Within minutes and a few passwords the two young members were standing in outer space and looking at Earth through a giant window in the watch tower. Kid Flash can his jaw hanging open and Robin's eyes widened slightly.
"Let's go" Came Batman's gruff voice as he walked past the sidekicks and up to the command center.
Up in the command center they met the founding league members. Flash was sitting at the computer with a headset on and talking to people while the others were gathered around a hologram of Earth.
"Superman, you should already be in Metropolis, your team is waiting for you" growled out Batman when he saw the Kryptonian.
The man in question sent the dark night a glare, "They can wait a few moments. After all they have a full team right now."
He just did not want to see his clone, or son as Batman put it. He has still yet to acknowledge the child and is unsure of how to handle Conner.
Batman looked to the hero clad and blue "You can't avoid him. Now get down there."
The Kryptonian gave another sigh in defeat and left not before glaring at Batman again, who only smirked.
Once he was gone Green Lantern gave out a small chuckle, "Why must you constantly push him?" he asked Batman.
The caped crusader ignored the question and walked up to the hologram and looked at it. Feeling uncomfortable in the presence of all the famous leaguers Robin and Kid Flash just hung in the back ground just watching and listening. Feeling their emotion from across the room J'ohn looked over and gave the two a small smile.
"It good to see you again Robin, Kid Flash" greeted the green skinned man.
Wonder Woman looked over and saw the two and walked over with a warm smile, "Don't hide over here. Come we will show you what you will be doing."
She walked them over to the hologram, "You two will need to watch the movements of the enemy on this, then report any changes to Flash and Batman, sense they will be up here and reports to the rest of the league." She explained.
Robin gave an understanding nod while Kid Flash just gazed at Wonder Woman's beauty. Robin quickly elbowed his friend, "We understand" he reported.
Satisfied the Amazon walked over to Hawk girl and Green Lantern to discuss something. Martian Manhunter did one more check on the computer before turned around and addressed the room, "We should go now"
Within moments the command center was emptied with three going to space and Wonder Woman going to D.C. A few moments later Flash set down the head set and gave a sigh.
"Ok. Everyone is in place now and ready. Now we wait to see what the other side does" he reported as he got up and stretched.
He saw his nephew and quickly ran over, it took .01 seconds, and gave him a big hug, "What's up kiddo? Do you like the watch tower?" he smiled while Kid Flash tried to escape his uncle's grasp.
Robin gave a small laugh and then he started to search through his wrist computer while Batman went to the command centers computer and started searching all of the teams to check status.
"So how long do think it will take to figure out if they are good or not?" asked Kid Flash when he finally escaped.
Flash sighed, "It might take a while, even if we have the Green Lantern organization on our side. Alien diplomacy is very tricky."
"Great" groaned Kid Flash.
Flash laughed and rested a hand on his nephew's shoulder, "Look at the up side, you're in the watch tower. Come one I will give you a tour. I am on break right now anyway"
Batman sent the speedster a glare but did not say anything and the two were gone. Robin let out another laugh at his mentor's antics. A few seconds later while looking at where all the teams were located in correspondence to the threat he saw something strange.
"Hey Bats why is no one stationed in Gotham? There is a pretty big outpost there from the enemy" he observed as he walked over to the dark night.
Batman gave him the signature smirk and then quickly brought up some footage from their city, it showed the Joker along with almost all of other villains standing in the streets. But what is even stranger than them being out in the middle of the day was that they were actually working with the police to get people back into their homes and holding up signs to tell the aliens 'Come in peace or get out'. Robin sent a confused look to the bat.
Batman gave a rare chuckle at the bird's reaction, "Apparently Joker and some others don't like that in the past alien invaders have tried to kill people. According to Joker, 'only he is allowed to terrorize Gotham and Batman'. The other villains agree and have agreed to team up with the commissioner until this crisis is over"
"You actually believe this?" Robin exclaimed surprised at his mentor.
Batman narrowed his eyes at the boy, "No. Which is why I have placed trackers on them all and Star Labs has provided Gordon with those collars that allows him to electrocute anyone that he believes is not helping."
He clicked a button and a map of Gotham appeared with a bunch of red dots and the name of the criminals on it and another picture appeared with Joker and Robin could see the collar on him as well as Bane and Poison Ivy.
"Wow I never thought this would happen. I am so whelmed" chuckled Robin.
The Dark Night just continued to type onto the computer compiling where all of the heroes where and what the status was on the team in the mother ship.
He pulled up a video on the screen just as Flash and Kid Flash returned. All four turned their attention to the transmission and waited with bated breath as they saw the three heroes they sent to space approach the mother ship.
"We come from Earth. We would like an audience with your leader" called out Martian Man hunter to the ship.
There was no movement from the giant ship and the three heroes had a feeling of dread fill them as the invaders ignored them.
"This planet is under the protection of the Green Lantern federation" added in Green Lantern frustrated.
A door opened after that announcement and a group of black figures made their way out to escort the group. John looked over to his Martian friend who gave a nod and the three made their way inside.
"Greetings protectors of Earth" called a large humanoid looking man with dark purple skin.
He had orange hair that went down his hip and was braided to stay out of the way. The man stood atop a platform that looked down on the three heroes. He smiled showing his razor sharp teeth that looked like a shark.
"I have to say that I am surprised to see a Green Lantern, a Martian of Mars and a Thandgarian. What can I do for you three" the alien asked with a sneer.
"You could start by telling us your name" growled Shayera as she thumped her mace menacingly into her opposite hand.
The alien chuckled darkly, "Calm yourself, I am named Retaenam among my people. We have heard reports of your planet and decided to come investigate"
"What kind of reports?" asked the Green Lantern, concerned that this might be involved with the incident two years ago when he and other members of the league disappeared for sixteen hours when under Savages mind control.
The alien gave another evil laugh, "Your planet is said to have some strong inhabitants so we decided to come and test this strength"
Instantly on guard at that statement the Martian Manhunter stepped forward, "We have no desire to be tested by you. Leave us if this your intention."
John and Hawk Girl readied their weapons in case of an attack. But the alien and his subordinate continued to laugh.
"You do not have an option. But I am aware of how your planets strength is in only a few of those that you call meta-human. So do not worry we will only test those and not your so called normal humans." He stated as he pulled up a report on what like a computer that was behind him.
Another one of the aliens that seemed to look like Retaenam but a lot younger and not as muscular stepped forward, "We have the list composed from our informants."
The three justice league members tensed again, "You will leave this planet alone. It is still under the jurisdiction of the Green Lantern and we will not tolerate this" John growled.
"You think I actually care about that? I could just test those of the Green Lantern as well" he chuckled "You may back to your planet to wait to be tested or we could test you now"
J'ohn sensing danger quickly made himself phase through the ship, dragging his two friends with him back into outer space. Within moments that where back at the watch tower.
"We will go to our locations. You inform the rest of the league of what happened. We need to be battle ready. This is an enemy" stated the Martian as he made his way to the zeta beam.
After Green Lantern and Hawk girl got out of their space suites they too were gone in minutes while Flash and Batman quickly reported to the rest of the league what happened.
"That guy laughed more than the Joker" observed Robin as he watched the video again.
Everyone just glared at him but he ignored it and continued to monitor the alien's movements. All of a sudden he saw the red marks monitoring the alien ships on the hologram of Earth start to move he quickly pulled up the news on his wrist computer.
"Bats! They are making their move" called Robin as he saw from a news channel the ships starting to land.
Quickly Batman and Flash where on the com sets and giving out orders to the rest of the league. They got confirmation back from all of the teams that they would engage. Robin turned on several news channels from all over the world onto the many screens in the command center.
They could see the teams engaging and the civilians running for cover. The aliens where of many different races it seemed. Almost like a group of misfits. Kid Flash and Robin continued to watch annoyed that they could not do anything to help their friends.
"Hey look at the group in Star City" pointed out Wally.
Robing turned his attention from France to the other screen. It showed Green Arrow with Artemis as they tried to fight an alien that looked like a rhino walking on two legs and colored orange. But the alien seemed to have no interest in the two crime fighters as he continued to try and fight Zatana and Dr. Fate.
"Hey bats. Tell Dr. Fate and Zatana to fall back and help with the evacuation of civilians" called Robin over his shoulder.
Batman sent the boy and glare, he did not like being told what to do by a thirteen year old, "Robin" he growled darkly.
Robin gulped and turned to his mentor, "Sorry. What I mean is it looks like this guy is not even paying attention to Artemis or Green Arrow. I think that he doesn't want to fight them and wants to fight Mr. Fate and Zatana. Just a possible theory" he said quickly, he and Batman had several conversation in the past about how Robin does not tell the crusader what to do unless he explains himself.
The dark night thought for a moment and then gave a nod to Flash, telling the Speedster to do it. They all watched the screen as they observed the two magicians fall back and how the alien did not even give the archers now attacking him the time of day.
"Your right Robin. They are only going after Mr. Fate and Zatana." Stated Batman and he then turned back to the computer to contact Superman when he noticed something in Gotham.
He quickly turned on the news from the dark city and saw Poison Ivy and the Joker teamed together but I was surprised that the alien they were attacking gave no mind to the clown. The dark night turned his attention back to the other three crime fighters.
"It would seem that our guests are targeting heroes and villains that are not normal humans. They are even ignoring Joker." He reported then he turned back around to tell Superman.
Suddenly the alarms in the watch tower started to go off. Robin and Kid flash jumped from their seats in surprise. Flash put down is head set and looked to the Dark Knight who was already pulling up the security system. On the feed they could see and alien that phased through the walls similarly to J'ohn. He was quickly partnered by two other aliens. All three of them ranged in size from the size of Kid Flash to the height of a tree and they were all humanoid with dark scales covering their bodies like lizards.
In the next moment the three disappeared through the ceiling and Batman quickly turned around and threw a batarang to what the others thought was empty space but it hit something. The larger of the aliens yelled in pain from the electricity and made himself visible.
The smaller alien also made himself visible, "Get them" it growled, clearly the leader.
The four heroes where soon engaged in battle for the watch tower. Flash was fighting off the bigger alien by running around it and throwing in punches and kicks here and there. Batman held off the smaller one that was clearly not interested in the dark night but was forced to fight him. Kid Flash and Robin where working together to fight the one of the size of Superman.
"KF watch yourself they seem to be out for the heroes with powers" said Robin as he threw birdarangs at the alien.
"No worries Rob, I am so fast they would not be able to catch me." He laughed as he continued to laugh.
Just as the words left his mouth though, the alien got the upper hand by tossing out a net from his pocket and entangling the young speedster. Wally hit the ground hard and tried to pry the net from around his feet.
"I caught mine." Called out the alien to the other two.
As the alien went to gather his prize Robin quickly stepped in and threw a small bomb at the aliens back. It turned and glared at the acrobat, not happy about being hit with a bomb. The alien's scales on his body seemed to ripple like a wave. The wave came up to his arm that he extended and he shot out some of the scales that where razor sharp and Robin quickly had to jump out of the way.
The alien continued to fire out his scales as the acrobat danced away, a small smirk on his face. Batman was facing a similar problem but from what seemed like venom that the alien was spitting out at him. Out of the corner of his eye the dark knight saw Flash almost get caught by a net as he tried to avoid scales of his own.
But he was distracted by a yelp from his sidekick and quickly looked over across the room. Robin was on the ground next to his friend and bleeding from his shoulder that was impaled by a scale. But the dark knight could not find a way to get over to him as he continued to fight his own problem.
"Rob you ok?" asked Kid Flash concerned about his bleeding friend.
The boy in question just smiled at his friend as he quickly tried to cut the ropes around the speedster's ankles with a birdarang. But as soon as he tried to cut it he was electrocuted by the net and fell to the ground gasping for air. Kid Flash also was shocked by the net and sent a glare to the approaching alien.
"Maybe you should not do that" heaved the red head.
Robin just glared at his friend as he tried to sit up. He pulled out another birdarang and turned to face the approaching enemy. The alien smirked at the two children and sent another wave of sharp scaled their way. Realizing that he could not move because then Wally would be injured Robin turned and took the brunt of the attack. He clenched his teeth to prevent from yelling out as the scales buried themselves into his back. The momentum of them causing him to fall onto his best friend.
Wally was frantic as he saw the blood staining the acrobat's cape. The alien came to stand over the two crime fighters and he reached down and roughly grabbed the injured bird by his hair causing a moan to escape the boy.
"Leave him alone" growled Kid Flash as he glared at the lizard alien.
The alien just laughed evilly and looked around the room. He saw the man dressed in all black jumping around and knew that he was not one of the heroes is master was after. He smirked as he saw their leader of this mission get kicked by the man and decided he should help him out. He looked down to the smaller human in his grasp and then looked back at the dark knight.
He threw Robin across the room and Kid Flash yelled in protest. They both watched as the boy was caught by Batman who saw the alien throw his protégé. But because of his distraction Batman was hit over the back of the head by a heavy punch from the smaller alien. The dark knight crumpled to the ground with Robin's bleeding, unconscious form still in his arms.
"Caught mine" came a victorious cry from the larger alien as he held up a net with Flash caught and knocked out in it with blood running down the side of his face from a blow to the head.
The smaller alien sent a glare to his companions and just turned away and made his way through the walls and into space. The two remaining aliens laughed at this. Then the one that had caught Wally turned to him.
"Now you will come with us" he said.
Wally just glared at him, "I hope you know if you just bring us out into space we will die." He informed them.
The larger alien then placed what looked like a space helmet over Flash's unconscious face and the other alien did the same with a struggling Wally. In annoyance the alien just hit him over the head knocking him out and they made their way back to the mother ship with their prizes in tow.
