Robin's brain was rattling; all he could hear was a high pitched beep sound. He still was stunned for the explosion, but he started to slowly understand the noises and voices around him, as well the scene that was unfolding before him-his friends fighting those "meta-goons" and armed thugs, these other newcomers maiming and killing more armed henchmen. After checking on Kid Flash and helping him to get up, it was then when he had his head and vision totally clear that he could recognize two very remarkable faces, one that, somehow brought him old memories along with confusion: Catman and other that utterly surprised him: Bane. Robin and his friends might be starting a fight for their lives instead of justice and heroism, but for others they were just doing a job.
Bane: Superb criminal planner, expert martial artist.
The man who was a perfect match for batman was disarming some thug in two moves finishing him a strike from the rifle's butt and using it to shot another goon in and then shooting the original owner of the gun.
In other side of the frail a woman dressed with a classical ninja black suit (except with black thighs) and a half mask was fighting against of a "meta-goon" who had the power to shoot plasma beams from his hands, uncannily dodging every shot as she was approaching to him.
Scandal Savage: sole known Vandal Savage's daughter. Amazing ninja. Deadly combatant in the usage of ninja claws
When she got close enough, the goon didn't make any attempt of hand-to-hand combat or get away to get large range again, instead kept firing plasma at short range and the woman easily avoided every shot, finishing the small duel with a final spin over the goon's back and placing a device on his back, the device looked like a sort of miniature flying saucer, except this, was in fact, a very effective bomb that exploded seven seconds after being activated causing a really big ball of fire that instantly engulfed the goon.
The fighting was remained silent for so long as 3 seconds before continuing, Robin though that this was not a good day for his ears, but that only made him remember that he shouldn't be standing just there, the fact that nobody attacked him yet was proof that this kind of ironic day, the mission was obviously over and failed, he at least had to stop this murderous spree by these strangers, but again he caught sight of something that, once again, left him between baffle and surprise.
Catman: High level intellect. Skilled hand-to-hand fighter. Outstanding tracking tactics.
The man known as Catman was fighting three goons at the same time, disarming one then striking him the gun's butt, breaking the other's nose and injuring the last one's jaw only to break the necks of the three of them in three different ways clearly belonging to a different martial art each.
Robin couldn't stand this massacre any longer, he would protect his friends and bring these killers to justice.
Meanwhile the other members of The Team were having their own problems handling the super powered goons, such as Aqualad who was dealing with one that apparently only had a super strength and enhanced agility, the goon wasn't a skilled combatant by any means, but his speed and supernatural stamina made him a most formidable opponent, no matter how Aqualad stroke him, he would just get up and keep fighting, Aqualad quickly though of an extreme measure-crippling the goon. Between dodges and missed blows by Aqualad's water rods, he got a good opening in the lower section of the goon; taking over the opportunity Aqualad smashed the goon's knee tearing apart his leg, a sensation of dread took over him, but remembered his resolution, except that what he saw completely erased that sensation replacing it with shock. Some wires and metal tubes could be clearly seen in the leg stump.
"Robot, they are damned robots!" Aqualad said recovering from the shock but gaining a new determination.
"Listen, don't hold back! These are just machines!" though he didn't know if they heard him, they seemed pretty busy. So he simply finished his opponent who was now clumsily jumping on one foot, by tearing his head off with a strike from his water rod now shaped like a spiked club
Looking for more robots to take down he saw the scene of a beautiful yet terrifying silver-haired woman who was passing through six thugs either maiming them by tearing one of their limbs or killing them in gruesome yet swift ways all the while diabolically smiling.
Jeanette: Living banshee, very strong, very crazy.
"Hahaha…! I love ordinary mortals, they are the kind of toy you like how easily gets broken and they even give you the benefit of screaming for you." She said this as she licked the blood in one his hands from the palm to the tip of her middle finger.
Gun shots could be heard and he saw many armed thugs falling like flies one by one until all of the thugs on the warehouse were dead since the intervention of the meta-goons made them drive their attention to them and pretty much leaving the rest of the underlings for these murderous strangers, upon turning his attention the source of gun fire got a good glance of the shooter, he lost sight of him after the explosion of Michael Madison's car and now he showed up again like if had gone invisible the whole time.
BloodSport: expert marksman, invincible guerrilla warfare tactics.
A meta-goon with the power to charge his fists with electro free energy was lounging towards BloodSport, be he merely pulled out his glock pistol shooting the goon on both shoulders and the leaping out of his way. The thug couldn't move his arms and now facing BloodSport who just used his glock to shoot three bullets all across the android's forehead.
"Allright! I think this will do, let's go everybody! Hey, Yo-yo stop banging around with that android, move your stretchy ass and leave with us!" BloodSport said this as he was watching the man known as Yo-yo, who was wearing, probably the most baffling costume that either The Team or these assassins have ever seen-clown make-up and a costume to match, which looked like what a clown would wear to make a comedic impression of a super hero, except without a cape.
Yo-yo: super elasticity, size shifting.
And now that same was being tackled by an android that had the powers to fly and certain degree of super strength but as he was being crashed through the warehouse, he started incrementing his size until he was 25 times bigger than his assailant, and when he couldn't push him anymore, Yo-yo punched the android to the ground and started stomping it until it was totally broken and sticked to concrete.
"all right, all right, but you know how easily I get pissed off by weaklings" said Yo-yo as he was returning to his normal size.
Yo-yo, Bloodsport and the rest of the mercenary team were heading for their escape route when, Robin shout them out
"Stop right there, I don't know who are you exactly, and I certainly don't know who you think you are but you committed many murders here. I may not know who you are. Anyhow we're taking you in for multiple homicides!"
"Kid, we told you and your friends to stay down in order to prevent getting yourselves killed, you didn't do it and yet you survived, that's admirable. But don't step in our way, that's a legitimate warning" said Bloodsport with a visible scowl under his mask.
"You talk like you think we are afraid of you" Said Aqualad stepping to the front
"Robin is right, for justice's sake, we can't let just walk away from this-you will pay for this crime"
"Come on! Let's get this over, if we are going to beat these kids down, let's do it already!" said an exasperated Yo-yo.
And right after he said this he threw a long range kick with his elasticity which Robin narrowly dodged as he ran to him as well and as he was getting near Yo-yo threw two long jabs that were more easily dodged by Robin that didn't lose momentum and when he was near enough he slid between Yo-yo's legs, elbowed his crotch as he was still sliding and when Robin stood up, Yo-yo could only say between his pain:
"…Little bastard…" and right after this he stared to the ground noticing a tear gas bomb planted by robing which exploded seconds after, taking him out of combat.
"Team, bring them in!" Aqualad yelled as he charged as well towards the mercenaries.
Miss Martian was the first to pick an opponent: The silver-haired woman, Ms. Martian thought of a quick psychic shock to make the woman faint, but when she sent the shock into Jeanette's mind, Ms. Martian was stroke with an overwhelming wave of hatred, death and tragedy thoughts, leaving her with a sensation of multiple needles being pulled into her skull and a blurred vision.
In that moment, Jeanette lunged at her hitting her with a punch so hard that splatted Ms. Martian's face and sent her flying right into the wall of the building that right in front of the warehouse.
"My mind it's not a nice place to be" she said with an evil smirk
As she said this Aqualad yelled behind her:
"Fight me, woman!" though he only said this to not taken by the back in dishonorably way.
The others were already taking on the rest of the mercenaries: Bane was holding his own against Kid Flash despite his superior agility, Artemis was engaging against the woman known as Scandal Savage.
Zatanna by her part, was still trying to think of a spell that could quickly end this battle but all of the spells she could think of were going to take his friends down as well, when she zoned out she noticed that the man dressed in a similar way to batman (except of course for the color scheme and other obvious details) was nowhere to be seen, she then heard one footstep and mini seconds after Catman rendered her unconscious with a karate chop to her nape
Robin was trying to give a good punch to Bloodsport who didn't seem to possess any type of combat training, but he was damn good at dodging and evading, Robin almost couldn't believe his capacity, only to be briefly blinded by something in one of the gloves of Bloodsport, this way losing sight of him.
He then turned around to see if he could think of a quick strategy, but instead he saw something that infuriated him-Catman standing Zatanna who was just lying and unmoving in the ground.
"now it's on, prick" he murmured, and started running to him
"I'm warning you, boy, I'm prepared to defeat Batman" Catman said as robin kept approaching
"Then it's a good thing I'm not Batman" Robin said as he leaned close enough to attack him.
Robin tried to deliver a hook punch but he swiftly evaded it and caught his punch in mid-air throwing Robin with a judo throw and trapping him in an arm lock, all in less than 3 seconds.
Robin was taken aback, that was incredibly fast, Batman has never been this fast, at least not while training with him but he didn't have time to ponder in this train of thought so he then rolled on to loosen the grip on his arm and threw a quick jab at Catman who easily dodged it but released Robin from the arm lock. Robin started throwing fast boxing combinations but Catman was either deflecting them or blocking them with ease. Robin started to exert himself increasing the speed of his attacks but Catman continued rejecting them with ease, until he decided to counter by catching of Robin's punches and struck him in the ribs with his other hand, with a grunt Robin stopped his punches and tried to hit him with a high kick which also evaded by Catman who rolled over his leg and back-elbowed Robin causing him turn himself a little and then punched him in the bladder zone which left him stunned, Catman then turned him around to face him and punched him the a back fist knocking him out.
Aqualad was engaged in a fierce fight against Jeanette, she was fast and even though she lacked of combat training her speed and wild determination made her a worthy opponent for the atlantean. Swift dodges and counter attacks were proving a effective strategy against her haymakers, jabs and crosses but she had an strategy of her own too, after multiple failed strike attempts she jumped into the air and smashed her fist trying to make Aqualad move, and mini seconds after she turned around with a prepared punch which was caught by Aqualad and then she grabbed his other hand engaging in a wrestling-like struggle.
"You are quite the opponent, woman; although you are a brawler you matched me in every move!"
"If you think that my physical abilities are impressed, let me show you my singing skills… they will leave with chilling soul!" Jeanette said this with a devilish grin in her face as it was changing into a ghostly vision of a skeleton face and the she screamed out in the face of Aqualad a scream that didn't belong to the world of the living
Aqualad was trapped by an overwhelming sensation of shock and fear, but it was a kind of that not even the fear of death causes, no this was crawled under his skin and into his brain freezing his heart in the process, Aqualad was about to faint for the mental fatigue but then Jeanette uppercut him sending him mildly high in the air taking him out cold.
Artemis jumped over a set of boxes and shot 2 electric arrows to Scandal Savage who sliced one and dodged the other, when she got to a hand-to-hand range Artemis had to use her bow as a melee weapon, Artemis of course, was well trained at unarmed combat but Scandal Savage was going for broke she was alternating between slashes from her claws and fierce kicks. Fighting against this woman was something completely new, she was barely holding her own now, she wondered if her sister, Cheshire was actually this skilled, his father for that matter and all this time she was easy on her, the intensity in the attacks of this woman was something she never saw before and it was clear who was going to win the fight.
Scandal Savage abruptly knocked off Artemis' bow, cut her face and then sliced three fingers from her hand, this caused her to kneel in pain and then she roundhouse kicked her in the in jaw knocking her out.
"Artemis…!" Kid Flash shouted, and ran from his fight with Bane to Scandal Savage knocking her away, and then doing the same for Catman, Jeanette and finally Bane. He cursed himself he should have wasted time with Bane, and he had to make sure that all of his friends were fine, Bloodsport who was watching all from behind a truck of the warehouse, pressed a button combination in his right wrist and checked an inventory with the name of several gun models and counted bullet magazines.
"all right, let's check… yes a good magazine of vibra-bullets for our annoying speed-kid" he then pressed a button in his belt a placed both hands away from him creating a teleportation field from his gloves, a bullet magazine materialized in front of him and he quickly loaded it into one of his glocks.
After he slipped until he reached Yo-yo who was just recovering from the gas induced sleep, Bloodsport whispered something in his ear and then went back to a hiding from where he put his strategy at work.
"Kid, over here!" he yelled to Kid Flash who was checking on Artemis and trying to help her to get up, but his attention was caught by that yell and notice the man dressed in the gray trench coat and costume, but then he was greeted with by Yo-yo's punch that distracted him enough to not dodge a shot from Bloodsport and was hit in the left arm. The vibra-bullet than started to cause him seizures at lightspeed.
"All right, at last this over, come on, call the others now we will leave already"
The rest of the group quickly made its way to their transportation: a black modified dodge van 2010. Bloodsport was the driver this time once that everyone was onboard he took good speed and drove from there with their priced item-the destroyed android.
"Geez, that was one annoying job" exasperatedly said Yo-yo who was the only member who got beaten by Robin
"heh, it would be odd if you hadn't found it annoying, personally I think that was rather entertained, these kids had fight in them" said Jeanette who was looking through the window with the look of a kid who is just coming back from an amusement park.
"That kid, Robin has gotten better in all these years, batman seems to be a good master, but clearly he didn't teach to keep a cool head in battle, I wonder if he is just like Batman in that regard?"
"You know that kid?" asked Bloodsport in an impressed tone
"Of course, back when I he and I were still weak, still I was defeated by a good team work from those two"
"Well, no way to know if he's Batman's *mini-me", besides it doesn't really matters if you don't face him" said Scandal Savage with a nonchalant look "we should be wondering how are we going to spend our part of the payment, or are we going to add it to our saves account?"
"Saves account" each one them responded
"Damn, that's pessimism you know, guys? We are not going to get out of business any time soon!"
"Well, actually maybe I would leave and go to Gotham, I am planning on start a mob organization, you are welcomed if you want to go with me and face Batman, Thomas"
"Thanks, I will consider it, though I want to caught in a moment where he suspects no damn thing, and this include an alliance with any new comer to Gotham's crime world"
"It's your call, I think we would create a good plan-you can physically break him and then I could mentally break him" after Bane said this Catman smirked with legitimate amusement.
Back in Michael Madison's warehouse from his shock induced faint and looked around to check for all of his friends. Started with the most critical of them all: Kid Flash who was still having seizures, it was going to be hard to help him, but Aqualad knew a method that would at least stop the seizures until he could extract the bullet, with one of his water rods he wrapped the injured arm in a solid water bundle, and once Kid Flash's seizures stopped he proceeded to use the other rod to carefully extract the bullet with a tiny water tentacle that got into the wound.
After he finished the extraction he helped Kid Flash to incorporate
"let's go, Wally, help to get the rest to the bio ship, and I will owe an explanation to Batman"
May 22 10:11 PM. Outskirts of Detroit, Michigan
Bloodsport and the others reached an abandoned parking building where they were going to deliver the item to their employer.
"We got it and Michael Madison is more dead than Calista Flockhart's acting career, now fulfill your part of the bargain" said Bloodsport dropping the android's body that was enveloped in mat.
"Well done, your exorbitant price was worth it" said a man with a black business suit
"Here" he extended a signed check as the Bane carried the body toward a small load truck, once that Bloodsport picked the he said to him:
"Timothy Beamer… I take it that's not your real name"
"Of course not, that's only the name of one of many façade bank accounts, the money is arranged for you to take it, it was a pleasure to make business with you gentlemen and ladies…"
"Right,
Bloodsport and the rest of the group got out of the building leaving the man seemingly alone in the building.
"So, was Michael Madison that big of a concern?" said a feminine voice from behind
"not really, but I needed to be only one who possessed this technology, unlike that capitalist pig, I am not interested in selling this precious technology to low life mob bosses, and since I have the perfect method… and the engineer to turn this technology into something perfect I shall strike the fatal wound I always wanted to give to Wayne industries, now I assume you already have the test subject, Dr. Cylvia."
"Of course I do, Mr. Black Mask."
