An interrupted date night.

A few days... Not even a few days... And already he'd escaped? Alongside someone named the Ultra Humanite as well apparently. Jinx and Jade were, rather unhappy that I was being pulled away to help search for Luthor, in fact I swear I heard an angry British accent come from Jade for a moment as she held one of her weapons with some VERY malicious intent.

Helping to search wasn't all the hard, especially not with dark elementals moving through the shadows searing for people. So far there had been little luck though. That changed when a call came in about a building on fire. I arrived riding my wind elemental, not wanting it known that I could fly now without it, and from there brought out multiple water and earth elementals to help put the fire out and stabilize the building so it wouldn't crush anyone trying to escape. While I met with the League listening to their theories on where Luthor would go or what kind of threat he could be without his money and resources, I got a message from gizmo.

"Hope your hungry! It's time to Devour! You've got a job." I read the message about 3 times before realizing Gizmo's phone got swiped by Billy. Putting my phone away into my inventory and explained I had gotten an emergency call I needed to handle. Apologizing to the others I hopped onto my wind elemental and went for a hidden area I could teleport from safely. When I got back to where Gizmo was? I saw Billy, currently being held by Mammoth.

"Got a job offer for Devourius, apparently it's a team job, high paying but the client is only willing to meet face to face. This is a good chance for him to make his debut, can you get him to these coordinates?" Gizmo was all business, I assured them Devourius would be there and left to get him...

I started heading for the location, my mask moving up along my body like liquid metal, forming on my face as I arrived through the portal I used. Finding the building for the meet, I saw a few other figures heading inside. A guy with a snake head mask trying and utterly failing to flirt with a woman covered in fur, she backed into a huge undead looking guy before leaping away when he reached for her, past the snake man only to back up into... me.

"Hello... Was it you that called me here?" I asked gently, stepping out of her reach when she tried to claw me. "I wouldn't try that again if I were you. You might damage your claw next time." She seemed, surprised. I hadn't said it with any tone of arrogance, I'd said it like I was stating it was a real possibility in fact. The snake guy tried to say something before he and the big undead guy got blinded with shadows, some gaunt looking guy in a top hat introduced himself as shade saying he could handle all of us using his nightstick. A women came flying in a moment later, introducing herself as Star Sapphire, and a minute later finally came the big reveal. As coming down an elevator stood Luthor and Ultra Humanite.

"So the one that hired us is Lex Luthor. I'm surprised I would be recommended for a job of yours." I spoke out, my mask mouth moving, smiling unnervingly. "Oh? And why's that?" He asked. "My usual employer isn't a fan of yours. Regardless, what's the job? You've got Copperhead, Grundy, Star Sapphire, Shade and Cheetah together for a job. I doubt it's a heist as you wouldn't need anyone other than Cheetah, Star Sapphire or Shade for that. With muscle like Grundy and Humanite's I'm guessing you have a particularly tough target you want us to remove from play... Let me guess, Superman?" I asked, the mask making my voice sound almost amused about it. "Your half right. I'll pay each of you very handsomely so long as you can do one thing, destroy Superman and the Justice League."

While the others looked surprised that they'd been called here for a job like this, and I was too as well, I already knew we wouldn't win just with this team. We might be able to knock out one or two of them, but none of us had a way to take out Flash if he showed up, besides that most of the Justice League helps each other when one is in trouble, which would lead to us constantly fighting back against two opponents almost all the time. I didn't bother mentioning any of this as Luthor had his own plan and didn't seem too keen on accepting any advice or criticism. A few hours later?

Cheetah was in a cloak, being held at gun point by Humanite at the front door. The rest of us were hidden, waiting for the hero team to come into the trap. The police were already outside trying to negotiate, when we saw Humanite get pushed back far into the building by Superman, everyone moved to do their job with Grundy starting to beat the kryptonian back and into the ground. Batman being attacked by Cheetah before Wonder Woman arrived to fight her, Batman heading straight for Luthor. Green Lantern was fighting against Star Sapphire and Shade. I saw my chance... now the only question was... How bad a lesson do I teach them?

I leaped up at the first target, not using flight yet as I approached and threw a strong punch. Lanterns elbow made a sickening CRACK that echoed out, his arm turning in an unnatural angle as I grabbed onto him and brought him down with me. Slamming into the floor was one thing, following it up with a stomp to his gut was almost too much. He managed to put up a shield as my foot smashed against it, the **** enough to crush him against the floor, the concrete dipping inwards like papier-mache that sunk in, only for the floor to break and pieces to fly off in every direction before Lantern and I fully sunk into the crater my stomp had created. The small shield vanished, Lantern's eyes rolled up into his head, his arm broken as I stepped out of the crater and dust.

Superman yelled out "John!" as he tried to fly towards me to stop me, only for Grundy to hit him from the side. Batman was nearing Luthor right up until he got bit by Copperhead. Wonder Woman took a swing at me in that moment though, I managed to dodge by ducking under and smashing my mask against her face in a counter. "Good try, I was almost distracted there." I said to her as she backed up for a moment. She asked who I am as she prepared to fight me with her fists. "If you don't wanna LOSE those bracelets, you should put them away. They won't help you against me." I warned her. She scoffed at me and charged, her attacks were focused, but she was clearly holding back, very used to dealing with human thugs and seeming to act on the idea that I might not survive being hit by her. So I took the opportunity to strike back, managing to twist my body into a spin kick that hit the side of her abs and sent her flying through a nearby wall. I could hear her coughing as my kick apparently knocked the wind out of her.

About that time is when I saw the red and yellow blur of movement that was the Flash showing up, checking on Lantern and helping to wake him up. We're out of time, we either escape while we have the chance or get captured now. I leaped over to where Shade was, already trying to inform Lex of exactly that issue, with Luthor's order we were able to escape thanks to Shade's power teleporting us away...

It didn't take long for us to realize that Copperhead had been left behind, moments after that began Luthor's tirade of anger at how we'd failed. His abusive words rapidly starting to turn the others against him. "Your asking us to fight with all we have, to the **** against someone like Superman? Without the Kryptonite there's no beating him **** let alone DEAD. You wanted to put us up against them, team against team. We'd have been successful if we'd CAUGHT one and dealt with them first instead of fighting them head on." I explained, having had enough of the half baked plans and **** attempts Luthor was throwing around. Then we heard a sound that made me freeze... A sound I'd never wanted to hear again... Laughter. Very familiar laughter. I blanked out for the most part at what he was saying, cause standing there, walking around the room, talking to Luthor with not a care in the world was the one being I wanted to put through a molecular BLENDER before pouring it out into an active volcano... The Joker. Proposing that Lex WORK WITH HIM?!

"No." I said, before Lex looked at me like he couldn't believe what he was hearing. He said he was the one in charge, that he was paying me, the vicious sounding growl that my mask put out as I tried to keep my patience made him freeze a moment. "Let me be clear Luthor. You wanna work with him? Go for it. I won't stop you. But I won't be part of this any further if you do. You don't have enough money for me to consider working with him." I spoke to Lex, before turning towards the clown. The look on my mask changing into something only a raving, blood thirsty psychopath could create. "As for you clown? You should do your best to stay far, FAR away from me. When the time comes? I'm GOING to kill you." I didn't see how my mask was glowing red, how the mouth seemed to change colors enough to look like it was growing some very vicious looking teeth. With my piece said I walked back and away from the clown, waiting for Joker and Luthor's eyes to be off me before slipping a card to Cheetah.

"What's this?" She whispered to me, I looked back at her before answering. "If you want help, funding, a way out, whatever? Call that number. That's the boss I work for, direct line. I suggest you memorize the number and destroy the card or hide it so you can call once your out of here." She looked at me curiously for a few moments. "Why give me this?" She asked. "Simple. I was told to hand out cards to anyone I thought would be worth the time, effort, opportunity and support that would be given to them. You wanna finish your research right? Make the call when your done with this job. I'll vouch for you." With that I began to leave, seeing as Lex and Joker had apparently agreed to work together. Of course... I did leave quite a few familiars in the shadows and hidden as rocks, to keep an eye on things of course. Good thing too, cause they saw Joker had pulled a tracking device from Lex, one clearly left by Batman.