Watchtower
Team arrow was restrained in the watchtower and every member had their own room. J'onn and Wanda moving to each room helping them to seal away their recently revealed fear or conquer it. Oliver Queen and John Diggle had recovered and were resting.
"We tried saving them. Wanda could only manage to focus on them and herself otherwise risk being overwhelmed." Ben spoke up thinking of the mercenaries.
Superman, batman, Cap, Clint, Bruce, Hal and flash stood observing the telepaths in action.
"How did they locate their base?" Batman asked aloud. "Oliver uses the same protocols I use for the batcave." No one should be able to penetrate through their security.
Well…excluding Ben of course.
"We will have to wait for them to recover. They scrubbed all their computers before the lair was invaded." Superman answered. The team converged after the cyborg contacted them.
"A villain that taps into the primordial fears of his victims." Banner mused. This earth was turning out to be very interesting.
"He operated in Gotham." Batman stated.
"Do you think they were working together with the other guy?" Cap asked. They came to make sure Wanda was fine from the mission.
"Yes. Scare crow was taking orders from him. Toe pick could sense how powerful he was, Wanda too." Ben explained thinking of the encounter.
"The ogre you turned into?" Clint asked the only term Wanda could use to describe the alien.
"Yes."
"No one has ever been able to identify what specie it belongs to or his homeworld. One peek at his original face is all you need to loose your mind."
"I can only imagine the other guy if scare crow ended up with a shattered brain." Flash knew all about scare crow. He was a meta human Doctor who worked at StarLabs but vanished when the particle accelerator exploded. "You have to be a whole other level of scary if you can bring out the scare in scare crow."
"The other was an alien." Ben revealed. Everyone looked at him.
"The watch scanned him?" Banner asked interest peaking. How many aliens exist on this earth?
Ben nodded. "Only a handful of beings could ever resist toe picks face." Trixx was still processing the sample they acquired. "Almost all of them were cosmic"
"Great, just what we needed. Another overpowered alien we know nothing about" Batman murmured. He trusted Ben's judgement in reference to what his aliens could do.
"Very powerful" Ben agreed. "He managed to look away long enough to run" he was actually impressed and couldn't wait to find out what the alien was capable of. It would take quite a lot of power and will to look away from toe picks face.
"Did you cross reference him with the leagues database?" Superman asked concerned that they don't know didn't know about this alien who granted such powers to Scare crow. "Did Trixx record the encounter?"
"I didn't get a match and trixx can only interface with me in certain types of aliens." Ben informed him. It was one of the things he did when he changed back to his normal self.
"What if you change to that alien?" Hal suggested having processed everything said so far. "If it's anything like supermans and Thors case, we get a DNA structure from it to compare with whatever we have."
"He's right" Batman agreed. That could save them the hustle of searching for the alien.
"The sample isn't ready yet." Ben revealed.
"How long does it take for a sample to be ready?" Flash asked thinking of how many fixtures they could have for their betting site.
"I don't have an exact duration but this particular one has taken sometime." According to Trixx it was only half way through. "Just the way Thors sample took hours to process."
Their attention was drawn by screams coming from Felicity. J'onn was tending to her.
"I have issued an alert to all heroes to have their trackers and communication earpieces on at all times." Batman informed them walking out.
"They are being targeted to get to us" Superman added following batman.
"This sucks! First Nightwing then team arrow" the flash lamented. Oliver was the first hero he made contact with when he dawned his red suit. He knew everyone on his team and it pained him to see them like this, screaming their lungs out.
"They will get what's coming when we find them!" Hal vowed his ring briefly glowing.
"So, have you turned into an almeraci yet?" Hal changed the subject leading Ben and flash in the direction of the cafeteria.
"I still have a hard time believing this watch exists." Flash got hold of Ben's wrist examining the omnitrix.
"Gaping at it won't make it any less true." Hal chuckled amused. If his ring couldn't successfully scan it what made flash think his eyes could. "I believe you being a detective won't help either"
"So you agree it's more powerful than your ring?" Flash looked up an eyebrow raised questioningly.
"Maybe" Hal conceded. "That thing can turn you into any alien and seeing it in action is a whole experience."
"I know." Ben could never get enough of people's reaction when the find out about his watch. It took years for him and his world to get used to it. No doubt it will be the same with this earth. "It takes time to get used to it and the almeraci sample is ready. I havent gotten an opportunity to use it." He added.
"That Toe pick alien you used sounds scary" Flash stated, a chill running down his spine recalling the state scare crow was in arkhum.
"He is. I promised to use it in times of emergency. You can't erase his face from your brain once you see it." Ben explained then an amusing smile formed on his face. "When you'll see ghost freak you will understand."
"Is he another Toe pick?" Hal asked still surprised by this kid.
"Nope, he's a ghost."
"Does it induce insanity like TP? You have some nasty aliens!" Flash exclaimed at his ever increasing number of alien reveals.
"He's just scary but you can look at him to some level, you won't go mad unless I want you to."
"I pity the villains in your universe, one look at you will scare them straight!" Flash joked taking a seat at their table.
"Actually I don't use them so often back at home. There are others that can get the work done as efficiently as them." Ben supplied.
Both of them glanced at the watch, just recalling that it had over one million specie DNA samples.
"Excuse me" they turned to see Kara and Cate with what looked like bags of clothing in each of their hands.
"Your excused ladies, what can I help you with?" Hal took the lead earning an eye roll from flash but Ben just looked at them. She looks so much like her sister he thought looking at the lady he recently added to his most beautiful women list.
"Want to join us?" Flash smiled at them gesturing to the remaining chairs.
"We'd love to but we're just from eating. I was hoping to talk to you." Kara replied pointing at Ben appreciating Flash's gesture but they were here to talk then head to the fortress for a few hours.