Prompt Post - Part Five [CLOSED TO NEW PROMPTS]
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“Luthor’s Superman’s worst enemy. He’s a corrupt business man, has his hand in all sorts of dirty business, selling weapons to rogue states, criminals, probably outright terrorists. Superman and the League have been aware of his activities for years now-Luthor’s tried to assassinate Ms. Lane several times, he almost killed Superman once. He’s the only person other than Darkseid who’s ever made Superman bleed. Superman know’s he’s guilty, but Luthor’s slippery, there’s always a thousand middle men between him and the incriminating evidence, and he’s never taken the fall. The League can’t make anything stick, so Luthor stays out of jail and king of Metropolis.”
“Wait,” it’s M’gann who asks the question, because Superboy’s too startled to ask it, “Superman’s invulnerable, how’d Luthor almost kill him?”
“Kryptonite,” Kaldur explains. “A little green rock. We think it’s from Krypton. The radiation is poisonous to Superman.”
Superboy wonders when the G-Gnomes were going to teach him about that. He wonders if Kryptonite could kill him too.
“Robin,” Superboy says, “Batman and Superman were arguing yesterday about Luthor-they were debating sending the team in.”
KF’s eyes go wide open. “Seriously? They’re thinking of sending us in after Luthor? Hey, maybe they do take us seriously after all.”
“Wow,” Robin says slowly. He’s hacking into the League’s files on Luthor. “This is big.”
Wally’s besides Robin in a second, staring at the screen. It’s filled with names and numbers. “What’s it mean?”
“It means, Luthor may have screwed up. Under fifty levels of dummy corporations, Luthor wrote a check to Talia.” Robin says it like it’s important, but for once, no one else seems to know who he’s talking about. He looks around in disbelief. “Talia al Ghul.”
“Oooh.”
“But that means, Luthor can be tied to the Shadows.” Kaldur says.
“Yes. Probably.”
“Probably? What probably?” Aretmis asks.
“Talia and Ra’s had a break recently. It may be nothing.”
“What happened between Talia and Ra’s?” Artemis asks.
“Talia shot at him.”
“Why? I thought she loved her father,” Artemis asks.
“Yeah, she does. But he was going to kill Batman.”
“And?” Superboy doesn’t understand.
“And, Talia likes Batman. Which, you know, is kinda weird and gross. But whatever, maybe Talia’s reformed and he’s just helping her get back on her feet, or more likely, he can argue that he was trying to help her get away from her father. It might not be enough to incriminate him. I think the League would need to know more.”
Superboy lights up. “That’s why Superman needs us to go in! He wants us to get the information from Luthor.”
Robin looks up. “Superman wants us to go in? That means Batman doesn’t want us to go in.”
“Yeah,” Wally answers, “But Batman probably didn’t want us going in to Cadmus, and look how that turned out.”
“No,” Robin says. “Luthor’s a big bad. This isn’t enough, and if we go in, he’s going to notice. He’ll know something’s up. That’s why Batman doesn’t want us going in.”
An argument breaks out. Superboy and Wally want to do it. Robin and Kaldur think they should wait. They take it to a vote, which means it’s up to the girls. Artemis, after some persuasion votes nay. Then it’s up to M’gann: she can tie them up if she votes yay.
Her eyes meet his. They’re serious and sad.
“No.”
He feels something in his gut, and he imagines that’s what being punched feels like.
Angrily, he turns away and marches to his room. He slams the door shut and cracks the wall.
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