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Warworld, Throne Arena...
Black Hood, Zach, and R'iva appear via a teleport inside a grand hall where a broken throne stood.
R'iva, noticing that Black Hood and Zachary were with her, praises, "oh thank H'ronmeer, I'm not alone again."
Constantine seeing the differences from last time,"The hell is Superboy?"
"Lisa's not here either," Terry comments out loud.
On the other side of the hall, two Durlans appeared alongside a humanoid in green armor. R'iva, taking a look at their most likely opponents, says, "I know those are Durlans, but I can't tell what species that woman is."
Black Hood activates his detective vision, "Considering she's not snow white but has similar biology to Kasador, I'm gonna assume she's Almaracian. Shall Magic Man and I take on the Durlans?"
"Almaracian's are dangerous telepaths. Yeah, I'll take her," R'iva agrees.
"If you say so, mate," Zach responds, as he conjures two mystical circles of energy around his hands and takes a stance of combat. "Let's go!"
The Durlan pair moves forward, as they both begin to shapeshift; one transformed into a squid-like monster with razor-sharp teeth in its jaws, while the other transformed into a bull-like creature with a hardened crest at his head. The transformed Durlans charged forward at surprisingly fast speeds, forcing the three youngsters to evade to the sides.
Meanwhile, the Almaracian had a long-pole halberd, and she rushed toward Zach who had evaded to the side. Fortunately, R'iva intercepted the warrior woman by tackling her. R'iva shapeshifting her arms and legs to wrap around the Almaracian in an attempt to suffocate and force her to pass out. But the Almaracian would not be taken down so easily, she got a visual contact of a portion of R'iva's limbs and unleashed her optic force beams.
"Aaaeeeh!" R'iva screams in pain as the beam hit her, forcing her to let go as she tended to her arm that had been hit.
The Almaracian warrior woman looked at R'iva, saying, "you're fortunate, young one. I don't kill children. So I'll only leave you and your friends beaten." She proceeds to spin her long-pole, activating it to reveal flames at the end and swipes at the Martian. R'iva, unsure if the flaming halberd was activated by psionic powers of the alien woman, split in half avoiding the fiery end of the weapon. The Martian slithered through the ground, passing the Almaracian warrior underneath and coming from behind.
"Will your friends show mercy to mine?" R'iva remained on alert.
"I hardly know those Durlan fools personally, but they aren't so keen on showing mercy. Now stand still," the woman responds, as she wings her weapon once more*
The Martian kept evading every strike from the Almaracian until she finally concentrated her eye-beams and fired knocking the warrior woman back. The woman grunted in pain, but was still in the game and got back up rushing back with her alien speed at the Martian Girl. R'iva maneuvers to the side, but then shapeshifting extra tendrils to grab the Almaracian while she was running forward. Anchoring her feet to the ground, R'iva then pulled one the warrior and kept swinging and swinging until finally throwing her to the wall. R'iva winced hearing the blunt crash of her throw, "Sorry!
Over with the boy's, the mage was firing mystic beams at the Durlans, while Black Hood uses special gauntlets that give a shocking punch to the Durlan he was fighting. The Durlan being fired upon by Zach, shapeshifted into a serpentine creature to easily evade each magical beam.
"Little snake," Zach muttered, as he concentrated his mana to his palm, places his hand on the ground. "Dnuorg nrut ot eci!"
Spreading from Zach's hand, the surface of the ground began to form into ice, making it difficult for the Durlan slither forcing it to change shape into a giant winged insect with razor blades flying up into the air.
"Eci nrut ot retaw dna tsalb pu!" Zach speaks his spell, extends his hand from down to upward towards the flying Durlan. "ezeerf!"
Water shoots up like a waterfall falling up and engulfing the Durlan, as soon as it did the water froze up trapping the Durlan in the block of ice. The Durlan falls from the air, and because Zach was merciful, he extended his hand toward the falling ice block and called out.
"Pots!" Magic light surrounds the frozen Durlan, and Zach carefully places him down. "Done."
As that was going on, Terry battling his Durlan, kept sticking the Durlan that was in the shape of the bull, the shock-gloves electrocuting the shapeshifter. The Durlan growled in pain, so he then changed shape into a gorilla-like brute and using its massive arms to swat Black Hood away. Black Hood grunted as he fell back to the ground, but quickly got back up and leaping up to avoid the incoming Durlan smashing down with its fist. While lunging back in the air, Terry aimed a remote claw back at the Durlan and fired. The claw was fired and latched onto the Durlan, while the second claw attached then took aim and fired off to a high vantage point. Activating, the remote claw pulled the Durlan up slamming into the pillar.
Terry smirks, "got ya."
The Durlan groaned and then pulled itself out, turning around and looked furious. Roaring, the Durlan brute rushed back at Terry, but Terry flung two electro-batarangs that immediately shocked the Durlan, stopping it in its tracks. Electrocuted with high voltage, the Durlan changed back to its original form and fell face flat.
Terry looked and saw that his two friends had also dealt with their own gladiators
Warworld, Arid Plains Arena...
Kairos, Lisa, Martin, and Donnie have teleported into plain grassland with hills all around.
"Hey, where's Terry?" Lisa asks, looking around not seeing her first partner.
"Perhaps Mongul has decided to mix up our teams," Martin gives the explanation.
"Stick together. We don't know who we're facing yet," Kairos commands.
Donnie looks to Kairos, "Really? I thought the plan was to split up so they can pick us off!"
Teleporting in the distance, four Tamaraneans and a Dryad appear. The Tamaraneans and the Dryad at first appeared to be confused at the other species being close up to one another, but after listening to something through their collars, it was made clear the two species would fight together against the four heroes.
"Tamaraneans and Dryad. They-," Martin, unaware that two of his peers were already well knowledgeable about alien species, was interrupted.
"One is Starfire, the other is big and strong," Lisa simply puts.
Martin looked at Lisa, "Somewhat apt."
Kairos assessing the situation, quickly gives the layout, "Martin, with your power ring limited in power, then you're going to need to conserve energy, so stay on the ground. The Tamaranians will be using their flight ability and numbers, so Lisa and I shall take the sky. Lisa, your suit can absorb solar radiation?"
Lisa answers, "I have several generations built in, but I guess I can."
"Tamaraneans are solar batteries, but not at the high degree as Kryptonians. You may be able to drain their energy," Kairos urgently suggested.
"And what about me, "fearless leader"?" Donnie asks with sarcasm at high.
Kairos looked at Donnie with annoyance, "can you fly?"
Donnie quickly replies, "Dude, you know I can't fly- ."
"Then handle the Dryad with Martin!" Kairos interrupts with his voice raised up.
Donnie spooked by Kairos, paused a moment until finally, "well, I'm still faster than you."
"The Sol System Heroes versus the Tamaran Natives and Vorg the Dryad Knight. Let the fight begin!"
The Dryad slammed his fist into the ground and roared, while the Tamaraneans screamed their war cry and flew up.
Kairos looks at his opponents, and with his peripheral vision sees his teammates prepared. The Kryptoamazon draws out the sword he purchased with his points, and shield up on guard, Kairos then roars, "Attack!" With that, Karios makes the first strike, jetting into the air to intercept the Tamaraneans.
Two Tamaraneans were rushed by Kairo ramming into them with his shield as a battering ram. With his sword, Kairos lunges it into the shoulder of a Tamarenean, The warrior screamed in pain, as Kairos then uses freeze breath to cover the Tamarenan's face in ice forcing him to fall to the ground unconscious.
The Dryad stomped his way over with his massive sword at the ready. Martin uses single shot blasts at the Dryad, but the Dryad shrugged off every blast as he then proceeded to sprint toward the Blue Lantern. The youngest Blue Lantern would've flown up into the air to avoid the charging rocky humanoid, but Shockwave comes speeding through swiping Martin out of harm's way. Stopping at a good distance, Donnie drops Martin off and says, "Now YOU stay here. Rock people are too dangerous."
Martin, realizing this was a payback to their last fight, gave a dry response, "Ha. So what are ya going to do?"
"Imma punch him, REALLY hard," Donnie replies.
Martin quickly assumes a technique that was well known to be used by individuals who mastered speed, "Infinite Mass Punch?"
"Like I can do that, yet. Just super sonic really," Donnie finishes and runs further a distance, stopping and readying himself like a sprinter at a track's starting line. And then, Shockwave sprints at the Dryad, striking him and causing a large shock-wave. But little to no avail, the Dryad's durability was superior enough to tank the punch with only a couple of loose 'pebbles' from his face crumbled off. Donnie, then felt sharp drawback pain of his attack, grasping his fist and screams, "Ow!"
The Dryad chuckles, as he raises his sword and to cut down Donnie in half, but Martin yanks Donnie away just in time from being cut down.
"Are you alright?" Martin asks.
Shockwave rubbing his hand, as the Speed Force's healing acceleration was taking effect on his hand, "Yeah, I'll heal. Man, that guy's solid!"
Martin thinks for a second, "Perhaps this will help." Makes a construct around Shockwave's hand.
"And this will help… how?" Shockwave asks, still not catching on.
Martin, not impatient with Donnie's ignorance like Kairos, politely responded, "For a Speedster, you are wasting time."
Shockwave looks at the construct in his hand, and finally realizes, "Right!" Repeats the Super Sonic Punch and this time knocks the Dryad away. And dozens of pieces of the stoney Dryad broke off from the impact.
The Tamaraneans in the air were blasting at Kairos and Lisa. Kairos blocking the blasts aimed at him with the shield, being made up of an alien alloy hard enough to withstand the blasts only at a limited level of power. Kairos closed the distance in quick time using his speed, so he was now close up to a Tamaranean ramming the orange skinned humanoid with the shield.
"Stay with me, Lisa!" Kairos shouted his command to Lisa.
Lisa, struggling to keep up, stopped midair and remained a distance to use her long distance weaponry instead, "You're going too fast!"
While Kairos was overpowering the Tamaranian with his superior strength, the other three aimed their efforts to Lisa. They rushed towards her, and Lisa now had three solar-powered alien warriors to deal with. Lisa blocked an incoming strike with her left arm and fired a pulse blaster from her right hand, but the third grabbed her from behind in a rear neck choke.
The Tamaranian sympathetically said, "I'm sorry, little one, but Warworld doesn't play nice." The alien warrior proceeds in putting pressure on Lisa's throat.
Lisa tries escaping, but the other two Tamaraneans begin raining hell on her from the front. The red-headed girl would surely have been knocked unconscious or worse if she didn't get out. Thankfully, a savior arrived;
A Tamaranian that was in front of her got hit by a flying shield to the head, stunning him until he was hit once again by a swift swinging kick from Kairos attacking behind. The other Tamaranean turned to face Kairos and swung a punch at the young Kryptoamazon, but Kairos used his smaller size to his advantage in evading and ducking. Kairos unleashes a powerful force of air using his super breath, pushing the Tamaranian back to the ground and eventually getting frozen in a block of ice. Kairos drew his short sword and faced the Tamaranean holding Lisa from behind.
The Tamaranean glares at Kairos, grasping Lisa, "stand down or this one parish. Believe me, I don't want to."
Now that Lisa was not being hit, she had the opportunity to trigger her suit to start siphoning the solar energy in the Tamaranian. The Tamaranian began to feel his strength dropping unable to hold the ginger in her power suit. Thus allowing Lisa to break free from the rear naked hold, turning around to face the Tamaranian and then bonking him in the head forcing him to collapse down to the ground below.
Donnie and Martin make their way over to the two, Lisa asks, "You done?"
Martin looks to a panting Donnie, and answers Lisa with a nod, "We're good."
In that moment, they are teleported out in a gleaming light.
Warworld, Intensive Cell...
Donnie falls down in exhaustion, "I had enough. I'm calling it quits."
Kazador who was doing sit-ups, responds, "then you either die or get thrown to the comfort batches. I myself am not into dudes, but I met some bastiches who wouldn't mind taking you, streaker."
Kairos stares at Kazador, not amused with his humor of endangering his teammate, "back off."
Kazador snorts, stopping his sit-ups, stands back up on his two feet seeing Kairos staring back at him, "or what, tough guy?"
R'iva looked at Kazador, sincerity in her eyes, not wanting anymore conflict, says, "please, stop."
Kazador looks at R'iva, and feeling moved, shrugs and sits back, "You freshies gotta get used to this."
"How can you act so chill about this?" Lisa asks Kazador.
"All these years in this damn place, it kind of gets numbing. Plus, I also have a little fun out of it," Kazador nonchalantly answered.
Drones teleported in with lunch and refreshments, and after setting them down the drones were teleported out. Everyone gathered up around the platter to replenish their strength and keep their stomachs full. Kairos, requiring sit-rip, looks to Terry, "I'm assuming your group fought more difficult opponents this round, Terry."
Terry, first looking at what seemed like a flaming egg, responds to Kairos with a simple, "Yeah."
"Then we have to assume the next round's difficulty will be greater," Kairos stated, as he rubbed his chin in thought. Then looking at everyone, "We need to come up with proper strategy and tactics."
"But they changed our group at random. They might do the same next round," Zach pointed out, as he drank a cup of water.
"Then let's be prepared for any possible rosters," Kairos responds, as he then begins mapping out names on the dirt of the floor. "We need to map out each of our strengths and weaknesses."
Donnie looked at Kairos with irritation, "Hold up. Who made you boss?"
Kairos looked at Donnie with a stern look, "someone needs to take lead and control."
"So you assert that someone is you. We are all equals here," Martin declares, allowing his dish, a floating spaghetti monster to float away, only to be caught by Kazador with his bare hands and devours it.
"In times of crisis, the Roman Senate voted one of their consuls to a dictator, granting emergency power, and allowing the temporary dictator to make all the necessary decisions and take actions until the crisis was dealt with. My comrades, who is going to be the Caesar?" Kairos asks after the brief explanation.
"Are you forgetting what happened to Rome?" Martin asks rhetorically, referring to the tyrannical dictatorships and expansionist legacy.
"Becoming the most enduring empire in human history that had also developed the foundation building blocks of Earth's civilization even to this day?" Kairos responded back.
Donnie still not keen on following a hardass like Kairos, gives his suggestions for leadership, "what about Terry or Lisa? They're smart."
Lisa, flattered at Donnie's nomination to her, states, "dad is showing me how to manage the company."
"B-but, we're not in an office or anything like that…," R'iva meekly points out.
Terry decides to weigh in his nomination and says, "dad's been teaching me to be smart in combat. Worked lots of times with Tim, Dick, and Damian."
"You have always been a team player. Not in a lead role," Kairos explains.
"Hey, I still got smart tactics," Terry defensively replied.
Kairos shrugs, "I'm not denying that."
"So between a business girl, an in closet-furry or a warrior prince. I'll go with the warrior prince," Zach gives his vote, and R'iva nods adding, "Kairos."
"Well, what about Martin?" Donnie points to his best friend. "He rolls with the biggest space cops in the universe!"
"Rolling is not leading," Kairos quickly debunks. Looks at Terry and Lisa, "Have anything to weigh in."
"Hmph... Yeah, I guess you'd be the best choice," Terry admitted, while Lisa answers, "Take it away, oh fearless leader."
Kairos smirks inwardly, as he gives a simple nod and says, "back on track, we need to sort out each of our roles; Zach, you're our mystic, so we have to assume there will be other mystical creatures to face, so you take charge on that.
Zach quickly replies, "We're in a giant alien warship the size of a planet floating in space. If I get to see a leprechaun, Then I'll be jolly."
"I like unicorns," R'iva happily says.
"Pfft! People who like unicorns have never met one. They are jerks!" Zach quickly states. Then adding an experience, "One called me big nose."
Donnie shrugs, "Well you do have a decently big nose."
Kairos looks at the rest of his comrades, "R'iva, you're our telepath. Like your dad, you're going to keep us all connected for efficient and secure communication. Martin, you have more knowledge of the alien species, so keep us updated. And stay close to Donnie, conserve your power ring energy."
Lisa, seeing she was being left out so far, assumes what Kairos would suggest for her, says, "If you make me the I.T. girl I'm going to kick you."
Kairos was unmoved by Lisa's threat and replied, "You wouldn't hurt me. Terry, you're my second in command."
Terry nods, content with his position finishes saying, "Well, now that that's through, we need plans for a formation."
Kazador interrupts, "And you mind keeping it down? I'm trying to get some sleep here."
Everyone looks toward Kazador, who is now laying down on the dirt floor.
"Again?" R'iva asks.
Kazador tosses and turns on the dirt ground and replies, "All my points are void. I can't get any entertainment. Hell, they took away my rubber ball."
Kairos looking over at Kazado thinks for a moment, and then decides, "Kazador, why don't you help in our escape?"
Kazador sighs, having had this same talk with other slaves, responds, "Listen, freshies, I've been in Warworld for more than five years. I've done my part in trying to escape, and I'm still here. Don't expect to be bail out of here in less than 48 hours."
The young heroes become weary at this sudden realization, while Martin is the first to speak up, "You mustn't lose hope, brother."
"You take too much hope to raise you up, but when it bursts it is a hard ass fall," Kazador states, sitting back up leaning his back against the wall. "I still want to get out of this place, but you all have gotta bide time."
Kairos reflecting Kazador's suggestions then brings up a proposition, "That's it. You've been here longer, but with us here to give you a hand, we can get out."
"I've made dozens of escape attempts yeah. I could make it out. But's these damn collars," Kazador points at the collar of his neck. "It may not kill me, but still hurt like a mother-fragger."
Hearing Kazador's last statement, Lisa came up with an idea, but she needed to confirm, "So you really cannot die? Like a Czaranian?"
"I've been able to heal the wounds given to me. Stomach gut, heart exploded, impaled from the buttocks up... it hurt like hell...," Kazador cringed at the experiences of fatal injuries he received.
"That's it!" Lisa shouts in excitement, Terry also catching on, quickly says, "Me and Lisa cannot tamper with our collars because we could get killed, but you, you cannot die, and we can see how the collars work and then free ourselves."
Everyone began to nod and anticipate the solution to their escape, while Kazador stared in dumbfound at their suggestion and quickly interjects, "... You want me to be zugini pig? Frag no!"
"Kazador, we can get the collars off," Kairos tries to reason.
"Yeah, but that zhut fragging hurts like bastich!" Kazador growls.
At that moment, R'iva had silently approached Kazador's side, and placed her hand on his arm, causing Kazador to look at back at her. The Almara-Czaranian looks at the Martian girl, whose eyes looked sincere, scared, and begging. R'iva quietly asks, "Please... You'll see your mom again..."
Kazador stuttered and fidgeted, as R'iva kept looking to him and mentioned the only other person who truly loved him in a home where he was unwanted by pompous fools. The young gladiator finally sighs, giving in, "Fine..."
"Alright! Well, be out of here and back home!" Donnie celebrates. Kairos quickly shushing Donnie, "We still need to be ready for any fights to come."
Lisa approaches Kazador, while Kazador walks up to the halfway point going as far that his energized chain would allow him to move. Kazador sits back down on the ground, as he looked anxious and irritated, knowing what he was in for. Lisa walks to the back of Kazador, inspecting the collar;
"Maybe open it through here."
Ejecting a screwdriver mechanism from her suit's finger she pokes a gaping of the collar, and with that Kazador is immediately electrocuted.
"Graah!" Kazador growls in pain body tensed up until collapsing back into the floor dormant.
R'iva, Lisa, Donnie, Zach and Martin lean over Kazador who seemed to be unconscious, or rather;
"Is he dead?" Zach asks.
"Hmm... give me a stick to poke him with," Donnie demands to everyone.
Kazador sturs and groans with a mutter, "I'm not dead..."
R'iva kneels down to Kazador, placing her hands on Kazador's face caressing them, "You're very brave for this. You can do this."
Kazador a bit intruded by R'iva touching him, jerked his face back instinctively, "Yeah, whatever."
Martin senses hope to raise up through each of his teammates, which sparks hope in him too and finally realizing, "Guys, our hope can maintain power in my ring."
Kazador deadpanned response, "Hope isn't making this collar hurt less."
"Well, if you want I can use my light to sooth the pain," Martin suggests.
"Fine, but don't touch me. I hate people being around me," Kazador says.
Kairos sits back down on the ground and began to draw out marks on the ground each indicating each of his fellow young superhero friends. The Kryptoamazon was preparing positions and lineups for any of the further battles to come. For Kairos knew if the last fight was more difficult than the first than surely their next fight would be treacherous. Terry walks up to Kairos, looking at the formation drafts Kairos has prepared.
"Need a hand?" Terry asks.
"Input from you guys would be helpful," Kairos nods to Terry's offer to help, all while Kazador screaming in pain from his collar being tampered with.
"Graaagh! You said you would sooth the pain!" Kazador roars at Martin.
"Sister Lisa started before I could do anything," Martin meekly says. "I apologize fo-"
"Just give me some fragging hope, bastich! This zhut hurts!"

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Warworld, Throne Arena...
Black Hood, Zach, and R'iva appear via a teleport inside a grand hall where a broken throne stood.
R'iva, noticing that Black Hood and Zachary were with her, praises, "oh thank H'ronmeer, I'm not alone again."
Constantine seeing the differences from last time,"The hell is Superboy?"
"Lisa's not here either," Terry comments out loud.
On the other side of the hall, two Durlans appeared alongside a humanoid in green armor. R'iva, taking a look at their most likely opponents, says, "I know those are Durlans, but I can't tell what species that woman is."
Black Hood activates his detective vision, "Considering she's not snow white but has similar biology to Kasador, I'm gonna assume she's Almaracian. Shall Magic Man and I take on the Durlans?"
"Almaracian's are dangerous telepaths. Yeah, I'll take her," R'iva agrees.
"If you say so, mate," Zach responds, as he conjures two mystical circles of energy around his hands and takes a stance of combat. "Let's go!"
The Durlan pair moves forward, as they both begin to shapeshift; one transformed into a squid-like monster with razor-sharp teeth in its jaws, while the other transformed into a bull-like creature with a hardened crest at his head. The transformed Durlans charged forward at surprisingly fast speeds, forcing the three youngsters to evade to the sides.
Meanwhile, the Almaracian had a long-pole halberd, and she rushed toward Zach who had evaded to the side. Fortunately, R'iva intercepted the warrior woman by tackling her. R'iva shapeshifting her arms and legs to wrap around the Almaracian in an attempt to suffocate and force her to pass out. But the Almaracian would not be taken down so easily, she got a visual contact of a portion of R'iva's limbs and unleashed her optic force beams.
"Aaaeeeh!" R'iva screams in pain as the beam hit her, forcing her to let go as she tended to her arm that had been hit.
The Almaracian warrior woman looked at R'iva, saying, "you're fortunate, young one. I don't kill children. So I'll only leave you and your friends beaten." She proceeds to spin her long-pole, activating it to reveal flames at the end and swipes at the Martian. R'iva, unsure if the flaming halberd was activated by psionic powers of the alien woman, split in half avoiding the fiery end of the weapon. The Martian slithered through the ground, passing the Almaracian warrior underneath and coming from behind.
"Will your friends show mercy to mine?" R'iva remained on alert.
"I hardly know those Durlan fools personally, but they aren't so keen on showing mercy. Now stand still," the woman responds, as she wings her weapon once more*
The Martian kept evading every strike from the Almaracian until she finally concentrated her eye-beams and fired knocking the warrior woman back. The woman grunted in pain, but was still in the game and got back up rushing back with her alien speed at the Martian Girl. R'iva maneuvers to the side, but then shapeshifting extra tendrils to grab the Almaracian while she was running forward. Anchoring her feet to the ground, R'iva then pulled one the warrior and kept swinging and swinging until finally throwing her to the wall. R'iva winced hearing the blunt crash of her throw, "Sorry!
Over with the boy's, the mage was firing mystic beams at the Durlans, while Black Hood uses special gauntlets that give a shocking punch to the Durlan he was fighting. The Durlan being fired upon by Zach, shapeshifted into a serpentine creature to easily evade each magical beam.
"Little snake," Zach muttered, as he concentrated his mana to his palm, places his hand on the ground. "Dnuorg nrut ot eci!"
Spreading from Zach's hand, the surface of the ground began to form into ice, making it difficult for the Durlan slither forcing it to change shape into a giant winged insect with razor blades flying up into the air.
"Eci nrut ot retaw dna tsalb pu!" Zach speaks his spell, extends his hand from down to upward towards the flying Durlan. "ezeerf!"
Water shoots up like a waterfall falling up and engulfing the Durlan, as soon as it did the water froze up trapping the Durlan in the block of ice. The Durlan falls from the air, and because Zach was merciful, he extended his hand toward the falling ice block and called out.
"Pots!" Magic light surrounds the frozen Durlan, and Zach carefully places him down. "Done."
As that was going on, Terry battling his Durlan, kept sticking the Durlan that was in the shape of the bull, the shock-gloves electrocuting the shapeshifter. The Durlan growled in pain, so he then changed shape into a gorilla-like brute and using its massive arms to swat Black Hood away. Black Hood grunted as he fell back to the ground, but quickly got back up and leaping up to avoid the incoming Durlan smashing down with its fist. While lunging back in the air, Terry aimed a remote claw back at the Durlan and fired. The claw was fired and latched onto the Durlan, while the second claw attached then took aim and fired off to a high vantage point. Activating, the remote claw pulled the Durlan up slamming into the pillar.
Terry smirks, "got ya."
The Durlan groaned and then pulled itself out, turning around and looked furious. Roaring, the Durlan brute rushed back at Terry, but Terry flung two electro-batarangs that immediately shocked the Durlan, stopping it in its tracks. Electrocuted with high voltage, the Durlan changed back to its original form and fell face flat.
Terry looked and saw that his two friends had also dealt with their own gladiators
Warworld, Arid Plains Arena...
Kairos, Lisa, Martin, and Donnie have teleported into plain grassland with hills all around.
"Hey, where's Terry?" Lisa asks, looking around not seeing her first partner.
"Perhaps Mongul has decided to mix up our teams," Martin gives the explanation.
"Stick together. We don't know who we're facing yet," Kairos commands.
Donnie looks to Kairos, "Really? I thought the plan was to split up so they can pick us off!"
Teleporting in the distance, four Tamaraneans and a Dryad appear. The Tamaraneans and the Dryad at first appeared to be confused at the other species being close up to one another, but after listening to something through their collars, it was made clear the two species would fight together against the four heroes.
"Tamaraneans and Dryad. They-," Martin, unaware that two of his peers were already well knowledgeable about alien species, was interrupted.
"One is Starfire, the other is big and strong," Lisa simply puts.
Martin looked at Lisa, "Somewhat apt."
Kairos assessing the situation, quickly gives the layout, "Martin, with your power ring limited in power, then you're going to need to conserve energy, so stay on the ground. The Tamaranians will be using their flight ability and numbers, so Lisa and I shall take the sky. Lisa, your suit can absorb solar radiation?"
Lisa answers, "I have several generations built in, but I guess I can."
"Tamaraneans are solar batteries, but not at the high degree as Kryptonians. You may be able to drain their energy," Kairos urgently suggested.
"And what about me, "fearless leader"?" Donnie asks with sarcasm at high.
Kairos looked at Donnie with annoyance, "can you fly?"
Donnie quickly replies, "Dude, you know I can't fly- ."
"Then handle the Dryad with Martin!" Kairos interrupts with his voice raised up.
Donnie spooked by Kairos, paused a moment until finally, "well, I'm still faster than you."
"The Sol System Heroes versus the Tamaran Natives and Vorg the Dryad Knight. Let the fight begin!"
The Dryad slammed his fist into the ground and roared, while the Tamaraneans screamed their war cry and flew up.
Kairos looks at his opponents, and with his peripheral vision sees his teammates prepared. The Kryptoamazon draws out the sword he purchased with his points, and shield up on guard, Kairos then roars, "Attack!" With that, Karios makes the first strike, jetting into the air to intercept the Tamaraneans.
Two Tamaraneans were rushed by Kairo ramming into them with his shield as a battering ram. With his sword, Kairos lunges it into the shoulder of a Tamarenean, The warrior screamed in pain, as Kairos then uses freeze breath to cover the Tamarenan's face in ice forcing him to fall to the ground unconscious.
The Dryad stomped his way over with his massive sword at the ready. Martin uses single shot blasts at the Dryad, but the Dryad shrugged off every blast as he then proceeded to sprint toward the Blue Lantern. The youngest Blue Lantern would've flown up into the air to avoid the charging rocky humanoid, but Shockwave comes speeding through swiping Martin out of harm's way. Stopping at a good distance, Donnie drops Martin off and says, "Now YOU stay here. Rock people are too dangerous."
Martin, realizing this was a payback to their last fight, gave a dry response, "Ha. So what are ya going to do?"
"Imma punch him, REALLY hard," Donnie replies.
Martin quickly assumes a technique that was well known to be used by individuals who mastered speed, "Infinite Mass Punch?"
"Like I can do that, yet. Just super sonic really," Donnie finishes and runs further a distance, stopping and readying himself like a sprinter at a track's starting line. And then, Shockwave sprints at the Dryad, striking him and causing a large shock-wave. But little to no avail, the Dryad's durability was superior enough to tank the punch with only a couple of loose 'pebbles' from his face crumbled off. Donnie, then felt sharp drawback pain of his attack, grasping his fist and screams, "Ow!"
The Dryad chuckles, as he raises his sword and to cut down Donnie in half, but Martin yanks Donnie away just in time from being cut down.
"Are you alright?" Martin asks.
Shockwave rubbing his hand, as the Speed Force's healing acceleration was taking effect on his hand, "Yeah, I'll heal. Man, that guy's solid!"
Martin thinks for a second, "Perhaps this will help." Makes a construct around Shockwave's hand.
"And this will help… how?" Shockwave asks, still not catching on.
Martin, not impatient with Donnie's ignorance like Kairos, politely responded, "For a Speedster, you are wasting time."
Shockwave looks at the construct in his hand, and finally realizes, "Right!" Repeats the Super Sonic Punch and this time knocks the Dryad away. And dozens of pieces of the stoney Dryad broke off from the impact.
The Tamaraneans in the air were blasting at Kairos and Lisa. Kairos blocking the blasts aimed at him with the shield, being made up of an alien alloy hard enough to withstand the blasts only at a limited level of power. Kairos closed the distance in quick time using his speed, so he was now close up to a Tamaranean ramming the orange skinned humanoid with the shield.
"Stay with me, Lisa!" Kairos shouted his command to Lisa.
Lisa, struggling to keep up, stopped midair and remained a distance to use her long distance weaponry instead, "You're going too fast!"
While Kairos was overpowering the Tamaranian with his superior strength, the other three aimed their efforts to Lisa. They rushed towards her, and Lisa now had three solar-powered alien warriors to deal with. Lisa blocked an incoming strike with her left arm and fired a pulse blaster from her right hand, but the third grabbed her from behind in a rear neck choke.
The Tamaranian sympathetically said, "I'm sorry, little one, but Warworld doesn't play nice." The alien warrior proceeds in putting pressure on Lisa's throat.
Lisa tries escaping, but the other two Tamaraneans begin raining hell on her from the front. The red-headed girl would surely have been knocked unconscious or worse if she didn't get out. Thankfully, a savior arrived;
A Tamaranian that was in front of her got hit by a flying shield to the head, stunning him until he was hit once again by a swift swinging kick from Kairos attacking behind. The other Tamaranean turned to face Kairos and swung a punch at the young Kryptoamazon, but Kairos used his smaller size to his advantage in evading and ducking. Kairos unleashes a powerful force of air using his super breath, pushing the Tamaranian back to the ground and eventually getting frozen in a block of ice. Kairos drew his short sword and faced the Tamaranean holding Lisa from behind.
The Tamaranean glares at Kairos, grasping Lisa, "stand down or this one parish. Believe me, I don't want to."
Now that Lisa was not being hit, she had the opportunity to trigger her suit to start siphoning the solar energy in the Tamaranian. The Tamaranian began to feel his strength dropping unable to hold the ginger in her power suit. Thus allowing Lisa to break free from the rear naked hold, turning around to face the Tamaranian and then bonking him in the head forcing him to collapse down to the ground below.
Donnie and Martin make their way over to the two, Lisa asks, "You done?"
Martin looks to a panting Donnie, and answers Lisa with a nod, "We're good."
In that moment, they are teleported out in a gleaming light.
Warworld, Intensive Cell...
Donnie falls down in exhaustion, "I had enough. I'm calling it quits."
Kazador who was doing sit-ups, responds, "then you either die or get thrown to the comfort batches. I myself am not into dudes, but I met some bastiches who wouldn't mind taking you, streaker."
Kairos stares at Kazador, not amused with his humor of endangering his teammate, "back off."
Kazador snorts, stopping his sit-ups, stands back up on his two feet seeing Kairos staring back at him, "or what, tough guy?"
R'iva looked at Kazador, sincerity in her eyes, not wanting anymore conflict, says, "please, stop."
Kazador looks at R'iva, and feeling moved, shrugs and sits back, "You freshies gotta get used to this."
"How can you act so chill about this?" Lisa asks Kazador.
"All these years in this damn place, it kind of gets numbing. Plus, I also have a little fun out of it," Kazador nonchalantly answered.
Drones teleported in with lunch and refreshments, and after setting them down the drones were teleported out. Everyone gathered up around the platter to replenish their strength and keep their stomachs full. Kairos, requiring sit-rip, looks to Terry, "I'm assuming your group fought more difficult opponents this round, Terry."
Terry, first looking at what seemed like a flaming egg, responds to Kairos with a simple, "Yeah."
"Then we have to assume the next round's difficulty will be greater," Kairos stated, as he rubbed his chin in thought. Then looking at everyone, "We need to come up with proper strategy and tactics."
"But they changed our group at random. They might do the same next round," Zach pointed out, as he drank a cup of water.
"Then let's be prepared for any possible rosters," Kairos responds, as he then begins mapping out names on the dirt of the floor. "We need to map out each of our strengths and weaknesses."
Donnie looked at Kairos with irritation, "Hold up. Who made you boss?"
Kairos looked at Donnie with a stern look, "someone needs to take lead and control."
"So you assert that someone is you. We are all equals here," Martin declares, allowing his dish, a floating spaghetti monster to float away, only to be caught by Kazador with his bare hands and devours it.
"In times of crisis, the Roman Senate voted one of their consuls to a dictator, granting emergency power, and allowing the temporary dictator to make all the necessary decisions and take actions until the crisis was dealt with. My comrades, who is going to be the Caesar?" Kairos asks after the brief explanation.
"Are you forgetting what happened to Rome?" Martin asks rhetorically, referring to the tyrannical dictatorships and expansionist legacy.
"Becoming the most enduring empire in human history that had also developed the foundation building blocks of Earth's civilization even to this day?" Kairos responded back.
Donnie still not keen on following a hardass like Kairos, gives his suggestions for leadership, "what about Terry or Lisa? They're smart."
Lisa, flattered at Donnie's nomination to her, states, "dad is showing me how to manage the company."
"B-but, we're not in an office or anything like that…," R'iva meekly points out.
Terry decides to weigh in his nomination and says, "dad's been teaching me to be smart in combat. Worked lots of times with Tim, Dick, and Damian."
"You have always been a team player. Not in a lead role," Kairos explains.
"Hey, I still got smart tactics," Terry defensively replied.
Kairos shrugs, "I'm not denying that."
"So between a business girl, an in closet-furry or a warrior prince. I'll go with the warrior prince," Zach gives his vote, and R'iva nods adding, "Kairos."
"Well, what about Martin?" Donnie points to his best friend. "He rolls with the biggest space cops in the universe!"
"Rolling is not leading," Kairos quickly debunks. Looks at Terry and Lisa, "Have anything to weigh in."
"Hmph... Yeah, I guess you'd be the best choice," Terry admitted, while Lisa answers, "Take it away, oh fearless leader."
Kairos smirks inwardly, as he gives a simple nod and says, "back on track, we need to sort out each of our roles; Zach, you're our mystic, so we have to assume there will be other mystical creatures to face, so you take charge on that.
Zach quickly replies, "We're in a giant alien warship the size of a planet floating in space. If I get to see a leprechaun, Then I'll be jolly."
"I like unicorns," R'iva happily says.
"Pfft! People who like unicorns have never met one. They are jerks!" Zach quickly states. Then adding an experience, "One called me big nose."
Donnie shrugs, "Well you do have a decently big nose."
Kairos looks at the rest of his comrades, "R'iva, you're our telepath. Like your dad, you're going to keep us all connected for efficient and secure communication. Martin, you have more knowledge of the alien species, so keep us updated. And stay close to Donnie, conserve your power ring energy."
Lisa, seeing she was being left out so far, assumes what Kairos would suggest for her, says, "If you make me the I.T. girl I'm going to kick you."
Kairos was unmoved by Lisa's threat and replied, "You wouldn't hurt me. Terry, you're my second in command."
Terry nods, content with his position finishes saying, "Well, now that that's through, we need plans for a formation."
Kazador interrupts, "And you mind keeping it down? I'm trying to get some sleep here."
Everyone looks toward Kazador, who is now laying down on the dirt floor.
"Again?" R'iva asks.
Kazador tosses and turns on the dirt ground and replies, "All my points are void. I can't get any entertainment. Hell, they took away my rubber ball."
Kairos looking over at Kazado thinks for a moment, and then decides, "Kazador, why don't you help in our escape?"
Kazador sighs, having had this same talk with other slaves, responds, "Listen, freshies, I've been in Warworld for more than five years. I've done my part in trying to escape, and I'm still here. Don't expect to be bail out of here in less than 48 hours."
The young heroes become weary at this sudden realization, while Martin is the first to speak up, "You mustn't lose hope, brother."
"You take too much hope to raise you up, but when it bursts it is a hard ass fall," Kazador states, sitting back up leaning his back against the wall. "I still want to get out of this place, but you all have gotta bide time."
Kairos reflecting Kazador's suggestions then brings up a proposition, "That's it. You've been here longer, but with us here to give you a hand, we can get out."
"I've made dozens of escape attempts yeah. I could make it out. But's these damn collars," Kazador points at the collar of his neck. "It may not kill me, but still hurt like a mother-fragger."
Hearing Kazador's last statement, Lisa came up with an idea, but she needed to confirm, "So you really cannot die? Like a Czaranian?"
"I've been able to heal the wounds given to me. Stomach gut, heart exploded, impaled from the buttocks up... it hurt like hell...," Kazador cringed at the experiences of fatal injuries he received.
"That's it!" Lisa shouts in excitement, Terry also catching on, quickly says, "Me and Lisa cannot tamper with our collars because we could get killed, but you, you cannot die, and we can see how the collars work and then free ourselves."
Everyone began to nod and anticipate the solution to their escape, while Kazador stared in dumbfound at their suggestion and quickly interjects, "... You want me to be zugini pig? Frag no!"
"Kazador, we can get the collars off," Kairos tries to reason.
"Yeah, but that zhut fragging hurts like bastich!" Kazador growls.
At that moment, R'iva had silently approached Kazador's side, and placed her hand on his arm, causing Kazador to look at back at her. The Almara-Czaranian looks at the Martian girl, whose eyes looked sincere, scared, and begging. R'iva quietly asks, "Please... You'll see your mom again..."
Kazador stuttered and fidgeted, as R'iva kept looking to him and mentioned the only other person who truly loved him in a home where he was unwanted by pompous fools. The young gladiator finally sighs, giving in, "Fine..."
"Alright! Well, be out of here and back home!" Donnie celebrates. Kairos quickly shushing Donnie, "We still need to be ready for any fights to come."
Lisa approaches Kazador, while Kazador walks up to the halfway point going as far that his energized chain would allow him to move. Kazador sits back down on the ground, as he looked anxious and irritated, knowing what he was in for. Lisa walks to the back of Kazador, inspecting the collar;
"Maybe open it through here."
Ejecting a screwdriver mechanism from her suit's finger she pokes a gaping of the collar, and with that Kazador is immediately electrocuted.
"Graah!" Kazador growls in pain body tensed up until collapsing back into the floor dormant.
R'iva, Lisa, Donnie, Zach and Martin lean over Kazador who seemed to be unconscious, or rather;
"Is he dead?" Zach asks.
"Hmm... give me a stick to poke him with," Donnie demands to everyone.
Kazador sturs and groans with a mutter, "I'm not dead..."
R'iva kneels down to Kazador, placing her hands on Kazador's face caressing them, "You're very brave for this. You can do this."
Kazador a bit intruded by R'iva touching him, jerked his face back instinctively, "Yeah, whatever."
Martin senses hope to raise up through each of his teammates, which sparks hope in him too and finally realizing, "Guys, our hope can maintain power in my ring."
Kazador deadpanned response, "Hope isn't making this collar hurt less."
"Well, if you want I can use my light to sooth the pain," Martin suggests.
"Fine, but don't touch me. I hate people being around me," Kazador says.
Kairos sits back down on the ground and began to draw out marks on the ground each indicating each of his fellow young superhero friends. The Kryptoamazon was preparing positions and lineups for any of the further battles to come. For Kairos knew if the last fight was more difficult than the first than surely their next fight would be treacherous. Terry walks up to Kairos, looking at the formation drafts Kairos has prepared.
"Need a hand?" Terry asks.
"Input from you guys would be helpful," Kairos nods to Terry's offer to help, all while Kazador screaming in pain from his collar being tampered with.
"Graaagh! You said you would sooth the pain!" Kazador roars at Martin.
"Sister Lisa started before I could do anything," Martin meekly says. "I apologize fo-"
"Just give me some fragging hope, bastich! This zhut hurts!"