Worst Case Scenario

Chapter 68: Desperate Measures

Cheshire was fast, closing the distance between herself and Robin in less than a second, sai ready to strike.

Unfortunately for her, Robin was pretty fast too, and had already jumped into the air, kicked off of the wall and smashed his heel into her mask, knocking it askew. Unable to see, Cheshire swung her sai blindly with her left hand as she readjusted her mask with her right. In a second, her vision was clear again.

But Robin was gone.

Cheshire whirled around on instinct, only to receive a boot to the shoulder. She blocked Robin's spin kick with her right arm, but his hand darted out and jabbed at her wrist, causing the sai to slip from her grasp.

Robin pulled away and smiled. So far, things were going-

Cheshire punched him in the face.

Hard.

"You know, you're a lot hotter in the old suit" Kid Flash said, ducking out of the way of another sword swipe from Tigress.

"Excuse me?" Tigress demanded, pausing in her assault in her confusion.

"Just an observation. I thought you'd appreciate my input. You know, now that you're a sexy super-villainess and all that."

Tigress grunted and resumed trying to dismember him.

New strategy them the speedster thought. If he couldn't stay outside of her range...

"Jeez, if you hate me that much, then why'd you kiss me?" Wally teased, darting forwards and grabbing onto the sword hilt. Now he was too close for her to slash.

Tigress growled and kicked him in the chest, sending the speedster crashing into the side of the hallway. "Just shut up and die already so I don't have to listen to any more of your stupidity, okay?"

Wally grabbed a metal box bolted into the wall and pulled himself to his feet. On closer inspection, the box had a little glass door revealing a fire extinguisher (man, there were a lot of those around here).

"Oh, you'd rather check out my rugged good looks in silence instead of hearing my genius thoughts?" he said with a fake sigh. "I guess I can live with that."

Robin had said to push ALL of Artemis's buttons, mental, physical and emotional.

Tigress charged, stabbing forwards with her blade. Kid Flash smiled and spun away to the left, causing the sword's tip to penetrate the side of the box.

"Nice try" he said, lashing out with a kick that connected with her chin. Tigress stumbled backwards, her hands slipping off of the sword, leaving it stuck in the box. KF moved to push his advantage with a left hook, only to be hit by a flying Robin.

"Dude!" the speedster cried out as they crashed to the ground. "Watch it!"

"Sorry, Kid" Robin said, leaping to his feet and lashing out with a pair of kicks designed to force both Tigress and Cheshire to stay back. Tigress retreated but Cheshire kept coming, slashing at him with her (probably poisoned, definitely sharp) fingernails. Robin dodged and rolled to the side, unclipping his cape and tossing it in Cheshire's face.

Kid Flash turned to face Tigress, only to duck under a bolt from her miniature crossbow, which slammed into the wall.

"Careful!" he shouted. "You might shoot your eye out with that! Or mine!"

Tigress's heel collided with his chin, knocking him to the ground again as she reloaded. Robin somersaulted across the floor, scooping up Cheshire's dropped sai and tossing it at Tigress, knocking the crossbow out of her hand, the blade slicing through the bowstring. The girl tried to recover it, only to get a fist to the jaw from Kid Flash.