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The Justice League was now trying to find the Teen Titans. They had lost contact with them after they went off in search of the Injustice League on their own. Superman was outside of the Watchtower, scanning the world with his supervision. Batman and the others were inside using their own means to find them. Batman searched using computer signatures of Cyborg's technology for the T-Ship.

"Anything yet?" Flash asked, in a worried tone.

"If found anything I would have said by now." Batman retorted, still working at the computer. "Be patient."

"For the fastest man alive," Flash said "patience isn't one of my virtues."

"This is taking too long!" Wonder Woman said. "We should never have let them go off on their own."

"Maybe it wouldn't be that way if we hadn't have taken them off the mission in the first place." Firestorm said.

"Well we can't change that now, can we?" Hawkgirl said.

"But it's our fault to begin with!" he retorted. "If we hadn't..."

"You're right." Batman said. "Maybe if we hadn't they'd still be here. But that's not what we did. We did what we always do, what we thought was the right choice." With that he went back to the computer.

Firestorm crossed his arms and said "I hate it when he's right."

"Tell me about it." Green Arrow said, standing next to him.

Green Lantern came into the Monitoring Room along with Animal Man.

"Well?" Wonder Woman asked, seeing them.

Aquaman walked over with her to speak with the two.

"Nothing." Lantern said. "No clues to where they went."

"And no discreet scents or trails." Animal Man added. "I guess they didn't want to be followed."

"Even so, they still would have contacted us." Aquaman said. "They know better."

"I hope so." Animal Man said. "Otherwise we might never find them."

Hawkgirl, Zatanna and Firestorm looked over to see Martian Manhunter standing where he'd been standing the whole time, to the side of the room trying to use his telepathy.

All walked over before Zatanna asked "Well?"

"It is difficult to track minds at this distance." J'onn said. "And I'm also trying to keep a link with Superman should he discover anything. As Batman said, it requires patience."

"I'm with Wonder Woman though," Hawkgirl said. "This is taking too long."

Firestorm looked to Zatanna and asked "Can't you just use one of your spells to bring them here, or take us to where they are?"

"It's not that simple." She began. "Some spells require physical anchors and actual knowledge to work. So if I don't know where they are, the spell could send us who knows where."

"I get it." He said. "That's why I depend on science more."

As they talked and Green Lantern and the others talked, Wonder Woman and Batman were still close to the computer screen, with him tracing one potential signal after another, finding nothing. After another failed attempt he slammed his fist on the dashboard before regaining himself and going back to work.

Seeing this Wonder Woman placed a hand on his should and said "We will find them."

"I never said we wouldn't." he retorted. "It's not finding them that worries me. It's in what condition they might be in when we do."

Her eyes widened a bit when she realized what he meant. Suddenly a message alarm went off on the computer screen, catching everyone in the room's attention.

(Superman, come quick!) Manhunter called out to him from inside.

Superman used his super speed to rush back into the Watchtower in time to see what the others were seeing. The call was shown on screen but the picture was static and breaking at points.

"Can *zzzttt* hear me? *zzztt* This *zztttt* Batgirl, Calling the *zzzttt* -chtower!"

The pictured cleared a bit as they could see it was Batgirl, in what seemed to be a darkened room.

"Copy, Batgirl." Batman said, trying to clear the signal. "Where are you?"

"Oh thank-*zzztttt* We're trapped on Dinosaur Island. We tried tracking the Injustice *zzzttt* and were ambushed. Signal's being ruptured by something we *zzztttt* held prisoner."

"We'll be there, asap!" Superman said.

"Hurr-*zzttttttt*"

With that the signal was gone.

"Dinosaur Island?" Lantern said. "That's where they are?"

"We'll find out more once we get there." Superman said. " Lantern and I well fly down. Everyone, to the Javelin."

With that everyone rushed for the hanger. Batman gave an odd look to the message before finally joining the others.

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In the room where Batgirl had called out, she stood there with one of the Titan communicators in hand. She gave a satisfying grin to the others in the room, which included Poison Ivy, Gizmo, Blackfire, Monsieur Mallah, the Brain, Slade and a final figure who was the true leader of the Injustice League.

"Excellent performance." He said, as Batgirl changed back into Clayface. "Now we wait to spring the trap." He looked to one other figure in the room and said "Are we ready yet, Blood?"

Brother Blood stepped out from the shadows, still retaining his cybernetic form from the last time the Titans had fought him, and said "Always."

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The League had already reached Dinosaur Island. They landed the Javelin near where the T-Ship was. The Ship itself was in ruins , one wing broken off, the rest of it dented, burned or just plain destroyed.

"They must've went through one heck of a fight." Arrow said.

Superman scanned the area with his super0sight before saying " Still no sign of them. Or anyone for that matter. Just broken dinosaur robots."

"Then step aside and let a real bloodhound show you how's it done." Animal Man said, taking the lead.

He used the abilities of a bloodhound to sniff out the still fresh scents of the Titans. He started walking with the others following, Hawkgirl and Martian Manhunter flying in the air to keep an eye out.

"Any trace of their minds, J'onn?" Wonder Woman asked.

"No." he said. "It is as if they are being shielded....just like the Injustice League's..."

They finally reached the base of the volcano, Animal Man stopping at the rocks covering the entrance.

"This is where they went in." he said.

Superman used his X-ray vision before saying "Lead. If there was an ambush in there, even Supergirl wouldn't have seen it coming."

"I have a feeling there's another one waiting for us inside." Batman said.

"What do you mean?" Zatanna asked.

"This all seems to well set up." He began. "For all we know that could have been Clayface or a hologram to make us think it was Batgirl. We may be walking into a trap."

"So what do we do now?" Flash asked.

"We spring the trap." Batman answered. "Lantern, look around and see if you can find another entrance." He said to him before looking to Aquaman and saying "If Manta's here as well, there'll be an underwater entrance for his sub."

"I'll make for the water then and search." He said before walking off, Green Lantern flying off into the skies.

  "So what?" Firestorm asked. "The rest of us just go in and let them ambush us."

"We still don't know what they're planning." He said. "Better to have our own surprise ready in case."

"Batman's right." Superman said. "We'll have to risk it. Come on."

He lead the way, ripping the secret door open with his bare hands, going inside the hollow volcano. Little did any of them know, but the whole conversation was being watched and listened to by a secret camera hidden near one of the rocks near the entrance.

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As Aquaman searched around the underwater areas of the island, he found what seemed like a cave entrance being guarded by two of Manta's men. The villains were here alright.
Seeing a school of tuna nearby, he used his powers to communicate with them and swim towards the guards. The two didn't even have time to draw their weapons before being swarmed by the tuna, making a distraction for Aquaman to swoop in and knock them out with two easy punches.

He started to make his way into the cave when a blast from inside made him duck away. He swam back out and saw as Black Manta, King Shark and Trident swimming out.

"We meet again, King of Atlantis." He said. "Good. I was afraid you'd never arrive."

"This ends here and now, Manta." Aquaman said. "You know you and you thugs can't stop me on your own."

"True. But we're not alone this time!"

Before Aquaman could even question, something zipped in at him and smashed him into a nearby rock.

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Green Lantern was searching through the skies, trying to use his ring to locate anything unusual. So far the only thing he'd found was another large pile of left over dinosaur robots and a few broken down rides. Just then he saw, with his ring, what looked like a fake oasis of water and trees covering something metal.

"Now here's something." He said to himself. "Better call this in to..."

He stopped when he sensed something nearby. He turned and raised a shield with his ring, just in time to block a large yellow ram trying to attack him. He looked to see the ram was being made by Sinestro himself.

"Not going to fall for that again." Lantern called to him.

"Well done, Jordan." Sinestro said. "I was afraid this would be too short!"

Lantern managed to destroy the ram by making his shield into a chainsaw that sliced it in half. He reached for the communicator on his ear to call the heroes, but was stopped when Sinestro blasted at it, destroying it out of his ear.

"Now, now, Jordan." He said. "We can't have any interruptions this time." He finished with a grin.

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The group made their way down the corridor before Manhunter stopped and kneeled down on a spot.

"They were here." He said using his Martian senses. "It's hard to say what happened next, but they went through that door." He indicated the one on the end.

"Alright everyone," Superman said. "we go in. Be prepared for anything."

They nodded and readied before Superman used his strength to smash the door down. They all rushed into a dark room with barley any visible light.

"Uh...clap on?" Animal Man joked

Suddenly a spotlight from above shined down on the group and a voiced called out to them.

"Congratulations, heroes." it said. "You found the secret lair of the Injustice League."

The rest of the room suddenly lit up and the League could see they were in the middle of an arena-like construct. In front of them was a series of seats, all occupied by the members of the Injustice League, with the exception of Black Manta, King Shark, Trident and Sinestro. At the top of the seats was a makeshift booth for the three main generals of the villainous team, Slade, Brother Blood and The Brain, with Monsieur Mallah standing by his side and the Joker sitting near Brother Blood because he wanted to be up top. But near them was a blackened seat where the true leader sat in darkness.

"Where are the Titans?" Superman demanded to the leader.

"Is that all you came here for, Superman?" the leader said, still sitting. "I thought your whole purpose was to find us and save the day, once again."

"Enough games!" Superman said. "Who are you?"

"Aw, I'm hurt." The leader said, now standing "I would think you of all people, Man of steel, would be able to guess who was responsible for this."

"Figures..." Superman said looking close as the leader stepped out of the darkness

He wore a jump-suit like outfit of sand-color tan. Around his waist was a belt with a number of holsters, much like Batman's utility belt. Strung around one should was a gun strap, with a blaster still in the holster. And all could easily tell who it was once they saw his bald head.

"Luthor!" Batman said

"Why am I not all that surprised?" Flash said. "Anytime something or other goes bad, it's always Luthor."

"I'm flattered, Flash." He said. "But that won't get you anywhere. In fact, this may be the last place you'll ever see again."

"Enough." Wonder Woman said. "Where are the Titans? Where are our friends?"

"Blood?" Luthor said looking back to him. "Send in the children."

"As you wish." He grinned before his eyes glowed red.

A large doorway below where the villains sat and ahead of the League opened. The door slid to the side to reveal a group of figures all shaded by darkness. They slowly stepped out and the League looked in horror as they saw it was none other than the Titans, with the excepting of Aqualad, only they seemed to look at them with cold blank stares.

"No...."Wonder Woman said seeing this.

"What did you do to them?" Arrow demanded.

Suddenly Brother Blood started laughing and aid "Just a little re-education."

[He speaks the truth, Justice League.] the Brian added.

Luthor cleared his throat, indicating for the others to remain silent as he began to speak.

"It was all a mix of the genius minds you see before you." He began. "Nano-technology provided by Mr. Slade which was originally used on the Titans before. Although his original design was more of the destructive nature, that was easily rectified thanks to the Brian here." He indicated him. "Modified to respond to the telepathic powers of Brother Blood."

"As you can see," Blood said "not even Cyborg can withstand me now."

"But we couldn't simply try this new technology out willy-nilly. We needed a proper lab-rat. And who better than the infamous thief himself, Red X."

"So you supplied him with the zinothium." Batman stated, looking at Red X

Luthor chuckled before saying "Correct, Dark Knight. There wasn't much use out of a test subject we couldn't use to our advantage. Once we knew the technology worked, we went about using it to infect the young heroes of this world. The first was you dear apprentice, Batgirl."

It suddenly dawned on Batman as he said "That night Cheetah attacked...."

"Her claws her laced with them at the tips." Luthor said. "Just like a poison."

"That explains Wonder Girl too." Firestorm said to himself.

"Thanks to her, we were able to track all of your movements when you started snooping around. That's where we found the opportunity to infect a few more."

"The poison from Joker and Manta." Animal man said. "They had the bots inside of them."

"Exactly." Luthor continued. "And so we had more under our thrall. After that, all it took was some suggestive thoughts planted into the minds of the Titans. It was easy, making them think it was right to go after us on their own, having Batgirl claim to have a tracker placed on Gizmo, even enticing the others to follow."

"You had this all planned," Batman said. "From the very beginning this was what you planed."

"I don't go about calling myself the world's smartest man for nothing." He said with pride.

"Why?" Superman asked, angered. "Why do this?"

"To provide myself with the ultimate weapon against the Justice League. Think about it, what's the fun in controlling your minds when I can use your very apprentices to turn against you? I the idea of it is quite tragic actually."

"Alright, that's it!" Hawkgirl said in furry. "I'm through with these games."

She flew out of the group and towards Luthor, but he indicated to Blood who made Starfire fly up and knock her in the jaw. She flew back as Starfire hovered near her.

"You didn't think it would be so easy, did you?" Luthor coyly said.

Batman looked to Martian Manhunter and whispered "Try to see if you can break the connection in the Titans minds. We might..."

Suddenly a bolt of ice froze the Manhunter in place with a shocked look frozen on him. Batman and the others looked to see Killer Frost standing with her arm out, meaning she fired the blasts.

"Like I said, not so easy." Luthor said. "And now for what we've all been waiting for: the Justice League vs. The Teen Titans. Titans.....destroy!"

With that the Titans all rushed forward and attacked. Robin and Batgirl leaped up and kicked Batman back. Supergirl flew headfirst into her cousin, sending him back against a wall. Cyborg aimed his cannon and fired towards Firestorm, who ducked away and started firing back. Beast Boy changed into a lion and leapt towards Animal Man. Kid Flash ran towards his uncle, making thee Flash zip away while Kid gave chase at super speed. Raven used her magic to teleport behind Zatanna, who used her magic to disappear and reaper behind her in a puff of smoke. Speedy fired a barrage of exploding arrows at Green Arrow, who jumped away to avoid the blasts. And Wonder Girl stared fighting hand-to-hand with her sister, who did her best to avoid and block any punches and kicks.

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Aquaman recovered and found himself pinned down against the sea bed by an all too familiar face.

"Aqualad?" he said, seeing his former partner, holding him down. "What are you...?"

He heard Manta laugh before saying "He's ours now. Along with the rest of them."

Aquaman managed to push Aqualad off before he came charging back like a bullet in water. He grabbed him by the arms as he came close enough and swung him to the side. With his back turned, Manta managed to hit him in the back with his lazer-weapon. Aquaman man reacted and turned before he could hit him again. He bragged his writs and punched him in his helmet, before Aqualad and Trident grabbed hold of him and brought him down to the seabed again.

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Animal man found himself struggling to hold Beast Boy, still in lion form, back as he kept one arm under his mane and the other holding his jaw.

"Snap...out of it, Beast Boy." He said, trying to reason with him. "You gotta think straight..."

But he didn't listen as he suddenly turned into a gorilla and tried to bring his fist down on him. Animal Man rolled out of the way and got to his feet before grabbing BB's hands as they came down towards him. Once he did, BB turned into a giant boa and wrapped himself around Animal Man and began to squeeze.

Speedy fired a few more arrows before Green Arrow managed to avoid them. He managed to draw one of his own arrows and aimed it at him. But he hesitated to fire, knowing it was still his old partner in there. This gave Speedy time to fire one arrow that knocked his quiver off his back. Green Arrow reacted by running up and fighting him bow-to-bow,hoping to stall for time so the others could try and figure a way to free the Titans.

Superman crossed his arms in defense as Supergirl landed on punch after another on them. He managed to break and grab her wrists in the process, holding her back. She struggled before firing her heat-beams into his face. He screamed as he held his face, before she punched him square on the jaw. He flew back and landed on the ground, before trying to fly up, her following and trying to punch him again.

Firestorm used his powers to make the floor underneath Cyborg more liquid, making him skin into it. He stopped at the shoulders, thinking he had him caught. But Cyborg busted through the floor and aimed his cannon, firing and hitting Firestorm out of the air.

He backed up on the floor as Cyborg came closer saying, "Cyborg, it's me! C'mon you gotta fight this!"

Cyborg responded by trying to slam his fists down on him, making him fly up and fire a barrage of his energy blasts around him for cover. Cyborg only reacted by looking up and firing a small missile form his should towards him.

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Outside, Green Lantern and Sinestro were continuing their fight. Sinestro managed to create a sword to use against GL, making him create a another one which the two fought with. GL then made a large fist with his and knocked Sinestro away. This gave him time to activate his signal on his belt to try and call the League for support.

"Come on." He said. "Where are you guys?"

Suddenly Sinestro attacked again with a giant yellow monster trying to bring it's jaws down on him, making GL create a protective bubble around him.

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Starfire and Hawkgirl struggled in the air above the others. Hawkgirl was holding her mace up in defense as Starfire grabbed it and struggled with her.

"Starfire, if you can hear me, you need to wake up!" Hawkgirl said as they fought. "This isn't you. I know it..."

She was stopped when Starfire used her eye-beams to strike her in the head. Hawkgirl's helmet was singed from the blast, making her back up before Starfire came at her again. The two clashed, Hawkgirl using her mace and Starfire punching with her fists glowing, before Starfire managed to zip around behind her and kick her in the back.

Zatnna created a magical barrier between her and the blasts of magic from Raven. She held out her hands and casted a spell.

"Tuo ylf sdrac!"

From her sleeves a flurry of playing cards shot out and landed in Raven's face. She took the opportunity and gave another spell.

"Nevar ni sniahc!"

Suddenly a rope of chains sprung around Raven, trapping her.

"Sorry, Raven." She said before turning to the villains.

She looked up and saw Luthor grinning and knew she had to take him out. She raised her hands and began to recite a spell before a dark tendril wrapped around her hands and mouth. She turned to see Raven, with the chains broken off with by magic, opening her robe to reveal more dark tendrils that wrapped around her body. Zatanna's mouth was too well covered for her to cast anymore spells.

Flash was running in one direction, around the others fighting, looking back and thinking he out-ran Kid Flash. But he was stopped when KF came zipping from in front of him and punched him off his feet. Flash recovered in time to avoid a flurry of fast-punches from his nephew. Together in a blur of motion the two swung and ducked and dodged at each other so fat that anyone nearby could hardly tell who was doing what. Flash found an opening to strike, but he hesitated when he saw the look on KF's face. That gave him the opportunity to knock him back, sending the two on a super-speed chase again.

Batman blocked one kick from Batgirl and another punch from Robin. He tossed her into him and tried to throw a batarang, hoping to knock them out. It was blocked when Robin used his staff to knock it away. Per Luthor's orders to Blood, Robin handed Batgirl another staff and both were now armed. Batman's eyes widened as he saw this before the two attacked. He blocked a swing from Robin but left his side open for Batgirl to his. She landed blow before he could block a second one. He blocked two more hit but left his back open for Robin to kick him. He turned and dodged as the two clanged staffs together before recovering and jabbing both into his stomach, making him stumble back.

The Joker watched with the other villains with glee as he ate a bag of popcorn, enjoying the show.

"This is great, Lex." He said. "Usually you have to play money for this kind of show! Oh, how about we place some bets?" he looked around the other villains and said "Anyone? Anyone? I'll put ten down on the little green one!"

[Your amusement is most annoying, Joker.] the Brain said. [From one psychotic to another, be quite.]

"Your no fun, Pinky." He said.

"Enough, you two." Luthor stated. "Don't spoil the moment."

"This moment is taking a little too long." Slade said. "Can't we just end it now?"

"Give it time, Deathstroke." He said. "Oops. Apologies, Slade, I just like the first name better." He looked to Blood and asked "How's Manta doing?"

"Very well." Blood said with a horrible grin. "Very well indeed."

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Aquaman struggled with Aqualad and Trident holding him down. He managed to knock both away before King Shark through his whole body into him to keep in pinned. Aquaman landed a few punches on the monster's nose but it didn't falter, giving Trident time to hold him again. As they held him, Black Manta used his weapon to electrocute Aquaman. He screamed in pain before Manta stopped.

Aquaman looked up to see Aqualad standing behind him, saying "Please....break....break free...."

"He can never be free now." Manta said. "He's ours now. And you know what the best part of it is? Deep down, he's still in there. Even now, he and the others can see everything that is happening, and there's not a thing any of them can do. All they can do is sit and watch from the back of their minds as their bodies do what we tell them to."

He looked and nodded to Aqualad, who took his weapon from him and readied to stab it into Aquaman, which would kill him at this point.

"And so it ends." Manta said, waiting for the killing blow.

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Wonder Woman was stuck back by a kick from Wonder Girl. As she stood she tried to block another punch, but was knocked back again.

"Sister, please." She said, as they continued to fight. "I don't want to hurt you. You need to break free from their control. Your strong enough."

The only response was another punch to the stomach.

As Wonder Woman sat up from the ground, she looked to see as everyone was failing to stop the Titans. Batman was pinned against a wall with Robin and Batgirl keeping their staffs on him. Flash found Kid Flash running around him, sucking the air from where he stood. Hawkgirl was brought down to the ground, with Starfire wielding her mace and ready to smash it against her head. Zatanna was being pulled further into the darkness of Raven's robes and the tendrils continued to pull and tighten. Superman was being pummeled by punch after punch to the face from Supergirl. Animal Man was being blinded by Beast Boy, in the form of a giant squid now, who was gripping his tentacles around his face and limbs. Firestorm was struggling with a blast from Cyborg with his own energy blasts. And Speedy had managed to knock away Green Arrow's bow, ready to stab an arrow into him.

Wonder Woman looked back in time to grab Wonder Girl's wrists before she could bring her fists down on her. She struggled before she noticed something. She looked down to Wonder Girl's waist and saw her lasso.

"That's it!" she said, before pushing Wonder Girl back.

She jumped over Wonder Girl when she had the chance and grabbed her lasso from her belt. Wonder Girl reacted by trying to punch her, given Wonder Woman the opportunity to wrap it around her arm. Wonder Girl seemed to stop for a moment and shake her head.

"What's is this?" Luthor said, seeing what was happening.

Wonder Girl looked up to her sister and said "What's going on?"

"WHAT?" Luthor said angered. He looked to Blood and said "What's happening?"

"I don't know!" Brother Blood said. "I can't feel her mind anymore. Something's blocking it."

Wonder Woman looked to her sister and said "No time to explain. I need you to help Batman." She handed her sister her own  lasso and said "Take this. Free whoever you can. I need to help J'onn."

She nodded and the two ran off, Wonder Woman going for the frozen Martian Manhunter and Wonder Girl running and kicking Robin and Batgirl away from Batman.

"Stop them!" Blood said, commanding both Kid Flash and Speedy to attack the Wonders.

But both were stopped when Green Arrow took the opportunity to tackle Speedy and hold him down while Flash managed to grab hold of KF's leg, making him trip.

Wonder Girl used her lasso and tied it around both Robin and Batgirl's wrists. They dropped their staffs and shook their heads.

"Huh?" Robin said.

"Where are we?" Batgirl asked.

"In the middle of a fight!" Wonder Girl said. "Now hurry we must act."

"Blood!" Luthor said.

"It's the lasso's magic!" Brother Blood realized "It's blocking my signal!" He looked over to Red X and said. "Red X, stop them!"

With that Red X disappeared and reappeared in front of Batgirl and Robin. Both looked at each other and down at the lasso tied between them. They nodded before running at him.

Wonder Woman reached Martian Manhunter and used her strength to break the ice. He fell into her arms and looked up.

"My thanks." He said, breathing hard.

"Don't thank me yet. We still need to save the others." She said.

Luthor looked and said "Cheetah! Parasite!"

The two nodded from the crowd of villain and jumped down, running for the two. Both Wonder Woman and Manhunter saw this.

"I got this." She said.

"Are you sure?" Manhunter asked

Suddenly a batarang flew in front of the two and exploded, sending them back. He looked to see Batman running towards them ready to fight the villains.

"Positive." Wonder Woman smirked before running off to fight the two.

He nodded and started using his telepathy on Brother Blood, trying to break the hold. Both struggled with each other, making the Titan thralls start to slow and wary.

"Must....hold....connection...." Blood said, struggling.

Batgirl and Robin managed to use the lasso to snag Red X by the hand, forcing him back. He tried to stand but was knocked down by a kick to the face to Batgirl.

"Take five." She said as he fell to the ground.

Robin looked up to the villains and said "I have an idea."

Luthor saw as the two young heroes came running towards the villains. Both threw bird and batarangs at them, one heading right for Blood. Some were knocked out of the way by Clayface and Bizzaro.  Suddenly the closet that came to Brother Blood was caught by Slade.

"Did you think I wouldn't see that coming?" he said.

"No..." Robin said

Suddenly Slade and the other villains up top heard a beeping noise and looked back to see an explosive batarang. They looked down to see Batman standing nearby in the arena area with a smirk.

"...but I'll bet you didn't see that." Robin finished with a smirk.

"Abandon Ship!" Joker said before he and the others jumped out of the way.

This gave the Martian Manhunter the opportunity he needed to send a powerful telepathic-bolt to Brother Blood. He screamed as he felt the shock before falling to his knees.

"I've...lost connection..." he said.

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Aqualad blinked and fluttered his eyes before seeing that he had Manta's weapon in hand, ready to bring it down on his king. He looked to the side to see Manta waiting for the strike.

"Well?" Manta said.

Just then Aqualad smacked him away with the weapon before turning it on King Shark and Trident, sending them back. He grabbed Aquaman by the shoulder and held him up.

"My king," he said "I'm sorry for..."

"No." he said, recovering. "It wasn't you. I know you wouldn't do that."

"Thank you, my friend." Aqualad said.

Both looked to see Manta and the others recover and surround them. The two grinned knowing they'd have a heck of a fight on their hands.

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Inside the Titans began to shake of the control of the nanbots.

"That was...weird." Beast boy said as he helped Animal Man up.

Raven released Zatanna, who was breathing heavily, and said "Sorry. Are you alright?"

"Fine." She said, looking up and standing. "Nice magic. Remind me to offer you apart in one of my shows."

The heroes all regroup to one side of the arena, all recovering and handing back lassos bows, quivers and the mace. Red X began to recover, seeing Robin and Batgirl standing over him.

"Please tell me that was just a dream." He said.

"Not so lucky." Robin stated.

X picked himself up and said "I'm gonna end them. All of them!"

"Then get in line." Batman said, nearby. "Either help us or get out of the way. Your choice."

Red X's eye narrowed before looking to the heroes and then the villains.

"Why not?" he shrugged. "I've made worse decisions."

Luthor, recovered from the blast, looked to see the Joker in his arms.

"Save me, my prince." Joker joked before Luthor dropped him.

He looked to see the heroes and said "Where's Sinestro? Call in..."

He was stopped when something crashed through the roof and landed in front of the side where the villains were. It was Sinestro, recovering from a hit from Green Lantern, who was floating down through the hole made in the roof towards the heroes.

"Sorry I'm late." He said. He indicated his communicator and said "Couldn't call for a ride."

He landed with the Titans and League before Kid Flash joked "So does this mean we're back on the mission?"

"Injustice league, destroy them!"Luthor shouted, making all the villains, except for him, Joker, the Brain and Brother Blood jump down.

They all stood to one side of the arena from the heroes. Some of them prepared to fight, Giganta growing large enough to reach the top of the roof, Mallah cracking his knuckles and Captain Boomerang readying his weapons.

Robin and Superman, the leaders of the two hero teams, looked at the friends to at their backs and side then to each other. They both nodded before readying to fight.

"Titans...." Robin began

"Justice League...." Superman added

And both gave a final "GO!"