Inside was what looked like a traditional ice cream/milkshake/bakery shop.
"Almost reminds me of Sugarcube Corner." Atticus remarked.
"Yeah, I could see that." Cherry nodded.
Babs gushed as she leaned against the glass case that had many desserts inside while Patch nearly drooled. "How did I not know about this?!~" she then beamed before she stood up and saw a blonde man behind the counter.
"Hey, guys. So, what's the haps, what's poppin', what's the latest?" The blonde man asked, speaking rather fast. "Can I get you something sweet? Sure hope so, 'cuz that's what we have. It's sort of our specialty."
"Hi, Barry." The other superhero girls greeted the blonde man.
"So, what'll it be?" Barry beamed. "The usual? The usual? The usual? The usual? The usua-" he then stopped before seeing Babs and Diana.
"Babs will have the candy cake triple ripple tower with the rainbow sprinkles and Diana will have The Death by Chocolate." Zatanna suggested.
Diana then brought out a spiked mace.
"Figure of speech, Diana." Zatanna then covered up before anything violent could happen.
"Here you go," Barry smiled as he took out a tray with all of the requested and ordered treats before they took them. "Oh, hey, nice to meet you, Diana." he then said to the new girl.
"It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance," Diana told him before walking away. "I shall await your text message in three days' time."
Barry blinked in confusion, scratching his head before looking at the next group curiously.
"She's new; don't stress about it, Barry." Lionel informed the teenage speedster.
"I'll try not to," Barry replied. "So what can I get for you guys?"
Everyone asked for their own orders which seemed to be normal and tame compared to the other orders.
"No prob!" Barry smiled before he dashed off, getting their orders ready.
"Gosh... He sure is fast." Thor remarked.
"Almost as if he were attuned to the Speed Force." Lionel noted.
"Here you go! Have a sweet day!" Barry smiled, giving them their order next.
"Thanks!" The group replied, nodding as they went to sit down next.
Diana merely picked at her dessert while everyone else happily and excitedly tucked into their desserts.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Jessica smiled, getting ready to eat her pie.
"Yeah, it won't bite!" Thor added with a smile, eating some Dipping Dots.
Diana poked her spoon into the bowl before she took a taste and her eyes widened like she had just eaten a little slice of Heaven. "Never have I tasted such wonderment," she then gushed as she poured more into her mouth, ditching her spoon and wolfing down like a wild animal as everyone else looked at her in concern. "More. I must have more of this magical concoction. Do you intend to eat that?" she then demanded before facing Karen who set down her strawberry milkshake.
"Uh..." Karen blinked nervously before Diana suddenly grabbed her milkshake and gulped it down instantly anyway.
"Uh... Oh, boy... This could be a problem..." Atticus said nervously.
"Maybe," Lionel replied. "But for now, it's even funnier than it was before! Also, kind of adorable too."
"She's gonna have major brain freeze and really bad tummy ache." Thor pouted.
Diana continued to munch and gulp down on the desserts before she then suddenly passed out with her head in her bowl.
"Last time I saw a sugar rush that insane, Riley Daring was loose in a candy store." Lionel commented to himself.
"Diana...?" Karen called nervously, reaching out to poke Diana.
"SISTERS AND BROTHERS!" Diana suddenly called as she jolted, sitting upright suddenly. "This food is more delectable than ambrosia, this place more perfect than Elysium. I declare that we must celebrate our every future victory here and thus!" she then proclaimed and announced.
"Sweet Justice for the win!" Babs cheered in excitement as she put her arms up.
"I do not know what that means!" Diana replied in the same way.
"See?" asked Lionel. "Everything worked itself out!"
Diana looked over at Thor's chocolate thunder ice cream cake.
Thor pouted as he moved his bowl and covered it protectively away from her.
"Hey, what are you doing?" A man's voice asked as the others glanced over to see there was a crowd forming with the owner man and woman at the door, talking to someone. "We turned down the offer. Get out of here, please."
"We said we wouldn't sell," The owner woman added before looking at the blonde boy behind the worker counter. "Barry, go get our lawyer."
Barry nodded and saluted before he took off running.
"Lawyer? Why do they need a lawyer?" Jessica wondered.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Cherry commented.
The crowd panicked, backing away as soon, came inside a swarm of demo-bots.
"Attention, citizens. This business or dwelling has been categorized for immediate destruction." The foreman announced.
"No!" The owner man cried out.
"By order of the city of Metropolis, you must vacate before structure removal begins," The demo-bot warned the customers. "You have 30 seconds to comply."
The crowd didn't comply before they soon ran out of the restaurant in a panic.
"What should we do?" Kara wondered.
"What can we do? They're city robots." Zatanna retorted.
"That isn't the superhero way." Atticus told the others strongly.
"You have 15 seconds to comply." The demo-bot declared.
"Please, kids, just go," said the woman next to the man. "Nothing we say is gonna stop 'em."
"But they can't tear this place down without permission!" Jessica exclaimed. "This doesn't make sense!"
"You have 10 seconds to comply," The demo-bot declared. "10... 9... 8..."
"Is this a law we must obey?" Diana asked. "Or should we fight?"
"I don't know!" Cherry cried out. "I wanna fight, but we might get in trouble."
"Kids, please. This isn't worth getting hurt over." The man told them.
"Let's get out of here," Karen suggested as she looked quite scared to death. "We're not ready for a fight."
"2... 1," The demo-bot soon concluded the countdown. "This completes your warning. Demolition will now begin."
And so, the demo-bots soon transformed into bigger and more deathly forms, beginning to tear Sweet Justice apart and nearly hit a boy who was zoned out and wearing the LexCorp goggles, almost like he forgot where he was.
"Johnny, look out!" Someone called out to the boy.
Diana saw that and soon charged toward the boy and helped him before there was a large crash with a thick cloud of dust and soon, Diana was transformed into her Wonder Woman outfit. The others gasped as they were surprised and alarmed by what just happened.
"It matters not if these villains are protected by man's law," Diana told her fellow teenage heroes. "Our mission is to protect the innocent. And that is what we must do. Come, brothers and sisters. This is our time."
"Yeah!" Lionel declared, before turning into Sean Astin. "In here, it's our time. It's our time in here! That's all over the second we walk out those doors and leave these robojerks to trash the place!"
"Erm... Right..." Diana nodded in agreement. "Well said, Bat-Mite."
A demo-bot soon looked like it was about to go after the Sweet Justice owners until Kara suddenly swooped in as Supergirl and lifted the demo-bot out of the way just in time before she threw it aside, crashing it into the wall as she smirked in excitement.
"You're both right... This is our time!" Supergirl exclaimed with a smirk and she then looked ready to face another one.
Suddenly, the next demo-bot was caught with a whisp of magic from Zatanna and Batgirl's grappling hook, slamming it down onto the floor and dismantling it instantly.
"Right!" The others agreed.
Diana smiled proudly before calling out bravely. "Huzzah! Let us earn more chocolate!" she then told her friends.
"All right, you know what to do," Cherry told Lionel before holding out her arms. "Let's get super."
Lionel grasped Cherry's arms in response. "Don't hafta tell me twice!" he declared.
"Whoa!" Cherry gasped before she was made into Lady Gothika.
Atticus, Mo, Patch, and Thor soon transformed as well, becoming Saiyaman, Nature Girl, Saiya Dog, and Thunder Boy instantly.
"Ooh! Ooh! Can I say it? Please? Please, can I say it? Please, can I?" Thunder Boy asked Bat-Mite.
"Uh... Sure, go ahead..." Bat-Mite shrugged.
"Thanks~" Thunder Boy grinned before he narrowed his eyes with a dark smirk on his face. "Let's get dangerous~"
"For what it's worth, that was pretty good." Bat-Mite replied, before doing a Spin Dash and ripping through another demo-bot.
Thunder Boy chuckled and soon cracked his knuckles and he began to bring out thunderbolts to shoot at some demo-bots. Nature Girl slammed her hands down on the floor, summoning some of her vines so that they could tie up and restrain demo-bots that came on the loose. Wonder Woman soon kicked some away as Batgirl lunged out at some demo-bots, then Supergirl flew over to punch the demo-bots that came in her way next. Bumblebee shrank down to small size and she tried to beat a demo-bot, but not much happened due to her size and it worried her.
"You're gonna have to work on that." Lady Gothika said to Bumblebee before she brought out a random bow and arrow, then shot her arrows at several demo-bots causing them to explode instantly.
Bat-Mite helped the others to rip through and smash the robots into bits. "Ya-hoo!" he exclaimed.
"Og tog mrof ecnehw uoy emac," Zatanna recited before she made some of the demo-bots in her way disappear into a puff of magical sparkles. "Thank you, thank you. Nobody gets past The Great Zatanna!" she then beamed as she bowed, giving herself some applause for her magical and heroic feat.
Diana continued to tie up the demo-bots with her Golden Lasso, though she still saw some still in action. "Great Hera! Why do they not run?" she then gasped. "Quickly, Supergirl, Saiyaman, you must-"
"We got it!" Kara and Atticus replied as they dashed by suddenly.
"No, wait!" Diana panicked as that was too soon and probably not the best idea.
"We said we got it!" Kara replied as she grabbed the demo-bot by the arms and began to spin it.
"Kara!" Atticus yelped.
Kara then accidentally sent the demo-bot flying in the air. "Oops." she then said.
"How many of these things are there?!" Thunder Boy complained. "I can't keep up!"
"Simple: there's gotta be a factory making them!" Bat-Mite replied. "But if we created an electrical surge strong enough, we might be able to short them out!"
"Hmm..." Thunder Boy paused thoughtfully. "I wonder."
"You got an idea, big guy?" Nature Girl asked him.
"Maybe me and Bumblebee could try something out." Thunder Boy said with a smirk.
"Whatever you've got, I say go for it!" Saiya Dog replied.
"Bumblebee, listen to me," Thunder Boy said to the tiny girl. "We can use your science and my electricity to combine our powers into one to short-circuit these bots."
Bumblebee looked very shook up and scared about using her powers that she just froze, feeling out of control right now with her emotions. "It's too scary! I don't want to! I can't!" she then cried out.
Jessica tried to send one demo-bot away from a couple of kids at one table before bouncing it on a trampoline and then it bounced up in the air and cracked the ceiling, making her create a net to let go of three demo-bots she caught in a cage though she couldn't stay there forever. Bumblebee gasped and yelped before she suddenly flew away in fear.
"Bumblebee!" Thunder Boy frowned before she looked over and gasped, clapping his hands together to make a ball out of electricity and shot it at the demo-bots that came to him with buzz-saws. "Aw, heck-o... Take that you Trashcan Heads!"
"Even I'm getting exhausted!" Bat-Mite wheezed after trashing a few more bots. "And it's not helping that everyone else is too distracted with those stupid goggles!"
Batgirl was busy punching a demo-bot that slowly moved forward, but she wasn't making much progress. Not to mention, there were plenty of distracted bystanders; so, Batgirl got out a Batarang, before she got hit with a piece of falling ceiling. That startled her, and she wildly flung around some Batarangs, hoping they'd hit their targets.
"Batgirl! Stay focus-" Wonder Woman sighed. "Oh, Hades... I shall do it myself!" She whipped the demo-bot away, then jumped in front of another one before she tore its buzzsaw arms off and kicked the rest away.
"I can't keep up!" Saiyaman cried out.
"Me neither!" Saiya Dog added.
"Just do your best until we're done!" Wonder Woman called out as she continued before seeing Zatanna through one of the gaping holes she had created through one of the demo-bots.
"Take this, heinous beasts!" Zatanna smirked, sending magic through the bot before accidentally hitting Wonder Woman, making her gasp in concern. "I didn't mean you."
Wonder Woman then crashed into Supergirl, Saiyaman, and Saiya Dog as they all hit the wall, making more cracks appear and nearly destroying Sweet Justice more than the demo-bots had done. Jessica moved her net before looking up at the ceiling as the whole room was shaking. "Everyone out! It's coming down!" she then warned the others as there wasn't much more that they could do to help. Everyone soon rushed out and as they came outside, they could see that the building known as Sweet Justice was no more.
"Thank you for your cooperation," The demo-bot foreman said before leaving with the other demo-bots as their work here was done. "You will receive a bill for any damage to city property. Have a nice day."
Diana smacked Kara in the back. "Insubordination!" she yelled. "Why did you not await my orders?"
"Well, excuse me, Princess," Kara snapped. "In case you didn't notice, I was the only one in there actually fighting!"
"Nuh-uh, I was fighting." Karen spoke up.
"You were cringing." Zatanna replied.
"Hey, no fighting!" Thor frowned.
"Stay out of this!" Kara glared.
Thor flinched and pouted.
"Hey, you don't have to yell at my friends." Atticus firmly pouted.
"Yeah, yeah, cry me a river," Kara scoffed and crossed her arms. "If you wanna yell at someone, yell at her!" she then pointed at Jessica. "One flick of that ring, and she could've taken all of them out!"
"Oh, like Zatanna took out you and Wonder Woman?!" Jessica retorted. "Or was her showboating a better strategy?!"
"At least my magic blast did more than some silly magic rope!" Zatanna glared.
The others began to argue with each other.
"I can't believe this," Cherry groaned before looking over at Babs. "Hey, buddy... Sorry that everyone's fighting, but I don't know if there's much we can do to stop it."
"Doesn't this look strange to you?" Babs asked, showing Cherry a certain logo that she had found.
"Hm?" Cherry blinked before examining it and turned it around as she began to sense and feel a pattern from seeing the logo all throughout the day. "Babs, are you thinking what I'm thinking?" she then asked.
"Yeah, I think so!" Babs nodded before rushing over with Cherry. " "You guys. You guys! It's okay, it's okay. We can fix this."
"She's right," Cherry added. "A city would never demolish a private business! And demo-bots would never endanger the public! They were rigged! By Lex Luthor." she then concluded, showing the logo to them to prove her point.
"Lex Luthor?" asked Jessica.
"Uh-huh!" Babs nodded.
"The wealthiest and most powerful man in all of Metropolis?" asked Zatanna.
"Uh-huh!" Babs nodded again.
Kara rolled her eyes. "Oh, jeez. Focus, Batgirl!" she retorted. "What could Lex Luthor possibly have against cupcakes?!"
"Uh... Huh?" Babs stopped after that. "Uh, I don't know."
"This isn't looking good at all..." Lionel gulped.
"Oh, come on!" Atticus complained as he felt like that should've been obvious. "It's Lex Luthor!"
"No offense, bud, but that's not a very good excuse," Kara said to him. "I'm gonna need a bit more evidence than that."
The others simply felt unsure and were lost on what to do next.
"Face it," Karen frowned as she removed her helmet. "We were never meant to be heroes. Especially me."
"Bumblebee, wait." Babs frowned, trying to stop Karen from leaving as she packed up to go home.
"Well, I for one concur with Karen," Zatanna said, magicking back into her civilian clothes. "I never wanted to do this in the first place."
"No!" Patch gasped.
"You guys! Come on." Atticus added.
"It can't end this way!" Cherry added.
"I knew this stupid ring would lead to violence and destruction." Jessica pouted as she removed her Green Lantern ring and walked off back home.
"Like I said, trying to be a hero is for chumps." Kara added, grabbing her jacket as she left the scene next.
Babs and the others turned around to see that some fog was rolling in, and Diana looked downtrodden.
"Barbara Gordon and friends..." Diana said. "...Meet my mother."
Out of the fog emerged a tall, dark-blonde Amazon in golden armor and a furry cape.
Babs gasped. "Dude, your mom looks like a final boss." she exclaimed.
"Disguising yourself as a warrior, entering the tournament of Athena and Aphrodite against the wishes of your Queen, leaving Themyscira without my permission...!" Queen Hippolyta listed off Diana's offenses.
"You left without permission?!" Atticus asked Diana with wide eyes.
"Quiet! The women are talking!" Queen Hippolyta scolded Atticus.
Cherry snickered a bit from that.
"No, Atticus has a point," Babs spoke up as she looked at Diana. "We thought it was your destiny to save the world of man?"
"This insolent child has no such destiny!" Queen Hippolyta glared "She has brought shame upon her people! Come, Diana!" she then grabbed her daughter by the ear and dragged her over to a boat in the distance. "It is time to return home and accept your punishment. You are in for the grounding of your immortal life, young lady."
"Ow, ow, ow!" Diana yelped as she was dragged away.
"Diana...?" Babs frowned weepily as she watched that, looking ultimately crushed as she took out her phone and called a certain number.
"Babs... You gonna be okay?" Cherry asked in concern.
Babs simply didn't answer her and soon spoke into her phone once she got an answer. "Dad, can you come pick me up?" she then asked in a deep pit of sadness.
"Speaking of picking up, we should probably go find somewhere to stay for the night." Lionel replied, as he snapped his fingers to teleport them away.
The group blinked and they soon opened their eyes to find themselves in a motel.
"A motel...? Pretty much a hellish, rundown version of a hotel," Cherry remarked. "Well, it's better than nothing, I guess."
"...Darn. Must be something up with my magic." Lionel commented.
"You wanna try again, li'l buddy?" Thor suggested. "Maybe you should try thinking about where you wanna go before you teleport like that. I mean, that's how witches and warlocks get to wherever they wanna go."
"Well, it was how I used to do it... So okay." Lionel replied, before he concentrated for a few minutes, making sure he was centered. Finally, after exhaling and inhaling slowly... He held up his fingers and snapped them.
Suddenly, the group was in a hotel room with its own fridge, WiFi router, and a couple of large TVs with a couch in the center of the room by the window with two large beds in the middle of the room with a small desk and table beside the room door.
"Whoo-hoo!" Lionel exclaimed. "It worked! It worked!"
"There ya go!" Thor smiled. "You were probably just having a brain fart. Happens to me sometimes."
"Hmm... Maybe." Lionel shrugged.
"Come on, let's just get some sleep," Cherry suggested. "I am wore out from all of that socializing."
"Sure." Mo replied.
"I'm sure everything will be better in the morning." Atticus smiled hopefully.
"Yeah, yeah," Cherry said before yawning as she claimed one of the beds for herself. "Wake me up when it's over."
Atticus sighed and shook his head before everyone paired up to take the beds while Thor and Patch decided to share the couch. Lionel did a little clap and the lights turned out.
"Hey... This is private!" Thor pouted as he looked into the fourth wall before he put a huge "DO NOT DISTURB" sign over the rest of the reading until the next chapter.
And at that, everyone drifted off into a deep sleep together.
"Avengers... Ultimate crossover... Equestria..." Cherry snorted, mumbling in her sleep a bit. "Friendship... Adventures... Magic..."
Unknown to them, a certain member of their new superhero team of friends was springing back into action after a bit of inspiration struck her as they continued to sleep the night away.
Batgirl was blazing through the streets of the city on her Bat-Moped as she raced off to rally her friends. First stop? Kara!
"I know you're—"
SLAM!
"-Mad at me, but—"
SLAM!
"—You gotta hear—"
SLAM!
"—Me out! We have to—"
"Sorry, Babs. Sorry," Kara replied as she closed the door. "...I really am sorry..." she said under her breath.
Babs sighed as she decided to shut the door for Karen and looked hopeless. "Gotta save Diana." she then mumbled before gasping as she suddenly got an idea, heading back over to her Mo-Ped and cracked her knuckles as she activated her own mini Bat Computer.
Then suddenly, everybody's phones, including The Alpha Brigade's phones, blared before Atticus quickly grabbed his and held it close as everyone else in the group woke up, except for Cherry who was still asleep.
"What the heck was-" Mo began out loud.
"Shh!" Atticus shushed before pointing to Cherry and spoke in a low whispery voice. "Cherry's asleep. If she wakes up without a good reason before she's ready for the day, she will kill us."
The others then nodded and took the call in the bathroom while Kara, Zatanna, Jessica, and Karen also took the call, seeing who it was from.
"I'm not talking to you, Babs!" The girls complained in a huff.
"Guys, don't hang up!" Babs panicked.
"Give us one reason why not!" Kara glared, sounding very agitated.
"'Cuz I need you to fight!" Babs told them before smirking slyly. "Plus the alarm will sound again."
The others groaned at that information and decided to take the call to get this over with.
"Look, I know not all of us wanted to be heroes, but one of us did," Babs said to them before showing their group picture, focusing on Diana. "Her. We don't have to choose to be heroes, but Diana's super scary warrior mom is dragging her back to her crazy magical island forever and now the one of us who knew for sure she wanted to be, she's the one who doesn't have a choice. She wanted to save everybody in the whole entire world, and now she needs saving. You don't have to be heroes if you don't want. You don't have to fight. Except this one time. Because she's our friend. And best friends, they're worth fighting for, you know?" she then asked hopefully as everyone thought long and hard about what she said. "...Hello? Hello?" she then asked as there was no answer.
"Yeah, you cut out for a second there. Can you repeat all that?" Kara replied.
Babs then groaned, but she would soon do that as it looked like it was time for a new beginning.
"Well, guys, looks like it's hero time again," Atticus said to the others. "Who wants to be brave and wake up Cherry?"
"Yeah, let's just go," Lionel replied. "Let her sleep."
"All right, let's go then." Patch nodded.
Atticus decided to leave a note for Cherry, each of them donning their costumes, going to join the superhero girls group.