Lyla Michaels-Diggle

Harbinger

Lyla Michaels-Diggle

## Biography

### Background

The New God Bekka was left behind on Earth after Yuga Khan’s first attempted invasion, so Izaya could keep an eye on the vulnerable world. Bekka lived with the Amazons for centuries, even witnessing the birth of Diana. When Hippolyta left to assist with the war on Mount Olympus, Bekka helped Diana govern the Paradise Islands.

Bekka was eventually sent in secret to retrieve Hippolyta from Man’s World. Upon finding her, she asked Hippolyta: “what is your world to do without their Suprema?” And Hippolyta replied: “what is man’s world to do without theirs?” Feeling as if she would be a better help serving Man’s World, Bekka and Hippolyta agreed to swap places and Hippolyta sailed back to the Paradise Islands.

Her intention was to become Man’s Worlds new Suprema, however, the JSA was clashing within their own ranks, so Bekka put that mission on standby. So, she lived life. Jay Garrick hired her as a research assistant, where she took the name Rebecca Michaels. She ended up marrying one of Garrick’s associates, Rick Rawlins. However, when the Vietnam War started, Rawlins was called to serve and perished, leaving Bekka pregnant and widowed.

### Early Life

Lyla Michaels was born shortly after Operation Wrath of God. In the days that followed, Apokolips and New Genesis went to war with each other, and Bekka was summoned home. Knowing her infant daughter would not survive a boom tube journey, she made the hard choice to leave her behind, leaving Lyla outside of a firehouse with a note telling her about her fathers sacrifice before journeying off world.

Lyla became a ward of the state, finding herself juggled between foster homes. The note from Bekka and her father's dog tags were the only remnants of her family she had, and she held on tight, idolizing the idea of joining the military. In high school, she was an expert gymnast and the star of the women’s basketball team. While she was offered a sports scholarship to Hudson University, she turned it down to join the US Navy.

Due to her half New God DNA, she flew through basic training with ease and became a Navy SEAL. Her time on the SEALS caught the eye of Director Bones of the DEO, who offered her an entry level job supervising special forces training. Lyla rejected the offer, and six months later was the only survivor of an IED explosion in Afghanistan that broke her knee so she was honorably discharged. She approached Bones about the offer, and he gave her the position.

While supervising the training, she caught eye of the teacher, John Diggle. One night after work, the two went out for drinks and bonded over their shared military history. One night turned into many and soon the two were dating and very in love. Bones was impressed with Lyla’s command and discipline and recommended her to be Chief of Logistics for ARGUS. She landed a meeting with Director Waller that won her the job.

### ARGUS

She became one of Waller’s closest allies and confidants and served as team coordinator for Task Force X when Waller was otherwise indisposed. Lyla was also riddled with survivors' guilt from the IED incident - which started to drive a wedge between her and John, as she also suspected John of harboring secrets from her about his job. Her suspicions were confirmed in 2007, just after he proposed to her, John was abducted by Cadmus Labs.

Lyla used her position at ARGUS to assign numerous unauthorized searches for Diggle. She would also pray at night to some kind of higher power for help. She was eventually caught for abusing her power, so Waller gave her a talking to and brought her back down to Earth and then told her that John was working with Green Arrow. Lyla confronted the emerald archer about it, prompting him to reveal his identity. Lyla secretly began working with Arrow to try to find her fiancé.

It would be the Titans that brought him back, finding him after infiltrating Cadmus. Lyla opened her door for John to swoop her into his arms and kiss her. Two weeks later, they had a private wedding ceremony. Upon returning from their honeymoon, Waller offered her a position as Deputy Director of ARGUS, becoming her right hand. In return, she nominated logistics agent Emilia Harcourt to fill her vacated position.

She became a mother in 2009 to a beautiful baby girl, Sara. Shortly after, Mister Miracle and Big Barda came to Earth to ward off Darkseid’s attempted invasion. She felt a calling to the Father Box they traveled with, and requested she return with them to New Genesis. She abandoned post for about two weeks to go to New Genesis, where she reunited with her mother and learned about her true heritage. She felt like her prayers had been answered.

Upon returning to Earth, Lyla felt more comfortable in her own skin. She’s helped lead ARGUS through dark days and championed the efforts to supervise the Justice League and was the one to create the operations division.

### Harbinger

However, recently, Lyla has gone missing. This individual called Pariah showed up at ARGUS HQ where he released an energy blast that disintegrated all the guards and de powered all the electronics in the area. When Lyla tried to calm him down, he grabbed her and said “I’ve doomed this world too” before disappearing in an energy blast and both were believed dead. Since then, the Green Lantern Corps have received radio from Lyla, claiming to be working with “Mar Novu and the Legends” to save the universe. What exactly that means remains currently unknown.