; back out to the hill that they had first come to.

“Julia?” Raven said, “I could tell that those were not your words. Did God speak through you there?”

“Yes, He did.”

“And they wanted to kill you for it. Those stubborn hypocrites! They’ve spent their whole lives looking for signs from the spirit world. But when they hear from God Himself they try to kill the one He spoke through!

“Julia, I too have spent my whole life looking for something from the spirit world. I thought I’d found it in my friend, but it was all a lie. I have nothing left. I’m empty. Despite my powers I’m weak.”

“As am I, Raven. We are all nothing without God.”

“Julia, I want to follow and trust Him so much. But I’ve done so many terrible things. And not just the bank robberies either, there's so much you don't know about my past. Will God even take me after I’ve done so much against Him? And will He take someone who is not from Earth?”

“Raven,” Julia said, “I don’t know all of the answers. But I do know this: God loves you, no matter where you’re from, and He’ll take you always. No matter what you’ve done, no matter what you do or will do, He will take you. All you have to do is ask.”

“Then help me, Julia.” Raven said, “Help me to ask Him. What do I do? Tell me everything.”

“Well, everyone has done things that are against God’s law, and that’s called sin. God is so holy that He can’t be around sin, so now we’re all separated from Him. But God still loves us, and He wants to be with us. So He sent His Son, Jesus, to take our punishment for our sins. He died a horrible death in our place so that we can be with God. So now, if we accept His gift, He will be with us in life, and when we die we can be with God in heaven forever. Does this make sense?”

Raven nodded, “What do I tell Him?”

“Just tell Him that you’re sorry for the wrong things you’ve done and that you want Him to be the Lord of your life.”

Raven nodded and the two of them knelt on the wet ground, their hair dripping wet, their clothes heavy from the water. But they didn’t care.

“God, thank-you for showing me that I need You and for not giving up on me. I’m sorry for all of the wrong things that I’ve done throughout my life, and I’m sorry for loving Your enemy and for doing what he told me. I believe that You sent your Son to take my punishment for these things. Please come and be the Lord of my life.”

Julia lifted her head and opened her eyes to look at Raven. Raven tilted her own head up and their eyes met.

Julia smiled, “Raven, you’re shining bright as the sun!”

“Really?” Raven asked.

“Yes,” she replied, “You’ve become a candle in the dark.”

The girls embraced, full of joy at Raven’s new life.

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“What? This can’t be happening! I’ve lost her! No! NO!”



~Wolf Woman

“There’s the cabin,” Wolf Woman said excitedly.

“Yeah,” Robin said, “Raven, can you tell how many people are in there?”

Raven looked over at the cabin and concentrated hard, trying to sense how many people there were, “Two, maybe three, but no more.”

“Good, then we can probably take them without any back-up!” Wolf Woman said.

“Let’s go!” said Robin.

The three teens crept up to the building. There was a front door and a back door. Raven circled around to the back while Wolf Woman and Robin went to the front door.

Robin held up three fingers and silently counted down to zero, and then he and Wolf Woman burst through the door. Rabies and two other people looked up at them.

Rabies stood up, “How’d you find us?” he yelled.

“We have our sources,” Wolf Woman said.

“Now, either come with us willingly or we will have to use force.” Robin said.

Rabies laughed, “Right, it’s three-to-two in our favor. There’s no chance of us surrendering.”

Then Raven blew in the back door with her powers, knocking over the one dressed in blue. “How about now, Rabies?” She picked up the poor blue guy with her mind and harshly set him back on his feet, “Or do you still think that you can win?”

“I’ll never surrender,” he said, “I’ll go down fighting!” He drew a gun from his belt and shot at Robin, who lifted up his bulletproof cape to deflect the bullet. Only it wasn’t a bullet, it was a syringe filled with a weird-looking liquid. He shot it again and again at Robin and Wolf Woman, but between his cape and her shield, it was to no avail.

Meanwhile, Raven picked up both of the Minions with her mind and threw them against the wall, knocking them both out.

Once Rabies was out of ammo, Robin and Wolf Woman attacked him, and they quickly overpowered him. “Let’s go, pal.” Robin said to Rabies, “You have a buddy waiting for you at the jail.”

Raven picked up the big gun, “I’ll take this back to Dr. Greene while you two take them to jail. See you back at the hospital.”

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“Father,” Grey Wolf prayed aloud, his hand over White Wolf’s, “I don’t know what Your plan is with this, but I do know that You work all things together for good for those who love You. And Janelle is definitely one of those,” he got quiet when he said her name. “Please, bring her back to us, but not my will, but Your will be done.”

Grey Wolf kept his head bowed and said quietly, “I love you, my sister.” He was silent, praying in his head for her, when he felt her hand turn and grasp his. Grey Wolf looked up and saw her eyes open.

White Wolf smiled and said quietly, “It’s normally considered rude to wake someone up, but this time I’ll make an exception.”

Grey Wolf smiled, “Thank-you, God!” “Well, I’m glad that you’re not mad at me, cause, knowing you, you’d jump out of bed and attack me if you were. I don’t think that’d be good for you at this time!”

White Wolf laughed, “Or for you!” White Wolf surveyed the room, “Where’s Wolf Woman?”

“She’s with Robin and Raven, trying to capture Rabies. I should call them and tell them that you’re awake.”

“You found Raven?”

“No, she found you and Wolf Woman, and not a moment too soon!”

“That’s good. I hope that she’ll stay this time so that we can help her.”

“Me too,” he said, picking up his radio.

But just as he turned it on, the door opened, “We got them! Rabies and the two others are in jail.” Wolf Woman said, walking through the door. Then she saw White Wolf, “White Wolf! You’re awake! You’re all right!” She ran over to the side of the bed and hugged her friend.

Robin and Raven came in behind her. Robin came over and squeezed her hand, while Raven knelt next to the bed, saying nothing but obviously happy.

“So what happened to you?” Wolf Woman asked.

“Well, I went to investigate the Lab and got some information from Dr. Greene. Then I went outside and stood there, wondering which direction I should go. But then I heard raised voices and I followed them into an alley. There I found Rabies and two others who were with him. I fought them, but in the process I hurt my wrist--I think that it’s broken--and I got shot by the fusion beam that they’d stolen. And then I woke up here. And what about you guys, how’d you find me? And how did the hunting for Rabies turn out?”

Grey Wolf started by telling her how his mission went, and then Wolf Woman and Robin took turns in telling her what had happened afterwards, but Raven stayed silent during the whole thing.

“Wow,” White Wolf said, “So I guess that this day was a rather exciting one, wasn’t it?”

“Yep,” Robin agreed, “It sure was!”

White Wolf winced in pain.

“Are you okay?” Robin asked her.

“Yeah,” she replied, “it’s just my wrist; it hurts a little.”

“I’ll go get someone to look at it for you,” Wolf Woman said.

“No need, I have the magic button. You press it and…” White Wolf pressed the button, “Pretty soon someone will come in here yelling at Grey Wolf for pushing the button, and then they’ll start in surprise and say, ‘You’re awake!’”

Grey Wolf laughed, “Yeah, something like that!”

A nurse came into the room, “Why’d you push the button?” she asked the standing teens sternly, “Is it really an emergency?”

“No,” White Wolf said, “I just wanted you to look at my wrist; I think that it’s broken.”

The nurse jumped in surprise, “You’re awake?”

The teens broke out into laughter as the nurse looked at them confused. But she decided that it was just some teenage thing that she really didn’t want to have explained to her, so she went over and pressed on White Wolf’s wrist to check for broken bones.

White Wolf breathed in sharply as the nurse pressed on her wrist.

“Did that hurt?”

“Yes,” White Wolf replied to the nurse, “a bit.”

“Well, it feels broken, but we’ll have to get it x-rayed to make sure. I’ll call for a wheel chair for you.”

“No, that’s okay,” White Wolf said, pulling off the covers “I can walk.”

“No you can’t!” the nurse said sternly, “you just woke up from a three hour unconsciousness, and you’ve lost a lot of blood; you will not overexert yourself!”

“Fine,” White Wolf muttered.

They waited for a few minutes while the nurse got the wheelchair. Then the nurse took White Wolf out of the room.



~Wolf Woman

Raven lay out on a hill under the stars. She’d been watching them for a few hours, thinking about what she should do. The easiest answer was to go back to her own world, but she’d gotten so used to Earth she knew it would be hard to leave it. Plus, she had no clue if she’d be accepted if she were to go back. Most of her people were scared of her.

Her powers had developed at a startling pace. She was telekinetic by the time she was seven; she’d reached the highest level of telekinesis when she was fourteen. Most of the people on her world only got to be a level K3 (the highest level of telekinesis was K10), and it took them until they were at least in their twenties.

But as she stared at the stars, Raven became very tired, and soon sleep came. But it wasn’t a quiet sleep, she dreamed.

Raven floated in the middle of a large room, meditating. She heard a noise and opened her eyes; little flames started popping up all around her. Soon they became larger.

Raven looked desperately for a way to get out, but there were no doors and no windows. She was trapped.

Raven panicked as smoke and fire filled the room. But then she saw a Being before her.

He looked human, but shone pure white, even brighter than the Wolf Pack had looked to her before. He was so bright that Raven could not look directly at Him. But she could see Him stretch out His hand to her.

His voice sounded familiar, yet at the same time it was a stranger’s voice. But the voice was gentle and kind. He said, “I’m here to help you, Raven. But I only can if you let me.”

Raven was confused, there was no way in, no way out. Yet this being in front of her told her that He would get her out. But how? “Who are you?”

“You know, Raven.”

Raven sat up straight, breathing hard. A dream, she thought. But it seemed so real. Was it…no. He would want nothing to do with darkness, with me. She shook her head, “It was just a dream.”

But she had it a second time that night.

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Sat, July 15th, 2056

“All right, girls,” Ms. Watson, the volleyball coach, said. “Today is the day; if we win this game we’re going to the play-offs! Anyi is sick today, so play hard, play tough, and give it your all!”

All of the Wolvesville Predators Volleyball team cheered and went over to the lockers to get ready, while the coach went out to talk to someone from the school newspaper.

“Hey girls,” Lillie, one of the volleyball players, said, “We need to win this game so that we can go to the play-offs, right?”

“Right,” all the other girls nodded their agreement.

“Well, looky what I got my hands on!” Lillie pulled a small container from her locker, “With these, we’re sure to win!”

“Whoa, how’d you get that?” another girl, Mariah, asked.

“I have my sources,” she winked. Everybody knew that her “source” was her boyfriend, who was a junior in high school. “Come on, girls. Let’s whip some butt!”

All but one of the girls stepped forward to accept one of the small pills. Julia held back.

“Girls,” she said, “this is wrong! Do you really think that you need drugs to help you win?”

“Of course, I mean, this is the Woodsville Woodpeckers we’re going up against, and two of them are Superheroes. Even if they can’t use their powers in the game it’ll be really hard to beat them,” Lillie said, “We need all the help we can get, especially since Anyi isn’t here.”

I wish she were; that would make this a whole lot easier. “No girls, it’s wrong.”

None of the others listened, a few of them, including Lillie, had already taken a pill.

“If you don’t stop, I’m going to tell the coach and everybody else!”

“Go ahead,” Lillie taunted, “You know that if we don’t win this game we’ll be done for the season; you also know that if you tell, we’ll be stopped for sure.”

“You don’t have to take them, Julia,” Mariah said, “But don’t get in our way, unless you want to give this whole season away to the Woodsville team!”

Julia thought hard; she wouldn’t take the drugs; that was for sure. But she still had two choices: one, tell the coach and the whole team is out for the rest of the season; or two, don’t tell and probably win the game and go to the play-offs.

Julia prayed silently, “God, this is so hard. I know what I have to do, please give me strength to do it!”

Julia ran out of the room before any of the other girls could stop her. There’s the coach, I have to tell her now!

“Coach!” Julia called, “Ms. Watson!”

“Yes, Julia?”

“Ms. Watson, Lillie and the other girls are taking some sort of drug to help them play better.”

“What?” Ms. Watson turned and ran out to the court giving the time-out signal. A few of the refs came out to see what was wrong. After hearing what she had to say, the refs declared the game canceled.

Hilary and Christina, who were players for the Woodsville team, came over to Julia. “I heard what happened,” Christina said, “That was very brave of you to do that, knowing that your team would be kicked out of the rest of the season!”

“Good job, Wolf Woman,” Hilary whispered to her friend.

“Thanks, guys; it hurts, but I know that I did the right thing.”

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“Thanks a lot, Julia!” Lillie yelled harshly.

“Yeah, if it weren’t for you we’d be in the play-offs.” Mariah shouted.

Other players voiced their agreement.

“Sure, we’d be in the play-offs,” Julia said quietly so that everyone had to get quiet to listen, “But for totally wrong reasons. You guys thought that you needed drugs to win; you didn’t even consider that we were good enough to beat them on our own! I had faith in this team; that we had worked hard enough to have at least a little more self-respect. I was wrong.”

And with those last words, Julia walked away, Wait till Mom and Dad hear what happened today.

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“She passed this test, huh? Well, let’s try a different kind of test for the other two!”

“But don’t you need permission to attack them first?”

“SHUT UP! Leave me!”

The dark angel scurried away. When he was out of sight and earshot he muttered, “In other words, yes, he does.”

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“Thanks for your help, Grey Wolf,” the police chief said.

“No problem, always glad to knock the wind out of someone who’s breaking the law.” And with that, Grey Wolf climbed onto his Wolf Cycle and sped away.

He had barely gone a mile when he got a message from Robin, “Grey Wolf, there’s something strange going on at the Woodsville museum. Since you’re nearby, could you check it out?”

“Sure, Robin.”

“Call if you need back-up.”

Grey Wolf turned around and headed in the direction of the museum. He got there in less than three minutes.

On the outside everything looked normal, the gardens were neatly trimmed, bursting with color from the rain they had had yesterday; cars were lined up side-by-side in the parking lot; people were sitting on the benches either talking or reading a book or newspaper.

Whatever is going on must be inside. Grey Wolf thought as he got off his motorcycle. There are windows on the roof, I’ll go up and take a look inside.

Grey Wolf easily jumped up to the roof, and ran to a window. He looked down and saw that everything was still. All of the people stood frozen in place, too scared to move, but what they were scared of he couldn’t see from that window.

He went over to another window and saw two people in costumes, which he recognized as the Poacher and Mr. Freeze. So maybe there’s more to the civilians’ stillness than I originally thought.

Grey Wolf quietly opened the window, and then he jumped in behind the villains. They turned and looked at him, “If you come with me now then I won’t have to hurt you.” Grey Wolf said.

Mr. Freeze brought up his freeze-gun in response and fired at Grey Wolf, who easily evaded the attack, “I guess that’s a no.”

Grey Wolf flipped over Mr. Freeze and kicked him in the back, sending him to the ground. The Poacher pulled out a smallish machine gun and fired at Grey Wolf.

Grey Wolf jumped out of the way of dozens of bullets and used his Wolf-shield to block off a few more, but he stopped when he saw the bullets ricocheting off his shield, I don’t want to hurt any civilians.

He jumped again, trying to escape the bullets, dodging behind a display. I hope whatever I jumped behind isn’t too valuable…, he cringed as he heard glass and other stuff shatter.

The bullets stopped, He’s either reloading, or waiting for me to come out. I’ll use my Wolf hearing and find out if he’s reloading. Grey Wolf listened and heard the sound of…Mr. Freeze sneaking around the display!

Grey Wolf turned into a wolf, ready to pounce at his enemy and hoping that Poacher wouldn’t have enough time to fire before he got behind another display.

Mr. Freeze jumped out from the other side of the display, and aimed his freeze-gun at Grey Wolf, but was surprised when a wolf jumped out at him. Mr. Freeze fell to the ground with a cry, and Grey Wolf hurried to get behind another display.

But he wasn’t fast enough; just as he jumped behind the display case, a bullet hit him in the back right leg. He fought to not yelp in pain, he didn’t want them to know that he was injured. He knew he needed help, but the villains would surely hear him if he used his radio.

“God, I need help, and please hurry,” he prayed silently.



~Wolf Woman

Wed, July 12th, 2056

Grey Wolf, White Wolf, and Wolf Woman slowly made their way to the back of a white house, or the White House as most called it. They crept along silently, careful to not be spotted by the men with machine guns; one noise at the wrong time could get the President killed.

When they got to the back of the White House, they took out their Wolf ropes and threw them up as high as they could; if they used their rope-guns they’d make noise, so instead they had small anchors on the ends of their rope.

They tested their weight and climbed up quickly and quietly. When they finally got to the right window, they peeked through it to see what was going on inside. They saw what they expected: some dude with a mask pointing a gun at the President. The guy’s back was to the window and he was facing a video recorder, which he’d somehow gotten hooked to all the major TV channels in the area.

They could hear a little through the window, and they heard him say, “…demands aren’t met, I’ll shoot the President. Again I say that I want 5 million dollars in cash within the next hour. Any attempts to stop me, and I’ll shoot…” He went on with this over and over again.

White Wolf had slowly and quietly been using a glasscutter on the window, with Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf holding on to the window with one of their hands, each keeping their other hand on the rope. Once White Wolf was done cutting the glass, Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf aimed and dropped the glass onto a large piece of foam that they’d put down before they climbed.

White Wolf climbed through the gap, followed by Wolf Woman, and then Grey Wolf. The guy threatening the President was obviously an amateur, for he was so busy looking at the camera that he didn’t notice them come in.

Grey Wolf went behind the guy and quickly kicked his legs out from under him. “Oomph,” the masked man landed with a thud. Grey Wolf jumped on him and tried to wrestle the gun away from him while the girls untied the President.

The gun went off, aimed at Grey Wolf’s head, but he easily evaded the bullet. He grabbed for the gun, but it went off again and hit him in the chest.

“Grey Wolf!” Wolf Woman almost screamed.

The guy with the mask turned and pointed the gun at the other two. “As you can see, these fools tried to stop me, and now one of them is down. If you want the President alive, you’ll bring me the money, but the Wolf Pack won’t live because they tried to stop me!”

He fired the gun at White Wolf, who jumped out of the way. Wolf Woman ran towards the guy while he was focused on White Wolf. She almost got there, when the guy turned and shot at her. The bullet hit her in the arm.

White Wolf charged at him and he turned to shoot her, but too late. She knocked him to the floor, but as they were falling the gun went off, and the bullet hit the President in the head.

“Simulation terminated. Simulation terminated…”

The surroundings changed back into the interior of the simulator.

“That mission could have gone better,” Grey Wolf said standing up. “Although I have to say, you and the other techies did a good job with the program, White Wolf. It was all so real, I almost felt really dead!”

“Thanks, Grey Wolf.”

“I completely forgot we were in the simulator,” Wolf Woman added, “Although that’s all the worse for us, since it didn’t go so well…”

Robin walked up to them, “How was the new simulator program? Did it work?”

“Oh yes!” Grey Wolf said, “It was great!”

“But the mission wasn’t,” Wolf Woman said, “We failed, if this had been real, the President would be dead now.”

“And so would I!” Grey Wolf exclaimed.

“Well, that’s what the simulator is for,” Robin said, “So you can practice and learn.”

“Exactly!” White Wolf said, “And it all worked perfectly! The team did a really good job!”

“Yep,” Grey Wolf said, “Now let’s go get something to eat, I’m starving!”

“You ate just before we went in!” Wolf Woman exclaimed, “And we were in there for how long?” she asked Robin.

“About 10 minutes.”

“Really?” Grey Wolf asked, “It seemed like we were there for about an hour!”

“I know,” White Wolf said, “That’s one of the things we programmed this to do; in a simulation, time goes by about 6 times faster. So our hour in there equals ten minutes out here.”

“Sweetness!” Wolf Woman smiled.

“Yeah, now let’s get to the kitchen!”

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Raven sat straight up in bed, breathing heavily. Another dream. This was the fourth time in the last week that she dreamed about robbing a bank. Just another thing to show that I’m truly evil inside. All I ever dream about is doing stuff that’s against the law; I was a fool to think that there could be any good in me!

I can’t stay here; this place is for people who are truly good deep inside, not like me. All I have deep inside of me is blackness. Raven stood up and started to walk over to her dresser, to get some of her stuff.

But then she stopped and a voice came into her mind, “No Raven, I’ve told you that I will help you to achieve what you want. I led you here to Earth to accomplish this. You just need to keep trying and stay here with the Titans.”

“But you’ve told me that for such a long time now, and nothing is getting better, in fact it’s getting worse!”

“You doubt me?”

“I don’t know; I don’t know anything anymore.” And with that, Raven closed off her mind. She climbed back into bed and tried to go back to sleep, but she couldn’t. He was keeping her from sleep.

A tear rolled down her cheek, Stop that, Raven! She told herself, Emotion is weakness. But she couldn’t stop it, any more than she could stop the dreams.



~Wolf Woman

(Author's Note) Ok, as you've hopefully all seen on my sidebar, I've changed stuff about some characters that aren't mine. You've seen it before with my having some characters come to know the Lord, as well as some chages about where they live/go to school. In the rest of this story (and the next one and the other one that I'm still working on) there is a much bigger change to a character. That character is Raven.

In the comics as well as the Teen Titans Animated Series, she is the child of a demon and her powers have to do with witchcraft. Both of these aspects of her character I feel are not right in my story. But I love the character of Raven, so I've kept her in my stories, but I've changed a lot of the stuff in her past. She is a main character for the rest of my stories, so you'll be seeing the changes a lot. I hope that you will be able to cope with my changes, and I hope that you may come to enjoy her new storyline in my stories. (btw, just so you know, during the next few chapters there is a lot of stuff having to do with Satan and his demons, but I've kept it "family friendly") And now, without further ado:


Chapter 16
Raven’s Fear

Mon, July 10th, 2056

“So are you coming to Youth Group on Wednesday?” Wolf Woman asked Grey Wolf.

“If nothing comes up that would keep me away, then yes. I’ve missed the last two because of missions,” he answered, “So what has Bob been teaching lately?”

The Wolf Pack was walking around Teen Titan Headquarters, just talking.

“Right now we’re going through lessons about witnessing.” White Wolf told him, “It’s been really helpful; Bob’s done a good job.”

“Yeah, he’s answering all of my questions, like what to say and how to start a relationship that will later lead to opportunities.” Wolf Woman said.

“Sound’s cool,” Grey Wolf said, “So yeah, I’m planning on being there, as long as I’m not on a mission at the time.”

“I’m sure that Robin won’t make you miss too many weeks in a row,” White Wolf said, “I mean, he goes to our Youth Group, and I’m sure that he knows that you really like being there. It’s just that we’re still getting situated, with all the new members and stuff like that.”

“I’m sure that it’s a little hard on him too,” Wolf Woman said, “With all the things that need organizing and stuff like that. I’ve had to do the dishes 3 times already this week; we all have to make sacrifices until everything gets organized.”

“3 times? I’d rather miss Youth Group 5 times in a row than have to do the dishes 3 days out of the last 4!” Grey Wolf joked.

Wolf Woman knew he was joking, but rolled her eyes anyway, “Oh come on, Grey Wolf, I know that you hate dishes but I also know that you would choose dishes over not going to Youth Group!”

“Maybe…”

Before she could reply, Wolf Woman saw someone walking down the hall towards them. “Hi Raven,” she said.

Raven just walked by, seemingly unaware that they were even there.

“Hi, Wolf Woman,” Grey Wolf said once she was out of earshot, mimicking Raven’s voice. Wolf Woman elbowed him in the side, “What?” he asked, “I mean, that was kind of rude how she just ignored you there.”

“She’s been doing that a lot lately,” said Wolf Woman, “I’m used to it. But I still say hi and try to be friendly to her. I just wish I knew why she was doing that.”

“Why does Raven do anything that Raven does?”

That earned Grey Wolf another elbow in the side. “Stop it, you’re being rude!”

“All right, I’m sorry,” he said, “It’s just that I’m getting tired of this, her always acting like we aren’t here.”

“So you’ve noticed too?” Wolf Woman asked.

“Well, yeah, I’m not totally stupid.”

"I never said you were.”

“How about you, White Wolf?” Grey Wolf asked, “Have you noticed Raven acting like that at all?”

“Yes, I have,” she said, “I’ve been praying for her a lot. You know what Robin and some of the others told me?”

“What?” they asked together.

“They told me that she talks to spirits.”

“Really?” they said together.

“Wow, that’s bad.” Wolf Woman said.

“I know, I’ve tried to talk to her, but she’s so closed up,” White Wolf said.

“I think that we should all pray for her,” Wolf Woman said.

“I agree,” Grey Wolf said.

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“I haven’t been hanging around them, just like you said.”

“But there are others around you, and you‘re still with them. Why are you disobeying?”

Raven felt a sharp pain in her mind, which quickly released, “Ow. I’m trying to avoid them, but some of them I have to be with sometimes, like Robin, he’s the one who gives me assignments; I have to be with him, at least sometimes!”

“Maybe, but you’re with him even when you aren’t being given missions.”

Another sharp pang, “I’ll do better.”

“You’d better.”

“Why am I doing this, again?”

“Because they’re enemies of everything that I stand for, which you stand for too, right Raven?”

“Right… I guess.”

“What do you mean, ‘I guess’?”

“Of course I do. It’s just that…”

“That what?”

“Nothing. Is there anything that you want me to do today?”

“No, just stay away from anyone who’s a Christian, and even those who are just in danger of their influence. They’re dangerous, Raven.”

“All right.”

The voice left her head and Raven’s mind cleared. As she stood up she thought about what she’d been told. It seemed like it had all been a dream, but she knew it was real, she was used to it. After all, she’d known her "spirit friend" since she was nine. At times he scared her, but she’d found a small amount of comfort in her talks with him. The only comfort she’d ever felt.



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 15
Ultimate Weapon

Wolf Woman felt a huge pain in her side; the alien’s energy beam had missed its fatal target but had still hit her. She struggled to get up, for there were still many of the enemy around; if she stayed down it would mean certain death.

She finally stood and looked around; no threats were close by for the alien that shot her was dead. Wolf Woman quickly cut the electrical net that held Wonder Woman captive.

“Are you all right?” Wolf Woman asked.

“I’m fine.” Wonder Woman answered. Apparently, even though she had been in the net for a few minutes, Wonder Woman’s strength kept her from blacking out or worse.

Wolf Woman turned to see if any of the enemy was around, but winced at the pain turning caused her.

“Are you all right?”

“I think so,” Wolf Woman replied, “but I don’t know how much more of this I can take.”

Just then, aliens noticed them and came towards them. “Don’t worry,” Wonder Woman said, “I’ll stay with you.”

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“Robin!” White Wolf called to her friend as she ran, “I need to talk with you!”

“This is hardly the time!” he said while fighting off three aliens.

White Wolf ran forward, SLASH, SWIPE, SLASH! The three aliens fell dead. “Now Robin!”

“All right, come with me!” He led her into a small bushy area a few yards from the fighting; “Now what’s so important, I’ve never seen you so intense!”

“I think I know how to stop them!”

“Really? How?”

“They always left right before the sun came out before and now they didn’t, why?”

“Because they can’t see the sun? It’s blocked by the…” he paused.

“Dark gas!” they said together.

“I think that if we get rid of it so that the sun comes out they’ll at least get back to their ships, or maybe something bigger will happen!” White Wolf said excitedly.

“Right, who can we get to help us?”

“Atomic Teen. He can use his wind powers and blow that stuff away. But we also need to clog up the ducts that it’s all coming out of.”

“Ice Maiden could probably put a bunch of ice in the way.” Robin said.

“Right, you get AT, I’ll get Ice.”

“Let’s go!”

White Wolf ran back into the fray to find Ice Maiden. It was easy to spot her; Falconess was carrying her over the battlefield while she was shooting blasts of ice at aliens. Using her rocket boots, White Wolf joined them in the air, “Girls, I need your help. Falconess, fly over to the ships.”

Falconess did as she was told, and on the way White Wolf explained the rest, “Ice Maiden, I need you to block up the ducts letting that stuff in the air with your ice.”

Ice Maiden started shooting at the openings, clogging them with tons of ice. Part one of the plan was a success!

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Robin searched for Atomic Teen through the huge battle. He was having a hard time until he saw a tornado. That’s helpful!

He ran towards the tornado and soon found Atomic Teen fighting aliens while keeping the tornado going. “Atomic Teen, I need your help with something!”

“What is it?”

“I need you to blow away the dark gas in the sky.”

“Blow it where?” Atomic Teen asked.

“I don’t know, out into space?”

“Right,” AT said. He took down his tornado, which dropped a bunch of aliens, and made a huge wind. He blew the gas up, up and gone!

Robin squinted his eyes, for now he could see the sun, bright as ever!

All around him aliens shrieked. They all tried to run back to their ships. A lot of them made it, but the rest of them fell to the ground, dead.

“The sun’s rays kill them!” Robin exclaimed. “Quick, everyone attack the ships; make holes for the sun to get through!”

Robin quickly called Superman and told him what happened, “So when the sun is supposed to come out get rid of the gas and attack them with the sun’s rays!”

“Will do, Robin, thanks for the tip!”

“I’ll send all of my people who are still strong enough over to you, to help you until the sun comes up.”

“Thanks, and send them soon!”

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“I can’t believe it! It’s all over!” Wolf Woman exclaimed.

“I know, all White Martians are either dead or have retreated back into space as fast as they could!” White Wolf said.

“Yeah, not that I’m happy that we had to kill so many, but we’ve saved the human race from annihilation!” Tigerlady exclaimed.

“It’s too bad no one will ever know about this,” Grey Wolf said.

“Yeah, why aren’t we telling anyone, Robin?” Rottweiler asked.

“Well, Superman, a few others, and I, got together and discussed it; we think that if we tell people about this, now that it’s over, people will stop trusting us.”

“I guess that makes sense,” Atomic Teen said, “but I still wish that other people could know what we did.”

“Oh, well.” Golden Retriever said, “At least things will go back to normal. Well, almost normal.”

“Almost?” Wolf Woman asked.

“Well, now that we’ve helped out with this I guess that we, Tigerlady, Rottweiler, and I, will be working as Superheroes more often.”

“Yeah, I guess you will,” Robin said, “And I’d like to help you get started, and you too, AT.”

“How, Robin?” Tigerlady asked.

“How would you guys like to become Teen Titans?”

“Sweet!” Rottweiler said, “Thanks Robin!”

“Yeah, thanks,” Atomic Teen said.

“I’ll be asking all of the teenage Superheroes who helped out in this to become Titans, what do you say you help me gather them all together?”

“Sure Robin,” White Wolf said, “We’ll help.”

“Yeah, let’s go!” Tigerlady said.

Wolf Woman and the others scattered, each of them finding teenage heroes and sending them to Robin. As she was walking, Wolf Woman bumped into someone.

“Where are you going in such a hurry, Wolf Pup?”

“Actually I was coming to find you and tell you something, Leo.” she replied

“Yeah? What?”

She smiled and said, “Goodbye!” She walked away. I don’t need to worry about his attacks anymore, I have Someone more important with me, and what He thinks is all that matters.

“Good job, Jules,” Grey Wolf said coming up from behind, “I knew you could do it!”

“Thanks, Grey Wolf.” she said, “now let’s go find the rest of the teens and tell them Robin‘s news!”

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Sat, June 24th, 2056

All of the Teen Titans were gathered in one room. It was time to show each other their secret identities.

A bunch of the names flew past Wolf Woman’s head; those names meant nothing to her. The most interesting people to show themselves were near the end.

Atomic Teen told his secret identity, “Gregory Locke.”

This didn’t mean anything to Wolf Woman, but it meant something to Falconess and Ice Maiden; they went to the same school as he did and when he said his name they gave out small gasps.

Then it was Batgirl’s turn, “Barbara Gordon.”

Wolf Woman’s eyes widened, Barbara?

Rottweiler was next, “Anyi Jimenez.”

Anyi?

Golden Retriever, “Nataly Jimenez.”

Wolf Woman looked in surprise at White Wolf, Nataly?

Tigerlady, “Stephanie Wold.”

What is going on here?

Then Falconess and Ice Maiden went, but Wolf Woman already knew them, and she was still in shock from the others that she knew. She recovered just before it was her turn, “I’m Julia Wolfe.”

A few gasps came from the crowd, and even more came after White Wolf and Grey Wolf took off theirs.

Once everyone was done, a huge group flocked together: Ice Maiden, Falconess, Atomic Teen, Robin, Batgirl, Tigerlady, Rottweiler, Golden Retriever, White Wolf, Grey Wolf, and Wolf Woman. All of them hugged, shook hands, gave slaps on the back, laughed, and talked. What a great day!

But that wasn’t the end! Robin got a call from Superman telling him and the Teen Titans to meet at the Justice League headquarters!

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Robin and Superman shook hands up front. Now the Teen Titans (now with 25 teens total) and the Justice League (which had also grown, now with 21 members) had an official alliance. They would still be separate groups, but together they would make the best team of Superheroes ever: the new Super Friends.

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Sun, June 25th, 2056

Julia dribbled the basketball towards the hoop. She jumped up and shot the ball, but she missed. Cassie came up, grabbed the ball, and ran back towards the other hoop. She shot, and she made it!

Julia leaned over, her hands on her knees and breathing heavily, “Okay, you win two games to one. Now can we please sit down and rest?”

“Fine, but only for a little bit, I have the whole day planned out,” Cassie grinned mischievously, “Just wait till you see what we’re going to do next!”

Julia plopped down on the bench; the pain in her side was still there. It was lessened considerably, but there was still some pain. She grabbed her side.

“What’s wrong, Jules?”

“Oh, just a stitch, I’m all right.”

“Good.”

After a couple of minutes, Julia stood up, “Okay, what’s next?”

“Well, I’ve gotten a bunch of my friends together and they’re going to meet us at the mall. I told them I was bringing a high-schooler with me, so they are all excited. All of their hopes will be smashed when they see you, though.”

“Oh thanks!” Julia said sarcastically, “I’ll just wear a disguise; they won’t recognize me then.”

“Already taken care of,” Cassie said, giggling while she reached into her purse. She pulled out a brown wig, “You’re going to wear this!”

“What? Okay, now you’re going too far!”

“You promised that you’d do what ever I asked you to,” Cassie said stubbornly.

“Oh fine,” Julia grabbed the wig. She put it on, “How do I look?”

Cassie laughed, “Great! Now let’s go!”

Julia sighed. The things I do for my little sister!



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 14
Battle for Earth

Rottweiler, Wolf Woman, White Wolf, Grey Wolf, and Atomic Teen circled around the right side of the ships and came out in front of the aliens.

“Stop!” Grey Wolf yelled to the aliens as they all stepped out of the bushes.

“Earth is protected by us,” Rottweiler said with authority, “if you want to go on a killing rampage you’ll have to go through us first!”

The White Martians looked at each other quickly, as if they were confused. Then they all leveled their guns, aiming them at the Heroes.

The Wolf Pack stepped in front of the other two and blocked the blasts of energy with their Wolf-shields.

“WIND!” Atomic Teen yelled. He made four huge tornados within the aliens’ ranks, catching a bunch of them in their whirling winds.

The Wolves, who had all strapped on their swords beforehand, all drew their Wolf Swords and charged the Martians.

Rottweiler, with her expert gymnast abilities, flipped over the aliens and landed in the middle of a few of them. She kicked and punched a few and then jumped high to avoid being hit with the aliens’ weapons.

Atomic Teen yelled, “WATER!” The tornados disappeared, dropping about a dozen from each tornado from 40 feet in the air, killing them. He ran out into the middle of the aliens’ group, while running hitting a few aliens with super-strong water blasts. Once in the middle, past the other heroes, he made a tidal wave, knocking over a hundred or so aliens and killing about 25 of them.

The Wolf Pack ran through the group of aliens nonstop, for if they did stop they would be hit by the energy blasts from the guns. Since they didn’t stop running, the blasts from the guns took out a bunch of the White Martians themselves.

While running they swung their swords, cutting many deep and killing some. Wolf Woman and the others didn’t like to kill, but in this case they had to; if they didn’t, then all humans could be annihilated.

Then one of the White Martians yelled out some kind of gibberish that must have meant something in their language. All of the aliens ran back into their ships.

“YEAH!” Grey Wolf yelled.

“We did it!” Rottweiler called out.

“Oh yeah!” Wolf Woman yelled.

The five heroes ran towards each other and gave high-fives and hugs. They had stopped hundreds of aliens with only five people!

But their victory was short lived.

White Martians started pouring out of the ships again, this time with armor and more than just guns. Some had hi-tech laser swords that put light-sabers to shame, some had giant sonic cannons, some had the energy guns that they had had before, some had electrical net shooters, and some had what looked like electrical maces.

“Oh, fun,” Rottweiler said, shoulders drooping.

“Help,” Wolf Woman muttered.

As if by magic, after she said “help” their team got there. A team of Superheroes and Super-Villains mixed together, not something that you see everyday.

The White Martians’ eyes widened for a second, but they quickly narrowed them and brandished their weapons.

Everything that happened next was like a blur in front of Wolf Woman’s eyes. It was the biggest battle she’d ever been in, and the biggest battle she’d ever been in before this day had only thirteen people and a bunch of “Clay Things”.

She remembered running out with the Wolf Pack with her sword held high. She remembered feeling resistance against her sword from the bodies of aliens. During the running she somehow got a deep cut in her left arm, but even with the pain she kept going.

She remembered getting separated from the rest of the Pack and finding herself fighting side-by-side with Villains, though she couldn’t remember which ones they were. She remembered her sword being sliced in two by a laser sword and jumping away just before the laser sword sliced through where her neck had been. She remembered running. She remembered being caught in the middle of five aliens, all with guns trained on her. She remembered searing pain as one energy beam hit her in the right leg while flipping away.

She remembered grabbing a laser sword from a dead alien body and trying to fight with a limp. She remembered finding Falconess and Ice Maiden and fighting alongside them. Then, last she remembered alien screams, and watching White Martians run back to their ships.

The confusing blur of the battle cleared as the sun came up. She tried to walk, but fell to her hands and knees with exhaustion. Falconess reached out her hand and helped Wolf Woman to stand again.

Wolf Woman surveyed the field in which they’d been fighting. Alien bodies littered the ground in bloody heaps. She almost fainted at the horrible sight, but somehow willed herself to stay standing. The one good sight was that she saw no bodies from their side on the ground. She saw some hurt, some worse than others, but none were dead.

“W-why did they run?” Wolf Woman breathed heavily.

“I don’t know, Wolf Woman. Maybe they’ve just had enough.” Ice Maiden replied.

All of the Heroes and Villains went back to their camps; they kept a close eye on the aliens on one monitor, but on the other one they saw another battle going on. It was dark on that side of the world, so you couldn’t see very much, but you could tell that there was a battle going on.

“We need to get over there and help them!” Wolf Woman heard someone say.

“If they need it they’ll call for help,” another person said.

“Everyone’s tired out and hurt,” someone else said, “of what use would we be to them in this condition?”

“Is there anyone who is not too injured and who is willing to go over and give the assistance?” she heard Starfire ask, “If so, go. But if you have any of the doubts then don’t go. You may only hinder them.”

A few went, but most, including Wolf Woman, stayed; too tired out to do anything.

“Father,” she prayed. “This battle was huge, but for the moment it looks like we won. Thank-You, without You we wouldn’t have stood a chance. I’m so tired; help us all to be able to get some rest. And help the others on the other side of the globe.” And with that, she fell asleep.



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 13
Telling the Truth

“We’ve come to negotiate with you.” Lex said, stepping closer.

“We?” Superman asked, stepping forward.

Instantly more people stepped out of the shadows of the forest, more Villains.

“Yes, we. Almost every Super-Villain on planet Earth.”

All of the Superheroes stepped forward; ready to defend themselves against their enemies.

“What do you mean by ‘negotiate’?” Robin asked, stepping to the front to join Superman.

“Just what it means, to talk about something.”

“About what?” Superman asked impatiently.

“About those big spaceships out there in the field, what else?” Luthor almost yelled. “Will you hear me out, or not?”

“Okay, but if anything happens that shouldn’t, let’s just say I won’t be happy.” Superman said threateningly.

“All right,” Luthor said, “We were contacted by the White Martians about a week ago. They asked for our help in taking over the planet in exchange for powerful seats of command once they do take over.

“We went along with this plan, until about an hour ago. After they landed we sent a few of our people to them, and when they didn’t come back within an hour we went to check on them. We found them, dead, with a note beside them that said, ‘Everyone else on Earth will be the same as these soon’. I don‘t know why, but they‘ve obviously changed their minds. Anyway, that’s when we realized that they weren’t here just to conquer Earth, but to kill everyone on it, including us. We want to take over the Earth, not annihilate everyone on it. So we decided to give you our aid this once, for this is the one time where our goals are the same.”

“Yes, so I see.” Superman said, “but before we believe you, we’ll have to make sure that you aren’t really spies for the White Martians.” Superman looked over his shoulder, “J’Onn (John)?”     

Martian Manhunter stepped forward and stared at Luthor for a moment. Luthor squirmed slightly and sweated, for J’Onn didn’t even try to be gentle with his telepathic scanning. After a minute went by he turned to Superman, “Yes, he’s telling the truth.”

“Good,” Superman said, “You’re in. But you’ll camp apart from us, so that no fights will break out.”

“Right,” Luthor turned to his partners in crime, “We’ll camp a little to the north.” The Villains turned and left.

Wolf Woman was astonished. Those who were usually “bad guys” were going to help them! Grey Wolf and White Wolf ran up to her.

“Can you believe that?” White Wolf exclaimed.

“I know, it’s so weird,” Grey Wolf agreed, “but you know what’s kind of cool?”

“What, Grey Wolf?” Wolf Woman asked.

“Right before they came I was praying, and I prayed that God would send us more help!”

“So was I!”

“Me too,” Wolf Woman said excitedly, “I guess that sometimes God answers prayer in ways that we really don’t expect!”

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Julia didn’t want to go home, she wanted to stay with her friends, but she also didn’t want her Mom and Dad to worry too much. She’d called them on her cell phone a few times to check in with them, but she knew that she couldn’t do that forever. It was time to fess-up.

She walked in the door and called out, “Mom, Dad, I’m home.”

“Good,” her Dad said, “We need to talk with you.”

“And I need to talk with you,” she said.

“Let’s take this in the living room; your Mom is there too.”

“Hi Julia,” Cassie ran down the stairs and hugged her sister, “Where have you been all day?”

“I’ve been out with some friends,” Julia replied, hugging her sister back, “I’ll come upstairs in a little while to talk to you, but I need to talk to Mom and Dad privately for a while. Okay?”

Cassie looked disappointed but said, “Okay, just promise that you’ll be up soon.”

“I promise.”

Cassie walked back up the stairs and turned up her radio. Then Julia and her father walked into the living room. Julia sat on the loveseat, while her Dad took a spot on the couch next to his wife.

“What is it that you want to talk about?” Julia asked.

“It’s about how you’ve been gone a lot lately,” her father told her.

“I want to talk about that too, actually,” Julia said.

“Really?” her Mom asked.

“Yes, I have something big to tell you,” Julia told them, “But before I do, I want you to promise that you won’t interrupt until I tell you that you can, and that you’ll listen with an open mind.”

“We promise, sweetie,” her Mom said.

Julia looked at her Dad, who nodded. She took a deep breath and said, “First of all, I haven’t been lying to you two. I overheard your conversation last night when I came downstairs for a drink of water. I understand why you thought that I might be lying, but I wasn’t. There are aliens, they landed today, and we just found out that they are not here to just take over the Earth, they’re here to annihilate all humans.”

“Wait, who’s we?” her Dad interrupted.

“Dad,” Julia whined, “you said that you wouldn’t interrupt!”

“Sorry, go ahead.”

“Thank-you, and I was just getting to the ‘we’ part.” Julia took in a deep breath and continued, “Mom, Dad, I’m a Superhero. I’m Wolf Woman.”

Her parents’ eyes widened, but they didn’t interrupt her. “We, being the Teen Titans, have known about things coming towards the Earth for the past week. Then, five days ago we found out that they were an alien race that has taken over and destroyed many, many other planets. So we got together with the Justice League and a bunch of other Superheroes and we’ve been preparing to protect Earth.

“Then today the White Martians landed out in the country near here and in another place across the globe. We’ve been watching them and they haven’t done anything yet. But then, all of the Super-Villains showed up at our camp and offered their help to protect Earth. They say that though they want to take over the Earth, they don’t want it destroyed.

“So then, a little while ago I left to come and fess-up to you two, because I hated the feeling that I was keeping a secret from you. So now you’re probably going to forbid me from going back to my friends because it’s too dangerous, but before you do I want to make a plea.

“Please, let me go back to my friends. They need my help; they’re depending on me. I took a big risk coming here to tell you two the truth. I knew that you could forbid me from going back, and, according to God’s Word, I’m supposed to obey you. But I also believe that this is something God wants me to do. I know that I could very well be killed, but I need to help my friends-help Earth. I will obey you no matter what you say. But please, let me go back.” Julia paused then added, “You may interrupt now.”

Her father spoke up first, “I don’t know what to say. Other than, I appreciate that you ‘took a big risk’ and came to tell us the truth.”

“I know that you want to help your friends, Julia,” her Mom said, “but, as you said, we are your parents and we’re supposed to protect you. But you also said that you believe that this is God’s will for you. How long have you prayed about this?”

“Almost a year ago I had dreams about doing something like this and, in my dreams, God told me to talk with two of my friends. So I did and it turned out that we’d all had the same dreams. There were certain circumstances that I won’t go into right now that caused us to jump right in to it. But after the situation was taken care of, we prayed about it for months before deciding to go ahead and officially become the Wolf Pack. We all felt that God’s answer was ‘yes’.”

“Then I think that your father and I should pray about it too, and see what we feel God wants us to do.”

“I agree.” Julia’s Dad said.

“Okay, but please don’t tell Cassie about this, okay?” Julia asked.

“All right,” her Mom said, “And speaking of Cassie, she’s missed you a lot these past few weeks. I know that as a Hero you have responsibilities, but you have some as a sister too.”

“I know,” said Julia, “I’m going to go talk to her now.”

Julia got up and ran up the stairs to Cassandra’s room. “Hey, Cass,” Julia said sticking her head through the door. “Can I come in?”

“All right,” Cassie said.

“Thanks,” Julia sat down on the bed next to her sister. “So, what did you do today?”

“I went to the mall with some of my friends, and then I played on the computer all day. It was dull.”

“Going to the mall with your friends was dull? I don’t believe that.”        

“Well, that wasn’t as dull as using the computer all day. But still, today was slow.”

Julia was quiet for a moment, running through what she should say. “Cass, I’m sorry that I haven’t been around as much as I used too. And believe it or not, I’ve missed you. It’s just that I have some important things to do. Plus I also want to spend time with my friends.”         

“And that’s more important than spending time with your sister?”

“No, Cassie, you’re right. I need to make more time for you. And I promise that I’ll try harder. But, I have to tell you that the next couple of days are booked, so I still won’t be around as much.”

Cass turned away from Julia, “That’s what I mean. You’re time is always booked, I need to make an appointment just to see you!”

“That’s not true! And I promise that I will do better. Just give me some time to do it in.”

“Whatever.”

Julia was silent for a moment, thinking. “Okay, forget about say, the next four days. After that, what can I do to show you that I mean it?”

Cassie turned back towards Julia and thought for a moment. “Well, that day is a Sunday. How about this; you spend that whole day with me. You can’t get more than five feet away. Even if you have to go to the bathroom, you have to bring me as close as you can get me without my being in the actual bathroom!”

Julia laughed, “Okay, it’s a deal!”



~Wolf Woman