Chapter 9 Moments of Truth

A very familiar flail struck two of Darkseid's paratroopers. Two sais took out another two, and a strong hook, another two. A flail hit Darkseid's room's door, before it was kicked in. Several foot soldiers from the League of Shadows entered, surrounding Darkseid. Sportsmaster, Cheshire, and Hook then entered, followed by Ra's al Ghul and Ubu. Sportsmaster swung his flail at Darkseid.

"You've made a big mistake taking my daughter, Darkseid. Her dating the speedster, I can handle. Her marrying you!? I can't, and I wont." He charged at the overlord, getting in a good hit with the flail. Darkseid dropped to his knees.

"It's time you got taught about humans." Sportsmaster said. "So school, is now in session."

CLANG!

Nightwing was working on his shackles. Kid Flash was vibrating out of them, and Portal was just standing against the wall in them.

"Guys," He said. "You do know there's now point in this. The fact they didn't: take away Dick's utility belt or gloves, or put inhibitor collars on us, means they want us to escape."

Nightwing freed him anyway. "KF, you free Roy!"

"Sure thing!" Within moments, all four were ready and waiting.

"So what now?" Roy asked. All of a sudden, the cell door opened up. In it was Artemis, looking very ticked in a uniform similar to that of slave Leia from Star Wars. Kid Flash gulped. Portal walked up to and said, "Get in your uniform, we're talking Darkseid down."

"Sure thing. I just wanted to know how Wally thinks I looked." She smirked as all eyes went to Wally. As if on cue, all the oxygen disappeared from the speedster as he fainted.

Alpha Team suited up, they ran to Darkseid's quarters to find twelve foot soldiers from the League of Shadows passed out on the floor, Cheshire slumped against a corner, and several dents in the wall. Artemis ran to Cheshire.

"Jade!" Cheshire turned to the voice.

"Sister!" She said in her signature patronizing voice. She looked at Red Arrow. "Roy?"

"Yeah." He replied. "Your know good boss shipped me to Apokolips. And your rotten dad helped."

"Well, daddy dearest never liked extra family." She said.

All heroes turned to Roy. Artemis spat out, "You two are MARRIED!?"

"Um, yeah." Roy replied. "Ever since before the Reach invasion."

"Speaking of which, congratulations Sis!" Cheshire turned to Artemis.

Before Artemis could reply, Portal said, "Enough! We can do this later. For now, we need to focus on the mission at hand." Portal, Nightwing, Red Arrow, and Aqualad were always the commanders of the Team. So Portal was respected enough to actually lead when Nightwing wasn't. The five heroes and one villain were dashing through the halls of the mothership.

Washington DC 12:00 pm EST

Wonder Girl, Supergirl, Batgirl, Robin, and Stargirl fought of Paratroopers in DC along with, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, and S.T.R.I.P.E. The bat family threw batarang after batarang to die down enemy numbers. Using heat vision was not beyond the Supers, and Wonder Girl was simply punching them dead (not literally), pretending they were Kaldur. O_o! Red Hood stood atop the Hall of Justice, blasting away at the alien soldiers. Captains Atom and Marvel were also battling the alien goons in DC.

Striking at a Paratrooper with his staff's shock tip, Robin said to Wonder Girl, "Cassie, we need to talk."

Wonder Girl froze, turning to look at him.

"Now."

Inside the Hall of Justice, Cassie tried to pull him into a makeup kiss, but was pushed away instead. When a bat's angry, they are angry!

"So tell me something you haven't yet," Tim said leaning on the reception desk. "Why do you hate Kaldur? Or do you not hate Kaldur?" Cassie bent her head in shame.

"Cass," She looked up at Tim. "Am I a joke to you?" When she didn't answer, he said, "Fine then. We're through." As Tim reached the door, he turned to look at her. "You weren't a joke to me." He walked out.

Darkseid's ship 12:30 pm EST

Nightwing, Roy, Kid Flash, Cheshire, Artemis, and Portal boarded the BioShip. Beta hadn't launched, since they were waiting for Alpha to signal them. Talking off, Alpha high fived for saving two heroes in one go. Aboard the ship, however, Sportsmaster, Hook, Ubu, Ra's al Ghul, and the Shadows foot soldiers were being held.

Darkseid walked up to Ra's and said, "You all have been in the dark for too long. For it is in the face of conqueror, that Light is revealed."

A/N: Another shorty. In response to CassandraBlake the reviewer, In order to make you happy, I have killed Wonderbird, for now, Muhahaha! But, I still personally ship Cassie and Tim. Cassie and Kaldur are just, strange to my headcanon. Either way, until next time, Read and Review, True Believers!