At the same time.
In the top-floor office of the Eye Society headquarters, Natasha Romanoff stood before the floor-to-ceiling windows. Her silver-blue Asgardian armor gleamed softly in the morning light, and she gripped the Square Hammer in her right hand. The blue patterns on its head shone brighter than usual.
Three encrypted replies came through her communicator at once.
Daisy Johnson: "Copy. I'll take the East Coast and search every possible hiding place Minato Namikaze could use along the way."
Wanda Maximoff: "Copy. I'm going to Gotham. Batman got away, but he won't get far."
Mera: "I'll bring in three naval defense squads from Atlantis and seal every route out to sea on the East Coast. Minato Namikaze won't escape by water so easily."
Natasha pulled the three replies onto her tactical terminal and quickly marked their search areas on the digital map. Her gaze swept across the vast gaps: Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia. Those regions were still blank.
Diana.
Wonder Woman still hadn't replied.
Natasha stared at the gaps for two seconds, her lips pressed into a tight line. She put away the tactical terminal and headed for the door. The Square Hammer swayed at her hip, its blue glow leaving a cold glimmer beneath the corridor lights.
"Minato Namikaze. Batman."
"Neither of you is getting away!"
Across from the Eye Society headquarters, Diana Prince crouched behind a ventilation duct on an apartment rooftop. The morning breeze stirred the skirt of her golden armor, exposing a glimpse of her shapely calf.
Her phone screen showed Sharon Carter's brief statement in the press room.
"Batman was the mastermind."
She repeated Minato Namikaze's words under her breath, complicated emotions churning in her pale blue eyes.
Batman.
One of the founders of the Justice League, Gotham's Dark Knight, an