Intraspace -- The "Suicide Notes" finale!

[jla-villains.livejournal.com]

Ray Palmer's been freed, but the Justice League and their allies are now faced with both a dying and homicidal Enchantress, and a Chronos from somewhere further in the future that seems Hell bent on trapping everyone where they are in order to prevent some future event -- training his first sneak attack on the Cosmic Treadmill that helped bring them to this dimension between time.

"The Witch Queen will be destroyed before she rises ... Ray Palmer will never live to lead the Justice Battalion."

In a swift succession he trains his ray on Firestorm and Joto.

"The future begins here."

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[reducing-ray.livejournal.com]

Ryan starts to say something, but the look on his mentor's face leaves him speechless.

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

Wally can't process this right now. He'll let Hal do it.

Instead, he wordlessly goes to gather up his treadmill.

Giving Jay a helpless look as he does so.

[grey-walker.livejournal.com]

The Stranger addresses the assembled heroes, briefly - in particular, he seems to single out Jay Garrick.

"It will fall to you to forestall the future you have seen."

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

Wally glances to Jay, then back to the Stranger.

"Uh... any chance you could pitch in, too?"

[grey-walker.livejournal.com]

"The Justice Society's role will be paramount, but I will help as I may. It has ever been thus, and thus ever shall it be."

[fleet-feet.livejournal.com]

"Right."

Sigh.

"I know it's against the mysterious shadowy figure in a fedora protocol, but could you maaaaaybe tell us exactly what the JSA will have to do and how to go about it? Just this once? Maybe we can get it all taken care of now, before, y'know, the fabric of time is unraveled again and we're racing around like frantic weasels trying to ravel it back up again...?"

A glance to Choi. "You know, you never hear about things being 'raveled.' It's only 'unraveled.' It's kinda like 'disheveled' - nothing's ever 'heveled.'"

[grey-walker.livejournal.com]

"Would that I could."

That seems to be his final word on the matter, as he turns his gaze elsewhere.

[mrs-dibny.livejournal.com]

"Ray..."

For a second before the flash of the dagger she remembers Hypertime. She remembers that it wasn't supposed to exist anymore, that the Earths all fell in on themselves and people either died or blended together in the here and now, and she can understand the Psycho Pirate's rantings.

It all ended with Jean's life - and effectively Ray's as well.

"The fault, dear Brutus," she murmurs. "Is not in our stars...But in ourselves that we are underlings."

"I'll make sure the attorney is a good one, Ray. Count on it."

But for right now, all she wants is the touch of her husband's hand. It's over, but it's only now she understands how it all began.