Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 7:58:02 GMT -5
Titans Lost Part Seven: Damsels in Distress
Written by Green Lantern
Featured Artists: Christophe and Power Guy
Editors: Marcus Mebes and Power Guy
The Coast of Paradise Island
Princess Donna didn't even look back as she flew away from her adopted home in disgust. She was tired of the silly Amazonian principles of peace she had been brainwashed with all her life. She just wanted the same chance to rule in Man's World, like her sister Diana. Why couldn't they understand that?
But she knew why. She was born lame and homely. She looked off into the sunset and steered her stolen invisible jet toward America. Once there, she would find her sister, acquire the bracelets of strength, the belt of beauty, and the lasso of deception. With them she would become strong and beautiful and take her sister's place as the new Wonder Girl…
Elsewhere…
Klick, Klick, Klick…
Andrea Jackson looked back to see if someone was following her. Seeing that there was no one but herself in the alley she continued her stroll to the convenience store. The young lady was having a difficult time trying to raise her twins as a single parent, but at least Gary wasn't beating her anymore now that he was safely in prison.
Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick…
Andrea stopped abruptly and turned once again to find no one there. She wiped the perspiration off of her brow with her coat sleeve and increased her pace.
Klick, Klick, Klick…
Andrea began running with all of her might as the shadow of a human figure darkened her pathway.
Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick…
Tears of fright filled the young lady's eyes just before a pale and bony hand clutched her shoulder blade.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed the young mother of two.
"Shhhhhhhhhhh! Its all right. Don't be alarmed. I won't hurt you," said a cloaked woman in whispered tones.
"What do you want?" asked Miss Jackson shakily.
"I am a friend," replied the woman eerily. Sunglasses veiled her identity and a scarf tied below the chin covered her hair. "I have come to warn you, Andrea: DO NOT go to the convenience store. Turn around and go directly home. Quickly!"
The young mother's body froze with fear. How did this stranger know her name? How could she possibly know of Andrea's intentions to go to the store? At this point, all she cared about was surviving the evening and seeing her babies again. Andrea nodded her head briskly and ran to her apartment with all her might.
Klick, Klick, Klick…
The cloaked woman walked on to the convenience store and removed her scarf and sunglasses to reveal bright, shiny green eyes and knee-lengthed red hair. "I'd like to purchase three lottery tickets," she said to the cashier.
The plump lady at the front counter returned the lovely red head's change and presented her with the three tickets.
"You may have these first two," said the verdant-eyed beauty.
"Why, thank you!" exclaimed the overwhelmed woman. "Do I know you? What is your name?"
"No, we have never met, and my name is Lilith…Lilith Clay."
Klick, Klick, Klick…
Lilith shredded the winning lottery ticket and threw it away in a public trashcan, pleased that she had prevented another young woman from escaping poverty. She had to hurry. The six visitors from another universe would soon find one another and return home to a happy reunion with friends and family. "I have to stop them from escaping the horrors of the Universe of Evil, whatever it takes!"
Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick…
Gotham City, Olmstead Park
Helena Wayne, this generation's greatest detective, stood face-to-face with the threat of imminent death. Wonder Woman, the Amazon warrior princess from the Universe of Evil was seething before her with madness. The Huntress could see the insanity in her eyes. Ironically, her only present ally was the Sportsmaster, a benign version of the psychotic stalker from her own reality. Unfortunately, he was completely knocked out by the Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin, two more evil versions of good men from Helena's world. If the darkknight daugher didn't think of something quick she would die in the Universe of Evil and no one she loved would ever know what had happened to her.
With a growl Wonder Woman lunged at the navy- and violet-clad heroine. The Huntress did a backflip and caught the mad Amazon's shoulders with her knees. Following through her backwards summersault, she used her opponent's momentum to send her crashing into a nearby tree.
CRASH!
"Aha! So there is the one who eluded Wonder Woman earlier," said a masculine voice coming from the sky.
"We will just have to give Wonder Woman a little help in catching this one," said another male. "It shouldn't be too hard."
The Huntress whirled around to see evil versions of both Superman and Aquaman approaching her.
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Star City, The Queen Estate
Di Di Queen took a deep breath as she approached the atrocity of an excuse that stood where her home ought to be. She felt an eerie sense of dread as she gazed upon the jet black building which stood behind the iron bars of the gate before her. She thought of her own home whose sparkling white exterior celebrated the grandeur of the Queen-Lance union. "BEWARE! The Black Widow resides here. Turn away if you value your life," spoke the young lady in sunglasses as she read the warning on the gate. "I miss mom. I would give anything to see her again," she thought as she pressed the doorbell. The horrible buzz was nothing like the birdcalls of the Queen Estate door bell of her own home.
Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
The gate opened in a slow and eerie fashion. Young Dinah walked through and noted the unkempt lawn along the pathway to the front door.
CLANG! The gate closed quickly behind her.
The front door opened to reveal a woman clad in sleazy garments.
"MOM?!?" asked the young visitor in disbelief.
The owner of the Queen Estate snatched Di Di's sunglasses with lightning speed and stared intently into her face for several moments. "…I thought you were dead!"
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Gotham City, Olmstead Park
The Huntress was in the battle of her life. She grabbed the speeding Superman's elbow and slammed him into Aquaman. Jumping over the two villains she did a handstand and leaped into the air. Grabbing Wonder Woman's shoulder's she vaulted herself high in the sky and landed beside the Sportsmaster. She tried to nudge him awake, but he was still out cold. Before she could do anything about it she found herself surrounded by her three Super Fiends adversaries. Her brilliant mind began to formulate a plan when a violent rush of wind came upon the warring foursome.
Smack! Slap! Whirrrr! Thud!
All three of her attackers were still conscious, but momentarily down. Helena looked to her side and exclaimed with glee, "JUNJIE!!!!!!!!!"
"Glad to see you survived too, Huntress," said the Singaporean Speedster.
"Maybe with you here we will stand half a chance," said the darkknight beauty.
"Oh, I think we have more than half a chance, Amiga," said a familiar voice from the sky.
Looking up the Huntress exclaimed, "Power Guy!"
"Hello again, Huntress! I would say we have 52 chances!" chimed the Sportsmaster as he jumped out of Power Guy's grasp and landed near two of his unconscious 'brothers' below.
Growing to a breath-taking sixty-foot size, Nucleus added, "They don't stand a chance!"
Wonder Woman, Superman, and Aquaman all stood up angrily. "Tonight we feast. And the five of you are the main course," said Superman with a chilling seriousness as Wonder Woman revived the Batman and Robin.
The Titans of Justice sized up the five Super Fiends standing before them before the impending battle began.
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Inside the Queen Estate
The black and red tones in the living room where Di Di Queen sat were nothing like the warm earth tones of her parents' home. The vines and wild plants placed around the house made the young heroine feel uncomfortable. After being attacked earlier by Aquaman and Superman, the newly christened Green Arrow knew better than to drink the hot tea her "Aunt Dinah" offered her. She poured it into the plant on the side-table beside her when her hostess wasn't looking.
"So, just how did you survive all these years without my knowing it? And how did you age so quickly?" asked the brazen looking woman who stood before her. "You look to be a teen, but you should still be a little girl."
Knowing that she wasn't in the safest of situations, but that she needed to distract the lady before her for awhile, the daughter of the Black Canary played coyly. "To be honest with you, I really can't remember too much of anything before today."
"So, you expect me to believe that after three years of being dead, you just show up one day at my doorstep all grown up and without any memory?" asked the blonde woman impatiently.
"Maybe you can help me remember. I take it that we are related? I felt an instinct that this is the place I should go," explained Di Di in pretension, "and then when I saw you I just knew that you were my mother. Where is my father?"
"I buried his ashes in a common grave with yours and your brother's," said the slinky woman coldly.
Sonic Boom could feel her heart palpitate. "I sure hope Daniel hurries up and finds that lantern soon," she thought as she placed her arm on her green duffle bag. "So how did we die?" she asked.
"I killed you myself, just like all my other husbands and families," she said with an insane laugh. "Why do you think they call me the Black Widow?"
"Don't react," thought Di Di to herself. "Keep calm. Breathe slowly. Breathe. Daniel just needs a little more time and then you can take this witch down and get out of this horror house."
The Black Widow walked to the fireplace and flipped a switch. She then removed the mural resting on the mantle to expose the walls in the process of opening. Once fully opened, a showcase was revealed which housed a power battery, a bow and quiver, and a detective's badge and hat. "I marry powerful men and collect their weapons when they die. Like?"
Di Di realized that she was going to have to act. Wherever her teammate was, he was looking in the wrong place. The power battery was right there behind the Black Widow. The young lady dressed in green swallowed hard and asked, "How did you kill them?"
The Black Widow walked toward her young visitor and peered into the empty cup. "Spider venom," she said nonchalantly.
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Gotham City, Olmstead Park
The beginning of the battle was signaled when the Sportsmaster quickly gathered all four of the unconscious versions of himself and become whole. He concentrated for just a moment and then divided into ten Sportsmasters, all of whom surrounded Robin.
Power Guy was tempted to nail Aquaman himself for deceiving him and leaving him to die in kryptonite chains. But Vince Starr wasn't too proud to admit that it would be wiser to take on Superman and leave the King of the Seas for someone else to pummel.
Nucleus had not had enough time to figure out the mechanics of his new size growth abilities. He had spent his time on the trip to Olmstead park repairing his Titans of Justice communicator. He grasped Aquaman by the hair and jerked him 56 feet into the sky to look him straight in the eyes.
Unlike most speedsters, Junjie Quick was a patient man. However, he was growing tired of being in this nightmare that began with him waking up buried alive in the arctic snow. Taking his cue from Nucleus, he grabbed Wonder Woman by the hair and began whirling her in the air at super-speed.
The Huntress couldn't believe that any version of her father could be part of a super-villain team.
But when the Batman-in-red lunged at her she thought to herself, "This pathetic excuse for a Batman isn't going to desecrate the legend of the Batman any longer. He goes down today: for good."
Robin jumped into the air and in a display of acrobatic prowess began kicking and punching the various Sportsmasters surrounding him. After a few of them fell to the ground the remaining seven concentrated momentarily and suddenly Robin found himself surrounded by forty men in baseball uniforms. A violent fight ensued. The Sportsmaster was outmatched by Robin's athletic skills, but unfortunately for the ex-boy wonder…
WHAK!
Robin was outnumbered by the Sportsmaster and his bat!
Superman smiled as he and the white-clad newbie took their fight to the skies. Each blow exchanged by the two icons was harder than the last, and both men had taken several hits. The Kryptonian criminal was single-minded in killing his opponent. His heart was filled with a sadistic pleasure as his fingers clutched the neck of young Vince Starr. As Power Guy began to gasp he noticed Junjie Quick having a difficult time with Wonder Woman below. The white-clad hero clutched the cape of his attacker and began swinging him round and round. "Junjie!" he called out to his teammate below.
Junjie Quick's shoulder, bicep, and abdomen writhed with pain from the blows and kicks of the evil Amazon warrior. Hearing the familiar voice of his teammate, he looked in the sky and realized instantly what Power Guy had in mind. He grabbed Wonder Woman's wrist and leg and began whirling at super-speed. With perfect timing, both Power Guy and Junjie Quick released their foes. The two evil enemies crashed head-on mid air.
SMASH! Thump! Thump!
Both Superman and Wonder Woman fell to the ground unconscious.
Aquaman struggled and squirmed in a desparate attempt to free himself from the grip of Nucleus. Nucleus hit the blond sea warrior in the head a couple of times and then saw that Power Guy was finished with his battle. "Hey, big guy! You look like you would like to work off some tension!" he shouted to his teammate as he cast Aquaman straight toward Vince Starr.
POW!!!!
Aquaman landed on top of Superman and Wonder Woman as Power Guy puffed on his fist and polished it on his uniform. "Thanks!" shouted the grateful hero to Nucleus.
Meanwhile Batman and the Huntress were locked in a deadly martial arts battle during the course of the others' battles. They were seemingly evenly matched. But the Huntress had two things going in her favor. One was a knowledge of how the Batman works. She was raised by a Batman afterall. The other was that by this time both warriors were surrounded by Power Guy, Junjie Quick, Nucleus, and about fifteen Sportsmasters. As the Batman lunged towards the Huntress, the darkknight daughter removed her cape and entrapped the caped villain like a matador would a bull. With a laugh the Batman said, "Its going to take a lot more than that to defeat me little girly!" But when he removed the young heroine's cape from his head he was greeted by the fist of her teammate.
POW!!!!
"Thanks, amigo!" said the Huntress as the Batman joined his teammates in unconsciousness on the ground.
"Anything for my best amiga!" said Power Guy with a grin.
[glow=yellow,2,300]BEEEP! BEEEP! BEEEP![/glow]
All five heroes were both startled and filled with hope when Nucleus's communicator sounded. Nucleus pressed the volume on his wrist device as the Huntress inserted the missing component from her belt into her communicator.
"GL, get out of there NOW!" shouted a female voice in panic.
"Sonic Boom!?! Is that you?" asked Nucleus.
[glow=yellow,2,300]BEEEP! BEEEP! BEEEP! [/glow] "Huntress here!"
"Huntress?!? Praise God you're still alive! This is Green Lantern. We are at the Queen Es… Oh MY SOUL!!! They're everywhere! Huntress!! Huntress this is an emergency! Please come help – AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
The five heroes looked at one another in concern. "Junjie, you and Nucleus help the Sportsmaster get these vermin to a nice sturdy jail cell and then meet us at Star City," said the Kryptonian powerhouse. Power Guy then swept the Huntress up in his arms and leaped into the skies. "We have to get there quick, amiga!"
"I concur," said the Huntress. "GL sounded desperate. I just hope that we aren't already too late."
TO BE CONTINUED…
Written by Green Lantern
Featured Artists: Christophe and Power Guy
Editors: Marcus Mebes and Power Guy
The Coast of Paradise Island
Princess Donna didn't even look back as she flew away from her adopted home in disgust. She was tired of the silly Amazonian principles of peace she had been brainwashed with all her life. She just wanted the same chance to rule in Man's World, like her sister Diana. Why couldn't they understand that?
But she knew why. She was born lame and homely. She looked off into the sunset and steered her stolen invisible jet toward America. Once there, she would find her sister, acquire the bracelets of strength, the belt of beauty, and the lasso of deception. With them she would become strong and beautiful and take her sister's place as the new Wonder Girl…
Elsewhere…
Klick, Klick, Klick…
Andrea Jackson looked back to see if someone was following her. Seeing that there was no one but herself in the alley she continued her stroll to the convenience store. The young lady was having a difficult time trying to raise her twins as a single parent, but at least Gary wasn't beating her anymore now that he was safely in prison.
Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick…
Andrea stopped abruptly and turned once again to find no one there. She wiped the perspiration off of her brow with her coat sleeve and increased her pace.
Klick, Klick, Klick…
Andrea began running with all of her might as the shadow of a human figure darkened her pathway.
Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick…
Tears of fright filled the young lady's eyes just before a pale and bony hand clutched her shoulder blade.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed the young mother of two.
"Shhhhhhhhhhh! Its all right. Don't be alarmed. I won't hurt you," said a cloaked woman in whispered tones.
"What do you want?" asked Miss Jackson shakily.
"I am a friend," replied the woman eerily. Sunglasses veiled her identity and a scarf tied below the chin covered her hair. "I have come to warn you, Andrea: DO NOT go to the convenience store. Turn around and go directly home. Quickly!"
The young mother's body froze with fear. How did this stranger know her name? How could she possibly know of Andrea's intentions to go to the store? At this point, all she cared about was surviving the evening and seeing her babies again. Andrea nodded her head briskly and ran to her apartment with all her might.
Klick, Klick, Klick…
The cloaked woman walked on to the convenience store and removed her scarf and sunglasses to reveal bright, shiny green eyes and knee-lengthed red hair. "I'd like to purchase three lottery tickets," she said to the cashier.
The plump lady at the front counter returned the lovely red head's change and presented her with the three tickets.
"You may have these first two," said the verdant-eyed beauty.
"Why, thank you!" exclaimed the overwhelmed woman. "Do I know you? What is your name?"
"No, we have never met, and my name is Lilith…Lilith Clay."
Klick, Klick, Klick…
Lilith shredded the winning lottery ticket and threw it away in a public trashcan, pleased that she had prevented another young woman from escaping poverty. She had to hurry. The six visitors from another universe would soon find one another and return home to a happy reunion with friends and family. "I have to stop them from escaping the horrors of the Universe of Evil, whatever it takes!"
Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick, Klick…
Gotham City, Olmstead Park
Helena Wayne, this generation's greatest detective, stood face-to-face with the threat of imminent death. Wonder Woman, the Amazon warrior princess from the Universe of Evil was seething before her with madness. The Huntress could see the insanity in her eyes. Ironically, her only present ally was the Sportsmaster, a benign version of the psychotic stalker from her own reality. Unfortunately, he was completely knocked out by the Dynamic Duo, Batman and Robin, two more evil versions of good men from Helena's world. If the darkknight daugher didn't think of something quick she would die in the Universe of Evil and no one she loved would ever know what had happened to her.
With a growl Wonder Woman lunged at the navy- and violet-clad heroine. The Huntress did a backflip and caught the mad Amazon's shoulders with her knees. Following through her backwards summersault, she used her opponent's momentum to send her crashing into a nearby tree.
CRASH!
"Aha! So there is the one who eluded Wonder Woman earlier," said a masculine voice coming from the sky.
"We will just have to give Wonder Woman a little help in catching this one," said another male. "It shouldn't be too hard."
The Huntress whirled around to see evil versions of both Superman and Aquaman approaching her.
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Star City, The Queen Estate
Di Di Queen took a deep breath as she approached the atrocity of an excuse that stood where her home ought to be. She felt an eerie sense of dread as she gazed upon the jet black building which stood behind the iron bars of the gate before her. She thought of her own home whose sparkling white exterior celebrated the grandeur of the Queen-Lance union. "BEWARE! The Black Widow resides here. Turn away if you value your life," spoke the young lady in sunglasses as she read the warning on the gate. "I miss mom. I would give anything to see her again," she thought as she pressed the doorbell. The horrible buzz was nothing like the birdcalls of the Queen Estate door bell of her own home.
Creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
The gate opened in a slow and eerie fashion. Young Dinah walked through and noted the unkempt lawn along the pathway to the front door.
CLANG! The gate closed quickly behind her.
The front door opened to reveal a woman clad in sleazy garments.
"MOM?!?" asked the young visitor in disbelief.
The owner of the Queen Estate snatched Di Di's sunglasses with lightning speed and stared intently into her face for several moments. "…I thought you were dead!"
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Gotham City, Olmstead Park
The Huntress was in the battle of her life. She grabbed the speeding Superman's elbow and slammed him into Aquaman. Jumping over the two villains she did a handstand and leaped into the air. Grabbing Wonder Woman's shoulder's she vaulted herself high in the sky and landed beside the Sportsmaster. She tried to nudge him awake, but he was still out cold. Before she could do anything about it she found herself surrounded by her three Super Fiends adversaries. Her brilliant mind began to formulate a plan when a violent rush of wind came upon the warring foursome.
Smack! Slap! Whirrrr! Thud!
All three of her attackers were still conscious, but momentarily down. Helena looked to her side and exclaimed with glee, "JUNJIE!!!!!!!!!"
"Glad to see you survived too, Huntress," said the Singaporean Speedster.
"Maybe with you here we will stand half a chance," said the darkknight beauty.
"Oh, I think we have more than half a chance, Amiga," said a familiar voice from the sky.
Looking up the Huntress exclaimed, "Power Guy!"
"Hello again, Huntress! I would say we have 52 chances!" chimed the Sportsmaster as he jumped out of Power Guy's grasp and landed near two of his unconscious 'brothers' below.
Growing to a breath-taking sixty-foot size, Nucleus added, "They don't stand a chance!"
Wonder Woman, Superman, and Aquaman all stood up angrily. "Tonight we feast. And the five of you are the main course," said Superman with a chilling seriousness as Wonder Woman revived the Batman and Robin.
The Titans of Justice sized up the five Super Fiends standing before them before the impending battle began.
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Inside the Queen Estate
The black and red tones in the living room where Di Di Queen sat were nothing like the warm earth tones of her parents' home. The vines and wild plants placed around the house made the young heroine feel uncomfortable. After being attacked earlier by Aquaman and Superman, the newly christened Green Arrow knew better than to drink the hot tea her "Aunt Dinah" offered her. She poured it into the plant on the side-table beside her when her hostess wasn't looking.
"So, just how did you survive all these years without my knowing it? And how did you age so quickly?" asked the brazen looking woman who stood before her. "You look to be a teen, but you should still be a little girl."
Knowing that she wasn't in the safest of situations, but that she needed to distract the lady before her for awhile, the daughter of the Black Canary played coyly. "To be honest with you, I really can't remember too much of anything before today."
"So, you expect me to believe that after three years of being dead, you just show up one day at my doorstep all grown up and without any memory?" asked the blonde woman impatiently.
"Maybe you can help me remember. I take it that we are related? I felt an instinct that this is the place I should go," explained Di Di in pretension, "and then when I saw you I just knew that you were my mother. Where is my father?"
"I buried his ashes in a common grave with yours and your brother's," said the slinky woman coldly.
Sonic Boom could feel her heart palpitate. "I sure hope Daniel hurries up and finds that lantern soon," she thought as she placed her arm on her green duffle bag. "So how did we die?" she asked.
"I killed you myself, just like all my other husbands and families," she said with an insane laugh. "Why do you think they call me the Black Widow?"
"Don't react," thought Di Di to herself. "Keep calm. Breathe slowly. Breathe. Daniel just needs a little more time and then you can take this witch down and get out of this horror house."
The Black Widow walked to the fireplace and flipped a switch. She then removed the mural resting on the mantle to expose the walls in the process of opening. Once fully opened, a showcase was revealed which housed a power battery, a bow and quiver, and a detective's badge and hat. "I marry powerful men and collect their weapons when they die. Like?"
Di Di realized that she was going to have to act. Wherever her teammate was, he was looking in the wrong place. The power battery was right there behind the Black Widow. The young lady dressed in green swallowed hard and asked, "How did you kill them?"
The Black Widow walked toward her young visitor and peered into the empty cup. "Spider venom," she said nonchalantly.
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Gotham City, Olmstead Park
The beginning of the battle was signaled when the Sportsmaster quickly gathered all four of the unconscious versions of himself and become whole. He concentrated for just a moment and then divided into ten Sportsmasters, all of whom surrounded Robin.
Power Guy was tempted to nail Aquaman himself for deceiving him and leaving him to die in kryptonite chains. But Vince Starr wasn't too proud to admit that it would be wiser to take on Superman and leave the King of the Seas for someone else to pummel.
Nucleus had not had enough time to figure out the mechanics of his new size growth abilities. He had spent his time on the trip to Olmstead park repairing his Titans of Justice communicator. He grasped Aquaman by the hair and jerked him 56 feet into the sky to look him straight in the eyes.
Unlike most speedsters, Junjie Quick was a patient man. However, he was growing tired of being in this nightmare that began with him waking up buried alive in the arctic snow. Taking his cue from Nucleus, he grabbed Wonder Woman by the hair and began whirling her in the air at super-speed.
The Huntress couldn't believe that any version of her father could be part of a super-villain team.
But when the Batman-in-red lunged at her she thought to herself, "This pathetic excuse for a Batman isn't going to desecrate the legend of the Batman any longer. He goes down today: for good."
Robin jumped into the air and in a display of acrobatic prowess began kicking and punching the various Sportsmasters surrounding him. After a few of them fell to the ground the remaining seven concentrated momentarily and suddenly Robin found himself surrounded by forty men in baseball uniforms. A violent fight ensued. The Sportsmaster was outmatched by Robin's athletic skills, but unfortunately for the ex-boy wonder…
WHAK!
Robin was outnumbered by the Sportsmaster and his bat!
Superman smiled as he and the white-clad newbie took their fight to the skies. Each blow exchanged by the two icons was harder than the last, and both men had taken several hits. The Kryptonian criminal was single-minded in killing his opponent. His heart was filled with a sadistic pleasure as his fingers clutched the neck of young Vince Starr. As Power Guy began to gasp he noticed Junjie Quick having a difficult time with Wonder Woman below. The white-clad hero clutched the cape of his attacker and began swinging him round and round. "Junjie!" he called out to his teammate below.
Junjie Quick's shoulder, bicep, and abdomen writhed with pain from the blows and kicks of the evil Amazon warrior. Hearing the familiar voice of his teammate, he looked in the sky and realized instantly what Power Guy had in mind. He grabbed Wonder Woman's wrist and leg and began whirling at super-speed. With perfect timing, both Power Guy and Junjie Quick released their foes. The two evil enemies crashed head-on mid air.
SMASH! Thump! Thump!
Both Superman and Wonder Woman fell to the ground unconscious.
Aquaman struggled and squirmed in a desparate attempt to free himself from the grip of Nucleus. Nucleus hit the blond sea warrior in the head a couple of times and then saw that Power Guy was finished with his battle. "Hey, big guy! You look like you would like to work off some tension!" he shouted to his teammate as he cast Aquaman straight toward Vince Starr.
POW!!!!
Aquaman landed on top of Superman and Wonder Woman as Power Guy puffed on his fist and polished it on his uniform. "Thanks!" shouted the grateful hero to Nucleus.
Meanwhile Batman and the Huntress were locked in a deadly martial arts battle during the course of the others' battles. They were seemingly evenly matched. But the Huntress had two things going in her favor. One was a knowledge of how the Batman works. She was raised by a Batman afterall. The other was that by this time both warriors were surrounded by Power Guy, Junjie Quick, Nucleus, and about fifteen Sportsmasters. As the Batman lunged towards the Huntress, the darkknight daughter removed her cape and entrapped the caped villain like a matador would a bull. With a laugh the Batman said, "Its going to take a lot more than that to defeat me little girly!" But when he removed the young heroine's cape from his head he was greeted by the fist of her teammate.
POW!!!!
"Thanks, amigo!" said the Huntress as the Batman joined his teammates in unconsciousness on the ground.
"Anything for my best amiga!" said Power Guy with a grin.
[glow=yellow,2,300]BEEEP! BEEEP! BEEEP![/glow]
All five heroes were both startled and filled with hope when Nucleus's communicator sounded. Nucleus pressed the volume on his wrist device as the Huntress inserted the missing component from her belt into her communicator.
"GL, get out of there NOW!" shouted a female voice in panic.
"Sonic Boom!?! Is that you?" asked Nucleus.
[glow=yellow,2,300]BEEEP! BEEEP! BEEEP! [/glow] "Huntress here!"
"Huntress?!? Praise God you're still alive! This is Green Lantern. We are at the Queen Es… Oh MY SOUL!!! They're everywhere! Huntress!! Huntress this is an emergency! Please come help – AAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"
The five heroes looked at one another in concern. "Junjie, you and Nucleus help the Sportsmaster get these vermin to a nice sturdy jail cell and then meet us at Star City," said the Kryptonian powerhouse. Power Guy then swept the Huntress up in his arms and leaped into the skies. "We have to get there quick, amiga!"
"I concur," said the Huntress. "GL sounded desperate. I just hope that we aren't already too late."
TO BE CONTINUED…