Lex Luther and the legion of doom were treading through the thick vegetation of the Amazon forest searching. Lex Luther was a very smart man. He had managed to pin point the avengers route towards the Amazon forest and used Poison Ivy to track them down by connecting to the plants, her babies, as she usually called them to track down their base. Lex found it rather ingenious to set up a base of operations in the Amazon forest because no one will come looking for anything here. Though he was disappointed that he wasn't the one to think of it first.
"How far?" Grodd asked poison ivy whose eyes were closed in meditation and was walking ahead of them. They had left their jet in a clearing far behind them, deciding that they may have a better chance of going unnoticed without the rumbling of a plane or jet.
"It is near." Poison Ivy answered to the groans of the others. "That is what you said last time." Lex Luther gritted his teeth. "Because we are near, my babies would never lie to me." She said with conviction. The plants told her the base is near.
This mission was of high value to Lex Luther that is why only a handful of legion members were invited along and Poison Ivy was due to her powers in understanding plant life. Bizzaro and Grodd were the other ones invited along. He had calculated due to the fight with doomsday, most of them would be at the watchtower since it was pretty obvious they had joined the justice league and their base would be vulnerable or at least have one member protecting it thus the need for bizzaro and Grodd and his battle suit. They were to acquire all the data and technology the avengers had and also acquire some of their DNA from the equipment they handled since all the samples collected from after the fight were unusable…somehow they just disintegrated in the cryogenic chambers used to store them. The mission thus utilized stealth and discretion among it's members which Bizzaro was the complete opposite of but he had no choice than to bring him along for his immense strength in case they encounter difficulties during the mission.
"Turn back! This is a restricted zone! Military actions will be taken if you persist." Jarvis warned them via one of the cameras audio system. The legions were startled at first looking around for any sign of the police or military which were not visible. Lex luthors suit fired a shot and the camera was destroyed. The others looked at him.
"The military does not have an outpost here…trust me." He told them. Luther had intel on every military base around the world and the Amazon forest was not on any of his lists. They continued forward.
"You are advised to turn back or I will have to resort to unsavory ways." Jarvis warned them then the camera was blown out again by Lex. They continued forward. "I bet that is just a motion sensing AI programmed to greet guests like that." Grodd joked since his telepathic abilities could not sense any living being around them for miles.
Canons appeared out of branches and started shooting at them. Jarvis had initiated defense protocols. The legion of doom took out most of them but others kept on appearing infuriating them, rendering them except bizzaro unable to move forward with all the blasts aiming for them with extreme precision. It must be a useful AI for it to accomplish that…aiming for all of us at the same time with great precision Lex thought. Bizzaro was destroying as much as he could with his super speed and invulnerability. "Poison Ivy! Do something!" Lex shouted at poison ivy who was shielded by thick barks of trees. "You don't have to shout Lex, that's just rude!" She replied in a mocking tone before closing her eyes again meditating. The branches of the trees housing the various canons suddenly attacked and dismantled all of them in seconds. "Bizzaro loves canons." He shouted after the firing stopped and floated down to them. "Yes bizzaro, we love them too." Grodd told him. They knew how bizzaro worked being the opposite of superman and all that. When bizzaro loves something, he actually hates it and when he hates something, he actually loves them. They handled the remaining defense weapons and headed for the cave poison ivy had carved a way to and saw a man wearing glasses standing in front of the cave waiting for them.
Inside the cave Banner watched how they dismantled the defense weapons quickly. For a minute he thought superman was with them till he saw the symbol on his chest was facing the opposite side to that of superman. Captain America and Wanda would be arriving anytime soon not to mention Tony and the rest who were no doubt on their way too. He had to stall them as long as possible. No doubt the superman clone, he had made an educated guess on what he was, would punch his way into the cave thus damaging their equipment and compromising their data along the way.
He moved to the entrance and walked out before pressing a red button in his phone and the whole cave went into lockdown mode with Jarvis monitoring everything.
"You have no business being here." Banner shouted at them a couple of meters away. "Turn back and leave!"
Lex studied the man keenly. He was definitely human, according to his vitals. A very calm human despite the situation he was in, which was quite dangerous for him where any other human in his place would have run by now or started pleading for their life. He did not have any Intel on this guy but by Lex's deductions he was one of the new hero arrivals because he was currently standing guard at their base. Stupid of them to leave a defenseless human to guard their base Lex thought.
"Grodd, get him out of our way." Lex ordered. He had no time for this as they had wasted too much already treading through the jungle.
"I can't…interesting" Grodd replied back. He had been trying to get into Banners mind for the past few minutes only to be blocked each and every time.
"What do you mean you can't! This is no time for insubordination!" Lex was getting angry and impatient.
"I mean that I can not get into his head, he is protected somehow" Grodd responded narrowing his eyes at Luther. He did not appreciate a being with his intellect being scolded in such manner. The time is near… He thought.
"Poison Ivy" Lex called out. Upon hearing her name she commanded one of her babies to tie up Banner.
Thanks to his occasional training with Steve and Nat, his reaction time was greatly improved in his human form which he used to dodge all the weeds aiming for his arms and legs attempting to restrain him. Poison Ivy was getting impatient and sent a couple more weeds which were too much for Banner causing him to be restrained.
"You're quite agile for a human your age" Grodd noted when Banner was suspended mid air and seemed to be struggling against the binds.
Banner managed to rip some of them from the strength he got from the Hulk starting to awaken and landing on his feet on the ground.
"We don't have to do this" Banner spoke up to them. He could feel the hulk threatening to emerge from the distress and danger he seemed to be in, after all, threaten Banner and you threaten the hulk.
"You must be one of those wannabe superheroes the justice league takes in these days. I have nothing against you but this is business and we do not have much time since I know the residents of this place are probably on their way here right now so…Bizzaro loves him" He pointed to Banner and Bizzaro supersped to banner and knocked him to the side into the huge trees where he disappeared in. "Bizzaro loves weak human" Bizzaro declared upon figuring that the guy passed out from his bump.
Banner did not have time to dodge for the attack was too fast and he was hit then sent tumbling into the bushes and trees surrounding their base.
Lex Luther was having a hard time hacking the door open. This system technology and programming was somehow on the same level if not more sophisticated than his. He had to crack this door open. They'd come too far and he burnt up way too many resources just to figure out the avengers flight paths so he could triangulate their supposed base and now that he had found them, no door will hinder his victory.
"Just blow the damn thing open" Grodd told him, he was also getting restless. For the first time he did not argue with Grodd. Sure he would eventually hack it after a couple of hours at the rate he was progressing in, it is time that he did not have thus he stepped back and fired on missile at the door which managed to withstand it with minor dents on its surface. "Bizzaro!" Lex called him pointing to the reinforced door.
"Wait!" Grodd suddenly shouted. "Do you hear that?" He asked his partners. He also sensed rage, too much rage.
Lex and Poison Ivy were not hearing anything but Bizzaro heard what Grodd was talking about and flew to the direction he had knocked the guy to.
"What is it?" Lex asked Grodd trying to scan the area using his suit but the dense vegetation was a nightmare on his scanners.