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"Okay! Calibrations on Amazo are complete," The scientist from IVO labs says, examining the systems from his tablet. "We are ready for testing when you are."
J'onn nods in acknowledgment. He then looks down towards the small training room, where Alex, who has volunteered to fight Amazo, has just finished her stretching.
J'onn presses the intercom button and asks, "Are you ready Alex?"
Alex looks towards him and gives him a thumbs up. She then gets into her combat stance.
He turns to the scientist. "You may proceed."
"Got it," The scientist says. He then inputs Amazo's commands from the tablet as he says, "First test: defensive capabilities. Starting…now."
With one last press, Amazo's once blackened lines and eyes turn solid yellow. It raises its head, looking at Alex. Seconds later, the DEO's logo appears on its chest and then fades. Amazo takes up a combat stance mirroring Alex's and slowly approaches her. Almost cautiously.
When it is close enough, Alex throws out a jab, which Amazo deflects. She follows with a jab-cross combo, which is also deflected. She then goes for a hook on each side, which is blocked by helmet guard blocks. When she goes for a low kick, Amazo checks it. She then goes for a series of combos, increasing the number from three to four to five, using a series of punches, kicks, and faints. Every time, Amazo deflects, blocks, and checks every move, even predicting the faints. Finally, she tries to do a hook kick to the side. Amazo grabs it and then wraps its arms and interlocks its legs around it. It leans on the inside of the leg and then, in one quick motion, sweeps towards Alex. She moves backwards to get away but loses her balance. In a second, she falls to the ground. Amazo goes back into a fighting stance, not pressing the advantage.
Throughout the demonstration, his initial expectations of Amazo's capabilities were more than met. Its abilities make it seem impenetrable. But it has one weakness. Something that the laymen eye can't spot. Not even J'onn.
But Novu can.
"Astounding," Novu compliments aloud. It alarms the scientist and J'onn, who is quick to turn around and ready himself to fight. But that does not concern Novu, who continues, "You have demonstrated an excellent weapon for me to use."
"Who are you?!" J'onn asks.
"Someone who will take control of Amazo, hopefully without force."
"That will NEVER happen," J'onn yells as he begins to fly at him.
Novu simply opens a breach that sends him to the outside of the building, which gives him some time. He then walks up to the trembling scientist, extending his hand for the tablet that controls Amazo. The scientist quickly hands the tablet to him before darting out of the room, screaming for help as if anyone will react in time.
Novu, with the tablet, commands Amazo to incapacitate Alex. He observes as Amazo takes an unsuspecting Alex in a chokehold and throws her to the ground. Before she can try to get back up, Amazo hook punches her, knocking her out.
With the room clear, Novu breaches himself into the testing room just in front of Amazo. He then opens a breach next to him and reaches into it, bringing an adult Billy Batson out and onto his knees. In an instant, Amazo copies his powers, the lightning bolt symbol appearing momentarily on its chest.
He then closes the breach and types in a new command for Amazo, which says, "New directive: Seek out all heroes and copy their powers while wreaking havoc on National City with minimal casualties."
Amazo then flies out and breaks through the glass part of the ceiling. Seeing his mission accomplished, Novu opens another breach, leaving Billy Batson to struggle to futilely get out of his bonds in time.
"Let the test…begin."
Suddenly, J'onn finds himself outside the entrance to the DEO. He turns around to try and go back through that portal he went through, but it closes quickly. Thinking fast, he gets on the comm to Alex first to try and warn her about the man who snuck into the observation room.
"Alex, come in." No response. "Alex, do you read me?!" Still nothing. When that didn't work, he calls up the head of security as he runs to the doors. "I need all available guards at the—"
Before he can finish, he hears the distant sound of glass breaking above. He looks up, seeing a faint figure just coming out of the rooftop. He squints his eyes, able to see…
Amazo?! But how? We didn't have any flying metas or aliens with us. Unless…he must've had one of his own that he brought over with that portal ability of his. Otherwise, Amazo would be using the same—
Before he can think on it further, Amazo starts to fly away from the building and towards the center of National City.
I'll think on it later. For now, I need to stop Amazo!
Seeing no one in sight, he changes into his Martian form and flies off after him. He gets back on the comm and repeats, "I need all available guards at the training room! Agent Danvers may be down! Amazo has escaped and I am in pursuit!"
Seeing that Amazo has not spotted him yet, J'onn flies above it just enough so he can catch it at an angle. He then transforms into a large viper, lands on Amazo, and wraps himself around it. They start to fall, which is what J'onn hoped for.
As soon as we're close to the ground, I'll change back and let Amazo take the brunt of the—
Amazo seems to utter something, but J'onn does not know what. But the next thing he knows, a bolt of lightning hit them both, but only hurts J'onn. The pain becomes unbearable, forcing him to let go and fall to the street with a slam.
Still conscious, J'onn changes back quickly and gets up. He can see Amazo floating in the air, looking at him. Most likely, he has copied J'onn's powers. After another second, Amazo flies off again, this time shooting lightning from its hands at empty cars, bus stops, and other property that is devoid of life. People that are observing this panic and run to whatever they believe will give them shelter.
J'onn looks at the carnage with a glare, his fists clenched when seeing something created for good be used for evil. All because he let his guard down.
I need to stop that thing before it starts to hurt innocents.
He flies back into the air and goes after it.
But how am I supposed to fight something that can copy my every move?
"Our ongoing coverage of the unknown menace terrorizing National City shows that it is targeting only lightly populated areas at the moment, with only a couple of civilians and policemen wounded. Where it came from or why it is—"
Kara looks at the TV coverage with a wide-eyed stare as some of the others are. They see what seems to be a robot shooting lightning out of its hands, destroying anything in its path. Any cop that tries to shoot it fails to because it somehow has the phasing abilities as J'onn. When they run out, they just flee, either by car if it hasn't been destroyed, or on foot if the explosions haven't injured them.
"How long has this been going on for?" Kara asks Clark, who has been next to her as she watched the broadcast.
"About half a minute," Clark answers with subtle concern in his voice. "But it's already halfway towards the city square."
"I know what that thing is," Older William says. "It's Amazo. A robot able to copy the powers of any being."
Kara turns to Older William and asks, "Did we fight this thing before?"
He shakes his head. "No. It was supposed to be scraped after initial testing, something about a certain meta's powers making it's matrix go haywire. But if that were the case, it would be killing people, not sparing them. And those powers look a lot like Shazam's."
"This must be Novu," Younger Barry suggests. "This must've been what Billy was trying to warn us about."
Kara looks back at the havoc happening on screen. So much property destroyed, yet very few people are wounded and no one dead. But when will that change? How long before one life is finally taken? Two? A hundred or a thousand? She wants assurance that the DEO are handling this. But Amazo demonstrated J'onn's powers. She must assume the worse.
She takes the remote and turns off the TV. "I need to get over there. I need to stop Amazo."
When she tries to walk away, Clark puts a hand on her shoulder. "Not alone, you're not. I'm going with you."
"And so are we," Older William says. "Billy wanted us to prepare for this moment."
"And you still are," Kara argues. "Barry and Oliver haven't mastered each other's powers."
"We at least know some basics," Oliver refutes. "Besides, we have the others from our Earth to help."
"Yeah, uh, just one other quick problem," Cisco interrupts. "How exactly do you stop a T-9000 that kills meta's for breakfast?"
"Well, something like that can't be more powerful than a Kryptonian," Clark suggests. "I just need to land one precise punch on the thing."
"Or you can turn it off," Younger William says. The phrase confuses everybody, but not Older William and Cisco. "Its brain is basically a computer. The manufacturer would have emergency shut off codes in case things went wrong, like in the previous timeline."
Most of the group share curious looks at Younger William's genius.
"I read a lot of computer software books," Older William clarifies. "And he is right. If anything, it's a fallback plan for if Amazo survives the encounter." He then takes out his breach beacon and hands it to Cisco. "Here. Take this. There's a beacon at the DEO and another connected to my suit. Get the codes and then get to my position. Take my younger self with you. He can be of help."
"Oh!" Kara exclaims. "In that case…" Kara zooms out of the house and is back in a second, handing what looks like an ID with a photo of her. "This is my old DEO ID. Tell them I sent you."
"The rest of us will go after Amazo," Oliver says. He takes out the miniature suit display case and holds it out for everyone else to see. He then places it on the floor and presses a button on the top of it. It enlarges until the Flash suit is fully shown. "Let's suit up."
Querl Drox, aka Braniac 5, rushes into the testing room, finding Alex on the floor, along with somebody in some red spandex tied up and gaged. He turns to the members of security and points to the man. "Untie him quickly."
They all do as they are told while he rushes to Alex's side. He kneels down and places a couple fingers to her neck. He feels a pulse.
She is still alive. Good.
He then sees Alex's eyes slowly opening. He moves away a bit as to give her some space to get up.
"Alex?" He calls as she wakes up. "Alex, can you hear me?"
She groans and groggily asks "B…Brainy?"
"Yes," He answers with a smile. "Yes, it is me. Are you all right?"
She gets up while clutching her head and letting out another groan. "Sort of. What happened?"
"Novu!" The man in spandex says after a security guard removes the gag from his mouth. "Novu did this. He hijacked Amazo and is setting him lose on the city to test—"
Suddenly, a mysterious blue portal appears, with a nerdy looking man and a child coming out of it. The security guards all aim their guns at the new intruders, who put their hands up.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Wait!" The nerdy man says, lowering his arm to take what looks like Kara Danvers' old ID from his pocket. "We're friends with Kara Danvers! We come in peace."
"Kara Danvers sent you?" Braniac 5 asks with a raised eyebrow.
"Yeah she—" The boy stops as his eyes lay on the mystery man who he immediately identifies as, "Billy!"
"Will! Cisco!" Billy runs up to Will and Cisco as the last of his bonds are untied. The guards aim their guns at him, but Braniac 5 motions them to stand down.
"Man, it is good to see you guys!" His eyes fall upon the boy Braniac 5 presumes to be Will. "How are you here? You know what, never mind that. Where's your dad?"
"He and the others are out there trying to stop Amazo."
"Wait, wait, wait," Alex interrupts. "You know about Amazo?"
"Yeah," The nerd named Cisco answers. "That's why we're here. We have a solution to stop him, but we need his shutdown codes."
"I'm afraid that's not possible," the IVO scientist, who stands at the doorway, says. "The codes were on my tablet which that creepy guy…uh, forced me to give."
"Can you create them from scratch?" Will asks the scientist.
He rubs his chin. "I guess I can, but it took three of us to get it done in time."
"Well luckily, you've got yourself a couple more geniuses," Cisco boasts, patting Will on the shoulder.
"Make that three more," Braniac 5 points out as well before turning to the scientist. "What do you need?"
"Just a high-tech computer," The scientist says.
Braniac 5 nods before looking to Alex and the security forces. "Get Agent Danvers to the medic." He then walks to the doorway while saying, "The three of you, come with me quickly."
J'onn catches up to Amazo at the square, where it is shooting at and flipping over cars, but nothing more.
Believing that he has the element of surprise, he flies at Amazo at top speed. However, it seems that Amazo heard him, for it phases just as his punch connects to the back of its head. When he lands in front of it, J'onn starts to become aggressive, employing many punches and kicks to open up Amazo. But, true to its abilities, it counters most of them, but eventually opens up a little bit. When its face is open, he aims for it with a cross. However, Amazo increases his density, its skin hard enough to make J'onn flinch in pain. His regenerative powers heal the hand quickly, But before he could go back on the offensive, Amazo stretches its arm out, as J'onn can, and grabs him by the neck.
J'onn tries to think of any options get out of the grip. He could try to turn into a small or thin animal, but Amazo would expect that and shrink or enlarge its hand. Phasing may be an option, but Amazo can match his density and molecular structure if needed.
Escape is impossible. J'onn can do nothing but wait for Amazo to inevitably end his life or for some miracle to happen.
As they reach National City Square, they see the Martian, J'onn J'onnz, in Amazo's grip. Reacting quickly, Kara and Clark, dressed in their Supergirl and Superman personas, shoot heat vision from their eyes, which staggers the robot enough that he lets J'onn go.
Superman lowers the bike that Older William and Barry, now dressed as Red and Green Arrow, until it is safely on the ground.
Taking control, Red Arrow maneuvers the bike so that Barry can fire straight shots at Amazo's head. As they keep up the pressure, Older Flash, Oliver (The Flash) and Nora (XS) drop off Mia and Caitlin Snow (Frost) just halfway from Amazo's position, and Ralph Dibney (Elongated Man) closer to the robot.
"Keep firing," Red Arrow says over the comm. "Don't give it a chance to copy your powers."
All those with ranged attacks keep the pressure on Amazo. It keeps trying to swat everything away and tries to target them, but the speedsters running around keeps it confused. Eventually, the speedsters stop and throw bolts of produced electricity at it.
With Amazo fully distracted, Elongated Man takes the opportunity to stretch out his arms and pull its legs, forcing it to fall.
"Now!" Red Arrow yells.
On cue, Superman stops shooting heat vision and flies at Amazo. When he gets close enough, he shoots out his arm and punches Amazo into the ground, leaving a crater that may lead into the Earth's core, if they're lucky.
Red Arrow stops the bike, letting Barry get off first before he does and sets it down. They walk to the crater and look down, seeing nothing but pitch black.
"No way it's coming back after that," XS confidently says, looking down into the crater.
"J'onn!" Kara calls out. She runs to the Martian and places a hand on his shoulder. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"
"I'm fine," J'onn answers with a smirk. "Good thing you and Superman arrived in time." He then points to the group of people gathering at the crater. "But…is that your friend, Barry Allen, wearing another suit while someone else is wearing his? And who are they?"
"They're friends. And the other thing is a LONG story. But listen. Did you see who was responsible for—"
"Astounding," A familiar voice compliments from a distance. They all turn towards where they all entered, seeing Mar Novu. He stands there with a smirk, his eyes on only one person. "You performed better than expected."
"Mar Novu, we take it?" Barry asks.
J'onn points to the man with a scowl. "You. You're the one who stole Amazo. You put it on this rampage!"
"I set him to do so with minimal casualties," Novu explains. "And I took him from you because it showed promise. Something in which to test the Chosen."
"A test?" Mia asks harshly. "All of this was to test us?"
"It was to test the Chosen's ability to lead heroes like you and adapt to developing situations, Mia Queen. And so far,…your brother has yet to disappoint."
All eyes and shocked expressions turn to Red Arrow, who just stares down Novu. Oliver looks back and forth between the both of them, obviously not believing what he is hearing.
"How…how is that possible? How can my son figure into your—"
"The Book of Destiny foretold this. A mortal hero from the future would come to the past and correct its mistakes. In doing so, events will transpire throughout the multiverse for the coming of someone powerful. Far more powerful than I. And only the Chosen can stop it."
"Enough!" Older Flash exclaims. "You will wreak no more havoc on the multiverse."
Novu smirks again. "I admire your persistence Barry. But you know as well as I do that all this is what God planned. Besides, this test is not yet over."
Before Red Arrow could ask, his gauntlet beeps. He looks and sees that his sensors are picking up some kind of seismic activity that is reaching surface and is gaining fast. But he knows that National City is not prone to Earthquakes.
"It's coming back," Red Arrow warns them. "Guys, Amazo's coming—"
But it's too late. Something ruptures behind them, the sheer force shocking them and forcing them to jump or roll away. Hovering above them is Amazo, who lands just in front of the first crater. When it does, various symbols appear on its chest, a few that Red Arrow recognize as the symbols for Superman, Supergirl, Flash, Green Arrow, etc.
"Oh crud," Red Arrow says with a disgruntled tone.
"We can still take him," XS says, running towards Amazo.
"XS, wait!"
XS, ignoring Red Arrow's warning, rushes in and lets loose a flurry of punches. But Amazo demonstrates its copying abilities by phasing through all of her attacks. As she tries to implement a right cross to the face, Amazo grabs her arm. She tries to phase free, but it counter phases her and punches her hard enough to throw her towards the others. Before any of them can react, Amazo dashes in and starts taking them down one at a time with their own abilities.
Red Arrow, remembering Bruce's gift, reaches into the pocket of his utility belt and takes out a power dampening arrow. He quickly throws it at the ground, and it emanates an energy dampening field that stretches to nearly all of the Square. By that time, Amazo had quickly taken down everyone. He's next.
Amazo comes in with a front kick similar to Red Arrow's. He sidesteps it and counters with a hook, but Amazo blocks him with a helmet guard.
Amazo has our strengths, but even he can't block forever. Probe him for weaknesses.
He then attacks at different angles with his bow. But on his third swing, Amazo catches and pulls it, bringing him closer. With one last pull, it disarms the bow and starts attacking him with a ferocity similar to the Green Arrow.
Attack patterns similar to Dads. Can block them, but I will eventually slip up. I need an opening. A weakness. Any…Any weakness. Including our own. It copies everything about us, but it probably does not discard any of the flaws.
On the fifth swing, Red Arrow lets Amazo hit him. He falls onto his hands and knees, opening himself up to an overhead attack. As Amazo prepares said overhead attack, Red Arrow takes out a kryptonite arrow and stabs it into Amazo's ankle. Amazo limps back, its robotic voice screeching in anguish.
Seeing the result, Red Arrow smirks. As expected.
But Amazo is quick to see the cause, taking the Arrow out. Instead of throwing it onto the floor, it aims at the power dampening arrowhead. The arrow penetrates the center of it, the circuitry cut and sticking out of the hole. The energy field quickly dissipates. Amazo, instead of fighting any further, runs off towards the center of the city.
"You have demonstrated adaptation, but only minimal leadership" Novu, who Red Arrow forgot was still here, says. "Now, you must use all you have learned up to this point." He opens a breach behind him and walks through it. "I will be watching."
Before Red Arrow can say one thing to him, Novu is gone. His attention then turns to the group, who are slowly getting up. All except XS. Red Arrow runs to her, seeing that she is still breathing, but only a little. He presses his fingers to her wrist, able to feel a pulse.
"Is she okay?" Barry asks, kneeling down and quickly putting a hand on her cheek.
"She's fine," Red Arrow assures him. "She's just knocked out."
Barry takes XS into his arms and lifts her up. "Give me the extrapolator. I'm getting her back to STAR Labs."
"Just one quick thing. Phasing and running at the same time. It's hard to do unless you focus hard on it, right?"
"Yeah, yeah it is. Now give me the extrapolator."
"Frost!" Red Arrow calls out as he takes out the extrapolator. "Go with Barry and make sure XS is healed. We'll take things from here."
Frost, who is just getting up, nods her head. "Ugh…got it."
Barry opens a breach and quickly takes XS through it, with Frost slowly catching up with him. As they do, Red Arrow searches through his newly formed memories, seeing his younger self with Cisco, an IVO Labs scientist, and the alien android Braniac 5.
They're working on the codes and are nearing completion. And Billy is with them? Why would Novu make that— you know what, forget that. What matters is that we still have a chance.
He then presses the comm on his ear.
"Cisco, our initial attempt failed. We're moving to plan B."
"Got it. We're nearly done, but I guess you know that already, given younger you is here."
"Just as I know Shazam is in one piece. Get the codes and breach to my location. And be quick about it."
"Leave it to us."
Red Arrow ends the call and turns to the others, who have gotten up but are still either slightly dizzy, checking themselves for major wounds, or making sure everyone else is okay, like Oliver checking on Mia.
"Everyone!" They all turn to Red Arrow. "We still have a chance to take down Amazo. When it copied us, it wasn't just our abilities and strategies, but also our weaknesses."
"Then he's vulnerable," Oliver assesses. "Do we need to share our weaknesses then?"
Red Arrow shakes his head. "No need. I already have a plan." He points to Oliver and Older Flash. "You two get Amazo back to the square, specifically through that street."
He points to the street northwest of the square, narrowed by buildings.
"We're on it," Older Flash assures. He pats Oliver on the shoulder. "Try and keep up." They are gone in an instant, their lightning trail going down the street that Red Arrow pointed out.
"J'onn and Elongated man, you will both take up positions by the buildings on either side. On my signal, you'll stretch out your arms out and grab hold."
"Making a trip wire," J'onn evaluates. "I'll take the left side of the building then."
"Then I'll take right," Elongated man says.
As they both run towards the buildings, Red Arrow addresses to the others, "The rest of you, be prepared to hold down Amazo when he gets here. The shutdown code will be here soon, and we'll only have one chance when we have it. Let's make it count."
Oliver and Old Flash finally catch up to Amazo, who begins to pick up a car.
"Split up," Old Flash commands as Amazo sets its eyes on them. "Confuse it."
They both break off into the alleys. Amazo looks everywhere for them, readying itself to throw the car.
"We need it to follow us back to the square," Oliver says over the comm. "Aggravate it as much as you can."
Old Flash and Oliver zip in and out, getting a punch in when they are able and retreating back into the alleys. However, after some time, Amazo drops one hand and shoots an ice trail on all of the alley entrances. Old Flash manages to stop, but Oliver slips and tumbles as he exits from an alley. Old Barry grabs Oliver quickly and runs behind the side of a bus stop.
"Well, we certainly got its attention," Older Barry says, crouching to Oliver's level.
Amazo then shoots heat vision that cuts through the top of the bus stop. They duck their heads down, hearing the cut piece fall down on the sidewalk with a thud.
"We're sitting ducks," Old Flash points out. "We need to find a better position."
Oliver starts looking frantically around him for any place that isn't a building or alley that Amazo would destroy to get to them. To his left, he sees an empty construction site.
No civilians, lots of room for maneuvering, and maybe…
"Construction site," Oliver says as he slowly gets up. "Follow me!"
Both of them make a dash for it. Amazo takes a great leap and lands just behind them before running after them.
"Run on the beams, get to the top, then jump off," Oliver tells Old Flash. "If I'm right, what will happen will make Amazo angry enough to chase us back to the Square."
"Copy that," Old Barry acknowledges.
When they are at the building, they run along the side and onto the first beam. Amazo, instead of following them, runs to the center and hovers just below them. It shoots ice at their positions again, but they are able to outrun it all the way to the top. As Oliver instructed, they jump off, along with heaps of icy debris. They land and quickly run out of the way. But Amazo is slow to react, getting buried by the chunks of icy beams as it tried to fly away.
Old Barry elbows Oliver softly and chuckles. "You think a little rubble is going to make that indestructible robot an—"
Amazo clears the debris like it was shoving away paper and lets out a shriek.
"Run!" Oliver yells.
When they start to run away from the site, Amazo follows, almost gaining on them. Older Flash manages to outrun it, but Oliver is having a hard time calling upon his energy. At this point, Amazo is close enough to almost touch him.
I can't…run any faster. I can't…focus…
"…focus on what matters to you."
Oliver closes his eyes.
Focus on William. Focus on running back to your son.
"Barry…compassionate. Outgoing…work better in a positive mood."
Focus on being back with Felicity when all of this is over. Focus on what the two of us, along with William and Mia, will do after this. Focus on them because you love them and they love you. Focus…Run. Run Oliver. Run!
Suddenly, Oliver feels a surge of energy running through his veins. He runs fast enough to escape Amazo's reach and catch up to Old Flash.
"That's the spirit!" Old Flash compliments.
"Red Arrow," Oliver calls up. "We're heading your way. How are we with the shutdown code?"
"It's done."
"The code should be here any—"
Just then, Red Arrow hears a breach opening behind him. He turns around and sees Shazam along with Braniac 5, Cisco, and his younger self.
"Second," Red Arrow finishes as they walk up to him.
"Red Arrow, I presume?" Braniac 5 asks.
"Where's the code?"
Braniac 5 brings up his hand, showing a small white drive with a red light and a slot small enough to fit on an arrow shaft.
"Right here." He gives it to Red Arrow, who fixes it onto one of his regular arrows.
"It should be able to destroy him."
Red Arrow looks up at Amazo, shooting a glance at him. "Destroy him?"
"I made a few minor changes to the code. It is now a virus that will wipe Amazo's CPU, causing it to go haywire and dismantle itself."
"Why?"
"Because after seeing what it can do, it should not be allowed to be salvaged and used again. Not by us or anyone."
And I may have subtly hinted that it would be a failure anyways, Young William telepathically says to Red Arrow.
Remembering the new memory, Red Arrow smirks. "Noble," he says, addressing both of them.
"We're nearing your position," Old Flash says. "Get ready!"
Red Arrow turns around, seeing J'onn and Elongated man crouched behind the buildings in between the street and raising their hands slightly.
"You ready to shake hands?" Elongated man jokes.
"Funny," J'onn responds almost coldly.
"We're about 10 seconds out," Oliver says.
"On my signal," Red Arrow says.
9, 8…
"Wait."
7, 6, 5…
"WAIT."
4, 3.
"NOW!"
J'onn and Elongated man, as instructed, stretch out their arms. Old Flash and Oliver run past just before they grab each other's hands. Amazo is just a bit late and trips over the arms. It rolls and skids on the ground before stopping at the front of the stairs.
"Now! Hold it down!" Red Arrow orders.
Superman and Supergirl are the first ones in, grabbing Amazo by the arms and holding it up for a clear shot. Old Flash and Oliver quickly come in and counter phase it so it can't get out. Mia shoots a couple of grapple arrows at its neck and pulls them to try and keep it stable. But these measures won't last forever.
Red Arrow places the arrow with the virus on the bow, draws it back on the string, and aims directly at Amazo's head.
"Amazo, you have FAILED. THIS. CITY."
Red Arrow lets the string go and the arrow flies through the air. It pierces Amazo's eye, the drive with the virus inside of its head. Soon enough, the robot writhes in agony, screeching as if in pain. Everyone runs away, leaving it in its pained state. Eventually, it breaks apart, the pieces falling onto the street.
Seeing that it is nothing more than spare parts, Red Arrow lets out a subtle sigh. But while everyone else cheers, brags, and congratulates each other on a job well done, he looks around for Novu, seeing where he may have been watching from. There are no signs of him on any rooftop or in any window. If he was observing, he's gone now.
"Hey." Oliver pats Red Arrow on the shoulder. "We did it. We won."
"For now," Red Arrow points out. "But Novu's gone, which means his games aren't over. The question is: what's next?"
