Chapter 3: The First Operation

The next morning, Dinah woke up early in the morning, and made herself a coffee and sat in front of the TV. She opened the news channel and was shocked by seeing the news.

"Guys, you have to see this" she said.

All the four boys came running from their bedrooms and gathered in the drawing room. Dinah pointed towards the television.

The reporter said, "Businessman Adam Nickel arrested for murdering family"

The five of them were shocked to see this. They never knew that a man would murder his wife right after her birthday. They wanted to know the reason for his actions. The police were taking him to custody when a reporter asked,

"Sir, may we know the reason for you murdering your wife?"

Nickel replied, "I don't like my wife" and pushed the office in front of him, addressing him to take him away.

The morning was spent by everyone in the underground base, exercising. They were not willing to talk much, on seeing Nickel's behaviour with the media. At last, when Dinah was tired, she spoke up.

"Guys, how can he not like his wife?" I mean he married her and stayed with her for fifteen years, and suddenly how can he murder her?" asked Dinah.

"Man has been depreciating his love over time" said John.

Well, is there anything that we, meaning the superheroes, can do?" asked Dinah.

"Dinah, he's in prison. The police will take care of him for the rest of his life. We don't have to do anything" John said.

"Fine" she replied. "Let's have breakfast"

Even lunch was so quick. Time passed so quickly that they didn't realise it. Even the evening supper, which consisted of tomato soup and vegetable salad, passed quickly.

After supper, Carter switched the TV on, and saw the live news. He saw Adam Nickel hurting people, throwing cars, damaging buildings, and acting like crazy. He called his mates to see what was going on, and they were too amazed.

"It's time to become superheroes" Hal said.

Soon after five minutes, they were dressed in their respective suits. Hal in his green costume, Dinah in her black suit, Carter with his belt, John with his yellow suit and Oliver in his hood. Oliver carried a quiver with him, Carter carried a mace, and Dinah carried a white acrobat stick. They went to the terrace of the rooftops of their neighbouring building and moved together.

Hal, John and Carter could fly. Oliver had to shoot arrows and attach himself to their extension and glide through it. Dinah did the same. Soon, they all were at the chaos point.

They found that Nickel was even hurting the officers, and SWATs present there. Hal went to talk with Nickel.

"Mr. Nickel, what's wrong with you?" he asked.

"I am an evil guy!" he said, with an evil laugh.

"You were fine yesterday, what happened to you now?" he asked.

"This is the real me!" he said, and kicked Hal on his stomach, who fell back. He went forward to punch Nickel, but somehow, he divided himself. Hal was shocked to see this. Nickel in turn punched Hal back, who fell back. Carter and John lifted him up.

"What's wrong?"

"He seems to have the capability of shape-shifting" said Hal. "We must fight him with brains"

Carter and Oliver went forward. Carter seemed to attack him with his mace, but he dodged it, by shape-shifting himself. Carter attempted three more times, but Nickel punched him back. He caught him by his belt and threw him to a distance. Oliver took one of his poisonous arrows and shot it at Nickel. But he made a hole in himself, through which the arrow passed by. He came running and punched Oliver, by confusing him, and kicked him to a distance.

Dinah was next. She stood in front of Nickel, and emitted sonic screams from her mouth, and rings of echoes were emerging, increasing on the release of a new one. Nickel changed himself into a big circle and allowed the echoes to pass. He returned back into his normal state.

John managed to touch Nickel's shoulders, but before he could give him a shock, he shifted himself and got out of there, and punched John on his chin.

Hal had returned. He manipulated a green spear and threw it on Nickel, who just in time, changed himself into liquid, and the spear passed through him, barely hurting him.

John understood his powers. He whistled, which was a signal for all of them to gather. They gathered behind a dumpyard.

"I can't touch him, he's just moving himself away" said Carter.

"Guys, I understood him. He is in a state between solids and liquids. If we adjust the temperature to very cold, he'll become a completely solid state and we can attack him" John explained.

"Well, how can we do it?" asked Oliver.

"I have a plan" he said, looking behind at the rampaging Nickel. "Oliver and I will get two refrigerators and decrease their temperature, and we'll set them beside him. Hal, you'll try to trap him through your manipulation. Dinah and Carter will eventually destroy him"

"Agreed" said the four.

Oliver and John went to bring two refrigerators. They travelled to The Nickel House, and, started searching for a refrigerator. On searching the kitchen, they found two working refrigerators, and the were attempting to carry them, but they were faced by security. The security began shooting bullets at them, and Oliver and John had to dodge them.

Meanwhile, Carter could not see the damage that Nickel was causing. He went forward, and hit the ground with his mace, and the ground began to crack, and created holes in the crust, and inside of it fell Nickel. Carter went to see Nickel's presence inside, but Nickel emerged from behind him (as he had travelled through the cracks in his liquid form) and punched Carter.

Dinah came and began screaming at Nickel, but he changed himself into liquid, so it did not have an effect on him. Hal came and created a bottle to collect him, and succeeded, but he changed back into his solid form, causing the bottle to break.

On the other hand, Oliver and John did not know what to do. Then, John took one of Oliver's arrows and electrocuted it. He told Oliver to shoot it. Though Oliver received a little shock, he shot it one of the guards. It was successful. He was left for dead. The same they did with the other guard. Soon, they carried the refrigerators to the chaos point.

After a five-minute-travel, they found Nickel fighting Carter, Dinah and Hal.

"There they are" said Hal, showing Carter and Dinah the arrival of John and Oliver.

"Come fast" said Dinah.

Oliver and John quickly placed the refrigerators beside Nickel, and Nickel, by experiencing the cold weather, thought to escape. But, Hal created a stone through his legs and he was trapped in it. He tried to break the refrigerators, but he couldn't. He also tried to get out of the stone, by breaking the stone and jumping out, but it didn't work out.

"Fast, now!" said John.

Dinah began screaming from Nickel's back and he was distracted and couldn't stop himself from covering his ears. Carter took his mace and punched him hard on his stomach. He felt pain. Again, he smashed it on his head. Blood started leaking through his mouth.

"Fast!" John cried.

Dinah began screaming louder, and slowly the temperature of the refrigerators were decreased, and with the increasing noise, cracks began to appear on Nickel's body. Carter hardly pressed his mace into Nickel's stomach and then he was burst into pieces.

Adam Nickel's body was divided into a thousand parts. Each part lay in a different direction. The Junior League had made its first success. They all felt happy and cheered for themselves. Immediately, everyone left the place.

The next morning, they gathered in the drawing room and watched the news. It showed the press meet of Commissioner James Brown, who was taking the credit for himself.

"Sir, how did you kill him?" asked one of the reporters.

"Actually, he was a monster. Since I was an expert in Paleontology, I knew how to control him, and I killed him to ensure that he doesn't hurt anyone else again"

Dinah switched the TV off.

"Well, that was a bit selfish of him" said John.

"None of the media could capture our images?" said Carter.

"That's right, but –"

Just then, John's phone rang. It was Batman.

"Congrats, mate, The Junior League has completed its first operation" he said.

"How did you know it was us who had done it?"

"I'm Batman"