"Good morning my fellow criminals. I'm sure you all know who I am, I'm pretty famous, but in case you don't, my name is Edward Nygma, others call me the Riddler. I'm here representing Hugo Strange's team, unfortunately for us, but unfortunately for all of you, I've managed to hack into the network that controls this entire arena. I'm giving you all six hours to begin trekking to the giant cave in the west wing of the arena that looks like a giant skull, real original I know. Once we're all here, we can begin duking it out and end this once and for all. However, if not everyone has arrived within the given time period, I'll kill all of you with one click of a button. Buh bye." Said the Riddler over a giant screen in the sky.

"You're confident it will work?" asked Bane.

"Oh yeah, they'll have no idea I'm bluffing, and they'll have no idea we're leading all of them into a trap."

Elsewhere…

"We're not going." Said Deadshot.

"Why the hell not?! He'll kill us if we don't!" shouted Cold.

"He's bluffing! I know the Riddler, he's smart, but he's nowhere near smart enough to hack apokoliptian technology. We're staying here."

"Like hell. I'm not taking the risk, come on Boomer."

"If you want to go get yourselves killed, be my guest. I'm staying here. Copperhead, you can be an idiot and go with them if you want, or you can stay here and live. It's your choice." Said Deadshot, giving him an ultimatum. Everyone's eyes were trained on Copperhead.

"I uh, think I'll take my chances with Deadshot." He said nervously. Without another word, Cold and Boomerang left.

The only other team that fell for Riddler's threat was Hamilton's team. Girder and Volcana were both stupid enough, and Ocean Master just wanted a way to end things. Manta, however, knew Riddler was bluffing, but he saw this as an opportunity to finish things as well. They were busy climbing up the hill that Deadshot and Copperhead resided on top of, which none of them knew.

"Sun's getting' low, I'm gonna grab us some more firewood." Said Copperhead, getting up. Deadshot didn't acknowledge him. Black Manta was way ahead of his team, and he reached the top of the hill first, and the second he pulled himself up he heard a gun cocked and saw Deadshot on his feet.

"David."

"Floyd."

"You going to meet the Riddler?"

"Unfortunately. My team is filled with idiots."

"Sorry to hear that."

"Where's your team?"

"I've got the same problem. I just wasn't stupid enough to go with them."

"Wish I could say the same."

"Where's the rest of your team?"

"Slow climbers."

They stood in silence.

"Look, Floyd, you're my friend. I don't want to kill my friends, so if you run now, I can promise you that I'll lead my team in the other direction. But if you stay here for any more than a minute, then I can't make any promises."

He hesitated.

"I wish you the best of luck, David. If there's anyone besides me I want to survive this thing, it's you." He didn't wait for Manta to say anything before running off to find Copperhead. Within the next couple seconds, the rest of Manta's team got to the top.

"Took you long enough. Come on, let's go to the left. It looks like it'll be quicker." Said Manta.

"Whatever gets me out of here sooner." Said Orm, shuffling past him.

"Deadshot, what the-" asked Copperhead, but he was interrupted by Deadshot running into him and knocking the firewood to the ground.

"Manta and his team are in the woods. Run, if we go fast we might be able to find Cold and Boomer, we'd have the same amount of people, go!" he said quickly, prompting Copperhead to turn and run.

After about a half hour of endless running, Deadshot spotted Cold and Boomer in a clearing. He took his chances and shouted at them. "Cold!" He heard his name and looked up, spotting them.

"Well, well, look who came running after us." He said, patting Boomer's arm to get his attention. Within the next minute they were all together.

"We almost ran into Hamilton's team. I still think Riddler's bluffing, but strength in numbers. If anything, we can use this as an opportunity to take as many of them out as we can." He explained.

"Alright then. Let's keep moving." Said Cold, but Deadshot walked in front of him.

"I'm still in charge." Said Deadshot, causing Cold to roll his eyes.

Hamilton's team reached the cave first, and Manta hesitated behind as the rest of his team walked ahead. No one was anywhere to be seen. Girder eventually tripped a wire that released bags of fear gas, instantly surrounding the three of them, but Manta screamed and ran to one side of the cave's exterior to avoid it.

Orm saw the world on fire, and his brother was standing over him with a crown, and his trident about to stab him. He was laughing, which Orm couldn't stand.

Girder saw himself unable to turn his skin into steel, and he was being cornered by two cops with guns, and more cops just started showing up, and eventually they all started firing.

Volcana saw an overly-demonized version of Superman, relentlessly beating her.

In reality, all three of them were rolling on the ground, squirming. Bane grabbed an AK-47 and walked out to face them all. He chuckled as none of them even noticed him and he open fired, killing all three of them.

The rest of Strange's team walked out, and Harley couldn't stop herself from laughing. But things changed when Manta jumped out and blasted his heat vision aimlessly. Ivy tackled Harley behind Bane, who quickly grabbed Scarecrow, who attempted to run away, and held him in front of the heat beam, which killed him. When the beam stopped, Croc began stampeding towards Manta, who blasted him. It bounced off of his thick hide, and Croc broke Manta's helmet with one of his claws, but he backed up and kicked Croc as hard as he could in the throat, then got down and kicked his legs, causing him to fall. As everyone else was distracted, he quickly jumped and slid down the mountain as they chased after him.

Eventually, he ran into Deadshot and his team, but he didn't even waste time threatening them, he just shouted "My whole team is dead, and they're after me, run!" and then he ran past them. Deadshot was the first one to turn and follow Manta. Cold was second, then Boomerang. Copperhead was about to, but Croc burst through the trees and swatted him to the side, slashing his chest as he collided with a tree, which instantly killed him. Croc was blinded by rage, and his team was very close behind him. It seemed as if the chase went on forever. When they reached the point where they could begin climbing again, Manta instead chose to veer to the right, and was followed by Lord's team. Croc, however, was not as swift, and he collided with the mountain. Bane barely managed to stop himself in time, and Harley ran into Bane. Ivy reached out her arms to stop herself, but Riddler collided with her, causing her to fall on top of Harley.

"Get off of me, Nygma!" shouted Ivy, shoving him off.

Bane walked forward and helped Croc up, who sniffed the air.

"I've still got their scent." He said.

"Good. Because we follow them, this game ends as soon as possible. We've already lost Two-Face and Scarecrow, we cannot afford any more casualties." Said Bane.

"Now hold on there, 'Bane'," said Ivy, with a hint of disdain in her voice. "Have you noticed how both of them are dead because of you?"

"How dare you?!"

"No, really, you're the one that made Two-Face go outside the cabin to check for attackers, when he had a crocodile who could survive a bullet to the head. And then, you were the one that grabbed Scarecrow and used him as a human shield!" she shouted, advancing towards him slowly.

"Red, calm down. Bane's the best bet we got at getting' outta here!" pleaded Harley. Ivy looked over at her and saw the fear in her eyes. She sighed.

"Fine. Lead the way." She said, motioning towards the woods. Bane grunted and looked at Croc, who nodded, and began following the scent.

Elsewhere…

"I don't know Spider, I mean, what if Riddler was telling the truth? What if he really can kill us if he wants?" said a frightened Multiplex. He and Black Spider had went out to the beach next to their home base to get some fresh air and check the perimeter.

"I'm telling you Danton, there's no way Riddler could hack apokoliptian technology. We're safer here than anywhere else." Urged Spider. He would soon come to regret those words, as not a minute later King Shark began walking out of the water.

"Shit. Run." Said Spider, but when they turned around they were met with the entirety of the Waller/Eiling team, except for Reverse-Flash. They all began advancing towards them, but Multiplex grabbed his gun and sprouted an army.

"You people are gonna pay for what you did my team. Oh, and we're taking our weapons back." said Deathstroke, unsheathing his sword. Then, all hell broke loose. King Shark lunged at Spider, but he jumped up and kicked out one of his teeth. He then dodged an ice blast from Killer Frost and turned around to shoot her in the shoulder. She screamed and fell to her knees, blasting another ice beam, which went way off course and hit King Shark in the chest. Weather Wizard then began creating a tornado, which a lot of the Multiplex clones got sucked up into, but Spider then fired at him, which distracted him, but Deathstroke lunged in front of him and sliced the bullet in half. He launched himself at Black Spider, who dodged the sword, and shot it out of Deathstroke's hands. Deathstroke then hit the gun out of Spider's hand and they engaged in hand-to-hand combat. Everyone else was busy with the Multiplex army, that just kept growing. None of them could tell which one was the real Multiplex.

"God, which one is he?!" shouted Killer Frost, who was clutching her bullet wound and freezing Multiplexes at the same time. Plastique then ran up to the frozen wall of Multiplexes and blew it up. Sadly, they were all just clones. Killer Frost tried to stand up again, but in the blink of an eye, Black Spider kicked Deathstroke's knee backwards, grabbed a gun out of his holster and shot Killer Frost straight through the forehead, and was about to shoot Plastique, but his ankle was grabbed by King Shark, who lifted him up and slammed him back into the ground. He then lifted him up again, but before he could do anything, Grodd ran over and grabbed both of his arms, ripping his torso off of his legs, causing his blood and insides to go all over the ground. Plastique immediately vomited, and El Diablo almost did the same thing. They were all too distracted by that to notice the real Multiplex escaping back to their base, although he left behind a few clones to keep fighting. Although, they were all quickly killed, and the Waller/Eiling team was left with no one else to fight. Deathstroke snapped his knee back into place and ordered them all to keep looking for the base. By this time, six hours had passed, and everyone pretty much realized that the Riddler was bluffing.

"You're gonna be alright, Hartley. I'm tellin' you, I'll get us out of this." said Mirror Master.

"Spider's dead!" shouted Multiplex as he ran into the base and slipped. He caught himself and shouted it once more.

"What?!" demanded Mirror Master.

"Waller and Eiling's teams, they formed an alliance and they attacked us! He killed Frost, but then they ripped him in half! I barely got away, but they're bound to still be looking for us! We've got to get out of here, now."

Mirror Master got up and quickly walked over to a mirror on the wall. He tapped it and it rippled, turning into a portal.

"Grab Piper and get it." He ordered.

"What are you gonna do?" asked Multiplex.

"I'll be right behind you. Just go!" he said. Multiplex did as he was told and went into the mirror. Mirror Master ran over to the exit and looked around the corner, noticing that they were very close. He grabbed as many weapons from the cornucopia as he could and threw them all into the portal before grabbing every single one of the explosives and activated them, lining them on the cave's entrance. He then ran into the portal, which shattered immediately after he jumped in. A few seconds later, Grodd rolled the boulder over, which set off all of the explosives. Grodd was killed instantly, but Parasite jumped in front of everyone else and absorbed the energy from the explosion, although he fell to his knees and was breathing heavily for a few minutes as he got it all under control. They went into the base, which had been completely ruined by the inner explosion, and were unable to salvage anything.

Elsewhere…

"Damn!" shouted Eiling. "My team's down to only three members!"

"Oh quit complaining! I only have one left!" shouted Hamilton.

"It matters not how many you all have, as my team is clearly going to win." Boasted Strange.

"Yeah right." Said Rochev. "The only two people on your team who actually like each other are Harley and Ivy, and Bane's already willingly sacrificed two of his teammates. You may have the advantage in numbers, but you're still going down. Mirror Master's proving to be unbeatable, and the Multiplex army hasn't failed once."

"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over the fastest man alive being on my team!" mocked Eiling.

Wow… this game has turned them all into whiny little babies. Besides, we all know my team's gonna win. Thought Lord to himself.

There were only 19 contestants left in the arena, and for the rest of that day, which wasn't very long, there were no more confrontations. At midnight, as usual, the deaths of Volcana, Girder, Ocean Master, Scarecrow, Copperhead, Killer Frost, Black Spider, and Gorilla Grodd were all acknowledged.