บท 17: The Long Halloween part IX

"So, who wanna go first?" Asked Diggle clearly eager to fight. Unfortunately for him, they all dismissed his presence and started to talk among them.

"Hey, since when do we have a superhero like that in Gotham?" Asked Poison Ivy "He looks like a hero from Central or the Big from Metropolis" She add disgusted

"Yeah, even his name. I mean, Skylord? It's like he never put a feet in Gotham if he hoped to scare us with that kind of name" added the Riddler. Their indifference to Diggle's presence clearly annoyed the latter.

But like it wasn't enough, Joker added with a sad face "I regret Batty. He had sooo much darkness in him. That guy just disturb the mood with his flashy suit. Oh, Woe! O Despair! Why is the sky became so ruthless to me?"

Founding the act to much and feeling that he saw enough of Joker bad act, Diggle began to take actions. Within a ten-metre perimeter around him, many little tornados with a sphere like shape appeared at a crazy speed. That sudden move startled every villains present, clearly not prepared of facing a hero with superpowers. Seeing this, Diggle start to smile faintly.

"Sorry for interrupting your little chat, but I'm a little busy, so I'll have to gat the job done quickly" He said still smiling at them in a friendly way, but with his tornadoes getting more and more powerful every second it give the feeling of a sadistic person.

Being twenty yards away from the closest tornadoes, they could still feel the power the attack as their bodies were dragged bit by bit to the tornadoes because of the vacuum create by the power of them. 'I can't be hit by those tornadoes, or I'll die!' was the only thing everyone could think of at that moment.

Seeing that a real threat appeared, Dent start to speak with a pleading tone "Hey, Skylord! You don't have to do this! What we are doing is for a great cause! Killing them contribute to the society, so why disturbing our good act?" hearing that, Diggle posed for a moment, not knowing if Dent really believed to what he said or not. "Are you serious Dent? And you think that because you're killing evil peoples your actions are legitimate? While killing may resolve the issue, it's still not the solution for those who want to get justice done" Replied Diggle with righteousness.

"Justice?" repeat Dent aggressively "The 'justice' like you said never exist in the first place! That's a myth! Especially in Gotham! How can there be justice when you can buy the judge so you can be out of prison in just two days? Or even the CSI or whatever to get the proof disappeared to can't be caught up ? Justice is an illusion, to have some peace in Gotham, you have to kill!" shout Dent at Diggle with anger cause the later to sigh of tiredness.

"You're wrong Dent, even if you kill the perpetrators of the evil in Gotham, their loved ones will avenge them or will take their sit. In the end it won't change anything" explain Diggle calmly. As he found that the moment was appropriate, Joker added while laughing "Hahaha! Especially with me here still alive and kicking!"

That sentence made him deserve ten tornado from a Diggle annoyed of him. The ten consecutive hit were so powerful, that Joker fainted from the first and was being played in the air like a lifeless dolls with the other nine hits. While convincing himself that the Joker was still probably alive, Diggle continued his speech like nothing happened while the villains felt fear from the bottom of their hearts.

"So Dent, you can still choose the right path it's not too late for that." Said Diggle as he was preparing to fire. "Sorry Skylord, but it's a no. Even if you raise a good point. If I want to erase evil, I have to erased it from the root. Like that, the problem will be solved" replied Dent with confidence. But that just made Diggle more disappointed of him, for one and unique reason: except for Diggle, no one know that The source of all the evil in Gotham cam from them.

"Then, it's unfortunate for you, because I'll stop you today" Said Diggle with a resolute tone.

After that, Diggle send half of his tornadoes at all the villains present minus the Joker. Being less stronger physically than Joker, Riddler didn't just fainted when the first tornado hit him, but he directly start to spread torrent of blood. Seeing that, Diggle made th others tornadoes exploded near him but never touching him directly. Still his body suffered nonetheless. Dent him, tried to evade the first sphere, but it just blown up next to him, making his body flew over the others sphere sealing his fate. As for Solomon Grundy and Poison Ivy, it was more tricky.

Solomon Grundy could apparently withstand everything, and that didn't shocked Diggle a bit, because it was said that his power was on par with superman sometimes. So when the tornadoes hit him, it didn't affect him at all. But that result still depressed Diggle a little. As for Poison Ivy, even if her physical strength wasn't that much, with the plants protecting her, she could still be more or less conscious.

"Well, well, well. I'm not impressed that Grundy is still standing, as for you poison Ivy, that's a true surprise" said Diggle impressed before adding "However..." he then snap his finger, and the rest of the tornadoes all went to finish Poison Ivy. Seeing that, true despair could be see on her face, but Diggle act as he didn't see it and choose to be merciless. Confronting so many tornadoes, she didn't have a chance at all.

Not wanting to see the result of merciless act, Diggle turn his head to confront Solomon Grundy.

"You know, I never taste my full power against anyone since quite a long time. And honestly I wish I could, so you being here is like a gift to me" Stated Diggle with a beaming smile. At what Grundy replied smirking "Little Wing Cape man can't beat Solomon Grundy! Because Solomon Grundy is the mightiest! Solomon Grundy will crush little wing cape man!"

Taking his statement as a challenge, Diggle start to laugh madly with his urge for the battle. "Well, Solomon Grundy, let's see if you're right!" Diggle shout, before sending many blast of wind to Grundy.

That didn't affect him in the slightest, but it make him flew across the corridor before destroying the wall landing outside the building. Diggle dashed after him quickly the moment Grundy start to fly. As Grundy was going to land on the street, Diggle making him fly, to the rooftop of the Falcone's building.

When Grundy crashed on the roof, Diggle get the impression that the building shook a little. Making him thinking if it's really a good idea to fight Solomon Grundy. 'Well, I know that it will getting pretty common latter to see building destroyed like paper latter, but still' thought Diggle unease as he flew toward Solomon Grundy.

"We will fight here, so no civilians will get hurt" said Diggle before adding in head 'Well at least I hope so' at what Solomon Grundy replied "Solomon Grundy will crush wind man!" angrily. "He he, I guess that's mean, time to get a little bit serious"

<<Are you serious? I think you're not realising that with your current strength, you'll have to be more than just a little bit serious if you don't want to finish your day like Charles Xavier. You still don't know how to use them properly>> Said Billy annoyed by what Diggle said

'Oh shut up! I'm here to test myself' replied Diggle as he was dashing toward Solomon. He then made air balde able to slice rock and steel like a hot knife cutting butter and lunch them toward Grundy, but he was unaffected. The later respond by landing a heavy blow to him with his left arm. Lucky, Diggle had already prepared beforehand a barrier around him, but the blow still push him back ten meters away from his initial position, before Diggle react and stopped himself with compress wind.

As he was steadying himself then heard Grundy chuckled and mocking him. Pissed him off. He then created a giant tornadoes surrounding them and with the power of the wind create more sturdy Air blade which he threw to Grundy. The later didn't bother to think of dodging it and directly rush toward Diggle. But while last time the air airblades couldn't even make him move a little, this time, with the giant tornado giving them more speed and power, even if he was still unhurt, they at least managed to push him back.

'Still not powerful enough, I should increase the power of the tornado then' as Diggle was thinking that, he didn't see that as he was making his tornado more powerful, on the ground, cars and peoples, start to fly little by little.

When Diggle thought that the power was enough, he recast air blades more compress and with more speed. 'Let see about those ones then!'

Diggle didn't have to much hope of injuring him, with that power, but he wasn't a bit worried because of his trump cards. But to his surprise, those blades did made some scratches on Grundy. But those bruises couldn't even be count as injuries. One, this was nothing, and two, Grundy possess the quick recovery ability meaning that those bruises were instantly healed the second after they appeared.

"He he he ! Wing man not that strong, Solomon Grundy is the strongest!" mocked Solomon Grundy annoying Diggle.

"You're pissing me off with your demeanor. Time for the punishment!" Said Diggle a bit angry. He then raised his hand the wind suddenly get an abrupt change of temperature at the same time, the air around Grundy start to wave a little, like it was very hot then cold and so on. Grundy, not able to feel the cold or the heat, still found the movement of Diggle suspicious and raised his head to see what Diggle was pointing with his hand.

And to his surprise, black cloud appeared out of nowhere in no time and grow extremely quickly. Besides, not knowing if it was a coincidence or not, its was like the center of it was just above Grundy's head.

"Wing man can make magic?" Asked stupidly Solomon Grundy, not understanding what's going on. The question though, snatched a faint smile from Diggle.

"That right, I can make magic. And my next trick will be to transform a big zombie into a fried chicken. So fried for me!" as he said said that, he lowered his hand.

ZZT ZZZT ZZT

As if gave a command to the sky, the cloud start to shine brightly in blue making it difficult to see anything on the roof. After a breath time, the light lower, but then, lightning descent on earth. Taking for target Salomon Grundy. It was like the gods were mad at him. Normally, a normal lighting strike didn't even last half a breath time, but this one was up for almost two minutes. And that was a big problem.

The power inside the lightning was so great, that five second after it landed, the ground started to crack. Things really impressive, because it was made with one of the sturdiest stone in the world. But it was still easily cracked by the lightning. If was just that, there won't be any real problems, but as the second passes, the cracks became bigger and bigger reaching not just the end of the roof, but the building itself. Until eventually, the building ended collapsing on itself with Grundy on it's center.

By some kind of miracle, except for the four villains who were inside the building no one was hurt. But a big building like the, would surely bring a big commotion especially because it was the Falcone family Building.

In the sky, Diggle was contemplating his 'work' unease while looking at a Solomon Grundy knocked out.

"Well, if someone asked, I'll just say it was a natural disaster" Thought Diggle loud as he was sweat dropping heavily.

<<Yes that right. I can vouch that you're a natural disaster! Hahaha! >> said Billy to make fun of him 'Oh shut up' reply Diggle in his head 'I didn't have the choice'

His attempts to make his actions seeming right however made Billy laugh harder <<we both know that you could have just make him sleep by removing the oxygen around him>> 'I wasn't sure that it would work, his a zombie after all' justified Diggle with embarrassment <<You could've at least try>>

"..."

Fortunately, his phone rang, making him avoid the embarrassment of the situation. "Yes Alfred?" he said as he pick up his phone

"Mister Diggle.." replied Alfred with a weak voice making Diggle worried "being the fastest one who can come here, I called you. I need your help, Holiday is kidnapping Lady Marisa"