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"Groans" Eyes squinting trying to adjust to the surrounding darkness that was cast upon them. Looking around, he saw he was in the middle of a forest with the trees burnt to ash around him in a circular form some 100 meters wide.
He gave himself a once over check for any signs of injuries, finding none his eyes strayed to the watch on his hand. (Beeping...glowing green and appears not damaged) Phew! He didn't even notice he had held his breadth when he thought of the watch. Straining his thigh muscles, he forced himself up still looking around cautiously. Thanks to his extensive plumber training on endurance and conquering pain he was able to tread past the scorched trees and plants into the forest itself.
In his unique way of living travelling to various galaxies and multiverse at large constantly due to the dangers lurking in the shadows, he has interacted with various forms of life and some that simply wanted to be left alone. But there was something about this forest that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand and a chill to run down his spine.
QUIET! It was too quiet for a forest in the dead of the night. Not even the smooth rustling of leaves fighting against the cool night breeze could be heard and the crickets weren't also working tonight apparently (He didn't pay attention in science class but even he had picked up some tree species common to earth, most of them at least). In his many years, okay not so many years, but at least he had a couple years ahead of Kevin in the game.
Thinking of Kevin made him suddenly stop as if electrocuted. GWEN! No no no no no! Looking around as if they would suddenly appear after noticing his worried eyes searching about. tac it was faint but he heard it. He made a mental to search for them after he somehow finds his way out of this pitch black forest. Glancing to where he suspected the sound came from, he didn't see anything not that he could if he even wanted to. It was too damn dark.
FUCK! Like clockwork once every year he wakes up in an unknown location then something bad usually happens almost if not immediately. No sooner had those thoughts dissipated from his mind than an exposed root of what seemed like a very huge tree suddenly split into two and wrapped themselves around his ankles dragging him along and then suspend him in air by his legs.
It happened so fast Ben could only dig his fingers into the ground with all his strength to try and stop himself from being dragged away but his mortal yet slightly enhanced strength couldn't hold a candle upon whatever that was dragging him along the forest floor and up the air. Dangling up by his ankles, Ben suddenly came out of his surprise enough to see two more roots shooting through the air to restrain his flailing arms that were the cause of him swinging about and dangling. The roots were inches away from his hands when the whole area was engulfed in a bright green light.
Swampthing was on his daily global patrol when he had the cries of the green on River Metropolis banks which he responded to immediately (since the incident in the swamp which cost Alec Holland his life, a new chapter in his life began when the green decided he was worthy to have their vast power and knowledge of green and having him defend them against anything causing too much unnatural damage on the green) thus was finishing up destroying the boat vessel when he sensed fear and pain coming from the Amazon forest.
He immediately jumped from the vessel, bad guys tied up with tree barks stronger than the cheapest metal, and dived into the ground... his large body connecting with the earth and his body becoming one with it. Had it been in air a sonic boom would have been heard instead he moved stealthily and too fast underground that the ground itself didn't have time to rumble or rock on the surface thus comparing to swimming deep inside an ocean where you water disturbances aren't really seen or heard.
Swampthing had never moved as fast as his current speed since he took the mantle of protector of the green all those years ago. This was because of the cries of the Amazon plant life there, they are some of the toughest green he had the pleasure of knowing speaking figuratively and literally. Wild fires have made them so tough through adaptation that they developed very thick barks and branches so that the fires only burn 30% of the outer tree bark before being put out by either rain or human efforts. That was also the reason he was very stunned when he saw the small circular 100m clearing and no sign of the huge trees anywhere, only black ash was the evidence of plant life in that part.
Surprise was quickly replaced by rage thus sending out his feelers throughout the forest for the people responsible. His years of experience and the greens knowledge in all things natural quickly sensed various forms of wild animals and insects nearing the clearing to gauge if what they also sensed was dangerous like the Wild fires that rarely happen there. Immediately he sensed a figure walking on two feet, it was that easy since not many animals can walk so steadily on two feet.
Disappearing into the ground again he stealthily moved till he reconnected with one of his feelers. He saw a young man not more than 25 years of age, brown wavy hair and with sparkling blue irises contrasting to the white surrounding it. He had well defined muscles rippling through his shirt and jacket with every movement he made. On his left hand there was a large watch, in his human times he has never seen such a large watch especially on such a young man in that technology was evolving daily and the packaging reducing each time from the phone booths and desktop computers to the handheld smart phones and laptops so he had no doubt that that was a strange watch since it also emitted a continuous green glow.
He wore a dark leather pants and some sort of army boots that seemed to be taken out of the prototype department since it had a design Alec Holland has never seen even on the occasional mercenaries and poachers he would encounter.
He appeared to stop suddenly and frantically begin looking around him as if waiting for something to come out. Coming to a decision that he had been made, Swampthing connected himself with the nearest tree to him and without missing a beat aimed two of its roots at the man's ankles.
Proving to have some form of miniaturized super strength, Swampthing merely added just a little more girth to the roots and dragged him along the ground to the air because the intruder had no chance against someone who would give superman a run for his money in the strength sector (him thinking about the time Poison Ivy controlled him to fight the Justice League).
Without missing a beat he launched two more aiming for his hands to restrain him for punishment against the green. An inch from being secured on his wrists the whole area was engulfed in a bright green light so much so that even he and his feelers had to retract a little from the sensory overload caused by the green energy.
Recovering quickly he looked to where the man was but he wasn't there, in his place was a humanoid plant like figure just as he was but not buffed out like him or the man, he had an overall green and black colored body with red flame hair and rock like feet. His shoulders had red petals and his elbows and legs had green frills sticking out.
On its chest was lower stomach was a circular device with an hourglass symbol in the middle glowing green, they were the same height but Swampthing was more buff and intimidating that much he knew so he rose from the ground.
When Ben saw the two new roots heading to restrain his hands his warriors and plumber instincts kicked in and with a thought and green flash he transformed. (He had stopped calling out his alien form names when Azmuth unlocked master control for him six years ago and he could change any alien at will at any time and stay the same alien for an indefinate amount of time. Master control allows the omnitrix wielder unlimited access to all aliens in the watch and also instant changes and no time limit unless all available power is used up).
Swampfire stood in his place having burned the roots attached to his ankles. Swampfire took a second to get in tune with nature and that's when he felt it,the sheer agonizing feelings of the surrounding plant life which didn't appreciate the energy bubble he came out off and landed in the forest.
His intelligence which has been extremely increasing since his unlocking of the master control gave him a suggestion that maybe the forest was attacking because of that, to which he couldn't really blame what was attacking him for if he were in his shoes he would have done the same if not worse. His senses picked up something rising from the ground. He was met by a pair of bright yellow eyes on a very large and buff humanoid plant like figure with no hair on its body but some small flowers and thorns and large veiny vines running all over his body. The immediate thought of Ben was a sentient plant creature on the earth. The stare down was filled with dread silence that not even the crickets dare make themselves known for the next 10 seconds.
"You will pay for what you did to the green" growled Swampthing .
Ben took a moment to process what it just told him then connected it to burn patched where he landed on.
"I'm sorry Mrrrr plant thingy but I just woke up there..." Ben ducked missing a flying fist that was extending from Alec seemingly angered by what he had said. Alec felt all his restraints let go the moment he called him Mr planthingy and aimed to punch him right in the mouth but was surprised by the creatures speed and excellent control of the plants around them just as he was.
The creature's extended branch took Swampthing by surprise on how it managed to get his plants to change against him and wrap around him, he recovered from the shock fast enough and ripped through them. After ducking the punch and his plumber training coming to use, he countered by extending his own hand and then proceeding to wrap it around him while swaying his own to turn against him.
The creature broke through Swampfires hand like it was nothing making Ben stumble back a bit from the sheer force of it. He was taken aback by what just happen even though he knew he wasn't even putting too much effort in restraining him so he shouldn't be thaaat surprised. Seeing the anger in the creatures yellow eyes he made a decision to try the peace keeping since there's clearly a misunderstanding here and him being a hero and all.
Seeing the tense yet relaxed posture of the creature and the thoughtful look on his face Swampthing relaxed a little waiting to finish him when he makes the first move after all...warriors don't seek out war.
"I mean you NO harm" said Swampfire. Backing up with actions he raised his arms halfway up in the air as a show of surrender but still had his guard up should the creature try anything.
"What are you doing here!?" Swampthing asked in his growl voice with a hint warning in his voice. Shaking himself out of the stupor that the creature can talk internally smacking himself of thinking otherwise since other stranger alien life forms can talk
"I got lost. I woke up. I am here." Swampfire summed it up for the creature who looked closely at him and then as if something whispers to him relaxes completely and turns around preparing to walk away before giving him one last instruction.
"Fix what you have broken then get out" and with that he was gone as fast as he came.
Still staring at the spot occupied by the creature that disappeared inside the bushes and even his senses as a methanosian couldn't locate him. Maybe Ultimate Swampfire can locate him.. naaaah too much power for no use now shaking his head and those thoughts from his head he looked back at the clearing he left behind. Disappointed that he hadn't even thought of repairing the damage that he had obviously caused, putting his hand on the ground and tapping into his own body manner her directed all that natural energy to the clearing where bushes flowers and tall huge trees grew to the size of the others around them.
Satisfied of the work he'd done and sensing a calmness returning to the surrounding he turned and continued on his way. Swampfire long since already mapped out a way out of the forest although it would take a long.
"TRIXX contact Gwen and Kevin" spoke to his omnitrix dialogue on his chest.
It glowed briefly indicating the Omnitrix AI was activating itself.
"Transmission error. They cannot be contacted at the moment". A female version of Ben's voice replied. He just stared at the device on Swampfires chest like it was insane.
When Azmuth activated the master control on the Omnitrix, it evolved and developed an AI to help the user interface through it with ease. Not that it couldn't before but just something to add up and simplify the quantum computer processor made by Azmuth, the most intelligent person in five galaxies to help maintain the DNA samples contained electronically in the databases in the Omnitrix and also facilitate and calculate the correct calculations during Bens alien transformations and also manage the very many duties and protocols in handling the Omnitrix as a whole that even Ben with the master control and the experience had not come to know even half of them yet.
Azmuth had also been slightly surprised by the creation of Trixx as Ben came to call her that showed just how much evolution even an advanced quantum computer can undergo given the needed processing power and the self-sufficient source of power the Omnitrix had. The word and female voice came about by the Omnitrix being the hub of millions of aliens DNA thus being a nurturer of sorts thus the name and female version Ben's voice.
Galvans were just proving to people they are by far still the smartest beings in many a galaxies by the technological advancements they undergo alone from Azmuth creating his own race of megamorphs that can combine with any kind of technology and give it an upgrade of sorts.
"What do you mean cannot be contacted at the moment?" Swampfire half shouted in panic.
"Their plumber badge signals and cellphone numbers do not exist" came the computerized version of Trixx.
"Okay let's get out of this place first then we can find them." Ben said knowing that the thick tree canopy and the harsh terrain are probably responsible for Trixx not getting a lock on his cousin and best friend.
Feeling determined and a little winded because the manner needed to fill the clearing was a huge amount considering how big and thick the trees were in that one tree's bark was a combination of six adults each stretching to their limit while joining hands around the tree to completely cover it and some even exceeding that limit. Swampfire began moving through the jungle again heading to where his senses were telling him was a way out.
"Trixx what can you tell me about the creature we've just encountered back there?" Ben asked knowing that Trixx is always too curious about life matter and DNA thus taking scans and recording them in her storage catalogues though in separate and smaller catalogues from the alien DNAs since the main function of the Omnitrix is to collect, record, analyze and secure alien species so that when a specie becomes extinct it can be revived. Anything with a DNA abnormality is always easy to study even for Ben himself.
"Scans indicated his body had been drenched in a bio-restorative formula, theorizing that at one time his heart stopped and most likely was dumped in a bushy or mucky place thus this affected the plant life of the said place imbuing it with the humans consciousness and memories. The newly conscious plant life formed a semblance of a human form and rose up from the bog."
Ben still in Swampfire form listened carefully with curiosity while Trixx explained. Then he heard human in the explanation and had to ask. "Did you just say human?"
"Yes I did, he was once a homo sapient before undergoing evolution to what he is now. It is also of the male gender." finished Trixx in her calm automated voice.
"Okay so that explains why you didn't go to capture mode when we encountered him." Ben had thought it was an alien like Swampfire and that he would eventually collect his DNA like the other newer aliens the Omnitrix scanned before and when it didn't he was worried the Omnitrix was damaged by his fall or arrival. "And do you have any idea how we got here in the first place?"
"The last thing on my database is moving at unparalleled speeds through a region of spacetime that constrain the incremental deformation of closed surfaces." Trixx made it as simple as possible to Ben due to him still not able to understand perfectly things to do with space travel and the calculations even though he has been to space plenty of times. Ben always thought his hate for space is to blame for that. "Are you trying to say we fell into a worm hole!?" "Yes" came the calm mechanized voice again.
"WHEN!?" Swampfire didn't mean to shout but he was too shocked to do anything else. "I believe when you came into contact with the Girl Scout selling goods made of flour, sugar and oil of some sort. I believe her intentions towards you was nefarious." came the reply. "YOU THINK! He shouted again. "Wait a minute..." Ben said processing the information. "Why is it that you didn't save us? Don't you have like protocols put in place for those sorts of things!?" "Usually I do but somehow the young human wore a specialized bracelet on her hand that managed to interfere with my systems the exact moment she chose to make her intentions known."
After sometime Trixx managed to acquire the little footage the watch picks up from time to time and found who brought them here and how. Her quantum computing and processing working from the minute Ben revived her to find out why, how and where they were since it could only deal with actual facts and not speculation like Ben usually did. "AZMUTH!" Ben called with anger at his surrounding knowing that only one person knew how to temporarily disable the watch safely. Well two but one of them was trapped in the null void.
At least he knew if Azmuth was involved then Gwen and Kevin were probably in on it since he was on his way to meet them and they were fine because the other option would be...no he couldn't think about that now. Knowing how wormholes and Galvan intelligence works he's probably in some other universe or an alternate one since the creature didn't recognize him too. Groaning in annoyance how this could turn to a complicated situation soon enough he gambled, "I'm guessing that we're in an alternate reality or another universe whatsoever." Kicking a stone a mile away in anger.
"According to the creatures DNA structure you would be correct. Even alternate Homo sapiens have varying DNA strands that would be blind to even the best DNA scanner unless you know what you're looking for and luckily for you I happen to know what I'm doing." If Trixx wasn't an AI Ben would've thought he was actually talking to a person.
"Wait did you actually say luckily for us? I thought that you didn't believe in luck?" Ben said waiting to hear her answer.
"I don't, I was trying to calm you down with a sense of humor and from your steady heartbeat, and it worked." It was not luck, she had made the correct calculations in coming up with the theory. Who needed assumptions and luck when you have a heavy processing power like hers which continues to evolve constantly expanding the more alien DNAs are added to her database.
"Smart ass," Ben grumbled but chuckled lightly at her attempt of humor which proved true Azmuths theory of her evolving and adapting with time. Swampfire said this while waving his hands around frantically while still walking through the trees.
Meanwhile Swampthing was watching the whole thing play out with an impressed smirk on his already hard to read face. He knew he sensed the green in him when he took time to really study the creature that stood before him and the green in him whispered not a threat to him that made him turn and leave without any further confrontation.
He was impressed by the display of power from the creature when he restored the part in which he scorched when he landed and was also impressed by the device on his chest that seemed to be one of those AI programs many corporations use to make their operations more efficient. He came across them in the Congo forest in Africa being used to operate machines remotely since the forest was too harsh for a long stay to most humans.
"Good luck" and with that the ground swallowed him again making his way to the middle of the Indian Ocean where there the green showed him an underwater mining vehicle destroying both plant and sea life.
"Aargghhh," Tony woke up screaming and sat up checking his suit for extreme damages since the last memory he recalls is relaxing with the avengers in the Avengers Tower after defeating Ultron and then being swallowed by a hole. Noting he only had a couple of scratches from impacting the ground he looked around to see the situation. Natasha Romanov alias Black Widow and Clint Burton alias Hawkeye were tucked safely under the Hulks arms while he lay on his back temporarily unconscious from the brunt of the fall wherever they fell from.
Thor was in a crater of his own making a couple of yards out with miljonir nowhere to be seen while Captain America was already scoping out the area they landed on which according to the views he was seeing on the HUD of his amour was an port of some kind.
Scarlet which was encased in a red cocoon that once in a while would reenergize like clockwork, her magic protecting her while unconscious until she woke up and was ready to defend herself. He used his gauntlets stabilizers to push himself to a standing position and approached Cap.
"What's the situation Cap. What happened? And how come you were not knocked out huh!? Even the green guy was out like a light." Strained Tony's voice still stretching his muscles that were dormant for he didn't know how long.
"That's because he had to time the impact precisely so that Clint and Nat wouldn't take any strain on their body so the impact and its ripples was absorbed by the Hulks muscles thus him passing out temporarily."
Immediately Hulk gave out a Huff and woke up, momentarily panicking but seeing Clint and Nat unharmed made him relax a bit but he wasn't calm and let the two humans rest on his chest till they recuperate or the others woke them up, also giving his muscles time to heal from being fractured into millions of pieces by the coordinated fall he managed to archive.
"What's the situation?" Tony asked again a little impatient. He hated the unknown. In his life his high IQ always helped him be ahead of every aspect of his life and now it seems even he couldn't recognize this port that was on Earth. I'm pretty sure I have eyes on every port on earth...why can't I recognize this one his train of thought was interrupted by Steve's answer.
"I don't know...it looks like some kind of port but I don't recognize it." And it was really racking his brain.
After being rescued from the block of ice, Steve integrated to the modern world as best as he could meaning he was better at it than the average human would adapt to new surroundings. He studied the Earths maps, ports, cities, villains, heroes, modern fighting skills and all those other things deemed necessary to survive the 21st century but right now he couldn't figure out which port they were in since he couldn't ask anybody as it was at night and the port was empty save for the occasional patrol details. He looked to Tony for answers.
Tony wondered what Steve expected him to do when he looked at him with that expectant face of his. Steve raised one eyebrow. It took Tony one more second to figure out where Steve was heading with this. Boy oh boy was he glad he had an amored helmet so Steve couldn't see how red he was turning from embarrassment.
"JARVIS! Connect to the Stark satellites and triangulate our location." A second later Jarvis was heard," No satellite link or upload detected, sir."
"JARVIS! Where are my satellites?" Tony asked while gritting his teeth from the anger about to boil over on him.
"Unknown Sir. There are a lot of satellites in space but not one of them is Stark Inc. or connected to you," he blinked inside the suit where Jarvis was showing him details of the satellites he managed to hack when he couldn't find Stark's. When Jarvis finally analyzed the minor details that weren't hard to hack due to their low security system he could see the majority owner of satellites in space was a WAYNE Inc. and seems like another billionaire named Lex Luther according to quick reports Jarvis retrieved from the Internet.
He started panicking, "Uh! Cap! We are in Gotham."
"What's a Gotham?" Cap asked out in desperation while kicking some stones in the water. Tony was about to respond with sarcasm but a deep voice with a hint of base beat him to it.
"It's MY city" and everyone looked up a stack of four containers to see a dark figure looking down on them with bright white eyes and what looked like a devils horn.
Batman was in the batcave monitoring his huge crime screen/supercomputer that would put all the Supercomputers in the Pentagon and NSA to shame. It tapped and recorded every 911 and emergency lines calls then proceeded to run the data tapped from various sources around Gotham and the world through an algorithm that identifies certain words that trigger different responses from the masked vigilante.
He only made an appearance in cases where the situation was dire, since he thinks his place is looking over the world on his supercomputer and not going after supermarket thieves out for a quick buck. The batcave was connected to the watchtowers own supercomputer. The systems were sort of linked to share the same protocols in case of any emergency or incase one computer had been hacked or infected by malware.
The screen started beeping and flashing a huge red danger sign while the caves speaker system too wailed warning sounds as if under a nuclear attack while another section zeroed in one satellite in space to the location where it the danger seemed to originate first. First was a picture of the world...then the clouds...then you start seeing some figures, meaning buildings then zooms near a large waterbody and to his surprise it was at the Gotham port, his city. His eyes widened when they landed on the energy readings displayed on the screen.
That couldn't be right. He shouldn't have been standing here...he should be ash by now.
The only thing that could give out that energy signature was a nuclear explosion but it seemed contained to a specific part which should be impossible. That both intrigued and fascinated him.
"What or who is powerful enough to contain that energy signature..?" He wondered aloud. His thoughts went to captain atom and superman but they were both accountable at the watchtower. His inner gut telling him to bring in the others, caving, he called it in.
"Batman to watchtower, come in" after a minute someone responded.
"Hey Bats...Just so you know..I was not video calling that hot waitress from yesterday on the leagues most powerful computer with exceptional visual display properties so that I could clearly see..."
"I want you, Shazam, Superman, Wonderwoman, Flash, Johnn, Cyborg and Green arrow to teleport to my location in 10 minutes." Batman then ending his transmission.
"Jeez I already feel sorry for the dude who deserves this lineup," Hal Jordan, the green lantern said. Something on the screen caught his attention. "Oh shit!" Tapping the unmute button and muttering quickly..
"Sorry beautiful, what can I say, the world needs me more than you do apparently so..." he said giving the said waitress his most seductive smile ever that left her drooling for more but Hal quickly tapped the end call button and said in a relieved tone, "Thank the stars another one bites the dust!"
"You know you can avoid that if you stop flirting with every girl you meet" Superman said while coming into the room to the supercomputer to see what's up.
He overheard the conversion from the hallway while grabbing a bite to eat then forego the bite to see what got batman so spooked.
"As if!" Came Hal's retort. Hal saw supermans eyes widen at the information displayed on the screen then take off flying from the hanger which he had already started opening. When he read them himself all he could say was…"WTF!" Those readings couldn't be right. After rereading he programmed the coordinates to the teleporter and met the rest of the team halfway to the teleporters where they teleported to Batmans location.
The minute he set his eyes on those readings he opened the hanger and took off at supersonic speeds, the friction experienced during earths re-entry which would be problematic to space shuttles not being a problem for him, barely feeling it. Once he saw clouds there was a BOOM! Where he accelerated and broke the sound barrier heading for Gotham.
Batman may already be in danger if not suffering from radiation poisoning not mentioning all those Gotham residents who would have been caught in the blast radius. According to those readings it seemed two nuclear bombs were detonated at the Gotham port. Using his super vision to see ahead while nearing Gotham, he saw Batman talking to a group of criminals wearing all kinds of weird costumes yet it wasn't even Halloween.
One was wearing a toy mechanical suit that was color themed red and Gold, one was wearing a back pack full of arrows and carrying a bow, another in a big green muscles body suit, another had a armored attire covering his body with what looks like some ancient warrior armor overhead carrying a hammer (like those Greek gods) he thought, one was wearing a tight fitting combat suit that actuated her lovely curves which she knew she had judging by the way she let her cleavage show, one was wearing a costume consisting of bright American colors and carrying a shield in the same coloring and one was a woman wearing some form of combat cloths and her hands glowing red (Clark assumes must be these modern lighting effects, since moving here he never bought decorations for Christmas tree always using the same ones so he kind of out of date with all things sparkly).
He closed in on them.
After contacting the watchtower batman took the bat mobile to the port driving at dangerous speeds but it being a more modernized and combat ready vehicle than the US president The Beast, he arrived at the port in no time. The roof retracting back he shot a grappling hook to the nearest crane and took off.
After surveying the entire port and finding a few clowns passed out on the port he decided to watch the one that was up already while still surveying for the source of the energy readings.
He wore an all American attire literally to the shield, it made him cringe at the many colors on one bodyguards. This one seems to be scanning the area by sight in a fashion which means ex Special Forces but probably went nuts due to P.T.S.D.
The HUD in Batmans suit managed to zoom to his other accomplices. The one in some kind of red and gold amour mechanical suit awoke with a gasp and started looking around seemingly calming down a little when he saw the America guy.
"Is this what has become of Gotham nowadays? A place for rich kids to do what they want?" He wondered outloud. His rich kid theory was based on the very expensive real like mechanical amour one kid was wearing. Even had thrusters that worked on the hands. He made a mental note to subtly ask him where he bought it and acquire it under the Wayne ENT. R D department.
The two sleeping on the big green guy were still asleep even though the big guy was up but seemingly deciding to let them sleep. He admired their loyalty and friendship checking up on each other like that even when drunk off their minds.
The last one was weird, she was encased in a cocoon of red which batman concluded was very expensive lighting effects which made the girl sleeping there look like she's floating. Another mental note to acquire that company too.
The Batman was about to call of the backup and blame the whole thing on a computer glitch originating from the watchtower, because come on, the batcave is never wrong. He pulled out his tablet connected to the batcave and pressed a few keys connecting to the watchtower. The screen froze for a second then connecting... was written meaning no one was currently at the supercomputer. That was not what disturbed him, the screen freezing for a second was not to be taken lightly especially it being connected to powerful processors like theirs. It could only mean one of two things: one, he/the watchtower was hacked or Hal and Oliver (green arrow) left porn on run again on the supercomputer.
The second one was unlikely since he installed a patch to block all unwanted and unprofessional material in the watchtower and he could bet his whole fortune that they couldn't have hacked it or found someone else to do it because on the whole planet only Cyborg surpasses his technical and mechanical skills since he is part Apokalyptic technology and that uses quantum computing surpassing everytech on earth. He quickly did a deep diagnostics of the important sections and data centers in the watchtower.
LEVEL FIVE BREACH flashed momentarily then disappeared. It appears the firewalls blocked out most of the attack and they just got random information like who owns the satellite. Upon closer inspection he realized all Wayne satellites were hacked at the same time with the watchtower and batcave.
Only a handful of computers in the world could accomplish such a feat and he had access to most of them except a few, Lex Corp was the one to gain by this kind of action. He initiated a tracing program which tracked the hacker swiftly through the various lines of malicious code and platforms it tried to cover its tracks with. Batman knew he was a genius when he thought of protocols should his system ever be compromised. There is someone always smarter than you out there and even Batman was experiencing it now. He was beyond furious this hacker managed to hack all his satellites at once as if his firewalls were a joke. He never let Cyborg adjust the firewalls code too much incase his system got corrupted under Apocalypse influence. The same firewalls NSA, Pentagon and every super power nation always attempted to breach but failed to get passed the first one.
This hacker though, breached through so many firewalls to get to the information he wanted. That, he could tolerate but something else bugged him and even he would never admit it to anyone but he found patches on the system indicating that the hacker decided to stop after getting the information and didn't want to hack the whole thing because he would have done it should he wished it and a lot of information, weapon projects at Wayne inc and Watchtower information would have been compromised. He surmised either the hacker was making himself known that he can do that or it was a trial phase for a coordinated attack on the Justice league at large and Wayne inc for being one of the major donors to their cause. He hoped it was the first one because the second one would be devastating. He developed tracing programs that subtly attached to the hackers program in case they managed to breach it.
To his surprise the trace led him to the port right on top of him. It couldn't have been me his next thought was interrupted when he saw the America clown looking at the other armor clad one expectantly. He adjusted the antennas on his bat ears to listen in on them while the others around them were slowly waking up and stretching each looking curiously around them as if they never saw a port before.
"Of course, Rich kids" he groaned glad he never was like that. He heard the one called Cap asking what is a Gotham and him loving everything stealthy, decided to answer them and scare the alcohol out of their system.
"It's MY city," his suits automated voice speakers augmented his voice till they could hear him. Even he couldn't have predicted what he saw next. After being shaken out of their surprise at his voice, each of them took a fighting stance. Cap held the shield ready to throw at him while the armored one seemed to be charging up his hand blasters, the one who looked like an archer pointed an arrow right at him while the woman next to him pointed a gun at him and the big guy just growled (batman saw that was no big green costume) the other woman hands started glowing red again while she easily manipulated them.
"Shit!" Was all he said before the stare down continued.
Tony looked at the voice and his sensors picked up a human figure dressed in some form of bat costume which was heavily armored using Kevlar and had stingers at the gloves like black widow. What was strange was that he couldn't see past his face mask and utility belt meaning they were lined with lead which in turn meant it may be housing weapons or something worse. The others took defensive stances while Cap stepped forward to try the peaceful approach before Tony got bored or the hulk gets angry and says or does something stupid.
"We mean you no harm, we're a bit lost and may be in need of assistance." Steve said in a friendly yet official voice to show how serious this matter was to him. Immediately batman knew he was the leader of this group and even had soldier like mannerisms.
"What do you want? What are you looking for?" He asked in a no nonsense tone giving the vibe he was expecting an answer.
Steve sighed tiredly and tried again, "We want to get out of here and we are not looking for anything. Can you help us or not?" He asked ready to turn around to chat with his team ignoring him. Batman gazed at them for a few more seconds and his gut told him the Cap guy could be trusted.
He relaxed but remained vigilant and asked, "Do you have any papers with you?" Batman asked in a deep base voice while Steve's was only deep. Cap began walking to where the crazy dressed person had landed using what appears to be a tricked out grappling hook connected to his suit somehow. Tony and the others remained alert. Cap had always been too trusting and some time that kind of trust got you in trouble. Cap began jogging to meet him in the middle since he landed quiet a distance away which is understandable given the fact that they don't know each other.
Batman watched Steve start to jog towards him reaching out in the back of his pants for what he assumed was Identification papers, which was personally delivered to him by the president when he was rescued from the ice. A few feet from each other Steve was slowing down when a loud BOOOM was heard. Sound and air being split into two literally which meant something went supersonic, looking at Batman and his hand which was already tapping his earpiece and shouting something while looking for the source of the sound. Due to the super soldier serum in Steve his reflexes was more enhanced than the average human so he was able to hear something coming at them at supersonic speed. He immediately thought of a missile and looked up trying to locate and attempt to either deflect it into the water with his indestructible shield or jump in the water to evade it knowing the others would survive too. Looking to his left he saw a pair of red eyes glowing coming at him too fast to react in time even for his enhanced reflexes, gritting his teeth he braced for impact hoping he could at least get out alive with some major bruises which would heal in time.
No sooner had he closed his eyes, than a loud CLANG! of collision between the hammer and the man of steel sounded then soon after an explosion went off somewhere behind him. Opening his eyes he no longer saw the pair of red eyes coming towards him and Thor without his hammer which meant that had been the thing that saved him, miljonir flew past him back to Thor's waiting hands. Steve gave him a thankful look and he just nodded.
Superman saw what was happening using his super vision. He saw batman grapple down to ground level and face off with the group of clowns alone and started smiling at how he will enjoy watching batman take care of this...the one wearing all American stepped forward while the others took well precisioned defensive stances all towards batman who still hadn't moved an inch even when the American started running towards him while pulling something from his back which he thought could only be a gun or knife considering it was at night. With batman outnumbered he didn't stand a chance, superman increased his speed which split sound and air into two again creating a large BOOOM! while reaching the port and heading towards Batmans offender.
Preparing his fist to punch him and drag him away from batman, however he was halted in his flight by a powerful, precise and extremely painful blow to his forearm which sent him crashing away in the opposite direction. The only time he ever felt a hit like that was when fighting Darkseid and Bizzaro, also The Professors Android was a top contender. He was sent flying and crashing away into a pile of containers which then ignited into a medium explosion.
"What is that hammer made of?" Wondered Superman aloud while looking at it a few meters away from him. Before contemplating picking it up, it suddenly floated in air and took off through the hole they made on the building which they had apparently ended up in. Wasting no more time he took off in the direction the hammer flew to.
Thor was alert and on warrior mode when Cap went to speak to the human dressed in what looks like a demon costume because he did not know where they were and he couldn't sense Heimdall or Asguard at all. Anywhere in the Nine Realms Thor could sense and see through Heimdall's eyes, a feat only Odin and he were capable of, him being the Prince of Asguard and all.
Not sensing Asguard really worried him and hoped nothing had befallen his home world not that his father or the many capable warriors couldn't handle things without him there, he just had a bad feeling about all of this. Looking at his Friends beside him he felt confident that they would find out what was happening and stop whoever was attacking Midgard and him return and check up on his people. Boom! it was faint but he heard it and started looking around. His Asgardian physiology and him being the god of thunder made it possible for him to have heightened senses and to be so powerful he came second to the All Father himself KING ODIN so it made sense he heard it while the others didn't . He had to mentally retract his statement when he saw that Hulk heard it too and was looking around suddenly getting angry for nothing.
When Thor saw Cap start a small jog to the man to hand him the ID he heard another BOOOM! This time loud enough for everyone to hear and start looking around. Thor being quicker and acting on pure instinct' threw Miljonir as hard and fast as he could to intercept the projectile heading to Steve. He knew even with Cap's super soldier serum he couldn't survive against that kind of force that would no doubt incinerate him upon impact. Due to him being over a thousand years old and taking part in almost every major war in history, acquiring every combat skill there was he was a master at using Miljonir which is why it connected with the projectile just in time before it did any damage to his friend. Retracting his throwing arm back he looked at Cap silently asking him if he was alright who in-turn just nodded at him when he got over his shock.
The moment the hammer connected with the object several people teleported in the area and saw the both objects flying in another direction before colliding with containers and explosion engulfed them. Thor was suddenly struck by mystical lightning which tingled differently from his own but more or less didn't hurt but was tackled past some containers colliding with them while exchanging blows. Then everything went to shit after that.
As soon as he heard Superman approaching he tapped his earplug, "Superman stand down! I Repeat stand down! Not a threat! Sta..." He was cut off when he saw Thor (being very keen he had figured out almost all their names by them calling each other) made a mental note they weren't very discreet throw his hammer towards them and his instincts kicked in making him dive aside and in between two containers, there was a reason he chose to land here while Cap who didn't know about supermans supersonic speed or his friends hammer kept looking around for the source of the sound. Batman flipped onto his feet to see Cap brace for the impact and Thor's hammer slam into supermans figure sending both of them crashing into a pile of containers and at the same time the reinforcements which he requested had arrived and seen superman being knocked into the containers and the person responsible recall back his hammer.
Groaning and gritting his teeth Batman didn't even attempt calling off his team now because it was simply too late and what was going to happen next was completely unavoidable. Just by his prediction being spot on as always Shazam was the first to attack Thor with lightning and tackled him into containers behind him. Then a fight broke out which Bruce was forced to join if they were to minimize property damage by bringing these people in quickly. Looking around, he saw the people he so called 'Rich kids' were capable of handling themselves very well.
General point of view.
As soon as the first punch was thrown by Shazam towards Thor then everything happened too fast almost as if in slow motion. Iron man blasted green lantern out of the sky with his gauntlet blasters who then crashed into the water. Green arrow fired an arrow at Black widow who before even deciding to dodge it was shot out of the air by another arrow. Looking towards Hawkeye he barely dodged an arrow that Hawkeye shot at him before arrows began flying and piercing the air around each other having the capability of piercing steel. Black widow was going to help Hawkeye who was now engaged in a hand to hand combat with the green guy who he was at a stalemate with but before she could reach she was knocked by a force equaling a rampaging hulk which threw her against a container where she fell unconscious from the force of the hit since she wasn't exactly durable like the others except Hawkeye of course.
Diana bumped into the woman in a combat suit running to help her comrade fight Green arrow. She was knocked unconscious from the impact alone making Diana cringe at the thought of knocking a human with that much force and flew towards her hoping she was still alive. Her legs were grabbed by an angry Hulk taking her by surprise then slammed into the ground over and over again each hit disorienting her further never having been beaten like this before.
Hulk who had allowed Nat to go help Clint since he didn't want to get involved first because of the damage it would cost stood waiting to be needed. He saw a woman dressed in what looked like a swim suit bump into her making her unconscious. Furious, he leaped to her midair grabbing her legs then slamming her repeatedly in the breaking ground like Loki with each hit being stronger than the one before. Just then superman slammed into Hulks back sending them both flying away while Diana was dropped to the ground unceremoniously where she started getting up getting her bearings on.
"Hera! That beast is strong!" She said looking towards the loud bangs that were Superman's and the beasts trading blows.
She looked towards the rest of the battle and saw Johnn fighting the woman who had a red aura around her, flash was speeding through the battle field landing precise hits to the enemies while securing the occasional night guard coming to inspect, batman was fighting the guy in the armor, green lantern was helping Shazam take down the man with the hammer. Diana had to agree with her eyes that he wasn't that bad to look at and even giving Superman a run for his money. His muscular arm which tightened with every grip to his hammer, his chiseled chest hidden under that armor and also had a long brown way gold hair flowing to his back and for a moment she thought about her brothers and cousins and also the myth of Thor the god of thunder which is among the tales told by the gods. She shook her head from those thoughts and dove into battle with a war cry.