Justice League Axis
Issue 2
The Watchtower 500 hours
"Enough of this. Wonder Woman, I can beat you now. Here are the coordinates, come and face me." Cheetah's face screamed as the entire Justice League watched her give them coordinates. Batman looked especially mad.
"How did they escape from Belle Reve?" Superman asked.
Wonder Woman started rolling up her lasso. "Who cares? She wants a fight, let's go give them one."
"Alright, you heard them, guys. Lets go get them." Superman rallied.
"Are you sure you should bring the entire Justice League?" Batman asked.
Superman gave him confused look. "Why not?"
"Well, a couple reasons." Batman started. "One, this could be a trap, and it would be unwise to bring the entire League to a trap. Two, If this isn't a trap, which it likely is, you would be wasting members on taking down Lex, Bane, and Cheetah. What if there's an emergency and the League is too busy bringing down three miniscule villains to answer."
Superman looked as if he was convinced. They would be wasting assets on an easy task.
"Alright fine," Superman said. "Wonder Woman and Batman come. These are your villains we are dealing with, so you get to take them down. Flash, Cyborg, and Billy will stay and watch for any other trouble."
The villain's coordinates 540 hours
"Looks like we are going to have to fight." Lex said as he rubbed his bald head in worry.
"How are we supposed to fight the entire Justice League?" Bane asked. "These pills aren't going to make me fly or have super cold breath."
"As long as I get my fight with Wonder Woman." Cheetah said delighted.
Bane ran at her and grabbed her by the throat. Cheetah tried to claw at him so he'd let go.
"You think your little kitty scratches can hurt me?" Bane asked as he tightened his grip.
"That's enough you two." Lex ordered "They are here."
The three watched as Superman and Wonder Woman descended right in front of them. Batman jumped off a plane and landed right next to the other two leaguers.
"Just one day with each other and you're already trying to kill each other?" Superman mocked.
Bane just rolled his eyes and tossed Cheetah (whom he was still grabbing by the neck) aside. For a moment, there was silence. Bane knew the V-A gave him strength comparable to Amazonians. He saw his chance and tackled Wonder Woman.
"Hey! She's mine!" Cheetah hollered. But she was interrupted by a bat-kick to the face, and fell momentarily unconscious. Superman flew straight toward Lex and gave his armor a punch, but was unable to dent it.
"What on earth-?" Superman said as he looked at his hand, which was stinging.
"It's made out of Kryptonium allow." Lex said proudly, as if he made the suit. "That mixed with this Kryptonite Beam" He blasted Superman with the Beam. "And this Red Sun Cannon." He blasted Superman with the Cannon "makes it hard for you to put a dent in me."
Lex blasted away at Superman who was being over whelmed by the firepower.
Wonder Woman pushed Bane off of her with her legs. Bane flew backwards but landed on his feet.
"How did you get so strong junkie?" Wonder Woman taunted. "I don't remember your filthy habit giving you this much strength."
"Words will only get you so far Princess." Bane retaliated and he charged at her again. He threw a punch, but Diana slipped out of the way. He threw another one but it was also dodged by the Amazonian. Wonder Woman grabbed her lasso and roped it around one of Bane's arms. Bane pulled his arm forward and forced Wonder Woman toward him. He landed a solid punch to her face and sent her flying back.
Wonder Woman was staggering from that blow. How the heck does he hit so hard and not a single tube is attached to him?
Cheetah woke up from her momentary unconscious state and saw Bane fighting Wonder Woman. Enraged, she ran at the two with her super speed, and tackled Wonder Woman.
All Bane saw was Wonder Woman disappear from his sight, but he heard a big cat growl. "Cheetah." He said to himself and rolled his eyes.
The force of Cheetah's new super speed tackle knocked Wonder Woman back far. Wonder Woman got back up and saw Cheetah staring at her with a menacing look in her eyes.
"Was that you Cheetah?" Wonder Woman asked. "You guys are full of surprises today."
"Don't joke now Diana." Cheetah replied. "Now is when I kill you."
Cheetah ran at Wonder Woman with her speed. Wonder Woman tried her best to cover herself with her bracelets. Clink, Clink, Clink the sounds the bracelet was making as Cheetah was clawing at them. Metal sparks were flying off them and Diana was moving her body wherever she saw Cheetah's blur. Finally the fury of attacks stopped and Cheetah was once again in front of Wonder Woman.
"Hah!" Wonder Woman panted. "Even with your speed you still couldn't scratch me."
"Couldn't I?" Cheetah replied, with a devilish smirk.
Immediately Wonder Woman felt excruciating pain in her arms. She looked and they were full of scratches and were bloody.
Wonder Woman desperately looked around for help. Batman would likely get killed if he were to interfere, and superman was fighting Luthor. Diana saw as Superman lifted Luthor high into the air but Lex aimed his Red Sun Cannon straight at Superman's face. The blast shot Superman straight to the ground. Luthor landed on his feet with a big Thud.
"Superman!" Wonder Woman called. "How about we trade dance partners."
Superman was gingerly getting up from that shot. "Good idea." He grunted.
He flew at Cheetah with top speed. Cheetah saw this and ran the opposite direction.
Wonder Woman went to attack Luthor who blasted at her with the Red Sun Cannon. Diana blocked the first few shots with her bracelets but one of them connected. The blast knocked her to the ground.
"Careful Amazonian." Lex taunted. "You may not have Superman's vulnerabilities, but that doesn't mean a Red Sun blast wouldn't still hurt."
Now Batman jumped in front of Bane, who threw a punch, then a kick, then a backhand. All were dodged by The Dark Knight.
"I don't think you want to participate in this battle Bat." Bane said. "This new Venom makes me a lot stronger, and there are no tubes for you to use against me."
"I saw that in your fight with Wonder Woman." Batman replied casually. "The V-A is formidable."
Bane was shocked. "How do you know about the V-A?" he asked.
Batman gave a smirk. "I told you not to bite off more than you can chew."
Bane was too shocked to even think about attacking Batman. He is the one who broke him out? Why?
Batman reached into his belt. "Don't dodge this." He said as he threw it at Bane's shoulder. Whatever it was pierced his shoulder, and started making him drowsy.
"What is this?" he asked as he weakly tried to pull it off.
"An anesthetic batarang made out of Promethium, so it would pierce your skin. I'm doing this for your own good."
Bane fell on one knee, then both, then fell completely over. He still had his eyes on batman.
"I'll see you soon Bane." Bane heard batman say before he dozed off.
"Bane is down." Batman said in his Com-link.
"Good." Wonder Woman replied. "Luthor's about to go down too."
"We'll see about that princess." Lex said.
Wonder Woman grabbed her lasso then roped it around the suit's torso. She continued to fly around Lex until the rope was completely tying him. She pushed him over and he fell on his back helpless.
"Luthor's down." Diana said triumphantly.
"And I got Cheetah." Superman said.
Cheetah was running her fastest, trying to avoid Superman who was closely behind. Superman had a clear shot and stung her in the back with his heat vision. She tumbled on the ground and grinded her teeth.
The pain was soon replaced by tingling feeling in her back. Her cells were rapidly regenerating.
"Hmm, quick healing." She said with a smirk on her face, and then ran at Superman. She clawed at his face but all she managed to do was hurt her hand. She fell back on the floor and was crying out in pain. Superman used this opportunity to freeze her legs with cold breath.
"Cheetah is down." He said victoriously.
Batman put his palm to his mouth. "Come in now." He said, and then he joined the other two Leaguers round up the villains.
"Looks like you are going back to Belle Reve Luthor." Batman said as he got close to his face. "How'd you get out in the first place?"
"I bet you guys would like to know that." Lex answered. "But why would I tell you?"
"Listen Lex." Superman said. "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way."
"Hmm, both choices are intriguing, but I guess I choose: Neither."
At his words, a red and blue blur flew into the area and at an instant, the three villains were gone. The only remnants of them were Wonder Woman's lasso and the batarang that incapacitated Bane.
The Watchtower 700 hours
The three Leaguers returned from the battle confused. Flash zoomed to meet them.
"What happened over there?" He asked curiously. "You guys look like you saw some pretty weird stuff."
It was all pretty odd." Superman answered. "Lex had a new suit that, if he would've had a few years earlier, probably could kill me. Bane was as strong as Diana. And cheetah was running like you."
"Wow, that's nutty." Flash said.
"There is no way they could've broken out of Belle Reve and prepped themselves like this." Cyborg stated. "They wouldn't have had the time. And they couldn't have planned this before they were arrested, it was a spontaneous event."
"What are you saying?" Batman questioned.
"I'm saying somebody helped them. There's no way they could've given themselves all those powers. I mean Cheetah with the speed force? She couldn't have possibly thought of how to get it herself. Maybe if I take a closer look at the live feed signal, I can find a signature and it could give us a clue of who's helping them. I just have to get past those encryptions."
Batman got his jet ready and then motioned for Superman.
"I should help Cyborg." Batman said.
"Go ahead; he's in the data room."
"No, the Bat-computer is more capable of getting past the encryptions. With our combined work we should be done in about a week."
"Alright then go."
Superman noticed Batman turning off the tracker in his Com-Link.
"Why are you turning your tracker off?" Superman questioned.
"Because, I don't want to be bothered."
"It's not like I don't already know where the Bat-Cave is."
"Fine then." Batman looked Superman in the eye. "Don't bother me."
Batman flew the jet away. Superman was watching him with a suspicious look.
"Why are you looking at him like that?" Captain Marvel asked. "You know he always does this."
"Yeah you're right." Superman said, than walked away from the window.
The Arrow Cave 830 hours
Thump! Bane, Lex, and Cheetah all landed hard on the Arrow Cave ground. They didn't know what was happening when they were mysteriously snatched at super speed. When they realized where they were, they all rejoiced.
"We were almost done for." Cheetah said with a smile. I wonder who grabbed us."
"Whoever it was-" Bane said with a tired face. The force of the landing has woken him up from the anesthetics. "-dropped us very harshly."
"It was me." A voice said. A blonde headed girl with a blue belly shirt, red boots, a red and yellow skirt and a red cape entered the room. Her chest had the famous S symbol on it.
"Supergirl?" Lex asked, surprised. "You're against your own cousin?"
Supergirl looked down in shame.
"I don't particularly agree with my cousin on this topic. That's why I'm going to be fighting with you guys, for the common man's rights." She said that in a cheerful, almost cheerleader like tone that made Cheetah gag.
"Who told you to get us?" Cheetah asked, annoyed.
Supergirl pointed her finger toward the entrance. In walked in The Caped Crusader himself.
The only one surprised was Cheetah. Lex knew as soon as they were broken out of Belle Reve. The sedative Batman uses to take people out usually lasts an hour before it wears off. Lex knows because it has happened to him before.
"Batman?" Cheetah asked.
"Hello Team." Batman said. "Now, you're probably wondering why I'm helping you. Maxwell Lord is an evil, manipulative man. He will do whatever he wants to get what he wants. He even used the Justice League to force us regular people into submission.
Cheetah was confused; she always thought Batman was superhuman.
"You all know what we are fighting for already. But you must know, Lord has the world in his hands. What we will do may be for the greater good, but we will always be propagated as the bad guys. I say this; if what we are doing is bad, than I no longer want to do good. Justice is doing good, no matter how it's being viewed by other people. So let's be the bad-guys In Lord's eyes. The Justice League Axis."
