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Y/N Flag.
If you couldn't guess by your last name, you are indeed related to Rick Flag, the leader of Task Force X. Affectionately known as The Suicide Squad. Rick had accidentally let it slip to you at a family party about his role & the team's existence. He was pretty drunk, so can you blame him? You were pretty worried for two reasons.
Yes, he was a soldier, so you were used to worrying about him possibly dying as he constantly charges into danger. But now he's fighting threats on the scale of Superman?! That's pretty worrisome. Your Rick's younger sibling, even if only by two years, so you've looked up to him for your whole life.
Second reason, was he was working with Supervillains!!! People with powers & abilities on par with the freaking Justice League! If anything went wrong, it was probably their problem. They are all absolute scum, right?
Well, cut to five years later, & here you are now. Let's recap.
You enrolled in the army, pulled some strings, and now work with Rick at Belle Reve, as a member of The Suicide Squad. You also became accustomed to many of the criminals there. Some were indeed scummy assholes, just as you had expected, but some were nice, or funny, or even caring. You constantly questioned how they became villains, and ended up in this hellhole of a prison.
Waller seemed to take a liking to you, as you were assigned as the leader of your very own mission! The mission had you teaming with Robert DuBois, Christopher Smith, Nanaue, Cleo Cazo, and Abner Krill. You soon learned that the real reason you were in charge was because Rick had actually been sent before you, but his team failed horribly and all died. Thankfully, he didn't, and you reunited with your brother after saving him, even though he didn't actually need saving.
You then started the real mission. You captured The Thinker, saved your brother again, though this time he actually needed saving, and saved Harley too, who was happy to see the Flag siblings.
Now you & Rick were leading the Squad through Jutenheim. Rick wanted you upstairs, helping plant the bombs. But you convinced him Bloodsport could handle leading that part, so Rick reluctantly took you with him to the basement. He was going to do what you assumed was the most dangerous part; destroying Project Starfish, whatever it was. You couldn't let him go.
You, Rick, Cleo, & Thinker made it through the hallway of Starro Controlled people, which horrified you. You had a pretty uneasy stomach. You even threw up upon your first mission two years ago, after seeing some guy named Crazy Quilt get his head blown off for killing fellow member Clock King in a brutal, yet colorful fashion. But this starfish stuff was something else.
Cleo also seemed to have an uneasy stomach too as you could hear her hyperventilating and even swallowing her own puke. You held her hand. The two of you had grown rather close over the course of the mission. The two of you not only were around a similar age, but she was rather cute. Plus her pet rat Sebastian, was pretty cute too. When you both got drunk at the bar waiting for Thinker, you both ended up spilling more secrets than you would've liked. Though it was smaller stuff such as weird habits & embarrassing moments. But it was still fun. She also gave you a random kiss on the cheek, which made you rather proud of yourself at the time.
But back to the matter at hand.
You held her hand gently & calmed her down. Sebastian made a sound like snickering, as if he was laughing at the two of y'all. You couldn't blame him though. He was just too cute to stay mad at. You then heard something from behind you, something like heavy footsteps, but you didn't see anything.
But you weren't paying much attention to what Rick & Thinker were arguing about. But you picked up pretty quickly. Mostly about the whole "American Government being the real ones behind Project Starfish" thing. You were pretty pissed at this revelation. Rick was rummaging through the hard drives until he found the drive holding all info on the truth of project starfish. You walked over but heard a gun.
"I can't let you do that Colonel," Peacemaker told your brother. You knew you heard something earlier! Peacemaker pointed his gun at Rick.
“Miss Waller tasked me with making sure that none of that information leaves this building," He explained. You growled.
“Of course Waller had a backup plan. She always does," You said as you eyed Peacemaker, his gun barely a foot away from the face of your older brother.
“We have to let the people know!" Rick yelled. Peacemaker cocked his gun.
"I'm sorry. Nothing personal," Peacemaker said, still sounding rather calm.
“Holding a gun to me is pretty fuckin' personal!" Rick exclaimed. You couldn't take this anymore. You rushed Peacemaker, his back to you, hoping to put your arms around his throat & choke him, but his reflexes were too fast, as he saw you coming. You immediately felt a hard elbow to the face, cracking your nose & knocking you to the ground.
“Y/N!" Both Rick & Cleo yelled simultaneously. Cleo ran right to your side to check on you. Rick on the other hand rushed Peacemaker, while he was open, but he wasn't open for long. Peacemaker turned again, kicked Rick right in the stomach with all his might, sending Rick flying across the room. Peacemaker pointed his gun at Rick once more.
“I'm sorry," he said.
All the while you & Cleo heard Thinker laughing in the background, watching as Waller's plan and your entire team fell apart.
“Oh the irony," He stated.
“Waller sent you on this mission, and now her own fail-safe is the thing coming the closest to bringing it all down. How idiotic can she-"
Thinker was cut off by a rumble in the ground as explosions were heard above you all.
"Those morons set the bombs off too early! Their going kill us all!" Thinker exclaimed in a mixture of anger & fear. Soon enough, the last explosion was heard as the entire roof crumbled around your very eyes. You pushed Cleo out the way of some incoming debris before clonking your head on a rock & passing out.
(5 minutes later)<
You finally woke up, dust & smoke still surrounding you. Things weren't falling anymore, except for a few small things still rolling down the whole above you. It was rather high up, so you didn't think you could reach it. But that was the least of your concerns right now.
Your head was pounding extremely hard, and it felt horrible. You sat up in pain, and touched the top of your head. Yep, that's definitely blood, you thought to yourself. You looked around and couldn't see anyone. You began to worry.
“Rick?!" You exclaimed...
No answer.
“RICK?!" You exclaimed once again, this time louder...
Still no answer.
You shifted your focus.
“Cleo?!" You exclaimed. This time you got an answer, though it was only quiet, incoherent mumbling. You crawled towards some rubble & moved it, seeing an injured Cleo under it, still breathing and trying to talk. Sebastian was with her too, trying to wake her up. He squealed in happiness when he saw you.
You sighed in relief. You shook her and she woke up pretty quickly, different than how she usually would after sleeping. Of course, this was more of a blackout instead of actual sleep. She smiled & hugged you.
“Your alive!" She exclaimed. You hugged back.
“Of course I am. I'm just happy your alive," You said lovingly, staring into her beautiful eyes. She giggled, finding you rather cheesy, but in a cute way. Before anything else could happen, you soon noticed Thinker was still alive, and that behind him was a massive whole where Starro used to be.
"You fools! This is no time for love! He's out! And he's going to kill us all!!!" Thinker exclaimed barely being able to stand on both legs. Before he could fully get up, Starro's tentacles grabbed Thinker & dragged him away into the depths of Starro's former prison, Thinker's screams getting quieter & quieter until you couldn't hear them anymore. You took this as a sign to leave.
You put Sebastian on your shoulder as you helped up Cleo & ran away with her, through the rubble. You and her could barely fit through the small spaces as Sebastian led you to safety. But you started to worry about two things. One was that you were spending a lot of time staring at Cleo's butt while crawling behind her. Not the most practical thing to do while in a life or death situation.
But you also worried about your brother, Rick, and whether he was alive or not. And if he was, was Peacemaker alive too? Did they both die in the collapse? Or did they already kill each other. You had to find out, so you went ahead of Cleo & Sebastian, taking a different route to hopefully find your brother. You fell through a vent into a kitchen like room, and heard fighting in the next room, but the door wouldn't open!
You grabbed a pipe & repeatedly beat the handle of the door until it straight up fell off, allowing you to ram the door with your shoulder and injure yourself, but also open the door.
Then you heard it.
“Peacemaker... what a joke." Rick said weakly before you heard a thud.
You had never risen off a floor so quickly in your life. And there Peacemaker was, standing over the dead body of your brother, who had a glass shard shoved into his chest, near his heart it seemed.
You snapped.
Before Peacemaker had a chance to even realize what he'd done or take a breath, you tackled him to the ground, screaming.
You didn't even scream any coherent words as all you did was yell while repeatedly beating on Peacemaker.
You finally calmed down a little, noticing the tears running down your face. Peacemaker was barely breathing, as you were sitting with your legs squeezing his stomach, making him unable to breathe. You looked up to see Cleo was on the other side of the room, staring. You couldn't help but cry more.
Then Peacemaker rose up & threw you into the wall. You got up quickly & continued fighting him. He reached for his gun, but you grabbed it first and shot him in the shoulder before kicked the drive over to Cleo.
“Run!" You screamed at her. She said nothing as she listened & ran off with the drive. You grabbed Peacemaker by the shoulders & rammed him into the wall, before grabbing his forehead & repeatedly bashing his head against the wall.
He kicked you right in the kneecap, nearly breaking it as you winced in pain. He punched you across the face & grabbed you from under the arms, throwing you onto the ground. You were unable to get up.
He noticed this & ran off, in the direction Cleo went, most likely to grab the drive & kill her. You couldn't let that happen. You used all the strength from every muscle of your body to pull yourself off the ground & limp up the stairs.
You arrived to see Cleo pinned to the ground, Peacemaker holding a gun to the crying girl's face. You scowled as you picked up speed & tackled Peacemaker from behind, knocking him away. He quickly got up & hit you in the face.
The two of you scuffled, but Cleo stepped in, trying to help you. Peacemaker pushed her away. And he pushed her hard.
Because next thing you knew you heard Cleo scream in pain as you turned to see Peacemaker had pushed her right into a massive spike in the debris, impaling her through the abdomen.
You were so mad that you couldn't see anything but red. The red of Peacemaker's shirt, and the blood of your family that covered it.
You tackled Peacemaker once again, strangling him. But Peacemaker grabbed a piece of metal off the ground & attempted to stab you with it, like he did to your brother. But you grabbed his hand, not letting yourself make the same mistake. You twisted Peacemaker's hand until he was holding the metal near he throat. And with one last push, you forced Peacemaker into stabbing himself in the throat with a rusty piece of metal.
You sighed as Peacemaker looked at you in disbelief during the final moments of his life. He finally stopped breathing. You grabbed the metal, twisting it & lodging it farther into his throat, just to make sure he was actually dead.
You turned around saw Cleo looking at you proudly. Of course, she was still impaled on that wall & had blood coming out of what felt like every part of her body. You started crying.
“Cleo.." you whispered to her, getting close.
“I'm so sorry, this is all my fault," You cried. She smiled and used her little energy to put her hand on your face.
"How?"
“What?" You asked.
“How is this your fault?" She asked.
You shook your head. You knew she was right. You tried pulling her off the spike, but she stopped you. You both knew there was no saving her now.
Sebastian crawled up your body onto your shoulder so he could look at Cleo. She smiled weakly.
“Hey, buddy," She said, petting the adorable rodent. He whined and you couldn't help but feel even more sad.
“Y/N?" Cleo asked.
“Yes?"
“Could you take care of Sebastian? I need someone I can trust to make sure he lives a happy life," She said, starting to cry. You cried to while smiling.
"Yeah, yeah I can do that," You told her. You wouldn't let her down. And she knew that. Cleo handed you the drive.
“Make sure your brother gets what he wanted too," Cleo said as you happily put the drive that caused all this into your pocked.
You & Cleo embraced one final time, making sure the spike didn't stab you too. Cleo kissed you right on the lips. You happily kissed back. Cleo broke this kiss and smiled at you before nuzzling her head into your neck.
Then she went limp in your arms.
You let her go and she hung from the spike. Sebastian cried on your shoulder. You stroked the small guy.
“It's gonna be ok, everything's gonna be ok," you told him, though you were partially telling yourself that, as you held him close to you. You almost had a heart attack when you heard a loud crash behind you.
You turned to see Robert standing on a newly fallen piece of flooring. He looked around & saw the carnage. You cried again as you ran up to him. Robert's been a nice, almost fatherly type figure to you the whole time, even if you were the one handing out the orders.
He looked sympathetic as you ran towards him.
“What happened," He asked softly.
“Would you be surprised if I told you the American government are the ones responsible for project starfish and our whole mission was a coverup?" You asked.
“No, not really," Robert said.
"Then there's your answer. This drive holds all the information about the real minds behind project starfish. Both Rick & Cleo died to make sure this thing can reach the public. Peacemaker tried stopping us, but I put an end to him," You told Robert, handing him the drive. He nodded, understanding everything.
“Rick was my life. Everything I know came from him. If it wasn't for him I don't know where I'd be," You vented to Robert. He patted your back.
"I get what you mean. Flag was important to me too. I probably would've died a long time ago if it wasn't for him," Robert said, truly understanding your situation.
“Now let's get out of here and make sure this drive gets out before anyone can stop us, Robert said to you, pointing to Harley, Abner, & Nanaue waiting outside.
You nodded, but soon realized something.
“Shit," You told yourself aloud. Robert was puzzled.
“What's wrong?" He asked.
“Starro."