Hawkgirl: Legends of Thanagar

[peterparker05]

OT: Forget everything the comics have taught you about Hawkgirl and Hawkman. This is a completely different take on those characters, Thanagar, and everything that happened to her before "Secret Origins." This story is my attempt to fill in the background for Hawkgirl, my attempt to give her an epic background for her pre-Justice League days. (Also, I may re-edit entries from time to time, but I'll alert you so that you can re-read them if I do.

50 years prior......

The third sun of Thanagar was setting. Its shimmering green colors shone through the large Carren windows, made not of glass, but of a complex network of force fields and lasers. From his observatory, on the moon of Mantraxima, he peered through the Carrens, gazing. Within days, there would be no opposition. As the technicians disabled all of the Zeta-Shots from surrounding space, his armada of military jump ships created a blockade around the beheometh planet that was Thanagar. The General Assembly in Sapayan City had become a joke. His slow, but secure takeover had been succesful. His dark brown wings spread, ruffling every feather with such a broad wingspan that any warrior would pale in his prescence. The chimes rang as the titanic steel doors slid open revealing a darkly lit hallway. His attache, Gunther Trum, entered, hands behind his back, with his meek, golden wings fluttering nervously in the prescence of his master, Chancellor Crieton Val.

"Today is a day of firsts my friend, the day of new beginnings," Val exclaimed, "what news do you bring me?"

"Everything is going to plan, my lord" Gunther said quietly, "but I have greater news. The raid on Lavoo was succesful."

"Then...you mean..." Val said through an excited whisper.

"Yes, my lord," Gunther said, "the Order of the Hawk is no more." Gunther hands slid from behind his back and before his master he held one of the helmets that belonged to those of the order. The helmet resembled the head of a hawk, the most noble of all Thanagarian creatures.

"Whose helmet is that? Whose wings twitch no more?" Val bellowed.

"This Musq, this helmet, was, " Gunther sputtered, "Katar Thal's"

[peterparker05]

P.S. Comments are appreciated!

[witness]

Outside of the animated series for Batman and Superman, I don't know too much about the DC universe. So I'm not too worried about you taking the history of Hawkgirl from a new perspective. I'm always interested in reading new stories. You're doing alright so far. I'll keep reading.

[Batsy]

" Tickets for you! Tickets for you! Tickets for everybody, now we can all go!" - Rocko

Seems good so far. I think it will turn out great.

[peterparker05]

Present day......

The Watchtower satellite floated above space in all of its pristine glory. It served as home to justice and it friends. This spacial port was Earth's last line of defense against attacks it green womb, both from aliens and other forces of a dark nature. It is the home of the Justice League.

Deep within one of the many monitoring rooms aboard the titanic satellite, J'onn J'onnz, the Martian Manhunter, sat before a Wayne Enterprises computer console. His red eyes glared at the screen. He'd spent the last hour trying to configure their communications array. About an hour earlier, they'd intercept a communication beam from deep space. Ever since, the Watchtower's been on the blink. He'd tried to contact Batman for technical assistance, but all he could pick up was MTV.

He'd have probably been able to sort out the problem by now if it hadn't been for the human technology. His Martian sub-tracking systems had communications hardware greater than anything Earth had produced in its planet's lifespan. However, even after he and Superman had recovered some of it from the old deserted Martian colonies, it'd been of no use to him. He'd learn the hard way that Martian and human technology didn't exactly mix. What an odd metaphor.

Wait a second. He was picking something up in the communications buffer. There was an odd siganture to the communications beam. It had a Zeta-Beam energy siganture corresponding with it, Thanagarian technology. Perhaps Hawkgirl could help him with this maintenance problem, but more questions raised in his mind. Who would send a message to Earth using Thanagarian technology?

"Telepathic alert. Hawkgirl please respond," J'onn calmly stated through telepathy.

[peterparker05]

4 years prior...

SAPAYAN CITY

Phase pistol in hand, Shayera Hol crept around the ledge of Xania's Tower, a gigantic tower made completely of the finest Mantraxian emeralds. Her light brown feathers ruffled up against the shining surface. Sweat perspirated down her forehead and then blew away in the slight winds that ruffled her vibrant red hair. She wore a solid white uniform, designed to reflect phase blasts from the most dastardly of criminals.

A slight ticking noise began to emit from the building. She recognized the noise, something from her Dearrnen training. Two long ticks followed by three short ones in increasing intervals, was that an alarm or a transmission system.

"Oh no!" Shayera exclaimed as she leapt from the building and allowed her wings to embrace the air. She flew around the building's corner, blowing her cover. Setting her phase pistol for a stun setting, she aimed her weapon upon a masked person operating a large, transluscent Tribalt Bomb. His wings shielded by a personal energy barrier, he payed no heed to the stern detective.

"Disarm that bomb!" Shayera ordered, "this is a treasurery building, you don't want to involve the Imperial Guard in this." Her threat was not false, blowing up a government building in Thanagar's capital would certainly have invoked Chancellor Val's police soldiers.

"I can't!" the mysterious man shouted from under his shapeless black mask.

"You can," Shayera replied, firing a warning blast from her pistol toward the ledge next to the criminal.

"I must save Thanagar," the masked man exclaimed, " there, the bomb's set!" He looked closely at the Tribalt Bomb and pressed a large glowing blue button in the middle of the bomb. Speakers emitted from the sides and blared a message so loud that all of Sapayan City could hear it.

"You are not safe nor free anymore, all is not as it seems. Rise up against Val. Save yourselves!"

Shayera fired the phase pistol at the man's control belt, disabling his wing's energy shields. He turned quickly, throwing 15 Blaster Crackers at Shayera. Surrounded in a fray of tiny fire and lightning storms, Shayera pulled out her communicator from a pocket on her leg. "This is Detective Shayera Hol at Xania's Tower. A Tribalt Bomb has been activated. The criminal is en route, attempting to escape. We need back up to clear the area before the tower explodes. End transmission," she said with exasperation, flying past the clouds of smoke emitted from the Blaster Crackers.

Where had this mysterious man gone to? She scanned the area looking for answers as she immersed from the dark grey smoke and immerged into the orange sky. Then she noticed his speckled wings. He was flying behind a commercial air tram.

BOOM!

Xania's Tower exploded. A large energy wave immersed from the tower's tip, sending shockwaves in all directions. Half of the tower had been reduced to debris, falling through the air in scattered patterns of no sense. Shayera swerved and swooped to avoid large pieces of emerald piping.

Following behind Shayera, was another Thanagarian woman in a pitch black military uniform. She stood out among the flying rubble with her bright blue hair and shining white wings visible to all. Behind her was a small flying troop of 20 members of the Imperial Guard.

"Detective Hol, retreat, by order of the Chancellor Val himself," the blue haired woman ordered.

"And who exactly are you? This is my case," Shayera hollered back.

"General Tola Chang and not anymore!" she replied as her troops passed Shayera and chased after the masked man as he dove for one of the city's air vents. Shayera flew straight up in the air. Not even looking at the damage below her, but stopped at the top of the now open Xania's Tower. Expecting to see the burnt riches of a building of the treasurery, she was surprised by what she did see. Before the guards noticed her, she peered at the open room in the tower. Why were data rods and Photon Missiles being stored in Xania's Tower?

[Livewire]

Pp05, this is so interesting! I have no idea what Hawkgirl's history is in the comics, which is why I was so very eager to read this. Please don't stop. I want so much to read more.



Waiting patiently for more -L-