After the arm wrestle and the bet being postponed most heroes teleported back to earth to conduct their businesses. Wanda could sense Clint, Tony and Steve in one of their rooms, Thor was in the training room and Natasha was in the infirmary probably checking up on Nightwing.
None of the avengers were surprised by the bodies she had dropped during the rescue but most of the justice league members were shocked that she was a hero and had saved Nightwing. They came to think she was like some female version of the punisher, the dangerous vigilante that had made news sometime back.
The avengers knew of her past and she wasn't against killing bad guys when it meant doing the right thing. The others were still having a hard time accepting such a beautiful and innocent woman turned out to be quiet skilled. Some just assumed that was the reason she was called Black widow. Makes sense.
She was looking for J'onn so they could continue their lesson. They have been having sessions where they help each other strengthen their mental capacity since no one else understood what they went through everyday in regards to their powers. Having the ability to feel people's emotions and accidentally heir thoughts could be very overwhelming without the proper training.
"So we have to look for the anti life equation to get back home?" Ben sought a confirmation from Trixx. She had finished analyzing another piece of the data they acquired from the guardians.
According to my analysis it is powerful enough to travel through dimensions. This was one of the weapons the manhunters sought to acquire to complete their mission throughout the multiverse. Trixx projected all the data she had on the anti life equation. Most of them from the guardians database and some from the watchtower.
"Okay. Inform me when you find anything more about it." He needed to know whether his family back home was safe.
"Where's everyone?" He asked Trixx flipping through various cctv feeds trying to locate anyone to hangout with.
Most heroes teleported back to earth after your challenge with superman Trixx reported. The avengers are in their rooms.
"I thought superman was the one on monitor duty." He had heard a couple of heroes talking about it. But the feed Trixx was tapping into indicated The Question on monitor duty.
Clark is currently at the daily planet. Trixx stated pulling up the live cctv feed she's been hacking into.
Ben was thinking of turning back when she intercepted a request for back up. Something about them being overrun.
The Question had just received a transmission from Green Arrow requesting back up. He paused looking through articles and videos about their new teammates and looked at the list of active heroes.
"Is there anything I can do to help?" The Queation looked around for a moment wondering where the voice came from. "It's Ben. The shapeshifter." The voice revealed.
The Questions eyes widened In recognition and looked at the speaker. He once over heard Cyborg complain of how he is constantly hacking into their system and him earning a visit from batman every time.
"Green arrow is in central city. His team is taking heavy fire. I will teleport you to his location." The Question filled him in then activated the teleporter.
"Okay. Make that teleportation for two people." Ben spoke into his watch and cut off the link to the monitor.
"You sure it's okay?" Wanda asked in apprehension. "They barely know us. " she could sense caution from the heroes whenever any one of them was in the cafeteria. Only the founding members who knew the truth trusted them to a higher degree.
"its fine." He reassured her. "The only available hero would be superman because of his flight and he's at work." He continued. "Plus I'm bored. You can continue looking for J'onn. I'll handle this."
They had met when Ben gave up the idea of a hangout and was heading to his room. They met, got to talking and Ben insisted on helping her search for J'onn. He hadn't had the chance to turn into a Martian and wanted to know the general scope of his powers and tips on how to control them.
"Okay. Let's go. I'll talk to him later." She did a quick scan of the watchtower and realized J'onn was on earth. She didn't like invading people personal spaces by communicating telepathically.
She had not been on earth ever since they moved into the watchtower and spent her time exploring the huge structure. This was way more interesting than their avengers tower. They all knew Tony's plans the moment they returned to their universe and how every law enforcement agency will react. It will be a nightmare.
It's a wonder he has never mentioned the tower she thought. Tony took every chance to boast about the tower to anyone who was willing to listen.
Central city.
Green arrow and his team were held up inside their secret layer under his night club. Felicity made sure to set up a weekly reminder for them for the meeting. Gun men had stormed in moving through the empty club and boxed in the team underground in their layer. They had covered all their secondary exits. Trapped.
Oliver knew this was a professional team given with an unlimited budget and from the heavy drilling they could hear outside, they came prepared. They had since cut off the camera feeds and blocked all transmissions in and out. It's a good thing the watchtowers signal could still be received by their computer after superman used some kryptonian tech to strengthen it.
"Get Down!" He instructed felicity who was crouching behind a pile of metal cases a worried look on her face. The other members were armed and strategically placed around their layer ready for the confrontation.
"I don't understand how they found us!" Felicity shouted at Oliver over the sound of Drills.
"Doesn't matter! We will hold them off till the justice league get here. Stay down!" He instructed her. The reinforced door won't hold for long.
Ben and Wanda had teleported outside a nightclub they later came to associate it with green arrow when Trixx looked into it.
"I sense them in the basement." Wanda concentrated and her eyes narrowed unleashing powerful maroon wave through the wall into the club and started running inside. A confused Ben quickly followed.
Who knows why they do what they do he thought. His cousin also had a habit of abruptly running forwad during missions.
Wanda passed the mercenaries frozen in place by a maroon aura around them. Like a force field. She had felt a huge spike of fear and despair followed by loss coming from inside the underground lair.
This brought back memories of the pain she felt when she lost her brother during one of the missions they conducted before joining the avengers.
Felicity was holding onto Oliver who had been shot multiple times as he lead their defense assault. They had been pinned down in one part of the room. His team were disarming the men squirming in their maroon cocoon that hindered any movement. Felicity and Wanda were trying to stop the bleeding.
Ben was standing next to one of the mercenaries looking amazed by the maroon cocoon. More like a force field holding him in place.
"Trixx, is this mana?" He asked because it was basically the same power as an anodite.
Gwen could also restrain bad guys in the same way, though her aura was bright pink.
Ben had heard from Zatanna that Wanda was also a magician but hers looked and felt chaotic with a mind of its own compared to Zatannas warm and friendly. Her magic did not let up when she concentrated on helping the lady who held up Green arrow.
They emit different energy signatures. She appears to have the power of Flyrogenisis and Flyrokinesis. She can shape and conform force fields using her powers. Trixx explained what her scanners analysed.
It was amazing how the the force field looked like a thin layer of maroon fire burning over their body with the flames swaying to the breeze emitted by the air ducts.
"I sense fear." Wanda stood up and looked around the room. It couldn't be the mercenaries because the amount of fear she sensed could cause a heart attack ten times over.
"What!?" Felicity looked up from dressing Oliver's wound before they head out.
"This can wait." Oliver started moving forward dismissing the pain coming from his wound.
"Let's head out. We have a lot of interrogations to do" he spoke looking at the men suspended in the air.
John and Roy on the other hand started fighting each other. Literally trying to kill the other. Felicity and Oliver started panicking and had fearful expressions looking around the room. The men suspended in the air stopped fidgeting and looked at them confused by the fear in their targets gazes.
I detect an increase in the levels of an unknown gas filling the room Trixx informed Ben displaying the gas percentages as scanned by the Omnitrix.
"It's too late. It's all around us." Wanda could sense chaos and fear emerging in waves through the walls into the lair.
"There's a foreign gas in the air. It may be the cause." Ben suggested trying to trace the source.
"We should get them gas masks. I'm sure they are around here somewhere. I'll track down where that gas is coming from." He looked at all the crates around him.
"How? We don't have the equipment to do that" Wandas brow furrowed cautiously looking around after encasing team arrow in force fields to prevent self harm. They were screaming hysterically.
"I think I have the perfect guy for the job." Ben blurted excited at the thought of going hero. "He hasn't used this form for a very long time."
Wanda stopped surveying the room and watched Ben lift up his left arm and start scrolling through holograms of what appears to be the aliens he usaully spoke about.
"Got it!" He announced before his right palm pressed the Omnitrix dial and he disappeared in a bright green flash that illiuminated the room for some seconds.