Superman was hit on the chest with a laser, he was flung through the walls of the building.
Batman took advantage of the distraction and readied his emp charged batarang to throw it at the enemy. But he was forced to dodge the barrage of attacks directed towards him, as the enemy realized his motive. he was blasted towards a wall and was forced to take cover behind rubble.
Batman: "DAMN"
he found it difficult to breath, realizing that he may have few bruised if not broken ribs
At that moment Superman emerged from the building and charged towards the enemy. The enemy lifted a finger and a force field appeared between them. Superman kept moving intending to break through the field. As he punched through the force field, he started to feel nauseous. It was then he noticed a tinge of green colour in the force field.
Superman:" kryptonite!? "
the enemy wrapped its fist around superman's neck. Superman weakened by the kryptonite he gasped and weakly tried to break free of the hold. Suddenly something whizzed past superman and attached itself to the enemy's body.
Superman, realizing what it was, brazed for impact as the metallic object exploded in the enemy's face. Both superman and enemy were thrown in opposite direction due to the explosion.
Superman, still reeling from the effect of kryptonite, got up to his feet.
Superman: "Thanks, I guess"
Batman: "Next time don't go blindly charging all by yourself "
Superman: "I Wasn't expecting it to have kryptonite"
Batman: "Always expect the worse"
Superman: (confused) "it wasn't exactly kryptonite though, felt like it but was weaker"
Batman:"Maybe it was an imitation or it mimicked the radiation" he too had noticed the unusual green tinge that appeared on the force field.
Superman: "is that even possible?"
Batman signed at the question. everything that happened that day was not exactly possible and yet it happened. A new Enemy emerged out of nowhere ….. literally.
They were send to investigate some kind of anomaly which turned out to be some sort of portal and out of it emerged a large Metallic humanoid robot followed by two smaller and leaner version of it
At first they all seemed inert and the two smaller robots seemed to collapse as if someone cut their strings.
The larger robot seemed to be in pain and complaining about it memories and ports while holding its head. it was only after the arrival of flash, wonder woman, superman and batman things changed because as soon as it laid they eyes on them it snapped out of its frenzy and started to attack them. The machine had strange ability to mimic and counter their moves. it was almost as if it was learning. Though initially outnumbered it activated its two minions who started to fire lasers at vehicles and support structure of buildings forcing them split up between fighting it and rescuing civilians.
Wonder Woman and flash were busy clearing people from a collapsing building while fending off the minions. Using her meta-strength wonder woman lifted a large piece of debri and threw them at the minions burying them under it, while flash took the civilians out of the danger zone. After making sure that civilians are clear of immediate danger she turned her attention towards the battle raging between the enemy and her two friends.
It was then she notice superman collapse due to kryptonite. She and flash was about to go to his rescue when they saw batman sneak up on the robot as it choked superman and throw a small explosive bomb at the them which stuck to the metallic surface and exploded almost immediately, creating a distance between the robot and superman.
Flash: "huh!, well only bats can save a guy be throwing live bombs AT THEM"
as he appeared beside wonder woman. They both went to check on their teammates and found that both heroes were out of breath and beaten badly. The ground began to rumble as the two minions crawled out of the debri and went to stand beside the bigger robot.
Flash: "well this cant be good"
he watched the bigger robot charge some kind of weapon. As if on cue Diana charged towards the bigger robot while flash ran around it to attack them from behind but their advances were cut off by the minions. As they bot tried fighting it they realized that both the minions was somehow able to predict their moves and not only counter them but managed to push them back. Superman meanwhile shot the enemy with his heat vision but it was easily dodged by it. Almost seemingly annoyed the enemy started firing at superman pining him while its two minions pushed both wonder woman and flsh to take cover.
Wonder Woman:"what in the hades name is going on? how did they become so tough all of a sudden. they were as good as punching bags few minutes ago".
Flash : "yeah and also it's like they can see me move"
the dark knight was standing back and observing the whole scene
Batman:" they are learning and adapting as they fight, that's why It dint use the kryptonite before and why both of you managed to defeat it easily. it was observing you to come up with effective strategy"
Wonder woman: "well any ideas?" while looking at batman.
Flash: " Well at least we still outnumber them. maybe four of us attacking together might do the trick"
And then it happened, the portal that brought these things here was reopened out out of it flew another minion.
They enemy and its minions suddenly stopped its attack on the league and was looking at the portal.
Wonder woman: "did they call for reinforcements? "
Flash:"you gotta be kidding me, did I just jinx us"
Batman noticed that the minion that just appeared was severely damaged and aslo that the enemy and its minions had their weapons trained at the portal
Superman : "I think they are scared"
The portal was starting to emit electricity which was dancing around its edges.
but the league and the enemy stepped back as the portal was destabilizing and sending out random shots of electric bolts out of. Then there was large burst of electricity before they portal collapsed.
It was only then that they noticed that the final large burst of electricity was actually a person standing at the exact place where portal was
The figure standing in front of the portal was clad in some kind of black militaristic armour which could give batman run for its money. On his head was some kind of black helmet with little pointed ears . The front of helmet was some kind of tactical visor while his eyes glowed blue.
It then took off with breathtaking speed towards the enemy and its minion while dodging their attacks with ease. it landed right in front of them and while it punched and kicked the minions before blasting the bigger robot with some kind of blue energy that shot out of his palms .
The league was dumbfounded as they saw the mysterious new guy took out the enemies that they were with surprising ease. Diana was reminded of Zeus and his lightning bolt as the man in black unleashed a electric bolt from his hands which send the bigger robot crashing. the two minions prepared to attack the man in black together while protecting the bigger enemy who was retreating with another minion. this snapped the league back to reality as they prepared engage the minions.
the man in black : "Stay here and stay out of my way"
his voice was heavily masked. Then he took off chasing the bigger robot and engaging in the sky and leaving behind two minions for the league to deal with.
Batman: "Diana, follow him"
Wonder WOMAN: "But batman ..."
She said Looking at the two minions who almost defeated them .
Superman:"That thing has kryptonite and you are the only other fighter we have right now who can fly"
Batman:"just because he is fighting same eney doesn't mean that he is an ally"
Wonder woman nodded before taking off to assist the man in black.
ROOFTOP
The Man in black was dodged another blast from the enemy and charged at the it. The enemy blocked his punch and for a moment they were locked in place looking at each other.
The robot: (eyes glowed red) "What did you do to me?"
the man in black : "a virus … that erases your memory and deletes your ability to copy .. you lost Vigil"
the enemy punched him in the gut that made him take a few steps back .
Vigil: "you will Pay for what you did"
vigil dodged a punch from him and sidestepped, which was what he was expecting as he followed his punch with a roundhouse kick and discharged and electric burst toward it chest with his palm.
For a moment vigil seemed incapacitated
Vigil: "I know who you are ….. SHADOW … I know when is here"
the man looked like he just got punched in the gut. He knew about the ramification of that knowledge. He was sure that its entire memory bank must have been almost completely wiped. Did it cling to its hatred for him during its memory wipe that it was able to recover its memory of him.
He was snapped back to reality as he saw vigil and its minion aim at him and shoot. he brazed for impact just as he heard someone call his name
Diana flew towards the fight between the two who appeared out of portal. she was confused as it was the first time she heard that robot .. vigil speak.
shadow? vigil? these were names she hadn't heard before.
She noticed the man called shadow freeze in his tracks when vigil taunted him about knowing who he is. Diana rushed towards the shadow when she noticed that he was about to be attacked.
Wonder woman: "SHADOW, watch out"
She landed in front of him and deflected the blast. but the minion rushed forward and punched her, sending her crashing into the shadow who was standing behind her.
Vigil:"you took away my world , now I will destroy yours"
he started retreating while with flick of its finger it send some command to the minions. their eyes started to burn bright red
the minion now armed with self-destruct code charged towards them. Realizing what it is The shadow grabbed the wonder woman and turned around using his body as a shield to protect her from blast. he felt the heat of the explosion and its force send them both flying off the building top.
The three members of league were able to hold their own against the two minions.
Batman and Flash engaged one minion by cornering it and using his last emp batarang, while superman still reeling from effect of kryptonite was fight the minion who seemed to almost match his brute strength. then suddenly the minions switched to long range tactics and started retreating. Superman was about to follow them when they heard an explosion at top of the building and saw a figure covered in fire falling from the building at incredible rate . Superman flew towards the falling figure, but the person landed on top of the car before he could catch him.
They all moved towards the car worried as none of them could contact wonder woman over the commlink
Diana was prepared to attack the charging minion when suddenly she was grabbed and tuned around. the next thing she heard was sound of explosion. When she regained her senses she found her self on top of man called shadow and looking at the worried face of her team mates .
Wonder woman tried to stand up and regained her bearings. Her head still felt foggy from impct of explosion
Batman:"you okay princess, that was a nasty explosion"
she nodded and looked at the man who tried to shield her, he was not moving.
Flash: "so is this kyle reese or terminator ?"
Diana : (clueless) "kyle reese?"
Diana : "Kal … is he alive?"
Superman:"I don't know, I can't read any of his vitals. I can't even hear his heart beat"
Batman: "he is alive" noticing the slight movement of his chest "just knocked out"
Batman inspected the shadow's suit and said "Lead lined"
Superman:"Diana, you are hurt. we should head to the watchtower "
Flash: "what about him?"
diana dint understand why wally would ask that question , but a quick look at other members of her team made it clear.
Diana: "he is coming with us to watchtower, he needs medical attention"
batman shot here a disapproving look.
Superman:"Diana, batman is right he appeared out of nowhere just like the one that attacked us"
Diana: "he fought AGAINST them"
Batman: "you are being naive princess, for all we know he could have set it all up"
For some reason that thought refuse to enter here mind, she felt like she needed to help this man in black.
Diana: "Bruce please, he got hurt shielding me from the blast. I will take responsibility for him" she pleaded to batman.
Batman was also curious and wanted to find out few things about his mystery guest and the threat he bought with him. his suit was advanced and also seemed strangely familiar. He decided it was best to keep a close eye on him and assess how big of a threat he really is.
Batman: "okay princess, if anything happens that's on your head" replied in a cold voice