External intrusion detected! Flashed in blazes HUD.
At the same time the guardians dismissed both Hal and blaze as they got the answers they were looking for and they also did not want the Omnitrix to be on OA for extended period of time. The Omnitrix maximum scanning range was not known and they did not want him to scan all the sentient life on OA ( all the different alien species serving in the lantern corps), at least not yet. This also paved way for them to enact a fail safe in case the Omnitrix was to get its way into evil hands.
"What's happening?" Blaze asked Trixx a little alarmed.
Who was trying to hack the Omnitrix while he was in OA, the most secure planet, where he was sure the guardians were monitoring every every signal coming in an out. Surely they would have noticed a foreign network intruding apart from Trixx of course.
Trojan horse has been detected. One firewall has been breached. Should I initiate counter measures? Trixx calmly explained and inqured.
"What!?" Blaze exclaimed and stopped flying to hover in the air before they reached space while Hal looked at him expecting an explanation for the sudden outburst. They should be on their way to earth.
"Someone is hacking me." Blaze supplied then concentrated again on his HUD.
"Who is it?" Blaze asked Trixx. " trace the hack" he commanded and Trixx obeyed.
Blaze saw millions lines of code emerge from the External intrusion message indicating Trix was initiating the trace then a bar appeared with 79% indicated while steadily increasing to 100%.
"The hack is originating from OA" Trixx informed. Displaying the data supporting it and specifically traced it to the main hub he and Hal just exited from. That could only mean the guardians.
"Just when I thought we were on the same side" blaze thought confused and angry. It was too good to be true…another thought lingering in his mind as the real reason they invited him over and doomsday was just a scapegoat.
"Have they succeeded? Do you know what they are after?" He asked Trixx.
"I detect a large portion of the planets processing power being diverted to infiltrating my firewalls and the Trojan horse is specific to a tracer program. The guardians intend to monitor the Omnitrix operations. They have successfully infiltrated two firewalls with the target to be able to plant the Trojan horse being five." Trixx explained while displaying everything for blaze.
The first two firewalls has alwayss been a trap in that Trixx attached programs that attach themselves to the hackers network or device in the duration of the hack thus making it easy for Trixx to in turn infiltrate their system. This is only because anyone or any device capable of bypassing just one of Trixx firewall is a serious player technologically wise.
Hal being bored and tired of being ignored had flown ahead and was currently talking to one lantern probably bragging about his time in the guardians main hub.
"Trixx, can you plant another backdoor system while looking for any information on multiverse travel in their database." Blaze ordered knowing they are not to be blamed in case the guardians find out they are being hacked. Two can play that game.
In an Undisclosed location.
Bane was knocked out and locked in a cage after all the steroids and all his gadgets had been dismantled. They were lying on top of a table together with some vials of blood and syringes under a lightbulb some meters away. The sedative black widow had shot him with worked a little too well.
Inside an adjacent cell was Nightwing tied to a structure resembling an x with his hands and feet secured to each end of the structure. He had been awake for close to 30 minutes now mentally trying to figure out who could have captured him and their intentions. If it was because of ransom or to get leverage on batman then he felt sorry for the kidnappers. Focusing on his binds, he noticed they were surprisingly sturdy and secure and could have complemented them on it if it wasn't him tied up. This would take him sometime to get out off.
"I know you are awake" a deep voice spoke.
"Guess the jig is up" Nightwing murmured lifting his head to survey the place he would soon break out off. Looking up, he couldn't see anyone or anything except for three things, his and banes cage and the table holding on to their personal effects and weapons. In what looked like a huge warehouse only the three things had been illuminated by the lightbulbs directly on top of them.
Looking at the table he could see his earpiece, banes equipments, vials of blood (assuming it's his and banes), syringes and his weapons. The first thing he did when he woke up was to check to see if he had his utility belt, the most important weapon of all and because of that batman made extensive security upgrades to make sure it cannot be removed by an unauthorized person.
"The justice league fought a team at the dock. What do you know of them" The voice patiently interrogated. He had enough time to extract the needed information.
Nightwing mentally scanned the voice but could not recognize it meaning this was a new player sourcing for information or he's being paid to retrieve the said information from him bringing his chances of survival to minimal if he does not find a way out.
"Oh, and don't think that rescue is on its way, Batman has been quite busy this past few days" With this statement Nightwing tried looking into the darkness searching for the owner of the voice.
"What have you done!" He gritted his teeth.
"When I return I expect answers." The voice ignored him and started walking away.
"I swear if you've done anything to Batman I will kill you!" Nightwing shouted feeling a pit in his stomach.
His attention was directed to a projection of the fight between doomsday and the justice league. All he could do was stare, not believing he missed so much. "How long have I been here"
Blacksite
Amender Waller was sitting in her office watching the surveillance video from the attempted bank heist. Since then, the building was closed down and under renovations citing infrastructural damage that needed time to be repaired. Atleast that is what the public and media was told. In reality the bank had been disbanded with all the funds disappearing within hours of the unsuccessful heist.
The surveillance showed them entering the building, taking out all the security guards and every surveillance video in the premises, including the discreet need to know cameras that only a handful of people usually know of their existence. This were to be used in case of a situation like this thus their positions were on a need to know basis.
"They had inside help" she concluded. There was no way they would know that information. Whoever planned and funded this heist knew what they were doing and was obviously very connected to get such information.
In her case, she had to pull rank with the bank so that she be included in the list of people who were updated about the banks security. No sooner had she explained to them who she was and what she would do in case she's turned down than they contacted the relevant partners and added her. The captured targets were useless, none of them knowing any information outside their individual assignments, this she was sure as Slade Wilson was the one who conducted the interrogation.