"Our plan has been disrupted."
His bald head gleamed under the lights. Luthor braced both arms against the console before him, watching the footage sent back by the surveillance equipment.
Yes, after the Great Flood, Batwoman's and the Justice League's surveillance systems had all been destroyed, and every kind of instrument and device on Earth had short-circuited and burned out.
But that did not include Luthor's equipment.
He had once been allies with those foolish extraterrestrial sea gods, after all, and he had prepared for this long ago. His equipment had been waterproofed, and now Luthor's spy satellites were the only ones left outside Earth.
Those satellites had been disguised as space rocks or debris, with Kryptonite dust and extraterrestrial materials mixed into their composition, ensuring that even J'onn or Superman could not detect them.
In other words, his greatest advantage now was intelligence. He could see Batwoman, but Batwoman could no longer see him.
Stationed within the Fortress of Eternity, he was effectively invincible. But that was far from enough. His plan was never supposed to turn out this way.
He regretted it somewhat. He should not have released that lunatic, the Batman Who Laughs. Otherwise, the Batman Who Laughs would not have disrupted his plans for the future, and Joker would not have openly betrayed him.
Another green bald head stood behind him, and a mechanical voice said, "Ally, it is your plan that has been disrupted, not mine."
"Brainiac, we are in the same boat now. I respect your intelligence, but that does not mean you can order me around."
Luthor clasped his hands behind his back and turned, staring sternly at Brainiac. Grodd and Cheetah also moved closer from afar, backing Luthor up.
Brainiac possessed twelfth-level intelligence. He could practically be called the smartest thing in