Chapter 8
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Aztek quickly blasted at Captain Cold and knocked him unconscious. Heatwave attempted to burn Aztek with his flamethrower but Aztek's magic armor allowed him to survive the initial blast. As he flew into the sky, Weather Wizard had created a lightning storm with his wand. Aztek was knocked straight out of the sky and slammed into the ground. "J'onn, we need backup now." groaned Aztek as he pressed his comlink. "There is literally nobody available, Aztek. I just sent most of our heroes to Batman's location. I will attempt to find reserves. J'onn out." calmly stated the alien. Heatwave had created a small firestorm to kill Aztek. In the midst of flames, the man laid unconscious, burning from the heat.
Meanwhile, Vigilante took out his two handguns and shot at Mirror Master. Unfortunately, it broke into pieces. Two boomerangs knocked the revolvers out of his hand. He turned and saw Captain Boomerang again. In a sudden flash, tens of Mirror Masters held their mirror guns at Vigilante. "Aye, mate. I went through a bit of trouble to leave Task Force X. Fighting you wasn't on purpose, mind you. Now it is, mate." taunted Captain Boomerang. Vigilante took out another two of his six pistols out but an explosive boomerang suddenly hit his chest and he was tossed sideways from the blast, knocking him unconscious.
"Thank you for coming here." said Thinker as he entered the apartment in Coast City. He had come alone to meet with Vandal Savage. "No need to thank me. You said you had a good deal for me. I'm always interested." stated the immortal. The Thinker then spoke "My friend, you are one with many ambitions. Thousands of years must have given you time to think. You have overcome obstacles like no other. There has been simply one threat that you are unable to eradicate. Every plot you have created has been defeated only by the sheer efforts of the Justice League. Luckily, you escaped from Princess Audrey's torture chamber after a few years. Today, I offer you an opportunity to defeat the Justice League once and for all. You would be joining a secret society of world's greatest villains determined to destroy the Justice League. Not only that but you would be one of the six Elite members, ruling over hundreds of villains."
"It is interesting that you appeal to my goals rather than my desires. I was willing to listen to you due to your infallible reputation as a genius. However, it seems you have barely anything to offer me right now but much as a future investment. Therefore, I must say yes to this offer. You are very persuasive, second to me. I will be recruiting hundreds of villains so please excuse me. I have work to do." said Vandal Savage. The Thinker smiled and left the apartment as he stated "I'll be checking up on you soon."
Batman had countered every move Lady Shiva had made because he was pushed to his limits. He had deflected several punches and kicks but dished out several of his own. Batman was doing the best of his capabilities. Lady Shiva was beginning to become frustrated because she was bruised and battered from the fight. "I easily defeated you a few months ago, but you are fighting now as if you were a worthy adversary. What happened?" said Lady Shiva as she threw another punch. With one hand, Batman intercepted it, lunged at her neck, and squeezed as hard as he could. "I wasn't trying last time." whispered the vigilante as she passed out from the choke hold.
Batman let her drop and signaled the Batmobile to be ready. He had stalemated Constantine Drakon, evaded Deathstroke, and taken down Lady Shiva. Suddenly, he heard an explosion. He looked down and found his Batmobile in flames. He suddenly did a back flip as an arrow whisked through where he was just standing. He looked up and saw Merlyn perched up in a corner of another building. He realized that the archer couldn't have done it because explosive arrows would not damage the Batmobile badly enough to destroy it. He did not want to pay a million dollars again to build that machine. He scanned the environment and saw KGBeast with a rocket launcher in hand. He threw one explosive batarang at the archer and another at the Russian as he leaped to Merlyn's position with his grapple line. Merlyn intercepted the batarang with an arrow of his own as KGBeast simply rolled out of the way. Batman suddenly kicked Merlyn back several feet. Merlyn landed hard but flipped himself up and squared up against Gotham's vigilante. Batman was upset because he had to deal with another threat. This night was not going to be over soon. Over two hours had gone by from simply fighting three of the world's greatest assassins. Suddenly he did a back flip as a bullet nearly killed him. He dodged two sais thrown by another killer. Then, a knife nearly popped his eye out but he caught it with two fingers on the blade itself. Batman quickly pressed his comm device and called "I need backup now!" as he leaped to dodge machine gunfire and grappled away from the area. J'onn said "It will be done soon." David Cain, Cheschire, and Nix had all nearly just incapacitated him upon their arrival. Both KGBeast and Merlyn were still targeting him with their respective weaponry. Constantine Drakon was with Deathstroke who had arrived to finish off what they had started. A horde of other assassins had also arrived including Bane, Bronze Tiger, and Prometheus. Batman leaped backwards in a back flip, throwing smoke pellets, batarangs, and grenades while evading bullets, knives, and other projectiles. Suddenly, a large group of heroes appeared in a flash of light. Batman had nearly gone down if he hadn't made a last ditch effort. Some of the assassins stirred seeing Booster Gold, Black Canary, Captain Atom, Dove, Dr. Light, Fire, Hawk, Hourman, Ice, Rocket Red, Vixen, and Vibe. The villains were in a whole lot of trouble.
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