Land of the Free and Home of the Wayne

Chapter 16: Land of the Free and Home of the Return of the Peafowl

Jon yawned leaning in further to the body next to him staring at the T.V. in front of him watching the news with Damian perched on a chair across the room. Marinette walked into the room laughing with Chloe.

"In other news, an escaped prisoner who seems to have a connection to a powerful terrorist is currently running around Gotham evading police. Lila Rossi a seventeen year old Parisian girl who came to Gotham on a field trip to Wayne Manor escaped with some help of a giant monster who witnesses say looked like a giant baby. Lila Rossi is considered armed and dangerous if you have a location on the girl please contact authorities immediately. In other news, Joker has just gotten his 57th life sentence to Arkham..." the teens drowned out the T.V. in their own shock.

"Hawkmoth is here, in America?" Jon asked getting closer to Adrien.

"We don't really have a choice do we?" Damian asked looking back at Dick who was standing in the doorway.

"Jim said she escaped a little over an hour ago which is just enough time to get a good footing. There's no way she could have gotten far but unfortunately, we don't have a choice on setting up security around the house which means limited patrol and giving up our patrol spots to other heroes," Dick said ushering the kids out of the room. Diana was down the stairs in a little room off the side working on gala dresses and tuxes. She saw the kids walking around talking about a terrorist and walked out to join them confused on what was happening.

"She has to be brought to justice," Jon said and Damian just sighed.

"That doesn't mean we can't rough her up a little first, what's a villain without a few bruises?" Damian asked dragging his friend along with him.

"It's going to be like looking for a needle in a haystack Dami, we should wait and find some information on where she might be first," Jon tugged on Damian's sleeve slowing him down.

Marinette and Adrien followed the two knowing it was Batman's city and not theirs they knew that they had to be careful or they would be taken off the case completely but it also didn't help that they had never done something like this before. Looking for a suspect was a lot different than just stopping an akuma that would be in plain sight.

"We can't just stand here and do nothing though, she's hurt a lot of people," Marinette offered and Jon sighed.

"I guess we're going on a good old fashioned stake out," Damian said smirking leading the three down to the Batcave.

...

Lex Luthor sat in his office looking out the window before hearing a knock on his door. "It's open!" he yelled and a young girl with navy tight pants, a feather like top, and pulled back hair with a purple and blue feather in it walked in with a man in a purple suit and mask. "I assume you're Hawkmoth and Mayura?" Lex asked.

"You would be correct, Mayura could not join us today so her trainee took her place. We have much to discuss," Hawkmoth said and the two sat down.

"It appears we do, your work is fascinating however, you must prove to me that you are willing to do anything to get what you asked for," Lex said holding a lead case on his desk.

"What are you asking for?" Hawkmoth asked curious.

"Get me Superboy and you can have the material you need," Lex said sliding a green rock across the table. "This will weaken him but on his own he is at his most vulnerable, make sure to get him at a time when Robin isn't around."

"If you don't mind me asking, why do you need Superboy?" Mayura asked glancing with her cold eyes at the bald man.

"He's only a small part of a bigger scheme child, you would never understand," Lex said and the two were dismissed from the room jumping out a window and up onto a roof detransforming into Gabriel Agreste and Lila Rossi.

"This will be more complicated than I originally thought." Gabriel said looking at his phone seeing that Lila was a wanted criminal and Hawkmoth was spotted helping her escape her sentence.

"I can handle it as Mayura, it will be simple as long as stupid Ladybug and Chat Noir don't get in my way," Lila waved off Gabriel's concern. "I mean you know I'd do anything to help Adrien, Mr. Agreste," Lila added smirking retransforming into Mayrua leaping across rooftops until she was in Gotham. She could see a red cape in the distance and she landed carefully behind him.

"Hello?" Superboy called out to Mayura walking toward her.

"No way! You're Superboy!" Mayura walked closer slipping the lead case out of her pants clicking a button and it popped open as she approached him.

"Stay where you are, don't come any closer," Superboy backed up before feeling suddenly sick and pressing an emergency button on his belt which would notify the Batcave the the Fortress of Solitude to his location. A green rock was brought up to the girl's face illuminating it a light green and a devious smile on her face.

"I know someone who wants to see you," Mayura kicked Superboy in the chest and he fell down struggling to get back up. "Oh save it you worthless baby." Mayura kicked him in the side while he was down making him cough and loose his grip on the pavement falling down again. "You shouldn't even be here you worthless alien, go back to your own planet." Mayura kicked him in the head turning the boy over and his eyes flickered red.

"You're forgetting one thing," Superboy spit blood out on the ground below him.

"Oh yeah," Mayura smiled getting down on his level.

"I'm half human too." Superboy smiled getting up to his feet blocking her punch and kick with his arms tripping her and throwing the kryptonite off the roof. "Humans are resilient, you would know that if you were one. Doesn't even look like to have a heart," Superboy teased before falling down onto the rooftop unconscious.

"I thought you said you had it handled," Hawkmoth said standing over the body kryptonite in hand.

"Whatever, let's just get out of here," Mayura said as the two jumped back to Metropolis a shadow watching them a tracker being clipped to their location following them.

"Those are two of the worst villains I've ever seen," a red haired man said slinging his bow back on his back and a red haired girl with an axe next to him.

"They still got the kid, let's go." the two followed sitting outside the office watching the exchange before seeing several more villains enter the room.

"This is going to be a problem."