The Fu Family

Chapter 15

"The elusive boy wonder." That was the first thing he heard when he stepped out of the portal. "You grace us with your presents." Shit.

"Heyy Babs, Wally. Sorry I didn't call. Just had a lot going on you know, then the whole end of the world upon us, that type of thing." The two occupants in the room just looked at him, unblinking, faces carefully blank. He was fucked. Tim snickered behind him. That little brat.

"Look we'll talk when we're finished. Right now we have the world to shut down in fifteen minutes before the zeta tubes are online. So Tim, start us up buddy." Wally said from his seat next to Babs. He hardly looked at Dick, a testament to his anger and frustration with him. So much for fixing things.

Tim walked to the computer and set up his things, Dick doing the same, while the other two turned back to face the computer. They got to work in a relative silence. "Babs, Dick your ten second window is a go in 3...2...1." The two got to work, typing furiously.

"Wally you can finish in 3...2...1." Dick said and Wally's hands flew on the keyboard.

"EMT initiated in 5...4...3...2... and the whole world is offline." Just as Wally finished a load sound was heard and everything went dark. A torch was lit, and the four made their way upstairs. They follow Tim as he lead them to the kitchen. They sat in relative silence for a bit before Dick broke it.

"So, on a scale of one to one hundred, how angry are you at me." He said with a nervous chuckle.

The silence was deafening. Definitely fucked.

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A sudden influx of magic could be felt and that was not reassuring. It made it hard to breath. He has never felt this type of magic. It's too pure, to raw, but not out of control. And it seems that his not the only magic user affected by this. John made his way to Zatanna, who looked like she was strangling to stand.

"You doing okay love?" His thick Liverpool accent shining though.

"I could ask the same of you. You feel it to right? Magic on such a large scale. We have to inform every one." She said with her hand leaning on the wall and panting as if she just ran a marathon.

"I think Fate is gathering everyone at the moment." John helped her up and they made their way to the meeting room. There they see Fate breathing heavily, hands holding him up from his spot on the table. J'onn J'onnz stands by his side to help him. John's legs feel like jelly and Zatanna is on the verge of collapse. Clark goes to help them.

"What wrong? What can we do?" Dinah asks as she see the three magic users.

"Just af-after the black o-out a pow-powerful surge of -man why i-is it so h-hard to breath- magic cov-covered the plant." John said as soon as he was seated, gulping large amounts of air at a time. Fate continued.

"This is a shield. There is only one group thought out history that have such a powerful, raw and pure type of magic that can create a shield at this magnitude. The Order of Guardians."

"And you have no way of breaking the shield?" Batman asked.

"The Order's magic is the essences of life its self. The very essences of the universe. We as magic uses draw from a very small portion of the earths essences. The earth compared to the universe is a losing war. There are ten temples on earth. In each temple there is a Head Guardian that helps manifests the shield but it is the Grand Guardian that brings it together and locks it down. Nobody has tried to go up against the Grand Guardians magic. It's suicide." Fate finished.

"Then why are you three so affected?" Superman asked.

"Any magic user that isn't part of the Order is affected. This is the universe racing to protect the earth but also fighting any foreign beings that are taped into the earths essences." Fate answered but he was slowing down body sluggish.