(AN) I hope the majority of the readers know who Slade is. For those who don't, Slade is the current villian on the animated series 'Teen Titans'. I wanted to insert him into the Batman/JLA storyline to see how he measured up. Plus I also wanted to thank ghosthead8503 for letting me know about Starfires name. I don't know anything of her real name and origin. I vaguely remember the episode with her sister. I am just going along with a new origin for her. I hope that doesn't upset or drive away any readers.
I didn't find any documents under my x-mas tree stating otherwise, but I still don't own any charactors affiliated with DC Comics.
Chapter 5 Home Cooking
For Tim Drake, letting off some frustration was an easy thing to do. After spending time alone in the Watchtower's trainning room, only one thing was on his mind. The same questions that played over and over since he left the cave.
Who is Slade? What does he want with Bruce?
For years, Tim Drake had always left the detective work for Batman. He never was much for figuring things out for himself. Since Bruce's dissappearance, he has changed his overall outlook on crimefighting. Now, whenever a problem presents itself, Robin either dives into investigating evidence or working with his gadgets to let his mind think freely.
Robin, in costume without his cape, was working the olympic rings for the last ten minutes. His upper body getting the workout he felt he had been slacking on. When he swung and released, he landed to the ground with perfection. He even added a '9.95' when he landed. He was wiping his head with a towel when he heard what sounded like a gasp, followed by a cheer.
"Oh, that was wonderful! One day, will you show me how to do that?"
Robin turned at the overly cheerful voice to see his newest friend.
"Hey Starfire", Robin said. "How are you feeling today?"
"Much better, I thank you", she said. "Your friends told me it would be best to take a walk around to help me regain my strength."
Robin couldn't help but to think that letting a realitively unknown alien roam freely in the Watchtower, was a definate no-no. But he had come to realize that Starfire had shown to be appreciative and thankful for her rescue. Plus, she didn't look like much of a threat at all.
"How about your arm?"
"The Green Lantern was able to reset the bone with his strange ring", Starfire said. "He had told me that it should heal rather quickly."
Robin gave her a slight nod, while finishing drying up.
"Do you remember anything about yourself yet?", Robin asked her.
"I am afraid not", Starfire said. "I am still having trouble remembering anything before you had rescued me."
Robin walked to her side and looked directly at her.
"Don't worry, you'll remember somday."
"Do you really think so?", Starfire asked, really excited.
"Uh, yeah", Robin said awkwardly. "Sure you will."
Starfire giggled. "Then I am glad. I trust your word, Robin."
Robin was really not quite sure what to make of Starfire. She didn't remember anything prior from being rescued. Her wounds suggeted some sort of conflict or abuse. Yet, she still managed to be overboard with the kindness and excitement. Two things Robin had no patience for when he was working off frustrations. But this time, it was fine for him.
"Well, I'm done Star. I have to go to my room and get some shut eye."
"Shut..eye?"
"It means sleep. Rest?"
"Oh, I see", she said with her big smile, as usual.
"Well, why don't you see if anyone needs help with anything. I guess until we get some answers about you, you could see if you could do anything helpful."
"That would be wonderful! I saw Diana and Hawkgirl before I came in here. They told me to see you, but I'll go back to them and see if they need anything now!", Starfire said then walked off.
Robin was starting to feel set up.
"O...ok Star", he said. "Goodnight."
With that, Robin headed for his quarters. Starfire was happy to find somone who she could bond with. She felt so comfortable with Robin since she talked to him when she had first woken up.
Starfire had walked back into the monitor room where Hawkgirl, Diana, and Flash were talking about the days events with Slade. They had serious looks on their faces that made Starfire feel that she was intruding. She wanted to walk away, not to interrupt them, but Flash had suddenly appeared in front of her. Starfire had let out a squeaky gasp
"Eeep!"
"Hey Starfire, how ya feelin?", Flash asked her.
"F..fine, thank you", she hesitantly anwered. "I did not mean to intrude. Diana and Hawkgirl told me to go see Robin, but he had gone to shut his eye, so he told me to come and see if I could be of any help and I came, but you and Diana and Hawk..."
"Hey, hey", Flash said with his hands up, wondering if she talked faster than he was."Its ok."
"It is fine, my young friend", Diana said, her and Hawkgirl coming behind Starfire. "We were discussing matters that will have all of tomorrow to be discussed."
"In fact", Hawkgirl added. "I think were glad you interrupted. We needed a break."
"Break?", Starfire said, rubbing her left arm.
"Yeah", Flash began. "We were just gonna get some grub. Want to join us?"
"G..grub?", Starfire asked again, confused and slightly bashfull.
"It means food", Hawkgirl said.
"Oh yes, do believe I am in need of 'grub'. I have not consumed in quite some time now. So please, let me join you in your breaking ritual and the consumption of 'grub'."
Hawkgirl waited until Starfire turned with Flash before she palmed her forhead. Diana stood with a dulled look on her face.
"What an odd being", Diana said.
Taking a shower was something Bruce Wayne was used to doing when he had arrived home from a night of duty. But to get months worth of filth from him, a bath would be required.
Alfred had drawn a herbal bath to help Bruce settle his mind along with his body. One of the true pleasures taken by him was the inhaling of fresh herbs emitting from a bath. The therapy of the aroma was beyond soothing.
After his hour bath, Bruce Wayne was ready for bed. He had been resting for over two months, yet he couldn't help but feel that somehow, his body was still at motion. Like it was off somewhere else, doing work. This left him feeling unsettled. He had lied down for what seemed llke only five minutes before he got back up. He coulden't sleep just yet. He had to see her.
Gotham.
His city.
His people.
Batman stood on top of the old Church on 4th and Krieger St., just south from Crime Ally. For too long, he had been away. For too long, criminals in his town went without his punishment. True, Nightwing and J'onn stepped in for him, but this was not their city
It was his.
With a grace that no meta or human could ever achieve, Batman jumped from the top of the church into a feet first dive that was slowed by his cape. Half way down, he retrieved and fired his grapple to the adjacent building and swung with perfection north, heading for Crime Ally.
Upon his return to Crime Ally, Batman had stopped a mugging and two attempted rapes. These scum attempted to harm innocents in his city.
How dare they..
When he had arrived to that fatefull spot that changed Gotham twenty-five years ago, Batman had stopped to think about his life up till now.
He managed to travel the world in his youth to study and train in all the finest schools and with the most gifted instructors. His mastering of every skill he attempted was only the first step in his long crusade.
A fool's crusade? Maybe. He knew deep down that he, by himself, could never change the world. He only knew that he could change the world for one person at a time. If he did this, then his mission was a success.
A fool, Batman is not.
He also began to think of how he had taken his family's company and made it a worldwide conglomerate. All services and products baring the WAYNE brand name were nothing short of top of the line. LexCorp was probably the only other company that could outshine Wayne Enterprises.
Then, he though of his first days as a vigilante.
Batman had made it a point to remember his first attempts to rule Gotham's nights. Failure was something he had to get used to from the start. His shortcomings were easliy conquered once he dawned the mantle of the bat.
Since then, every person who walked Gotham's streets whispered of the Batman. To the majority, he existed as an urban legend. The boogyman had better not enter this city, for the Bat would not stand for anyone else to haunt his sacred land.
Bruce even pondered whether or not it was a good idea to have a partner.
When he first took in Dick Grayson, he had not even planned to reveal Batman to him. When Batman had finally tracked down Tony Zucco, the sabateur that caused the death of Dick's parents, he found that Dick had already been on the scene. The events of that day had ended with Dick finding himself in the Cave and Batman revealing his true identity.
Dick would later become Robin.
A slew of villians began to show themselves all over Gotham. The Joker, The Penguin, Two-Face, The Riddler, The Mad Hatter, and more than Batman cared to count. He and Robin had battled Gotham's worst to ensure the lives of all who lived in his city.
After a while, Barbara Gordon, James Gordon's daughter, would take in upon herself to become Batgirl. The three of them worked together a few times only to have Dick leave on bad terms with Bruce. Dick Grayson would move to Bludhaven and become Nightwing.
This was one of Batman's first failures.
Batman had later taken in Tim Drake, who would evetually become Robin. Batman wasn't quite sure if he should take on an even younger partner, but time and time again, Tim proved to be able to hold his own.
The biggest of Batman's failures would come at the hands of the Joker when he paralyzed Batgirl in an ally on Gotham's lower eastside. Through her pain and tears, Batman had began to doubt having partners and very nearly forced Tim to retire from being Robin.
But Barbara had convinced Batman to continue on with Tim. She felt a partner is what keeps him from walking over the edge, and Tim was soon to start to prove invalueable.
After a while, Barbara had become the Oracle, the source of all information for Batman and all heroes across the world.
And finally, Batman had found him self with the daughter of one of the world's deadliest assassins. One of his former seneis, David Cain. His daugther, Cassandra, had been raised under the complete ideals of martial arts. Her language was the martial arts, for her ability to speak was left unnurtured. David believed that the ability to read the human body was the supreme language.
After Batman and Robin had stopped David Cain's assassination attempt on Bruce Wayne, Cain's daughter had left his side to join Batman.
Batman had considered Cassandra to be the most formidable ally he had ever taken on. Her abilities in hand to hand combat made her second only to Batman, barely second to Batman. Soon, Barbara would give her blessing to Cassandra in becoming Batgirl.
With Batgirl, Robin, and the occassional appearance of Nightwing, Batman had finally been able to keep Gotham's underworld under a tight fist. Crime had deminished, but not enough to make the streets safe. However, Batman felt that he finally had the advantage in his war on crime.
Soon, the Justice League would form. Batman had worked with Superman a few times over the years, but he had never considered joining a fulltime group to watch over the earth. True, Batman had funded the Justice Leagues exploits from the beginning. He was the proprietor that presented the League with the Watchtower. He managed to help the League from time to time, but Batman could never be a full member.
He would never leave his city.
As Batman thought of his life from beginning to now, he now had to pay repects to his parents who fell on the sidewalk he now stood on.
Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha Wayne were murdered. This set in motion the series of events that lead to Bruce standing before this very spot, as the Batman.
Batman's thoughts were disturbed by the sound of something landing behind him. He knew that this was done out of courtesy.
"Couldn't sleep either, huh?", Nightwing asked.
"No".
Nightwing had signaled Batman to make his way to the roof of a nearby building. When they reached it, Batman had taken a spot at the edge of the roof, over looking his city. Nightwing was standing to his far left, doing the same.
"What do you think Slade has planned?", Nightwing began.
Batman stood silent, not answering the question.
"Yeah, what I thought, too", Nightwing said.
"He wants me", Batman began. "He's wants me to see you and Robin defeated. To demoralize me. To anger me. It won't go that far. You WILL be ready for whatever he has planned. Then, I'll stop him."
"Hmph, yessir."
The two vigilantes stood silent for a few more minutes before the radio in Batman's cowl had buzzed.
"Yes?"
"Batman, its Oracle."
"Go ahead."
"I just received word from J'onn and Batgirl. They already got something."
"....so, thats how you make a sandwich", Flash said.
Starfire had been making piles of sandwiches along with Flash for the past ten minutes. She seemed to take to the task like a grade schooler coloring in a coloring book. After they had enough sandwiches in front of them, Starfire and Flash began to eat.
"Mmmm. This is most delicious. What are the names of these two substances?", Starfire asked.
"Peanut butter and jelly", Flash said with a mouthfull.
Flash had been giving a crash course of PB and J to Starfire while Hawkgirl and Diana sat, trying not to be disgusted by Flash's hyper metabolism. Starfire seemed to be able to put away her fair share of sandwiches as well. After eating three sandwiches, Starfire needed something to wash them down.
"Um, Flash? Do you have any liquid 'grub'?", Starfire asked. "I have a large amount of the peanut butter stuck on the ceiling of my mouth."
"Yeah", Flash answered. "What do you want? Milk? Juice? Ice cappuc....."
"NO!", Hawkgirl and Diana shouted.
Starfire was somewhat frightened by the female League members' outburst.
"What we mean", Diana began. "Is that milk would go better with your meal."
"Yeah", Hawkgirl added. "Ice cappucino is not really a good drink for eating. Right Flash?"
Hawkgirl starred at Flash, who seemed to get the hint.
"Uh, yeah", he said. "Besides, all that sugar won't exactly go well with your personali.."
"FLASH!!"
"What is it?", Batman said, as he and Nightwing entered Oracle's Clocktower.
"J'onn and Batgirl reported that David Cain had been recruited by Ra's Al Ghoul before he died. Cain had been hired to train many of Ra's Al Ghoul's soldiers. But, since Ra's died, Slade had limited David Cain's studen't to a small number to stand as a personal guard."
"How did they get that information", Batman questioned.
"They ran into David Cain outside of Metropolis. Appearently Batgirl wanted to start with him and J'onn agreed. J'onn was able to extract information from Cain and the other things he found didn't sound good."
"What?", Batman demanded.
"Slade has been hiring many of yours and the Leagues enemies to go join his stable. Batman, the two most noted were Lex Luthor and Bane."
Batman was not quite sure of what to make of this.
"It makes no sense", Batman began. "With Bane, I understand he's for hire, but what would Luthor want with money?"
"He's not being paid with money", Barbara began. "Luthor is being promised that when Slade is done with you and the League, that Lex will be rid of a certain someone's company and LexCorp will be the dominating power in the business world."
Batman's scowl could have drawn blood if it were on anyone else's face.
"And Batman, one more thing. This is big.", Barbara began. "Ra's Al Ghoul had set remote camps across Europe and here in the states. In these camps, they have been experimenting with Metahuman physiology."
"For how long?", Batman nearly spat.
"No telling", Barbara said. "Years. Decades. Maybe longer."
"He was breeding Metahumans", Batman said.
Batman had motioned to Nightwing for them to leave.
"Tell J'onn to see if he can follow up on any of those leads", Batman said. "This stops now."
I didn't find any documents under my x-mas tree stating otherwise, but I still don't own any charactors affiliated with DC Comics.
Chapter 5 Home Cooking
For Tim Drake, letting off some frustration was an easy thing to do. After spending time alone in the Watchtower's trainning room, only one thing was on his mind. The same questions that played over and over since he left the cave.
Who is Slade? What does he want with Bruce?
For years, Tim Drake had always left the detective work for Batman. He never was much for figuring things out for himself. Since Bruce's dissappearance, he has changed his overall outlook on crimefighting. Now, whenever a problem presents itself, Robin either dives into investigating evidence or working with his gadgets to let his mind think freely.
Robin, in costume without his cape, was working the olympic rings for the last ten minutes. His upper body getting the workout he felt he had been slacking on. When he swung and released, he landed to the ground with perfection. He even added a '9.95' when he landed. He was wiping his head with a towel when he heard what sounded like a gasp, followed by a cheer.
"Oh, that was wonderful! One day, will you show me how to do that?"
Robin turned at the overly cheerful voice to see his newest friend.
"Hey Starfire", Robin said. "How are you feeling today?"
"Much better, I thank you", she said. "Your friends told me it would be best to take a walk around to help me regain my strength."
Robin couldn't help but to think that letting a realitively unknown alien roam freely in the Watchtower, was a definate no-no. But he had come to realize that Starfire had shown to be appreciative and thankful for her rescue. Plus, she didn't look like much of a threat at all.
"How about your arm?"
"The Green Lantern was able to reset the bone with his strange ring", Starfire said. "He had told me that it should heal rather quickly."
Robin gave her a slight nod, while finishing drying up.
"Do you remember anything about yourself yet?", Robin asked her.
"I am afraid not", Starfire said. "I am still having trouble remembering anything before you had rescued me."
Robin walked to her side and looked directly at her.
"Don't worry, you'll remember somday."
"Do you really think so?", Starfire asked, really excited.
"Uh, yeah", Robin said awkwardly. "Sure you will."
Starfire giggled. "Then I am glad. I trust your word, Robin."
Robin was really not quite sure what to make of Starfire. She didn't remember anything prior from being rescued. Her wounds suggeted some sort of conflict or abuse. Yet, she still managed to be overboard with the kindness and excitement. Two things Robin had no patience for when he was working off frustrations. But this time, it was fine for him.
"Well, I'm done Star. I have to go to my room and get some shut eye."
"Shut..eye?"
"It means sleep. Rest?"
"Oh, I see", she said with her big smile, as usual.
"Well, why don't you see if anyone needs help with anything. I guess until we get some answers about you, you could see if you could do anything helpful."
"That would be wonderful! I saw Diana and Hawkgirl before I came in here. They told me to see you, but I'll go back to them and see if they need anything now!", Starfire said then walked off.
Robin was starting to feel set up.
"O...ok Star", he said. "Goodnight."
With that, Robin headed for his quarters. Starfire was happy to find somone who she could bond with. She felt so comfortable with Robin since she talked to him when she had first woken up.
Starfire had walked back into the monitor room where Hawkgirl, Diana, and Flash were talking about the days events with Slade. They had serious looks on their faces that made Starfire feel that she was intruding. She wanted to walk away, not to interrupt them, but Flash had suddenly appeared in front of her. Starfire had let out a squeaky gasp
"Eeep!"
"Hey Starfire, how ya feelin?", Flash asked her.
"F..fine, thank you", she hesitantly anwered. "I did not mean to intrude. Diana and Hawkgirl told me to go see Robin, but he had gone to shut his eye, so he told me to come and see if I could be of any help and I came, but you and Diana and Hawk..."
"Hey, hey", Flash said with his hands up, wondering if she talked faster than he was."Its ok."
"It is fine, my young friend", Diana said, her and Hawkgirl coming behind Starfire. "We were discussing matters that will have all of tomorrow to be discussed."
"In fact", Hawkgirl added. "I think were glad you interrupted. We needed a break."
"Break?", Starfire said, rubbing her left arm.
"Yeah", Flash began. "We were just gonna get some grub. Want to join us?"
"G..grub?", Starfire asked again, confused and slightly bashfull.
"It means food", Hawkgirl said.
"Oh yes, do believe I am in need of 'grub'. I have not consumed in quite some time now. So please, let me join you in your breaking ritual and the consumption of 'grub'."
Hawkgirl waited until Starfire turned with Flash before she palmed her forhead. Diana stood with a dulled look on her face.
"What an odd being", Diana said.
Taking a shower was something Bruce Wayne was used to doing when he had arrived home from a night of duty. But to get months worth of filth from him, a bath would be required.
Alfred had drawn a herbal bath to help Bruce settle his mind along with his body. One of the true pleasures taken by him was the inhaling of fresh herbs emitting from a bath. The therapy of the aroma was beyond soothing.
After his hour bath, Bruce Wayne was ready for bed. He had been resting for over two months, yet he couldn't help but feel that somehow, his body was still at motion. Like it was off somewhere else, doing work. This left him feeling unsettled. He had lied down for what seemed llke only five minutes before he got back up. He coulden't sleep just yet. He had to see her.
Gotham.
His city.
His people.
Batman stood on top of the old Church on 4th and Krieger St., just south from Crime Ally. For too long, he had been away. For too long, criminals in his town went without his punishment. True, Nightwing and J'onn stepped in for him, but this was not their city
It was his.
With a grace that no meta or human could ever achieve, Batman jumped from the top of the church into a feet first dive that was slowed by his cape. Half way down, he retrieved and fired his grapple to the adjacent building and swung with perfection north, heading for Crime Ally.
Upon his return to Crime Ally, Batman had stopped a mugging and two attempted rapes. These scum attempted to harm innocents in his city.
How dare they..
When he had arrived to that fatefull spot that changed Gotham twenty-five years ago, Batman had stopped to think about his life up till now.
He managed to travel the world in his youth to study and train in all the finest schools and with the most gifted instructors. His mastering of every skill he attempted was only the first step in his long crusade.
A fool's crusade? Maybe. He knew deep down that he, by himself, could never change the world. He only knew that he could change the world for one person at a time. If he did this, then his mission was a success.
A fool, Batman is not.
He also began to think of how he had taken his family's company and made it a worldwide conglomerate. All services and products baring the WAYNE brand name were nothing short of top of the line. LexCorp was probably the only other company that could outshine Wayne Enterprises.
Then, he though of his first days as a vigilante.
Batman had made it a point to remember his first attempts to rule Gotham's nights. Failure was something he had to get used to from the start. His shortcomings were easliy conquered once he dawned the mantle of the bat.
Since then, every person who walked Gotham's streets whispered of the Batman. To the majority, he existed as an urban legend. The boogyman had better not enter this city, for the Bat would not stand for anyone else to haunt his sacred land.
Bruce even pondered whether or not it was a good idea to have a partner.
When he first took in Dick Grayson, he had not even planned to reveal Batman to him. When Batman had finally tracked down Tony Zucco, the sabateur that caused the death of Dick's parents, he found that Dick had already been on the scene. The events of that day had ended with Dick finding himself in the Cave and Batman revealing his true identity.
Dick would later become Robin.
A slew of villians began to show themselves all over Gotham. The Joker, The Penguin, Two-Face, The Riddler, The Mad Hatter, and more than Batman cared to count. He and Robin had battled Gotham's worst to ensure the lives of all who lived in his city.
After a while, Barbara Gordon, James Gordon's daughter, would take in upon herself to become Batgirl. The three of them worked together a few times only to have Dick leave on bad terms with Bruce. Dick Grayson would move to Bludhaven and become Nightwing.
This was one of Batman's first failures.
Batman had later taken in Tim Drake, who would evetually become Robin. Batman wasn't quite sure if he should take on an even younger partner, but time and time again, Tim proved to be able to hold his own.
The biggest of Batman's failures would come at the hands of the Joker when he paralyzed Batgirl in an ally on Gotham's lower eastside. Through her pain and tears, Batman had began to doubt having partners and very nearly forced Tim to retire from being Robin.
But Barbara had convinced Batman to continue on with Tim. She felt a partner is what keeps him from walking over the edge, and Tim was soon to start to prove invalueable.
After a while, Barbara had become the Oracle, the source of all information for Batman and all heroes across the world.
And finally, Batman had found him self with the daughter of one of the world's deadliest assassins. One of his former seneis, David Cain. His daugther, Cassandra, had been raised under the complete ideals of martial arts. Her language was the martial arts, for her ability to speak was left unnurtured. David believed that the ability to read the human body was the supreme language.
After Batman and Robin had stopped David Cain's assassination attempt on Bruce Wayne, Cain's daughter had left his side to join Batman.
Batman had considered Cassandra to be the most formidable ally he had ever taken on. Her abilities in hand to hand combat made her second only to Batman, barely second to Batman. Soon, Barbara would give her blessing to Cassandra in becoming Batgirl.
With Batgirl, Robin, and the occassional appearance of Nightwing, Batman had finally been able to keep Gotham's underworld under a tight fist. Crime had deminished, but not enough to make the streets safe. However, Batman felt that he finally had the advantage in his war on crime.
Soon, the Justice League would form. Batman had worked with Superman a few times over the years, but he had never considered joining a fulltime group to watch over the earth. True, Batman had funded the Justice Leagues exploits from the beginning. He was the proprietor that presented the League with the Watchtower. He managed to help the League from time to time, but Batman could never be a full member.
He would never leave his city.
As Batman thought of his life from beginning to now, he now had to pay repects to his parents who fell on the sidewalk he now stood on.
Thomas Wayne and his wife Martha Wayne were murdered. This set in motion the series of events that lead to Bruce standing before this very spot, as the Batman.
Batman's thoughts were disturbed by the sound of something landing behind him. He knew that this was done out of courtesy.
"Couldn't sleep either, huh?", Nightwing asked.
"No".
Nightwing had signaled Batman to make his way to the roof of a nearby building. When they reached it, Batman had taken a spot at the edge of the roof, over looking his city. Nightwing was standing to his far left, doing the same.
"What do you think Slade has planned?", Nightwing began.
Batman stood silent, not answering the question.
"Yeah, what I thought, too", Nightwing said.
"He wants me", Batman began. "He's wants me to see you and Robin defeated. To demoralize me. To anger me. It won't go that far. You WILL be ready for whatever he has planned. Then, I'll stop him."
"Hmph, yessir."
The two vigilantes stood silent for a few more minutes before the radio in Batman's cowl had buzzed.
"Yes?"
"Batman, its Oracle."
"Go ahead."
"I just received word from J'onn and Batgirl. They already got something."
"....so, thats how you make a sandwich", Flash said.
Starfire had been making piles of sandwiches along with Flash for the past ten minutes. She seemed to take to the task like a grade schooler coloring in a coloring book. After they had enough sandwiches in front of them, Starfire and Flash began to eat.
"Mmmm. This is most delicious. What are the names of these two substances?", Starfire asked.
"Peanut butter and jelly", Flash said with a mouthfull.
Flash had been giving a crash course of PB and J to Starfire while Hawkgirl and Diana sat, trying not to be disgusted by Flash's hyper metabolism. Starfire seemed to be able to put away her fair share of sandwiches as well. After eating three sandwiches, Starfire needed something to wash them down.
"Um, Flash? Do you have any liquid 'grub'?", Starfire asked. "I have a large amount of the peanut butter stuck on the ceiling of my mouth."
"Yeah", Flash answered. "What do you want? Milk? Juice? Ice cappuc....."
"NO!", Hawkgirl and Diana shouted.
Starfire was somewhat frightened by the female League members' outburst.
"What we mean", Diana began. "Is that milk would go better with your meal."
"Yeah", Hawkgirl added. "Ice cappucino is not really a good drink for eating. Right Flash?"
Hawkgirl starred at Flash, who seemed to get the hint.
"Uh, yeah", he said. "Besides, all that sugar won't exactly go well with your personali.."
"FLASH!!"
"What is it?", Batman said, as he and Nightwing entered Oracle's Clocktower.
"J'onn and Batgirl reported that David Cain had been recruited by Ra's Al Ghoul before he died. Cain had been hired to train many of Ra's Al Ghoul's soldiers. But, since Ra's died, Slade had limited David Cain's studen't to a small number to stand as a personal guard."
"How did they get that information", Batman questioned.
"They ran into David Cain outside of Metropolis. Appearently Batgirl wanted to start with him and J'onn agreed. J'onn was able to extract information from Cain and the other things he found didn't sound good."
"What?", Batman demanded.
"Slade has been hiring many of yours and the Leagues enemies to go join his stable. Batman, the two most noted were Lex Luthor and Bane."
Batman was not quite sure of what to make of this.
"It makes no sense", Batman began. "With Bane, I understand he's for hire, but what would Luthor want with money?"
"He's not being paid with money", Barbara began. "Luthor is being promised that when Slade is done with you and the League, that Lex will be rid of a certain someone's company and LexCorp will be the dominating power in the business world."
Batman's scowl could have drawn blood if it were on anyone else's face.
"And Batman, one more thing. This is big.", Barbara began. "Ra's Al Ghoul had set remote camps across Europe and here in the states. In these camps, they have been experimenting with Metahuman physiology."
"For how long?", Batman nearly spat.
"No telling", Barbara said. "Years. Decades. Maybe longer."
"He was breeding Metahumans", Batman said.
Batman had motioned to Nightwing for them to leave.
"Tell J'onn to see if he can follow up on any of those leads", Batman said. "This stops now."