Thomas flew over the quarry as his scanner already pinpointed the enemies.
"More reinforcement..." He muttered when he saw there were around ten people in that place. "What's that...?!" He noticed two hyenas spinning around a girl in a clown's costume. "Friday, scan her face," the instant he instructed, the computer immediately ran facial scans to try and match the girl's face on its database.
[Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel]
"As I thought," He locked on to the remaining goons and shot them dead almost instantly, leaving the clown alive. Then he flew down before her, "Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel. In flesh. Then who died in that car accident three years ago?"
Three years ago, an insane man, dressed as a clown burned down a well-known bar in Gotham, just because the bartender didn't have the whiskey he was looking for. He shot the bartender dead and burned the entire place down to the ground. That incident was followed by a bank robbery and two more cases of arson incident.
The cops finally caught him. But after interrogation, he was deemed as a mental case and got a psycho evaluation, only to find out that he has severe insanity, along with some unknown psychological issues, a massive superiority and inferiority complex, and a dissociative identity disorder. How can one person have that many mental problems, no one knew at that time. So, they hired a professional, Dr. Harleen Frances Quinzel to see how the man's condition was.
After three sessions with the man, Harleen managed to get him talking and after he confessed his crimes, the cops decided to shift him to Arkham Asylum. But coincidentally, on their way to transport him in an armored truck, they got into an accident with another car crashing into theirs. It was Dr. Harleen's car.
The insane man somehow killed all the cops and ran away taking advantage of the situation and Dr. Quinzel's dead body was found among the car's wreckages. After another investigation, the cops discovered that someone freed that insane man from outside and that same person killed all those cops with a shotgun at point blank. How did that person do that? No one knows.
Right now, that supposedly dead doctor was standing right before Thomas.
"Sup Bat. Why do you look different from the pictures? You are bats aren't ya? Batman?" Harley laughed hysterically. "This is really strange, so so very strange!" She patted her two animal friends.
"Who's the girl in the car?" Thomas' cold voice silenced her, his deep voice sending shivers down her body. It wasn't the first time he used it to interrogate an enemy.
"Why are you worried about her, Mr. Big Bad Bats?" Harley shrugged, trying to look innocent.
"Who was with you back then and who died instead of you?" Thomas questioned her, but the clown doctor only laughed, completely ignoring him, and started babbling about nothing relevant, until he suddenly changed the topic.
"Well, doesn't matter," Thomas manipulated the nanites to form electric handcuffs, "Because I got ways to make even insane people open their mouths," He flew toward Harley, but for some reason, she didn't move from her position to which Thomas got a hint that something might not be right.
"HAH!" Harley snapped her finger, "Now you are dead, Bat Man."
The ground under Tomans blasted open as a hard punch knocked him up in the air. Thanks to the armor, he didn't suffer any damage, but for someone to punch him and send him in the air was quite unbelievable to him, considering that the suit has shock absorption technology installed, 'What the...! What just happened?! Who? Or what is he or she?' He landed on the ground and noticed another man.
The man was 10' 5", had red eyes, a bald head, and was wearing a green military uniform. He was carrying two giant custom-made shotguns on his back.
Harley took this chance to run away from there.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Thomas mumbled to himself noticing the hulking size and presence of this man. He was giving him vibes that could only be described as pure madness. "Just who are you?"
[Bang!] The giant man took his shotgun and began to shoot at Thomas. He dodged them easily and began to throw energy pulses at that man, but it looked ineffective. He wasn't even fazed by Thomas's attacks.
"Friday, you got any info on this freak of nature?" Thomas's visor did a quick scan.
[Name: Wade Eiling. A member of the Suicide Squad who went missing after Amanda Waller's death. Target is an artificial life form. Caution required. Sir, your current suit might be ineffective against him. His powers are unknown. Data unavailable.]
Thomas furrowed his eyes. 'Well, there goes my idea of wrapping up the battle quickly.'
He manipulated the nanites around his both arms and made a giant energy blaster, "Let's see how strong you are. At the very least, I'll be able to gather some important data from this fight." The blaster was humming with a blue energy as the charges reached its peak.
[Zingggg!] A gigantic blast of light energy fired out from Thomas' gun as it impacted and exploded right onto Eiling. The attack obliterated a good chunk of the ground, forming a crater, where he was standing. Smoke rose and enveloped that part of the area. But before Thomas could react, Wade jumped up into the sky and tried to punch him to the ground, but Thomas activated the boosters, flying far higher, easily.
[Baaam!] Wade fell down on the ground, but he was unfazed.
"Damn! That just now was a 40% energy beam and he took it just like that? Well, Friday, let's use the Hulkbuster," He activated the buster suit which will arrive on the spot within three minutes. "Now to hold this insane guy for three minutes... Well, let's go all out, shall we? Activate Overdrive Mode."
The nanites began to humm quietly as electricity surged through them. In his suit, the dark black color turned into a bright electric blue. The boots' electric thrusters ignited and a bunch of light-blue spikes appeared on his legs, shoulders, and knuckles. New deadly weapons were unlocked. The nano-suit was not functioning at over 120% in the overdrive mode. It'll last three minutes.
[Zooom!] [Zooom!] Two massive chunks of rocks flew toward Thomas like speeding bullets. He swiftly dodged them and rushed toward the giant man. The nanites on his fists morphed into raw energy fists, crackling with the energy of the arc reactor.
"How long are you going to run, Bats?" Wade fired his shotgun without even dodging it.
The bullets bounced off Thomas's armor and he punched Wade's face with that energy fist. The raw energy of the arc reactor tore through his lower jaws, turning them into dust instantly, but Wade grabbed Thomas by his leg and slammed him onto the ground. First one, then two... three... four times. Then he crushed Thomas's thrusters and slammed him once more on the ground, creating another crater.
The damage was too much for the nanites to handle. This nano-suit, which was capable of enduring Wonder Woman's six punches, was useless before Wade Eiling's raw strength. Thomas coughed out blood as Wade punched him hard, crushing a couple of his ribs.
Thomas activated a laser beam to slice through Wade's arms and somehow flew out of his grasp.
"Fuck! Hufff! Huffff! What kind of monster is he?" He flew up high to the sky and checked his wounds. Four broken ribs. The nanites activated the emergency protocol. Pamela's instant healing serum that was infused within the nanites began to heal his wounds. Within ten seconds, Thomas's wounds were healed. But this suit has reached its limit.
Thomas looked down at the monster. His severed arm had already regenerated and he was as good as new.
"Come down and fight the General, coward!" Wade yelled at Thomas as he shook his guns, trying to intimidate him.
"This bastard!" Thomas grunted as he was forced to land on the ground. "One minute left. Friday, is auto repair possible?"
[Affirmative. But you won't be able to launch any attack or defend against any attack. Only the flight function is left. And sir, if my prediction is correct, I'd advise you to not take this battle head-on. The situation is already out of hand, as you have seen for yourself. His regeneration is almost on par with Miss Pamela's serum and the added strength and defense is out of the charts. My calculation says even the Hulkbuster suits might not be enough to defeat him. We should call in support.] Friday urged Thomas to call the team.
"You are telling me, the buster suit that's capable of fighting the Kryptonians might not work against this freak?" Thomas was shocked.
[Affirmative. Wade doesn't have the weakness of Kryptonians, but his power is on par with them. And if my scans are correct, then he just developed an adaptation to laser beams and energy blasts. As I said, it is my theory but currently, he is somewhat comparable to Superman and perhaps might evolve further as time goes on, further adapting to the types of attacks used against him and strengthening him.]
"Come on down here and play with me, Batman!" Wade yelled once more, "Today, I'll bury the bats in this old quarry and replace the legendary Batman's justice with the General's chaos."
"That darn bastard! Friday, call Pamela and bring out not one but six buster suits. Let's see how long this bastard can regenerate and endure endless attacks from the sky. I'll leave the control to you," Thomas wasn't dumb, as he saw that Wade couldn't fly. So, he plans to blast him off from the sky, and as for his regeneration, he'll use the nanites that corrodes cells. He will inflict damage on this monster beyond his healing capabilities and bring this crazy beast to his deathbed.
And if that too fails, then...
"Just in case, call Kara... Won't take any chance with this freak..." He murmured and gazed at the taunting beast.
The buster suit was already here...
Thomas decided to create a distance between them as his suit began self-repairs and left Friday in control of the Buster suit.
The second round is about to begin...
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