The streets thudded under the vibrations of the army of gorillas and drones that had come with them. Brainiac's robots were some of the most terrifying things she'd ever seen. Under the regimented control of Deathstroke, they were even more terrifying. Not for the first time, Selina wondered why the hell she'd agreed to this. Yes, she knew the importance of gathering information on one's foes, but this? This seemed more like suicide than anything else. She took a breath and prepared her whip, she'd take down the robots she could find and manage what else remained.
The One Earth soldiers stationed in Metropolis stood before them. "In the name of the Emperor we command you to stop." One of the soldiers said. He stood there with his gun poised. Deathstroke didn't even bother responding. He moved quickly and the man was dead. The soldier's fellows moved to fire their guns. The gorillas roared and the robots moved. Selina closed her eyes as the fighting began. There would be a great loss of life now. She took a moment to say a prayer for those who would die, then sprung into action. She used her strength, gained form the pill, and the agility that had always been hers to break a few of the gorillas' necks. She moved quickly, so that she could not be identified.
The robots from Brainiac continued on their trajectory they killed a lot of the soldiers, destroying them with their eyes, or with tentacles that came out of nowhere. Selina didn't know when she would be able to get rid of them. She said as much over her comms. Bruce's voice came back. "All you need to do is deal with the gorillas, that's all you need to do Selina. Don't worry about the robots." Selina laughed. The robots and the gorillas were two sides of the same fucking coin as far as she was concerned.
"You're lucky there aren't people out here. How did they know not to be out here?" She asked, though even as she asked that, she knew the answer. Bruce had decided to put aside his differences with Clark to fight this threat.
"I told Clark what to expect, but he already knew." Bruce responded. Selina took down another gorilla with her whip, and slit its throat, before moving back, to avoid being crushed by another one. "Now make sure to look out for Solivar, the white gorilla, he is Grodd's main opponent. He has promised to aid us."
She slit another gorilla's throat and asked. "Do I even want to know how you got one of Grodd's gorillas to turn on him?" She slit another gorilla's throat, and moved as quickly as possible to avoid the mad rampage that was coming.
Over the comms, Bruce said simply. "Barry knows him." Selina snorted, and went quiet, she moved, dancing passed the gorillas and the soldiers of the regime, she moved passed robots until she came to stand before a white gorilla, with a missing eye. He looked at her and snarled.
"You are the human?" He asked.
"Yes. You know what to do?" Selina responded, marvelling once again that a gorilla could speak.
"I do." The gorilla responded. "You had best move out of the way." Selina jumped and jumped again until she rested atop a building. She watched as Solivar hit his chest and roared. It took a moment, but then other gorillas stopped what they were doing and followed his example. The gorilla looked at her and said. "If you meet my brother, tell him that he will die alone, as I always said he would." With that the gorillas turned on the robots and Selina moved away.
She turned around in time to see Deathstroke being snapped in half, and Solivar bowing before Superman. The kryptonian looked at her and nodded, and she took that as her cue to slip into the shadows. "It's done." She said over the comms.
"Good."
Caitlin watched from the balcony, as soldiers fought the members of the society. She watched as one woman cackled, ice flowing from her fingers. At her side, Jonathan's fingers were tensed, his grip on the balcony was so tight, Caitlin was scared that he might break the thing. "Jonathan, who is she?" She asked gesturing to the woman.
Her boyfriend looked at her and said. "That's Louise Lincoln." The name hit a chord in her mind and she stared at the woman then her boyfriend and then it hit her.
"That's her, isn't it?" Caitlin asked. She knew the woman had done horrible things to her boyfriend, that her boyfriend couldn't sleep at night sometimes, and that he was shaking with fear and rage right now.
"Yes." Jonathan replied. "Stay here."
Before he could jump however, she took his arm and said. "No. They're here for me, I will fight them and I will help."
Jonathan looked as if he wanted to protest, but she was already changing, letting Frost out of her cage, so he merely nodded. Together they moved from the balcony to the ground. Jonathan sped off killing gorillas and robots as he did so. She took her time, freezing them, smashing them off one another, the life equation hummed at that. Hummed at what she was doing. She moved forward, destroying other gorillas and robots, drinking in their heat. She stopped before the woman whose hair was blue and her eyes were blue. She looked at her and said. "Pathetic."
Louise Lincoln laughed. "You have nothing on me, girl." They fought. Ice against ice, she threw knives, daggers and all sorts of things, Lincoln threw them right back. They kept going, dancing through the crowd, through the war that was raging all around them. The Life equation drank in the power that Lincoln was giving her. though the woman merely laughed. "You are out matched girl; you have kept your power stuck within your being. You should never have done that. The ice is your friend."
Before Caitlin could respond, she was hit with a blast of ice so cold, that Frost disappeared, and instead she was left there alone, staring at the monster approaching her. "Your time is now, let the darkness consume you." Lincoln stood over her with a dagger, Caitlin tried to summon Frost, but couldn't. She had been abandoned. She stared at the woman and felt heat grow under her.
Jonathan appeared then, he tackled Lincoln, he fought her, ice against heat. Caitlin didn't stay to see what happened, she got up and moved, feeling the energy of the equation summoning her to use it. She walked as if in a daze, letting the energy of the fighting around her seep into her skin, into her bones. She did not fight it, she let it happen. Caitlin felt her energy grow, to the point where it needed to be used. She spread her hands out, and sighed, energy came streaming out of her. She watched as if it were happening to someone else, she destroyed robots, gorillas, and the other armies of the society. Breaking them down till they were nothing more than bones and ash. This kept happening until there was nothing more. She heard a snap, and blinked. Jonathan had just snapped Loise Lincoln's neck. As her body fell, Jonathan came to her and hugged her. as they looked at one another, a voice appeared.
"I am Brainiac, and I am here for the Last Kryptonian, and the Life Equation. Give them to me and I shall let you all live. Keep them from me, and your world shall be destroyed."
"Well fuck off you fucking bawbag, you won't get anything from us." Came a response from someone. Caitlin laughed as did Jonathan. They'd survived for now.
They'd seen off the gorillas and the robots in two places, which was good, but there were other areas where concerns were growing. Atlantis was secured, as were Egypt and Kandhaq, it seemed Brainiac was waiting for him to make the first move. And he was planning on doing just that, once he had sorted everything out. He looked at those gathered, the League was back, minus some members. He closed his eyes then spoke. "Brainiac has made clear that what he wants is myself and Ms Snow. I am not willing to hand Ms Snow over, and I will not hand myself over just like that. His ship remains hovering in the sky, and though the society lacks Deathstroke, and Killer Frost, they still have Grodd, Poison Ivy and many others who will cause trouble should it come down to it. And of course his world engine remains there, draining resources from the planet. We need a way to handle that."
Black Adam was the one who answered that query. "Kandhaq has a way of destroying that machine, my ancestors developed such a thing the last time such a being tried to come here. It needs something solid and proper though, able to withstand the energy that will be released."
"How powerful are we talking?" Kal asked.
"More powerful than something you could handle." Adam responded.
"My Trident will be able to handle that. Atlantis is secure, and I have given instructions to Mera about what to do should something happen to me. I will go with you." Arthur said.
Adam nodded, as did Kal. Bruce spoke then. His old friend had brought the Thinker has a gift, and though the issue of fealty remained there between them, they would address that later. "As for getting onto that damned ship, I think I know how to do that."
Kal knew what the man was going to say before he even said it. "Take the bat plane in and make a movement on it. Whilst myself and Katar hit it from the air?"
"Yes. We need to be able to get into it, and that is the best way to do it." Bruce responded.
"Very well." Kal responded. "We all know what we have to do, let us get to it." the others got up and left, but Kal remained as did Bruce. He looked at his friend and said. "When this is all over, we need to have a conversation." Bruce nodded then walked out of the room.