Chapter 11 - Tresspassing

London. Secret Facility Under Big Ben.

Mylo was dressed in a maintenance uniform. He wore a worn out ball cap and had oil rubbed on his face to help his disguise. At the moment he was hooking up the sleeping gas canisters to the air filtration units. The canisters were disguised as a fancy named gas. Anticoagulant Refrigerant. He had no clue what that was off the top of his head, but it did not matter to him.

The process only took an hour to do, he only had to worry about getting checked on once. After the guard looked over his work station he grunted and motioned for Mylo to follow. Mylo nodded and followed, bringing his work tools with him. Then Mylo was led outside to his maintenance van and climbed inside. Once he drove off he sighed as he headed in the direction of an abandoned dockyard.

Once he arrived he ditched the van and walked towards the road way as he quickly and discreetly changed out his overalls into dress shirt and jeans. Letting his hair flow freely and wiping the oil off with wet wipes.

When he got to the road he waved down a taxi and climbed inside. "Take me to a nice pub you recommend, I need a good drink and meal."

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Metropolis. Scarlett's Apartment.

Scarlett pulled out her keys that jingled as she started searching for her apartment key. Unlike Mylo, she preferred to have an actual place where she could rest and not work. But as she opened the door and closed the door behind her she sighed.

Because as much as she liked the idea of having a place where she could sleep and stay without worrying about work, it just didn't happen in reality. As Scarlett set down her bag and took off jacket she made a casual look over her apartment. It was in the middle of the day so it was somewhat lit up.

Not enough for it to give a detailed look of the intruder on the couch but she already recognized her from the scent. As Scarlett took her gun and knife out of the holsters she walked towards her living room. "Am I going to worry about intruder's from now on? Or should I just move?"

Talia chuckled which sent a shiver down Scarlett's spine. Scarlett might be into women, but there was something about this particular woman that scared her, maybe it was because she and Mylo operated on the same crazy wavelength of planning years in advance.

"I had to personally follow and track you two down. No worries about intruders, but you might need more of those greek yogurts," Talia nodded to the coffee table where a stack of yogurt cups and a spoon were. "I arrived yesterday and had been lying in wait… to say the least it has been a rather anticlimactic experience, I thought you were coming home yesterday."

Scarlett let out a bark of laughter, "Hahahaha! Sorry to mess up your experience but I had to stay all day and night to report about my latest assignment. I am sure you already have an idea of what it was."

Talia nodded, "yes, you managed to obtain a vaccination and thus a poison to use against vampires. I would like the formula so I can have my new group start sneaking it into key positions and then distribute it world wide as a flu vaccine."

Nodding Scaralett walked over to her kitchen, "okay, I will need a few minutes. You want some pizza, I think I have a frozen one here?"

Talia sighed, then after a moment she responded, "sure, I couldn't shatter my dignity any worse. Pepperoni right? What is Mylo working on now?"

"Yes it is pepperoni." Scarlett was in the kitchen pulling apart a frozen pizza box when Talia walked in with the stack of yogurt cups. "Mylo is stealing magic stuff for Cadmus, they are still struggling with it. Meanwhile Mylo has already merged magic and technology." Talia tossed the spoon she used for the yogurts into the sink while dumping her trash in the trash can.

"It is such a shame… all that technical expertise and he and you can only barely grasp the basics of magic." Talia only understood a few basic spells herself.

"Actually…" Scarlett set the pizza on a metal tray. "Mylo just decided to translate and format all those old spells and magic into a format similar to coding, since he did that we have been able to grasp it really easily. I can now enhance my body with magic and cast a few basic spells at will."

Talia nodded in surprise, "that is good. It will be useful, but it is time I got to why I came here."

"You mean it wasn't for the vampire stuff."

"Ha… no. The Vampires will surely retaliate and plan against us when they realize what we have done. But they will aim those attacks mostly at the source of the attacks, which will be Batman and the Justice League. Which will serve as the perfect distraction for one part of our plan." Talia explained as she opened the fridge and pulled out a bottle of wine.

"That would be…?" Scarlett pulled out two one glasses from a rack where they hung upside down.

"While the Justice League is distracted we will have a chance to break into the Fortress of Solitude. Once there we will proceed with three different operations; theft of all design specs and information we can get, stealing the schematics of Apokolips that Superman acquired from Mister Miracle, and killing any criminals kept in the Phantom Zone by the Justice League." Talia explained while tapping her finger on the counter.

"Okay… in that case we would need capable allies… ah, I see." Scarlett set the glasses on the counter then moved the tray with the frozen pizza into the oven.

"We need to start recruiting, we already have five of us but we need more. I especially don't want to rely too much on those Otherworlders. No telling what they will do, especially Power Girl. She has yet to even reveal her identity as a superhero and she is already a famous business woman in Jump City." Talia started to pour the wine into the glasses, "which brings us to our first target for recruitment."

Scarlett tilts her head, she didn't know that many people in Jump City.

"I need you to go and find Mylo's Ex, Blackfire. From what I understand she had excellent combat abilities and was extremely adaptable and fierce with her strategies." Talia lifted the wine glass and looked at the red wine as she swished it back and forth. "More specifically we need her experience with commanding a fleet of Starships."

Scarlett rubs her forehead with her hand. This won't be an easy assignment. "You mean Blake… I am not too sure how much you know about their relationship but Mylo might not like this and I can almost guarantee it is not for the reason you think."

Talia tilts her head, "well that is fine, I can do the convincing I just need to know where I am going to find her. Even the league of assassins has been having trouble finding her, I am guessing Mylo has something to do with it."

Scarlett nodded, "so you came to me in the hope that I will be able to schedule a meeting or tell you her location. I will message her to meet you at a place in Jump City, it is a nice and memorable bar. I will even join you as an escort."

Talia frowned, "yes… that should be sufficient… I suppose." Talia set down her glass as Scarlett pulled her phone out.

"Hey Blake this is-" Scarlett stopped mid sentence as her face transformed from a neutral expression that Talia was used to, into an expression of happiness and delight. "Ah! My adorable sweet one! What are you doing with a phone?"

There seemed to be a few minutes as Scarlett only listened then she suddenly spoke, "that is great sweety, and I will definitely find some time this next week to come visit you. Bye~" Then Scarlett's expression changed again to a neutral one, "Hey Blake, someone wants to meet up with you to hire you… yes it is for a long term job."

Scarlett sighed and walked into the other room, at this point Talia could only barely hear every other word. Not that it mattered, it sounded like 'Blake' was Blackfire's cover. So now she will have her meeting.

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Washington, Virginia. Pentagon. Underground File Vault Room.

"I must admit, I thought breaking in here would be harder than this." Question pointed out as he followed Batman through a row of shelves filled with boxes of files.

"The best kind of secret is the one in plain sight. If they really are part of a classified organization or group from the government, their records would be moved to this remote and unguarded area. The only issue is that the door is only unlocked for a limited amount of time and always under watch. So we have about an hour to find what we need." Batman explained as he ignored shelf after shelf.

"Okay… I can see why no one would bother to break in. Could a new entrance be made-"

"No, the room is put in a vacuum state when the door is fully closed. So they would know if there was a breach because of their instruments." Batman added on just as he stopped at a shelf labeled, 'S-00'. "Here is the shelf, start looking. For anything on a Mylo, Scarlett, Phoenix, Thanatos, or Ghosts of Cadmus. We at least need a starting point for our investigation."

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Justice League Watchtower.

"Are you sure you don't want a road trip buddy?" Hal asked for the third time. He had been asking since J'onn had first revealed what he was doing. Hal had been there already to introduce himself on behalf of the lantern corp, but beyond that he had not had reason to go there. But now it is starting to seem like a good opportunity.

"I am only going to visit my family for a short while. I also need to inquire about Oliver and Bruce's requests of placing an early warning system on Mars." J'onn explained as made his way over to his ship, "but I will be bringing back a surprise."

As J'onn climbed aboard his ship Hal looked at Barry, "do you think he is bringing a flower… or food." Barry only glanced at Hal for a moment before he disappeared in a flash of lightning. Leaving Hal to wonder and question himself.

Barry reappeared in the main hall where several other members were looking at a holographic table. "It looks like Question and Bruce made it into the Pentagon just fine, Clark is watching from nearby and listening to make sure they make it out okay." Wonder Woman stated as she had up a holographic projection of the Pentagon was up on the table.

"The Titans have also reported that their computer systems are compromised." Red Tornado reported as he motioned to an open comline, "but we have been able to at least acquire more information on who they are thanks to Batgirl's efforts. While the current Robin-" There was a slight chuckle from Aquaman at that distinction. "Has made progress in finding the code that compromised the systems. He determined that it was world wide coding that discreetly modified all systems with a single objective of removing any images and documents with the subjects in it."

"That does not seem like something that can just… happen." Ted Kord pointed out.

"It doesn't, there is a safety net that should have prevented that on the League systems alone, not to mention the various governments and groups." Barry states as he pulls up the location of a building using one of the consoles, "this is a government hub dedicated to the internet, using the supercomputer in there we would be able to find a lead. There is no way to get around it. We can try using that to find where a mass of data like that would be inputted from."

"Okay, we can do that later. Batgirl, feel free to inform us of what you know." Wonder Woman declared as the comline was opened.

"Okay! Okay, I was able to find school records of one Scarlett Fenix, which is the scary strong lady we met. She graduated from Gotham Academy at eighteen years of age and then went straight into the military, officer school not enlisted. Luckily, they stored the psychological evaluation sessions with the school records so I got a look at those as well."

Batgirl was excitedly speaking while papers could be heard ruffling in the background, "it turns out that Scarlett has always had a bad habit of picking fights when odds are not in her favor. But she did always stick up for the little guy, there were plenty of detentions and suspensions because she solved a problem with violence. Wow… this actually goes all the way back to… hmm… I think I just found something else… from when she was nine to twelve there is a clear lack of her fighting. Hmm… give me a few minutes to look over this." There was a click as the comlink was muted.

"So all we know about these two people is that one is called Scarlett Fenix, incredibly violent, a military lifestyle, seemingly disappeared digitally speaking. Then there is the other one 'Mylo', Wonder Woman saw him in Khandaq briefly. Supergirl has his first name and phone number, we have been holding off on calling it because we wanted to identify him first. But in the face of the current issue I think it would be a good idea to give him a call." Dinah Lance, also known as Black Canary, pointed out as she motioned to the piece of paper that had been put into a stasis field, because they tried to extract a fingerprint or genetic sample.

"Hmm… This is probably a good idea, we want to do this before Superman comes back." Wonder Woman agreed and glanced over as Hal flew over to join the superheroes that were gathered around the holographic table.

"Hey guys! What did I miss?"

"I will put a trace on the call, Supergirl put your phone on the table." Flash ordered as he started typing at a console.

Kara sighed as she set her phone on the table then she typed in the phone number she had already memorized. Why did this only happen to her? All the hot and attractive men were either dying or evil.

A moment later the line was ringing.

*Ring* *Ring*

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At the same time, but an hour before dawn. London. Under Big Ben.

Mylo was walking through the underground facility unimpeded. As he walked he felt a vibration in his pocket where his phone is. He had it on silent vibration… just in case. But he groaned in annoyance, because as he pulled it out the vault door to the artifact room was opening up.

Meaning he would have to split his focus, but when he looked at the caller ID he figured it would be worth it. So he slid the green icon to indicate answering.

"Hello, this is Mylo!" Even without the other side saying anything he had already realized he was muffled because of the gas mask. "Ah! Sorry, just use that super hearing to listen closer, I can't remove my mask at the moment."

Mylo walked into the vault room and started walking around looking for the two artifacts he absolutely had to get. One of them was an ancient tome from the days of Camelot, the other was a crystal ball.

"Umm… okay… Mylo… I was just wondering why did you save me?" Kara asked as the members of the league looked at her quizzically and she could only shrug in response. His voice really was distorted from the sound of it. They could barely make out that there was a voice.

"Is that all? Here I was hoping I might have a date…" Mylo let that hang in the air as he found the crystal ball he was looking for. He put it in a cushioned box and then inside the bag he brought. As he was about to step away he noticed a stack of tarot cards and grabbed them as well. "I saved you because I didn't want to leave a sleeping beauty out in the middle of the harsh desert, especially since any weirdo in the desert could walk up to you."

Kara was now blushing, "Umm… we can make time… for a date." This time even Flash stopped typing to look at her, she only shrugged in response.

"Oh?..." Mylo found the tome he was looking for, it was black with purple highlights and he could tell just from the feel of it that it was bound in dragon leather. Then he looked around and noticed a few other cursed tomes, after a moment he grabbed one that gave off a demonic vibe. Then he went walking around looking for a few other artifacts. "Hmm… in that case… how about this Saturday evening? I can pick you up or meet you somewhere for dinner."

"In that case… you can pick me up at my apartment around 6 PM. You can pick the place." Kara answered. Getting an inquisitive look from the members of the Justice League.

Mylo had just finished packing up the rest of the artifacts he needed to satisfy his theft for Cadmus. As he walked out of the vault he noticed a group of soldiers in tactical gear. They had the symbol of the UK flag on their arm under a skull over a cross. Probably from the United Kingdom's Supernatural Task force.