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Saturday, June 10, 2012, 01:25
Robin grabbed his laptop as he snuck down to the Batcave, avoiding Alfred. He had pried the cast on his leg off Friday night, replacing it with a lightweight brace. He had been working nonstop on getting another lead as to where Drachenfluch's main base might be at while trying to prevent the destruction of Helsinki. Actually, Artemis was leading Batgirl, Ms. Manhunter, and Black Canary to Helsinki to prevent a pissed off Ratna from nuking it. Robin had also gotten a lead on Devi- her trail led to Strasbourg, France, and Kaldur had sent Red Arrow, Kid Flash, Zatanna, and Young Manhunter to sweep the city for her.
"Huh," Robin muttered, pulling up one of his more recent files for the gangs he had been working on on the Batcomputer, before pulling up one of the news channels and playing yesterday's news- he had been busy shoving Penguin back in Arkham with Batgirl, but he had a feeling about it that told him he should watch it. Strangely enough, the file he had pulled up was on Parlakuzgun, must have been part of the impulse he was going off of right now…
"Meanwhile, in international news, big-league gang leader Altan Yilmaz broke out of the Turkish prison he was being held in, only to be granted asylum by Bialya! That's right, folks, the Bialyan queen agreed to grant the mass-murdering leader of the Middle Eastern gang Parlakuzgun asylum. That prompted the new Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi to terminate the Egypt-Bialya alliance due to Queen Bee's sheltering of the man who ordered Parlakuzgun to act against Egyptian forces and defile sacred sites. Also, Indonesia is sent reeling after mercenaries of Israeli origin bombed Jakarta yesterday. The city is still on fire, with the death toll above five thousand, and climbing."
Robin felt like he had been slapped. He needed to talk to Kaldur, right then, and pulled out his communicator. "Kaldur," he barked.
"Yes Robin?"
"You do know that Jakarta is in flames right now, right?"
"I am afraid I do not understand. What is this Jakarta?"
"Jakarta is the Indonesian capital, which just so happened to be bombed by Israeli mercenaries yesterday. We should get people over there to help."
"How do you suggest we do that?"
"Zeta. We just have to hope that the zeta tube in Jakarta is still working."
"Are you able to check if it is still online?"
"Hmm, give me a moment…" Robin pulled up a window on one of the monitors, "It's still working. The code is JAK-121AR78TA910."
"Very well. I will be going, along with Aquagirl, Supergirl, Superboy, and Tempest. You are to stay and coordinate all current missions and missions that might still occur while we are away."
"Indeed. Oh, look at this. Jakarta is still in flames… Oh, holy cow. Most of the city's in flames, I'd focus on the edges of the fires- anywhere beyond there is most likely a deadzone… That would make approximately fifty-six percent of the city a burning, rubble-filled no-man's-land. Watch your back, Kaldur. You'll have to keep an eye out for Malamingin and Israeli mercenaries. The Israeli are in black and blue, and you know what Malamingin looks like."
"Thank you for the warning. We shall be on our way."
"Stay safe," Robin's voice was low and soft, and he closed the communicator as Kaldur cut the line. Updating his files on Parlakuzgun, he figured that as soon as Kaldur got back from Jakarta, he'd have to pay a visit to a certain mother and son in Turkey…
But for now, these Israeli mercenaries were providing a nice bit of interest.
Saturday, June 10, 2012, 07:08
Robin sat back to admire his work. He now had a basic outline for the new Israeli mercenaries. Their name was the Skyslayers, and they were led by one Azzan Zahavi. They worked with an Albanian gang by the name of Rëniazjarri, lead by Leka Morina, and they had ties to Parlakuzgun. The three gangs focused on the eastern Mediterranean Sea, lifting desperate people off the streets and 'enlisting' them. Rëniazjarri was fifteen percent Greek.
Rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand, Robin pulled up the cameras in the Cave, glancing at them before pulling up communications with the squad in Helsinki.
"Robin to Artemis, everything going smoothly?" The bird leaned forward, eyebrows furrowed as he began to pull up his files on Gortinn-7 on another monitor.
"As smoothly as possible. We're getting close to Ratna, and where she hid the bomb. How's everything on your end?"
"Fairly quiet. Beta squad in Strasbourg is doing fine, they're still not very close to Devi but from what I saw she was fairly calculating and smart. Gamma squad in Jakarta is still doing fine, Aqualad, Aquagirl, and Tempest are putting out the fires while Supergirl and Superboy save people. Most of the fire is contained there, and we estimate they'll be able to zeta back in a few hours."
"'Kay. Artemis out."
"Robin out." Robin cut the communication with alpha, before calling up beta.
"Robin to Red Arrow. How's everything on your end?"
"Pretty good. We keep running into dead ends though. This place is like a maze!"
"You have your phone? I can send you a map of Strasbourg to it."
"That would be wonderful. I need to get going now, Red Arrow out."
"Robin out." Robin reached over to grab his hot chocolate, taking a sip before placing the cup back on the table and calling gamma squad.
"Robin to Aqualad. You doing okay?"
"Quite well. It is a very good happenstance that Jakarta is right next to the ocean."
"Good. I need to do something for beta, Robin out."
"Aqualad out."
Robin pulled up a digital map of Strasbourg, checking it out for accuracy before sending it to Roy. He frowned at the computer, more specifically the files on Gortinn-7, before typing something.
When in contact with extraterrestrials, ask for info on Eurytia war.
K}:.
"Okay, so we're going to go in, kick the crap out of the henchwomen, Batgirl will disarm the nuke, while we try to get Ratna into custody. Sound good?" Artemis looked at the squad she was leading, an eyebrow raised, looking like her usual snarky self. In truth, she was extremely nervous. What if she messed up? Not only would she die, but so would Batgirl, Ms. Manhunter, Black Canary, and hundreds of thousands of people.
On second thought, she should have called Interpol and warned them of the nuke in Helsinki and have them start evacuating the city, but on third thought that might have provoked Ratna into detonating it early.
"We got it, now let's just bring this woman to justice!" Batgirl was grinning, but in reality the red-haired Gotham crime fighter was just as nervous or possibly more so than Artemis. This would be her first time disarming a nuke. What if she couldn't do it? She was extremely good at disarming the bombs made by Gotham criminals, but this was a nuke. Of Indonesian origin. Completely different from a pipe bomb of Gotham desperation origins.
Black Canary was nervous, but mostly for her younger Teammates. As a veteran Leaguer, she had experience in failure, naturally from working in Gotham Artemis and Batgirl did too, but never on this scale. Black Canary had accidentally allowed a third of Moscow to be blown up, taking hundreds of lives with it. But part of the job was learning to move past the failure, and onto the next mission.
Ms. Manhunter was secretly hyperventilating. What if they failed? They would all die, not only those caught in the blast but so many more because the air current pattern would carry the fallout north across the rest of Finland, exposing quite a bit of the country to radiation sickness.
"Execute," Artemis ordered, and the four women leaped down, weapons readied.
All Hell broke loose as Batgirl leapt over to the nuke, opening up the panel on the side and looking at the mess of wires. Always the red wire… But what happens when there are two red wires, a yellow wire, a black wire, and a white wire?
Artemis shot arrows at a couple of women who looked as though they were cursing their lives, and Black Canary screamed at a group of women as Ms. Manhunter quickly pulled Ratna away from the door she was trying to run through.
"Is this her?" The green teen asked Black Canary, who nodded, Canary Crying at another group of women.
"Turunkan aku, anda pembodohan kecil!" Ratna was furious. (Put me down you little twit!)
"I don't know what she's saying, but I don't think it's good," Ms. Manhunter muttered, annoyed.
"Sangat baik. Perempuan, api api," Ratna cooled off, and ordered her women to fire. (Very well. Women, fire the fire.) A blast of flames came from the muzzle of a flamethrower a woman was holding, and Ms. Manhunter released her telekinetic grip on the woman as she curled up to avoid the burning blast. Black Canary kicked the woman holding the flamethrower, but Ratna had already made her escape. Batgirl had finished disarming the nuke, ending up just pulling all of the wires at the same time.
Ms. Manhunter was sitting on the floor, still weakened from the flamethrower, and Artemis was limping over, a knife lodged in her left leg just above and to the right of the knee.
"Artemis! Are you okay?" Batgirl called, worried.
"Mostly… Got a little problem here, but well… Nothing too bad," Artemis winced, a hand near the injury.
Batgirl frowned, before striding over and throwing her friend's arm around her shoulders. Black Canary raised an eyebrow. "Should I call Interpol about this?"
"Yep. Go ahead. Call Robin, too, let him know we're on our way back," the Vietnamese teen replied. Black Canary nodded, pulling out her phone.
"Hey… Yea, it's me again… No, nothing blew up… Do you want the nuke or not?... Yes, we're along Kirkkokatu… Just come get the nuke, will you?... Okay, fine," the other three girls could hear Canary's side of the conversation, and they wondered what exactly the rest of it sounded like. "Okay, Interpol will be here soon."
"Okay," Artemis growled, hand still hovering near the knife as Batgirl helped the blonde sit down before tearing off a part of her cape to use as a bandage before bracing Artemis' leg with her knees and yanking the knife out. Artemis grunted in pain, and Batgirl began wrapping the injury with the strips of purple cape.
Soon enough, Interpol had shown up, and taken the nuke, so Artemis had Black Canary call Robin.
"Black Canary to Robin."
"Hey Canary. How's things?"
"Painful, for Artemis at least. She got knifed in the leg. Ms. Manhunter is still a little downed from the flamethrowers, I think I have a sprained finger, and Batgirl's still pretty fine."
"So you got the nuke taken care of?"
"And without blowing up Helsinki, too."
"Okay. I'll see you at the Cave- I'll be prepping the medbay, or at least some fresh bandages for Artemis because let me guess Batgirl's using her cape as a bandage- again."
"You nailed it."
"'Kay, so bandages, a finger brace, and rubbing alcohol. I'll see you in ten minutes, tops. Robin out."
"Black Canary out."
Batgirl helped Artemis to her feet, and they walked the couple blocks to the zeta platform- in the shape of an old dumpster.
I am so sorry I'm updating late! I completely forgot, but that is no excuse. For any of you Warriors fans keep an eye out for my fic The Bright Era.