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Chapter Seven: Isaac's Gambit

“Okay, everyone buckle up; shit is going to go down and I am pulling the lever, now then everyone prepare!"

Shaking the warehouse, the voice of Isaac burled through the warehouse of the Outsiders. Everyone turned towards him, with shock on his face; he looked tired and functionally destroyed. In his hands he had, papers and plans, barely held together as he stumbled over to the table, and placed them down. Finn turned towards him and helped him with organizing his papers.

“What the hell are you talking about?" Finn asked as he spread out a paper and on it was analysis of Owlman. Finn gave as look to Isaac, who smiled a bit. Isaac spread out another paper showing the mutants they had found, and another showing the structure of all the nanobots. Finn backed up, what was Isaac doing and why did he have that stupid look on his face that made him more worried than relieved.

“Well you know, it's quite simple; we're going to be triumphant today and trust me I do plan on standing atop that glorious tower claiming my prize because today, well big things are happening and today is the day when I assure that everything will change." Isaac said spreading out the map as he showed Finn a map of Carson City's warehouse district.

“Now then is everyone here?" Isaac asked as he turned around and faced the ground, Finn doing the same trying to convince them that he was at least involved in this plan and had some clue on what was happening. Isaac looked around the warehouse and suddenly again. He turned towards the dragon, Ross. “Ross where is your mother?"

“Iren, is sick again; she says that she has some sort of stomach bug, she has been puking all day and last night, it is quite exhausting." Ross said as he sat down in a chair, visibly tired. Finn looked over to Isaac, knowing that he was going to say something stupid or offensive or worse. Isaac seemed to be troubled, as he tried to fill through the pieces that Iren had filled before.

“Well then consider this your lucky day, as you get some of Iren's task, including but not limited to, talking to the press. Especially since two out of five of us cannot speak in public at all." Isaac said as he grabbed a folder filled paper and brought it over to Ross. Finn looked around; while they lost an Iren it seemed they had gained a Michelle.

“Now then, Michelle I am glad you could finally join us again. Just don't go around stealing Outsider secrets, now then you will be with me for this day and Finn well you get today off. As for the rest of it, there is a meeting with Owlman." Isaac said as the group was suddenly shocked at his words. The shark laughed, seemingly finding humor in the groups' reaction. “Oh you guys should see the look on your face because I am completely serious."

“What the hell do you mean; are you stupid?" Michelle asked as she gave a look to Isaac, Isaac laughed a bit. And everyone looked at him, even Erick who seemed to be awakened from his peaceful sleep. Isaac, looked at the group and then turned back to Finn as he was just expecting that reaction.

“What are you crazy, the last time we met Owlman he tried to kill us in space and you had to make a black hole and throw our orbit drastically of course, just to get him off of us and now you want to meet with him, have you managed to go completely crazy?" Finn asked, waving his arms around in the sky. Pulling another laugh from Isaac, instead the shark held up his hands and created a tiny gravity center in Finn's mouth, effectively pulling his teeth back together and shutting him up.

“Now then, we are either going to find piece or we are going to kill Owlman both of which I am prepared to do. So I give you today as a way to prepare your moral compasses and prepare for the meeting, you should all arrive at the warehouse where it started a five o'clock straight." Isaac said as Finn seeming screamed from his forcefully closed mouth. Isaac released his hand and Finn's mouth was let go as well. Finn took a breath and looked over to Isaac, who had that stupid look on his face.

“Well then all you go, this is our day for glory." Isaac said as he pushed everyone out of the warehouse, Erick stood up and yawned as he stumbled out, followed by Ross who looked worried. Michelle stayed and Finn stayed as well, looking at Isaac with his hands crossed on his chest and that look of disappointment on his face. Isaac smiled back, hoping to pull one out of Finn as well, but that failed.

“Really you're doing this now, on our first anniversary; we started one year ago in eight hours, and you want to suddenly go out of your way and defeat Owlman like's nobody's business, you are just proud of yourself aren't you?" Finn asked, as Isaac smiled and rolled his eyes. Finn stood up and looked at him, he had anger in his eyes and Isaac could only wish to see how far he could push Finn.

“Well I think this would be a good anniversary present for you, we free the Carson City people form the terror of the nanobots and we return the city to its normal peaceful state, what better to have our anniversary. What better to have it as we stand atop the food chain the Outsiders, better than everyone, your highest moment together with me?" Isaac said as he seemingly offered Finn the chance to join him in his reign of terror against the nanobots.

Finn reached out his hand, but then he pulled back, he didn't know what to say to this, he didn't know how to react to that. If he were to go with Isaac, this would cement them as the highest Outsiders, the first to seemingly destroy a criminal organization on their own. He didn't know what to say or what to do, about Isaac's offer, this was Isaac's offer and the nanobots being defeated was Isaac's gambit.

“Do this with me, come with me and destroy the nanobots before they destroy everything else, one time in a relationship you get to say come with me and you can only say one thing to that. So please come with me Finn?" Isaac said to Finn and with that smile, which Finn knew he could say no to or disappoint. He pushed forward his own hand and grabbed Isaac's tangling them together.

“Fine then, but be sure I want fireworks for our anniversary, I want the villains of the world to look to Carson City and say that they never want to find themselves in that city for fear of what the Outsiders, did, I want to make sure that nanobots are eradicated and never can return, either out of pure destruction or pure embarrassments." Finn said Isaac smiling as he found himself and Finn agreeing on something to do, what better an anniversary present than destroying your enemies together.

“Now your speaking my language, this is what I want, I want to make you mine right now, but Michelle is right there so ix nay to that." Isaac said grabbing Finn's sides before realizing that they were being watched. Both of them turned to horror over to Michelle who was both looking at them for their continuing unprofessionalism streak.

“Oh trust me, you can do whatever you want to do right here and now but trust me I will be taking all the photos I can get." Michelle said as she pulled out her phone and aimed it at the two Outsiders. Isaac backed off as his cheeks turned red and gave a look to Michelle, probably trying to internally ask her why she betrayed him.

“Well then, I am going to do something amazing tonight something that Owlman will never forget, something you will never forget and something that this city will never forget and mark my words this will be the night of our victory and every villain will bow down to us!" Isaac said excited, as Finn nodded and tried no to push him further that. Finn laughed and Isaac took notice.

“Well then, you say you have a present for me, I want to be surprised so I think you know when I want to see it. So trust me, defeat the nanobots and give me a good present and you will have everything you want." Finn said, leaving just a little bait for Isaac to latch on with. Michelle groaned as the two blindly flirted in front of her. “I will let you two get to work."

Of course sound works in mysterious ways, sometimes you can have someone you never wanted to listen in on your conversation and that was the case with today. While Isaac still might have not found it out, there was a mole that had burrowed it way into his team. No, it wasn't Michelle, nor was it Finn and Isaac would have known who it was it he found out he was the mole.

Instead this mole or rather rat had been carried into the team and injected with thousands of nanobots, all of team able to hear the team sometimes. Dealing with the perception filter was hard, but sometimes it could burrow out and transfer some of the audio it captured but not all the time, figured it out yet?

Yes, all this time Nano Rat 1 and 2 were both moles on the team and even as Isaac stood their talking, it gathered audio of him speaking and transferred it to its master, Owlman. Who was listening in a little after they spoke.

“Well then Michelle, let's get to work; we got plans to plan and a present to figure out and minds to corrupt, sounds like all in a day's work for me." Isaac said and then the audio cut out. Owlman looked down on the console that was receiving this audio. Maybe he should have been a little more pashe when giving out an invitation to Finn and Isaac to fight them one on one and instead been a bit more obvious. Now he would have to deal with a team of Outsiders and Outsiders that were looking to find peace.

“I am sorry master, I found this at the upmost urgency, I transmitted this to you as soon as I could hide form that idiot." Nano Rat 2 said over the transmission line, Owlman smiled, he had this advanced knowledge of an attack, he was now happy and he now had advanced warning.

“Well thank you but get back to monitoring to two, who knows how much they could have planned in all the time you took in order to send this to me." Owlman said cutting the transmission line and focusing instead on what to do. Should he infect tons of people and see how many he could get in one go, having all those mutants would be like only putting bait out for the Outsiders, plus he would have to transform them all first.

“Well then consider me surprised, I didn't expect you to have the door open so early in the morning."

Suddenly Owlman reacted, turning his body and finding that a person was standing behind him. It was a human, Owlman quickly prepared to knock him back, but as his fist traveled towards him, he found that he was blocked by a force field on his body.

“Well I'm sorry, I had the feeling you might do that, but I need to talk to you, see I've been looking to talk to you for a while, now allow me to introduce myself I am Mr. Diageo, and you might or might not know me but I know you Owlman and I know what you can do and who you can do." The human said as he tipped his hat to Owlman. The avian supervillain looked surprised to see someone just standing before him not quivering in fear yet.

“And what the hell do you want old man? Well let me answer that, you want to talk to me and you've made yourself known so you want to help me, is what I am getting for this, so level with me why have you come here?" Owlman asked; he felt surprised. His heart was rushing and everything told him to run away from this man, this creature.

“Well you see it started about three weeks back, you see, I used to be the CEO of an air quality filter company one that goes into buildings and clean out mold and mildew and other nasty stuff that travels through the air, and you should get this warehouse checked out as well, there might be all sorts of stuff in an unsanitized, wet area like this." Mr. Diageo said, Owlman got a good look at the man. He looked like a real hack, someone with a suit and a fancy hat, he looked strange in the face like years of trying to show forced happiness forced his face to errantly morph that way when trying to show a smile.

“Yeah I see but I think I'll be fine, the nanobots in my lungs and blood can handle acids up to -33 PH and cancel out carbon monoxide, so you know I think my immune system is pretty up to the stuff if you can't figure that out, well then I can't save you in that category, but why should I transform you in to a dumb-dumb mutant to serve my will?" Owlman asked as he raised his fist and showed it dissolving into nanobots before reforming its way back into a clawed metal hand.

“Well isn't that just interesting, but trust me I have something that you might want to look into. I know how these things work on TV and I know that I have to prove my worth to you or else you would just turn me into one of those cool mutants." Mr. Diageo said as he smiled, Owlman looked at him and showed him the massive containers of water floating with nanobots. “Trust me those things can be far more useful."

“Well then, a former CEO for an air company, looking for revenge who finds what I do cool, I think you are alright, but the question is what can you do for me that I can't do for myself?" Owlman asked as he smiled and looked to the man for answers, he might have been creepy but he would serve a purpose for his plans and anything serving a purpose should be used.

“Well consider this, if you were to spill that container in a populated area you might infect twenty or so people, but if you go through the air well then you could transform this entire city and then, then you would have an entire army for yourself. Sending an army of nanobots through the air, till they reach a host and then infect them instead of relying on yourself to transform them would be a far more efficient level; do you get what I am saying?" Mr. Diageo said as he reached behind him and grabbed a sphere from his body.

“Well that would be quite useful for myself and yourself, the only question is why would you want to do that, why would you want to sacrifice yourself for me. If there is one thing I have learned, people do not kill themselves for stupid reasons on this planet and you won't be the exception to that rule, so what do you want, or can you survive a city wide infection?" Owlman said as he tried to find a hole in Diageo's plan, it was nearly too good to be true but it felt routed to be and he didn't know if he should trust him or not.

“Ah yes, well that is the question while my system can deliver your nanobots, well you know it just works as it is. Can you instead make nanobots that transform people into humanoid versions of themselves, with superpowers even?" Mr. Diageo asked as Owlman smiled.

“Well if you can survive until the green and blue warriors walk the surface of the Earth than you can surely transform into them." Owlman said as he looked down at the business man's device, it looked like a tiny spherical device that spun around, he tried to figure out how it would spread out his tiny little warriors.

“Well this is a device of my making, it spins so fast that nanobots will be heated up and ejected lighter and with more energy, they can then be just as dense as air and float outwards until they find someone to infect, all it needs to work, it nanobot liquid and a little battery, just turn it on and place it somewhere hidden and the Outsiders will never see what hit them." Mr. Diageo said as he showed off his device. Owlman looked at it and smiled as he reached in his pocket, maybe then it would be worth it to advance some plans and move somethings up schedule.

“Well then, consider this your buying together we will make sure that the warriors of green and blue will walk this world sooner than expected, mutants were old news but soon the Generation of humanoids will walk this planet with a tight fist around her residents." Owlman said as he laughed out, Mr. Diageo smiled as both of them celebrated over their soon to be control over the planet that they would own.

…

Ross stood over the podium, his draconic hands were shaking and he felt like he might just freeze up before a single word exited his mouth. Taking a quick gulp of air, he tried to remember he was just going to recite a speech to the crowd of press members and concerned citizens. It was still a speech that the biggest idiot on the team had half written and he had half improvised on the car ride here.

Behind him he felt Billy's presence, the other dragon encouraging him and pushing him to do well on the speech. He took another breath and looked forward at the crowd. Someone took a photo surely intending to caption it with, “Outsider caught for words, has a nanobot got his tongue?" Ross tried to shake that idea out of his hand and instead he took on final breath and then decided to start his speech.

“Now then, you have been called here today, so that we might inform you on the current situation with the nanobots, today we intend on making contact with them, this information is known between both parties and the intended meeting will happen later today. Well still believe that peace will be possible between our two groups but it still may as well escalate." Ross said, he crowd gasped and they took photos of him as he revealed this information to the press. They all gathered photos of him, in surely what might be a turned in memetic device.

“Now then, today we have reason to believe that the nanobots are escalating in their plans and attempts to transform high ranked people, quite recently a situation occurred in which they threw all their forces at us, all because they said we were getting to close to the truth." Ross said, surely the information that Isaac was feeding the media would keep them rampantly eating on the tidbits of moments that they were given.

Ross took a breath and continued, looking forward at the crowd. Everyone had that look of disbelief, that Isaac called, “Confused Paranoia", according to him now that the crowd had felt like they had more information then they needed, they were now afraid. They were afraid of the new extent of the nanobots, they might attack now. Ross saw a group of people quietly attempt to leave the crowd before anything might happen, a large public event.

“Do not be afraid, for we the Outsiders are getting even closer and we will keep them busy, by constantly prodding at them and making them regret what they have done, we will make sure that the nanobots are constantly on their toes, never knowing that we are coming, always trying to attack us, but continuously failing." Ross spoke again, reading directly from Isaac's paper, this time apparently learning from the previous speech, Isaac insisted on giving him a complete speech only giving him spaces to improve for a paragraph.

Now with the next portion of info revealed, the crowd settled back into their normal state of relaxation. They were no longer worried, they were assured that nothing was going to happen to them and they now knew that they were safe in this crowd. Maybe Outsiders were roaming through the crowd covered in perception filters, and maybe they were truly safe.

And now it was as Isaac called it, giving the crowd what they wanted. Ross was going to make the crowd believe in the Outsiders, while previously he had room to improvise. Now every portion of his world was analyzed and every single part of what he was saying need to be said right.

“Now then, as a conclusion, Owlman, should be afraid right now because twilight is soon falling on these nanobots, soon in fact as it seems. We will make sure that you infect not a person more and we will be sure that everyone stays alive and you will not be able to hurt anyone else. No one else will die and no one else will be turned and infected by your poison, consider this a warning and a cry for it to end, today it will end weather or not you like it as it seems." Ross said and then he bowed, as instructed to by Isaac. The crowd started to clap and take photos of him and as it seemed everything would be alright.

“And how are you sure that everything will work out alright!"

And then turning his head, so did all the photographers. Surely if Isaac were watching he would start to send his television into the ceiling. Walking forward was General Maverick and his goon Livewire. No wonder Michelle had decided to help them today, she must have wanted to avoid being seen.

“Now then I ask you Outsiders, how you can be sure that they won't kill you seems quite egotistical of you does it now? You have an army of five to four, I have an army of two hundred, with airships and a tank, can you match that in fire power?" Maverick said as he arrived on stage. Livewire smiled behind him and stood still and crossed his arms, letting tiny sparks of electricity out.

“Oh I am quite sure that we can match you in fire power sir, we can match any threat, the only question is how is it you can be so sure to fight the nanobots when your entire platoon can be infected. However on the Outsiders, we are low in numbers and are not transformed easily, we don't have to worry about losing people to the enemies." Ross said seemingly finding the trump card in one turn; he smiled as he looked over to Maverick and waited for his response.

“Well while you might be able to fight against the nanobots. I ask what you might be able to do against the Riftwalkers? We are strong in numbers we can take on a multitude of Riftwalkers from a distance, while many of your Outsiders cannot even combat until they are next to an enemy, what shall you do then?" Maverick said with a slick smile on his face, he had found a trump card.

“We do not even know if the Riftwalkers are going to fight us, we have no indication of them doing so and a trip into their camp suggests they are waiting for another group and we can only hope they will knock each other out, after which point we can know any left can surely be done on our own." Ross said, based on the crowd's reaction maybe he had said something that he shouldn't have. Letting the press know that the Riftwalkers had a camp and had enough numbers to put up a camp would send them into a search for days.

And then before Maverick could respond, a sword suddenly lodged itself into the stage. Ross jumped back as he realized who it belonged to, as such Basil suddenly appeared on stage, Elijah and Joel appearing next to him. Suddenly some perception filters fell and people dressed in military gear stood up and pointed guns at the stage and Livewire raised his hands.

“Hello; people of Earth we are here to clear up some confusion you seem to be having on our relationship, sorry about the surprise but we felt that there would be no better time." Basil said into the microphone, as he suddenly looked over the crowd and realized they were being threatened. “Oh you humans and your guns, where one goes the other follows."

“Sorry about him, he's new to this planet but unknown to you in a little town called Slough on the Thames River, me and my brother, both Riftwalkers have lived, keeping an eye on you and making sure nothing stupid happened to you, such as that asteroid we took out." Elijah said as he pushed the other Riftwalker out of the way and instead took the podium.

That didn't seem to turn the militant men, and they were still being quite aggressive with their weapons. Looking forward Elijah smiled; he still had control of the crowd. They wouldn't shoot him, that would make him a martyr and as much as he could tell Maverick wanted someone to slip on the trigger. That would give the Riftwalkers too much public support.

“Now then, we are Riftwalkers we have been in this universe and other universes since their beginning and we have seen hell, but most of all we have seen the powers that you mortals have and we will not fight that. We only rule over you, acting as your gods and settling any stupid disputes that happen." Elijah said as he tried to explain his situation to the crowd and attempted to show them what the Riftwalkers knew and what they could do.

“Well all in all, I think us Americans are quite settled with our regular god, I don't think I want any false god to be watching over the land of the brave and the home of the free so if you could just exclude us from that." Maverick said as he decided to pick his fight with the Riftwalkers.

“What, oh you mean good Mr. Smoke and Mirrors, yeah, I not sure how deities work but I am pretty sure I am one, I can see you but you can't see and I can see all of you if I wanted to, so I am pretty sure I win that argument, but on the other end, I am here to protect you." Elijah said quickly churning out his response and keeping on the mic before Maverick could repeat back.

“Now then on the subject of Kagens, well they might be coming sooner than later, and we will do our best to keep our little war out of your town but you know how these things work so we might try our best, just watch out for the fires of an Kagen approach, because they might be sloppy and stupid enough to cut through the town. Now then Basil if you would do the honors." Elijah said as Basil threw his sword over the crowd again and presumably back towards the Riftwalker camp, before anyone could respond, Basil, Elijah and Joel all disappeared in a flash of light. And with that the reporters took their last batch of photos including one that neatly summed it up, Ross standing completely shitfaced at how out of control the press had got.

…

Finn took the door in the Outsider base to its lowest level, walking forward he found himself in the least impressing room at least visually. Now was the time for preparation and now was the time to get ready, walking forward he grabbed weapons, tiny pistols to hold and looked forward.

Grabbing a bullet proof vest he placed it over his hoodie and felt the perception filter engulf it, no one would notice it, and it always made for a nice party trick to show the kids. So taking a breath he prepared himself for the fight coming ahead, putting a high powered kinetic machine gun on his back and multiple pistols on his waist. He placed kinetic pads on his shins and lower legs as well as a pair on his arms, which could form a riot shield.

And then he came to his proudest device, a completely re-chargeable battery that could store 1.21 Petawatts of electricity, all thanks to replacing the battery acid with Fluoroantimonic acid and increasing the density, he was able to store more electricity than what would probably be used in the town. And so he put his hands on the battery and took all he could take.

And thus was the Outsider base, he needed to protect everyone he could and this was how he would. With everything he could take and everything he could throw at the Nanobots, he would make sure that no one under his care got hurt. And thus the Outsiders, all with their own schedules and plans arrived at the alley for the raid at 4:57.

Finn, Isaac, Ross and Erick stood at the entrance of the alley waiting for the other to tell them to go. They were ready they had set up the entire alley in a perception filter, and no one would notice them so long as they didn't look hard, that would save them from the press who were trying to find this highly publicized event like it was some sort of WWE match.

“Well then this is it as they say, this is where we move on, and we have everyone we need, what about Michelle?" Finn asked, as he stood in his riot gear. Isaac; stayed still for a few seconds kicking his feet in the dry dirt of the alley way, before he opened up for Finn.

“I told her she didn't have to come so that she didn't get hurt nor so that we didn't appear to armed, not that you seem to have noticed the art of subtlety as well." Isaac said noting how Finn right now was a one shark army who could probably take out all the Riftwalkers if he wanted to. Finn expecting that laughed back, and they all stood silent for a few more seconds none of them really wanting to put themselves at risk.

“Well we have to do this and we need to go into the warehouse, so I say that we go." Erick said as he decided to take lead. Finn walked forward and checked his clock, it was exactly five o'clock and as they walked forward Finn taking lead as the armored member, the warehouse doors opened in flamboyant fashion and they were allowed access into Owlman's domain.

Finn walked forward, this was somehow still the same warehouse that he met Owlman about a few weeks back. He stood forward, and passed the warehouse doors. This was his moment; this was the point where he walked forward where he truly took head of the team and led them forward. Finn didn't hear any of negative press or all the pain or shame that lead up to this moment.

The shark didn't want to look back and say it could have been him, as he was wrapped in the regret of the past. He wanted Carson City to live better days and he didn't want to say it could have been him. He wanted to taste the love and pride, he looked forward and saw Owlman wrapped in yellow light. As he walked forward he told himself, “I don't fear you, I don't fear you."

And as he and the Outsiders turned into the warehouse, the doors behind them closed and the stacked boxes outside were left alone. Finn took a breath and presented himself to Owlman, who laughed as he walked forward, and clapped his hands, the entire warehouse was lit up in light.

“Well then the prodigal Outsider returns, will fear guide you or will you push yourself beyond and manage to find peace, Isaac I expect you to know what you are going to do. I have seen angels fall from blinding high, and I ask you have you armed yourself because everything here wants to kill you."

“You know my way; I play the cards to my advantage. I think you think you've won, you've never seen me change the game that we've been playing, so trust me I will ask you the same have you armed yourself?" Isaac asked as he walked in front of his guardian and stood equal to Owlman.

Owlman smiled and threw forward a wing and it hit above them, tearing the metal.

“You know my game, you know my name. I fought and debated and challenged all for the chance of an empire that I now get to build and I will not let you take that change away from me, so prepare yourself because if you want to find peace you will have to ask yourself one question?" Owlman said as he moved out of the way and Mr. Diageo walked out of the shadows and next to his partner.

“How many people, how many lives are you willing to sacrifice?" They both said as they walked forward, walking down the stairs at the same time. They both smiled, as the Outsiders looked confused.

“Oh I've just changed the game haven't I? You see I have to ask myself, why I should give myself up and lose when I can win this game right now, as you see Mr. Diageo has a game changing technology such as a nanobot dispersion system, that can infect an entire city?" Owlman said smiling, Isaac backed up. Finn looked at him, he started to sweat and he had that look of complete surprise.

“That's impossible you would have to defy the laws of physics in order to generate enough power to, in order to generate enough power to separate the bonds that keep the nanobots bound by gravity." Isaac said as he backed up sounding shocked, Finn looked ahead this seemed serious, he was prepared to release enough power to power a country in one go. His body jolted and he felt like he could teleport to Mars with all the power he had. He felt ready to go on a dime and like he could release everything with one click.

“Oh but I have, using the psychokinetic power research from your White Mage, I have developed a system that will take nanobots into the air and into everyone, fear the walking mutants and the metallic humanoids, because soon Outsiders warriors of Green and Blue will walk forward on the Earth, keeping her in their grasp." Mr. Diageo said as he smiled, and the uncanny valley was real. Finn looked in fear as Mr. Diageo's face formed a seemingly impossible shape, his smile shifting as he looked forward. Finn backed up frightened at what he saw.

“Ah but yes, and now time for what they would call the garnish on the dish, the appetizer, the sliced piece of buttered bread and all for your little piece treaty, so I'll give you one selection, it was a trap!" Owlman jumped forward and Finn quickly took the lead again, pushing Isaac out of the way. Raising his hand, quickly a metallic feather knocked off his shield and he continued forward.

All Finn had to do was touch Owlman with his finger and he could fire everything he had in one go, Still that was easier than it seemed. Behind him the rest of the team, barring Ross who had frozen up, hid behind a crate and waited for Finn to do his thing and defeat Owlman. Quickly Finn lowered his shield and barreled forward, rolling on the ground. Landing on his knee next to the stairs, he reached out hoping to grab Owlman's ankle.

However, as it seemed Owlman had recognized the game they were playing and jumped up into the air while Mr. Diageo backed up into the shadows. Finn turned around as Owlman flew around the building and landed on the other side. Finn turned around and ran forward. Owlman threw out a feather. And Finn deflected it, the metallic object barely flying past his face as it hit off his shield.

Finn reached out and grabbed his pistols, and Owlman smiled. Finn quickly unleashed about twenty-four bullets into Owlman, whose body seemingly liquefied around the bullets and let them pass through. Finn dropped the pistols and moved on to the next plan, the machine gun. Finn aimed forward and pulled down the trigger unleashing god knows how many bullets towards Owlman.

And yet as Finn saw them hit Owlman, he was disappointed his body was bouncing around like it was liquid metal. Whatever he was doing wasn't working.

“Oh well, would look at that. They say you should eat so much iron every day, but I think that sometimes you can overdo it. Hang on." Suddenly Owlman's voice because overshadowed and he promptly spit out hundreds of bullets onto the floor. Finn felt queasy as he saw the spit over bullets exiting from Owlman.

Finn leaped forward and grabbed Owlman, putting his hand on his shoulder he felt some of Owlman's fur and thus he let go. The entire warehouse shook as a massive blast of electricity was released into Owlman. The metallic bullets seemed to be floating up in the air as electricity pulled them. Finn smiled but suddenly realized that Owlman wasn't howling in pain nor was he knocked against the warehouse door.

And then Owlman knocked him back, Finn felt relatively tired. He was half drained of electricity which while more than he would normally carry, he now felt empty in comparison. Owlman showed his shoulder, nanobots covered the whole of it and as it seemed turned into fur as well. Finn cursed himself for being so stupid as well.

Running forward, Finn decided to use the old reliable trick. He flashed forward, using a fraction of his electricity and knocked his fist into Owlman. This time in the gravity of Earth, he just knocked Owlman into the warehouse walls. The walls shook as Owlman knocked all his force into them, his body liquefying at the same time. Owlman reformed into one body and smiled as he stood up and looked forward.

Finn ran forward, jumping up against the wall and then flashing again. This time he knocked Owlman forward and he landed on his stage. Once again the nanoleader reformed and it seemed that his attack failed again. He was failing, he couldn't think of anything new to attack him with, he had nothing he hadn't used and he couldn't improve a new attack. Finn raised his hand and hoped to intimidate Owlman with the threat.

“Well then, look at this raising your hand in intimidation sorry about this but you need to give up, one of you is going to die and one of you idiots are going to fall as well. It's not a matter of when or how long it's a matter of how long it is until you bunch are no longer amusing to me." Owlman said as he stretched out his wings and prepared to strike someone down. Owlman looked at the sorry group in front of him and wondered to himself who he would strike down as well. “Well then choosing time."

And then suddenly there was a shot, Owlman screamed out as suddenly his body was ripped to shreds. Finn closed his eyes as he felt a wave of electricity over his body and he felt static in the air. Finn looked forward and then the deception was revealed. Mr. Diageo had shot Owlman, with a large nearly comical sized gun, he fired a bullet straight through Owlman's torso, nanoliquid leaking out and the shocked expression on the avian supervillain's face summing it all up quite neatly in fact.

“What how did you do that?" Owlman said as he reached down and felt his wound, there was nothing blocking him. His stomach wasn't healing and instead, a metallic layer had formed around the wound and yellow liquid was leaking out of his wound and onto the floor. And their Mr. Diageo put the gun down and looked at the Outsiders.

“Oh well you know, it wasn't easy fitting the magnet generator into the bullet, but using an off board battery in the gun and then using a pressure switch on the bullet, it was quite easy to have it fire just as it touched your body." Mr. Diageo said as he walked forward down the stairs and towards Owlman. He smiled and leaned down looking through the hole that he made.

“Well then shame I'll have to leave and heal myself with more liquid, shame I'll have to go. I wish it could have worked out with us." Owlman said as he stood up and started to flap his wings.

“Get him quickly before he escapes!" Mr. Diageo said but then Owlman screamed out in pain and suddenly he flew up in the air, taking a speed that none of them had seen before. Owlman flew out dropping splats of liquid on the floor as he flew out, Mr. Diageo looked up as he got away and fired another shot. This time Finn looked up and saw an EMP fire off and nearly hit Owlman but as it seems he got away.

“Ok who the hell are you!" Finn yelled as he walked forward and carefully avoiding the liquid stepped in front of Mr. Diageo, he needed to know who the hell he was dealing with. This person just ruined their only shot at peace and now they had to find Owlman again and try to bargain with him. Finn looked steaming mad.

“Oh don't you recognize me?" Suddenly grabbing the bottom of his chin, his face shifted as he grabbed under his chin and then pulled off his face. Finn looked forward, he was surprised. Isaac was standing there and suddenly a perception filter deactivated and he was standing their right where Mr. Diageo was standing.

“Now then how'd I do for a present?" Isaac said as he walked forward.

“Wait a second if you're Isaac then who is our Isaac?" Finn looked behind him and then suddenly his team's Isaac took off a face mask as well and was Michelle. Finn turned back to Isaac who nodded as he smiled.

“Surprise, what better to give you a gift then for to give the gift of a complete surprise and betrayal to Owlman and he followed the script amazingly." Michelle said as she was standing in her military uniform as well. Finn nodded and turned back to Isaac.

“Well that was better than I expected, just in case something happened I had some more masks planed as well." Isaac said as he took off another mask and revealed himself as Michelle, speaking with her voice as well, “Now who's the real Michelle?"

“She is; you speak with more enthusiasm." Finn said as he pulled off another mask and revealed Isaac under the mask again. The group turned around and walked outside and as Isaac passed behind the stacked boxes he took off a series of masks and handed them to Finn.

“Well you were prepared for this, so then I say this was a happy anversay." Finn said as they walked down the street and he looked down on the masks, a seemingly juxtaposition of Isaac's, Michelle's and Mr. Diageo's faces all stacked over the other. Finn smiled and gave Isaac a kiss.

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“Well then it looks like it is time to advance, but you two will distribute it out to the public, find two and make sure the Outsiders know revenge." Owlman said as he stood in front of two shadows and held a vial of liquid, as he spun it in his hands, it glowed green and Owlman's barely lit face smiled.