Chapter Two: Black as Night

[Enchantress]

Victoria held on to Spider-Man a little tighter as he swung them down 8th Avenue in Barry's direction. Even when they dropped lightly to the ground, she was still holding on for a moment.
"Oh..err..sorry." she blushed just a bit and took a step back.
It was a keen eye that scoured the area as they had she and the Spider had glided through the city. Something was up, and she let a little sigh of relief out that they weren't in her reality.
MSG looked like a virtual shell of itself. Not the grand arena she had sat out side of for two day with Felicia and Peter trying to get concert tickets.
"Well, it was pretty much established by the green minotaur guy that something was "wrong" with this reality. Otherwise, we would not be here. It's pretty basic observational studies. You listen with the big guy talks, he gives you a good idea what you're going in to while being vague and mysterious, you jump in feet first and fend off all the crap they don't want here." Victoria said nonchallantly at Rogue's line of speech. Turning to Barry, she smiled at him.
"I like you kid, I like you alot, but if you call him anything but Hank, Beast or Dr. McCoy again, I'll let him loose on you and you can play pick up the pieces later. Got me? Good. Now, seeing as I never met Dr. Strange in all my time in the Village back home, and Hank worked with the man, I feel it's only pretty damned obvious who's going to know where he lives. Unless someone else in this group happened to be his houseboy. So instead of streaking off blind eye and waiting for the pro's here to come swinging in to save your ass, next time, wait." Turning away from Barry, she looked directly at Hank.
"Now Dr. I assume we'll be needing your acute sense of smell to lead us to the great Dr.'s abode. Since that's our only lead at this point, unless some of the rest of you have any other bright ideas, you can quit with the "but what ifs?" They aren't getting us anywhere and when you doubt yourself, you put the rest of us in peril. And as much as I like all of you..."Victoria looked over her shoulder at the new recruits..."and trust me, I do... it's not my desire now, or tomorrow to wind up street pizza because someone pissed off some higher power. Now, shall we?"
Stuffing her hands in the pockets of her pants as she made her way the short distance to Dr. Strange's abode, Victoria was easily able to pick up the mental picture in Hank's mind of Dr. Strange's place in his reality. Finding here however should prove interesting. She knew, just from her short time with the good Dr., that he'd have all sorts of tricks up his sleeves.
But something else was on her mind right now, and try as she might, she couldn't quit thinking about it. Maybe it was just frustration at the entire situation, but in the end, it all boiled down to the fact that she had been lied to. And everything from that point on in her life, had been based on that lie. Just like what had happened with Sinister, she now saw the Timebroker as no better than her own twisted father. Everything she had done was all a direct effect of thinking she'd never be able to return home.
"And now? What happens from here?"

[Harley]

"Sure thing, Chuckles." Barry said, smiling, too Victoria. The conversation had already lost his interest though when 'Toria began her speech, so Barry sat down on the pavement, grabbing his backpack and opening it. Placing the JLA cap on his head, Barry also took out his Playboy Magazine. "Now, if you don't mind, I've got some reading I need to catch up on." he said with a devilish grin while he flipped through the pages "'Cat in the Hat is fine, but not during sex.'" He said with a laugh "Oh, Alyson, you crack me up everytime."

[Spiderbob]

Peter gracefully landed the Victoria and himself to the ground, still feeling slightly awkward with She had aroused something inside him, he couldn't describe it, couldn't put his finger on what it was, but it was there, and he was unsure on how to handle the feeling. His eyes looked down at the woman who's arms were still tightly wrapped around him, and for that brief moment all he saw was her. But then the moment ended. She borke her hold on him, apologizing as she did so.
"It's alright."
His mumbled reply to her apology lacked the confidence and seculsiveness it usually maintained. He regained both as his attention shifted to his teammates that had arrived. He followed Hank to the location of Stephen Strange only to find the place looking very deserted.
As Rogue spoke her concerns of their perdicament, he turned towards the young speed demon, preparing to give the amatuer a stern lecture, only to be beaten to it by Victoria. She had said what needed to be said, probably better and more tolerable than he would have. He hoped that her speech would knock some sense into Barry, only to find that the young speedster had ignored her to look at a porn magazine.
"This kid is testing my patience."
Trying to keep his anger in check, Peter fired a shot of impact webbing at the boy's magazine. Even if it missed the intended target, it would still get his point across.
"Pay attention runt."
Peter didn't bother to mask the anger in his voice. If this kept up, they were going to have to have a nice long talk with the little brat. Turning his attention back to the suppossed home of this reality's Dr. Strange, Peter looked up and down the house's exterior.
"Doesn't look like it's been lived in for years. People running for cover like their lives depended on it, a torn down and beat up version of Hank's Dr. Strange's house. What is going on here?"
His spider sense wasn't going off, so they weren't in any immediate danger, but that didn't mean that they were safe.
"Mr. McCoy, wanna check the house out? You could sniff around for any sign of the good doctor and I could warn you of any potential danger?"

[Solace]

Paige hadn’t said much while they moved about New York, maybe it was the city itself that was creeping her out or the fact that it seemed the newbies all wanted to make a name for themselves. Well whatever it was it’d made the blond southerner fall silent, but that quickly changed as they entire group met up again and the new speed demon Barry opted to pull out a porn magazine while Victoria spoke.

“Yuh know ah’ve half a mind t’ turn mahself into solid stone and smash yuh’re head in.” Paige snarled at Barry, finding his behavior overall just very disrespectful and vulgar. “Now put the porn away and stop givin’ teenagers a bad name.” The blond tapped the toe of her combat boot on the ground as she leveled a glare at Barry, having her far share of experience dealing with hormonal teenage boys.

“Ah’m all for Spiderman’s plan, because frankly it’s the only plan that’s been put in place thus far.” Paige’s impatience’s was showing through, it wasn’t really that she was impatient with anyone but more with the whole situation.