Sorry it took so long but here is the next chapter of my story. Thank you all who have been patient and reviews are apperciated
The heroes moved north towards the Brotherhood of Evil's lair. They had been traveling for about two hours now on foot and were starting to get nervous. Nothing had happened to them, not one robot, one trap, nothing. This especially unnerved Batman. He had been keeping his eyes peeled for the whole march and all he saw was a jungle. Batman had spent most of his career fighting crime in the slums of Gotham but he was not stranger to tracking in the jungle. That was the problem though, it seemed that the area that they were traveling through had not been touched by anything modern in years, it looked like an old pig trail. He should be able to see some kind of disturbance in the jungle, but there was nothing.
'J'onn? Are you there?' The Dark Knight could sense that the Martian was a bit startled by his thoughts, and that made him grin inwards.
'Yes Batman I am here. What is it that you need?' J'onn Jones replied.
'I need you to find out if we are heading in the right direction here. It seems that nothing around here has been disturbed in ages and I need to know if we are heading in the right direction here.' Batman said.
' In all honesty my friend I can't be able to tell you one way or another. I have scanned the area with my thoughts and have not really picked up anything but for all I know the Brain could be blocking my thoughts with some kind of psychic shield. I doubt that he could naturally block my thoughts without me being aware of it. Very few beings are able to do that. Only the likes of Deathstroke are.'
'Deathstroke?' Batman was startled by this. He didn't understand how a human would be able to block thoughts like those of J'onn's.
'Yes. Not only did the augmentations that the Army gave him boost his mental powers, but I believe that such a trained mercenary might have been able to receive similar training that you have Bruce. You are able to block me out if you so choose.' Batman could almost see the Martian smirking at this comment, almost taunting the Dark Knight for not being able to figure it out on his own.
'Touché Martian Touché. Tell Mento I wish to talk to him, and thank you J'onn.'
' You are welcome my friend.' With that Batman could feel the connection between him and the Manhunter disappear only to be reconnected with the leader of the Doom Patrol.
'You paged Batman?' Mento asked.
'How do you know that the Brotherhood is going this way?' Batman asked.
' Because the villagers informed me that there are rivers that run parallel on either side of us and that they meet up about 50 miles north of the village. That would be a great source of power for the Brotherhood's base. Therefore, by logic this would be the best way to head out.' Mento replied. 'Why do you ask?'
' During this whole march, we haven't seen anything to suggest any kind of disturbance in the natural ecosystem here. If the Brotherhood was setting up base here, then something would be disturbing the ecosystem here.'
'I know Bruce, but you are just going to have to trust me on this, I know the Brain is going to have his base up now 15 miles north of where we are.' All of a sudden a huge explosion happened twenty yards to the right of the band. 'Do you believe me now?'
'Shut up and fight,' was the reply from the Dark Knight. Scores of robots came out from the jungle with the only intent of killing the heroes. Though startled the Titans, Doom Patrol, and Dark Knight braced for action. A robot came up from behind the Dark Knight and was prepared to shoot him in the back. Batman sensed what was coming and leaped behind the robot throwing a batarang at the robot that sliced through the robot and proceeded around to cut down 4 more robots before returning to his owner. Batman pulled out his staff and dove into the melee of action determined to take out the army before they took out any of his comrades.
The Doom Patrol was ready as soon as they heard the explosion. Considering that this was an old Brain trick they were not at all caught off guard. Robotman launched himself into the middle of the army taking as many robot soldiers as he could. He began to lift a tree out of the ground swinging it around like a club. He was able to take out many of the troops with this attack. Rita grew up to 20 feet and began crushing the mechanical troops under her feet several at a time as Larry sent out his energy self while Mento protected him.
The Titans as well sprung into action, Cyborg unleashing his sonic cannon destroying columns of the mechanized menace. Raven and Starfire took to the air both unleashing furious amounts of energy upon their attackers, Raven slicing through the robots with telekinetic energy and Starfire with her star bolts. Robin joined Batman and the two relived their days as the Dynamic Duo with combo attacks.
Beast Boy was the most unusual. He was using his normal transformations, but Raven could sense an unrelenting fury within her boyfriend. She briefly looked over to where he was and was almost shocked by what she saw. Her Garfield was ripping the arms off the robots and smashing their heads in with the torn appendages. He was showing no mercy or relent in his fury. She tried telling herself that it was because they were robots and that he was working through some anger they he was being so merciless, but deep down she knew differently. She just hoped that some of the anger would be gone by the time he met face to face with the Joker again.
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The Brotherhood and Joker were watching the battle take place on a video screen from their power base fifty miles north of the village that Joker killed Tawbia. General Immortous however was slightly peeved.
"I say Brain, sir. Why do you not allow me to unleash my entire army on them at once? We could easily defeat them now."
"Because General Immortous, if we do that, then the Justice League would sense that Batman would be endangered and send their greatest warriors to aid him, and your army could not stand up to Superman and Wonder Woman alone. However, if we use this small army, we can see how well they have fought, and by the time they get to our base we can know their tactics and finish them off for good." the Brain replied.
"Ohh hooo this is going to be fun," the Joker cackled. In his hand he held a brown bag that clattered around like stones.
"Oooh puddin what's in the bag?" Harley asked.
"Why just a little gift for Kermit from me," the Joker grinned.
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Across the jungle there were broken bots everywhere. The band of heroes were tired but victorious. Raven was looking over at Beast Boy with a look of concern in her eye. She really hoped that Beast Boy was able to relieve some of his anger with this battle. Robin was approaching her when all of a sudden a robot stood up from the group.
"Robin look out!" she screamed, but before he could turn around a shot rang out and a round went through the robot's head.
"Tsk tsk Robin, I thought I taught you better then that," an all too familiar voice was heard.
"Slade," Robin growled.