Litchfield County August 3rd...In a field off the main highway, six trucks are sitting ready, while the part of the dismantled Android is being loaded. Overseeing this is Red Tornado, Atom, Green Arrow, Flash, and Superman.
Turning away and using his enhanced vision he can see the Team waiting on their motorcycles, Aqualad and M"gann on blue, Kid Flash on yellow and Superboy and Robin on red while Cap was on his own motorcycle. Superman zeroes in on Superboy, who returns his gaze. He turns away, Superboy looks down before sliding on his helmet as the engines from the truck rev. Their rev their cycles and come to the edge of the clearing and they put on their helmets.
"STAR Boston is a go." is put over the comms as three trucks close their back-gates.
"STAR Manhattan is go." Green Arrow nods, then looks to Batman who gives the signal.
The trucks pull out in two opposite directions. Robin and Superboy following the ones going right, while Kid Flash, Aqualad, and M"gann follow the three going left.
Atom, Red Tornado and Flash all take off. As Superman goes to a black glove is placed on his shoulder.
"I told you, we need to talk." Batman states, Superman stands straight and looks just over his shoulder at the Dark Knight.
As two of the trucks make a right-hand exit, and one continues straight Superboy and Robin only follows the one remaining truck still on the highway.
Robin zooms to be on in front of Superboy and on his right. "If dislike is the opposite of like, is disaster the opposite of aster? See, if things are going wrong, they go right." Superboy remains silent, ignoring Robin"s attempt at positivity and conversation. "Uh, clearly you"re not feeling the aster. What"s wrong?"
"Canary." Superboy replies instantly. "And what business does she have teaching combat skills to a guy with super-strength? Even my own brother is taking her side" he grumbles, mostly to himself, considering the fact that he looks away from the Boy Wonder.
"Taking down stronger guys is part of the gig." Robin states simply. "Canary learned that the hard way. Same with Batman and, well, me." he"s hesitant to include himself in the list, fearing what that could cause Superboy to do.
Though instead of snapping back or anything he revs his cycle and gets a lot closer to the back of the truck and a good five or six car lengths in front of Robin.
Meanwhile with Miss Martian, Kid Flash and Aqualad "Do you think Superboy"s okay?" she asks, driving on the left of Aqualad. Then quickly realizes how that may sound. "I-I wasn"t reading his mind, I swear but anger flowed off him in waves."
Kid Flash pulls onto her left, a sarcastic chuckle coming through. "Surfed that wave. Just give him s.p.a.ce." that"s actually sound advice, considering the fuse on that guy seems to be a record low, on a good day. "Me?" he continues, getting practically right next to her. "Stick as close as you want." her facial features relax and even draw up in slight pity as she realizes that he"s flirting with her again.
Superboy just needs time to cool off." Aqualad states, turning the focus away from Kid Flash"s bad flirting. "A quiet mission will clear his head." a cornfield they whiz past shakes, then green/grey/black robot things fly out and after them. Completely pa.s.sing them, latching right onto the truck.
Pressing the outside of his helmet, Aqualad opens up a comm channel. "Robin, Superboy, our truck is under attack!"
"Kind of figured." Robin replies, looking to the monkey-robots latched onto their truck too.
"I hate monkeys." Superboy says angrily, his eyes zeroing.
The monkeys are not only attacking the portion of the truck with the robot, but also the driver"s cabin. The truck swerves a little but remains to fair a straight enough drive.
"Robot monkeys." Robin says, his excitement showing before he laughs and gets serious. "Totally Ivo"s tweaked style." then hitting the small screen on his cycle to show his R. As it does, the motorcycle"s back wheel disengages, turning into a flying drone. Seeing that Superboy is leaning even further forward on his bike, Robin realizes what he plans to do. "Hey, hey. Switch your ride to Battle Mode."
"No point." Superboy says, before jumping off his and onto the truck.
Robin"s eyes widen as his bike loses balance without a rider. "Or not." then stands on his handle bars and uses his grapple to make the distance between the two just as the two bikes collide. Once he"s securely on the back gate of the truck he kicks off one of the monkeys.
Seeing this Cap couldn"t help but shake his head before taking his shield of the front of his bike before jumping onto the truck with them.
On the roof of the car, Superboy takes off his helmet and uses it to destroy two monkeys in rapid succession as they try to jump him. A monkey before him jumps, only to get its arms ripped off, but three monkeys jump on his turned back seeing this Cap grabbed a small circular device out of his utility Belt before throwing it hitting one of the robotic monkeys making a chain reaction of electricity amongst them causing hem to fall of superboy.
Robin kicks another off the door and uses a Batarang to destroy the head of one of the ones that using laser eyes to cut through the armored door. Throwing it to the side and off the road to ensure that it"s totally destroyed. Even taking out one of the ones that are flying after them.
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Using the open s.p.a.ce the drone fills it immediately and starts firing lasers. Destroying one right before it would"ve reached Robin. Only to be taken out by two monkeys.
On the roof both Superboy and Cap, we"re fighting the Robots, destroying one after the other with team attacks Superboy threw one of them at Cap only for it to get hit by Caps shield sending it flying onto the side of the road seeing Superboy having trouble with the robots he threw his shield at Superboy only for him to catch it and use it on multiple monkey robots.
Back at Kid, Miss Martian, Aqualad...
Aqualad pulls on the handle of his bike, which is actually his water-bearer to form a whip and take out two of the monkeys that couldn"t get out of the way fast enough. Instead, the monkeys drop back and go for Miss Martian and Kid Flash"s motorcycles. Using her telekinesis she finds and opening and flies to the truck. While Kid Flash fights for control a minute longer before he jumps off his motorcycle and begins to run to catch up with the truck.
The driver"s managing to keep them in their lane, but is totally freaking out. "S-somebody, help!" he cries.
While on the roof of the truck two of the use their laser eyes to create a way into the truck. Cutting far enough that they can slip inside, they stop and one grabs the now curling edge pulling it back to reveal two armed guards. They release a barrage of bullets at the ma.s.s of robots, only managing to hit one of them. Five remain on the roof, but as Miss Martian flies over them, she uses her telekinesis to knock them all off.
Kid Flash runs up beside the truck, taking out the four monkeys with a kick off the side of the truck, using the closest as a step, ripping the second one off and stepping on the third to knock it he makes his way to the cabin.
The three that remain on the back gate are taken out as Aqualad uses both his water-bearers as whips, while still remaining on his motorcycle.
One monkey dives right for the driver window, hard enough to crack it as the rest continue to obscure his sight. Miss Martian, covered in six or seven monkeys flies in front of the truck, growing an arm from her head, her lower right side to rid herself of the monkeys that cover her. A monkey flies in low on her right side and she grows another arm to destroy it while taking out the final monkey she grows a third arm on her left side to punch it. Flying right at the monkeys who are obscuring the driver"s line of sight, but she- with now four extra arm, one of which is growing out of the right side of her head- scares him more than the monkeys.
However, noticing something on the roof back gates she flies up and gets out of his way.
On the other side of the truck, there are two monkeys one that Kid Flash steps on to get to the higher of the two, grabbing its tail to get himself on top of the truck. Where a six armed Miss Martian lands. Startled, he falls to his b.u.t.t and clambers back. Freaked out by his freak out Miss Martian loses her extra arms and falls into a shocked stance.
Before any communication can be done a horde of monkeys fly out of the hole separating the two of them. a.s.saulting them in sheer number. While another group create a ma.s.sive hole in the back gate, the Android pieces in hand. Too high too quickly that Aqualad can only screech to a stop and watch which direction they fly off in.
Back with Superboy, Robin, Cap...
Removing the final monkey from the back gate of his truck with a Batarang gives Robin time to climb up to the roof, just as a monkey pull one of the guards out of the hole in the roof. Robin lands on the b.a.l.l.s of his feet, low to the roof, before standing as he brandishes two escrima sticks. Smirking before he charges at the monkeys, using both to swipe one to his left, then back across his body two knock away the second one charging at him. Diving into a front handspring he crosses the hole in the roof. Only to find another drove of them come up from the back of the truck.
Though, they don"t make it to Robin as Superboy lands right in the centre of them. Knocking all the monkeys off the truck and Robin off his feet. Four latches onto Superboy, and he blindly rips them off.
While two more head to the back wheels on the side of the truck, using their laser vision to destroy the tires and make the whole truck swerve. Robin manages to keep his balance and he leans in front of the driver window. "Get out!" he yells, loud enough for the man to hear him. The man gets the door open and before he can even think Robin has grabbed his shoulders and throws both of them into a cornfield.
Seeing no driver and two busted wheels on one side and the truck was about to crash and roll Cap Jumped off aiming his shield at the ground to break his fall once he landed it felt like all his breath escaped his body but he got back up seeing the truck roll over and over destroying many robots.
Once the truck has stopped, now upside down the back gate blows out a group of five monkeys flying off with the android parts Cap quickly pulls out a small gun and shot what looked to be gum on one of them. After that Cap went to check the wreckage only to see a guard who stumbled out of the smoking truck coughing.
Robin supports the driver as they come back to the side of the road. Setting him down as he watches the monkeys fly off.
Behind him, Superboy pushes the whole truck up and off. Breathing heavily he wipes his eyes and opens them slowly, finding his vision is returning. Seeing where the monkeys are flying he jumps with a grunt to catch up to them.
"Superboy!" Robin calls in a vain attempt to get him to stop.
"Don"t worry I will catch up to them" Cap said as he ran into the cornfield following the robots and Superboy.
In his comm Aqualad patches through. "Aqualad to Robin. We"ve lost our cargo. Did you-"
Robin cuts him off with a sigh. "It"s gone." he confirms. "And so are my partners."
Still crossing ma.s.sive amounts of distance inbound Superboy and Cap are gaining on the monkeys in great speed. "Aqualad to Superboy And Captain America, Radio your position, We"ll help you."
"I don"t need any help, don"t want any!" he yells as he pulls his comm from his ear and on his next drop to the ground drops it.
"Superboy?" Aqualad asks, but there is no one the other end now.
"Aqualad I am in pursuit of the robots and I"m close behind Superboy-" Cap said turning while running close behind only to realize his earpiece was missing from his ear "must have lost it from when I jumped off the truck" cap thought before picking up the pace.
Miss Martian, Aqualad, and Kid Flash stand behind their own crashed truck. The only one with his motorcycle still intact is Aqualad.
"I think he ditched his comm" Robin states the obvious "what about Cap?" he asks only to see Aqualad sake his head.
"Super." Wally moans sarcastically. "Now we can"t even track them."
Miss Martian has her hands on her head, but gets nothing. "They are out of my telepathic range. This Professor Ivo if he is alive, seems to be two steps ahead of us." then her confidence fades. "M-maybe w-we should contact Red Tornado?" she questions.
"Tornado always tells us to handle things ourselves." Aqualad counters. "And the mission can still succeed if we recover the parts before they"re rea.s.sembled."
"Well, that"s a great plan," Wally drawls. "except for the part about us not knowing where to LOOK!" he explodes with anger.
"Maybe we do." Robin chimes in.
Meanwhile, Cap is still chasing down Superboy and the robots carrying Amazo"s parts weirdly he isn"t getting tired at all at first he thought it was the serum but now he doesn"t know it seems like he could run for ages and still not tired from exhaustion "So this is the super soldier serum...cool" he thought before he realized he was getting left behind so he picked up more speed slowly catching up.
Metropolis August 3rd...At A Diner (forgot the name)
"Apple pie." Clark Kent says to the waiter, as a fellow raven sits across from him, his face obscured as he holds the menu high to his face.
"The Devil"s Food." Bruce Wayne orders, handing the menu back with a smile.
"Something tells me this isn"t about desert." Clark decides, his tone hesitant.
"The boy needs you." Bruce tells the bespeckled man before him.
"No." Clark snaps back instantly. "He needs you. He needs Red." though his tone shakes slightly and he decides to look out the window rather than at Bruce. "I"m just a constant reminder of what he"s not."
"Sorry, Clark, but you"re dead wrong." that catches the author"s attention. "Look, I know he troubles you, but he"s here." he stumbles slightly, but returns strongly for the next sentence, hoping to solidify his reasoning. "You have to get over the how and why." Clark glares out the window. "Trust me on this. This boy needs his father." his eyes narrow, daring Clark to deny what he"s saying.
Clark dares. "I"m not his father!" he shouts, standing up, fear and confusion cover any anger there might be in those words. He turns to the cook, placing his fedora on his head. "I"ll take that apple pie to go." he walks to the register and pays, leaving Bruce to skulk in solitude.
Gotham City August 3rd
The monkeys with the parts fly towards a moving train, the car"s side doors open. By more monkeys to allow them to fly in, the second group right behind them. Then the doors slide shut.
Superboy bounds amazing distances, landing on the same car the monkeys went in. Tightening his hand he jabs it into the roof, creating a tear that easily rips wider with his super-strength. Superboy sees no immediate danger and jumps in.
Behind him, just outside the shadows are the now-open boxes of the Amazo parts.
He hears the monkeys chatter before him. Looking up, shrouded in the green glow of his monkeys is an aging ginger man with a white b.u.t.ton down, black slacks, and a black vest typing away on his computer.
Taking his time, and entirely calm the man looks up. "Oh, h.e.l.lo." he greets
"You? You"re Ivo?" Superboy scoffs. "I"m whelmed."
"You"re one to talk." Ivo counters, turning away from his computer, resting his elbow on his fist and placing his hand on his chin. "Since when does the big blue boy scout have a brat?"
"He doesn"t." Superboy snaps, narrowing his eyes.
"Eh, well, if you say so." Ivo brushes off shrugging. "Have you met my Mobile Optimal Neural Quotient Infiltrators?" he gestures to the dozen-plus monkey MONQIs around him. To which they take off and launch themselves at Superboy.
He responds with a cross, taking out one, into a back fist, taking out a second then finding one right where the other just was jabs to destroy it. On his right, he turns with a back first to destroy another, managing an 180 rotation. Finishing the rotation and destroying the final MONQI with another back fist. Knocking the head right back at Ivo.
"Ah. And after all the trouble I went through finding an acronym for MONQI." Ivo grumbles as Superboy continues to destroy the small robots. Turning back to his computer.
Grabbing two Superboy smashes them together in front of him, completely obliterating them. Though he"s panting.
Something moves in the background. "Access: Captain Atom." Superboy"s eyes widen just before he"s. .h.i.t in the chest with a yellow ray. Which knocks him completely off his feet and into the crates behind him.
Meanwhile, After Superboy went into the cart Cap finally catches up and jumped onto the ladder of the last cart "Finally...no more...running" he said before realizing his stamina was coming back frightening pace "okay, weird".
After Cap got onto the roof he then started running towards the cart Superboy was in but by the time he got there he saw Superboy flying out the cart into the mountainside and into the blade of the bulldozer, then to the flatbed car"s surface.
Amazo front handsprings right before him. Dictating "Access: Superman." grabbing Superboy"s shoulders and holding him over the edge of not only the train but the mountain as well. Holding him with one arm he punches him back, over the fields and into the high stories of a building on the edge of the city, a school judging by the number of desks he crashed through.
"One word Ouch...wait is that a word?" Cap seeing Amazo he quickly presses a b.u.t.ton on his belt before jumping towards Ivo who was smirking at his creation destroying "Superman"s brat".
"And who do we have here another copy of the original"s," Ivo said while looking up and down at Cap as if he was figuring out who he was "Or perhaps not, MONQI"s get him." but before the robot monkeys could reach Cap he already threw he"s shield destroying them.
A frightened Ivo started to step back and preparing to run but before he could Cap grabbed him and lifted him up to his eye level.
"Tell me everything you know," Cap said in a threatening tone while giving Ivo a cold glare as if he was searching into his soul and of course Ivo sang like a canary.
After getting the information Cap needed he threw him away and jumped off the train landing shield first before getting up and walking but he didn"t walk for long as he"s bike appeared next to him "good thing I built that garage here in Gotham" he thought before getting on his bike and drives toward the direction of the school.
A little Outside of Gotham...
Robin, now in uniform, pushes his bike to the limits. Flying past a sign telling him he has finally reached the Gotham City limits. He hears Kid Flash before he sees him, he too is now sporting the brightly colored spandex. "So you changed too?" he teases, though he has no room to talk, since he went as far as to put his mask on under his helmet.
"You kidding?" Kid Flash questions back, then makes a noise of disgust that would be accompanied by a shiver if he wasn"t running at super speeds. "I feel naked in civvies. You still tracking the parts?" he changes the topic of conversation.
"They were heading through Gotham, but they veered," Robin informs, looking down at the virtual map on his motorcycle. A red cone represents the target: Subject Amazo, The location finally appears in the bottom right-hand corner, Gotham Academy > Distance to Target: 26.5 mi. "Wait! Dude, they"re at my school!" he gasps.
Gotham Academy...
Superboy gets. .h.i.t and thrown back into the trophy display case, destroying the gla.s.s and a few of the pictures and trophies inside. Falling to the floor, now cut up and blood beading from the gla.s.s as Amazo stands over him. Then grabs him by the shirt, whirling his upper body independently to throw Superboy down the hall and into some lockers
One of which pops open to reveal a fangirl picture of Superman. Anger overcomes Superboy as he punches the locker door.
Going in for another hook, that Amazo blocks with ease and counters with an uppercut to the face. Sending him through the concrete walls of a science lab. Then into the far wall and to the ground. Amazo flying right behind him to stand over him as he hits, then doesn"t get up for a moment.
Forcing his hand under his left shoulder Superboy looks to Amazo. "That…" he pants heavily "all you got?" he finishes angrily taunting the robot.
"Access: Captain Atom." Amazo dictates, holding out one hand that begins to glow bright yellow. Putting Superboy through the floor, then high up through the wall of the gymnasium. He crashes just shy of midcourt, bouncing over midcourt and skidding to stop in the lane. Not too far from the hoop.
A singular clap catches his attention. On the bleachers a beaten up Ivo is clapping slowly, backed by two MONQIs. "I don"t usually...attend these things in person" one of the MONQIs chuckles and so does he, "but this was too good to miss *cough*"
On the court Amazo dictates "Access: Superman."
Superboy sighs stopping on his knees but gets to his feet. Charging at Amazo with a hook punch that actually lands on the robot"s face. Though Amazo retaliates with a back first to Superboy"s face. Now that he"s off balance the android sticks close, hitting him again in the chest, which causes Superboy to collapse in on himself by pure reflex, Taking the opportunity, Amazo strikes his stomach with his knee, hard enough to force Superboy into a small rotation
The superpowered teen can do nothing but barely stay on his feet and be Amazo"s personal punching bag. Amazo catches the bottom of Superboy"s chin with the back of his hand, completing the rotation and causing him to stagger back more. Now that he"s facing the robot again he gets a high front kick that snaps his head back, leaving him open for another back fist to the face. Hitting him hard enough that Superboy to fall to the ground.
Standing over Superboy, Amazo brings up both fists, ready for the killing blow. When Kid Flash zooms in grabbing Superboy before the strike can land. Announcing it to Superboy with a "Yoink." before grabbing him, just in case the fight rattled his brains.
The two skid to a stop beside Robin, all three now by the gym doors and just right of the bleachers opposite Ivo.
Robin launches a disk at Amazo. "Martian Manhunter." the android dictates, just before the disk would have hit, now pa.s.sing through his intangible body. Blowing up behind the android harmlessly. "Access: Red Torn" before Amazo could finish he cut off by sounds of smashed gla.s.s causing everyone to be shocked.
Looking up Amazo sees a bike coming from the window above the bleachers "Access: Martian Manhunter" and the bike Phased through him crashing into the court floor "Access: Superman."
Amazo continued his march towards the teens seemingly forgetting about the bike but when he was marching black smoke started to crowd the area taking away everyone"s vision including Amazo"s "Access: Red Tornado." Amazo then began to fly up with a red tornado underneath him causing all the black smoke to dissipate.
But soon after the smoke disappeared from the rafts a shield came downwards chopping off one Amazo"s arms before landing into the court "WHAT!" Ivo yelled from the bleachers in disbelief.
"d.a.m.n my aim has gotten rusty over the years," a familiar voice said causing the teens to grin.
"About time you got the party Cap," Robin said with a grin.
"Wouldn"t miss it," Voice said coming behind Ivo which caused Ivo to Jump in fear as he turns around to see Cap before getting knocked out by him.
a red tornado forms under Amazo"s feet, moving towards the three teenaged boys.
As they"re hit, Kid Flash is thrown back into the nearby wall, while Robin and Superboy another rush in the opposite direction. Robin and Kid Flash giving out a cry of surprise as they"re s.n.a.t.c.hed by the wind currents.
Superboy hits the bleachers, while Robin hits the outside edge of the court then skids to the be in front of the bottom bleacher.
Seeing Amazo completely knock the team away Cap jumps towards him with a flying knee but Amazo simply say"s "Access: Martian Manhunter," causing Cap to phase through him but Cap just Grinned as he turned around as Amazo unphased a threw a mini circular device before it blew up like an incendiary grenade causing a fire to develop around him.
The Amazo Android fell to the ground before saying "Access: Green Lantern." as a small hole opened one of its fingers the Android made constructs around itself but before it could do anything else Cap landed and still unfazed he pulled out what looked to be a giant pellet and threw it towards Amazo.
Once the pellet hit the Android it burst open showing yellow smoke but it attached to Amazo causing him to go into another weaken state.
"Access: Super-," before he could speak cap reached his shield a threw it again but this time taking the head off of Amazo causing him to fall down "huh so The league countermeasures work..cool."
Watching this fight Robin was taking in every detail of what happened many questions went into his head but one stuck out "was those batman"s countermeasures?"
Not worrying about it and focusing on the task at hand Robin runs up to the body. "Help me disa.s.semble him now!" Though out of the four, only Robin and Cap are in the best shape, Kid being unsteady on his feet and Superboy not even being back on his yet.
Holding his left arm Kid is the first to comment. "Dude, the guy has no head." his lack of high-speed helping is because at this point it seems entirely irrelevant.
"Don"t take any chances." Aqualad decides, as he and Miss Martian enter. Both heading in their direction quickly.
M"gann landing beside Superboy to steady him if necessary. "Superboy, are you alright?" she questions, noting the amount of damage done to his skin.
Superboy smiles. "Fine." he a.s.sures, then looks to Robin. "Feeling the aster." Robin smiles right back.
"Actually he got his a.s.s kicked big time," Cap said appearing behind M"gann .
"Gee thanks bro for the support" Superboy groans which cause the team to laugh.
"Hey." Kid Flash says, gaining their attention. "Where"s Ivo?" around them the gym is still smoking in some places from the battle, but Ivo is nowhere to be seen.
Mount Justice August 4th...
The Team stands before Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, Red Tornado, Batman, and Green Arrow, recounting the status of the mission.
"The Amazo android is in again safely being a.n.a.lyzed at the two separate STAR Labs but Ivo escaped, and since he originated the tech, he"s arguably more dangerous than the Android." Aqualad informs.
"Capturing the professor will a League priority." Canary informs.
"Actually no" Cap speaks up catching everyone"s attention "I placed a tracker on him before he disappeared," he said while throwing a mobile GPS towards Batman who catches it.
"Good work." Batman said to Cap which Robin raises his eyebrow in confusion.
"But we understand that your mission encountered other complications." Martian Manhunter states, crossing his arms. Aqualad, Robin, and Kid Flash glare at Superboy and Cap, which Superboy has the decency to look away but Cap isn"t bothered.
Batman decides to step up. "Complications come with the job. Your ability to handle them has impressed the League."
"The whole League?" Superboy asks, knowing the answer.
"Given time, yes." Batman a.s.sures instantly. "Kryptonians, as you know, have very hard heads." Superboy can"t stop the small smile. "Of course, there"s no shame in asking for help. That"s why the League exists. Because there are some problems even we can"t handle individually."
After dismissing the mission debriefing Superboy clears his throat and steps up to Black Canary. Catching her slightly off-guard as she turns to him curiously. "I"m ready."
"Good. Because I"m here." Black Canary a.s.sures, placing her hand on her hip as she looks him in the eye.
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