Chapter 28: Rumble in the Jungle part 3


Beastboy was flying over the jungle as an eagle, looking for any signs of the others. After a few minutes he flew back down and landed in front of Mento and Aqualad.

"No sign of anyone else." he said.

"I should be furious at that Cyborg who caused this, though it did save all of our lives, so I really can't be." Mento said.

"You should keep searching with you psychic powers Mento, Miss Martian is also a psychic you may be able to reach her." Aqualad said.

Mento nodded as the three began moving across the jungle.

Elsewhere Superboy was floating in the upper tree levels using his X ray vision to look for the others.

His eyes widened.

"I see someone!" He shouted below.

A few moments later Robin scaled the trees up to where he was.

"Let's get over there." Robin said as Superboy flew and he free ran across the trees.

A minute later they ran into Terra and Tigress.

"Connor." Tigress said as she saw them.

"Are you guys ok?" Superboy asked.

"A bit woozy from whatever Cyborg did, but other than that I'm ok."

"We need to find the others. Deathstroke is probably sending out his commandos to hunt for us as we speak." Robin said before they heard something over them.

They looked up to see five specially modified hovercraft over them.

"Too late." Tigress said.

The hovercraft dropped ropes as Light soldiers slid down while other men fired the hovercrafts' weapons.

Terra quickly concentrated and unleashed a massive spiked rock though the center of one of the hovercraft, causing it to crash and the men fast ropping down to fall.

Superboy flew up and smashed his body through another while blasting the next with his head vision.

As this happened Robin hurled two explosives into the fourth one's thrusters before drawing his staff and joining Tigress as she battled the soldiers on the ground in close quarters combat.

Terra hurled several rocks into the last few before they heard a roar.

Damian looked up to see two hovercraft carrying project W.E.N.D.I.G.O.

"Ahh shit, project W.E.N.D.I.G.O!" He shouted.

Superboy flew over and blasted the two hovercraft, causing W.E.N.D.I.G.O to fall to the jungle floor.

"What the Hell is that thing?" Tigress asked.

"One of Deathstroke and Brother Blood's little pet projects." Terra said as she forced to massive boulders to rise out of the ground and smash into W.E.N.D.I.G.O , forcing him back.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O roared before he charged at them.

Tigress and Robin avoided him before Robin tried to hurl explosives into his face, but it was no good. W.E.N.D.I.G.O was now wearing a metal face mask that absorbed the explosions harmlessly.

As W.E.N.D.I.G.O tried to turn, Robin hurled a leg trap around his legs.

Unfortunately W.E.N.D.I.G.O was so strong he snapped the leg trap apart.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O roared as he tried to smash Robin , only to have Superboy fly down and slam his fist into W.E.N.D.I.G.O's chest, hurling the giant onto his back.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O growled as he slowly got back up.

As he did, Tigress sprinted over and leapt onto his back.

She stuck her sword into the back his mask and tried to force it off.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O noticed this and grabbed her as his mask fell off before hurling Tigress into Superboy, knocking them both into a tree.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O tried to reach for his mask, but with his face exposed, Robin hurled two explosives into his eyes, making him cry out in pain as he backed up.

Terra quickly forced several large rocks up and out of the ground behind his legs, making W.E.N.D.I.G.O fall onto his back again.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O looked very angry as he grabbed one of the rocks and tried to hurl it into Terra.

Terra brought a rock up that shielded her but W.E.N.D.I.G.O hurled his fist down at her.

Robin sprinted over and tackled Terra out of the way before the fist hit the ground.

As W.E.N.D.I.G.O came back up, he turned just in time to see Superboy fly at him and smash his fist into his face.

W.E.N.D.I.G.O nearly fell onto the ground again but was caught by the trees.

He roared as he tried to smash his fists into Superboy.

Superboy smashed W.E.N.D.I.G.O's arms aside, making the giant's eyes widen as Superboy's eyes glowed red before he flew at his face again, screaming as he brought his arm back.

When Superboy made contact he smashed his fist into W.E.N.D.I.G.O's jaw, actually causing several of his teeth to shatter before the giant fell onto the ground unconscious.

Superboy landed beside him.

"I assume he was one of Deathstroke's commandos." Superboy said.

"Which means there are more, we better keep moving." Robin said.


As this happened, The Ace of Spades and Miss Martian were still moving through the jungle together.

"You haven't said anything in the last forty minutes." The Ace said as Miss Martian looked at him.

"Not that I don't appreciate the silence, but I can tell you're not a silent person."

"I was trying not to draw attention to us, we are likely being hunted."

"Yeah well I've hunted people who were meant to hunt me. I made three hundred Viet Cong very sorry they ever waved their little red banners, I remember impaling twenty of them on their own little punji sticks."

"You have lost value for human life."

"Yeah well when you spend two thousand years killing people and not able to die yourself, that can happen. Besides those communist fuckers deserved it."

"Because they were your enemy, because they believed differently than you?"

The Ace turned to her with a serious face.

Miss Martian gave a nervous look.

"My team of SEALs and Green Berets were investigating a series of raids on south Vietnamese villages loyal to the government of south Vietnam. There was a battalion of Viet Cong guerrillas attacking the villages that wouldn't wave the communist banner. One day we found a village had been massacred. The men shot, beheaded, the women raped, then shot or beheaded, the children." He said before pausing as Miss Martian gave a horrified expression.

"They left no one alive. So that night I tracked them down and did the same. I killed every last one of them in that battalion on my own. I shot most but not all of the, I went knight and centurion on others. The last fifty I used their own traps to kill, twenty on punji sticks, twenty by rewired traps. The last ten, I trapped them in a hut and set it on fire. I didn't kill them I just kept them from leaving, my abilities prevented me from being burned."

Miss Martian gave a particularly grim face as she imagined the last one.

"Oh sorry, I forgot you Martians don't like fire."

"So you were getting justice for the village those men massacred. Is that your reasoning."

"What would your league have done, lock them in a prison. Your league lives in a fantasy world Martian. I've lived in the real world for two thousand years. That massacre was one of countless I've seen. Humanity hasn't changed much Martian, what do you think will happen if the Light wins."

"They will control the world? Try to make it perfect?"

"Exactly, a lot of men have tried to make the world perfect in their eyes. Savage will eliminate anyone who gets in the way of humanity evolving, he will kill undesirables and breed those with the best human qualities. He will try to engineer a master human race. Similar men have tried this before."

The Ace said before he detected something.

He held his hand up signaling Miss Martian to be quite. She turned invisible, as The Ace of Spades looked down and saw a group of Light soldiers moving towards their location.

The Ace of Spades brought out his sniper rifle when he heard Miss Martian in his head.

"Please, just try not killing them."

"No." He said before he began firing.

He killed five of them with five shots as the others tried to scatter.

Their efforts were in vain as The Ace got most before they could reach cover, and for those who did he simply shot through the trees.

Miss Martian tried to fly down and strip them off their guns.

When she stripped one of his weapon, she noticed that the Ace didn't fire at him.

She quickly used her powers to hurl him into a tree.

"You didn't shoot him." She said via mental link.

"Two thousand years of warfare, no war crimes. Every man I kill must be armed and my enemy."

Miss Martian irritated the Ace as she stripped as many of the soldiers of their weapons as possible.

Uknown to Miss Martian another was watching her and could see her with thermal vision.

"I see you mademoiselle, but you will soon wish I had not." Mallah said as he brought out his flamethrower and unleashed it at Miss Martian.

She saw the fire just in time to use her powers to keep it away.

But the fire was so close that after a few moments she was overcome and fell onto the ground.

Mallah leapt in front of her wearing special grey armor with a face helmet.

All of the Ace's bullets bounced off him.

"Au Revoir mademoiselle." Mallah said grinning as he prepared his flamethrower again.

Before he could fire , three rounds hit the flamethrower, causing it to explode and Mallah to hurl forward.

He groaned as he got up and saw The Ace land in front of him in his Centurion form.

"I've fought a lot of guerrillas, but never a gorilla. This should be interesting." The Ace said.

Mallah roared as he tried to smash The Ace, who moved surprisingly fast and acrobatically for someone in armor like that.

Eventually The Ace was able to slice off parts of Mallah's armor , as well as smash his helmet open before crashing his right arm shield into his face.

The large gorilla was knocked back and saw Miss Martian get up.

"Mon amour will be so disappointed with me." Mallah said as he retreated.

Miss Martian expected The Ace to pursue, but instead he helped her up.

"Are you ok?"

"I will be, why didn't you go after him?"

"I never pursue the enemy when there's a wounded soldiers to assist." The Ace said.

Miss Martian gave a slight smile.

"So you're not just a killing machine."

"I told you, I'm a soldier nothing more."


As this went on, Flash II was sprinted across the jungle as fast as he could looking for anyone.

He saw someone in front of him and stopped just before hitting them.

"Finally found someone." He said to Static.

"Thank God, I've been alone for two hours." Static said before Bluebeetle flew in with Negative man on his back.

"Alright now there's four of us. Better than three I guess." Flash II said.

"Do you guys have any idea what happened?" Static asked.

"Not really." Bluebeetle said.

"Hold on, be quite." Negative man said.

They remained quite as they heard movement above them.

They looked up to see three Light hovercraft over them.

"We've got company." Static said.

"Let me handle this." Negative man said.

The others watched in amazement as a glowing black ghost like form of energy came out of Negative man shaped like a humanoid and flew through he air. He flew through all three of the craft causing them to surge with electricity before crashing into the ground.

He then continued to hit every soldiers that made it onto the ground before returning to his own body.

"How did you do that?" Flash II asked.

"It's a long story, I don't wear this bandages around my skin for nothing."

" Are you ready for the show." They heard before turning to see Mumbo float out from the wreckage.

"Oh no, this guy." Bluebeetle said.

" What is he exactly?" Static asked.

"He's a sorcerer like Klarion only not as powerful."

"Maybe not, but I can still put on a show" Mumbo said as he waved his arms and made large black roots come out of the ground around them.

Flash II sped away as Negative man shot out of his body and around the roots, keeping them away from Static and Bluebeetle.

Mumbo formed a black sphere of magic in his hands before unleashing it in a wave that knocked negative Man and Flash II down.

Static unleashed his electricity only for Mumbo to absorb it.

"Zap zap" Mumbo said as he unleashed it back on Static, hurling him back.

Bluebeetle tried blasting him only for Mumbo to form a barrier around him that absorbed the blast.

"You'll need something more powerful than that" He said before Negative man flew straight through the barrier and then through Mumbo, making him shriek in pain before Flash II hit him four times in less than two seconds.

Bluebeetle flew down and smashed Mumbo with his mace before Mumbo was hit by a blast of electricity and knocked out.

"Wow you Titans sure fought some colorful bad guys."

"I know." Bluebeetle said.

Elsewhere Nightwing , Starfire, and Cyborg were moving through the jungle.

"I would have hoped we would come across someone by now." Starfire said.

"Me too." Cyborg said.

"Stay optimistic, this a big jungle. Just keep your eyes and ears open." Nightwing said before all three hard what sounded like a fight going on.

"You hear that?" Cyborg asked.

"Let's move." Nightwing said before the three rushed towards the sounds of the fight.

When they reached the location they saw none other than Elasti-girl in her enlarged form fighting Atlas.

"Foolish human woman, even with your enhanced size you are no match for Atlas!" Atlas shouted as he hit her across the face, knocking her back before he blasted her with his cannons, making Elasti-girl fall onto her back.

Atlas grinned before he heard something.

He turned just in time to see Cyborg's fist as it slammed into his face and knocked him back.

When he looked up he saw the three in front of him.

"You, you will regret crossing Atlas again fools." Atlas shouted before he unleashed blasts from his cannons.

The three avoided his blasts before Cyborg fired his sonic cannon, Starfire hurled her star bolts, and Nightwing hurled explosive Nighterangs into his cannons emitters.

When they hit, the cannons exploded, making Atlas stumble backwards and look at his disabled cannons.

"You fools will regret disabling Atlas's cannons." He said before Elasti-girl got back up and slammed her fist into Atlas's face, making him stumble backwards again.

He was stopped when Elasti-girl reached him and grabbed one of his arms.

Starfire flew over and grabbed his other arm before the two began pulling his body in their direction.

"You should have stayed in pieces." Cyborg said as he charged his fists and began furiously slamming them into Atlas's chest armor while Nightwing fired a grappling hook onto Atlas's head and pulling himself up.

He charged up the electrical ends of his sticks before slamming them into the sides of Atlas's head making him shout.

After another minute Atlas's arms were ripped out of their sockets and his chest armor torn off.

Cyborg smiled as he switched his sonic cannon to an electrical blast.

"Say cheese." He said before unleashing it into Atlas's inner metal skeleton.

The surge of electricity combined with Nightwing's electrical blast fried all of Atlas's circuits and made him deactivate before falling over.

Nightwing leapt down as Elisti-girl reverted to normal size.

"Thank you for the assistance, he was quite annoying." She said.

"Glad we found someone. We need to keep looking for the others." Nightwing said.

Elsewhere in the jungle, Aquald, Beastboy, and Mento were searching for sings of the Team.

"No luck with this Martian friend of yours." Mento said.

Not a moment later they saw a Light soldier fly in front of them and hit a tree.

"Maybe they're that way." Beastboy said pointing at the direction the soldier came from.

They quickly went that way and saw Wondergirl with Red Robin as they battled a group of Light soldiers and Blockbuster.

Red Robin made his way through the last of the Light soldiers with his staff as Wonder girl was punched by Blockbuster and hurled into a tree.

"Cassie!" Tim shouted as he ran over to her.

Blockbuster tried to run at him but was intercepted by Beastboy as a Tricerotops and forced back into a tree.

"Oww, I can see how he use to give Superboy so much trouble." Wonder girl said as she rubbed her head.

"Are you two ok?" Aqualad said as he and Mento came over.

"Finally some back up, this guy's crazy strong. Even Cassie can't match his strength." Red Robin said.

"Now that Superboy has all of Superman's power he should be stronger, but he is not with us." Aqualad said before they saw Tricerotops Beastboy get hurled across the air and crash into a tree.

He transformed into his normal form looking hurt.

"Ok someone's been taking their vitamins." He said before Blockbuster ran at them.

Mento got in front of them and unleashed a wave of blue psychic blasts that hit Blockbuster and knocked him onto his back.

Blockbuster looked angry as he got up only to grab his head as Mento entered his mind.

"Brains beats brawn big guy." Mento said.

Aqualad noticed there was a watering hole nearby and quickly summoned large amounts of water from it before surrounding Blockbuster with it.

When he was surrounded, he let electricity into the water, shocking Blockbuster and causing him to faint.

"Alright, let's keep moving." Mento said.

Elsewhere in the Brain's base, he was working on his device when Deathstroke walked in.

"Our little jungle hunt is falling apart, my commandos are getting their asses kicked by those brats and the Doom Patrol."

"Fear not Deathstroke, the weapon is nearly recharged, call back your commandos, and I will eliminate them all in once." The Brain said as the machine began to light up.