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Previously on In Blackest Night:
The pods opened, their glass fronts detaching and opening with vapour rising from the frozen bodies.
The devil horned one snickered, approaching the first pod and glowing blood red. "Wake and Rise, Kiddo."
A pair of emerald green eyes snapped open.
Chapter 6: Battles and Cannons
Black Canary panted slightly, wiping a trickle of blood off her forehead. A pile of debris in front of her acted like the wall of a trench, keeping the enemies off and defending her at the same time.
Picking a rubber band off the cracked and scorched floor, she tied up her golden locks in a tight, high ponytail. Breathing deeply, she stood and released a canary cry at another one of those smaller battle ships, long and red plated like the mother ships, though about as big as a bus and had tentacles below the armour though it could fly.
It screamed out in pain, or at least that's what she thought the deafening cry was meant to be. It crashed down onto the ground, twitching. Wondergirl jumped onto the head of the creature and plunged her Amazonian sword right through the armour and into the flesh below.
Behind her, a few of those aliens were approaching, but before they could shoot at her, Blue Beetle swept in, wiping the out with sonic blasts. He flew upwards, blasting off a few aliens from where Arrowette was, shooting every alien left, right and centre, from her vantage point on the roof top of one of the buildings near the Hall of Justice.
Below, Robin dodged one of the bodies that had been flung down the multi storey building, and made a note to shout at Arrowette later about common courtesy. Throwing dead alien bodies, with a hole where an arrow had been, down sixty stories was just rude.
Jason lashed out, kicking two aliens in the chests, he snapped out his Bo staff, stabbing both to ensure they were dead. He squatted down, aiming a bird-a-rang perfectly. Robin threw the weapon, and it swerved around to land in an alien's torso.
Beep. Beep.
It exploded, bringing the whole squadron of aliens with it.
Beast boy charged past him as an elephant, running down the aliens with ease. He morphed into a lion next, biting and snarling at the aliens that started shooting at him. Lagoon Boy shot a high speed jet of water at them, successfully wiping them out. He rode past on a water wave, continuing to shoot jets of water at the aliens.
Bumblebee flew along the streets, zapping aliens on the buildings with high voltages of electricity, making them fall to their deaths.
With most of the aliens gone, the team regrouped with Black Canary. "The latest news is that three of the five mother ships have been defeated. With you kids here, we're lucky there wasn't a mother ship above us."
"We're not kids." Cassie stated, keeping her bloodied sword into its sheath at her side. It was lucky she'd brought it along. If not, it would have been so much harder to get rid of those alien scum – she would have had to pierce through their armour with her bare hands, or use brute force.
That moment, the shelter they'd been hiding under was blasted away. As the dust cleared away, Jason coughed, pushing a few pieces of debris off of himself. Cassie helped shove away a particularly large piece of brick wall, revealing Canary face down underneath.
"Oh no." Karen gasped, minimizing herself until she was as small as a real bee. La'gaan carried Canary, revealing Beast Boy and Arrowette, who were still quite fine and were stirring.
"She…She shielded them. From the debris!" Cassie stuttered slightly, shocked at how far the bird would actually go for them, seeing as she had been acting as though she hated them from day 1.
"Uh… Guys?" Jaime's voice wavered slightly as he backed up to them. "We're in trouble."
Looking around, they realised 'trouble' was the understatement of the year.
They were surrounded.
Robin quickly did the math.
They were surrounded, with Canary hardly breathing, two team members almost conscious, and lastly, the rest of them team, who had been exhausted by the fight the entire day.
They had absolutely no chance.
The aliens' guns started up, glowing red.
But before any one of them could fire, a red breeze blew past, and all of the aliens mysteriously dropped dead, with their weapons useless on the floor.
The Flash stopped, standing before them with a large, easy-going smile plastered on his face. "You guys okay?"
Robin nodded hesitantly. "Mostly. Just tired out, but Canary's injured, from protecting BB and Arrow from the debris."
Cassie shrieked when Batman suddenly materialized right in between her and La'gaan, who was still carrying an unconscious Canary. "She's very unstable. Cracked skull, as well as two fractured ribs, sprained spine and broken ankle."
Doctor Fate, Superman and Martian Manhunter flew down, with the Green Lantern providing a projectile for Green Arrow and Aquaman to stand on. Hal took Black Canary gently with a glove, flying off immediately with Green Arrow looking at them, until they disappeared, worriedly.
"We're here to join the party." A husky voice purred, and a slim figure stepped out of the shadows. She was wearing a green kimono, which was tightened at the waist and cut a few inches above the knee. It seemed shredded at some areas, although it was done purposely and not be an aliens. She had black hair, but no one could see her face as she wore a large, grinning Cheshire mask.
Batman frowned. "Cheshire."
The mystery girl laughed – a purring, smooth sound – and cartwheeled over to the heroes, pulling out her Sais easily halfway through the cartwheel. Her cartwheels were positioned perfectly, so that one Sai was placed at Batman's neck. The other heroes tensed, watching the exchange.
Jason was shocked, to say the least. No one could have gone that close to his mentor and father. That wasn't possible.
"Cheshire. Stop playing." A familiar, rough voice commented. Arsenal stepped out of the shadows, holding his bow in one hand. His brows furrowed slightly.
Though slightly hesitantly, Cheshire relaxed, spinning her weapons around her fingers expertly before placing them back in their holders at the sides of her dress.
"What are you guys doing here, anyway?" Blue Beetle asked, turning back to the Leaguers. By this time, Karen had gone back to her normal size.
"We finished off the fourth Mother Ship just a while ago." Batman explained. "But we still need to defeat the last Mother ship, which is the biggest one. The signal we planted on it said that it's here."
Flash nodded. "According to the signal." He disappeared for a second before reappearing back at the exact same spot with a mechanical device in his hand, which was beeping urgently. "We're standing right under it."
All the heroes present looked up, only to find that it was clear sky. Superman looked at Flash with slight amusement. "Are you sure that thing's working properly?"
Batman was the only one who seemed to have not relaxed, a calculating look on his face. After a slight pause, he decided to throw a long range bat-a-rang up.
La'gaan was still looking up. "Yeah. There's like nothing-"
Everybody stopped when Lagoon Boy cut off suddenly, staring up with his mouth open. Batman looked down. "It's up there, alright."
"Oh My God." Arrowette whispered from the ground as she stared up. The other team members just looked up open mouthed, unable to speak.
Batman's bat-a-rang had hit the mother ship, spoiling its special light deflecting armour in one area, where a patch of red floated among the clouds. The aliens must have noticed it too, because they retracted the special armour, and a mother ship the side of a small town suddenly appeared in the middle of the sky.
"We're screwed." Beast Boy stated, clutching his head as he sat up.
A hole materialized right above them, where a cannon glowed red, preparing to fire.
Arrowette couldn't bring her gaze away from the cannon. "That, we are."
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