With every move Wally West made to get back up, his body seemed to reward his resilience with waves of searing pain now coursing through his midsection.
Still feeling the effects of the Electrocutioner's pulsating right hand, he was currently fighting off an urge to groan incessantly while glowering up at his leering opponent who sauntered towards him.
"I barely touched you, and here you are now. On the ground, unable to breath or stop what's happening." Manually increasing the voltage as he neared the redhead, Butchinsky grinned evilly as he continued. "Now, imagine what will happen when I-aargh!"
His premature gloating was thankfully cut short by an arrow suddenly piercing one of the exposed patches of suit in his back.
Wincing heavily while reaching back and ripping it loose, he whirled around to face down the crimson archer after tossing the arrow aside.
The next arrow fired by Roy was caught by the now incensed enforcer, who caught it just before it pierced his chest plate.
"Your spine will break-like this!" he snarled, demonstrating his visceral threat by snapping it in two at the same time.
Just as the Russian brute began to stalk towards the archer, Robin's circular birdarang rocketed by his periphery and managed to nick his outstretched right forearm.
"Aargghh…" A series of now cut wires suddenly popped free of the gauntlet's circuitry as Lester clutched his forearm in pain, a sight visible to the adolescent detective before he rushed over to Wally's aid.
The electrical discharges, as soon as the wires were sliced, began to fluctuate to lower intensities before eventually dying down in his right gauntlet.
Offering a shoulder for support to help the beleaguered speedster back up to his feet, Robin's eyes suddenly lit up in realization as Butchinsky
"Batman would kill me for not figuring this out already," he muttered to himself, mentally slapping himself for not deducing this during his earlier fight with Lester.
"Yeah, I'm fine by the way," Wally groaned, beginning to regain his footing again.
"SP, aim for the circuitry on his suit. That's what powers it!" Robin called out, his words also lighting a lightbulb in the archer's mind.
"Acknowledged." Drawing one of his last pointed arrows, Speedy rapidly sliced through a cadre of wires attached to Lester's hip before doing the same to some protruding from his shoulder.
Sorely clutching his shoulder as Roy's arrow speared through the circuitry and exposed his undersuit, he surged forward with his one remaining electric shock glove.
Dodging the sloppy haymaker easily by ducking underneath his armpit, Roy nocked another arrow but waited until Butchinsky instead punched the wall behind him.
Firing it off, the arrow punctured through the gauntlet's wires before pinning his undersuit to the metallic surface itself.
Walking up towards the now trapped criminal as he struggled to free himself, Roy wielded his bow with both hands before swiftly clubbing Butchinsky across the face with it.
As soon as the Electrocutioner's face whipped to the side from the sudden impact, his body followed suit and limply slumped down to the ground with his arm still pinned upwards.
Now towering above the Russian, Roy watched as his eyes rolled back groggily before walking back towards his teammates.
"I tell ya Rob, dude hits like a wrecking ball! Pretty sure I'm gonna need a bucket when we get back to base," Wally confided in the Boy Wonder while still clutching his stomach as Roy rejoined them.
"Now all that's left is to go find Nygma," Roy stated, nodding towards the now abandoned stage where the Riddler presided over earlier.
Even Wally perked up at that prospect. "Yeah, where is that guy anywa-ugh!"
Seemingly out of nowhere, a crimson energy whip suddenly coiled around Kid Flash's throat, quickly constricting around his neck before jerking backwards violently.
The surprised speedster was thrown off his feet and away from his equally taken aback teammates, who whirled around towards the direction of this new threat.
Clawing at twisted snake of energy as it continued to tighten around his throat, Wally's face distorted into a pained grimace as he felt his body being dragged backwards towards the feminine assailant.
Whisper O'Daire's wryly smile only widened as she coiled up her end of the energy whip around her wrist, her eyes confidently flickering from Kid Flash's struggling body at the ground in front of her to the
With the metallic feather of a trick arrow caressing his cheek as he drew the arrow back across his bow, Roy Harper's eyes narrowed as he eyed what metallic gauntlets fastened around his hands with thumb triggers at his palms' reach. Circular red designs were etched across the exterior of the designs, along with other peculiar aesthetic designs that instantly piqued the always observant Boy Wonder's attention.
And as he produced his escrima sticks, he continued to scrutinize the technology they were wielding and mentally cross-referencing it against the various black market inventories he's analyzed before.
"You know, I oughta thank you kids for thinning out the competition. Snart was beginning to be a nuisance I'd have to deal with sooner than later, but why complain when three punk kids show up to do your job for you, eh?" he grinned.
"Personally, I was rooting for Snart," Whisper shrugged nonchalantly, while still maintaining her grip over the now writhing Kid Flash at her feet. "We were hoping those Central City hacks would get lucky enough to knock off the fast one, but that's a problem easily rectified."
"Neither of you are leaving with that tech," Roy declared calmly, the metallic arrowhead level with Bruno's chest and then O'Daire's leering expression.
Exchanging a knowing glance with his redhead, the Intergang leader was all chuckles as he turned back towards Roy. "Kid, you have no idea the power that's in my hands right now. Matter of fact, it's beyond what little you think you understand about this world."
"That's because it's not in this world," Robin stated simply, still eyeing the gauntlets as he continued to speak. "Nothing in the criminal black market matches those designs, so I'm guessing you've been dealing with suppliers from other planets. Maybe other solar systems."
"Well ain't you a little detective!" he jeered, feigning shock at how quickly Robin deduced the source of their weapons. "Now, I'd go into more detail but as a professional I have to maintain total confidentiality with my client. I do take my job seriously, after all."
Reaffirming his smug expression, he let out an exaggerated sigh before speaking again. "So I guess you're just gonna imagine where I get my hardware from, at least in the last moments of life I let you have."
And with that, he snapped his right forearm towards the duo and unleashed a concentrated blast of pressurized air hurtling towards them.
"Scatter!" Robin's words barely resonated with the crimson archer, who by sheer instinct had already thrown himself to the side to avoid the blast.
Vaulting over a row of industrial barrels, Robin took cover and rummaged through his utility belt as Mannheim's attention diverted towards Roy.
Pressing the trigger again, Mannheim unleashed another blast that just barely missing the retreating archer, the full vibrational blast instead impacting a nearby industrial container.
Turning back to his lieutenant, he barked out a simple order: "Break his neck. I'll deal with his friends."
Nodding as he stormed off, she glared down at the restrained speedster with a particular sadistic glint in her eyes.
However, in an instant her hubris soon turned to horror as she soon found Kid Flash all the way up to a knee with both hands wrapped around his end of the energy whip.
"My...turn," he breathed out hoarsely, before clamping down on the whip and by sheer willpower forcing his legs back into motion.
Managing to run a circle around his previously kneeling position, the sudden shift in momentum forcing her off her feet and towards him as he found his footing and wrenched back as hard as he could.
Now with a surprised gape etched across her face, Whisper was catapulted forward in the air towards the battered speedster with the arm that the whip was coiled around nearly yanked out of its socket in the process.
Feeling the wind pound her face as she continued to accelerate through the air, her eyes widened as the concrete floor a few meters ahead unceremoniously cushioned her fall.
"Oomph..." Tumbling straight on her face before flopping to the floor, she rolled a good foot or two before catching herself and planting her elbows down.
Empty air caressed her fingers as she reached for the energy whip, eliciting a frustrated cry from the Intergang officer who lifted herself up to a knee.
Forced to use an alternative weapon, she fished in her jacket and produced a handgun of alien design.
Now staggering up to her feet, she started to aim it in Kid Flash's direction only to be hit with another surprise.
Barreling into her with as much force as he could muster at the moment, her body instantly crumpled as she flew backwards into a wall before finally collapsing to the floor.
Panting over her sprawled out form, Kid Flash painstakingly untangled the whip from his neck and began sucking in mouthfuls of air while at the same time massaging his trachea.
"You...are...not... a nice lady," he wheezed in between breaths, before the sudden sound of flesh hitting metal from the opposite end of the facility sounded throughout the warehouse.
Mannheim's fifth vibrational blast finally managed to hit Roy, knocking him off his feet and into a collection of sealed oil barrels. Hitting the mountain of metal shoulder first, his trusted bow slipped from his grasp in the process.
Groaning inwardly as he struggled to relieve the searing pain in the back of his head from smacking against the barrel, Roy Harper desperately tried to crawl free of the wreckage but found some resistance with one of the barrels pinned against his leg.
"Wouldja believe these are just the prototypes?" he remarked as he sauntered up to the hero, referring to his gauntlets before aiming one at his writhing body. "Now imagine what the finished product can do, say against a bank or better yet the Federal Reserve. Pretty sweet, huh?"
His answer was a series of groans and winces from the trapped Roy, who was inching briskly towards his bow.
"Well, for now I'll just settle for shattering your nervous system," he said darkly, just as a black cable looped around his forearm.
Pressing the trigger, the intended blast for Roy's spine instead shifted upwards and blew a good chunk out of the ceiling scaffolding. The cable had successfully yanked his arm upwards just as the blast was fired off.
This was followed up by the Boy Wonder sprinting towards the angered supercriminal as he fired off another vibrational blast only for Robin to duck out of harm's way.
Jumping off the ground just as the two were about to collide he soared above Bruno's initial volley of punches, twisting his body in mid-air to evade the metallic blurs.
Then, once he had somersaulted behind him Robin reared both boots back and mule kicked the base of Mannheim's neck to send him staggering him forwards.
Nearly losing his footing before shaking off the initial grogginess, Bruno whirled around ready to dish out some payback.
He only got one step ahead before Roy suddenly tackled him from his blindside, wrapping his forearms around his waist for leverage while attempting to take down the mountain of a man.
Unfortunately, despite the surprise maneuver Bruno refused to buckle and kept his feet planted on the ground.
Though his boots skated a considerable amount along the floor, he remained upright despite Roy's best effort to grapple him down to the ground.
Countering by locking Roy's unprotected neck in a side headlock as the two continued to wrestle for control, he instinctively redirected the momentum by lifting up his waist and hip tossing the archer off of him.
Throwing him to the floor easily, he chided the archer's efforts by clicking his lips together in a condescending tisk-tisk sound.
Lowering his left gauntlet towards the now kneeling hero, he was once again all smiles. "You're gonna have to do better than tha-ugggh!"
Before he could finish, Kid Flash lit him up with a right cross while streaking past him at the same time.
Feeling his rattled jawbone as Kid Flash screeched to a halt beside him, Bruno began to teeter back and forth on his heels.
His head bloody but unbowed, Bruno started towards the speedster only for Wally to beat him to the punch, literally.
A second lightning-quick strike courtesy of the fastest kid alive to the now reeling Bruno had him stumbling all the way into Robin's aerial trajectory.
Swinging towards him with one fist cocked and raised, Robin swiftly socked him across the face before disengaging from the grapple gun and rolling out of range. The punch had jolted his head upwards towards the ceiling, causing his feet to almost trip over themselves as they pivoted a full 360 back around.
Legs wobbly and arms now hanging loose by his sides, his eyes drooped open long enough to see Roy Harper limp close enough to rear his fist back and deliver a thunderous punch that finally knocked the fight out of him.
Already unconscious as he hit the floor, Bruno Mannheim lay defeated at the feet of the three teenagers that he along with the rest of the criminals had so duly underestimated.
Reclipping his grapple gun, Robin wiped his soaked mane of hair with a sigh of relief as he stood next to the equally exhausted Roy Harper now standing tall over the Intergang leader.
The two exchanged glances, but no words were said. None needed to be, as their actions tonight had already spoken volumes.
A sudden gust of wind from their right signaled the return of Kid Flash, who handed Roy back his bow and joined their silent stance of solidarity as well.
Tonight was the night, but it wasn't over quite yet.