Kansas
Kara was in the library gazing into space thinking about what Clark had told her. She had read only a handful of pages since she arrived. She was too distracted and ended up reading one page more than once.
"What did he mean by looks can be deceiving?" She whispered to herself thinking of Ben. He does have a lot of money for someone quite young she thought.
Already decided, she stood up, returned the borrowed book and walked out of the library. Making sure she was in a secluded spot, she took off for home where she quickly changed into Supergirl and sped towards the watchtower.
Something was going on and she intended to figure out what it was.
Batman and black widow had been flying for some time now tracing Bane's new supplier. He had marked some bills with a prototype spray he had developed which emitted a signal strong enough that his satellite could detect it from anywhere.
The supplier was moving too fast that they had concluded he or she was traveling by jet or something akin to that.
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" Black widow asked breaking the silence.
Batman turned raising an eyebrow at her, "You always this straight forward?"
"A girl knows what she wants" came her calm response.
"I believe this belongs to you" batman announced removing something from his utility belt. He had kept the bug he found on himself till he got the chance to return it to the owner.
"Yes it does." Black widow smiled innocently at him. "I'm afraid I can't return the favor though." Black widow said to which batman just shrugged already expecting that.
Batman knew she had found his bug. It had been disconnected. He took care to plant the bug on Banner because of all of them he seemed the least trained in spyware. He did not know she was that good.
The batwing's monitor lit up to the emergency broadcast of the meteor heading to earth. He connected to the watchtower and the secure military video feed that was playing popped up.
Batman engaged autopilot and concentrated on the live feed. The huge beast emerged from the pod and proceeded to kill all the soldiers with the last one seemingly blowing it up plus himself and the helicopter.
"Who is that?" Black widow asked batman thinking it was one of their many villains who didn't have any qualms about killing government operatives.
Killing a government operative and them knowing your identity usually lead to two things. One, the government would come down on the said villain with everything it's got, which is usually enough to dismantle any kind of organization or two, the government conducts experiments with you as a test subject..so there's no bright side to it.
Black widow figured out that batman didn't know the said villain by the way he was studying the video and monster from the small footage he had from the soldiers live feed.
"I don't know. I've never seen it before though it reminds me of a guy we defeated a while ago." Batman replied disengaging the auto pilot and setting a new destination to the crash site.
"Aren't you going to wait for back up?" She asked him, noting how the batwing accelerated and was traveling at supersonic speeds ETA 10 minutes.
Batman smirked while never turning to look at her, "I can drop you off at a safe house if you want, Romanoff." It was a good thing Iron man was a talker, he had learned all their names from him. She narrowed her eyes at the mention of her real name. Where could he have learned that name.
"Zhopa!" She cursed at him before proceeding to check the ammunition in her guns, they would need it. Batman chuckled slightly at the name calling but stopped at the sight of smoke that was visible from a distance.
"Whooaa…that's a lot of smoke." She commented at the sight below. Several over turned police vehicles and tanks were currently on fire with several bodies covering the street below.
The batwing sensors picked up on a projectile heading for them a little too late because of its speed. The projectile hit one wing forcing the batwing to descend at free fall suffering one failed jet engine which was emitting clouds of dark smoke before some sparks ignited and the engine was on fire. Batman pressed the eject button and both he and Black widow were shot out of the falling plane and a few seconds later their parachutes deployed lowering them to the ground with the batwing crashing a few minutes away engulfed in flames.
A loud explosion was heard followed by a secondary smaller one then a loud roar was heard and she looked at Batman who was walking to her.
"What?" He asked and looked back at the explosions noticing that to be the place she was focused on. "Contingencies." He explained to which she nodded in understanding.
All of Batmans vehicles and planes were set to self destruct incase it is damaged in battle. This was because if the technologies in them ever ended up in the wrong hands it would be devastating.
The roar seemed to be gettingg closer by the minute. The only time she heard an angry roar like that was when the Hulk came out to play and that made her weary of this thing.
The beast tore through two tanks adjacent to each other and looked around the area for the two living beings that descended from the sky. Since its arrival it has killed every living thing on its path, human or animal. That was what it was made for this it craved the violence accompanied with it. Like this primitive Earths defenses.
It's eyes scanned the area and saw two humans standing in a distance looking at it.
RROOOAAAARR! It charged at them.
Batman and black widow saw the beast charge at them ploughing envy thing in its path. "Go high" Batman ordered black widow which to his surprise she agreed and used her grappling gun to go on top of an empty building nearby.
Batman actually thought she would argue with him and had a plan figured out if she didn't follow his lead.
Black widow had only seen one person with such rage before, The Hulk, but she knew this beast was out for blood and would not hesitate like The Hulk thus making her follow Batmans instructions, he obviously knew this world better than her.
The beasts saw the two of them separate and had a second to figure out which living being he would kill first. Knowing his predicament, Batman threw a couple of smoke bombs disappearing within it, fueling the beasts rage more and more. Batman threw the most powerful explosive batarang he had in his utility belt which lodged on the beasts back when he flipped over the beast in the smoke bombs darkness.
The batarang exploded pushing the beast to crash in a nearby building while batman merely stood and watched on waiting to see if the beast would get up which he knew it would because the soldier used one of Wayne techs most advanced rocket and it didn't even phase the beast.
A low rumble was heard before the beast emerged from the building and charged at batman with incredible speed which batman managed to dodge at the last second with only his legs being knocked when he used his grappling hook to fly away to where Black widow was observing the beast for any weaknesses. His armor took the brunt of the hit but it still hurt like hell. He crouched down catching his breath.
"It appears it has been programmed to eliminate all life forms in the planet it is sent to" Batman informed Black widow with her getting the hidden meaning behind it.
If help didn't arrive in the next few minutes then they were as good as dead.
Another roar was heard before Black widow grabbed batman pushing them both off the tall building falling down the side. Batman with his quick reflexes grabbed onto Black widow before twisting them mid air so that he was at the bottom before crashing into a dumpsters lid which gave out making them to fall into the dumpster.
His armor again took most of the hit protecting Black widow who could have surely died from the impact when Batmans weight was put into account.
Black widow rolled off Batman and sat up beside his groaning form looking up from where they fell. She had no time to use a grappling hook because the beast had jumped and was seconds away from colliding with the rooftop.
She smirked victorious when she saw that the three next generation Stark grenades she intentionally left on the roof had gone off sending the beast crashing into the neighboring rooftop but it's roar signaled it was already searching for them.
She looked down at Batman who was attempting to get up but was in pain from the couple of ribs and bones broken in his body and came up with a plan.
"Don't..Don't even think about it." Bruce said gritting his teeth already knowing her plan.
Black widow smiled downwards at him before catching his right arm which had long retrieved a sedative from his utility belt to put her down with.
"Nice try" she said taking it away from him before pocketing it.
"That wasn't the try." Batman said smugly.
"I know" she said getting up and out of the dumpster.
Batman narrowed his eyes at her when she showed him the handcuffs that she had just picked from him handcuffing her to the dumpster and started walking away. Batman couldn't get up, even with his indurance he couldn't persevere through the broken bones in his body. The fall was just too high and he didn't have time to control it, one of the things Ras Al Ghul had taught him how to do a long time ago.
"Wait!" He called out to her. "Take these." He said taking off his utility belt handing it out to her. Black widow looked surprised at his action. She would never give anyone her utility belt filled with her ingenious weapons and she knew it was the same case for batman. "Are you sure?" She asked again thinking he was delirious from the fall.
"You'll need all the help you can get." Batman told her. He knew that she needed it to last a little longer till reinforcements arrived.
"Work your way outward" he instructed her on how to use it. He pressed a few buttons on it and then gave her.
She took the belt and wore it around her slender waist with it sagging a little but all in all it fit. "Temporary identity accepted." A computerized voice said from the utility belt which meant her fingerprints could now unlock its contents.
"Don't, worry. I'll give it back." She smirked before running out of the alleyway to lead the beast away from the injured Batman. It was the least she could do for him since he had just saved her life from the fall.
The beast Immediately saw her run from the alleyway and followed pursuit with black widow dodging most of its attacks, playing on the defensive since any weapon she had would not hurt the beast but just momentarily slow it down. She was the only person other than batman who was alive in that area, the rest were either dead or evacuated as per the governments orders.
Black widow tried her best but after some minutes of dodging, hiding and attacking, she was out of ammo and too tired, after all she was only human. Batmans utility belt was empty with only one compartment refusing to open out of all of them. She figured it must be a secret no one but him needed to know and she kind of respected that…since all her attempts to open it were in vain.
A car came crashing at her hiding spot prompting her to once again throw the remaining two smoke bombs on the ground and use the grappling hook to escape.
The beasts eyes glowed having adapted to getting blinded every time and threw a boulder to her target building making the part holding the grappling hook to loosen before Black widow could reach the next building making her fall for a short distance on to the deserted road with the sun lighting her form for the beast to see.
She sat up holding her broken rib. It had not completely healed from Wonderwomans attack. She was tired, bruised all over and out of tricks.
Jokes on task master for thinking he would be the one to end me she thought sadly while getting up slowly. This was worse than dealing with the hulk because this beast had no qualms to what destruction it caused and also Hulk could recognize her even if he was out of control. Looking up, she saw the beast jump down directly on her path and activated her wrist stingers. She won't go down without a fight and she took a stance, the grappling hook having been destroyed.
The beast looked on with rage at the mere human who has escaped his wrath for the longest time and jumped from the building to land on her crashing her once and for all.
However it was picked up mid air before reaching half the distance to black widow. The two objects crashed through a nearby building before the beast was launched some distance away.