JLA Watchtower (Archive)

Noah is the first of the group to arrive - taking the time to set up a laptop at the large meeting table. They are gathering to discuss the recent conflict with Dr. Sivana's so-called Monster Society - their first meeting as a group since the invitations went out to the new members.

He also has a small box with him - gifts for his colleagues that should help keep them another step ahead of the good guys, and their fellow bad guys.

Things were coming together nicely. Shade, Talia, and Brainiac - worthy peers for the refined Society. Still a handful of others to contact, of course - but progress was progress.

Noah sits at his computer station, monitoring several data feeds as he lets his mind wander a little - thinking about the technological improvement that Brainiac might be able to make to these systems. His reverie is interrupted by the noiseless red flashing of an indicator light - one of the tertiary alarm systems in his safe house.

Anyone else might attribute it to malfunction. Noah, naturally, assumes his intruder is simply adept enough to have discovered and disarmed the primary and secondary alarm systems.

"Unless we're dealing with a speedster, I have at least thirty seconds.."

With a resigned sigh, he activates the security system - it wouldn't slow down a big gun for too long, but it was merely the prelude..