The rest of the team milled around Orbit, Plas and Hellfire as the two tried to save the one, each member unsure of what to do. Even Ditto was at a loss. There was so much going on all at the one time it was hard to prioritize, hard to decide which crises to tackle first, where to leverage their strength to make best use of it while letting everywhere else burn. Between Gabe’s injuries and the attacks by these new cyborgs this was easily the biggest disaster they had ever faced. There was no reference point in how to deal with this, the only thing that was obvious being that any choices they made now would almost certainly have an effect on the future well-being on not just Star City but all of the world. But what too choose?

Their distraction was interrupted by a sudden influx of cold air. There sounded a whoosh, like some invisible giant was taking a great gulp of air, and the space behind them shimmered as if the molecules where dancing. The noise built to a crescendo in the space between heartbeats, until it built to a reverberating boom, the likes of which makes you think your eardrums might have popped. A yellow energy materialized in front of them, quickly forming a spinning portal. From the portal stepped out three recognizable forms. First came the golden blur, the Living Lightning, the Fastest Man Alive, The Flash. Behind him, cape billowing in the wind generated by the boom tube, was the Dark Knight of Gotham himself, Batman. The Caped Crusader was straining with the third man, struggling to cart the legless torso of Cyborg, recently returned to the League and the obvious source of the boom tube. All three bore signs of battle, the partially dismembered Cyborg being the most obvious but the Batman and Flash were both blood stained and wearied too. The Dark Knight lay Cyborg down on the floor, the part-man part-machine propping himself up on his elbows.

"Team I. . . " began Batman, his voice all gravel and hard edges, before he glimpsed Hellfire lain out on the couch. For a moment only does the Dark Knights steely composure slip at the sight of his young ward injured, the image of the stern, unrelenting warrior of the night giving way to a hurting old man for just a heartbeat, before he slips his iron mask back on and returning straight to business.

"What has happened too Hellfire? His wounds don't seem consistent to the weapons the Tomorrow Woman's forces have at their disposal." Says the Batman. It isn't a question, not really, not the usual request for information a normal person would make. From him it is a statement demanding the blanks be filled in, waiting only for the other person to comply. Ditto took lead, filling the Dark Knight into what has happened. When he finished the Batman seemed pensive for a few minutes before walking towards Gabe, pulling Orbit away, not urgently, before leaning in-front of the pyromancer. The Caped Crusader spent several more moments looking Gabe over, before turning to the Golden Speedster. 

"Flash, there is a bottle in the top left hand cabinet of the med bay marked LOS anti-toxin 16, Tiger Snake. Syringes too." The Flash didn't question him, instead just diapering in a crack of thunder and a streak of lightning. The Fastest Man was back as quick as he had left, a small bottle of anti-toxin in one hand and a syringe gun in the other. He handed them to Batman who then applied it to Gabe, injecting him in the young heroes arm. 

"You should start to regain use of your limbs shortly. Fortunately for us that means you'll be battle ready in about twenty minutes. Though I'd like to find out why you were battling the League of Shadows, and I'm assuming it has something to do with the conspicuous-by-his-absence Fenrir, that is a question for after this current crises is solved. Gather round team, I've got a lot to tell you and not a lot of time to tell it." The team did as they were told, all listening in rapt attention to what the Dark Knight had to say. 

"Clara Kendall, currently the president of the United States, has instructed her newly minted cyborg police forces to attack the Justice League while simultaneously declaring martial law in all the major cities across America. She has combined this with open executions in the meta-human prisons. No one is quite sure why yet, though I aim to find out. All we do know is that we need to stop her now before she consolidates her power any further." 

"The League is either fighting for their lives or trying to stop fatalities building. Taking down Kendall is being left to us. To do this we are going to utilize a three pronged attack. The team will be split into two. Team one will be Hellfire, Owlet, Frostbite, Shadowdancer, and Brick, who will be laying siege to the Star City police headquarters, for two reasons. Firstly Star City PD is one of Kendall's strongest forces, and she will almost certainly believe that is where the team is making its concentrated attack, allowing team two consisting of myself, Ditto, Shock, Orbit, Plastic Man, Fate and Brick to assault the Whitehouse, and Kendall, directly and covertly."

"But even that is a holding action. Our real offensive is on a plane none of us can access, save Cyborg. He shall remain here, injured as he is, awaiting team one to reach the mainframe hub located in the SCPD commissioners office. There you will insert a flash-drive containing an linking software to Cyborg, allowing him access the polices virtual up-link. It is our belief that the cyborg police force is linked by a kind of quantum entanglement, meaning that if our Cyborg can disrupt their signal then we should be able to cripple the entire force. Any questions?"