Author's note: You know what I hate? Blank pages. They make writing so annoying. So here's a pointless author's note so that there's something on the page before I start writing. Also, why is fanfiction listing two of the guest reviews I approved as being written by me? One final thing: The first few lines of dialogue in this chapter were meant to be in the previous one. I was really tired when I wrote that one, and left them out.

- (I don't know why I bother to type those borders ahead of time – they just disappear when I convert these to doc format and I have to reinsert them. In fact, when I do so, I will delete this message, making all of this utterly pointless.

"Hold on a moment. How did we just take that thing down?" said Green Arrow.

"It doesn't have abilities from me or Lantern. It's been out of the water too long for Aquaman's abilities to be effective. I took out its abilities from Superman and Martian Manhunter with the kryptonite and fire. Most of Wonder Woman's abilities come from her armor and connection to the classical gods. The android possesses neither. That leaves basic Amazonian strength and the Flash's speed, which it was already clumsy with. However, Superman's and J'honn's weaknesses don't just negate their powers, they hurt them. Between that and the first EMP blast, it was down to roughly average human levels. From that point, it was simple to use a second EMP."

"You're good."

Batman just nodded.

"We can trace this thing's memory back to its bosses' base."

Captain Atom looked down at the mostly-empty street, seeing one of the last things he wanted to see: the Batmobile. He flew at it and ripped off the canopy. He didn't find who he expected.

"Well, hello there," said Green Lantern, swatting Atom backwards with a hand construct.

"Perfect. Just what I needed today. Wait, if you're here, that means Batman is…"

Green Lantern smiled innocently, and Atom flew through the roof, landing in the containment area for Wonder Woman. She was gone.

"Where is she?"

"Behind you."

Wonder Woman's lasso wrapped around Captain Atom, pulling him back. Meanwhile, the other Justice Leaguers were freed by Batman and Green Arrow, one by one.

The Bishop in charge of the project ran to lock his door, only for it to slammed open by a silhouetted figure.

"B-batman!"

Batman grabbed him.

"What is this? Talk!"

"Not in this lifetime, Bat-freak!"

Batman threw him against the wall and walked over to the computer in his office.

"Don't touch that!"

The Bishop pulled out a handgun, only for Superman to step through the door, followed by the rest of the Justice League and Green Arrow.

"I'd put that down if I were you."

Batman turned around.

"Diana?"

"The powered one is taking a little nap, so I thought I'd join you."

Suddenly, as the Bishop began to back up, the wall behind him exploded, knocking him out. The Flash ran to the hole to see where the explosion came from.

"Who…"

He thought he glimpsed something silver in the distance.

"Doesn't matter at the moment," said Batman. He turned to the computer again, and it beeped.

Warning: hostiles detected: initiating self-destruct in 5…

Batman backed away.

4… 3… 2… 1…

The League braced for an explosion, but the computer simply shorted out.

"Well, so much for that idea," said Flash.

Batman looked at a table with a chess board on it and tipped it over.

"Check."

Author's note: Well, that's the first story arc. I really hoped you enjoyed it. Please leave a review if you did. Or if you didn't. I'm open to criticism. As long as it's constructive, I'll try to take it into account and do better. I'm going to continue this story, but I think I might work on a couple others for the moment.