Montisan Screeching Pit Roach
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Real Identity: Not Applicable
Appearances (Episodes): #SirensConch
Powers/Skills: Sound Manipulation
Voiced By: Not Applicable
The Montisan Screeching Pit Roach is an invasive species from an island. The roaches started appearing in Metropolis. The city wanted to eradicate them but she was collecting them at her house to keep them safe. She wanted to build a Pit Roach Sanctuary in Metropolis Park. It was specifically designed to keep each roach separated or else they would form an uncontrollable horde. She kept the queen in a jar. Metropolis High gave her its approval to do a fundraiser for her Pit Roach cause. For the finale of the talent show fundraiser, she wanted Diana Prince and Oliver Queen to sing a duet she wrote about the roaches. Kara Danvers' fear of bugs got to the best of her and she believed the queen mouthed, "I will eat you" to her. One of Jessica's mothers went to her bedroom and discovered her large collection of Montisan Screeching Pit Roaches. She promptly screamed and ran out.
Prince was a bad singer and tried to use the magic of the Sirens' Conch to make her singing perfect. However, it placed Oliver Queen in a trance repeating the lyric "Must be free." He wandered to Jessica Cruz's house and freed all the Montisan Screeching Pit Roaches. They poured out of her bedroom like a tidal wave into the city, engulfing all in their path. The boy in Metropolis High's Hammy costume was swept up. Danvers freaked out at the sight of all the bugs and hopped onto Beecher's arms. Cruz wondered what happened. The entranced Queen was carried past them. Prince realized it was all her fault. They suited up. Supergirl tried to conquer her fear of bugs but she freaked out they could be in her hair and clung to a streetlight. The roaches' collective screech overwhelmed Bumblebee but Zatanna scooped her up before she fell into the swarm.
Batgirl, Wonder Woman, and Zatanna attacked but Green Lantern formed a barrier construct, still attached to the roaches because she raised some of them since birth the day before. Zatanna flew to her on her surfboard construct and pointed out they were labeled an invasive species for a reason. Cruz countered mankind was one, too. A bus was carried by the swarm. Lantern contended they didn't belong in Metropolis but needed guidance from their queen. However, if she released the queen, the roaches would burrow underground and there would be no stopping them. She wanted to lead them back to containment. Zatanna compared their screech to Wonder Woman's bad singing. She got an idea from the insult and changed back to her civies. Using a portable speaker and microphone, Prince used her terrible singing as a substitute for the queen and led the roaches back to their cages in Cruz's bedroom.