Chapter three

The whited out silhouettes paused, and seemed to almost glance at each other before the voice I recognized as Vandal Savage spoke.

"So… You know of us then?"

I chuckled, and hid the wince at the pain deep in my chest.

"Know of you? Vandal Savage I know you. I know all of you."

I pointed at the far end, where the only female of the light was.

"Queen Bee, ruler of the nation of Quarac, you came to power by assassinating the last ruler, and with your perfumes you have solidified your hold on the nation and are working on a rather sneaky takeover of your next door nation."

I then reached into a padded roll of vials and withdrew a very specific one.

"This is a particularly nasty little concoction I brewed up just for you, It targets the parts of the brain responsible for happiness and that react to hypnosis and stops blood from flowing to them."

I trailed off, my f-u smile growing larger.

"Of course it would eventually kill the infected, but in the interim you powers wouldn't work.

And before she had a chance to respond, I moved onto the next screen.

"Ra's Al Ghul, head of the demon, you were originally born in the middle east almost 400 years ago, you discovered the Lazrus pools while you were young. A few years later a local king let his country no that if any could heal his sick son, they would be rewarded, you brought the prince to the Lazarus pools, what you didn't count on was how insane the prince became. He killed a woman, and the king, to protect his child through you in prison. You later escaped and won the loyalty of a desert tribe that eventually grew into the League of Shadows you now have today. You then killed the king and the prince."

I placed the first vial down in front of me and withdrew a second.

"This, is a hardy flesh eating virus, it wont spread very far, but the people it does affect will find their flesh stripped from bone in under thirty or so minutes. Then in another ten or fifteen, even your bone will become dust."

I placed the vial on the floor in front of me before tapping my chin in what was essentially designed to be one, big-honking f-u to Ra's.

I then turned to Klarions screen and sighed.

"Frankly Klarion, you were both the easiest and the hardest of the Light to create a counter for, I created a variant of the Black Death that affects only member of the feline family, but I don't know if it would affect Teekle."

Klarion's silhouette visibly frowned and tapped his chin in thought. He apparently couldn't tell wether or not that would work either.

I turned to Lex Luthor, and let a smug grim come over my face.

" And you Lex Luthor, genius orphan, after pulling yourself out of a terrible situation with a foster family after the untimely death of your birth parents in a car accident, you a few years later actually hired your foster father who abused your best friend at the time too kill the mayor and then shot him with a gun you still have as a memento."

Another vial pulled out and set down.

"This little guy," I wiggled the next vial, this one filled with a fluid that was glowing a slight toxic green. "Is designed to target cells that have had extended contact with Kryptonite and out pre-cancerous, it then tweaks them just a tad, and they then become an incredibly aggressive form of Kryptonite enhanced tumors."

I turned to the next screen and shrugged.

"I also had lots of issues figuring out what to do with you Brain. The only organ you have left, is your brain and its self contained within a steel and glass shell that would almost certainly stop infections. In the end I decided to create a virus that targets the brain only in the absence of the presence of other chemicals created by the other organs of the body. Without the presence of the other organs, it will exude a chemical similar to that of the Blue Ringed Octopus."

The Brain made a sort of electronic buzzing that I interpreted as sigh of resignation. Finally Vandal Savage, the immortal arse-hole. To be fair, their were two immortal arse's on the light, but Vandal Savage is as far as I know, an actual immortal, while Ra's uses the Lazarus pools to achieve a similar affect.

I smiled wide, and finally inclined my head slightly, showing respect, but not fealty.

Because really, Savage was a bad-ass. He was also probably swan dive off of the Empire State Building crazy. So while I could respect him, and I did, immensely so, no way was I going to in any serious way join with the light.

Yeah. No thank you crazy-cave-man.

"Vandal Savage, immortal caveman, gardener of humanity. You were one of the first humans. One night, a piece of the sky broke off and came to the earth. A meteor, the others were afraid, but not you, no never you. Instead you slept, warmed by the light and the heat of the meteor, and the next morning you woke up changed didn't you? And your realized you were smarter, better, and that realization eventually set you on your path."

I began ticking off on my fingers, the smile still present on my face.

"The Rise and the fall of the Roman Empire. Ghengis. Alexander the Great. Hannibal. The American and the French revolutions. You have been in involved in every major conflict for almost 25,000 years."

I withdrew the last vial from my bag and held it up to the light.

"This vial is for you Savage. It essentially contains something very similar to Ra's, but with yours, I made it exceedingly long lasting, essentially, whats in this vial will be around long after I'm dead."

Considering coughing up blood, it was likely. The members of the light looked at each other, before finally looking at me, Savage spoke, respectfully, his gravel like voice tinged with curiosity and a little anger.

"So, what do you want?"

I smiled wider.

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I took in a deep breath, savoring the salt air and the beach front view of my new home, located just a superpower stones throw away from Mt. Justice.

"One by one, the pieces are falling into place…"