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Midnighter watched as his adversary vanished, his face rather stoic for once as the last words were delivered by his opponent. Then, after a moments silence, that famous slasher smile of his spread all the way across his face.

Perfect, that behemoth had played right into his hands. While it would have been nice to stop them from taking the package, it wouldn't have done much good. Why cut off a limb when you can rip off the head? THAT was the real game that Midnighter was playing. Yes, he got hurt, but the wounds would heal, they were well on their way to stitching themselves up, and the poison, while beging to affect him, was being purged even as he continued to lean against the control panel.

"If I had been him, I would have worried about why I let him get away." With that Midnighter pushed himself off from the panal, a number of lights flashing on it, though one particular one was the one that he had purposefully collapsed on. It was with that Midnighter radioed the Station

"Station"

'What do you want unclean one?' The Damonite computer hissed.

"Nice to hear you too, now listen up, its not going to last long, I've got to turn it off in a second, but can the Station pick up on the homing beacon and energy signature of whatever it was that this base was holding?"

"Of course, the homing beacon is all that's needed to get a lock on it, from there its as simple as locking on to the quantum signature of the..."

"Whatever you say, just do it, just let me know when you've got a lock so I can turn this becon off, can't have them suspecting anything."

There was a silence for a few seconds and then...

"Done," the Station hissed at Midnighter once again. "The signature of the Stasis chamber and its occupant has been integrated into the Station, is there anything else?"

As he turned off the homing signal, Midnighter began to think. True, it would be nice to go in by himself, but why go alone if he could get an entire team to go with him? While it would ruin the chance at stealth, it would give credit to the Justice League and not the secret organization Stormwatch for stopping a threat, Turn the gaze away from those not in the public eye to those in the public eye, and Stormwatch would remain safe and hidden.

"Station, bring up the profiles of the current team sent by the Justice League and Teen Titans, who did they send?"

"Justice League Members: Wonder Woman, recent surveillance has revealed that Superman has just joined them. Teen Titan members include Static Shock, Kid Flash, Arsenal, Donna Troy, and Drake Rayner." The Damonite A.I. stated with forced resignation.

"Hmmm....Keep a lock on that signature, inform the rest of Stormwatch that I'm going to be in persuit of the culprits, keep a lock on me and the thing that they just stole. Oh and tell Stormwatch not to send anyone unless absolutly nessicary, I'm going to borrow a few 'superheros'."

With a few shaking steps forward, the poison was finally purged, his body back to full working order, and his stride became perfectly unhindered. Midnighter's costume was still a bit torn from the blade strikes and there was still dried blood on him, but he was in as good of working order as he was since the day he of his first memory's as Midnighter.

He walked towards the elevator, and, after pausing for only a moment, decided to take the stairs. Who knew what kind of toxins might have been unleashed, and besides, better to head upwards towards them as they were descending. He was going to have to hurry all the same, the longer it took him to get and convince the rest of those hero's to help him out, the more likely it was for the enemy to do whatever it was they wanted with that thing they took.

Akuma was right, this wasn't there base, it was a small bunker in the middle of the Mujave Desert. This was were Kruger sent recruits to show who was the most willing to survive. Kruger was circling the Stasis chamber holding the artificial kryptonian, he was examining it. "Of course we are. That man wouldn't have let me even say that little threat before we ported unless he wanted us to leave. He was hoping to track us down the the templar base before killing us and taking our little friend here...and here is the proof.." Kriger knelt down to look at a little clamp on the stasis chamber with a blinking light, he pried it off and saw a smear of blood on it; and he couldn't bleed and Akuma wasn't in the fight..so it was obviously his new adversary's. "We'll leave this here for him and take one of the sand dune tunnelers back to the Templar Sanctum.." Kruger activated the fiber muscles in his suit to lift up the stasis chamber and carried it into the under. inside was one of the dune tunnelers, a large vehicle that could burrow through sand while leaving no trace. Kruger put the stasis chamber inside and hoped into the driver seat. "Get in. We have a few hours before the guest of honor starts to die on us.." As Akuma would hop in, Kruger started up the tunneler and they drove into the sand and began their way to the Santum. Kruger activated his communicator to get into contact with Ra's. "Ra's we have the package, had a few snags here and there but I need to send a few cyber drones to the location were a left a homing beacon, I'm sure you'll be able to find it, we have a little "hero" who might be following us..." he then changed his feed back to the sanctum and contacted Celia. "Celia, we're heading to you..but try to get the tele porter working again and send us over there asap, I don't want to leave any trail to the sanctum..."

Thank goodness he was struck with indecision to take the stairs or to take the elevator, because the individuals he was looking for literally bumped right into him.

The young African American must not have been not much older then sixteen, though the lightning bolt emblazoned blue and yellow costume gave away who it was instantly, Static Shock, one of the teen titans. If it wasn't obvious before, the electrical energy flowing around his hands was more then a dead give away. Following close behind him was the rest of the team that the Damonite A.I. had informed him about.

"Calm down, I'm on your side....circumstances dictating otherwise," Midnighter said, taking a quick glance around the room. It was rather suspicious to be in a location that had been broken into and left alone, but he was going to have to be convincing, besides, his outfit was covered with slash's along his outfit, along with dried blood in those areas as well as dried blood from his nose. He looked like he had been in a fight, but for all they knew, he was the one killing the guards, he had to convince them otherwise and fast.

"Alright, I know how this looks but your going to have to go with me on this one. I am not the one who broke into the base...at least not the first one. Technically, if we want to start pointing fingers, we've all broken in, but if we want to avoid the police and bad PR, your going to have to listen to me, can we have at least that?"

Midnighter waited for their response, he was well aware time was ticking, but he needed to know if the Titans and their handler(ers) were willing to hear him out. He was certain they were, hero's always wanted to hear the sob story.

drake followed static in and saw the guy he was standing with "bloody hell was batman givein his cloths away? who is this bloak"