Santa Prisca July 19th...The alarms blare in a warehouse, complete with red bubbling fluid in every tank. The source of the alarm is a group of intruders is Bane and two other men. Surrounded by guards on the ground and guards on the catwalks c.o.c.king their rifles.
"Oursublime Master proclaims he will depart this facility… if… one of you defeats his champion in single combat." A Cobra agent tells the trapped trespa.s.sers.
Bane pushes aside the foot soldiers that came with him, walking to the gated door with pride. Buzzer goes off and Bane holds the door. "Just make it interesting." Then he shoves the door open and walks in.
The soldier smirks as the door shuts behind Bane.
Inside Bane sees that there are many more soldiers on the interlocking catwalks, all of them armed with rifles. A buzzer goes off, drawing the bodybuilder"s attention to the door on the other side of the arena. Where two people stand. Both of them blonde-brunettes with black pants and boots, and blue tank tops that cut off to expose their stomachs. Only the male walks through, but he"s thin which gets Bane"s attention, albeit with confusion.
Behind Bane, a black gauntlet with red tubes on it, attached to a long clear tube fall to the floor. He picks it up, confused. "You give me back my greatest weapon?" Bane asks, confused. "You give What"s the catch."
"No catch. It would hardly be a test of his champion"s prowess if you were not at your best." the soldier says.
Bane attaches the gauntlet. "You want my best?" he activates the venom feed as he connects to the back of his head. His pupils dilating as he grunts the venom flowing through his body. As it finishes he"s panting and turning towards his opponent. "You got it." He cracks his neck.
His opponent hasn"t moved, though the girl behind him steps up with a needle gun filled with a purple serum which she injects into his shoulder. The effect is immediate, his eyes shrink to pinp.r.i.c.ks as his hair stands nearly on end. He stumbles forward, his head held in his hands as he falls to his knees. His shoulder grows ma.s.sively, ripping his shirt. Bane watches closes. The choker around his neck rips off as he grows fangs and his body grows to match his arm"s size. His skin turn green-grey with red slashes. The girl closes the door.
Panting, he gets off his knees, and charges at Bane with a roar. The downward punch is caught, Bane slides a foot or so back, but doesn"t fall. Returning the feat with a solid uppercut to his opponent"s jaw. The cross Bane throws to his chest does nothing, and he smirks down at Bane.
Grabbing the back of his neck in his hand, before uppercutting him in the stomach hard enough to knock the wind out of him. Then following up with another uppercut and across to Bane"s face, before he can fully fall back Bane is grabbed by his wrist and thrown into the wall. Landing on all fours and his head on his arm.
Leaving no room to react, Bane is. .h.i.t again as he stands, denting the pipe behind him shut and increasing the pressure in the pipe exponentially. Steam envelopes the two as Bane is grabbed by the back of his neck again and thrown out of the steam. His opponent jumping after him nailing Bane in the face hard enough to create a Bane-sized crater under him.
The power of the strike brings some people to stop, even one looks away.
Bane groans, then falling unconscious.
"Hail Kobra." the soldier says. "Hail Kobra," he says louder.
All begin to chant. "Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra. Hail Kobra." above them Kobra stands arms crossed and pleased.
Outside the facility are even more Kobra followers, guarding the entire island.
The Team is in the Bioship and en-route to their first official mission.
"We"re approaching Santa Prisca." Miss Martian tells them.
Robin is thinking back on the debrief.
"Isla Santa Prisca," Batman says, showing the Team the map of the island, all stand watching, but Kid Flash is also eating chips. "This island nation is the primary source of a dangerous and illegal neurosteroid a strength-enhancing drug sold under the street name Venom." the display changes to show the shots of the warehouse. "The infrared heat signatures indicate that their factory operating at full capacity but all shipments of Venom have inexplicably cut off. That"s where this Team comes in. This is a covert recon mission only. Observe and report. If the Justice League need to intervene, it will." Once again the profile changes back to the island map. "The plan requires two drop zones." said drop zones appear on the map.
"So who"s in charge?" Robin asks getting Batman and Red Tornado to whip around and face the Boy Wonder before exchange glances.
"Work that out between you," Batman commands, Robin nods a smile forming on his face. Which is still there as he refocuses.
"Drop Zone A in 30." Miss Martian announces, startling the thirteen-year-old and getting him to look back at her, and Aqualad. Who stands as the straps remove themselves. Even his chair disappears as he stands up.
He hits his symbol and his suit turns from navy blue and red with black accents to black, grey and black accents. "Ready," he says, looking to Miss Martian.
"Putting Bioship in camouflage mode," she says as they come within eyesight of the island. Over the water a hole in the base of the Bioship forms, Aqualad dropping out and diving into the water below.
Under the water, he avoids sunken mines and slices through a rope net with his water-bearer that turns into a sword.
He jumps out of the water and onto the raining beach, just out of sight of the cameras. Placing a silver and red disruptor on top of it.
"Heat and motion sensors are patched," he tells the team through his comm. "Data is now on a continuous loop. Move in."
Above him, the Bioship"s outline is barely noticeable.
"Drop Zone B." Miss Martian says as they stop over a break in the canopy. All the remaining members stand as their straps and chairs fade into the ship"s floor. Miss Martian raises a hand and lines fall from the ceiling which Robin and Kid Flash don"t hesitate to attach to.
Once attached, Kid Flash raises his hand to his lightning bolt emblem. The white turning light grey as the yellow turns to a darker grey and his goggles turn almost black, his red accents remaining as he looks it over with a smile. "How cool is this?" he asks, turning towards Miss Martian.
"Very impressive." Miss Martian says, before her own clothes change, her blue boots and skirt become a skin-tight full body suit, all black and accented with the same red X and edging like on Martian Manhunter. Only her cape remains blue.
"Uh, that works too," he admits, stunned, then turns towards Superboy who kept the black t-shirt with the Superman S on it, black pants and boots. "Hey, Supey, not too late to put on the new stealth tech."
"No capes, no tights. No offence," he says crossing his arms.
Robin the Turns towards Steve who was I his own world "What about you Cap? are you trying the stealth new tech?" Robin asked.
Snapping out of it Steve got up from his seat and put his mask on and said "I"ll stick to the red and white stripes."
Shrugging Robin replied, "Okay, you"re lost."
Miss Martian glances over at Superboy and says "It would totally work for you." Superboy looks over at her, and she stands up straighter and stops leaning her head on her hand. "In that, you can totally do good work in those clothes." she covers, badly.
Superboy smiles then looks away from her, embarra.s.sed Miss Martian brings her hood over her head and disappears from sight before dropping out of the ship.
While she was dropping out of the ship Cap walked over to superboy and punched him in the arm and said "Ask her out already it"s clear she"s into you"
"I don"t know what you"re talking about" Superboy replied before jumping out of the ship, "wimp" Cap thought before following suit and jumping out without a line.
Miss Martian, Kid Flash, and Robin hit with small thuds. Realizing Superboy"s not beside them, they glance up and yelp before diving to the side. Just narrowly avoid Superboy as he hits the ground hard enough to create a boom and a two-foot-deep crater. "Knew I didn"t need a line," he says confidently.
"And yet, creating a seismic event may not have helped us much with the "covert"," Robin grumbles as he stands up from the base of the tree he threw himself into. Kid Flash comes out of the forest from the other direction and Miss Martian comes back down to the ground.
"Seriously Bro you need to learn what covert means" everyone then looks towards the direction of the voice only to see Cap standing on a branch of the tree above them.
"Wait...were is your line?" a surprised Kid Flash questioned seeing no line on his belt leading to the ship.
"Don"t have one" Cap answered while jumping out of the tree landing next to Superboy.
"Oh okay, that explains it...wait YOU JUMPED WITHOUT A LINE!!!" Kid Flash was shocked to see someone without powers to jump out of a plane and survive the fall.
"what can I say I aimed for the bushes," Cap said while walking past him.
"Aqualad, Drop B is a go." Miss Martian says.
Aqualad climbs a cliff with ease. "Head to the factory. I"ll track your GPS and meet you ASAP."
"Roger that." Robin says, looking down at his hologlove which has a map of the island, as Superboy and Miss Martian stand at their full height and look over his head on his right and Kid Flash is crouched over his left shoulder.
Then all four take off to the factory. Pa.s.sing through the forest, under a waterfall, before ending up back in the forest.
Back in trappable terrain, Robin pulls up hiss hologlove which shows off mines that have been set around them, then the safest and straightest path to the factory.
There"s rustling in the forest, but a snap of a twig catches Superboy"s full attention and stops him short. "Did you hear that?"
"Uh, no…" Kid Flash snarks. "Wait." clearly he realized how rude that was. "Is this a super-hearing thing?"
"You do have great ears." Miss Martian comments. Neither boy comments.
"Okay, Rob, now what?" Kid Flash asks, but Robin is once again gone. "Man, I hate it when he does that."
Superboy, Kid, switch to infrared, see if you"re being tracked." Aqualad commands through the comms.
Kid Flash smirks and drops his goggles down over his eyes. Immediately picking up on heat signatures further down the trail. "Got a squad of armed bozos incoming."
The three, run further forward, but only because they can duck behind a rock and fallen tree to avoid being seen. Superboy looks in the opposite direction of Kid Flash. "Two squads." he corrects. Then expands his focus. "But they"ll meet each other before they find us."