Second Chances: Impulse

Chapter 21

The attacks had given Ralph the reason he'd needed to have Carver transferred into Argus custody and he'd even asked Wally to be there to provide additional security, since he wouldn't be surprised if Carver's people attempted to do something during the transfer. In fact, he was counting on it, since this was the perfect opportunity for Carver's lackeys to try and bust him out. Which was why they were not alone. Ralph was taking a page from Team Flash's old play book from their first year, except this time it was an authorized prisoner transfer. He was currently upfront with the transport's driver, keeping watch on the road. Wally, who was dressed in his Impulse suit, was using his speed to scout ahead every mile for possible threats while Kira, who'd already showed him her Cyborg form and he agreed with Wally's assessment that Cisco would be jealous if he knew, while Dinah, or Silver Wolf, was riding in the back with about six highly trained Argus commandos and of course, their prisoner, Mr. Joseph Carver and Dinah smirked when she saw that prison life had not been kind to him, since he looked very disheveled, his hair was overgrown, he had a beard growing and he looked kind of beat up. Finally, Jesse was, as usual, running mission control from their base, using both Argus and McCulloch satellites to monitor the situation from there.

"Impulse, see anything out there?" Jesse asked.

"Nothing yet. Just a lot of trees, a lot of rocks, and a lot of empty roads. But then again, that doesn't mean much." Impulse said.

"True. I'm still working on a few upgrades to your suit that might be able to help with that in the future, but anyways, Cyborg, what do you have?" Jesse asked, using the codename Kira had chosen.

"Nothing on my scanners yet. By the way, I would've been way more into this whole Cyborg thing if I'd known I could fly. This is awesome." Cyborg said, causing everyone on the comm channel to chuckle.

"Keep an eye out. I'm still not sure it was a good idea to commit the entire team to this." Jesse said.

"We need to make sure that Carver reaches the detention facility." Impulse reminded her.

"I know, but still, this kind of leaves the city defenseless and what if my dad's thugs try to take advantage of that." Jesse asked.

"That's why you're also monitoring the city for anything that pops up so I can zoom in, take care of it and then zoom back." Impulse reminded her.

"And I'm also on standby for that, since Silver Wolf is more than capable of defending the transport herself if needed. Especially since you gave her and Dibny that tech that makes them immune to the power dampening field we equipped the transport with." Cyborg said, since Jesse had studied the specs of the power dampening tech and had managed to reverse engineer devices that would make the users immune to their power dampening tech.

"Though I'm not sure how much good that'll do me, since my powers aren't exactly fit for closed quarters like this transport." Silver Wolf said, since her howl was meant to be used in more open areas, not in this small transport, since she could end up killing them all if she tried to use it.

"You don't need your powers to kick ass, since you've got more combat training than any of us." Impulse reminded her.

"True, but it is nice to have." Silver Wolf said, since she was glad she had her howl or cry back, remembering how she'd felt after she'd had her throat cut by Stanley Dover, which had cost her her cry. Which was why she was glad that her suit had been reinforced to protect her neck.

"True." Impulse agreed, though he had to admit, this had been too easy. If all his years of training under Barry had taught him anything, it was that something should've happened by now.

Back on the transport, Silver Wolf was staring hard at Carver, counting down the seconds until they arrived at the prison and she was done with him.

"What are you looking at me like that for?" Carver asked.

"You disgust me. What you did to your wife and daughter." Silver Wolf said.

"I'm not ashamed of my actions. After all, in this world, the only person you can really watch out for is yourself and I did what I did to make sure I'd be able to." Carver said.

"Yeah, that line will go over great at your trial." Silver Wolf said.

"Except there won't be a trial." one of the guards said under their helmet.

"What?" Silver Wolf asked, right as the guard got up and pulled off her helmet to reveal the face of none other than Lisa Snart.

"Time to go." Lisa said.

"Things just got complicated." Silver Wolf said as she heard comms go dark.

"Go ahead. Let's see how well you do without your precious howl." Lisa said smugly, only to be punched by Silver Wolf, who then extended her nails into claws.

"Who says I only have the howl. After all, wolves aren't just known for their howl." Silver Wolf said as they began to fight.