Space pirates conquered by a single song!

Laughter filled the bridge of the Marauders' flagship, the Iron Fang.

"Hahaha, boss, this chick's got some fire!"

"She sounds like a real knockout! Boss, take her back and make her your pirate queen!"

In the captain's chair sat Kraglin, a hulking humanoid captain with blue skin and a mouthful of metal teeth. Hearing the syrupy voice coming through the communicator, he broke into a savage grin. Beside him, his first mate, a genetically modified creature resembling a raccoon, joined in with a strange, cackling laugh.

"A fledgling with a death wish."

Kraglin picked up the communicator and replied crudely, "Have a drink? Sure! Once I twist your head off and use it as a cup, you can drink all you want! Boys, turn that pink girly ship into Swiss cheese! Don't damage the cockpit. I want the merchandise inside alive!"

"Yes, boss!"

The gun ports of dozens of Marauder ships lit up at once. Multicolored plasma bolts and physical missiles cobbled together from scrap metal swept toward the Punchline in a dazzling rain of death.

"Shields! Harley, activate the Phase Shield!" Victor Stone shouted. His electronic eye had already calculated that conventional shields alone would leave them torn to pieces within 3.7 seconds.

"Relax, Iron Man. Let them have their fun for a little while."

Harley Quinn showed no trace of panic. Sitting with her legs crossed, she elegantly tapped the control panel a few times, as though playing a waltz.

An instant before the deadly barrage swallowed the Punchline, she pressed the final button.

Humm—

The Punchline's hull suddenly turned transparent, then vanished from its position like a phantom that had never existed.

Every shell and missile passed through the space it had occupied, striking nothing but empty space.

"What?!"

Kraglin shot out of his chair, his metal