Huntress POV

Huntress had been approaching the mansion. As silent as a panther, she stalked her prey, hoping to repay him the vengeance he deserved. It had been 18 years since the event, 18 years after seeing her parents gunned down by this monster, and now she was finally closing in.

The mansion was one of many of estates that Mandragora owned, and was according to her source his current safe house. After confirming the presence of his standard bodyguard unit, she could finally put down the man who killed her parents.

The two guards at his home, who had been guarding the place, where in an argument regarding the recipe of bread. What a joke. As if they where normal people, when they turned to a life of crime. She felt no sympathy as she took them out.

She had entered the house, evading the laser security grid, and finally found her target, a bed with Mandragora supposedly sleeping in.

"Its been a while, Mandragora. I've changed since we last met, but your still the same monster feeding off of other people's misery." She then began firing her crossbow into the bed mound. After exhausting her entire clip into the mound, she moved in to remove the sheet, only to find a pile of pillows instead of a body.

"Dammit!" But before she could continue her search for the man, her comm began beeping.

The martian was calling "Huntress, get here now!"

She knew she was screwed.

Green Arrow POV

He was with Black canary, interrogating the albino mandragora. It was weird that a criminal would want to cut a deal directly with the justice league, which meant one thing, he was afraid. Also with him where an entourage of FBI agents.

It didn't appear on his face immediately, but you could realize that this was serious if a titanic and powerful mobster was turning himself in. In his eyes however was a fear, not as though he was afraid for his life, but for another.

"Your gonna have to give us something more substantial if you want to cut a deal." The FBI agent stated.

The mobster glared, before speaking. "I already told you, I have nothing to say, except that I would certainly like to hear the little birdie scream."

Black Canary had enough, and held him by the throat, only for Mandragora to speak "Go ahead, I have nothing to lose."

"You will sit down right now and behave, I don't care if your Justice League or not, if you want to continue in the investigation, you will calm down and take your seat!" The FBI agent said.

Black Canary calmed down, and Green Arrow decided to cut in.

Green arrow responded "Not likely, one of the heads of the Mafia, with evidence pointing to association with major players in the criminal underworld. I believe your holding out."

"Oh, really, as if I could be afraid for my death, given a man of my stature, unlike you. I wonder why such a lovely lady such as she could ever wind up with you, a nobody. Tell me, where all the real men in the Justice League taken?"

Outside

"I hope your proud of yourself" Black Canary said

"Oh, I'm proud of myself. Your the one that punched him."

"Yeah but, oww! Its like punching a brick wall."

"Here, let me take a look." Green Arrow said, only for Canary to hesitate "Please." Canary finally relented.

"I think you'll live to punch suspects another day, pretty bird."

They went to the balcony to provide look out for the men interrogating, when Canary struck up another conversation.

"I can't believe we're going through all this trouble to protect a killer." She said

"Its how it goes Dinah, they let a bad guy go free, and he rats out dozens of other bad guys. Its not perfect."

Dinah responded "But still, what would their victims believe?"

Oliver spoke "Hey, are you gonna get all serious on me?"

They pulled in for a tender moment, only for Canary to realize something.

"Hey, look."

Arrow turned to see another police car pull up.

"So, more cops to handle."

"Yeah, but look at that." She said, pointing to the purple car. Out of it came Huntress and Question.

Question POV

They had spent several hours trying to track down Mandragora and had cornered him on a shipping warehouse, only to lose trace of him. Had they came sooner without delay from their League colleagues, they would have been able to catch the Gorilla sized man.

"Dammit! We had him, we could have gotten him if you just stayed out of the way!" Huntress yelled.

"Us!, If you weren't so focused on vengeance, we could have had him locked up! Now, we're back to square one, no criminal." Canary stated.

Question ignored the three others arguing, only focused on what had happened. It was strange, Mandragora was a notorious crime lord, with connections all across the city. He also had wealth of money and weapons stashed away in multiple areas.

So why was it that his house looked like it was broken in. Oh sure, it could have a breaking and entering, but he was a dangerous man, surely criminals would know to stay away. But it looked like there were no guards, and the house looked more like it was wrecked, and nothing was stolen. The other thing strange was a presence of large piles of black dust, along with foot steps. It meant Mandragora was here, but following them, Question realized that they were only here after the dust.

He went into another room, to find a functioning computer, with a video file open, addressed to Mandragora.

He was curious, he pulled up the file and played it.

In the video, he could see a dark room, on it, a child, tied and gagged, sitting on a chair, crying. He recognized him, his features were similar to his father, albino pigmentation.

"Sh, sh, sh, hey there prince. Its ok, let it all out, its ok to be scared." A voice stated, yet it didn't sound calm.

"Hey Boss-"

"DON'T, INTERUPT ME! NOW LOOK AT WHAT YOU'VE DONE, I'm trying to make a movie here starring the prince. And you ruined it."

"But boss,"

"I JUST STARTED, AND YOU JUST RUINED IT, ok. I am pissed, I'm ok. Now then, I would really like to get some work done."

"Boss-"

"I SAID SHUT THE FUCK UP!" and gunfire was heard, and the child began screaming, even after the gun stopped firing.

"Great, now he's broken. Look at what you've done. Hey, hey," the boy kept crying.

"HEY! DO YOU WANT TO DIE! I NEED YOU TO FUCKING BE QUIET, OR I WILL START CUTTING OFF FINGERS!"

There was silence. "Thats better, now just look at the camera, no no, don't look at me, look at the camera."

Edgar stared at the camera, tears pouring out of his eyes "Thats better, see, why can't kids be more well behaved. You see, you obey, you don't die."

A man approached the camera, he was unsettling to look at. Red tank top, cargo pants, a mohawk. The thing that was most disturbing was his crazed look in his eyes"

"Oh, hey hey, you must be wondering why he's here Manny. Oh, you must be worried sick for your son."

The man proceeded to grab the boys chin "Its truly wonderful, what love is. You know, I was in love once, I had a girlfriend once. She was the only one who mattered. You know I would have killed for her once too."

Then the man stood up. "Oh, no no, but see here's the thing about loved ones here Manny, OUR FUCKING LOVED ONES! They come and they blindside you the moment you look away. And so they say Vaas, Vaas, WHO THE FUCK IS IT GOING TO BE?! THEM OR ME, MEEE OR THEM! Like I need to make a choice"

"And yet you are predictable like that, your going to choose family. I mean, I can respect that, I used to think like that, I really did. But see here, there was a moment, A FUCKING MOMENT, that you thought I WAS STUPID! I mean, you actually thought that you could run away like a little bitch. Give me up and run away with your kid, oh no no no we are both in a shit hole together. Well actually, you are."

He pulls out a gun and shoots the kid point blank in the had.

"Now, you get to run for real, mother fucker." He then walks away, a voice is heard "Uh, I really need to clean up after these things." The video ends