A/N: I'M BAAAAACK! So here's the next round! I've decided against the idea of doing a chapter for the heroes not in Gotham, I'll move than someplace else and probably have them in a new story. Anyway, here's the next round! As always, PLEASE REVIEW!

It had been nearly 48 hours since Nightwing's death. After the incident with Grodd, Batman was becoming more and more mistrustful of those who tried to talk to him about it. He'd been spending more time outside on his own than in the bunker with the others; not unlike him but they could tell he was putting more effort than usual to avoid them. As the sunlight started to streak through the door hinges, the heroes gently started to wake up. It was just the right amount of light; not blinding but not too dark.

"Good Morning!" Shazam said as everyone pulled themselves up to stand. Suddenly the light exploded through the door as Batman kicked it open and walked in. He didn't make eye contact with anyone and walked over the corner of the room and stood with his back to it, getting a panoramic view of the room. He said nothing.

"Are you…" J'onn started to say before Batman's fist pounding on the wall interrupted him. He started to speak, not shouting but with a stern tone as if to say don't piss me off.
"I am not going to talk about it again until we have dealt with Darkseid. Am I clear?" He raised his head and made eye contact with everyone individually, stopping with Superman last. With him, he held the contact for longer. Superman moved his lips as if to begin a syllable but reconsidered.
"Okay, Okay!" Superman held his hands up and took a step back, breaking the eye contact as hastily as he could. There was a brief awkward silence, to which Shazam reacted by making a turtle shape out of his hands, before the screen came down from the ceiling and the picture fizzed into Darkseid's face.

"Greetings to the remaining 7 heroes. Today we see another 2v2 challenge. However, you will not be fighting like yourselves. Each combatant will have their equipment removed and be given the respective equipment of another member of their team; another interesting test for the combatants." The members of the bunker looked around, eyeing up their teammates gear. "John Stewart, you are to remove your power ring." John pulled off his ring, with his lantern uniform receding to show a leather jacket, t-shirt and jeans underneath.

"And what exactly am I fighting with? Kryptonian DNA?!" He said sarcastically.

"No." Darkseid replied. "Batman's utility belt." Batman tilted his head slightly. He did not like this idea. He turned to John, who just shrugged his shoulders and held his arm out waiting for the belt. Batman slowly and reluctantly removed the belt and pressed a switch on the underside of the belt buckle.

"Just to stop the theft prevention system." He said before passing it over. Darkseid then cleared his throat.

"Superman, if you would kindly freeze over Zatanna's mouth so that she cannot talk?" Superman scowled at the screen.

"No! I will not harm my friend for your amusement, monster!" He shouted, clenching his fists.

"Well then I'm sure Ultraman or Amazo will find a much more painful way of securing her…" Darkseid replied. Superman scowled even more, gritting his teeth this time too. He walked over to her and put his hands on her shoulders.

"I'm sorry Z" he said, as he blew onto her mouth and she felt he jaw stiffen. Completely killing the tense mood came the sound of Shazam giggling to himself.
"Haa haa! It looks like an icy 5 o'clock shadow!" His laughter stopped abruptly when Zatanna shot a look of similarly icy proportions back at him.
"Now" Darkseid said, "if you would take Green Arrow's bow and quiver and make your way to the battlefield with the Lantern?" John cracked his knuckles as he and Zatanna walked up the stairs to the outside.

On the battlefield, John and Zatanna hid their eyes from the blinding sun. As their eyes adjusted, the two silhouettes slowly emerged in front of them as Bizarro and Cheetah. Cheetah was standing far in front of Bizarro, but a bit of perspective showed that she was just taller than him. Zatanna took a second to work it out.

"What the f…? Oh." She stopped herself as she saw Bane's VENOM gauntlet on her forearm. John couldn't help but start to giggle when he saw Bizarro holding Deathstroke's pistols. Cheetah cracked the joints in her neck and then her knuckles before advancing towards the two heroes.

As the sounds of the fighting echoed through the doorframe, the heroes' camp lay in wait of the result and the possible return of their comrades. Batman constantly rubbed his waist, not used to having his suit on without his famed utility belt. Superman was pacing across the room with hands held behind his back and a discerned look upon his face.

"How can we not have any inclination as to what he's planning?" Superman asked, looking around the room to anyone that was listening.

"Maybe he's better than us." Shazam said, sitting up from the floor. There was a brief pause in amazement at what was just said.

"No." Batman's voice pierced the silence. "He's using us for something. There's something he want's but it's something that only one of us can get." Martian Manhunter raised an eyebrow.

"It's not exactly Darkseid's MO to ask for help, even if his methods are unorthodox."

"He might not have a choice." Superman replied.

Meanwhile, John and Zatanna were teaming up against Cheetah whilst Bizarro sat on the ground figuring out how to use his guns. Zatanna wasn't exactly the most skilled archer but she was managing to at least hit the target. John was doing mildly better with Batman's utility belt, but was only able to find smoke pellets to throw.

"Dammit Bats, isn't there anything I can use offensively in here?" he said under his breath, dodging a one-two punch from Cheetah. Switching from pocket to pocket, John finally found a batarang. He threw it towards Cheetah, who was busy avoiding wayward arrows from Zatanna. As she turned to dodge another arrow, the batarang hit her square in the cheek, piercing the flesh and causing her to scream and her body buckle with the pain. John followed up with a flying kick to the back of the head. One down, one to go.

The two fighters then turned their attention to the hapless Bizarro, still not making any progress on the guns. They both ran at full speed towards Bizarro, who hadn't even noticed that he was their new target. Zatanna jumped up to distract Bizarro whilst John disarmed him and picked up his guns.

"You don't happened to have any blue kryptonite do you?" John said jokingly. Zatanna smirked as she telekinetically hurled a boulder at Bizarro to distract him. John searched the belt further, trying every pocket for something useful. "Freeze grenade, batarangs… wait what?" John reached into the last pocket to pull out a small clear bag with a crystal of blue kryptonite and a crystal of green kryptonite. "Jeez, is Bruce ever not prepared?" he said as he took out the blue kryptonite and threw it at Bizarro. Bizarro caught it in his hand as he stood up from the rubble.

"Bizarro am dizzy…." He said as he swayed side to side. John and Zatanna both ran at Bizarro at the same time, John landing a haymaker to Bizarro's jaw and Zatanna kicking him in the gut. He slumped down on to the ground. The round was over.

A/N: Sorry it's been so long. I've only got a few more chapters left of this then I can move on to a new exciting project I've had in mind for a while. Thanks for sticking with this!