Chapter 25: Assassin's Greed

         Danny and White were giving Valerie a tour of Mount Justice. Even though she would still be living in Amity Park, there was a zeta tube nearby for her to get to the cave. Things were still a little bit confusing for her.


         ''So, let me see if I have this right,'' she says. ''You two were rescued by these heroes, then discovered that Nightwing was your long lost older brother. Then the Guys In White tried to kidnap you again, but only managed to poison White. So you went to the Ghost Zone for the cure and were reunited with your ghost family and they found out that you're royalty. Then you came to recruit me. Also, they don't know your real identities because of a tradition thing in the Bat Family.''


        ''Yeah, that pretty much covers it,'' Danny said.


       ''But you skipped the part about us kicking the Box Ghost's butt again,'' White chuckled. ''Not that it's anything new.''


        Valerie looked him straight in the eyes, as if knowing he wasn't telling her everything. Well, if he didn't even tell his own brothers, than she was definitely out of the question.


         ''You sure you told me everything,'' she asked, looking into White's eyes.


        ''Yep. Totally. One-hundred percent. Look at the time. Got to go. Bye,'' the siren said very quickly, then flew down the hall faster than any bird.


          ''Well, he certainly has calm down,'' Valerie says.


         ''What can you do,'' Danny shrugged. 


                                                                  *****Time Skip*****


      The team was flying above the ocean, one their way to Santa Prisca. Most of the team seemed annoyed at this. Phantom, Gold Siren, Red Arrow, Red Huntress, Blue Beetle, and Beast Boy didn't know why. They were all the newest to the team.


        ''It's like it just has to be Bane's island,'' Dick complained. ''There always seems to be trouble on the island.''


         ''Mind cluing the newbies in,'' Jaime requested.


         ''Only you and Gar are full newbies,'' Roy says. ''The rest of us have been heroes for years. These things aren't very new to us.''


         ''He's right, you know,'' Danny said. ''Me and Siren also have the team dynamic down. Jazz, Sam, Tucker, and the two of us were a team when protecting Amity Park.''


        This kind of shocked the team, especially Huntress and Nightwing. Before, the two could not even mention their friends and sister without bursting into tears. They were now completely comfortable with it.


        ''So, what is it with this island,'' Gar asks.


         ''We've had a lot of missions here, as there is a lot of trouble for such a small island,'' Dick says.


         ''We've dealt with drug lords, Cult of the Cobra, and even an elaborate plan to out a mole,'' Ma'gann told them.


        ''You guys had a mole,'' Valerie raised an eyebrow.


         ''Turns out, no,'' Kaldur answered. ''Sports Master was just trying to divide the team, which he almost did.''


         ''We all became paranoid about a traitor being on the team,'' Conner says. ''Mainly Artemis, Ma'gann, or me were thought to be the mole.''


         ''I can get that,'' White said. ''You do have the human DNA of Lex Luther. Ma'gann hid that she was a white martian. Not to mention Artemis being the daughter of Huntress and Sports Master, and the sister of Cheshire.''


         They all looked at him with wide eyes.


        ''How the hell did you know all that,'' Artemis glared.


        ''All I did was listen,'' White calmly said. ''My siren powers gives me the ability to hear into a person's heart. I can find out anything I wish just be listening.''


         ''Except Batman, as he does have those walls up around you,'' Danny chuckled.


        ''I'm pretty sure I don't want to know what goes through his head, anyway,'' White says, making his brothers snicker.


         ''Landing in the Santa Prisca jungle, now,'' Ma'gann said.


          The bio-ship landed in the jungle, them going invisible. Miss.Martian set up the telepathic link and they ran into the darkness, toward the old Cobra facility. They all knew that Bane had regained control of his island and was again using it for his drug trafficking. But what he was currently up to was what their mission was about, to find out.


         They came across a warehouse in a large clearing. Bane's goons were everywhere.


         ''We should have a few of us sneak up to the building to see what is going on in there,'' Kaldur says.


         ''Uh... where did Nightwing, Phantom, and Gold Siren go,'' Roy asked, noticing the three missing heroes.


         ''Great,'' Wally sarcastically said. ''Now we have three people that can do that.''


         ''Be safe, Siren,'' Jaime thought.


         The three brothers were sneaking into the warehouse. Nightwing and Siren were both in stealth mode and Phantom was invisible. They were high in the ceiling, on the support beams. The goons seemed hard at work, producing something.


         ''It doesn't smell like they're cooking drugs,'' Danny whispered.


         ''You're right,'' White agreed. ''Smells more like'' *sniff* ''gunpowder.''


         ''Bane's MO has never been weapon's dealing, or making weapons at that,'' Dick says. ''Why start doing this now.''


         ''I'll fly down and have a closer look,'' Danny told them. ''Siren, keep listening in.''


     Phantom floated down, making sure to keep up his invisibility. He flew around the warehouse, looking at the weapons they were making. He noticed that it wasn't just guns and bullets. There were also night sticks, swords, daggers, gas bombs, and even whips. The bullets also seemed to be made of some sort of glowing green material.


      He went back over to his brothers. Gold Siren was deep in thought as he listened to the goons below them. 


         ''Got anything, little brother,'' Dick asked White.


         ''They're saying things about having a buyer that wanted these weapons to fight opponents they have never fought before,'' White says. ''Others are talking about how they had a new customer acting like their provider, giving them materials to make their weapons.''


         ''That corresponds with what i'm seeing, down there,'' Danny said.


         ''What's going on,'' Dick asks him.


          ''They're using a rare black metal to make swords, daggers, night sticks, and the ends of whips,'' Danny explained. ''They're also filling gas bombs with a strange red liquid. And the guns have bullets that are glowing green.''


         ''What could all that mean,'' Dick wonders.


          ''What's going on in there,'' they heard Artemis nearly yell over the link.


          ''What's going on is that there's an assembly line of weapons in here,'' Danny said back.


          ''Weapons made from black metal, glowing green bullets, and red liquid for smoke bombs,'' White says. ''They not only have a provider, but also some buyers.''


          ''Wait, did you say black metal, red liquid, and green bullets that glow,'' Jaime asked.


         ''Yes,'' Danny answered.


          ''Don't you guys see it,'' Jaime asks. ''The black metal has to be black pearl. The red liquid, most likely liquidized Blood Blossoms. And those bullets are probably made from ectoranium.''


        ''They were saying their opponents were those they haven't faced before,'' White says. ''They must be afraid of ghosts and magical creatures. Those three elements are the only ones that can harm or kill us.''


         ''Guess you two scare even our villains,'' Roy chuckled.


        ''We'll take that as a compliment,'' Danny stated.


         ''Guys, I hear a helicopter,'' Conner informed. ''Actually, make that two.''


        ''Now, we get to see who these buyers and providers are,'' Kaldur says.


          The three brothers all quickly got back outside. They hid as two helicopters started landing right in front of the warehouse. One was a helicopter the team recognized as one used by those a part of the League of Assassins. The other was pitch black and seemed like one a rich person would use. 


         The doors opened and the buyers came out. It was Sports Master and Cheshire. Seeing Cheshire made Red Arrow's heart jump, which Siren felt all the way from the other end of the clearing. As for the provider, he was a man in a black suit with black shoes and a red tie. He had long white hair tied in a ponytail.


        ''Oh shoot,'' White swore.


          ''The Fruit-loop has returned,'' Danny sunk his head down.

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