Chapter Eleven
Storm Shadow watched the skyline intently, looking for the slightest movement. When he saw it, the slight waver of camouflage mode, he threw a specialty of his: an exploding throwing star. When they saw Bioship become visible; Baroness, Storm Shadow, and the Shadow Vipers (about 30 of them) were ready to fight when the alien ship landed.
"Kill them all." Baroness said.
"It will be my pleasure. It is too bad that the young female Gaijin is dead; I would have enjoyed finishing her off myself." Storm Shadow said.
Just then Bioship landed, but the landing was too perfect, so the villains were ready to fight, no matter what. Soon enough, three Shadow Vipers were thrown away with no warning, and that's when Storm Shadow drew his sword. As he watched the ship's hatch, he had a funny feeling all about him, and he didn't realized it until the hatch opened.
Miss Martian was standing there, with her hand held out and her eyes glowing green. As the ninja tried to move, he found out that it was no use. Then he was relaying a message to all of his Shadow Vipers, but suddenly he saw an image in his mind that was terrifying. It was a tall white monster that looked as if its brain was on the outside of its unusual skeleton and its arms were as long its legs.
"You will not hurt anymore of my friends." The creature said, and with that, Storm Shadow's mental self was hit with a psychic blast.
Outside of Storm Shadow's mind, Miss Martian released her telekinesis and Storm Shadow fell to his knees. With their commander unconscious, the Shadow Vipers became irrational and started toward the Bioship to fight whatever they could find. That's when a crater formed in the ground and most of the Shadow Vipers fell into it. It wasn't until Baroness looked that she saw the boy that was with Cardinal in the building at the start of this whole thing.
Superboy was ready to fight the Shadow Vipers and was already tearing into them and trying to break them down as small as he could. Just as Baroness was about to fight, Storm Shadow came to and he started right for the Kryptonian once his mind was once again clear. The special Vipers felt their master telling them to find others so they did, and Storm Shadow sheathed his sword and went with Sais.
The boy of steel was ready and was taking all of the hits without a scratch. That's when he grabbed the ninja by his arm and threw him across the open area and Storm Shadow hit a tree, hard. As Superboy was heading over to attack once again, he didn't see, or hear, five of the Shadow Vipers slither up behind him and restrain him.
"I've heard of you, Gaijin, and I think my sword will taste your blood." Storm Shadow said, getting closer to Superboy, drawing his sword from its sheath.
"Yea, like your sword can hurt me, I'm part Kryptonian." Superboy stated, a bit of a laugh in his voice.
"We shall see about that, boy." Storm Shadow said, and with that he swung his sword three times.
Each swing hit a different spot, one slash across the half Kryptonian's chest, the second going down his leg, and the last one cutting his arm. Superboy was surprised when he felt the sword cut through his skin and also saw blood on the ninja's blade.
"How?" Superboy questioned, wondering how a simple sword could cut him.
"You see, Cobra Commander has some times with a person that has a 'problem' with Superman. He loaned us some of your weakness so in case we ran into the 'man of steel'." Storm Shadow said as he wiped the blade clean, and that's when Superboy saw it, a blade of pure kryptonite. With the steel colored paint now removed, he was feeling the full effects of the radioactive space rock and after the Shadow Vipers released him, he fell to his knees in pain.
The renegades were blasting at any shadow Vipers that came their way, and Snake Eyes was cutting them down with his sword and martial arts skills.
"Superboy's in trouble, I have to go and help." Cardinal said as she watched from the cockpit of the Martian spacecraft.
"No; now tell me what happened to make them think you're dead." Robin asked; a stern tone in his voice.
"Took an injury to the leg from one of those things down there, called a Shadow Viper, I was then captured by Baroness and Storm Shadow. They wanted the information I had in my holo-computer, but I had put it in Bioship's memory banks. The injury was never wrapped or treated and they tortured me mentally to get me to tell where the data was." Cardinal said, thinking back on what had happened just a while back.
"So, you do still have the data, and I'm actually surprised you're alive." A voice said, drawing the attention of the twins.
Cardinal was surprised but quickly formed a fireball to protect herself and her brother. Baroness just grinned and held up her hands. Soon enough a strange red energy started glowing over her forearms and a red energy ball launched right at Cardinal. The fire controller was surprised at the tech the villainess was using and the energy ball hit her. Cardinal then fell to the floor and was unconscious.
Robin knew he couldn't do much but he did what he could; threw a few bird-a-rangs but only one hit its mark, the red circle on the back of Baroness' right hand. The glove, as he saw, started to short circuit and she removed it. The boy wonder stood ready as Baroness activated her left glove, but soon enough she was surprised when a throwing star deactivated the left glove. When Baroness looked around, Snake Eyes was standing there.
"I will get that data, and you all will die." Baroness said as she turned her attention back to the twins and started toward the boy wonder.
He knew he couldn't fight her at his peak skill, but he was ready to take her on no matter what. She punched at him and he ducked, but not without jarring his broken ribs. Baroness notices this and plans on going for the boy's weakness; that is until Snake Eyes gets between her and Robin.
"I don't care if Storm Shadow wants to be the one to kill you, I'll do it myself if I have to." Baroness said.
Snake Eyes drew his sword and was ready to fight when all of a sudden Baroness started floating. As Robin and Snake Eyes looked to the exit hatch, they saw Miss Martian floating there with her eyes glowing.
"You have no right to be in here, let alone attack my friends." Miss Martian said; anger in her voice.
Snake Eyes was surprised when he saw the windshield of Bioship open up and Baroness went flying through, right into Storm Shadow. This took the fight outside as Miss Martian started destroying one Shadow Viper after another.
"What happened with Miss Martian?" Tunnel Rat asked.
"Two things I'm sure of: Superboy is not only hurt but weakened by Kryptonite, and Baroness went into Bioship." Artemis said, aloud and in her mind.
Just then Robin's voice came into everyone's minds "Baroness also rendered Cardinal unconscious."
"Wow, so Martians are not meant to be messed with." Duke said out loud.
"How about we go get Superboy away from that kryptonite sword? Dude can't be feeling too good by now." Road Block said.
"Road Block, the phrase you're looking for is that Superboy's not feeling the aster." Kid Flash said as he appeared beside the man.
"Okay, do I even want to ask?" Scarlett said as she fired her blaster.
"It's something Rob does." Kid said and with that he took off again and started knocking down the Shadow Vipers that Miss Martian missed.
Aqualad, Road Block and Tunnel Rat headed over to help Superboy get to Bioship and away from the deadly sword. The four men headed into the alien craft and set Superboy in a chair. Aqualad then went over to help the injured boy wonder get his sister into a chair as well.
Back in the field, Kid had stopped for a second to see if he could find anyone else to knock off their feet, but he waited too long and soon the fastest kid alive felt a strong pain in his right leg. Kid Flash went to his good knee to get the pressure off of his injured leg, and as he looked around, he saw Baroness walking toward him with a gun in her hand and aimed in his direction.
"Ummm, we have a little situation." Kid said to everyone through the mind link.
Artemis, hearing the pain in her boyfriend/soulmate's mental voice, pulled an arrow from her almost empty quiver and launched it quickly. About half way to its target, Baroness, the blunt arrowhead split from the shaft and a large boxing glove was seen on the end. Before the villainess could get out of the way, it knocked her in the head, breaking her special visor. As Baroness recovered from the blow of the special arrow, she saw that Artemis was right in front of her and already rearing back with a kick.
Said kick caught the Cobra villainess right in her left side, and she backed away holding the side in pain. Artemis saw there was a hitch in Baroness' breathing and went for a punch to her face. The 18 year old archer then leaped into the air and did a tornado kick right at Baroness' left temple. The Russian woman fell to the ground, unconscious, and Artemis walked up beside her, still revved up.
"Anyone else want to mess with the speedster?" She asked out loud, rage in her voice.
"You are as impressive as your dead fire conjuring friend, Gaijin, but I will take you up on your challenge." Storm Shadow said and that's when Artemis saw that the white clad ninja had Kid Flash's right arm behind his back and a dagger at his throat.
"I'll save him, don't worry Artemis." Miss Martian privately and mentally told the archer.
Storm Shadow could tell from the way Artemis relaxed her stance that she cared for the boy he had at the end of his dagger. What he didn't anticipate was that as Miss Martian had gone into camouflage mode and snuck up behind him. As the ninja continued to stare down Artemis, Miss Martian was able to stay his hand and then telekinetically made him drop the dagger.
Before Storm Shadow could do anything, Miss Martian used her telekinesis again to get him to release Kid Flash's arm, and soon enough Duke and Scarlett got to Kid and pulled him away from the battle while Miss Martian had Storm Shadow completely paralyzed.
"You are a fool, alien; I will not fall for your mind tricks this time." Storm Shadow stated.
"This time, I'm not playing a game." Miss Martian said as Artemis joined Duke and Scarlett and helped get Kid Flash back to Bioship.
The Martian's eyes began to glow red this time, and when she entered Storm Shadow's mind: This time he was surrounded by fire, and Miss Martian (in green Martian form) was standing outside of those flames.
"You have injured my friends too many times. You are a horrible person, and from what I can see, you do not follow the code of Bushido. You may not be a samurai, but Snake Eyes does follow the code, and he will always be the better ninja for you. So you don't hurt anyone else with your Shadow Vipers, I'm going to severe your link to them…..and it can never be reestablished. Afterward, Cardinal can burn them to the ground." Miss Martian said and with that, her mental self flew into Storm Shadow's mental body and then suddenly a ribbon appeared and the Martian came out of Storm shadow and severed the ribbon, which she saw was connected to all of the Shadow Vipers.
Has M'gann gone too far, or did she just disable the villainous ninja so the team and Renegades can get to saftey. Last chapter coming up, and also watch for a one shot as a gift to a friend. Got plenty more stories to write, so please, if you like my writing, follow me.