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Santa Prisca
June 19, 00:43 ECT
Inside the Santa Prisca prison facility, Kobra's men had Bane and several other men surrounded.
"Our sublime Master proclaims," The lead man said to Bane in Spanish. "He will depart this facility...if...one of you defeats his champion in single combat."
Bane quickly pushed his way through to the door.
"Just make it interesting." He said in Spanish. Bane slide the door open and walked into the arena.
Unknown to Bane, the man smiled.
As the door slid shut behind Bane, he looked around the room for who he would be fighting. On the other side of the room entered Mammoth...a very skinny, small guy.
The cloaked man passed Bane's venom to him through the bars.
Bane turned and picked it up. "Your gave me back my greatest weapon?" He asked. "What's the catch?"
"No catch." The cloaked man replied. "It would hardly test his champion's prowess if you were not at your best."
Bane hooked his venom pack up. "You want my best?" He plugged the tube into the back of his head and the venom surged through his body. Within seconds, Bane grew to at least twice his original size. "You got it."
On the other side of the room, a girl casually stuck Mammoth with a needle. Mammoth immediately fell to the ground in pain, and, within seconds, he had grown to a size even bigger than Bane.
The now huge Mammoth stood up and lunged toward Bane. Bane stood his ground and was pushed back a couple feet by Mammoth. Bane took a swing at Mammoth's chest, but he didn't even feel it. Bane looked up, surprised. Mammoth smiled and started fighting Bane. Within seconds, Bane was knocked out on the ground with Mammoth standing over him.
"Hail Kobra." The man started chanting and soon the whole room was filled with it.
"Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra."
Hidden in the shadows, Kobra watched the scene unfold, smiling.
Caribbean Sea
June 22, 20:08 ECT
The team all sat in silence as the bio-ship flew through the sky.
"We're approaching Santa Prisca." Megan said from the captain's chair.
"East La Santa Prisca. This island nation is the primary source for a dangerous and illegal neo-steroid." Batman explained to the team. "A strength enhancing drug sold under the street name 'Venom.'" As he talked, files popped up on the holographic computer. "Infrared heat signals indicate their factory is still operating at full capacity. But all shipments of Venom have been inexplicably cut off. That's where this team comes in."
As Batman was talking, Wally continued eating his bag of potato chips. A shadow hand appeared over Wally's left shoulder and tapped him. Wally turned his head in that direction and Katie grabbed a chip out of the bag from his right. Wally turned back to Batman, oblivious to the missing potato chip.
"This is a covert, recon mission only." Batman continued. "Observe and report. If the Justice League needs to intervene, it will." A map of the island indication two spots in red popped up on the computer. "The plan requires two drop zones."
"So who's in charge?" Robin asked
Batman and Red Tornado turned around and glanced at each other.
"Work that out between you." Batman replied.
Robin smiled as he thought about how he had become the team leader.
"Drop Zone A in 30." Megan dragged Robin out of his thoughts.
Aqualad stood up as his chair disappeared into the ship. He quickly changed into stealth mode and his outfit turned black.
"Ready." He said.
"Putting bio-ship in camouflage mode." Miss. Martian said as she put it in the ship.
Aqualad dropped out of the ship and flew straight into the water just outside the island. He easily swam towards the shore and jumped up onto it. He walked up to the motion sensors and disabled them.
"Heat and motion sensors are patched." He said into his communicator. "Data is now on a continuous loop. Move in."
Miss. Martian flew the ship over to their next drop off location.
"Drop Zone B." She said. The team stood up as their chairs sunk into the ship. Miss. Martian raised her arm and five safety lines came down from the ceiling, one for each of them.
The team started hooking the lines on and getting their suits in stealth mode.
Dark Angel hooked her line on and glanced at Superboy, who just stood there.
"Aren't you gonna put your line on?" She asked.
"Don't need one." He said.
"Okay, but if you hurt something don't come crying to me." She said.
Wally hit his stealth mode and his suit turned black. "How cool is this?" He asked, turning to Megan.
"Very impressive." She said. She closed her eyes and turned her suit black as well.
"Uh..." Kid Flash stood there, awed. "That works, too." He turned to Superboy. "Hey, Supey, not too late to put on the new stealth tech."
"No capes, no tights." Superboy crossed his arms over his chest. "No offense."
"Totally works for you." Miss. Martian said adoringly. "As in, you can totally do good work in those clothes." She corrected herself.
Superboy turned away from her.
Dark Angel face palmed as Megan flipped her hood up and disappeared.
Robin, Kid Flash, Dark Angel, and Miss. Martian all dropped down softly from the ship. They quickly leaped out of the way as Superboy crashed into the ground.
"I knew I didn't need a line." He smiled.
"And yet creating a seismic event may not have helped us so much with the covert." Robin argued.
Dark Angel stood up and rubbed her bruised tail bone. "I should have been more worried about you hurting us."
Miss. Martian raised a hand to her communicator in her ear. "Aqualad, drop B is a go."
"Head for the factory." He said back. "I'll track your GPS and rendezvous ASAP."
"Roger that." Robin said as he logged out of his holographic computer.
The team, minus Aqualad, continued into the jungle. Robin stopped to check his holographic computer. Superboy heard the sound of a twig breaking.
"Did you hear that?" Superboy asked. The team stopped.
"Uh..no. Wait, is this a super hearing thing?" Kid Flash whispered.
"You do have good ears." Miss. Martian said dreamily.
Dark Angel elbowed her in the side.
"Okay, Rob, now what?" Kid Flash turned to Robin only to find empty space.
"He really needs to stop doing that." Dark Angel said.
"Superboy, Kid, switch to infrared and see if your being tracked." Aqualad said over the communicator.
Kid Flash pulled on his infrared glasses and found a group of people headed down a path near them.
"I got a squad of armed bozo's, in coming." He said.
Superboy knelt down and checked the other area. "Two squads." He said.
"It looks like they'll find each other first." Dark Angel added. Everyone turned to look at her. "What? Haven't I mentioned being able to see in the dark?"
Loud gunshots pierced through the air.
"No super hearing required now." Kid Flash said.
"Swing wide, steer clear." Aqualad ordered over the communicator.
"Yeah, yeah. Just as soon as I find Rob." Kid Flash said as he took off into the forest.
"Why do I have the feeling this is going to end badly?" Dark Angel asked.
They heard the sound of someone tripping, and Kid Flash yelled as he slid right into the path of gunfire.
"Oh, that's why."
Kid Flash looked up into the face of Bane staring him down with a gun in his hand.
"So much for stealthy." He said.
The two groups made a move toward the young hero.
Dark Angel melted up from the ground and attacked one of the guys. Superboy charged in and made a move for Bane. Kid Flash got up and started dodging the bullets that the other men were firing at him. Robin leaped down from the trees and tackled the men with the guns.
"What is wrong with you guys?" He said as he continued to fight. "Remember covert? Why didn't you follow my lead and vanish into the jungle?"
"That's what you were doing?" Kid Flash asked as he also fought off some of the thugs.
"You know, telling us would have been nice!" Dark Angel added as she slammed her guy into a tree.
"We're not all mind readers!" Kid Flash continued. He looked behind him and saw Miss. Martian. "Well, I'm not anyway."
"You said I could only read the bad guys minds." She protested.
Aqualad leaped into action at that moment and shocked the last one into unconsciousness.
The team had quickly tied each of the men to the trees.
"I recognize those uniforms." Robin said suddenly. "They belong to the cult of the Kobra."
"I am certain Batman would have mentioned it if he knew a dangerous extremist was running Santa Prisca's venom operation." Aqualad said.
"Agreed." Robin said. "And since there's clearly no love loss between the cultists and those goons, I'm thinking that Kobra came in and tossed them out. That's why normal supply lines have been cut off." He finished proudly
"We get it, Kobra wanted super cultists. Mystery solved." Kid Flash said. "Now we can contact Bats and we'll be home in time for-"
Robin interrupted him. "These cultists aren't on venom. Kobra's hoarding this stuff. We don't leave...not until I know why."
"Until you know why?" Kid Flash argued.
"This team needs a leader." Robin said.
"And it's you?" Kid Flash said back. "Dude, your a thirteen year old kid who ducked out on us without a word."
Robin laughed. "What, and your a mature fifteen? You blew our cover the first chance you got!"
"Don't you want to lead?" Miss. Martian asked Superboy.
He shook his head. "You?"
"After the Mister Twister fiasco?" She shook her head.
"You did all right." He protested.
Miss. Martian blushed.
Dark Angel watched this and smiled slightly. "I'm gonna go try and break them up." She told Superboy and Miss. Martian. Dark Angel pushed her way in between them. "Ladies, ladies, your both pretty. Now can we please get back to the mission here?"
"Look at them argue!" Superboy heard in Spanish. "Free yourself and take them while they're distracted!"
"Quiet!" Another voice said in Spanish. "For now, I play along. They'll get me what I need."
Superboy smiled.
"You don't even have superpowers!" Kid Flash said around Dark Angel.
"Uh, neither does Batman!" Robin said.
"Uh, your not Batman!" Kid Flash argued.
"Closest thing we got!" Robin protested.
"That's it!" Robin and Kid Flash were both wrapped in shadows so that they couldn't move or talk. "You!" Dark Angel looked at Kid Flash. "Stop being a pain in the ass. And you!" She turned to Robin. "Communicate more. Got it?" The two nodded their heads. "Good." Robin and Kid Flash were both released. "Now apologize."
They both looked at her.
She shrugged. "Worth a shot."
Bane laughed. "Such clever niño's...but you only know half the story. Let me show you the rest. I'll get you into the factory via my secret entrance."
Miss. Martian read his mind. "There is a secret entrance...but he's also hiding something." She tried going deeper.
"Ah, ah, ah chica. Bane is not that easy." He said.
Miss. Martian sighed. "He's mentally reciting football scores in espanol. This could take awhile."
"It's not complicated." Bane said. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."
The team looked at each other.
In the facility, Kobra and one of his cultists are watching the other workers.
"Sublime Master," The cultist said. "He approaches."
"Activate the radio jamming net." Kobra ordered. "Noting must interfere."
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