114 The Plan...? #114

'And that's all I needed...' I mused, broadly grinning under my helmet as I watched Rick Flag contact Amanda Waller and immediately activated my personal computer power to trace the call.

As much as I wanted to take credit for the delay in Nightshade's arrival, I wasn't that shameless. It was a lucky coincidence, which I took advantage of without hesitation.

It might have seemed irresponsible for Rick Flag to call Amanda Waller so casually. But he wasn't using any old regular phone. He used a protected one likely made with security in mind.

The signal didn't directly connect to Waller's phone, but a satellite (government owned) and encrypted to hell and back. Though, it was nothing that I couldn't crack with time.

As long as I knew where the signal was heading, I could hack into it later and find Waller and the Task Force X database by proxy, which was all I came here to do.

My job complete, I turned to leave and immediately froze at the sight of a rippling dark circle that seemed to bend the very space around it. I cursed my luck as I slowly moved back to a corner, holding my breath and standing still.

The circle stabilized after a second, and a woman wearing a black and purple tight full-body suit walked through, followed by another wearing a fancy black dress and carrying a violin.

"Missed the mark again. Why am I not surprised?" the brunette with the violin mockingly said as she turned to her companion after noticing the distance between them and Rick Flag.

"Shut your mouth and follow me, Virtuoso. We have work to do," the other woman who opened the portal instructed, ignoring the attempted insult as she walked towards Rick Flag.

Virtuoso clicked her tongue in annoyance but still followed all the same. Rick Flag and King Faraday noticed the two women's presence and met them halfway.

"You sure took your time. What happened?" Rick Flag questioned as he stood before the two brunettes, his blank gaze alternating between their faces.

"Princess here was throwing another tantrum at Waller..." Virtuoso replied, mockingly grinning as she gestured to Nightshade, who didn't seem too amused at the remark.

"Called it..." King Faraday commented from the side with an 'I told you' face as he turned to Rick, to which the latter could only sigh in exasperations while palming his face.

"No matter, let's get to work. Virtuoso," Rick Flag said, turning to the violinist and gesturing towards a balcony overlooking the area where The Penguin's goons were still working on unloading the villains.

"With pleasure..." Virtuoso replied, nodding her head with a widening smile as she walked to the balcony, raising her violin to her shoulder and clearing her throat.

The violinist looked like she had something to say as if she'd already prepared a post-performance speech, but a stern glare for Rick Flag caused her to sigh and immediately start playing.

Blue musical notes materialized in the air around her and slowly floated towards the bewildered criminals. They began to panic, but it was too late as every one of them stiffened and turned motionless once touched.

'Mother fucker...' I internally cursed as I gritted my teeth, feeling the urge to punch something while watching the spectacle. One could argue that they were merely criminals and had it coming, but no one deserved to have their minds messed with like that. Fucking no one.

Watching such a scene, I felt my anger rise, but I forcefully suppressed it and turned to leave again, but it was not meant to be.

Having finished her work, Virtuoso grinned as she got off the balcony and slowly walked towards Rick Flag. "I heard that Bronze Tiger and the one that helped him escape are in Gotham..." She said as she stopped before the government agent.

"Once we catch them, you should give them to me. I'll turn them into obedient little soldiers in a matter of days..." she concluded.

I took a deep breath and began chanting the lines Benjamin taught me, attempting to calm myself. But the steel wire materialized in my hand, and I was out of my invisibility before I knew it.

"Bitch!" I exclaimed as I took out Ebony and my steel wire. Everyone immediately turned to me, and stopped what they were doing as they turned to me, surprised by my sudden appearance.

"I'll fucking kill you if you so much as breath on them!" I screamed, and they exchanged glances before jumping into action. Virtuosos aimed her violin at me and started playing, shooting her blue notes in my direction.

Rick And Faraday immediately took out their guns and opened fire, while Nightshade opened a portal and disappeared to god knows where, but I didn't care.

Thinking on the top of my head, I poured energy into my steel wire and swung it at the musical notes, and they fell apart, dissipating into blue particles, much to my surprise.

I had absolutely no plan and was acting out of pure dumb anger, so the realization that I could protect myself from the bitch's mind-fuckery was an instant relief.

I allowed the two agents' bullets to bounce right off my trench coat and returned fire, causing them to duck into cover as I approached the violinist, to which she flinched and stepped back.

I kept firing at the two agents, using my ricochet mastery to harass them from cover to cover, while I kept my eyes on Virtuoso as I charged her, much to panic.

The violinist immediately resumed playing, furiously sending rows upon rows of musical notes towards me, which I casually ripped to shreds. She panicked, realizing her power wouldn't work on me, and turned to run.

I started sprinting and closed the distance in a mere second, prepared to tackle the violinist and turn her into a bloody smear on the ground, but a dark portal opened before me, and an arrow flew through it, straight towards my face.

I stopped and moved my head to avoid the attack, and more followed as a giant, pale man with a rotten face and tattered clothes jumped through and swung at me.

'Solomon Fucking Grundy...' I mused, frowning as I raised my gun and started firing at the humongous undead while moving backward as more and more people stepped through the portal.

'Merlyn, Deadshot, Lady Vic, Marauder... and Harley Quinn...' I noted the newcomers as I increased my pace to dodge the rain of projectiles flying toward me and the two brutes charging me (Grundy and Marauder).

"Born on a Monday!" Being the first to reach me, the slow-witted zombie remarked as he swung his gigantic fist at me with incredible speed you wouldn't expect from anyone his size.

I put my gun away and reached for his wrist, diverting his punch to the side and moving forward. I put my shoulder to his chest and caught his wrist, spinning and using him as a human shield before throwing him towards Marauder.

The two brutes, one mechanical and one undead, crashed against each other and flew away with a loud thud.

I looked around, trying to locate Virtuoso, and was greeted with a baseball bat flying right towards my face before I could find her, prompting me to block the attack with my forearm.

"Sorry puddin', but I'm gonna have to kick yer ass, or my brain goes splat..." Harley said, grinning as she looked into my eyes and raised her baseball bat to strike again.

The only answer I gave her was silence as I kicked her away once I found my target. I ran towards the violinist, and the two sharpshooters, Merlyn and Deadshot, promptly opened fire along with Faraday and Flag.

I kept running, dodging, and weaving through the hail of projectiles, but evading everything proved too much even for me. Still, I tanked whatever hit me, including Merlyn's special explosive arrows that only staggered and slowed me down.

I finally reached the violinist again, ready to strike her down and vent my anger, but another dark portal opened before me, a hand sticking out of it and grasping at me.

I scowled at the hindrance and caught the hand, pulling it and its owner, Nightshades, towards me. I slammed her to the ground and prepared to knock her out, but Marauder interfered, smashing into me with his shoulder and pushing me away.

I retrieved my sword, plunging it into the ground to halt my momentum, and lunged at the red cyborg. He held his ground, spreading his arms as multiple small hatches opened in his mechanical body, launching mini-missiles.

I put away my sword, taking out my steel wire and Ebony as I started shooting down the incoming projectiles one by one, only to swat away any that came close with the wire.

I had no leeway to dodge anymore, and almost every shot that the sharpshooters took hit, but I was still shrugging them off until I reached Marauder.

At the end of my patience, I didn't feel particularly merciful and launched a full-powered, energy-enhanced punch at the cyborg's midsection, blowing a hole in the middle.

To confirm he wouldn't get up again, I activated my network crash power and watched as the cyborg's eyes dimmed, and he fell to the ground in a heap of scrap.

However, my victory was short-lived as Grundy came crashing down on me and caught me in a bear-zombie hybrid hug which I felt despite my superhuman durability.

To make things worse, I looked up and saw Nightshade weirdly gesturing with her hand to open another portal that brought even more enemies.

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