The Justice League had beaten a large group of villains, but there was still a dozen or so still standing. Luthor, Cheetah, Joker, Phobia, Psimon, Killer Frost, Dr. Light, Gorilla Grodd, Poison Ivy, Deathstroke, Major Force and Queen Bee. Not all of our team was ready to fightm though. Miss Martian, Red Arrow, Zatanna, Black Lightning, John, Speedy, Robin, Hawkgirl and Kid Flash had fallen.
That still left Black Canary, Flash, Firestorm, Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, J'onn, Dr. Light, Red Tornado, Hal, Vixen, Wonder Girl, Superboy, Supergirl and myself to fight the remaining villains.
The villains regrouped, bunching together. They each prepared for the inevitable battle, as did we. Each Leaguer in particular seemed to have his or her sights set on a particular opponent.
I was different, however. I didn't pick my dancing partner, he picked me. I was helping Firestorm fight Killer Frost when I noticed a shadow fall on me. I looked up to see Deathstroke coming down from above. I sidestepped the attack. The assassin's blade dug into the concrete as he let go and swung his fist at me. I ducked under his attack and flipped back.
"Would you just leave me alone, Deathstroke?" I reached out with my abilites and found myself a telepath.
I reached out to his mind but found I couldn't get through.
"Of course you're mentally shielded. Why wouldn't you be?" I asked dryly, dodging the sword once again.
"In my line of work, it helps to have everything covered." He kicked out, hitting me in the chest. His orange gloved fist connected with my jaw, sending me sprawling back.
A green hand appeared out of nowhere and threatened to crush Deathstroke. The super assassin saw it coming and nimbly jumped out of the way.
"Lantern." Deathstroke took a gun from a holster on his right hip and began to fire.
Hal created a shield in the form of a lantern. The bullets bounced off harmlessly. Hal changed the shield into a sledgehammer and brought it down on Deathstroke, but he managed to dodge the giant construct.
We were getting nowhere fast. Deathstroke knew how to fight Hal's power and my fighting skills did absolutely nothing. This guy knew how to fight any member of the Justice League.
I smiled as an idea began to form in my mind. Using Psimon's telepathy, I informed Hal of my plan. The Green Lantern smiled and did his part. He kept Deathstroke busy with whatever came to mind while I prepared myself.
There were possibly only two people in the entire Dome that Deathstroke hadn't prepared for. I absorbed every last bit of power from them. Sure, Deathstroke could take the Justice League, but could he take two kids going into grade ten?
I crouched down and touched the ground with the palm of my hand. The ground rumbled as it obeyed my command. A crack formed in front of my hand and raced towards Deathstroke. The assassin took out a gun and fired at me, but a green dome protected me from the bullet.
The ground around him and underneath him suddenly jutted out in sharp spikes of earth. He cried out in surprise as he was thrown off balance. He fired off another shot which hit the roof of the Dome.
Perfect timing, I thought as I stood.
Deathstroke quickly found his footing and fired off more shots. I emitted blue waves of sonic from my hands. The waves washed over the bullets and obliterated them. Green Lantern fired green plasma bolts to keep Deathstroke on his toes. The assassin leapt around, dodging the green blasts with ease.
Blue daggers formed in my hand. Borrowing some of Roy and Mia's perfect aim, I threw them in a tight arc. Deathstroke blocked them with his blade. I grinned. The daggers exploded, releasing a burst of pure sonic causing Deathstroke to be thrown back from the power of the sonics.
I had been right in my assumption that Deathstroke hadn't been ready for Quin or Alexis. That, or he was getting sloppy. Deathstroke started to slowly rise, but twin heat vision beams sent him on his face and into oblivion.
J'onn had a look of satisfaction on his face as Deathstroke fell. The three of us stood around the defeated villain. Hal had his trademark grin plastered on his face.
"Now to keep him defeated."
"Already on it, J'onn." I caused the moisture in the air around Deathstroke to condense into water. I then caused the water to decrease in temperature, making a nice Death-sickle. "Thanks for the help guys."
The Martian Manhunter nodded. "After Psimon's psychic abilities suddenly disappeared, it was a simple task of defeating him. I am only returning the favour."
I smiled gratefully at J'onn.
"Guys, we've still got other super powered bad guys to bead." Hal powered up his ring. "Let's help the others."
I arched both my eyebrows. "And you were responsible since…?"
Hal shot me a look.
J'onn just laughed. "After only a couple months, he knows you well, Hal."
Hal's look of annoyance turned into another grin and he took off to help. J'onn and I followed suit. I saw Red Tornado in need of some help and diverted over to him.
Major Force blasted Reddy with energy from his hands. Reddy took the full force of the blast and fell backwards. Major Force stood over the air controlling android, ready to deliver the final blow. I flew into Major Force, knocking him away from Reddy.
"Who -?" He whipped around, furious.
"Me." I fired a blast of fire from my hands. The flames hit him head on, but he wasn't at all affected by the raging fires.
"Fire?" He laughed. "I don't feel hot or cold. I'm made entirely of energy."
"Your suit isn't. And everything melts!" I poured the heat on, desperately trying to hurt him.
Major Force smiled darkly. He pushed forward, basically pushing the flames out of the way. He kept coming closer, despite my efforts to make the heat unbearable. He was two feet away now. He had been ten feet away before.
A mini cyclone suddenly struck Major Force. He flew back from the strength of the winds. I turned to see Reddy with his hands outstretched.
"Thanks for the save."
Red Tornado nodded. "He's getting back up. Why don't we go put him down for good?"
I grinned. "Sounds good, Dad."
Reddy stood still, probably in shock from the name. Calling on Quin's control over sound, I pelted Major Force with sound waves. He covered his ears. Reddy followed my lead by picking up a giant piece of rubble with his winds. While Major Force was busy with the sonic waves, Reddy lifted the rubble over him and dropped it. It crushed him.
"Think that'll hold him?"
I got my answer when the boulder exploded. Major Force looked pissed.
"Was that the best you've got?" He shot beams of energy out of his hands.
Reddy and I dodged the beams. Reddy flew around while I flipped and dove out of the way. One beam continued until it traveled far enough and hit Phobia in the back, defeating her.
I saw this and laughed. "Wow, you took out one of your own guys. Thanks for the help."
Force looked ready to explode. "Shut up!" He fired off more beams, but they all missed.
Black Canary ran up to us. "Whoa!" She acrobatically flipped out of the way of an energy beam. She gave me a confused look once she had ducked behind a boulder. "Why'd he attack Phobia?"
"He didn't." I couldn't stop a smile from forming on my face. "He was aiming at us but we moved." I added a sonic blast to Reddy's hurricane. "He ended up hitting Phobia."
Black Canary shook her head. "Sometimes I wonder how they think they can beat us."
Reddy blew Major Force away and joined us. "What's the plan?"
"How do we beat him? Everything we've tried so far has failed."
"Puncture his suit," Canary suggested. "It defeats Captain Atom, and the two are alike."
I erected a shield to block energy beams. "But won't that cause a big explosion?"
"Think you'll be able to contain it?"
"I'll try Canary. I'm not as skilled as Hal with the rings though."
Major Force smashed through my shield. Reddy drove him back with a hurricane. Black Canary opened her mouth and a sonic scream could be heard by everyone. Although Major Force heard it the loudest. Major Force fought against the raging winds but once the canary cry hit him he was swept up by the wind. I focused on Quin's power. One really sharp dagger should do the trick. Bringing back some of the aim I acquired, I threw the dagger with all of my strength. The weapon met it's mark. The dagger cut into Major Force's suit on his stomach and disappeared. Explosive energy began to leak through the hole.
"What did you do?"
I shrugged. "Pretty much beat you." I raised my left hand and encased Major Force in a bubble.
He screamed as more energy came out of the suit. The suit expanded and expanded until he looked like a human marshmallow. Sweat dripped down my face. It was almost too much. Thinking quickly, I made an opening for the energy to escape just as he exploded. The energy blasted through the roof and into the ocean.
"Oh no."
Water started pouring into the Dome from the newly created hole in the ceiling.
"We need to close that hole!" Black Canary had to yell to be heard over the rushing water. The water was already up to our ankles.
"I can do it. Cover me!" I flew up to the hole and called on Alexis' control over water to stop the water from flowing through. "Reddy! I need you!"
Reddy floated up to me, leaving Black Canary to defend us. "What do you need?"
"Freeze this water!"
Reddy created an arctic wind. It flowed out through the hole and froze all the water outside the hole.
"Think that'll hold?" I asked
"It will have to," was his reply.
"Maybe not." I caused the concrete to cover the hole. "That should be good… I hope."
I looked around the room. No one seemed to need any help, but I had to return to the fight. Reddy and Canary went to help Flash fight Grodd. I saw Firestorm and flew to help him.
Killer Frost froze Firestorm's legs to the ground. "Ah, finally. I can have my revenge."
Firestorm turned the ice into salt and stepped out of it. "Lady, I told you. That was the other guy!"
The icy villainess sneered. "It doesn't matter. I'll take revenge on you for him."
"Sorry lady. All revenge plans are being cancelled this week." I blasted her with fire.
"W-what?" She looked sick. Her pale blue complexion seemed to be getting pink.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Don't you like heat?"
Killer Frost shot me a look of hatred and collapsed. The fire around her vanished.
"Thanks." Firestorm and I bumped fists.
"Don't mention it."
There was only three villains left. Luthor, Cheetah and Joker. Dr. Light, Grodd, Poison Ivy, Queen Bee and Mr. Freeze had joined their fallen team mates. Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman had cornered the three remaining IJLers.
"Great," Cheetah hissed. "We've got the whole Justice League coming down on us."
"Then why not surrender?"
"Come on Supes. You should know that's not how we roll." The Joker held up his fists. "We duke it out!"
"Diana." It was more of a command than a question.
Wonder Woman unfurled her lasso and had wrapped it around the villains before they knew what happened. All three struggled to get out of the rope but to no avail.
The Injustice League was defeated.
"You lose Luthor." Batman's voice held a hint of triumph.
"If I was free…" Luthor sneered.
"But you're not," Firestorm pointed out smugly.
Luthor's look was malice mixed with hatred. Not a pretty combo.
"I have one question." I stepped up to look Baldie in the face. "What did you do to Quin and Alexis?"
Luthor wore a small smile. "They're ours now, Jamie. You're friends hate you. We turned them against you and the League."
"Let me rephrase the question." I was surprisingly calm. But it was more like a calm before the storm. "What did you do to my friends to turn them against me?"
Luthor tried to fight the lasso's power, but succumbed to it. "We broke their wills. They fought us at first, but once we had broken their wills, they were so cooperative." His smile grew as he saw the rage displayed on my face.
"How do we reverse it?" Batman stood beside me. He put his hand on my shoulder.
I got his message. Calm down.
"You'd have to enter their mind and reverse the process. But you won't be able to do it." He laughed in triumph. If he couldn't beat us physically, at least he'd beat us this way.
Only he wasn't about to beat us either way.
"Seriously? The Martian Manhunter's here, so is Miss Martian, and I could take someone's telepathic powers." I arched an eyebrow.
Luthor spat in my face. Disgusted, I wiped it off.
"That all the Intel we need?" I asked quietly.
"Yes," Batman answered.
Luthor's head snapped back as I punched him with all my normal strength. He started to chuckle as his lip and nose started to trickle blood.
"Maybe we got through to you aft -"
Another punch shut him up. His head drooped as his world went black. Cheetah and Joker had been oddly quiet during the 'interrogation'.
Joker broke that silence by laughing uncontrollably. Cheetah looked at him. I could see into her mind and what she planned to do the clown wasn't very pretty.
"I just have one request," she said, giving Joker another annoyed look. "My cell is far from his."
Black Canary smirked. "We'll see."
J'onn and I walked over to my still unconscious friends. I willed the concrete holding Alexis to retreat back into the floor. I caught her as she fell. I placed her gently on the ground and wiped hair out of her face. I had a feeling someone was watching me and discreetly moved so I could see a bit behind me.
My feeling had been right. Kara watched me with intensity. I wanted to go talk to her, but decided against it. This wasn't the place. 'Side, Superman was here, and he still didn't know about us.
"Think you can help them?"
"I will try, my friend." J'onn placed a green hand on Alexis' forehead. His orange eyes glowed as he entered her mind.
J'onn came out of her mind a minute later. I looked at him and he nodded. I sighed in relief. J'onn put his hand on Quin's forehead and his eyes glowed again.
Alexis' eyes slowly opened.
"Alexis?" I asked quietly.
"Jamie?" She looked up at me. "Ugh, I have such a big headache."
I laughed quietly. "That's to be expected. Do you remember what happened?"
"Um… no…"
"Okay. Well… you were kidnapped by some of the world's worst criminals, they brainwashed you and forced you to fight me. Oh, and you can control the four elements."
Alexis just stared up at me.
"Unh…" Quin sat up. He rubbed the back of his head. "What hit me?"
"Supergirl," I stated simply.
"Huh?"
"This is gonna be a lot of explaining," I said dryly.
