Liberty and justice for humans

As Thanksgiving approaches and these Children of Liberty aren't stopping any time soon.

Spider-Ghost spotted some men in golden masks attacking alien civilians when Manchester black stoped them and they released a dog on them.

Gwenyth leaped in and webbed the dog on his leash so he couldn't run any more and watches Manchester stop the children.

"Petrocelli." Manchester greets one of them. "Hey, friend-o. Remember me?" He asks when another comes up behind him and Gwenyth senses something and they see Iron-Spider and Supergirl comes flying in and the dog whimpers.

"Weird. Dogs usually love us." Kara comments and one of the children goes off running who Gwenyth stopped.

"Thanks, but I had it under control." Manchester tells the three of them.

"Manchester, right?" Peter asks. "We met."

"Yeah, I remember. With that slimy hulk goo." Manchester remembers.

"So, what are you doing here?" Kara asks.

"Just out for a walk when I saw this lot harassing a nice alien couple." Manchester explains when a dozen of pamphlets come released from drones. Peter shoots down one of the drones and Kara reads the pamphlet and it's from the Children of Liberty.

"Who is this Agent Liberty?" Kara asks the man.

"We all are." He answers.

-

"The Children of Liberty are announcing themselves to the world." Kara says annoyed at the DEO in the monitors area as he and Brainy look over the drone.

"You get anything out of that thing?" Alex asks him.

"Nope, nothing." Peter answers. "No prints, no serial numbers, they could've been made from scratch."

"Well, I gotta get going." Kara says knowing she needs to get to work. "Oh, by the way, Elisa texted." She tells Alex. "You're on cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow."

"When am I supposed to go to the grocery store?" Alex wonders.

"How about the pamphlets?" Peter asks Brainy.

"There was nothing on the identity of this Agent Liberty. However, I was able to find 10,011 codes within the leaflet. It is literally littered with codes." Brainy says and pulls them up. "For example, if you scramble every seventh letter, it clearly indicates a common phrase in the Raolian language. Ham sandwich. On a holiday celebrated exclusively with turkey, that is just a slap in the face."

"I'm about to slap my face." Peter whispers while putting his head in his hands in annoyance.

-

Kara went to a tv news report while James went to talk with one of the Children of Liberty to understand what they're trying to do.

What Kara didn't know about that she was talking against Ben Lockwood who is the biggest anti-aliens man.

It didn't exactly go well as everyone comes together for Thanksgiving dinner.

Peter showed up a little later and saw J'onn brought Gwenyth with him.

"Hey, sorry I'm late." Peter apologizes as he comes in and Kara filled her mother in on everything. Peter being Spider-Man, Gwenyth not being Gwen, and that they're dating. "It's a jungle out there. Had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries." He says as he holds the cranberries for Alex.

"Thank god." Alex thanks and takes them from him.

A while later Manchester showed up as did Mia, Brainy, James and Lena as J'onn, Lena, and Alex try explaining Thanksgiving to Morg'Ann and failing.

"You doing okay with Gwen here?" Kara asks Peter.

"Skirt, I promise you, I'm okay with Gwenyth. You don't need to check on me every time she shows up. Besides she seems to have this superhero thing down." Peter tells her with a smile on his face.

Kara smiles and understands. "I know, it's just seems a bit strange." She says and looks to James. "So how'd it go with your Children of Liberty contact?"

"Doesn't seem very safe, James." Elisa tells James.

"I met with a regular guy named Tom who happens to be afraid of aliens, and afraid of their capabilities, and feels inferior." James says.

"People can be powerful, too." Kara says. "You and Alex are examples of that."

"Yeah, but not as powerful as aliens." Lena says. "No matter how many weights you lift you'll never meet superhuman strength." She nods to Kara, Peter and Morg'Ann.

"Technically, she's got half my strength." Peter says, pointing to his sister since she's just literally a superhuman.

"That was uncalled for." Morg'Ann tells her brother.

"I know." Peter says and smiles at her.

"And with technology we are able to hold our own." Alex tells them.

"But what if we could do more?" Lena wonders. "What if we could make people super?"

"It's not possible." Elisa tells her. "The biological process that cause aliens powers are incompatible with human DNA."

"Yeah, just ask Venom." Peter agrees. "He makes you stronger, but at the same time weaker." He says and shudders at the thought of that parasite.

"Okay, but say we could say repeat the process that created Gwenyth." Lena wonders. "If James is right and people feeling inferior is what makes them join these hate groups, then we could just level the playing people."

Gwenyth raises her hand to that. "I actually don't know how I was...reborn?" She tells them.

"And the last thing we need is a bunch of evil people running with superpowers." J'onn agrees.

"Okay, but evil people wouldn't get powers." Lena says.

"So only certain people qualify?" James asks.

"And who would decide who gets them?" Alex asks. "They'd be playing god."

"Let's eat!" J'onn announces as the turkey is gone.

During dinner, they talked about the manifestation and Brainy still doesn't know what it was saying.

"It seems scarier now they've trained dogs to identify aliens." Mia says.

"They have?" James asks.

"Yeah. The guys we fought the other night had a dog." Kara tells him and James starts to think of something.

"Tom and I were walking his dog yesterday and the dog kept barking at certain houses." James tells them.

"Alien houses." Gwenyth guesses.

"Did they mark them somehow?" Jonna asks.

"He kept texting somebody, who he claimed to be his wife. But he could've been texting somebody else to mark the addresses." James replies.

"The only reason they'd wanna identify the alien homes is to target them." Alex says.

Brainy gets up and goes to his bag.

"If they're marking houses, we would see that, right? Notice that." James says.

"The marks could be hidden." Peter tells him.

"Their masks had some night vision tech in them the other night." Manchester says.

Brainy pulls out one of the Children of Liberty masks.

"Why'd you bring that to dinner?" Kara asks.

"I figured if things got boring I might just do a little work." Brainy says and pulls out the lenses.

"Wait, that's a low spectrum enhancer." Lena says. "You use it to see infrared."

Alex takes it and looks out the window and they see the markings.

"Right, so they're going to attack. The question is, when?" J'onn asks.

"Twilight's last gleaming." Brainy quotes the manifesto title. "Telling them when to strike."

"That's sunset." James says.

"Then we don't have much time." Kara tells them.

-

James goes to talk to Tom, Kara takes Alex to the DEO, Peter registries his lenses to pick up the markings and adds the lenses to Morg'Ann's mask so she can help.

Brainy is on the streets and finds one of the markings and starts removing it when he gets sirounded by Children of Liberty.

There's about four of them wearing masks and two of them are carrying bats.

"Return to your homes." Brainy tells them. "Or else."

"Or else what?" One of them asks.

"Or else I'll be required to beat you up." Brainy says and they laugh as if it was a joke. "With physics."

One of them goes running in and Brainy moves out of the way and another took a swing at him and he dodges it as long as a kick that tripped one of them up.

One takes several swings and the first guy throws his bat and ends up hitting his friend l

Brainy moves up against the wall as the last one charges at him, and he uses his legion ring to float up the wall and he slams his head against the wall.

Seeing his work is done, Brainy leaves and continues to take the marker off.

-

As night fell, the Children start their assaults on the families.

One group attacks a father of two children.

"This is our home! We've lived here for years!" The father says as his daughter hides behind a dollhouse.

"You can't hide behind that image inducer any longer." One child states and they start beating the father and gneiss him into their lizard cage.

"Spike, do something. Please." The daughter pleads and their lizard as it starts transforming.

The children run outside where Peter sees them running and sees...

"A dragon?" Peter asks. "Why am I even surprised anymore?"

Morg'Ann approaches the dragon slowly.

"What's your sister doing?" Kara asks as they watch from the sky.

"Hey there, buddy." Morg'Ann greets the dragon and slowly walks up to him. "You're a big boy, aren't ya? You were just protecting your family, right? You did that. They're safe." She tells the dragon, knowing it's acting defensively. "You kept them safe." She places her hand on his nostril after calming him down and scratches his neck that changed him back into a lizard form.

Morg'Ann picks up the little guy and hands him to Alana as she comes for him.

-

The Children of Liberty have been stopped for now, but one question still remains.

Who is Agent Liberty?

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