Teen Titans Season 9

Episode 12: Hero Wars Part 2

Author James the Lesser

Warning, I do not own these characters, or the other DC and/or Marvel I may use

Justice League HQ Metropolis

The military has tanks, helicopters, and troops surrounding the building. "Come out! If you surrender peacefully we will not harm you." No response.

Justice League HQ Outer Space

"They did it. They called in the full military force."

"Like we could not destroy them."

"Don't talk like that Manhunter. That is why they fear us. We could destroy the most powerful weapon they could make. We must find a way of ending this fear with out exposing who we are." Superman and the others watch their Earth HQ be bombed.

Gotham

Two helicopters land and out step several X Men. The last person who steps off is Green Lantern. "Batman wasn't at the Headquarters. He must be hiding in his cave."

"You sound happy about this." Beast looks up at Wayne Tower. "One city has this, another has the Sears Tower, and another has the Empire State Building."

"What was that Beast?"

"Just thinking aloud about how humans every where do the same thing Bishop." The X Men and Green Lantern move in to the city.

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Gotham

Bishop, Beast, Green Lantern, Rogue, Gambit, and Shadowcat see a crowd of people outside of a bar. They appear drunk and celebrating some thing. "We should avoid any civilians."

"No I think using the civilians will draw him out faster." Green Lantern uses his ring and rips a hydrant out. The water shoots in to the sky and the drunken idiots cheer and dance under the falling water.

"Don't harm them. We want this too be a mission of peace. If we can get Batman and the Titans too surrender peacefully it will end a lot of fears."

"And for every Titan turned in I get a million. Ten Million for Batman." Green Lantern uses his ring and taps a car hard enough the alarm goes off. He keeps hitting cars setting off more alarms.

The drunken celebrators start rocking cars finally flipping them. Some one sets a car on fire in their drunken celebration.

Batcave

The alarm sounds. Batman flips through channels until he finds a news station covering the beginning of a riot. "I forgot in all this that the Gotham Knights were playing for the championship."

"We're not needed. Let the police deal with them." Raven forms a portal. "Logan, come with me." He goes through the portal and she follows closing the portal behind them.

Rooftop

Logan senses the danger but not from the rioters. "Some one or some thing else is down there."

"I thought I saw a green energy but couldn't tell if it was just a trick of the light or not. Some one is either creating this or egging them on."

"They're moving west who ever they are." Raven's energy wraps around Logan and lifts him as she flies west.

Logan sees some one blue and recognizes them right away. "Raven it, I know who it is."

"The X Men?"

"I saw Beast so yes. They're luring us out."

"This is your chance. They wouldn't answer any of your calls. If we can get Batman a meeting with Professor Xavier we could stop the X Men from attacking any more of your kind."

"If he gets close his identity will be revealed."

"He has a plan I'm sure. We must set up this meeting." Raven floats Logan ahead of her.

Logan sees Beast again and calls out his name. Raven sets him down on a roof and stays behind. "Beast, what are you doing here?"

"Please Ulrich, or Logan as I heard you've taken, come down." Logan steps forward and lands hard. "That's right you gained some weight."

"You weren't there when my father's gift was put in my bone. They said you were busy." Beast doesn't correct Logan's saying Wolverine was his father and not uncle.

"I was, I was as have been you. I see you didn't stay alone for long. The man's need for companionship is instinctive."

"I didn't plan it but they dealt with the Brotherhood. While you and the others were busy with Magneto they took care of the Brotherhood. I confirmed I was safe."

"Very good but now you are in danger." Bishop, Rogue, Gambit, and Shadowcat step out.

"You're attacking me?"

"No you are not in danger from us. You are in danger from your new friends. Siding with them has put you on the wrong side."

"No I chose the side that didn't decide we were second class."

"Humans fear us and if we fight them we give them cause for more fear. If we show ourselves as we are we give them a chance for connecting with us. Show them we have real names and lives just like they do. Going around with secret identities makes them wonder what we are hiding."

"Loved ones, private lives, those who are human. I don't have any one like that but others do."

"Well, they can be protected."

"From the monsters of the world? How many villains have you gone after? Why have we seen no reports of Killer Croc, Whiplash, Joker, or the Kingpin being taken in? Why do you target the good guys?"

"Because once you join the right side of the law you can help us capture those who would break it no matter what."

"But this law is wrong! Just because the government passed it doesn't mean it is a good law! We had slavery, Jim Crow Laws, and women fought for decades so they could vote because the law said they couldn't."

"Yes but those laws were based on ignorance and hatred, not fear. And if we had opened ourselves up earlier we may have spared years of fear. This law wouldn't be needed if we had been open about ourselves from the beginning."

"So you'd march us off to the camps? Put us on the trains and ship us off to a reeducation center? Because of this crime against mutants and aliens?"

"Some could call it that if they saw through the eyes of false persecution. You realize many of our kind could simply take over if they wished. It is what Magneto has been pushing for. And that is exactly why they are terrified of us. We should," A clapping noise cuts Beast off.

"Yes keep up the performance." Green Lantern comes out. "So are you the only one who came? A cool million is nice but I was hoping for more after the Justice League escaped."

"Whoa, you, you're the Green Lantern. What are you doing you're a legend."

"A human legend who when told he could be a criminal fighting against the government or make a few million for turning over the criminals he knew what he should do."

"Green Lantern please stay back. Logan and I are old friends and I'm sure if given time we could convince him that it is better we work with the humans and not against."

"Or we capture him and turn him over. I've had my eye on this shiny little Porsche. Only problem is they don't make them in candy apple green. But for an extra two hundred k they can paint it any color I want."

"Logan is our friend." Rogue walks towards him. "Logan please don't make us fight you. You're alone and even with your healing abilities and pretty nails we could take you."

Gambit pulls two playing cards out. "We won't hold back. We can hurt you and not worry about killing you."

"I know and we've trained together enough that you know my moves and I know yours. I'm sure you looked over old training video after the last encounter."

"Yes, we did. Logan please surrender."

"I will, on one condition."

"What's that? We don't negotiate with criminals." Green Lantern points his ring at Logan and energy starts coming out when dark energy engulfs him. "Aaaa!" He disappears inside of it.

"Who said he was alone?"

"Raven stay back I got this."

"Raven?" Rogue looks her over. "If you call yourself Raven why do you wear a white cloak?"

"I don't always wear white." Raven's eyes glow. "We want a meeting with the Professor."

"We? The two of you or others?"

"Batman wishes a meeting. See if he can not talk Professor Xavier out of this." Raven stays floating in the air away from Rogue. "We do not want a fight. I'm sure you don't either."

"Batman is the Great Detective, the Dark Knight, but the Negotiator? I don't believe I've ever heard of him talking with an enemy."

"Beast, we aren't the enemy." Logan walks over to him. "I'll surrender if you get Batman a meeting with the Prof."

"And her?"

"No, I don't surrender. But I will not fight if you do not attack. Logan, keep your communicator and update me every hour. If you do not I will come for you." Shadowcat catches the glances between the two.

"Ooo, little Ulrich got himself a girlfriend. I guess you got over your crush on me." Ulrich blushes lightly.

"Before we leave Raven what did you do with the Green Lantern?"

"He won't be bothering us for awhile but he isn't hurt. I will go back and tell the others." Raven forms a portal and moves through it.

Batcave

After telling the others what Logan had done Batman goes with Raven alone. "You could get him out any time you wanted couldn't you?"

"Yes but they won't hurt him. He is a friend and they don't want a war. They are misguided by their leader."

"From what I know Professor Charles Xavier has been fighting for better human/mutant relations for decades. He probably sees this law as a chance of showing mutants aren't monsters but just like every one else. Names, pasts, and futures."

"It is foolish. We will always be hated by some. Even you and you're human."

"You're not a mutant or alien either. Of course being half demon means you have a few billion who hate you."

"And the law does not state half demons so I'm fine." A smile starts forming on Raven's face before disappearing. "What are you planning? From what I've learned from Logan this Professor Xavier is very powerful."

"I will pull the same trick I used on the Joker. He can't read the mind of a machine." Raven nods.

Justice League HQ Outer Space

Green Lantern is trapped in a cell with out his ring. "You're all a bunch of criminals! I'm not a mutant or alien I'm the good guy."

"You betrayed us. Until this is settled you will remain here." Wonder Woman keeps an eye on Green Lantern while the others were out fighting crime.

X Men

Logan is not in chains but is being carefully watched. Rogue sits closest in case she is needed. "It has been awhile Ulrich I'm sure Xavier will be pleased." Beast offers him a drink but Logan turns it down.

"Logan, I go by Logan now. I'm a Titan not part of the X Men."

"Just because a bird leaves the nest it does not become a cat."

"I still consider you guys friends but this stupid law has started a civil war between mutants and aliens. You guys are on the wrong side."

"Side? Logan, as you wish be called, conflicts are never so black and white. Magneto has declared war on all humans considering this law a first strike. Do you wish war on all humans?"

"No, of course not."

"But you disagree with this law as does Magneto so you must."

"I don't of course I don't."

"And there is the grey. Just as some mutants may not agree with the law but comply because it is better then fighting. There is no black and white in this or most conflicts."

"But you guys are hunting down mutants who don't agree with this law and ignore it. Isn't that pretty black and white of you?"

"Not all of us agree with Xavier. In fact I doubt the majority on this plane agree with him. But as he has pointed out a war with the humans must be avoided. It is much simpler we gave them our real identities. If we show them we are just like every one else they will see a common ground we can build a relationship on."

"But some of us aren't real mutants. Some were made from accidents and have families, friends, who don't have powers. Or Batman, he doesn't have any powers just his suit like Ironman."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, he is a human. Same with Nightwing. And yet you go after them."

"Green Lantern insisted upon it and he has become a bit of a propaganda piece for the government. By the way where did your friend send him?"

"I have no idea. I doubt any where he would be in any real danger."

"She doesn't kill I hope."

"She avoids it. The Titans pretty much follow Batman's rules. No matter how much easier it would make things if we could just snap their necks and end the cycle."

"Have you been hanging with the Punisher as well as that Raven girl?" Shadowcat chuckles. "She seemed nice. Powerful, dangerous, but nice."

"I don't wanna talk about that." Logan's cheeks are flush with color. "I don't want a war with the humans, you, or any one else. But this law is a crime against our kind. Why not fight it but like, in the courts?"

"Xavier believes that fighting the law or having it stricken down as unconstitutional will make it look like we are hiding some thing."

"It is though. It discriminates against us."

"How? If a human walks around with a mask and the police ask for the removal of the mask or show I.D. he must or he is breaking the law. This law is simply enforcing laws already on the books."

"I, we, we ignore other laws."

"And they let us ignore them. This is one however they won't let us ignore."

"That's not fair."

"Life isn't fair for most. Not even the rich can get by unscathed. Bruce Wayne is one of the richest men in the world and yet he lost his parents at a young age. He donates more money to charities then some nations make in a year. He is a hero for many and he is just a human. He doesn't wear a mask or have a secret identity."

"No but he funds Batman. He supports the Titans and Justice League. I bet he could get a fleet of lawyers."

"He has but the legal process takes time." Beast looks out the window. "We're nearly there." Every one looks at Logan.

"I won't fight I swear. I'm just coming back for a visit." The plane prepares for landing.

Gotham

Batman prepares his robot clone and the Batwing. He checks several back up devices on the robot. Cyborg walks over and sees the work. "Whoa that is some high tech circuitry."

"Having access to Wayne Corp. funds means I can pay for any research and development I want. Having a wealthy benefactor is the best weapon I have."

"If he paid for this," Cyborg leans in. "I wonder if I can get some funding. I've looked at some new chipsets and power upgrades but not sure I can risk the costs if it doesn't work."

"If I talk with him soon I'll ask. I'd love a look at some of your technology. I've been working on a powersuit for the next time I fight Bane or any one else on his venom. If I could get a couple ideas from you it could help."

"You're Batman you can look at any part that doesn't bleed." Cyborg continues watching Batman work on the robot.

New York City

Mayor J. Jonah Jamison enters his office and sees a large man sitting at his desk. "Who do you think you are?"

"The Kingpin most people call me." He stands up from the desk. "And I have an offer for you I hope you won't refuse."

"What could you offer me that I wouldn't refuse you're a criminal."

"Yes but I'm human. A human who can hire people who will hunt down the Spiderman and any others who ignore the new law."

"Like who?"

"Doctor Otto Octavius has agreed as has Arnold Donovan. You know them better as Doctor Octopus and the Hobgoblin. I've also asked Aleksei Sytsevich who you know as the Rhino. No word yet but I'm sure he will agree."

"This is madness how come these men are all known and yet the so called heroes all hide? You're putting me in a tough place Kingpin. The public, some of them any ways, loves that web headed freak. If they find out that I allowed these other criminals out on the city what will my poll numbers do?"

"You will form a new Avengers. The old group is a bunch of criminals. So you will come out and point out that all these men are out in the open about who they are. And most of them aren't even mutants. Arms, machines, suits yes but not mutants. This new Avengers will be supported by I and the city. This will keep them from committing crimes as they will have what ever they want plus free reign in destroying those who put them away."

"It is a win win for me but what do you get Kingpin?"

"My men out of prison and with the Avengers gone I can run my empire. I don't kill unless I am forced. I participate in gambling rings and simple drugs that are harmless like marijuana. I'm not the Russian mob or the Italian mafia. I make money and spend it. I give millions every year to charities."

"And I bet campaign donations."

"I was one of your top donations."

"Wilson Fisk. If you can keep them under control and they fight the criminals and crime I will seek out their release."

"Oh you can't fight crime you can only control it. Once I kicked the others out I stopped the dealing of drugs to children. No money to be made if a little tyke dies and the police crack down on my operations. But an adult loses his house, car, job, and life even to a drug? Just another user and good riddance."

"That is a philosophy I could learn to like. Don't fight it control it. If you could get it down enough around next November it could really help."

"Of course Mayor. Stick with my philosophy I could make you Governor."

X Men

Logan meets with Professor Xavier. "Batman wants a meeting."

"I know Ulrich. He thinks he can persuade me from this."

"Yes, and he might, I don't know."

"I'm sorry Logan but there is nothing any one can say that can change my mind. Magneto has already declared war and we need every one we can get. If your new friends surrender they can join us against Magneto."

"They won't and they shouldn't."

"So you side with Magneto? You want a war on the humans? Logan you are one of the few mutants born by other mutants. Most mutants are born by humans."

"And those mutants love their families who are human and don't want them the targets of mutants like Magneto."

"If they are out in the open they can receive protection. Maybe we could study them and see why they gave birth to a mutant."

"And what about the billions of humans who want us dead? Some like us sure but there are billions all over the world who want us dead."

"There are billions who want some group dead and those groups want another one dead who has billions who want another dead. Crusades, wars, genocides, all committed before yet those groups are still here."

"If you kill a million mutants you kill every mutant ten times over. We can't survive a genocide."

"So we must do what we can and keep our relationship with the humans on a good foundation. If following this law placates them then that is what we must do. Fighting it is fighting them and could lead towards an even harsher law. I don't want that and will do what it takes making sure that doesn't happen."

"You don't agree with this law any more then the rest of us do." Logan is lost. He came in expecting an argument. He came expecting Professor Xavier making him a prisoner. "You just don't want things getting worse."

"Yes and if you want we can send you back right now."

"Batman will still want a meeting with you."

"Let him come then. Or we could meet on neutral grounds."

"I'll uh, call them now." Logan gets his communicator out. "Raven, are you there?"

"Yes Logan. Are you safe?"

"I'm fine! I, this is not what I expected. Raven Professor Xavier wants a meeting with Batman. Here, there, neutral grounds, just get a meeting."

"Are you sure? It is not his powers being used on your mind is it? I can check for that."

"Um, no, it isn't that but thank you. Talk with Batman and get back to me ok?"

"Yes, I'll call back in a few minutes." Raven cuts the connection.

A Few Minutes Later

Raven calls Logan back. "Batman says there is an old abandoned military base between Gotham and New York. If you want you can meet him there."

"She says,"

"I heard Ulrich. Tell her that base will be acceptable. If you wish I could be there in three days."

"Why three days?"

"We are planning a meeting with Tony Stark tomorrow. He funds the Avengers and they have several mutants who ignore the law. I hope I can find a way of getting their names."

"If he knows who they really are you'll just read his mind."

"I could yes but I wouldn't. Tell her three days, four in the afternoon."

"I heard him. Batman accepts." Raven cuts the connection before Logan can reply.