Chapter 5: The Rescue

"Thunder, Lightning. I heard that together you can strike a mean weather, right?"
"Sure thing. What is your request?"
"A foggy or a very strong rain. The less those soldiers can see, the better."
"Will do! They'll see what happens to those who dare attack Lightning!"

A storm started to brew and soon, a cold, strong rain stroke, making every civilian in the area seek shelter.
"Rain. This is a bother."
"But no more than that" Mastermind said "It is not like this interrupts any of our master plans."

"Okay, Kid Flash. I want you to take Beast Boy and go through the servants door and take down the northeastern and northwestern guards. Do it precisely and we'll have a good window to get in."
"I'll do it in a jiffy!"

"Ready?" Kid Flash asked to Beast Boy and the changeling became a small snake that circled around his waist without pressuring too hard.
"Good luck." Jinx said and kissed Kid Flash, which made him blush and got Mammoth somewhat angry.
"See ya in a bit!" he said after recovering from the embarassment and ran, passing the servants door so quickly that no one noticed anything.
Beast Boy got down and turned into human again.
"I take west, you take east! Go!"
And Beast Boy had not even gotten to the stairs when he felt a gust of wind going right beside him and instants later, Kid Flash stopped in front of him and said:
"Done. Give them the sign."
"Aw, man, couldn't you just leave one for me?"
"You were slow, dude. Now, the sign."
"Fine!" Beast Boy said, became an owl and flew around the towers once.
"That's the sign. Let's move it!"

"Robin, we're going ahead. Those weapons can't affect us, so its best we are the first line of combat."
"What if they use regular weaponry?"
"Raven, if you don't mind, I would want you on the hoverboard with me so you can raise your magic shields if they use weapons other than the Nulifier."
"Fine. But no touching unless needed, got it, army brat?"

"Activating heat-vision" Private Hive said putting on a set of goggles "need one, sir?"
"I'll take it" Robin said and put on the goggles.
"Ma'am?"
"I won't use that. I'll be fine without it."
"Whatever suits you fancy." he said and they went through the door. Robin prepared a bunch of his projectiles and Private Hive got out a pistol.
"No casualities."
"I know, I know, its just a stun gun. Like in, 'I'll leave you unconscious but alive' kind of stun."
"Good."
"Duck!" Private said, got himself in front of Raven and received a frontal shot of a Nulifier pistol.
"Will have to do better than that, soldier!" he said and then shot, shocking the man and leaving him unconscious.
"Nice shot."
And he and Robin must have knocked out about a dozen soldiers before they heard a bunch of clicking noises.
"They're charging the Nulifier!" Robin said "Protect Raven!"
"Sorry, ma'am, but this is for your own good!" he said, holding Raven tight as they hovered until they got into a cleaning closet and quickly shut the door for a moment.
"Stay here. I'll help Robin shut that damn cannon down."

"When the Nulifier cannon shows up and I know it will, me and Robin will distract it while Starfire and Mammoth do a sneak attack and crush it. But be careful. I fear the cannon's powers are more definitive than the guns."
"I'll crush that thing to scrap! Lead me to it!"

And so, Private Hive hovered around and kept shooting at the soldiers, proceeding after the land ones were all knocked out to approach the tower were the cannon lied and trying to strike everyone operating it.
But it seemed this time they knew the ruse and they pointed it up. Starfire let go of Mammoth, that fell and caused a shockwave that knocked back three soldiers that he proceeded to take down, but did not had the time to fly away before the cannon hit her.
"STARFIRE!"
But there she was, flying well and she used her optic beam to break the whole thing, angry.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that the Nulifier only reacts on earthlings?" Shade said as only his eyes and his smile appeared on Private Hive's shadow.
"You did. That why that gun had no effect on you?"
"Indeed. Oh, you better dodge that."
And Private Hive dodged a falling piece of the cannon by hovering left, but he did not do that on his own command.
"Whoa, you did that?"
But Shade was gone.
"Reinforcements are coming? So soon? Cyborg, it's your time to shine!"
"I'm on it!" Cyborg said and ran to the main gates, closing them and putting on a set of eletronic locks as quickly as he could.
"Got it! This will keep them locked out!"
"Good! Jinx, block the servants entrance."
"Will do!" she said and threw a couple of waves that knocked down a nearby tree and it fell in front of the door.
"Oh, our guests think of themselves as so sneaky." a voice said and they all turned to find three characters looking at them: Ricard, the usurper; General Immortus and the Mastermind "but we have been waiting for you all along."