Justice League by Michael Jan Friedman

Author:Michael Jan Friedman [Friedman, Michael Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781938725074
Publisher: Warner Bros. Consumer Products Inc.
Published: 2012-09-03T04:00:00+00:00

The Flash had visited Metropolis many times before, but he had never seen it quite like this.

Every building in the city was dark and dead-looking. The streetlights had all been deprived of life as well. Even Metropolis’s bridges looked like the stiffened corpses of colossal insects.

There were only two sources of light: the ghostly glow of the moon and the stabbing brilliance of automobile headlights, reflected in store windows and the metal bodies of other cars.

The Flash had never seen so many cars. The streets were choked with them, their drivers striving desperately to get somewhere despite the loss of power to the traffic-control grid. An occasional motorist was still honking his horn out of frustration, though most people seemed to have accepted their fates. In fact, some had abandoned their vehicles altogether.

He was weaving among them, headed for the heart of Metropolis to see what emergencies he could find, when he heard a disturbing report on a car radio.

As quickly as he was moving, it wasn’t easy for him to catch more than a few words. But he overheard enough to know what the problem was and where to find it. Changing direction so quickly that he melted the asphalt beneath his feet, he sped toward a commuter railway hub just north of downtown.

When the Flash got there, he saw that the radio report had been right on the money—unfortunately. Skidding to a halt, he surveyed the damage.

Nasty, he thought with a shudder.

With the city’s Luthor-induced power outage plunging rail lines into confusion, two big commuter trains had collided head-on. Luckily, they seemed to have stopped in time to avoid destroying each other.

However, both head cars had been damaged and derailed. And on both sides of the darkened tracks, armies of passengers were being treated for their injuries by a mere handful of paramedics.

Approaching one of them, the Flash said, “I’m here to help. What can I do?”

The paramedic, a woman with long red hair tied into a ponytail, didn’t seem surprised to see a costumed hero. But then, this was Metropolis.

She looked around at all the crash victims and heaved a sigh. “Some of these people need to be treated in a hospital. But traffic’s backed up so badly, we can’t get our ambulances through.”

“Say no more,” the Flash told her. “I’m your man.”

The paramedic didn’t look any happier for his announcement. “You don’t understand. I’m talking about a lot of people. Dozens of them.”

Obviously, she didn’t know him very well. “Just tell me where to take them and leave the rest to me.”

Burdened as she was, she smiled. “Okay. Let’s start with Billy.”

Billy was a ten-year-old with a blond crew cut and big blue eyes. His head was bandaged, and his arm had been placed in a sling.

The paramedic told the Flash where the boy needed to go. “It’s the closest hospital in the city. But it’s still a mile and a half through the worst traffic jam in history.”

“Give me thirty seconds,” he said.

The woman looked at him in disbelief.

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