The Just Us Gang all hoped up and raced to the front of the Manor, where there was once a large room with high ceilings and a dual grand stairway, there was now a humongous hole where the front doors had once been.
As the smoke cleared, the Falcone Gang stepped forward, each armed and dangerous.
Barry: Where did all these people come from?
Clark: "We were so busy listening to Bruce, we must not have noticed them all showing up."
Arthur: Are they the gang whose hurt Bruce?
Falcone: Hurt him?! He busted into my building, in the heart of my territory, and put half my crew into the hospital!
Diana: Your gang's violence drew the first blood years ago.
Falcone walked further through as remains of the front doors caved in sealing off the Manor. "Perhaps, but jobs go bad all the time, an unfortunate truth in this business. The kid should have gotten over it and been lucky he wasn't a casualty. Speaking of Lucky …" Falcone begins to take a long look around the entrance room of the Manor. "Bruce was left with all this and more coming, shoulda been satisfied with that instead of running around with a bunch of meta-brats. Although, if the brat couldn't appreciate what he had but made, I will instead of burning it down. In the market for a new headquarters."
"You're not doing either," Clark said as the gang sprang into action; however, some of Falcone's men were armed with the unique weapons curiosity of Lex Corp. The Just Us Gang was caught off guard as colorful rays and wild contraptions flew to the air turning all five teens from heroes to hostages.
Hal manages to send off a quick energy blast, that went right over the gangster's heads and flew directly into on Alexander's drone, destroying it out before seeing anything.
Alexander "Drat, shows over before it begins and which the front way caved in like that, I can't send another drone inside. Looks like all I'll learn from this encounter is to pay a little more attention to Bruce Wayne and Wayne Industries."
Back in the research room, Bruce and Alfred could hear the chaos do below. Bruce goes into a slight panic hearing to sounds of gunfire and screaming downstairs and begins to flashback to the theater, but Alfred pills him back.
Alfred: Master Bruce! Are you with me?
Bruce: Sorry, yeah. I'm with you. I have to stop those guys. Ok, Uhm, so I'll cut the power to the Manor, then one by one I'll take'em all out. Wait, there are too many variables there. How can I even reach them all, plus I haven't even figured out the black magic yet?
Alfred: You don't need that, Master Bruce
Bruce: How can I do this, Alfred; I can't win with nothing?
Alfred: You do not have nothing, you have me, you have your brilliant mind, and you have five friends downstairs need help right now.
Bruce pauses, processing Alfred's words.
Bruce: You're right Alfred
Alfred: Yes, We will save your friends.
Bruce: Nope, their gonna save themselves I just have to give them the chance
Alfred: Sounds like you have a plan
Bruce: Exactly, it starts with you cutting the power.
As Alfred cut the power to the Manor and the building went dark, the gang members became very nervous. It just occurred to them that they hadn't captured Bruce yet just his friends, that he may or may not have been leading. They remembered what happened last time the lights went out, however, this time they were prepared. The gang members began to start shouting into the darkness of the Manor
Falcone: Nice try kid this ain't working a second time, I learned from my mistakes. I've got Tommy Laser guard patrolling the halls and all your friend tied up and guarded. Every one of them has strict orders to kill you or your friends if they even think you're in the room.
Now Bruce knew time was of the essence, thankfully he was still in his research room.
The gang members had started moving grouping in hallways looking for him and Alfred, thankfully in Bruce's paranoia, he had made the research room camouflage via a hologram projector above the doorway. He had activated it be before Alfred cut the power, and the room had its own power source.
Bruce accesses the security system within Wayne Manor, seeing all the rooms in the Manor at once from the research room screen. He then isolated down the part of the Manor, where all of his friends where being kept by all of Falcone members. "Alright, like he said, they all seem to all be on the same floor, and the rooms are rather far apart."
Alfred: However, will we go about this, they're all at the mercy of those thugs. And we're short on offense and defense.
Bruce: True, but we do have one advantage, this is our house, Alfred. We know all the in's and outs of it, and now we know where everyone is. If you take out those hall monitors and I can free my friends who can rescue themselves.
Bruce and Alfred re-watch the footage of the Just Us Gang be taken down, and pulled all the facts with Alfred. "OK, here's what I know, there are at least 12 men in the house, one of those is Falcone, 5 have special weapons that are restraining my friends, while the rest, including Falcone patrol from the halls. I have never seen weapons like this around Gotham or any of the other districts in Mega-City State, so they must be experimental, probably not even in circulation.
Alfred: Bloody Hell, if it was just Tommy Lasers, we could take them out one at a time. There's no way of really knowing with those weapons of theirs will do? Where on earth did, they even get those"
Bruce: I don't know, but they were able to get a magic-user earlier, they must have a more extended reach in the city than anyone realized"
Alfred: I assume alerting the authority is out of the question
Bruce: They'll come because I have money, but it's not like I can request ones that are not on Falcone's payroll, not to mention with the Just Us Gang still priority one my metahuman friends would definitely be taken in as well.
Alfred: then we're on our own, better that way I suppose.
Bruce focused on the screens where his friends, and did a little math. "The weapons their holding plus the reaction my friends are having should equal what the weapon does."
They played over Clark's defeat, he launched at Falcone but was hit by a loud and bright blast.
Bruce: Clark: I've known Clark for years, he's suffering from sensory overload right now, and the weapon appears to both produce a sound and a light. So the blaster is either scrambling the user's senses.
Alfred: The woman guarding him keeps firing at him every time Clark seems to start recovering.
Bruce: Bastards, their gonna pay.
They played over Diana's defeat, she managed to knock the man down, but then the whip curled around her neck, and suddenly she fell to the ground.
Bruce: She still has the energy whip around her neck
Alfred: Based on her current body language, she's paralyzed.
Bruce: Considering how Diana's powers work, that whip must be directly attacking her nervous system.
Bruce and Alfred play over Barry's defeat. Barry races around his Goon before climbing up and flipping off him. Barry's body language suggests he was going to jumping on his head. However, before Barry could the man sidestep out of the way and tagged Barry with some kind of disc. Suddenly Barry fell to the ground hard and could barely stand the man then turned a dial, and Barry plummeted to the ground, and they had to drag him out of the room.
Alfred: Another paralyzer
Bruce: I don't think so; it almost looks more like Barry was being smacked or pushed down. Call me crazy, but it might be some form of gravity weapon, causing him to become too heavy to move.
They then examine Arthur's video
Alfred: How odd Arthur was hit once by a Ray in the chest, he seemed to be in pain, but unlike the others, he was still fighting once he was hit.
Bruce: Now they just tide him up that Chair.
Alfred: Huh, Wait, zoom in … does he seem smaller to you?
Bruce: Hmm … I've often noticed the past couple of months that Arthur's build seems to change throughout the day. Sometimes he has the same athletic frame as Hal or me you know athletic, but other times, he's buffer like a fitness model.
Alfred: You know, Master Bruce, some fish shrivel up on land but expand when placed back into the water.
Bruce: The smoke coming from the ray suggests heat perhaps it rapidly dehydrated him
Finally, they watch Hal; as usual, Hal flew right to the Goon a full speed.
Alfred: Was he trying to ram him?
Bruce: Never really know with Hal, probably
The Goon, however, lifts up his weapon, and the blast hits Hal and knocks him out of the sky. When Hal tries to get back up, he pauses and stumbles as if he loses focus
Alfred: That's an odd reaction, he appears quite distorted
Bruce: The way Hal's power seems to work is that they only require Focus and Imagination,
Alfred: So, to stop him, one would have to mess with his head. Hmmm, zoom in on that weapon, I need a closer, I think I've seen it before
Bruce: When?
Alfred: I had a life before here
Bruce then replays the footage of Hal being hit again, he loops it a couple of time.
Alfred: still finding clues, master Bruce
Bruce: No, it's just funny seeing that jerk get knocked out of the air
Alfred: It won't be if you keep watching it, save it for later before it starts to drag
After severing the situation, he comes to a couple conclusions.
Bruce: One, this is my house, I know the layout better than anyone, even in the dark. Two, while my friends are restrained, they are not helpless. Three, criminals in Gotham come in three forms mastermind leader, hired hands, and gopher goons. The guys Falcone entered with all seem consist of goons and mooks. So the peoples he's got roaming the halls may not be all that capable and might go down with a swift punch.
Bruce turned and looked to Alfred
Bruce: Alright, I've got a plan, Alfred, do you think you can handle the gophers in the hallway?
Alfred: That would be one of the easier things you've ever asked me to do master Bruce.
Bruce walks over to a nearby air vent and enters it
Bruce: Alright, time to go rescue my friends and stop Falcone.
