Meanwhile, At the Abandoned Gas Station of Solitude...

[gear_parts]

"Soooo..." Richie kicks back in one of the chairs he's made, which immediately begins massaging his back while grabbing an ice-cold Coke from the fridge with a long mechanical arm and handing the beverage to him. "Now that you're back... how was New York, bro?"

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[shock2yoursystm]

"Oh, y'know, same ol', same ol'. The Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, badly dressed zombies rising from the grave." Virgil replies, magnetically pulling a can into his hand.

[gear_parts]

"Woah, zombies?" Richie blinks. "Bro, you were in a Romero movie?"

[shock2yoursystm]

"More like the afterlife's version of What Not to Wear. Some guy brought a bunch of models back from the dead to get revenge on this clothing designer who fired him.""

[gear_parts]

Gear blinks at him. "You're shitting me."

[jla_villains]

To say that he was attacking people randomly would be a lie of the most horrid proportions.

Roy G. Bivolo was not attacking random civilians.

He had a reason for what he was doing.

Really.

See, his ex-girlfriend of a half-hour ago had accused Roy of being gay and had broken up with him. Really, she had no reason to accuse him of any such thing. Well, okay, there was the fact that he called himself the Rainbow Raider, but really, his powers were light-based and had to do with the rainbow. What else was he supposed to call himself?

And so, angry that yet another relationship of his had actually failed to work out, Roy had donned his special goggles and was now tearing it up in a city far away from the Flash, attacking lovers with his powers, turning them against each other by painting them angry shades of red and black, or making them sad and suicidal by coloring them different shades of blue.

There were riots on the street, as well as wannabe emo lovers.

He hoped his ex was watching.

[shock2yoursystm]

"Yo, Van Gogh! Knock it off before I go Pollock on your butt!" Static flies onto the scene.

[jla_villains]

Roy looks up at the voice to see a young African-American male appear on the scene.

Black Lightning has a kid? The hell?! Who is he? Black Vulcan?

Narrowing his eyes, Rainbow Raiders takes aim at the mysterious boy, intent on turning him green and calming him down.

[gear_parts]

"I don't think so," Gear replies, moving in from behind the brightly-clad villain. He tosses a sphere towards the Raider, which, in mid-air, unleashes a coil of tentacles which reach for the Raider, intent on wrapping him up...