Head Above The Water|Arthur Curry

1.0 Careful, She Bites.

         A couple of weeks passed and the group had gathered everything they needed, although it took some convincing, but Bruce settled on leaving the batmobile. Now one question stood.

"How in the hell are we gonna get there?" Victor asked as he stared at the ancient map made of paper gold. Everyone gathered around the round table, looking down at the map. Tempest was deep in thought, how could she open a portal long enough for everyone to hop in. Her eyes slowly panned to Barry.

"Cy, calculate how many volts of electricity it was to power the mother box." She asked breaking the sudden silence.

"Why do you need to know?" He asked. She quickly got off the couch and bolted up to her room. She ran into her closet, digging out a large locked trunk. She opened it hastily and grabbed a dark sphere. She ran down stairs, almost slipping in the process.

"Okay, mind sharing with the crowd doll face?" Arthur asked. She nodded and presented the sphere to them.

"What the hell is that?" Barry asked, poking it. She scolded, shielding it with her body.

"This is a khorgagony sphere, it is what we use to travel between dimensions. Usually, it's powered by this big port call Ophany, it uses masses amount of electricity to activate. Once open you have a small window of opportunity to actually get in, and if someone isn't thinking of the same place, you get croagged..."

"What does that mean?" 

"It means that if your thinking of some other places your body part separate between both those places, so if you wanna go to France but you think about Poland maybe an arm or leg will go to Poland and the rest to France." Everyone cringed.

"We have a problem though, none of us know what the Sky-lands look like. Except you." Bruce points out.

"Yeah, that's the risky part...." Everyone was silent.

"Good thing I have magical powers that can pop pictures into each of your brains!" She said enthusiastically. 

"You can do that?! You know how much easier some of our missions would have been if you would have told us before?!?" Barry yelled, as memories of the time they had to defuse a nuclear warhead by memory.  

"Yeaaah! Either way, so Cy, can how much power did we generate for the mother box?"

"According to all of my calculations, we created a maximum 25 million volts of electricity." He said, she frowned. She took the sphere from the the table and handed it to Victor.

"Do you think you can take a guess on how many we need for this?" She asked. He looked down and nodded.

"This might take a sec..." They all watched as he began to calculate and program in the air. 

"So we basically need to open this fun size worm hole to your home land?" Bruce comments, she hummed as she petted the golden feathers on her familiar.  It was almost calming for her, the glistening feathers flicker in all their glory. The gryphon had grown into a red almost crimson coat, the ends of it's feathers embellished with flicker of gold and white. It's feet of a lion had ferocious sharp daggers ready to rip out an enemys throat.

"So I got the number, and you're not gonna like it..."

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"So the plan is to what!?!" Barry exclaimes, they were at a cliff side waiting for Clarke and Diana to show up with the 'metal parts'.

"You're fucking insane! You know that right." Victor comments as she begins to study the cliff side.

"Well it's the only plan that came to mind! If yo uh have any better plans I'd be pleased to hear it!" A string of silence fell bewtween all of them.

"Exactly... constructive criticism my ass." She mumbles under her breath.

The sound of a cape struggling against air went through the wind. Her eye caught the suit and she smiled.

"I see that our errand was no trouble." She says. Clarke grumbles, and shows his lighting stricken cape, a blacken spot on the bottom of his cape.

"Where are the others?" Diana's voice rang through the forest as she came in carrying a city tank of water.

"Well Arthur he's getting our arsenal ready, you know filling it up with booze. Bruce I believe is dressing up. So! Now to uh, set up our DIY portal!" She said enthusiastically, clasping her hands together. Everyone's face was blank.

"Great! The girl back to her crafts, this isn't going to be a disaster... why don't you leave this to the men, sweetheart." Victor scoffs. Everyone snickered, a sudden tension in the air.

"You know, I hate when people assume because we are women, we aren't capable of doing male normalized activities like building. I also hate people who choose to be misogynistic and comply with said gender normalization." She growled, her eyes a visible hue of glowing amber orange. Every one had stepped away from Victor, almost in a defensive stance.

"And a quick side note, you better be fucking me or my mother to call me sweetheart, and last time I checked you're not either of those." She seethed. Victor had been backed into a boulder, what was left of his flesh was damp with sweat. 

A sequence of chuckles and comments were released from the team as she turned on her heel. Victor stood in awe⏤almost aroused at her sudden outburst, in fact most of the men present were aroused by her sudden outburst. Diana smirked and nodded her head in pride.

"Put that on your list of 'What Not To Say to Women." Barry joked, earning chuckled from Clark. Arthur laughed as he clasped his hand on Victor's shoulder.

"Careful, she bites." He rasped out. Victor gave him a vigorous nod. Tempest, now ticked, looked down to all the material she had asked for. All were conductors of electricity; water, copper, brass and steel.  She began to sort things in a rather general pile.

"Alright boys, watch and learn." She began to bend and combine the materials into a spherical alter, a claw like leaver to hold the khorgagony sphere as the conduit. The water began to trickle into the empty space. Her eye flicker to Clark, he nodded and began to blow into the water crystallizing it into solid ice. 

"There we go! Now, here's the plan we leave tomorrow at dawn. Barry will go ass far as the land itself will let him, I will be standing here holding the khorgagony sphere, I will amplify whatever power he conducted, thats where you clark my man will come into place. You will heat up the sphere as much as you can and I'll also amplify that as well and hopefully I'll survive and go save my people! Yay!" She said rapidly.

"Yeah, cause all of this spells yay!" Barry says, causing a groan of agreements.

"Are you still in or what?" Tempest exclaims. 

"Yeah we are, we all gonna die someday, why not go out saving a bunch of gods and shit. Sounds like fun to me." Arthur groans out. 

"Oh stop bitching, we'll be fine! Probably gonna come out with one less limb or something, but totally still living." 

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