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Deep underneath the castle of Emperor Belos, the nine Coven heads of the largest covens on the Boiling Isles headed deep into the Emperor's presence chamber. There they meet the Emperor, sitting in front of the still damaged door to the human realm, with the Golden Guard and Kikimora standing by his side.
The Blue Cells on the other hand were watching from the raptor is above!
"So, what do you think this day of unity garbage is all about?"asked the Mad Hatter, wondering what their employer wanted with this Emperor.
"Don't know, don't care. Our employer offered us a lot of money to find this Boiling Isles. Why he wants to do it as none of my business as long as I get paid as research materials aren't cheap."said Scarecrow, as he was looking at the Grom that was still in its testing tube.
"This little guy has certainly helped me make a little bit more powerful fear gas."said Scarecrow.
"Quiet, there about to speak."said Shark, as the villains listened in.
"The Day of Unity approaches, where we'll celebrate the purification of magic under the coven system, just as the Titan intended. As heads of the nine covens, we celebrate your efforts to complete this plan. For this, you'll burn the glimpse of the reward that awaits."said Kikimora, as the coven heads looked on with anticipation.
"Step toward."said the Emperor, as the coven heads remove the talismans from their cloaks and place them next to the fire in the center!
This caused the magic in the talismans to flow into the fire, causing the fire to become much stronger as each of the coven heads eyes began to glow, and they saw visions of the Titan's eyes glowing as the head of the Titan was transported to the human world!
"I wonder what they're seeing?"asked Vulture, as they couldn't see what they were seeing.
"It doesn't matter. Our employer made it clear that we help with this until phase two."said Fox, as they once again grew quiet so they can listen in.
"The larger your covens grow, the more power we have to unite our realms, where the worthy show inherit the Utopia free of wild magic."said the emperor, before it started to appear like he was having a heart attack!
The Golden Guard helped the Emperor get up and try to take him to another room as Kikimora tried to follow them, but was stopped.
"No. Stay here. I can handle this alone."instructed the Golden Guard, and disappeared to upset Kikimora.
The Emperor and the Golden Guard meanwhile entered another room, the emperor's chamber. As the Golden Guard closed the door the Emperor fell to the floor and began twitching as his body began to twist and turn well the Emperor screamed in agony. He punched a nearby wall with a gooey hand over and over again before the hand turned back to normal. This appear to relieve the Emperor as he placed his mask back on.
The Golden Guard meanwhile brought over a hamster Palisman and Emperor Belos quickly took it out of his hand. He broke the Palisman and began to absorb its essence in order for him to feel better. This appeared to relieve the Emperor as the Palisman disintegrated.
"I need more."
"That was the last from our reserves. The Plaistrom what has been over harvested."said the Golden Guard, knowing that there was no more Palisman.
"Uncle, let me help. we can make more Palisman! Actually, I read about this technique harnessing wild magic to, uh..."said the Golden Guard, before remembering that wild magic was not a favorite subject of his uncle.
"Sorry."apologized the Golden Guard.
"Please, be careful. Our family is gone because of wild magic. I can't let the same happen to you. Find me more Palismen. I can depend on you, right."said Emperor Belos, as Kikimora listened in.
"What are you doing here?"asked the Golden Guard, referring to Fox as he entered the chambers from above, carrying a tea set.
"Something to help the Emperor with his pain. It's not Palisman, but this mystical tea from China should help temporary relieve the pain."said Fox as he poured the emperor some tea into a tea cup.
The Emperor looked at the tea reluctantly before another surge of pain went through him and he quickly drank it!
"Ahhh! much better."said the Emperor as he stopped convulsing.
"Now this is only a temporary solution. It won't work as long as you're...Palisman essence thing. But it should help relieve the pain until the Golden Guard comes back."said Fox, as the Golden Guard immediately left the chamber.
"Does your employer still understand the terms of our agreement?"asked the emperor.
"He said as long as you keep up your end of the deal, he will keep his end of the deal."said Fox, as disappeared to satisfy the emperor.
"A little bit more tea, please. I haven't had tea from China in a long time."said the Emperor, as Fox poured him another cup.
-=O=-
"Oh little echo mouse. Your the key to getting me home."said Luz, staring at the terrarium that was holding the echo mouse that held the knowledge of Philip Wittlebane's personal diary.
"Hey, Luz. Where's your Dad?"asked King, noticing that a certain Dark Knight wasn't anywhere in the house.
"Oh you know. Trying to find out who hired all of those supervillains to go to my hometown to possibly find me and use me against him."said Luz, as King looked on with worry.
"But how is that possible is he didn't even know you existed until a few weeks ago."wondered King, as how was that possible when he was the Earth's greatest detective.
"King... there's something you need to understand about Dad or Batman or whoever's behind the mask. He has been a crime fighter long before I was born, and that makes you a lot of enemies, powerful enemies. Dad has saved the world more times and I can count and put a lot of bad people away in a hole so deep that they threw away the key, and that my friend makes you a lot of enemies. I overheard him the other day when he was deep in thought and I realized that whoever is behind us has a lot of money as the people he hired to break them out and the people who are now here with us in the Boiling Isles aren't cheap."said Luz, knowing that someone rich and powerful was behind this.
"But who has that kind of money and that kind of grudge against your dad to go looking for his long lost daughter."said King, wondering who exactly hated his friend's father that much.
"I actually have several theories, and suspects."said Luz, pulling out realistic drawings of several suspects.
"Suspect number one is Lex Luthor. He rivals my dad in intelligence and wealth. He is also a really bad guy who hates my dad after my dad prevented Lex's company, Lex Corp from expanding into Gotham City. Lex Luthor is certainly someone who holds a grudge and has more than enough money to pay for the guys here on the Boiling Isles."said Luz, as Lex Luthor was one of her top suspects.
"What about this guy with the weird helmet."said King, pointing the suspect number two.
"That's Oroku Saki, or better known as the Shredder. He is the leader of a ninja Clan known as the Foot Clan. He really hates my dad after he for the job the Shredder was on in Gotham City with the help of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is also an extremely wealthy businessman. So it's extremely possible that he hired Judomaster and the others to come find me."said Luz, as Shredder was known as being an individual to hold a grudge.
"What are you guys talking about?"asked Eda as she entered the room.
"People who could have hired all those bad guys from Earth to come after Luz."said King, getting Eda's attention.
"So you always were suspecting the same thing after he told you why he came to Luz's hometown in the first place. So these are the bad guys who hired those other bad guys to go after Luz."said Eda, looking at Luz's realistic drawings.
"Who's he?"asked Eda, pointing to the old guy.
"That's Carmine "The Roman" Falcone. One of my dad's oldest villains and one of the most powerful mob bosses in all of Gotham City. He he has a piece of every illegal operation in Gotham City long before my dad showed up to clean up Gotham. He hates my dad to capital H and would stop at nothing to make him suffer. He is also suspected to have a net worth of sixty million dollars. So he it's more than capable of hiring those guys that came to the Boiling Isles."said Luz, as Carmine was one of her top suspects.
"Wow...alot of bad guys what's the money and power to put your dad six feet under. But only one of these guys is the real brains behind everything?"asked Eda, wondering if they could be working together.
"One thing I know for sure is that each of these guys hate each other and would never work with one another. So my best guess is that one of them hired the mercenaries to break the super villains out of prison, and then hired the super villains to go to my hometown to try to find me. Because I don't think it's a coincidence that they came to my hometown and neither does my dad."said Luz, feeling like there was too many coincidences to not be worried!
"Well focus on that later. For now it's time for school, kiddo."said Eda, as today was a special day in school.
"How can I focus on school when there's so much going on behind the scenes. And I still need to find out what this echo mouse can tell me about Philip Wittlebane and how he built the portal to the human realm."said Luz, feeling like there was too many distractions.
"Well if you're too busy to get your witch's staff I understand."said Eda, as Luz changed into her school uniform and quickly headed towards the door as fast as possible!
"Come on, Eda. Time's a wasting."said Luz, as she really wanted a Palisman of her own.
"Haha! That got your attention. And don't worry, kid. No matter who hired those bad guys to come after you me and your dad will make sure that you don't even get within ten feet."said Eda, as she and Luz again making their way to Hexside.
"Great. Now let's see what King has planned for today."said King, as Batman open the door in a great haste.
"Where's Luz?!"he asked.
"She's at School!"said King, a little jumpy after Batman suddenly opened the door.
"Good! We need to leave."said Batman, as he picked up King and quickly ran out.
"What's going on?"asked King, wondering what was happening.
"We're being hunted."said Batman, as he used his cape to stop several blow darts from hitting King!
"Who is that!"said King, pointing to a ninja that was in a nearby tree top.
"Kyodai Ken. A mercenary who calls himself the Ninja."said Batman, knowing full well how dangerous Ken was thanks to their time training under the same master!
"What's he doing here! And why is Hooty not doing anything?"asked King, wondering why the guard of the Owl House was not doing anything... only to notice that Hooty was asleep.
"Ken tricked him into drinking some herbal tea that will knock you out for hours."said Batman, as several traps were activated, forcing Batman to use his parkour scales to avoid getting struck.
"Okay... well start running as fast as you can!"said King, knowing that with Hooty knocked out and the whole Forest surrounded by traps. Batman was his best chance of getting out of here in one piece!
"Luz should be safe at Hexside with Eda and Bump. For now you need to listen to what I say otherwise Ken is going to kill us both."said Batman, as he barely avoided getting struck with a katana that thrown towards him with great force!
"I have filled this forest with traps, Batman! You and that ugly dog thing will not come out of this alive!"said the Ninja, placing his face mask over his face as he knew now was the time to hunt!
Batman meanwhile gritted his teeth as he knew the Ninja would be a real dangerous threat as he was trained by the same master that showed Batman martial arts all those years ago, Sensei Yoru!
Meaning it was like facing a less honorable version of him!
Will be diverting from Canon for a bit to make the story more interesting!