Failed Infiltration

It had been a day since Spawn took Raven under his wing and completed their first mission together as a duo. Right now, they were doing their first patrol together. Raven was sitting on the roof while Spawn was sitting on the ledge looking over the city to see if any crime was about to happen until Spawn's cellphone rang.

"Yeah." Spawn answered.

"Hey Al, I need you and Raven at my office. I wanna discuss something with the two of you." Sean said.

"Alright, we'll be right there." Spawn said before hanging up. He then wrapped his cape around himself and Raven before they were both teleported to Global Tech.

Right as Sean and Anna were in the middle of making out in the former's office, causing Spawn to look away while Raven just blushed at the sight.

"Ahem." Spawn cleared his throat to make himself and Raven known.

He got their attention as Anna stopped for a moment before standing up and fixing her clothes. Sean looked up at his best friend and the newcomer with an annoyed look on his face for the interruption.

"Goddamn, Al! You could've just knocked!" Sean said.

"Well, you could've just said you were about to get it on with Anna before we showed up." Alvin mused.

"Well, sorry! But you forgot to mention that you would take a shortcut here!" Sean shot back playfully. "Anyway, you're gonna want to check this out."

He took out a tablet from his desk and turned it to the news, showing a woman with blonde hair standing in front of the bank.

"In local news, it looks like Spawn has decided to bring some assistance to his war on crime. Just yesterday, Metropolis was introduced to his female partner, now known to us as Raven, when she and Spawn have stopped a robbery here at the Metropolis Bank. It would seem this daring duo has plans for the criminal underworld. The question is: what are their plans now? Will they join the Justice League, or is this merely the beginning of Spawn forming a League of his own? This is Cat Grant signing off." Cat said.

Sean turned the tablet off and looked at the two of them with an impressed grin now that his friend had some assistance.

"That's one hell of a surprise you threw. I'm impressed with your talent miss..." Sean said to Raven.

"Rachel." Raven introduced herself with her real name.

"Perfect name. I'd like to welcome you to Global Tech." Sean said before turning to Alvin. "So, how're you feeling about having a sidekick?"

Alvin said nothing as he thought about something. If the news on him having a sidekick spread, then that could only mean one thing.

"You know, if we're watching this, you bet your ass that the JL would be watching this as well." he guessed.

"I know. I got a feeling they might make a move on us." Sean said.

At The Watchtower

Indeed, the Justice League were watching the news on Spawn and the newcomer known as Raven. Among the team was a man with blonde hair and a beard dressed in Atlantean attire. He was known as the King of Atlantis but the world knows him as Aquaman. He heard about Spawn's activities for quite a while. They had all their attention focused on Raven.

"I can't believe this." Superman said, not liking the fact that Spawn now had an accomplice in helping him kill people, even though there were no casualties yesterday.

"I've been trying to go over Raven's history, but there's nothing on her. Her identity and her records of citizenship are unknown." Batman said.

"This is low even for Spawn. Manipulating a girl with no background into his cause. We need to stop him and make Raven see what she's doing is wrong." Superman said.

"And how do we plan on doing that? Walk up to Sean, accuse him of helping Spawn turn a lost girl with powers of unknown origin into a killer and try to detain them like we had been doing for the past few days?" Green Lantern accused after being silent for what seemed like an eternity.

Everyone minus Hawkgirl looked at him in surprise. They noted that ever since Spawn showed up, John was just as determined to capture him, but after the League crashed the party at Global Tech, he had been acting strange during their meetings, either speaking only a few words or being completely silent whenever they talked about Spawn until now.

"John, what is this about?" Superman asked sternly.

"I'm just saying, all we've been doing was jumping to conclusions ever since Spawn showed up and since Sean had him protected. When we ignored the facts that half of the staff in Arkham was corrupt and had a hand in helping the more crazier inmates like the Joker escape countless times. When Spawn saw the good in the survivors who now work for Sean and had them fixed when we couldn't." John said as he narrowed his eyes at Superman. "I think you've been acting like this ever since we saw the news on Supergirl helping Spawn take down Livewire before she went quiet."

Superman narrowed his eyes at that. When he first saw the news on his cousin helping Spawn incapacitate Livewire, he was shocked that she had let a killer escape, and he had spent the last two days trying to contact her about this, but still got no word from her.

"If I may interject, Stewart does raise a few valid points. We may be looking at this in a different direction." Aquaman spoke up. "The people haven't spoken out against this Spawn's actions. Not yet at least. Not to mention he's being legally protected by a government funded corporation that not only promised to stop all crime, but also promised to keep environments safer and cleaner. Forests aren't the only environments suffering from pollution, after all."

"Are you two saying you're on Sean's side now? When he's still protecting a murderer?" Superman asked heatedly, but Hawkgirl walked next to GL and Aquaman in defense.

"We're on nobody's side for the matter." she said. "We don't know the whole story yet. Spawn has to have some sort of reason for suddenly wanting a partner."

"Maybe it's got something to do with those demon hordes and those other Spawns that were after him for the last few days." Flash guessed, showing that he says some smart things every now and then.

"I highly doubt that." Batman interjected. "He seems more focused on his war on the criminal underworld than doing something about those rogue Spawns. We can consult with Constantine, Doctor Fate and Zatanna on how to stop these threats, but for now, Spawn is our top priority."

Before they could discuss further, the door opened up as two more heroes walked into the room. One of them was another male with blonde hair and goatee dressed in green and black archer attire with a hood that made him look like Robin Hood. With him was a woman with long blonde hair dressed in a black unitard, blue short jacket, and skintight fishnet stockings. Their names were Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance, aka Green Arrow and Black Canary, respectively. Superman crossed his arms as they both walked in.

"What took you two so long?" he asked.

"Hey, it took longer for recon. I mean, that place has more advanced security than LexCorp and Wayne Enterprises combined." Green Arrow said.

"Though we were able to get some intel. The guards usually take the night off. That means no one will be in the labs for a while." Black Canary said.

"Good. Then we need to send in the Team to get enough information on both Sean and Spawn to see what they're up to." Batman said.

Flash's eyes widened when he heard just who Batman was planning on sending to infiltrate Global Tech.

"Whoa! Whoa! Don't you two think this is going a little bit too far?" Flash asked hurriedly, hoping to get Batman and Superman to reconsider their plan.

"Flash is correct. We are sending the kids into dangerous territory. They have no experience in facing Spawn or this Raven." J'onn added.

"I'm going to have to agree on this one. It's plain suicide." Dinah said. "I suggest we infiltrate the place without a hostile approach."

"That won't work. Spawn will only spot you a mile away." Superman told her. "Besides, what other choice do we have?

Oliver knew that this is going to be little hard to convince them. He garnered a deep respect for Sean, and he didn't want to make this personal, but he also doesn't want to be held responsible for the deaths of their sidekicks seeing how Spawn mopped the floor with the founders, but it was still Batman's idea.

"Fine, if we're gonna do this, then so be it." Green Arrow said before glaring at Batman. "But if this goes wrong and the Team comes back with broken limbs or worse, it's on you."

Batman glared back, but nonetheless he headed towards the Zeta-Tube.

Meanwhile at the Cave

Inside the cave was a group of teens gathered for something important. Aqualad, Robin, Red Arrow, Wonder Girl, Kid Flash, Artemis, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Batgirl were watching the news. Wonder Girl glared at the image of Spawn punching a thug in the face, feeling a deep sense of hatred towards the man who drove her mentor into quitting the League slowly rising.

"I still can't believe the League isn't letting us go out there to find this guy." Robin said.

"Just wait, Tim. We'll get our chance. I mean Spawn had made several major kills in a week alone." Batgirl said.

"We better. He's costed the League two members already." Wonder Girl said bitterly.

Red Arrow and Artemis looked at their teammates and then at the picture of Spawn, and both came to an agreement. They may not be on board with his methods, but they couldn't say that Spawn's victims didn't deserve it either, plus he was kind enough to at least spare a few criminals. There had to be more to this guy than anyone thinks.

Kid Flash looked a little worried for some odd reason, and Miss Martian looked at the different videos from various websites and on YouTube.

"Wow, people have been getting a good angle of this guy." M'gann said.

"I don't care. That monster deserves to be behind bars with his little friend, but Sean keeps on making the people trust that murderer!" Cassie said angrily.

"I wouldn't be too sure about this." Aqualad said, making the Team turn their attention towards their leader. "Sean did promise safer environments when he unveiled Gaia a few days ago."

"Seriously? You're buying that stuff too?" Robin asked the team leader incredulously.

"I'm not saying I agree with Sean and Spawn's methods, but just think. What if Sean is being honest?" Kaldur said. "What if he truly is working for a brighter future for the world, unlike Lex Luthor or any other questionable corporation?"

"I gotta go with the boss on this one. Why do you guys keep acting like Sean's becoming no better than Luthor just for protecting a 'killer'?" Conner spoke up, quoting "killer" with his fingers. "All I've been hearing is people calling them both heroes for going the extra mile to keep them safe."

"In case you haven't forgotten, Sean sent that killer to slaughter an entire facility full of mentally ill patients along with guards and maybe even doctors!" Wonder Girl said.

"Then why did he spare Two-Face, Clayface, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, and Harley Quinn the night he stormed Arkham?" Roy spoke up. "They were obviously good people once, so maybe Spawn saw that, and Sean made it clear they're never going back to crime! What's wrong with them working for him?"

"Alright, so they found a cure for those guys, but still, was it necessary for him to send Spawn to massacre everyone else in Arkham?" Batgirl asked.

"Are you just gonna ignore the evidence that explained why those inmates kept escaping?" Artemis asked heatedly. "The news made it clear, and there's not a thing we can do to prove it's all faked."

"Still, that doesn't explain why Spawn would want a sidekick." Kid Flash spoke up, getting everyone to focus on the subject of Raven.

"Batman did say there was no history on this Raven girl. For all we know, she could be lost and confused, and Spawn is probably taking advantage of her by teaching her to be a killer like him!" Robin said.

"And how do you know that, genius?" Red Arrow asked. "You think he manipulated the bad guys I mentioned into giving up crime, too? Like how the Joker manipulated Harley Quinn into being his punching bag for God knows how long until Spawn snapped her out of it?"

"Alright, enough!" Kaldur snapped, getting everyone to be silent. "Now is not the time to be picking sides. We need to figure out our next course of action."

Before they could argue any further, the Zeta-Tube started to activate and the light dimmed down as Batman walked through it. A single look got the Team to be silent. He knew that this was going to get dirty, but it needed to be done. Sean and Spawn had to answer for their crimes.

"Okay. Listen up. Your mission is to infiltrate Global Tech and gather as much intel on Spawn and Sean, and try to convince Raven to join us. Stealth is the key." Batman informed.

The Team nodded their heads, but a few members stood silent, mostly Aqualad, Red Arrow, Superboy, and Artemis. They knew that Sean had done a lot of good for the world for the past few years, and still couldn't understand what the League's deal was with him aside from protecting Spawn for his killings.

Still, they questioned no further as they made their way towards the Bio-Ship, which morphed from its dormant egg-like state to its main aircraft form as the team entered and took off.

Meanwhile at Global Tech

"They just don't know when to quit do they?" Alvin, out of costume, muttered.

"Yeah, that's the JL for you. They'd do anything to catch a crook." Sean answered.

"For all we know, they might send in some of their rookies to try to dig up info on us." Alvin assumed.

"Well, we did say the League isn't welcome here for being total asses." Sean said. "Still, if they're sending spies, that means they're getting desperate. I've been waiting for this day ever since their little visit and since they've crashed the party a few days ago."

"So, what's the plan?" Alvin said.

"I'm gonna need you and Rachel here to work late at night and stop them before they get into one of our computers." Sean said.

"Right, did you put up a failsafe on that little note we discussed about?" Alvin asked.

"Don't worry about it. I took out everything related to you." Sean confirmed.

Alvin sighed as he remembered how Ivy and Ra's al Ghul figured out his identity, and he would hate for the League to get their hands on that piece of information. Rachel looked at the both of them confused on what they were taking about.

"So, what makes you think that the League would come here today?" Alvin asked.

Sean pressed a button on his tablet to show them surveillances of two blonde people that they've never seen before. Alvin looked at the woman with long blonde hair, noting how the camera caught her beauty perfectly.

"Well, the cams caught these two lurking around the place. We did a face scan and were able to confirm that they were Green Arrow and Black Canary. Big Leaguers." Sean said.

"What would they want?" Rachel asked.

"They've been asking about our night hours." Sean said, earning a raised eyebrow from Alvin. "I know what you're getting at, 'How in the hell did you tell them that?' I didn't tell them, but unfortunately some lovestruck employee got distracted by a pair of tits belonging to a powerful blonde bombshell and told them."

"Great! What do we do?" Alvin asked.

"Well, we should think of a way to catch them by surprise. They won't know that we know they're coming." Rachel suggested.

Both Alvin and Sean looked at each other and back at Rachel, both figuring out that she just insisted on setting a trap. Anna just grinned and nodded her head.

"I like that idea." she said.

"Whatever she likes, I like." Sean said. "And I'm not just talking about the plan."

Anna blushed at the comment, while Alvin just rolled his eyes.

"Alright. We'll go with Rachel's plan." Alvin said, and Rachel smiled in acknowledgement before they all started to make preparations for their night.

Later that night

Several hours later, the sun began to set, signaling the employees to head home from a long day at work. Sean and Anna were getting ready to leave themselves, when they looked at both Rachel and Alvin with concern.

"You two sure you can handle this?" Anna asked.

"You worry too much, Anna. We're just gonna scare 'em a little bit." Alvin said.

"Alright, bud. I leave my company in your capable hands." Sean said.

Alvin nodded his head as he watched both Sean and Anna leave for the night. With the building now empty, both of them were hanging out in the break room. Alvin was playing on one of the game stations while Rachel was meditating to clear her thoughts. Alvin used his cape to cloak themselves as they waited for the intruders to arrive.

Outside of the building, the Bio-Ship landed on a building across from Global Tech. Miss Martian used her telepathy to see if anyone was inside, while Conner used his infrared vision to see the heat signature throughout the building.

"There isn't anyone inside the building." Miss Martian confirmed.

"She's right. I don't see anyone through infrared. The place is empty." Superboy added.

Robin opened up his portable computer which showed the layout of the building.

"Okay. The mainframe that keeps records is in this sub-level." Robin informed.

"I doubt that Spawn will show his face after this." Wonder Girl said.

They all started to headed towards the building. Superboy made a super leap and landed on the roof silently, not knowing that he landed on a piece of a certain red cape, which disappeared as it signals Alvin who stopped playing for a moment before looking up with a smirk.

"Looks like we got guests." Alvin said in a sing-song tone as Rachel opened her eyes. Alvin summoned his armor before they both started to head out.

Meanwhile on the roof, Batgirl picked the lock to the door and managed to get it open. She looked inside to see that there are cameras everywhere. But not to worry, Robin hacked into the security cameras and shut them down. Everyone made their way through the building, walking down the halls until they all came to three different pathways.

"I think we should split up from here." Robin stated.

"Team Alpha will be Robin, Artemis, and myself, so we will take the first path. Team Beta will be Miss Martian, Red Arrow and Wonder Girl; you'll take the second. Lastly, Team Gamma will be Superboy, Batgirl, and Kid Flash; you'll take the third. We will be in contact via telepathic link." Aqualad informed.

They all nodded their heads before they each took their separate paths, but from a different corner, Raven was watching them take their path and she disappeared undetected, teleporting to the room where Spawn was hiding.

"They've split up." Raven told him.

"Good, those suckers don't know that the second path's a dead end. And the third will lead them to the cafeteria." Spawn said.

"What are we going to do with them?" Raven asked.

"Trap them of course. Pick them off one by one." Spawn instructed.

Raven nodded her head to the idea as they went to the security room, where Spawn quickly restarted the security cameras where he saw the teams all in separate rooms and knew that they were going to take out most of the troublemakers. He looked over at Miss Martian and Superboy.

"Okay. You take out the telepath and I'll handle the muscle." Spawn said.

Raven nodded her head while Spawn typed in the codes for the security lockdown in all three locations. Then a timer appeared on the screen as they both started to leave the security room. Raven opened a portal to the location of one of the teams while Spawn used his cape to teleport to the location of the other team.

=== Team Alpha ===

Aqualad, Artemis, and Robin made it to the Mainframe of Global Tech. Aqualad looked around to see that the cameras were still down (or so he thought). He opened the door and led the other two heroes over to the giant computer before closing the door behind him. Robin pulled out a connection cord from his wrist-com and hooked it up to the computer. He started to hack the system, but before he could go any further, an image of a monkey sticking its tongue out suddenly appeared on his com.

"It's a spike." Robin said with narrowed eyes.

Without warning, the keyboard sent electric currents through the cord and into the wrist-com, electrocuting Robin, until both Artemis and Aqualad pulled him away. Once he was away from the computer, the metal doors suddenly dropped down sealing them in the room.

"It was a trap! They knew we were coming!" Artemis exclaimed.

Aqualad narrowed his eyes before he put his hands on his head to contact Miss Martian.

=== Team Beta ===

Miss Martian, Red Arrow, and Wonder Girl walked down the next hall looking around to see a bunch of pictures. M'gann noticed that some of the pictures are Sean his fellow employees, while some of them were of him in his high school years with Albert Jr.

"Miss Martian! Link us up now!" Aqualad ordered.

"Alright." Miss Martian said.

She placed her hand on her head, but suddenly Raven appeared behind her and grabbed her, causing Miss Martian to yelp, which got the others' attention as they saw Raven walking through the portal behind her with Miss Martian in tow, while the metal doors began closing behind her. Red Arrow pulled out his bow and arrow and took aim before he released the arrow, but the portal closed and instead hit the metal door as soon as it closed and exploded, but the door barely had a dent. He walked to the metal door and placed his hand on it to feel that it was cold as ice.

"Man, you've gotta admit. That guy spared no expense for reinforced doors." Red Arrow complimented.

"Are you done admiring the door? We have to save Miss Martian!" Wonder Girl reminded him harshly.

=== Team Gamma ===

Batgirl, Superboy, and Kid Flash started to looked around until they all made it to the cafeteria. Kid Flash looked around until his eyes landed on some food on the table. He started eating to keep up his metabolism, much to Batgirl and Superboy's annoyance as they walked up to him, completely unaware that Spawn was watching them from above as Batgirl grabbed Kid Flash by the arm.

"Will you stop stuffing your face?! We need to head back to the others!" Batgirl scolded him.

"Sorry. High metabolism." Wally said sheepishly.

Superboy opened his mouth to say something, a set of chains dropped from above and wrapped and gagged him before pulling him up. The sounds of the chains rattling alerted Batgirl as she turned around to see that Superboy was gone.

"Superboy? Where'd you go?" Batgirl asked.

She didn't have time to keep looking as the metal doors were getting ready to close around her and Kid Flash, who she grabbed by the arm as they bolted towards the exit. With Kid Flash's superspeed, they barely escaped as the metal door, which caught Batgirl's cape and tore off a piece of it. She looked back at her cape and groaned at the large tear on it.

"Aw, I just had it sewed." Batgirl groaned.

"We might wanna call the others about this." Kid Flash suggested.

Batgirl nodded as she placed her hand on her head to call out to Miss Martian.

"Miss Martian, link us up. Miss Martian? M'gann! M'GANN!" Batgirl said though the link. "No dice. Looks like someone took out our telepath."

She reached for her comlink to contact the others about what happened.

"Batgirl to Aqualad. We lost sight of Superboy. And Miss Martian's not answering." Batgirl informed.

"You're not the only one with bad luck. I've lost contact with Miss Martian as well. Seems they knew we were coming. Robin got hurt trying to hack the computer." Aqualad said. "Let's just hope M'gann and Conner are safe."

Elsewhere

Miss Martian woke up and began looking around to see that she was in some kind of sphere. She kept looking around when she heard a groan and she saw Superboy laying on the ground right next to her. She was about to get his attention as she was getting ready to touch the sphere.

"Yeah, I wouldn't do that if I were you." a male voice said.

M'gann nearly jumped as soon as she heard the voice, until she saw Spawn walking out of the shadows with an apple in his hand, while Miss Martian looked at him with suspicion. He tossed the apple at the sphere, and as soon as it hit it, an armed laser shot the fruit to bits, much to Miss Martian's shock.

"And don't bother calling the others with your mind. We made sure the sphere blocked out your powers. We'll just wait to see if it works on the rest." Spawn said as Raven also walked out of the shadows and whispered something into his ear, and nodded when she finished. "Looks like Flash Jr. and Bat-Gal made a clean getaway. Guess we're gonna have to fix that oversight. Here, I wouldn't like you two getting bored. I opened a communication channel inside. Just warn Boy Scout Jr. about the laser when he wakes up. Don't want the shots bouncing off the walls when they hit him."

Spawn started to take his leave as he wrapped his cape around himself while Raven opened up a portal.

Back with the others

Batgirl and Kid Flash headed towards the room Wonder Girl and Red Arrow were. Barbara saw the metal door, but she heard banging from the other side, until a huge dent appeared on the door, and finally a fist tore through it.

"Wonder Girl?" Batgirl called out.

"Batgirl, what happened to Superboy?" Wonder Girl asked.

"Gone. Where's Miss Martian?" Batgirl asked.

"My guess, Spawn and Raven took them both. Where… we don't know." Red Arrow said.

Batgirl narrowed her eyes and pulled out one of her gear to help get the door open. She pulled out a laser and used it on the door's hinges to loosen it while Wonder Girl slowly pushed the door open. Once Wonder Girl and Red Arrow were freed, they all headed towards the mainframe room where Aqualad, Robin, and Artemis were.

Once they made it, the metal doors started to open up, much to their confusion. Then they heard a clapping sound as they turned around to see Spawn and Raven.

"Well, I guess keeping you guys trapped wasn't the best move." Spawn said.

Wonder Girl charged at him without thinking. Spawn patiently waited until she was close, smiling underneath his mask all the while. Once Wonder Girl was close enough, Raven opened up a portal in front of Spawn, which Wonder Girl flew through aimlessly.

The Sphere

Miss Martian and Superboy sat in the sphere waiting for the others to show up. Conner stood up for a moment until he saw a dark hole appear out of nowhere, which Wonder Girl flew out of and hit the ground before she looked around to see that she was surrounded by guns.

"Great." Wonder Girl groaned.

Then the guns started shooting at her, but she quickly used her bracelets to block the shots. While she kept blocking the shots, she noticed that both Superboy and Miss Martian were also trapped in the sphere prison. She grabbed her own Lasso and tossed it at one of the guns, and pulled it off before slamming it into the others.

"Just hold on, I'll get you both out of here." Wonder Girl said as she pulled some wires out, causing the sphere to deactivate. Miss Martian started to fly as she could feel her powers returning, while Superboy flicked his wrist as he could feel his strength coming back.

"Great, where are the others?" Superboy asked.

"With Aqualad. Spawn knows we're here. Let's just hope the others are holding their own against him and Raven." Wonder Girl said as she and the two started to head for the mainframe room.

Meanwhile

Aqualad was trying his best to get Robin back to his feet, while Artemis had her bow ready just in case, when suddenly, the door flung open as both Kid Flash and Red Arrow were knocked into the room while Batgirl was holding on her own with Spawn, who dodged her punches and kicks as Artemis was slowly lining up her shot but she couldn't shoot with Batgirl in the way. Before she could release the arrow, she noticed her bow turning black and suddenly flying out of her grip as Raven appeared out of nowhere with her hands covered in her black auras and spread her arms out, snapping Artemis' bow in two.

"Dammit! That's the third time this week." Artemis complained.

Raven charged at her as she fought her hand to hand combat, kicking Artemis in the gut, causing the archer to let her guard down as she clutched her stomach, giving Raven an opening to do a spin kick on her. Red Arrow and Kid Flash got back up, rubbing their heads as they saw Aqualad join in the fight, using his water bearers to summon water to use as weapons.

Spawn saw the Atlantean coming before he ducked to avoid a water made mace. He grabbed Batgirl by her cape and tied her up with it before he kicked her in the ass as Batgirl kept struggling to get free. Kid Flash zoomed through at top speed but Spawn used his chains to wrap up his legs and trip him in the process. Red Arrow began firing off several arrows at Spawn as Aqualad jumped out of the way. Spawn on the other hand pulled out his sword and cut them all down to pieces. Roy looked at the sword in front of him, impressed with the craftsmanship.

"Damn. He's good." Red Arrow complimented.

Raven was still holding her own against Artemis, who kept blocking her attacks.

"Hey, take it easy! We're the good guys! We're here to save you!" Artemis tried to explain as she dodged another kick.

"Who said I needed saving?" Raven asked before punching Artemis in the face, knocking her out cold. Aqualad used his water bearers to turn the water into twin machetes while Spawn had his sword ready. They both started to clash as their weapons trying to get the edge over one another.

"There they are!" Wonder Girl called out.

Raven turned her head to see the three heroes who avoided capture. Superboy let out a yell as he rushed towards Spawn, who kicked Aqualad away and turned around to be greeted by a right hook by Superboy, which he caught with ease. Superboy could feel his knuckles cracking and he looked at Spawn with pure shock before he delivered an uppercut which sent the clone flying into a nearby wall.

Wonder Girl used her Lasso again and grabbed Spawn before spinning him around. However, he noticed that it wasn't the real Lasso of Truth, nor was it as strong as the real deal, so he used his cape to stop Wonder Girl in her tracks. She struggled for a moment until she realized that Spawn's cape was holding her down as the Hellspawn broke free from Wonder Girl's Lasso. He landed on the catwalk until he saw a whip made out of water. Aqualad was back for round two. Robin got back on his feet and used his bō staff to make his way over to the catwalk as well.

It was two on one as Spawn used his chains as whips, which he used to lash out at them, but Aqualad and Robin quickly dodged them. Robin jumped over him and tried to strike Spawn with his staff, only for the Hellspawn to dodge Robin's attack and break the staff before kicking the kid in the gut. Aqualad took the opportunity to attack Spawn as he turned the water into hammers and was getting ready to strike, but Spawn wrapped his chains around both of the Atlantean's arms to stop his attack, as Aqualad began struggling to break free. Raven flew up and nodded her head, signaling for Spawn to end this fight.

"RAVEN! NOW!" Spawn yelled.

Suddenly, Raven's eyes grew brighter as she waved her hands and several portals opened up around the young heroes and a multitude of chains bursted out of Spawn's armor and shot through the portals before wrapping around all of them. They struggled to get free while Spawn clicked his tongue.

"Wow, I never thought that the Justice League would stoop this low in sending kids to take us." Spawn said as he shook his head, earning him a glare from Wonder Girl as she struggled to break free of her restraints.

"You'll pay for what you did to Wonder Woman!" Wonder Girl growled, making Spawn raise an eyebrow at that statement.

"What are you talking about? I haven't done anything to Wonder Woman." Spawn said.

"You know why! She quit the League because of you!" Wonder Girl shouted in anger.

"Wow, that's even better." Spawn said as he grinned ear to ear under his mask, causing Wonder Girl to growl angrily as Raven flew down next to him.

"How do you sleep at night?" Batgirl asked with a glare, making Spawn raise a brow at that question.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"Don't play dumb. You got Raven to join you because you saw how weak she was." Robin accused. "Batman said she has no records of citizenship, so that's why you took advantage of her to get her to kill people."

Spawn and Raven narrowed their eyes at the accusation, though Spawn was confused by the fact that Rachel had no records, while Raven was nervous that they figured out more or less that she wasn't from here.

"You guys really got your story all wrong. I'm not manipulating anyone. Raven simply chose to work with me." Spawn said, but the Team glared at him as if he was lying. "Don't believe me? Alright then. You go ahead, and tell Raven here that she's being brainwashed like how the Justice League brainwashed the rest of you and plans on doing the same to her."

The Team fumed at the accusation of being "brainwashed", but they still had to try and break whatever conditioning Spawn had over Raven.

"Raven, listen to us." Robin said to Raven. "Spawn is a murderer. He killed over dozens of sick people in Arkham Asylum, including guards, maybe even doctors! He's trying to make you do the same!"

The air was tense as the others waited for Raven's response, hoping she could realize what she was doing was wrong.

"You got the 'sick' part right." Raven finally spoke in a flat tone. "You gave those inmates every chance to change and they threw them back into your faces while they kept murdering innocents for nothing but a sick laugh, like the Joker. And those guards and doctors you mentioned? They never cared about curing their patients nor how many people they hurt or killed. All they cared about was money and fame, even helping them escape a few times to get it. What do you see wrong about putting down these animals?"

"They were criminals, but they were still people!" Kid Flash exclaimed.

"And what about their victims? What were they to you?" Raven shot back. "Did you even bother to visit their families? Comfort them? Promise that their loved ones' killers will get what they deserve? Did you ever stop to think that they blame you for not bringing scum like the Joker to justice after all the lives they've ruined? Because it doesn't look like it's on your minds right now."

The Team could only respond with silence, as though they never thought about that before, which only appeared to answer Raven's question.

"That's one of the things you like about being heroes, don't you? You'd rather put up a public face to get people to like you than avenge those lost to your enemies. You and the Justice League only care about your reputation than the lives of innocents, always preaching about being better than the criminals you fight without giving the people what they want. You're not trying to be better than your enemies, you're just proving that you're better than everyone else."

"Spawn's feeding you lies! We're trying to keep the people safe from the likes of him!" Wonder Girl shouted angrily.

"It's you who's being lied to." Raven said. "The Justice League is forcing their ideals on the people they're supposed to be protecting, and now they've done the same to you. And what did people like Spawn do to terrorize innocents? Give families closure? Save women from being raped? Because that's what the League is keeping you and themselves from doing, but you think you can keep on leashing strays so they can learn to behave. Now go bark back to your owners so they can put you on a tighter leash."

The Team could only stare in abject shock at Raven's defiance, and they knew that Spawn had gotten to her already, and there was nothing they could do to convince her otherwise.

"You see now? She's not interested in joining your club. She's part of the real winning team." Spawn said. "Ah well. I'm feeling merciful as of today, so I'm gonna let you all go with your lives. But be warned, we'll be sending you to jail if you or the League try this stunt again. Since Arkham's shut down, there's a few choices left: Iron Heights, Belle Reve, Blackgate, or Stryker's. Who knows? Maybe some of your baddies are waiting to give you a warm welcome. Your pick."

The Team had looks of shock, anger, and nervousness at the threat; some of them looked defiant, while the others looked defeated as there was no other choice but to give up, while Spawn turned to Raven.

"Do it."

Raven nodded her head as she raised her hands and a massive portal appeared around them before the Team was transported away from Global Tech. Afterwards, Spawn let out a powerful sigh of relief.

"Well I'm puffed. Wanna head home for a well earned rest?" Spawn asked.

Raven nodded her head as he used his cape to teleport them out of Global Tech. The place was safe for now, but it was going to need some reconstruction due to the holes in the walls and battered equipment left in the fight.

Alvin's Mansion

Spawn and Raven returned home, with the former retracting his armor and the latter removing her hood as they both entered the house. The only person who greeted them was Diana, who gave Alvin a kiss and Rachel a hug to welcome them back.

"Hey. Where are the other girls?" Alvin asked as Rachel headed to her room upstairs to get some rest.

"Kara, Harley, Talia, and Lois all went to bed, but Ivy's still in her greenhouse working on some new kind of plant or something like that." Diana answered. "What took you two so long?"

"Yeah, we had to deal with a couple of intruders." Alvin explained. "The JL sent their little Junior League to dig up some info. There was this blonde chick with your logo who looked pissed at me for making you quit."

Diana's eyes widened as soon as Alvin mentioned the "Junior League", but more importantly at the mention of the girl with a grudge against Spawn.

"Cassie." Diana said silently, hearing how much her withdrawal from the League affected her student. When she looked back at Alvin, she saw that he raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Her name's Cassie Sandsmark. She's a nice girl, but she just had a huge misunderstanding of things. Maybe if I run into her, I'll clear things up. Maybe she'll warm up to you."

"Just as long as she doesn't think I brainwashed you or something like that." Alvin said jokingly before looking concerned about something.

"What is it?" Diana asked, breaking Alvin out of his thoughts.

"Look, it's been a day and Rachel's already getting the hang of her powers. Quick learner, I gotta say. But I don't know if they're enough to take down the Legion. I mean, what if there's dozens of them? Hundreds? Hell, thousands?" he said until Diana put a hand on his shoulder.

"There's no need to worry over such things." she assured him. "You have us, remember? I'm sure we'll find more help in due time."

Blüdhaven

The sister city of Gotham with the worst crime rate that has been protected by Nightwing has been very quiet lately. Possibly due to the news of Spawn bringing assistance to his war on crime that sent the criminal element hiding, not wanting to deal with two semi-demonic vigilantes who won't hesitate to end their lives, or the majority of the city was fast asleep, as the lights of an apartment began to turn off.

The only occupant who stayed awake at this time of night was a young man in his early 20's with black hair, brown eyes and tan skin who wore a red short-sleeved shirt, black hoodie, yellow jeans and black sneakers. Right now he was watching the news on Spawn and his sidekick Raven on his laptop.

Well, not his laptop, but one he stole from one of his kills a year ago.

Ever since Spawn showed up last week, the young man spent his time trying to figure out how he operated, until his answer came in the form of Global Tech, the company that Spawn had become associated with.

"Looks like you're gonna need more than one partner now." he muttered as he closed the laptop.

He went over to the table in the kitchen, which was decked with loads of newspapers centered around Spawn's exploits from the past week, from his killing of the Joker to his raid on Arkham Asylum, which both read, "Joker Dead - Spawn Answers Prayers!" and "Arkham's Last Patient - Spawn Strikes Again!", respectively.

"I've waited too long. Now's my chance." he said to himself before he went to his room to pack up his stuff, which he loaded into one huge duffel bag. Before he finished packing he took notice of a picture of himself along with an older man in a black suit, both with smiles on their faces as they faced the camera.

"I'll make sure you'll rest in peace, Dad. Just wait." the young man whispered, remembering how he lost his father… and that his killers still went unpunished, which caused his eyes to suddenly glow green in anger, before he put the picture away and walked out of the apartment.

First he had to take a quick stop to Gotham, and first thing in the morning will be to continue seeking out Spawn in Metropolis.

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