Chapter 300: Baiting The Elite Part 6

As he batman began to descend with his jet, Kara had already flown down to one of the island's beaches where Arias's jet had viciously collided with the ground. 

As she came close, she halted mid-air and caused a gust of wind to blow forward, putting out the flames present over the debris. Then, while looking over it, she began using her x-ray vision in an attempt to find Arias. 

Before she could continue doing this, however, her super hearing picked up the snap coming from the shrubs and trees beyond the beach. She turned her head immediately toward the direction the sound had come from.

*Pa* *pa* She was immediately met with a barrage of bullets. The bullets whistled through the air and collided with her body, doing no damage at all. 

She frowned deeply before bursting forward like a fighter jet as she flew toward the direction of the bullets. Arriving in less than the blink of an eye, she found her attackers camped stealthily all over the area surrounding the beach. Without wasting time, she began to take them out.

The first few were simply blown away when she came to a halt in a sudden speed, causing a furious shockwave to spread around the area near her. Those unfortunate enough to be close were sent flying; they either hit the ground or a nearby tree. This action caused panic to grow.

"Retreat! Retreat!" panic began to spread as they realized they were no match for Supergirl.

However, as they began to prepare to flee, all the attackers found their figures to be enveloped in a light blue aura, which prevented them from moving. Then, against their will, the bodies began to hover in the air, before slowly drawing over toward the beach. 

As they emerged from the shrubs, their bodies, while levitating in midair, slowly turned. Once they did a 180, their sight fell on Arias, who stood unscathed near the plane's debris, looking up at the attackers with his hands rested in his pockets.

Kara was quick to act on this strange occurrence and also came back to the beach. Seeing Arias was okay, she felt some inward relief as she slowly descended toward him. 

However, as she was doing so, Arias showed a smile to his attackers before they all suddenly had their heads burst. *pop*

There and then, upon doing so, the blue aura that covered their bodies faded, and they flopped to the beach as lifeless corpses.

Kara came to an immediate pause and covered her mouth for a moment, feeling both surprise and disgust at what she had just seen. Before she could react, however, her super hearing caused her to turn in the direction that Batman's jet had been descending from.

Inside the jet, Batman turned his attention toward his console. "Engage autopilot and keep circling the area above."

"Autopilot engaged," a digital voice replied, just as Batman undid his seatbelts before opening the jet's canopy and jumping out. He torpedoed himself toward the beach. Then, as he got close, his cape almost seemed to harden as it acted like a sort of glide, both slowing his speed and faultlessly guiding him toward the beach where he landed on his feet, with no problem, just a few meters away from Arias and Kara.

Batman's immediate attention turned toward the corpses that were now headless. His gaze then turned to Arias and he frowned, but even he knew now wasn't the time to address that. So, he instead asked, "Who are they?" while approaching Arias and Kara.

Perplexed by the question, Arias answered confidently as if he knew already, "Before I have arrived, I thought they were HS group remnants. However recent events have led me to believe that something a bit more problematic is at play here."

As Arias said this, he turned his attention back toward the corpses, then muttered, "Thankfully, doesn't seem like they have apokalyptic weapons."

Hearing Arias say this, Batman furrowed his brows deeply in question, "They have links to War World?"

Seeing Batman ask this, Arias was now very sure that Batman was at least moved by the façade he had created back in La maz, plus the fake information gathered that even Green thought to be true. 

Batman was likely convinced to a certain extent that Darkseid was involved in something far deeper than what the league seeing on the surface.

And in Batman's mind, Arias knew a lot on this matter. This was a very ideal position Arias had found himself in, and he immediately chose to capitalize. 

"War World?" Arias slightly shrugged his shoulders, "I'm not too sure, let's just say I was very thorough in making sure as many HS group depots as possible were taken out. I knew there were likely still some left, but some information I exchanged with an asset of mine led me to wonder. The fact you are here must you either know or you are simply tracking me."

As Arias replied with none too true information, he also decided to shift the tone of the conversation. Arias knew that Batman needing to answer quickly only had two real possibilities. The first was the cryptic statement Arias said, insinuating that Batman likely already knew while sprinkling a hint about an asset, a clear reference to Green Arrow for anyone who'd investigate enough on him.

It wasn't hard to see the direction of thought. Arias was trying to lower Batman's suspicion toward him by uniting factors such as Arias getting shot down and him killing the attackers.

And though one could also immediately think he was here to dispose of them to cover up something, he had already displayed that since they were against that as meta-humans, they were against him. Hence his classification as an extremist. 

Arias had a deep understanding of how Batman or rather Bruce Wayne operated in great part due to Lex's knowledge. And like he thought, Batman took the bait.

At this moment, given the information presented plus the events that transpired and what led up to this. Batman could only settle on the matter of this likely bearing some connection to the darkseid though he still felt Arias was involved in some way.

"I'll start investigating then. The rest of the league will be here soon," Batman revealed before turning to Arias and seeing what he would say in response to this.

Arias simply smiled, "Then I'll let you take the lead, after all, if I find them first, they are as good as dead." Arias revealed, his voice steady though carrying some clear resentment toward this particular group. 

As for the island, it was nothing more than a fake depot for HS group members that Arias controlled. Barely inhabited, the island made the group feel they were funded by their mysterious millionaire and billionaire supporters who too hated meta-humans. In reality, they were nothing more than disposable tools.

Their main base on the island, which indeed acted as a base, which possessed quite an advanced setup, was now in wreckage with only a single person inside.

It was a panicked scientist, who was crawling on the floor. He soon stopped and turned to talk an unfamiliar nurse figure. "Who are you? Where have you taken the others?" the panting scientist demanded, prompting the figure hover out a dimly lit shadow they were in as a response came, "I am ze humble zervant. And ze master zhinks you no longer have zhe use."