A/N: Hope you all have been well! Injustice Arc starts now! Some things are going to be different from canon for story purposes, but most of the Injustice stuff will follow the Injustice video game continuity in terms of what happened prior to the Titans arriving.
On to the story!
The team deliberated for a few minutes and it was decided (with Ian's knowledge being a large factor) that it was best Robin and Starfire didn't engage Robin... Damien. Whatever.
Malgand'r sighed, "I suppose I will have to avoid him as well. I do not wish to add fuel to the fire." he said.
Catherine had a vaguely miffed look on her face as she said, "Dibs on Deadshot."
Ian sighed, "You're gonna murder him aren't you?"
Surprisingly, she shook her head. "He and I know each other quite well. I can probably stop him from doing something he'll regret. I hope."
Robin frowned. "What I don't understand is why their gear looks different than usual."
"What do you mean… wait… f&^%!" Ian swore as he pulled up the images again. Then he muttered the single worst thing he could have said.
"Brainiac's controlling them."
A chill went down everyone's spines and the vibe in the room became much more tense. Ian frowned, "Rae, forget the pacifist route. They need to be expunged. Utterly extinguished. Gone. If anyone has a problem with that, don't fight them. We can't show leniency here."
It was quite clear both Scott and Ian were speaking as both their tones were sounding out of Ian's mouth.
Dubs shook his head, "Ummm… you are overlooking something, Ian." he said. Without any beating around the bush, he continued, "I am basically an advanced Motherbox. I can remove Brainiac's influence given enough time. That doesn't mean I can make a villain not be a villain. We'll still have to find a way to deal with them."
Robin frowned, "Even if we remove Brainiac's hold on them, they would still be duplicates of people here. We need to figure out what to do about that but first… Mystic and Raven, you take care of Deadshot. Beast Boy, Cyborg and Beast Girl, You get Poison Ivy. Malgand'r and I will take Bane. Terra and Star get Captain Cold. Dark Split and Tenno get Alternate Robin. Dubs will work on reversing Brainiac's control when we subdue them. Any objections?"
No one objected.
=With Poison Ivy=
As soon as the trio of heroes arrived, Cyborg staying hidden while BB and BG engaged her, Poison Ivy looked over and smiled sickeningly, "Oh? A duo of Changelings? This IS a surprise! My babies were looking for some nutrients!"
Cyborg fired his sonic cannon at an approaching Venus flytrap, and it exploded in a display of vines and leaves. Ivy growled out a slew of curses as her attention was drawn to the half-metal man.
Beast Girl morphed into a velociraptor and started tearing up the plants that blocked her path to Ivy, only infuriating the plant-loving villain even further. As Ivy looked around she noticed Beast boy and smirked, a horrid idea forming. "You'll do nicely!" she had her plants immobilize him and she approached, planting a kiss on his lips.
Beast boy put up a lot of resistance but ultimately succumbed to Poison Ivy's signature mind control toxin. Standing in between Ivy and Beast Girl, the two changelings were motionless for different reasons.
Beast girl was facing a crisis. She couldn't kill her own flesh and blood! Even if it was from another universe, he was still family!
Cyborg shot another beam, mowing down Ivy's killer plants as Ivy called out, "Get rid of them my pet!"
Beast boy lunged at his alternate reality kin with no emotion on his face at all. Beast Girl blocked a few of his strikes as he morphed into stronger and stronger animals, but was ultimately knocked unconscious.
Ivy called out, "Good boy. Shall we go home my pet?"
Cyborg let out another shot, missing only because Ivy and Beast boy were not there anymore, a boom tube disrupting his shot.
=With Captain Cold=
"Well, well! I get to play with the traitor and the alien!" Cold said to the two girls as he charged his cold gun.
"Terra, I believe this man needs to be taught the holding of tongues, yes?" Star shot a star bolt at Captain Cold. The man jumped out of the way as if he knew it was coming. When the two girls looked closely, they would see several green and purple accent lines on his blue suit.
In the moment they took to notice that fact, Cold had shot and frozen Star's body leaving her head above the icy prison, causing her to fall to the ground.
"Somebody's losing their touch! Not that you ever had it to begin with. As for little miss traitor, gotta leave a witness! Boss' orders!" he shot a beam at Terra, freezing her leg to the ground as Star and Cold vanished in a boom tube-like transporter.
=With Bane=
"Ah! The bat's little errand boy. I will break you in two like a twig!" Bane shouted out as he pumped himself with venom. Noticing Malgand'r, he faltered for a second. Taking that second as an opportunity, Malgand'r shot in close to his opponent's solar plexus like a bullet, delivering a punch that staggered the venom-enhanced villain.
Bane grabbed onto Malgand'r's wrist and threw him into the ground with his own momentum. As the ground cracked, Malgand'r staying down. Robin ran in and threw an explosive bird-a-rang into Bane's face.
"So the bird thinks he can best me?" Bane circled his opponent. Robin extended his bo staff and made haste in closing the distance between the two. Jumping up he was soon knocked backward several feet by Bane's punch, taking the full force of the move, and crumpling to the ground.
"Father..." Malgand'r groaned, staggering to his feet. Bane walked over to Robin and picked him up, looking at the young hero. "You still have some fight in you? Very well, I haven't broken anyone's back in a while."
"NO!" Malgand'r shouted out, green rays of light slamming into Bane, and continuing to sear into his flesh as he fell to the ground.
Bane's corpse fell motionless as Robin shouted, "STOP! We don't kill our-"
Malgand'r interrupted, "He's not your enemy. He's mine. If you want to punish me for fearing for your life, do it when Brainiac isn't trying to assimilate your world. Besides, we don't need two Banes running around, especially not when one is Brainiac's puppet."
"I..." Robin couldn't think of a compelling argument considering he probably could have been killed ten minutes ago.
=With Deadshot=
"Odd… I didn't think they'd ignore me..." Deadshot mused as he flipped a bullet around in his hand. He fiddled with his scope as he looked through it. Before he could fire on the Titan's Robin to at least get him out of the picture, he heard a bullet whiz by his head and a voice say, "That's your only warning shot, bastard!"
"Great… Mystic's here too?" Deadshot muttered, aware of her preference of telepathy and fear-mongering before going for the kill. It didn't phase him. Business was business after all.
"You know, If you give up now I've been ordered not to kill you! If ol'brainy is listening in I can get rid of him too! Aren't I nice?" Mystic Deathbringer let her offer stand for a few seconds.
Deadshot had to directly comply with Brainiac Superman's orders, so he said nothing. That being said, he didn't pull the trigger and instead opted to look like he was searching for her instead with his scope.
Right after he did so, he heard his salvation.
"AZARATH METRION ZINTHOS!"
He fainted.
=With Damien Wayne=
"So you are alive after all, Scott." Damien sneered as the two-faced each other down. "You know Superman would be more than glad to have you on his side, right?"
"Go choke on a cactus." Dark Split spat at Damien. "Betraying your own flesh and blood wasn't enough for you? How did you get here?"
"I have no obligation to tell either of you that," Damien said as Tenno extended a vibroblade-like sword from her arm.
Dark Split frowned. "You don't appear to be under Brainiac's influence. Was that part of Superman being merciful as long as you do what he says?"
Damien drew his blade. "None of your business. Now prepare to pay with your lives!" he ran at Dark Split, perceiving him as the larger threat.
His blade met Tenno's as she deflected the attack with lightning-fast reflexes. Before he could sever his blade's contact a surge of electricity ran up it and pulsed through Damien's body.
Dark Split walked over as Damien took a moment to recover from the pain. "If you had been possessed maybe I would hold back. You are beyond saving, Damien. I have no intention of letting someone who willingly serves that tyrant live. Make peace with your god! Necronom Hezberek Mortix!"
"W-w-w-wait! NO! Superman will-" But Damien's words fell on deaf ears as he was killed, his soul not even laid to rest within the potency of the spell unleashed.
Tenno looked at Damien's lifeless corpse and shuddered. "I… I didn't think we'd actually have to kill someone…" she breathed.
=Back at Titan's tower=
The team rallied in the interrogation room, Deadshot restrained. "Where are Star and Beast Boy?" Robin asked worriedly.
Deadshot frowned, "Take this damn explosive out of my neck and I'll tell you everything you want to know."
Robin nodded to Dubs, who carefully removed the small rice grain-sized explosive and then deactivated it with the utmost precision.
Deadshot craned his neck forward as if he couldn't believe he was finally free. "Right, well… they are both in my reality right now," he said. "Superman wanted to lure out Mystic and the others. He's been looking for him for a while now. He knows there are multiple realities, so it was just a matter of finding the right one."
Ian sighed, "I was afraid of this."
"So he's still after us then," Malgand'r said.
Catherine frowned, "I know that he was angry we got away but… this is vexing if he still holds a grudge. it's been at least two years since we escaped."
Deadshot looked at them for a moment, "Can someone untie me?" he suddenly asked.
Robin shook his head, "you would just attack us. Why should we trust you?"
Deadshot surprised them all, "You honestly expect me to kill you when I just got freed from Brainiac's clutches? It was you all who saved me. I have no reason to kill my rescuers. If you are still worried, just remove all my weapons first."
Catherine smirked, "We could always just unmask him. Isn't that right, Floyd?"
Deadshot sighed, "Been a while since someone's called me that…"
Robin raised a brow, "I know you said you knew him, but since when were you on a first-name basis with him?"
Catherine smiled, "I was in Arkham a few times for questionable behavior. The two of us had something of a friendship. Call it a rivalry if you want."
"Right well… we still need to focus on getting Star and BB back. The question is how to travel to other dimensions." Robin said.
"Universes." Ian corrected. "And I am going to ignore the fact that my daughter was more a villain than a hero as a child right now. As far as interuniversal travel, that's easy. How do you think I got their team here in the first place, Robin?"
"Oh… forgot you had a way… so how did you do it?" Robin asked.
Ian smirked, pulling out a certain device from his clothes. "Thank Warp," he said. "Everyone meet up in an hour. We're going universe hopping. Care to come, Floyd? Could use the help of the Assassin Who Never Misses!" he said like he had been wanting to say that for almost the entire time he was in the room.
Deadshot smirked, "Revenge is a dish I'd like to taste. Forget serving it cold, I'll shoot it full of holes." He nodded with a smile.
Ian telekinetically untied him. "Time to get our friends back."
A/N:
Me: So exciting to get to a point where they could possibly meet themselves from another world! Well… maybe not Dick, but Starfire meeting an older her, or Cyborg meeting Grid, Raven meeting her evil self seems especially important but-
Ian: No spoilers!
Me: Oh sorry guys… I'll just… hit the backspace key…
Ian: Good. don't make me waste a charge of Warp's device again!
Me: (doesn't do that)
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