Episode 3: Exterminate
Megadome, Mississippi
Deadshot looked around the wrecked stadium before rubbing his neck. Those drop couches weren't very effective. He looked around at his team. It wasn't a pretty sight.
El Diablo - Amateur
King Shark - Wild Card
Black Spider - Hero
And Harley Quinn, well, she was cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Voltaic and Boomerang were the only other professionals on the team. Not that it mattered. He keyed his earpiece. "Waller?"
"You have less time than we thought! Find this woman." A picture of a blonde woman showed up in Deadshot's holographic eyepiece. "Her name is Caley Burns. She has the cure. Secure it before the National Guard locks down the city."
A man ran towards the Squad and the image disappeared from Deadshot's view. "Omigod, the Justice League! Thank God! You need to help us."
King Shark roared at him and he shuddered, backing away. "You're not heroes, who-who are you people?"
Black Spider pushed the larger cannibalistic man away. "Ease off, freak show." Turning to the civilian, he nodded. "What happened here?"
"We got tickets to the college game, as a present to my brother. By the time the national anthem was being sung, we already had a few beers inside. Then a fight broke out on the field. But I realiezed, they weren't fighting, some of the players were eating the others. Everybody panicked. The exits were crammed with people. Then, the Army came and shut the place down. Those that weren't eaten were infected. I think I'm the last one."
Deadshot nodded. "Thanks." With that, he shot the man in the head.
El Diablo shouted. "Noooo!"
Grabbing the sniper by his shoulders, the tattoo-covered man shook him. "How could you! He was innocent!"
"Easy, firecracker. He was infected, see?" Deadshot pointed to a bit of techno-organic matter creeping up his arm.
Suddenly, the body reanimated. Voltaic shot a bolt of electricity, frying the zombie. "You were right. Body's full o' metal. Conducts my electricity like crazy."
Deadshot sneered. "Okay, Voltaic, King Shark and Digger with me. Black Spider, Harley and El Diablo together. You guys go find the package. We'll clean up here. Voltaic, I want you zapping every body even if it looks dead. Got it?"
Harley giggled and Deadshot looked back. "Problem?"
"Hmm, nooo. I just like the take-charge type." Harley blew a bubble and hefted her giant mallet.
"...Okay." Deadshot began walking. "Let's move!"
Black Spider led Harley and El Diablo up a flight of stairs and into a walkway behind the bleachers that had once housed a hot dog stand and a beer place. Black Spider placed a hand on each of their shoulders. "See you when I see you."
El Diablo turned to say something, but he was gone. "What? Where'd he go?"
Harley giggled again. "He just pulled a 'Batman' on you. I love ninjas! They're so mysterious!" She did a little hyper-dance.
"Right..." Diablo frowned.
Harley un-shouldered her mallet. "You're different, firecracker. You ain't like the rest of us. You don't like killing."
"I've already killed innocents. I won't do it again." El Diablo looked around. "I don't believe anyone's truly evil. Just that most are tainted."
"Buddy boy, I got a long list of boyfriends that proves you wrong as fuck." Harley heard growling. "Oops, I think they heard me."
Zombie-like techno-organic creatures crept from the shadows. Harley swung her mallet and crushed their skulls, but mroe continued to come. El Diablo brought up a mini-cooler to the mushy jaw of one, crushing what little organic tissue was left and throwing the monster back.
Meanwhile, Deadshot fired into the face of one of the creatures as King Shark ripped the others to shreds. Captain Boomerang's various boomerangs were wreaking havoc. The Australian laughed and tossed another one. "Here's another serving for ya, boys!"
However, the zombies managed to mass around them. Deadshot nailed two and decided it was time for more action. "Voltaic! Give another ace from up your sleeve."
"You got it. Hope your boots are rubber insulated." The mercenary touched one of the metal chairs and channeled an electric blast through it. The energy leapt through the other metal constructs, including the zombies' bodies, ripping them apart.
Deadshot waved acrid smoke from his face. "Nice job."
"Yeah, but the downside is that I won't be able to do that again for a while."
King Shark looked around. "Where now?"
"We'll go to Harley and Spider. Voltaic, you stay here and zap everything like I said."
King Shark led the way, crashing through everything. They found El Diablo and Harley battling it out with a horde of angry zombies. Deadshot shouted to them. "Diablo! Use your power!"
"No! These people are innocent!" El Diablo punched one of the zombies and threw it to the ground. "I won't kill them."
"If you don't, we won't survive!
El Diablo looked back at Deadshot and nodded. The tattooed man cried out in anguish as a wave of flames swept out over the zombies. "Aaaaaaaaaggggggghhhhhh!"
Surveying the carnage he had caused, El Diablo fell to his knees. "Oh mi señor! Qué he hecho?"
Deadshot walked up to him. "Nice job. Now, where's Spider?"
"Hey guys?"
They looked up and Black Spider was being held by the back of his shirt from the ceiling by a blonde woman. "I found our package."
Boomerang grimaced. "She's infected."
"She's pregnant." Deadshot aimed his wrist cannons. "Give us back our man!"
"He will die with you!" A slithering voice came from her mouth, but then suddenly switched. "Save him! The baby! Please, before I - "
"Enough!" She threw Black Spider towards the ground and came crashing down towards them. Deadshot aimed at the quickly-chaning woman's head, until El Diablo tackled him. "No!"
"What the fuck, Diablo? I had her!"
"She's innocent!"
"To hell with that. It's her or us!"
A giant tentacle from the now-grotesque monster swept them aside. Deadshot's head collided with a wall. Harley's hammer had done no damage. A giant tentacle snapped her up and squeezed her. "Join me. Become a part of me!"
"Eew, pause." Harley turned her face away from the disgusting monstrosity.
"Surprise, lady!" King Shark lept up from behind her and ripped the bloated head away with his enhanced jaws. Harley wiped blood from her arm. "Thanks, Jaws."
Deadshot stood up. "Alright. One more loose end to tie up." He pulled out a KABAR knife and walked towards the stomach of Caley Burns. Sensing what he was about to do, El Diablo made a running attempt at him before Boomerang grabbed him. "Easy, mate."
"No! Don't hurt the baby!"
"I'm not going to." Deadshot buried the blade into her stomach and sliced it open. Reaching inside, he pulled out a human baby. "The kid's the package. He holds the cure."
Walking outside, they encountered Voltaic. His hands were smoking. "All finished here. You?"
"Same. We're going now." Deadshot handed the baby to Harley. "Here."
Harley grimaced. "Why do I have to do it?"
"Cuz you're a doctor and a chick. Go figure."
She made a face at him and followed the team out through a sewer grate. Deadshot keyed his earpiece. "Waller, we have your package."
"Good. You have three hours on your bombs left. Make 'em count. You have to protect the baby at all costs."
"Will do." Deadshot walked the sewers with his team behind him. "Where to, Waller?"
"Madisonville Louisiana. There'll be a chopper for you pretty soon. In the mean time, take care of that package. Over and out."
So, it was a short episode, yeah. But be prepared for 4.
