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"We're in England," Dick reported to his old teacher. "Jason Blood is helping as far as we know, and her uncle is either leading us to the sword to pull it or to hide it."
"Keep going," Batman replied after processing the information. "Keep an eye on them both. Jason Blood could still be working with Morgen Le Feye, and who knows the other's true motives."
"My uncle won't betray us," Elaine remarked.
"What do you know about your uncle?" Dick asked. Earlier he went digging for some information on Elaine for some reason.
"He pretty much raised me," she said.
"Really?" He said, squinting back at her. "Not your whole life, Elaine. Have you ever wondered how your parents died?"
She flinched. "An accident."
"You sure about that?" He asked. He showed her the article he found, and she read it, growing very pale. "There was a fire, and investigators thought you were kidnapped. Both cases went cold. Very cold. He thought your uncle was involved. Somehow."
It was not until the strange creatures began to attack the underwater realm of Atlantis did one of the Light began to reconsider his choice in allies. The man who secretly went as Ocean Master watched as his city was crumbled to the ground. The city that he wished to claim as his own, one day.
As always, Vandal Savage felt that all was going according to plan. The weak would be done in through the attacks of the legions of their ally's armies. The Light was promised the world, but there might not be a world if their ally keeps working.
"Ocean Master," the voice of one the Light broke his musing silence. "It would seem that our current arrangements are becoming rather problematic." He made a sound of agreement. "Whatever is happening in England, Batman's stench is all over it. An agent of mine has spotted one of his students."
"I've heard that our ally has dealt with that problem," the man called Ocean Master replied.
"Of course," the other man agreed. "Looks like we should check things out for ourselves. Make sure things turn out right."
"I'll send some of my trusted men to keep an eye on Morgen."
Elaine was playing with her mother, one night. They were outside as the sun was beginning to set, and their strange, new neighbor was watching them rather intently.
"Who is that?" Her mother asked her father.
He came outside and began to shake. Her father had the two of them go back into the house, and her mother was frantically packing.
"He's back," she heard her father say on the phone to her uncle. "And he knows we're here."
Elaine remembered hearing a strange and almost rhythmic chanting, and their front door was blown apart. A monster stood in the doorway, and she began to scream in fear at what she was seeing. He did not speak, but they knew that he was there for them.
The creature shot fire from his hands, and the flames engulfed her home.
"Ellie!" Her mother coughed at her.
"No!" She heard from outside. It was her uncle.
Someone led her out the door and into his arms. The smoke made her blind and cough, and she clung to him. For some reason, she started crying at that moment. It was like she instinctively knew that she was all alone in the world.
The creature melted back into a man. He carried himself like a warrior, but it would be the strange white streak in his otherwise red hair that she would remember.
Aquaman came to the League meeting with the strangest of news. Strange things were happening around his realm not too long after it was attacked. Ocean Master's people hung around the water near England, but they did nothing. He told his fellow teammates before going back to his realm.
It was Superman's news that was equally troubling. Lex Luthor did seem deeply bothered by the strange creatures attacking around the world. Oddly enough, he helped fund rescue efforts and aided in the evacuation in Metropolis. All deeds were anonymous, of course.
"It would seem that the Light is having problems with what's happening," Batman said more to himself.
"Why would they? This is what they wanted, isn't it?" Black Canary asked. She was a ghost of her former self. The past few days really did take their toll on her. Being the chairman of the League at that particular time was difficult work.
"Some of them want to rule, and they thought that by joining the Light, they would get that," Batman answered. "With the world being destroyed, there would be nothing left for them, even if they do succeed."
"What are you planning?"
"I'm not planning. Not yet. Right now, I'm waiting."
Black Canary was going to yell at him for that, but the news came on. It was a strangely grainy image of a battle barely outside of Bludhaven. A man turned into a demon and threw fire from his hands. An older man shot blue energy. Two younger people were fighting the creatures. A redhead young woman who used her short swords with a certain amount of skill and a young man with short black hair who the two League members recognized at once, and they could tell that Nightwing was holding himself back in his civilian identity. The four of them vanished in a cloud of mist.
"Where were the so-called Earth's Mightiest Heroes?" G. Gordon Godfrey's voice broke the tension filled silence after that last clip. "Our world is decaying fast, and they can't even fight these. . .demons. It's high time we went with someone else. There are a group of people in this world who can stop this widespread destruction and rebuild our world. . .should we choose to accept them. Of course, we could stick with the Justice League, even when they don't have any idea how to stop this onslaught." There were clips of different Justice League members who could not stem the tide of the strange beasts. "All we have to do is step into the Light."