The moment the net fell, the gang members were yanked off the ground as if by an invisible giant hand. They tumbled, struggled, and roared in midair before Kurenai light bound them into a heap and slammed them onto the concrete outside the chemical plant.
Wanda walked past the bound gang members toward the plant gates.
Deep beneath Gotham's sewers.
Batman crouched in an abandoned main pipe. A Tactical Projection Screen hovered before him, showing nine live feeds from three separate battlefields.
In the three frames at the upper left, Diana stood in the plaza before the Central Bank. Her Lasso of Truth smashed through Mr. Freeze's Mercenaries' firing positions, while her silver bracers gleamed coldly in the morning light.
In the middle three frames, Natasha fought inside Warehouse No. 3 in the Dock District. Her Square Hammer, wreathed in blue-white lightning, blasted Penguin's weapons crates to pieces. Her silver-blue Asgardian armor stood out amid the wreckage.
In the three frames at the lower right, Wanda lifted a Joker Gang patrol off the ground like marionettes with her Kurenai Chaos Magic, then slammed them back down.
Batman stared at the nine feeds, his jaw clenched tight beneath his cowl.
He should have been relieved. Gotham's criminals were being dealt with one by one. Mr. Freeze had been captured, Penguin's base had been raided, and the Joker Gang's outer ranks had been swept away. But he knew those three hadn't come to Gotham just for the criminals.
They were The Boys.
They served Yongye.
They had come to Gotham not only to stop crime, but to find him.
His communicator vibrated again. This time, the call came through an encrypted Gotham City Police Department channel.
"Batman, Wonder Woman has delivered Mr. Freeze to the Gotham City Police Department. Female Thor