Chapter 13
The Truth

“What?” Cassie exclaimed standing up.

“Yes, I’m Wolf Woman. Now maybe you can understand all of those times that I ran off, or stayed away for a week, or lied to you. I’m not saying that that’s an excuse for lying to you. I should have told you before, but maybe you can see why I did.”

Cassandra looked away from Julia, but then she looked back, “Prove it to me.”

“Prove what?”

“That you’re Wolf Woman.”

“Oh, okay.” Julia said, “Cap Flow.” The Wolf Suit appeared on her. “There you go.”

Cassie turned away, “All right. Now take it off so that I’m just talking to Julia, not a Superhero.”

“Cap Flow,” Julia said once more.

There was silence for almost a minute then Cassie lost it, “How could you have kept this a secret from me? All those times we trusted each other with our crushes, wishes, and all other secrets, but really you were keeping the biggest one of all to yourself! I thought you trusted me! I thought…”

Julia sensed what she thought, “I loved you?”

Cassie turned and nodded, hot tears running down her face.

“I do love you, Cassie. That’s why I kept it a secret. If you knew then someone could hurt you to find out. I didn’t want that to happen.”

“So you lied instead and hurt me yourself.”

“I know.” Julia said, “I know. I have hurt you. By not being there for you, and by not telling you about this. Cassie, I was wrong, but please believe me, I thought that I was doing the right thing. I truly did.”

“Well it wasn’t.”

“I know now.”

“And it hurts.”

“I know that too.”

“I still love you.”

“I’m glad.”

“But I’m a little mad.”

“At least.”

“Yeah, at least.”

“I’m sorry. But now you know. I hope that someday you’ll forgive me for not telling you.”

“I do. I do. But I’m still mad so I don’t. But I do.”

Julia laughed quietly, “Think about it, clear your mind and we’ll talk later.” She stood up and walked over to the door. “Night, Cass.”

“Night, Julia.”

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Mon, Nov 20^th, 2056

Julia and Cassandra ate their dinner in silence. Their parents talked about what they’d done that day. Every once in a while Julia or Cassie would nod their head, but they did nothing more than that.

Finally, Christina Wolfe got sick of their silence, “What’s wrong with you two? Normally you’re talking so much that Dad and I can’t get a word in edgewise.”

“Julia can tell you.”

Julia turned and looked at her sister, “Are you sure that you want me to be the one to tell them?”

Cassie just nodded.

Julia sighed, “Cassie is mad at me because she found out a secret that I’d been keeping that I’d never told her.”

“Well Cassandra? Is that the reason?” their Mom asked.

She nodded.

“People are entitled to have secrets that they don’t tell anyone, Cassie. Except for their parents that is,” she added quickly.

“I know, but I’m still mad.”

“Why? What was the secret?”

Julia sighed again, “She found out who I am last night.”

“Oh.”

There was silence for a little bit, and then Michael Wolfe asked, “How? How did you find out, Cass?”

“Because the Principal talked to me about Julia and why she was gone. He had a completely different story than I had been told. I asked her about it and caught her.”

“Julia!”

“Mom, I tried! But like she just said, she caught me. I had to tell.”

“So it’s really Mom’s fault that you didn’t tell me?”

“No. I still wouldn’t have. Because I didn’t want to put you in danger. Mom wanted that too, but I wouldn’t have told you anyways. I’m sorry. I should have told you earlier, but it seemed like the right thing to do.”

“Yeah well it wasn’t!”

“People make mistakes, Cass. The Bible says that all people sin. That ‘all’ includes me. I’m not sure that keeping it a secret was a sin per-say, but it was a mistake. One that I truly sorry for.”

“Yeah, well-”

“I think I liked it better when you two were quiet.” their Dad broke in. “Cassie, Julia admitted that she made a mistake and she said that she was sorry for it. Can’t you forgive her and move on?”

Easier said than done!

Julia started at this thought that she’d heard come from her sister. It had to be a very strong thought, or else she wouldn’t have heard it. But it surprised her, not because her sister thought that, but because she wasn’t used to her developing powers yet.

“Yes, Dad.” Cassie turned to Julia, “I’m sorry I yelled, and I forgive you. I know that you thought what you were doing was right.”

“I forgive you for yelling. Thank-you for forgiving me.” Even though it’ll probably take a while before you truly do forgive me.

There was silence for the rest of the meal. Cassie finished first and ran upstairs. Julia rushed through the rest of her meal and ran up too.

Julia knocked on Cassie’s door. “Come in,” a quiet, slightly annoyed voice said.

“Cass?”

“Yeah?”

“You haven’t asked me yet.”

“Asked you what?”

“What I promised I’d do with you when I came back.”

“I haven’t been in the mood to ask.”

“Well,” Julia said, “do you want to know?”

“Sure.”

“Well, I bought tickets for us to go see our favorite band, Implosion.”

Cassie’s eyes lit up.

“But then I was delayed and the concert was two days ago.”

“Oh.”

“So then I thought, ‘Maybe I can trade them in for some tickets to another concert by them’, but that didn’t work out either.”

Cassie groaned, “Why are you telling me this?”

“Because then I happened to tell a good friend of mine about what happened, and he personally bought us two more tickets to see the show in Portland, Oregon, plus two-way tickets for a plane ride there! We’d leave on Friday after school, stay at your old friend Melissa’s house, go to the concert with her on Saturday-I’m paying for that ticket-and then come home on Sunday.”

Cassie’s eyes widened, “Really? Wow! And you’ve talked this over with Mom, Dad, and Melissa’s parents?”

“Would I tell you this if I hadn’t yet?”

“Wow! This is great! So who’s the friend?”

Who do I say? Dick or Robin? “He or she wishes to remain anonymous.”

“Well, tell him or her thank-you for me!”

“I will.”

“And thank-you for doing that originally, and for working this all out.”

“Are you still mad at me?”

“Yes, a little. But I’ll get over it; I just need some time.”

“I understand completely, Cassie,” Julia said. “I really do.”

“Thanks, Julia. And I won’t act like I did at the dinner table again; that was really rude of me.”

“I know you won’t, and I forgive you for doing so.”

Cassie stood up and hugged her sister. They had some problems, but they’d work them out together.

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Leo looked over Rabies’ shoulder, “How’s the Neutrium coming along?”

“Very well, Leo. Soon it should be ready to use.”

“It’s too bad those darn Super Friends wiped the location out of our minds.”

“Yeah, and off of our computer when they came to steal the info. But don’t worry, Leo. Soon the little bit we do have will be ready, then we can get some payback!”



That's the end of The C.F.M.C. I am currently working on the story that comes after this, but it's going rather slowly. Because of this, I won't be posting the next installment of Wolf Woman's story until I start getting back into my Superhero flow. In the meantime, however, I am posting another story of mine at this blog: Songflight. It is totally unrelated to this story and has nothing to do with Superheroes, but I hope that you will still come by and see if you like it. I hope to be able to post more Wolf Woman stories, as well as a story about another of my Superheroes that takes place about ten years before Wolf Woman came into being soon. But until then, I hope you enjoy Songflight.


~SeaChel and Wolf Woman

Once they were sure that the Legion was taken care of, the Super Friends had one more thing to do: destroy the Neutrium.

The most powerful of the Super Friends all went to the mine the Legion had made and found the Neutrium. They grabbed a small sample to make an antidote from (in case more Neutrium was ever found) and then destroyed the rest..

Once their job was done, they all headed to the Titan’s HQ. This was a day to celebrate.

Once those who were hurt in the fight were taken care of, they all headed to the big room. There they listened to rock music, talked with friends, and pigged out.

Wolf Woman, who had dyed her hair back to her natural blond color, would wait for all the fun; first she had to figure something out that had been bugging her. She walked over to Raven.

“Hey Raven,” she said, “could I ask you something?”

“Sure, what is it?”

“Telepath, while I was captured, scanned me and found out some things about me. He told me what he found out and one of the things that he said that he found was that I am telepathic. Was he telling the truth?”

Raven looked surprised, “He said you’re telepathic?”

Wolf Woman nodded.

“Well, I won’t know for sure unless I scan you. If you really want to know, fine, but that’s what it will take.”

“Yes, I want to know. Go ahead Raven.”

Wolf Woman braced herself, when Telepath had scanned her before it hurt very badly, so she wanted to be prepared. Raven looked directly at Wolf Woman, yet somehow through her. Raven’s pupils enlarged slightly and Wolf Woman felt a little pressure, but no pain. In fact, Raven’s presence in her mind was slightly soothing.

Then Raven took a deep breath and let it out, “Yes, Wolf Woman, you are telepathic.”

Wolf Woman was silent for a while, trying to take it in. “Wow, I am. What do you think I should I do? Do you think that I should learn how to use my telepathic powers?” Saying “my telepathic powers” sounded weird to her; since this was totally new to her she wasn’t sure of how to address it.

“Yes, I think that you should, though that’s really your decision. But if you do, the other telepaths here and I can help. It will take a while before you get really good at it, but I think that you can do it.”

“Thanks Raven, I think I’d like that.” Wolf Woman said.

They were both silent for a while, then Wolf Woman smiled and said, “Wanna go find some other friends to talk to with me, Raven?”

Raven smiled, “Sure.”

So they walked together, towards Grey Wolf, White Wolf, and a few others. Wow, so I am telepathic. It’s weird to think of myself that way. Then she silently prayed, “Thank-You, Father, for this new gift that You have given me. Please help me to use it for Your glory, and help me as I learn how to use it. Thank-you that we were able to stop the Legion of Doom’s plans to destroy us and to hurt many other people; without Your help our plan would not have worked. Thank-you for my friends and please help me to have a good time with them celebrating our victory, and help us to remember where we got this victory. I love You. In Jesus’ name I pray, amen.”

Wolf Woman decided to keep her telepathy a secret from everyone except the other telepaths, who would be teaching her. Someday the others would find out, but for now it would be a secret weapon that even most of the Super Friends didn’t know that they had.

She and Raven got over to their friends. Wolf Woman talked with them throughout the whole party, glad to be back among friends. She told them all about what had happened to her while she was captured (leaving out the part about her being telepathic) and then they told her what had happened while she was gone.

After a couple of hours, Julia went home and told her parents what had happened. Then she went upstairs to talk to Cassandra.

“Hi Cass,” Julia said, peeking through the door crack, “Can I come in?”

“Sure,” Cassie said, “but only if you’re going to tell me the truth.”

“What?” Julia said walking into the room. She sat on the floor while Cassandra sat on the bed, “What are you talking about?”

“You told me that you were going to a friend’s house because she was going through a hard time.” Cassandra said, “But then the Principle came up to me on Thursday and asked me how your work at the church was going. He said that Dad told him that you were baby-sitting younger kids at the church while the adults had a Bible study.”

Oh no! “Umm, the Principal must have heard Dad wrong,” Julia suggested.

“How could he get that out of ‘She’s spending some time with a friend who’s having a hard time’?”

“I don’t know,” Julia admitted.

“Well, since I know that you weren’t working at the church, Dad must have lied for you, but the question is, why would he lie about that? Then I ask myself, then was she really at a friend’s house at all? Then I ask myself, why is my sister lying to me?” As she said that last question, her voice cracked.

“Cassie,” Julia started, but then she stopped. She had no clue what to say. Should she tell her the truth? Or should she try to make up a great explanation. A Bible verse popped into her head, “Thou shalt not bear false testimony against thy neighbor.”

“Okay God,” Julia quickly prayed, “I’ll tell her. Please help her to understand!”

“Okay, Cassie.” Julia said, “You want the truth, so I’ll give you the truth. But first I need to say that I’m sorry about lying to you; I didn’t want to but I wanted to protect you. Knowing this secret might put your life in danger, and I don’t want to do that to you. But now I’ve also realized that by lying to you I’ve been sinning, and that by lying I hurt you. I just want to say I’m sorry and I hope that someday you’ll forgive me.”

“Go on.”

“Okay,” Julia took a deep breath and let it out, “Cass, I’m a Superhero.”



~Wolf Woman

Soon Telepath, Leopard, Rabies, and the minions came to join the fight. Telepath then tried to hurt people mentally but was blocked by a telepathic wall made by certain telepathic members of the Super Friends.

The fight went on for what seemed like hours but was probably only a half hour. Minions quickly went down but the others were not easily broken. When it seemed that the Super Friends would win, the Legion brought out their new secret weapon: the Ninjas.

Ninjas were an advanced type of minion; stronger, better trained, they didn’t go down as easily as regular minions. They even were better fighters than some of the Legion’s main members! With their new help, the Legion had the upper hand.

Wolf Woman was one of the heroes in the back, so she met the Ninjas head on, along with a few other heroes. Wolf Woman had been trained in all martial arts except Jujitsu, so she wasn’t quite sure what to expect.

A bunch of the Ninjas tried to run past the back lines and into the main fighting; Wolf Woman and the others tried to keep them away, but a bunch of them got through.

Finally, one of the Legion’s members made it to the Computer. Rabies typed in one of the codes to access the Complete Files. No one moved to stop him; all were too busy fighting. Rabies typed in the second that the Legion knew. Then the two they’d learned from Julia.

Then he typed in one of the phony codes Telepath had gotten from Batgirl when he first scanned her. Then the screen went all red and all of the Legion members disappeared!

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Raven watched as the entire Legion’s members appeared in the room that her team was in. Raven’s team had only ten seconds before the Legion disappeared again and reappeared in the Legion’s own hideout.

Raven’s team consisted of all of the Super Friends’ telepaths. The members of her team were: Wonder Woman, Wonder Girl, Troia, and Martian Manhunter.

Raven joined hands with the other telepaths and combined her powers with her team members’. Together they erased any memory of the C.F.M.C. from the members of the Legion of Doom’s minds. They also wiped away any memory of the Neutrium’s whereabouts.

They finished just in time, for right after they were done the Legion disappeared.



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 11
Telepathic?

It was late at night before William and Gregory got back to TTHQ, almost midnight, for they had had no transportation. But once they’d gotten there they wasted no time in getting their information to White Wolf and Robin.

"These guys did a great job," White Wolf told Robin after looking at the contents of the jump drive. "Not only did they find the location of the Neutrium, but they also were able to find out why the Legion was hacking into our computer system. They were looking for the codes for the C.F.M.C. and its location."

"If they’re so desperate to find the codes that they’ll hack into our computer, even knowing about our firewall that they most assuredly can’t get past, then they’re probably torturing Julia for the codes right now, since Leo knows that she’s Wolf Woman. So we need to get her out, soon!" Gregory said.

"At least she doesn’t have very much to give them," White Wolf added, "She knows the location, but only two of the codes. But still you’re right, we need to get her out of there."

"Plus if they get what she does know through the Telepath they probably won’t believe that she doesn’t know all of the codes." William pointed out, "If they think that, they might keep torturing her for something that she doesn’t know."

Robin’s eyes flamed with anger as he remembered what Leo had done to her before. He grabbed his radio, "Batgirl, you have a mission, meet me in the briefing room and bring Tigerlady, Beastboy, and Dark Warrior with you."

"Sure thing, Robin," she replied.

Robin switched off his radio and turned to the others, "I’ve recently learned from Raven, Troia, and other telepathic members of the Super Friends that with close range telepaths are very powerful; so I don’t think that Julia will be able to protect what she knows. So we need a team of Super Friends to go to where we keep the C.F.M.C. and guard it. White Wolf, I’ll need you on that team along with Grey Wolf, Atomic Teen, Starfire, Supergirl, Rottweiler, Golden Retriever, Cyborg, Gadget Guy, Superstar, various Justice Leaguers, and myself. I’ll call Superman and tell him of the situation and have him send some of the Justice League to help. The remaining Titans and Leaguers will watch over both Headquarters’ until we call them in."

"All right, Robin." White Wolf said.

"But wait." William said, "What about the Neutrium?"

"I need to talk to Superman about that," Robin said, "But believe me, we’ll do something about it!"

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Sat, Nov 18th, 2056

"Good morning, Miss Wolfe."

Julia sat up straight and looked around for the source of that voice. It was the Telepath.

"Did you have a good sleep?" She heard him ask. But his mouth was not moving.

"Get out of my mind!" she said threateningly.

"As you can see I’ve sent everyone else out of here," he said, this time his mouth was moving, "There are a few things that I want to discuss with you. Like what I found out about you yesterday." he said, "Unfortunately, you fell unconscious before I could find everything I was supposed to look for."

Thank-you, God, she prayed silently.

"I sent them out because it’s against the rules of a telepath to talk about personal stuff that you learn about someone without that person’s permission. Don’t give me that look, even if I’m on the ‘evil’ side I have to keep the rules of a telepath."

"So you can’t tell them about the C.F.M.C. unless I say that you can?" she asked hopefully.

"No, that’s not personal per say." he said, "Now about what I learned. Number one is who you really are, Miss Wolfe. You’re Wolf Woman. I also learned of your old relationship with Leo the Lion before you were enemies.

"Now I have a question for you:" he continued, "Have you ever thought that you heard someone say something, like yelling or screaming, and then find out that they didn’t say anything at all?"

Julia’s mind raced back to after her first mission with Ivy and El Coyote. She had heard Grey Wolf yell, but he said he hadn’t yelled at all.

"Yes," Telepath said grinning, "It has happened to you once this past month, hasn’t it?"

She glared at him, "Stop that."

"The reason that I asked that was because of something else that I learned while searching your mind: you are telepathic."

"WHAT?"

"Yes, it’s surprising that you didn’t find out until now; most gain their powers around the age of thirteen. It’s too bad you aren’t trained; one out of a hundred million humans are telepaths and only one out of a hundred of those telepaths are trained. Oh sure those who aren’t trained can hear the very loud thoughts of others, but those who are trained can do so much more."

"How do I know that you’re telling the truth about this?" she asked.

"Why would I lie about it?"

There was no reason that she could think of, but maybe he did have a reason that she didn’t know about, how could she know? So many things raced through her mind at once. If this were true what would she do about it? Would she try to find someone who could train her to use her telepathic powers; or would she leave it alone? But she kept coming back to the same question: was Telepath telling the truth?

"You don’t think that you want to be trained and yet at the same time you do. And, you don‘t know if you can trust me." Telepath said.

"Stop reading my thoughts!" she snarled.

"You know, I’ve become pretty powerful in that area," he said, ignoring her, "I could teach you if you want, with a few conditions."

"Supposing I was interested, and I’m not, what would those conditions be?" Julia asked.

"Simply to switch sides," he said as if it wouldn’t be a big decision, "We could use more telepaths on this side."

"Never."

"You know, it’s really easy to read people’s casual thoughts when you are as good a telepath as I am." he said, changing the subject, "So when you are around me be careful not to think of anything important that you don’t want me to know. Like the pass codes for the C.F.M.C."

Instantly she thought of what she knew, not on purpose, but by reflex. She quickly tried to cover her thoughts by singing something in her head.

But it was too late, "Gotcha. That‘s two more codes we know!" Telepath grinned, "Thank-you for your cooperation, Miss Wolfe; deep scanning another telepath, trained or not, is much harder work than deep scanning a normal person, so you just saved me some work." And with that he started to walk away, but he turned back, "By the way, nice tune."



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 10
Mission Time!

Fri, Nov 17th, 2056

"Hey guys," William said at the dinner table on their fourth day as Minions, "have you noticed those people sitting over there?" he pointed to some tables in the corner.

"Of course, who hasn’t?" Julia said.

"I know," Gregory added, "They’re dressed differently than all of the other minions and they keep to themselves."

"I just found out about them," William said, "It turns out that they’re in a new program set up by the Legion, called the Ninjas."

"WHAT?" Julia exclaimed.

"You mean that we could have become Ninjas instead of Minions?" Gregory exclaimed.

"Evidently." William said.

They sat it silence for a while, just eating their food (if you can call it that). All other Minions stayed away from their table, Julia figured that it was because they were scared of her because she had beat up the biggest and best of them all. And she was probably right.

When people started to leave the dining room, Julia looked at the others and whispered, "All right, once everyone else is out we make our move. Red, you will lead us to where we need to go. Once there, both of you set up your computers and start up the program; we might find the info faster with two computers. I’ll be the look out. Once you find the info, we get it all on the jump drive. Is everything clear?"

"Yep."

"I’m ready."

"Good."

They waited at their table, eating their lunch slowly, until they were the only ones left in the room.

"Let’s go!" Gregory said excitedly.

The three young heroes walked out of the eating area and went towards their rooms, but when they got to a fork in the hall they turned the opposite direction from their rooms.

Stealthily, they walked down the hall. Finally, Gregory found the door. Quietly, he opened the door and they walked in.

The room was dark, but not so dark that they couldn’t see. Julia stayed by the door, watching out for anyone through the one-way window. The guys got out their mini computers and started up the program.

They got done finding the info rather quickly and got the file onto a jump drive. Then they deleted the info off of the Legion’s computer. "Hey guys," Julia whispered, "Since that was so fast, we should try to get more stuff from their computer. Maybe we can find out why they find to search our computer!"

"Already started," Gregory said, and Will nodded his head.

A couple minutes later, Julia saw something. "Someone’s coming this way!" she whispered.

"We need to get out of here!" Gregory said picking up his equipment.

William did the same. "Is he coming in?"

"Yes, we’ll have to jump him. It’s Leo." Julia replied.

"Okay, get near the door." Gregory said.

"Get ready," Julia said as they neared the door, "Three, two, one, now!"

They opened the door and ran out, knocking Leo to the ground. Then they ran.

"Traders escaping!!!!!" Leo yelled, "STOP THEM!!!!!!!"

Since they were so close to the minion quarters, the minions all heard and came running. Soon the three heroes were running as fast as they could with over thirty minions on their tails, and the minions were gaining on them!

"Go on guys, run!" Julia yelled to her friends.

"What about you?" They yelled back.

"I’ll stall them! You need to get back to HQ with the info, GO!"

There was no time to argue. Reluctantly, the boys ran on ahead and Julia stayed behind, trying to keep the minions busy. I can’t let any of them get past! She fought them with all that she had, but with the thirty minions against just her, they quickly subdued her. Luckily, she had kept them back long enough for her friends to get away.

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Reluctantly, William and Gregory ran on ahead, leaving Julia behind to face the minions. They didn’t want to leave their friend behind, but they knew that if the minions caught them their whole mission would be a flop.

They got to the exit okay; apparently Julia had done a good job with keeping the minions busy.

"Let’s get back to HQ," Gregory said.

William looked back toward the Legion’s hideout.

"I don’t want to leave her anymore than you do, Will." Gregory said, "But once we get back we can make a plan to help her escape." An alarm sounded, "Now come on, or she’ll have stayed behind for nothing."

So they ran on to TTHQ.

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Julia sat in her prison cell. No one had found out who she really was yet, but she was sure that they would try very soon.

Very soon came almost too quickly, for she saw three figures coming towards her. As they neared she could tell who they were: Leo the Lion, Poison Ivy, and Green Minion.

"I knew it was to good to be true," Poison Ivy stated, "We couldn’t possibly get one great minion without it becoming a trader, much less three."

"Hey!" Green Minion interjected.

Poison Ivy turned and looked him in the eye. She blew a kiss to him and he began to gag.

"Ivy, this isn’t the time," Leo said, "We just lost three minions, must we lose another?"

"I don’t like minions back-talking to me, Leo."

"Nor do I, but there are other ways of punishing than your poisonous kisses."

"Fine," she turned to the minion who was now on the floor from her poison and blew another kiss; the antidote.

"Now, let’s figure out who you are." Leo turned towards Julia and opened the prison cell.

He walked over to Julia, who tried to look calm. Once he got over to her, in one quick motion, so quick that she couldn’t defend herself, he yanked on her hair.

"Ouch!" she yelped.

"Well, the hair’s not a wig," Leo said, looking at the few hairs he’d pulled out, "but maybe it’s dyed."

"How about contacts?" Poison Ivy asked.

Leo moved toward her again, but Julia stopped him saying in a disguised voice, "Don’t get anywhere near my eyes! I’ll take them out myself." And she did just that, taking off her brown eye contacts and revealing her blue eyes.

"Thank-you for cooperating!" Leo said, "Now want to tell me if your hair is dyed and if you’re using something to make your skin look a different shade?"

She just stared blankly at that; she wasn’t going to cooperate any more than she had to.

As she stared Leo came closer, looking at her, no, staring at her. She shifted nervously.

"There’s something about those eyes that…" Leo started to say, and then stopped himself mid sentence. Then he looked over at Poison Ivy and said, "I‘m going to do a DNA test on her; you two watch her closely. And Green, keep your mouth shut, ‘cause I won‘t be around to stop her from poisoning you again." Leo walked out of the room.



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 8
Minion Training

The three teens walked to the place where the Legion had told them to go. It was in the middle of a forest, totally overgrown with weeds. Dark and gloomy, it was just the sort of place you’d expect the Legion to use.

“So, this is it.” Julia said to her friends, “no turning back from this point on.”

“Let’s go.” the guys said together.

They walked up to the hideout that looked totally deserted. “Maybe they forgot new trainees were coming…” Gregory thought aloud.

“They’d better not have!” Will said.

“We haven’t,” a voice said.

The ground under them shook, then it opened and they all fell into the hole. They landed in a hallway with three doors that was otherwise closed off.

They heard the voice again, “Each of you go into a room, and there you will get instructions.”

They did as they were told. Julia took the only room on the west side of the hallway while William and Gregory took the two on the east.

Inside of her room, Julia found a bed, a dresser, and a door that led to a very small bathroom with just a toilet, a sink, and barely enough room to walk.

“Over the next few days you will go through some tests.” the voice said, “They will test your fighting skills, your evasive skills, and your surviving skills.” that last one he said with what sounded like a smirk, “Don’t worry, only about a third of those who tryout die before completing the training.”

“Like that’s comforting,” she muttered under her breath.

“Walk over to the computer and fill out the form.” the voice commanded.

Instantly a computer and a desk popped out of the wall. Julia walked over and turned on the computer. A list of questions appeared on the screen. Julia typed out the answers for her alias, Victoria Beckett.

Name: Victoria Beckett.
Age: 24.
Crime records: Petty crimes such as stealing small items.
Occupation: Retired early from being a martial arts teacher, specialty: Tae-Kwon-Do.
Desired role in Legion of Doom: Minion.

“Stupid question, it’s not like I’m going to go from petty crimes straight to full Legion of Doom member,” Julia thought.

Desired color: Teal.
Done.

It was night so Julia went to sleep; she had a long day of training ahead of her.

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Sun, Nov 12^th, 2056

Julia awoke with a start. She was falling off the bed. She braced herself for her collision with the cement floor, but none came.

She turned herself so that she faced up; she had fallen through a hole in the ground. She quickly turned over and put her arms out in front of her, elbows slightly bent. She had acted just in time, for not two seconds after she did she hit the ground.

For a moment everything was dark, then a bright light shown, blinding her for a few seconds. When she could see again, she found herself in a large room that looked very much like the Titans’ simulator. William and Gregory were standing a few feet away from her.

She began to walk toward them, when the voice came. “Commencing training.”

Instantly, the setting changed inside the room. They were standing in a large field. Everything was peaceful and beautiful. The only thing that was there that seemed out of place was a stand with three swords on it. Julia walked towards it, curiously. She reached out and took hold of one of the swords; William and Gregory did the same.

Then they heard a loud noise coming from behind. They all turned to see a large group of people with swords in their hands heading towards them.

“How many do you think there are?” Julia asked.

“One, two, three, four, five, no wait I already counted you, ugh! They’re moving too fast to count!” William said.

“Um, Lionel, I don’t think that this is the best time to joke.” Gregory said.

Julia quickly ran through what Robin had said in the briefing, Don’t look too good and give away your positions, but don’t be so bad that you either die or make them not want you three as minions. “Right.” she said to herself, brandishing her weapon.

They all ran out to meet the attack. Clashing sword against sword, they fought the simulated people. Julia had to keep reminding herself that these were not real people, so she didn’t have to worry about killing them.

Her friends and her all stood in a circle facing outward, protecting each other from attacks from behind. She fought two or more at a time and once while blocking a strike, another person nicked her in the leg. The pain wasn’t bad, but it made her remember that the Legion’s training was dangerous and if she wasn’t careful she could get badly injured. Or killed.

After an hour of hard fighting, the young heroes in disguise had destroyed the opposition, and they had done it without getting hurt too badly, just a few nicks and scratches.

Not thirty seconds after defeating the oncoming horde, the scene changed to a tunnel. They saw a light up ahead, which illuminated the tunnel a little.

“Whoa!” William said.

“What is it?” Gregory asked.

“Look behind us!”

Julia and Gregory turned to look and saw that the wall behind them was covered in sharp spikes. And it had started moving towards them.

“RUN!” Gregory yelled. And that’s just what they did.

At first, running down the tunnel was a piece of cake, until a shot of flames burst out from the side of the tunnel. The three friends stopped as fast as they could, then, when the flames disappeared, they ran again, this time cautious of any traps.

There were hurtles, holes in the ground, more flame bursts, and swords slashing back and forth, and all were trying to get the young Heroes.

Finally, Julia and the others saw the end of the tunnel. All three of them ran forward eagerly; so eagerly that they didn’t see the huge gap in the ground before them. Luckily the inside of the hole was lighted, but what they saw as they were falling scared them.

The bottom of the hole was covered in spikes, and the sides of the hole also had loads of spikes sticking out, ready to take the lives of any who fell in. A few of the spikes were stained red, and Julia thought that she might have seen a skeleton at the bottom of the pit. But she didn’t have time to look and see if it really was one, for she and the others were going to hit the bottom of the pit in a few seconds!

Julia reached out her hand carefully, so as to not get it cut off, and took hold of one of the side spikes. The others did the same. Then, very carefully, they started to climb up and out of the hole.

When they finally got to the top they saw that the spiked wall that had been behind them had blocked the exit. They turned to the other side and saw another light.

“Back the way we came.” Julia said to her friends, wearily.

“Yep.” the guys said together, and they went back through the obstacle course, this time more slowly and carefully, for this time nothing was behind them threatening their lives.

At the end they were wearier than ever, and the simulation was over. In front of them was a dark tunnel that looked like a tube slide.

They heard the voice again; “You’ll get your test summery later. Take the slide back to your rooms.”

They all carefully stepped into the slide, thinking that it was a test trap. But at the bottom there was no trap, they were back in the hall with the three doors. They each headed into their room, thankful for a rest, and each fell asleep wondering how a slide got them back to their rooms when the way that they got to the simulator in the first place was falling downwards.



~Wolf Woman

“The Legion is looking for a newly discovered element called Neutrium,” Robin said. “It’s a very highly deadly substance that, when injected into the body, will begin to neutralize all internal organs, killing the victim within about thirty minutes after injection.” He paused as the others let it sink in, then continued, “The information that White Wolf found in their computer file said that they were getting very close to it, but they haven’t actually found it yet.

“I probably don’t have to tell you how bad it would be for the Legion to find it and be able to use it,” he continued. “So White Wolf and I have come up with a plan. Three Titans will get into the Legion’s Minion Training program and become Minions. Then, when the time is right, they’ll sneak into the Legion’s computer room and get the information on where the Neutrium is.”

“But Robin,” Batgirl spoke up, “Why can’t White Wolf just hack into their system again and find it?”

“Because it would take more than the three minutes I’ll have,” White Wolf answered, “Ten minutes, at least.”

“The three Titans that will be going on this mission are Wolf Woman, Grey Wolf, and Atomic Teen,” Robin said, “I’ll brief them fully on the mission once this meeting is over. Any questions?”

“Why is White Wolf not going? If you are going to be doing the hacking into the Legion’s computer, will not you need an expert in the computers there?” Starfire asked with her typical bad grammar.

“She’s not going because we need her here in case the Legion tries to hack into our computer again,” Robin answered. “She’ll also be helping out with communications with our mission team.”

“I will be downloading a file into each of the mission team members’ mini-computers.” White Wolf put in, “That should help them with finding the info considerably.”

After a pause Robin spoke up again, “All right, if there are no further questions this council meeting is over.”

Everyone got up and left except for the Wolf Pack, Robin, and Atomic Teen. “As I said earlier, you three will apply as minions and go through the Legion’s minion training program. White Wolf has already hacked into their computer to find the Legion‘s radio frequency, which you will use to get into the training program. Atomic Teen, your alias is George Key, who is a computer hacker, and that’s how you found the frequency.”

“But won’t that tip them off?” Wolf Woman asked.

“I don’t think so,” Robin replied. “One of the things that they look for in Minions is computer hacking skills. I think that your using this to find out how to contact them will impress the Legion.

“Now, AT, George Key is also a runaway who has gotten into trouble with the law many times over, with your biggest crime being hacking into top secret FBI files. Wolf Woman, your alias is Victoria Beckett. You used to be a martial arts teacher and then switched to petty crime. Grey Wolf, you’re Lionel Smith; you’re also highly trained in martial arts and you have no crime record.

“I’ll give you all the files on your aliases so that you can make the necessary changes to your looks, as well as memorize your life stories. Then tomorrow you’ll head off.”

White Wolf spoke up, “Grey Wolf, Wolf Woman, I’ll need your left gloves so that I can program the hacking file into them. AT, I’ll also need your mini-computer.”

As they did this Robin spoke up again, “Just some last basic guidelines for your mission:  The Legion’s training is very dangerous. It isn’t uncommon for people to get killed during it. So be very alert and cautious. Don’t look too good and give away your positions, but don’t be so bad that you either die or make them not want you three as minions. Then after you complete the training they will assign you all to a member of the Legion of Doom. This will give you opportunities to check their computers for any info that might help us. Once you find anything you will inform the others and get out of there. Then, and only then, will you report what you have found out to us.”

“All right!”

“Great!”

“Let’s get to it!”

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“How long will you be gone this time?”

“I don’t know, Dad. It will probably be over in about a week, unless we get really lucky and find the info right away.”

“Julia, I understand that you’re a Superhero now, but you’re letting it get in the way of your education. Your Mother and I have been praying about all of this, and we’re convinced that He wants you to be Wolf Woman; but what about the other things in your life? You’ve had to give up volleyball because of your unpredictable schedule; you’re missing weeks of school, and church and Youth Group. What about your life as Julia?”

“I know, Dad. And I’ve been thinking a lot about this too,” she said. “I miss playing volleyball, and going to Youth Group, and doing all of the stuff that I used to do so much of. But if this is what God wants me to do then I will make those sacrifices. Besides, I don’t really need to go to school anymore, do I Dad? I’ve just started my junior year in High School, but I’ve learned barely anything new since you home schooled me. I was always far ahead, why don’t I just stop school and not have to worry about it anymore?”

“That’s what I’m talking about, Julia. Your social life is dying. I think that you need to talk with Robin, or whoever is in charge, about this. I’m not saying to stop; I’m just saying to slow down. Okay?”

“It’s not that simple, Dad.” Julia said. Then she sighed, “But I’ll try. I do have to admit that I don’t really have any friends except for those in the Teen Titans with me. I’ll talk with Robin; but after this mission.”

“Agreed. Now, what am I going to tell Cassie about your leaving?”

“Nothing, I’m telling her that I’m going to an old friend’s house and staying there for a while, and that once I get back I’m taking her somewhere as a surprise.”

“And the school Principle?”

“That’s your job, I can’t think of everything!”

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Sat, Nov 11th, 2056

Julia stared at her face in the mirror. There’s no way I’ll be recognized, even if Leo were standing right next to me! She’d dyed her hair a light shade of brown, put on brown contacts, and applied her make-up in a way that made her look older than she really was. Then again, he somehow knew who I was when he first fought me. Guess I’d better just pray that I’m able to avoid him!

She stepped out of the women’s bathroom and saw William and Gregory (Atomic Teen). They too looked much different than they normally did. William had dyed his normally dark blond hair black and slicked it back with gel. He also wore brown contacts. Gregory dyed his normally dark brown hair a dirty blond color and wore blue contacts.

Robin and Raven walked up to the three of them. “Very good, guys. You all definitely look different!” he said.

“Now I’m going to put up a small telepathic block around your minds.” Raven said, “It should protect you from any passing scans from one of the Legion’s telepaths and keep them from finding out your true identities. Anything bigger and they would spot it, but they shouldn’t be able to see this block unless they do a deep scan.”

“Will this involve scanning us yourself?” Gregory asked.

“No, I won’t see anything.”

He nodded and Raven closed her eyes. After about thirty seconds had passed, she opened her eyes, “Done.”

“Thanks, Raven,” Julia said.

“Well, it’s about 1 o’clock.” Robin said, “You’d better leave now if you’re going to get there by 2. Good luck.”

“We don’t need luck,” Gregory reminded him.

Robin smiled, “Right. God be with you guys!”

“We’ll all be praying for you!” Raven said as Julia came up and hugged her.

“Right, let’s go!” William said. And so they headed off.



~Wolf Woman

This is slightly discouraging...no comments on any of my last few posts! Do I still have readers and they're just not commenting? Or does no one read this anymore?


Chapter 7
The Threat

Fri, Oct 27^th, 2056

Julia awoke with a start, “Whoa!” She threw the cold, wet washcloth off her face.

“Happy Birthday, seventeen-year-old!” Cassie said cheerfully.

Julia shook her head to try and rid herself of the cold feeling, “I’ll never get used to that…”

“Well, I’ll leave you to your getting ready for school. But don’t you dare try to go back to sleep!”

“I’ll try not to.”

Cassandra left the room and Julia shook her head once again, “Oh well, Julia. I guess you really should blame yourself for that wake-up call. After all, you started it on Cassie’s last birthday.”

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Fri, Nov 10^th, 2056

White Wolf sat at her computer, working on her last mission’s file. She was just about done writing it when an alarm went off. White Wolf knew just what that alarm meant, and quickly went to work. Someone was trying to hack into the Teen Titans’ main computer.

She quickly set up super-strength firewalls around the computer’s information; firewalls so strong that the Titans weren’t able to keep them up all of the time because they made it impossible to do anything on the computer since it was sapping all of the computer’s energy into itself. If the firewalls were kept up long enough, the power at TTHQ would all go out, every last bit of energy being sucked into the massive firewalls.

As the firewalls were being loaded up, White Wolf quickly saved her mission file and checked to see who was attempting to hack into their computer. The IP address was blocked by it’s own firewall. But White Wolf was an expert hacker. The only firewall she’d ever failed to get past was the Titans’ own firewall, which she and the other Titan techies had designed themselves. Needless to say, she quickly got through the firewall.

She recognized the IP address instantly. It was the Legion of Doom’s IP.

Not two seconds after finding the IP address, her computer shut off. Now it’s all up to the firewall, she thought. I’d better go inform Robin about what just happened. And the Justice League, in case the Legion tries to get into their computer as well!

She ran out of her room and went off to find Robin. There were only two places that he hung out at the most: his room and the gym. The gym was closer, so she went there first.

She found him sparring with Cyborg. She quickly stopped them and informed Robin of the situation. He, in turn, called Superman on his radio and told him about the hacking.

After this, the power came back on. “They’ve stopped trying to hack their way in,” White Wolf said. “Let’s get over to the main computer room and try and find what they were looking for.” So Robin and Cyborg went with her to the computer room.

“Ok, guys, once I get into the Legion’s computer I’ll have exactly three minutes before they find me and stop me.”

Cyborg nodded and pulled up the stop-watch on the computer on his arm, “Tell me when, White Wolf.”

White Wolf typed in something on the computer, “Now.”

Cyborg started the clock.

White Wolf typed furiously, searching for any clues as to why the Legion would be hacking into their computer.

“Two minutes left, White Wolf,” Cyborg informed her.

White Wolf found the plans for past missions that the Titans and the Justice League had foiled. Getting closer.

“One minute.”

Drat! This doesn’t say anything about them searching for something in our computer files! Wait a minute! What’s this?

“Thirty seconds.”

Neutrium? They’re looking for something called Neutrium?

“Ten seconds.”

White Wolf quickly got out of the Legion’s computer.

“Well, White Wolf?” Robin asked. “Did you find anything?”

“Yes and no. I didn’t find what they were looking for in our computer, but I did find something else that they’re looking for. Have you guys ever heard of something called Neutrium?”

Cyborg shook his head no. Robin raised his eyebrow, “It sounds familiar, but I don’t know from where.”

“Let’s use the old-fashioned way of finding out about something,” Cyborg said, “Google it.”

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Robin and White Wolf stood at the head of the council room. Robin had called together this emergency meeting because he, Cyborg, and White Wolf found out something that the Legion was planning, but other than that Wolf Woman and the others didn’t know a thing. But the looks on Robin, Cyborg, and White Wolf’s faces told them that the news was bad.

Once all of the council members came, Robin called Atomic Teen in as well. “He needs to hear this as well as you guys for reasons that will soon become clear,” Robin explained, “I’ll be telling the others about this, but the council and AT need to hear it first.”

“Earlier today,” White Wolf began, “The Legion attempted to hack into our database. I put up the firewall in time, but we wanted to know why they wanted into our database. So Robin, Cyborg, and I hacked into their computer to find the information. We only had three minutes, and that wasn’t enough time to find it. But we did find something that the Legion is planning.”

“They’re looking for a newly discovered element called Neutrium,” Robin stepped in. “It’s a very highly deadly substance that, when injected into the body, will begin to neutralize all internal organs, killing the victim within about thirty minutes after injection.”



~Wolf Woman

Author's Note: This part of the chapter digs a bit deeper into Raven's past. As I've said before, I've changed quite a bit of her story because I don't think that I should have a character in my stories who is part demon (Raven's father in the comics, as well at the TV show, is Trigon the Terrible, a demon). So when the chapter says something about her father, don't picture a demon. Rather, picture a man with black hair, Raven's color of skin, black clothes, and a blue cloak like Raven's.

Sat, Oct 7^th, 2056

The day came when some of the trainees would be recognized as full-fledged Teen Titans; one day after the tragedy of El Coyote. All of the Titans had been told what had happened, but the Trainees had not, all that they knew was that he was dead.

Wolf Woman had been asked by Robin to tell the others the story of what happened at the graduation ceremony and she had agreed to it. When the time came for her to talk, Wolf Woman got up onto the stage, “I’m sure that all of you have heard about how El Coyote is no longer with us, but a lot of you have been asking about why he isn’t.” And so she told them the whole story about how he had tricked her into the trap and how Leo had tried to kill him. Then how he renounced his loyalty to the Legion and had helped Robin and herself to fight Leo and the others. And then finally how he died and how before he did he had given his life to Jesus Christ.

“And I tell you all, it didn’t matter that he had been a traitor, he was truly forgiven yesterday. The Bible says that ‘If a wicked man turns away from his wickedness and does what is just and right, he will live by doing so.’ El Coyote truly turned from the sins he had committed and did what was right.

“You may be wondering why I am telling you this; let me explain. Who here has done something bad in their lives? I know I have. I’ve lied, I’ve thought bad thoughts about someone, I’ve gossiped. The Bible says that if someone ‘keeps the whole law, and yet stumbles at just one point, he is guilty of breaking all of it.’ I’ve never murdered anyone, but one of my little white lies that I’ve told has made me just as guilty as a murderer in God’s eyes! But, as I’ve told you all many times before, Jesus came and died in my place, so now I can be forgiven of my sins. And so can you. If you’d like to know more about this, please come and talk to me or one of the Wolf Pack or Robin afterwards, we would love to tell you more. And now, I believe Robin has an announcement to make.” She walked off the stage.

“Thank-you, Wolf Woman,” Robin said. “And now here are the trainees who have been chosen to become Titans; they are, Superstar, Gadget Guy, Dark Warrior, and Ivy!”

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Mon, Oct 9^th, 2056

A young Raven ran into her room and hid under her bed, her arms throbbing with pain. As she sobbed things in her room flew off the shelves; she was only seven and she‘d just gained her telekinetic powers. Most others from her world didn’t gain telekinesis until their twenties. She’d have to clean it all up later before her mom saw the mess; if her mom saw she’d be beaten again.

It wasn’t even her fault that things went flying, her powers were hard to control and they did things when she had strong emotions like she did now. But she didn’t really care about that right now. All she wanted was to get away.

“God,” she whispered, “If You’re there, show me! If You exist, make it stop!” Her dresser fell over as if to emphasize her call.

But no, she thought, He’s not there, just like always. If He were real, if He cared, He’d make it stop! But He never does!

Then she heard her door open. “Dad?”

“Raven, get out from under the bed. What is this mess?”

She crawled out and faced her father, tears still rolling down her cheeks. “I’m sorry, Father. I tried to keep it from happening, but I couldn’t control it.”

He looked at the bruises on her arms, “Did it happen again?”

Raven nodded.

“I’m sorry, Raven. We just need to wait. She’ll stop eventually.”

“Daddy, can’t you stop her? Can’t you send her away?”

“Sweetheart, I can’t do that. I love her too much.”

“But don’t you care that she’s hurting me?”

“Raven, we’ve had this conversation too many times before. Clean up this mess before your mom sees it.” And with that he left.

Raven sobbed again, “Stop it, Raven!” she told herself, “Emotion only makes it worse!”

Raven sat up in bed, tears rolling down her cheeks as they‘d been in her dream. Only now she could keep her powers under control, so that things didn’t fly across the room whenever she sobbed.

Memory dreams. I haven’t had that one in a long time. “God, where were You when all of this was happening? I know that You see everything, why didn’t You stop it? Didn’t You care? Where were You?”

She stared into the darkness of the room. “So much has changed since then,” she whispered. “I met and followed Satan, gained control of my powers, came to Earth, joined the Titans, turned away from Satan, came to God, and made some real friends. I’ve come so far from that scared little girl. So why do I still have dreams about it?”

Raven laid back down and closed her eyes. Soon sleep came to her and she heard a voice. “I was right there with you. I cried with you. Though you didn’t know, I held you in My arms. I care about you so much, Raven.”

“Then why did You let that happen?”

“Raven, you don’t see the big picture. I do. I didn’t want you to have to go through that, but the world is evil. This world, your world, all worlds. And while it hurt, it made you stronger. It helped to shape you into who I have planned for you to be. Do you trust Me, Raven?”

“Yes, Jesus, I trust You.”

“Then know that I was with you, just as I am now. And know that My ways are perfect. Trust me with your past, as well as your future.”



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 6
The Fight

The minions ran at Wolf Woman. She got ready to defend herself, even if she was totally outnumbered she wouldn’t go down without a fight.

The minions were almost on her when they heard someone yell, “LEO!”

They looked up and saw Robin, swinging down on a Bat Cable towards Leo. Leo moved out of the way just in time, but some of the minions didn’t and were knocked down by the Boy Wonder.

“Nice timing.” Wolf Woman said to her friend.

“Thanks, but I wish that I’d brought reinforcements.”

The minions were all up and closing in on the young heroes.

“Yeah, well, I’m sure you’ll do better next time,” she said jokingly.

The minions jumped at them, but Robin and Wolf Woman were already swinging out of the way on Wolf and Bat Ropes.

When they touched down the minions circled them and waited for the signal to attack, but none came. Leo was looking at El Coyote.

“So, you brought someone else to help capture us, you traitor!”

“No, I didn’t!”

“You thought that there wouldn’t be this many here, so you brought Robin along.”

“No, I honestly didn’t know that Robin was there!” El Coyote insisted.

“I knew that after a year with their kind, you’d change and go to their side.”

“But I didn’t.”

“Yes you did, and there’s only one way to deal with traitors.” Leo said, with an evil gleam in his eye, “Minions, attack and kill him.”

The minions ran at El Coyote and attacked him. “Come on!” Wolf Woman yelled to Robin.

The two Heroes ran to help El Coyote. The minions were already there and they’d cornered him and were attacking from all sides. Robin got down and interlocked his fingers. Wolf Woman then stepped on his hands and he flung her into the midst of the minions. Then he ran over and attacked from the back.

Wolf Woman, after knocking over a few minions with her landing, got in front of El Coyote and warded off the attack.

“Why are you helping me? I betrayed you!”

“I’m a Hero, it’s my job to protect people like you! Besides,” she said, punching a minion in the face, “You were my friend.”

Upon hearing that, El Coyote realized his mistake. Sure, the Legion had offered him a job, but now they were trying to kill him! The Titans, though, had not only trained him, but they cared about him, even though he’d betrayed them by giving out information and helping the Legion to try and kill them. The people he tried to help wanted to kill him, but those he’d tried to kill wanted to help him. These are the kind of people I want to be with. With that thought, El Coyote got out from behind Wolf Woman and started fighting the minions as well.

With the three of them, soon all of the minions were down and out. Then they turned to face Leo.

“Well, it seems that you’ve ‘KO’d’ my minions, very good. Now let’s see how you do with real Legion members!”

Three ropes came down from the rooftops around the alley and the Leopard, Rabies, and the Poacher all slid down them.

“Coyote; get over here where you belong,” Leo called to him.

“No! You tried to kill me!”

“It was a test to see if you could hold them off. We needed to see how you’d handle yourself in battle. You did very well! Now prove yourself again against our enemies!”

“No! I belong here!”

Leo growled, “Then so be it.” With that, Leo and the other villains rushed at and surrounded the Heroes.

“Stay close together,” ordered Robin, “Keep your backs to each other.”

So the three of them formed a triangle facing outward. Leopard got in front of Wolf Woman and drew her claws. She slashed at Wolf Woman, who ducked and swung her leg out to trip her. But Leopard was quick and jumped just in time.

Wolf Woman kicked her in the shoulder, narrowly avoiding Leopard’s claws. She fell back a few steps and Leo jumped at Wolf Woman from the left. He knocked her over and punched her in the face, but she pulled her legs up and kicked him off. She quickly stood up, but Leo’s attack had broken the triangle.

She sensed someone behind her and flipped back over them just in time to avoid Leopard’s razor-sharp claws. When she landed, she kicked her in the back, which sent Leopard sprawling to the ground.

El Coyote ran over to help her and attacked Leo as Wolf Woman pounced on the fallen Leopard. She quickly pulled out some handcuffs and placed them on Leopard, getting scratched on the arm in the process.

She was about to go help Robin, who was fighting both Rabies and the Poacher, when she heard a gunshot. She turned to see El Coyote on the ground, shot in the back by the Poacher.

She ran over to him and pulled him away from the fighting; he was still alive. Then she ran back to help Robin.

Rabies was out cold on the ground, so all that were left were the Poacher and Leo. Wolf Woman went after the Poacher. He was reaching for his gun, which Robin had kicked out of his hand; but Wolf Woman tackled him before he could grab it.

He kicked her off of him, but she’d been expecting that and turned her flying back into a back handspring. During the handspring, when her hands touched the ground, she grabbed the gun, which was right under her. She lost her balance a little, but quickly recovered.

She fired into the air, causing everyone to turn and look at her. “Get out of here,” she said to Leo and the Poacher, “Or I’ll shoot you.”

Leo laughed, “No you won’t!”

“Wanna bet?” She cocked the gun. When Leo sneered and stayed put, she shot him in the arm. With that, the two villains ran off.

Robin quickly cuffed the unconscious Rabies, while Wolf Woman ran to El Coyote. He was breathing in short, quick gasps and looked scared.

“Don’t worry, we’ll get you to a hospital,” she said reassuringly.

“No,” he said weakly, “I think that it’s too late for that.” He coughed up some blood and Wolf Woman fought back tears. “I’m sorry that I… betrayed you. Why…why did you do that? Why did you…protect me? How could you have…done that?”

“You mean forgive you?” After he nodded she continued, “Because I’ve been forgiven. Do you remember some of the lessons I taught the trainees? The ones where I talked about Jesus?” He nodded again. “Like I said in those lessons, I’ve done wrong things against God, so many wrong things. But He still forgave me. That’s why I can forgive you, because I know One who forgave me of so much more. He can forgive you too.”

“I don’t think that He’ll take me.”

“Yes, He will. He loves you, so much that He died for you. All you have to do is ask Him, and He will forgive you.” she paused, “Do you want to?”

“Yes, I do.”

She smiled, “Then pray this in your heart: God, I’m sorry for all of the bad things that I have done. I believe that Jesus died for me so that I could be forgiven. I accept Your gift of forgiveness. Please come and live in my heart. In Jesus’ name, amen.”

El Coyote opened his eyes and looked up and her and Robin, “Thank-you for…everything. I guess I’ll…see you…soon.”

Robin grabbed his hand, “Yes, you will.”

Wolf Woman smiled at him and a tear fell down her cheek.

And El Coyote breathed his last breath on Earth.

Tears flowed freely down Wolf Woman’s cheeks and even Robin shed a couple. He put his arm around her shoulders and they cried for their friend, sad that he had died, but thankful that they would see him again.



~Wolf Woman

Chapter 5
The Traitor

Thurs, Oct 5^th, 2056

Julia Wolfe walked with her friends, Barbara Gordon and Janelle Johnson. They were on their way back to their homes from school.

“So, anything exciting about to happen for either of you?” Barbara asked.

“No, not really.”

“Me neither,” Julia answered, “Being a Titan takes up most of my time.”

“Really?” Barbara asked. “That’s sad. You need to organize your time, that’s what I do, and talk to Dick, I’m sure if you tell him about how your Hero life is taking over your personal life he’ll help you work it out. He needs us to point out the problems so that he can try to help you fix them.”

“I know, but the thing is I don’t really miss much of what I used to do. I mean, I miss hanging out with my sister more like I used to, but I’m ok with volleyball being gone. I enjoyed it, but I also enjoy helping people as Wolf Woman.”

“Well, it’s good that you like doing that, but like I said, you need to make time for your family and other things that are important to you! If you don’t then you might miss the small important things that happen, like-”

Just then Julia’s radio beeped. “See what I mean?” She looked around to make sure no one else was looking, and then answered the radio, “Yes?”

“Wolf Woman,” Robin said, “get the rest of the Wolf Pack and get to 43^rd street in Gotham City, there’s a bank robbery going on down there and there are three masked men there. El Coyote and Ivy will meet you there.”

“All right.” she replied, and then she turned to the others, “Sorry, Barbara, Janelle and I have to go.”

“I understand,” answered Barbara. “But Jules?”

“Yeah?”

“Talk with Robin sometime about this, ok?”

“All right, thanks Barbara! Bye!” Then she turned to Janelle, “Let’s go!” As they ran down the street, Julia called the third Wolf, “William?”

“Yes?”

“This is Julia, its mission time. Meet us at the bank at 43^rd street in Gotham City. There’s a bank robbery going on down there. Ivy and El Coyote will meet us there.”

“Right, see you there.” he said.

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When everyone got to the bank, they made a plan. Grey Wolf and El Coyote would go in there and chase the bank robbers out to where the girls would be waiting.

Grey Wolf ran in first, followed closely by El Coyote, who he favored.

The girls waited there for about five minutes, and the guys never came out. Then Wolf Woman heard Grey Wolf yell, but she couldn’t tell if it was an excited yell or an in-trouble yell.

Worried, Wolf Woman turned to the others and said, “Wait here, if I’m not out in two minutes then call for back-up and come in.”

“Right.”

“Okay.”

Wolf Woman ran toward the doors of the bank, when suddenly two men in masks ran out, followed closely by Grey Wolf and El Coyote.

White Wolf and Ivy ran out to attack, but the robbers weren’t within striking range.

Wolf Woman called everyone on their radios while giving chase, “El Coyote, White Wolf, and Ivy, stay with them, Grey Wolf and I will take the short-cut and cut them off.”

So Grey Wolf ran toward Wolf Woman, changed to a wolf, and they ran off in a different direction, while the others stayed in pursuit.

White Wolf and the others kept behind the robbers. Ivy, with her plant powers, sent vines from the nearby trees out in front of the robbers to try to slow them down or trip them. White Wolf grabbed two Wolf Ropes, gave one to El Coyote, and the two of them swung from buildings to gain ground on the robbers.

Meanwhile, Wolf Woman and Grey Wolf hopped fences and cut through alleys, trying to get ahead of the robbers.

Grey Wolf easily got ahead of them and ran out of the alley, with Wolf Woman close behind. Grey Wolf snarled at the robbers, who stopped dead in their tracks. Wolf Woman and the others all surrounded the robbers, who quickly surrendered.

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After taking the robbers to jail, the Wolf Pack brought their good report on Ivy and El Coyote to Robin. Then they walked around TTHQ for a while.

“Hey, Grey Wolf,” White Wolf said, “What took you two so long inside the bank?”

“I think that they were expecting us, because when we ran in, they had their guns out and they told us to get up against the wall. It was El Coyote that got the jump on them; I kind of backed off to let him try to handle the situation, which was…kind of hard. Anyway, he quickly flipped away from the wall and landed on the one that was supposed to watch us and knocked him out.”

“Oh, so that’s why only two robbers ran out of the building.” White Wolf said.

“Right, I told the banker to call the police to pick up the other robber.” Grey Wolf replied, “Anyway; that scared the other robbers, who had put their guns down to grab money. One of them grabbed his gun and aimed at El Coyote but missed. I kicked the gun out of his hand and they ran out.”

“Well,” Wolf Woman said, “All in all, it was a great mission. So tell me, did you yell to say ‘way to go El Coyote’ when he got the jump on them, or when he nearly got shot?”

“You yelled, William?” White Wolf asked.

“I was going to ask her the same thing,” he said, “You heard me yell, Wolf Woman?”

“Yeah, at least I thought that I did, maybe I was imagining things…”

“We did get a little worried when you didn’t come out for five minutes,” White Wolf said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if you thought that you heard him yell for help.”

“Oh well… I guess that I was hearing things.”

“Well, anyway, I think that with the way that El Coyote and Ivy handled everything, we might have some new Titans very soon!” Grey Wolf exclaimed.

“I think you may be right!” Wolf Woman said excitedly. But in the back of her mind she was confused, I heard him cry out plain as day…



~Wolf Woman

“Everyone,” Robin said, “please take your seats.”

Wolf Woman and everybody else sat down. The council meeting had started.

The council consisted of nine Titans, which were the five first Titans, the Wolf Pack, and Batgirl. Robin sat at the head of the table; on his right were Cyborg, then Wolf Woman, then Grey Wolf, and then White Wolf. On Robin’s left sat Batgirl, Starfire, Beastboy, and Raven.

“What I’ve called you here today for is a very serious thing,” Robin said, “We have reason to believe that there is a spy. Wolf Woman, would you please tell everyone about what made you start thinking about it?”

“Sure,” she said, standing up. She told them about the conversation between her and Leo the Lion, for some of the Titans in the room hadn’t heard what happened yet. When she was done, she sat back down.

“We need to be on the lookout,” Robin said, “If anyone sees anything suspicious, report it. And be careful about what you tell people and whom you tell. I once had a friend that I thought that I could trust, and then, one day, he pulled a gun on some of my friends.”

Wolf Woman knew exactly whom he was talking about even before his sentence was over. She didn’t want anything like that to ever happen again, but with a spy among them it just might. She shuddered and pushed that thought out of her head.

After an awkward silence, Robin started on another subject, “It’s getting close to the day when we will pick trainees to become Titans, so soon we will be sending each of you on a mission with one or two trainees. On the missions, you will monitor them and bring back your reports. Wolf Pack, I heard that you three gave a training course today.”

“Yes,” they said together.

“Good,” Robin said, “you three will take the people who got the highest scores on the simulation tests, El Coyote and Ivy, I believe.”

“All right.” said the Wolf Pack, again in unison.

“Robin,” Wolf Woman said, “Do you have records on each of the trainees?”

“Yes,” he replied, “I do, after the meeting you can come and look at them, if you want.”

“Thanks,” she said.

“Yep, now let me see, Cyborg and Starfire, you two will take…the Eagle and Superstar. Beastboy and I will take Dark Warrior and Red Panther. And Raven and Batgirl will take Gadget Guy and Dawn. Was everyone assigned?”

Everyone nodded.

“Good, now let my last words for the meeting be the most important: a spy is in our midst, if you see anything strange report it.”

Everyone got up to leave except for Wolf Woman; instead, she walked over to Robin.

“Okay, the files are in this drawer.” Robin gestured to the third drawer from the top of a filing cabinet.

“Thank-you, Robin.” she said. Then she started going through the files, looking for the two that she would be helping, El Coyote and Ivy.

First, she found El Coyote’s file. It was small, like the others, but it did give important info. He’d been in training from the beginning of their trainee program; all those who worked with him said that he was a hard worker, fellow trainees and Titans alike; he didn’t have any superpowers; his strengths were in gymnastics and acrobatics; and his weakness was that he sometimes didn’t think before he did something.

Next, she looked in Ivy’s file. She’d been in training from the beginning of the program also, as well as having some previous training for using her plant-controlling powers; who her trainer had been was not mentioned.

Strange, Wolf Woman thought, and then she read on. She was also a very hard worker, everyone agreed to that; and her weakness was that she got distracted easily, something that she’d been working on fixing for a long time.

She also read a little about the others that made it to the trial time. The Eagle’s power was flight, but other then that he just had gadgets. Superstar didn’t have any powers, but she was great at gymnastics and acrobatics. Dark Warrior also didn’t have powers; he excelled at using any weapon, his favorite being double katanas (ninja swords). Gadget Guy (as you might have guessed) had about “a million” gadgets. Red Panther had no powers, but she excelled at hand-to-hand combat and stealth. Last, Dawn’s power was pretty much anything that had to do with light, for example, she could become so bright that she could blind people temporarily.

When she was done looking through the files, Wolf Woman shut the drawer, walked out of the room, and went home.



~Wolf Woman

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~SeaChel


Rottweiler saw the tree falling first. With a scream, she ran back, pulling Golden Retriever with her.

The tree landed with a great thud, and shook the ground even more.

“Come on,” Rottweiler yelled, “We have to go around it!”

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As Wolf Woman walked towards the bars of the cell, where it was safer, she heard a loud thud. After the thud, more of the roof started to cave in.

“Great,” Wolf Woman said under her breath.

She ran back to the hole and sat. There’s no roof to cave in here, she thought, I’ll just have to look up and watch for anything coming my way.

After about a minute, she did see something.

“Wolf Woman!” Rottweiler yelled, “Can you climb out?”

“No!”

“Then here,” she said and tossed down a rope, “Grab this!”

Wolf Woman did as she had been told and the other two pulled her up and out.

“Come on.” Golden Retriever said, “Let’s get out of here.”

They ran back to Golden Retriever’s car and got in. There they waited for the earthquake to stop.

When it did stop, they drove back to TTHQ. With a smile on her face, Wolf Woman silently prayed, Father, thank-you for helping me to escape. Thank-you for bringing my friends and me out of the earthquake safely and also out of the Legion’s hands safely. Also thank-you for helping me to be strong and not tell them what they wanted. I love You. In Jesus’ name in pray, Amen.

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“Well,” Catwoman said, “Everyone tells me that you were a great Catwoman.”

“Even if I was,” Wolf Woman replied, “I’m not as good as you.”

“Maybe, but you were pretty convincing. After all, you tricked at least three of the Legion, the Leopard and two minions.”

“True,” she shrugged. “Hey, speaking of the Legion, when I was captured, Leo said something about having ears everywhere. Do you know what he meant?”

Catwoman looked worried at hearing this, “I hope it’s not what I think it means, Wolf Woman.”

“What do you think?”

“Spies,” Catwoman replied.

“That’s what I was thinking too; we’ll have to be careful.”

“I think that we should report this to Superman and Robin.”

“Yeah,” Wolf Woman replied, “that’s probably a good idea.”

“Well then let’s go do it now.”

“All right, I’ll call them both and tell them to meet us in the briefing room.” Wolf Woman said, grabbing her radio.

Robin answered, “Yes?”

“Hi Robin, this is Wolf Woman.”

“Hi, what’s up?”

“Catwoman and I need to talk to you and Superman about something, could you meet us in the briefing room?”

“Sure thing.”

“See you there.”

Wolf Woman started to call Superman, but Catwoman stopped her, “I just called him while you were talking to Robin. He said he’d be there in a second.”

“All right then, let’s go.”

It took them about five minutes to get to the briefing room; it normally would have only taken three, but the wounds from Leo’s whip still hurt her and Catwoman slowed down for her. Superman, with his super-speed, had already gotten there, and Robin came in about thirty seconds after they did.

“All right, Catwoman and Wolf Woman,” Superman said, “What is it that you need to talk about?”

“It’s something that happened to Wolf Woman while she was captured.” Catwoman said, “Go ahead and tell them Wolf Woman.”

“Okay, well after I was captured by Leo-”

“Captured by Leo?” Superman asked.

“I thought he was dead!” Robin exclaimed.

“So did I, but apparently I killed a minion dressed to look like him. Anyways, he told me that he knew that I was the one in the Catwoman suit, and when I asked him how he knew he said, ‘I have ears everywhere’. I was talking with Catwoman earlier and we both agreed that it sounds like we have a spy in our midst.”

“Or spies,” Catwoman added.

“You know. That makes sense with what happened when we went to rescue you, Catwoman.” Robin said, “They were waiting for us; they expected us!”

“And if there is a spy, you know what that means,” Superman said sadly.

“Betrayal,” Wolf Woman nodded sadly, “I already know too much about that, I don’t want to know more.”

“Me either, Wolf Woman,” Robin said.

"Robin, you should talk to a few core members that you trust fully about this, but don’t let the news get spread to far,” Superman said. “We don’t want them to know that we’re onto them. I’ll do the same with some members of the Justice League.”

“Right, Superman.” Robin said.

The four Heroes walked out of the room, all with a bit of sadness in their hearts at the thought of there being a spy in their midst. The Teen Titans and the Justice League were both built on trust, as was the Super Friends. But with a spy, that trust would be tested greatly.

“So Wolf Woman,” Robin said, “How are you doing? I mean, with everything that’s happened to you in the past few days.”

“I’m all right, I guess,” she replied. “My wounds from the fight with Leopard and Leo-excuse me-Red Minion are fully healed, but my whip wounds aren’t.”

“You were whipped? By whom?”

“Who else hates my guts?”

“Leo.” He turned his face away from her for a second. If he hadn’t, though, Wolf Woman would have seen rage in his expression.

“I’ve finally eaten after not eating for five days,” she continued, not noticing that he had turned away. “And I’m very tired. I think that I should go home and rest for a couple of days. Or years.”

Robin turned back to look at her and laughed, all rage gone from his face and undetected by Wolf Woman, “I know the feeling. Well, I guess I’ll see you later. Bye Jules.”

“Bye Dick.”

So she changed out of her costume and back into Julia Wolfe, and went home.

Immediately after she walked in the door she was bombarded by questions from her parents, “Where have you been for the past week? Why didn’t you call and tell us where you were or how long you’d be gone? What are you going to tell Cassie?”

“Okay, I’m sorry. But can you please let me explain?”

“All right, let’s go into the living room.” Michael Wolfe (her Dad) said, “We told Cassie to wait upstairs until you came up to talk to her, much to her disappointment. We had no idea what to tell her, so I hope that you have an idea.”

Julia sat on the couch and Felicia, overjoyed to see Julia again, ran over and jumped up onto her lap, purring loudly.

“I do,” Julia said, “I’ll tell her the truth.”

Christina Wolfe (her Mom) looked worried, “Are you sure, Julia? You know that if she knew that you were a Superhero she might get the idea to be one also. She could get into a lot of trouble.”

“Okay, let me say it a bit differently,” Julia said, “I’ll tell her what happened to me, but not that I’m a Superhero.”

“But how can you tell her without her knowing?” Michael asked, “You were on a mission, weren’t you?”

“Not exactly, Dad. I was kidnapped.”

“What?” Christina exclaimed.

“I was captured by Leo the Lion Sunday night. I was just rescued today. So I’m going to tell Cassie that I was kidnapped and the Teen Titans came and saved me. Do you two have any problems with that story?”

“No, I don’t,” said Mrs. Wolfe, “You were kidnapped? I’m so sorry; I was really mad at you for not telling us where you were, but now I see why. Are you all right?”

“Yes, I’m fine. And I forgive you; I mean, I would have thought the same thing that you two thought probably. So I understand.”

“All right, now you should probably go talk to Cassie before she comes charging down here herself.” Michael Wolfe said with a smile.

“All right, Dad.” Julia took Felicia off of her lap and set her on the floor. Then she stood up and walked up the stairs to Cassie’s room, her cat following close behind her. She knocked on the door, which quickly opened.

“You’re back!” Cassie threw herself onto Julia, who winced but tried to hide the pain. “We were all so worried, Mom and Dad called the police when you were gone for more than two days. What happened?”

“You’re not going to believe what I tell you,” Julia said.

“Yes, I will,” Cassie said, “Just tell me!”

“Well, Cass, I was kidnapped.”

“What? By whom?”

“Well, you remember my old friend, Leo Drake?”

“The one who got into drugs and got arrested?”

Julia nodded, “Well, it turns out that he’s gotten into more trouble with the law, and is now called Leo the Lion.”

“What? Your old friend is the villain Leo the Lion?”

“Yes, it’s true.” Julia said, “Well, anyway, he was…is pretty mad at me for telling the police on him. And so he kidnapped me. But thankfully, the Teen Titans saved me from him.”

“You got to meet some of the Teen Titans? Which ones?”

“Rottweiler and Golden Retriever.”

“Oh. Well that’s cool.”

Julia was confused, “What? You were all excited that I met some Titans and now you’re all ‘oh, that’s cool’.”

“Well, I was hoping that you could have met some of the, you know, guy Titans.”

Julia held back laughter; her fourteen-year-old sister had just started noticing guys more; she probably had a crush on one of the Titans right now. But instead of laughing she smiled, “And whom did you want me to meet, may I ask?”

Cassie blushed, “Grey Wolf,” she said shyly.

Julia kept a straight face, but inside she was laughing her head off. “Well, if I ever see him, I’ll tell him that you’re his biggest fan.”

Cassie laughed, “Yeah right. You won’t be seeing any Titans again, hopefully. ‘Cause that would mean that you needed rescuing. I hope you never get into that type of problem again.”

“Thanks, Cassie. I hope that it won’t happen again too.” Julia yawned, “I’m sorry that I’m going to cut our time together short, but I’m really tired.”

“It’s all right,” said Cassie, “I understand.”

So Julia headed into her room with Felicia right behind her. She changed into her pajamas and climbed painfully into bed. It had been a long week.



~Wolf Woman