"We need to discuss the growing number of super-criminals in our world." Proposed Maxwell Lord.
"What about it, Lord?" asked an uninterested Amanda Waller.
"It's a problem we've been attempting to deal with for a long time, and although we don't like working with the Justice League, they have recently apprehended a large amount of criminals who are extremely deadly. We need to acknowledge this." urged Lord.
"I honestly don't see why." Responded Isabel Rochev. "Most of them are locked up as we speak."
"That's the problem. We're putting them all together, there's simply too many of them! Something needs to be done to wipe them out!" this raised eyebrows. Amanda Waller, Isabel Rochev, Wade Eiling, Emil Hamilton, and Hugo Strange all leaned towards Lord with interest.
"Go on." Urged Strange.
"What? I'm just saying we need to do something, I'm not saying I have an idea."
"But it does give me one." Said Eiling. "We could take these criminals, at least some of the most dangerous ones, and put them in some sort of an arena together, where they can all take each other out."
"A similar idea to Arkham City, but much more forward. We put these criminals into an arena and only one comes out." Said Strange, warming up to the idea.
"Now, hold on. Only one? Look I know that sounds odd, me trying to raise the numbers, but if all these criminals vanished the League would notice, and they wouldn't be too far off from discovering us, and-" began Lord, but he was interrupted.
"I know what to do." Said Hamilton. Everyone looked at him. "I shall look over the list of inmates at both Belle Reve and Arkham Asylum, and I will compile a list of 42 criminals. Each of us will choose seven to be on a team of our own making, and we pit them all against each other. Once only one team has surviving members left, no matter how many, they will be set free."
Everyone stared at him in shock.
"I love it!" shouted Eiling, slamming his fist on the table. "Hamilton, you get to work on that list, Rochev and I can head down to the tech department to get to work on the arena."
"Strange, use some of your pull at Arkham to get out the candidates that reside there, and once Hamilton has the list ready, we will stage a break out at Belle Reve so that only our choices will make it out, and they will immediately be taken into our custody." Ordered Waller. "Everyone move out."
The next day…
"Hamilton, I trust you have the roster?" asked Waller.
"Indeed I do, here are our options." He said pressing a few buttons on the holo-table, pulling up 42 mugshots. There was a large variety of faces on the board, ranging all the way from Killer Croc to Reverse-Flash to Deathstroke. "To make this work, each of us will rank the criminals in order of who we want most on our team, and we will come back tomorrow to choose teams."
"And in that time the arena should be completely ready. There's a large variety of weapons and areas available inside, thanks to the Apokoliptian tech we acquired after Darkseid's last invasion." Said Rochev. With that, they all took their lists to head off and compile their top choices.