"It is time," a robotic voice called over a screen where his face was obscured by white light.

000

"Why are the Genomorphs and GI-Meta's working together?" Wally asked speeding around a group to break them away from the rest.

"KF STOP!" Kara called as a blast of blue energy flew right where Wally would have been if he wasn't able to stop without skidding.

"Hey, why are you all attacking us? We are just trying to defend the public?" a male voice called.

"Someone get this delusional tin-man out of this fight. He doesn't even know what he is fighting for," Jade demanded as she took out a few League of Shadows assassins.

"What do you mean?" the young man asked as he swung his fist st where Gar would have been if he didn't shape shift away.

"We mean that the people, the real people, that you are fighting for want world domination," Zatanna yelled at him muttering a hex to liquefy the ground.

"Listen, what makes you think they want to defend the people. The fact that they blew up your mom's car to gain a test subject, or the fact that, that GI-Meta over there is about to kill some hobo?" Dick snapped before Wally dashed over to save the hobo. "Listen, we could use your help."

"CHARGE!" Gar yelled after transforming back into a Gorilla. Following Gar a gang of Gorillas followed him slamming into Genomorphs.

"Booyah!" the cyborg turned around and blasted several of his now ex-allies after reading through the files Dick had sent him.

"Fall back!" Dick ordered to all the military troops that were still with them and any superpowered people that were fighting with them.

"Sir?" Gar's Lieutenant asked for confirmation.

"Retreat," Gar confirmed as he saw the gears in Dick's head turn.

"Supergirl, clear the field," Dick ordered as he made sure all his allies were in a safe zone.

"But…?" Kara was about to question his order when one of the GI-Meta's blasted Barbara in the back with blue flames. "NO!"

Dick grabbed a child who crawled out from behind the rubble as Kara's eyes started to dye red from her Heat Vision. "Donna, cover me!" Dick ordered as he carried the kid off back to the temporary military base in the area. "Watch after him!"

"Robin!" Zatanna called as she saw something coming on the horizon.

"NO!" M'gann cried out.

"What is it?" Dick asked.

"No…," Wally trailed off.

"NOT THIS TIME!" Kon-El jumped as high as he could into the air and smashed right into the chest of a robot Lex made.

"These look like earlier models of what we faced in the future," Guy told Rob as he ate one of the MRE's that Dick brought back for the team.

"Chloe, hack them!" Barbara ordered Chloe to use the technopathic powers she gained from when Lex experimented on her.

"How many arrows do you have left?" Zatanna asked Roy as she was making more batarangs for Dick to use.

"None!" Roy called back grasping Jade's arms and spinning her so her feet would smash into the face of several Genomorphs.

"Everyone, clear back!" Dick ordered as he started to loosen the ring.

"potS!" Zatanna ordered. "You have to stop using that. It is tearing away at your body and psyche."

"That's it!" Dick slammed the ring all the way back down on his finger. "My body didn't evolve to endure the stress that Jester puts on it. Neither did the GI-Meta's. The ones that have a natural gene for it already are safe, but…" Dick trailed off running back to the base to do some quick research.

"Rae, shoot me into the sky," Gar said as he crouched.

"I got it," Guy created a catapult seeing that Raven was busy.

"Move back guys!" Gar commanded as he started to shift into a blue whale.

"I got it guys! Zatanna make arrows out of these and pass them to Artemis and Roy. Tell them to only hit the targets I mark," Dick returned holding vials of a liquid that would overload the GI-Meta's powers and shut them down.

000

"That was the hardest battle we have ever faced," Guy crashed against the rubble of a destroyed building.

"How many of you can still fight?" Dick asked knowing what they still had to do.

"I'm up for it," Wally groaned standing up.

"Me too," Artemis raised her hand for Wally to help her up.

"We are in," M'gann said for her and Kon-El.

"Count me in too," Kaldur jogged over dripping wet.

"Glad to see you back," Wally patted his back as M'gann called the Bioship over to pick up the original team.

"Hey, you guys can't leave without me," Zatanna jumped into the ship as it took off.

"There are seven of them and seven of us," Dick turned to face his teammates.

"The Brain and Mallah are mine," Wally told Dick.

"Well I want Ra's," Artemis was determined to defeat him.

"M'gann you need to get Queen Bee, Kon-El I need you need to get Vandal Savage," Kaldur told them as he read about just what they could do.

"You do realize who that leaves us with, right?" Dick asked.

"You can take him," Kaldur half smiled.

"He isn't worried about himself," Zatanna rolled her eyes.

"Can you face him? I know you assume he is the one who killed your mentor," Dick frowned.

"It wasn't him, at least personally. I am the King now and it is my responsibility. Listen everyone; we may be dividing who we are going to be fighting personally but we are a team. Some of us may not have fought with the rest for a while. That doesn't change the fact that we need to be one during this," Kaldur stood so he could look at every one of his teammates personally.

"M'gann, link us up. Deeper that you ever have before," Dick nodded to her as he started to feel the thoughts of his friends; no, his family, enter his mind.

"They want to rule the world, we all know what is at stake if we lose this," Kaldur thought.

""There is no way in Hell we are going to let them beat us. Borrow and use the knowledge of the others. Use their senses as your own," Kon-El instructed the team as he had the most experience of being joined so deeply with someone like this.

"Is this how you two are like most of the time?" Zatanna thought enjoying the oneness.

"Whenever we have free time," M'gann nodded steering the ship towards

"Which one of you is laughing quietly…?" Wally asked confused.

"Jester," Dick immediately answered. "It is like that all the time, you will just get used to it," Dick told them like it was completely normal.

"Here come the psychic forces," M'gann frowned as she felt several people with strong minds approach.