26. When the hero disappears, the villain has to shoulder the responsibility of saving the world
"There's chaos out there, those messy guys are attacking here, maybe we should take advantage of the chaos to escape?"
In an empty room on the third floor of the afterlife bar, the leopard girl lying on the window licked her lips and turned back to the crowd behind her and whispered:
"Gotham has been attacked, and no one is paying attention to us."
"Escape, what a great idea! But how are you going to escape? ”
Grude, the gorilla whose head was suppressed by a metal ring that suppressed all psychic power, and whose body was injected with a debilitating agent and collapsed in the corner like a mess of mud, replied boredly:
"Not to mention that each of us was weakened by the cunning Mason, what are you going to do with the swamp monster at the door who stayed with the raccoon?
Look at the pots of flowers and plants in the house.
That's not for you to get emotional, it's all you can hear what we're saying. ”
"What if you don't run away? Just stay here? ”
The leopard girl leaned back on the sofa very unhappily.
A few strange mushrooms on her neck and collarbone were like "locks" that suppressed the red of all beings in her body, making her very unhappy if she couldn't use her strength.
She looked at the Black Manta Ray, who had been confiscated from his Atlantean armor and tied with his hands down, and the head was down, and the latter didn't say a word, but the Leopard Girl knew that the creature had been secretly trying to unlock the delicate lock on her wrist.
She looked at Solomon Grandi, who was sealed in a magic bottle, and the zombie was angrily smashing the wall of the bottle in an attempt to get out.
There are only six core members of the Doomsday Legion, and now four of them are trapped here, and the Lex Luthor who sold them is gone, which makes the ambitious Leopard Girl feel that she can also take advantage of the situation to form her own small team.
However, the villain, who had been in love with Wonder Woman for the first half of his life, really didn't have Luthor's brain, so her escape proposal was rejected by Gorilla Groot in one sentence.
"We can't escape on our own, this is the base camp of Team K, and God knows how much force they have laid in ambush here."
Sitting cross-legged on the ground, the burly super-intelligent chimpanzee whispered:
"Wait, it's a good sign that there's chaos outside, and Luthor will find a way to get us out."
"By that bald man?"
The leopard girl sneered a few times, popped her paws along her mane, and said:
"He can sell us once, he can sell us a second time.
I can see that that guy didn't think about treating us as teammates since he formed the Doomsday Legion, and all the villain Ark's rhetoric is just to trick us into being cannon fodder for him. ”
"Didn't you think about being used by Luthor before you joined his group?"
Grud didn't care about what happened to him, and the gorilla said with a blank face:
"I think you should realize that we are being used as cannon fodder, but cannon fodder also has the value of cannon fodder.
Be patient, Leopard Girl.
Luthor wasn't short-sighted enough to bet his entire future on these Star Hounds, and he knew who he could rely on to rule in the New World.
I even suspect that even our captivity was part of Luthor's plan, and that bald man would always do a lot of things to achieve his goals
Let me put it this way, if you look back at what happened to us, you can see that while it seems that the heroes thwarted the Doomsday Army, which of Luthor's planned goals was not achieved? ”
The gorilla shook its head, leaned against the corner, pointed out the window, rattled the chains on its arms, and said to the three men in the cell:
"The world is in turmoil, friends, the chaos outside the world has extended into the world, and cunning and viciousness are good qualities for leaders in chaotic times.
I'd rather continue to fight with Luthor than with an incompetent leader who will only use me as cannon fodder when necessary, and the latter who will lead me into a truly desperate situation. ”
"You might as well be clear!"
The leopard girl immediately bared her teeth unhappily:
"I think you have something to say, Grude."
"Boom"
The quarrel between the two was about to enter the stage with the smell of gunpowder, and a very close explosion caused the four people in the room to lift their spirits at the same time.
The Leopard Girl jumped out of the window and looked out, where she saw a helicopter gunship-converted flying machine hovering in the chaotic air and firing rockets at the afterlife.
Her excellent eyesight allowed her to quickly see that it was none other than Alex Luthor, who had left them behind.
The guy also found a "new helper".
In addition to the fear of the yellow light flying out of the cabin, there are also red twisted big parasites and metal men with steel and iron bones all over their bodies.
The attacked afterlife bar immediately released a dense array of combat drones to try to clear the airspace, but the next moment, a piercing sound wave shot out and detonated those drones in the sky, and a woman with long gray hair who looked like a ghost jumped down from the air, opened her mouth and hit the deadly sound wave to the ground, so powerful that it destroyed a demon lizard lying on its stomach head-on.
This is the Silver Banshee, Luther's new teammate.
This scene made the leopard girl grind her teeth very unhappily, these "old members" are still there, and Luthor, the bastard, formed the Doomsday Army 2.0.
But even if he has a little conscience, he knows to take advantage of the chaos to "rob the prison".
"Huh"
A blinding arc of electricity suddenly rose in the cell, and a very nasty woman with cool short hair and smoky makeup emerged from the short-circuited and exploding lamp.
She levitated in the air and looked at the four defeated remnants in front of her, and very proudly crossed her waist and announced:
"Poor fellow, the Legion of Doom has come to your rescue."
"Who do you say is pathetic?"
The leopard girl turned around and scolded:
"Live wire! How dare you, a little villain who was beaten up by Superman as a fool, talk to me like that? ”
"I'm not tied up in embarrassment, besides, where is Superman now?"
The woman, nicknamed "Living Wire", who can manipulate and transform into electricity, laughs and screams as she pops out the current to untie the black manta ray and Groot's captivity:
"The metropolis is now our world, no, the whole world will soon be our world! You wretched fellows, get out of here before the Bat Family arrives!
I'm not going to stay here and fight Batboy. ”
With that, she took the lead in blasting the door open, only to be scattered in the air by the flying vine whip, and the tall new swamp monster Groot blocked the doorway, and roared angrily at the escaped prisoners in front of him:
"My name is Groot!!"
"Go back, stand up obediently, don't beg for a beating!"
The rocket raccoon standing on Groot's shoulder clutched a giant cannon barrel taller than his own, and the arrogant little man translated Groot's roar and grinned in fear:
"There is still a life to stay here, and there will be no one to protect you when you run out at this time, think about it yourself."
The leopard girl's response to the powerful "jailer's" resistance was quite succinct, she grabbed the bottle on the table that sealed Solomon Grandi and smashed it at the foot of the swamp monster.
The bottle shattered, and the roar rang out.
The agent of the Corrupt Black rushed out with his teeth and claws and collided with the swamp monster, and the battle between the two big men destroyed the entire corridor in an instant.
"Run!"
The leopard girl roared, and the first one rushed out, followed by the others.
Groot, the gorilla who fell behind, had a sly glint in his eyes.
It seems to have spotted some East XZ on itself, but instead of choosing to say it, it rushed out of the bar with the group of guys who had fled in the chaos.
A few minutes later, a third of the entire ground floor of the afterlife bar was blown up in a massive projectile of explosives, and the hapless bar was destroyed again within a month of its opening.
"Retreat!"
Luthor flew his own flying machine into the air, wandering outside and returning to the cabin as the Silver Banshee and Metal Man fought the Terror Squad androids.
The leopard girl grinned and scratched at the plant spores on her collarbone, which seemed to have taken root in her, and it would pull herself out and leave herself covered in blood.
She looked at the ruins of the bar, which were still burning with smoke, and shouted to Luther:
"Grandi is still there! You bastard, are you going to give up on him again? ”
"This is a necessary sacrifice, and there must be equal strength to entangle the swamp monsters, otherwise everyone will not want to leave."
Lai Bald said expressionlessly:
"Besides, Grandi won't die, and it's the best choice for him to stay behind. Live wires, check them out, if there are any remaining locators all destroyed. ”
"Where do we go next?"
Gorilla Groot leaned into the cabin and asked, and Lai said without replying:
"Metropolis! Where there's still a K-Team affiliate active, defeat them and take over the Metropolis as the forward fortress of the Stellar Society, and our job is done. ”
"Do you really want to die for them?"
The leopard girl looked at the chaotic and burning city outside the porthole in a daze, and she touched her heart and whispered:
"Look at them set the whole Gotham on fire, these guys aren't good at stubble, they're playing really, they're going to ruin the world. The Red of Living Beings is not happy with this, and it can feel the pain of every life. ”
"Joining the Stars is just an option."
Luther glanced at the crowd behind him.
He felt the need to reiterate his philosophy to reassure his companions, so he said in an accentuated tone:
"No matter how the world ends, we have to have power in our free hands if we want to have more choices! Just as I have brought you together to form the Legion of Doom, we need to recruit more like-minded people.
As long as the strength is strong enough, our value is high enough, and their attitude towards us will be good enough.
Troubled times are coming, friends.
Now no one is reliable, and everyone can only huddle together to keep warm.
Do you know what I mean? ”
"Got it."
Gorilla Grud nodded and leaned back into the cabin as if it were recuperating with its eyes closed, and Mason, who was far away in Washington, cleaned up the mess, removed the bugging device from his ear.
He looked at the moving red dots on the instrument and dialed the Knell Corps' liaison.
Answering the phone is a younger version of Luther.
"The Doomsday Legion has gone to the Metropolis, where they are going to 'make a big difference'."
Mason said briefly:
"You can have a good fight with the other you, Luther, the command of the Young K-Team is also delegated to you, stop them from taking that city, if you can, kill the other Luther!"
"Roger."
Young Luthor answered, and asked:
"Excuse me, do you have your eyeliner in that gang?"
"Yes."
Mason savored the conversation he had just overheard, and he analyzed the thoughts of each member of the Legion of Doom, saying:
"There may be more than one."
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The villains of the Legion of Doom plan to take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune to gain power in the "New World", but in Central City, the same group of villains huddles together, but they make the opposite choice of the Doom Legion.
"Where's the damn Flash?"
In the heart of the small city of Central City, the Boomerang Captain, who was frantically throwing exploding boomerangs to stop the army of weird mummies summoned by the Pioneers, yelled:
"Why is that bastard who can run at the speed of light always late in such a bad state of affairs? I see he's always on time when he beats us!
But he was not seen when the city needed him. ”
"Stop scolding, use snacks!"
Captain Cold, who was wearing a winter jacket and goggles, scolded, and with a freeze gun in his hand, he kept firing forward, freezing the mummy on the ground and forming ice sculptures to hinder the monsters behind him.
Behind him, next to the entrance building leading to the underground vault of the Star Labs, a wave of flamethrower-wielding heat ignited the walking corpses in front of him.
The pyromaniac laughed as he burned, without the slightest hint of panic in the midst of a crisis.
This is obviously the scene of the "specialty" rogue gang in Central City fighting, but it is unbelievable that even in such a scorching battle, there is still a melodious flute sounding constantly.
It was the Pied Piper who used the equipment of the Star Lab to spread the sound of his flute, which could manipulate ordinary people, throughout the city. But not to do something bad, but to point people who have evacuated in the city to safety.
The scene is a bit unbelievable at the moment, the villains are actually doing good deeds.
But the truth is that in the absence of Xiao Shan, who is supposed to protect the city, a group of old enemies who are the most headache in his daily life are really huddled together to perform the duty of protection.
That sounds pretty outrageous.
But considering that this group of people is a well-known scoundrel gang, it is not so difficult to accept.
This criminal gang, which is a clear stream among all criminals, has always been a strange villain in this world, and their "famous deeds" include, but are not limited to, clear gang rules and instructions not to suck du, not to bully the elderly, weak women and children, and not to kill people unless absolutely necessary.
They were very self-motivated when they first started, sending people to Gotham to learn the "criminal experience" from the famous villains, but as soon as they entered the city, they witnessed a delicate single mother with two children take out three Scorpion submachine guns from a grocery basket and smash the skulls of a group of looters.
It is said that that scene caused a rather terrible psychological shadow on the Rogue Gang, and they decided that they would never set foot in Gotham again for the rest of their lives.
Overall, this is a well-known gang, and the fight between them and Shem is always judged by other heroes as a "little fight between kids".
But if it is determined that the Rogue Gang is a funny criminal group because of this, then they will be taken lightly.
"Dude! Luther sent another invitation. ”
After Captain Cold, the leader of the Rogue Gang, froze the last of the mummies, he was about to take a break when his hot and sexy sister Golden Glider ran out of the Stellar Lab, handed him his phone, and said:
"He's invited the Rogues to join him again, and this time more, and he thinks we have the potential to say that if we're willing to surrender, the Pioneers' assault on Central City will end.
This place will also be turned into a territory ruled by us in the future. ”
"!"
Leonard Snyder, a high-IQ criminal, scolded expressionlessly while checking his freeze gun:
"With the intensity of the invasion right now, all these damn extraterritorial locusts have left us with is a ruin, and Luther has the means and the background to be the governor of the world, but what about us?
All we can get is a post-apocalyptic garbage heap!
We still have to be grateful to Dade for this, the Flash will only put us in prison, but Luthor is planning to turn us into poor beggars who live on our noses!
Who does he think this condition can buy?
What's more, the main force of the Justice League has not been dispatched much until now, and it has always been the second- and third-tier heroes who are active in various places.
If it's not that Zhenglian is crazy and intends to give up resistance and surrender, it proves that they must be secretly planning a counterattack. ”
Captain Cold snorted and said in a long voice to his sister and teammates:
"Guys, although we are villains, we also have brains when we are villains! Light can be used to fight a fart, even if you really want to surrender, it is not this time.
The result of rash stud before the situation is clear is most likely to lose his pants, Luthor is now looking at the scenery but he has no choice, he is too early!
Once the heroes win, it's his death.
We can't be so brainless as he is, we have to keep going so that we can raise our hands and surrender when the time is right. ”
"But the Flash is delayed!"
Captain Boomerang was a little agitated and said:
"We can't stop these things that we don't know where they came from, these hounds are going to detonate the particle accelerator, and we don't even have a chance to run because of them.
I think, do you want to withdraw first? ”
"The Flash will appear!"
Captain Cold, who had fallen in love with Flash-chan for many years, was confident in his old enemy at this moment, and he glanced at the gray sky and the gray pyramid suspended in the sky.
He whispered:
"I ask you, if you had to spend a dark night with your roommates, would you listen to a clown tell a bad joke all night? Or would you rather have dinner with the Flash with your prison gear?
Lo and behold, bros, this is never a difficult choice, hold on!
They are heroes!
They won't leave us alone.
I might think I'm crazy when I say this, but the truth is that while villains and heroes have their own opinions on how the world works, it's all based on the premise that the world is still working.
If it turns the world upside down overnight, we bastards might be forced to become heroes too.
The distinction between the two has always been blurred.
Without this world, our existence would be meaningless, we just want to get a piece of the pie under the existing order, and we don't want to stupidly smash everything and drag everyone to die with the consequences.
We are bad.
But we're not stupid, brothers.
It's a pity that Luthor, who claims to be a wise man, doesn't seem to understand this truth, and believe me, he won't end well. ”
(End of chapter)