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---Port of San francisco---

Doomguy and Superman walked out to see the gigantic port, thousands, maybe even ten thousands of cargo crates were stacked across the area with civilian and armed personnel overlooking the entire area with all being the national guard.

“How the hell are we going to find intergang in all of that?” Doomguy asks,

“Keep your head down and listen to what they are saying” Superman replies as he scans the area with his x-ray vision, looking for any clues.

Doomguy fired his meathook onto a crane and used himself as a pendulum to swing across to the other stacks of crates and as he landed, he released the meathook as the chain reeled itself back into the super shotgun.

“There is a cargo crate full of explosive material and intergang patrolling on an empty ship nearby, set up explosives and if the van gets here, we blow the ship up and use it as a distraction to swoop in and grab Jon” Doomguy suggests

Doomguy says as he looks over at the ship, with some rust over it as he allows his on board AI to scan the ship, seeing the contents of the cargo and the number of intergang on board it as well.

“There is enough explosives in that ship to blow the port to kingdom come, I go for it?” Doomguy asks with concern.

“If that’s the case, get it under your control, they’ll use it as a bargaining chip in a stand off” Superman approves Doomguy to do his mission.

Doomguy jumps into the water right next to ship, allowing a slight stealth approach to keep his element of surprise.

His scans reveal that the crate is on the other side of the ship while inside the cargo the bay with thirty intergang patrolling the area.

He uses an open palm strike to create a sizable hole on the side of the hull, as he then uses his other hand to increase the diameter to be large enough for him to walk through.

Doomguy got himself inside, he pulled out his plasma rifle and turns on his night vision to see the rest of the dark unlit insides of the ship, obviously being old and unmaintained from the rust, mold, and cockroaches running across the floor.

“If there's anything these degenerates are good at, it’s how good they can make anywhere filthy” Doomguys insults the hygiene and the ability of intergang to keep areas clean.

---outskirts of the city---

Batman and Robin watched from the top of an apartment complex and down at the streets below, the bright afternoon sun removing their advantage of attacking in the dark.

“Father, how can you allow Doomguy to kill but not me?” Robin asks, his background of being a bred killer by the League of Assassins makes killing as natural as breathing.

"The Bat family sticks to a no-kill policy" Batman replied to his son.

“So that’s why you won’t kill a psychotic clown who’s done enough to receive war criminal charges,” Robin asks.

“Killing Joker is what he wants.” Batman tells him as they both look down in an alleyway as men walk into it.

Batman turns on the detective mode in his cowl, allowing him to listen in on the conversation below.

“Did you hear, Superman’s kid is going to cloned by some genetic corporation” The thug said.

Batman waited for a few moments, seeing if there was anything else the goon was going to say to his friend.

“Why aren’t we attacking?” Damian asked.

“Reckless aggression won't lead to anything,” Batman said, using his grappling hook to swing across, trying to take a better view of the alley below.

He lets the two gangsters talk, seeing if they will say anything else important but instead, they start lighting up cigarettes and smoking.

“Let’s get outta here, feel’s like someone is watching us” One of them said as they both walk out of the alleyway, heading towards a building to enter

Batman walked across the rooftop to see them heading out onto the street, he wants to move across onto the other rooftops to keep track but with the afternoon sun, it would simply jeopardize his stealth.

Instead, he threw a small drone, it quickly zoomed around, keeping track of the two gangsters batman was tracking before.

The inside of the building was very ‘yellow’ the walls seemed to have a lot of mold on them as the mini-drone continued following the two gangsters until they reached their apartment.

As the two gangsters open the apartment door, the drone immediately flew in, only to see roughly a dozen of other gangsters, all affiliated with intergang but all sleeping.

The apartment was in a complete mess with unplugged giant speakers, alcohol bottles all over the floors and tables, the slight smog from the heavy smoking was disturbing the camera on the drone, the curtains, along with the windows were shut, and the couches all converted for sleeping.

“So those two woke up and had cigarettes for breakfast?” Robin sarcastically asks, watching the camera feed from his lenses.

As just then, clouds covered the suns light, allowing both batman and robin to swing across with their grappling hooks and on top of the apartment building that the intergang members were all in.

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Batman taps a few buttons on the holographic keyboard on his gauntlet as he fires his grappling hook again on the edge of the roof. He scales his way down until he was level with the bathroom window, using his armored gloves to crack the lock.

He lifts the window as Robin follows, entering the dark, stinking bathroom with the stench being a mix of every horrible smell concocted into one, forcing Robin to plug his nose and breathe through his mouth.

Batman quickly hacks the power grid through his gauntlet and turns off the power for the apartment block as mere seconds later, the drone explodes, releasing a sleep gas that knocks out the two gangsters already awake but puts the rest into a much deeper sleep.

Batman and Robin walk out with gas-mask so as to not inhale the sleeping gas as batman picks up the one of the two gangsters and get out of the apartment the same way they left.

As they got onto the rooff, Robin stepped back as Batman started hanging the gangster by the leg, the blood rushing into the head causes him to wake up.

It didn’t take long before the gangster started screaming out in fear from being upside down and that batman was his interrogator.

“What ‘genetic company’ wants Jon Kent” Batman asks with venom in his voice.

“CADMUS” The gangster blurted out, being scared for his life when he didn’t need to.

“Who runs CADMUS?” Batman asks.

“I don’t know, I swear to god!” He cries out,

Batman lets go of the leg for a split second before grabbing onto it again but only by the ankle, scaring

“It’s run by some government black ops along with Lex-corp” The gangster cries out as batman asks yet another question “Where is Deathstroke?”

But before the gangster could reply, his head exploded from a large caliber round going right through, forcing batman to drop the body and take cover behind a power generator with Robin, knowing that Deathstroke was the one to shoot him.

“I knew you and your Justice League would come for Jon. so I’ll just tell you where he is before I kill you” Slade shouted from across the other rooftop, firing another shot with his rifle.

The shot went right through the generator, narrowly missing the two but it made batman take action by throwing several pellets, creating a connected plume of smoke that allowed them to run across in cover without getting shot.

But as Batman and Robin were running across the rooftops, Deathstroke had swapped to his submachine gun as he blind fired it into the smoke with Robin catching a stray bullet straight into calf, causing him to scream in pain while falling over

“Father, just go without me, I’ll tend to my wounds myself!” Robin ordered his own father to leave him behind with the smoke from the pellets was already disappearing.

Batman ran back and pickled him back up “This is no one-man job, we have to stick together” Batman said to him as he picks up Damian.

The shooting stopped as the sounds of a grappling hook being launched were heard but with Robin already in his arms, batman couldn’t risk a confrontation so instead, he threw an explosive batarang at where Deathstroke was going to land while using his grappling hook to swing across onto another rooftop.

Deathstroke positions himself to slightly avoid the explosive Batarang as he still takes a good brunt of the explosive force, knocking him down onto the ground with his armor protecting him.

“Always has an escape plan” Deathstroke compliments Batman's ability to escape from anything as he gets up.

Meanwhile, Batman had managed to get out of Slade's line of sight as he starts to treat his sons wound, using a pair of tweezers he had to pull out the bullet while applying pressure, preventing any blood loss.

He quickly tears apart some of Robin's cape and uses it as a bandage to wrap up the leg while also administering some painkillers.

“I feel a bit better now,” Damian said trying to stop his father from administering the anethesia

“It hit the bone, you’re going to have to stay out of this” Batman said as he injected the drug, causing Damian to fall asleep.

The clouds darkened as it started to rain with Deathstroke putting away his SMG as he goes to pull out his broadsword.

“I didn’t bring my katanas because I knew I’d have one of you knocked out before the fight” Deathstroke snarls, showing he too can create elaborate plans like batman.

Batman gets into fighting posture with his right arm up to protect his head, left arm down to protect from body shots, slightly leaning towards Slade and his heels off of the ground for maneuverability.

With both fighter sin their fighting stance, Slade makes his first move by using his grappling hook to pull Batman off balance.

The grappling hook misses as Batman jumps out of the way but made the mistake by taking his eyes off of his opponent, this small window allowed Slade to jump closer, using his momentum from his leap to swing his sword.

Batman puts his left arm up to block the sword, however it manages to scratch his chin by the very tip of it.

But with both of Deathstrokes hands focused on pushing the sword, Batman leans back to line up his shot, as he uses his right hand to punch Slades jaw, damaging the helmet and causing Slade to fall back.

But with Batman compromised in his leaned back posture, he forces himself to perform a backflip, landing on his hands and pushing himself away from Slade.

He lands right on the edge of the rooftop, back in his initial fighting posture as Slade tries to stab him right through the chest.

Instead of jumping away, batman dodged by going underneath the blade to try grappling Deathstroke to the ground, only to be met a knee, straight to the face, causing him to fall over the edge of the roof.

But before he fell off the roof, Batman fired his grappling hook, grabbing onto Slades chest and pulling him down to the ground with him.

The two fighters start grappling against each other mid-fall, seeing who can use one another as a meat shield to absorb the shock from landing.

Batman and deathstroke push each other away with Slade being pushed into an apartment window and batman managing to soften his landing by using his cape to slow his descent.

As batman landed, he fell onto his knees to the floor as blood drips from his nose because of the knee he took from Slade.

“Graaagh” Deathstroke roared as he came jumping down, trying to slice Batman in half with his sword, only to miss as Batman rolled out of the way.

Batman quickly got up and threw a batarang at Deathstroke, stunning him for a few moments, as batman rushes in, delivering several powerful punches until his helmet broke off, creating a weak spot for him to target.

With Slades head revealed, batman delivered a tornado kick, connecting against the left side of Slades head which sent him flying towards a wall, dropping his sword in the process.

Slade pushed himself away from the wall as he regains his fighting composure but seeing that his primary weapon was on the floor, it would be a beating sentence to go for it as he realizes what he can do instead.

He pulls out his submachine gun and starts spraying it, forcing batman to run behind a trash container.

As batman ran behind the container, deathstroke ran towards his sword and tossed away the submachine gun as soon as it ran out of ammunition.

But as Deathstroke picked up his sword, he noticed a white gel substance in the shape of a bat next to him, no doubt some explosive gel that Batman had placed down in case he went for the sword.

The gel exploded, sending Deathstroke into the base of a street light.