When Tony had Jarvis scan the area, he noticed Batman descending in a grappling hook behind Cap to surprise him when he was crouching down to check on Nat. He sprang forward and collided with Batman, who then lifted him into the air and dragged him along it before putting him on a raised platform, likely where additional crates would be loaded the next day.
Batman's suit's Kevlar withstood the majority of the assault and his fall to the platform. He watched the armored man land and point an accusing finger at him as he stood up. "YOU! What? You really believe that fooling the Avengers would be so simple? You're going to regret it, buddy," Tony remarked before advancing to assault. Batman did acknowledge to himself, though, that if he had managed his team's coordination better, none of this would be taking place, but who were they to carry on attacking even when provoked? But he was able to predict Tony's attack from a mile away. After Tony finished speaking, he immediately thought, 'Too chatty, less tact.' Batman dodged Tony's attack and knocked him back with his own, being physically capable of doing so.
Batman increased the power on them after observing no harm had been done. The intensity of the blow caused Tony to stumble back a little bit, but it didn't hurt him. Since the day of the Ultron attack, he had made sure that his armor was extremely robust. 'He wants fists, so I'll give them to him,' charging up his armoured hands to resemble Batman's gloves, surprising the opposing player. Tony muted his microphone and added, "Jarvis, study his technique and assist when required."
Batman was caught off guard as he charged his armored hand. I must actually own whatever firm manufactured that suit, Batman reasoned, and questioned how they have worked in secrecy not to be recognized despite how advanced they appeared. After this, Batman grinned and added, "You don't have to do this you know." Tony became even more enraged when he noticed his smirk and said, "Hell No buddy, you got this beating coming to you for a long time now."
Batman grinned, already relishing the prospect of reprimanding the offender. Tony made a move. Batman waited for his assailant to approach before dodging him and kicking him in the back. Jarvis spotted this coming before Tony, who didn't see it because he was too enraged, and successfully reversed the maneuver by spinning and seizing said legs before slamming him against the wall. Batman was caught off guard by that as he knew the man was enraged to the point of blindness and wouldn't see the move until it was too late, if he ever did. He made a mental note of him getting some form of training. When Batman stood up, he spotted Tony racing at him again and launched punches his way. However, because Batman was on a par with Ras' al-Ghul, if not a higher level, he countered Tony's every move and started throwing blows of his own. Before a series of subsequent attacks from Batman, Tony made a mistake and was severely hit in the chest with the electric gauntlets.
Tony exclaimed "Jarvis" despite the amour still being in place as he became disoriented from the attacks and realized that he had neglected to switch off the microphone. Jarvis had been examining Batman's attack for a few more seconds than usual, taking longer than usual because he was combining numerous combat styles into one, making it difficult but not impossible for someone like Task Master to imitate his actions. When Jarvis heard Tony say, "Ready," he immediately started to parry the incoming blows and give out counterpunches as if he had not just been beaten.
After a few strikes, the opponent started to back off and take protective positions, but Batman's punches continued to go through and land. Amateur Batman pondered how on earth he could have blocked his previous manoeuvre. He heard the man call out to someone named Jarvis when he used his attacks to shove the man into the wall without even damaging his suit. Quickly making a decision, he went in for the strike to knock him out before Jarvis' backup arrived, but the man blocked and began to defend himself, even landing punches on his own.
Any move the Batman made was countered, and three punches were delivered to the slower of the two, hitting him. He reached for his utility belt and launched two smoke bombs that detonated upon impact, making the already gloomy room much darker. Batman made a strategic retreat to assess the situation. He noticed the man's eyes lighting up white in the pitch black, just like his own, indicating that he was wearing a HUD and had night vision. Considering his combat experience and all that he has accomplished with the suit, "Of course!" He was furious with himself because he was brighter than most people and should have thought of this sooner. He uttered "AI". It had to be on par with the Batcave because that is how he completes things there and most likely how he studied his actions and was able to counterattack again. Knowing he couldn't win by fighting hand to hand, he made the decision to buy some time and pulled out a tool from his utility belt that he hardly ever used.
"The satellites were breached; how did it happen?" He questioned into the night.
"So that's why you're angry, then? I hacked a lot of your satellites, did I not?" Inside his suit, Tony grinned before speaking. "Next time, don't make securing seem like a child's game." Before he could continue speaking, batarangs started flying in his direction.
While some were being destroyed, others were colliding with him and his suit was making metallic noises as they did so. A gadget was then thrown at his foot. Looking down, it released some smoke that enveloped him before stopping. He was about to respond as he looked up at the approaching person when the device delivered a powerful pulse, which caused his suit to turn dark. With the exception of Jarvis' reactor on his chest, which was still on, everything was off.
Tony just uttered the word "impossible" before collapsing in a heap of metal. He was extremely astonished and his rage was growing by the minute because he had done numerous modifications and enhancements to his suit that prevented any arbitrary EMP weapon from affecting it. But because of his intelligence, you wind up with backup protocols for the ones that are already in his suits. He was aware that no technology is ever completely secure, therefore he designed mechanisms for when the suit would lose power due to an EMP device. Tony turned off his night vision, so Jarvis' suit didn't appear to be rebooting nearly instantly.
"As you put it, child's play." Batman grinned as he studied the suit's loss of power. He took a chance because he only had one shot and figured the suit was probably EMP proof like most of his devices and gadgets, so he modified his EMP in the utility belt and added some additional components to make the blast so powerful that not even his automobile would stand a chance.
To the guy's surprise, it worked and his wager paid off.
"Call off your people!" said the low voice of Batman.
"Not at all likely." They turned to gaze in the direction of the sudden loud BOOOM! And noticed that the majority of the port containers had been turned into scrap metal. They both ignored it and kept looking to attempt to grasp what was happening.
He reached out and checked her vital signs first, and when he discovered she was still alive, he unconsciously let out a sigh of relief. When he looked up, a man in red and blue clothing bearing the S sign on his chest charged towards the Hulk, pulling him away from the fallen woman wearing armor who was beginning to stand. Iron Man caught the previous man in the black costume and flew up with him as he heard rocket boots above him. After giving Nat some first aid so she would recover quickly, he helped her sit down while he observed the conflict.
He reached out and checked her vital signs first, and when he discovered she was still alive, he unconsciously let out a sigh of relief. When he looked up, a man in red and blue clothing bearing the S sign on his chest charged towards the Hulk, pulling him away from the fallen woman wearing armor who was beginning to stand. Iron Man caught the previous man in the black costume and flew up with him as he heard rocket boots above him.
After giving Nat some first aid so she would recover quickly, he helped her sit down while he observed the battle.
He observed the woman in the warrior outfit survey the scene and fix her gaze on Wanda, who was able to hold her own against the shape-shifting green man, who occasionally became invisible but Wanda always knew where he was. Holding his shield in his hands, he hurled it at her to grab her attention with the dexterity and ease that only he possessed.
Wonder woman was going to head out and offer J'onn the back up he had asked for when she heard a spinning sound split the air hurtling at her at high speeds. She barely ducked her head to escape being struck by the shield, which bounced off various containers before landing back in the owner's hands.
He nearly took off her head, which wouldn't have happened even if the shield had hit her on the neck due to her durability, but it was still rude, and she narrowed her eyes at him in shock and rage. They guy had the gall to shrug his shoulders in response to her. She accelerated toward him in a fit of rage, raising her blade in preparation for the attack.
Due to the serum's minor super reaction, Steve just barely managed to raise his shield in time. Diana's sword struck it violently, bending Cap's knee as he used two of his arms to push the shield up against the impact. Diana anticipated his shield to shatter or split in half with the force she applied to it with her nearly indestructible sword, but as she flipped back a few meters, she was surprised to see merely a little line of scratch as a result of the strike she had just delivered.
Upon rising, Steve examined his shield and raised an eyebrow when he noticed the scratch left by her blade. He also observed her mirror image and pondered why her sword had not been damaged, concluding that both were made of exceptionally tough metals. She launched a second blow while casting a narrow gaze at her foe. Steve was prepared for her this time. Each of them could only dodge and strike with absolute precision after years of training or centuries of combat, which suited Diana and Cap, who have been at it for over 800 years and a century, respectively.
It had been a while since Cap pushed the blade from her grasp, and now it was just two shields pounding against one other as they quickly traded blows. Diana had to give the guy credit for staying up with her so far; when she accelerated to knock him off, he was able to slow her down to the speed at which they had started. Since she entered the world of men, only her Steve was capable of doing that, and even then, only because she had taught him how. It was an Amazonian secret combat style for when they fought opponents who were stronger than them, and she pondered where he learned the move so perfectly that not even she could counter and continue attacking at a faster pace.
Cap realized he could only fight for so long against the woman who didn't even appear to be breaking a sweat, so he decided to end it quickly and with a brief run hurled the shield at her with all his strength, which she ducked easily enough before deciding to make his move.
Diana spotted the shield approaching her at a reasonable speed and dipped down to enable it to pass on top of her before straightening to continue fighting only to be met by a fist to the head and a loud Crack! She winced not just at the sound of the guy's fist splitting, but also at the fact that the blow had dragged her back a few meters and her cheek had already healed.
The same couldn't be true for the man on his knees, recovering his breath and using his left hand to support his fractured right hand. Looking up with a glare and seeing that she was fine, he forced himself to his feet to continue battling through the excruciating agony in his hand that was slowly healing as a result of the serum. Damn it! How can she stand after I put all I had on that punch and finish up with a fractured hand, he wondered as he got up to retake his posture, much like when he had fought Tony for Bucky.
Diana admired Cap's perseverance and fighting spirit, but this was taking too long for her as a warrior, so she moved as quickly as she could and delivered a right knee to his stomach, followed by a backhand to the back of his head, this time knocking him out. After being kneed in the stomach, he was in too much pain to even try to stop the attack, and everything went black, leaving him comatose at her feet. She was about to pick him up when she heard a gunshot and looked up to see the woman she had knocked out earlier rise up and point a gun at her.
"Don't even think about it, Cyka!" Nat addressed her.
Diana lifted her eyebrow, as if she recognized the word she had just said.
"I don't want to hurt you," Diana continued, "but I will if you leave me no choice."
Natasha huffed, as if she was stupid enough to believe someone who smashed her into a container and beat Steve unconscious, and she suddenly felt happy that her being knocked out was justified by Captain America also being knocked out by the same person. She's strong, she reasoned. When she moved closer to Steve, she fired again, this time not as a warning shot but towards her leg, hoping to at least slow her approach.
Nat noticed the woman move at breakneck speed to deflect the bullet with her bracelet, then attack her before everything went dark again. "Shit" was her only thought before everything went black.
Diana heard the rifle cock again before a gunshot was fired after watching the woman analysing her statements and deciding to assist her colleague by scooping him up. She acted quickly enough to deflect the bullet into a nearby container before knocking out the woman, knowing she couldn't help or capture either of them if they were still conscious, warrior spirit and all after knocking her out and placing her next to the other guy she started surveying the entire battlefield eyes landing on Batman and the red armoured suit guy being restrained by one of his chords just then hearing a loud BOOOM! And turned to see what made that noise and was astonished to see what was happening.
J'onn requested Diana for assistance as soon as he realized he couldn't hit the woman with the red aura with telekinesis, an attack he generally utilizes as a last resort when they don't care about the villain's mind and that only works to bring him down. Greater enemies, such as Darkseid and Brainiac, normally had protection, but they had Superman to level the playing field. At the same moment, Superman was facing a green furious creature whose fury could be felt emanating in waves from him from afar.
Shazam and Green Lantern were also busy fighting the other guy who was resisting the two powerhouses. He also noticed Diana, who was likely occupied by the guy with the shield, leaving him to take up the slack. Shape-shifting to a giant reptilian snake, he wrapped itself around the woman who had been mentally blocking out his telepathic attacks. He wrapped around her and began to squeeze the air out of her to knock her out.
Wanda flew after Thor when he was tackled by the dazzling guy and joined by the green guy who were tag teaming him, only to be knocked to the ground by the green guy with an x on his chest and a cape overflowing from his back.
"Stand down!" J'onn had cautioned her with glowing eyes, attempting to scare her while also reading her mind. He began to go through her thoughts and saw a large metal-looking robot and a boy with a bullet-riddled body, followed by her wailing for sleepless nights, and then he was kicked out with a force that gave him a little headache. "Argh!" After his healing talents kicked in, he grumbled and stared at her. What he saw in her face made him reconsider his earlier objective of reading her since he saw and unearthed a memory she didn't want anybody accessing from her brain through her face giving a painful expression then a furious one aimed at him.
Wanda was taken aback as she was hurled to the ground, and the green monstrosity attempted to frighten her in the same way Ultron had done to her brother.
As she regained her bearings, she felt her mind being probed, revealing certain memories buried deep within; for a few agonizing seconds, she was compelled to relive them before smacking the invader with her own attack, which threw him out of her head. Except for White Martians, who were a whole different ball of worms, J'onn had never met anyone who entirely stopped his telekinesis while still in their head.
"You will pay for that!" That was the only warning he received before she released a devastating spell on him. J'onn had barely gone invisible when the wave washed over him...phasing through it, he could feel the power powering them, pure rage. Wanda was caught off guard and had to cease her attack when the green guy phased through it, which enraged her even more.
When the green guy morphed into a large dragon, she was pummelled to the ground with only her shield between her and the stomping foot that landed repeatedly on top of her, making her even more enraged, and her magic coming to life as if it had its own mind and blasted the giant creature upwards. J'onn was flung off her and landed a few meters away by a force she appeared to emit and began floating towards him, enveloped by the crimson glow.
J'onn's eyes flashed brightly, signalling that he was about to unleash his most powerful psychic attack on her, one that would bypass her mind barrier and knock her unconscious or disorient her until she was arrested. He began his attack while looking at her and gritting his teeth from the anguish he felt while trying to penetrate her mind, which was proving futile, and he had to telepathically call on Wonder Woman for help because she was truly a formidable foe.
Wanda knew what he was going to do the instant his eyes shone brightly again, but she only grinned at his audacious attempt. Fool me once, shame on you...fool me again, shame on me. She exploited his desperation against him, finding a back entrance into his mind and beginning to explore as she felt his mental attacks pounding on her walls. His mind was a breeze compared to when she had to mind control the Hulk and get past his various amazing mental defences, which was not simple and had just toughened up since that attack on him.
When J'onn felt a gentle prodding at the back of his brain, he knew immediately what it was. He shifted into a large reptilian cobra and wrapped himself around Wanda, whose shield encased body was slowly being squeezed and the pressure began to take a toll on her aura protection, taking a toll on her and with one final wave of magic, she engulfed the giant creature in a red aura but which burned like a flame because she had seen that fire was one weakness for him. He recoiled as if burned, which he was, then sank down writhing on the floor, the crimson aura still around him and burning at a low pace that would gradually damage him until he passed out but not die. She observed him writhing and crying out in anguish as she looked down at him without feeling.
"I told you you'd pay for it," she said, and with a strong kick of her boots, he blacked out from the force of the strike, the physical anguish he was in, and his body's craving for an escape from it all. She heard a loud BOOOM! and turned to look in the direction of the sound while also taking in the surroundings..
Thor was tackled into a container before he could respond, and he was pounded repeatedly, each one stronger than the last. Focusing again, he grasped one of his attacker's fists and punched him as hard as he could at the time, sending the figure falling into a large crane, which came toppling down from the sheer force of the contact. He summoned Miljonir and soared towards his adversary, who was getting up and staring at him with angry eyes. His objective was to defeat this guy as quickly as possible and help his team, but he had no idea how difficult it would be. He had hardly begun his approach to Shazam when he was forced to crash land to the dock past the pier into the water, something Hal's missiles made happen. Behind him was a gigantic green model of a fighter jet that Hal had willed into existence.
"What took you so long?!" Green lantern was yelled at by Shazam.
"I was busy trying not to get eaten, that water has some creepy things up in there," Hal replied, pointing to the water. Just then, a hammer knocked Shazam out of the air, sending him plummeting back to the ground. "You don't know when to give up, do you?!" said Hal as he charged towards Shazam, who was temporarily dazed from the hit.
Thor saw his ring as his power source or focal centre of his power, much as Miljonir was his, and charged at him with that concept in mind.
Flash was running left and right, keeping the nightshift port workers, approaching police units, and news vans at far from the carnage. His mission was to limit collateral damage by hurrying people out of the way every now and then, because the loud explosions and fighting would eventually draw attention. He could even see army and news helicopters swooping by every now and then, their big flood lights illuminating the port.
"Mr Flash, Lois Lane, reporting for the Daily Planet." "Can you give me an update on what's going on here?" Lois half shouted hoping the Flash would talk to her on her account of being close to the man of steel himself.
While running around trying to keep people behind the barrier at the ports gate, Barry heard Lois Lane's voice and stopped for a moment to gather his breath. He'd been on the run since he arrived. "I can assure you Miss Lane that the Justice League will have this wrapped up in no time and p..." A loud BOOOM! Stopped him, causing the watchers, even the fearless Lois Lane, to take a step back.
"That's it; just take a step back from the barrier for your own safety." As you can hear, we are currently occupied... " and with that, he was gone in the flash of an eye, rushing to the battlefield to assist in cleaning up, anticipating the Justice League to have dealt with the situation by now.
Hulk felt the blue guy in the suit yank him away while punching his back, each punch forcing him further ahead until he met with a high stack of containers, which came falling down, crushing the massive cargo ship that was ready to offload them.
"That's one tough beast," Superman muttered, cracking his muscles, which were tight from dragging the monster for so long. That takes care of that, he reasoned, and examined the port where the fighting was taking place after he saw no evidence of the monster rising again.
He watched Hulk lunge towards him with his hand ready to attack and a loud roar as a container came huddling towards him and barely catching in time floating a few meters back from the momentum, dropping it into the ocean. A huge boom rang out as Superman went supersonic and collided with Hulk's fist full on, anticipating Hulk's hands to snap from the sheer intensity of the hit. A tremendous BOOM was heard, sending shockwaves in all directions, and the heroes nearby were not saved either. Green arrow and Hawkeye, who were still at a standstill, were both knocked out as the abrupt wave threw them against a container.
After their impact, which sent them both flying in separate directions, Superman was surprised to see the Hulk still racing at him. He decided that continuing to fight him would just ruin the Port, so he pushed ahead again towards his approaching antagonist, who expected them to clash head on again, but Superman had other plans. He flew closer to the ground, dodging the fist thrown at him, and gave the Hulk an uppercut, sending him flying up, with Superman zipping past the upward moving Hulk and waiting for him with both his hands joined together to form a combined fist, punching Hulk's chest with enough force to knock out Bizzaro.
Hulk's torso slammed with the ground, causing a big crater and causing numerous containers to tumble on top of each other around the harbor as if an earthquake had just occurred. Superman remained suspended in the skies, watching him slowly rise and take in his surroundings before beginning to breathe even harder, indicating that he was becoming agitated once more. He gathered himself before BOOOOM! He flew up sharply, establishing a distance between himself and the earth. He sped down one more time to administer the final blow to the Hulk, who he had noted could absorb anything he threw at him and also give some back. He had never used this tactic on anyone other than Darkseid, but he was confident it would work.
Either knock the Hulk out cold or simply kill him; either way, the destruction would cease, and he could then assist his teammates. As he approached the hulk, he noticed him suddenly look up and his eyes glow slightly green, and he accelerated his speed to maximize the force of the hit.
"You're so fucked now!" When Tony saw most of his squad mates down, Batman saw a glimmer of glee in his grief filled speech.
"Are you sure we're looking at the same scene or did the EMP work a little too well?" He remarked this while glancing down at the still sitting on his but tied armoured person.
"The sexy warrior lady who just knocked out Cap and Black widow made the big guy angry," Tony pointed out as if it were obvious, shuddering at the thought of what was going to happen. During their time combating crime as the Avengers, Hulk took it personally anytime someone gravelly wounded the team's non-super powered members. He had come to the conclusion on his own that Hulk perceived them to be Banner in his human weak form, and they shouldn't be treated as such because they weren't as tough as Banner, who could withstand anything thanks to the hulk.
"Well our big guy is about to finish this whole thing and we arrest you lot!" With finality, said Batman.
Meanwhile, Jarvis had long since rebooted, but Tony was biding his time and waiting for the ideal moment to strike, which would come sooner rather than later when he saw the Hulk reach level 3 angry, with level 10 being World Breaker Hulk.
After being knocked out of the sky and leaving a big crater, Hulk slowly crawled his way out of the crater, his body healing the damage he sustained in seconds. Looking around, he noticed Thor inside a green bubble with two people floating in front of him, while Wanda was OK. He couldn't see any evidence of Tony, which worried him a little, but when he watched how Wonder Woman mercilessly knocked out Steve and Natasha, something snapped inside of him. Hulk heard Banner's voice in his thoughts and said, "You know what to do."
Still staring at Nat as she lay immobile in the woman's arms, he found himself becoming more enraged than he wanted to be, and he didn't even hear banner whisper warnings in his brain. He heard another huge boom and knew who it was, the man who had harmed him and his buddies. More enraged than before, he glanced up to see Superman preparing his punch for him...then a loud KAABOOOOOOM! Was heard and the crater slid further down under the pressure that was applied to it while shockwaves slammed into everything and everyone around them, throwing the unprepared or light away.
When the dust settled, the Justice League members who were still conscious let out surprised gasps because they were the ones who had underestimated the Hulk. A low continuous growl was coming from the Hulk, who had caught Superman's punch with his palm before trapping him by enclosing his fist in his own and applying pressure that increased by the minute as he became more enraged with them. Superman was startled by Hulk's strike, not even flinching, and his eyes glowed greener by the minute, his hand felt like it was being crushed by a multi-tone crusher, and even his durability and strong bones were straining not to strain.
When he saw his right hand was trapped in a vice grip by the Hulk, he threw his left punch with everything he had, but the Hulk caught it as well, trapping both his arms. CRACK! Was heard as the Hulk headbutted Superman so forcefully that both of their foreheads shattered under the force of the collision, yet both mended instantly, while the force brought Superman to his knees due to their height disparity. Hulk, who had faced the likes of Abominations, was unafraid of pain or broken bones, but it appeared that Superman was still not used to it, considering that he was stronger than everything on Earth.
Noticing this, he used all of his strength to break both of his wrists, causing another shockwave from the tremendous force being placed there. Superman was then snatched by the legs and battered numerous times to the ground like Loki and Wonder woman by the furious beast.
When he saw Wonder woman approaching, he smacked her with Superman's torso like a baseball bat. The impact threw her into the sea, while Superman attempted to utilize his heat vision on the Hulk.
Hulk refused to give up and pushed through the pain until he brought Superman crashing to the ground. Feeling great pain from his previously mended bones and dazed from the impact, he heard a loud roar and looked up to see a gigantic green fist slamming down at him again before everything went black. Hulk had mustered all of his strength at the moment and launched a power punch to the powerful, stubborn blue man, knocking him out for a few minutes.
Looking around for his team mates, he noticed Thor had broken through the green construct with his Miljonir and managed to knock Green Lantern into the water while Shazam was approaching. He charged at the approaching figure with a roar, colliding with it head on. Shazam smirked as the behemoth charged at him, increasing his pace to meet it head on. It was like colliding with an asteroid, which pushed both of them back from the impact. Still bewildered, he saw the beast leap high...really high...and out of the harbour, perhaps landing miles away.
Batman could count the number of times he was both astonished and speechless on one hand, and this was one of them. He'd just watched Superman get knocked out by the giant green guy, which provided Tony with the distraction he needed to use his hand blasters, which had cut away the cord tying him up, and fire Batman in the chest, assuming his Kevlar would protect him but instead being blasted back by the force.
"Wanda, grab Nat, Cap, and Clint, and let's get out of here," he said through his headset. Thor, noting Iron Man's motion, made a move to follow them out of the harbour, while Hulk leapt ahead of them.
They flew south hoping to avoid any more occurrences while they figured out what the hell was happening. "Jarvis, activate protocol star crossed." Tony spoke as he led the team away.
Batman awoke when he heard all the murmuring around him, but he remained alert and relaxed when he heard the familiar voices of the leaguers. He opened his eyes to find himself in the watchtower's infirmary, his chest bandaged.
"He's awake," flash said, drawing everyone's attention.
"Situation report," he said monotonously.
"We're dealing with it, you need to rest," J'onn said as Batman began to get out of bed.
"I've gotten enough rest, now tell me what happened." After being briefed on what had occurred and the clean-up, he walked to the monitor room and began typing.
"Cyborg already tried that...nothing worked," Hal said.
Bruce paused his work and sat down, his countenance contemplative. "Why did you let them get away!?" he asked, half-shouting.
"We were all pretty out of it, the green guy took us by surprise," Superman shrugged. "They couldn't have gotten far without something or someone noticing a huge green guy"
"Actually we tracked his long range jumps to a point then they disappeared" stated Wonder woman.
Batman was becoming increasingly frustrated with each response, which only exacerbated his chest pain and headache. "We were hacked," he continued, looking to the cyborg for an explanation.
"Well, technically, nothing was accessed, so no worries...they discovered a back door to the system. To secure it, I've already sent patches and added the necessary source code." After detecting Batman's glare, Cyborg remarked.
He stood up and walked over to the displays, activating the monitor and turning on the teleporter.
"Batman, where are you going?!?" You NEED to rest right now!" Diana enquired. Bruce came to a halt just shy of the teleporter and looked over his shoulder, saying only "home" before teleporting away. "Oh," Diana gasped, her face flushed from embarrassment over her outburst at Bruce.
"What was that all about?" "Am I missing something?" Wondered Hal aloud while the others scattering about to continue their tasks.
Two days later...
Ben arrived in the city in his jet ray form, landing on top of a massive globe atop a sky scraper structure. In a flash of green light, he transformed into a ghost freak and vanished, in case anyone noticed him flying in or the green light from his transformation. He was on high alert, not knowing what kind of planet he was on or whether he had a doppelgänger. 'Tennyson, consider what Grandpa Max would do in my situation.' He soared down between the two buildings and transformed into a flash of green when loud growls erupted from his stomach, signifying that he was famished after not eating for two days.
Being in alien form makes me forget eating at times grandpa max had once chastised him for that.
It had taken him much longer to reach civilization since after escaping the wilderness, which he discovered was The Amazon forest, which his earth also had, he had flown towards the United States using jetray because he was faster than most of his flying aliens and, to some extent, XLR8. He'd stopped to foil a few crimes along the way, which added to his delay, not that he grumbled because he, too, didn't know what he was searching for. After exiting the alley, he made his way to a hot dog seller on the street corner who appeared to be working with the lengthy line of people in suits and notebooks buying takeout.
UNCATALOGUED ALIEN DNA DETECTED...preparing to scan... flashed in front of his eyes in electronic form. "SHIT!" He yelled loudly, then lowered his cowl to avoid the eyes directed at him because of his colourful words. He had forgotten that when Trixx was formed, the Omnitrix activated that function. His eyes may function as Trixx HUD while allowing him to see normally. It was just necessity to assist him in better understanding the Omnitrix and using the Omnitrix quantum computer processing capacity when dealing with updated difficulties. He had Trixx disable the function because he only needed Kevin and Gwen at the time, and Trixx evaluating everything he saw wasn't exactly helping either.
It appears that some Omnitrix capabilities, like as DNA sampling, may override any command in the watch until the required sample was found, retrieved, catalogued, and saved in digitized form. After being triggered, his eyes searched about him for the extra-terrestrial. If Trixx says there's an alien here, there certainly is one. Trixx proceeded to scan the said person with Ben watching his eyes suddenly operating like a computer screen giving Trixx mental commands which she immediately followed by displaying the said person's gender, age, physical attributes, and some other minor information that could be analysed at a moments notice then cleared each by writing HUMAN as THE SPECIE. All this was done and organized simply that Ben could follow what was happening.
Trixx identified a person walking away from him with a woman in his arms in bold letters SPECIE: UNKNOWN, and the earlier words UNCATALOGUED ALIEN DNA DETECTED kept flashing as though a danger alarm was being given. Knowing that the watch would do nothing until the DNA was retrieved, he delayed eating for a few minutes longer and began following the two persons. Noticing how everything was both similar and dissimilar to his own world, he mentally directed Trixx to use the available networks to learn everything she could about this new globe.
In a matter of seconds, he witnessed millions of lines of code flow through his vision before a little rectangular bar with the writing processing 2%... emerged and increased rapidly by the second before being pushed to the bottom of his vision to finish processing.
Ben understood Trixx was probably hacking the entire internet to gather the information she wanted since she had the processing and storage power to back it up. Galvanic technology and programming were superior to the majority, if not all, computer programming. He was abruptly dragged back into the alleyway from which he had exited, how ironic he thought.
After grabbing takeout with his girlfriend Lois Lane from their regular vendor, they returned to the planet to finish up a report they were working on about the incident at the port. Fortunately for them, no footage of the incident was accessible to the public, and it was up to Lois to come up with something to tell the public, as it was generally known she dealt with any Justice League news.
They had agreed to blame the whole affair on miscommunication between the two groups that day, but they had twisted the reality a little to favor both sides because, from Batman's perspective, they didn't appear like evil people because they had simply fought to defend themselves. That's when he realized they'd been followed for a few blocks by the same person. His heightened senses keep him constantly aware of everything around him, should he lose control and injure someone. He'd alerted Lois by writing "we're being followed" on a newspaper he was carrying with him.
Slowing his pace down till the tail was closer to him, he moved at the speed of light and dragged him to the alley while Lois stayed back to check if anyone saw anything. (She had found out about his secret a long time ago)
"Who are you and what do you want!" Superman demanded answers.
"Well, that explains the alien part," he replied, lifting his left arm, which held his watch, which was now revolving with a yellow light replacing the green on the hour glass symbol and components of the watch. He let go of the guy as if scorched when he heard the phrase Alien, just as Lois joined him with her mouth gaping as she also heard him.
Ben, seeing this as an opportunity to give the Omnitrix what it wants quickly in case there was trouble and he needed to transform, raised his left hand, the face plate of the watch sliding up, and a yellow beam of light shot up to Superman and scanned him twice from head to toe, then retracted back into position and the Omnitrix's green colour returned.
SAMPLE ACQUIRED...PROCESSING... flashed briefly in Ben's eyes before being minimized and then stared a head before being driven up the wall again by the now recovering alien. Trixx studied their faces momentarily and flashed their information to him in his eyes, as if she already possessed a file on each of them. "I mean you no harm Lois Lane and Clark Kent or as they call you Superman." Ben choked out when Superman knocked him against the wall again.
It took all of his self-control not to go HERO because according to what he read and was informed by Trixx, he was a hero of this world, therefore it was just a miscommunication. (Yes, Trixx could speak with him telepathically because she digitized his brain, and having an AI as a subconscious can be useful at times.
"How do you know who we are?!" Superman asked the stranger. "Are you working for Lex Luthor?"
Trixx flashed pertinent information on Lex Luthor at the utterance of his name, prompting him to speak up. "No no no no no no, I don't even know the dude, no I was merely curious,"
Lois wasn't sure if it was her journalist instincts, but she put her hand on Clark's shoulders and he seemed to relax before letting go of the guy. As he rose to his feet, he smiled at Lois and cast a quick glance at Clark.
"Is that how you treat visitors in this place?" Sheeesh!" He chuckled as he rubbed his sore throat. He has strength, he reasoned. "Who are you and what did you just do to me?" Clark inquired, gritting his teeth and already restless for an answer.
"I'm Ben 10," he responded, as if that was enough to answer any question. When Ben uttered his name, he didn't see any recognition on their expressions, and he made a mental note that he didn't exist in this universe.
"I'm sorry, Ben Tennyson," he said again, offering his hands for a shake, then added, "Nothing to worry about, my watch collects Alien DNA from time to time, no harm to it," he said, raising both arms to demonstrate he had no ill will towards them.
"How do you know who I am and our identities if you've never seen any of us before?" Superman inquired, unsure whether he should be restrained.
"Well my watch being a DNA hub for sentient life form it can detect an alien when in close proximity to it and in knowing who you are I just do, after all glasses don't conceal anything that well."
He called it in after looking at Lois for confirmation on what he was thinking and seeing her nod her head. "Superman to watchtower, requesting for teleportation, over." They teleported out of there, taking Ben with them, leaving Lois to walk back to the office alone.
Ben wanted to go to their space base the moment he heard about it, and Superman phoning it in just made things easier. It also did not disappoint, since it was incredibly updated and massive, with many superheroes running around. Ever since the incident in the port everyone was on duty till the group was either located or arrested.
Trixx brought forth the building plans for the watchtower and scanned them, as well as the digital handbook, making Ben familiar with everything as if he had been a member since the beginning.
'How do you keep doing that?' While Superman took him to what he now knew would be the interrogation room, he mentally asked Trixx. She half-bragged, 'I do approximately one million tasks per second and that's barely using 1% of my processor speed.'
'You know what I mean...all this new information about this world,' he thought with a sigh.
'You told me to get knowledge about this planet, and that's exactly what I did' she said to him after Superman had left him in the interrogation room.
She had hacked every known database on the planet, copied every single file on them while synchronizing herself to them to retrieve any new information added to them, and then analysed and classified all of the material as best she could, including the database in the watchtower.
'How did you do that in such a short period of time, and how did you know the guy was Superman,' he wondered, as Trixx displayed all of the information processed to him.
'This planet's technology is still far from being on par with even the most primitive sentient life forms, so with my quantum processor developed by Azmuth himself, this was child's play for me, and I also found databases of some social media platforms, among others, then analysed and synced every profile with as much information as I could get, thus creating my own facial recognition database, which included this planet's criminals,' came Trixx voice.
While he was thinking about this, he didn't notice anyone looking at him via the other double-sided mirror glass.
"What do you think?" Superman, Batman, and J'onn were studying the person, who they estimated was around 22 years old, well built (clearly participated in fitness regimens like them, and likewise appeared to be deep in contemplation staring blankly in front of him).
"You said it scanned you?" J'onn asked, for the hundredth time, "Yes" "and yes, I feel perfectly fine," he said, glancing at Batman, who was ready to say something but stopped.
"What did he want?" Batman asked tensely, a person who can identify Superman in a crowd in his civilian clothes could be a potentially powerful friend or enemy, first the group, then this guy, what game are they playing.
"Ummmmm... I don't want anything actually. Well I just wanted something to eat." The speaker linked to the wall between the two rooms responded.
"You didn't say anything about his superhearing," Batman shot out at Superman.
"I didn't think.." He began defending himself before being interrupted once more.
"Actually, I don't have super hearing; I can see you through the camera in your room, and I turned on the microphone," Ben smirked as he noticed Bruce frown for a second then cover it.
"I think a system upgrade is in order," Superman stated to Batman, recalling how they had been hacked earlier, but because Cyborg had said he addressed the problem, they didn't linger on it because, after all, he was CYBORG.
While glancing at the files Trixx had provided for him, he tapped into the security stream and went through the rooms, avoiding the accommodation department because, well, he didn't want a repetition of the plumber base episode. He noticed Clark looking at him through the glass with who he now recognized as Batman and the Martian. They stepped inside as the door opened.
Not long after When the Martian entered the room, all of the programs in his peripheral vision came to a halt, and the words UNCATALOGUED ALIEN DNA DETECTED preparing to scan... flashed across the screen, and the watch went yellow again, while the face plate slid up and rotated as it had before.
J'onn went intangible as soon as a beam of yellow light shot towards him from the watch, as though expecting it to do so based on Superman's description. He was shocked to learn that it scanned him twice from head to toe before withdrawing back to the watch, which then restored to normal regardless of his intangibility, and the other two were as well, judging by their looks.
SAMPLE ACQUIREDD...processing... flickered briefly before vanishing. "Intangibility...cool," Ben said, intrigued by this alien.
This seemed to shake them out of their stupor, and Batman commanded, "EXPLAIN!"
"Only because you asked so nicely Bruce," he says, laughing at his enlarged eyes at the mention of his name. "It's been programmed like that. The Omnitrix can scan any sentient life form whether it is tangible or not now can I at least have a soda?" The brief response came. Nodding batman issued instructions to his earpiece before returning his attention to Ben.
"How do you know who I am?!" The demand arrived.
"Facial recognition software or is that not a thing here?" With a shrug, he responded.
"Try again, I know for a fact that no F.R.S can connect Bruce and Batman, I made that guarantee for every leaguer's identity."
"Let's just say mine is more advanced," a red blur hurried into the room, placing a soda and burger in front of him before standing alongside Superman with his arms crossed.
"Just like I know that's Barry Allen, works forensics for the police, and is currently dating Iris West as of thirty minutes ago according to her Facebook page," Ben surmised as he began eating, giving them time to assimilate the facts.
"WHAT! OFFICIALLY DATING?!" Screamed the flash, pulling out his phone for proof, and then he rushed out of there yelling Hal's name.
"That's what he got from all that?" As flash vanished, J'onn wondered. "Our scanners didn't pick up any electronic device on you other than that watch, where is your database stored, and where is the computer you're currently using to hack us with?" Superman added before getting side-tracked again.
"My mind," he said, tapping the side of his head.
Ben saw Clark focus for a minute then frown a bit.
"There's no mechanical enhancements to your brain to back up your statement." accused superman.
Ben just shrugged, "Doesn't mean it's not the truth." Just then cyborg came into the room hoping to speak to batman.
"I know we've been hacked again."
"How?!" Batman gave him a look. He rephrased his original inquiry, "who?"
"Him" refers to Ben.
Cyborg was annoyed as he looked between the two. "How?!" Ben didn't strike him as a capable hacker.
"It's what we're trying to figure out."
Ben had stopped eating and was staring at the cyborg, whom Trixx was already examining and concluding was a human who had been improved by mechanical parts that were too advanced to be found on this planet. Cyborg also examined Ben and his watch, receiving an error message in his mechanical's eye HUD about what the device and Ben were, but he did notice a big power source in the device. It almost looked like it was a clean self sufficient energy power source.
"Why do you have a self sufficient energy reactor in your watch and how is it not imploding on itself?" Cyborg inquired. Batman gritted his teeth, making a mental note to thoroughly examine his watch.
"Oh, it powers the Omnitrix and because this is the most powerful device in many galaxies."
"No, it's not kid, this is," Hal said as he walked into the interrogation room, scanning Ben's watch with his ring, which read error when he conjured a screen to display the results. "Huh! So they don't know everything," he explained, referring to the guardians' extensive knowledge, which was extended to them.
Trixx scanned the ring as soon as Hal entered the room, revealing the results to Ben's eyes. It was given the name Unknown weapon. And a description of how the ring was physically constructed, which simply demonstrated that it stores a great quantity of energy at specific times and is rechargeable. "It's not powerful if it has to be recharged every now and then," replied Ben comply while Hal looked like ready to throw out curse words.
"Okay, who the hell told him?!" "Damn, this place has no secrets," he muttered as he walked out of the room.
"I can't read him!.." J'onn spoke up abruptly. He'd been attempting to read his mind since the moment he spotted him, but he could only get a read on the thoughts he was having at the time.
"How is that possible!?" Asked a stunned Superman.
"I..I...I don't know." Everyone was looking to Ben for an explanation.
Meanwhile, a group of people sat in a now-modernized cave in the Amazon jungle, monitoring and researching the people they encountered and the type of situation they were currently facing. With the occasional one of them returning to the United States to obtain more information and supplies for their safe zone.
Ben had explained to the league members, virtually all of whom he had met by this point, how his watch worked, about Trixxie, about his home world, how he ended up in their universe, and how the Omnitrix protected him from psychic attacks and ghost possessions.
"They may not be criminals," he added, because the footage he saw in Luthor's computers revealed that they were just as bewildered as any time traveller would be and that none of the violence would have occurred if Superman hadn't made the first move. The green raging beast piqued his interest.
"And why does Luthor have a footage that not even us have?" Superman inquired.
"He's Luthor." Came Batmans reply to which everyone just nodded.
"You have a really powerful device..." "I know," Batman said, "so don't lose it," "I won't."
Turning to Superman, he stated, "We need to find those people and bring them in," before looking around at the rest of the league, including Wonder Woman, who was still processing everything Ben had told them. Hera! Was all she could think.
"I can help with that." Before ordering Trixxie to look for them. Using the facts and information provided by the Justice League, she calculated probability and restricted the possible area to the size of a city in the Amazon jungle. "I've found them, I'll go convince them to come and meet you guys properly and NO I will not tell you where they are"
"how powerful is Trixxie?" Batman was intrigued.
"She's quantum," and just hearing that made Batman gag and Cyborg gaze at Ben blankly since that kind of processing capacity was still light years ahead of them.
They were still at supercomputers, and now he really wanted to analyse everything on that watch, and he realized that only a processing power that great could do the computations needed to let Ben transform safely while simultaneously handling the Omnitrix's intricate calibrations. "Okay, head out" . He knew he was powerful as soon as he watched Superman fighting, so he mentally directed Trixxie to activate the first foreign sample found, and with a flash of green he converted into his own Kryptonian. Everyone covered their eyes for a brief moment due to the bright green light then stared awed by what they were seeing while Wonder Woman had a light shade of pink colouring her cheeks.
Ben appeared to be around 28 years old, had short hair, sparkling blue eyes, and a well chiselled model's face while wearing a white fitting shirt with a green stripe showing his muscles and a green with a white spot leather jacket with number 10 written in white on the back and the Omnitrix on his left hand. Black jeans and athletic shoes. Overall, if Wonder Woman thought Superman was attractive, Ben was hotter than the sun. Looking at himself and feeling the power in his muscles, all he could say was "Cool." "I think I'll keep this one for a while," Ben smirked, flexing his muscles. "Yeah...I forgot to mention that the omnitrix aliens are the prime example aliens of those species," no one doubted him still looking at him.
"So you have all my powers?"
"Yes, and don't worry, I'm experienced enough to use them with the restraint required," he said, as Trixx could still be seen displaying information in his eyes as usual. With a little concentration, he drifted in the air until he reached the ceiling and then fell.
Ben felt quite powerful as he took on the kryptonian form; perhaps it had something to do with absorbing the yellow sun rays. He'd only ever felt this powerful when using the ultimate aliens, so he wondered what a Kryptonian's ultimate form could do.
"Does that mean you can now turn into a Martian as well?" enquired a concerned J'onn. "I can do it."Oh! I may also remain in whatever form for as long as I desire without returning to my natural self." Since meeting Ben, the Justice League has been getting more and more surprises.
"And just to confirm, you can also turn by only thinking about it?"
"Yes, I can," Ben answered as he landed on the floor once more.
"Okay...I guess we have a tie at the most powerful weapon.." Hal cracked a joke to relieve the tension.
"That's an understatement." Wonder Woman mumbled to herself, but with so many eyes on her, they heard her.
"Well, I'd better get going," Ben's voice jolted them awake.
"Yes, the sooner we deal with this, the sooner we'll figure out what's going on," Batman replied.
"You can survive in space right?" Ben had to be certain, even if Trixx had mentioned it as one of the aliens' abilities.
"Of course," said Superman, smugly.
"I like kryptonians more and more." Ben smirked as he took off for the hangar, which was already open. As he took off, he flew towards the Amazon jungle, swiftly disappearing from their radar.
"Now he's just showing off," Barry said.
"I just hope he's one of the good guys because just think about all the alien hero and villains he could scan using his watch..." Shazam, who had been silent until now, spoke up. He'd been preoccupied with how he would defeat him if he became bad, still enraged by his defeats to the Hulk and the Hammer Guy.
"How do you restrain someone with that much power?" Not to mention how many people will want it once they learn about it." Hal stated that he was already going to travel to Oa to address this with the guardians.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Were the last words said before them disbanding to various directions.
Somewhere in the Jungle
"So they have a base of operations in space!" Tony exclaimed.
"Yeah, I wonder why you never thought of that Tony," Natasha, who was looking through Justice League footage, replied.
"Well, the towers are still sweet," Tony argued angrily, while Natasha only smirked.
Hawkeye, who had gone on a supply run with Wanda, returned at that same moment. "I think they are the heroes of this place and thought that we were the villains, a case of miscommunication." Wanda shared her thoughts.
When the government was hunting Bruce Banner, he utilized the cave they had made into their headquarters of operations as a safe haven. They then rigged it up to provide accommodation as well, creating a fantastic refuge deep within the world's hardest jungle. Tony had set up a lab with the devices they managed to acquire in their runs and they were linked up using solar panels supplemented by Tony's arc reactor as power sources.
"I think we should send one person to go and explain this unfortunate misunderstanding to them," voiced Cap. He continued, nodding their heads in agreement. "I will go tomorrow and contact them so that we can come to an agreement," he added solemnly, as if there was no space for argument.
"The blue guy is very strong," Banner observed. "He punches stronger than Abomination and Thor...the big guy had to boost his power each time they came to a stale mate."
"But it's a good thing he knocked him out because we wouldn't have escaped otherwise," Natasha remarked gratefully.
"Yeah, although he's strong he's no much for the hulk."
"The one I fought with had powers similar to myself." Thor finally said something. "We had to start pounding each other because neither could hurt each other with lightning."
"They do have unique powers, since they have a shape shifter and mind reader" said Wanda.
"Not to mention the gorgeous Warrior woman who kicked the crap out of Cap," Tony chuckled.
"Oh, yes?" What about the costume person who beat you up, plus Jarvis, who, according to reports, is just a regular human?" Nat gave Tony a sly grin.
"Jeez! "What did I do to deserve this?" Tony bemoaned. "If it weren't for me you wouldn't have known satellite blind spots while escaping thus making us untraceable. "he shot back, "Yeah...well.."
"Not necessarily," Nat was interrupted by an unusual voice, followed by a bright green light that blinded everyone for a few seconds, and then by another unfamiliar deep base voice.
"Hey, I'm Ben."