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Chapter Four: Luthor tries to kill the League.


Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy. -Spike Milligan


Harpy was standing on a building watching Lex Luthor and "Superman" who was really J'onn in disguise. Harpy assumed that Lex had just confessed as J'onn had stood up and shape shifted. Batman and Green Lantern appeared in the room. Lantern took the kryptonite the Lex had. Lex summoned an aircraft that began firing lasers.

Lex took off in the craft. Harpy and the real Superman gave chase. Luthor fired to missiles that hit Superman. Shortly after that the craft began to fly unsteadily. Harpy got close enough to see why, Luthor was doubled over in pain. The craft began diving toward the street below. Harpy didn't even bother following, there was no way she could stop it. Instead she watched from above as the craft got closer to the ground a few more seconds and… Superman caught the craft. Harpy sighed, then flew back to the others.


Later at the watch tower, Superman was brooding. Now if it had been batman, Harpy wouldn't have been worried. But this was Superman, it's just unnatural for him to brood.

"What's on your mind?" Harpy asked the man of steel.

"Luthor is dying. Prolonged exposure to kryptonite poisoned him." he explained.

"And?" Harpy pressed.

Superman sighed. "He blames me."

"So what? Let him blame you. It wasn't your fault, it was his own, and if he can't except that…" Harpy trailed off, giving Superman a contemplative look. "You don't believe him, do you?"

"I don't know." Superman said sadly.

Harpy sighed. "Look, I'll tell you what everyone back home already knows. Humans die. They get sick, they get injured, or they get old, and a lot of times there is nothing you can do to stop it. Luthor was one of those, and you need to accept that, and move on or you need to find a new job or else the guilt from all the lives you can't save will drive you crazy."


It was nighttime. Harpy was responding to Batman's call for backup. When she arrived on the scene Batman was about to launch a grappling hook to get to a little girl at the top floor of a burning apartment building.

"I'll get her. I'm my flame resistant than you are." Harpy stated as she flew up, and it was true, fire wasn't a problem for her, as long as it didn't burn up to much oxygen.

Harpy entered the building and quickly found the little girl huddled in a corner. She scooped the girl up in to her arm and held her protectively.

"I'm scared." the girl whimpered.

"Don't worry. I'll get you out of here." Harpy stated soothingly. She hurried back to the window but burning debris fell from the ceiling and blocked it. Harpy made her way to the stairs. More debris fell, breaking the stairs and making them useless. This wasn't a problem for Harpy. She simply flew out through the gaping hole that was now in the roof.

Once on the ground she set the girl down. The girl ran over to her father and embraced him. Soon Hawkgirl, Superman, and Flash showed up.

"Where are Luthor and the Humanite?" Batman asked them.

"We couldn't pick up their trail." answered Superman.

"No biggie it's just two guys, how much trouble can they give us?" said Flash.

Harpy slapped Flash upside the head. "Ow! What was that for." he complained.

"For jinxing us." Harpy explained.


Harpy, Hawkgirl, Flash, and Batman were in the watchtower. Batman was at the computer, Harpy was working on sketches for a new weapon design. Not that she'd be able to build it, but she could still dream. Flash and Hawkgirl were talking.

"… and I had those flames out before the firemen even stepped off their trucks." Bragged Flash.

"That's fast…" Hawkgirl responded.

"Heh, fastest man alive." Flash returned.

"Which might explain why you can't get a date…" returned Hawkgirl with a smirk.

"Yeah… heeeyy! What's that supposed to mean?" Flash asked indignantly.

"Quiet." Batman finally spoke turning the volume of the monitor screen up.

"A dangerous hostage situation has developed here at the Federal building. So far the Ultra-Humanite has refused to speak with negotiators; a freak of science the Humanite is reportedly a genius who is also extremely dangerous… "

"No 'biggie', right?" said Batman as he got up.

Hawkgirl glared at Flash. Harpy slapped him upside the head again. Flash pouted.


When the League got to the Federal Building, Lantern made an energy field around Humanite's weapon and made him let go, Superman went in and flew into Humanite, making him release the hostage and pushing the genius inside with him. While the man of steel was trying to punch Humanite out, Batman was checking in on the hostage.

"Look for other hostages!" he ordered Green Lantern and Harpy.

"Right." answered Lantern while Harpy just nodded and flew inside.

"I'll take the left." Lantern stated.

Harpy went to the right side of the building. She was quickly enveloped in shadows that sent her crashing to the ground. The shadows dissipated and Harpy was left gasping for air.

Batman was attacked by Cheetah and was on the defensive. He was almost bitten by Copperhead but Batman heard him coming and flipped him over his head. But the snake-man landed athletically near Cheetah and both engaged the dark knight.

Meanwhile Superman was getting up, after having been attacked by Star Sapphire, only to be assaulted by a rampaging Grundy, who then punched him into the ground.

Luthor look happy at Superman's anguish. "I'm going to enjoy this…"

Hawkgirl burst through a window and hit Grundy in the side with her energy mace sending him in a support column making it fall on top of him.

Cheetah attacked Batman who only threw her over his head, but Copperhead attacked from behind and nearly hit the hero hand Flash not intervened.

"Down, boy!" said Flash punching the snake back.

Cheetah attacked Batman again but was caught in Wonder Woman's lasso. "Let me… go!"

"Relax lady, this will all be over soon." commented Flash as he ran to help the others.

"That's what you think." he covered Flash entirely in shadows and pushed him forward into a wall, knocking him out.

Harpy and Hawkgirl were fighting Star Sapphire. Hawkgirl was bashing Star with her energy mace and Harpy was blasting her with fire balls, but Star Sapphire's pink energy field held.

Shade helped Sapphire by sending black shadows toward Harpy and Hawkgirl. Hawkgirl was caught in them and fell to the ground, but Harpy narrowly avoided them.

Batman saw this and ran at Shade giving him a high kick to the head making him drop his cane and lose control of his powers releasing Hawkgirl. He went to check on Hawkgirl was fired upon by Sapphire. He countered by throwing a batarang in her forehead making her misfire at a pipe above. The pipe nearly hit Diana. She knocked the pipe away, but was forced to release cheetah.

Harpy engaged Sapphire in an aerial battle. Sapphire fired lasers that Harpy blocked with fireballs, and vice versa. Wonder Woman went after cheetah.

Superman was fighting Humanite and was having a hard time immobilizing him as the ape kept countering his attacks.

Batman engaged Luthor in a fight, trying to put this to an end. Luthor raised a gun at him but the dark knight tackled on the ground and lifted him by his collar but was met with a

head butt from Luthor followed by a punch in the jaw sending him back slightly.

Luthor made a run for the gun and reached it but just as he was about to fire, one of Sapphire's rays missed and hit the platform he was standing making him fall to sure death.

"There goes our pay check" muttered Humanite jumping and catching Luthor before he hit the ground. "I'd hate to see anything happen to you Lex." He commented putting him down.

"I'm sure." returned Luthor disbelievingly.

Batman watched from above and at the fight not paying attention to anything else until. "Ahhh!" Copperhead took advantage of the situation sneaked up on him from behind and used the special fangs in his head piece to bite Batman poisoning him. He held on as best as he could but was hit by Lantern's ray forcing him to hit the wall behind him knocking him unconscious.

Superman tried to apprehend Luthor but Humanite got in his way and was not trying to hold him back but he had a very hard time. "Luthor! They're too well organized!" he warned before getting a punch in the face.

Lantern was using his ring to try to catch Shade but the magician's cane covered the energy and pushed it back. "Let me get us out of here. It's either that or prison again."

"Alright, just do it!" Luthor exclaimed.

Shade covered the whole building in shadow. When Lantern forced the shadows away, the villains were gone.

Flash ran up the stairs to look around and found someone. "Look! We still got one of them." He pointed at Copperhead.

Superman flew up and saw Batman on the floor. "But they got one of us…" he turned Batman over and everyone saw that he was sweating and breathing hard from the poison.


Ivy was at home. She had told the league that she needed to sleep to be at work early tomorrow if she wanted to earn her paycheck. There was a knock on the door. Ivy opened it and came face to face with Lex Luthor. Ivy attempted to slam the door, Luthor caught it.

"What do you want?" she snarled at him.

"I need a bomb." he explained.

"I don't do that anymore Luthor." Ivy growled.

"Yes I know. You've now become a lowly mechanic. I can pay you ten times what you make in a year." Lex offered.

"It's not just any bomb." He said before Ivy could respond. "I need a bomb that can kill Superman. I'll provide you with whatever you need and allow you to build whatever you want as long as it can blow up the watchtower."

Ivy breathed deeply. Old instincts were surfacing. Already calculations were swimming through her head. The size of the watchtower, the thickness of the metal. How much force would be needed to breech it's walls. And Luthor was giving her full control. Usually her clients made demands and had their own ideas on how to do things. But no, she couldn't accept the job.

"No." she said. Luthor was getting desperate.

"Double my original offer and I'll even let you watch the explosion." he was practically begging.

Ivy thought it over. It was a good deal, and the old Ivy would have snatched it up in a second. But for Harpy, this provided other opportunities.

"Alright. I'll build a bomb capable of killing the Justice League." Ivy stated.


Ivy took her time building the bomb Luthor had asked for. Luthor had gotten impatient and one point but Ivy had quickly told him that him she went any faster she could blow them all to kingdom come. He stopped complaining and went to join the fake poker game that the other villains were playing while they waited for Batman.


Ivy had just finished her project. When the villains, minus Humanite and Grundy walked in.

"I'm done with it." she informed them.

"Good. Now we need to get into his belt." Luthor stated.

Sapphire placed the belt on a table and Luthor tried to get in to it.

After a few minutes fighting could be heard below. They all went down to investigate and found Humanite and Grundy fighting.

"STOP IT! RIGHT NOW!" Luthor ordered.

They both froze.

"You imbeciles are killing me faster then the Kryptonite!" Luthor exclaimed.

"Sorry" they both stated separating from each other.

Luthor approached Batman. "You did this didn't you!"

"Well it won't happen again. Cheetah! Take over here, if our guest causes any more trouble, gag him!" ordered Luthor.


Ivy watched in boredom as Lex tried to get into Batman's belt. The only thing mildly interesting that happened was when Luthor ordered a shift change and had Humanite replace Cheetah on guard duty. Finally he got into the belt and found the remote for the watchtower's hanger. He sent Star Sapphire, Shade, and Grundy up to set the bomb.

The Joker took a T.V down so that Batman could watch the Watchtower blow up. Star Sapphire, Shade, and Grundy came back and Ivy went downstairs. On the way she overheard Humanite on the phone. She smirked. Looked like Luthor had more then one traitor. Granted Ivy had never intended to cooperate in the first place.

Ivy found the Joker eating popcorn and watching a T.V screen while waiting for the Watchtower to blow up. An explosion went off but it wasn't what anyone expected. One small firework went off. The explosion was shaped like a frowning face with X's for eyes. The Joker looked shocked for a minute, then began laughing madly, not noticing Ivy cut the power to the stasis field.

"Good one Ivy. You managed to pull a fast one over on old Lexy. But he is going to kill you now you know." The Joker said. Not even a minute later Luthor stormed into the room, followed by the rest of the villains.

"Ivy! You told me you would build me a bomb that would kill the Justice League." he snarled.

Ivy smirked. "I said I'd build a bomb capable of killing the Justice League. I never said I would let you use it." she explained.

"Does anyone else notice that the stasis field is off?" The Shade interjected.

"You betrayed me!" Luthor yelled at Ivy.

"I was never on your side to begin with. It's time you learned that no means no." she retorted.

"Get her!" Luthor ordered. Ivy threw down a smoke bomb. When the smoke cleared she was gone.


Ivy watched from above as the villains fought with the rest of the league. Seeing that they were all distracted she went to free Batman. Or that was the plan but it seemed that he had already escaped.

"Why'd you do it?" he asked her.

"Why'd I turn against Luthor when he offered me an opportunity that, in the past, I would've accepted in a heartbeat? Because I'm not like that anymore. The moment Luthor propositioned me I knew I wouldn't help him." she explained. She turned to leave. "Oh by the way," she called over her shoulder "tell the brat that he needs to work on his guard."

Batman smirked.


Ivy was waiting for someone. There was a knock at the door. Ivy opened it to find a tall black haired women with amber eyes. She was wearing a black shirt, dark pants, a black trench coat and a large gold pendant with a red stone set in it hanging from a gold mesh necklace.

"Got something for me?" the woman asked.

"You know I wouldn't have called you out here if I didn't, Tara." Ivy answered. She handed Tara a package that contained the real bomb.

"I'll make sure to put this in weapons storage." stated Tara before she left.

Ivy shut the door.


In case you missed it, Harpy called Robin a brat in the last chapter, so she just gave Batman a clue to her identity, and, we finally see Tara. Don't expect her to show up much in person.

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