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Edge Manor
Two days later, while Morgan Edge was sleeping in his bed, his security system was hacked, putting cameras in a loop and deactivating the sensors.
Next, the shadows in the main hall flickered, and three people stepped out of the portal, dressed in black from head to toe to prevent recognition in case of any witnesses.
The plan was to infiltrate Morgan's bedroom, dose him with a fast-acting sleep agent, and extract him through a portal to be questioned.
Claire, Question, and Raven were quick but silent; however, the plan was gone the very second they climbed to the second floor.
"I knew I felt someone scurrying around. And what delicacies you two are." Floating like a vampire from a corny cartoon, Bloody Mary looked ready to strike.
"Don't hold back. Backup is on the way."
They were briefed on Bloody Mary's powers and danger level, and Question hung back, looking for an opportunity to slip by, while Claire let loose with her pyrokinesis and Raven with her magic.
Bloody Mary, however, displayed impressive acrobatics and dodged the attacks, firing red telekinetic beams from her eyes, but missed.
The commotion brought the guards inside the manor, and Raven opened up a portal, bringing the android siblings inside the manor.
The plan to quietly kidnap Morgan Edge had just turned into a full-on battle.
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Back in the safety of the van, Miles took his headphones out.
Bloody Mary just had to ruin everything.
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The Edge manor was on fire, and in addition to Bloody Mary and Morgan's security forces, Intergang had joined the fray, leaving the attackers at a disadvantage when it came to numbers.
Claire, Raven, Red Tornado, and Red Inferno were fighting Bloody Mary, while Red Torpedo was mopping the floor with Intergang.
The vampire from Apokolips, on the other hand, was giving the four of them a hard time. Inferno had already lost an arm, and Claire's ribs throbbed from the kick she had taken.
Tornado's wind attacks combined with Inferno and Claire's flames, creating two spinning, fiery drills that illuminated the night. She attempted to fly away, but shadowy tendrils anchored her to the ground, just long enough for the combined attack to hit.
It burned, not her skin, but her lungs and airways, which were far more susceptible to damage. Even then, it did not take long for her to heal and be back in the fight.
Raven raised a shield to block the telekinetic beams fired at her in retaliation, straining against the force, but didn't have to hold it for long before winds and flames combined again to push the enemy back.
Bloody Mary dodged most of their attacks and tanked what she couldn't. Five minutes into the fight, things were in a stalemate before Mary caught Claire by the throat, ignoring her flames that would have carbonized an ordinary human.
"We shall start with you." Bloody Mary's grin as she got ready to drain the human she was holding literally warped into a cavity when a punch that was too fast for her to react came out of nowhere.
The human was torn from her hand, and the Fury went flying, skipping on the ground like a fleshy ball.
Leaping to her with an animalistic snarl, she saw who had just dared to punch her and wavered. "The Kryptonian."
"Surrender." Superman, floating in the air in all his heroic glory, gently lowered the pyrokinetic to the ground.
"My master will have your head."
Superman crossed his arms, looking down at the villainess. "Your master is free to come here and try."
The energy vampire grinned, and her eyes glowed, not to launch her telekinetic beams, but for a different reason.
Superman blinked, trying to rub the irritation in his eyes away, and the world slowly turned to pink before it broke away.
"She has mind control. That will keep you safe." Claire, having realized what was happening, took her necklace off and put it around Superman's neck.
They were barely holding against the crimson-haired bitch; if she enslaved Superman's mind, this battle was over.
Holding the necklace firmly, Superman nodded to the pyrokinetic. "Thank you."
"Superman, don't hold back."
Remembering what had happened the last time he had, albeit unknowingly, held back against a villain, Superman disappeared from sight.
Flustered that her attempt to put the Kryptonian in a trance did not work, Bloody Mary got ready to flee, but it was not to be.
There was a shockwave, followed by several teeth flying through the air, and the Fury saw no more.
"Wow." Claire looked at the small trench where the upper half of the damn vampire's body stuck out, with dust rising from her.
The damn boy scout had hit her so fast it took them a while to realize what had happened.
Good thing Miles had the foresight to bring Superman to the fight.
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While a fierce battle was waged in the Edge manor, Question was tracking Morgan Edge, who was furious enough that he wanted to be close enough to see the corpses of the heroes.
His words.
"I need help. I found Morgan outside the perimeter, but he is surrounded by Intergang." He was going to ask to keep the stealth equipment Miles had given him, because with the tech Intergang possessed, it was the only explanation why Question was not discovered while so close.
"I am sending my men to help you. Sit tight."
Quentin kept one eye on the target and the other on the surroundings, hearing the cars before he saw them in the dark of the night.
Men, armored in black, metallic suits, surged forward, using the armored cars as cover, raining crimson bolts on Intergang, while Intergang, wearing power armor and carrying their signature Hellfire guns, responded in kind.
Miles' men had good equipment, such as handheld shields and cryo grenades, but Intergang obviously had the edge when it came to gear.
Which must be the reason why a truck that was armored like a tank with thick, carapace-like plating, carrying a mounted gun, came rolling in.
The gun fired a blue-white beam that froze the Intergang members on the spot, quickly turning the battle around.
It also had the added benefit of stopping Morgan's car from driving away.
Grasping the opportunity, Question flanked Intergang, crawling and keeping his head down, and reached the car, breaking the window from the back and tossing the anesthetic grenade inside.
Counting to ten, he tried to open the door but failed, resorting to breaking the glass and unlocking the doors.
It was a good thing he used the grenade, because Morgan had guards inside too.
Dragging Morgan away, the cryo gun was kind enough to create a barrier between him and Intergang, blocking their line of vision.
It was not easy, dragging a sleeping man across a battlefield, but Victor Sage was determined enough to succeed.
"I have him."
"Get in the truck and leave. We are withdrawing."
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The truck gave cover fire as the men got back into the cars and drove away while under fire, but Intergang did not chase them, preferring to retreat before they realized Morgan Edge was gone.
By then, it was too late.
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"I assume your plan to find evidence is gone now?" Once Superman rolled into the scene and punted Bloody Mary to the next week, Intergang laid their weapons down out of fear.
"Gee, you think?" Claire caressed her pulsing ribs, glaring at Superman, who raised his hands and backed away.
Calming down, she muttered a sorry, knowing it wasn't the boy scout's fault. "That damn vampire bitch felt our presence, and everything went to hell."
Looking around, he did not see the owner of the house anywhere. "Where is Morgan Edge?"
"He left the house, but I have no idea where."
"You guys should leave too. MPD will be here any second." The only reason why they were so late was because the security system was down, and the Edge manor was far from the nearest station.
"Maybe it's not all over. I am sure Miles can pull a miracle."
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"Bloody hell." The telepath swore, backing away from the unconscious man as if he were burned.
With a very pronounced British accent, so not a local.
"What the hell are you getting me into?" Reading memories did not evoke any feelings in Manchester, but what he had just seen sent shivers down his spine.
"What happened?"
The telepath took the helmet off, not in the mood for any secrecy, and began to massage his scalp. "Big guy, dark, red eyes, scary as hell. Bollocks, just seeing the memory is bad enough."
Of course the God of Tyranny would make a telepath nervous just by existing in a memory. "Darkseid. One of the greatest evils in the universe."
"You are not going to fight him, are you?" Manchester didn't want his main source of income to die.
Not before he earned enough, at least.
"Me? Don't be ridiculous. Superman is the only one we have right now that can defeat him. Why do you think Intergang is based in Metropolis? Because Darkseid fears what our Man of Tomorrow could be."
The telepath swore again. He never liked the boy in red and blue and what he stood for, but now, Manchester felt a smidgen of respect for Superman.
"Putting Darkseid aside, what do you have on Intergang?" The question was asked to the pink-haired British man.
This was just getting bigger and more dangerous every second.
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As the leader of Intergang, Morgan was privy to everything, which meant Miles, Question and Manchester had the privilege too.
Locations of bases, strongholds, hideouts, and supply depots; underground bunkers; and black sites for metahuman trafficking and human experimentation; and information on criminal front businesses that kept Intergang fed financially.
The only problem?
There were too many to respond at once, and once several sites fell, the rest would disappear.
Even with their financial channels dried out, Intergang would still have a stockpile of Apokolips tech and whatever cash they had on hand.
"I need to brief the League. They want me to ask if you want to come."
"Sure, why not?"
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The Watchtower
Three Days Later
"Question, welcome." Martian Manhunter welcomed the detective to the Watchtower, offering his hand.
Question looked at the green hand for a while, taking it just before the Martian lowered it.
"Nice station. Experimental tech? Kryptonian maybe? Or Thanagarian?" Victor knew that the Justice League had a secret base, though not the exact details, and even sniffed around Gotham for answers.
"All human." Batman supplied.
Slowly, Question took his seat, relaxed, yet always on edge.
"What do you have for us?" John, eager to put the collaborators of Apokolips behind bars, got straight to the matter.
Miles, having documented the information taken from Morgan's mind, started the briefing.
Intergang was more widespread than he had considered based on the available information, especially since they had not attacked Metropolis Gold Exchange with an enormous tank.
"We are going to have to pick our battles, won't we?" The space cop frowned.
Flash raised a hand. "Why not inform the US government? Work with them in a coordinated attack?"
"That is possible, if you are all fine with leaving Apokolips tech in the hands of the government." Miles offered, and it made several members squirm in their chairs, especially Superman.
"How bad could it be?" Flash looked nervous now, not having considered the threat posed by the government.
The politicians back on his earth were bad enough, but the ones here?
They were worse.
"Words can't possibly suffice."
"A coordinated strike, then, to the most important targets before the rest disappear." Wonder Woman, as a warrior who had been taught and trained for centuries, knew that their best bet was to take down the most strategically sound enemy strongholds first.
Batman agreed with it, turning to the man who had brought the entire structure of Intergang before them. "Miles will target the companies used by Intergang."
The man in question acquiesced easily.
"This old mine they use for metahuman trafficking, it should be the next target." If Darkseid was half as bad as Miles had spoken of, then a fate worse than death awaited those humans.
Flash flipped through the files, pointing at the layout of the hidden base. "Good idea. However, it is a narrow space, and there is always the risk of a cave-in."
"Then you, Martian Manhunter, and Batman should take it." With Flash's speed, J'onn's intangibility and shapeshifting, and the Dark Knight's skills in stealth, they would make the best team for the mine.
"Count me in too. Me and Batman can hit them from the back."
"Thank you, Question."
"What about this lab?"
"Chances are, we will encounter some of the test subjects; heavy hitters would suit better." A metahuman experiment laboratory was bound to face some sort of outbreak, because common sense in comics and cartoons dictated so.
Though, Miles was basing it on that Intergang would use the test subjects as weapons.
Superman, an unusually grim look on his face, rose to the occasion. "I'll go."
"Take Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Inferno." Batman suggested. Inferno to sterilize the site, Green Lantern for crowd control, while Hawkgirl and Superman were there to pulverize Intergang.
The sole underwater base would be left to Atlantis, as Aquaman would no doubt be all too willing to clean the filth from his oceans, while Wonder Woman, Red Tornado, and Red Torpedo would take the supply depot in the Central Mine, Michigan.
"I'll work with district attorneys to have every company ready to be taken down simultaneously. Individual dossiers on your targets will be delivered to you in a few days." Everyone had to do their homework to not leave any chance for failure.
"Give the underwater base's plans to me when you are ready, I'll bring them to Aquaman while requesting his help." Superman was their unofficial liaison with Atlantis since he and Aquaman got along well.
The members left in silence.
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Briefing the League did not mean his work was over. He still had Manchester pull whatever he could from Morgan's mind, categorize it, have Zalika follow the cyber trail, and direct his bugging network to focus on gathering evidence.
It was tiring work that sucked the life out of a person like a black hole would consume a star.
Documents proving Morgan's connection to Intergang were a high priority right now, and fortunately, they had just the man for it.
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Metropolis
"This cowardly attack on my person will not go unanswered. I am in full cooperation with the law enforcement so those criminals that wish to silence the voice of the people." Morgan Edge, having emerged a week after the attack on his home, gave a passionate speech about fighting for the people of Metropolis and said that he wasn't afraid.
Even though he was nowhere to be seen long enough for people to wonder if he had actually died.
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In the next chapter:
Morgan Edge, exposed as the frontman of Intergang, was found and arrested while hiding alone in an abandoned warehouse.
Coincidentally, his father, Vincent Edge, was arrested several hours prior on the charges of sexual assault, leaving their empire without a leader.
The stocks of Galaxy Communications and every single one of its affiliates had tanked, with investors pulling out, the business deals cancelled, and mass resignations due to fears of being unwitting accessories to Morgan's crimes.
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