Chapter 37: The Formidable Air Bender Final Part

(Aden's P.O.V)

Sometimes an obvious thing hits you and you're left wondering how you never saw it before. You're left wondering if you were blind or just dumb that you missed it. Where am I going with this? That same thing happened to me. I had never gone all out before. Not really. In every mission or altercation, my strength had had to be kept in check so as to not hurt someone else.

The only fight that had even brought me close to that, had been against Solomon Grundy and I had had to put him down quickly so as to not risk civilian lives. The fight with Mister Twister, I had been unsure, not really familiar with my powers. But against Klarion? There wasn't a problem with hitting him too hard. He could take it. He was immortal after all.

The Lord of Chaos unleashed a wave of power that disintegrated everything it touched while heading towards me. I flew backwards while thinking of a plan. Infront of me I could see the walls of the tower and knew that there was no escaping the reddish black energy wave. So I decided not to.

"Let's do this!"

I increased my flight speed leaving a sonic boom behind me. Right before I smashed into the wall, I shifted my body so that my feet were pointed towards it and let loose a point blank wind blast on the wall through my legs.

Cracks impossibly appeared on the magical wall as my legs bent. My eyes made contact with Klarion's body and the energy wave bearing down on me. Wisps of all the leftover yellow order energy from my contact with Kent's mystical cane appeared around my form. Then I pushed.

My body shot off from the wall, leaving behind a crater and flying pieces of brick. A compressed drill made up of the most violent winds I had ever created before, formed around my body as I twisted in the air, the order energy covering it's form and turning it into a yellow tornado. My flight speed was on a whole other level. I hadn't just surpassed the speed of sound, I had totally fucked it over.

There was barely a resistance as my drill speared through Klarion's own attack and all too soon arrived before him. His eyes widened in fear.

"Who are..."

My hand speared through his chest and came out the other side. The flight speed I was under, carried him towards the wall of the tower and slammed him on it.

Klarion coughed out a black liquid and struggled to lift his head up at me. His eyes were red with rage and fear.

"I will..."

He started but I slammed a fist onto his face, breaking his nose with my left hand. Klarion groaned and tried to prime his energy and failed. The right hand was still inside his chest, having delivered a blow filled with Order energy. The energy was like poison to him, simultaneously ensuring he couldn't do anything while also hurting him. Just to be sure, my left hand shot out and immobilized him further through chi-blocking.

I heard an angry roar on the platform Klarion had been standing on before and turned my face towards Klarion's Familiar. My eyes were cold as I made contact with the oversized cat.

"Shut the fuck up. Try anything and I'll make him suffer the most unimaginable pain possible." I punctuated my statement by twisting my hand inside Klarion's chest. Klarion groaned in pain.

"Got it?"

The cat bristled but stood down.

I pulled up closer to Klarion's ear. If this was going to work, I needed to show him, I was completely different from other heroes.

"Lemme guess. You want to torture me, kill me, devour my soul and all that jazz, right?"

I asked him softly, a small smile on my face with my eyes halfway closed, looking nonchalant about the whole situation.

"I don't blame you. You've probably never been in this position before Klari. Content to play your little games with the Lords of Order for centuries on end. Normally a little chaos is like spice. You know, it takes away the boring factor from life. And you don't know this but I hate boring shit. It's just...like no for me. You know what I mean?" I twisted my hand inside him like before and his face twisted even more in pain.

"But then you had to go and ally yourself with that misguided selfish group of fools, giving them the courage and confidence to start pulling shit. My hobbies are playing video games, making music and talking to sexy girls but I can't. Why? Because of you and the light. Stupid name by the way. If you're the light, why the fuck do you hide in the shadows? So here's the deal." At that point, the smile dropped and my face went blank with no emotion. Klarion gulped in terror at the lifeless look I had on.

"Get out while you can, Klari. Coz I'll tell you a little secret."

I brought my face closer to his ears.

"I am planning your deaths."

Klarion's breath hitched.

"No...no... you're a hero. One of the...goodie... goodie two shoes! Heroes... heroes don't kill!"

I chuckled.

"Now what gave you the impression that I was good? Does a superhero have to be good to save people from danger? It's all really subjective you see. Is Batman a hero to his rogues gallery? No Is Doctor Fate, your hero? Definitely not. Infact the way I see it, they suck at it. You know what a good hero does Klarion?"

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He shook his head.

"He ensures that anyone with the guts to murder people en masse is six feet under. I'd rather be the villain if it stops the Joker from causing mass murder. But that's besides the point."

A menacing smile appeared on my face while my eyes widened.

"This is a warning Klari boy. The next time I see you? I'll end you and don't think I don't know about how you manifest here."

I pointed a finger at Teekl.

"Bam."

A wind bullet escaped my finger and dug a hole through Teekl's eye ball. The Tiger familiar fell down, dead.

"Nooo Teekl!!!"

A drill appeared around my palm and eviscerated Klarion. His head hang down his chest and his body lost its pulse.

Despite that I knew he was far from dead. Klarion was immortal. All I had done was deal him a heavy blow. Mostly due to the leftover Order energy I had smartly utilized. His body turned into an oily shadow and disappeared along with his familiar. I looked around at us. At the destruction caused.

Abracadabra was still passed out on the same platform Klarion had stood on, saved by the Lord Of Chaos probably. Huh, so villains don't mind helping each other out when it's little trouble to them. I flew over to another Platform and took some deep breaths while looking at my blood soaked hands.

'What...what had I done?'

'What needed to be done.'

My conviction answered.

I didn't fear Klarion's revenge because I knew his type better than most. They would whine and only go into a fight that they knew they would win. Klarion had just lost spectacularly and I knew I had put in the fear of god in him. He wouldn't dare come for me directly because he was afraid of the Order power he thought I had access to. This effectively removed the Lord of Chaos from the running for a while. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to take revenge on me indirectly. However, as long as it wasn't a direct confrontation, anything he could throw at me would be manageable.

I tightened my fist. This was the road I had chosen. There wasn't any backing out now. The team was going to no doubt arrive soon though and I couldn't let them see me like this. I opened my mouth and released a small sonic attack that vibrated the blood out of my hoodie and body.

(General P.O.V)

( The Watchtower- 22 hours after The Tower Of Fate Mission)

"This is the Yellowstone national park, as all of you are quite aware. It's also the base of T.O. Morrow, the scientist behind Red Tornado's creation. I have Intel that he's planning something. Something that might prove catastrophic if he's not stopped."
Batman swiped his hand and the image of the national park changed to an image of a middle-aged man with a moustache.

Most of the Leaguers with the exception of Green Lantern, Superman who had a Toymaker situation to deal with in Metropolis and Green Arrow and Black Canary who were following up a lead on some League of Shadow's deal, were present.

"What exactly is he planning?"
Shazam asked.
"Apart from World domination, revenge at us and probably the JSA( Justice Society of America) and a million other selfish reasons that supervillains get a kick out of?"
The Flash listed off.
"Yeah I get that but I meant what is the plan. How is he going to do that?"

"I am not sure. Which is why the League will be on standby while the Junior Team does recon."
Batman said.
"So I'm guessing that means, you managed to recover data from the remains of the Mister Twister android that attacked the team?"
Captain Atom inquired. Normally the man was usually silent but when he spoke, his voice was commanding, perfectly suitable for the former us soldier.

Batman was silent for a while before offering a curt nod.
"Affirmative. Although it was difficult to decipher the data, I was able to recover the location of the Android's maker."
"Is it really necessary to send the kids there?" The Flash asked.
"I could go in and be out in minutes, saving us time."

"Normally you'd be right but the situation is manageable for now. The team has proved more than capable of handling these types of reconnaissance missions. They need even more experience and that is something that will happen only in the field."
Everyone nodded.

"As informative as that was Batman, I don't think that's the reason you called us here today."
Zatara spoke up. Every turned to Batman, curious.
"It's not. Have any of you ever had of Intergang?"

After the meeting, Martian Manhunter stayed behind and approached Batman, who was busy typing something on the huge Watchtower computer.
"Why did you lie?"
He asked the Dark Knight who paused in his action and turned back to face the resident Telepath.
"It was necessary. I am still wary to inform the others about Maelstrom's meta-knowledge."
"Yet you finally decided to use it. I know for a fact that the Android was too damaged to recover anything. That information about T.O. Morrow is from Aden's docket of information."

Batman narrowed his eyes.
"You think I did a mistake."
Martian Manhunter nodded.
"I do. You should have atleast consulted me about going on ahead with this, my friend."
Batman was silent before giving Manhunter a brief nod.
"You're right. I simply did not see the need because the T.O. Morrow mission is a simple recon task. I have not confirmed any sightings as of yet. The whole thing hinges on whether the team finds anything there or not."

"I am sure Red Tornado was briefed beforehand?"
"Yes. He was the first person I talked to."
Batman turned to the computer and begun using it once more. Manhunter pulled up close next to him.
"So we're finally using it. Aden's information."
Batman's fingers never stopped.
"Yes. We can't wait anymore for you to verify whether he's telling the truth through accessing his core memories. We have to use every advantage we can get while we can."

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