Volume 4: The Last Day Chapter 52: In good times, look to the scumbag Kang; in bad times, look to Mason; in desperate times, look to our Catwoman
"Put away your little scare pistol, land man!"
The blue motorcycle was chasing a ball of kind light in the deserted Miller Harbor in the dark and rainstorm, and Aquaman's low warning sounded in Harley and Mason's ears:
"You've had enough trouble for tonight. Surrender! Don't expect to use your evil portals hidden underground anymore. The mages are sealing them.
You have nowhere to escape.”
"You got this information from Charles using the Lasso of Truth, right?"
Mason, sitting in the truck, was pale, but he had no intention of surrendering. He held the De-Lighter in his hand, intensifying his desire to escape safely in order to guide Harley in the direction of escape.
While driving at lightning speed, he pressed his stomach hard and asked:
“But I am curious whether my loyal Kite Man has told you about certain characteristics of the World Gate. For example, the gate is useless just by sealing one side.
It opens on both sides.
And luckily or unfortunately, the person on the other side of the door also has a key..."
"Um?"
Aquaman, who appeared here in a macho manner, raised his eyebrows in surprise, and then saw Mason pressing hard on his wrist.
This made him feel that something was wrong, and then he heard the vibration coming from underground and the screams and cries of pain from the mages who were sealing the door to the world in the headphones.
They were attacked!
Mason Cooper, this evil guy, actually had a back-up plan in this desperate situation? Arthur was disgusted by the feeling of having an endless supply of trump cards.
This reminded him of his first encounter with Batman...
Those are not fond memories.
"Go! Harley!"
Mason shouted hoarsely, and Harley immediately twisted the handle of the motorcycle, turned it in a circle, and pressed the red button that Mr. K usually forbad her to touch.
The scooter instantly reached supersonic speed, and with Harley's twin ponytails flying in the rain and screaming, the car whooshed out of the danger zone.
The white ball of light that had been hovering in front of them was also accelerating synchronously, guiding them to the edge area bordering Miller Harbor and Gotham city.
Aquaman, who had been here like a cat waiting for a mouse to come to his door, saw that his target was about to run away, so he roared and threw the trident in his hand that was shining with lightning.
The magic weapon forged by the first Poseidon broke through the sonic boom the moment it was used, and in the cold and heavy rain, it attracted lightning from the sky and came towards Mason's motorcycle like a missile.
“You’re going to be hit!”
Harley screamed, then closed her eyes as if accepting her fate and hugged Mason, as if she was planning to go to hell with Mr. K and become a pair of mandarin duck ghosts.
But Mason squinted and stared at the rearview mirror of the scooter in front of him.
He had already seen a familiar figure flying over in the rain in the dark night, which made him finally feel relieved in this critical situation.
"Whoosh"
The mighty trident had already touched the rear wheel of the scooter, but was pulled in mid-air by a strange spider web that flew out.
The pull of several spider webs caused the trident to rapidly lose kinetic energy in the air, and when more spider webs stretched this dangerous weapon to its limit, it was forced to stop less than ten feet away from Mason's head.
Old Peter, who came from Osborne Tower through the World Gate to support Mason, tried his best to shake off the spider web in his hand. He stepped on a container with his feet and was pulled by the huge force, even causing the box full of goods under his feet to roll forward. Finally, he stopped the dangerous weapon under the extreme stretch of the huge vines that broke out from the ground.
Then, with Old Peter and Poison Ivy shouting through gritted teeth, they threw the weapon wrapped in spider webs into the sea.
Behind him, the fully armed Daredevil hit Aquaman on the back of his head with a billy stick with steel wire in his hand. While he was knocked away by the latter's punch, he also successfully pulled Aquaman who was chasing him to the ground of Miller Port.
Behind Mason, the terrifying vines completely blocked off half of Miller Harbor and the area where Aquaman was located, blocking all possibilities for the dangerous guy to hunt down Mason.
But this level of plant summoning would probably drain Poison Ivy's strength in an instant. Fortunately, Old Spider and Lawyer Ma were there to hold her back.
"Thanks, all three."
Mason shouted to Old Peter and Lawyer Ma in the communication:
"You guys tie him up, then retreat to the city. Don't get entangled with them. I'll find another way to leave."
"Do you have any other way to escape?"
The old spider in the rainstorm exclaimed:
"That door is sealed. We just tried to open it from this side and it's impossible."
"I can always find a way, Peter."
Mason said breathlessly:
“I’m sorry that I ended up involving you all. You and Lawyer Ma must not get caught. Ivy can’t fight now, so you have to take her away as well.
I don’t think Zha Kang and his gang will be able to snatch someone from the Justice League again in the short term.”
"Don't worry about us. We have a map of Gotham City. Ms. Ivy is also a local. We know how to hide. But your situation looks terrible."
The old spider turned around and fought with Aquaman in the rain, while taking the time to respond:
"Hurry up and find a place to treat you. Damn it, listening to the sound of your voice, I'm really afraid that your lungs will burst if you breathe a few more times."
"Mason, there's someone coming from the sky!"
Harley, who had escaped on a motorcycle, screamed at this time. Mason looked up despite the headache and saw several black-painted armed helicopters surrounding them at a rapid speed in his dizzying vision.
The helicopters were speeding through the heavy rain, filled with fully armed soldiers, and on their fuselages were strange red, black and white paint jobs that formed a strange glasses-like pattern.
"Sky Eye Society?"
Mason recognized at a glance this official organization that specialized in handling matters related to superhumans and had a very bad reputation. Even though the captain was very weak, he still sneered at this moment.
Coughing and saying:
"I'm down and out, but I'm not someone that anyone can bully. Amanda Waller actually had the idea of targeting me."
"I've seen them before. They're a nasty bunch."
Harley Quinn also quickly recognized the guys who were trying to take advantage of this time. She had come into contact with these guys when she worked in Arkham Asylum before.
She knew that this organization would take some dangerous super villains away from Arkham every once in a while. Sometimes the people would come back, but most of the time, being taken away by them meant disappearing from the face of the earth.
"Don't be afraid, Mr. K. I will protect you!"
She smiled at Mason, grabbed the handlebars of the motorcycle, took out a clown bomb from her back pocket, and prepared to turn around and use the speed of the flying motorcycle to blow the bad guys to pieces.
Mason in the truck began to shiver.
But he still drew the silver pistol from his waist, and forced himself to endure the discomfort as he turned around and aimed in the air.
The helicopter approaching in the air on a rainy night came into range, and the Eye of Death was activated. The dark rain in the night sky and rain around him stopped instantly, and the replica of Johnny Silverhand's legendary pistol opened a magazine in an instant with Mason's rage.
The front windshield of the Sky Eye helicopter a hundred meters behind him exploded, and several people including the pilot were shot in the head by kinetic bullets that ricocheted wildly in the cabin, causing the armed Black Hawk to sway and lose control and fall into the rolling sea below.
This scene immediately alerted several other helicopters, and they seemed to have received orders to start shooting at targets in the air.
Harley was shot while trying to protect Mason, but just as Mason grabbed the bag and prepared to call Mr. Hunter for help, a strange whistle suddenly shot into the sky from the rolling waves below.
As Mason watched in astonishment, the rocket fired accurately and hit the helicopter behind, turning the pursuers into a dazzling fireball.
Then more rockets were launched into the air, and in just a few seconds the team sent by the Sky Eye to pick up the leaks was completely destroyed.
The white ball of light that had been guiding Mason and Harley in the stormy night also flew towards the sea below and disappeared. In the rolling of turbid waves, a black-painted submarine turned on its guidance lights, and several red spots of light guided Mason and Harley to the landing direction in the waves.
Harley, who was shot, endured the pain and landed the flying motorcycle with one hand. When Mason approached the hatch of the submarine, he vaguely saw several silent warriors in black waiting.
"This is... the Assassin's League?"
Mason was now suffering from a splitting headache, and the painful rejection reaction was rapidly devouring his last bit of clarity and rationality.
He couldn't hold on any longer.
With a painful groan, he thrust the gun into Harley's hand and told her:
"Go down...tell Talia...her son...is in my hands!"
After saying that, Mason's head tilted and he completely fainted.
He had somewhat underestimated the severity of the rejection reaction of the Superman Enhancer. It seemed that it was a bit too difficult for him to accept this super enhancement given his current physical condition.
Harley looked at the unconscious Mason with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth. She was so anxious that she didn't care about anything else. She followed Mason's advice and descended towards the flashing light below.
Under the silent gaze of a group of black-clad warriors, the flying motorcycle quickly landed in the hatch area above the modified submarine.
Mason guessed correctly that the leader of these black-clad warriors who suddenly appeared to provide support was none other than Talia al Ghul, whom he had met before.
The fox-like woman put her hands on her hips and looked at Mason, who was in a bad condition on the motorcycle. She shook her head and waved her hand to Harley, who was holding a baseball bat and a pistol and staring at her viciously, like a mother wolf protecting her cubs, and said:
"Don't worry, little girl, I don't mean to hurt you, on the contrary, I'm here to help."
“Bullshit!”
Harley screamed:
"If you wanted to help, why didn't you show up earlier? You had to choose this time. Judging from the speed of your actions, I know you were well prepared. You just wanted to take advantage of something!
You're as much a piece of shit as Amanda Waller!"
"Yeah, we just want to take advantage of the opportunity."
Talia openly admitted what Harley said. She brushed her long black hair and said calmly:
"Adding icing on the cake is something only fools do. Smart people know that helping others in need can gain friendship. Come on, bring Mason with me. His condition is very bad now and we can't delay any longer.
I have a cure for him.
Lo and behold, he started vomiting blood.
This is a sign of severe internal damage. His heartbeat has slowed down. Harley Quinn, you were a medical doctor, you know what this means, right?
Do you want me to continue?"
Harley was anxious and angry. As a PhD candidate, she knew that her beloved Mason was in a bad condition, but Quinn was roaring in her heart, telling her not to trust these bastard assassins.
If she handed Mason over now, she and Mr. K would be completely under the control of this evil woman.
This is definitely not the situation Mr. K wants to see.
Just as Harley was protecting Mason and taking out a bomb filled with Joker gas and preparing to fight to the death, a low sonic boom exploded from the high clouds.
At this moment, everyone looked up and saw a ghost-like bat fighter quietly appearing, flying over the disturbing sea on automatic pilot, and then a tall figure jumped down from the sky.
She descended from the sky like a black cat stretching its body, and slid down hundreds of meters in a completely unscientific posture, finally landing lightly beside Harley and Mason who were surrounded by assassin warriors.
"Go on! I'm listening."
A standard superhero-style black monster landed here and popped out its biological claws. This terrifying image made the surrounding assassin warriors draw their weapons one after another. Talia also took a step back vigilantly and held the pistol at her waist.
"Huh, a bunch of cowards who want to pick peaches but have no ability, you dare to threaten my little Mason?"
Lady Selina in the Venom suit form moved her neck. Under the ferocious "helmet" covered with white eye spots, her mouth full of sharp teeth made everyone around her feel intimidated.
But the next moment, the symbiote was very gently retracted into Catwoman's body, revealing the chic and handsome figure of the older sister wearing a windbreaker and long boots.
She leaned over and touched Mason's hot cheek, then glanced at Talia, whose face changed slightly, and said sarcastically:
"You defeated stinky fox! Didn't I tell you not to show up in my territory? What? Since you can't snatch a man from me, you're targeting my little brother?
You wish for it!"
"Selina Kyle, you haunted bitch!"
Talia reached out her hand to stop the hostility of the assassins around her.
She glanced past the disruptive Catwoman and toward Miller Harbor in the distance. There were flashes of lightning and roars everywhere. It was obvious that Aquaman was fighting a desperate battle with Mason's friends who had been brought over from another world.
She brushed her long black hair and said to Catwoman who was protecting Mason and Harley:
"When Arthur Curry is free, we won't be able to leave. The Seven Seas is his territory... Your brother Mason can't hold on any longer, Selina has transformed into a monster.
Are you sure you want to waste your time standing here confronting me?"
"whispering sound."
Catwoman snorted, and put her hand on Harley's shoulder, who was ready to activate the bomb and die with the warriors. She said to Talia:
"Can you save Mason?"
"We have a treasure in our hands that can bring the dead back to life."
Talia folded her arms and said:
"But we need to travel halfway around the world to Nandarbat. I have arranged a flight at Gotham Airport, and it will take off in fifteen minutes."
"Then let's go."
Catwoman waved her hand, bent down and carried Mason out of the truck bed, followed Talia into the submarine, and when she entered the cabin, she suddenly asked in a low voice:
"Who notified you to come here?"
"Hehe, guess?"
Talia laughed strangely, glanced at Catwoman, and said in a long voice:
"That man knows who can help him at the critical moment, and he knows that as long as he needs it, the entire Assassin's League will work according to his will.
He always has a lot of plans and a lot of cards.
And we are one of them.
Selina, he knew the difference between a pet and a companion.
But you’re a little bit behind.”
"Some people who are used as tools really have no self-awareness!"
Catwoman's face changed slightly, but then she retorted:
"You don't even think about how I was able to accurately target your submarine. Yes, that man has a lot of cards up his sleeve, but it's clear that in his heart he knows very well who he can trust."
The next moment, the two strong women looked at each other, and the collision of their gazes almost sparked a spark of fire.
"That's enough, you two!"
Harley couldn't bear it any longer, she screamed:
"Isn't Mr. K more important now? If you want to be jealous, can you please pick a good time? My lovely Mr. K is vomiting blood again!
Damn it!
I'm sure I'm pissed off by you two!"
