"JOHN, YOU COPY?" Harcourt asked over the radio once Economos had started to make his way over to the barn.

"Yes. Copy," he replied through clenched teeth before he looked back to where he came from.

"Don't look back!" Harcourt scolded, making him face forward again.

"They're everywhere. This is fucking stupid," Economos told them.

"Remain calm. Head towards the barn like you know what you're doing. Relax your face," Harcourt explained.

"Shut up. I know."

"This better go smoothly," Jada muttered under her breath, cracking her knuckles nervously. She waited anxiously for something to happen since Smith was using the binoculars and she couldn't see that far.

"Hey!" she heard a butterfly say through the radio, making her tense up.

"Fuck," Economos said softly.

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going inside."

"Why?" the butterfly asked.

Smith and Harcourt looked at each other in concern. "Fuck!" Harcourt whisper-shouted.

"What do we do?" Jada asked quietly.

"Just wait," Harcourt replied.

"Because of this bag," Economos told the butterfly.

"What the fuck does that mean?" Smith questioned and Harcourt shook her head.

"Okay. Just wanted to make sure," the butterfly replied. Smith then watched as Economos was able to turn around and walk away.

Harcourt and Jada sighed in relief. "How the fuck did that work?" Smith asked in disbelief and Harcourt threw her hand up.

Jada then heard Economos throwing up on the radio, making her grimace in disgust. Smith then started to gag, which made her shift away from him in fear that he would also start throwing up. "Sorry," he gagged. "I have a real bad gag reflex."

"Clearly," Jada said monotonously as she watched him with wide eyes.

"Oh, shit. I'm good. I'm good," Smith assured them.

"Would you shut the fuck up?" Harcourt snapped, making Smith blubber in embarrassment.

Economos panted over the radio, "I can't do this. I can't do this."

"John, you're already inside. You're doing great," Harcourt told him. "Please. What's there?"

Economos coughed, clearing his throat. "Uh...Stairs...and an elevator," he answered slowly.

"An elevator's noisy. Head down the stairwell," Harcourt instructed.

"Yeah, of course. You head down the fucking stairwell," Economos muttered as if they couldn't hear him over the radio.

They heard creaks over the radio. "John, don't creep. You have to act normal, like you're supposed to be there. We just need you to place the helmet down as low as possible," the blonde explained.

As Economos got further down the stairwell, they all heard some sort of roaring over the radio. "What the hell is that?" Jada whispered.

"Maybe some butterflies having sex?" Adrian guessed before he laughed at himself. Jada snorted, rolling her eyes playfully at his antics.

"Oh, no," Economos muttered over the radio.

"John?" Harcourt said, but she didn't receive an immediate answer. "John, you copy?" she asked as they heard more roars over the radio.

"Uh-uh. Fuck it. No more kaijus. No more kaijus," they heard him ramble. "Fuck this."

"John, do you copy?"

They heard him breathing heavily as he probably ran up the stairs. "Jesus fuckin' Christ. What the fuck is that? The fuck is that?" he said, making the team all glance at each other. "'Cow', my ass. It's a motherfucking caterpillar the size of the Empire State Building."

Harcourt took the binoculars from Smith and peered through them, watching Economos march out hastily. "Get ready," she said to Adebayo.

"We need to get the fuck out of here," Economos told them.

"Hey!" the same butterfly from before shouted.

"Fuck," Harcourt seethed.

"The man you've taken over. Why did he do that to his beard?" the butterfly asked, making Smith scoff humorously.

"Do what?" Economos asked.

"Why did he color his beard all strange like that?" he asked again. Harcourt spun around and put her hand up at Adebayo, signaling not to do anything just yet since they may still be in the clear.

Economos hesitated for a moment, making the butterfly narrow his eyes at him. Jada bit the inside of her cheek, hoping that Economos would just make something up and get the hell out of there.

Economos sighed quietly. "He thought it made him look younger and more handsome," Economos admitted. "He never had a girlfriend, so he thought dying his beard might help. But he was also lazy...and busy with his job...and he wouldn't dye his roots regularly. And when he did, he used the cheapest brand, because he was incredibly underpaid," he continued, making Jada look down sadly. "Mostly, though...he never thought anybody noticed...until recently...when one guy said it to him all the time."

Jada looked over at Smith, who wore an unreadable expression on his face. She knew that his words must have ticked Economos off, but she didn't know that it hurt him this bad.

"Humans can be really pathetic," the butterfly said after a long moment.

"Yeah," Economos agreed before he turned around and started to walk off. "Fine, I dye my beard, all right? We all know it. I guess I learned my lesson. L'Oréal probably is worth the extra few bucks."

"Hey!" another butterfly shouted angrily, pointing at Economos. "That guy just put this down here!"

All the butterflies looked right at Economos, making him have no where to run. "Fuck! Do it, now! Do it!" Smith told Adebayo.

"Activate Sonic—" Adebayo had dropped the walkie-talkie on the ground.

"What the fuck?" Smith questioned. "How did that even happen?"

"My hands are sweaty!" Adebayo told him as she tried to search for the walkie-talkie in the leaves. Jada bent down, trying to help her find it quickly.

They heard Economos panting over the radio as he ran from the crowd of butterflies chasing him. "Get the fuck off me!" Economos yelled just as Adebayo found the walkie-talkie.

"Shit, do it!" Jada told her.

"Activate Sonic Boom!" Adebayo said in the walkie-talkie, and not even a second later, the whole barn blew up. The butterflies then got off of Economos, running back over to the barn.

"Wait," Harcourt said, wanting to wait until the perfect moment where they were all there to do another sonic boom. "Now."

"Activate Sonic Boom," Adebayo repeated, causing another boom to occur, making all of the butterflies fly up in the air.

"Holy shit," Jada whispered as she watched the destruction unfold.

"Fuck. Oh, fuck. Fuck," Economos breathed out as he reached them, trying to catch his breath.

Harcourt then nodded at Adebayo. "Activate Sonic Boom," she said once more, making another one happen. They then all began to get their stuff ready for combat, Jada loading up two of her guns — one being a rapid fire on and another being a Glock for backup. "Activate Sonic Boom."

"Yep, that's it for the charges," Smith told them, holding a shield in his hand.

"Look, I can help," Adebayo started to say.

"We need you to stay here, Ads. If something happens to us, you're the only hope," Harcourt told her.

"The fuck am I?" Economos exclaimed in a high voice, making them all look back at him.

"What's the plan, man?" Vigilante then asked.

"Let's go kill a cow," Smith answered determinedly.

The four of them then set off towards the destroyed barn and the angry butterflies. They began to screech at them, causing the four of them to immediately start loading them up with bullets.

Peacemaker ran out of bullets so he pulled out his shield from behind his back and put it in front of him, running at one of the butterflies and shoving him over with the shield before he used it to slice through the butterfly.

Vigilante then began to use his swords, slicing through the butterflies and even slicing one's head clean off. "Nice job!" Jada shouted at him, earning a thumbs up back.

Jada rapidly shot at multiple butterflies before her bullets ran out, causing her to throw her rapid fire gun on the floor. She then took her dagger out that she had strapped to her side and ran at a butterfly and sliced through his throat, killing it.

One then came behind her, jumping on her back. She quickly grabbed its arm and flipped it over her shoulder, using her to dagger to stab it in the eye. She then pulled her dagger out, twirling it around her hands before she threw it one coming at her, square in the forehead.

She ran over to it and pulled it out right before the butterfly hit the ground, blood pooling out of its head. "That was so hot," Adrian said right after he sliced through a butterfly's stomach. She nodded at him, an ambitious smirk on her face.

"Chris! Go kill the cow! We'll hold them off here!" Harcourt yelled at Smith before he started running towards the underground area.

Jada pulled out her Glock and began shooting at the butterflies that were flying out of the dead bodies, making sure none escaped. She then watched as Vigilante went behind a butterfly and stabbed him straight through his head with a machete. "Don't fuck with my BFF!" he said before he pulled the machete out.

A butterfly then tackled Jada from the side when she wasn't paying attention, sending her down to the ground. She groaned, trying to get up, but the butterfly was pinning her down. "Get the fuck off me!" she yelled before the butterfly screeched in her face, getting spit all over her. She grimaced right before Adrian came over and sliced its head clean off, making the body fall limply onto Jada.

She quickly shoved it off of her, some blood getting onto her. "Now that was hot," she said to him in awe from the ground, a smile on her face. She watched as another butterfly ran at him and Adrian sliced through his stomach, sending him down to the ground. He stood there for a moment to catch his breath before a gunshot rang out, the bullet hitting him in the back. "Adrian!" Jada shrieked, looking to her left to see the butterfly who shot him.

"Oh, darn it," Adrian breathed out after he had pulled the bullet out of his back. Adrian then pulled out a knife and threw it behind him at the butterfly, sending him down to the ground just as Adrian fell as well.

"Adrian! No, no, no!" Jada bellowed as she crawled over to him, flipping him over onto his back. "Fuck, Adrian, get up. Come on, please!" she pleaded, looking around to try and find Harcourt but she couldn't see her anywhere.

"Shit! Wake up, please!" Jada continued, noticing that a few butterflies were running over to her and she had lost her gun somewhere. But, then, out of nowhere, Adebayo came running out and shot at them, sending them all down. Jada couldn't worry about why Adebayo had abandoned her post since she was so busy worrying about Adrian.

She quickly ripped his helmet off, seeing that his eyes were closed. "Fuck," Jada whispered, placing her hand on his pulse. She found it, but it was barely there. "No, come on, please. You have to stay with me," she told him — more like demanded. She could not lose him. Not after everything. "Please, Adrian. Please, I-I...I love you," she whispered, bringing her head down onto his chest.

Tears began to well up in her eyes as she felt it softly rise and fall, showing that he was okay but only barely. She stayed there for what felt like hours, but it was only a few, long minutes. She just cried on his chest, not letting up whatsoever since she didn't know what to do.

She then realized that they never got to share a kiss earlier before it was interrupted, hoping to save it for later. Well, she guessed it was later now. Maybe even too late.

She brought her head up from his chest and moved upwards towards his face. She then slowly brought her head down and planted a soft kiss on his lips, a few tears falling onto his face. She then pulled away, looking away from his as she cried.

However, the kiss seemed to fuel something inside of him because he immediately sprang up, breathing in and out heavily. "Whoa, what the fuck just happened?" he questioned breathily, making Jada immediately look over at him.

"Oh, my God!" she said, immediately throwing her hands around his body in relief. "You're — you're okay. I-I thought you were...you were dying," she told him through her sobs.

"You really think I would die without kissing you back beforehand?" Adrian asked, making her pull away from him and laugh happily. He then cupped her face, pulling towards his lips before they connected.

It was a long kiss, but it wasn't anything messy. It was...long and sweet, some would say. Like they were trying to savor it.

They then pulled away, studying each other's faces. "We have to find the others," Jada then spoke up after a moment, helping Adrian up.

He picked up his machete, groaning as he did so. She then placed his arm around her neck, helping him walk to go find the others. Jada wasn't sure if they were okay or not, but she desperately hoped that they were.

They then rounded a broken piece of the barn, seeing the rest of the team. "Hey, guys, what's up?" Adrian greeted wearily.

Adebayo then went over and helped Economos up since it seemed like he had hurt his leg. Jada then looked at the ground, seeing an unconscious Harcourt on the ground with blood all over her face. "No," she whispered as Smith crouched down beside her, a worried expression on his face.

He then reach other and picked her up bridal style, before all of them began to walk away from all the destruction. Each helping one another.

Lightning then crackled ahead of them, making Jada squint before she realized that the actual Justice League had just arrived. She blinked rapidly, thinking that she was just imagining it, but she definitely wasn't since as she neared them, they were still there.

"You're late, you fucking dickheads!" Smith shouted at them as they walked past them. "Go fuck another fish, asshole!"

They continued walking, not even taking a second glance at the Justice League.

This book is almost over im so sad 😞 I'm hoping there is a season 2 soon so I can give more of Jada and Adrian ahhhhh