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"May God have mercy on your rancid soul!" Yells Sweeney Todd to Cameron Chase. "No gun, my inconsistent powers acting inconsistent, and a seven-foot-tall woman-hater about to slash me--good thing you wore your Timberlands today, Chase." Cameron thinks ask she kicks Sweeney in the left knee. "You think running will save you?" Sweeney asks Cameron as she begins to run away. "My hand is guided by a vengeful God!" he says before he trows his straight edge razor at Cameron, hitting her in her back. "Th-this is=isn't just a blade--it's some sort of psi-weapon--can b-barely think!" Cameron thinks as she hits the ground. "The more you resist...the more painful I will make it." Sweeney tells Cameron as he pulls the blade out of her back. Cameron raises her hand and yells no when her power goes off, knocking Sweeney off his feet. Cameron gets up and runs into some woods near by as Sweeney tells her she is a strong one.

"You did what!?" Kate yells at Dylan. "W-Well, his name is Ted Shoemaker... He was doing a story on us, I mean me, I mean you! H-He knew I was in the witness protection program and--and I was just gonna scare him and he hit me with a frying pan and the teleporter j-just went off and he went 'poof'!" Dylan explains. "Went 'poof'? You digitized a guy? For over a year? Are you crazy and stupid?" Kate says angrily. Dylan tells her that he did for her, which Kate asks when was he going to tell her. "I...I wasn't planning on telling you at all. I thought he might've popped out on the moon or in vega. I didn't know he was gonna mate with a computer virus." Dylan tells her. Kate tells Dylan to watch him as she calls Bones to see what he can do. "I guess I should be flattered. No one ever teleported a douche-bag reporter for me before." Kate thinks as she calls Director Bones. "...I don't know how! Yeah, it said its name was "Kilg%re." Well, then you tell me how to pronounce %! Ninety minutes? That works, but keep it low-profile. This is a residential neighborhood. Your "Ghostbusters" clean-up crew might draw some undue attention." Kate tells Bones. Dylan runs out of his shed telling Kate there is an emergency with Chase and Kate gets off the phone. "She's in Griffith Park! She was babbling about some crazy meta with a razor! She sounds like she's in trouble! We gotta go!" Dylan says all frantic. Kate tells Dylan that he has to stay until Bones's boys come to pick up "Tron".

“You could make a hawk a dove, stop a war with love...” Just then Kate finds herself tied up and dressed like Wonder Woman. “Wh-where am I? Why am I dressed like - - Wonder Woman?” Kate thinks while she hears a crowd in a roman coliseum chant “To the loins with her! Show no Mercy!”. “Greetings, vanquished female. I, Emperor Psychoius Caesar, command you to submit!” Dr. Psycho says dressed up as a roman emperor. Kate thinks to herself “Doctor Psycho? I’ll never submit to his evil! Never!” while Dr. Psycho leans in and tells Kate that he can read minds and that perhaps a firm spanking will change her opinion.

"OK, Cam. I'm not worried. You're the toughest broad I know and an amazing marksman and... Oh no. Where are you Cameron?" Kate thinks as she lands by Cameron's car and sees her gun cut in half. "Come out Sarah! I know you're near! I can smell you!" Sweeney says running through the bushes. "Sarah? Who the hell is that?" Cam thinks as she hides. "Your fate is inevita--" Sweeney states as he hears a engine revving up right before it crashes inti his back. Kate gets out of hte car and asks if Cam is alright. "Give me that electromagnetic knife of yours and I'll--" Cam says when Kate interupts. "You'll nothing! I'm getting you out of here!" Kate grabs Cam and takes off using the staff to fly away with. "You may fly on demon's wings, Sarah... But I will find you both." Sweeney says looking up at the two of them flying off, in what appears to be their nervous system lite up.

"Mmmm... Paris, you've been naughty... Hehheheh... 'll spank you....." Dr. Psycho says while he sleeps. "Psycho. Wake up." "..G'way Mom... 'nother five min-- hmf? Oh. I was wondering when you'd show up-- Talia Al Ghul. You know your name sounds like some Hungarian stew?" Psycho tells Talia's image. Talia tells Psycho that she doesn't have time for his games and was there to send him a message. Psycho asks how she was there, in which she answers, "One of my many holding manufactures the psi-inhibitor you are wearing. I am jamming its signal and beaming this to you psychically." "What? You have the owner's manual to this thing? How 'bout you get this headdress offa me, then?" Psycho asks. Talia tells him no, that the Society has decided that he will take whatever the court's verdict is. Psycho tries to threaten Talia by turning "superhero" like Kid Boomerang and "Slade's daughter". Talia tells him that if he attempted "such foolishness" he would be dead before the breath passes his lips. "Do you understand?" she asks. "Y-Yes. Of course, I do. The will of the Society is my will." Dr. Psycho states. "Words to live by." Talia says before she disappears. "Cute. You made a funny... you bitch." Psycho said glarring where Talia had been.

"I wish you would let me take you to the emergency room." Kate tells Cam as they are walking down the street. Cam tells Kate that the ER's don't know how to treat meta injuries. Kate then says, "Well, you could've at least gotten some vicodin out of the deal. Maybe Dylan has something that can--" Cam interupts with "Why Dylan? What is it with everyone always lumping me in with him? Will somebody tell me that?!" "Methinks the lady doth protest too much." Kate tells her as they walk up to a resturant. Cam tells Kate that she sees Damon and Todd waiting and Kate tells her to go ahead as she answers her cell phone. "Katey, it's Peter. Julie and I have a healthy baby girl!" "That's... great. What's her name?" Kate asks. Peter tells her that the baby's name is Violet Elizabeth Robinson in which Kate responds, "Beautiful name. Do you need me to come get Ram? Is he driving everyone crazy yet?" "Not at all. In fact, he's telling Violet her first fairy tale. I can drop him off tomorrow, if that's ok?" Peter asks.

Kate arrives to the table and tells them that avout the baby, which Todd says, "That's awsome. I love babies, don't you, Damon?" Damon changes the subject by asking what was wrong with Cam and Kate explains that she was attacked by someone calling himself "Sweeney-something... Tom, maybe?" Todd asks if it was Sweeney Todd and Kate asked if he has fought him before. Todd answered, "No, but I know the name. Sweeney Todd is a character from old victorian-era british legend. He was known as "The demon barber of Fleet Street" because he would cut the throats of the men who came in for a shave. His accomplice owned a pie shop and would bake meat pies out of the dead men's flesh. There are dozens of variations on the story." Kate ask how he knew this and he answered that there was a musical back in 1979 and Angela Lansbury played a part in it, "Quite possibly the best american musical ever." Kate looks him straight in the face and tells him, "You know what is gayer that you right now?" "What?" Todd asks, "Absolutely nothing." she answers. Todd retorts if she has seen thier waiter, then asks about Dr. Psycho's trial. Kate gets another phone call and it's Dr. Mid-Nite. Kate asks him if her father was a liar on top of being a sociopath, and Dr. Mid-Nite answers, "A little of each. It seems both of your Grandparents were in the superhero game. And your Grandmother would like to meet you." Kate is surprised that she does and gets her information from Dr. Mid-nite.

"Why am I so nervous? I'm sure she's going to be a sweet little old lady. She'll have a miniature poodle. A bowl of ribbon candy will sit next to a shelf of "Hummels"... Here we go." Kate thinks as she walks up to the door and rings the doorbell. Kat introduces herself and the lady that answers the door says, "And I'm Sandra Knight. I believe you are my Granddaughter. Please come in. Don't be so nervous, Kate... May I call you Kate?" "Sure, uh, Ms. Knight, er, Grandma--" Kate says with hesitation. "Sandra will be fine for now, sweetie." Kate begins to tell Sandra that she doesn't know what Dr. Mid-Nite told her, and Sandra interupts saying that she has many questions and that she will answer them the best that she can. Sandra takes Kate up to her attic and shows her a trunk full of stuff. Kate begins to go through the trunk and pulls out a old "Life" magazine with Phantom Lady on the cover and asks if that was her. Sandra says that her costume, "Kept the menfolk distracted from the fact that I had no real powers. It was such a simple time in so many ways... until it got comlicated."

"You're kidding, right?" glared Phantom Lady. "Sandy, we're both so young and it... it's just that I'm not ready to settle down." Arnold "Iron" Munro tells her. "More like you got what you wanted and are moving on! You-you disgust me!" she yells back at him. Arnold tells her that he can't talk to her when she is like that, then Ted Grant asks her is she is alright. She tells him that it is nothing, Ted then asks if she would like to go to the pub with them and she said yes. At the pub with Ted, Larry Jordan, Johnny Chanmbers and Al Pratt, Sandra sits at the bar. "While the other boys did their thing, Atom--Al Pratt--he was by my side. He'd deny it, but he was the biggest softie in the All-Star Squadron." Sandra tells Kate. "See anything exciting?" Al asks Sandra. "Huh?" "In the bottom of your ginger ale. You've been staring at it like it held the secrets of the universe." "I'm fine, Al." "You're a terrible liar, Sandy. Come on, let's get otta here. We can get some fresh air and you can tell me what's bothering you. And I won't take "no" for an answer, OK?" Al tells her.

"So, Al and I walked for hours. I remember how crisp the air was, how lost I felt, but Al's arm around my shoulder and his gentle voice wore down any resistance I had. And I told him my shameful secret." Sandra tells Kate continuing the story. Sandra asks Al not to hate her for what she is about to tell him and he promises. "Having Al so warm and caring, it just broke down this wall within me and I told him..." "I'm pregnant." "I'm sure my dilemma seems quaint today, but in the '40's, there were no single mothers, and abortions wouldn't be legal for another 30 years. A girl's options were limited--give it up for adoption. Get married. Or be an outcast." "what about the baby's father?" Kate asks. Sandra goes on telling her that she was young and stupid. She didn't tell the father because she thought that if he knew then he wouldn't want her anymore. Sandra tells Kate that Al helped her out the whole time and even brought her to a 'Home for Unwed Mothers'. When she was being check in, they told her that without a emergency contact she could not stay there, so Al volunteered. "Neither one of us expected that to haunt us. The nurse must've assumed Al was the father and took it upon herslef to put it on the birth certificate."

"I'm sorry, Kate. Sorry that a good man like Al Pratt wasn't your Grandfather. That man would be Iron Munro." Sandra tells Kate. Kate asks if he was in the Squadron also and Sandra answers yes that they married after the war and had another baby. "Our second son was taken from us by a costumed maniac--Baron Blitzkrieg. We never found him. Ironic, isn't it? The baby I give up to save grows up to be a murderer... so the fates kill the child I want to keep. I'm just sorry my pain trickled down to you and your son." Sandra said wiping tears away. "Sandra... you were just a kid yourself. You did your best. Believe me, I know how tough it is being a mom. I'm still only a C+ on most days, and my son is seven. This is Ramsey, your Great-Grandson." Kate tells her holding up a picture of Ramsey. Taking the picture to look at it, Sandra tells Kate that he is adorable and looks like Iron when he was a child. Sandra then tells Kate about the rest of her family.




To be continued

Characters:

Cameron Chase
Kate Spencer (Manhunter)
Dylan Battles
Ramsey Robinson
Peter Robinson
Julie Robinson
Todd Rice (Obsidian)
Damon Matthews

Sweeney Todd
Ted Shoemaker
Talia Al Ghul
Doctor Psycho

Dorctor Pieter Cross (Doctor Mid-Nite)
Sandy Knight (Phantom Lady I)

Flashback
Arnold Munro (Iron Munro)
Al Pratt (Atom I)
Ted Grant (Wildcat II)
Lawrence "Larry" Jordan (Airwave I)
Johnny Chambers (Johnny Quick)

Unnamed Nurse

Issue summary written by: glguardian (Tad Dupre)