The 'World of Heroes: DC Style" RPG Season II

[Supergirl]

OOC: Thanks. You're more than welcome to handle Ares if you like. I'm just kind of winging it with him, so if you had any plans for him, feel free to take over. I don't mind taking on more than one character though. I'm handling half the Asgardian pantheon over in the Marvel RPG right now. ;) We're working on getting Leaguer in here.
OOC: The more I think about it, the harder it would be, considering the inevitable fight... I will handle Wonder Woman for now though that way we could have that good fight with Ares and WW :)

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: Roger dodger. :up:
Mordru answers sarcastically, “Well, it’s a pleasure to meet you, Lord Ares. Welcome to the Tower of Fate."
Before Ares can reply, Mordru cuts him off, "Now, what is this business about a mystical barrier?”
IC: Ares pauses, considering whether to wipe Mordru off the face of the Earth for his impudence, but grudgingly admits that having his oath revoked is worth the trouble of dealing with him. "I made a promise to Athena's champion to never directly interfere with the matters of Patriarch's World again. My actions at the time would have led to the utter desolation of the world. But I've had a bit of an... epiphany in the intervening years. That won't happen again. A god's word in such weighty matters becomes a mystical oath. I am literally barred from performing or fomenting violence on Earth. Can you remove such a binding?"

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: Roger dodger. :up:

IC: Ares pauses, considering whether to wipe Mordru off the face of the Earth for his impudence, but grudgingly admits that having his oath revoked is worth the trouble of dealing with him. "I made a promise to Athena's champion to never directly interfere with the matters of Patriarch's World again. My actions at the time would have led to the utter desolation of the world. But I've had a bit of an... epiphany in the intervening years. That won't happen again. A god's word in such weighty matters becomes a mystical oath. I am literally barred from performing or fomenting violence on Earth. Can you remove such a binding?"

Mordru uses the Amulet of Anubis to scan the Olympian and discern how powerful this ‘barrier’ really is. After seeing it through the Amulet, Mordru is definitely intrigued.
“Interesting”, says the Dark Lord, “Yes, I can remove the magical bonds that keep you from interacting personally on the mortal plane.” Mordru waves his hand and a doorway appears in the side wall where there was none before.
“Follow me, god of conflicts.” When he sees Adam begin to follow him, he stops him, “Only Ares and I may enter. You are not needed, Mighty Adam.”

After preparing the room with incantations and magical trinkets, Mordru tells Ares to stand in the middle of a rune filled circle. The Olympian does what the Dark Lord instructs, though with some hesitation. Mordru begins an ancient chant and green flames appear, lining the circle Ares is standing in. The runes begin to glow and pulsate with an eerie blue light as the Olympian looks on suspiciously. Mordru’s chant increases in volume as the energy from the runes begins to engulf Ares. As the rune energy covers the god, its blue aura begins to brighten. At first, Ares feels nothing, but, as it gets brighter, he begins to feel a burning pain throughout his body. It is a small pain at first, barely noticeable, but the louder the Dark Lord chants the brighter the aura gets. And the brighter the aura gets, the stronger the pain becomes.
Ares grits his teeth. He has been betrayed! Mordru means to kill him, not free him. And, like a fool, he has fallen into the Dark Lord’s trap! He will not give this vermin the satisfaction of hearing a god scream. And, if he survives this, he will kill Mordru for this treachery. The chanting goes on for minutes more, and the aura’s brightness increases. Now it is nearly as bright as the sun. And the pain increases along with it. Finally, Ares cannot contain it any longer, and he rears back his head and screams in anguish.
From his scream, all of the mystical energy that has been built up is released in a titanic blast. A portal opens up above the Olympian to capture the mystical energy and disperse it. As the energy is dispelled, Ares falls to one knee, breathing heavily.
“It is done”, the Dark Lord says, “The energy preventing you from taking actions on the mortal plane has been expelled.”

[TheCorpulent1]

Black Adam waited patiently in the Tower's main room until the pair emerged again. Ares eyed Mordru suspiciously, but when Adam asked, "Was the procedure successful?" Ares replied with a curt nod. "Excellent," Black Adam said. "Then our plans can continue. You have heard my ideas for the Alliance, and now our ranks are bolstered by Deathstroke and Ares. Who should we recruit next?"

[Keyser Soze]

"Harv, that's enough. Now it's my turn."

Dent stopped beating Batman with the bat as The Joker approached, dragging another chair along with him. He put the chair down in front of Batman, straddling it and sitting down face-to-face with his nemesis.

"Well, Batman, I think it's time we had a little chat."

The Joker chuckled softly, giving Batman a wink.

"I will call you Batman, since your...other half was recently killed by me when I murdered that old man. I think it's only fair. I'm only The Joker, so naturally you should only be Batman. Heh heh, it makes out little war far more pure, don't you think?"

The Joker's smile began to fade.

"All my recent pranks, they've all been about irony. The depressed losers laughing to death. The doctor being killed by an ambulance. The people blowing up outside a firehouse. The little brat of a famous child saviour being murdered. Me turning Harvey into Two-Face. And, of course, Alfred being killed on Father's Day. He was like a father to you, wasn't he?"

The Joker suddenly lunged forward, giving Batman a stiff backhand slap across the face.

"Everything I've done, it's all been about this one moment, this one ironic punchline. Thanks to you, only The Joker is left. And now, thanks to me, only Batman is left. And one of us is going to die tonight. And I'm not kidding around, not this time!"

And he wasn't. For once, his face was deadly serious.

"I am going to kill you, Batman, and it's going to be no laughing matter."

[Johnny Blaze]

Black Adam waited patiently in the Tower's main room until the pair emerged again. Ares eyed Mordru suspiciously, but when Adam asked, "Was the procedure successful?" Ares replied with a curt nod. "Excellent," Black Adam said. "Then our plans can continue. You have heard my ideas for the Alliance, and now our ranks are bolstered by Deathstroke and Ares. Who should we recruit next?"
Mordru answers quickly, apparently having already thought about it, “In my search for Deathstroke, I came across an individual in Opal City who may be of use to us. His name is the Shade, and, like my former colleague Obsidian, he can manipulate the stuff of shadows.
Mordru looks over his cohorts,"I propose that one of us goes to Opal City and recruits the Shade to our cause.”

[TheCorpulent1]

"Very well. I know little of the Shade, however, so I may be less than successful swaying him to our cause. Perhaps Deathstroke would be better suited? His connections to the villain community run far deeper than my own."

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: *nsert "Black Adam's recruitment methods" joke here*

[Spike_x1]

The Parasite and Killer Frost charged towards eachother as fast as they could without a sound escaping their mouths. Neither of them were happy in the least about the fact that they were fighting eachother, and yet they both smiled with gleefull menace.

Rudy threw the first punch, but Frost jumped over his fist, doing a flip and landing behind him. As Parasite looked over his shoulder to where she landed, Frost blasted him with an intensely cold ice blast.
The blast sent the Parasite flying across the ring and sliding to a halt inside of an ice block.
Killer Frost strolled up to the block of ice with a sexy smile across her face. Rudy breathed out a cloud of frozen vapor and winked at Frost. Suddenly the ice around him began to crack and Rudy exploded out of the ice with a thunderous sound. The audience cheered and roared at the action. For the next five minutes, the Parasite and Killer Frost exchanged blows swiftly and without saying a word. The Parasite had the strength and size on his side, but Killer Frost had the acrobatics and the power which Rudy couldn't absorb.

The crowd loved every minute of it.

[Spike_x1]

OOC: This is an ivitation to anyone who wants to attend the festivities at The House in the Nevada desert. Anyone who's character would likely bet on the fights would be welcome to come and try to make a profit or have just have a fun time at the casino.

I'm purposely taking it slowly so that anyone has time to come and set up before the final prize match. Think of it like those big-deal boxing fights in Vegas. Everyone who's anyone shows up to those things, and this is a supervillains and thrillseekers only casino, so I was thinking Joker, Two Face, and Penguin might be interested in making some money ;). But don't think about robbing the place, because it would NOT work in this casino. Any robbers would be caught without question and probably killed ;).

[DarkKnightJRK]

OOC: I think Two-Face, Joker, and Penguin are too busy kicking my ass to go to Navada and bet their life savings. ;)

[Spike_x1]

OOC: That's why I'm taking it so slow, to give them time to do whatever it is they want to do to you. And who said anything about their life savings ;)? All three of them (maybe not Two Face currently) are big-time gang lords in Gotham. Money should be no problem at all for any of them.

EDIT- didn't see the smiley in time-thought you were serious about the "life savings" thing. Added my own smiley.

[Harlekin]

"The Shade? Heard of him. I'll go get him." Deathstroke said as he grabbed his gun and reloaded "Shouldn't be too hard." he finished as he looked around the doors. "Which one of these will take me to the Injustice Sattelite?"

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: We're gonna have to put the Shade on hold I'm afraid. Trop still has to introduce him, and he's not going to start that until he gets the 'ok' from batnkevlar himself.
So, we can either switch it up and go after the heroes-pretending-to-be-villains, or you, Harlekin, can still go after the Shade, but you'd have to write up a few posts of him looking for him. Maybe have an encounter with a B-List hero along the way you can off or something.

[Tropico]

OOC: Harl, the Enlongated Man, Black Condor, Bobo Benetti and a detective whose name I forget (who was an inspiration to Enlongated Man) are based in Opal City. The O'Hare family are all red-headed Irish blooded cops that take Opal's protection very seriously and were friends with Jack (Starman) and know of the Shade also. There's quite a bit to do or people that you could ask that would give you a few posts. Especially if you were to saaaaay dress up like Batman and ask around. Now, where did I get that tactic from? Hmmmmmmmmm.

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: Plagiarist! ;) Trop, you might want to give bat a PM, just to nudge his memory.

[Harlekin]

OOC: Yeah, that's why I'd like to go that Sattelite they showed in Identity Crisis, where all the villains gathered. I forgot the name of it, so I just called it the Injustice Sattelite. Wasn't sure if you wanted to start out in Opal and all. The villains-gather will be my first spot to visit in looks for the Shade.

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: Just don't talk to Dr. Moon and Phobia!

[Tropico]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Tropico/Shade.jpg

The Shade's Journal:

...I have been bored of late, lovely Opal is as beatiful as ever but even this beloved city has lost it's excitement. After the recent events, the more "questionably moral" members of this city think twice about being noticed in the cityt that Ralph Dibny calls home. They do not fear reprisal from Mr.Dibny, but rather from his friends; after all, the wound is still tender. I was rather disillusioned that the so called "malleable detective" couldn't decipher the mystery sorrounding the regrettable murders, nor did Mr. Drew offer any insight for all his purported analytical prowess. Opal has a number of fair guardians and they do a very good job, too good for my taste as of late.

It is this...boredom and dissatisfaction that have prompted me to look outside my fair city as I am wont to do when I seek a little adventure to spice my dreary life. This wandering eye of mine, if it can be called that, has brought to my attention a certain ursurper to a worthy name. I would be the first to admit that individuals taking on the name of arachnids, as per the Spider, are not of my preference but the Tarantula was a capable mystery man. His first book was worthy of reading, even if his subsequent attempts were dismal and the insight gleaned from those written words lead me to believe that this female that took the name is less than a worthy succesor. I have taken it upon myself to correct this grievious mistake and blot out the existence of this deplorable woman.

There are other rumblings about the World, events that make my blood race. After I'm done with this first tender morsel I'll see what else is on the menu. I'm of a mind to be in the company of other roguish scoundrels as myself in these endeavors that I sall set in front of myself. Until my restless spirit is quenched once again I leave thee, fair Opal...

The shadows sorround the Shade and when they return to their places again, the Shade is gone. Articles on the Tarantula, Nightwing and the disaster in Kandhaq litter the smallish table in the breakfast nook. A map of Bludhaven is underneath it al, there are no distinguishing marks on it. The Shade's journal, like him are no longer in Opal City.

[SuperFerret]

The powerful figure flew towards Earth at near light speed, smashing three large asteroids as it hurtled through them.

*****

Clark sat in his room, which had remained the way it was since he had originally left Kansas. He looked out the window at the night sky.

*****

The figure breaches Earth's atmosphere at a speed so high it sends shockwaves acroos the globe. Many children are born at that moment completely and irreversibly brain damaged.

*****

Clark's eyes followed the falling star. His muscles tensed as he felt the mighty shockwave it caused as it entered the atmosphere. Now, more than ever, the world needed Superman. And he couldn't do anything.

*****

Bizarro slammed into the ocean two hundred miles east of Japan, sending tidal waves in all directions. He quickly righted himself and flew towards Kansas.

[Spike_x1]

OOC: Supes might wanna see a doctor or something pretty soon. The Parasite particles probably wouldn't stop after only taking his powers ;). Soon, Clark's gonna start to wither up and get all wrinkly. And then he'll start to lose his skin, and nobody wants to see that. :D

[SuperFerret]

OOC: I'm gonna deal with that, don't worry. I have an idea (which is amazing if you really know me.)

Also, my "cure" for the parasites is borederline Pre-Crisis, I hope it'll be understandable that I want Supes to be back at full power soon, and I doubt any doctor that he goes to will be able to help him with his parasites.

[Johnny Blaze]

"The Shade? Heard of him. I'll go get him." Deathstroke said as he grabbed his gun and reloaded "Shouldn't be too hard." he finished as he looked around the doors. "Which one of these will take me to the Injustice Sattelite?"
Mordru points to an empty wall and a door appears. “That door there will take you to the satellite.”


As Deathstroke departs, Mordru turns to Adam and Ares, “Now then, if our mercenary friend is successful in his mission we will have another powerful member added to our Alliance. However, as powerful as we are…it loathes me to say this, but our enemies have just as much power among their ilk. Not to mention they also have the numbers advantage. We will need more rogues to join our cause…more fodder for the frontlines of the coming crusade.”

OOC: Feel free to edit in a parting remark or what not, Harlekin, before you leave to search for the Shade. :up:

[Harlekin]

"I'll be back." Slade responds as he suddenly finds himself at the sattelite. Villains from all over were gathered here. Chronos was still trying to convince everybody that they would win one day, while others were simply comparing notes or gambling.

Walking around, he sees most villains looking away from him, some even decide to go in the complete opposite direction in which they were headed. Stopping at Merlyn's table, Slade sees the archer painting the feathers on his arrows black.

"What a worthless trademark."
"Slade? Sit down. Heard all about your newest kill."
"How did you?"
"Word runs fast in the villain community. It was about time somebody did that punk in anyway. Try and stay away from Cheshire though. Want a drink?"
"Don't have the time. I need to find the Shade. Know where he is?"
"Last I checked he still lives in Opal City, you should check out his adress."

Stopping for a moment, Merlyn scribbles on a small piece of paper and hands it over to Deathstroke. "You gonna kill that arrogant sonuva*****?"
"Maybe some other time. Thanks."

With those words Slade leaves the table, and uses the transporter to go to Opal City.

[Nightwing.]

OOC:ok so you guys have been bunnying J'onn.i know hes in the infirmary but what did you want him to have seen and where are you wanting him now?if you want to bunny for a bit until i can catch up then thats fine.

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: We don't *need* J'onn to be anywhere right now, but his presence couldn't hurt. ...You could go to Savage and PFunk2 and follow them to the source wall. Or, you can start your own arc.

[Spike_x1]

Rudy Jones swung his leg out, aiming for Killer Frost's side, but she created a shield of ice to block the blow. She then shot a lance of ice at Parasite, catching him in the shoulder. Rudy shrugged off the pain and smiled as he again charged to Killer Frost.

"If you're gonna play hard to get, play harder. I like it rough!"

The Parasite's power was beginning to run out! He had landed a blow to Killer Frost minutes earlier in the fight, which had flung her across the ring. Now, Rudy gave her another hit with presumably the same effort, but it only knocked her some ten feet away.

"Sonuva-" Rudy was cut short as Frost kicked him in the jaw. Backing off after hitting him, Frost did a backwards somersault, but she was hit in midair by the Parasite's massive fist. The blow shot her flat onto the floor, but without any major damage. She merely smirked, got to her feet, and blasted Parasite with an ice beam.

"You want it rough? I'll give you 'rough', Rudy!" Her ice blast surrounded Parasite and pushed him back into the cage wall behind him. The Parasite was running out of energy and fast! He was going to lose.

Then a spark of electricity lit around him.

"Huh? Rudy managed to look at where the electricity was coming from; the cage! It was electrified! "I could sure go for a tasty snack right about now," said Rudy as he extended the reach of his power to drain the electricity from the cage.

The lights and games around the House began blinking on and off as Rudy tapped into the casino's power supply. Finally, the lights shut off for the last time and all that was seen was the flashing as the Parasite melted the ice around him. When he was done, the entire arena, not to mention the whole casino, was in complete darkness. All of the audience members were trying not to make a sound, so as to hear who might win the fight in the dark.
All that was heard was "Now then, Beautiful, where were we?" What followed was the sound of flesh hitting flesh and the occasion flash of Rudy's new electricity or the crystalizing noise of Killer Frost emitting another ice blast.

Then silence.

For what seemed like an eternity no noise was made in the ring. Suddenly the power was brought back online as someone must've installed a new energy source somewhere in the complex. What was seen in the ring as the lights came back on made some people cheer and some cry as they either won or lost their bet.

The Parasite was cradling Killer Frost's unconscious body.

"I just love those freethinking feminist-types."

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: ok so you guys have been bunnying J'onn.i know hes in the infirmary but what did you want him to have seen and where are you wanting him now?if you want to bunny for a bit until i can catch up then thats fine.
OOC: You should PM batnkevlar to get an idea of what you saw in Hal's mind.

[Harlekin]

Busting in to the Shade's apartment, Deathstroke quickly fires up a few flares, spreading them around as he walks through the apartment, eventually making it to the small table, littered with all kinds of plans. Articles on the latest Tarantula, the old Tarantula, even a few pieces on Nightwing and Khandaq. Last but not least, a blueprint of Blüdhaven underneath it all.

Inspecting the blueprint, Deathstroke made sure to be on his guard at all times. The plans were useless in the sense that the Shade had left no marks on them. But he had certainly made his intentions clear. He was going to Blüdhaven, and so was Deathstroke.

[Savage]

<EDIT>Someone beat me to it.
OOC:Got an idea though. Maybe J'onn and Hal can investigate this Source Wall thing together? I mean Flash and John Stewart learned something that most cosmic types like Hal Jordon and J'onn Jon'z know already so they'll probably be involved with fending off Black Adam's crew's upcoming attack anyway so you guys can invesitgate this whole Source Wall thing till it gets so big it reaches earth. Speaking of GL members, I'm actually suprised that Sinestro hasn't been recruited yet. But that's probably be too much with all the heavy hitters they currently have anyway.

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker smiled deviously at Batman.

"I have a special surprise for you, Batman. A fitting end, I'd say."

The Joker turned to The Penguin.

"Ozzie, I think it would be best if you stayed here at The Iceberg Lounge. Me and Harv have some business to take care of. Help me lift our friend will you Harv?"

The Joker and Two-Face lifted the chair Batman was tied to into the back of one of The Penguin's cargo vans. The Joker had a duffel bag already dumped in there. he got into the driver's seat, and Two-Face got into the passenger's seat. They drove off.

"Oh, you're going to love this, Brucie. You see, I've made some calls, and had some of my associates do a little...digging. I'm not just going to kill you - I'm going to drive you insane first!"

The van drove through Gotham City, finally ending up at Gotham Cemetery. They drove through the pathway, finally stopping the van near the gravesite of Thomas and Martha Wayne. The joker and Two-Face untied the paralysed Batman from the chair, carrying him past the site. The Joker stopped, allowing Batman plenty of time to see that the graves had been dug up, and that the bodies had been removed from the coffins.

"HA HA! I know what you're thinking, Brucie. Where are Mommy and Daddy? Well, I'll show you."

The Joker let Two-Face and Batman through the graveyard, soon coming to a large open grave. Inside were the decayed skeletons of Bruce Wayne's parents. Inside, Batman was probably screaming. But outside, he was perfectly still, perfectly motionless.

"Oh, they haven't aged well. HA HA! But I guess you have a lot of catching up to do with them, Brucie-boy. So why don't you get a little closer with them?"

The Joker shoved Batman into the grave. He landed face-down in the grave, in between the skeletons of his parents.

"Harv, go get the shovels from the back of the van."

Two-Face went and got the shovels, and they proceeded to bury Batman alive. Once the grave was complete, The Joker took a red rose out of his pocket, laying it on the burial site.

"So long, Batman. It's been a pleasure. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!"

The joker and Two-Face left the graveyard, heading back to THe Iceberg Lounge. The Joker laughed triumphantly for the whole journey.

[Spike_x1]

OOC: Time to use those ol' escape artist tricks, huh? ;)

[Tropico]

Bludhaven:

Something awakens Catalina out of her slumber, the hairs on the back of her neck are standing and she has a feeling of dread. She looks around her cell but there's nothing there but the pounding of her heart. She tries to speak but notices that her throat is dry, as she swallows hard to clear her throat the shadows on the wall distort and jump at her. She tries to open her mouth to scream, but the shadows behind her have smothered her. The shadows engulf her completely as the darkness leads her back to unconsciousness, she could swear that the last thing she can hear besides the pounding in her hears is laughter.

Catalina awakens dressed in her full Tarantula outfit. She checks herself and counts all her weapons with her. The only thing she's lacking is a firearm. The next step, she situates herself, she appears to be in some kind of warehouse.

“Doesn’t this make for a quaint setting? Oh, I’m sure you’re thinking that it’s quite cliché to trap a masked mystery person in an abandoned warehouse, of all places; but, please, bear with me as I get back into the swing of things.”- says a voice from the shadows.

“Yeah, right! Bear with THIS!”- Tarantula answers as she runs away from the disembodied voice and looks for a way out.

“My dear Catalina…can I call you Catalina? We should be in familiar terms considering I had to wriggle you into that skimpy little outfit you choose to wear. Young women these days…really! What kind of role model are you to the nice little girls of Bludhaven prancing around like some common trollop? I’m sure the original Tarantula, the worthy one, would frown upon such a display. Poor Mason must be spinning faster than the Top in his grave. The way you dress yourself is the kind that would get you into trouble with the unsavory element that are making some kind of transaction just outside that door.”-the voice fades away as Tarantula, who has been running all this time, approaches the exit door.

She stops and opens the door a bit spying the men the voice mentioned. She takes note of their positions and waits until the right moment to burst out of the doorway. With a few well placed moves she takes the 5 men down, searches their bodies and takes some cash and a gun. She looks around and formulates her best escape route. She runs near the warehouse wall, keeping to the most lit areas and then rounds the corner, feeling herself home free. Her heart jumps to her throat as a black figure steps out of the long shadows made by the lampposts’ light.

“I trust that little appetizer has served as a decent warm for our encounter, I think it was rather appropriate, don’t you?”- says the Shade with a malicious grin.
“Shadow Thief!”- Tarantula spits the word as if it’s foul tasting.
“By Jove! How dare you confuse me with that babbling madman? I must say, I feel extremely offended! The name, my dear, is The Shade. And if you’re…”- Shade’s words are interrupted as he dodges a dart from Tarantula’s blowgun. “Simple minded and rude, as I imagined.”- Shade responds as he launches a shadow bolt at Tarantula. After a few exchanges from both parties, Tarantula feigns that her injury is worse than it is. As the Shade grows closer she pulls the gun on him. “Oh, dear! Whatever are you going to do with a gun my heroic little..”- Shade’s words are drowned by the sound of rapport of the gun.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Tropico/Shade4.jpg

Tarantula steps closer to the Shade’s prone body her gun is drawn and aiming at the body. “I was getting tired of your queer little speech. Thanks for breaking me out and giving me a means for new start, Slim Shadey. What you got to say now that you’re lying in a pool of your own blood?”- Tarantula quips.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Tropico/Shade5.jpg

[DarkKnightJRK]

As I was being driven to God-knows-where, I felt my right pinky move. I'm not sure if I'm proud of my progress or even more pissed off for my lack of it. But I'll keep my movements secret for now, I can't have Joker noticing and jamming more of that liquid into me.

As his goons dropped me into the graveyard, a freezing chill ran through my spine. It wasn't until I notice the headstones that my blood ran cold and the sheer hate burns through my veins like a building cancer.

This bastard, this evil monster, the Anti-Christ himself, has dug up the bodies of my parents, left them out of their coffon's, and dropped their decaying bodies back into the grave. I want to disembowl this wretched creature. Burn him alive from the inside out.

Then, he drops me into the grave and starts re-shoveling the dirt onto me. Anger burns into adredeline and the adredeline works against the paralizing drug. My body starts to flex and move as the dirt starts to weigh against me. I start to dig my way through, trying not to have the dirt get into me and holding my breath.

Finally, my hand reached the surface. I started clawing my way out and finally got the rest of my cape out. I saw the truck starting to speed away.

No. Not this time. Joker has finally gone to far. I'm going to do what I should have done a long time ago.

I'm going to kill him.

I take all the exploding batarangs that I hold, I threw all of them, hitting the middle of the truck. The truck explodes and falls onto it's side, scrapping across the pavement for a few feet.

I calmly walk towards the burn wreckage, kicking out the windows and finding my pale-faced target. I grab him by the collar and fling him across the wreckage. I look and notice a tool-kit that had feel from the truck. Beside it, I noticed a tool he had used before to kill another of my own.

I pick up the crowbar, planning to use to to beat him as close to death as I humanly can, just like he did to Jason. I'm going to rip him open and choke him on his own intestines. I'm going to make him beg and plead and whimper and choke for his death and then I will beat him some more, until the Hell I send him too will seem like Heaven compared to what I have done.

And God forgive me, I'm going to enjoy it.

[Keyser Soze]

OOC: Very good post JRK! I like the nod to "Sin City" as well...

"Batman! What an...unpleasant surprise."

The Joker was scrambling backwards, away from Batman. He had already been beaten to within an inch of his life with a crowbar once in the recent past. He didn't intend on having it done to him again. And judging by the way The Bat looked, he wasn't going to escape with his life. Not this time.

"Hey, Bruce, don't take it personally. Heh heh, I was just making things right. In all fairness, you should have been buried with your parents way back whenm you were a little spoiled-brat kid."

The Joker staggered up onto his feet, still moving backwards. Batman was slowly but surely approaching him, with murder in mind.

"You're not going to kill me, are you Bats? That's not you. If you kill me, I've won. And by killing me, you're going to let your friend Harvey Dent die. he's still in the burning van. Are you going to rescue him, or kill me?"

[DarkKnightJRK]

"Why not? Now both sides will match his ugly demenor."

I see the stunned look on Joker's face. It gives me enough time to whack him across the head with the crowbar. It'll give me enough time to get Dent out the truck. I walk across the truck and drag Dent, groaning from the fire getting to him, out of the truck and start rolling him around so that the fire on him is put out. I take the crowbar and bash him across the back, gasping and dropping to the ground. I grab him by the chunks of hair he has left and breathe into his ear.

"You make one move, or one sound, I'll snatch the life right out of you. Do you understand?"

Before he can say anything, I drop his head and go back to the Joker. Dent's was just a warning, if all goes to plan, there will only be one casulty tonight.

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker could actually see stars. He cralwed around aimlessly on the ground, trying to regain his bearings. But before he could get to his feet, he could hear Batman approaching behind him. He would have to think fast.

He spun round, pointing his gun at Batman.

"Stay back, Brucie! I'm not joking this time - now it's really loaded!"

[Harlekin]

"Nicely done." Deathstroke says as he jumps down from a nearby building. "It was hard tracking you down there for a second Shade. Tarantula, Blüdhaven." Slade approached the Shade carefully, especially after having seen how effectively the man had taken down the Tarantula.

"And I just might have an offer you can't refuse."

[DarkKnightJRK]

The Joker could actually see stars. He cralwed around aimlessly on the ground, trying to regain his bearings. But before he could get to his feet, he could hear Batman approaching behind him. He would have to think fast.

He spun round, pointing his gun at Batman.

"Stay back, Brucie! I'm not joking this time - now it's really loaded!"

"This is kevlar-lined, remember?" I tap the hard plate on my armor. "Do you really think that can stop me? Nothing will stop me. You've gone too far. It's time for you to die."

[Keyser Soze]

OOC: Sorry for the bunnying here, JRK. I just want an excuse to use a cool pic...

Batman through a Batarang knocking the gun away from The Joker. He grabbed The Joker, hitting a solid punch in his face. The Joker let out a pained whimper, which quickly turned into a desperate laugh.

"Funny how things turn out!" he sputtered.

http://img211.echo.cx/img211/6890/jokerbol22sj.jpg

"No! I won't be dying. I have so much to do. So many people to kill..."

The Joker through a smoke grenade onto the ground, and the area surrounding him erupted into green gas. The Joker used this opportunity to make a run for it, trying to exit the scene. Trying to get away from Batman.

[DarkKnightJRK]

He's not going to escape.

I track his movements with my starlight lenses. I take out three of my shrioukin Batarangs and throw them on pressure points in the back. He should be stuck on the ground for a while.

I walk towards him, gripping the crowbar in my hands. No, there will be no escape for The Joker. There will be no clever escapes or some rescue situation I have to stop. It's just me, him, and a crowbar.

Like Joker had just said, "Funny how things turn out."

[Keyser Soze]

batman may have expected The Joker to start whimpering in fear, or start begging for his life. But instead, he just started laughing.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHA....."

The Joker spat out a wad of blood, looking up at Batman.

"Well, here we are. You win, I lose. Now, why don't you kill me?"

The Joker stared at Batman, a mad glint in his eye.

"Come on, it's easy. Bash my brains in. You know you want to. Become what you were always destined to be. A maniac. A psycho. A killer."

The Joker chortled tauntingly at Batman.

"After all, I'm the only thing that keeps you from being just as crazy as all the monsters you hunt. If you kill me, you become me. You need me to give your life justification. You need someone to hate other than yourself. So go ahead and kill me. I can die happy, knowing the hell you're going to be entering."

The Joker closed his eyes, waiting for the fatal blow. A smile slowly spread across his face.

"Smile, and the whole world smiles with you. Cry, and you weep alone."

[DarkKnightJRK]

I raise the crowbar, about to bash his face in, when his laughter starts ringing in my head. Other voices start in my head, leaving nothing but confusion it it's wake. Images blink back and forth in my mind.

My parents being shot.
Jason, dead and freezing in my arms.
Seeing Barbra's tear-drenched face in the hospital after she was shot.
HIM shooting Sara Essen.
HIM standing over Tommy Elliot's dead body.
Alfred, dead on the ground, with HIS grin plastered on his face.
My mother kissing my on the cheek before tucking me to bed.
Alfred telling me that everything will be alright, dispite the emptyness inside me.
Seeing my mother in that "other plane" after so many years.
Tim Drake holding onto me after he finally snapped out of his dark side.
Barbra with a grin on her face as she showed me her working legs for the first time.

What was before a settled certainty in my mind has become utter confusion. His laughter was more crazed than ever, because of his soon death. I realize his plan.

I angerly swung the crowbar...and just stopping it an inch from his face. I drop the crowbar just beside his face. I turn around and start to walk away. I turn on the comm, telling Oracle the corridates of Joker and Two-Face so the police can grab them.

I am never going to become HIM. Ever.

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker opened his eyes. What had happened? He looked over, and saw the crowbar lying beside him, and then, with a wince of pain, looked up. His smile vanbished as he spotted Batman, slowly walking away.

"Hey! What are you doing? Get back here and finish the job! Don't you walk away from me!"

No, this wasn't happening. Batman wasn't going to win, not this time.

"Your mother was a whore! And your father sodomised Alfred on a daily basis! I've had sex with Barbara Gordon, I did her up the ass! HA HA! Are you listening to me? Are you really going to let me live, knowing what I could do to you? Knowing what I could do to your loved ones? Bruce! BATMAN!"

But Batman was gone. The Joker tried to get up to go after him, but his back froze up. He was still too hurt from the batarangs to move. With an angered sigh, he slumped back onto the ground. As he heard the sirens slowly approaching, he slammed his fist into the ground in frustration.

Batman had won again. But he was going to pay. Oh, he was going to pay...

[Keyser Soze]

OOC; I have to say thank you, JRK. What a rally of posts that was. Well done!

[Twitch]

I made a hard right into Central Gotham when I realized why am I doing this? I don't deserve to be a crime fighter yet alone carry the name Robin. I felt that Bruce should have killed me on the spot. The crimes I have commited are deemed unspeakable. There's only person who can help fight the demons.....

"Ducard."

[Tropico]

Shade looked at Deathstroke up and down as he neared Tarantula's writhing body. He loomed over her..."Not only do you dress like a ****, but you carry yourself like nothing more like a common thug. I'm afraid I have to pay you back for those gunshot wounds, you didn't expect my comeback to be such a short affair did you?"- Shade says at Tarantula in an angry tone.

"Deathstroke, I believe you might have been a little premature with your entrance. You'll have to forgive my rudeness for running out on you for a few minutes, I have some previous business to attend to and make sure that this trollop's spirit remembers not to try to take on a legacy that doesn't belong to her in her next life. And...Slade, old chap, I know brusqueness is in your nature but praising me and then threatening me with an offer "I can't refuse" doesn't sit well with me. The Terminator title might intimidate others, but it's hardly impressive to me. Since I "can't" refuse this offer I'm sure you WILL wait for me right here. You'll stay righ here, right?"- Shade says without pause as the shadows begin to envelop him and he says a few last words before disappearing completely with Tarantula.

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Shade's torture session with Tarantula in the Shadow Lands is best to the imagination. Suffice it to say that she talked about things that the Shade didn't enquire about. She offered sexual favors and when Shade refused she turned those same words into things that he should do to himself. The brazen talk by the woman ellicited a response in the Shade and what it brought was more pain to her. In those desperate moments she gave out all her secrets, even Nightwing's dual identity. At this moment the Shade decided to end her existence out of boredom. He left her body in the Shadow Lands to be dealt with accordingly by whatever demons might be wandering there. He kept her bloodied mask and blowgun and then opened a portal to Richard Grayson's dwelling where he left both items.

The shadows distorted near Deathstroke and Shade stepped out. "Well, dear Slade; what is this about and offer and where will we go that's not as dismal as this place?"

[TheCorpulent1]

Now that Mordru had cured him of his problems, Ares wrapped himself in flames as he prepared to teleport away.

"Ares! What are you doing?" Black Adam yelled.

"You think I'd actually ally myself with filthy lesser beings? Please! You were ridiculously easy to manipulate, fools that you are." The flames rose higher, then winked out. Ares was gone.

"Excellent," Black Adam remarked. "Three members in and we already have our first betrayal. I knew there was a reason I distanced myself from you so-called 'villains' before. You are all UTTERLY without HONOR!" He finished in a shout.

[Johnny Blaze]

Now that Mordru had cured him of his problems, Ares wrapped himself in flames as he prepared to teleport away.

"Ares! What are you doing?" Black Adam yelled.

"You think I'd actually ally myself with filthy lesser beings? Please! You were ridiculously easy to manipulate, fools that you are." The flames rose higher, then winked out. Ares was gone.

"Excellent," Black Adam remarked. "Three members in and we already have our first betrayal. I knew there was a reason I distanced myself from you so-called 'villains' before. You are all UTTERLY without HONOR!" He finished in a shout.

“Calm yourself, Adam. Ares’ betrayal will not go unpunished. Do you honestly think I’d cure him with no contingency plan? The mystical energies that I removed can be easily injected back into the god of conflicts…and rather painfully, I might add.”

Mordru concentrates and closes his eyes as he whispers an incantation under his breath. A few moments later, the wizard comes back to reality.
“There, it is done. The energies that I held in check in a pocket dimension have now been released. They will seek out the Olympian wherever he may be. And, once they find him, they will merge with him once more”, Mordru says as he purses his lips in a wicked smile.

“Now then, about recruiting other members to our cause…”

[TheCorpulent1]

"Yes, do you have some means of viewing events in the world? I have no further suggestions for our Alliance, but perhaps we can simply find others whose goals may fit with our own."

[Johnny Blaze]

“A sound idea. I shall retire to my throne room and scout out other potential allies.”
Mordru walks to the door to his throne room…and stops before entering. “Instead of sitting there waiting in this room for me to finish my search, why don’t you go out and scout around yourself? When I find a promising target, I will inform you mystically.”

[TheCorpulent1]

"Not a bad idea."

Black Adam headed through the door that led back to the Earth dimension and began flying around. He landed in many of the major cities. He spotted Deathstroke and the Shade talking in Bludhaven but left them to their own business. He passed through Star City and the newly rebuilt Coast City, but neither had anything going on. He swung by New York, but that was relatively quiet as well. It seemed as if the whole villain world had gone to sleep on him until he came to Metrpolis. He was surprised that Superman didn't stop him as he flew through the city; he'd heard that most villains couldn't last two minutes in Metropolis without Superman spotting them. He stopped at an electronics store as a news report on one of the monitors in its front window caught his eye. Apparently there was some kind of trouble going on in Keystone City.

Black Adam made his way to Keystone City where he finally found something going on. He dropped from the sky to a hover about 15 feet off the ground and watched the tail end of Mirror Master's bank robbery. Odd, Mirror Master was supposed to be one of the best, but he seemed off his game; you'd almost think he'd never even robbed a bank before. The Flash must have been out of the city at the moment, Black Adam reasoned, or he would have noticed this. As Mirror Master turned to run out of the bank, he stopped short as he saw Black Adam.

"Mirror Master, I presume. I have a proposition for you..."

OOC: Just in case you were wondering, rigel, that's you as Mirror Master, not the real one. :)

[Harlekin]

"Heh, always the same." Deathstroke said before Shade had taken off. When he reappeared, Slade had taken to leaning against a nearby wall, having waited a while. "I'm proposing that join me in the Dark Alliance, alongside Black Adam and Mordru. We will be able to weed out the heroes of this world, especially ones such as the one you just killed."

Standing up and approaching the Shade "Now surely, this is an offer you would refuse is it Shade? As for a place, we will be using the good old Tower of Fate as our headquarters.

"So, are you interested?"

[Tropico]

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The Shade sighed deeply. "As a matter of fact I was looking for some excitement and the company of my...peers, as it is. I have to say, though, your salesmanship is deplorable. Really! How could you pitch something so important in this less that appropriate atmosphere? Fill me in on what you scoundrels have been up to...I surmise that Mordru has taken over Fate's ownership of the Tower?"

As they kept walking, Shade listened to Deathstroke's account and would offer to transport them to the Tower if needed.

OOC: Harl, you can bunny me to the Tower, no prob!

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: That picture made me crack up after reading Harlekin's post. :D

[rigel7soldiers]

"Not a bad idea."

Black Adam headed through the door that led back to the Earth dimension and began flying around. He landed in many of the major cities. He spotted Deathstroke and the Shade talking in Bludhaven but left them to their own business. He passed through Star City and the newly rebuilt Coast City, but neither had anything going on. He swung by New York, but that was relatively quiet as well. It seemed as if the whole villain world had gone to sleep on him until he came to Metrpolis. He was surprised that Superman didn't stop him as he flew through the city; he'd heard that most villains couldn't last two minutes in Metropolis without Superman spotting them. He stopped at the Daily Planet as something on one of its news monitors caught his eye. Apparently there was some kind of trouble going on in Keystone City.

Black Adam made his way to Keystone City where he finally found something going on. He dropped from the sky to a hover about 15 feet off the ground and watched the tail end of Mirror Master's bank robbery. Odd, Mirror Master was supposed to be one of the best, but he seemed off his game; you'd almost think he'd never even robbed a bank before. The Flash must have been out of the city at the moment, Black Adam reasoned, or he would have noticed this. As Mirror Master turned to run out of the bank, he stopped short as he saw Black Adam.

"Mirror Master, I presume. I have a proposition for you..."

OOC: Just in case you were wondering, rigel, that's you as Mirror Master, not the real one. :)

Crap. Gotta fake a Scottish accent. "Black Adam. What are ye doin' here?" Faking suspicion, I drew my gun, as though that meant something to Black Adam. "What business have ye with the Mirror Master?"

[TheCorpulent1]

Black Adam chuckled as he floated closer and gently pushed his mirror gun out of the way. Adam had not heard many Scottish accents in his day, but he thought Mirror Master sounded... odd. But no matter. "My business is quite simple: I offer you the chance to leave these... insipid banalities," Adam indicated the bags of money Mirror Master held, "behind. Surely such trivial matters are below one of your stature. I offer you membership in the Dark Alliance, a confederation of those who would see the so-called 'heroes' wiped from the face of the earth. What say you?"

[rigel7soldiers]

"I'll say yes... but can I keep the money anyway? I'll leave it if it means that much ta ye..." I probably should have been thinking of what I should do once I got in... I'm sure I'll think of something, though... better do it quick. EM and Vigilante came out of the bank. I silently pocketed the Icicle's freeze gun and gave the signal for them to go to the JL. "They won't be able ta make it... but I don't think ye were lookin for them in tha first place"

[TheCorpulent1]

"Do what you will with the money. As for your friends, I suppose any help would have been appreciated, but they are not necessary. They do not possess your unique talents. If you're done here, we can return to Fate's Tower after just one quick stop. Are you ready?"

[rigel7soldiers]

I set the money down. "Alright, I'm ready. Where are we goin' first? Wait, wait... Dr. Fate's Tower? Ye have defeated Dr. Fate?"

[Harlekin]

"Had you expected anything different?" Slade gave a bit of a grin under his mask, as he grabbed the jewel from his pocket "This little gem here will take us right to them. We've recruited Ares, and there are now up and about recruiting others. With your help, we 'scoundrels' can do a lot of damage."

Thinking back to Fate's Tower, the two were transported right into the main room, which they found to be empty. Deathstroke surmised that both Mordru and Adam were out recruiting . "Sorry again for having to look you up in Blüdhaven there Shade, but it was the quickest way of getting to you. You'll have to excuse the accomadations here though. They are not always top notch. Make yourself comfortable nonetheless."

[Karem-Knight]

Two Face, Managed too Escape the Van but barley. He got up

“Where’s the bat? I burnt my tux for the easiest way too get out for him.”

Joker laid Beaten just then he heard sirens

“Come on you clown!” Harvey said

[Savage]

OOC: Might as well finish off my original story since I'm not needed yet. I mean Grodd and his own Justice League is a pretty big deal in itself.

IC:*I don't have time for this.*
Flash-"Ok, I'm outta here."
John Stewart-"But it's only been 20 minutes."
Flash-"That's too long. I can't stay cramped up in this house, I need to breathe! I'm headin back to Central. The people have probably been wondering where I've been. It's been good Mr. and Mrs. M. Thanks for the hotpockets."
Mr. Miracle-"Hey."
Flash-"?"
Mr.M-"*doing Vulcan hand sign* Live long and prosper.:)"
Flash-"...:confused:"
Barda-"Ignore him. He's like this when we have guests."
Flash-"...oookaybyebyenow."
*I'm out of there in a flash and back in Central City. Home sweet home. Man, I haven't been here in a long time. Not since "the incident". But, my duties do come before my personal issues. No need to linger on past events until I go Batty(sorry for the pun). It's time to get back into action!--But first--*

Flash-"Luigi! Mah man!"
*I walk into Sbarro's high fiving the best damn Italian chef on the planet.*
Luigi-"Flash! Been a long time you mook! How's it hangin?"
Flash-"Low and steady."
*We both have a good laugh*
Luigi-"I'm sorry about what happened to Linda. That my friend was a lady."
Flash-"Don't worry about it."
Luigi-"Why if I got my hands on that yellow mamaluke, I'd show him how it was done back where I'm from."
Flash-"Yeah, Zoom would be shaking in his boots from your tanktops and baseball bats."
Luigi-"Hey! Why I oughta--"
Flash-"Just messin with ya man. Now how about that pizza I never finished."
Luigi-"Comin right up. You make yourself comfortable outside."

*I take a seat under one of his bright green, white, and now orange umbrellas and enjoy the sights. Man is it good to be back. Take a long needed break from all the activity. Kids comin up to my table for my autograph, old people smiling it me, chicks waving and blowin kisses. THIS right here is my town. I'm busy waving back when I turn around to see John sitting in front of me.*

Flash-"Woah! Jesus H. Christ! You scared the living crap out of me. How the hell'd you get here--"
JS-"..."
Flash-"--so...fast...?"
*John raises his power ring at me and everything slows down. It starts glowing green and I flip the table over on him and make a run for it. Leaving a mess of umbrellas behind me in my wake.*
*Luigi comes running out with two pizzas in hand*
Luigi-"What the?--Wh-who?
*John's getting up and cleaning himself off.*
Luigi-"YOU! I'M GOING TO--"
*John shoots through his chest as Luigi falls to his knees gasping for air and falls to his side unconscious, eyes still open*

OOC: Wow I suck with Italian dialogue.

[Savage]

*Run, run, run, run, run, run, run! Gotta warn the others. I'm about to call up the watchtower when my hand is swatted and I'm hooked and elbowed in the face, followed by an uppercut which sends me flying into the air and slamed hard on my back.*

*I look up to see, to my suprise, me standing over me!*
RoboFlash-":)Well, well, well. Long time no see. Nice little move there with the rock to the head. Batman teach you that one?"
Flash-"Grodd the pitcher, you the catcher?"
RF-"Nice...Heads up.:)"

*He's gone and I notice the famous red and blue blur coming towards me from the sky. I get the hell up and out of the way and he goes drilling through the street and flying back up through another end. I do what I do best and make a run for it. I may be faster but even I'm not dumb enough to go toe to toe big blue. Grodd's Wonder Woman comes speeding my way but thanks to a certain entity, I'm able to make a strong right turn with no problem and let em go crashing into each other. Superman rips her in half of course but that doesn't mean it doesn't hurt like hell. The sight itself shocks me which allows enough time for the green guy to get the drop on me and phase me into the street, head and limbs still sticking out*

[TheCorpulent1]

I set the money down. "Alright, I'm ready. Where are we goin' first? Wait, wait... Dr. Fate's Tower? Ye have defeated Dr. Fate?"
"Not personally; another of our allies did. You'll meet him eventually. First, I have something to take care of. You can travel through mirrors, correct? Meet me in Blue Valley, Nebraska. There's someone there I have an appointment with." Black Adam takes off and a distant boom signals his increasing speed, leaving no opportunity for Mirror Master's further questions.

[rigel7soldiers]

Blue Valley... Okay. I jumped into a window, and jumped out of a puddle in Blue Valley. What's in Nebraska? Stargirl. But Adam wouldn't, she's just a kid. Who else, Pat Dugan. And I can't stop Adam, either. It'll all be worth it though... He must've seen me, he stopped in midair and lowered himself to the ground.

[Savage]

*He appears on the other side looming over me along with John, and my Mexican import as Superman comes flying overhead doing his little JC impression, eyes glowing red. They all just smirk and I definately know what's coming next. Grodd's not playing around this time. He doesn't care that I'm being killed. He doesn't even care that these guys are doing it in public. The people see the second Flash and they'll just think of me as some weird alternate universe space shapeshifter or something.*

Flash-"Not today folks!"
*I phase through the concrete and land in sewage. I come up gasping for air and coughing up freakin toilet water!*
Flash-"GLAK! AAAAAHAAAAAAAAAEWWWWW!!!!!:("
RoboFlash-"KICK THE BABY!:D"
*I'm kicked right back up into the street into J'onn's arms, who swings me around by the leg and throws me at Superman who's standing ready to deliver the final blow. Like an idiot I frantically flap my arms, hoping to fly off I guess. Hey it works in cartoons. Lucky for me it produces enough air to slow me down to the point where both Supes and the martian just get frustrated and come charging at me.*

*I then let myself drop and let them collide into each other. The shockwave sends building shattering for about a 5 or 6 block radius and they both fall to concrete, heads IN their shoulders. Hell of a way to go. Not exactly what I planned but it'll do nicely.*

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: I just realized that I'm setting myself up as Mr. Orange... does that mean I get shot?

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: If you play your cards right, maybe. :D

[Harlekin]

Savage: Doesn't Flash phasing through the wall usually lead to uhm... the wall exploding?

[Savage]

*Okay, four down, 2 more to go. Funny. They were the ones brought down last time and yet they're the last to go down this time. GL Really isn't much of a match for me, unless he can think at lightspeed. I rush at him, dodging his blasts, until he puts up a huge wall instead, which of course I go slamming into. Now why didn't I see that coming? He forms it into a giant hammer and sends it flying down at me but I get up and get out of there in time to get the drop on him with a swift punch across the face which knocked him out cold. Better get that ring off.*

Flash-"You won't be needing this."
*As I reach down, I'm kneed so hard in the ribs that I'm sent flying across about 15 feet and landing on my face.*
RF-"Idiot. Told him you were mine to deal with. He couldn't beat me. What made him think he was going to beat you? *leans over the faux John, hand cupped over mouth.*You deserved what ya got ya dumb son of a b**ch!"
Flash-"Hey numbnuts!"
RF-"What?--Oh sh--"
*THWACK!!!*

*Sledgehammer. Hardware store. Zoom was good fer sumthin. Now back to John*
*I step on his hand and take the ring off. I try it on.*
Flash-"Hmm...Me a Green Lantern...Nah. Not my color."
*I take it off and put it in my belt. I take a seat on his chest and slap him around a bit to wake him up.*
Flash-"Rise and shine!"
*He's still a little groggy*
Flash-"Now I'm going to ask you a few questions which for your own good I suggest you give me some answers."

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker looked up at Two-Face. The sirens were getting louder.

"Heh heh, you're going to have to help me up, I'm afraid."

Two-Face helped The Joker to his feet, and the two of them staggered away into the woodland. Every step caused The Joker's back to burn in pain. Out of all the places, why did those batarangs have to hit him in the back? He was still recovering from two gunshot wounds to the back. Panting for breath, he looked across at Two-Face.

"Well Harv, who'd have thought we'd be depending on each other like this. HA HA! But let's get out of there. We need to get back to The Iceberg Lounge. I have some unfinished business with The Penguin."

[Savage]

Savage: Doesn't Flash phasing through the wall usually lead to uhm... the wall exploding?
OOC: Really? I just thought it left a hole in the shape of his body in his wake. I kept writing it like that and nobody's told me till now.

[Savage]

OOC: I just realized that I'm setting myself up as Mr. Orange... does that mean I get shot?
OOC: lol. Oh crap, I just noticed that.:D

[Harlekin]

OOC: Really? I just thought it left a hole in the shape of his body in his wake. I kept writing it like that and nobody's told me till now.
I could've sworn that Flash's phasing pretty much leads to the molecules being supercharged and exploding. Maybe this has changed recently, so somebody can be free to correct me.

[Johnny Blaze]

“Hahahahahahahahahaha…how do you plan to stop me, Hector, when you’re trapped in your own little universe inside the Helmet?” Mordru is smiling as he stands next to the niche on the wall that hold the Helmet of Nabu.
“HA! Your friends? My dear, dear Hector…I think being stuck in that Helmet has driven you mad. How, in the Nine Hells, would your friends manage to violate this Tower? Even still, how would they enter this room? None may enter here save I. Not even my associates may enter my throne room. Really, Hector, you must…”
Mordru pauses a moment before saying, “Ah, I am terribly sorry, Hector, but it appears Deathstroke has returned with a new ally. And what kind of host would I be if I did not welcome them back?”
Mordru laughs heartily as he walks towards the door that just appeared in the far wall, and he opens it.

Standing in the main room are Deathstroke and the Shade. Mordru closes the door behind him, which promptly disappears, and strolls toward the pair. “Welcome, Shade”, Mordru says with a courteously bow, “Welcome to my Tower. I trust my colleague, Deathstroke, explained the situation to you?”

[Johnny Blaze]

I could've sworn that Flash's phasing pretty much leads to the molecules being supercharged and exploding. Maybe this has changed recently, so somebody can be free to correct me.
OOC: I know it did, but I think he learned to control it now so whatever he phases through doesn't explode. Not entirely sure though; he may still cause stuff to go boom. Corp would know more on the matter.

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: I'm pretty sure that when he merged with Walter West, his Hypertime counterpart, he gained Walter's more advanced knowledge of vibration, including the ability to vibrate through things without making them explode. He wouldn't necessarily leave a hole in his wake either; he's capable of passing his own molecules entirely through solids without any ill effects to himself or the solid in question.

[TheCorpulent1]

Blue Valley... Okay. I jumped into a window, and jumped out of a puddle in Blue Valley. What's in Nebraska? Stargirl. But Adam wouldn't, she's just a kid. Who else, Pat Dugan. And I can't stop Adam, either. It'll all be worth it though... He must've seen me, he stopped in midair and lowered himself to the ground.
Black Adam brought Mirror Master to the Dugan house. "I learned all about young Courtney during my time with the JSA. Including the fact that her stepfather was a hero himself. He has retired now, which merely means he is old... weak. The perfect means of conveying a message to the other heroes."

Black Adam knocked at the door. Courtney's stepbrother answered. "Uh... Who're you?" the young man asked.

"I am a friend of your sister's, boy."

"Well yeah, I figured you would be from that get-up. She's not here."

"Excellent. My business here is not with her, but rather her stepfather Pat Dugan. Is he in?"

"Oh, yeah. DAAAAAAAD!"

"Who is it, Michael?" Pat asked as he rounded the corner, coming to the door. His eyes widened as he saw Black Adam and Mirror Master standing in his doorway. "Michael, get away from them!" he yelled, pushing Michael aside.

"How noble of you. But I assure you, the boy was never in danger." Black Adam's arm shot out with lightning quickness and his hand clamped down on Pat's neck. "You, on the other hand..."

Adam smiled as he pulled Pat out of the house and started flying straight up. "I always abhorred people like Deathstroke. People who would kill simply for pleasure or money. I have killed, it is true, but I did so in service of my country; for the protection of its people and for my personal honor." The air thinned and Pat's breath became ragged as he struggled uselessly against Black Adam's grip. "So take solace in this fact, Pat Dugan, as you shortly begin to fall to your doom: Your death is not merely some random act of murder perpetrated by a coward or a mercenary. Your death is a declaration of war."

"Please, don't... do... this!" Pat panted as Black Adam took him so high the air was barely breathable. "I've... I've got... a family!"

Black Adam's eyes tightened in sorrow as he let Pat fall. As Pat's scream faded into obscurity below him, Teth-Adam whispered somberly: "I had a family too." After Black Adam's sensitive ears registered the twin crashes of Pat Dugan's body shattering and the roof of his house caving into a hole around him, Adam returned to Mirror Master's side.

"The deed is done; the message is sent," Black Adam said to Mirror Master above the horrified screams of Dugan's family. "Come, we must return to the Tower of Fate before others catch wind of this."

[Karem-Knight]

Two Face was beginning too hate the Joker. He got the coin it was heads. He punched the Joker stunning him. He then dragged him around the woods too the roads. It stank here Dogs must’ve Sh*& and died at the same time.

“Why am I doing this?” Dent said

“Because I’m back in the body Harv go too hell!” Two Face said he soon reached the police

“I- I surrender” said Dent raising his hands up in the air

“Harvey Dent you are under arrest you have the right too remain silent every thing you say can and will be held against you!” The officer said

[Harlekin]

OOC: You going down now pansy-ass. (Corp)

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker, lying on the ground, looked up.

"What are you doing, you moron!? You're going to get us both put in jail!"

The cop was getting closer.

"Aren't you forgetting something, Harv? Your coin, you need to flip your coin! Either you surrender, or you kill this punk cop. Let the coin decide!"

[rigel7soldiers]

Black Adam brought Mirror Master to the Dugan house. "I learned all about young Courtney during my time with the JSA. Including the fact that her stepfather was a hero himself. He has retired now, which merely means he is old... weak. The perfect means of conveying a message to the other heroes."

Black Adam knocked at the door. Courtney's stepbrother answered. "Uh... Who're you?" the young man asked.

"I am a friend of your sister's, boy."

"Well yeah, I figured you would be from that get-up. She's not here."

"Excellent. My business here is not with her, but rather her stepfather Pat Dugan. Is he in?"

"Oh, yeah. DAAAAAAAD!"

"Who is it, Michael?" Pat asked as he rounded the corner, coming to the door. His eyes widened as he saw Black Adam and Mirror Master standing in his doorway. "Michael, get away from them!" he yelled, pushing Michael aside.

"How noble of you. But I assure you, the boy was never in danger." Black Adam's arm shot out with lightning quickness and his hand clamped down on Pat's neck. "You, on the other hand..."

Adam smiled as he pulled Pat out of the house and started flying straight up. "I always abhorred people like Deathstroke. People who would kill simply for pleasure or money. I have killed, it is true, but I did so in service of my country; for the protection of its people and for my personal honor." The air thinned and Pat's breath became ragged as he struggled uselessly against Black Adam's grip. "So take solace in this fact, Pat Dugan, as you shortly begin to fall to your doom: Your death is not merely some random act of murder perpetrated by a coward or a mercenary. Your death is a declaration of war."

"Please, don't... do... this!" Pat panted as Black Adam took him so high the air was barely breathable. "I've... I've got... a family!"

Black Adam's eyes tightened in sorrow as he let Pat fall. As Pat's scream faded into obscurity below him, Teth-Adam whispered somberly: "I had a family too." After Black Adam's sensitive ears registered the twin crashes of Pat Dugan's body shattering and the roof of his house caving into a hole around him, Adam returned to Mirror Master's side.

"The deed is done; the message is sent," Black Adam said to Mirror Master above the horrified screams of Dugan's family. "Come, we must return to the Tower of Fate before others catch wind of this."

I wasn't that upset. I didn't know him, I didn't kill him. I felt sorry for Pat's family, but there's no time for that. Suck it up, soldier, you've got work to do.
"Excellent choice, though. Low-level retired hero in a state with no big guns." I asked how we're going, does he carry me or do I ride a reflective surface...

[Karem-Knight]

Two face flipped it was decided he grinned at Joker

“Don’t worry Clown it’ll be all right!” Two Face said they we’re then put in the back of the car

Two Face and Joker rid at the back seat Two Face kept on checking for the other cops too break free and be alone.

It took awhile for it too happen but it did Two Face soon removed his cuffs something he knew NOW!

Two Face got his gun he shot two, one at the caged bit, and the other at a cop.

“ BANZHAI! Two face said as he went too the drivers seath removing the cop and throwing him out the window. Taking the window two Face drove but the other cop had him at gun point.

“JOKER NOW!”

[Keyser Soze]

"Heh heh, who's to say I don't just let this cop shoot you, Harv? Or maybe I could help you. I don't need a little coin to help me make my decisions, HA HA!"

With a flick of the hand, The Joker threw a razor-sharp playing card though the hole in the cage. It slit the other cop's throat. He gasped and sputtered, dropping the gun. The Joker scrambled through the opening Two-Face had crawled through, grabbing the gun and opening the door on the passenger side, letting thew dying cop tumble out.

"And here's a little extra for good measure! HA HA!", The Joker shouted out mockingly at the cop, firing a bullet into him as they drove away.

Slamming the door closed, he turned round to face Two-Face.

"Okay, Harv, let's go to The Iceberg Lounge!"

[TheCorpulent1]

I wasn't that upset. I didn't know him, I didn't kill him. I felt sorry for Pat's family, but there's no time for that. Suck it up, soldier, you've got work to do.
"Excellent choice, though. Low-level retired hero in a state with no big guns." I asked how we're going, does he carry me or do I ride a reflective surface...
"Just stand still." Black Adam placed his hand on Mirror Master's shoulder and concentrated on Fate's Tower. The green stone transported them instantly. "Mordru, Deathstroke; I have brought another member to our Dark Alliance. I give you Mirror Master."

[Tropico]

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"Sorry again for having to look you up in Blüdhaven there Shade, but it was the quickest way of getting to you. You'll have to excuse the accomadations here though. They are not always top notch. Make yourself comfortable nonetheless."

"Thank you, Wilson. Do not concern yourself with the accomodations, they are quite...comfortable. You could say even preferable to some modern arrangement. I knew accepting your offer would eventually get my heart racing but not in this manner! The books, the art, the furniture and the ambiance...if my heart didn't already belong to Opal I think this would be an enviable substitute."- he said as he paced the room and admired the knick knacks in it. He turned around as he suddenly felt a disturbance.


Standing in the main room are Deathstroke and the Shade. Mordru closes the door behind him, which promptly disappears, and strolls toward the pair. “Welcome, Shade”, Mordru says with a courteously bow, “Welcome to my Tower. I trust my colleague, Deathstroke, explained the situation to you?”

Shade smiled and bowed back-"And what a tower it is! I was just commenting to our esteemed Terminator how deliciously comfortable I was begining to feel in these sorroundings. As for the situation...my curt recruiter was very brief. Something about culling the chaff from the wheat...hero-wise." Shade stopped his pacing and sat down in a plush chair with a small table beside it. There was an exquisite tea set on it and Shade let his cane rest pointing at it in an obvious fashion. "But I'm sure we can discuss the details in a more...civilized manner. Wouldn't you agree?"- said the Shade as he rested back on the chair, his hands were entwined near his face in such a manner as to slightly hide his smile. He had decided that he would be part of this group and that he would do it in fine fashion, even if he had to teach it to them.

Another greenish rippling effect disturbed the air as Black Adam and another man appeared in the tower.

[Spike_x1]

"Not a bad idea."

Black Adam headed through the door that led back to the Earth dimension and began flying around. He landed in many of the major cities. He spotted Deathstroke and the Shade talking in Bludhaven but left them to their own business. He passed through Star City and the newly rebuilt Coast City, but neither had anything going on. He swung by New York, but that was relatively quiet as well. It seemed as if the whole villain world had gone to sleep on him until he came to Metrpolis. He was surprised that Superman didn't stop him as he flew through the city; he'd heard that most villains couldn't last two minutes in Metropolis without Superman spotting them. He stopped at the Daily Planet as something on one of its news monitors caught his eye. Apparently there was some kind of trouble going on in Keystone City.

Black Adam made his way to Keystone City where he finally found something going on. He dropped from the sky to a hover about 15 feet off the ground and watched the tail end of Mirror Master's bank robbery. Odd, Mirror Master was supposed to be one of the best, but he seemed off his game; you'd almost think he'd never even robbed a bank before. The Flash must have been out of the city at the moment, Black Adam reasoned, or he would have noticed this. As Mirror Master turned to run out of the bank, he stopped short as he saw Black Adam.

"Mirror Master, I presume. I have a proposition for you..."

OOC: Just in case you were wondering, rigel, that's you as Mirror Master, not the real one. :)OOC: Daily Planet was destroyed until Bruce Wayne builds another one.

[Johnny Blaze]

[IMG]
Shade smiled and bowed back-"And what a tower it is! I was just commenting to our esteemed Terminator how deliciously comfortable I was begining to feel in these sorroundings. As for the situation...my curt recruiter was very brief. Something about culling the chaff from the wheat...hero-wise." Shade stopped his pacing and sat down in a plush chair with a small table beside it. There was an exquisite tea set on it and Shade let his cane rest pointing at it in an obvious fashion. "But I'm sure we can discuss the details in a more...civilized manner. Wouldn't you agree?"- said the Shade as he rested back on the chair, his hands were entwined near his face in such a manner as to slightly hide his smile. He had decided that he would be part of this group and that he would do it in fine fashion, even if he had to teach it to them.

Another greenish rippling effect disturbed the air as Black Adam and another man appeared in the tower. “I would indeed agree, Shade”, says Mordru as he conjures up a chair to sit and discuss matters with the Shade. Before he can really begin though, a green doorway appears, and Mordru turns to see the return of Black Adam…and another associate.
“Well, I see you were successful in your recruitment, Teth-Adam. And who is this with you? He looks vaguely familiar”, Mordru asks inquisitively as he stares at the Mirror Master.


After hearing the introduction of Mirror Master, Mordru says, “Well, Mirror Master, it is a pleasure for you to join us. I was just filling in our other recent ally, the Shade”, Mordru motions to the man sitting next to him, “on our mission.”
The Dark Lord rises to his feet, and motions the Mirror Master to sit down.

[rigel7soldiers]

Woah. This is the big time, isn't it. Heh. I thought I was supposed to be the master. Shade... you can kill him with light, right? I hoped the Elongated Man and the Vigilante make it to John soon, I'm going to need backup. Mordru... It seems as though he has hijacked the Society. I doubt Adam will go along with this. No... they might have gotten me to recruit other Rogues. There will always be time for worrying later, though.

"Mordru. Pleasure's all mine. So... what are we doin' now?"

[Spike_x1]

The Parasite lay back in his super king-sized bed. He reached to his mouth with a cigar and took several strong puffs. He blew a cloud of smoke from his mouth and reached to the bedside table for his enormous glass of champagne and drew a long swig. He had won his second fight and had recieved an unbelievable amount of money for it. The crowds had roarded his name as he cashed in at the casino.

"Ahhh... so good to be livin' the sweet life, huh?" asked Rudy as he turned over in his bed to face Killer Frost.

Frost drank from her own regular sized glass of champagne and looked at Rudy. "It sure is, Mr. Jones," she answered seductively.

Rudy smiled to himself. He considered himself to be very lucky that Killer Frost would be turned on by playfully kicking the crap out of each other. He grinned at the thought of being on a secret mission for the government and also getting busy at the same time. He felt like James Bond!

Frost put her glass down on her bedside table and rolled over to Parasite. "We're pretty damn lucky that you're a shape-shifter."

[Johnny Blaze]

Woah. This is the big time, isn't it. Heh. I thought I was supposed to be the master. Shade... you can kill him with light, right? I hoped the Elongated Man and the Vigilante make it to John soon, I'm going to need backup. Mordru... It seems as though he has hijacked the Society. I doubt Adam will go along with this. No... they might have gotten me to recruit other Rogues. There will always be time for worrying later, though.

"Mordru. Pleasure's all mine. So... what are we doin' now?"
As the Mirror Master sits, Mordru touches on the purpose of the Dark Alliance, “The goal of our little band is quite simple: the utter annihilation of every hero on the face of the planet!”
Mordru walks around the table were the two newest members sit, “They act as gods policing the world, forcing everyone one the planet to conform to their ideals. Those that do not conform, they deal with violently. They call themselves heroes…”, Mordru stops his pacing and laughs, “HA! They are nothing more than charlatans, deceivers.”
Mordru turns to look at Adam, “And the destruction of Khandaq is the final straw. We will take no more. Make no mistake, gentlemen, this is a war. And it is time for us to strike back, with more viciousness than we ever have before.”

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: Daily Planet was destroyed until Bruce Wayne builds another one.
OOC: Changed it to an electronics store instead. Thanks for the heads up. :up:

[Tropico]

The Shade coughed when Mirror Master started speaking. He looked at him intently, a queer little smile playing on his lips. As they sat down to talk and Mordru conjured up some libations for the occasion. Shade poured some sherry into a flute and looked at Mirror Master intently again.

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"The Flash."- he had said simply, after Mordru made his war declaration, as he stared at Mirror Master. The blank stares elicited talk from Shade again-"The Flash. You're one of his arch rivals, like I used to be. Like I will probably be."-he said as he smiled into the flute and took a sip of the sherry. "I hope that doesn't create some...friction between us. My interest is in the Hermes inspired one, if it's all the same to you since the smart one is no longer with us."

Without looking away from Mirror Master Shade spoke again-"Mordru, I commend you for your ambition; but you must realize that what you suggest is tantamount to suicide, let alone a that things would be left in a bit of a chaotic state. What does the former ruler of Khandaq say, even with the fires stoked high in his belly and vengeance ringing in his ears?"

[TheCorpulent1]

"The soon-to-be future leader of Khandaq," Black Adam replies hotly, "says that the pieces are already in place. I have sent the heroes a message of our intentions. Before I returned, I killed Pat Dugan, a retired hero with ties to the JSA."

[Johnny Blaze]

Mordru smiles as he hears Adam's news, “Excellent. So the first shot has been fired.”
Mordru turns to face the whole group, “So, as such, I propose we move to bigger game.”
Mordru leans over the table, and, with a wave of his hand, conjures up an image of Captain Marvel Junior and Jade in it's center. “Captain Marvel Jr and Jade. Both are experienced heroes, and they shall be the first of the self rightious to fall to our collective might.”
The images disappear, and Mordru rises, “I propose that Deathstroke and I go after Jade, while Black Adam, Mirror Master and the Shade kill Marvel Junior.”

[Tropico]

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"My word! THAT hardly seems sporting. Well, I agree that it would be best to have back ups, in case something goes awry."- Shade says as he finishes the last of the sherry. "Mmmm, shall we be off then?"

[rigel7soldiers]

"I suppose we shall. Where is tha lad? Fawcett City, likely. Wait... I don't suppose we could ambush him in his civilian ID? That would suit me just fine. You would be an authority on the subject, Adam, so yer opinion would be welcome..."

[Harlekin]

"This is true. McCulloch could quite easily take care of the boy on his own. Just make sure he doesn't get to say his magic word." Deathstroke said as he approached the Mirror Master "He'll be in Fawcett alright, goes by the name of Freddy Freeman." Giving an evil grin he returned to Mordru's side.

"I've got friends in high places... Shall we go Mordru?"

[rigel7soldiers]

Damn. Damn it all to Hell, I have to kill Captain Marvel Junior. I'm a Doctor, I can't... Fine. It'll be worth it. "Alright, I'm off. I'll bring you tha head. Ye have a bathroom in this place? I'll need a mirror..." I'll use the freeze gun, nobody will know...


Em and Vigilante made it to Scott Free's house. They explained everything to John. He'll be ready. Mr. Miracle and Barda won't take this lightly either.

[PFunk2]

<EDIT>Someone beat me to it.
OOC:Got an idea though. Maybe J'onn and Hal can investigate this Source Wall thing together? I mean Flash and John Stewart learned something that most cosmic types like Hal Jordon and J'onn Jon'z know already so they'll probably be involved with fending off Black Adam's crew's upcoming attack anyway so you guys can invesitgate this whole Source Wall thing till it gets so big it reaches earth. Speaking of GL members, I'm actually suprised that Sinestro hasn't been recruited yet. But that's probably be too much with all the heavy hitters they currently have anyway.

OOC: Actually I think that 's a good idea. Actually I was thinking about going to having John go to the sourcewall also for those reasons.

Sorry for the delay folks but I usually try to get out of the house on the weekends-hince no posting during those times.

[PFunk2]

OOC: Might as well finish off my original story since I'm not needed yet. I mean Grodd and his own Justice League is a pretty big deal in itself.

IC:*I don't have time for this.*
Flash-"Ok, I'm outta here."
"Finially." John says to the speedster. "And after only been 20 minutes."
Flash-"That's too long. I can't stay cramped up in this house, I need to breathe! I'm headin back to Central. The people have probably been wondering where I've been. It's been good Mr. and Mrs. M. Thanks for the hotpockets."
Mr. Miracle-"Hey."
Flash-"?"
Mr.M-"*doing Vulcan hand sign* Live long and prosper.:)"
Flash-"...:confused:"
Barda-"Ignore him. He's like this when we have guests."
Flash-"...oookaybyebyenow."
[QUOTE=Savage] *I'm out of there in a flash and back in Central City. Home sweet home. Man, I haven't been here in a long time. Not since "the incident". But, my duties do come before my personal issues. No need to linger on past events until I go Batty(sorry for the pun). It's time to get back into action!--But first--*
"Later Ms Barda. And thanks for the help and for putting up with us." John adds as he leaves along with his speedster friend.

"I need to find some more info about this soucewall". John thinks as he heads skyward towards the watchtower. "Maybe J'onn or Superman and inform me more about this."

[TheCorpulent1]

"This is true. McCulloch could quite easily take care of the boy on his own. Just make sure he doesn't get to say his magic word." Deathstroke said as he approached the Mirror Master "He'll be in Fawcett alright, goes by the name of Freddy Freeman." Giving an evil grin he returned to Mordru's side.
"While I don't doubt Mirror Master's abilities, I think I should still tag along, just in case Freeman does manage to say his magic word. Can't be too careful, after all, and we are all supposed to be allies here, aren't we? Come Mirror Master, Shade. Fawcett City and the death of one of the damnable wizard's tools await." Adam's stone returned Mirror Master, the Shade, and himself to Earth. They set off for Fawcett City via their various means of travel.

[rigel7soldiers]

Fawcett City, Indiana. Always liked this place. Sorta Quiet. Captain Marvel does agood job. Freddy Freeman. I managed to get to the house first. The others caught up eventually. "I'll get tha door." I said, icing it up for an easy break-down, then explaining I had stolen the first Icicle's freze gun. Time to show this kid the worst day of his life.

OOC: I already have plans that can take out everyone but Mordru... Just wanted to give everyone a heads up... It'll wait until other heroes die and a full-scale war begins, though.

[Johnny Blaze]

"This is true. McCulloch could quite easily take care of the boy on his own. Just make sure he doesn't get to say his magic word." Deathstroke said as he approached the Mirror Master "He'll be in Fawcett alright, goes by the name of Freddy Freeman." Giving an evil grin he returned to Mordru's side.

"I've got friends in high places... Shall we go Mordru?"
“Yes, we should be on our way. The green witch has a date with death after all, and we would not wish to keep her waiting, would we now?” says Mordru with a fiendish smile.

As Black Adam, the Shade, and the Mirror Master disappear, Mordru walks to the center of the room with Slade, and a large, green flamed ankh materializes out of thin air and engulfs them…

Appearing in a small clearing in Central Park on a windy and sunny day, Mordru and Deathstroke begin their search for the young Outsider, Jade. Mordru concentrates as he casts an incantation to locate their quarry.
“There”, the Dark Lord says after a minute of searching, as he points to the northeast. With a wave of his hand, Mordru teleports them both closer to their target…

“See you, girl!” says Jenny Lynn Hayden, as she waves goodbye to a friend. Walking down a small, two lane street lined with apartment buildings, the woman known as Jade is traveling anonymously, wearing a large trench coat and a hat. The wind picks up and blows her hat off of her head. As she bends down to pick it up, to kids on bicycles ride by, almost running it over. “Hey! Watch it!” she shouts, but the children are oblivious to her.
She sighs audibly as she bends down once more and grabs her fallen fedora…

Mordru and Slade have appeared on a nearby rooftop and watch as the young woman waves to what must be an acquaintance as they leave an apartment building.
“There she is, Deathstroke. Jenny Lynn Hayden, aka Jade. Daughter of Alan Scott, and leader of the Outsiders.”
Mordru smirks as he turns towards Slade, “I’ll let you have first crack at her, if you wish. And, to make things more even, I will enchant your armor and sword.”
Mordru casts a minor spell, and an eerie green lights emanates from the Terminator’s sword and chain mail armor.
“There. Your armor will now be able to withstand more punishment, and your sword will cut sharper and swifter than it ever has before. The enchantments will only last for an hour, so we best make our move.”

[Nightwing.]

OOC: You should PM batnkevlar to get an idea of what you saw in Hal's mind.

i did.he never pm'd back

[Nightwing.]

OOC:ok im gonna start a new arc.any other heroes stuck for something to do?if so then pm me and well do something

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker and Two-Face arrived at The Iceberg Lounge. The Joker turned to Two-Face.

"Okay, Harv, you wait out here. Keep an eye out for any unwelcome visitors."

The Joker hopped out of the car and sneaked into The Iceberg Lounge. The Penguin was surveying the damage to his property, a look of dismay on his face.

"Did you eliminate Batman?" asked The Penguin.

"No," replied The Joker, "Well, yes, but then he....uneliminated himself."

The Joker looked over his shoulder, making sure Two-Face was still outside.

"But that's not why I'm here," he continued, "You see, I'm here for my payment. I've ensured Dent will never be DA again, just like you asked. You owe me 100 million dollars, I believe..."

[DarkKnightJRK]

I finally made it to the Penthouse. I saw the damage that The Joker had done to the place, even spray-painting "JOKER WAS HERE" on one of the walls.

Anger starts building in again. I try to tell myself that he's being taken in to Arkham Asylum and might get treatment, but I know that won't happen. Now that he knows who I really am, he can make my life a living hell. He knows where everyone I know lives, if he wanted to kill them to get to me, he would.

I remember Tim again. I searched around the penthouse and found nothing except one of my hood sweaters missing, and I don't think Joker would want to take that (though I guess in his sick mind, he'd find it funny).

I need to find him. But I have to do one thing first. I acess the secret portion of the penthouse and turn on the comm.

"Oracle? It's Bruce."

"What's up? ...Are you alright? You don't sound right..."

"I know. Listen...something...something's happened."

"What? What happened?"

"It's Alfred. He...he's dead. The Joker kidnapped him and injected him with his joker venom."

"Oh, Jesus...I'm sorry, Bruce...what do you want me to do?"

"Get the paramedics there, he's at the Boon Dock Bar & Grill, near Gotham Harbor."

"Can do... Do you want me to come over?"

"Not right now, I have to handle one more thing. Tim's missing."

"Yeah, trapped as the Red Hood..." I realize I haven't told her yet.

"Not anymore. We...had a talk. I think he saw what happened here and tried to find out what happened."

"Well, even the most pessmistic individual needs to have some sort of optimistic side... You need any help finding him?"

"Maybe try and see if any sightings of Robin or anything to note."

"On it... Huh, interesting. Apparantly, your old training partner, Henri Ducard, has just flown here in Gotham. With the satallites, I can dicipher that he's...somewhere in Central Gotham. I think I see someone with him, clad in that hoodie sweater I gave you for Christmas a few years ago. That's just wierd."

Bingo.

"I think that's all I need to know. Thanks, Barbara."

"No problem, Bruce. Take care."

She shuts off then and I leap out the window, using my jump line, heading for Central Gotham.

---

I see Ducard standing in the middle of Central Gotham. He hasn't aged a day. Meanwhile, I find the person in the guady purple sweater Barbara gave me.

With that, I take out spare clothes I brought with me. Batman disapears from the roof of the building he was manning, and a few minutes later, Bruce Wayne steps out of the main door, heading for the two people talking.

"Tim. Ducard, it's been a while."

[Tropico]

Fawcett City, Indiana. Always liked this place. Sorta Quiet. Captain Marvel does agood job. Freddy Freeman. I managed to get to the house first. The others caught up eventually. "I'll get tha door." I said, icing it up for an easy break-down, then explaining I had stolen the first Icicle's freze gun. Time to show this kid the worst day of his life.

Shade had let the others arrive while still hidden in the shadows. He stepped out and when Mirror Master pulled out the Icicle's he raised an eyebrow. Shade heard MM's explanation and smiled as he said:- "That IS indeed the Icicle's gun. You must have gotten that recently, the Icicle was active a very brief time ago." He looked at the frozen door and at MM, he smiled while tipping his hat with his cane. "This is your plan? No wonder the Rogues always end up in jail."- he finished while melting into the shadows, presumably into the interior of the house.

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[rigel7soldiers]

Shade had let the others arrive while still hidden in the shadows. He stepped out and when Mirror Master pulled out the Icicle's he raised an eyebrow. Shade heard MM's explanation and smiled as he said:- "That IS indeed the Icicle's gun. You must have gotten that recently, the Icicle was active a very brief time ago."

"What are ye talking about? Joar Mahkent's dead, an' tha son doesn't need a gun."

He looked at the frozen door and at MM, he smiled while tipping his hat with his cane. "This is your plan? No wonder the Rogues always end up in jail."- he finished while melting into the shadows, presumably into the interior of the house.

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"I'm not going ta jump inta tha window just ta get to tha other side, old man."

I said, speaking to the Shade. He really grates on my nerves. I broke down the door and kept both guns in my hands. I saw the kid, but he saw me first. I'm Sorry, kid. I'm lucky his word has so many syllables, or I would have been in real trouble. I froze him up good. This is really going to put a strain on my relationship with Captain Marvel...

[Tropico]

OOC: Gonna give Corp a chance to post before I act.

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: No Problem. He's not *quite* dead. He might pull through, I haven't sealed it.

[twylight]

OOC: Does anyone know anything about nixonbat?

[Spike_x1]

OOC: I was wondering about him earlier today. I'm not sure if he's simply taken a break or if he's really gone through with what he said about quitting if his posting problems kept going. :confused: :(

[TheCorpulent1]

Shade had let the others arrive while still hidden in the shadows. He stepped out and when Mirror Master pulled out the Icicle's he raised an eyebrow. Shade heard MM's explanation and smiled as he said:- "That IS indeed the Icicle's gun. You must have gotten that recently, the Icicle was active a very brief time ago."
Black Adam raised his eyebrow at the Shade's tone, then looked at Mirror Master as he replied. He didn't know Mirror Master very well, although his reputation certainly preceded him; he tended to stay away from the Flash's insular group of so-called "Rogues." Just what was the Shade getting at? He would have to keep an eye on both of them.
He looked at the frozen door and at MM, he smiled while tipping his hat with his cane. "This is your plan? No wonder the Rogues always end up in jail."- he finished while melting into the shadows, presumably into the interior of the house.
Black Adam watched as the Shade used his shadows to sneak inside. "Hmm. Would that we were all so gifted in the arts of espionage. But alas..."
I broke down the door and kept both guns in my hands. I saw the kid, but he saw me first. I'm Sorry, kid. I'm lucky his word has so many syllables, or I would have been in real trouble. I froze him up good. This is really going to put a strain on my relationship with Captain Marvel...
Black Adam waited patiently. "Well? You boasted you could handle this all by yourself. Time to--how does your modern-day saying go?--'put your money where your mouth is'?"

[rigel7soldiers]

Black Adam raised his eyebrow at the Shade's tone, then looked at Mirror Master as he replied. He didn't know Mirror Master very well, although his reputation certainly preceded him; he tended to stay away from the Flash's insular group of so-called "Rogues." Just what was the Shade getting at? He would have to keep an eye on both of them.

Black Adam watched as the Shade used his shadows to sneak inside. "Hmm. Would that we were all so gifted in the arts of espionage. But alas..."

Black Adam waited patiently. "Well? You boasted you could handle this all by yourself. Time to--how does your modern-day saying go?--'put your money where your mouth is'?"

"I didn't say that, Wilson did. Coming to tha house was my suggestion... ye want me ta do all tha work? Fine." I shot lasers out of the mirror gun. One, two, three. right in the chest. "He's dead, Jim. *snicker* Happy?"

[SuperFerret]

The "man" known as Bizarro thundered across the sky towards Kansas, which he assumed was where the other Superman was. Oh, how Bizarro hated that other Superman.

[TheCorpulent1]

"I didn't say that, Wilson did. Coming to tha house was my suggestion... ye want me ta do all tha work? Fine." I shot lasers out of the mirror gun. One, two, three. right in the chest. "He's dead, Jim. *snicker* Happy?"
Black Adam noted the total lack of hesitation from Mirror Master with surprise. Had he read the Shade's face wrong during his "test" question? No, there had definitely been suspicion there, and the question itself further confirmed it. What did the Shade see in Mirror Master that he did not? Were his supicions totally unfounded? Teth-Adam doubted it; the Shade was certainly better connected to these villains than Adam himself, who did his best to stay away from them before the Dark Alliance. He would have to talk to the Shade when they returned to Fate's Tower. Privately.

"Excellent work, Mirror Master. We should return to the Tower immediately. Though it pains me to resort to these cowardly guerilla tactics, they are ultimately necessary if we wish to avoid getting cut to pieces by the fallout of our own actions."

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: Seriously, was I *not* supposed to kill him? How do you suggest I fake it?

[Savage]

OOC: Seriously, was I *not* supposed to kill him? How do you suggest I fake it?
OOC:You're Mirror Master...Illusions are you whole MO...You figure it out. ;) It's the one reason I'm not worried about this really. The kid is frozen solid so it's not like we saw him fall to the floor or anything.

[Tropico]

Shade stepped out from behind MM. He looked at the green garbed man and at the supposedly fatally wounded youngster. "Oh, me, oh my; you seem to be running cold AND hot my Irish friend. Still, there's a chance that leaving people for dead might give you a spot of unexpected...indigestion when you least expect it. It's been a while..."-as he starts to speak the shadows gather around him and take shape...

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"...since I had need to do this."- he finished as the demon opened it's massive jaws and crunched the top part off the frozen youngster, ice and all. He looked at MM and chuckled softly-"Oh! I'm sorry! Was that a bit of overkill? I apologize if I took your opportunity to smash the Master's ice sculpture, Teth Adam. I promise to leave the next one for you."-he looked at the former regent and smiled at him as he headed back to the door. "Are we done here?"

[Tropico]

OOC:You're Mirror Master...Illusions are you whole MO...You figure it out. ;) It's the one reason I'm not worried about this really. The kid is frozen solid so it's not like we saw him fall to the floor or anything.

OOC:He's also a master surgeon that might figure out that encasing someone in ice and sending lasers that cauterize their own wounds in a victim might give the appearance of death and there's a chance of the person being rescued if there is help on the way.

Shade just wants to have some excitement, he was actually looking forward to seeing a donnybrook between the two Shazam chosen. MM took that away, so he has to improvise.;)

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: Yeah, I'm kind of anxious for another kill after Pat. But it'll have to do for now.

IC: Teth-Adam grimaced as the shadow monster took a bite out of the frozen child. "Not terribly elegant of you, Shade. But it will do just as well."

Black Adam concentrated on the Tower and the green stone returned them to it. "The lesser Marvel is no more," Black Adam announced to... no one. The Tower seemed to be empty. Just as well, he thought. "Hmph. I suppose their excursion took a bit longer. No matter; Mirror Master, you have earned yourself a well-deserved rest. Feel free to wander the Tower as you please, but do try not to get lost. This place is rather labyrinthine."

He turned to the other man. "Shade, can I have a word with you? It will only take a moment." Black Adam held open the door to Fate's spacious library.

[rigel7soldiers]

"Don't get lost, blah blah..." I said in a mocking tone. Adam's dead serious though. Keep walking and you'll find yourself in a sort of... Limbo. Buddy Baker vaguely remembered something like that happening to him.

[Tropico]

He turned to the other man. "Shade, can I have a word with you? It will only take a moment." Black Adam held open the door to Fate's spacious library.

"Of course, Adam. If I'm going to keep getting glimpses of this marvelous place, I think my behaviour might require more "having words with". No hard feelings McCulloch, just trying to have some kind of amusement with these awfully direct kills of yours. Call it the eccentricities of an...what did you call me?...Oh, right! "Old man"."- Shade stepped into the library with Black Adam.

[TheCorpulent1]

Black Adam shut the door behind them. He put his arms behind his back. "I won't condescend by attempting to manipulate you, so I'll come right out with it: I noticed your suspicion with Mirror Master. I am unfamiliar with him and the other Rogues myself, so tell me, is there something I should know about him?"

[Tropico]

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Shade just smiled and stepped into one of the darkest corners of the library, seconds later a large chunk of ice thudded out. Shade came out clicking his tongue. "You might call this exhibit D. You see, Mighty Adam, I suspected Mirror Master of beign a pretender since the first moment he opened his mouth and started spewing forth that horrid little accent." He hit the chunk of ice sharply with the metal tip of his cane and a piece flew off.

"Do you see any congealed blood? Perhaps some bit of sinew or bone? Neither hair nor hide."-Shade said while raising his head suddenly towards Adam.

"He wouldn't be the first to play the role of a foreigner, it just grated on me the way he butchers the accent. I've met these kinds of people and they don't speak like this. That would be exhibit A. Then, there's the matter of his weapon of choice for the "murder". I worked with the Icicle in the Injustice Society some years gone by, it IS indeed his gun. But, why would a Rogue use the Icicle's gun when Captain Cold's would be so much easier to acquire? I'm thinking of one place where one of those guns could be stored and it doesn't bode well for us."

He did a little whirling motion with his cane near the ice and a shadow whirlwind appeared and took with it the ice and small puddles it had formed. "Clever enough to make it look like the boy was cut in half."- he said softly and almost absent mindedly.

"Exhibit C!"- he said sharply, turning his attention back to Adam-"Why would a man that can travel through reflections choose such a ham fisted approach to enter the victim's domicile? Doesn't that defeat the purpouse of trying that the boy doesn't utter a word? You already saw exhibit D, the piece of ice with nary a sign of the victim. And, finally, mighty Teth Adam..."- Shade said while standing directly in front of Adam, he stood straight as a board with his hands resting on his cane as he looked directly into Adam's eyes- "...have you ever known of a Scots that allows himself to be called Irish or vice versa?"

[TheCorpulent1]

"Unfortunately, my experience with Ireland and Scotland in the modern world has been limited, to say the least. My wayward descendant Theo didn't exactly have a penchant for worldliness. And they didn't even exist as far as I knew in my own time." He eyed the Shade. "You are quite a detective. It seems we have a wolf in our midst, but it's clear we can't simply kill him outright. His agenda must be our eventual destruction, but I wish to know specifics. Who is he really, for one? I trust you will continue to keep as close an eye on him as you have been so far?"

[Harlekin]

"Thank you, Mordru." Slade said as he jumped off the building as stealthily as he could, heard by no-one, especially Jade. Now that he is on the same ground level as she is, a batch of shurikens that nail her fedora to a nearby wall.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing!?" She yells as she turns around and sees Deathstroke. "Ah, crap." Immediately, an array of protective emerald forcefields appear, but Slade jumps straight for them, his blade cutting through them thanks to Mordru's enchantment.

A direct blast aimed for his torso simply bounces off, smashing a hole into a nearby building. Deathstroke's smile is hidden under his mask as he charges for her again.

OOC: My god, you are brilliant Trop.

[SuperFerret]

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Shade just smiled and stepped into one of the darkest corners of the library, seconds later a large chunk of ice thudded out. Shade came out clicking his tongue. "You might call this exhibit D. You see, Mighty Adam, I suspected Mirror Master of beign a pretender since the first moment he opened his mouth and started spewing forth that horrid little accent." He hit the chunk of ice sharply with the metal tip of his cane and a piece flew off.

"Do you see any congealed blood? Perhaps some bit of sinew or bone? Neither hair nor hide."-Shade said while raising his head suddenly towards Adam.

"He wouldn't be the first to play the role of a foreigner, it just grated on me the way he butchers the accent. I've met these kinds of people and they don't speak like this. That would be exhibit A. Then, there's the matter of his weapon of choice for the "murder". I worked with the Icicle in the Injustice Society some years gone by, it IS indeed his gun. But, why would a Rogue use the Icicle's gun when Captain Cold's would be so much easier to acquire? I'm thinking of one place where one of those guns could be stored and it doesn't bode well for us."

He did a little whirling motion with his cane near the ice and a shadow whirlwind appeared and took with it the ice and small puddles it had formed. "Clever enough to make it look like the boy was cut in half."- he said softly and almost absent mindedly.

"Exhibit C!"- he said sharply, turning his attention back to Adam-"Why would a man that can travel through reflections choose such a ham fisted approach to enter the victim's domicile? Doesn't that defeat the purpouse of trying that the boy doesn't utter a word? You already saw exhibit D, the piece of ice with nary a sign of the victim. And, finally, mighty Teth Adam..."- Shade said while standing directly in front of Adam, he stood straight as a board with his hands resting on his cane as he looked directly into Adam's eyes- "...have you ever known of a Scots that allows himself to be called Irish or vice versa?"

OOC: Trop, you ever see the show "Monk" with Tony Shalhoub? That little rundown of everything wrong with "Mirror Master" was very similar to parts of the show.

[Spike_x1]

OOC: That was just so damn cool, Trop. Bravo. (Calling him Irish was a nice touch). :up:

[Tropico]

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Shade took a step back and looked pensive. "A wolf in our midst? Well, the technology he uses would make him so. His actions, though, make me think more of a sheep amidst the wolves." He stepped back further, moving near one of the walls and looking at the spines of the books. "All I've done is see him for the pretender that he is. What does that mean? I have to admit that the trail of breadcrumbs haven't led me much farther than that. For all we know at the moment this just might be another man to take the mantle of the Mirror Master and in his amateurish fumblings didn't have the courage to make a kill, thus the deception. It could be more, but I'm not prone to paranoia."

He turned back to Adam and took off his dark glasses, his eyes were cold but there was a fire in them. "This charade might not be reason enough to for you to kill him, Adam. But there is a larger truth behind the smoke and mirrors, pardon the pun, that our associate has distorted." Adam could see the tightness on Shade's face, how his brow had knotted. "We left for an errand and failed to accomplish it. Putting all ego aside and how this makes us look, there is the undenuable reality that one of your brightly colored counterparts is still out there. I'm hardly a detective, but neither am I a fool. I will NOT be mocked in this manner. I will continue my pleasentries with the pretender, as much as I can abide them while I continue to hold back my rage until I choke on it. When Mordru gets back I WILL present my case to him and then see what this Alliance decides."

The Shade put his spectacles on again and fumbled a bit with his jacket, as if trying to make himself look more proper. The action seemed like a physical manifestation of him trying to regain his composure.

OOC: Thanks for the praise guys. 'Ferret, I've seen bits and pieces of the show and know that it's supposed to be really good, so I take it as praise.

[The Joker]

The Joker and Two-Face arrived at The Iceberg Lounge. The Joker turned to Two-Face.

"Okay, Harv, you wait out here. Keep an eye out for any unwelcome visitors."

The Joker hopped out of the car and sneaked into The Iceberg Lounge. The Penguin was surveying the damage to his property, a look of dismay on his face.

"Did you eliminate Batman?" asked The Penguin.

"No," replied The Joker, "Well, yes, but then he....uneliminated himself."

The Joker looked over his shoulder, making sure Two-Face was still outside.

"But that's not why I'm here," he continued, "You see, I'm here for my payment. I've ensured Dent will never be DA again, just like you asked. You owe me 100 million dollars, I believe..."

The Penguin squwaked with laughter.

"Well Joker you have succeeded in making me laugh.You expect to be paid the full 100 million after you fouled up and let the Batman make the connection between us and have him come crashing in on my premises and tear it up in a fit of rage.Not to mention the brutal bodily harm I suffered too".

The Penguin walked to his desk."50 million.The other 50 will go towards to the repairs to my office.Not to mention my medical bills".

The Penguin picked up his umbrella and pointed it at Joker."You're too wreckless Joker.This is not all some big joke.And for your sake the Batman better be destroyed.Otherwise clown you have my word that I will hunt you down myself and peck your eyes out".

[TheCorpulent1]

Unlike the Shade, Black Adam wasn't nearly as hesitant about Mirror Master's eventual death. "Whether he is just an idiot or something worse makes no difference. In the case of the former, he must be culled from our ranks before his incompetence further muddles our plans. In the case of the latter, he must be plied until he reveals what he knows and then discarded as an example to others who would be so bold."

Adam thought about Captain Marvel Jr. and the Shade's deduction. More pieces began to click into place as he ran through the events that had occurred shortly before. "At this moment I would suspect the latter far more than the former. The property damage he caused was not simply the less than subtle showing of a buffoon. With Captain Marvel Jr. alive and his front door now in ruins--with evidence left behind of Mirror Master's new cold gun, no less--he will certainly be on guard against us. He may even alert the rest of the hero community to be on guard. Information travels between them far too efficiently. No, that door seems far more likely a part of a subtle plan to derail our efforts when they've barely even begun."

He turned back to the Shade. "As I said, watch him. Believe me, I am as angry as you at his betrayal, whatever size it turns out to be in the long run, but we must keep tight reins on our angers. If I am correct and he is a hero attempting to infiltrate us, he is a crafty one indeed."

[Tropico]

"Crafty? I'd rather say that the pretender has to have a set of gilded ones to have the courage to enter the lion's den. Nevertheless, I will continue my scrutiny on Mirror Master and I would advise you to do the same. If the only way in and out of this place is through those emeralds I would advise you to keep yours on your person at ALL times and not give either one of us a stone as of yet. Now, let's get back to the person in question so our absence isn't too obvious."- he said while heading for the door.

He stopped and then said-"Play along." He burst through the library doors as he flung them open. "This conversation is over! I am not a child to be chided in such a manner and even less for speaking my mind about some wannabe criminal whose actions are those of rookie. IF he is even WORTHY of the honor of being called that."

He headed over to Mirror Master- "I have spoken my mind directly at you, Sir, on previous occasions. I will continue to do so as this talk behind closed doors seems distasteful to me. If I am to be allied with people I will make my intentions clear and expect the same. Would we be so fortunate as that you were killed on some errand we sent you on, but that is not likely considering the sort of people we will be confronting. That leaves me no alternative but to accompany you until I have the peace of mind that you're not some second rate thug who will disrupt the tapestry of our plans because of his ineptitude."

[TheCorpulent1]

"Crafty? I'd rather say that the pretender has to have a set of gilded ones to have the courage to enter the lion's den. Nevertheless, I will continue my scrutiny on Mirror Master and I would advise you to do the same. If the only way in and out of this place is through those emeralds I would advise you to keep yours on your person at ALL times and not give either one of us a stone as of yet. Now, let's get back to the person in question so our absence isn't too obvious."- he said while heading for the door.
"Don't worry, I had no intention of trusting any of you very far. We are here to serve a purpose, but I still find you villains a distasteful lot."
He stopped and then said-"Play along." He burst through the library doors as he flung them open. "This conversation is over! I am not a child to be chided in such a manner and even less for speaking my mind about some wannabe criminal whose actions are those of rookie. IF he is even WORTHY of the honor of being called that."
"See here, Shade! You overstep yourself going around me this way!"
He headed over to Mirror Master- "I have spoken my mind directly at you, Sir, on previous occasions. I will continue to do so as this talk behind closed doors seems distasteful to me. If I am to be allied with people I will make my intentions clear and expect the same. Would we be so fortunate as that you were killed on some errand we sent you on, but that is not likely considering the sort of people we will be confronting. That leaves me no alternative but to accompany you until I have the peace of mind that you're not some second rate thug who will disrupt the tapestry of our plans because of his ineptitude."
Black Adam pretended to consider the Shade's words. "Make no mistake, Shade, you are FAR out of line. But..." he turned to Mirror Master, "he does raise a good point. I had heard tales of your incredible prowess, but I also heard other things. Whisperings about your addiction. Some would call it unfortunate; I call it a weakness. I will be keeping an eye on you, McCulloch. These are dangerous stakes we find ourselves playing for. If I ever see you behave in such an amateurish manner again, you will be removed from this Alliance. Forcibly. Have I made myself clear?"

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker smirked.

"I'm working on getting rid of Bats. 50 million will be fine. In fact, I'm going to use it to lay low for a while, and put it towards an investment that will help me eliminate our mutual foe once and for all!"

The Joker collected his payment in an attache case, and made for the exit. He stopped at the door, turning round to face The Penguin.

"And I have to say that I liked your little pun. I fouled up? Fouled? HA!"

The Joker swivelled on his foot and marched out of The Iceberg Lounge. He walked outside - Dent was still sitting in the car. He turned round and walked back inside.

"Actually, I think I'll take the back exit. And I hope you don't mind me borrowing another one of your cargo vans. Toodles!"

The Joker sneaked out the back exit, dumping the case in the passenger seat of one of the vans. He hopped in the driver's seat, taking off. it was time for him and Two-Face to part ways.

"Later, Harv," chuckled The Joker under his breath.

The Joker would head off to one of his secret storehouses to pick up some weapons and gadgets. And then? Then, he'd disappear for a while. But he had a plan in mind. Something deliciously wicked. He'd been planning this for a while, and with his newfound wealth he'd have the funds to implement it.

The Joker would be back soon. And he was going to make Batman's life hell...

[rigel7soldiers]

"Don't worry, I had no intention of trusting any of you very far. We are here to serve a purpose, but I still find you villains a distasteful lot."

"See here, Shade! You overstep yourself going around me this way!"[/color]

Black Adam pretended to consider the Shade's words. "Make no mistake, Shade, you are FAR out of line. But..." he turned to Mirror Master, "he does raise a good point. I had heard tales of your incredible prowess, but I also heard other things. Whisperings about your addiction. Some would call it unfortunate; I call it a weakness. I will be keeping an eye on you, McCulloch. These are dangerous stakes we find ourselves playing for. If I ever see you behave in such an amateurish manner again, you will be removed from this Alliance. Forcibly. Have I made myself clear?"

"Crystal, sir. No more door-smashing." They're on to me. I migh have to kill someone for real next time... This isn't looking good. Why has help not arrived yet?

OOC: Trop, you saw more in my mannerisms than I did. Amazing.

[Johnny Blaze]

"Thank you, Mordru." Slade said as he jumped off the building as stealthily as he could, heard by no-one, especially Jade. Now that he is on the same ground level as she is, a batch of shurikens that nail her fedora to a nearby wall.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing!?" She yells as she turns around and sees Deathstroke. "Ah, crap." Immediately, an array of protective emerald forcefields appear, but Slade jumps straight for them, his blade cutting through them thanks to Mordru's enchantment.

A direct blast aimed for his torso simply bounces off, smashing a hole into a nearby building. Deathstroke's smile is hidden under his mask as he charges for her again.

OOC: My god, you are brilliant Trop.
Mordru watches the events unfold on the street beneath him, as his partner, Deathstroke, attacks Jade. Mordru smiles and laughs to himself as he calmly crosses his arms over his chest and floats off the roof and up into the air. He’ll let Slade play a bit longer before he enters the fray…

[Tropico]

"If you will excuse me, gentlemen."- Shade said while walking away. He headed back into the library and continued looking at the books there. If anyone had been privy to his thoughts they would probably be surprised at how such a dark man could actually feel and emotion as light hearted as giddiness, and over some books even. On the outside, only a slight smile adorned his lips.

OOC: I hope you didn't find it over the top, Rigel. If it wasn't for Shade's travels around the world and being an Englishman he would just now be starting to be suspicious. I can be a bastard, I know.:o:venom:

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: I am feeling attacked. Corp complained about me killing CM3, and then when I didn't, Topico jumps on my back. It's cool, you don't have to change it.

[Twitch]

I finally made it to the Penthouse. I saw the damage that The Joker had done to the place, even spray-painting "JOKER WAS HERE" on one of the walls.

Anger starts building in again. I try to tell myself that he's being taken in to Arkham Asylum and might get treatment, but I know that won't happen. Now that he knows who I really am, he can make my life a living hell. He knows where everyone I know lives, if he wanted to kill them to get to me, he would.

I remember Tim again. I searched around the penthouse and found nothing except one of my hood sweaters missing, and I don't think Joker would want to take that (though I guess in his sick mind, he'd find it funny).

I need to find him. But I have to do one thing first. I acess the secret portion of the penthouse and turn on the comm.

"Oracle? It's Bruce."

"What's up? ...Are you alright? You don't sound right..."

"I know. Listen...something...something's happened."

"What? What happened?"

"It's Alfred. He...he's dead. The Joker kidnapped him and injected him with his joker venom."

"Oh, Jesus...I'm sorry, Bruce...what do you want me to do?"

"Get the paramedics there, he's at the Boon Dock Bar & Grill, near Gotham Harbor."

"Can do... Do you want me to come over?"

"Not right now, I have to handle one more thing. Tim's missing."

"Yeah, trapped as the Red Hood..." I realize I haven't told her yet.

"Not anymore. We...had a talk. I think he saw what happened here and tried to find out what happened."

"Well, even the most pessmistic individual needs to have some sort of optimistic side... You need any help finding him?"

"Maybe try and see if any sightings of Robin or anything to note."

"On it... Huh, interesting. Apparantly, your old training partner, Henri Ducard, has just flown here in Gotham. With the satallites, I can dicipher that he's...somewhere in Central Gotham. I think I see someone with him, clad in that hoodie sweater I gave you for Christmas a few years ago. That's just wierd."

Bingo.

"I think that's all I need to know. Thanks, Barbara."

"No problem, Bruce. Take care."

She shuts off then and I leap out the window, using my jump line, heading for Central Gotham.

---

I see Ducard standing in the middle of Central Gotham. He hasn't aged a day. Meanwhile, I find the person in the guady purple sweater Barbara gave me.

With that, I take out spare clothes I brought with me. Batman disapears from the roof of the building he was manning, and a few minutes later, Bruce Wayne steps out of the main door, heading for the two people talking.

"Tim. Ducard, it's been a while."

"Bruce...thank god your alright." I said

"Always a pleasure Bruce."

[Karem-Knight]

OOC: this post takes a day or two after my police chase

IC:

Two face arrived at the DA office going up too the new DA Tony Arco. Tony became a good friend of Dent’s, they would often be talking or joking too each other.

“Hey Tony how ya doing?” Two Face said arriving at the door

“What the hell?” Tony said

“Don’t you remember your old friend Harvey Dent?” Two face said as he walked other there

“OH MY GOD!” “What do you want?” Two Face flipped the coin it was marked

“I win” Two Face said as he shot the new D.A.

Two Face got a cell phone

“ Marvin, Roberto get ready !

“Right boss” They said Two Face got out of the building through the window cleaner chair and when he reached the bottom got into a car.

“NOW!” Two Face said, then a blaze came the exploding clouds The Tribunal of Justice exploded. Two face flipped his coin. He saw the decision and drove off. He then noticed his goons waiting he did a drive by on them and went back too the hide out

“MY CITY!”

[The Joker]

Several days later Oswald Cobblepot arrived in the Nevada desert.After the money it cost to repair the damage done to the Iceberg Lounge by the Bat,not to mention the 50 million pay off he had to give the Joker,the Penguin needed to feather his nest with some quick cash.

And he decided to go to his favorite casino(apart from his own),and that was the House.

Arriving at the secret entrance Cobblepot waddled in and was greeted by Roulette."Oswald darling.Delighted to have you back".

Penguin took her hand in his and kissed it."Roulette my dear.You're looking as charming as ever.Tell me what is the buzz this evening???".

"Well Parasite is on a roll Ozzie.He's won two rounds and has one more to go" she said as she escorted the Penguin into the main fighting arena.

"Parasite eh.I enjoy a good parasite.Like a ravenous vulture that feeds off others to satisfy it's hunger" Penguin said as he took his seat.

He reached into his pocket and took out a wad of cash."Here you are my dear.50'000 on Parasite.Make me lucky".

Roulette winked at him."I don't think you need it Ozzie.Somehow you always seem to come up smelling of roses" she said as she walked away.

[SuperFerret]

The "man" known as Bizarro thundered across the sky towards Kansas, which he assumed was where the other Superman was. Oh, how Bizarro hated that other Superman.

He came upon Kent farm rather quickly, and glimpsed the imposter running out of the house and into a run-down old truck. Had Bizarro been more intelligent, he would have been surpirsed that a man who could fly faster than sound would resort to attempting to drive away from him. Bizarro was upon the truck in moments, tearing the roof off and snatching Kent out of the drivers seat.

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Clark looked into the face of his opposite, as Bizarro held him by his throat. It was like looking into a funhouse mirror from hell. He knew he was going to die, Bizarro was as powerful as he was, but now with his powers gone and at the mercy of a being thousands of times more powerful, there was no way to get out of it.

But just then, things began to get really weird. Clark began to feel stronger, slowly he felt his powers returning. But how? Adrenalyne rush, maybe? Bizarro dropped him, and they both fell to the ground. Clark looked around, and his weakened microscopic vision answered his question.

Thousands of tiny purple pecks were leaving his body and assualting Bizarro. What in the..? Then the answer came to him. Parasite. That's how he was being weakened, the Parasite dust that must have covered him was alive and feeding off of his powers for all this time. And now, when they sensed the presence of another more abundant source of power, they abandoned him and set upon their next "meal".

As much as Clark hated Bizarro, he couldn't let him die here, nor could he let the Parasite Particles run loose upon the world, possibly creating the worst epidemic of all time. Luckily, a solution came to mind, and his powers were returning fast enough to allow for it. Thank god for the full moon, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to absorb the solar energy I needed.

Quickly he inhaled a massive amount of air, and then expelled it in a cold wind on the writhing form of Bizarro, freezing him solid. Clark removed the small communicator he had carried in his pocket, he grabbed it so he could call for back up against Bizarro, but now it served another purpose."Superman to the Watchtower, I need to teleport there immediately. And prepare the teleporter for two, I'm bringing a guest." Clark hoped that his message would be recieved by someone in the Watchtower before Bizarro began to thaw.

[Keyser Soze]

OOC: Well, it seems like we've moved forward a few days. So I'll show what The Joker is up to now...

Liberty Island, a small patch of land just off the coast of Gotham City, had been unpopulated for several decades. And it's last inhabitants hadn't been there by choice. The one massive structure that stood at the centre of the small island had been a maximum security prison in the past. But it had been closed down due to a scandal over the treatment of prisoners. There had been talk of just demolishing the place after it closed down. But its structure of stone and steel made it a fomidable construction, and it would take a hell of a lot to reduce it to rubble.

So, it was just left there, an empty shell. Attempts had been made to turn it into a tourist attraction, like its prison contemporary, Alcatraz. But the people stayed away. Word was that it was haunted. And today, a new spectre roamed the halls...

The Joker walked out of the prison to meet the group of men who were waiting outside. He'd paid to have them all flown in on small private planes.

"Don't you think it's funny how they put a prison on a place called Liberty Island? HA!"

The Joker walked around the group, shaking hands and passing out plans.

"I have gathered you all here today because you are among the most gifted criminal minds in America. I have already paid you all handsomely to take time out of your busy lives to come here, and you will recieve more money on completion of this special task. I have also brought together a group of lackeys who can do the manual labour under your directions. Take a look at your plans, my friends."

The assorted geniuses looked at the plans they had been given. They included, among other things, a collection of death traps and holding cells, as well as some luxury accomodation for The Joker himself.

"Gentlemen," declared The Joker, "We are going to build a funhouse..."

[DarkKnightJRK]

"Bruce...thank god your alright." I said

"Always a pleasure Bruce."

"Indeed, Ducard, but I am curious as to why you're here. I never did see you as the type to vacation here..."

[Twitch]

"Someone has to find himself again and I feel like the right man to do it. He's exactly like you all those years ago."

[batnkevlar]

*Hal awakes with a start. His head feels funny but his ring glows green as he looks around in panic*

"Where the **** am I?"

[rigel7soldiers]

I'm in trouble. If I' ever alone with him, I have to put D'Stroke on ice, figuratively speaking... Shade is a tricky one, but I might only need dissuade him from killing me, rather than take him myself. He's close to immortal. Close to. Take away the shadows and he's powerless. Steer clear of Adam, he suspects, and his defeat would only bring Mordru after me faster. Guess I won't need that voice recording after all...

[Harlekin]

OOC: Very Titans Tommorow there, but I can't recall Black Adam returning much to his other form, as in he never does anymore, and I doubt Doc would've gotten a voice recording of it the few times it might have happened. But its all fine with me.

[Spike_x1]

Several days later Oswald Cobblepot arrived in the Nevada desert.After the money it cost to repair the damage done to the Iceberg Lounge by the Bat,not to mention the 50 million pay off he had to give the Joker,the Penguin needed to feather his nest with some quick cash.

And he decided to go to his favorite casino(apart from his own),and that was the House.

Arriving at the secret entrance Cobblepot waddled in and was greeted by Roulette."Oswald darling.Delighted to have you back".

Penguin took her hand in his and kissed it."Roulette my dear.You're looking as charming as ever.Tell me what is the buzz this evening???".

"Well Parasite is on a roll Ozzie.He's won two rounds and has one more to go" she said as she escorted the Penguin into the main fighting arena.

"Parasite eh.I enjoy a good parasite.Like a ravenous vulture that feeds off others to satisfy it's hunger" Penguin said as he took his seat.

He reached into his pocket and took out a wad of cash."Here you are my dear.50'000 on Parasite.Make me lucky".

Roulette winked at him."I don't think you need it Ozzie.Somehow you always seem to come up smelling of roses" she said as she walked away.OOC: Time to put on a good show...

[Spike_x1]

The Parasite walked into the caged ring for the third time, but he wasn’t as confident about this match as he was for the previous ones. Henshaw wouldn’t be easy. The Cyborg was similar to Metallo in a lot of ways, but at least Metallo had a weakness; his kryptonite power source. Cyborg didn’t share such a weakness. Henshaw was self-powered, not giving Rudy an energy source to latch onto.

At the other side of the ring, Hank Henshaw strutted into the large ring with a grin plastered on his face. Both the Parasite and the Cyborg stood facing each other from across the arena. Rudy took his eyes off of Henshaw to look at their audience. The seats were packed with wealthy folks and some other supervillains that Rudy had never heard of. But two sets of eyes caught his attention: One was a new face that Rudy had never met in person himself, but he knew them after absorbing knowledge from Batman. It was Oswald Cobblepot. The Penguin. Rudy looked further down the rows of seats to see Killer Frost cheering for him. Parasite winked to his new gal-pal.

The bell rang to begin the fight.

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“Let’s rumble, Eggplant!”

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“Pfft. This, coming from an Easybake Oven.”

With that, the opponents roared and dashed towards one another.

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: Very Titans Tommorow there, but I can't recall Black Adam returning much to his other form, as in he never does anymore, and I doubt Doc would've gotten a voice recording of it the few times it might have happened. But its all fine with me.

He (Adam) actually did it when we were fighting the Injustice Society earlier this season... If it weren't for that, It'd be slightly less believable that Mid-Nite would have the recording.

[DarkKnightJRK]

"Someone has to find himself again and I feel like the right man to do it. He's exactly like you all those years ago."

So Tim called in Ducard to help him? Half of me wonders why he didn't ask for my help, and the other knows exactly why.

In his eyes, he has failed, and almost nothing I can say or do will convince him otherwise. No wonder he called outside help, he probably feels guilty in the mere presence of me.

And Ducard is right, Tim is exactly like I was at his age. Maybe that's why I feel the urge to help him so bad. And maybe that's why I've decided what I have decided.

"I understand. Tim, I know why you're doing this. I want to help, but, because I know, I have to ask. Do you want my help as well?"

[batnkevlar]

OOC: I have just UPDATED the roster!

[Harlekin]

He (Adam) actually did it when we were fighting the Injustice Society earlier this season... If it weren't for that, It'd be slightly less believable that Mid-Nite would have the recording.
OOC: Oh, wow, sorry. Continue as planned than.

[Twitch]

So Tim called in Ducard to help him? Half of me wonders why he didn't ask for my help, and the other knows exactly why.

In his eyes, he has failed, and almost nothing I can say or do will convince him otherwise. No wonder he called outside help, he probably feels guilty in the mere presence of me.

And Ducard is right, Tim is exactly like I was at his age. Maybe that's why I feel the urge to help him so bad. And maybe that's why I've decided what I have decided.

"I understand. Tim, I know why you're doing this. I want to help, but, because I know, I have to ask. Do you want my help as well?"

I ponderd the question realizing that the answer will change everything.

"No."

I took a deep breath.

"I need to redifine who I am and my purpose, I will come back when I am most needed."

[Johnny Blaze]

Mordru watches their fight from his position high in the clouds for what seems like a lifetime. Jade has taken some nasty cuts, one she will definitely need to see the physician for, and is bloodied and bruised. Deathstroke has taken some serious hits as well, but, thanks to the mystically enhanced armor, he is not nearly as damaged as young Ms. Hayden.
Sirens draw Mordru’s attention away from the fight, and, many blocks down the road, he sees a quartet of cruisers, a police helicopter, and a SWAT van coming to the scene.
A green flame burns in the Dark Lord’s eyes as he teleports away…

A fifteen year veteran of the NYPD, Lieutenant Ian McFarlin speeds towards the scene in his old school, yet modified, Crown Victoria squad car. This is not the first time he’s seen metahumans fighting it out on his city’s streets. No, this kind of stuff happens more often than he cares to admit. The latest one is still fresh in his memory as it just happened about a year ago. A band of walking talking guerillas attacked the city, led by a master criminal called Grodd. Ian remembers having to evacuate people as the talking monkeys fought off a group of heroes near the docks. Ian almost lost an arm that day due to the building he was in coming down around him and the child he was carrying out. Luckily it only broke his arm.

Yeah, lucky, he thinks as he turns a corner, nearing his destination. Outside the building, a group of guerillas surrounded him and were about to strike, but, to Ian’s amazement, they were suddenly scooped up by an emerald dump truck. Looking up in the sky, Ian saw that it was the woman named Jade that had saved his life and the kid’s. He could’ve retired that day, and spent the rest of his days with his wife, Clara, and his two little girls, Haley and Jaine. But, like his father, and his grandfather, he is a cop. Like them, Ian would finish out his fifteenth year and then retire. Not Before.

As he and his fellow officers turn the a final street corner, they are confronted by a large, robed figure standing in the middle of the road. Ian, in the lead car, honks his horn when he sees the man isn’t moving out of the way. Crazy bastard, he thinks as the robed figure calmly raises his hand…and, sitting in his car, Ian bursts into flames. Screaming an ungodly howl, Ian jerks the wheel and rams a light pole, totaling his cruiser. As death comes to take him, Officer Ian McFarlin’s final thoughts are of his family. He could’ve retired a year ago, but, like his father and grandfather, he is a cop…and now he will never be able to see his family ever again.

Having wiped out the police, Mordru transports himself back to his ally's fight against the green witch…

[rigel7soldiers]

Shade. His powers are those of shadow. But, mine are, too. The mirror gun gives me a distinct advantage: light. This gun shoots light in many forms and concentrations. It can create simple illusions. I can use it to travel through mirrors. These powers run counter to the Shade's mastery of shadow matter, something I find curious in that shadows have no mass. I could drag him into a mirror world, but it's too risky... I might be in just as much trouble as him. Or, taking another route, I might freeze him. I wonder, does shadow move as fast as light? He serves only his own purposes... pehaps he would join me? Though he still wants to oppose Jay Garrick, I don't doubt we could work something out, if I convince hm that the others are only hindering his cause.

[twylight]

Dinah kept her back against the wall as she watched him get off the floor, she knew it was Harkness.

Her mind wandered to the rest of the Costumed Community. Here she was God knows where in Africa, with her back against the wall in a dark quansit hut.

Batman was most likely taking care of the Penguin or some freak from Arkham, Nightwing would be busy in Bludhaven, Hal was probably off saving an entire galaxy.
And she stood here in her cotton camisole and pajama bottoms.
All to just ask a guy why he blew a chunk out of a WayneTech building.

She suddenly realized how tired she was. She was tempted to go back to bed, and let the whole thing go. Maybe even head back tomorrow. She'd been out of contact from Babs for a long time, and she hoped everything was alright.

[Supergirl]

OOC: Twy, its Bludhaven ;)

[twylight]

OOC: See? I KNEW that..I'm TIRED..staying up all night, and debating, with my EX of all people..and nursing sick children isn't easy..that and I have to find a logical way to get DInah out of there..:( :(

[Harlekin]

Deathstroke was taking wounds left and right, but he was inflicting more of them than the once he had to cash in. This particular green heroine was going to go down and another notch was going to be added to the killcount of this Dark Alliance. Deathstroke felt a tinge of remorse, but he treated it like any other job, except he didn't get cash. He got protection and some powerful allies that could help him get rid of the Titans. Just like his family had been taken from him, he would eradicate theirs, to the last one.

[batnkevlar]

OOC: So can someone give me the lowdown on what everyone's doing? It's been a long time...

[Charlie No-One]

OCC: Hello everyone. I just signed on as the Scarecrow for the rest of the season and season 3. Is there any place for the Scarecrow to show up? And just like Batnkevlar..a run down would be great.

[Keyser Soze]

OOC Post

Well, a LOT has happened, and I haven' been round long enough to talk about all the stories in-depth. But I can give you a run-down of what The Joker has been up to...

- After recovering form gunshot wounds from The Parasite, The Joker escaped Arkham.
- The Joker quickly discovered htat the man responsible for his release was harvey Dent.
- Dent, back in the DA's office and cured of Two-Face, wished to gain more power as DA. Releasing The Joker was an attempt to scare the city into giving him more authority.
- The Joker blackamiled Dent into working for him, making him frame Bruce Wayne for vairous crimes.
- That's right, The Joker has discovered Bruce Wayne is Batman.
- The Joker then began his master plan, involving killings based aroun irony.
- He killed a group of depression sufferers in a therapy group with laughing gas.
- He ran down a doctor with an ambulance.
- He blew up a bus full of people in front of a fire station
- He murdered a little girl, the daughter of a man famous for running children's charities.
- Finally, he killed Alfred on Father's Day.
- However, Harvey Dent betrayed him, shooting him and leaving him for dead.
- But Joker survived, having worn a Kevlar vest.
- Joker went to meet The Penguin, getting a 50 million pay-off to ensure Dent owuld never be DA again.
- The Joker did this by spraying acid in dent's face ,turning him back into Two-Face.
- Batman, confronting The Penguin at his casino, was ambushed by Joker and Two-Face.
- Joker injected Batman with a paraylsing drug, and buried him alive in a mass grave alongside the exhumed corpses of his parents.
- In a rage, batman escaped, and beat the living hell out of The jorek and Two-Face.
- Here, Joker revelaed his final great irony. By killing The Joker, Batman would become him. But Batman didn't kill him, instead leaving him for the police.
- However, with Two-Face's help, The Joker escaped from the police.
- He collected his 50 million payoff from The Penguin and abandoned Two-Face.
- He is using his money to convert an abandoned prison in an island off th ecoast of Gotham into a funhouse from hell.

[Charlie No-One]

OOC Post

Well, a LOT has happened, and I haven' been round long enough to talk about all the stories in-depth. But I can give you a run-down of what The Joker has been up to...

- After recovering form gunshot wounds from The Parasite, The Joker escaped Arkham.
- The Joker quickly discovered htat the man responsible for his release was harvey Dent.
- Dent, back in the DA's office and cured of Two-Face, wished to gain more power as DA. Releasing The Joker was an attempt to scare the city into giving him more authority.
- The Joker blackamiled Dent into working for him, making him frame Bruce Wayne for vairous crimes.
- That's right, The Joker has discovered Bruce Wayne is Batman.
- The Joker then began his master plan, involving killings based aroun irony.
- He killed a group of depression sufferers in a therapy group with laughing gas.
- He ran down a doctor with an ambulance.
- He blew up a bus full of people in front of a fire station
- He murdered a little girl, the daughter of a man famous for running children's charities.
- Finally, he killed Alfred on Father's Day.
- However, Harvey Dent betrayed him, shooting him and leaving him for dead.
- But Joker survived, having worn a Kevlar vest.
- Joker went to meet The Penguin, getting a 50 million pay-off to ensure Dent owuld never be DA again.
- The Joker did this by spraying acid in dent's face ,turning him back into Two-Face.
- Batman, confronting The Penguin at his casino, was ambushed by Joker and Two-Face.
- Joker injected Batman with a paraylsing drug, and buried him alive in a mass grave alongside the exhumed corpses of his parents.
- In a rage, batman escaped, and beat the living hell out of The jorek and Two-Face.
- Here, Joker revelaed his final great irony. By killing The Joker, Batman would become him. But Batman didn't kill him, instead leaving him for the police.
- However, with Two-Face's help, The Joker escaped from the police.
- He collected his 50 million payoff from The Penguin and abandoned Two-Face.
- He is using his money to convert an abandoned prison in an island off th ecoast of Gotham into a funhouse from hell.

Thanks!

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC post:

That's just the Batman related characters,

Dark Alliance (Alternatively, Secret Society): Black Adam and Mordru rally their forces to wipe out Earth's hero population

-Ares betrayed Mordru, who promptly defeated him
- The Shade killed the Tarantula just as D'Stroke showed up to recruit him
- Mirror Master, who is really Dr. Mid-Nite II, was recruited be Black Adam
- Shade, Adam, and MM were supposed to kill Captain Marvel, Jr., but Mirror Master faked the murder.
- Shade showed Adam that the murder was fake, and told him that MM's actions are suspicious
-Mordru and D'Stroke are currently trying to kill Jade
- Dr. Mid-Nite will strike against the Alliance eventually, and he has a plan to defeat everyone but Mordru

[Charlie No-One]

The Scarecrow took off his soaked glove. The glove was glimmering with crimson liquid. Oh what a night! Another high school bully dead! Another 20 to go, the demented masked figure said. He took a tiny silver box out of a sack and laid it on the rotting table. He looked the box over and put it back in the sack and headed for the showers.



A bright and forbidding moon glimmered down on Gotham’s rigid sidewalks. The tall and lanky, Dr. Crane, stood in front of 786 Riding Road. A rather plump man answered the door.



“Ah, Doctor Murphy! Thank you for coming on such short notice! Barbra just started flipping out, ya know? She picked up the knives! I just didn’t know who to call,” he said. “It is no problem,”

“It is no problem at all, Steve. Some patients just have trouble adjusting to new meds,” said Dr. Crane going along with the man.



Jonathan followed the man into his home. A middle-aged woman sat on a couch, breathing heavily. Crane pulled out the silver box and placed it on an expensive looking coffee table. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a mask.



“What the hell? Dr. Murphy?” said the fat man.

“Do you remember Jonathan Crane? Do you remember picking on him everyday of the 10th grade?” screamed the Scarecrow.



The box opened up and out came a very toxic gas. The gas lifted through the room, not leaving a cranny free of it’s grasp. It slowly reached the two vulnerable people in the room. The woman, dazed, reached for a knife on the bench beside her. Crane left the house with a small smile on his face.

[Nightwing.]

OOC:im kinda looking for inspiration for either my own arc or to follow on the j'onn/hal storyline.think anyone can lend me a hand?

[Tropico]

OOC: Become Fernus and join the Dark Si...Alliance, Dark ALLIANCE. You know you want to, give in to your confusion.

[Johnny Blaze]

Deathstroke was taking wounds left and right, but he was inflicting more of them than the once he had to cash in. This particular green heroine was going to go down and another notch was going to be added to the killcount of this Dark Alliance. Deathstroke felt a tinge of remorse, but he treated it like any other job, except he didn't get cash. He got protection and some powerful allies that could help him get rid of the Titans. Just like his family had been taken from him, he would eradicate theirs, to the last one.
Returning to the battle, Mordru again begins to sit back and watch the fight persist. Deathstroke was toying with her. This was a fact that amused the Dark Lord, but they had no time to waste. So, Mordru decided to enter the fray.

Jade, bloodied and battered, flies higher in order to get some distance between herself and the Terminator, and so that she can regroup. A strange crackling sound catches her attention, and she looks up in time to see a massive bolt of green energy come streaking from the clouds directly at her. Her shields are up, but the bolt cuts through them with ease, and, with a thunderous explosion, she is thrown back down to the sidewalk.

Mordru appears right behind Deathstroke, who is standing a few meters in front of the smoldering Jade. Jade is still alive though, albeit barely. Mordru turns to face Deathstroke, “Finish it, Terminator. We must return to the Tower and plan our next move.”

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC post:

That's just the Batman related characters,

Dark Alliance (Alternatively, Secret Society): Black Adam and Mordru rally their forces to wipe out Earth's hero population

-Ares betrayed Mordru, who promptly defeated him
- The Shade killed the Tarantula just as D'Stroke showed up to recruit him
- Mirror Master, who is really Dr. Mid-Nite II, was recruited be Black Adam
- Shade, Adam, and MM were supposed to kill Captain Marvel, Jr., but Mirror Master faked the murder.
- Shade showed Adam that the murder was fake, and told him that MM's actions are suspicious
-Mordru and D'Stroke are currently trying to kill Jade
- Dr. Mid-Nite will strike against the Alliance eventually, and he has a plan to defeat everyone but Mordru OOC: Actually, Mordru didn't fight Ares. After the Olympian ran out on us, Mordru simply reneged on their deal is all. So, the god of conflicts is still barred from taking action himself on the Earth. :D

[Keyser Soze]

When Jonathan Crane returned to his lair, he had an unexpected guest waiting for him.

"Nice place you've got here."

The Scarecrow discovered The Joker, perched comfortably on a chair in the middle of his hideout.

"It took me a while to find this place, had to use a lot of my resources."

The Joker stood up, walking towards Crane.

"Now, I know our last partnership didn't end...amiably. But I say that's all water under the bridge. I've got certain plans being set into motion at the moment, but in the meantime, I've been left with nothing to do. So, I decided I'd like to have a little fun. So I was thinking of what I could do, and I decided on a little mass panic. And then I thought of you."

The Joker let out a twisted giggle, putting his arm around The Scarecrow's shoulder.

"Think about it, old pal-of-mine. We are two of Gotham's most feared citizens. And using that delightful fear gas of yours, we could really cause some chaos. With your brains, and my looks, we could rule this town! HA HA!"

[Harlekin]

Returning to the battle, Mordru again begins to sit back and watch the fight persist. Deathstroke was toying with her. This was a fact that amused the Dark Lord, but they had no time to waste. So, Mordru decided to enter the fray.

Jade, bloodied and battered, flies higher in order to get some distance between herself and the Terminator, and so that she can regroup. A strange crackling sound catches her attention, and she looks up in time to see a massive bolt of green energy come streaking from the clouds directly at her. Her shields are up, but the bolt cuts through them with ease, and, with a thunderous explosion, she is thrown back down to the sidewalk.

Mordru appears right behind Deathstroke, who is standing a few meters in front of the smoldering Jade. Jade is still alive though, albeit barely. Mordru turns to face Deathstroke, “Finish it, Terminator. We must return to the Tower and plan our next move.”
Deathstroke walked solemnly towards the almost lifeless body of Jade. Silent and with an executioner-style swing, the Terminator brought down his blade and decapitated the green-skinned heroine.

"We're done here." he said to Mordru as he returned to his side.

[Charlie No-One]

Jonathan Crane turned his head and pushed the Joker’s arm off his shoulder. “Our last “partnership” was regrettable,” said the Master of Fear, “but there are so many bullies that need punishing. I accept your offer…on one condition: The mayor is mine.”

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[Spike_x1]

OOC: DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUUUUUNN!!!

BTW, I'm still around often enough. I'm just taking my sweet time with my meta-brawl, so don't think I've abandoned Rudy. :D

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker clapped his hands in mock glee.

"We're partners. Goody goody."

The Scarecrow was not amused.

"Oh, why so glum, Scare-chum? Of course I'll leave our old friend The Mayor in your capable hands. In fact, capturing The Mayor will fit right into our plans. Tomorrow night, Wayne Enterprises is hosting a Charity Gala. All of Gotham's elite will be there, The Mayor included."

The Joker began pacing around the room. He could tell he now had The Scarecrow's interest.

"We attack the Gala, releasing your fear gas through the air ducts. While everyone is in a panic, we swoop in and kidnap The Mayor. So, you get the man you're looking for, and I get to prove a point of my own. We're both winners! So let's shake on our little deal."

The Joker stopped pacing, turning to The Scarecrow. He extended his hand. He noticed The Scarecrow checking the hand to see if he was wearing an electric buzzer. He wasn't, so they shook hands, finalising their partnership.

"You, me, and The Mayor. It's going to be just like old times! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

[Karem-Knight]

Two face and his new gang awaited for a meeting with possibly right now Gotham’s biggest crime lord, The Black Mask. It was in the rooftops near the warehouse for the meeting, as Two Face waited with the gang they we’re all new all from Black Mask he betrayed them left them for dead. Out for Revenge all 30 of them, And two face out for power!



“Mr. De… Two Face come look at this” he said Two Face looked at the binoculars it was Black Mask and all his Lieutenants.

“Ok people wait for it” Two Face flipped the coin

“Ok, NOW!” He said the all fired at the ware house each of them. Blood everywhere out of the stomachs, heads legs even the eyes. Two Face flipped for everyone he shot. He then noticed a man running as fast as he could. Two Face followed him, but he got another gun from a victim.

“STOP” said Two face The Man got out his gun and turned

“How do you know I won’t shoot first Dent?” said the man reviling himself as Gotham’s new crime lord Black Mask

“Hello? He said then all of a sudden the thugs with machine guns came

Answer the question?” Two Face said. Dent shot Mask in the shoulder black Mask laid laying in pain

“WAIT” said Dent

“You know my rules” Two face flipped the coin it was clean but it was Justice at the least.
“Get out of Gotham Mask, your’re not welcome here. I don’t care if you killed a robin so did Joker and I wasn’t scarred of him. SO go home I’m back in town you have 12 Hours Or another flip, It’s your risk 50% chance too live or Die!

Two face said Kicking the beaten Black Mask

He then walked over too the car.

“Bye” Two face said. Waking too Black Mask’s limo.

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: Actually, Mordru didn't fight Ares. After the Olympian ran out on us, Mordru simply reneged on their deal is all. So, the god of conflicts is still barred from taking action himself on the Earth. :D

OOC: I missed that post, but I knew that Ares betrayed you and you took action somehow

[batnkevlar]

OOC: OMG! I love the Scarecrow coming into all this! YEAH!

and for this DarkAlliance thing, NPC villians are allowed to do like espionage work and whatnot, but not actual fighting for you...

[Charlie No-One]

OOC:Wait till you see what's next. :p

[Johnny Blaze]

Deathstroke walked solemnly towards the almost lifeless body of Jade. Silent and with an executioner-style swing, the Terminator brought down his blade and decapitated the green-skinned heroine.

"We're done here." he said to Mordru as he returned to his side.
“Excellent”, the Dark Lord replies while opening up a green flamed, ankh-shaped portal, “Let us be off then.”
Mordru and Deathstroke disappear from the streets of New York, leaving behind a mass of death and destruction.
Arriving at the Tower of Fate, the Dark Lord and the Terminator find their teammates, Black Adam, Shade, and Mirror Master, standing outside the library waiting for them…

[TheCorpulent1]

Black Adam sees the others return. "I trust everything went according to plan?"

[batnkevlar]

OOC: Who's on the Dark Alliance?

[TheCorpulent1]

OOC: Black Adam (me), Mordru (Johnny Blaze), Deathlok (Harlekin), Shade (Tropico), and Dr. Mid-Nite (rigel7soldiers), masquerading as Mirror Master.

[Tropico]

"Pah!"- exclaims the Shade as he angrily slams a book closed. "Yes, please, regale us with the tale of how two PROFESSIONALS handled their errand."

There were no signs of nager on the Shade's face, rather he had a grin like the cat that ate the canary.

[DarkKnightJRK]

I use to hate furnerals, but now that I've had to go to two of them in less than a week, I now completely and utterly dispise them.

The first was Lucious Fox. He's the only one outside the family who had, if not known who I completely was, then knew without a shadow of a doubt that the image I put out for the world was not who I am, that there was much more of me than just some shallow playboy.

I met with his remaining family: his wife and two children. They're very good people. They almost consider me like an uncle they never had. I'll make sure that they will be taken care of.

Then, there was Alfred's furneral. I almost didn't go, but I knew that I had to, if not just to say my good-bye. Before it started, the preacher asked me to say a few words. I didn't want to. I didn't want everyone there seeing just how weak I've become, but somehow, if felt like I had to. After the preacher started, he showed me to the podium and I started to speak.

"Good morning." I couldn't help but feel the irony about that statement. "Of cource, everyone knows who I am, but very few knew about my butler, Alfred. He was much more than that to me. After my parent's death, he became my legal guardian, helping my cope with my loss. He has been by my side for everything. Even when I went outside the country, I knew if something were to happen, I would just have to call, and he'd be there.

"There was, and probably will never be, anyone like Alfred Pennyworth. Never, in my whole life, could be so sarcastic and yet so caring. He was my serrogate father, and I will miss him for the rest of my life. Thank you."

I stepped off the podium, thankful that I didn't cry. It was at that point where Leslie stepped up. I was suprised that she was here, I didn't even see her come in. I was amazed that she was able to come here. When I told her what happened, she was completely distraut. I knew about the two of them, they had something together. I'm not sure if it was consumated or not, and I won't ask, it is still their personal business.

After the furneral was all finished, I stayed for a moment, watching everyone leave. The only person left was Leslie, who was standing in front of Alfred's gravestone.

"Leslie?" She turned, facing me with her eyes brimming tears. "Will you be alright?" She broke down then, and without having to think I wrapped my arms around her, letting her cry on my shoulder.

I remember when I was 8, after my parent's furneral, and crying in Leslie's arms.

It's amazing how things can change, yet stay almost exactly the same.

After driving her home, I went back to the penthouse, surprised how empty a place can be without his presence, cleaning and making his signature sarcastic remarks, and tryed to lose myself in work, both business and vigilantie. I signed deals for business murgers and approval for new testing, and then I checked the Arkham archives and police scans, noting Crane's recent escape and Joker's escape from police custody.

I changed from my regular suit into my tuxedo. There was a cheirty party that Wayne Enterprises, and I could not disapoint, no matter how hard it was not to just stay here and brood, comptemplating drinking myself stupid with the brandy kept in the liquor cabnet here; espically because of my extreme dislike of my playboy persona I have to use in such occasions.

But, I have to go. At ten minutes before 6, I get inside the limo supplied to me and headed for the party. Perhaps I'll use the alcohol there, then I could kill two birds with one stone. It'll sure as hell make having to be the playboy part much easier.

I use to just hate these playboy parties, now, like the furnerals, and down-right dispise them.

[Charlie No-One]

The Scarecrow was in the furnace room above the Charity Gala mixing up a special dose of fear gas. Oh goody! The Mayor is going to die! The biggest bully of them all! He thought he could befriend me and ditch me! Let’s just see how he likes it when his biggest fears are exposed.

Crane put five round balls in each main air vent. The Joker, peering over his shoulder the whole time, giggling and cackling, let out a satisfactory sigh.

“These gas spheres will let the gas out in the vents, my newest creations. I got the idea out of a book I read once. Granny always hated when I read books,” said Crane. The Joker didn’t seem to care and was gazing out of a small screen towards the rear on the room.

Pressing a small button on his glove, Crane watched as gas filled the rooms below them. He always liked how the gas grasped around, like a chain, locking it’s victims in a full dose of fear. His eye then caught the Mayor. He looked at the Joker. Something else caught his eye. Bruce Wayne.

[Keyser Soze]

The fear gas began spreading throughout the hall. One by one, Gotham's most prominent citizens fell to their knees, screaming in terror.

"Spiders!"

"Demons!"

"The Joker!"

Of course, The Joker was no hallucination. He was really there. The fear gas had no effect on him. One of the benefits of utter insanity was that it freed him of fear. Merrily jogging to the stage, he grabbed the microphone.

"People of Gotham. No doubt at this very moment, you are all in the process of wetting your pants. HA HA! Your greatest fears are all coming true before your very eyes. Did you really think that you'd be safe here, that pretty-boy Bruce Wayne would protect you? HA! No chance. Right now, he's probably curled up in a corner, crying over his dead mommy and daddy..."

The Joker looked down, spotting The Mayor frantically trying to scramble off the stage.

"Where do you think you're going, Mister Mayor? Trying to escape....the snakes?"

"Snakes....snakes!" whspered The Mayor, tears welling in his eyes.

The Joker smiled viciously. He remembered all about The Mayor's greatest fear.

"Scarecrow, he's all yours."

The Scarecrow approached The Mayor.

"We are goign to make an example of your Mayor. Show what happens when you cross us. Tomorrow, when you...rich twits wake up in your mansions, remember the fear you felt here tonight. Remember the power we have. And with that, ladies and gentlemen, I bid you adieu."

The Joker took a theatrical bow, and left the stage, leaving behind Scarecrow, The Mayor, and a room full of screaming innocents.

[Charlie No-One]

The Scarecrow approached the Mayor, swiftly grabbing him by the throat. It felt good to know that your enemy was chained in terror. The mayor was most likely witnessing a creature with snakes slithering from his mouth.

“HoW DoEs It FeEl tO Be tHe ScArEd oNe nOw? AfTeR All ThOsE YeArs of beiNg MAdE Fun Of..wHo WOULD Of thought It WoUld LeaD To tHis,” the monster raged.

Dr. Crane picked up the mayor and put him in the dark colored truck behind the building. Any minute until the Batman comes…all part of the plan. Any minute and they would reach the ally where the plan would proceed. They would reach Crime Alley.

[DarkKnightJRK]

The Scarecrow approached the Mayor, swiftly grabbing him by the throat. It felt good to know that your enemy was chained in terror. The mayor was most likely witnessing a creature with snakes slithering from his mouth.

“HoW DoEs It FeEl tO Be tHe ScArEd oNe nOw? AfTeR All ThOsE YeArs of beiNg MAdE Fun Of..wHo WOULD Of thought It WoUld LeaD To tHis,” the monster raged.

Dr. Crane picked up the mayor and put him in the dark colored truck behind the building. Any minute until the Batman comes…all part of the plan. Any minute and they would reach the ally where the plan would proceed. They would reach Crime Alley.

OOC: Wait, are you already at the chearity ball? Where I was, the party had barely begun, and nothing really note-worthy.

[DarkKnightJRK]

OOC: Eh, I'll just improvise.

IC:

I was just barely inside when I noticed what was going on: the room of the gala was being filled with the sickenly familiar green gas noted as The Scarecrow's patenited fear gas. I locked the door in so no the gas wouldn't hit the other's, and ran back to the limo.

"Mr. Wayne! I'll take you home."

That wasn't exactly where I was planning to do. And I really can't allow him to know who I am, so I do the only thing I could to stop him--

"Can't let that gas get--URK--"

--I knocked him out.

I'll just tell him that he passed out from the stress or something. Anyway, I open the trunk and the secret compartment inside: a briefcase that holds the Batsuit.

I quickly put it on and shoot a jump-line, heading for the air control room. I'll have to elimate the gas first before I can step in. I take out an antidote for the fear-gas I keep with me and put it in the air vents. It won't be much to help the people inside, but enough to hold them until the police can come with the proper antidotes. I use the computer system and have the air blown out of the vents as hard as I can. The air and the small amounts of the antidote should neutralize it enough, and then I take one of my sonic applifyers and push it to the maximium setting, having most of the glass blown out of the building.

Finished, I go down to the gala room and I see me enemies for the first time: Johnathon Crane, The Scarecrow, whom I was expecting because of his gas, and, most surprising of all, The Joker, the Clown Prince of Crime, the devil himself.

While I'm here to save lives, I also like the fact that I can beat the hell out of these two tonight.

[Charlie No-One]

OOC: I just assumed that ment you just got to the party and..um..sorry about that.

[DarkKnightJRK]

OOC: I just assumed that ment you just got to the party and..um..sorry about that.
OOC: It's cool, I ran with it. You're doing preety good, by the way. :)

[rigel7soldiers]

"Pah!"- exclaims the Shade as he angrily slams a book closed. "Yes, please, regale us with the tale of how two PROFESSIONALS handled their errand."

There were no signs of nager on the Shade's face, rather he had a grin like the cat that ate the canary.

"Yes, do tell. It'd be a welcome change from Blacklight's (Referring to Shade in a mocking way) incessant blithering. Let me see if I can't guess how it went... you got there, and D'Stroke chopped her head off."

[Johnny Blaze]

Mordru eyes them all for a moment taking note of their apparent attitudes. Apparently he and Deathstroke had just missed a heated conversation.
“Well, if you must know…”, Mordru lets his sentence trail off as he summons a scrying mirror which replays the death of Jade.
After the woman dies, the mirror goes blank and vanishes into thin air. Mordru then walks up to his fellows, “Now then, I trust the Marvel brat has been dealt with?”

[rigel7soldiers]

Mordru eyes them all for a moment taking note of their apparent attitudes. Apparently he and Deathstroke had just missed a heated conversation.
“Well, if you must know…”, Mordru lets his sentence trail off as he summons a scrying mirror which replays the death of Jade.
After the woman dies, the mirror goes blank and vanishes into thin air. Mordru then walks up to his fellows, “Now then, I trust the Marvel brat has been dealt with?”

"I'll be going, then." I said before getting up and walking away. Damn. I can't do this with Mordru in my way. Next time I see him, the Shade is mine...

OOC: It's kind of early, but the point of me infiltrating the Alliance was to nip this in the bud... anyone mind?

[SuperFerret]

Clark felt the familiar vibrations of the Watchtower's teleporter system take him and the frozen Bizarro to the Justice League's base. As he appeared, Clark recognized the face of Plastic Man.

"Plastic Man, take this" he indicated the frozen form of his opponent, "to a containment area. And keep him on ice."

Clark went to the personal quarters he had kept here, as Plastic Man took the Parasite-infested Bizarro away. As unorthodox Plas could be sometimes, Clark knew he could be counted on. After five minutes, Clark left his room, now wearing the familiar red and blue costume of Superman under his flannel shirt and overalls. He then teleported back to Kansas. He wanted to tell his parents the good news.

[Supergirl]

I use to hate furnerals, but now that I've had to go to two of them in less than a week, I now completely and utterly dispise them.

The first was Lucious Fox. He's the only one outside the family who had, if not known who I completely was, then knew without a shadow of a doubt that the image I put out for the world was not who I am, that there was much more of me than just some shallow playboy.

I met with his remaining family: his wife and two children. They're very good people. They almost consider me like an uncle they never had. I'll make sure that they will be taken care of.

Then, there was Alfred's furneral. I almost didn't go, but I knew that I had to, if not just to say my good-bye. Before it started, the preacher asked me to say a few words. I didn't want to. I didn't want everyone there seeing just how weak I've become, but somehow, if felt like I had to. After the preacher started, he showed me to the podium and I started to speak.

"Good morning." I couldn't help but feel the irony about that statement. "Of cource, everyone knows who I am, but very few knew about my butler, Alfred. He was much more than that to me. After my parent's death, he became my legal guardian, helping my cope with my loss. He has been by my side for everything. Even when I went outside the country, I knew if something were to happen, I would just have to call, and he'd be there.

"There was, and probably will never be, anyone like Alfred Pennyworth. Never, in my whole life, could be so sarcastic and yet so caring. He was my serrogate father, and I will miss him for the rest of my life. Thank you."

I stepped off the podium, thankful that I didn't cry. It was at that point where Leslie stepped up. I was suprised that she was here, I didn't even see her come in. I was amazed that she was able to come here. When I told her what happened, she was completely distraut. I knew about the two of them, they had something together. I'm not sure if it was consumated or not, and I won't ask, it is still their personal business.

After the furneral was all finished, I stayed for a moment, watching everyone leave. The only person left was Leslie, who was standing in front of Alfred's gravestone.

"Leslie?" She turned, facing me with her eyes brimming tears. "Will you be alright?" She broke down then, and without having to think I wrapped my arms around her, letting her cry on my shoulder.

I remember when I was 8, after my parent's furneral, and crying in Leslie's arms.

It's amazing how things can change, yet stay almost exactly the same.

After driving her home, I went back to the penthouse, surprised how empty a place can be without his presence, cleaning and making his signature sarcastic remarks, and tryed to lose myself in work, both business and vigilantie. I signed deals for business murgers and approval for new testing, and then I checked the Arkham archives and police scans, noting Crane's recent escape and Joker's escape from police custody.

I changed from my regular suit into my tuxedo. There was a cheirty party that Wayne Enterprises, and I could not disapoint, no matter how hard it was not to just stay here and brood, comptemplating drinking myself stupid with the brandy kept in the liquor cabnet here; espically because of my extreme dislike of my playboy persona I have to use in such occasions.

But, I have to go. At ten minutes before 6, I get inside the limo supplied to me and headed for the party. Perhaps I'll use the alcohol there, then I could kill two birds with one stone. It'll sure as hell make having to be the playboy part much easier.

I use to just hate these playboy parties, now, like the furnerals, and down-right dispise them.
OOC: **starts a slow clap** Beautiful :)

[Supergirl]

On Themiscira, Kara, Cassie and Diana were helping to fix the village very quickly. While working on it, Kara's telescopic vision caught a glimpse of a man's watch on the beach in America.

"Oh crap, I've got to go, or I'm going to be late! Sorry I have to bail Diana, see you on Friday Cas."

"Oh thats right, Kara has a hot date with Bart. Kara and Bart sittin in a tree...

"Oh would you grow up? He's a nice boy and very funny."

"If he's anything like his grandfather, I wouldn't worry about being late, because he'll certainly be even later. What is it with you Titans and dating within the team though? Cori and Dick, Donna and Roy, Cassie and Conner, and now you and Bart?"

"You should talk Diana, I seem to remember you dating Aquaman, you had a thing with Batman, and you're ALWAYS talking about Superman."

With that Kara giggled and flew off, breaking the sound barrier as crossed the country.

[batnkevlar]

*Hal sits up from his bed in the infirmary of the Watchtower*

"Is anyone here? I have this weird image in my head that I need sorting out..."

[Tropico]

Shade looked from the mirror to Mordru. "Has 'Junior' been taken care of? You should ask the rapidly retreating Mirror Master. Or is that Icicle? Maybe it's someone else altogether, I really can't tell."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Tropico/Shade7.jpg

OOC: Nip our story in the bud? I don't know about the others, but I mind. I don't think you'll be able to get out of the Tower unless Mordru wants you to, even trying to go through the mirror dimension. The worst that can probably happen to Midnite is that Mordru pulls a Zatanna and makes you forget or something like that. You HAD to know there would be consequences.

[Harlekin]

OOC: Agreed, even though I hate player-killing, the consequences of this could be quite bad for you. Not that you'll get to nip the DA in the bud as it is, but oh well...

[SuperFerret]

Corey Fellows was late. He pedaled furiously weaving in and out of the busy Metropolis traffic. It was rush hour and he was five minutes late with his pizza delivery, another ten and he'd have to pay for it. He was so occupied with the fact that he wasn't where he was supposed to be that he didn't really know where he was. At least until the blaring horn of the speeding truck trumpeted loudly in hs ear, but by then it would've been too late, if it not for the familiar gust of red and blue wind.

The truck skidded to a stop, crushing the bicycle and sending pizza sliding across the pavement. Corey watched this all from ten feet above the ground, he looked up at the powerful figure holding him aloft and his jaw dropped.

"Look," someone called from the crowd that was gathering, "it's Superman!"

"He's back."

"Where'd he go?"

"Who cares? The guy's back, and that's all that matters."

Superman smiled. It felt good to be home.

[Johnny Blaze]

Shade looked from the mirror to Mordru. "Has 'Junior' been taken care of? You should ask the rapidly retreating Mirror Master. Or is that Icicle? Maybe it's someone else altogether, I really can't tell."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Tropico/Shade7.jpg

OOC: Nip our story in the bud? I don't know about the others, but I mind. I don't think you'll be able to get out of the Tower unless Mordru wants you to, even trying to go through the mirror dimension. The worst that can probably happen to Midnite is that Mordru pulls a Zatanna and makes you forget or something like that. You HAD to know there would be consequences.
Mordru’s face turns cold and unemotional as he stares at the Shade for what seems to be an eternity. He waves his hand, and every door in the room promptly disappears. The Dark Lord turns to the Mirror Master and stares at him with his cold, clinical eyes. Underneath the detached expression, a rage is beginning to simmer within Mordru.
“Explain”, the Dark Lord says as he continues to stare at the Mirror Master.

[Harlekin]

"You couldn't even kill the boy?" Deathstroke said as he looked towards Mirror Master. He had vouced for the Scottisch scumbag and now he didn't do good by his word. McCulloch had messed up or he wasn't McCulloch. Slade was inclined to say something till he saw the angered expression of Mordru and the dissapearance of the doors. This will be handled soon enough.

[Charlie No-One]

OOC: It's cool, I ran with it. You're doing preety good, by the way. :)

Thank you! The next part is coming...just need to think of what should happen next.

[Karem-Knight]

Two Face sat at the window of Black Mask’s Penthouse. A lovely lovely place for him. He loved it Two Face dreamed of it when he drove Black Mask out of town but Harvey didn’t.

“Why this was all steled all this why you monster?”

“He stole as well, we’re just moving in.”

“But it’s wrong sop is Killing do you care?!”

“It was justice harv by a flip of a coin you know that! That simple justice is a flip Heads someone wins Tales someone losses”

“But why, Oh why did I let this happened ever since we killed Falcone I knew it was going too be hell in that long Halloween!”

“Justice Harv, why did we steal from Black Mask? Simple too eliminate the Penguin!”

“WHY? We already have Black Mask’s stuff what more do you want?”

“Think Harvey, with us in control of the underworld Gotham will be safer not muck crime it will be what it was meant too be we just have too take out a few animals.”

“ A few?”

“ A Bat and 2 Birds!”

“Then Justice will be done, in.......” Harvey paused

“OUR City”

[rigel7soldiers]

Shade looked from the mirror to Mordru. "Has 'Junior' been taken care of? You should ask the rapidly retreating Mirror Master. Or is that Icicle? Maybe it's someone else altogether, I really can't tell."

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Tropico/Shade7.jpg

OOC: Nip our story in the bud? I don't know about the others, but I mind. I don't think you'll be able to get out of the Tower unless Mordru wants you to, even trying to go through the mirror dimension. The worst that can probably happen to Midnite is that Mordru pulls a Zatanna and makes you forget or something like that. You HAD to know there would be consequences.

OOC: Understood, I'll wait. So long as I'm still in and nobody kills me.

[batnkevlar]

*Hal sits up from his bed in the infirmary of the Watchtower*

"Is anyone here? I have this weird image in my head that I need sorting out..."

"I guess no one's around. Guess I'll pay a little birdy a visit. Ring, search for Dinah Lance."

~On it, sir. And your visions?~

"They'll have to wait."

OOC: Where is Dinah? I want to continue on with her...

[twylight]

“ A Bat and 2 Birds!”

“Then Justice will be done, in.......” Harvey paused

“OUR City”

OOC: Technically..ONE bird..because Oracle is gone and we don't have a Huntress...and the lil' canary is stuck in a dark hallway...

[twylight]

"I guess no one's around. Guess I'll pay a little birdy a visit. Ring, search for Dinah Lance."

~On it, sir. And your visions?~

"They'll have to wait."

OOC: Where is Dinah? I want to continue on with her...

OOC: Thank GOODNESS..Dinah is in Africa, standing in a dark Hallway with her PJ's on. Because Raiders busted into the place where she is..Also Captain Boomerang is in the room next to her..so however you want to play it. It's a way out of a sticky situation for me.

[Charlie No-One]

Before the car started, Scarecrow noticed something: Batman. A double take out. Two of the biggest bullies in the city, dead as a door nail. Scarecrow quickly got out of the car. He walked slowly behind the Bat and took out a syringe.

“New concoction Batty, it causes the brain to shut down its sense of reality, causing the fear to be…permanent,” said Crane. The demented doctor of fear stabbed the needle into Batman’s arm. The Scarecrow then walked over to a slumped over guard and removed his weapon. He dropped it next to Batman.

“lEt’s sEe whAt the DaRk KniGhT cAn dO WiTh ThiS wheN He iS uNhaPpy aNd DeLusIoNal,”

Jonathan left the gala with satisfaction.

[Keyser Soze]

The Joker, sat in the pssenger seat of the van, next to The Sacarecrow, was grinning with satisfaction.

"Oh, that was splendid, Scarecrow. Marvelous! We kidnapped The Mayor, left everyone in a panic AND left the Bat-buffoon in a sticky situation. HAHAHAHA!"

The Joker looked out of the window.

"Adios, Bats!"

He sat back in his seat.

"Now, Scarecrow, let's take The Mayor back to your hideout..."

[DarkKnightJRK]

I looked up and saw the car leaving, but...when did everything become...orange?

Then, two animated looking children with deformed eyes starting spinning around me, screaming, "IT'S SUPER MEGA HAPPY SUNSHINE HOUR!!!"

"Wha...?"

The children sundenly became goblins and started to attack me, clawing at my skin. I shook them off and they started to break-dance away.

I tried shooting a line towards the nearest building, but the building grew a face. "Sorry, but I can't allow you to do that," it says and spits the line out.

I see the car turn a corner and start to run for it. If the buildings won't help me, then I have to do it myself.

OOC: This is fun. :D

[Savage]

OOC: Awesome work you guys. All of you!:D
"Explain". Mordru is so badass.:D
Well, been caught up in the Batman hype for the past few days. Time to get back on my stories and maybe even finish em in time to get back to the league and this whole DA/Source Wall stuff.


IC:
Flash-"...:)"
RoboJohn-":mad:..."
Flash-"...Well?"
RJS-"What makes you think that I will tell you anything?"
Flash-"I don't think you have much of a choice here bud."
RJS-"What will you do to me if I don't?"
Flash-"I'll kill you.:)"
RJS::raises an eyebrow:
Flash-":)"
RJS-*chuckles*"You? Kill me? Don't make me laugh, kid. You don't have the guts."
Flash-"Tell him that."
*He looks over at my knockoff who's eyes are rolled over and tongue is sticking out of his mouth with flies buzzing around his head.*

RJS-"But y-you're a hero. You're Justice League. You don't kill people."
Flash-"You're not people.:)"

*He gives me this look that's friggin priceless. I mean I never thought I'd see John give me a look like this but it's like...well it's like the look you'd give your wife if you found out she was really a dude after 12 years of marriage. This strange mix of shock and horror.*

RJS-"...There are more of us you know."
Flash-"That's nice."
RJS-"Hundreds."
Flash-"Uh huh."
RJS-"You can't stop all of us!"
Flash-"One question R2...Are they active yet?"
RJS-"...Well not exactly but--"
Flash-"Then what's the problem?"
RJS-"well..w...GRODD WILL--"
Flash-"Grodd's an ape with a funny accent which he assumes makes him a genius somehow. All villains with funny accents assume they're better than everyone else when in reality they have never won a single war... Like the french."
RJS-"..."
Flash-"...Look, I haven't been in a good mood for quite a long time so don't test my limited patience here bud. If I wanted to I could just take you back to the watchtower and let bats or the martian deal with ya but trust me, with the way things have been goin down lately, you're better off taking your chances with me, so I'd quit chewin and just spit if I were you."

RJS-"..."
Flash-"..."
RJS-"...He's in Keystone City."
Flash-"There we go."
RJS-"Levis and East 42nd. Abandoned Barbershop. Sit in the chair, pull the lever."
Flash-"...This guy has been watchin way too many bond flicks...Now was that so hard?...Imma take off now. You just chill out here and think things over. Sayonara!"

*Next stop Keystone!...But first!*
:rushes back and stomps RJS's head into the concrete at superspeed then rushes back to Keystone:

[batnkevlar]

OOC: Hey twy, So there are bad guys in your apartment that you need getting rid of?

[Charlie No-One]

The Scarecrow backed the van into Crime Alley. “This is your hide out?” asked the Joker. “It is in that theater.” Old peeling Zorro posters covered the brick walls of the theater. The center of entertainment must have been run down for years. Jonathan dragged the Mayor out of the van and into the theater.

A few minutes later, the Mayor was chained against the wall. “Crane? Is that you?” asked the dazed Mayor.
“No not Crane. I’m the Scarecrow now,”
“Am I going to die?”
“You’re already dead in my book,”

At this point the Scarecrow grabbed the Mayor’s neck and with a flick of the wrist….SNAP. The Mayor’s head fell limb. Another bully down.

[Tropico]

Mordru’s face turns cold and unemotional as he stares at the Shade for what seems to be an eternity. He waves his hand, and every door in the room promptly disappears. The Dark Lord turns to the Mirror Master and stares at him with his cold, clinical eyes. Underneath the detached expression, a rage is beginning to simmer within Mordru.
“Explain”, the Dark Lord says as he continues to stare at the Mirror Master.

Since Mirror Master and the rest were quiet Shade cleared his throat and proceeded to explain how he had started to suspect the Mirror Master's false identity concluding with a retelling of the ice chunk that served as physical evidence. "We've still to ascertain whose reflection this man truly casts, dread Mordru. I thought it something better suited to being gathered as we are now. After all, we ARE an Alliance."- Shade finished as cold fire burned in his eyes.

OOC:Let me know if re-posting Shade's "forensic analysis" is needed.

[DarkKnightJRK]

I keep running until two hippo ninjas start attacking me.

Hippo ninjas? What the hell is going on? Right, the injection Crane gave me. Must be some sort of new hallucinigen. Why is it having this effect on me, though? His M.O. is gasses involving fear, while this is something you would probably see during a big dose of LSD.

I need to clear my head. This is not real, make it go away. I just have to concentrate...

It's gone for the moment, I realize I'm actually up in the air, using my jump line. Surprisingly enough, I'm still following Crane and Joker's getaway car. I see the color that started the illusions again (this time purple) but I'm able to shake it off again, though I'm not sure how long I can keep doing that.

I keep following, tracking them to Crime Alley and all the way to...the Grand Theatre, the theater my parents took me... Considering Joker's newfound knowledge, I know this isn't a couisidence.

I sneak in from the back and I see them just as Scarecrow snapped the Mayor's neck. In rage, I act. I leap out of the curtains and tackle myself onto Crane, swinging myself with him in my hands up and lifting him up to the banister by my hand.

"Be afraid, Crane. Be very, VERY, afraid..."

[Johnny Blaze]

Since Mirror Master and the rest were quiet Shade cleared his throat and proceeded to explain how he had started to suspect the Mirror Master's false identity concluding with a retelling of the ice chunk that served as physical evidence. "We've still to ascertain whose reflection this man truly casts, dread Mordru. I thought it something better suited to being gathered as we are now. After all, we ARE an Alliance."- Shade finished as cold fire burned in his eyes.

OOC:Let me know if re-posting Shade's "forensic analysis" is needed.
OOC: Nah, it's not necessary. Just say that Shade explains it to Mordru and Slade; no need to rehash the entire spiel.

[Supergirl]

OOC: I want to interact... I'd say that my and Bart's date would be a good target for the DA... ;) PM me you guys, if you're interested...

[rigel7soldiers]

Since Mirror Master and the rest were quiet Shade cleared his throat and proceeded to explain how he had started to suspect the Mirror Master's false identity concluding with a retelling of the ice chunk that served as physical evidence. "We've still to ascertain whose reflection this man truly casts, dread Mordru. I thought it something better suited to being gathered as we are now. After all, we ARE an Alliance."- Shade finished as cold fire burned in his eyes.

OOC:Let me know if re-posting Shade's "forensic analysis" is needed.

OOC: Honestly, if I'm discovered, I'll have to put my plans into motion.

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: I suppose we could work something out, Cori. Well, after we handle this Mirror Master business first. :D
Maybe we could have Bart be our next target or what not?

And I don't think you have to be worried about being kicked out, Rigel. You may end up getting imprisoned in Fate's Tower though; I don't really want to kill a PC. :D
How you play the next few in character moments will be crucial. If you do happen to get a stay of execution, so to speak, I suggest the next time you go out on an attack with us, you flee the scene back to the Watchtower or wherever via the mirror gun.
Mid-Nite already has a decent amount of intel for the other heroes, and staying any longer with all of us being suspicious of you is just begging for a quick death.

[Supergirl]

OOC: That's kind of what I was thinking... Bart's death (if it went that far) would send shockwaves to both Flash and the Titans, plus the DA seems like its starting a Crisis... and we know about Flash's in times of crisis :o

[rigel7soldiers]

OOC: You're right... I suppose I have my proof, CM3 has been alerted... I could just jump into Fate's helmet right now, if it's around. You know.. shiny.

[TheCorpulent1]

Black Adam stands to the side and observes the proceedings. He is a natural leader, but his desires in this Alliance are simply to eradicate the heroes responsible for taking Khandaq from him, so he gladly leaves the real decision-making here to Mordru.

"Mirror Master's behavior has indeed been suspicious," is all he says.

[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: That's kind of what I was thinking... Bart's death (if it went that far) would send shockwaves to both Flash and the Titans, plus the DA seems like its starting a Crisis... and we know about Flash's in times of crisis :o
You've got a group of powerful super villains out for blood, so I'd imagine it'd go that far. :D

[Charlie No-One]

“You’re to late Batman. He is dead and so will be the rest of Gotham once the plan is finished. Crane struggled to get out, but couldn’t. “Let me go, and I will give you the antidote. The stuff running through your head right now will kill you before you can make another antidote. You will be able to at least try and defend Gotham if you let me go,” Crane informed.

[DarkKnightJRK]

“You’re to late Batman. He is dead and so will be the rest of Gotham once the plan is finished. Crane struggled to get out, but couldn’t. “Let me go, and I will give you the antidote. The stuff running through your head right now will kill you before you can make another antidote. You will be able to at least try and defend Gotham if you let me go,” Crane informed.

As much as I hate to admit it...and I really, REALLY, do...he's right. The poison is already affecting me again, I can see two lions doing the riverdance across from me. I slowly lower him, trying to stay aware of my surroundings. I note The Joker standing just behind me.

"Give me the antidote. Now."

[Keyser Soze]

"Now, why should we give you any antidote, Batsy?"

The Joker grinned knowingly at Batman and The Scarecrow, keeping a safe distance away from his foe. He'd been keeping his distance, watching with sadistic glee as The Scarecrow executed The Mayor.

"Nice job, Scare-chum, do you think they'll make me Mayor now? HA!"

The Joker turned his attention to Batman, cautiously circling him, careful not to get too close.

"I have to say, it is very entertaining watching your mind slowly fall apart. I mean, I don't know if you're aware of this, but..."

The Joker looked over his shoulder, almost as if to make sure no one else was listening. Then he whispered mockingly:

"You're going mad! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

[rigel7soldiers]

Black Adam stands to the side and observes the proceedings. He is a natural leader, but his desires in this Alliance are simply to eradicate the heroes responsible for taking Khandaq from him, so he gladly leaves the real decision-making here to Mordru.

"Mirror Master's behavior has indeed been suspicious," is all he says.

"Yes, well I suppose my..." I began, trying to bide some time. That's when I saw it. The bolt on Adam's chest. I can see my reflection in it. My work here is done. I caught him off guard, and was able to jump in, and I ended up in the Watchtower. I ran through the halls, looking for someone to tell. But first, I took off the Mirror Master get-up.

[DarkKnightJRK]

"Now, why should we give you any antidote, Batsy?"

The Joker grinned knowingly at Batman and The Scarecrow, keeping a safe distance away from his foe. He'd been keeping his distance, watching with sadistic glee as The Scarecrow executed The Mayor.

"Nice job, Scare-chum, do you think they'll make me Mayor now? HA!"

The Joker turned his attention to Batman, cautiously circling him, careful not to get too close.

"I have to say, it is very entertaining watching your mind slowly fall apart. I mean, I don't know if you're aware of this, but..."

The Joker looked over his shoulder, almost as if to make sure no one else was listening. Then he whispered mockingly:

"You're going mad! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

"Tell me something I don't know, Joker.

"As for why you should give me the antidote, if you do, I'll consider giving you two a head start before I go and take the both of you down."

[TheCorpulent1]

Black Adam steadied himself, shocked that Mirror Master had used Adam's own costume as his means of escape. His fist cracked the stone wall of the Tower. "As I said, Shade... he is a crafty one." Black Adam looked at his companions. "This cannot stand. Given his actions, I believe it is safe to assume that he was not just some incompetent fool; he must be planning something. We must locate him immediately and silence him before he brings the full wrath of the heroes down on us."

[Charlie No-One]

The Scarecrow handed Batman the antidote. “We shall give it to him; it won’t be any use for him. The city is already slowly dying with the new gas sprawling all over….opps did I just give away the big plan? Too late, Too late, Too late, you see…the new hallucinogen breaks down the brain’s sense of reality. The cure can only work if the hallucinogen is in your body for no longer than 4 hours. Well bad news Batman, the gas has been out for an hour already…and trying to find the source is going to be hard,” squawked Crane.

With that, Crane gave a kick in the gut to Batman and went back to the van, the Joker following. The city was now turning a white hazing color. Smoke was whistling every where. People begin to walk out of their houses and down into the street. One screams, “The house..it is alive!” It gives Jonathan a great deal of satisfaction. Then he saw a kid. A kid no taller then he must have been when he was a kid. A kid with red hair and glasses. Two other kids were walking his way with bats in hand, with the crash of their reality slowly effecting them, Jonathan stopped the car and rushed over to the kid.

“Do yOu ThInK yOu cAn pICk oN A dEfEnSeLeSs lItTlE kId?” warned the Scarecrow. The kids ran with water trickling down their leg. Maybe for the first time, Dr. Jonathan Crane felt guilty for what he was about to do. He walked over to the kid and injected him with the antidote.

[twylight]

OOC: Hey twy, So there are bad guys in your apartment that you need getting rid of?

OOC: I'm in a Hut in Africa..I followed Captain Boomerang there. It' s night and a gang of Raiders were breaking into the Hut after the tourist group we came with. Capt. "B" cut the generator..so it's dark, and he took out ..5 of the guys..two outside and just recently three inside the entry way. With Dinah who's been tailing him in the hallway watching where he can't see.

That's where it dropped off. nixonbat hasn't posted since then.
So I'll set it up and you can jump in.

[The Joker]

The crowds began roaring and shouting as the fight began.Two roudy men bumped into the Penguin knocking his drink out of his hand.

"Clumsy cretins" the Penguin shouted.The man immediately next to Penguin looked at him and laughed.

"Watch yourself fatso.Or I'll ram that umbrella of yours down your neck".

The Penguin stood up and pointed his umbrella at the man."You mean this umbrella??" Penguin asked with a smile.

Suddenly a blast of bullets fired from the Umbrella's tip.They struck the man in the chest and he fell to the floor dead.

His friend looked down at him in horror as blood began to leak out from under the body.He looked back up at the Penguin who was now pointing the umbrella at him.

"Now then would you care to replace my drink your very rude friend spilled on me??".

"Sssssure thing" the man stammered.

"How generous" The Penguin said as he sat back down."I do enjoy a good fight".

[twylight]

Dinah stood there half-way in thought. Right about now she was wishing for one of those net arrow’s Ollie used to pack around. Pin Digger and ask questions.
Arrows..She’d have to call Mia and see how she was taking her new life in the Teen Titans.
She was brought out of her silent ponderings and watching by loud noises outside that sounded like..trucks?

Running to the closest room she looked out the window. Car headlights were coming through the greenery she counted two trucks emerging on this side of the building and she heard others from the other sides.
“Holy..” She turned her head as the Tourists down the hall started to talk loudly again.
More ‘raiders’ though now she wondered if that’s what they ‘really’ were. She’d heard reports of unrest in the area, and caught a glimpse of Bab’s info on John’s whereabouts and why.
But she didn’t know they’d be in this area.
She knew she could take a few of them, and maybe Digger a few more, she’d seen him in action and he wasn’t some B-List villain, he was pretty good with his arms and legs. Still the odds weren’t good.

Turning from the window she ran along the small hallway, yellowish light from the car headlights filtered from the windows and onto the hallway walls where the Seniors had left their bedroom doors open.
Ducking into her room she pulled off her pajamas and threw on a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and a worn leather jacket.
Grabbing her comm, and running out of her room towards the back of the hut where the Seniors had huddled to, she called for Oracle “Oracle, this is Black Canary.” “Oracle?”

Receiving no reply she attached it to her and ran towards the tour group. Protecting them was the best she could do. Digger Harkness would just have to wait or maybe lend a hand.

Coming around the corner of the hallway she almost ran into the large man Digger had been visiting with earlier. Glancing around she saw the whole tour group, minus Digger and the tour guides were there at the end of the hallway. Hearing bullet shoots from the other side of the building she yelled “Get down! Get down!” As shoots rang out closer Dinah glanced around. She couldn’t protect all of them not against guns, even if the attackers did come at them, she couldn’t risk using her Canary Cry at this close range.

“Right about now I could handle a knight in shining armor.” Commenting to herself for smarting off at her male teammates on the Justice League.
“Too bad you can’t just bottle those offers and save them for a rainy day.”

[batnkevlar]

~I have found the wee lass, sir,~ Ring proclaims.

"Believe me, she's not tiny..." Hal mutters to himself, smiling.

~Her adrenaline level is rising, as is her perspiration level and fear~

"Then she must be in trouble. God dammit, I'm gone for a little while and everyone goes off and starts a riot..."

*Hal streaks through the upper atmosphere...*

[batnkevlar]

Dinah stood there half-way in thought. Right about now she was wishing for one of those net arrow’s Ollie used to pack around. Pin Digger and ask questions.
Arrows..She’d have to call Mia and see how she was taking her new life in the Teen Titans.
She was brought out of her silent ponderings and watching by loud noises outside that sounded like..trucks?

Running to the closest room she looked out the window. Car headlights were coming through the greenery she counted two trucks emerging on this side of the building and she heard others from the other sides.
“Holy..” She turned her head as the Tourists down the hall started to talk loudly again.
More ‘raiders’ though now she wondered if that’s what they ‘really’ were. She’d heard reports of unrest in the area, and caught a glimpse of Bab’s info on John’s whereabouts and why.
But she didn’t know they’d be in this area.
She knew she could take a few of them, and maybe Digger a few more, she’d seen him in action and he wasn’t some B-List villain, he was pretty good with his arms and legs. Still the odds weren’t good.

Turning from the window she ran along the small hallway, yellowish light from the car headlights filtered from the windows and onto the hallway walls where the Seniors had left their bedroom doors open.
Ducking into her room she pulled off her pajamas and threw on a pair of jeans, a t-shirt and a worn leather jacket.
Grabbing her comm, and running out of her room towards the back of the hut where the Seniors had huddled to, she called for Oracle “Oracle, this is Black Canary.” “Oracle?”

Receiving no reply she attached it to her and ran towards the tour group. Protecting them was the best she could do. Digger Harkness would just have to wait or maybe lend a hand.

Coming around the corner of the hallway she almost ran into the large man Digger had been visiting with earlier. Glancing around she saw the whole tour group, minus Digger and the tour guides were there at the end of the hallway. Hearing bullet shoots from the other side of the building she yelled “Get down! Get down!” As shoots rang out closer Dinah glanced around. She couldn’t protect all of them not against guns, even if the attackers did come at them, she couldn’t risk using her Canary Cry at this close range.

“Right about now I could handle a knight in shining armor.” Commenting to herself for smarting off at her male teammates on the Justice League.
“Too bad you can’t just bottle those offers and save them for a rainy day.”

*The bullets bounce of the tourists as a gleam of green descends upon the village and encases the innocents' bodies in emerald energy. Dinah Lance looks up into the sky to see Hal fly down.*
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"Hey babe," Hal smiles. "Missed me?"

[Tropico]

~I have found the wee lass, sir,~ Ring proclaims.

OOC:Whoa! Hal's ring has an Irish accent? Are the Guardians lil' leprechauns?

[batnkevlar]

OOC: That's the funny thing... the ring always changes his dialect. He once spoke ghetto-fabouluosly, if I remember my past writings correctly...

[Johnny Blaze]

Black Adam steadied himself, shocked that Mirror Master had used Adam's own costume as his means of escape. His fist cracked the stone wall of the Tower. "As I said, Shade... he is a crafty one." Black Adam looked at his companions. "This cannot stand. Given his actions, I believe it is safe to assume that he was not just some incompetent fool; he must be planning something. We must locate him immediately and silence him before he brings the full wrath of the heroes down on us."
“I concur”, says Mordru through gritted teeth, his rage now boiling over, “though I do not fear attack from the heroes. He must pay for having the audacity to deceive us!”
Mordru turns to face his fellows, “I can find him mystically, though it might take some time. In the meantime, you three should carry on with our next strike.”

Mordru holds out his hand and opens his palm, and an image of Kid Flash appears. “Bart Allen, the new Kid Flash. Being a member of the Titans, and a part of the Flash Family, his death will send a shockwave of sorrow throughout the superhero community.”

Mordru’s arm falls back to his side and the image disappears, “Like the young Captain Marvel, Bart Allen's death will show the so-called heroes that not even their children are safe from us. It will show them that this is no game we play, but a war. And, in a war, anyone can be a casualty.”

Mordru points to an empty wall and a door appears, “That will take you back to the United States, near San Francisco and Titans Tower.”

Mordru storms off towards a door that has just appeared in the far wall, “Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have a dead fool to find.”
As the Dark Lord enters the door, it slams shut and promptly disappears in a waft of green smoke…

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[Johnny Blaze]

OOC: That's the funny thing... the ring always changes his dialect. He once spoke ghetto-fabouluosly, if I remember my past writings correctly...
OOC: Heh, I can see it now, "Yo, Hal! Check that fool ova there, bro. He got hisself a gat dog." :D

[Supergirl]

OOC: :eek: We is in troooooble...


IC:

Diana was right. Bart's already twenty minutes late. He best not stand me up... How can someone that fast be late to anything? The waiter is giving me a weird look...

Kara is sitting, alone and in a low cut red dress, at a fancy restaurant a few miles from the tower. The waiter comes over. "Are you ready to order, miss? Or are you still waiting?"

"I'm still waiting thank you."

"Ah, I see. Now, who would stand up a beautiful girl like yourself?"

"Someone who's actually smooth enough to get a date with me in the first place. And he's not standing me up, he's just late."

"Keep telling yourself that, hot stuff, keep telling yourself that"

"In fact I'm willing to bet he'll be walking through the door in about five seconds" X-ray vision makes for an easy bet...

Sure enough Bart walked through the front door of the restaurant and shambled over to her table. Kara got up in superspeed and whispered in his ear "Be sure to call me Linda, not Kara, a'ight?" She sat back down before the waiter even noticed she had gotten up.

"Linda, you look absolutely gorgeous! I'm sorry I'm so late, but Wally and Jay were giving me pointers. You know this is my first date..." Bart's cheeks flush up and he turns a bright red.

"It's ok Bart, Diana warned me you may be late, and this is my first date too. Remember I AM new in town" She winks at Bart.

"So I was wrong, I'll be back to get your orders in a few minutes."

"That guy giving you trouble?

"He's upset because I shot him down, when he thought you weren't coming. And thanks, you look spectacular too. You really clean up well."

"Thanks! Hey, wait, just what does that mean?!? I always look this good!"

Bart sat down, wearing a dark blue polo and blue slacks, his hair neatly combed.

"So what's good here?"

"You're the one who recomended it! Although, I figured you would do this, so I asked Cas. She said that their lobster is excellent"

[batnkevlar]

*In a green explosion, Hal hurls all the attackers hundreds of meters outwards.*

"So who we dealing with, gorgeous? Parasite, Captain Whoever, the Brotherhood of Evil?"

[twylight]

:O EDIT..;)

*The bullets bounce of the tourists as a gleam of green descends upon the village and encases the innocents' bodies in emerald energy. Dinah Lance looks up into the sky to see Hal fly down.*

"Hey babe," Hal smiles. "Missed me?"

*In a green explosion, Hal hurls all the attackers hundreds of meters outwards.*

"So who we dealing with, gorgeous? Parasite, Captain Whoever, the Brotherhood of Evil?"


"More than you know." She winks back

"No one actually." She looks around but can't find Digger. "I don't know who those guys are, I've been out of touch for quite a while. But there seems to be some unrest in the area, and last I heard John was around."

Glancing at the Tourists and what was left of the building, "Next time, take it easy on the rescue." Winking she nodded at the ceiling which had been peeled back like a tin can's lid.

Turning and seeing the incredulous looks on the seniors faces she said "Could you please let them get their bags and take them back to the town outside of the WayneTech facilities?"

She walked to get her bags. picking them up she gave a sigh of relief. Now maybe things could get back to reality.
She walked back and stood with the other people ready to go, helping Edna and a few other's with their bags.
"You..know him?" Sarah said as she tried to fix her hair.
Dinah smiled fixing her camera bag on her shoulder "Oh, yes, we go back aways."