“Aarrgghh…”
You were thrown backwards as the electrical bolt slammed into your sides, singing your body armor while subsequently throwing you against a rusted generator conduit.
The metallic surface dented supporting your weight, proving to accomplish more harm than help as you landed on your palms and knees.
Spitting out another crimson mouthful, you glared up irritably to see a familiar foe.
Livewire. Again.
Her sneering ionized form solidified in the middle of the boiler room. Electricity crackled around her wrists as she extended a curved hip towards you.
“Miss me, batsy?” she sneered mischievously, before raising a gloved hand with electric snakes curling around her wrist.
“What’s your play in this, Lonnie? The ‘Secret’ Society isn’t a secret anymore, Grodd’s behind bars, and you’re only wasting time fighting me when you could be trying to do something productive with your life. What do you expect to get out of any of this?” you demanded, trying the psychological route.
She merely shrugged in a very cartoonish manner. “Nothing good was on T.V., gotta burn time somehow, right?”
“You’re wasting my time, Livewire, and frankly, I’ve got bigger threats to deal with in Gotham,” you shot back, reaching into your utility belt.
Her nostrils flared indignantly as even more electric currents crawled around her ionized suit.
“Oh, I’ll show you bigger alright, Mr. Dork Knight!” she growled almost childishly, as her electric bolt enlarged even further.
Your eyes narrowed once again as she let loose with the electrical blast headed your way.
Jumping to the side, you rolled back up with a steel Batarang in tow, easily dodging the blow before retailing with one of your own. Snapping it out, you hurled it her direction just as she readied another electric bolt.
Instead of hitting her, the Batarang severed a rubber tube hooked up to a generator, causing smoke to escape from the tubing and engulf Livewire in a cloud of white.
“Not cool Ba-!” she started to yell before the smoke nearly swallowed her whole, buying you a few moments to reach into your utility belt for a last resort, something that you reserved especially for electrokinetic metahumans like her.
Producing an EMP grenade in your hand, you prepared to hurl it at her when a sudden fireball from behind caught you off guard.
“Uugghh…”
You collapsed facefirst to the pavement as the fiery blast colored your cape a charred black, while also obliterating your back Kevlar. Without this protective armor, your undersuit was susceptible to Volcana’s fiery blast, subduing you for the time being.
Groaning against the floor you were completely helpless as the pyrokinetic approached you from behind, her footsteps growing ever closer while you struggled. Smoke now trailing from your armored suit, you quickly hid the EMP grenade within your fist as Volcana casually grabbed onto one of your artificial bat-ears.
Pulling you up to a kneeling position, Volcana nodded towards the former radio junkie who had materialized in front of the smoke.
“Stop playing around and finish him already, Livewire. I’m starting to get bored,” came Volcana’s drawling voice, her gloved fingers cupping your chin as she held you in place.
“Yeah, you try zapping the overgrown rodent with foam in your eyes,” Livewire grumbled, forming a white-hot lightning bolt in her palm.
With your other hand, you pressed a specific pressurized spot in your glove, releasing a miniature rod in between your index and middle finger. It was a device that functioned as a flashbang grenade, one that had to be timed perfectly to maximize efficiency.
Rubbing against your cheek sensually with her own, Volcana was absolutely relishing your suppressed discomfort as she leered at Livewire, whose lightning bolt was only growing and growing.
“Hold ‘em steady, sparky!” Livewire smirked, brandishing the electrical bolt in her hands almost like a baseball bat.
Volcana rolled her eyes grudgingly. “Hurry it up already. I’ve got places to burn and people to scorch.”
Without hesitation, Livewire hurled the lightning bolt your way, just as you snapped your forearm up and right in Volcana’s face.
“You little-ow!” Volcana squealed as you activated the contingency device, creating a blinding light right in the nick of time.
As her fiery hold over your loosened, you threw yourself to the floor while leaving Volcana directly open for the lightning.
CRACK!
Fire met electricity as the lightning bolt struck Volcana laterally across the chest, generating sparks in the air. Her body crumpled in half as the electricity lit her face up, revealing a very surprised yet pained expression that spoke a thousand words.
As soon as you hit the floor, Volcana hit a few thousand volts, and was hurled backwards as a result. Her fiery red hair literally stood on point as she was thrown backwards by the blast, eventually colliding against a generator.
Thud! Her back almost dented the metallic surface as she involuntarily halted her descent, and to her knees. With smoke trailing from a burnt spot in her sports bra, she could only moan inwardly before faceplanting, unconscious.
After mentally scratching her from the list for good, you turned back to the completely petrified Livewire.
“Awww nuts,” she complained, just as you sprang back up to your feet with the grenade in one hand and payback in the other.
Hurling the EMP her way, you only watched as the grenade rolled to her feet, before detonating.
BLAHHH! A disruptive wave of electrical energy was released from the grenade, catching Livewire within its blast radius.
“Aaaahhhh!” she cried out as the disruptive blast dampened her electrokinetic abilities, rendering her ineffectual. Her electric currents dissipated into thin air, and her own ionized form began to shimmer in and out of focus.
“Show’s over, Livewire,” you smirked, standing up as the blast inevitably knocked the shrieking former junkie off her feet and into a collection of crates, crashing directly through them.
“Oh, but the encore is just beginning, Batman!” came a sultry voice from behind, one that you failed to respond to in time.
“Aarrggh,” you cried out as a violet energy construct pierced your shoulder, knocking you down on the ground. The blast completely decimated what was left of your frontal Kevlar, leaving you vulnerable from all sides as you tasted cement yet again.
Skidding across the floor thanks to the momentum of the blow, you glowered up only to see Star Sapphire, formerly Carol Ferris, levitating only a few meters above your position. Her lust-powered protective aura only growing stronger by the second, she raised her ring hand in an attack stance.
“I’ve had quite enough of this,” she said simply, before bringing down another volley of pink arrows towards your grounded state.
Jumping to your feet with great haste, you quickly lunged to the side as the arrows pierced the ground you were just on, instantly disintegrating as they all failed to hit their target.
Rolling over your right shoulder, you retaliated by hurling a steel Batarang her way, before running towards the stairs. With ease, Sapphire maneuvered out of the way, dodging the projectile before aiming her ring hand at you. Releasing short bursts of pink energy from the ring, she peppered the ground around you with the bullet-like energy blasts, returning the favor.
Your cape was almost completely torn apart from the bursts of energy, with a few nicking your sides which caused mild to wild discomfort.
Narrowing her eyes, she made a sweeping motion with her ring hand, unleashing a violet boomerang-like energy wave your direction. The energy wave was literally on your heels when your vaulted over an old generator, flipping over it feet first to display your athleticism.
The energy wave instantly sliced the machine clean in half, resulting in the upper half sliding to the ground where you continued running unharmed.
Finally reaching the stairs, you turned on your heel and lept into the air with a smoke pellet in one hand and an explosive Batarang in the other.
Throwing the smoke pellet at her first, you followed up by hurling the explosive Batarang her way as well. The double combo culminated in the smoke pellet first exploding in a smoke screen around her, which discombobulated the Green Lantern archenemy to a great extent.
As Sapphire coughed in mid-air, her protective aura now starting to fade, she opened her eyes only to see an grenade in the form of a Batarang knifing through the smoke and directly in her face.
BOOOOOOOM! The Batarang detonated directly in her face, knocking her backwards while throwing her concentration off. Even though the blast did little to no damage to her, it was still enough to throw her off balance, which provided the opening you needed.
Reaching into your belt, you produced your patented grapple hook, and fired the metallic cable towards her. The tri-pronged grapple hook latched onto her right ankle, coiling around her boot and granting you the chance to bring her back down to Earth.
Just before she could generate a scissors construct, you jerked downward with all your might, sheer muscle overwhelming Star Sapphire’s lust-charged cosmic energy. She was involuntarily dragged down by your might, as you slammed her back into your level.
With a cry, Sapphire attempted to right herself in mid-air, but before she could do so, a conveyor belt broke her fall.
“Ugghhh,” she whimpered as she literally flattened the conveyor belt, the collision clearly taking more out of her. With the wind knocked out of her, she could only moan inwardly before rolling off the now destroyed machinery and flopping to the floor.
Slowly advancing up the stairs to the catwalk, you produced a Batarang in one hand and a pair of handcuffs in the other.
Finally reaching her near beaten but still stirring body, you retracted the cable back from her boot, only to discover that:
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